The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-27
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
NEW YORK, July 26, 1871.

New YORK. July 20, 1917.
There is strange story here this morning in the Wash
ingon correspondence of the Journal of Commerce, that
the Monno rs IN California have risen against the Amer
established there seized the country and
set up government of their There be some
about this although it's true that before the
Mexican this singular sect had it contem plaon to
establish republic IN California, and had in fact taken
some steps to that end
The exports from this port last week unusually
heavy. Theelns given in yesterdays letter The
value the whole $2S92 l6l Othe vessels employed
66 Americans, measuring 300 tons 30
foreign measuring 1880 The arrivals 1871, Of
which 81 Amel icans, and "A foreign with ssh
passengers.
The navy-yard Brooklyn is busy just now with the
erection of the authorized at the last
session of Congress The u S vessels present there
the North Carolina Plymouth vincennes, revenue steam
cutter Polk, and the steamship Fulton
How 'ruin' sares us in the face on every side The
Atlantic Dock Company now building IL new four-sory
warehouses 50 feet by &c. accommodate their increasing
business The buildings be of the most substantial
kind with the lower floors tagged instead of panked
protection against vernin When they are finished, IL
more to be erected on the other side Of the inlet
BY the barque Ellen Augusta, arrived here this morning
from Rio Janeiro we have the of the death of the
eldest child of the Emperor of the Brazsf uch be
of any greater moment than show with what impartial
hand Death smes the sons of men.
There some firing down the bay this morning, and
immediately Gohamites were all on the qui with
the idea that it was the steamship Washington. 1t was,
however, the China ship Sea Witch, just arrived from
Canton her first trip from that port, and the shortest
made. During six days of her voyage she 800
miles, and 12k miles hour For beauty and perfection
model she is OF the finest ships built and
sail anything afoat that carries sails alone Out and back,
she but ~ months. Possibly there many
even, that up to her wonderful performance
of 800 miles in six days The arrival of the Washington
is looked for with great interest She is IS days.
if she sailed the 10Th n though it is probable that
was delayed later Captain Hewitt determined be-
fore he started have everything good order could
be, so fairly the ships powers.
The deaths last week high SIS of whom 26s
or more than 30 per cent, below years Of age
SO were by cholera inantum and 81 by convuonsshow
ing that this great mortality is mainly among infants.
citizen named Morgan lately deceased in this city, left
by will the of $4,000 to the Washington Monument
fund This very well, II he had poor relatives
with stronger claims upon his bounty.
The Hudson river still rolls down flood of produce.
The following the receipts of the principal items for
Saturday: o. sos bbs -four $3.50 bushels wheat &C. l3l
bushels, q bbl, and 364 sacks 93l bbls meal
40 bb and bushels rye 1857 bushels lbs bbls
rye flour 32 bags and II bbs beans 300 bags peas and
$50 bushels bareythe whole weighing about 6,723 900
lbs, or 5000 tons
The French Union took about 10 900 bushels
of wheat which, with their and coal, make full
freight
A change in the wind has brought in n large fleet of
rugged vessels which had been days beating
outside the Narow and upwards of 1000 passen-
gers.
Since yesterday afternoon, have had succession of
fine Showers which have greatly cooled the air. and made
life tolerabe, that otherwise, would have been almost
burden. FED.