Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1857-01-07

tenants and Ensighs, at the five principal
Stations; and we ought to notice here
change in the mode of choosing these Off
GERS. Previously they had been appointed
by the Judge of Judges at the respective
stations-now they are elected by the PEG
pie. The military and arbitrary form of
government passes away, and yields to the
will Of the people.
1t viii be observed that the Committee
cherished the same perverse conceit Of
many quidnunc legislators of the present
day-seeking to establish sumptuary laws
and regulate the use and price of liquors;
but the crotchet in the minds of Commit
tee had not quite as acute angles as that
Of our modern wiseacres; Committee did
not aim at prohibition, but when they at
tempted to control the laws of demand and
supply, they soon learned the futility of
such efforts; and we would commend to
some The dag (lst of April on which Com
mittee began to legislate against ''exorbi-
tant rates." and fixed the price of zone
quart Of good SOUND {? merchantable IL
quors" at zone silver dollar;" for we dis
cover that on the 5th of August, only four
months afterwards, Committee reduced the
price of the same "liquorS from foreign
parts to one dollar per gailoap
But, as measure of less uncertainty and
of lasting utility, and which the public
could use without being charged "exorbi
tant rates." was adopted at this time We
refer to 'roads from Marlborough to Mans
ker'S Station, and thence to Mauldin's;
from Heatonsburg to Manskers." In our
day, we think we have mended and I'M
proved upon the ways of these worthy an
cestors, by macadamizing these roads and
establishing tollgates-soiH exorbitant
rntes" Let there be a dense population
upon those highways and the receipts of
these gates will yield enormous profits up
on their cost.
Near this page of the old record of
COMMITTEE" we find the name of our good
friend, Richard Henderson, the Treaty
maker and originator Of anomalous forms
and compacts of government
1t seems that pots and kettles were in
demand then as they are now-that there
were few of them here in those days. and
that the obligations and laws relative to
borrowing and lending" were about as
well understood and observed then as now.
When Richard Henderson removed from
the Cumberland to the South bank of the
Ohio river, he cleft in custody Of Hum
phrey Hogan, a kettle, which Hogan loaned
to old Mr.. Mayfeld; very neghborly
act on the part Of Mr.. Hogan. But before
old Mr.. Mayfeld had done using the kettle,
he determined to go with his two sons and
Mr. Jocelyn (the late Col. Jocelyn, and
build pen on Mill creek, to catch Wolves,
and whilst so engaged, he and his two sons
were caught by the Indians. The old man
and one son were killed, the younger kept
as a captive-JOcelyn escaping after close
pursuit, running the gauntlet and making
"tall jump" over bid log. So the Dor
rowed kettle was not returned, and John
Brown, young Isaac Mayfeld, and his
mother wouldn't give it up. So Humphrey
Hogan brought suit against "John Brown,
Isaac Mayfed and his mother" and the
COMMITTEE found for the plaintiff his het-
tie, and that John Brown and nrOther-in-lalo
pay the costs of suit" That's what John
Brown and bis mother-in-law got for their
intermeddling.
In trial of own. Mitchell, pPf., and
George Mansker, deft.'-the COMMITTEE
found for the ppf. has heifr;" 'for James
Thompson has eleris;;" "for Julius Sanders
lis busle, and halt Of Indian cOrn."