The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-13

oAInohsiA<-Ihc Baltimore Sun publishes letter from
correspondent IA San Francisco in which the writer
presents rather dark and unpeasng picture Of affairs in
that new State He remarks:
II viii say 70 you that the present time in fact for the
las, seven months there has been place city in the
Union here there IS much distress and want there
IN .ahiofnn The storehouscs crowded with goods
ana ia many Instances the payements and lots ard
usea In place OF warehouses for storing goods and
ned - "v aoais per ton IS charged parties consgnng
goods 70 THIS market for storage where they actually
exposed 10 all The nclenencies Of the weather and become
damaged so that when they offered for sale scarcely any
prir can be obtained for them.
At the present time potatoes are selling At ten cents Der
pusne onions al twenty-five cents and in fact every other
DESCRIPTION OF goods about in proportion You may often
sec stated That aborers wages range from ten TO five
dollars per day but you that there San
Francisco thousands of mechanics willing work for half
OF the apove-named prices, and candidly believe that
every aay there are two thousand that do not know
when hey get up in the morning where how to obtain
their Dreakfas and ii for the luncheons
by the tayerns at eleven O'Clock oneha Of them would
hungry All day have often found persons who have told
me that Tor two three days they have had nothing
eat except what was picked up by them at the averns
4" nat have written is with view OF undeceiving those
poor fellows who like others before them would
70 crowd our city by every arrival; for yos
thai my hrm belief Is that oneha the population Of this
city they could raise the of money necessary TO
carry them back home would leave this place by the first
aAll the accounts you hear of the mines Welding so
much are wholesale falsehoods. Money commands readily
from three to five cents month"; and sometimes that much
| per week"
The Columbia Carolinan is gratifed to state that
Governor Floyd Of Virginia. has accepted the invitation Of
the Alumni Association Of the South Carolina College
deliver the first address before that society in December
Aext
AT the Cbincha Islands, by the last advces, March 9th,
we learn that five American vessels then in port leay
and about 10 be caulked Vessels dry up very much at
these islands and invariably require cauking after being
few weeks there
VIZ. TELL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. PISTOL SHOOTING
The New Orleans Picayune gives the following Of
extraordinary exhibition of skill and tcmerity which
took place near that city:
The great match and bet Of thousand dollars to
eight hundred laat been decided Mr. Travis winning
the money upon the first shot The affair off May
day at the private residence Of Mr. Babbi at Bayou RAJ
mos Tiger Island parish of St Mary In this State 1t
being difficult to procure apple small orange only
about five inches in circumference substituted. After
the shooting distance of thirty feet measured and
all parties agreed the orange was placed judges
j. r. o. and object intervening, the first shot told
the story, hitting the orange, half Of the bullet going
through.
Both gentlemen displayed great upon the exciting
occasion Some of the best sporsmen and acknowledged
best shots in the country present and all express
themselves fully satisfied that Mr. Travis is the best pistol
shot IN The world,"
The alewve fishery at the alms-house in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, has brought the treasury OF that city
$7oo, thus far this season.
MoyNG STATE HousE--The HCaroniang says that the
State house of South Carolina Columbia has been moved
from the position which has long occupied to make
for and imposing capitol which is to be
erected in its place The building removed whole
JAIL ADRIFTThe Sacramento county (Ca) Jail recently
got adrif and with its unfortunate inmates took an
cursion down the The Jail conssis Of prison
brig, and was overhauled and taken back to her
moorings
Austin Green was killed in ARRAY Marietta, Geor
gia, the 25th ultimo, BY Mr. Walker, the town mar
shall
The following is the ode to which the prize Of one hun
dred dollars has been awarded:
PRIZE ODE,
Ss.S Rsss.saraso~ Of s Crystal P.iaes E~s York.
Aay Z. lsS4.
u WILLIAM WALLACE.
rd s'sS IL. T ss, rs:s s.% ns' q c.au.
Glitter In the rising day.
Sc. .s. M ne mighty y N ..s..:. ,.,u.
Lin on high according psalms.
Here behold tbs tue EvanseI.
God ha. stamped bis shining patent
by
Swinging InveptionS chime,
Can b Nations tuid their Eden
the wilderness Of Time
Nations zeal mighty
Rolling through
Planting deserts, bridging oceans,
Marrying the choral
Telling Crystal Palace
Glosi6es the joyous sod
Making Man. with Art and Mature,
Worthy the DuiIder-Cod
Nations rejoice Darkness
From MI Palace hos's away,
Ind the glowing gsms OF Genius
Glitter IN the hsht Of day
THr FayscH ARxYM. Raudot in writing the French
army says is recruited nearly entirely by young
men, called against their win under the flag by substi
tues bought for money Until lately, nearly every
had considered this mode Of recruitment admirable Peo-
pie ase mbued with idea derived rather transported
arbitrarily from the classical republics that citizen
ought to soldier. " Raudo explains, from his pecu-
liar point Of view the non-adaptbty Of this idea
modern Christian societies Every year. says the
author about three hundred thousand young reach
the age twenty Ont Of this number half onyand this
is 6sploabe but certain ctare fit for military service
Of these eighty thousand declared to be soldiers and
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