Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-13
Largest Circulation in City and Stats
NEWS OF THE DAY.

vention is to be held at Frankfort on the
22d Of February.
1t is reported that Prince Gortschokoff
has resigned the CHARACTERISTIC Of the
Russian Empire.
The Paris Monifear says negotiations for
the proposed conference still continue, and
that renewed confidence is felt for the sue
cess Of the scheme.
The convicts In the Illinois State Peni-
Tertiary continue to increase rapidly. The
number on the 10th inst. was 1913, and
still they come.
Mrs. Rombey, a widow, residing at Pc
oria. H., while in somnsmbulic state,
walked into the Illinois river, in that city,
and was drowned.
The Italian Parliament il stormy. The
debates recently were very violent, and the
Liberal movements have been assailed
mercilessly.
II is thought that the Italian Chamber
Of Deputies will repeal their vote Of 1861,
declaring Rome to be the natural capital of
the kingdom.
The report of the Commissioner on
Southern railroads states that the amount
due the United States November lst, last,
including interest, was 81, 1874 500.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
offers $500 reward for information that
will lead TO the conviction OF any one en-
gagged in the Illicit distillation Of whisky.
A late dispatch from Shanghai, China,
mentions new and more serious outbreaks
in the province Of Chill, near Pekin. At
last accounts the rebels were marching on
the capital.
II was not Colonel Kelly, but Captain
Carroll, who arrived in the Minnesota on
the 9Th inst. from England. Carroll has
been in Mountioy Prison, in Ireland, for
eighteen months past.
Michael Gleason, condemned to be hung
for the murder of two Provost Marshals,
during the draft in Powsheik county,
Iowa, has had his sentence committed TO
imprisonment for life by the President.
This has been done against his own ex-
pressed wishes.
On November Goth, fifty Highlanders,
commanded by Major Gordon, formerly Of
a Highland regiment, passed through
London on their way 10 join the Pope's
army. Nearly all Of the fifty were six feet
high, and all we're young men. They are
ali Catholics, Of various ranks in life.
Gen. Pope has ordered an election in
Alabama for the ratification of the State
constitution on the 4th ofFebruary. Judge
Smith, Radical candidate for Governor Of
Alabama, is now in Washington, and says
the friends of the new constitution feel GER
tain Of its success.
The good citizens of Chicago who happen
10 be heavily insured have taken to burn
ing up 80 frequently that the insurance
companies there have began TO suspect that
all is not right, and have raised fund of
$4,000 to set a watch upon the customers.
The Senate Finance Committee have for
some days been considering proposition
for the negotiation Of a new five per cent.
loan. the bonds to be convertible into
currency, and the currency to be convert
ible into bonds, at the pleasure of the hold
era. No action has yet been taken by the
committee on the subject.
The Republican National Committee
met in Washington on the 18th inst, and
Designated Chicago "a a meeting place for
the National Republican Convention, to
meet on the Goth of May, 1868. The friends
of General Grant endeayored to persuade
the committee TO change its name 10 Ma
tional Union Committee, but Horace Gree~
ley's influence prevented it.
The friends Of the executed Fenians are
very active. From a great number Of
places in Ireland come dispatches Of mock
funerals and other demonstrations of re.
gard. The demonstration proposed by
Fepians Sunday next in Liverpool, has
been peremptorily forbidden by the au-
thorities, who are fearful Of the conse-
quences of so violent an expression of ill
feeling toward the government.
The Georgia Reconstruction Convention
its organization on the llth |
inst. Bradley, colored, from Boston, moved |
to adopt the rules of order of the Massa-
chusstts House of Representatives in 1858. |
The motion was lost, amid applause A /
resolution was adopted to inform General
Pope of the organization and to invite his i
presence. Bona fde reporters for the press
were allowed seats in the convention, pro.
vided they do not misrepresent the mem
bers or action of the body. A resolution
Congress TO repeal the tax on
cotton was laid on the table.
In civil suit in the United States Dis
riot Court in st. Louis, against Bodeman
& Co. tobacco manufacturers, the Jury re-
urped verdict on the 10th inst, con-
Iemning all the defendants manufactured
obacco, raw material, tools implements,
machinery. etc. In previous trial of the
defendants for afiKing fraudulent brands
o manufactured tobacco, the jury failed TO
lgree, and a civil action was then brought
or forfeiture Of the material and appurte
iances Of the factory, with the above re-
ult. This is said TO be the first civil suit
# the kind that has occurred in the coun-
ry.
The silence Of Congress on the subject of
Stanton's removal is explained by the fact
hat question of verscity has sprung up
between Grant and Stanton, as 10 whether
Grant took the War Office with Stanton's
Grant says be did. Stanton says
re did not, and points 10 the superior
orce" item Of his letter in proof Of it.
stanton blames Grant for the readiness
Nth which he came to Johnson's rescue
nd Grant says he only did so 70 prevent
ONE one more obnoxious to the Republi-
ans from getting in. IL is feared that il
congress commences 4 war about Stations
lection, this controversy may come ont in
old relief, 10 the damage of either Grant i
II Stanton-it is not known which. :
The ordinance issuing half a million of
dollars in State bonds at eight per cent.
interest, redeemable in two years, was
dopled in the Louisiana Reconstruction :
Convention on the ll,h inst, by vote of ,
weniy-eight to twenty-five. Certain out
ide capitalists offer sixty>ive cents on the
ollar for these bonds. They propose 10
eposit twenty five thousand dollars to the 6
credit, within seven DAYS.
nd twenty thousand dollars for every ten
avs thereafter until the full amount is {
dvanced, retaining for themselves the Z
1odest discount Of thirty. Eve per cent,
ogether with the two years interest. Their ,
expectation is to introduce resolution into :
congress indorsing these bonds. In this
eat maneuver the State loses, and they :
III pocket two hundred and fifty i've Z
lousand dollars. =
The Virginia Conservative Convention I
in Richmond on the llth inst, I
bout eight hundred delegates being pre- '
mt. All parts Of the State were repre- :
,nted. Hon. A. II. II. Stuart, Of Augusta, '
as elected President. On taking the chair (
: said This was not the convention of O
party. but Of Virginia. At the close of