Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-10-03

pany will soon resume work at the Messy Creel
mine. For the present the viii be taken to Men
York, but it is intended before great while to
tablish a mandatory of zinc somewhere 10 this Vi
Cniy it is already ascertained that these mines
furnish the best ore yet discovered in the United
States.
CLIEFTox.-Ths attention of our readers is called
to the advertisement Of a sale Of lots in this add
ton two miles from this city on the Charlotte turn
pike The lots to be sold contain from to 20 acres
and are most admirably situated for country resi-
denees. The views from some Of the lots, we are
informed, excel any in this neighbOrhOOd, among
which is fine view of the city Capitol, SC, and a
NEST beautiful and picturesque one of the river Sale
is Wednesday, the 9th inst, st 10 O'Clock, a. m
Monday night Mr. JAMES E. MuHDooH, who is
equally great in comedy as tragedy, makes his ap-
pesrance at the Gaiety Charles Surface in sHERI-
DAMS masterpiece of the School for Scandal eAar-
actsr in which he appeared for fifty nights in
sion at the Haymarket Theatre, London, drawing
nightly by his lfe-like PRESERVATION Of that great
character full houses Of the talent and fashion of
the British metropolis. No other artist, living or
dead has achieved so brilliant triumph in the per-
sOnatiOn Of that great character.
Mr. MURDOCH will be sustained by Mrs. W. Il.
CRISP as Lady TsGsIe than whom no lady has ever
appeared upon these boards who is better qualified
to present before an audience persOnatiOn of that
mastery conception Of the tattler which SHERIDAN
has embodied in the character of Lady Tsazis
The Knoxville Citizen states that recently Messrs
C. POWELL & Co., Of that place obtained judgments
sgaiRst the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad
Company to the amount of about fifteen hundred
dollars, principally upon prOmissOry notes sometime
since issued by the Company, payable one day after
date. Executions aere issued and placed in the
hsnds of officer, to be levied upon such properly
of the Company as he could find He undertook
10 levy upon some cars connected with the regular
passenger train but as he could not take them into
possession" no levy was made The Company, the
Citizen understands not only bidding defiance to
Messrs. POWELL Co., but to all other creditors to
the extent of one dollar up to thousands, on the
ground that none of them can, by execution or at
tachment reach either the property or the earnings
Of the Company inasmnch as the State and some
preferred creditors have lien by statute and by
MORTGAGES upon the road snd all that appersins to
it. The Citizen odds:
This course may be economical" but it is GER
tainly one Of questionable proprey, as we cen per
ceiYe no reason whatever why railroad company
should be INDUCED in exemption from the satstac-
tion of its debts beyond private individuals; and
though it is the province Of the lawyer to advise IN
such cases, yet we cannot forbear the suggestion
that q creditor may collect his claims by sale Of
the road and its equipments, subject TO existing
liens whatever they may be. In that event, pur-
chaser would take the road with the franchises Of
the Company encountered with these mortgages.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO BE PBOUD oF.-Our
noble city has given the LARGEST SUBSCRIPTION, in
proportion to its population of any city in the Uni
ted States, to that great, national work, the New
American Oyclopedis, published by D. APPLETON
90. Two hundred and Fifty Of our citizens have
sIresdy subscribed, and we have no doubt that at
least hundred more will do So before the last vol
une lie issued from the press
When we consider the ''hardness of the times"
and the fact that everybody is trying to economist
in all things, such subscription is worthy of sPe-
eia notice and Of all praise, because it shows the
taste of our citizens, and their high appreciation OF
works Of standard character apd undOubted eXeel~
ience. If this we're an ordinary work, costing to
The buyer only FIVE or six dollars, should not feel
disposed to boast, although then it would be
large subscription but, when we remember that
this work will eest FIFTY DOLLARS to each purchaser,
Il becomes a very different matter No man puts
down his name for such a work without thought
and close examination It is, too, no "fancy work."
but is library in ITSELF full Of condensed thought
and valuable informsiOn--a work equally valuable
and necessary for parents and childrenfOr the pro-
fessonal man. and for all classes in the community.
Hence, no work could be better test Of highly
cultivated literary taste than This, and as our city has
given larger subscription than any ether city in
the Union, in proportion to population, the natural
conclusion is that We certainly are not behind our
sister cities in appreciation Of what is truly val
liable in Literature and Art. Indeed, we look for
ward to the time as not far distant when Nashville
With its educational facilities and its wealth and
enterprise shall stand at least high as any other
city in the estimation of the world. Our University,
with its we'll knoVp Medical Department, our excel
lent system of Public Schools, and our large "pub-
fishing houses" certainly give reason to be proud
of our city, and of our citizens.
In looking the list of subscribers to the Cy-
plopsdla, We have been specially struck with sOpe
Of its characteristics. Almost every depart ment #
business is well represented. The names of Clergy
men, Lawyers, Physicians, Teachers, Mechanics
Merchants, Editors, Planters, Clerks and Gentlemen
Of fortune and leisure, are found on its pages ard
our curiosity has indvced to classify them as fol-
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