The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-08
GEN ERAL NEW 8.


BARsuMs BABY snow.-The great rage just now in New
York is Barnums great baby show. The Evening Post
of Wednesday last says;
awe have ascertained that the number Of tickets sold
Yesterday Barnums exceeded ten thousand This, in
Guiding the "a charged for seats in the lecture
room would make the profits OF the day over three nou-
sand dollars.
aThe second day likely prove profitable than
the FIRST From early in the morning the doors OF the
Museum were thronged with vsers there being to-day
greater preponderance Of ladies than yesterday Twins,
irple,s and individual babies under year age
stute this days attraction, and it would seem, while
writing, though it would be impossible to accommodate
the crowds that besiege the entrances"
The same paper thus notices the prize baby" to whom
was awarded $780, the finest exhibited out of I43 chill
dren
awe have thus approached the throne of imperial baby
dom The of the mostly ladies' and the
attentions avshed the successful specimen Of in
tane perfection denote the interest with which be is re-
garded Young and old ladies insist kissing him, and
the justice of the decision regarding his superiority over
all other babies is universally admitted
Charles Orlando Scott born in New York. and now IN
the fourth year of his age is the fortunate competitor for
the prize He is beautiful child with dark lustrous eyes
which large and expressive regular features remarka-
BILE for the soft harmony OF their outline and form the
very perfection Of inantie grace His hair which is of
light color curls naturally broad and weldeyeoped
forehead.
much personal beauty stands beside her child and the
group regarded with interest and admiration by the
thousands visitors The little fellow Is as efuUy attred
in black jacket with white acngs, and pair of petite
bnh trousers He is constantly smiling, and seems TO
enjoy his conspicuous position the throne like little
IA beautiful child exclaus a young lady at our
elbow.
asPve seen thousand prettier onesl returns another
Bat the disahec,ed finds no support among the
audience who publicly ray by their observations the
choice of the judges
cuEAp paovIsrossIn the Louisville (Ky market but
M. rg,fc pInort
grown poultry 20 cents turkeys so cents BEEF cents NUT
ton and veal cents -four Slo potatoes 60 cents a
peck; all about so per cent lower than prices here
BRlDeE ACROSS THE MIsssslprI--Judge Mclean Of the
United States Supreme Court has overrued the motion for
an Injunction to prevent the Rock Island Railroad Com
pany from building bridge the Mississippi at Rock
Island The company will proceed TO complete the
bridge and put Chicago in unbroken railroad connexon
with the interior OF Iowa
GRxAr RAcRThe great double team for two thou
sand dollars mile heat and repeat wagons of
the Union New York. Tuesday large
people collected witness the exciting contest The
betting was one hundred to sixty Whaebone and Lam
tern driven by Geo. Spicer, who the in two
straight heats beating Alice Grey and Stella Time 24sl
242l.
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN SAN FsAsc1sco AND NEW YoRK
IL hight pAYs-we find the following important an
nouncement in the San Francisco Herald
g The telegraph is now completed from Vera Cruz
through the city OF Mexico to Leon, the way to San
Bias Colonel Stewart who Is the proprietor Of the line
has recently returned TO Mexico from the United States
and is work extending the line Of telegraph from
Leon Man2anilo distance OF not more than hun
dred and sixty hundred and eighty miles II win
be completed in few months, and then there viii be in
communication between Vera Cruz ony three days
distant from New Oreans) and Man1no, only FIVE days
from San Francisco reducing the time from city to city %
only eight days. gain OF fourteen sixteen DAYS the
time made between the two places IL is difficult o
eresmate the value Of such despatch not only TO the
press and through II TO the reading community at large
but to business both sides Of the continent We