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Misecllaueons fSDsc ■.l s!:tlihfnri “ Scenes and Tfcon jW*.’ BT WASHIXOTON THYlN'tl. I endeavored to lea:a tho story of the ill luted l.Uen and the interesting mourner whom I nad Relieved hovering over her ashes; and I found that they were indeed the pangs of a mother’s heart, which had caused the grief 1 had witness ed. She had attended her husband abroad, through many a scene ot trial and hardships she had dressed bis wounds upon the day ot battle, and she had watched over her soldier’s lowly pallet, with firm and unremitting tenderness; U't his wounds were healed, and he rose from ills sick bed, astonished at her magnanimity, and grateful for her affection. They returned together to their native country, that they might seek a toward for their past sutler itigs in the bo som of the country that gave them birth, and j u the happv retirement w hich they best loved. Several children blessed their union ; but some were nipped in the boil ot infancy, and the re>t prematurely destroyed ere yet they were lull} unfolded into blossoms. One beloved daugh ter —their beautiful Ellen—alone remained, to them. AH the tender shoots were withered, save this one ; and her they cherished as their sole remaining pride, their only sun n ing prop, /'.'ml child grew up all that her doting parents wished ? and lovely in min ! as in person, she constituted their sum of happiness on earth. Hot alas ! the sweetest and most delicate lloweis ore often nipped the soonest by the chili wind, or by the blighting mildew. —Iler fragile form but too easily sunk under the pressure of dis ease ; and like a tender reed, bent beneath its own unsupported weight. Her eyes, indeed, sparkled with unusual lustre, but it was no more like the brilliance of health than the false glare of a wandering meteor resembles the clear and steady effulgence of the meridian sun: and though a bright bloom coloured her check, it was not the rosy tint of vigour, but the harbin ger of approaching ruin. The terrified parents beheld with horror, the dreadful symptoms. In an agonv of mind, which none besides tan ful ly appreciate, they tried all that nature dictated, or art devised, to stop the progress of the fatal malady. But it was too late. It made rapid and gi gantic strides; and hope itself was soon obliged to droop in anguish. The lovely victim saw her fate before her, but her wings w-re illumed for Heaven, and she wished not to hover longer upon the earth. While her body drooped and languished, her mind became strengthened and fortified ; and the undecaying spirit seemed to shine forth more visibly, and more beautifully, when the mortal shroud which enveloped it was gradually tailing. At length life gradually waned—and waned, until its lamp shot up one bright,but quiv ering gleam, and was then darkened for ever ! She was dead—hut the rose still lived on her cheek, and a smile still played upon the half dosed lips, whose last accents had breathed tho fond name of mother ! And those who looked upon her could scarcely believe but that she sweetly slept. O.i the Cultivation of Taste —A female of cultivated taste has an influence upon society wherever she moves. She carries with her that; secret attractive charm which operates like ma- j gic upon the beholder, fixes the attention and j soflens the feelings of the heart like those be nign influences over which we have no control. It is impossible to be long in her nr sence with out feeling the superiority of that intellectual ac quirement which so dignifies her mind and per son. Her words and actions are dictated by its power, and give ease and grace to her emotions. The cultivation of a correct taste is so joined in infinity with the social affections, that it is al most impossible to improve the one without af fecting the other. For it is seldom that wo see this resplendent qualification attached t > mind under the influence of moral > e iples, neglect ful of those social feeling w heement society together, and preserve it from jaring innova tions. It is needful in every department of life; and more of our happiness is derived from this .source than wo are often aware of. Look at domestic scenes with a discerning eye, and see the movements of a woman of taste. If she is the head of a family, order appears to bethd first law which governs and controls her actions. All her affairs are planned with wis dom; confusion and discoid never disturb her mind. Her house is the seat of social happi ness, where the stranger and friend can repose with delight, for neatness and order are the In mates of her habitation. The proud pedant may boast of her superiority in ‘he literary world; yet, if she is destitute <>’ lhat delicacy which softens and dignities the ;ale charac ter, she must certainly yield up r ascendency over the moral world, to that i an (who, per haps. in science is greatly her ii : rior,) who has by a constant attention to this cr: > non of the fe male character, acquired that kv; lodge of the propriety of conduct which regtt: ■ Icr actions, and causes her to shine by her ! ■ tre. When this faculty is cultivated, the be. 1 - •: use is made of every thing which surround u The moral, intellectual and physical