The daily union., 1854-11-22
q K n ERAL N X w y.

December"
GENERAL NEWS.
MARROW ESCAPE GENERAL Wool, SENATOR " WELLEH
AND LADy-Major General WOOL Senator Weller and his
accomplished lady with party of friends with
accident lately California which had very nearly proved
fatal all They had been q pleasure and business
tour to the northern boundary of the State when it
CURED. One of the party thus writes
1t was abous o'clock in the evenng-we had just taken
fresh horses-and descending mountain
very dangerous road portion of which skirted the very
brink of precpice but hardly mile and half
from Nevada when the driver msakng large stump for
a shadow, the being very bright drove heedessy
forward and striking the obstacle broke the pole of
coach Immediately the horses began running at terrible
rate the driver losing all control We braced ourselves
well could momen ariiy anticipating the shock of
an upset the vehicle should strike full sgsns
one of the many stnmps which .aY in,
One gentleman jumped from the stage and was hurt
severely the rest of sat firmly possible. uerng
word, but awaiting breathlessly the catastrophe
which felt must On went, hurryng towards
frightful prccpice which some of the party knew
but few rods in advance of when providentally the
horses swerved suddenly from the road and dashed into
the woods The few minutes running time seemed weeks
TO but at length two immense stumps presented them
selves the first grazed sufficiently TO tilt the vehicle
upon the other where became wedged whilst the horses
dsengaged dashed headlong forward There we were,
fixed the windows of the stage about foot from the
ground and firmly braced against each other that
the shock of stoppage had been scarcely felt Gen oo
scrambled Of the window first, and followed as
speedily possible The poor driver had been thrown
twenty feet and Lay peechess his colar-bone broken We
apprehended of the insiders must be severely hurt
but, happily all escaped with few scratches save only
the gentleman who had anlpsd cut and who found
senseless Oh the road some distance back.
IMPORTANT FROM THE Rio GR.yDE-Letters from Brazos
Santiago November 4th that the Mexican revou-
tioniss the line of the Rio Grande in bad
A correspondent of the Picayune writes
The revolution under the guidance OF Gov. Ma de la
Cara and Capistran has been brought TO close Gov.
Cara with few determined men, held Victoria until
their powder exhausted when they retreaed 10 this
country, and now in brownsville Pardon ms been
4 offered TO all who viii lay down their
g" think another demonstration will soon be made, and
/ by men who viii that nothing is wanting. few
Americans will join the present movement and throw life
and vgor into the campaign Caravaal did not parci-
pate in this late movement but may possibly In the con-
tempaied He is farming the Rio Grande, and is
decidedly the abest in northern Mexico He speaks
and writes language uenry. Heiauluch pleased with
the plan Of Alvarez, ana endorses IL
General Wo in command Maamoras has shot forty
Fifty soldiers who refused fight against their fellow
citizens witnessed from the deck of the Gram
pus execution two three days ago The poor fellows
first bndfoded, and then led to large wooden
cross which they tied An officer then proclaimed
in loud voice that il any would ask for their pardon
they should be shot with them.
"Fiyesodiers witt; loaded muskes then advanced with
in three Of each pEaonsT and at the tap of the drum
fired tearing the heads of their victims pieces lively
air then struck up and the brave back
their breakfast Scarce day passes without execn
ton.
AS IMPORTANT CASA curious is being ar
gued before the supreme of New York involving the
right the ground occupied BY Trinity Church New
York city The is that of Christopher C. kiersteed
the Rector and wardens of Trinity Church and the
State of New York. The Commercial Advertiser says:
The complainant in this suit claims TO be descended
from Anneke JAM, who, in 1863 hereabops pos
sessed of certain in New York amounting nearly
two hundred Upon the capture of the island in ioo4
b ths by
but the land taken possession OF BY the Duke Of York and
by him leased 70 one Seckners After his accession the
throne the property was known the Kings Farm and
subsequently to 1897, when the Parish OF Trinity Church
Incorporated from time TO time leased 10 that
corporation which has retained uninterrupted possession
of il to the present time.
@The complaint alleges that the property held in
trust for Anneke Jauz and her heirs by the British gov
until the year l7s3 after which tine the State Of
New York assumed ihe rust and prays that the plaintiff
and many The heirs OF the said Annese Janz
become parties the suit may be placed in possession
thereof and that the corporation Of Trinity Church may be
made to account for the and profits derived from the
property from 1888 to the present time
They also alege that they were ignorant Of the tenure
by which the corporation Of Trinity Church held this
property until 1876, whez suit similar TO this made the
facts known
The defendants severay demur to the complaint which
they aege insufficient to fern The ground Of any action
and because the defendants hsve been IN uninterrupted
possession Of the property for more than twenty years
A LARGE sHP-The London Builder says bare
satemen; of the dimensions of the large ship which Mr.
Scott Russell just building scarcely conveys no.
ton to the majority Of minds Of its vast size capacity and
An ingenious friend Of 9ass Ar Gould has jot'ed
down points of comparison between the ship and
Tavstock square and these make the idea much
clearer He points that Tavistock square consists Of
SO houses and that there houses side of 25
feet frontage or 45O feet II would require from the
other side 225 feet make the length of the large ship