The daily union., 1856-01-18
G EN- Il II A l. N Il WS.

GENERAL NEWS.
SAILING cASADA.-The steamer Canada sailed
from Boston for Liverpool Wednesday last She took
out no specie.
Cossuuruos-The number of Deaths by consumption in
the city of New York in the year 1854 was T3 and u-
ring the past year 54 This decrease said to be due to
the treatment of this disease by Inhalation which has been
much resorted to for the last eighteen months
AccIDEgrIn New York, on Monday afternoon in turn
the of Twentieth and Second avenue the
private sleigh of George Law was capsized pitching its
contents into bank Mr. Law received severe cut
the head and ex-senator Westcott had his left wrist
badly fractured.
BALTIMORE HARBoR--The Baltimore Sun Of yesterday
morning says:
GThe ice in the harbor continues unbroken save the
track made by the Relief Nearly If quite all the
sells which detained below have been brought up and
Of them taken 10 their wharves The softness
weather has not in the slightest degree nteered with the
pleasures of the skaters"
Tar WEATHER AT MomLE-The Mobile Tribune of the
Sd instant says:
"For the last three four days with but few hours
cessation has raned ncessanty The streets almost
impossible. There Is consolation however-there is
no complaint OF low rivers.
ave informed that the panro this side of Mont
gomey has been washed away by the heavy rains and
that this with the almost impossible condition OF the rest
of the road may deprive Of mails for several days un
less they come by the river"
CotD WEATHER TS TIE WEsT-The ST. Louis Republ-
OF the 10th instant states that the cold 10 that vicinity
is intense and that large portions of stock pershng
for the want of water.
THE LATEST sSow-sToRN AT WHELSG-The snow nj
Wheeling, says the negencer is twenty inches deep 1t
having showed In that vicinity from Saturday afternoon
last until noon on Monday.
PERns wnDKRSEss.-Tbe Council Bluffs Bugle
relates that Mr. l. Barrett, who went on hunt from
that city found frozen DEATH supposed and
much mutilated by wolves and ravsnous birds There
two other persons with him. Of whom succeeded
In getting home aud the other had been heard from
THE GREGr skow-sTom.--Tbe Boston Courier thus no
tces The course Of the late storm
The great OF the 4h and 9Th instant began
In North Carolina and huggng the seaboard extended
from Cape llaeras TO Halifax ~ g. growing intense
II travelled northward Its duration from fifteen
eighteen hours everywhere In the interior remote from
the coast there only about many inches there are
feet near the salt water The most remarkable feature Of
the weather is the continuity and uniformity of the cold
The change which produced this OF cold occurred
Saturday night prior 10 Christmas and since then there
has been day Of warm winter weather Mr. Merriam the
weather clerk, that be estimated
ty-seyen inches of snow fell on level
ASoThRR DREADFUL sHIrwRECK-rHIRTY LuEs LosT.-We
learn from the New York Express that the packeshp St
Denis which sailed from New York for Havre on the Is
instant foundered the 5th The captain second
mate part Of the passengers and crew. down with the
ship The first and remainder Of the crew who had
left the ship in the ongboat picked up by foreign
vessel The Express says;
The ST Denis two-decked ship, over twelve years
old, and was very handsomely fitted mp, being planned in
terualy like frst-clsss steamships She provided
throughout with twenty-five India-ubber beds de
signed to be used prcervers in Of accident each
capable Of sustaining three persons in the water But the
cabin (hose rescued stae) filled that 1t mpos-
sible TO get at them.
"The last that OF the captaipwho all
In saying refused leave his ship though begged do
by all-he standing deck winding up his watch
when she went down. but minutes after the boat left
captain Fosnsbee had commanded the st Denis for
nearly twelve years and had the reputation Of rscass
and fearless seaman among the sailors.
ManIof her crew, In tho superstition common to
men, attribute the disaster her having sailed on Fri
day.
!" The rescued sesmen were in the boat twenty-nine
hours with but barrel Of bscut soaked with salt
water
They had not drop OF fresh water and their suffer
ings in consequence intoIersbe.
The mssts Of the ship all cut away before the
boaf-load LETT In cutting down the mainmast the FIRST
mate struck the back by the falling spar and
verey injured lie resides Staten Island where he has
gone
MrMTIcryT nrorEsT.-Isaac 8 Tutte prominent citi-
rem of Augusta Georgia who died there recently left the
sum Of s5oooO to be used for The benefit Of the Augusta
Orphan Asylum.