Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-17

The United States mint at Denver is do
ing rapidly increasing gold business
The Chinese Embassy will leave this coun-
try early next month for Europe.
A living giraffe, from Central Africa, has
Just been received at New York, Gin good
order and condition ''
The negro who attempted 10 assassinate
Judge Ogden in New Orleans because the
Judge had abusedcafpet- baggeTs,p has been
sentenced 20 only two year, imprisonmebt,
in that he used club instead Of knife on
pistol in bis attempt to murder.
Three car loads Of new wheat were shinned
EAst rom indianapolis, on the 18th. The
yield thus far seems 10 be about twenty
bushels, while the qualify is excelisng. and
farmers Seem ready 90 sell early. Me- y
wheat has started at 81 65; vs.
The Portland Star -lasz - red
house" % ~ ? , a says that during tbs
...,.-,, - at least five hundred new
aud stores will be built or com.
Pieied 10 that city, According 70 lie esti-
niaseH' tnls VIII make total Of about two
tnousahd erected since the great FIRE. The
n 5aa OF buildings then burned vas about
wv
Ia the Lake Superior country, miner,
residing near HelltoWn, met With slight
mishap 40 the mine, about midnight on
the LIST inst, and returned home just in
time to save his wife and two children
from being burned 10 death, the house
having been struck BY lightning and they
rendered iusensible. FEh
Admiral Farragut is said to be mil.
honaIre. He owns a number of pretty
houses, some unOccupied lOta, and t9enty
acres now IA wheat, within the city limits
OF Vallejo, California. As that CITY IL 10
be the western terminus of the Central pa
chic railroad, this property il destined 10
become mine ofwealth, and within a wear
has been irebled in price. efFE.G' :
The Brandon Republican claims a Deno.
cratic majority Of six in the Senate ana
four IN the lower branch Of the Mississirni
Legislature. In the Congressional eIectian
they carried four out Of the five disiricIs-
the first by $500, electing Cant. Townaens
.he second by S9S2, eiecting T. NJ. Martin
the mira oy IZl6, electing q. p. NJ. Tur-
h n lhe hIIh ny "a, electing Gen. w. T.
Martln; The Republicans carried The
Kee.
The American newspapers. it ia stated
have paid during the past year, more than
SIO,OOO Tor messages over the cable while
The English Journals during the same |
period, have expended only $1,000 for The
news by the Atlantic wire from this eoUr'
Try; An examination Of the coIuse, =,
Doth classes Of neWsr-.,ors axpAs' -is OF
cause Of this diff rSp .Ins the
The EngliSl Sfenee IN teS payments.
...ention Of highly Inn portant intelli-
gence, while the American papers publish
long dispatches Of eysrything that may in
terest their readers.
The bill to reduce and tx the military
peace establishment Of the United States.
now under the consideration of the House
Of Representatives, has been amended to
read that, after March 81, 1869, there shall
only be three Major Generals and six
Brigadier Generals in the army. The
President is required within the ten days
preceding March 81, 1868, 10 designate,
without regard to seniority, the best Off
GERS Of the respective grades, who shall re-
main in commission, and the others are TO
be mustered ont within ten days. Accord
ing to the last Army Register, the Major
Generals from among whom this selection
are to be made are Henry w. Halleck,
George G. Meade Phillip IL. Sheridan,
George III. Thomas and Winfield S. Han
cock The Brigadier Generals are : Irwin
Mcdowell, Philip st. George Cooke, John
Pope, Joseph Hooker, John NJ. Schofeld,
Oliver o. Howard, Alfred II. Terry, Ed
ward o. C. Ord, Edward r. s. Candy and
Lowell H. Rousseau.