Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-09
Largest Circulation in City and State
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The President has not vet Considered the
application Of Alexander II. Stephens for
pardon.
General Grant denies that he said that
if nominated be would run for President
Aparty Of railroad thieves, which has
been operating about Omaha for some time
past, has been broken up.
The London Standard expresses appre-
tensions Of European war this winter
from the general arming in France.
Duringsthe past month the City railroad
of New Orleans received in fares $1,000 in
counterfeit five cent tickets.
zThere were five interments from yellow
fever in Mobile on Sunday, and four Mon
day.
1t is reported that the Fenians, through
an agent, purchased one of the vessels
lately sold by the government in New
York
The Surgeon General of the United
States army has supplied disabled soldiers
with 1851 artificial legs, 224O artificial
arms, ffty-fve hands and nine feet.
The government is issuing fractional
currency to the amount of 100000 per
day, that amount being necessary to replace
what is worn out and destroyed.
Mai. John Esten Cooke was married to
Miss Francis Page, daughter Of the late
DIR. Robt. Page, at Saratoga, Clark county,
Va, on the 18th ult.
A fatal case of yellow fev er has occurred
in Springfield, Mass, in the person Of
man from Memphis, Tenn, en- route for
Nova Scotia.
Gen. Candy has authorized the execu-
ton of process of the United States courts
in but one instance, and proposes to decide
in each case on its merits.
The iE;erments from yellow fever in
New Orleans for the twenty-four hours
ending at o'clock Sunday morning, were
sixty to o'clock Monday morning were
forty-seven.
General T. w. Sweeney, the ex-Fenian
leader, who holds a commission as Major
in the regular army, has been court-mar-
tailed for unoficerlike conduct, and sus-
pended from service for one year.
The cornerstone of a monument in the
national cemetery at Hampton creek, Yir-
ginia, was laid on the Sd inst. The monu-
ment is TO cost $4,000, and it is estimated
that there will be 10000 interments in the
cemetery.
The number Of registered voters polled
so far in Louisiana, is eighty-four thousand
and eighty-four, with twenty-one more
parishes to hear from, and the majority ia
estimated by the New Orleans Republican
in those parishes at over four thousand.
The Radical State Treasurer of Missouri
is accused of nisapplying the funds appro-
priated for the payment of tAe interest
coupons on the State bonds. Il is said that
he has a large amount of the States money
loaned out, in which he is himself realizing
the interest, while the credit of the State
is suffering.
The Dawson (Ga) Journal reports that
an old man named Waters, who, in COM
pany with his wife, had set out on foot to
travel from Calhoun county to Oglethorpe,
died suddenly on the roadside within a
few miles of Dawson last week. Their des-
tination was South Carolina, where they
had relatives. He was inferred, and the
wife sent to her destination by railroad.
The Tyler Reporter of Smith county,
Texas, speaking Of the cotton worm says:
We would think it safe to say that one
third of the crop is destroyed; others think
the injury greater. At least these little
pests have robbed our county of two or
three thousand bales of cotton, worth from
100000 TO Sl50,000. This, however, we
learn is not so heavy a loss as many coun-
ties have suffered, the entire crop having
been swept away.
The revolution in Italy is becoming
more serious. A conflict has occurred in
the province of Niterbo, between the Papal
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latter were successful. The movement
against Rome seems TO animate all Italy,
and Garibaldi, though a prisoner at Ca
prera, has just issued stirring address,
which will still more inAame his followers.
The government of Victor Emanuel does
not seem to be making any very strenuous
efforts for the protection of the Pope.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says in his dispatch of
the 9th: General Sherman arrived this
morning. and has been very secluded all
day, refusing 10 see visitors in most in
stances. 1t is asoertained that he comes
here by express order OF the President, not
sent through Gen. Grant, and rumor con-
meets his name with the War Office. While
nothing positive is known on this subject,
il may be added that the officials at army
headquarters will not be surprised if Gen.
Grants connection with the Department
ceases within ten days"
Hon. L. B. Washburne made a speech at
Galena, Ills, on the 9Th inst, in which he
stated that General Grant never had any
sympathy with the Democratic party; that
throughout the war he stood by the Ads
ministration of Lincoln; that he has supS
ported all the measures of Congress for re-
constructions that he is in favor Of impar>
tial suffrage in all the States, and holds
that the national debt should be paid in
good faith, according to the terms of the
contract.
One Of the largest sales of army equip
ments ever made has Just been ordered by
the Quartermaster's Department to take
place in New York, beginning on the 22d
inst. Over one hundred different classes of
articles, under the head of army clothing
and equipage, are specified and the magni-
tude of the sale can be Judged from the
figures, viz: $1,000 wooden blankets H.,
600 rubber blankets and pouches, 100000
pairs bootees, $4,000 pairs boots, $1,000
shirts, 10000 great coats 100000 drawers,
100000 hats and caps, 10000 coats and
Jackets, 100000 canteens and knapsacks,
over 5000 0O0 pieces hat and cap trim
mings, $4,000 picks, 10000 axes, 200
spades and shovels. The terms of sale are
cash, and goods must be removed in ten
DAYS. The sale will be conducted by
Brigadier General Sawtelle.
Ex-Gov. SEYMOUR, of New York, in
ASSUMING the chair rs President of the