The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-06-03
BY Telegraph
Afternoon Disptches.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
North Carolina Convention.
Further from Gen.. Sleedman.
JEFF. Davis Trial.
Cholera Matters.
The FeDIan Movement.
The First Blow.

The First Blow.
Capture Of Fort Erie.
NEW YORK, June 2.-The morning papers
contain the following special dispatch from
| Washington
1t is said that there is prospect that the
! House Judiciary Committee will mako re-
| port next week of the result of their inves-
| tigation as to the alleged completely of jeff
| Davis in the assassination Of Mr.. Lincoln.
| Much of the testimony recently taken, has
| been with reference to the anteeedents and
| characters Of the witnesses who are relied
| upon to make out case against Mr.. Davis.
The testimony so far is damaging in the ex-
| IRENE to the witnesses thus relied upon.
Most Of them are shown to be abandoned
| characters, and villains of the deepest dye.
The citizens of Alexandria are moving
| beyond the corporation limits to escape
their outrageous taxes. Independent of the
internal revenue, United States license,
| State and county taxes, the city expects to
raise 100000 out Of population of 5000
whites and blacks.
Two-thirds Of the stores are for rent, and
| business is being driven from the place.
| The Adams Express Company having been
assessed $4,000 by the municipal authori-
| ties, is among the moving masses.
The Treasury Department has issued a
! circular and sent to every Postmaster re-
ceiving over 81, 600 from his office, requiring
him to show that he has paid his income
tag.
Grover & Baker have applied fort reissue
of their fourteen years patent. The last
| day of filing arguments in opposition is
| Monday June 4th.
The movement in the Raleigh, North
| Carolina, Convention at its opening, to effect
an adjournment, is we'll understood here to
have been a rebel artifce, but the Union
clement was too strong. 1t is is expected
| that the State Constitution will be remodel
| ed so as to exclude prominent rebels from
| citizenship.
| NEW YORK, June 2.-The Herald's CORES
/ poudent, attending General steedman upon
! his investigation of the Freedmen's Bureau
affairs, says the investigation finds consid-
! cradle improvement in the workings OF the
| Bureau in those localities as compared with
/ its operation in Virginia, North Carolina,
and South Carolina.
Sometime ago, a British-Americau negro
| from New Brunswick, attempted to found
an Empire on one Of the Georgia Islands,
but he was soon deposed by his superiors OF
| the Bureau.
Trouble appears to be brewing between
the whites and blacks in Florida, growing
| out Of the sales of rebel lands for taxes. A
repetition OF the Memphis snd Newborn
riots is feared.
The President has pardoned Richard
/ T. Cox, of the District of Columbia Mr.
/ Cox was pardoued under the tenth excep-
| ton of the Proclamation Of Amnesty, ex-
| cepting all those from the General Amnesty
who voluntarily left their homes in Dor
| der State TO aid in the rebellion.
| Major 7. w. Stanhope, 18th United States
| Infantry, commanding the post at Norfolk,
has suspended J. B. White, Mayor of Ports
mouth, Virginia, from office, by order of
/ President johnson, he being unpardoned.
| Mayor White was an officer in the Confed-
rate army.
| The United States District Court will meet
in Richmond on Monday, and the case of
jeff. Davis will be called. District Attor-
ney Chandler will move its continuance TO
the October term. The counsel for Davis
will then ask that bail for the prisoner be
| fixed,
| It is said that Mr.. O'Conner will be in
| Richmond on Monday, to appear in the trial
of jeff. Davis. 1t is not expected that the
| trial will go on, but O'Conner is TO appear
| for the purpose of claiming his right to
| bail if he is not tried, and to be set ct large
under the bail A similar statement is cur
rent in Johnsonian circles.
New YORK, June AT the meeting of
| the Metropolitan Board of Health yester-
| day, President Schultz, from the committee
which was recently appointed to confer with
the Quarantine Commission, and the Com
missioners of immigration, reported that
| the Joint committee had sought everywhere
| a suitable spot whereon to land unaffected
| immigrants who may arrive in cholera
ships, but the inhabitants of Long Island,
Staten island, and the New Jersey coast are
dangerously hostile, and will not, under
| any circumstances, surrender an inch of
their soil. Mr.. Birgen remarked that but
| for the merchants of New York the last
Legislature might have passed an act allow
| ing the Board OF immigration to occupy a
suitable place under the right of eminent
domain.
DR.. swineburn reported that more than
| seven hundred immigrants are detained at
quarantine, and that last week they at
| tempted to burn one of the ships. He fur
ther added the alarming statement that if
| another cholera ship arrived to-day he could
not provide accommodations for her passen-
gers.
Forty thousand immigrants arrived at this
port turing INC uOuLu OF 01dD. 1ulfLY-
seven thousand, not counted above, came
in the cholera ships now lying at the quar-
antine.
NEW YoRK, June "A dispatch dated
Frenchman's Creek, c. W, 1870 yesterday,
says fifteen hundred Fenians, under Gen.
0'Neil, crossed the Niagara from Buffalo,
aud captured Waterloo and Fort Erie, and
tore up a small portion of the track Of the
Bufftlo and Lake Huron road, and cut the
telegraph wires leading to the Canadian in
terror. They then moved down the river
towards Chippewa, hating at Frenchman's
Creek, where rumors prevailed of the ad
vance of Canadian troops, causing works to
be hastily constructed, and the Fenians
were put in line Of battle. A man had Just
come in wounded in the leg. Skirmishers
were pushed 10 the front, and hanking col
ums sent out on double-quick, and every
preparation made for an engagement.
CINCINNATI, June 2.-There is considera-
bic excitement here over the Fsniau news.
Nearly three hundred men have left here
for Canada. About 700 passed through In
dianapolis yesterday for the border. Dis
patches from Columbus deny the report of
the purchase and shipment Of arms and
ammunition by the Feuiaus from that city.
A Buffalo dispatch says the Michigan is
patroling the river from Black Rock to the
head of Grand Island with two armed tugs,
with orders 10 sink anything crossing during
the night.
RUTLAND, Vt, June 2, I:30 a. m.-Abou
5ne hundred and fifty persons passed
through here this morning, en- route north.
They were in charge Of an officer wearing
side arms, and were mute IS regards their
destination and object, bat from parties who
arrived on the same train with them, we
learn they intend 70 bring up at or near
st. Adams, and there await further instruc-
tions from the commanding officer Of the /
Irish Republic In Canada.
NEw XoRK, June "A dispatch from Al |
bany says; Governor Fent0n viii issue /
proclamation to-day. warning citizens Of
the State against c0untonancIng the Fenian /
invasion Of Canada. A so, that twelve reg /
iments of militia are to be sent 20 the from /
tier, draEp from the counties Of Niagara, /
Monroe, Onoudsga, Oswego, Jefferson snd /
St. Lawrence
A dispatch from Montreal says It IS re
ported that the Fenians had seized the /
arms at Rouse's Point, aRd we're marching