Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-17
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NEWs OF, TIIE DAY.


The hop crop Of Sank county, Wiscon-
sin, amounts to 10000 bales, worth 50 600 :
600.
Clubs favorable to the election of Gen.
Grant to the Presidency, are forming
throughout California.
Reports from Mississippi, Arkansas and
West Tennessee, say the worms are DANA
ging the cotton very seriously.
The Imperial Gazette Of Moscow pays a
high tribute to the course Of the United
States on the Cretan question.
Admiral Farragut received all proper
hOuors in Sweden, and is now exhibiting
the American bird 20 Denmark.
Reports from the northwestern part Of
Wisconsin say the corn crop has been con-
siderably injured by the frost.
Many arrests have been recently made in
the Papal States Of persons thought to be
inimical to the temporal power OF the
Pope.
There Is reason for believing that Gen.
Sicilles will soon visit Washington, at the
instance Of Gen. Grant, for consultation on
Southern matters.
The Salt Lake train vas attacked by In
dans at Big Laramie. The Indians were
repulsed with a loss Of several killed and
wounded. Loss to the train slight.
A terrible boiler explosion took place a
few DAYS since at Kewanee, Wisconsin, by
which three men we're killed outrig ht, and
four seriously injured.
Abner Marks, charged with rohbing the
Adams Express Company, in Tennessee,
about a year ago, Of S3l, 600, was arrested
Ia Richmond on Saturday.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sus-
pended Callicott, the Brooklyn Collector Of
internal revenue, until the prosecution
against him has been decided.
At meeting Of the New York physi-
clans Saturday, a committee was appointed
10 call a meeting to obtain relief for the
sufferers from the yellow fever in the
South
The application Of Edwin Booth for the
trunk Of his brother, heretofore in poses
sion Of the National Hotel, Washing
ton, has been refused by the War Depart
ment.
Numerous suits are to be brought before
the courts for the District Of Columbia to
test the constitutionality Of the confsca-
ton act Eminent counsel have been re-
tanned to try the issue, including Caleb
Cushing.
The bonded warehouse of A. Miller, in
Brooklyn, has been seized for reported
leakage Of whisky in large quantities. An
inspection Of 200 barrels belonging to
Fox q Livingston showed they were 700
gallons short
In consequence Of the severe drouth pre-
vailing throughout Kentucky, il is reported
that in some of the interior counties the
farmers are compelld to go miles for water
for their stock.
As the steamer OCtayia was coming down
the Missouri river she got aground near
Nebraska City, and before she got of, was
literally covered with grasshoppers, which
we're crossing the river at that point, like
swarming bees.
J. w. Deer and Peter Lee were arrested
in st. Louis on Friday on the charge Of
conspiring to rob the government in run
ming a distillery in Illinois withoutfurnish-
ing the requisite bonds. Deer was recently
q government detective.
A dispatch from Boston states that the
amount taken from the Blue Hill Bank
vas $50, IA, all but ten or twelve thousand
dollars belonging to private parties. The
loss to the bank will not affect its position.
The robbers have not yet been arrested.
At meeting Of the Memphis Board Of
Health on the 18th inst, it was decided not
10 establish quarantine, it being late in the
season and no yellow fever having made its
appearance there yet The city is ex-
tremely healthy, and business is gradually
improving.
The Denver Ne,rs of the 9th states that
an employee Of that Office, Just returned from
Middle Fork, states that he met Utes, who
reported that they had a fight with the
Arrapahoes on Green river on the 28th ult.
The Utes claim that they killed ten ARA
pahoes and captured six prisoners.
A band of Indians Appaches or Nava-
ioes, made a raid on the town of Mora, New
Mexico, on the Sd inst, killed three men
and drove off a herd Five boys were
missing the same night. AtSt. Nrains, a
herd Of sixty mules were driven of.
The corner stone Of the new Cotholic
Cathedral Of the Holy Gross in Boston was
laid Sunday AFTERNOON with impressive
ceremonies. Archbishop McClosky, Of
New York, delivered the address. The
cathedral is valued at a million and half
dollars including the cost Of the land.
The efforts Of the government to secure
a naval station in the West Indies have
failed Spain refuses to part with any of
her territory, after having entertained a
proposition for some time. ST. Domingo
will not sell SANTANA, and Denmark never
had any idea of disposing Of St Thomas.
Itisnow stated that tie President will
appoint General Steedman Secretary of
War Immediately after the elections in
Ohio and Pennsylvania. General Gordon
Granger will at the same time relieve
Howard as Commissioner Of the Freedmen's
Bureau.
Papers and other articles, recognized a.
belonging to the bark Enoch Banner, Cap
tain Banner, have been picked up of Cape
Clear. The Enoch Banner sailed from
Liverpool on the 22d Of August, for Boston.
1t is feared that the vessel is lost, with all
on board.
Gen. Grant who has been once or twice
arrested for fast driving, is reported by the
police Of Washington on the 18th inst. as
having run over a small boy, yesterday
evening, while riding ont and driving very
rapidly. He stopped TO see the boy, who
was but slightly hurt, properly cared for,
and ordered all bills sent TO him for pay
ment
A block Of warehouses, corner Of Sixth
and Baymiller streets, Cincinnati, was to-
tally destroyed by FIRE on Saturday eve
ming, as was also 4 row Of frame tenement
houses adjoining. The loss of property
viii probably reach 500, 900. Three men
were severely injured by falling walls, but
no lives were lost.
II is expected that an order will soon
issue directing the Quartermaster General,
the Commissary General. the Pavmasler
General, the Surgeon General. Adiutant
General, etc, 70 make careful examinations
and dismiss such clerks, agents, etc. as are
not absolutely required in their respective
departments. An order has already been
issued 20 reduce the force employed by the
Freedmen's Bureau.
The report in some papers that the Presi-
dent has ordered a rehearing IN hitz John
Porter's case, Is incorrect. The papers have
been referred 10 General Grant and proba-
blv no action will be had all he has given
them an examination. IL will be observed
that his petition and recommendations are
dated eight or nine months ago. His friends