Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-02
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY .. 1865.
largest circulation in City and STATE
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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The Little Miami railroad has banished lamps
from their cars. and use only candles
The Desperate State Convention Of Connee-
ticut has ra-n0minated Gov. English ana all the
present State officers.
In New Jersey the Secretary Of State reports
that during last year there were I,5oi prths
6l27 marriages and s45s deaths
Gen. A. Med. McCOok has been appointed TO
The command Of the sub district OF the hio
Grande with headquarters at brownsville.
A shiprept Of 100000 salmon ova, packed in
i.a bas beep made from London TO Dunedin.
New Zealand. for the purpose Of stocking the
rivers OF that colony.
There is every reason to believe that the Rev.
John McMaben, who is now lying IN prison leI
the part he took in the invasion OF NhliH"'' wa
very soon be liberated.
Miss Callahan. the poor girl who was hrst
rayished by n negro and then thrown ot GIN
~ Frankfort. on the 3lst nit, died OF her IN
iuries.
The Protestant Episcopal House OF Bishops
iii meet RI 81. Johns Chapel on Wednesday.
the 5th inst, 10 choose q Bishop OF Oregop. IN
t,Isce of Kishop Seatt, who died July last blsh-
90 Smitt, Of Kentucky. viii preside.
A Ere on New Levee street, New, Orleans IS on
the 2lth ult destrayeq MaoIesV 30 b;s1v and sS0
boTes of Tobacco The Wabash warehouse, ad-
,o,ning was also burned. Total loss from $751;
900 20 sj000o0.
A fellow calling himsei >; -. Ieai ~ Ia, Ia
1avs in Cairo. for swindling negro women, tof
"A dollar fee. he promised 70 secure pensions
t5uUties etc, for number OF women whose
husband had been in the army
The Secretary Of the Treasury has asked the
president 10 remove NJ. p. Gaddis, Assessor OF
The seventh Ohio district, and appoint JGhh Il.
Minor in his place. Mr.. 6addls on the oIner
hand, Is not DESTROYS OF rsnoyni, ana mas c3h
mupieaied biz ideas on the subject TO Mr. john
fOn.
In the House Of Representatives on me 5lI
ult. Mr. Dawes, from the COMMITTEE on REC
lions. made n bitter speech against the a9mls
tsgaa dialovsltV No vote has taken on ire
question. and Il i settled that brown VIII no'
Sc allowed TO take has seat.
The Louisiana Reconstruction Contention on
The 3lst nit. adopted articles declaring nun AM
void contracts made in Confederate money, ana
CONTRACT for the sale Of persons stll unekeeuted;
also forbidding the State TO assume 10 pay any
debt contracted in aid OF the rebeilOh'. OF 70
make any compensation Tor slaves emahclpaled'
The schooner Lone Star. from Savannah
IA Hilton Head, with ten passengers ana three
deck hands, was blown 20 sea, where she was
ov.Ehauled by the bark Eureka. only three
persons we're saved, and IN snch EXHAUSTION
tbsy cannot tell what became Of the other pas
aengers. They were oil negroes
In Herold A. Loeb's brewery, st. Louis, on the
7sth OF January, Michael Johann was engaged
ia throwing some hops from the platform INTO
hugo cistern containing boiling water, when he
Iost his balance and fell headlOng into the tank.
Ue vas rescued a. soon as possible, but so terri
biy scalded that he died the same evening.
The Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune says that
here il great restitution and suffering IN that
city. and that dozens of families are actually
unproyided with the means OF avertng munger
and the frost i" and that numbers OF men, Wo-
men. and children are actually IN oAhser u
starving or freezing 10 DEAN.
A statement prepared BIZ the Secretary of the
Treasury shows a falling of OF internal revenue
for the fiscal year 1861, compared Win loo0, on
s29.697. 44l. Of which sum only s4o,4lu were 70
twenty districts where appointments were made
airertlv BY the President, without the recon-
mendRtion Of the Commissioner o. internal
Revenue.
