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The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-15
IOWA ELECTION.

Extract Of letter to gentleman in this city from
friend in Iowa city, under date Of April 8:
ri am happy inform you that have carried the city
and county in the election on Monday last.
Rsno beat jerome for mayor Ia votes. We elected al
dermsn; black republican, 4; they having made new
ward out of Lyons Additionmakng wards II. futile
elected county Geo. w. Clark also has major
ity for Judge in this county but is probably defeated
al have returns from the other countless but II they
have done like johnson have carried the State.
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-15
LATER FROM CENTRAL AMERICA, CALIFORNIA,
AND OREGON.--ARRIyAL OF THE MAILS BY THE
QEORaE LAW .#t-t#

GEORGE LAW.
By the arrival of the steamer George Law at New York
from Asppwall have received full files of San Fran
cisco papers for the fortnight ending March 90
The Alta Californian gives the following summary of the
fortnights news: ae
No events of than ordinary interest have occurred
in our State since the sailing of the last steamer.
The weather. upon which California ia dependent for
her prosperity has been during the past fortnight of the
most favorable kind both for the mining and agricultural
interests And inasmuoh these great branches Of
industry are the principal sources of wealth. may
confidently count upon season highly favorable TO every
department Of business In fact every species of labor for
which there is any demand Is being well rewarded in
this State We have before had such copous sup
ply OF RAIN and at the same time avoraby distributed
throughout the season.
The news of the passage OF tho wagon-road bill has
been received by our people with great satisfaction
Henry Bates late State treasurer having proved
defaulter to the amount of $2i0Oo has since been
peached tried and convicted of the offence and declared
Incompetent to again hold any office OF honor trust
or profit In this State lie has also been indicted and Ia
to be proceeded against crininay Rowe his accomplish
still remains In prison. Comptroller Whitman has also
been mpeached for malasance but has not yet had his
trial.
1t is not to be denied finances are in state of en-
barrassmen and confusion which may lead temporary
non-ultment OF obligations but that we shall event.
ualy and we may add speedily redeem every dollar of
our Indebtedness faithfully the letter no person
ed with the public sentiment of people this point
Since the summary executions of the robbers at Los An
gees great quiet has prevailed in that quarter and the
most happy effects are likely to result from these but
acts OF rerbuton. The late copious rains give
Of abundant crops of grass grain and fruits the
coming season. and the prospects Of the people were never
more fsttering than at present
Geld reported to have been found on theisland of
Anacapa Santa Barbara and also on branch of the
San Buenavenura river As miles northeast Of the city
where the old mines worked previous to the gold
discoveries
All kinds Of business have been much mpeded of late In
the northern State by eep SHOWS these however
melting rapidly at last accounts and will be the means
faording abundant and durable supply Of water for
mining operations thereby infusing additional activity
nto every department of business,
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-15
THE NEW ORLEANS ELECTION.
Courier of the 18th says

me bUuIsHna CouTIer OF the TN says;
The election for judges our district courts which TOOK
place yesterday presented features Importance beyond
those showing that the democratic party took part
either by nominating candidates otherwise that the ter
rorists had all their way that in apopuaton Of some
100000 the vote was consequently somewhere in the neigh
borhood Of 1000 5O00 and that Notwithstanding all this
gross outrages not wanting Mr. Robert Woodbridge
member of the house of representatives. and Others We"
Knocked down, but we defer particulars"
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-15

NORFOLK AND PETERSBURG RAmRoAD:It Is expected that
the track of this road between Woods Point (Norfok
and Suffolk viii be ready for the cars by the 4h of July
and that the whole Of the first division Of the road (viz
the thirty miles Norfolk including the East Branch
bridge and the connection between the streets of Norfolk
and Brambles Point will be completed in August NEXT
The arrangements contemplate final finish in time to
the through to Petersburg (so mes) in December
next
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-15

The following translation of the treaty between Franc,
and Persia has been kindly furnished for columns from
the Statistical Office Department of State and will form
an appropriate sequel to the treaty between England ana
Persia, published in the Union of yesterday;
TREATY of friendship and commerce. concluded y II lsss
betsseen France and Persia the notifications Of ekieh
exchanged al Tehsrda on the Ian Of The month PI
LEGATION ordered ia France by decree Of February Ia ls5S
and he treaty accordingly inserted in ne aBaiein 4
LoiS' Of February FL, ls57,.No. 4T0.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