world, ; vsents a vo lume ever open for instruction : and subjects adapted to the capacity for imp cement, and always selected by her correct ta t ■ for inedita- 1 lion and reflection. The beutili and sublime,! arc contemplated with increasing pleasure, and j every object which .strikes the <■ ■ affords mat ter for improvement, and is monopolized to the ! best advantage. A woman of taste can render her cottage f a , more desirable than a palace without her ; lb if Providence lias been less bountiful to her of its right gifts, yet, by the influence of this supe- j rior faculty, the eye is made to rest with the same delight upon that arrangement of its goods, ;ts if abundance had been poured into her lap. The direction of the female mind is not made to depend upon that variety of scientific pursuits as many night conclude, but more upon certain incidents or associations which trike in carlv life. Multiplicity Gs objects confuse the mind and leave it embarrassed: when if a plain and j’ simple subject was unfolded with perspicuity j 1 and ease, the mind would readily embrace toe truth; and a channel of correct thinking would be open which it could pursue, with steadiness, and perseverance. The taste thus early culti vated, will unite with the more vigorous facul ties of the understanding, and blend together un til the character is formed. The grand object in view relative to the lemale character is mor al beauty ; and in my opinion, the early cultiva tion of taste, with a proper attention to the un derstanding, heart, social affections,would make the nearest approaches to this acme of human knowledge, for which the female character was designed. It is to be lamented that persons ot pictv should consider this a subject of little im portance compared with others, when ethers are so much affected by it. True piety and virtue would shine with double lustre where the laculty of taste is properly regarded. Singular cldvenlurc.- \ little boy aged about three years, son of Col. Ilogan, was missing on Saturday for about 7 hours, and search was made for him in every direction, but in vain.— A little child about his own age, who could not speak plain, was continually saying to his mo ther, * boy in hoi.-,’ and pointed to a hole in the n I of the arch over Eagle street, at its junction with Beaver street. His importunities at length attracted the attention, and it being known that Air. H’s child was missing, a man descended by a rope fastened under his arms, to the bottom of the creek, a distance of twenty feet with a lantern, lie there found a boy’s cap, but he searched no farther, and was drawn up. The cap was identified as that of Mr. IPs boy. Sheriff Gallup went to the place and offer ed a reward to any person who would descend and search for the child. None could be found, but the Sheriff himself pulled oil’ his coat and was making preparations to go down, when a colored man was induced to descend, with a ian ’ tern. After proceeding about 200 feet in the j creek as it goes down Beaver street, and which !is covered by an arch about four feet high, he ’ found tlie little fellow setting in the mud, and ; r, sting against the wall of the arch almost ex hausted. He brought him to the hole, and ho was hoisted out and presented to his, till then, afflicted, but notv overjoyed parents. After falling in the hole, he hail wandered thus far and had become so fatigued that ho could not make his way back he was in this place from 10 in the morning till sin the afternoon.— . Albany Daily Advertiser, The Flower forget me not. —Mills in his work upon chivalry, mentions that the beautiful little flower called Forget me not was known in Eng land as early as the time of Edward IV and in a note, he gives the following pretty incident, in explanation of the name : “ fwo lovers were loitering along the margin of a lake, on a fine summer evening, when the maiden discovered some flowers of the Miosctis growing on the water close to the bank of an island, at some distance from the shore. She expressed a desire to possess them, when her knight in the true spirit of chivalry, plunged into the water and swimming to the spot, cropped the wished for plant, but his strength was una ble to fulfil the object of his achievement : and j feeling that he could not regain the shore, al i though very near it, he threw the flower upon ■ the bank, and, casting a last affectionate look ■ upon his lady love, he said, “ forget me not” and j was buried in the water.” The logic of 'Machinery . —The following is an account of Mr. Babbage's extraordinary calculating machine, as described by Sir David Brewster, in bis Natural Magic ; —“ Os all the machines which have been coustru ted in mod ern times, the calculating machine is, doubt less the most extraordinary. Pieces of me chanism tor performing particular arithmetical operations have been long ago constructed, but these bear no comparison, cithetin ingenuity or in magnitude, to the grand ilesign conceived, J ai\d n any executed, by Mr. Babbage. Great ! as the power of mechanism is known t > be, y t w \ nture to say, that many oi the most intel — I ligent of our readers will scarcely admit it to be t possible that astronomical and navigation tables j can be