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Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-07
THE FExIAN INVASION OF CANADA

From the New York Times.l
1t would be vain TO attempt TO argue any
thing from the frontier kilograms as to the
strength or purpose of the Fenian raiders.
Whether Sweeney has done more at Fort
Erie-which is simply deserted dunghill-
than the redoubtable Killian did at Campo
Bello remains 10 be seen. This much is
measurably certain: Some portion of Mr..
Sweeney's followers have crossed into the
neighboring provinces with what has the
appearance Of a belligerent purpose. In
doing so they have not only broken the laws
of the United States, but they have defied
the power Of the United States Government.
Whatever design they may have conceived
Of liberating Ireland by attacking a harm
less colony, one-third of whose inhabitants
are Peaceable and industrious Irish settlers,
these raiders have begun their work of liber-
ating Ireland by contemning the authority of
the Government Of the United States. The
question Of what fate is in store for such of
them as cross the frOntier-line is one which
will be settled promptly and finally by the
British military authorities. They have as
much chance Of making a lodgment in Cana
da as in the moon. The British authori-
ties have not only kept thoroughly well-ad-
vised as to every movement of these inva-
ders, but they know precisely the estimate
we put upon their lives. They know that
most of them are heroes Of the stamp of
those who bravely led the retreat at Bull
Run, who helped TO makeup the great army
of bcuntyjumpers who, when they cease to
be stipendaries of the War Department,
usually draw their ratiOns from the Com
missioners of Corrections, who are the curse
of American Society, and perpetual, social
and political scourge upon the American
people.
1.-two or three thousand of these vaga-
bonds get within the clutches of Gen. Ma
PIER, let us beg Of him not to spare them on
our account The more the merrier They
would be lying and stealing here, if they
were not raiding there.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-07
Annual Rates Oh Horses and
RATES. OH Cattle.

intermediate values AT prompt rates.
C. NJ. PARKER. President.
j. NJ. ROBE, Vice President.
J. II. C0NKLiN. Secretary.
j. W. HEAD. General Agent.
JAMES GLOVER, General Travelling Agent for
Tennessee.
As the Agents of the above Company in the city
Of Nashville, we are now prepared to receive
applications for insurance Of Live Stock. &c.
NEWSOM. MOORE d Co.
90 West Side Public Square.
mar3-d3m.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-07

ern Italy wiped out portion of the outrage
inflicted by the treaties Of 1915, and now
the finishing work has been inaugurated by
the speech of Napoleon on the eve Of a con-
tinental war.
When the map of Europe is again to be
reconstructed, a Napoleon will be in council
clothed Sith the power and might and ma
iesty Of France, not chained to a rock with
the vulture of English hate feeding upon
his life-blood. The world has progressed
since the "Holy Alliance" was formed, and
even kings are now elevated to power and
hold their thrones and scepterS more direct
ly from the people. This fact Napoleon re-
cognized in his speech at Auxerre, and it is
this principle which viii enable him to
make practical his detestation Of the trea-
io5,f Is1r
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-07
THIRTY DAYS

The Loss will be paid in Cash. A standing reward
of one-fourth of the value of every animal in
sured by this Company is offered for the recovery
thereof. One Hurried Dollars for the arrest and
conviction of the Thief.
Persons having Animals not insured by this
Company can, by renting FIFTEEN DOLLARS,
giving full description of Animals, and amount of
reward, have One Thousand Hand-bill struck,
and furnished to all our Detective Force in the
t,ta
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-07

NNTTH RESPONSIBLE AGENCIES IN
w every County in Tennessee, and very shortly
throughout every Southern State. This Company
insures against THEFT or DAMAGE TO Stock
while stocn. If not recovered within
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-07
louisville 9ireetory.

