The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-20
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New YoRE, March 1S-Ma, Tor Hoffman
rose from a bed of sickness TO receive the
column Of Fenians yesterday and remained
at his post in front Of the City Hall for only
half an hour, when excessive fatigue com
PEELED him TO retire.
The Times Montreal CORR sponhent says
that the drain upon the SAY ings Bank hiss
been quite important. Dep ositors residing
full fifty miles from Mont real have been
arriving ia hot haste duri og the past four
days to relieve their litte eli from seizure
by the Fenians. An iner' ase of the yolun-
teer force TO $4,000 men is highly probable.
and in sddition to thisfhs re 8 q probability
Of arming a home guar / Of 10000 men.
rhe volunteers now org anized cost $50, 600
per day. The supportA Tsch man exclusive
OF arms and ammunitiEa supplied BY the
British Government, nav be fairly esti-
mated at twenty dolla "a per man. We have,
therefore, since Thur sdsy last, when men
came hrst under pay a colonial expenditure
Of $3.50, 600 in gold.
A late Mexican c orresnondent states thai
the French troops re-oScupied Chihuahus
on the 18th Of Dec ember.
Two days prev ious Juarez, who was no
tilted OF their C oming made a forced loan
OF $IO,OOO on the. population Of the unhappy
town, accompanied by his cabinet and
his army OF 2,JB0 men he took The road to
FL Psso, where he arrived on the 18Th.
Du=ingth twenty days That Chihuahua
was occupied by Jasfez, $4,000 were
stricken at the mint, and the merchants
have paid over SIS, zoe.
Although the roads from Tafaesnequin TO
Tia are guarded by I 400 men, it does not
insure security Of person or property.
The most outrageous crimes are freouent-
ly committed within q few leagues of the
Capital On the Santa Barbara road a tray
eler counted fourteen bodies hung TO trees. /
Pedro Blsnco, one Of Mendeze's staff. has
carried enmity SO far as to hang an entire
family, including a child about four wears
old. As yet the culprits are at large.
There IS not a village with inhabitants on
the Santa Barbara roads. Several of them
have been destroyed by fire. Chama was
burned TO the last house because three HIM
dred residents could not subdue thirty-seyen
French soldiers. No person is secure there. |
and a great many are leaving, and vet there
are not more than four or five hundred resi- |
dents 10 that vicinity
INDIANAPOLIS, March lS.-The nlatfarm
and ticket Of the Democratic State ConT7er-
ton are very acceptable to the copservatiVa
citizens OF the State, aud will unite all ele- |
hleA's OF oPPosition TO the radical .Repub- |
Icans in the fall elections,
we learn rom private sources that there
is no prospect Of Governor Morton's recovo
cry, ms mind as well as body is affected.
Inc rams OF last week have done immense
damage to dams and bridges all over the
STATE. Tn destruction of a fine dam across
the Wabash, at Delphi, feeder for the canal
loF q long distance, will about use up that
WORK below hat place, besides making uss-
less the mills upon it, some of which are
valuable. The canal has been worked for
several years by a company, who leased il
from the bOndholders, and ii is not proba.
Die they will repair it. The damage TO
Delphi dam alone hsiHg $40, 900.