Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-25
Largest Circulation in City and Stat,
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The yellow fever has broken out at Mat
amoras.
Another attempt has been made to as
sassinate the Gar of Russia.
The planters of Jackson parish. La, are
offering corn in the field at twenty-five
cents per bushel.
The colored people of New York are to
have State Convention in Syracuse next
month.
VIM. A. Pritchard, of St. Louis, claims
that the income tax law is unconstitutional,
and has brought suit to test the matter.
The Radicals in Kansas are much split
mp on female suffrage, temperance, Sunday
laws, etc, and the Germans are leaving
them.
Gov. Haight the Governor elect Of Cali
tornia, declines 10 be a candidate for United
States Senator.
General Cook, Secretary Of United States
Legation at Valparaiso, died on the 9th of
August last.
1t is reported that the sub Committee on
Retrenchment will report in favor of a re-
duction of the whisky tax, and abolition
of bonded warehouses.
DIR. @. w. Mccain, President of the
Southern Life Insurance Company, died
suddenly in Memphis on the 23d inst. of
congestive chills.
The Pope has publicly denounced the
proposed sale Of the church lands, and de-
clared the decree of the Italian govern
ment 10 that end null and void.
Thomas Mitchell, an old citizen of Bu-
H.
nights ago by robbers, who entered his
house for plumber.
Returns Of the California election from
all counties but one, show Haights ma
iority TO be 1921. HaighPs vote was 5000
more than McCiellan's, while Gorham and
Fay's was about 10000 less than Lincoln's.
On the night Of the Dist inst. police
man in Albany, N. Y, shot two young men
named Eitz Simmons and A. McAllisteT,
instantly killing the former. Both the
young men we're intoxicated, and had as
saulted the policeman.
The Indians have notified the contrac-
tors on the Kansas Pacific railway that the
road shall not be built beyond Fort Hays,
and they mean war to the knife. Great
excitement prevails along the route, and
The Postmaster General has issued new
regulations regarding the pay of letter car
riers, which fixes their salary for the first
six months Of service at the rate of $500
per year, for the second six months at the
rate Of $500, and after one years service,
at $1,000 per year.
The recent council Of the Peace Commits
sioners with the hostile Indians, on the
North Platte amounted to nothing. The
Indians were offered homes in the new re-
servations, and they were given until No
yember LIST to accept the proposition or not,
as they might choose.
Garibaldi has issued an address an
nouncing that the time had come to over
throw the tyranny of the Pope and restore
Rome TO Italy. A counter proclamation
has also been issued by Victor Emanuel,
warning all Italians from taking part in
the movement against Rome, denouncing
II as a crime and threatening punishment
TO all the participators.
Captain Thomas Schah, who recently
shot and killed Frederick B. Sheppard, of
Mobile, at the Mount Vernon arsenal, and
who before the decease of Sheppard, was
tried for conduct unbecoming an officer,
will probably be tried for murder by civil
court, now that Sheppard has died from
the effect Of the shot. If the civil authori-
ties tail TO act a courtmartial will be or
dered.
Montgomery Blair in a speech on the
Dist inst at the Eladensburg mass meeting
denounced the Cabinet as a set Of political
vermin, and that Secretary Seward, on the
evening Of the coming elections was en-
deavoring to betray the Administration into
the hands Of its enemies. He believed
that the President would be impeached, |
and declared that the present political con-
dition of things was without precedent in |
the history Of the country.