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to receive an hmiorable discharge. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate on Feb. 15th. $200,000 ad CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

fi John Miller, an old man, committed suicide at Freeburg, 111. 5 Harry Jenkins was drowned by the falling of a bridge at Apollo, Pa. Isaac Cathey was killed at East Atchison ha, Neb. Thos. Burns was torn Into frag-nietits and shreds of fledi were scattered several hundred yards.

Great gaps were made in the earth and a number of buildings Tliadeus Avery and wife were found with their throats cut at Chichester, N. Y. Mrs. Avery is dead and her husband cannot live. THE MONITOR.

P. S. IWtor. CLAY' CENTER, KANSAS. ti -1.

I i NEWS SUMMARY. It is supiHsed that Avery did the deed sn a fit of jealousy. He says he is willing to go to prison, but has conscientious scruples against hanging. Mr. Van Golder, of La Prairie, used a small thermometer to take the temperature of his young daughter's body as she lay ill of typhoid fever.

It was held In the child's mouth, and during a violent fit of coughing it slipped from his hands down her throat. An attempt was made to wreck the east-bound night express on the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati Indianapolis road, at Moorefield Feb. 17th, by the turning of a switch. The engine left the track, dragging the postal and baggage cars alter it, but no one was hurt. A Swede named John A.

Loedcnberg, who was tramping west from Chicago, crept into a haystack at State Centre, Iowa, where his feet were frozen. He claims to have lain helpless for twenty-nine days. He was taken to the Marshall county poor-farm, where his legs were amputated. There was a terrible explosion of nitroglycerine recently near McKay's Harbor, on the Canadian Pacific and the north shore of Lake Superior. One man was blown to pieces, another riddled with fragments of flying rock, and a third so badly injured that he will lose the sight of both his eyes.

R. W. Reid, a retail confectionerand three clerks in a wholesale confectionery in St. Louis, have been arrested for swindling the proprietors of the latter house. The clerks are charged with duplicating Reid's orders one or more times and getting nominal pay themselves instead of charging the goods to Reid.

Ed. Rail, son of E. B. Rail, of Hiatville, Bourbon county, committed suicide at his father's house, by taking strychnine. He was to have been married March, 19th, for which even he had made considerable preparation.

He arranged himself in his wedding suit, took the poison and lay down upon his bed and died in seventeen minutes. Deceased was twenty -two years old and his family much respected. What appears to have been a murder was committed at house of Henry Prawl, eleven miles from Seneca, Ks. During the night a quarrel occurred between Henry and his brother William, which grew out alleged misconduct on the part of the wife of the former, and William was shot through the head. Who fired the shot is not known, but the woroin" declared it wi a case of suicide.

A special from Billings, says five Piegan Indians lefcHheir reservation and crossed thejYellowstone at Clark's Fork river to the Crow reservation and stole fifty-three ponies. Four Crows, accompaniedby Joseph Gate, Chauncey Ames, Phillip Sidle, Lee Owens and three other white men, followed the trail and had a fight with the Piegans at Hailstone Basin, forty miles northwest of Billings. Chauncey Ames and Joseph Gate were killed, and Owens and Sidle wounded. Four Piegans were killed and the ponies recaptured. The bodies of Ames and Gate were taken to Park City.

Both were well-to-do ranchmen. cyclone. jf' The South has been visited by a destructive cyclone. At Franklin, a hotel, opera house and other buildings were unroofed and a warehouse blown down. There are rumors of death and destructicfn in the country surrounding Macon, Ga.

Fifty persons were killed near Atlanta and several at Columbus. Thirteen persons were killed in one community in the Valley. In Hancock county, two per A ruie whs adopted providing tor nitrhtses sions Friday evenines to consider pension bills. An effort was made to fix a time for considering the bills to pension soldiers of 4iio Mexican war, but the House was left without a quorum. There was a call of the House which lasted all Highland until ii o'clock next morning, when a quorum, was obtained and the pension bill was made the special order ioruie-'ist.

ine House then adjourned until eunes'iay. The House Committee on militarv nfli has reported a bill providing for the sale of certain unused military reservations. A petition has been presented in the House by Eldridge, alleging that Hatch of iuieiugau was eiecieu oy iraud and tnat was raised by assessments tor the purpose. In the Senate on Feb. 19th the bill providing for the punishment of tresspassers on Indian lands by imprisonment for one year or $500 fine or both was reported.

