1854: Jan. 2: In Maysville, the vote for license was 145, against it 159 -- maj. 14. In Lexington, Jan. 7 the temperance candidates for mayor and council defeated, except 2 councilmen. Jan. 10: The sheriff of Powell county, J.A. DAWSON, pays to the state auditor the revenue of that county, without reporting a single delinquent. Jan. 14: The Detroit Free Democrat publishes in its market reports the arrivals of fugitive slaves -- 20 from different parts of Ky. in ten days -- at that place. Canada papers also report them. Jan. 16: Fall of the suspension bridge at Covington. Jan. 17: Madame Sontag gives her first concert in Louisville. Jan. 22: Violent wind storm along the Ohio river; 15 coal boatmen perished, 110 coal boats and over 1,000,000 bushels coal lost. Jan. 24: S.W. ROBINSON, of Greene county, on a banter, rides on horseback, without change of horse, from Munfordsville to Louisville, 77 miles, over a very bad road, in 8 1/2 hours; weight carried, 200 pounds. Jan. 21: At the New York crystal palace exhibition of the industry of all nations, the highest premiums were awarded for the following articles from Ky.: 1. Silver medal to the Newport silk manufacturing company, for perfection and general excellence of silk from cocoon of Ky. growth; bronze medals 2. To Miss Ellen ANDERSON, of Louisville, for patchwork quilt "Henry Clay" 3. To John J. HUNTER, of Lexington, for Ky. dressed hemp; 4. To Robert USHER, of Louisville, for beef, hams and spiced meats; 5. To HAYES, CRAIG, & Co., of Louisville, for hats and caps. No second premiums were awarded; the competition extensive and severe. Jan. 20, the Ky. legislature passes a vote of thanks to Col. Wm. S. RAND for his fidelity and energy as Ky. commissioner at the exhibition. Feb. 6: Great fire at Richmond; 18 houses, a whole square burned. Feb 11: Legislature directs a sword to be presented to Henry E. READ, of Larue county, late ensign in Col. ANDREWS' regiment of voltigeurs, for gallant services in bearing the flag of his country through all the battles in the valley of Mexico, until he fell covered with wounds under the walls of Chapultepec. Feb. 12: Three earthquake shocks, at 6 P.M., at midnight, and at 5 next A.M., at Manchester, and for 25 miles around. Feb. 28: Shock of earthquake, felt at Paris, Lexington, Richmond, Barboursville, and other points. March 1: Price of vacant lands belonging to the state -- in counties of Greenup, Lawrence, Carter, Pike, Knox, Laurel, Whitley, Rockcastle, Perry, Letcher, Owsley, Breathitt, Clay, Harlan, Morgan, and Pulaski -- reduced to 2 1/2 cents per acre. -- Any person carrying concealed deadly weapons shall be fined from $50 to $100, and on any subsequent conviction from $100 to $500. The carrying of such weapons made legal, 1. Where the person has reasonable grounds to believe himself, or some of his family or his property, in danger from violence or crime; 2. Where officers of the law carry weapons for their protection; of 3. Where persons are required by business or occupation to travel in the night. March 10: Remarkably heavy rains for 48 hours ending at dark. Ohio rising very fast. Flood in Licking river higher than since 1800, and doing immense damage; at Sherburne, Fleming county, the post office and other houses lifted from their foundations, and the mills and other houses greatly injured; stages unable to pass between Mountsterling and Maysville for three days; much damage done y landslides; suspension bridge at Falmouth rendered impassable for several weeks; Kentucky river rose 1 1/2 feet per hour for 15 hours; large part of Frankfort submerged; on Elkhorn, Steadman's papermill dam swept off, with many others, and the inhabitants along the creek compelled to flee from their houses; many bridges carried away, and the fencing along all streams; railroad tracks undermined and settled; trains suspended for 6 days, on the Covington and Lexington railroad. March 12: Miss Delia WEBSTER -- who, out of sympathy for her sex, was pardoned out of the Ky. penitentiary, several years ago, where she was a prisoner for aiding the Rev. Calvin FAIRBANKS in the escape of slaves -- not long after removed to Madison, Indiana, and recently to Ky. opposite Madison; and with Rev. Norris Day, has assisted away many slaves. Large meetings held in Oldham, Henry and Trimble counties; Miss Webster first requested, and then compelled, to remove from the state. March 13: Imported Spanish jack stock sold at Maysville by auction; 1 jennet for $1,010, and jacks for $635 to $1,040 