The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-25
THE NEWS.

trlct Of Ohio.
1t is stated that the house with
which Sir Morton Peto is connected,
! will resume in a short time.
The Bankrupt Bill has passed the
House Of Representatives
The reason for removing the United
States Courts from Norfolk to Rich
mond, is because there is no fit place in
| Norfolf to hold them.
Preparations are making to issue
! 100000 Of fractional currency this
week, TO take the place of a similar
amount mutilated and to be cancelled.
The destruction of the Academy OF
Music, In New York, the finest and
most costly hall of amusement in the
United States, following so soon after
the loss of Pixies Opera, suggests the
idea that there are incendiaries who are
leagued to destroy all the great dra,
matte temples in the country.
The loss by the burning Of the New
York Academy of Music and other
buildings, will not exceed one million
dollars. Maretzek loses $4,000, and
GTau $4,000. Neither are insured.
! The Academy was valued at nearly
! 100000, on which there is an insur-
ance of 100000 Among the build
ings destroyed was medical college,
containing the valuable anatomical
collection of the late DR.. Valentine
Mott Two fremen are missing, and
are supposed TO have been killed.
The President has approved the pos
tai appropriation bill. The aggregate
amount of appropriations Is SIS, 49,
| 500, of which S2jO,OOO goes for six
months mail service between San
Francisco, Japan and China, and $780,
coo for overland transportation be-
/ tween Atchison, Kansas, and Folsom,
! California and marine transportation,
/ between New York and San Francis
! co.
Four boys, living at Chicago, started
| out IN yawl, 10 visit the tunnel crib.
A violent gale arose and drove their
frail craft before it, into the open lake.
Nothing has since been heard of them.
Half block Of wooden buildings on
the Ohio Ievee, including the Virginia
Hotel, were burned at Cairo Tuesday
morning. Loss over $4,000, partially
insured
The city editor of the Richmond
! (Ind) Telegraph heralds the advent of
a new-langled bonnet in that place
! tbusly.
'THE LATEsT-The latest Eastern fash
ION for n bonnet appeared on Main
! street yesterday. 1t consisted of two
rye-straws, tied together with a blue
ribbon on the top of the head, and red
tassels suspended at each Of the four
ends Of the straws 1t was love of
a bonnet price only $40.
There are 10 students ut Oberlin
College, 425 males and 32j females.
OF the whole number, POI are new stu.
dents
Judge Hughes, Of Indiana, has been
appointed General Treasury Agent in
place Of w. ?. Mellen.
Mrs Susan King, wife Of Rev. Thos.
f. King and mother of the late T.
Starr King, died at Charlestown, Mass,
at the age Of 60.
The first green corn Of the season
made it's appearance at New Orleans on
the llth. The price paid was two dol
lars per dozen, and it was served up at
the restaurants at twenty-five cents per
ear.
The wife of the Liberal Mexican
General D. Aureliano Rivera, was lately
called upon by the Imperial COmisario
de Sandal, in Mexico city, 10 take out
a license as a common prostitute The
act is believed to have been committed
against the lady as an insult The
matter has been brought to the court.
1t has created a very considerable SEN
sation. The lady is spoken of as a wo,
man of high honor
Advices from Venezuela state that
arrangements have been made 20 set.
tie all American claims against The
Government, 10y joint commission.
Heavy import duties and forced
loans are still the order of the day in
Mexico. Duties on single Cargoes OF
European goods have been collected OF
100000
A gang Of counterfeiters at ST. Louis
was broken up Monday, through the
exertiOns of Detective Quinton, of this
city, and L. S. Marshal Rogers A large
amount of counterfeit 80 cent fractional
currency was found, and also quite a
large sum in ten dollar bills All the
presses, dies and paper, necessary to
carry on the business were discovered
and taken possession Of
A letter Of Gen. Brincourt, one OF
the French Mexican commanders, is
published. lie conceives that his cause
is by no means popular, and rather
fears that the relations with the United
States are a trihe threatening. He,
therefore, intends 10 take leave Of
absence which shall continue iGdef>
nitely.
The Austrians are conscripting the
Vepetians into the army As the Aus
trian Government is nowhere more
bitterly hated than in its Italian pro-
vinces, the unwilling recruits obtained
there will hardly prove first class SOL
diers.
A man named Dehart, some seventy
years old, died in Champagne county,
Ill, on Friday Of last week, from starva-
ton. lie was living the life OC her
nit and had neither food, furniture
bedding nor floor to his wretched ha BIZ
tatiOn.
Tbs New York Common Council
PROPOSES to widen the Fifth avenue by
taking the steps and stoops in front of
the dwellings and carrying the side
walks close TO the walls This has
cause a futter in Fifth avenue circles
Mrs. Melinda Jones publishes card
in the Boston papers, which says: 81
noticed a paragraph in reference 10 my
daughter, Mrs. G. V. Brooke, better
known personally as Miss Avonia
Jones, stating that she is playing at
the Surrey Theatre, London, in a
drama representing the recent loss OF
the steamship England, by which sad
catastrophe her husband Brooke, the
tragedian,) persisted As the para
graph has baen widely published, Al
low me to use your columns for the de-
NAL Of this cruel SANDER. Reference