New Hampshire Statesman

State House burnt.—On the 3d December, the State House of the State of Illinois at Vandalia, was consumed by fire together with the books and implements of the Receiver of Public Moneys and the regalia of the Masonick Lodge.—The fire was accidental. On the next day, a subscription was set on foot to rebuild the State House, and the Governor (Coles) for some cause did not choose to sign the paper; when at night a mob of Vandalians (not to say Vandals) dragged his effigy through the street, and then burnt it amidst groans, and the cry of "State House or death." It is added that they were headed by a Colonel Berry. The Governor treated the transaction with contempt, and had received the expression of respect from every gentleman in the town.