The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-14

mnCn desired 10 him, Induced 10 Sist
riage, Mr. Coburns house Shawmut avenue. When
there be dragged the cellar aud there most
tonly struck and kicked and otherwise maFeaed against
the protealons and Of the ladies BY the enraged
husbands who supposed their honor had been compro
missed by the conduct OF Mr. Sumner aud his friend Mr.
Porter. lie then brought up 10 a door, and
told be could go by scaling the fence Of the yard bat
while upon Il be again pounded and bruised BY the
two parties mentioned
The Transcript says
We hear that tile two young sisters he wives OF the
prisoners who reputed 70 have been the original
of their troubles both promenading the streets
usua yesterday, aud passing the Eleventh Ward room
at the Franklin schoolhouse Washington street
hooed by the crowd around the polls evidence
the public indignation they have excited by their ridcu
lous folly to use the mdest term
TIaE coSrRAcr7-They have adopted queer plan in
New Orleans for the extinguishment Of fires The Bulletin
Of the 9th instant has the following:
The comptroller yesterday sold at public auction the
contract for extngnishng the fires Of the city for five
years pursuant the ordinance lately adopted that
subject The contract bid of by Messrs John Adams
and John Younness At 100000 per annum. They were
required TO depose s25 900 until the proper securities
furnished The amount OF security required by the ord
Is one-ffth of the entire contract preetha Isl the
price Of one year. Mr. John Adams is well and fayonby
known the agent of the Fire Insurance Companies and
Mr. 1ounness the captain OF police Of the late rst
nicpaiy, Probably, IL nybody can make the sys
TEN work we'll they can
SuIcIDR LIEuF MAoRAE--Lieut Macrae, of the Uni
ted States surveying schooner Ewing, committed suicide
at San Francisco on the 18th Of November. The San
Francisco sun says
The deed committed under peculiarly painful cir
The souudnsss OF the mind Of the deceased
had been doubted Rr anule time by the under his
command, and on Sunday morning bis conduct so
singular induce the subordinate officers Of the Ewing
TO send the officers of the Active requesting them
visit that vessel which they did. After long social
conversation between the parties the officers Of the Active
Discerning nothing wrong took their leave They had
barely reached the deck when they startled by the
port Of pistol in the cabin and upon going below hey
found that the deceased had died by his own hand having
shot himself through the head with pistol
The will Of the deceased which executed by him
but few hours before his DEATH bears the proof Of the
diseased state of his mind After devsing his property
equally TO his relatives he directed that his body be drop
ped in the ocean outside the heads al ebb tide.
" The deceased was from Wilmington North Caroline
and hirysix years Of age lie had been in command
Of the Ewing in the coassurvey service since the 18th of
May"
The MOUNTAIN OF eoLD.-The Sacramento Union has
been informed by gentleman who has just arrived At
Sacramento from the new diggings in Table mountain
that the excitement among all classes relative the rich
Of the aurerous depostes therein buried intense
and increasing The mountain, which miles in
length has all been saked off, but many have exceeded in
extent the legal limits and it is supposed that they will be
forced yield the oyerpus territory to others Some Of
the shafts sunken the depth of eighty feet about
which point belt of black mud sixty feet in width and
from eighteen to twenty feet in depth In this
tanned those fabulous OF gold which far surpass
in richness the depose discovered the outbreak the
California fever This layer Of mud is filed with sticks
and other foreign substance and has every appearance Of
having once been the bed Of a stream.
NEW YORK CANALS Notwithstanding all the predic-
TONS says the Albany Evening Journal of diminished
from the canal It turns out that the tolls
will exceed those Of last year by about $4,000 if
more
FaoM THE SANDWICH IsLAxDs-FEARFuL VOLCANIC ERup-
rrcSA private letter extracts from which published
in the Poynesian gives the following description Of the
burning Of Hawaii
"Huo October H. 1855.
Hawaii stin burns. The great furnace on Mamma Loa
is in full blast For sixy-three days the molten food
rolled down the mountain without abatement Our la
waan atmosphere loaded with smoke and gases through
which the sun shines with dingy and yellow rays
"The amount Of lava dsgorged from this awful maya
zine is yhe higher regions OF the mountains
flooded with vast sheets Of smoking lava while the
which have flowed down the side of the mountain
spread surface of several miles in breadth. The
main stream including all its winding must be
miles.
"Ths is still flowing direct for bay and is supposed
to be within ten miles Of u.s. 1t is eating its way slowly
through the deep forest aud the dense jungle in rear
and its terminal must be the sea- unless the great summit
fountain should cease to disgorEe.
"On the 81 instant Mr. McCuley and myself set off to
explore the eruption taking the bed of the stream the Wal
luu river path We reached the terminal
in four and half days tracing up the fiery stream from
the upper skirt OF the forest 10 the summit OF the
tain. In the woods could not follow it of
the dense jungle.
"The burning stream runs I'll the way IA a covered
duct that it be only at its vents which let off
the gas. These truly fearful We looked down of
theo and the fiery rushing under u.s. in
places at the rate Of forty knots We returned vim Kauea
and absent ten days. What saw and heard and
felt cannot be described.
"Shoud the lava continue to approach u.s. intend, az
ter little to make party and cut through the jungle
to the end of the need not say that Hlo is wake
ul aud inquisitive just We apprehend personal
danger but should the fiery ruin enter bay wealth
will take wings like an eagle
October ia native visited the lava stream yester-
day--distance about twelve miles, advancing with sure
and solemn progress towards All Hlo il thoughtful
We shall send daily parties to watch the progress Of this
devouring food
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