The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-16
THE NEWS.
Rev. Granville Moody has been bre
vetted as Brigadier General


vetted as Brigadier General
Swinton's history Of the Army Of the
Potomac discloses the fact, not hitherto
made public, that General Grant at first
decidedly opposed the plan Of an over
land march to Richmond, and strongly
urged a movement from the south side
Of james river.
American ladies appear to be wear
ing the palm this year in Paris The
reports Of fashionable balls, parties and
assemblies never fail to make honora-
bic mention of them. Their beauty is
extolled TO the skies, while the dresses
they wear, and the carriages in which
they ride are described with great par
ticularity.
A Pacific paper says: "The latest
news from Montana is dolefuI enough
thousands Of men vainly prospecting
for diggings; nothing paying over two
dollars per day men constantly freez-
ing TO death; tea four dollars per
pound; -four thirty dollars per hun
dred; men living on bread and water,
or venison straight"
Since the destruction of COWS in Eng
land, they are importing goats from Ire
land for milking purposes. Some of
them sell as high as forty dollars each.
The Americans residing in St Peters
burg forwarded an address of congrat-
ulation 10 the Gar on his recent escape
from assassination, and received a gra-
cious reply.
The contract for constructing the
Gettysburg monument has been award.
ed TO its designer, James @. PATTERSON,
Of Hartford. The monument is to cost
$4,000. Mr.. Patterson designed and
built the Worth Monument
General Hitchcock has given notice
that no claims for money taken from
! Union prisoners by the Confederate au-
thorities, and since recovered, will be
considered after this date. The fund
must be distributed pro rata
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way Company control and operate more
than ], 900 miles of road In this re-
speet that powerful corporation has no
peer in the entire world.
Gen. Mann has been confirmed as Col
lector of Internal Revenue for the
First District of Illinois, vice L. Schnei-
der, removed
The pi ioposed reduction in the cleri-
cal force of the Interior Department
will effect saving, its believed, of ST.
600 year.
Robert j. Tiffany, San Francisco
halter, paid 5000 in gold for fret cheice
Of seats on the occasion of Edwin For
rests first appearance.
Thirty buildings, including the Post
Office, were destroyed by FIRE at Osh-
kOsh, Wisconsin, on Saturday morn
ing
Mr.. r. T. Armstrong, formerly mem
Der of the dry goods house of Chappell,
Bruce Il Co, in this city, was shot
through the brain, while entering
Paris, Kentucky, in buggy, last Satur-
day evening, by resident of Millers-
burg, Kentucky, named Merriwell Arm
strong survived only three hours. The
parties had met before during the day
and exchanged shots. The difficulty
between them is unexplained Merri-
well has been traced back home, but
there the trail is lost.
To get up new fve-cent piece,
which is soon to be issued, will cost
about 100000. There will be, when
the coinage is complete, three and a
half million dollars in this money in
circulation, that being the amount of
postal currency the coin is intended to
supersede.
The President has pardoned the re-
bel General Bradley I. Johnson, under
the thirteenth exception of the amnesty
proclamation; also, A r. Manning, of
Alabama, and G. M. Jessie, of Ken
lucky.
Internal revenue receipts for the
week ending Saturday were S4,5OO,0OO
The President has appointed Colonel
Walter B. Scates Collector of Customs
for Chicago.
Orders have been received at the
Brooklyn navy yard to fit out the
steamers Huron, Narragansett, Oneida
Unadilla, Iroquois and Pequot for sea-
Henry A. Wise, the great Head Cen
ter of wind and tongue, made a public
address at Alexandria, Va, on Satur-
day evening. He said he had made no
confessions and intended to take no
test-oath
From official documents which have
been placed in the hands Of Secretary
Seward, the fact comes to light that
Santa Anna ie an adherent of Maximi-
lian's Government
Capt Ap Catesby Jones, who left the
U. S. navy for that Of the rebels, and
commanded the ironclsd Virginia, has
been appointed Chief of Ordnance of
the Peruvian navy.
A list of anti Administration post
masters, for dismissal, is being prepared
at the Postofhce Department.
Generals Steedman and Fullerton,
the Commissioners appointed TO inves-
tigate the workings of the Freedmen's
Bureau through the Southern States,
have made report of their obseTva~
tions in Virgiaia and North Carolina
They sustain charges which have been
1 lEGtlN Alhub hEtluHs tAo o.0Ne'f - -
ing interested in speculations, etc, and
recommend the removal of present
officers of the Bureau from those
States, and the transfer of the duties
to officers commanding troops in the
States, as the agents have but little to
do, all cases for trial or adjustment
having been turned over TO the civil
courts,
The New York Board Of Health are
considering the proposition to divide
the city into six hospital wards, and
making other preparations for the re-
ception of the cholera When an cpl
demic is so cordially invited it gener-
ally comes.
A correspondent writing from South
ern Georgia, says that owing TO the
scarcity of labor, there viii not be more
than half as much cotton raised IN inst
State this year as was raised IN leoO.
He thinks that ] 100000 bales is 8 olg
estimate for the growing crop OF that
State.
A Young man belonging to one of the