The daily union., 1856-12-11
GENERAL NEWS.


GaEAT FEAr--We end ihe following in Tuesday eve
nings edition of the New York journal Of Commerce
The steamer Atlantic was signalled of the ghtship
between and 10 o'clock, When few miles outside
ne Hook she boarded by the agent OF the
Aed press and the substance Of her was despatched
70 SANDY Hook by the agency Of earrer-pigeons from
whence Il was slegraphed the agent the association
IN ihs city and by him teegraphed to ali paris 0f the
coen nearly two hours in advance Of the arrival Of the
steamer az her wharf The thus was published
here and in New Orleans about one hour In vance of the
steamers papers in this city"
THE BAsaEa CotSry-Elidalgo county, Texas cast 100
votes al OF which were for Buchanan.
FRxMoNT IN VIRaiA-The entire vote cast for Fremont
in the State OF Virginia 29l, viz Alexandria |,
Brooke 4O Hancock 100 Marshall 90 Monongalia 2 Ohio
IOa Shenandoah s. Scott 8 Upshur 10. Fremonts vote
in Virginia Is 10 more than in Maryland.
sLE1GnrSo-A letter dated Amherst Massachusetts, De
eerlber g. says We have good sleighing here. Snow
week ago Thermometer eight degrees above zero
We hear that seghng is sosd as far south as Winsied
and Waterbury, in Connecticut
ELEorED-Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton the eminent nov
elis has just elected Lord Rector of Glasgow Univer
sty The honorable baronet succeeds the Duke Of Argyle
the present Postmaster General He opposed by Lord
Stanley eldest Of the Earl Of Derby but elected by
considerable majority.
CHuECH DESTROYED BY EmE,-The Catholic Church at
Norfolk Virginia destroyed by fire on Monday last
CANADA SoUru SHORE RAmRoAD-It appears by the
Toronto Leader that strong effort being made by
tain parties of the South Shore Railway Company form
conneaen with the Erie and Ontario Railway making the
terminus Of the roads Niagara The original intention
of Mr. Wallace the chief engineer Of the souh Shore road
was to make the terminus of that road Fort Erie the
on Dosite side of the river from Buffalo.
THH RAILROAD COLLISION AT ALLANcE-EIGHT LIVES
Losr-A teegraphe despatch dated Pittsburg December
sth says
"Ahout half past o'clock last evening" the Ceve-
land and Pttsburg train through the Pittsburg Fort
Wayne and Chicago train Alliance, smashing two
of the latter train One Of the thrown into the
otundo of the station and the other through the public
which constitutes part of Sourbecks Hcte in which
several persons sitting The rotaudo and sitting
room both torn down. killing eight and wounding
number of persons.
" The following are the killed
Jacob Rudy, John Mcintyre and DR.. Smith and lady
all of Alliance Mr.. Jattehot and Wm Ritchie, Of New
Garden, Ohio, and John Brooks, of New Jersey
Among the wounded were Charles Coats engineer
badly; NJ A. Roth, Philadelphia thigh fractured and 9th
erwse badly hurt W. c. Leland conductor of the Cieve
land and Pttsburg train, slightly hurt u N Courtney
slightly. Fielding Cavanaugh and lady, Anna Armour
of Columbus Indiana badly j. Painter Stark county
Ohio slightly
An inquest will be held on the bodies to-day.
Most of the killed and wounded not on the cars
but sitting in the public when the accident
CURED.
The train which left Pttsburg at p. NJ yesterday,
rived Alliance behind time The passengers had just
got through their supper and the train had barely started
and got across the track Of the junction. when the Ceye
land train dashng along, and before headway could
be stopped the collision occurred Sourbecks rotundo
wreck 1t is said that the engineer Of the Cleveland and
PittSburg train has absconded.'