Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-07
NEWS OF THE DAY


Two thoGsand coolies are 70 be sent TO Jamaica
Rext year.
The receipts from Internal Revenue Tuesday
we're 81 ,255.9l9.
The Fighty-seoond regiment cOlored infantry
have contributed Sl.sOO to the Ancoln MOnu-
Rent ,, p....-so,
and Mrs. Slower, are on shsppiEg visit to New
York.
The Catholics have bought the Baptist church
at Jackson, Tenn, and eonseerated it on the Sd
inst. a.s .-r .e-..E ,.E.,,
Last week 1885 immigrants arrived lat New
York. making a9s2O this year against lSl'2oO TO
same date last year.
Mr.C. c. Glsaves, an old merchant Of Mem
phis. and one Of his children, died at that place
Of cholera, a day or two age.
Coli. L. Jones, at Newport, KY was hnes
$500, on the 5th inst, for falling to attach rs'e
nue. stamps to receipts giveaiby him.
Sweeney has gone to Tennessee to join his re-
riment as Major. His Fenian ssoapade has oos'
him his Lieutenant Colonelcy.
Awriter in the Danville Register nomina'ee
Gem. Robert z. Lee for next Governor Of Nir-
ginia.
nrasept At the Soldiers and Sailors Convention
a Concord, y. H., January J. 1857
A speciaI 70 the Cincinnati CommeretGt says
,o.itiyely that General Sedwick did take AatS-
rnoras. and that the American hag heau over
mat city. ..A .#It..|A
Three hundred and seventy-one emisrants
from Bremen arrived at Baltimore on the 9th
inst. in the ship LacedoniA. They nearly all go
West.
The racing over the Magnolia Course, at No
bile. opened on the Sd inst. The first race-a
dash Of one mile for two year olds-was woH By
Mr.. Alexander Canada.
senaters Cowan, DooIittle and Dixon have
been placed at the tail of the committees they
have heretofore served on. This is a slap at
them for supporting the President.
Dispatches from Memphis say: Business IL
very duh: there has not been single sale On
Change for ten DAYS. Merchants seem to fear a
grand tumble in the price Of everything, and are
afraid to buy"
The Washington correspondent Of the Cincin
natl Gasette says The feeling is Strengthening
daily in diplomatic circles, that the Adninistra-
6on is bent upon forcing its policy upon the
country through foreign war"
The number Of deaths in Cincinnati from all
causes. during the month Of November. was 499
Of these 167 were from eholsrs. AZ AL persons
died from this disease in October, the decrease
will be seen to be very marked.
Numerous meetings are being held in the in
terror of Kentucky 70 relieve the sufFerings o.
tse Southern poor. All classes are interesting
themselves The Masons and Odd Fellows are
foremost in the charity, 49,.
John Sheppard, the pedestrian, in attempting
to walk one hundred and ten consecatiTe hour
st Savanpah. Georgia, fell At s;5S P. n. Saturday
losing by one hour and seven minutes. He VA:
taken out On a stretcher, having walked one
hundred and eight hours and City minutes
Representative Bingham. ofOhio. smphatical-
ly denies the truth Of the paragraph. extensive
ly published, that he was preparing articles
against the President on the ground Of com
pliGty in the assassination Of the late President
Lincoln. lie says he never had such an idea
and, therefore never so iHtimated. -
The New Ysrk charter elections passed of
very quietly on the 4th inst. Richard B. Con
nelly, nominated by the Tammany Democracy,
was chosen Controller By about 2,lOO plurality
The total vote was: r. B. Connolly, E,lO2
Robert Kelly. Republican. "a, $50; Michael Con-
nOllV, Mozart Democrat, 1899. -. a.s.'..
Nearly two thousand Germans now leave Eu-
rope every week for the United States, in the
Bremen aud Hamburg mail steamers. A com
pany is established at Copenhagen to eneourag,
the emigration Of Danes, NoCwegians and SUede;
TO the United States. The children Of all these
sSigrants are taught the English language a.
their mother tongue.
The New York Worlds Dublin correspondence
under date Of Nov. 3lst says: A reward sf on'
thousand pounds has been offered for the arres
Of james Stephens. There is perfect stsgna
tion in commercial circles. Trade is at stAnd
still. The potato crop, it is alleged viii be
failure, and everything goes to prove that i
something is not done for ireland during the
coming year theoountry will present apictarC
Of misery and poverty even worse than in pre-
vious years.
A correspondence has been going on for two
weeks past between Secretary Seward and Sir
Frederick Bruce, concerning the execution Of
the Tenian prisoners in Canada. 1t said that
while Sir Frederick is willing to give verbal as
surances, that the execution shall not take place
DIR, Seward is inclined to demand a written
pledge, aud in tho views Of the legation this IS
evidently to stir up trouble with England
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