accurately computed b. machinery; that | the machine can itself correct the errors which | it may co ummit; and that the results of its cai : culations, when absolutely free from error, can be printed without the aid of human hands or the operation of human intelligence. All this, however, Mr. 1 homage's machine can do; and, as I have had the advantage of seeing it actually calculate, and of studying its construc tion with Mr. Babbage himself, I am able to make the above statement on persona! obser vation. Ihe calculating machine, now con structing under the superintendence of the in ventor, has been executed at the expense of the British Government, and is, of course, their property. It consists essentially of two parts, calculating part and a printing part, both of which are necessary to the fulfilment of Mr. 1 Babbage s views; for the whole advantage would be lost if the computations made by the machine were copied by human hands and ! transferred to types by the common process. The gr-ater part ol the calculating ma hinery is already constructed, and exhibits workman ship ot such an extraordinary skiil and beauty that nothing approaching to it has been witness ed, In order to execute it, particularly those ! parts of the apparatus which are dissimilar to any used in ordinary mechanical con-'.ruction, to rid machinery of great expen- , and com plexity have been invented and constructed; and in many instances, contrivances of singu- 1 Inr ingenuity, have been resorted to, which can not fail to prove extensively useful in various blanches of the riechenical arts. The draw ings of this machinery, which form a large part of the work, on whi h all contrivance has been bcstojvod, and all the alterations made, cover upwards of 400 square feet of surface, and are executed with extraordinuary euro and precis ion. In so complex a piece of mechanism, in which interrupted motions are probagated, sim ultaneously, along a great variety of trains of mechanism, it might have been supposed that obstructions would arise, or even incoinpatibil- ; itie? occur, from the impractibilify of foreseeing \ all the possible combinations ot the pails; but this doubt has been entirely removed by the constant employment ot a system of mechan ical notation, invented by Mr. Babbage, which places distinctly in view, at every instant, the ; progress of motion through all the parts of this | or any other.machine, and, by writing down in tables the times required for all the .movements, this method renders it easy to avoid all risk ot two opposite actions arriving, at the same in stant, at any part of the engine. In the print ing part of the machine less progress has been made in the actual execution than in the calcu lating part, the eause of this is, the greater diffi culty of its contrivance, not for transferring the computations from the calculating part to the copper or other plate destined in receive it, but for giving to the plate itself that number and va i riety of movements which the forms adopted in printed t ildes tnay call for in practice. The practical object of the calculating engine is, to compute and print a groat variety and extent ot astronomical and navigation tables, which could not be done wifhoiit enormous intellectu al and manual labour, and which, even it exe cuted by such labour, could not be calculated with the requisite accuiacy. Mathematicians, j astronomers, and navigators, do not require to be informed of the real value of such tables; but it may be proper to state, for the informa tion of others, that seventeen large folic, vol umes of logarithmic tables alone were calcula ted, at an enormous expense, by the French Government; and that the British Government regarded these tables to he of such national value that they proposed to the French Board of Longitude to print an abridgment of them to the joint expense ofthe two actions, and offered to advance .£SOOO for that purpose. Besides logarithmic tables, Mr. Babbage’s machine will calculate tables, of the powers and products of numbers, and all astronomical tables for deter mining the positions ot the sun, moon,and plan ets; and the same mechanical principles have enabled him to integrate innumerable equations of finite differences, that is when the equation of difference is given, he can by setting an en gine, produce, at the end of a given time, any distant term which may be required or any suc cession of terms commencing at a distant point. Besides the cheapness and celerity with which this machine will perform its work, the absolute accuracy ofthe printed results deserves especial notice. Bv peculiar contrivances, any small er ror produc ed by accidental dust, or by any slight inaccuracy in one ofthe wheels is corrected as soon as it is transmitted to the next; and this is done in such a manner as effectually to prevent any accumulation of small errors from produ cing an erroneous figure in the result.” Ccpg-De Feeds. —Another vessel (the brig Franklin, (.'apt. Lyle) is about to sail from Phil adelphia, with provisions for the .relief of the Gape de Verd sufferers. A communication j to the Philadelphia Committee from Manuel; Antonio Martins, “Knight Commendatory of the Order of Christ, Colonel of the Militia for the Island of Roa Vista,” &c. closes as follows : A great number of dwellings arc found con ■verted into **. pule hr es, enclosing the dry or pu- ! trid remains of their once happy inmates.