The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-04

days prodgious People packing up their traps TO 40
into the country 10 exchange the dust and dirt Of the
city for the refreshing breeze OF the seashor Hundreds
too going away 10 escape the noise and confusion OF
the Fourth OF July Some Of sunstroke termina
ting fatally, reported. One Owen Early Irish la
borer fell down the sidewalk from exhaustion and
when carried the Seventh ward sation-house expired
While The coroner building inquest his re-
mains he notified attend another fatal case In the
Eighth avenue from drinking cold water Besides these
there eight other Of sun-stroke all of which, with
the exception OF one proved fatal The unfortunate vic
Tins were laboring men, and nearly all foreigners
TrRRlsLE STEAMBOAT ExPLosiosA despatch from Evans
willie, Indiana, dated July 2, says;
The Lexington, running between Louisville
and ST Louis blown TO atoms Stephensior Ken
lucky on he up trip The packet Baltimore has just
rived from the of the disaster with twenty officers
and passengers of the Lexing ton.
Captain rhroop aud first clerk Mr.. Davidson are
among them and both wounded The captain thinks
that there not than IS wounded of the
100 who were board The ladies all saved
harmed. The accident occurred at o'clock Sunday
morning. Boat and cargo total loss"
GaEAT FIELDS OF WHARF.-The Fayetteville IN Cl OBJ
server says:
The celebrated traveller and agricultural writer Scion
Robinson few years ago pronounced the OF Messrs
Henry X. and Thomas Burgwn, the Roanoke in New
Hampton county North Carolina, the best between Cana
da and Louisiana. We learn that the former has field of
900 Of wheat which good judges estimate will yield
20 bushels to the acre. $4,000 bushels in ALL worth at
present prices about $4,000 Ii is said he beau
iifu sight Mr. Thomas Burgwn has field OF 800
in wheat almost good These gentlemen make besides
large quantities of corn, oats, &cp
FoREes rRulr--The New York market is glutted with
West India fruit Fifteen vessels laden With pine apples
bananas and cocoanu lie at the piers, and have board
Of pine apples alone about Dozen while large guam
titles have already been sold Prices range from %
cents. Probably the market before album
dainty supplied
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The London correspondent of the Boston Post INDUCES in
the following bit of gossip
Among the notable persons one frequently meets
at the Paris Exhibition is Queen Christina the Isabel of
European courts in the 10Th century. Notwithstanding
her hard treatment in Spain during the last winterwhch
one regrets not much hardershe is in apparently
good spirits and is absent from any OF the festivals
OF the gay capital At the gay fete given by the munich
pay of Paris the lord mayor of London last week Queen
Christina present the gayst Of the throng The arts
OF dress rouge and manner understands better
and of the unnated she might very well pass
lady just losing her bloom and yet she numbers full sixty
years
1T is stated change, upon apparently fair authority
that the Emperor of the French suppresses CImean intel
gence when il is OF great or unexpected importance for
several hours for the purpose of operating in the funds
II is perfectly well known, that when Louis Napoleon
lived in London, he got his living by doing little stock
obbing and then. At that time Corsican, named
Ors employed by him. and in his that the
in the stocks carried The per-
son is still intimate with the Emperor and he has several
times lately made large and successful operations mme
atey prior to the receipt of intelligence which created
sudden change in the value of securies Is fully be-
eved that he authorized high quarters to do Any
who walks into the gardens of the Tuilees and
the electric wires diverging from small cabinet the
northern end towards point of the horizon will find
difficult to believe that the present tenant of that cabinet
viii let any opportunity escape him Of eathering his own
nest at the cost of the hoek he manages TO drive
IsplAA pnpasnArIoss OK THE pLAHs-We copy the fol-
lowing from the St Josephs Gazette Of June 20:
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vices from the plains, the Salt Lake mail for June have
ing arrived The reports Of the capture and murder of
many If not ALL of the enigrans who started California
and Oregon last spring il is feared toe true light
mail from Utah is all the communication ne have had from
tat quarter for nearly Two months and then we heard
nothing definite from the emigration This arrival brought
accounts OF capture OF oil the stock belonging the
traders west of Laramie Mr. Shambaugh at DEVILS Gate
lost upwards of sixty head of horses and cattle y
All the adyices that have reached far report the
Indians gathering in great numbers all along the
th the avowed determination of preventing ell outward
bound emgran,s from passing 10 also reported by
Indian who arrived At Sargean's Bluffs from Lara
mie thai Tue SIOUX had attacked every train that had
passed out that they had killed many OF the whites and
taken prisoners number or women and children. Some
lew were allowed 10 pursue their way after being stripped
Of every thing they possessed but it would be miraculous
indeed ifbey did perish from starvation before reaching
place where provisions and other FOR sus-
tanning life could be procured.
Weexpressed fears some time since that the money APP
propriaed by Congress for hng expedition against
these Indians would be expended in such
render assistance Whatever 10 emfgrans traders
Now confirmed ID the belief As yet but few com
panes Of troops have left the frontiers for the Sioux
.rybarey sufficient garrison the different military
posts without being able give those journeying through
the country any protection much less cbastse the In
dams for the depgedatons already committed Three
tour companies Of troops also passed up the river
route for Fort Pierre, which post they will rcuain du-
ring the coming winter IL is certainly very bad policy
send troops the headwaers Of the Missouri this time
when their presence and protection much required
he road TO Salt Lake, California; and Oregon,
Nor RECOGNISED CuRIsTIAss.An Ohio exchange paper
says at the administration OF the Lords supper by the
Rev. Mr. Wishart his church in New Athens Harrison
county Ohio few Sabbaths since he debarred all know
nothings from participating in the ceremony lie took
the position that person could be Christian and
honest man. and al the same time know-nothing
LATER FROM SALT LAKE.---PaoeREss TRoops--The
St Louis Republican has the following despatch from In
dependence dated june as
"The Salt Lake mail under charge of Hudspeth Jones
bringing The mails Of May and June, arrived last night
The party had their FROM Salt Lake
Laramie. Hoffman attended them u fallons Bluff from
which point Capt Todd accompanied them Fort Kea-
ny. The delays heretofore be attributed the
Of escort
Indians very numerous in and beyond the Black
Hills They very much alarmed at the movements Of
troops and DESTROYS of peace and proposed giving Up
the murderers of the pail party last fall The troops give
them couutenance.
The reports of many persons being killed by them
all sbrcaons About four hundred Of the troops had
reached Fort kearuy and near by Col Cooke
with his command thirty miles this side Of that place