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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-12

Freight transportation,
BALIVmORE AND OHIO RAIL ROAD
COMPANY,
FWNHE Southern Road OF the oVr s lines this road has
thus ff been managed IL sph way a. to commend IL TO
ne public patronage.
This COMPANY, 1Sdsr tks General Supegntsndsnee Of
II, ID, AEARSa General Freight Agent,
Nov shippers to Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Few Yor hoston Richmond. Petersburg &c, At exceedingly
Low r and NeS Orleans prices their Moderate
trms the deduction insurance Of aud s
sent by this route and the EurOPean dPpng being fo
Ashng sterling less than the NeH Orleans shipping prices
ali contribute to render II
Reliable a. well as Desirable
Their ABILITIES Ger transportation UuequAled BY any Ohe
road operation their Western terminus Is PARK
kRsBGRGII, husdred aud ninety miles below the lev
water and most dangerous navigation OF the Ohio river This
enables ordinary the delivery Of goods hot only certain
bat with Dispatch advance ofAny other ard The
declines their advantages sucA the time Of delivery
WidenS on other routes, that this is the only
Cheap, Reliable and speedy Route.
Fegh by this route exposed weather than yoheT
a there dayage, tho delivery being made at Park
ssbuh underR we'll shielded hoAt elevated from thence
Immediately the without being subject
The Louisville direst with ParkerSburgh
without delay do likewise the regular Cinnihnati
The Pittsburgh boats din ect 70 Psrkersburgh ~
arrangement the Company enabled receive freight
this route at their agency in Nashville Fenn
y FOR further particulars inquire Of
Il, i. AAhRIsoN, Freight Agent,
HSy Sanl Ao2 corner BROAD and Ryont streets.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-12
The Adams Express Company.
xPECIAL NOTICE
IINnnN EnR SALE.

VWyR offering for sale the Mansion ana ~
Wv Farm Of A. b. Montgomery, sitnated on e.N
the Middle Franklin Turnpike, three mikes RON SIISa
the Public Square Nashville. This is undoubt 7Ehu -
dly TIE most highly improved property nov oaer'
for sale anywhere In the vicinity Of Nashville -
Il contains altogether 900 onehird Nooa
bslrnce fence-u cultivation Il Unnecessary
say anything BY way Of sommendaon, the property H
ppsAk for itself J. n. W. BROWN,
auga-du Real Estate kgentE-
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-12

Kansas adopts the wyandOt Constitution by about
1900 majority,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-12

VIII be carried from the celsbrated Plaster Banks Virginia.
ChaasOoa AMI Dat8a and Stations the East Tsenness
and GEORGIA Rairod a. dollars ton Of 600 pounds
To Nashvil all Stations the Nashville 4 chatLaaOog
Railroad, at nns dollars per ton ef 2,0O0 pounds
Also Tuscumbia and Stations kast Of fuscamba tie
Memphis CT Road, per ton al
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-12

VWTB ars recsiying lad opening, FOR TIE FALL
Wv TRADE, By far the largest and most compes Stock q
Goods offered % the Trade in this State.
Our SS0ok e JH and complete, comprising yHI fRe
Of eesFy garisv and style and Goods purchased
from MANUFACTURERS. and the beat possbis terus 10
feel fully warranted In saying, that Inducements shall be far
superior before onered to the Trade In this state
ronpt short time and Cash dealers specially rsqunse to
give us cali. You will save money ~ doing so
BERRY, BAUPLET 4 Co
aurI9--3u. n Public ssuana
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CLASsIFICATTON.F


Spirits Of tuP milne. nphlae, huraing 1uis and Varn
will ONLY be tai st owners risk.
6unpeEder friction patches, and other eombusbe
ses win BE- charged at local rates Of Read only
Ross
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-12
RAILROAD WORK.

Depot Rren Switches and saitsh s.snds
Roofs and Girdsn Tank Valves;
Turn Tables Frogs Sliding Car Castings and LocomOiiT
plates, head and heel blocks repairs generally.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-12

WIN. STOCKELL,
Pr AIN AND DECORATIVE PLASTERERs
wHULEsAIH DEGLER IN
III ID IL U &c GEM ENTS
Plaster Of Paris, PIaSterinE Hair, Fire
Bricks, Fire Clay,
TERRA GOTTA CHIMNEY TOPS. d TER
IRA GOTTA WARE GENERALLY.
No. II broadway, Between Summer ana
Cherry Streets,
NASHVILLE, TENN ESSEE.
narch4Iyd
I. y eiAsoOcK Q. 6. NKWsoh. w.. T. sARKKTr,
f. r.. GLASC0CK 4 Co.,
once No 4s College street. Nashville Tenn next door 10 Mer.
chants Bank aeae IN AID agents for the purchase sale
IL EAL ESTATE
Renting Houses and Land I'm the City oY
Country,
VIII also give their attention the Election Claims
NEGOTIATING LOANS de-
LIZ.
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CONTRADICTORY WORK.

