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Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17
Thn SInVeT rnle.

Quite a spirited debate took place in the Con-
vention yesterday evening, upon the amendment
offered by Col Sneed to the reso luton OF Mr.. Bry-
an, OF S. G, as may be iulerred from the report
The amendment was not agreed 20, and the origi-
nal resolution passed by a vote of 60 to %. Ten
nessee and North Carolina voting in the negative.
The resolution can be regarded nothing else
than a step preparatory TO the rc-opr ming of the
AJrie1l stare trade The vote upon it may be re-
garded pretty fair test OF the sentiment of the
body, aud we regret to say it l. manifestIy tl-
tra not to sly, fire cutting Convention. We
were proud to Tennessee aud the Old North
State so gallantly ranging themselves under the
good old flag OF conservatism. The delegates from
these States have truly represented the sentiment
OF their constituency upon this dangerous question
-Ki,or. Reg. d Wing.
Mr. Sueed's amendment was as follows
Resoired That in the opinion of the Convention
it is ine pedient and contrary to the settled policy
of this country to repeal the laws prOhioitory Of
the African slave trade, ys. the eighth article o
the treaty of Washington, ratified on the 10Th Of
November, 1912, ought to be annulled, under the
provision OF the fret clause fhe eleventh article
said treaty.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17

THE UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,"
The exhibition OF this Society will commence on
Monday, August II, instead of Tuesday, September
/, as at first proposed. This change has beer rem
dered necessary account Of the great extent of
the exhibition. There will be so much there to de
mand the attention OF visitors that even six days
will be but short time for the examination.
The superintendent OF Implement Hall is now
ready TO receive machinery and implements and
manufactures of every description, and we would
advise contributors TO hasten forward the articles
they intend TO exhibit, that they may be proper
ly arranged in due time. Room haa been provided
for every description of manufactures, and the
awarding committee will, at their discretion, report
for premiums or for especial commentator such
articles not enumerated III the premium list the
may deem worthy of particular notice. Entrance
ie's will be charged only such articles as
tered for competition for the premiums mentioned
III the schedule of premiums
The superintendent OF Floral Hall and the Com
mittee Oh Fine Arts also ready to receive anC
arrange contributions 20 their several departments
The department. OF fine arts is confJed to three wei
known artists and will be one of the most attractive
features OF the exhibiion.-Lou. Jour.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17
sou,hern Enterprise.

We commend to the attention Of those
who are constantly harping upon the supe-
rior enterprise of the free States, to the fol-
lowing extract from a letter to the Knox
vile Convention, written by LIT. MAURY. 1t
exhibits the enterprise of the South in the
proper light:
The Sonthern people have achieved great
thing; and though it is common 20 taunt them
| for lack of that energy and enterprise which
characterize rhe people of the North, vet
have long been of opinion that, if the balance
could b. fairly struck, it would appear that
the native energy, enterprise and industry of
the South have contributed quite as largely as
| the vaunted enterprise of the Nnrth has done
! to the national wealth of these United States.
| Both sections have done marvelously, and far
be it from me to disparage either. only wish
to state fact or two that l may induce you
| to take a view with me from my stand point,
and see if those who draw-and their name
| is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS contrasts between the
! North and the South tor energy and enterprise,
| do not draw their conclusions more from the
| apparent than the real state of things.
! Let Us throw little Delaware out of the ques-
/ ton as belonging properly neither to the
| slavery or anti~slavery side of Mason & DIX
| Ons line; we shall then see that we commenced
our career as a nation with seven free and five
! slave States, that TO these have been added
nine free and nine slave States; bat the five
/ original slave States have, of their own ener-
! gIes, almost entirely alone and unaided by for
! eign immigration, reclaimed, from the savage
and the wilderness, nine other wealthy, flour
! ishing and prosperous States; that the seven
| original free States have also reclaimed nine
| Others not less wealthy, Furnishing or prosper
Gus but 10 do this, the seven Northern States
! have had the assistance and capital which near
/ ~ the whole foreign immigration has brought
/ with il into the cuunrry. When Arkansas was
settled, It was done merely by thetransfsr of so
much population from some other slave States;
! but when Wisconsin was settled it was settled
not mer, ~ by the IF nser OF one population
from the other free States but in a great
measure by peOPeirom beyond the seas, who
| brought with them SO much industry and
! wealth.
| Now, if we could deduct the valGe which
the foreign immigration has added to the
wealth of the North, and then if we could
compare the internal improvements of the
South, and the value of the property of all sorts
in the fourteen slave States, with the Internal
improvements and property in the sixteen free
| States-we should see that, according to the
| population, the industry of the South has gone
much farther than the industry of the North,
towards The creation Of national wealth.
But the achievements of the South, in its
teats Of industry and Improvement, are quietly
| made, and the press of the South, has not the
multitudinOus voice which enables that of the
NORTH, to make Itself heard in the four quar-
! ter5 of the globe.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17

