Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-05-28
NEWS ITEMS.


.-,,. Counties Of Virginia Immediately penetrated
~ ;,4nencei by the Virginia and Tennessee Rail.
- viz Bedford, Roanoke, Montgomery. Pulaski
-, Smith. Washington and Scott. show an in
go. of SASS, 500; their aggregate land vaIras
so having been Sl4, 446, O59. and heinz ,,--
o, s22 go, 528. The adjoining calntias
-l.;.b have been more remotely influenced bv the
- show like increase and give with those
a,r,s5. total increase Of S2O,oOO,OOO,
The Detroit Free Press says that the FIRST Con
,-.iora1 District of Michigan, which last voor
.r..tzraen eight and nine hundred Renrbiicor
7--.,r;,z- has gone for the Democrats by $50 ma
- bleeding Kansas" it says. has had irs
and the .sDred Scott decision cry has worked
mot the slightest benefit to the niggerites.
The Montreal Transcript says the British COY
.,.u,ent Is fitting out an expedition to the North
west. or Hudsons Bay Territory. It is under the
mend of Mr. Palliser, with Doctor Hector %
,1,r;st naturalist and surgeon; Lieut.. Blackstone
.oEa nacnetical observations, and botanjsr NOT
,,r,od The expedition may be expected in Cana
10 IN few days. and will proceed from the west of
lake Superior as a starting point to the Saskatcba
NOT, examining the capabilities of the babitab1a
,r,io Of this great region. Another of its dntias
u-;r ba 70 endeavor to discover practicable road
,rror,rb the Rocky Mountains as a means of com
,,,,nication between Vancouvers Island and Canada
The Southern Baptist Theological School has
b.oo located in the village of Greenviue. S C.. Inv
tbe Southern Baptist Convention, lately held in
TonfsviIle, KY One hundred thousand dollars
have been subscribed by the Baptists of South Car
/ alma. and another hundred thousand dollars is to
| he raised elsewhere.
- The New York Herald says Col Fremont is
orrayed in preparing a edition of his works.
comrrising accounts of all his travels and expedi
tions and containing much matter that has not here
tofore been published This work will shortly be
issrod by Childs Co., of Philadelphia, the pub
fishers Of Dr. Kane's works.
Letters from Stuttgart the capital of Wur-
tamburg. Germany, complain of the upward tendeu-
cv in the price of provisions, and also that the
rates of rents have recently increased from fifteen
to twenty-five per cent.
- Rev B. Hutchins, of the Episcopal church in
Albion, H. recently lost seven out of nine children
in ten consecutive days from scarlet fever and the
other two we're ILL.,
- The mail from st. Louis to Cincinnati is now
conveyed over the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in
sixteen hours and eighteen minutes and the st Louis
napers are received in New York the second day aG-
ter their date.
- The mayor of St. Louis recommends iron
movements for the streets, which are now Macadam.
ised with soft limestone, and very disagrccable
in dusty weather
- The fifth volume of MacauIays History of
England is said to be nearly ready for the press,
and may he expected in July It viii bring the
narrative down to the death Of William ILL., in l7O2
NIacauay is said to have arrived at the conclusion
already drawn by the public that it is wholly use
less to continue the idea of writing a history of
England down to such a recent date as ne originally
intended It is said he has been persuaded TO close
his history at the death Of Queen Anne, in ILL.,
the actual close Of the Stuart dynasty, as regning
monarch.
- An important railroad case was riedlast week
in New Hampshire, in which it was decided that
the railroad directors have right to make extra
charges when tickets are not procured before enter
ing the cars and that conductors justified in
expcIng from the cars those who refuse to pay such
CHARGE.
A., T,,oopr MT ,,r-rsrrov DrcrprD.- Recently the
question has arisen, before the Postmaster General
,vbotboro donutr Postmaster can he compclIcd to
obey the summons to appear in Court with a vaIua-
BILE or other letter that rests in his Office addressed
to another party. The Postmaster General under a
decision of the Attorney Generals Office, decided
that the deputy cannot legally do
pRor LFurrR This eminent scholar. so Justly
celebrated in Europe and America. has been called
TO Columbia College. \. y. It's no small compIi-
ment TO him that q new chair was created solely
with a view of securing his valuable services.
Thomas y Arcv NcGee has reIinouished his
raner tbo l.s,;,oo C,l, and has nroceeded to Mon
+ra,I to. ostob1isl, o now tri-vaol,Iv ncwspaper
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