Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.


priated by the City Council of st. Louis
last Tuesday, for the benefit of the poor.
The Times, Herald and Tribune all
agree that commercial affairs are not like
~ to be disturbed by any decision of the
Supreme Court respecting the legal ten
der act.
Messrs. Shandleys, of Canada, have
taken the contract for completing Hoosac
tunnel, and deposited the $4,000 Sc
curily with the Governor of Massachu-
sets.
Ben Batter has presented the memo
rial of Blanton Duncan, of Kentucky, TO
the House praying to be relieved under
the confication acts, which was referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
The stoppage of of the works Of Nc
Kay, Adams & Co., the ship-builders Of
East Boston, on account Of financial en-
barrassments, throws several hundred
mechanics out Of employment.
The World comes to the defense Of
August Belmont, and denies that he has
any pecuniary interest in that paper, or
that he was in the least lukewarm during
the recent contest, or in any way disloyal
to the Democratic paaty.
The Congressional Committee on Roads
and Canals have commenced to examine
skillful engineers, under OATH in relation
to the erection Of bridges across the Ohio
river, so that they may be able to de-
eide on the width Of span to be fixed in
the pending bill.
A dispatch from Marquette, Michigan,
reports the explosion of boiler connect
ed with the skating rink there, and in~
stantly killing Mr.. Lahore, the prOpEie-
tor, George Budges, engineer, and two
men named Elmer Alfred and A. M.
Mcintosh.
Mr.. James D. Lehper, Of Cincinnati,
has received dispatch from Philadelphia,
stating that the remains claimed as Mrs.
Thompson, recovered from the wreck OF
the steamer United States, were fully re-
cognized on their arrival at Philadelphia
as those Of Miss Grace Fahnestock.
1t is said in Washington that the Sen
ate Foreign Affairs Committee will re-
port adversely on the nomination OF Col
lector Smythe for the Russian mission,
and the indications of the rejection Of
Alex. Cummings to be Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, as equally as posi-
| tive.
Mr.. Golladay, of Kentucky, one of the
sufferers of the Ohio river disaster, has
offered resolution in Congress directing
| the Committee on Commerce to inquire
what further legislation, if any, is neces-
sary to protect passengers on steamboats,.
and also to report bill prohibiting pas
senger steamboats, from carrying pc
| troleum.
The movement for the separation of
the Upper Peninsula from the State Of
Michigan and the organization of new
State is again being agitated. A delegate
convention of the counties of the Upper
Peninsula to consider the subject has
been called at Houghton, on the 2lst
inst.
Miss Kate Fisher, the actress, made a
narrow escape from death by poison, in
Pittsburgh, on Monday. She swallowed
considerable quantity of tincture OF
arnica, mistaking it for a cough mixture,
as both were on the mantel in the room.
Proper antidOtes were at once adminis~
stered, which counteracted the effects OF
the poison.
Senator Henderson says that Congress-
is responsible for the present Indian diff
culties; and that if the House had passed
his appropriation bill any time before
May last, the time agreed upon by the
Indians and the Peace Commission for
the settlement of the annuities, etc, there
would have been peace on the plains at
terward
! There is some talk in Washington and
, New York about Mr.. Jonn W. Ellis,
President Of the First National Bank OF
cincinnati, for Secretary Of the Treasury,
D / is claimed that he is very competent
=, mn, and that he is from the right section
/, OF he country for the peace OF the Treasu'
a ~ department., and that he has friends Of
: grealinhuence, while Grants disposition
{ will to appoint to that Office business
man, Their than politician.
a The ttal loss of life on the lakes durir
. the past Aason was 33l, which is largeI
o than last y;ar by l20. Among the casu'
: alties OF Il, year were the loss Of ths
Ssabird, sesnty"two lives Gov. Cush'
;. man, twelve ives Morning Star, twenty
d three lives 4ippocampus, twenty-siA
d lives ten mel forming the entire crew
2. Of the schoonerpersian propeller Per
- severance, FOURTEEN lives eight men, be
id ing the entire creN of the schooner Trav
sler.