1848: Jan. 6 -- G.L. PITTMAN, editor of the "Ploughboy" at Richmond, mortally wounded by a pistol shot in self-defense from Col. James W. CAPERTON. Jan. 14 -- Duel between Lieut. HANSON and Wm. DUKE, of Fayette county, at a point in Indiana opposite the mouth of the Ky. river; Hanson badly wounded in the leg, on the fourth fire. Jan. 15 -- Legislature passes severe law against gambling. Feb. 5 -- Turnpike roads in which the state holds stock empowered to permit regular ministers of the gospel to travel over them toll-free, when on ministerial duties. Feb. 28 -- $15,000 appropriated for the location and erection of a second Kentucky lunatic asylum. -- Ky. senators and representatives in congress requested to aid in the adoption of ASA WHITNEY'S plan for a "Pacific railroad," from Lake Michigan to the Pacific ocean. March 1 -- The legislature passes resolutions complimentary to Major John P. GAINES, Capt. Cassius M. CLAY, Lieut. Geo. DAVIDSON, and their 30 companions in arms, taken prisoners at Encarnacion by 3,000 Mexicans; also, to Capt. Wm. J. HEADY, Lieut. Thos. J. CHURCHILL, and their 18 companions, taken prisoners by a superior Mexican force; also to Major John P. GAINES for "honorably withdrawing his parole as a prisoner of war, making his escape to the American army, and with it gallantly fighting at Cherubusco, Chapultepec, and all the battles fought before the walls and in the city of Mexico -- he being the only volunteer from Ky. who participated in the achievements of Gen. SCOTT and his army in those memorable victories." (Francis M. LISLE, of Clark county, a member of Capt. John S. WILLIAMS' company in 1846, instead of returning with it, remained and went unhurt through all the battles to the city of Mexico, part of the time as volunteer aid to Gen. TWIGGS.) May 21 -- Death, in Garrard county, of Mrs. Mary BRYANT, aged 77, widow of Capt. John BRYANT, and last child of Thos. OWSLEY, who emigrated to Ky. from Va. in 1785. Mrs. B. was the mother of 15 children, and had 94 grandchildren, and 3 great-great grandchildren -- in all 220 descendants. May 26 -- Gen. Lewis CASS, of Michigan, and Gen. Wm. O. BUTLER, of Ky., nominated by the Democratic national convention at Baltimore for president and vice-president. June 8 -- Gen. Zachary TAYLOR, of La., (for 40 years a Kentuckian) and Millard FILLMORE, of N.Y., nominated by the Whig national convention at Philadelphia for president and vice-president. Some Kentucky delegates at this convention were: Jas. CAMPBELL, Jas. HARLAN, John B. HUSTON, Geo. T. WOOD, Wm. R. GRIFFITH, John A. McCLUNG, Jas. B. HUSBANDS, Littleton BEARD, Jas. W. HAYS, Josiah A. JACKSON, Robert MALLORY, and Benj. Franklin BEDINGER. July 6 -- Message of President Polk to congress, announcing the end of the war with Mexico -- the ratifications of the treaty having been exchanged at Queretaro, Mexico, May 30, 1848. July 7 -- Resignation of Col. James DAVIDSON, as treasurer of state, who has held the office since Dec., 1825. Aug. 9 -- Vote for governor: John J. CRITTENDEN (whig) 66,466, Lazarus W. POWELL (democrat) 57,945 -- majority of 8,521; for lieutenant governor, John L. HELM (whig) 64,271, John P. MARTIN (democrat) 56,549 -- majority of 7,722. -- 74,628 votes were cast in favor of, and 37,746 against, the proposed tax of two cents on the $100 of taxable property for common schools. The following is the vote in some of the counties: Cumberland 350 for, 417 against; Josh.Bell/Knox: 720 for, 129 against; Laurel county: 495 for, 171 against. Aug. 5 -- Saturday night -- 13 slaves in a gang escape to Ohio, from the neighborhood one mile north of Lewisburg, in Mason county; and 42 slaves in a gang from Fayette and Bourbon counties, attempt to escape, but after proceeding 38 miles, to the neighborhood of Claysville, Harrison county, or of Waller's mill a few miles north in Bracken county, an effort to capture them brought on a battle, in which a negro shot and dangerously wounded a white man, Chas. H. FOWLER. The negroes scattered, but were all captured and secured, 20 at Claysville, 19 in jail at Brooksville. The ringleader, a white abolitionist named Patrick or E.J. DOYLE, (who had bargained to take each slave to a place of security for $10 each, which he received from some, a stolen gold watch from another, etc.) was taken to Lexington for trial, and, Oct. 10, sentenced to hard labor in the penitentiary for 20 years, on the charge of enticing away slaves. In Bracken county, the grand jury found a true bill against 7 of the negroes for conspiracy, insurrection and rebellion, and another for shooting with intent to kill. On the first charge, 3 were found guilty and 4 not guilty. The negroes belonged 2 to Eli CURRANT of Bourbon county, the others in Fayette county, 1 each to Cassius M. CLAY, Starke TAYLOR, Sam'l R. BULLOCK as executor of Satterwhite, Richard PINDELL, Thos. CHRISTIAN, Alex. PREWITT, Mr. CHINN, Mr. WARDLOW, and others. Sept. 16 -- Ohio river at a lower stage of water than for ten years pervious. Sept. 30 -- Col. Edward BROOKS reaches Frankfort with the bones of the brave Kentuckians who were massacred by the Indians at the River Raisin, Jan. 18, 1812, which are interred n the state cemetery. Oct.7 -- About 40 negroes in Woodford county have been furnished with free passes by abolitionists, and are to steal horses and ride off to Ohio to-night, but the plot is discovered and defeated.