Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-08
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~Isws OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Wisconsin is 10 establish a school for
imberiles.
ia Boston, the present year, S5,847, $40
/, TO be raised by taxation for city ex-
penditures.
The Kentucky Legislature has liked the
lime for electing Representatives to Con
gress ia November next.
A young lady was baptized at Worcester,
Massachusetts, last Sunday, after cutting
through ice fifteen inches thick.
The New Jersey Democratic State Con
vention, to nominate delegate 70 the Ma
tionAl Convention, will be held at Trenton,
June 10Th.
Southeast Kansas opens a foe field for
ministers. In population Of thirty thou
sand there are but three pastors Congre-
gationalist, a Methodist aud United
Brethren.
The civil war in japan between the adj
herents Of the SkogoOn and those OF the
Daimios il raging with great violence, and,
Tor their own safety, the foreign Ministers
have left the newly opened port OF Osaca.
The Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, Bishop Dagget pre-
siding, and the Baltimore Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop Simp-
son presiding, are in session an Baltimore.
Stanton still keeps guard over the War
ONCE and has increased the Fentinels.
General Thomas will hereafter attend Cab
met meetings az Secretary Of War al IN
term.
Brigadier General Burns, Military Mayor
of Charleston pro ten., has been super
seeded by Colonel Cogswell, of the Sth inc
iantry. 1t is believed Cogswell will pursue
the same policy as his predecessor
On the third ballot in the Maryland
Legislature on the 9th inst, General J.. o.
Eickers, Of Kent county, was chosen United
States Senator, receiving GO votes, against
Al for T. +. Thomas and % for Mr.. Earle
The House Of Representatives having
passed a bill removing the political die
abilities Of Butler, of Tennessee, 1T was
moved il also apply TO the case of Brown,
Of Kentucky. The proposition was laid
over.
The Supreme Court of the United States
on Friday postponed further argument in
the McCsrdle case. The court also post
poned the argument on a motion Of Judge
Black for leave to file a bill in behalf Of
Georgia against Gems. Grant, Meade and
others.
Hon. John Morri6sey ia in Memphis.
He attended a Democratic meeting Friday
night and made telling speech. He re-
ferred 10 Congress and advised the people
South 10 cooperate with the Democratic
party North. The meeting was enthusiasts
tic and Morrissey was loudly applauded.
In Troy, n. Y, the other evening, a
Young man named David L. Brown, at
tempted the murder of his wife by plung- |
imp a knife into her bosom, during a freak |
Of madness induced by intemperance and |
the declaration Of Mrs. Browns intention |
to leave him. He destroyed some furni |
ture, and then attacked his wife with a |
knife, iniicting severe wounds.
Deputy United States Collector John |
Martin was arrested by Deputy Sheriff |
Sangster at Memphis en- the 9th inst. !
for attempting to distrain some goods for |
United States taxes, which had been levied |
upon by Ssngster under execution. Martin |
was taken before court and required 10 give |
honda. He declined 10 DO 40 and is now |
in custody Of the Sheriff. The case was to |
come before court Saturday,
Father james Meister, pastor Of the |
Roman Catholic Congregation at 81. An
thouy, Dubois county, Indiana, was killed |
last week. He had gone where some boys |
we're cutting wood, 10 warn them ofdanger, |
when a large limb, broken of By falling |
tree, struck him upon the head, crushing |
his skull. He was more than eighty years |
old, and had been ordained priest for over
fly years.
In the Louisiana Reconstruction Con- /
yentIon on the 9th inst the negro Crom-
well offered a resolution declaring the
presence Of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans
detrimental TO law and order, and ordering
him 10 leave Louisiana within twenty-four |
hours. Another colored delegate opposing |
the resolution, said this convention was not |
a vigilance committee. Blackburn, Of |
Claiborne, denounced the proposition as
harbsrous. IL was tabled by vote of SO |
10 8.
A financial panic, caused by the depne-
citation Of city currency, resulting from the |
disoTdered condition Of municipal effairs, 1
occurred in New Orleans on the 9th inst.
City notes are at a discount of twenty cents
on the dollar. Crowds besieged several
brokers Offices on St. Charles street, using
threatening language until the proprietors
closed their doorE, and an extra police
force caused the dispersion of the by
islanders. Great distress, and perhaps fur
Their trouble, will result from this state of
affairs.
The operatives in the various mills. at
Fall River, Massachusetts,, struck, on Tues
day morning, because Of q reduction of
seven per cent. in their wages. This re-
duction was at first made fifteen Per cenr.,
but upon petition of the weavers and
spinners the corporations took off the adj
ditional eight per cent. There are fifteen !
mills in Fall River, and the strike stops |
nearly half q million spindles. More than
i've thousand hands are thus thrown out of
employment, wh0 declare their determine
ion MOTTO again resume work until the mill
owners sccede TO their demands.
Montana papers report that the Blackfeet I
indians have commenced their yearly raid, | !
md are now investing the Benton road, :
between kenuedys rancho and Gun river.
They have already killed one man, and
-Gn of over a hundred horses, besides |
1reating panic among the settlers in the
leighborhood. Wells, Fargo & Co.'S
coaches were fred az several times. Dis
patches 20 Governor Smith, from Colonel
state that Kennedys rancho,
hirty-hve miles from Helena, was burned
~ the Indians Mrs Kennedy and her 9
'hildren were captured and carried of by {
he ssvages. The Omaha Republican learns Z
rom a reliable source that about twelve
hundred Indians are gathering around Fort
-aramie, and conducting themselves in Z
and insolent manner. They =
ave already commenced depredstions on
took.
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ANOTHER election farce has been a
layed The details viii be found in s
mother column The people are getting c
red Of this sort Of thinF-yer7 tired o
few more such exhibitions will make L
hem desperate We are not Of those a
tho think that liberty is lost because it ii
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