Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-17
SUNDAY. MAY ~. 1855.
largest Circulation in City and state
NEWS OF Tun DAY.

wheat crop IN Its vicinity has improved a
hundred per cent. within a week.
Mrs. Dean, Of Lake county, Indiana,
has just been granted divorce, that she
might marry her son-in-law.
Late advices from the Isthmns say the
Central American republics are tranquil.
A malignant fever prevails in Nicarauga.
A large cave, embracing several cham.
bers, and already explored more than six
hundred feet, has been discovered in
Armagh, Mililin county, Pennsylvania.
In Princeton, Wisconsin, millions ofliule
black bugs, less in size than flea, have
almost entirely destroyed the early lettuce,
cabbage and raddish plants.
The postohice in Fort Wayne was en-
tered on the night Of the 18th inst. and
robbed Of over four thousand letters, some
OF which contained drafts for several hum
bred dollars.
Mr.. Alexander Henry, his step-mother,
his daughter aged eighteen, and a son
fourteen years old, we're killed by the tor
nado IN Pickens county, Alabama, on the
9th inst
Twenty Republicans Of Mansfield, Ohio,
overcamc the pressure of their native
modesty, Friday, so far AS to telegraph
10 Senator Sherman that all the loyal
people of Ohio are a unit for impeach-
ment."
There are twelve hundred Americans
and large number Of Germans already
employed in mining in chihuahua, Mexico.
The gold placers Of GuaHacebi extend
distance Of hundred and twenty miles
Bets were offered in Washington on the
18th inst. Of $1,000 10 $4,000 that Han
cock would get the nomination for the Pre-
sidenCy, and the same amount that be
would carry Pennsylvania by twenty thou
sand majority.
The Indian Peace Commissioners have
returned 10 Cheyenne from Fort Laramie,
and report that they have eoncmded
treaty with the Crows, Brules, Sioux,
Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, they
all agreeing TO keep the peace aud settle
on reservations.
The Emperor Of Brazil has no sons, hut
two daughters. II he persists in his in
tention TO abdicaie, it is supposed the
Princess Isabella, his eldest daughter, will
succeed 10 the throne She Is almost
twenty two years old, and is the wife Of
the Count BEu, son Of the Duke De Ne
mours, and grandson Of King Louis
Philippe.
The storm Of the 18th inst Frustrated
several unfinished buildings IN New York,
Brooklyn and Hoboken. The Hoboken
flats were submerged, and large number
Of families compelled 10 seek more secure
quarters, some barely escaping with their
lives. The damage 20 trees, fences and
awnings was quite extensive.
Col. Rodgers, United States Marshal for
the st. Louis district, denies having ap-
piled 20 the Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue for a cavalry force TO enable him
10 make arreats, as telegraphed from Wash
ington on Tuesday, and says there il no
difficulty in executing any process Of the
United States Courts in the Eastern Dis
trict Of Missouri
The Excelsior Insurance Company of st.
Lonis, will offer, through the St. Louis
Agricultural and Mechanical Association,
at their fair, next fall, a premium of 500
for the best plan for iron vessels and barges
for the transportation Of grain, in bulk, on
the Mississippi river aud tributaries Ii
ia not improbable this premium will be in
creased by other parties 10 $1,000.
Lewis Lane il under arrest in Pitsburr
on suspicion Of poisoning his wife, who
died suddenly the other day, after drinking
some whisky he had given her. A guam
tity Of drugs found in his possession are
being examined as also the fragments of
a bottle, which he threw into the fire when
arrested. and which, it is supposed, con-
tanned poison. The deceased was Lanes
sixth wife.
A Muscatine, Iowa, dispatch to the Chi
Cago Republican, saws that after the recent
tornado near the former city, stalks of
ground cherries were found, with the leaves
green, the pods yellog and the fruit per
iectly ripe. This stage Of the plant is at
least four months ahead of that latitude |
nor has IL attained 10 that stage even in our |
most Southern States, so that il Is supposed |
that these berries must have been brought /
by the tornado from some Of the West In |
iia islands, where the storm probably orig
mated
Lieutenant Newton H. Crittenden, Adj
uiant of the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry.
ID conhscated' some horses during Grier-
sons march through Alabama. in 1855
Aiter his discharge he attended Law scLool
II Columbia College, New York city: and
IN the Sth inst, in the midst Of his final
examination, lac was arrested on 4 warrant
worn out by an Alabama man named John
Z. Winter, who CLAIMS that the Lieutenant
ole horses from him. Crittenden pro
urel bail Tor $1,000 next morning, and
vas released.
The Washington CHRONICLE, Of the 18th
INST, denounces Mr.. Chase, aud urges with
III It's might that the business Of thecnurt |
o-morrow shall again be postponed. La
columns are filled with editorial articles
md Geographic dispatches from all quar-
ers, all of which are intended 10 influence
he court 20 convict or postpone Among
,ther dispatches is one from Goy. Holden,
4 North Carolina. who predicts that a ter
ible civil war will result from a verdict Of
Ioquittal. These things are too contempt
he even 10 he laughed At. There Is no
LANCER that Holders predictions will set
he Potomac on fire.
A Washington dispatch Of the 10Th inst
o the Louisyiile Courier savs: "Notwith-
landing the summons issued by the man
gers, they have made no attempt 60 pursue
ilt tAhiN0tt AAhA9Aa kAalNtis AlClE NNltAA
,as 60 affect the votes Of wavering senators
v indicating = suspicion thai they had
cen tampered with. Ii was originated by
iutler, whose sharpness has again over !
esched him, since the proposition falls
an lower, and meets With unmeasured |
lntempt" A dispatch 90 the Louisville |
0urHdl says; Developments show that
be extraordinary manipulation OF Sena- ,
,rs, ia order 10 force a verdict against The
resident, is now deemed a very awkward /
hing for the impeaohers, Hnd hence the I
Isnagers have indefinitely postponed the
lrther examination Of witnesses. Ii should \ ,
ave been known from the start, and would {
ave been, had not the spemies of the {
resident been frenzied with hate, thatthese j
lsmeless attempts 10 compel senators 20 4
he rimeof Penary would returu 10 plague .
le inventors. ,
IL Is scarcely possible, think, that the !
louise would listen 30 new articles Of i'm {
eachmenJ bot h Is nevertheless, rumored | q
lat new arucles aTe IN c0uHe of pnpera- ! Z
on, which are Do b. Submitted after the
ngro-elected Senators from the Southern / 3
ates shall have been admitted. Such a
eu as Batter, Logan, and the like. have ;
D doubt that the bogus Senators from the "
outh would gladly vote Tor The conviction G
the President. no matter how unurh Of 1 ii