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Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-15
louisville SireetorlJ.

CANNON d BYERs, Wholesale Dealers in
~ BOnnets, Ribbons, and Millinery Goods, lsl
Main street. between 5th and 9Th, Nsrth side.
CtHAMBERS. HENRY a co.. Wholesale
~ Druggists Main street, between 9th and eth
nearly opposite Louisville Hotel
hUVALI., KETCHUM e. CO., Wholesale
~ and Retail Dealers in Carpets, Floor Oil
Cloths, Rugs, Mats, Window Trimmings, &C., 81
4th, between Market and II lain streets.
TNLIIOrT, & co., Wholesale Gr0cers aud
IL Commission Merchants, and Cotton and Pro-
duce Storage. No. 81 Main street, between It'll
and sth.
GARDNER a. co., Wholesale Grocers, SIS
" Main street. r. A. Shapard with this house.
HOGAN q DUTEFL. Wholesale and Retail
4 i Manufacturers Of Wigs, Braids. Curls, and
other kind Of hair work. d1c., IS 4th, between Main
and Market streets
Il OUISVII.LE HOTEL, NJ. Kean & Co.
l. Proprietors, Main Strain, nearly centrally
located for steamboats, and all trains.
DHTMLN, WIZARD q CO.. Wholesale Dealers
i In Seeds, Agricultural Implements. Maehin-
cry, &c, So Main street, Louisville.
ID OGERS, A, g. & SON, House Furnishing
N Emporium, Retrigerators, Filters, &C., y East
SIDE Attn street. near Main.
DICKINSON, J. NJ. & co., Wholesale Deal
III eTs in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, No
tons, etc, No. lS5 West Main street, between 9th
and 9Th.
CLEVIN, 4. a n. ID. q CAIN. Importers
~ and Wholesale Dealersin Foreign and Domes-
tic Dry Goods, No. III lold No. 600 Main street,
nearly opposite Louisville Hotel.
FTRIPP. LOUIS. Wholesale and Retail Dealer
i in Piano FOrtos, Organs, MelOdeOns, Music
&c, Nos. 81 and "a Jefferson st.
WELSON, PETER a. CO., Wholesale Drug
w gists and Importers Of Foreign Drugs and
Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Window Glass, and Glass
ware, &c, and PrOprietOrs of Louisville Chemical
Works. and sell the great Saponifef. Corner Of
Main and 5th streets
I6TILDER, ED. d CO., Wholesale Druggists
w and Dealers in Tobaecos, Cigars, Dyestpffs,
Perfumery and Glassware; North Side of Main
street, nearly opposite Louisville Hotel.
Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-15

DIRECTORS.
FL. COTTON, Of Tennessee.
WM. G. BUNTS,
A. G.. SANFORD,
., j. HEQU EMB0URG. of New York
DELAN0 II. SMITH, Of Minnesota
A. g. WELLS, Of Michigan.
OFFICERS.
President-A. c. SANFORD.
Pres't First National Bank, Nashville
Vice President-A. G, WELLS.
Seerctary--F. III. COTTON
Treasurer-WM. c, BUNTS.
Mining Superintendent
c. L. HEQUEMB0URG.
The property Of the company consists Of lease
hold interests in the counties of OvertOn. Fen
tTess, White, Jackson and Warren, in the Stats of
Tennessee, amounting in the aggregate 70 over
eight thousand acres.
The membership of the company and the Board
of Directors comprise men Of business experience
and reputation. and Of q thorough and practical
acquaintance with the oil mines Of Pennsylvania.
The mining superintendent was one of the first
explorers Of the oil fields of that State and struck
the first flowing oil well in the country. well
known as the Hequembourg WELL and to which
the oil interests Of Pennsylvania. then in their
nascent state, were very largely indebted.
The company will lease portions Of their valu-
able lands. in small tracts, 70 private parties OF
companies. for mediate development.
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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-30

