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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-10-07

This exhibit shows the actual Indebtedness of the
State to be four million hundred and ninety
thousand eight hundred and fifty six dollars and
sixty-six cents a, $50 &C., The stocks owned
by the State in Banks, Internal Improvement Com
panies &c. amount to three million two hundred
and ninety two thousand seven hundred and sixteen
dollars and sixty six cents, 49, 1872 7l6 &C., will
appear by reference to another part of this Mes
sage These stocks, when reduced to their market
or estimated value, will amount to two million two
hundred and forty four thousand eight hundred and
twenty seven dollars (S2, 244, S26 If this amount
is applied to the liquidation of the actual indebted
ness of the State it will reduce that debt TO one
million forty seven thousand seventy nine dollars
and sixty six cents, 1047 079 Co., 1t is the Opin-
ion of some correct thinking and judiciOus persons,
as well as my own, that it would be sound policy
and economy to dispose of all the stock owned by
the State in Banks and Internal Improvent Com
panies, or otherwise as as it can be done on
advantageous terms, and to apply the proceeds OF
the sale of the to the reduction of the actual
Indebtedness of the State and for the State as soon
practicable to become entirely disconnected with
all corporations whatever either partner stock
holder. The six per cent which would be saved
upon the bonds will amount to more than all the
dividends which will be paid upon the stock so long
as it is owned by the State.
The following tabular statement will show the
amount of stocks owned by the StVte, in Banks,
Internal Improvement Companies, &c, its original
cost and its estimated value at the present time:
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Among the numerous gentlemen now in our city
none have been more cordially welcomed than the
distinguished Representative elect from the Ninth
Congressional District. Gen. Atkins frank and
manly bearing and superior social qualities render
him general favorite with his numerous acquain-
tances of both political parties.
His recent gallant and successful struggle against
the Hon. En-. Etheridge, was, perhaps, one Of the
most remarkable canvasses that has taken place in
our State. The personal popularity of few men of
his party equaled that of Mr. Etheridge in his
immediate district. He is regarded by his friends,
which is conceded by his opponents, as possessing
the highest order of talent as popular declaimer
and unsurpassed by any man in the State as an ad-
rot electiOneerer. Possessing thorough cluain-
lance throughout his district and an ability to sus
tain the largest amount of physical endurance, we
may readily conceive that his competitor had no or
binary task to perform in encOmpassing his defeat
The race was not one of an ordinary character The
course of Mr. Etheridge in Congress, upon the cues
tion of slavery, had incensed to unusual degree
the Democracy of the entire country, and especial
ly of the South. To the same extent he had sue
ceeded in enlisting the warmest sympathies of the
Black Republicans of the North and, strange to saw
of the leading spirits of the Know Nothing party of
the South.
From every direction the public gaze was anx-
iously turned to the wager of battle in his district
As the contest waxed warm the Democratic pulse
beat stronger. 1t soon became apparent that we
had been most fortunate In the selection of a can
didate-One in every way suited to the emergency
able, ready honest and fearless. The district was
canvassed in every nook and cOrner-Mr. Etheridge
held to rigid accountability before his constitu
ents, from which he could find no escape, and, in
spite Of all the adventious circumstances surround
ing him, forced into retirement.
The election of Gen. Atkins was a triumph for
the South, and was so received throughout the
country. The defeat of Mr.. Etheridge is not only
a moral from which southern politicians may take
most salutary lesson, but it will give confidence to
our national friends of the North, and discourage
the hope which different result would have crea-
ted with our sectional adversaries.
