The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-31
TIE NEWS.

inc explosion in Australia at Sydney
on the 4th of March. Large stores
were demolished
There are more than two hundred
and fifty new buildings to be erected
in Minneapolis during the season. The
larger part Of them are dwelling houses,
but there are quite a number of stores,
and two or three churches, and at least
one school house.
The Courier des Flats Unis, of New
York, declares itself enabled to state
that the French Government has signed
treaty with the Transatlantic Pack
ct Company to embark and carry back
to France the whole French expedi-
tionary force in Mexico within the time
agreed upon.
The Government has awarded a con-
tract for raising the vessels in the river
and harbor of Savannah, which were
sunk by the rebels to obstruct the
channel The gunboats and other yes
sells were scuttled and sunk at the time
the city was evacuated There are in
all about twenty, some of them valua-
BILE, with all their guns and armament
on board.
Leading cotton manufacturers repre-
sent to the Committee on Ways and
Means that the supply of cotton, suita,
BILE for American consumption, is so
small that it is probable we shall be
obliged to resort to the importation of
the article before September next.
The largest theatre in Boston is pro-
vided with q fire-proof curtain, to shut
I off, if necessary, the auditorium from
the stage. II is good Boston notion.
Intelligence has been received in
Chicago that the suspension of Sir
Morton Peto is only temporary. Mr.
McHenry will pass safely through.
1t is stated that James P. Luce, late
Postmaster at Lafayette, Indiana, and
editor of the Lafayette Journal, has
succeeded Charles A. Dana, as editor
of the Chicago Republican.
A tornado visited the vicinity of
Honesdale, Pennsylvania, Monday de-
stroying a large covered bridge span
ming the Lackawsnna, demolishing
barns and outhouses, and carrying a
boy about fifty feet No lives were
lost.
The Government is in possession of
evidence going to show that a number
of Freedmen have been kidnapped
from Georgia and smuggled off to
Turks Island, 10 do forced work in
the salt mines, or transferred to agents
engaged in the Cuban slave trade.
Mrs. Susan P. King, daughter of the
late James L. Petigru, of South Caro-
lima, is giving readings in Boston
A band of men attempted to force
an entrance into the house of a re-
spectacle colored man, living about
three miles from Lexington, KY, on
last Saturday. The negro resisted
them, and in the struggle which en-
sued fired on the party, killing one and
MORALLY wounding another. He then
went into the town and surrendered
himself to the authorities.
A Chinese mission, numbering fifteen
persons, has arrived IN Paris. They
are said 70 be superior TO any China
man ever before seen in France.
The Boston papers state that short
time since a resident of the South, a
graduate of Harvard, visited Boston in
a penniless condition, having lost every
thing by the rebellion. His old class
mates opened a subscription, and In a
short time presented him with the
handsome sum of 5000 with which to
commence the world anew. The
widow of a late worthy teacher of
Boston was surprised the other day
with the present of a purse containing
$1,000, the gift of four of her husband
| classmates at Harvard.
The New Orleans Picayune tells a
story of a very singular impostor now
going the rounds of that city This
person is young girl, of good address,
smart and intelligent, who represents
herself as being an attache of the
I" Sisters of the Holy Cross" She has
a number of names, changes her attire
daily, and it is almost impossible to get
hold of her.
Hiram Cranston, of the New York
/ Hotel, has purchased thirty-four lots
opposite the main entrance to the Cen
/ trail Park, and intends to erect upon 1t
hotel of the most imposing character.
/ 1t is to contain nearly q thousand
rooms, one hundred and seVentyfour
of which viii be private parlOrs. 1t is
intended to be the finest and most
| costly hotel in the world.
The City Council of Indianapolis has
voted an appropriation of $4,000 to
aid the construction of the Yinoennes,
the Danville, and the Indiana and Hi
nois Central railroads, the money to be
distributed pro rata.
The House has finally passed the Tax
Bill The publication Of income re-
turns will still be permitted; and the
amendment requiring gas companies
/ to paw their own tax, instead of charg-
| ing it on the consumer, was passed.
The work Of the Chicago lake tunnel
| is progressing at the rate OF twenty
FIVE feet per day. There remains yet
to be excavated 3, loo feet, which will
be finished by September,
President Fillmore and his wife we're
lately at Madrid. The latter had de-
rived great advantage from the journey
through Spain. Many attentions were
offered them which Mr. Fillmore felt
bound to decline They return to the
States in August
A young lady in Rockland, Maine,
| the other night, in tt Of somnambu-
lism, arose aud cut off one-hslf of her
| flowing hair. In the morning she was
greatly astonished and grieved, and Of
course the barber had TO complete the
work she had unwittingly begun.
General Grierson, Of reading noto-
rietv. visited his old home at Youngs-
town. Ohio, last week, and had ire
mendous reception.
General Neal Dow, Of Portland, has
taken passage for England, whittier be
goes upon the invitation Of temperance
men in Great Britain, 10 urge the inn
portanos of prohibitory liquor law.
The Jackson wis, Banner gives an
account of the assault by four Indians
on the house Of Levi Warren, with the
intent to murder the inmates, Dir.
Warren, Mrs. Caswell, q daughter OF
Mr.. W, and her child. In the scufiie
which ensued, Mr.. Warren and his son
who heard the noise while IN the
field, and came 10 help his father
were badly wounded. Some men who
were at work in distant field, hearing
the noise, came 10 the rescue, where
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