TIE BArTLE-GRoUND OF FREDER-
IcKsBURa. "A part of the battlefield
of Fredericksburg, which contains
the bodies of hundreds of Union sol
diers, was used as fair ground be-
fore the rebellion, and has recently
been turned over to the Agricultural
Society again by the Mayor and
Common Council of the city, and is
likely to be ploughed, levelled and
used as before. Efforts have been
made recently by Gen. Burnside and
others to raise money by subscrip-
ton and erect q national monument
in memory of those who fell there.
Measures will probably be taken by
the Government to prevent the desc
Grafton of the ashes of her heroes.
[ Washington Cor. Neac York Herald.
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An advertisement in New York
paper, promising, on the receipt of
twenty-five cents, to send a receipt to
keep water in wells and cisterns from
freezing, a man in aneighboring city
forwarded the currency, and received
by return mail the following answer,
which may prove of value to some of
our readers, therefore we take the
liberty of circulating it: ''Take in
your well and cistern on cold nights
and keep them by the fire"
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NATIONAL RECEIPTS AND ExPENDr-
TUREs.-The receipts and expendi-
lures Of the Government for the year
1865 were as follows: Receipts, $475. =
1882, $685. SO; expenditures, 81, O95, 49,
2S7.87. Showing deficiency for the
year of S619, AT, ,O2e. 81; which has
been met by loans.
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A correspondent asks our opinion
as to whether contract which, by
its express terms, promises payment
in gold can be enforced? We have
to reply, that nothing is less worth
business mans attention than the
opinion of a layman on point of
law. But according to the recent
decision of our Superior Court, as
delivered by Judge Mcneil, such q
contract cannot be enforced; and
that opinion will stand as law, in that
Court, until reversed.
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RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS.
The indications are that the plans of
Mr.. McCulloch will not be adopted
in toto by Congress, but some COM
promise measure viii be agreed upon,
which, while he will not greatly OBJ
ject to it, will be more satisfactory to
the commercial classes of the coun-
try We find in the last New York
Herald the following remarks on the
subject:
eve are in favor of specie pay
ment, but we desire to see it brought
about by the natural laws of trade,
and not by forced legislation. Specie
payment will come along of itself,
if Congress will only permit the
country to be restored, and let the
finances alone. 1t is less than one
year since the rebellion was put
down, yet the price of gold has run
down from $50 to 127. Surely, is not
this rapid enough? Why should we
disturb the natural laws which have
brought about this result in so short
period? If we must have legisla-
ton for resumption of specie pay
ment, then let it be based on the law
of trade, and so framed that all classes
will know what to expect. In this
way, all branches Of business can be
easily adapted to it, all danger of a
panic averted, and one class of secu-
rites will not be benefited to the
detriment of all others. Any other
system will surely bring disaster, and
strew its path with the wrecks of bu-
siness and industrial pursuits.
'"The Secretary should not be
vested with authority to fund any of
the legal-tender non-interest bearing
notes. There is no reason why this
class of Government debt, which is
SO popular with the people, the best
currency we have ever had, should be
withdrawn, and the public compelled
to pay some $27, 100000 annually, in
the shape of taxes, for the privilege
of doing without the green-backs. y.
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MonrALLY WoUNDED.-On Monday night
last, as several freedwomen were on their
way home from o frolic, they were hailed
by man, who threatened to shoot them
if they did not stop The women ran off.
but one of them named Matilda, employed
by MIR. Watson, was caught and shot
through the head. Who the man was, or
what the provocation, is not known. The
unfortunate woman was still alive yester-
day, but the physicians say sho cannot
possibly recover. az tkA ,t>A in the
-braiD> X e'A~sd2
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A man, giving his name as VIM. HamiI-
ton, and who claims to have brother in
Charleston, was found in the tailor shop of
Mr.. Watson, about IL o'clock ON Wcdnes-
day night. AS he had number of KEYS
and picks in his pocket, and was unable to
give satisfactory account of himself, he
was locked up.
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COLUMBIA.
Friday Morning, March 80, 1868.
Our Political Condition.

