Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-29
NEWS OF the DAY.

timed loss, but they are still active and
numerous in the provinces, s,Fsw saf
2 Vanderbilt is said to have made be-
tween $5,000O00 ard $1,000, 600 by his
last stroke in New York Central. -.
Perkins powder mill at Westfcld,
Mass, was destroyed Thursday night by
explosion and fire. Loss $4,000.
The New York Herald says the
finance question and the proposed Indian
Department will go over to the next Com
gress. -.ll .css 3 s-s. s1gg s. .
The Waterheuse CASHMERE factory, in
Warrick, r. l., wa burned on Friday.
Loss $4,000; insured mostly in Boston
offices. l.....-
The semi>otficial journals at Madrid
say that Spain will not even consider the
subject OF the sale Of Cuba to the United
States. s1-1 ' .t. t-e- eco
The State Department has not had
from ReVerdy johnson, for a week past,
any information concerning the Alabama
claim negotiations. tfeia aJl
The cattle disease has broken out in
Central Massachusetts. Several cattle,
belonging to farmers in West Springfield
died suddenly last week.
Col. Howard Todd, Sergeant>at>arms
of the Kentucky Senate, who was res
ported lost by the late steamboat disaster
on the Ohio, is alive and well in Owen
county. "f 4 az |tt.th I.rA 1
Right Reverend Bishop McClosky, Of
the Roman Catholic Church, visited Bow
ling Green last Sunday, and administered
the right of confirmation to sixty appli>
cants. tt-'' VIZ h-t hiI,-f.
In the poisoning trials at Marseilles,
the women Dice and Flayol, have been
acquitted. The women Gabriel, Lane
bert and Vile, and the herb doctor, Jove
were condemned, and the women ser
fenced to twelve years labor.
The New York Sun says application
will be made to Congress and the State
Legislaturefor the purpose of filling East
river from the Battery to Harlem. The
measure can be carried out by parties
who will pay all the expense of filling and
damages on conditioned owning the land
to be formed.
A fire occurred in Lynchburg, Yir-
ginia, on the 23d, destroying the machine
shops Of the Virginia and Tennessee
railroad, involving a loss Of $4,000.
George Gamble and Eugene Cassidy
were killed and three others wounded by
the falling walls while attempting to sub
due the fire.
Sumneris preparing speech on finance
in answer to Morton's. Sumner favors
speedy resumption of specie payments,
adopting in this respect the views of
Horace Greeley. Soon after the recess
he will endeavor to call up his bill for the
resumption Of specie payments on the
4th of July next, which he introduced
on the first day Of the session. -
The Georgia Conservatives are reported
to be engaged during the Congressional
races in getting up evidence to lay before
the Reconstruction Committee and the
Senate judiciary Committee immediate
ly after the reassembling, to show why
the Edmunds bill should not be passed,
and why their State should at once be
admitted TO full representation in both
Houses.
Letters from Spain say great efforts
were being made to raise revolt in
Madrid. Large sums of money are be-
ing distributed for that purpose, and con>
siderable alarm prevails among the in
habitants. An outbreak is also said to
be apprehended at Malaga, and large
amounts of money are believed to have
been placed in the hands Of the clergy in
different parts for the purpose OF foment>
ing disturbances. In Estremadura pla-
cards have been posted up threatening to
assassinate all rich citizens who take part
in elections to the CoTtes.
A document Just published shows the
number of judgments rendered by the
United States Court Of Claims during the
present year, the names Of the parties in
whose favor they were rendered, of their
attorneys, and the amounts awarded.
The Court gave favorable judgments in
fifty-three cotton cases, the cotton having
been captured by the United States
forces. Claimants in all such cases are
required to prove loyalty to the United
States at the time of the capture. The
aggregate ofthese cotton claims Is $780,
| 0OO The Court threw out the claims
for acceptances ofsundry bills of exchange
or drafts, by John II. Floyd, Secretary OF
| War