The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-24

A FLouRIsHMa Notwithstanding to the official
catalogue for the winter session. the number of
circulated students in the University of Berlin is 1870
gain of 1873 on the session. They distributed
among the various faculties follows Theology, 292
Jurisprudence 694 medicine, 265; philosophy, $40. Be-
sides these there 706 non-matrcuans making total
Of 226 persons attending the lectures. Among the
dents 20 Americans Turk Greeks native Of Asia
Minor East Indian, and IL Russians The lectures are
delivered by l63 teachers of which of the faculty
theology, II of Jurisprudence 80 of medicine and "a
philosophy. The number of ordinary professors is so
| extraordinary AZ.
LIVING IowA.-The Davenport Qowa) Gazette says
that butter that place. is selling 80 cents per pound
80 cents per doze chickens 25 cents EACH turkeys
rs cents to 81 25 potatoes 81 per bushe coal 10 Is
cents per bushel; wood Sc to So per cord
A MIsER--Among the applicants to the committee of
council of Cincinnati for wood at half price last week was
who is estimated to be possessed of hard cash to
the amount of $4,000 $4,000 OF his applca-
ton was refused.
The HGREAT EASTERN This mammoth steamship which
expected to arrive at Portland exceeds the length
Noahs Ark $50 feet and that of the Persia the largest
steamship yet aoat 80 feet The wharves erecting for
her are expected to be completed in June
STEAMSHIP LINE BETWEEN BosroN AND New oRIEANs,-
The report of the Boston Board Of Trade in favor of line
of between that port and New Orleans has call
ed forth hearty approval from the New Orleans Chamber
Of Commerce.
SLEaHNa New YoRK.--A New York paper thus
speaks of the sleighing in that city:
"The jewellers the rural districts may talk as much as
they like about the pleasure and excitement of sleigh ride
in the country, but after ALL it dull monotonous affair
through principal thoroughfare Here there all the
variety which life in the city gives there nothing but
the white and dazzling Here you have four miles
Of thoroughfare presenting panoramic view which no
other city in the world surpass and joyous with the
sound of bells there nothing but the bleak country road
and desert of snow far the eye reach The ex
ensve custom which seghs Of every kind receive shows
how people appreciate sleigh ride in Broadway With
very few exceptions all companies have Withdrawn
their omnibuses and substituted seghs and those that
have not done so have been made to appreciate the differ
between vehicle wheels and vehicle on runners
by the consequent dimnutionn therecepts In fact the
driving of omnbuses at present losing business and
will be as long as the seghing continues good it is
Some OF the seighs provided with itinerant musicians
who amuse the passengers the performance of popular
negro melodies interspesed occasionally with selection
from an opera The old tin horns that reused the echoes
of Broadway in the great winter carnival of 1856
to be heard mingled with the cries and cheers of novel
sleghng parties they dash along at breakneck speed
LADY FRANKLIN AND THE Arctic SHIP REsoLurr-TheI
London Times of the goth ultimo says:
Lady Franklin accompanied by Miss Cracrot Mrs and
Miss Stewart Mckenzie Sir Roderick Murchison Mr. Ma
endie, Capt McClintock NJ and Mr. Cornelius Grinne
paid visit to the Resolute, Portsmouth harbor on
Saturday afternoon They received the quarter
deck by Captain Hartsten the officers and crew attended
by the United States vceconsul at Portsmouth The Res
dilute will be given over to the British
row. and Captain Hartstein, with his officers and crew
will return to the United States in the American steamer
Washington, from Southampton, on Wednesday.
ION Christmas day the whole of the crew were repaled
with excellent dinner Of roast beef and plum pudding
at the George Inn at the expense of the British
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The swrSDLER TnoMsoS- Thompson, the commercial |
writer for the New York Courier who left suddenly after
various parties appeared in London on the
rival Of the Persia and collected drafts he took out with
him. ..s