The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-24

JUL JUN n. Logan declines 10 run
for Congress.
Col John Logan, father Of the Gen
eral has been appointed Marshal Of
the Southern District of Illinois
The Z. S. Federal Court, Judge
Trigg, convened at Knoxville on
Monday last
The Emperor Of Russia, being aware
Of the disproportion between the moral
culture Of his preserver, Komissaroff,
and his new position, has resolved to
remedy the evil. His Majesty has re.
quested Gen. TOdleben, as a personal
service, to undertake the direction of
the newly made mobiles education.
The defender of SebastopoI has &C
cepted the task with pleasure.
Arrangements have been made for a
grand celebration in Detroit the COM
ing Fourth Of July. All the colors of
the Michigan regiments are to be re-
ceived by the State, and the officers
and soldiers of these regiments are to
have a grand parade.
There are now at the University of
Virginia two hundred and thirty-eight
students, while there were in 1861 only
sixty students in 1862, but forty-six; in
1868, fifty, and in lS64-5, fifty-fve.
The directors and officers of the Mer-
chants National Bank at Washington
are to be arrested for fraud
Gen. Fremont has purchased the
Southwest Pacific Railroad of the State
Of Missouri for 81, 100000. >
Over two thousand bodies have been
disintered and placed in the National
Cemetery at Seven Pines, one thousand
and two hundred of whom are un,
known. The work still goes on.
The Philadelphia Ledger's Washing.
ton dispatch says:
ut is current talk here that the
Southern States are to be allowed rep
resentatiVes in Congress after the lapse
ola certain time, provided they will
| acqulesce IN the election of General
Grant to the Presidency. l have the
| details of the scheme, but as there is
not the ghost of q chance of its success,
l omit them as so much rubbish"
A letter written more than thirty
years ago by Rev. DR.. jackson on the
vanity Of heather women, cites as one
/ proof Of their heathenish customs that
the Karen women wore fancifully con,
/ stTuCted bags inclosing the hair, and
suspended from the back part of the
head
A Convention is to be held in Boston
on the 9th of June, to consider the
/ problem of the training and reforma.
ton of vagrant children and juvenile
criminals, the present condition Of the
orphan asylums, pauper schools and re
iOTmatOries of the United States, anC
what additional means are needed e
prevent and check vice among the
young.
The great Union Pacific railway
/ steadily progresses westward, and il
about two months the locomotive viii
follow the setting sun IS far as Fort Ri
/ ley, four hundred and twenty miles
west Of ST Louis. AS fast as the ROAD
is built and accepted, the Government
aid bonds are issued
The Baton Rouge Advocate of the l4tE
inst says the new levee just above tho
/ crevasse at Chinn's, broke on Sunday
and added additional volume to the
flood. We are informed the back watel
is rising with extraordinary rapidity
| A gentleman informs US that at Col
| DuraIdes residence he observed tht
rise, and gives one inch per hour as the
| result of his observation. We learn
also, that the water has advanced 81
far as the sugar house on the pIanta
ton of the late DR.. Lysle, which is no
| over 500 yards from the river bank.
The High Court of Mississippi hal
| decided against the validity of thC
Cotton Courts" established by Gov
| Sharkey. Chief Justice Handy dissent
ed from the opinion of the majority o
the Court.
The Alton Telegraph says the owners
of the old penitentiary in that city who
have made a claim upon the United
States for damages to the amount O
! S25 600, received from the Government
$3.50 per month for the use OF the pri
son during the rebellion. The rem
alone amounted TO nearly as much 81
all the buildings in the yard are worth
The Kentucky guerilla, Samuel Der
Ty, who was in command Of one Of tht
maTauding bands of that State at tht
close Of the war, has arrived at Albany
lie is a yOUngerly man; tall fair fea
lures, sharp eye, and has anything bu
the look of a marauding guerrilla. Il,
has but one arm He was arrested
tried, and sentenced to be hung, bu
his sentence was committed to ter
years in the Albany Penitentiary.
The work of rebuilding the Virgins
Military Institute, burnt by Gen. Hun
ter, has commenced.
We are gratified to learn that more
interest is being manifested amongst
our capitalists and business men in tbs
construction Of the Lynchburg aEc
Danville Railroad, than has been pre-
viously exhibited. Some of our most
energetic business men are Workinl
faithfully TO procure the subscription
Of sufficient stock to secure the charter
of the road at least, and, although we
are not Gpprized of the amount actually
subscribed, we feel warranted in saying
that the prospects are much more en-
/ cOuraging-Lyack61vy Nc0s.
Rev. Mr.. Porter, of South Carolina
preached in DR.. Huntington church
at Boston, on Sunday, and said tina
within two years his State would have
a suffrage law ike that of Massachu-
sets, giving the right TO those who can
read and write, without regard K
color
A Boston letter to the Chicago Jour
nal says it was three weeks after the
/ execution of Green, the Maiden muir
| derer, before his wife was informed o.
her husbands death. She says that
many times within the last three week.
she has attempted to write to him, but
q mysterious something prevented hel
putting pen 10 paper She had not
/ once suspected the truth. Green has
been heard from by spirituahsts, and