Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-11
FOR GOVERNOR
EMERSON EIHERIDGE,
OF WEAKLEY.
NEWS OF THE DAY

The Pacific railroad is now in operation six
hundred and sixty miles west from St. Louis.
Niuety-nine $1,000 bonds we're recently re-
ported missing from the Treasury Department
uo'cluc has been discovered 60 them.
The amount Of gold in the Treasury st Wash
ipyton Is 500 s9l 900. Of which els337. 600 Il
represented by gold certificates.
Gen. Grant has telegraphed to Gen. Sheridan
that there is no truth in the reports that SecTe-
tary Stanton and himself censured Sheridan inl
removing Gov " els
The Congregationalists Of Chicago are bestir-
ring themselves 70 start paper, 70 take the
place Of the New York IldeDeHdeJlt, as the organ
Of the denomination.
The farmers in Delaware county, Iowa, have
just discovered that they have wheat for sale
and are disposing Of 81 at ii so a hushel. A few
weeks ago they refused to sell at 81 Is.
Hiram Thomas, who killed his wife Margaret
three years ago, IN Bracken county, hentucky
has been sentenced 20 be hanged on the first
Friday in August. lie is seventy years Of age.
The Grand Lodge Of Free and Accepted Ma
sons Of New York at their recent session adopt
Ell n resolution prohibiting any gift enterprise
under the name Of the Masonic fraternity.
dispatch from Galveston says that Gen
Griffin has been forced 70 remove the city police
because Of their ineficiency and hostility to the
negro The new force is composed Of loyal and
chosen men. several Of whom are colorod.
John Antrim, Of the firm Of Antrim Sweet,
merchants of St. Louis, has fallen heT 10 a large
estate in Ireland. the property of the late Earl
Of Antrim. The whole estate is valued at IS 0OO,
O0O Of which Mr.. Antrim gets about one half,
The Louisville Courier says We understand
that a good many citizens OF tennessee arc
abandoning that State and seeking refuge in
kentucky, on account of the intolerabie con
dition Of affairs under Radical rule
Mr.. Vallandigham has decided not to deliver
the commencement address before the Oxford
mississippi University. Business engagements
in the law business will prevent him from leav-
ing home in time.
The adviees from Mexico to the Austrian Min
lister at Washington n few days ago were re-
iterated on the 1th inst by the reception OF dis
patches Of an unofficial but trustworthy nature,
showing that Macmillan will be allowed 20 leave
that country.
The State Department has teIegraphic advices
that az least all Of the Fenians, under sentence
of DEATH have been cOmmuted TO Imprisonment
for life at hard labor, none Of them been sem
fenced TO be transported, rs lntimated IN the
newspapers.
Gov. Worth, ofN-rth Carolina, has written a
letter in which he says, that while be would not
urge jeff Davis to ask for pardon, he is con-
fident that humanity and public policy would
justify and require the granting Of a pardon to
him by the President, upon proper application.
Edward Ross, and a son about four years old
living on a farm about nine miles from st. Louis,
were found dead in bed Saturday morning by
Mrs. Ross, who bad been TO the city and Just
returned home. II is supposed a German boy,
eighteen years old, in the employ Of Mr.. Ross,
taking Ross wagon and team with him.
The City Hall building at Quincy. Ills
was destroyed by FIRE Saturday. Loss about $50
600 II was mostly covered by insurance. The
Wright House. Kirtly House, and livery
stable, with two adjoining buildings, at Warsaw.
Ind , were destroyed by fire Saturday morning.
Loss from $4,000 to $4,000. IL Is supposed to
be the work Of an jnccndiary.
Among the reported sales Of Wholesale dealers
in St. Lousis, for tho year 1866, we find there
were forty-eicht houses that returned sales Of
half million 10 a million Of dollars-seven
houses that reported sales ranging from one
million 70 one and half millions, four houses
that reported sales Of a million and halft two
millions and two that reported sales Of over two
millions. The largest return was S3,l9,28
gentleman who has just returned TO ST.
Louis from q tour through Mississippi, Northern
Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee reports that
the crops in these States are remarkably promiS-
ing. The heavy storms in the spring damaged
many fields, but the planters succeeded IN re-
planting before the hot weather interviewed, and
are now confident of good returns from their
cotton and corn 6elds-an unusual breadth Of
land having been assigned 70 the latter crop.
Ex-President Martinez has sailed for Eng
land from Nicarauga for the Ostensible purpose
of Incorporating Mosquito with Nicarauga, but
IL is sUrmised that his mission includes the col
lection of testimony for the purpose Of enforcing
the claims Of his government against the United
States for the Walker fllibusting expedition.
The correspondence Of Mr.. Seward upon the
Alabama question, will, II is alleged, fully sub
stantiate the legality of those claims.
A barrel ofhigh wines was stolen from bond
ed warehouse Mt Stirling, Illinois, the other
night. aud rolled out into the streets in the
where its contents were distribut
cd among n large crowd Of people, who drank
freely of H. In a short time, two-thirds of them
were writhing in asOny. Men, women and
children lay here and there, groaning with pain,
vomiting freely, aud tortured with the burning
OF the ardent fluid. One little child died from
the effects of the liquor, and three or four Others
were for a time dangerously i'll.
Col Pennybaker Kentucky State agent, has
recently called the attention Of the Commits
stuuer Of Pensions C. an advertisement which
represents that soldiers Of the war of 1872. or
their widows, can now obtain the government
pension Of eight dollars a month. The Commits
siouer states that such representations are wholly
no law ever having been enacted
by which pensions are granted 60 soldiers Of the
war Of 1872 OF their widows, except as provided
for more than fifty years since. 20 lnNlalds, and
the widows of those dying Of wounds or disease
incident 20 the service.