The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-30
THE NEWS.

the West this week.
A Washington rumor says General
g. II. Thomas is to succeed General
Howard as head of the Bureau"
A late dispatch from Washington
says Messrs. Speed and Harlan intend
to leave the Cabinet
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer contradicts the generally &C
cepted report that JEFF Davis's first
marriage was a runaway match. He
says the marriage took place at the re
sidence of the eldest sister of General
T. Taylor, living near Louisville, Ken
lucky, where Mr. Davis had been fol
several months on a visit, with the
knowledge and consent of her parents
and the writer was at the wedding.
Mr.. J. F. Wilson, late Consul at Ba
hia, who effected the capture of the
pirate Florida, is about to be sent
abroad by the State Department on a
special mission, connected with our
Mexican complications.
From the reports made to the Co
lumbus Horticultural Society at then
last meeting, it seems that in tha
vicinity the crop of all kinds of fruit il
likely to be a small one. Peaches anC
cherries are entirely destroyed
1t appears from statistics received al
Columbus that more emigrants passed
through Cleveland and Toledo during
the last week than in any previous
week of the year Eight hundred anC
fifty have passed through Columbus, Of
whom three hundred and thirty sever
will remain in Ohio.
There are rumors that a vessel hal
recently left one of our ports with somt
of the heaviest kind of guns for th,
Chilians.
San Francisco is going to be supplied
with water from lake in the Sierri
Nevada mountains by an acqueduc
two hundred miles long.
AT least twelve hundred Mexicani
/ we're executed in one month, at Zaca
tecas, under @sximilian's decree con
demning to death those opposed to hi
Government
Treasurer Spinner says that accord
ing to the act of Congress the Govern
ment is liable for the face value of al
notes of National banks, and that NJ
case has arisen in which note holder
have suffered any loss.
A new police regulation has gone in
TO force ct Chicago. All persons foun,
loafng in the streets, who can give n
reputable account of themselves, are
arrested and lodged in the station
houses.
The stallion George NJ Patchen ha
beaten the stallion Commodore Van
derbilt in three straight heats in hal
ness. Time-2 304, 2.30 2 27f
The name of Gen. Van Derveer ha
been sent into the Senate by the Pres
dent as Assessor at Hamilton, Ohio l
is stated that he viii undoubtedly b
confirmed.
IL was announced by the Western
press few days ago that Brevet Brif
j Gen. II. II. Heath, Colonel of the III
Iowa cavalry, had been mustered on
of the service dishonorably. Upon ex
, animation of the case, General Gran
has caused that order to be revoked
the charges against this meritoriou
,, officer having been fully and satisfaC
torily explained.
Petroleum lubrications do not seer
! to be the right thing. The Union Mill
r of Fall river, Mass, have just had 81,
' thousand cases of calicoes thrown bacl
on their hands, damaged by petroleum
oil, which was used as a fubricator o.
the looms, and spattered on the cloth
Ali the washing and bleaching the fat
ric vas subjected to at the print work
failed TO eradicate the petroleum, an
the consequence is a chemical "spo
ting" effect on the colors.
BY advioes from Spain, per Cuba, "
, learn that the provisional concessiO
granted by the Spanish Governmer
for the Trans Atlantic Telegraph Csbl
has been revoked by the Council {
7 State. and subsequently said reYoeatio
was confirmed by the Supreme Cour
before which il was appealed by M
+ Perry, our Secretary Of Legation at th
, Court of Spain.
A fan factory, employing forty hand
and manufacturing some 500 fans pS
day, has been started at Nashua, n. t
The Department of State has officii
information that the Imperial Goverl
ment of Brazil is resolved to open th
coastwise trade to ships Of all nation
The opening of the Amazon can not .
much longer delayed.
An ex-Colonel of the Sth Illinois il
fantry, and Brevet Brigadier, has el
! listed in the Regular Army in Ne
Orleans He was made First SergeaE
of his company
Three emigrant children died IN ID
troit, Saturday, from a disease sur
posed to be Asiatic cholera They ha
just arrived in the city, over the Gre'
t Western Railway.
e JENNY LIEB.-This Swedish songstrei
Z recently sung in Southern France f
y the benefit of naval hospital. III
local journal SAYS:
Her singing deeply moved the aud
tory. who often she'd tears, so enchan
ed were they with her hotes The
were not. however, contented wit
tears. No astonishment was created 1
seeing one of the audience kneel b
fore The celebrated cantatrlce and 0t
the favor of kissing her hand
A Paris letter writer says:
"BstWeen the BOsphorus and u
Baltic a grand consoription is Procee'
ing. there is not landed proprietor,
simple shOpkeeper, a stolid mechanl
a wind beaten mariner, anywhere, VII
is not moved to terror or enthusiasm
Now, if ever, the great adjustment
differences in Europe is about 10
instituted. The immediate parties
the outbreak are Italy and Pruss
arainst Austria, bat when these gre;
lonposites clash together, there will