CANNON d BYERS, Wholesale Dealers in
~ BOnnets, Ribbons, and Millinery Goods l9l
Main street, between 5th and 9th. North side.
(lHAMBERS, HENRY a CO., Wholesale
- Druggists Main street, between 9th and 7th
nearly opposite Louisville Hotel
nUVALL, KETCHUM a. CO.. Wholesale
IL and Retail Dealers in Carpets, Floor Oil
ith, between Market and Main streets.
ELIIOTT, d CO., Wholesale Grocers and
IA Commission Merchants, and Cotton and Pro
duce Storage, No. 81 Main street, between 9TH
and Sth.
GARDNER d CO., Wholesale GrOcers. 525
" Main street. X. A. Shapard with this house.
HOGAN a. DUTEIL, Wholesale and Retail
i i Manufacturers of Wigs, Braids. Curls, and
other kind Of hair work. &C., s. 4th, between Main
and Market streets.
/ OUISYILLE HOTEL, NJ. Kean & Co..
l. PropTietors. Main Strain. nearly centrally
located for steamboats, and all trains
DITkIN, WARD 4 CO., Wholesale Dealers
i in Seeds, Agricultural Implements, Machin-
cry, &c, SO Main street. Louisville.
DOGERS, A. q. a son, House Furnishing
II Emporium, BefrigeratOrs, Filters &c. Il East
Side 4th street, near Main.
ID CRIMSON, j. VI. a CO.. Wholesale Deal
IL ers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods. No
tOns, etc, No. lS5 West Main street, between 9Th
and 9th.
CLEVIN. Il. a. IL. ID. d CAIN, Importers
- and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domes-
tic Dry Goods, No. 2l7 told No. 606) Main street.
nearly opposite Louisville Hotel.
V'RIPP, LOUIS, Wholesale and Retail Dealer
L in Piano Fortes. Organs, Melodeons, Music
&c, Nos. % and 81 Jefferson St
WILSON, PETER d co.. Wholesale Drug
w gists and Importers of Foreign Drugs and
Chemicals, Paints, Oils Window Glass. and Glass
ware. kc., and Proprietors of Louisville Chemical
Works, and sell the great SapOnifer. Corner of
Main and 5th streets.
WILDER. ED. a. Co, Wholesale Druggists
Periumery and Glassware; North Side of Main
street. nearly opposite Louisville Hotel.
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GREAT INDUCEMENTS
THE GILMER HOTEL

in front of the premises, in the city of Columbus,
Mississippi, at = o'clock, a. N, that well ar
ranged and substantially built house, known As
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-26

and, give promise, of partial crop. 1t is
worthy of mention, that the wheat sowed
with drill has, everywhere, stood the rigor of
the winter better than that seeded by hand.
This is easily explained by the fact that the
drilled wheat is in all cases covered to a
proper depth, while much of the hand-sown
wheat is imperfectly covered oy the harrow,
or left entirely on the surface. This mat.
ter is we'll worth the attention of farmers
--Ricbnona Times.
- The Louisville papers publish the
statement of a criminal named Sterling
King, who is confined in that city on the
charge of horse stealing. King says be
was the man who killed President Lincoln
details the manner in which be performed
the act; how he made bis escape; says tina,
Booth had nothing to do with the killing
except to assist in his escape. He declares
that he, and no one else, made. the attemp,
upon the life of Secretary Seward that the
person shot in the barn as j. Wilkes Booth,
was q person who escaped from an Ohio
prison; that Mrs. Surratt, knew nothing Of
the assassination plot. He makes many
plausible points to give credence to his state.
ment, yet it is probable that he had some
ulterior design in concocting this 'sconfess.
ion." The written statement has been for.
warded to Washington to be adjudged fol
what it is worth.
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HON. A, H. STEPHENS.

The testimony of the Hon. A. Il. STE
PHENs before the Congressional Committee
has assumed the proportions of an event in
the present history of the country. Not
that be has asserted anything new, or facts
previously unknown to Congress and the
Committee, but because be has resolutely
but modestly Vindioated the motives and
character of the people of his section from
the slanders of history. His exposition Of
the causes that developed the revolution
the truthful avowal of our acceptance of its
results-and the straight forward manner
in which his evidence met the sinister de-
signs of those elicitiDg it, are valuable tes'
timonials ip behalf of the South. No ar,
gument yet offered upon this unhappy issue
has covered so much ground, or stood upoH
it so ably as these honest assertions of the
Ex-Vice President of the Confederacy. A
synopsis of the testimony may be found in
another column.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-26
"THE SITUATION"

