Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-09-21
NEWS ITEMS.

Dean Richmond's estate is rcekoned at a
million and half. $50 lr.l' o..
Ex-Confederate General Joseph Wheeler is
going to Houston, Texas, to live. ~ 70.
Genetal Hood, when in Austin, Texas, the
other day. was waited on by n committee of
the Legislature, and escorted to seat of hon.
or in that body. All the members rose as
the crippled hero entered.
The Democrats carried their whole ticket
at the municipal election in Alton, Ills, the
other day. That is good beg inning.
A new series of Biographies is announced
as in course of preparation by Captain NJ. F..
Maury, late Of the Confederate States Navy.
A dispatch from Mobile says that on the
I'd instant, on the Florida Coast, fifteen miles
from land, an island was thrown up by vol
canic influence to the height of ninety feet
above the water level, and measuring sew en-
teen hundred feet In circumference
The Democrats carried Idaho by about 900
majority. They have seven Democrats in
the Council to three Radicals, and in the
House seventeen Democrats to three Radicals.
The London Times says the Mexican En-
pire has withered away, and the country
should he left to ITSELF Napoleon has sent
a special envoy to consult with Macmillan.
The Herald's Canada correspondent says
there Is no abatement in the excitement
concerning the Fenians. 1t is also said the
Canadians are organizing in squads to make
raids upon the American border towns in
revenge for Fenian raids upon Canada.
In western Arkansas silver vein had been
struck which for several days yielded a
pound daily and then became exhausted.
The owners are trying to find a continuance
OF the vein, when, it is believed the metal
can be found in fabulous quantities.
A mining company in northern Louisiana
on Friday struck solid block of pure lead,
weighing 63 tons. Other large blocks were
found at distance of eleven feet from the
sur face of the ground.
The German Democrats Of New York are
taking measures to procure the repeal of the
excise and Sunday laws Of that State. They
have made overtures to the Conservative or
ganHation for the purpose of effecting
union with all elements opposed to the laws,
and IN the campaign which has just COM
menced they pledge themselves to CO. operate
with the conservative parties for the over
throw of Radicalism.
OF five hundred cadets who graduated at
the Virginia Military Institute before its
destruction by Hunters forces, four hundred
and seventy five of them were killed and
wounded in the army under Gen. Lee.
The Selma (Ala.) Messenger says that the
factories are springing up sll over its region
of the Sonth. The results of the war is
throwing capital into q new channel; the
abundance of material, easy intercommuni-
cation, equality of transportation, and for
other reasons, will make Selma great man.
nfacturing district. 10000 r. D. rt
At meeting of cotton factors in New
Orleans, committee was appointed TO pro-
coed 10 Washington and present to the prop
or authorities memorial, drafted by Gen. s.
B. Buckner, praying the Secretary of the
Treasury to modify the regulations issued
from that Department relating to the collec-
ton of the direct tax of three cents per
pound on cotton and for other relief
The Herald's city of Mexico correspondence
of August 25th says that Macmillan is Ia
king the conservatives, to whom he gave the
cold shoulder in the early days of his Mexi-
can occupation, into his confidence.
Business was at stand still, owing to the
impassbility of the roads.
II is rumored that Marshall Bazaine is TO
leave Mexico in October, and that Maximil-
ian will accompany him.
The foreign papers are talking of the be-.
trothal of the Prince Imperial Of II nee to
the Kronpriucessen of Prussia. The former
is twelve and the latter is four years of age.
FIRST ToBAooo REcEIvED.-The rst lot of
tobacco brought TO market this season, was
received yesterday by Messrs. Strattan, Die
ney, h Roy, from d. f. Wade, of Maury
county. The shipment comprised two hogs
heads'-Ndshpiile Union and american.
THE last official report shows that there
were eighteen thousand five hundred and
eighty-five wounded soldiers in Prussan hos
pitfalls, OF whom five thousand seven hundred
and ninety-fve were Prussians. The re-
naming thirteen thousand were victims of
the needle-gun.