The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-23
THE NEWS.


The Johnson meeting held at Phila-
delphia, Saturday night last, was one
of the largest and most enthusiastic
ever witnessed. Senators DOolittle and
Cowan were the principal speakers.
The President has directed Major
General Howard to cause the arrest Of
| every officer of the Bureau, in North
Carolina, who is engaged or pecuni-
| arily interested in the cultivation of
plantations, and Brigadier General E.
W. Strong has been dispatched to exc
| eral Holt has been instructed by the
| President to make out charges and
specification against the officers, with a
view to their trial before courtmartial
Admiral Semmes will soon prepare
! his adventures on the high seas-while
in command Of the Alabama-for the
| press lie has been offered E5,0 600 in
England, for the copyright of the
work, but the offer was declined. 1t
will probably first appear in numbers,
in a Southern monthly, and afterward
gathered up and published in book
shape.
The receipts of customs during the
past week at the ports of New York,
| Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore,
amounted to nearly $325O,OOO The
receipts from internal revenue during
! the week, amounted to over 8, 500 OO
The Grant House at Franklin, Penn
| sylvania, was burned at , o'clock on
| Saturday morning One woman Jumped
from a fourth story window, sustaining
| injuries of which she died during the
day. Two servant girls were burned to
death, and the charred remains of one
Of them have been recovered. The
building was valued at SCI 900 and in
sured for $3l 900.
Fifty clerks were discharged from
the Treasury Department on Saturday
for incompetency and lack Of employ
ment
Rochester, n Y, was visited Sunday
by tornado, which unroofed several
houses and broke thousands of panes
Of glass.
Orders have been issued for the con
sOlidatiOn of the States of North Car
DINA and South Carolina under one
commander, and for the consolidation
of Georgia and Alabama under an
other
The New York Times Fortress Mon
roe correspondents expresses surprise at
the late reports of jeff Davis falling
| health, and intimates that his condi-
ton is as good AS ever, and that he is
being treated very kindly, and even
luxuriously.
All goes smoothly with the new At
lantic cable. it is now coiling at the
/ rate Of two miles an hour, in the tanks
/ Of the Great Eastern. The Amethyst
hulk is moored alongside the great
! ship off Sheerness, while the Iris is la
den in her turn at Greenwich, and will
supply the Amethysts place as soon as
the latter is emptied. Thus, manufac-
ture and stowage 60 on cOncurrently,
and at the moment one part of the
great wire is receiving its elementary
coating of ChattersOn's compound, or
perhaps spun at Birmingham, other
portions are laid down in the great
ship ready for the final. paying out.
Page Chapman, for many years a
prominent politician and editor of In
diana, died in indianapolis, Sunday
aged about sixty.
In the first four months of the pres
ent year over $4,000 emigrants have ar
rived, and up to the middle of April
the whole number was ,SI3 II is es-
timated that the total immigration of
1866 will amount to nearly 100000
The London Court Journal reports
that the author of the forged diplomat
ic dispatch which appeared in the
Times, has been detected through the
skill of an expert in handwriting,
whose services were engaged for that
purpose The culprit was a clerk in
the civil service of the Government
and he has been dismissed from his
place-a mild punishment
A curious Alyls nature was brought to
the White House Saturday suspended
in a large glass vessel filled with alco-
hol ii was nothing less than a dead
duck with one head and two distinct
bodies from the throat downward, thus
giving the animal four feet, a double
set, reversed in position, 50 that the
animal had il lived would have had ma
tural facilities TO 20 forward or back
ward; in fact this dead duck is literal
representative of the principles of the
dead duck who conducts the Radical
organ.
ON a street car in St Louis, the other
night, a Catholic priest who was among
the passengers, became annoyed by the
! irreligious and offensive remarks of an
other passenger, and up with his fist
and knocked the hereto down,
1t is stated that Mrs. Lincoln is about
TO purchase n residence in Chicago for
the sum of $1,000 and that Robert
Lincoln is about to be admitted to the
bar. and 10 enter upon the practice OF
his profession in that city.
A gentleman is Nashua, Ohio, be-
came a widower on Saturday, a mourn,
or on Sunday, a procurer Of a wedding
certificate on Monday, and a newly
married man on Tuesday.
John Mitchell writing from Paris to
the New York News, under date of the
lth inst, infers that the doom of Aus
tria is sealed. lie says: There will be
a war. Whether it begins 10y Prussia
marching upon Dresden, or by Italy
marching on the Quadrilatersl-or the
| Quadrilateral marching upon Italy
| there lCiY be soIr.
Mr. Mason, the rebel commissioner
has returned TO Canada.
! CoTToN REVENUE The revenue re
ceipts on cotton at this port for the year
ending May lst 1866, amounts to So
! l7lGOO The tax on cotton Is two cents
per pound.-N O. Pic 1911.
The Lancaster n. ID Republican Of
/ this week says, after several days OF
very warm weather, a cold rain set in
on Sunday night and on Monday
morning the mountains around us
were white with snow. Mr. John Craw-
shaw. who lives in the lower part of
! Jefferson, drove to Lancaster Monday
morning in snow squall and had his
wagon well carpeted with snow.
Miss Maggie Holt has recovered the