Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-05
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER s, 1856.
The News.


Our telegraph advces report the border troubles
In Kansas on the Increase Strife and bloodshed
were threatened by both parties.
DR. Nathaniel B. Shurtef is the American cam
didate FOR Mayor of Boston.
correspondent Of the Baltimore Patriot is out
in fsvor Of John P. Kennedy TO succeed the Hon.
Thomas 6. Pratt. Hon. T. Winter Davis is also
mentioned
dispatch from Washington states that Ascot
ate Justice Dunlap will be appointed Chief Justice
OF the u Circuit Court for the District of Colum-
bs, Vice Judge Craneh resigned
Judge Grier, of the United States Supreme Court,
has decided that the legal weight of a ton Of coal
is 2,24O lbs, and that State law can be enact d
altering the quantity. The miners of Pennsylvania,
and the journals in their interest have taken ground
against the decision of the Judge
The AdriGtic, splendid new steamship, building
for the Collins line, Sil! be launched early in the
coming year. She takes the place of the i'll fated
arctic. Capt James West, of the Atlantic, takes
command of her.
Gov. Winston, of Alabama, in his late Message,
recommends the calling of Convention to revise
the State Constitution.
A Planters Meeting was held in the city Of Mem.
phis, on Saturday last, having for its object the
erection of the Continent Of Europe into a cotton
market as a competing rival with Liverpool.
The New York Tribune says that Madame Ra-
chefs proportion of the profits of her late en-.
gagement in that city, is sS4, 00O-that of Felix,
the Manager, $23, 200.
Ir u.
American Journal Of Insanity, and the author of
work on Medical Jurisprudence, died in Albany a
few days ago. DR.. B. was one of the oldest physi-
clans of eminence in the country.
large commercial house in New Orleans is in
possession of a reliable letter from Turks Island,
reporting unusual scarcity of salt, stating that it
is now held at S5aS7i cents per bushel, more than
twice the usual price.
EK Senator Dickinson of New York, has written
letter to the Boston committee declining to lecture
on the subject of slavery in that city.
-Four Boston editors have been elected members
of the present Massachusetts, lie sIature-they are
from the Offices of the Journal advertiser, Courier
and Priuateer
The Sons of Bonnie Aud Scotia" held Gale
DOMAIN Festival in Cincinnati on the evening of the
3Oth ult. Hon. Thomas COrwin and other distin-
guished guests we're present
The following are the officers of Gen. Walkers
Nicaraguan Republic:
Don Patricio Rivas, President; Gen. WIN. Walk.
er, COMMANDMENT Chief; Gen. Maxine Jeres, Min.
lister of War; Col. Parker H. French, Minister of
Hacienda; Don Famer Ferrer, Minister of Public
Credit.
Mrs Julia Dean Hayne is playing at the Broad :
way Theatre, New York.
Mr.. E. Samueis, an enthusiastic Naturalist of New
York, went out in the last Panama steamer on a
pilgrimage OF SCIENTIFIC research through California
Mr.. Browne, attache of the Agricultural De-
partment of the Patent Office, lately sent out to
Europe for the purpose OF procuring seeds and
agricultural information for the use of this branch
OF the Government returned in the Pacific He
visited England, France, Belgium, Holland Hano-
yer and Denmark, and was highly successful in the
OBJECT of his mission. The seeds, &c, are to be dis
tributed among the members Of Congress, and the
different agricultural and horticultural societies of
the Union.
The commerce between the United States and
Africa has been rapidly on the increase The reports
show yearly increase OF 80 per cent