We predict for Gen. Atkins in his new field of
labor, career of usefulness to his country and
homer to himself
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-10-07

WESTERN LAND SPECULATIONs.- present ex-
traordinary slringency of the money market and
depreciation of railroad securities is likely to pro-
duce a very unfavOrable effect upon Western land
speculatiOns. An immense amount of money in the
last few years has been invested in wild lands under
the expectation of a rapid rise in their value
The railroads which have been projected in
the new States have excited high expectations
respecting the prospective value of lands on their
proposed routes. The grants which have been
made by the federal government authorize the ex-
pectation that those roads will at some time b e
built but the present condition of railway affairs
has Frustrated confidence in those enterprises that
even with the advantage of the land grants. the
completion OF roads in the States will be for
long time postponed. The consequence is that great
loss will be entaled on those who have dipped into
land speculatiOns. Settlers, likewise, who have
taken up lands at points remote from markets. will
find themselves poor in the midst of agricultural
abundance, by their inability to command remunera-
tive prices for the products of their farms.
The West, however, with its boundless fertility,
can never be more than temporarily oppressed. 1t
needs only the industry of robust abOrers to make
it the garden of the world But the emigrants with
some means have probably committed mistake in
pushing into Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska
points so remote from the grelt grain markets.
while they passed on their way abundance of mode
rate priced lands in and nearer Western States.
where great part of the value of agricultural pro-
ducts would not be consumed in conveying them to
market We shall expect as consequence of these
facts increased demand for lands in our own
state, which equal TO- and in fertility are con-
venient to MARKET and can be obtained at even
lower figures than similar lands in the extreme Far
West -Lydfgyette Journal Sent ID
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3O.-United States stocks
to the amount of $500 600 were received here to-
day for redemption. Everything in monetary affairs
are quiet but there is still considerable pressure
on the business community. No excitement pre-
walls. however, and the banking houses are all pay
ing specie.
letter was received here to- day dated Fort Kear-
new Sept 9Th. which states that two companies of
troops arrived there that day on their way to Salt
Lake, and the 9th and 10th regiments of infantry
had reached Fort Laramie. Col. Hoffman had seiz-
ed five hundred kegs Of gunpowder in a Mormon
train Some returning Californisus informed the
writer Of the letter that the Mormons were making
preparations for a fight, and did not conceal their
hostile movements. Elder kimbsll in one of his
sermons IN the Tabernacle Salt Lake city, said he
could with his wives whip the , 500 troops and do
a good day work ON his farm in the afternoon
He further remarked that the provisions for the
army would reach the valley, but the troops would
never enter Salt Lake City.
orders were sent from the Treasury Department
to-day the New Iork assay office for the transfer
Of a large amount of bullion TO the PHILADELPHIA
mint to be coined into small pieces to meet the nress
ing demands Of business.
The Treasury Department is still engaged in do
ing all il in legitimate way to relieve the mo-
ney pressure. Applications for a large amount
Of United States stocks are steadily the in
crease.
Gen. Walkers sword was sent to him this morn
VIM Pitt Plat has been appointed postmaster at
Plattsburg n. y, in the place Of Mr.. Moore, re-
signed.
The whole number Of land warrants issued from
the Pension Office during September, under the
bounty land sct of March Sd, 1853, was I,626, to
satisfy which nearly 2i5 600 acres of land are neces
sarv. The names of $4,000 pensioners for revolu-
tcnary services have been placed the rolls since
March, ISIS, but the 3Oth Of June last only SAC
of this number were reported living
The administration has not yet received any de-
finite information from VIM. Carey Jones, relative
TO the political affairs of Nicaragua. While certain
parties are strongly urging the recognition by the
President Of the minister from that country, rival
Interests are endeavorng to prevent it. Moline, the
minister OF Costa RIGA, claims that his government
has something to say about the transit route, but it
is known that the administration does not respect
that assumption.
During the present week there will be paid out Of
The government treasury to employees in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, upwards of five hundred thousand
dollars. writer suggests that for the general con-
venience in the way Of small change, the whole
amount be paid in dollar pieces. But this is hard
ly practicable from one depository without previous
notice.
