Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

{ Bend" were recently booted from the
! streets of Montreal
I A letter from Wayne county, Missouri
says that Roochport, a Radical Registrar
shot lad, the son Of q Democrat, while
on q drunken spree.
, A new State seal for Illinois has gone
into use. The main difference from the
old seal is that National Union" is now
put before Estate Sovereignty"
Whalen, the murderer of McGee, con-
fidently expects to get new trial He
has been led to believe the Judges will
decide against the ruling of Chief JUS
tice Richards.
The branch road to Richmond, Ken
lucky, will be finished on SaturdayInight
next The citizens of Richmond propose
having q celebration of the event about
the 10th of November
There have arrived in California 107,~
700 Chinese, of whom $500 have died.
and $4,000 have returned to China, leav-
ing on the coast a Chinese population of
81 ,000 exclusive Of those born there.
The Boston Post, suspects, from her
presents of tea>pots and bed. quilts, that
Madagascars Queen has matrimonial
intentions upon our Secretary of State.
A Paris letter-writer who saw Victoria
in that city says: "She is little dumpy,
red faced old lady, dressed in black, and
having in her eye a dull sort of CLEAN,
which makes one involuntarilY think of
lunatic asylum"
A French viscount has been kicked by
a Partisan for insulting his dumb wife,
whom the viscOunt had piled with impor-
tunities, on the principle that silence
gives consent
NJ. Gaulden Boilleau, Consul General
for France in the United States is to 90 to
some South American Republic as Min
lister. His wife is a sister of Mrs. Gem
eral Fremont.
The subject of r. w. Emerson's next
lecture in Boston will be history Of the
Brook Farm Association, under the head
of Historical Notes of American Life
and Letters.
Parties interested in revenue matters
are writing to Congressman urging a ses-
sion on November 10th, for business
They desire a modification of the Inter.
nal Revenue law at the earliest practical
Bile moment
The total subscriptions to the McGee
| fund in Canada amounts to between seven
and eight thousand dollars. 1t is stated
that it will be sufficient to leave Mrs Me-
Gees estate free of debt
An aged local preacher, of the town,
| ship of Blenhelm, Ontario, died last
week Of an apoplectic fit while preachs
ing the funeral sermon of a neighbor,
from the text There is rest" etc.
A Columbus dispatch says that Cover
nor Seymours visit to Ohio had a splen-
did effect on the Democracy, and also on
the better class of Republicans. Men of
all parties express their admiration for
our candidate as a gentleman and a
| statesman.
Horace Greeley has been nominated
| for Registrar of New York, as the Res
publican candidate, in place of General
| Sigel, declined. Mr.. Greeley accordingly
vacates the nomination for Congress in
the fifth district, and James McCartier
has beCn made the Republican candi-
date
Mayor Thomas, Of st Louis has pubs
lished a proclamation closing all liquor
shops on election day, and requires, also,
all minors to be kept within doors from 6
A. NJ. on Tuesday until A. NJ on Wednes-
day, and threatening any child caught
out of doors on that eVenttul daySwith ar.
rest and Imprisonment for ten or thirty
days. 1t is hardly necessary to say that
T. is radically Radical
The instruction in Cuba is not so in
significant as was at first reported. The
revOlutionists appear to exist in lare mum.
bers, and they have mad, their reckless
ness sufficiently apparent the destruc-
ton ola town by fire, and in maintaining
one or two fights with the Captain~Gen>
erals troops.
On Wednesday afternoon the prairie at
Altoona, about twelve miles from Des
MOines Iowa, was set on fire by sparks
from locomotive. The wind was very
| high and swept the flames at once to the
farms of Levi Yant, Mr. Cummings and
Mr.. Nicely, which were completely desc.
lated. Several other farms were cOnsid-
erably damaged
A Columbus, (Ohio) dispatch of the
2Sth, says: The Radical leaders are
playing systematic game against our
naturalized citizens, to keep as many of
them as possible from voting. The arr
rests they are making on account of nat~
uralization belong to this game. The
old KnOw-Nothing spirit is again ram
pant
Ben Wade has so far made the hugest
joke of the campaign. 81 tell you, said
he, "Grant will have peace if he has to
| tight for it." That is like the deacon who
declared he never swore himself, and he'd
be id if he would allow his boys to
swear
The Norwich Conn Bulletin says;
Among recent interesting matrimonial
events in this city was the marriae of I.
! b. Blackstone, Of Chicago, President of
the Chicago and Alton railroad, and well
known in railroad and financial circles
brother of Mayor Blackstone, of this
city-and Miss Isabella F., daughter of
Henry B. Norton"
Thomas NJ Marshall and James X.
Morehead, of Pittsburg, Benjamin II.
Brewster and VIM. H. Kemble, of Phila-
del phia, Galusha A. Grow, of Susquehan-
nah, and Gleoni W. Schofeld, of Warren,
are candidates for United States Senator,
from Pennsylvania, to succeed Mr. Buck
alew.
| A grief-stricken father in Iowa had the
body of his little daughter who had died
and been buried in his absence, exhumed
that he might take a last look at her loved
face. The body was found turned upon
its face in the coffin, with both little
hands clutched in the hair-evidently
buried alive.
The Radicals have raised terrible
howl over the murder of Mr.. Martin, Q
member of the South Carolina Legisla
ture. 1t was declared to be another
"Rebel outrage" But it now appears
that he was killed for his money by a
couple of "black men and brethren"
1t is stated that the Radical Mayor Of
Washington has dismissed the white City
Physician, and has put a negro "quaCk
in his place. White women, who in
sickness are compelled by poverty to re-
sort to the public provision for relief, have
to admit this negro "quack' to their beds
sides as their medical attendant.
! z-
Col Ed. Cooper at Home.
A few days since it gave us pleasure 10
announce the marriage ofour distinguished
| friend Hon. Edmund Cooper. of Shelby