Hoo. A. V. Brown, Postmaster General.
has under cousid, grafton a letter from the pro-
prietors OF The New York Independent, " hioh,
q may be remembered, is profsssedly q religious
and really Black Republican sheeI, stating
thHt the Postmaster at Libesfy, Vs., refuses 70
deliver that paper 10 = subscriber, Tor tie rea-
sou that il is an ineeHdiary publication. This
letter WI call for the solution OF very ilu-
portant question, aud Postmaster General
Browns decision in the matter wil, doubtless,
be looked for with 3 good deal OF interest.
Il is strange that tie Jaw relative 10 incendiA-
" publications has NOT been before tested,
that the public might ascertain il there was
any way OF preventing the circulation OF saclf
journals as the Tribune, IadspsE,Ls1sf, and some
others pubisbed al tie North.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17

ASr'hal Butte, OF Covington, arrested some dsvs
ass' person for some petty offence in that city
ana siter"ard bad reason TO believe him one Jobn
Fy' who murd' red on the 29th OF June last J
young man Damed David N. Thom pson, in Muir
ireeSoofough, tennessee, aud for whom the young
mar Istner, John Thompson Of Octibeba coonty
IN Glssissippi, bad offered reward of two thou
fand collars: Fly, had been minutely described,
nnu Ine MARSHAL wrote to Tenn, ssee respecting his
arrest ana has received, within dav or two such
eelngence as leads him to feel almost certain that
H'n present prisoner is Fly, and no else
The arrested parry admits that he left Tennessee
On account q young having been killed ~
hgntalng and the body half consumed by the house
taxing tre from the fluid and of fear in conse-
quepce Of the accident that such strong suspi-
cion OF murder would attach to bim to cause
him 70 be j. ncbed. The affair." regarded as Who'll
renders it highly probable that Fly has at last been
brought to justice, and viii be made pay the pen
atty OF his crime.-Csa. Goa, 18Th ut.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17
beware of Brandy.

We warn the good people Of this city, who occa-
sion ally IKE little "for the stomach's sake" to
beware how they drink brandy, or we should rath-
say the red liquid which is handed out to them
at tavern counters under that name. It is a well
known ct that there is scarcely a bar-room in the
city, however extensive, elegant or pretentious,
that contains drop OF the genuine article Indeed,
VerS little OF il comes into the country from France
ana what docs come commands almost fabulous
price, pTlce so great, at any rate, exclude it
almost entirely from the retail trade Indeed even
with the best will % sell good article the tavern
Keeper cannot surely get IT. The article which he
buys under custom house lock, and which unques-
tloDsbly has come from France, is nothing more
than portion OF the millions of gallons Of pure
spirit, l. &. alcohol, which has been exported from
this county receive in France its colOring and it's
favor from the essential oii of Coniac," and then
TO be imported back This is Illusion, cut
fact OF daily practice and 1t would be safe to con-
clude, that any 81 SO which you N axe up any
bar IN town, IL nothing but colored pure spirit, fla
Vored with few drops of the poisonous oil alluded
to. The same may be said of the stuff that is fur
nlshed you 10 dmj Inns from the Who'll, sale gro
GERS and liquor dealers, for family USE at the rate
OF i've, six, and even seven dollars gallon.
Through the failure OF the grape in France, and the
immense consumption of the article of brandy in
this country, not Onetwentieth part of the demand
nude upon France be supplied; and the
Jor part OF this demand Is for high priced brandy it
will ut once be seen what perilous stuff, the
most fastc ious and careful drinkers obliged
swallow. The only safe course is, therefore, to alb
stain from calling for brandy altogether. There is
but little good in it, when il is best and it has
been saddled upon a national drink, ia place
OF the comparatively harmless beverages chosen by
other nations, by a school of reduced old COZ ks
who with the proundity, if not the sobriety of ora
eles, yoked our necks years ago, with the notion
that little brandy was 'the best thing in the world
for the stomach especially after eating oysters;
double failacy, as has long ago been proved. We,
therefore, advise that brandy bepermitted TO 60
OF fashion; at least while it is out of the county,
PoTtsr's SPIRIT Of tie Times.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17
Southern Convention.
The Knoxville daily Register and 7

