Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-08
SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1887.
Largest Circulation in City and Stat
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Congress meets on Thursday the Dist Of
November.
The specie in the Bank Of England on
the 9th inst. exceeded the circulation for
the first time in fifteen years.
A lot in Chicago, forty feet front by one
hundred and ten deep, was sold on the 4th
inst for $1,000 per front foot, the highest
price ever paid for land in that city.
Judge Kinney of the Special Indian
Commission, has returned to Washington.
He thinks nothing will pscify the Indians
but thorough defeat.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has issued
a letter to the Collectors Of the principal
ports, instructing them to look out for any
violations Of the laws against the Coolie
trade
The house Of Sherwood, Kaines & Co.,
st. Louis, doing business on Commercial
street, as commission merchants and -four
dealers, failed on the 9th inst. Liabilities
not stated, but heavy.
The Reverend scoundrel Wendt who
committed rape upon a number Of little
girls in the Orphan Asylum at Philadel-
phia, of which he was the Superintendent,
has been sentenced TO seventeen years inn
prisonment.
Accounts from various portions of Mis-
sissippi represent the worm as having made
its appearance, but 80 far, cotton sustains
little damage. The corn crop is represent
ed as unprecedented in the State. The
new crop Of cotton is coming in to market
very slowly.
By the publication of large amount Of
diplomatic correspondence, it appears that
Secretary Seward last month rendered the
wife Of President Juarez a national vessel
to proceed to Vera Cruz, and that she &C
cepted the same. The tender was made
about twenty days after Minister Campbell
had been refused national vessel to pro-
coed from New Orleans.
Most Of the proceedings of the Fenian
Congress now in session in Cleveland,
Ohio, have been kept a profound secrect,
and not much Of what has taken place is
actually known. Il transpired on the 9th
inst, however that after stormy debate,
resolution was adopted recommending the
formation of a secret organization, having
the characteristics Of Masonry or Odd Fell
lowship.
The Montgomery ALA Advertiser states
that after Joe Williams, the colored Con-
servstiVe Of Nashville, had concluded his
speech in that city on the 9Th inst, and
while he was getting into a carriage, sew
eral negroes took hold of him and jerked
him of. Gen. Clanton interferred TO pro-
tect Williams and 70 quiet the disturbance,
and the United States soldiers soon arriV-
ing dispersed the crowd. But for their ac-
tive interposition a riot would probably
have ensued. The Advertiser says evil
liams said nothing TO produce any riot, and
we believe that the poor deluded negroes
who showed such a disregard for the law
were put up to il, by some mean, miserable
cowardly white scoundrel.'
Gen. Sheridan formally turned over his
command on the 9Th inst. to Gen. Griffin,
and left the same evening for Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas, to relieve Gen. Hancock.
He was escorted 10 the depot by the Mayor,
members Of the Council, and numbers of
citizens. Several gentlemen addressed the
General brief in complimentary terms, TO
which he responded. A resolution Of re-
greet at parting with him was read and
adopted. One man nominated Sheridan as
Andrew Johnson's successor. The New
Orleans Republican, (Radical,) in its
evening edition of the 9th, reviews the ad,
ministration Of Sheridan and pronounces
the civil administration a failure. His
course, with regard to the July riot, the
city currency and sanitary condition of the
city are severely condemned, while his
military achievements are highly extalled.