Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-10-06
rrErLs ID GENERAL NEWs.

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.
CON closed in New York yesterday at 1879.
80. Cant. B. s. NIcKLm is calld upon 70 become
a candidate for the Legislature from Hamilton
county. One thousandlvoters base been registered
in mat county.
49, The Mobile Gazette Of the 9th uft.. says
Late aarieos represent the prospect. both for
cotton and corn, in our own and the adjoining
States AZ more and more discouragng. We see
and hear Of nothing but complaints in this direc-
zion complaints so general as to sad foro1
bodings for the coming winter.
- Advices from Rio de Janeiro state that the
Chamber Of Commerce ofthat city has resolved to
urre the Imperial Government to Immediately
close the contract with Mr.. PERRY Med. CoLLISs
for connecting the United Cates with Brazil BY
telegraph. which. It was hoped. would be accom-
plished in two years.
- Bishop WILMER, Of Louisiana, the successor
Of Bishop Polk, assumes the duties Of his diocese
on the lst Of November.
- The tobacco crop in this region. says tho
Lynohburg Neios. while not SO large, is fully equal
10 quality to any grown in antis beliurH times.
good deal Of the crop has already been housed
and cured. and by the middle Of October the
whole Of It will be cut
- Catholics and Protestants are 10 exhibit the
evidences Of their missionary lab0rs at the Paris
exposition. ~
says that GEoRGE n. SANDERS has turned up
again ia Paris, and that he looks decidedly sOedy.
The census Of Mobile is $3.50.
ALBERT q. BRowE. Of Miss. and HUMPHREY
MARsHALL. Of Ky. have been pardoned by the
President
The report Of The Commissioner Of Agrieul-
ture. for September, states that deficiency in
the harvosts Of Great Britain and France this
year win induce large demands upon our surplus
Of breadsluffs and cereals at remuneratiye prices
Tho United States Commercial Agent in England
writes. on the eth inst, that the rains have badly
damaged the wheat crop oil over the United
Kingdom. and twill not be more than one hR {
Of that Of last year.
The Constitutional amendment has so far
been ratified by the States Of Vermont. Connects
cut, Rhode Island. New jersey. Tennessee and
Oregon.
-Thirty-two foreign newspapers are published
in New York city.
1t has transpired that the Paymaster who
ombozzled several thousand dollars Of the Cow
eminent money By cutting from the Seyen-thirty |
bonds IN his possession the material coupons and
approprating n proceeds TO his own use s.Lieu-
tenant Colonel THOMAS +. WfSsToS. Chief Pay |
master Of the Pay District Of the Gulfat New Or |
leans.
- A party representing himself a son q ARrHUR /
BARrSG, Of Liverpool and who was engaged in /
purchasing cotton from the planters Of Burke /
and the adjoining counties Of Georgia, has been
arrested at Waynesboro. where he was detected |
passing fraudulent cheeks. |
The British Government has offered his holt /
ness the Pope. an Asylum in the Island OF Malta. |
In case he should feel inclined TO leave the eter-
mai city"
- The Illinois Central Railroad Company have
purchased the sturgis elevators at Chicago. for |
$4,000. srURoIs & Co.. It is said. have realized
81 10000 during the ten years the elevators have
bseu in operation.
Among tho laws Of the last Congress. oiici- |
Rlly published. Is that permitting the use Of the
Matrie Tor French system Of Weights and Mea-
suros and legalizing all contracts made under the
system The law gives in detail the names Of /
measures Of weight length and capacity. /
- The Assay Office sent to the mint at Phila-
delphia for coinage. during the month Of Septem-
Der. sg77.les 90.
1t is DIR. J. F. GRANT. Of Pulaski, who is APP
pointed Pension Commissioner, and not J. 7.
GRANT. as stated yesterday
- The memorial which Amherst College is to
erect 10 her alumni and students who fell in the
war Is to be a group Of bronze statuary, which will
cost not less than $4,000.
Hon J. D. G. Atkins, Of this State, has been
pardoned.
j. L. WILLIAMSON. the removed District At
torney, denies Radcalism and repudiates the
clan Of Southern Loyalists.
80 A baloonist went up from an interior New
York town. the other day and at last accounts
had not come down. though his balloon boat had
SANTA ANNA has succeeded in negotiating
loan Of Eve million dollars with three banking
houses in New York and has authorized the pur-
chase Of six steamers for the service Of the Next
can Liberals.
- Tho steamship Java took out from New York
for Europe. yesterday, S92.l5S in silver.
- The Secretary Of the Interior has decided that
the rebellion being over. Southern people have
the same rights as all others under the patent
laws.
CHAs. O'CoNoEn and W. b. REED. the princi-
pal council Of JEFF. DAVIS, we're in Washington
recently in consultation with Judge GNDERwooD'
relative to their clients trial in November. The
matter was fully discussed. but no conclusion was
reached. Thedoubt in the matter arises from the
construction Of the act Of Congress relative to
holding the term Of the court in Richmond, and
the allotment oil tue Judges 70 thth NitNea'' |
Government land salOs are going on briskly'
aud II honestly conducted and accounted Tor
must be yielding considerable revenue.
- RtsroRI complains Of the cramped stage OF
The theatre where she is playing lin New York.
She has been compelled TO reconstruct her stride
80 The southern Relief Fair, now in progress at
St. Louis. is a great successes.
- A Gre at Florence, Ala, on Sunday night de-
slroyed $4,000 Of property
- Rear Admiral GREeoRT. who died on Thurs
day was z years old, and had been in actice ser
vice thirty-scven years.
Alderman 0'MAHoNY. Of Memphis died oil
the cholera on Thursday.
-ORyu4r JENNrNa. United States Attorney for
the Eastern District Of Arkansas, died on Mon
dav.
- A woman in Michigan on Wednesday took
Ger four children into barn and cut their Threats
with n razor and then cut her own.