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THE DISTURBING PARTY $


The New York Times in an editorial
on the Democratic party and the South, "
says
To talk of peace or harmony as an end
to be promoted by the success of Demo
cratic candidates, anywhere, is simply alb
surd. There can be no real peace save
that which recognizes as enduring the re-
alities achieved by the war; no lasting
harmony save that which springs from the
reorganization of the South IN conformity
with the national sense of loyalty and
right. To these conditions the principles
and policy of the Democratic party are es-
sentially antagonistic. Hence it is the
disturbing party.
II is rare that a journal of respecta-
bility achieves degree of effrontery
equal to the above To call that party
the disturbing one, that is bending
every effort to check the yagaries cons
prised under the phrase national sense
of loyalty and right" and moor the gov
eminent to the consti tuition, is itself the
height Of absurdity. five are to have no
lasting harmony, until Congress rep
resenting about one-third of the people
of the nation can eoerce the remaining
twothirds to concede their views as to
loyalty and right, we are doomed to
eternal discord. What it calls the reali-
ties achieved by the wal" are not en-
during" In the very nature of men and
things they cannot be. To attempt to
make them so, is to hold the government
in imminent and constant peril of revO-
luton. 1t was to preserve us from such
contingencies that we have written con
stitution, wherein is embodied the ina
tional sense of right" 1t is the mission
and object of the Democratic party to
conform the government to that 1t looks
to nothing else 1t is the Radical party
that disturbs the quiet Of the public mind,
and destroys peace and prosperity. 1t
knows no law but its own vehement pass
sion for power; it Acknowledges no re-
straint but its own will 1t declares that
there is nothing stable in government
Innovation and change are the corner
stones Of its creed.
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WAS 1T BRIRERYP

The following is a copy of petition
signed by about twenty-five negroes il
Nashville, which was presented to the
Board of Aldermen at their meeting
Tuesday night:
NASHVILLE, October 18th, 1S67-T
the Hon. Board Of Aldermen and Com
mon Council We, the colored citizens Of
Nashville, having been informed that no
other provisions having been made in the
Fire Department for colored men than the
Hook and Ladder Company, respectfully
request that you divide the Fire Depart.
ment equally with us in common with our
white friends. We think it due us as s
right, and in accordance with promises
to make ample provisions in all copora
tion departments, including the city po-
lice, for the colored men of Nashville, ir
common with others.
Here is the evidence that the negrOe:
were induced to vote for the Radica
candidates under a promise that they
should be put upon the police and in the
Fire Department Section 1894 of the
code provides as follows
at is a misdemeanor for any person to
offer or give bride to any elector for the
purpose of influencing his vote at any
election authorized by law; or for any
elector, entitled to vote at such election
to receive sr1ch bribep
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SECRETARY McCULLOCH-HIS RE.
MOVAL DEMANDED.


East as well as West, in fact everywhere
outside of bondholding circles, the clamor
is loud and general for the removal of Nc
Culloch from the Treasury Department. A
correspondent of the Albany On. " Argus
as an officer. He says:
Mr.. McCulloch started with some re-
putation as a country banker. He soon
showed his want of experience and capaci>
ty in public affairs and ability as a inan-
cier. Most of his advisers are either en-
tirely incompetent, or advise for selfish
ends. No human mind can grapple with,
understand, and control the collections OF
our revenues from the customs and inter-
nal revenue, nor supervise and control their
disbursement. His is not the controlling
mind in either branch. He has lacked
courage to press upon Congress these modi-
fcations and reorganizations essential to
success. His promised speedy return to
specie payments he is not likely to live to
see realized. His ordering or allowing vast
sums to be deposited outside the Treasury
and in banks, many of them in
solvent, and his selling gold, and
often at private sale, are things which
no sound financial man can approve.
He has in Office, both in the customs and
in the collection of internal revenue, the
worst set of men ever in Office in this coun-
try, without removing those publicly
known to be thieves and plunderers. He
is afraid to strike Radical, even when he
is caught stealing or committing gross
frauds. Honest manufacturers and dealers
cannot compete with the rogues, who are
neither caught nor punished. He once
consented TO remove a very few, but soon
cancelled his new appointments, and re-
stored those who had been removed, with
out why or wherefore. He neither sup
ports the President, beyond reconstruction
measures. and these only in mere talk, nor
sustains Democratic principles, but is play
ing into Radical hands-probably Mr.
Chase's-with all the vast power under his
control"
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New York Items.