The Knoxville daily Register and Wing
of the 18th says:
As yet, we regret to say the result of the Iabors
of the Convention have amounted to nothing at all
that can, in any wise be regarded as prOmotive oil
the commercial interests of the South. We have
no idea when the Convention will adjourn; but We
do think the eight hundred men who constitute the
Convention making up barren cord 20 60
before the country evidence of the utility oil
these GATHERINGS. We have been struck with the
fact that the most practical men the floor OF the
Convention, have yet, had but little to say. The
time has been mainly consumed by men whose on
ly purpose seems to have been to divert the bust
ness of the Convention from its legitimtte sphere
ment.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17

PosrAGE STAMPS NOT REDEEMGD,-The FIRST as-
sistant Postmaster General, b. King, writes July
rs, that
There is no provision whatever in the post Office
act authorizing the Of stamps az currency; nor
is there for that reason any provision for thsS
dempuon by the Department, where, BY such use,
they accumulate in ineOnveneut quantities 10 ind-
vidual hands. II persons receive them Remit
tanees they must rely Tor reimbursement on Ihe
sale Of them.
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NHERIEI,S sale.

d virtue Of a vendtoni TO directed, and
ID delivered from the honorable Circuit Court Of David
county, Tennessee. at it, MAY Term, 1851 will expose
public the highest bidder for cash at the Court
yard gate in TIE eit Of Nashville Saturday the
14Jh day Of September 1851, all the Tght title, claim in
and VII ch John Cotart then had, may
acquired in and to the following described Lots
OF ground lying Nashville Davidson county Tennessee
bounded foOws Beng part OF Lot No 20 BEGINNING at
II HaTrsons corner COe street, running South
Of said Is feet, the centre Of Lick
Branch theuce down the Branch with its meanders, to
Hzrrsons corner thence wet with Harrson's line &c the
beg ming Another beginning Jack street, the
line Of Mr.. , nine feet from fh street, running
9Th BucknsE 10 feet thence back At rig angles lao
feet towards High street leo feet, thence to the
beginninC being OF Lot No. H. Served the
property Of John Cotsrt, this 26th October 1856.
D. d. WENTWORTH, @. D.
aug'5. JNo. K EDMoNsoN, sheriff.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17
NASHVILLE, July, 1851.

ORIGIN OF FEEEcH TRI-OoLoR-At the
commencement of the eighteenth century, nearly
Que hundred years before the Revolution, the
French soldiers bore for a time the three coIors;
this at the period Of the triple alliance b.
tween the Kings of France and Spain aud the Flee
tor Of Bavaria. When the three armies were be-
ing combined they agreed to give the soldiers
cockade IN which, Is an emblem Of the union of
the three people, they reproduced she color Of EACH
Thus the white Of France and the red OF SPAN
found itself fatally blended with the blue, the ma
lIonal color OF Bavaria We would not, however,
wish TO attribute to these facts more casual than
premeditated, the origin Of she standard aud iri-
eolO7 coekads adopted during the revolution. In
$780, green, PopularEed by Camille DesmOuaus
1t ghe Palais Royal about TO become the
national emblem; but on Feeolecllng that it vas
he color of the livery Of the COant D'AFtols
the most unpopular OF the PRICES. they sought
another cockads. IL vas then that they endeas-
ored 20 spprsciats the eolors OF the city Of Par
Is; the red aud blue, already celebrated 10 more
thaa one popular suasHte, though both we're Dor
rowed from the heralarY Of Ihe aaeient kings
and SIRE the same thaG Eteane Marcel had hUist-
ed 10 ls4s
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17