Bridge Bolts and Nuts: Derrick Mountings:
Cast Angle Rloeks, Shoes and sheaTes and Pulleys;
Washers; 8uggies, and tools Of various
Mule Powers kinds.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

LEGAL EFFECTS OF REPEATING HEARsAY SLAM
AERs.-In the last vhlume of Gray's Massachu-'
setts Supreme Court Reports, there is notice
able decision. 1t seems that a woman uttered
q SANDER of another, and, when sued for it her
defense was that she only reported what was
currently reported; that she had no malice, and
therefore was not liable to an action. Judge
Thomas gave the decision. The story, he say s
uttered and repeated by the defendant, contains a
charge against the plaintiff of nature to des-
troy her reputation. 1t is no answer, in any
form, to say that she only repeated the story
as she heard 1t. If the story was false and
sanderous she must repeat it at her peril. There
is safety in no other rule.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

WOMAN IN ADvERsITY.-Woman should be
more trusted and contded in as wives, mothers,
and sisters. They have quick perception of
right and wrong and without always knowing
why, read the present and future; read charac-
tiers and acts, designs and probabilities, where
man sees no letter or sign. What else do We
mean by the adage, Mother w.t." save that
woman has quicker perception and reader in
vention than man2 How often, when man o.
bandons the helm in despair, woman seizes and
carries the ship through the storm in safety !
Man often flies from home and family to avoid
impending poverty or ruin; woman seldom, if
ever, torsakes home thus. Woman never evad-
ed mere temporal calamity by suicide or deser-
tion. The proud banker, rather than see pov-
erty gazetted, may blow out his brains, and leave
his wife and children to want, protectorless :
loving woman would have counseled him to ac-
cept poverty. and live TO cherish his family and
retrieve his fortune. Woman should be coun-
selled and confded in. II is the beauty and glo-
ry of her nature that it instinctively grasps and
clings to truth and right. Reason, mans great
est faculty, takes time to hesitate before it de.
cides but womans instinct never hesitates IN
its decision, and is scarcely ever wrong where it
has even chances with reason. Woman feels
where man thinks--acts were he deliberates-
hopes where he despairs-triumphs where he
fails
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08
Joshua white and Patience Warner.


A youth and maid one winter night,
Were sitting in the corner.
His nanr, we're told, was Joshua White,
And hers was Patience Warner. "
Not much the pretty maiden said,
Beside the young man sitting;
Her cheeks we're flushed rosy red,
Her eyes bent on her knitting. .J
Nor could he guess what thoughts Of him
Were to her bosom focking,
AS her fair fingers, swift and slim,
Flew round and rounfthe stocking.
While, as for Joshua, bashful youth,
His words grew few and fewer;C
Though all the time, to tell the truth, I
His chair edged nearer to her.
Meantime her ball of yarn gave out,
She knit so fast and steady;
And he must give his aid, no doubt,
To get another ready.
He held the skein of course the thread
Got tangled, gnarled and twisted;
''Iave Patience" cried the artless maid,
To him who her assisted.
Good chance was this for tongue.tied churl
To shorten his palaver;
"Haye Patience" cried he, dearest girl!
And may really have herr"
The deed was done; no more that night
Clicked needles in the corner:-
And she is Mrs. Joshua White
That once was Patience Warner. r..
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

POETRY Y
From tho Ney York Weekly.
a Simile.

