The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-27

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Ex-Governor Slade with another of his annual classes
teachers Tor the West-in ali twenty-five young adies-pass
ed through Springfield, Massachusetts, on Friday
MADISON CoLiEsE, MlssIssppl--We learn from the Can
ton American Citizen of September 9th that the exercises
of this institution viii be resumed on the first Monday II
October next Dr. Griffin the newly-eected professor
languages, is graduate of William and Mary College
virginia. and also OF the Medical College of Philadelphia
ana bears high reputation ngust and teacher The
institution represented being in hourishing cond
| ton.
] CANDIDATE FOR MATRrMoNY.--A lady advertising for
husband in the Water Cure Journal gives the following
description of herself She would seem to have some fine
! apoints .
81 am just twenty, bat will marry before am two
years Older ann graduate of the Marietta Seminary
can do and love to do, all of work from
making pes and bread to washing shirts. can do all
kinds OF sewing, from embroidery to nsey panaloons
can skate ride dance sing play the piano spinning
wheel or anything that may reasonably be expected of
sex II required can act the part of Ounce in society
of the upper ten, the part of among women
As for riding here allow to make banter any man
may bring two horses give choice and feet then
II he overakes me IN one mile am his if not the horse
is mine. Beware
~ believer in hydropathy and use no tea or cof
fee, neither do wear corsets; but willing my hus
band shall do either il he desires. believe in womens
rights but believe have right NEEDLE with politics
mans business in general neither have men the right TO
NEEDLE with As for appearance am neither tall
nor short large,nor small but am lust as was made
have attempted to alter my shape or color as am
perfectly satisfied with the BY tops, am styled
handsome by the young men whom please 10 smile
am styled the height of perfection by those frown
Upon, the devils imp; by the wise and sober | am
called wild and foolish oy my female acquaintance
Molly and b. my uncle i am called Tom
IF marry, it will be man who uses no snrts to-
bacco or profanity. He may be young or old handsome
or homely rich or poor but not in the extreme he
have good common education, at least he must be in
dustrious he must be capable of so bearing himself in
any society that he will be beloved by all his disposition
on aer-aequantance must please in every respect he
after marriage must allow follow the dictates of INV
own conscience provided do not rample on his rights
and he must follow suit
BRITISH rRoyINcEsBy late dispatches from the prov
inces we learn that ice formed on sagnant water at St
John New Brunswick, Thursday night lae, Another
section OF the railroad has been put under contract at Hall
fan The Nova Scotia exhibition is be opened in that
city "a the 4th Of October In Huron PERTH and Bruce
counties Canada the crops Of grain secured in good
order, are one-third greater than those Of last year.
GREAT VIII eAsR.-A suit is now on trial in Piketown
Chic, on PETITION to set aside the will Of James Davis on
account of the ncompeency of mind of the The
value of theestate in controversy is $75o,ooo,
Mr. Green, of the weel;hest men in Chicago worth
three four hundred thousand dollars, charged
with the murder of his wife He resisted the arrest with
knife and rifle.
How some fast young men make large show small
salaries is explained by the following instance from
New York contemporary:
An od-established iron manufacturing firm found it.
self seriously embarrassed in its finances and has Just been
obliged to make assignment TO the creditors. Upon an
examination Of the business accounts it discovered
that the clerk who had devoted considerable time to sail
ing yachts and rong fast horses and finally sailed for
Europe pleasure trip had been unthul to the trust
confded to him. Among other contrvances for lining
his pockets he had been accustomed each payday to set
apart considerable amount the share of wages due to
woImen who had been in the employ of the concern
fora yeag past and npprcpriatg the he fa
An old gentleman of San Francisco said in speaking of
the consequences Of disparity of oruneepecialy on the
wifes -ide-m marriage, that when he married he had
twenty cents and his wife twenty-five and that she was
throwing up that extra FIVE him ever afterwards
The story that George Law is abol. 20 purchase Ash
lana is contradcted by s of Henry Clay, who in
letter to he kentucky Observer, says desire through
your paper to say that having offered Ashland for
sale presume that neither Mr. Law nor any one else
wodd venture to offer no the insult Of proposing its par
chase
Tse Detroit Tribune brought two libel suits against the
FreePss and the jury awarded its wounded feelings dam
ageaa tho amount Of $50 Upon this the editor of the
Pres remarks.
III have to say in the premises u.s. that if the plain
tiff ii the is satisfied with the results thus far zee
If the of fifty dollars will n plaster for
his hceraed back he is welcome to the remedy
pens"
/, the city of Boston, in the year 1853 there more
moey appropriated for the carrying of free schools than
de whole of Great Britain during the year. Bos-
contains l25 900 Northumberland Britain over 90
100000 This speaks for itself
ANOTHER ToURNAMENT.-The tournament at the Hugue-
not (Va Springs off Wednesday in presence of
age crowd WHO had assembled to witness the pageant
Tpgs could have been suspicious day for the
exhibition The successful knight John G. Gregory
who had the honor of selecting the Queen of Love and
kauty He placed the dadem upon the head of Miss Lau
Elan, Of Mississippi
The two Buchanans and Grant, who were indicted by
the grand jury at Chicago for kidnapping alleged slave
have been discharged by the chief justice of the supreme
court of Illinois, haleas corpus The Chicago Journal
says that the chief justice decides that the prisoners
been unawfuy detained that the power Of attorney given
BY the of the slave sufficient arrest him. with
the assistance of the officers of the law and that they
had perfect right whatever weapons they found it
necessary to employ in securing that arrest
THE AFRICAN TR,yslLsRs,--The Noniteur says:
Y appears from despatch of the encouragement of
Algeria that native who quilted Tmbuctoo in the early
part Of June has declared that he Europeans there
who clothed in Arab costume One of a stature
above the middle height; he had light beard and he
commonly used orgaou of blue glass, The other who
little less tall had brown beard, rather dark 1t
probable that these Europeans Dr. Barth and
Nouel re HE is he most at