The news from Washington brings infor-
mation,-important if true-relative to the
construction of the Presidents peace Pro-
clamatiou. Judge UNDERWOOD having re.
Gently decided that the proclamation did
not restore the privilege of the haJeas cor
pus in the Southern States, the New York
Nears asserts that "PresiGent JOHNSON has
ordered that writ of haJeas corpus be
granted in the case in which it was refused
by Judge UNDERWOOD, few days ago
The Attorney General has also instructed
Judge UNDERWOOD that the writ Of haJeas
corpus is now restored and ID full force, not
only in Virginia, but in all proper cases,
exactly as before the war. Judge UNDER.
WOOD is also informed in the same CON-
munication, that martial law exists no lon.
ger in any of the Southern States, and that
the civil courts are to discharge their func-
tions exactly as before the war.
The President has just given another
important evidence of his determination to
carry out his "policy." CLEMENTC. CLAY
of Alabama member of Mr.. DAVIS cab
met, and at one time special peace Commis.
sioner of the Confederate States-has been
confined at Fortress Monroe since the con-
clusion of the war. Congress has been
appealed to for the necessary arrangements
for the trial of both Mr.. DAVIS and Mr..
CLAY, but thus far has failed to euggest
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Answer to Correspondents.

The favors of contributors having been
accumulasing for some time upon our table,
We propose to set aside special corner for
our private 'chit chat with those who hon.
or us with their offerings.
sGW1LL1E LIaHTHEART "-"April Fool'
will appear as soon as the types can be made
to accommodate it. Though April is near
ly past, "May Fools" sometimes read with
profit.
1T. W. S."-Your "spice" is accepted
We do not approve of all it's cuts and slash;
es. but rather like the letter as whole. II
will appear shortly. We hope to hear FROM
you again.
dimes to Miss M. B., Yorkville," are
declined. Better write your billet doua
and address through the Post Office. Un'
Gle Sans Mail bags can keep lovers secrets
better than editors.
"To NELLIE" poem similar to the1as'
by JOHN JEEMs, is good in sentiment but
the expression and meter are Objectionable
Try again. Re. write, amend, and in the
meantime, endeavor to forget "NELLIE."
Our champion of "THE CHARGE" j. E
W., has BECOME silent. We hope he has
not fallen il one of bis splendid tilts, and
shattered bis lance forever.
"Liues written in a lawyers Office on the
approach of Spring." and "List of ques
tions," &c are received. We are pleased
with them. We would like however tt
confer with the author before publication
"Under the deep-the Sailors wish. -
by "TRELLo" will be published next week
His lines are pretty ard melodious; We
have read them with pleasure.
"The Dying Boys Request" will appear
next week.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-26
The Military Courts.

We are pleased to see from the published
proceedings of the Military Court, sitting
ip Columbia, s: c., that Mr.. A s: WAL
LACE, recently arralgned before it, on a
charge of killing a negro boy HENRY, at
Mrs. LEEcH's place last fall, has been ac'
Quilted. Mr.. WALLACE has been released
from arrest, and is now at bis home in this
district.
We also learn incidentally, that Mr.. j.
NJ. SMARR, arraigued upon The charge Of
shooting the boy GREEN, at the same time,
has also been acquitted. We hope the re,
port maybe true. The shooting was case
of plain duty in the defence of private
rights, and will operate as wholesome ex:
ample in the section where it occurred, if
the gentlemen concerned are both acquitted
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-26
Bloody Riot in Norfolk,

