Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-04
FRIDAY. JANUARY 3. 1857.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The total assessed yalustion Of property iu
Chicago is S95.958,0Oo
New Orleans admirers have given hoe a hand
some gold watch.
A Wall street opeI-stor gave his wife e Christ
mas diamond set worth s63,U)o.
zen. SedgWick l. stiil under arrest AZ Browns
lie. and will probably be tried there
Napoleon proposes 10 hold Congress Of Sow
reigns al Paris during the great exhibition.
The Fenian trials 10 Canada will be resumed
the 10th instant. There are thirty ave pris-
0ners yet 10 be tried
A Washington dispatch says plans are maiur-
ing 70 pass a bill guaranteeing the Mexican loan.
The Congressional eEcursionisis passed through
Chattanooga and Knoxville on the lst inst, au
their return % Washington.
The Machias Maine Union says late iatters
from Palestine, from members Of the Adams
Jaaa Colony report the death Of eight OF ten OF
the cmigrants.
over one million dollars was paid last month
20 Southern claimants for cotton captured and
confscated by Union troops during the war and
which was claimed 10 have been illegally taken
from the owners
The new railroad bridge across Chnch river. AZ
Knoxville. Tennessee, was opened for travel on
the let inst. An eEenrsion train with large
party crossed. and were baIbacued and speeched
on the other side.
The Terre Haute Espsess says that eight per
sons were relieved from the bonds Of matrimony,
under the convenient divorce laws Of Ineiana,
in the Common Pleas Court Of that city GA the
18th ut.
The Federal Council Of Switzerland has re-
quested the eant0nal authorities 10 the Nalais
20 execute the DEGREES Of 1877 and 1851 against
the Jesuits re.iding In communities or rs Fri-
vate persons in thecnnton Of Nalais The above
DEGREES order the expulsion Of the Jesuts from
Switzerland
A Washington dispatch 10 the New York Pos,
says: The COMMITTEES 10 investigate the muir
der Of Union soldiers ia South Carolina find lit
tie evidence against the authorities. Secretary
Stanton assumes the entire responsibility for
public reasohs) Of the course taken by the gov
eminent with the murders.
The amount Of gold received at Boston for
customs. for the past year. exceeded 100000,
being slOO0.OOO more than for the year previous.
The imports for the year were 81. $4,000. During
the year 10000 barrels Of -four were received,
being an excess Of 5000 barrels over 1865.
The Treasury Department has suspended the
ment Of the rebellion 10 certain parties who sub
seQaently arrayed themselves against the United
States government The reason for this is the
Joint resolution pending before Congress 10 make
void such settlements at present. though the
vouchers OF drafts may be 10 proper legal form
The Congressional Investigation Committee
closed the taking Of testimony in New Orleans
on the ID inst. They have omitted taking the
testimony Of many witnesses who were before
the grand jury, and Others whose names were
furnished by the city and State officers In ex-
amining Judge Thread. District Judge. who holds
under appointment from Hahn and Governor
Wells. their questions and remarks to him eyi-
dehtly showed that they had already decided the
case. and could brook no statements that did not
aver disloyaity to the sentiment Of the people.
Judge Thread deolRredthat the people were loyal
and that the rights OF Union men were respected.
lie was asked II he had been in the Confederate
service. TO which he replied that he had return
ed TO his allegiance in 1854 and that was much
earlier than many Of the prosecuting witnesses
returned.