Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-30
THURSDAY. xovEMBER as. 1857.
Largest circulation Ia city and Stat
news OF THE DAY.

fleCitOu ia ihe pa7i tth YEAR.
Private letters from Richmond, Va, say
that II. Rives Pollard has challenged the
Wises, who decline fighting him el
The Parliament Of Prussia has declared
by vote that the constitution Of the North
German Confederation guarantees freedom
OF speech.
Private adyices from Baton Rouge, La,
Of the 2lst inst. state that several deaths
from yellow fever aud black vomit had &C
CURED there.
An official letter from New Orleans re-
ceived at Washington, says there were
6fty-four deaths from cholera in New
Orleans for the week ending the 10th inst.
Head center Francis, who for a long
time eluded the-igilsnce of the English
authorities, was captured on the 26ih inst.
in Dublin.
Seven dead infants were found in the
streets Of New York and Brooklyn in
twenty -four hours ending on the morning
Of the 2Gth inst JAS
At atoWn election in Buffalo, on the 25th
inst, the entire Democratic ticket was
elected by majorities averaging nearly
three hundred.
The Chamber of Commerce, Of New
York, recommends the resumption Of specie
payments 80 soon as the floating debt of the
government shall have been funded.
Baron Won Beust, Prime Minister Of
Austria, has issued diplomatic, in which
he declars that the maintenance of the
temporal power Of the Pope is necessary
to the peace Of Europe.
The Judge Of the United States Court in
North Carolina has issued an order declar-
ing the competency Of the Court To deter
mine the qualifications Of its jurors, indie
pendent Of military authority.
Father Kelly, a Catholic priest at the
new city Of Cheyenne, the present terminus
Rocky Mountains, has made arrangements
for erecting n church in that city at once.
A gang Of horse thieves has recently been
discovered in Jackson county, Missouri,
embracing about one hundred men. Five
or six Of them have been arrested and one
sho;.
Garibaldi has so far recovered from his
recent illness that he is able TO support the
fatigue of travel, and, by permission Of the
government, he will Immediately set out
for his home al Caprera.
Dispatches from Shanghai announce that
several vessels Of the United States Pacific
squadron have departed for Formosa, TO
punish the perpetrators Of the outrage on
the crew of the American bark Rover.
1t is reported that France and Austria
have concluded a special treaty regarding
their policy on the Eastern question. It's
terms pledge them to maintain the territo-
rial integrity of the Ottoman Empire.
A notorious robber named Dick Barnes
was found dead, on the 22d inst, three
miles south of Independence, Missouri. II
issupposed he was murdered by some mem
Der or members Of the gang Of desperadoes
TO which he belonged.
J. II. Anthem, nominated for Mayor OF
New York by the Union Democrats,
under the lead of Miles OReilly, has
declined the race, and the party has, there
fore, Endorsed the Tammany nomination OF
the present Mayor, Hoffman.
Gen Howard has returned to Washing
ton from his inspection tour in the West.
He is of opinion, that il properly protect
ed in their rights by the civil authorities,
the negroes can get along without the aid
OF the Bureau, both as regards their educa'
ton and employment
The Auburn parson, Mr. Hawley, sent
by Secretary Seward 30 inquire as TO the
wishes Of the people of ST. Thomas in rela-
ton TO annexation, reports that nearly all
the inhabitants are in favor Of the change.
A like sentiment does not seem TO exist
among the members Of Congress whose
consent is necessary to the consummation
of the bargain.
Mrs. Cobb gives free expression TO her
Indignation at Detective Baker for his tes.
timony before the Impeachment Commit
tee. She threatened on the 9th inst. to
tear his hair and eyes ont as soon as she
sees him, or is she can't get near enough to
him for that, she swears she will shoot
him. On the Goth she swore out warrant
for his arrest, on a charge of perjury, but
he could not be found.
The terrible explosion Of nitro -glycerine
at Bergen, n. Y, by which nine men were
instantly blown TO atoms was caused by a
drunken workman plunging a red hot poker
into bucket-full Of the perilous compound,
with a view of more quickly reducing it to
the desired liquid state. The remains of
the victims were horribly burnt and multi
lated. The man who caused the calamity
vas literally torn into rags.
On the oath inst. Horace Collier, an old
men, evidently deranged, got aboard the
steamer Julia, at Springfield, Mississippi,
to 20 20 St. Francis river. Shortly after
getting aboard, he declared the negro
roustsbouts were going TO kill him and az
they started 10 supper he drew a revolver
and fred several times, killing Henderson
Jones and wounding three others.
The tender,hearted Governor of Vir-
ginia has granted full pardon TO Mrs. Ann
4. Kirby, recently convicted Of murder in
the second degree, and sentenced to the
Penitentiary for seven years, for shooting
her husband in a ft Of well-founded
jealousy. This woman was Irish by birth,
and she stole from his lawfal wife, while
living in his house az a servant, the aztec
lions Of the man she killed, ran away with
him, and after the deserted wife died of a
broken heart, married him.
A race took place near Boston on the
28th inst. between the horses Empress.
Mcclellan and Regulator. and the two In
dams, Deerfoot and Steeprock, the Indians
10 run three miles and e-eighih before the
horses trotted six miles. The race was
won by the Indians, they performing their
task in fifteen minutes and forty six Sc
conds. The horses were sixteen minutes
and nineteen and one-half seconds The
race was for one thousand dollars, and a
large crowd was present 20 witness itl
Three men entered the First National
Bank at Independence, Wisconsin, at FIVE
o'clock on the afternoon Of the 9th inst.
and while one guarded the door, the other
two riAed the safe and drawers. VIM. Nc
Coy, cashier. and the clerk, were then
locked up in the vault where they re-
manned two hours and a half Stone, Of
Mccoy s Co., bankers had Just placed
their funds in the vault Of the National
Bank for safety during the night, and that
sum, also, was taken. The amount Of The
loss is not YET ascertained. u
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial says THE impeach-
ment project is losing ground. Wei an
formed members express the belief that II
a vote were taken at the next meeting Of
the House the subject would be tabled by a
decisive majority. Two or three who were