Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-11
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Fenian Engineer Taking Plan below
Fort Erie-Chrisfians of Turkey and
Greeee-DestitutiOu and Want In
Southern Ireland-The Meeting LA
charlottesville Senate so Adjourn
ON Friday-FrOm New Orseans-Ru-
NOR that the Petition of Mississippi
is TO be Rejected, etc., etc.
NEW YORK, April 10-The Herald's
special says The commander of the mill
tary forces at Fort Erie has notified the au-
thorities that a prominent engineer, con-
nected with the Fenian organization, has
been taking plans of the frontier below the
Suspension Bridge, and asks for reinforce
ments to be stationed at the village of
Niagara and the Suspension Bridge. 1t is
feared the Fenians intend to make another
movement in that direction.
The Herald's Paris letter says that a
general organization of the Christians resi-
dent in the Eastern provinces of Turkey
and Greece has been completed against the
Sultan, and that a war in which the power
Of the Porte, in Europe, would be destroyed,
was inevitable.
Destitution and want are said to prevail
to a very painful extent among the people
engaged in the late Fenian rising in the
South of Ireland. The grand jury of Gen.
eral Sessions have indicted a number of
men who participated in the disturbances
on st. Patrick's day. The accused parties
have been admitted to bail.
The Herald's Charleston dispatch says
AT meeting of the prominent citizens of
that place on the I'd inst, in was unani-
mously agreed thatthe freedmen should be
entitled to run some one of their own color
on the white mans ticket to the convention
and State Legislature. The meeting was
composed in a large proportion of old
Democrats and secessionists, and General
Hampton sent letter to it, urging the
policy of giving the negroes representation.
The Times special says The present
session of the Senate will undoubtedly
terminate on Friday evening, whether the
offices are all filled or not. So many
Senators are leaving that it is doubtful if
there will be a quorum after Friday even
ing, if there be no adjournment. Senators
Wilson, Williams and CONFESS, left for
their homes last night.
The elections in Jersey City, Patterson
and Bayonne, New Jersey, were decided in
favor of the Republican ticket yesterday,
while Hoboken, Hudson City, Harrison and
Kearney went Democratic.
During the war the corporation of New
Orleans sold bonds to the citizens of Lou
isiana, for the purpose of raising funds
with which to fortify the city against the
Federal forces. and after General Butler
captured the city he made several assess
ments, amounting to seventy-fve per cent.
of the gross amount for the benefit of the
poor of the department Several petitions
have been filed asking that the amount of
these assessments may be refunded, but
without success, and Robert j. Kerr of
New Orleans, has recently arrived, au-
thorized by the interested parties to act as
their agent in procuring Its return. If he
succeeds General Butler will in response to
the demand of prominent Louisiana Radi
Gals bring the whole subject before Congress.
A belief is rapidly gaining ground that
the Supreme Court will reject the petition
in the Mississippi test case without much
deliberation, on the ground of a lack
of original jurisdiction. Should it be
otherwise, however, it will be rapidly
followed by several other States, including
Virginia, Georgia, Florida and Texas.
The Herald's special says: Gen. Sully,
who is on his way to investigate the Fort
Phil. Kearney massacre, reports that on
his passage out from Fort Laramie he has
observed decided indications of hostile
gathering among the Indian tribes of that
region.
The President has been quite indisposed
for several days, and is rather worse to-day.
The report that he intended to spend few
l. oftn IA o1s
is untrue.
Details of foreign news state that the
examination in the case of Governor Eyre,
concerning the Jamaica murder, is being
prosecuted with vigor.
The Belgian Minister of War states
that France is having $4,000 breech load
ing muskets manufactured. The arsenals
in Prussia are actively at work. Austria
is having one hundred Thousand muskets
converted into breech leaders. England
will have $4,000 similarly converted by
the end of the year.
Russia is transferring six hundred thou
sand troops. Denmark, Holland, Switzer-
land, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and
Belgium are all engaged in the same war
like preparations.
1t is said that negotiations between
France and Holland for the cession Of
Luxemburg were proceeding fayorably,
when Count Bismark skillfully succeeded
in suspending the bargain by calling the
attention of the Dutch government to the
existence of certain claims of the late
Gsrmanic confederation upon the ducal
government of Luxembourg for unpaid fed
eral contributions and for different fortif-
cations, and the fact that Prussia, the legal
successor of the confederation, would con-
slider any disposal of Luxemburg by Hol-
land to third party as an infraction of
those claims. This protest bad prevented
any engagement with the French govern