Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-21
TUESDAY. APRIL II. lsss.
largest circulation in Cily and state
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Bishop Hawke, Of the Episcopal Church,
died at 81. Louis on the 10Th inst.
The Citizens Savings aud Loan Associ-
alton, of st. Louis, went into involuntary
bankruptcy on the 18th inst.
During the storm, on the 10th inst, in
COwenbuTg, Richmond county, Delaware,
Rev. John b. McKevron and Louschlin
McLawrin were killed by lightning.
In Michigan the majority against the
Constitution exceeds 80, 900. The majority
seainst prohibition is 10 900. and against
biennial legislative sessions 10000.
Sergeant Bates visited the President Sat
urday who made him several presents
among them portmannaie containing fifty
dollars in gold.
Over dozen cases are before the United
States CiEcuit Court at 81. Louis for the
manufacture oftobacco or the distillation
Of liquor in violation Of the revenue laws.
The London Star announces the serious
illness Of the Pope aud Victor Emanuel.
His Holiness is suffering from an intestinal
complaint, and His Majesty from apoplec-
TIC fits.
The banking house Of Gaylord, Leaven-
worth a Co, OF ST. Louis, has suspended
payment. They express the confident be
LIEF that they will be able 10 resume in a
few days.
Abraham Knowlton, Of Wilbraham,
Mass, was, on the 9Th INST examined, at
Palmer, and committed TO Jail, TO await
Trial, on the charge OF numbering an lie
Ultimate child, his daughter
Mira. Bachelor, widow Of John Bach
elder, years ago hunter and trapper Of
note, died lately in Wesley township
Washington county, Ohio, at the age Of
lO3 years.
The Denver Tribune publishes an account
Of the capture OF a notorious leader OF 3
gang of hOrse-thieves, named Fox, near
Puebla. The excited populaoe took him
ont Of Jail and hung him.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs will,
when the House fully resumes business, re-
port bill making the appropriation re-
quired by the treaty for the purchase Of
the Russian American Possessions.
Reports received at Gen. Grants head
quarters claim that the Virginia Constitu-
lion will be adopted There is reliable
information in Washington 10 the efeot
that it will be beaten by 10000.
Gen. Schofeld made speech in the Vir-
GINA Convention on the 17th inst, in which
he said the retention in the Constitution of
the iron-clad oath wonld secure its defeat.
Efforts 30 get rid Of il we're, however m
successful
They are having The "infantile diseases"
In an exceedingly aggravated form in
Pennington, Massachusetts. Measels pre-
walls everywhere the churches and schools
are closed in consequence, and business il
almost entirely suspended.
John Brodery, who was arrested in ST.
LOuis, about year ago, for having in his
possession a plate for making counterfeit
postal currency, was sentenced on the l7th
inst, by Judge Treat, Of the United States
Circuit Court, 10 ten years in the peuiten-
tiary.
A Salt Lake passenger reports that $780,
900 have been collected, in small coutribu-
lions, 10 aid in the emigration OF Mormons
this spring from Europe. Money ia still
coming in IN large amounts The grain,
cattle and goods contributed are still un-
touched.
Arrangements have been made to have
the four societies of the Armies Of Ten
nessee, the Cumberland, the Ohio and Of
Georgia, meet at Chicago on the 9Th and
10th of December next, to have one com
mon celebration, instead Of having separate
meetings as heretofore.
The Parliament of the North German
Confederation has adopted a resolution in
structing Count Bismarck TO enter into ne
gotiation with foreign powers for the pur-
pose OF establishing, by treaty, the absolute
neutrality Of private property at sea in
time of war.
The fruit growers around Cincinnati held
a meeting on the 18th inst, and from those
in attendance il was learned that the fruit
was not largely damaged by the late cold
weather, and that, at the present time, the
prospect is favorable for fair crop of all
kinds
Three negroes were killed by lightning
in Amelia county, Virginia, during the
storm on the 10th inst, and two houses in
Richmond were washed away by rise in
the creek. A bridge on the York River
railroad was washed away, throwing three
cars down an embankment. Nobody was
hurt The road is now in running order
There are at this time confined in the
Memphis Jail l22 prisoners Cor the follow
ing crimes Murder, IA; larceny, 60 rob.
berry, 3 assault with intent 20 kill, s; arson.
3 rape, burglary, 9; accepting bribe,
l perjury, breach OF peace, insanity,
/; forgery, ! internal revenue fraud,
housekeeping, . receiving stolen proper
ty, inhuman intercourse, /.
The Nicksburg papers give some account
of a horrible and mysterious butchery com
mitted on the llth inst, near Omega, Lou
isana. On that day the people OF the
neighborhood discovered the house Of Mr..
Henry keenan, 10 be burning, and on re-
pairing TO the spot, found that Mrs keenan,
and her two children had been murdered,
and burned. On further search the body
Of Mr.. keenan, was found about two hun
dred yards from the house, covered with
leaves and bark from the trees, with ten
bullet holes in his hack There was no
living person on the premises.
Messrs. Curtis and Evarts called at the
Metropolitan Hotel in Washington, sun
day evening, Ia see their colleague. Mr..
Stanbery, hut il was not thought prudent
20 have an interview with that gentleman,
owing 10 his physical condition. He is,
however, sitting up and Couvalesceut, and
expects 90 sufficiently recover his health
by Tuesday TO be able 20 attend the trial.
According to present indications, manager
Boutwell, will deliver his speech on Tues
dav. TO be followed by Messrs Evarts and
Stanbery, and manager Bingham will make
the closing argument on or before Friday
A ghastly spectacle was presented in the
river below ST. Louis. During the cholera
last summer a large number of the bodies
Of the victims Of the epidemic were buried
by the city on Arsenal Island a short dis
lance below the city. The riyer has been,
for some time, gradually wearing the
island away, and yesterday the water
reached the trenches in which the bodies
were buried, and washed some City or
more collins out, which doated down the
stream. Twenty-four corpses have been
and measures are being tsken 10
secure the remainder. Those still on the |
island will also be protected or removed 10
a place Of safety.
Mr. Randolph, editor of ihe Tuscaloosa
Monitor, lately had a difficulty with q De-
gro IN Tuscaloosa county, Alabama, in |
which he cut the negro with knife. Mr..
Randolph Learning that his arrest Vas