The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-04-18

al Savannah
SUFFERING AT SEA ship which bad arrived Mt St
John New Brunswick last week had picked up Mr. Robert
Harlow, Of Liverpool who clinging to the wreck
OF the schooner Lgbtfoot which capszed Eve days
previously in a heavy squsll Mr.. Harlow the
Of the unfortunate vessel which commanded by bis
brother who together with the crew. in number
lost when the vessel For FIVE days Mr. Harlow
chung to the wreck, and when picked up almost
haused from his long exposure to the winds and
without food or water.
RAILROAD accommodating TO the amount Of
freight moving westward the Central road the
Rochester American Of Saturday says:
Yesterday morning before O'Clock hundred and
seryps loaded freghtcars left this city for the Suspen
sion Bridge These divided up into nine trains In
addition TO this vast quantities the road
Buffalo Never has the freight business been heavier The
commodate the freight and travel this spring"
LONG PAssaer-Tbe barque Eastern Belle, Of Bangor,
Captain Hsyener arrived Boston the l4th inst AFTER
passage Of loo days from Newcastle England She has
been the Atlantic all winter and has been blown Off the
coast repeatedly but has received serious damage
THE RAFTING uusrsrss-The Binghamton IN. W Re
porter states that Friday last the first r Of the
hoaed down the Cbenango river its way Baltimore
and market The river Is entirely free Of ice and at
good rafting pitch.
TURKs lsLAwD cRoP.-Advoes from Grand Turk
Turks island that up February IS 10000 bushels
Of salt bad been raked and that the entire ponds Of the
colony had not been in better condition that early
period Of the salt season for series Of years past
HoRnHtEe-on Thursday evening (.ays the Pittsburg
Gszette) old woman named Hughes residing in frame
tenement Seventh street opposite the Lutheran church
while drunk let her infant slip from her knee upon ho,
stove The feet the only parts Of the body touching
the stove but they remained until they burnt
nearly cnder The child taken of by neigh
bors The old jail and the child taken
care Of by Mr.. Fortune Of the board OF health.
FRov rHz BRrrsH wrsr IxDrr-An arrival at New York
brings Bermuda dates TO the I'D instant The British
steamer Argus which had arrived from Havana had ye
low fever board Lieutenant Gallock, with Assistant
Surgeon Daily and six Others hsd already died The YES
eel Ports Islands in quarantine. In Demerara
dor restored after the jss bad been filed with the
Gabriel rioters and two handred thousand dollars worth
Of property destroyed
BRtaKSs uP or ICE AT Cars CoD.--The ice which
lar the fats Of Cape Cod bay during the past winter has
at length disappeared, II known to have re.
manned long before The Boston Traveller says that the
turb the upper surface and to expose view
Der Of qushapgs The inhabitants have awaited themselves
Of this circumstance and II il believed that thousand
bushels at least Of ths splendid sbeIlhsh win be taken
DHouaHr IN vrRan.--The dry season Is a subject Of
universal complaint among the farmers In Virginia Less
rain has fallen in the vicinity Of Fredericksburg in hr
last three months says the Herald than during the
season for years past
| TEE Nrw YopK c,NlEs-Canal navigation in New York
| n Il thought sannot open before the 18th Of MAJ