Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-24
NEWS OF THE DAY,

The enrolled militia of Canada number
Cog, OGG men.
Rev. Gen. Gov. Pile, of New Mexico, writes
to the St Louis Democrat, advocating the
speedy acquisition of four Mexican States.
Mayor Hall, of New York, charges H. G.
with being a monOmaniac, and offers to
prove it before a commission of lunacy.
Gen Sherman thinks the National Capt.
tol will never be removed from Washington
to the Mississippi or any other valley.
Samuel B. Ruggles was yesterday elected
a delegate to the Suez canal Inauguration,
by the New York Chamber of Commerce.
President Grant and Gen. Sherman have
promised to attend the Convention of the
Army of the Tennessee, at Louisville, on
Nov. II and Is.
1t is believed at Washington that MIR.
Gladstone only hesitates to set Irish Amer
leans at liberty from fear that such an act
would give strength to his political oppo-
nents.
The Nabobs of Fifth avenue have bought
off the audacious Frenchman who pro-
posed opening restaurant within the hal
lowed precinct.
The Treasury Department has com
menced an investigation of the charges
that Assistant Treasurer Butterfeld, of
New York, has been specializing in gold,
and if they are sustained he is to be dis
missed.
The Woman's Parliament held its first
session in New York last Thursday. About
20 ladies were present, among them Fanny
Fern. Jennie June Croly, Mrs Peabody,
Mrs. G. S. Pierce, and other noted literary
women.
The extraordinary revelations in regard
to the relations between the members of
Grants family and the Wall street specu-
lators have created intense excitement in
New York and Washington, but nobody,
however, appears to be much surprised
1t will be recollected that one-third of
the Senators 90 out at the end of every
Congress, and in the case of Virginia the
terms will be counted a though there had
been regular representation since 1861. The
two terms just elected, therefore, will ex-
pire in 1877, and 1878.
Gen. Candy has refused to give a de
| cision in the case from Petersburg, Va,
| wherein his interposition was invoked, IN
| order that white woman and black man
might have a marriage license issued to
| them. The Petersburg Courier says he
thinks the courts should settle all such mat
tiers.
A colored woman confined in jail in Sa-
vannah, Ga, the other day gave birth to
| twins-a son and a daughter. The
| daughter is black and the son white.
Little Rock, Arkansas papers state that
all indictments pending against parties on
the charge of treason in that State have
either been quashed or dismissed, includ-
| ing the celebrated Picket case.
Lawrence Henry, of Worcester, has been
fined 81, 900 and sent to the prison for SIX
months, for carrying on the wholesale
liquor business without a United States
/ license.
Secretary Fish has acted as mediator be
tween Mexico and the European Powers,
and they will at once interchange dplo-
matte relations.
Gen Belknap, the newly appointed Sec
| rotary of War, has written to a friend at
Washington that he intends to leave his
home in Keokuk, Iowa, on the 18th inst.
He will not, however, assume the duties Of
his new Office until the lst of November.