The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-21

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either advance in the price Of ships material de
crease in the prices Of materials
The work on the Mobile customhouse is commenced.
There l65 deaths in New Orleans week before last
of which 81 were by cholera The city full Of strangers
and business was very lively.
| Tnn GEORGIA CENTRAL RAmRoAD-A few days ago
shares Of the central railroad stock sold Savannah at
SIP TO Sll3 so per share About years ago the stock
of this road was down 10 S35 per share.
The secretary Of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
says that il is statistical fact that onefth of the sugar
and moasses produced in the United States is disposed Of
in the markets Of Cincinnati.
BurALoEs-As item of news we give account Jas
told MS by Col Vaughan of the number Of bufaoes
killed annually within the bounds Of his agency where the
American Fur Company operating and trading with
the Indians He says he has taken pains TO ascertain
and from the best information he get he estimates the
number viii not fall far short of four hundred thousand
He says not less than robes have been shipped by
the two companies trading within his agency within the
last year One hundred and fifty thousand destroyed
and number Of the hides used by the Indians
make their lodges They compelled to make them very
secure To preserve them from the winter Large
numbers of buffalo freeze to death in winter in
the snowbank which for months found in drifts from
five feet in DEPTH and numbers Of them drowned
in crossing the Missouri river large herds by crowdng
upon one another.& Josephs No. Gazette.
The Ohio Statesman thrty-hree democratic
papers in Ohio whose circulation than quadruples
that Of all the other democratic papers the State which
have spoken unequivocally in favor of the Nebraska
bill
There said to be thousand Of the
Jewish faith in the United States Their churches number
thirtyone Probably six thousand Jews be found
in the city of New York We seldom find in pris
ons penitentiaries. They not frequently found in
our hospitals, and in poorhouses
The life insurance companies doing business in New
York pay out average half million Of dollars
annually the families representatives of deceased
members The amount of this description of insurance
throughout the United States is hundred and forty
millions of dollars.
The life insurance companies Of England have calculated
the chances of being killed and wounded in battle and
fixed the rates Of insurance. party may be insured
against death by accident violence from any cause in
Guiding death in action for f3 IS the fl00 per
and include payment in Of loss Of limb Of hal
the insured and payable death, fs 3s per cent
ira 1t would SEEM from these terms that is twice
likely lose his leg he is to lose his head probably
because he has two legs and only one head
Bayard Taylor relates the following amusing incident in
his experience in Arabia
while in Arabia, had very remarkable experience
There is drug in the East whose effect is like that of
opium ii is prepared from the Indian hemp 1t much
used by the Saraeen warriors when about battle
a stimulus II produces the imagination double
part of the mind TO study while
the other part looks From motives Of curiosity,
persuaded AIRY the effects Of ii my system was
in Damascus al the time Soon after taking the drug the
effect began TO appear saw the furniture in the room
talked with the company and seemed TO be the pyr
amid u Cheops whose blocks Of stone appeared like
huge squares Of Virginia tobacco The changed and
the desert In boat made of mother Of pearl The
sand seemed gnins Of lustrous gold through which my
boat easily the of the the air
ed filed with harmonies Of the sweetest music the atmos
phere filled with light with odors and music Before
me seemed be series of acades of rainbows
through which for fifteen years, seemed TO glide The
ner developed and all qualification sim
gle harmonious sensation Hence, easily conceive
the origin Of the Arabian Nights Ny companion huge
Kentuckan tried the drug with amusing effect After
looking for while he started up with the exclsma
ton I'm locomotive and began TO cut of his words like
wheels At last he seized the water jug for drink, but
set down with yell saying how take water into
my boiler when ] am letting of steam
/ THE MURDER on Coz SrrnM-The Fort Smith Herald Of
the I'd instant contains from letter dated Fort
Arbucke March 18TH 1854 which gives the particulars Of
the murder Of Col Stemm formerly Indian agent in Texas
and Mr. Lepeman near Fort Beknap a short time ago
At FIRST II was supposed that the Waeoes the pepe
traitors Of the murder has since been ascertaned that
the act was committed BY Kickapoos The tribe are
in pursuit Of the murdeer and have executed Of the
principal actors
II s stated that since first Of November last $3.50
600 worth Of tobacco has been sold Louisville Ken
lucky.
WONDERFUL TALE ABOUT GENERAL HArsAu's coRrs.y--A
most extraordinary has reached in private
letter from Vienna high parsonage here and has been
the talk OF our salons for the last few days IT appears
that circumstance Of the death Of General Haynnu pre-
sented a phenomenon Of the most awful Kind record
For many days after death the warmth Of life ye, fingered
in the right and left leg of the corpse which remained
impid and moist bleeding slightly when prioked
No deusion Notwithstanding could be maintained rs to
the reality Of DEATH for the other parts Of the body
completely mortified and nieunent became necessary be-
fore the limbs above mentioned had become iher stiff
or cold. The writer Of the letter mentioned that this
strange circumstance produced the greatest awe in the
minds Of those who witnessed and that the Emperor had
been impressed with il that the physicians had forbid
den the subject be allsded to in his presence This
statement copied from French paper Immediately
after the deeease Of General Haynau known in Paris
Notes and Queries.
Too TO Losr-ln the report Of Judge Rsndophs
speech AT the antNebrasa meeting in the Gazette Of Sat
urday the learned gentleman made say speaking of
the Missouri Compromise;
True II Is said that IL Is law of Congress and
can be repealed BY any other Congress Is the Magma
Chara Of England act Of Parliament Whist would
be the political reputation Of public in England
who would propose the repeal Of the Magma Char'a Of