The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-11
BY LAST NIGHTS NAIL.


McHenry, near Baltimore, 10 the mouth OF
the Potomac river, fixes the amount at 81
I07 900.
The President sent TO Congress to-day
message enclosing q communication from /
the Secretary Of the Interior, with accom-
panying papers, in reference 10 the grants
Of lands made BY acts Of Congress in 1880, /
1858, and 1854 TO the States Of Mississippi, |
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and Louisiana,
to aid in the construction of railroads.
These grants will expire by limitation on /
the 18th Of August next, leaving the roads /
for whose benefit they were conferred IN sn
unfinished condition. It is recommeded /
that the time within which they msy De |
completed be extended for period OF I'VE
years.
The Commissioner General, in his letter /
10 the Secretary of the Interior, urges the /
accomplishment of these important works.
He saws they cannot fail TO add 10 the pro-
perry not only Of the several States but OF
tie entire country. The letter OF the Secre-
tsry is in accordance with the views of the
Commissioners. The roads embrace the
Mobile and Ohio, the Southern, the Gulf
and Mississippi, the Alabama aad Florida,
the Pensacola and Georgia, the New Or
leans and Great Western, and other roads.
The quantity Of laJd incurred under these
grants is estimated at over eleven millions
Of acres.
Representative Garfield to-day introduced
bill. the consideration Of which is post
poned until the I'd Of December next, pro-
posing a national railroad, established IN
connection with interior roads, and author
ICES any number of persons, when the
necessary capital is subscribed, to construct
a road from one State to another. The
courts are required TO grant the right Of way
and appoint commissioners to assess dam
ages for the land occupied.
The bill also authorized other lines to
consolidate and become a national railroad,
and restrict the character of the trade and
the tariff Of the charges. The plan is in
effect to the national law what integral
State law is TO the State. The power
claimed for the passage Of the bill IS con-
tanned in the clauses of the Constitution
relative TO the regulations of commerce and
TO establish postal and military railroads.
By this bill the railroad business is open to
general competition.
Stephen Powers, the correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, was before the
Reconstruction Committee to-day, and tes-
tilted at length respecting Florida, Louisi-
ana, and Texas. lie takes hopeful view.
The vote was taken this afternoon as to
whether the civil rights bill should pass
over the veto Of the President, and the bill
=
Speaker then declared that the bill had be-
come a law, when tremendous, long con-
tinued, and desfening applause was given,
which was followed by Kisses, amid which
the House adjourned.
CINCINNATI, March 9-P. N.-The wife Of
Sam. X. Ross, Justice of the Peace, was
burned to death tn S noon, her garments
taking fire as she was preparing dinner.
She was found dead on the floor, charred to
a crisp, having tainted, it is supposed, be-
/ fore being able to give the alarm.
HALIFAX, April 9.-The following addition
al news was received by the steamer Eng
land;
Capt Grace, of the steamer Englan !, re
| ports that on Tuesday was the first case Of
| cholera, since which $50 more cases have
| broken out and so deaths have occurred,
| She was ordered off by the Government,
! but owing to the rapid spread Of the disease
and the engineers being sick it was found
| impossible TO proceed. She now lies below
the lighthouse. Part Of the passengers will
| be placed on board the hospital ship and
shanties erected on the beach for the sick.
| There will be no communication with the
sh D. The authorities are doing all in their
power to relieve the unfoTtunats passengers.
| There are three doctors on board TO look at-
ter them. She had l,202 passengers and
100 crew. The passengers are principally
! German and Irish.
The prospects of an Austro Prussian war
are increasing. A crisis is considered i'm
minent.
The following news is taken from the
| Cork papers Of March 2Qth:
! Notwithstanding the Eastern holidays,
| the Cabinet meetings were not suspended.
The Times, Herald, Advertiser, and Post
| condemn with more or less severity Mr..
| Brieht's b .rmipgham letter.
! Berlin, March 27.-The Zeitsrishe's CORE
| spondent to-day publishes an article, rep
resenting the present state of AustrO-Prus
/ sian relations as serious. He considers the
| crisis far from decreasing.
