The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-14
GENERAL ws.

NAVIGATION oPENIss--The Bugc, published at Council
Bluffs Iowa. states that the ST Mary from ST. Louis the
first boat OF the season. arrived there the 2sh umo
She with considerable difficulty from the running ice
woRrH MoNrMKNf-The municipal government of New
York has voted S24 900 for the erection of
the triangular plot OF ground bounded by the Fh avenue
Broadway and Twenty-afth street ia eommemoraon Of
this military services OF Major General Worth. The shaft
will be about ihriyhve feet ten inches In length and will
be decorated with representation OF military trophies
at Chippewa and Lundys Lane, in Florida and Next
CO. by Gen. WORTH together with the OF the battles
in which he figured cOnspicuously.
NEW JERsKY PEARLs-There aPP~Ars to be considerable
excitement Paterson New Jersey In regard the find
ing of about three hundred pearls rea in muscle shells
the affair seeming likely transform the Jersey fats into
East indies The New York Tribune has the follow
ing:
"A friend that pearl large as small
marble mot piece of chalk) hes been shown to Tiffany
Ellis, the well known Broadway jewellers who estimated
It's value at 81 900 and offered TO advance $500 it, Ii
lacks the peculiar tint of Eastern pearl otherwise
value would be almost incredible The man who owns il
has already sold small pearls to The amount of $780, Ev
body is the search and whatever be the result
there is evidently no lack Of nuscls at the dggings
The wKArHsRTho following paragraph, from the Cal
hoan Georgia. Platform of the OH inst is fair sample
of the weather news" from the sunny South =
weather in this vicinity First violent wind and raip and
then srow and hail storm. On Monday morning every
thing presented the appearance of bleak December day
Since then, the weather has continued quite COOL being
exceedingly Monday morning Vegetation that was
putting forth rapidly has received check that it viii
not recover of in several weeks Oar gardens will need
general repantng and the young fruit s no doubt all
killed.
CANADA bill to render the mayors Of towns and
cities in Upper Canada elective by people passed
second reading in the Canadian Parliament
THE SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION FLoRiDA-During the lat
ter part of February exploring expedition sent
from Williams College to Florida, under charge of PROBES
Cbadbourne The professor returned about ten days
since and the remainder of the company expected at
the close of the month The Pittsfed Eagle gives brief
account of the operations of the expedition On arriving
at St Marys the party separated part taking the schooner
for Key West and Cuba and the others remaining at Fer
nsndina to explore Northern Florida Professor c.
with the latter division. The Eagle says;
He reports 1t successful in collecting numerous and
valuable specimens OF BIRDS Shells serpents crusacea
only limited in quantity by lime for packing and ability for
transporting also, store of knowledge that can nowhere
else be obtained and the acquaintance of several southern
gentlemen enthusiastic in pursuit of this science which,
of ITSELF will be small benefit the society Sub-expe-
ditions made ia Nsrth Florida. A couple Of the
adventurous fellows took weeks tramp to Okefenokee
swamp and procured a gopher.
They visited planter, who with his thousand slaves,
devoted naturalist On his plantation house
containing five hundred birdssuch could be placed in
proximtyand forty negroes employ ed in tending
them. Here also ratesnakes of large size
skeleton Of "a feet onghus obtained the hunt
or saw smooth round hole near log and stopping to
look in the snake already coled, made spring at his
face which he avoided only by quick movement. He
killed and dsaected and anatomical it, lie experiment ted
with another to see how long would live without food
drink at the end of nineteen months aud eight days it
died apparently in good health"
THAYgn REpuLsED--A company of French gentlemen, as
readers have been informed considerable tract
of land in southwestern Yrgniawe believe in Wythe
county. Mr. Lacourteur, intelligent citizen of France
who is Of the company s in this country acting its
agent We learn from the Wythevie Telegraph that Eli
Thayer has proposed him recently to Join him in the
enterprise Of settling these lands Mr. L. declined the
tnre The Telegraph says that Eli out of the CORES
pondence with flea in his ear--RieAn0nd Dispatch.