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A THREE-MINUTE HORSE.

A certain DR.. Blank had horse so thoroughly
used up to be worthless-tbe only good ''points"
remaining being where the bones distended the skin
So he prepared to dispose of him in this wise
H. went into the stable with lath and gave the
animal regular rib-wasting three times day, un-
til, finally, whenever the excited horse heard his
step, or saw his face, he would begin to kick and
plunge like one possessed. Arrived at this point
the doctor borrowed the decorated blanket of a
once well known nag, called Z" White Feather" and
enveloped the remains of his horse in it. sent him 10
auction to be solo, with directions to the auctioneer
to let him slide if he could get bid of forty dol
lars. In the mean time the brute was advertised as
celebrated horse-knd in harness-had made hi.
mile inside of three minntes-was hardy at the pillow
and sold because the owner had no further use fol
him.
On the day of sale, crowd gathered-amona
which was the doctor, whom the horse no sooner
saw than he began to manifest signs of uneasiness
which the auctioneer called life and spirit! The
first bid was seventy-fve dollars, and soon ran VI
to one hundred--ond hundred and twenty fve--ont
hundred and ffty-at which price the nag was pro
nounoed sold The buyer, IA down eas,er) paid the
money, and harnessed the spirited animal to hi!
wagon, informing the crowd that he was going t
Cape Cod, where he himself belonged.
He had not been absent more than an hour, wher
he was seen vending his way back, not having go
quite so far as Cape Cod lie told the auctioneel
that he had returned to make some inquiries, which
perhaps it would have been as well to have made be
fore he bought the horse.
/" You say this animal has made his mile in tire,
minutes?"
Eyes"
"May be allowed to inquire how long since?"
"Certainly-withn three weeks"
Gone question more-where did he do it?'
"On the Rutland Railroad cars-down grade"
The present owner made up his mind, instanter
that the term ''solP' had double Specification
Hartford Courqtt
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S4,25O,OGO

Exclusive of about s., 500, 900 IN specie.
If the cargo was included, these figures would be
more than doubled. The President was lost in the
year 1871; no one knows how or where. The Col
umbis, in nautical phrase, broke her back the
rocks on the American shore of the Atlantic. The
City of Philadelphia went to pieces the rocks
Cape Race. The City of Glasgow sailed from Liver
pool, March lst 1854 and was not afterwards heard
Of The Great Britain came near being included in
the list having lain ashore for some months at Dund
rum Bay, coast Of Ireland, but is now engaged as
transport for India. The Franklin and Humboldt
went ashore and broke in pieces-the former on
LOLg Island and the latter Halifax. The Arctic
and Pacific were lost as already recorded. The iron
steamer Tempest measuring 500 tons, sailed from
New York. Feb. r. 1857, with a crew of from thirty
five to forty men, and was never heard from. On
the Pacific, several fine steamers have been lost,
generally Of a smaller class The Independence
for instance, was totally lost, with 100 lives; and
the Tennessee, st. Louis; and Yankee Blade, Win
field Scott and others, became total wrecks
English steamers, in waters contiguous to the U
States, have Jared little better Within short time
have had to record the loss ofhe fine iron steam
ship Canadian, on the st Lawrence; also the steam
ship Clyde, and several steamers in the West India
Islands.
A calculation as to the number of lives lost in
these steamers makes a total of about seventeen
hundred The loss being irreparable, no consola-
ton be derived from the fact that large pro-
portion Of it nigh have been prevented by divis-
ion Of these ships into compartments by water-tight
bulkheads; but there is opportunity to make the
adoption Of such means of safety compulsory upon
the owners OF all sea-going steamers, and thereby
doing much to prevent the recurrence of catastrOph
es such as too often have occasion to deplore.-
" l. Journal of Commerce.
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THE FINGER or GALILEn-

