Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-14
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

engaged General Mcclellan for engineer.
The Republican Congressional Commits
tee is preparing to aid in prosecuting the
Alabama campaign for the ratification Of
the constitution.
Admiral Thatcher, of our navy, is per-
mitted by Congress to receive decOra~
ton" from the King of the Cannihal
Isles"
Anna +. Dickinson, the growing pull
let," az Old Abe called her, is Caudie-ing
the Republicans in New York about 60
ing for Grant.
Wendell Phillips told the people in
Hartford, the other evening, that mo hero
worship should permit such grave mis-
take az the election Of such a man as
Grant 10 the Presidency"
Several British soldiers who participated
in the ceremonies in honor of executed
Fenians at Dublin, last Sunday, and
marched in the funeral procession, have
been placed under arrest and are to be
tried by courtmartial.
The New Orleans Times says There
are msny houses here for rent, particular
ly those that may be termed frst-class.
We have seldom seen 40 many notices TO
rent The grand boulevard, Canal street,
is no exception
The New York Times says Mr.. McCul-
loch has intimated not only readiness, but
a desire 10 conform 10 the views of Cons
gress in regard TO finances, and that plan
will be agreed upon acceptable 10 both and
. 10 the country. A suspension Of oontrac-
ton, il ssys, is fully assured.
The State Temperance Alliance of Mas
sachusetts has issued a manifesto TO the
iquor-prohibitionists Of that State in
which il urges them TO insist upon the Re-
publican party the migrating of the pro-
hibition dogmas upon their creed, under
penalty of Withdrawing the temperance
influence.
Tinker Dawes men in Fentress county,
Tenn, have been fighting among them.
selves. A letter from that county, dated
the Sth inst, says they have had three
pitched battles in the two weeks previous,
and that one man was killed and two
wounded in the last fight There are about
twenty on each side, fully armed and
equipped, and a desperate fight is antici-
pated.
Ben. DeBar, of the st. Charles Theater,
New Orleans, La, has filed bill in the
United States Court, enjoining the per-
Torrance Of the Tale of Enchantment at
the Academy of Music, by John Allen, on
the ground that il is a fac simliLe Of the
Black Crook, which DeBar is TO produce at
the st. Charles.
A Pittsburg dispatch of the 18th inst
says: A big snow storm has blockaded the
streets and railroads with snow. Dis
patches from the Allegheny region say the
present is the biggest snow storm ever eI-
perienced in those parts. The snow is
several feet deep, and no signs Of it di-
minishing The eastern mail train, due at
noon, has not arrived Business il pretty
much suspended.
Gen. Grants friends contend that the &C.
lection Of Chicago as the place to hold the
Republican convention insures his nomi. /
nation. They hope TO secure it by the
same pressure which nominated Lincoln |
against the real wishes of the convention. |
If Grant should secure that nomination,
which well posted politicians doubt, it is
believed he will not run on a platform
Acceptable TO Radical sentiment. This |
would eventuate in split, and Chase would |
he the candidate Of the pro-negro party.
Dispatches from all parts of Ireland give |
accounts of exhibitions of popular SYM
patty for Allen and his companions. In |
number of the principal towns there have |
been funeral professions, in which large |
multitudes wearing national emblems par
ticipated. The Lord Lieutenant of Ire. |
land has issued a proclamation declaring /
the holding Of public funerals for Fenians |
executed for treason at Manchester is se4
ditious, and prohibiting such demonstra-
lions in the future.
The London Times, in an editorial on /
the prospective abolition of the tax on cot
ton by the American Congress, says the
financial difficulties of the United States
are extreme, and expects the country will
be obliged to increased external taxation
and higher tariff; but believes the people
will disavow any plan which has for its
object the payment Of the bonds OF the
United States and the interest thereon in
paper.
The Virginia Conservative Convention
adopted series of resolutions on the 18th
inst, of which the following is a synopsis
LIST. That they recognize, as the result of
the war, that slavery has been abolished,
and that it is not the desire of the people
of Virginia to reduce to slavery again the
people emancipated by the events of the
war and by the amendments TO the consti-
ton Of the United States.
ID. That Virginia should be restored to
her rights in the Union, she having de-
clared her intention in good faith TO per-
form her duty TO the Union.
Sd. Protest against the governing of Vir-
ginis in any way not defined in the Fed
eral constitution.
4th. This resolution adopts the language
adopted by the Cooper Institute, New
York meeting: That a military govern
ment is subversive of the fundamental
ideas Of our government, and its object,
which is 10 subject the people Of the
Southern States 70 the rule of a race just
emerged from slavery, is abhorrent 10 the
civilization Of mankind and to the North
ern people, in surrendering as il does a
third Of the Senate and quarter Of the
House Of Representatives which are to
legislate us over TO the dominion Of an
organized class Of enancipated slaves, who
are without any Of the training, habits or
traditions of self government.
9Th. They disdain all hostility to the
black population, and assert that the peo-
pie Of Virginia sincerely desire 90 see their
advancement in intelligence, and are
willing 10 extend them liberal protection
that while any constitution adopted by the
States should make them such before
the law, this convention distinctly declares
that the government of the States and
Union were formed by white men, to be
subject 10 their control and suffrage, and
should still be regulated and continued,
both under the control and direction Of
the white race.
9th. That the people Of Virginia will
cooperate with all men throughout the
Union Of Whatever name or party, who
will labor 70 restore the constitutional
union Of the States, and continue its gov
eminent for the control Of the white race,
and instructs the central committee 10
take steps testing the constitutionslity of
the reconstruction acts in the United
States Supreme Court.
TEE Ohio STATE journal Rad says that