The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-23

The first year of the tariff will yet be remembered
as ''the great year for the farmers"
Our new wing reforming city government has taught us
cts one lesson II nothing else-how much a wing
corporation can be than any other possible About one
hall The principal business streets like those of
cry taken by storm, OF upurned by earthquake, than
those OF any quiet or civilized place under heaven. With
malice pfepense a band of contractors, with army OF
ibores has been let loose i'm he dig them into yawn-
ing bitches from end 10 end, with-o complete the block
ade-huse piles of sand and mud on each side as high
rs The second-story windows laying embargo on bust
ness for blocks around and rendering them impossible
except the boldest pedesansto say nothing of the
horrible senches Gas many and vile those for which
Coerdge has inmoralized Cologne) from broken gas
pipes, uncovered wells suspended CUTTERS violated
pools, and desecrated drains now for the first time
brought to the light of day, like old toads--al let
loose to be ripened by August into pIa que and
pestence. Even Broadway has been spared. You
cannot walk with comfort safety limbs or clothes for
the piles of rubbish the clouds of lime old plaster and
The showers OF young BRICKS vagran states, and overflow
ing mortarhods from dizzy ladders, laid drop
everything plump upon your devoted body while, if you
ride unless the omnibus is well balased you like to
get very idea small SCALE of sea-sickness
have your violently aened against the roofas
my fate the other dayf you do founder in mud
hole, stick fast aground on heap of building and
timber This is but chapter of the reforms effected in
brelthree-nonths by our wing corporation. Unhappy
Gotham!
Mr. Stnyvesans death appears have occurred under
very peculiar circumstances Ii twas literally death in the
bath. He was in the "plunging BATH attached the
hotel at Niagara, and he remaining in longer than
usual his friends went to call him out when he found
TO be dead. The of his death is yet stated The
body expected in the city last evening He one
of the weahiest men in this country There great deal
of anxiety in certain circles to know how he has disposed
Of his large estate
The Missouri the third of the line of French steamships
arrived here last evening about O'clock having the
passage from Halifax in days and hours She left
Cherboug on the LIST inst and the 18th she within
200 miles OF New York, when the engn announced to
the captain that there but few of coal remain
ing in the bunkers. Next morning single bucket
coal was left, when fortunately about p m, they fell n
with the British revenuecuter Daring" which furnished
her with collier, having full cargo Of COAL and which,
being transferred to the Missouri enabled her to reach Hal
flax the evening of the 10TH The Missouri but Fl
days her whole passage to New York, via Halifax,
which induces believe she would have made her trip
in fifteen days, had her supply of coal not fallen short,
which of course will not happen again. She brings ~
in the first cabin including four from Hall
TAX and 66 in the second Among her passengers is Gen
Flores, president of the republic of Ecuador, with his aid
de-camp, Colonel Richard Wright.
The telegraph people will have to be CAREFUL they will
get their lightning line into disrepute Their election
only grossly incorrect but grossly one-sde
and wing and they have moreover this last time, got hall
the editors of this city by the the pnt of who
cheated by them Have care gentlemen, that
you do fare, in the melee, like the umpeter in the ia
be who got quarter rs being the grand cause OF all the
quarrel.
The total tolls received all the canals of this State up
to the 7th inst 1887 s04 70-being increase
$500 900 the corresponding period of last year. Ii the
tolls for the remainder of this year should in better
than during the period Of last year. they will be up
wards of $33563 10 against 1856 l2O 80 for the whole
of 1885, but should they continue to maintain their ratio
of increase thus far, they will exceed four millions Of dol
lars In all probability, they will be in the neighborhood OF
that sum. FED.