Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-06
NEWS OF THE DAY,

MT. Burllngame and other members o
the Chinese Embassy have arrived il
Paris.
The mortality in the city of San Fran
cisco for December was sol, of which 14S
died of smallpox.
The Emperor Napoleon has subscribed
five thousand francs for the monument
to be erected TO the late Emperor Maxi
milan.
Cheyenne is filling up with roughs and
desperadoes again. The Star hints al
the revival of the vigilance committee
as q remedy.
1t is proposed, when Congress assem-.
bles, to introduce and pass resolution
of sympathy for the Cretan cause of in
dependence.
The official reports state that the loss
OF the insurgents during the late fighting
In Malaga was 400 men. The city is
now perfectly quiet.
The next census Of the United States
is to be taken in 1870, and the present
Congress is expected to make the neces-
sary appropriations and regulations.
Elk. Senator Foster, of Connecticut de-
MES that he has ever applied for the
Russian Ministry, or that he ever had
any conversation with President John,
son on the subject.
A new route will be opened from Chi
cago to Lacrosse, Wisconsin, next year,
by way Of Mineral Point, Wisconsin,
which will shorten the present distance
twenty-eight miles.
A dispatch from Athens states that The
Turkish Admiral Hobart Pascha has
formally demanded the surrender of the
Greek steamer Erosis. The dispatch
adds that war is considered inevitable at
Athens.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railroad is now finished to Atlantic City,
eighty-two miles west of Des MONIES.
The Valley railroad bridge over the Des
MONIES River, at Des Moines, is also
completed.
Horace Greeley is said to be writing
pamphlet to present to Congress, urging
the immediate return to specie payments,
and taking the ground that if it is not
done this year there is great danger to
the national credit.
The property qualification for candi-
dates for Office in the Province of Onta-
rio has just been dispensed with by the
Legislature. Formerly, candidates were
required TO own real estate valued at
f5OO sterling, about S2,4l2 in gold.
Galveston, Texas, now claims $1,000
inhabitants. 1t boasts of six hundred
business firms, six lines of steamships,
five OF sailing ships, two banks, six phi
Vate bankers, two insurance companies,
and three cotton press companies.
Secretary McCulloch has recently
given orders re~instating about a hundred
employees in the New Orleans Custom.
house, discharged on the recommendation
Of the Treasury Agent for disloyalty, and
because their services were no longer
needed.
c. II. Campon, Emigrant Agent at Cos
umbus, Ohio, reports the arrival of two
hundred and sixty. one emigrants at that
point during the week ending Saturday
night. They propose to locate as fol-
ows In Ohio, fffty-two; Missouri forty;
Illinois, fifty>seyen; Indiana, seventeen;
Kentucky, nineteen; Tennessee, thirty
'ne; Wisconsin, thirty-one; Minnesota,
seven, Iowa, five, and Michigan, eleven.
A National Convention in favor of uni
Tersal suffrage in District Of Columbia, as
ground, has been called to
meet at Washington about the 18th Of
January. Susan B. Anthony, and other
Tell-known advocates Of the movement,
will attend, and Congress will be invoked
o provide special legislation at once for
female suffrage in the dis,
riot.
A Washington correspondent writes
There appears to be considerable strength
n movement among the larger West
ern distillers to induce Congress to in
,rease the tax on distilled spirits to
81 80 per gallon but as things now
oOk it will hardly find single advocate
n Congress, as the returns to the Treas.
Try still show that the revenue at the re-
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vas 81 per gallon.
The new suspension bridge at Niagara
Falls was thrown open to the public
Saturday noon. A four horse carriage
Hollis White, Vice President
Of the Bridge Company, Samuel Keefe,
Engineer " W. Smith, Superintendent,
Ind William Poole, editor of the Niagara
Falls Gazette, passed over, followed by
crowds of people. The bridge is the
longest span on the continent.
The citizens of San Francisco have
formed Joint Committee on the investi-
cation of earthquakes, who are author
zed to examine into the cause Of their
and the best method of pre-
venting repetition of the great destruc-
lion of property in that city. The subs
have already been formed to
report on building materials, lines, &C.
nent, structural designs, and on the
history Of earthquakes in California. The
bricks used in San Francisco are reported
to be very defective in consequence OF the
ignorance of the proper proportions, and
the proper way of burning them. The
adoption Of a method Of bracing buildings
with iron rods is also recommended.
ACCIDENT 70 GEORGE II. SHOT