The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-27
BY TELE G n A PHI.

Total Loss Of the Steamship City of Philadelphia.
New YoRK, Sept. 26.Despatches ron Halifax, received
this morning. the total loss of the steamship City
of Philadelphia. She wrecked Cape Race. The
passengers and landed safety No further par
| ticulars given.
The City of Philadelphia entirely new
being her first voyage She about 5000 toms burden
and built in the most elegant and substantial
and without reference to expense She sailed from Liver
pool the 3st of August filed with passengers and had
very large and valuable cargo She put on the Liver
pool and Philadelphia steamship line the place of the i'll
faed City Of Glasgow The City of Manchester is the only
veasei nav left belonging to this line.
| [sEcosp DEspArca.l
The steamship City of Philadelphia stranded near Cane
Race, the coast of Newfoundland She went ashore on
the It'll of September. I'VE think there is mistake about
the date as the unfortunate steamer would thus have made
the from Liverpool to Newfoundland in less than eight
days. which better time than has yet been made bv
peller
There hundred passengers board City
Philadelphia, and when she struck ndescrbabe
alarm and confusion ensued They reached the shore how
ever with nearly all their baggage in perfect safety Since
their landing they have suffered the greatest distress from the
! want of sufficient food and proper shelter.
The cargo landed iii damaged state The vessel will
prove total loss, No lives were lost.
/ THIRD pEsrATcA.1
The Philadelphia fully insured in London Over five
hundred of the passengers reached the balance
naming in the vicinity Of the wreck,
Nearly all the cargo has been through the assistance
of lighters.
tFouRTH pEsPATcHl
The largest portion of the passengers of the City of Pha
delphia reached Halifax this morning.
| From Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA Sept. 26.-The intelligence which reached
this city this morning of the loss of the steamship City
of Philadelphia has caused considerable excitement
The steamship City of Manchester, which sailed from Liv
! erpool ON the 18th inst, is below.
49,, Nous,IL
NORFOLK Sept. 26The brig Marceus will be got off at
| q expense of 81, 600.
In Charleston, Saturday, there fourteen deaths
by yellow fever; Sunday eighteen deaths
| From, Columbia, Pennsylvania
COLUMBIA, Pa,) Sept. 26.The cholera has nearly, if
not quite, disappeared
The holding of the agricultural fair has been postponed to
| the 18th of October.
/ From Mem York.
New YoRK Sept. ga despatch from Halifax announces
the safety the to have been
! lost.
The freesoil convention now sitting at Auburn will prob
ably nominate mixed ticket Resolutions have been adopt
ed approving of prohbitory liquor law and denouncing
! the fugitive-slave law in the strongest terms.
/ Massachusetts, Democratic State Conrention.
Bosros, Sept 26.-The Massachusetts democratic State
assembled at Lowell this morning. There
large attendance of delegates Mr. Bishop nominated
governor Resolutions passed strongly endorsing
the national administration and the Nebraska BILL
/ Name Election Fatal Accident, etc.
j BAxooR (Me Sept. 25-Ful returns from the sixth
district show that Fuller (dem is reelected
by small majority.
! young man. named Edward McDougal, accidentally
shot in woods Fort Fairfield, the 10th inst, by
i comrade, who supposed him to be a bear.
John Busse of Exeter, Maine, dangerously stabbed
in an ARRAY at camp-meeting the 22d instant The
quarrel grew of insulting remarks about Buse
sister
II Congressional, Nomination.
II NoRnrsrowS, tPa.) Sept. 25.--The democrats of the
eleventh congressional district of this State have renomnaed
Hon. Samuel A. Bridges.
u Knoc- nothing Nomination.
i BALT,moRE Sept. 26The know nothings onight nem
Henks their candidate for mayor of this city
Mr. Henks is a -four merchant.
i Markets.
i BAlrp,oaE Sept 26-The -four market is very quiet
Howard street brands 81 rs City Mills 81 So Rye ou,
and corn meal unchanged The supply of wheat this
ipp was quite large market dull with declining tend
ency prices to cents bushe lower than yester
dav: about az bushels Of wheat oeredsaes of white
good to prime atsl Is 81 5 choice ST So family -four
81 60 ST. 65 red do good to prime at ST. 81 81 45
very choice 81 so inferior lots from to Is Corr
depresedabout IA 900 bushels oeredsaes white at z
a Is cents; yellow, rs rs cents and cut Mixed 20 u
cents Oats-2 bushels oferedsaes of MARYLAND an,
Virginia at 40 81 cents; Pennsylvania So cents Rye
800 bushels oeredsales of Maryland at 81 10 81 a.
Pennsylvania 81 Is per bushel Seeds quiet, We quot
clover at 81; timothy, 81 so 50 rs per bushe-
Sep FRxNcK TAYLOR