Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-05-30
NEWS ITEMS,

voted to extend to Gen Scott an invitation to visit
that city on his his way to Boston, to attend the
festivities Of the 18th Of june and appointed COM
mittee to make the necessary arrangements.
The Boston TraDel5er states that the North
Carolina gold mine pays 16 per cent. on the par
value which is about its regular earnings The
capital stock # the company is $4,000, nearly
One-half Of which is owned in Boston.
= The North Eas! Georgian of the 18th says
"The wheat crop Of the part of this State is unu-
sually promising We now have fine rains, and
have nothing to fear unless it should be injured by
the rust, Rye and oats are also doing very well.
The Pensacola fla Times, of the 18th in
slant, says; GA storm set in Friday night, which
continued till Monday morning, water falling in i'm
mense quantities, flooding all low grounds Mail
communication the Mobile route was cut off on
Sunday, but back and date mails came through yes
terday morning.
- The New York Second Avenue Railroad Com
pany have placed on the route some cars with an up
per or hurricane deck" A light iron ladder af-
fords the means for reaching it, and on the deck
are two rows of seats placed back to back.
- NOEu IS scarce aI NOrlOlA5 va. me shipments
from that pert in all directions the first quarter
barely exceeded 100000 bushels, against 900
same time last year.
= Rev. W. B. Lacey, in a communication to the
Abbevile Is. CO. Bonner declares the existence of
much destitution among the people in many parts
of Henry, and adjoining counties, and calls loudly
for prompt measures Of relief.
- The commission merchants Of Savannah have
agreed hereafter to charge D per cent commission
upon all sales of cotton instead of 50 cents per bale
as was the custom.
- A number of gambling houses have been
broken up in Chicago by the mayor of that city,
and number of gamblers have left for St. Paul
- A pacing match of twenty-seven miles came
of recently near Pittsburg, over the Butler plank
road. The time in which that distance was accom-
plished was just two hours and ten minutes. The
road was not in good condition.
- We learn by the last arrival from Europe, that
fourteen hundred miles of the Atlantic telegraph
cable have been spun; and that there is everything
to encourage the friends of the great enterprise
The practical difficulty, we apprehend, will be in
laying the cable.
"A gentlemanres iding in New York, the celebrated
the sixth anniversary of his marriage yesterday by
sending his wife beautiful basket of flowers, and
deed for a 100000 house on Fifth avenue.
- The account published in Georgia paper re-
Gently of the existence of volcano in that Stat, is
ascertained to be hoax, perpetrated by some mis-
ehievous chap.
= Lots which sold for $50 last winter, in Law
renee, Kansas, now senfor $500
- Thirty thousand slaves we're sold, and removed
from Virginia, last year.
- The Wilmington Gazette states that at present
in Delaware the peach crop bids fair to be more
abundant than it has been for many years.
= The Philadelphia Bulletin has reports from
various parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania that
there is every appearance of the heaviest crop Of
peaches ever known. In regard to other fruits the
prospect is said to be as favorable or nearly so.
- Hon. Miles Taylor, whose obituary was pub
lished few day, agO-the Representative of the
Second District Of louisiana in COngress-it ap-
pears did not die as was announced to the papers of
New Orleans-but it was a false report which pre-
consigned him to the world of spirits.
- A cargo of green teas was sold at auction in
New York on the Dist inst, the finer grades of
young Tyson showing advance of four and five
cents per pound. The medium and lower grades
fully sustained the advance noticed at the previous
sales. Short crop and hOstlities in China are the
causes of this rapid advance.
- In Washington, Me, on the night of the 26th
ult., Mary A. Hoke, a young lady twenty years of
age, who was suffering from severe toothache,
arose from her bed, built fire upOnthe hearth, and
lay down before it. In a few minutes she dropped
asleep, when her cloths took fire, and she was so
severely burned that she died three days after.