The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-13

4 ell Fuussn tOTmtriy all an
service under General Barnard aud minister from France
to Washington under the French repubIic hold real
estate ia the ely % New York,
NATURAL AsYnrrIss.--The London Times prefers the
kno~-nothng 10 any other party in the United States
PAPER FROM BAaBoos--A specimen Of paper manufAe-
tured from the cane the bamboo Of the Mssis
spp river has been exhibited at ST. Louis and Is highly
approved
LATER FROM TExAs-Adyices from Galveston the LIST
instant have been received II TO be generally
understood that the governor viii cali the legislature
together % upon the Texasdebt bill The spring Is
very backward In Texas and tho young is said TO
have suffered from frost and drought An unusually
heavy crop however has been planted.
Nnw HAarsHlnK-,rhe opposition perseyering 10
their Misrepresentation OF political results that the task
of correction endless The New Hampshire Patriot
tees some of them as follows
The Atlas says our usual has been $4,000. Now
record shows that the democrats in this State have not
81 any election since ls4s that in the
last years they have cast that number but
which in ls4s and that their average vote for that
period has not reached 10000 Their largest vote since
Is4s according the official count has been 30934 Yet
this lying Atlas that usual vote has been
s40O0l
Gov Bakers vote this year is larger than MIR. Folks
vote in 1874 and larger than the democratic in 1876
is but few hundred less than the vote of General Cass
in ISfS and but about l,SUu IMAM
in 1852 and il is but 1000 less than the average demo
cratic vote in the last ten years"
49, 4
tbs AsrvEAL MovEnEsraPated veal' was described by
George Passenger witness in the OF John Jenkins
hauled up at New York and fined dollars for selling
the Mr. Passengers testimony is curious and inter
estng
mean by plated veal putting piece of fat pork where
the kidney ought be- if the whole Of the nine quarters
tried out after taking away the pork enough fat
hao tn N
this bob veal have been butcher forty years con-
slider this meat very unwholesome; il very young,
and had been starved either here while was being
brought here
Passenger asked the accused if he knew whether the
meat in question was veal dog jenkins did not
know but supposed il must be veal he bought it for
that
Passenger This from licensing to sell meat
that know nothing about it, | can produce woman in
Williamsburg that cooked steaks cut from the thigh of the
pirate Gibbs who hung, and people ate and pro-
nounced them the finest they being under the inn
preston that ii was the flesh of an animal.
APPEARANCES ARE DEcETfur4--An old man entered the
office of the Erie railroad in New York city, looking
poor that the clerks took him for beggar and ordered
him out But he finally found his way to the cashier and
received ten thousand dollars income bonds which the
clerks had supposed to be begging certificates
The GApspES pURcHAsE--GoLD AND SILVER aNEs.--A
correspondent of of the California papers says that
mines gold and silver exist in the country purchased
from Mexico by the Gadsden treaty and that number of
small parties no had gone hlher in search of the preci
metals found gold placer but obliged
to abandon them owing the hostility of the Indians and
The difficulty procuring supplies Iappears to be beyond
doubt that gold does exist in the Of the San
Pedro and Gia but the writer from whom quote says
that the whole country rich in gold deposes Cali
forna He also adds that within less than twenty miles
Of Ash Spring there silver mines, in the possession
of the Apache Indians richer and extensive than the
famous Chihuahua mines Coroitas. In the western
section there are also said be mines of almost pure cop
and around Teuson iron bias been found in abundance
Should this be verified this strip of territory will
not prove hard bargain as has been generally be-
lieved.
AMOUNT OF WHEAT 10 COME PROM THE WEsr-we are
nssSned (says the Rochester Amercan) by of the
most cautious and careful mers of the city this morning
that he has received a reliable statement of the surplus
wheat in all the region Of country in the West, whose
products win find Atlantic market through the several
routes of Buffalo, Oswego and ogdensburg. The result
is that all the points of reception West the aggregate
of wheat forward this spring is not 100000
bushelsequa only to about 100000 barrels of -four This
is exclusive of the from Canada
ing which have definite information, though be-
eve will be found pretty large In any event. the pros
pect for cheap bread is not very fattering.
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correspondent says:
The number Of spr,ualists called increasing
in this quarter that several leading pas
of the city feel called upon to denounce the affair from
the pulpit dangerous delusion. Reference made
least discourses yesterday. One of the
speakers spoke of sprituasm modern necromancy In
Boston, and in some of the neghboring towns this
sect IL ii be called hold meetings, and exhor
ed by men women every Sabbath.
HoMrcpE--On Saturday Thos b. Brown, esq, clerk Of
the court Eizabethtown Kentucky, shot and killed
by w. s. English merchant
DRowsgp.--George Watson Stevens of Lawrence Mas
sachnsetts and cousin Of Gov Stevens of Washington
Territory was drowned whilst attempting to swim Skoo
KUN Chuck, on the 10th of February He was twenty
three years Of age.
Very raug.-Mrs Swisshelm says: The secret you
dare tell your mother is dangerous secret that
win be likely to bring yon to sorrow
lsvrses HlsroRy OF wAsmsGros.--The New York cor
respondent of the Boston Transcript writes
II have seen the early chapters of Irvings Washington,
and find that he has succeeded in cleaning many
facts and that distinctive feature of the biography will
cular discipline of his early eduon and the hereditary
qualities of his constitution
TAKEN nv SURPRISE Pchsrd D. Coke an eloquent and
distinguished Virginia wing, at recent know-nohing
and wing meeting in Fuvanua county, called Upon
for speech but the horror and CONSERVATION OF the
know-nothngs, he proclaimed himself old-ne ebay
whig Said he You might well try TO cram giant
IN ouart measure to get Henry Clay In