A correspondent of the New York Journal of Com
ercs writing from Florence, describes the finger of
Calico, in the Museum, as follows:
The walls inlaid with marble and jasper, and
the ceiling is painted in fresco representing sever
al of the principal events of the philosophers life
In the centre of the room is the statue in marble
and around him are busts of his most distinguished
pupils. Several glass cases standing against the
walls are filled with the various instruments he used
in his daily studies Among them are two small
telescopes, not larger than our modern spy glasses
One Of these is that immortal glass with which he
first discovered the phases of Venus and the satel-
ltes of Jupiter, and demonstrated to the world by
actual observation the great fundamental princi-
Piles of the Copernican system. l locked at it with
more reverence than felt when taking in my hand
the sceptre and sword of one of the greatest mon
archs the world has ever seen. 1t to pleas
ant symbol of that mind which looked calmly and
steadily at the TRUTH and admitted it without resiss
lance to his Utmost soul. How few in his time land
their number is not great in the nineteenth cen
fury as some imagine who were willing to let their
glass sweep over the heavens and view as true what
it certainly revealed.
One Of his fingers surreptitiously obtained by some
one from his coffin, is also preserved here in glass
bottle. Such relic would be more honored by
decent burial than by the exposure of the deformy
Of death to the admirers of the living man Even
If 1t coald be turned into finger of scorn pointing
to the inquisiton which opposed their darkness TO
his light, should still say, 4" bury it out of our
sight" The relics of dead philosop piers and dead
saints are equally alike notifications in imparting
worthy conceptions of their former pessessors-
Superstition may cling to them as a treasure In
tellgence and religion both summon us TO comm I'M
ion with the spirit that knows no decay or death
We quite agree with the writer in all that he says
of the disgusting nature of human relics Hardly
anything can be more offensive Yet we confess that
the finger of Gaiileo may be regarded with some
thing Of the reverence with which the devout Catho-
lie looks at the bones Of saints and martyrs. It's
the very finger with which he pointed, when, after
his compulsory remuneration of the great truths
which he had discovered. he said .. but it moves
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PRESIDENTIAL MANsION.-The Washington Star
noticing the unfayorsble differences as to the health
of the Federal Capital that are drawn by strangers
from the various suggestions for a new executive
mansion, says that those differences do great inius
tice to Washington, and that while the site of the
present mansion is VIGOROUSLY unhealthy during
the summer and fall MONTHS it is the only 10
cality of the city that is open to the same Obiec-
ton. The Star says that those who seek to bring
shout a change on account of unhealthiness are
aiming to obtain the removal of the White House TO
points beyond the limits of the Corporation of
Washington. 1t is only two or three months in the
year that the present Executive residence cannot
be used, and a change at that time, to a rural re-
treat in the neighborhood, would afford an agreea-
BILE variety and recreation to the President, without
going to the expense of building a new Executive
mansion. The present edifce is handsome and
convenient structure people of republican
habits can desire. 1t is reason, because Uncle
Sam has a surplus of cash on hand, that he should
squander it upon every object which people who
want TO bleed him may suggest. OF course, if
new edifce is erected il will be the aim to make it
far grand and splendid the present elegant and
unosentatious mansion. With plenty of cash. and
that inordinate vanity and love of show which char
acterize the times, we should have palace instead
of mansion-house, and that the present rage to
occupy it will be increased to madness For our
own part, are decidedly in favor of holding on
to what few vestges of republican simplicity remain
in the country, whether public private, and
therefore would defer building palace till we have
king.
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FOR SALE.

loo Boxes fresh Ohio Cheese, received this day BY
w Express, Tor sale whoie-ais retail by
aug 2 ~ HOLLiSfhK ~ GARTER. - Unao 81 .
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Administrators Sale

Horses, Mules, Cows, Hogs, &c, sc.
ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 2od. shall offer at Auction a
" lot Of HORSES, MULES. COWS. HOGS. CARRIAGES
Buggios, Wagons Harness Farming Utensils cse &c. q
the personal property Of The estate Of CHARLES TONES
deceased.
Sale be held Glen Osk, the late residence Of Chas
Tones deceased two miles from Nashville Hsboro
Pike.
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STEAMSHIP DISASTERS.

