Aug. 18.

aged 75.

Aug. 19.

aged 66.

Catharine, widow of John Randel, died,

Hannah, wife of Rev. Elias Vanderlip, died,

Aug. 20. Mrs. Gertrude Tremper, daughter of the late Moses Cantine, died.

The common council was petitioned to subscribe to the stock of the Albany and West Stockbridge rail road. Aldermen Gibbons and Maher thought that the board should deliberate with great circumspection upon this subject before they established a precedent.

Harmanus H. Wendell died.

Aug. 22. Thomas Hall died, aged 83.

Royette, wife of Patrick McQuade, died, aged 52.

Aug. 23. Lawrence Connor died, aged 40.

Aug. 25. The milkmen held a convention and resolved to hold milk at 6 cents a quart after the 1st of September.

Sept. 1. A banner was presented by the firemen and citizens of Albany, to the firemen of Greenbush for the alacrity with which they rallied to the fire in State street last winter.

Cecilia, wife of William Mitchell, died, aged 47.
Sept. 2. Asaph Sykes died, aged 35.

James Wands died, aged 65.

Mary, wife of Thomas Carroll, died, aged 32. Sept. 11. A fire destroyed several wooden buildings on the corner of South Pearl and Hudson streets, occupied as a grocery, carpenter's and blacksmith's shop.

An attempt was made to run an omnibus through North and South Market streets, by Joseph Webster, but it did not meet with patronage; the people preferred to walk rather than ride for 6 cents.

Sept. 15. Books were opened for subscriptions to the Hudson River rail road.

Sept. 25. Edward H. Dunn died at Little Rock, Arkansas.

Sept. 26. At a meeting of the common council P. V. Shankland was reelected chamberlain. Petitions from a large number of citizens, were presented asking the board to subscribe to the stock of the Albany and West Stockbridge rail road. The committee having the subject in consideration, reported that they had obtained the opinions of Harmanus Bleecker and James McKown, who concurred with them that the board had power to subscribe for and hold stock. But the subject was again laid upon the table, with a view of obtaining a more full expression of the public upon it.

Sept. 28. Isaac S. Cuyler died, aged 35.

Sept. 29. The new steam boat Rhode Island made her first appearance at the landing.

John Van Ness Yates was nominated for member of assembly.

Henry W. Delavan died at Ballston, aged 51.

It was announced that the Rev. Isaac N. Wyckoff, of Catskill, had accepted the call from the Second Dutch church of Albany, to become its pastor.

Oct. 3. A fire destroyed a wooden building in South Market street below the steam boat landing.

Oct. 4. The steam boat Swallow, Capt. McLean, made her first appearance.

William A. Gay died, aged 30.

The common council, by a vote of 17 to 1, resolved to subscribe $250,000 to the Albany and West Stockbridge rail road. The only vote in the negative was that of Dr. Bay.

At the annual election of the Albany Military association the following officers were chosen:

Lt. Col. John B. Van Schaick, president.

Brig. Gen. J. T. B. Van Vechten, vice president.
Major Asa Fassett,

Lieut. Volkert Roth, secretary.

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Major William Spencer, judge advocate.

Capt. W. I. Slingerland, treasurer.

Lieut. Edward M. Teall, auditor.

Major Edward Frisbee, adjutant.

Aug. 16. Mrs. Lydia Ryckman died, aged 99.

Oct. 5.

Miss Tempe Steele died, aged 76.

Oct. 7. Samuel H. Drake, formerly lessee of the American Hotel, died at Louisville, Ky., where he was a colonel in the Texan army of reserve.

Oct. 8. The steam boat Swallow, arrived from New York at 2 o'clock in the morning, having made the passage in 8 h. 42 m., the quickest trip on record.

Oct. 12. A fall of snow sufficiently damp and heavy to break down the branches of fruit and ornamental trees. Oct. 13. Caroline, wife of Caleb N. Bement, died. Louisa, widow of John Van Schoonhoven, died.

Oct. 19.

Harriet, wife of George M. Sayles, died,

aged 21.

Oct. 28. Oct. 31. Nov. 1. The corner stone of the Albany Exchange building was laid with appropriate ceremonies. At 12 o'clock, noon, after an appropriate address by John Q. Wilson, one of the trustees, the stone was deposited in its place, with the customary forms, by John Townsend, president of the board of trustees, assisted by Joseph Russell, chairman of the building committee, and by Mr. Ruel Clapp, builder. Upon the side of the stone was a suitable inscription, and within it was placed a vase containing the current coins, a copy of the daily newspapers, &c., and a scroll containing a list of the subscribers to the stock, 367 in number.