Itis especially intended to keep Payne's followers otf the Oklahoma lands. Morrill reported adversely, the bill authorizing the payment of customs duties in legal tender notes, but asked, in deference to the wishes of another Senator, that it be placed on the calendar. Also, adversely to the bill providing for the retirement of small leaal tender notes. The National bank circulation bill was then taken up and after a long debate, Plumb withdrew the modifications of his amendment. After an exeo utive session, adjourned.

John Cobwin, of Indiana, was confirmed as Associate Justice of Montana. In the Senate on Feb. 20th a resolution respecting the amount of the indemnity lands patented to Iowa corporations, and to whom donated, and whether such roads were claiming more of said lands, was adopted. The bill appropriating $000,000 per annum for the militia passed. The Senate then resumed consideration of the National bank circulation bill and Pugh offered two amendments which were accepted by Plumb, which would permit the issue of Treasury notes in case the banks deposited legal tender notes for the redemption of their circulation, and that the meaning of the section shall be that the volume of paper money outstanding, exclusive of gold and silver certi'icates, should remain as now existing, also excepting the principal and interest of the public debt from the obligations of the United States which might be paid by such Treasury notes.

Plumb's and Morrill's amendments were both rejected, and on a motion to separate the two propositions in his motion, Morrill's amendment was agreed to and Senator Morgan then suggested the amendment offered several days ago. Plumb reported from the Committee on Agriculture a bill to provide for erection ot the Department of Agriculture into the Executive Department of the Government, and making the chief officer of that department a Cabinet officer, with the title of Secretary of Agriculture, and to be paid the same salary as other heads of departments. It also provide for an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture at the same salary as now paid the Assistant Secretary of the Interior. In the House on Feb. 20th the Postmaster General was ordered to transmit to the House, the reports of special agents having reference to Star Route investigations not heretofore published, unless detrimental to the public interest in the prosecution of Star Route cases.

A bill was reported for the forfeiture of the Oregon Central Land grants. Ryan called up the joint resolution appropriating $150,000 to be expended among the Indians tor educational purposes and it passed. The Military Academy appropriation bill was discussed. Adjourned. The House Committee on Elections after hearing the argument in behalf of Sam Wood, of Kansas, the contested election case of Wood vs.

Peters, decided, eleven to one, to report in favor of the right of Peters, the sitting member, to his seat. In the Senate on Feb. 21st, Garland called up the bill which provides that any person who with intent to defraud shall falsely personate Government officers or employes, or receive any valuable consideration or document by reason of such personation, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction be fined not to exceed $100, or by imprisonment not to exceed three years, or both, in the discretion of the court. Passed. A contingent fund of $10,000 was appropriated for the use of the Senate to carry on election investigations.

The bill to provide a National bank circulation was taken up and after a lengthy discussion, Morgan's amendment was with drawn. A bill was passed, giving the Secretary of War authority to compel the alteration of railroad and other bridges spanning navigable waters of the United States which may obstruct navigation. After an Executive session adjourned until Monday. In the House on Feb. 21st, in Committee of the Whole the Military Academy bill drew out some unfavorable' comment on West Point, but the institution was defended and the bill reported favorably and passed.

The Post R( ute bill passed, the Senate amendment declaring all public roads post routes being concurred in. After providing for thanks to England for tendering the ship Alert for the use of the flroolw roliof PTnaHittnn thp TTnnse ftd- journed until Saturday on account of Wash- i i i nguju a uirmuay. Wise, of Virginia, will shortly introduce a bill appropriating $30,000 for completing the monument to the memory of Mary, mother of George Washington. The House Committee on Commerce has concluded the consideration of the Reagan bill, regulate interstate commerce. A section has been addwd providing for a commission of three members, to whom shalj be referred all questions in dispute.

POLITICAL AND PERSONAL. The Queen of Tahiti has sailed from New York for Europe. Minister Hunt is seriously ill at St. Petersburg. His son has gone to join him.

Archbishop Feehan has arrived in Chicago from Rome. He was given a royal reception. A portrait of Wendell Phillips will be painted for aneuii Boston, dui Mrs. Phillips objects to the erection of a statue. A.

