Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-22
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

More than a quarter of a million Of men
are disfranchised by the law against de-
serters, for the repeal Of which a bill is
now pending in the United States House.
The Brownsville (Texas) Rlnclero, sup
pressed bv military authority, will be re-
stored. Gen. Hancock does not believe in
this mode Of warfare.
At Marlborough, Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, on the 18th inst, the ele
plant Romeo killed his keeper, w. S.
Williams.
Luther Hvnes, who was accused Of an
express robbery at Baiesyille, Miss, was
thrown from horse he was riding and in
stantly killed
The sugar crop Of Louisiana is esti-
mated at forty thousand hogsheads. Over
three hundred thousand barrels in the
fields will be lost for wantlof negro labor,
The Metropolitan Police Of Memphis
made rade upon the gambling houses in
that city on the night Of the 10Th inst, and
arrested the proprietors Of three.
A resolution offered in the Louisiana
Convention on the Goth inst, recommend
ing TO Congress the enfranchisement Of
loyal men DISTINGUISHED by technicalities,
was violently opposed and finally laid on
the table.
For six months, up to the end OF Novemr
Der, the tax on crude spirits collected in
the State Of Illinois, amounted TO only
$344 600. During the four months ending
at the same date last year, a single dis
Gllery in Quincy, in that State, paid S405,-
600 tax.
The Committee on Foreign Relations
has decided to report to the House again,
asking the President to interfere in the
case Of Mcmahon, the clergyman from
Indiana, who was arrested in Canada last
year during the Fenian raid, on charge Of
being connected with that organization, and
since then kept in close confinement
The Washington monument has already
cost S240.000. At this time the structure
has reached the height of one hundred and
seventy-four feet, leaving three hundred
and seventy-four feet TO be completed, the
entire height Of the monument being fixed
at FIVE hundred and forty-eight feet.
A New Orleans dispatch Of the Goth inst.
says The message Mandatory Of and sus-
tanning Gen. Hancock, greatly revived
Southern hopes. Hancock has given as
surance that armed protection shall be
extended over life and property against
negro aggressions.
The California Legislature on the Doth
inst. elected Eugene Casserly United States
Senator, TO succeed Hon. John Conness.
Mr.. Casserty is a leading Democratic poll
tician of California, and prominent law
yer Of San Francisco. He was formerly a
resident of New York city.
The $4,000 diamond ring and $1,000 gold
watch stolen from Lepart, the Memphis
barber, six or eight months ago, were re.
turned 10 him by express from Washing
ton City a few days ago. The affair is
very mysterious one and IL is thought
they were returned by two detectives named
Pratt and Horton, who were suspected Of
stealing them and who feared detection.
In the Louisiana Reconstruction Conven-
ton on the both inst, notice was given by
Judge Cooley of his intention to introduce
a bill repeating the bond ordinance, pro-
viding pay for the convention. He gave
as his reason that one of the capitalists
who had engaged TO discount these bonds
has virtually abandoned his contract. The
prospect Of funds to pay the members is
now more dubious than before.
A Washington dispatch of the Doth inst.
10 the Louisville Courier says; The state
ment that the message Of the President in
reference to Hancock was a preconcerted
arrangement with Democratic members, is
not true 1t was his own voluntary act,
and Democrats knew nothing of it until it
was read in Congress. Ii may be added,
while they consider Hancock entitled to all
praise for his official conduct in New Or
leans they scout the idea of running him
for President for any such a reason.
Gen Hancock has revoked Movers
orders removing the Secretary of State,
Superintendent Of Education, State Tax
Collector, Judges Justices and Clerks Of
Courts, stating that the evidence sub
mitted doe not sustain the allegations con-
tanned in said orders of removal. The pre-.
vious incumbents, therefore, remain in
office. The removals by Mower Of Justice
Barughn and Coroner Delery are sustained,
but men Of Hsncock's selection are APP
pointed 10 the vacancies.
Governor Fenton, of New York, has
written letter advocating the burial of
the Rebel dead, also, in the Antietam Gem
etery. He says A strong local and inr
dividual feeling, in the neighborhood of
Antietam and other parts of Maryland,
naturally engendered by the invasion, may
have created some indifference in regard
10 the Confederate dead, and an indisposi-
ton TO see them buried side by ride with
those who died in defense Of our nation-
ality. But il is confidently believed that
no such feeling pervsdes the breasts Of the
American people, or the scrviving officers
and soldiers of the Union armies"
The trial Of Mayor Horton, Of Mobile,
Gen. Pope's sppointee, for violation Of the
civil rights bill, in the case Of Charles
johnson. negro, was concluded. The trial
was occasioned by the Illegal Punishment Of
johnson from the city. The case was fully
and ably argued before Judge Busted, Of
the United States Court, il being a prece-
dent case, and invoked considerable discus
sion and interest among the people. 1t
was regarded a fair test Of the protection
offered by the bill, and resulted in a YER
dict Of guilty being rendered in a few min
utes after the Jury retired. The sentence
will be promulgated tomorrow.
Congress has adjourned and a negro isn't
as good As a white man in the capital. The
President not having seat in his veto of
the bill striking out the word white from the
laws of this District, the bill fails to become
a law, the ten DAYS allowed for the President
70 send his veto not expiring until to-mor-
row: therefore il will be necessary for Con-
gress TO pass the bill again after they re-
assemble, and the President will then send
in his veto. The negro shriekers were
highly indignant at Mr.. johnson, who,
thew think, failed to send in his veto only
70 aggravate their trouble. Democrats
enjoy the pocketing Of the bill by the
President
Hunnicutt and others Of the Virginia
Convention have formally appealed to Con
eress to adopt such measures as will enable
The convention 10 remove all distractions
10 reconstruction in that State. The memo.
rial read in the Senate Friday sets forth
that there is a body Of men in the South
skilled in the arts Of political intrigue, who