The "Courier," speaking of this earthquake, says:—

It was very sensibly felt at Wilmington, N.C., Charleston, S.C., and Augusta, Ga. At Charleston the shock is said to have been the severest within the last fifty years.

The duration of the greatest force of the motion or disturbance is stated by various observers at six, eight, or ten seconds, and the whole time of the motion or oscillations at twenty or twenty-five seconds. The direction was from the east westward, or nearly so, and the greatest impression was felt along the line of Broad Street, and on either side.

covered that it was breathing very different | weight, which had been resting upon it all sentiments from those of blood and treason; day, upon the ground. After removing the or, in other words, they discovered that the rubbish and sounding for the top of the "Brown family" in question was not that tubing, it was found to have gone down a of Ossawatomie, but was the family of old distance of thirty feet. Mr. and Mrs. Brown, who had a certain daughter that had captivated the unfortunate drummer. Then followed an overhauling of the correspondence of the unfortunate swain, which resulted in some very interesting developments in the way of soft sentiments. At this juncture of affairs Dr. Shepherd came up and pronounced the procedure an outrage. Mr. Blair replied with a curse, saying that if he took sides with the Northern agents he was no better than one of them. Shepherd then told him that he would have to answer for his remarks, or something to that effect. A short time after this, Shepherd came to the drug-store of Blair with a walking-stick, but did not go in, while Blair remained in the house with a double-barrelled shot-gun; and the day after he remained out of town, apparently to avoid a meeting with Shepherd. But Shepherd watched his movements; and when coming out of the tavern from supper, on the second night after the words were passed, met him, and commenced caning him with his walkingstick; whereupon Blair drew his pistol and shot him three times, Shepherd continuing to cane him until he fell dead. Shepherd is reported to have been a very brave man, who ELOPEMENT. This day a lady of New gained considerable reputation in the Mexi-York, the wife of a former member of the can War for courage.

The "Courier" goes on to note several instances in which the shock was so severe that persons fled from their houses. It was also felt in Augusta, Atlanta, and Macon, Ga.

FIRE AT CLEVELAND, OHIO.-The morning of this day, a fire destroyed a warehouse and an adjoining barn, with a stock of fur pelts, the property of S. Morman. The loss amounted to $15,000, on which there is an insurance of $8000.

State Legislature, eloped with a youth of eighteen, both of whom have been traced to a place in the vicinity of Philadelphia. The runaway lady (Mrs. B.) resided in Hud

EARTHQUAKE. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. -This day the shock of an earthquake was felt in various parts of the South and South-son Street, not far from St. Luke's Church. west. The "Charleston Mercury," speaking

of it, says:—

The most significant phenomenon, if it can be attributed to the earthquake, occurred at the Artesian well. It is well known that the city has been tubing the well with 10-inch iron pipes. On the 31st day of last March this tubing had reached the depth of eight hundred and ten feet below the surface; and there it has since remained. The excavation or boring, six inches in diameter, had been previously carried down to a depth of nine hundred and thirty feet. The utmost resources of the mechanics have been expended in endeavors to remove the obstruction and sink the tubing farther, but all in vain. Platforms have been erected, and large amounts of iron and wood, weighing several tons, have repeatedly been placed upon it, but it would not and did not settle the breadth of a hair. On Thursday, during the afternoon, previous to the earthquake, the tubing commenced settling,-very slowly at first, and then, with a perceptible slide, the upper end, which had projected about four feet above the surface of the ground, disappeared, leaving the superincumbent

She is said to possess considerable personal attractions, is thirty-six years of age, and is the possessor of a handsome property in her own right. She has been married eighteen years, and has five children. Before eloping she took $2000 with her in cash. occurrence has thrown a respectable family into the deepest distress, and furnished a rich morsel for the scandal-mongers.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20.

The

STEAMER BURNED.-This day the steamer Cam Howell, with a cargo of seven hundred and sixty bales of cotton and thirty thousand pounds of hides, was burned in the Upper Red River, in Arkansas.

RAILROAD-ACCIDENT.-In Rhode Island, this day, Elisha Brown, a man about sixty years of age, belonging to Pittsford, Vt., was killed at the station in Providence, by a train on the Hartford Road, while backing.

RAILROAD-ACCIDENT ON THE NEW HAVEN

SATURDAY JANUARY 21.

RAILROAD.-An accident arising from defect- | Md. She had for some time been subject to ive machinery occurred on the New Haven low spirits, from severe attacks of neuralgia. Railroad, near Milford, this day. The engine broke its driving-wheel; the baggage-car, which contained some men, was overturned and thrown immediately across the track; the first passenger-car was thrown down an embankment, and the second was hurled on its side: yet, strange to say, of the two hundred and fifty passengers on the train, but one was seriously injured. That one was Mr. Madigan, an express-agent, who was in the baggage-car. Five trains were detained at the scene of the accident for more than six hours, when the wreck was cleared away.

