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MAILS THE SOUTH.

We observe that the Legislature Of Nir-
ginia have passed resolution requesting
the Governor 10 correspond with the Post
master General and urge upon him an in
crease of the mail facilities for that State.
Can VIC not have some move in the same
direction in behalf of TenEesseeg Many Of
our most wealthy and densely fFhlated
communities are without the convenience of
mails. Nor is it simply those points remote
from the great lines of travel; but, in many
instances, important points Immediately on
the railroads are without post offices.
The chief difficulty, we understand, arises
from the peculiar character Of the oath re-
quired, under existing law, Of all persons APP
pointed 10 act as postmasters. II precludes
any one from accepting such a position who
has directly or indirectly aided the rebellion.
II will he readily understood that many
communities arewithout a competent person
eligible to the position. Most Of these APP
pointments are for neighborhood conven-
fence, and are not positions of honor or pro-
fit. Ii is to be hoped. therefore, that those
having control Of this important subject will
see the folly of the present law, and apply
whatever remedy may be necessary to secure
to the people Of the South full restoration
Of their mail facilities.
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NEGRO SUFFRAGE So THE NORTH
AND SOUTH CONTRASTED.

An elaborate table has been published in
the Constitutional Union, showing the differ
ence between the Northern and Southern
communities in respect to the burden of the
negro element of population. 1t shows that
in 1860, supposing the whole population
about twenty years to be voters, in South
Carolina and Mississippi the negro vote pre-
dominated over the white vote. Iunineteen
out of thirty counties of South Carolina the
negroes had the majority, and would elect
their county officers. The same is generally
the case in Virginia and in the Gulf States
in all such counties, where there are large
towns, as the white element is more settled
in the latter. In Mississippi the negroes
had a majority in thirty-fve out of sixty
counties. The Udr has since that time changed
the result still more IN fduor Of the negro.
IL for instance the war has DESTROYED in
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A FAVORABLE SYMPTOM.

We are gratifed to observe that portion
of the Radical press are indisposed to follow
the lead of Stevens and Sumner, in their
mad assault upon the President. The WASH
ington Constitutionalist and the Philadel-
phia Press have both modified their tone.
The New York Tribune, in its notice of the
recent Message of the President and the ac-
companying report of General Grant, speaks
as follows:
We find in the text of this Message no adj
equate reason for Mr.. Summers denunciatiOn
of it. If the President had demanded of
Congress that it act ON his judgment rather
than its own, then he would have acted I'M
warrantably; but, as he has simply given
his own view of the existing situation, with
his reasons for suggesting particular course,
he deserves neither denunciation nor oblo-
guy.
Two great ends are now in view: /. The
restoration of the States lately in revolt to
their former position in the Union; 2. The
protection of their freedmen from future OPP
preston and outrage. We are in favor of
both these. We are opposed to keeping the
Southern States indefinitely in the condition
of conquered provinces or territories; We are
in favor of requiring and providing guaran-
tees for the protection and rights of their
freedmen. There may be those who fancy
that they are favoring the freedmen by call
ing for the execution of the rebel chiefs, the
confscation of rebel property, and the per-
petuation of Southern pupilage-or rather
vassaIage; but we believe there is kinder
and surer way of reaching the end We aim
at. We see not how we could help the freed
men by making war either on the President
or on the rebels who have thrown down their
arms. Where we find either in fault, We do
not hesitate to say so; but We judge thai the
true interest of the blacks is to be subserved
by cultivating the kindliest relations with
beth. .....
We trust there will be developed in Con-
gress the suavity and practical sagacity re-
quired to secure at once an early restoration
Of the Southern States and perfect and
perpetual guarantee of the essential rights OF
manhood to their freedmen. And we still
hope to see Congress and the President Co
operate in securing these benefcent and
nowise inconsistent ends.
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RESOURCES AND DUTIES OF THE
SOUTH.

