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DEATH OF A REYOLUTloNARY so1n1rn

The last surviving soldier Of our Revolutionary
struggles. resident in Sumter District has nassad
away William Vaughn is no more. Who capnot
drop tear upon the departure of this noble SON NJ
Ihc glorious past
Mir Vaughn was born in May. l7G4, and had tberc.
fore reached his uiueiy-fourth year. lie Joined the
army when in his sixteenth or Seventeenth wear
and was wish both Marion and Sumter in several ~
their most severe engagements. lie was married "A
the bereayed wife who survives him on the lOtb
of Feb. 1890 They had therefore lived together a.
husband and wife for period of near sixty-eight
years.
Few more generous and brave men than Wr,
Vaughn have ever lived Although infirm and tot
tering under the weight Of his many wears a hare
lusion the string of the past would causo
his dim eve TO fash with almost unnatural bri,,b,
ness, wlile the sound Of fife aud drum seemed to
inspire within his bosom all the fires of pariotisp
that burned 60 brilliantly there during the d,vs oi
his youth IL is said that his hatred for the r1ris
was proverbial and that the mention of them in his
presence. even during the last years Of his life
would always draw from him some expression of his
feelings toward them
He died at the residence of his daughter. Mrs
Dargau about four miles from this place, on Mon.
day morning last. Reqieseat en- paos.-Sumtcr Walcb
man,
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ARREST OE PLIN. WHITE-Chargsd Nth False Pre-
tences.-Plin. White, who figured some years ago as
a defendant in a false pretence case involving
very large amount Of money and the pecuniary 7aia
of two gentlemen, was on Monday arrested by Ser
geant S. j. Smith, Of the Jefferson Market poiToe
court, charged with having by false and fraudule
pretences cheated the firm of II. S. s. J. H. Stevens
brokers in Broadway, out Of the snm of S47, 00O
1t appears from the affidavit of Mr.. James II. Ste
vens, one of the firm, now on file in the Jefferson
Mrrket Police Court, that White called upon them,
and asked the loan of $4,000, for the purpose
buying out an extensive jewelry establishment. H
stated that he himself worth $500 000 one hal
of which was invested in several valuable farms n
Vermont and 100000 in certified check on tn c
Suffolk Bank at Boston, held by his brother :hen a
Boston. He stated also that he had 500 600 .
stocks of the U. s. Government. To convince tn c
Messrs. Stevens further that they were perfect ?
safe in advancing him the money, he told them tina
the proprietor of the jewelry establishment wa
greatly distressed for want of means and was com
PEELED to sell out, and would dispose of his stool
for less than half its value He added further tina
Mr.. James Il. Whiting had advanced him SIS, 00t }
towards the sum requisite to make the purchase;
and Deputy Sheriff Bensel had advanced S50,000
and that with another $50, 900 he would be able
with his own MEANS to make the purchase. He
also exhibited several large diamonds, which he
said belonged to the stock, and said had been val
ued at less than half what they were really worth.
Believing these representations to be true, the
Messrs Stevens loaned White sac, 900, but subse-
quently ascerained TO their satisfaction that all his
allegations were false, and the senior member of
the firm made an affidavit to that effect, in which
he stated his belief that they made solely with
a view to cheat and defraUd his firm On the arrest
of White he was taken before Justice Flandreau,
and held TO bail in 81, 900 TO answer
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A MAN SAVED WHO SWAN SIX HnuRs-


We make the following extract from statement
of H. H. Childs one of the passengers on the i'll
fated Central America, who saved himself by swim
ming SIX hours:
|. At O'Clock we saw no possibility of keeping
afoat much longer, although all felt that if we
could do so until morning all would be saved. In
short time heavy sea for the first time broke
the upper deck of the vessel, and then all hope
faded away. Life-preservers were now supplied to
all and we sent up two rockets, when tremendi-
Gus sea swept over us, and the steamer in moment
went down 1 think some four hundred or four
hundred and fifty souls were launched upon the
ocean at the mercy of the waves. The storm had at
this time entirely abated We all kept near to-
gether and went the waves took us.
There was nothing, or very little said except that
each one cheered his fellow comrades on. Courage
was thus kept up for two or three hours and think
for this space Of time none had drowned but three
who could not swim because exhausted. After this
gradually by one passed away into eternity The
hope that boats would be sent to us from two
sells we had spoken soon fed from us and our trust
was alone in Providence, "and what better trust
could you ask for?"
saw my comrades sink fast, and at o'clock that
night l was nearly alone upon the ocean, some two
hundred miles from land. Iheard shouts, however,
from all that could do So that not far from me-
but | could not see them. Within hour from
this time saw a vessel which judged to be about
one mile from me. Taking fresh courage, l struck
ont for the vessel and reached it when nearly ex-
hausted and they drew me on board of it by ropes
1t proved to be Norwegian bark from Belize, Hon
duras AID bound for Falmouth, England. l found
on board of her three of my comrades, and at 90
o'clock next morning we had 40 noble fellows on
board, and these are all l know of having been
saved.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-10-01

