The Washington union., 1857-05-02
GENERAL SUMMARY.


Leavenworth and forty recruits intended for light
pany b, Sd artillery, at Fort Smelling. Leuts Griffin,
Starr, Tyler Stanley, Wheaton, and Taylor accompanied
the first detachment, and Major Sherman the second
These recruits who had the appearance OF being young
healthy, and robust men, enlisted principally in
Philadelphia New York. and Boston, from whence they
transferred to the cavalry depot at Carlisle barracks,
where they have been thoroughly drilled and perfected
for the service under the immediate supervision of Col
Charles A. May.
The Carolina Times states that Professor Clark of Am
hers College while producing electrical light one day
last week, nearly struck blind by the blaze He has
been Obliged ever since to conine himself 10 dark room
80 painfully intense is the impression left upon the retna
of his eyes, that though the room il dark that his
friends and attendants cannot each other in it, to him
it seems to be filled with the most dazzling light
The Canandaigua and Emira railroad was sold ON
Thursday last to parties residing in Elmira, Penn YAM
and Providence Rhode Island for about $35 900, sub
ect to $500 900 due bondhodes and some 900 due
the operatives the road similar sale Of the Canaan
daigua and Niagara Falls railroad will take place next
month"; when it is thought the two roads will fall into the
hands OF one company, and be consolidated
orgetful passenger in train from Albany, last week.
became nearly frantic in the from the fact that he
had left his pocket book with 800, which all the
money he possessed under the pillow of his bed at the
hotel in Albany where he had passed the night The
conductor bade him be quiet and at the next station tel
egraphed to Albany statement of the loss and received
| an answer that the money was safe.
Professor Moineaux, lblack man, proprietor of the
Worcester Gymnasium adveriises that he has made
eal applications in that city for tenement suitable for
himself and family but has been refused on account t
his color Worcester is the hotbed of aboIitionism and
| negro philanthropy,
The Austin Crexas) State Gazette learns from Lam
pasas that the people will make twothrds of crop from
the fall wheat and that the spring wheat is but little in
jurcd In several parts OF northern Texas the frost Of
the 9th ult did but little damage to the wheat The
frost of the lth ut not in portions Of
the State. I
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mail steamer to be called the Scotia, is now build
ing on the Clyde to between Liverpool and the Uni
ted States She will be 450 feet in length which il 60
feet longer than the Persia present the largest ship
aoat The Scotia WILL it is expected supass in speed
the Persia, the fastest steamer in the world.
An old maid recently died at Newton, N H. who left
property to the value of nearly $40 00O She all her
lifetime getting ready to be married. and had stored up
1872 sheets, 63 coverles so blankets "a beds with 1870
pounds of feathers, 54 pillows, 43 handkerchiefs while
the whole amount of her wearing apparel did not exceed
ten dollars in value.
The Philadelphia Ledger states that gentleman in
that city, Tuesday last posted letter containing
draft for 900 The letter not arriving at New York.
telegraphic despatch sent to the gentleman who
upon repairing to the post Office found that his letter
detained because he had neglected to prepay the postage
The Paterson, N j. pearl fishery proves to be hum
bug after all. One family, at least has been placed in
comfortable circumstances by the result of the search
One last week poeketed $500 the reward of his
work for the six days.
1t stated that the canals of New York longer
of revenue, and unable to sustain the
immense burden of debt which improydent legislation
has cast upon them The total State debt the Ist of
January, 1857 S3l 900, and with the
| amount chargeabe on the canal revenues amounts to
| $36, 900, 900
The Charleston Mercury Of the 3Oth ut states that
brief telegraphic despatch received by correspond
ent of the Courier stating that collision had taken
place between the up and down trains of the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad about nine miles from Memphis
rnpixrap 1tfi ic
thing serious had happened from it, should have had
| information.
The president and of the directors of the Long
Island Bank New York made oath before the grand jury
of King county that the defalcation of VIM B. Smith,
late first teller of that bank exceeds $26 900 The amount
for which his securities liable only $50 000 and it
is said they have proposed to compromise by paying
Sic, 900. .., !, .. ...a.s.
W. H. Buchanan, esq., of Marshall county, Virginia, n
we'll known virginan poet and author, died suddenly
in Wheeling the 30h ult of disease of the heart Mr.
Buchanan sixty years of age and had long been
connected correspondent with the National teligen
| Ger and Home Journal
The official report of railway casualties in England for the
last year states the number to be 2Sl killed. 39i injured
The calculation is that passenger in every sixteen
and half millions carried killed. the other accidents
having occurred to persons either the servants of the
panies or neither passengers nor servants.
| The Burlington Qowa) Sentinel says that Fayette
Thompson convicted Of robbing the ticket Office of the
Rutland and Burlington Railroad Company preferred
plating his offence in the State prison to beggarng his
father who offered to bail him TO the full value of his
| property
In order to convince neghbor Of the usefulness of
birds, farmer Binghamton New York, last year.
shot yellow bird in his wheat field opened its crop and
found in it two hundred weevils and but four grains Of
wheat, and in these four grains the weevs had bur
| rowed.
Certain members of the Canadian Parliament have been
charged with receiving heavy brides for pushing through
railway charters and contracts Proofs of bribery in
instance to the amount of $500 0OO and in another of
500 000 said to have been discovered and will be
produced in evidence before the railway committee.
The Harrisonburg Vrginia) Register states that the
rumors of smallpox at that place greatly exaggerated,
and adds the authority OF physician, that there have
been, altogether only of small pox and one
of yarooid in the town, and that there symptoms
| of the disease known elsewhere.
The Cooperstown Frceman's Journal of Michigan, says
that Tuesday last, in that town. the ground
cred to the depth of 20 inches, In parts
of the country the is said to be three feet deep.
The legislature of New Jersey passed at its late session
| an act which enables traders mechanics, and others
having dealings with steamboats, vessels of any descp
ton to bring action in inferior courts instead of resort
ing to the admiralty laws, and places Justice within the
reach of men of moderate means.
The Jackson Mssissippian contradicts the report SO
widely circulated tha the laws of Mississippi have been
sent to Boston to be printed
fire broke out night before last in large moulding
large packingbox factory and kindlng-wood factory
all of which consumed Three large brick dwelling
houses badly damaged. The loss is estimated at
$40 900