Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-21
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
Br0wmlow 90 be observation-disclosures
Hancock 80 Succeed General Thomas
--ROseerans on Radiealism -Audn-
city of General Butler.

Brew mlOw 10 be CEeckmaa eo-taeRerAi
Hancock 80 Succeed General Thomas
| --ROseerans on RadieaIism -Audn-
city of General Butler.
'A' Special to the Louisville Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.--Fhe condition
Of affairs il Tennessee, as intimated in my
dispatch of last night, is being carefully
1 considered by the authorities IN this city,
and enough is known Of the course in
| tended 10 be pursued to warrant me 10 say
| ing that BroWnlow's scheme to organize a
militia, composed Of ignorant negroes and
| desperate white men, some Of whom have
beenlp ardoned out Of the peniteDtiary for
| the purpose, upon the pretext OF their
presence being necessary TO preserve the
peace, when their mission really il TO per-
.petuate the power Of the Radical minority,
viii not be allowed by the general govern
ment. The beginning Of the end Of Brown
lowism with all its attendant evils is
making itself apparent. sEl
s(Ren. Thomas known hostility TO tine
view ofafairs indicated above, it is thought,
nsent- COMMANDER and Gen. Hancock is
Iregarded as the one most likely to be
assignedto the Department Of the Climber
land in The event Of the removal Of Gen.
Thomas. Gen. Hancock, to-day, in COM
pany with. GeA Rousseau, called npon the
President, and this among other matters
was freely discussed. F'fsa
| The negro military rioters from Alex
andriA, who fired into the crowd upon the
sidewalk in Pennsylvania avenue upon the
occasion of their visit to The remains Of
Thaddeus Stevens in the caPitsb by which,
almost miraculOHsly, but one old darkey
was Killed, are now on trial, with fair
prospect Of ere long trying some Of the re-
ality which their poor old victim was 50
summarilysent 70 experience. Ii is pity
thus TO interfere with the Innocent amuse-
ment Of the "loyal black element" and
none but those in whose hearts, treason is
still ranking would be guilty Of it.
| General Rosecrans is on short visit TO
Virginia, and intends TO cali on General
| Lee before returning Notwithstanding
the prominent past he took in putting down
the Confederacy, the Radicals have no
more earnest Opponent THAI abe General.
In a conversation the other day, he re-
marked that the Radical policy had about
as much Cancellation in it as the action of
the butcher who endeayorsd 70 conciliate
the calf by knockingit on the head ~ -
A runner which has gained some cur
reney here that the government contem-
| plated establishing protectorate over
Mexico. can be traced 10 no reliable source,
and IS probably without foundation.
Special to the Louisville Courier.
WAsHINaToN, August ban audacious
| specimen Of Beast Buffers impudence has
Just been brought 10 light at the Attorney
1 Generals office, in a suit brought against
Butler by Kimberly Brothers, He has in
structed his attorneys to apply TO the At
torney General 10 assist him. This impu-
dent demand ia made under the provisions
Of law passed during the war, and re-
| quires the Attorney General to defend OFF,
GERS or ex-oficers of the army against
whom suits may be brought by civilians
for arrest, imprisonment, etc.
Letters received from the chairman of
the committee Of five appointed by the
Mississippi Contention, say there is strong
disposition on the part of the Democratic
party South to have an issue made on the
question of the right of Mississippi and
other excluded States 10 vote in the APP
preaching election, aud fear that the bill
passed by Congress Is not sufficiently ex-
plicit and say that their very existence as
aparty depends on the reassembling of
Congress in September.