Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1853-12-14
REeUzAR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS
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Editors of The Union aud american:
Long ere this reaches YOU the wires will have
odd you who::is elected Speaker, &c, 1 will men
lion, however, the names of the officers elected :
LINN BoYp, Speaker; JOAN W. FoRNEY, Clerk;
ADAM J. GRosBRASER Sergeant at Arms T. W. /
McKEFSE, Doorkeeper; JoN NJ. JorrSsos, Post
master. This organization was effected yesterday, |
the first day. so
beg leave to correct a representation which
has been quoted in your columns but not editorial
ly sanctioned by you. 1t is in the Union and
American of Nov. 26. You seem, however, to
think that there is something questionable in the
case. There is priDaa facia Evidence of the good
faith of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny chartered by the Legislature Of New, York, in
the names Of several men Of known honor and pc
cuniary means, who have subscribed and three OF
whom are directors / refer to such men as Hon.
ROBERT J. WALKER, Gen. 7. ]. RUsE, and PHILLIP
TaoaAs The character Of these men is a guar
anty that they will attempt no hlImbug; and their
discernment is such as to ensure that they would
discover this scheme to be one, il it were such.
few facts will refute some Of the accusations aoat
concerning them. The Charleston Mercury says,
eve expect great things from this Company, it will
conrive to absorb about half the time Of the next
session. and if it does not absorb like proportion
of the monies in the Treasury it will be the fault of
somebody beside the President and Directors =
The refuation of this appears in the fact, that Mr..
WALKER, himself at the first opportunity, at the
meeting on the 9TH November, onereda resolution
which was unanimously passed, mot TO apply to Con-
gress for onygrant Of land or money" This nails
/ that accusation to the counter as bad coin The
4 Company relics upon the intrinsic merits of the
/ route, and upon private enterprise. They expect,
! however, that Texas and any other States through
whose territory the road will pass will aid them,
as such State would have right to do, and as it
would be good policy for it to do. Moreover, il
has already adopted the Southern route, which j:
assuredly that route which naturally would connect
with greatest advantage to Tennessee, with Rail
road improvements Of her own. The Company
has withheld large amounts from being subscribed
that all who had to subscribe, five, ten twenty, anC
fifty share lots might do SO; and part of those i'm
mense subscriptions are being distributed also il
such lots. Thirdly, the Company long since des
patched an experienced engineer, with competen
corps, who are now in the field, and viii soon com
/ pIete an instrumental and scientific survey, upol
which proper estimate can be based.
The New York Herald is utterly hostile to tn
Company, as have seen myself by articles pub
lished in it of the most adverse nature The edito
has not been paid black mail by the Company; ant
heneehe flies at them like hawk hungry for hi
prey.
In your paper of November 10Th perceive tina
"Tennessean' concludes a long and interesting let
ter from Athens. In Blackwood for November
is an article of great merit-"Athens in 1859
One of the points on which the Greek scholar wi
dwell with complacency, is the restoration of th
ancient Greek language, which for ages past ha
been in process of completion; SO that that MOBILES
ofanguages is really now living tongue in Greece
in fact always has been, though corrupted. Tb
writer says, page 579,) "Those who know t
what a state centuries of neglect and abuse ha'
brought the fine language of Homer and Plato
will at once perceive the great public service per
formed by that band of patriotic translators an
original writers, who have, in the course of tw
generations, made Greek, pure Greek-a secon
tlhe ZIG q 3nu VI gan vi ho0'ona' Suitu'e auu
popular regeneration" As many of our reader
perhaps labor under the erroneous impression tina
the language now spoken at Athens is mer
composite language, standing in the same re
lation to classical Greek that Italian does to Latir
we can only advise them at present to procure
catalogue of his most recent publications. from tn
bibliopale Coromelas street of Hermes, Athen:
and by ordering any Of these works, they sat
isfy themselves with their own eyes of the genuin
Hellenic character of the language now used.
The Europas news for three days has not We
been telegraphed. Much anxiety is felt for he
safety.
II PM I have just perused the Message c
the President and find it an excellent document.
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