1856: Jan. 10: At 6 A.M., thermometer at 21 degrees below zero. Jan. 11th, 7 A.M. it is as 15 degrees below zero. Feb. 6: Temperatures still frigid. Thermometer at 15 degrees below zero. Fe. 22: In the national convention of the American party at Philadelphia, Millard Fillmore, of New York, is nominated for president, and Andrew Jackson DONELSON, of Tennessee, for vice president. For president the vote stood: Fillmore 179, Geo. LAW 24, Kenneth RAYNER 14, Judge John McLEAN 13, Garret DAVIS 10, Gen. Sam. HOUSTON 3. Feb. 25: Breaking up of the ice-bridge in the Ohio river, which has been closed for 53 days. March 3:$5,000 appropriated, annually, to the Ky. state colonization society, to be applied to removing to Liberia in Africa Ky. negroes now free, or who may be born of such and be free. March 7: $20,000 appropriated to extending and prosecuting geological survey of the state, during the next two years. March 10: Cities made liable for damages for destruction of property by mobs. --- Transylvania university re-organized and established as a school for teachers. March 10: Death at Louisville of "Old Ben Duke", a negro, 110 years, 8 months, and 3 days old; he saw the first tree felled in Beargrass valley. April 12: At Williamstown, Grant co., 17 frame buildings (1 tavern, 4 stores, 12 dwellings) burnt, with a large portion of their contents; loss $70,000. On the same day, 20 dwellings and other buildings, school house, and Methodist church, burnt, at Bardstown. May: Large fire at Hopkinsville, in the central business portion; loss $45,000. --- the Ky. colonization society sends to Liberia in Africa 67 emigrants, most of them set free for the purpose. Oct.: Falls pilots, at Louisville, at their own expense, during the low water, engaged in deepening and widening a channel over the falls. Oct. 12: Cornwall & Bro., Louisville, make beautiful candles, of high illuminating quality, from paraffin extracted from Breckinridge cannel coal, near Cloverport. Oct. 13: End of severe drouth (sic) as rains fall. Nov. 14: Vote of Ky. for president and vice president: Jas. BUCHANAN and John C. BRECKINRIDGE (democrat) 69,509, Millard FILLMORE and Andrew J. DONELSON (American) 63,391, John C. FREMONT and Wm. L. DAYTON (republican) 314. Nov. 9: Earthquake at Hickman and neighboring towns, at night; lasts between 10 seconds and a minute; accompanied by a heavy wind, and arouses the inhabitants from their slumbers; the 4th shock within six weeks. Dec. 24: Ohio river gorged with ice at Maysville, and also between Cincinnati and Louisville. Between Maysville and Cincinnati, steamboats continue running until Jan. 7, when the river freezes over and remains closed until Feb. 6. Dec. 31: Snow falls, 4 inches deep; several light falls of snow, up to Jan. 19. --- Medical department of the university of Louisville destroyed by fire; loss $100,000.