Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-14
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NEWS OF TIE DAY

=. ASYLUM for the reformation Of
drunkards is TO be erected on Wards
Island, Kew York.
Tie locusts have appeared in Warren
county, Mississippi, and are nearly as bad
as the army worm.
The bill forbidding public meetings in
the parks Of London has been defeated in
the House Of Commons.
There has been a great FIRE at Bordeaux, in
France. Ii is reported that eighty persons
were killed or wounded.
a high and sudden freshet at Newark, n.
J., on Friday afternoon, destroyed property
10 the amount of 100000.
Ira Aldridge, the celebrated colored
actor. is dead. At the time his death he
was on a professional tour in Poland.
The New York Tribune gives details,
showing that the Rodman gun proved
failure at the recent experiments in Eng
land
1t il reported that Darcy MCGEE has
been threatened with assassination if he
makes his promised disclosures about Fe-
nianism in Canada.
There is in progress at Boston a grand
festival Of German Turner'S, delegations
being present from most Of the New Eng
land cities.
A number Of missionaries for India and
China will sail from Boston in a few days,
among them Mr. and Mrs Taylor, Of Ohio,
and Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson, Of Chicago.
The old Pennsylvania Bank building, in
Philadelphia, is to be removed piecemeal
to Portland, where it will reappear as a
Customhouse.
General Sickles, in answer to a petition
from the citizens Of Mecklenburg county,
North Carolina, has granted the privilege
Of distilling wines, elders and brandiesfrom
fruits, but not from grain.
The Coroner held an inquest on the in
fant daughter Of Mrs. Mollie Wilson, in
Cincinnati, on Saturday, the jury deciding
that it came TO its death from overlooking
with patent medicines.
Mr.. Webb's friends say that he will make
about 100000 by the sale and safe delivery
Of the ram Dunderberg. The struggle be-
tween France and Prussia TO get this ship
enabled him 10 make his Own terms.
The Turkish government has sent cir
cular note 20 its representatives at Faro
peau Courts, denying that cruelties have
been practiced in Gambia, and complaining
that vessels Of the Great Powers continue
10 take away refugees
The last phase Of the base ball mania
has occurred at Utica, New York, where
the Board of Education have challenged
the Common Council to play a match. The
latter have accepted, and the old boys will
have it cut in a few days.
q 4, Il -, I,tn
speech at the laying Of the corner
stone Of the Normal institute at
Terra Haute, Indiana, that the har-
mony of the country would not be restored
until negro children were educated in the
common schools with white children.
L. Joy Morris, the representative Of the
American government at Constantinople,
has been insulted by an Admiral of the
Turkish service, who forcibly took an Off
cial dispatch from his servant Redress
has been demanded Of the Turkish gov
eminent
General Sickles has authorized a sus-
pension in North Carolina Of his recent
order regarding the revision Of jury lists,
on the application of Governor Worth, who
represents that its enforcement viii prevent
the sttings Of any of the State courts for
several months.
1t has been discovered that the New Or
leans and Carrolton railroad, which gov
eminent tool. possession of as part Of the
securities Of the New Orleans defaulters
had been previously mortgaged TO a New
York bank, 50 that the government loses
100000 more than previously calculated
upon.
Col. Robert A. Gilmore, Postmaster Of
Chicago, took his boat Friday evening, and
ventured out on the lake when it was quite
rough, rowing with him being fav0rite
exercise. Nothing has been seen or heard
Of him since; but his boat has been discov-
cred on the shore badly stove. The suppo-
sition is that he was drowned.
The number Of large fires throughout the
United States during July, at which the
loss was over $4,000 or upward, was 81,
and the aggregate loss was SS,225,O0O.
In June the total loss by fire was 81, 100000.
Daring the seven m0nthso Of 1867 that have
passed by the total value of the property
lost by conaagration has been SIS, $4,000.
The assertion Of the President that the
recommendation for eommutation..of Mrs.
Surratt's sentence was not attached to the
proceedings OF the Military Commission
which tried the conspirators, when they
we're considered in the Cabinet, is sustained
by the evidence of one Of the members Of
the Cabinet, present at the time.
The ministers Of the different denomina-
tions in Richmond, Va, held a meeting in
that city Saturday aud adopted an address
10 reply to Governor Pierponfs recent
charge Of disloyalty against them. They
deny having used their pulpits as political
agencies in any respect whatever, OF OF ever
having uttered since the war, directly on
indirectly, any sentiments that could be
denominated Rebel" or having expressed
any hopes for the establishment Of any 9th
er than a republican form government IN
the country.
Several prominent members OF the Chr
cago Board of Trade have been arrested for
violating the Warehouse Law" passed
at the last session OF the Illinois Legisla-
ture, which declares that all contracts for
the future delivery of grain, except where
the seller is cwner, or the agent of the
owner, or in actual possession thereof, are
gambling contracts, and void; aud that all
moneys paid thereon may be recovered
back in the same manner as money lost in
other gambling. The penaltyis $1,000 hne
About fourteen arrests have been made,
and business on Change in Chicago Is
greatly demoralized" in consequence.
REVELATION OF INFAMH.
The plot to implicate President John