Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-04-21

The first volume of a German translation of adam
BeIe has made its appearance at Berlin; the transa-
tor is julius FREsE.
A chair of music has been created at the Univer-
sity Of Leipsig, and Herr LANCER has been ap-
pointed to the professorship
HENRY Bartlett died OF hydrophobia, in Windsor,
Va, a few days SINCE having been bitten by rabid
dog some six weeks previous.
JOIN BRowNs family is likely to be rich. 1t has
already received upwards of $4,000; and the re-
port is still the money comes.
A grand opera on the subject of BTRoN's Don
Juan by VIcroR MAssE, is about to be performed
at the Theater Lyrique, Paris.
Br. WIN. CASPER, one of the heroes Of San ia
cinto," died in Galveston, Texas recently. He was
a native OF Botetourt county, Va.
A handsome volume, Les Fspnes de Shakespeare, has
appeared in Paris, consisting Of forty fine engrav
ings of portraits of SHAKsPEAEas heroines
About $4,000 are wanted to furnish the outfit
for DIR. H,YEs's expedition to the Arctic regions.
The vessel has been purchased and paid for
THOMAS BROCH1 was feCenLy dIEeSlSu III iA''-'
Michigan. Tor having married six wives, one Of
whom. was a negress, and two others squaws.
WoLraANG MESzE1, the well known critic and his
toran. has begun the publication Of a work entitled
The last 100 gears Of Woyld-BiStOry, II4O-l66O.
The liiH on the Floss the new novel by Miss Evans,
the autboress of adam Bede, was announced by the
Messrs. B1AcKwooD to appear on the 4th Of April,
The census lust taken in Washington Territory
shows population of six thousand eight hundred
and forty-fOur, and assessed property amounting to
s3,295,695.
The French scientific mission, lately sent to Abys-
sinia found civil war raging in the country, and IN
consequence. after mourning some risk, it had retir-
ed into Alden.
CLARA CAREvANN, German girl Of fourteen was
so brutally violated by three rutiaEs, in Adams
county, Wis, last week that she died two days al
ter the outrage.
The Selma Sentinel chronicles the appearance Of
shad in the Alabama River, which are said to be
the first ever known in waters e,nptying into the
Gulf Of Mexico.
A man named BURGESS, living in Florence, No.
has had four children left at his door in the last
year with notes. stating that they are all his BUR
CESS must be a Turk.
DIsRAEII. is BusiIy engaged on new edition Of
his once popular novel, entitled Sy5a; or Both Ma
TONS 1t will be enriched with much additional mat
ter ard pungent remarks.
BENJAMIN CRADDocK. Of Albermarle county, Va
convicted of kidnapping slave, has been sentenced
to the Penitentary for five years, by the Circuit
Court of Goochland county, Va.
Advices from SYRIA state that during the last storm
which ragged AMONG the islands Of the Archipelago,
eighteen vessels were lost the greater part being
wrecked on the rocks of the island Of Tines.
ALEXANDER REID, noted horse thief, who made
his escape from the Illinois State prison about seven
months ago, was arrested in Louisville on the 18th
inst. and lodged in Jail He viii be sent back to
resume his contract.
The population of Savoy and Nice about to be
taken from Sardinia and re-annexed to France, Is
put down upon the best European authority at
eight hundred and forty-seven thousand seven hun
dred and thirty-eight
A new textile material has been brought out in
Russia. which is highly eulogised as substitute
for cotton. Russian is said to have discovered a
new and successful method for dressing it, so as to
render it very valuable. Tie plant is a species OF
silk weed.
DAVID GHruD. of Canaan, Maine, an old man OF
seventy years. with hair whitened and blOssoming
for the grave was arrested last week on charge
of ravishing the person of his own granddaughter
If fpia take
place in September next.
PosrusrREssEs.-Nrs E BIAKEuoRE has been ap
pointed Postmistress at Mt. Scion, Augusta county
Virginia. vice HENRY BLAKENoRE, deceased. Mrs
CATuARNE MooREuAN has also been appointed to Tie
same office at Franklin Pendleton county, Virginia
wee Wal HANNAH, resigned
Acolony Of ffty-seven persons will sail from New
Yorkfor Africa in a few weeks, with the requisite
machinery for raising and preparing cotton IN the
uplands Of Western Africa. A subscription Of So
600 has been made in London to be paid them a.
soon as the colony is established.
The coffin in which the body of Mrs. BuRp, a
very wealthy lady Of Philadelphia, who died last
week, was buried, had eight handles made Of solid
gold. and the heads Of all the screws were Of the
same precious metal. The golden handles cost a
hundred dollars each. That coffin will have to be
watched.
The ratio of mortality in the following named
cities has been obtained from official sources. In
New York. for every thousand of the population
y die in the course Of year; in Boston, q in
Baltimore. 20: in Providence. - and in Philadel-
mia. 10 The above was the ratio Of mortality for
the year 1889.
INcouE OF THE WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY,"
The London JVqtcb}aau announces that the income
Of the ,English) Wesleyan Missionary Society tor
1859. including legacy, the next income Of which
was cgOOO was eI4O,OOO about seven hundred
thou sand dollars, an increase Of upwarcs OF hiy
thousand dollars upon the previous year
acrmryr on THE JErrERsoyyrruE RAmEoAD-The
dawn Messenger train that left indianapolis at ten
o'clock on Monday night, the 10th inst Tan into
tree which had been blown across the track at the
point near Wheatlaud. The locomotive was knock
ed of the track but, fortunately. no lives were
! lost or limbs broken.
Dsscu,ueEn- New York on the 18th instant,
MARGARET BURKE, indicted for posing her mistress
Mrs. BEETuEEv. and FaYErrE ROBINSON; at their
boarding house. in March. 1859, was discharged
from custody. the district attorney having failed to
procure sufficient evidence for the prosecution.
She has been more than year in prison.
New York ladies no longer wear their fine clothes
at theatre. No woman now goes to a play with
out bonnet and the leaders OF the ton are dstin-
guished by the pIainncss oftheir attire If you see
people very much dressed at theatre. you may be
certain they are from the country OF have few 9TH
eI. nlaccs where they can sport :heir tnerv.
MR. BrcuANAN AN AUTHOR The Washington cor
respondent of the New Orleans Pjo7yge states that
Mr. BucuANAN contemplates becoming author.
and that he will, in the course Of few years. give
to the world. in the shape Of "reminiscences Of his
career in Congress and abroad, some notes Of the
prominent public men with whom, at different pc
riods OF his life he has been associated.
DEATH or AN OLD SoLDTE-BRD SMITH died. a
few DAYS since in Woodford county, KY, IN the I'D
wear of his age. The deceased was born in Prince
Edward county. Virginia. 1871, but emigrated to
KentcIv ri ar early period of his life, and settled