Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17
ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.

The special House Committee authorized 10
investigate the Memphis riot, have left for that
city, accompanied by the official reporter Of the
.Iouse TO take a verbatim report Of all the evil
tdence and armed with the power TO summon
witnesses.
Secretary Seward is on n visit to his home in
Auburn, New York. II is given out that, on his
return. he will visit Santa Anna. who is now in
New York.
Mr.. Chandler. Of New York offered two res
olutions expressing confidence in the patriotic
and constitutional course Of the President" and
speaking of the acts Of Congress the wicked
and revolutionary acts Of few malignant and
mischieyous men," The resolution was not re-
ceived Subsequently Mr.. Schenck offered a
olution stating that Mr.. Chandler had offered
gross insult to the House. and moved that he be
censured therefor. The resolution was passed by
a vote Of y TO 30.
Secretary McCulloch has sent to the Senate
Finance Committee the draft Of new bill, pro-
yiding for the consolidation Of the debt in a long
per cent gold-bearing loan.
The Commissioner Of Agriculture has lately
received from the Royal Agricultural Society Of
Austria very fine collection Of choice seeds,
donated TO the United States for experimental
purposes. The Commissioner Is Of the opinion
that experiments will satisfactorily demonstrate
the ndaptability Of many Of these seeds 10 the
American climate. and thereby prove a valuable
acquisition 70 the agr icultural interests Of the
country.
Both Houses have passed bill fixing upon
oxford, Mississippi, the future place for holding
she sessions Of the United States Courts for the
Northern District Of Mississippi. This is the FIRST
bin that has passed Congress relating to Federal
Courts in Southern States.
A wedding at the White House as gossippel.
The Paymaster General has issued a special
order directing the pay Of about one hundred Of
Gcers 10 be stopped until they render satisfactory
accounts 20 the Government.
1t Is given a. n reason why Senator Foster
was recently defeated for denomination 10 the
Senate. that his wife is a conservative lady, aud
influenced his action in the Stockton case, and
who induced him TO issue order setting apart
certain portion Of the Senate gallery exclusively
for negroes, and thus evening them from mix
ing with white people.
Mark McCouch a Co.. bankers, in Phiadcl-
phia. have failed. Stock spectators lose
heavily.
Two deaths from cholera were reported at
the New York quarantine Monday. No new eases
had occurred
The Cork Consultation states that women are
travelling from town to town in Ireland as Fenian
cmissaries.
Many Indiana farmers are blowing up their
wheat fields and sowing oats and fax.
Our latest foreign advices are 10 the effect that
the steamship Hcirita had returned to Queens
town, with the cholera on board among her Ger
man passengers. Emigrants from Germany here
after TO be subjected to a health surveillance.
The relations of Austria with Italy and Prussia
are not changed for the better. Italy returns me
aRce for menace. and Prussia will not consent to
disarm while Italy is threatened. The House Of
Commons has defeated the bill lcgalzing mar
rago with the sister Of a deceased wife. Five
twentes closed at COS.
Admiral Semmcs will soon prepare his al
ventures the high seas-while in command Of
the Alabama-for the press lie has been offered
G5.0OO in England, for the copyright Of the work,
but the offer was declined. II will probably first
appear in numbers. in Southern monthly. and
afterward gathered up and published in book
shape.
Miss Augusta Evans is engaged on a new no
vel which she hopes 10 ret cut in the course of the
summer
- The committee Of ladies Of the Southern Re
lief Fair having in charge the funds for South
Carolina. are about to send 5000 worth Of pro
visions 10 Governor Orr. OF South Carolina, to be
distributed among the poor of that state. The
North Carolina Committee have sent $4,000 10
that State through private hands.
Mayor Monroe. of New Orleans, has been in
stalled into Office.
Two New Orleans bruiscrs. named King and
Farrell, met in the prize ring at New Orleans, on
sunday. Eighty three rounds, lasting one hour,
were fought, when Farrell threw up the sponge"
There were three fires in New Orleans Satur-
day night, in one Of which twelve persons were
burned to death, among whom was the proprietor
uftho building. The FIRE was supposed TO be the
work Of an inccndiary.
The whole of the sugar region IN Louisiana
will be inundated by the great crcyasscs at Nor
CANA and Grand Levees.
The monitors anchored of Cairo since the
close Of the war and which have been the cause
Of several steamboat disasters. started for New
Orleans yesterday.
The Memphis Argus proposes making new
State out Of Wost Tennessee and North Mississip-
pi. to be called the State of jackson, with Mem
phis for its capital.
Charles L. johnson, Assistant Superintendent
Of Refugees at Norfolk, has notified the Mayor Of
Portsmouth that hereafter all eases, civil and
criminal. in which negro is party. will he tried
by the civil authorities,
The grand jury which found the bin of in
dictmont against Mr.. Davis, also indicted John
c. Brcckinridge The foreman Of the grand jury
belongs to the Society of Friends" four others
we're persons who had been imprisoned by the
Confederate authorities during the war
The citizens of Montgomery, Ala, have APP
pointed a committee 10 visit Nashville upon the
subject of direct railroad connection between
that city and this, by way Of Decatur, Alabama.
The wife Of Gen. Robert Toombs has recently
reached her home in Washington county, Ga.
Her husband will 70 10 Europe, there TO remain
until he thinks proper 20 return TO his native
State.
- The southern Baptist Convention will assem-
bic at Russellyillc, Kentucky, on Tuesday next.
Il will be composed of the most distinguished
Baptist ministers Of the South, and it is expected
that the attendance will be unusually large,
The Governor OF Georgia has caccted loan
Of four hundred thousand dollars in New York, at
a low rate of interest This will relieve the GOV
ornor in his financial matters.
- The we'll known banking house Of Kramer a
Rohm. PittsburF. has suspended. fhe,uspension
was In consequence Of the failure Of McCouch \
Co.. of Philadelphia which was q branch house.
Officers Of Western railroads, representing
nineteen companies. met nj indianapolis last week
aud established advanced rates Of freight The
price Of -four from Cincinnati and Chicago 20 New
York, all rail- 81 10; from Louisville, 81 30; from
ST. Louis and Quincy, 81 80; and from Columbus
81. The advance Tor other articles is in about the
same proportion.
A grand supper is 10 hc given in the Ma.
t;onal Hotel tonight by the ladies of At
lanta, for the benefit of the soldiers Cemetery
Fund The National Hotel is said TO be the best
furnished hotel south Of Cincinnati, aud will bo
opened 10 the public in a few days.
The steamer Hclrc,ia, from Liverpool on the
"a Tor New York. has put back with cholera ON
board. Two deaths occurred before she reached
Queenstown. The National Steamship Line have
decided TO stop German emigration through their
vessels. The Government has ordered full cx-
animation of ali German emicrants before adm's-
SIGN 70 England. The cholera made as hr,t Sp-
pearance among German emigrants
The developments in the Merchants Nation
nj Rank failure. under the investigation Of the
Uopse Committee. are very bad. II believed
tb,t n committee will report AGAINST permitting
any denosits in the National Banks Of Govern
mcDt funds; but II this proposal fails. the strong
est regulations will be adopted.
- A German named Charles Scholtr has been
committed 10 Jail in Chicago, charged with adul-
terry ana double murder His wife testitics that hc
bo8 been living in adultery with woman in their
o,r, hopse. ana that he threatened 60 kil her u
;.,oR Of the matter: also that hc