The Washington union., 1858-03-27
GLEANiNGs FROM THE MAILS.

proposition introduced into the senate Of Penn
sylyaAla, on Tuesday last Ly Mr. Randall inquire
the dorety OF removing the seat OF government from
Harrisburg 90 Philadelphia, which fsso1ably received
and referred 10 committee Of five The people Of Phil
adephia warmly advocating the expodseas of the
measure
Thomas l. Hyde aild notorious in ST. Louis for tiey-
ING and writing poetry, called the " Jail Poet
ordinary young man, who has been two three times In
prison fr stealing and lately escaped from the peniien-
tay. though known 10 be bad yet often encouraged by
respectable people committed suicide Saturday hast
BY taking poison after he had escaped from the eniten
tiAEy. HIS history is quite curious
The supreme court Of Georgia recen.ly decided that
husband has night leave his property 10 his wife
during her widosbood and cut her on If she married
The doctrine rs held in Pennsylvania Lawyers
viii diher-
The last sally have heard in regard 70 beef STEAK
follows
gentleman at public table who had exercised his
jaws ior fifteen minutes upon single morse Of
steak TUNED 10 his neighbor and said
What pity To kill this animal r.
Why responded his friend
Because, replied the other lit would have made
snch good oorki@g esirer.
DxsrH OF MOTHER CATuARrSK sr.LDrS1 - We are psit-
cd TO announce the death Of this estnAbe Lady which
took place early Sunday morning the St Vincent
orphan Asylum, IN tins city. Thousands throughout
the est and South 10 whom she has stood in the relation
ID precepres and 10 whom her aInAbe disposition and
nay virtues well known viii grieve hear of her
death Mother catharine was in the Gid year Of her
age and - wears Of her LIE had been spent IN the faith
ful performance cf those duties pertaining her voc-
ton as a Sister of Charity ID a.oss4sass Gasafc.
The Russian steam corvette Amjoox went down the
tArbor yesterday forenoon, upon experimental cruise
and very successful An officer the Russian gov
ernment was board, and understand expressed
himself highly pleased with her performance.
Bosoa TrqreLe March %
Gov. Morrill,, Of Maine, has appointed Thursday, the
fifteenth day OF April 10 be observed as day Of hu-
initiation, fasting, and prayer.
The book keeper who fell from column OF figures is
still in a critical state.
Belfast paper says that grants Ireland the
United States in the coming season will probably lie
much smaller than usual ia consequence OF the lad
prospects o commercial affairs and manufactures in this
country In the months ending with January the num-
Der OF persons returned Ia Belfast from New York
greater than the entire number OF those eIngratng a
rect from the former port in the whole year OF 1851
At second meeting Of the creditors of Lawrence Stone
&Co, held at Boston the 25th instant upwards Of
eighty claims proved amounting about S64o 0oe
Ths with the claims proved at the previous meet
ing makes the aggregate claims against them 81 500 eeo
The thirty eight llamas imported into the city of New
York last fall from South America offered for sale
auction in the suburbs of that town Saturday When
originally shipped there seventy two, but some
eighteen or twenty died at Panama, and eight
slipboard, that only forty-two reached New York
alive. Since they were landed four of the weakest have
uitat Inc aNtllOf WAS I1slCctr-d. Al private sale
afterwards three disposed ot to be sent Australia
Tbs cost Of the adventure has been such as TO fix the
price asked, far too high
A oompany has been formed at the south under 8
charter from the State o Alabama establishing a line "a
steamers between Mobile and the ports the Gulf oi
Mexico and the Caribbean The port of San Juan
De Nicaragua il said u. the principal port ia vew
The object OF the company is 70 convey passengers
igrants 70 Nicaragua number Of Of capital and
influence engaged ia the enterprise. The line Of
steamers viii be ready To their trips the st
OF june.
The extensive Touring mills located upper yellow
Leaf Greek in shelly county, Alabama belonging 10
Samuel Wallace, esd, destroyed by fire on the
18th instant This makes the fourth of mills that
have been burned down the creek belonging To
Mr. Wallace. The obstruction of each of them has
been the work c,f incendiaries