Friday Morning, March 80, 1855.
Our Political Condition.
The logical and political. results Of
the war, which States and individuals
are bound to observe in good faith,
are: No State has right to secede
or withdraw from the Union without
the consent of her co-States; no State
has right to attempt to set aside the
authority OF the General Government
without being subject to coercion by
the power of that Government; and
they establish further, that the citi-
zen's primary allegiance is to the
Federal Government, and not to the
State of which he is citizen.
1t is true that these conclusions
upset the doctrines and theories en-
tertained for years by the people and
statesmen Of the South. Her leading
men had taught that the States were
sovereign; that their people had a
right to withdraw from the General
Government, when they conceived
any act of that Government sub
versive of their rights and interests;
and that, holding to the doctrine of
State sovereignty and State rights,
the citizens first allegiance and duty
were to his State. All this has been
swept away by the war, and the Union
has been cemented frmera and stronger
than it ever has been in the past.
Every Southern State has accepted,
by its action, this great and radical
change in political theory. The peo-
pie of these States, through Conven-
tions whose members were chosen to
decide upon their political condition,
have acknowledged the power and
authority of the United States. AS
in the past, when the doctrines they
held were never concealed, so now,
scorning any covert action, they
freely, fully and honestly accept the
position the war has placed them in,
loyal citizens, owning sole allegiance
to the Government of the United
States.
Such is the present condition of
the Southern States of the Union.
Their people, faithful to the doctrines
taught and .inculcated by their states
men, fought four long and weary
years in defence of these doctrines,
and were conquered. The fact is
established that sethe Union viii and
must be preserved" and there are no
peAple in any section of the country
Mhp more cheerfully render their ale
Aei ae to t. JnioA and its Govern
M pn the people OF she Southern
State~ The war has further proven
that the States which took up arms
against the Government were never
<out of the Union; the President
b holds to the same doctrine, and every
Union man in the country adopts it;
yet, Notwithstanding all this, the
radical majority in Congress refuses
to recognize these established facts,
and says virtually to the people of
the South, you are out of the Union,
and we intend to keep you ont as
long as we please.
Let our people wait patiently for
the end of all this radical folly and
fanaticism. Even now the clouds in
the political horizon are beginning to
disperse, and the second veto of the
President of another of the mis-
chievous measures of the disorgan-
izers is still further earnest of his
determination that the Union shall
be restored and the people of all sec.
tions protected in their constitutions,
rights.
Outrages.
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Discouraxfng from Florida.

We are permitted to make the fol-
lowing extract from letter received
by gentleman in this District, who
has large landed-interest in Florida.
It presents gloomy aspect of affairs
in that State:
II am glad to see that you are in
such fine spirits, and pray God that
your predictions may all be verified.
L see, however, no reason for any
such calculations as yon make. Surely
the same state of things do not exist
In South Carolina that exist here.
My large plantation, that used to oc-
cupy about fifty hands, has ten negro
croppers on it this year. General
ovens has none on it; and I don't
know of single plantation that has
anything like the hands on them
that they had formerly, except yours
and John Hopkins. L think Martin
told me he had fifteen or sixteen
hands; only two or three of them
your former negroes. Colonel Tongue
could not get any hands, and I was
present, the other day, when his fine
plantation was sold at S. per acre:
stock and everything sold. There
are hundreds of plantations in Flo
rida, this year, that are lying idle for
the want of hands to cultivate them.
The free negro will never do regular
plantation work if he can possibly
avoid it, and, without it, nothing in
the way of cropping can be done to
any extent. And the foreigner is no
more to be relied on than the free
negro. Edward Lewis, Scott and
Graddick, went to New York. and
brought on Irish, Germans, &C., and
were for a time very much pleased
with them; but they have all left;
could not stand regular plantation
work In the South. Like the negro.
they must be in towns OF villages.
where they can job it. We, in Flo
rida, don't know what hav,, become
of the negroes. Feaster has eight
hands, Croxton none, Adamson 4,
and so in regard to hundreds of
others. The negro women are lying
about the cabins idle. AS for myself,
[ see nothing but ruin staring us ali
in the face. Certainly, nothing be-
yond bare support can be made,
and that must be done by the labor of
our own hands; for the free negro
won't work, to do any good at it,
They never have done it, and I have
no idea they ever will
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Outra&es.

