Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-30
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The Frepch-American cable, from Brest
IN New York. will be laid in May next, by
the Great Eastern.
The Bennington (Vt) Powder Mills
blew ND on the 9th inst. and killed three
men. one Of whom was blown into irag-
ments
Accounts from Spain confirm the success
OF the insurrection in Arragon. Tbeleader
Of the royal troops, a nephew Of Narvaez,
was killed.
The Southern Relief COmmissOn Of New
York reports, after Inquiries at the various
,.oipts in the North, that S2,938, 053 90
have been contributed toward Southern re-
lief.
The registration returns in full from all
the counties in Alabama, give total Of
100 995. Of which 72,747 are whites, snd
85.248 are blacks. The latter have a ma
iority Of 1891. There are already ten
candidates announced for the convention,
Of which one is a negro. The election has
not yet been ordered.
The Pay Department is now paying about
fifteen thousand additional bounty claims
each month. They are paid as fast as the
Second Auditor furnishes a certified state
Inent that the claimant is entitled TO
bounty.
The St. Louis Dispatch Of the 28th inst.
reports that quite a number Of Southern
men have brought their families to this city
20 escape the effect Of a negro uprising,
which they claim is meditaied in many
quarters. They say the negroes are well
armed, and exhibit their weapons def
antly.
A large company, composed Of men Of
influence and position, has been formed in
yarions parts of the cotton States, with the
design Of endeavoring 10 recover for the
planters the tax that has been paid upon
cotton. IL is intended TO bring the subject be-
fore the Commissioners Of Claims at Wash
ington, and if no success is met with, 10 the
Supreme Court and, If necessary, finally TO
Congress-
We have advices from Mexico by way Of
san Francisco TO the 3lst Of July. Juarez
had entered the capitol, and met with an
enthusiastic reception. He announced
conciliatory policy toward the Imperial
isis. The press were still clamoring for a
general amnesty, and declaring that the
people we're sick Of blood. The army was
10 be reduced to $4,000 men. Odega was
closely shut up in Monterey.
The new constitution Of the State Of
Michigan will be submitted to the popular
vote in April, 1868, and the first Legisla-
tire will assemble under il year from
next January. IL the constitution shall
be adopted by the popular vote, every male
citizen Of the State properly qualified by
residence, and irrespective Of color, be
comes qualified voter before the Presi-
Dental election of 1868. The PROPOSE
lions for the annual or biennial session Of
the Legislature and the prohibitory law,
are to be submitted separately.
The Corinth Miss Nars Of the oath
inst states that professor Hamilton"
who has been teaching an independent
freedmen's school in that place, eloped on
Monday evening Of last week, with mu-
latto girl, one Of his pupils, after swindling
several citizens of Corinth out of sums
varying from sixty TO one hundred and
eighty dollars, by selling them forged
drafts on the government He also turned
10 his own account the sum of one hundred
and eighty dollars subscribed by citizens,
white and black, for the purchase Of lot
wbereon TO build . frepdmen's school He
had also contracted a number of debts
which he left unpaid. The Professor"
took the night train Of cars for the North,
lat the strike on the Mobile and Ohio
road detained him at Jackson, where he
was overhauld by tbs military authorities
and taken back, together with his protege to
Corinth. Here an investigation Of the
charge alleged against him, (yiz., embez
ding government funds,) was had before a
military court, and he was placed under a
military guard at headquarters until
fuller investigation could be made.