DEATH OF AUGUsTE CoMPTE.-Among the news by
the Canada is the announcement of the death Of
Auguste Compile, Chief of the Modern School OF
Positive Philosophy. Compile was born in 1877,
was a disciple of the celebrated St. Simon and be-
Heved in the necessity of q thorough renovation
founded upon a mental revolution. In 1926 he be-
came insane lin consequence of brain fever), re
covered as soon as he was pronounced incurable,
although his enemies suggest that insanity tine
tured all his subsequent productions. He was for
many years Professor in the Ecole Polytechnique
His Positive Philosophy 900 pages) was written
in three months He was thorough materialist
ignored the entire spiritual side of man, and shut
up philosophy in the mere realm of sense. The
latter years of his life were passed in seoluson-
it being said that he was dependent on charity fol
support.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-10-01

THE BANKING SYSTEM OF TENNESSEE THE
DUTY OF THE DEMOCRACY.


DUTY OF THE DEMOCRACY.
Article lsT.
At the next sitting of cur Legislature, in both
branches, the democratic party win have decided
majority. Indeed the democratic majority in the
Southern States win hereafter increase at every re-
curing session. Because from the signs in our
political Zodiac, there viii not exist in our country
for some time to come, but two prominent parties
the Northern abolition or black republican, and the
great National states-rights democratic party The
so-called ''American Order" has already evanished
from the and will be remembered hereaf as
eeting Ignigatus, political Jaek Nth has lantern
the strangest wonder of the brie6est hour
No Southern man can bea black republican in senti-
ment afiliation without being justly deemed
traitor to the Union and the South; or the doomed
inmate of lunatic asylum. To stand out in fac
tious opposition to the National democracy though
we did not directly cooperate with the Northern re-
publican agitations is but to divide and weaken the
'Ormer-tO si6 and strengthen the latter. This
is than the nisprison Of treason. Thus
The entire South while it may be somewhat divided
in local state policy, will stand hereafter an ndis-
soluble unit upon great National questions, because
the administrative policy of the country for many
years has BEEN as it doubtless will many years be,
purely democratic. For the progressive develop
ment of this party is the progressive development
of the policy and principles of American constitu-
tiona liberty-the living embodiment of our form Of
government-itisthe body to the spirit.
All this being indisputable it thus devolves upon
the National democracy at once to inaugurate and
permanently establish for the several States an uni
form system of currency bottomed upon a solid and
enduring basis. A currency insusceptible Of indie
finite expansion and contracticn-one that will give
uniformity of value to all real and personal estate
| to all products Of labor-one that Will erect per
manently the sole legitimate standard of all price:
/ or value, to-wit: demand and consumption, and no
that most factitious of all regulators, the avaric
and caprice of irresponsible bankers and banks.
The democracy must do for the States what they
have done for the National Government give to eacl
a currency that will not form the basis of vagu
and indefinite credit system, but be an inoessan
and insuperable check upon corrupt speculatiOns
excessire importations, and inflated domestic AM
foreign Commerce. This is the imperative duty 0
the National democracy; and this they will do. Fo
to this party alone now the Nation looks, for al
salutary reformations and all permanent prosperity
In subsequent articles we will designate what W
conceive to be such State currency as the democ
racy ought to establish. B.
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BANK FAILURES We copy the following we'll
timed remarks from the Cincinnati E1quirer. 4. The
moral of the article cannot be more applicable in
the latitude for which it was written than in this
Within the last few months one hundred and
seven banks, located in many different States in the
Union, and under different systems and charters,
have failed in business closed their doors and gone
into bankruptcy. The names of some of these fnan-
cia institutions will be found in the monetary article
of the Enquirer of yesterday, and make beautiful
exhibit for the admirers and supporters of paper
currency. The loss which the people have sustained
by these banks connOt be less that twenty-five or
thirty millions of dollars. Not year passes by
that the country does not witness some of these
chartered manufactures of promisesto pay fall and
the last year has been remarkable in he number OF
them which has collapsed. m
1t is the destiny Of all banks to fail in the United
States. This has been proved by our experience Of
paper money for seventy years, which has been
productive of more disasters to the community and
greater losses than it has sustained from any other
single cause. AT such a time as this when the
whole banking system is caving in, and while the
people are yet smarting and suffering from their
heavy losses by it, we confess that we have no
patience with those who step forward and cody
propose that shall lay the nest egg of future
losses by the charter of more banks, to break five,
ten or twenty years hence, after they have got the
confidence of the community to an extent that will
make it object so to do.
The motives that can actuate men now, after the
light of experience TO call out banks seem to
us as incOnceivable as their folly is stupendous
yet we find in midst certain fnanciers who,
without even waiting until the noise and crash Of
falling banks have subsidized, earnest in their
desires to rebuild these rickety, false and rotten
edifices of rancia fraud and gravtly give us their
programme for such end. They are to be
powerful moneyed institutions, with a capital
| of SIS 600, 900, a sort of United States Bank in
miniature, and are to be based on "system that
cannot fail. This is the old story to deceive and
delude the people, Every Banking system that was
| ever devised in the United States came heralded
with similar announcement of safety. Buta tria
soon showed that it better than its predeces
sors, an we imagine chat the people have lost al
confidence in these bank DOCTORS with their quacI
| system" of for financial disaster. They
believe that system is safe, and preparing t
return to the sound metallic currency of the Consi
| tution
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-10-01

