Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-05
nrgqst circulation in City and stai
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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The dOg-tax in Vermont yields $1,000.
Incendiarism is alarmngy prevalent in East
crh Massachusetts,
More cases OF ttichna are reported in the city
Of 81. Louis.
The farmers OF Nebraska are planting forest
trees
The citizens Of the extremely quiet little town
Of Andoger Mass have been startled by gem
uine earthquake.
Among the emigrants who passed through
Columbus Ohio last week. we're twelve who IN
tend locating in Tennessee.
The gteanef Sherman was burned 90 the waters
edge on the morning Of the I'd inst Tue hie
caught 10 the pantry from lamp,and the vessel
BE- n fetal loss.
There Is a rumor in Washington that Mr.
Adams has resigned his position rs Minister 10
England.
There we're ninety-seven deaths in New Or
leans last week one Of which was from cholera.
Gen. Steedman. Collector Of Internal Revenue
81 New Orleans, has rendered has resignation, 10
date from April lst
Charles Davis, a shoemaker, aged sixty. com
mitted sCicide at Cincinnati, on sunday by
taking morphine.
The Carthage QlIg Repu6licas and Pikeville
GiI) Deaocrdf have come out for Pendieton Tor
President.
Risteri. on her first appearance in Havana,
had an immense audience, and was called out
i've times.
Robt II. Briggs, one Of the wealthest farmers
Of Auburn Me, commit ed suicide by hanging
himself Sunday evening,
The President has nominated Mr.. Wisewell
M Commissioner Of Internal Revenue, IA the
sucoessor Of Mr.. Rollins, the present incumbent.
Gen. Gillsm has issued an order reyokng
Gen. 0rd's order for the arrest OF Col; McCaT-
die. editor Of the Nickshurg Times. and cancel
ing bis bond.
The Western Ciii@eu Of Paris, Kentucky, has
changed hands It's FIRST act with the new PRO
pfietOrs Is 10 hoist the name OF Pendleton Tor
President
The anti.contraction bin has become a law.
not by the Presidents signature, but by the lapse
of ten DAYS since its passage, within which Il was
not returned 10 Congress vetoed.
The negroes in Fayette cOuaty, Missouri, aver
that the devil" has actually made his appear
ance among them. and are 30 frightened that
they are leaving their homes IN large numbers.
The Fenian circles in the vicinity of Boston
have voted 20 work on 81. Patricks day, in
stead Of marching IN procession, and devote
their earnings toward revolutionary purposes IN
ireland.
Colonel Edmund Cooper, who was rejected as
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is no longer
candidate for that place. Colonel William
Thorpe, Of Missouri, will probably be nOmina-
ted for that position.
A short time ago il was announcSH that Gen.
John NJ. Palmer declined being the Republican
candidate for Governor Of Illinois; IL is nov re
cept the nomination for that Office,
At Fenian meeting held in Chicago on Sun
day, q resolution wss unanimously adopted for
the immediate mobilization Of Western Fcnisn
troops. The regimental muster rolls were signed
by a large number Of new recruits.
Trains letter TO the New York World dated
aboard Scotia" SAYS 4. e. Durant took out 10
England S. 600 600 in gold, proceeds Of the sale
OF new stock of the Rock Island railroad, 70
purchase 5000 tons iron for extension Of the
road % Omaha.
Gen. Hancock has ordered that after the COM
pletion OF the revision Of registration IN Texas,
which ended on the ID inst, list of all regis
tered before or during such revision shall be
published in each county paper, or where this
IS not practicable shall be circulated in hand
bills before the election, which occurs on the
10th instant.
Ten DAYS ago il was announced By the Recon-
struction Committee which seemed 10 be para
mount in influence 20 this Congress, that the
supreme Court should not decide q law OF Con-
gress unconstitutional, but Il is stated that com
mittee have found u convenient 10 smother and
xiii their own bantling, and IL viii never be re-
ported 10 the House
1t is understood that the President on the
night of the ID inst stated in reference to the
question Of insisting on an Immediate settlement
Of the Alabama clsima that he proposes 70 wait
and see what authority the new English Minister
IS vested with by the British government on this
question before be makes out has line OF policy.
The discussion of Mir Thoruton's merits as
Minister from England TO the United States.
continues 10 great length in the foreign papers.
A correspondent OF the New YORK Tribune
writes & at Mr.. Thornton has been away from
England for score Of years, and seems TO be
about equally ignorant OF the country he rs TO
represent and the country 10 which he goes
The amount Of money deposited by freedmen
during the year 1867, in the twenty savings banks
now in operation under management of the
Freedmens Bureau, was over nineteen hundred
thousand dollars; the total of deposits since the
institutions were organized is above three mil
lion dollers Of which about six hundred thou
sand remains on deposit drawing interest
A fire broke out in the livery stable Of Noel
4 Church, in Frankfort. KY, on tae night Of the
81 inst. and could not be arrested until property
20 the amount Of not lees than s4otSo was de
stroyed. There is great diversity Of opinion as
10 the cause Of the IRE, some eontendlng that II
was accidental while Others believe it to have
been the work Of incendiaries.
James Hedges and Lizzie Trimble fugitive
lovers from Cynthiana, by, were married at
Jshsrsonyille. Ind on the 3Oth ut, and on the
same day Mr.. Todd. Of Charlottesville, Ind,
who had run away with Miss Delilah }. Mad
dox of Shelbyville, Ky, was married To her at
New Albany The brides brother had threat
sned to shoot her sutton II he did not give her
an bnt as she has 10000 in her own right, the
snamsred Todd kept has courage up. and carried
has fair prize away.
Those who are employed at the Howard
Athenum, Boston. maze up q purse of seventy
dollars OF the LIST inst, for the relief Of bal
Iet-girl connected With the establishment, who
home from the performance on Wednesday
night The sudden death of the mother led %
the disclosure of a painful scene of poverty and
dsstitntion in the poor pallets Girls home.
Some excitement was caused in the Criminal
Court ina Memphis on the ID inst. during the
Avalanche contempt case, by the appearance of
q squad Of soldiers, under Lieut.. Huntnn, Of the
twenty -ffth infantry, who reported 20 Judge
Hunter and we're by his orders stationed about
the court. Several attorneys protested against
this proceeding. Duncan X. McRea left the
court, saying he would never practice in II under
such circumstances. The troops were suisse
quently withdrawn, by order of Gen. Granger,
and the court adjourned until Tuesday. when
the decision will be made known.
The Ways and Means Committee had a long
session Saturday. Their time was chiefly occu-
pied in an audience with representatives of the
tobacco interests. The discussion is said TO have
bern quite lively. The committee, il is under
TODD ARE likely 20 adopt stamp duty for
tobacco in all its forms They have sgreed TO
take the tax of from about all articles Of 40
-mestio manufacture. and the various delegations
coming here as representatives Of the recent
MsnufBcturers' Convention, viii ind that they
have little TO do but give their views as 10
methods Of collecting the tax. The committee
have ell along said that the new tax bill would
be reported as a whole. but there are some indi-
cations that they have changed their purposes.
and NAV report a part Of lt very soOp.
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