The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-05-29
Interesting Etoms from Late SOUTH
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An Educational Association, yclept
1.-THE Educational Association of the
Confederate States Of America" was
organized in Columbia, April 30. IL
meets for the transaction of business on
the first Wednesday in September next,
at Atlanta, Georgia. n.
The Southern Baptist Convention con-
vened in Augusta, Georgia, week before
last.
The Lynchburg RepuJhcdn announces
the murder of Gen. Terisha w. Deffard,
by two of his slaves. One had been ar
restsd and confessed his crime; the
other had escaped.
A man named James Price, with his
son and nephew, were hung, by Lynch
law, in Jefferson, Ashe county, N. @. a
few days ago.
a railroad collision occurred on the
Wilmington and Weldon railroad, on the
I'd inst. One soldier was killed and
several wounded.
A free negro, acting in the capacity Of
spy for the enemy, was hung near Suf-
folk, Va, by order Of General Longstreet,
on Tuesday. fEEHN
The new rebel flag has been hoisted
amid great demonstrations over the State
Capitol in Richmond.
The pork and beef which was picked
in Atlanta last Water for the use of the
rebel army, is rapidly deteriorating and
becoming unfit for food.
A person named Sam Snapp, desig-
mated by the rebels as a renegade, and
charged by them with having piloted a
| Federal force into East Tennessee lately,
is under sentence Of death as a spy.
A correspondent OF the Charlotte On.
g. BaIletin reports that the barks of the
pawpaw, lion and poplar trees will fur
.nish good material for paper and cordage.
Southern papers, in noticing the ami
verssry of the fall of New Orleans (24th
Apri), describe the capture Of the city
as the greatest disaster that has befallen
the Confederate cause and arms.
The planters of Marlborough district
have resolved, in full meeting, to plant
only half acre Of cotton to the hand.
The rapscallion council of forty or
fifty viragos, says the Richmond Enquirer,
which illustrated the beauties of She
mobism, on the I'd of April, was intro
duced to the Grand Jury of Judge Mere
dith's court, yesterday. The jury man
aged to get through with about thirty
cases, aud returning true bills against
them all, adjourned until Thursday next,
to dispose Of the rest I|tE
Another Grievance OF the Rebels.
Richmond journals announce the APP
poihtment Of M. Cridland, once British
Vice Consul at Richmond, to be Consul
at Mobile They are greatly outraged
al the discovery that Mr. Cridland ais
accredited to Mr., Lincoln, not to Mr. Da-
Wis, and his credentials bearrecent date
Mr. Cridland is doubtless accredited q
the government of the United States, moi
10 MIR. Lincoln, as the Richmond WhiS
enormously says; and we cannot see
how he could be accredited in any Other
way. is MIR. Davis" q government
WHAT'S she use or the sense of accred-
iting consul to " Mr.. Davis" when th'
State Of Alabama, where he is to reside
may at any moment say that il has NJ
concern with MIR. Davis.
Suppose the rebellion successful even
and Mr. Davis omnipotent south o
Mason and Dixon's line--to whom Il
Earl Russell TO send consul for Mobile
II there is any sense or meaning in tn,
doctrine Of Estate sovereignty" Mr.
Oridlsnd should be accredited, in tina
case, to Governor Shorter Of the soye
reign State of AlAbama.-M y Post.