Putnam of Portland and Enoch Foster of Bethel have been nominated by Gov. Robie forjudges of the Supreme Court of Maine, to fill two vacancies. ditionul was appropriated for the relief of tlie Uuoii stilleieis, foon alter, tho bill was. returned trout the House, having ised, and it aUoiice became a law. A ptTition I was presented, asking protection tor Wash- ington Territory settlers tit title controver-i nies with the Northern Pacific road.

The I bill to provide for lie issue of circulating notes to the National banks was then taken i up, and Senator Plumb delivered an ad-, dress in which he said he wanted to see the national debt disappear, when all the difficulty would be settled. The desire of the banks to realize a premium on the bonded debt, is the only thing which stands in the way of some definite and rational settlement of this question of currency. The National banking system was wise at the time of its inception. And while he hoped the National banks would continue, out it must be without reference to any function of providing currency for the country. He moved an amendment providing that upon the surrender of the circulation of any National bank, an equivalent amount of lreasury notes be issued, to be kept tne Treasury and be paid out as other moneys kept for discharging the obligations of the Government, including duties on imports, to be legal tender between National banks, and for all debts due National banks, be redeemable in coin, and when reoeived into the Treasury, be reissued the coin in the Treasury, on the passage of the act for the redemption of legal tender notes, to be also applicable for the redemption of these Treasury notes and such coin in reserve may from time to time be increased at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, but the total amount of such coin shall never be less than twenty -five percent, nor more than thirty per cent, of the total amount of legal tender and Treasury notes outstanding.

A vote being taken on Sherman's amendment providing that if any bond deposited bore higher than three per cent, additional notes should be issued equal to one-half of the interest in excess of the three per cent, accruing before maturity, it was rejected by 7 yeas, 42 nays. After an executive session, adjourned until Monday. In the House on Feb. 15th, after passing the bill giving the flood suflerers $200,000 additional, the Chalmers-Manning election case was taken up and after a long fight the resolution leaving the seat vacant until the case is decided on its merits was adopted. Adjourned till Monday.

The House Committee on Posto trices and Post Roads agreed to report favorably the bill amending the section of the revised statutes authorizing the Postmaster-General to stop delivery of registered mail or money orders to fraudulent lottery compantes, by striking out the word "fraudulent," thus including all lottery companies in its provisions. The House Committee on Commerce concluded consideration of the first section of the Regan bill to regulate inter-state commerce and decided to embody it in the proposed inter-state commerce bill. The House Committee to investigate the charges preferred by Gen. Keifer against H. A.

Boynton, Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, met on Feb. loth and after some consideration of the manner of conducting it, further action was postponed until Feb. 20th. The Committee on Education of the two Houses met jointly on Feb. ltjth, to hear arguments by the State Commissioners on Education and others in favor of the passage of the bill extending national aid to States for educational purposes.

In the Senate on Feb. 18th resolutions were presented from the Minneapolis Board of Trade opposed to the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific land grants. Senator Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported adversely the bills for the irrigation of lands ot the United States. Among the bills introduced were the following By Harrison, for the admission of the State of Dakota into the Union on an equal footing with the original States by est, to provide for the carrying on of improvements of rivers and harbors by contract. The bill fixing terms of Court in the Eastern and Northern districts of Texas, passed.

The bill to provide agricultural lands for the Southern band of Ute Indians, in lieu of lands heretofore provided for allotment to-them, passed. It provides for the removal of these Indians from Colorado to Utah. The National bank circulation bill wa3 then taken up and Plumb modified his amendment by a clause providing that "if, when the national bank circulation shall be surrendered it be not taken up by other national banks within thirty days, the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue its equivalent in Treasury notes" and by adding at the close ot his amendment, following: "The full intent and meaning ol the section to be that the volume of paper money outstanding, exclusive of gold and silver certificates, shall remain as now existing." Adjourned. In the House on Feb. 18th among, the bills introduced wete the following: By Peele, granting 320 acres of public land to each survivor of the Mountain Meadow Massacrp bv Nichols, to regulate railroad traffic and make freight pools and discrim-ations in freight rates unlawful by Cobb, providing for the payment of tho costs of surveying the lands granted to tne JNorth-eru Pacific, and to subject the same to taxation; by Bolman, a resolution inquiring whether the Northern Pacific Company claims lands which have been preempted or homesteaded prior to the definite location of the road by King, appropriating $500,000 for relief of the sufferers from the floods of the Lower Mississippi.

