The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-27
BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL.

Ne journal gives the report OF con-
versati0n between the editor and Gen.
Grant. IN which, the report is cerrect-
ly given the Lieutenant General ap-
Pears to have spoken out more freely
than he commonly does He IS report
Cd To have said that there we're some
parts Of the country where our armies
had never tread, particularly in Texas,
which needed t. feel the blithing eff
fects Of war to bring their people to a
realizing sense OF She enOrmIty Of their
crime. and the Dcce. sity Of q thorough
repentiBg- ] find that those parts Of
the South which have not ielt the war,
and particularly those which have been
within our lines, and have, therefore,
escaped the rebel consumption, that
they are much less disposed to accept
the situation in good faith than those
persons which have been overcome with
fire and sword.
Referring to the temper of the South
ern people, he remarked, that they are
much less disposed now to bring them
selves to the proper frame Of mind than
they were one year since one year
ago, said he, they were willing to do
anything now they regard themselves
as masters Of the situation. Some OF
the rebel Generals, he added, are be-
having nobly, and doing all they can
TO induce the people to throw aside
their old pTeiudicts and conform their
course to the changed condition OF
things Johnston and Dick Taylor,
particularly, are exercising a good IN
| fluence, but, he added Lee IS behaving
| badly; he is conducting himself very
differently from what l had reason,
| from what he said at the time of sur
render, to suppose he would No man
at the South Is capable of exercising a
tenth part of the influence for good
that he is But, instead of such, he is
setting an example or forced
acquiescence as pernicious in its
effects rs to be hardly realized
The men in the rebel armies,
said Grant, acquiesce in the
result much better than those who
stayed at home. The women are bitter
against the Union and the Union men.
! OF course, he added, there is some bit
! terness of feeling among all classes.
! But / am satisfied it would soon die out
| if the leading men had not somewhat
got the idea that treason, after all, was
not very bad, and that the Southern
cause, as they phrase it, will yet tri-
umph, not in war, but in politics. In
my Judgment, said he, the tone of GER
| tain men and certain papers in the
! North is such as to do Incalculable
mischief in making the late rebels be-
| lieye that they are just rs much emit
| tied TO rule as ever, that If they will
only stand by what they are pleased to
| call their rights, they will have help
| from the North. This Significantly
added Grant, is only laying over again
| the incipient stages of the rebellion.
| lie was confident that the large ma
jority of the Southern people would
smother their resentments and become
| good citizens if those mislhiefemakers
at the North, the Copperheads, would
only let them alone For himself, if he
! had the power, the first thing he would
| do would be 10 si,zs the New York
News and kindred sheets which are
moving the South to so dangerous an
| idea Of their own position and rights.
| Grant said troops must be kept II all
| the principle points in the South for
some time to come.
This will be necessary to repress the
| turbulence of a class of the South very
dangerous to all well disposed persons,
and also to protect the rights of the
| freedmen, VINO are looked upon with
deep hatred by a very large proportion
of the people.
New YORK, May 25-The Daily News
makes q public story of deception and
crime seldom met with 1t appears
that when MIS- Gen. Eaton, so famous
as the leader Of social and fashionable
| life in Washington during the admins
tration of President jackson, and who
| became a widow in foreign lands. She
returned to this country, taking up her
residence She adopted two of her
grand children, boy and a girl and
with competence of at least 100000
was living very happily. AT length an
| Italian 8dventurer named BourgOnair
was employed as dancing master for the
children, and they took such q liking
to him that they prevailed on their
grandmother to allow him to be intro
duced to their home. The result was
that he married Mrs. Eaton, and sue
ceeded eventually in getting possession
of all her properly.
Nor did he stop here, but prevailed
npon her to place in his charge the
property she had set apart for her
Grandchildren, Of all which he had the
full use and benefit He then set at
work corrupting the girl, and finally
sailed for Europe last wednesday,
taking her with him as his wife. lie
left note with Mrs Eaton, in which
he told her that he had converted her
property into cash, and would allow her
$50 per week if she would keep the
matter quiet
A case involving the constitutionality
of the Civil Rights bill has Just been
decided adversely 10y Judge Thomas, OF
the Circuit Court of Virginia, sitting in
Alexandria, in civil action between
white men One Of the parties offered
TO produce negro evidence; the Judge
decided that, inasmuCh as the State
laws of Virginia forbade the introduc
ton of negro testimony IL civil suits to
which white men alone were parties,
the evidence of the negro was inadmis-
sable, and that no Congressional legis-
lation could impair her right to decide
what person or class of persons were
competent to testify in her courts.
This decision will doubtless lead to
much discussiod, and create no little
excitement before It's final settlement
by superior authority
WASHINGTON, May 2j-The trial of
Davis, under the Norfolk Indictment,
will doubtless be postponed until Au-
gust or September next, IN consequence
of the strong feeling prevailing in
Richmond on the subject Much ami
mostly prevails toward the Jury who
returned the verdict, and until this
subsidies the Attorney General thinks
! il best TO delay the trial The counsel
| for the Government will consist of At
! torncy General Speed, John H. Clifford,
VIM II Evarts and MAJ Gen. l.. H.
Rousseau, the latter representing the
amy in the prosecution.
NEw OLEANs, May 25.-Itissaid that
the cotton crop OF West Louisiana will
/ be one third less than in l>6l; that of
| East Louisian two-thirds less, and that
of North and Middle Louisiana one-ffth
less. IN the Red River country and
other overlooked districts the scarcity
! Is greater
The Red River levees have given
way and the whole country Is sub
merged from Nachltoches down The
sugar cane is promising where the
country is not flooded.
NEw YORK, May pa Venice letter,
dated Sd of May, states that Austria