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OFFICE SEEKERS AND EMPTY
PLACES

Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
WASHINGTON, March 6, lS67.-A per-
feet avalanche Of ofice-seekers have come
upon the capitol seeking the places Of the
nominees rejected bv the Senate. These
patriots have to-day beseiged the Presidents
Postmaster General and Secretary of the
Treasurg. BY reason of the fact that under
the Tenure Office act, those who have been
rejected cannot be again nominated for the
same Office, and thus continued in their
places for such time at least as would give
the Administration an opportunity to can
vass the merits Of other applicants. Of
fees are ieft without incumbents, and thus
many very important offices are now alb
somtely suspended; and in other cases
where deputies are in Office performing the
duties of their late principals, several mill
lions Of dollars are impeTlled for the lack
Of bonds 10 secure the government against
losses OF malfeasance.
This state OF affairs has caused a great
deal Of concern on the part of the Admin
istration, and the heads Of departments are
sorely perplexed on account of difficulties
resilting from the new order of things.
The Philadelphia postothce is without a
postmaster and the third assistant post
master has been sent 10 that city TO take
charge of the ofhe as special agent. The
Cincinnati pOsiof6ce has no legally autho-
rized person in charge. A large number
Of important revenue Offices are being ear
ried on without any responsible persons iii
chare. These vacancies are sought princi-
pally hy Radical applicants, and many of
them are urged by their Congressman, on
the ground thatthe Senate viii not confirm
any but Radicals. -
Tomeei the exigency, the Administration
has to-day been compelled TO make some
nominations from such material as was
presented.
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One of the first objects hoped to be ac-
eomplished by the iniquitous military re-
construction bill, is a division Of the people
Of the South into parties, in relation to it.
The New York Erening Post thus states the
case:
"The movements for reconstuction un-
der the act of Congress will produce one
very much needed result-they will divide
the Southern people into parties once more
There must henceforth be two political par
ties there, as there are and always have
been in the Northern States; and by means
OF the negro vote these two parties will be
in every State 20 nearly balanced in strength
that each will have TO respect the others
rights; and each will be able to insist upon
It's own rights This once DONE the South
en states must ineyitably and quickly adj
vance in liberal sentiments and in love of
aountry-for il needs only free discussion,
thorough discussion, TO enable the people
everywhere TO see the right, TO recognize
their best interests, and 10 lead them to cast
away the false leaders whose stupid blum
ders aud criminal ambition brought such
ruin upon the Southern States"
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GOOD ADVICE.

The New York Herald, referring TO a
recent public meeting Of the negroes in
Richmond, Va, says. tiE1 .n +
For the first time in the history of Vir-
ginis, a public meeting composed ex-
clusively of oolored people, having for its
object matters of a purely political char
acter. has been held at thecapital of the
Old Dominion. The proceedings are rep
resented "a having been conducted in a
quiet, orderly and dignifed manner, and
altogether relieved from those wild and
senseless harangues with which white
Northern fanatics are in the habit of dis
turbing similar meetings in other parts OF
the country. 1t is by conducting them
selves in this intelligent and orderly
manner, and by utterly repudiating the
white scamps who profess 90 be their
sympathizers and allies, that the colored
people of the South will in due time attain
a political status and power which must
command the attention Of the communities
In which they live. The colored people OF
Richmond have started off very well for a
FIRST attempt Let them continue moderate
and orderly, banish from their councils all
white fanatics and reyolutionists, who only
live on agitation, and they may in due
time not only be worthy OF, but influential
enough TO command respect"
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VOl4. -XXXiII. ~
Nuioa aud 9ispatth.
Tuesday. MARCH le. lssz.
Largest Circulation in City and State
A GLOOMY PROaNOsTIe.