An ISrEREsTRG masonic RKLIc.-The Free Ma
sons OF the 46,h British Regiment nos stationed
original Biole belonging 20 Lodge, No. 22I OF the
Irish Constitution, IN existence In that Corps,
upon which George Washington afterwards COM
mander-in Chief OF the army Of the United States
was initiated into the rights OF Free Masonry.
This book was taken Ia battle in l777, during tte
American war, by our troops, aud honorably re-
stored % the lodge OF the 4sth, with a military "a.
coTt as guard Of honor.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17

AMERICAN CANDIDATES IN OHIo.-The American
mass convention, which assembled last week at
Dayton, Ohio, made the following nominations for
State officers:
For Governor-Col. Peter Van Trump, OF Lam
caster.
For Lieutenant GOvernor-N. T. Nash, of Lucas.
For State Treasurer-JOnathan Hurshman, Of
Montgomery.
Board of Public Works-William- R. Arthur of
HigLlIud.
Secretary of Stste-C c. Allen, of Ross.
Supreme Judge-John Davenport, of Belmont
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17
200 ACRES LAND FOR SALE.

7 WING the South side Of the N. { G. Railroad Il
IL miles from Nashville, ard thlee-quarters from La.
VsTgne.
ON FRIDAY AUGUST 4 ST.,
We viii sell hig bidder premises about
two hundred Of iaI including the homestead the
late Matthew Nelson, with all the improvements consisting
of Frame Dwelling HOu containing seven rooms with
ali neees houses such Gin House. Cotton Press
sc there about $50 Of cleared land balance
well tim6ered with a failing Of water run.
ming through the Ger ire OF the tract besides
three good Springs. TIE soil is excellent superior
to any yet Oferd in point of fertility. proximity to
Nashville by Railroad and the advantage Being close to
Lavergne VIII there established and Grist
Mills esides good Schools Churches, &C.. &c which makes
it altogether de iTable The ill be divided plat
Of which will be exhibited the cay OF sale We would
ask examin ton Of the property before the day Of sale
we confident it is superior land and affords advan-
tages over any that his been offered to the public
Terms of Sale:
One third payable LIST December next balance and
years, without interest.
c. L. NELSON.
,. R. GLAfCoCK Auctioueer.
AUgu IL, 1s5T-d,trw&
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SHERIFE,S SALE.

DY virtue Of a vend'tou expon,s directed, and
ID delivered from honor bic Gil cult Court Of David
ounty, Tennessee at it. May Term, lso VIII expose
10 public sale to highest bidder for cash. At the Court
house yard gate, n city Of Nashville on tuTdsy the
14th September 1851 ali the right title, claim, III
evest and estate which John CotaTt then had or msy
have acquired in aud the following tract
parcel land situated in Davidson county Tennessee
and follows, tawt Being part OF Lot No IL
in the an OF Bach Whitesides addition 70 Nashville,
ginning Jackson street, The line OF Mrs Chris
D vr one hundred feet from High street. ant running
WIT Jackson westward leo feet thence back at
right angles ITO feet thence towards High street 100 feet
thence TO beginning for particular desc tptlon Of
which reference Is de to Book No - page 49, In the
REGISTERS ose Davidson county. Served upon as the
pro- erty Of John Cotart this January l, 1851
aupI5 JNU. K EDMONSUN, Sheriff.
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Extraordinary Work of Art.
w. T. BERRY & CO.
HAVE JUST RECEIVED
The Legend of the Wandering Jew.

ILLUSTRATED BY GsISrAVE DORE.
Poem and Prologue and tpilogus, by Pierre Dupont
photographed Notes, by Paul croix, Typographical
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George W. Thornbury author of and Nature at Home
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"rhe astonishing series illustrations by Dore 70 the
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6. HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE ABBEY
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Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17

