Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-26
TEhEGRAP HIC.
WASHINGTON.
Proposed State Of "Ok-Ia-
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Congressional Election in
Kentucky.
AtrOciOuS Murder Near Men,
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Fate of the City Of Boston.
English and Italians MR.
dered by Greek BrigandS.
WASHINGTON.


lose money, for merchants and consumers
are heading off and refusing to buy" An
other, from a firm in Springfield, III,
says: Defeat the funding bill, reduce
taxation and give us more currency, or the
Democrats viii carry the State next fall. y
Bureau of Education.
Gen. Eaton has just got the Bureau Of
Education running. He has just finished
the preparation of table showing the pro-
portion of voters who could not read and
write in 1860 and also the number made
voters by the Fifteenth Amendment, and
also tables showing the comparative pro-
portion of ignorant voters in different sec
tons of the country, and the postal returns,
application for patents and the internal
revenue receipts, to show that the pros
perity, wealth and material progress all
decrease in exact proportion to the percen-
tage of llhterate persons il the population.
Opposition TO the Funding Hill.
1t has been stated that the opposition to
the funding bill comes mostly from the
West, but yesterday a memorial of one
hundred and eighty-fve business firms OF
Syracuse, n. Y, protesting against it was
presented. They say the bill contracts the
currency, and if passed will unsettle all
business affairs.
Revenue Affairs.
The internal revenue receipts are running
about half million a day. The income
tax is paid next month, and for 1869 it is
estimated that it will produce S35, 600, 900.
Imports.
The report of bureau statistics shows
that the imports for the seven months of
this fiscal year exceed the exports only
S., 10000 against S33, 900, 600 for the
corresponding period of the previous year,
The returns for January, 1870, show that
the exports exceeded the imports for that
month by So, 600, 900.
To Arrest Absent Members.
The following is a copy of the warrant
issued yesterday to the Sergeant-at-arms
for the arrest of absent members:
''You are hereby commanded to arrest
and bring before the bar of the House the
following named members who are absent
without leave of the House: Messrs.
Ames, Axtell, Biggs, Butler of Massachu-
sets, Covode, Cobb of North Carolina,
Towles, Davis of New York, Ella, Ferry,
Garfield, Haldeman, Jenkins, Knott, Fox,
Lynch, Gergen, Mungen, Negley, Butler,
Reeves, Roots, Sheldon of New York, Slo-
cum, Smith of Ohio, Smith of Tennessee,
Stokes, Strader, Tufts, Vanhorn, Ward,
Wilkinson and Wood. ii. L. DAVIS,
Speaker, pro tenn.
News From the Indians.
Gen. Sherman to-day received official
dispatches confirming advices heretofore at
hand, which indicate that the Indians in
Dakotah are on the war-path in good
earnest. The telegraph says they have
appeared near some of the forts in that
Territory with fresh paint on and dancing
the war dance. AT one point they were
estimated at two TO three Thousand and
bent on hostilities. In view of the threat
ened hostilities Gen. Sherman has ordered
all the available military forces to the
frontier TO protect the white settlers. Or
ders were issued to all troops In Kentucky
to move to the Western fro ltier, without
delay, and regiments will be sent from
other places where they can be spared.
Military authorities hear fear a general
Indian war near at hand.
The Charges Against Howard.
1t having been asserted that Rev. DR.
Bovnton. of this city, had made church
difficulty the basis of the charges prefer,
red by Fernando Wood against Gen. How.
ard. and had really instigated them, that
reverend gentleman appeared by summons
before a special committee of the House
on Yesterday, and in reply to inquiries put
to him by Towards counsel most emphati
calIy declared that he had not in any way,
directly or indirectly, instigated the charges
made by Wood. That the first he knew
of them was their publication, and that he
never had any formal or informal meeting
at his residence, or anywhere else, to frame
the charges or furnish the evidence tc
support the same Gen. Boynton, son
of the witness, testified TO the same
effect. 1t appears that recent meeting o.
the deacons and members of Boynton'
Church, held at the latter's residence, to
prepare articles of confession and faith fol
the church, has been misinterpreted by
Towards detectives to have been q confer
ence of Towards enemies to get up the
charges which Wood presented. The evi
dence shows that Wood obtained his infor
nation from an entirely different source
and he is determined that the investigation
shall not be clouded by any cries of con
spiracy or church troubles The testimony
thus far does not point to Gen. Howard
alone, but at least half dozen other off
GERS of the Freedmen's Bureau.
International Dispute Settled.
The President yesterday decided the frs
case in which he has been chosen arbite
in the international dispute between TIVE
foreign powers. The case involved III,
ownership of an island on the coast of Afri
ca. claimed by both England and Portugal
Assistant Secretary of State, Davis, was ap
pointed to prepare report on the subject
and in accordance with the facts, as pre-
scented by him, the President decided il
favor of the latter power and against Eng
land. An international dispute between
the United States and Brazil, about one o
.,ur vessels has been referred to Ministe
Thornton as arbiter.
A Kentucky Invention.
A model of q cannon called the ''PehOra
ted Reinforce Cannon, invented by Jno
A. Terrell, of Bloomfield, XIV, has attract
ed the notice of officers of the navy. Som
of the experts contend that it is construct
ed on scientific principles, and that it is
very. valuable invention.
Trouble i'm Missouri.
Parties here from there say there
trouble in Bladensburg, Missouri, concern
ing the fifteenth amendment. IL appear
chat cOlOred woman has been refused
seat in the Methodist Church there who's
congregation is composed of whites. TIT
colored people are greatly incensed in rela
zion to the affair.
The Fifteenth Amcndmcnt-PrOgr
The bill to enforce the Fifteenth Amend
ment reported in the Senate provides, tina
all citizens of the United States other
wise qualified by the laws, shall b
entitled and allowed TO vote at all election
without distinction of race, color
or previous condition of servitude
Penalties of fine and imprisonment ar
provided for the failure of officials to ALLOW
the opportunity TO persons TO perform an
necessary perquisite of State or Territoria
laws. Persons deprived of any office, e2
cept that of member of Congress or OF
State Legislature, by reason of violation {
the foregoing provisions, may recove
possession through the United State
Courts.
The District Court shall have exclusiyel
of State court cOgniXance of all crime
and offenses against the provisions Of tn
act. All officers of the United States al
required, under further penalty of 81 ,OO
DO institute and enforce the proceeding
ahese orders, and the President is autho
lied 10 employ land and naval forces {