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Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

SMALL Pox HosPITAL.-The report Of
the condition of the Nashville and Davidson
county Smallpox Hospital for the past
month shows very large dimunition in the
number of patients. Some time s1nce, we
gave a synopsis of report which extended
mp to the 10th of February, at which time
there were 40 patients in the Hospital.
Since that time there has been continual
decrease, and the last report shows that on
the LIST of March instant, there were but
ninety-fve inmates. This number was made
up as follows:
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

mously determined to work in hycr Of. and sup
port by all means. the eight hour movement, to be
inaugursted on Monday next, by the house
painters.
The sixth annual commencement of the New
York Homeopathy College took place last evening
in this city. The degree of Doctors of Medicine
was conferred upon forty students Of the gradu-
ating class.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

CLOVER SEEp.-Messrs. Rhca G Smith,
ON Church street, advertise a lot of clover
seed, also corn, oats, etc. Go and see Alex.
Greig at their warehouse.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02
.$l,I3,OOO,0OO
Debt in Europe....................

Our imports are now going on at the rate ofover
$3.50. 900 900 yearly To pay the balance of trade
against u.s. and our interest due abroad. in the
month of January, for instance, in national bonds,
at s. cents, would require 100000, which must
be paid at last by us. in gold value, at par, the
discount of 30 per cent. at which they sold
being n total losS to us. How long can this last
What will follow when these bonds mature, or are
sent back for payment Where is our specie
Only $10.O00.0O0 in the country, and $4,000. 600
needed by Government.
We must check importatiOns. To keep the
balance must sell 500 900 900 yearly more than
we buy to pay interest Stop the drain of gold,
and the pitifui process-unprecedented in the
financial history of civilized nations-of selling
our bonds abroad at very heavy discount.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

The steamer Fanny BrIadies, Capt Aus
TIN, will leave for Louisville aud Cincinnati
this evening. See advertisement
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

WILL sell at auction on MONDAY,
March 9Th, 1866, $4,000 pounds Farm and
Railroad Iron. This is Sweeds, which Is
the best Of iron, and is well assorted. Black
smiths and dealers would do well to attend
this sale, which will commence at 10 o'clock.
JAS. Il. DILLIN,
No. so College street, near Broad, Nashville
marl-Gt
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02
THE CITY .

jon PRINTERs.-Two or three No. Job
Printers can find permanent employment at
Society prices, by applying at this office at
once.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02
Ratification Meeting .u RIcbuo.a

NEW York. March 1.-Mr. NJ. +. Conway. for
merry . member of Congress from Kanses, delis-
cred speech in Richmond last evening. at a rati-
feation meeting. He reviewed the Presidents
policy and censured the Radicals.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

SELF ABUSE.-Ths vice. which is never
practiced in the presence Of any one. has proved
the everlasting ruin of thousands of the noblest
and most talented young men that ever gave
tongue to eloquence or pen to song. 1t has de-
stroyed health, blasted the constitution, and re-
duced the miserable victim to & living skeleton.
Nor are these its final and fatal effects; in its
pains are scattered the ruins of reason, the most
melancholy sight that can meet mortal eyes. To
be cured permanently of this affection, call on DIR.
COLEMAN, No. "a North Cherry street, or address
him by letter, Box SOP. Nashville. Tennessee.
fahAl-tf
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

NEW YORK. March 1.-The following is pub
lished: The only ground for the astonishing an
nouncement Of the New York Herold of the re-
opening of the slave trade by the Freedmen s
Bureau. are the operations of the employment
Office in securing places on written contracts any
where in the United States. for the unemployed
destitute freed people in this city. sixty-three
weres sent to Mississippi last week, after seeing
their employer and making a fair agreement for
good wages. Some have been sent to many
Northern States in the same manner. fee of
one dollar for every man and fifty cents for every
female is charged to pay current expenses, such
as printing blanks, etc. The salaries of agents in
no way depend upon the fees
c. HOWARD,
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

TWENTY Young men lately left Knoxville
for Mexico, and the Commercial says that
there are many others anxious to start who
have not as yet been able to procure the
means Of TRANSPORTATION.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