On Monday, 10th instant, the Freed
men of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the sur
rounding country, celebrated the passage Of
the Civil Rights Bill by procession and
other demonstrations, which resulted in a
general melee and bloody deuoument. The
following account of the affair We take from
the Norfolk Viryinian
HThere are various rumors as to the orr.
gin OF the melee. The scene was in the
field on Upper Union street, in the vicinity
of the cemetry, or burial ground. Fire
arms were used. Robert Whitehurst' was
killed, and his step.mother, Mrs Charlotte
Whitehurst, mortally wounded. John
Whitehurst, the half. brother of the killed,
was dangerously wounded. VIM. Mosely,
a city watchman, was very badly beaten,
and his life is despaired of. Lawrence
Hampton, oolored boy about about ten
years of age, was bayonetted on CRANKY
street, by negro in the procession. The
wound is in the abdomen, and is of dan
gerous character We learn that several of
the negroes were infamed with liquor.
There is negro saloon on the corner of
Cumberland and Queen streets, which was
visited not unfrequen.ly by negroes who
joined in the procession. They would leave
the scene of the speech.making, dancing,
singing, hallowing and firing of muskets and
pistols, go to this drinking saloon, and return,
inAamed, to the scene of rejoicing and jubi.
lee. We fear that to liquor-to whiskey-
may be traced the whole difficulty CT the
day. It is slid that dance of death was
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-26
MERE-MENTION.

The Charlotte Democrat says that the
agent of the Freedmen's Bureau, m that
place, last week, sentenced negro man to
the chain. gang for thirty days. for violating
his contract with farmer. .''''""AdVlces
from Montreal, announce the death of OLE
Bub1, the celebrated violinist. '..''A Wash.
ington' despatch says: "fhe delegation sent
here by convention at Atlanta to ask a
modification of the test oath, has started
home, having failed to secure much encour-
agemeut. The House committee has agreed
to report against any modification. "''''''One
of General SHERMAN's favorite "bum-
mers," whose brave career among the un-
protected women of tbeSouth is we'll known,
and was at the time much applauded by
the Northern press, is now drayman in
Wilmington, N c. So says the Journal.
.........The radicals in Congress are con-
sidering the propriety Of robbing Texas of
portion of her territory, to be held as a
reservation for homesteads for. colored SOL
diers. ......"'There is negro in PhiladeL
phia whose feet measure twenty.one inches
in length. II is supposed that they will be
used as the next Republican platform. '.'."
Large numbers of negroes in Nashville,
Tennessee, living in concubinage, have
been arrested under orders from the Freed
mems Court, and compelled to celebrate the
rites of marriage in proper form. '''''''''
The Gainesville Era thinks that Florida
will soon havsa superabundant population,
as ernigrants are pouring in from all parts
of the world.
Col. J. WESLEY Goss, of Union Dist,
S. e., died on the 5th instant at Peters
burg, Va During the late war be was
Lieutenant Colonel of the Palmetto Sharp
Shooters. .."...''The Iberville, (Louisiana)
South, complains hat the people are now
enjoying the only two legacies left by-"our
Northern BRETHREN" poverty and the small
pox::.~.-...."Ah, Mr.. Simkins, we have
not chairs enough for our company" said
a gay wife to her frugal husband. "Plenty
of chairs, my dear, but little too much
company" replied he. .'''''~'.The Secre'
tary of the Treasury has directed the Com
missioner of the Internal Revenue that in
the assessment Of annual income, farmers
will not be required to make returns for the
value of their farm products cons umed by
themselves and families. .........The Texas
Constitution abolishes slavery, places freed.
men Oh an equality with the whites before
the law, and gives the Legislature power to
guarantee railroad bonds for iron contracts.
1t will be submitted to the people on the
fourth Monday in June. Resolutions en-:
dorsing the Presidents policy were lost. -.
..."'The Emperor NAPOLEON has decided
that all the French troops shall be with.
drawn from Mexico in detaobments--the
first, 1st November; the second, 2nd March,
and the last, 3rd November, 1867. ..''.'.'..
1t is estimated that iu Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi there are now about one
third of the number of colored laborers
there were in 1860, while there aye twice
as many white laborers
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-26
Lecture,

