Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-25
TELEGRAPHIC.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
TheSan Juan Boundary Line
ALuRatic In theWhite House
Fralt Damaged by the ErOSt
CreEaSSe above New Orleans
Last Outragein Pennsylvania
An Old Man Roasted Alive
LynchLaWfn West Tennessee
LaStOutragein Pennsylvania
Lynch LAWN West Tennessee
WASHINGTON.
The san Juan TsIaud Rounaa

The san Juan Island Boundary.
NEW York, April 24.-The Tribune'
washington correspondent telegraphs tha
one proposition of the High Commission
VIII be, it is generally believed, to lesvt
the San Juan boundary question to arbri
tratton. No objection would probably
DC made to this course, provided the
American papers and reports on the sub,
lect be admitted as evidence in the case.
This would, without doubt, secure The
award of the island to the Uniled States,
as no American statesman, of any party,
who is yersed in international law believes
that Great Britain has any just claim
on it.
A Story TO Offset the PennsYIvanIa
OutrageS,
The Tribune's Washington special tele-
graphs that intelligence has Just been
received from South Carolina that Sun
day night last a party of disguised men
rode TO the house of Robert Milton, an
elderly Union man of Southern birth,
living on his little farm near Old Shore,
Chesterfield county, and called for him to
come out when he appeared at the door
accompanied by his wife and daughter.
All three were Immediately shot-the wife
instantly killed and Milton fatally and his
daughter dangerously wounded. Milton
was collector of delinquent taxes. . -
Women Suffragists before the Courts
WASHINGTON, April pa. G. Biddle,
counsel for the women whose oallots were
refused in the election Thursday, is pre-
pairing case to test the question of the
constitutl0nality of this refusal before
the courts.
The damages are laid at $3.50 in
each case, so if they are decided in the
Court and the Court in general term
against the plaintiffs, they can be taken
10 the Supreme Court. ..---
A Formidable Rival against Grant
for the Presidency.
Patrick Meg winner, the individual
who came to Washington from Pawtucket,
to claim the Presidential chair, as was
stated in a telegram Saturday, was
started back to Rhode Island on Sstur-
days train, but jumped from the car at
Bladensburg, and returned to the city
when he made another unsuccessful
attempt to obtain the Presidential chair.
Saturday night he was, however, elected
from the Executive mansion and trans
ferred to the police, who kept him in the
Central Guard-house until this morning,
when he was sent to the Insane Asylum.
Our Foreign Relations
The Navy Department is making pre-
parations 70 send several vessels to meet
the Russian feet, with the CzaroWitz on
board, in June next. Admiral Porter
will command.
The United States Minister at the
Netherlands has transmitted to the Secre-
tary of State copy of royal decree
adding a new article TO the regulations
unanimous adopted by the principal
maritime powers of Europe with view
to the prevention of collisions st sea.
The Penalty of Pane.
The vignette for the $50 new bonds is
q likeness of Silas Wright; for the 800,
OK SNnrAtary Stanton: $h00. Thomas ii.
Benton; 8, 900, eX-President Harrison;
S., 900, Anson Burlingsme, and 10000,
late Gov. Andrews, of Massachusetts.
The southern Investigation.
The Congressional Committee of Inves-
tigstion upon Southern affairs differ much
among themselves as to the best mode of
proceeding. Maynard and Osborn desire
to conduct the investigation, and to bring
here their own psrtissns as witnesses, and
also to publish testimony from time to
time. The Democrats insist that the
Committee shall journey South, so as to
judge personally of the state of things
in that section. Other Radicals fear hat
such personal intercourse and observation
may unfsvorsbly impress the moderate
Republicans on the Committee.
Supreme Court Gases.
Between thirty and forty cases are DOW
under Amusement by the Supreme Court,
and most cf them will be decided at an
adjourned meeting of the court On Mon
day, May J.. Chief Justice Chase is in
consultation on two of them involving
the constitutionalIty of the legal tender
acts, and also on the case of Klein, and
one other case from the Court of Claims
which involves the question of the con-
stitutionality of a prOvisO in the act OF
Congress of July, 1870, that no pardon
OF amnesty granted by the President
should be considered by the courts in de-
Gliding upon any claim against the United
States.
The LegaI-TcndeT Act.
The opinion is fully expressed in we'll
informed circles, that the Supreme Court
will render a decision affirming that the
legal-tender act was constitutional in
respect to contracts made before the date
of the law. The court will stand five to
four. A decision is expected to be rem
de1ed on Monday week. The court is
now completely subservient to the Ad-
ministrstion. One of the judges (Mr.
Dsvis) is understood to be an aspIrant for
the Democratic nomination for the Pres