Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-01-23
70 Correspondents.
Kind words.


, The Nashville UNION was Commenced, if we re
member correctly, in the latter part Of the yea
1885, by Samnel H Laugblin and Medicus 4. Long
1t is row among the most popular Political paper
Of the day, and We presume its circulation is equa
to that Of any secular paper in the State May in
creasing prosperity continue to attend it.-Afnr
frees6OrOEgh Nevs.
We thank our friend of the Necs for his gooC
wishes We have now over eight thousand subscri
bers, and we believe otter Political paper in the
State has so large circulation
"A subscriber in Csffee county writes us under
date Of January 10: 81 an subscriber TO the
UNION AND AMERICAN for life, and intend to eel
aside sum in my will, with the injunction that
my children shall apply it to subscriptions for your
paper .....-
We hope our correspondent nay live thousand
years and bequeath his sentiments his posterity
"sven unto the third and fourth generation"
A new subscriber from Madison says: al have
just got wife, and the next best thing must
have the UNION End AMERICAN"
! - Another in Hickman writes: Everybody in
/ this region takes your paper and don't wish to be
sn exception"
"A gentleman recently moved to the interior Of
Arkansas directs us to change his Pest Office and
to send hin the paper if have to hire express
to carry IL.
The SLAYER Echo has been sold at Charleston for
81, 800 cash.
The Legislature of New York costs the State
over 81, 500 epeJy dag!
The City Council of Richmond, Va, have or
dered 1900 bushels of coke per menth, for the
poor.
Roger A. Pryor, of the Washington States, has
been presented with service of silver plate, by his
friend in Virginia.
There now 76O OOnvist' in the Auburn State
Prison. large majority of whom are young men,
their ages varying from Is to 80 years.
The expenditures Of the United States srmories,
during the last year, we're as follows: Springfield
Mass S3O9,S7S; Harper's Ferry, Va, S242, ,865-
making a total Of S55l, 798.
The ST. Louis Democrat estimates that the census
of 1860 will increase the number Of representatives
from the Northern States to l55, an decrease the
number from the South to 7S.
Dr. Baird is lecturing in St. Louis.
The S'rakOsch opera troupe are giving concerts
at Louisville.
There are four hundred and eighty-six convicts at
present in the Indiana penitentiary.
TIE CleveIsnd Plain Dealer proposes to get Cuba
by swapping New England for her,
George D. Hiuke, well-knOwn lawyer has
been indicted for forgery by the grand jury of JEFF
fcrson ccuny, Ky.
Virgil Mcknight, President of the Bank of
Kentucky, was stricken with spOplexy on the
18th.
An effort is now being made to establish an
American Publishing house for the blind in Louis
vile KeDtuckey.
Thomas F. Meagher lectured in Charleston, s.
c., Oh the 18Th aud 1870, upon Central AmericOu
subjects.
Hon. Willard sOu!hburg has been elected United
States Senator from Delaware for six years from ne
4th of March next.
Awriter in the Edgefeld Is. C) Advertiser pro-
poses to erect a monum, mt in Edgefeld to Ghe late
Senator Butler
The Kernelpg Mills of the Graham powder works,
at Portland, Me-, exploded on the l7th killing
man named David R. Jones.
man named Bridges, who murdered Baker, at
New Albany, has been committed to answer
charge Of murder.
About So, 600 600 worth Of boots were made in
the town of Milford, Mass in the year 1858.
During the past year there were received at
Chicago 51O,lr' barrels of -four, against 443, 681
in 1857.
John f. Sewer, 2 soldier in the war of 1912, died
in Johnson county, Tenn, on the 9th inst, aged
seventy years.
George W. Jones, for many years the agent of
the old United States Bank in Cincinnati, more ia
miliarly known as B1nk Jones, died in that city
few days since.
An accident occurred oU the 18th, on the Jefer-
sonville Railroad, in Indiana. throwing q train of
freight cars off The track, aud making beef of sew
en- head of cattle.
In 1850 the population Of Ohio was !, $3.50, OOO it
is now ,, ,42O,O 600. In 1858 the common schools of
the State we're 1894; they are nov $500.
An alms-bOuse is about to be erected in New Or
leans, which will cost Sl21,OOO The money was
Sequeatbed for that purpose by the late Judah Touro
of that city.
F.M Young, of Gadsden, Ala, committed sui
eide last week by cutting mis- throat aud stabbing
himself twice in the breast. He was subject to fits
of insanity.
Judson ]. Hutchinson, one of the brothers of the
celebrated Hutchinson family, committed suicide by
hanging himself, in Boston, on the 11th inst.
The ladies of Washington, Iowa, destroyed all the