Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-17
The News.
40 Memphis IpnenL. OF the loth snrs

q eve think in the whole progress of Nemnbis n
It's present cty-iik size there has never been so
much cotton az the cotton sheds on the bluffs and
exposed generally an over the city as now Ger.
tain We are that We have never seen SO much cot
ton unsheltered as az present Bales are 70 be
seen on most every street. and they remain not
long at place either. Docs IL not argue that the
Memphis cotton trade is rapidly Increasingly"
An officer in Gen Walkers army writes from
Granada Nicaragua:
II herewith enclose another number Of the Nj
earagN','se, Published for this week in which YOU
VIII nnd great deal of news and also see that our
forces are eulargnC every steamer We received
last night proposition from the State Of San SAL
vador to join us in lberatug Central America from
the continued revolutions, which for so long have
kept this garden Of the world from being one of
the richest governments in the Universe"
The Red river hunters number 2 900 men. Their
women and chldrcn number 3, 900 souls. They
have 1900 carts. and range with them from the
Mouse river valley to the Red river of tie north,
and esel, year. in june and July, and again in DC.
tober and November, carry of to the settlements
at PembiRa and ia the English territory at least
2,5oo,o COO pounds Of buffalo meat dried or in the
form Of Pemican. These people are simple.heart
cd, honest and Industrious
The war in Illinois against Georgia ovid Catn
money still goes on, and there is an evident deter.
minaion TO show quarters to spectators in rae
money. Nearly all the leading merchants of Chi
cago have signed pledge to refuse such money
altogether after the st of January and the Tribune
of that city says:
The Illinois Central Railroad COMPANY has issued
notices to its agents and EMPLOYEES forbidding them
TO receive or pay out, after the Sth of December
any notes OF the Georgia Banks, commonly known
4fE i i
central and the Chicago and Burlington roads are
speedily to follow this good example. Thus one
stronghold after another gives way and the day of
deliverance is nearer and nearer at hand
Bill providing that ia all marriages hereafter
to be had aud soemnized las to which no contracts
shall have been made otherwise establishing the
rights OF the parties) all the property of the wife
to which she was previously entitled or to which
she may become so entitled afterwards shall be her
separate estate end not subject to the debt or
liabilities of her husband, who shall as 70 all spcb
property be deemed and held as the trustee thereof"
passed the Senate Of South Carolina last Saturday
by vote Of II TO l6.
The New York correspondent Of the Columbia
Ccroliniau saws:
AS the Grinneil5 often spoken Of brief
notice Of them may not be ont Of place. The
elder brother, Moses is the most efficient PARTNER
OF the well known firm Of Griunell, Minturn & Co.
This house does an immense business and the part.
ners are all wealthy. Henry Grnnen. who is
celebrated for his connection with the Arctic dis.
coveries, was formerly connected with the above
named house. For some years he has lived retired
in Bond st. is in afiuent circumstances, aud verv
modest and unassumng gentleman. He isin middle
life, and has the rudy complexion of an Enelishman
lie has a small family of children who are all grown
up Moses Grinnel married a niece Of Washington
Irving, and resides during the summer onthe Hud-
son, adjoining the residence of his distinguished
relative
We have before US absorption of plant dis
covered in New York by Mrs. A L. Beaumont
OF Arena. She has Furnished the Tribune with a
fine sample OF cotton and also of fax from the
same plant, which she describes as follows:
discovered, two years ago, a plant that yields
both cotton and fax from the same root and be.
heve / am the first person that ever cultivated
spun and knit from il, l pursuaded that any
article that will make good cloth as can be made
IRON this plant will make good paper, hence | call
It the Paper Plant. IL can be planted in the spring
and cut in the TALL or winter Il beaches itself
white as it stands, and will Weld at least three or
four tons 10 the acre. From a single root trans.
planted last spring there grew twenty large stalks
with three hundred and five pods containing the
cotn) with at least sixty seeds in egch From this
root j Obtained seven ounces of pure cotton, and
over tall a pound Of fax. IL Is very heavy
plant and grows from six to seven feet high
Mr. A. II. SIMMONS, one of the proprictors of
The Phiia&lplia Ledgtr, died III that city on Sun.
DAY morning after a brief illness. lie leaves
wife aud several children end large fortune which
he has Omlssed witlina few years by the uncx.
ampled increase Of The Ledger as a vehicle for bust
ness advertiug. Mr.. Summons was a native Of the
State e Connecticut, and after working many
years in PitsburS j3urneyman printer ard
pressman, removed te Philadelphia, where in con-
nectou with Mr. Swain and Mr.. Abel, he estab-
lished the first successful penny paper, which has
now attained a daily circulation OF q 600
Ono AND MISSISSIPPI RAmRcAp-The S. Louis
lntelligeucer says
The whole lenghth Of The road from Cincinnati to
Niuccnnes, where il connects with the road to St.
Louis, already completed, and which the cars are
running, is le2 miles; of this distance there are
completed and in use eighty miles, and in so
FAR competedas to be ready for the IRON sixty three
miles; and OF the remainder twenty miles arc partly
graded and can be completed IN about three months;
leaving seventeen miles on which but little work
has been done, aud which will require niue months
for its completion There viii by required in ad.
dition 70 resources already provided 10 complete
the road pay the debts OF the Company, and pro.
vide for Interest and expense to secrue during the
progress of the work, about 81 5000
How TO Re LOVED Here Is secret worth know
ing. William Writ, IN letter to his daughter, thus
insists upon the Importance Of the small, sweet
courtesies Of life. Depend upon IT, he is right He
says: 81 want to tell you a secret The Nay Co
make yourself pleasing to others, il 10 show that
yoa care for them. The whole world is like the