The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-27
THE NEWS.

parquette, but IN the second and third
circles.
Jonathan Burns, an old and esteemed
citizen OF Chicago, has Just discovered
that hc has been robbed of $4,000.
A Paris correspondent of the London
/ Times asserts that the declarations in
the published speech of the Emperor
were not uttered at AUxerre, but that
nc subsequently wrote them and had
them not only printed in the papers as
| his speech, but also had them pla-
caTded throughout the large towns.
1t is believed that Napoleon's 'Life
Of Cwsar' viii extend to four volumes,
as the second only goes as far rs the
passing Of the Rubicon.
Tho Crown Prince of Denmark has
paid a visit to N Theirs to thank him
| for hIs eloquent defence Of Denmark in
his recent speech.
A grandson Of CuVier has been ap-
pointed a sub governor of the Bank of
! France, with salary OF 4OOOOfr per
/ annum.
The Richmond Republic has sus-
! pended publication for the present
The hard times in Virginia and want
of ready money is the alleged cause of
the suspension.
Samuel Kennedy, the last survivor
Of the Wyoming massacre died near
York Springs, Pa, last week. He was
! 95 years of age, and was carried away
/ by his mother from the horrid butchery
when FIVE years old,
Reverend Madison Evans, whom
! Doctor Newland killed for seducing
his daughter while at Evans school,
was a preacher and the author ofa
work on the Pioneer Preachers,
which he dedicated ITO the Cody in
the land
His victim testified on her fathers
trial that Reverend Evans had sent his
| shameful notes to her within the
/ leaves Of this Cody book Evans was
a shining light in "the party of moral
ideas (and immoral practices }
The largest locomotive ever made in
| New EnglaBd has just been finished in
/ East Boston 1t weighs thirty tons, has
| ten wheels, and Is expected to draw a
| thousand tons Of coal on the Lehigh
| Valley railroad in Pennsylvania
The Independent calls Mr. Beecher
"the most accomplished of beggars" in
his efforts TO raise money for church
building. The same paper says "Lhe
next great national agitation is the
question Of suffrage without distinction
Df sex
NJ Reuon IL about to issue a new edi-
! ton of his Life Of JeHus" with con
siderable alterations, and an appendix
| giving in detail his reasons for regard
ing tho fourth gospel as genuine and
authentic, contrary to the opinions Of
most rauonalists.
"Trubner's American and Oriental
] Literary Record, has begun the publ
cation Of a summary of Parliamentary
and state literature, digest, with the
necessary comments, Of all the import
ant publications. of the British and 9th.
| er governments by which valuable in
formation on political subjects may DO
readily obtained.
Shsl were mover so numerous in Con
necticut riyer than this season. At
! IIoddam Island three thousand were
! caught ln one day last week, over eight
/ hundred being caught at one haul of
tho net The price on the river is SIS
! per hundred
A riot between whites and blacks oc-
CURED at Quincy, Florida, on Satur-
day, during which one OF the former
was killed and a number on both sides
wounded
1t is contemplated to build new
and costly Executive Mansion on the
! high grounds east of the Capitol, and
turn the White House into ire-proof
building for the State Department
The various internal revenue officers
/ throughout the country are, on and af
! ter the lst of June, to be supplied with
/ stamps, etc, 10y express, instead Of by
mail, a contract for this purpose having
been made by the Treasury Depart
/ meut
The billiard match between Deery,
/ of New Ork, and Dion, of Montreal,
which was contested in New ork, was
won 10y Dion. The score at the close
stood, Dion 800, Deery / 800.
From a report 10 the New York
! Chamber OF Commerce, II appears that
we lost by rebel privateers, during the
war. vessels and cargoes which were
valued in the aggregate at 25,5iO, 900.
Thomus W. Birdsall, President of the
! Security Insurance Company, Of New
/ York, committed suicide day before
yesterday by taking strychnine.
The bankrupt bill has passed the
/ House, and there Is reason to believe
that it VIII pass the Senate. 1t is asked
! hv the creditor as well as the debtor
| interest This Is not, like the two for
mer bankrupt acts, mere temporary
expcdient TO relieve debtors, but Is in
tended to carry out an uneKecuted
and important constitutional power, to
establish permanent ana uniform sys-
TEN of bankruptcy.
The New York Journal Of Commerce
says General Santa Anna has taken
the house opposite the one occupied
10y the Travellers. Club, on Fourteenth
street, for a year
A dispatch from San Francisco states
that III extensive gold field had been
discovered fifty miles west Of Cleye-
land bay, Queensland
A corps Of workmen are preparing a
norti0u of the Seven Pines battlefield,
with q view b. its conversion into Ma.
tioDal Cemetery, for the reception OF
the Union dead who fell on the fields
of seven Pines, Savage's Station, Fra
GERS Farm and Malvern bill The
cemetery contains two or more acres
but has not yet been enclosed. About
eleven hundred bodies have been dls-
inferred, placed in neat collins, and
giyen decent, Christian burIsL Very
few Of the bodies disinterred were re-
cognized. and they were buried, the
headzt0nes Of their graves proclslmlnE
them unknown The disintermeuts
and reinterments are being made at
the rate Of about fifty per day.
The demand for fractional currency
continues Increasing, although the de
rartment is furnishing $4,000 TO 80