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THURSDAY, MAY 16. 1867. Largest Circulation In City and State FOR GOVERNOR EMERSON ETHERIDGE. OF WEAKLEY STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE JOHN BAXTER, of Knox WM. B. CAMPBELL of Wilson. DORSEY B. THOMAS of Humphreys JAMES JONES, of Greene. JOHN GAUT. of Davidson A.A. STEELE, of Marshall. CHAR. 8. CAMERON, of Shelby. NEWS OF THE DAY. The total Democratic majority on the Con gressional election in Kentucky is 42,208 Rev. J.F. Young, an assistance minister of Trinity Church in New York, has been elected Bishop of Florida Gen. Schofield ordered the Lincoln Mounted and Goards, colored. at Richmodd, to disband prohibited their parades or drifls. An intimate friend of Davis says he has no fixed plan for his movements. Until November Mr. Davis will reside in Norfolk. Bishop Loughlin, of the diocese of Brooklyn, disapproves of the practice of holding festivals and balls in aid of the Catholic churches General Sheridan has removed a clerk of the District Court at New Orleans for issuing fra: dulent naturalization papers The reported execution of two I nion in Edgefield District South Carolina, by a posse of citizene, is found. on investigation to be an true Information was received in Cineinnati, the 13th inst., that the government had taken possession of the First National Bank of New Orleans. The eight hour strike at Chicago has ended in total failure, and the strikers are now vainly striving to find employment on the old terms. The appointment of negroes on the New Orleans police force is now talked of, and there is a proposition to run a popular negro, by the name of Johnson for Mayor. Gerrit Smith reached Washington on the night of the 13th inst. on his way to R hmond whither he was going to offer himself as one of the sureties on Jeff. Davis bail bond. W. H. Hooper, delegate from Utah, has arrived at Omaha, to arrange for the transportation of a large Mormon emigration from Europe. The disagreement of Secretary Seward with the Russian government in relation to Atlanti cable telegraphing expenses in connection with the trenty, is placed in the hands of Senator Doolittle, who sailed for Europe on the 11th inst., for adjustment. The fund for the erection of a monument to the memory of the late President Lincoln, in Chicago, has now reached a sum sufficiently large to warrant the committee in commencing work, and they will shortly be prepared to receive plans and specifications for such a m nu ment from the artists of the country The Nashawanuck Mills, at Easthampton Massachusetts, are to close on the 18th. Three hundred suspender makers will, thus be thrown out of employment besides a large number of people who have made business of taking the suspenders to their homes to finish. Advices from New Orleans show that fifteen thousand persons have been regsiter there as voters, under the reconstruction act. The white people are registering very freely now, but the colored men already have several thousand ma jority in the State of Louisiana. registers show that five colored men to one white man are being registered, on the average. Col. Conger, commander of the party by whom all Booth was captured and who took charge of the assassin 's effects, was before the House Judi ciary Committee on the 13th inst., and gave his testimony in relation to that affair. He swears that, according to his recollection, the diary was not spoliated when he took it from the body of Booth. Two of the grand jurors of the District Court of Virginia authori ze the statement that there truth in the report that the grand jury have indicted John C. Breckinridge and Judge Thomas, of Fairfax county. for treason. The names of these persons have not even been be fore the jury during the present term A serious riot occurred at Brownsville, Ten nessee, on the 13th inst. at Radical conven tion. Three negroes and two whites were shot but not fatally Reports as to its origin flieting The Radicals charge that was the he result of an organized plot to break up the convention. Others assert that it was the re sult of the negroespeakers incendiary speeches saying that every man that had owned slaves ought to have his heart cut out Reports to the Freedmen's Bureau at Wash ington. by telegraph, show great suffering in Louisiana by the floods. Whole families were the point of starvation at Brashear City Steamboats on were seized by order of the Bureau that woman and children floating on rafts and living on house-tops might be rescued General Brown ordered the Mayor of that place of to seize every steamer owing to the refusal the Captains to allow them to be used for so hu mane & purpose W.R. Marsh, Preside of the Bank of Lex ington, N C., and E. D. mpton, one of the directors, have been taken to Salisbury, by G) der f General Sickles under the charge [smuggl ing the specie of the bank about the time of the surrender of the Rebel General Johnson. The parties have had a hearing and the evidence has been forwarded to General Sickles. The mili accused will remain in the custody of the tary until the General is heard from Two important decisions were rendered in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, on the 13th inst The first was W ainwright VR. Bridge# The court holds that no recovery can be had for notes given for the purchase of slaves. In the case of Bowen vs. Packet Ford, the court holds, as previously, that no recovery could be had, as in the notes were based on Confederate money, other words, the money is illegal, and further. that the notes were signed before the passage of the stamp law and do not require stamps to be used grevidence The W Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says The character of the At. a torney General's opinion is already known to few persons here. It will entirely upset the ar bitrary and unjustifiable acts of General Sheridan, in the matter of interfering with the civil affairs of the people in cases wherein there was as. no obstruction to the laws of Congrest example, th deposing of the Levee Commiss ers. and appointing others the removal of mu nicipal and State officers who were not obstruct the law the prohibition of citizens from ing jurors, because they can't take the itting as iron-clad oath, etc. In brief, the effect of the General's opinion will be that com manders Attorney are to make the burdens of military government light RS possibl le, and interfere only when absolutely necessary in the civil adminis U ration of affairs. The opinion will be submit ed to the Cabinet on Tuesday next
