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The Poe Family.

Deacon Adam Poe, worthy citizen of
Ravenna, o., died in that place on the 5th
inst In noticing his death, the Democrat
gives the following interesting sketch of his
ancestry:
Deacon Poe was born in Green Township
Beaver county. Pennsylvania, April 4, 1891
and at the time OF his death had nearly attained
sixty-eight years of age. He was the son of
Andrew and Elizabeth Rutan Poe, whose
family consisted of eleven children, nine
daughters and two sons. Adam was the sixth
child, and eldest son.
His father was born in Maryland in 1872
and had two brothers named George and
Adam. George was the eldest, Andrew the
second and Adam the third son. In accor-
dance with the old law OF primogeniture in
vogue in those days, the family property fell
to the eldest son. Geo Poe was a very
wealthy man. and the father of the much
lamented and brilliant Edgar Allan Poe, who
was first cousin OF the subject Of this sketch.
The father of Deacon Poe was u very large
athletic and active man, and quite popular in
the neighborhood in which he lived. He is
the Andrew Poe, so famous for the single
handed conflict with the Indian, Big Foot. a
Chief of the Wyandot tribe-a man of hercu-
lean strength, and an inyeterate foe to the
white man.
In July. 1882 ''Big Foot" aud his four
brothers were committing depredations in the
vicinity in which the Poe family lived. and
the brothers, Andrew and Adam. in company
with others, turned out to route them
Andrew Poe had hand-to-hand encounter
with big Foot, and proved himself the best
man OF the two. Big Foot was shot by Adam
Poe, who came to his brothers aid, and by
this death the Indian difficulties in that sec
ton were forever quieted."
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-22

s- The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati CommgciGI has the following refer
ence to the Treasury and its Secretary, Mr..
COBB
b The Secretary of the Treasury has been
guilty of a ilunder in his estimates. He as
serts that. after the entire twenty million lOar
IL negotiated. seven million of dollars will re-
main in the Treasury. In this calculation he
omitted a deficiency of four million in the
Post Office Department which will have to
be paid out Of the seven millions referred to-.
This will leave only three million in the
Treasury. BY a close calculation it will re-
quire at least five million to meet the expens-
es Of the Government during the remaining
six months of the present fiscal year. This
will create a deficiency of two million, in
stead of a surplus Of seven. But / deduce
this result from the Secretary's figures. and
hlunder which he does not pretnd to deny.
There are those who are as well capable
Of judging of the financial condition of the
Government rs Mr.. Cobb who assert, without
fear of contradiction, that the deficiency of
the present fiscal year will be TcelUe Million Of
Dollars, instead of two! When the estimates
of the Government expenses for the present
fiscal year were made up, at the last session,
Mr.. Buchanan, during a temporary rush OF
brains to the head. said he should review
them, and ask for loan large enough to pre-
vent the accumulation of another deficiency
bill. Indeed so difficult was it to get the last
Deficiency bill through Congress that he swore
strongly that another such bill should never
he created while he was President. If Mr..
Buchanan increases his swearing. (and he can
swing and awfully large oath,) by the in
crease Of the next Deficiency bill, over the
last. he will have to look up new Vocabula-
ry to help him out.
| have already showIf in this correspond
ence, that the twenty million outstanding
Treasury notes, which will be hereafter paid
in for dues. and which he cannot reissue. will
so far diminish the Secretary's cash receipts.
Most of them were re-issued al five per cent
an arrangement by which it was hoped they
would be kept out and would not return to
annoy their inventors, especially while money
remained worth only 81 or per cent interest
"On call" The stagnatiOn of business keeps
money thus cheap. If business remains stag
nant the receipts from customs will he small
If on the other hand business should revive
the rate of interest on money would go up to
6 per cent, and then the Treasury would be
flooded with the returning twenty million of
shinpiastcrs. Which end Of the dilema will
Mr.. CObbcboose? The Administration regret
exceedingly, now, that they did not adopt the
suggestion of Mr.. Howard, of Michigan, at
the last session, and make the loan fifty mill
ion instead of twenty. That gentleman show
ed that he understood the headlong course
the Administration was pursuing better than
they understood it themselves.
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-22
Houston on DIsunion.

