The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-09
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GLE4NLNGS FROM THE MAILS.

The Fisher benefit in Mobile produced one thousand
dollars net for the family of the late lanentel Charles
b, Fisher.
The mayor of Cincinnati has had census of the drink
ing saloons taken showing total of sixteen hundred
and eighty eight
The Galveston Civilian of the 24ih has letter Of the
st from El paso which reports several Indian depreda
lions In that neighborhood
The New York Shipping List that an oil company
of that city has purchased Scotland forty thousand
tons Of coal for manufacturing purposes.
The Rolling Mill at Atlanta. learn is in opera
tion and has a good deal Of light wornout iron
into heavy rails costing the State half price They
are now being laid down at certain points
At Springfield Illinois, enormous fraud on that
State has just to light the Fund Commissioners hay
ing paid out 10 Governor Matteson S09 900 bogus
canal scrip.
The whole subject Of increasing the tolls on coal
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal is to up for action
at meeting the Maryland Board of Commissioners Of
Public Works, to be held in ashort time
The doctors of the New York dispensaries are very
clever and must get good wages. According to a pub
lished statement they treated AGO poor people du
ring the month of January
The Bullion Bank for some time in agitation in New
York city is understood to be far organized that il will
go into operation The board OF directoas Is
plete, and a selection of president will soon be made
The valuation Of Bostonin 1858 exceeded that Of the
entire States of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
OF Philadelphia and nearly thrice that of Baltimore
The Dallas Herald learns that the company that killed
the friendly Indians in Palo Pinto county on the 9th
ultimo, afterwards hunted up the notorious outlaw and
horse thief 10. Walker well known on the western
frontier, and Killed him
Over two thousand shares of the capital stock having
been subscribed, the Eastern Shore Railroad Company Is
y be organized at Princess Ann, Md the 22d inst
The road to be built by the company il to connect with
the Delaware railroad at the Maryland line
company has been organized in Dresden, Mus
ngum county, composed Of several active business men,
for the purpose Of manufacturing oil from camel COAL of
which the hills in the neighborhood OF the both
sides of the river are full
bill is pending in the Louissana legislature to
Incense gambling houses in the city Of New Orleans 1t
is proposed TO tax each establishment SO licensed egh
teen thousand dollars and that the funds thus accrng
to the city treasury shall lie distributed among the
rious charitable institutions Of the cty-Charty Hos
pital, Firemens Charitable Association, New Orleans
School of Medicine, Mechanics Society etc. bill OF
this kind introduced ut the last session. but de-
Ieatcd.
The Fall River Beacon understands that the Sons OF
Malta, in Massachusetts,, have ia contemplation the
building of -four ast-sailng clipper sclooners OF bgan
tines of about three hundred each in every way
adapted to be used vesseso IL necessary One is
to be built In East Boston, in Newburport, in
Fairhaven and one IN Warren r. l. This astounding
intelligence needs confirmation
The new steamship Yorktown now in course of con
structon by w II Webb 4 Co. of New York, to run
regularly between New York, Norfolk City Point and
Richmond, in cohnexon with the jamestown and Roam.
oke 10 10 BE- superb vessel and VIII be ready for sea in
June or July Her length Of deck Is $50 feet breadth
beqm a5 feel, depth OF hold 10 feet and tonnage 1900
She 70 be admirably fitted up for passengers and freight
and will prove great acquisition to the line. Her model
is a superb one