Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-03
Items OF GENERAL NEWS.

Coin closed in New York yesterday at ll75s.
A. The Tallahassee F1oridiaa says that nothing
has been heard Of the Kate Merrill. which left
New York a month since for that port.
The brutal conduct ola drunken army officer
is said 10 have been the cause Of the present Diff
entities with the Ute Indians in Colorado.
-GusrAvE DoRE is about to illustrate PoEs
Raven"
Bishop HoPKINs, Of Vermont. the Senior
Bishop Of the Episcopal Church. is to preside at
the conservation Of Bishop URLNER, Of Louisiana.
next week. at New Orleans.
"A London correspondent says il will astonsh
rent payers in American cities TO be informed
that in the incest and healthcst parts Of London,
handsome three story and basement, or eight
roomed houses in perfect order. can be rented at
from $50 to 500 per annum.
- The British Admiralty have adopted zinc as
a shecting for the bottoms Of the new iron ships
now building.
Two men. supposed to be part of the gang
who robbed the pay train on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad recently. have been arrested at
Louisville.
The Alabama Legislature will convene IN
MONTGOMERY, on Monday. the 18th Of November
The Supreme Court Of Missouri has given a
decision which overthrows the Sunday liquor law
IN ST. Louis.
senator PATTERSON. with Mrs. PATTERSON
and their two children. returned to Washington
on Tuesday. after an absence Of several weeks in
Tennessee.
lii reported that secret expeditions are pre-
pairing 20 release LYNCH. and that number Of
Fenians have already gone toward the outside.
The Indianapolis Journal contains this para
graph From the best information we can obtain
the area sown in wheat this fall Is put as large as
usual Several consecutive failures Of the crop
and the protracted fall rains discouraged our
farmers from planting as much as heretofore"
"A rumor prevailed in Chicago a few days
since that the Great Lake Tunnel had caved in
Eve hundred feet from the crib. II was ascer-
tanned not to be 50, however. and the work is in
progress.
Mrs Dunoz. daughter Of ROBERT TooMns,
died at Washington, Ca, few days ago.
"A company has been organized, with w. II.
WILLARD as president. It has purchased property
twenty miles from Raleigh. where twenty-onc
hundred spindles will be in operation by June lst
AT the instance Of the Agricultural Society
the Hon. WILLOUGHBY NEWTON, president,a con-
vention Of the farmers of the State Of Virginia
will be held in Richmond on the goth Of Noyem-
Der.
that institution and native Virginian, though
recently of Alabama, has been elected President
Of Randolph Macon College.
Real estate in New Orleans has increased ten
per cent in six months.
The Atlanta InfelligeRecr has been advised
that indyiduals representing themselves as agents
arc traversing the counties Of upper Georgia
taking testimony in regard to claims Of so-called
Union men. who represent themselves as having
been loyal to the United States during the war
in order TO prosecute them before the Court Of
Claims OF Departments in Washington.
Tho Montana Post Of the 9th ult.. says that
Governor GREEN CLAY SMITH arrived at Virginia
City on the lth, and met with an enthusiastic re-
coption. all parties uniting in his welcome.
- Accounts from all parts Of Iowa indicate that
settlers are hocking in faster than ever before
There Is a great scarcity ofhouses in all the cite,
and towns, and farms are being rapidly settled mp
- The cod-fshing is coed in the North Pacific
Three vessels at San francisco, last week, landed
$4,000 fish.
- General BEAUREGARD has returned to New
Orleans.
b. 80 ALEXANDER SMITH, son Of the original JOE
is trying to re-convert Mormons.
- Trinity Church. New York, was one hundred
years old last Tuesday. The centennial anniyer
sary was duly honored the Rev. DR.. llIGREE re-
peating the sermon preached by DR.. AUCmdUTl
at the opening Of the church one hundred year
ago.
90 The re-intcrment Of the remains Of the lat,
Gen. RoGER W. HANSON. at Lexington, KY. is t.
take place on the 1lth inst. They are now in
vault in the Nashville Cemetery. A committed
has been appointed to carry them to Kentucky.
90 Walnuts and hickory nuts and every kind o
mast are more abundant in Kentucky this season
han for several years.
- Tho Memphis AUalaneLe says it is pretty
well known that President Johnson will take q
Southern tour within the next few weeks, and that
he will include Memphis in his route.
90 The Supreme Court Of Indiana has decided il
the case Of SMITH against MOODY, on appeal from
the Marion County Common Pleas Court that the
thirteenth article Of that State Constitution, known
as the black article and all laws passed in pur-
suanco gifts provisions. are void. being in con-
nict with the Constitution Of the United States
The court holds that any citizen Of the United
States. no matter what his color may be, who has
resided six months in that State is citizen of the
State The Judgment was unanimous. and the
opinion was delivered by Chief Justice GREGORY.
A railroad is projected from Cincinnati to
New Albany via Madison. Indiana.
- Mr.. and Mrs. ITURBIDE are now at Rosedale,
near Georgetown, the residence Of the lady's
mother. Their son is still held by MAMMALIAN.
Lieutenant BRAINE. Of the Confederate navy,
and who seized the steamer Chesapeake during the
late war has been indicted by the Grand Jury Of
New York. for murder and piracy on the high
seas.