GO TO NO. ~ Az North Cherry St,
between Union and Church streets, and examine
a splendid stock of WHEELER & WILSON'S world
renowned FAMILY SEWING MACHINES.
Take your old Wheeler & Wilson's Machines
from their stands and get them adjusted. repaired.
or improved, and warranted as good as new.
Favorable terms are offered &c Agents.
Address w. q. WALKER,
No. 17lE North Cherry ST., Nashville. Tenn.
feh2l-lm
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

HAVE you seen the large stock of Wall
Paper, just received by
w. FREEMAN & Co.,
% Public Square, cor. Deaderick street.
feb25-2w
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CARD.

We respectfully introduce to our old friends
our successors in business. HrGH Mocha 4 Co..
who continue the Commission business at eur
stand. No. . South Market Street.
Our own Office il Ne. g College Street. where
we hope all parties who are indebted to win at
once call and pay their accounts now due. and all
parties who have any claims against us win pre-
sent them for payment. a. we wish 10 close up
our business at an early day.
janl3-tf A. HAMILTON & Co.
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S77l.6l7.767

The Revenue Commission table includes the
exports of gold, the balance of which was $292
III, $50, and of foreign merchandise exported in
gold value $l64, 13i259.
1t will be seen thai our specie exports have not
paid the interest on our debts abroad.
The Comptroller of the Currency, in his report
for 1865. page Z estimates the amount of our
securities sent abroad in five years at $l3 900 0OO
and truly says Our only resource to pay the
balance against has beer and still is the sale of
our securities abroad"
To this amount of national bonds held abroad.
which is an Under estiIaate......... $7l3OO0 900
Add amount owed abroad in 1S6O...... 5OO,OoO,OO0
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

THE best method Of cleaning soiled walls
is 10 have them neatly papcrcd by y
W. Freeman a Co,
2s Public SQUARE, cor. Deaderick street.
feb25-2g.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

Newly ORR, Mar, 1.-The excitement continues
and bank robberies are frequent. The latest in
stance reported is an attack on Lennoxville by
party of twenty-five men, in connection with the
attempted robbery of the Government Bank at
Gait, some time ago. Startling circumstances
have been brought to light. Two ex-Aldermen of
Toronto, sergeant major of police and patrol
sergeant, said to have aided the notorious
Bristol Bill in committing the crime, together
with Gustaf. the alleged prisoner recently extra
dited from this city. Some of these persons are in
custody, while others have fed the country.
The Governors of the British provinces are
holding a council in Montreal concerning the
Fenians, and action on the confederation is
believed TO be the topic of discussion
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02
Mass Meetinx Of werkanx Mem.

NV YoRK. March LA large and enthusiastic
meeting Of merchants and working men vas held
last evening in this city. at which il was unani-
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02
Exports and ImpOrts-Debt In Eu-
rope, etc.

From the Washington Chronicle.l
The Revenue Commission Report, page IS,
gives the following tables
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02

PRIVATE MEDICAL ADvIcE.-Read DIR.
Whifsiefs advertisement in anothercolumn.
Jan 23-sm.
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JOS. r. DILLIN & CO..
Storage and Commission Merchants,

No. so College street. near Broad. Nashville.
Tennessee.
Our business is exclusively Receiving, Storing
Forwarding, and Buying and Selling, on Orders.
jan25--tf Jos. r. DILLIN & Co.
A FINE lot of PURE SPICES, suited for Chris
mas times. For sale at
FOSTER BRoTHERs.
decl2-tf
LONE JAcKlll A large lot of this SUPERIOR
SMOKING TOBACCO. For sale at
Foster BROTHERS.
decl2-tf
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ALARAMA.
SELL YOUR UNCURRENr MONEY.

The following are the rates paid by THOS. $.
MARR. BROKER, corner of Union and College
streets for uncurrent money. These quotations
are liable to fiuctuate but may be depended on
for a sufficient length of time for remittances TO
he received by mail or express. If forwarded with
outdelay.
TENNESSEE Bank Of Fulton............25
Savannah. lS
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02
DRY GOODS.
NOTICE.