The appalling loss of life On'the Central Amer
lea" has no parallel in the annals of American
steamship navigation. The nearest approach is the
disaster which befel the steamship Arctic, on the
9th of September, 1854, by which something like
three hundred and fifty lives lost. The steam
ship San Francisco, belonging to the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, which foundered in the Atlantic
on the 25th of December, 1861 was lost under cir
cumstances similar in many respects the disaster
which has just occurred; but the number of lives
sacrificed was much less-nOt varying far from two
hundred, including $50 o. S. troops.
Taking retrospect, with a view to recount the
various catastrophes which have befallen ocean
steamships owned in trading with the United
States, we find that the following have been entirely
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PRIVATE BOARDING

tBW single gentlemen can be comfortably accommo-
II dated vita Board and Lodging BY
MRS. LOOMS,
SEPT l4-im gqufh sumuF Sfraaf
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CHANCFRY SALES

DURSUAST decree ofthe Chancery court at Carthage
made in the case Of Benjamin Rucks. ExT., How e
Rucks and others the undersigned viii on The "a day
oil October next 1857 proceed sell to tie highest bidder
Ru ks decd composed OF the tract Of which said J. sah
ed zed and and which the late Bzabeih
Ruoks did Al the time OF death And also Of
30 adj urnng thereto purchased by portion Of The
heirs Of sad JOsh RucEs since his deaths In all about go
All Of said and lies in Smith County Tennessee Dis
let No Il, The town of Rome It viii be laid on In lots
suit purchasers
Al the asd place the undersigned win also sell
the slaves belonging TO sid estate tOwt JOshun, aged
about As; Luei about g. iy abOu97 and her children
Henry about z. Lucy and Martha 4
Said sales will be made credit Of and two wears,
except sufficient 20 pay and Attorneys fees
Notes with security will be required Of the pur
chasers. A. MOORE,
I2-Wtd hrs CierkE Master.
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From The Caarls.ton Courier.
-FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
Wild were thy plains Columbia,
Thy plains Of evergreen;
And neer before upon thy shore
We're foreign footprints seen;
But, thro' thy groves the savage roy'd,
Where mountain streamlets flow,
When brave Columbus crossed the seas,
Four hundred years ago!
With heart of steel that feard no i'll,
With followers true and brave,
He babe farewell his native dell,
And tried the treach'rous wave,
He dar'd to roam the ocean foam,
Where stormy breezes blow,
And to thy shore glad tidings bore,
Four hundred years ago!
Faith was the guide-Faith true and tried
That cherish'd him on his way,
And pointed out the painless route
To where thine islets lay:
Hope was the star, which shone afar
With bright and dazzling glow,
And steer his bark mid dangers dark,
Four hundred years ago
But, chang'd the scene since then, ween-
Thy savage chieftains fed;
And where of old the grim wolf strolld
Proud cities rear their head
And fertile plains of golden grain
IN TlCn luAuTlance grow,
Where all was drear as autumn scar,
Four hundred years ago!
How many crag our starry flag
Waves DER the brave and free,
And our naves ride in all their pride
On every sounding sea;
And nations gaze in stark amaze,
For well the nations know
Our name and fame was not the same
Four hundred years ago
And far away where the wild winds play,
Thro' the forests dismal night,
And iron steed with lightning speed
Darts like a ray light;
And steamers glide DER the sparkling tide,
Where weary and faint and slow,
The red man drew his light canoe,
Four hundred years ago
Then hail Columbia, happy land,
Home of the poor opprest,
May still to thee the exile fee,
And find a place of rest;
And may thy pow'r increase each hour,
Thy sons in virtue grow,
And die or save what Colon gave,
Four hundred years age J. F. Q.
ST GaOrgp's p q Sent 1877
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THE LATE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., sc

