The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-12

keeper NJ WATERFOWL Massachusetts, and son OF President
NsbeeF q Harvard uuiyersy died the evening Of
5h instant he graduated at The Military Academy AZ
West Point and for the last twenty-five years has
ped the Office which he held the time Of bis death
Rock oil-Prof b. siliiH,an, jr bias been testing the
FocA Oh o. petroleum. obtained ia Yenango county PENN
sylrana, and finds thai il equal illuminating power
. al 'he gases q fluids commonly use and superior
most cf them.
REEraEs0 soousDHKL--The Plymouth Mass Rock
says hat Rey Mr. fiheld whose wife and children reside
PehEos has let for parts unknown with the wife Of
ohs Pensioners in Mansfield whore he has Of late been
stationed
PorAroEs-About thousand dollars worth Of poia
toes were entered free Of duty under reciprocity treaty
az tie custouhcuse MondAyso Gays the Boston Post
No DAssEn scARcrY-President Hitchcock says that
the who's amount ia solid measure Of the coal the United
States equals ~ least $500 square miles
PROFITABLE SEwsrAPKR--Thc London Times Of April
% contained eight full pages and three columns besides Of
advertisements in fine type
AN rsoaNous KooM.--The largest room In the world
under single roof and unbroken BY pillars other OBJ
strncoas ST. Petersburgh Russia and Is $50 feet in
length and $50 feet in breadth By daylight is used for
military displays, aud battalion conveniently MAJ
in IT, In the evening IL is often converted into
ball room, when il is warmed by sixteen prodgious
stoves and 10000 pers required to light it prop
ery The roof Of this lie single arch of iron,
the bars alone which it rests weighing $50 pounds
DISCRIMINATING LADY.--Baysrd Taylor delivered o
lecture recently Kalamazoo Michigan Next day lady
was asked her opinion Of the lecture when she replied
aoh it excellent he has such ssesa mousaehe r
RIpfcr1ors WEATHER ron MAY-The Buffalo Courier Of
Tuesday says:
Last evening about eight o'clock after Of the most
ridiculous preposterous days that forced s
presence upon civilized spring, treated TO a
Of snow, and write at III o'clock, the big
flakes still falling They melt slowly The ari chilly
November in short the evening Is genuine fusion Of
very late in the fall with quite early in the sprnga fit
close day that deserves benedcton aud shall have
none.n
The Albany Argus Of Wednesday has the following.
aFrom gentleman, who from under the Heder-
berg yesterday learn that GAINESVILLE there
snowdrfs eight feet deep This singular for The month
ofMay.'
GREAr HAUL or COUNTERPART NoSEy.--The Cincinnati
Commercial of Thursday morning says:
aAbont noon, yesterday, policemen Parker, Bunker,
Marshall and Eaen having received certain reliable in
formation, proceeded to the steamer Bosona and ar
rested an individual named George ii. Cady, and, on
searching his stateroom and person. found less than
five thousand five hundred and thirty dollars in 'fves
and the Farmers Bank Of Charlestown, Virginia
After conveying Cady to the Hammond-strcet station
house they proceeded to house of questionable character
in the seventeenth ward, kept by Mrs Williams whom
they found in the house together with named Ar
mold On searching the house. they found about twenty
thousand dollars of the description Of money mostly
in sheets Mrs Williams and Arnold were taken into GUS
tody.n
DsArH AT NoRroLK.-Colonel Giles B. Cook, prom
inent and respectable citizen of Norfolk died Sunday
night last
FATAL ACCIDENTAL young man tsays the Richmond
Enquirer Of yesterday morning) named Chas Hardesy
IT, son of Mr. Charles r. Hardesty of this city, killed
yesterday afternoon in the valley yicors mill in the
following While exercising with muskets in
company with the @Young Guard of which he a
member the musket OF fellowsodier accidentally
discharged the ball entering the right hip and passing d.
recty through to the left hip He lived about two hours
after the accident breathing his last the after
reaching his fathers residence whittier he taken
litter by members Of the company which he belonged
As be was verify young man. the sad event has very
naturally created much sympathy amongst his friends and
those of his deeply distressed parents.
COMMANDER IsGRAHAa,--The Philadelphia Ledger Of
yesterday morning says
1.-The character of the public manifestation to Com
mander lngraham ia about to take the form OF public
dinner and number of most prominent and distin-
guighed citizens intend TO join p the testimonial Whether
the principle of citizenship involved in the Koszta affair
can be sustained the interference in his behalf is
justified by the fact that be in Turkish territory
where Austria had no authority, and in arrestng him,
the Austrian government violating the rights and
sovereignty of feeble nation. The interference Of Capt
Ingraha prevented this outrage from being consummated
and INDICATED the rights OF humanity, which the flag of
every liberal and enlightened should protect
against the unlawful exercise of arbitrary power Captain
ngraham deserves the honors that his counymen
ready 10 bestow upon him.