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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Tried for Shooting his step-mother. (search)
From Tennessee--State of the river — Cotton Market — appointment. Nashville, December 18. --The river is twenty-six inches higher, and falling. Four steamers are at the shoals waiting for a rise to reach here. At Burkesville to-day, a rise of five feet occurred, which will affect the river at the shoals by to-morrow. It rained here all day. Cotton is dull; forty and a half cents is the holding price, with few purchasers. Buyers are shy at the ruling rates. Receipts, four hundred and forty bales; shipments, three hundred and nine bales. It has been raining all day, and still continues, with a prospect of a big rise in the river. The height of the water on the shoals is eight inches, and rising. Chaplain John Lawrence has been appointed by General Fisk, judge advocate to try cases of misdemeanor in which freedmen were implicated. A notice was served on Mayor Brown of his assuming that duty. This order is approved by the citizens generally, as the mun