Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-10-14
rrEns or GENERAL NEWS.

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.
--GoLD closed in New York yesterday at 15s.
- 1t is said that JAHEs GORDON BENEFIT. Jr..
is to marrya daughter Of General JoHS A. DIX.
The suit in New York to determine who has
the exclusive right 10 play Our American
Cousin" has at last been settled in fvor Of LAURA
KEENE.
Justice srRoxo, ef Philadelphia. has granted
the injunction applied for against the Union Pas
ssngcr Railrosd Company running street cars
Sunday.
-Twenty-seven thousand immigrants have ar
rived at Quebec since the opening Of navigation
this season.
The Secretary Of the Treasury viii not am
Gespate the date Of payment Of the November IN
terest on the Five-tweniies.
The Grand Army Of the Republic, which has
reached membership in the West Of upwards Of
Eve hundred thousand members. is being rapidly
propagated in the East.
- Prof. HEERT. Of the Smithsonian Institute
says the amount Of rain which fell in Washington
from Wednesday morning at nine o'clock TO Thurs
day morning at the same hour. was somewhat
more than five inches, being the greatest quantity
that has fallen within similar period for long
time
Its claimed that the salt mines Of Nevada
10 cover ffty-two thousand acres yielding two
millioa bushels annually Of SALT ninety-fve per
cent fine.
The o. S. Circuit Court for the Southern Dis
triet Of New York, which win open in New York
city on the 18th inst. win Try twenty-eight noto
rious manufacturers, wholesalers. retailers and
passers Of counterfeit Government notes. Beside
these criminals, there have been captured during
the summer months c0unterfeitiBg materials TO
the value Of s2O0.OOO
Governor WILLS has refused 70 call the Lou
isisna Legislature together to consider the ques-
ton Of repairing the leyee, fearing that It's first
act would be to impeach himself
The Second Comptroller has decided that en-
LISTED men, promoted after having served two
years. and finally discharged as officers. are not
entitled TO bounty. under the act Of July 2Sth
1866
A meeting Of the American Freedmons As
sociation was held at Baltimore yesterday. Chief
Justice CLASS presided.
Chief Justice CHASE has given an opinion
that the Circuit Courts Of tho United States cam
not be hold any where until there is q new assign
ment Of the circuits lately made at Washington.
The United ssatos Circuit Courts can not now be
held for want Of jurisdiction.
- II is announced that the British Government
mas 0tner lntontlOnh IN teuuinR troops 70 NunuQu
than that Of repelling the Fenian invasion.
The only living descendant Of CHRrsToPHRR
COLUMBUS is at Rome. and is to visit America
next year. lie is described as genial man Of
sixty
= letter from Salt Lake City Utah. says THAI
JULIA DEAs HAYxR, the actress, was married 10
Mr.. ooorEa In tho early summer, but having
neglected 10 have a divorce from her former hus-
band. suit 10 that end has been instituted At
Salt Lake BY the lady.
A special dispatch from Philadelphia. 10 the
Tisses. Of Cincinnati. says; The election in this
city has ruined JONI W. FoESEY. His influence
e worth nothing at oil. lie has no chance FOR
complimentary vote for Senator, and he will be
kicked out Of his Senate job by the next meeting
b Of thas body. He has done the Republican party
more harm than good in this city.
- There arc more rumors Of Cabinet changes
"A Sacramento establishment turns out a.
900 Gems Of preserved fruit.
ARrENUs WAND has had a hand in the pre-
paration Of RoHEHrsoN's new English comedy,
called Ours." 90 be played at WALLACE 81 so
ias to secure the American oopyright-if possible.
= Dr.. RonISsoS and Prof. N. r. SMITH arrived
1t Fortress Monroe on Friday. and had pro-
iractod interview with jaw. DAVIS.
- gang Of six men robbed the railroad Office
sad store at South Union. Kentucky. about
~. on Friday. taking about thirteen hundred
dollars. three hundred Of Il specie, also a large
lot Of dry goods. Three Of tho men had their
faces baoked. The description Of the three others
very nearly answered that Of the men who robbed
the pay train on Thursday. They left in the d.
reciion Of franklin.
- There we're forty three cases Of cholera IN
Chicago on Friday
"A horrible murder was committed on Sunday
hast. in Nicholas county Ky. An old man who
had forbidden tEospassing On his orchard. was as
sailed ia his own house, and his throat cut IRON
ear 10 car. The marderor was arrested.
Great storms have prevailed. in the past few
days, about Washington and in Maryland. A Bal
tinore dispatch. Of Friday, says; Among the estab
lishments that have suffered BY the storm and food
are the following: Gray's factory Union factory,
the Thistle and Granite factory at Elliott's
mills and the Alberton factory at Ellisville The
dams arc all destroyed or generally injured. |
+ Tho New York Hcruld's correspondent writ |
ing from Franklin county. North Carolina says |
the gold mine at PoRrER's is undoubtedly the |
richest surface mine in the world. A company,
chartered by the State and investing a capital Of
s50Q.Qo0 has been organized 20 work them.
The General Convention Of Unitarians IN
session at Syracuse n. Y offers fraternity to the
Universalisis.
OF the Conservatives who were published as
secossionists In pamphlet printed for the use Of
registers al the ST. Louis Dcaoerai job ONCE and
complied frorn Official records, rHos. r. LARKTS,
Epv M Brooks p A. BARTHoLp and JosErH
o'NEIL. have each sued the Dea0crut proprietors
for libel assessing their damages at $4,000 each.
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