The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-11


statistics from last Saturdays St Louis Democrat The
Pacific railroad is evidently in fourishng condition.
Earnings for March, Observation-Disclosures $54 1856 40
Do for March, ls56.."........,.. ....... 30083 SIS
Increase 24sO2 90
Earnings for first foEr days in April $4,000 per
Yesterday over nine hundred passengers were carried
The road About five hundred went up bound for Kan
sas The Polar STAR one Of the lightning line left Kansas
City at nine o'clock Friday morning, and arrived at JEFF
in time for Saturday mornings train bringing one
hundred and thirty passengers for the railroad who were
10 The city at three o'clock yesterday Time dirty hours
from Kansas CITY
LAGER BsER-This pleasant beverage is fast becoming
institution and immense quantities drunk in all
the large cities We find In the newspapers the following
account of aronyenton" Of those who brew IL:
"a lager-beer festival of brewers from New York, Phil
adelphia Newark Hoboken, Wilmington and other Places
was held in New York last week, when premium was
awarded Messrs. Gaaz Kucber, for lhe beat beer
which cold to the visitors at shilling per glass
three times the usual price, The medal premium award
ed is curious figure of man. the body OF which repre-
ssnts huge barrel whilst other devices Of the trade
combined make up the apparel The whole is repre-
senation of NEUROLOGICAL character known the Ger
mans IS Gambrene or the god Of beer in dedication Of
the first manufacturer Of that drink. They are common
understand throughout Bavaria and the German States
where festivals similar this frequently held This
was the rs festva of the kind ever held in this country
aud the figure the first awarded by the managers Of
the 'Gardepip
" IS
THE MoRMoNs-The New Orleans Courier thus concludes
an article the denominations and excuses Of the saints
of Utah.
Eve not little gratifed TO learn that none, or
but very few of these Mornons natives of southern
States Such fact speaks volumes in rentstion Of the
We would congratulate our fowctzens Of the northern
States upon being rid Of so many OF their fanatics by emil
grafton Utah. did not know that for every that
has left there hundreds mora whose superstition
and bgotry equal In degree If diferen. in form
Mormonism, communism, MISREPRESENTATION agraran-
sm Ml'eris% sPritualis% wom M and asol
of which made less odious by any mutual hatred that
may exist among them.'
PERrUMEs-The passion for perfumes says Partisan
correspondent increases both in England and France
British India and Europe consume about 10000 gallons
of handkerchief odors yearly; and the English
from Eau de Cologne is about 5000 pounds sterling year
The total from imported perfumes in England is
estimated at about 10000 pounds per The largest
of the estates the borders of the Mediterranean
are hoss which proceed the of the orange bios
aud Parma vioets The house of Fague SO Rue de
Rchelieu and many Of the other pernmers Of Paris pay
yearly sum- varying from 10 to 10000 aucs to the pro-
petor for their whole crop of orange blossoms voets
The es du ciroer of FAguer of the favorite and
delightful odors used for scenng the pocket handkcr
chief
DISCOVERY or AuroaRApns-A writer in the New York
Times states that Mr. Henry Stevens of Vermont agent
the Smithsonian Institution in Paris, has discovered col
lection of four thousand letters wholly in the handwriting
of DR.. Franklin. The writer says:
"a great many Of them wee written from Passy near
Paris II is not generally known that franklin invented
the manifold copying ink and press in such general
medatey transferred into book OF tissue paper Frank
lin kept duplicates taken in this of all his letters
public and private The prime cost Of the collection
lO0O but Mr. Stevens to the further heavy of
whole OF mounted,
dsomely bound in Russian leather. They ndexed
Also Many of the letters had become ilegbc from age
and damp but SUCH carefully laid out highly gaz4d
Bristol board PASSED under heated metallic rollers
with great pressure which has quite restored the writing
DEAru THOMAS s. RIDewAy, sa.-We notice with re-
greet the death of Thomas s. Ridgway, of the early
pioneers into the Pennsy anthracite coal region He
died in Gloucester, New Jersey, Thursday morning last
the advanced age of 70 years He buried at Potts
ve Sunday last the cu-croppings of coal
He Of the early builders in Philadelphia. The
round shot-tower of Southwark stands of
his skill and industry He one Of those spirits who
introduced stone coal into this city before the Schuykil
canal was constructed and sent the first cargo Of coal
Through Gideon Scull, esq, to Boston. He and Mr.
Po endcavored to make anthracite iron in 1924 but failed
in the attempt In 1885 Mr. Rdgway succeeded in making
the first gray ron using stone coal fuel All who knew
him i'll miss his cheerful smile urbane manners and
form.
SAILING OF THE NIAeARA.---The New York Journal of
Commerce thus chronicles the stappearauce of the steam
ffigate Niagara:
"The great of the day the advent Of the
friga,e Niagara AT nine o'clock in the morning. the little
United States Vixen hauled alongside OF her she
lay the wharf ready for and escorted her out into
the East River opposite the yard where she dropped
Choir to await the of the tide Thousands gazing
from the shores and housops and every body seemed to
be full of admiration of this beautiful piece of naval arch
lecture when her immense and symmetrical proportions
swung gracefully to the stream.
although the complement Of mon allotted to her by the
department is about Eve hundred she win have only about
three hundred and fy this cruise Nor will be
ment on board and che carries along only four thirty
wopounders merely for signalling DC Her draugh
she lay the East River ~ feet inches aft az feet
and inches forward and in the opinion of OF the
old salts upon the wharf she in '6rstrate sailing
trim.
1T should not be forgotten that the great aim and end