The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-06-20


The Boston Courier states that the third occasion
celebration Bunker Hill equal TO those which had
marked the laying Of the and the completion
Of the monument. Hon. Edward Everett delivered the
address the part of the Bunker Hill Monument Asso
citation concluding with the following eloquent appeal
And, oh my friends let the lesson of fraerna afcc
ton which he taught in his death be repeated in the
persuasive silence of those stony lips In his heart
stirring language, let the voice of fathers blood cry
TO us from the ground and upon this sacred day and
this Immortal hill let ii proclaim truce 10 sectional
alienation and party strife the medieval church pro-
claimed the truce OF God Wherever else the elements
Of disord may rage let the pillows sink down and the
storm be hushed like yonder placid waves the foot OF
Bunker HILL Here lei the kindly feelings that animated
our fathers revive in the bosoms of their sons assured
that~should malice domestic foreign levy invade
us-if living champions should FAIL that monumental
cheek would burn With the glow Of patriotism that
bic sword would leap from its scabbard and the heaving
sods of Bunker Hill give up their shected regiments TO
the defence Of the Union
As counterpart Of this steamboat comet story says
the New York Evening POST we remember that
told about the people of certain village who assembled
To the first locomotive pass by the rails Not one
of them had the slightest idea what sort OF animal II
and they busy with all kinds of conjccurcs
smoking aud roaring monster In the distance,
with unaccountably long tail behind it, Nobody sup
posed this to be a travelling invention and as 1t ap
preached the good people were COMPOUNDED and desper
ately puzzled Fortapstely, there John Podgers
in the villsge and he was called on to explain IT, John
wiped his glasses, and looked hrs nose with pro-
found, a-knowing gaze After due observation ooh j!
said he, eyes that's ii at last gentlemen that is the
tn, that has kept the Congress of the United States Ia
srcb sa,sbble for the last three months That Is sr
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Rev D. A. Davis, Of Pittsylvana county, exhibited at
This Office specimen of gold taken from mine dscoy-
cred last year twelve miles southwest Of the court
bousa on, the western slope Of the White OAK mouh'u
The iiss are known the Elliott Mines ana owned ~
Davis & Hutchiiigs. There also two other mines
nrted liz the same company. opened the present year
which Give promise of rich yield OF the precious ee
be specimen shown Is Of the finest quality valued AT
alout tUer dollars an ounce AL - t,,st ,e s,,nnIv
been explored sufficient, :
is ineshaustible. Lncibury Vng,nm... ,,v of
The papers In southwestern Virginia speak favora.-
the wheat crop in their section They report the crop as
somewhat late but than usually promising The
accounts to from the Charlestown (kanaw
hal and Parkersburg region. The Winchester Vrginian
thinks the crop must fall greatly below
Equally unwelcome reports sent forth from the
Northern Neck from Essex, and from the neighborhood
Of Williamsburg. Upon the James river, above and be-
low Richmond the crop has, to all appearance improved
wonderfully within the last month.
1t is estimated that the whole expended in the
business of exploring and working the copper mines on
Lake Superior up to January 1851 about s., 600,
900. The present value Of the best mining establishment
in that region set down at IS 500 000 and the whole
amount of copper produced up January is estimated
at So 67s 100 Balance in favor of the mines, 81 673
100 but Ii the unsuccessful establishments bc
nated at onc-quartcr Of their cost, and this estimate
added, the balance will be more than doubled.
The Dubuque Northwest states THAT at period in the
history of Dubuque has real estate commanded higher
prices Immense sales Of real estate property have been
made by several of leading business within two
three weeks and no very percepble change seems to
have Indicated downward tendency In transactions in
this kind Of property, Money however, is becoming
steadily easier in market, and hope to be able
to chronicle the good time come, when flush
cash condition will be permanent institution among us.
The Cairo Inois) Times and Delta states that Judge
Parish recently decided in the Union county circuit
court that when person goes aboard of passenger
without having paid his fare in advance and the same il
demanded by the conductor of the train and reflsa TO
take him to the next station but may cxpel him at once
unless y such expulsion the life health Of such person
would be thereby endangered and that the offer of
bunk bill demanding return of change, is not tender
of the fare, or offer to pay it.