The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-29

time been equalled"
GENERAL NEWS.
FINANCIAL pIFFIcuLrIEs--NEw YORK Nov 27.-The bills
OF the government stock bank Arbor, Michigan,
received the Metropolitan Bank to-day The bills
the Merchants Bank of Bridgeport New Jersey
also refused by the brokers to-day.
1t is reported that defalcation to the amount of S70
900 attempted by one of the eers of the National
Bank of this city to-day The particulars have not trans
PRED,
TOLEDO Nov. 2T-The Commercial Branch Bank of the
State of Ohio in this city, closed its doors to-day.
The men-of-war in port at Honolulu American and Eng
fish, lowered their ensgns at halfmast the 10th Oco-
ber and the Portsmouth fired sixy-ninc mnute-gun in
respect the memory of Commodore Downs United States
navy lately deceased
monument of Italian marble has been placed in the
Unitarian church at Quincy, by Charles Adams the
memory of his father John Quincy Adams bust of the
deceased surmounts it, made by Hiram Powers
From October 10 to November rs the deposes OF gold
in the New York assay Office have been S4ls4523 81
From TExAs-We have received New Orleans papers
containing from Texas to the 10Th.
The Marshall Meridian" learns that two huudred hands
from Georgia arriving with carts and implements to
work the Pacific railroad. II also states
three millions of dollars and that fifty miles of the road
TO be built Immediately
The Register says that the yellow fever was still on
the increase avaca and that there bad been six deaths
during the week.
The health of Galveston is fully restored
brisk newspaper war raging between Governor
Pease and Treasurer Raymond with reference the
cepance OF the securities offered by Mesrs King and Wal
kerr
The Governor persists that the stock insufficient secu-
ritt
From Quebec learn that the bill to abolish the feu-
DIAL tenure read third time in the Assembly Fri
day night 1t frees the French Canadians from the
at cost of million of pounds, according to the
plant of Toronto paper The bill also passed
its third reading in the Assembly by vote Of so to 90
upon which the Toronto print remarks "The act is
worded that government do almost anything without
infringing upon its letter 1t is not probable that the
country will see hear Of the present
lated fund 1t will be all swallowed up by combinations
between the churches and the ministry This Isl for the
present the nglorious termination of warfare of thirty
years waged by the voluntary reormers of Upper Canada
United States Surveying steamer Bibb, New York. from
cruise selecting sites for lighthouses in Long Island
Sound reports the discovery of shoa in Massachusetts
bay,
We have renewal of the reports from Java of great
cattle, previous TO July 90
Evacuation day was celebrated in New York on Satur-
day; the of 1872 and other military cut
LATER THE Rio GRAgDI-Last evening the schoon-
er WA 5ason Capt Staples arrived from Brazos Santa
60 bringing Brownsville papers of the l4h and 2ls ult
from which gather the following Intelligence:
The Brownsville flag has a report that General Wool has
been called to the city of Mexico and that he will soon
leave Matamoros for the capital
Three Mexican soldiers were shot at Maamoros the
10th uit for deserion.
tedious investigation before Mr.. +. j. Parker United
States commissioner in Brownsville, all the persons
cerned in the naurreconars movement in Northern Next
co who arrested charged with breach of the neu-
traty laws, discharged. The Flag says:
Some sixty witnesses understand were examin-
ed embracing of the fret of the place but from
none information of character that would have led
the conviction of the accused ELECTED and hence their
discharge from custody.
The Galveston News of the 4h inst has the annexed in
teTesting intelligence from the Rio Grande
We learn by letter Brownsville, dated the 18th
u that Capstrau Cara and all the officers and Of
thc revolutionary army the Rio Grande were then in
They are making extensive arrangements for another
campaign and have New Orleans for the purchase
OF artillery General Caravaa has been chosen command
er-inchei and Colonel Sctna his second Capstrau and
about thirty forty OF his officers and under
going examination before the United States commits
sioners (which had lasted week. for violating the neutral
Y
We can4pt understand how persons not citizens or resi-
dents Of this country be held amenabe TO these laws
The selection of Caravaa for the chief command shows
that he still eus the confidence of the lbusers in that
quarter -Ne,c Orleans Pioaynns
A MEDICINAL PEx--A recent invention Of somewhat
novel character attracting attention in Paris 1t is an
elecro-gayanic PEN called the medicinal pen BY the union
Of two metals capable of producing voac current which
is excited by the moisture of the hand IL duses health
m and curative influence the whole body of the per
son using IT, acting chiefly On the nervous system NJ
Jules Lecome somewhat celebrated French writer
speaks Of il in this wise:
If all the benefits anticipated by the inventor are re
Allied this would be valuable discovery Would u not
indeed be convenient TO take OF your health while
fatguing yourself the desk, the instrument Of
eNhaustng labor thus becoming endowed with the magic
virtues OF the famous spear of feephus which had ht
power 70 aes the wounds it inflicted But this IS not AL
In quoting our nerves excited by bad music for example
in calming the irritation created by the reading hearing
OF wretchsd piece Of composition, the medicinal pen