The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-09
THE WASHINGTON UNION.
GENERAL SUMMARY.

GENERAL SUMMARY.
The New Orleans Delta estimates the number OF slaves
at the South at three and half millions and their
aggregate value at present prices, at fully sixteen hun
bred millions OF dollars The cotton plantations In the
South it estimates at about eighty thousand and the ag
gregate value of their annual product ut the present
prices of cotton is fully hundred and twenty-five
millions of dollars There over fifteen Thousand 10
bacco plantations, and their annual products may he
valued at fourteen millions Of dollars There are two
Thousand six hundred sugar plantations, the products oil
which average annually more than twelve millions
There five hundred and fifty lone rice plantations
which yield annual revenue of four millions OF dol
lars
Not less than fifty German princesses of age to
be married and hence, of course looking out in the
matrimonial market On the other hand there are not
than half dozen continental princes who OF am
age betting the expecants Among these the Count
of Flanders and Prince George of Saxony both heirs APP
parent of thrones Prince Napoleon, Prince William of
Baden and two or three others of minor note
(Boaon Post
On Monday afternoon about four o'clock, sail-boat
containing eight persons upset Ronconcow lake,
Long Island, and three Of the party were drowned
Bayard Taylor, who, since his return from Lapland,
has been soournng in the town of Gotha the capital Of
Sake Coburg Gotha left there the 9th ult in compa
ny with his two sisters and younger brother for Eng
land where the latter to embark for the United
States. From England, Taylor and his fellow traveller,
Brasted intended to set out for summer tour In Nor
way whence they would return i'm the autumn to Gotha
and after wntering there proceed Moscow Southern
Russia the Caucasus, and the Crmea From this tour
the travellers will again return to Goha to which place
Bayard Taylor is now attracted by an attachment stronger
than the ties OF friendship which have hitherto drawn him
thither He is in fact betrohed to daughter Of the
astronomer Hansen Nothing is said about the personal
appearance of Taylors intended bride; but she is
native of Saxony country proyerbia for its fair women
may presume she is beautiful
----a saclsen
wo die schooner Medehen wachsenp
''saxony, where the pretty maidens grow, says the
poet
GREAT LAND SPECULATION citizens of Cincin
natl Messrs Tweed & Andrews, Robins Pomeroy, and
Malcolm Clark, esq, have purchased the Winnebago In
dian reservation in the northern part of Minnesota being
tract of something like 10000 Of the best lands
in Minnesota 1t reserved by act of Congress for the
Wnnebago Indians, and 5000, 900 was expended
upon it by the government in opening farms and erecting
substantial dwellings, with buildings appurtenant The
tract includes many good though farms under par
tal cultivation upon which about sixty good houses
Being vacated under proper legal authority it offered
for sale by the land agent Of Minnesota under instruc
tons from Washington and snapped up for the sum
Of $40 900 to $50 900 by the parties above mentioned
Marrow ESCAPE FROM A GREAT EXPLOSION The King
ston Journal states that the other day soop lying at
Wilbur, laden with 200 barrels of lime, Of the Booth
Brothers, sprung aleak. There hundred barrels
of blasting powder slowed away with the lime, which
Stacked and set FIRE to the barrels corc1g The lop
der Kegs Resolute men, however prevented the blowup
by removing the powder at the imminent hazard Of life
Had it not been for the resoutc and their prompt
movements, tremendous and disastrous explosion must
soon have followed
The ST. Paul Pioneer states that the president and d
rectors OF the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Com
pay rapidly completing thcr organization and making
the necessary preparations to place portion Of the road
under contract Surveying parties now out locating
the road between saltwater and ST. Paul. and from the
latter place to St Anthony The portion of the road be-
tween ST. Paul and ST. Anthony viii be placed under
tract in few weeks and it is thought will be in
ming order by September, 1858.
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schools in Connecticut it appears that there in the
State 626 districts and 100 545 children between the
ages of and l6 years The school fund is 81, GAG 1877
from il $l49 4S4 amount raised for school by
taxes rate bills &C., $500 900 schoolhouses 400
school-houscs built within the year 40.
An old man in his 6Ist year was lost recently in Wis
consin under peculiar circumstances. He going
from Ellisve to his sonnaws, about three miles dis
tant and missed his way getting lost in the woods The
old gentleman became bewidercd and for nine days
ered about with nothing but cTanberries to eat and
water, of which he drank often.
The Richmond South states that the large stable and
house attached to the Warenton Springs burn
cd to the ground few days since large quantity Of
provender which In tho building also consumed
1t is thought that the fire originated from the cigar of
servant man New buildings will be at once erected
The Natchez Mss) Courier states that tho president
Of the Southern Railroad Company has succeeded in pur
chasing twenty 1.-Two miles of railroad iron which will en-
able tho company to finish the road and have it in ope
ration, to point beyond Tayors in Scott county, by
the first Of January next
Pearls have recently been found in Massachusetts The
New York Journal of Commerce does not believe that
the pearls gathered Will pay for the labor expended in
pearl hunting throughout tho country, and recommends
those who have any reliable Of livelihood not to
waste their time in fishing for pearls
The Clinton Buildings, or Western Row, Cincinnati
took fire the Fourth. Considerable damage done
and tho loss Is estimated at from twelve to fifteen thou
sand dollars The fire is supposed to have caught from
fre-crackers and rockets.