Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-17
FRIDAY. JANUARY IL. 1855.
largest Circulation in City and STATE
NEWS OF THE DAY.

OF MS DfOtuef IN MiHSlsAlppi.
Murdoch ia to give readings from
Dickens works, in Philadelphia.
Dickens first reading in Phila delphia,
was worth $4,000 TO him.
Gen. Pope is assigned TO command the
Department Of the Lakes, headquarters at
Detroit.
Secretary Stanton drew pay on the 18th
inst. TO the amount Of nearly $4,000, for the
time during which he has been suspended.
The contest for United States Senator
from Maryland il between Swami and w.
T. Hamilton, with chances for the former
being elected.
General Frederick Steele, United States
army, late commander Of the department Of
Columbia, died on the 18th, at San Malco,
of apoplexy.
The railroad companies Of Chicago have
made very advantageous propositions to the
city, for filling mp the lake basin and
making of it a park.
The Covington (Ky.) Street Railway
Company has reduced the wages of its
conductors and drivers from 81 to 81 IS
per day.
The Assistant Secretary, Engroasing
Clerk, Doorkeeper, Sergeant-at-Arms and
Messenger Of the South Carolina Recon
struction Convention are all negroes.
A man at Detroit skated sixty consecu-
tive hours, finishing on Saturday the 1lth
inst, for $500. Toward the last blankets
had to be held up about him to keep the
wind from blowing him over.
On the morning Of the 18th inst. Stanton
issued orders as Secretary of War, and was
40 recognized by Adiutant General Town
send, and all other officials Of the War De-
partment.
The New Jersey Legislature was or
ganized on the l4th, and resolutions were
introduced to repeal the constitutional
amendment in regard to reconstruction,
which was passed by the extra session in
1866.
Minister Dix has brought suit against
J.. Sanger & Co., bankers Of Paris, for
eight millions Of dollars, the value Of
ships built by the French and Prussian
governments as Confederate cruisers during
the war.
Bishop Potter's diocese of New York
is to have two new "sees." The Long
Island bishopric is TO raise Bishops fund
Of 100000; the see Of Albany and Troy
a fund OF $4,000. Trinity will assist the
people Of Albany.
J.H. Jones, Principal Doorkeeper of the
North Carolina Reconstruction Convene |
ton, is an original free negro, and was
jeff Davis body servant during the war,
and was captured with him. His assistant |
is a white man.
A resolution was offered in the Virginia |
Reconstruction Convention on the 18th
inst. by negro member, thanking the |
United States Senate for reinstating Secre- |
tary Stanton, and it was laid upon the |
table.
Several leading Radical members Of the |
Senate and House have declared if the Pre- |
sident declines or refuses to recognize Mr.. |
Stanton as Secretary Of War, they will |
Immediately take up the impeachment |
measure, and put the same through with
ont delay.
A number Of Senator's and Representa-
tives called and had interviews with STAN
ton on the 18th inst. The New York dele
cation called, and to one of them he re-
marked 81 will remain in the War Office
until am forcibly elected. I do not in
tend TO resign.
The Radical Nominating Convention,
held at New Orleans on the 18th instant,
nominated H. c. Yarmouth for Governor
and +. F. Dumas Ia negro) for Lieutenant
Governor. The latter declined on the
ground that his name was used without his
consent. Oscar j. Dunn (negro) was nom
mated in bis stead.
A Washington special TO the Cincinnati
Gazette says THE President has decided
20 send in the name Of Edmund Cooper
again for Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
sury, and great confidence is expressed at
the White House that he will be con-
frmed, though every Republican voted
against him before
An officer sent TO examine into the dis
turbance at Marshall, Texas, reports that
but one shot was fred, and that over the
heads Of the crowd. by man who was ar
rested. The Sheriff and his Deputy, who
were arrested as instigators, were turned /
over to the civil authorities and bonded for
trial at the next term Of the court.
General John A. McClsrnand, who CONF
manded the thirteenth corps at Vicksburg,
is out in a sharp letter, saying that General
Grant never did his corps justice in his re-
ports through malevolence to its COM
mander, and the proafs are on file in the
War Department. Gen. Grant, he says,
would stand very differently in the public
estimation il his real character were
known.
A Washington special 10 the Cincinnati
Commercial, dated the 18th instant says
Some surprise was occasioned here by a
dispatch published to-day, announcing that
Gen. Meade had removed Gov. Jenkins
From the tone Of the kilograms received
Yesterday and the day before, from Gen.
Meade, il was understood in official circles
that he did not believe he had the power
to remove Jenkins because he opposed the
payment Of expenses of the convention
In the Supreme Court of Appeals at
Richmond, Va, on the 18th inst, in the
habeas corpus case Of a pardoned convict,
whose release had been refused by the
of the State prison, on the
ground that Gov. Pierpont had no power
to pardon, his term as Governor having
expired January lst, the court unanimously
decided that Pierpont held over until
successor was qualified, and the convict ,
was released.
The Judiciary Committee of the Senate
has not yet taken up the Supreme Court {
bill. Judge Trumbull, of Illinois, is said q
TO have expressed himself strongly against T
IT; but the impression is that this and all ,
other measures deemed necessary by the
Radicals TO perpetuate their power will be {
driven through both Houses, and then :
passed over the Presidents veto.
The Radical Senators had caucus on
the morning of the l4th inst, to discuss
the Supreme Court bill, which passed the I
House on the 18th, and the new recousiruo- I
ton measures nov pe8ding. The general :
tenor Of the debate was favorable 70 the
passage Of these measures by the Senate,
and also Of the proposition of Senator !
Morton TO abrogate the existing civil gov {
ernments in the South.