Also for the distribution of seeds among the. sufferers; by Dockery, appropriating $12,000 for maintaining additional signal stations; by storm providing that after the 1st of July next coin be paid for duties on imported goods, as provided for in the revised statutes of 1878, relating to the sinking fund, It shall be applied as follows First, to the payment of interest on bonds and notes of the United States second, to the purchase and payment of one per cent, on the entire debt ot tne United States to be made within each fiscal year, which is to be set apart as a sinking fund and interest, which shall in like manner be applied to the purchase and payment of the public debt as the Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time direct third that the residue shall be paid into the Treasury. The bill for the retirement of the trade dollar was made a special order for March 11th. A bill passed which removes the charge of desertion against any soldier who served the late war in the volunteer service, when it shall be made to appear that such soldier served laithfully until the expiration of his term of enlistment, or until the first of May, 1875, or who was prevented from completing his term of service by reason of wounds received in the servicej but who by reason of absence from his command at the time it was mustered out failed hy Irvinu Andrews. The steamer Tinunie Baker sank near Trenton, La.

No lives lost. Twenty-four buildings at Goodwater, have been destroyed by tire. Five cars were wrecked and two brake-men killed near Longview, Texas. Six children were killed by the explosion of a tank of oil at Bellefoutaine, Ohio. Mrs.

Hullry, a prominent lady of Switzerland county, Ind was drowned in the flood. Harris MeCullough was killed and Ed. Jones fatally injured in a railroad accident atSentor.Ohio. Seth Byrd, a prominent citizen of Columbia county, owing to domestic trouble blew out his brains. Unknown persons fired into a passing train on the Rock Island road between Belfast and Grand Prairie.

Rugg, the Long Island murderer escaped from the Queen's county jail, but was cap tured three days later. Manley Rowe of Wharton. Texas, shot and killed Lewis Charlton, who, he said nad insulted Mrs. Howe. A family in Minneapolis, has been attacked by trichinosis, and the mother is dead.

They ate raw ham. Dr. R. A. Hasbrook.

formerly of Kansas City, killed John Wilber, an express driver, in Cincinnati, with a knife. A fireman named Miller fell overboard from the steamer Jay Gould, below Commerce, 111., and was drowned. H. C. Turpin and John Burnet, rival sew-ng machine agents of Macon, quarreled and Turpin was stabbed to death.

A young South Carolinian named Walker committed suicide in the wine room of a variety theater at San Antonio. In a drunken fight in Matroflin cauntv. Elijah Lee was shot dead and several others were wounded by stabbing. Thomas Sullivan was killed by Patrick McGowen in a New York bar-room. Both were Republican ward politicians.

Edgar Peck, the Patehogue, L. banker who tried to kill himself, had liabiliatles amounting to assets A daughter of Martin Riley of Adrian, Mich, has confessed that her brother, Wil liam murdered their father and tied. William E. Finch, postmaster at Ellen- dale, Dakota, has been arrested, charged with robbing the mails of registered letters. George M.

Sargent a dry -goods merchant of Rochester, Inuiana, has been sent to the penitentiary for two years for receiving stolen property. Fire at Ft. Sully destroyed the quarters occupied by three companies. The men battled the names with snow at fifteen de grees below zero. A frightful explosion occurred at West Leisening shaft, a few miles from Connells-ville, in which seventy-five men were at work.

Fifty were killed. A saw mill boiler exploded at West Carlisle, Ohio, killing two men named Riden-baugh and Buckmaster, and severely woui.d ng several others. Mrs. Korrun Larson has been convicted of murder in the first degree at Muskegon, Mich. She gave John Guild poison after he had willed a farm to her.

The Episcopal mission at the Santee agency, Dakota, was destroved by fire on Feb. 17th. All the inmates were saved. The property was fully insured. All the children of Reuben Hart and wife of Crockett, Texas, were burned to death, their parents having locked them in the house while they went to church.

At Philadelphia, Barbara Miner, colored, was fatally shot by Louisa Rowell, also colored. Each received a comic valentine and ecah accused the other of being the sender. Forty prisoners have escaped from the jail during the past three years and four more became free recently. Seven oth-eia escaping were sent back to their cells by revolvers. Gabriel Erb, aged sixty years, was found frozen to death, in a field near Hubbard, Ohio.

He had been drinking heavily because his house keeper sued him for breach of promise lately. Prescott, A. had a disastrous fire Saturday night, Feb. 16th. An entire block in the business centre was destroyed.

