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Wilson County.

At q meeting OF portion OF the citizens of VIII
son county, regardless CT past political DreJudiCes
assembled in Lebanon on Monday the lSt day of
July 1861 to take into consideration the best means
of securing harmonious action OF the people in
securing suitable candidate for Governor, and for
other purposes.
On motion, General 2. Anderson was called to the
Chair, and J. I. Cox was appointed Secretary. The
President in a few appropriate remarks explained
the object Of the meeting; after which,
On motion a committee consisting Of 4 K. Jack
son, J. s. Scoby, }. NJ Hambleten, John 7. Gleave8
and r. E. Thompson was appointed to draft resolu-
tons expressive of the sense of this meeting The
eommitte, after short consultation, reported the
following:
ResOlUsd LIT. That We the people of Wilson coun-
ty, assembled to take into consideration the best
means to be adopted in securing harmonious ac-
tom among the people in the present crisis, in the
selection of officers in the coming election regard
less of past political differences, do declare that
lsham G. Harris ls our choice for Governor in the
coming election We feel that he has justly earned
the confidence Of the people of this State by his
untiring efforts serve their best interest," and has
exhibited throughout the trying times of this revo
luton such ability and integrity entities him to
the thanks. of every Tennessean, his familiarity
with the business of his Office and the extraordinary
energy he has displayed in placing the State in a
coalition to resist tyranny with success render his
reelection essential to the veal Of the State, and
we request him TO announce himself a candidate
for re election.
Resolued End, That in R. S. Caruthers we find a
man in every way suitable to represent US in the
next Confederate Congress, and hope that he will
consent TO serve us in that capacity.
On motion the Secretary was requested to pres
pare copy of the above proceedings for publica-
ton in the Nashville papers, after which the meet
ing adjourned. p. ANDERSON, Pres.
J. THos Cox, Sec'y.
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CONN UNTCATTOM
Another Letter from Rutherford contain
ing Suggestions,

MURFREEsBORo' July l, 1861.
EiaOrs Of the NGshvale Union and American:
GENTLEMEN: 1 beg leave to make a suggestion in
relation to the approaching election for Governor.
have fer the fifteen years since | attained my
majority been uniformly opposed to the Democratic
party, and voted with will against Governor Har-
ris in both of his contests; but believe that sound
policy now requires that ne be reelected The
paramount bject now is to carry on the war sue
cessfully. No one of those who have objected to
his reelection, have denied that he has acted
energetically and efficiently in diseharging the re-
sponsible duties devolVed upon him by the present
crisis. do not deny that either one Of the other
eminent men spoken of in the connection would
make efficient Governors but surely is it not dis
paragement to anybody to suggest that Governor
Harris could carry out the plans for the defense Of
the State already matured in his own mind better
than any new man.
But the most important consideration is this
Governor Harris is completely identified with the
war policy of the State, and if he should be dis
placed, it would, out of the State, be regarded
rebuke Of that policy, although he were succeeded
by one of the same views. The vote of the State
in February was misunderstood and that caused in
finite mishaps. The same thing might occur again
if Governor Harris was displaced by any man how
ever eminent and patriotic ] am no politician
these are my views and they are, cOncuFred in by
number of judicious persons of both the old par
ties. with whom have conversed.
If these suggestions are thought worthy of place
in your columns, please give them publicity.
VOTER OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY.
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day and night, besides keeping up large guard
within their own encanpment. A few nights
since a party os our scouts fell in with
the scouts Of the enemy, Killed one Of
them, captured three horses, took three pris-
oners. forty dollars In money, and fine gold
watch. The prisoners are confined in the guard
house. "Nobody hurt on our side. The enemy,
before this post was established, had been in the
habit of roaming over the county as he pleased,
but now he has to eonfne himself to close quarters
at Phlllippi, from which place we csn'distinctly
hear his shutdown and daybreak guns. We hear
daily Of the movements Of the enemy. hut as there
are so many rumors aloat / viii not mention any
OF them. You can rest assured, however, that the
proper authorities are well posted in relation TO
whatever step he may take.
