Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-27
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NOON DIsPATCHEs.
NEW YORK DIsPATCuEs.

NEW YORK DISPATCHES.
The virginia Election-East River
Bridge Compsny-CeIebrffle Bound
fer Mexico-A New Panel Ordered In
the surratt Case, etc. etc.
New YORK, Oct. 26.-The Herald's
Richmond special says the voting was kept
ap in Monroe ward last night TIL u o'clock.
Every negro that could be found was
brought to Polls., The official majority
for the Radicals is 400; the majority for
convention is 1888. Twenty-six negroes
in the city voted the Conservative ticket,
and eleven white men the Radical ticket.
In Richmond and throughout the State the
vote has been strictly between the races.
The negroes voted everywhere as one man.
In counties where there were two Repubii-
can tickets they have uniformly voted for
the extreme Radical
At the Radical meeting held in Rich
mond tonight, committee was appointed
from that city for the purpose of soliciting
subscriptions for the negroes who have been
discharged by their employers for voting the
| Hunnicutt ticket The number of those
discharged is reported to be six hundred,
but it is believed thenu mber will not reach
il to be chairman Of the committee. ~ !.
The special committee ofthe East River
Bridge Company, appointed for the Pur-
pose of selecting an engineer and obtaining
plan for the bridge, yesterday reported
in favor of Mr.. Roebling's plan. That
gentleman was appointed engineer, and
decided that the work should proceed at
once, f.re1 r.4q87fr-g aIf nafI
A motion wes made. yesterday before
Jadge Sutherland of the Supreme Court,
in the matter Of the Columbian Insurance
Company, to act aside an order made by
Judge Barnard, on the ground of irregu-
larity. The order was made on the appli-
cation of Geo. A. Osgood, Receiver, and
it tdirected that the trust funds, amounting
to S180,000, be transferred from the United
States Trust Company to the Union Trust
Company. This removal of funds is re-
sisted by Mr.. Curtiss, Company Receiver,
and also BY the creditors OF the Columbian
company. One of the points raised is that
Judge Barnard had no right, according to
law, to make the order he did. .rIot ,.sr. r7a
The Herald says large number of
celebrities sailed for Mexico yesterday.
Gen. Banks and Gov. Morton were expect, !
ed, but failed to make their appearance. |
Senior Romero, Mexican Minister to the
United States, viii be taken on board at
either Charleston or Havana Among. the
passengers is Gen. II. Sturm, chief ord
nance officer of Indiana during the late
war, and since agent of the Mexican gov
ernment, in which capacity he has sup
piled the Liberals with $3,000,000 worth
Of arms and ammunition. All the muni-
| tons of war sent from the United States
to Mexico during the late struggle, was
! supplied BY Gen. tSturn. He armed and
| equipped nearly the whole army of Gen.
| Diaz, in the last days of the struggle, Col
| Megia, of the Mexican army, Mr.. J. N.
| Tifin, of the firm of Corties & Co., Gen.
| Babcock of Grants staff, Mr.. DaGolado,
| ex-member of the Mexican Legation, Mr..
I Stocking, and other military, financial and
| commercial characters, were on board.
| The objects of the party are various. Gen.
| Sturm goes to settle with the Mexican
/ government, and learn their probable
future wants. The others start principally
| for the establishment of direct business re-
lations between New York and Mexico. s
| Gen. Pope has ordered the military to
assist the civil authorities in collecting the
! State IA xes in Alabama and Florida
pardon to Henry Collar, who was convicted
at Albany for counterfeiting, and sentenced
TO FIVE years imprisonment in the Albany
1 peniientiary. -fs s.....l .F-i -1.
1 The following is the return of the cotton
! crop for 1867, taken from the Bureau Of
! Statistics. The returns are from four hun
dred and eighty four divisions, with several
! yet to hear from, and show that 5,067 ,025
acres have been planted in cotton, and that
the estimated yield is 1,56s,657 bales of
four hundred and fifty pounds each, equal
to 1, ,764, 401 bales of four hundred pounds
each, the latter being the weight assumed
in the weight of 1860. The yield of 1860
was 5, ,656, ,086 bales of four hundred pounds
each. 1t is estimated by the bureau that
the returns yet to come will not materially
alter the above figures. s. sf..11 llD19
The Times special says: The public
will recollect that at the Surratt trial the
panel of jurors in the Criminal Court here
was quashed, because the law had not been
complied with. To-day a new panel was
ordered, and twenty-six names were drawn.
They are all white, as the law yet includes
the word white in its phraseology. Con-
| gress tried to change it at the last session,
but the President pocketed the bill.
| The World says the government has dis
patched special agent to Charleston, 8.
c., to investigate the bounty frauds upon
colored soldiers, particularly those Of ex-
Gov. Fenton's loyal agents, Cook and Sher-
wood. Ex-Adjuiant General Irving has
been here to help the latter ont of their
trouble, but he has evidently failed, for the
officers have been instructed to proceed to
prosecute the cases with vigor The gov.
ernment is confident of its ability to expose
most gigantic fraud.