HAVING SOLD OUT OUR STOCK OF
IL Goods at No. 81 Market street to Messrs.
Pigue Il Manner, we take pleasure in recommend
ing them to our friends as gentlemen of capacity
and integrity. and bespeak for them the patronage
Of the friends of the old firm.
EVANS, PORTER K co.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02
LOCAL NOTICES.

Great News 10 the Citizeus of NASH
viIie.-sThe Great Monster. called Dust. has at
last found its master under the direction of ]. w.
CARPENTER. The Nashville Street Sprinklins
Company have accomplished this great object.
mar2-2t.
We are authorized TO announce w. Meacham
as n candidate for Magistrate in this District at
the ensuing election.
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BAN KING h USE
OF
|. w III T. Il l. T. y y e. CO.
IS UNION STREET

DEALERS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
IL Exchange, Uncurrent Money, Gold and Sill
ver Government Vouchers, State and United
States Bonds, Foreign and Domestic Bills.
They take great pleasure in calling the attention
of their old friends and the trading public gene
rally, TO the fact that their banner is again un-
furled. and they respectfully ask a share of their
patronage. Below are our rates for uncurrent
Bank notes. &c.
TENNESSEE. Bank Of Fulton..........25
Bank of Tennessee old .. SaN ahhhn '''Sg
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From Mexico and the west Indies


NEW YORK. March 1.-The steamer Eagle, from
Havana, 9th, has arrived. The French steamer
Louisa had brought Vera Cruz dates of the 18th,
and City of Mexico to the 10th.
Three thousand Juarists were reported defeated
in Michoacan. Many were killed, six hundred
and sixty wounded. and the rest dispersed. Sixty
guerrilas were defeated at Pesta Grande, with q
loss of forty killed and wounded Pedro Martinez
defeated an attacking force of two squadrons of
the Empress regiment on its way to Saltillo. Six
hundred insurgents weIc defeated in Sonora. with
loss of one hundred killed and wounded, one
hundred and fifty muskets, etc. Carlo. with four
hundred and fifty men. suffered severely in Ticim-
bro He lost several killed and thirty four pris-
oners.
The above were reported on Imperial author
ity.
Guadalupe statistics to Jan. 81 show 100 deaths
from cholera.
Advices to the 18th says the pest was decreasing.
but has made its appearance in st. Domingo
Two American vessels were at St. Thomas and
more were expected.
Letters from Hayti say that Jeffrard was making
excursions along the coast. stopping ut all the
ports, in new war steamer.
Cholera was feared at Havana.
sort of cattle disease appeared at Sierra
Leone. Large numbers of oxen died within "a
hours.
The small pox was increasing at Regla.
Three escaped convicts from Tortugas were
picked up in a small boat at sea- There were
negro named Berry, and two whites named Swan
ton. They were returned to Key West. 1t was
at first reported the whites intended to sell their
comrade
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$305,0OO,OOO

Thus we shall find the real balance against us,
from July l, 1859. TO same date, 1865, in specie
value:
Excess Of 6l2 767
frauds III 2SUUOU,OO0
Interest, etc. abroad 305 900 900
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-02
From EnrOna.

c. HOWARD,
Brevet Brig. Gen. and Asst. Com.
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UOmmerciaI Bank......
Farmers Bank of N
VIRGINIA.

Carolina-......-............
Merchants Bank.
Bank of Roxboro......20
Miners and Planters
Bank...-....w..........20
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Halves, Quar-
tiers. Dimes x
Half Dimes....l.

Nouchers...."........-.S5
Tennessee Bonds.....-SS
Davidson co. Bonds...-.T0
L. & N. r. II. Script...75
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-16

