Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-10-16
ILL oE GENERAL LIE.


-GoLD closed In New York yesterday at l5l.
1t is stated in the papers that the New Yorl
Central railroad Is about to import enough stee
rails from England TO relay two miles Of track il
order to test their durability.
-BEAUEEGAKD passed through Washington Fri
day, on his way South.
"A member Of the Canadian Cabinet stated
that the troops sent there from England were in.
tended for more serious contingencies than thos,
presented BY Fenian raids.
- General BOYLE has resigned tue Presidency
Of the Louisville City Railroad Company.
- Il il nscertained By the cholera returns IN
London, that the cases were always heavier on
Mondays and Tuesdays than on any other days.
owing to greater drunkenness which prevails on
Saturday night, often extending over Sunday
morning.
- The Hon. C. C. CLAY. Of Alabama. passed
through Alexandra on Saturday last on his way
to Washington City
Most Of the Southern papers. commenting on
the Northern elections. declare that the result
was Whatthey anticipated. None Of the Virginia.
South Carolina. or Georgia papers advocate the
adoption Of the const itutional amendment. One
or two in North Carolina faYorit.
The Washington journals call for the punish
ment Of the author Of the Philadelphia canard.
1t Is iuly proven that It was never sent from that
city.
w. G. PARKHURsT, an old Congressional pho
nographie reporter, and very prominent Mason.
vas iiccideE;ally drowned at Washington.
= The gold receipts from customs from the prin-
cipal Atlantic ports last week. were nearly four
millions Of dollars. The importations are very
large just now.
The cholera still prevails in Cincinnati and
Chicago.
The accomplished wife Of Gen. A. P. STEWART
il teaching music in Greenwood Seminary at Jseh-
anon, in this State.
Sol. WADE. Of Maury county, recently sold
his beautiful farm, near Ashwood. for SS5.O01 in
Rold, Il contains upwards Of 600 acres.
The Cincinnati Commercial says the Irish pop
ulaton Of that city voted against the Radicals in
tho recent election.
= dr. JOIN 0RH, father Of the Messrs ORR Of
this city. was buried at Columbia. on yesterday.
- The extensive tannery Of FLEMING 4 sHR1-
BIER, near Evansville. Ind, was totally consumed
hy Are on the 18th.
The travelling delegation from the Black
and-Ian Convention. known as Southern Loyal
stE have issued, or are about to issue, an address
20 the people o. The United States. in which the
recommendation Is made that the governments Of
t1N t'taAhbfA EAAtco huAsl De abolished. and new
ones organized upon tho basis Of negro suffrage.
90 II has been positively ascertained that a man
named NEwroN CTR. Of Allen county. Ky. was
the loader Of the party ofmen, that a few DAYS
since robbed the pay car on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad. near Bristow's Station. and
subsequently the Railroad OF q at South Union
Station.
- Washington dispatches state that the original
dispatch Of the Philadelphia forgery, and the
author Of it. were before the President to-day. It
appears that the person who concocted il was not
directly interested in gold speculation, but manu-
factured Il out Of whole cloth for sensation pur-
poses. The aathor Of il seems to be the Washing
ton correspondent Of the New Orleans Picayune.
Who Is clerk in one Of the departments.
= The friends Of the Administration, who have
access to the Executive declare that he will ad-
here TO his policy. and that he viii favor the rati-
heaiion OF no constitutional amendment that
IL not adopted by Congress 'chere az the St..iss
are rcprescnsed
= Hon. JosHUA 7. BuLLirr has returned TO
kentucky On account Of bis Southern senti-
monts he vas doposod from his position as one Of
the Justices Of The Court Of Appeals Of Kentucky,
and subjected 70 a persecution which forced him
into voluntary exile in Canada. He is ono Of the
ablost and mort ostimable men in that State.