Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-28
SATURDAY. MARCH Is. 1865.
largest Circulation in City and Stat
News OF THE DAY.

Brigham Young is a widower, FIVE of his
wives having died Of pneumonia during
The winter.
Western papers state and profess to be-
lieve, that the bloOdiest Indian war on re-
cord will be commenced about the middle
Of April.
Hon. J. L. Mcdonald publishes a card
in the indianapolis Herald, peremptorily
declining the Democratic nomination for
Congress in that district.
The Iuka (Miss.) Gazette hoists the name
Of George ii. Pendleton, Of Ohio, and John
w. Stevenson, Of Kentucky, for President
and Vice President.
The bill exsmpting billiard tables from
the provisions Of the statutes Of Ohio
against gambling, was defeated IN the
House Of Representatives Of that State on
the 18th inst.
The committee appointed to investigate
charges Of bribery against members OF the
Missouri Legislature have failed TO find
evidence 10 substantiate the charges.
Ratsky, who murdered Feliner, dia-
mond merchant, in New York, IN 1861,
has not been hung yet, and now petitions
for release from Jail, asserting his inno-
cence.
The late heavy and long continued rains
have caused freshet in ell the streams in
Eastern Ohio. Railroad bridges are in
danger and the town Of Crestline has been
flooded.
A letter from the Chairman of the Con-
necticut Democratic Committee saws Eng
lish will be elected Governor by a hand
some majority, and the Democrats will
carry the Legislature.
The recent fluctuations in Erie stock
have made and unmade some fortunes for
individuals. One gentleman made $4,000
in one day, and another lost 100000 in a
single day.
A man in Morrisania, New York, sued
Trades Union because his son was dis
charged from employment on account of
its members refusing 10 work in the same
shop with him, and gained his case.
The Chicago correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Gazette says there is nothing left of
Forrest now but his reading, his rheuma-
tism rendering his appearance on the
stage absolutely painful. His engagement
in Chicago is not a success.
The vote on the veto in the Senate on
the 26ih inst. is regarded as indicating the
determination ofth Radicals of the Senate
10 move in a solid phalanx, in any scheme
deemed necessary TO their power, including
impeachment.
Representative Jewett, Of the Ohio Lee
gislature, has returned from Washington.
He says that the general impression there
is that johnson will be impeached, though
the President and Mr. Groesbeck are conf
dent it will not be done
About fifty Germans, Of both sexes, from
Bremen, passed through Washington re-
cehtly for Virginia. 1t is said these are
pioneers Of over ten thousand such emil
grants to be brought to Baltimore during
this year, d thence sent TO new homes in
the South.
A communication from the War Depart
ment states that on the Sth of December
there we're five officers and ffty-eight men
on the island of San Juan, the territory in
dispute between the United States and
Great Britain, now held by joint occupa-
ton.
The Scituate, Rhode Island. National
Bank was robbed on Tuesday night, the
oath inst, of $500 in bills and bonds.
The Cashier was taken from his bed in an
other house by four men, carried to the
bank, and compelled to open the vaults for
the robbers, who escaped. The capital Of
the bank is $4,000.
The Washington dispatch of the Goth
inst. TO the Louisville Courier says:
Hopes once entertained that there
were Senators who would rise above allie
glance TO party, are fast disappearing.
Overwhelming pressure has been brought
20 hear upon Senators suspected of having
any conscience. A Senator who, three
weeks since, violently opposed the measure,
is now in the Radical lead. So confident
are the managers Of conviction of the
President they impudently assert that they
will close the case within week"
a Memphis dispatch Of the 26th inst,
says: Radicals here are in a stew in re-
gard TO disclosures made by the Grand
jury. in reference TO frauds perpetrated by
officers Of the Municipal Court Only a
portion ofthe report was allowed TO be pub
iished, but the morning press ia 80 severe
on Judge Waldran, that he was compelled
TO spread the entire report on the minutes
Of the court, which shows that Barbour
Lewis. so-called Judge, was implicated
in It,"
A W ashlnRton dispatch OF the 10Th INST.
10 the Louisville Courier says: The Recon
struction Committee have been tinkerng
over the Alabama bill, and to-day reported
another one, which is the third in as many
week. Stevens moved his amendment of
universal suffrage, which the committee
had declined 20 accept Old Thad. was in
the House watching the progress of events,
hut afterwards retired 10 the committee
rooms but as soon as he learned of the bill
being mp he was brought back, and was
ready for work. Farnsworth, who has
charge Of the bill, attempted to palm off
the statement that seven thousand white
men voted for the Constitution, but Beck
promptly denied that such a statement had
been submitted 60 the committee Farms
worth then admitted his was private infor-
nation. Stevens amendment provides for
universal suffrage, and il the State here
after places any restriction on suffrage this
legislation recognizing her as a State in the
Union is 20 be null and void
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THE DIFFERENCES.
Some exoitable persons rush into the
presence Ct the Autocrat Of Tennessee,