Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-12
TENNESSEE.
SENATE.

IE8NE9Shh,
SENATE.
FRIDAY, March s.-The morning ses-
sion Ees principally devoted to the con-
sideration OF house bill to amend the
revenue laws, as given elsewhere.
AFTERNooNsEssIoN.
The following house bills were passed
on their third residing: Amending the
charter Of the Cincinnati, Cumberland
Gan and Charleston railroad company I;
to ratifv and confirm the removal of the
county seat Of Shelby county to extend
the elective franchise TO aliens to inccr-
porate the Htna manufacturing and
mining oil company; 10 consolidate the
Tennessee and Alabama and Central
Alabama railroad companies, and au-
thorize the southern extension to in
cornorate the Nashville life insurance
company.
Tie senate then adjourned to pm,
for the purpose Of dispOsing OF house bllls
on their second reading. No business oil
particular interest or Importance was
| transacted at the night session.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Mr.. Jarvis presented 8 protest signed
| bv Messrs. Overstreet, Loughmiller,
Warren, Symmetry, Able Lelyett,
| Pearson, Biggs, Jones, Jarvis, Shultz,
Colville, Brien, Brown, Tharpe, Moore,
| Colman audj Parks, against the action OF
| the house in passing the bill for organic
| ing q state guard which was ordered to
1 be spread on the Journal.
House bill to amend the revenue laws,
with the senate amendments and the
amendments reported from the commit
! teerof conference, was taken up and the
amendments cOncurred in.
A resolution in lieu Of ell others DIRECT
! ing the governor and comptroller to in-
/ vest the school fund in United States
registered 7-30 bonds, was passed.
Adjourned TO 9 am. tomorrow.
A gentleman Just from Jackson county
/ informs US that Bob Fuqua, notorious
/ character in that section, who severely
1 heat and stabbed a gentleman named
/ James T. Kirby, in February last, was
| arrested a few days since by sheriff Wm.
/ &. Purcell. and lodged in the jail at Cook
vile to await trial. Fuqua first formed
/ the aauaintance of the citizens of Jack
/ son county while in the Confederate army,
/ but be afterwards recanted and dOnned
/ q federal uniform, he and his command
l sweeping oyer the country with Eeck-
/ less disregard of the rights Of any one
and making plunder the main object oi
! all his movements, ] asst SUMNER h5 Ii
! said to have visited the house or Mr.
/ Kelly, drubbing him sOundly with q
chair. and finishing his work by stabbing
/ him in several places. Not long since,
armed with a club, he visited q house in
which there were three ladies, heating
/ each of them in turn most brutally. he
! is said to be the last Of the desperate
/ characters who have Infested jackson
county, and it Is TO be hoped fuli justice
/ will be meted to him.
The Nashville Union and Dispdtci
1 has the following - Knowing very vel
that numbers OF honorable gentlemen al
the capital, especially those OF the radi
| cal persuasion, are on the qlH UiC6 for the
/ grand supper to be given by the coloreC
/ population Of Nashville to the "lqyal
/ members Of the legislature, we are undeI
/ the dis2greeable necessity of stating tina
the BANQUET has been indefinitely post
poned- the latter FO7ds in this case having
/ full legislative significance. Is appear
that the conservative element among thu
colored brethren would not be satisfied
! with ANYTHING less than supper to be ex
7 tended to the whole legislative fraternity
radical and conservative alike, while tn
more radical freedmen, those of the Ben
Butler and Thad. Stevens pattern
wouldn't hear or allowing a crumb t
! honorable gentlemen of a conservative
turn of mind. On this question the bat
tie ragged, and at last il was mutually ar
ranged that a compromise should b
effected on the convenient basis Of with
holding the supplies from all-not to Civ
/ even g cracker or cold herring to eithe
radical or conservative, but let the Who'll
legislative crew go to the -, just so. O
the ingratitude of the newly enfran
chised Alas for the disappointment O
Raulstonl
on the Nashville and Chattanoog
railroad the cars go only as far as Ste
vensOn. The water is up even with tn
bridge st Bridgeport. A large wOrkin
party is engaged in preventing the &C
cumulation of driftwood. Every ehoI
is being made to save the bridge. i
the yerYe5u of the telegraph poles. o.
the v Stern and Atlantic road tn
Cbiekl.mauga bridge is considered unsafe
and trains do not now attempt 10 pass.
Gen. Carlin has empowered Judg
Lawrence To distribute six hundred ra
tions to the destitute poor of Nashville
regardless of color. This act Of charit
will relieve much suffering. At no Pc
riod of the city's history has there bee
here such q large number Of need
persons.
In Chattanooga they have had fOU
days of storm, and bridges in all direC
tions are washed away. The bridge owe
the Tennessee river ct that place, 81
yards long, WAS carried off. The whOl
country in that quarter is said to /
flooded.
The bill increasing the salary {
DR.. Gattinger, state librarian, froI
$500 to Sl5d0 per year, passed the hous
Yesterday on its third reading. 1t ha
already passed the senate. The doctor
duties have been quite Onerous, so thS
the increase is timely and well deserved