Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-25

NEW FmLmUsTER MovEMEST.-A gentleman who
recently arrived in the city Of New York from Mex
leo says that near Yorktown, Dewitt county, Texas
between the coast aud San Antonio, party Of I'LL
busters are having regular drills preparatory to
irruptiOn into Northern Mexico, by way of Laredo.
Ba- On the 18th inst, there were ahoat from
Lake Michigan to OswegO n. Y, two hundred and
fifty thousand bushels of wheat, and fifty thousand
bushels Of corn. There is an immense quantity Of
grain yet to come forward market from the West.
The opening Of navigation will cause cOnsdera-
BILE accumulation Of stock in New York.
Ha- The New York Herald asserts that ThurIOw
Weed says, that an arrangement has been entered
into between Senator Seward and Douglas, by which
the friends of the former are to help rseect Doug
las to the Senate, and the friends of the latter
support the former for the Presidency.
na- VIM. Cullen Bryant, the poet editor of the
New York EDsniHg Post has been chosen by the
| Legislature as a Regent of the University of the
State Of New York, to fill the vacancy caused by
the lsts decease Of Hon. John Greig.
Rea- 1t is announced that 500 900 in gold has
been sent to St. Louis by the Government to pay
the expenses of organizing the Utah expedition.
John Abel who killed Everson, in Memphis, last
summer, has instituted a suit for $780, 900 damages
agant nine gentlemen of that city, for the attempt
to lynch him.
SECRETARY TO RUssA.-Tbe Charleston papers
contain the following telegraphic dispatch:
"WAsHrNGTON, April l5.-J. E. Bacon, of South
Carolina has been confirmed as Secretary Of Lega-
| ton to st. Petersburg"
Berthe Press, the Pulpit, and the Petticost: The
first spreads the news the second religion; and
the last spresds-aH 0Usr the pavement.
Rsg- Look not mOurnfully into the past-it can
not return Wisely improve thepreseut-it is thine.
Go forth to meet the shadOwy future without fear
and with manly heart.
Rsy- Thomas J. Charlton, Of Georgia, has been
appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Navy.
Gov Melville, of Mississippi, and wife, have
just been blessed with twenty first pledge Of con-
jugal affection.
Hon. S. s Marshall, of Illinois, has declined
reelection to Congress.
NEw LAWS OF DrvoRCE-PuHeE in aiding Par
lament in its labOrs on the new divorce law by pro-
posing the following amendments
That wife shall be entitled to relief under this
act, if the husband show her miIliuers bill for
any single year Of their marriage exceeded the sum
Of fifty pounds sterling.
That the word "cruelty" Cin'the 20 and q Wet.
cap. So shall not be held to mean smoking in the
parlor and library, but shall mean smoking in any
other apartment in the cenjugal mansion.
That no mother in-laW's evidence shall be credit
ed if given in favor Of her own offspring but that
the same may be received on the other side with
the caution usually observed in listening to the al
legations Of old parties.
That in any petition presented to this court the
words he behaved like brute }" shall be taken as
words of course and as superauous, unless specific
explanations are given.
That any husband shall be debarred from relief
BY this court if he be proved to have ever hint
ed that be threw himself away in marriage to have
refused his wife month at the sea side or to have
received perfumed correspondence ct his club.
That no husband shall be favored by the court
who has been proved 70 assign business" as a rea-
son for his being oct until halfpss three and then
returning in 3 state Of mops and brOoms.