The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-29
THE NEWS.

Major Thomas Walton, of Gen Long
streets staff, and Capt Harold B Mau-
~, of the 4Sth Mississippi, Harris's
brigade, we're to have fought duel in
sunaower county, Mississippi, recently.
The meeting was prevented by the ar
rest Of Capt Maury
Hon. George r Clayton, Special
Judge Of the Sixth Judicial District of
Mississippi, has decided that the late
war was not rebellion, but a civil war,
and that the Southern States, having
formed new government, the author
ity Of the Federal government was sus-
pended in them, and the citizens were
bound to obey the Confederate law and
authority; the Confederate government
had right to issue treasury notes, and
they were a valid consideration in the
payment of debts. OF in making pur-
chases of any kind
The Washington correspondent Of
the n. 7. Tribune says the Senate on
the 23d rejected Samuel McKelvey,
nomi mated as United States Marshal
Cor the District of Western Pennsl-
vania, and also Mr.. PurnelI, Blair's can.
didate for Postmaster at Baltimore;
both reflections being on the ground
that they were supporters of the Presi-
dents policy
Widow Sherman, Of West Spring
field, Mass, had husband, brother,
twenty cousins and seventeen nephews
in the Union army during the war.
Her husband was killed.
The 2Iez York law against dead
heads is a dead letter. The editors
ride free, IS their publication of adver-
tisements constitutes them "em-
ployees" Of the railroads.
The County Court Of ST Louis coun-
ty has adopted resolution prohibiting
any minister from officiating at the
Poor House, unless he takes the test
oath. After while some radical will
declare 8 man shall not go to Heaven
unless he subscribes to test oath
Probst is q puzzle. The divines can
not understand him. A month ago he
rolled upon his pallet of straw at night
in terrible agony. Now his rest is un
broken. he eats with all the relish OF
q school boy, and sleeps with all the
soundness Of infantile slumber.
Charles Butcher, residing with his
parents at Onondaga Valley, went to
bed as usual on Monday night; but
about 10 o'clock got out of bed, took q
penknife, and in the presence of his
brother, coOlly cut his throat He died
in a short time.
An election for State officers viii be
held in Texas on the 25th of June next.
At the same time a vote will be taken
on adopting or rejecting the new Con
stitution. There seems to be no doubt
as to the adoption Of the new Constitu-
ton.
Every Republican member of the
House from Pennsylvania acts with the
majority.
Nebraska is to decide on the I'd Of
June, whether to accept or reject a
State Constitution.
A New Yorker who by lucky spec
ulation found himself a millionaire a
few months ago, was inveigled by a
dashiDg Southern widow" and marri-
ed her She made the money fly, and
after he had become seriously involved,
he ascertained TO his horror that she
never was a widow at all, but was a
very bad woman, who bad been spend.
ing his thousands for the benefit Of her
paramour The shock unstrung him,
and last week he was consigned to a
lunatic asylum, raying crazy.
Anna Core Richie, in a letter from
London, says: "The faded beauties who
cling to their vanished charms have
taken great interest in the sudden re
iuvenation of Miss Burdett Coutts, un-
der the hands Of the wonderful Re
storer Madame Rachel Miss Coutts,
it is said, had to pay 800 before she
commenced the baths with which the
process of reiuvenstion begins After
going through the regular course of
treatment, Miss Coutts dawped upon
the fashionable world with the layers
of ijome twenty birthdays rolled off
from her person Her hair not dyed,
but restored, and growing anew; her
defective complexion clear and soft
the lines which tell such tales of the
workings of the human heart and hui
man brain smoothed ont, and the i'm
press Of time suddenly effaced from her
general appearance.