Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonel c G Hammond has been ap
pointed General Superintendent Of the
Pacific railroad.
George Peabody's statue is to be "un>
vailed" in London this month. Wales
will oficiate as unvailist.
Il is reported in Paducah, KY, that
the murderers of Mrs. Mccormack have
been caught in Ballard county.
The report of the Commissioner Of the
Land Office, just received, shows that
in Minnesota 30, 534, lis acres of public
lands are yet in possession Of the govern
ment.
A banquet will be rendered to Sir
reat Eastern, on his arrival in New
York. He will visit Washington and
return to Europe in August.
THE Germans of Philadelphia propose
to celebrate the one hundredth anniver>
sary of the birth of Alexander Won Hum
boldt on the 18th of September, and to
invite Prof. AgasSiz to serve as orator Of
the day.
There are good many thousands of
bushels of old wheat in the granares
near Oxford, Ohio, for which the owners
refused to take So bushel One man
alone has two thousand bushels, and a
very large crop this year.
After all the paltry speech, making ard
other nuiSances inflicted upon Ida Lewis,
the Newport heroine, by Yankees anx.
iOus to advertise themselves, it is aus
thOritatively stated that all the presents
she has received are not worth 800.
THE Saengerfast at Rochester, though
on small small scale, is decided suc>
cess. The grand concert On Monday
night, by an orchestra Of 500 instruments
and chorus of 200 voices, was attended
by an audience of 1900.
THE Union League, of New York, were
so delighted with Governor Walker, of
Virginia, that they rendered him dinner,
which he very sensibly declined. That
organization having contributed money TO
secure his defeat, he had no disposition o
partske of its hash and homony.
The sixtySsix hydraulic presses used
in the Treasury department for several
years past in printing the national cur
rsncy, have at last been disposed OF,
Boutwell, having accepted the bid of
Henry H LOWE, of Philadelphia, who
secures them as old iron for about ten
thousand dollars. The presses originally
cost over one hundred thousand dollars.
The excavation of the Indian mounds
in Cornplanter Township. Veuango,
county, Penn, has resulted in
some very interesting developments.
The mummfed body of an Indian prin-
cess has been discovered, and was on
exhibition at Titusville, Thursday. The
remains are said to be in an excellent
state of petrification, and worthy of
scientific inspection.
The City Council of Richmond sets up
claim for the JEFF Davis mansion in
that city, which was bought by that city
in 1861 for $4,000 for presentation to
the Southern government as presiden-
tial residence. Their Congress, however,
refused to pay for it, but authorized the
renting Of the house for JEFF Davis use.
1t fell into the governments hands when
Richmond was captured, and has been
under control OF the War Department
ever since.
Ex-Governor Throckmorton, of Tex
as, in speech to the citizens Of Cook
county, recently, said that while he dis
liked some portions of the proposed con
stitutiOn, he thought that the interests
Of the people Of the State demanded its
adoption. He thought the people had
been unjustly accused of lawlessness
f and crime, the mass having been con-
demned for the acts of the few, but he
f earnestly appealed to them to obey the
laws, civil and military, and to lend every
) assistance to the State and national au,
: thorities in suppressing crime and pun
ishing desperadoes. Privately he ex-
:, pressed himself in favor Of the election
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