The Washington union., 1857-05-23
GENERAL SUMMARY.


Monday made her appearance Ia our harbor yesterday
morning at O'Clock, being the frst boat from Lake Su-
peTior She made excellent from the Sault, hay
ing down in AS hours. We learn that the weather
very cold last Sunday, heavy of six inches
deep lying the deck and the mercury standing at IL
degrees below freezing point The steamer Illinois brings
intelligence Of the sinking of the propeller Manhattan at
the Saut Ste. Marie The water is said to have been
eighteen inches lower than before known She left
here the I'd of May with full cargo of -four pork
powder and merchandise bound for ontonagon and SUI
peror City The whole cargo Is badly damaged
The Elizabetbtown New Jersey Tribune Of the 10Th
inst says sin article pearls in Wednesday issue
said that hoped TO be enabled TO the dis
covery Of that should outrva for its spcndor and
value the great Kohinoor gem Of the frst water
We then spoke in jest. But to-day announce it as
GIa Mr.. VIM. Cree has Just shown pearl he found
this morning in the stream between Water and Broad
streets larger than good-sized walnut in shape per
feet oval This pearl is perfectly white and must possess
great value. We also many smaller of different
sizes OF varied forms possessed OF all the nts OF the
rainbow.
The St. Louis Leader states that there in Jail in
that city awaiting the carrying out of the sentence Of the
law four murderers Nuesin, Shultz IApointe, and Wor
rell The latter viii be taken to the county where poor
Gordon murdered the other three will be executed
in the city Jail yard The 18th of june is the day APP
pointed and il is hardly possible any further delay will
intervene unless executive cemency shall commute the
punishment
Mr. Robert Webb of Iewistown Pennsylvania, and H.
X Eaton, of the State landed in St. Louis ON We'd
nesday night from the steamboat Rocket and went up in
the city to transact business. Returning to the
steamer they became bewildered and asked two men to
escort them TO the Ioat This acceded 70, but the
escort the way attacked them, and Webb was murder
cd. Eaton was very dangerously wounded
The earnings of the Pennsyvania Lehigh Valley rail-
road for the month of April S36,092 49, being an
increase the earnings of the month last year Of
SIG 1I2 9s. On Saturday night last two engines with
trains came in collision this road, breaking
gne badly and smashing up lot OF coal cars
In Washington Me-, on the night of the 10th ut.,
Mary A. Hoke, young lady twenty years of age who
was suffering from severe toothache from her
bed built fire upon the hearth and lay down before it,
In few minutes she dropped asleep, when her clothes
took fire. and she severely burned that she died
three days after.
The ceremony of formally opening De veaux College,
at Niagara Falls an institution founded and munifccnty
endowed by the late Judge De Veaux of Niagara Falls
took place the goth instant in the college edi-
fce, just below Suspension Bridge Although no inn
posing ceremonial cont mpated the college chapel
was filed with gentlemen and ladies' from Niagara Falls,
Buffalo Lockpor and some Of the adjoining towns, and
the proceedings in the highest degree interesting
The steamer War Eagle recently made the trip between
Dubuque, Iowa, and st. Paul. Minnesota, in ahryfre
hoursrnaling twenty-seven landings and five woodngs
during her running time This is said to have been the
quickest trip of the season.
1t st ted that the shad fisheries in the Hudson and
Connecticut rivers better than usual this year, and the
fish taken very superior. From the mouth OF the
Connecticut to the dam at H ley Falls the senes
thickly and ndustriosy thrown At one hua last week
one of them took from 800 to 400 fish.
The Boston Traveller states that the North Carolina
gold mine pays Is per cent the par value, which is
about its regular earnings The capital stock of the
pany is $50, ,000 nearly onehaf of which is owned In
Boston.
was established by Samuel Hall other newspa
pers have been started in that city, fortysx of which
have broken up in bankruptcy.
Last week. while teegraphng to establish correct
longitude for solar observation at different places, the
lines simultaneously in operation between Chicago
and Quebeca distance by the elegraphic route of 400
miles; yet the electric fluid occupied apprecabe time
in passing
Arrangements are now perfected with the Cleveland
Beefontaine, Indianapolis Terrc Haue, and Alton rail
Is take passengers from Cleveland through to St.
| Louis in just day and fifteen astame-
The State Of Maine says that singular fatality
to have attended the shpbudng operations the Ken
nebun river last year of the most cnterprising
builders having died. become dangerously ILL., they
were about TO commence the spring business
The Savannah Georgian and Journal Of the Goth inst
learns that f. NJ Moore sheriff Of Brunswick had killed
John r. Wood the proprietor Of the Oglethorpe Hotel
Moore Immediately fed reward of 81 600 has beer
offered for his arrest
man of sixty years wooed tamsel of forty-ive, wht
lid not favor his suit The disappointed swain Tues
day last at Louisville Kentucky shuied off this mort
coil by taking stryehnne His name Norman, anc
he recently lived not the Champion hills but at Pleas
ureville, Kentucky
fire occurred at Neetsville Kentucky, Thursday
last The property and store of VIM Rentro and of Mcss
Beard & Mourving entirely destroyed. Loss esti
mated at from eight to ten thousand dollars
1t appears from the message of Mayor Wimen to tn,
councils Of ST. Louis that the bonded debt of that city
81 S5T 996 of which nearly two millions are stock il
railroads. There is deficiency in the treasury of owe
| three hundred thousand dollars.
! serious aray took place the steamer W. A. Fave
Monday evening, at New Albany in which James White
pilot on the boat very dangerously hurt and mar
/ drowned by jumping, or being knocked overheard.
The New York Second Avenue Railroad Company hav
placed on the route some with upper " huri
cane deck" light iron ladder affords the means TO
reaching it, and the deck two rows OF seats place.
| back TO back.
The Youngest son of Mr. Joseph jefferson, the popua
comedian died of scarlet fever at Richmond Virginia.
| the night of the 2Ist instant.
We learn from the London C. W. Free Press that tn
aborng employed the Great Western railway hay
struck The difficulty that exists is TO the tim
! the employees required to work.
An accident happened on the 2oth instant on the Chi
cago Fond du Lac, and ST. Paul railroad, short dis
tance west of Woodstock, by which two men were in
stanty killed.
The Episcopal convention Of Virginia assembled q
Petersburg on the 2lst instant Bishop Meade presiding
Rev Mr. Keper secretary, vice Rev Mr.. Woodbridge,
Richmond, resigned
/ A clerk Of the American Express Company at Ply
mouth Indiana abscondedo ON the 2ls instant with 50 so
in his possession but arrested at Crestlne and tn