Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-28

A cruel New Yorker wants Mr.. Ores
well to order postmasters and clerks int
the Confederate Uniform now worn by
letter>carriers.
The trial of Abrams, indicated for lhe
murder Of the Youngs, in connection
with Mrs. Glenn and Hartman, is sol
down for the IL of April.
Secretary Fish declines to receive at
present the Minister from the provisional
government Of Cuba. lie will now sp~
peal TO Congress.
The State of Iowa may be regarded as
in an excellent financial condition. 1t
does not owe cent and has surplus OF
$G39,000 on hand.
Edgar Irving, nephew Of the late
Washington Irving, has been appointed
United States Dispatch Agent of New
York, vice Derby, resigned.
Last week over one hundred and eight
cen thousand pounds Of bacon and over
ten thousand bushels of corn were res
ceived in Macon, Ca, from the West.
Peter Mulholland was killed on the
Pacific railroad, near st. Louis, Friday,
while rescuing his little child, which was
playing on the track, from an approaching
locomotives. 4SE ~ ~
DR.. R. c. Primpty, of Warren County,
Kentucky, offers, for $4,000, to reveal
what he claims no other living person
knows-the precise existence of rich
silver mine in that county.
That railroad bridge over the Ohio at
Paducah is to be built. The committee
in Congress, to whom the question was
referred, have unanimously agreed to re-
port bill for constructing it.
Monticello" the former residence of
Thomas Jefferson, in Albsrmarls county,
Va, is to be sold at auction on the 18th
day Of May next. The sale is by virtue
of decree Of the Circuit Court Of Rich
monG.
Dispatches from Havana confirm re-
ports received in New York that the
Cuban Rebels are gaining ground.
Troops have been deserving to the Rebels,
and they have gained important military
advantages.
James Middleton and John Mahony
fought half dozen rounds in a prize
fight near Bunkerhill, CharlestoWn, on
Thursday morning, in the presence Of
about two hundred roughs. The appear
ance of the police stopped the fight, but
no arrests were made.
The Kentucky Legislature before ad,
journing passed resolution instructing
Gov. Stevenson to send competent en-
gineer to Hickman and Columbus, to re-
port to the next session Of the Legisla>
ture, the possibility and practicability of
protecting these towns from the en-
croschments of the Mississippi river.
Certain Protestant Episcopalians in the
diocese of Illinois have issued protest
against what they believe to be the Ro~
MANNING tendencies of Bishop White
house and others of his school. A con-
vention of all who sympathize with this
protest is called to meet in Chicago in
June next, for discussion and consulta-
ton.
The snow sheds Of the Central Pacific
railroad extends for a continuous dis
lance of twenty-five miles, with a
breadth Of sixteen feet, and height of |
sixteen feet, not including the pitch of
the roof The sides are inclosed, and the |
sheds resemble long tunnel, lighted at
the sides through the interstices between
the boards.
TIE New York Times, in speaking
of the recent mass meeting Of working
men in that city, says it was the first
startling incident of revolution which |
has been long pending, and which is yet
to be attended with some remarkable de-
VelOpments. These organizations, cons
bined industrially and politically, form a
power which it is not wise to ignore,
whose strength should not be under esti-
mated. and is evidently destined to be
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