The people in this section are very much tel tied
with Unionism, and have to be watched very close
iy; but there are number of honorable exceptions,
who deserve credit for the zeal they display in aid
ing the military authorities
The enemy is stationed at PhiIlippi, with force
estimated at 1000 men, and said to have entire
control of tie place.
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Dickson County.

At a meeting of portion OF the people of Dick
son county, at Charlotte, the first Monday in
July, 1861 irrespective of former political parties
Ii. Wiley Secretary Of the meeting. The President
explained the object of the meeting in a brief pa
triOtic and feeling manner, whereupOn upon a com.
mittee of five was appointed to draft resolutions
expressive of the of the meeting who report
ed as fellows:
ResOlued, That we highly approve of the patriotic
course of our present executive, Isham G. Harris
aud we heartily recommend him for reelection as
Governor of Tennessee.
Resolrsd, That the patriotic stand taken by Hon.
James NJ Quarles, our late member of Congress, in
favor of the South against the usurpatIOns aud
tyranny of the Lincoln Government, meets our en-
tire appreciation, and we cordially recommend him
as a candidate for seat in the Confederate Con-
gress from 8 district.
ReSOlUed That we fully and cordially approve
the course of our Senator, Tho McNeilly in our
State Legislature, and wepresent him as our candi-
date for reelection to that position, and respectful
ly ask the counties of Hickman, Lewis and Maury,
irrespective of former political parties to operate
with US in his election.
ResolUed That We have full confidence in all these
men; that they true and tried friends Of South
ern interests and we indOrse them as men in
whom implicit confidence can be placed
Rssotuea, That these proceedings be published in
the Nashville papers.
There was but one dissenting UOice TO the passage
of the foregoing resolutions
JOHN c. COLLIER, President
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The position Of England troubles the Nsrihsra
press very seriously. The following from the NV
York EUs,dng T0st is a specimen.
AT length the sting prOtFudes Ittle way Out II
the sheath. l1y0luntsrlly, unwittingiy 70 te sars
but sufficient &c let Americans see it. The Lon
don Tines has done a thing which, for several
causes, IS unusual with that paper-given its rea-
sons Either frOEs fondnoss for the imperial style
or because il has no reasons, antS acted from NJ
prgB-.m mobile but Interested impulse, having
weak cause 10 crush or q strong one 10 hattsF the
Times has never been giyeF Of reasons. But now
BY one Of these ssdden incautiOns which strRrgcly
happen at times 70 the most seifshiv ygsFy and are
the proyilentisl safeguards against them Of The
generous and Unsuspe cling. tie sninus Of the Egg
lish newspaper is disclosed. Neutrality of the
Tines kind is revenge in the vulgar English Il il
the cold shoulder Of to day for the odden toes Of
yesterday-the punishment Of reviviDg America
for the arrogance of dead Buchanan.
Ihls country has chosen its course, and Is rot
likely to depart IRON il. That the Americans should
expect US to be sWayed BY any strong feelings Of at
1schment 10 the United States Government argues
an extraordinary forgetfulness of what the conduct
OF that government has been 70 us OF all occasions
While eur behaviour to the people Of the CHited
states has been always eonclatory Il Is not eKaa-
geration to say that their government has been uni
lOfHAy h0suie and ungensrOus beyond any Euro
pean precedent, except perhaps that of the first
French Empire. In our European disoutas our
statesmen, when called upon to face hostile despot
isms. have always been haunted BY the tear al baV
ing the American Government on their backs. Ia
the paltry quarrel that fixed on US in the business
Of the enlistment or the tone Of Mr. Stewards sueeb
es likely to rouse Us 70 enthusiasm in the cause of
the Government AZ Washington Neutrality-strict
neutrah1y-iS all that the English Government can
claim and as we maintained neutrality in the ItaI-
ian war, when 81 our sympathies were awakened.
much more shall we maintain it when we look on
struggle where our Judgment still waits for further
information. and where we shall assuredly not re
joice in the military success of either partv
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Hon. IshnmG- ranrrt.