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Mr. Dunlap, when his name was called. stated the
reason Of his vote In the first place, his colleague,
Mr. King was absent and might take an interest in
this matter and he would like to postpone this &C
ton out of respect to him. Again, of his con-
stituents had been candidate for United States
Senator. he did not know that that gentleman des.
ired now to be candidate not having seen him or
heard from him in the matter but he desired to give
him time not that he would be in favor of his
constituent if he were here but because he his
constituent he wanted justice done to him, he voted
no. So, the joint resolution was adopted
COMMUNICATION TO THE GOVERNOR.
On motion by Mr. Rowles, the Senate resolution
for joint committee to wait on the Governor was
taken up considered and adopted, and the Speaker
appointed on the part of the House, Messrs Rowles,
johnson, Richardson, Cooper and Bradford, to con-
stitute said committee.
The House then took recess till % ocl ock, P
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A CANDIDATE FOR THE PREsIDENCY.-The Rich
mOnd Enquirer announces that Gov. Wise will not
be candidate for the United States Senate from
Virginia, for which it assigns the following reason
" 1t is well known that Gov. Wise's name has been
placed in prominent connection with the next Presi-
dental election, and the slightest attention to the
circumstances of the case, is sufficient to demons.
trate that Gov Wise has every motive of expediencv
to withhold him from contest with Mr.. Hunter for
the Senatorial election. Should he invite such a
contest it must in any event, rebound to the injury
of his Presidential prospects. If elected to the
Senate he would thus embitter against him the
friends and partizans of Mr.. Hunter and as Mr..
Hunters present Senatorial term endures until the
4th of March, 1859, Gov. Wise would not even gain
the vantage ground of a seat in the Senate until
every eFectual movement had been completed which
could be brought to bear on the Presidential nomi-
nation"
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BzT Carlyle says: Make yourself an honest
man, and then you may be sqre thai sbere IS one
ysgpsl les in lh2 WOEls"
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Corrspondsncs ofthe Msr OrLean, Pinnnnn1


ARRIVAL OF COOLIES IN CUBA-Since my last,
we have had two cargoes of Chinese, amounting in
the aggregate to 700, brought under the French
flag. They were purchased Immediately by the
POSITIVE, at remunerative price. These, with
four reported landings of bozales the northern
coast, will be quite increase of lsborers for the
planters. Notwithstanding the stringent orders
recently issued against the slave trade, and the
constant cruising of the Spanish marine off the
coast, not a single capture worth mentioning has
been made. Gangs of twenty more have been
taken from several cargoes just to show the English
government that negroes could be introduced, and
to save the elastic conscience of the Lieutenant
Governor of the Partido.
The reward offered by the dealers are very
heavy that very few of our officials can resist the
temptation of becoming rich suddenly. The great
est number are landed in the vicinity of Sugua la
Grande and Trinidad, that by the time the spies
of the English government have sent their informa-
ton to Havana, and the facts are laid before the
Captain General, all evidences of the landing have
been entirely efaeed. The most disgraceful feature
in the matter is, that our vessels and oountrymen
are the principal abetors in this gross violation of
treaties and this is the employment Of those very
bloodthirsty miscreants who were the most clamor-
Gus for the slaughter of their fellow countrymen a
few years ago.
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tx Society is at fault with itself so long as it
does not minister for the good Of the whole.
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REMARKABLE MARRIAGES.

Of the many Cinnamon in New York, not a few
keep cigar stands on the sidewalks. Their neigh
! bOrs in trade are the Mesian appewomen. Twenty
| eight Of these applewomen have gone the way OF
matrimOny with their elephant-eyed olive-skinned
contemporaries, and the most of them are now hap
! py mothers, in consequence. The Psychologists
aver that the human being is improved is the do
nestle branch of the quadrupedal animals, by "
| ing" If this be true-and we suspect it is-the
natives of this country ought to be remarkable for
physical strength and beauty; for surely there
such n mixture of faces in any part of the
world Representatives of all nations have located
and married here. We know of two Bedouin Arabs
part of an exhibiting troupe that to this
try several years ago, who married wives aud are
rearing ofsprings in one of the Hudson river coun-
ties Siam has its Representatives here in the IA
twins aud one of our uptown streets wealthy
native of Morocco dol iclates with Westchester
spouse. The mixture Of Dutch Italian, French,
Spanish, English, Irish, Danish Swedish &C., is
perfectly bewildering, bat the amalgamation of the
Irish and the Chinese is more than bewilderng-it
begets a chaos of ideas from which no ray of in
telligibility can be safely eliminated. Imagine a
scoin of this stock chatting gay about Josh" in
one moment and speaking of his father Pin Sing
Chi and in the next whirng shillalah at primary
election, and swearing that he goes in, tooth and
nail or rather body and breaches. for the nOmina-
ton of his mothers brother, Patrick 0 Dowd. Oh,
what q country is this.-NeJc York Mercury.
