Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The headquarters of thu British army
in Canada are to be changed from Mon
treal to Quebec.
It is estimated that twenty-five thous>
and dollars were lost by the strike on
the Second Avenue railroad, New York.
Gen. T. L. Raymond, member of Con-
gress from Virginia before the war, died
Wednesday afternoon at Richmond. H
A Berlin dispatch mentions, con6den-
TALLY, the probable marriage of Mrs.
Lincoln and Grauch, chamberlain Of the
Grand Duke Of Baden.
Letters from Vienna say that by the
first Of June the Austrian government
will have half a million men ready to
move on the frontier.
The severe storm of Monday night ex-
tended over wide range of country-as
far as Omaha in the West and Chatta-
nooga in the South.
Eugene, according to various cores
poDdents, has recently had the scarlet
fever rheumatism, small pox, neuralgia,
and tic doloreux. Shehas the humps at
present. 20 4
The Laclede races have been fixed to
commence on the llth of june. They
will continue for week. There will be
entries from Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio,
and Illinois. .... -.f
A dispatch from London says that His
Holiness, the Pope, has invited Henry
Ward Beecher, and other eminent Ameri-
can divines, to visit Rome, during the
Ecumenical Council.
VIM. Sturgis, of Chicago, who has just
gone into bankruptcy, reports his liabili-
ties at four millions four hundred and
fifty-fVe thousand dollars. They do
every thing on liberal scale in Chicago.
Larmarjant, the French engineer, who
has invented the ingenious one>rail sys-
tenn, by which it is is thought complete
revolution in railroad affairs will be
brought about, is young man of twenty
three. .... ......-
The Washington correspondent of
Boston paper says that the Bourbon
Prince and Princess, who were lately
married in that city, ran away from the
National Hotel without paying their
board. t&Gff F.f..tf III
Mr.. Jas. Scott, who for several months
has been laid up from injuries received
by falling into an empty space on the
wharf at Louisville, KY, has brought
suit against the city, laying his damages
a. $4,000.
An order has been issued from military
headquarters directing that no photo.
graphic or other views Of the forts of the
United States be allowed to be taken
without express permission from the War
Department.
he Pope has given block Of rare
marble, found in the excavations of the
Emporium Romanum, for monument
to the Archbishop of Friburg in the
Grand Ducy of Baden. The block bears
the name OGthe Emperor Nero. as...s
Mr.. Motley will be the sixth Massas
chusetts man who has represented the
United States at the Court of st. James.
His predecessors from that State have
been John Quincy Adams, Abbott Law
renee, George Bancroft, Edward Everett,
and Charles Francis Adams. | "
Mrs. Van COOt, the Methodist
preacher, the only licensed female
preacher of the State of New York, is
eloquent, earnest and successful, nearly
two thousand conversions having taken
place under her ministration the past
year in New York. as-a ~ as'..' '
Cyrus w. HawIey, just appointed
Supreme Court Judge in Utah, is recoms
mended as having had long practice in
Chicago, which implies an experience
and skill in divorce cases, that may be Of
great value in untying some Of the knotty
problems which may be expected to
arise in his jurisdiction some day.
Charles Francis Adams, our late Min,
lister to England, thinks that the Ala
bama treaty, just rejected by the Senate,
is a production extremely creditsble to
both Minister johnson and Lord Claren-
don, and that it ought to have been Tati-
fed with some amendments. He also
thinks that Mr.. Summers speech is cal
culated to do harm rather than good.
The New Orleans Picayune of the
18th says: 1.-THE newly appointed
Surveyor for this port, James Longstreet,
Lieutenant General of the late Confed-
crate States army, yesterday forwarded
his bond to Washington for approval
The amount of the bond is $1,000, and
the bondsmen are G. j. Chenoweth, John
F. Casey and Langles. Gen. Longstreet
arrived in the city on Thursday morning
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