The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-10
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red to the Committee on Invalid Pensons.
GENERAL NEWS. &E
GOOD MoyE-A movement is on foot in the aup.towD,
fashionable section Of New York city to number all ina
private dwellings, in large gilt figures upon the ga
plates the front DOORS rendering them visible at night
as well as by day.
DUEL In KENrucKY-A duel was fought ON New Year,
day by two officers at the Newport barracks 1t ia under
stood that after the @ fire the seconds nterered and d
amicable adjustment WINS accomplished.
Hosomss osrs eUrsrs--we clip the following from Ii,
New York Mirror:
aAt large and rather promiscuous party up town IN
other night Zone thousand invitations having been i
sued the host exhibited the latest novelty of the season
Two policemen In uniform stationed at the entrau,
of the supperroom Whether this display necessa,
to keep Young New York In order to prevent the my
terious disappearance of silver is not known Neither 4,
PLANTATION is complimentary to the guests"
PESAsYLvAEIA.--The total valuation of the Commou
wealth of Pennsylvania, for all the counties as shown b
the auditor generals report, is 1851 ,73l so4on wh
there Is tax assessment Of $l64s967 76. The numbr
Of taxable inhabitants is 1856. The amount of stock
held by incorporated companies Is $l723,496. Value
railroads and canals $33,3e5,6l6
MARYLAND.--The finances Of Maryland are represents
W DC IN very exCceuL COnultOu Inere IL SAID
balance in the treasury from the receipts Of last year
about 2ssooo, which, added to tho surplus remaining
the previous year. gives total surplus in the treasury
nearly 100000 The receipts of the State for The ven
about $l,23o,af2 and the disbursements about 81
0O3, $50.
USosrEsrArous cHARIrY.-A wealthy lady Of Boston
with the aid Of few friends, prepared bountful fas
for fifteen hundred poor children in Boston, and spread
for tbar,; IN Eona Hall Norv L..
of the feast each child presented with comforaN,
garment and pair Of shoes.
LAYING RAILS BY srEAM.-Two engineers on the yir0n,
Central railroad have contrived machine for laying rail
road tracks by steam. According to the account publish
ed, it does all the work Of grading the road laying thu
ties and putting the rails and chairs in position The ma
chine used is sixytwo feet in length and it is estimated
that it will lay track at the rate of ten feet minute
DEATH OF MrDsH1pMAN GRAHAM Midshipman Richard
Graham, attached to the United States sloopoEwa
Constellation, died recently at Constannope and WA
buried in the Kara Protestant Cemetery with mli,ar,
honors He was from the District Of Columbia and en-
tered the Naval Academy in 1861
The VERMONT STATE HoUsE-This State house. which
was burnt few days ago, built about twenty YEAR,
ago. and cost $4,000 The Boston Journal SAYS that Al
the time fits erection 1t considered unequaed for
architectural beauty and convenience Of arrangement for
the purposes for which it designed by any other Cap
to building in the United States save onehat at Raleigh
North Carolina.
MACON tsD WAnRrNroN RAr1RoAD.--The Augusta Ctn
st...atonalist says:
son Tuesday next l3th instant convention to cnsda
the above project will be held in this city Sever al Of h
counties through which the projected road is TO pass ha
appointed delegates What other interests will be reprs
sented2 Will the Georgia Railroad Company be repre-
scented? Will the South Carolina railroad be- represent
ed? viii the city Of Macon send deegases2 VIII ths
cities of Augusta and Charleston send delegates?
These questions suggest themselves to All who taxa
an interest in the project Let the subject have fail
and full bearing and be discussed in all its bearingsn
The BosroN LrBERAroR.-An exchange naner has N,
following
1.-THE Boston Lberator commences on its oath yolum.
with new type. Mr.. Garrison says that the number q
its subscribers is no greater than it was twenty yea
ago It's receipts during the last year have diminished
and its number Of subscribers reduced
DIsPosING OF NEWSPAPER OFFICE BY LorrERy--A Schs
nectady newspaper proprietor proposes to sell his establish
men which is valued at $4,000, on the following terms
he will issue two hundred tickets which will be sold at ton
dollars apiece and numbered from up to two hundred
AS soon as the tickets all sold an equal number will b
placed in proper receptacle and the first drawn numb
will entte the holder thereof to the establishment
FlsHERnEs's LucK.--The Yarmouth Register saws ths
fishermen at that place are doing good business
mining for eels
Large quantities Of these fab are every day sent to Nov
York market via railroad where they bring from five
six cents per pound before being dressed The arpe
quantity are taken in Orleans less than ps tons oH
that town beng shipped at depot one day last week
This business affords employment for something like ons
hundred men in that place. and they are enabled to &
about So per day for an ordinary days labor
OUrRAaEous-A wretch Of husband and father wriAs
thus to an editor in Providence, Rhode Island:
IF women were turned out Of doors in Kansas with no
more clothes on than my wife and daughters wore wh.
they went to party cold night last week it wou
have been an outrage and the Journal would have hal
two leaders about itD
LOCAL NEWS.