— Whole streets and squares are seen strewed with the dying and dead left unburied, for want of help to perform the last rites; it being difficult to dispose of them even by tire. Along the roads and all over the country are met scattered heads, without bodies, and limbs and fragments of the human frame, either dry or putrid, or in such a manner disfigured, as not to be identified by friends or relatives. Such was the devastation ram Feb. 1832, until November of the same year, that the Island of St, Antonio,inhabited by 22,000 people, has already lost, according to the best calculation, ab ut 10,000; Fogo; 12,000; Bravo, upwards of 3,000. But Vista and Mayo have suffered less, owing to the great efforts of some f their merchants, who, at every cost or n k, have made some small importations of the most necessary * rticles and distributed them among the most needy; part for money and part for charity. And though a tew anions’ us were able either inrough personal effects or good fortune to procure personal relief, they could by no means escape the general evil; hu manity compelled thorn to divide with the hun gry their scanty portion, that they might spare themselves the double pain of seeing so heart rending a scene and not mitigating the intensi ty of the evil as far as lay in their power. In this calamitous state of things, when we no longer had any grounds to hope for hu man aid, behold, succor suddenly arises from the good people of America. They sent us in succession the following vessels, loaded with provisions, viz: the Eastern Star, of Port land, Captain Noyes; the Orient, of New York, Captain Ellis; and the Emma, of Philadelphia, Captain Hayes. The last mentioned gentle man, whil -on his way to this Island, meet ing with that of St. Antonia, and being anxious to ascertain which of the islands was in the greatest distress, sent his boat on shore, and being informed that great numbers were starving to death every day, brought, his vessel to anchor, notwithstanding the evident risk which he unavoidably ran in approaching that dangerous coast, and landed a considerable part of his cargo. Unable yet to asccttain which of | the islands suffered most, and anxious for the ! object of his mission, he proceeded on his : course towards thi : i land and here landed the remainder of his cargo; part to be sent back to Antonio, and part to be forwarded to St. Ni— 1 colan. Led however by his humane feelings, he would have the provisions thither at any risk,! had he not been satisfied of our ability and anx iety in causing that transportion to be made! without delay. The wise choice made by the gentlemen of the committee, of the person of the good Cap tain 1 lays, has been the means of rescuing hundreds from the fate to which many had al ready yielded. For the manner in which he has conducted his honorable commission, he has well deserved the thanks of every individu al of this province. Magnanimous citizens of the. United States— souls of the most refined philantrophy—may Heaven with a liberal hand pour upon you its choicest blessings. Far from us did you hear the doleful accents of our groans—the pitflul erics of our deep lamentations, uttered with bit tor tears, from the abyss of our misery, penotA- j I ted to the bottom of your hearts. O. bcnerac tors of the people of Cape \ erds—what a sweet j change have you wrought in our condition — j what affectionate expressions shall wo use tn show you the full extent ot our gratitude! \\ ith ! our souls on our lips, and our hearts in our | ! eyes, we do proclaim, and will ever pro-, ! claim you our deliverers, under Dive Provi dence. . I Our gratitude will be oflonger duration than ( our jives—it will go beyond our graves—yea,, we will always pray the Almighty Buler of the destinies of nations, to watch over yours and you. Posterity shall receive this charge from us as ail unalienable part of their inheritance, and shall hail you for ages to come as the deliverers of their forefathers, and pray for your welfare. Island of Boa Vista, Dec, 26, 1832. (Signed) MANUEL ANTONIO MARI INS. Gold Mining’ in North Carolina. —Since the | novelty of the gold mining process has some- . what abated, but little has been seen in the Newspapers concerning this business. Lest, it should hence be inferred,that the golden pros pect in our State had become dimmer, we take occasion to remark, that at no time, since the commencement of gold mining, have the results been more favorable or flattering, than at the present; more especially, in what are called the superficial mines of Burke and Rutherford. The number of hands employed, is greater than at any former period, and a majority if them, are doing a good business. The ease and con venience of getting gold by digging a few feet below the surface have prevented the Miners from attempting the more permanent business of searching for veins ; hut as the former busi ness is exhausted, no doubt but the Mountains about Biindleton, Brackettown and Whiteside, will be made to disgorge their bright