Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-02-17
MrRnER IN MEMpHIS

AJhDEh IN AEAA u4C-
Our Memphis exchanges give an account Of 7erym ys-
FERROUS murder recently committed in that city. The Eq.
| guirsr says.
Mr. VIM. ,anneT, who was murdered on Monday night
The harleston Railroad track, Union street re
ceved blow the head from club sluDg shot and
pierced just behind the with sharp instrument
supposed to have been q sTk knife the sword from
cane The murderer then laid him the track suUpo,
sing that the lrain then momenty expected would pass
over his body and Obterae his foul deed Of blood But
in this he mistaken he discovered lying On the
track bY Of the attending to the switches who
thinking it was drunken person who had laid down there
undertook him. when he discovered hat he had
beel 1uly dealt with, ami after his discovery he
/ breathed his last.
! The Bulletin, speaking of the circumstances, says:
The shock which this community has felt at the horrible
murder OF young Tanner, IS pregnant with anxious re-
Elections. What we, and what is CoudItion2-are
questions forced upon attention. By this dreadful &C.
currence That in the heat aud frenzy Of passion
driven by the hot impulse of aBgeT jealousy revenge
should kill Their fellows conflict face to face SO
strange, however who IN cold blood may sbudder
at the act But that inOfensive, amiable harmless
peaceful member Of society, who never had enemy in
his life and gave occasion to have one should be
thus Dutaly nassacIei without possible motive
only strange, but inCOncelyaby horrible With such
demons IN human shape among what life is SAFE what
home has aGy security what interest Of society not
! jeopardy
RABUx GAP RAILROAD Wa learn from the KnorgHs
Mercury that Judge Frost President of the Rabun Gap
Railroad from Knoxville 10 Charleston has directed sus
pension Of the work the Tennessee portion of the road
~ The Selma Railroad has been COM leed across the
| COosa river So miles from Selma.
t4- A S BRowS Esq, of Wythe, is spoken CT as The
successor Of Mr.. MCMULLES Congress- from the Abing
don (Va.) District.
~ Mt Bancrof. is said to have realised fifty thou
sand dollars by his Historyof the United States.
or The Washington Union understands that
| several officers Of the navy having applied to the
Secretary Of the Navy for = court Of inquiry under
the act of Janusry l6, 1857, the department has
accordingly ordered a court of inquiry to meet in
/ Washington on the 2Oth of February instant Tie
| court will be composed Of Commodcres Lavslette
! and StriDgham and Captain McCuney. Although
the law authorizes more than one court to be in
session at the same tine, yet it IS understood that
the Secretary does not d=em necessary present
10 appoint more than one.
INTERESTING ID COMMISSION MERCHANTs-In
repeyin suit brought in one of the Cincinnati
courts by c. & J. Prentiss against Benjamin Hig-
DON ez- sheriff, Judge Carter, sfter reviewing the
facts, rendered judgment for the plaintiff for one
cent on the ground that factors and commission
merchants, who hold themselves out to the world
as sucB have no right to transfer the property Of
their consignors or principals to another party on
Tie consideration Of precedent debt and in such
a case the rule of caveat enptor must apply, and
especially so when the purchaser, being creditor,
knew that the commission merchants were 10 fail
ing circumstances at the time of the transfer. Nor
does it make aLy difference, in such case, that
either party was aware of the property being that
Of the consigLors-the rule vii apply notwith-
standing. And, il saca a case, the principal or
consgnor can rePlevy tie property out of The
hands Of the purchaser.
LAND SPECULArIos-More than one million Of
dollars has been gathered from Q single county in
Illinois, the psst year, to invest in Iowa lands on
speculation. Farmers, mechanics, MERCK ants,
everybody, has the fever. No wonder that money
is scarce in that quarter. At this rate Uncle Sam
vii! soon bankrupt the entire West.
SINGULAR PUEIsHYEaT.-In the middle ag5s, IN
France, g person convicted Of being caiumniatar,
was condemned to place himself on his all tours,
and bark Ike a deg for quarter Of an hour. If
this custom was adopted at TIE present day, there
would be some bow-wowing.
81 man named IYNER was arrested II HEX
man, KY, on the 3lst uLt, for tsmpering with
sIsves He could not furnish the required bail,
and was imprisoned to answer the charge.
EWANCPATToN--A resolution wss on Tuesday
introduced in the Missouri Senate, declaring emaa-
d5atou imp7sctioaoie and neZpedient, and pa: sed.
Yeas %, nays 4.
~ Tnese Were ITO divorce suits inshute1il
San Francisco during the year 1856 la ~ OF
these cases DEGREES Of divorce have already 5esl
granted. In 1855 there were y divorce suits COM
meuCed in Ssn Francisco, aud It ls presumed that
DEGREES dis solving N arrags have been rendered IN
all of them