Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-21
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON DISPATCHES.
NEW YORK DIsPATcHEs.

The Kentucky BOurBon Company Case
! 7Absiraet of the Presidents views
! Conservative Democratic Mass Meet
j Jag, etc.
/ NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-In the matter OF
the seizure of the establishment of the Ken
tlIcky Bourbon Company in the fourth dis
trict, Collector Bailey has made affidavit
before the United States Commissioner,
| preparatory to the beginning of criminal
| proceedings against Dan Mesmore, Mr..
| Landman and Others. 1t is said eight thou
sand barrels of whisky are subject to for
fixture
/ The Times special says, as an indication
OF the Presidents latest situation on recon
structicn affairs, witness the following alb
siract OF his views as recently expressed in
conversation with certain politicians who
called upon him for the purpose of urging
hm to reopen registration in the South /:
/ he informed them that he could not do 80
without mourning certain risk of impeach.
ment, and admitted that the reconstruction
laws confer on the district military COM
nanaeEs sole control over registration. His
Only power OF intetferencs was TIE removal
of commanders when they failed TO execute
hN~ AeiWS III dCCOIudutt WIFI his Views oil
their legal construction. He admitted that
the district commanders are acting under
direct authority of Congress in the per-
torrance of a civil duty, and that if he
should attempt to assume the power as
Commander in Chief, and to contest the
time of registration and holding elections
they would have the right TO refuse to
obey his orders. and would not be amenable
to punishment for military insubordinatiop.
II they did so, he stated, the recent pro-
mitigation Of the amnesty proclamation.
threw upon Congress the views of depriy-
ing legally qualified voters from registry
and voting, and he hoped that the South,
ern people would appreciate it in that
light. If any of the pardoned masses, he ]
continued, attempts to register and are re-
fused, the courts are open to them and they
can compel the military to allow them to
register through the courts. If they do not
do so, he concluded, the fault of their dis
Reimbursement is with Congress, as he
claimed he had done all he could do to re-
store them to their rights.
A great Conservative Democratic mass
meeting, for Washington and the surround
ngcountry in Maryland, iscaled to be held
az DAoNOhobIiiS vi SATURDAY, (IO-mOrfOWl
at which Reverdy johnson, Jeremiah
Black, Montgomery Blair and others are
announced to speak.
1t has transpired that President John
son, immediately subsequent to the re-
moVal OF Secretary Stanton rendered the
war office to Gen. Mcclellan, and that the
offer was promptly refused by that gentle
man. In this connection it will be inter-
esting to know that the efforts to obtain
the appointment for Gen. Steedman have
not yet been abandoned, although the pre-
mature publication of Mr. Greeley's letter
recommending him for theofice has blocked
the game little, as it was intended to be
used only for the purpose of influencing the
Senate when the nomination was sent to it |
for confirmation
General Grant enforces every economy
in the expenditures of his department with |
an unsparing hand. He has recently or |
dered the members of his staff to turn in all |
the public property around headquarters;
horses, wagons, etc, and the staffgentlemen |
who have also been very circumspect and |
modest in matters Of military display are |
now cut off from government transportation |
as efectually as any private gentleman.