AN ALIEN PAUPER PosTMAsTER.-The Madison
Qa.) Courier says that at Coal Creek, Fountain
county, Ind, a very respectable mau, Mr. Boden,
has BEEN garroted from the post Office and his place
given TO one Patrick Farrell an Irishman, who to
his official aVocatons adds that of keeping a low
grog-shop, in which he receives and from which he
delivers she mails Of the United States Of America.
IL is said this Farrell went to Coal Creek to work
upon a railroad, but he did not work hard enough
TO prevent him from becoming public pauper. He
is not even a citizen OF the Uuited States. The de-
cent people Of the precinct do not fancy going them
selves or sending their children TO the crib Of this
~oFthy, and are making arrangements 10 receive
their mail matter al another Office. The anxiety OF
the pr, sent foregn-oying administration degrade
American citizenship seems to have become almost
madness. Alienshp. Roman Catholicism, pau
pe'ism, worlhlessness, anything but natlve.born
American citizenship, are tue qualifications for Of
Gee which il seeks to fnd. This miserable truck.
ling lOreiguism and affect dread Of Amerieanism
renders the administration eG remedy eontemptble
in the estimation OF good eitzeas.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17
BARGAIN TO BE HAD.

T AN offering sale my place, situated in =
i fdge6eId about 4 miles iron Nashville. 1t lEEazB
contains 21 4 AcI eS Of ground, and fronts on azAz9
the Gaatin pike McFerrin St.. and the Driver road.
The improvements neat frame Cottaee with three
ROOM tchen smoke house st BILE, &C. 1t also contains
lar ge number Of fine forest will cell the whole
or suit purchasers. If application soon ade,
will % 70 so per cent lover than any Of the
adj dining he'd at. For partiru apply to
WILLIAM I.ORSUN.
PS I would take three or four Eey negroes in part
nav alg15.-1ms
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For the Patriot.

A very interesting young lady of my acquaint-
ance, by some arrangement of her health, has re-
Gently lost her eyesight, (the most distressing OF
all misfortune, think) She is the object of un-
ceasing care and regard to large circle of amiabe
relations, who have brought her to this city be
convenient to her medical advisers, (Drs. w. & E
Some of them lately presented her with beautiful
little warbler, of which she is passionately fond,
and of whose sweet melody, she is never weary
1 have often imagined myself in her condition. and
endeavored to realize her thoughts and feelings,
whilst listening to its softly thrilling soLg How
far have been successful, you can judge in the
enclosed lines of the blind girl to her tird:-
My bird, my bird thy joyous song,
So gushing ad and free,
This brigh sweet summer awakes
No brill Of joy in me;
hear the perfume laden breeze
That cools my throbbing brow,
Make music mid the quivering leaves,
And whispering round me
know far up the clear blue sky
The silvery cloudl Is sweep,
like angel pinions softly DER
Me as | sad weep;
Ay, weep at ag in I'll see,
The gates of morn unfold,
Nor a'ch the ting'd pillows play
In Of liquid gold.
My bird, my bird, ye have carried me back
To the sunny days of yore,
When wander. careless, happy child
Where shall roam more.
Oh never more shall my nut brown curls
Be tossed by the laughing ind,
ASH cha.e the butterflies golden wingd,
For now, oh! God, I'm -lnd.
Ay, blind in the sweet spring time Of youth,
When life bright,
Am doomd to wander a lonely thing
In the shaiowy gloom Of night
Must my sweet mothers face no more,
Nor the light Of her loving smile,
only feel her hot tears my brow,
As she prays for her sightess child.
My bird, thy songs Ike the ripping brook,
That murmur'd low and sweet,
Where so oft in my schoolgirl days loY'd
To battle my wearied feet;
Where the tangled grave-vine loops, hung low,
From the tall old nipple trees,
And violets grew in the shady hooks,
That found cut by the breeze.
There too, gatherd the pale wild rose,
fragrant wreath to wine
And crown'd the victor, who highest dar'd
To swirg in the old grape vine.
But more shall my merry sport
Make the woodland echoes ring,
Nor my pulses leap, with a wilder thrill,
To the rush Of that dear old ssing.
Ny bird, my bird, how the very air
Nibrates to thy last sweet note,
Twas il some gentle spirit sang
To me from thy golden throat,
"Hope on, hope on, o, weary heart
Strength hall to thee be given,
Though dark thy path may be EARTH
| There's ltghtJor hee IN Hsa5sR."
CLARA.
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FOR CAIRO.

TNHEfne low water passenger pack cITGh -
i ct, v. K. STEVEVSCN, ban FOAM -SfSsfss1a J
Master will leave for tie above anda<z& sIz..
AL Intermediate ports this morning .t 10 O'Clock For
A. HAMILTON,
au11T-1t Agent.