The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-30
GEN ERAL N Il w q i.

GENERAL NEWS.
recent commencement conferred the degree of LIZ d.
the Rev. Abel Stevens editor of the Christian Advocate
| and Journal
SAoR1LEaEThe Memorial Church, the corner of Wa
verify Place and Hammond street. New York city, Sun
day morning was entered and robbed of handsome
costly desk Bible douby priced being gift and
mortal.
THREE INCHES OF SNOW IN AUGUsr--An exchange learns
from letter from Gorham New Hampshire, of the 27th
inst that to the depth of three inches then
Mount Washington, and other peaks in that vicinity On
Tuesday the mercury Mount Washington at 81 de-
grees
CAMP MEErNa--A camp meeting of the Methodist Epis
copal Church going on in grove in Fairfax
IT, Virginia. on Mr.. Gibsons land, the Leesburg
pike road about fourteen miles from town. large
Der are in attendance.
OPENING MANASSAS GAP RAILRoAD-The Manas-
Gap railroad opened on Wednesday to Wood
stock Shenandoah county, in Virginia The citizens of
Woodstock and its vicinity had prepared public dinner
to which all were invited and the whole day festival
such as is rarely witnessed in that region Congraula
lions uttered all sides at the of the road
so far and its favorable prospects for continuation and
completion.
THE CROPS North CARoLINA.-We are glad to learn,
says the Fayetteville N C Observer from gentlemen who
have recently passed the North Carolina railroad and
through the country west of Salisbury that the crop
though undoubtedly bad is not such total failure
been led suppose The recent abundance of in
that section has doubtless materially improved the pros
pect.
DAMAGE TO THE COTTON In ALABAMA-The Montgomery
Mail says;
"The frequent and copous showers which fell during
four days Of last week have worked immense damage to
the cotton crop These rains too late to do good
in many places They have produced a second growth,
and caused the young bols to shed off and many Of the
older hollis the ground to begin TO rot Since these
rains the greatly multiplied, and their fearful
ravages are extending.
CENTRAL ONO RAnRoAD-The annual election for diree
Of this road held GAINESVILLE Tuesday The
old board reelected without opposition. Chauncey
Brooks, esq, Of Baltimore, is one of the number The
board subsequently reorganzed by choosing all its former
officers The GAINESVILLE Courier says the report of the
den satisfactory 1t clearly showed that the road is
in prosperous condition and rapidly gaining bust
The opposition has almost entirely ceased and
il is expected that its future will realize the highest antc
patton of its friends
THE SHAKERs-A New York exchange says:
The number of Shaker societies now in this country
eighteen located in different States There none
in any foreign country. The denomination was founded
through the fundamentally Of female Ann Lee who was
born in 1896. She introduced, she believed into
the spirit world and received communications from Christ
and Moses from whom she received instruction in regard
TO the principles Of the dspensaons which they have ush
cred in The Shakers hold that there have been four dis
pensatons of God TO mantle first beginning with Adam
and extending to Abraham; the second extending from
Abraham to Jesus the third from Jesus to Ann Lee and
from Ann Lee onward The first society established
in 1892, near Albany"
INAUGURATION OF THE DUDLEY ORsERv AToRY.-A tele-
graphic despatch from Albany says that this observatory
inaugurated the 2sh inst The large In Aead-
envy Park was crowded to its utmost capacity by bril-
liant audience Of from four TO FIVE thousand persons nearly
half Of whom ladies. The platform crowded by
mon Of distinguished learning ability and position among
them Ex-Governor Hunt Governor Clark Lieutenant
Governor Raymond the Hon. Joel T. Headley, Lorenzo
Burroughs and other State officers, and all the of
science in the association. Gov Hunt Professors Bache
Gould, and others, made brief addresses. letter
read from Mrs. Dudley donating fifty thousand dollars for
the urtherance of the objects for which the observatory
was founded The announcement Of her berality was re-
ceved with loud cheers and general uprising of the
audience The Hon Edward Everett then introduced
and received most enthusiastically His address occupied
over an hour in delivery and most able and eo-
quent production. The entire affair passed off in ad-
mrable manner.
ARTIFICIAL GE,a-The artificial gems made by NJ Ebel-
man have acquired much His process resembles the
OF SUBSTANCES IN water ana the evaporation OF that
water to obtain crystals Having made mixture of au-
mini and magnesia In the proportion they exist in
spne and added half Of per cent Of bichromate
potash he adds two parts OF this mixture to part
fused borscic acid and exposes 1t in platinum resting in
porcelain to the heat Of the porcelain furnace at Seves
The product contains cavities lined with minute rosered
octahedral stalls harder than quartz and ufusbe be-
the bowppe They have all the characters Of ruby
The constituents Of emerald treated in the way yield
small hexagon crystals harder than quartz and therefore
agreeing with true emerald.
| RETURN john FROST TO NKwPoRT-The London Times
| in recent issue says
The town Of Newport, Nomenclature, was the scene
Of considerable excitement the lth inst owing to the
arrival Of John Frost who banished for life for the
part he took in the chars riot in $780, About O'Clock
in the afternoon hundreds Of people bad collected on
the bridge and the banks Of the river awaiting the
rival Of the packet from Bristol As the steamer
arrived sufficiently 10 recognise the cbartst leader
general hurrah given by the crowd which was re-
sponded TO by Frost and his friends board the ship
coach dressed with evegreens and drawn by two horses
in attendance for his reception but as soon ss he was