The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-15
BIZ LAST NIGHTS NAIL.

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NEw YoRK, March 24-3 A.u.-PeIroleum
stocks have been decidedly more active to-
day.
The few passengers by the Talea speak
highly of the richness of the mines. One
is said to have one hundred pounds of gold
dust in his possession, all taken out within
q short time By his own labor.
Provisions are very scarce and dear.
Climate by no means malarious or IN
healthy.
The London Herald says movements have
been begun fer laying the Atlantic cable
during the coming summer. As ct present
arranged, the Great Eastern viii carry the
new cable and lay it 20 Newfoundland
viii then coal and return 10 mid-Atlantle,
where she viii, with her c%oEsort, grapple
for the lost end, the locality OF which can
be a~scerlained within q quarter OF a mile,
through observations taken last summer
by Capt. Undevant and Capt. Miralty.
/ 1t IS not intended that part Of the old
| cable, which now lies in the Great Eastern's
tanks, shall be again slowed IN her hold
on her outward trip. 1t viii be carried IN
another vessel until nesded.
Three vessels. including the Great East
| ern. VIII be provided with graphing aPPa-
ratus.
Arrangements have been made for 8 great
| Fenian demonstration at Burlington, W.T.
/ Saturday, st. PatrIck's day. The pro-
| gramme includes a great procession on the
morning of that day. The Importance OF
/ this demonstration viii suggest itself.
A Washington special states that Guam
| trell, the guerrilla, has been arrested and
will be brought to Washington for trial.
Gov. 6. K. Warren has written q letter,
| denying the published statement that ne
cherished any i'll feeling towards General
Sheridan.
The gunboat Algonquin has been put out
Of commission, her creS transferred TO the
receiving ship, and her officers awaiting or
| ders.
BEDFORD, March l3.-The case Of DR.. Ben.
/ NewIand, for the murder Of Evans, was
| called this morning, when the defendants
| counsel applied for a change of venue,
which was granted by Judge Bicknell, and
| Floyd nsmed the county where the case
should be tried, and the case set for the Sth
day of May.
CINcIsEATI, March I3-P. AIT q meet
| ing tonight of the Theological Library As
s~ociation a plan was discussed, and met
with much favor, proposing to erect q large
| and splendid building 10 be used by all the
| great libraries Of the city and for a public
/ line art gallery. The scheme was encour-
aged By some leading capitalists who were
present.
The municipal authorities have decided
| hereafter to use the Nicholson pavement
and abandon the present system OF boulder
ing.
one hundred and sevenjy-two new build
ings have been commenced in this city since
January lst.
The Licking river is on q freshet, and the
Ohio is 80 high that boats are compelled TO
lower their chimneys in passing under the
bridge.
OHAHA, March l3.-All the principal
Oh efs Of the Upper Platte and Sioux as
sembled at Fort Laramie yesterday. Colo
mel Msgruder and Indian agent jarrett,
through an Interpreter, held a long talk
over tne wires with General Wheaton and
Superintendent Taylor, at Omaha, during
which talk the Sioux gave positive assu-
RANGES that they would keep the peace.
The LIST OF June next was agreed upon SO
the time for a Convention to assemble at
Fort Laramie, to conclude a treaty with all
the lately hostile tribes of the Upper Platte.
Seven hundred Indians were present du-
ring the talk.
There will be no further trouble on the
Platte route. This is the first instance OF a
conference by telegraph with the Indians.
Sixty miles Of the Union Pacific Railroad
was completed ten days ago.
Commissioners 10 examine the road are
expected in a few days.
CINCINNATI, March II, 1 4. M.-About an
hour ago the C~Ovington No. 2, one Of the
ferries plying between here and COvington,
blew up just as she was making the landing
on the Kentucky shore. She then took fire
and is now burning. 1t is not yet learned
whether any lives were lost or not but it is
presumed there were.
The boat was nearly new, having been
running but three weeks. She had the
double-flued boilers.
The only communication that can he had
with the other side is by means Of skiffs,
consequently no particulars have reached
this side.
NEW ORLEANS, March I3.-Great indiGer-
tnce was shown TO the election yesterday
by a large number Of voters, especially
business men.
Judge Kellogg, Collector of Customs, re-
ceived notice that the Government had dis
missed all persons engaged in the seizure Of
property il South Carolina, claimed as be-
longing TO the Confederate Government. All
cotton now seized is to be held until a full
examination can be had.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is here en- route for
Canada.
In Iberville parish, Louisiana, last week,
at a sheriii's sale, six fine plantations sold
for what the elaborate machinery originally
cost.
Hon. J. II. Trotter, one Of the leading
Judges Of Mississippi, died at Holly Springs
last week.
Daily passenger trains are now running
on the jackson railroad between New
Orleans and Canton.
The Clarksvlile correspondent of the
Houston Telegraph charges Treasury Agents
there with having seized seventeen hundred
bales Of cotton which 1t was well and gener-
ally known did not belong to the late Con
federaCy. Through a third party thea2ents
offered the owner to release she cotton for a
consideration of three hundred bales. The
owner refused, and the cotton was removed
at ouos at 2 much greater expense than 1t
would cost the owner, and every effort made
at Clarksville and New Orleans to secure its
release failed.
Toe steamers Matauzas and Morning
Star, from New York, ave arrived.
Mayor Kennedy has issued a proclama
ton directing the ~striotest measures to be
taken TO cleanse everybody's premises in
preparation for the advent of the cholera.
After the 25th a severe penalty will be inn
posed on all found delinquent.
ATLANTA, March l3.-In the Georgia
House Of Representatives yesterday the fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously
adopted
The General Assembly of the State Of
Georgia do resolve, first, that in Andrew
Johnson, President of the United States.
I We recognize u HldLColldu FllO.St NleuOuA
| aud patriotism, lifting him above The strife
! of faction, render it impossible for him 10
| be identified with Or appropriated by any
party other than that which, without re-
gard to former party divisions, shall be COM
/ posed of men who devote themselves hon
estlv and earnestly to the maintenance of
the Union upon the principles Of the Con-
s,ilut.Op,
Sc5oud-That the only hope for the pre-
| servation Of ires Government on this con
tinent lies in the maintenance of the Union
| upon the principles Of the Constitution,
and as all rational basis for sectional par
ties has passed away with the extinction OF
slavery, we pledge ourselves, irrespective
OF former party ties aud designations Of the
passions inspired by the recent lsmeniable
war, 90 cooperate cordially and earnestly
with all men Of ell sections, who will lay
down party consideration upon the altar Of
our common country, and rally to the sup
port Of the President in his noble, cOura-
gsous and patriotic determination that by
the exercise OF wisdom, justice, moderation
and magnauiIityj the Union, upon all the
principles of the Constitution, shall be rs
establishe and inspired anew in the hearts
Of the people.
Homeopathic LIFE Insurance CoyP4-
EIEs-A life insurance company is about
to begin business IN this city, of which