The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-06-15

been decided at Cabinet meeting not
to release jeff Davis on parole or bail
Generals Murphy and Heffernan
were held TO bail, at Malone, in Sc 600
each, and subordinate officers in $1,000
each. Seven car loads of their men
have left for home.
Henry J. Batchelder, of Boston, left
the Eagle Hotel, Philadelphia, on the
28th ultimo, and has not been since
heard from. A reward of 600 has
been offered by his friends for infor-
nation concerning him.
A New York dispatch states that the
Western Union and American Tele-
graph Companies have been consoli-
dated.
The extensive tanneries of Messrs.
Hayes q Stewart, and Hare IL Stuck.
roth, near Pittsburgh, were burned on
Sunday. Loss $4,000.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
at its recent session at Harrisburg, de-
cided in the case of Elnora Mohn, of
Lehigh county, that woman can be
indicted as a common seold.
A beautiful cornelian, weighing seven
teen ounces, has been deposited in the
General Land Office, having been found
in street in the "Falls of St Croix,"
Wisconsin.
Rev. Dyer Ball, missionary since
1888, Of the American Board, died in
China, March 9th.
The failure of T. D. Ramsdell & Co.,
of Adrian, Michigan, farmers and nur-
serymen, is announced. Their liabili.
ties exceed 100000, and may reach
S200,0U0
The volunteers assembled for the de-
fense of Kingston, Canada, are under
orders to return to their homes.
Ten new cases and four deaths from
cholera have occurred at the New York
cholera hospital since last report.
Under the West Point Academy bill
which has passed both Houses, the Pre-
sident has authority to appoint fifty
cadets at large, instead of ten, as here
tofore.
In reply to an inquiry from the Dis
trict Attorney of New York, the Attor-
ney General replies that none but the
Fenian leaders need be indicted, and
they should be prosecuted with vigor
for violation of the neutrality laws.
Marshall county, Michigan, is said to
produce more peppermint than any
other locality OF its extent in the world.
Last year the product was estimated at
10000 lbs. of oil, which sold in New
York for IS so per TO- The average
yield of oil per acre was about twenty
lbs. 1t is now said that the oil has ad-
vanced to s. per ID, in consequence Of
the destruction Of the mint root.
A petition from twenty-one thousand
educated Bengalese, praying for the
suppression of poligamy in Bengal, has
been presented to the Lieutenant Gov
ernor of that Presidency.
Hon. E. B. Washburne has been re-
nominated for Congress by the Union
Convention of the Third Illinois dis
trict.
A committee is about to come North
from Corinth, Miss, to solicit capital
stock for the Corinth d Tennessee liver
railroad.
New Haven claims to be the only
place in the country which manufac.
lures fish hooks, needles and steel bow
ed spectacles.
Gen. Beauregard visited the Liver
pool Exchange on the 30th, when, his
| presence becoming known, great inter
est was excited, and the news room
rapidly filed. He was applauded on
| leaving, and considerable numbers of
people followed him TO the street.
A dispatch dated Des Moines, of the
9th, says
Taylor county has elected a delegation
pledged to Gen. Dodge for Congress. Cass
| county is also for Dodge. There is hardly
| a doubt but that Kasson will be defeated.
! Warren county, which will almost certain
| lv 90 for Dodge, holds her convention to-
| day, and will decide the question.
During melee at Worcester, Mass.
Yesterday. q stone was thrown at a po-
| iiceman, who, in return, fred at the
crowd from whose direction the stone
came. The ball hit q spectator in the
forehead, wounding him so severely
| that he is not expected to live.
Mrs DIR. MARY E. WALKER was on
Saturday again arrested for appearing
| in a costume similar to that known as
the "Bloomer" style. After having
/ been subjected to numerous insults,
and having been locked up for two or
three hours, she wss held to bail in the
sum of $500 to keep the peace for one
year. This lady has received a regular
| diploma as a physician, served for q
long time as an Assistant Surgeon in
the army, receiving from the Govern
ment a handsome medal in recognition
of her services.
The second trial of Captain E. B.
Ward for his $4,000 transaction with
! the Government, terminated in the
| United States District Court at Detroit
on the ninth, but the jury failed to
agree.
1t is stated that Mr.. T. T. Furlong of
.Janesville, who is temporarily doing
business in St Louis, has secured let
ters patent for new safe which is so
constructed as to foit in csse of marine
dissters. This is deSidcratt8a that ship
and steamboat owners have long been
looking after.
A City Of Mexico letter says: at is
rumored that Max and the amiable
Carjotta have had a little quarrel 1t
seems that Max, after dinner one day,
took Carlotta aside, and, after telling
her she was just the kindest little
woman in the world, asked her to lend
him trifling amount of two or three
hundred thousand dollars out of her
own purse This delicate insinuation
the dear little Carlotta listened to
with great good humor, and then pst-
ting Max on the cheek, said, No you
don't, and she did not lend it to him.
Then Max, taking umbrage, and
| friend or two, went TO Cuernayaca
/ This little piece Of scandal Is going the
rounds, and for effect as we can PLAIN
ly see.
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