Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-12
For ViceIPresIdent.
F RAN K P. BLAIR,
News or TIIE: nAN
or MISSOURI.


The Episcopal Church in St. Paul, ant
four frame stores adjoining, we're burned Of
Saturday. Loss $4,000
There are now outstanding s., sos. g5(
Of seven-thirty bonds, The time for CONVEX
sion Of which into five-twenties has ex.
pired. They are now redeemable in cur.
renCy.
Both Houses Of the Alabama Legislature
have passed the bill authorizing themselvcs
10 cast the vote Of the State for President
instead Of having vote Of the people.
Dispatches received in Washington from
Montgomery say that the Governor will
veto the resolution providing that the lie
gislature shall cast the electoral vote Of
the State
The grasshopper army, which has dcvas-
tsted parts Of Iowa for two years. has
turned westward again, and passed Council
Bluffs on Wednesday, going toward the
setting sun.
One Of the latest fashions for gentlemen
said 10 have been introduced into Boston.
consists ia wearing white vests made OF
Turkish toweIing. One or two have been
seen on Broadway, New York.
The New York Houid, which II always
on the lookout to see which way the popu-
lar current is setting, says there is "A ter
rIble CouutoT-reyolution going on, and
comes out very Democratic, and thinks,
evidently, that Grants chances are past
praying for.
A dispatch from San Francisco, August
III, says the Central Pacific railroad il now
built 30 the HUMBOLDT river, $50 miles east
ui San Francisco. The earnings in July
were S2Oo,uOO IN gold, the road being
operated from l5l 10 100 miles during that
period.
On aud since the first Of the month there
have been a large number of removals from
the New ork Customhousc and the rumor
ia credited lhat removals will be the order
for som, Time 10 come. lis said To have
been caused 10y continued dizziness in inn
ports.
Abhic NJ, wife of OliYcr Eawdon, Jr.,
of York, Me, 10 whom he has been mar
ried about two months, died suddenly at
the office of DR.. Powers, No. S BOyIston
street, Boston. There have been suspicious
of foul play. The Doctor has been arrested
and committed TO Jail 10 await examination
on the charge of murder.
The New York society for the proven
ton Of cruelty 10 animals, has made its
second annual report From this it up-
pears that cock and dog fights have been
almost entirely suppressed. Ten drinking
lountasns erected for the use Of horses.
dogs, etc. Great relief furnished TO car
horses during the hot weather, and two
hundred and fifty persons prosecuted Tor
cruelty 10 their h,ads.
4 private cable dispatch received in
New York, announces the death of Edwin
a. Stevens the millionaire of IIoboken.
lie died iu Paris, ON Friday lie was Com
modorc of the New York Yacht Club. was
one of the principal owners of the Camden
and Amhuy railroad, owned nearly all of |
Iiohokcn and the principal works Of public |
improvement there. lie was engaged In |
PARIS IN negotiating for the formation Of |
great railway company, 10 extend 10 the /
W estcrn States, whose eastern terminus /
should bee at the Elyrian Fields, Hobokcn.
The following are the instructions Of the
Secretary Of War to General Buchanan,
oundcd upon the application of the Gov
'rnor Of Louisiana for troops 10 preserve
he peace. "lou will keep yourself in
ormed of the condition OF affairs in said
'tatea, and communicate promptly, byt ele-
,raph, TO the War Department, through
he headquarters of the army. any facts
which may make Il the duty Of the prrsi-
lent, under the Constitution and laws. 10
mploy the military force Of the United
'tates. on will also maintain such dis
'o7lstlon Of the troops under your COM
nand that they may hc ready TO act with
nat delay ON receipt of the Presidents |
rider, statlonlng them ~, or from time 10 |
ime moving them 20, points where you
nay have reason 10 apprehcnd Necessity
or their use"