Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-19
ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.

- Gold closed IN New York yesterday at 1907.
-MH. JEFFERsov DAVIS IL in New York
City.
The Drug Store Of HEGEvAS, Of New York. Of
Cod-Iver Oh notoTie,y. was burned on Thursday.
- The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has
ordered the New York Street Railroad Company
10 put stamps on the coupon tickets.
- The British gunboat Rescue is continually
patrOlling the river between Buffalo and the
Canadian frontier, TO prevent another Fenian in
yasion.
The Revenue Department has recently dis
covered that immense frauds have been commit
ted upon the Government by tobacco dealers, by
which sS.o0000O yearly has been kept from the
National Treasury.
The Presbyterian Convention. composed Of
ministers and elders opposed to the action Of the
late Old School Assembly. is now in session in St.
Louis.
General MLEs-AWEEICAs SIR HUDsoN
LowE-hns been appointed Colonel in the Uni
ted States regular army, and assigned to the com
mand Of the Fourth Regiment, composed Of ne
gro troops.
The use Of night carts has been ordered to be
discontinued in Cincinnati during the prevalence
Of tle cholera.
Mr.. ENWoNs. a well known news dealer Of
Memphis. was knocked down in his cellar. at
noon on Thursday. by his son. and robbed Of sixty
dollars Hisskull was fractured by the blow. and
It's feared that he will die The son has so far
eluded the police.
- The residence ofR II. TAYLOR, near Browns
vile. Tennessee. was burned Sunday night His
son, SAMUEL, was burned in the building. The
other inmates escaped by jumping from the upper
widows.
The Radical Sectional Convention is to meet
nj u. IL.
DANIEL HARVEY. Esq. was nominated on
Thursday as the Conservative candidate for
Mayor Of Baltimore city.
Queen EMMA, Of Hawaii visited Mount Yer
non on Thursday.
90 The United States Custom officers at New
Orleans have seized for fraudulent differentiation
AZ that port 60G9 casks 1914 cases. b. 23S boxes,
30 hogsheads aud u barrels Of wine, all imported
from Bordeaux. These wines are valued above
100000. They were imported by various firms.
These wholesale undervaluations look like a gi-
gnntic combination to defraud the Government Of
its revenue.
- CHARLES DICKENS writes to a friend in Bos-
ton that II will be impossible for him to read in
America, his engagements in Europe being so
numerous
80 The great equatorial telescope at Dearborn
observatory, at Chicago. after q number Of mis-
hsps TO the machinery Of the dome in which it is
mounted. may now be regarded as in perfect
working order. It's great powers have been test
ed by Professor STAFFORD. and its reputation
tablished by the discovery Of a large number Of
nebulm not heretofore known to astronomers.
90 Miss ANNA DICKINSON is writing n lecture for
the coming season On the Mission and duty Of
ANDREW JOHNSON" It is to be hoped that Miss
Dickinson will hurry up the publication, so that
President will fnovy his Iuf,r nd infection,
Meanwhile. he and the country are in anxious
suspense.
- The editor Of the Macon (Ga.) Journal aud
Messenger, says he has information that there is
very general excitement among the freedmen in
favor Of going 20 Liberia, and that an expedition
on a very large scale is organizing
- A tower. l50feet In height, and which will cost
over half million is to be erected in connection
with The Chicago Lake tunnel, TO supply the upper
stories Of buildings with water.
Mr.. Isaac SOLOMON. Of Baltimore has pur-
chased enc Of the finest islands in the Chesapeake
Bay, and is erecting magnificent mansion which
with the buildings for his oyster business and other
improvements, viii cost over $4,000. Misfortune
was made in tho oyster business.
- The dedication Of the Antietam National
Cemetery has been postponed until next year.
Thirty Insurance companies in New York
nave NaiN Ao.at'1 10y inc oIllhud uIes
The Columbus. Ga. Sun says I'VE are glad |
20 learn that the committee have very nearly cun-
pletod the subscription Of $4,000 to build the SUI
porstructuro Of the Mobile and Girard railroad, !
tweuty-sevcn miles below Union Springs, $4,000 |
having been raised.
- They complain Of tho potato rot in Iowa.
- The capital stock has been subscri bed for an |
air line railroad from Atlanta. Georgia, to Char
Iotte. North Carolina. via Anderson and York /
own, South Carolina. Il is entirely a New York |
enterprise, and win shorten the distance between
that city and New Orleans nearly twenty -four
hours.
CHARLES WMsrACH, Republican. was elected /
Mayor Of Cincinnati by the City Council on Fri /
day, vice t. A. Hams, resigned.
60 NORMAN b. JUDD. ex-Ministcr TO Prussia, is |
TO be the Conservative Constitutional candidate |
for Congress. against JoHN WENTWORTH, in uH- |
nois.
- Tho ELLSWORTH Zouaves arc 70 escort the /
Presidential party to the DoUGLAs menumentcel-
ebration at Chicago.
go DUvALLs majority. seven counties 90 hear
from. is 1857.
- The horses owned by the Adams Express
Company, which were burned al Nickolasville a
few days since, were insured in the National
Horse Insurance Company Of Louisville.
- The hog cholera is prevailing in Boyle coun-
~, Kentucky, and destroying vast numbers Of
swine