Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ne euUTls 10 raise IAfGs Tue 81 LOUIS street
cars from FIVE 20 six cents has failed.
The President has appointed and the Senate
has confirmed Col John Netherland Minister
to Bolivia
The Senate rejected the nomination Of Gen
John A. McClernard as Minister TO Mexico.
Congress adjourned Saturday afternoon 10
Thursday, the list Of November.
A call has been Issued for a National Labor
Convention az Chicago on the third Monday OF
August.
In reply 10 the petition for the remission Of
the sentence imposed on Father Mcmahon, the
Governor General Of Canada says the subject
will receive immediate attention
The remains Of Lieutenant Kidder and ten
men Of the Second cavalry have been found in
q ravine northwest Of Fort wallace, where they
had been butchered and scalped by indians
The President ofthe St. Louis Board Of Water
Commissioners sold, on the 18th inst, al public
auction, 100000 IN one lot Of WaterwOrks
bonds They we're six per cents interest and
principal payable IN gold, and we're purchased
by the State Bank Of Missouri at $50.
A meeting Of native and adopted citizens was
held at Buffalo on the night Of the 10th inst 10
demand from the government OF the United
states protection for her citizens in foreign cOun
tries and the release Of those now suffering in
foreign prisons
On the 10Th instant the President nominated
Horace Greeley as Minister 10 Austria, but Sen
ator Upton, Of Nebraska. objected to the con
sideration Of the nomination, and II goes over
ley was that he had gone on JEFF. Davis bond.
But for this objection. the nomination Of Gree
ley would have been confirmed.
A San Francisco dispatch says the engineers
of the Central Pacific railroad have reported in
favor Of locating the line by the north instead Of
south Of Salt Lake. 1t Is eighty-nine miles
shorter and will cost cne-third less, and passes
through far better country. The Summit tun-
mel is nearly through, and il will probably be
open By August l5.
A Buenos Ayres letter to the New YorR Horid
says that during the prevalence Of cholera IN
that province, thirty-hye or forty days, 1880
persons died Of the disease. This includes the
whole range Of theriYers. and all the deaths ia
the allied army for the time Of cholera. In the
city Of BuenOs Ayres the mortality was Is per
1000.
A dispatch from Memphis reports that there
we're seven deaths In that city on the 18th inst,
from cholera. The disease is steadily increas-
ing though 50 far IL has not assumed an epi-
dsmic form. The rayages are confined almost
exclusively to the negroes. The Board Of
Health has been organized 10 put the city in "A
good sanitary condition. There is little OF no
excitement IN regard TO 1t.
Gen. Braxton Bragg Superintendent of the
New Orleans waterw0rks, .charEes Gen. Sheri-
dams appointees in tho street commission with
a waste of water in cleaning the streets, and
threatens prosecution. The commissioner re-
plies that no more water Is used than necessary,
and retorts that prosecution may be followed
by a substitute Of officers for the .waterworks
company.
Paris dispatch Of the 10Th says Napoleon
still continues 10 buy large numbers OF horses
for the use Of the French army, and the military
workshops ia France are overtasked with work.
This facthas created great deal Of distrust in
financial circles In Germany and fears that war IS
approaching are openly expressed. The market
for all kinds of government aud other securities
Is extremely fiat. United States sos were
quoted In Frankfort on the 10th ut 76's.
Great excitement was caused in Chicago on
the 10th inst, by a shooting affair at the ST.
A. Ia rfp .Fip Mrs Van PnffRn wife of a
cigar dealer named o. b. Van Patten, found
her husband az the picnic with another NO
missing both. She was so mortified at her bad
aim that she at once placed the muEzle OF the
revolver at her head and fired, missing again,
through the impairment interference o. by
stauder, who elevated the weapon at the very
moment when 60 do SO was 10 spoil the per
Torrance.
II isreported that Mr. Abbott. the brother Of
the historian. has preached a proposition 20
leading members Of Congress tor the anueNa-
ton of Mexico. which he intimates meets with
the appreciation Of Juarez and the chiefs OF the
Mexican Republican party. Inc latter lear
another foreign Intervention on account OF
execution, or continuation OF
the intestine strife. and are satlshed WITH an
BoxatiOn provided they themselves can be Sc
cured in some good government berth ana
peace can be secured to the country; Mr.. Alb
bott's propositions were received with some hes
,tatiop bv Sumner and Banks but with much
favor by Howard, Cole, Chandler and Others.
The House Of Representative on the 10Th inst.
directed the Committee on the Judiciary 70 re
port forthwith the testimony m the lmpench-
meut case. The chairman Of the committee I'm.
mediately objected the manuscripts, ana had |
hem fled on his desk, M order, az sproper time.
TO respond 60 a call; but a resolution OF Repre-
sentative Coyode requiring the reports OF the |
minority 20 be printed IN the testimony inter /
ierred. and the House, pendingits consideration, /
adjourned until 2lst November. So the report |
= as not submitted Several copies Otthe printed /
testimony had found their way into the hands /
they were. 30 far az possible, recalled, the Com
mittee on the Judiciary having held meeting /
md declared that in view of facts which have Il
rranspired in,the House the INJUNCTION Vi secre-
cy still continued regarding the evidence.
There was a row few days since at Mound /
Tity III between some United States Marines
and negroes which resulted in the killing Of one
and serious wounding Of another OF the marines,
The Cairo Democrat Of the 18th gives the sequel
'o the affair as follows. "On Wednesday mum
Der sof the negroes were tried by the Mound i
Fitv authorities when the negro changed with
he murder Of Russell was acquitted. over has /
,c5uittsl We are informed, the sailors and ma
ines became terribly lncensed. believing as /
hey did that be was guilty despite ms acQuittal
1y the authorities. As time passed; theiT lhnig
alton gained intensely, until finally ~ le9 70 /
among them 90 avenge the death i
ii their comrade Ia man who ENJOY Cd the esteem /
ma friendship of alb by dealing with the negro 4
,ccor3inr 10 their own notions OF justice. The /
.csult OF this determination may be told an a /
enfence They sought out the negro, placed !
,5pc about his neck, snd disposed Of him sum /
narily This they did, we learn, m spite Of the |
'rfermined Intervention Of their officers, who |
appears received intimation Of their iuten- 4
iors before they cOnsummated them.
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