THE LATE FAILURES-RESUNIPTIO &C.
1t appears that several of the large firms and bus
mess houses that have suspended lately at the North
are about resuming, while others to have extern
sions. The New York Commercial of Saturday
says:
We are gratied in being able to state that Messrs
L. Y. Kirby 4 CO., whose suspension was record
ed a few days since, have arranged their affairs and
viii continue business. Their assets are abundant
to meet all their liabilities and leave handsome
surplus, and they have not only found no difficulty
in obtaining the required extension Of time, all that
they asked, but have met with the most generous Of
ters Of assistance from of the strongest houses
in the city.
Messrs. Q. & i. ?. Carpenter, the agents and
principal owners of the Union Straw Works at Fox
borO Mass have satisfactorily adjusted their recent
embarrassments, and work at the factory viii pro-
coed as heretofore
A special dispatch from New York says:
Ii is reported that several other large houses will
sltC rssul-s 3Uripg the coming ysss, s-a alto
sslsEs ltS tse'fssss ste btsFHiks 9syassls sifs..
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A sIeNITICANT FAOT.-The last number of the New
York Independent witch is no less famous as a new
light religious journal than as being the organ Of
what are known the commercial agencies
Espionage houses in New York city, publishes a
list Of the mercantile failures and suspensions thai
took place during the previous week in all quarters
Of the country The number is eighty-sx in all, aud
but eleven of them are Of parties doing business
south of Maso. and Dixons line.
This fact is worry of nOte insomuch as it goes to
show that, in the face of all the persistent misre
presentation concerning the business habits Of the
people and those in trade in the South, with which
the Herald and the Republican party press so con-
stantly TEEN, the internal commerce of the South is
on q sounder footing than that of the North Or.
in other words that investments of capital in trade
at the South at this moment far safer than those
made at the North.
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A GREAT VILLAIN.-A physician of Buffalo, New
York, sent for on Monday to goto Grand Island,
aud attend a supposed dying woman He found a
girl Of sixteen, who gave her name as Pelow, with
her throat horribly cut, and her person otherwise
mangled and bruised. She told her story in sub
stance TO the effect that her husband recently stole
two hundred dollars in Buffalo; fed with her to
Canada; spent the money; killed horse and broke
a carriage to pieces; escapedto Grand Island and
here led her off into some woods and attempted to
kill her-cutting her throat with jack knife and
jumping on her head. The Island was in a state of
intense excitement, and parties were securing the
country in search of the villain.
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Esr t6e Union and Am.ricuu.

GALLATTN, Sept. Y, 1857.
Mrs. NJ F. FoGa, Vice-President Of the Mount
Vernon Association,
Dear Madam = have received one of your
circulars with reference to the object and plans of
the Mount vernon Association. With pleasure and
With pride will accept the agency for Sumner
county, and viii actively engage in the good work Of
soliciting donations to be applied towards the pur-
chase of the grounds hallOwed by the presence
and now cOnsecrated by the dust of the "Father
of his country" Permit me, Madam, to assure you
hat our patriotic people will with aacriy come for
ward ard contribute towards the contamination Of
so noble an enterprise.
Respectfully,
M T. RTACRATORF
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GEN WALKER AND Ma. JENKINS Mr. J enkins.
Of Augusta, the gentleman to whom Gen. Walker
addressed his recent letter, is out in communica-
tion, in the conclusion Of which, after explaining in
detail the character of the interview held between
them, he says: He has driven me to the alterna-
tive OF submitting to inevitable misconstruction. or
Of making unfsvorsble comments upon letter ad-
dressed 10 myself l choose the latter. declaring
unequivooally-First,t that I wholly disapprove
Gen. Walkers contemplated invasion and conquest
Of Nicarsgus-secOndly, that the proposed revival
Of the African slave trade is sbhorreut 70 me 7
viii add that Gen. Walker has taken very unwar-
rsntsble liberty with me-s liberty inconsistent
with the sense Of propriety which should regulate
intercourse between Strangers liberty expressly
interdicted by my plain declaration that IFS publ
eaton az letter addressed TO me- must depend upon mn
concurrence a. his fistps 80
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MURDER.-Dsvid Gum, of Columbus, Ga, was
murdered on Friday night last, a short distance
from that city. Five six stabs and cuts were on
his body, and the carotid artery of the neck was
severed. man by the name of Dozier is supposed
10 be the murderer, and strychnine whisky and the
"green-eyed monster" the exciting causes Dozier
is in Jail
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In the County Court OF Hickman County,
Tenn, September Term, 1857.
Wiley Horton ct al VS. Jas Horton, ct a-Peliton 10 sell

HBRE As, it has been appear the satisfaction
w OF the that defendants, k ChaPp III AID Wife,
Andis Robert Chdppel AndTeH Wilson and wife, MaTiah,
cameron and wife Sarah residents Oft
OF Tennessee that the esa process of the law
served upon them, Il is there ordered by
pubca ion be made in the Union and American, newspa-
PER published in the c Of Nashville E three successive
weeks, notifying said deiend appear the NOvem
Of sao court lsJ7 AT The house in the
Centrevie, the st MUnda November next and Mead
demur 10 com lam. ut's petition, the
taken for confessed 20 Hem, and rearing
paTte. sept l5-H 81 pr e "a ID EASILY, Il m
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TERMS OF SALE

