Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-21
NEws OF rnE DAY.

Sir Edward Blakeiy, an Enghsh Fed
Narshal, is dead.
( The first bale Of new coston was received |
from Alabama 10 New York Monday. J
The Jamaiea whites are again dis
turbed by approximations Of 3 negro insur- |
fection. a.7saauazrzszuz
: There are two thousand nine hundred
and sirty-seveH paupers in The Philadel-
phia Almshouse. 4
The English wheat harvest promises a
6rst-rate qEaiity aud condition, AID an
ample yield. The crop is very eArly.
A monument 10 commemorate Pola5d's
struggle for liberty was 10 be inauguraied
on the borders Of Lake Zurich, August lG.
The refteshment stands on the Ohio
State FAIR Grounds, at Toledo, have been
let. The twenty-seyen stands brought
$3.50.
Two barge loads Of Missouri walnut logs
were recently shipped to England, via New
OrleAfe, and a large amount Tefaaias AZ.
follow fMHN AF s#E3sAAkN
Governor Seymour is announced 90 De-
liver the annual address before the Sara
toga Agricultural Society at Saratoga1
Springs, on the 10th Of September.
Miss BeAuna Oonant, of BROOKLYN,
daughter Of the web known Biblical traDs-
lator, has been appointed Professor OF Eng
lish Literature IN Rutgers College. 90, 1
Out 10 Illinois the farmers have taken to
shooting Texas cattle on sight, as the most
efiectual remedy for The disease they have.
brought into the country.
The cattle plague has appeared in asRe-
raj Russian districts near the Prussian
! frontier. Several men have been infected
with il and died. f - slss-a
Several hundred citizens Of Missouri
have commenced suits against the State
Treasury for the recovery Of income tax
levied on them two or three wears ago by
the State, claiming that The same was nm
constitutional. ss,.5 49, ,..-s,f,-,
a Kansas woman lEls sued New York
drummer" in ST. Louis for breach OF
promise, laying her damages al S20,0
The 81. Louis Democrat publishes the par
ticulars OF the suit, and DOW Che "drum-
mer" sues the Democrat for alleged libel,
laying his damages at $4,000 He is
trying TO save himself ---~-.v,,
The extensive car manufacturing shoFs
Of the North Missouri railroad, in st.
Louis, we're totally destroyed By FIRE on
the night Of the 18th inst, together with a
number of finished and unfinished ears, a
large quantity of material, aud all the
machinery aud tools used in the shop.
The loss is estimated at from 100000 to
Sl5O,000. Insured for about $4,000, $780,
600 Of which is In Eastern Offices E
Gen. Stoneman has issued an order d.
recting the Auditor of State Of Virginia
10 receive from the railroads indebted to
the State the whole or part of their debt,
TO be paid in current funds, or in State
bonds at par, the amount Of State bonds
received not TO exceed two-thirds of the
total payment by a ROAD The whole
amount due by the roads is about $500, 600.
At Harmony station, near Terre Haute,
Indiana, on Monday night, Daniel DietE, a
butcher, cut his wife's throat with butch
er-kniie. The murdered woman was found
soon afterward by her husbands brother,
and he gave the alarm, when large crowd,
gathered at Democratic meeting, imme-
diately went in pursuit of TIE butcher, but
at last accounts he had not been caught.
Three prominent citizens Of Kentucky
Judge Alvin Duvsll, Hon. James b. Beck,
Representative in Congress from the Ash
land district, and Frank Hunt, Esq., passed
through Cincinnati on the 18th inst, en-
route for Canada. The object of their mis-
sion, it is understood, is to prevail upon
John g.. Breckinridge TO make application
TO the President Of the United STATES for
pardon, 30 that he may return TO his native
State. #ttta
Gen. Buchanan, commanding in Louisi-
ana, has issued the following order: "Of.
ficers commanding district attachments and
posts viii be governed by the following d.
rections: Every officer will keep himself
well informed of the condition Of affairs in
his vicinity. Should necessity arise
which in his opinion would render the ser
vices of troops requisite, he will inamedi-
ately communicate by telegraph With these
headquarters, stating the essential facts in
the case, and asking for the necessary in
structions for his government Under no
circumstances will any interference Of the
military with the civil authorities be per
mitted, nor will the services of the troops
be made use Of unless special instructions
previously communicated, in each case.
from these headquarters" aHF
At the Radical tOrch-light procession in |
Atlanta, Ga, ON the night of the 9Th inst, |
drunken and unruiy negro was arrested by /
two policemen, about II o'clock. They |
were proceeding with the prisoner 20 the |
when mob Of negroes pur-
sued and attempted a rescue. The police /
resisted, and the negroes collected, and,
using clubs, the policemen were knocked
down, and the prisoner escaped, At the /
same time some person in the mob gave
the word TO fire, and the negroes did so,
a policeman. The fire WAS re-
turned by the police, aud discharges fol-
lowed in rapid succession. One of the
negroes was killed and two wounded, but /
they rallied again near the GuArdhOuse
and again moved forward TO attack the po-
lice BY this time the whole police force
and large number of citizens were on the
ground, prepared for The conflict When /
the negroes saw the intention to protect the
lawful authority they rapidly dispersed.
AT one time apprehensions Of riot were
quite serious.