Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-04-27

The winds are responsible for many an unluoky
blow.
The cost Of keeping up cur Army and Navy
amounts to sso,OOoooa year.
There are l65 soldiers Of the Revolution still liv-
ing. The youngest Of them is 50 years old.
Truth lies within the holy Of HOLES in the temple
Of knowledge, but doubts the vestibule that loads
to it,
The Chinese picture Of ambition is "a Man
DARN trying to catch comet by putting salt 90 his
tail"
Some author tells US that much is said about
the tongue True, the thing is in everybOdy's
mouth.
The sum total Of the capital invested in the
manufacturing establishments Of Michigan IS SLS-
4s3,9sO
VIRGINIA CARSON was killed in Mobile, Ala, last
week, by a negro with whom she had been living
in adultery.
A billiard table is to be placed in the South Caro-
lima State Lunatc Asylum at Columbia, for the use
Of the inmates.
The various powers of Europe borrowed $751;
100000 last year, all but So, 100000 Of which was
to pay for wars
A Young girl, KATE SAITH, employed in the Ire
mont Mills. in Lowell, Mass, dropped dead while at
work few days ago.
The largest storehouse in the country is that be-
longing to the New York Ice Company 1t holds
( 10000 tuns, and cost $4,000
EDWARD REm, convicted at Charleston, S. C., OF
robbery on the highway, has been sentenced to be
hung on the first of June
Week before last PA aliens arrived in New York
making total for the year thus far of ll;l4O
against s,24s to the same date lastyear.
The Ashley steam -four mills, near Charleston, S
c. were destroyed by fire few days since. Los
$4,000, on which there were 81, 600 insurance.
Rev. Dr. PoAERor, of Boston, upon whom the ex
torton or confidence game was recently praeticed
has been forgiven and restored by his congregation
A man in sandusky, Ohio, Dr. E BUI, voted a
the recent election there who cast his first vote 10
WASHINGTON for President. He is IN his 90th year.
Lace shawls are said to be the rage of the fash
ionable ladies of New York, and as they are infer
Eally expensive, Of husbands, too, no doubt.
Fame has her musem as well as well as her ten
pla, and an author who has ceased to be read 70
anything else, may be read as specimen of hi
age
There are two things which the Americans, wit
all their ingenuity, have neven been able to max
equal to a Frenchman-one is boot and the othe
a loaf of bread.
Miss HUrroN, of New York, is soon to be Marie
to the Marquis de Portes, the only male represents
tive of a Toulouse family, of which the nobiliar
rank dates from I747.
A deaf and dumb card writer, HENRY PHEIP
was arrested on the steamer Marion, at New Yorl
recently, for stealing s4l5 in gold and gold watc
at Charleston, South Carolina.
When RACHEL, the great French tragedienne, sa'
her stout sister SARAH dressed for the part Of
shepherdess, her comment was, "SAEAH dear, yo
look like a shepherdess who had just dined on he
flock"
The expenses of Connecticut for the fiscal yea
ending March d, were o=--'-'V' "s''IiiS' ~-'
the previous year and the State debt has been r
duced from s6O,0OO to S34,l42
WA Gu1zoT; son of the distinguished writer an
statesman. is about to marry a daughter Of enc
the Oldest houses of the South Of France, MI
GABRIELLE VERDIER DE CLUAx, Of Mines.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has athrme
the validity of the law making It penal for retailer
to sell liquor to a drunken man; and declaring th
the owner of the establishment is responsible 1I
the act Of his barkeeper on this behalf
! AUsEMENTs N PARIS AND LOYDON.-There al
thirty-fve opera-houses, theatres and hippodrOm(
in the city OF Paris, with its I,Z5OOOO inhabitant
In the CITY of london. with about 100000 mhaE