The daily union., 1854-11-15
G. EN- T. II AL N WA.


GENERAL NEWS,
At the late election, San Francisco loss votes
| Sacramento, 2.9l4,
The export of flour from New York for the week ending
the 9th instant 1927 barrels against s66s2 barrels
during the corresponding period last year Since the
of July the falling off in exports Of -four has been nearly
100000 barrels The decrease in the exports Of wheat for
the same period is 3,5Oo,ooO bushels.
Upwards OF NIFTY coiored persons passed tbronoh Al
andra (Va Friday last on their av 10 penns,r.n;s
where tract of land had be2u purchased for Them h
master, Dr. Charles Everett Of Abcmare by whom tbe
were recently set free.
SHEEP cuLTuRE-Ths branch Of husbandry is on the in
crease in Cecil county Nd The Ekton Democrat speaks
of gentleman in the edge of Now Castle county who
has Goo in his pastures ser having sent several hundred
to markSt
William keene riding along the road in Adrian county
Missouri, two large buck deer fighting with their
horns nerlocked and killed them both with his pocket
knife
lecturer down East defines widows as secondhand
wives
Mexican, caught running away with a negro woman
was tried by jury Coad Texas and sentenced to so
There were eleven convictions and the pen
tentiary at the of the district court at San An
tonic OF these seven were Mexicans was sentenced
for twelve years,
material for shirt Innings has been discovered by
the English soldiers in the East One of them writing here
says in postscript his letter There are eas enough
IN Turkey to dam up the osphous The Turks wear them
for lining to their shirts
t, yaur I,,rl- g.nl ..-,I-
letter written board the United States ship Portsmouth
Honolulu, September l4th 1854:
We arrived in this port on the 18th inst thirty days
from Calao On the st of September in latitude le 81
~ longitude % 50 w, o'clock p nI the wind came
fresh from the north and east followed bv a beav,
shower accompanied with very sharp and rightu thunder
and lightning At o'clock the lightning struck our main
conductor and followed down without doing any injury
TO the ship Three in the oretpp prostrnted bv
the shock but not injured 1t frghtfu for few sec
onds TO the freaks Of lightning il passed down the
conduror When tsrGck the ship the report of the xplo
sion awful shaking the ship and scattering the sparks
in every direction
'We found the st Mary's here she having arrived on
the 18th Of August thirty days from Callao II is mposs
bic 10 tell how long we shall remain here
The steamship Jewess Captain Wright from Havana for
New York laden with sugar, cigars, and oranges went
ashore Saturday morning Brigantiue beach about
four miles from Atlantic City New Jersey The vessel Of
about 900 tons and insured for SlO0ooa The cargo
insured for $4,000
The cppership Nightingale Captain Mather of the pio-
neer line and carrying the United States mails made
quick trip to Melbourne from New York She sailed
hence at o'clock the morning of the 18th Of May with
fair but light wind, and the morning Of the 4th Of
August delivered her mails Melbourne thus making the
voyage from city to city in n days 70 DAYS from pilot
to pilot
The Rev. Mr. Taylor while preaching ON the Plaza. at
San
information he had been able obtain the Bethel church
in chat city the only sesusaiung establishment in
the world But not only il the Bethel sesusaining but
charging branch hes been established this year ST.
ready There will be another before the year closes
OF the present members of the Boston police organization
~ born in Massachusetts 50 in New Hampshire /.
in Vermont 81 in Maine, and sever, other States each
or those in Massachusetts, 26 were born in Boston.
correspondent Of the Hamilton Spectator speaking of
the number Of lives which have been on the Great
Western railway says that since the opening of the road
the passenger trains have in the aggregate about Oe
600 miles during which they have killed upwards of "a
passengers and wounded and MANNED 81 who had no
control over their actons-thus giving passenger
killed for every o5oo miles travelled while in the State Of
New York taking 20 railways (2o76 miles, we find accord
ing the State engineers report for 1853 that there was
on passenger killed for every miles rav
elled and injured for every 62l2O5o miles travelled
giving the Great Western the unenyabe position of
having killed in the ratio of nearly 30500 To l.
Toronto Pairo' Of TAnsdoy.
TnE GHEar WESTERN RAnRoap--Arcady is the tale be-
ing told of the great falling off in the receipts th. road
Instead of there being weekly increase in the amount Of
business done by the road find that last week there
falling of in the receipts the tune of fAs3 Is 2ld
which plainly shows that the public have lost confidence
in the road be restored till radical change is
effected in the management
Pstropaulowski (the Of the Russian station which