Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-27
Important from Georgia.
WASHINGTON.

AnmOTs Respecting the Illness of Tx
President JOhnsOn--COnGrmR
by the senate-FrRnk BIair's Mis-
souri, Case, etc.
WASHINGTON, March 26-Reports pre-
vailed here yesterday of the death o
eX-President johnson at his home il
GreeneVille, and inquiries were every.
where made as to the truth Of the rumors
They were doubtless based on iutelli.
geDce previously received here of the
alarming condition of his health, a pri.
yate telegram having represented that he
was dangerously i'll, but dispatch dated
yesterday afternoon says that the ex-
Presidents condition is now very much
better. A later telegram was received
last night at 10 o'clock from a member of
the ex-Presidents family, dated Greens
vile, March p, which says: Our father
As considerably better this afternoon"
The Senate to-day confirmed the nom,
inatiOn of j. {. Bancroft Davis as AS
sistant Secretary of State, and j. Ii
Casey Collector of Customs at New
Orleans
In the Supreme Court yesterday the
argument was concluded in the case of
Il. L. Blair, jr, plaintiff against John 5
Thompson ct al, and Warren Woodson,
plaintiff, in error, against the State of
Missouri. Senator Drake finished his ars
gument, eOntending that the refusal of
lien Blair 10 take the oath was owing to
his own perVerse and obstinate will
Hon. L. Nj. EVarts, counsel of the plains
tif, maintained that the act of the Legis-
lature which denOunces and Furnishes a
citizen, depriViDg him of his civil rights,
is in the nature of bill of attainder, and
that the federal constitution gives the
court the right to correct the wrong.
The court adjourned till Monday.
Brevet Major General SwayDe has
been relieved from his present duties and
ordered to Newport barracks, Ky, to
relieve Gen Woods in command of that
post
The rush of parties for appointment to
office in the Treasury Department is so
great that an order will be issued ex-
GLIDING applicants for Office until after
each days mail is read.
Judge Fisher, of the Supreme Court
Of this District, accompanying delega-
ton from Delaware, called on Secretary
Boutwell, this morning.
There were not as many visitors as
usual at the executive mansion to day.
Before the cabinet meeting, Judge
Swayne, Of the United States Supreme
Court, Hon. W. B. Allison, of Iowa, Sen
atoTs Morton, Yates, and Cameron, and
Gen. Logan, had interviews with the
President.
By direction of the President the
commanding officers Of the several arsen-
ais and of the Naval Academy will at
once reduce the number of enlisted men
Of the Ordnance Department.
A national executive committee of the
colOred men here last night discussed a
paper in favor of a memorial to heads OF
the different government departments,
setting forth the claims of cOlOred people
TO a portion of the patronage Of the gov
eIEments, citing their services in the
war and in subsequent elections, and
asking that positions be given them.
Further consideration of the subject was
postponed.
The Senate this evening confirmed
Reader w. CLARK TO be Third Assistant
Postmaster; Gen. Moses H. Grinnell
Collector Of Customs for New York; A .
b. Cornell, Surveyor for New York. The
Senate also confirmed as Assessors of
Internal Revenue l.. N. Coy, LIST district
Of Arkansas; Jas. A. Cooper, ID district
OF Tennessee; J. l.. Smith, ID district of
Mississippi. 1t also confirmed as Post
masters, Miss Julia P. Voolfolk, jack
son, Tenn; o. K. Smith, Canton, Miss;
VIM. Price, Grenada, Miss, and Jas a.
Bond, Columbia, Tenn.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-J. NJ. Binck-
ley was to-day sentenced to pay fine OF
500 and costs for an assault upon the
Deputy Commissioner of Internal ReVe-
nue., Harland
At an interview tonight between the
President and delegation Of Mississip-
plans, representing the Conservative and
, republican elements of that State, the
president said he thought the best plan
TO quiet the opposing parties in Missis-
sippi would be for Congress to au-
thOrize the constitution to be
again submitted TO the people and a sep
aTate vote TO be taken on the features
objected TO by the Conservatives, and
that meantime the present military
commander should control the State.
The mail service has been extende,
on the Central Pacific Railroad &c b Tia
i've hundred and ninty-seVeVentb, anC
the track laid TO the six hundred an,
twelfth mile. The grading is finished t
Ogden, where the road meets the Unio
Pacific Railroad on its fifty-iirst section
Just before the adjournment, tn
Senate, after going into executive sessiO
the bill TO abolish the office of Chief {