Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-04
TUESDAY. August 4, 1865.
,argest Circulation in CITY aud state
FRANK P. BLAIR,
>,r.Nv-- on, I,III1 DAY
or MISSOURI.


to remove the Virginia State officers.
The proposed reduction Of the navy will
throw a large number Of officers out Of
service.
Nearly one thousand clerks have been
dismissed at Washington within the past
two months.
Three thousand three hundred dollars
has been subscribed in Baltimore, for thu
relief Of the suflerers by the food.
A little boy named Ernest c. Mathers
was burned TO death at HobOken, New Jer-
sey, on the Both ult, from his clothes talk
ing fire from a match in his pocket.
Ann Callaher, lodger at No. 70 Mulber-
~ street, New York, was kicked to death
by jeremiah Harrington, keeper Of the
boarding house, who was arrested.
Judge Blatchlord has decided that a
mortgage upon a di,tillcry, given prior to
seizure Of the premises for violation Of
the revenue laws, didnot exempt them from
seizure.
During the storm in Chicago on the 30th
ult, three persons in different parts Of the
city we're killed by lightning. Several
buildings were struck, but no serious dam
age done
Chief Justice Chase and Mrs. Sprague
arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel, New
York, on the Sob ult., and were, during the
day, visited by a few personal friends. In
the evening a distinguished private citizen
gave a select party in their honor
The Treasurer Of the United States on
the 3lst ult, handed 10 Baron Stoeckle, the
Russian Minister, a draft on the Assistant
Treasurer at New York for seven millions
and a half, payable in gold on demand, in
payment for Alaska.
The commission of Samuel Milligan, Of
Tennessee, AZ Judge of the United States
Court of Claims, has been forwarded 10
him. lie Fila vacancy caused by the death
Of Judge Wilmot.
The President has received and accepted
the resignation Of Hon. Caleb Cushing as
Commissioner 10 codify the laws Of the
United States, and will probably appoint
Hon. Henry Stanbery in his place.
Senator IIarrir, Of Louisiana, who is still
IA Washington, has many letters from
Louisiana and Mississippi, but none Of them
allude 10 any organized opposition 80 ex-
isting affairs in other States
The Empress Carlotta has passed into a
stage of violent madness, her fixed idea
being that she is Kept a prisoner by her
family, and that she must escape and go 10
her husband at Miramon.
Beniamin F. Cushing, aged seventeen,
aud Thomas Braucn, aged sixteen, are an
der arrest for robhine the Office Of VIM. H.
Kent q Co, lumber commission merchants,
No. 81 State street, Boston, Of thirty seven
thousand dollars IN government bonds and
other SECURITIES. They confessed the rob
berry, and all the property was recovered.
II IL believed by the most knowing that
Congress will re-asscmhle in September
The call for a session at that time will be
urgently made by the carpet-baggers, and
a. there will be a good deal of political
legislation necessary, the demand will be
complied with.
Head, the detective who was sent from
Washington 20 work upon the case of the
Columbus prisoners for the alleged murder
Of Ashhurn, declares that Howard, of the
Freedmen's Bureau, instigated the charge |
against the men, whom he knew were in |
noccnt, for political purposes solely, and |
that Gen. Meade was pTtioeps cTimiHiS. |
The military authorities at Washington
abe ratification of the fourteenth amend \
mcnt affects the condition of affairs ia the |
States which still remain unreconstrucled. |
II II Ia decided that civil officers must be |
eligible under that amendment, il will ne |
cessltaie a large number Of changes, and |
make il difficult 20 iill them again.
Mrs. Lincoln arrived at Baltimore on |
the 3lst ult, accompanied by Tad, and was /
met by Mr.. Harlan, from Washington. /
Mrs. Lincoln expects, on her arrival in /
Europe, TO go directly 10 Scotland, where /
she will spend some time at the country |
seat Of a Scotch clergyman, an old friend of 1
the family. From there she will go TO the
south ofFrsnce, and spend the winter there, /
probably at Nice
Accounts from the interior of Alabama |
aud Mississippi are unfavorabe Heavy |
rains have fallen ia all seCtous and the |
calterpillars are reported 30 be la different
sections of Alabama and Mississippi. aud |
IL is said, are doing considerable DAMAGE. |
The Warrior river had risen thirty feet |
the Tuscaloosa, twenty feet. BY a rise in |
the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, fears |
of overflow in the lowlands are entertained. |
Postmaster General Randall was once A |
acknowledging Republican, bus he is evil |
IDENTIFY a failure - Democrat He recent |
~ Issued a circular 10 the Po-tmastcrs in
reply 10 their queries as 90 whether they |
should pay the money as essed on them Nv |
the Grant aud Collax committee to carry |
on the campaign. Randall merely SAYS |
they can coasult their own Judgment "a 10 |
meeting the demands or not, according 70 |
their own sense OF proprieiy. lie carefully |
declines 10 express disapprovsl OF the out |
rageoUz demand Of the JAcSAin committee. /
A prominent gentleman returned on the /
&lst alt from Georges, reports that the I
fourteenth amendIRcDi 10 the Federal Con- /
WIS rauaed through influence |
OF Georgia Democrats who we're deter
mined TO DO whatever WAS required to Sc \
cure representation I'm Congress. He fur
thcr reports that the negroes have ahan-
donod their carpet bag associates aud will !
vote IN body with the whites. Many Of |
them have returned 90 the plantations vi |
their former masters. and are going to |
work ID j. believed iu Georgia that The |
negroes throughout the South will CO. |
operate with their former masters, and |
yulo against all Radical measures.