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1 Friday Oflast week. and was drowned. Mir. John Grifilths, practical engineer, ,en plOyed in the iron works Of MT. Barclay, was lately drowned by the pIunging of his horse into EsOpus creek, Kingston, Ulster CUunty, NY.

 A man named Samuel BradEeld, employed by Mir. DOugherty, in Laurel street, as an os- 1 tier, returned on Saturday evening to the sta bIe in state of intOxication he was careful Iy disposed upon the floor, but on Monday morning he was found corpse. Rev. Ava Woods, Professor OfMathemat- ics and Natural Philosophy in Brown Univ ersity, has resigned that station. having ac- { cepted the Presidency of Pennsylvania Univ ersity, Lexington, Ken.

 Two men, employed on cana! in Penn 1 sylvania, were recently drowned near Sun burgh. They were natives of Ireland named Edward Conner. aged 29 years, and James 1 LangdOn, aged 45 years.

 We learn that the proceeds of the sale of the property of De Witt Clinton are sufficient 1 to satisfy the judgment. Nothing is left but some carriages which would probably bring about S2OO.

 A large boat recently arrived at Pittsburgh with load of merchandise, from New York The goods were 20 days on their passage, and cost S1 87 1-2 per hundred for transpOrta- ton.

 The Court of Inquiry organised at CharIs- town. 10 investigate the conduct of lie,lEenant Percival at the Sandwich Islands, closed it's session last Thursday week, having spent six weeks in the trial. The result is not yet as certained. 1 We are told that a woman, who resided near the keGsingt0n market house, was killed bya stroke ofGghtnng, about o'clock this morning wbilesying in her bed. It is added, that another woman, who was lying by her side in the same bed was unniured.

 MT. John Cromwell, a hricklayer, his son, and black man, while engaged on Saturday morning in finishing a chimney of house in Philadelphia, fell by the giving way of the scaffold. MT. Cromwell died almost instant l Iy; his son iwas, dangerously hurt, and the colored man SD much in ured it is thought he could not survive.

 1 Thomas Adamson, the companion of Tho

 mas Yates, who jumped overheard from the Chancellor Livingston, threw himself into the dock at Peck sIip,on Tuesday and was drown ed.

 1 On Wednesday morning. MT. Stephen c. Rhodes and his wife, from Rockaway, were thrown from wagon in Brooklyn, in conse- quence of the horse taking fright, and Mrs R was instantly killed. Mr.. R. was dangerous ly injured. Mir. Gales, editor of the National Intellig gen. cer has been reelected Mayor of Washing ton City, by an almost unanimous vote. 1 HELP THE GREEKs.-The proposal made 1 some time since in the Vermont Chronicle. to sa.e the expense of rum at the spring and summer trainings, and send the same value to the perishing Greeks, has been well receiv- ed in that & other states. Let officers every where put it to vote, and almost every where it will be cheerfulIy done.

 A Coop SIGN.-We learn from the Hillsbo- rough Recorder, that, at meeting of the Or. ange (N. O. Peace Society, held on the 28th March. it was unanimously y resolved that the votes of the members composing said society be hereafter withheld from those candidates for publick appointments, s,who encourage sec | tonal feeling, or distribute ardent spirits dur ing the electoneering campaign. WALLINeFoRD, Vr.-A company of infan, try Tn this town were lately collected to fill some: vacant offices. Before <proceeding to DuSluCoo, lHCy NOtCO tudt lilOSc "DO elected, instead of following the custom of treating at such seasons, should be. invited to | appropriate the amount usually spent in that way, to the support of a Sabbath School.

 GovERNoR's Foor GUARD.-Contrary to custom, the commander of this company du- ring the fatigues of an exercise day at New Haven, avoided the vicinity of public houses at their intervals of rest; and the members had no chance of taking ard mt spirits 1t is said that there was no murmuring or com pIaining.

 A new Post Office has lately been established al ChapiDvilIc, north part of Salisbury, in this County Frederick A. Sterling, Esq. F. M.

 The ceremony laying the corner stone of the House of Worship about to be erected for the o' the lst Ecclesiastical Society, will be attended on Saturday next 2lst inst. at o'clock F. M Address by the Rev. Mir. Carroll.

 @aR1sE7ED

 On the 17th inst by Rev. Mr. Jones, Mir. Lorenzo Wheeler, to Miss Antha Stone, both of this town.