Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-25
Largest Circulation in CITY and State.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Official report on the famine in Eastern
India shows that there we're q million deaths
fraIn starvation in that district
A bin. severely Furnishing tny one who OBJ
siructs q railway track over 1hioh the United
States mails are carried. is pending with the
House Postal COMMITTEES.
The reported retirement Of Adjutant General
Thomas and the appointment Of Gen. Town
end 10 his place, is now said 10 be premature.
Gen. r. Scott mas returned 90 Savannah from
south Carolina. after making satisfactory ar
raugcmeuts for the negroes 20 leave the Cheyes
plantation or contract 70 work within one week.
The Omaha papers state that there is little
doubt that an the Indians on the Plains are
hostile. and unless prompt and decisive meas
ures are taken 10 prevent It. there wiz be gen
eral Indian war next summer.
The Commissioner Of the General Land Office
has lust received returns showing that during
the month Of December last, l4.S54 acres Of the
public lands we're disposed Of 81; the local Office
~ Bonneville. Missouri. The entries for actual
aeiusucut and cultivation under the Homestead
not amounted 90 l2225 acres.
In response 20 the resolution q Congress the
Postmaster General has made q report Of the
sppointments Of Postmasters since the last
rer-ion of the senate. from which IL appears that
Dc appointed ten persons who had been nomi-
naisd 10 and rejected by the Senate and twentys-
two whose nomination had not been acted up
on. d" Each Of those re appointments were merely
temporary. and made, says the Postmaster Gen
eral. because Of the necessity 10 place some one
10 charge Of the several Offices.
Brevel Brigadier General Haynes IN command
D Il - -.
Co the Ordnance Once a case Of spontaneous
combustion. which occurred at the arsenal re-
Gently This combustion resulted from the
spreading Of sawdust instead Of sand, as was
ordered, on some lihseed oil which had leaked
from barrel. The snwdust thus mixed with
oh ignited spontaneously in twelve hours, In a
cellar where IL had been placed in a box, but was
discoyeros before doing any damage. The TEN
pefsturs Of the cellar was only thiriy-sX de-
gfees.
Some Of the New England Railroad Compa-
ME. have refused 10 continue their contracts for
mail service az the rate heretofore paid, and IN
convenience Of this refusal. Postmaster General
Randall has been compelled to.trausport the MALL
ON short routes by horse. The mails between
Boston and Lowell have thus been conveyed fol
some timepast Governor Randall is apprehen
eiye Of further difficulties Of this character, ane
the feasibility and policy Of adopting Mr.. Wash
bume's proposed BILL TO establish teiegrnphi'
postal routes, has received increased force IN view
of the abeye-nnmed railroad difficulties.
TIE Attorney General has given an opinion
that no soldier who acts under orders in the ca
pncity Of detective can be held liable by th'
civil courts for any property he may have seized
and carried away in pursuance Of such orders
This decision s. based on the act Of March 3. 1853
and was delivered to cover the case Of A. b. Mo
rey. formerly Of the l2ith Illinois volunteers
who Is under arrest and indictment at Ficks
burg. Mississippi for taking two tents from citi
zens Of that city during the war. on the belle
that they we're the property Of the United States
Under date Of the7th inst. Gen. Grant writes O
letter stating that.ho ordered the seizure Of the
property, and does not believe that Morey is re-
aponsihle 20 the civil courts.