The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-23
GEN ERAL NEWS.

the would be over ere them These compulsory means
are not an equal CONSUMPTION such in France and
me continent where all ranks equally drawn from but
forced impresment from the lower classes The war
showing or making England the worst governed State Of
Europe
kASsAA-0n Saturday week three Steamboats, for the
Missouri river le 81 Louis heavily laden with emgrants
for Kansas and Nebraska A gentleman at Kittanning
Pennsylvania proposes put his keel-boat o. hfyhve
tons burden the Kansas river as regular packet The
fourth View England party have founded a town called
MakaraSa sixye miles from Lawrence and twenty five
miles om Fort Riley Ii is reached by the California road
Another town called BIanton has been founded this
spring on stream called the Wakarusa, which
latter the founder Of the settlement Is building bridge
The WINTER AND THE saEKP.--In some of the western
woogrowng districts the Sleeps said have suffered
severely during the past winter in consequence Of last
summers drought having destroyed their pasturage In
Carroll county, Ohio lost five hundred head.
WARNING cossUsERs---The Boston (Massachu-
setts Traveller relates OF stranguation from in
halng gas the cock not having been sufficiently closed
when the lights extingushed
Tue NKw York cAsAIs-Governor Clark has transmit
ted to the New York legislature special message having
reference the financial condition and securities of the
State The canal tolls have fallen off half million
Of dollars and the governor the reimposton
Of tolls on railroads to make good the deficiency.
LABoREas wASTED.--The Lafayette Qndanal Courier
says laborers wanted the line of the Lake Erie Wa
BASH and ST. Louis railroad The road runs from Toledo
to Danville, 249 miles.
DEATa OF KHoRsaEw PAcHA.--Khorsrew Pacha who
died the I'd ult the Oldest of the Turkish
empire He had served under five Sultans and had filed in
succession all the first posts in the State He very vain
of having been born in the year Napoleon the
Great Chateaubriand the Duke of Wellington Marshal
Soult Mehemit ALI and other remarkable
BABY sHowBarnum advertises another grand nation
al baby show take place his museum in New York
in June.
DEATH A CELEBRATED TRoTTER-The celebrated trot-
ting Lady folk died in her stable at Bridgeport
Vermont b, instant She is supposed to have died
in fit she in her usual health but short time
previously.
PINE APpLEs AND GREEN pEAs.-About three hundred
dozen Maanza pine apples arrived New York on Tues
day and quantity of green peas from Havanathe first
of the The former sold for 81 per dozen and the
latter for 81 per bushel
TYpE-sETrING-A compositor in the Newark Mercury
Office asev during the week ending on Friday night last
s5 900 This we consider fair specimen of type-set
ting but is said to be nothing extraordinary with the
postor in question.
A BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM SENT srArIos-HoUsE-A
Philadelphia paper after noticing the descent of the police
upon drunken wedding party the occupants of cellar in
that city, says
Those who were not too much nebrated were dancing
to the cracked music of organ, played by Italian
woman There beds in the apartment which
both occupied portion Of the party escaped but six Of
them including the bride and bridegroom captured
and taken the statonhouse where they compelled
spend the night The persons who kept the cellar
committed to the charge Of maintaining nuisance
The rest were held TO keep the peace
A cRrpuLous prAcE-Mddleton or Topsfeld in Essex
county Massachusetts, appears TO be the grand of
pernataral wonders. II in this neighborhood that
Salem wtchcrai sprang up spiritual rappings still
tevey pervade the place. and Joseph Smith, the founder
OF the Mormons, was born there.
CAUTION TO Rors-Last Saturday afternoon young
lad named Robert Oberer, while flying kite the roof
Of the Railroad Hotel Cincinnati Ohio fell to the ground
over fifty feet racturng his skull badly to
death in few minutes
Why THE ROMANS WENT TO BED EARLY--In one of the
late London papers find the following reason why by
De Quincy:
They went to bed early in those ages simply because
their worthy mothercarthcould not afford them can
dIesa
TEMPERANCE IN NEW BKproRp.-The New Bedford Stand
ard says:
We learn that the distinct sales of spstuous liquors
the city liquor average about $1,000 per month,
per quarter There mnst be vast amount of sick
ness the community, ths mechanic arts are flourish
ing tremendously
WHERE rof-During the first
fifteen days in March the Central railroad brought to Al
bany between twelve and thirteen thousand dressed hogs
All from the western States and principally from Chicago
MAILS BuRsKp--The Chicago Times of Saturday says:
"A very heavy mail reached here yesterday from Cali
orna for this and other western cities When the train
reached White Pigeon il discovered that the
on FIRE and by great exertioR the mail got out the
greater part Of il much scorched, but not destroyed.
On last Sunday morning, AT the first stopping place
this side of Toledo il discove ed that the macar
on fire inside and before the mail could be got out some
eighteen bags Of newspapers and documents burned
mostly entirely DESTROYED. No letter bags injured.
In both eases the mails the through mails in
closed and il is supposed the fires caused by
sparks from the engine entering the and communities
ting with the canvas bags
BLacgwpop on BARSuN--The most striking article In
the February number of Backwoods Magazine is review
* Barnums Autobiography from which extract the
following:
II We could enter with anything like feeling OF sest
INTO the relations Of this excessively shameless book
ing hoax which the snthcv haa p~psAted upon ths pah
Nc But it has inspired with nofhiAg bat sntees 81
disgust for the frauds whsh IL nAErsfsA ssoeus ~ -
audacity oahing for it, hypocrisy sbhorrence ~ The NOR
ally sreched Who complied IL He hns lsn nothing
r his enssAy to Do; he hAs &xay gibhsasd ha1u&
No uncIean bird Of prey nafsed igno11Oy q - door
efa barn present illustrating spectacle han
he Ant