Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-22
TELEGRAPHIC.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Butler0n the Alabama Claims
Steamboat Fire at Evansville
Three Steamers are Burned
A Woman Burned to Death
r. y. Disaster in Mississippi
Steamboat Fire at Evansville
Three Steamers are Burned
WASHINGTON.
Cessna PrOposes TO contest.

w AS hl6OION.
Cessna Proposes TO Contest
WAsHIxeToY, Nov. 21.-Congressman
Cessna, who was beaten in the late cleo
ton by Benjamin f. Myers, Democrat. in
the fourteenth Pennsylvania district, is
here, and announces his determination 10
contest Myers seat in the 42d Congress.
The Democratic majority returned was
Is. Cessna claims that he can prove that
more than 400 Illegal votes for Myers
were cast by wOrkmeR temporarily en-
ployed On the McCOnuelsville aud Pitts
burg railroad, now. building through Bed
ford and Somerset counties. Cessna has
prepared his papers ard served notice of
his intended contest on Myers.
Another Radical Pinned 10 His seat
by Democratic Votes.
Last spring when Chief Justice Carter.
OF the United States Court of Claims, de-
clded to resign and retire from the bench,
his position was offered by the President
to Senator Drake, Of Missouri, and it was
the Presidents intention to make the ap-
polntment this winter Senator Drake is
now here trying to obtain the fulfllment
OF the promise, but the President does not
desire, owing to the result Of the election
in Missouri, 10 spare the Senator from
Congress at this time, partly because
a Democrat would be likely to succeed,
and partly because Drake is one of the
wsrmest supporters of the administration.
Carl Schurz on the Missouri EIcc-
ton.
Senator Schurz recently remarked in
conversation, that the great question at
issue in the late election in Missouri, was
not the tariff, but the question of amnesty
and suffrage. He said that if there had
been difference of opinion or the So
called revenue reform alone, it would have
been compromised in the Republican State
Convention. lie thinks there is a great
sentiment in the West in favor of
a reductiol of the tariff, but he
IS not sure that it will be made the
OASIS Of 2 new party organization. In
many districts The people are not in favor
OF protecting a0y industry, except that
IN which they are interested, and the
Senator intimated that such might be the
case among the iron manufacturers of
Missouri, though the late election gave no
lntimatiOn of how they would vote on the
question Of the tariff.
Chief Justice Chase and The SUI
PreIne Court
New YORK, Nov. 21.-The Tribune's
Washington correspondent telegraphs that
the report that Chief Justice Chase had
decided to be absent from his duties for a
gear is erroneous; that during the session
of the United States Supreme Court last
winter many cases of great public i'm
portanCe were ordered for re argument at
the present term, in which were involved
the constitutiOnality of the cotton tax,
the legal tender and the cOnfiscatiOn acts:
that the court VIII TO day announce that
the hearing Of these cases has been set for
the first Monday of February, and that
the court decided on this action in conse-
quence OF intimatiOns from the Chief
Justice that he viii be able TO assume
charge OF the court at that time.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States will adjourn on Wednesday till
Monday, Thanksgiving day intervening.
LATER The ccnfscation cases, cotton
tax cases, and others of Importance
which were ordered for argument the last
session of TIL Supreme Court on the first
Tuesday in December, were to day put
over until The first Tuesday in February.
An Amusing En~ident of the Nevada.
Election.
1t appears that Thomas Fitch, Of Ne
vada, vas defeated in the election for
Congress by most singular circumstance.
4 lette- received here from Nevada eX-
plains it as. having occurred through the
temporary importation Of between four
and five hundred MOrmOns from Utah to |
vote in the southeastern counties of the |
State. These MoImOns were expected to |
vote for Mr.. Fitch, but instead they all |
voted the strai ght Democratic ticket. MIR. |
Fitch lost the election by two hundred |
votes.
ViCCupte TrEelhard,
who was transferred from Chill to the |
United States by Napoleon Just after the
outbreak Of the war, will remain here as |
Minister, the Tours Government having |
ratified and approved Nspaleon's appoint |
ment n. TuelhaId's instructions will |
be here by the next steamer. NJ. Berthemy |
will shortly leave for France, but he does |
not know whether the Tours Government
win confirm his appointment to Brussels.
The Fleeing System.
The course of Senator Wilson, who de- |
clsres his opposition 10 the assessment of |
clerks IN the Government service for party |
purposes, creates considerable comment |
amOug the officials here on slender salaries |
who were feeccd previous to the recent |
election. They assert that Wilson's op- |
position to the attack upon their incomes !
comes too late 10 do any good, and is only |
manifested because of the fact that the |
sentiment in Massachusetts, is opposed to |
that business, and the supposition that Re |
Endorsed it would defeat him for re-eleC
ton.
= Virginia Election TO be Contested.
There is very little doubt but that the
Radical members Of Congress from Vir- |
finia VIII insist upon Judge Rlves, the |
! defeated candidate in the Fifth district,
contesing the seat Of the Conservative |
member who was elected.
The Maynard Seward.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l.-Hon. II. A.
Risley received q telegram from ex-Sacre-
tary Seward from Pekin, 18th, stating
that he and his party had arrived there
all well From Pekin they will proceed
20 Calcutta, Bombay and the Persian
Gulf.
Butler.
Gen. Butler had an interview with the
President and also with Secretary Bout
well today.