la speech in the House on Ashley
impeachment resolutions, on the 9Th inst,
Hon. james Brooks, Of New York, refer
ring to our present condition is reported as
follows
We would say to the gentlemsn from
Ohio Mr. Spaldingl, who stood here as a
Girondist against the Jacobins, that the
history of the Girondists was in this place
TO be written and although such men as
he attempted 10 arrest the revolution, he
Mr.. Brooks did not think this revolution
was here to stop. He did not believe it
was half written or half acted out, unless
all history was at fault
We are now repeating the Roman history
Of Augustus and Julius Cesar, and the gov
ernment is passing from a republic 10 a
despOtism. ReVolutiORs never stop. The
GirOndists-the COnserVatiYes-are to be
overwhelmed by the Jacobins, and when
We shall have los! all our Liberties, some
future Napoleon, yet unknown, will rise up
from the chaos and rescue the country from
anarchy through a military despOtism.
There the resistance Of the gentleman from
Ohio Mr.. Spauldingl and the partial re-
sistance Of the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania Mr. Miller was allin vain. More
than one-half Of the territory of the old
republic was already under a military des-
pOtism. There was no more protection in
the Southern States for life liberty or
property, than under the dominions of the
Sultan or the Gar. The military govern
ment bill, now over ten millions Of people,
white and black, was to be extended over
the North and West before the revolution
was finished. While he greeted the voice
Of the gentleman from Ohio tMr. Spald-
ing !, and welcomed the calmly resisting
tones Of the gentleman from Pennsylvania
[Mr. Miller1, he knew, if history was cor
rect, there was 10 escape for any Of n"
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THE TTFTERs .. JUNIUs

Mr.. Thurlow Weed contributes the fol-
lowing to the New York Times:
In 1862 the late Mr.. Joseph Parkes, a
gentleman of large and vaTious information,
informed me that he had been for several
years devotng his intervals of exemption
from official duties as Tax Commissioner
TO Life of Sir Philip Francis, aud that his
researches would result in disproying the
confident assertion of "Junius," in one of
his private lettersto Woodfall, "that he was
the sole depository of his own secret" and
that il would ode Nth him"
The subject was one which had interested
me much at a period when Junius" was
read more generally and with greater
interest than exists now. The question as to
who "Junius" was engaged the attention
of authors and editors. ] had, forty years
ago, entered with much zeal into that
controversy. Finding me thus sympathetic
and familiar with the subject, Mr.. Parkes
invited me TO his apartments at Staple Inn,
Holburn, and submitted his manuscripts
TO my perusal. There | passed many
charmed hours. The materials for his work
we're not only ample, but conclusive. They
| established beyond doubt, or a cavil, or a
peradventure, that Sir Philip Francis was
the author of the Letters Of Janius.
Twice during these readings, in company
with Mr.. Parkes, / visited the then
venerable aud since departed John Taylor,
author of "Junius Identified, first publish
ed nearly fifty years ago. Mr.. Taylor had
intended to avail himself of subsequent and
cumulative evidence, but on account Of his
advanced age had cheerfnlly committed the
whole question TO Mr.. Parkes. These break
fast conversations with Mr.. Taylor were
exceedingly interesting. His bachelor life,
like that of Charles Lamb, was solaced by
an aged maiden sister. He had formerly
known most Of the literary celebrities Of the
last years of the past aud the first years of
the present century, and gave US pleasant
recollections of their personal characters
and habits
Only few weeks before the sudden death
of Mr., Parkes he informed me that he
expected to get his life Of Sir Philip Francis
to press the then ensuing autumn, and, in
pursuance of a previous understanding, l
was to arrange for its republication here.
Since his death have heard nothing further
about il. The researches had all been accom-
plished, and the work had progressed so far
towards its completion that no difficulty
existed, nor was any such delay necessary.
l had expected and hoped that Miss Bessie
Parkes, the gifted daughter Of my old and
cherished friend, (already a distinguished
and disciplined writer,) would complete
and publish the unfinished work Of her
honored fafher-a work on which he had
bestowed years of toll, and to the publica-
tion Of which he looked forward with
confdence, in an spprecistiye and approx
/ ing popular sense of its value for his
reward I. w.
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THE late William Garth, Of Bourbon
county, Ky, who was lost, with his wife, on
the steamer Lady Elgin, in storm on
Lake Michigan, in 1860, left a will, in
which he bequeathed his property to Bour-
bon county, for educational purposes. The
Paris Caiseassys that Law has passed the
Legislature 20 secure and perpetuate the
Garth fund, Tbis fund, which will amount
10 about S45, geo, viii be paid over in a
few DAYS by Mr. John Lucas, the Treasurer
Of the county. The fund Is 70 be invested
n safe, paying stocks, aud the principal is
10 be kept intact in al time 10 come, while
the dividends or interest Is to be devoted
exclusively to the education Of poor.
sprightly and worthy young men OF Bour-
bon county.
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TENNESSEE LEGIsLATURE.


