Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-14
TUESDAY. JANUARY IA. 1855.
.largest OIreulatIOn IN Clty ana SAC
NIsVvss OF RIM DAY.


to report for duty with his regiment.
There is an ice blockade in the upper
Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
A Pendleton club was organized in New
York on Saturday.
Horatio Seymour has been elected Presi-
dent Of the National Association Of Dairy
men.
Gentle Annie Z. Dickinson, Radical
"spouter," scolded at Chicago Friday evea
ming.
Belle Boyd, the ex-Confederate female
spy, did not "take" the other night in
New York az an actress.
The Hardeman Hotel, in Bolivar, Tenn,
was burned down on New Years eve. The
editor Of the Bulletin made a narrow es-
cape with his family.
George w. Williams has been put under
heavy bonds in Boston for trial on the
charge Of forging government stencils.
A report is current in Havana that Santa
Anna is secretly making preparations TO
send an expedition to Yucatan, consisting
Of 40C0 men.
Mr. Edward Thornton, British Ambas-
sador to the United States, sailed from
Liverpool Saturday on the steamship Sibe,
ria for New York
The Radical members of the Ohio lie.
gislature held caucus on the night of the
10th inst, and resolved to vote for Ben.
Wade for United States Senator.
Mr.. J. T. Luna, who resides in the VIZ
cinity of Petersburg, Lincoln county,
Tenn, killed a bear in that county on the
oath ult., which weighed 40 pounds.
The President is reported to be deter-
mined to suffer no further diminution Of his
prerogatiyes in the appointment and re-
moval of military officers.
John Nicks, Radical revenue official at
Elmira, New York, has just confessed to a
fraud upon the government Of $4,000.
Fifteen per cent. of the postal currency
in circulation in Chicago, and thirty per
cent. in the whole State Of Illinois, is said
10 be counterfeit.
1t is now ssid if Mr.. Stanton is restored
by the Senate 10 the position of Secretary
Of War, il will only be on condition that he
Immediately tender his resignation.
The White Rock Manufacturing Conn
pany of Westerly, Il. l., has reduced the
wages Of its operatives fifteen per cent. A
slight addition TO the hours Of labor is also
TO be made.
Gen. Hancock has dispatched Lieuten-
ant Colonel Wood, lst United States in
fantry, to the scene Of the disturbances at
Marshall, Texas, with full power and in
structions to act.
A Conservative State Convention is to be
held at Houston, Texas, on the Goth inst,
TO counsel together as TO the course most
eXpedient TO adopt in relation to the ap.
preaching election"
The term of Gov. Pierpont, of Virginia,
expired January lst. He is in doubt
whether he is now Governor or not, and
has applied 10 the Supreme Court of the
State for an opinion. Meantime he keeps
very quiet.
T. J. Kinselle has been appointed Col
lector Of Chicago, in place Of Gen. Mann.
The change was made at the instance of |
Commissioner Rollins, who thinks that |
Gen. Mann has not been sufficiently active |
IN suppressing whisky frauds.
The borough of Columbia, in Thad.
Stevens own county, in Pennsylvania, |
elected Democrats 10 all the local Offices |
on the 9th inst, for the first time in twelve |
years. Old Thad. had better turn his at- |
tention to reconstruction " in that direc- |
ton.
The Bolivar (Tenn.) Bulletin says that
New Years day a quarrel took place in |
that town between w. G. Mashburn and |
James Mitchell, 10 course Of which the |
former was fred upon by the latter four
times with a large Colts repeater, from
the effects Of which he died the same eve.
ming.
A bill was introduced in the Missouri |
Senate on the 9th inst, making parents |
send their children, between the ages Of |
nine and thirteen years, to school at least |
four months each year, under penalty Of |
from ten to thirty cents per day for alb |
senee without satisfactory cause.
The body Of Mrs. Alice Wilson, eques- |
trienue Of Robinson's Circus, who fell |
overheard from a steamboat on the way |
from Mobile to New Orleans and was |
drowned, has been found in Grand BAY, |
about eighteen miles from the spot where |
she was lost.
An application from General Reynolds,
commanding the district of Texas, for the
appointment Of q military commission TO
try certain parties accused of murder, had
been refused by Gen. Hancock, on the
ground that the civil courts are adequate
10 administer justice.
AZ an execution sale in Lincoln county.
Tenn, on the 2sth ult, sixteen bales of
good cotton sold at six cents per pound, and
sixty barrels Of corn sold at eighty cents
per barrel, or sixteen cents per bushel. The
corn was gathered and in pens. Other ar.
ticles sold at equally low prices. This is
an evidence of the scarcity Of money in
the South.
A most horrible double murder was
on Tuesday night, the 9TH inst,
about four miles from Grenada. Two
colored children, aged respectively four
and seven years, were killed with a knife.
The throat of the eldest was cut from ear
to ear, and the bowels Of the other ripped
open. The mother Of the children, Susan
Jones, at FIRST charged the murder upon a
colored man named James Oliver but il is |
said that che afterwards confessed the
crime, and produced a large bowie knife
with which the horrible deeds had been
She was committed to Jail 10
await trial No reason has been assigned
for the strocious and inhuman act.
The debate in the Georgia Reconstruction
Convention on Saturday, on the resolution
asking Congress for the power 10 remove ,
Stale officers, was very exciting and bitter.
Mr.. Miller, who has hitherto acted with
the majority, surprised the convention nv (
denouncing the measure. He declared ,
that a large majority present Represented
negro votes and the noBstax paving inhah-
itants Of Georgia. dc denounced m. {
measure a monstrous deviltry. He de- ;
clared that the Jacobin clubs held nightly
meetings 10 shape the course Of the con-
vention, and appealed 10 Congress and the
American people in the name Of humanity
Liberty, and 10 the name Of the white race
for protection from the plots of the maio]
,ity.
A New Orleans special Of the 18th inst. ,
10 the Louisville Courier saws: General
order No. 3, just issued, states that the
purporting 10 have been Issued
rom headquarters for the guidance Of
Boards Of Registrars in admitting persons
o, or the exclusion Of them from, registra- |
ion, are uniounded in law, aud directs that I
hereafter registration shall be governed r
My by the reconstruction law, which pro-