Daniel McPherson, residing near Fayetteville, N. C., committed suicide on the 6th inst., by cutting his throat. No fewer than fifteen Irish officers in the service of the Pope were taken prisoners at Ancona — and released. Frederick W. Brune, a retired and formerly extensive shipping merchant of Baltimore, died on the 7th inst. Nathan Dean, of Georgia, who was a soldier in 1776, and fought through the war, is now in his 110th year. The newly-elected Legislature of Illinois is Black Republican, securing Trumbull's reelection. Navigation is suspended on the Dismal Swamp Canal, at present, in consequence of a break. Dr. Geo. W. Pierson, of Biddeford, Me., committed suicide on the 6th inst., by taking strychnine. In the whole United States there are nearly six times as many journals as in Great Britain. Rev. Dr. Deems, of North Carolina, has returned from Europe.
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