Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-11
SATURDAY. APRIL II. 1865
argest circulation in city and State
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The cornerstone Of Booths new iheater,
in New York, was laid on the Sth inst.
Dispatches from the Plains give long and
narrowing accounts Of Indian outrages on
the Bitter Cottonwood.
Commodore Prentice, Of the United
States navy, died on the South Carolina
railroad on the sth inst
Dickens gave his farewell reading in
Boston last night. He made brief speech
Of adieu. The immense audience gave
three cheers as he retired.
A destructive FIRE occurred at Huntsville,
Texas, Oh the night Of the 9Th inst, which
destroyed an entire block. Lost 500 coo,
on which there was $40 900 insurance.
The Memphis Bulletin newspaper comes
ont on Monday for Grant Radical Office
holders have purchased an interest IN IT
and will run il for their benefit.
No danger is being apprehended by an
overflow. The planters along the lower
Mississippi are hard at work putting in
good crops, while farm labor is in demand.
II is said the bill relative 10 jurors now
before the Senate, will allow the courts in
the cases Of Surratt and Jefferson Davis 10
summons Jurors from any State in the
Union.
The Land Office has official information
that three hundred farms, comprising near
ly thirty-two thousand acres, have been
added 10 the productive area of Florida,
under IL homestead act Of June, 1866.
Two young men, named Charles Loach
and A. II. Lindsay, fought a duel at Ko-
komo, Indiana, on the eth. After eXchang
ing two shots. their friends interlered and
stopped proceedings. Neither party was
injured.
Snow fell in Baltimore and Washington
Friday afternoon. Snow commenced fall
ing in Cincinnati at four o'clock Friday
morning and continued until five in the
afternoon, with three inches on the ground,
when it turned to a warm, steady rain.
Adyices from Queenstown, Ireland, re-
port that the town is swsrming with emf
grants waiting chipping for America. They
are nearly all young, generally ranging from
sixteen 10 twenty-five years. IL il expected
that the emigration this spring will exceed
that Of 1866.
Stanton is not transacting much business
in the War Office although he is master Of
it al present. Upwards Of twelve hundred
acquisitions are awaiting his signature,
some dating back 90 January. The claim
ants are clamerous for pay. Stanton guards
his castle closely and never leaves it.
Grant must be credited with good
thing. DR.. Bayne, member Of the Negro
Convention Of Virginia attempted to lecture
him on the 9Th inst. about his duties per-
tanning 10 affairs in the Old Dominion,
when Grant rang his bell and directed his
orderly TO show him the door.
Indiana will redeem twenty per cent. of
her five per cent. stocks on the lat Of July
next, in New York 100000 have been
set apart for the payment Of the six per
cent. bonds, which will he taken up on the
lst Of May. This will reduce the State debt
to about 100000.
A heavy rain sell in St. Louis Thursday
night, continuing almost without intermis-
sion until late Friday evening 1t also
froze hard during the night, and trees,
fences, etc, are heavily coated with ice next
morning The fruit has been badly in
iured in some localities and il is feared it
is now utterly destroyed.
ID. +. Butler was shot in Lexington.
Missouri, on the % inst, and MORALLY
wounded, by James Mccormack, of that
place. The latter complained that he had
been shot at by Butler the evening pre-
vious, and while the parties were going to
the courthouse to an investigation Of the
first charge, quarrel ensued, with the re-
suit stated.
Charles Ross, who has been in prison in
Cincinnati for some time on the charge Of
numbering the wife of his landlord, in
Ireland several years ago, was taken in
charge by two officers, who arrived on the
9th inst. for that purpose. The British gov
eminent offered seven hundred pounds re-
ward for his apprehension, and after his
arrest he attempted suicide by cutting his
throat but is now so far recovered that he
can be removed.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th inst
TO the Louisville Courier saws "The argu-
ment Of Judge Curtis was pronounced
by Radical Senator 10 be the ablest ever
delivered in that chamber The managers
WINGED under his powerful logic, and they,
with their fellow-conspratora, were glad
when motion was made 10 adjourn. The
President expresses entire confidence to-
night that he will be triumphantly vindi-
Gated, 80 thorough and complete will his
defense be, Among the proof will be that
every Cabinet officer not only advised him
OF his power 10 remove Stanton. but also
advised his removal. The impression il
steadily gaining ground among Conserva-
tves here that the President will be ac-
quilted but i have failed 10 see one promi-
nent Radical but what entertains different
opinion. Ii is therefore impossible to fore
shadow the result"