F SeRHse. EsH4bH
MONDAY, March lI.-Senate met, twenty
Senators present, Speaker FriersOn in the
chair r. ss. tEls a
Mr.. Trimble presented the following
protest: .-t -'a1s A'a .
The undersigned enters his protest
against the passage of Senate bill No. 49l
with House amendments, and especially as
amended by No l. Senate bill No. 49l
was introduced into the Senate by the un-
dersigned, and proposed to incorporate the
Boulevard Tennessee Company to con-
struct a road around the city of Nashville
II was amended in the House of Represen
tatives, by adding thereto five bills, as five
different subject matters, and having no
relation to the subject matter of the SEN
ate bill. House amendment No. autho-
rizes the Mayor and City Council of the
city of Nashville to make an agreement
with the Evansville, Henderson and Nash
Vile Railroad Company, and submit to
the qualified voters Of the city of Nash.
vile a proposition to subscribe stock in
said railroad, and majority being for the
proposition, to issne honds Of the city for
$5O0,000
The reasons for his protest are as follows,
viz:
The amendment No. has no relation TO
the subject.matter Of the Senate bill The
undersigned has had no evidence whatever.
or information, to indicate that the citizens
of the city of Nashville, or any number
but two of them, desired such an election
to be submitted; one of these is the Re-
ceiver of the Edgefeld and Kentucky
railroad, who was active and efficient in
passing said amendments. The city is
deeply indebted, and its present taxes are
high andoppressiye. This General Assem-
bly, has already granted to the Mayor and
city authorities the right of issuing bonds
to the amount of S500000, 100000 of
which it is understood have been issued,
and the city bonds are as low as seventy
cents on the dollar.
Also this, that there was House bill
pending in the Senate to authorize the city
authorities of Nashville to submit to the
people of Nashville the question of Issuing
city bonds TO the amount of S500,000 for
new waterworks. Whereupon memorial
oftwo hundred or about) of the citizens
of Nashville was sent and read and filed
in the Senate against said bill, protest
ing an increase of the city debt at the pre-
sent time, no counter petition being filed.
The signers Of said memorial are pro-
perty holders representing and holding
from $5,0OO,000 to S70000O0 of dollars of
city property. On the passage of said
waterworks bill a few days before the pas
sage of the Heuse amendment bill, the
memorial was read and the respect shown
it is seen in the vote on said bill, nineteen
noes to enc aye. Wherefore and for these
reasons the undersigned enters his solemn
protest against the passage of said bill as
amended by amendment No. l, and asks
that this his protest may be entered on the
Journals of the Senate.
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Our Financial and CONNER
cial Column.

Every department Of business has an imme-
diate interest in the markets Of the country, and
Ia its financial fluctuations and condition. The
man who fails TO keep himself properly ad-
yised as TO the rise and fall of the markets, Us
controlled by the laws Of demand and supply,
aud the relative condition Of the currency. Is
exposed to constant la. and must necessarily
fall behind his more intelligent and enterprisiIE
nsighbors Ia order 10 make our paper valuable
rs well ~ interesting. we shall continue 20
make this o sPEcraL FEATuRK. Our Daily
Market Reports. domestic and foreign. by tele-
grsph. and our City Reports, gotten up al heavy
expense. have challenged the eommendalion OF
our best business men while our current Finan-
cial Reports from all the leading money centres
OF the country are falier than have ever been
published BY any otAer journal In Tennessee
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JOHN TRIMBLF.
Senator from the 18th District.


