The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-17
THE NEWS.

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The following Pennsylvania Repub-
lican papers are vigorously sustaining
the Presidents reconstruction policy /:
Philadelphia Daily News, Easton Jour
nal, Gettysburg Sentinel, Somerset
Herald, Greensburg Herald, Hunting
don Globe, Miffiin Sentinel, and Indi-
ana Register.
The Mexican Republicans in Wash
ington fear that Santa Ana's return of
Secretary Stewards visit indicates, on
his return to Mexico, he may replace
Maximilisn by q nominal republican
government, guaranteeing the French
de5&
In consequence of the clamor against
him, Colonel 0Mahony, the Fenian
Head Centre of one branch of the or
ganization, has resigned that position.
/ The Treasurer, Killian, has been re-
moved.
The ex-rebel General Lyon, Of Ken
lucky, has returned to his home in
EddysVille. The General did not we
presume, find Mexico the paradise be
anticipated
Since 1862 the boot manufacturing
business of Chicago has increased from
one small establishment TO fifteen,
/ which turns out nine hundred cases
per week, consuming three hundred
sldes Of upper leather, sixteen hundred
sides of sole leather, and fifty dozen
| calt-skins. About twelve hundred hands
are employed in the business
Two New Orleans bruisers, named
King and Farrell, met in the prize-ring
at New Orleans, on Sunday. Eighty
three rounds, lasting one hour, was
fought when Farrell threw up the
sponge.
The gas-works of Philadelphia.
though owned and run by the city, and,
through alleged Encouragement, run
the city yearly in debt, are under the
control of commissioners, who set the
committee of council, appointed TO in
yestlgate their management, at de
tiance
The monitors anchored off Cairo
since the close Of the war, and which
have been the cause OF several steam
boat disasters, started for New Orleans
Tuesday.
In Homer, Michigan, few days ago,
a school-mistress named Dyer, whipped
pupil who had inadvertently ad-
dressed her without the accustomed
nod Of consent, until she had used up
three whips nearly as large as mans
| finger. She then took a ferule, an
inch in diameter, and scourged the
boy with this until her strength gave
way. The subject of her discipline is
-cOyered with Assesses from head to
waist, and his arm has been rendered
usel Es.
The whole of the sugar region in
Louisiana will be inundated by the
great crevasses at Morganza and Grand
Levees.
The Mercantile Journal of this city
says a practical and very thorough agri-
culturist, backed by manufacturing
skill and capital, has, after careful Sc
lection Of the seed and the locality
where he proposes TO plant it, sent to
this country from France q shipment of
six tons of the finest Silesian beet root
Illinois is the State chosen for his eX-
pertinent, and upon the property deyo-
ted to the culture large refinery is to
be Immediately erected, with the hope
that the fresh sugar may be raised and
prepared in time for next winters
market.
The inhabitants Of Taschkent have
voluntarily resolved 10 set free their
Persian slaves, as a compliment TO the
Csar, having learned that the Russians
had emancipated their serfs in defe-
renee to his wishes. The Russian pa
pers cite this as a proof of the ciYili-
zing influence of Russia in the East.
An old man, aged sixty five, who
lived alone and in state of great
wretchedness at Saint MaGde, was late
ly found dead. Only a sum of 2f 40c
was discovered in cash, but beneath a
heap of rags were found concealed
shares and bonds of various railway
companies, representing a value of As
900 francs.
Louisa Cross, a colored girl at Lafay-
ette lind has been detected in the
act OF setting fire TO the house of her
employer. She had an examination
before the Mayor, aad Was bound over
ia the sum of $500 for trial in the Cir
cult Court
Mr.. William Layb0rn informs the
editor of the Decatur county, lind }
Press that genuine coal oil is found in
seeming abundance on Payter creek,
Marion township, about ten miles south
Of Greensburg. He also states that
coal has been found in the same re-
gion.
Hon. James Wilson, Of CraWfords-
vile ind, has been nominated by the
President as Minister 10 the Republic
Of Venezuela.
The Davenport Towa) Gazette of
May II says: Bishop Lee confirmed
upwards OF fifty persons in Peoria, III
on Monday evening last, and also thiT-
teen persons in Pekin on Tuesday
evening. The Bishop has confirmed
nearly three hundred persons in that
Diocese within a few weeks past The
! next Annual Convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church in the Diocese Of
/ Iowa will be held at Muscatine oa
/ Wednesday, the seth inst
The dwelling Of Henry johnson, in
Tompkins township, Jackson county,
Mich, was destroyed by fire on the 9Th
inst, and Mrs j. perished in the
| hames
A funny thing is told about NJ. For
cher, the late famous Partisan author
ticket dealer He always had i've
pockets made in his coat in which he
used to keep FIVE different qualities Of
cigars. lie offered cigar TO every au-
thor he met, giving to the more inn
portsnt the costlier weed, and the In
significant the cheapest His only EN-.
barrassment was when he met a first |
rate and fifth-rate author together |
which quality to offer them
The Bangor (Me) Whig says that in
a pond near that city there is an island, |
of about half an acre in extent, which |
for many years has literally floated |
upon the water, having no hold upon |
the ground save what was afforded by |
the roots Of some of the trees upon 1t |
which had grown through the island |
into the bottom of the pond. The /
surface of the island is sufficiently /
strong to sustain the weight of a load
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