Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-11
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
FRANK P. BLAIR,
or MISSOURI.
NEWS OF TIE DAY,
or NEwf YORK.


from Dubuque, on the 9th. Loss not stated.
She can probably be raised
Advices from Alabama are 10 the effect
that the resolutions authorizing the Legis-
lature 10 choose Presidential electors il
likely IL pas.
The Mechanics' and Farmers Bank, OF
Albany, has Withdrawn from the National
Bank system and reorganized az a State
bank
The election Of Municipal Director Of
Yokohoma, Japan, on June Goth, resulted
in the sncce9 Of r. S. Benson, American,
over II. l.. Boyle, British.
Entire provinces Of Spain are suffering
severely and are threatened with famine,
the distress being greater than at any time
for half a century.
General Butler made speech in Glou-
cester, Mass Saturday, in which he ex-
pressed himself still in favor Of impeach-
meni. He said he had become friends
again with Gen. Grant and will support him
for President
The President, with the advice Of Secre-
tary Schofeld, has decided not to send
troops TO Louisiana, until an Instruction
AIRY movement should occasion such a meas
ure. This was decided upon after lengthy
discussion Of Gov. Warmouth's letter in
the Cabinet.
The steamer Matte Burns, from Cincin-
natl to st. Louis, struck a snag four miles
above Cairo in the Mississippi river Satur-
day night aud sunk in two minutes. She
lice on the gnag, and there il great danger
Of breaking in two. No lives were Lost.
Value Of the boat not known.
At the last stated meeting Of the Board
Of Managers Of the American Bible Soci-
ETY., twenty-iour new auNiiaries were re-
cOgnzed, viz. Seven in Arkansas, four
in Alabama, six in Texas, three in West
Virginia, and one each in Kentucky, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Iowa.
The SandusIlv Register says that there
has been no rain in Huron county, Ohio.
grass was dried up. The farmers, how
ever, got their excellent crops Of wheat in
in good order. The grasshoppers had
stripped the potatoe vines, but still they
hoped for crop, if favored with rain.
General Butler announces himself can
didste for re election in the Massachusetts
district he now represents There will be-
a powerful influence brought TO bear, not
only to defeat his election, but to prevent
his nomination hy the Republican Conyen-
ton. His rival will I've General William
Schouler, whom Butler had removed from
the State Adiutant Generals office
Late Arizona intelligence says Indian
outrsges are numerous. IL is confidently
asserted the depredations are committed 10y
savages drawing rations from Fort Good
win. Indignation is expressed at the poll
cy pursued at that fort. The Indians
made a raid on the corral at Fort Grant,
killed one man, and captured a wsman
and two children, near Tucson. Troops
from ditleTant forts are ont in pursuit Of
the savages.
la Green county, Pennsylvania few
DAYS since, n boy named Thomss, aged
fourteen, killed his father under the follow
ing circumstance. The father was cruelty
heating his son, when the mother inter
ierred. Upon this Thomas seized His wife
by the throa; and choked her The instant
his mother WAS attacked, the boy drew
knife from hiss pocket, with which he
stabbed his father in the abdomen several
times cutting his intestines and inAicting
fatal injuries.
Norwegian emigrSnts, 10 the number of
four thousand, are about TO settle in Wis
consin. The lands, in different sections Of
the State, have been selected for them, ahd
an agent has gone 30 Norway 10 gather the
families and make the necessary arrange
menis fer sending them 20 this country.
The parties come nom the Northern part
Of Norway, are hardy, industrious people.
who will soon make for themselves homes,
and will be a most valuable acquisition 10
the population. According 30 the census
Of 1860, Wisconsin had residing within its
limits 81 ,4i2 out Of the 1895 Norwegians
residing in the United States.
Chief Justice salmon p. Chase, at The
opening Of the United States Court for the
District Of West Virginia, At Parkersburg,
West Virginia, on the 9th inst, in has charge
10 the grand jury, referred 10 the fourteenth
Articleof the Constitution, recently adopted,
~ being valid and entitled Ia support. lie
said that in order 10 suppress the rebellion
il WAS necessary 10 create large public
debt, and that debts must he paid. Under
the fourteenth article the faith Of tho nation
was pledged 10 pay it. The Chief Justice
therefore charged the jury that il was their
duty % see that the revenue laws, pro-
yiding for the payment Of that debt, should
he strictly enforced, snd that the burden Of
the public debt should, "A FAR as possible,
be equally distributed among the people,
aud not paid by few.
A man named Thomas Johnston WAS
Allied al Nation, Illinois. on Saturday
He WAS in the sleeping car.
which Is hacked on a running switch and
left behind at that place. Ascerlaining that
che tram had started, he ran tn the front
end Of the car and jumped ont in front,
probably forgetting, N the excitement of
the moment that the car he was on was still
IN motion. As he pAaapcd out he fell, and tho
car passed over him. The brakes broke
his back aud otherwise nutilated him,
causing ininries from which he died i'm
about two hours. lie was President of the
female college AT Macon, Georria. and. IL
~ said. wss n brother at General Joseph
r. Johnston.
Mrs. Mary Woodward, Of Harvard.
Mass, hiss been held IN $1,000 for inhuman
treatment Of her step-son, six years Of age.
ID was testified in the Police Court that the
child had been whipped, by the hour a,
time, with heavy stick; that one day ia
July the woman drew three buckets Of
cold water from a we'll, and, seizing the
child, removed his clothes, aud placing
him in a tub, dashed water upon his head,
then took him by his feet and held his head
in the water a. long a' she dared that re-
Gently a est broughta meadow mole in the
house, which the mother cooked and com
PEELED the boy 10 eat. Mrs Woodward, in
court, said il was not a mole bat a rat.
An attachment suit WAS entered Satur-
day in the Criminal Court nj ST. LOuia
against A. Block, Of the irm Of Block a
Co, bankers and brokers. II appears that
Block, a day or two previous, drew from
the National Loan Bank nine thousand
dollars. Shortly after il was discovered
Block had overdrawn his account over
sevsn thousand dollars, and was called