ADVICE To YOUNG LADIEs.-Never marry man
without the consent of your parents. No matter
how much you fancy you love him; you cannot ex-
pect blessing your union, if you persist in go
ing contrary to the better judgment of those who
were appointed by Providence to watch over you,
and advise you for your good. They, of course
have had more experience and are better qualified
to Judge than you be, who are but setting forth
in the pathway of life, young, inexperienced, and
too ready to form favorable opinions where your af
fections are concerned. Let them be your conf
dents; open your heart to them soon you are
aware that anything of this sort exists would
confde the secret to my parents soon as would
acknOwlede it to my own bosom. Theirs is not the
cold unsympathig Judgment of the world-it springs
from deep affection and interest in your lasting
welfare: for what comfort would IL be to them to
mar your happiness? You, whom they have watch
ed and guarded from helpless infancy with such an
dying affection as only parents can feel Recon-
pense their love- then, as far as in your power, by
conhding in them, and seeking their COUNSEL be as
surei, you will lose nothing by it: and though you
might meet with dissppointments now, 1t will soon
pass away, and in after years you will be attended
by the blessing of Him who said: " Honor thy
father and mOther."-4dU. and Guardian.
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M e S S e.
Executive DEPARTMENT, !
October, 6, 1857. !
Gentlemen Of Me Senat!

PARTxEEr1
October, 6, 1851
and of he House of Rpsnhn
State submit
IF aft
take generally especially
attention
a
G OF THEST
the cot
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WILL INDIA BE RE-CONQUERED BY THE
BRITISH.

In answer to this inquiry, a foreign cOrrespon-
dent the New York Times writes
India will never be re-conquered by British arms.
The war will be carried on for time, say two or
three years with varying success but without deci
sve result. The necessarily enormous increase Of
taxation together with the drain of and forced
enrolment of the militia will, after awhile raise
an opposition at home as powerful the now pre-
vailing thirst for vengeance. The Government and
army in India will be then lily supported The
prO-Iudian party, already existing among British
residents in India, though now weighed down by the
humiliatng ferOGities of the SepOys the nursings
of the cOmpanys ciylzing care, will soon be raised
again by the worst barbarities in contemplation by
European vengeance. They will be joined by the
European residents of other nations, who all
opposed British misrule and by the daily increas
ing number of all who oppressed by the unscru
pulOus tyranny of the East Indian Government.
On the first sign of weakness the part of the
Government, this party will openly espouse the
cause of the natives The hOstilities will then as
sumo the character of a civil war, which cannot,
dare not, last. 1t will be ended by a compromise,
the nature of which will depend in great measure
upon the mOmentary strategcal position of the two
armies but which will destroy forever the rule of
the British government in India. Enghshmen will
then, for the time, cooperate and assimlate with
the natives in a community of interests, and on
footing of something like equality. The real con
quest of india by the English will then begin.
But India will never be re-cOnquered by English
arms.
BANK OF WEST TENNEssEE.-This institution h as
perfected its organization by the appointment of P
g. Bethel, President, and J. NJ. Williamson Cash
Ter.
