Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The .aIes Of live stock in Chicago last month
amounted 20 Sl,OJJ,Vu.
The freshmen in California intend paving d
tribute Of respect TO the memory OF IhOma,
Francis McagheT.
The census Of the Cherokee nation amounts
only to l5G-a falling of Of 2OO9 since the last
enumeration.
The prasshoppers have destroyed the entire
earn crop in Jackson county, Missouri. and seri-
1usy injured the grass.
The President has pocketed the bill providnp
for negroes as jurors m the District OF columbia
IL fails 10 become law.
The Senate rejected the nomination Of Ward
n Lamon formerly Mr.. LneOln's law partner
as Consul General 10 Havana.
Ia the New York Constitutional convention
on the 22d inst. an amendment to the suffrage
clause giving women the right to vote was lost
by twenty 10 hity-one.
BEFORE the Supreme Court Of New York on the
92i inst the case Of James 4. Cummings rs.
James Gordon Bennett. for alleged libel, dam
ages claimed. S2J0W0 was argued and decision
reserved
The Norfolk Times says the detailed account
of the execution of Macmillan. and the letter
10 his wife published in Paris as from the EsDe-
,.lnzc, in Queretaro and which the Figaro
alleges was transmitted ny tue NIiaH'c OhDle.
Is a forgery.
Mexican newspaper, the Queretaro
Esuaranza, charges Minister Romero with nd-
,isiug the murder Of Macmillan. JuracZ, II
nm Welded to the judgment Of the greater saw
age who represents him at Washington.
The nomination Of General McClernand. of II
Iiuois rs Minister 10 Mexico, and Marcus otter
burg ns Secretary of Legation TO the same. were
moth rejected by the Senate, so there is no person
ia reprcsent the United States at the Mexican
gapitnl as the tenure of Office law iOrblds the
President making an appointment during the
recess OF the Senate.
II has been reported ia Washington, that Mr.
Grceley's nomination as Mininter 20 Austria
was made at the solicitation of Secretary
Seward who wished 20 get Greeley out Of the
wav The President denies this. and says the
Secretary knew nothing Of the nomination until
u was sent 90 the senate.
A destructive FIRE occurred on the DIST inst, in
The navy yard, at Memphis, which destroyed
Crowder A Co.'S tobacco factory, and Christian
A co 4 warehouse, together with three hundred
bales Of cotton and sax thousand barrels salt,
Total loss $4,000; insured for $500 principally
in Southern offices. The FIRE was the work of
an lncendlary.
The United States ship jamestown has been
terribly scourged by yellow fever. The disease
appeared while the vessel was at Panama, and
after three months, permission was given for the
shin 20 so North. nnd on the voyage the pes
thence disappeared. OF about one hundred per
sons on hoard, forty-eight took the fever, and
twenty-one of that number died.
The President stated in the most positive
terms on the Goth instant. that an erroneous in
depreciation was placed by certain Congressman
on that portion Of bis message wherein IL was
claimed that he had maintained that he would
not enforce the supplemental reconstruction act.
lie declared that If there was one portion Of the
constitution more than another which he was
bound 20 obey. 10 was that requiring him 10 exc
cute the laws Of Congress, and that he should
enforce them 60 the letter
Helenn. Montana papers. containing further
rerticulnrs of the death Of General Meagher,
arc received. II appears he was spending the
uight on board the steamer Thompson, and was
heard set out Of his berth about midniEht No
"a Nh M N ara
who were awake heard a splashlug sound IN the
water and rushed at once 20 tbs rescue, but were
too late. He made no cry for help. Nothing Is
said in the papers about hls having quarrel or
beipg intox icated as published here.
The telegraph two or three days since an
rouuced the capture of a train near Fort Laned
ON the 18th inst. by Indians, who are said TO
have killed all the males, embracing Bishop
Ioyrry, and some priests en- route 90 New Mexico.
and carried OF the females. Gen. sherman
publishes a letter in the st. Louis hfpUttcuu Of
the 10th inst, in which he says left Fort
Hnrker last Monday morning, NJ which time
nothing of this sort was reported. zen. A. j,
smith Is At Fort Harker and would have report
cd such an event by telegraph had It oc-
ffiy-Gye miles southwest Of Fort Har-
ker and has a good garrison, besides posts
al Ezra and Plum creek between. The tri-
weekly stage 20 aud from New Mexico passed
regularly during my stay OF ten days ut Fort
Harker prior 20 the date when thiseapture Is re
ported 10 have occurred, and many trains loaded
with private aud government irelEht had passed
out during the same time, and all trains were
inspected hy an officer. 90 see II they were prop
crly equipped and guarded. l lived with the
commanding officer, Col. Hart, and did not hear
him refer 10 any train going out with priests and
nuns. Nor Is Lowry the name Of the Bishop OF
Sante Fe Besides this telegram comes from
New y ork aud as quoted from a LCayenwOrth
PAPER, and / have letters and kilograms from
loavenworth up 60 to-day without mention Of
any such occurrence. The country has been
shocked by SO many terrible accounts fabricated
steamer Miner, and the killing OF Gen. Gustav,
all of which you now know 10 have been purely
iuveutiOns-that think journalists should en-
deavor ascertain the truth before shock ing the
public with such terrible announcements. of
course. cannot absolutely dony this report, but
10 has no semblance of Truth when tested by the
facts | have stated