$150,000 fire on Broadway, New York, yesterday.
Five vessels were wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico in a recent storm.
There are indications of a large Democratic majority in New York.
Steamer Mt. Lebanonian, from Baltimore to Havre, had her propeller carried away by a school of whales on the 26th.
The party sent out by the United States to view the transit of Venus, sailed from Southampton yesterday for the Cape of Good Hope.
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THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 7, 1. A. M. For New England, warm southeast to southwest winds, partly fair weather, lower barometer.
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