ST. GEoRGE OF ENGLAND 4 HuMBuc-
"George of Cappadocia, born at Epiphnnia in
Cilicia, was low parspite, who got lucra-
tive contract to supply the army with bacon.
A rogue and informer he got rich nnd had to
run from justice. lie saved money, embraced
Arianism, collected a library, ard got pro-
NOTED by faction to the Episcopal throne of
Alexandria.
When Julian came, A. D. 36l, George was
thrown into prison; the prison was burst open
by the mob, and George vas lynched MS he
deserved. And this precious knave became,
in good time, Saint George of England, pat
ron of chivalry, emblem of victory and civity,
and the pride of the best blood Of the modern
world. Strange that the solid truth speaking
Briton should form an imposter! Strange
that the New World should have no better
luck; that broad America must wear the name
of II thief.
"Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle dealer at
Seville, who went out in l499, n subaltern
with Hojeda; and whose highest naval rank
was boatswain's mate in an expedition that
never sailed, managed in this lying world to
suppant Columbus, and baptize half the
world with his own dishonest name. Thus
nobody can throw stones. We are equally
badly off in our offenders; and the false pickle
dealer is m offset to the false bacon seller
Il. w. Emerson.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

BRIGHAM YOUNG ON SQuALLISa BABIES
AND THEIR MorHERs.-Brother Brigham,
during the delivery of one Of his sermons in
the Tabernacle, IN Great Salt Lake City, took
the liberty to upbrnid the mothers of small
children for bringing their progney into the
holy sanctuary, and pitched into them in the
following style:
Twill say, in regard to the sisters who
bring children here to make noise, they have
never yet sufficiently thought, nor sufficiently
considered their own place in this world, nor
the place of Others, to know that there is any
other person living on the earth out them
selves; and they think, when they hear people
talk, that it is II noise through dark veil.-
| cannot say much for the education, based
on good feeling, that such persons havc.-
Were to describe it in plain way should
say that they are people of no breeding, that
they were never bred, but came up; that is
about as good character as can afford TO
give to any mother that will keep n squalling
child in meeting. have never said to the
congregation, look and see who they are, for
you may distinguish by your ears, without
looking, the mothers that have had good
teaching aud been brought up in civilized
society.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

o1-Lieut. NJ. F. Maury writes to the Ru.
raj New Yorker an account of an experiment
he made In the cultivation of the sun flower
ns mems of preventing "chills and fever"
He had noticed that the negroes at the South
cultivated this plant round their pig sites, un.
der the idea that they snake it healthy" in
the neighborhood. He was also aware that
belts of trees around infected places were
deemed to have the effect of purifying the at.
mosphere.-The locality of The Observatory
at Washington was one at which people were
very subject 10 fever and ague every season.
Last year Lieut. NJ. had a belt, about 45
feet broad and l5O to 200 yards frsm the
buildings, prepared and planted with the sun
flower, which grew finely. The result was
that none of the people engaged on the pre-.
misses were attacked with ''shakes," although
the disease was universally prevalent in the
vicinity. This is said to have been the first
year Of exemption since the Observatory
was built. A repetition Of the culture of the
plant for several years may settle something
in regard to its sanitary influence.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

The LAST WoRD.-]'he victor in an argu.
ment can afford to dispense with "the last
word"
Many an angry controversy would be
speedily terminated, ifeach party would cease
MS soon as he is conscious of having beaten
his opponent 1t will help to reconcile n
man to this suspension, to bear in mind, that
the public will not remember who had the
last word; but they will remember who had
the best of tho argument. Tie truth makes
the impression, and he who states it the
most clearly, leaving it to do its own work,
has the victory in his own hands, and can
afford to let the enemy fire as many guns as
he pleases to cover his retreat in smoke.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

