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Mirror expresses hope of hls recovery.

 Accident %. Me F0,utA.-A melancholy acci. dent occurred at Providence, R. l., on the fourth gun had been fired five times, and Messrs Bassett and MCarty were in the act of ramming home the cartridge for sixth discharge, when the gun went off, injuring them dreadfully. Bassett had his right hand, and the lower part of the arm blown away, and two fingers on his left arm torn of, that they hung by the skin, while his face was considerably bruised; M Carty had one arm blown off, and was very seriously injured in other respects so much so, that be died of his wounds in great agony at six o. clock in the evening. Basselt's arm was amputa- ted and his wounds in other respects attended to, and by last accounts he was doing we'll.

 Suicide i,s the State Prison I've understand that colored prisoner, employed as cook in the State Prison, committed suicide by hanging on the 3Oth ult. He was charged with furnishing the prisoners with food, which the rules of the prison did not allow them, or something of the kind, and out of this some difficulty sprung up, and the pris- precise facts, but state what has been told us.

 Times.

 Conservation Sermon. Episcopal Record CT understands that the sermon at the conservation of Bishop Potter, is by appointment of the presi- ding Bishop, to be preached by Right Rev. Bishop Hopkins of Vermont. We are glad, says the edi- tor, that this duty has devolved upon one so well qualified in all respects to discharge it to the sat- isiaction of those who are more immediately inter- ested. Bishop Hopkins was himself once Pres- byter of Pennsylvania.

 The colored Masons of Philadelphia, to the num- Der of several hundred, celebrated the day of St. John the Baptist, by street parade and other emonies. They turned out with music and banners, clothed in full regalia, and carrying all the em- blems of the order. A colored lodge from New York participated.

 Captured by Coom.-Senator Allen has been married in Ohio. to Miss Coons. A democratic journal, in referring to his consistent locofoco- ism," says he never thought that MT. Allen would go off and join the Coons.

 OG- Gen. J. B. Dawson, Member of Congress from the Third District of Louisiana, died at his residence near St. Francisville on the 26th ult.

 The President announces the death of Horace Barnes of Plymouth, Conn.,, and Consul at Fayal.