Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-10
ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.


- Both by Presidential and Gubernatorial ap-
POintmant. Thursday the 18th inst is designated
as Thanksgiving day.
- The Secretary Of the Interior has received
from the President CT the Atchison and Pixies
Peak Railroad Company an affidavit showing the
completion Of the second section Of twenty miles
OF said road. The Government Commissioners
Hlll. probably, within few days. proceed TO the
line OF the road 10 examine the section.
- A convention Of the General Ticket Agents
met ct the kennard House, Cleveland, on Tues
day..TheLittle Miami. Pittsburg and Fort Wayne.
Pennsylvania Contra, Jacksonville amidst Louis
Alton and Terre Haute, Central Ohio, Cleveland.
Columbus andlcincinnst, Indianapolissnd Column
bus,Memphis and Louisyille,and other roads wore
represented. The meeting was an informal ,one,
merely for the purpose Of deciding upon a divi-
sion Of through tickets between the different
roads.
JULIA DEAN HAyEE has secured divorce at
Salt Lake. The divorce was granted in the sum
mer by the Probate Court. but without a hear
ing from Mr.. HATNE. After he was heard from
the former decree was confirmed.
The cattle disease which at one time ravaged
England at the rate Of more than ten thousand
cases per week. and was thought to be irremedia-
bic, has now dwindled to almost nothing. Dur
ing the last week reported. that ending on Octo-
Der 18th. the number Of animals attacked was but
eleven. The plague has ceased to attract any
great amount Of attention in Great Britain.
The Commissioner Of Agriculture at Washing
ton has received one hundred varieties Of cereal
and vegetable seeds from Austria. to experiment
with on the experimental farm belonging to the
Agricultural Departments
Gen. PILE. Union Congressman elect in the
First Missouri Congressional District has brought
suit against the Missouri Repuplican for SANDER,
laying his damages at $4,000
The Register Of the Treasury has revised the
regulations for the transfer. exchange and con-
version Of United States stock in his Office. The
necessary instructions and forms are embodied
and presented so clearly as 10 greatly facilitate
correspondence with the Office. The wide extent
Of this stock, not merely in this country, but
abroad, and among holders in various nations and
languages, renders such compilation Of great
value and importance.
- The Richmond Times says: 1t is with deep
regret that we learn that Gen. HENRY A. WISE
is lying dangerously sick Of the cholera at
his residence. the old Marshall House. on the
corner Of Marshall and Ninth streets. He was
taken with the early stages Of the disease on Sat
urday, and il has not yet yielded to medical skill
Hois under the treatment Of Dr.. HAxALL.
- Col. ALBEIT J. MYER has been appointed
Chief Signal Officer of the army.
- Both Houses Of the Cherokee Legislature
have elected VIZ. P. Ross Chief Of the Cherokee
Nation, in place Of the late JOIN Ross, by four
ffths vote.
- Five officers Of the japanese navy are now in
New York. having come to this country for the
purpose Of studying the language, customs, and
army and navy systems Of the United States.
mi ". nd fhn
departure Of some two hundred and fifty emf
grants for Liberia. from that city, on Wednesday
last, who propose settling in the town Of Green
Vile, in the coiored republic.
Colonel EATON, of Pittsburg, has been mus
tered out Of the Pay Department under the fol-
lswing circumstances: He made some Radical
speeches in the canvass. which came to the knowl-
edge Of Mr.. JOHNSON. whereupon the latter wrote,
with his own hand. letter asking the PaymasteT
General If he could not dispense with his services
and directed his muster out.
The Great Republic, the largest steamship
ever built in the United States, was launched at
New York recently.
Among the documents soon to be issued from
the Government press will be revised and great
" enlarged edition of LANMANs Dictionary Of
Congress.
Two or three leading Western papers have
established bureaus Ia New York for the collec
ton Of news, the same in Washington. Others
Il Il said, will follow their example.
The PruEsiaR newspapers speak Of the con-
tipuod illness Of Count BIsNARK, which they dc
scribe as a prostration, accompanied by loss O
appetite Private letters to Paris so far confirm
this that they talk of attnck Of paralysis.
Among the arrivals at Wizards Hotel Wash
ipRton. is noted that Of GEo. WILKINS kENDALL
of the New Orleans Picayune, en- route from
Paris.
The Atlantic cable, from the point where i
leaves Valencia Island to the spot where 1t wa
landed at Hearts Content, is precisely 1856 miles
avery queer coincidence that it should have
been perfected this year.
- The Galveston Bulletin thinks that with iai
weather. Texas will produce 10000 bales Of cot
ton.
- oucroAULT directs four Of the LondoI
thoaters this season, for each Of which he ha
written play his bill for the same being SlVo'OO
in gold.
The Emperor and Empress returned to ram
from Biarrit4. and his Majesty appears in reason
able good health. He will undoubtedly resum
his ordinary course Of life.