The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-04-18


Minister is is sad is s4OO 900 per annum equal to $1,000
per day. So for every minute of time, night and day
through the year Every tick of the clock throws half
dime into his pocket.
COLLEGIATE BoAr-cLuss The young gentlemen at Cam
bridge College, it appears by the following notice from
the Boston Journal following the example Of the stu
dents at Cambridge in England whose the river
Cam are very amusing. The river is that two
boats cannot be rowed side by side the prize is given
to the foremost boat il II escapes to the hinonost
boat IL its bow bumps the stern of its leader There
are also some fine boat clubs at Yale College, New
Haven:
Zone Of the most popular pastimes INDUCED in by the
students of Cambridge College that of boat racing; and
in this art they have yet found few If any equals in
the colleges OF New England Indeed, it acceded
only last season, that in fair the Connecticut
between the Yale boys and the Harvard Club Of this
city, the latter bore of the palm for superior strength
and skill There is at present. quite formidable fleet of
race owned and manned by the students OF Harvard
| University. There is the Huron six manned by
members of the senior class Oneida eight, and Undine,
four manned by members of the junior class Iris
and Lotils-each eight Oars-by the Sophomores and
the Harvard whose is composed of picked from
the whole college. Besides these, there the Mime
haha and Ariel--each eight oars-n addition to which
three clubs forming making in all eleven boats
! belonging to the college.
SPREADING THE EAGLE an auction in Rochester last
to tip Of his wings was sold to Mr. G. W. johnson for
twenty-five dollars. 1t is understood that Mr. J. club
bed with some friends to buy the bird of freedom and
give him his liberty from the cupoa of the court house
! COMPLIMENTARY plNNER.--A complimentary dinner
given the officers Of the United States gate Merimac
on Wednesday evening at the Revere House by the city
government of Boston, in return for courteses recently
extended while visit to the vessel The entertain
| in Affair." MayOr Rice
presided and speeches made by his honor and by
Cant Pendergast Alderman Bonney Ients. Wainwright
and Smith, Of the Merimac Oliver Stephens president of
! the common council, and others
WILLIAM Prsx's BELT OF wAMpuN interesting cere-
inony took place the Hall OF the Pennsylvania Hsor
cal Society in Philadelphia Monday last, the
sion of the presentation to the society OF the belt of
pun given to William Penn by the sachems of the Lenn
Lenapcs Indians at the time of the great treaty in 1852.
The belt presented by Mr. Granville John Penn, the
great grandson of the founder of the State whom it
had been transmitted through four generations. Says the
Pennsylvania
! "Thc wampum belt is certainly great curiosity. 1t
is about three feet long and six inches wide 1t Is COM
/ posed Of beads made of small pieces of muscle shell
ground into shape and pierced, and then strung upon
thongs Of deer skin. Tho strings then fastened to-
geher until they of sufficient width to form belt
This great treaty belt of unusual breadth in token Of
the Importance Of the compact it intended to seal
! The beads are generally white and among them black
beads wrought into devices emblemac of the treaty
In tho centre of the bolt two figures rdey formed
with beads One of these figures hat and il was
without doubt intended to represent Onas the Indians
called William Penn The other figure obviously in
tended represent aboIigne The figures are in the
of shaking hands There also three bands form
ed of black beads which the belt diagonaly. The
curious old relic carefully preserved in glass case and
/ ii Is in excellent condition
STRANGE AcclDEST.-A strange accident occurred in
Hamilton, Canada, Thursday last
"a French Canadian women named Mary Jewetry, was
drowned under very peculiar circumstances yesterday
The deceased appeared to have been walking along a
slight embanment the side of the street and having
slipped and fallen with her face into poshol full of
water drowned. II is somewhat singular that
ciden Of the kind should have occurred at midday in
of the principal streets without attracting the notice
OF some passers by; but such is the fact,
RUSSIAN COMMERCE. The following evidence of the re-
operative powers of Russia after an cxhausng war we
copy from an article in the London Shipping Gazette
" 1t is remarkable fact established by return which
print in another column that the commerce of Rus
sa has not only recovered from the effects Of the late war;
but exhibits actually increase compared with the
year which Immediately preceded the outbreak Of hostl-
tiles. The exports from the port of St. Petersburgh for
the last year are down o2G O9l roubes for 1853
they amounted to So 26T, 26l- showing increase In
ayar OF last year Of 26as $40 ro,hies Tho greater por-
on Of these exports have been TO this country and con-
low, hemp SC. The imports Of 1856 reach nearly to
SO 900 900 roublcs that, notw outstanding the activity
displayed in the commercial operations Of Russia the bal
of trade is against her In the document to which
we have referred there Is also given statement of
the number of vessels which have passed the Sound in.
wards and outwards, during the past year The total
number amounts to 20,530 being, IL would appear, an
increase OF 4, 745 vessels the preceding year, but
dimnution of 22S compared with 1853 OF the entire
number entering the Baltic during the past year. 4sJ
were bound and brought cargoes for Russian ports while
1888 left the Baltic during the year with Russian
| produce
| CANINE The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
published at the capital Of the Hawaiian Islands, has the
following surprising instance OF affection exhibited by
dog for the person of the late kndheartcd old King Of
those islands
"Among many interesting anecdotes recorded of aec.
lion by dogs ior their masters, We do not reooect
where more endurance and constancy shown than in
case which many have witnessed here during the past
two years When the remains of late beloved King,
Kamehameha III, deposited in the sepulchre, many
the sad mourners who watched night and day la
menting IN heart-rendng walls the death OF their King
| friend, and beneactor. Weeks on, and human
grief was moderated il not ass,iaged the mourners
quietly Departed and returned to their homes and
pations Not SO the late Kings avoritc mastin When
the body deposited in its last resting place Eveana
took his station outside the door of the tomb and there
commenced his weary watch. For many weeks he wou,
not leave the spot. After time food not taken to
him, and at last driven by bunspr aud thirst he was
compelled to leave but having satisfied these wants he
returned to his post and has thus kept watch for nearly
two years OF late his keepers have tried to conpe him
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