The house of Mr. HoWdyshell. in COMPETING
township, near 0ttumWR. Iowa, was burned on
me 2sth nit, and Gerry How6yshell. sister Of
Mr. Howdyshel, aged about eighteen years, snd
TWO children of Mr.. Howdysheil persisted m the
flames. Mrs. Howdyshell was also severely
burned. Miss hOwdysheli lost her lhe IN hef
heroic efforts &c save the children.
On the night Of the 90th nit, five men eP-
proached the house of W. l.. Porter, near the
lar grouuds, called him out and fred at hin,
lie returned the IRE and was instantly shot
through the right arm, but managed 20 regain
she house and close the door. They then lelt'
Porter is considered seriously injured, ana re
fuses 20 have his arm amputated. No clue 10
the perpetrators.
There Ia said 10 be d good deal of distress
amens The coal miners in the Hooking Valley,
IN Ohio. The Cincinnati Gazette says they are
in part responsible Tor Their own t5onnles' LII
GUNNER they refused 60 work, and later IN the
season, when they would have been sIad OF
something 10 do, there was no navigation, ana
their services were not required. As - n9ua .l
the case the innocent are involved WIN the
guilty and many otthe wives and children OF the
men are in danger Of starvation. SUBSCRIPTIONS
are being raised at Columbus for the sufferers
In the United States Senate, on the Slst ult-
The resolution 60 the Legislature OF ONO WITH
drawing the assent Of that State 10 the Tour
tesnth amendment to the constitution, senator
Sherman did not think this expressed the opln,
IONS Of the people of that State, and suggested
The greenback bond issue had much TO do with
the late verdict. lie thought the provision as
frsnebising deserters was the cause Of the hadl
GAL defeat in Ohio, and not the greaI lsses peIoIe
the country A lengthy discussion followed,
Sumner of course, cOntending that three,, leutths
Of the loyal States were enough 70 aeopl the
fourteenth amendment 10 the consutouoh' lhiS
position being contradlcted
Asthe telegraph has already stated, the Irea-
surer Of the State Of Georgia was arrested by the
military authorities at MilledgeYille on last
Monday, and was Immediately pareled iof
one day. We learn that has parole has been ek-
tended 10 the fret day Of next uiy. No charges
have been preferred again 81 him, but AZ IS un-
derstood that the cause Of his arrest was has re"
fnsal 10 surrender his books, papers and money
10 the officer detailed by Gen. Meade to take
charge of his office. Neither the books oil Urea
gurer Jones nor Comptroller Burns have been
found. They have been placed beyond the
A citizen Of Darke county, Ohio, applied re-
Gently 20 the Register Of Bankruptcy OF that
district 20 be declared bankrupt. One Of the
provisions Of the bankrupt act requires that
mans liabilities shall! amount 20 three hundred
dollars TO entitle him 90 its benefits. The poor
man enumerated among his liabilities two
hundred dollars year for the support OF an IL
iogitimate child. The Register decided that tho
order Of q Stats Court requiring him TO pay
certain annuity as a penalty for the violation OF
law, was not such an obligation as law OF the
United States could absOlve him FROM and the
remainder Of his debts not amounting 10 three
hundred dollars, bis application was dismissed.
An appeal was taken, and the case referred 10
the United States District Court, where udse
Lssvitt sustained the opinion OF the Register.
The surth reception of the President and the
ladies of the Executive MausiOa--lMTs. PafteT-
sop and Mrs Stover-tOok place Friday even
ms, and like the preceding ones was most
brilliant affair, the red. blue and green parlors
est room and halls, being densely crowded from
eight until eleven o'clock. Mrs.. Patterson and
Mrs. Stuver were assisted by Misses Mary and |
Matte White. of Memphis, in receiving the |
visitors. who were presented 20 the ladies by
Gen N Michler. Mrs Patterson was attired |
ia q rich Lyons black silk velvet with five folds
Of black satin and bugies passing around the
bottom of the skirt; low corsaEe with pulled
illusion undeTwaist, and hair dressed With natu-
raj flowers. Mrs, Slower wore lilac figured /
silk, with white lace talna, Jet necklace and
cross. hair dressed with two curs and pink rose
bud The Misses White wore block gros grain
sIk. heck satin trimmings, With illusion under
waist and natural flowers in the hair
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A PARAGRAPH in the Shelbyville Amer
lean Union states that the Radicals Of