Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-21
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1867.
Largest circulation IN city and Stat
nEMs OF TnE DAY.

NEWS OF TIL. DAY.
There are fourteen thousand Quakers IN
Indiana.
The autograph of Charles Y sold ia New
York on Thursday at SO 90.
The Morgan raid claims adjndicated and
allowed in Indiana amount 10 S4l3,54S As.
John Mitchell has declined the Presi-
dency of the United Fenian Brotherhood.
The Italian government has issued orders
calling into active service additional milf
tary reserves.
o. Thus far one hundred aud seventy FIVE
cases Of bankruptcy have been reported IN
Maine.
The Kansas press isunsnimously opposed
10 the further agitation Of negro suffrage in
that State.
The President has rendered to Hon. Ihos.
II. Ford, Of Ohio, the nomination OF Min
ister Resident to Ecuador. There were
over a score Of applicants for the position.
Slanton's troubles are sccumnlating.
Smithson, banker, who sued him for false
Imprisonment, is pressing his action with
yigor. and Stanton has deemed il prudent
to retain James T. Brady, Judge Hughes
and other eminent counsel.
A London dispatch of the 18th inst
says; II is reported that paper has been
found in WolVerhampton which shows that
the Fenians in England had organized a
plot 10 plumber all armories of militia
forces.
Mr.. Gladstone made speech to the miners
and other operatives of Werneth, in Chester
county, on the 18th inst, in the course of
which he reviewed the Fenian question.
He did not hesitate TO ascribe the exist
ence of Feniauism TO England's wretched
Encouragement and misgovernment of
Ireland
Haight q Chambers circus company
met with a serious accident the other day,
on the railroad between Richmond and
Columbus, Texas. When fourteen miles
from Richmond the train ran offthe track.
A number of horses were killed, and the
elephant was severely hurt. A number OF
the principal performers were also pam
fully but not dangerously injured.
Conservative meeting was held at Mont
gomery, Ala, on the night Of the 18th
inst, and addressed by Henry c. Semple,
Jas. Clanton, Joseph Hodgson and others,
all strongly opposing the ratification OF the
new constitution. Letters we're read from
Daniel Pratt, formerly a Northern citizen,
and the pioneer manufacturer and capital
list of Ontago county, and Samuel Read,
urging the defeat of the constitution, and
denouncing the convention.
Ameeting Of the Atlantic Telegraph Com
panv was held in London on the End inst
The President said that it had been found
that the deeper the cable was laid the safer
il was. The receipts had risen TO point
which was above the highest calculations,
at present nearly approaching GlOOO a
day. More than this, they we're getting
from fifteen to twenty words minute from
their cable, whereas they had only antlci-
pated FIVE The cables were all working
satisfactorily.
The Assize Court Of the Bouches-du-
Rhone, France, has sentenced to hard labor
for life, an American named Brown, &
Young man Of twenty-five, for having mur-
dered young man named Rogert, in the
streets Of MarseilIes. They had fight with
their fists. but the Irishmsn, being much
more delicate in frame, had the worst of 1t,
and tried TO escape. Brown pursued HIM
and stabbed him in the stomach. Drank"
enness was pleaded in his defense, but the
Jury brought in a verdict without extenu-
ating circumstances.
1t will not diminish the high estimate in
which the people hold Hancock by reveal
ing the fact that he was violently opposed
TO the military commission which tried the
conspirators, and doubted both the legality
of that tribunal and guilt Of Mrs. Surratt.
AZ commanding officer Of the department
il devolved on him 10 carry ont the SEN
tence on conspiration, and only the urgent
entreaties of his friends prevented his re-
signing his position rather than carry it
into execution. He endeavored to have
the Judgment modified in the case of Mrs.
Surrait, but it is believed his communion
tions were detained in the War Office, and
never reached the President.