The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-11-23

Items or News and Miscellany.
LErTERs FOR THE INDIAN AND CHINA SQUADRON :
Persons having friends in The East Indies, or attached
the Japan expedition, informed that will b.
despatched from the Brooklyn navy yard about the
Of December next, for the squadIons this station
Letters directed TO the OF The Naval Lyceum, navy.
yard, Brooklyn, postpaid. will be forwarded
/ VAsr BussEss--We learn that the Central railroad
4 New York, has wentysx miles OF freight cars in
use. Yet this does accommodate the vast bus
ness that offers itself, and new cars constantly in
progress
Slave property in Missouri is said by the ST. Louis Re
publican to be In very condition; and the
counties where this description OF property is mostly
held general alarm prevails Slaves escape in gangs
the Mississippi continually In Marion county
public meeting has been held society formed to prevent
the escape Of slaves and system Of patrols adopted
complete description of all the slaves held by members
OF the association required Of them Another meeting
of the kind has been held in Howard county, at
which il resolved to expel all free blacks from the
county, and to have patrols.
i EXPENSIVE GARMENr.-The Journal of Commerce
states that Russian gentleman, residing in New York,
had occasion not long since bring this country his
overcoa which lined with sable agreeably to Rus
sian costume and the duty assessed amounted to
$7Oo-ihe garment having been appraised al something
/ like $4,000.
| WoMANs RIGHrs--A marriage ceremony was per-
formed at Rochester the i5th by the Rev An,onee
L. Brown, the female preacher The Union says Those
present that the Rev Anoineite went through with
the ceremony with marked grace and proprety oming
| however. all alusion 10 the prmeya injunction"
LONE STAR CONVENTION the first OF next month
convention OF the Grand Lodge OF the Lone Star Order
Of the Sons Of Freedom will be held in New York city
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already arrived, and large number of delegates
pecied from other paris of Europe, ST. Domingo Cuba.
Sandwich Islands. and Tahiti.
The New York Journal of Commerce says that the
trade in choice urs in that city has probably doubled
within three years. calling into existence several
large establishments, whose aggregate annual sales
about O0O 00O exclusive Of many other establishments
Of minor importance 10 the fancy fur line alone there
are firms that are doing business equal 10 $780,
600 or 100000 per The traffic in skins ship.
ping furs is still greater
IMPORTANT TolBsENT HEIRs-It is said that owing to
the great mortality New Orleans, caused by the late
epidemic large amounts OF property have been inherited
by absent heirs who reside in different States OF the
Union By the law OF Louisiana, such property is only
bound for The payment OF qudaed debts, so that all
partnerships subsequent contracts null and void
The absence of the lawful heirs has opened wide field
for frauds, which being daily practised.
Operative, IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN EseLAsp-
MIR Golden recently delivered speech at Manchester,
England in the course OF which he held this language:
| "Now, eenemen must here again sllude to Ameri-
ca When came through Manchester the other day,
found many Of the most influential manufacturing cap
tasts talking very gravely upon report which had
reached them from gentleman who was selected by lhe
government 10 90 out 10 America 10 make report upon
the Great Exhibition in New York. That gentleman
was one OF the eminent OF The mechancians and
machine makers OF Manchester, employing very large
number OF kpeope, renowned Tor The quality OF his
PRODUCTIONS and known in the scientific world and
whose scienic attanments appreciated from the
astronomer royal downwads he has been over TO New
York report upon the progress of mechanics and
chancal in the United States Well. he has return
ed.
..No report from him to the government has, a. yet,
been published and what be has say specifically upon
the subject will be known until that report has been
30 made and published to the country But has oozed
out in Manchester amongst his neghbors. that he has
found in America degree OF intelligence among the
man featuring operatives, and state OF things IN the
mechanical arts which have convinced him that il we
are 10 hold own-- we are not to Isll back in the
put them upon Level with The more educated artisans
Of the United States" (Applause.l
Ratlebran people are bouniully plenty these days
The following pen portrait OF the character is not bad
| His talk was like which
| With rapid change rom rocks 10 rosesi
! Ii slipped from poincs TO puns;
Ii pa sscd rom Mahonet Moses;
/ Beginning with the laws which keep
I The planets in their radiant courses,
And ending with some precept deep
| For dressing eels or shoeing horses"
| How FISH BEHAVE IN THE HET.-ln the net the funny
fish behaves like gentleman, and rarely conducts him
self in an unseemy manner. There would be no need
of ropes," the head fisherman told me. "f we caught
nothing but funny; spiders webs would hold them tight
enough for, when they resistance TO escape, they
only swim round and roand the net II they must needs
20 out through adoor in most decorous manner But
there are the sharks. They are abundanty stupid.
shark Las. year broke through the meshes like burgle
as he was. robbed OF is yards OF net and dragged
away an anchor that il took three days TO recover.
Dolphin we seldom CATCH they are 90 clever that you
would think they could smell the net at thousand yards
distance Now and then will forget himself IN the
heat Of his chase after funny; but when he does get
Into our death chamber he examines cooly every rope
or mesh and II he finds damaged rope or piece where
the net somewhat thinner or weaker than elsewhere,
he makes dash at with his whole body, beats bis way
through and escapes So far he is concerned we can
afford 10 lie, him go His flesh bad, and he is useful to
us when he has his liberty, for he will often hunt funny
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