Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-16
ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.

= Southern members are fully recognized by the
Executive Departments Of the Government. They
have the franking privilege, and are notified to
appoint TO fill the vacancies in the regular army.
The Judges ofthe Supreme Court have been in
consultation ON the constitutionalty Of the test
oath. upon which there Is difference Of opinion.
The National IateiligcRccr says; I'VE learn
that the muster out Of Lafayette C. Baker as a
Brigadier-Gencral was not in consequence Of any
dissatisfaction in the mind Of the Secretary Of
War toward his jealous and skillful instrument,
but in obedience TO an express command Of the
President"
Capt. Whitman has been assigned TO the
special duty Of visiting theI battle-ground eeme-
teries and places where the Union dead have been
inferred in that military division, and to report
thereon, with a view TO the establishment Of ma
fional cemeteries and the removal 10 these Of the
dead, on the plan of those already in process Of
completion at Chattanooga and Stone River. The
above is part ofthe general plan already inaug-
urhted by Major Gen. Meigs
Second Assistant Postmaster General Fenly
has left Washington for various parts Of the South
in order 10 make better arrangements for mail
facilities.
of the nino thousand post-offees m the dis
loyal States about two thousand have been re-
opened. Nearly three hundred Of these have re-
ceived post-mistresses because no man could be
found who could take the oath that he had not
borne arms against his country.
The Times correspondence states that a com
plimentary dinner WAS given TO Gen. schoheld on
the anniversary Of the battle of Nashville. The
American Minister and number Of officers and
citizens soOurning in Paris were present.
The Alexandria 0a.) Democrat publishes a
letter of Gen. W. 7. Sherman 10 his friends in
Rapides parish, in which he contradicts the gen
eral impression that his appointment as Superin-
tendent Of the Louisiana Military Academy at
Alexandria before the war was due to Bragg or
Beauregard. lie also contradicts the impression
that when he left Louisiana he was pledged not
10 take service against the South. lie did not
say at Alexandria that war would be the ineyita-
BILE result Of secession. At Now ORLEANS. on the
evening Of departure for st. Louis he might have
said TO Bragg that be was not going North to seek
military service. which true. He refused to
enter the volunteer force first called out by Lin
coin. because he considered that the whole South
would become involved in war, which could be
handled only BY vast armies of regulars.
General Sherman concludes: Il wish the
South well. and If have been scourge, think
how much better that it was than Ben. Butler.
or some other Of that school,
1T may be stated with reference TO the recent
dispatch to the Mobile Adcerfiser touching the
withdrawal Of troops from Alabama and Georgia,
that in acting upon the application Of Gov. Par
sons to withdraw them from the former States and
arrping the local militia Lieut.. Gen. Grant has
man the following reply: For the present and
until there Is full security for cquiiably main
tanning the rights and safety OF all citizens in
the States lately In rebellion, would not recon
mend the withdrawal Of the United States troops
from them. The number Of the interior garTi-
sons might be reduced, hut a force sufficient TO
insure tranquility should be retained. While
such force is retained in the South doubt the
propricty Of putting arms in the hands OF the
militia"
The Legislature Of Virginia has appropriated
the sum Of ten thousand dollars for the relief Of
Mrs. jackson. relict of the immortal Stonowall.
The people Of North Alabama and North
Mississippi recently met in convention in the town
Of Iuka, for the purpose Of taking Into considers
ton the proprieiy of buildings railroad from that
place TO the Tennessee river.
A court, Of which Major-ieneral JcH. G..
Davis, United States Volunteers, is President, Is
convened 10 meet ut the Judge Advocates Office
this morning at 10 o'clock. for tho trial Of one
armed Berry. The case will be a rather lclioss
one. IS the prisoner stands charged with fourteen
murders and two rapes negro women. The
number OF witnesses for the United Statcs will
reach nearly one hundred. II win tiseion,sv
probably occupy ten or eleven days in hearing.
About o'clock yesterday evening u murder
was committed under circumstances Of singular
old-bloodcdncss and atrocity by two negro sol
diers.
"A new hotel, largcr-than the famous Lindell
House. is TO be erected in st Louishext-spring.
The Madrid correspondent of the London
Times says a report is current that suspicious
looking vessels, supposed 10 be privatccrE, had
been seen about the waters Of Cadiz. The alarm of
the maritime portion Of that.town is described rs
considerable. and the assurances Of the Government
that the Spanish merchantmen would be protect
ell on all seas has not produced much confidence
at Cadiz. Three additional frigetes we're about
10 leave Spain for the Pacific
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