The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-25

aged about Senty-tw II ~ thought cannot recover
SriurpK-Mr David r Crockett hung himself in Mem
phis, Tennessee recently lie Young Of high
responsibility and it supposed be aboring under
alteration of intellect.
THE LEGaokIt is stated that in Spain Holland
and Hamburg depots for volunteers foreign legion
which England is about raise being established
der the direction of British officers.
FATHER MATHEW rs Drsrnrss-The Catholic Telegraph
that the venerable Father Mathew Madeira in
distress in want Of to pay his bonrd His right
hand is paralyzed-
OVERLAND MAIL TO TEE PAcrFHo--A bin has been sub
med in the Legislature Of Illinois charter the Missouri
and California Overland Mail and Transportation Compa
ny. The capital stock il to be three millions of dollars
CAPITAL IowA-The senate Of Iowa has BY vote OF
II to H. passed bill removing the Of government
from Iowa city Fort Des Moines II supposed snys
the Dubuque Express that the house win aso pass the
bill
QUEER sovE-Scme Of the fire insurance companies Of
Boston have resolved take Philadelphia risks until
they have paid fire department
GRAND ExcrnsIoK--We understand that the opening
Of the Panama railroad viii be duly celebrated by grand
excursion party from New Yorka pleasure trip from the
Atlantic to the Pacific
DELAwAH-James r. Lohand esq, Of Milford, has been
appointed secretary of State of Delaware.
CASE or REAL DsrEEss-A Philadelphia correspondent
writes
q A police officer on Saturday morning observed de-
cenooking take small piece of beef of butchers
stall in the market and conceal it under his cloak which
be The official notified the butcher of the fact but
the latter said that decent must have been driven
by the commission of the act The officer deter
mined watch the needy man. and following hmfor
siderable distance observed him going into house in the
upper part the city The policeman knocked nj tine door
which opened by the who upon seeing the badge
begged this Grmer Gods sake him The
officer went into the house where he found Of des
tuton, the midst Of which four shveng children
eagerly devourng the meat This dark picture
what relieved by the fact that the officer returned TO the
butcher and told him of the sight he had witnessed when
the kindhearted fellow gathered up among his friends f
dollars money, and large basket of provisions and
sent them to the furnishing fnmlly-
TERRIBLE pEArH-Terry Duffy, one Of the men employed
Eaons tunnel section SIS, Northwestern Virginia rail-
road killed Monday the 18th inst, in this strange
manner He left in charge of end of the rope
while the of the party filing Of the buckets
the other bucket commenced descending the rope slipped
from keeper he caught by the hook quickly erked
to the top the shaft there detached and fell back
bottom distance of hundred and Twenty-Five feet
Ii was supposed that the was killed by humping
against the sides Of the shaft while ascending Whsn
found, his body terribly mangied.
ARMY INTERCHANGEABLE New Orleans Picsyune OF The
10Th inst says:
aThe shin Hemisphere Captain n G. Harris twenty
days from York via Key West Charlotte Harbor and
Pensacola arrived here yesterday with detachment of
United STATES recruits under command Of Captnin Barry
for company H. sscond regiment Of artillery stationed at
Baton Rouge The Hemisphere had previously landed
Captain Nogdes and forty recruits for the first artillery al
Key West; Brrvet Colonel Brown Lieutenant Robertson,
Assistant Surgeon c. H. Smith, and tive hundred and
thirty for the second artillery Mt Charlotte Har
Dor and Lieutenant Bingham and thirrytwo recruits for
the second artillery at Pensacola
Exnosros on rHE GREAT RrPuH1Ic-The Great Repub-
lie appears be doomed ship The New York journal
of Commerce of Tuesday says:
About one O'Clock this afternoon, a sseaErboier
ployed on the ship Grent Republic for hosting cargo
exploded with great force inuring three OF them
fatally is earedand tearing the enginehouse TO pieces
The boiler stood just aha the manmast on the upper
deck and furnished power pair of small engines The
casing she'll blown to fragments and one portion
Of the boiler driven about six inches into the mast
The engineer, who is supposed to have allowed the
get too low in the boiler found with Of
the engines lying upon him. where the boiler stood
He taken to The hospital shockingiy injured
TaY sscw -uunx IN Ngw HAmrsHrRh--The Manchester
Mirror Of Saturday says;
Here fell the depth OF about twenty inches
But the north Of ms the told of depth in
credible II teicrraphec to this place from Danbury
this State that the tss deep II would
that much greater quantity had fallen at the upper part
Of the State than here
RonnERy HoS Nm McNuIAKs--The Richmond En-
quSrer OF Tuesday
Officer Tyler arrived in this city last SATURDAY, after
noon, having in custody Charles Lewis Bachmaa, who
stands charged with stealing SiS from Mr. Fayrtse Nc
Mullen on the It'll DAY Of August last Bachman
rested in New York and has made fun confession of his
guilt He states that morning OF the collision with
the mail train going North and the hand which
Mr.. MeNnlen had taken passage from Slash Cottage
where he was accidentally left by We regular train
coming this city he found the carpegbsE took the
money, gave Bowe small portion, and then started
North where be swinded out Of large portion Of H.
lie further states that he has beer Germany which is
verF doubtful and since returned 10 New York " ben
arrested he had Of the money bis pnssesson He
viii undergo examination before the mayor az
the witnesses be got together which viii probably be
in the course Of iew days
No wEnnfssa--Fhe last Dsnvile VA Republican says
The clerk OF the hastings in tins place informs
that during the Just ended not single marriage
license was sssued from ms office This i remArkAbe
tact IN town whose population numbers about twenty
Eve hundred and results from the fact that ccurng
done hui TINT the ladies airs unrcuunniy hard