Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-23


frHE French Minister Il reported 70 be
favorably disposed toward cur Government
on the Mexican subject, and does not object
TO the reorganization of the JUzREz Gov
eminent.
THE decline Of Boston, as compared with
other Northern Atlantic cities, is attracting
the serious attention of its business men,
who propose deyising means TO secure in
creased facilities for transpOrtations between
that and the West
IT is stated that Gen. SHERMAN goes 10
Mexico with view TO obtain necessary in
formation as to the military condition Of the
country, while Mr.. CAMPBELL is to inquire
into its political situation. Their reports
will form the basis of future policy of this
Government in relation to Mexico. Gen
SHERMAN will not be absent many weeks.
He is expected back here before the termi-
nation of the session. He will be here quite
in time tG take part with the President II
occasion should require.
a LETTER from the gold coast states that
thirty-iiye or forty men and women have
been murdered as a sacrifice, in consequence
of the death of the king of Aquapim.
FIFTEEN clerks were dismissed to-day by
the secretary of the Interior from the Pen
sion Bureau The dismissals were not on
political grounds, but from the great falling
off in the applications for pensions.
BISHOP CoLENsO, of heretical notoriety,
is in luck. The Trustees of the Coleman
Bishopric Fund Of Great Britain, refused to
pay his salary, on account of his sceptical
writings. He accordingly brought suit
against them, and decision has been rem
dered in his favor by the Master Of the
Rolls. The judgment was based on the
fact that a contract existed, the questions Of
orthodoxy or heterodoxy not coming up.
A BOLD and daring robbery was perpetra
ted in st. Louis, on Tuesday. A man called
on L. JACcARD & Co., extensive jewelers. on
Fourth near Olive, and requested to be
shown some fine goods, from which he made
some selections, requesting to have them
laid aside, promising to call for them the
next day. While examining some fine dia-
monds, the clerk being for a moment called
away to attend lady, he succeeded in Sc
curing some $4,000 worth. On the return
of the clerk he asked to be shown TO a pri-
vate room for few moments, and to allay
suspicion left his hat on the counter. Pass
grating from the window leading into the
cellar of the drug store of ALEX. LETTcH,
where he took hat belonging to porter,
and coolly walked up stairs and throught he
store into the street, where all trace of him
was lost.
AMHERST COLLEGE is soon to have the
largest meteorite possessed by any cabinet
in America. A mass of meteoric iron,
weighing 536 pounds, found high upon the
Rocky Mountains and secured for the Col
lege by Mr. T. ALDEN SMITH, is now on its
way from Denver City, Colorado.
A New York correspondent VIZ ties: at
appears that to usurp the functions of poor
devil reporters, and write up local sensation
for the daily press, is the reigning ambition
of Miss FLORA MCFLIMsEY and her char
ming associates of Madison Square. To be
able to pull from pocket of dress or paletot
a damp and grumpy copy of the Times, or
Tribune, or World, as one passes the rival
belle on the drive in Central Park, and
wave this cheqUered flag of victory over the
other Andronache, is now one of the high
est qualifications of the conquerOr Of Sara
toga and Newport
Gov. BRowNLow has ordered an election
to be held on the 28th inst, in the county Of
Shelby for Representative in the place of
Capt. ABLE, who was refused his seat
CONFERENCE of the Southern Methodists,
in session at Jackson, Tennessee, have de-
cided in favor of lay delegations, and a
change in the name of their church.
THE House of Representatives of Ala
bama, on Wednesday morning, passed bill
granting charter to a company which pro-
poses to build a railroad from New Orleans
10 Mobile, and from thence TO Chattanooga, F.
the road to be commenced in two years and
completed in six, orthe charter forfeited.
THE long haired men and short haired
women, at Albany, on Tuesday resolved that
the present limitations of the franchise in
the United States to the class known as
white, male citizens, vests the Government
in minority, because it excludes in women
one-half tie American people, and in per-
sons of color one-eighth, thus reducing five
out of every eight adult American citizens
to permanent political subsection, and our
present State and National Governments are
thus limited to three-eighths of the adult
citizens, and are not in fact republican, even
in form, but constitute eligarchies of race
and sex.
We learn from the Petersburg Iader that
the committee appointed at the meeting of
the Episcopal Council of Virginia, held in
May last, to take into consideration the ques-
ton of division of the diocese OF Virginia,
and the appointment of an assistant bishop,
held meeting in Charlottesville, last week,
and decided TO recommend the immediate
election of an assistant bishop, on account of
the extreme age of the present bishop.
THE Governor of Texas has vetoed the
stay law recently passed by the Legislature
of that State. The Houston Telegraph thinks
it cannot be passed ovet the Governors veto,
but thinks it will be modified in accordance
to the suggestions of the Governor, in which
shape it will be passed. The Telegraph says
that without some process to stay the sacri-
fee of estates the poor people will be ruined
Ex-GovERNoR and Senator FooTE, now
living at Louisville, has written a letter to
Judge SHARKEY in favor of the proposition
to call National Convention for revising
the Constitution.
THE New Orleans Picayune is informed
that official information has been transmit
ted from Washington to the Mexican Con-
sui in this city, that the l0hole pO,oer Of the
army and nary Of the United States has been
placed at the disposal Of President JUAREz for
has restoration TO po1Ocr." The same paper as
serts that JUAREz himself admitted as much
to recent visitors at his residence in Chihua-
hua.