On another page we have copied extracts from
our exchanges, Recommending Governor Isham G
Harris for reelection az Governor. We might
have extended the extracts greatly had We taken
the trouble 70 collect them but the few that va
have made viii suffice for our purpose, which Is
SIMPLY to let our readers know how general and
upon what reason based, is our desire for hrs con
tinuance in office.
While we have been, and are yet, perfectly willing
to otter our cheerful support 70 any other good msu
similar and the same Considerations which have
operated upon eur quoted Contemporaries. have in
duced US TO prefer Gov. Harris any other man in
the State, we are far from believing, and we are
equally as far from believing that any other man is
We DO believe hageYer, that he is the first choice
OF large number Of our citizens than any other
man. to this we add the further belief that By orig
nal capacity and familiarity with the exact state
Of affairs, ne IS better qualified than any other IN
the State to the position.
Let the choice fall upon whom 1t may. we
sincerely trust that there will be canvass called
tJr THIS Is no time for parties, nor their Wrang-
ings.- Columbia Herald
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What Kentucky Neutrality amounts TO
From the Cincinnati Commercial, July /.

On Saturday Judge Leavitt decided the case where
in NJ j. Miller, q resident of Owensboro', Kentucky
claimed nineteen pistols which the U. S. Marshal
had seized in tTdnSiu We have, on previous oc-
casoh related the allegations both of the claimant
and of the government In deciding the cause Judge
Leavitt made the following points.
l. Goods are contraband of war when intended
to be used by the public enemy-whether it be for
eign war, or a domestic insurrectiOn.
2 There must be evidence on which the inieren-
ces can be based that this as the use TO be made
of the Operty.
g. The proof in this case IS first that Miller is
Union man; second, that the pistols were purchased
with reference 20 opposing the secesSionists and
apprehended insurrecton of negroes.
l. Kentucky has not seeded, and an immense
ma jOrity of her people are opposed to seces-
sion.
S. The mere fact of a sale IN or shipment to Kerr
lucky does not subject the property TO condemna-
ton.
6 The government of the United States has plac-
ed thousands Of stands Of arms &c, IN the posses
sion of the people of Kentucky.
:. True. there are Secessionists in KentucEy-and
proof that arms were intended for their use would
subject them to forfeiture. At Owensboro the com
muntY is about equity divided.
S. The fact that the pistols were packed in bar
rels with dried apples is no presumption under the
circumstances of the case that they were designat>
ed 10 be smugged into Kentucky for the purpose of
unlawful use.
Thereupon the Court ordered the delivery of the
pistols to the claimant. The U. S District AttorH-
ey then asked the Court to charge the costs upon
the claimants as there was probable cause sufh-
cient to justify the Marshal in their detention, and
upon the Judge refusing 10 do so he took appeal
to the Circuit Court Mr.. Miller alleges that there
were nineteen pistols concealed among the dried ap
pies the Marshal having but thirteen Miller new
claims the remaining six. No sooner were the pis-
tolls extrcated from the grasp OF the Marshal thar
new troubles appeared. Collector Carson seized
upoD them at the EXPRESS Office by virtue of his in
structions which require him 10 seize and hold all
arms destined for rebel individuals States, orfOr
Ststes or individuals in open commerce herewith
until be is satisfied that they destined for oya
hand, and that they will not be used for dsloyal
purposes. Whether the evidence which convinced |
the Judge will satisfy the Collector is question for
time 10 settle.
1t is said the collector subsequently released the
pistols, believing they were for Union men.
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1t is not denied that Gov. HARRIS has organized
the military strength of the State and placed it in
condition Of efficiency, with rapidity that could
not be surpassed by any other man.
1t is not denied that he has faithfully and nobly
represented the sentiment of the people, in his
Spouse to ISColN's insolent demand him for vol
unteers, to make war upon the Southern States. 1t
is not denied that he matured and recommended
the proper measures for meeting the invasion of
the South, which were adopted literally by the
Legislature and ratified by the people by majori-
ty of 81 600.
