The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-24

nent ordered that detachment under the command of
General DOn SevAre del Castillo should march 70 attack
him but ALVAREZ, who became aware Of the movement
fed usual
The detachment commanded By Castillo nevertheless
TOOK possession OF the farm aud reduced il TO ashes thus
panishing as much possible the Of the
IN the balance Of the republic regns the most complete
tranquility
TIM COAST sURKY--Steamer Corwin, with the hydro
graphic party under Lieut. Com T. A. Craven, sailed
the 18th for the southern The winter observations
Of the Gulf stream win be continued by the party after
which the survey Of the Florida rees win be resumed
The following the officers Of the party lieut.
handing I A. Craven lieutenant John c. Febiger act
ing master Ed G Renshaw; assistant surgeon, T. lie p
Crommieri passed midshipmen, VIM 7. Truxton, Thos.
G. Eaton engineers, d. T. Mapes, r. NJ. Barteman J, 2.
Lamdn; acting master Of tender Sophia, John L. Davis
captains clerk, Randolph Bolts
HEAVY nHEzzLnxksr ~ AN INSURANCE orrcs.-The New
York Times of yesterday morning says
Yesterday young man, named Charles O Richard
son, arrested BY Officer Elder Of the jefferson police
court charged by Vim. Winslow esq president of the St.
Nicholas Insurance Company with the crime of embez
zling some $4,000 of the funds belonging 70 said nst-
ton In the affidavit Of the president he states that the
defendant the acting secretary OF the company from
May, 1851 10 August 1854 and during tina, time about
$4,000 unacoounted for by the said secretary In adj
dton to this amount the company find that shares OF
stock in the Bank Of the Union the OF S. 000
which they held also embezed by the prisoner The
accused taken before City Judge Stuart his cham
beers in the court building and held TO bail in the
Of IS 900 to answer"
FlosIDA LKsossThe Jacksonville (Florida) News has
been shown lemon grown upon the banks Of the St
Johns river which measured eleven and half inches in
circumference. Among quite large lot there few
less than nine inches in circumference.
AFFAIRs IN LIBERIA-Dates from Monrovia Liberia TO
the 9Th Of November, that the country in
quite prosperous condition. Churches mills manufaco
re &c being erected in great numbers and the peo
pie agitating the proposition TO build railroad boz
tween two Of their principal rivers.
Quick rAssAcE-The ship Albion lately made the run
from New York to Liverpool in fourteen days and six
hours from dock to dock-better time than is often made
by several Of the steamers.
RuxSIsG AS A PAcKEr.-The steamer William Penn, for
merly Of Philadelphia which enormously reported
short time back as lost in the Black sea- running
regular packet between Constantnope and Baiakaya.
CASE OF GREKS-The Chicago Democrat understands
that additional evidence had been discovered tending
conclusvey settle the guilt of Green the murderer of
bis wife in that city 1t viii be recoected he convict
ed, but subsequently was granted trial.
THE cosr OF soup-From the 10th to the nth instant
the soup-house opened at Newark New Jersey by few
German citizens for the relief Of the poor of every nation
at cost Of $3.50 AZ, or about "a cents meal
WISCONSIN SrArE pASKs-The Milwaukee Sentinel states
that all the State banks with the single exception of the
Oshkosh City Bank have deposited with the
comptroller the additional 10 per cent security called for
by that officer offset the depreciation Of State stocks
THE GREAT STORM on SUNDAY LAsT.This storm appears
to have passed incredible extent of country
despatch from Chicago says:
aThe most furious storm of wind and within the
memory of the Oldest nhabtan prevailed here all day
terday. To-day il is clear and cold"
Its effects were felt as far east as Concord where the
snow is very deep. The New York Express says:
we learn of serious damage caused by the storm
but fear that the gale may have proved disastrous to
vessels the coast the wind blew Immediately on
shore
The Park this morning is strewn with small branches
and twigs blown off from the trees and the iron railing
Broadway is in place broken down by the fall OF
large tree which literally uprooted and FRUSTRATED by
the wind
In Philadelphia house blown down The local
columns of the Baltimore papers of yesterday morning
filed with the accounts of the disasters from the storm
both in the bay and in the city.
THE Kxow-sormse LEelsLATuRE OF MASSACHUSETTS,
The following order adopted in the Massachusetts
house of representatives on the 18th Instant
"Tha the Judiciary committee consider the expedency
Of reporting amendment to the constitution of the Com
on the OF MasSacDu-
their inherent and nalenable rights in all cases
whatever except punishment for crime and that they
shall be deprived of said rights without trial by jury
and what is called due process of law.
THE BALTIMORE PATRIor.--Mr. John Wills has become as
ISOLATED with the editorial department of this journal Mr.
Wills has the regulations and deservedy being of
the best commercial editors in the country.
ABoEIsHED.Among the last acts of the Florida legsla-
ue the passage of bill abolishing the supreme court
Of that State
WOULDN'T SHAVE HN-Frederek Douglass delivered one
Of his lectures last week in Biddeford Maine and the
morning afterwards stepped into the BARRIERS shop Of Mr.
Bunker Ethiopian with slight European alloy in his
blood who absolutely refused shave his beloved brud
DER it against the rules of the establishment to
tidivae coored gentlemen Fred left in very wrathfu
mood.
WnHpRAws--Rev. Mr. Moore, know-nothing candidate
for governor in New Hampshire, has withdrawn upon find
ing himself ineligible.
An AMERICAN IN CRNEA--An American gentleman
in the Crne under date of December r. thus writes
10 the editor OF the New Bedford Journal:
II have no doubt you are all waiting to hear by the
steamer of the fall Of SebastopoI Now, mind may
be mistaken, but You win wait while longer The siege
rags heavily No general attack has been made and
n be made The force in Sebastopo Is supposed to be no
more than $4,000 men, but there least 100 900
lowering about within few miles leagues general
attack the fortress would bring this immense herd down
the unprotected ports of Baakava and Kameish and
upon the Of the besegers In fact the allies
be considered as the besieged.
Sorties continually made upon their outworks from