The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-10
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ESIAnGEMgSrof Bs,oN Some of the Boston papers speak
in glowing terms of project which is ON foot to fill up
something like two hundred acres of flats in thehck
Bay, and say that the work can be managed in such
not only to require outlay Whatever but TO
promise to return within brief period revenue of
cral millions Of dollars to the treasury Of the State OF
Massachusetts,, to whom these flats belong
1t seems that pey far out West there tribe of In,
dams who lived in very secluded, vast wilderness,
where they had owed for their lodges long time One
fine morning they all started of horse stealing
curson and did not return for many days. When they
did they found frst-cass hotel with niggcr walters
and gongs wine CARTS and Johannsberg the spot
where their councilodgo had been, and town scattered
a around it, with lots at two hundred dollars foot
Enterprising people this
Large bodies of ice have been observed in the Atlantic
ocean recently One enormous In size, being two
hundred feet high and four hundred feet long AT this
of the year Ice is seldom by voyagers and the
probability is the summer within the Arctic has
been unusually powerful in setting free the mountains of
ice in that region.
pattern of the new cent proposed to be issued next
year has been exhibited to the American Fnmsmatc So
ciety of New York by officer of the United States
Mint 1T is of Nickel the same size the cent Of 1857
and 3d. but differs from that coin in the substitution of
Indian head for the abortye eagle which dsgaces the
present currency.
German importing house at New York lately re-
ceived invoice of real Havana cigars which ap
praised at the custom house at three dollars per thousand
The importers thought this too high and under their
oath the cigars admitted at dollar and half
Their evidence that not particle of tobacco entered
into the composition of said cigars but that they
wholly composed of oak and other leaves soaked in
strong tobacco I've.
RUNNING CnuRcnis "A man sitting upon the vcranda
of up-counry inn hailed one Of the Oldest inhabi
tants, and inquired the denomination Of the church
upon the opposite side of the road. The reply
7" WAL she BAPTIST nat rally, but they don't
her now"
On Friday last the municipality Of Jersey City gave
dinner Captain Hudson of the Niagara In the
Of the captains speech he said: q At the last yearly
meeting of the Of London the gold medal given
for the best paper that had been road And what
think tue contents of that paper 1t the utter
impossbiity and mpractcablity of laying that tel
egraphc wire "
The following table shows the proportion Of deaths
and woundng in the principal railroad countries Of the
world
Passengers carried,
Prussia, ono killed Or wounded to every 294o75
Belgium killed or wounded to every 2T
England one Killed or wounded to every..--- ga 095
United States killed wounded to every lss, 459
The Royal Morgan, well known the Steele or Cream
horse 81 years old He is owned by John Gregory,
of Northfeld VT who has declared his Intention in the
Stock Journal to exhibit the old veteran In harness at
the State Fair to be held in Burlington next month.
He cats hay but subssts chiefly ON meal oats shorts
potatoes, &c. and appears in thriving condition Ills
steps still quick and nervous and he ros MS square as
horse known to be living.
Owing to the Cumbersome quarantine regulations of
New York the Charleston steamers have been compelled
to raise froshts as follows Twelve cents per foot for
dry goods cents for hats and shoes and other goods
in proportion.
ORB PoISr--The public land at Old Point, coded to
the federal by Virginia. is liz acres ~ acres
of il lying within the The fort is garsoned by five
companies of heavy artlery--about $50 men Tho fol-
lowing is the daily programme in the garrison From
65 a. m, to ~, M sword exercise drill from "a,
a. M to H. u. m, drill at the heavy guns from 81,
D. M. to s. p, M, heavy artillery drill On Monday
mornings there is two hours drill with field gunsla
xpounders On Saturday mornings the troops drill as
battalion of infantry, with the new patent
The Wjlliamsport Encampment ordered by Governor
Packer for purposes of instruction, commenced on Tues
day last the tn inst The town and hotels were crowd
ed with spectators, the estimated number OF visitors DC
ing five thousand About twenty three military COM
/ panes on the ground
VIOLENT STORM IN VIRGINIA. violent storm OF wind,
rain and hail passed the ncghborhood OF Gordons
/ vile, Virginia, on Saturday last The Alexandria Ga
| zette says
at GordonsvilIe the house Of the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad Company, in which were four pas
senger and baggage was only saved from total &c
struction by the support afforded by the cars within
which prevented its prostraIon Piles of two-nch plank
A dwelling halt mile distant, in OF erection and
belonging to Mr.. Morgan i'eae, blown down and
completely destroyed Trees fences and everything IN
the course of The storm swept before its fury
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