The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-17
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Governor Curtin, Of Pennsylvania
has issued a proclamation, requesting
that in every part of that State, on the
approaching anniversary of Indepen-
dence, special observance be had OF
welcome to our returned defenders,
and of commemoration of the heroic
deeds of their fallen comrades.
A popular subscription OF about
twenty-five cents head was commenc-
ed at Nantes, in France, for gold med
al for Mrs. Lincoln. This medal was to
bear the following inscription: "Liber-
ty, equality, fraternity to Lincoln, twice
elected President of the United States,
from the grateful democracy of France;
Lincoln, the honest, abolished slavery,
re-established the Union, and saved the
republic without yelling the statue OF
liberty; he was assassinated on the 10th
of April, 1865" About the Both OF
April. when the amount of subscrip>
tons had reached eleven thousand
sous, they were seized by the police,
who stated that the scheme was to be
stopped everywhere in France.
We learn that large and comfortable
sleeping cars are to be introduced short
ly on the night trains over the Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad. This will
be a public convenience, and one long
looked for by the travelling commu-
nifty.
The trial of Lewis Rosenthal and j.
B. Merri,k, known as the "Lake Erie
Pirates" is in progress before the
United States Court at Cleveland. The
principal testimony SO far is that OF
Cole, one of the chiefs in the plot, who
has turned States evidence. His state
ments fully implicate Thompson, Clay,
and other rebel leaders in Canada, in
the business.
From all the States and from Canada
we learn that the growing crops never
gave a greater promise. The wheat
and hay crops in particular are repre-
sented to he greatly beyond the COM
mon average. The intelligence from
all parts of Pennsylvania is of similar
import zoos.
Prof. Maillefort, who has succeeded
in clearing the channel of the James
of. distractions, links the Dutch Gap
Canal will ultimately be of great adVan-
tage to the commerce of the river.
The Hon. Delano T. Smith, Tax Com
missioner for Tennessee, has resigned
his position, to the regret of the Presi>
dent and Secretary Mccullough, by
whom he was esteemed as q very faith
full officer.
The colored population of the United
States have inaugurated movement
for the erection of a National Educa-
tional Monument TO the memory of
Abraham LinCOln. me Rev. Henry
Highland Garnet is President of the
organization, and Messrs. Stewart,
Catcher, Cook and Syphax are on the
Board of Resident Directors. The mon
ument is to be seat Of learning, dedica-
ted to Literature and the Arts and Sci.
ences, to be appropriated to the educa-
ton of the children Of free and freed
blacks, and to be located in the District
of Columbia The object of the associ-
alton is the elevation of the colored
race, and to show, in most practical
manner, their honor for the name of
their lamented deliverer. An act OF
incorporation has been prepared for the
next session of Congress.
The French paper tell story of 8
Japanese official of high rank who had
offended the Emperor Of Japan, and
had the costly sword of ceremony sent
him with which to perform the "happy
dispatch" Instead of taking the hint
to rip up his abdomen, he took the
sword, escaped to French vessel, and
sold the iewelled weapon in Paris for
10000 francs. He must have been
one of the visitors to this country, and
here learned Yankee trick.
The President finding himself unaS
ble to attend to the important duties
of his Office, and give audience to hun
dreds of people who daily demand in
terviews, has directed Secretaries Cen
eral Mussey and Col. Browning, to give
all hearing, and to refer cases to him
needing his attention An immense
number of persons coming to him want
matters that can only be attended to
by the various Departments.
The Pope Of Rome was seventy-three
years old on the 18th day of May, and
ON the 10th of this month reached the
nineteenth year of his pontihcate. Out
of the long list of two hundred and
ffty-nine Popes, only eight have worn
the tiara for longer period than Plus
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The Cincinnati Gazette, in its dry
goods market report says:
Among the buyers from tho South
there came an ex slave OF Jefferson
Davis, Who purchased quite literally
for his store at Davis Bend, Miss
formerly the plantation of his master
and thus, while the traitor master Il
held State prisoner at Fortress Mon
roe, his former property and chattei
in company with his two sons, latel!
honorably discharged from the gunboa
service, is selling goods as q freedman
His name is Montgomery, he is fifty
three wears of age, and is IS good
representation Of the intelligent blsel
man as can be found. BE was JET
Davis slave over twenty years, AM
served him as carpenter and machinis
, on his and his brothers plantation o
two thousand acres. The entire tw
thousand acres, he informs us, are be
ing cultivated in cotton by his forme
fellow bondmen, who, he says, ST
working industriously, and more effecf
ually than under the former rule.
Senator Chandler, Of Michigan, in
sneech made in New York on WedneI
5sv traced Gen. Grants military cs