Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-16
Largest Circulation in city and Stat,
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The total receipts of the St. Louis Fair,
last week, were over 100000. nf
San Francisco is troubled about the con-
tinuOus importation Of the social evil from
China.
The President has summoned all the Dis
trict Commanders to Washington. They
are to meet shere this week
Texas papers are filled with accounts of
the rsvages Of yellow fever, and the destruc-
ton of trade all along the coast.
The Mayor Of Savannah, Ga, has issued
a proclamation forbidding torchlight pro-
cessions, on the ground that they lead TO
riot and confagrstion.
The long continued dry weather has de-
stroyed the pastures and exhausted the
wells and streams in various parts Of llli-
nois, and cattle are suffering oh dairy and
stock farms for food and water.
The drunkenness and quarrelsome con-
duct Of the Sergeant Of a body of troops
escorting a stage on the Santa Fe route led
to a fight between the troops and the pas
sengers, in which two men were KILLED and
the Sergeant badly wounded.
Its reported from Charleston, S. C., that
on Saturday night party Of negroes tore
up the track Of the South Carolina rail
road at Hopkins Station, and threw a train
from the track near Columbia, and robbed
the cars
Mike McCoole, the pugilist, has tele-
graphed TO Frank Queen, editor of the
New York Clipper, that he has forwarded
10 him one thousand dollars forfeit money,
and a challenge to fight any man in
America, particularly Joe Coburn, for ten
thousand dollars or less.
Menotte Garibaldi has been named by
his father Generalissimo of the Italian in
surgents. Ii is reported that bands of
them have been driven over the Roman
frontier by the Papal troops, and disarmed
by the national forces.
The approximations of another Fenian
landing, caused by the reports that suspie
cious vessels have been seen lowering off
the shore Of Kerry, and other portions Of
the Irish coast, are subsiding. The war
vessels, which have been guarding the
southern and eastern coasts Of the island
for some time past, will be Withdrawn,
with the exception of one or two iron-clads.
The Congressional committee that is
now trying TO smell out frauds in the
fourth congressional district, find some
very odorous things on the wrong side
For instance, one of their witnesses the
other day on cross-examination was made
TO confess TO wholesale purchasing of voters
for Bsrnum, the Snowman, the defeated
Radical candidate. The highest price OF
a Radical voter, from his confession, seems
10 have been Sl05.
An officer just from Galveston, gives
figures which show the ravages of yellow
fever 10 be unprecedented. AT the time Of
Gen. Grifin's funeral, of twenty-seTen Of
fcers and four hundred and thirty-seven
men on the rolls Of the battalion stationed
there, only four officers and twenty-fouf
men could be obtained on escort duty. The
fatality among old citizens has been very
great, some OF those carried off having
lived through seventeen seasons of epi-
demic
The Judgment of the Court of Claims in
the Southern cotton cases, awarded by the
court in June last, TO loyal Southern claim
ants, amounting TO a hundred thousand
dollars, not two or three millions, as here
tofore reported, have been adjudicated and
payment made, after a reduction of two
aud half per cent. by the Secretary of
the Treasury. These are the first judy
ments rendered by the Court Of Claims, in
favor of loyal Southern claimants, for cot
ton captured by United States forces, the
proceeds of which were turned over to the
Treasury.