The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-02

his family lie subsequently wrote To his wife requesting
her to with the family and meet him Chicago
She known have LEFT Springfield ON the goth OF March
since when nothing has been heard Of her the children
The husband has exhausted all his powers and in
attempting find the lost Have they not fallen vic
Tins in Of the calamitie upon the waters
where graves found often without name mark
the spot2- Cincinnati Enquirer.
clearing house for the Boston banks similar TO the
now in operation in New York city is about be es-
abshed in Boston arrangements being in progress
for that purpose.
The East Florida Advertiser says the scarcity Of proys
ions is becoming rather of serious aspect and could the
injury TO the cotton crops in any insure plen-
eous supply of provisions for the coming year. il would
no doubt be baied by boauan perhaps
boon of Heaven The very necessarie of life are beco-
ing to great extent beyond the limited of the
poorer classes while the wealth of the favored
command them at a reasonable price The single
article of corn commands about SO per bushel, and is
scarcely purchasabe at the highest price Flour held
at SD per barrel Rice, cents per pound Bacon, l6
and ham 20 cents per pound, &c.
Mr., John Newell Of Lowell Massachusetts in hunting
excursion in the vicinity of Moosehead lake. Maine
ceeded in capturing three moose weighing average
from 600 to 700 pounds each They were of the black
species, mountain moose.
western editor has such antpathy the doc
printed sheet of medium size and objects having
it cnveoped in wrappers"
Letters from St Johns N f. of the 10th ult give less
favorable report of the catch of seals this and
that the catch viii prove short of the average Seventy
| vessels had arrived with 100000.
The New York Journal of Commerce gives the following
| account of queer character in that city:
New York possesses many remarkable characteristic
markabe for very diverse but generally for their
eccentricy. We have one in mind, Madame Dell, who
probably sixty years old lives apparently in
extreme desution, in the garnet of the house she
She pays taxes $4,000 OF real estate and ST. 100 per-
sona property and owns banking and railroad stock to
the amount of something like $4,000 In the street her
appearance is well calculated to excite commseraton
indeed kindheared individual few days ago. be-
however, resented MS became her nsulted honor D-
minutve in stature and decrepd her head covered with
hood souchcd and almost perennial The cloak is well
matched and appears TO have done good service the
folds in the cloth mostly the warp Her daily
food consists of shilling loaf of bread which is left at her
door regularly and there is added to this small portion
of meat such other food she fit to obtain the
market Even these small comforts shared in solitude
in her quiet retreat The human face divine has no
charms for her. Her property naturally descends to
nephew living in Cincinnati and the old ladys greatest
fear is that he may get it."
UNION OF CHURCH been charged upon the
anatica New England clergymen who presumed lately
dictate Congress- in the of the Almighty, that they
in favor of union of Church and State From the
following extract which make from preached
by the notorious Beecher that the charge pretty
well sustained. That political divine says:
commercial paper here has said that cergymen have
Judgment in these matters. say they have than
politicians they observe and retain public events better
and in the carly colonial history they constantly
suited IN affairs Of Safe
In the early colonial times referred to by Boechcr in
New England the Congregational clergymen invested
with immense of political power and Beecher
who exponent of the $500 clergymen is anxious
return to those days The people however in favor
clergymen attending strictly to their ecclesiastical
tons, and opposed to union of Church and State
Cincinnati Enquirer.
CIough, the murderer, who hung in Taunton Mass,
Friday last informed the sheriff the evening previous
in specializing counterfeit money in Michigan and other
Statesthe money being chiefly Indiana banks and on
the State Bank Of Ohio The bills were manufactured in
Cincinnati and upon. the Canada line.
The imperial of Austria gave judgment lately Of
considerable interest prntseers and scuptors 1t was
to the effect that statues and stauees be copied
by photographed without the consent of the authors
and proprieors Several tradesmen who had taken on
themselves reproduce statues in this way were con-
demncd pay damages to the different plaintiffs varying
from l00f TO 500f
The reporting and printing OF the debates Of the Massa
chuses constitutional convention have cost $4,000
Y
/ DxArH or A AsAvASrp-Mr @. l.. Sala de Toroni the
personal friend and associate Of the great Humboldt and
who travelled with that celebrated philosopher for three
years in Asia and Africa died the l4th instant Of
ammation Of the lungs the residence Of Prof j. G. FIR
Solomon Bladensburg, Maryland.
The city councils Of Philadelphia on Thursday sub
scrbed S750O00 the stock the Northwestern Railroad
Company This sum- with the 100000 recently subscribed
by private individuals in that city and the amount pre-
yiousy secured from other sources disposes all the stock
Of the company and thus renders probable the carly CON-
pletion Of the road
letter from San Diego that Captain Walker and
forty Of his libusters about to abandon their camp
and start for Texas They had buried 1000 pounds OF
powder, and destroyed all their spare
The vessel which upset at the Paterson railroad pier lust
previous the storm Thursday evening was the oop
Bard Captain Richard l. Collins whose family reside Al
No. lOl Gold street. Brooklyn On Friday afternoon n,
low tide Captain Collinss legs visible above tho
water but his head and held fast by the bars
Of railroad iron which fell upon him His body could not
4 be taken out
A WONDERFUL pEnoRY.-We acquainted with a youno
man, clerk in this city who committed TO memory
in single evening whole page Of the New York Jonrnal
Of Commerce. and repeated the with great exsc.nos
In the company Of number Of literary young men he de
fed any present repeat line Of poetry from ony
standard work the next line Of which he could not eo,
and give the Of the author Some hundred ouo,o.
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