The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-17

Charleston on Tuesday last with Havana dates to the 10Th
inst The Standard says
Among the passengers BY the Isabel a bearer Of
dispatches 70 our government We informed
their contents but learn they important The excite
nent on me island the increase Steamers under the
command q government officers are plying TO and fro
between the various Cuban forts indusrousy enforcing
the bloekade Numerous alterations had taken place and
serious difficulties were every where apprehended
The rapid and mysterious Of troops continues
throughout the island. The city Of Havana almost
deserted Not regiment had been left in the place
large eneampment however was formed ia the vicinity
under the particular command Of General Concha His
excelency had been severely injured by fall from his
horse though he still continues visit the camp daily
where he Is always received with enthusiasm.
The government had caused be circulated among
the people that the buster expedition had failed. This
attributed TO various first of all to the vigilance
Of the eapangenera The British frgate also, cred
tied with important service in the Another
assigned the failure OF Of the libuser vessels
the general rendezvous which caused the dispersion OF all
| the rest
The following is translated from the Diaro Of the 7th
instant
| The Charleston and Savannah papers say nothing in
regard 10 the expedition but private advces entitled
confidence announce its dispersion and abandonment
vessel which we knew in hey West since the nth
ut with cargo OF coal for the of the pracal
has received orders to sell her cargo which has been
done Besides the hbusters residing in that place re-
ceived information that the idea Of the expedition
abandoned Without ceasng to be vgilant pleased
the brilliant which has attended the
measures OF our worthy authorities"
| A JEwIsH wEpDIsG--The Philadelphia Ledger of We'd
nesday gives the following Of Jewish wedding
in that city:
Yesterday afternoon the Rev s. Morias Rabbi of the
Jewish synagogue in Cherry street. above Third,
married to Miss Weyl in the presence of large assem-
bage The members of the congregation and the invited
guests admitted before the opening of The doors by
private entrance, nearly filling the body of the church
Some of the ladies dressed style of great mag
ncence especially those selected to assist the occasion
When the doors opened which quarter TO
four o'clock there but little space left for the crowd of
persons who waiting without large proportion Of
whom ladies. The marriage ceremony lasted about
| half an hour, and was very interesting"
GoIsG 70 ST. PErERsBUReH--Rev. Henry M Haskell of
Boston, sails from Baltimore in few days in the ship La
doga for Liverpool intending to proceed thence St Pc
ersbugh to the pastoral care of the British and
| American church In that capital.
| The New JERSEY LEGIsLATuRE.-A
despatch from Trenton, New Jersey, says:
| The senate ny committee, to whom were referred
charges "a upon alleged attempts control the
Of senator's reported this morning the evidence adj
duced before them 1t appears thereom that offers were
made to the senator from Mddlesex of sums Of various
to induce him to vote against the Newark plank
road bridge bill that he had resented the offers but
times treated them lightly
The Of the parties profferng money are given
They prominent and respectable men, and there
those who doubt they really attempted to purchase the
sovereignty OF the senate 1t said that other disclosures
still papable have been made since the report of the
| committee The committee was continued"
East Brandywne Chester county, Pennsylvania lately
attacked by large yellow bull dog laboring under by
drophobia and after protracted struggle succeeded in
killing his ferocous assailant His gun was broken to
pieces over the brutes head and Mr. F. fortunate
| enough to escape being bitten.
THE PEACH cRop--Fruit-growers in central New York
think there will be least twohrds Of peach crop this
| year in that region.
! PREPARING INuNDArloNThe authorities of New
Orleans have appealed the legislature for aid in protect
Ing that city from the threatened nundation by the rising
| of the Mississippi
CAPTAIN ISGRAHAM-An effort is making in Charleston,
South Carolina raise $4,000 for the benefit Of Captain
Duncan N. Ingraham, token of admiration for his
4 prompt interference in the Koszta affair at Smyrna
| THE WHEAT CROP ILLIsos--We learn from the Alton
Courier, the editor of which has recently made trip
across the central portion of Illinois, that however short
crops might have been last year. il has not deferred
the farmers of the State from Selling every portion of fla
vorabe time during the fall for sowing their wheat and
the result shows that there is at least twenty per cent
more in wheat than in any previous year. The
winter has exceedingly favorable and if should be
blessed with extraordinary spring, Illinois will have
an amount of wealth in that single crop which it would
| be difficult to estimate
! OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH LouBuLLE.-The Louis-
| Vile Courier OF Monday says;
All Of the bar-rooms of the hotels and coee-houses
were closed yesterday and the city presented extreme
ly quiet appearance The harkeepers the steamboats,
| at the wharf did rushing business
MURDER AND sUICIDE--The fact that Rev. Mr. Scott a
Presbyerian clergyman murdered few days ago. in
Dublin Wayne county, Indiana, by man named Benja-
min Hickman, has already been mentioned. The Indian
apols Journal gives the sequel of the transaction fol-
lows:
| aHckman Immediately fled to small stream by
and drowned himself The assigned for this act is
that Scott had purchased land from Hickman and had
paid him stock money which Hickman laid up until it
deprecated his hands, when he wished Scott take it
back which he refused to do upon which Hickman be-
came so enraged that he committed the act Hickman
was old bachelor Of incorporate habits Scott
popular minister in his society," and respected by those
without"
THE LATE JosKPH HuaE--This distinguished gentleman,
whose death Is recorded in the English journals ma
tive of Montrose Scotland and born in l7T7 He
educated surgeon and entered the naval service of
the East India Company in 1909 He afterwards
placed in the Bengal medical establishment and served du
ring the Mahratta He returned to England in 1908,
and spent several years travelling the United King
dom as well the different countries of the continent He
was elected Parliament from Weymouth in 1912, and
rose He then returned member for Mddlesex and
in 1887 for Kilkenny. In 1912 he again elected a
from Montrose and has since represented that