There was time when the South may be
said to have coined money for the whole of
the civilized world. Her people spent it
with princely munifcence in patronizing
the schools, industries, art and literature of
other communities. They have now been i'm
poverished; but the war has not robbed the
soil of its fertility, nor the climate of its
balm. The natural resources are as great as
ever-the means, though disorganized, will,
in the course of time, be readjusted, and the
lands will become as prolific as in times
past.
But at the threshold of the general removal
ton which is now become necessary, it is
well to take n considerable view of our true
interests. These, in our opinion, will direct
our labors not so much to the production
Of raw staples which supplies the labor of
other communities, as to the combined pro-
duction and manufacture Of our owu COM
modities.
Already has an unfriendly war been inau-
gurated upon the agricultural industry Of
the South, by the introduction into Congress
Of proposition to amend the Constitution
so as TO authorize the imposition of duties
upon exports. Whatever may be the object
of this movement, the effect is palpable. 1t
is to curtail the prifts of producing the
staples peculiarly Southern, and throw
an undue proportion of the public burdens
upon the shoulders of the Southern people.
1t will reduce the price of labor, and grind
into powder the African laborer, for whose
welfare $50 assumed) so much of the blood
and treasure of the country has been ex-
pended.
The Southern people, white and black,
are thus forewarned Of the policy sought to
be imposed upon them. If they shall not
be fore-armed it will be their own fault. If
they shall devote their entire energies TO the
production of their peculiar staples-cottOn,
rice, sugar and tobacco - relying upon
other communities for necessary sup
plies of provisions, utensils stock, clothing
ETC, they will continue, as a people, as
poor as they are to-day, for the next half
century.
Their facilities for manufactures are just
as good as those Of any other country and
if they can produce and manufacture at one
and the same time, it is clear that their re-
sources are superior to any country which
possesses the power to do only one of these.
As prudent and discreet people, it,
therefore, becomes our duty to follow the
line of our interest, by raising our own sup
plies of provisions, and to become, in all re-
spects, self-sustaining, before We consult the
wishes and advantages of others. When we
reach that point, it will matter little what
unfriendly legislation is leveled in this d.
rection. Until we reach this point we are
in constant danger of wrong and outrage
from those who think they owe us no good
| will
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white men, then the negro vote will be equal
with the white vote, and as those States have
certainly lost more soldiers than that, they
will have a colored Governor, and their Leg
islature will have colored majority, if the
negroes are permitted to vote.
But LET us now look at the North, and be-
gin with the six New England States. There
they had altogether, in 1860, only "a, $50 ne
groes, of whom a good many they sent into
the field. The total white population was
3,ll0,603, or to every 132 white votes only
one negro vote. But, notwithstanding that
Connecticut only recently refused to let her
few negroes votel
In Minnesota they had in 1860 only 259
negroes, or 726 white votes to every colored
vote. In Wisconsin they had, at the same
time, LII negroes, or 562 white votes to
every negro vote. Yet these States, whose
representatives almost unanimously press the
negro suffrage question upon us, only re-
Gently, by heavy majorities, utterly refused
to let their few negroes vote in their own re-
pective States
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Nor long since, Forney, of the PhiladeI-
phin Press, called for the hanging of Jeffer-
son Davis, and from time to time has insisted
his time has come. We give below the re-
marks of this same Forney, written at the
time of the..reported death of Mr.. Davis du-
ring the late war:
This intelligence of the death of Jefferson
Davis seems TO be confirmed. When Stepben
A. Douglas was called away, a fiendisb eruI-
tation was exhibited in many of the secession
papers. The malignity with which they
punished hisindependencesurv hisdeath
and rioted over his grave. Let us set a bet.
ter example now that the great leader of the
secession tyranny has been summoned beforn
the eternal bar. He was an imperious on5
positive public man. He rarely surrendered
an opinion once formed until he degraded
himself by throwing behind him his yohm-
tary professions in favor of the Union. He
was close student, a ohivalric opponent. n
steadfast friend, gentleman in ali of his re-
lauons, and IN his own family singularlv
kind and gentle.
Although the head and heart of the South-
ern reoeIhon, he went into il reluctantly. as
all who heard his last speech in the Senate
viii remember, when with broken accents
and fearful eyes he babe farewell nj once 10
that body and 20 all his re,I greatness
Jefferson Davis was blessed with many ac-
compartments. He was alike a soldier and
statesman. No public man of my aoluaint-
ance was more devoted to scientific pursuits
ana more familiar with the abstruse teach
inss oil political philosophy. No branch of
human knowledge seemed to be unworthy of
ms investigation. He was equally attentive
10 classical literature, 70 the details of mill
tary HE, TO the doctrines Of political narties
10 the study of men, and if Professor Bacbe
oil the Coast Survey, could speak. he would
say Of the fine work. Of which no 49,,
