The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-03
THE NEWS.

A joint stock company has been Or
CARRIED in Pittsburgh, for the purpose
of building good tenement houses, to
be rented at reasonable rates. The
company proposes to build one hun
dred and seventy houses at once
The New York Commercials Wash.
ington special says it is rumored thai
the President advocates the calling oil
a National Constitutional Convention
to settle the issues now pending
Doubtful.
A rumor is aaoat in Washington that
the Austrian Minister is irate to the
point of demanding his passports, con.
corning the note of Mr.. Seward TO ouY
Minister at Vienna, protesting against
the proposed Austrian reinforcements
for Macmillan.
Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, asserted
in debate Monday, that the Assistant
Postmaster General had remarked that
no man should eat President j Johnson
bread and butter who does not support
his policy.
The aggregate appropriations in the
bill reported Monday for the Freed.
mems Bureau, for the next fiscal year,
is Sl0,684,0OO
The Agricultural Bureau is in receipt
OF a swarm of stingless bees from Hon
duras. They are said to be excellent
honey-makers.
The Missouri Radical Csntral Com
mittee have adopted and issued a Sc
ries of resolutions indorsing the action
of Congress against the President upon
the reconstruction question, opposing
the admission to Congress of any one
having participated in the rebellion,
taking strong grounds against the re-
peal or modification of the Congress
sional test oath, affirming the Monroe
doctrine in regard to Mexico, advising
Congress to sit until the 4th of March,
1866, unless the reconstruction of the
Union has been settled before that
time in accordance with the princi-
pies laid down in the Declaration of
Independence.
By fire in New Haven, Monday
morning, the works of the New Haven
Clock Company were entirely con-
sumed. Eleven dwelling houses in the
vicinity were also destroyed, and some
twenty or thirty families are deprived
of houses. Two hundred workmen are
thrown out of employment. The loss
will amount to 100000.
Sylvanus Packard, a merchant of
Boston, who died a week or two since,
left over 100000 to Tafts College, a
UniVersalist institution at Somerville,
Mass, to which he had been liberal
friend during his lifetime.
The Agricultural Committee of the
House are making thorough investi-
cation into the affairs of Commissioner
Newton, of the Agricultural Depart
ment 1t is alleged that he has been
guilty of fraud, of misrepresentation of
public moneys, of keeping fictitious
names on the pay rolls of his Bureau,
and putting the money paid out for
them into his own pocket; of renting
needless buildings at Government ex-
pense and for his own benefit. The
committee have examined several wit
nesses, including the chief clerk and
other subordinates What conclusion
they will reach cannot yet be indica-
ted. ...
The Philadelphia Fenians are getting
obtrusive They have appointed com
mittee to proceed to New York, to see
what O'Mahony is doing with the mon,
ey, and they will probably ask some
awkward questions about the Maine
campaign"
Stockholders, who so ignominiously
left their country in her time of need,
and went into the British Provinces to
escape duty, are now called upon to
pay a tax of three dollars to the crown,
become liable to military duty if they
do not, otherwise they must leave the
country.
The Miantonomah will soon proceed
to the fishing grounds, to protect
American interests there. Well in
formed persons, it is stated, believe that
a collision is quite probable in the Bri-
fish North American waters. tll
A young indianapolis jeweler, named
Schnapp, shot himself dead day before
yesterday, on account of cross in
love.
The round-house of the Chicago and
Rock Island Railroad, at Peru, Hi
nois, was burned down last Friday
afternoon.
A Washington dispatch states that
there is reason to believe that the
President will soon appoint q new
Commissioner of Agriculture, in re-
spouse to an almost universal request.
General Sickles is disposed to de.
cline the appointment as Minister to
the Hague.
A dispatch from Washington states
that the Bank Committee have decided
to report against the creation of any
more National Banks.
The excess of westward bound trav-
elers over eastern bound, that passed
through Chicago during April is esti-
mated at 10000 This is an index to
the flow of emigration to the West this
spring.
General r. B. Mitchell, the newly ap.
pointed Governor of New Mexico, has
arrived in the Territory. He will not
take charge Of the Office until the term
| of Governor Connolly shall have ex-
PRED, which will be about the middle
of July. Mr.. Pratt, the new Marshal
for the territory arrived with him
The proposition before the Iowa Leg
islature to amend the constitution, by
erasing the word "white" from the arti-
Gle of suffrage, has passed both houses
of the Legislature.
The Springfield Mass Republican
saws: If members OF Congress will take
mains TO inquire they will find that not
a few of the most stapnch and inhuen-
tiaI republicans all over the country be-
lieye that loyal representatives from
the South should be admitted to Con-
gress. and that their continued exclu.
sion threatens ruin to the party.
Under the Civil Rights law, in a re-
cent case in Anne Arundel county,
Maryland, a negro was placed on the
witness stand-a new thing In that
State.
1t is said that Brevet Brigadier Gen
eral Alden has been appointed Post
master of Troy, to succeed Thomas
/ Cloves, deceased. This is an excellent
| appointment General Alden served
heroically through the war. At the
assault at Fort Fisher he was terribly
wounded, and at first supposed to be
dead. By what seemed almost mira
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