Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-15
NEWS OF TIL. DAY.


Bismark has notified some Prueians in Michi-
s,n 10 come home for military duty.
report that Rosa Bouheur has become in
r4ne was received hy the last steamship from
IurJpe.
An Evansville undianoJ dispatch says the an
plies were sadly damaged by the late frost IN that
county.
People are flowing into Texas from every por-
ton Of the civilized world The population l-
about .2UGOJl.
Lari Lyons formerly Minister to the United
state has been appointed to succeed kHri Cow
ley as the Ambassador Of Great Britain to Pans.
In Troy. New York. they are building she'll
boats Of paper which will weigh under forty
pounds, aud. 1t IL said. will do a. well a. wood.
John A. Henninps. merchant Of Farmland,
near Munire Indiana. was murdered and
fHbbed near hi7 home. on the night OF the 4th in
tHut
The eight hour strike in Chicago has attract
el large numbers Of labOrers thither from tue
atiarent country. aud the places vacated by the
uikers are nearly all filled by the newcomer
The Wesleyan Methodsts in this country are
At4appbaringas o distinctive body. In 1913 there
we're fifty Wesleyan ministers in New England ;
nov there are but sax.
The funeral Of Gov. Wright. late American
Minister 10 Prussia, took place a. Berlin on the
18th inst, and was attended by All the American
residents aud visitors there, and a large number
of citizens.
The President Guds go much of public business,
connected with Instruction, engaging his at
trutiun that he fear, he will have 10 abandon
his North Carolina trip. tie hopes 10 be able 10
visit Boston in June.
The next convention of the Southern Baptist
Churches will be held in Baltimore ON the Thur
dly preceding the second Sunday Ia May, 1868.
The convention just held IN Memphis amended
the constitution by providing for annual in
-fead Of biennial sessions.
A telegram from Council Bluffs reports the
capture aud burning Of the mountain steamer
Miner, BY Indians. about 500 miles above Sioux
city. The boat had landed for wood when she
was taken by about two hundred savages. They
mlssacred every soul on board, except two men
who escaped. and then burned the boat
The dubious virtue of strikes is illustrated in
the case Of the Paris tailor7 who are still hold
ing out for an increase Of wages. The French
taehionabeg are ordering their clothes in Brus-
..ls aud IL Is said that many Partisan workmen
have migrated 90 that city. where wages are low
rr than the old rates ia Paris.
The British Minister has called the attention
Of our government 60 the alleged Outrage upon
the British schooner Elk, on Lake Erie, by a
band of Fenians The District Attorney OF the
Northern District Of Ohio, Will be directed TO
investigate the matter, with view 20 prosecu-
ton In case the neutrality laws have been yio-
lated
Ia the Baptist Convention al Memphis, on the
18th inst, a report was made IA reference TO their
that body cherished the mildest feelings toward
the late slaves and urged upon the ministry the
yTeat importance of establishing churches. and
particularly Sunday Schools Tor their religious
instruction.
There WAS a second shock of an earthquake a.
Nebraska City, at about clock on the mornt
ing of the ID inst. IL was Of longer duration
and more violent than that Of the Path Of April.
bedstends we're moved from their positions.
stoye-pipes tumbled down aud houses rocked 10
aud fro like ships in q heavy sen. The same
hook appears TO have been felt nj Sidney,
Iowa
den Pope has had the not very pleasant no
touety of asserting; an an ohci2l report, lha5
prisoners. the ten thousand being really all the
inhabitants OF county occupied by has torces.
lhe documents OF the supplemental report OF
the committee on the conduct u the wal contain
tten. pOpe's denial OF all responsibility Tor tins
uiicul0ua exaggeration. OF which Gen. Pope
avs Gen. halleck was the author.
The Georgia injunction case only wa, dis
missed by the Supreme Court on the ! tn inst,
tar want of jurisdiction The case OF Mississippi.
as amended by making Arkansas party 90 the
,pmplaint aud covering Gen. OTdl action "a
reFard 60 the treaty Of the latter state, will
probably be argued Friday II IS hoped by the
,umplainnnts that the Arkansas Treasury case
will furnish property clause upon which the
court can base Jurisdiction.
The Washington correspondent Of the Cincin-
matt Gozefte says in has letter ef the 10th inst
The Congressional Executive Committee j.
receiving the most encouraging accounts from
the South The work Of organization is going
on with wonderful rapidity. Virginia ~ the
most backward. aud Louisiana the most for
ward, OF the Rebel States In the latter the in
huenee of Gen. Sheridan is felt in the most
positive manner, and in the former progress IS
only assured by the trmness of Gen. Schoheld.
Those at work for the committee report the
blacks in and around the larEe towns ~ a unit
Tor the Republican party; but in the back
country and in the smaller communities they
are 20 "a considerable extent under the control Of
their late masters The committee Is meeting
With good success in raising funds in the North,
lud nearly every day agents are dispatched 10
q asrent parts Of the South Gen. Banks may
POSSIBLY make a tour through these States and
an effort is being made 90 induce Miss Anna
dickinson o. deliver some of her lectures al tue