The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-02-02

COMPLIMENT TO bARSuN~-An English paper thus al
ludes TO the Life OF Barnum"
Fame is altogether comparative and noioriey very Of
encroaches iame One man aspires to be great
general another great statesman, but Barnum ambition
ed to be greet humbug and he succeeded
RsvolyIsa spEcsAclx-Two negroes were executed in
Montgomery, Alabama Friday last Of them for XIII
ling his wife, and other for attempting 20 kill his mas
ter The Journal says
One Of the prisoners died and easily; Of the
other owing defect In arrangements the neck was
dsocatedthe knot Of the rope, catching under bis
chin did not slip His not being sufficiently pnlonedi
be enabled reach the rope with his hands holding
himself and yelling yoeferousy trcqured some short
time to dsengage him. About thousand persons attend
ed the revolving spectacle"
LIVE YANKEE AND PARIs,-The Paris
correspondent Of the Boston Post writes:
aGreat and eloquence very frequently eynced by
those petcoat clerks the explanation of their warel
refer 10 bonbons The devices upon box covers the
inscriptions and illustrations them with sufficient
pretexts for the seductive explanations and the most
winning exhorations But the true talent which they uni
versa appear possess to dwell in the grace and
peculiar 70 all Partisan rsdeswomen They are sole
itous but pesuming urgent but not exacng and al
good natnred perfectly sepossessed and tired
of humoring your indecision reluctance They ade
among the thousand glass jars and smile bewchngly up
you when returning change Very often suscep
tibe kind Of fellow, such am, feels mortified at the
trouble he subjects them for perhaps his small purchase
and Yields to an inclination to make larger one unless
he gets into the street safe from the rash nfauaon incl
dent to petticoat Establishment
The TINES IN MoBrIE-A Mobile correspondent under
date of January Esd, writes
Hard times here with you the general complaint.
There is however starvation The market teens with
all the necessaes and Injuries but at rather high prices
Work is abundant, and wages good We have res
iden paupers but few of that profession occasionally
find their way here from your city Trade dull and the
weather fine Money is in demand. The Mobile and Ohio
railroad excitement is increasing
CoAL-BuRSISe LocoAorIvE.--One of the trains the
Boston and Lowell railroad has been drawn by the me
braska" locomotive, fred up with coal. The experiment
successful
Wool LIrEaArunE.Mr. Topper the author of "Pro-
verbal Philosophy" has given gold medal "for the
couragement of literature in Liberia"
THE COST OF AMusEMESTs IN PARIsThe receipts of the
theatres balls singing cafes and curosites of Paris in the
month of December last 225,75o francs which
ll49s7 francs than in November The total receipts
of the year l2,409,06l francs
An EXPANDING BALL-It is said that an Englishman
named Palmer has invented ball for guns and
which will expand TO six times its original diameter after
its discharge and cut wound, and lacerae to kill The
velocity Of the ball is not percepbly affected by the
pansion.
A ExAMrLE--The Michigan Southern and Michi-
gan Central railroads giving the of their and
roads free for the purpose of hauling wood for the suffering
poor of Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. JOHN NJ. DANIEL--The statement published some
time since in New York paper that Mr.. John NJ Daniel
the American minister Turin had been expelled from
club of gentlemen of private letter written by
him last year. and published without his consent is pro-
nounced by the Richmond Dispatch to be without word
of truth.
Coal ON THE MssssIppIThe recently discovered coal
mines the first Chckasaw Bluffs in Tennessee, some
miles above Memphis said yield the best
kind and quality of coal, and to be inexhaustble The
works expected to be in full operation in about two
months
THE GROWTH OF CMcAoo-The valuation of real estate in
Chicago for the year 1854 Sl8s9O44 personal prop
erty, S54ol 4e5tota $24,392,2a9 Total valuation for
1853 was $ls,O67l13.
COMING DOWN IN pRIcE.--The Rutland and Burlington
railroad sold at auction by the sheriff. Bellows
Falls, last week, for mill share The capital was
$22OooO0 and its floating debt $2oO0ooo besides the
debt of So 100000 secured by mortgage
TURNING THE rABLEs-Mss Emeine Keating recently
acquitted at Ptsburg of charge of larceny has insttu
ted suts for SANDER against several Of her
SERIOUS DISTRACTIONS or RAILROADS ny ssow-A de-
spatch from Chicago says
"The condition of the railroads south and west of
this place has become quite desperate by of the
We have had communication with St Louis or
Springfield for eleven days There seventeen ocomo
tves frozen in buried up beneath the on the Chi
cago and Mississippi road"
AMERICAN osrRlcHEs IN IowA.-The Minnesota Pioneer
says that two specimens Of the American ostrich male
female, recently killed Fort des Moines, Iowa
They described four and half feet long, and five
feet in height with bills six inches long, straight and very
sharp. They resemble in most points the ostrich of Africa
One thousand dollars had been offered for them
HEAVY RAILROAD REcEIpTs.-The receipts of the Erie
road in January is reported will probably exceed $780,
000 and be larger than for any month since it was COM
peted The earnings will be considerably less than the
above sum- but probably show increase of 100000 to
$4,000 over January of last year.
TERRIBLE RAILROAD A sSow-sToRM--The Buff
falo Republic of the Goth ult says:
serious collision between the freight train and the
night express train from Hornellsve took place on Satur
day morning between Atica and Linden on the New York
city road The engine of the freight train had been stop
ped in consequence Of the 6re-pan filing with snow and
exhausting the steam The train standing on n par-
tial curve and the wind and blowing gale il was
discovered by the express train until nearly upon ID
The engineer blew terrific blast from his whistle but the
alarm of avail, they into the freight train
breaking up its passenger car killing by the name
of Quigey, and breaking the OF another man. No
other injury.
a. When the whistle sounded, Quigley ran to the
door and in the act OF looking upon the coming
train, when the locomotive caught him swept forward
cutting his head OIL and casting 1t distance to the