It's bee awhile since I have sent one of these. I had a computer crash about the time AOL messages started bouncing from the lists so I don't know if the first part of this mailing of January - April, 1854 showed up. Could someone let me know? Diane May 1: 44 colored emigrants for Liberia in Africa, leave Louisville. May 3: Grant GREEN appointed secretary of state, in place of Jas. P. METCALFE, resigned; and Jas. W. TATE assistant secretary of state. -- Auction sale at Paris of 17 imported Sussex and Middlesex pigs, at prices ranging from $16 to $150 -- averaging $59 each. May 14: Rattlesnake 6 1/2 feet long, 18 inches around, with 21 rattles, killed on farm of Geo. W. BOWMAN, in Bullitt county, 4 miles south of Shepardsville. May 15: Matt. F. WARD, in a card in the N. O. Delta, addressed "to the editors of the U.S.," begs them not to prejudge his case, but to wait until the evidence and the arguments of counsel shall appear in the official form. June 8: Barbecue at Cynthiana, celebrating the opening to that place of the Covington and Lexington railroad. Aug. 7: Election for county officers; Know Nothing ticket successful in Louisville and several other cities; Henry J. STITES elected judge of the court of appeals over John H. McHENRY. --Hailstorm in Daviess, Ohio, and Breckinridge counties; damage estimated at $25,000. Aug. 13: Sunday, at 2 A.M., 1,100 kegs (27,500 pounds) gunpowder, in a magazine on the hillside in the edge of Maysville, fired by incendiaries, and explode with terrific effect; over 4,000 people within one mile, many hair-breadth escapes, a few persons injured, one dangerously, none fatally; one woman, ill at the time, died from fright; 13 houses demolished, all other houses within two miles more or less damaged, brick walls badly sprung, windows and doors blown in and shattered, and window glass broken; loss and damage over $50,000; explosion heard at Poplar Plains, 22 miles, on a steamboat 42 miles up the Ohio river, at Hillsboro, Ohio, 40 miles distant; at Orangeburg, 7 miles, china ware shaken off the table, and windows broken; near Helena, 12 miles, negroes thrown out of bed; the whole body of water in the Ohio river urged towards the Ohio shore, rising suddenly on that shore several feet; 1600 lights of glass broken in the Maysville cotton mill; stones weighing 102 pounds thrown entirely across the Ohio river. $1,500 offered for the perpetrators, without success. Aug. 27: Sunday, about 12 M., a tremendous storm passes over part of Louisville, blowing down the new 4th Presbyterian church, two large brick warehouses, the gable end and upper story of several other houses, unroofing and seriously injuring over 50 houses and three steamboats. In the church, while Rev. Robert MORRISON was preaching in the basement (the upper rooms not finished), the door was blown open and the house filled with dust, rendering the room dark; a crash was then heard, and in the twinkling of an eye the work of death and destruction was complete; 16 dead bodies, fathers and mothers with their children, were recovered from the ruins, and 23 badly wounded. Sept. 14: Termination of the most remarkable drouth (sic) since 1839. In Greenup county, opposite Portsmouth, Ohio, is a water-mark called the "Indian Head", a human face rudely carved by the aborigines, many years ago, upon the eastern side of a large rock imbedded in the water of the Ohio river. The "log" kept in the neighborhood shows that the mouth of the figure was In 1839 --Nov. 10, 10 1/4 inches out of the water; 1849 -- Sept. 23, top of head 4 1/2 inches under the water; 1850 -- Sept. 16, top of rock 2 1/2 inches out of water; 1851 -- Sept. 27, eyes to be seen - the lowest measure on record from 1839 to this date; 1854 -- Sept. 5, mouth just on water-line, therefore lower than 1839. For several days before Sept 9, the weather warmer than ever known, thermometer 102 to 104 degrees in the shade; and at 2 P.M., when exposed to the sun, rising in a few minutes to 154 degrees. But little rain for several months, vegetation parched or burned up, springs and wells nearly all dry, farmers driving stock 3 to 7 miles to water. In southern Ky., near the Tennessee line, the rain fall in June was 3 1/4 inches, in July 1 and 1/2 inches, in Aug. 1/4 inch, and from 1st to 20th Sept., 1/2 inch. In 1853, during same time, 21 7/8 inches fell. Sept. 27: Death of Presley EWING, member of congress from 3rd district, by cholera, near Mammoth Cave. Oct. 17: Failure of Newport Safety Fund Bank of Kentucky. Oct. 18: Failure of Kentucky Trust Company Bank at Covington. Oct. 19: Bank panic in West, more failures, and great run on local banks, banking houses and brokers. Oct. 24, notes of the Indiana and other Free Banks "thrown out" by leading city banks, sold at a discount to brokers. Notes of Ky. Trust Company fall to 60 and 50 cents on the dollar, and Newport Safety Fund Bank notes to 35 and 30 cents on the dollar. Commercial Bank of Ky. notes have been cried down and a "run" organized by the brokers; but the other Ky. banks, resolving to stand by each other, receive and protect her notes, and promptly break the force of the panic in that direction. Oct. 27, the banking-house of G. H. Monsarrat & Co., Louisville, suspends payment, "in consequence of the perfidy of a confidential agent." Nov. 8 and 9, great run on the private banks in Cincinnati, all suspend, and several make assignments. 33 banks, including the two at Covington and Newport, Ky., one each in Georgia, Michigan, Delaware, Boston, and Maine, and the others in New York, Ohio, and Indiana, have failed within six weeks. The Ky. banks have retired more than half of the circulation which they had out four months ago. One Louisville broker draws out of the Ky. branch banks at Bowling Green, Russellville, Hopkinsville, and Princeton $140,000 in specie. Nov. 20, bank failures elsewhere than in Ky. continue; Ky. bank notes standard bank funds throughout the west. Oct. 21: Henry FORTMAN found guilty of manslaughter, at Covington, in killing Samuel EASTON, a lad 12 years old, son of Shadford EASTON, by throwing him down and stamping on his head, breast and side; sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary. Oct. 28, 29: 8 deaths in Louisville by cholera. Oct.30: WEYMER obtains a verdict, in U.S. district court at Columbus, Ohio, of $3,000 against Rush R. SLOAN, a Sandusky lawyer, for aiding in the escape of four slaves from Ky. Attorneys for plaintiff, Henry STANSBERY and Chas. D. COFFIN; for defendants, Hocking H. HUNTER and Samuel F. VINTON. Nov.2: Know Nothing convention for the state reported to be in session at Louisville. Nov. 8: Re-interment in state cemetery at Frankfort of the remains of Gov. Chas. SCOTT, Hon. Wm. T. BARRY, and Maj. Bland BALLARD and wife, after orations upon their lives and character. Dec. 1: YATES, who was indicted for perjury as one of the jurors in the Matt. F. WARD case at Elizabethtown, tried and acquitted; the indictments against the other jurors then dismissed. Dec. 14: State temperance convention at Louisville nominates Geo. W. WILLIAMS for governor and James G. HARDY for lieutenant governor, at ensuing August election.