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Tennessee elections.

--The Governor of Tennessee has issued his proclamation, according to law, ordering the election for delegates to the Congress of the Confederate States on the 1st of August, being the day of the general election in that State.

Steel Shirt Collars.--A great Manchester (England) house states that they will supply ‘"elastic steel shirt collars, wristbands, and fronts, enamelled white."’

A New Business for Memphis--The Memphis Appeal says that that city is supplying manufactured tobacco to portions of Kentucky, and down the river as far as Natchez

Samuel H. Coleman, a member of Captain Imboden's Artillery company, was badly injured by an accidental explosion of gunpowder, at Winchester, on the 28th ult.

Z. M. P. Maury, of Warren county, Tenn., has been elected Brigadier General of the 10th Brigade Tennessee militia.

Anderson, the fugitive slave, whose case created some excitement in Canada, has arrived in England.

The comet has been plainly visible to the naked eye in Tennessee and other portions of the South.

Private Bostwick, of the Gulf City Guards, died in Norfolk on Wednesday last, of typhoid fever.

Col. Biddle, Democratic Union candidate, has been elected to Congress in the Second Congressional District of Pennsylvania.

The steamship Golden Freece, with British troops for Canada, passed Farther Point on the afternoon of the 1st inst.

Robert J. Yancey, Jr., for a long time connected with the press of Memphis, Tenn., died in that city on the 30th ult.

Lewis Baumann, a distinguished performer on the violin, has died recently at Lyons, France.

The German population of London is about sixty thousand.

Virginia 6's were quoted at 44 in New York on Monday.

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