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-This morning
four laborers engaged in demoIishing an
old house on Lispeward street, were buried
under portion of the falling building
One was killed and three severly injured
The Executive Committee of the Ma.
tional Union Republican Convention met
to-day at the Fifth Revenue Hotel. The
following were present Gov. Ward, Of
New Jersey, chairman Hon. Samuel r
Purneyance, Pennsylvania Jno. B. Clark,
New Hampshire; Hon. II. H. Stock
weather and Hon. w. H. Hoffman, Mary
land After transactiug some private busi-
ness, full meeting of the National Union
Republican Committee was called to meet
in Washington on the 1lth of December, to
decide upon the time and place for hold
ing National Union Republican COnyen~
tiOn
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HON. GEO H. PENDLETON.

The Cincinnati Enquirer of the 22d
contains an article. the substance OF
which has already been furnished by tel
egraph, nominating, in behalf the De
mocracy of the Northwest, Geo. II. Pen.
dleton, of Ohio, for the Presidency. The
Enquirer does not extol Mr. Pendleton
beyond his Just merits He is one Of the
first men in the nation, and as a states
man is a worthy representative CT Demo.
cratic principles 1t is not untimely OF
unfit that the leading Democratic journal
in Ohio should announce to the nation
the preference of the party in that State
Ohio Democrats have manfully met the
two great issues, and have achieved a
triumph. If the Democratic National
Convention next year should see cit to
present Mr. Pendleton's name, it will
command the general support
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CONGRESS is sending committees to va
rious States to see whether they hay e
Republican governments. That is a
matter with which Congress rightfully
has nothing to do The States should
call convention and see whether the
Federal government, as perverted by
this rump Congress, is Republican in
form That's the way in which it was
originally made, and is the only way in
which any just and wholesome organic
changes can be effected If any one
had argued ten years ago, that the 4th
section of the 4th article of the constitu-
ton made packed Congressional Com
mittee of partizans the censor of State
constitutions, he would have been rated
as a simpleton and the only difference
between such an one and those who as
sumo to do thing now, is, that the latter
are knaves as we'll as fools
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Meeting of Cotton and wooden Factors

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23.-At meeting
of The cotton and wooden manufacturers
held to. night, in reference to petitioning
Congress for reduction on the per cent
tax, the following resolution was passed !:
Resolved, That the Manufacturer
Union of Philadelphia ask their members
of Congress to use all honorable means TO
remove all taxation from the labor and
industry of the country, such industry re-
curing to be protected from the cheaper
labor and capital of Europe.
The resolution was referred TO the Ex-
ecutive Committee, with instructions 10
open correspondence with manufacturers
throughout the country in regard TO es-
tablishing fixed tax on cotton, the same
as the trade bill in Liverpool
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TIE military carry things with high
hand in the Southern States. On the Sd
inst. Maj. Worth, commanding the post
at Greensboro, North Carolina, sent to a
citizen of Guilford county, ordering him
" to desist running opposition coaches or
wagons to the regular United States mail
contractor, between High Point and
Salem, North Carolina, until further
orders" There is no iaw to prevent
citizens from running passenger coaches
or hacks in opposition to a mail contrac-
tor, and there is not a government in
Europe that would thus interfere with
the private interests of its citizens.
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LATEST KILOGRAMS.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
virginia Election.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Oct. 2S.-Lewis,
Conservative, was elected over Baldwin,
Radical in Prince William county by 161
majority. Mansee, Conservative, was
elected to the convention over John Min or
Bolts, Radical, in Culpepper county, by
62 majority. Stafford county gives 34O
majority against the convention. Fred
ericks5urg county gives l26 majority
against the convention. Warreton county
gives GO majority, although Farquaher
county is supposed good for Conservative.
Fairfax county gives Radical majority
of100. Loudon county gives Conservs'
tive majority of y.
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SOUND VIEWS FROM a RADICAL
- SfUNCE


