mUre permanent dwellings,. 4uree neSTOeS' belonging to a Mr. Bruce, were killed by the fall ofa chimney, after the house had blown over them without doing any injury.

 Washington, (N. C.) Mareh27.

 Dreadful T'oraadO.-On Monday evening. 22d of March, near sundOwn, most awful hurricane passed over part tn's cOunty:- Among other particulars Ofa less destructive and affiicting character, we have gathered the following :-

 The house in which James Armstrong re- sided was blown down upon the family, and killed Mir. Armstrong and his son, lad, and wounded every other member of the family. one or two of them dangerously. The dwelling house and double barn of Joseph Townsend, blown down. Widow Blackm0re's house and barn do. John LOgan's house do. himself wounded. Thomas Blackmore's house and barn blown down. Widow Gass' house do. William M'MiIlen, Esq. dwelling partially unroofed, ,and several small buildings blown down. A new frame house entirely destroyed, owned by Mr. Beggs, on Saw mill Run. The mill, Blacksmith's shop, and stable, of ofEphraim Estep, Esq were principal ly destroyed, and horse in the stable, killed.

 The damage done to orchards, fences, and other property not enumerated, IS very ex- tensive and destructive.

 On Monday, the 26th March, the follow. ing report from the Post Master General was communicated to the Senate of the U- nited States

 Post O6sce Department, March a4, 1880. To the Hon. John c. CalhOun:

 Sir-In obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the United States. passed March 22d, 1880, directing me "tO inform the Sen ate ofthe number of Deputy Postmasters who have been removed since the fourth day of March last. designating the number in each State and Territory" have the honor to rec port, that the whole number of Deputy Post masters removed, between the 4th day of March, 1899, and the s2d day of ofMarch, 1880, ] inclusive, is four hundred and ninety-One and that the number thereof in each State and Territory. is as follows: In Maine fif- teen, New-H Hampshire fifty five, Vermont twenty two. Massachusetts twenty-eight, Rhode. Island three, Connecticut twenty. New York one hundred and thirty -one, New l Jersey fourteen, Pennsylvania thirty five. Delaware, sixteen, Maryland fourteen. Dis- trict of Columbia one, Virginia eight. North Carolina four, Georgia two, Alabama two. Mississipp: five. Louisiana four. Tennessee twelve, Kentucky sixteen, Ohio fifty-one, In- diana nineteen, Illinois three, Missouri seven, Florida one, Arkansas two, and Michigan one. have the honor to be, will, great respect, 1 your obedient servant. w. T. BARRY. Of the postmasters thus removed, one hundred and forty three were in New Eng land states, and one hundred and thirty-One in the State of New ork making together tOo hundred and seventy; ;fcur-that is, fifty seven. more in the states aforementioned, than in all the other states and territories put together. It is probable that this was done under the impression that these states stood more in need of reformation than all tho Oth- ers.-N. Y. Daily Ado.

 | It is rumoured that ComodOre Porter is to be carried to Agiers in the new SlOOp of war Concord. now fitting out'at Portsmouth N. H.

 1 The Senate on Monday. con frmed the ap- pointment of SAMUEL SwARrwoUr, as Col. lector of this port.

 ] The Senate. on that day. rejected the nomi- nation of John P. Decatur, as Collector of Portsmouth, N. H. by a vote of forty -four to one ! and thai tOf Samuel Cushman, as District Attorney of New Hampshire. by vote of S5 to 9.-N. y. Gag.

 l The Rev. Benjamin M. Hill. has relinqush- his pastoral charge of the Baptist Church in l New. Haven. where he has labored about nine years. and has accepted an invitation from the Baptist Church in Troy, N. Y. to become their pastor. @esa

 Ihe Result fan Erperiment-- boa I'd of one of the vessels which arrived yesterday. says the Journal of Commerce. there was made on Thursday night very fair experi- ment of the effect of spurious liquors to sus- tain men under fatigue. The vessel was on Barnegat Shoals when the storm came on. and through the night was in great peril. All hands drank spirits except one man sixty years of age. He stood at the helm from o'clock in the evening on Thursday, until 10 o'clock on Friday. the sea breaking upon him constantly. when he came of in good condition. All the men who drank spirits had given out several hours before.

 Ordination --On Thursday last. the Rev. William H. Beecher was ordained as Pastor over the First Congregational Church and Society in Newport.

 Moulding Bsst.-We understand an Hal. 'an artist of this city has secretly disinterred the body of Elias Hicks. the celebrated Qua ker Preacher.and moulded his bust. It seems he had applied tu the friends Of the deceased