Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-24
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

The Lonisiana Senate has passed a resolution
appropfiating SEQ OaB 10 test the constitutianal-
~ of themilitary reconstruction law.
The CITY Council Of Memphis made an nppro-
priation Of 3zO0000. by vote of six 60 eight. 10
lay the metropolitan police.
Reports from the Northwest Kentucky and
Nirginia. all represent the wheat crop as re-
InArkably promising.
The failure of Robcrsou a Ogden, of New
York, dealers Ia government stocks. IL reported.
aud that the irm made an assignment. The liza
bilities are stated At S2O00OJ
Chief Justice Chase has received three thou
Fnnd HpplieatiOne for appointments hs registers
d. bankruptcy. He asks Congress 10 relieve him
81 the appointing power
Al absguatulal Radical sheriff Of Adair
ebunis NO. who O short time since went of
with s2Oe0 belOnfiug 10 he Slate. has bsen N !
Tested in Little Rock. Ark.
According O. Washington dispatch 10 the
1'nston Y0sf, General Butler has received the
advance pro0f-sheets VI hiss book upon the Cam
I,eigus Of the Army 81 the Potomac, and h. hold
ing the same under the amusement Of bis friends
- 20 she Propriety oi issuing the work nt thi.
time" Es @ t. rao
II Is reported that the latest movement in III,
New Jersey llegisiature. with regard 10 female
suffrage has been a report by committee re
commanding that n constitutional convention b,
called 10 consider this and other matters, tha
the question may be fairly brought before Ia,
people for their action.
The United STATES Ntu8ie adopted the Hnusi
resolution on thee inst which virtually sus
ponds the law allowing every loyal man in the
border States three hundred dollars for every
slave belonging 10 him who enlisted IN the Union
army. A commission under the law has already
made awards in most of the States alluded TO.
The Legislature Of Virginia has passed q law
HTuN idinW for The aymeni on the let of Julg
next, and on the lst Of January. ls6s. at each
period two per cent. interest on the principal Of
the pablo debt, that being the interest which
the State feels obliged 20 pay until there is set
Element of accounts ia Washington and West
irFiua
During the recent heavy storm ia Kansas, 4
railroad train, with two hundred Methodist mir.
listers on board, was blocksded for twenty ioul
hours in snuwbank az NameEo. They had
nothing eatahle on the train, except q hog and 4
barrel Of eggs. A "A yaller gal" volunteered a.
cook. and With one skillet, and stOye-shoyels for
pans, succeeded IA saving the preachers from
starvation.
Vera Cruz letters say the most formidable
body Of hoTsemen IN Mckee for many years
has been 0rgnnizca uud pla.ed under Meiia'
command. and shoald the expected battle prove
Liberal defeat u viii most probably be urged
ia,p adlsastrops fmis Rh the. .oiuer han,l Z
MAxImiiisuis Affected, us cav airy VITA Safiice
him for desperate attempt 10 cut has way Ia
the Rio tlrsnde. where be will take refuge in the
Nntted States. r.. t
Revised returns from ala bat xix towns IN New
hampshire give Hartman tkenl. for Gov ernpr
e.aso Sinclair Dem. 81, rs. aud lo8 scattering
years vote. llsrrimnns majority over all will be
-Atl9. and his plurality over Saclair, Ara. The
Republican majority in the House will be seven
ty-one, and the Senate will be composed 81
eight Republicans and four Democrats.
An attempt 90 sWindle a Life Insurance Com
pany out OF $1,000 is brought 10 light in Chich
w. The plan embraced q bogus death, tctitiou,
will stolen corpse. etc. The party insured snC
who was reported dead Is a man named Richard
kaiuforth. Two other persons, DR.. Charles b
Kendall and lawyer named 4. ". Fuller, botl
of that city IRE supposed 90 be implicated 10 IA,
affair. which is soon 90 undergo judicial in
yestignti0n.
In the tilt between Butler aud Bingham ia the
House Of Representatives on the 2lst inst, the
former said Of the latter. His only victim iu
the war was one Mrs Surratt | can sustain the
memory Of Port Fisher IL he and his associates
can sustain themselves in the blood Of n woman
tried by a military commission and condemned
without sufficient evidence, la my judgment.
Mr.. Bingham repliedq ute sharply.
Col. Bomiord. Assistant Commissioner Of the
freedmen's Bureau for North Carolina, states
there are % least sin Thousand persons IN that
state suffering from whnt Of food, of which
number two-thirds are ahiies. Three thousand
bushels Of corn were distributed during the
moath By lbe Soplhep Relief Commission OF
New York. The distribution by The Bureau OF
government mtions werc Hs ifll0ws. To hos
pitfalls, % ia2; orphan Hsylums, l1l5. destitute
whites, l0.$ destitute blarks. l242l.