We regret to learn from the Abbe-
vile Banner that on last Friday one
of the garrison at that place was shot
and severely wounded, at Hodges
Depot, in that District, by some un-
known person. The people all de-
nounce the outrage, and a public
meeting has been called for next sale
day to express the sentiment of the
people against these lawless deeds.
This violence and crime should be
promptly put down everywhere. 1t
is working evil to the State, and play
ing into the hands Of the radicals.
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CATCHING A TARTAR. AR.-Eeglect your teeth
and you will soon catch d tartar there.
Manipulate them daily with that rare vege-
table compound: Sozodont, and neither
tartar nor canker, or any dental disease,
can ever infect or injure either them or
the red cushions in which they are in
serted. +
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PAPER 1t is reported that Messrs.
Harper & Brothers have ordered a
whole shipload of white paper from
Belgium. Ticknor & Fields, Boston,
have ordered 5000 reams in London.
1t has been estimated that at present
prices good book and news paper can
be delivered in New York, all duties
and expenses included, at three
quarters the price of American paper
of the same grade. Another esti-
mate makes the difference in favor Of
foreign paper ten per cent. instead
of twenty-five per cent. It is GER
tainly demonstrated that paper cap
be imported at cheaper rates than oV
paper-makers are demanding. 4
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4 California paper says that theN
culture Of raisins promises to becpme1
an important feature in the indystfi
future of California. The Saa;a sSs
Union, speaking of sample
that Office, says they aS
charine matter, iuicyrS = r.
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Sensible Speech from Beecher.

Sensible Speech from Bcccher.
Henry Ward Beecher lectured ut
Philadelphia, on Thursday evening,
and contended that, in regard to the
treatment of the Southern States, it
was better to assume fundamental
principles, and get by moral influence
what Is desired, instead of attempting
political coercion. In the course of
his speech he said:
HDilatory legislation was not wise
and yet he was free TO say we never
sent so many good men to Congress-
as constituted the present Congress-
Loud and protracted applause. I But
there never was q time when SO many
good and wise men made so poor a
bungle. You should not have apL
plauded until I finished. Applause. I
The kind and patient Mr.. Lincoln
was cudgeled and whacked by Con-
gress, and he bore it with a patient
spirit; reminding him of some horses
who merely act when cudgeled, as
though it was to brush flies off.
When they commenced whacking Mr..
Johnson, they found pair of heels
through the dashboard, and they left
the wagon and took to trees and
bushes, crying: "Beast, bruter' but
since then had cudgeled more care
fully
He took both sides, and was for Mr..
johnson and Congress also, deeming
the question to be how to do, and
not what to do. Reconstruction was
going on in the South, where it must,
after all, be made; yet it was wise to
have proper laws to fall back upon.
Let Georgia and Alabama pass laws
giving rights and privileges to colored
men, and let South Carolina enact the
slave code, and the consequence would
be that all would leave the latter State
to go to the former. The plantations
must be worked by the colored men,
and the people in South Carolina
would quickly demand the repeal of
the laws that drove them from their
midst.
The North had but little to arro
gate to herself as to the humanity to-
wards the colored race, and were more
prejudiced against them than the
Southern people. He would not be-
ieve skulkers of the South, but if
nan who had fought in the rebellion
would tell him he had accepted the
issue, he would take his word for it.
He respected the South more now
than he formerly did, for there was
SO much brag and gasconade, he
thought there could not be much
fight about them. No Northern man
need be ashamed of their fighting
qualities. The speaker said the North
seemed to stand back with frightened
countenances at the idea of the South
getting the sway of Government
again. If the North, with it's popu-
lation comprising two-thirds of the
whole country, its industry and in
genu;ty, let the shivering remnant
take possession OF the Government,
they deserve to lose it. He wanted
to extend his hand to all as great ma
honal freedmen, and extend the flag
in whose folds shine stars-every one
star of Bethlehem-an over the
country, because liberty and religion
would be denoted wherever it should
be unfolded.
RESUMPTION OF SpEc1E PAvarr>,rc
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Letter from, Columbia.

