Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-14
NEWS OF THE Day.

Adah Isaacs Menken, the well-known and
eminent artist of the barebacked horse
opera, died in Paris, on the 1lth inst
Secretary Schofeld has revoked an order
by which several soldiers, clerks in the
Quartermasler Generals Office, were dis
missed from their positions.
Stringent measures are in force in New
York and other Eastern cities, against the
introduction Of diseased cattle, or the sale
Of the meat.
The assessments for taxation Of the five
railroads centering in Cleveland foot up
Sl6,38S, 596 for the year 1868, being an in
crease over the aggregate for the year 1867
Of S159,741.
A single line Of street railroad in CIeye-
land reported receipts for passengers car
rled IN July, at about seven thousand dol
lars, representing 10000 passengers car
ried.
In the general reduction Of clerical force
in the various bureaus Of the Treasury De
partment, which is soon TO take place,
more than FIVE hundred clerks will be dis.
charged.
Accounts received daily from Spain rep
resent the disturbed condition Of the coun-
try as leading to disastrous results. The
latest advices from Madrid say that a
financial crisis is anticipated.
The action Of Gov. Smith of Alabama,
in vetOing the Congressional election bill,
il much talked Of in political and official
circles in Washington, and is regarded as
showing rapid disintegratiOn Of the car
pet-bag organization South.
A gentleman Just from Mississippi says
that Gov. Humphreys having been eX.
PEELED by the military, the mansion was
taken possession Of by the new Governor,
who, finding himself unable 10 furnish it,
rented his parlors for billiard rooms and
the spacious halls for !en-pin alleys. What
beautiful illustration Of the workings Of
reconstruction in that State.
Some days ago Mr. Thaddeus Stevens
said in conversation with John w. For
ney, 81 have made my last speech in Con-
gress. shall never raise nay finger over
the House again. Bat they'll miss me al
the council board, and before the game is
up they'll own that / was not very far
wrong even about the finances" Mr..
Stevens fortune is very great, and goes to
quite number Of poor relations.
Attorney General Evarts Submitted to
the President, yesterday, his opinion con-
corning the tenure by which Commissioner
Rollins holds his Office. Mr.. Evarts holds
that the Commissioners resignation being
conditioned TO take effect on the appoint
ment of his successor, he cannot be busted
until a new Commissioner shall be con-
irmed by the Senate The Commissioner
will, therefore, hold his place, unless some
person acceptable TO himself is named as
his successor. .t.. f
In Dayton. few days ago. little girl
nine years old, daughter of Mrs. Foley, ac-
cidentally swallowed a small glass button.
II passed into the lungs, and all efforts to
discharge il proved unavailing. DIR.
Reeves was employed, who, after exhaust
ing all other means, decided TO open the
child's throat, and keep it open with in
strumenis, asserting that it was the only
chance Of saving her life. On the third
day after the incision was made, during a
violent ft of coughing and retehihg, she
elected the button through the aperture, to
the great JOY Of the family and friends,
who expected TO see her die.