p1847: Jan. 16 -- Benefit of clergy abolished. Jan. 20 -- Kentucky Military institute, in Franklin county, incorporated. Jan. 19 -- Mr. WARD, of Missouri, and Edward C. MARSHALL, of Cincinnati, (both lawyers, and recently from Ky.) leave Frankfort for Utica, Indiana, to fight a duel with rifles at 75 paces. Marshall's shot missed, but Ward's took effect in the fleshy part of the thigh; wound not dangerous. WARD walked up to MARSHALL, who extended his hand, and they retuned to Frankfort as friends, on the same steamboat which brought them down as enemies. Just before firing, WARD handed his second a note, in which he stated he did not wish to kill MARSHALL, but would hit him within an inch of the spot where his ball took effect. Jan. 20 -- Maj. John P. GAINES, and Capt. Cassius M. CLAY, with 30 Ky. cavalry, and Maj. BORLAND and 50 Arkansas cavalry, are surrounded at Encarnacion by an overwhelming force of Mexican cavalry, and compelled to surrender, taken to the city of Mexico, and imprisoned. Jan. 29 -- Death of Monroe EDWARDS, the most expert forger in America, in the hospital of Sing Sing prison, N. Y., of consumption. Feb. 27 -- Act for the construction and protection of Morse's magnetic telegraphic lines. Feb. 22 - 23 -- Gen. Taylor, after two days of remarkably severe fighting, wins a great victory over the Mexicans at Buena Vista. Of 330 Ky. cavalry under Col. Humphrey MARSHALL, and 571 2d Ky. regiment of foot under Col. Wm. R. McKEE and Lieut. Col. Henry CLAY, Jr., 27 cavalry and 44 foot killed, and 34 cavalry and 57 foot wounded -- among the killed Cols. McKEE and CLAY. The entire American loss is 267 killed and 456 wounded, out of 4,759 engaged; the Mexican loss, of 20,340 engaged, nearly 2,000, of whom 500 are left dead upon the field. May 27 -- Chief Justice Ephraim M. EWING resigns, and June 1, James SIMPSON is appointed to the appellate bench. June 15 -- Gen. Leslie COMBS, In a Philadelphia court, recovers a judgment for $14,500 against the bank of Ky. for fee as a lawyer in the Schuykill bank bank case. June 22 -- Henry CLAY unites with the Episcopal church of Lexington, and is baptized in the parlor of his residence, at Ashland. -- Bourbon county agricultural society gives a premium for the greatest amount of clean merchantable hemp, the product of one acre of ground, to Isaac WRIGHT, whose acre raised 1,355 pounds, while that of Michael NEFF raised 1,200 pounds, and that of John Allen GANO 1,192 pounds. July 20 -- the remains of Col. Wm. R. McKEE, Lieut. Col. Henry CLAY, Jr., Capt. Wm. T. WILLIS, Capt. Wm. H. MAXCY (spelled Maxey earlier), Adjutant E.M. VAUGHAN, Lieut. James POWELL and 11 privates, who fell in Mexico, interred in the state cemetery at Frankfort; 20,000 people present; in the procession 11 volunteer military companies, besides several hundred of the returned soldiers from the Mexican war; funeral discourse by Rev. John H. BROWN, D.D., of Lexington; orator of the day, Maj. John C. BRECKINRIDGE; the occasion remarkably impressive and solemn. Aug. 31 -- Requisition upon Ky. for two more regiments of infantry for service in the Mexican war. Before Sept. 20, they are reported and organized as follows: 3rd regiment: Col. Manlius V. THOMSON, of Georgetwon, Lieut. Col. Thos. L. CRITTENDEN, of Frankfort, Maj. John C. BRECKENRIDGE, of Lexington: Company #1: has 81 men, from Laurel county, under Capt. A.F. CALDWELL, Co. #2: has 96 men, from Estill county, under Capt. W. P. CHILES, Co. #3: has 96 men, from Shelby county, under Capt. Thomas TODD, Co. 34: has 91 men, from Bourbon county, under Capt. Wm. E. SIMMS, Co. #5: has 94 men, from Scott county, under Capt. John R. SMITH, Co. #6: has 97 men from Bath county, under Capt. James EWING, Co. #7: has 125 men, from Fleming county, under Capt. Leander M. COX, Co. #8, has 101 men, from Nicholas county, under Capt. Leonidas METCALFE, Co. #9: has 98 men, from Boone county, under Capt. J.A. PRICHARD, Co. #10: has 97 men, from Fayette county, under Capt. L.B. ROBINSON. 4th Regiment:Col. John S. WILLIAMS, of Winchester, Lieut. Col. Wm. PRESTON, of Louisville, Maj. Wm. T. WARD, of Greensburg: Co. #1: has 70 men, from Caldwell county, under Capt. J.S. CORUM, Co. #2: has 94 men, from Livingston county, under Capt. G.B. COOK, Co. #3: has 91 men, from Daviess county, under Capt. Decius McCREERY, Co. #4: has 92 men, from Hart county, under Capt. P.H. GARDINER, Co. #5: has 68 men, from Jefferson county, under Capt. T. KEATING, Co. #6: has 94 men, from Adair county, under Capt. John C. SQUIRES, Co. #7: has 100 men, from Pulaski county, under Capt. John G. LAIR, Co. #8: has 91 men, from Washington county, under Capt. M.R. HARDIN, Co. #9: has 114 men, from Nelson county, under Capt. B. Rowan HARDIN, Co. #10: has 92 men, from Henry county, under Capt. A.W. BARTLETT. 12 other companies reported -- one each from Mason, Montgomery, Fayette, Madison, Bullitt, Hardin, Campbell, Harrison and Franklin counties, and three from the city of Louisville; a number of others partially made up, ceased their efforts on learning that the requisition was full. In Capt. Cox's company, from Fleming, 25 men were over six feet high. Sept. 14 -- Considerable interest among the scientific and curious, by the publication of Orrin LINDSAY'S "Voyage around the Moon, a brief account of some novel experiments upon gravitation, and also a narrative of two voyages into empty space." Nov. 27 -- A lady now living in Maysville, only 68 years old, has had 160 descendants. She was married at 14, was a mother at 15 years and two months, and has had 18 children; her grandchildren have exceeded 100 in number, of whom 89 are living; she has 28 great-grandchildren living. Dec. 9 & 10 -- Remarkably heavy rains, producing a great freshet in Licking, Kentucky, and Cumberland rivers and their branches; several small streams rise so fast during the night of Dec. 10th, as to compel people to flee in their night-clothes to the second story of their houses and to the hills. The North Fork of the Licking was from 5 to 10 feet higher than ever known; and just south of Millersburg, the Maysville and Lexington Turnpike road was for several hours overflowed to the depth of 7 to 10 feet. Much of the town of Frankfort was submerged, the water from 3 to 6 feet deep in houses. Immense damage done, in washing away houses, mills, dams, fences, stacks of grain and hay, hogs and other farm stock. On Lulbegrud creek, in Clark and Montgomery counties, Boone's creek in Fayette, Benson creek in Franklin, and Valley creek in Hardin county, every mill was swept off, and most of those on Elkhorn and its forks. Dec. 17 -- Deepest snow for 10 years past, through middle and eastern Kentucky. Dec. 30 -- New steamboat A.N. JOHNSTON blown up, when 10 miles above Maysville, at 1:30 A.M.; about 45 persons killed, or die from wounds, and many more wounded. Dec. 31 -- Lines of telegraph being erected from Maysville to Nashville, via Lexington, Frankfort, Louisville, Bardstown, and Bowling Green, and from Maysville to Cincinnati.