Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-18
WEDNESDAY. DECEmBER is. 1867.
Largest Circulation in City and state
NEWS or THE DAY.


The bonded debt of Michigan is SO, sOl,-
242 IS.
Tih Chicago street railroad, earned
$4,000 for the past year.
id Perkins committed suicide at Frank
fort, KY, on the 10Th inst, by shooting
himself in the head with pistol.
The President has removed w. F. Bal
LARD, Governor Of Idaho, and nominated
Isaac L. Gibbs, formerly Of Ohio, for the
place.
Work on the partially completed Mem
phis and Little Rock railroad is to be re-
sumed, a contract having been entered into
to finish the road by January ], 1859.
The Auditor Of Virginia sent Barring
Brothers, London, on the 18th inst, fifty
odd thousand dollars 10 pay the Interest on
the State debt, held abroad and due Janu-
airy lst.
An ordinance was offered in the Georgia
Reconstruction Convention on the 10th
inst, 10 vacate all the State offices after the
lst Of January next, until filled by Gen.
Pope.
Notwithstanding the steps taken TO pur-
chase the Danish Islands in the West Indies,
the President has nominated Consul for
st. Thomas. J. II. Thompson of Shelby-
Vile, Tennessee, is the nominee.
Senator Edmunds introduced a bill on
the 10th inst providing ihat national banks
shall be subjected to State, territorial and
. municipal tax according to the laws of the
State IN which they are located.
The places Of amusement in Chicago
last month received $50, 1852, distributed as
follows: McVicker's, S22.O48; Crosby's
Sl7,782; Woods, $l5,727; Arlington's
Minstrers, 1894.
Mrs. Aaron Rowe, living neat Mount
Vernon, Ohio, a day or two since gave
birth TO five children-three boys and two
girls. They were all doing will at last ac-
counts.
The new Commissioner Of Agriculture
has discharged twenty seven female clerks,
being all employed in the Agricultural De-
partment. Twenty male clerks have been
also dismissed.
At q Catholic fair in Washington, the
other day, cane was awarded by vote to
the "most popular Presidential candidate"
A Tennessee gentleman, named Johnson,
received the most votes, and is TO get the
cane.
Gen. Pope's late reckless acts in remov-
ing judicial officers in Alabama, will prob
ably end in his own decapitation. The
President, some months since, contemplated
that action, but for satisfactory reasons post
poned t. If he is removed, it is likely
Gen. Meade will be his successor.
4 IL. 4 I.
been recalled in order 10 escort the body
of the Emperor Macmillan on its arrival
on the coast of Austria. On passing of the
vessel containing his remains; all the forts
and batteries on the coast are 10 give the
prescribed salutes. The body will be landed
at Trieste and Immediately sent to Vienna.
The last New Mexican papers are filled
with accounts Of Indian outrages. Lieu
tenant Carroll and Mr. Slater were killed
near Fort Bowie. An express carrier
named Charles Young was killed near
Fort Cummings, and the Ell Paso mail,
escorted by six men, two white and four
colored, Of the Ninth Colored Cavalry,
was attacked near Pecos river, and two of
the negroes killed and the other two badly
wounded. The two white men succeeded
in making their escape.
Walker Edmonds, book-keeper in the
house of Edmonds, Todd & Co, of Mem
phis, who started late Saturday afternoon
10 visit Mr.. James II. Harris, whose
mother lives a short distance out of the
city, near the Pigeon RoOst road, was conc
fronted when a mile or so from the city by
two negroes with guns, one of whom shot
Edmonds in the head, producing a wound
that is regarded as mortal. The negroes
fed. Benjamin Branch, planter, living six
miles north Of Memphis, had a quarrel
with a negro named Adams, about divi-
sion Of crops. While Branch was STOPPING
down the negro stabbed him three times
in the back with a large knife and killed
him. The negro made his escape. A man,
name unknown, was murdered and robbed
at Higgins landing, twelve miles south of
Memphis Saturday night. The negroes
are killing stock and stealing provisions in
the country around Memphis. Many are
banded together and have taken to the
road. 1t is unsafe outside of the city, |
especially at night.