The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-20

/ are about lO,OUO more.
The Albany Evening Journal states
Ben. Buffers case fairly, as follows:
Gen. Butler was removed for purely
military reasons. A time had come
when the Administration must choose
between him and Gen. Grant. That
officer insisted that he should not be IN,
suited by the continuance in command
of an officer who was not only incapa'
BILE of accomplishing anything in a
military point of view, but whose su'
preme and conscienceless ambition
made it impossible for him TO obey the
orders of his superiors."
The military telegraph cost in one
year S606 900; there were l 800, 900 mes
sages transmitted, at an average oi
about thirty cents.
We have already noticed the fact that
the Government, to crafty the natural
desire of the soldiers to carry home the
arms with which they fought during the
war, allows them to buy them at low
price. The rates as fixed by General
Dyer, Chiefof Ordnance, are as follows:
muskets with or without sccoutrements
SlG all csrbines and revoIvers, IS;
sabers and swords, with and without
belts, SO.
A son of Dr. Breckenridge having re-
turned from the Rebel army, the old
man asked him, in his quaint way, my
son, have you found out what you've
been fighting for? ayes, father" the
returned prOdigal said, "we've been
trying to get the Niger into Kansas"
The Governor of New Jersey has is.
sued proclamation similar to that of
Gov. Curtin, in regard to the observance
of the coming anniversary of our ma
tional independence. On the Pacific
coast great preparations are in
progress for the most imposing festivals
ever held there. The arrangements for
the demonstration at our historic bat
tle-feld, Gettysburg, indicate that the
ceremonies will be peculiarly impres-
sive, and the attendance of soldiers and
citizens very large. There is com
mendable desire to secure worthy
commemorstion of the birth and the
salvation Of our giant Republic.
The American contributions to the
Hamburg Fair were purchased chiefly
by visitors from Russia. Almost every
American machine on exhibition fell
into their hands in spite of the sharp
est competition from German bidders,
and large orders were given for dupli-
Gates.
A London daily paper has the polite,
ness to term President johnson Ga Ten
nessee ruffian." 1t should be made to
eat its words.
The Queen Dowager of Holland hsv-
ing quarreled with her husband, by
her late will cut him of with shilling,
her daughter securing the "plunder."
The most prominent figure in the
Dublin Exhibition is a lsrge statue of
Pope in the act of penning the famous
dogma CT the Immaculate Conception.
At a beer garden in Chicago bar
tender called Gen. Sherman a copper
head. Some Of his returned soldiers
who were present beat the caluminator
severely and then demolished the fur
niture of the place and emptied all its
beer into the street.
In Nevada City, Montana, -four rose
one day recently from S25 to Sl2O per
hundred pounds. A number of min ers
deeming it an imposition, formed q
club, seized what they required, and
paid for it at the rate Of ST per hun
dred pounds.
A printer rusticating near Blooming
to, Ill, recently, was shot at, the bullet
passing through the upper part of his
hat; wereupon jury returned a YER
dict of would have been shot in the
head, if the head had beed in the top
Of the hat"
81 wss walking the other day with q
well known author, when I happened
to remark on the fondness for dress dis
played. He replied, 4 can assure you
our women are such slaves of fashion,
that if the Empress Eugenie issued a
decree that all people were to so about
without clothes this hot summer they
would blush at finding themselves
dressed = Tienna Correspondence
The Ballard House il Richmond has
been rented by Bostonian at $4,000
per annum, on lease of ten years, and
will be immediately renovated and
opened as a frst-clsss hotel.
The editor of the N Y. Independent
saws the method of treating the South
ern States as proposed by the President,
invokes the interposition Of divine
Providence for its defeat Does Mr..
Tilton intend to invite another assassi-
nation?
A prima donna at the Lisbon theatre
one night recently was presented with
one hundred nose gays and eleven
wreaths. Shewss called out seventeen
times, and hundreds Of doves were
ssnt up in her honor.
The amount of gold now in exist
ence is estimated at four Thousand
eight hundred and sixty millions; Of
silver. Eve thousand seven hundred
millions-making the total Of precious
metals now existing, ten thousand five
hundred and sixty two millions of dol
lars, with an average annual product of
gold throughout the world of over two
hundred and seventy one millions
One Of the wintry wonders at the
White Mountains not Jet departed and
! likely to lingsr for some time 10 come, is