S. N. Holmes, proprietor and editor of the Miner, was burned to death. I Nearly one-half of a flock of six thousand sheep on the Dakota bad lands, owned by Marquis Deniores, having died this winter, the belief gains ground that they were poisoned by his enemies. Mrs.

Elizabeth Carpenter of Wheeling, W. aged forty-four, a sufferer from the flood, in returning from Bridgeport, where she got supplies, was struck by a passenger train and fatally hurt. A snow slide at Park City, Utah, destroyed Win. Rich's house, killed his three children and seriously wounded his wife. Two other houses were struck by another slide.

The people are moving out of the gulch. The Rawley family, of Boyle county, within thirty years figured in affrays in which ten men were killed. The feud with the Shearins resulted in the shooting of one of that family by George W. Rawley recently. The damage to the Southern Pacific road by the California floods, amounts to half a million dollars.

There was a bad washout on the Central Pacific at Mill City. A thousand feet of snow sheds were crushed in Emigrant Gap. J. Kimball, a teacher in a district school at Grand Haven, Michigan, undertook to punish a pupil for disobedience. Two other scholars rose to interfere, when the remaining thirty -three reinforced the teache and carried out the fight.

Louisville, Joseph Cain and John D. Murphy, two Louisville Nashville brakemen, engaged in a friendly wrestle in a car. The sport ended in a quarrel, in which Cain killed Murphy. Both young men are without families. On Feb.

21st one hundred pounds of dynamite exploded seven miles north of Oma MISCELLANEOUS. The Nebraska wool-grc wers favor a taritl of eighteen per cent, on wool. The seventeenth annual session of the Ohio Y. M. C.

A. was attended by 200 delegates. The Indians on Poplar river, Dakota, snust stprve in sixty days unless relief is sent them. It is believed that Vanderbilt is trying to obtain the actual management of the Rock Island road. The President has accepted the resignation of Assistant Secretary of- the Treasury John C.

New. The investigations of the Danville, siotand the Copiah, murder commenced Feb. 15th. As being without precedent, the lower House of the Connecticut Legislature refused to appropriate for the Uuod sufferers. The will of Wendell Phillips makes no public bequests.

His property, amounting to $260,000, is divided between his wife and adopted daughter. Memorial services were held Feb. 17th at tLe Diamond mine, near Braidwood, the acene of the great disaster of a year ago, when seventy -seven lives were lost. The Governor of California is about to tall an extra session of the legislature to take action in regard to the unpaid taxes of the Central Pacific road, which aggregate $1,074,000. The Governor of Texas lias sent three companies of rangers into the districts which have suffered most from fence-cutting, with the expectation that some funerals will follow their advent.

About one hundred survivors of the 7th Illinois volunteers, the first to leave the State at the outbreak of the war for the union, beld a re-union at Springfield, and were given a banquet by the citizens. The Treasury Department has been notified that the President of Mexico has issued A decree imposing an additional duty of rive per cent, on all articles imported into Mexico, coainie icing on the 15.h of May next. Abram W. Carlock, who had lived in county, Illinois, for fifty-seven years, died recently leaving a fortune to his "wife and eight children. He never road in street-car or a railway coach.

McGinnis Fearing of New York have failed for about but settled with their customers, being assisted by Jay Gould, who sent his check to the house for more than enough to meet their present immediate demands, "The will ot Col. Hunt, the millionaire lumberman, of Roscommon county, discloses that he has bequeathed $5,000 to Caoline Brown, the mother of Artemus Ward, and similar amounts to Eli Perkins and Josh Billings. The expressmen's Aid Association held its annual session in Jacksonville, recently. The association has 1,072 members and, within two years, has paid $5,800 to the families of deceased members. H.

B. Plant was re-elected President. The people of Youngstowr, 0., have had a sensation for a couple of days. A young lady died there and still gave such sign3 of lite that the physicians could not decide "whether or not she was merely in a trance. On Feb.

7th they pronounced life extinct. Upon further consideration of the question, Gen. Grant writes to the editor ot the Toledo Blade that he did order the Army of the Potamac to make a second attack at the battle of Cold Harbor, but later ordered its auspension, and made other arrangements. An elegantly dressed young woman entered the hallway of a public building at St. Louis, and a passer-by a tew moments later found a newly born babe on the Moor T)ut the mother, notwithstanding her precarious condition, had mysteriously vanished.