The New York FUening Posi- of the
10Th takes occasion to define its position
Its leading editors-Wm. Cullen Bryant
and Parke GoOdwin-have been absent in
Europe for several months The recrea-
ton they have enjoyed has had a salutary
effect, as the following sound utterance
will testify. Why a Journal 50 capable
of seizing upon the horns Of the altar of
political truth cannot cut itself entirely
loose from the Republican party we can
not see. When au influential press like
the Post feels it necessary to deliver
itself so eandidlv in opposition to the
leading object of its party, it affords
hopeful indication that the people are
getting over the hallucination that has
afflicted them 1t says:
From these principles it follows inexora-
bly, that We are opposed to the concentration
of power in the hands of any government,
but particularly in that of the central gov
eminent. The independence and
rights of the State are as absolutely essential
to its larmonious working as thesupremacy,
in certain respects, of the Federal power
Without the independence of the States,
| indeed, there would be no security for
individual rights. Popular liberty is only
upheld and made practicable by local self
government Forty millions of people,
which there soon will be within our borders,
cannot be controlled from single center
---or will be controlled as France is con-
trolled, by successive revolutionary juntas,
ending in the strong man with the sword
Call such government by what name you
will-empire, monarchy, republic or conn.,
monwealth-it is ever at heart the same
despotism. 1t cannot be otherwise. A
power so inordinate az that which would be
required to govern the United States from
Maine to Texas, from Sitka to Florida,
with their manifold, intricate, diverse, and
cumbersome interests, could only be welded
on the military principle. All civic life
would perish in it, either run into anarchy
or be crushed by the iron hand of force.
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THE Washington Chronicle saws

In England the Crown has prerogatig,
powers as well as eIecutiUe There the kine
has all porpers not denied by Magma Charta
or by act of Parliament; here the President
has no power except such as is conferred By
poeitiUe laW. He is nowhere clothed with
the power to pass on the constitutionality
of acts of Congress, and to permit him to dc
so is to make him supreme dictator.
When Brownlow usurped powers not
" conferred by positive law " in the late
elections held in this State, the Chronicle
applauded the act 1t depends, there
fore, according to Radical logic, who
usurps powers that are alone vested in
the Judiciary, whether the act be right OF
wrong
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PENNSYLVANIA.
Majority for Gear

The Democrats made heavier gains In
Indiana at the recent election than has
been supposed, from the quiet manner in
which the election has passed OF The
vincennes Sun has returns from thirty
five counties, which show that the Demo
Gratis have gained l,6lo on the vote of
1866, when the Republican ticket was
elected by 1920 majority. The same
average gains in the counties not re-
ported would give the Democrats the
State by about $4,000
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The MARYLAND Case.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-The Sub-Judi.
ciary Committee held a long session to-
day. They examined quite number o
witnesses, and subphpnas for the atten.
dance of others.
The special Ordnance Committee of the
Senate aud House were in session to-day
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command the general support

TuE Athens (Ga.) WatclmaH, in pub
fishing, by request, a ''Union Republican
ticket for the twenty-seventh district, COM
posed of Clark, Walton and Newton conn
ties, says there are not twenty-seven white
men in the district who will own mp to be-
longing to that party.
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Orders from General Canb,

CHARLESTON, Oct 23.-General Candy
has issued an order providing for session
of Registration Boards for final revision
of registration lists, to convene November
9Th and continue five days Also an order
authorizing post commanders to release, on
bond, all prisoners not subject to articles of
war, held in arrest by military anthorsties
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HAD there been Congressional cleo
TONS this month the Democrats would
have gained nine Congressman in Ohio
and Eve in Pennsylvania, according to
the reported marjOrities in the dis
tricts.
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RICH & KRIEG,
IN BANKRUPTCY.