SAM. HOUSTON made a speech in the Senate
few days since in reply to Senator IvER-
SON of Georgia, in which the following pas
sage occurs:
Sir arm not afraid Of disunion. do not
think there is any danger, though gentlemen
may talk. There are a great many very case
Gus gentlemen in the South who have great
deal of time to play the demagogue, and to
become important street corner politicians. to
talk about it; but there are thousands of men
at home at their work, who know nothing
and care nothing what is said in such places
and by such persons. These gaseous men con-
trive either to he sent to public assemblies on
occasions that can give expression TO their
opinions, or they send themselves voluntarily
and they assume to represent what is consider
ed an important class in the community
But, sir, they are not going to bring about
disunion. An attempt was made in a portion
of the Southern country to start a great South
ern league, to prepare the public mind for
forcing the Southern States into a revolution
at any time that might be thought proper; but
that league was an abortion,it failed; may have
had one small branch, but it tapered down to
the mere point of nothing. That was said to
be a great effort. From the tuss it made
throughout the South you would have thought
il embodied some great principle; that the
South were in imnent danger of destruction
but it happened that the South got along very
we'll. and the Southern league died. That is
the way these leagues will go whenever they
start, and are brought To the attention of the
people. When the people reflect, they will be
fully satisfied that it is not league for the
benefit either of them or of their posterity.
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our Races.

= In addition to the sport that may reasonably
be calculated upon from the unusual number
of high nsfted racers now training on our
Course, 1t gives us pleasure TO mention that
a side bet of $1,000. play pay, has been
made between Planet and Henase FdrTolc, two
of our crack 3 year olds, in the Hutchinson
stakes. 2 mile heats, to be run for on Friday
of the race week. Also, match for $500
a side, b. f., 2 mile heats, between the same
horses, to ''eome OFF, on Saturday, the 18th
February, This side bet and match have pro-
duced considerable excitement among the
respective friends Of the parties. Pland. it
will be recollected, is now the pride of. Vir-
ginia. by Repsnlie out of Nina by Boston.
owned by the Messrs. Boswell and Hszmie
Fdrror is by imported Shamrock, dam by i'm
ported -BelShazzar. PLdnet is very properly
regarded as one of the best colts ever raised
in the State of Virginia, and the Jfily who
aspires TO pluck garland from bis brow, is
known to be as feet as the wind. She is
owned by Mr.. T. G.. Moore. of Tennessee.
That eur friends CT the turf may at once
SILENTLY this fine FLY, we will state, that on
her first appearance in public, she bore the
name of Betty Nanny. which has recently
been changed to the one she now runs under.
We hope to see the day when these alterations
will no longer be allowed they will here
after create some confusion, in any American
Stud Book that may be mpiled.-C Charleston
Courier -r -ft -.s 80 gfF-h
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United States was produced "solely" by ''our
vieious system of paper money, &C.. sfhe
exclusively bard-money community OF the
great commercial city Of Hamburg happened
TO suffer as rfluchtffom the revulsion, as this
or any other country where the paper money
system prevails?
That general causes " tcere operating " for
years previous, throughout the commercial
world, to bring about the revulsion Of 1857,
as Mr.. BUCHANAN alleges in his last message,
we know full well, from the general effects
throughout the world. Now, those effects
having been as disastrous in the hard-money
communities as in those where paper money
system prevails, it is illogical it is unstates-
manlike, it is bald nonsense TO affirm, as Mr..
BUCHANAN did in, 1857, that the revulsion and
its disastrous effects in the paper money COM
munities were owing "solely" to the existence
of that system. With as much logical pro-
priety and truth might it be affirmed that the
disastrous consequences sofsthes revulsion at
Hamburg were "solely, owing TO its exclu-
siyely metallic currencyl
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The Late Financial RcvuIsIOn-Pres-
identIaI Inconsistency.

