The daily union., 1855-09-18

Latttnors american.
Would It not be well TO insure the lives OF the pas
sengersl
LANDING or PiLanIxs--The cornerstone Of i'm
mense granite monument commemorative Of the landing
of the pilgrims is be laid Plymouth on the ls of
August 1856. Thirteen years the maximum of time al
lowed for its constructions and expected 10 be
OF the most magnificent monumental structures in the
world.
INDIAN ATTACK on A SURVEYING PARrY-A despatch from
Chicago says;
We have received dates from Nebraska City the 9th
instant Col Monniess party of was
attacked by band Of Pawnee Loups about thirty miles
up the Platte river Col Monnies and five others reached
Nebraska City safely but six others dispersed and
have not been heard from. company of fifty
raised and started in pursuit"
TnE PUBLISHERS rEsrlvAL-A New York correspondent
writes:
Among those expected to be present at the publishers
festival on tho 27h is Washington Irving; and among
the speakers will be Edward Everett John r Kennedy
Charles sumner; Bryant the poet Bishop Potter OF Penn
81 lvania; Rev Drs Bellows, Bethune Chaplin, Osgood
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher the poet Holmes the presi
dent of the Girard Colleges the president OF Columbia
Colleges Lieutenant Manry g. 7. r. James the novelist
J. T. Fields Of Boston; Hon. Caleb Cushing and the
mayors Of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York;
LARGE SALES OF ronAcco-The Louisville Courier notes
recent large operations in tobacco in that city Nine
y hogsheads sold at SO per 100 lbs amounting ia the a
gregate 10 also the sale of $50 hogsheads of fine
leaf for S2l 1885, aud 100 hogsheads do. for Sl2s40
A wAaLlKE HAyDKERcHIrr-A Paris letter-writer says
Among the novelties Of the in the lingerie de-
partmcnt the Alma pockehandkerchef charming pro-
dueon of Madame Petit Place Vendome, of the pre
TEST has rounded enriched by elegant enbro
dered Designs and trimmed with shells of fine Valenciennes
lace placed Hat The embroidery nearly the cam
brc and is succession of small spots with here and there
lance firearms helmets and flags and at each corner is
man on horseback, In full armor."
UNITED STATES STEAMER FuLTos-The Pensacola Gazette
denies the report that the United States Fulton
has the yellow fever board All well on board.
CHANGING coLon-The New York Medical Times, for
September reports curious of change Of color of the
skin of young man from white to that of q mulatto.
MoRE Aip.--The people Of Chicago have subscribed
about for the relief Of the yellow fever sufferers at
Norfolk and Portsmouth
TIE WESTERN gIvERs-The st. Louis Republican Of the
18th instant says:
The Mississippi at this point is at stand, with u feet
to Cairo The Illinois river is falling, with feet the
bars to Lassle Upper Mississippi about stationary with
20 inches the Lower Rapids The Missouri is still
ported in very bad condition. Boats arriving with
very light cargoes 1t reported by the New Lucy from
St Joseph yesterday at "a feet scant the principal bars
to St Joseph Arrivals yesterday receipts fair
on the Levec"
BETTING ON LIFE AND DEATfI.Seldom has the betting
propensity exhibited itself in brutal than
in the way indicated in the suboned extract copied from
the Richmond American:
ave understand that there bets pending in the city
Henry Myerss chances for escaping the rava9es of the
yellow fever at Norfolk It will be remembered that be
attacked few days since The betting is $500 that
he will recover to slo0 that he will not
tiser says:
The peach business is found TO be very productive and
this year least 100000 baskets will be brought by the
way of New Brunswick to Newark and New York and
year. If the crop be favorable there win be consid
cradle increase many farmers are enrQng this part OF
their business, and others are commencing 1t anew
ENLARGEMENT OF THE AsroR LIsRARr.--Mr. Wm 3. As
has presented says the New York Day Book) TO tho
trustees Of the Astor Library lot of land eghtyve feet
front and the depth of the present lots adjoining the
same which large addition to the present fine
building. This is u very valuable donation.
PRScEroS CobLEeE-The students in Princeton College,
New Jersey, on the l serenaded the faculty with fish
horns. The police interfered and constable was
stabbed. One student has been arrested.
TRAvRLNotcing the large amount of travel this sea-
son, the Albany Register says If railroads and steam
boats not paying percentage now, may look in
READINGS By RsoHEL.--Thc New York Mirror suggests
that Mile Rachel give series Of Readings at the Taber
nace for the benefit of such of those of citizens whose
consciences creeds will not let them go theatre
And if she could get up her English give few
lines from Shakespeare, wouldn't she make furore? BY
the way learn that Mademoisee Rachel has half
scnted TO read (no ng) the Marselase the theatre
next week. This alone would crowd the house"
WISE the aeronaut writing to the Tribune suggests a
Of dspeing the miasmatc atmosphere at Norfolk
and Portsmouth. lie says
largest cabre with their muzzles elevated as much
practicable to perpendicular if possible would pro-
duco atmospheric that would travel hundreds of
miles This should be aided by large fires open lots and
commons made Of tar barrels any other highly COM
bustble ateral This would put the atmosphere in
tou driving the infected of and receiving the pure from
abroad
GEs. IsRAEI PuTNAM.--There will be meeting Of the
descendants and collateral relations of Gen Israel Putnam
of revolutionary memory at the Putnam station on the
Norwich and Worcester railroad, Wednesday October
a. The next day there will be public address and din
The object of these meetings is to raise the of
S3ooo required BY the legislature OF Connecticut to OBJ
tain from it grant of like sum- for The purpose of
ing suitable the remains Of Gen. Israel
Putnam,
Tnr cRorsThe Columbus (Ga.) Times states that the
cotton crop Of that section will probably be large that
of last year The Montgomery Mail expresses the opinion
that Alabama will also raise at least average crop.