MIDDLE Drs'r or TESx., Al. MURrEEEsgaEo.
9Th OF October 1897.
THE undersigned hereby gives notice o.
his appointment as assigncs Of CfoeA
& Co., aud N. Carter. Of Murirstrs .1 ~
in he county Of Rutherford and stare o. -
nessee, within said district, who htI q n-el ~
judged bankrGpts. upon Their Q sh po''' 'S''' ~
2he District Court Of said distTit,t. ~
,.,s o.,1i,r Assignee.
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Az INCOMPETENT WTTNEss--Jay Cooke
on the beauties ard benefits Of Chase 5
national bank system He has lately
given four columns of testimony ON the
subject and the people do not believe a
word that he has said.
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NOTICE.

rUHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders Of the Church and Spruce Street
Railroad Company viii be held AZ the Office Of
the Company, on the corner of Church and
spruce streets. on FRIDAY, the first day Of
November, 1867.
cctl6 lot ID. ChUcS, sec'y.
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NOTICE.
Extracting Teeth Without Pain
NITROUS OXIDE GAS,

E'0R THE EXTRACTION OF TEETH
pleasant eject as many will cheerfuily testify.
DIR. V. DIXON, Dentist.
No. q North Cherry St., Maxwell House.
oct9 In
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COPIED verbatim

WASHINGTON, D. c., July "a, 1867
DEAR BARTON: l duly received yours of
the 18th inst, asking, "Was the dead body
the government paid one hundred thous-
and dollars for really the body of J. Wilkes
Booth 2"
don't know what sum the government
paid for the body you allude to. | can,
however, positively state that the body
examined at the navy yard, in this city, at
the request and summons of the officers of
the government, Wds the body Of j. Wiltes
Booth, and that / identified it as his, not
only by the features, but also by scar on
his neck, the result of a surgical operation
performed by me on Booth some year or
two before the assassination of the Presi-
dent
Your cousins desire to be remembered to
you. Truly yours
JOHN FREDERICK MAY, NJ. D.
Now that you have read them, my reader,
what do you think about the matter? /
know some will say this is another hum
bug. And l will say right here, believe
whatever you please. 1t makes very little
difference with me whether these letters
change your mind or not. know DR..
Mays answer to my letter has changed my
views in regard to this matter considerably,
and if you knew him as well az do, per-
haps it would change yours.
BARTON K. BRIscoE.
HIGH HILL, Mo, Oct. II, 1867.
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In RANKRUPTCY.

MrppLE DISTRICT % TESSEasgE, }
AT MISUNDERSTOOD Oct. 3. l567.)
,,,uE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY GIVES
notice that ae has been appointed ssignso
=; he foIlowing eases, t0-wit: ". NJ. Mnukin5
Il y Nankins, j. j. JamisOn, and Isaac N.
Coleman. all Of the county Of Rutherford aud
Stafs on Tennessee. within said District, who
have been adjadged bankrupts On their own
pstitions By the District Court Of eaid Distfict.
EDW. i. JORDAN. Assignee.
oct4 3w (B.l
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Sailing Of Steamahins.

SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 23.-The steamship
Georgiana sailed yesterday for New York,
and thesteamship Saxonia from New York,
arrived this afternoon.
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proof that General Scho6eld is carrying
out the Congressional plan in its true
snirit
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Poor CARLorrA The latest freak of
this lady, was to wander of to a farm,
where she offered to hire herself for
dairy maid
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AFIoRENcE letter to the Paris OPinicne
Na.i0rsss says:

Na;io-ss says:
As soon as the United States Minister
here heard of Garribaldis arrest he waited
on the President Of the Council to protest
against this violation of the privileges OF
an American citizen, because for many
wears past the General has been naturalized
in the great republic. NJ. Ratazzi insist
ed that the protest should be given to him
10 writing, but the Washington representa-
tive did not think it FIT TO comply.
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FOR SALE OR RENT.
THIRD NATIONAL BANK
NASHVILLE. TENNESsEE-,

STOCKHOLDERS.
Wv. Berry NJ. Burns,
Jobn Kirkman, Jas. r. kirkmRn.
ID, Weaver, Edgar Jones,
DanT +. Carter, "A. J. Duncan,
Alexander Fail, Chas. Z. HIilman,
Edmund Cooper.
Deals in Exchange, Gold and Silver, and
Government Securities.
Drafts drawn in sums - suit on London, New
York, New Orleans, Cincinnati. st. Louis. Louis
Vile, Memphis. etc
20 Bonds and $50 Treasury Notes always
on hand for sale.
Highest premium paid for Compound Interest
Notes.
VI. W. BERRY. President.
EDGAR JONES, Cashier
JOHN KIRKMAN, Vice President
mari IL
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ABOUT THE BODY OF BOOTH
SOMETHING RELIABLE.

