Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-18
Largest Circulation in City and Stat
NEWS OF THE DAY,

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The Pennsylvania and Mary and papers
are complaining of the potato rot
The yield of corn in Texas is ample, and
10 some counties enormous.
The deaths from yellow fever in New
Orleans Saturday and Sunday are officially
stated at l03.
A prize fight is soon to take place near
ST. Louis, between Dublin Tricks and
Thomas Bowles.
The reported reconciliation between the
two wings Of the Fenian organization has
fallen through.
One hundred and seventy lodges Of Ara
pahoe Indians have offered 10 surrender to
the government.
The Hannibal Courier a Radical sheet
in Illinois, calls Gen. Grant nothing but
military butcher
The latest news from japan states that
siTty-three native Christians have been ar
rested, and one American and two English
men murdered.
Patrick Tracy, twenty-five years old,
committed rape on a woman sixty two
years old, at Peoria, Illinois, last Friday.
The report Of the Committee on I'm
parchment is now printing at the govern
ment Office in Washington. The wOrkmen
have been sworn 20 secrecy.
A man named Gardaisier was arrested in
Amsterdam, Holland, on the 9Th instant,
with forged thousand dollar United States
notes in his possession. Several bad notes
Of the United States are adoat
It is said by the Washington correspon-
dent Of the Cincinnati Enquirer, on what
he deems good authority, that Chief JUS
tice Chase has written letter to the Presi-
dent sustaining the civil authorities in
their recent conflict with Sickles in North
Carolina.
A disastrous fire broke out in the gov
eminent buildings at Rio Janeiro on the
18th Of August, and destroyed all the
papers Of the treasury, together with other
important documents. 1t was supposed to
have been the work Of an incendiary.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Post saysthat the Radical politicians
in Washington are consoling themselves for
the defeat in California with the declaration
that Kentucky will be DISTINGUISHED, and
thus more than balance accounts in their
favor in Congress.
The hdJeds corpus case of young Millikenat
Memphis, was to have been heard by Judge
Swayne of the United States Supreme Court
Tuesday afternoon. Gen. Thomas ordered
Lieut. Hugo to obey the writ. This is the
first case under the recent proclamation Of
the President.
The New York Post says "The large
insurance and brokerage agency Of J. +.
Dobson & Co, of Boston, which has
branches in New York and Chicago, has
suspended payment Their Liabilities are
said TO be 100000, and many insurance
companies Of New York, for whom they
acted az agents in other places, are suffer
ers by the failure"
A number of ex-oficers Of the army,
who have suffered dismissal from the ser
vice by the arbitrary course of Stanton, are
in Washington presenting their cases 10
General Grant. In the majority Of instan-
ces the facts in their favor are so over
whelming that they will be reinstated, and
then honorably mustered out.
A duel took place near Connersyille, In
diana, on Thursday morning, between Hon.
}. W. Carmichael, formerly of the State
Senate, and James w. Mayo, a lawyer in
indianapolis Two rounds were fired; the
first resulted in a flesh wound TO Carmi-
chael. In the second, Mayo received the
discharge IN the region Of his heart, and
was taken from che garden by his friends
and surgeon. The affair originated from
the fact that Carmichael had accused Mayo
with cheating at the gambling table.
A private dinner was given to General
Beauregard, on Thursday night, at the New
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personal friends, residents in that city. In
the course Of the evening the General re-
marked that all talk of further rebellion
was sheer nonsense, and impossible for a
generation; we should now bend every
energy to building up our broken Union to
that magnificent status among the nations
Of the earth 10 which her destiny evidently
pointed, and every possible support should
be given TO the government.
The Washington correspondent of the /
New York World says that the government |
has received intelligence that the Radicals |
in Maryland contemplate the inauguration 1
Of q scheme at the election on the 18th in |
slant when the new State constitution Is to
be submitted for ratification, which will
surely lead TO riot and bloodshed. Under
the assumption that the colored man has as
much right TO vote ia Maryland as he has
in Virginia, the more desperate Radical
leaders in the former State are urging the
colored men 10 present themselves at the
polls and demand the right to vote on the
new constitution.
Negroes voted for the first time in Nir-
ginia on the 10Th inst, when the citizens |
Of Richmond voted on the question of sub /
scribing 100000 to the Chesapeake and J
Ohio railroad. The subscription was car
ried by over two thousand majority. The
negroes voted for il en- nldSse. The opponents
Of the measure intend contesting the legal
ity Of the election on the ground that the
negroes, under the supplemental recon
strucion bill, had no right 10 vote except |
in case of elections for Office, and also that
the registration was not complete, until the |
final revision of the lists, and therefore the |
negroes to-day were not registered voters. |