A telegram of Sunday last from Philadelphia says that a
tornado -crossed a portion of Wisconsin on Thursday week which literally 'swept the wooden bull dings in its path-way before it, and 'carried on the debris of the houses for many miles. The towns of Mineral Point, Mount Vernon, Primrose, Oregon, and Paoli, are said to have been "devastated," whatever that may mean, but that only thirty persons were killed and fifty injured. The " devastation " can hardly have been very -complete without a greater loss of life than that. "In one case," it is said, "a school-house, with the teachers and scholars in it, was carried away several rods, three of the scholars being killed, but others escaping unhurt." Even in England we have had -gales more than equinoctial at a time nearer to the solstice than to the equinox, as if the holiday of the winds had been postponed AO long, that they were taking their revenge in the violence of their play.
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