Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The heaviest snow storm OF the season
occurred along the Union Pacific railroad
on the 9th. Several trains were showed
in.
The Winona Repubiioaa, by means Of
special correspondence, collected statistics
showing that there are about one million
bushels Of wheat in store in Minnesota.
]. II. Darocha, drygoods merchant Of
New Orleans, has been tried and convicted
Of arson, and sentenced 10 fifteen years
imprisonment at hard labor.
The Mexican press, az well as the judi
ciary, now denonnce, as unconstitutional,
the law against traitors, as passed January
%. 1862, under which MaximiliaE WAS
tried and executed.
The story that Mr.. Evarts had Withdrawn
from the Presidents counsel, has no tonn-
dation il originated from the fact that
Mr.. Evarts has gone TO New York to re-
main until the trial begins.
The dead body Of negro was found in
pork barrel at Toledo, forwarded from
Louisville 10 Ann Arbor, Mich, and
marked Hand Corn Shelter" The stencil
led to the detention.
An old miser named HendricksoH died
ia New York on the 26th inst.. for want
Of proper nourishment. He was worth
about $4,000, and had $4,000 10 bonds
and currency on his person when he died.
A warrant was Issued for the arrest of
Richard Montgomery, the spy and PERU
rer, and associate of Conoyer, Holt, Ashley
d Co. Montgomery il charged with EN-
bezziement.
A conservative Senator, distinguished
alike for caution and ability, declared on
the 9th inst. that there was no escape from
our odious political bondage except in
revolution, and this he regarded as close at
hand.
Hope is expressed in Washington gene
rally, as General Morgan will be deprived
Of his seat in Congress, Ohio will elect him
20 serve ont the balance Of Wade's term,
If that individual shall succeed TO the
Presidency.
The Des Moines Iowa) Register says the
grasshoppers have already come out Of the
ground in the meadows around Sayiorville
in brigade millions, the surface of the
ground literally crawling with the young
insects. The cold nights do not affect
them any more than TO make them sort Of
imp anu siupiu'
A letter from BuenOs Ayres, 10 the New
York Herald, give a terrible account Of the
ravages of cholera in that region. The
writer estimates the number who died in
two months at seventy thousand Among
the American victims in Buenos Ayres and
Rosario we're Charlotte Thorne, Mr.. Fuller,
Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Hall, Of Iowa, and
Mrs. Clark IL. Baker, of Delaware, Ohio.
The Presidents counsel have decided TO
summon Mr.. Stanton az a witness, and ask
him 20 show bis commission under Presi-
dent johnson for holding his Office. They
will also ask him if he did not, as a lawyer,
advise the President that the civil tenure
set did not apply to members OF the Cabinet
holding commissions issued by Mr.. Lin
coin. They intended to place Senators on
the stand who expressed the same opinion
in the debate on that act.
Rev. Stephen II. Tying, Jr., has written
letter to Bishop Potter, of New York,
stating that he will soon publish a review
Of the proceedings connected with his adj
monition by the Bishop. He says all the
circumstance connected with the ceremony
were adapted, if not intended, TO aggravate
his attempted disgrace. Mr.. Tying denies
the regularity Of the trial, renounces the
authority Of the court, aud appeals 10 the
Protestant Episcopal Church and other
Christian Churches from its unjust pre-
sentiment, oppressive rulings and prede-
termined decision.
TIE National Convention of the Repub-
lican party, to meet at Chicago May 10th,
will consist of ga delegates, if the South
ern States are represented and counted. OF
this number, AIS delegates have ben APP
pointed, leaving PIC to be appointed, viz:
Illinois 30, May 6 Iowa lG, May z; Min
nesota s, May 10; Kansas 6, March %;
Nebraska 6, April 90; Nevada 6, April s
California 10, March 81 Oregon 6 ; New
Hampshire 10; Delaware G. Virginia 20;
North Carolina IS; Alabama IL; Louisi-
ana IA Texas ~, and the remainder of
the delegatee for Maine and Massachusetts,,
in which States the district system is OBJ
served. There are threatened contesting
delegations lin whole or in part from MAJ
ryland, Pennsylvania and California.