The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-15

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/ HlcH PmcrsA New York journalist has agreed to pay
Fanny Fern hundred dollars column for original
tale The New York Independent has engaged Kossuth
correspondent at the rate Of my dollars letter
| GREAT spnsorKLp.---A despatch from Chicago
dated May IL says:
"A destructive fire occurred at Springfield, Illinois
this morning. consuming the best business portion of the
city On State-house square nine of the finest
burned TO the ground. The loss which is put down at
$l5O000 is mostly covered by insurance The streets are
filed with goods and general CONSERVATION prevails The
fire is supposed to have been the work of ncendiary
New OCEAN STEAMSHIP LINE.--In the senate of Massa
chusetts Saturday last Mr. Wright introduced bill
incorporate Messrs Donald Mckay George b. Upton Enoch
Train B. Hail. James NJ Beebe and their associates and
successors the Boston and European Steamship Com
pany, with capital of two million dollars.
KASsAaThe legislature of Kansas will assemble on the
I'D Of July.
CoNTRADIcTEDA report being in circulation in the
West that Fort Laramie had been captured by the Sioux
Indians and Fort Pierre destroyed by fire. the St. Louis
Republican Of the 9th inst says With three companies of
United States troops at Fort Laramie it of the
power Of the Sioux Indians capture that fort and the
report of the burning of Fort Pierre has no foundation
whatever
NAvAL--The Philadelphia Ledger, ofSaturday last says
1.-THE fgate Cumberland another of the Mediterra
squadron, is expected at this port within few weeks
We already have the noble sloop St Louis with her heroic
commander Duncan N. Ingraham, the pride of the Mcd
terranean squadron the entire navy About haltpast
o'clock yesterday morning the soop salated Commodore
Stewart and the salute returned by the battery the
navyyard Captain Ingraham appears to be in delicate
look robust and hearty and quite ready for another
Koszta demonstration"
BEST THE trial Of Best for the murder Of
his daughter Mrs. Lepp, in Waterloo Illinois, has been
brought to close in the Randolph county court
dict of manslaughter returned by the jury. The
prisoner sentenced to eight years Imprisonment in the
penitentiary
FAMILY wEpDlSe.Six sisters recently married
the same night their house. Somerset county, Pennsy
vana.
A BApY.-A baby arrived at New Orleans few days
since from Mississippi nine months DID, weighing sixty
pounds In Dimensions of corresponding gigan
tic size She her way to Barnums great baby show
where she is sure to take the greatest prize.
IAMrNsE QUANTITY OF oRAIN.-The Chicago Democrat
says Messrs Gibbs Griffin have present over 100000
bushels of wheat and in their immense warehouse
North Water street This is the largest quantity of grain
ever gathered together in warehouse in that city. 1t
would fill forty vessels allowing 10000 bushels each
vessel.
THE CHOLERA IN MssouR-The Missouri Republican Of
the 9th inst says:
The cholera is very fatal Westport Fourteen deaths
are said to have occurred there Saturday last"
WILLIAM MARY CoLLEGE-James Madison Wise, esq,
of Accomac Virginia has been rendered the appointment
of adjunct professor of mathematics in William and Mary
College.
NEBRASKA ITEMs--We find the following characteristic
itemsn in the Council Bluffs Bugle of the 30th ultmo
From several sources we learn that boat is
on it's this place, above St Joseph and probably
two Let EN- fast steam, snags and sand-bars
will let em.
"ar1et becoming and bare of groceries and
staple articles Ground too dry to plant spring
wheat up yet May the good Lord send rain imme-
diately, or we perish r
LOOK ExPLosioN.We find the following tele-
graphic despatch in late number of the New Orleans Pic
ayune:
"vIcKsnURG, May THE steamer A. L. Showell ar
rived three minutes past Ill o'clock last night and
the r. j. Ward about thirty-three minutes past IL
the Showel thus being half hour ahead having gained
fully fifty minutes from New Orleans"
The WHEAT CROP OHIo--The Guernsey Times learns
from all parts of Ohio that the coming crop il not injured
in filing will be larger than any preceding year.
ARREST OF A PARaic1pE.-Solomon Smith, who last month
shot his father in Bourbon county, Kentucky has been
sed and will be tried at the next term of the Bourbon