The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-17

for delays, waiting for the regular convey
ances at various points, &c.
Total 80 days.
OF express could be run through in still less
time, by providing against these delays and taking adj
vantage of the telegraph lines There no such travelling
done in the world besides.
The Philadelphia (French steame) took out very good
ma-some 2O,ooO letters and newspapers35 passengers
and n freight of cocoanut and whaebone.
Some readers OF the Union may remember the ugoes
ton oil Zed at the time of the great between the
Oregon and g. Vanderbilt that should be fort innate il
we had not fatal steamboat accident the North
river in the course OF the The Niagara the other
day, but too closely verified the orebodng Already be.
fore is clearly settled how MANY eowbeings expo
sion swept to their dread account the the Oregon
is In the field with awager OF three two for any from
10000 to $oOO to that boat against the Hendrick
Hudson offering further, if his challenge accepted to
run his boat with only wheel against the other for
$1,000 In other words, he ready to give 81 900 pre
um If the owners of the endric Hudson will take up his
BETS Is this all wrong and only degree better than
racing with load of passengers?
The tide Of population from the Old World to the New
which, like the Nle if bears with weeds and wa ste
wood, also bears its bosom boundess fertility and wealth
still flows on undated. The immigration for the week
just ended was the largest known in the period
of time-l0672 The health of the city continues surprs
ingly good The deaths last week were but 1874.
Mems wills contain things even curious than their
advertisements because they exhibit faithfully and
unreservedy their idiosyncrases. The will of a well
known and wealthy citizen of Philadelphia Just deceased
has the following unique bequestsi
"Whereas my daughter refused me nights lodging in
her house when had place of abode therefore, leave
her cent and her henpecked husband half cent as
who allows his wife to insult her father in his pres
is To my other children rccomm end a pc.
rusal of the fifth commandment. To my mother.innw
bequeah six cents provided she buys herewith halter to
hang herself for having swndled the elect ont of gold
watch she wears, under preence of beneyoIence and
Christian conduct and behavior
Another collision the Sound And again it is the Raw
State On Saturday last she foul Of and seriously in
jured the steamboat New Haven. "Nobody to blame
heavy og-engines reversed at onceand so on This is
the third vessel which has been down by the Bav
State within ten days. AT this rate, the underwriters will
have to buy her off the Sound.
The ''grand fancy ball" Saratoga, on Friday occu
pies almost much space in the columns of the newspa-
pers it did in fashionable heads before il came o-to
the dissatisfaction of practical old papas and grumbng
unces and the eager interest of absorbed wife and daugh
ter. ltappears to have been very brilliant afarthoug
TO indifferent eyes there is just the usual man-mliper
small talk and chatter about 'he lovely Miss -" and
'he superb Mrs Ky" ''the stately Mr.. A-ss" and
the petite and fairy-like Miss A. B." and such like
leather and prunelIa." Several gentlemen of distinction
to say naught of the ladies--fgured on the occasion
Speaker Hasbrouck of House of Assembly; Messrs
Chas. O'Coner and ID. Graham, of this city; Horace
Bnney, of Philadelphia Frank Granger, of Cananagua
Governor Pratt, of Maryland; and the modern Dr. Faustu
Herr Alexander. ZED