From tho New York Weekly.
a Smile.
BY CORA MAY.
There's leaden pail spread over the sky
Over the ether blue,
With not rift in the gloomy clouds,
To let the sunlight through.
The fierce wild wind goes moaning along,
Bending the tall trees low,
And rejoicing as the warrior does,
Over his Yanquished foe.
Down down from the pail of murky clouds,
Cometh the dashing rain,
Merrily dancing upon the roof,
And 'gainst the window pane.
All ,aow there's rift in the gloomy pail,
Which hid the ether blue,
A rift in the mass of dismal clouds.
Letting the cory through.
Each drop of rain is a diamond, now,
A gem OF glowing light;
And the clouds are mass of beauty, too,
Crimson, and gold, and white.
1t is so with the griefs and cares of life,
And the sorrows with which the earth is rife,
Which throw pail DER the spirits sky,
Hiding the glory which beams on high;
They will part and let the glory through
Upon the soul, that hast e'er been true
Each sorrow and burden we braveiy bear,
Be gem of light in the crown we wear.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

A STORY AS Is SToRY-The reader is ex-
pected to believe the following story in every
particular:
When young man, was travelling in west
ern New York, and late of q stormy night ap.
piled at a log cabin for lodging. The occupant,
a woman, refused it, saying her husband and
sons were out hunting and if they found me
there they would murder Inc. | preferred the
chance to the storm, and she consented that
might lie down before the fire. In the night
heard them coming and scrambled up the chin
ney. Thinking was safe, when at the top,
stepped over the ROOT, and, jumping down at the
back Of the cabin, struck plump into wolf
trap. A scream OF paln from me brought the
men and boys out, and they declared that | de-
served q much more severe punishment than
death so they kept me both in the trap and
suspense until morning, and then heading me
up in hogshead, with no light or air but the
bung-h hole, they put Ire on sled drove me some
four miles up hill, and then rolled me off to
starve. This undoubtedly should have done,
but for singular occurrence. The wolves
smelled me out and gathered around my prison,
when one Of them in turning round, happened
to thrust his tail into the buug hole. II was my
only chance. | caught firm hold, and held on
like grim death to dead dsrkey, which fright
ened the wolf, of course, and he started down
the hill followed by the hogshead and me. 1t
was very uneasy rido over the stones and
stumps but had no idea how long it was un
til the hogshead striking a stone fairly, the
slaves, worn by long travel, were broken in, and
jumped out and found myself way down in tue
lower end of Cattaraugus county, some thirty
miles from the scene of the disater.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

DR1NKrNa AMONG YOUNG MEN.-Tho Philadel-
phia SIN says truly that indiscriminate drinking
among our young men eventually makes It's mark
on the population of our cities, We can see 1t al
ready betraying itself in the rising generation.
1t is impossible for any man to drink even pure
LIQUORS six or seven times q day without suffer
ing severely in constitution. And when he
transmits this impaired constitution to his son,
who in turn mpairs it still further by the same
course it requires little foresight to see thai we
are preparing population for our cities that
will NOT, in physical frame, be much better than
the wretched Aztecs. This love Of drink and
bar.rooms is every day increasing. Every day
sees our youth becoming more and more the
victims of this habit, for we really think 1t more
a habit than passion. 1t is no love ofJoylallty
that tempts them, except in few cases. IL Is
not the hot exuberance of the youth. IL Is not
the evanescent impulse of the gay young fellow
who is sowing his wild oats. 1t is, as he's been
said, cold, deliberate, confirmed habit. NO al
mosphere of recklessness surrounds the drinking
groups, except on occasion; and no peais OF mer-
riment atone for the act by proving that II Is at
least unusual A grim and melancholy air
peryades each countenance. Tie drinks are
poured out, the glasses are raised and touched
with loathsone air of custom, and each man
swallows his portion with the same, impassive
conntenance as he would wear ifhe were drinking
a glass of plain water. All the concomitants
that partially redeem or excuse drinking, as far
as it can be redeemed or excused, are wanting
in this sad and formal ceremony.
20. Z" :.
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08
Work moves and moulds the mightiest births,
And grasps the destinies of earth!