contents. Several experiments have already been made on the mountain veins, one of w.iieh, by K. P. Willis, Esq., came under our personal observa tion, and having some little knowledge of mi ning in veins, we are bold to assert, that no re gion of the State, promises more ample rewards to the adventurer. The activity, enterprise, and intelligence of the gentlemen now engaged in gold-digging, ‘t e have no doubt “ will compel success in this branch of mining; and when we consider the fine effect which such operations have on the country where they are situated, we can but be anxious for their introduction. — We may be excused we hope, for saying a word of our quandum associates in the business. To one who casually looks on and observes the singelness of the miners devotion to hjs occu pation it might seem, that gold had shut out all the finer feelings ofthe soul, but meet that same miner at his own house or a neighbor’s, and you will find as much of kindness, friendship and honor, as warms the bosom of any man living. And certainly there is as much intelligence as I can be found in the same number of men pro miscuously brought together in any part of the world. We intend hereafter to take more notice of this important branch of the industry of our State. Particularly of the vein mining opera tions. It is sufficient for the present, to remark, that in the spite of the unfavorable impression that mismanagement and extravagance has pro duced, as regards the Mecklenburg mines, they u 7 ho are most deeply interested in these estab lishments, are more cheered with the present results, and more confident ot continued pro fits than they have ever been before. We have not derived this fact from any boasting of those engaged, but the conclusion is from circumstan ces that cannot deceive. The mine of Mr. R. King, near Lexington in Davidson County, we I learn is a perfect El-Dorado, the size, richness, and uniformity of the vein, has seldom, if ever, been equalled in this country. ! We shall take occasion hereafter, to notice an idea that has prevailed to some extent in the country, to wit, that Gold-mining is prejudicial ;to the other great interests of Society’. Never j was an opinion moteunfounded as we shall show by facts hereafter. From the New Orleans Bee, April IC. Bulletin of Crimes. —Daring Robbery has succeeded faring robbery of late, with most ’ frightful rapidity; the organized band of thieves, j who ransom the whole city, know of no bounds |to their lawless acts. The duty of self protec tion must henceforth devolve upon the citizens ‘of the community; for it must be conies icd that | the score of the guards is too scant to allow the | mastery of a horde of villians, who seem to be | sufficiently numerous to be able sim ltaneously | and successively to carry on their depredations, in seven or eight different points of the city ? Several acts of this nature occurred night be fore last; the robbers, clambering over the bal cony, enterei- Dr. Lasroix’s house, and carried off all the wearing apparel lain by his bed at the time of his retiring, togetheer with his pocket hook, a valuable gold watch, ano set of surgi cal instruments. Almost at the a nr moment, j and in the same street, within proximity of the most resorted coffee-houses, other acolytes, no doubt, of the egregious rascals, were attempting an entrance into Mrs. Duverges’ dwelling, oth ers actually penetrating Mr. A. Pitot’s house, others forcing open Mr. Jan Bart’s .;oors, and others again timely prevented front mvadiug/he residence of Mr. 0. Roseliiu-, esquire. Many other outrages were committed in the same night, eoncctning which, wc could ga'hev no positive information. Citizens should be on their guard; good “percussion locks, caps and mahogany stocks,” are the only protection. A young gentleman was arrested, Sunday night, while returning from the theatre and “stand and deliver” by way of addressing him, was the charge of the footpad. Being unarm ed he thought it most prudent to make a speedy retreat, but not sufficiently so to escape a thrust of a dagger, which slightly, seamed the skin of his left forearm. Take notice. Captain Penne, daring one of his rounds. a i three o’clock night before last, observed tlirce individuals of a suspicious appearance, about the neighborhood of Bienville street, two on jj one side and another on the opposite side ofthe I street. On his asking them what was their bu siness at that hour, one of them snapped a pi s . v tol at him, while the other took to his heels.