The daily union., 1856-01-27
aENERAL NEws.


GENERAL NEWS.
LArtH raoa SANTA FE.--Later advices (by telegraph
from St LOUSY from Santa Fe bring account OF a
tight between the Capoe Indians and the Mormons caused
BY the latter trying to drive the former OF their hand
Seyeralof the Indians killed
MARRIAGE PmMA DoSSA--The marriage Of Madlle
Cruvel and Baron yigier has just been celebrated in
Paris at the aaire Of hs ra Gr0adsssm aud afterwards
in Roman Catholic and Protestant churches Madle Cru
yel being Protestant
PROFITABLE voYAdE--It is stated that months
since ship sailed from New York for Australia, with
cargo mostly Of -four II cost in New York about $40
per barrel and sold immediately arrival for S25.
Deduct S5 per barrel for all charges and the clear profit
the shipment Of 5000 barrels $4,000. The same
shipment from thence to Calcutta took In cargo Of salt
pere, &cq for New York The net profits of the voyage
were about $4,000.
Tm JUDICIARY IN GEonoIA-The senate of Georgia have
adopted bill which provides for the election fudges by
the people.
THE BUSINESS AND WEATHER AT New ORLEASs.--Tht
Delta Of the 18th instant says
"Owiug to the rivers falling bad roads, and the very
cold weather. the receipts have fallen of very nach and
may continue 10 be light for week. @
Our evee presents the crowded appearance there
being y-fve boats at the landing, OF them waiting
for the upper rivers TO open Our tclegraphc dispatches
yesterday from Louisville Cinenna and Pittsburg
that the weather is oderang very fast and that the ice
is expected to break up and navigation resumed
Here the weather is much mder and to-day steady rain
has set in 1t is TO be hoped it may extend through the
country and raise the rivers"
TEXAS suGAR.The sugar crop in Texas this has
been unusually large The crop Brazoria county es
mated at S500,o00. .a-0 ......a Il E
N APPEAL EpICuRps--The country neWspapera uni
versa plead in behalf of the qua which represented
having suffered incredibly during the recent cold wealth
err large numbers having pershed Epicures invoked
abstain from eating them until the weather moderatc
that there shall be less motive for capturing the bird in
its present starved and helpless condition.
AN OLD NEwsPAPEn--The Oldest journal in Holland, the
HARLEM Couran the 9th instant attained the rcspeca
be age of hundred years For upwards Of hum
dred years this journal has been unnterruptedy in the
possession ofhe family Of its present publishers Johannes
Enschede h Co.
FAITHFUL DoG--Mr. f. Merriam Of Brooklyn Heights,
writes to the New York Journal of Commerce
the death of dog who for years had been in the
habit of assisting him in making his meteorological obser
vations at night by waking him every hour when the
clock struck.
MODERN CHURCH Musrc--Rev. Thomas Hill Of Watham,
writing on church music in the Christian Examiner says:
"Sometimes attempt is made to alter secular air
by changing the cadence to religious FORM We have re-
Gently heard Of this character from colec
ton of sacred music popular Irish and negro melodies
being off in the last measure and chord OF the sub
dominant introduced as If it were TO sanctfy them The
result is that The tunes spoiled for uhisting tcetk
eaH phhom being rendered III 10 sing on Sunday
DRATu-Late California papers the death Of
ssbee the we!l-known Yankee comedian.
The MAMMOTH STEAMSHIP PERsiA-We find in the
New York Times the following description of this great
levaihnn Of the deep:
"The iron steamship Persia of the Cunard line has
arrived at Liverpool from the Clyde under the command
Of Captain Judkins of the Arabia The Persas speed from
Greenock Liverpool averaged sixteen knots hour
The Persia exceeds by 209 tons the internal capacity Of
the largest of the present Cunarders Her chief proper
tons Length from hgurebead TO tairail $50 feet
length in the water $50 feet breadth OF hull As feet
breadth over all Il feet depth 30 feet burden, 5000
tons
According to the government rule Of admeasurement
her power equal that of 200 horses according the
plan laid down in Earl iardwickes b 1000 horses and
according TO James Watts old established rule of $500 lbs
per horse she would work 1000 5000 horses She
has waer-dght compartments separate sleeping
for 300 passengers and clear promenade
from stem to stern along the roof OF the deckhouse The
weight of iron in the Persia when launched 200
and with the engines 1900 tons Of coal and full cargo will
be TONS with which she will draw % feet Of water
Her accommodation Is for 200 measurement of goods
Steam being the Sole motive agent she is but lightly rig
ged with three masts Bets offered that she will
compish the trip between Europe and America In
days She viii sail frou Liverpool about month hence
Az UNUSUAL AID INTERESTING SUrTu,L ASSNERsA-
RY-The following, from the Springfield Massachusetts,
Republican Of the 9th inst will be read with deep inter
est II not emotion
The sixtieih anniversary OF the marriage Of Luther
Wright and Sarah Lyman, Of Easthampton-who were
Joined in wedlock at that place the 18th January 1906
by Rev Payson Nston then in the seventh year of his
ministry, and alive vigorous old of 92 years
was celebrated at the residence Of their son., Luther
Wright IT, late PRINCIPAL Of Willison seminary, Mon
day evening" the lith The company present the com
occasion Rev Dr. Williston four Of the
six persons yet alive who Of the great company AT
the wedding all the children and grandchildren Of the
aged pair except and his family living In Wisconsin,
and the head members Of few neighboring families
The exercises consisted Of remarks by Luther Wright
IT, prayer by the aged pastor and the singing Of hymns
Of the odeu Time; following which supper around
which seated the aged WORTHLESS n the order Of their
years the first six counting aggregate Of more than four
hundred and eighty years During the evening poem
was read which written for the occasion by Mrs.
Sigouruey The correspondent of the Hampshire Gazette
thus speaks Of this most remarkable occasion:
Rare scene and pleasant to behold. SO many OF the
aged in cluster aud aged and bound together by such
tics Of memory, and kindred and Christian affection all
honored and reyeredall in comfortable healtha pro-
Tossing the faith OF the Gospel and eheered by Its hopes
all In possession Of mental activity and vigorl having
fames and blessed in their children and children chill
dren-liies evening and tranquil and bespeakng
a happy, bssfal tomorrow"
THE or REAL LIYr.-The New York Tribune
gives the following sketch Of parsonage at one time
widely known in the newspaper world: II
at Ia strange TO watch how those who at different times
occupy large space for the moment either in public fame