Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-30
NEWS or THE DAY.

heavy snow storm prevailed in Wisconsin
the whole 81 the 9th inst.
Most Of the peach buds in the Yorkviile Dis
tsict, South Carolina. were killed by the severe
weather Of last week.
The President has nominated Gen. Rousseau
~ BriRadier General in the regular army, vice
hOsecrsns. resigned.
The St Paul Mimi Chamber Of Commerce
has donated one thousand dollars for the desti-
tuto Of the South.
The MASSACHUSETTS House Of Representatives
has passed bill prohibiting parties engaged In
any illegal traffic from serving on juries in crini-
tai cases.
The house Of Mr.. Hecl,et. with five Of his chill
drcn, was burned 90 Suiled Center, Ohio, on
the night.of the 9th inst.
On the 9th inst. a man and his wife and chill
dTen, while crossing the St Lawrence river.
near Cornwall Canada the sleigh broke through
the lee and they were drowned.
Three hundred and fifty Texan emigrnnts.
bound for Brazil. remain ia New Y Ork till the
I'd Of April, and are entirely destitute. An np-
peal has been made for their relief.
IL was discovered few days since that Alonzo
Hart had beaten a hoy four years old 20 death
ia Warsaw. Indiana. and buried the body in "a
we'll The murderer escaped.
Bishop Whitehouse, Of Illinois. who has Just
returned from Europe. SAYS that at least $1,000
Swedes will emigrate Ia The United States du-
ring the present year
big rat hunt in GAINESVILLE. Ohio. last week.
seven hundred Of the "varmints by one party,
Snd twenty three hundred by the other.
Forty male and twenty female converts were
baptized 81 Charlegton, South Carolina, on sun
The rger bank and Immersed one by one by
colored preacher named Lcgare.
The prospects now are that the prohibitions
liquor Law Wln be rgidly enforcel throughout
Massachusetts. The State cOnstabes have mott
hsd all the saloon keepers in Boston that they
must close W the sale Of ale and older on and
after April ], The sale of stronger liquors IL Of
course forbidden.
The Washington correspondent Of the Cincin-
matt Odzstie, says Of the Hon. N. q. TAYLOR, the
new Commissioner of Indian A tairs The bC-t
evidence Of his fitness for the place is the Tact
that BIZ confirmation was opposed by the whole
Indian speculators' ring
Ira Bush, ehurch elder Sabbath School
Superintendent. etc. al Port Jervis. New York.
was arrested on the 22d inst. for passing counter
telt money. During recent tour attending
religious meetings In Sullivan county. he had
'shOyed' large quantity Of ten dollar bills, and
was followed aud arrested.
Al Fcrt Smelling, near st. Paul, on the 18th
inst, a woman was found unable t. leave her
bed. dying Of cold and starvation. One child
vas dead on the floor. and another on a bed was
in dying condition. Other families at the Fort
are in nearly rs bad a condition.
The Supreme Judicial Court Of New Hamp-
shire has decided that the executing Of q will on
sunday cannot he properly included under the
head Of secular labor. or regarded as incompati-
bic with n strict and proper observance of the
L0rd's day. So the late Paul r. Georges large
property goes 20 his widow. and not 90 his rela
lions, who contested the will.
The Memphis AUalanche learns tina. duel is
% come Of this Saturday morning AZ Milliken's
Bend. between Col. y. NJ AorVer ofthe jackson
Atsstsstppiaa. and I M Partridge. ESQ Of the
VieksbUrs Herald. The Arolaacls Of the 18th
inst, says A party Of gentlemen left this city
iss, evening on the steamer Robert Il. Lee, for
Nicksburg. 20 settle theprelminarieso Of the hos
tile meeting Of the two editors" The ABpegi
s.atsa that Col. erger was accompanied by Col
NJ G. galloway. Of the 4 UaiaRrhe
The Senate resolution for the final adjourn
ment Of Congress on the 2Sth inst. was rejected
w the House Of Representatives on the eth.
hr. hchenck's proposition for meeting on the
fret Wednesday IN June and September, unless
Messrs. Nade and CollaN shall declare, by a
Joint proclamation ten days before these dates
specified. that the sesSon-is not necessary, was
then carried by yeas "a nays 81. The negative
vote was made ~ OF n Democrats and a Re
publioans, the Republicans being the following
baldwin, Bingham, Blair, Buckland, Cornell,
Ferris Ferry. GFiswold. Hubbard. Of West Nir-
Elnia, ketchum, Kitchen. koontz Latin, Lin
eoln Marvin, Mallory. NewcOmb Poland, Rob
gItson. Smith, Spaldtng. Stewart, Switched, aud
MaEhhurr-, OF Wisconsin.
The So11hern Famine Relief Commissioner in
New York has received letter from General
Swayne, dated Montgomery. Ala, sd inst,
stating the amount Of supplies which should be
sent The only true limit is found IN the means
II purchasers. The ship Puneyal, which sailed
on the sd inst. took 5000 bushels corn 10 Ala
hama. A letter from Marietta, Ga, says there
are many people Ia northern dcurgla who have
no bread and nothing 20 buy it with. Dealers
ID corn and bacon will not sell except for cash.
In one family near Dalton four children died of
starvation In February, and ID Is believed Others
died from the same cause. The hmi!y b. Ian
der took. on the 9Th inst. l2UnO bushels Of corn
O. Charlrsion for the Commission.