Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-20

The Democracy Of Dubuque county,
Iowa, instruct for Pendleton.
Gov Harris and Gen. Pillow have en-
tered into law partnership in Memphis.
A piano manufacturing company, with
capital Of $50 600 has been incorporated in
indianapolis.
About one hundred and seventy-Iwo
thousand more hogs have been packed in
Chicago this season than last.
The Easton Md Journal declares for
Pendleton and Seymour, Of Connecticut,
for President and Vice President.
Thad. Stevens is said to be decidedly
opposed TO Binghsm's bill to admit Ala
hama.
One Of the members Of the Louisiana
Convention answers 10 the name of Pinch
beck another makes his mark over Mush-
away.
The Grant men are endeayOring to con-
ciliate the nltra-Radicals by talking about
Wade for the tail of their Presidential
kite
The Rocky Mountain Herald advertises
for single women. A thousand girls, it
says, could get husbands in Colorado, be-
fore the spring.
About ninety one thousand Persons were
admitted to the various hospitals, prisons
and charitable institutions, in New York
city, last year.
Statistics gathered in New York show
over thirty thousand children growing up
in that city as "Vags" with the almost alb
solute certainty Of becoming criminals.
Miss Jane Proctor, who was captured by
the Cheyenne Indians twenty years ago, is
now stopping near Emporia, Kansas. She
escaped only a short time since.
A line Of steam packets will commence
running between So. Louis and Omaha in
the spring, connecting at the latter place
with Light draught steamers for Sioux City
and the Upper Missouri.
Two druggists of Memphis, named Tay-
lOr and Simmons, fought duel on the
Arkansas shore opposite that city, on the
18th inst After exchanging shots with
rites at fifty PAGES without damage, the
affair was amicably settled.
The New York Democratic State Com
mittee have called State Convention for
March IL, to choose delegates TO the Ma
iional Convention, and appointed com
mittee TO urge on the National Committee
the selection of New York city as the place
for holding the Presidential Convention.
The House Committee on Weights and
Measures, and on Coinage, has instruct
ed its chairman TO prepare a bill providing
for the coinsge Of one, three, five, ten and
twenty cent pieces Of the same metal az is
now used in the new five cent pieces, the
same general device to be used on all the
coins.
News comes from Pennsylvania that
strong fight IL being made there between
dulusha A. Grow and ex- Governor Curtin,
for the choice of the Republicans Of that
State for the Vice Presidency. Grows
friends claim that they will be able TO get
the delegation instructed to vote for him.
Hiram Ray, of Rockporl Indiana, at
tempted 10 murder his wife and son few
evenings since. He fret attempted to
shoot bis wife, but was prevented by his
son. Failing in this, he made an effort 10
kin his son, and then attempted TO kiln
himself with a Ratchet, but did not quite
succeed He IL now in pail.
Secretary AtcCulloch expresses q wish TO
have the second and third series of seven
thirty bonds returned at once TO the treasu-
~ in order TO exchange them for i've
twenties. Under the law this need not be
done before the LIST of July next, but az
this particular division of the department
is comparatively idle, he would like TO
have the work going on.
Richard Bolton, an escaped convict from
the Indiana penitentiary, killed James Be
vier and severely wounded Charles Greene,
officers who wers attempting to arrest him,
at house near Monroeville, Ohio, on
Saturday night. Of the 10Th inst. The
murderer then fed TO Viewers Corners,
where he was secured on Sunday evening,
after being himself severely wounded by
the pursuing party.