Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-05
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1867.
largest Circulation in City and state
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The rate of taxation in New York city is
81 81 per SlOO.
Great uneasiness exists in political and
financial circles at Paris.
There was light frost in the region of
Memphis on the night of the LIST inst.
There had been filed, up to the 9th ult,
but ninety-two applications in bankruptcy
in Indiana.
The President has ordered the pardon of
r. NJ. I. Hunter, late Secretary of State of
the Southern Confederacy.
Gen. Grants and Gen. Thomas official
reports Of the Nashville trouble were sub
mitted to the Cabinet on the End inst
Charles Dickens has telegraphed to Tick
nor & Fields, at Boston, that be will arrive
in this country, in November, to give a
series Of readings.
The cotton crop in Louisiana and Ala
bama will fall short Of the estimate made
last month, and planters are holding back
for higher prices in consequence.
The reports about the yellow fever raging
in Memphis are pronounced groundless.
There have been but few cases there,
which we're brought from New Orleans.
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Florida, says the residence of ex-United
States Senator Yulee was recently mobbed
by negroes, and seriously damaged with
stones and other missiles.
Over three and half millions sacks of
wheat valued at six and three-quarter mil
lions Of dollars and nearly half million
barrels Of -four valued at over two and a
half millions Of dollars, have been shipped
from San Francisco the present year.
The National Bank Examiner reports
that the defalcation Of the Cashier of the
First National Bank Of New Milford, Con-
necticut, is $47, 900. There is no loss either
to government or depositors, and the bank
will continue business as usual.
The National Intilligeacer denies the ru-
NOR that Secretary Browning is about to
resign on account of ill-healsh, but adds
that he will not stand in the way of a re-
organization of the Cabinet, if the President
determines on that measure.
The Navy Department offered seventeen
vessels for sale at New York on the LIST inst
Eleven were sold for three hundred thou-
sand dollars. The remaining six were
Withdrawn, the price bid not being equal
TO the government appraisement. The old
receiving ship, North Carolina, sold for
thirty thousand. The great side-wheel
steamer Rhode Island sold for seventy
thousand dollars.
The circular issued for distribution in
the South, by permission Of the President,
and giving his views to the effect of the
amnesty proclamation, states that the
President could not order the registration
lists TO be re-opened without making his
impeachment certain; but he thinks the
courts will decide the amnesty proclama-
ton removed all disqualification, and
counsels the Rebels to make a trial of ii.
A traveller passing through Vernon
county, Mo-, few days ago, was muir
dered by two men near Kelly's ferry. The |
robbers rode out Of the bush and asked
him if he was armed. Receiving a reply in
the negative, they shot him, and after
robbing him of $1,000, took one span of
horses and left for parts unknown The
man had a wife, who was left on the road |
with her dead husband.
Some revenue officers made descent on
some Illicit distillers near Fort Richmond, |
a suburb Of Philadelphia, on the Sd inst, |
and were driven of, They returned REIN |
forced, captured, and were moving the |
stills when they were attacked and driven
of. Pistols and bricks we're used. The /
Deputy United States Marshal received ak
serious wounds. Thomas Loney, one of |
the rioters, was shot in the head and several |
hurt on each side.
The reports from Italy are startling. A
dispatch from Florence, dated the I'd inst,
says the outbreak at Nittrio is not yet /
quelled. The town OF Aqua Perdente, in !
Orvitto, has been captured by the insur-
gents, who now have full possession of all |
the roads leading to it. The commander
of the forces of the Pope had asked the
Italian government for instant assistance
Italy refuses to furnish any soldiers.
There is no longer room for doubt; the
revolt is serious There are alarming fears
of interrupting the friendly relations be-
tween Italy and France