In his annual message to Congress in De-
cember 1851, Mr.. BUCHANAN, speaking of the
financial reyulsion of that year, and its
results, said
at is our dlty to enquire what has pro-
duced such unfortunate results, and whether
their recurrence can be- prevented In all
former revuisiens the blame might have been
fairly attributed to u variety0f cooperating
causes. But not so on the present occasion.
It is apparent that our existing mislortuncs
have proceeded solely from our extravagant
and vicious system Of paper currency and
bank credits exciting the people to wild spec
uiations and gambling in stocks"
"Have proceeded ,olly." No other cause
whatever even co-operGtei with "our extrava-
CANT aud vicious system of paper currency
aud bank credits in producing the revision.
It proceeded ,oie,y' from that cause and no
other. Such Was the Presidents official
language to Congress and to the world in
1857.
just one year afterwards, in bis annual
message of December, lSSs, he holds the fol-
lowing very different language:
"No Government. and especially Govern
ment Of such limited powers "a that Of the
United States, could have prevented the late
reyulsion. The whole commercial world
seemed for years to have been rushing 10 this
catastrophe. The same ruin0us consequences
would have followed in the United States,
whether duties upon foreign imports had re-
manned a. they were under the tariff of 1886,
or had been raised To much higher standard
The tariff OF 1851 had 40 agency in the re-
suit The general causes existing through
cot the wrOid could not have been controlled
BY the legislation OF any particular country"
The inconsistency between Mr.. Buchanan's
language in 1887, and that held by him in
1858 is gross aud manifest. II there were, rs
he says in ls5s, general oaaases," operating
"throughout the world and OF so potential
o character IN The United .Slsas in particular,
that no legi.lation on the part Of Congress
could have shielded us from the ruinons con-
sequences of the revulsion, how could that
revuision and It's results in the United States,
proce eded as be alleged in 1857, "solely''
from sour eSkavagant and vicious system
of paper currency and bank eredltslp In
1857, be describes the cause Of The reyulsion
ia this country as exclusively local. In 1858,
he says there were general oai1ses" at work
throughout the whole commercial world, In
the United States as wei as elsewhere, TO pro-
duce the reyulsion and its attendant conse-
quencesl VIII Mr.. Buchanan's Official orgNu,
the Washington Union, tell us which of the
two conflicting statements is TO be received
as the true one'
AID while its hand il In at explaining, viii
it ais. explaia how, II The revision in the
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Cs- Many of our old readers undoubtedly
remember the following correspondence be-
tween Amos Kendall, when he was Postmas-
ter General, and Postmaster down in Ala
bama, from whom Mr.. Kendall wished TO
learn the source of the Tombigbee river. 1t
will bear reprint. So here goes:
SIR: This Department
desires to know how far the Tombigbee river
runs up.
Respectfully yours &c,
A. X, Postmaster General.
The reply was brief, and ran thus:
SIR: The Tombigbee
doesn't run mp at all--it runs down.
Very respectfully, &c,
The Postmaster General continued the cor
respondence in this style:
SIR: Your appointment
as Postmaster at - is revoked. You will
turn over the funds, papers, &c, pertaining
to your Office TO your successor.
Respectfully, &c,
Ea A. X, Postmaster General
And the witty Postmaster closed with this
parting shot:
SIR: The revenues of
this Office for the quarter ending September
3Oth have been 90 cents its expenditures
same period for tallow candles and Irvine
were 81 %. l trust my successor is instruct
cd 10 adjust the balance due me $3.50.
Most respectfully, &c,
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-22

THE BRIG PUTNAM.-In the United States
District Court at Charleston, s. c., sitting in
Admiralty on Tuesday, 18th inst, the follow
ing order was issued concerning the proceeds
of sale of the brig Putnam, lately condemned
as SLAYER: 4-
On hearing the report of sale by the
Marshal, and the taxation Of the District
Attorney. il is ordered that out of the pro-
ceeds of the sale of said vessel, the Putnam,
and the goods and effects found on board, the
Marshal do pay the expenses incurred, prior
to the sale of the said vessel, and reported by
the Marshal as amounting to the sum of
SS42.94-100; and that he do also out OF
the proceeds of said sale pay the costs as
taxed by the Clerk, and amounting to the
sum of Sl5I.l5 100; and that after payment
of the said costs and charges. the Marshal do
deliver the balance in the Treasury of the
United States, as required under the 9Th sec
ton of the Act of Congress passed March 3rd,
1919.
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COMBINED ENTERTAINMENT!
Purely Artistic and Scientific!
AT ODD FELLOWS, HALL.

