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

NJ. AcbiIIe Fould, French statesman
and fnancier, died, aged siKty-seyen, on
the 9TH inst
A Young American officer, Major Sidney
DeKay. has been wounded in the Cretan
service.
The Londan Times says Edward Thorn
ton. now English Envoy at Rio JaneriO,
viii be made Minister to the United Strtes.
Rev. Calvary NJ Webster expired sud
denly on Sunday, the 9TH inst, while the
Rock River Methodist Conference, in ses-
sion at Dixon, lila, was engaged in love
feast.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, says in his dispatch OF
the 9Th instant "Major General Rawlins,
chief Of General Grants staff, who has been
on a tour Of inspection and for his health,
since early in the summer, may, 1t 10 I'M
derstood, be expected back here any day
after the 10Th. This is some weeks earlier
than his return was looked for but a short
time ago. The reasons for the change OF
&. plan are not known, but some persons think
the political situation has something to do
with the matter"
letter of Senator Howard, arguing that
Senators who advise impeachment should
not be DISQUALIFIED TO sit on the trial, will
not be published for the present. This ac-
ton il taken upon the advice OF leading
Radicals and financiers, who deprecate i'm
parchment as preiudicial to our financial
affairs and injurious TO the political inter
ests of the Republican party.
Gen. f. S. Parker has gone to North Carr
olina to make examinations of the Dismal
Swamp Canal. There are two of these,
designated as the old and new canals. The
former is under the control of the general
government; the latter belongs TO the State
and private parties. The old canal was
broken in the war, and has not been used
since. II is much better than the new
canal. and North Carolina authorities and
many citizens are very anxious TO have the
government put it in repair, and enlarge 1t
80 as TO make a passage Tor ships. III Is
possible that. in certain contingencies, pur-
chasers might be found for it amongst cap
italists interested in that section. The
Treasury Department has made partial in
vestigations on one or two occasions, ana
now a more complete examination will be
made, under authority conferred on the
Secretary Of War by acts Of Congress.
Saturday afternoon, the Sd inst, Mrs.
Isaac Smith and two children, and Mrs.
William Baxter, Jr., while driving in
buggy, near Chatham, Canada, were upset,
and the whole party thrown into ditch.
Both children were killed and Mrs. Baxter
fatally injured, and Mrs. Smith seriously.
Rumors which are constantly arising in
regard TO the designs Of the Fenians cause
much anxiety in England and Ireland. All
the prisoners are douhly guarded by armed
policemen, to prevent an attempt at rescue.
Threatening indications lead the authori-
ties to apprehend some disorder at Ber-
wick, and proper precautions are being
taken.
Judge f. F. Buckner, formerly Of Louis
Vile, but many years a resident of Missis-
sippi, committed suicide at Brandenburg,
KY, on the 9Th inst, by blowing his brains
out with doublerbarrel shotgun, (which he
fred by attaching the trigger to twig,
having placed the muzzle against his head.