A SINGULAR FAcT,-A stock raiser of Fayette
county, Ky lost eight colts season, four Of them
thorough -breds, and four of them common scurb
stock He amputated the legs of all of them, and
boiled off the flesh, cleaning the bones thoroughly,
to learn by examination, what difference, in respect
Of bone, there was between pure blooded and com
mon ones. On taking the bones of the thorough
breds, and holding them up to the light he noticed
that they we're almost transparent, much so as
white corn. He tried the same experiment with the
bones Of the inferior stock. They Opaque, and
transmitted light no more than buffalo horn. He
then tested the bones by weight, and found the
thorough bred by far the heavier, showing their
perior substance and sOlidity. They were hard and
dense as ivory.
Rock ISLAND BRIDGE CAsE.-The telegraph in
forms that the Rock Island Bridge case has ter
minated for the present in the failure of the jury
agree. The bridge still stands, and the river runs
a. usual.
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Bragg'S Improved Imminent.
DIR. BRACES ARCTIC EMINENT,

Have you the BRONCHITIS?
Have you the NEURALGIA
Have you the IA R or TOoTHACHE?
You may yourself entirely of distressing evils
by the use of Dr. Bragg's Arctic Linn mt.
Areyou afflicted with sores?
Are you suffering from old bruises
Are you enduring pains from sprains?
One bottle of the Arctic Lnimeni will surely give relief
speedily.
ScrOfula q Iaathsome di easel
Cancers very alarmiRgI
Arctic Linment, that twill almost insanity
chronic rheumatism; Scrofua, aud in kill that
most stubborn Of enemies to health, the Cancer.
Why will you endure scurvy?
Why will you suffer with the Pies!
Why will you submit to ChiIblainsP
When by using the Arctic Liniment you may find perma
The Arctic Eminent is the discovery the farfsmed Dr.
BRA6G of Saint Louis, who since severing con-
neciion the celebrated Mexican Mustang Lni-
ment, has devoted the OF his time the study which
has given the world Linment which possesses even
fai. - H'' '''" '0'''''-
ORIGIN OF THE NAME.
WheL Dr. kane under the auspices of the United Stat
Government was about to proceed 10 the frozen
gOns Of the north-himsef medical man-applied to
Die IN system hardshps of land Of frost and
ice Among others was Doctor G Bragg tn a visit
GENT which having been submitted The sevsrest ANALYSIS
accepted by Dr. X and used by during that won
Arctic Eminent.
HOW 1T Is RECEIVED,
The very announcement OF this medicine has been re-
eeved with joy nd confidence. Letters containing eera
Gates Of permanent da y received the
terry, while expressions of gratitude borne TO Them
every mail.
ITS PREPARATION.
The Ingredients Arctic Linment are of the most
costly kind, while the utmost bestowed upon com
pounding them by member OF the company,
a personal examination of every bottle put up.
FARMERS AND LIVERY STABLE KEEP
ERS,
The Arctic Eminent is alse sovereign remedy Hor
and Mules sf cted with bruises, sprains, wounds
scratches sweny, Zone big head poll evil
No person owning vousbe boses mules should with
out it, for it will cure them.
, II is put up csc SOC and 81 bottles. The SOC bot
ties and 81 betes contain so and 100 per more Ln
mentin proportion to their cost cheapest Ev
cry buying dollar bottle Bragzs Arctic Lin
mentwil be furnished with EmersOns United States Jou
nal for by filling up the certificate every
dollar bottle and sending it to Emerson, 81 Broadway
New York
For sale by Bragg Burrows sole prOprietors,
st. Louis, Mo.
W w BERRY & DEMOVILLE,
octI-dtW&wly Wholesale Agents.
And by A H ROSCOE,
G w HENDERSON,,
J STRETCH.
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A Cool QUAKER.-A Quakeress jealous of her
husband, watched his movements, and actually one
morning discovered the truant kissing and hugging
the servant girl. Broadbrim was not long in dis
covering the face of his wife, she peeped through
the half open door, and rising with all the GOODNESS
of general, thus addressed her: Betsy, thee
had better quit peeping else thee will cause a
disturbance in the family"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-10-01

