Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-11-28

clifton Journal
The News.
The Kansas CORES pendent of the New York Times
informs that paper that the Free State Party in that
Territory has suddenly disappeared Convention
recently held to take steps for admission as Free
State, and to arrange future political movements,
was very thiny attended and finally adjourned with
out doing anything at ALL Thisresult is due to the
desire of the people Of Kansas to attend somewhat
to their own affairs. They all very actively en-
gagged in cultivaCing their farms, building houses
and barns, and making themselves generally com
Portable. We trust they will be abundantly success
full.
The captain Of the Ketch Brothers, which was
lately taken into Charleston. in charge of Lieut.
Stone Of the United States rigate Marion, on susPi
eiOn of being SLAYER, stOutly asserts that at the
time Of the seizure he was upon legal trading vOy-
age to the coast Of Africa, with consisting Of
captain, supercargo, two passengers three seamen
and cook He says that on their voyage home
" nothing OF Importance occurred on the passage
but hard living and petty insults, until we were
standing n off Cape Fear, when Lieutenant Stone
called me aft, and told me that if would give him
note purporting that the vessel was in bad order,
her sails and rigging bad and others to replace
them if they blew away, he would go into Whining
ton, and I refused, there being fine breeze"
! MIR. Richard Ten Brock has returned home after
! long sojourn in England. 1t is Mr. Ten BrOeck's
intention 10 90 back to England in the spring, and to
take With him some fresh American horses to test
their qualities again on the English turf
! A citizen of Pennsylvania, Mr. George Washing
ton Reifsnyder of Pottsvie has, it is said, accepted
Tom Hyer's challenge to fight any man in the world
| for $4,000.
The parties charged with forging notes of the
National Bank Of Austria were brought before JUS
| tice Welsh in New York on the 22d inst The Jus
tioe refused to admit the accused to bail, and the
prisoners, having waived an examination, we're
committed to the Tombs TO stand trial at the next
term of the Court of Sessions Further revelations
disclose the fact that the counterfeit notes were man
ufaotured in this city; but the makers do not recOg
Mise the accused as the persons who ordered the
work to be executed.
Mr. FAULKNER, Of Virginis, chairman of the House
Military Committee, is in Washington, in pursuance Of
duty de7olyed upon him by committee at the last
session. which referred his special Of
the six million war claim of Washington and Oregon.
The heavy accounts growing out Of this volunteer
service are undergoing by aid of the Third Auditor
and his clerks, a severe scrutiny. The items are
being classified to present the subject fully for
the intelligent action Of Congress and it is the Pur-
pose Of Mr.. FAULKNER TO draw from this investiga
ton some general principles which shall, on the
present and on all future cases, regulate the pay
ment of Territorial war claims.
| Major W. W. Deunison, United States Indian
agent left Nebraska City on the Sd inst. for the
Pawnee villages on the Platte, for the purpose of
paying that large and powerful tribe their first
annuity. He was accompanied by military escort
under Lieut.. Cunningham, and posse under Deputy
United States Marshal H. 2. LuidiugtOn, and takes
out fifteen tons of annuity goods, besides the specie.
Immediately on his return, he goes on similar err
rand to the Ottoe reserve the Big Blue river, in
the extreme southern portion of the Territory.
The Washington CORE spOndent of the New York
Herald telegraphs that NJ YRIsARRI has notified the
government Of the names of all the parties to whom
he has furnished passports for Nicaragua. They
were all to have sailed from New York by the steam
er Washington, some on the 9Th Of this month and
some on the 9th of December. He gave passports
to no one sailing from Southern ports, and ne de
clares those used at Mobile the late occasion to
be spurious NJ. YzIsARRI has furnished the Sec
rotary of State with the numbers and private marks
Of all the passports he has given, and will continue
to do So In this way the government has it in its
power to prevent the clearance of any vessel for
Nicaragua having the suspicion of fllibuser
about her. The parties who forged, or otherwise
fraudulently obtained those Mobile passports,
suspected, but the proofs are not yet complete
enough to warrant any ailusiOn. 1t is, however,
said they were got up in New York. and their fabri-
cation was only detected by the sheerest accident
A MICRO RUNNING FOR REPREsEETATTvE IN MAINE
An election for Representative to fill the place of
VIM. Chase, resigned, took place in Portland, Me,
on the 18th inst. Neal Dow, the great temperance
and negro-equality champion, and cOlOred man
named Peter Francis, we're the principal competitors
There being but an indifferent selection of candi-
dates, comparatively few votes were cast; but the
people generally preferred the white men to the Re-
publican of a darker shade and so temperance and
freedom" triumphed by majority of 772 votes.
How Neal Dow could have consoientiOusly lent him
self to defeat so rare portunity for the pract>
cal elevation of the cOlOred race We can't cOnjeo
ture.
Southern paper thinks the neutrality of the
Atlantic cable, which was so earnestly begged for
by President Buchanan, has been fully established
1t hasn't word to say on either side
The Hon. Marcus NJ. Tyler, distinguished mem
Der of the iasonic fraternity died at his residence