The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-06-02

The President refuses to pardon
Semmes, and the pirate now asks per
mission 20 assume his Probate Judge
ship unpardoned
A great hailstorm passed over Har-
risonburg, Va, last Sunday. Some of
the hallstones were as large as hickory
nuts.
The contract for q painting of the
battle Of Gettysburg, authorized bv the
Pennsy lvaDia Legislature, has been
awarded to Mr. 2. F. Rothermel. of
Philadelphia.
According to a special order from the
War Department, about forty Captains
and Assistant Paymasters, their ser
vices being no longer required, will be
mustered out Of the service within a
few days.
The Masonic Fraternity of Adrian,
Mich, propose TO celebrate ST. John n's
day, June D, by a grand festival and
promenade In their new temple, which
rs now approaching completion, having
cost over $4,000 There will be an
oration by Cornelius Moore, of Cincin-
matt, editor of the Masonic Review. and
a grand procession. Seventy-fiVe lodges
have been invited to take part in the
ceremonies, and there can be little
doubt that this will be one Of the great
est Masonic displays ever seen in that
State.
There is no abatement in the efforts
to secure a tWO-thirds vote in the Sen-
ate for the passage Of the Colorado Bill
over the veto There is no doubt but
that new conversions TO the bill, and
against the veto, have been made. If
it can pass the Senate by two-thirds
vote, it Is pretty sure to be squeezed
through the House.
A Washington dispatch says that
there is the highest authority for deny
ing that the proceeds OF the recent Gov
eminent gold sales have been applied to
the purchase OF United States bonds.
The Secretary Of War, in compliance
with q resolution of the Senate calling
for a compendium Of the medical sta
tistics collected during the war, states
on the authority Of the Surgeon-Gen-
eral that the records of many OF the
hospitals have not been received, and
that the tabulation of those a. hand is
not complete; so that any compendium
Of the medical statistics of the war at
this time must necessarily be based
upon partial data, and hence be unre'
liable and valueless.
The success achieved by the author
Of "Ecce Homo, says an English jour
nal, is still further attested by the an
nouncement Of the eighth edition Of
that extraordinary work The public
curiosity concerning the writer has by
no means subsidized, but there is no ap-
parent probability that it will be graft
fed
Instructions will shortly be sent from
the Paymaster Generals office TO the
Government Postmasters who are sta
toned at places where there are no as
sistant treasures or special repositories,
but where National Banks may be
available, directing them not to make
transfers from one depository to an
other, without special authority from
the Secretary of War.
It is not improbable that President
johnson will deliver the Grafton at the
laying Of the corner stone of the Doug
las monument, in Chicago, on the 4th
of July ensuing
The Fortress Monroe correspondent
of the New York Herald, writing on
the 2jth Of May, says:
JEFF Davis shows undisguised apN
probation of his parole of the fort He
has been out to-day as much as the
weather would permit, and made seve
raj calls. lie talks with undisguised |
franlIness regarding his expected trial !
and places no credit in the rumOr that |
he will not be tried for several months !
yet lie certainly expresses himself |
more anxious than ever that no such |
postponement viii take place"
The bent and twisted rails from
Southern railroads, the result of Yam
kee raids during the war, are finding |
their way to Northern scrap heaps. A
cargo has arrived at Somerset, near
Boston.
The following, written at West Point /
to New York paper on the day be-
fore General Scott died, shows how IN
expected that event was
"The report last Saturday that Gene
raj Scott was unwell is untrue. lie ar
rived here two weeks ago, and put up
at Roe's Hotel, where he is now stop
ping. He is now enjoying as good
health as when he left the city; suf
fering, as usual, slightly from the fee
. -.,--.la.,f IL = fAr, /
last he was out riding, and
was TO have occupied his cottage, at
Cozzens, to-day, but was prevented by
one Of his periodicGl attacks Of feebles
ness. During the day he is at times in
bed, and at times up and doing
In the House of Lords, May Is, the
Earl of Clarendon stated thst England
was doing all in her power to prevent
the impending conflict between Austria
and Prussia. His speech, however,
does not look hopeful for peace lie
a National Congress for the
of the differences between
the belligerents.
The ship carpenters, now on 8 strike
IN New York, have adopted a resoiu-
ion to the effect that they are ready TO |
adjust their disagreement with their
ate employers on sny honorable basis
They express an emphatic determine
ion to hold out until the eight hour
.ystem shall be granted, which they de
5lare is the sole question at issue.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
.eceiyed from Hon. T. G. Bergen, OF
Jamaica, Long Island, New York, a
lunch of asparagus composed Of twelve
toclzs, each about four inches IN CIR !
thirteen inches in hight 5
nd the whole weighing FIVE pounds. II l
S understood to be the intention Of J
this rare specimen of the I
.gricultural world I
Senator Anthony has had engrafted
n q West Point bill, the principle of {
examination, which passed
he Senate last year, but was defeated {
n the House. The pressnt PROPOSE )
ion will enable each Representative to
dominate five candidates for each t
acancy at his disposition, from whom &
ne is 70 be selected.