some BY It's very name others BY the asSocia-
tons connected with it, and others by the an
tagonisms Of long and embittered warfare
II they had no choice but to remain under the
Republican banner, or to cast in their fortunes
with the Democratic party, they would stay
where they are, depressing their private senti-
ments, swallowing their discOnSents, and casting
Republican votes.
If the President is to be sustained, not by
the mere inactive, impractical sentiments and
good wishes Of the people, but by their votes
and acts, new party must be formed, into
which all conservative men, as well those now
acting with the Republicans as those now act
ing with the Democrats, can come on equal
terms. The exigency demands such party,
and it can only be formed in the manner, and
on the principles indicated. If the Democrats
are patriots rather than partisans, they will
willingly renounce their me-honored name
and the organization under which they have
met as many defeats as victories, and merge
themselves as individuals in the great multi
tude that awaits direction and is now painting
for organization. The impulses and sympathies
now struggling in the public mind, and point
ing TO the salvation Of the Constitution and the
Union, may be quenched, forever extinguished,
by the stupidity, selhshness and baseness of
old rotten and wretched parties, that mistake
jealousy for patriotism, and the triumph of
action for true glory.
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-16
The Negro.

The British Consul at Surinam, in a report
to the Foreign Office, describes the effect of
emancipation on the negro slaves in the Dutch
colony. He says;
"Oz the lst Of July, 1853 the freedom of the
slaves was promulgated, and the rights and priyi-
leges Of freedmen were accorded 10 them. The ne
gro population received the boon without any great
Signs Of eXultation; the day passed over even with
.uore stiffness than a Sabbath. The agricultural
aborers did not so readily turn out TO work, and,
ghen they did, il was only TO work what they
pleased, and that generally was poorly DONE
Many Of the people, when the time of contracting
with the owners of the estates appointed, left
their former homes, and took TO squatting IN the
bush, and on abandoned plantations and grounds on
the borders Of creeks in the neighbOrhOOd Of towns
where they lSad a life Of comparative idleness, Of
little TO themselves and less TO the community at
arge, returning 70 a state Of gross heathenism,
practicing and enjoying the supeHtitiOus African
lances with all their immortality. Their wants
being but few, are easily supplied from bountiful
soil forests teeming with game, and the rivers,
creeks and swamps abundsntly stocked with fish,
which require but little exertiOn to procure. The
negro population who have remained on the estates
10 as little work possible, which tells greatly on
the crops they do little else than reap the fruits OF
former years labor planting but little for the fu-
ture.'
The picture would stand well for the eman-
Cipated negroes VI buSsS oOutuSlH otalCo'
Sambo is the same everywhere. To "graze
ike a sheep" would be his happiness. Any
thing for him but regular tasks and systematic
labor. 1t is painful to him to hunger, pleasant
to him to eat, but work is so disagreeable that he
would rather hunger some and work little,
than by steady work supply all of his wants.
This idleness and improvidence of the negro are
costing him dearly. We would not say or do
anything to discourage rational efforts looking
TO ms Improvement; nor would We, he now be-
ing free, base measures looking to his benefit
upon the superstition that he is incapable ofim-
proyement. But while we would avoid that
error, we would, II 1t rested in our discretion,
avoid two other and very different errors The
first Is that he needs a special bpra,r 70 nro-
tect and develope him and the other is that no
is, in his present state, the equal of the white
man. Such are the two contradictory assnr,,,-
tions on which the legislation in regard 70
negroes is based. The great mistake commit
ted was in not leaving him, assisted by his free
dom, to lean upon himself, with his labor as his
capital. When the Freedmen's Bureau was
given him to lean upon, at that critical moment
Of his existence when he was just emsnclpated,
he was, as it were, crippled for life, and can
never part with the crutch that he has learned
to lean upon. He feels that he belongs to the
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-16
The Me,ronoIitan Collar COMPANY.

