The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-29


Tm HoosAc ruxssLs-The Greenfield (A.ss) Republic
says that lat meeting Of the stockholders Of the Troy and
Greenfield railroad held Greenfield ON Thursday last il
voted TO accept the prorcd by the
Legislature Of the State 10 the corporation and to mort
gage the entire road and all the interests which the
pany has in the Southern Vermont railroad pledge
for the inlhlmen Of the bond 1t was unanimously re-
solved motion of Mr. Derby that The Hoosac noasaais
and shall Dc toredF' The friends this great
terprse encountered much difficulty and expended vast
deal OF time IN boring through the Massachusetts egs
tnre and believe they bore the Hoosac with much
greater facility than people imagine but the Boston
Advertiser not very friendly the project ntmates that
sixty years labor would not accomplish the work and that
IL will have to be abandoned utterly mpractcable The
Advertiser should reflect that Yankee enterprise has said
ut and shall be- put through
Ship Oswego, Capt Williams which sailed from New
York the 25th for New Orleans returned port the
Goth in consequence Of of the crew sabbng the cap
tain who is badly wounded
The barque Nacoochee, from Madeira, arrived at New
York Wednesday, brings passengers religious
exes bound to the colony in Illinois, already established
there They have abandoned Romanism the Presbyto
ran doctrine, and as consequence obliged to leave
their country.
American ship Cambria of Bath, ON the passage from
New Orleans for Queenstown Ireland saved several
had lived twenty-five days by eating the flesh Of their
rades who had died.
Two young ladies In Lawrence Mass Emily A. Luke and
Augusta A. Ramsdell took together dose Of laudanun
with the idea Of going the spirit land together Miss
Luke died about o'clock Monday morning, the 10th
inst, and the other was saved.
DANIEL WrBsrERs NEW HAApsHlRR notwithstanding
to advertisement in ConcoA IN. H) paper George
~ 10 Al n;aaio
er to allow tho claims Of creditors against the estate Of
Hon. Daniel Webster which is decrocd to be administered
AZ an insolvent estate.
1t just twenty years since the province OF Canada first
borrowed money of England. The loan was for twenty
years, and the time being up the LIST ns the whole
due was paid in full out Of the surplus of the prov
ince.
The Aspnwa Courier of the 7th says of the railroad
The Panama railroad has in its employ on the road
the present time very flee thousand This force
will be increased ere long to sir MousaHd men, at
which number it will be kept until the road is completed
Every means in use, the progress being made
and every prospect Of which aware fully promise
that the road win be completed the time stated for the
past six monthsthe month Of August God speed It'll 1t
now and eyer will be- the great Of susenance to
Aspnwall and the isthmus Of Panama
A DuxL-The New York Tribune contains . communi-
that duel occurred there between two students of Jer
son College VIM. g, Keedy, Of Baltimore, Nd, and A. L.
Snowden of Cumberland Valley Pa originating in refer
ence to young lady Mr.. Snowden challenged by
the former gentleman and chose rifles forty PAGES Mr.
W. Polk of Maryland, acting second, and Mr.. d. s.
Brandon, Of Mississippi, for the latter.
They met about miles from here, in open field
One of the gentlemen fell but have not ascertaned
rccuy which, though reported by seriously wound
ed Our little community has been thrown into quite
excitement Several friends of both parties have started
the place of meeting to ascertain the particulars.
CONVICTED uxLAwyuLLY SELLING HAvE-Shephard
Houston convicted in the Sussex county Delaware
court of selling for expectation from that State slave
girl, named Comfort Dunning. She slave for a
of years and entitled her freedom in 1851 but
sold by him to the South for life for $500 He
fined 80 and costs
NATIONAL SINGING rrsrrvAL-The various singing
Citations composed of musical citizens in the middle
and States making arrangements for the pur-
pose Of holding their fifth grand annual ubiee which viii
take place Baltimore about the LIST of june Soceties
will be present from Boston Poughkeepsie New York
Newark Albany Philadelphia Harrisburg, Pittsburg, VIII
mingon Washington and other places. The nuWber Of
singers will be 6Oo and accompanied by orchestra Of
200 performers. Several concerts viii be given. The
combined talent Of the vocal and instrumental departments
win present perhaps the most effective exhibit Of musical
talent ever heard in United States The committee Of
have also secured the of the Agricultural
Soceys grounds where day will be spent in the rural
sports which characterize old Faderand They will pro-
coed to the place in procession with banners flags and
full military bands
PnArmr yrnKs--The St. Anthony Express, a newspaper
published at St Paul. Minnesota says that for several
days past the citizens Of that place have been enjoying the
spectacle Of prairie fire. When evening sets In, the
whole horizon is beed with wall Of fame shooting
heavcnward in vivid strsaks and again bending low like
reed before the blast At moment il PUSHES along with
hosrse roar tapping up every blade and twg in its path
and in another II resembles the camp res of tented host
dotting every knoll and mound As the red flame glares
upward deepening, paing, far surpasses in
sublmy and grandeur the mghtcst pyrotcchnic efforts
OF man
AN KRmrsG FAIR cAGKD--Ycstcrday morn
ing some little excitement created among the ladies
attached to Fnncons Hppodrome, stopping at the Mer
chants Hotel by the sudden arrest Of young girl be-
longing to their troupe who had arrived from New York
the evening previous II appears that Wednesday i
eegraphc despatch had been received from very respect
able gentleman Of wcst6eid New York. stating that his
daughter had been enccd from her home and induced
join the Hippodrome troupe by two females belonging
the establishment and the time urging that she
should be custody and retained until he arrived
here Two policemen were despatched to meet the down
and there the three fair ones carefully slowed away
On arriving in the city, the ladies proceeded to the Mer
chants Hotel followed by the ocers and there register
ing their names put up for the night The officers being
too gallant disturb them such late hour waited
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