The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-24


ninety-two years
To rUr UNDER oosrRAcr-Forty miles Of the Charles
ton and Savannah railroad about be put under
tract to be cleared and graded
WOMAN SWIMMING rae Mssissu'PL-Llcyds forthcoming
Steamboat Directory gives thrilling instance Of the
cessity for knowing how to swim. When the III
fted Ben sherrod in flames the Mississippi river
and the lady passengers who had thrown themselves into
the drowning around the boat the wife of Cap
tain Cssleman jamped into the river with her infant in
her arms and ashore distance ofhaf mile being
the opy saved Of sixteen She had learned 10
swim when girl.
YIELD or TINS LAKE SUPERIOR coFPzR nIsEs--Tne pres
ent has been very prosperous year for the Lake Superior
copper mines The total yield Of copper for 1855 is es
mated at 600 pounds which, present prices worth
100000 The Lake Superior Journal Gays the yield ex
eeeds is estimates by 1890 tons
How YANKEES ARE TAXED IN EsoLAsD.-John B. Cough
the celebrated temperance leenrer waited upon ia
England prior his departure for the United States with
his nconie-tax b which charged fs7 los being
the towards the expenses the Russian war on his in
come lecturer, estimated at FL 800.
The steamship Ben. Franklin at one time suspected Of
being connected with the Kinney expedition has sailed
from Baltimore for Vera Cruz Iii said that proposals for
her purchase have been made by the Mexican
with reference TO her conversion into steamer,
ErcAange
This steamship has already caused the loss Of lives
than she can ever again. matter in what capacity
she may be employed Through her the yellow fever
in PRODUCED into Norfolk and Portsmouth.
BsRsua rRoJEcr.--Barnum announces his intention
TO erect Lyceum Hotel in New York embracing within
its walls lecture and hail. library and reading
70 restaurant for instruction in music and adult
e. ening schools and large saloon for the social enjoy
rlen Of families and friends and all this without the
or presence of intoxicating drinks
received at Portland Maine last week. by railroad from
Montreal.
FATAL RonpHG.At the Stark Mills at Manchester New
Hampshire Saturday last two girls started reach
bobbin-box; one named Mary Haley reached il first but
was pushed forward by the other thrown the
the box and so badly injured that though she continued
work until the close of the day she faint while going
home and told acquaintance that she dying She
taken home and died within hours insisting be-
fore her death, that the girl not be punished she
! did not intend to hurt her.
LARGE COTTON Buslsxss.-The New Orleans Picayunc Of
| the nth Gays:
The cotton business of the past week has been very
considerable. Yesterday alone many 1880 bales
sold and since ne issue of last weeks report
the total sales up to h evening have amounted to
balesan of 10 900 bales the receipts during
the came period Prizes at the time have not been
unsatisfactory"
THE EFFECTS or AN ELopEsEN-An extraordinary elope-
ent case has recent y occurred in Louisiana resulting n
eopement .owhidng two separations, two trials
and one transportation
The nook TRADE UNITED SrATEs.-The Ameri-
Publishers Circular in the OF article the
book trade makes this statement:
Whatever in the shape of book is printed here viii
find at all
remember that TO sell thousand copies of the best work
Of felton, in Great Brit hin and Ireland is among the
precedented events in tfe life of author publisher
and that behind this pulic lays least four
growing civilization, it may shrtie the uninitiaed
be informed that with but little than fifty be
hind us since Matthew Carey the FIRST impulse TO the
sale Of books to disp Of ty thousand copee Of any
moderately good boo k is among the ordinary events
which every American publisher deems himself entitled TO
anticipate and that such sale f the work is neritor
ous viii not surprise any intelligent man So rapid
and great has be- the demand for books in the United
States that some O the leading publishing houses ia this
city, possessed of p nicely fortunes and tansacing
exampled of business in iron and resandstone
palaces, commenc business, certainly not much
than thirty years ago. with feeble beginning, and,
probably, small pita And the assertion WILL
think, hold true in substance, in relation the first
houses in Boston and Philadelphia When we look back
at the condition of the publisher Of that period him
with copy OF lis book in Sheets trot around TO the
booksellers, inc uring how many copies they would
quire and pare with that the present opucnce and
Independence The extent Of the establishments variety
and number CT publications, owned and Issued by the
Harpers and the Appletons for almost
believe that the stories in the Arabian Nights fabu-
lous. Howey this may sound, it s in fact exag-
geraton"
Snow At NoRTH.The Montreal Gazette of yester-
day morning says
"The storm which commenced on Saturday eve
ming has cont nued at intervals since up the hour
which write All day Sunday and yesterday sleighs
going in streets, and the sleigh-bes ingng
msrrily. 1t looks if winter had in in earnest
though hardly willing to believe this possible The
Indian suIrmer, however, has and gone, and the
bitches frozen full Of water. If winter be not
indeed, upon US he must be at hand
HORRIBLE AFlAu-A correspondent of the Express at
Rhnebeck New York, under date of the 2lst writes
An Irish woman killed this morning on the Hud-
river railroad, by the mail train from Albany four
miles north Of Rhinebeck Station Her husband
the river the night before in small boat and having
returned, she supposed he was drowned
aThe became perfectly crazy, and rushed the
track four FIVE rods before the train which
running miles per hour and her head completely
| cut to pieces
In about hour after her death the husband returned
home safe only having ibibed much Of the crcafnrs
and obliged to stop all night the opposite side of
| the river
| BUSINESS AT NEw 0aLEAxs--The Delta Of the 10th
says:
Business quite lively the levee to-day. leather
clear and warm We enjoying the Indian summer.
Some few arrivals since last night hut nothing from
lower strpapns All the