Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-15
largest Circulation in City and State
NEWS OF THE DAY.


The Pennsylvania State debt IS about
S35O00O00.
It is proposed to pay St. Marie $4,000
Cor the arrest Of Surratt.
Gen. Butler is going TO Virginia TO or
ganize opposition to Grant.
About 1000 persons daily apply for res
lief to the city authorities in New York.
The Aston Library contains $4,000
volumes, 1000 of which we're added last
year.
One hundred and fifty six deaths were
reported last week in New Orleans, by the
Board of Health-siXty-two from cholera.
The Republican Convention Of Marion
county, Indiana, which assembled at In
dianapolis on Saturday, adopted a resolu-
ton in favor Of paying the bonds IN green
backs.
The Woodville Miss Republican SAYS :
There il not either meat or breadstuits
enough in Wilkinson county, to feed all,
white and black, three months, nor money
to buy with when that is gone.
The town Of Sardis, Miss, was nearly de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst. Supposed
10 be the work Of an incendiary. Loss
$4,000; insured for S26,0 600, in the DeSoto,
Peoples, and fernando Companies OF
Memphis.
Gen. Meade has removed G. r. Hubbard,
Clerk Of the Circuit Court Of Montgomery,
Ala. Hubbard is the officer who issued
process against Gen. Swayne, in a suit for
damages, and was suspended from office by
the latter.
The editor Of the Macon (Ga.) Messenger
was presented on the 9th inst, with straw
berry plant on which were nine berries,
fully grown. They were grown without
protection, in an open garden. Think Of
that for the 9th Of January
A correspondent Of the New York Til
bune makes the startling revelation that
the number of lives lost in the Angola dis
aster was nearly twice as large as has hith-
erto been stated, being sixty-eight instead
of thirty-nine. The Tribune vOucbes for
the veracity Of its correspondent.
Gen. Pope called on the President Sat,
urday, TO pay his respects. The interview
was cordial and respectful. General Pope
facetiously thanked the President for re-
Heving him from his arduous and thank
less labors aud the latter, in the same
spirit expressed his satisfaction that be
had been instrumental in doing the Gen
eral a great favor.
Senator Thayer, Of Nebraska, has pre-
pared bill, which he will introduce to-mor-
row, to reduce the number of Major Generals
to four and the number of Brigadier Gen
erals to nine, and making it the duty Of the
Secretary Of War to cause to be mustered
out of service those officers last commits
stoned. The object Of the bill is TO dis
pense with Major General Hancock and
Brigadier General Rousseau.
A case has been brought TO the notice Of
the President wherein the Superior Court
at Raleigh, North Carolina, has issued a
writ of habea8 corpus, which the proper
officer refuses to serve, fearing the interfer-
ence Of the military authorities. At the
request Of prominent citizens of Raleigh, a
gentleman at Washington placed the mat
ter before the President, with an appeal TO
him to require the service Of the writ.
The request is under consideration, and its
decision by the Executive will test the
supremacy Of civil or military authority,
and provoke fresh investigation as to the
Presidents prerogatives in such cases.