The Washington union., 1857-05-20
GENERAL SUMMARY.

lican don jump from the when in motion but If
you think you must and won't be persuaded 10 behave
like sensible man. this is probably the way to do it
jump sidewise high you cam and when in the air
your legs up and bend the head forward You will
strike the ground with that part of the body that is or
should be cushioned by nature for the purpose and you
will roll away from the train in the manner Of a wheel
Hands, avoid the scratches had better be in their trous
ers pockets If you survive the operation you win feel
better il quite likely than you had bundered OFF
without regard to the rules of science and broken your
neck or cracked the dome of thought One experiment
will probably satisfy you to the convenience and COM
fort of this method of getting of the cars.
Advices to the 25th ult have been received from Ca
racas, Venezuela. Popular opinion averse to the
constitution The popular voice had been stied by
the abolition of trennia legislatures. Governors, hither
to elected appointed and dismissed by the Execu
tive The Capitalization of power in the hands of the
Monagas family was complete-n fact they exercise al
most imperial without the ostenation OF imperial
dignity. The people disconented and revolution
expected very Gen. Flores had left Iagunym
for St. Thomas after being honored with the nominal
rank of generan- chief of the republic.
A sanguinary quarrel stately took place amongst the
presidential galley slaves in the barracks of Ganatetro
close Naples The quarrel about some Chiefs
(caccoristi, they technically clled) The doors
shut the military guard called out and when the
dispute was over IL found that twenty
killed. and thirty wounded The generate beaten, and
was heard the palace whence it occasoned consider
Bile alarm, and the troops were called out
London letter says that the prospect of the silk crop
France the coming out, and mischief has
been observed thus far although recent return of cold
weather caused great apprehension In Spain and Italy,
where the is earlier the little spinners have
cessully passed what called the second stage Last
year in those countries the unvorable symptoms had
manifested themselves before this and hope that the
crop may now escape is therefore strengthened
| The tannery of Messrs. Howe Lincoln, at Newark
Valley New York. burned to the ground the 18th
inst From to three thousand sides of leather
in the lofts, of which saved The green stock
in the yards all saved The total loss is estimated
at $40 900 The stock mostly owned by parties in
New York and Boston. Messs. Howe Lincoln are in
sured for SIS, 900, and viii rebuild the tannery.
The Rev. William Lee, d. D., Fellow of Trinity Col
ege and author Of Lectures the Inspiration of the
Holy Scripture has been elected to the pofessorshp of
Ecclesiastical History in Dublin University vacant by the
promotion of Dr. Fitzgerald to the see of Cork The
protessorship recently founded by the Lord Prmate
the Chancellor of the University who subscribed 900
| towards its endowment
They going says the Charleston Standard to cele
brate the Fourth of July with considerable pomp in
Winnsboro'. meeting to be holden yesterday for
the purpose of eecipg orator and making suitable
rangements for the OCCASION The Register thinks that
the anniversary of the Declaration has to be
elected and that efforts should be made to restore it
| its pristine Importance.
The Madison wisconsin, Argus says there is older
citizen than Peter Nassau, of Pomfret, Vermont in Wis
consn, He is called "old Creie and born in Mon
treal 1870 years ago. His memory Is distinct for period
of IL years He married at New Orleans q century
ago. and now resides with Of his grandchildren, who
is upward of sixty years old He is still hale and hearty
and does not appear to be over seventy.
The Ottawa &C. W. Citizen says The stock of white
pine manufactured on the Ottawa this season. together
with what laid from last year, will amount to
about IL 800 900 feet that the St Lawrence about
$500 900; and the ST. Maurice 600 600; in all about
90 400 900 feet We understand that there is not
than 900 900 feet of red pine ready go market the
coming season.
| A fire commenced in Hoolsett woods on Saturday
night Says the Manchester, New Hampshire, Mirror of
the l4th nsant and has been raging since Over
two thousand acres have already been burned over,
and at least from fifteen hundred to two thousand cords
of wood destroyed. 1t is still raging extending and
varying with the changing wind.
The Legislature of Minnesota has made an appropra-
ton of $40 0O0 which has been placed at the disposal
of the governor to the four alleged to have
been captured by the Indians and carried off in the
Indian disturbances on the frontier
The extensive saw-mill belonging to George Moore,
situated few miles above Courant, Louisiana,
ely destroyed by fire the evening Of the 7h There
insurance the property and the loss is stated
at not far from 100000.
The present high price of provisions will likely result
benecally to those who attening hogs for next fall
The Louisville Journal notes contract made by Of
the packers of that city for 1000 head of Indiana hogs
to be delivered in November, at 81 so gross which is
equal TO about Sc so in Louisville.
r. J. Wright sacond lieutenant of United States dra
goons committed suicide fcW days ago at Chicago I
nols. Ills was tOufd GltSOn statlOn--aDou
twenty miles south of Chicagowith bnet through
his heart No pistol, however, could be found him
or the body.
Rev. j. T. Montgomery, late president of the Lagrange
Female College, Georgia. has accepted the presidency
the Centenary Institute at Summerield, Alabama, and
will enter upon the discharge of his duties the first Oc
tober next
The Alton Courier the public against the eating
green's the tops of the pie plant rhubarb Within
the last few days number of instances have occurred
in which their has severely poisoned those who ate
Of them. The symptoms were violent purging and vom
iting.
The Davenport Gowa Gazette learns that seven hun
dred German families their way to that city
and neghborhood, the first Of the spring emigration
The machinery of the Montreal water works. the res
ervo and the distribution have already cost in
numbers, fIO0, ,000 and f1O0 900 is yet required
to complete the works. making total expenditure o
f200, 900.
A gentleman who has just returned from a somewhat
extensive trip through Upper Canada informs the Roches
ter Democrat that nothing exceed the promise of tn,
wheat crop there, and unless evil unexpected
shall beall it, there will be unusually bounul har
vest the present
The examination of McHenry, alias Townsend at Ceve
land Ohio closed the 18th inst with the prisoner be
ing remanded until his identity with the Canadian mur
derers has been established
The railroad route from Philadelphia to Scranton
New Jersey, via the Northern Pennsylvania road at Eas
ton, is now fully in operation.
The ship Charles, Of Baltimore from New Orleans
bound to Africa arrived at St Thomas the 2sth ut