Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-13
NEws or rnE DAY.

The Ways and Means Committee have
agreed TO recommend a reduction Of tax on
chewing tobacco, from forty TO thiriy-two
cents per pound.
Sir David Brewster, the celebrated Eng
glsh physician and distinguished scientific
discoverer aud antEor, died on the 10th
inst ~.
Government has reservations Of timber
lands 10 the extent of 1000 acres, To-
Gated in Georgia, Florida, Mississippi aud
Louisiana, for supplying material for the
navy, and Secretary Welles wants 10000
appropriated to pay the salaries OF per
sons 70 watch il.
Miss GreenouEh, aged seventeen, MAS
burned 10 death at Burlington, W., on
Sunday night, the 9th inst, her clothing
taking IRE from the explosion Of ker-
o.ene lamp. Miss Hattie Mills died, IN
Philadelphia, from n similar accident, on
the 10th inst
F. The Huntsville Ala Independent, Of
ahe 18th inst, says From pretty re-
liable information, 1t has been ascer-
tanned that not more than 1900 votes have
been cast in Jackson, Marshall, Madison,
Morgan. Lauderdale, Lawrence, Lime
-tope. franklin and Colbert. The con
siitution has not carried in a single
county, except, perhaps, Lawrence"
Secretary Seward, by direction Of the
President. has written 10 Charles OCon-
nor and James T. Brady, Of New York,
askipp them to 90 70 England and appear
"a counsel for the American citizens, I'M
der trial for completely in the Fenian pro
ceeding. No answer has yet been re-
ceived, but if these gentlemen do not &C
cppt, the tender will he made 70 others.
In the course Of the debate in the House
nf Representatives on the 10th inst, on
petition in behalf OF naval officer who
was tried and found guilty, before court
martial, for speaking disrespectiully OF the
President, and saying that he ought to be
and v9uld be impeached, Gen. Schenck
saidfe wished that man had proven more
Of a prophet Whereupon "A number OF
Radicals who were sitting near him said,
IN an audible voice, just walt lac will
turn out prophet vet
On the 10Th inst, after the Georgia aud
Mississippi cases we're disposed OF, Judge
Black fled a new bill an behalf of the State
If Georgia against Generals Grant, Meade
and AuguT. IL is understood this bill seeks
20 avoid all difficulties encountered in the
former argument, and raises dist,pctly a
question Of property, to-wit. the Treasury
Of the State Of Georgia; an Injunction 10
protect this ia prayed for. The time for
hearing the argument il not yet determined.
Another attack was made upon the police
Of Cork, Ireland, in the street, on the 10th
inst, 10y a nob who pelted them with stones
and bricks The police, who we're armed
With muskets, fixed bayonets and charged
on the crowd. A short and desperate fight
followed, in which several Of the rioters
were hayonetted. The assailants then fled
IN all directions, leaving their wounded on
The ground. During the day an attempt
was made 10 seize and lynch a we'll known
informer, but the appearance Of the police
patrol prevented the outrage being carried
sut.
Az Gen. Sisrman's name has been
brought into the controversy between the
President and General Grant, il may not
be amiss 10 state that the President ia in
receipt OF letter from Gen. Sherman,
which ia understood TO have this paragraph
an il: "lf Stanton won't resign, and there
s no other way of getting rid Of him,
This letter, together with one other of a
very important character, may reach the
public eve il the unfortunate controversy
Ia pressed any further.
The Radical leaders in the impeach-
ment programme in Congress, express their
regrets that the President used the word
unless" in his written order to Grant TO
disobey Stanton They charge that Mr..
johnson used the word with view Of
lodging the responsibilities which would
have attached 10 any unconditional order
10 disobev, That had the order been I'M
conditional, they would have reported
articles of impeachment at once, They
still believe, however, they can make out
a case of impeachment, with the assistance
Of the Ashley -Connover testimony, taken
before the Judiciary Committee. ....
A new move in the revolutionary plot
has been determined on, which embraces
the admission Of Alabama, and the recOg-
milton Of her Representatives to Congress,
regardless Of the vote being taken on the
adoption Of the, constitution. The Radicals
now argue that the very large vote cast for
the constitution will justify repeal OF SO
much OF the reconstruction laws as requires
a majority Of the registered vote TO be cast
This will be done, and the constitution as
formed will he recognized, and Alabama
will he represented in Congress in few
weeks This has been arranged with Ger
tain Southern loyalists, who are now in
Washington,
A communication has been cent to the
81 Louis Board of Health, notifying them
that hog sold in that market the other
day had been subjected TO examination
under the microscope and found full OF
trichina. Specimens of the meat were sent
10 she Board, and in piece the size Of
pins head, nix trichina were found. In
view Of the facts, the 81. Louis RpublicaH
charitably recommends that, "as Chicago
claims 10 be the principal pork market IN
The world, il would be as well for Nilsson
mans that they make their principal ship
ments 70 that city. An occasional death
there IL not likely 20 excite comment and
the Introduction Of irichnia may afford not
only relief from a crowded population,
tat sensation for the press