Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-02-17
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NEW ORLEANS. Feb. I6.-Cotton quiet, sales
1000 bales, prices feeble sugar stiff, mOasses, pa
"a; Flour, 172a4 SO; other articles unchanged.
] WASHINGTON, Feb. I6.-HOvsE-The Commit
tee on Ways and Means reported deficiency appro-
! pristion bill.
The Maryland contested case was taken up.
/ SEEATE-Mr Hunter presented q resolution, that
the COMMITTEES Foreign Relations inquire into the
! eXpedieney of the Government establishing pro-
teetOrate over Central America; laid over.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 16.-Rivsr stationary, with
8 feet inches WAGER in the canal
ST. LOUIS, Feb. I6.-Six to seven fset water in
the canal. Navigation is still suspended.
! NETWORK, Feb I6.-The sailingo Of the Philadsl-
| phia is postponed till the 18TH
st. LOUIS, Feb. I6.-Six to seven feet water in
the Canal. Navigation is still suspended.
NEW YORK, Feb. I6-Ths sailing of the Phila-
delphia is postponed till the 18Th
St. LOUIS, Feb. I6-KANsAs.-A skirmish is re-
ported st Fort Scott. No particulars. Denver re-
fused to send troops there.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-W. Fleming, alias W.
F. Norton, has been arrested, suspected of murder
ing H. F. Robertson, at Winchester, Tennessee,
about Christmas. 1t is believed Fleming followed
Gen. Calhoun and his party from Kansas with nefa-
riOus designs. He has been committed to Jail to
wait information from Tennessee.
Weather at 10 o'clock, 4. n, Feb. 16@
Louisville, cloudy, wind north, mercury &c.
Vicksburg clear, mercury 48, barometer 1880
Natehez, clear, mercury 55.
Memphis, cloudy wind northeast, mercury 49,
Tuscumbia, clear, wind south east, mercsry As,
barometer 29 so.
New Orleans, clear, mercury 81.
Portland, clear, wind west, mercury 6.
PASSPORT, Me. clear, wind northwest, mereury4
N. York, clear, wind west, mereury2l.
st. Johns, N. B., clear, wind northwest, mercU-
y9.
Buffalo, cloudy, wind northwest, mercury a.
Cleveland showing, inches deep, wind north
west, mercury 224, barometer 29.l8.
Rock Island, cloudy, windsouth-west, mercury 10
Chicago, showing, mercury "a
Dubuque, cloudy, wind north, mercury 10.
Milwaukee, cloudy, mercury g.
st. Louis, clear, mercury %.
Pittsburg, showing mercury 20.
n. York, noon, cloudy, wind west, mercury 80.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-COngressiOnal proceed
ings UnimpOrtant.
ST LOUIS, Feb. I6.-FIour $500, wheat 72a85
for fall. Corn 84s4O4. Oats 8Sa4O. Tobacco 5, Is
a6,00.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-COtton declined la; Flour
heavy wheat very dull white corn 67a685; whisky
D. Rice buOyant. Bacon hams 84a83; shoulders
63a63; lard active. Linseed 58a60. TalloW firm.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 16.-Cotton- G, 900
bales, lower, l1all4. Stock 100000 bales. De-
crease at this port $4,000 Decrease at all ports
4S1, 800 bales. Sugar 43a53; mOlasses %. Other
articles unchanged.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 16. - Flour 70a4 90; |
Whisky III; Provisions quiet bulk meat 5aa79; |
loose Bacon 7a9, without buyers.
WASHINGTON, Feb l6.-The President has re- |
moved Price, Postmaster at Chicago, and re- |
appointed Cook
He also removed Miller, Postmaster at Columbus, |
Ohio, and appointed e1 Governor Medary.
Gen. Calhoun has placed in the hands Of the Sen
ate Committee q statement of the late Kansas cleo
ton He is preparing address to the public.
An official statement shows the number of pas |
sengers from foreign countries last year. 271 1858,
including 100, 600 females.