Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-21
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NEws, OF THE DAY.

ted States Senator.
Judge Reese has accepted the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor Of Geor-
gia. Judge lrFin announces himself an
independent candidate for the same office.
A duel was fought on the 18th instant
at Bandley's Ferry, between Samuel VIII
liams and w. }. Jordan, both citizens Of
Atlanta. Nobody hurt.
General Reynolds left Austin on the
18th instant. Asa portion Of the journey
must he done By stage, week will elapse
before his arrival in New Orleans.
The Rio Grande military excursionists
have not vet been heard from, and some
anxiety is felt. Generals Hartsuii, Tomp-
kins and Graham are the party.
The Presidents counsel will have only
a partial answer On Monday, and will
then, on their professional responsibility,
ask additional time, which can hardly be
refused.
The reports Of suffering and starvation
at fort Tatem, are pronounced untrue.
The Fort has fully enough rations to last
till July, and large surplus for destitute
Indians.
The Presidents counsel, il is said, think
the evidence OF General Rousseau abso-
lutely necessary for the defense. IL is be-
lieved he can be summoned from Alaska in
about three months.
The Georgia reconstruction ease is not
expected TO be disposed Of by the Supreme
Court the present term. That court pro
proposes to adjourn about the 4th of next
month.
Republican Congressman, generally, have
abandoned the idea of passing a bill for
the admission of Alabama, previous TO the
adoption Of constitution by the voters Of
that State in pursuance Of the existing re-
construction laws.
In the United States District Court Of
st. Louis, Judge Trent has decided that
ferry-boats and steamers plying entirely
within the borders of a State, are not sub
iect TO inspection by Federal officers, nor
Obliged to take out United States license.
The inhabitants on Long Island and the
lsle of liant, on the coast of Maine, have
been suffering for food, having been cut OF
from the main land for two months by ice,
and were obliged 10 subsist on muscles and
other shell fish They have now been sup
piled
Andrew Mcclure noted guerrilla, and
one Of the gang connected with the late
bank robbery in Richmond, Mo-, was taken
from the Jail at that place, on the night Of
the 18th inst, and hung by party of six
persons in Disguise, calling themselves a
vigilance committee.
The President formally attended the
funeral, on the 18th inst, OF William Slade,
a muck respected colored man, who has
been for years the steward Of the Execu-
tive Mansion. Mayor Wallack and other
local celebrities, we're also present. The
deceased was quite wealthy.
Thirty persons are known to have been
travelling between Hearts Content and
Harbor Grace, New Foundland, when
terrible snow storm set in, On the evening
of the Sd of February. 1t is supposed they
all lost their lives Thirteen dead bodies
have been recovered, and at last accounts
search for the remainder was in progress.
Rev. Jesse Morgan, Of Sumter South
Carolina, who owned a lanyard and had
arranged a spring gun to guard against
thieves, was killed on the night of the 9TH
instant by the accidental discharge Of the
same. He wss an old resident of Sumter,
a local preacher in the Methodist Church,
and highly esteemed.
AT Warmers Landing, eighteen miles
below La Crosse, Wisconsin, on the 18th
instant, piece Of rock weighing several
tuns fell from the bluff, at an elevation Of
about four hundred feet, and in its descent
passed through the house of Mr. Brundage,
who was severely injured, as was also his
wife, daughter, and man named Dennison.
The bin for the continuance of the
Freedmen's Bureau having passed, this
and the enormous expenditures for the sup
port of military establishments South to-
gelher with the stealings OF Radical Off
cials, will absorb such a vast amount fthe
revenue that IL is possible a new loan will
be required to meet the deficiency.
At the request of the Senate, the Presi-
dent on the 18th instant returned the con-
frmation of Charles Van Wrinkle as United
States Marshal for Virginia, for reconsid-
Grafton 10y that body. The President also
withdraws from the Senate the nomination
Of Hen. Henry G. Worthington TO be Dis
trict Judge Of Nebraska. This action is
taken at the request Of Mr.. Wor;hington.
The late storm blew down or damaged
sixteen houses at Chatham, Illinois, forty
FIVE miles east Of Alton. Three citizens
were killed, and five more seriously in
jured. About forty houses were more or
less damaged in Illinoistown. An old
hotel, built fifty years ago by the French
settlers, and regarded as a historical relic,
was completely demolished, the inmates
escaping unframed.
Lamden p. Milligau, celebrated as one of
the parties sentenced to death as Sons of |
Liberty, by a military comission in In |
dianapohs, has commenced suit against |
Governor Morton, all the members of the |
commission, Benn Pitman, its Recorder, |
and w. r. Holloway, of the indianapolis |
Journal, for conspiracy, false imprison- |
ment, and libel. The damages are laid at |
the modest sum of 100000.
The anticipations of those who hoped for |
a decision Of the unconstimtionality of the |
reconstruction laws through the McCardle |
case. will hardly be realized. A Judge Of |
the Supreme Court intimated on the 10th |
inst, il was not probable that a decision /
will be rendered prior TO the act passed |
last week becoming a law. That act takes |
from the court the right Of jurisdiction in
this and all cases OF the character. The /
President, il is Thought, will not veto the /
bill.
On the 18th int. a little daughter Of /
VIM. Berry, who resides in the vicinity Of /
Boards Mill, Belmont county, Ohio was |
accidentally burned 10 death. The parents |
were at st. ClairsyiIle, attending court, and |
had left the family in charge Of a girl |
eleven years old. The clothes of the
younger child, by some means, took fire,
and before assistance could be rendered she
was so badly injured that death ensued in
a few hours after the accident.
The New Albany (Ia-) Ledger Of the
18th inst. says Farmers from this and
several adjoining counties inform us that
the warm, rainy weather Of the last two
weeks has made a wonderful difference in
the appearance Of the growing wheat.
Fields in which, month ago, scarcely
spear could be seen, now look green and
thrifty, and the plants apparently well
and thickly set. That which was drilled
appeers TO bear the winter better than that
soWn broadcast
The Radical leaders are in tribulations
about financial MEASURES. Sherman, the
other day. when a proposition Was be