Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-23
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 81. 1857.
Largest Circulation In City and stat,
NEWS OF THE DAY.

taken to some place unknown.
The Department clerks are besieging
Congressman, in Washington, with urgent
appeals for an increase Of pay.
General Beauregard says many Of the
beat Louisiana families are selling ont their
effects and removing to Maryland.
Miss Anna +. Dickinson is out 10 card,
denying that she is either about 70 be mar
ried or is going on the stage.
Gen. Pope has ordered the Georgia Con-
veRtion to meet in Atlanta on Monday, the
9th Of December.
A Mr.. Rowles, a citizen of Okolona,
Miss, was murdered near that place on
the 18th inst, and robbed Of $500.
The ship Galconda sailed from Charles
ton on the Goth inst with three hundred
and twenty negro emigrsnts for Liberia.
Latest advices from Australia state that
the cannibals of Fiji had murdered and
eaten Rev. S. Baker, Wesleyan mission
AIRY, and six Christian natives. se
Alta sale Of books in Philadelphia, on
the 18th inst, two ancient volumes, printed
by Adds Mauntius, at Venice, in 1893,
brought $40 each.
Suit has been brought against John Nc
Dermott, in New York, for supplies fur
nished and used by the Fenians in the raid
on Campo Bello.
A verdict Of $4,000 has been rendered
against the city of New York for the death
Of a laborer, by the falling of block at the
courthouse in that city.
Two hundred negroes, with fife and
drum, marched into Columbus, Miss, a
few days ago, and demanded bread and
provisions. The military disarmed them.
Accounts from The interior districts in
South Carolina represent the whites az
everywhere declining to participate in the
election.
A cyclone on the coast of China destroyed
$l0,000,000 worth Of property. The United
States ship Supply WIS only saved by LASH
ing together four heavy cannon and an
choring by them.
The Fayetteville Obssruer reports the
stealing Of a number of horses recently in
the vicinity of that town, and thinks there
is an organized band OF horse thieves
operating in Lincoln county.
The Fayetteville (Tennessee) Observer |
learns that Dr. Bennett w. Childs, son of |
Elder Thomas Childs, Of Lincoln county, |
died in Brazil recently, whittier he went |
when the Southern Confederacy collapsed.
A German named Stakeholder was /
robbed in Memphis on the Doth inst, of |
$1,000 by FIVE rufhans. The Metropolitan 1
Police arrested the gang, turned over fifty /
dollars to Buckholder, and pocketed the
balance.
The cotton crop of East Mississippi is a |
failure, owing 20 the low price of the sta
pie and the elections. The negroes have /
become demoralized, and in many cases |
refuse to pick the cotton which they helped |
to cultivate.
A negro registrar in South Carolina,
who in August last violently arrested a |
white citizen, and melted the negroes to |
violence, has been sentenced by military
commission 10 imprisonment for six /
months, at hard labor.
General Candy has issued a general or
der 10 provide for the punishment of per.
sons who obstruct railroads. In case any
loss Of life occurs the punishment, on con-
viction by any military commission or
cour; of competent Jurisdiction, is death.
Mrs. Tally, wife Of storekeeper on
Ohio avenue, in Washington, was burned
TO death Sunday night, the 18th instant
through the breaking Of lighted coal oil
lamp which che had dropped. The unfor-
tunste woman lived but fifteen minutes.
The National Republican Executive
Committee will meet in Washington on
the 18th of December, TO decide upon the
place of holding the next Presidential NOM
mating convention. IL is generally con-
ceded that some one of the Western cities
will be selected.
Advices have been received in Washing
ton which render it certain that the New
jersey Democratic Legislature will in
struct ont their Radical Senators, one of
whom was elected by fraud and the other
by chicanery, and both against the will of
the people.
Senator Wade emphatically denies
nsing the expressions about Gen. Grant,
attributed to him by Mack of the Cinr
cinnati Commercial. Wade further says
he has confidence in the General, and be-
lieves him in full accord with the Radical
party.
Some inhuman mother in Wethersfeld, |
Henry county, Illinois, last week left her ,
infant in q stable, expecting il to be found
and adopted. Directions were pinned to
the baby's dress, also a five dollar green
hack. The child was deposited in such an /
obscure place that il was not found until q
it had persisted of starvation.
During the discussion in the House of
Representatives on the Dist Inst, on the
admission Of the Tennessee members, a /
disposition was evinced BY Schenck and ,
other Radicals 10 censure Mr.. Brooks for
his resolution, and expulsion was talked
Of Brooks defed them to do it, and said
il they did his constituents would send him
back with 10000 majority.
The venerable poet, Fitz Greene Halleek,
died at Guilford, Connecticut on the 18th
inst, In his eightieth year. He was for
many wears the confidential business man. I
Rger Of the late John Jacob AstoT, and
while filling that position found leisure for a
the production Of a number of meritorious 5
Poetioal works more than one of which | !
has become familiar as household words" ! s
in every house in America. L
The Washington correspondent Of the /
Cincinnati En9GineT says in his dispatch of a
the 2lst: There are reasons for believing a
that the general impression that the inns b
peachment is practically dead is not cor n
rect. Within forty-eight hours, by some {
means, a change has been effected, and, v
unless a caucus decision shall upset it, the I
will report Eve to four in favor !
Of impeachment. How this change has 5
been made has not yet transpired."
Disclosures made regarding operations :,
Of whisky dealers in New York and Brook !.
lyn, reveal such startling frauds as to test :
the credulity of the public. Many millions I
of dollars are involved, and officials as well .
as prominent merchants have been en- .
gagged in the frauds, and thus far the ends Il
Of justice have been defeated by high Of u
icials in those cities interposing to screen
he guilty. Commissioner Rollins, who u
IL fully advised ofthese facts, seemsto lack =
courage TO apply the remedy. y !;
, FoR Legislative proceedings see fourth n
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