Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-07
Lsrges, Circulation in City and Stat,
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

There is to be National Convention of
the Grand Army of the Republic at PhiIa-
delphia, on the 18th OF JanuaTy. 1904
Snow four inches deep fell along the line
Of the Virginia Central railroad on the 5th
inst.
By the recent cyclone at Bombay, over
six thousand persons were killed and
thirty thousand dwellings utterly destroyed.
Eight cholera and thirty-seven yello \
fever deaths occurred in New Orleans on
the 4th inst.
The friends Of the Hon. Edmund Cooper
ia the Senate think his nomination will
be rejected on political grounds.
The Austrian frigate Eovarra left Ha-
vana on the 4th inst. with the remains of
the late Emperor Macmillan on board.
A man named Poor, who was intoxicated,
killed another named Cantrell, in Greene
county, Tenn, on the 9th ult., by striking
qim on the head with stick CT wood.
Rnmors are in circulation in New Or
leans, that Gen. Hancock viii dissolve the
convention now in session there as an inn
pediment 10 reconstruction.
The Governor Of Kenrucky has APP
pointed the following staff: Adjutant Gen
eral, Frank Woolford; Quartermaster Gen
eral, Fayette Hewitt; Secretary Of State,
Samuel b. Churchill.
IL il said that General John NJ. Palmer,
who will probably be Republican candi-
date for Governor Of Illinois, at the next
election, will go into the canvass prepared
10 stump the State in favor Of negro suf
frage.
Adviees from Santiago of the Sd inst,
state that the Governor of st. Thomas has
returned from Europe TO deliver the Island
10 the United States, according to the stipu-
lations. The amount to be paid is ST.
100000.
Our Vice Consul at Havana, under date
Of November q, says cholera still con-
tinues here. A number Of cases, from the
18th 10 the 18th inclusive 852, with 486
deaths. The disease is still confined TO the
lowest and foulest portions of the town,
DIR. Beecher, late ofIowa, was nominated
by Radical convention in Memphis on
the 9th inst as a candidate for Mayor. 1t
is stated there are now three indict meuts
pending against him, one for attempted
assassination and obtaining money under
false pretenses.
A resolution was offered in the Virginia
convention on the 9Th inst. that members
and officers be sworn in. In answer TO an
inquiry, the mover said be supposed the
oath TO be taken was the test oath pre-
scribed by Congress. The resolution was
laid on the table.
The Conservative Convention of Georgia
met at Macon on the 9Th inst, and ia one
Of the largest bodies ever assembled in the
State. Every section and nearly all the
counties are represented. Hon. B. H. Hill
was elected President BY reclamation. His
speech was able, eloquent and conservative,
and was loudly applauded.
A resolution was offered in the Senate
on the 9Th inst. by Mr.. Chandler, and
adopted, instructing the Attorney General
10 furnish to the Senate list Of persons
pardoned by the President since May lst,
1855, who had been convicted of counter
feiting United States bonds, greenbacks,
currency or coin.
On the 26th nit. Mr.. Robert Moore,
keeper Of the poorhouse in Lincoln county,
Tenn, attempted 10 raise the hammer of
bis rife with his foot, for the purpose of
blowing in at the muzzle, to ascertain if
the piece was cleF. His foot slipped and
the gun was discharged, the load passing
into his head through his mouth and pro-
ducing a wound thought TO be fatal.
General Hancock has issued an order
revoking paragraph 2 special orders No.
l25, and trial by jury will henceforth be |
regulated and controlled by the constitu- |
ton and laws without regard to any mil |
itary order heretofore executed from these |
headquarters. The paragraph revoked |
provides for the immediate revision of Jury /
lists and 10 exclude all citizens not regis /
tered voters under the reconstruction acts.
The New York Tribune says it is ex>
pected that treaty merging the Adams,
Merchants Union, American and United /
States Express Companies into a corpora
ton of $35, 900, 900, will be signed this week.
The Adams lie said TO get 100000 of /
the new concern, and the Merchants $780,
600, for $3,500,0O0 paid in.
All efforts to amend the bill in the House
of Representatives repeating the tax on
cotton 30 as TO exempt this years cotton
crop failed, and finally by vote of 143 TO
20, il was put through just as it came from
the Ways and Means Committee, viz: ex-
empting all cotton raised after this year.
The bill will encounter some decided op-
position in the Senate, and its fate there is
as yet uncertain. ....r..
The whole vote polled at the municipal
election in New York city was l04, 1872, a
reduction Of about 5000 from the vote at
the election last month, and 81 900 less
than the registered vote of the city. All of
the Aldermen elected are Democrats all
but three were the nominees of Tammsny /
Hall. The Councilmen elected we're all
Tammany nominees. OF seven School
Commissioners elected, three are Republi- /
cans. For Civil Justice, Thsddeus II.
Lane (Tammany) was elected by large |
majority.
Gen. Grant sent to the Senate, on the 4th |
inst, copy Of all the papers in his con-
troll, bearing on Fitz John Porter's case. |
They consist of letter from Porter, ask |
ing Grants influence with the President to |
get rehearing, Of the petition of about |
thirty Massachusetts, officers who served |
under Porter, asking r new trial for him, /
and long letter from eI-aen. VIM. b. |
Franklin 70 Gen. Grant, interceding in 4
Porters behalf. Franklin says he and |
Gen. REYNOLDS offered 10 testify at the time |
of Porter's courtmartial that they would |
not believe Pope under oath, and they said |
they believed Gen. Thomas would swear |
70 the same effect Porter did not think II |
best 20 use them for witnesses, and accord !
ingly they we're not called. The object in |
asking Grant to send in these papers was !
to get a letter from Pope, protesting |
against the re-opening Of Porter's case, but |
it seems this document is now in the Presi- |
dents hands.
Fortr-seyen shocks Of earthquakes. |
rapidly succeeding each other, were felt at
St. Thomas, on the Goth of November. |
One shock lasted two minutes. The sea
rose sixty feet in the city, and everything |
was submerged. The loss of life was enor- |
nous, and immense quantities of merchan-
disc we're destroyed. The surviving in
habitsnts, houseless and destitute lied TO |
the mountains. Those who remained are |
striving BY every means TO leave the island. |
The steamer Lapls is the only vessel which |
has sailed since the calamity, and she left |
$50 persons behind for want Of accommo.
dations. Every business firm in the island
is iusolyent and all steamship and other
companies have abandoned it; no coal to
be had and the whsrves are destroyed. Al |
the time Of the sailing Of the steamer the
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