The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-19
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Cor BSsros ON TINS LrrrIE GIAsr.-Colonel Benton
in conversng with friend many months since gave the
following summary view OF the prospects of Mr. Douglas
"Ihe little giant said he, lis in too great hurry
TO be great He forgets that giants dom wear
seyen-eague boots adays, and that the first Office ia
an elective government cannot be taken by storm. His
ambition is much beyond his ability, for although
fluent speaker his ideas don bear the proper proportion
TO his words, and though he st he carries little
weight He thinks he can bestride this continent with
foot the shores of the Atlantic the other on the
Pacific. But he can't do 1.-THE can't do it, sir His legs
are too short"
GOLD KAssAs.--The Kansas correspondent of the
Boston Journal states that favorable have
received from party OF young men who went to the
mountains of Western Kansas prospecting tour for
gold They remarkably successful and ii is thought
that the region Is rich in gold II the reports should be
verified there may be rush for the gold paces of Kan
which will throw the Fraser river excitement
petely in the shade. The peary which prevailed
for brief period in New jersey Maine and other States
in this section of the country last spring. has broken out
in Kansas Pearl muscles have been found the brooks
running into the Whitewater from which four thou
sand pearls have been taken. The value of these dis
coveies remains to be ascertained but it will probably
turn out in this section, that the pearls of inferior
quality and will not pay for gathering.
TiK LnaIsr AZURE MINNESOTA adjourned sine die on
the 18th of August last at O'clock p. The SEES
sion just closed says the Pioneer and Democr has been
important one in the character result of the de-
alterations of the members greater number of gem
era awsaws affecting for good evil every citizen of
the Satcwerc passed than at any preceding session of
Minnesota legislature. We regret TO say, however,
that there less deberaon upon important laws of
this character than there should have been, while too
much of the time of both branches occupied in the
consideration of bills for the benefit Of private ndiydu
ais and interests This the great fault of the pres
emit session persistent lobby secured for the oonsd-
Grafton Of their pet the great portion of the
session. and action upon important general laws thus
crowded into few concluding days Of the session the
result the most important wi
little examination and discussion. If they found i'm
perfect it will be matter of but little surprise
The New Orleans Courier says that it is very gen.
orally believed in that city that the recent explosion
the steamer Virginia caused by gunpower fumi-
mating powder Suspicion points to certain persons as
having been guilty OF procuring the commission of an
awful crime. The excitement in regard to the matter
considerable Seven persons have died from their
wounds.
Our eagerness to get word
BY cable--what could match it?
The thing ''laid, - we knew but, Lord
The time it took to hatch'' it
~ Y. Eaenng Post.
NUMBER or GERMANS IN PniLADELPHIA. German
population in Philadelphia at the present time the
Inquirer is estimated by those most conversant with it
at eighty thousand souls About one-half have arrived
in this country since the revolutions in Europe of l84S
About ten thousand of the number voters, and
thousand have taken the preliminary steps in
order to become naturazed. large portion of this
number will be voters in the fall There twenty
German religious societies in Philadelphia. OF these
three Catholics five Lutheran, three Reformed
Gemcn, Baptist, ono Methodist synagogucs,
and one Free Thinkers Association
A FEARFUL PnEDIcAMESr.--On One day last week. while
four little boys dverting themselves by eaping in
and out of old chest that stood in the stable of
farm in the Carse of Gowrc, the whole of them got into
it at time, and drew down the lid which, being fur
nished in the common way for paddock, the holder
caught the staple, and made them prisoners at be-
yond the possibility of extricating themselves Fortu-
l.u.lA -
ploughman whose duty it to do had performed his
task and leaving for the night when he thought he
heard movement in the chest. Aware that there
corn in it, he convinced he was deceived
but curiosity prompting him. he lifted the lid and found
the missed and anyiousy prisoners still
alive but quite unconscious unable to make the least
effort for their deliveiance. Had movement the
part of Of them not drawn the attention of the plough
man at the last moment the whole four would doubt
less have been dead before morning. Pathshre Adur-
fiser.