The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-12-29
gLg4NIEGs FROM THE MAILS.

MYSTERIOUS black tongue, puV 10 '"'Ae' 'N'N 7 ~
fatal In its elects
80, IA less than halfa-lozen ice boats on the
iu -, I.Les and the way they do scoot with a
Fir breeze Is alarming. The ladies ENJOY rue IN tn.so
Mats immensely aud before they get seated among .
noine they find themselves on the opposite sue u 'e
lake.
,, u.,l,,dd n Swedish newspaper published for four
~ IN GaIssburp has now been removed To chicago,
"a A. Iva issued once every week from the beginning
Of January next Il is the only weekly paper published
in the Swedish language in this country
rh ,un,ler of boats that passed the Rochester weigh
lock on the Erie canal during Tue Preee. season o. nav
,oaaion was o,74O The total flour that passed was
St0 0s3 bbs wheat s. 100, I45 bushels corn, o3lS.-
+so bushels The largest load of -four was 81 bar
% the largest load Of grain was barley IL, ioi bushels
ma syracuse Journal wishing TO tell the editor of the
Albany Kncerbocker that he lies avoids that yulgarty
m The seyerer method OF scriptural reference, and
as the Albany man that The is perfectly we'll aware
= We l. guilty the sin for which Ananias was struck
by an indignant Deity.'
Methodists have a rare preacher among them, II
believe correspondent of the Memphis Chiis-
+ cate who says Of q Rev f. Il Pitts, one of their
.,, ors 81 have repeatedly heard the most famed
,f eiica but there times when the flame OF
Nh. .a.- ticks the everlasting hills with that
..r. soul to the depths hthomed by few other
.,.fg h1s set apart the ayails OF swamp lands q
s. .r.rags instruction The income OF this fund is
ssggu twill soon reach s25, 900, and is to be
-. .s'rr ~ direction OF Hon. Henry Barnard, re-
rant nut, and now chancellor of the Wiscon-
vaafif :.
Oh of Oswego has recently held that an
be protested bill cannot hold on
n ant Of A. b cashier, unless the
oy, votiating the bill, or the speeiica-
tion hority of the bank supposed to
he saaa mpany such endorsement.
Pet ..sr ,4a u- 'ous brothel keeper was tried
in Bro ...' a.a{ an assault with intent to kill
William rt.. .. guilty and sentenced to nine
years an b. Ju g-Sing prison. Dawson is
mid 10 bt npf2r3s of one hundred thousand dol
lars but west his wife has taken :. af-
fny'' m Jncy and departed.
The Syracuse papers expect great developments when
promised breach oiponise case comes up that city
The Lady is the daughter Of well known and respected
citizen and is both pretty and accomplished" The gen
tlcman Is a yianous "young New Yorker with colsid-
enable property and fair share of intelligence"
There is an Office in Sioux City, Iowa. occupied by four
persons among whom distributed the following Off
ces and professions One mayor, one banker, two alder
men, three lawyers three land agents. two noaries pub
lie justice OF the peace, deputy United States
marshal president OF association, treurers of ten
associations commissioners of six States and Territories
N A. Johnson, who has Just been tried at Dubuque for
the murder Of Andrew Ostland found guilty of
der and sentenced to he hung Friday the 2sth of Jam
uary next Ostand Johnsons fellow traveller from
Minnesota and be was murdered just below Dubuque,
under the bluff, by cutting his throat The motive for
the ueeu Is suploscu 10 nave pteh fopUery.
Some years ago the oravian authorities Of Bethle hem
passed ordinance forbdding martial music the
streets except the 22d of February and 4th of July
This municipal law relnains unrepeaed and recently
threats made to enforce the law the Washington
Greys and Beckcs Band but they paraded and not
moested 1t rather singular that any people,
however quiet their habits should hate to hear the drum
and fife. a.s.-s... s
The Rock Island Commercial learns that suits for dam
ages amounting in the aggregate to between 800 900
and $500, 000 to be commenced almost Immediately
the courts of that county against the Bridge Company
The suits numerous and claims for damages to
RATS sail boats, and steamers, in OF $40 and up
wards Messrs. Wilkinson and Peasants, Of Rock Island
are the plaintiffs counsel.
new kind of a immigration scheme is being carried
into execution in Paris. The English Australian colonies
the scarcity of the fair than the
French colonies from the want of negro labor Several
agents have arrived in the French capital and offer
ing large premiums, with the promise of husband
they arrive at the antpodes to all French spinsers
under the age Of 80. They have collected about 100.
As heretofore announced, convention OF presidents
directors, and stockholders in all railway companies in
tereste in the construction of road to tho Pacific will
be held ut Memphis the Gath of January. Roads
north and south will be represented and it is designed
to agree upon some plan FOR building road over the
plains satisfactory to all parties interested in order that
the conflicting interests before Congress may be
cei.
Extorted confessions arc uncertain evidence. A case
in illustration recently occurred in Indiana Joel Gresh
suspected of being engaged in the late oberes ut Craw
lille, seized by lyncheB and hung up to the
limb of tree By the neck, with view of forcing him to
confess. When let down he still asserted his innocence
Up he again, and nearly strangled He then
confessedhs only chance to live. The confession af
forwards proved to be entire fabrication and Gresh
was innocent OF the crimes charged upon him.
The 1aylorville Qll) Independent says "An old settler
informs that in 1850 81 pork sold in Christian
y at 81 so net. Now, in 1858, it readily commands
So per cwt Corn sold at ten cents Now holders con-
slider that they comforting favor purchasers when
selling at fifty cents per bushel Wheat delivered In
Springfield, then went begging at thirtyfvc cents.
Now delivered at any point the railroad 1t is eagerly
grabbed up Mt prices ranging from so to 30 cents per
bushel." ta
land greatly disturbed by the belief that the Rband
organization being revived with great energy Every
murder, every outrage, is attributed to the Rband
men, and Of the landlords have proposed to exter
inmate all the tenantry in every district in which an
agraran outrage may be committed The Lord Iicuten
ant, as we have already noticed, has issued proclama
ton denouncing members of Rband societies ms guilty
of felony and offering rewards for information which shall
lead to conviction.
Chill has been for many years except occasionally when
there has been deficient harvest the great granary
the Pacific but recently California has shipped more or
less grain there The last intelligence announces the ar
rival at Valparaiso of full cargo of barley which paid
freight and nearly fifty cents per hundred pounds net
profit. cargo of beans from California also sold at a
fair profit. letter says "Next year California wines
will be introduced and her sparkling California Angelica
and champagne will be all the rage.
The New Orleans Delta says Not the least of the
many disasters produced last summer by the
the west bank of the river is the destruction of the oys
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