Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-04
OBJ THE DAY.

sion.
A Brussels letter says Carlotta is ian
proving.
A Masonic lodge has been organized il
Silka.
The thermometer was u degrees below
zero at Minneapolis on the morning OF the
Both ult.
Carl Schurz is in Washington, on his way
to Europe. He opposed to impeachment
II IL reported in Washington that Mr.
Rollins, Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
will soon resign
The sentence Of General Custer Wa app
proved by General Grant. 1t was not sub-
mitted TO the President.
The thermometer stood several degrees
below zero 10 Chicago early on the morn
ing ofthe 30th nit
Mrs. Kate, wife of Major General james
s. Negley, died suddenly, in Pittsburg, on
Friday evening, Of heart disease.
The Young Mems Association of Chica.
90 offered Charles Dickens $1,000 per
evening for two evenings, which offer was
declined by his agent.
Juarez received a majority in every
State Of the Mexican republic at the re-
cent election, and his amendments to the
constitution were also adopted.
According to official reports, the number
of deaths in San Francisco, for the year
ending June 30, 1867, was only 2522, out
of a population Of $4,000
The Indian Chief Spotted Tail is at the
North Platte He is willing to sign a
treaty of peace, or he says he will go to
Washington and stay till treaty is signed,
if he may take along with him five wives.
The Senate, it is said, will declare Stan-
ton entitled to reinstatement as Secretary
of War by a decided majority, and will
reject any person who may be nominated
10 succeed him.
The National Republican Union Conn
mittee will meet on the llth inst, 20 fix
the time and place for the National Re-
publican Convention. Either Chicago or
Cincinnati will be selected
At New Orleans, recently, a carpenter
ran out of an alley near the French mar
ket, and fell dead with a stiletto in his
heart. A coroner's jury found no clue TO
the manner in which he had been killed.
The Washington Star advocates the
establishment Of a National Chamber OF
Commerce, and thinks lift were to meet in
Washington it would have an important
influence upon Congress.
Gen. Grants order reducing the force of
the army, will muster ont on the LIST of
January, thirty volunteer staff officers and
one hundred aud ffty-iwo officers of the
vetern reserve corps, most Of whom are
doing duty in connection with the Freed
mems Bureau.
In Freedom, Wis, a few days since, a
SHERIFF. officer attempted to serve a writ
Of ejectment on a Mrs. Showers, when she
attacked him with an Ak and a butcher
knife. After losing finger the officer re-
treated, leaving Mrs Showers mistress of
the field.
A claim advanced by Mrs. Jack, of
Rock Island, TO seventy acres Of land in
the heart Of Chicago, which was sold
twenty-five years ago by her husband, she
refusing 10 sign the deed, has been com
promised by the payment of $50, 900 to the
claimant
The negro who committed the outrage
on Mrs. Baker at Princeton, Indiana, was
caught on Friday night, and brought
back. He confessed the crime, and stated
his name as Albert Saunders, living in
Warsaw. He was then seized by the mob,
and stabbed, shot and beaten till he was
dead. A rope was then put around his
neck, and the body dragged about the
streets till late hour, when it was left in
the road.
The Reconstruction Committee held a
meeting at Thad. Stevens room Saturday
forenoon. They took no action. Much
talk was had about prospects in the South,
which are generally regarded as satisfac-
tory. 1t seemed to be held that some fur.
Their legislation will be necessary before
any of the reconstructed States can elect
Representatives, and the propriety of
taking a new census of the South was dis
cussed.
In New York on the night of the Goth
ult., about eleven o'clock, a woman stopped
a man she met on the street, and asked him
the time. While pulling out his watch,
she clapped handkerchief 10 his nose sat-
urated with chloroform, and when he re.
covered he found that he had been relieved
Of his watch and six hundred dollars in
greenbacks.
General Hancock's order declaring that
the military power should cease TO lead,
and the civil administration resume its
natural and rightful dominion, has been
the subject of much comment in Washing
ton, and meets with the appreciation Of the
and Conservative men, who
assert that il has the ring of the states
man. The Radicals do not take serious
objection TO ii, but some of them say the
tone indicates an inclination on the part of
Hancock to depart somewhat from the
course pursued by Sheridan, and possibly
revise much Of the latter's official action.
TIE decision of the Senate that the No
vember session Of Congress is bat con-
tinuation OF the March session is taken by
the Administration as determining another
question about which there has been some
namely-at what time the
twenty DAYS commenced to run, within
which the Executive is required to furnish
a list of his appointments and suspensions
OF officers. Under the tenure Of Office law,
according TO the ruling of the Senate on
Friday last the twenty DAYS commence
TO morrow, and the President has 10 the
Zfst INST within which to sand TO that body
an account of his action in the Stanton and
other cases.
The Alabama Convention passed an
ordinance on Saturday to organize the vol
unteer militia of Alabama. 1t authorizes
one company 20 every Thousand yoters. all
officers 20 be appointed by the Governor
and TO be Of known loyalty. A great
many officers, with heavy emoluments. are
provided for, including one Major General,
three Brigadier Generals and one Adjutant,
Quartermaster, Inspector, Paymaster, and
Surgeon Genersl--the whole TO be under
command Of the Governor. The Conservs-
tives declare that this measure places the
State under a military dynasty similar to
Brownlow's, and say that It's expenses will
necessarily greatly Increase taxation. An
ordinance was passed declaring the war
debt Of the State, and all Liabilities created
directly or indirectly in aid Of the war,
null and void.
II viii be seen from the card Of Coli
Iohn r Rrownloy In this MORNINGS