The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-03-09

burned, killing $50 persons and wounding
225; there were 80 murders aud 81 execu-
tons; all ihis in the Limits Of the United
S,aies; and when 10 this list we would add
the loss Of life and property BY shipwrecks,
by burning ocean steamers, by pestilence,
&C., il would make up q history Of the
horrible which no year in any age Of the
world ever witnessed.
LARD. The number OF hogs killed the
last season, and packed for commerce IL
three millions. The avarage amount OF
lard per hog. is 80 pounds. Of,his amount.
twenty millions are shipped from Cincinna-
ii. England and Cuba take more lard OF
US than all the rest Of the world. Each OF
these countries buys over eight millions Of
pounds annually. In The West Indies lard
Is very generally used rs q substitute for
butter. Lard oil 10 made moro extensively
in Cincinnati than nj any other point in the
Union. Thirty thousand barrels OF II are
annually sent from that city. The demand
for lard over the world, Is on the increase,
and prices will probably be sustained
Cincinnati. Price Current.
~ The Gardiner property case has
been decided by the Circuit Court al WASH
ingion. The Court makes decree 10 the
effect that the awards wers obtained by
George A. Gardiner by means OF false
swearing, forgery and fraud. and were,
therefore, null and void that his estate is
indebted to the United States in the sum Of
s42S, $50, with interest from the 10th oil
May. 1851: that Corcoran g. Riaas should
bring into court, on The four,h Monday OIL
March next, the stocks and securities in
their hands, amounting TO $4,000, being
part Of the funds obtained by Gardiner un.
der said awards. and also an admitted bal.
ance in cash Of So, 737. 46.
NrcRors AND PROFESSIONAL MEN. In
Mason, Ca, city ordinance just reported
TO the council, proposes 10 impose $40 per
head on every hired negro resident in the
city, whose owners live out Of the city lin.
IT'S, and $40 per head on every pracicing
iatryer, physieian, dentist, sc. The "chiv.
alry' do lump things together queerly
that's fact; If they had only included
{" loafers" with the negroes, they might
have filled their empty cash box, tina, is
after they'd collected The tax. The spirit oil
The thing, howevar, is TO assess every man
$40 who does anything; It's considered Of
no use 10 tax the rest-,hey wouldnt pay
NJ Messrs. Page and Bacon, OF 81.
Louis, who resumed banking operations on
Monoay Of las, week, received on deposit
that day, il i. stated, about $500 900, and
paid OF, 1876, 600. Their resumption seems
10 have been hailed with great satisfaction.
and 10 have had very favorable effect upon
business generally in that city. Mr.. Bacon,
one of the firm, while en- route from New
York, was caught in snow storm in Illinois,
but being determined to reach ST. Louis in
time TO resume business, started off OF foo,
and with Uncle Sans check for $500 600
in his pocket, walked fihy miles through
the snow, and subsequently, worked hard
for several hours, with a number Of labor.
ers, in shoveling snow from the railroad
track. By this means he reached 81. Louis
in season 10 resume business a, the appoint.
ed hour OIL Monday.
The GREAT RrPUBLIc, MacKay's famous
clipper, sailed from New York last week
for London, somewha, shorn Of her stipend
Gus proportions, bu, in other respects il is
said more valuable ship than when frs,
built. The Journal Of Commerce thus
sketches her evenliul history thus far -
Bull, at Boston, she arrived here, and was
visited by thousands as The wonder OF the
world, IA fee Of admission being charged as
a check 10 the crowd Of visitors, whose
numbers inierfered with the loading OF The
vesseD. When nearly filled with cargo,
she was partially burn, making il necessary
10 take her TO Green Point, where she was
rebuff, with one deck less than before. She
was then taken into the U. S. Dry Dock for
examination, aud afterwards removed 10
Brooklyn, 10 receive cargo, where boiler
OIL de, k employed in hosting cargo, blew
up, and killed one or Two men. Al length,
having thus far iriumphed over all ADVERSE
ties, she sails for London, where i is quite
likely she will be sold for the Australian OF
some other trade.