Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-01
WASHINGTON.
The Eve of the Wedding.
Miss Minnie.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 3O.-Up to noon
to-day about one hundred wedding pres
ents have been made to Miss Sherman.
Gems Sheridan, Mcdowell and Pope, Speak
er Blaine, Messrs. Evarts, Drexel, Childs
and Borie, and Senator Sherman are among
those who thus complimented the lady.
To-day Gen. Sherman, his daughter Ra-
ehael, Gen. Kirby Smith and Miss Miller,
OF Columbus, o., bad pleasant interview
with President Grant.
The Freedman's Bank-HOw DeDosf.
tors Have Been Dipped out Of Their
Earnings.
At meeting of the depositors of the
Freedmens' last night, Robert PurYis, color
ed, one of the commissioners appointed to
wind upits affairs, said he would at an ad-
journed meeting make a statement of its
affairs which would not probably be as IA
vorable as that hitherto published, nor
would it be so bad as represented by those
who in connection with it had taken adj
vantage Of the fears and necessities of de-
positOrs, who have sold their deposits at
every discount.
About 10 Resign.
NJ. d. Leggett, Commissioner of Patents,
will shortly tender his resignation.
Col. j. w. Knowlton, of Connecticut,
was appointed to take charge of the dead
letter division of the Postoffice Depart
ment.
Cavalry for Alabama.
Four companies Of cavalry were to day
ordered to Western Alabama on account Of
the disturbed condition of that section.
Bureau Reports Of Crops
- . h. A n.
paTtnent show that the wheat crop will
average that of last year. None Of the
large corn producing States reach an aver
age. There viii be fair crop of oats,
potatoes and hay, but less than half crop
of tobacco.
Nore Than Their Civil Rights
pecial (Sept. 29) to the Cincinnati Commercial.
The case brought under the Civil Rights
law by LangSton and PurNis against Har-
vey * Holden, restaurateuTs of this city.
was tried to-day before Judge Smell. DIR.
PurvIs swore that he was denied entertain
ment Because OF his c5loY, IS he inferred.
Il was proven, however, by three or four
witnesses, who were in the room at the
time Of the occurrence, that PurYis and
Langston seated Themselves ut e certain
table thar was specially reserved for regu-
lar customers, who visited the place at a
certain hour every day, and that this hap
pened to be that hour. The waiter in
formed them that the table was reserved,
whereupon Puryis threw himself hacl. OF,
he dignity, anu inquired whether they de-
clined 20 serve him, to which answer was
made that he could not be served at that
particular table, whereupon the cOlOred
gentlemen walked out in an imposing pro-
cession and brought suit. There was no
refusal 10 entertain the party, and they
both testified that they had been more than
once entertained at that place. In LauEs-
toms side of the cass the Judge thought he
perceived a difference and fined the res
taurateurs 500. Dr.. Purvis' was laid
aside.
Purvis is one Of the Commissioners to
wind up the Freedmen's Bank. The trial
was largely attended by. the eolored pOpu-
latior; who eheer6d enthusiastically when
the result as to the LangstOn side was an
nOuneed. The substance Of the thing ap-
pears to be that the colored gentlemen in
sisted ON privileges that are denied to
white gentlemen.
MOsby's Influence witbEGrant,
The influence o. Col. Mosby, the great
champion OF the third term, with the Adj
ministratiOn, has just received a fresh IL
ustration. The city press of to-day re-
cords an appointment in the Treasury De
partment secured by the Colonel last Sat
urday.
The F'fg;niu Sei.tiaei, a paper published
In the Eighth Virginia district, where Gen.
Eppa HuntOn, late of the rebel army, and
a Democrat, is candidate for reelection,
has in a recent issue the following, suggest
ed by claim set uu by Mr.. Hutton to Il e
possession OF peculiar influence in Wash
ingtOn:
"Mosby has really represented the dis
trfct. Within the last three weeks we have
seen six ladies and gentlemen appointed to
Office solely through his influence beside
the many before. This, too, not because
Gen. Hunton has net tried. He has tried
repeatedly, Il Is said, but invariably with
out success
Gen. Hunton is just as goOd Democrat
as Col. Mosby, but he is decidedly opposed
to a third term.