Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-30
ITEMS or GENERAL NEWS.

= Gold closed in New FORK yesterday At ! 49,
JoHs PIERroNT, preacher poet and spiritual
ist, man Of age and ability. died the other day
The removal Of postmasters has commence,
in earnest The Postmaster General on Monda-
carried 70 the White House the names Of abou
one thousand appointments OF course the sam
number Of removals were in the batch
CORNELIUS WExDELL was appointed Publ
Printer Monday.
The Inspector Of Schools aud Finances of III,
Freedmens Bureau has made his semi-appua
report Of the condition Of the freedmen's school
N the United States. The total number ex.
elusive Of night Sabbath and private schools il
the districts Of the Bureau. is 975 The number O
teachers employed is LAOS. ana the number Of
pupils resolving tuition is 9077s The State o.
Virginia is in advance Of al the others in freed
mems schools having 10 schools 200 teachers
and Il ISL scholars
WENDELL PHILLIPS announces that under nc
circumstances can be be a candidate for Congress
= statement il being prepared at the Treasu-
~ Department, which is intended to show thai
there is no money in the Treasury with which "a
pay the bounties to soldiers authorized by Con
Rres.
Twenty or thirty ladies are now on trial at
lndianola. Iowa, for cOmpellinga woman Of strong
Southern proclivities TO carry an American flag in
public procession.
"A Buffalo dispatch states that the British
troops which have been stationed at Port Erie.
a. have been ordered to break camp to-day. The
troops at Ihorald also leave to-day for Toronto
The Canadian Government has received inlorma-
ton that no movement is intended by the Fenians
until February
- There were eighteen cases and seven deaths
from cholera in Philadelphia on Monday Sew
onty-thFee deaths were reported on the same dav
an 81 Louis Eighteen cases and five deaths were
reported in Chicago on Monday Twenty-six
deaths from cholera occurred in New Orleans on
Monday. Five cases were reported in New York
on Monday. There were seventeen deaths from
cholera in Savannah en- Monday
- Accounts from the hog crop. in all sections.
sFo favorable indications. It is said the crop
has never been better in some localities.
- Rev. j. s. kALLocH, an ex-Baptist minister
sent to she Botany Bay Of the West-Kansas-for
liberal manifestation Of free-oyo with one Of
the sisters Of the flock. Is a candidate for the L.
s. Senate from Kansas
- The Widow CLICoUOT is dead.
An English lora, sitting in the telegraph
oiiee in London. had his cigar lit By an electric
tpark from Hearts Content. It cost him two
hundred guineas
Two hundred patents are to be issued this
= The Memphis Po.t oaadioaD is inclined to
think Gen. FoRREsr mot the monster he has been
represented to be.
The collection Of the direct tax has been sus-
pended in Texas until 1865
Professor NEWTON. of Yale Colleee foretells
Aprodigious flight Of meteors on the 18th or l4th
Of next November. II win probably be the last
Of the century. Only thirteen Of these meteorio
showers are recorded between the years Of 9O3 and
cmLLIoorH. Republican. is elected in Colo
RADIO, by III majority.
Thursday next is the day for laying the
DOUGLAS monument corner stone
.. + TAYLOR the negro who committed the horri-
ID Die murder last week in Michigan, was taken
from jail BY a mob on Monday night and hung
ID hoe
tor from Texas. lie was from the eastern portion
OF the State. His colleague. x-President Of
Texas BURRET, was from the western part Of the
Tho Journsymen Tailors Association of Phil
aaeiphia paid their respects to the President on
Ihursday. The Corn Exchange men and the
Stock Board didn't
An informal Cabinet meeting was held at |
noon' at which all the members were present
and 81 which the fall disposition Of Executive |
matters preparatory to the absence Of the Presi-
dent we're made.
The work on the new Gait House at Louis |
vile IS being pushed rapidly. IL Is said that Cap
tain MILLER. Of the Burnett House. is likely to /
be the lessee Of the new Gait
POWELL is engaged in giving the finishing /
70 his lhe-siEed equestrian portrait Of General G..
Is. MCCLELLAN, which is to be placed in the Gov |
ernor's room Of the New York City Hall. when
finished.
Says the Omaha Re1aJlican Of the 10th: "The
Union Pacific Railroad is now receiving the iron
for the fourth hundred miles Of its track The
hrst two hundred miles Of track are now about
laid down, and the third hundred miles Of iron
now lies our levee."
"A little newsboy drew a prize Of $4,000 in
the Mobile lottery
The cholera is playing the mischief with the
negroes near Savannah.
BIsNARE is to be made a prince.
Professor T. c. MoKEKyER. a Campbellito
elder Of note. and manager Of a seminary at
Pleasant Mn. Pennsylvania is dead.
"A Fortress Monroe dispatch says the impress
sion gains ground that JEFF. DAVIS will be re-
leased on conditional parole on the ground Of
his continued ill-hoalth.
-PuNcH has engaged AETENus WARD as a con-
tributor.
- female trapeE performer has appeared in
London.
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