The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-16

TIE Fleedmen's Bureau is in receipt Of a
large number CT relorts from the South
showing that the negroes have commenced
the new wear in q satisfactory manner.
General Wavue writes from Alabama that q
general Improvement continues to be maul-
iest q. lGe demand Tor labor II II exceeds
the supply, and the negroes, how a marked
preference f0T living with Northern men,
Of whom there are about i've thousand II
the state. Those planters who il-treated
freedmen last year ind 1t almost lmpossl-
bic 70 secure labor during this year, end
some have been compelled to abandon
their farms in consequence.
Governor PiernonL's staff officer, now
here, denies his rumoTed resignation.
WAsHINGIoS, Jan. A.-The American
I Bible Society celebrated its 9Th anniversary
this morning in the Hall Of the House OF
Representatives. Rev. DR.. Nermillee, Of
New York, delivered q discourse on The sub
ject OF the moral purity Of the bible, % a
more than ususlly large auditory OF that
J place.
The threatening demonstration made on
Senator Wade, last Wednesday, was BY a
man well known 70 another. senator, upon
whom he called a short time after leayiug
/ Mr.. Wade, but not in the way Of menace
| The offender is from Massachusetts, aHd has
heretofore been in trouble both here And
elsewhere.
Last week the Treasury Department made
the following redemption Of United 5 ates
securities: legal tender notes, SIn 800; de
mand notes, 66,S25; compound interest
notes, So, 730, $40; fractional currency, $751;
zoe.
P~oUGHEEEPsIr, y. Y, Jan. 14.-Nearly
2 900 persons assembled in Pine Hail. IN
this city, last night, to listen to an address
from Hon. Schuyler Coliax.
After the lecture nearly 1000 people,
headed By the Eastman College band, e
! defed Mr.. Colfax a serenade. In response,
Mr.. c. thanked all concerned. He alluded
10 the rebellion, contrasting four years ago
with now. Then the flag Of freedom,
drerehed IN blood, aad been stricken down
from every fort BY the hand Of treason,
while nov it waved in triumph over those
repossessed and T%eoccupied structures. The
country is destined TO a future more bril-
liant, more compact, more free, than has
been felt for years. He had faith IN the
Judgment and overriding of Providence. No
rupture would occur between Congress and
the President, and the Union will be recon
structed in such q nanner as will be hnal
for eyes TO come.
NV ORLEAKs, jan. lathe Alexandria
(La.) Democrat publishes a letter Of Gen.
W. Il. Sherman TO his friends in Rspides
parish, in which he contradicts the general
impression hat his appointment as super
intendent Of Louisiana Military Acadmy at
Alexandria before the war was due TO
Bragg or Beauregsrd. be also contradicts
the impression that when he lefs Louisiaus
he was pledged not to take service against
the South. He did say at AleNsndris that
war would be the inevitable result Of seces
sion. At New Orleans, on the evening o.
departure for St. Louis, he might have said
to Bragg that he was not going North u
seek military service, which was true. He
refused 70 enter the volunteer forcs first
called out by Lincoln, because he eonsid-
cred that the whole South would become IL
volved in war, which could be handled only
by vast armies Of regulars.
General SheTmrn concludes: I wish the
South well, and if | have been a scourgo.
think how much better that it was I than
Ben Butler or some other OF that school.