The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-17
GENERAL NEW 8.


crops the Galveston News Of the 18th inst says
There has been neither moisture warmth sufficient
Tor vegetation Here in many places the seed has routed
10 The ground and where has ron,eo inc grown
has been checked b cold entirely destroyed
by the late frosts.
Repantng IS therefore almost universal at least far
more SO than was ever known before But We learn that
In many places the ground Is dry that IL has suf
cent moisture to terminate the seed and therefore the
farmers are waiting for rain Even with favorable change
OF weather the crops must necessarily be very late
but we have such northersa that which chilled
us yesterday il may become question whether We to
have any crop
The segun Mercury says that the grasshoppers which
have invested Western Texas moving north, and II Is
hoped that they viii soon disappear
We learn from the Civilian that Duke Paul Wilhelm, Of
Nuremberg arrived Galveston with the intention
OF proceeding on tour the northern portion of the
State taking San Antonio and Austin in bis route.
We are glad to learn that the of Matagorda is at
length beginning to recover from the effects Of the hurr
cane by which was nearly destroyed several months ago
The resident citizens comfortably housed and are
turning their energies TO the reerecton Of their public
buildings
THE WEATHER AND CROPS IN LoUIsIANA.-The Natch-
toches Chronicle Of the 3lst nit says:
"The excessively cold weather. supedded
TO the absence of rain have had the most injurious effect
upon vegetation Of every description large number OF
planters have been forced TO rplan their corn while
| the cotton is unusually retarded"
The Franklin Planters Banner of Thursday last chron
ices the welcome fact that something like seasonable
weather is enjoyed in the parish of ST. Mary The
Banner says;
Hundreds of cattle have died throughout the parish
want OF pasture and some we are told for want OF water
where they prowled through the woods and prares We
sorry to say that the cane looks slim in the neghbor
| hood Of Franklin"
| UNAcoouSrABLE SUICIDE LADY.-The Dayton
Gazette states that young woman, named Elizabeth
Fogesng who living with her uncle about five miles
south of Dayton, committed suicide by drowning herself
in the Miami river Tuesday afternoon evening The
body found Wednesday in about two feet water with
the hands extending upwards Her bonnet still upon
her head and it would appear that she deliberately laid
herself down in the shallow in the place where the
body was found The about % years of age
and had formerly resided Logansport, Indiana She
was engaged to be married to young man, and
walking out with him few hours before the
Some estrangemen had formerly existed between the par
ties but the day of the suicide it supposed that
former differences had been econced and the cause Of
| her destruction is unknown
CONFESSIONAL letter has been received in New York
from the fugitive Baker in which he admits that he shot
1 Poole in selt-detence.
FRon AusrnALA.-DREApFuL sHIpwREcK-Letters from
Sydney state that vessel, unknown, had been
wrecked on hampton Shoals and five hundred Chinese
passengers and portion Of the were lost The mas
ter and eight only saved These made for Cape
Dennis in boat and landing attacked by the
tyes, and five Of them killed
THE REMOVAL OF JupeE LoRINc-In the Massachusetts
house representatives Saturday last the address to
the governor to Judge Loring carried-yeas
2O7, nays III. 1t now goes TO the senate.
SuICIpE-Nr ellis returned Californian shot himself
dead Thursday evening, the steps of gentemans
residence in Cambridge Massachusetts,. He in love
4 With n AZ i'm %
/ him.
How MILWAUKEE cRows.--Milwaukie the big town Of
Wisconsin, is only ety years old and it has population
this day of 100000 1t laid out in 1885; in 1888 the
population roc in l847 4oo0j in 1850, 20,000 in
1856, 10000. Banking capital amounts 10 S750000 but
they say the business requires $3OOoooo. The manufac
lures last year amounted in value to $4600000 against
S2l000O0 in l853showng that the amount has doubled
in two years The imports $ll,oooooOi the exports
4 81, $1,000.
RECRUITS FOR THE UNITED STATES ARsy--The Cincin-
natl Gazette says
We learn that l7O enstments have been made at the
United States cavalry recruiting station in this city, and
that upwards of 400 have been rejected. Nearly all who
have enlisted Americans and to be organized at
Jefferson Barracks for the LIST regiment
| FOREIGN pAupERs--Mayor Wood, of New York. has sent
circular to the United States consuls in Europe
requesting them give him early notice of every shipment
of paupers for that city
FIRST CANAL ARRyAL.--The Chicago Press of the 18th
says the boat Danube the first arrival by canal for the
season. arrived the afternoon of the 6h with cargo of
oats Last year the first arrivals with grain were on the
goth of March, sixteen days earlier.
THE DROUGHT IN THE wEsr-The Herald, published in
Camden in the State of Arkansas, gives most gloomy
picture of the ongcoutnued and desoatng drought in
that section which has been equaled at least in the
memory of the oldest inhabitant'
understandable late Walter r. Jones, of New York,
left an estate valued at $l,Oo0OOo
A FAMILY FiGHr--Two families in Hendricks county,
Indiana engaged in fight last week about land in
which one killed and half dozen others
4 wounded
i AN HONORABLE CAPTAIS--We clip the fol-
| lowing from late number of the Nebraskian
"The ferry-boat Nebraska is making regular
trips this place She is commanded by Hon. A. Smith,
member Of the house OF representatives in the late egsa
ture Whether board the ship of State ferry-boat
Smith is dcays captainp"
II ATTEMPT TO AssAssSAE AMERICAN sHIrMAsTER.-The
GacRRe Of Bordeaux states that Capt George Westcot
Of the American ship Adams that port had been stabbed
in front Of the Hotel Quare Soeurs where he had just
been dining, The attack made with dagger caus-
ing deep wound the left side little above the heart
and feared penetrating the lungs The assassns
is Thomas Robinson second mate OF the American ship
tack not known.