Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-30
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NEW YORK DISPATCHES.

Still Reducing of the National Debt
RumOR-s of Supersedfng Gen. SherI.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Cireular-Peti
ton for Removal Of Judge. etc.
New YORK, April 29.-The Times spe-
| cial says The workings Of the Treasury
for the month just closing will show another
large reduction of the national debt. In
the next statement Secretary McCulloch
hopes to reduce the total debt to about
twenty-five hundred millions, at which
point he believes it must remain stationary
so long as the present rate of government
income and expenses is maintained. The
Indian war will draw very largely on the
national resources this summer, and while
the course of the Treasurer Is clear and easy,
the reduction of the national debt must
soon be suspended, for time at least
There has been very strong impression
prev ailing in this city, for the past few
days, that Gen. Rousseau, who ia here
awaiting orders, would be sent to New Or.
leans TO serpersede General Sheridan.
The report has been teiegraphed South,
but | am able to state, on the best authority,
that no officer in the South holds his COM
mand by so certain a tenure az General
Sheridan, and General Rousseau does not
desire command in the South, but hopes
to be assigned to the Department of the Co
lumbia, which will give him a very desira-
BILE position on the Pacific coast
The following is General Sheridan's or
der relieving one of the aids of the New
Orleans chief of police, for improper inter
ference with the registration j. w. Boy
Ian, aid to the chief of police, having on the
18th inst, intimidated freedmen by taking
false representations thereby obstructing
the law by causing them to leave the vicini.
ty of the registration officer of this city, is
hereby discharged from the police force of
the city Of New Orleans, from II O'Clock
to-day.
Governor Hahn's effort to induce Gen.
Grant to authorize General Sheridan to set
aside the recent election of the Mississippi
railroad directors, has not been successful.
General Grant declines to interfere, and
refers the applicant to the President, SO
Beauregard and his associates still hold
control of the road
The Herald's special says the parties
who are urging an injunction against the
reconstruction law express great confidence
in their success.
The Times special says circular, signed
by fifty of the leading manufacturers of
New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and
Boston, among whom are Peter Cooper,
John Jewett q Sons, and others, of New
York; VIM. Settlers & Co., Ben. Bullock
q Sons, and others, of Philadelphia Gun
ningham & lsom, and Others, of Piltsburg
and +. B. Ward, of Detroit, with others,
has been issued calling a conference of the
manufacturing interests Of the country, to
meet at the Aston House, New York, on
the Sth of May, to deliberate upon this pres
ent condition and prospects of the material
interests of American industry, and to de-
eide upon a method of aroGsing public at
tention to this subject. The success which
has attended the efforts OF the free trade
league in etlecting public sentiment by the
wide spread distribution of popular doeu-
ments through The country, is cited by the
call as demonstrating the necessity of
adopting some means equally efficient to
contract the evil it is alleged to he working
This is the first note Of the coming great
struggle for vet higher duties. 81.
The Ilerald's Richmond special says /:
In remote portions of the State the utmost
goodieeing exists between the negroes and
whites where Radical influence has not
been used TO promote dissension.
The Ilerald's special says, A petition
has been gotten up in Huntsville, Alabama,
for the removal of the Judge of Probate and
the Sheriff Of Madison county, and the
Mayor of Huntsville, and supplant them
with men of Radical stripe. 1t is said,
however, that the post commandant, Major
0. c. c. Lester, disapproved the object of
the petitioners, because he knew ofnothing
to justify the action asked for, and that
General Sprague declined to act unless the
charges of official malfeasance or misfeas-
ance were made and sustained byproof.