The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-22

MT JacOD barker, OF New Orleans,
Is engaged upon a history of the re-
bellion.
A testimonial of fifteen thousand
dollars has been contributed in Eng
land for Capt. NJ F. Maury, former Su-
perintendent of the Washington OBJ
serVatoTy.
The Miantonamah is the name of
the monitor selected to carry Captain
Fox TO Russia. She is of the Monad-
mock class.
Dr. B. W. Avent has made Memphis
his home.
The cost of re-erecting the negro
school houses and churches burnt in
Memphis is estimated at 100000. The
property holders of Memphis will have
to foot the bill They will pay dear
for the fun of riot, in which they
had no part, but which they con-
demned
Congressman Wentworth, Of Illinois,
who Is now at home, is putting his farm
and other business affairs in such order
as TO enable him to spend the entire
summer at Washington-an indication
that he does not anticipate an early
adjournment of the present session of
Congress.
Mr.. David Deans, one of the propri-
etOrs of the Sunday Times, New York,
was robbed of $4,000, in checks and
money, by pickpocket, while leaving
the Opera House on Wednesday eve
ming.
The latest novelty is the "palpitating
bosom" for the ladies, which is de-
scribed as gently "heaving" when an
emotional spring concealed under
the left arm is touched We trust
some wearer of the new fancy will af-
ford US an opportunity of seeing it in
motion.
George w. Pridham, of Portland
Ne, painter at the repair shop Of the
Grand Trunk railroad, while engaged
in painting the inside Of tender, sud
denly fell, and assumed the appearance
Of a man deeply intoxicated. He was
taken home, and soon after went into
commissions, attended by lockjaw. A
physician was called, who decided that
his condition was the result of inhaling
the poisonous Vapor from the naphtha
in the paint
A correspondent of the Pail Mall
Gazette says that Mrs Somerville,
now in her eighty-seventh year, has
just completed a vast work, embodying
all the latest result of science in rela-
ton to the ultimate particles of mat
ter Those who have seen the manu-
script are assured that when the book
appears this summer it will be found
to surpass, rather than fall short Of.
the merits of the Physical Geogra-
ply" and Connection Of the Sciences,
which, half a century ago, gave her the
| first rank among intellectual women.
The dry goods commission mer.
| chants OF Philadelphia have generally
agreed to close their stores daily at 4
p. m, and on Saturdays at p m, from
the 10th instant till September lst.
At a meeting Of the Alabama and
Tennessee River Railroad on Friday
| the llth, at Selma, Gen. Joseph E
| Johnston was elected President of the
Company without opposition. The
Selma Times thinks has acceptance of
the position may be confidently ex-
pected.
A resolution was adopted to increase
the salary of the President at the dis
erection of the Directory, pr0gided it
should not be less than $1,000 a year
The Columbus Miss Index says
We were yesterday shown an order
from Mai. Gen. w. J. Wood directing
the sheriff and circuit clerk of this
county to dismiss all suits instituted
against Mr.. Harrison Johnston, as
United States Treasury agent for the
collection of Government cotton. There
have been a great many suits entered
against Mr.. Johnston, by parties who
have had to deliver their cotton to the
Government since the surrender. This
order places our sheriff and clerk in a
quandary.
A tremendous tornado swept over
Saxton's village, near Beaufort, S. c.,
recently. The village consisted of fifty
houses, forty -fye of which were totally
destroyed. Some of the houses were
carried distance of three miles with
their inmates in them. Many of the
freed people were killed and wounded
men, women and children. Near
the village was pond, into which sew
eraI we're blown and drowned. All
the furniture, trunks, chests, bed cloth
ing wearing apparel and greeubacks of
these unfortunate creatures were car
ried away. From the succeeding Sat
urday to Monday the remaining freed
people were engaged in searching for
and burying the dead. Trees were also
uprooted and blown a great distance,
The Mobile Advertiser of the Goth,
saws ave learn that an alligator
measuring y feet and 6 inches, was
killed on the bay shore, this side Of the
long bridge, by a Creole boy, on Sun
day afternoon. 1t seems that the rep
tile gave chase to a dog, which was
padding among the snags, and fol-
lowed him TO the shore, when the boy
attacked him, and after a hard strug-
gle killed him by ripping his bowels
out with knife.
The election Of two United States
Senators devolves upon the Legislature
ofVermont next fall The present IN
cumbents are appointees Of the Cover
nor.
Mr.. Miller, a radical member Of the
Harrisburg District Of Pennsylvania, IN
his speech in the House OE Wednesday,
urged his co laborers to hurry up their
business, as this might be the last re-
publican Congress that would meet Tor