NARROW EsCAPE.-Great solicude was created
a short time since, by the absence of old friend
Daniel S. Morrison, of Hot Spring county, He has a
very remarkable field of corn, and walking Town one
evening to see what damage the coons were doing,
he CHANGED to stroll too far from the fence, soon
become lost and bewildered in the immense growth
of corn. He waGderd for three days, subsisting du
ring that time on green corn His negroes becOm-
ing alarmed about him, commenced a dilgent search
and found him on the fourth day. He was then
busily engaged in rubbing two dry sticks together
to make a fire, the green corn having produced
an unpleasant sensation in his stomach. He thinks
he would have found his way out the third day, but
he got into patch of Black Republican beans, and
then he gave up.-ArkdRsaS State Gazette.
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OF VALUABLE LANDS IN HUMPHREYS COUNTY
And Town Lots in Centrevihs, Hickman County.
TN pursuance Of an nteocutoy decree pronounced BY
i the Chancsry Court al Waverly Tennessee, at tho
September term 1851 in the Sarah G. Fo ter Ad
mnistratrx, &C. and Others Martha s. FaFlkes and
others heirs at law of VIM H. Foster deceased will
Monday the I'd day Of November next tbs Court house
in the town Of Wavery Humphreys county proceed to
sell at public sale to the highest bidder valuable tracts
of land in said county Al sores lying in ediately
IN the fork OF Duck aud Buffalo rivers unimproyed lies
well, soil equal to any in the State on which there is
spring If excellent water the other containing acres
lying on Duck river Immediately above the first described
tract improved, soil ne. These lands will bare inspec
ton and need no putting.
COME AND SEE = -
Sold upon credit Of !, and years. except the sum
of two per cent Of the Purchase money which will be
qured IN cash Bond with two or more approved securL
ties wi be required Tor tie balance Of he purchase
ney and lien will be retained upon LAND until the
purchase money is paid "a e-tr.-.r..'-f
ALSO-On Monday, the 7ih day Of December next, at
the Court house in CeDtrevle Hickman county will sell
several Town Lots and parts of Lots known and de mated
IN toe plan OF said Town as lots Nos 90 16 aud 9 lying
on nam street For more general description Ieter 70
ANunnelly ofCeutrevilIe Said town lots will be sold
upon credit Of twelve month"; except the sum Of per
cent Ct the purchase money, which viii be II red in
cash. Bond with two or Ore approved securities will be
required tor the balance Of The purchase money and lien
retained on ne lots unl the purchase money is pad.
The Aforesaid lands and town lots are sold at the in
stance OF tue compliments for the purpose redistribution
are not sutJse to redemption and the title upquesiona
BILE have all the title papers in nv possession and will
| eheeriuly give any her information desired
OCT prs lie $40 d. K. OWEN, CAM.
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ChanCerY Sale.

