Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-28
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
FROM WASHINGTON.

Cholera as ST. ThOuRs = President
johnson Denies the Reported Com
VersatiOn between Himself and Egg
gIestOn, etc.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The Department
Of State has received information that the
Asiatic cholera, in most malignant form,
has broken out at st. Thomas, in the West
Indies, creating great alarm among the
shipping.
The President denies the reported con-
versation with Congressman Eggleston. He
says that no political matters were dis
Cussed
1t is again reported that oar government
has received satisfactory adyices regarding
the claims against England, in reference to
Confederate vessels and their depredations.
There is every reason to believe that the
claims will be fully recognized by the Brit
ish Cabinet, and our government will re-
cOgnize the claims Of England against the
United States.
A general order is said to be in prepara-
ton. aequainting Observation-Disclosures
with the result Of the decision IF the So
preme Court with reference to oourt nar'
| tials, and directing them to cOHfue taim-
| selves strictly to military matters.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The State De-
partment knows nothing of the repOrte
| grant of Lower California to a company Of
| Americans, under whose auspices Ross
| Brown is to leave San Francisco next week
| with a surveying party.
The high tariff lobby will attempt TO
have the law creating a statistical bureau re-
| pealed as Mr.. Delman's figures and facts
| disprove their assertions and theories.
| 1t is ascertained hat decided majority
of Republican me.hbers hold that Congress
is bound to admit the Representatives of
any Southern State that adopts the censti-
tutional amendment within a reasonable
| time.
The Mexican question is still unsettled,
| but the President Yesterday EXPIRE sed the
opinion that the result would soon be salts
factory.
Mr.. Wells will submit the report and
draft Of the new tariff bill on Thursday
next. There will be compromise on the
tariff project, but TO what extent is yet
unknown.
| In a case from Mississippi, the United
| States Supreme Court held that where a
judgment is concluded by court in one
| State il is equally concluded as to every
Il OlUCT, dIll 50 TGIudlllS ulllll SCI uSluC ny Il
| superior court or by court of chancery,
on the basis of section one of article four
of the constitution, that full force and credit
shall be given in each State to the public
acts, records and Judiciary proceedings of
every other State.
| Governor Orr, of South Carolina, re-
Gently called on Gen. Scott to disperse
alleged military organization of blacks on
King street. The General sent soldiers for
the purpose and found the statement was
erroneous, and based only on the fears of
| planters who are accused of attempting TO
force freedmen to work for low prices. They
had merely met to discuss the labor ques-
ton, and this gave rise to rumors.
| Gov. Patton, of Alabama, is at Wizards,
| Secretary McCullOch has returned to the
city.
it is positively asserted that Ross Brown
will head a surveying and exploring party
into Lower California. The American
company who purchased it from the Juarez
government are Gen. Butler, Richard
Sehell and Geo. Wilks, of Wilks' Spirit,
Ben Holiday, of the overland route, and
others are interested in the company.
johnson Noble, of Kentecky, ex-COn-
gresham, has been pardoned by the Presi-
dent.
Gen. Grant is still confined to his room,
with severe cold but much better.