Mr., TrimbIe offered the following com
munication:
SENATE CHAMBER, March Ilth, 1867
To THE SENATE: l was elected at the
general election held in March, 1865, from
the 18th Senatorial District, and have been
in the Senate every day during all its ses-
sion, and never absent but when detained
by severe illness. The General Assembly
adiourns to day sine die. Itremains for the
Senate 10 sit as a Court of Impeachment in
The Gaze of Ihonlss y Frazier, impeached
y, the lioHae. = ~ = lescntatiVes, of high
crimes and misdemeanors, and on charges
of breach of privileges of the House of
Representatives. The Senators win re-
member that at the instance OF the House
of Representatives mot then anticipating
an impeachment), | appeared as one of its
counsel before Judge Frazier and argued
the case of habeas corpus, on behalf of the
rights and privileges of the House of Re
presentatives, which involved the same
question which is involved in the impeach-
ment; therefore it is deemed by me in
delicate and improper to sit on the case of
Impeachment. / do hereby resign my seat
in the Senate of Tennessee.
Respectfully, JOHN TRIMBLE.
Mr.. Senter offered resolution to print
ten thousand copies of the school law and
indemnity bill for the use of the Senate.
Adopted. III
Mr. Cate offered a resolution to have
5000 copies of the franchise law printed.
Adopted.
Mr.. Bosom offered the following resolu-
ton of thanks, which Was unanimously
adopted
Resolved by the Senate of the State Of
Tennessee, That we return to the Hon.
Joshua b. Frierson, Speaker of this body,
our sincere thanks for the patient and inn
partial manner in which he has presided
over the deliberations of the Senate, and in
his retirement he will carry with him our
best wishes for his health and prosperity.
Mr.. Bosom offered the following re5olu-
ton OF thanks which was unanimously
adopted ~ Z
Resolved by the Senate, That the thanks
of this body are hereby rendered to H. @.
Flagg, Chief Clerk; Clay Newland, En-
crossing Clerk; w. +. Cate, Doorkeeper,
aud B. F. Smith, Manager, for the efficient
and faithful manner in which they have
discharged the aTduous duties of their re-
spective stations.
The hour for adjournment, IL NJ, hay
ing arrived, the Speaker arose and, after
some remarks, the Senate adjourned
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In the Political Interests of
the People.

The UNION AND DISPATCH. as hereto
fore. will take the Constitution and laws for its
Guide; aud in the discussion Of all the new and
intricate questions aud issues arising out OF the
extraordinary condition in which the country Is
piaced. 1t will adhere 10 the principles and
teachings Of the founders and exPositors Of our
government and institutions. II will endeavor
10 guard with vigilance and defend with unwa-
yering earnestness aud faith the rights and inte-
sts Of ali the States. and the essential Brinci-
les which constitute the basis Of the Republic.
We shall oppose all invasions Of these. and
uphold. 20 the utmost Of our ability, the union
of the States under them. Feeling that they
ars endangered by the revolutionary schemes Of
the Radical politicians who now hold the Legis-
lntlve power Of the Government. we shall abate
thing Of our past opposition 60 their mea-
.urs With these views. which are no leas than
..aound eanpieiions we cRnhot and Will not
hesitatei5 defeud the uufiftdnnie South from
the aspssiona and impOsitions hesFed upon its
poople. ana urge that JUsTIOE ana RIsHT shah
be meiod cut to thom. t.Hr
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For the Family Circle,

Aud for the special pleasure and profit OF the
young. each week weWill give a geueral literary
and rclfeious miscellany. Nothing shall thd
its way into cur columns unfit Cor the Perusal OF
the mothers and daughters OF the lsnd. Depre-
eating the deInoraliEing sensatiouslism Of wsny
contemporary Journals We shall eschev that
character; striyiug 10 give thelFeador substantial
matter. prelerring 20 be useful rather than
eusatioual
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our Misunderstanding ana DO
mestie Interests.

