Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-05
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NEWS OF TuE. DAY.

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Dan Rice offers to back Weston for
$4,000 10 walk one hundred miles il
tgenty.three consecutive hours.
II is reported that Hon. s. S. Cox, Of
New York, formerly Of Ohio, will he nomi-
mated a. Minister TO Austria.
Hon. John w. Lettwich and Col Sam.
Tate, Of Memphis were in Washington on
the Both ult.
A disease closely resembling rinderPest
has appeared among the cattle in Virginia
The subject is to he laid before Gen. Scho-
field
John NJ Langston, the negro orator OF
Ohio, in has address at Boston on the 10Th
nit, came out strong for Chase for Presi-
dent.
Letters are being received every day by
congressman from prominent Republicans
all over the country urging an immediate
defeat Of the Impeachment project.
There were three hundred and seventy
deaths in Chicago during November and
one hundred aud seventy-siK cases OF
smallpox.
Gen. Candy has issued an order regnlat-
ing tax for the support OF the state or
panization of South Carolina during the
current year.
A solemn requiem mass has been held
near Cork for the Fenians executed at
Manchester The church was draped in
mourning and crowded to overlooking. No
interruption or disturbance occurred.
The safe of the Boston and Albany rail-
road, at Springfield, Mass, was opened by
burglars on Saturday night, the l5t inst,
and $4,000 in notes and bonds stolen.
The corporation loses $4,000 and its en-
ployees the balance,
Foster Blodgett, who was an officer in
the Confederate army, and is nov Post
master at Augusta, Ga, has been held to
bail in the sum Of $4,000 by the United
States Court 10 answer a tharge Of perjury
IN taking the ironeclad oath.
Gen. Hancock has restored two members
of the police force Of New Orleans removed |
by Gen. Mower. He has also removed |
King Cutler, appointed Judge by Mower
A strong movement is being made to re-
store Harry HAYS to the sherihalty. Much /
of Mowers work will be undone.
The weather has been very stormy in /
Great Britain within the last few days. /
The telegraph lines between London and i
Liverpool have been prostrated, and sew
eral wrecks have taken place. Among the
marine disasters reported is that of the
ship Guardian Angel on the coast of
Wales. Only seven of her crew escaped.
The municipal el~tion in New York on
the Sd inst resulted in the choice Of Hof-
man for Mayor by the unexpected major
ity Of q, 664 over both Wood and Darling. |
The vote is az follows. Hoffman, Tamma-
ny Democrat, 1881; Wood, Mozart Dem
ocrat, 22S32; Darling, Republican, Is, 465.
The Tammany party carried most If not
all Of the minor offices.
General Pope telegraphs Gen. Swayne,
Dec. 2, asking if the Alabama Convention
canno. be induced TO adjourn without fur
Their legislation, and says the convention is
doing incalculable injury to reconstruction
bv its late action. This is the second dis
patch of the same tenor from Gen. Pope.
The members have declared Gen. Pope's
kilograms insulting.
It is understood that a leading Radical
Senator will introduce a bill this week
amending the reconstruction acts, abolish /
ing all restrictions on franc hise and re, /
moving disabilities from Rebels who have |
aided the reconciliation policy of Con.
gress, and allowing a majority of those |
voting to control the question of conven.
ton instead of majority of registered |
voters.
An ordinance prohibiting marriage be-
tween whites and blacks was defeated in |
the Alabama convention on the Sd inst.
An ordinance staying the collection Of
debts until the LIST Of July was adopted ,
An ordinance was also adopted exempting ,
from seizure for debt of $1,000 worth of Z
personal property, and a homestead of =
eighty acres Of land TO each head of a
family. H.
The Radical members of the Alabama | S
held a caucus on the night of /
he I'd inst. and nominated full ticket | a
for State officers. w. II. Smith, Of Ran q
iolph county, was nominated for Gov / f
arnor He is a man of moderate views, | 2
md late Superintendent of Registration in il
hat State. A. J. Apologize, of Madison, | d
vas nominated for Lieutenant Governor / n
D. H. Bingha m was defeated for the nom~ i
nation for Governor. All the other can | s
iidates are thoroughly Badical, and nearly | h
III Northern men. Ii
The latest returns from South Carolina | p
how that the convention question lacks / p
nearly 1900 votes of carrying. Add
ional returns will probably reduce but not Ii
vercome the majority against conven- 1 p
ion. The vote in thirty districts stands | d
l67 whites and 81 PIT blacks for, and 932 | OF
whites and 9 blacks against a convention. / re
The number of registered voters in the | OF
anne districts is l24, $50. Further returns, | b
eceiyed by telegraph. on the Sd inst, il
how that the success or defeat of the con-
rention can only be decided by the official Is
cunt. lie
The London Times Of the ID inst has a a
eading editorial on the Italian question, G
which Is considered important, as il reflects y
be policy of the British government as
veil as public opinion. The writer makes a
trong argument against the continuance | Z
4 the temporal power of the Pope and ex 7
,resaes the belief that the conference called -
" Napoleon to solve the problem will "a
lever meet, and concludes with the opinion :,
hat the Pope and Italy must yet get rid
Il their mutual distrust and come to an
without the assistance Of
European powers.
A Fenian meeting was held in Pittsbdrg
N the I'd inst. for the purpose of discuss v
ng the question Are we citizens, or n
British subjects ?" There was a large at O,
the hail being crowded. Ex- =
favor Lowry presided, and made brief
peech. George Baber, Daniel O'Neil, Dr. -.
)onnelly, and others followed. Resolu- u
ions denouncing the course of England, Z
specially in regard to the treatment of =
rishmen who had been naturalized, were q,
unanimously adopted. The members of p
be Fenisn Brotherhood, TO the number Of y
everal hundred, were present, in full uni " "
orm, with muskets and sabres The
peakers all denounced the course Of Sec -,
etary Seward. Mr.. ONeil sang a song, u
rhicb referred to Mr.. Seward in bitter IL
erms. The speaker said the song was set ol
D the tune Of THE Wearing Of the Green" re
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