Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-27
,rnInaY- MARCH, ~. Ises.
largest circulation in City and State
oEI3Wss OF THE DAY.

- l. W. VI
Heavy rain storms have recently pre-
vailed in California.
VIM. Shore. once afiianced to Florence
Nightingale, died in Wisconsin few days
ago.
The California Legislature has indeh-
pitelv postponed bill for the removal oil
the State capital from Sacramento.
The Bapiists appear to be declining
in Vermont Thirty years ago they hao
one hundred and twenty-eight churches;
now they have only ninety-nine.
how Of fourteen, pupil in one Of the
public schools Of Baltimore, hung himself
last week because he had been forbidden,
az a punishment TO play with the other
children.
Letters from Ireland all declare that emil
grafton from that country is on the increase,
upwards Of one thousand persons having
left Queenstown for America during the
week Of February.
The spring elections all through Penn
gyIvania. have resulted in the greatest
Democratic triumphs. No such maJorltes
were ever known before. The old Key
stone will give the Democracy 10000 ma
iority next fall.
On the 25th inst. Brevet Major General
Buchanan, Colonel lst United States IN
fantry. on the 25th inst. relieved General
REYNOLDS, in command of the first military
district, pursuant TO orders from Wash
ton. General Reynolds; during his one
day Of command, made twenty-one Texas
appointments.
In Syracuse, New York, little daugh-
ter of c. c. Downing died of hydrophobia
on the 10Th inst. She was bitten five weeks
before by a pet Newfoundland, but exhib-
tied no symptoms of the fatal poison which
had taken possession Of her system until
two DAYS before her death.
1t is proposed to consolidate jersey City
and the neighboring towns on New YORK
bay, in Hudson county, New Jersey, INTO
a single large city. The new city would
extend for some twelve miles along the
shore Of the Hudson river and New York
bay, and would begin its existence with
population Of 10000.
Mr.. Scenck declares the purpose Of the
WAYS and Means Committee 10 report
bill making the Revenue Department indie
pendent 10Th of the President and Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, the Commissioner
having the sole power Of appointment and
removal. This will raise the sinews of
war for the Radicals in the Presidential
campaign.
Al the election in Vineland, New Jersey,
on the 18th inst, a lady walked up TO the
rostrum and rendered ballot to the Board
of Registry. The Chairman, covered with
Il. g Al har hot
could vote whose name was not registered,
10 which she replied that che only wished
TO test principle, and retired very quietly
from the hall.
Schenck's amendment to the bill taxing
manufactures, etc, which passed the House
of Representatives on the oath inst, and
now goes back tothe Senate, startles revenue
officials here as il will the country. Ac-
cording TO. its provisions if whisky is sold
in sny district at a lower price than the
tax. il ia 10 be accepted as prima iacla
evidence that collectors and assessors are
contriying at fraud, and they are to be sus-
pended until an investigation is made.
In Evansville, Indiana, on the 22d inst,
a negro named Hopkins went to the house
of Mr.. Jack Robinson, for whom he had
worked for more than n year. Going at
once 10 the room where Robinson and his
wife were sleeping. he struck the former on
the head with an axe, cutting a terrible
cash on the cheek, and, with another blow,
broke the iaw-b bone and almost severed the
chin. The negro then fled to the river,
took skif and escaped.
John II. Gilmer writes TO the Richmond
Who that he is not the Gilmer enfran-
chised bv the bill now pending in Congress.
He SAVE 81 never have and never will ask
any. the least indemnity, excuse or pallIa-
ton, for any one act, word or deed, previ-
ous To- during or since the late civil war"
He also expresses a cheerful confidence
that the majority in Congress will ere
long. on Blended knees and with bated
breath, implore the pardon which they now
oficiously presume to offer TO their superiors
in all the Ugh attributes of the true Ameri-
can citizen
A Washington special TO one of the
Radical evening papers in Cincinnati,
speaking Of the scene during the impeach-
ment trial in the Senate on the oath inst,
saws that q" il was a noticeable fact that
many Of the demi monde were scattered
throughout the galleries, 10 the exclusion
Of hundreds Of people from distant parts
Of the country, who had come for the pur-
pose Of attending the trial" Such fact
lie rather suggestive Of a slight discrepancy
between the professions and the practices
of the party Of huge moral ideas, which
preponderates so largely in the Senate, and
from whom alone, il is presumable, these
Hvlaphs procured .heir tickets.