AAC A>ASsS CASy ONCA WILL
Letter from Columbia.
A Virginia gentleman travelling in
this State, writing from Columbia to
the Richmond Ecaminea', says:
''I will endeavor to lay before the
many readers of the Eram.u ues., very
briefly, the picture which 5his dear
old State presents on passing through
it.
''South Carolina! My dear sir, do
you remember how once her cities
sparkled as the diamond and her fields
blossomed as the rose?' All is desc
late and barren now. The rice fields,
neglected, are growing up in weeds
and briars; the once beautiful cotton
fields and plantations turned out to
become pastures for the wild deer of
the wilderness. The decaying walls
of ruined Charleston, once so hospi-
table and gay, and at last so ck;val-
rous, now becoming the habitation of
the owl and bat, and the gallant old
Sumter, the pride of the South, now
frowning upon its own dear alma
Mater.
"And here, where once stood the
beautiful city of Columbia, is a bar
rem plain, studded here and there
with burnt chimneys, and an occa-
sional, but often rude, tenement,
wherein are crowded the home and
the homeless. 4 few enterprising
men have congregated about Plain
and Assembly streets, and are show
ing some signs of life; but the effort
is feeble one, and everything adds
20 the conviction that this glorious
State is rapidly falling back to the
primitive days of Yeaman and Stayle,
from which it will take many a
Greene, Marion and Calhoun to ex-
tricate her.
''Wasted and ruined by ravaging
war, South Carolina pines and prays
for peace. With the least encourage
ment from the General Government,
such men as Hampton and Orr might
soon revive the dropping spirits of
this once proud and chivalrous peo-
pie. Indeed, with fair dealings from
that quarter, the entire South would
rise up again to the full strength of
her manhood and give her aid in MAX
ing this mighty empire. Without
such aid, God alone is to help u.s.
MossrRoUs-oft is monstrous that
1000, 900 of people, who have been
free and Independent, should be de-
prived of the right to vote for no
better reason than the color of their
skin" So said Mr.. Hart, of this
State, in the debate in the House, last
Saturday, on the reconstruction ques-
ton, and we concur entirely in the
sentiment, though we differ from Mr..
II. in the practical application of it.
1t is totally inapplicable to the ne
groes of the South-who, by the way,
do not number 1000, 600, nor any
thing like it-for they have never
heretofore been 4" free and independ-
ent, =" and, as they have never hereto
fore had the right to vote, it is not
easy to comprehend how they can be
"deprived " of such right. But there
are men at the South, more than f.
900, 600 of whites, "who have been
free and Independent, and who are
practically disfranchised by the action
of Mr.. Hart and his coadjutors, for
no better reason that we can see than
the color of their skin. And it is un-
questionably monstrous" that this
should be so. Perhaps, after all, this
is what MIR. Hart meant.
Ne,p York News.
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CAsH.-Or terms for subscription, Az
vertising and job work are ecash. Wea:npr
all parties will bear this Ill Mid
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SLAVE TRADE.-The New
YorEses has letter from Havana
giving an account of the capture of
two slavers off the coast of Cuba,
which had been trying to land their
cargo in an obscure place. in which
attempt one got aground, and eighty
of the negroes on board perished of
hunger and thirst. The remainder,
amounting to PTS, were brought to
Havana by the Spanish ship Neptune.
The Government have the negroes in
safe-keeping until it determines how
to dispose of them.
-N><-s
Several towns in Maine have lately
experieJ&ed an earthouake.
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Mortgages and conveyances of Real is
tate Cor sale at this Office.

We arc authorized to statethat Mr.. JON,
A. Elkins is rot n candidate for Alderman
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What was the first woman created
for? Adams express company.
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MIR. }. ID. Bateman, of ice house notorie-
ty, has pitched his tent near the Green
vile and South Carolina Railroad depots,
and is supplying the residents of that sec
tion of the city with groceries, provisions,
hay, corn, &c. MIR. B., knowing the wants
OF the community in general, is making
arrangements to rebuild and re-occupy his
old quarters, and will supply our citizens
with ice during the coming summer. This
will be pleasing intelligence; for some
folks we wot OF have been in great state
OF tribulation with reference to the princi-
pal ingredient for mint julep during the
heated term
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Attention is call
ed to the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
time:
Fisher Il Heinitsh-Iew Goods.
6 New Articles.
. Soaps.
Levin Peixotto-Variety Sale.
Building to Lease.
IS Real Estate.
6 Dwelling for Rent
Leapharts>& Nunamaker-Ex'rs Notice
Prof Hall-Rope- Walking.
Mikcll, Boyle & Co.'S. c. r. r. Stock.
Edward Hope-Decination
Abcles, Myers * Co.-Spring Goods.
j. b. Bateman-Corn and Hay
G. F. Jackson--Spring Stock
Mrs NJ. E. Brady-Spring Goods.
VIM. Shiver-Fine Mare for Sale.
Thomas 3. Jeter-S. & U. Railroad.
j. w. Parker-Attendants Wanted.
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DR.. II. ". Gibbes, sr.> arrived >
city yesterday afternoon frdn q
Philadelphia. We are indebN
late papers.
THE WEEKLY GnEA : 80
publication of this pei be poso.l s. J.
few weeks. Fe's1 elesiro,,s of 49,
scribng, will please inward the money at
once. Terms 81 year