Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-15
SUNDAY. MARCH is. 1865.
argest circulation in city and Stat
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Judge Joel Parker, for more than TWEEN
~ years the head of Cambridge Mass
Law School, has resigned his proiessorship.
The British League Of Peace and Liber-
~ will present an address toCharles Francis
Adams before he leaves England. John
Bright will be, spokesman Of the League.
Direct shipments OF corn from st. Louis
TO Liverpool are now being made ma New
Orleans at cost Of freightage that defes
composition by any other route.
Mr.. J. NJ. Campbell, local editor Of the
Memphis Avalanche, who was imprisoned
by Judge Hunter for contempt of court,
has dissolved his connection with that
paper.
General Hancock, in response 10 appeals
from numerous persons excluded from re-
gistration in Texas, has Issued an order re-
versing many arbitrary decisions.
The military excursion party, which left
New Orleans on the new steamer Josephine
for the Rio Grande, have been wrecked on
the bar at Brazos. All are safe and will
return by another steamer.
General Pike, in letter from Washing
ton TO the Memphis Appeal, complains that
the ladies on Pennsylvania Avenue are
not 90 beautifully attractive az the Creoles
he left behind him in New Orleans.
Major Donelson, of Tennessee, who has
the direction Of memorial TO Congress
for one million dollars TO build a levee
for the Yazoo basin, has met with much
encouragement
The city currency of New Orleans has
deprecated TO thirty per cent discount.
Great distress exists as the notes are re-
fused everywhere, and the evil is daily in
creasing.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
sold nearly $4,000 acres of land in the
month Of January, and enough town lots
TO make the entire sales amount to $l75,-
40 Il.
The Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad
Company sold one hundred and sixiy-four
thousand acres of land during the month
February. This is the largest monthly
sale ever made by the company.
Six volumes of Audubon's work on the
Birds of America, worth 500 each, we're
stolen from the Indiana State Library the
other day. They we're recovered about
twenty i've miles from Indianapolis, but
the thief has not yet been caught.
James H. Harris, full blooded negro,
was nominated for Congress in Raleigh,
North Carolina, the other day. He is a
graduate Of Oberlin, Ohio. Believing his
election would injure the party he declined
the nomination.
Thad. Stevens has written a letter in
which he says he believes that impartial
suffrage il one of the inalienable rights
mentioned in the Declaration Of Independ-
ence, and that the Reconstruction Com
mittee will make such suffrage an indis-
pensabe prerequisite to the admission Of
the newly reconstructed States.
Gen. Mcclellan, says the Pail Mall Ga
gette has a claim TO a share in the Banda
and Kirwee prize money. He has proved
himself TO be the nearest of his kan, and,
consequently, heir TO Miss Alicia Camp
bell, who inherited from her brother, the
late Lord Clyde, a portion Of the Banda
and Kirwee prize money. Gen. McClel-
lan's father was cousin-german 10 the late
Lord Clyde.
A Washington special 10 the Louisville
Courier, dated the 18th inst, says "The
Radicals felcitate themselves on the trick
of stealing a march on the Democrats by
smuggling through an amendment TO the
bill providing for appeals TO the Supreme
Court in revenue case, and prohibiting
the jurisdiction of the court substantially
10 reconstruction cases. IL will not affect
the decision in the McCardle case or any
other The Supreme Court, if necessary,
will decide this bill unconstitutional"
Immense droves of cattle are being
shipped from the South to Kentucky, most
of them being landed at Portland and
thence taken TO the bluegrass regions for
pasturage and sale These cattle are all in
good condition and come principally from
Texas. They are shipped up the Mississippi
and Ohio on steamers at from four to six dol
lars per head. In Kentucky, after a brief
feeding or pasturage, they sell readily at
an advance Of from twenty TO forty dollars
per head upon their cost, transportation
and feeding.
The Fayetteville (Tenn.) Observer Of the
18th inst. says Seven negroes, fully
armed, made their appearance at Com
mons precinct last Saturday, where they
remained all day, stopping every negro
who approached the polls, placing such
ticket as they pleased in his hand, and then
marching him under guard TO the ballot
box, where they saw that he voted as they
directed. After voting, the negro guards
came 20 Fayetteville, where they were at
once arrested by Capt. RUSSELL of the po-
lice, disarmed and held for trial So bold |
and fragrant an outrage has never before |
been committed in Lincoln county, and its |
repetition, IL known, would not be tole- |