The MoRMoNs.-The National Intclligen-
Ger published letter which presents some
very startling views Of the power and de.
signs Of the Mormons. It is written by a
gentleman who is said to have lately spent
twelve months in the Salt Lake Valley, en-
gagged in business connected with the transit
ofthe mails through the Territory to and
from the Pacific, and, who, while thus resid.
ing in the Mormon community, studied at.
tentively the character and government of
Brigham Young, the supreme head, as well
as the customs, habits, morals, and laws of
the community, if laws they may be called,
which consist simply in the will Of the des.
pot. He confirms fully the statements and
apprehensions of Judge Drummond, and in
sists upon the necessity of taking some very
prompt and decisive me, sures 10 protect the
country from the dangers which threaten it
from this quarter. He says the Mormons
are 100000 strong in Utah, besides having
100000 spies and agents scattered through.
out the country, and being in close alliance
with 100000 Indians upon our Western
border. The statements of his letter are
entitled to the most careful attention.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

THE UTAH PoLIcY-A despatch from
Washington says that il Is the design
of the administration to pursue peaceful
policy towards Utah, in order that the laws
shall be executed and the rights of every in
habitant in the territory protected without
recourse to arms. The appointment, how.
ever Of Major McCulloch, man whose histo-
ry shows, MS the brilliant Mr.. Sparkler would
say, that he has "got no nonsense about him.
would seem to indicate that il 1t is the in.
ten,ion of the administration to be peaceful
in their department toward the refracting
territory, it is also their determination to act
with frmness in the enforcement of whatev.
er measures they may choose 10 adopt.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

A DREADFUL SLAUGHTER AMONG THE
CAFFREs.-One of the London papers con-
tains an account of aterribe slaughter among
the Cnffres, in which no less than thirty thou
sand human beings perished. II is stated that
disturbances Of n most sanguinary character
recently took place among the Zulus. These
disturbances were caused by contest be.
tween Ketchwys and Umbulzi, two sons of
the paramount chief Panda. On the Sd De.
cember the latter wns defeated with immense
slaughter. The victorious Ketchwya, lad
of nineteen, after the battle, divided his army
into three sections, and with these secured
the country in all directions, putting to death
not only his enemies, but all neutral or doubt
ful subjects who came in his way. He, how.
ever, KEEP; clear of the vicinity Of Paroda,
who, by the latest intelligence, WINS raising m
army in defence Of his throne. It Is said that
the number of persons slaughtered by the
victors must have been upwards of 10000
Umbulazi was put to death with the utmost
barbarity, having been skinned alive! The
most careful calculations (says the Notal
Mercury of January y formed by persons
intimately acquainted with the Zulu country
and with current events, represent the total
loss of humsn life at not less than one hun.
dred thousand, including of course the wo.
men and children, who form large portion
of the whole.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08
MORE FUSS THAN FEATHERS.

honE rOcc InhN fEhTHEHS.
The Philadelphia Pennsylvsnian had the
following good story among It's police re-
porfsi
As Mrs. Esther Stsnsbury, residing in a
court running from Race below 9Th street,
was about 10 bring bucket Of water from
the hyarant last night, she found an old bss-
ket suspended from the knob Of the front
door. Putting her hand into the basket, she
felt something alive and kicking, but 90 wrap.
ped up in rags that no farther discovery could
be mnds without unwropplng the object. A
piece of paper folded like letter, lay by the
side Of the animated bundle. Mrs. Stansbury
Immediately returned into the house, and by
the light of lamp examined TIE billet. 1t was
directed to her husband. She tremulously
broke the seal and read ns follows:
"T5 joe SrANsBuRY-Sir: send you the
baby, which you will plvass ,pges good care,
aud bring il up right, so that Il may turn out
to be better man than lis daddy. Oh,
Joseph! what sly old rake you are Who
would think such a sober old spindleshanks
could be such tearing down sinner? The
child is yours, you may swear to that. Look
at lit is Joe Stansbury all over. You de-
celved me shamcfully, Joe-letting on to be
widcwer But do fathers duty by the
young one, and ] will forgive you.
Your heart broken NANCY"
p: S,--Don't let that sharp nosed wife of
yours see this letter. Cannon her with some
kink of story about the baby. N.
MIR. Stansbury was in the basement kitchen,
quietly eating his supper, and little imagining
what storm was brewing over his head
The door OF the kitchen was violently thrown
open, and his wife's voice yelled out
"S,"nsbury, come up here, you villain -
Here's mess for youw
The nstonished Stansbury hastily obeyed
the summons.
"Don't you want to see Nnncy?" cried Mrs.
Stansbury, when her guilty husband hobbled
up into the room.
"Nancy! what Nancy's that!" said the sly
old rogue, in well feigned astonishmcnt.
"Why, Nancy, the mother of this baby
that's been hung up at the door, Mr.. STAINS
bury! Oh, you look mighty innocent, but
just read tha: letter, and then look into that
basket. Don't be afraid, II won't. bite; it's
got no teeth, poor thing. You'll know it, for,
us the hussy says, it's just like you, all over.
Please goodness, III expose you before every
body"
In less than five minutes, Mrs. Stansbury
had collected room full of spectators-half
the Inhabitants Of the court-to witness the
process of unwrapping the baby. Anxious
expectation sat on every countennnce, as the
Jealous lady tore a"ay rag after rag from the
body Of the founding, the vigorous move
ment Of which astonished everybody. at is
full of the devil already" said Mrs. Stansbury,
shat shows it's his. You'll sec that ii's like
him in everything"
At last all the swadding clothes being re-
moved, out jumped the baby, and made lis
escape through the open door. II was a big
| tom cat.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

