The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-12-15
cLEININGs FROM the MAILS

hill Is before the Arksnsas Legislature 10 prohibit the
sale Of patent medicines in the Stale
The IIaion Arms Company Of Hartford has thrown up
jts contract make 5000 Mimic niles Tor the D'sn
government, after completing $4,000 oil them
The pu,lc debt OF Boston in 1922, when the town be
ame CITY was only 81 1855, 1t is now S3,954 46l IN
oddition 10 a separate "water debt Of 5000 900
The Camden and Amboy Railroad Company have
olaced on their line between Philadelphia and Cam
den new steamboat called the . States Rights
The monument which the State Of Louisiana is erect,
inc ON the New Orleans battle ground has now reached
e height OF 60 feet IL Of white marble and VIII be
$50 feet high whom completed
beavers which were once much valued for Their
o,s and were hunted almost TO determination are IN
easng in Canada and quite plenty within ten miles
Of Toronto
The school commissioner OF Ohio has been empowered
30 contract with New York publishing house for 20 900
volumes of works the school Libraries OF the State at
cost of 500, 600
rba baltimore sun saws that the trial trip OF Ross Wi
mans cigar shaped steamer will be made In about three
weeks She will be propelled by four engines Of 900
horse power each.
soG has been invented which locks ON the inside
and leaves no keyhole other opening A clock worl
within opens IL al an hour regulated by being before
the door Is shut
The Sonora carried to California her last trip, 3lS
baas of mail matter Containing besides newspapers
packages, &c, 4406a letters. of these, there were
for distribution 80 1885, and for San Francisco Is 900
Caifornians are certainly reading aud writing people
Boston ,aper tells the story Of cat, which, after
having I,ade voyage from that city to Bombay, VIA
Lverpo ship of her own accord at the lat
ter lace Charleston s. @, and from thence reshipped
or, her own hook again for Boston.
Aobaster of very superior quality is found In large
deposits In the hills the missions Of Soledad and San
Antonio in Monterey county, California Ii Is clean,
close grained very fine and translucent, and can be cut
with knife. Its color is beautiful light cream.
An imposture of an extremely bold and ridiculous
ture is now exercising the Spirituass Of New York. A
dead man. according TO the testimony of certain DR.
Reman is engaged in carrying his own bones piece by
piece from Hartford, Conn., to New York city, other
ghosts occasionally assisting
The wealth of the two great OF Boston and New
York amounts to eight hundred millions Of dollarsNew
York having $525, 900, 000 Boston $275,000 900,
little more than balf that of New York. The prop
erty of Boston is hundred millions than that of
the city of Philadelphia and nearly three times that of
Baltimore 1t Is said that Boston has property, per
oepta, than any other city in the world
number of tn citizens Of San Diego have removed to
the vicinity of e desert where quite settlement has
sprung up arohnd of the stations OF the Overland
Mail Company, and where the settlers have engaged ex
tensivcy in agricultural pursuits large breadth Of
grain has bee, sown and it Is expected there will be suf
cent feed reduced at this point to supply the wants of
the Mail Co mpany on that portion of the line
Stock s ellis well at the Bourbon, Ky, sales. On
the 9Th stant mules, three years old and broken, sold
at 1914 SiS5 ten to twoycar olds at Sl60 others at
Sl3l kll4, &c fearlinBs from SsZ 10 S9S colts as
low SS. Stock cattle sold at fair prices twelve head
of Il ree-ycar olds at S3S so fftyfour do, $3l 90
year ods at s2s S23 &c. Yearlings at SIS. Oxen
at 500 500. Horses not brisk they sold at
S60a$l75.
sainserains vineyard in California covers forty
of ground and has 10000 vines. The product Of this
vineyard has been this 81 900 gallons of white
wine 900 gallons of red wne 5000 gallons angelica
and 8 900 gallons Of brandyin all is 600 gallons To
make one gallon brandy requires five gallons of wine
lon of elicna ho ppup ntS If
vine This will make the produce of the vineyard equal
to about 900 gallons Of wine and more than six quarts
of wine to the vine.
An aaueduct has been constructed by the Excelsior
Company in California, for mining purposes across
valley three thousand feet in length The pipe is
twenty inches diameter, and manufactured in New
York at o,te heavy expense. The iron is thrcc-sx-
tents of inch in thickness The dlschhrgng end
frty feet below the receiving end greatest depression
one hundred feet discharges in twenty four hours six
hundred inches, for ten hours miners USE under six
inch pressure.
sample OF tobacco grown this at Belle PLANE,
Minnesota has been forwarded to the New York Herald
1t was raised by planter from Virginia, who has had
much experience in the cultivation of this crop and
tertains very sanguinc hopes of profitable yield from
his estate in the State. His crop this year, being
an experimental one, was not very extensive put he
looks on the return the average OF Virginia lie
will have from twelve to fifteen hundred pounds. The
specimen shows that the plant attained large size as
the leaf is long and very well matured but the tobacco
is only OF a flair !" not fine superior quality.
The Siberian mail is conveyed from ST. Petersburgh to
Moscow by rail- and from thence to hkutsk the capital
of Eastern Siberia in carriages drawn by horses. The
distance from Moscow to Irkusk &c miles and there
are 2lO mail stations the road for changing horses
The mail communication is weekly, and the expense
Of the Russian government is about EST 900 year
The mail from Moscow to rkutsk generally conveyed in
about rs 80 days. The mail communication between
Russia and China is carried on by horse-post between
Pekn and Kyacha frontier town in Trans Baikal close
to Monaghan China every three months The dis
lance between Kyachta and Pekin is reckoned about
I 600 miles and is traversed in about 80 days The
China mail il conveyed on horseback.