from their mOOrings and carried some dis-I tance, and torn to pieces. large parts 0fwhich have not yet been found. Captain ThOmas RobertsOu's brick house, kitchen, and ferry house are all blown down. Hugh M. Wilson, who resides one mile east of this place, had his grist and saw mill, house and barn, carri- ed away tO TtfIe ground. No lives were lost, though many have received slight wounds. A destructive hurricane, or tornado, passed

 over section of Halifax county, Va, on the evening of the 2sd of March. Its course was

 in breadth about One-fourth of mile. ex-

 tended 10 distance of IS or 20 miles-rais-

 ing from their foundations almost every ne- gro house, barn, and other out-buildings i;

 and unrooiing and otherwise dismantIing the

 more permanent dwellings. Three negroes, belonging to Mr. Bruce. were killed by the fall ofa chimney, after the house had blown

 over them without doing any injury.