CHRISTIAN HERoIsM-It is easy to die on q
battle-feld-to confront death there. There
earthly prizes are won-stsrs, bright honors, are
glittering amid that sulphurous smoke, there
earthly passions are to be grsti6ed-my sister
was wronged, my mother butchered, my little
brothers brains dashed out against the wall. |
am man, aud could believe the story told OF
our ccuntrymen; how each having got bloody
lock of murdered womans hair, sat down in
awful ominous silence, and after counting the
number that fell to each mans lot, rose to swear
by the great God of heaven that for every hair
they would have 8 life. Amid such scenes with
passions boiling vengeance calling for blood,
hurting me like madmsn, on the edge of steel !;
and where the shouts of charging comrades
cheers him on, the soldier is swept onward, on
blazing guns and brstling bayonets, in whirl-
wind Of wild excitement. But to lie pining in
q dungeon, and never to heer the sweet voice of
human sympathy to groau and shrek upon the
rack where cowled and shaven murderers are as
devoid Of pity as the cold stone walls around {;
to suffer as our fathers did, when calm and in.
trepid, they marched down that street. to be
hung up like dogs for Christs crown and king
dom, implies higher courage, is far nobler,
manlier, holier thing. Yet thousands have SO
died for Jesus. Theirs has been the gentle, ho-
", heroic spirit of that soldier boy, whose story
is one of the bright incidents that have relieved
the darkness of recent horrors, and shed halo
of glory around the dreadful front of war
Dragged from the jungle, pale with the loss OF
blood, wasted to shadow with famine and
hardship, far away from the father or mother or
any other earthly friend, and surrounded by a
cloud of black incsrnate fends, he saw Ma
hommetan convert appalled, at the preparations
for his torture-about to renounce his faith
Fast dying, almost beyond the vengeance of hi,
more to live, breath more to spend. Love itc
Jesus, the ruling passion, was strong in death
and so, as the gates of heaven we're rolling open
to receive his ransomed spirit, he raised himself
up, and casting an imploring look on thewaver-
ing convert, cried-"Ob, do not deny your
lord |" a noble death and right noble testi-
mony,-Ur. GutbriSs Inheritance of the Saints
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

SrRANeE.-A balloonist. gives out that he has
made the following discovery Il take bar of
brass, which when weighed on the eartl's sur
face actually weighs fifteen pounds. When as
cend to three miles up in the atmosphere and
weigh the brass bar, it actually weighs by a
spring balance only seven and half pounds;
and again, five miles up, positively only three
pounds and quarter. What is the cause OF this
The want of atmospheric pressure on it, and the
suns attraction, which becomes more apparent
the nearer we approach his orbit.-AmeTscan
UQ0dsine. .-.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

LOVE AND PoTAroEs.-Byron asked Moore
"In love wherein aught OF resemblance lies
To the potatoe| "Why," said Moore,
"They both shoot from the eyes,"
"That answers good" rejolned my lord,
In the general laughter sharing,
"But the likeness that fanced was,
They b0tA decrease bu pQrinQ."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

ANSWERED ONE QUssTIoN.-A young man in
"these parts" who had spent little of his own
time and great deal of his fathers money in
fitting for the bar was asked after his examina-
tion how he got along.
VERY WELL" said he; 81 answered one ques-
tion right"
"Ah, indeed" said the old gentleman with
looks of satisfaction at his sons peculiar smart
ness; "and what was that2"
"They asked me what a qui tam action was.
THAT was hard one! And you answered
it correctly, did you2"
Eyes; told thern didn't know"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

DANIEL WEBsrER.-Rev. DR.. Dwight in the
course of sermon preached at Nantucket
Massachusetts,, on o recent Sunday evening, re-
lated the following anecdote of Mr.. Webster:-
Upon entering church one Sabbath morning, a
friend remarked sneeringly, Mr.. Webster, you
worship where the doctriue of One in three, and
three in One is upheld My friend, replied
Mr.. Webster. neither you nor understand the
orSthnaetic OF hedcenr
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08
Political Anecdote.

That facetous and talented gentleman, R. H.
B.. Esq, in one Of his stumping campaigns, be-
ing near the Southern borders of Kentucky and
hearing of large political meeting to be held
not far off in Tennessee crossed over to witness
how stumpiDg was done there. Among many
other gems of oratory that he brought away
with him, be relates the following part of one of
the speeches, as specimen sample:
Fellow citizens, this thing of Democracy
and Reform commenced about thirty years ago
Instead otthe corruptions ofthe Government be-
ing reformed, We have been continually sinking
deeper and deeper | cannot better illustrate it
than by what witnessed when at school. The
teacher one day, in jocose mood, gave Bill
Coons the following question in Arithmetic =
Suppose frog at the bottom of thirty-foot
well, who climbs up orc foot every day and
falls back twO feet at night, how long will it take
the frog to get TO the topi At it Bill went,
and worked away until he had nearly filled both
sides of his slate with figures when the master
called OUT Bill have not finished that question
yets' No, SIR answered Bill, taint finished,
but see how it must be done.' well, says
the master, how high up in the we'll have you
got the frogl' 'Taint high up at all, but low
down, answered Bill. i reckon he is about
half way down to the bottomless pit!'
Now, fellow-citizens, reckon you are as
cute as that boy Bill, and, though you may not
be able to cypher it out exactly how low down
in the depths this Democratic Reform has sunk
us, yet you can see, as plainly as that boy did,
where it will land us2"-LouisuiIleJ us Journal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08
"Out of Employment.v

