Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-26
SUNDAY. JANUARY 2s. 1865.
largest Circulation in City and State
NEWS OF THE DAY.


NEWS OF THE DAY.
There is four feet Of snow in the valleys of
Southern Kansas.
The Illinois Republican State Convention is to
meet on the 9th Of May. al Peoria.
LaGrange wore $4,000 worth Of diamonds on
her Grst appearance at Pixies Opera House
The venerable Peter Force died in Washing
ton on the I'D inst.
The Pennsylvania Republican State Conyen-
ton will be held at Philadelphia on the 9Th OF
May.
Massachusetts educates her children at a cost
Of nine dollars per annum for every child with
in its limits.
In ten months Of the year 1867 the Treasury
Department paid $95.l9l s. as commissions on
the sale offge-twenty bonds.
Mrs. Lorillard Ronalds is the fayorite Amefi-
can belle at the PRINCESS MetteFnich's receptions
ia Paris.
be held on the 4th Of March next 10 nominate
State officers and appoint delegates to the Ma
tional Convention.
The organization Of the French army will
materially increase the power OF Napoleon. and
Russia thinks that II will cause him 10 assume
a holder tone in regard 10 European politics.
The ST. Paul Pioneer says that the capital in
vested in newspapers in Minnesota amounts
u 100000. and St. Paul represents SlT50O Of
this.
Radicals in Washington that they have &C,
complished their desires in regard to General
Grant-killed him OF as an available candi-
date.
The business men of Cincinnati say trade
has not been rs dull there in ten or twelve
wears "a ID Is at present. Some Of the oldest
houses in the city lost from 100000 20 $500. 600
during the past year.
The Kshsas Legislature has memorialized
Congress 90 prohibit by law the sale OF large
bodies of land 10 one person. and asking that
railroad companies owning lands received from
Congress shall he forced 90 put them into mar
ket.
The bin recently introduced by Senator Fes
senden for the reorganization Of the Treasury
Department. while increasing salaries of some
valuable clerks and other officers, will. If
adopted. save 10 the government Sah,um an
nnaily.
The Masqachusefts Anti Slavery Society met
at Boston on the 23d inst. Resolutions were
adopted censuring the Republicans in Congress
IN some respects. and praising them "a Others,
and opposing Grants nomination. Speeches
we're made by Wendell Phillips. Messrs. Hig-
ginsOn. Frothingam and Others.
Mr. PloWs. liquor dealer in Chicago. sold
some hundreds of gallons of water for whisky.
The other day. Being called TO account, he
claims that the operation was large Joke that
he supposed the individual making the purchase
was n detective, endeayOfing to entrap him, and
took that method TO spoil his little game.
Washington dispatch to the Cincinnati En-
qairsr states that Mccullough wall be succeeded
IN the Treasury Department by Charles Francis
Adams. who will in his turn be succeeded by
aenCTal Mcclellan. as Minister 20 England.
Also. that this change involves the removal of
Commissioner Rollins.
drunken maniac, named John Swaney.
mate Of the steamer ATmadillO. murdered w.
II. Graves. passenger from Rochester. Pa. on
hoard the steamer, on the 22d inst The crime
was committed without proyocation. After
shooting Graves, Swaney threw him overheard
and washed his bloody hands in the coffee urn
A hendsh outrage was perpetrated at tavern
near Brompton, Canada. on the night Of the
I'D inst. man Just recovering from an attack
0f delirium tremens was lying on the floor. in
front of the fire place, when some young men
laid shavings around his body and burned him
10 death.
adopted resolutions declaring an unalterable
determination TO oppose negro suffrage advise
voters 20 defeat the proposed convention il pos
sible, and if not 90 elect delegates who will Op-
pose negro suffrage. II is reported a convention
isto be called at Galveston 20 unite the johnson
Democrats and moderate Republicans.
A partial return of the business transacted
during the year 1867 by the leading business
firms Of Chicago, as made TO the Assessor Of in
ternal revenue, show that tWenty-One firms
transacted business exceeding two millions Of
dollars. and seventy six exceeded one million.
while one hundred and seventy-six report n
business Of over half million,
There was great excitement in the 9ieOrga
Reconstruction Convention on the 2ith instant
caused by Ashburn's disclosure that the Radicals
intend 90 ask Congress 10 accept whatever con-
-titutiOn they pass without popular vote. His
proposition TO make the passage of a secession
ordinance treason failed, and in his rage he di-
vulged the Radical scheme.
In Memphis on the oath inst, during the trial
81 Winters and others for the murder Of Mike
Connell few days since, an alteration occurred
between counsel. during which Thomas Malone,
eX-Street Commissioner, and the uncle Of the
murdered man. was shot through the body with
"A large Derringer, and fatally wounded. AL
though the court room was crowded at the time
IL is not known who fired the shot. The affair
created intense excitement.
The New York Senate on the oath inst,
adopted a resolution that on the government
recognizing no distinction between native and
adopted citizens. il should call on all nations for
the Immediate release Of all citizeus held lie
gally in military seryive. or for pretended polis
zeal efenses not committed on their soil, and
that il is the duty Of the government 10 enforce
the demand, IL necessary, with all the power of
the nation.
The Boston Trdueler contains correspondence
dated Shanghai, November n. which gives the
following details Of the explosion in China
News has just reached us OF 3 terrible explo-
sion in the Chinese arsenal az Wenhunn, oppn-
site HankoW. The loss of life has not been def
nitely ascertained. but some persons estimate il
Bs high as five thousand-probably one thousand
10 nearer the number-killed and wounded. No
Europeans were hurt The shock was distinctly
felt at kinkiang. one hundred and twenty miles
distant.
lne report thAi the hentucky Representatives
IN Congress have united in request TO Senator
Guthrie TO resign, Is incorrect. In view, hoWey-
eT, OF the importance of single vote in the
Senate, there Is but one opinion among both
Senators and Representatives in Congress upon
thls subject, that that vote may be necessary 20
defeat the action of the Senate on the Presi-
dents veto Of the Supreme Court on the recon
stTucuon measure. and lust now IT, Is probable
chat Senator Thomas. Of Maryland may lack
that one vote 10 secure has admission
In the Supreme Court Of the United States
on the oath inst. the Texas bond case was brought
up in the shape OF motion 20 dissolve a tenn
porary Injunction granted by the Supreme Court.
some time ago. on behalf of the State of Texas
against certain defendants who sought TO negO-
uste the certain bonds belonging 10 that State
unlawfully. Judge Hughes took the ground
that according 20 the acts Of Congress Texas Is
not legal State in the Union. and has there
fore no standing an the Supreme Court of the
United States. The defendants rest their case
on this argument, and the court will be com
proceed
Mr.. 5, W. Heap. The United States Consul at
lunis. Africa, writes 10 Secretary Seward. under
date Of December %, that the sufserngs of the
population from famine and the inclemency of
the weather have irightfully increased. On the
the clty from hunger and cold Supplies OF
grain have reached the place. but the poor have
not the means OF purchasing. Men, women and
children lie literally starving a few yards from
rte provision stalls but the Mohammedans
view their suherings with apathy. looking upon
me famine as dispensation Of Providence
which Il would be useless, If not sinful, 60 inter
iere with. A Moorish hospital receives the
c0Tpses picked up each morning in the streets
ioF burial. but refuses admission TO the living.
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Tar CoLoRED TRooPs FoueHr No,
BY. This has passed into a proyerb.
but after all, says the Murlreesboro
Monitor, there is some evidence extant |
that cast shadow Of doubt over the as,
sertlOn. The records Of the War De- |