The Rev. j. 8. RAY, late President of
the Alabama Female College, delivered a
Lecture in this place, on Saturday evening
last, in illustration Of new system of gram
mar, of which he is the author. Mr.. RAYS
method, no doubt greatly simpli6es this diff.
fouls branch Of science; but whetheror not
he has pruned the old system too closely in
his new analysis, is question that might be
asked. The inclemency, of, the. evening
caused small attendance.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-26

become Unionists, and the former Unionists
the practical disunionists. !;
Mr.. Stephens said he believed the States
had abolished slavery in good faith, and
the ratification CT the constitutional amend
nent followed as consequence Of the war,
though be did not think there was any con.
stitutional power of the Government to have
exacted it as 9, condition precedent to res.
toration under the Constitution, or to the
resumption of their place IS members of
the Union by the States.
The validity of the laws, hesaid, passed
/ by Congress in the absence of the Senators
and Representatives of the eleven States
depended upon their constitutionality,
which vas to he decided BY the courts. AS
the Congress did not eoGseat To theswith,
drawal of the seeding States, they have
had the continuous right to representation,
to be exercised as soon as they make known
their readiness TO resume their rights under
the Constitution as States. ~. ,..'...
| He said, further, that he.doubted wheth-
er the laws passed by Congress in the alb.
sence of Senator'S and Representatives from
the. eleven States, ievying taxes upon iall
the people Of the United States, would DE
CONSTITUTIONAL Il would oertsiuly beau
just and agaiult all ideas Of American rep
resentative gosesnmeut,; bat it's. cousfitd
tionality would be question for. tie judi
ciary, by whole decision hepwould shide,
Whateser it would be. - >..0.c - osSs
Iu conclusion, Mr.. Stephens 'stasedsthat
the inAuenciuen uencousidsratiobs and opinions
Fesding him -so Identity 'hiuseif with the
rebellion, so far as to accept the office -of
| Yice4P Ptesident:o the Confederate States,
were thorough belief in the reserved soses.
digaty Of the States Heopposed secession
as a. question of policy; but believed his
ultimate allegsuee. vas due 'toshis Stsse,
aBd he therefore chose rather to-castihis
lot with her than to take any other course,
even though it might lead to his sacrifice
aud. to her ruin. -, IT," ~, -
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GREENBACKS VS.. GOLD.

In previous articles on this subject, we
have enumerated the advantages to be de.
rived from the adoption of the currency as
the circulating medium of the country, and
the losses sustained by ignoring it. We
now propose to examine the chances of fu-
ture loss in case.of depreciation of the our
rency, and the improbability of such depre'
citation, or loss
The amount of money in the country at
the present time is entirely inadequate to its
necessities Beginning at the close of the
war without currency, it has gradually ac.
cumulated through the sales of cotton, a
small quantity, yet insufficient at best, to
meet the ordinary demands of business
The result of this is rapid circulation Of
that on hand, rendered necessary by reason
of its scarcity. Very few individuals have
acquired suficieucy to lay by for future
use. All is absorbed in the purchase OF
supplies, farming utensils, stock, &C., neces-
sary to the renewal of agriculture and 9th.
er pursuits. There is but little danger. if
the currency should even depreciate, of
finding any one individual in possession. Of
large sums of it.
The currency is better adapted as me-
dium to the purchase of these necessities
than gold for reasons given, viz: that ii
does not throw the purchaser at the mercy
of money changers and dealers who require
higher price for merchandise in gold than
in currency, comparing their relative values
But the tendency of the currency is to
appreciation, rather than otherwise We
have noticed the quantity of gold arriving
in the country as largely in excess of ex
portation; the enormous revenue Of the
country by taxation; the repugnauce man
ifested in all sections to reputation; the
wealth and resources upon which it is based
all safe presumptive argument of its final
redemption, if redemption be Desirable
England with half the wealth-an equa
annual expense, and debt about the same
as the United States, sustains her interna
commerce upon government notes similar tc
ours that are receivable at par with gold
There is no reason why the United States
currency in time of peace will not soor
approximate to a similar standard.
But above all, this currency is a lega
tender for alt debts past and present.
Whatever apathy exists on the subject, Of
the payment of these debts, the reality viii
ere long starte the country from it Pay
day is as certain as the coming of the tax
gatherer. 1t belongs to the exercise of or
dinary wisdom to prepare in time for its ap-
proach. Cotton will bring more in currency
than in gold, aud the currency so obtained
will pay an equal debt with gold, dollar fol
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