The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-24
GENERAL SUMMARY.

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TnE DRED sooT CNsE-I The following is a specimen of
the nonsenscand ehood which the republican papers put
forth about the decision in the bred Scott case We found
il editorial in the Pennington Chronicle Maine
In the police court Of Bangor the other day saws
the Wing colorcd named Baronnett who was sued
for debt OF twenty dollars, put in special plea that
under the late decision Of the United States Supreme Court
by Judge fancy, he is not citizen of the United States
and he therefore can't in any court nor be sued The
learned counsel for the plaintiff being bunker of the
most hunkerish stripe, Immediately upon reading the
plea, wilted, and allowed non-suit 1t is maliciousy
said that the counsellor had fears for his political
standing If he dared to oppose the decision of Judge
fancy"
Now, the truth is, that 1t expressly admitted in the
decision that the several States give colored persons
the right to sue nd be sued in their own courts.
Boston Courier.
TIIE FIVE PosTs-1he following paragraph from the
New York Express gives idea of the fearful accreton
of vice and squalor in the field OF labor occupied by the
Five Points Mission
In attending to his duties recently Mr.. Pease found
dying woman in foul apartment in Cow Bay occupied
also by eight other women and one man, all drunken and
debascd and infamous IN the last extreme In the upper
end of the pestilent court close found in
fifteen rooms twenty three families making aggregate
Of hundred and seventy nine persons twelve to
In five Of these fifteen intoxicating liquors
kept for sale Indescrbabc filth privaton disease,
and indecency regned through them all Yet seventeen
children from these attend heschoos of the House
of Industry In eleven other eighteen fam
lies, and in nearly half of these ardent spirits
sold In of the garrets lived two negroes with eleven
abandoned white women. In twelve other rooms
found twenty four families consisting of hundred and
twenty-four persons. Here were two blind women, two
just past the peril of childbirth, and scvent-one
children only eight of whom attended any school"
TmE SOUTHERN CoSvESiroN-To give delegates and the
public generally opportunity of attending the
ton to assemble at Knoxville the 10th of August the
East Tennessee and Georgia railroad propose to carry pas
sengers to and from Knoxville, from the It'll to the 18th
of Aupust fare--tInt full going with n
return ticket free
At convention of the stockholders of the Alabama
and Tennessee River Railroad Company holden at Column
biana the 9th day of July 1857 the following resolu
tons were adopted
Resolcod That the company deem it desirable and inn
portant that this company be fully represented at the
southern commercial convention to be held at Knoxville
Tennessee in August next and for this purpose that the
president appoint such number of delegates in his
Judgment will be proper to represent this company in
said convention
RESOLVED, That the president and directors be- and
they are hereby recommended to give all delegates to
said convention free passage over the railroad of the
company in going to and from the convention
Rev. j. M Shotwell, of Utica, New York. says the
Herald whose visit to New York. with pearls found in
Jefferson county, mentioned some time since, did not
realize much from his trip He improved his visit to the
city, however by visiting the various places where pearls
kept and learned that the stories circulated by the
newspapers not true The largest pearl found this
season sold for $500 it is the size of robins egg and
very pearl VI slle VI u laIBt peal Tree
from spots and of brilliant color is worth from So to
sl2. Mr. Shotwel says pearl-fshng, on the average,
will not pay fifty cents day.
The no-advance system, sorry to say (says the
New York Miror,) seems to have been triumphantly
abandoned Several ships lately sailed have been obliged
after considerable delay to Sgivc in," and pay the
usual advance SO the landlord pmps have crowded
merchant princes to the wall
HoT They have hot weather in st. Louis
On the l7th says the Republican the thermometers int
tod M in had
thirteen deaths from sun-stroke.
Gov. Wright, of Indiana expects to leave the United
States for Berlin in about two weeks and in addition to
his duties there minister he will represent The Metho
dist Episcopal church in the Worlds Christian Alliance
which meets there in September.
BAD FAIIUnEs.-Ihe failures in Melbourne, Australia
for four years reach e. s37 900 The composition paid
amounted to q pence in the poundless than "a per cent