The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-13


BY the submarine armor Of Messrs Edwin Otis Co. OF
Scituate Massachusetts, We have in countng-room
flake which from Of the guns composed Of iron
wood and rope. Among other things raised was piece
Of one Of the floor tmber which sided by SO inches
The Director viii return the spot where the wreck lies
to secure more Of the remains.
CHEAP cLormSG.-In the Paris Crystal Palace clothing
said TO be really good and substantial ia sold at the fol-
lowing rates pair Of panaloous, Of good cloth finish
ed francs good black rock coat II francs Scotch
plaid vesi, francs sous muslin shirt, plated bosom
francs 10 sous, &C.
SSow.-Passengers from Cairo, Illinois by the Central
road who reached Chicago Saturday last state that
snow fell to the depth ofthree inches at that place.
Snow also fell at Egin and Chicago on Saturday.
Tm OLDEST ENsEEER.--Nathanie Cummings who
the accommodation train between Waukegan and Chicago
Illinois is said TO be the Oldest engineer in the United States
having driven the first locomotive placed railroad in
this country
The COLLINS sTEAMER.--The Journal of Commerce
says that the noticeable object in the hipyards Of
New York is the mammoth Adriatic building for
the Collins line in Mr. Steers yard and which attracts
numerous visiters. The Journal says
Gall its proportions are gigantic the vessel exceeding in
size any that has been built in this country In some
of its dimensions il will not vaey materially from the UNI
ted States steamship Niagara building ut the navyyard
entirely in frame that the deck beams and iron braces
are being put in The cardboard streak, which extends
parallel with the keel and is equivalent to the first plank
is also being put The strength OF the vessel IN some
degree indicated by the fact that this is eleven inches in
thickness The iron braces, which will extend obliquely
across the frames nteracing each other at intervals OF
four feet Of themselves curiosity and wonder They
each fifty feet in length, seveneghths OF an inch in
thickness and Ave inches broad weighing screen hundred and
MY Pon's There are three hundred bars or straps Of
this description. -Four hundred constantly
ployed this ship, whose weekly wages average about
400 and it is expected she will be launched about the
is of April She is 345 feet in length so in BREADTH and
30 in depth The quantity OF timber put INTO her IS enor
nous"
A pREcooIous YoUTH.An ungallant youth, aged seyen
recently undertook in Utica to drown little girl OF three
That young gentleman will be heard Of again.
ARKANSAS rTEMs-Lieutenant Holiday, of the 81 reg-
ment United States Dragons arrived at Little Rock
during the past week on his way to the Hot Springs
The editor of the Little Rock Gazette and Democrat
having been a tour, says:
ain all the country through which passed the health
of the people generally good, and the crops Of all
kinds unequaed by those of any previous year in abund
ance and good quality"
Two hundred United States recruits passed through Lit
tie Rock the ed their way to Forts Arbucke and
Washita
SLAVERY IN THE SouTu--We copy the following from a
southern exchange:
"Col John Darlington an officer OF distinction in the
of died at his residence in Clarke county, Alabama
on the 10Th At his burial his slaves collected in
large numbers the grave and of them an old
man. requested permission to pray his old master
His fellow-slayes and fellow mourners joined in hymn
which gave from memory when he offered to the
Throne of Mercy prayer which, for deep pahos and
found humility and alteration, could not be exceled Tho
tears of large Of white showed
how deeply they moved by the evor and earnesness
| Of this good old slave"
| pr on he in
slant the inhabitants were visited with very lively
| starIn which continued for several honrs