The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-14

HEAVY Loss--The Chicago Journal of the It'll says:
"We learn that Colonel Graham United States army
Gently with a serious loss in this city 1t appears Col
G. went to the United States receivers oce in livery
reaching his residence the Colonel left in the carriage the
money and the vehicle driven away As soon as the
loss asceained dgent search was made for the miss
ing gold but all efforts to recover it proved futile
AN INDIAN REPUBLIC OR rwo-Twenty-fve Dakota fami-
lies says the Detroit Advertiser of the sh living at Ha-
zewood some forty miles above Fort Rdgely the St
Peters river have renounced their tribal character donned
civilized dress formed themselves into sort of republic
with written constitution President &C. They are in
tegent and Industrious and have wheat and to SELL
At the Red Wood agency there is similar organization
with some ten or twelve families uniting in it.
The EAST INDIA AND PACIFIC TRADE OF THE UNITED
SrATEs--The Boston Traveller publishes annual abb
sract of the East India and Pacific trade of the United
States Although the cearances for India have not been
large they in 1885, the number of arrivals has in
creased In 1855 the total 1851 whereas in 1856
226 The clearances in the United States for the East In
dies in 1855 amounted in all to l72 in 1855 to 6 The
whole number Of arrivals in the United States from ports
in the Pacific during the year 1856 So in 1855 it
LAG. The clearances numbered 200.
A BRUTAL sos--An aged woman, afflicted with in
durable disease recently arrived in Rochester New York.
stranger in the city, moneyless and friendless She said
placed her and her poor baggage the and left her
helpless as she was take of herself She taken
in charge by the Of the poor and the base nga
itude of the is left unpublished.
WINTER ON THE PLANa-A despatch from St Louis
dated the 18th, says:
"The st Joseph correspondent Of the Republican under
date of the Sd ns says that the winter the plains is
the most severe known by the jewellers in thatregon
The surveying parties had been disabled and driven in
G n Mathews reports rumor of two United States
veying parties having been murdered by the Cumanche
Indians in the southwestern part of Kansas Territory
Also that only portion of another party had returned
from western Kansas the remainder believed TO
frozen TO death. The thermometer at St. Joseph was
IL deg. below The ice the Missouri river was
twenty inches thick
LOTTERIES TO BE AnoLisHED.-The people Of Delaware
have adopted amendment to the constitution Of the
State prohibiting lotteries after January l. 1862. The
governor has signed the amendment and asks the egsa
ture make the necessary legislation to carry the amend
ment into effect In Maryland lotteries will to exist
on the of April 1852 in virtue Of provision OF the
State constitutional
DTFEnENcR--The message of Mayor vauI, of Phila
depha shows that while Philadelphia possesses real estate
assessed at $l5OO00o0O the total amount of personal
property assessed at only about $2oOO00o0 Boston
with taxable real assessed hundred and thirty
six millions of dollars property assessed
at one hundred and five and half millions