All sums under $40 cash all sums over 800 six month";
notes endOrsed and payable in bank
JAMES CRAIGHE Admir-
Estate Of Chas. Tonnes deed.
L. X 6LAsCoCK, AutlOneer lsept 22-td
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BOARD WANTED.
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA

pY single gentleman, in a small quiet family, where
other boa ders taken. pleasant room required
No objection 10 the suburbs OF Terms not to excee
$50 month. Address W. W., Nashville 2. o.
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White RIuff Hotel.

WHIT BL0FF. DICKSON COUNTY. TENNESSEE.
TUE Subribsr has ope-ed Hotel a. this place and IS
4 prepared to accommodate the travelling community
in best manner. White But 8 situated on the Char
Otie Turnpike % miles from Nashville and ~ from Char
otle and very desirable oppug point for those pass.
ing to and from Nashville Soho ting share Of the pub
lie patronage the subscriber assures that all his best ef
J-ts shall 5s dirseted 70 plsSss.
fney ss~var1 E,F, F1CBs,
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TOMATO WNE.-Ths Maryville East TeaHessecan
Acknowledges the receipt of q specimen of wine
from the juice of the tomato. 1t was made with no
other ingredients than the pure juice of the tomato
and sugar, and very much resembles champagne,
having Light, transparent color, with pleasant
favor
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TAdYertisement.l

HURLEY's SARsAPARILLA maintains the secretions
especially those of the skin and kidneys, increases
nutrition, and aays morbid irritabity of the ner-
vous and circulating systems. Hence an admirable
remedy for debility during or afteramercurial course,
and for the multifarous variety of symptoms which
arise, when the health is broken down, well by
the disease by its remedy For Scrofula it is the
most certain means-EaQuirer.
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SINGULAR DIsEAsE-A boy of fourteen years,
sOn Of Mr. Hama, Of Lyons New York, died on
Thursday Of last week from a disease of the heart
His skin had been gradually growing darker for
seven eight years, and was about as dark as the
skin Of a mulsttO A post-mortem examination g.
covered muscular atrOphy the heart, which would
not allow Of a proper arteriazation of the blood.
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The CEINEsE-The Earl of Elgin's mission to
China win not alarm the Celestials much. with only
about 8, 900 men to enforce his will The mouth Of
the Pei no rivev will laugh at him; or, perhaps,
swallow him, if he be not civil to the Son Of the
Moon and Uncle TO the Stars
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GEN. HAsKELL.-The Memphis Bulletin comment
ing upon Cen Haskelrs determination to turn his
attention to the profession of literary lecturer,
says:
1t is proper that we should say, in this connec-
ton, that the state of Cen HaskePs health will not
permit, at present his entrance upon the brilliant
career marked out. He is now in Kentucky, where,
It is hoped, the quieude to which he has retired
der the advice and direction of friends, will con-
duce TO complete restoration of all his mental and
physical faculties, and fit him to win the fame and
fortune that awaits him in the new vocation
chosen.
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TWENTY SEVEN HUNDRED ACREsl

large portion OF this land is OF best quality of Cot.
Ton land in the where it lies About 1850 acres
lies Carroll county including the ate residence of the
said deed 1he homestead contlns 1850 acres about
700 cleared, and be divided into or good
size Farms Near the homestead ract is tract of loo
of the ATHEIST West Tennessee Convenient churches
and within and 4 half miles of L4vinia High School
one Of thr best institutions in the country The
hood is celebrated for It's good society and morality
The bals0ce of the land lies IN c bs1n county nine
miles North East of Trenton, tie Mobile ana Ohio
RIItold, all wood land and Of the finest quality. Toe
lands IN Garcia viii lie very The coniempa ed Rail-
road from Jackson 10 Huntingdon
The above lands viii be sold without reserve on the day
He1tioued IKFMs-One third cash, the balance in one
an two years with lien reiared until the purchase
mo ey is paid J. J BURROW,
b. Il. BURROW
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