The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-22


way Of nnihcenee his greatest the bestowment Of
fifty thousand dollars to found the Lawrence Scientific
School The following letter written by bis brother Amos
on the occasion OF this GIN il characteristic and interest
ing;
WEDNESDAY, MORNING., juno o. 1871.
DEAR BeorHER AsBorr / hardly dare trust myself to
speak what feel and therefore write word say that
thank God spared TO this day, to accomplished
by one SO near and dear TO this last best work
done by one OF onr name which will prove better title
true nobility than any from the poientGtes of the world
1t is more honorable and be coveted, than the
highest public station in country purchased as these
stations often by time-seryng IL impress
born millions the great truth that talents
committed 70 US for and To be accounted for when the
Master calls This magnificent pS is the great thing you
VIII see carried out II your life Is spared and you may
well chersh as the thing your heart IL enriches
your descendants in way that money never can do
and is better investment than any you have ever
made.
Your afiectionate brother, AMOS
To Amor LAWRENCE.
RACHEL AND THE NEW YoRKEns-Mlle Rachel is e1-
pected to arrive New York to-day in the steamship Pa
cihe from Liverpool correspondent writes:
Rachel ia to be Toasted and eted New York fashion, inn
mediaey on rather before, her arrival in this city
probably on Wednesday next A steamboat has been
chartered 10 cruise about the bay wait for the Pacific
Invitations to the number of three hundred and fifty
have been issued to all the dsague about town. including
military company musical and dramatic corps dstin-
gushed politicians members of the press teegraphc
porters autograph collectors daguerreotyps biography
nongsrs and multitude of others of that ik. Alas
poor Rache.W,
LONG pnIvs.-A paper in Indiana county, Pennsyiva-
MIA chronicles the passage through the town Of Indiana Of
Mr. j. Grinder of Armstrong county with drove of seve
raj hundred head of cattle for the markets which he
had bought in Texas and driven overland distance of fifteen
hundred miles. They looked remarkably fine considering
that they had been the road since the first Of April
little four months from the time Of being started In
yiego IF opr
between New Orleans and the North and of the various
lines Of railway leading the West and Southwest il is
singular that these cattle should be taken such an overland
route.
The MISSING sLoop-or-wAR ALBANIA Cambridge cor
respondent of the Boston Post sends the following extract
from private letter from Beaufort South Carolina
SIS men picked up two very nice water-casks at
Bay Point: they plugged, be water-ght and
tied together they also had nails driven in singular
that thought they must have had boards nailed on
them and J. tells to-day that when securing them in
order to paint them he discovered the letters L. s. ship
Albany
aP S-J tells me that the letters on the cask are q.
s. ship BASY The AL is not visible, and the very ndis-
tinct"
If these casks did belong the Albany says the wri
ter in the Boston Post and be very probable
it would indicate that the Albany did sink SO suddenly
not to allow to make preparations to his
life.
RlsE IL TIE WESTERN RvERs.-We copy the following
from the 81. Louis Republican of the 18th inst
The river at this point continues rise very rapidly
having increased about three feet during the -four
hours ending o'clock last evening 1t rose two feet
during Wednesday night, and foot from g. a. mr. 9,
M yesterday, which shows abatement in the rapid;
1t has rsen in all about 81 feet at this point. The
National from Memphis yesterday reports meeting the rise
Just above Cairo ana had hard passage up against wind
and current The river is at present higher than it has
been previously this season. and there is sufficient water
now between this point and Cairo the largest
boats loaded the guards. The Upper Mississippi is
ported falling from ST Paul to Quincy and rising very
fast below that point The A. &. Mason reports orly-two
inches the uper and thirty inches the lower rapids
The Illinois river reported four feet the bars to La
sae and falling. a rise must commence in this
river heavy rains have been prevalent in its vicinity
The Sonora, est0n yesterday reports the
present rise in the Missouri extending from Weston
down. Little rain has fallen between Weston and ST.
Joseph and there has been rise in the river above Wcs
The river had como mp to about eight feet at Weston
during the ooras stay but commenced falling before
left the rate of six inches in four hours. She found
about nine feet in the channel 10 the mouth of the Kansas
river which bank-ul From the mouth of the Kan
sas Jefferson city the river rising fast with from ten
to twelve feet in the channel The Usage river was high
but had commenced falling. From Jefferson city to the
mouth there is fourteen feet and is still rising rapidly
The Missouri three four feet higher than it has been
any previous time this The rains still continue
and the river will rise while they last but is the opinion
Of boaten that the water will out fast it came
In when they cease
The AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC hSsoCIAT1oN.--Ne lind the
following brief notice Of the proceedings of this association
in the New FORK Courier
"The proceedings the American Scientific Association
now sitting Providence Rhode Island, have thus far
been very interesting and important On Friday morning
last the third day of the session. the papers read
great scientific value The most important that of
Professor Henry secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
The subject was Mode of testing building materials and
Of the marble used in the extension of the Cap
ol al Wsshingto II gave the results Of
penen.s showing very clearly the solvent power water
upon stone and the effects of temperature hawing and
freezing ichens moss pressure and especially Of form
Although lengthy it listened to with much attention
The Providence Journal says that the suggestions
I'd in it emncnty practical and should be given to
The public in convenient form at the earliest day pa
per upon Approximate Coida Lines of the Pacific coast
Of the United States from observation in the United States
survey also presented by Professor Bace and
one upon the Geology Of California was read by William
1. Flake, esq.
In the afternoon among other interesting papers,
Discussion Of the secular variation in the Magnetic Dec
nation the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United Sates
rom observations in the l7th 18th, and 10Th centuries
oy Charles A. chott On the of October Tth 1854
the Of Japan and the conformity of its progress
lion with other cyclones by VIM. G. Redfela'D
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