Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-10
SUNDAY. MARCH, 10. Isez.
Largest Circulation in City and State
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The municipalities Of Boston and RQxbury,
Ma. have agreed 30 consolidate under one
city government.
Mrs. Grattan, widow Of the celebrated Henry
Grattan, died early IN February, M Dublin Al
an advanced age.
Mr.. Wilson has offered In the United states
senate Joint resolution baking Il penal Of
Tense 20 sell spirituouE liQuors in she Lamtol
building, OF bring them into 1t.
Governor jenkins. Of Georgia, has lett fog
Washington 90 consult with the President ana
Congress in reference TO the status OF 6eorgia
under the recent enactments.
A Memphis dispatch Of the 8th inst, SAYS the
leyces NJ Grand Lake and IN Ashton mhlers
and fences Helena. Friars Point and ali the
landings between Memphis and Nieksburg are
inundated.
The Schenectady a. y Star says: 'Iuns OF
butter are passing down on the rallroaas'
some Of 10 has been held for long time anu
after being revoked. Is sent TO market mere
being now no hope Of farther advance or saleiy
ia longer kssring. il must be sold 70 aVold
losses
Late accounts from the Maine colonists al Jafia
state that their condition Is deplorabie that
their leader, Adams. has been imprisoned loI re,
fusing 10 restore the property OF TIE deluaeu
people. Of whom sixteen had died ana twenty
nine we're sick, in December last.
A lare sperm whale. with a calf, was discovered
IN st. Simuns Sound below savannah. on tne
9Th inst, by the crew Of a revenue cntter' Mno
Tired a thirty-pGunder Parrot shell az heI, WIZ WIN
out inAicting fatal wound, and the whale soon
after escaped 10 deep water. Sperm whales are
rarely seen in soundings.
The aggregate Of appropriations made for the
CJHgreguOH0i Globe and appendix, az the last
sssion Of Congress, was Senate S5l,l3l; ho9se,
Sl3g.s9 An amendment 60 the bill gives notice
that al the close Of the fOrtieth Congress the
United States will terminate its purchase oil
G"bes, provided for by the act Of July l50o'
A Connecticut paper says that although that
state has no member 0fthe lower branch OF Ine
tcrleth Congress at the outset, no less man eguf
OF her sons will be present in the character oi
Legislators Besides her own two senators rum
bull. Of Illinois, was born in CONNECTICUT, ms
were also Baldwin of Massachusetts, Harding,
Of Illinois, Hubbard, of Iowa, Hubbard, OF west
Virginia. aud Epson, Of Michigan, M the House
81 Representative.
George Peabody has recently given $liOOJJ 20
trustees for the promotion Of the knowledge OF
the natural and physical sciences among the
people Of his native county Of Essex. Masssachuoo
sets. A building is 10 be erected ont OF S4U.OOV
Of the fund.- or its Accommodations II that does mol
suffice, 10 be called the Essex Institute, ana
elhOOJO h % be the permanent enjoyment
seven twelfths for physical sciences and practi-
cal technology. and hye-tweliths ior natural SCI
enceg
The excitement among the Fenians in New
York over the Irish news is immense The
headquarters is thronged, and great hopes are
entertained of success. number Of prominent
Irish Americans have rendered peeuninry ana to
Gen. Gleason here, but not IN Ireland. Several
men were booked Friday for the Fenian army;
Stephens is ascertained 10 be still resident OF
Brookly, having nothing 10 do with the struggle
in ireland.
The English cattle plague returns have again
fallen of, but a single animal having been at
tackled during the week ending February ., as
compared with twenty-eight the previous week.
The returns also state that no healthy cattle
we're slaughtered during the week from having
been in contact with infected animals. The
number Of cattle reported attacked m Great
ra, h. nnFHf a.
a2Gn healthy animals in the aggregate nave
been slaughtered 10 prevent the spread OF the
disease.
Governor Wells has issued a proclamation set
ting forth: Whereas, Congress has passed an net
Ter the more efficient government Of the Rebel
States. which net IS now law, and whereas sec
ti0n 8 provides and section further provides
etc. Now. therefore, 4, j. Madison Wells. Gov
ernor Of the state of Louisiana, hereby declare
Eaid act 10 be in force in said State. All cleo
tions held from and after this date, either by
municipal, State or parochial authority. except
IN strict conformity 10 section of said act OF
Congress- will be null and void and OF no effect.
All persons elected 10 Office must be able 10
qualify under that law before they shall be al
lowed 20 enter upon the duties of the same.
The whole of the Virginia and Tennessee val
ley has been visited with the heaviest ireshets
within the memory Of the oldest inhabit0nt.
The whole valley, from Lynchburg 10 Chattanoo-
VA, was swept by swollen streams. II ralned in
ressantly for three days. from the "a inst,
which, with the melting snow from the noun
tains. overlooked al the streams. The Virginia
and Tennessee railroad Is damaged. The trains
are all boekaded at Marion. Va, bridges swept
away and deep cuts filled with rocks and dirt.
Two bridges en- the East Tennessee and Virginia
railroad az Limestone creek, and nt another
point near Knoxville, are gone, and the road IS
otherwise badly injured. II will be four OF five
days before all the trains run regularly. The
country is badly damaged, fences houses and
harms being washed away.
Ia Mansfield Ohio, on the evening of the 9th
inst r,ul,lfr M held md a vigilance
committee organized for the purpose Of Kidding
the place Of swarm Of thieves, plckpOckets,
and plunderers Of every grade, who have been
preying upon the community, and who have
succeeded in ovading punishment al the hands
of the courts. A number of arrests were prompt
y made, and on the 9TH, at another, meeting,
the seoundrels were brought in aud exhibited 20
the citizens, after having their photographs
taken for rogues' gallery. Atterward seven OF
them were escorted 30 the depot and compelled
Co depart on the train, with the assurance OF
hanging III they should return. The citizens re-
solved 60 sustain the regulators, and notice has
been given 20 all other disreputablc characters
60 leave az once. proclamation has been
lssued. warning persons against harborlng or
AbettiuE this class Of people, as the committee
will not hesitate 60 deal with them as they
deserve.
The statement of General Howard. Commis-
siJnor Of the Freedmen's Bureau, transmitted 70
the senate by the Secretary of W "a. states that
- U21 whites and 2i.23S c0lored people ia the
South will need food from some source before
htAt crop Chh teiiNst theiti. AnV h1taeet %
Tattons REQUIRED for one month ia lOI,UN, Tor |
i've months probable time required $, aS2,O1 at
- cents per ration, estimated cost 20 be S2,lS,
40 Of this S625 600 have already been appropria
ted leaving sos SO 90 be provided The destitute
are apportoued as follows Virginia, 200 /
whites, 900 blacks: North Carolina 5000 /
v hites POO blacks; South Carolina, 5000 /
whites, 5000 blacks; Alabama, 10000 whites /
4000 blacks Florida, 500 whites. 1000 black; /
Georgia, 1880 whites, 500 blacks; Tennessee /
1900 whites, 1000 blacks; Mississippi ls62 /
v hites 203s blacks; Arkansas 1000 whites, 900 |