The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-25


nooga railway bridge burnt Wednesday night
last
DEADJesse Taylor the disooverer of the celebrated
Grayson Sulphur Springs in Carroll county Virginia. died
recently at the advanced age of hundred and eight
years.
CLosE or THE NEW FoRK cANAIs.-The New York canal
commissioners have decided close the canals the 9th
of December At present the utmost activity il is said
prevails on all the lines OF public works
POPULATION OF KASsAs-Accounts differ about the actual
population of this Territory When the authorized
by Gov Reeder TAKEN the number of inhabitants
over eight thousand But this before the large emf
grafton of last had begun arrive In of the
debates in the constitutional convention recently, Colonel
Lane declared the population to be from forty TO fifty
thousand whereas Mr. Lata of Leavenworth denied that
1t was more than from twenty Twenty-Five thousand A
regular correspondent of the St Louis Democrat says that
he believes IT to be from thrtytwo thrtyve thousand
Large numbers of emgrants pouring into the Ter
rtory from all quarters, and these figures will all be
far below the mark
SLElGHING.--The Pittsfeld Alass) Sun Of Thursday
says;
There was snow-storm in this vicinity on Saturday
ana Yesterday and the weather quite wintersh Seighs
were IN motion when our paper put to press
The Montreal Pilot of the 10th says
The bells are nglng merry through our streets and
we suppose that winter may be considered fairly nau-
gurated in his ice-manted dominions."
TIE COTTON cRor--The Marion Is c. Star of Tuesday
says
The weather during this fall has been almost unpre-
ceaehedy hue for the gathering of cotton We had little
no ram m September but or two slight rains in Oc
toDer ana during this month"; though the clouds have fire.
quenty seemed to be to burst with rain that would
inundate field and forest yet the threatening clouds have
cleared away and the sun has again appeared with
md wa vtt hnnf brain
winch would now be very desirable AS consequence
nearly ali OF the small dried up and stock of
all kinds find difficulty of getting water"
ELEcrEDThe legislature of Georgia have elected Hon
o. j. Mcdonald judge of the supreme court of that State
LoNeFELLows NEW poEM--The Boston Traveller having
given an unfavorabe criticism of Longeows Hawatha,
his publishers Ticknor Fields Immediately withdrew
their advertisements from the Traveller and ordered the
paper stopped The book being terribly cut up by the
critics.
THE PARDON or Dr. BEALE--We copy the following
from the Philadelphia Ledger of last Fridays issue
Gov. Pollock has extended his clemency to Dr. Beale
ana RENTED the remainder of his sentence of imprson
nent which was four years and six months beginning
the 18th OF November, 1854. He has served, therefore,
about one of his term The pardon the
which induced the governor 10 extend this favor.
lie had received communications from about one hun
dred and forty dentists and twenty ply scans of this
city and the country, stating their belief that testimony
to matters Transporting under the influence of ether is I'M
safe and unreliable from number of other physicians
named that they believe him innocent; from large num-
Der OF the bar and citizens of various States including
names OF governors attorneys general &c. that they believe
he was convicted insufficient testimony; from num-
Der OF cergymen that they believe him nnoccn from the
mayor Of Philadelphia, and fifty members of the Philade
pha city councils from members of the legislature judges
of the supreme court editors of Philadelphia newspapers
and five thousand other citizens of PenIsyvan and New
York, with five of the jury the trial all asking for his
pardon After cuumeratng all these facts the governor
says
And whereas the board Of inspectors of the said Phila
depha county prison Gas appears by their communication
on file in the office Of the secretary of the Commonwealth
have unanimously recommended the pardon of the said Dr.
stephen l. Beae because in their opinion the end con-
empated by the law in the moral reform of the prisoner has
been acknowledgements full and ample satisfaction has been
rendered to public by ACCOMPLISHMENTS he has al
ready undegonebecause his health is undoubtedly break
ing down under the suerngs of body and mind which he
has already enduredand because the destituted condition
his aged parents and bereaved and sorrownO wife and
children mperatyely demand the presence support of
their son, husband and father:
And whereas after full and careful examination Of
the facts and evidence in the case aided by the scientific
discussions to which it has given rise without any inen
ton TO reflect upon the prosecurix who doubt testified
to what she believed did occur to impugn the ineg
ry of the learned judge who tried the case the hon
esty of the jury who convicted the prisoner sat
ed that the defendant Dr. Stephen r. Beale is not quy
OF the crime whereof he stands charged and convicted
upon evidence unreliable in its character and insufficient
in amount:
do therefore in consideration of the premises pardon
the said Dr. Stephen T. Beae of the crime whereof he is
convicted aforesaid and he is hereby fully pardoned ac
cordingyip