The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-07-07

1883 2l,l27,22S 5,50S2 AZ, 993, $50 7O,62S,7l4
1904 34,2s4,Al 6,S7479l 663N038 l07,575,070
The exports York this year are more than e ex
ports of the whole Union in 1872 having increased 49,
600 in the last of which 49, SPECIE and $685.
900 domestic produce the increased imports the past
year, $24,OOO,OOO, which suffer deduction by the
losses sustained imported goods sold foreign account
On the other hand freghts have been good exports
have gone to lucrative markets The general trade the
Union has been propotonatey good with the exception of
the decline in cotton the export value of which has declined
nearly So 1000 The railroad investments and prof
liable nature of agricultural pursuits have impaired
great stimulus to land investments from which the federal
has reached higher figure than year since the
specie circular This has occurred in the face of the sales
BY the Indiana and Illinois canals with those of other large
holders, including the Illinois Central railroad and the alb
sopton of bounty lands The check which been given
to railroad investments has been at time when the Euro
pean markets promise continued prosperity to the agrcslu
rists The effect of the famine of s47 to stimulate great
productions OF grain in the eastern countries well
the of Europe; and the harvests good
suited that s49 prices fell to points lower than the
age of the previous twenty years This year the
u has been given but the harvests of Europe and
England do not promise WELL and the of armies
will destroy ability Russian grain countries to fur
nsh supplies while in the United States the injuries done
in sections to growing great to diminish
the supplies 1t may therefore, be reasonably anticipated
that the reaction from famine prices will not be violent
formerly Large productions at fair prices would afford
considerable increase Of business to the railroads operation
and sustain the values of that class of with which
doubt the market has been oppressed
greater than it could bear The rise in food abroad with
the subvenon Of tho war; checked rather put end
the availability of those investments London and the large
holders here have been the most steady borrowers of
The failure Of Mr. Townsend late of the Erie rail
road last week. and of the Messrs Schuyler this week for
millions, is to be attributed to this 1t is stated
that the assets of the latter house millions
of their liabilities The removal of large borrowers from
market has the effect of making money demand The
payments also have been large reaching here and
naatn IN non 4. Hill.
large Mexican payment of the federal government small
portion of this perhaps 81 900 0OO will here pay
ment of Mexican debts The ultimate destination of the
$1,000 900 under check will be- it is thought determined by
orders expected in the Orzaba New Orleans The bank
return for this week shows of specie follows
June sSSss- s 's7Iss essa;'ss
July s ssdSsssi li'i 1856 issssSSS ssssssss
The payments, manifest in the clearings, continue to
have dminuon and deposes have been enhanced by
dividend and the redemption of the public debt
which appears to have been nearly for the week
The heavy payments of the mercantile community pro-
longed into the by the extension Of credits
and to meet the accommodation which carried them
the pinch Of the business season.
The greater in the money market of London has put
check the export of SPECIE and thus far this there
has been The demand for money is less ac-
tive and although the banks do their loans
the rates for paper about better than week
On call money is abundant.
The produce markets firm generally Cotton sells fairly
at the rates of last week Flour better good brands
Canadian, 81 62 State, 81 Is 81 75 to good
Ohio, 81 Is So 81 southern 50 rs. Rye four IS So
Wheat is firm Rye quiet at 100 Oats plenty at 60
cents Corn dull, II so round yellow southern
white 50 cents Pork lower under large failure
of two Boston houscssales So % Sl2 81 mess Beef
Sl2 Sl3 mess. Lard, 81 a % cents.
The stock market has been affected by the failures New
Haven railroad of which Robert Schuy is president fell
to GO by 10 per in days under the aughtering
900 shares hypothecated stock 1t recovered again 49,
Crystal Palace sold at s. There is something that
In other stocks prices firm with little doing
although the last brought stock than
any previous for many months.
Yours, PRENTICE
A LADY FREEAAsos.--The Hon Elizabeth St Ieger was
the only female initiated into the ancient mysteries
of Freemasonry How she obtained this honor we shall
lay before readers. Lord Doncrae Miss St Legers
father, very jealous Mason held warrant and occa-
sonally opened lodge Mt Doncrale House his
innate friends assisting and it is said that were the
Masonic duties more rgidy performed than by them Pre-
vious to the initiation OF gentleman to the first steps Of
Masonry, Miss St Leger, who young girl happened
to be in apartment adjoining the generally used
AS lodgc-room. This at the time undergoing
some alteration among other things the wall con-
sderably reduced in one part The young lady having
heard the voices Freemason and prompted by the
osity natural TO all to this mystery long and
secretly locked up from human view she had the courage
to pick brick from the wall with her scissors and wit
ness the ceremony through the two first steps Curiosity
satisfied fear a, took possession of her mind There
was no mode of escape except through the where the
concluding part of the second step still being solemn
lied and that being at the far end and the room very
large one she had resolution sufficient attempt her
cape that way and, with light but trembling steps
gded along nnobserved laid her hand on the ham
die of the door and gently opening it. before her stood
to her dsmay grim and surly tyler with his long sword
unsheathed Shrek that pierced through the apart
men alarmed the members of the lodge who all rushing
to the door, and finding that Miss St Leger been in the
room during the ceremony in the first paroxsm of their
rage her death was resolved on but from the applications
of her young brother her life saved on condition of
her going through the whole of the solemn ceremony she
had unlawfully witnessed.