Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

a Cnlcago court has Qeclded that eX-
press companies have the right to for
ward letters accompanying consignments
in unstamped envelopes. -.E--..
@BoutweIl forbade smoking in the
Treasury Department. -Delano did it,
and Boutwell, regulated him." but De-
lano still smokes and falls back on Grant.
The Governor of New York has parc
doned Edward Hogdon, convicted of mur-
der in the second degree in New York
City, and sentenced to imprisonment for
life. .a.....
The whole of North Mississippi is said
to be oVerrun with Commercial travel~
ers" seeking to sell the country mer>
chants goods from st. Louis, Cincinnati
and Louisville houses.
A Denver dispatch says Wells, Fargo
& Co. have withdrawn their coaches be-
tween Sheridan and Denver, the Post
Office Department having refused to re~
new their mail contract.
The Chinese in California are very
skilIful in counterfeiting gold dust, and
succeed in selling q good deal Of the boz
gus article. This was once tried in
Australia, but lynching stopped it.
A desperate of the press says that
Colfax and Mrs. Colfax weigh just one
hundred and fifty. eight pounds each,
though she was Wade before Colfax
and her uncle's Ben. Wade.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided that Notaries Public, attesting
papers to be used before the Department,
must procure certificates of their author
ity from the clerk of court of record in
every case.
The oil wells and tanks No. s. and S6,
on the Tallman farm, near Titusville,
Pennsylvania, were struck by lightning.
The tanks burst, and property to the
amount of $35,000 was destroyed, ins
cludiug 1000 barrels of oil.
The Collector of Internal Revenue of
the Third District of Ohio writes to the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue that
his safe was broken open, the other
night, and two thousand dollars worth
of revenue stamps stolen.
The Cubans in New York have formed
a plot to kill Henry French, the spy, who
testified to the details of the late expedi.
ton before Marshal Barlow. A1 inno-
cent citizen who was mistaken for French
was severely beaten. ..
The shock of the recent earthquake
was felt throughout Alabama, Tennessee
and Missouri. The vibrations which were
strong enough to shake houses to their
foundations, lasted for about fifteen sec>
onds. The wave was from east to west.
Governor Hayes was Major of the
regiment of which Rosecrans was Col
onel, and the first night he ever slept
under tent, was under the same tent
with his present competitor for Govo
ernor Of Ohio. --
The Philadelphia Age says: "Grants
negro postmaster at Macon, Georgia, has
been arrested for having hand in the
abstraction of currency from the Treasu-
ry Department at Washington. That
fact had better be kept quiet, or he will
be appointed to foreign mission and
have dinner given him in New York.
Concrete pavement is being laid in
Fifth avenue, New York, from Thirty
second to Forty street. The con-
crete is composed of common gravel,
heated with pine and coal,tar for the
first layer; mixture of pine-tar, rosin
and fine sand is then applied for top
finish, making a hard and perfectly
smooth surface.
"Olivis," the correspondent of the Phil
/ o1olnhTa prauc ha zNp
mindedness Of Susan B. Anthony. "Let
u.s." she says, "visit her faults tenderly.
Baby lips have never pressed her hard,
cold cheek. Shs has never tasted the
sublimity of motherhood. She has never
bathed in that immeasur2ble sea of glory
whose waves touch the gates of Para
disen
Sam. Hildebrand, the notorious Mis-
souri outlaw, who had eighty death.
notches on the butt of his rife, is re,
ported to have died Of the wound which
he recently received when defending
himself against an armed posse of six
teen. He had escaped and wandered
through the brush for some days, with q
large party in pursuit, but cheated then
of the $4,000 reward offered by dying
under the hands of physician.
The proclamation issued by Captain
General De Rodss, announcing the insur'
rection in Cuba as only sustained by
bands of guerillas, is point-blank false
hood. Statistics are obtainsble showing
that at least ten thousand So called fill
busters have safely landed on the island
and Joined the insurgents, during tht
past five months. Quesada, the General
in-Chief of the Patriot army, has control
of the most important interior railroad
: lines, and is besieging, if he has not al
ready captured Puerto Principe; while
Gen. Jourdan, formerly of the Confeder'
, ate army, has large force under hi
+ command, which is constantly in actiV
. operations in what is called the Easter
district.