Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-05
Confederacy is likely to remain United
States property for the present.


P@NBS@NJ ANA OhO plCoOlI
Georgia.
Information received here states that the
! Bullock party in Georgia have decided TO
| construe the act admitting thqt State adj
versely to State election this fall Ac-
| cordingly the Legislature, which is now in
| session, has decided 70 eontinue its term
| of Office indefinitely, thereby preventing
| an adjournment sine die. and declaring at
| the same time that no vacancies exist in
the Legislature to be filed by any election.
This is a sudden change from the views
| entertained few weeks since, and, it is
said, will certainly lead to trouble in the
State, as the Conservatives are determined
to hold an election sAttorney General Ack,
erman has been applied to in an informal
way for an opinion on claw, but declines
! to respond except an application through
officials sources. The President is repre-
sented as favoring q new State election,
and the prompt admission Of Senators and
members of Con greSs next December
The Senate, on Saturday last, after long
and somewhat exciting debate, by a vote
of twenty one to fourteen, adopted the
following resolution against an election in
November:
Whereas, The constitutional term of the
several officers of the State, including that
of this General Assembly, is necessarily de-
pendent upon the time when, under the
several acts of Congress, the Constitution
goes into operation as the paramount law,
freed from military influence; and where
as, The act of Congress of July 10, 1870,
does not fix said time, and the same cannot
be definitely settled until Congress shall
decide by the actual admission of our
Senators and Representatives and whereas,
1t is unwise for them to complicate affairs
by the election of new officers, while the
period when the State Government, as such
under the Constitution, begins its exist
ence, is uncertain; therefore
Resolved, That the General Assembly SO
shape its legislation that no election shall
be held for the various officers provided
for by the Constitution until Congress, by
the admission of our Senators and Repre-
setatives, or in some other way shall def
nitely determine whether the Constitution
OF this State is held to go into operation
as the permanent law of 1868 or in 1870.
LATEB. General Akerman de-
clines addressing the Southern Republican
Club, because he would have to attend to
the Georgia case, which may soon come
before him for legal opinion 1t is under
stood that Akerman favors an election this
fall in that State.
Mr.. Frelinghuyscn,
the new Minister to England, will sail
about the first of September, unless press
ing business interest delays his departure
little longer. AS heretofore stated, he will
carry out no elaborate instructions on the
Alabama claims matter, for the reason that
the negotiations are to be hereafter con-
Quoted in Washington. So far as any in
structions were given, they will be on the |
basis submitted for Mr. Motley, and which |
the latter, it is alleged, failed to carry out. |
An Important Law |
passed in the last days of the session, Civ
ing certain parties priority in the United |
States courts is to-day officially promulga- |
ted. 1t provides that, in all suits and ac- |
tions, either at law or in chancery, now
pending or that may hereafter be brought, |
or IN any of the courts of the United States, |
whether original suits in the courts of the /
United States or brought into said courts /
by appeal, writ Of error, or removal from 1
any State court wherein State is a party, /
or where the execution of the revenue laws |
Of any State may be enjoined or stayed by |
judicial order or process, 1t shall be the |
duty of any court, in which such cause may |
be pendlng, on sufficient reason shown, TO |
give such cause the preference and priority |
over all other cases pending in such court
between a private party and the State or
party claiming under the laws of the State,
.he execution of whose revenue laws is
snjoined or suspended, shall have a right
10 have such cause heard at any time after
such cause is dOoketed in said court, in /
preference to any other civil cause pending
in such court between private parties.
Gen. O'NeiII.
Efforts are being made to have the Presl-
lent pardon Gen. ONeill, the Fenian
eader who was recently convicted at
Windsor, vt. Among those working to
secure his pardon are several members of
Congress and prominent persons who argue
hat the law has been fully vindicated by
he verdict of guilty, which satisfies the
English Government, and therefore no in
ernational question will be involved by
lis pardon. Numerous letters have been
written ON the subject, and memorials are
to arrive.