The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-08-30
By Telegraph
Afternoon Dispatches.
Affairs on the BIO Grande.
Distinguished Visitors 10 Gen.
Steele.
Further from Mckee.
The Freedmen In Mississippi.
Afternoon Dispatches.
Affairs on the Bio Grande.
Further from Mckee.
The Freedmen In Mississippi.
Government Finances.
raeIIe Ocean MalI serrlee.

NEW YORK Avg. 27.--The TFih0ne's
Brownsville, Texas, eorrespoadeut Of aug.
SIN, says this evening senor Rolls, Mexi-
can Minister Of Public Works, came over
the river on visit, and vas received By
Gen. Steele, who gave his distinguished vis-
itor quiet tdinnsr at 1Tiller's Hotel. Among
the guests were Generals wetzel and Dra-
per. Aaer 3 pleasant rePast, ct which
friendly sentiments we're exchanged, the
party broke up, Senior Rolls Ts-orossinr the
river.
Senor Romero and Gen. 0rtcgz are said
to be on their say here. and are looked for
daily. The visit Of these distinguished lib
erals seems topoint 10 something about to be
done on The Rio GTauds- an IS quiet along
the river at preseot.
The Herald's Vera Cruz correspondent Of
the 18th says tha. on the 25th Of last month
the town Of ZongOEco declared itself ia
favor Of the Republic. Il IS the chief town
OF one OF the most pOpulous districts Of Vera
Cruz. This district lies ad}acautto Orizabia,
and extends TO the foot of the Sierra Nevada,
which slopes to the coast south Of this
place. The whole section as lax as Jabasa
is devoted 70 the republican cause.
Con. Garcia, with 500 men, armed with
good rifles, is maintaining the iBdepsndencs
Of Zoncolioo, which is too difficult OF access
to be easily conquered.
A force OF 200 Austrians who recently
marched rom Orizabia with the intontiou
Of whipping the insurrectouists, fell into
sn smbuscade on the road and we're forced
70 take to Aight, leaving thirty dead on the
field. A few days since the Ausirians met
with another reverse 10 the north Of Puebls,
in which, according TO the City Of Mexico
papers, one company Of infantry and iifty
dragons fell victims to the ieroeity of the
republicans. .f
A perusal Of the newspapers OF this c1un-
try viii shoR that ia addition to the exc
cutions decreod by court martial encouE-
ters are constantly, almost daily, taking
place between the ImperialisU and Repub-
licans. in which the losses in killed at one
time range from 20 10 50, to iOu or.moro on
each side.
The Herald's Washington special says
Colonel Thomas, Assistant Commissioner Of
freedmen in the State Of Mississippi, re-
ports from Vicksburg under date Of Au-
gust 18th, that out Of Sfs.sOO freedmen in
the State, oaly 5000 are subsisted by the
Government. 5000 freedmen are earning q
good living by cutting wood in the forest
The co'ored eo'ouies Of families are report
el 10 be doing finely, and s3 harvest time
approaches the help which has been af-
forded by the Government is being gradu-
ally Withdrawn. About o., ,0OU bales Of cos-
ton will he produced BY those OF negroes
that have undertaken the culture Of that
staple. In the interior OF this State the
corn crop is looking most promising. The
major part OF the freedmen that have con-
trscted their labor are working well and are
getting better ideas OF their condition, be-
ing willing to assist in developing the new
order of things BY the employment Of ways
and msaus; but they cannot be made 70 see
the feasibility Of p.oje Is calculated to Sc
cure the independence and security Of
freee men.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.--We learn authen-
ticslIy that tne Governments financial con
dition is easy, and that the Secretary Of the
Trsasur7 viii % enabled 70 meet all do
mands with the means he has at his com
mand. No statement Of tho p ,blic debt
viii be made on the frat OF September, nor
viii there bs statement hereafter oftener
than once in two months, 50 the next state
msut Of the pubie debt will appear on the
lst Of October ensuing.
investigations just closed show that the
sharpcrs have swindled the soldiers terribly
in diseounting their claims. One Of them
alone must have made $iO, 1000.
Postmaster General Dennison has to-day
accepted the tender Of the Pacific 81 81
steamer Company, Allen Mclean, Presi-
dent, for the msil steamship contract be-
tween San Francisco and China, via Hen
oiula, Sandwich Islands; authorized By an
ac. of Congress, approved Feb. l1Ih, ls6s.
The tender of The Pacific Mail Steamer
Company was the only one offered for the
service. The compensation therefor is $500,
600 per annum Tor tho performance Of twelve
round trips between San Franciseo and
Hong Kong, China, touching at Honolulu
in the Sandwich Islands, aud Kansgawa in
Japan. The Company are to build for The
service four 6rst class American side-wheel
steamers, Of from3 500 to 4, 200 tons burshsu,
each Government measure 70 be constructed
Of the best msterial and Of the most ap-
proved model, with al the modern improve
mauts adspts5 70 sea going steamers.