Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-14
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NEWS OF THE DAx.

New corn from Alabama and Tennessee
is coming into Memphis freely. 1t is dry,
and turns out well.
The yellow fever is raging with great
violence at the Dry Tortugas. All the Of
ficers and many Of the garrison and pris-
oners have been attacked.
The army worm is reappearing in Mis-
sissippi, and is destroying the cotton. The
yield is not as large as was anticipated two
weeks ago.
Gen. Custar's ofense, for which he is to
be court martialed, is his leaving Fort
Wallace for Fort Harker, where his wife
was staying, and where the cholera pre-
vailed.
Wendell Phillips choice for President is
Thad. Stevens. He says he would give
more for six months of old Thad. in the
White House than for four years Of Chase,
cor any other man."
Pears from a tree in Danvers, Massachu-
SETS planted by John Endicott, first Gov
ernor Of the colony, in 1923, were exhib-
tied at the American Pathological Conven-
ton in st. Louis on the llth inst.
The Washington Star of the evening of
the 18th inst. states that the President has
declared within the past two days to sew
eral distinguished persons with whom he
had an interview, that it was not his inten-
ton to make any changes in his Cabinet at
> present.
A serious riot, originating at a house of
ill-fame occurred at Quebec, Canada, on
Monday night, the 9th inst, between sol
diers and civilians. Three soldiers and
one civilian were either killed or MORALLY
wounded, and several others on both sides
badly injured.
The growth of Iowa for the past two years
has been gratifyingly rapid, as we learn by
the census Just completed. According to
the figures, of which nearly all are off
cial, the population in 1867 is 1913, 1874
in 1865 il was 753, l65-an increase in two
years Of 245029, or thirty-seven per cent.
Another effort is about to be made in
North Carolina to enforce the process of
the United States Court relative TO the debt
which Gen. Sickles regarded as in viola
ton OF Order No. 10. 1t is well under
stood in Washington that Gen. Candy will
make no resistance to the particular case
now pending, though he will not rescind
the order in question.
Some weeks since a Mr.. A. Milliken, of
Lagrange, Tenn, was arrested by the mil
itary for assaulting an ex-Union soldier,
and on a charge of violation of his parole
was taken 10 Louisville, and since sent back
TO be tried by the military. On the 18th
inst, Attorney General Wallace applied
10 Judge Trigg, of the United States Court,
for a writ of habeas corpus on Lieutenant
w. III. Hugo, commanding the post of
Lagrange, for the body Of the prisoner, I'M
der the recent proclamation. The writ
was granted, and it was placed in the
hands of deputy Marshal Bingham to ex-
ecute il.
The editor of the New York Sun had a
conversation with NJ. Romero, the Mex
lean Minister, the other day. M. Romero
laid the blame Of the invasion of his coun-
try on the Church party and Napoleon
said he thought Macmillan TO have been
good-natured and amiable, but weak
minded, and that he went to Mexico more
TO crafty his wife's ambition than his
own; that he would have left Mexico with |
the French but for the advice Of NJ. Eloi, |
a Belgian envoy, who told him he would |
lose his prestige and his chance Of success
if he did. Maximilian's body would be |
delivered TO Austria, il it was requested, !
without threats. Santa Anna would |
not be executed he was hardly |
worth hanging, and besides was too old to |
be thus disposed Of Juarez would prob |
ably imprison him until death In answer |
to various other questions, his Excellency |
said that the elections for President and |
Congress would be held in November next, |
when Juarez, who was the only candidate
for the Presidency, would be elected He
will undoubtedly devote himself to restoring
internal peace, and to the development Of
the boundless resources of the country.
Foreigners would be favorably regarded
by the government, and be allowed free in
tercourse.