Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-11-09

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Greek gold diggns has run high, but is nov cooling
downs srsSt many conflicting reports being cur
rent, some saying thst person can make from So
to sl5 per dsy-Others 50 cents Although it is
clear tIst gold docs exist in that se5tion il is, for
the most part, useless to 60 out and dig for it. il
! being il light particles and hard to collect The
merchants here and at Omaha are buying large
quantities Of potatoes to ship to St. Louis They
pay from Is to 20 cents per bushel and Is cents
freighis and sell for 50 to IS cents in St Louis
Com lie selling at % cents per bushei- For meat
We Eave to pay from 10 8 cents per pound; butter
Toto % cents; eggs is cents per dozens cabbage
5to Is cents q head-the % cent heads as large as
sbarrel head Business Of all kinds nearly, is dull
here being but little money 10 circulation 1t has
been predicted that this will be the hardest winter
on the poorer classes that has beer known in the
West A great many Of our oitiseas are taking
their families East to spend the winter and don't
think there VIII be many left by the time winter
fairly setsin ,..s e gs-a
Gen. Ward, Of GeOrgis-who was the President
of the Cincinnati Democratic National Convention
has been rendered the position Of .. S. Minister
to Turin, made vacant by. the resignation of Mr..
John NJ Daniel of Virginia, the former editor Of
4 the Richmond Examiner.
II The Naval Court Martial at Norfolk to try Lieut.
4 Payne, of the Marines, found him guilty, and the
Department has dismissed him from the service.
Lieot Payneis native of Tennessee, and has only
been Eve years in the corps.
The Richmond (Va.j South pronounces the late
United States Agricultural exhibition in that city
failure. s s'a ts
i At the late term of the Lancaster t0biO) Common
Pleas Court, Ashberys D0herty, ESQ, was convicted
Of passing counterfeit money, and sentences to three
years. imprisonment in the Peaiientiary Mr. D
was citizen Of Violet Township, and was long re-
garded as one of the best citizens having served as
Justice Of the Peace for many years, and acting
that capacity when arrested. 1t appeared in evil
dencs that for some years past he has been in the
habit Of buying counterfeit money of men who trav-
eled about the country to sell it, and managed to
get it off in making payments on his docket and
otherwise. The principal witness against him was
MIR. Houk, who was acting as constable of the
township, and who was also arrested for similar
Ofense.
Captain Charles Chessel, with Mr.. Henry Kim>
Der, mate, and four seauen, of the British bark
Clsude Of Sboreham Ems gland, arrived at New ] Ork
on the 3D. on board Of The London packet~sbip Isaac
Bell, Capt. Edward Johnson, by whose timely and
humane efforts they were rescued from the wreck of
the above named bark on the Both Of October, after
they had betn clinging for day and night to the
rigging. The Claude having sprung leak during
a heavy gale on the Goth, iC was found impossible,
after three days and nights hard pumping, TO keep
the ship f ee Ga the 29h, the captain, with his
wife and al the crew. ret ed 10 the main top but
the vessel shortly afterwards capsized, and the wife
Of the captain with seven of the officers and crew.
were drowned.
Mr.. Washington Mclean leased twelve acres of
quarryiDg ground, near Cincinnati, to the County
Commissioners of Hamilton county, for term Of
five years from the 8Ist of October, 1858, for the
Oh in gang prisoners to work in, With the under
andiug that the Board should grade and level the
ground in consideration of the stsne. This Mr. Nc
Lean claims they have failed to d. and The lease
having expired, he has fled precipe in the United
States Circuit Court for damages against present
Board for Sl20 600
The Clsv,land (Ohio) RepieV says that the con
for beef to supply the British army and navy
have been made Proposals for seven thousand
ierees we're ADVERT ed for and we're awarded as We
learn by the HeraEd as follows: Colonel n. NJ Stan
dart, of Cleveland, three thousand teTces; Crsgiu
Co.. Of CIicsgo, fire hundred tieTess aud the lance
betEeen Adams, Of Baltimore; Alburger, Of Phils
deli hia, and DOminick, of Cincinnati. The prices
agreed upon for the Cleveland packed beefare higher
than for that packed at either Of the other cities
The average price is e. less than that of the last
year.
Mr. William A. Wallace, Of the AJia California,
furnishes the St. Louis Republican some interesting
information in regard to the amount Of travel be-
tween at place and Salt Lake. He left the latter
place on the ID of October, and arrived here No
vembsr 9th. On the first day out from Salt Lake
he met Hubbelps tran Of ffty-tWc Wag rs. This
rain started with seven hundred head Of cattle of
which number one hundred and ninety had died
one hundred and seventeen perishiug from cold in
one night on the Rocky Ridge On October 10Th,
met Judge Eckles with train consisting Of one
coach aud four six mule wagons. The Judge bad
with him little white grlstely recovered from the
Indians. On the same day met train of twenty
one wagons, which had lost fifty head of cattle on
the way he reports having passed on the route
teen hundred and sixiy-6ve vehicles, eight thous-
an and sixty one oke Of oxen seven hundred and
four mules forty six horses and twelve hundred and
thirty head of loose cattle A large portion of this
emil atoD is occasientd by by the establishment Of
the Government forces in Salt Lake City, many of
the trains being filed with armE SUPPLIES but aside
from this, there is a vast amount of miscellaneous
emigration aud commercial intercourse existing be.
tween the two points
/ John MacomDer, mate of the SLAYER Haidee, who
was confined in New York for trial, has escaped.
Our readers will recolect that the Haidee was the
vessel which, after delivering large cargo of slaves
was sunk of Montauk Point The escape of Ma
oOmber has made quite a sensation in New York.
Accounts from Port Span, Trinidad, to the 18th
ult represent the islsnd healthy and business
active The crops of sugar, coffee, cotton, hemp
and corn have been the largest ever known. rail-
road with Two extensive branches, was beiug made,
which would greatly facilitate The transit of pro-
ducs from all points of the interior. Rains had
fallen in abundance, affOrdiug a full supply of wa
ter. The crossing crops looked we'll, aud the whole
Of the next crop Of sugar contracted for by
hOuses-one in Liverpool and The other i" Dublin
An accomplished scoundrel named Samuel Mors
ton, has been committing heavy forgeries on bust
ness men Of New York and st Louis. Some three
months since he lived a. Cape Girardesu, Mo, and
while there forged differ emit New YoIkers' Names
and sold their drafts to the amount of $500 For
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