Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-20
ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.
-- The largest tax payer in Boston is IL. Hollis
HuMdERwELL. His taxable property this year Is
ssls6OO.
Gov. A. J. HAMILTON, Of Texas, is in Wash
ington. lie says the free labor system is working
well and that the cotton crop, owing to the great
amount Of rain which has fallen, will not reach
oBc-hoya crop.
1t isrumored that bail bond for JEFFERSON
DAVIS was prepared on the 9Th. and signed by
Horace GREELEY, AUGUSTUS ScHELL, HoRAcE 4.
CLARK. r. B. Irwin. and A. W. ELsH.
The Attorney General Of the United States
has recently given the following opinion: Let
tiers on file with hehcads of departments are priv
LEGGED communications unless their publication has
been authorized; no copies should be recopied at
private request, and the production Of the origi-
nails cannot be compelled in a suit between indi'
viduals II has been ruled that such oommni-
cations can not be made the foundation Of an ne
ton for libel Then 1 think the head Of de.
partment IL bound not to produce paper on file
in his Office"
A Little Rock. Arkansas. sensational dispatch
surmses that JoHN II. SURRtT one of the Lin
coin assassins is in that place. and the detectives
are looking into the matter.
The discovery of new star in the constella-
ton Corona Borealis by Mr.. BERuNGHAM, OF
Tuam. and Mr.. BhxENnELI, of Manchester, Eng
land. is confirmed by Mr.. J. r. HIND.
There is a proposition before Congress to al
low the Secretary of the Treasury TO sell or re
move the buildings and other property of the
branch minis ut Charlotte, North Carolina, and
DaLlonoga, Ga, which has been agreed to by the
House. but it will encounter decided opposition
in the Finance Committee Of the Senate, TO which
it has been referred.
-BKGuAM YouNG's sixty-Gnh birthday was
celebrated on Saturday. by the leading Mormons
now in New York who dined together at the Me
tropolitan Hotel. The health Of " Brother BRIc-
NAM #" was ofcourse pledged; but it is to bo hoped
for sobriotys sake that the company did not drink
10 each Of his wives separately.
Several young men in Boston have recently
been poisoned by wearing paper collars. The
arsenic used in enamclling the collars, according
10 the opinion Of the physicians, was absorbed
into the system and produced painful local nfam-
nations. resembling boils or carbuneies.
- Gro. A. MUNsoN, a Presbyterian, and d. u.
Mummy, Methodist. clcrgymcn of Cape "rar-
dcau, No. were convicted of preaching without
taking the test oath last week, and sentenced to
pay fine of $500 each.
- There are bloody times in Little Rock, Ar
kansas. On Monday night. the llth inst. the
residence of Dr. WEBR, at Little Rock, was enter
ed by some one knowing that his safe contained
over seventy thousand dollars. The Doctor was
nj the time sleeping in his bed with his son, boy
or twelve years. Both were brutality murdered
with an ak The assassin then procured the key
of the safe. but could only open one door A no
gro man servant has been arrested. Upon ms
boot heel was found thumb and finger prints IN
blood. The fact that the Doctors dog, furious
animal. was found tied the next morning, Is
strong convicting circumstance against the negro
as he was the only living person besides Doctor
Nyrrfg who dnre attempt TO tie the dog. Doctor
WrRR has lived in Little Rock orninc years, and
was universally respcctedI
man was murdered there on Thursday night
another seriously wounded, and the third shot
dead on Saturday The latter, DIR. BuRNAN. was
shot by Chas. OIpESUURY on the charge OF Grim
inol intimacy with his lOLDENuuEY's 81 wife.
- The Ohio Republican State Convention meets
to-day at Columbus.
One thousand Norwegian immigrants from
Europe have passed through Chicago since Friday
last. bound for Minnesota and Iowa. Five thou
sand more arc coming this season.
- St Louis is excited over the reported murder
of PETER SMITH, well known butcher of that
CITY Il Is said that SMITH. with a large aaonnt
of money in his possession, left Carondolct late
Sundsy afternoon, accompanied by two of his
men, on a cattle buying trip. II is stated that he
crossed the ferry at the upper part Of that city,
and had proceeded hut a mile or so from the
landing when he was set upon and killed. One Of
the men with him was also killed. and the other
made his escape.
According to the last statement oftho national
debt the Treasury held only SS.lll,6A of its own
gold on the Isl Of June, in addition to S2236S,S3O
rcprcscntcd by gold certificates Of deposit IN the
hands of the public. The New York banks at
their last weekly return held Sl5,s2l,6 5& OF
total of only Sl3 S23O2 the property the Treas
ury in the New York banks, and It Is perhaps
well said that "the smallncss of this sum is the
chief source of strength TO the Spectators for
rise. but il must be remembered that the pre-
uiun is now twenty three per cont higher than
IL yyns M one time in March, and that confidence
in the public credit was never greater. Tins
ANOMALY is only explained by the obvious fact,
that during a period Of suspension gold rs as
nuch Influenced BY the natural laws OF supply
and demand as any other commodity, and faith
in or distrust Of the public credit is only one OF
the important elements which govern ITS pnee m
.,Vgr snpnpy"