The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-12-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
The Presidents Message, as printed
in the Congressional Globe, contains
this sentence in reference to the leader
Of the rebellion: "He would accept
nothing short of the severance of the
Union, precisely sohat zoe s0iH not and can
not g:ve." The message, as printed in
the New York and Western papers,
omits the Italicized portion.
The reported Acceptance Of General
Paine's resignation is untrue
/ Comptroller McCulloch says he has
not given notice that no more national
banks can be authorized. But he
thinks it his duty to discourage form
ing any more, unless where they are
imperatively demanded by the needs
of legitimate business.
There were three millions and half
of letters returned the last postal year
/ to the dead letter Office.
! The Dublin Freeman's Journal says
Mr.. Schenck, of Ohio has offered a
resolution, which was adopted, instruct
ing the Committee on the Judiciary to
inquire into the expediency of passing
law denationalizing persons who 60
abroad to escape the draft, and requir-
ing application for naturalization in
case they want to be restored to the
privilege of citizenship 1t seems pere
fectly proper, that, when able>bodied
men expatriste themselves to avoid
the service of their country in her ex-
tremity, there should be some mark
upon them, like Gains, for they are
fratricides in deserting their brothers
who are in arms for the defense of the
government.
Two hundred guerrillas, dressed in
the regular rebel uniform, were at CiO-
verport, KY, on Tuesday. The Morn
ing Star landed while they were in the
town and took aboard three hundred
hogs. The guerrillas all marched down
to the landing and watched the pro-
ceedings, but did not offer to modest
the boat or any one on it Several of
their officers told the officers of the
boat that they would have the priyi-
lege of navigating the Ohio but week
or two longer, as sufficientrebel force
was now moving toward the river to
blockade II.
A detachment of the Hath United
States colored infantry passed through
Covington, Wednesday, en- route for
Lexington, having in charge -ixty-two
prisoners, bounty jumpers, rebel bush
whackers, and deserters from the Fed
ersl and rebel armies They were cap
tured in the mountains of Eastern
Kentucky.
The Louisville Democrat says: /.
will be recollected by our readers that
the rebel Maj. Theophilus Steele, SON
in-law of DR.. Breckinridge, was captur-
ed short time since in Owen or an
adjoining county and taken to Lexing-
ton. The Major was brought to this
city yesterday, strongly guarded, ana
safely lodged in the military prison.
We understand he Is to be tried by E |
military commission
Major Gen. Thos. L Crittenden has
resigned his commission.
Ex-senator Toombs, of Georgia, is
serving on the staff of General Gustavus
w. Smith, exStreet Commissioner of
New York. He is now q person Of no |
consequence.
DR.. D. K. Green, State Senator in the
Fourth District of Illinois, was elected
by one majority, as ascertained by the
official canvass The Legislature ofthe
State now stands: Senate, IA Union,
IL Democrats. House, 81 Union, "a
Democrats. Union majority on joint
ballot, 20
The order of General Dix, relating to
the murderers and robbers in Canada,
over whom the courts of that Province
have NO jurisdiction, will please the
public. If murderers, incendiaries,
robbers, and other seoundrels, invade
US from Canada, we must, as they say,
in the army, 60 for hen,
A writer in Paris tells what he saw
on recent promenade, a. follows;
saw dear little scarlet and lilac, and
rose-colored, and sky,blue pOodles, and
I.wondered from what foreign land
they had been expatriated 70 be the
spoiled pets of the ladies who lead the
ton But look again, and find that
the fair ones in whose laps these favor
ties SO luxuriously recline, were Of the
same tint in their ribbons as that which
beauti6ed O the dogs, and guessed
(being Yankee) that new art had
been extended to the canine race The
dogs are dyed to match the toilette.