Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The only State out Of debt is Iowa
She has 81 100000 surplus.
Gold in paying quantities has beer
discovered near Newman, Ga.
| Queen Victoria still wears the deepest
black for her blameless Prince.
A number of immigrants from Germa'
ny have arrived in Edgefeld, S. c.
Miss Fidelia Bates is a regularly COM
missioned Notary Public in st. Louis.
Fisk's engagement of Mile Nilsson is
for six months from October 10, 1870.
A bill abolishing the canal contract
system has passed the New York AS
sembly.
The ice blockade in the Hcdssn river
at Hudson, has broken, and navigation
is open.
The Mississippi river is open up to
Reeds Landing, except gorge just
above La Crosse.
The late Hon. Edward Bates was the
father of seventeen children by the wife
who survives him.
The military post at Lexington was
discontinued Friday, and the troops or
dered to Louisville.
A Philadelphia reporter correctly pre-
dicted the last storm by "the cereal ba-
rometer in our left boot"
James Gordon Bennett and Horace
Greeley are warmly contesting the
question of their respective beauty.
Letters from Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick predict large emigration to
the Uuited States in the next four
months.
Gen. +. II. Hobson has been appointed
Internal Revenue Collector for the Fourth
Kentucky District, in place of John R.
Beckley.
Mile. Stephanowska, Vienna ballet
| girl, daughter of charcoal woman, is
engaged to marry the Russian Prince
Wittgenstein.
A correspondent declares that the late
| speeches OF Senators Fowler and Spague
indicate that they are going over to the
Democracy.
The New Orleans Opelousas Railroad
has been ordered to pay its past due cou-
pons, some 5000, 900, and in default, the
road is to be sold.
Hon. Horatio Seymour is still at Keo>
kuk, Iowa, laid up by the injeries he rev
Gently received by the railroad disaster
near Peoria, Illinois.
A Salt Lake dispatch says that Wells
& Fargo's coaches commenced their con-
nections with the Union Pacific railroad
at Ogden on Thursday.
The Pittsburg Post says the gain of
Democratic strength, as exhibited in the
spring election in Allegheny county is as
wholesome as it is decided.
Worsley dedicated his translation of
the lliad to "Gen. II +. Lee, the most
stainless Of living commanders, and ex-
cept in fortune, the greatest"
The revenue of the Atlantic cables is
now S., 500 in coin per day. Every re-
duction Of the tariff so far has largely
increased the receipts and profits.
Charlotte Thompson, the actress, will
| go to San Francisco to play as soon as
she gets in the cotton crop on her plan
tatiOn, near Montgomery, Alabama
The Galena Gazette says that the
Hon. f. b. Washburne will leave there
for Washington on the 18th instant, and
GO thence for France on the lst of May.
The continental police authorities in-
tend to send the chiefs of police in the
large cities Of the United States photo
| graphs Of dangerous criminals who escape
to North America.
Orders were received at the Ports.
mouth, On. II. navy yard Friday, re'
ducing the wages Of all per diem work
men and clerks twenty per cent. from
last months rates.
The New Jersey Legislature ad'
journed Friday. A bill from the Senate
to submit the ratification of the fifteenth
amendment to vote of the people failed
to become law.
A Mr.. Tiscan was attacked by fifteeE
Indians seventysfve miles from Fer
Howe, and with revolver defended him.
self, killing four redskins, and woundins
enc. He escaped unframed.
| The Board of Directors of the Pacific
railroad, in st. Louis Friday, elected
James H. Lucas, President; Dan. r. Gar
rison, Vice President; ]. Porter, Secre'
tary and Treasurer and j. NJ. Cooper,
Auditor
The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce.
have petitioned the House of Commons
Mr.. Gladstone and the Postmaster Gen
eral to support the present contract with
the steamship lines for carrying the mail'
to America.
Incendiaries have been at work at Ii
Crosse, Wisconsin. The De Soto Hous,
was burned to the ground; loss no
ascertained. Mr.. Hingen's barn and out
houses, in another part of the city, wer'
also destroyed by fire.
The New Jersey Legislature has
passed bill imposing a tax of two pei
cent. on the net income of bankers, brok
ers, express companies, and all othe
corporations, save Camden and Amboy
which pays a contract tax.
Miss E. J. Ketcham, of Philadelphia
has been appointed to clerkship in tn
Treasury Department Miss Ketchan
is the first colored woman appointed t
clerkship in any Of the departments b.
the new administration.
A little girl at Keokuk was DISCOVERIES
doing the Mile. Turnour business in
barn, before an admiring audience {
school>fellows they had fitted up
trapeze with an old clothes-line and
broom>stick the elevation was som
twenty feet, but the party was broke
up before anything else was broken.
Cubans in New York claim to hay
private adyices from London that th
English government has consented I
recognize the Cuban insurgents as be
ligerents, and allow the purchase of VIZ
material in British ports. 1t is believe
that France will follow the English e1
ample.
!, 1t is stated that while the Commits
on Elections was holding a meeting tt
other day, an alteration took place b.
I, tween two of its members, Messrs. Stey
enson, of Ohio, and Barr, Of Illinois. TT
latter struck the former, and in retur
was struck himself, but the contestant
were separated before any serious dan
-, age was done.
# A Washington special of the lst ms
: says: There was fierce debate aga
=. to-day in the executive session over Il
nomination of Gen. Longstreet, MessI
= Cameron, Scott, Williams, Brownlow al
others opposed the confirmation. No Vo
n was taken. The burden of the deba
.e against him was that he was a rebel.
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