Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-17
GENERAL NEWS.

The Memphis Chamber of Commerce has
the constitutionality of the per cent.
cotton tax.
THE number of Indians in the United
States is 295,774
A DAILY evening paper is to be started
at Louisville next Monday, to be called the
Daily Oily Item.
DURING the great Paris Exposition, the
Jewish Rabbi proposes to change the diet of
the Israelites.
THE French holders of Mexican bonds
have commenced a serious agitation among
the members of the legislative body, looking
to their repayment. In circular addressed
to the Representatives they assert, in other
words, that the French Government is
bound for the debt, if it is not acknowledged
that the Emperor NAPOLEON and his Minis
tiers deceived them by false statements as to
the condition of affairs in Mexico.
THE election of a new President of the
United States Senate to succeed Mr.. FOSTER
Is exciting some attention. The candidates
thus far mentioned are Senators WADE,
PoNIERoY, ANTHONY and SHERMAN.
FASHION, by discarding figured silks, has
stopped the immense silk works of Lyons,
where all these patterns were produced, and
thousands of operatives are now idle. All
plain silks are made in the country where
wages are lower.
THE New York Commercial AdUertiser says:
Many ladies were seen on our fashionable
promenades yesterday with short dresses.
A CHICAGO dispatch of Wednesday says:
The work on the lake tunnel is progressing
satisfactorily, and but one hundred and
thirty-seven feet remain to be excavated.
Three days will serve to complete the great
undertaking.
THE eight hour system is creating great
dissatisfaction in indianapolis. Employees
are paid by the hour, and they cannot earn
enough to support their families.
A DUEL was fought near Bowling Green,
Kentucky, on Monday, between JOHN H.
GRAssCUP and john BLAIR, both late
Confederate officers. Both were wounded
but neither seriously. The affair occurred
about lady in South Carolina.
THE United States Gazette recommends
that the authority to appoint United States
District Attorneys and Marshals, be taken
from the President, by Congress, and con-
ferred upon Chief Justice CHASE.
A DISPATCH from Boston to the New
York World says: Letters from provision
houses in Liverpool bring intelligence of the
shipment back to the United States, within
the past sixty days, of between five and six
thousand boxes of American bacon, the sale
of which on the other side at the rates cur
rent, would have involved too heavy loss
10 the owners.
THE Commissioner Of the General Land
Office has just received some interesting
specimens of minerals from the Surveyor
General at Denver, Colorado. They con-
sist of package of carbonate of copper,
iron ore, silver, zinc ore and copper matt,
fossils, and gypsum.
THE case of the banker SMITHsoN against
the Secretary of War has gone through all
the pleadings and is now ready to go to the
Jury. 1t is understood 10 be test case, and
great interest is felt in the result.
RIsToRI is to visit Louisville in January,
and opens the new Louisville Theatre.
JOHN WALTER, Esq, the proprietor and
principal editor of the London Times, is in
Chicago, stopping at the fremont House.
JAMES PARTON, the historian, is at the
Sherman House. 1t is said his visit is
caused by the late controversy between him
self and the officers of the Chicago and
Northwestern railway, regarding the al
lodged fraudulent Over-issue of S2O,O0O,OO0
stock.
THE Grand Fair of the Mechanics and
Agricultural Association is to be held in
New Orleans or the 10Th inst, and TO con-
tinue through the week. The leading mer-
i r Al. a, -,
which they say: ave, the undersigned,
hereby agree to close our places of business
at u NJ, on Tuesday the Goth instant, in or
der that all those connected with our res
pective establishments may have an oppOr-
tunity TO participate in the inaugural pro-
ceedings Of that day. We earnestly invite
all our fellow-citizens to suspend their usual
business and professional avocations on this
occasion, and thus mark its advent as a new
era in the Commercial, Agricultural and
Mechanical Progress Of Louisiana.
THE Colts Fire Arms Company, at
Hartford, have received orders from the
Russian Government for 100000 LAIDLEY
breech leaders which are said to be more ef-
iicient and destructive than the Prussian
needle gun.
THEIR is a suit on trial, at Montgomery,
Alabama, by the United States Government
70 get information from DUNCAN X. MCRAE,
who was the Liverpool agent Of the COnfed-
crate States, as to what property he had in
his possession belonging TO his late Govern.
ment Application was made in court, on
the 2Sd ult., for further time TO answer the
bill, on the ground that the defendant had
been abroad for nearly six months but he
had now returned, and his instructions had
been taken. After some discussion, the chief
clerk Of the court gave the defendant fort
nights time, upon payment Of the costs Of
the application.
GEN. THoS. L. CRrTENDEN has resigned
the Office of State Treasurer Of Kentucky, to
which he was appointed last winter, and the
duties of which he has fulfilled most ac-
ceptably. Governor BRAMLETTE imme-
diatelv appointed ALFRED ALLEN, Esq, Of
Breckenridge, 10 fiji the vacancy. Mr.. 4.
Is most excellent gentleman, and will
make a faithful and efficient officer.
GEN. J. b. HooD, the peerless gentleman
and gallant soldier. is at present in Louis
vile. He and Gen. THOMAS have had
several very pleasant and oordialinterviews.
GEO. n. BULLTTT, a young gentleman
of Louisville, travelling in the interest Of
WILSON, PETER & Co., Of that city, was
murdered for his money near GAINESVILLE,
Arkansas on the 9TH inst. One Of the sup
posed murderers has been arrested.
4 RICHMOND dispatch says: Five white
men and one negro were hogged to-day by
order of the Hastings Court, on conviction
OF petty larceny. This is the first instance
here in many years of the iniliction OF
stripes on white men by judicial sentence.
THE New York Herald has specials from
Greenwich Observatory, England, detailing
the shower Of meteors seen on the morning
Of the 18th. Il is described to have been of
great beauty and brilliancy. Five thousand
were counted in an hour, and nearly twelve
thousand in ALL
THE New York Herald learns that the
Emperor Of Brazil, DoS PEDRO II. is soon
70 pay visit to the United States 10 study
American institutions.