Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-18
GENERAL NEWS.

THE project Of bridging the Mississippi at
St. Louis has been abandoned.
MEssRs. SCOTT, THOMPSON, PERRY, and
other parties associated in the construction
of the Kansas branch of the Union Pacific
Railroad, have Just paid GEORGE FRANCIS
TRAIN fifty thousand dollars of the three
hundred and fifty thousand due him as COM
mission in earlier negotiations of that en-
terprise.
THE consolidation of the Alabama and
Tennessee River Railroad, Georgia, Western
and Atlantic, and Dalton and Jacksonville
Railroad Companies was perfected, and the
consolidated company placed under the
control Of the Alabama and Tennessee
River Company, with General JOSEPH +.
JOHNSTON as President, was contaminated
on the 9th inst.
THE number of emigrants landed in New
York last week was G.ll3, making Il total of
2l2752 landed since January LIST, against
lGS,3SS arrived in the corresponding period
Of 1865. ~ 81
THE bill making habitual drunkenness a
sufficient cause for divorce, has passed the
Vermont Legislature, thirteen to eleven, with
an amendment requiring that the drunken
ness must be Of two years duration previous
to the finding Of the libel.
A RESOLUTION was offered in the Georgia
House Of Representatives on Wednesday to
elect a United States Senator in place of
HERsCHELL V. JOHNSON, who has resigned.
A NEW novel by BULwER is published.
Its title is, Welcome, Little Stranger"
DR. GEO. B. PETERS, who stabbed LUsDY,
at Marion, Ark, was discharged by the eX-
In h,a
acted entirely in self-defence. LUsBY, we
learn, is recovering.
The Cincinnati Gazette, of Friday, says:
1t is freely stated that the CAMPBELL-SHER-
MAN mission to Mexico is merely the 0rant
courier Of an army of occupation; and We
have reasons to know that the same asser-
ton is made in the best informed circles at
Washington City.
THE commissioners appointed to select a
site for the Capital of Kentucky, by the last
Legislature Of that State, will meet in the
city of Lexington on Monday next, Novem-
Der 10, and proceed to Danville on Thurs
day, Odd, Lebanon on Friday, 23d, and Lou
isville-on Saturday, 24th.
IL forty-iour counties, the white popula-
ton Of Mississippi is now ascertained TO be
272,290. In the same counties in 1860, be-
fore the war, the population was 279 1877.
The decrease, therefore, is only $3.50 by the
war.
In the same counties, the negro popula-
ton has decreased over As, 600, or more than
thirteen per cent.
THE President has directed the. issue Of a
warrant for the pardon ofZENO KELLY, con-
victed at the October term, 1868, of the
United States Circuit Court for the District
Of Massachusetts, of fitting out a vessel for
the slave trade, and sentenced to four years
Imprisonment and to pay fine Of 81 600
OK the 23d of this month the Old Bowery
Theatre, New York, will be sold at auction,
| by order of the court. Mr. Fox's lease will
expire on the lst Of May next, and, in all
probability, after that time the Old Bowery
will cease to be used for theatrical purposes.
The Texas Legislature have unanimously
passed resolutions TO set apart a portion of
the State cemetery for the burial Of deceased
United States soldiers, and appropriated five
| thousand dollars for the purpose of enclosing
The grounds with 4 suitable wall.
Col. TIMoLEoR CRAvENs, a prominent
lawyer of Columbia, Kentucky, died on the
! 18th inst.
Hon. 7. f. FRELINGHUYsEN has been
appointed Senator from New Jersey in place
of WM. WRIGHT, deceased.
THE General Assembly Of the Southern
Presbyterians met at Memphis on Thursday.
The chief business of Friday was in adopt
ing the parliamentary rules The report Of
the committee on domestic mission was read.
1t is an able and creditable document, refer
ring in proper language to the late disaster
sustained by the church during the war. 1t
shows no bitterness, but is exceedingly mild
Ii reports great many presbyteries in desti-
tute condition, and unable to pay their min
listers. 1t calls the attention of the Assembly
to the condition of freedmen, and SAYS there
must be a special effort in their behalf The
minister must do double duty-preach to
them and raise Sunday schools for their
| children.