Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-28
PARAGRAPHS.
Various Personal aud Political Affairs


New YORK, Feb. ga company has
been organized, and will sail shortly, to
raise two million dollars in specie from
Spanish ship sunk in the West Indies
in 1910.
Sixty thousand dollars worth OF SNUG
gled silks and laces were seized yester>
day in a warehouse on Canal street, and
two arrests were made.
Additional frauds, amounting to thirty
thousand dollars, have bsen discovered
among Treasury officers. Two promi>
nent officials are implicated.
About fifty Irish temperance societies
will be represented in the procession on
st. Patrick's Day. The celebration is
intended to be the largest ever held in
this city.
Trouble between the English bonds
holders of the Atlantic and Great " est
ern Railway and the Directors OF that
road and the Erie, causes considerable
excitement in Wall street. The cause
Of the dispute is the alleged failure of
the Directors TO pay the interest on
mortgages of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad, as agreed in the lease
accepted by the Erie Company.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Geo. Down
ing, colored, who keeps the Congression-
al saloon, in a card this morning, denies
that he or any of his colored friends have
applied to purchase tickets for the inaugu-
ration ball. The Committee of Arrange
ments require the names Of the purchas-
ers to be placed on the tickets, and none
will be admitted unless presented by the
party in person.
The credentials Of the members Of the
Forty-first Congress from Georgia were
presented tosday. The question whether
their names should be placed on the roll
will be argued before the Clerk Of the
House, Mr.. Mcpherson, on Monday.
There will be but one more meeting
Of the present cabinet, and that will take
place next Tuesday.
The new Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, Columbus Delano, had an IN
terview to-day with Commissioner Roll
Inns, and is already making himself
| familiar with the duties of the Bureau.
Delano will be first among the names
nominated to the Senate.
The President elect has not even pre-
pared his inaugural. He says it will be
brief and will cover the general views of
his administration which will be economy
and retreDchment, with full collection
of the revenue through the appointment
| Of honest and efficient officers.
During the past forty-eight hours con-
siderable caucusing has been going on
among New York and Eastern politic~
isns, with a view to mature some plan
whereby Ohio will be prevented from
having member Of Grants cabinet. At
first their objections were deemed of lit
tie Importance, but now the movement
appears to have considerable strength,
and Ohioans manifest some uneasiness.
1t is held that the position OF Cons
missioner Of Internal Revenue has been
rendered to Mr. Delono, who is in every
way equal TO cabinet position, and
therefore Ohio should not have the latter
place.
Mr.. Seward has written a letter in
which he says he expects TO retire from
public life on the 81 of March, and that
| it is his purpose to seek to enjoy there
after 80 much of rest and freedom from
| habitual studies and labors as is compat-
| IDLE with the responsibilities which he
/ shares in common with all his fellow
citizens.
WASHINGTON, Feb 27.-Tbe dispatch
from Cheyenne alleging that the Union
Pacific railroad has been blocked for the
past fifteen days by four inches of snow
is considered absurd. Another dispatch
received from Echo, Utah, to-day, from
the superintendent Of construction, say:
that three miles of track were laid yes.
terday
Gen Sherman arrived to. day from 81
Louis, and is stopping at the residence o
his brother, Senator Sherman The
house purchased from Gen Grant fol
him is te be thoroughly repaired, and ht
will not remove to 1t before the lst o
June
The committee to arrange the inaugu'
raj procession have not fully determined
on the programme 1t has been deter
mined that the several divisions will form
in the First ward, the military on PENN
sylvania avenue, and the other divisiOni
on the side streets, and take up the
| President-elect at his headquarters, cor
ner Of Seventeenth and f. streets, pro
ceeding along the avenue to the capitol
After the President is sworn in, the pro
cession will return up the avenue anC
disband at some convenient point
In the procession will be all the Uniteo
States troops in the District also all th
marine corps The Secretary of Wa
has issued necessary orders 10 the troop
and General BelleD, at the request of tn
committee; the Secretary Of the Navy ha
issued orders to MAJOR Graham to paTad
his command of marines, and the Wa
Department order, recently issued trans
ferring United States troops, SO far az
relates to troops here, VIZ. Co X, 81
Cavalry, Battery F, 9TH Artillery l2t
Infantry and 4ith Infantry, has lee
: suspended until after the inauguration
Hon Columbus DslanO had long in
! terview with Commissioner Rollins to
1 day, aad that fact, in connection with tn
e meation of Mr. Delanos name in cOnnec
e ton with the internal revenue burea
excites considerable interest
Major Joseph II. Caldwell, of the IT
4 tired list, at his own request has bse
. relieved from duty as professor IN th
7 military service, at Lexington, ny.
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Mary E. P. l.. MagoOn, OF North Ems
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