The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-12
By LAST NIGHTS MAIL.
THE MEMPHIS RIOTS.
Orders from General Fisk.
scial Dispatches to the nashville Banner.

Special Dispatches to the Nashville Banner.
CINCINNATI, May IL, 1866.
Gen. Fisk has ordered the rebuilding
of all the burned negro churches and
school-houses in Memphis. The cost is
10 be levied on the city. He also adj
vertises Cor one hundred colored car
penters. The commission appointed
for the investigation of the causes of
the late riots has not yet made a report
The Memphis Post announces that
General Fisk arrived in that city last
Tuesday night, and couple of orders
from him appear in the columns of
that paper. 1t is understood that all
the colored schoOl-houses will be re-
placed by better ones within ten days,
and the cost of the same will be levied
upon the city. 1t will also be called
upon to pay every dollar Of other dam
age done by the rioters.
The following locations have been Sc
lected for the new school houses: One
st the corner of Main and Vance
streets, twenty by forty feet; corner of
Lsuderdale and Vance, forty by one
hundred feet; corner of fernando and
Pontotoc, forty 10y eighty feet; one on
South street, forty by one hundred feet
and another forty by one hundred feet,
over in Chelsea. The Lincoln chapel
will also be rebuilt.
The following are the orders:
BUREAU K F. ASB A. L.,
SUB-DTsTRICT OF MEMPHIS,
Grief SUPERlNTENDENT' OFFICE,
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 6, 1866
Notice is hereby given to all owners
or claimants of lots lately occupied by
Colored School houses or Churches de-
stroyed by the rioters, that the United
States still holds and possesses the
same, and no one will be permitted to
tfespass thereon.
By order of Bvt Mai. Gen. c. B Fisk,
BEN P. RUSKLE,
Bvt Brig. Gen. Vols. Supt, etc.
WANTED, forthwith, at the Freedmen's
Bureau, one hundred Colored Carpen-
tiers, Masons and Workmen, to work
on Colored Schools and Churches, which
are to be at once erected and protected.
Apply to Capt Samuel Walker, A. A.
@ NJ , No 399 Second street
By order of Bgt Maj. Gen. c. B. Fisk
Ben p RUNKLE,
Bvt Brig Gen. Vols, Chief Supt
NEW ORLEANS, May l0-Gen. Candy
has ordered all civilians held for trial
under his orders, by military courts, to
be turned over to United States Circuit
Courts for the Eastern District of Lou
isiana, (f the crime was committed
within the Jurisdiction of said court }
The affidaVits, together with the names
and residences of witnesses, to be re-
ported to the proper officers of such
court
In cases of persons charged with
crimes within the jurisdiction of the
United States Courts for Western Louis
lana, the person to be taken before
United States commissioner. If the
commissioner declines to act for the
want of territorial jurisdiction, the &C
cused to be held by the military au-
thorities, to abide the decision of the
President
The Grand and Morganza levees
broke during the heavy storm Tueseay;
the water rising above them Other
leVees below are in doubtful condition
The State Engineer has given dp bro
ken levees in despair.
NEW YORK, May l0-The Herald's
Valparaiso correspondent says certain
highly important documents sent TO
the CHILEAN President by the Dictator
of Peru have been forwarded by Gen
Fitzpatrick to Washington, showing,
some time ago French stranger dying
suddenly in Lima. bmong his effects
were found papers proving him to have
been French agent, coming with pro-
posals to the Dictator of Peru to make
himself King or Emperor, promising
men and money from France under
the Mexican fag-in other words,
through Macmillan. This exposes a
scheme between France and Spain to
make Jump at all the small South
American Republics. England ap-
proves, but does not help by men or
money.
New ORLEANs, May l0-Judge Abel,
of the First District Court, has decided
the Civil Rights bill unconstitutional
and not binding. The Court argues
that the present Congress is unconsti-
tutionally constituted.
CHICAGO, May 10, p m-There is a
rumor current that the Fenians are
quietly fitting out and arming several
vessels for raid upon the Canadian
lake towns
Also, that the Michigan Southern
freight depot was broken open by
party of Feniaus yesterday, who stole
therefrom two kegs of powder The
police arrested them this morning and
committed them for trial
topeka, KANSAS, May l0-The I25th
Colored regiment, Col. Duncan, passed
through here to-day en- route for Fort
Union, New Mexico, accompanied by a
train of lis wagons Many officers
have their families with them.
Family Amusements in Chicago
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