From the Peoria Register

We learn from Captain Field, of the steamer Glaucus, that a duel was fought near Springfield, our state capital, on Tuesday last, in which one of the parties, named Shaw was killed. The only additional particulars we could learn are these: A chalenge [challenge] passed between two men, of whom Dr. Meriman was the second of one, and Mr. Shaw of the other. Arriving on the ground, Shaw's principal did not appear, and Shaw was of course obliged to take his place.-At the first fire he was shot through the head and died instantly. The assassin fled to Beardstown, whence he took passage in a boat down the river before the news of the affair arrived.

Drowned, in Bear Creek, Adams co., on the 29th ult., Mr. Benjamin Franklin Miles. He was engaged at work on the mill dam, and, while reaching for something, his feet slipped, and he fell into the water, and was carried away by the current. His body was not found until the following day.