Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-05
argest Circulation In City and State
NEws o. III Day.

%EwS OF TIE DAY.
DR.. Chaillu, the traveller and naturalist,
IL lecturing in New York.
There was very destructive fire in JET
ferson, Texas, on the Sd inst.
The first stone Of the western abutment
pier Of the great Mississippi bridge was
laid on Wednesday
Gen. Sheridan has left St. Louis for Fort
LeavenwoTth, 10 assume command OF his
department..
There were hundred and fifty shocks
by earthquakes at La Union, San Saliva
dor, during tho month OF February.
The Supreme Court has continued all
cases, involving the constitutionality OF the
legal-tender act till December
The Democrats have elected their can
didate for Mayor Of Des Moine7, Iowa, 10y
ninety-four majority.
The weather has been very cold in the
Northwest IL was ten degrees below zero
at Chicago on the night Of the ID inst.
The pnblic debt statement will show an
increase for February Of seven millions Of
dollars.
Rev. DR.. Paddock, Of Detroit, has de-
clined the missionary bishopric Of Oregon
add Washington Territories.
Several inches Of sand has been thrown
into the channel harbor at Chicago by
northeast winds OF the past few days, and
dredging will soon be resorted TO.
fragrant violations Of the internal rev.
enue laws, by whisky distillers, have been
discovered At Lawrence and Atchison,
Kansas.
AZ the charter election in Portland,
Maine, on the % instant, the Democrats
gained 386 on the fall election, and 80 on
the spring election.
The NJ. S. Mepbam and Fanny Scott
we're totally destroyed by FIRE at 81. Louis,
on the ID inst. The Kate Kinney was
partially burned. The Shamrock is safe.
The G. A. r. is petitioning Congress for
a portion of the Department Offices, on
the ground that its services" hag not been
sufficiently recognized "Seryices" to
what?
They are having an investigation into a
huge gas contract in Cincinnati, which alb
serbs great portion Of public attention
and nearly all the attention of the news
papers Of that city.
An important contract has been entered
into by grain shippers Of the NorthWes
with the Mississippi Barge Transportation
Company, for the shipment of large guam
titles Of grain the coming season TO New
York and abroad, gid New Orleans.
Returns have been received from al th,
counties in Texas excepting twelve. Fifty
~ a L l.
cast. The remaining counties viii swell
the aggregate 10 more than ffty-siT thou
sand The convention is undoubtedly
carried.
The mandamus against General Soho
Geld, issued at the instance Of Gen. In
boden, to show cause why the latter is pre-
vented from voting, has been dismissed in
the United States Court st Richmond, by
Judge Underwood.
An inmate Of the Jail of Hamilton
county, Ohio, under sentence Of confine-
ment in the peniientiary for the period OF
ten years, was married on the I'd inst, in
the Jail, 10 a young woman to whom be
had been for some time under engagement
Secretar~ Stanton has not formally re-
voked the order issued by General Grant
while acting Secretary of War, disoontin
uinR the Freedmen's Bureau in Kentucky
and the other Border States, but he is un
dersiood to desire Congressional action or
the subject.
From Portland, Maine, to the Missis
sippi, a terrible snow storm, accompanies
with a furious gale, prevailed Sunday anC
a portion of Monday. The railroads werl
much blocked up, and the trains impede'
In various places. Further south th'
storm was one Of rain rather than snow
Il cleared of intensely cold.
A 81. Louis special 10 the Cincinnati
Corrmercial says: Gen. SHERMAN recent,
expressed, in very positive terms, III,
opinion that the Senate would not impeacl
President johnson. Ii is generally sup
posed that be reflects the opinion of Sena
for Sherman, of Ohio.
VIM. M. Maxwell, one Of the most est
mable citizens of Henry county, Tenn
died of pneumonia, at his residence /
Caledonis, on last Sunday, the 33d al
His wife on the next day followed hin
having been sick about the same length {
time, with the same disease Of which he
husband died.
The New Hampshire Democratic Stat
Committee announce the canvass OF tn
State "a iollows: For Sinclair sc, 1873 Hai
riman 80, 209; doubtful 2056. The Con
cord IN. H. Monitor publishes a canvas
Of votes made by the Republican Stat
Committee, asiollows Hartman 2s,4S3
Sinclair 35,203 doubtful 1891.
Some Of the New York papers are in
clined TO credit the nitro-glycerin story +
-fhe advertising ingenuity Of the man VIII
sells the article in New York, and who hs
coutrived By a neat little invention to Civ
his business notorieiy which il woul
have cost goodly pile of greenbacks
achieve in the regular way.
The receipts of live and dressed hogs /
Chicago, from the 2Sth Of October to Ga
22d of February, were SS7 ,532 Of th
former, and 281 ,026 Of tie latter; an az
gregate Of l,f6s, 55e, as compared wit
f67, 652 for the corresponding period Las
year. Oftbe number received this veal
sol, l99 we're packed, Rgsins, 6S5,732 las
year.
The commission appointed to examin
meters for stills for distilling spirits, hsy
concluded their lsborF, and have CON
nenced TO write up their report. A doze
meters have been examined. How far tn
commission will GO in recommending any (
the meters for government use, can not no.
be told but on the main point a. issue ",
may sRy that one Of the members Of thu
commission declares that not one Of then
will prevent frauds az long as the tax o.
whisky is two dollars per gallon. Ii
pretty evident, therefore, that stron
effort will be made in the House to secur
a reduction Of The tax 10 seventy-fve G
Fifty cents per gallon.
THE CHANGE IN NEW YORK.
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