Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-24
ITEMs OF GENERAL NEWs.


CHARLES FatNcIs ADAMS.
Tho entire delegations to the Philadelphia
Convention from Illinois and Missouri have
signed recommendation for the appointment Of
General SToLBRAND as Minister to Sweden.
There is to be grand mass meeting in Pha-
delnhia 10 ratify the proceedings Of the Convcn-
ton The President Secretary SEWARD, REvER-
b. Johnson, Judge STANBERY and others will
s!-~E.
The contest for the possession Of the Pha-
delphia Customhousc ia still going on. Colonel
Thomas s;ill retains possession. Ex-Governor
Johnson is thus kept out until the United States
District Court Is prepared to say that he is eligible
10 the Office, or whether the President has right
10 appoint persons 10 Office whose previous nomi-
nations have not been acted on by the Senate
The Washington correspondent Of the New
Iork Commercial Adccrtiser says that some Of
the clerks in the War Department are organizing
a secret political association for the support Of
EDwIS N. STANTON for President, and Governor
HAMILTON. Of Texas for Vice President.
- The soldiers and sailors Convention has been
changed from Chicago to Cleveland. The latter
II considered more central.
- Movements are being made to have n dolcga-
ton from every Northern State attend the Con-
ycntion OF mean Southern whites at Philadelphia,
on the "a Of September.
Steps have been taken By the Government to
stay all proceedings for the present in the matter
Of the confscation Of the late Confederate Cen
eral BEAUREGARD's property in the Southern
States
~ In New York City, new. capaci0us and elc-
CANT banking house for the sole accommodation
Of colored people, has been opened. An the Off
GERS Of the concern. from the President down. are
colorcd men. several Of whom arc very wealthy
for men Of their class
The Albany Argue says that disturbances have
again broken out ia the anti-rent district in
sequence ofan attempt made 10 arrest a Mr.. Fox,
who is a man Of intelligence and Of much inlu-
ence among the anti-renters, and who had prOba-
bly, been instructed by his lawyer TO offer resist
ance 10 the Sheriff. Ho was only secured after
much diGiculty.
- Rev. JEREMIAH DAY, D. D., cx-President Of
Yale College was "a years Of age on July 3, 1896.
He has attended 20 Yale conmcncements.
- The Fenian picnic at Buffalo was a huge az
fair. the crowd present being estimated at fifteen
to twenty thousand. After the sham fight, Gen
crai 0'NuLL and others made speeches but said
nothing about Canada and there are no present
indications ola demonstration from that point.
Advicos from Chicago, however, represent that
Fonians are moving in that direction from vari-
Gus places South, accompanied by boxes Of arms.
etc
Tho bell foundry at West Troy n. Y. has
Just received some ten tons Of fine copper and tin
metal which formerly constituted a portion Of
the machinery Of the famous rebel ram Merrimac
or Virginia. This metal is to be cast into church
bells.
- WILLIAM DEvAN. a citizen Of indianapolis
was poisoned on Thursday by the mistake Of a
careless druggist in putting up prescription and
died ia four hours.
- There are said to be 5000 public prostitutes
in New York
New wheat sold IN Dubuque, Iowa. 10th
inst, at $50 per bushcl. It is a plump berry,
considered extra. and weighs 50 lbs 10 the bushol.
- The attendance Of spectators at the Buffalo
Horse Fair is believed to he larger than at any pre-
yious exhibition Of this character in the United
States. On Thursday there were 5000 persons
present, and the receipts exceeded $500.
- Gen. PoPE proposes to gather all the Indians
roaming in the Rocky Mountains and on the great
plains Of New Mexico into a reservation in the
Mississippi Valley and teach them agriculture.
- Tho Oregon Legislature will meet September
10th. Tho chiefbusinoss is the election Of a United
States Senator and the new law passed by Con
gross regulating the election. will frat be put ia
operation in that State.
Tho excellent prospects Of the Cranberry
crops throughout South Jersey the present year
are so encouraging that double the number of
acres viii be placed under cultivation next year.
The prospect Of fne crop on Capo Cod arc very !
favarablo
-Mr. REsuv ANS. formerly President Of the |
st. Louis Chamber Of Commerce, died recently at |
Milwaukee.
Trade in Cincinnati in general way, is still
very slack.
cronsing rather than diminishing in that city and
that its ravagos are no longer confined to one To-
cality, but extend iudisorimnatcly through every
part Of tho city.
Thirteen cases Of cholera, or cholera morbus,
have occurred at Taylors Barracks. Louisville, |
among the soldiers. five Of them fatal.
One steamer with cargo Of 5000 water |
melons len Norfolk recently.
Dry weather is destroying the crops in tho |
vicinity Of Lynohburg Va
The Montgomery Maj says the army worm /
is oftating great destruction among the cotton /
fields Of that county
- The Charleston and Savannah Railroad Is TO |
be sold on the 10Th Of November.
- A plot 20 rob the National Bank at Newborn, /
North Carolina. and murder the cashier. has been /
discovered and the couspirators arrested.
A United States soldier was found in g we'll. |
near Anderson, South Carolina, last week, with L
his throat cut. Three other soldiers have been
arrested on suspicion Of committing the deed.
- The seventy thousand dollars to build an
opera house in Atlanta. Georgia, have been sub
soribod. and the work ON the building is to be
commenced at once. Would /. not be well TO ap-
propriato il 10 their hosnital2
- The police Paris recently found the bodies Of
three young girls who had committed suicide by
smothcring themselves 20 death by charcoal. They
were found in kuccling posture, nttirod in their
best dresses
-- Il is stated that since the Atlantic cable has
been laid NAPOLEON has kept up a constant tcle-
graphic communication with MAMMALIAN, there
being by means Of tho ocean cable, continuous
solographic line from Paris through London aud /
New York. 20 Galveston. Texas.
1t is said that NlCroH ENNaNUEL attributes /
the italian naval defeat at LISA to the presence
on board Of the Austrian ships Of a number Of /
American Confederate officers who, aware Of tho /
Federal build OF tho italian vessels were furious /
IN their determination TO destroy them.
- The Doctorato Of Literature is tho name Of /
new acadomical degree created by the University /
of London. as more appropriate. when conferred /
upoa a man Of letters. than that Of Doctor of /
Laws.
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DEATU OF HoS J. A. GREEN A special /