Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-15
Cabinet RuInOrs.

Cabinet RuEnOrs.
1t is reported that Mr.. SPEED sent hi.
resignation to the President Yesterday. and
vet the Attorney General was present at the
Cabinet meeting to-day and remained to the
close, leaving in company with Secretaries
| STANTON and SEWARD. Wehaye no anthem
tic information that Mr. SPEED has resigned
| though it was stated in a dispatch last
night that there is excellent authority for
saying, that both Messrs. SPEED and HAIR
Ian will be out of the Cabinet in few
| days
1t was rumored in Washington Yesterday
that the President has notified Secretary
STANTON that his resignation would be ac-
cepted, and that be, as we'll as Mr.. SPEED.
will send in their letters of withdrawal to-
day. Mr.. HARLAN will not resign until
compelled to.
Gov. RANDALL is popularity believed to
be the successor of DENNIsoN. Gen. GRANT
will take charge Of the War Office, and
Judge Browning. will have the Interior
Department
Ex-Goyernor RANDALL is in New York
on business. He will probably be nomina-
ted Postmaster General on his return.
GREEN ADAMS, of KENTUCKY, Sixth Audit
or, is also named for the place
Verdict against the baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company.
A claim against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad of $4,000, was to-day awarded by
the Circuit Court to J. I. HARRIS, for
having his leg broken in a collision occur
ring during the war. 1t was charged the
accident was the result Of carlessness. The
defense contended it was unavoidable as
trains could not be run regular.
Nephew of Secretary WeIIes Killed I'm
California.
Information has been received from
Ware Island Navy Yard, California. that
Samuel WELLEs, Constructing Engineer of
that yard, was fatally injured on the 18th
inst, by the explosion of a boiler, and died
at seven P. NJ. on that day. He was nephew
ofthe Secretary of the Navy. He was on
the point of returning east to be married
when this melancholy event occurred.
Mr.. Raymond and the Republicans.
The denial in the Times of the published !
accounts of Mr.. RAYAIOND's position on the |
caucus on Wednesday night |
amounts to nothing, just so long as dozens |
of members, who were present, maintain |
that he made a speech in which he virtually \
abandoned the endorsement of the Philadel- |
phia Convention. He is welcome to so |
much Of the modification of the account as
will represent him setting quietly in his seat
and refusing to vote on the resolution, de
claring that no Republican Senator or mem
Der would indorse the Philadelphia Conyen-
ton.
DestitutIOn i'm South Caroline.
Owing to conflicting testimony as to suf-
fering for want of food in South Carolina,
and as General SIcKLEs upon his under
Standing Governor ORR to say, the want was
much exaggerated, had disapproved of the
issuance of rations General HOWARD APP
piled to Governor ORR for a clear statement
Of the case. Governor ORR hastens to re
ply, with view to correct General SICKLEs'
of the statement. He says
here is great need of distributing rations
through the Freedmen's Bureau in every
district of the State He had, however,
Urged discrimination as there were many
Unfit subjects. After detailing the districts
suffering most, he says: 81 regret extremely
hat any opinion of mine should have been
o understood as to justify or require the
suspension of the issue of rations which it
vas proposed to distribute in this State" He
therefore, earnestly requests that the rations
hould be continued, as estimated by agents
# the Bureau.
lutrases upon Freedmen in Virginia.
Outrages and assaults upon freedmen in
1oudon county, Va, having been frequent
# late and the civil law having failed to
administer justice, the Assistant Commits
Toner of the Bureau for this District, by
authority of Lieut.. Gen. GRANT, has sent a
ompany of cavalry to be stationed in that
ounty, with its headquarters at Middle
'urg.
Sales of Public Lands.