Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-16
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY Is. 1885.
argest Circulation in City and Stat
NEWS OF THE DAY.

tt is reported that since the exposure by
the President Of Grants duplicity, the New
York Radicals talk Of sending two sels Of
delegates to the Chicago Convention.
The revivals in Indiana are said to have
caused ten thousand persons TO become
Church members.
Fifteen thousand three hundred and fifty
one new buildings were erected in Ohio
last year, worth nearly 100000.
The Philadelphia Gas Company have
made a deduction in their charges equal to
fifty cents upon 1000 feet.
The bridge over the Ohio river at Louie
Vile, Ky, will be finished in 1869; IL viii
cost 81 900, 600, be ninety-fve feet above
high water, and one mile in length,
Resolutions for the submission Of the
negro suffrage question to the people have
been introduced in the Wisconsin Legis-
lsture.
Chases friends in ST. Louis are delighted
II Grants discontinue at the hands Of the
President They think he is disposed Of,
and that their favorite comes next.
The House Committee on Elections
heard the closing argument on the 18th
inai., in the contested seat case OF Powell
against Butler, from. the first Tennessee
district
The New York Methodist says that COLI
sions have occurred between the two Meth
odist book concerns at New York and Gin
cinnati which threaten 90 interfere with
their usefulness.
There IS a general complaint all over
New England that wells and cisterns have
failed, and that there is a greater want Of
water in streams and springs than has been
known before ia winter for twenty years.
Oae Of the provisions of the proposed
liberal libel law of Wisconsin is that all
plaintiffs in libel suits shall give bonds for
costs Of suit, including the fees Of the de-
fendasi's lawyer, 10 case they fail TO gain
their snt.
Governor Stevenson, OF Kentucky, de-
clines 10 permit his name 10 be used in con-
nection with the Senatorship. The indica-
lions are that the contest for the place will
he between Stanton, Of Macon, and Nc
Creary, Of Davies.
The Cheyenne Vigilance Committee ad-
Vertise that certain persons will be notified
through the newspapers 10 leave the terri
tory, and il said persons do not leave with
IN twenty-fOur hours, the committee will
not be responsible for their safety.
The project Of tunneling the Niagara
river has been revived, and according 10
the Buffalo Courier is likely 10 be carried
into practical effect, thereby forming a di-
rect and uninterrupted railroad connection
between that city and Chicago yio Canada.
A room full Of people in attendance att
donation party 10 Rev. A. I. Field, in
Russelville, Boone county, ILL.,, was, by the
breaking of the floor, let fall into the cell
lar. The stove set fire 10 the ruin, and
most would have persisted, had not there
been enough present who did not fall, to
drench the floor with water. Nobody was
killed, but everybody was bruised.
II il understood that the Treasury De
partment has arrived at the sum it holds to
be due from McRae, the Confederate Agent
abroad, who received moneys and cotton
from the Rebel government and disbursed
according TO ita orders The sum is about
twelve millions and does not include
twentv-si1 vessels sold by him TO various
parties, and which our government also
claims
Parties have arrived in Washington from
Nashville 20 try, on the part Of the authori-
ties Of Tennessee 30 induce the House TO
80 modify the resolutions reported by the
Southern Railroad Committee, as 10 make
an exception in the case Of roads in that
State. After canvassing the matter they
have concluded that the House will not
agree 10 make any exception unless il be
for one or two minor roads where fhe State
has exclusive control.
The House Committee on Freedmen's
Affairs, some time ago, reported bill pro-
viding for the continuance Of the Freed
mems Bureau another year. They have
now agreed 10 an amendment that it shall
not be abolished at present in Maryland,
Kentucky and Tennessee. This seems TO
the committee necessary, as in the present
condition of matters at the War Depart
ment, it appears 20 be impossible TO get a
revocation of the order some time ago
issued Cor disseminating il in those States
ON the 18th inst, though the military au-
thorities all concur in thinking il should
be revoked. The committee will probably
get the floor on Wednesday next, when
they hope TO secure the passage Of this hill
IN the amended form by the House.