Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-18
The News.

The firm OF Perkins, Campbell Co, Commission
Merchants, New Orleans, was dissolved on the 9th
inst. Gen. W. 3. Campbell and 5. P. Walker, Esq,
retire. The former was in Memphis on the 1881
inst, on his way 10 this city.
The Washington Union Of the 18th, as VIC learn
from Geographic despatch 10 the Louisville Copr-
ier publishes proclamation OF the President against
the formation Of military expeditions fer Nicaragua
San Francisco papers received by the Northern
Light which arrived at Nes York on the Ilth
make mention Of the burning Of Hawaii, a volcano
on one Of the Sandwich Islands. A letter dated
Oct. 18th, says: laval still burns The great fur
Hace on Nauue Loa is IN full blast For sixty three
dave the molten food has rolled down the mountain
without abatement. Our Hawaiian atmosphere is
loaded with smoke and gases through which' the
sun shines With din2y and yellow rays. The amount
OF lava disgoFged ON this awful magazine is enor.
nous. The higher regions Of the mountains are
flooded with vast tracts Of smoking lava, while the
streams which have flowed down the side Of the
mountain spread ovrra surface Of several miles in
breadth The main stream, including all its wind
iugs, must be more than fifty miles long, with an
average breadth Of three miles. This is still fow-
ing direct for bay, and supposed TO be within
ten miles Of u.s. It s eating its way slowly through
the deep forest and the dense jungle in our rear,
and its terminus must be the sea, unless the great
summit fountain should cease to disgorge.
The Louisville papers announce the death, on
Thursday last, of Col. VIM Riddle, of that city, one
Of their most prominent and useful citizens He had
long been a member of the City Council, and was an
r IL
Louisville and Nashville Railroad The Journal
says that enterprise has received severe blow in
Lis death.
A new military company recently organized in
New York, has complimented a citizen of Tenues
see Edwin o. Perrin, Eeq, of Memphis, late Navy
Agent at that place, and brother in law Of Hon.
+. p Stanton, by adopting the name OF the Perrin
Guards" At late dinner given by the company
Mr. Perrin was toasted and made a happy and elo-
quent response.
The Hon. Jeremiah Clemens recently addressed
an Am rcan meeting in Huntsville. Col. Clemenh
is one Of the most powerful advocates of AmercaI-
ism in the country.
Chloroform can he put 90 a variety of uses We
learn from the lion az ~ Independent, that a
that place, and being suddenly 4ized
with headache complained to a lady sitting near
her Of the fact. Her neighbor Immediately pro.
duced her handkerchief and wetting it with cblo-
reform applied it to her nostrs, supplied her and
robbed her Of thirty or forty dollars and a check
The Louisville Courier who predicted the down
fall Of that city Immediately after the election riots
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tToVersy with the Chicago papers TO the popuIa.
sion and prospects Of Louisville. Hear what it
says: "The population of LOUSY Ille is 10 600, and
constantly increasing and with the natural advan-
tages it possesses viii continue TO increase despite
the drawback OF election riots and Know Nothing
misrule"
Col Parker H. French, Minister to the United
States from Nicaragua, arrived in New York on the
10Th inst. Col. French is invested with extraordi-
nary powers to enable him to settle the difficulties
between the United States, England and Nicaragua
writer in the London Times suggests the EN-
ployment Of the fugitive slaves in Canada Oh the
cotton plantations Of Jarraica, as partial remedy
for Eagahds dependence on America for Cotton.
A bill has been introduced into the Alabama
Legislature providing for the call of q convection to
form q new Constitution. We have not learned
Inc charges proposed. The bill is supported upon
the grounds of general defects Of the old Consttu.
tiOn. The measure seems to meet with great favor
from the press, aud it is thought that ii will be
adopted.
IMMENSE, desp0Sts Of mari b ave been discovered
in Clark and Wayne counties, Mississippi. The
Qlitman h.teHgenerr states that Professor Harper,
the State Geologis; has examined the deposits which
he pronounces iutxhaustible, and analysed the
EARTH which he finds to possess ertiEng properties
10 a remarkable degree almost equal to guano'
The Professor idrsees the time when it will become
an article of commerce and be sold to the ogricul
turist of other States by the ton.
The Albany A,gistsr says the Census returns
have been fer complied as to give the entire
population of the State which is three millions four
hundred and sir,y siE Asousaad hundred aud
eighteen g. 400 49, This Is exclusive Of the Indian
reservation, which viii add about three thousand
At the last census, in 1850, the population was
3o95, 1874. The population Of New York City is
returned at 629,slo.
The Texas Telegraph, Of the ed ult, says the
result so far ms the crop has been gathered
IN that State justfes the conclusion that the crop
generally short, and the average no larger Oh an
last year. which fully one-third short Of fair
yield Most planters will finish picking by the 25th
inst Within the last month the weather has been
favorable
gE-The Governor Of Missouri has vetoed the
bin granting $3.50 600 TO the Cairo and Fulton Rail
road. The bill was to be taken up again and, It was
thought, would pass by such a majority as 10 make
IL law 10 spite o; the veto