Latest advices from the Michigan wheat fields show that they are covered with ice or frozen snow. Throughout the State, during "the month of January, 401,788 bushels ot wheat were marketed at the different mills and elevators, and for the six months ended 1, 6,516,522 bushels were marketed. In or near the quarantine station at Deer-iiig, Maine, are twenty -five head of cattle afllicted with the foot-and-mouth disease, which is said to have sprung from English importation. Dr. Thayer, of the United States cattle commission, is on the ground and is taking every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease.

Republican and Democratic members of the New Mexican Legislature have notified prominent Representatives and Senators in Washington that the Secretary of New Mexico refuses to administer the oath of office to them, and assumes to decide the election and qualification of members against the vote of the majority. F. C. Bradley and wife of Milwaukee, an aged couple, died a natural death at their house Feb. 20th.

They were found in each others arms. Mr. Bradley was formerly a wealthy railroad contractor, but lost his money through fraud on the part of Others, and has ot late years been employed in tne united states engineer omce. The funeral of Mr. and Mrs.

James L. Wilson, who were murdered" at Winnetka, was held February lbth at the village church. Deputy Coroner Clancy and J. Appleton Wilson, in searching the library of the deceased, found a very valuable collection of gold and silver coins. Charles Steele, who lies very ill from malarial fever, is said to have sprung up the night of the murder and informed his mother that some one was being murdered in the village, and that he could plainly see it.

A license was recently procured in Jack-aou county, Missouri, for the marriage of Rev. Moses Anderson and Miss Fannie Cal-licotte. The young lady on the day before the wedding was to take place, drove to Windsor with the hired man, to make some purchases. On the way the handsome fellow made love so successfully that they boarded a train at Windsor and were ried at Macon, the bridegroom appearing in brown overalls und cowhide boots. sons are reported killed and great destruction mi a t1 J- property, j.ne town oi is-auiey, o.

was nearly blown away. At Ninety -six, S. a child was killed and a house wrecked." A little girl killed at Worth, Edgefield county. At Jackson, S. three Negroes killed and several houses destroyed.

The town of Mellon nearly destroyed. At three Negroes killed and property destroyed, John Poole killed and his wife and children and an aged couple named Bass seriously injured. Dr. Wright's residence destroyed and he killed, and five of his children have legs or arms broken. A man named McGrew was killed.

Of twenty-four carts, two wagons and three horses on the place, nothing was left but the carcass of a horsei M. McLaughlin's house blown i away and he and J. P. Landrum, wife and daughter had legs broken, Kerr's house took fire and blew away. His wife was fatally injured.

Trains are delayed by the debris. The boat Belle of Memphis wa3 blown so hard against the landing at Ben Lomond that the wheel had to be dug out. Not a house is left at Chapel's Station, S. C. C.

M. Shafford was killed and Postmaster Bozeman and W. Reed dangerously hurt. Many women and children were killed at Anderson. In Clarendon county Jas.

Cub- bages and Benj. Bagget, a child, were killed. In Darling county, six persons were killed and fifteen wounded. A serious loss of life and property is reported from Williams- burg county. Twenty-five houses were leveled in Philadelphia, N.

C. The bodies of three white and eleven colored men have been found and more are missing. At Pioneer mills, Cabarras county, six houses blown down and a Negress killed. At Winsboro three Negroes and Mrs. Sterling, a white woman, killed.

At Rockingham, N. fifteen houses were destroyed, twenty three persons killed and many wounded. Several colored persons were killed on Pederee river. Manley and Keyser are swept off of the face of the earth. Near Lillington, Harnett county, six persons were killed.

i Further particulars of the cyclone in North Carolina say that the storm came up so suddenly that the people were unable to escape from their houses. Buildings were bl wn into fragments. The bodies of tho dead are terribly bruised and cut. The force of the wind was so great that two mill stones were moved about 100 feet- chickens and birds were found picked clean; the largest trees up-rooted and the smaller ones stripped of their bark. At midnight the sky was dazzling red.

The killed and wounded belong almost exclusively to the poorer class and there will be suffering and destitution among the survivors. Already twenty-three dead bodies have been found in Richmond county. Fifty persons were killed in the State. THE FLOOD. The river which had reached a height of seventy-oae feet and four inches, at Cincinnati, at noon, Feb.

14th, commenced falling, at last, and there was a drop of.