The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-12-16

blockade running and traficking with
the rebels.
David Mcdonald has been appointed
L. S. District Judge for Indiana, to
ell the place of Albert s. White,
deceased.
The House of Representatives have
passed bill providing for a uniform
system of bankruptcy, to take effect on
the lst January, 1865.
The number of hogs packed at Chica-
go up to Saturday was about 400, 900
head. The Tribune thinks there viii
be short crop. A large proportion of
the hogs now arriving are poorly fatted.
Colonel Stephen J. McGroarty, now in
Chicago, recently sub mitted to third
amputation of MS arm-a very delicate
operation, which, however, was skill
fully performed. He is now improving
quite rapidly-a fact which will be
gratifying to his friends-and anxious
again to take the field
The Louisville Journal of Wednes.
day says: About 9o'clock yesterday
forenoon, Captain Bridgewater, at the
head of his gallant State troops, rein~
forced by forty Home Guards from
Henry county made a descent upon
Jesse at Newcastle, and, after spirited
engagement, routed the outlaw band.
| The guerrillas numbered about fifty,
while Bridgewater's entire force was
not less than one hundred and forty
men. Jesse lost fifteen men, killed and
wounded, in the fight The guergillas
were put to flight, and the citizens of
Port Royal reported, that, when the
band passed through that place on the
full gallop, Bridgewater was not more
than eight minutes behind him. Jesse
headed the disordered column, and
every man rode as if life was at stake
1t was thought that the State troops
would oyertake the outlaws, and sue
coed in capturing large portion of
them.
Tom Corwin of Ohio, is in Was hing
/ ton city He IL at present engaged,
with Colonel Tom Ford, in defending a
number of Jews, on trial before mill
tary commission for selling goods to
blockade runners
Office hunters are swarming in Wash
ington.
Ben. Wood does not pro pose TO take
his seat in Congress this session. Con-
gress is to be congratulated.
The indications are that the adnis
sion of the Louisiana delegation will
be the subject of fight in both Houses
of Congress. Mr. Lincoln, it is said, is
warmly in favor of their admission ::
but, in the Senate at least, there is not
a majority 70 carry out his views. OF
course there must be concert of &C
ton between the two Houses on the
subject, as it would hardly do to admit
the Representatives and exclude the
Senators, or to exclude the Representa-
tives and admit the Senators. Louis-
lana is paying dear for her sin of seces-
sion She has about half dozen civil
and military Governors; each with his
own way of thinking and acting. And
now, that she has. assumed the garb of
loyalty, her sincerity is doubted, be-
cause her State Government does not
conform to some newfangled theory Of
reconstruction.
The Louisville Press says: Lieut.
Charles Swope, of the 4th Kentucky
Cavalry, and son of Hon s. F. Swope, Of
Pendleton county, KY, has just return
ed from Columbia, S. C., where b was
held as a prisoner of war for four or
FIVE months He was captured in the
| McCook and StOneman raid south Of
Atlanta. Lieut.. Swope escaped on the
2Sth of October, and made his way to
the Federal blockading feet at George
town entrance, where he embarked on
the Government transport Fulton, for
New York. After. escaping, and in
making his way to the Union lines, he
was aided by negroes, who furnished
him with food end directed him thr ough
the country.
Five hundred and twenty bales of
cotton and large amount of tobacco,
with other goods, constituting the cargo
of the captured blockade-runner An
ME, were sold on Wednesday, under
the direction Of United States Marshal
Murray, in Brooklyn, New York. The
cotton in good condition brought prices
ranging from 81 % to 81 PSI pound;
and the tobacco of ali grades brought
80 TO 60 cents a pound The vessel was
taken by the Government at valuation
of 5000 The amount realized for
the cargo alone reached nearly three
hundred thousand dollars.
The Panama Herald says that infors
nation has been received in San Fran.
cisco lately, to the effect that Dr. Gwin,
formerly United States Senator from
California, has obtained, through the
influence Of the Emperor Napoleon,
and in bis interest, commission from
Macmillan as'Governor General Of the
State of Sonora, with authority 70 in
duce emigration and settle the country,
and power 70 grant lands
The n. Y Tribune publishes from a
private letter an account Of an assault
made on Gen. Stoneman, in an eating
saloon at welIsville, on the Ohio Ever.
The whole OK this is 3 gross fabrication.
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