The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-05
THE LATEST NEWS.
By LAST NIGHT sAa AHA

HaAfu anbOh Auu OSOFEe Atli, anu
Benjamin and Enos Heafmsn, have been
arrested snd confined in Fort Lafayette
fOr being concerned in block e-running
business. They shipped goods 10 Nassau
per The brig ioodhue, which were sub
sequently found on the captured steam
ers Margaret and Jessie. Messers. ]. d.
Young aud I. G. Budd have also been
sent 10 Fort Lafayette as shippers of con-
traband goods. Other parties and also
Visisnts of the hotels here known as the
headquarters Of those of secession pro-
cliyites have been arrested. The block
ade-running business here is almost
played out"
1be steamer Evening Star, from New
Orleans, with dates TO the 9th and Ha-
vsns 10 the 10Th ult, has arrived
Gen FItznenry Warren with . con-
siderable force had embarked on the
steamer Warrior, and, crossing Mstsgor-
da Bay, occupied IndianOla, without OPP
position. Some important rebel docu-
ments were captured among them Gen.
Magr1der's address to the people CT
Western Texas.
Ansxpedition Of three negro regiments,
Que white regiment, and battery, under
Ullman, had gone from New OAeans 70
the mouth Of BED river.
BUFFALo, Jan. 1.-Two hundred feet
of the Niagara Falls Railroad, neas this
city, has been washed away. No cars
have left the depot here since Thursday /;
trains, however, are running from Black
Rock to Suspension Bridge. Business in
the city was almost entirely suspended.
The worst of the storm is nov over, al
though it is still showing this evening,
The weather is intensely cold. The
thermometer st midnight on the 3Ist
December, stood at AZ deg above zero
last evening it was five degrees below,
and this morning at 8 o'clock it was 8
degrees below zero. Telegraphic com
manication with the west is interrupted.
Evans Bridge, in the lower part Of the
city, has been carried away.
NEw YoBK, Jan. 3-Advices from
Foley Island per the Arago state that our
guns st Cummings Point opened on
Charleston on Christmas morning, last
ing from TO 2 O'Clock. Several fires
were kindIe5 in the city, hieh burned a
considerable amount Of property. The
rebel batteries replied without damage.
The United States gunboat .MarbleheId
was fred into by the rebel battery in
StonO Inlet, and two men killed and five
wounded. Assisted By the Pawnee, she
compelled the rebels to leave their = O. IS.
Gen. Gordon, with a detachment OF
men, landed later in the day and took
possession of the works. The guns we're
subsequently brought off by the com.
mandtr of the Pawnee. They are two
8 inch sea-eosst howitzsrs. The rebels
had one killed and five wounded.
Advices from Havana per steamer
Evening Star, include Mexican dates to
the Goth ult.
Gen. DobIsdo is reported to have given
in his adherence.
The French occupation of Meonelia
Cilags, reported via San Francisco, is
confirmed.
The French forces we're en- route for
GuAns Tuanta.
There has been no fighting except
slight guerrilla skiFmishes.
Advices from Cumberland, Md, of the
1st, say our pickets, near Winchester.
Va, had been driven in to Bunker Hill
A sensation dispatch from Albany
says the new Police Commissioners will
ptobsbly appoint Nelson Waterbury Po-
lice Superintendent, and that two thirds
OF the police corps, will report to him
also, that the Governor will order out
the eatire militia Ofthe city TO support
the claims ofthe new Board.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The attendance
of the Dip omatic body on the President
en- New Years day, with felicitation
which was evidently as cordial as they
we're demOnstrstive, is among the cheer
ing auspices with which the country be-
gins the year. The entire corps were
present, with the exception of tho esti-
mable Minister from Nicaragua, who, be-
ing detained by illness, sent to the Secre-
tsry of State most friendly apology.
Secretary Chase srenuou5ly insists on
limiting the appropriations 70 the means,
and in providing by taxation every dol
lar appropriated beyond the amount
which scan be certainly obtained by
I1auP, and that without too hugely i'm
creasiBg The public debt.
BosToN, Jan. 1.-The duties on i'm
ports received at the port of Boston for
the year ending Dec. 18th, 1853, will
amount TO SOS, $50 "a. The number of
foreign arrivals for the year amount to
3. 40, being 78 moe than that Of the
previous year.
The anniversary of President Liucoln's
Emancipation Proclamation was cele-
brated here yesterday by salute Of 100 |
guns, and by > public meeting in Ire
montTemple,st which speechs were made
by Mr.. w Kirk, Rev. A. A. Miner, and
several colored orators.
T, RTREss MONROE, Jan. 3-Gen. But
Ter left here for Washington on the stes-
mer city of Hudson. The steamer West
ern Metropolis, from Nepwort to New
Orleans, has put into Hampton Roads for
repairs.
BUFFALO, Jan. "A severe snow-storm
hiss been raging here since Thursday
night, the wind blowing gale from the
West. The water in the lower part of
tie city is the highest that has been
known for a year.
New York, Midnight, Jan. 2--At this
hour the wind is blowing 8 northerly
gale, and the thermometer stands st 10 |
degrees above zero. m
ST.. JOINS, n. B., Ian. 2.--Levis Seely, |
another of the csptOrs Of the steamer |
Chesapeake, was arrested to-day and |
lodged IN jail
ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALrrasoRE.
CARR RACE, J an. 2.-The steamer City |
Of Baltimore, from Liverpool the 23d and |
Queenstown the oath, passed here this
The London Times has insinuAted /
that Arehduke Macmillan will not ac-
,ept the Mexican crown, and that NspO-
e0n will have 10 cast about for some one
else.
King aud Hsenan had appeared be-
fore magistrates for breaking the peace
md both were bound over TO appear at
he quarter sessions.
TIE London Globe cautions its read
re against the statement that Lord Ly-
,ns had telegraphed to Earl Russell pre-
iieting the termination of the war in six
nontss. I
Napoleon. in response 70 The address