The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-06-03
SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1865.
THE NEWS,

Sydney Howard Gay, for some years
managing editor of the New York Tri-
bune, has resigned his position, but still
remains with that journal as a leading
writer
g. n. Morrison's drug store, in New
Orleans, was destroyed by fire Wednes-
day night The loss will amount to
$4,000, on which there is an insurance
of $4,000.
Judge Erskine, of Georgia, decides
that the test oath, as applied to
layers in the United States Circuit
Courts, in the South, is unconstitu.
tion8l.
Important letters have been received
at New York from Europe, to the eff.
feet that Napoleon is anxiously endeay-
oring to keep peacein Europe, and that
he has written letter to the King of
Italy, in which he expressed the strong
est dIsapproval of his warlike policy.
Advices received by the Government
indicate large return of United
States bonds within the next four
months, on account of the unsettled
condition Of affairs in Europe.
Charles P. Baymiller, for many years
connected with the press in Indianapo-
lis, died in that city Thursday, after a
long and painful illness.
Panama, of late, has been kept in a
state Of excitement by the report of a
revolution being nightly expected.
The present Government is so unpop-
ular and feeble, with q force of only
300 soldiers, that it is in hourly dread
Of being turned out of power, and it
can only keep itself in office by the
most stringent measures.
A young farmer of Upper Coos, New
Hampshire, had three calves, two colts,
eleven pigs, nine lambs-and baby,
added to his inventory Of personal pro
perry the other night.
The Senate has confirmed W. P.
Smith, late Master of Transportation
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, to
be Collector of one of the Baltimore
Internal Revenue Districts.
Governor Cox issued an order, Thurs
day, mastering out all companies Of the
Ohio National Guard, that have not
taken, and do not intend to take, steps
toward reorganization under the new
Militia Law.
Our Consul at Liverpool writes IN
der date of May Is: "Some two weeks
ago, J advised you of the shipment
from this port to New York of some
10 600 bushels of wheat. | now have
to inform the Department of State that
the City of Cork, which sails tomorrow,
takes as freight 49S casks of French
wheat flour, valued at l04G pounds
sterling. ] think this is the first in
stance Of the shipment of French -four
from this port for the United States,
and probably the first time flour has
ever been shipped as merchandise from
Europe TO America"
The Jacksonville (Fla) Union of
May 10, says: "On Thursday of last
week Col Sprague, commanding the
District of East Florida, removed his
headquarters from this city to ST. Au-
gIstine, removing the greater portion
of the troops at this post, and leaving
but 70 NtAldAA nAAAbCl " BlllE up bLb
rear. We learn that this balance has
been removed this week; and, conse-
quently, the city is now without the
presence of the military, and she is left
entirely TO the control of the civil law
for the preservation of the public
peace.
Attorney General Martindale, Of
New York, has written a letter to Sen
ator Sherman, upon the plan of recon-
struction reported 10y the COMPRESSION
al Joint committee He deems it ut
terly inadequate and unwise. He OBJ
| iecss not only to the clause by which
! the masses of the Southern people are
required to disfranchise themselves IN
til 1870, but also to the constitutional
amendment changing the basis of rep
! resentation His main objection TO
! this amendment is that it actually
Furnishes any State that makes intelli-
gence a qualification for suffrage The
/ New York Times says: "The letter is
able and important General Martin
dale holds a prominent and influential
position with those members of the
Union party whose views have been
most extreme on matters relating to
/ the colored race
The Portland (Me) Argus says that
Can't J. y. Boyd has secured a patent
which will make q complete revolution
in applying buttons to garments. By
| this invention buttons can be attached
10 any part of wearing apparel without
the use Of thread The invention con.
sists solely in making the button with
a spiral wire to be inserted into the
cloth like corkscrew, and then pressed
down aat so as to form a ring to hold
the button in place.
A Washington dispatch says the great
sensation in that city on Sunday was
! the appearance of Senator Salisbury
al the Church of the Ascension, cloth
ed and in his right mind, as an escort
for Mrs jeff. Davis After church q
noted rebel procured an open buggy
and took a Sunday evening drive with
Mrs. Davis about the principal streets
of the city. Mrs Davis has received
very marked attention, and many dis'
tinguished personages have made IN
/ seemly haste to pay their respects to
| her Senators johnson and salisbury
were among the many other callers
upon her Saturday.
A machine is now in operation in
New Jersey peat,bog which turns out
twenty-five tuns of pressed peat per
day. The peat is pressed into bricks,
| and comes from the machine as hprd
as bituminous coal, and much neater
to handle. 1t is estimated that peat
can be manufactured 50 a cost of one
dollar per tun, exclusive of the hand
ling. The success of this machine has
given a speculative value to pest-bogs
/ in the East and il will not be long be.
fore similar tracts Of land in the West
will be bought up for the purpose Of
manufacturing The peat thus pre-
pared makes a cheerful fire, and gives
/ out as little smoke as wood.
The following advertisement is taken
from the Rutland Vermont Herald:
81 forbid any one in the State Of Yer
mont marrying Joseph Trumbly, Of
| Chittenden, Vermont, to Miss Sophia
Pelky, Of Brandon, Vermont, for being
engaged to some one else the second
tim" JULIA GoOsoN.