Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-10
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1857.
Largest Circulation in City and State
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ing history Of his Presidential admins
tration.
Gen. Meagher's Montana Investments
will bring his wife fortune Of over S4CO,- |
600
There were SIX deaths from cholera and
one from yellow fever in New Orleans on |
the 9th inst
The Italian government has granted
universal amnesty to the sdherents Of Gar
ibaldi.
The rinderpest is prevailing very fatally
in Baltimore county Nd, and portions Of
adjacent country.
A letter from Madrid, received In New
York, says that the Spanish Cabinet are
considering the cession of Cuba TO the Uni
ted States for S200,O0O,OO0.
The Memphis papers announce the mar
riage, in that city on the 18th ult., OF Col.
J. II. Mcmahon, to Mrs. Emily F. Perkins,
both of that city.
Brig. Gen. Reykblds, commanding at
Austin, Texas, has issued orders prepare
tory to turning civilian prisoners over to
the State courts for trial.
The London Globe, in an editorial, says
the present attitude Of France renders the
conference OF the European powers for
settlement of the Roman question utterly
impossible.
There are over seven hundred dwellings
vacant and to let in Chicago. Most of these
are new, built for sale during the past sea-
son, but left over, and now held for rent
instead.
The question of extending State aid to
railroads is Just now exciting great interest
in the Kentucky Legislature, and a joint
committee has been raised to report on the
subject.
1t is reported that Gen. Garibaldi has
again disappeared from the Island of
Caprera, and it il feared that another at
tempt against Rome will be made by the
party Of action.
A Richmond special says the Radical
members of the Convention have decided
to subject members Of the Convention TO
the Congressional test-oath of 1862, and il
is probable, if this oath is demanded, the
Conservative delegates will retire.
The Senate Finance Committee have
under consideration the House bill repeal~
ing the cotton tax but have as yet taken
no action. Two or three members will OPP
pose il and Mr.. Morrill,, Of Vermont, is
laAAAG oNAOhB a. uAANbh "
A Honolulu letter Of the 18th of No.
vember says: Capt. Enos, of the whale
ship Java, is reported as having been Or
dered from Ocholsk cruising grounds by a
Russian gunboat. He was given twenty |
four hours to leave, otherwise the Russians
threatened TO sink his vessel.
1t is reported that Senator Wilson will
offer amendment to the reconstruction acts |
abolishing all restrictions upon the right |
of suffrage. No other amendment of these |
acts is anticipated, although Gen. Banks |
is quoted as having said the reconstruc-
ton measures of Congress were impractia |
cable in their present shape.
Mike Pyne owner of the steamer St. |
Patrick; killed VIM. Darlington Saturday |
night in Memphis, in 8 difficulty, stabbing |
him with a large butcher knife. CARING |
ton had worked for Pyne over FIVE years,
and was recently discharged, and since has |
frequently threatened to kill Pyne, and |
attacked him in his store.
Colonel r. b. j. Twyman, Consul TO |
Mexico under Buchanan, and formerly |
editor Of several newspapers in Kentucky,
committed suicide in Cairo on the 9th
inst, by taking a solution Of arsenic. He
had been, for some weeks, quite depressed, |
from pecuniary endorsements, and, on i
several occasions, had limited his desire TO i
die.
A Roman letter says, United States Con-
sui Cushman recently accompanied a small |
expedition against the Garibaldians near
Mearla, and getting under fire, picked up |
the musket of dead soldier and fired at
the Garibaldians until he was himself |
wounded. Since then two American citi-
zens, who fought in Garibaldi's ranks, have
been released on his personal request.
1t was reported that Senator Wilson, of
Massachusetts,, would introduce a bill
Monday, to remove political disabilities
from more than one hundred persons in
Alabama, including Governor Patton, pre-
sent Governor Of the State; General
Longstreet, who now resides in Alabama,
Gen. Bradley and Judge Humphreys.
This superstition is based upon the recon-
mendations Of Gems. Pope and swayne.
Il is understood that General Grant, in
accordance with Mr.. Blaine's resolution
directing the General commanding the ar
mics to communicate to the House the cor
respondence addressed by him to the Presi-
dent respecting the removal of Stanton and
Sheridan, will include the letter addressed
10 the President and marked private"
This document makes four pages of letter
paper, and is said 20 be of a most important
character.
A clerk in a store in Marion, KY, named
f. F. Hill, eloped with the wife Of his
employer few days ago. They were ar
rested at Memphis on the6th inst, on their
way TO Texas. The father Of Mr.. Butler, |
the husband of the woman, arrived shortly |
afterwards, but she refused TO return with
him. Finding her utterly fallen, he pro-
cured from herself and her paramour ath- /
dsvits admitting their guilt and the voluns
tary elopement on her part, and allowed |
them 70 60.
Obseuuies in honor of Allen, Gould aud /
Larkin we're performed in Dublin, Ireland, |
ON the Sth inst, and were the occasion of |
an immense manifestation of sympathy. /
The proceedings were similar TO those /
reported az London, Manchester and Cork, /
but in numbers this demonstration far |
exceeded any previous one, and it is estima- |
ted that $4,000 men marched in the funeral |
processiop. Good order was maintained |
all along the line, and the whole affair |
passed of quietly.
An order from the Commissioner Of In
,ernaI Revenue. approved BY the Secretary
OF 1IGhcuAFr atAbANc NNihNStShN
nal revenue 10 allow any distilled spirits 10
be removed, or to accept bonds for such !
removal either from a distillery, bonded |
warehouse, class A or B 10 some districts
10 a class B warehouse in another district, |
unless the shipping collector shall have
had Official information that the warehouse |
TO which it is proposed to remove
spirits has been approved by the depart
ment. Under regulations Of August ~ |
1867, lists Of warehouses bonded under /
these regulations will be published weekly, /
which will be regarded official.
The speech of the French Minister, NJ.
Rouhcr, in which he said Italy should not
take forcible possession Of Rome, gave rise
10 an angry discussion in the Italian
Chamber Of Deputies on the 9Th inst
Prime Minister Menabrea informed the
House that he bad asked the French gov
eminent for an explanation of the speech,
and he expected 10 receive reply from
Paris by Monday. He added that Italy
could only gain possession of Rome With
the concurrent consent of France and other