the accomplished head. and which -
la;terly proved Its uncomfortable usef,l,os.
thal JEFFERSON Davis was as conversant Will
the smallest minutia of that noble institnt;o,,
as any other man not connected with :,
lie was passionately devoted 10 the Smith,
sonlan Institute, Of which he was n Pc,
IN former times. He devoted bimseIS - ,Le
decoration of this capital, and stool bv c.
tam, now Gen. Meigs in all his efforts =
construct the water works, TO finish the 80
tol building on the grandest scale and -
push forward the extensions of Tho In,as;
and Treasury Departments. He was nnJorS,
edly great Secretary Of War. and in ~.
nigh orhce nothing 80 much del;gb,ad -.
as TO take young men by the hlnd ana -,
worthy, 20 advance them. II he aJ,,rn.si
I beauTegard TO destroy the Republic, he Con-
ierred many advantages upon McC1oIIo,
save 1t. II he assisted Lee md JoLn-,o
and thus strengthened their hands f,r $50,
against the flag, he greatly favored Me;ss
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VERDICT IN THE CASE OF MAYOR
ToNPrERT. The following is the verdict in
the case Of Mayor Tomppert of Louisville,
in the case of his Impeachment by the Com
mon Council The undersigned, members of
the Board of Aldermen of the city of Louis
vile, sitting as court duly sworn, to try
the charges and specifications preferred by
the Board of Common Council of said city
against his Honor. Philip Tomppert, Mayor
OF said city, for refusing to perform the duties
of Mayor of said city, viz: in refusing to sign
the contract referred to in said charges,
having heard the evidence, having fully and
impartially considered the same, do hereby
find and adjudge the said Philip Tomppert,
Mayor Of the city of Louisville, guilty OF the
charges aforesaid; and do therefore declare
and adiudge that the said Philip Tomppert
be, and is hereby, removed from the Office
of Mayor of the city of Louisville, which
Office Is now hereby declared and adiudged
vacant, and for the reasons aforesaid"
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PLAN To PREVENT STREET RAILROAD
COMPANIES FROM BEING SwIyDLED.-The
Directors of one Of the St Louis roads pur-
pose to introduce upon their line the Prus-
sian gift system; each passenger who rides
over the road is to secure a numbered check
ticket for each trip made, which if preserved
until the end of the year entitle the holder
to chance in distribution Of $1,000 or
$4,000 in gifts to the passengers. Each day
a quantity of these numbered checks will be
given to the conductors, who at night will be
required to either return the checks or their
equivalent in tickets or money, and as each
passenger will be interested in securing his
share of the distribution at the end Of the
year, and will Therefore demand his check
when he pays his fare, the Company will
have check upon any dishonesty upon the
part of the conductors. The plan has been
in operation on the railroads about Berlin
for some years, and is said to be a success.
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THE report of Carl Shurz on the condition
of the South was printed in the New York
Tribune of Saturday, filling sixteen closely
printed columns of that paper. Schurz says
at the time he went South the people of
the late insurgent States were so Respondent
that they would have regarded as favor
readmission on any conditions. He says he
found four classes: First, those who, being
compelled to yield, honestly endeavor to ac-
commodate themselves to the new order of
things; second those who are eager to have
their State re-admitted, with the design of
fixing matters to suit their tastes afterward !;
third, staggering young men, loiterers and
idlers, who still assume to hope for Southern
independence; aad fourth, the multitude of
persons who have no definite opinions, and
are apt to be carried along by those who
know how to appeal to their impulses and
prejudices. All these classes, he says, are
agreed that further resistance is useless. and
therefore all movements for separation have
been abandoned. He thinks this LOYALTY of
negative character, and adduces letters to
show that the people are hostile in places
where troops have been Withdrawn. He
thinks justice can only be done to the
freedmen by extending to them the elective
franchise. He claims that their emancipa-
ton is rather matter of form than of fact,
and opposes as unprecedented in history, the
disposition of the Government to intrust the
development of their freedom to the States
lately holding them in bondage.
He advocates the encouragement Of educa-
ton among the freedmen, and in his conclu-
sion makes the following remarks: "The
loyalty of the masses, and most of the leaders,
of the Southern people, consists in submission
to necessity. The emancipation of slaves is
submitted to only in so far as chattel slavery
in the old form could not be kept up. But,
although the freedman is no longer consider
ed the property of an individual master, he
is considered the slave of society and all in
dependent State legislation will show a ten
dency to make him SUCH"
" Practical attempts on the part of the
Southern people, to deprive the negro of his
rights, as a freeman, may result in bloody
collisions, and will certainly plunge Southern
society into restless, fluctuating and anarchic
confusion. The solution ofthe problem will
be very much facilitated by enabling all loyal
and free labor elements of the South to e1er-
else healthy influence upon legislation. 1t
will hardly be possible to secure the freed
meu against oppressive class legislation and
private persecution, unless he be endowed
with a certain measure of political power"
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Mayors OFFICE.