DEATH OF T. A. TEFFT.-Mr. T. A. Tefft, State Commissioner of the Industrial Art Association of Rhode Island, died in Florence, Italy, this day, from a fever contracted in Venice, which almost immediately deprived him of reason, and within ten days of life, though he had the best of attendance. He was an accomplished architect, much esteemed at home, and had recently made a name among statists in Europe by a learned and able treatise on Universal Currency, including a plan for a common currency in France, England, and America, based on the decimal system. It elicited a complimentary letter from Count Cavour, highly recommending the scheme.

DEATH OF ANDREW SCOTT.-In Philadelphia, this day, Mr. Andrew Scott, well known among the printing and publishing fraternity of that city, died, after a lingering illness. Mr. Scott was originally a printer, working at the "case." He was one of the proprietors of the Daily Chronicle," and afterwards commenced the publication of a weekly journal, called "Scott's Weekly Paper,' which continued in existence for several years. After its discontinuance, Mr. Scott conducted a job-printing-office on a large scale; but for several years past his health was bad, and he did not actively participate in business.

BRIG ANN MERRITT BURNED.-This day the brig Ann Merritt was destroyed by fire at Portland, Me.

THE KANSAS LEGISLATURE this day reassembled at Lecompton, in conformity with the special proclamation of Gov. Medary. The Legislature immediately passed a resolution adjourning to Lawrence. The Governor vetoed this resolution, but it was immediately repassed by a vote of 93 to 3 in the Council, and 29 to 8 in the house.

SUICIDE BY A YOUNG LADY.-This day Miss Deborah Hall Broughton committed suicide, by hanging herself, at the residence of her brother-in-law, Mr. McAllister, in Baltimore,

FIRE AT MARIETTA, OHIO. This day Cram's flour-mill was destroyed by fire. The loss, which was covered by insurance, amounted to $10,000.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER MEMBERS OF THE MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.—In Baltimore, this day, two members of the Legislature, who were upon an investigating committee of the Penitentiary, while waiting at the door of a drug-store, where they had gone for a prescription of medicine for a fellow-member who was taken suddenly ill at the hotel, were accosted in an insulting manner by a gang of rowdies who were passing, and asked what they wanted. No reply was made to the ruffians, who, after passing a few rods from the gentlemen, turned, and deliberately fired several shots at them. Fortunately they missed, the balls striking the wall close to them. The gentlemen hastily fled to the hotel, and gave the police notice; but the rowdies had, of course, left.

RICHARD REALF was examined by the Harper's Ferry Committee of the Senate this day.

ELOPED. Charles Kaufholtz, a German, (who on the 6th inst. was shot and badly wounded by Augustus Williams, in Chicago, Ill., whose wife he had seduced, and, but for the brave defence made by his dog, would have been killed by the enraged husband,) eloped with the woman for whose seduction her husband attempted his life. Whilst the husband was in jail, Mrs. Williams was nursing him, and, as soon as Kaufholtz was well, eloped with him for parts unknown.

SINKING OF A WHARF NEAR POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.-Loss of ICE-HOUSES.-This day five new ice-houses, belonging to a firm in New York, which had been recently erected and filled with ice, in the dock at the New Paltz Landing, opposite Poughkeepsie, were entirely destroyed, and their contents lost, by the sinking of the dock on which they were built. The loss is about $10,000.

RAILROAD-ACCIDENT.-This day two serious accidents occurred on the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad, by which at least one man was instantly killed, and many received injuries which, probably, in some cases, will prove fatal. The first occurred near Delaware village, and arose from the mistake of a switchman on a side-track, there being only one man to attend it night and day. The switch was set for a freight

ordered the painter loosed from the larger boat. As long as Mr. A. could see the captain's boat, he thought she was lying very badly in the trough of the sea; and, from the violence of the wind during the night, he has no doubt she foundered before morning.

train, which passed without his knowledge; | tain's boat lying broadside to the sea, he but a passenger-train awoke him, and, running out, he turned the switch first one way and then another, by which the train was divided, and the cars driven against each other, several getting completely smashed. The train proceeded as soon as possible, and, when about seven miles from Cleveland, met a construction-train. The latter, hearing the whistle of the passenger-train, which was out of time, attempted to switch off suddenly, when some of the cars ran off the track, and one was literally smashed to pieces. One man was taken from the ruins terribly mangled, and dead.

IN New York, a collision occurred on the Central Railroad, near Amsterdam, a sleeping-car, filled with passengers, having been knocked to wreck by another train running into it. Strange to say, none of the passengers were seriously hurt.

COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED.-At Toledo, (Mich.,) this day, U.S. Deputy Marshal W. S. Johnson made a descent upon a gang of counterfeiters, and arrested six men and two women. He also got possession of their dies, and of a large amount of counterfeit bills and spurious coin.

CRUSHED TO DEATH AT SEA.-As the ship Mountaineer was on her voyage from New Orleans to Liverpool, on this day, she was boarded by a sea over the stern, which stove the wheelhouse and crushed the second mate, James Healey, beneath it, so badly that he lived but about fifteen minutes. He called Boston his home; but he was thought to be a native of some one of the British provinces: he was about twentyseven years old.

says:

We had no thought when, in our last issue, we commented on the recklessness observed in this place in sending ships to sea without proper examination, after they have been badly ashore on this coast, that we would have to chronicle the loss of that ship's company; for they had been reported "picked up.' It is now made our painful duty to do so, and to announce to the friends in this city, and at Tortugas and New York, that Mr. George Harkness was one of the ten in the captain's boat.

The last account that we have had of the ship Silas Holmes is the arrival of the mate at Havana, with five ladies and three gentlemen passengers.

We yet hope that the captain and crew of the Heidelberg, and the missing passengers and crew of the Silas Holmes, may be heard from as saved,-though it is almost hoping against hope.

VIRGINIA STATE ARMORY.-A bill appropriating half a million dollars for the State Armory passed the Legislature this day.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 22.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN BENJAMIN TUNIS.The "Stockton (Cal.) Republican" of this date, in announcing the decease, in that city, of Captain Benjamin Tunis, in the sixtyfifth year of his age, gives a brief history of his more prominent actions in life. He was LOSS OF THE SHIPS HEIDELBERG AND SILAS a soldier in the War of 1812. He was on HOLMES.-The Key West "Key of the Gulf," board the frigate President when, after á of this date, gives the following account of fierce and powerful struggle, she was comthe loss of the ship Heidelberg. It is fur-pelled to yield to the superior strength of the nished to that paper by Mr. George Almeda, a enemy. In the engagement he was wounded citizen of Key West, who went out in the ship in the leg by a splinter, and seven of his in charge of the steam-pump. That paper comrades fell dead by his side. He bore the scar of that conflict to his last day. He was taken prisoner on the President and carried to Bermuda, where he remained until the close of the war. After the war, Captain Tunis engaged in the merchant-service, and, by faithfulness, integrity, and intelligence, rose from a sailor before the mast to be one of the most skilful, enterprising, and successful shipmasters that ever sailed out of They left the ship in two boats,-the cap- the harbor of New York. At the time of the tain, with nine others, in the smallest, and financial crisis which succeeded the removal Mr. A., with eighteen others, in the largest. of the deposits from the United States Bank, They remained together until the 22d, he abandoned the sea, settled for a short when about four P.M. it came on to blow time in Missouri, and finally removed, in the very hard; at seven P.M. it was blowing spring of 1849, to California, selecting the a gale, and a heavy sea running. The cap-spot upon which the city of Stockton was

It will be remembered that this vessel left this port on the 18th of December last, for New Orleans. Mr. Almeda informs us that on the 20th they were compelled to leave the ship, in consequence of the loose cotton floating about in the hold choking the pumps. They tried, but could not keep it clear.

subsequently founded, as his place of resi- | expressed himself perfectly satisfied with her dence.

U.S. STEAMSHIP-TRIAL.This day the U.S. steamship Saginaw returned to San FIRE AT CLINTON, (WIS.)-The night of Francisco from a four days' trial-trip, having this day, a fire at Clinton, Wisconsin, occaencountered heavy seas and storms. She sioned damage to the amount of $20,000: behaved admirably; and Commander Schenck insurance, $12,000.

DREADFUL AFFRAY IN NEW ORLEANS.-raigned before Recorder Summers and fined This day, the crowded rotunda of the St. twenty dollars, which, upon paying, his Charles Hotel, New Orleans, was thrown weapons were handed back to him. When into the most intense state of excitement about taking them away, his attorney adby a rencounter which took place there vised him not to put them in his pocket, about one o'clock, or shortly before that but to wrap them up in a piece of paper hour, between Mr. Charles N. Harris, of and carry them in his hand; which he did. Carroll parish, and Col. W. H. Peck, of He intended leaving the city that evening, Madison parish, a member elect of the State and was at the window of the clerk's office Legislature. The result of the difficulty was of the St. Charles paying his bill when the the killing of Harris by Col. Peck, who in- difficulty recommenced. flicted upon his person seven wounds,three shot-wounds and four stab-wounds, two of which were necessarily fatal, as will be seen by the result of the examination made, and which appears below.