by virtue OF the decree Of the chancery Centres
~ vile, in the of Maroble Reeves against Felix
Suddard and hers rendered the 18th day September
1856, and ordered be carried into execution bv decree of
the same court made on The 18th day of September 1857
day OF December, 1857 expose public sale on The prem
SEES the undivided tWohTds Of the Furnace Forge Lands
and Fixtures known the Mill Greek Iron WoTks,In said
coun of Hickman, fully and particularly described in said
decree OF the th day Of September 1885, said undi
vlded two thirds Of said property will sold on credit of
one and two years with interest from sale and with
out the right OF redemption. The purchaser will be reouIr
ed give bond and security for the purchase money and
lien will be retained the propoy the PAYMENT of
the same All persons who may wish purchase ave inyit
ed to examine the property which will shown 10 them bv
persons the premises. ORVILLE A NIXON
Oct l-wtds prs fee 50 Clerk a Mostsr
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a RELc.-Among the curiOsities which the ladies
Of Worcester county have forwarded for exhibition
at the Mechanics Fair in Worcester is an infants
blanket, wrought hundred and forty years ago by
the hands Of the mother Of Samuel Adams, of revo-
lutionary fame. 1t now belongs to lady of Fitch
burg who is descendant from that family, and it
is known to be the identical blanket in which the
infant limbs Of that noble old patriot Samuel Adam
were wrapped when he was carried to church to be
christened
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IN ORDERING TICkEIS Oh CERTIFICATES,
Enclose the money to address for the Tickets order
ed the receipt of which they will be forwarded BY first
nail Purchasers have Tickets ending with any hg
ure they may designate.
The List Of Drawn Numbers and Prizes will be sent to
purchasers Immediately after the drawing.
Purchasers Wiplease write their signature plain, give
their Post Office, County and State.
- Remember that every prize is drawn, AMI Payable
in full without deductions
a All prizes Of 81, 900 and under paid Immediately
after the prizes at the usual time Of thirty
days
Address Orders for Tickets or Certificates to
s. SWAN CO., Augusta. Ala.
or, u. SIIMSTEIN, Box 3, Nashville.
2 Persons residing Montgomery Ala or Atlanta,
Ca have their orders hed, and time by address
ing 5 swan & Co, at either of those cities.
aug 99-tf
III , list Of the numbers that drawn from wheel
with the amount Of the prize that is entitled to,
will be published alter drawing the following pa
peTs:-New Orleans Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston
standard, Nashville Gazette Atlanta lnelligeucer New
York Weekly Day Book, Savannah Morning News Rich
mOnd Dispatch and New York Dispatch, and Paulding
(Miss.) Clarion.
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S99,94I 5s
Increase in tbree months Of 1857 over

Iooo............. QUO 10
The connections of tha road, laterally, -are-the
Mississippi Central which will be completed some
ten miles south Of Oxford this fall the Mssiss ppi
Central and Tennessee, which is already complete, to
Jackson; and the Mobile and Ohio, which is up
preaching completion. On the east, it connects,
by the Nashville and Chattanooga road with Saw an
nah, Charleston, Knoxville, and the Virginia sys tenn
of roads. On the west, the Memphis and La tile
Rock road is in a state Of healthful progress.
We refer readers to the able and INTEREST," ng
reports of President Tate and General SuperiRte a.
dent Arms for fuller and clearer view of the il
portance of the road and the satisfactory condti
Of its affairs than could possibly be obtained fro
any synopsis of facts.
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AT AUGUSTA.
EHB Twenty Course OF Lectures in this Institution
Z will commence on MONDAY, the I'd NOVEMBER
next.
Emeritus Professor Of Anatomy, G. N. NEWTON, ND
Anatomy, II. F CA PBELL, MD.
Surgery, L. A. DUGAS, MD.
Institutes and Practice of Medrne, L d. FORD, ND.
Materia Medica Therapeutics Medical Jurisprudence
!. p. G IRWIN, MD.
Obstetrics and Diseases Women and Infants J. EVR
ID.
Physiology and Pathological Anatomy, H. V. NJ MILLER
MD.
Chemistry and Pharmacy, ALEX. MEANS, ND.
DemOnstratOr Of Anatomy, ROBf. CAMPBELL, MD.
Assistant Demonstration Of Anatomy, S. B. SIMMONS
ND.
Clinical Lectures will be delivered in the City HospRa
and al ii Jackson Street Hos pi.al
Fee for whole Course, SIp5.
Naturalization Ticket Ito be taken oncel SIS.
For further particulars, apply member Of the Facul
V,orto sept20 Up. GARVIN, Dean.