DR0PERTY OWNERS on College and Market
i streets between the Square and Broad street,
are hereby notified 10 construct new stone or brck
pavements or to reset the old ones wherever il is
required. in accordance with the specifications and
grades which will be furnished by the City Engi-
neer on application. Said work mast be COM
Renced within ten days from this date, and push
Ell rapidly TO completion. or the city will contract
with parties for the same. and the expense will be
charEed to the property owners.
dee25-tf w. MATT BROWN, Mayor
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RESIDENCE FOR SALE

ON THE CORNER OF SOUTH MoLEM0RE
rooms a long porch. a Kitchen Store Room on
the street and Stable in the rear, all lot So
by 100 feet. Price, s2-9oO-cash $500 and 800
in ,iy months without interest Possession given
In one week from sale. Apply 20 me on corner %
Soutb Union and Vine, or at this Office.
deceNtf G. J. ZEUTZSCHEL.
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AxJrxroprI-x. D,rr1c,r1rv-A,

An UNFORTUNATE DIFFICULTY.--A truly
unfortunate difficulty occurred at the conclu-
sion of a ball at Court Square Hall, on Fri
day evening last, between two Of our young
men, Messrs. Dalton Yancey and Conrad
Garrett, in which the latter received very
serious if not fatal stab with knife, The
difficulty is regretted by all; and as the mat
ter at dispute between them was Of purely
private nature we forbear any comment.
The whole affair will doubtless undergo a le-
gal inveStigation.-Montgomsry Mai, 18th.
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A memorial was recently presented to the
Virginia Legislature from Robt. E. Lee,
President of Washington College, asking for
an appropriation to aid in establishing five
professorships in that institution.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-27

VIM. L. Sanford, of Aburn, Ala. propo-
ses to write biography of the late w. l..
Yancey. He hopes to have it completed
and published during the ensuing year.
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NashYlUe, Tenn De-. ZIst, 100.
DR0PERTY OWNERS on Church Street. on
i Line Street, between Summer and College,
and on Cherry street, between Church and Cedar.
are hereby notified to contract stone curbiug and
stone and brick pavement wherever it is requir
ed. according 10 the specifications ard grades
which will be furnished by the City Engineer. If
said work is not commenced within ten days frora
this date and pushed rapidly to completion. the
contractor for the street work viii be notified 10
construct said curbing, the expenses Of which will
be charged TO the property owner.
dec22-tf w. MATT. BROWN, Mayor.
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Nothing said here about unreliable labor
ers, etc. The manner in which the planters
are slowly coming over to confidence in the
emancipated negro, in spite of themselves, is
heautif1l
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The Indiana Legislature has refused %
pass a resolution against the pardon and in
iavor OF the immediate hanging of Jefferson
Davis. 's4 S'i'
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| We lay before our readers this morning
the most interesting portion Of Gen. How
ards report of the organization and manage
ment of the Freedmen's Bureau. The
amount of lands in possession Of the Bureau,
at the date of the report, was as follows:
Cultivated l6i 81 acres.
UncutiVated 1fS ,299 Sc
unclaSsifed 464,540
Pieces of Town property. l,55
The amount of property returned to own
ers, under the ruling of the President, re-
storing it under the amnesty or special par
don, at the date Of the report was:
Ssl70 acres
Pieces of Town property.................. LII 4
The financial exhibit was rs follows:
Total amount rcceived..............-. S907,5o6 %
Total amount expended 47S 1868 II
Balance on hand Oct 81 1S65............ 429033 II
Deduct the amount held as retained
bounties ll5,Z}6 ~
Balance on hand Oct 81 1865 available
to meet 49, T96 90
The term "Freedmen's Fund " embraces
money received from tax on colored en-
ployes, tax on cotton, fines in provost courts,
donations, etc.
1t will be seen that the estimates for car
rying on the operations of the Bureau for
the next year, are placed at ll,745,000, We
trdst that before the next year expires, the
necessity, or even the apparent necessity for
the continuance of so expensive and trouble
some an institution will have passed away.
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Stevens, and their followers. These are the
men who are using their utmost efforts TO
prevent restoration of fraternal relations
between the North and the South
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VIM. 81. Barksdale,
Attorney at Lar,

