Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-11-24


The Washington correspondents Of the New York
Times, under date Of the 18th says: "The President
has completed his annual Message, with the excep,
ton Of the revision and additions which may be rem
dered necessary BY unantieipsted Developments be-
fore The meeting of Congress. There is reason to
believe that while the document will forcibly pre-
sent the necessity for bold and energetic meas
ures Of foreign policy especially with reference to
Mexico and Spain, he win fail to commit himself in
the Message to any recommendation Of specific meas
ures Of such character"
The Pauliing (AIississipri) CLARION says that a
very violent and destructive hurricane passed over
portion Of that county, the 10Th inst. Istruck
in its course the residence Of Josiah Moody, where
its effects exceeded in horror anything that the i'm
agnaton can conceive or the pen portray. The
place was swept with bosom Of destruction, eV-
cry house on the premises taken up and scattered
in pieces to the four winds, and, what is far more
distressing to relate, Mr. Moody himself, and eight
other members Of his family, we're killed and several
more severely wounded. Out Of fourteen persons on
the place, but one-NIr jackson, the son-in>law Of
Moody-escaped entirely uninjured. Mr. Moody
was minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church
newly built, Of heavy green logs.
4 number Of Wall street Exchange brokers have
been Tictimized by a batch Of counterfeits on the
National Bank Of Austria. The fraud was not dis
covered uui some of the notes we're sent TO Austria
for redemption. A Hungarian a Swiss, and a Ger
man, have been arrested on suspicion Of being i'm
pIoated in their circulation.
Mr. o. Jennings Wise responds to the recent pub
LEGATION of Dir. Charles Irving, by a card in the
Richmond Enquirer, in which, after violent assault
rpon the persons character Of 6Ir. Irving, he de-
elares that he cannot stake his life in conflict with
him; but will rely upon the means only of lawful
sslfdefence.
The New York Ereuhqg Post says ofthenew treaty
with Japan, that It appears to embody some impor~
tsnt CONCESSIONS both Of commercial and religious
privileges, to our cOuntTymen; such for example, as
the remission Of the tax of per cent FORE coinage
upon the American purchaser of japanese goods,
and the federation of the Christian faith the follow
ers Of which are allowed to build churches and hold
public worship in ports open to Americans d.
plomatic minister it is also promised, viii be sent
from Japan to the United States That the treaty is
deemed desirable one, is evident from the report
that the Englitb have procured one with similar pro-
visions.
The Secretary Of the Interior has approved to the
State Of Florida 284 568 acres of land in part inur
ing to that stote under the provisions of the act of
May II, 1885, to aid in the construction of that pOr
tim Of the Florida Railroad extending from Fernan
dina to Cedar Key. The charter of the railroad
company authorizes the establishment of line Of
steamers at each terminus for transportation Of
passengers and freight. The read is one hundred
and fftyfve miles long, eighty of which are now in
operation. 1t is said the road will be completed by
the LIST of January.