Helen, wife of Samuel Pruyn, died, aged 33.
Charles Knower died, aged 21.

The steam boats Rochester and Swallow left New York at 5 o'clock p. m., with the intention of reaching Albany in the shortest possible time. The Rochester arrived at 20 minutes past 1, having performed the trip in 8 h. 20 m. The Swallow broke down at Coxsackie, when she was about 6 m. in advance of the Rochester. Nov. 2. James Cumming died, aged 70. Horace Allen died.

Nov. 5. Francis Bryan died, aged 76.

Nov. 10. The election terminated in the choice of the democratic candidates.

Nov. 15. The New York Express was enabled to give the news in the morning from the Albany Evening Journal of the evening before, by the great speed of the steam boat Swallow. This was called annihilating time and space, and was thought to be quite as much in the way of speed as was desirable. Capt. McLean took the Evening Journal in his pocket on leaving the dock at Albany, and the next morning at 2 o'clock, walked into the office of the New York Express with it in season to spread its news before the readers of that paper, so that what was served to tea in Albany was given in New York at breakfast.

Nov. 16. A blacksmith and wheelwright shop in Lydius street, near Lark, were burnt.

Nov. 20. Abraham Oakley Miller died, aged 25.

The following were elected officers of the St. Nicholas Benevolent society:

Abraham Van Vechten, president.

Harmanus Bleecker, Wm. W. Groesbeeck, John B. Van Schaick, vice presidents.

John V. L. Pruyn, secretary.

Richard Van Rensselaer, treasurer.

Rev. Thomas E. Vermilyea and Rev. Isaac N. Wyckoff, chaplains.

John W. Bay and Harman Wendell, physicians.

Gerrit W. Ryckman, Egbert Egberts, Edward Brinkerhoff, Charles B. Lansing, Henry Bleecker, Jr., John Townsend, John Van Buren, Cornelius Ten Broeck, J. C. Van Schoonhoven, John C. Yates, managers.

Nov. 21. At a meeting of the common council Mr. James G. Wasson, of the finance committee, reported recommending the appropriation of $46,000 for the expenses of the current year, as follows: $7,000 for lamps, $9,000 for city watch, $20,000 for contingencies, $5,000 on city debt, and $500 on City Hall; which was adopted. Nov. 24. A fire destroyed the dry goods store of McCabe & Holmes in South Market street; loss $4,000. Nov. 27. Shaw's rope walk was burnt. Nov. 28.

Catharine, widow of Gershom Fuller, died.

The river was closed so that the steam boats could not get above Van Wie's point.

Dec. 1. Mrs. Phebe Shepherd died, aged 59, and was buried from the house of her son-in-law, G. V. S. Bleecker. Dec. 7. James Hilton, a revolutionary soldier, died, aged 84.

Anthony I. Quackenboss died in New York,

aged 40.

The river was open opposite the city, and the Swiftsure and Oliver Elsworth, took a number of boats in tow in the expectation of reaching New York with them.

Dec. 8. The Evening Journal furnished its readers with the message 24 hours in advance of the mail. It was brought from New York to Rhinebeck by steam boat, and from thence to Hudson by stage; an express brought it from Hudson to Greenbush, 32 miles in 2 hours. The expense of getting the president's message before the public in Albany, at this time, was very great, and the stratagems resorted to by the publishers of the three papers to head each other off, were quite amusing. Dec. 11. Sarah Lucretia, wife of James Keeler, died,

aged 63.

Dec. 15. Evelina Ross died, aged 20, and was buried from the house of Mrs. Leonard Gansevoort, in Chapel street.

The following were elected officers of the fire department:

Dennison Worthington, president.
Walter R. Bush, vice president.
John Cuyler, secretary.
Ephraim N. Pratt, treasurer.
Stephen Mix, collector.

Dec. 16. The steam boats came up no further than Hudson, and the river was again closed to navigation. Dec. 17. Alida, widow of D. I. Winne, died, aged 61. Dec. 18. Mary C., wife of Alfred Dorr, died, aged 33. The ladies held a fair at Stanwix Hall for the benefit of St. Paul's church, the receipts of which amounted to $1,200.