HARTsvILLE. TENN.
WILL PRACTICE IN THIS AND ADJOIN-
w ing counties. Prompt attention viii be given
10 all business entrusted TO him.
decl2-lm
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FOR SALE.

TNRST-A TRACT OF LAND, CONTAINING
Il az acres, in the Seventh District Davidson
county, about miles from Nashville. Only a
part of the tract will be sold if desired.
SecOnd-A tract of land containing 90 acres. in
District No. Is, about q miles from the city, on
the Cumberland river. On the place is fine
young apple orchard.
Third-A house and lot on North Summer ST..
being second door north of Gay street. and IS by
40 feet. The house has four or five rooms in it,
&c.
Fourth-An unimproved lot adjoining the last
mentioned lot, on the north side. fronting Sum
mer street, 1917 feet by 40 feet deep,
Fifth-A lot on the north side of Gay street,
west of Summer street, 60 by 10 feet.
SiXth-An unmprOved lot on Crawford street,
south side, between Summer and High streets, 80
by 1887 feet.
Seventh-A lot on lower Water street, adjoin-
ing Flynns lot on the north side, and being % by
l04 feet .#r
Eighth-Three lots in Wetmore's. Addition to
Edgefeld. adjoining the south side of Robt. Stew
arts property, and being each 50 by $50 feet.
Ninth-A lot in Preston Hays Addition to
Nashville, on the north side of the n. x. G. Rail
road, and being 81 by l}5 feet.
Tenth-A lot about 200 feet west of the Nash
VILE and Franklin Turnpike road, on the road or
street running westwardly, and dividing the old
Lunatic. Asylum from the property known as the
Berry place.
Apply to T. B. CHILDRESS,
At his law office, No. 81 North College street,
near Union, over Second National Bank.
dec24-2w
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HARDWARE.
III A IL ID w A IL T.
SAM. VANLEER, & CO.,
=, - :. -. - -.

SAM. VANLEER, & CO.,
NO. A COLLEGE, STREET.
(Two Doors below Publ. Square.)
SIGN OF THE BIG PADDOCK
HAVE ON HAND AND ARE RECEIVING
Ill a large and complete stock of English Ger
man. and American HARDWARE.
Which We are selling at reasonable prices. The
stock consists IN part Of a
FINE XXI POCKET CUTLERY.
800 GROSS TABLE CUTLERY,
30 DOZ. KNOB LOCKS, assorted,
E so do HAND AND RIPPING SAWS.
800 de ASSORTED AUGERS,
. do FOOT ADZE.
200 lbs. HOOKS AND HINGES. assorted. 70 to
p gLlitll j IS inches.
1000 lbs. q DOLL CHAIN.
1000 d" BLACKsMITH'S HAMMERS. all kinds;
IS WRIGHTS ANVILS.
100 CROSS-CUT SAWS. ~ to "a feet
80 MILL SAWS. 81 to s feet;
AXES,
FILES.
HATChETS.
CHAINS.
LOOKING GLASSES,
CANDLESTICKS of all kinds
RAZORS.
SCISSORS.
SHEARS,
TIN CUPS and PLATES,
TEA and TABLE SPOONS,
COFFEE MILLS,
SHOE NAILS,
TACKS
A very large stock Of PLANES Of every variety
Also,
PREMIUM STEEL FLOWS.
Those wishing to purchase in our limo will DO
well to give US call before buying.
SAM. VANLEER, & GO.
dee4-lm.
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ATTRACTIVE SALE
CITY PROPERTY
TO RENT.
Mayors OFFICE,

ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE STORES
~ in the citys For further particulars address
p. D. Box s46. doc22-2t.