Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-29
WEDNESDAY,. APRIL 20. 1865
argsst Circulation In city and Stat
NEWS or THE DAY.

OF the immigrants who passed through
Columbus, Ohio. last week, ffly-eight in
tend settling in Tennessee.
Col. Kelly, whose rescue at Manchester
will be remembered, has returned TO New
York from q visit 10 Ireland.
Ga account Of the murders of French
sailors by the japanese, the French naval
force 10 japan is to be increased.
Adyices from Sydney, Australia, state
that Farrell, who attempted to assa--iuate
Prince Alfred, has been tried found guilty
and sentenced 70 death.
A Washington special 10 the Louisville
Courier say the impeachers are losing
ground, and even lets were made Monday
on the Presidents acquittal.
A dispatch from Cheyenne says the sta
bles Of company /, ID cavalry, were de-
stroyed by fire Saturday, together with six
" five horses. Loss about $4,000.
A Washington dispatch says Gen. Frank
Blair Of No, is looming up a. candidate
Of the National Democracy for the Presi-
dency. The volunteer soldier Versus West
Point il the cry of his friends.
Two deck hands on the Belle Memphis
had difficulty in Memphis on the 9th
inst, in which a man named Walsh, Of St..
Louis, had his entrails cut out, and is not
expected 20 live.
j. A. Masicot, the Radical Recorder
elected in the third district in Louisiana
has instituted suit for damages against the
New Orleans Times, for the publication of
a card concerning him. He claims 49,
600.
From North Carolina the returns come
in slowly. As far az heard from the ma
iority for the Constitution is 7430 in ten
counties complete. There is a slight in
crease over the vote for the Constitution
last fall.
Prominent Radicals in Washington assert
that both Wade and Collazswill be rejected
by the Chicago Convention for the Vice
President, and the chances are decidedly
favorable to Hannibal Hamlin, and that it
il due him, as he should have been nomi-
mated for reelection with Lincoln.
The ship Golconda sailed from Balti-
more one day last week for Liberia. She
is TO call at Savannah, and there receive
between four and five hundred negroes,
who intend 10 settle in the African repub-
lie. The desire 10 remove to Liberia is
said TO be rapidly spreading among the col
ored people Of the South.
A Washington special Of the 2Gth inst.
10 the Cincinnati Gazette says: AT no time
since the trial began have the Presidents
friends been forward, and even exultant, in
expressing their belief of acquittsl. This
is 30 general az TO excite much remark,
and yet, in the face Of it all, the Republ-
cans generally have some confidence in
conviction"
Gen. Grant received the following dis
patch from Gen. Candy, Commanding the
Second Military District, dated Charleston,
April 20 Reports received from all but
four remote precincts of South Carolina
give a majority for the Constitution of
43 COS Ia the precincts yet to be heard
from the vote will be nearly equally di-
yided
In the House Of Commons on the 9th
inst, Mr. Disfs "a. in reply to a question by
Layard, made some remarks upon the
subject OF the Abyssinian war, in which he
spoke in most 1attering language Of the
achievements ofGen. Napier his army and
all who gave aid 10 the expedition. The
conquest Of Abyssinia he said was equaled
only by that Of Mexico by Cortez.
In 1862 there were but thirty two minis
tiers and 2l4i members of the Methodist
Church in Missouri There are now about
two hundred ministers and &c coo members,
an increase of about 400Os year. The di-
vision Of the State into two conferences Is
advocated, and the prediction is made that
in four years hence they will each embrace
one hundred and fifty ministers and 10000
members.
A man named Greening alias Stephen
son. with a negro girl, who moved from
Stoddard county, Missouri, last winter, to
Poeahontas, Arkansas, and have since lived
together as man and wife, were murdered
a few days ago The bodies were found in
the river. The man had received five shots
and the girl two. He was an ex-Confeder-
ate soldier and was merchandising on
small scale.
Ii has been rumored that the Chief JUS
lice, az the close Of the impeachment argu-
ments, would deliver a charge TO the court
upon the law of the case, after the manner
Of Judges charge to jury. A dispatch
from Washington says that this rumor was
mentioned to Mr. Chase by Messrs. Bout
well and Bingham, on Friday evening, and
he assured them he had no intention of
making any address to the Senate on the |
subject
Judge Black has published letter con-
corning his withdrawal as counsel for the |
President. His structures are very severe. |
IL appears that Butler, Bingham and |
other managers Endorsed the Alta Nela |
document to the President at the entreaties |
Of Col. Shafier and General Hovey, Of Hi. |
mole, Radicals who were interested in the |
Gaze. Thad. Stevens indorsed it, remarking |
at the time he would sign any document |
Judge Black said was right.
On the night Of the 25th inst. an in
formal conference was held of Republican |
Senators, including those who have voted |
uniformly for, as well as against, the adj |
mission of evidence on the trial, TO see |
what course should be pursued regarding |
the proposition for delay, and, also, 20 see |
what disposition should be made Of the |
motion now pending to admit the official |
reporters to the deliberations of the Senate |
when il retires for consultation on the YER
dict, and 20 make an additional rule re. |
garding the vote on the same. The general |
result Of this conference was that there |
should be no delay in the trial, and that all |
propositions 10 amend the rules in the par |
ticular named, should be voted down.
Dispatches from Abyssinia give the fol- |
lowing: A battle was fought on Good |
Friday, before Magdala, between the |
British, commanded by Gen Napier, ard |
the Abyssinian forces, under the King in |
person The latter were defeated, and re- |
treated into the town. Their loss was very |
heavy. On the Monday following, Gen. |
Napier ordered an nssaut upon Magdala, |
and the town and citadel were carried by |
storm. King Theodous was slain, and a |
large number of HE warriors were killed, |
wounded and taken prisoners. The entire |
capital remained m possession OF the |
British forces. The loss OF the British was |
small All the British captiyes were found |
ia the city, alive and well, and were set |
free. 1t is since stated that King Thee |
dorus committed suicide.
The New York World Of the 25,h inst.
saws: On the same dSy that Mr.. Dickens |
leit New York City for his home IN Eng
land. another English novelist, Mr.. An
thony Trollope, standing in the ReKt i'm
mediate rank after Ihackeray aud Dickens, |
siepped on shore from the Scotia. Mr.. |
Troilope is well known in America by his