The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-16
Loo AL N Il WIS.

PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR OF THE DIsrRIcT
OF CoLUSniAThe following synopsis Of the bill intro
duced into the Senate of the United States by Hon. Mr.
Brown, Of Mississippi establish public library for the
young men Of the District of Columbia .
Justices of the circuit court of this District the MAYORS
OF Washington and Georgetown, secretary of the Smtho
MAN Institution and their successors in office with such
sons as the mayors OF the two cities Designate shall
lambda Library for Young Men,, and in this
purpose personal If lot be granted for said Ii
brary no sale shall be made without the assent of Congress
Power given to appoint all needfu officers messengers,
and laboers and to compensate them ALSO the power
pass all bylaws &c and to alter amend them limit
the ages within which men be entitled to the pro-
visions Of the duse knowledge among them such
best calculated to instruct them elevate their
morals, and lit them for usefulness" DC. ..#
RELIEF pooR--Mrs. Emma Z. Gurley, secretary
Of the Ladies' Union Benevolent Society," acknowledges the
receipt of three hundred dollars from Hon. L. d. Campbell
the being generously and timely contributed by
bes Of the House of Representatives for the relief
fering poor of this city.
The receipts from the ball lately given by the Washing
ton ghanders for the benefit of the poor amounted to the
handsome sum Of two hundred and fifty dollars.
The committee appointed to collect subscriptions the
benefit of the poor the Second Ward closed their
bor and have handed to the IN Caan esq., the
sum Of six hundred and four dollars.
All doubts in regard to the strength and thickness of the
ice in the river should, think be removed reading
the suboned paragraph which appeared the Star of
evening:
"a large and splendid car, manufactured in Philadelphia
for the Orange railroad passed through this city
drawn by team OF horses and enthusiastic boys 1t reached
Pages wharf last night and this morning
being made to place and transport It
across the ice down the river to Alexandria
Governor Shannon of Kansas Territory arrived in this
city Thursday last and took lodgings Browns Hotel
Our readers doubt will derive great and abiding
ISOLATION from the perusa of the following piece of intel
gence which appears in New York paper:
The presence Of ice ATTITUDES at this
whaers will have profitable season. The of
the weaherwise TO sustain the conjecture the tenn
perature in high lattudes and that the other will
eli-founded seems therefore probable"
What matters it il the Potomac tight as drum head
streets covered with ice and snow and that the
pect is bleak and blank enough emerging from
the horrors of such winter has been Of
these parts? Are not the inhabitants OF the
Polar regions in the enjoyment of "a mild
Is not whale oil to be cheap and plenty Are the
Of the Esquimaux be consulted The supposi
on that there is general haw" should reconcile us at
once to the present low range of the thermometer.
DANCING GAs.Tbe good citizens Of Washington can boast
Of what few OF their sister cities unfortunate to
sessthat h dancing gas We do know by process
this active material made suppose however, that IL
must be quite expensive judging from the small quantity
and the high price.