Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-19
Largest Circulation in City and Stat'
NEWS OF THE, DAY.

The Liverpool firm of james Hewitt &
Co, engaged in the American trade, has
failed.
james Bird, one of the Fenian leaders
who has been concealed in Ireland since
the late outbreak, was arrested on the 10th
inst
The amount Of money on deposit in Chi.
cago with private bankers and the national
banks, according to returns to government
is between seventeen and eighteen million
dollars.
The Justices of the Peace 10 Washing.
ton have been kept very busy within the
last few days administering the oath Of al
legiance 10 those coming under the Presi-
dents amnesty proclamation.
Desperadoes and cut-throats are swarm
ing in nearly all the frontier towns of the
West, and reign of terror prevails. The
citizens Of Ellsworth, Kansas, are organ
ling a vigilance committee 10 drive them
off
The only daughter of Spotted Tail, the
celebrated Indian chief is named Lizzie
Euphemia Pocahontas. She is finishing
her education" at omaha. She is learning
to sing Italian and play the piano.
Mr.. II. c. Clarke, a newspaper CORES
pendent, is preparing for publication an
inside history Of the Queretaro campaign
Of Macmillan, deriving his information
chiefly from official sources.
The American Missionary Association
makes an appeal to the churches to raise,
if possible, $4,000 during the present
month, in order to save its treasury free
from debt on the first of October, the end
Of the financial year.
The Attorney Generals Office is over
whelmed with letters from the South in
quiring ifthe recent amnesty proclamation
gives them the right of suffrage, and de-
string information as to whether certain
persons come under the classes pardoned.
q Rev. Mr. Hatfield, Of Chicago, who
about year ago made a sensation in that
city by blast from his pulpit against the.
aires, Sunday, the 18th inst, spoke his sen
hments plainly against the liquor sellers.
lie said there were 1900 licensed drinking
houses in Chicago.
Four brothers named Bridenomer, in
Posey county, Indiana, attempted, on Sun
day, the 10Th inst, to unload a shell, when
II exploded, killing one, blowing a leg
from the second, an arm from the third,
and seriously injuring the fourth. 1t is sup
posed that all will die.
Boutwell, charged, in speech at Boston,
the other day, that President johnson had
closed up the Bureau for the preservation
Of the archives Of the Southern Confeder-
acy, and removed the archives themselves,
for the purpose Of concealing his compli-
city in the assassination Of Lincoln. The
fact is the archives are open and accessi-
bic as usual but Dr. Leiber, the sinecure
head Of the Bureau, was removed by Gen
eral Grant
A Crete letter says the mortality in the
Turkish army continues, and is almost I'M
e1ampled. OF $4,000 Egyptians, who
went there year ago, there only remains,
according to some accounts, 5000 to 6000 |
and to other 1000 to 1000, the latter esti-
mate being given by an Egyptian Colonel |
All accounts represent the same state of
things exist more or less with the Turkish |
troops. They show signs of exhaustion |
and decentralization which can hardly be |
mistaken.