The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-24
NEWS ITEMS BIZ NAIL.


Gov. Dennison had an interview
with Gen. Grant last Monday, for the
purpose of arranging the military oecu-
patton and contEo, of the Southern Rail
ways for mail purposes The 1ieuten-
Ant16eneraI acceded fully to the Post
master Generals Judgment in the mat.
ter, and all Southern roads w;n for the
present be under military supervision.
1t is the purpose of Gov. Dennison to
extend postal facilities throughout the
South as rapidly IS it is possible, and
also to open new routes and establish
new offices.
The Virginia Central Railroad bridges
over Ravenna, Moss Creek and Ne
ehanic's River are repairing, and hopes
are entertained that the whole road
will be in operation in four weekg. The
Orange and Alexandria Railroad is ALSO
repairing from Charlottesville 10 Lynch
burg. Cars are now running from the
latter place ~ Lye River, 30 miles.
The commanding General of the mil
itary departmentwhich includes Wash
ington, authorizes a contradiction of the
rumor that the monuments, recently
erected on the Bull Run battlefield,
have been destroyed
The receipts of tolls on the canals of
New York for the month of May
amounted to SS36,O7S, being S239, 6l5
less than the corresponding month of
1864. The tolls reached their highs
est figure, S., Iss, e43, in 1862; and it is
estimated that this year the receipts
will fall back to the aggregate of 1859,
81, 723, 945.
There is COW in Washington, D. c.,
which marched with Sherman's army
from Atlanta, Ga; and during all the
time, from Nov. l, 1864, to May IS, she
averaged a gallon of milk day. At
Washington she was presented by Bre-
vet Major General ]. D. Morgan to the
Soldiers Home for the use of that in
stitution. Long may she live. The
distances Of her marches are: From At
lanta to Savannah, 326 miles. From
Savannah to Goldsborough, N. c., All
miles. From Goldsborough to Cape
Fear River, 81 miles. From Cape Fear
River TO Washington via Richmond,
Va, 342 miles. Total 900. She trav-
eied from Morrisville, N. c.. to Rich
mond, Va, a distance of III miles in
seven days, and from Richmond to
Washington, distance l4S miles in eight
days She is now in excellent condi-
ton, and gives II gallons of rich milk
per day
Daniel s. Dickinson is said to have
assured President johnson that the ex-
tension of the elective franchise to
Southern black men was the easiest
and best possible way out of the mani
fold difficulties Of reconstruction.
A very important decision, which has
been urged as a simple act of justice
by the Governors of the various States,
has just been made by the War Depart
ment, to the effect that enlisted men
of the Veteran Reserve Corps, who. if
they had remained in the volunteer
regiments from which they were trans
ferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps,
would, under existing orders, now be
entitled to muster-out of the service,
viii be so discharged; provided that no
man shall be discharged who deeires to
serve out his full term Of enlistment
The Secretary Of the Treasury has just
issued regulations respecting the collec-
ton Of taxes in States lately in insur-
rectiOn. They provide that for the
present the collection of all baciE or
accrued taxes shall be waived, though
it is expressly stated that the Govern
ment does nc relinquish the right to
collect them hereafter.
The income tax of 1865 will be as
sessed and collected, and oil other tax.
alton, whether excise or revenue, will
begin at the date the States were di-
vided into collection districts. The du-
ty on cotton and spirits of turpen.ine
viii be collected from the person in
whose hands these ARTICLES are first
found, but holders Of manufactured to
bacco, distilled spirits, and other mans
ufactured articles, win not be subjected
10 tax, if they Gan shew that they
bought the property before the State
was districted SIS aforesaid, unless they
send it north for sale, in which case the
fun amount of tax win be collected
The President has appointed Lewis
E Parsons, of Alabama, Provisional
Governor of that State.
Edmund Rufan, of Virginia, who
fred the first gun on Fort Sumter, is
dead he committed suicide, nesr
Richmond, on Saturday last, by blow
ing his head off with q gun.
A memorandum was found among,
MS papers, says the Richmond Republic,
stating that he could not live under the
Government of the United States; that.
he preferred death to doing 50.
Hon. George W. Jones is one Of the
conscious traitors" pardoned by the
President
The Richmond Republic Of Saturday
says; "At the time of the great conAa-
grafton on the Sd of April last, three of
the warehouses in this city were filed
with tobacco belonging to the French
Government One Of the warehouses,
we believe, vas destroyed b. FIRE, but
the other two, containing about LOO
hogshsads, escaped unipiured- Mon
sieur Paul, the French Consul in this
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