The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-20

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Co against the city and county Of St Louis for damages
arising of the injunction case was submitted to court
the lTth The court gave damages in the sum OF $751;
T27. The defendants appealed.
THE FIRST sScw-sroKM-A despatch from Chatham -Four
Corners Massachusetts, dated Saturday last, says;
snow-storm commenced here at o'clock this after
noon and continued till o'clock this evening, when
violent rain set in About ten inches Of had
fallen
FRoM KASsAs-Judge S. G. Caddo, appointed in place OF
Hon r. Elmore had arrived al the Shawnee mission 10
enter at once upon bis duties The latter still adheres TO
his determination contest bis claim to the Office.
The ceremony Of breaking ground upon the site of the
future capital of the Territory performed with great
ceremony at Lecompton the oath instant Governor
Shannon delivering address on the occasion.
SUICIDE By A YOUNG woaAs-Mss Rebecca harrington,
about twenty years Of age who employed in the Uni
versy printing establishment in Old Cambridge commit
ted suicide on Wednesday morning by jumping into the
river from the old Brighton bridge 1t is rumored that
the of the act Misunderstanding with a
lover.
An nPRoNPTu wEDDsG.--Some excitement has been oc-
casioned during the past week in New York. among the
parties Immediately interested by the elopement from the
New York Hotel of very young lady, in company with
Episcopal clergyman to whom she has been married
The bride the daughter of wealthy retired merchant
and her reverend husband is the Of highly respect
able Quaker publisher Of that city
Darn OF A cLERcYNAx-In Jackson, Mississippi, on
the 18th ult the Rev A. D. Corbyn, rector of st An
drews church in that city. Mr.. c. born in Wood
stock, Connecticut, in the year 1910.
woasS AS LAwYERs-The New York Times lets OF the
following ill-natured paragraph;
As women are naturally teachers they might succeed
IN, h<a IF xharr
and anguish wiring the brow they might succeed ply
sicans; but a lawyer-ol gentle Portal o hard-fea-
preserve the love- the respect aud the confidence the
sierner sex but a female lawyer-faugh"
TAYLOR MONUMENT DEDrcATIos-A despatch from East
on, Pennsylvania, says:
nThe monument in honor of Zachary Taylor is to be
dedicated here Tuesday next and great time is anci-
pated Invitations have been extended Generals Scott
Cadwallader, Patterson, and Poster and Commodore
be present Twenty different military companies are ex-
pected"
The PASSAGE TO EURoPR,-Segera of the merchants Of
Europe follows:
In second cabin eighteen dollars for adults and ten
dollars for children under twelve years in Storage six
teen dollars fo- adults and nine dollars for children uS
twelve years including provisions VIII in all cases will
be provided by the ship
LATER FROM HAvASA.-The steamship Cahawba, from
New Orleans via Havana arrived New York on Sunday
morning bringing dates from the latter port to the 18th
instant;
Business ut Havana dull The price Of sugars had
declined triAe and the market dull The stock on
hand 10000 boxes
Freighp were duh. The health Of the city was good
and political affairs quiet
The Cahswba brings upwards u hundred thousand
dollars in specie.
Owing 70 the arrangement Of the mails between No
bile and Montgomery the New Orleans mails Of the 9th