SCARCITY OF FEED.-We have rarely
known 4 season when the scarcity Of feed
has been so great as at present. Hay was
sold on Saturday at 825 per ton from the
wharf. In Missouri it 10 still more serious.
Some heavy shipments have been made late
Iy 70 st. Louis. The st. Louis News, of
last Friday evening, says:
TIE scarcity of grain and grass in the in.
terror of this State is circumstance too well
attested by the most serious facts to be
doubted. In some parts of the State actual
want is experienced, while, everywhere,
farmers are forced to system of close feed.
ing to prevent their supplies from giving out.
The winter was SO long and severe that ordi.
nary stocks Of grain have given out long
since, and the absence of grass occasioned
by the backwardness Of the spring and the
prevalence Of bleak east winds Is want
severly felt-in the country in the starving of
cattle, and in the city in the scarcity and
dearness of beef and butter.
In Galway and Marion counties we learn
that hogs are dying for lack of something 10
eat, while cattle are hardly able to sustnin
themselves on dry prairie grass. Corn is
being bought here in this city for feeding in
the coun,ry-a fact which tells in few words
the tale Of scarcity.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

f. A letter from Paris states that q
French priest who recently arrived at Lyous,
attracted immense attention as he walked
through the streets, by his frightfully mutt.
lated condition, and the story connected with
it. He was one of five missionaries sent to
preach the gospel to the savage tribes of
Penang, Kieu, at the extremity ofthe Chinese
territory, near the mouth Of the Tehou Kiang
river. His four colleagues were beheaded,
and he himself after he had his uose and ears
and right hand cut of, was about to suffer
the same fate, when he was rescued by some
English sail ors.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08
CIRCULAR:

