Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-16
THURsDAY. MAY 10. IsG7.
largest circulation in City and Stale
FOR GOVERNOR
EMERSON ETHERIUGE,
on W. III ~
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

The total Democratic majority on the Con
vressi0nal election in Kentucky Is 4Z,aS.
Rrv.J.F. Young an assistance minister Of
trinity Church in New York, has been elected
Bishop Of flouda.
Gen. scho6eld ordered the Lincoln. Mounted
Huards colored at RichmOdd, 10 disbBUd and
prohibited their parades OF drills.
An intimate friend Of Davis says he has no
fixed plan for his movements. Until November
Mr.. Davis will reside in Norfolk.
Bishop Loughlin, Of the diocese of Brooklyn
disappr0ves Of the practice Of holding festivals
and balls in aid Of the Catholic churches.
General Sheridan has removed a clerk Of the
District Court at New Orleans for issuing irau-
duent naturalization papers.
The reported execution of two Union eoldiers
ia Edgefeld District, South Carolina, by posse
81 citizens. is found, on investigation, 90 be an
true.
Information was received IN Cincinnati on
the 18th inst, that the government had taken
possession Of the First National Bank Of New
Orleans
The eight hour strike OF Chicago has ended in
total failure. and the strikers are now valnly
8triging 10 find employment on the old terms.
The appointment of negroes on the New
Orleans police force i7 DOW talked Of and there
IL proposition TO run popular negro, by the
name Of johnson, for Mayor
Gerrit Smith reached Washington on the
night Of the 18th inst on his way 10 Richmond,
whittier he was going 10 offer himself a. one Of
the sureties on Jeh. Davis bail bond.
W. II. Hooper. delegate from Utah, has
arrived Of Omaha, To- arrange for the transPor-
fation Of q large Mormon emigration from
Europe.
The disagreement of Secretary Seward with
the Russian government IN relation TO Atlantic
cable teleRraphing expenses in connection with
the treaty Is placed IN the hands ot Serator
DoOlittle, who sailed Tor Europe on the llth
INST, for adjustment.
The fund for the erection Of a monument to
the memory Of the late President Lincoln, in
Chicago, has now reached a sum sufficiently
large 10 warrant the committee in commencing
the work and they will shortly be prepared 10
receive plans and specifications for such m 1nu-
ment from the artists of the country.
The Nashawanuck Mills, al Easthampton
Massachusetts,. are to close on the 18th. Three
hundred suspender makers will thus be thrown
out Of employment besides 10 large number of
people who have made business of taking the
uspenderS 10 their homes to finish.
Advices from New Orleans show that fifteen
thousand persons have been registered there as
voters, under the reconstruction act. The white
people are registering very freely now, but the
e0lOred men already have several thousand ma
iority in the State Of Louisiana The registers
show that five colored men 90 one white man
are being registered, on the average.
Col. Conger. commander Of the party by whom
Booth was captured. and who took charge Of all
the nssassin's effects was before the House Judi
ciary Committee ON the 18th inst and gave his
testimony in relation 10 that affair He sWears
that. according to his recollection, the diary
was not spoliated when he took 1t from the body
Of Booth.
Two Of the grand jurors OF the District Court
Of virginia author ze the statement that there
is 40 truth IN the report that thegrand jury have
indicted John c. Breckenridge and Judge
Thomas, Of Fairfax county. for treason. The
names Of these persons have not even been be
tore the Jury during the present term.
A Herions riot occurred at Brownsville Ton
nersee, on the 18th inst, a. a Radical conven-
lHna aVQh OH.
but not fatally. Reports a. to its origin con
hictinR. The Radicals charge that it was the
the result OF an organized plot 10 break up the
convention. Others assert that u was the re
suit Of the negroe speakers incendiary speeches,
aging that every man that had owned slaves
ought 10 have his heart cut out,
Reports to the Freedmen'5 Bureau at Wash
ington, by telegraph, show great suffering in
Louisiana by the floods Whole families were
On the point Of starvation at Brashear City.
Steamboats, were seized by order OF the Bureau.
that woman aud children floating on RATS
and living On house-tops might be rescued.
General Brown ordered the Mayor Of that place
10 seize every steamer, owing 10 the refusal Of
The Captains to allow them 10 be used for go hu-
name purpose.
W R. Marsh President of the Bank Of Lex
ington, N. c., and +. b. Hampton, one of the
directors have been taken 20 Salisbury. By order
Of General Sickle under the charge otsmusgling
The specie of the bank about the time Of the |
surrender of the Rebel General johnson. The
pnrtles have had q hearing, and the evidence |
has been forwarded 10 General SickicS. The L
accused will remain in the custody Of the mill
tary until the General is heard from.
Two important decisions were rendered in the |
Supreme Court Of Louisiana, on she 18th inst. |
The first was Wainwright ~. Bridges The court |
holds that no recovery can be had for notes 4
given for the purchase Of slaves In the case Of |
Bowen 0s. Packet Ford, the court holds. NJ |
previously, that no recovery could be had, as /
the notes were based on Confederate money, in |
other words. the money IL illegal, and further /
that the notes were signed before the passage Of /
the stamp law. and do not require stamps 90 be L
used as evidence.
The Washington correspondent Of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer says The character Of the At
IOruey Generals opinion Is already known 20 |
lew persons here. IL wall entirely unset the ar |
oitrary and unjustihable acts Of General Shen- |
ian, In the matter Of interfering with the civil |
affairs Of the people in cases wherein there was |
no obstruction 10 the laws of Congress; a.. for |
Example the deposing Of the Levee Commission |
rs, and appointing Others; the removal Of mu- |
ltcipal and state officers who were not obstrurt-
ng the Law; the prohibition Of citizens from |
itting rs jurors. because they can't take the |
EOn-clad oath, etc. In brief, the effect Of the |
Attorney Generals opinion will be that com |
handlers are 60 make the burdens Of military |
government light Rs possible, and interfere only |
ghen absolutely necessary in the civil admins |
ration Of affairs The opinion will be submit |
"a 20 the Cabinet on Tuesday next