The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-06-26
GEN ERAL NEWS.


TaAssroRrAnoS or corros.-Tbe Houston (Texss) Tele
graph says cotton has been brought by wagons TO that
city from Fort Washita, in the Choetaw nation 20 miles
north Of Red river, distance Of 400 miles
sHor DKAD--wm B. Wall, OF Liberty, Mississippi was
shot dead on the l4th instant by his nephew b. Wall
RAILRoAD sUnsoRIPToSs.-The town OF Columbia Ten
nesee has just subscribed $4,000 to the Central Southern
railroad. E
DUEL An yoKsBuRG,-- The l4th instant duel was
fought oppo yicksbug between two gentlemen of the
editorial corps from Yazoo etyNat Pugh esq Of the OBJ
server and w d. Roy esq OF the Sun. The weapons
pistols distance ten PAGES After the first Gre without in
jury to either party, mutual friends nterposed, and the
affair was honorably adjusted
PrTsBuRd AND CosNRLLsyIiLE RALRoAD-we learn (says
the Baltimore SUM- that elow-citizen, Benz H. La
robe, esq gentleman of energy and large experience
has been invited to take charge of the Psburg and Con-
nelsyie railroad its president and that in view Of tho
strong interest city has in that important improve
mont be has felt infpelled to accept the trust
i tbs PENALTY FOR STEALING NEWS FRAHcE.-The Paris
correspondent of the New York Express writes
Lolivei the French telegraph man. has just been tried
by the Paris Court OF Assizcs for having furnished the
expf the treaty ofpeace to two Belgian journals in both
Of which ii was published nearly month before it
officially given TO the world seems that Leoiyet brbed
pressman in the imperial printing Office TO steal copy for
him, and by this means obtained the coveted document
The printer also tried at the time and both
found guilty and have been sentenced to two years and
eighteen months imprisonment respectively suppose in
republican America this sentence will be considered des
poc and unjust There are those In France who think
too"
For LIrrmA.-The ship Elvna Owens sailed from Sa-
vannah Saturday with a2l emigants for Liberia l42
of whom she received at Savannah.
TINS UNITED STATES misunderstanding to cores
pondent of the Boston Transcript the whole of the
United States in $780, the original territory
than 82O63O square miles Louisiana in 1903 extended
the to l,72o,258 square miles, Florida in 1921 to
27s7 1885, Texas in ls45, Oregon in 1916, and California
in ls4s, to 2,936, Ice square miles
THE PHILADELPHIA EAvY-YARD-The work on the new
United States frigate Wabash at the navyyard is far
advanced that hundred oners and aborers dis
charged Saturday The double engine Of this beaut-
full steam rgate considered complete and the two
trials already made at the wharf have proved il to be in
perfect order. The propeller and the frame in which il
have been taken out to obyiate serious difficulty
that would probably have crippled the vessel after
getting to sea, the with the United States
steamer Merrmac
HARvEsrIsG.-The farmers in Queen Anne's county and
other portions Of Maryland preparing for harvest
From the appearance of the wheat fields Centrevle
harvest will commence in few days. The Weschester
(Pennsyyania) Examiner states that grass-cutting
commenced in that section last week. "This week. it
adds all farmers will wheel into line and
active operations in the fields. s. wheat Of the
season sold Change at yuls, on Thursday
last at 81 so per bushel"
! DANGEROUS MARRIAGE sALurB-We clip the following
from the Boston Transcript Of Saturday iasti
aThs morning, about o'clock, a heavy explosion took
place at East Boston, which heard all over the
island 1t found that attempt had been made to
colored man named Wood, who recently married to
Mrs. Jones. coffee-pot had been filled with gnpew-
der and placed under the house to which fire was comnu
nicaed by of safety fuse! The explosion blew
up the floors Of the first and second stories and all the
front windows Of the house broken Five colored
persons asleep in the house at the Time but fortu-
| natey injured. Had the house not been set
blocks the effect would have been much serious
The perpetrators Of the inquity have not yet been dis
covered
| DISTRESSING occuRREscE-The storm at New York on
Sunday afternoon last was attended with the loss Of several
lives. The Times says
aThe drowning of Mr.. Hanna and the Misses Sullivan
and Crane caused the greatest excitement in South Brook
Ign, where all the parties well known II appears
that after the boat upset Mr. I'd Sullivan succeeded
placing two Of the the bottom and Owed after
the third who had sunk but reaching the surface he
found the boat had careened over and the girls again
struggling in the water. He then did what he could 10
save himself and eldest sister and they both were picked
Hanna also excellent swimmer, but the two young
girls grasped bis arms and though the people in yaw
and he would them BOTH yet they held with all the
desperate tenacity Of drowning people, and all found
watery grave
Some half dozen boats have been washed ashore along
Gownuss beach and IL Is feared that persons were
drowned than those above mentioned