The following circular appears III the last
Sparta Times, and we transfer il to our col
umns rs model for those who may feel in
clined to address their fellow citizens through
the press:
FELLER CIrizENs, I offer up myself ss a
candidate 10 misrepresent you In ihe uext
legislator, fully believer that my clsmss are
Crater than any of the many of nv renowned
friends that have unfursd their banners 10
the breeze already for this di.hon orable
position.
= Fellow.C .Citizens-fot the last six months
have faithfully attended every log rolling,
every corn shucking, every sale, every public
day III town, and supplied you with whiskey,
brandy or any thing to drink as freely us |
would water-when IL was cold to warm YOU,
ana when hot to cool your burning thirst
You can't forget nll this my friends, No.
and ! intend to do better YET, | have made
arrangemcntsw with all the still houses, to give
every one that calls as much as he can drink.
ana some to carry home TO his wife md chill.
dren; and when you 20 to town, It shall al.
ways be my treat.
l am in favor of the Rail Road, but want
the State or somebody else to build il: but
dont object to any benefits that may receive
from It. am opposed TO Banks, especially
these Free Banks, unless they were n little
more free with their money. In fact, I all.
ways have had some constitutional objections
to 'em.
My Dear Countrymen-1 think it's time
that we should put stop to the practice of
sending. line, nice, dandy, band.box gentry,
college.bred fellows, Lawyers, and Doctors,
Prenchers, Merchants, and the like, to Nash,
vile, to make laws for us hard listed, honest
laboring men, who are the true sovereigns--
the very bone and sinew of the county,
Yes, the country ! say, deserves all, but the
town gets every thing. Some Of you NAV
ask to what party do you belong, answer
that am native born American Citizen
part ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Democrat-part
Black Republican, little on the fire-eating
order;-in some things Mormonsh, occasion.
ally tinctured with abolition. In fact, am
all things to all men; so that all will be
suited.
Finally, gentlemen--you all know mel
was born and raised among you-hnve grubed
and fenced, and followed the plow from my
youth up; and ns 10 rubing my back against
college wall or learning any thing about
grammar, with its nouns and verbs, and syn.
tncks, or latin and Greek and Mathematics,
have not that sin to answer for, thank God.
am for the interests Of the whole people and
what's to their interests is to mine.
Yes, Feller Citizens-I am for my country
my whole country, and nothing but nv
country;-which means that nm for myself,
my whole self and nothing but myself; and if
you will elect me, shall procure the passage
Of my great bill for giving every body every
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

An ARCTIC VlsIToR.-The Louisville Jour.
nal says a strange bird of the pelican species
was killd last "Wednesday, about two miles
above that city on the Ohio river. It Is
snowy white, measures over II feet from
Zip to tip of the wings, and about 8 feet from
the tip of the beak to the tip of the tall
Upon the back there is a singular excresence
suggestive of an iceberg. 1t is evidently q
stray visitor from the Arctic regions. Its
presence in Kentucky is supposed to have
some mysterious connection with the long
protracted cold weather.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

DESCRIPTION OF OsE's Own WEDDING
McCnrty, the facetious editor of the Bards-
town, (Ky) Gazette, was married last week.
We arc indebted to his own pen for the fol-
lowing description of the party:
During our visit to Bullitt county we heard
of party, and concluded 10 attend. Have an
indlstinct memory Of ceremony having
transplred where sundry persons were assem-.
bed; where dignified gentleman in vest
ments asked nervous gentleman in specta-
cles if he was willing to do so.and so for the
future in regard to figure under veil in his
vicinity, and the nervous gentleman very
emphatically promised everything asked Of
him; and then similar promises were exacted
of the yelled figure; after which there was
shaking of hands among the men folks, and
much kissing among the women folks-fol-
lowed by cutting of cake, popping Of cham.
pagne bottles, musci and dancing, and 80
forth. Altogether the party was n very pleas.
ant one.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

~ The express, one of the political pa
pers of New York, alluding to recent law
suit between two bellgerent churchmen, thus
moralizes: ut is to be hoped, now that this
quarrel is settled, that both parties will shake
hands and forgive, like good Christians, and
60 to work, helping us of the secular press
to fight the devil and all his works. Church.
men have been so busy fighting one another
of late that we fear Satan is getting rather
the bet of u.s."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

@"Pictor," the well known Boston cor.
respondent of the N Y. Evening Post, says in
his last letter: "AIr. Kalloch' has received n
thousand dollars in money from number Of
pious people. think there are people here
who would do all that he did-'whisky skins,
and all--for half the money; but then, as the
Holy Clerk Of Copmanhurst would say, they
act after the manner Of the ignorant laity.-
There is a gusto about a parsons sins that, it
should seem, renders them peculiarly accepta.
bic, and worthy Of being paid for ut the rate
of two hundred cents on the dollar"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-08

HAzEL.EYED GIRLEs.-Major Noah said
that "a hazel eye inspires at first platonic
sentiment, which gradually but surely ex-
pands into love MS securely founded as the
rock of Gibraltar!"
A woman with hazel eye never slopes
from her husband, never chats scandal,
never sacrifices her husbands comfort to her
own, never finds fault, never talks too much
or too little, always is an entertaining, intel
lectual, agreeable and lovely creature.