Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

4 .
Ieprosy prevails to a considerable ex'
tent among the different Sandwich Islands
II Five women we're arrested in Syracuse
on Sunday for public intoxication, and one
for robbery.
Madame Moore, Wakes, did fifty miles
IN ten hours fifteen and oae-haf minutes
at Troy, on Saturday.
Cnrtin, Farney and Graw are named to
succeed Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, in the
United States Senate.
| The Vermont Legislature has reelected
Hen. G. F. Edmunds to Che United States
Senate for the elk years term.
| The new st. james Hotel in Boston is
closed fromo lack of business. james P.
Stelsou, its lessee, sunk $4,000 in run
ming it a few months.
The distillers in the blue grass region OF
Kentucky have effected the sale of %, 900
barrels Of whiskey, TO be manufactured
the coming year, at 81 80 per gallon, tax
included.
The Oregon Legislature has adopted q
resolution Withdrawing the consent Of the
State to the passage of the fourteenth
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. --.
A woman gnamed Warwick murdered
her husband in Greeneastle, Ohio, Monday
| night. She first shot him with revolver,
and then hacked his head to pieces with
an ak. Cause-a domestic bIoil. The
woman is in Jail. Il o., ...-o
Reorganization in Spain is proceeding
rapidly. Governors, civil and military,
| have been appointed in all the Provinces.
| Democrats have assembled in vilrious parts
of the country, and declare for the Federal
Republic. All males who reach the age of
twenty will be allowed to vote.
There is a pressure among Radicals TO
still further continue the Freedmen's b.
reau for educational purposes, and for the
settlement of bounty and other claims Of
negroes. Gen. Howard does not recon-
mend the measure, buts.believes it would
exert sslutary influence.
Judge Sabin insists upon having negro
iuries. So at a bar meeting at Bryan,
Texas, the lawyers entered into an under
standing that no civil cases were to be
tried at this term Of the District Court, pre-
ferring ito continue their cases TO having
them tried by men who know nothing
about the grave and responsible duties OF
juror"
Late Salt Lake papers contain the pro-
! ceedings Of the General Mormon Confer
ence. All the Mormon church dignitaries
we're represented. 1t was unanimously
agreed that commercial intercourse with
the Gentiles should be restricted to neces-
stiles. Mormons purchasing generally
from the Gentiles will do SO at the peril OF
IL IL, 10 nm
Is Urged as necessary in self-deiense against
the rapidly approaching danger from out
siders coming in with the Union Pacific
railroad.
Speaker ColfaI has stated that no quo
rum will be present in either House Of
Congress on the tenth of November; that
ali the members be had talked on to the sub
ject expressed the opinion that there is no
necessity for meeting on that day, and
that the two Houses would then be adj
iourned by their respective presiding Off
GERS until the first Monday in December.
Nothing has been received at the State
Department conffmstory of the cable dis
patch that an agreement on the Alabama
claims had been reached, though it is not
deemed improbable by the authorities
here. The dispatch gave no indication as
to the disposition of the points in dispute
between the two governments, but should
it prove correct it must be concession on
the part of Lord Stanley, as Minister
johnson has not been empowered to re-
cede from the position hitherto held by
our government. f.
A letter from Wade Hampton in reply
10 one from a Wisconsin lawyer is pub
lished. He considers secession dead for
ever, and has thought 30 since the close of
the war, and is in favor of giving the negro
equal civil rights with the white man,
and suffrage based on qualification, in
which be has no doubt he is sustain ed by
a vast majority of white citizens of the
State. He also says, 1--WE regard the re-
construction acts as unconstitutional, but
look for their overthrow by constitutional
agencies and peaceful remedies alone,
through the Supreme Court of United
States, by whose decision we are prepared
to abide.
. General Reynolds, commanding the SUBJ
district of Texas, has issued instructions
to the Board of Registers, appointed to
conduct the revision of the registration,
setting forth the qualifications of voters.
He excludes all concerned in aiding the
rebellion in any way, or who held Office
under the Federal or State governments
and afterward participated in the rebellion.
He also directs that no amnesty or pardon
entities the applicant to register. This
order reached here to-day and excites
much comment. 1t is construed by the
Democrats as defiance Of the recent order
of the President that no military officers
should interfere in the elections of any
State