The daily union., 1855-09-14
GEN ERAL NE w 3.

GENERAL NEWS.
MECHANICS KAssAs-A despatch from Syracuse New
York, says
A party Of fifty rstclass mechanics left this city to-
day for Kansas They engaged work government
buildings at Fort Leayenworih.7
MuRpEn rRIAI.We learn from the Buffalo papers that
Forbes, Californian who has been trinl for shooting
Shale in April last for educng his wife has been aequt
ted on the ground of insanity.
AID ron rHs suFyEnsns--A New York correspondent,
writes
number of nurses were engaged in this city yester-
day to proceed to Norfolk aud Portsmouth once the
rate Of 81 per day Some of them sontherners who
have been through yeow-feyer campaign at New Or
leans Three physicians left by the Philadelphia train last
night The contributions for the relief fund pouring
inin rather small sums, however for wealthy city
this the aggregate being far but $4,000 This includes
81 900 given by Rachel Some clothing and provisions
TO be sent on by the committee to-day"
The FALL raADr.Judging from the appearance of the
principal business streets during the last few days says
the New York Journal of Commerce) the sales Of dry
goods and other merchandise be The fall
trade seems to be fairly under way We know of firm
whose sales for several consecutive days. have ranged from
$4,000 to $4,000 per day.
DUEL PosrPosKD--The New Orleans True Delta of the
7th instant has the following;
"Uppertendom was in terrible state of excitement last
evening and this morning. owing to welauthenticated
rlmor that two distinguished members of the bar of this
city to leave here this morning in the lake
Creole to settle at the bay of ST. Louis with rifles knoty
point OF law. The combainns engaged, opposing
counsel 10 important before courts Some
kind of tools that should be selected by tho bcigerens
for the delicate operation the time of meeting has, we
learn, been postponed
DEATH OF AN ENrSEsT pIANTER-The Concordia (Ln)
Inellgencer of Friday last says:
"On Sunday night of the present week Mr.. James Sur
get wealthy planter of Concordis parish resident al
Cherry Grove FIVE miles from hatcher taken with
congestive chill which terminated his life Monday
ming. He buried in the family tomb in Adams county
Mississippi, on Tuesday afternoon.
He WAS Of the most eminent cotton planters Of the
Sonha singular concentration Of rmness and energy,
which would have made him conspicuous in any position
in life.
Belonging to family that fed from the slave insur
ection in St Domingo he the youngest living Of three
brothers. and who the of only thousands of
slaves but Of some Of the most valuable OF the broad lands
of Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. In tho family
history of the Surgets truth would indeed be stranger than
fiction and volume might I've written full ofincident
pete with interest and rich with the trumphs OF industry
and perseverance,"
FOURTH APPEARANCES MILE RAcHEL.--CLEReynEs AT
THE THEATREhe appearance Of Milo Rachel in the part
OF Mary Stuart TO have produced profound sensa-
ton in New York The Evening Post thus notices the ap
pearance Of the house on Monday night last:
The house well filed both in numbers and infu-
ence We doubt whether any theatrical performances in
New York have been respectfully attended Among
the celebrities present there be members of the
bar and the bench thriving politicians the chief authors
OF the day the leaders of fashion, OF course and the unu-
snail spectacle the theatre OF occasional clergyman of
the same paper thus notices Rachel and the perform
ance. The critic it will be seen, fully commits himself
"I we asked define the excellence Of Rachel in
the character of Mary Stuart performed last evening" We
should say it consisted in the thorough infusion OF the
woman the queen, and the sant in the part They were
blended with grace and purity Of style inexpressibe in
words. The power was wonderful
"I is this of power which s the highest quality Of
Rachel II aninates and possesses every movement Who
ever saw any enter the move as she does
II Is not ordinary walking it is not the grand step Of the
tngedy queen Her appearance the stage s for want
OF Better word to express IT presence men she Is
before at crisis of the action she does not come
she - there. sJsas
Her look is not any other woman's look it ia not
glance 1T is not expression it is not the feature OF M
eye mouth it Is the expression OF her whole person
To put this simply upon the ground Of art and stage Ct
some OF The English critics have dones 70 Speak
OF results which have arr, IN any OF lis
attempts, produce 1t is mastery Of art by the control
and inspiration of genius.
$50 the readings Rachel far possible removed
from the usual defamation even eioquence OF the stage
The words the simple uerances of the OCCASION ana
have smack of authorship about them Much has been
said of the denunciaon Of Rome in the part OF Camlle
fecs which frequently arise from the simplest expressions
Her very dress is subordnated to this inner element Of
power 1t is of wonderful harmony and mpressyeness
from the simple costume drapery Of Rome TO the elab
crate toilette of the regns of Elizabeth Louis XIV An
inferior would suffer from want excess IN
these dresses but in Rachel they all made to blend with
her person.
"That person i, slender but is not feeble meagre On
the contrary it has certain solidy and funess, with
out losing its spirituality The cool, calm brow, the
strongly pencied eyebrow, the round dark eye, ever
gancing flames of light not TO be overpowered by any
ncrustaons of bants, however precious
the mouth Of winning beauty, and sensuons withal-
power is Within in strong will and force Of intellect the
exertons of which without apparent effort 1t is the
perfection Of art know to conceal ITSELF but the ability
to do this is genius
To see Rachel is sensation 1t is thing not to be
forgotten There few who witnessed the play last night
who will not associate that familiar parsonage in history
Mary of Scotland with this august appaton When she
first before the TENDER patient suffering, loving
woman, it was with mir and attitude in which tho dig
nifty of her beauty not for moment forgotten Her
pride and indignation afterwards did not diminish the i'm
preston but when she appears Mt the close in that mar
velous array Of white queeny attire wearing crown
with that unearhy palor on her conntenauce as II
the Mary of history had stepped forth from her sumptuous
marble in Westminster. She is struck with the air Of
death and coming dissolution In all that pathetic last
act the woman is buried in the eanonzed saint"
Tna LIFE DIGNITY EMoLuGENTs EDITOR IN
Mska Hauser the knight-errant OF the VIOLIN
who seeks fields of fame away in the Sandwich ISL
ands and of the world TO be getting
equally famous a historian and in the way Of
newspaper correspondence He writes from Sydney, Aus
tralia, as follows:
Ee,v days after my arrival mid NV visits TO the