1806. Gen. PHILEMON DICKINSON, who was in the battle of Monmouth, died at Trenton, New Jersey, aged 69. 1808. First legislative proceedings in relation to the New York canals. 1811. JONATHAN LAMBERT, of Salem, Massachusetts, took possession of the uninhabited island of Tristan d'Acunha, south of St. Helena. The British took possession of it in 1817, and fortified it. 1812. Peniscola, in Valencia, surrendered to the French under Suchet. 1813. The United States frigate Constellation chased into Norfolk, Virginia, by a British squadron. 1814. The ice formed on the Thames at London, above the bridges, and a fair was held upon it during eight days. 1817. LEWIS PENNOCK died at West Marlborough, Pennsylvania, aged 92; 11 of his survivors, within a mile, arrived at 83½ years. 1834. JOHN O'KEEFE, a British dramatic author, died at Southampton, England, aged 68. 1835. WADE HAMPTON died at Columbia, S. C., aged 81. He distinguished himself in the war of the revolution under Sumpter and Marion; and during the last war commanded a brigade on the northern frontier. He was reputed the most extensive planter in the United States; one of the wealthiest men in the whole southern country; and perhaps no other man in this country ever amassed so large a fortune by agriculture. 1836. WILLIAM GELL died at Naples. He was a classical antiquary, the illustrator of the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii, and author of various works on classical antiquity. He was admired alike for the depth and versatility of his erudition, the benevolence of his heart, and the suavity of his manners. 1850. Seventy-five persons killed by a steam explosion in Hague street, New York. 1854. Eight steamboats destroyed by fire at New Orleans, and 37 persons perished in the flames. 1856. Fort Nicholas at Sebastopol blown up by the allies, with the aid of 106,000 pounds of powder. This day in the calendar of Hesiod, is auspicious for marriages and the repairing of ships; but a day of _troubles_. FEBRUARY 5. 46 B. C. MARCUS CATO killed himself, at the age of 48. He was a lover of philosophy, in which he rigidly followed the doctrines of the stoics. He was a soldier, and his first campaign was against Spartacus; afterwards he led 1000 foot into Asia, where he was ridiculed for the small number of his attendants, but was wholly unmoved by it. He sided with Cicero against Catiline, and opposed Cæsar in the senate on that occasion. He endeavored to bring about a reconciliation between Cæsar and Pompey, but finding it in vain, sided with the latter. When Pompey was slain he fled to Utica, and Cæsar pursuing him, he advised his friends to be gone, and his son to trust to Cæsar's clemency; then lay down upon his bed, read Plato on the immortality of the soul twice over, and rose and thrust his own sword through his body. 41 B. C. AUGUSTUS, by a vote of the senate, in full assembly, their brows crowned with laurel, saluted with the title of _Father of his Country_.