1t is now well fortified with coin and pays prompt
ly all demands at the counter 1t is undoubtedly as
reliable any bank in the city and, in the midst
Of the present money panic, is perfectly easy The
Of Twin
in our midst and are well known to our citizens
The notes Of the Bank received by all the Banks
Of the city, and We gratifed to assure our
friends in the country that they need have no appre
hension whatever of its notes either now or here
after.-AsmpbiS Appeal
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PUBLIC ROADS.

In calling the attention Of the Legislature to this
subject l can do nothing than substantallyse
neal what have heretofore stated to preceding Leg
slatures Our whole system of public roads is ex-
eeedingy defective, more perhaps than in any of
our sister States which detracs materially from the
facilities of travel and the transfer of the surplus
products to the main channels of commerce, both as
to the rivers and railroads which penetrate the coun
try bearing of the great staples of the State to dis
tant markets The condition in which our pubIie
roads now kept depreeates materially the value
of all property, real and personal which is not stu
ated Immediately upon navigabe streams or line
railroads Besides, the expense and burden of keen
ing up public roads fall mainly upon that portion
Of our fellow citizens who are least able to bear il
and who have the least use for public roads after
they have been put in repair. Many Of our fellow
citizens are compelled to perform manual labor on
the public roads, number Of days in the course of
year. who have not time to spare from their other
pursuits without pay. Their own condition and the
necessities OF their families are SUCH as to require
the proceeds Of their entire labor for their support
while on the other hand there are many who are ex-
empt by law from working on the public roads. who
are either able physically to work or pecuniary to
pay for having 1t dOne aud in fact who derive the
greatest benefit from good roads when they are made
by the enhanced value good roads always impart 10
property. There are many of our fellow citizens
who deal IN thousands, and own in vslue large
amounts Of property, who never pay one farthing
to keep our pnbio roads IN FePsiP or ta open PeF
ones Vhl1o there are others Fho eFH ~ PFspsgY |
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It has now been mere than tEelve years since the
cornerstone of the State CAPT toll was laid and the
work is still dragging along and the Capitol in an
unfinished condition. Progressing at this slow rata
it has already cost the State, including appropria
lions directly from the Treasury, labor performed
by the Penilentary eonvicts and issuance of State
Bends, &C., one million two hundred and
four thousand and seventy two dollars and twelve
cents (Sl,204,072 II To raise this amount. in
part there has been issued eight hundred aud forty
one thousand dollars, (SSfl, Geo Of six per cent
State Bonds, the principal and interest to be Paid
out Of the State Treasury. These Bonds constitute
part OF the State debt, ard must, ultimately, be
paid out of the people taxes
i would Seem that the time had arrived, when
the capitol should be complete and the source o.
expenditure have 81 end Il ia believed, ig ihs
geFs Rad from tbs baglRpinE, kssa FFssssg Fp6
s4sfgs aHd soaAsEy, tAsi & Fsg.A hafa bssa ssEI'
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-CTUAL INDEBTEDNESS OF THE STATE.
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State AT6uLtE Bureau U"' 10 "e
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-03-19
O., THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1857.

constructionist school. In character, he is
said to resemble Mr.. Mason, who was Sec
rotary of the Navy under Mr.. Polk. He
combines suavity of manner with unblem-
ished character, great industry and talent.
During the last campaign he labored very
zealously for the success of the Democratic
nominees. 1t was to Gov. Brown, when a
member of Congress, some twelve or thir-
teen years ago, that Gen Jackson addressed
his celebrated letter in favor of the annexa-
tion of Texas. Gov. Brown is in his 62d
year, but owing to his active and temperate
habits, is generally taken to be ten years
younger.
. Ahoncy General-Jcremiah 8. Rack.
| P'nn$y1ro"ia.-Thc Attorney General
ship has fallen into able hands. Judge
Black is considered to be Among one Of the
most accomplished and able jurists in Penn
sylvania. He was formerly one of the Dis
trict Judges of that State, but on the law
requiring all judges to be elected by the
people going into effect, he was chosen one
of the State Supreme Court Judges. He is
in the prime of life, not over As years of
age, and universally esteemed for the purity
of his public and private character.