Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-19
NEWS OF TIE DAY

Major General RawlinRs Chief Of General
Grants staff leaves Washington in a few DAYS
ona tour Of inspection over the plains.
The entire dramatic profession Of -Phladel-
mia and the Parepa Opera Troupe. gave enter
tainments al the Academy Of Music, on Wednes-
day. in aid Of the Southern famine fund.
The Radical Convention at Brownsville. on
the 18th inst. nominated David A. Num- "a a
candidate for Congress in the Memphis dis
trict.
ordinance forbidding the manufacture and sale
Of lager beer within the city limits, and declar-
ing beer saloons nuisances, 10 be removed by the
city officials.
Baltimore dispatch Of the 18th inst. says
Archbishop NJ. j. Spading. of the diocese Of
Baltimore, primate Of the United States, Is lying
dangerously i'll of Inflammation Of the bowels.
1t Is feared the disease may prove fatal.
Hole In the Day. Chippewa Chief, has brought
To his home la Minnesota Il white wife, whom he
married out of the laundry OF a Washington
hotel where he lately stopped. This Indian
gentleman Is now nearly rs much married as
Brigham Young
Rumors are Hfoat 10 Washington that M
Seward is negotiating for the purchase Of Sonora
from Mexico. The district is not "a favorable
for the ice trade rs Observation-Disclosures. but the
price talked Of IS the same AZ is 10 be paid for
the latter.
The Supreme Court has designated Justices
Nelson, Swayne and Miller 10 prepare rules and
regulations for proceedings under the new bank
rupt law, and these three gentlemen will at once
onter upon the necessary deliberations in the
case.
A New Orleans dispatch Of the 18th instant
SAYS; Information has been obtained that Fe-
gre's and Waterloo levees are in unusual dan
ger. Labor cannot be obtained for want Of
money, and there IL much suffering in the over
flowed districts OF Western Louisiana.
In the United States Circuit Court at Balti-
more, on the 18th inst, the ease of Thomas x.
Rich and others Ds General John +. Wool for
false imprisonment during the war, the demur-
rer of defendants for Justification in the acts of
Congress was Overruled by the court, for reason
that Il was not sufficient grounds for defense.
A great freshet Is reported in Iowa, owing 10
the thBwing of heavy snow. Three bridges
have been carried away on the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad-One across the RacOOn,
Ht New Jefferson, and two others between that
aud Des Moines. At Des MOnes. a large number
Of houses are submerged. and but for the inter
ference Of n ieYee made last year the entire city
on the east side Of the Des Moines river would
be undeF water.
Two horse thieves. William FaG of Licking
ton. Kentucky. and James Crosby. OF Cape Girar-
deau, Missouri were, captured in fremont
county. Iowa, few days since. and taken TO
MokissacE's Grove A public meeting was
called. and after deliberaton they were ordered
TO choose death by hanging or shooting They
choose the latter and were shot by twelve men
with reyOlyers. Over two hundred horses be
longing TO farmers. have been stolen from that
county.
An effort has been made recently. 10 induce
the President 20 make u large increase in the
army for service in the Southern States and in
certain territories. Under the law the army cnn
be increased 20 nearly double the present force.
Mr.. johnson refuses 20 increase the forces, be
lieving them sufficient now, if judiciousy man
aged besides, IL is shown from numerous letters
official and private, daily received by the Admin
istTation from the South, that the people in the
Southern States offer obstruction 10 the execu-
ton Of the laws recently passed by Congress.
The Greenville Is. c. h0tnfainecr. states that
IA few days ago a number of persons in that dis
trict were arrested by the military authorities on
a charge Of murder, and taken before the United
States Commissioner at Greenvlllc. A II but two
proved an abb. and these two were held for
trial The charge Of murder originates from the
fact that they, during the war, shot n deserter
from the Confederate service. The trial Of the
case will come up before the United States Dis
trict Court on the first Monday in August next
On the 18th inst, about dark, three men with
{ heir faces blackencd, came TO the residence Of
Franklin Lakewood. near Bedford Trimble
county. KY, and seized him and his two eldest |
boys. youths Of sixteen and eighteen years took |
them a short distance from the house, tied them /
up and whipped them most numerically with 1
oowhides. After whipping the old man and his /
sons until they were almost dead. the men re- /
turned 10 the house, ordered Mrs. Lakewood i
and the children out Ofthe house, a LOG cabin /
threw the cabin down, and broke up the firni- /
ture. just before they left they warned the old /
man 70 leave that part of the county before the /
next Monday night, or they would kill him. The i
Did man says that he is Union man, aud that i
his was the cause Of the whipping but the mill
larry at Louisville 60 whom he reported the i
'ase, and others. suspect IL an act of private
revenge The matter Is to be investigated,