The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-09-05
GENERAL SUMMARY.

The New York Herald of Thursday says 'Ihe panic Ia
Wall street has completely subsidized There Wac no es
dence whatever yesterday OF excitement IN the street NO
failures occurred and things began TO assume Their nc
customed aspect No better evidence Of the confidence
shared by the Of the people could be found than
the fact that the deposits in the savings banks increased
The defulting teller Of the Mechanics Banking Assoca
ton Mr. Van Barcom, has been discharged no chAige
being brought against him except that of breach OF trust
which is not indctable offence He has shown that
the money loaned to customers of the bank, whose
notes he holds security and that none OF IL was applied
to his own use.
At Springfield Illinois, Thursday, the great sale OF
stock imported from Great Britain and Ireland in July
last by the Illinois Importing Association came of The
company derived profit of eleven thousand dollars by
the speculation The horse Young Branon half brother
the great English Fandango which cost 81 loZ
was sold for So $50. Bayock, Cleveland bay brought
81 600. Defender, bull and Admiral, red,
which cost about $1,000 each sold for 1000 each
Rachael rich roam cow purchased for SlII0 Drought
So OBS. Emeral, young heer, brought ~, 10. The
whole lot with the exception Of the sheep which there
was considerable loss, sold at large advance.
We were shown Tuesday last says the Ashevilie
On ca News, very rich and beautiful specimens OF
copper Just discovered about nineteen miles west of this
place, Homony creek, in Haywood county These
discoveries been thoroughly tested and yield from
twelve-and-a half to sixfve per cent of pure copper
The vein is said to be the largest discovered in this
country four feet wide and Of unknown depth
The fortunate discoveries Messrs. H. Bonham and H.
Chapman the former of Smyth and the latter of Giles
county Virginia They have been working in the neigh
borhood two years. and success at length crowns their
efforts
Hon. John Jay has recently purchased the house stu
in the town of Lewisboro Westchester county, New
York in which Major Andre the spy confined sub
sequent to his interrogation by Paulding, Williams and
Van Vert. The building is story plain structure
with basement high cellar underneath, and is in
good state of preservation Mr. Jay has stepped in In
good time TO and perpeuate this object of revou
onary interest which, in with too many Others
of similar character all the country has thus far
been suffered to go unreclaimed
The olean N. W Advertiser thus notices editoally
that Er N s. Butler one of most entcrprising
chants, and Miss Libbie A. Wade, were united in the
bonds Of inatrimony the First Presbyterian Church in
this village Tuesday morning last The happy couple
started the day for New York. where the bridegroom
intends purchasing larger stock of goods than for
net cash
The executive committee of the Alabama State Agri
cultural Society," at recent meeting, passed resolution
inviting Hon. Edward Everett to be present the
sion of the approaching fair Of the society to deliver
address agriculture and his address thc Life Char
acter and Death of Washington.
The renowned imported stallion ''Glencoe' died at
the stables of Mr. Keen Richards in Scott county Ken
lucky, Tuesday last He was splendid racer in Eng
land In his younger days He was rs years Old Mr. Rich
ards purchased him few months since for three Thousand
dollars
Two hunters killed 81 ratesnakes the 23d Of Au-
gust on Rattesnake HILL Sullivan county N. Y. There
were besides, in embryo than 900 twenty-fou
were taken from one venerable head of great many
broods many of the old three and four feet
long
Accounts from Liberia announce that the colonsts
suffering severely from want of food The failure of the
rice crop and the lack of industry the part the emil
grants from the United States to have produced
sorry state of affairs in the colony.
Among the arrivals by the steamer Asia at New York.
from Liverpool, are Charles Matthews, the comedian
Max Maretzek and his prma donna, Signora Ramos
and the danseuse M Lmaroux, who forms one OF Sig
nor Ronzani's ballet troupe
According to the Saratoga papers, the arrivals at the
several hotels at that place for sevenyour days have
against To- Cos for sevenyve days last
The hotels will continue open until the LIST of October
The South Caronian of Tuesday says "a despatch
last evening President Caldwell informs of the
nexon of the Georgia and South Carolina railroad by the
completion of Of the tracks at 4, p M yesterday
According the accounts of the New York insurance
offices 4O6 vessels mostly American have been lost du
ring the eight months OF 1851, valued, with their car
goes, at $ll, $50 aoa
Portable steam cngInes employed In Philadelphia
to hoist brick and mortar in the erection of buildings
Three employed to each machine, and the labor
of six men il saved lg
The New York Day Book says that there is married
lady in that city who enjoys the luxury Of less than
one hundred and twenty dresses twentynne of which
mourning dresses
The tobacco crop in the Connecticut valley looks
commonly promising The surface set this year is said
to be larger than before.