What three words in the Epglishlanguage fall
with more mournful cadence on the sensitive
ear than these2 What three more full OF bitter
significance to an aspiring mind than "out OF
employment2 We know of none. They. ring
the dsath-knell of many q struggling aspirsnt
for position and name, and the crushed hopes
and ruined prospects of many an individual
have had-and will continue to have through
all coming time-their first origin in the fact
A person without employment is like an oarless
boat rushing down the stream of Life's river, IL
able at any moment to be upset, wrecked upon
snag, or dashed in pieces upon some hidden
rock. go -o-a' .s.' q t'f1' ~ '''-
"Work" isa divine injunction, and that man
or that woman who shall fail to heed and to i'm
prove V t,sss ;t
"Ths golden moments as theyswifty fly"
in some measure proportionate to the talents
God has given them, had better never been
born.
Are you out of 'semployment9" If SO, don't
idly sit waiting for business to come to you-
for something to "turn up," but firmly resolve to
take an active part on Lifes great battle ield
and bare your arm at once-and now, for tile
conflict t 'te -"
Work is honorable, let high born fools and
aristocratic hunkeys say what they willard if
you have not business exactly suited to your ca
pacity and attanments, do not fold you hands
in despair and idleness, but summon your ener-
gies as the occasion demands and go to work at
the first thing that offers, though it should be
carrying hod. i. 81
Count it not dishonor, for many of those who
now sit under the dome of the Capitol, and lend
wisdom and dignity to the Councils OF the Ma
tion, once welded the hammer or the axe, or
with their own hands brought into action, that
most patent of all human agences-the print
ing press!
Work moves and moulds the mghtest births,
nd prasns the destinies of earth
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

AN AMABLE AMUSEMENT OF THE LION
Among the numerous fearful stories with which
Jules Gerard, the French lion hunter, regales his
readers, we fiLd the following description of
trait in the character Of the king OF beasts:
The lion treats man very differently froin any
animal he is accustomed to kill for food. If be
kills persen who has fred at him he never eats
the body. If he meets in his nightly promeLade
a man well clothed in bournois, his experience
shows him that he is not marauder, and he may
either kill him for food, or if the fancy happens
to take him, he will kill him by fear, little by
little just as pastme. ...
In the first case, lie will give him barely time
enough to say his prayers, and then bounding on
him, will crush his head with single bite in
stead of straDging him, as he is accustomed to
do with other animals. o.i0
In the second case, he sometimes will bar the
passage of the unfortunate fellow by lying down
before him, and then he will walk along by his
side, purring and showing his teeth like tiger
Sometimes he makes believe to go away and
leave him alone and then making long detour
he will concssl hi mself along the path and
and charge at him with a roar. Sometimes he
crouches down like cat and bounds on his vic
tim, who gives himself up for lost, but the tan
talizer only knocks him over with his paw, or,
walking around him, strikes him 10 the face
with blow like fail from his muscular tail
At last the victim succumbs to the agony that
is greater than thousand deaths. and dies Of
very fear.
These pastimes of tile lion that, as one can
well imagine, have never been told by the VIC
tim himself, are reported by his comrades, who
having been in company, sought safety in flight
by taking refuge on rocks and trees, while the
poor soul that was captured, too much trigtened
to initiate their example, died before their eyes
Of terror, while they could do nothing for his
relief but pray to the Prophet who only heard
when it was too late to save.
These attacks, so horrible in their fascination
have given q certain semblance of proof to the
universally accredited belief in the magnetizine
power of the lion.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

A newly imported "help," after being estab-
lshed in Fifth Avenue palace as maid OF all
work, was seen shortly after with q pail full of
slops from the kitchen, carefully exploring the
parlors, the drawing room, the library, the bou-
dor, music room, and other places, as ifin search
of something which she could not find. AT last
meeting the lady Of the house she inquired, Sc
riously, ''if you phase, mistress, where's the
min ~
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-08

Many farmers in Fayette county, who have
never heretofore given their attention to the
cultivation of tobacco, are now making arrange
ments to engage in it, Several patches were
raised in the Dogwood Gap in that county,
last year, and were sold standing, at 800 per
acre