Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-06

The erection Of a statue 10 Jefferson. at Char
l0ttcsyilie. Virginia, which was TO have been
ready by the 9Th inst. bias been put on M Oe59
Der . owing 20 pressing elTcumstsnees. nc
Hon. II. L. Grigsby. of Norfolk the oldest living
cOteinporary Of jefferson. who was classmate
at William and Mary College with Je1ersohh
when Virginia was a colony under the bIttlsh
Crown. and who was member OF the CONVEX
ton Of lIl6 will be one OF the speakers Oh the
occasion.
The committees Of both houses appointed to
notify the President that Congress had organized
and we're ready % receive communications from
the Executive called at the White House on the
afternoon Of the Sd inst, but finding that the
President was in Georgetown, attending the
his son j. a student. they left and returned at
night at o'clock and had an interview with
Mr. johnson, who informed the committee that
be had no communication TO make 20 Congress
az present.
Captains Hand and Cotton, owners of the
tugs A. NJ. Ball and Nellie Cotton, entertained
the BuiialOnians with a novel exhibition the
other day. Captain Hand wagered $500 that his
tug, the A. NJ. Bali, would pull the other out Of
the harbOr into the lake. Steam was raised,
the whistles started an internal concert, the
tugs hitched together and started in opposite
directions. After severe and rather Rrotraeted
contest the Nellie Cotton was compelled 70 fol-
low the other tug outside the lighthouse.
The Second Auditor Of the Treasury has do
cided that a certificate Of Indebtedness from the
government 60 a soldier is not liable 10 be st
sached. nor is the attorney Of the soldier liable
10 he held bis trustee or garnlshee before the
money has been actually paid and received BY
him upon it. The law gives the attorney no lien
upon It for existing debt, nor even for his
! fees for obtaining il. 1t can only be paid upon
the signature Of the soldier and is Of no value in
| the hands Of any other person except after he
| has properly assigned 1t.
The Buffalo papers tell Of the remarkable ef-
fects of lightning. at the fair grounds at Spring
| vile, on the 28th ult. A storm of rain came up
| and drove a large crowd into the exhibition
| sheds one Of which was struck by thunder
| bolt. At least q hundred persons were pTostra-
/ ted by the shock, three Of whom, it IS feared,
/ were fatally injured-the others escaping with
| but slight damage One woman was Frustrated
and deprived OF her senses, but not of her power
] Of lOcOmOtiOn. She lnstlnctlvely gathered her
| self M ran to an omnibus. and was conveyed to
! a hotel and declares she had no knowledge Of
| what took place after the Hash until she found
! herselfin room at the house. Several horses
were killed.
As some workmen out in Monroe county, Indi-
| ana were digging cellar last week, they struck
| n block of stone which disappeared with dull
| thump. Investigation disclosed a chamber with
I a siX-f00t ceiling. and eighteen by twenty-five
| feet within the walls which are Of solid neatly
| scanned stone work. Ranged in rows, on rudely
| constructed platforms, were twelve skeletons,
| each with tOmahaWk and arroWheads at their
sides earrings and bracelets of solid silver ly-
| ing where they dropped. and piles of what ap-
| peared to have been furs IN the center Of the
| platform each pile crumbling to dust a. soon as
| Of copper, and hardened equal TO the best cast
| steel, we're also uneaTthed.
The Washington correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Gazette says. in his dispatch Of the Sd inst
| 1T Is probable as has been saidby many leading
members, that the Impeachment Committee
can report if they choose, but it IS not believed
| By anybody, SO far as. can be agcertained, that
anything will be done with the impeachment
question at this session. though the Committee
| will undoubtedly make public the evidence they
have taken. The contest for short or long ses-
J sion now took place on getting in Mr.. EliOtt's
! resolution, and the decisive majority in favor
of that proposition shows c0nclusiyely that the
business is be confined te amending the recon
struction act. The general legislation men were
also decidedly beaten in the Senate where Mr..
Sumner almost alone stood up for long session.
The Senate caucus included thirty-One mem
hers and therein Sumner was supported Only
| by Mr. Chandler and one more. Mr.. Conkling'
proposition declaring that business shall be
confined to the passage of a bill giving force To
the Congressional Interpretation Of the exist
ing reconstruction act received all but four
votes IL is clear therefore. that the session
wall end before the end Of this month. and most
Of the members appear 10 think il will close by
| the twentieth"