Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-30
rnrRsDAY. JANUARY 30. lses.
largest Circulation in city and State
NEWS OF THE DAY.
senator Wilson iswriting book.
pafti viii not BE married for two years.

The President has nominated J Ross Browne
%. Minister 10 China.
A case viii soon be before the United States
Supreme Court testing the constitutionality OF
the income tax.
The ST Louis Board Of Trade has petitioned
he Legislature TO abolish the Metropolitan
Police Board. ga
Hon. Joel Parker. law professor at Harvard
University. has resigned in consequence Of ad-
Fancing years.
Il Is said the Senate Committee on Foreign Re
lations will recommend the confirmation OF 5. >.
Cox as Minister to Austria.
The State Treasurer Of North Carolina here
fused 70 pay the per diem Of the meuahers ofthe
Mrs Wakefield died Of appoplexy in one Of
the Washington churches during the sermon on
Sunday. the 9th inst
Reports from the projects Of the Department
81 France indicate that the new army bill very
unpopular with all classes
The present season is the most rainy and ais
agreeable ever known in Oregon and washing
ton Territory.
The street railway company Of Memphis is
considering the eKpediency Of using one-horse
cars on their streets instead Of the present large
care.
For The Office Of Assstan; Secretary Of the
Treasury, there are but three persons namet.
w. X. Wells, Esq, Of Michigan. will probably
. be nominated.
The Lower House Of the Iowa Legislature hes
passed Joint resolution, by q vote Of II 10 II,
ratifying the amendment TO the constitution OF
the United States. known az the l4ih article.
The Mobile Times. which came out for Grant
for President and Pessenden for Vice President,
has taken their names down from its editorial
head.
The election Cor municipal officers and coun-
eilmen IN Wheeling, Ia. on the 18th inst, re-
suited in favor Of the Democracy BIZ an average
majority Of 300 gain over the year previous
The New Orleans and Arkansas river stern >.
wheel packet George ID Palmer was snagged
and sunk on the 18th inst. in the Arkansas river,
twenty four miles below Pine Bluff.
The breach between the two wings Of the
Radical party In Louisiana is widening daily.
The New Orleans Tribune, organ Of the negro
wing, announces Judge Taiiaierro as its eandi-
date for Governor
Sergeant Gilbert H. Bates, Of Wisconsin. who
made bet 10 carry the stars and stripes from
Vicksburg 10 Washington unarmed and without
money. started from the former place on the 90
instant
General Meade has removed NJ @. Barrett.
Secretary Of State. of Georgia, for refusing 20
acknowledge the military authorities, and has
directed Captain wheaton. now acting az Comp
troller. TO discharge, also. the duties Of the
Secretary
NJ Msgne. Minister Of Finance Of France has
published report On the condition Of the En-
pire, in which he Gays there is a large deficit in
the estimates, owing 10 the extensive prepara-
tons made for war during the LuxemburR dis
pute. He proposes loan OF 4s0000,OOO francs.
The Cunard steamship Siberia, upon which /
the new English Minister 10 the United States,
M Thornton, is a passenger. a. considerably
overdue. sand fears for her safety are beginning
10 be felt.
It is generally believed by Mr. Johnson's
friends in Washington that be will sign the anti
contraction bill passed last week Adult il is pos
sible that he may conclude to permit the bill to
become law by the lapse Of the constitutional
ten days.
Maryland is groaning over frauds on the
State revenue. She taxes Oysters taken ia her
bays and rivers three cents bushel which
should yield revenue OF over 100000 year
but unprincipled oystermsn don't pay, and
therefore the State got last year only $4,000.
The Chicago Tribune unRallantly says that
Miss Anna Dickinson, the Radical lecturer, is
or. She has also fallen into the habit Of mixing
statements which are not supported by the
facts. but are directly opposed to them.
DE. A. @. Moore was shot at Baltimore on the
9TH inst. by Mrs. Edward A. Pollard, not dan
seriously. She was committed 10 jail Moore
was en- intimate friend Of her husband, who has
been absent some weeke and whose whereabouts
she desired 20 learn Of the Doctor.
The President has nominated Hon W. D.
Bishop, Of Connecticut for Commissioner Of
Patents. II II not thought he will be confirmed
In that eTent the name Of Colonel Cox, Chief
Clerk Of the Interior Department viii then be
sent 20 the Senate.
