The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-11
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
great council is 10 be he'd at Fort Lar
I amie, about the lst of June, between a Gov
eminent Commission and the Indians Of the
plans. It is thought that 10000 Indians
VIII be present. A large number have al
ready gathered st the appointed place.
Nearly all the claimants Of the coi6on
seized by the Government at Savannah have
commenced suits in the United States Dis
trict Court Of New York, sgainst Simeon
Draper, cotton agent, for the recovery Of the
value Of the cotton.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: The North
| Carolina Staie Convention convenes accord
ing to adjournment on the fourth Thursday
Of the present month. Our contemporary,
the Charlotte Democrat, incorrectly puts
the time on the lst Of May. The Democrat
cannot think Of any particular business for
the convention t. transact, having done
what It was authorized to do, and expresses
the hope thatit will meet and adjourn at an
early day. If that body confines its action
70 the specific purposes for which it was
called, 1t will certainly find but little to do
at its approaching session.
A correspondent writing from Ballston
thinks that mineral water msy be obtained
there equal in every respect to the Springs
Of Saratoga. lie states that the 'stratum Of
lime rock which outcrops at Saratoga, and
above which the mineral waters are found,
has been discovered to lay imbedded at the
depth Of about six hundred feet in Ball
ston."
The Culpepper (Virginia) Observer says:
"Alrs. James Keith Taylor, the sister Of
Chief Justice Marshall, at a very advanced
age, beloved and venerated by all around,
Is still living, and resides in Fauquier
county"
Drew Nichols, his wife, and two children,
residing at Drury's Landing, on the Mis-
sissippi river, near Muscatine, started in a
skih, on Sunday, to look for some cattle
which had disappeared and nothing fur
ther was heard from them until the next
morning, when the dead body Of Mr.. Mich
OILS was washed ashore. 1t was sscertained
that shortly after the party started the skitf
was upset, and Mr.. Nichols and the two
children almost Immediately drowned, but
Mrs. Nichols contrived to cling to a bush,
was afterward picked up by a passing
steamer and landed at Davenport.
The War Department has suspended the
payment Of over one hundred discharged
officers who have failed TO make the proper
returns.
The family Of D. P. sayler, Esq., of
jenkins, Iowa, were poisoned, on Monday
of last week, by eating wild parsnips, sup
posing them to be artichokes. Ella 6ayier,
daughter, died within an hour. Mrs. Say
Ter and the two other children, who had
eaten Of the poison, by the prompt applica-
ton OF remedies, were saved from death.
A homeopathic dspensary is about to be
established at Cleveland for the purpose of
afording gratuitous medical advice and
treatment to the suffering poor of that city.
The wife Of Thomas Chadwick, Esq, Of
East Waterloo township, iowa, arose from
her bed in the middle of the night, without
the knowledge OF her husband, went TO the
room of her little soon, took him from his
bed and kissed him ahectionately; thence
she proceeded to the grave of her child
which had been buried a few weeks pre-
vious, and after remaining there a short
period, went TO the Cedar river and threw
herself in. Her steps were traced to the
point, and her dead body found in the
water. Mrs. Chadwick was a lady highly
esteemed, and never had manifested any
evidences of insanity, although she had
been much distressed by the death Of her
! child. Since its death she seemed to labor
under the conviction that she had in some
/ way neglected her duty to her lost one, and
she frequently upbraided herself for it.
| There was said TO be no ground Cor this
! self-reproach.
] n W ~ ubt AtNlEI libllA AHEN bNlLg ~ Ng sdJb
/ that az the United States District Court,
now in session in that city, white man has
! Just been convicted of passing counterfeit
national currency, a black man having been
/ the principal, if not the only, witness
/ against him. The writer, speaking Of such
! testimony, says: This marks a new era
| in the history Of North Carolina under the
Civil Rights principle"
Late advices concerning Hon. Jacob
| Thompson, of Mississippi, left him a wan
derer in the Holy Land, Stunned and snub-
/ bed by nearly all Americans whom we met,
/ and denied entertainment at an inn in Je-
rusalem, lest his presence should give Of
/ fence to any of his CoUntrymen who were
among the guests. He has since returned
90 Paris with his family. In conversation
with a NOrtherner recently, he stated that
| he accepted the situation;" and more,
| that were the ban removed from him and
the stigma which rests upon his name, upon
the charge Of having been engaged in the
assassination conspiracy, he would go to
| Mississippi and do his best TO aid in the re-
| construction.
The Nashville correspondent Of the Mem
| phis Argus says: |The negro-loving popula-
| ton OF city, Of course attributed the whole
! cfiair lthe riot) to the leading rebels of the
| city (Memphis). Yesterday morning an
| officer of q negro regiment remarked IN our
| presence that he was "truly gratiied 10 hear
/ Of the riot" and continued his remarks by
saying: cd d-n it, l am glad of it. 1t
| keeps the Cd d-n sons of BIS out Of
! Congress that much longer. 1t has all been
caused by those d-d rebels in Memphis,
and is worth more to US than if a rebe.
/ State had refused to repudiate the rebel war
debt" This comes from a chap who never
| smelt powder, or heard the roar of battle
only in the distance.
A Cotton growing Association" has been
o-ranized at Jackson, Miss, the object of
! which is 10 procure "lrom planters through
ont the State statistical data relative to the
cotton crop Of 1860, and the probable yield
| of 1866" S. p. Bailey was elected Chair
man. and j. W. Robinson Secretary Of the
Association.
The editor Of the Georgetown (S.C.) Times
/ says that from conversations had with many
planters iD that district, he does not think
| that Georgetown will make over One-elghth
| Of a crop OF rice this year.
On Tuesday last, a negro in Columbia,
| S. c., stabbed two merchants Of that place
with a sword cane. One of them is quite
dangerously wounded. The negro went into
the Store and asked for some paper collars,
but objected to the price asked, and finally
a light eusued. The affair created consider
able excitement in the city.
Officers Of the Freedmen's Bureau in
North Carolina have come 70 grief. 1t has
trsnspired that they have been running
plantations on their own account, and VITA
out making any return to the Government.
The commissioner for the State, a Massa-
chusetts loyslst, is the principal Yil ain
concerned.