The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-07
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CANADIAN rRApr-It is stated that the customs
of Canada for 1856 oos up total of 81 being
increase 600 the of 1855 This
supposed to be the result of the new Canadian tariff
which abolished the thirty duty and increased
the specific duty articles of luxury The from
the public works in 424 being increase of
SIS 92 the previous year The value of the goods
imported into Canada in 1856 $3o,6l3382 being
increase of 1877 the previous year. The value
of the imports the leading ports may be stated thus
Montreal, l6.25oooo; Toronto $7,ooO,ooo; Hamilton
SIS 100000; Quebec, $349o,ooo Kingston, So 200 600
Windsor, $63o,0o0.
The ssow-sroRM IN New YoRk.-The New York Tribune
of Tuesday thus speaks of the of Sunday night
last
awben the people in this stirring part the world woke
up Yesterday morning and peered into the streets they
found their great astOnishmen that the season had
gone back from the mild region of spring. and was passing
through the January snowstorD The roaring
north wind the tornado of sleet and snow seemed
once more have made night of it. There was,
over disagreeabe addition and that the loose dirt
Of the which blown about with the snow COW
ering everything with deposit OF mud and manu- e.
TnE UNIVERSITY OF NAsHvnLE-The ceremonies of the
annual commencement of the medical department of the
University of Nashville took place in that city Saturday
night last upon which occasion the degree of Doctor of
Medicine was conferred upon hundred aud thirty
approved candidates M@
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF New YoRK-The annual
commencement of the medical department of the Unver
sty of New York held Wednesday evening last The
degree ofM d. conferred upon hundred and twelve
graduates.
PREPARATION FOR THE RECEPTION THE REMAINS OF DR..
KANE AT Observation-Disclosures arrangements are be-
ing made in Philadelphia to receive the remains of the late
Dr. Kane At meeting of the joint committee of the c
zens of that city Wednesday last stated that they
had decided upon a regular form of proceedings. The
committee to receive the remains of Dr. Kane from
the committee appointed by the city of Baltimore at the
depot from whence they to be conveyed in process
son which would be participated in by large number of
military and civic bodies who had already expressed their
desire to do So to the State House. and be laid in
the Hall of Independence, until claimed by the friends
A GREAT BARGAIY.-The ship Adriatic of New York, of
1900 tons and only five months DID, which was lately
stranded near Dungarvon Irish Channel was Sold hull
and cargo f50 and has since been got of and taken
into Queenstown When repaired and rugged aesh it is
thought she will be worth fully $4,000
LOTTERIES IN DELAWARE There is much discussion in
Delaware as to the propriey of making further lottery
grants 1t appears there before the legislature three
applications for lottery grants to extend period Of ten
years The Wilmington Republican says that of these
was known the Wood grant, and was advocated by
Hon. George Reid Riddle and others; another known
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Broadben and others while the third was represented by
ex. Governor Tharp and others.
NEW NODE OF TAKING COD AND HADpocK-We learn
(says the Boston Transcript that the Newbuyport fisher
men have recently adopted and very successful mode
Of encpg the cod and paddock OF Massachusetts, Bay from
their baunts Long traplnes, to which attached
great number of hooks set upon the lodges and
neced by buoys with the surface of the water These
lines are allowed to remain for about twentyour hours
and when drawn up usually found to be loaded with
pscatory treasure of several hundred pounds weight
Nineteen hundred pounds of fish obtained from three
of these trap-lines few days sincea good days work
with fish at prices So great has been the upon
the hardware dealers in for hooks that the supply
these barbed instruments Of destruction has been
peey exhausted and large orders have been despatched
10 this city TO meet the demands of the enterpsng fisher
men.
GFIrry YEARS nEScEn-Right Rev. Bishop Clarke (ssys
the Baltimore Americau) is stated to have delivered
Gently lecture the above subject in which the
following passage whether intended for prophecy satire
however we are not exactly able to determines
"Fny years hence the new Unmarried pair will step into
an emporium for the sale of houses look the book Of
patterns seect one to suit their and means order It,
and it will be sent home in the morning. put together and
occupied at night
In travelling as great changes will take place Instead
of the dusty road and crowded car there will be splendid
locomotive hotel flying road carpeed with turf and
bordered with shade trees and heradng its approach with
sweet music instead of the demoniac shrek OF the steam
whistle and labelled through from Boston San Francis
co In four days
Instead the unsghty telegraph poles there win be-
fifty years hence work underground, and under the
bosoms of the deep and II will click off thoughts instead
of words Then the electric battery will light all the street
lamps once enable all the clocks in the city to keep
act time and kndle the beacons the dangerous rocks
where now hazard their lives and ont their
lonely days.
aTben the author will not write by our slow process
ho dapv IN
invented photographed instruments and putting his fin
gers on the keys, write as fast as he can think.