The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-29

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centrated, and decisive battle expected letter
says that the insurgents had succeeded in separating Santa
Annas army which marched in three divisions One body
OF insurgents had been defeated by the government
airy destructive hurricane occurred at the city Of Mex
leo on the 9th instant
ARRIVAL Moaaoss-Fhe packet ship William Stet-
son. at New York from Liverpool brings hundred
fifty Mormons, bound to Salt Lake.
COSTLY LuxuRY--The Italian opera is a much more
costly luxury than persons of The New
York Mirror says;
Madame Ia Grange for instance the present bright
particular star Of the Academy is receiving $4,000 per
month--equa to $4,000 per year Aud Nitrate gets S3-
500 month and Morelli and Marini from $1,000 81
To these salaries add rent at the rate
Of 1000 month; gas and advertising at $4,000
month; orchestra and chorus $4,000 month and
the aggregate expenses swell into alarming amount
not less than $4,000 month During this period there
usually but twelve performances that the
book show nightly credit Of over $4,000 to
meet their expenses
| A SAD cAsUALrY-rHREE GIRLS pRowSED-We copy the
following from the St Louis Integeneer
"A deplorahe accident occurred two weeks ago near
Fort Smith in Arkansas the Cherokee side Of the Ar
kansas river Five young girls had gone into the river
battle and themselves The river very shallow,
and be orded almost where but in places there
holes where the is very deep The girls bath
ing aud playing along the edge of large sand bar where
the than knee deep, when one OF them
suddenly got into Of these deep places two others went
to her assistance and all three drowned while,
frightened by their cries and struggles the remaining
girls ran as fast they could the shore The very
cusion and privacy OF the spot that tempted the girls into
the rendered impossible to get assistance in time
10 them. Two of the drowned girls sisters,
daugh Of Mr. Jackson King the other Miss Collins
their ages from thirteen fifteen years The bodies of the
recovered the evening of the accident the other
not till several days afterwards
BASE ExrosEp.-The Rev. Mr.. Chase, Metho-
dist clergyman lately stationed at Brunswick New York,
charged with absconding with another mans wife, it
has been simply guilty OF extending protection to his
daughter who found it impossible to live with her illbe-
haved husband IL is supposed the untruth respecting Mr.
Chase who all respects very worthy and exemplary
man, was put in circulation by his hopeful son-in-aw.
A LESSON ON pUScTuALmy.-W Wednesday morning some
eight ten persons who had reached the wharf at East
Boston, Massachusetts, just after the English steamer left
for Liverpool took to boats in order reach her. she
having checked her progress in order give them chance
to come on board Those board of the boats
reached her in season. before the up
started off, and left them to return to the wharf
Pretty FAIR ron MAY--The Atlanta (Ga.l Republican
Of Thursday says:
Last Tuesday night till IL o'clock, and Monday all day.
will be notched down memory torrd to that
point at which forbearance ceases be virtue We
learn that yesterday, about o'clock Of genuine
sun-stroke occurred streets but the wonder is
that there only one for the thermometer in the shade
was 90 degrees very nearly.
THnouGm BY pAYLIGRr.--The steamer Plymouth Rock
Captain Barker left Buffalo Wednesday morning A
o'clock and reached Detroit 81 O'Clock in the evening
making the in fifteen hours and half
THE WHERE BouTs OF Observation-Disclosures is now
said be j. Sterling Norton graduate Of the Michigan
University and late resident of Monroe, in that State
He has become the editor Of the Nebraska City News
an prpr Tho ofa animal food in
London annually amounts Gl2,o00o oo--neary $780,
100000
SARATOGA spnrsGs-The saratogians owing to the ease
OF the money market and the stagnaon of business in
commercial and moneyed circles expecting
ally busy their hotels In view Of this haering
prospect Congress Hall has been enlarged and improved
an expense Of $4,000.
Locus7s-The Brandon (Miss) Republican Of the I7th
inst says "The locusts here thick presume
they were in the days of the Lords judgments in Egypt
though they very far from being destructive and
troublesome
ARREST OF MURpERERs,-The two Masks, says the
Holly Springs Miss Times who committed the brutal
murder few miles Of this place last week by shooting
Miss Smith, and seriously woundng her brother have been
brought to aud lodged in jail. They taken in
Tishemngo county just beyond Hatchie turnpike where
they had been lurking in the vicinity of the residence
their brother The pursuers discovered evidences OF Their
presence in the neghborhood about clubhouse in the
woods. They at procured some dogs put them on
the track and chased the refugees the house where
they surrendered
CAUSE or THE UsIoN's pETENroS--The steamer Union
arrived at New York Saturday last from Havre She
was detained by heavy weather aud BY getting ashore
Sable island, during thick fog the ed. After
manng ashore for fifteen hours she got OF by throwing
overheard some fifty OF coal and started for New
York all tight having sustained material damage
METEOROLOGICAL the se,sers had returned and the
catch was about one-third the usual fishing Charles II
Darling the lieutenant governor has been into
office At Ship Cove, Trinity, sad accident had
CURED During the absence OF Mrs Day from her house
in the evening IL took fire and six childrenthree boys
and three giris--perished in the flames
GERaAE sILsER--The German silver used in the con
structon Of knives ors spoons &c consists Of two parts
Of copper OF ncke and Of zinc. Care must b.
taken in using culinary and table articles made Of German
silver that they be brought into contact with corrosive
liquids as in addition 70 the poisonous effects Of the
iia metals topper and zinc there Is frequently small
proportion OF arsenic still remaining in the nickel
HoxGoraTmC PHvslcIASst Is estimated that there are
between fifteen hundred aud two thousand homeopathic
physicians in the United States.
\ rrMahR PnorEssoR--Mss Harriet O. Woodman, o.
Portland Maine has been elected professor Of mathematics