Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-01-12
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The unconditional union men Of Ham
fton country held a convention at Har-
rison on Monday last, TO appoint dele
gates to attend the state convention to
| be held in Nashville on the Odd Of Feb
ruary next. The convention adopted
resolutions urging the nomination Of
Gov. w. G.. BrownlOw, and cor
daily indorsing the course Of their rep
resentative in congress, Hon. w. j.
Stokes. During their fanatiGal proceed
ings they requested the present legisla-
ture Of Tennessee to use measures to ex-
clude rebels from power. Delegates to
the state convention were appointed
from each civil district in the county.
At a meeting Of the directors Of the
Nashville and Decatur railroad, held
in Nashville on the eighth inst, the fol-
lowing persons were elected officers Of
the road for the present year J. w.
Sloss, president J. b. Van Dyne, gen.
eral superintendent Geo. w. Seay, sec
rotary, and Frank Hardeman, treasurer.
As this is one of the first meetings of the
consolidated company, much interest at
taches to its proceedings by those con-
cerned in the road. We learn that the
business Of this leading line, for some
months past, has been very good.
His honor, Connolly f. Trigg, United
States district judge for this state, will
hold the next term of the United States
circuit court at Nashville. Te term
will commence on the third Monday in
April next. There has been no term OF
this court held in the state since the
circuits were changed by the late act Of
congress, the judges Of the supreme court
not being assigned to their several cir
cults.
The Murfreesboro' Monitor proposes
the Hon. Edmund Cooper as a candidate
for governor, in opposition to the goddess,
law-defying BrownIow party.
4 brakeman on the Chattanooga rail-
road fen of the train the other day and
was instantly killed-the train passing
over his thighs and severing them from
his body. His name was VIM. Evans.
James Dixon, a fireman Of Nashville,
received the unexpected information on
Monday of this week, that he had fallen
heir to SIOO. 900 worth Of property and
$4,000 in money, 10y the death Of rela-
ative in Mississippi. Mr.. Dixon was a
poor man, with nothing TO depend On
but his own exertions for the support Of
his wife and five children.
At the reorganization of the Nashville
biood-horse association, the other day,
Mr.. Ben. f. CockreIl was elected presi-
dent, and Mr.. Geo. W. Darden, secre-
tary-both old and prominent members
Of the association, and they are thor
oughly identified with the turf interests
of the state.
On Friday last B Ward, sheriff Of
Coffee county, in q friendly sculle with
q neighbor, fell and broke his leg.
A negro woman has been Iecturing
lately in Nashville. The press Of that
place say she is honored by large audi
ences Of n;ggerz, Of all sexes, and that
she is educated strictly in accordance
with northern ideas, and imbued with
political principles hot from the fiery
brain Of Oberlin professors. In one Of
her lectures she said:
The south IS the theateT of our people. |
In the nJrtl we are Overshadowed by a
civilization that is four hundred years in
advance Of us. The old foundations of
are overturned. Cotton was the
great power which kept slavery in eXis-
! would have the cOlOrCd man
get this cotton into his hands. II there
is a man in This house who made one
bale of cotton for his master, let him
now 20 to work and make two for him
self. Let him say, Il viii do something
for myself"
The election for officers Of the corpo-
Of the city Of Knoxville, on Satur-
last, resulted in the selection Of the
I'D board, as follows: Mayor-CoL. J. C..
-%uttrelI. Aldermen-Hiram Barry, a.
Kennedy, NJ. f. Smith, L. c. Shepard,
sam. Newman, C.. c. Nelson, G. L.
A. 5. Hudi5urg, Jos. Burt, Pat.
ain.
Gen. John Crozier Ramsey, Of Knox
lille, is preparing an elaborate opinion
o demonstrate the ulcoustitutionality
T the franchise Law, and the verdict of
be military authorities which consigned ,
i'm. three years ago, to work on the
'%rtifeations Of that city, with a ball
I'd chain 70 his leg, guarded by negro S
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