Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-12-22

en- isolated Irish poT The news 81 her ssfesy win
b. hailod with pleasure sveryWhere
Judgment has been rendered Against he Illinois
Central Railroad Company, at the suit Of cattle
drOyer, for ST. $50 damages for injuries sustained by
100 head Of cattle. detained on the road while on
their way to Detroit. The decision is Of Importance
to cattle dealers
policeman in West Troy, n. Y, named Brown,
has been arrested on q charge of being in league
with contsrfeiteIs. At his house large number Of
bank-nOte plates were found, purpossing 70 be en-
| graved for The FallkiI and Mohawk River banks
besides dies bearing the words 'Pennsylvania" and
/ Massachusetts," A press vas also discovered in
the same premises. Brown was held TO bail to
answer.
] Letters from Havana Of the 10Th instant state
that some thousands Of revolutionary p acasds we're
in setive circulation amongst the people, and that
the Government exercised severe watch over the
movements of strangers. Senior Miguel Embil was
formally cited to deliver himself to jail in Havana.
Consul General Helm had addressed the Captain
General on the long detention Of the brig Nancy,
urging speedy conclusion Of the suit against the
vessel.
The members of Congress have drawn up more
closely to date than usual, an evidence that money
is not abundant every where. The Sergeant at
Arms Of the House has disbursed, since the 9th
inst, account of mileage and arrears Of salary,
1927, 4O8 His total disbursements for the present
Congress up to the 15th amounted to 81, 4S5. 292.
Two men named SiarkWeather and Ridouts we're
arrested at Milwaukee on the 18th, who have beer
engaged il manufacturing bogus coin. All ihtir
apparatus we're also found.
The house Of Mr. DuttoD, ct Rock Island, was
destroyed by FIRE on The 18th, and two of his chill
dren persisted in the flames aud third was 50 bad
" injured that his recovery is doubtful.
The preliminary report of Lieut. Ives concerning
the Colorado exploring expedition, states that the
Colorado river is nsvigable for 1855 miles above st.
Yuma, and that good wagon road can be cons
structed thence to the Utah emigrant road, forty
miles distant. The land transportation saved by
sending supplies by this channel would be: To Salt
Lake, 700 miles; to Fort Defiance 600 miles; aud to
Fort Buchanan, 100 miles. The tract of country
between the Colorado and Bio Grande. and between
the 34th and the s6h degrees of latitude is favOr4
able to agriculture.
The consolidation into one management of all the
principal telegraph lines on the ssaboard between
Boston and New Orleans, including the Magnetic
the House and the Hughes lines, is announced, the
new arrangement to go into effect on the LIST Of
January next.
The proposed meeting of gentlemen friendly to
the election of Mr.. Crittenden to the Presidency in
1860 wss held at Washington on the 18th, and was
numerously attended No definite action was taken,
but it is said there was general expression of
opinion in favor of united opposition to the Dem
ocrats
The Hon. James B. Clay declines reelection to
Congress from the Ashland (Ky.) District.
According to sdvices from Havana, Gen. Garzn
has made satisfactory atOnementtO Spain for the
RACES and injuries done to Spanish residents in Mex
leo, and President ZulOaga had given the French
Minister the fullest assurance that the demands of
the Spanish Government against Mexico are to be
complied with, includingthe payment Of the Spanish
debt, and indemnity to the families of the Span
ards who were the victims of the massacre of
Cuernayaca- Thus ends the much vsunted war be-
tween those two countries.