Friday Evening, January 2Ist.
7 II. ABoURNET has the honor Of announcing that
81 he will exhibit as above, his uneQuaied Panora-
ma OF tour In Switzerland tile land OF poetry mu-
aud song together IN the 90 the famed
Mont Blanc Aftor which the HUMBUG, or supposed
spiritual miracles, Will be performed by n common
power or influence, (no departed spirits called on)
and some mystic and amusing CHEMICAL EXPERT
MENTS. For description see bills. Tickets so cts
Children and Servants IS cents. jamie
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cs- The Franklin Rerie,c concludes an ar
ticle. advocating the holding Of a State Con-
vention of the Opposition, and considering
the name proper to be adopted, in the follow
ing hearty annd patriotic language.
These are our views hastily stated; but
''nothing herein contained. shall be 50 con-
strucd as to mean that We will not fight 10
the death. nader the lead of any party, of ma
tional character, that prOclaims uncompro-
missing aud endless warfare against those who
are plunderibg and disgracing the county In
the name or Democracy.
Then let us have our State Convention,
aud il defeated, as We may be. let AS still re-
tain the satisfaction OF knowing that We have
never surrendered"
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-22

ALL Is QUIET.-Tbe excited state of feeling
pervading the minds of our citizens. a few
weeks since. about tax and anti-Railroad tax,
has quite subsidized and all is quiet. The tax
for the present year will be met as promptly
as the times will allow. In this conneXiOn
we might add that one of our citizens filed a
bin demonstrating against the tax and the
right of levying it on the part of the corpor-
alton. The case came up before Judge Van
Dyke, in Chancery here last week, and the
tax was decided as binding and to be paid.
We 'baieve the complainant carries it up to
the Supreme Court. Chattanooga AdUTtiSer.
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ns- Messrs. Lane and Niblack as Il

ES- Messrs. Lane and Niblack, as the
friends of Bill English, have came to the con-
clusion that Mr.. Montgomery offered him no
Insult which authorized the violence he used.
and so the difficulty has been finally adjusted.
We shonld like to know the grades of insult
which authorized violence. Montgomery
called English puppy, which it seems did
not justify blow with cane Now had he
stigmatized him as hound or a dog, would
il have been a justification for assault Lou.
T1,SrO1y
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WE ~ the hirhest msrkes prirr IN casa o. Gro
w cerlrs for GEeen and iry Hides ~
y. a q ANnEIzSoN,
hns-s -. ooless nn4 1xo~d ssrs<A.
- : 4EN<< .4<.>aA -. a.a,aa 49,. -
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The Anti-Leeompsou and Leeompton Dem
ocrats of Indiana, after long season OF
mutual chickering's, and heart-barnings, and
big war talk, have been brought together by
the cohesive power Of pnhlie plumber, aud
have elected their oeleers for the regular
session Of the Legislature. The place where
the mad dog bit them has been eicatrlzed,
bat The poison is still Ia the wound
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-22

Hon. SHERRARD CI.EMENS,-It gives us
pleasure to state that this gentleman, after
long suffering from his wound received in the
late duel, has sufficiently recovered to resume
his seat in Congress, of which he is member,
and for that purpose will leave here Friday
morning for Washington City. The parts of
the fractured bone have united. the wound
has healed. and Mr.. C. is entirely recovered
in health. though. one of his legs is now two
inches shorter than the other.-Richnlo'ld Err
Guiyler, Jan Ii.
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-22

II Is iavorite taant, with the Locofoco
pFess. that those arrayed 4yainsi them are
merely an soppesition party. banded together
solely by hostility 20 the Demecraey.n Well.
cir. what woald yea have murss Is IL not
high praise Of even Christiaa - sas If bin,
thai be l. ..orpassd 10 She Desii aud All bis
wesks.-kfaakizs Rsssp.
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-22

Many of the friends of Judge Mclean may
be deceived by the newspaper chatter regard
ing his health. which is just now occupying a
now in good health. and discharging his labo-
rious duties at Washington. He is said to be
as vigorous as at any time during the last ten
years. The suggestions by the Administra-
ton press of his rapid decline. and the proba-
bility Of the appointment of his successor by
Mr.. Buchanan, are quite gratuitous.-Cn.
Corn
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-22