! The Berlin correspondent of the Times
| says Prussia has not modified or dispatch
| ed in the direction of the frontier q single
regiment, Some few reserves have been
| called in, but it can positively be said that
they do not come up to the number which,
/ in most peaceful times, has been collected
| on the appearance of some danger in the
| diplomatic question, That the mobiliza-
! ton Of the entire army is contemplated,
| and is prepared TO be carried out at a mo-
| ment's warning, does not admit of doubt.
There is no foundation in the rumored al
| lance between Italy and Prussia. The
| Italian Government desires TO observe the
strictest neutrality in any conflict which
| occurs between ITuSBlu ana AuStrlas
The Times says the struggle for lowering
| the franchise and redistribution of seats IS
deemed an impossibility.
The Fenian invasion Of Cansda, and the
| consequences to which it may lead, are re-
! feIred to- and the Times expresses the hope
| that the United States will compensate
| England for the passive attitude she has
| heretofore assumed.
The Times on the ref rm bill says Look
| ing al what the trades unions accomplish,
We deny thst the working classes are really
excluded from power in our politics. They
WELD and apply for greater power than
/ any electoral privilege could give them.
RuSsid-The nobility assembly at St. Pc
| tersburg have carried by lS7 to 10 q petit
| ton from Prince Schuzcherbatoff, Presi-
| dent Of the Assembly, to the Emperor,
! praying him to permit the provisional par
! liaments to discuss and address him on home
| concerns unfortunately. Itwas, Of course,
negatived by the Gar.
A short time ago the orlginators Of similer
| addresses were deposed and hanished to
] siberia.
! Nav ORLEANS, April s.-There were nu-
| mer0us attacks in the city by slung-shot,
and citizens were robbed. Many lunatioI
are abroad. These robbers and lunatics
were freed from prisons and asylums during
the war, and came from all parts Of the
country,
Lower crevasses successfully closed; up
| per creyasses too large 10 close, but ends of
levees secured.
SHREVEPORT, April 4.-Very little cotton
from the interior, though the demand il
| good and prices advanced,
ST. LOUIS, April 9.--The origin of tina
! disastrous steamboat conhagratiOn at our
| leYee, Saturday, has been traced to coal oil.
! which, it is thought, has been the cause Of
| the late two or three extensive steamboat
accidents in the West
It is reported the cook of the Nevada, on
which boat the FIRE caught, was lighting the
fire in the cook-hoUse, TO make it burn more
rapidly; he undertook te-pour some oil out
Of lamp on the FIRE, when it iguited and
hurst, running all over the floor, whc h
klndled the ire that resulted in the loss of
! $500, 900.
The Board of Underwriters have under
adviaement the prohibition of the use of
coal oil on steamers altogether.
HARTFORD, Conn, April 9.-The result of
the Hartford city election to-day was the
| election of the entire city ticket by the DEM
ocrats, totally changing the political char
acter Of the city government. The Demo-
/ Gratis have elected c. i. Chapman Mayor
over Allen D. Stillmsn, the present Mayor,
10y 225 msjority, and have majority in the
| council.
NEw York, April 9.-Dates from San Do
mingo to the 25th Of March give particulars
| Of the great FIRE at Port-su- Prince on the
| 18th. The fire continued for thirty hours
The cause is unknown but it is a fact that
| efforts were made by some men TO set on
fire houses that had escaped.
Thirty-three blocks were completely
burned down, embracing about 200
| houses.
Eight or nine thousand people are now
without homes. Many were not able even
to save clothes for themselves and children
from the flames. There is great distress in
| consequence.
iSr. PETERSBURG, RA., March Is. 1866.
pEAR SIR deem it my duty 10 denouncs
the course Of Sumner and Stevens. IfoEe
/ nan remains loyal he IS tie State. stand
| by the Presidents veto Of the Freedmen's
/ Bureau bill. Let the States give the freed.
men all civil rights, and by degrees extend
! 10 them the right OF suffrage. Or else let an
| amendment Of the Constitution make one
/ rule Of suffrage for all the States This at
t-mpt Of Congress to interfere with the
| rights Of the states after the war-poEer
/ ceases, is a usurpation Of power unknown TO
the Constitution and subyersive of the
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