Governor jenkins, Of Georgia has taken legal
steps in the Supreme Court 70 test the right Of
Gems. Grant and Mesae to diSpossess him Of his
Office. II was decided last year In the case where
the President was defendant, that no action
could lie against him, but il is contsnded this
you'd not apply TO The case against Grant and
Ell Dashin, and old citizen living in the
suburbs Of Memphis, ehot his son, a youth Of
nineteen. on the 2sth inst, through the left
RLsS , inn.enf y y osnesea mortar wound
he refuses 90 tell why he did the shooting. and
there is no clue 20 the cause. r4t
Chicago was the scene Of another disastrous
connagration on the 18th inst. A ERE broke out
m N az I'M EunWn az
the Burch Building, which spread with fearful |
rapidity and soon the entire building was in
flames. The extent Of the loss by the IRE is not |
fully ascertained, bat il is estimated at not less
than s2,O00.00O.
John Caldwell, member Of the Chicago DO
lice force, stepped into saloon on Clark street,
An that city was invited 10 take glass Of cider,
and died in three hours afterward. He bad /
twice arrested the keeper Of the saloon for yiO-
lations Of The law, and suspicious are enter /
tained that revenge prompted the publican 70 /
poison him.
SlE Calling Bardly, an English Barenet who, |
In lo59, married Miss McGee. in New York. 1
and IN 1867 married Miss Allan. in London. /
h1 nrst wife being still living. has hesn CON 4
victed Of bieamy, in London. and sentenced to
eighteen months imprisonment at hard labor
he tired to get OF on the plea that his first mar
rage was not valid
Late sdvices from Cuba report A mortality
AMONG the iishes Of the Florida coast and Gulf /
Of Mexico, due perhaps to emsastions from the
submsTtne volcanoes and other disturbances
the herbor Of Sd. Thomas Is said 10 have become
80 etd as to render the slightest agitation of IL
painfully offensive.
Senator Wilson said in private conversation |
on the 9TH inst, referring 20 the proposition Ia
The Georgia Convention 70 ask Congress to ratify |
and accept the Southern constitution without |
agree % nothing Of the Kind, but that every
stale must nave Its constitution ratified BY the |
people before Representative would be admitted |
The Uopse Cr,o,,,,t...,... nj Il
considering the bills for the distribution OF the
award for the capture Of Jed Dav Isl aud hevs |
conclnaso 20 ~, siVsae y equally smong the officers
conain cavalry, and q company Of scouts under /
an Ohio officer. all Of whom were present or in |
made. The entire amount has heretofore been
claimed by the fourth Michigan. Under the
ruling Of the committee, the men will set about
three thousand dollars. ana the other officers in
proportion.
In Consequence Of general depression of basi
ness m New York. there Z great reduction Of
hands employed in the drygoods and Clothing
storss. CarhaTt, Whitford a Co, in ,ahose
large clothing establishments eight hundred
we're employed, have ceased work Tor Che last
month, and have discharged ell their hands
Irsysous % the war this 6rm did g larger
S0usheru trade than any similar establishment
20 s ana sSS SSs de- ne sSssngs
charged number Of their enplofes and ~. |
duesd the wages Of the remaining hands
The most important features Of the bill mira /
duced IN the Senste on the 2sih inst by M /
Edmundss Of Vermont relating to proceedinEs
IN impeachment cases, are those relating 10 |
suspsnsion from once Of persons on trial. This
nay be done by vOta Of two thisSie Of thu Sena-
sofs present on Applications Of the Heese. and
nay be enforced b. any officers Of civil, naval
OF military service. with the force 81 his dispo-.
sal. Ofhcers disregarding such order OF The
Senate shah be considered guilty Of oontsnnpt
and suspended during the progress Of the pre-
ceedinge against them. and pupishment there
for txed 81 a Ene not exceeding $4,000 or i'm
Prieonmsnt fer from one e twenty years. or
both, AZ the discretion Of the Senate. /
Awashinston special 70 TIE louisville C5srss-,
says, The dcmfnant perty in Congress seem
20 act upon the idea that they are damned poiit-
icsliy Beyond redenpt'on, and tborefore tkcy
can incur ne greater penalties b heaping IN i
iQaity rpon inig1ity. I4ei7 last abomtpation Is
abih intfcdacee az TIE House on the nth inst
ana paced. II provides that IN case q Senator i
Il the gnited States becomes President Of the /
lpited States By occasion Of HAVING beer Pres
dent pro ter. Of the Senate. and BIS tenure Of |
once e. sQch Benatcr shall exFire before the
next Presidential election proyidad b. law, Ercb
Senator shall. notwithstandfns the expiration
Of lis term &c Senator, continue 70 hold fhe Of
Gee o. President until MS aaceassor Il elected
md oaaliled g the TINS regularly preccrihed "