Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-09-21
OUR Outside PAGES.
ITEMs oE GENERAL NEws.

- Gold closed in New York yesterday at 1.f43s.
The New jersey Legislature, on Thursday.
elected Hon. ALEz. G. CATTELL, a Radical United
States Senator.
-Ex-Rev. J. C. HoLLAND. formerly Of the
Methodist ministry. died Of cholera in Memphis.
n few days since.
Reports Of the cotton crop from Mississippi
and Louisiana continue very unfavorable
CnEIsrorgrER GIEs. wealthy fat boiler Of
New York, has found that the law Is no respeoter
Of persons in his case at least lie was convicted
ola violation Of the health ordinances. fined Eve
hundred dollars, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for six months. lie appealed from this sentence,
but Judge SUTHERLAND affirmed IT, and he is now
on Blaekweii's Island serving out the term Of his
imprisonment
- The Virginia oyster beds, recovering from the
interruption Of the war viii yield largely this
season. for the growers have begun to plant in
earnest ia anticipation Of good Northern trade
as Of yore.
= The Titusvil9e PENN GLIB. heretofore a
Radical Sheet has come out for the restoration
policy Of the President
-Mrs. swIssHEus says that the young woman
70 whom the Rodieal Congress voted $4,000 for a
bust Of Lincoln, "calls upon Senators and Repre-
sentatives at their lodgings"
- The freedmen in Augusta, Ca, are organized
into military companies.
Fl The receipts from eustoas at New Orleans on
the 18th inst, amounted 70 s66s2,725. the largest
sum ever collected in a single day at that port.
- The French Government is shipping convict
females 10 Cayenne, rs wives for the weli-be-
hsYed convicts there.
- The disbursements for the War. Navy. and
Interior Departments last week, were Sl,27S,5n.
The internal revenue receipts on Monday we're
Sl.s5s.0O5 %.
e. D. FARNswonrH. of this city. has been
made Deputy Grand Sire Of the Grand Lodge Of
Odd Fellows.
- Eo. PEABODY has established another libra
~ to DO located at Thatford. VT
A number Of Louisiana planters. who went
out to Brazil, with the view Of commencing the
raising Of cotton in that country. have written
home that they have been disappointed in their
expectations. and viii return in a short time.
- Four hundred and twelve IsHAM bank locks
amounting. to eighty-two thousand dollars, are
being used on the money safes in the new marble
building Of the New York Stock Exchange.
- Ritualism is spreading among even the Dis
senters in England.
"A ST. Louis dispatch says: $4,000 worth Of
cattle were stolen the other night from the farm
Of MICHAEL GILMAN. Montgomery county, Ill"
They had champion prize fight near st.
Louis on Tuesday.
- Under the act Of July Is. 1866. imposing a
stamp tax on oannod packages containing meats.
fsh. fruits. vegetables. etc, sold or removed for
consumption in the United States, on and after
the first day Of October proximo. the Commissioner
Of IntcrnRl Revenue has decided that the liabil-
ity Of stamp tax under the amendment Of Sche-
duie @ not only attaches to ali such articles put
up subsequent 10 the LIST day Of October 1906. but
equally 10 those put up prior 10 that date, whether
the same shall be in the possession Of the persons
who put them up or in the hands Of purchasers;
and the fact that the canned meats. fish, fruits
etc, have previously paid an I'D Uaiorem tax does
not relieve them from this liability, nor give any
claim 10 the owners 10 have any tax previously
paid thereon refunded.
- The equinoctial rains have been unusually
severe. Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Northern
Kentucky have been drcnched and flooded.
- The Oregon Legislature attempted TO elect a
Senator on Tuesday and failed. They win try IL
again next week.
Seventy thousand claims under the new
bounty law have been filed in the Pay Depart
ment, and they are still received at the rate OF
flltcon hundred n day. 1t is not yet known when
the work Of payment viii commence.
- The Health Officer Of Louisville reports thir-
teen deaths from cholera during the week ending
on the l71h. They were scattered over the city.
rarely tive deaths occurring in any one locality.
The general health Of the city is said to be better
this season than ever before known.
- The Chinese Government has concluded to
send to this country Commissioner. who is in
fact Mandarian Of very high caste and great in
tolligoncc 10 examine and report upon the sources
OF our greatness snd strongth-our railroads,
steamboats, inventions Of all kinds. especially our
great guns. monitors, and similar contrivancos.
The japanese sent such commission few
years ago aud profted by IL.
80 The Central Pacific Railroad Company, Of
California, offers ils lrst mortgage bonds. The
amount of the issue Is s72gG.oo0 to bear interest
at six per cent, payable somi-annually in coin.
The road commands immense resources, and will
be link in the great continental route.
There are 2a oonvicts in the Texas peniten-
tiary, Of whom 95 are white men, Al are Mcxiesns,
arc Indians. III are negro men and are negro
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