[Dr. Jno. Fred. May, the certifying SUR
geon whose name is used in this article,
was connected with the Shelby Medical
College in this city for several years, and
is personally known to us. His sworn
testimony as to the identity of Booths
body, as given few months since, land
here repeatedly removed our doubts as
to the death Of that individual. The proof
of Booths death, however does not ex-
plain why the War Department and the
Bureau of Military Justice used so much
secrecy and mystifcation. j. Wilkes
Booth is, in our opinion, undoubtedly
dead, but there is a criminality on the
part of Stanton, Holt and Co. about the
business that has vet to be investigated and
passed upon by the public Judgment
EDS. UNION AND DISPATCH.
From the st. Louis Republican.
Up TO a very recent date was among a
great many of Uncle Sans subjects adher-
| ing to the idea that J. Wilkes Booth is still
living. | was not one of those, either, who
entertained this idea merely upon the
\ grounds that there was some probability of
| its being true. | entertained ii after hear
| ing statements made by person who had
some opportunity of knowing more about
| the affair than any other person / had ever
met with and this individual ian ahache
| at Ford's Theater on the night of the assas-
sination) gave me such string of circum-
| stantial evidence bearing upon the case
that | could not help thinking that the
body which was brought to the navy yard.
near Washington City, must have been the
body of some one else, and not the remains
of j. Wilkes Booth. Here the matter
rested until last July, when came across
a paragraph in a newspaper, which stated
that DIR. May identified Booths body by a
scar upon his neck. DIR. May being rela-
tive of mine, and one upon whom could
rely, sat down and wrote him the following
letter, and give you the answer to it:
HIGH HILL, Mo-, July IL, 1867-CoU-
SIN FREDERICK: | have seen a statement
from the notorious detective, General
Baker, going the rounds of the press, and
in it You are mentioned az the physician
who identified the body of J. Wilkes
Booth, from scar upon his neck, caused
by a surgical operation you performed up
on him BOOTH before the late war.
Now, that there has been another plausi-
ible story published to the effect that
Booth is still living, l want to ask you
this question Was the dead body the
government paid one hundred thousand
dollars for really the body of j. Wilkes
Booth?"
/ don't know of anything, now that the
prejudices of those days have somewhat
subsidized, that would keep you from
answering this question.
There are some things in connection
with the late war the truth of which never
expect to get but would like to have
this matter forever settled in my mind by
your answer. Your cousin,
BARTON X. BRIsCoE.
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octy TSP. No 2 NORTH NnerTJ 81.
Extensive Auction Sale.

IN CATALOGUE FORM. OF FOREIGN
1 and Domestic, Staple and Fancy Dryroods,
Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats. Furnishing Goods
Cutlery, Notions, etc, etc. etc. by ALBERT &
ELIAS No. % Public Square Nashville, Tenn,
on Tuesday and Wednesday,, October
~ and 23, commencing each day ut 9 O'Clock
A. NJ, when will be sold without reserve. for
Fancy DryEOOds. CassimeTes. Satinets jeans
BrOadelOths. Doeskins Beavers. ChinchIllas. etc.
Also. large line Of White Goods. consisting of
German and Irish Linens Jaconcts, Nainsooks
Lawns. Swisses, Tape Cheeks Cambrics. Dam
asks, Diaper, etc. Also. an assortment Of Shaker
and Opera flannels. Blankets, Coverlid5, Quilts.
Wooden Hosiery and Underwear Also, valua-
etc. etc. Also, stock Of Boots Shoes snd Hats.
Also, splendid assortment Of CLOTH IEG
N. B. Your particular attention is called e.
this sale, as the goods arc or1eredtto be cl1yed
out without reseFge oct1q 81