II is not denied that he has exhibited undaunted
frmness, and pure patriotism in every step of
this glorious revolution.
nit is not denied that he has exhibited administra-
tive ability of the highest order and thst his expert
ence is now valuable to the State in the further pro
gress of the revolution.
It cannot be denied that we need man of the
highest stamp the most tried devotion to the South
ern cause and the most intimate acquaintance with
its progress, to preserve the State from the pers
shat environ it, and that Gov. HARRIS is the man to
meet the emergency.
1t cannot be denied that the people in the various
county meetings have recognized his merit irrespec
tive of party have endorsed his course unanimously
aud respectfully requested him to again serve
them.
We do not, for one moment doubt that the people
by an unprecedented majority desire him to again
occupy the Executive chair because we would
think it an impeachment of their patriotism
and intelligence to suppose that they would
now stultify themselves, condemn themselves,
and deny their own principles and measures,
BY rejecting man, whom they have asked to serve
them and whose action they have endorsed by ma
jority Of 6l,OOO. But if they should commit such
fatal error, aside from the evil conseq uences and
the peril to the State of selecting an untried
man, who is not identified with the cause
he is would it not be a cause of congratula
ton and Joy to the Lincoln usurpers, that the man
whom they hate, who has eslcred them at every
DEAL who has bafied their hell;sh schemes and
foed their deviiish enterprises should be defeated
sid rejected by the people of Tennessee? Would
they not claim q reaction2 Would they not assert
that Tennessee, by c0ndemning the course of her
true and patriotic Chief Magi strate, who has been
the soul and centre of the southern movement in
Tennessee, is lukewarm in the Southern cause,
especially when she elects another man, svowedly
70 conciiiate, those who voted TO remain with the
LTYCoISs Government in East Tennessee? Tennes-
scans will never do unjust, fatal and ungenerous
an act Pause and think, you who would do 1t!
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Ieff pavis, FInrsicn.

The Richmond Wing of June 20 says:
The fac mansion at the corner Of Clay and
Twelfth streets purchased for the use of President
Davis, is undergoing repairs, and VIII be ready for
occupancy in few days. The building is pleasant
ly situated on the brow Of the hill overlooking Ad
ans Valley, and from its eastern windows an ex-
tended and diversified landscape view Is afforded
The frontage s on Clay street. which terminates al
this point. flight Of marble steps lead to a mar
row platform Of the same material, at the front en-
trance. The doors open INTO a circular veStibule
or hall, the right Of which is the main stairway
leading to the second story, and further on small
but well lighted apartment, which may be used as
an Office.
On the left is passage WY, aud steps leading to
the basement, and private stairway TO the second
story. On either side of the hall is niche contain
ing full size feminine figure in bronze, bearing
shaded gas burner il one hand. Between the stat
ues is the door leading to the centre parlor This
room is eighteen feet wide and twenty three feet
deep, with the fire place the left Of the entrance
On either side of the chimney breast door open
ing into the least rOOm'-the dimensions Of which
are twenty.three feet by thirty feet.
At the opposite end Of the building is another
parlOr separated from the central room by partI.
ton and folding door. The parlOr is twenty-eIght
feet square, and communicates with the Office men
toned. The fireplace Is directly opposite the one
N the central paror and both arc faced with white
marble mIntcls, handsomely decorated with ql0 re-
EsrO designs. The ceilings are Ornamented with
rich coTnces, in keeping with the general archi,ec
tural arrangements.
All the windows on this story, except those in
'front.' extend TO the floor and those in the rear open
70 pOrticO extending the whole width Of the build
ing, and measuring about fifteen feet in width. The
roof of the porticO is supported by massive co.'s
umns, about thirty feet in length.
