Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-02
ALL UTgR THE CITY.

The Tennessee Historical Society meets
this afternoon in the State Library.
The stakes for three Of the most inter-
esting events Of the Nashville Blood Horse
Associations spring meeting closed yester-
day.
The statement in Sundays issue that
S250,O00 had been saved to Nashville and
vicinity by holding the cotton shipped here,
related TO the item Of "spOts" alone.
The report Of our local signal Office for
February shows: Highest temperature dur
ing the month, 20; lowest, 9 degrees; pre-
vailing direction of the wind, southeast;
number of clear days, 8, cloudy, 4, rainy,
u; total rainfall, 500 inches; greatest "
loCity Of the wind, 16 miles per hour, on
the Sd; total number of miles traversed by
the winds, SAG.
Rev. DR.. Stuart Robinson preached at
the First Presbyterian Church in this city
last Sunday morning and evening, the latter
discourse being to young men. The church
was crowded on both occasions. The Lou
iSUale Courier Journal reports him as hay
ING delivered his usual Sunday evening
lecture III that city on Sunday, and pub
fishes a synopsis Of the lecture.
A very interesting feature Of the Histor-
ical Society meeting to-day will be the
reading Of some correspondence recently
had with Mrs. ex-President Polk in refer
ence to the private papers and diary of
President Polk now in her possession. The
Society, we understand, has applied for the
custody of them, and Mrs. Polk consents
that the papers go to the archives of the So
ciety at her death.
In consideration of the fact that the
General Government, under an ancient act
of Congress, is indebted to the State of
Tennessee in the matter of ordnance to
'the value Of about $4,000, Adiutant Gen
eral Handy will very soon make a reqUisi-
ton for arms to the extent of the debt, in
cluding battery of artillery FOurth-Of-
July convenience heretofore wanting TO
our Commonwealth. Gen. Handy has
been holding 4 correspondence with the
Chief of Ordnance on the subject.
Along the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad the drOuth last summer was Sc
verest between Nashville and Fosterville,
and the restitution along that route is con-
fined mainly to these limits. In view Of
these facts Maj. Anderson, General freight
Agent of the Nashville, CHATTANOOGA and
st. Louis road, has reduced the tariff on
corn - per car load, going in either direc-
ton, to any point between this city and
Fosterville. This humane course will meet
with appreciation.
An important conference of railroad men
with the Senate Committee on the Judi
ciary was held in the Maxwell House, last
night, to consider proposed legislation af-
feeling railroads. There were present
President Cole and Maj. Charles W. An
dersOn, of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
st. Louis, Hon. Russell Houston and
Col. Albert Fink, Of the Louisville,
Y ashviIle and Great Southern, and Col.
c. NJ. MCGEE, of the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia, and the Memphis and
Charleston. 1t appeared from the state
ments made by these gentlemen that they
fully recognized the right Of the State to
tax railroad corporations, and would make
no specious resistance thereto in the courts
or otherwise. On the other hand, they ask
that the taxation shall not be excessive and
that there shall be no oppressive laws en-
acted for controlling their operations. a
full interchange Of views was had and the
consequences were Of an entirely barmOni-
GUS nature.