The daily union., 1854-11-18
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IN official report of the oss oceasioned by the fire
Liverpool states the total fl0z000 the goods de-
stroyed being valued at 100000 A third Of the whole
insured in two Liverpool olicesthe Liverpool
and London, and the Royal Salvage estimated at 10 to
Is per cent
The full official votes Of the State of Delaware have been
received and give Cansey, the natye-Aercan candidate
for governor 733 majority and Cullen the nominee Of the
same party for Congress, majority of 504.
IArupEscEThe Detroit Advertiser says that on Thurs
day last roughlooking character walked into promi-
clothing store in Detroit remarkiAg thai he wished
look aroppi and where the best goods were he
intended to break in there that night and help himself
The clerks laughed and allowed him look rs much as
he wished. When night came enough the store
broken into the cashiers drawer robbed Of $3.50 in cash.
and 800 worth of nice clothing carried away. Nothing
has since been heard Of the rascal.
few evenings since young lady named Ellen Tomp-
kns residing Race above Thirteenth street dressed her
self go the ball given by Reeves and Mine in Main
Street Hall After she had completed her toilet and while
waiting for her partner she seized with apoplecc
fit aud fell to the floor. When picked up she was found
dead The esloushment of her friends and partner
unexpected and sudden demise be better imagined
than described Cincinnati Gazette
The present s the rst year since 1917 that Massachu-
LATER BEaMuDA.--hy the arrival OF the British
brig ouaFuple gaptip swan fifteen days from Bermuda
arc in receipt Of the Gazette with dates TO the cath
ult
Ilarque T. A. Rawllns from Norfolk to Rio Janero had
put into Hamilton in distress Would have discharge
her cargo
The colored inhabitants Of Bermuda had waited upon
their governor with address, praying him to be-
attention upon the education Of the blacks
His aid particularly invoked for college for eoored
persons.
several storms had visited the island doing various
damage The vessels in the harbor escaped The fruit
trees had been badly damaged.
The Colonial Parliament had adjourned
LATER Sicny--CHoLERA, Sc.--By the pagque
thona, Capt Morton, New YORK, from Palermo,
have advices Septembee iTh At Messna the cholera
Was making rghifu havoc taking off from eight to eleven
hundred per day On the 10th the report was that about
one-haf the population had been carried off The disease
extended animalsmules cats and dogs dropping
dead in the All the physicians who had fallen
victims had fed from the city,
The government had issued proclamation calling for
medical volunteers from the peghborng cities guaranty
ing payment 10 them. Ten had, consequently gone from
Palermo
ON the 18th 1000 soldiers or convicts had been sent
from Palermo Messua cleanse the and bury
the dead.
AZ Naples August 18TH the disease had aoated, the
deaths amounting about $40 per day and the 23d the
deaths daily had decreased TO 30 or 25.
At Palermo, 20th about $50 per day was the number
that died, The whole number OF deaths at Palermo was
estimated at 3 900 and at Messiua at l6ooo
socTspE RAIIeoApThis railroad extends from Peters
burg Lynchburg is % miles long aud sa,oOo,oOo
II commenced in November 1850 and finished in No
yemEer 1854 The entire work performed by slave
labor and under the superuendencc Of Yirginans Its
revenue for the ensuing year is estimated at 100000
Vrginio Sentinel
OF the one hundred and thirty members of the Canadian
legislature forty are lawyers.
The Nashville tTenn.) medical school has opened with
100 students
There were 81 deaths in Charleston last week of yell
low fever
NAVAL rSrEILGESCE.-0n the 9th September at 10, a.
M the United States sloop-o-war 50 Louis appeared in
sight Of Palermo ANA after being boarded and receiving
the news, filled away aud proceeded to Naples
Letters dated Rio Janero September Gath tha,
the United States steamer Massachusetts which sailed from
Rio few days previous having in the United States
soop-ofwar Decatur both bound the Pacific ocean
coun,ered storm the ed about two O'Clock in which
the steamer was disnas.ed She ios her and mzen-
raass 6,ean with the deck No lives lost though
several narrowly escaped.
The Decatur was in sight when The storm commenced
and in the position the storm as the steamer and
was not afterwards seen The steamer fired three guns