On each Of the two chamber floors are four large
and airy ap rtments, with alcOves in some Of them
On the second floor is well arranged bath room.
with all the modern Conveniences. Ga each floor
there are several clothes rooms and presses. Gas
has been introduced into every apartment The
servants quarters are in detached building east
Of the mansion. The grounds, iuclosed are taste
fully laid of and filed with shrubberyr
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Movements In Recommendations
of Gen. Ben. mcCuIlOch.

The Memphis appeal of the ID inst, publishes the
following proclamation of Ben. MCCULLoCH to the
people of Arkansas, to which the appeal suggests
that portion of the organized forces of West Ten
nessee, the gallant volunteers, might respond by
forward movement In answer to the call of Ar
kansas to aid Missouri:
Citizens of Arkansas To defend your frontier,
troops of Missouri are falling back upon you. II
they are not sustained your State will be invaded
and your homes desolated. All that can arm them
selves will rendezvous at Fayetteville where they
will await further orders. All those who have arms
of the State will march to the scene of action,
give their arms 10 those who will not desert their
country ia the hour of danger. Ali organized com
panies whether cavalry infantry, will report at
Fayetteville, and be at once formed into regiments
and battallions. The necessary subsistence stores
will be forwarded from this post Rally, promptly,
then citizens Of arkansas, and let US drive these
Northern hordes back from whence they came.
BEN. McCUILOCH, Brigadier-General.
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NARROW ESCAPE OF KIT CAEsoS-A Santa Fee COZ
respondent Of the Cleveland PIandealer under date
OF May 20, gives the following account Of krr Car
sons last and most 9erilOus adventure
Kit Carson met with an accident that nearly cost
him his life. We were winding up a steep noun
tain, when one Of the pack animals becoming IN
ruiy, Carson attempted 20 manage him; the horse
reared up and fell over the side of the mountain
Carson's foot soc tangled in the iariat and down
they went full two hundred feet past stumps trees
and rocks, lighting in a snow bank, without much
injury to either Carson or the horse; but it was
very narrow escape. Carson says that with all his
adventures, this was the narrOWest escape he ever
had.
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6ence Of Tennessee, lad con5emned his course IN
the present crisis For one, most heartily en-
dorse It, and would regret above al things, TO see
sRong rs now anytii calculated 10 produUe die
ferent impression among our enemies. II the tTsi-
tOrOus East Tennessee Convention desire any OppC-
sitiOn 70 Gov Harris, let it be brought forward by
that body and their course thereby fully tested be-
fore the people but among all true-hearted Ten
nesseeans. let everything which would tend to
produce division or dissenaion. Be frowned upon.
In this article, the sentiments OF q large number
of old Wings and Union men with uhom have
conyersed, are fully though feebly zpressed
\ FCsNEE T. loy WuiG.
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The Next GOvernOr-VO,ce from Ruther.
ford.

MURFEEEsBoRo, Tenn, July 2, 1861.
Editors Union and american It is with regret
that have noticed article in the Banner Of
the Both inst favoring the election of Hon. W. II.
Polk, of Maury, as Governor Of Tennessee.
We have been a subscriber to the EanRer for a
number of years, and endorsed its course, but in
the present instance are constrained to dissent
We have no particular objections to Major Polk,
1T least, which might not be urged against any
other antrisd man, at this time. The Banner seems
desirous of producing harmony among the people
OF Tennessee certainly this is very laudabe, but
in our judgment, the bringing forward Of Major
Polk. under the circumstance, not calculleI 70
produce this result.
For one candidly confess that have uniformly
voted against Democratic measures and men, and
against none more cheerfully than Gov. Harris,
always excepting the traitor Andrew Johnson
aud were old party lines still existing, would do so
again. Moreover, was devoted Union man until
Mr.. Lincoln proclaimed his war policy. But in the
present critical condition of affairs in Tennessee we
think good policy dictates the continuance in Office
of the present inccTbent, and in every plblic
meeting, so far as we know, the people have so
expressed themselves With me. old party feelings
and animosities are buried with the past. and should
Gov. Harris desire reelection, he should have
the field without opposition. To supplant him now
would seem as if We who voted for the "Indepens