DEArH OF Rev. X. GANNAwAY.-Rev Rob-
ertson Gannaway, OF the Holston Conference,
died at his residence in Virginia. on Wednes-
day the 18th inst, aged about 80 years. He
has been about thirty years Travelling
Preacher in this Conference, and is well and
favorably known to the Preachers and people
of the Methodist Church. We have not heard
any of the particulars of his heath, but hav-
ing been a correct man, and faithful Minis
ter. we take it that his end was peace.-Knoz-
,iLLs VIM
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n EAN tle NtSnFl!ie ana North A NAON
~ Western Railroad, in Cheath- H[asSA- =
am county l am offering great bar r. .nl -
gains in the following Tracts of - - 81 ~
Land
One Tract lying on the Charlotte Pike, n miles from
Nashville and within mile of Harpeth river, con
tanning so acres, with good double Log House, Kitch
en-, out houses, Stable and Spring upon it, which will
be bid for Six Hundred Dollars; half cash, bal
ance years credit without interest
One Tract lying on Turnbull creek, within few
hundred yards of the Nashville x " W. K r., finely
tmbered with Poplar, Walnut and Oak, about 80 acres
rich Bottom, with fine Springs; also, Blowing Spring
ing $40 acres which will sold for 81 600;
cash, the balance on one and years credit with
out interest.
One Tract lying about miles west of Kingston
Springs and mile from the Nashville x n. W. X. R.,
continuing $50 Acres heavily tmbered with all kinds
OF growth; has free stone Spring IL; has several
hundred acres of good upland upon IT,; would make
fine stock Farm; fine country for Hogs and Sheep;
which will be sold for 50 000 onethrd cash the bal
ance in one and two years credit, without
One Farm lying ON Big Harpeth within mile of
Kingston Springs and within half mile of the Nash
vile X y. W X. r., containing 3l5 acres, about IS
acres in cultivation, good House and all necessary
out-houses upon il. This farm has of the finest
water powers on it in the State for large machinery
Was once selected by the Hon JOIN Bell as site for
the Armory Of United States; which will bs sold
Sl5 acre, one-third cash, the balance and
two years credit without interest Or if purchasers
would prefer paying all cash will discount l per
cent month upon the time paper for all tue above
tracts.
Persons wishing 20 purchase will please call upon
the Undersigned, General Land Agent for Cheatham
CO., Tenn. at Kingston Springs.
jan2o-lmdtriwAw E. J. RREIDER.
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en- The Louisville Journal says that in
North. Glrallna. they have discovered a
method OF breaking refractory horse. which
ouidoes Rarey. They send the animal 10 =
Democratic caucus, after which he obey
every nod and beck.
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az can now indulge in the richest food with impu-
nifty, Whereas previous to its use, was obliged to
con1ne myself strictly to the planest food"
Such is the experience of not only one OF our Gus
TONER'S but OF hundreds of persons here in Philade
pha, New York, Montreal and Quebec, who have
B4ykaue's HoIland Biaers for Indigestion, Nausea
and Acidrcy OF the Stomach. tan1s-lw
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All throughout Massachusetts,. Vermont and
New Hampshire, the mercury ranged from Is
60 so degrees below zero on those memorable
days, the 10th and iish Of January, 1859.
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Seventy-Six,... .P. X. BARCLAY, Master
Joe III. Conn, .JoHN WooDBuRS, Master
CINCINNATI AND NAsHvILI.F

The above named first class steamers have enter,
INTO an arrangement, forming Lightning Expire
Line between :. -
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On Saturday Morning, Jan. %, is 5s
Advanced Taxes.
CoLLEcToR's OFFICE, CRY HALL, !
Nashville Ion 1Stb 1gEa Z

COLLECTORS OFFICE, CRY HAN,
Nashville, Jan. 18th, 1859.
FTNAXPAYEIlS who wish to avail themselves of the
L privileges of the law allowing pre- payment of
CORPORATION TAXES for the year 1859, are hereby
notified that they do so by calling at the Col
lectors office. Interest at the rate of
per month will be allowed from the date of certi-
Gates till LIST July. Owners of taxable property in
the city will find it to their interest to call Immediate
ly. A. NELSON,
jan20-1m Collector
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Steamboat at Public Sale.
On Saturday, goth of January. 1885

lATE will offer at Public Sale, G-n
w TO the highest bidder, at r1-SSs<z,A1 |
PADUCAH, the Steamer CUM <sxz<@zrzkx1n
BEAND, she now lays that place, together with
all her Furniture, Tackle, Wood, &c. The Cumber-
Land was built in 1855, is 233 feet in length; SO feet
beam; depth of hold feet; doleTs 80 feet long
81 inches in diameter OFFENDERS % inches In diameter
aud feet stroke. Her draught, hight, is p inches
Her hull is in excellent condition Sale take place
on the boat.
TERMs.-S1 0CO cash: balance on 1, and II months,
notes satisfactorily endorsed and pay abie In Bank.
janll-dtd HARTMAN X NEWMAN.
81. Louis Republican copy daily TIL day Of sale and
send account TO this Office for collection.