The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-30

One OF the inside upper sheets of iron Is torn from the ur
per rivets IN diagonal direction nearly down to the o
posite riVet showing pretty concusively that there
have been some defect in the iron
Albany Epening Journal, 27M
Jacob Amber, editor of the Baraboo wis., Standard
leading democratic paper died at place on the 18th
ofyphoid fever Mr. Amber a native of the State Of
New York but for the last twenty years he has resided in
Michigan and for the last five years editor Of the Hsae
Gazeite' lie had only lately removed to Wisconsin.
The Masonic fraternity at Richmond have made arrange
ments to pay special funeral honors the late Edmund
Hunter who at the time of his death Grand Master
oil the state OF Virginia The ceremonies viii take place
on the 4th of November next
Young Christian, tried at Lexington Va for killing ca
Diet Blackburn, and acquitted borne from the court
room by crowds of his friends The town was illuminated
music brayed and bonres bazed in honor of the event
Col Smith of the Military Institute was burned in efey
The accused was defended by nine lawyers among them
several or the most eminent members of the Virginia bar
The ratification of the reciprocity treaty is received with
much favor at Gloucester Mass This place has now from
$50 TO 200 vessels in the British waters about SO are
their second trips. Besides this Gloucester has the
largest Nova Scotia trade of any port in New England ex
cepi Boston and Salem.
The Cincinnati Commercial says the Cincinnati horse
nlfhe aueu as The largest the country Is duller
this season than II las been during three years last past
The river so low that New Orleans Mexican and buyers
for the southern market generally ship their stock
Prices very much depressed and there general in
disposition TO operate this feeling extends hghprced as
well as to common wok-horses 1t is singular fact that
horses are higher in the country throughout Kentucky In
diana, and Ohio than they in this city, and higher
here than in New Orleans thus entirely reversing the usual
course OF trade
REMARKABLE ooNcIDEScE.-A correspondent of the Pc
tersburg (Va) Express, writing from Charestown, in
that State relates the following series of incidents which
if true are certainly very singular
Washington accustomed to wear two seals on his
watohole of gold and the other of silver Upon both of
them the letters g. W were engraved rather The
seals he early l754 and they about his
person the terrible day of Braddocks defeat On that
day he lost the silver seal The gold remained with
the General until the day of his DEATH and then given
by him to his nephew gentleman Of Virginia who
fully preserved it until about years ago when
riding bis farm he dropped it. and could
it. The other day. the gold SEAL lost seventeen ago
ploughed up recognised from the letters g. W. it,
and restored TO the Of the gentleman to whom Wash
ngon had presented it, At almost the moment the
silver SEAL lost in 1854 just hundred years ago
poughed up the site of the battle in which Braddock
defeated and like manner, recognised from the let
ters g. W.. that in short time the two compan-
ions will be again ulite0 have this whole statement
from the most reliable possibenamey, from the
gentleman himself who has thus restored TO him these
cous mementoes of his great ancestor The affair is but
proof OF otstaed MAXIM that truth beggars
fiction in strangeness repeat there is the slightest
exaggeraton missatement in the matter and
for mistake In legal phraseoogy the proof excludes every
other hypothesis"