each. -- Explosion of steamboat Reindeer, when leaving Cannelton, Indiana; 46 persons, deck hands or western-bound emigrants, killed or wounded. March 16: Great hailstorm and whirlwind in Bourbon county; hail fell to the depth of 6 inches, some of the hailstones as large as hulled walnuts and a few as large as hen-eggs. -- Population of Lexington 9,139 -- an increase of 778 in one year. March 27: Sharp words in debate on the floor of the house of representatives of congress, between Francis B. CUTTING, or N. Y. and John C. BRECKINRIDGE, of Ky. A note from Mr. Cutting called upon Mr. Breckinridge to "retract the assertion (B. had charged C. with saying what was false,) or to make the explanation due from one gentleman to another." This was understood to be a challenge., and Breckinridge named rifles, 60 paces. Col. MONROE, the friend of Cutting, claimed that Cutting was the challenged party, and insisted upon pistols, 10 paces. This involved a dispute as to which was the challenged party, and led to a declaration by Cutting that his first note (several had passed) was NOT a challenge. Linn BOYD, Thos. H. BENTON, and others very active in bringing about an explanation, and the matter honorably adjusted. April 8: Thermometer at 88 degrees in the shade. April 13: A piece of wood from the stump of a locust tree in Rockcastle county, with the name of Daniel Boone carved on it, much worn but still legible, is presented to the Louisville Journal, by Mr. MEEKER, the landscape painter. There is but little doubt that the name was cut by the noble old pioneer himself. April 17: Snow falls in northern Ky., one inch deep. (April 23, 1837, snow fell three inches deep.) -- In the legislature of California are 12 natives of Kentucky. April 27: Trial of Matt. F. WARD for killing Wm. H. G. BUTLER in Louisville, which, since April 18, has been in progress, by a change of venue, at Elizabethtown -- closed by a verdict of "not guilty." Counsel for prosecution: Alfred ALLEN of Breckinridge co., commonwealth's attorney, assisted by Robert B. CARPENTER of Covington, F. W. GIBSON of Louisville, a Sylvester HARRIS of Elizabethtown. Counsel for WARD: John J. CRITTENDEN of Frankfort, Thos. F. MARSHALL of Versailles, Geo. Alfred CALDWELL, Nat. WOLFE, and Thos. W. RILEY of Louisville, John L. HELM, Jas. W. HAYS, and R. B. HAYS of Elizabethtown. Mr. Allen, in his closing speech, passed this high compliment -- he thought one man could not, in a lifetime, make two such speeches as the one he had just heard from Mr. Crittenden. April 29: Over 8,000 people, in a public meeting at Louisville, in resolutions read by Bland BALLARD, chairman of the committee on resolutions (John H. HARNEY, Dr. Theodore S. BELL, Wm. D. GALLAGHER, Wm. T. HAGGIN, Edgar NEEDHAM, and A. G. MUNN) denounce the verdict of the jury in the Hardin circuit court, by which Matt. F. WARD was declared innocent of any crime in the killing of Wm. H. G. BUTLER, as in opposition to all the evidence in the case, contrary to our ideas of public justice, and subversive of the fundamental principles of personal security, guaranteed by the constitution of the state." In the street, a mob burned he effigies of John J. Crittenden and Nat. Wolfe, of Geo. D. PRENTICE, editor of the Journal, (who had testified in court as to the character and manners of Ward,) of Matt. F. WARD himself, and of the Hardin county jury which had acquitted him. It then surged to the elegant mansion of Robert J. WARD (father of Matt. F. Ward), which was stones, the windows destroyed, the beaut iful glass conservatory, full of the rarest plants and flowers, demolished, and the house set on fire in front; the firemen soon arrested the flames, despite the resistance of part of the mob. It then surged to the Journal office and to the residence of Nat. Wolfe; but the determined efforts of a few leading citizens succeeded in checking its fury before much damage was done. The mayor had announced to the crowd in the court house that the persons against whom popular feeling was directed, had left the city with their families, and their houses and property were under the protection of the city authorities. Nobie BUTLER, brother of the deceased, had issued a card to the people of Louisville, appealing to them in strong terms to stay the thought and hand of violence, and to act calmly and prudently. April 28: Great fire at Frankfort, consuming every house on Main Street, from the Capital Hotel to the Mansion House, 17 of brick, and several of frame; loss between $100,000 and $200,000.