The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-29
GEN ERAL NEW

ABoIlrIoN spIKs-The Cherokee nation have authorized
their chief open correspondence with different mission
airy boards for the purpose of demonstrating against send
ing aboitionss among them under the preext Of being
missionaries.
AN nArTsNaN.-During the late rise in the Alie-
ghenY river there down raft TO Pittsburg from
Warren county Michael Mckinney, aged 81 years He
says he poted the first log raft from Warren Ptsburg
sixty-eight years ago.
How a arr.--A Philadelphia
paper says:
During the present year there have been sold In this
city 80 $50 beeves $4,000 hogs ISL sheer and 9420
year 1855 During the year 1854 the animals amounted
only 2i6,s75, follows Beef cattle 563o0 sheep 81
$50; hogs T2l5O; and calves le,I75 thus showing
falling of OF 23 so beef cattle OF the GALES OF 1854 and
an increase Of 1891 in the sales OF aheep.H
PAPER MANUFACTURE IN THE UsirED SrArgs--There are
in the United States $50 paper mills in actual operation
having 5000 engines and producing in the year 100000
900 poun2s Of paper, which is WORTH at ten cents per
pound S25o00ooo- To produce this quantity of paper
io5oooooo pounds of rags required pound Of rags
being necessary to make pound Of paper The value
of these rags at 4 cents per pound Is Sls,2o9,ooo
A CHRlsrAAs DAY EXCURSION on TUE ST. LAwREscg--The
Montreal papers that the Grand Trunk ferry
boat addition to her regular trips TO make pleas
excursion Christmas day as far as Long Ponte
thus giving the citizens Of Montreal unexampled OPP
porunity Of enjoying steamboat trip in the St Lawrence
ON Christmas day.
NEW METHODIST cotbEeE-We learn that after five days
debate the Methodist South Alabama College was located
Greensborough, Greene county The citizens of that
town offered in behalf Of the Institution the liberal sum
of $le7 5ooSi2oooo of which endorsed by several
gentlemen each Of whom, it il stated is worth thar
that amount The rest s4775o) ia in the form of few
nTF
Greene county.
The ARnIsoS CrscISsan-The trial of Arrison
the torpedo man. for murder the second trial he has had
concluded last week IN Cincinnati The jury as on the
former trial unable to agree and discharged
Arrison will be remembered is accused Of having had
an Internal machine torpedo, to the college Of
which he student and with the anitor Of which he
had misunderstanding. The box was opened By the
janitor in the presence of bis wife, The box exploded and
both were killed.
STATISTICS GEoRsns-The reports before the
legislature show the following; White population b42-
SGT slave population, 3s923 white males between
and 1s, Is4o free persons of color, 32ss deaf and
Dumb i32 unatcs 6l7i total population, e35ooo rep
resentave population 77so54 number Of families sass5
MosE NICARAGUA icoLosisrs.n-The New Orleans Delta
the official organ of sill kinds Of flbusters plainly init
mates that something requiring the attention Of the Uni
ted States district attorney is going on in that city
FRieHrpuI wEArRER-The following despatch appeared
10 the Baltimore Sun Of yesterday morning
WAsHlyGroS Dec. 2T.-The Potomac has considerable
ice it to-day The mercury 200 above this
morning"
Two hundred degnes aboce zcrol Whew
Nsw rApre-The Angso-Saxon is the name of new
European and colonial gazette just started at Boston by
DR.. j. S. Bartlett formerly the editor OF the Albion
CLOSING THE PENNSYLVANIA cASALs--The Harrisburg
Pa papers that the has been drawn from the
canal and navigation suspended for the Last year
the canal was closed some three weeks earlier.
KANSAS HousE.-A Kansas letter thus describes
the place where the United States district for Kansas
is held:
aThe building il evidently intended for private resi-
dence II is frame building OF two apartments some
by eighteen feet each In OF these the court
ensconced very good IL the only respectable
tice in the room and the walls piastered its
heat is required much Of the building has been made
from green cottonwood, the heat Of the stove evolves
strong cotton-woody odor, that ia peculiar than
agreeable couple of plssierers mules arc placed