-. As one of the guards grappled with him, L e struck him with the discharged pistol, drawing his knife, a spring-back one, at the same time; the guard reeling under the blow, dragged tln> individual in his lull, and as he tell, his civn” knife entered his right side, in the regions of the kidneys, severing the great artery. An inquest was held, yesterday morning, on the body, by J. 11. H. Holland, Esq. the corpse examined by Doctors Josiah Keir and Augustus Cenas.who j g ve it as their opinion, that he had come to his ■ death, by the self-inflicted, though surely, not voluntary wound. This individual, it seems j from the disclosures of his companion, Lewis Jones, was named L. Bennet, had already been sent or sentenced, to the penitentiaty in Cincin -1 nati and made good his way to this city. An individual suspected to be the compeer j of those worthies, was arrested yesterday on ! the very spot where the corpse was under going examination. Has such daring, wo would ask, a paralled in any city of the Union! It is imperatively necessary that our municipal authorities should achieve the formation of the new guard, created by an ordinance ofthe coun cil,until that takes place, would it not be advisa ble that the proper authorities should order out patroles, in all the wards of the city and fau bourgs! If the villians do knife and pistol-work aginst tho guards, what : s there to prevent them from doing the same against citizens,who might be inclined to resist any aggression ? Are we tamely to submit to the invasion of our pro perty ! or arc we to peril limb and life in its defence ! Destructive Hurricane. —On Thursday after noon last a violent hurricane passed about a mile and a hail’ north of this place, very similar in its extent and power to the one, which in 1012, pas-1 sed through the northern part of this county, I but, in consequence ofthe density of the settle ment through which it went, far more dcstruc- * five in its effects. Vie have not learned how far west ofthe Miami it commenced, but under stand tiiat considerable damage was done on | that side of the river. It crossed the Miami about two miles above this place, and then kept up, with the course of the river, nearly r. mile, when it turned northeastwardly over towards Mad river, until it struck the road leading by Kaiscly’s and liuffer’s mills; about four miles. from town. It then followed along the road, principally upon the north side, to the Greene county line, where it turned rather to the north word, leaving Kaisely’s and Hufl'er’s on the right, and crossed Mad river at the Fairfield bridge, just below the same place where the one in 1812 crossed—Leaving Fairfield to tho right, it continued towards Springfield and passed a mile and a half to the south, and finally ceased about two miles east of that place. Several lives have been loot, and the dtstruc- ‘ tion at property has been immense. Near Fair field, the house of a family named Courtney was thrown down ant! the inmates were buried in the ruins. The neighbors repaired to the spot, and having removed the rubbish, found a, young man, about 17 or IS years of age, and an ; infant, killed, and tho other live members of the family all considerably injured—We heard of several other persons injured, some of them se riously.—A number of horses and cattle have been killed by the falling limber, and being driv en by the force ofthe wind against stumps and other objects. A great number of houses have been unroof ed, and some partially and some entirely over thrown—rendering it a matter of astonishment that the destruction oflife has not been much greater than it has. The wind struck a brick house of 2 stories high upon a basement of stone near the line between this county and Greene, j and demolished the upper story and part of the next, while the firmily, being in the basement storv, were entirely uninjured. The bridge across Mad river, near Fairfield, was stripped of its plank and string pieces, and hardly any thing, except the trussels, was left standing. The greatest injury which has been done to pro perty, however, has been the destruction of the timber. In this whole width, which was gener ally nearly a quarter of a mile, scarcely a tree is left uninjured. Some are uprooted; some bro ken off, ten, twenty, thirty or forty feet from the ground. The following from the Springfield Pioneer describes the effects ofthe Tornado in the vicin ity of that place. On Thursday afternoon between five and six o’clock, our citizens were alarmed by the ap pearance in the south of a violent hurricane. Whsn first seen, it appeared to be sweeping on ward in a direct line for Springfield, but as it entered the town, it was apparent that it bore too far south to visit us. It is since been ascertained that it rose some where in the south west, and swept across the country in a due north easterly course. We have accounts of its effects as far south west ss Lands’ Mill on Mill creek, live miles from this place. It struck the dwelling house of Mr. Pet erson, entirely unrooted one department, tore the smoke house from its mooring, with the ex ceptio.i of the foundation which was retained in its place by an oak tree two feet in diamater cast upon it by the storm. Leaving Mr. Pe tersoa’s farm, it struck the dwelling house of Mr. Thes Throckmorton —entirely demolished it —and we regret to say, killed one of his chil dren, a boy five or six years old—and consid erably bruised himself and wife, The next ac count we have of it is where it crossed the Yel low Spring road, which was so completely stop ped up by huge oak trees, rails &c. as to render it impassible. The southern Mail stage was compelled to return to Springfield, where it was detained until next morning. Passing on, the storm struck the house of Mr. Cullum, directly south of this place, and threw off’the upper or garret story. It appears soon after to have bro ken. but airain eollcctinn', it continued to travel