Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-08
FRIDAY. MAY $. 1854.
largest Circulation in City and State
NIaMss OLE III DAY.


Three thousand one hundred and seven
ty-seven Immigrants arrived at New York
on the 9Th inst.
James Graham, a well known ticket
agent at Buffalo, has been sentenced to the
Auburn State prison four years for forgery.
Forty-fve streets in Chicago, aggre-
eating twenty miles in length, are TO be
paved with Nicolson pavement this sum
mer.
The Northwestern Distillery, and J. S.
Brown * Co.'s rectifying establishment, IN
Chicago, have been seized for frauds com
mitted.
Chas. Becker, detective, has been held
20 bail in Newark, New Jersey, charged
with implication in the Newton counter
feiting case.
The Pennsylvania State Sunday School
Convention will convene at Pittsburg the
first week in June. and will continue four
days.
A. HIGHT. a government official in Brook
lvn. is reported 10 have disappeared,
largely in debt 20 friends for money spent
in gambling.
Mira. I.angdon, sister Of VIM. Il. Astor,
has begun a suit against her brother for
the recovery Of property valued at several
millions.
Chas. McIain, Of Philadelphia, starts on
the 18th from Trenton on a Sergeant
Bates" tour 80 st. Louis, ria the Southern
States.
The total debt Of the city Of Chicago, as
set forth in the Mayors message TO the
- = Ittr,.
bred thousand dollars.
In the United States Circuit Court, at st.
Louis, on the 9th inst, John Cooper was
sentenced TO three years in the penitentiary
for passing counterfeit money.
The Republican delegates to the Chicago
Convention met in Albany on the75th inst,
and adopted resolutions that they will vote
for Grant and Fenton.
Eighteen persons were poisoned by
arsenic administered in their food, at
boarding house IN New Orleans, on the ID
inst. None died. however, the quantity par
taken Of having been TOO large.
The old mansion at Cambridgeport,
Mass, occupied as Putnam's headquarters
during the siege Of Boston, is to be moved
from its present locality, and preserved as
a revolutionary relic.
In the United States, in 1860, the whole
number of copies of newspapers circulated
during the year was 927 ,95l, 54S. The an
nual circulation is now estimated at ] 300
100000.
The Democratic Central Executive Com
mitlee Of Illinois, has issued an address TO
the Democracy, requesting them TO
organize in every county and township
for the campaign.
The United States authorities at Buffalo
seized III head Of fat cattle on the 4th
inst at the National Ferry, which had
been imported by Philadelphia dealer
from Toronto, and invoiced at one-half Of
their real value.
Mrs. Miller, whose husband had desert
ed her, threw herself in front of freight
train, near Plymouth, Indiana, on the 4th
inst, and was instantly killed. She had
only a few days before attempted to drown
herself
Garibaldi, IL ia said, intends TO leave
Caprera soon, being unwilling 10 remain
any longer under the military surveillance
Of Italy and France combined, whose ships
he secs daily cruising around his island
home. He will probably settle in Sicily.
The Mississippi Central railroad has
been leased 10 party Of Eastern capital
lists. Of which n. S. McCombs, Of Whining
ton, Delaware, is head. Ii is understood
that Col. Sam Tate, of the Memphis and
Charleston railroad, has been rendered the
Presidency.
In Jefferson, Texas on the Goth Of April,
4. /.
Ruby Saloon, suddenly fell into a mass Of
ruins. Mr.. G. w. Woodbridge, the proprie-
tor, was crushed 20 death. A negro, also
buried beneath the fallen walls, was got
cut unframed.
Grape growers in California are giving
great attention 20 the manufacture Of
brandy. The quality Of that already pro-
duced il said to be excellent. Native
brandy nine years old is pronounced quite
equal TO the imported article of the same
age.
The London TImcs, Of April 20, says
at is stated on competent authority, that
at this moment at least "a, 900 workingmen,
colliers iron-workers and others are at
play'-that is, on strike, doing nothing, or
perhaps worse than nothing, because they
wages which, in the present condition,
ought 20 be paid for work"
In consequence Of the heavy rains on
the ID and 81 iusts, the small streams in
the interior of Indiana are at flood height
and thousands of aCres OF wheat and oats
are covered from six inches TO three feet
deep with water. Vast amounts Of fencing,
valuable timber and wood have been car
ried away from low bottoms 10y the flood.
A Norwegian Democratic journal ia
started al Milwaukee. The scandinavian
population of the West is nearly two mil
lions, and in Wisconsin alone twenty-five
thousand Norweeians vote. There are FIVE
Republican papers in the Scandinavian
language but the Frandd Forward is the
only Democratic paper.
A New Mexico correspondent says: A
train was attacked near Tuloroso, April Is,
aad wagons and contents burned, aud all
the mules captured. OF thirty-seven men,
who went from Tuloroso 10 relieve this
train, seven are reported killed. A short
time ago thirteen persons were killed by
the Indians near the same place.
Further particulars Of the tornado at
Shanghai, Illinois, state that the entire
northern portion Of the village was de-
stroyed. Sixteen houses in all, besides a
schoolhouse, and the only two churches
which the village contained, we're demol-
ished. -Four persons were killed-Mrs.
Wood, George Nenn, Harrison Wilson and
a son Of Mortimer Page-and from thirty
five to forty were wounded, many fatal.
Several hail stones, measuring ten inches
in circumference, were picked up after the
tornado had passed.
BINGHAM.
Mr. BINGHAM the chief uanaoer Of |