Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-05
NEWS OF The DAY.

- r. VS. OF THE DA X
OF the emigrants who passed through
columbus, Ohio, last week, thirty-two in
end locating in Tennessee.
The number of deaths In Boston last week |
Eas one hundred and fity-eight, of whom
me hundred and seven were FIVE years old |
md under, showing an unusual mortality
lmOng children. "A. 4 e..
The Prussian government has instructed
tsOficials not 60 indiot, prosecute or punish
any naturalized German American who
without permission.
The last annual report Of crimes in Italy
showed 3i57 murders, 5S8 suicides, nine
deaths by dueiling, and ak deaths by
capital punishment.
There have been but two deaths from
yellow fever IN New Orleans this season,
and it is claimed the city was never
healthier than at present.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Louisville Journal says Gen. ROsecrans has
recently gained a suit which puts 100000
into his wallet
The Legislature Of Florida, on the 81
inst, passed a bill giving the negroes every
privilege Of the whites on all railroads OF
the State. a similar bill relating 70 hotels
was introduced, and will probably pass.
The Pacific mail steamer Arizona, which
sailed Saturday for Aspinwall, took 1000
bars Of railroad iron and Other material for
the Central Faciic railroad, and l75 pack
ages Of merchandise for China and Japan.
Gen. Charles G. Halpin C''Miles O'Reil.
ley died in New York on the Sd inst,
from an overdose Of chlorOform, admins
tered 10 relieve neuralgia, which he had
been in the habit of taking TO procure quie-
tude.
Mrs. Lincoln was taken suddenly i'll
Friday night. Saturday morning she was
able to SIT up, but too much indisposed TO
undertake voyage across the Atlantic at
present. Consequently the Hon Reyerdy
johnson was deprived of the honor Of
experimenting her baggage.
In Van Vert, Ohio, on the 10Th ult,
while Samuel Mel, Postmaster Of that
town was STOPPING TO dip come water, with
pitcher, out of barrel, the pitcher was
struck by lightning and broken TO atoms.
Mr.. Mel suffered no further injury than
temporary numbness Of the arm.
The Richmond Examiner following the
lead of the Charleston Mercury, reads a
severe lecture TO those eI-Confederate Of
ficers whose infammatory speeches have
lately attracted 80 much attention al the
North. II charges that their course only
furnished ammunition TO their enemies.
Judge Cardozo, Of New York, on Satur-
day, rendered decision in the Supreme
Court, that the Fernando Wood leases
must be executed by the city. This in
wolves payment Of yearly rental of $751;
600 for the building, Nos. lis and liz
Nassau street. The Judge also rendered a
decision against the city in the claim Of
the New York Tines for SIS, 900 for adver-
Using.
At Saginaw, on the Doth ult., while sev.
eral persons were walking down the street,
just before the rain began to fall, the light
ming struck large poplar tree that stood
on the edge of the sidewalk, tearing it into
slivers, and scattering its leaves, branches
and splinters over the passers-by to dis
lance Of over fifty feet around, one man, a
little nearer than the others, was knocked
down, but WAS able 10 recover himself
speedily.
Senator Drake writes to the St. Louis
Democrat that the bill providing for the
erection of monument in honor of Gen.
Nathaniel Lyon has passed Congress, and
needs only the signature of the President 10
become law. BY the third section, the
westernmOst six acres of the st. Louis Ar
sensl grounds are granted TO the city of St.
Louis as a public ground forever, upon the
condition Of the erection Of this monument
within three years.
Ia st. Louis on the 30th ult, William
Bruckman, while driving horse and cart,
got bis whip-lash wound around his neck,
and one end Of it became entangled on
spoke of the cart wheel. He was unable TO
stop the horse, and as the wheel reyOlved
he was drawn from his seat and thrown
under il, 20 that the wheel passed over his
abdomen, causing his death next morning.
Minister Reverdy johnson, who sailed
on Saturday for England, carries cut with
him instructions from this government rela-
tive 10 the settlement Of the Alabama
claims, and although they are, Of course;
not positively known, il is believed in we'll
informed quarters that it will eventually
result in the acceptance by this government
Of an international arbitration, though not
in the shape in which it has heretofore been
urged by the British government. Mr.,
johnson also takes out the views of the
Administration relative 10 the rights Of
naturalized Americans in Great Britain,
which will insure, ii is thought, the nego-
tiation Of treaty now pending on the same
subject, and in the end effect the release of
such a. are now imprisoned there, who
have not committed overt acts on British
soil.