Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-04
LATEST TELEGRAMS,
FROM CINCINNATI.
AdiHtauG Generals RepOrt-MOrtaIiIy
Steamboat Accident. Etc.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 3.-The annual report
Of the Adjutant General of Ohio, shows
that the State of Ohio furnished ten thou
/ sand eight hundred and eleven men, in ex-
cess of calls by the general government
during the war. The total war expenses
Of the State during the war, were sixty-four
million eight hundred and sixty-seven
thousand dollars.
The total number Of deaths in the CITY
last month was three hundred and four.
including seventeen from cholera
A fire at Cannelton, Ind, on Sunday
night, destroyed a brewry, three or four
stores and several dwellings. Loss esti-
mated at $50, 900.
The steamer Naugatuck, bound from ST.
Louis to Cincinnati, struck snag Saturday
night about seyenty-fve miles below ST.
Louis, and sunk with her stern in twenty
five feet water. She was owned in this CITY
and valued at So, 900. She was insured for
| S26 600, principally in Cincinnati offices.
Peter Rawson Taft, an old citizen and
father of Judge Allonzo Taft, of the Gin
cinnat Supreme Court, died in this city on
| New Years.
The Kentucky Legislature assembled at
| Frankfort to-day, but no quorum being
present an adjournment was made till to-
morrow.
The Supreme Court OF Ohio met at Co
lumbu3 to-day and all the judges were
/ present.
In the Ohio Legislature to-day the Sen
ate adopted the constitutional amendment
by vote of p yeas to II nays.
A resolution was referred TO the
Committee on Federal Relations, request
ing Ohio Senators and Representatives in
Congress to cast their votes against the adj
mission of any part of the territory late in
rebellion until a sufficient number of States
have adopted the constitutional amend
ment.
In the House, a resolution to amend the
constitution 30 as to confer the elective
franchise, without distinction of sex OF
color, was ordered to be printed
Mission OF the United states Steamer
BonWIIh-GOId 10 be Sold in Open
Market-DamRges for False Empris-
Onment.
New YORK, Jan. "A special pre-
tends 10 state the mission of the United
States steamer Donwith, with Secretary
Seward and Admiral Porter aboard
The Herald says she is bound 10 St.
Thomas, which Island Mr. Seward is 10
purchase for the United States naval depot
The Times says the destination is Hayti,
and the Bay of Gamand is to be purchased
for a naval station ard the Tribune SAYS
Secretary Stewards mission is 10 convey
10 Napoleon dispatches explanatory OF
Secretary Stewards cable message.
The probability is that none Of the cor
respondents know the object of the mission,
but are engaged in guess work
The Times Washington special says there |
is good reason to believe that Washburn's |
bill establishing a government postal tele- |
graph 10 New York, viii become a law. |
The House PostofIice Committee, nearly or |
quite all Of them, are unanimous for IT,
The Tribune's special says the Ways and |
Means Committee have decided that gold |
hereafter must be sold in open market, |
there is too much gold in the treasury, and |
il must be reduced.
No action has yet been taken on Bout
wells bill.
The Senate Finance Committee does not
look favorably on Pomeroy's bill, but pre-
fer not 70 interfere with the present con
tract in the policy Of Secretary McCulloch.
A Times special saws: John RYAN. who
v ~ alLSSbeu II mem t'ilSf some tlkhteel
months since on suspicion Of being John
Surrait is seeking damages for false i'm
prisonmenL
The correspondence between Governor
Wells, Of Louisiana, and Gen. Sheridan,
Is published. Wells, it appears requested
zen Sheridan 10 enforce General Grants
order, No. a, and punish the rioters by
military commission. General Sheridan
replied that he would, when he thought it
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