Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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The Germans in St. Louis are clamoring
Cor the repeal Of the Sunday laws
John Mitchell will be Head Center Of
the Fenian organization in case Of the CO.
alition Of the two wings.
The truth Of the report that Spain has
offered TO sell the islands Of Cuba and Porto
Rico to the United States, is denied. .t
Mrs. Gen Sam. Houston died at In
dependence, Texas, Of yellow fever, on the
9TH instant
According TO General Pope's figures, tire
convention is carried in Florida by about
400 majority 1t is said that a majority Of
the convention will be anti-Radical.
There we're fourteen hundred negroes on
Amelia island, Florida, on January ! 1867.
Since that time there have been forty births
and four hundred recorded interments.
The Paris Pdfrie Indignantly denies that
there is any truth in the report which has
been current that France has sent an envoy
10 Mexico.
II is limited by the New York Times Re-
publican) that the impeachment farce has
cost the government something like half a
million dollars.
A telegram from New Orleans states that
the report Of 4. III. Davenport's death is
incorrect. Mr.. Davenport is alive and in
god health.
An ordinance wac offered in the Georgia
Reconstruction Convention, on the 18th
inst, to remove the Governor Of that State.
The convention adjourned without taking
action on the ordinance.
An action TO recover damages from an
eI-Magistrate for imprisoning a German
for refusing 10 speak the English language
when on the witness stand, resulted, in
Cincinnati, on the 10th inst, in a verdict
against the Eek" for $500.
The Military Committee of the House
have agreed TO report in favor of the repeal
Of the twenty-frst section Of the act of
March 3, 1865, DISTINGUISHING deserters
from the Union army during the late
rebellion.
Chief Justice Gilpin, of Delaware, has
given decision 10 the effect that the civil
rights bill, 30 far as il assumes 10 compel,
regulate or control the admission of evil
dence in the courts of that State, is inopr
erative, unconstitutional and void.
An inquest was held on the 18th inst. on
the bodies Of the persons killed by the at
tempt to blow up the wall of Clerkenwell
1reland) prison. A large number Of wit
nesses were examined, but nothing satisfac-
tory was ELECTED as to the perpetrators Of
the deed
Mr.. Hooper, Of Massachusetts, has been
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Means of the House Of Representatives, to
report a bill providing for the taxation Of
United States notes (greenbacks) and
National Bank notes by the States in the
manner as all other money is taxed.
On the 18th inst. the citizens of Tensss
parish, La, petitioned Gen. Haucock to
send military force for their protection,
representing that in consequence of the
failure of the cotton crop from the disas-
trous spring foods the negroes living
without employment threaten an insurrec-
ton.
VIM. S. Mellinger, a merchant Of Cleve-
land, Tenn, shot and killed himself on the
l4th inst. The noise of a pistol shot
brought several persons 10 his room, and
they found the unfortunate man, lying on
the floor, dead. The ball penetrated Just
above the right eye. and proved fatal. De-
ceased was intending TO 60 on a shooting
trip next day, and it is supposed that he
was cleaning the pistol when it accidentally
discharged.
The President received on the 10th inst
q long petition, signed by several hundred
citizens Of Alabama, setting forth that
several members Of the Reconstruction
Convention in that State we're non resi-
dents Of Alabama; that others were elected
in counties where they did not, and do not
now, reside; and that some were selected
from the employees of the Freedmen's Blu
reau, without legal qualification fer menu
bers of the convention. The petitioners
ask that the facts be made known, and in
wife an investigation into the truthfulness
Of the allegations in their petition.
The grand jury and citizens of Chicot
county, Arkansas, have petitioned Gen.
Ord TO station troops there TO protect them
and their stock against the negroes Ac-
counts from that State cay that the destruc.
lion of stock by negroes is distressing.
Great uneasiness is felt by the whites in re-
gard TO an instruction. Col. Jacques,
during the war a commissioner to Rich
mond, who is now planting in Arkansas,
passed through Memphis, en- route to WASH
iEgton 20 represent matters to gov
eminent officials. He says no mans life is
safe, no matter where he halls from.
A London dispatch Of 18th inst. says
"a terrible explosion occurred at Newcas-
tle-on-the-Tyne, to-day. The authorities
last night received information that a
quantity Of nitro-glycerine was being
secreted at that place, it was supposed by
Fenians. The town Sheriff and town Sur
veyor, with a squad Of policemen proceeded
to the spot indicated, and discovered oil
packed in the usual manner. While the
men were removing it, it exploded with
tremendous defamation. Several policemen
were instantly killed, and but few Of the
party escaped injury. The men who were
nearest the package were blown TO atoms
Both the sheriff and surveyor we're badly
hurt and are lying in critical condition"
The New Orleans correspondent Of the
Louisville Courier says in his dispatch of
the 18th: your correspondent has just
returned here from a visit through Ten
nesses, Alabama and Mississippi. The
condition Of affairs is deplorable. The
crop raised won't pay expenses. Planters
and merchants are ruined alike Negroes
sre robbing and plundering throughout
the country. Planters have abandoned
raising cotton and will raise corn, grain
and vegetables. In North Mississippi they
are raising large fields Of wheat. Affairs
in New Orleans are desperate General
distress prevails. Three hundred houses
and stores are for rent. Families are
pawning iewelry for bread"
IF the proposed loan of 100000 is
made by the acting city authorities, from