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people 10 be self-rehant, and shall do what we
may be able 10 induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro
ducts. To this end We win pay special attention
TO the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversih-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
pent Of Southern resources
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II has been ascertained that Of the popu-
lation of Cleveland, SO per cent. are Ger
mans, % per cent- Americans, l9 per cent.
Irish, 3 per cent English, 2 per cent. Bo-
hemians, / per cent. each Scotch, French
and Dutch, and the remaining per cent.
divided among sixteen ether nationalities.
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THE Pennsylvania House Of Represents
tives has passed bill declaring il q nuisance
for any farmer or land holder Of Chester
county, to allow either mnllin, moth null
len, wild carrots, Canada thisiles, or horse
neitles to grow on land Owned or occupied
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MONDAY, March l1.-The Honse was
called to order at O'Clock, acting Speaker
Mulloy in the chair. ......
There not being a quorum present, there
Resolutions of thanks TO the Speaker and
officers Of the House were adopted.
Acting Speaker Mulloy made few ap-
propriate remarks toward the close, and at
II o'clock, declared the House Of Repre-
sentatives adjourned siRe de.
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The above steamers will commence their regular
trips on the hrst opening Of navigation in the Cum
berlaad river, and continue 70 run regularly
throughout the business season. per above sched-
ule. Making close connection at Cairo with the reg
uiar packets for st. Louis, Memphis aud New Or
leans issuing through Tickets to Passengers, aud
giving through Bias Of Lading for Freghts 90 the
above cities, aud all available way landings, at the
very lowest rates EveTy effort will be made BY the
Officers and Agents OF this line to render it reliable
aud deserving the patronage Of Shippers and ths
Travelling Public.
CORBETT & BOYD, Special AgsntA,
No. p Front street, Upper Wharf Nashville, Tenn.
saDll -6m
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Upon the Subject of Agriculture

Aud Kindred topics. we shall also give an ex-
tenslye variety of valuable aud interesting mat
tsr-the best adapted TO the farming classes OF
our State. which will. In great measure. sup
ply the place Of a family agricultural paper.
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By A CONSOLIDATION OF THE NASH
VILE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and by the generous and united
support Of the UNIoN AND DlsPATCH By the
patrons Of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled 70 present a Newspaper hitner-
to unsurpassed 10 this city OF State.
IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY OF
NEWS. our paper will compare fayorably with
the best in the entire country aud in saying
this. we only repeat the expressions Of many OF
our patrons. who are most capable Of judging IN
uch matters.
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Ereent0r,s Notice.

ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS Against
n the late DR.. John NJ. Watson, are nollled
10 Gle the same at my Office, over } ork's Book
Store, Union street before the FIRST of April
rextautbentieated as the law directs or they will
be barred. All debts due sid estate, OF Watson
4 Briggs remaining unpaid first April next, will
Sc placed in the hands of an ofieeT for eoliec-
ton. .. X. W. bhoM N EXT .
ynar6-Iw of John NJ Watson
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p EFT r. OLE u M

uDHF UNDERSIGNED ARE NOW PRE-
/ pared 70 eli orders Tor
PETROLEUM. CRUDE AND HEFINED,
the product Of Wells in 0verton county. rennes-
see az prices lever than the same can be OBJ
tanned elsewhere. Every kina Of oil. tllumiEatlng
ana IubYfeafiug. furnished al short notice. fhis
oil has already been largely used and gives
universal satisfaction Rs shown ty the uumeT9us
testimonials received The illpminEting ell 10
NuN-RPLosTyE, and Is 20 TO % higher than the
government are test.
STONE 4 HEFLEBOWER, Agents.
mar5-tf g. orth Cherry 81.
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U1HIs ACADEMY WAS POUNDED IN 1850,
for the purpose Of enabling parents aud
s-uariiaus in the South and Southwest 20 impaTt
20 their daughters and Wands thorough and
solid education.
The Academy is about one mile from the city
and Is situated in one Of the most beautiful ana
healthy localities in its Vicinity.
The Academic year consists Of two Sessions
each. and terminating about the Alth Of JuRe.
Special attention Is gwen 20 the different
branches usually taught in Acad amles
FoR TFRMs, ETe.. apply 70 the Mother Supe-
riar Nashville, Tennessee.
faulT-lv
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Decisions of the Supreme
Court. ut

la view the necessities Of the legal prates-
sion, aud the Feneral public interest attaching
to the many new questions coming heiore our
iudicial tr5unais. We Will publish an th2 I'M
pottani decisions of the supreme C0uri. hom
afEcial sources which may be relied upen as
entirely Trustworthy.