Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-12
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

through Columbus, Ohio, last week, intend
settling in Tennessee.
Samuel MeKeen, seventy -hine years old,
aud clerk in the Treasury Department at
Washington Tor City years, died Saturday.
Cleveland, Ohio, will offer inducements
20 the Democratic National Executive
Committee TO have that place selected for
the National Convention.
The corporation Of Brown UniyereiIy,
Rhode Island, has elected Rev. Alexis
Caswell, y. D., President, in place Of EeY.
DR.. Sears, resigned.
The great Dragon tree on the island OF
'Teneriile, which Humboldt thought to be
ak thousand years old, was blown down IN
August last, during severe gale.
Up 10 the 10th inst nothing whatever
had been heard Of Judge Andrew Monroe,
Of Louisville, KY, who disappeared from
that city on the Oath nit.
Gov. Pease. Of Texas, aflirms that more
than one hundred homicides have been
committed in Texas during the last twelve
months.
There are new and very dark hints Of
ENORMOUS swindling in the bond printing
bnsinP.s in the Treasury Department at
Washington, but they are vet not definite
enough to be telegraPhsd.
The City Council Of Memphis on the
10th inst, adopted resolution abolishing
the city IRE department after the FIRST OF
next March, in consequence of the con-
dition Of the city treasury.
The Bay State Shoe and Leather Com
pany. Of Worcester, Massachusetts, on the
9Th inst, divided among their workmen
one-fourlh OF la-l Years profits on their
lusiness.
Religious reyivals Of unusual interest
are in progress in Columbus, New LeKing-
ION. and other towns in Ohio. AT New
Lexington one hundred and forty persons
have Joined the church within few days.
Mr.. Burlingame was not appointed by
The Emperor Of China an envoy TO the
European governments until after he had
announced hia intention of resigning his
place ~ Minister 10 the United States in
The spring. He is now on his way home.
The total amount of United States taxes
collected in the first St Louis) district of
Missouri lat year, was S3,5ll 200, of
which 81 cot, $50 was derived from manu-
factures and productions, S667, l6G FROM
1pirits Withdrawn from bond.
Secretary McCulloch is becoming very
uneasy in his seat. The Chase men des-
pise him for his base betrayal oftheir chief,
and would move heaven and earth to have
his successor confirmed If they conld in
duce the President to remove him.
Monday morning was terribly cold
throughout the northwest. The thernome-
Ter indicated 6 10 degrees below zero
Cherry Valley, Ills, &c below Madison,
Wis, "A below Muscatine, Iowa, 80 he
low st. Panl, Mimi, 40 below Winona,
MINI, AZ below; and at Sparta, Wis, Al
below.
Mrs. McGrudy, of Lowell, Vermont,
The mother Of fourteen children, lately
aiEned a transfer Of her property to her
on, and then, regretting the net, killed
herself She first hacked her throat with
an axe, and then with a razor seYeTiug
arteries and windpipe. After all that
msngling she lived more than day.
Il IA reported from Washington that the
President has determined 10 withhold his
reioindeT 10 Gmni's last note until called
iur by Congress. Meantime, it is said, he
viii be able TO make some startling deyel
upments la relation 20 Grants conduct
when the subcommittee on Impeachment
begin their investigations. IL Congress
should refuse 10 call for the letter to Grant,
it will be published anyhow.
The New Orleans journals speak Of an
extensive caving in Of the leyee in that
city. From Clouet street down to the re-
o. a. ok,t4g 81
send feet ofthe outer edge Of the levee and
hulkheads have clipped into the river, and
will need 10 be repaired before the next
rise, or tllat portion Of the city will be
overhowed. Atthe point opposite Clouet
street the leyee has slonghed off within six
feet of the curhstone, and presents a !
threatening appearance.
In Tnscarawas county, Ohio, a few DAYS
ago, Solomon Burrier, boy of seventeen,
shot his head 10 pieces with a musket, be
canse hisfaiher and mother hadreproached
him for not assisting with the farm work
The charge of the musket tore of the left
aide Of his face and nearly the entire head,
gathering has brains and the crushed pieces
Of his skull in every direction, distance
Of ten TO fifteen feet from the body. An
inquest was held, and in less than three
hours from the time Of the suicide, the
body had been buried in a rough box on
ths spot where the deed was done.
The Ways and Means Committee were
ia session four or FIVE hours on Saturday.
They have abont agreed 10 reduce the tax
on smoking and chewing tobacco, which is
now forty cents per pound, 10 thirty-two
cenis, and are entirely agreed 70 collect the
tax by stamps, each ounce package bearing
two cent stamp. They had much discus
sion about the tax on coal oil, which, after
whisky and tobacco, is the next greatest
source Of fraud on the revenue. They are
preparing, and will this week report bill,
regulating the export Of Distilled spirits.
Ii will probably provide for half n dozen
bonded warehouses ia as many different
cities on the seaboard.
Some strange stories are told Of Mr..
Seward by the Washington letter~writers.
one Is that he suggested TO the President
that he wo,s:d like 20 trade places with Mr..
Adams 10 which the President assented,
Lnt Seward having cot Adams resignation,
r.E,sed "a give his own until he was con
Grmed for England. Another IL that he
esdeavored 20 get the President into an
ugly SITUATION hhNhA AAttA MIA va fa''ihifH
with St Domingo Mhatever Congress
NAV DC as to the conduct Of the Secretary
of state. had the President betrayed the
rights and interests Of the United States, as
the Secretary endeavored TO make him, The
whole country would have rung with his
II Is saidth the papers will be
called for BY the Senate for this purpose,
hut Congress will find itself iciled mere
again, for the papers will show that Seward
two OF three official ineccora-
t.ies TO Keep the PRESIDENT from hearing the
case. IL is said that the reply Of Col. j. W.
Shaffer and others to Stewards report on
this affair, involves hiIa in several mani
iest falsehoods, and Il il altogether s disA-
sreeable disclosure.
REPEAL or THE INCOME rAA,
A petition soliciting repeal OF the tar
upon Incomes is being circulated in the
Eastern States, and largely signed |
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