The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-09
UNION


GENERAL NEWS.
IAE LArE DISTURBANCES IA MoNrEgHDEoA correspond
ent q TIE New York Herald board the United States
ship Savannah writing On The Isna December OF Rio ia.
eo states that during the lAte disturbances in MoDtss
dec a. American marine force landed fom ihe sAips
Germantown and RAnbrdge In order 70 protect the lives
and property 81 citizens The difficulties between
Brazil and Paraguay settled but Dom Pedro Was
anxious for fight the troubles coald not he amiesly
adjusted AT Rio the weather was warm health Of TIE
port good The crew Of fhe Savannah had Subscribed
$500 towards the relief Of the sufferers from yellow fever
IN Norfolk and Portsmouth. Forcibe AIuson is made
the steady increase Of the French and British sqaadrons in
the Pacific.
A ErTExsvE DAMN. Merriam, the weAther-Snan who
writes great deal about almost everything says that be
hAs seen in Upper Canada the Ottawa beaver dam
Slo feet long feet high and feet wide upon wich
inrnse surface, and constructed with much sci
enos TO appearance If ii had been the work Of human
banda
DEsr LoUIsAxA-The public debt Of Louisiana
amounts Sl2 1885, Of which Ss42ls ss consists Of
liabilities for the property Of banks Of the State for which,
il Is said, there is possibility Of loss.
BETTEs OS THE PEAslA--The New York Evening Post
says; a@
We understand that $4,000 were bet by different
parties ~ this cy upon The arrival Of the Cunard
stner Persia eight days from the day Of her departure
IA she left the 26h she has already been ont twelve
days, and Of course the bets are decided
THE COOLEST JANUARY TO the record kept at
the Pennsylvania Hospital the temperature Of the past
month "a deg which is deg below the average for
the last 30 years Ii the coolest January the
ord though January, ls4o within fraction Of The
same temperature.
A LONG LIKE RAHBAY.-Ths Portland State Of Maine
says that by the end Of this year there will be continuous
line Of railway from the Atlantic ocean Portland
Iowa cty, distance Of l4ss miles making it says the
most magnificent line Of railway on the globe.
SusPERs1os.-A general suspension of all the rolling
mills has taken place al Wheeling. The Times says ii is
owing difficulty between the Of the mills and
the boilers in their employ The former say they
afford pay the present prices 5 rs per toni any longer
for labor in the pudding department but willing
pay q u.s. which the boilers refuse aocede Hence
the stoppage.
ARRIVAL ExrRAoRDIsaRYA late number Of the Indian
apolis Journal says:
Happening in the tfing-room of the Union Station
Saturday, noticed in addition to the usual crowd
large company of boys apparently pretty age
and dressed precisely alike from head to foot Our
osy being excited made inquiry TO their origin
destination kc and learned that they orphan boys
The number Of fortyre who had been gathered up in
New York city and, after having bern kept time in
the Orphan Asylam there being taken West by
benevolent for the purpose of finding homes for
them among the farmers that they could be brought
without exposure the moral malaria of city atrnos
phere We tried 10 learn the Of the person who
rendering such service not only TO those unfortunate
boys bat the community, in saving them from
of crime but could not Ii was wise and worthy act
The boys from twelve years Of age and
lively and talkstye among themselves they had never
known sorrow or care "~-# 81
woSprAFUL xIERuR-There has lately been shown in
Paris huge mirror instrument Of startling
species OF optical magic On standing close il il pre-
SCENTS nothing bat dissection Of your physog
Monty Ca retiring couple Of feet il gives your face
and figure proportion but reversed the bead down
ward But retire s further standing she distance Of
i've or six feet from the mirror and behold yon your
self refection-t docs not strike jon reflec-
ton-bu your veriable self standing in The middle part
between you and the mirror The eect is almost appa-
supernatural startling indeed is the exhibition that
men possessed Of the strongest win shrink inyolnn
tary at the FIRST riew.
CosEENHoS sUeAR-rLAsTEEs or LoUIslAxA-Ths
sugErlanters Of Louisiana have been holding
ton in New Orleans for the purpose Of esunseng to-
Esther and agreeing plan by which they could rid
the sugar trade Of existing encGmbranoes More than
hundred delegates present from various portions Of
the Stale In taking the chair president Hon John
Moore delivered interesting address in which be stated
the crop Of s555 At 346635 bogsheads Of sugar and
577sso barrels of molssses and the crop of 1858
22 900 hobeads Of sugar and ssOoos barrels Of nnoass
He asserted that adequate facilities for the Of
this trade not furnished By the city authorities Of
New Orleans This deferred him and other planters from
sending their crop that market be urged that unless
proper accommodations furnished there the planters
would be obliged 70 combine and establish depot
somewhere else A committee appointed consider
and report on the subject
Az ENORMOUS BoRsx.-The New Orleans Qa) True
Delta says there Is exhibition In that city horse
twsuty-one hands high and weighing thousand and
sixty pounds
" LTCK-From the Alta California Of January we
learn that the harque Emily Banning arrived at Acapulco
the 24h December for supplies. She IL engaged in
pearl fishing and wrcnr and had been sacocsfu she
had board $4,000 worth Of old silver and pearls IN
I'll December IL she engaged in surveying the pearl
grounds from Panama TO Acapulco, determine the best
localities for future operations having arrived at the bay
Of Panama in the latter part q October.
a CHIMNEY rLrn--Yesteraay
morning (ssys the New York Coarer the tenement
house o. John Stuart No 100 Cherry street dead body
Of young discovered In one Of the chimney
fuss The body found be damned firmly in the fue
and frozen he bad clothing except his shirt and
drawers. II proved 10 be the body Of insane man.
named Louis Miller who disappeared ON New Years morn
ing. person saw him 20 down the chimney on New