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SELKiRK's SETTLEMENT. colony is located
about 700 miles above ST. Peters Ii consists of
some 5000 inhabitants mostly connected in some way
WIN the hudson Bay Company We have heard that Of
late years the population of the colony was rather on
the decrease. number of most respe ctable cit
lens from Europe and reached this place by
the ABOVE route though we never heard them recon-.
mend II as a very agreeable way. The colonsts arc


mostly adventurers, OF which presume the subject of
,he iouowlng 10 be rather specimen. One year
ago last June he passed this place. by his
VIE and others their way the above settlement


hey lett 81 feter twelve in company but having lost
thcr way they endured almost every kind of privstio
and were one hundred and twenty days in reaching their
pace OIL destination Four of their horses froze 10 eatb


vaon stared hem IN the face and after subsstiDg on
rogs ana cutting their way for forty miles through
Forest they arrived where their wants were sunn7ed
our traveller then took tramp over to the Missouri
ana ana , on h e n with the Missouri drovers
ana was win them at the time of their attack by the
Sssiton Sioux Indians He is now on his way 10 scot
and 70 see anout some property which he has lately in.
hefIted Whether he will choose TO return to the Red
RIVER settlement by way of the Cape of Good Home
Madagascar and Oregon, come up the Mississippi
pv the way OF Cape Horn, we not ADVISED but Il is
NOT uhreasonaDle TO suppose that man who likes IN
travel so well will be best satisfied with the Longest
way.-Galend Advertiser, Oct a.


FUNERAL OF WILLIAM MckEAy. FORMERLY or
NEW foRK.-A very large concourse attended the
funeral OF our late fellow citizen yesterday The BODY
was deposited in Cypress Grove Gemety as we learn
temporarily it being the intention OF the relatives To-
have taken 20 the North for final intermen during the
winter BESIDES the members Of the Second Municipal.
IVY .ouncil, oi which he was ex.menber, the per
sonar friends OF the deceased aud citizens generally and


very respectable portion of the fire department Mt attend
60 me iuneral-N o. Tropic, oct 20.


lHE GREAT FIRE IN PITrsBuRGH-lt is nearly
seVen months since the occurrence Of the great "a
ya, wach made ruin OF onethird OF this city the


" district ~ nearly covered with new aud hand
structures, and yet the FIRE is not wholly extin
sh yesterday our attention called to burning
~ Vauit on Third street directly opposite our
once perhaps the last remnant az the m.mnrabla L;d
iing OF the 10th Of April.-Journai Non a.