The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-15
THE NEWS.


Cumberland bridge having been thor
oughly repaired, the construction train
is in active motion on the south side,
and as soon as the rails are laid on the
new bridges and trestle, it viii attack
the landslide at Tennessee ridge, the
only serious obstacle between here and
Tennessee river The managers are
pushing the work ahead with com
mendable speed, and viii get through
to Paris, we fear, considerably in ad-
vance of Memphis.
The Chronicle also says on Friday
last difficulty occurred near Pleasant
Mound, Tenn, between one Mr.. Hodge
and B. C. Felts. During the afray
Felts was shot and severely, but not
dangerously wounded Hodge received
several blows from a stick in the hands
Of Felts.
An examination of the antecedents
Of the clerks of the various Depart
ments, under the Green Clay Smith re-
solution, shows that several have been
in the rebel army. 0ne of these is a
near relative of Senator Cragin, of New
Hampshire.
The Senate has postponed the con-
sideration of the nomination of Gen.
s F. Cary as Collector of the Second
District of Ohio, upon the request of
many of the leading merchants of Gin
cinDati who wish to be heard on the
subject before final action is taken.
During the month of April last the
Commissioner of the General Land
Office issued patents for California claims
amounting to 67 ,639 acres. During the
same period Oregon donation patents
covering 81, ,857 acres were issued by the
same Office.
Hitherto it has been q matter of no
little labor and difficulty to break up
large pieces of cast-iron-old cannons
for instance into fragments small
enough to be conveniently remelted.
An ingenious method of overcoming
this difficulty has recently been brought
forward in France. 1t depends upon
the familiar physical facts that water
is, practically, as good as incompressi-
bic, and that liquids transmit equally
in all directions any pressure to which
they may be subjected. A hole having
| been drilled into the article to be brok-
en-, to a depth equal TO about one-third
the thickness of the iron, this hole is
| filed with water, AMI then closed with
a closely-ftting steel plug, the hammer
of a pile-driver being now allowed to
fall upon the plug, the mass of cast-iron
will be broken in two at the first blow.
At a grand dinner given recently by
the homeopathic physicians of Paris, it
was announced that a universal con-
| gress of the followers of Hahnemaan
/ will take place in 1867, and that all the
works relating to their system of prac-
tice will be on view at the exposition.
The wicked editor of the Springfield
Republican says this: "GaTters with
diamond buckles are worn with the
new hoops in Paris. 1t is impossible
not to see that they are not introduced
here yet
The Anglo American Times, pub
lished at London, has this item of in
formation "The trial of Mr.. Davis is
expected to take place at the Circular
Court at Richmond within two months
from this date.
The Mississippi Index, printed at
Columbus, Mississippi, says: ''The freed
men met at the mayors Office on Thurs
day night to organise a fire company
among themselves. An example for
the white people to follow. 1t is satire
on our want of public spirit
Lieutenant General Grant has in
structed the Military Department Com
manders to abolish the Districts under
their command as rapidly as circum-
stances will permit
The n. Y. Tribune has advices from
st Thomas stating that French steam
er arrived there on the I'd instant with
l,2OO French troops for Mexico. A
rather singular prelimary to the evacu-
alton which has been officially an
nounced to begin in November, 1866,
and to be completed in November, 1861
The new steamship City of Paris, be
longing to the Inmar line, which left
New York on the l4th ult for Liver
pool, made the greatest distance in one
day that has ever been accomplished
by any steamer, namely From noon
on the 18th of April to noon on the
20th, twenty-three and q half hours
actual time, she made three hundred
and sixty seven knots, which is equal
to four hundred and twenty-five miles
A letter from an American officer
who was at Valparaiso during the bonn
bardment, says that, during the whole
fight our Minister General Fitzpatrick,
was riding on horseback through the
town encouraging the tiremen.
The Chihans cheered him where
ever he went be is an accomplished
rider, speaks good Spanish, and Is well
liked"
The n. O. Picayune says a duel was
fought on Wednesday morning, a few
miles up the river, between Messrs. r.
! II. Chadburne and J. l. Smith. The
weapons used were Derringer pistols, at
twelve PAGES. on the first fire Chad
burne was struck in the left arm, and
Smith, it is presumed, fatally wounded
in the left breast Both gentlemen
] were lhAclN III the Il CN0AhA o. MY 90
the difficulty arose from disrespectiul
language used by Smith in regard to
the wife of Mr.. Chadburne.
The State election which took place
in Louisiana on the 9TH, resulted in the
/ triumph of the national democratic
ticket, with one or two exceptions
Ex-Governor Allen, of Louisiana,
died recently in Mexico, Of wounds re-
ceived during the war
The Memphis Bulletin says an ad-
dress has been issued by Mr.. Charles S.
Cameron, of this city, to the effect that
he intends to hold an election for the
Office Of Attorney General for the Fifth
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Districts Of Shelby county, on the oath
of the present month, through the
agency Of three householders under
the Code. This is for the purpose OF
testing the constitutionality of the
franchise act before the courts of the
/ State
Rev. J. r. Graves preached in Mem