We give on this page an illustration of the Paper
Collar mandatory of the Metropolitan Company
of this city, The machine used in this manufacto
nv, and of which Mr. D. NJ. Smyth is patentee, Is one
of the most wonderful and curious inventions of the
day. Three peculiarties distinguish this machine
above all others in use
l. It's simplicity by all other processes
REQUIRES half dozen distinct and separate opera.
tons is here accomplished by one. single stroke
of the die produces a perfect collar, button-holed
STAMPED, and moulded All that is done afterward
is merely incidental. The collar is turned by SIM
pie machine, and by another is, with nine of It's
COMPANIONS folded for the box. This latter process
is in every other mandatory performed by hand
The small number of hands through which the col.
lar passes also prevents it from becoming soiled.
9 It's wonderful capacity.-From our own OBJ
servation we know that this machine produced two
collars per second. The eleven machines which the
company have in operation produce % collars pei
second 1920 per minnie, 79,20O per hour, and 1900
800 every twenty-four hours. Three hundred ma
chimes would supply almost every man, woman and
child in the United States with collar per day.
8. IFS economy Of labor and materiaL-The elev.
en- machines in operation the work of 500 hands
More than 10 per cent is saved OF the paper which
in every other process is wasted.
The Metropolitan Collar Company, whose place OF
business is l65 Washington street, has n capital oil
S5O0O00 1t manufactures collars of seventeen dis.
tinct varieties many of them superior to any in the
market and none of them surpassed, and at very
much reduced cost of production, which enables the
company to defy competition. Weekly.
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-16

The CIVIL RIGHTS BILL, as it is called,
Tuesday, gives to negroes I" the same right to
make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties
and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease,
sell, hold and convey real and personal pro-
perty, and to full and equal benefit of all laws
and proceedings for the security ofperson and
property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and
shall be subject to like punishment, pains and
penalties, and to none other, any law, statute
or ordinance, regulation or custom to the con-
trary notwithstanding" As it passed the Sc
nate it contained a clause that "there shall be
no discrimination in civil rights or immunities
among citizens of the United States, in any
State or Territory of the United States, on ac-
count of race or color, or previous condition
of slavery" This was stricken out in the
House for the reason that it was thought it
would secure the right of suffrage to negroes
a thing which the majority of the House would
have been delighted to do if only the Southern
States were to be affected by it. But, they did
not dare to subject their own States and con-
stituencies to such a condition. The bill i'm
poses heavy penalty on any one who in any
way obstructS the enforcement Gifts provisions,
one of which requires that negroes shall be sub
iect to precisely the same punishment, pains
and penalties as whites But, this is precisely
what General Terry, in multiplying the vagrant
act of the Legislature of Virginia, said should
not be done in this State. Is the law of Con-
gress or the edict of General Terry to be our
rule of actionY
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-16
Characterize. of Grant and Sherman.


Professor D. H. Mahan, of West Point, under whGse
tuition Generals Grant and Sherman were when at
West Point, publishes letter giving some remnis.
cences OF their student lifa from which the follow.
ing extract is taken
Grant always showed himself clear thinker
and steady worker. He belonged to the class of
compactly strong men who went at their task at
once and Kept at II until finished never being sean
like the slack-twisted class, yawning olling on
their elbows over their work, and looking if just
ready to sink down from mental insanity.
sherman was the reverse Of this in Manner
Eager, lmpetuous, restless he always worked with
will. Being one OF those of whom Byron says
Quiet to quick souls is hell If he wasn't at
work he was in for mischief, II, while explaining
| something to his class at the blackboard, heard
any slight disturbance, denoting some fun, | was
seldom wrong, in turning round, in holding up N y
| finger TO Mr.. Sherman. But one was more ID, n re-
paid for any slight annoyance Of this kind bv his
irrepressbe good nature, and by tie clear thought
and energy he threw into his w0rS.
That he should accomplish something great. I was
prepared to learn. Bpf not SO in Grant whose
round CHEEKY, boyiSh face, though marked with
character and quiet manner, gave none of that evil
dence Oh what he has since shown he possesses
Grants mental machine is of the powerful low.
pressure class, which condenses its own steam and
consumes its own smoke, and which pushes steadily
forward and drives all objects before 1t. Shermans
oelonRa 70 the nigh pressure class, which lets of
hotblwith puff and cloud, and dashes at its work
with resistless vigor, the result of sound
boiler and plenty offnel.
| The question is often put TO me whether look
upon Grant and Sherman as great men. To this
there is but one reply. Posterity alone, when the
clouds raised by passion, prejudice and partisanship
shall have been disspated and truth revealed in ali
her distinclness will be competent to pronounce
upon this point But if great deeds the results of
high mental and moral powers, Of magnanimity and
generosity toward public and private enemies, are
characteristics of greatness, then cannot the NEED
of this ennobliug patent be withheld, in our own
day from either of these men"