Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-01
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NEWS OF TIE DAY

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Mace the English prize fighter, has ar
rived in New York.
II is now said that Gen. Ord was re-
iieved at his own request.
The Georgia Conservative papers are in
ecstacies over the removal Of Pope.
The Presidents reason for removing
Gen. Pope, is that be substituted tyranny
for law.
Among the emigrsnts who passed through
Columbus, Ohio, last week were thirty
nine who intend locating in Tennessee.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer says Gen. Meade Is IN
full accord with the President.
A movement is on foot in New York
city to raise and equip a regiment for the
Papal army.
The Presbyterians of Southwestern Vir-
ginia talk Of establishing female college
at Abingdon.
The Boston Young Mems Christian As
sociation don't know what TO do with so
many unemployed young men.
The receipts ofinternal revenue from the
18th Of December to the 18th were 3d.
10000 and the total receipts since July
last were sos, 26l, COO.
The Memphis correspondent Of the Lous-
willie Courier says Gov. Brownlow's reason
for removing J. d. Davis, Commissioner
of Registration, is that the latter had
bolted from the late negro convention.
The official vote on the convention in
Mississippi was az follows: For conven-
ton, 69,739; against, 6217. The total
number of registered voters in the State is
1892.
There is much political agitation in
Northern and Southwestern Italy. Fears
are entertained that it may eliminate in a
rising against the authority of the govern
ment.
The committee Of the Cooper Institute,
New York; Grant meeting has sent circu-
lars to business men throughout the coun-
try, urging them to get up similar demon
STATIONS.
Ten persons were killed, and a large
number injured, by the explosion of a
powder mill at Faversham, fifty miles
from London, on Saturday. The cause Of
the occurrence is unknown.
The answer Of Mr.. Stanton to the Presi-
dents reasons for his suspension, will be
ready in a short time, and it is now ex-
pected the case will be acted upon within
a week after Congress meets.
Democrats express the opinion thst the
President means aggressive action hence
forth with Congress, and believe he will
not allow the South to be Africanized if it
can be averted by Executive powers.
The President and other prominent
public men have an abiding confidence
that the Supreme Court will, in a case
which will soon be before it, decide the re-
construction acts unconstitutional.
An effort was made, on Saturday, to burn
the General Postofhce, in Dublin, by means
Of Greek fire. The attempt was happily
frustrated. Beyond the destruction of
few letters, no great damage was done.
Two small children Of John Mahar, of
st. Louis, were burned to death Sunday.
They were left alone in the house, and
while playing with a newspaper it took
fire, communicating to their clothes, and
resulting as above stated.
Fighty-nine Of the inmates of the Indi-
ana penitentiary have died since last
August, most Of them by heart disease.
This seems strange, but heart disease is a
frequent result Of dissipated and anxious
life.
The Presidents reception on New Gears
day promises TO be a great affair, lnclu-
ding, az it will, Cabinet and foreign Min
listers, Senators, Representatives, officers
of the army and navy, and soldiers Of 1872,
as well as citizens.
The reasons which induced the Presi-
dent TO remove Gen. Swayne from the
Freedman's Bureau were based on docu-
mentary evidence, alleging that Swayne
was running the Bureau in his own inter-
est as a candidate for the United States
Senate from Alabama.
The failure of the banking house Of
lessen, Son & Co., at st. Louis for $780,
600 is said TO have been caused by loans
by their branch house in New Orleans, to
planters, whose crop failures caused them
10 wholly fail in their obligations. The loss
falls mostly on persons of small means.
AT fair held in Finley, Ohio, gold
headed cane was put up to be voted Tor,
and presented 90 the most popular can
didate for President The vote stood 6O'
for Pendleton, and SAB for Grant. The
cane will be presented to Mr.. Pendieton at
the State Convention, to be held on the
eighth of January, by the Hancock delega-
ton.
The friends of Chase declare they will
support the nominee of the Chicago Con-
yention, whoever il may be, but at the
same time they assert that the Chief. Jus
tice will get that nomination. They are
making capital against Grant for lending
his aid in executing the Presidents orders
decapitating Pope, Sheridan, etc, and
thus frustrating the wishes of the Radical
Congress.
The President said to a Congressman on
the 3Oth ult., that reports from the Caro-
linas through Gen. Candy show that there
is as much or more distress and suffering
in those States than in Mississippi or Louis
lana. According tothese and other official
reports, restitution is so general there must
be vast amount of misery, and beyond
any efforts Of Congress or private indiyids
uals to afford adequate relief
The rumored activity of the Fenians
keeps England in continual excitement.
On Friday, about midnight, large body
of men, with blackened faces, stormed the
Martello Tower, near Cork. The guard Of
the Tower was overcome and scattered, and
the victors hastily collected a consider
able quantity of arms and ammunition,
and escaped with it without molestation.
A man was arrested in London, on Friday
evening, on the charge Of having fred the
fuse which caused the recent terrible eK-
plosion at Clerkenwell. il is believed the
true culprit has at last been captured.
New YEARS being holiday, no paper