Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The bonded debt Of the city Of ST. Louis
il 81, 100000.
The fruit crops in Maryland and Della
ware have been greatly damaged by the
late Indictment weather.
1t is stated, positively, in weIl-informed
circles, that Earl Mayo will be sent TO
Canada in July as successor to Lord
MOnck. #
Accounts received at The Agricultural
Department from the grain-growing dis
tricts Of the country indicate fine crop
this year.
The Democratic Committee have sue
ceeded in arranging with all roalroads for
half price for delegates !othe New York
Convention.
The efforts 10 prove an abb in the case
Of Barrett, the Clerkenweli consplrator,
have failed, and his execution will take
place at the expiration of the week for
which he was respited.
A Havana dispatch says the passengers
and crew Of the British slOop Superior,
supposed 10 have iCundered twelve months
ago, are reported TO be alive on the Span
ish main, in slavery.
The New York Nation says William Nj.
Evarts lost thrice his ordinary annual in
come by attending Che Impeachment, and
that he receives no fee for defending the
President.
Queen Victoria has gone 10 Scotland.
Her absence from the seat OF government
during the present parliamentary and min
isterial crisis is widely censured by the
English press.
At Lebanon, Indiana, on the Goth inst,
little girl ten years Of age, the daughter
Of widow lady named Hall, was burned
10 death. Her clothes caught from fire
in a field where a man was burning corn
stalks.
A dispatch from Rome states that the
Pope has invited the Roman Catholic
Bishops Of the United States to raise a
thousand volunteers for the Papal army,
authorizing them to make such terms with
recruits as they may deem proper.
Advices from Omaha state that the
Union Pacific railroad has been completed
and opened 10 business six hundred miles
west Of Omaha. Sixty miles have been
buit this spring. The company now have
larger force Of labOrers at work than
ever before.
The Ohio State Universalist Convention
will hold its annual session at Dayton, be-
ginning on Thursday, June 4th. Conven-
lions OF the same denomination will be
held during the first week in June at Pitts
burg, Pa, Racine, Wis, and Jackson,
Mich.
The managers Of Impeachment have
made another requisition upon the West
ern Union Telegraph Office for kilograms
passing between certain parties named by
the managers, but the company has declined
TO make any further exhibit of private tel
egrams unless they shall be compelled 10
do 40 by due process Of law.
Some Of the peach orchards in Indiana
are no prolific Of blossoms as 10 occasion
alarm lest the prolusion Of fruit sets should
prevent the growth and development of
crop. Two peaches to a blossom are OBJ
served in many instances, the young fruit
being thus crowded and stinted.
A Memphis dispatch Of the Oath instant
says "A burglar was shot this morning
by policeman. A man named Carlin,
who was under bond for cattle stealing,
was shot and killed to-day. near the race
track. A negro constable named Hayden,
shot and MORALLY wounded another negro,
who tried 10 escape after besng arrested
this evening.
In the General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church (old school) at Baltimore,
on the sd instant, the report of the Board
Of Directors Of Columbian Theological
Seminary was presented. The Committee
on Finance, the Treasurer Of the Publica-
ton Board, the Board of Trustees of the
Assembly, and the Committee on Evangsi-
cal Labors, all presented reports, which
we're read and adopted.
Advices from Montreal say the Fenians
are preparing at ST. Adams for another
raid on the frontier, which is expected TO
take place somewhere between the LIST and
10th Of June. The preparations indicate
a more serious affair than any of the pre-
yious raids. The Canadian government
has ordered arms and ammunition for active
service 10 the volunteers.
The ship Alice Ball, a long time detained
at Sc. Thomas, on suspicion Of having
arms and munitions on board for the Peru
Wan government, sailed for New York on
the 18th. Spanish war steamer followed
10 watch her. Security has been given by
the Captain Of the Alice Ball 20 the Span
ish Consul at ST. Thomas, that the ship
would proceed 10 New York.
On the night Of Nay 9th, a ban d Of In
dians, on Queens river, Nevada, drove
nearly a hundred cattle away. The set.
tiers went in pursuit Three whites com
ing from Idaho were attacked by savages,
but escaped without fatal wounds. The
absence Of troops from Fort McDermott, 10
search FOR the murderers Of the Pearson
family, has emboldened the Indians.
An extensive conhagrstion took place in
New York Sunday evening at pier p,
North river, destroying the offices aud
freight houses Of the Neptune Steamship
Company. The propeller Oceanus, be-
longing 10 the Neptune libe, and plying
between this city and Providence, x. l.,
wss burned 20 the waters edge. The pro-
pellers Electra, Of the same line, and
Thetis, Of the Boston Iine, also caught fire,
but were towed out into the stream and the
FIRE extinguished with triaing damage. A
quantity Of freight WAS also destroyed, no.
thing being saved. The damage TO the
Neptune Steamship Company will reach
$500 600; insurance not ascertained.
Several commission merchants who had
Offices on this and adjoining piers sustained
heavy losses by the fire. The total dam
age il estimated at half million Of dol
lars.