The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-10
LOCAL NEWS.

Ihh OAFlfoL-lbo contrast between Dlhck huu WING
scarcely more striking than is the present deserted and
quiet appearance Of the Capitol compared with the
crowd and hustle 80 recently witnessed there few Gu
ous strangers occasionally examining the pic
lures in the rotunda looking into the Representative
chamber which has been stripped of its carpets and its
curtains that it resembles "a banquet hall deserted The
post Office is yet haunted by of the employees and
believe that the library is occasionally opened but gen
orally speaking, death-ke silence reigns.
Out of doors there is evidence of vitality every hand
Labores are engaged In excavang for the foundations of
the corridors which the additions with
the old edifce Mechanics busy, in strong force on
both Of the additions the dome, and in the
shops Decorative painters finishing the gaudy ceiling
Of the House OF representatives, and the conceptions Of
the accomplished architect who has planned and has d.
rected these improvements, will soon be carried out
The grounds although marred by the building opera
TONS appear to great advantage in tho verdaut livery of
SPRING and the owerbeds filed with hyacnths in full
bloom
Coon FRIDAY.-The Catholics celebrate to-day by the
yeneraon of the Cross chauntng the passion and the
"Tenebrao with the "Stabat Mater Tomorrow, "Hoy
Saturday the Pascha candle is blessed and the aExuc,'
is sung
wAsmSaroS mAnKEr.-The following list of prices at
the Centre Market yesterday morning shows that Wash
ington is not place where one can 'live cheaply"
Beef sold at ga Is cents per pound, mutton 10 Is
cents veal 10 l5 CENTS salt and fresh pork l24 cents
pigs feet rs cents set l2t cent? butter in roll 20
81 cents, print do 81 37a GEMS, Philadelphia print do
40 cents 10 per bushel, meal rs cents
so cent? shorts 20 cents, shpstuff 81 90 censi
chickens 37} so cents eggs 20 cents per dozen Irish
atoes 40 so cents per peck sweet do 70 cents hams
Is cents shoulders l21 cents side pieces Ia Is cents
dried beef IL cents lard 6 cents and supply small In
the fish market prices had downward tendency; sbad
per pair 81 cents rock per bunch rs cents large rock
81 ST. 90 each perch Der bunch rs cens herring, per
dozsn, l29 cents. .
dred, and herring 81 a ST 80 per thousand"
THE SKINNER rnIAL.Whle the counsel were discussing
before the circuit Wednesday whether the mute
children should be examined TO the manner in which
Dr. Skinner had treated them it suddenly discovered
that FIVE Of the had disappeared 1t has since been
,ned that Mrs. Skinner carried them in hack to
Badensburg where they took the for Baltimore. DR..
Skinner was arrested few hours afterwards for contempt
Of court having absented himself without leave.
THE KaLLocH TRAL--Shing,on has the Police Gazette
of this week. which contains full report of the trial OF
Rev j. S. Kalloeh which has created such excitement
in Boston.
AppeIsrMEsr-Dr Charles s. Frailey has been appointed
and commissioned justice of the peace for this county
ALARM pEII.-Thc Franklin Fire Company have pur-
chased the fine alarm bell cast by Register Webb and
recently exhibited at the fair of the Metropolitan Mechanics
Institute,
SHAD pARrIEs-The first of these pleasant excursions
off Saturday, and learn that Others
templaed. The old steamer Salem" which often
used for these parties burned at her wharf in George
town last winter
A LATE GArRlL rooI.r--We find in many of ex-
changes the Of story full of thrilling in
terest and surprising beauty and those in this Vi
entity who become interested in 1t that they will find
that they have fooled by of the Ledger advertise
menta aud will have TO send to Shlingons for the
mainder Of the romance.
THE misunderstanding II seemed probable that the
Arctic ferocty of winter would resn and that al
though despoed of early fruit by the hypeborean
temperature of the past week. might reasonably expect
pleasant weather The telegraph informs us, how
ever that the cold SNAP felt far away down in the
Sunny South and it would that the citizens OF all
the Atlantic States this year appreciate the meaning Of
ColeIidge's line
"The spring comes slowly up this way
rREcEpENr.Thc good people Of East Boston are pro-
they politically annexed and in answer to an objection
raised that atha general government will not permit the
erection Of bridge between its navyyard at Charestown
and the ocean, they say "The general government has
sanctioned bridge between its custom house at George
town. D. c. and the Is it not as fair to obsruct
navigabe highway of commerce in one case as in an
other ~ This strong point for Georgetown friends