Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-20
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL f. p ALEXANDER, Chief Of Ar
tillery Of LONCsTREEr's corps, and now q
professor in the University Of South Caro-
| lima, has acceded 20 the request Of General
LoNGsTREEr, and announces that he has
undertaken to prepare for publication a
history of his command during the war"
THE learned world is about to have a
dictionary Of the language of ancient Egypt
as preserved in the Hieroglyphic and De
motee characters. The work isby H. HENRI
BRUGsCH.
MISSISSIPPI has new county called Lee
after the General
So successful are the Catholics in obtaining
the lead in the education of the District 70
Columbia, that the nuns of the Convent Of
the Visitation have bought the whole square
of land between Sixteenth and Sex enteenth
Streets and L and NJ. streets, and will at
once proceed to organize the leading young
ladies seminary of this part Of the country.
The attempt of the horse captain Nc
Gowan" to trot twenty-one miles in an hour,
at Boston, was a failure He had made,
however, thirteen miles in thirty minutes.
A SINGLE tow Of coal recently sent from
Louisville to New Orleans by Pittsburg
firm, contained S25, 600 bushels, or three and
a quarter acres as it lay in its original bed.
This was the largest shipment of coal ever
made by a single tow-boat.
In Paris some ingenious person is reported
TO have invented mechanical horse, which
is said to be the equal in all respects of the
live animal. The only thing that prevents
this mechanical contrivance from being intro
duced into general use is its cost, $4,000.
THE Oregonian estimates the yield of the
salmon fishery on the Pacific coast during
the last season at 10000 barrels.
J. c. FREMONT proposes to himself the
United States Senatorship from Missouri
THE Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington
Railroad Company announce that they will
transfer over their roads, free of charge, all
contributions for the destitute poor of the
South.
TIE Lavaca Commercial of the Sd, says
Of thu cotton crop in the Guadalupe and
Colorado region of Texas: From the best
Information we can obtain, the cotton crop
of Victoria will not be more than five hun
dred bales; the usual crop of this county
was, before the war, from 5000 to 5000.
Many circumstances have conspired to bring
about the result, principally among which
was the Generalization consequent upon the
presence of colored troops. The worm and
heavy rains likewise did their share to cut
off the crop. Dewitt county does a little
better, making probably six or eight hun
dred bales. Gonzales claims to have raised
5000, and perhaps 1000. Caldwell has as
fine a crop as she generally makes, and will
also come up among the thousands. Lavaca,
Jackson and other counties west will make
merely nominal crops. We expect the
receipts Of this year, in our city, to reach
$4,000 or $4,000, against $4,000 bales in
1S59-60.
THE tobacco crop of Kentucky for the
year ending October, was sixty-one millions,
sixty-two thousand two hundred and forty
pounds, of which thirty-two millions, three
hundred and twenty-five thousand five
hundred pounds were sold in the Louisville
market. OF the entire amount nearly a
million pounds were raised and owned by
negroes who also share largely in the bal
ance of the crops.
THE Iron Mountainand Cairo and Fulton
Railroads, of Missouri, have been sold by
the Commissioners appointed for that pur-
pose-the former to Gen. A. J. MCKAY and
Louis capitalists, for S550,000; and the lat
ter to the same parties, represented by ]. C..
READ, for S350,000.
TIE British oyster fisheries everywhere
report scarcity and depression. Those off
jersey, which, from 1855 TO 1860, gave an an
nual return Of 100000 to e40,O00, now yield
only one-tenth that sum; in the estuary of
the Thames there has been no good breed
since 1860; and the price of thenative oyster
has more than trebled. No well ascertained
cause can be assigned for these facts.
THE report on domestic missions TO the
Southern Presbyterian Assembly, on Satur-
day at Memphis, favored the education of
negroes.
THERE are three hundred and twenty new
brick stores going up in Atlanta.
A COLONY of Poles are locating in the
Wilderness, famous as a battle ground.
OK Friday afternoon young man called
at the store Of Z. & NJ. FAXoN, leather
dealers in Pearl street, Boston, and, under
pretense of getting bill changed, managed
to steal money, notes and securities valued
at S35, 900, with which he escaped.
A YOUNG man named II. c. BELL, from
Hopkinsville, KY, committed suicide by
blowing his brains out with a pistol, on
board the steamer Wild Wagner, on the
10th, 4 short distance below UniOntown. A
note was found upon his person stating that
family difficulties were the cause of the rash
act. BELL was a Confederate soldier and
his father-in-law a strong Union man. This
political difference was the cause of a sepa-
ration between BELL and his wife, which
separation so proved upon his mind as to
make him weary of life.
The statement that the banking house of
RITTENHoUsE FOWLER q Co., of Washing
ton, has lost $4,000 by the breaking up the
National Union Executive Committee, is
Incorrect. On the contrary, the Executive
Committee have a large surplus to their
credit
GOVERNOR BRowNLow publishes a proc
lamation appointing Thursday, November
%, as day of Thanksgiving.
CONFLICTING rumors are ahoat respecting
Mr.. CHAsE's second interview with the Pre-
sdent. 1t is said that the question of i'm
partial suffrage was discussed, but all the
statements thus far are speculations and I'M
worthy Of credence, as neither Mr. CHASE
nor the President has communicated a word
concerning the conversation. All that is
known is that three or four individuals,
Democrats and Republicans, have advised
the President to recommend impartial suf-
frage to the South in his message. The idea
seems to be, that as long as the Executive
and Legislative branches are divided in
opinion the South must remain unrepresent-
ed in Congress; hence the desire TO effect
some arrangement 20 accommodate the diff
ference between them. According TO the
current representations the President lends
a willing ear to all suggestions in that direc-
tion, but thus far nothing definite has been
accomplished.
RUFUS KING, our diplomatic agent at
Rome, had lately conversation with the
Pope, who seemed very much concerned
about the Fenians. Pro remarked that il
would be for the advantage of all parties if
the United States should take possession of
Canada, and incorporate il into the Ameri-
can Union, rather than allow the Fenians to
possess themselves Of it. He thinks the
Fenians can never do anything to affect the
British rule in Canada, but that they may
turn their arms against Canada. Cardinal
ANToNELLI, Mr.. KING says, is 4 cordial adj
mirer Of the policy Of Mr.. JOHNSON.
METoRIc displays have been noticed at
various points abroad, but the account Of
Professor LOOMS of Yale, and the account
from the steamer Ponce, goes to show that
the overcast skies prevented the anticipated
display. Professor LOOMS thinks the cable
account Of the Herald from Greenwich,
England, spurious. As compared with the
display Of 1888, it is considered that that of