The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-10

Rtanct oh shp eiuci Ruhfudn we must Is
phase of Young Amerieanism which is highly ereditable
TO the youth of that part of the city.
Missouri Democrat Aug. 90
SAY SAIyADon-In this Central American State the To-
Gusts committing great ryages and the prices of
breadstus very high in consequences of the scarcity
An epidemic has also broken Out among the cattle and
thousands have persisted.
MAIL RoBBER ARRrsrED--we find the following In the
Nashville Wing;
L. Burnett was arrested on Wednesday night by the
watch general suspicion of being not of the right
stripe and ON particular suspicion OF treating his family
very badly Burnett about ten months since resided IN
this city and drove accommodation hack hence TO Gal
latin While engaged in this business he became ac-
quanted with married in Gallstn, with whom
he ran away leaving his wife and children IN this city IN
destitute circumstances He went hence to Augusta where
he has been engaged In driving omnibus which con-
veyed the mail from the post oee the depot Last Fri
day he returned to this city with Mrs Hunt and put at
hotel The Waterman arrested him at his ~iies house
and lodged him in Jail Upon examining his trunk 81 the
hotel draft for $500 to $780, drawn by the president of
bank at Columbus Mississippi and payable at New York.
was found among his effects Burnett was taken before
Squire Ferris yesterday morning and tried for open and
notorious lewdness, and found guilty The postmaster at
this city, Gen. Anderson had received information that the
mail had been robbed In the vicinity OF Augusta within
this month of drafts &c, to the amount Of 100000 Bur-
nett then arrested suspicion of robbing the mail
and the United States attorney not beng ready for trial.
he was committed to Jail in default of $4,000 security
CR0Ps IN SOUTH thR0LINA-lhe intense neat OF itst
week delightfully."- relieved by copous shower
panied by some hail on Saturday night, The clear pleas
ant weather that enjoy promises health as we'll as
comfort in town for the rest of the We hear
complaint of shedding but nothing serious
far The provision crops are all good and have had
the best of for curing fodderDarling'on Flag
LAURENCE DIsrKcT-The far enough ad-
vanced to develop the unwecome fact that the crops which
gave such evidence in the early part of the Of be-
will Ike
duct The and continuing drought has cut off the
corn crop so materially that the most reliable gentlemen
from all parts of the district inform that cannot pos
siby produce than enough for home consumption, if
it does that The looks bad the plant is low the
bols unusually small and in many sections shedding
LouIsIASAThe Nachitoches Chronicle of the 18th
nOur planters have begun to pick cotton and unless
unforeseen and unexpected circumstance should dis
appoint them, the prospect is fair for good crop.
After five six weeks of scorchngiy hot weather un-
relieved by rain yesterday visited with delight
full shower which has had the tendency TO cool the atmos
phere and moisten the hardened SOIL"
The Bastrop (Louisana) News of the 10th says
Having visited many portions of our own and all ad-
joining parishes speak from the card when say that
the health was never better this Of the The
crop looking fine and if the rain which visited
Wednesday last had been two weeks earlier the
cotton crop would have exceeded anything ever known
in this parish The prospects are still good for abund-
| ant harvest"
Com David g. Farragut has gone to California 10 take
charge Of the navyyard being constructed about
twenty EIGHT miles from San Francisco.
1t is reported that Commodore Vanderbilt has sold to
the Panama Company all his interest in the California
route and that the Nicaragua and Panama Companies
have concluded arrangement by which they raise their
respective ARES TO a remunerative point
There said DC in ireland three ecclesiastical bodies
ofshoots of the Irish Presbyterian Charch still retaining
the forms of that denomination which profess Unitarian
ism. They have about fifty ministers.
Prof Stafford the State geoogist Of Tennessee has dis
covered Rogersvle in that State extensive mine
Of what is said to be unquestonably brass
John 4. Mailing has withdrawn from the Nashville
Union and American To accept foreign mission from Pres
dent Pierce.
Nearly twenty persons poisoned in Alegany eoan-
y Nd the other day. by eating corn-bread made from
sour meal. They recovered.
There were 224 deaths in St Louis including 81 from
cholera, during the week ending the 4th inst
Col Emory The Mexican boundary commissioner left
"Wednesday bv overland for his