The daily union., 1856-10-11
FoR NlcARAGUA.-The Natchez whig says


Lieut. Coleman informs that the agent of the gov.
ernment OF Nicaragua has chartered a steamer which will
sail from New Orleans the 27th of October. Persons
desiring cmigrae to Nicaragua will find this capital
opportunity for securing passage"
ARTIFICIAL ICE-An ice machine has just been completed
at the Cuyahoga iron works Cleveland Ohio which is ca
pabe Of producing ton Of solid crystal ice twenty
hours trial has recently been made with the above re-
suit while the mercury stood eighty degrees in the
apartment The estimated expense of manufacturing ice
by such machine is S. per ton, one-fourh of cent
per pound.
Corros-The New Orleans Daily Delta of the 4th ins
says:
"The demand has been still active during the past
week and the business has been extensive
at prices showing improvement OF cent last week
currency, the sales comprising $500 bales Saturday
$500 Monday 1000 Tuesday $500 on Wednesday
5000 yesterday and 5000 to-day, making total 30 800
bales Prices have received additional impulse from the
frost which have come to hand since last re-
view.
326 during the corresponding period last year the ex
ports 02 leaving hand stock Of 7942 bales against
ll9,67s same time last year.
CorTox IN LoUIsIAsA-The Bsstrop (Morehouse parisb)
Advocate Of the Gath ult says:
We have conversed with farmers located in different
portions of Morehouse who inform that the army
have disappeared without doing much damage the
entertained by the planters that they will make more
cotton than they can gather
Thalberg the pianist whose arrival from Europe has
already been announced, is still in New York letter
from that city says:
The great pianist Is Of your thin intellectual sen
tmentaooting geuiuses but burly-faced, wholesome,
farmer-looking fellow like of your Western
Pennsylvania corn-growers than prodigy Of art He
speaks English as good as an Englshman, and has much
better acquaintance with American affairs than the most
intelligent foreigners usually have The usrious sran-
ger be little nervous amidst the noise and clan
gor Of presidential politics-so much So that he re.
quenty inquiries think the election in November viii
pass off without battle p
DESTRUCTION or HISTORICAL LASD,ARK-Tho Lou
isville Courier says:
The bright light which lit up tho heavens 50 brilliantly
Friday night denoted the burning In Jacksonville Of
perhaps the only building Of historical in this yicn-
ity. 1t was the house in which Gen William H. Harrison
lived when he the governor Of the Northwestern Ter
rtory. In the old frame tenement with its brick basement
and weather stained front and crumbng tmeeaten roof
resided Tor several years the great Indian conqueo whose
name, in connexon with his victories and many virtues
became household word throughout the Union There
he ruled that vast portion Of conederacy known as the
States Of Indiana Illinois Iowa. Wisconsin and the Terri
received the legislators and there dispensed that famous
lntchstrngout hospitality which in 1910 became so cee-
bratedo
LOUISIANA RcE.-J Blodget Brtton writes from his plan
taou in the parish Of Paquemines follows to the New
Orleans Picayune:
Herewith send for Your examination two varieties Of
Louisiana rice or one there eight roots giving to-
gethe hundred and seventy seed bearing stalks Upon
each stalk there from hundred 10 three hundred
grains the whole amounting to between thirty and forty
thousand the product Of only eight seed The length OF
the stalks FIVE feet This is the white husk beardles
variety and resembles the upland rice of the Atlantic
States bat the grain is larger and finer The other is
the white husk bearded of the boards will measure
more than two inches in length There Is Of Il only one
the product Of single seed The grains OF this variety
are Of extraordinary size and beauty