Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-09
TmURsDAY. JANUARY .. Isss.
largest Circulation in @ity and State
NEWS OF TIE DAY.


A Congregational Church a Obeilin,
Ohio, proposes 10 exeommunieate Free
masOns.
An audacious incendisry tried to burn
the Gre-alarm bell tower in Hartford,
Conn, recently.
Some Of the steamboats, are carrying
cotton from Memphis 10 New Orleans for
81 % per bale.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has sus-
pended the order prohibiting the importa-
lion Of cattle and hides from Europe.
The banking house of II. Markell & Co,
Of Dubuque, Iowa, suspended on the 7th
inst. Liabilities S65 600. The assets will
not exceed $4,000.
The number Of deaths during 1867 in
New York city was Q, 7l0. In Brooklyn,
during the year, the mortality amounted
10 1925.
Several bighwaymen, on Saturday nigh.
the 4ih inst, stopped the stage due a.
Omaha from Sioux City, wounding several
passengers, and carrying off about $500.
Members Of Congress have been making
efforts to have the Alabama Convention
reassemble 30 as TO make the constitution
less obnoxious and thus secure its ratifica-
ton.
Farwell Hall, in the building Of the
Young Mems Christian Association, Chica-
90, was totally destroyed by fire on the 9TH
inst, together with several adjoining build
inga, involving loss Of probably $500,00O
A resolution prohibiting the carrying of
concealed weapons at elections was voted
down in the Louisiana Reconstruction
Convention, on the eth inst, several white
delegates advising the negroes to 90 to the
polls with muskets on their shoulders
1t is said that resolutions will be offered
in both houses Of the Ohio Legislature to
rescind the ratification Of the amendment
TO the constitution Of the United States,
which deprives States who refuse negro
suffrage the right to count them in fixing
Congressional appointments. Ii is al
most certain the resembling resolution will
pass.
Foster Blodget, Postmaster at Augusta,
Ga, who was indicted in the United States
Court for perjury in taking the test oath,
has been suspended, and George Summers
appointed special agent and takes charge
of the office. A petition is being signed by
the citizens which will be presented to
Gen. Meade asking for the removal Of
Blodget as Military Mayor Of Augusta.
The negroes of Noxubee county, Missis-
sippi, have inaugurated a revolutionary
government Independent Of the State au.
thorities. They have elected a sheriff and
attempted to burn at the stake negro |
deputy constable sent TO arrest them. A |
company Of United States soldiers has been |
called upon and has succeeded in arrestiug /
the ringleaders. Order now prevails.
S. B. Lamar has brought a suit in the
Circuit Court Of New York against Chas. |
A. Dana, formerly Assistant Secretary of |
War, for arresting him in Savannah, in |
April, 1865, and bringing him to Wash
ingtou. The damages are laid at 100000. |
The case now comes up merely to remove
it to the United States Court.
Reports have been received at St. Pc |
tersburg from Siberia, of the discovery of |
rici and extensive gold deposits on the l
Amoor river The natives were focking |
TO the gold regions by thousands. Sogreat
was the excitement that troops had been |
sent by the government to the district to |
preserve order and guard the mines, and |
desperate and bloody conflicts had taken
place between the natives and soldiers.
A delegation from Louisiana, Mississippi /
and Arkansas is in Washington to lay be.
fore the President and Gen. Howard, ofthe |
Freedmen's Bureau, a proposition to re-
organize labor in the South, make it self /
sustaining, and avert the horrors Of starva-
ton, with which various sections in those
States are threatened. Thereisa prospect that /
an executive committee will have plenary /
powers 10 provide work for each laborer, /
white and black, the planters to furnish all
things necessary TO the cultivation of the |
land, the negroes TO be fed and receive one
fourth Of the proceeds of the crops. The |
executive committee will be charged with |
the task Of obtaining the necessary sup |
plies from the North and West, on which |
they shall give a lien on the crop. Those |
who refuse 10 work are TO be reported to |
the Commanding General, who will cause |
them TO labor on public works. The dele
CATION contend that IL the Freedmens /
Bureau will cooperate, the plan can be |
successfully carried out, and without that |
is done, thousands Of persons will perish, |
and that ultimately anarchy will be the re-
suit. The President regards the matter as
feasible,