The daily union., 1854-12-22
speak and has upon the bed with her child of four years.
whose leg has been cut off IL the only child left TO the
mother Of a family of a husband and five children

case has Just been decided in New York which involves
curiosity in neutrality-suspicious. mesmeric physician
sued husband for services rendered the wife in his alb
sence and the supreme say that in the sth act OF
Cushngs Reports their opinion in the case viz that the
law does recognise the dreams visions revelations
Of In mesmerc sleep necessares for wife,
for which the husband without his consent can be made
TO pay These are fancy articles which those who have
money of their dispose of may purchase If they
think proper but they not necessare known 10 the
law for which the wife pledge the credit of her absent
husband
The srEAM-FRIGATE NIAGARA.-Messrs. Pease Murphy,
of the Fulton Iron Works busly engaged upon the
machinery of the stea-fgae Niagara Some portions of
it already finished and they preparing detailed
drawings and patterns for the engineers
LONG pAssAGEThe ship Horato, Captain Crocker
rived New York, after passage of l62 days from
Shanghai She brought cargo of teas and silks
IowA-There is some talk of removing the of gov
ernment from Iowa City to Burlington.
THE rniEs AT MoBnr--The gay season has fairly com
menced in Mobile The theatre under good headway,
and there is lack of other We notice that
grand bachelors ball TO come off at odd Fellows
| Hall
! AT Bosros-Col Benton delivered his Pacifc-railroad
| lecture AT Boston Wednesday evening last.
"IrEAs OF INTEREST" Among its local items of inter-
est the New York Tribune of Wednesday mornipg last
| calls attention to the followng
| "a charge against Edward Connolly of attempting 10
kill his wife the trial OF Patrick Caaghan, charged with
causing the death OF George W. Barrett of stabbng
at a rum-shop in Ann street; the inquest upon John
oNe, killed at rum-shop in Greenwich street and sew
| eral heavy robberies"
CoSucTIoS OF ARnIsoN, THE TORPEDO MAS--A despatch
! from Cincinnati, dated the Goth inst says:
"The case Arrson trial for the murder of Mr. and
Mrs Allison by an internal machine was to-day concluded
and given the jury After being about three hours
the jury found the prisoner guilty OF murder In the first
! degree"
THE sourHERS MnLsThe special agent of the Post Of
fee Department Columbia, South Carolina under date
of the l7th instant writes as follows
"a despatch has been received from W H, Dundas esq
Second Assistant Postmaster General directing that
tracts should be made for wagon service take effect
from the LIST day Of January next and continue until the
30h June following, supply mails TO the offices now being
supplied by the South Carolina railroad, the terms pro-
posed by the company for the mails cannot be
| cepted by the department.
In compliance with these instructions says the Charles
ton Mercury learn that the agents have entered into
contract with Mr. Fosdick carry in stages the great
southern mail from the terminus OF the Wilmington
and Manchester road via Columbia, to Augusta; mail
from Charleston to Mapchester, kngville, daily, in
wohorse wagon mail from Charleston TO Orangeburg,
three times week and mail from Charleston to Sa-
vannah in steamboats, three times week These arrange
ents to the lst Of January and
! tnue until the 30th Of June
THE STEAMBOAT BUSINESS AT MoBILE,--The Mobile Ad-
vertser in article the steamboat business Mobile
the present season, says
/ On the Alabama river there to be eight regular
packets capable of carrying total of 900 bales the
Warrior three of them running high up Tusca-
q bal and
less than steamers announced to navigate the
Bgbee, their united capacity being $1,000 bales The
tai capacity Of the wentyone boats engaged in the
| trade is $4,000 bales.
Besides the above there five steamers employed in
the New Orleans mail line trading between this port and
New Orleans. Six staunch steamers also running in
the bay trade lighters and towboats To these we
might add half dozen small boats among them the
Azile, Emma Watts, and Heroine that chiefly in low
water, and without particular regard to time
Most OF the boats are in port now, and need but good
rivers TO enable them 70 commence their regular business
4 TIE GREAT FIRE AT NEW YoRK.-In addition to what
published yesterday, find the following in the New
i York papers of Wednesday evening
/ Last night the City Assembly Rooms were occupied bv
the Tailors Protective Union ballroom At or near
81 o'clock this morning, while the assembled guests
engaged in dancing is said that fire break
out from beneath of the seees and spread with great
rapidlty. The greatest alarm and confusion
sued among the dancers and in few moments the whole
OF them made their escape to Broadway
4 Soon the fire spread through the buildings adoining
Broadway from No. 440 to No 452 The alarm was given
and the remen, prompt appeared the ground
and commenced operations The intense GOODNESS of the
weather in soe paralyzed their efforts but not
withstanding its severity they did all that could do
| to check the progress of the devouring flames.
After eight buildings had been consumed and the
fire had swept through Crosby street. the progress
the conagration stayed This however was not ac-
comphed without great peril TO the irenen who bravey
rushed almost into the ire in their zeal and of their
number named James Lowry, of Hose Company No T. was
buried beneath OF the buildings which fell in Cros-
! by street and killed.
The intense cold of the night covered the iremen with
an icy mail and assured that only by the most
violent exertion and the lighting of huge lres in the
streets the tremen saved from ree8ng DEATH
So far could learn he of da mage done will
| amount to something near Sl,000000
! The fremen hard at work in the midst of smoke
and steam endeayorng poor Lowry's remains
/ when reporter left the ruins.
1t rumored that several other remen were buried by
the same filling walls but this lacks confirmation
/ policeman Of the Fourteenth ward named Way, was
| carried to his home,
4 The BALrMoRE--The Baltimore American
/ of yesterday morning says
The weather for day or two past has been intensely
cold in this region Farmers who market yester,
day morning spoke of the cold during the night
the seyerest they had experienced Ice is making in
abundance all the streams surrounding the city, and
the icemen actively employed gathering in the crop
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