Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-30
THURsDAY. APRIL 80. Isss.
I.argest CIrculatIOn In CLty and statl
NEWS OF THE DAY.


The President has recognized Allen A.
Barton as Consul Of Peru, in Kentucky.
There are 1880 convicts 10 the Ohio
penitentiary. There were never more.
During the last fifteen years Is, 500 chill
dren have been sent West from New York.
Judge Curtis, Of the Presidents counsel,
left for Boston On the evening Of the 9th
inst. He 8ill not return 10 attend the
tial.
Jane Bennett, a handsome and elegant
looking woman, said to be from Cincinnati,
has been arreted in New York for picking
pockets at funerals.
Samuel H. Wentz, who embezzled the
funds Of the National Mechanics Bank, Ui
Baltimore, has been pardoned by the Pres
ident and released from confinement.
A London dispatch of the 28th inst,
saws: At the Newmarket races Witch
craft won the handicap. Lozenge won the
100 guineas plate The 1000 guineas was
run a dead heat by Formosa and Moslem,
who divided the stakes, and Moslem walked
over the course.
Gen. Graham, Col Leiber and Lieut..
Col. johnson have been detailed to exam
inc and c0unt the votes cast at the late
election ia New Orleans, aud report the
same to the Commanding General. They
will make separate reports of the votes
cast for and against the Constitution, and
Of those cast for members Of Congress.
IL is reported that ten members Of the
st. Louis whisky ring have been indicted
by the grand jury. The names are not
given. There is great commotion among
the defrauding scoundrels Of that city.
Four prominent men we're arrested on Mon
day, and bound over for trial. A faithful
revenue officer has been attacked at night
and nearly murdered.
The President on the 29th inst, sent TO
the House Of Representatives a report from
Adiutant General Dent, showing, ia reply
10 a resolution Of the House, that the Mill
tary Department Of Alaska and the Mill
tary Division Of the Atlantic are the only
ones formed since the first of August last.
and they have been formed in accordance
with long-eslablished usage and author
ity.
Assistant Commissioner Brown, Of the
Freedmen's Bureau for Virginia, has issued
the following circular TO Sub Assistant
Commissioners in that State: T" IL ~ not
thought advisable that Bureau officers OF
agents should attend political conventions.
While il is clearly their duty to advise
freedmen in regard 10 their political and
civil rights under the laws Of Congress, it
is not deemed proper that officers or agents
should become political partisans You
will see that these instructions are at once
promulgated to your subordinates."
Brady's Bend accommodation on the
Allegheny Valley railroad, consisting of a
number of freight cars, with baggage car
and passenger coach attached, when near
Burning Well, 100 miles from Pittsburgh,
on the 28th inst, jumped the track and
was thrown over a high embankment, ma
king two revolutions, stopping in the
Allegheny river. There were upwards of
twenty passengers on the train, none of
whom were killed. The following are the
names of the persons seriously injured
Miss. Mary Marshall, leg broken Mrs
Hoover, injured internally Mr.. Angeed,
in the spine. There are six or eight others
slightly injured, whose names are not
known. The accident was caused by
broken rail.
The National IatcIligeacer published on
the 9th inst, letter dated March g 1868,
written by Gen. Butler and Endorsed by
John A. Logan, John A. Garfield, Thadde-
us Stevens John A. Bingham. William II.
Kootz, w Moorehead and J. G.. Blaine,
expressing the opinion that the claim of
the United States to the Island Of Alta
Vela was Just, and that the government
should defend the claim in the most favor
able manner consistent with the dignity
Of q
delivered TO the President, March 16. It
was published 10 show that Mr.. Nelson was
correct in stating on Friday that Gen.
Butler had made certain recommendations
concerning this case, and that four of the
impeachment managers backed mp Black
in Withdrawing from the defense Of the
President because the latter refused 10 re-
sort 10 extreme measures 10 enforce this
claim.
The Nicksburg Times, Of the 22d in
slant, gives the particulars of a recent
murder Of a family at Omega Landing, on
the Mississippi river. Four negroes, il
appears determined 10 kill a man named |
Keenan,, for the purpose Of obtaining some |
money they supposed he had just received |
for p lot Of wood. On the 18th instant, as
Keenan, left the landing, he was shot by |
one Of the negroes They then proceeded |
to search their victim, but found nothing |
in his pockets, and consequently determined |
10 visi. his house. Arrived there, they |
killed Keenan's wife and son with an ak,
and then tied a daughter, a little girl, to a |
bed, and set il on FIRE The murderers |
were pursued, and, after a long pursuit,
two Of them were captured. While the |
officers were conveying the wretches TO |
prison, a mob of negroes seized them, and |
at once made fire and roasted the crimi- |
mails 10 death.