The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-19
THE NEWS.

1t is announced that there is a ma
jority in the Senate in favor Of sustain
ing the Colorado veto.
The United States Consul at Santa
60, Cape Verde Island, writes TO the
Department Of State under date of
April l3, that in consequence Of the
continued state Of famine in those Is
lands, the Portuguese Government has
declared entrance in that archipelago,
free Of duty, of corn meal, rice, beans,
dried and sailed meats, and lard, until
the end Of the present year.
There is much degtitution amongst
the poor in Blount county, Alabama,
and Judge R. II. Wilson has been
commissioned TO ask contributions in
their behalf He was at Huntsville on
the 10th.
The Boston Traveller says that with
in a circle Of twenty miles of Boston
there now lives nearly one third of the
population of Massachusetts, or con-
siderably over four hundred thousand
souls.
1t is rumored in indianapolis that
Colonel Garland Ross has been ap-
pointed Postmaster Of that city in place
Of H. Conner.
The latest advices from Arizona
pronounce the reported massacre at
Fort Goodwin without foundation.
A Paris correspondent says that the
French government Is devoting con-
siderable attention to the protection of
literary property in all the countries
which have signed international trea-
ties with France The Minister of
State has referred the subject Of the IL
legal reproduction of French works in
the Nation Suisse to the Minister Of
Foreign Affairs.
A patriotic real estate broker in Chi
cago, who during the war coniscAted
large sum Of money belonging to re-
bel North CaTolinian, and devoted It TO
his own private uses, has been com
PEELED to shell out by a decision Of the
superior Court. Republics are migrate
full
The Secretary of War has ordered
Paymaster Paulding under close arrest
II will be remembered that Col Pauld-
ing was the principal Government de
position in the Merchants National
Bank. Other arrests are likely to fol-
low.
Secretary Seward, it is said, has writ
/ ten to Minister BigeloW that the French
Government is not carrying out its
withdrawal Of French troops from Mex
leo in good faith, but, on the contrary,
has sent additional troops there since
the agreement for a withdrawal was
made This Government, of course, in
sists that the understanding must be
! fully carried out, and that no addi-
tional troops must be dispatched to
Mexico.
Gov. Cummings, of Colorado, &c otici0
Superintendent of Indian Affairs, has
arrived in Washington, and reports
perfect quiet on the plains along the
old emigrsnt route.
A reporter of the New York Herald
had, Tuesday, an interview with Santa
Anna, during which the General utterly
denied the allegations published against
him, and entierly repudiated all comm
vance with Macmillan.
1t is stated that Hon. Francis Spin
ner intends shortly to offer his resigna
ton as u. S. Treasurer so as to accept
the Presidency of New York Insu
rance Company.
Our Consul at Liverpool, under date
Of May ,, reports that there was nc
cholera in that city.
The Illinois Homeopathic Medica.
Association is holding its annual con
) vention at Chicago.
The cold weather last week is re.
D ported to have seriously damaged the
, fruit crop all through the Northwest
r The Postmaster General, during the
past month, has ordered two hundred
and eighty-six postofises to be re
opened IN the Southern States.
A correspondent of the Mobile Reg,
lister relates that q friend of his, having
with him his wife and servant, stopped
at the St Charles one day. and in the
morning was presented with the fol
lowing gentle bill
Mr.. --, to St Charles Hotel, DR.
TO board one day, dinner, tea self
lady and servant, $50, meals in room
extra, 81 SO. Total, $37 90
Plaster an invaluable fertiliser, ha
been discovered in inexhaustible guam
titles in Rockingham county, Va.
Pearl. gray and azure blae are tn,
b fashionable color for Paris ladies stock
ings. and boots of black satin, Will
gilt heels.
Gov. Orr. Of South Carolina, regard
, ing the teaching of freed people, be
ieves it good for them and good for tn
State. lie says the teachers shall b
protected in their duties, and that tn
e prejudice against them and their Occu
patton is disappearing.
An enthusiastic johnson meeting wa
held at Newark, Knox county. SOM
fifteen hundred persons were in atten
dance. A set of resolutions, endorsing
President Johnson's administration
and condemning in unmeasured term
the acts of our Congress, were read anC
adopted without dissenting voice.
Gen. Burnside will be inaugurated a
Governor of Rhode Island, at Newport
9 on the Doth, and all the military or
e carnations in the State have been IN
: | yited to attend.
Honorable H. S. Lane, of Indiana
writes to the editor of the Lafsy
cite lind Journal that he will il
no event be a candidate for re-elec
ton to the United States Senate. II,
gives as his reason for taking this stey
that his failing health and declining
wears admonish him TO decline all fur
Their active participation in politics"
AdeIina Patti babe farewell to he
Partisan friends amid blaze of glory
A Paris letter writer says: All the en-
thusisstic admirers Of the young canta
trice were there, tanning the Italian
l ,,,ora bo1sn from Dartprrp to dome aQt