Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-17
ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.
q Gold closed IN New York yesterday at 152.
Hon g. A. HEvRY was in Louisville on
Wednesday.
An eminent physician of Memphis says there
has not ms yet been single case Of Asiatic choera
IN the city. The case Of the whole family which
died so suddenly in South street last weeI. turns
out that they were poisoned by arsenic being
placed in their bread by a colorcd woman. who
alleges that she mistook it for baking powder Il
seems strange. however that she ate none Of the
bread herself
The New York P0sts special says that Score
tary SEWARD had an interview til the President
on Tuesday. and reported a proclamation, to boim-
mediatey issued, re-establishng the haJeas coyyps
in all the States and declaring the practical
termination Of military occupation in the South
ern States.
Speaking Of the appearance Of the cholera IN
in Cincinnati the Catholic Teiegrgph remarks
Il is aremarsabie coincidence that tie caterpil-
lars which heretofore destroyed the trees and
shrubbcry dering the summer months have not
made their appearance this year. and the same
phenomenon occurred in 1919, when the cholera
was go fatal
A late letter from Dalton, Georgia, says that
one company there took out $4,000 worth Of gold
from the mines in one day and that capitalists
from New York and Boston are about TO ship ex-
tensve mining machinery to that place, for the
purpose Of working the mines.
The FIRST case in the State Of Mississippi
under the Civil Rights Bill was tried on the sth
instant. at yieksburg. Esq MATHEWS, mag
istratc was arrested by the United States Mar
shall for enforcing the laws Of the State against
negroes carrying arms He was taken before
United States Commissioner ADAM and bound
over in the sura five hundred dollars to appear
at the term Of the United States District Court to
be held at jackson next December.
30 Al the meeting Of the National Association
ofSchool superintendent in Indianapolis it was
resolved to memorabilia Congress 10 establish a
National Bureau Of Education.
-O faIl European nations France shows the
flowest rate Of increase in population. The D.
O10,000 Of 1901 had only increased By 100000 in
1851.
- The second plenary council Of the Catholic
Church in the United States will be opened in the
Cathedral Of Baltimore on the first Sunday in
October
~ Prof AGAssIz has not only got safely 10 hiz
home, but has written out in full the history Of
his travels and explorations in Brazil, and the
volumn isnow in the hands Of Mcssrs. TIcENoR
& FmDs Cor immediate publication.
phia Convention from Indiana, has been appoint
cd postmaster at indianapolis. lie states that
the President told him that successful admins
tration must surround itself with friends. and he
should act hereafter in accordance with that idea
- The proposed tunnel between England and
Frmcc. for which Mr.. HAwEsHAW. with the En-
pcror's consent. has been 80 busily boring holes
on each side ofthe channel is likely to have a for
midable rival in the ocean ferry. proposed by
Mr.. FOWLER. who would employ enormous steam
vessels like the Great Eastern" 10 ply between
the two shores. These boats starting from special
docks o. Dover and Calais would take the trains
on board and convey them across. so that there
would be no delay. changing Of carriages be-
tween London and Paris, and as the toughest
weather would have no sensible effect on the mo-
ton Of the mammoth ferry boats. the demon of
sickness would be banishcd from that favored
highway. The tunnel would take twenty years
to complete and cost 100000 600 sterling. The
ferry boats" could be ready in thirty months,
and would only cost Ct ,5OoO0o so that Mr. Fow-
LER's appears to be quite the most practicable
proposal.
30 Miss MARY L. SCHEII. of San Francisco. Cali
fornia, has sued Major General HENRY NJ Ma
CLEE for refusing 10 marry her, after having pro-
missed many O. time 10 do So. She says She is dam
The case win be tried at San Francisco The fair
plantif h2sovrr- one hundred letters ON hand,
an written by the defendant by which she expects
20 make ont her case.
Queen VIoroBIA's outward obseryauccs Of
generation for the Prince Consort continud TO De
NJ marked as they were four years ago. The
Queen has the strongest objection 70 the term
late" as applied 10 the Prince. In a certain
fashionable journal which enjoys TIE patronage
Of the court you will find that when His Royal
Highnoss Is referred TO- il Is always as the Prince
Consort and never as tho "latc Prince Cousort."
An of the saddle-horses Of tho late Prince are
kept % the stables nj Windsor hut though they
arc taken out daily for exercise. no is permit
ted 90 mount any of them. To do so would be a
case Of dismissal for the groom.
A Now York dispatch Of Tuesday says: Gems
SWEENEY and SPEAR Of the Fenian Brotherhood,
returned 10 this city. from Vermont yesterday.
They still speak hopefully Of the prospects of Fc-
nianism. The Irish refugee,of 1866 publish a call |
this morning on the liberal minded citizens Of !
New York for employment"
- The Secretary Of the Treasury has ordered /
the discontiuuauce Of the temporary loan system,
and gives notice that the Department IS prepared
20 redeem outstanding certificates. No interest
will be paid on this class Of Government paper
after tho 26th inst.
General G.. CLAY SMITH, Representative in
Congress from the Covington. Kentucky, Sixth
District has resigned, and Governor BRANLErTE
has ordered n special election 20 be held the
18th Of September to I'm the vacancy The Dis
riot gave DUvALL Democrat about six thousand
majority az the recent State election. Colonel r.
B. CARPENTER win be the Administration caudi-
date, aud the Democrats will probably run Hon. |
JNo. W. STEVENSON or JNo. G.. CARLIsLE.
- A dispatch received at Indianapolis from
Secretary STANTON. states that Gen. RusFcRtNs /
has not resigned his commission in the army.
- General PALNER Is 10 preside over the court /
martial in this city for the trial Of Colonel How
LAND.
-- Two and quarter million pounds Of grapes |
were shipped from Sandusly in two and htlf |
months last fall.
BAYARp TAYLOR and Mr.. BEARD. the painter, |
will probably unite in a book upon their summer |
excursion across The plains and among the Rocky |
Mountains
A kerosene telegraph has been invented /
al Boston I'm which intermittent light and dark |
ness take the place oftho dots and lines on telc-
graphic paper. Signals can be read with 70 iu
clear weather ten or fifteen miles, and with about
the ,api1iiy Of the ordinary electric telegraph.
- Mr.. CHARLES J. llEuANs, son of the poetcss
who was converted 10 Roman Catholicism many