Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cheyenne without change, making an un'
broken line Of over one thousand miles.
The wholesale grocery firm OF Carver
Wendover & Co, Of St. Louis, has failed
Liabilities reported to be nearly 5000 600
The Receiving Teller Of the Shawmu
Eank, Boston, Bryant Henry, has been ali
sent week, and it has been discovered
that he IL a defaulter to the amount o
$4,000.
The Pope has enioined the Rothschildi
OF Paris not 10 pay the coupons Of the
Italian bonds, hat the Paris Moniteur con
tains an official notice that they will be
paid.
Stanley Mathews, Of Cincinnati, has de
manded Of the City Council $4,000 as a
fee for legal services in a suit between the
city and the Ohio and Mississippi Railway
Company.
John P. Slough, Chief Justice Of New
Mexico, was shot and MORALLY wounded al
Santa Fe few days ago by Capt Reynolds.
Itseems Reynolds had made some structures
on Slough, which the latter denounced az
lies, when he aseat once shot.
Secretary McCulloch has written letter
10 a Boston banker, in which he states that
the Observation-Disclosures are not so numer-
ous in Congress as at the beginning of the
session, and he hopes that his policy will
yet be Endorsed.
Abraham Abrahams, the rich pawn
broker Of st. Louis who was convicted a
short time since Of buying stolen property,
knowing il TO be stolen, and sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary, has been
pardoned by Governor Fletcher.
Gen. Grant, in an interview with the
President Saturday, opposed the removal
Of Pope and Ord, especially that of Gen
eral Ord, which causes considerable sur
prise, as a change in the fourth district had
not even been talked Of outside of official
quarters.
The drug store of r. d. Ward q Co., Of
Memphis, was destroyed by fire on the
morning Of the 29th inst. The stock was
valued at $4,000; insured in a Hartford
company for $1,000. Amos Woodruff, pro-
prieior Of the building, loses $4,000.
Taylor Jenkins and VIM. Bowersock
we're accidentally shot and killed in Balti-
more, on the 26th inst, while playing with
pistols. Sylvester Powell was killed by a
collision of trains on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, at the same place, on the
same day.
The Washington Soldiers League pro-
poses to hold national convention in that
city 10 May for the purpose of nominating
= Presidential ticket. The plan, it is said,
is approved by other leagues and by dis
tinguished soldiers throughout the country,
among whom are the Governors Of two or
three States, who were Generals in the
army during the war.
A Washington dispatch says an estie
mate, compiled from statistics collected by
the Governors of the Southern States,
places the number Of whites and blacks in
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
and the Carolinas, who are in a starving
condition, at three millions.
Gen. Gustav has written and published
long letter on the subject of his recent
court martial. He makes an explanation
of the circumstances of the ccnduct for
which he has been tried, and complains
that the court was composed of officers
four Of whom we're of rank inferior to his
own, and one Of whom was Commissary
whom he had censured for corruption.
The President will probably send mes.
sage TO Congress when it re-assembles, call
ing it's attention TO the official reports
which the Executive has received of the
restitution prevailing in the South. Parties
are in Washing from the South seeking re.
lief, and an appropriation Of money is be-
ing urged in lien of an appeal TO the
charitable.
The Russian government has made a
contract with the Colt Patent Firearms
Company, for the manufacture Of 30,
600 Berdan rifles, the contract 10 be
filled in eighteen months. One hundred
Gathing revolving cannon have also been
ordered 10y the Prussian government to be
built by the Colt Company, and the Rus
slams are likewise TO have some built.
A Brazilian steamer arrived in Rio ia
nerio on the 24th ofNovember, from Mon
tevideo, bringing news of the loss of the
English mail steamer Saturn, in a terrible
gale of that place the week before. She
had on board 400 persons, including the
crew and passengers. Among the latter
was the English Minister, who had lust
been relieved TO enable him TO take short
visit home. He, with the rest, were lost
only fourteen persons we're saved.
Eleven years ago a physician named
Marsh was murdered near San Francisco,
while on his way 10 that city TO be married.
A few weeks ago drunken Mexican con-
tessed that he was one Of the assassins guilty
Of the deed. The inebriate's story was con-
hrmed, and his two confederates arrested.
At the trial one turned States evidence,
another was acquitted on the ground of
extreme youth, and the third was sentenced
20 imprisonment for life.
A case is now pending before the United
States Supreme Court which il is thought
will elicit a decision on the question of the
constitutionality Of the United States legal
tender act. The case comes from Oregon,
whose statutes require payment Of taxes
collected by Sheriff. 10 be made in coin 10
the several counties, by whom in ,arn thew
are paid into the State Treasury. The
Sheriff in this case having offered to paw
the amount collected by him in currency
20 the county, alleges he has thereby made
= valid tender.
The impression gains ground that the
st. Thomas treaty will be defeated in the
Senate. 1t turns ont that the port would
be of little commercial value 10 the United
States, as nearly all the wharves belong,
under long leases, 10 British, French and
other foreign shipping houses, and the
rights Of these parties could not be inter
fered with by treaty. Messrs. Fesssnden
and Morton have already expressed them
eelves against the treaty.
The bodies Of two men were found in
the Loosahatohie river, near Mason Depot
Oh the Memphis and Ohio railroad, on the
9th inst, in a badly decomposed condi-
ton. One was shot through the head and
the other through the BODY. One had red
hair, and in his pocket was found letter
from q mother 10 her son, bearing the sd.
dress Of J. Pratt. There was nothing 10
identify the other. 1t is supposed they be-
longed 10 band of robbers, who, for some
months, have infested the neighborhood,
and that they had fallen into the hands Of
Judge Lynch
On the night Of the 18th instant a man
named Price, storekeeper in Apalacbico-
Ia. Florida, was murdered BY some party
unknown, who subsequently set FIRE 10 the
store to conceal the crime. The citizens
assembled to extinguish the flames, and
while so engaged a keg Of powder ex.
pIoded, blowing of the roof, but injuring
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