Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-17
STATE NEWS.
From The Franklin Review. Is.


| The EFFECT OF THE BRowNLOw
Policy IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY.
ready we begin to see the evil results Of the
present Radical policy in reference TO call
ing out the militia to control the coming
| election. Men who have hitherto stood
firm In the belief that the State would
weather the storm and successfully battle
1 with the angry political elements which
have heretofore threatened TO engulf her,
are becoming disheartened, and nc longer
look forward hopefully TO the future Of
! Tennessee. Citizens in the country are
seeking and desiring homes in the towns
and villages and those who have intended
erecting improvements are abandoning the
enterprise. All classes are gloomy in their
forebOdings, and distrustful Of coming
events. A pail, terribly dark and threat
ening, hangs over the destinyo of our people.
! BrownloW's military eleetioneering cam
| paign is causing a greater depression in
| business circles, a stronger feeling of inse-
/ curity, and a more unsettled condition of
| affairs than any measure, State or Federal,
| which has been thrust upon the people
| since the close of the war. 1t is evident
| that a terrible convulsion is anticipated.
! What is to be the result no one viii pre-
sumo to foretell. Even the farming inter
ests are being greatly injured by this insane
and selfish policy of Governor Brownlow.
The labor question, a vexing one at best, is
becoming more unsettled and much more
difficult of solution than formerly. La
borers are more difficult TO control than
| they have hitherto been, and the farmers
are looking forward with dread anxiety to
possible loss of labor at the most critical
season of the year.
From the Clarksvile Chronicle, 18th
The removal Of Mr.. G. T. Lewis from the
Office Of railroad receiver created little
surprise here, but rather added to popular
contempt for the Legislature. Mr.. Lewis,
in his management of the road, displayed
great skill, energy and integrity, and while
we condole with the company on the loss
of such an officer, we heartily congratulate
Mr.. Lewis upon being freed from all con-
nection with the foul crowd that removed
him.
LARGE SALE OF IRON PROPERTY
DIR. j. Cobb and ID. N. Kennedy, have sold
their entire iron estate, LaGrange, Clark,
and Eclipse furnaces, with about forty Eve
thousand acres of land, in Stewart county,
Tennesse, to an iron company from Ohio.
The price is not made public, but it is said
to be in the ueighborhood of one hundred
thousand dollars.
This is one of the largest and most valu-
able iron estates in Tennessee. The pur-
ohasers are already at work, preparing to
put il in full operation. We learn that
they are practical Western iron men from
Ohio and Kentucky, with plenty of means,
and that they expect to make up a capital
stock OF over quarter Of a million dollars.
They will doubtless receive a hearty well
come, particularly from the good people of
Stewart, who are so much interested in the
working and development of this property.
AN UNUSUAL PHEEoMENoN. - On
Tuesday morning last, there was observed
upon our ponds, most singular substance
that attracted the attention Of the passers
by. Il was floating upon the surface and
had collected into quite thick strata upon
the edges of the ponds, whittier the wind
had blown it, II had precisely the appear
ance of -four of sulphur but none of the
SMELL taste or other properties of brim-
stone. Further investigation showed the !
presence of this strange substance in ali /
the cisterns and water reservoirs over the /
town, even in the little puddles made by 1
horse hoofs. From persons from Stewart /
county we learn that the same phenome- |
non was seen in that locality. We pre- /
sumo, therefore, its appearance was general /
over large section Of country
As there was heavy rain the night pre- /
ceding, this fact would indicate that this |
substance came down from the clouds. Up |
on this theory it has been supposed TO be
the pollen, or formulating dust, Of yegeta- |
bles. If so, it must have been borne from
a far distant and more tropical region, and |
must have come also from some one plant,
shrub or tree or other vegetation in bloom, 4
because it is all precisely alike, and exhibits |
under the most powerful microscope none |
Of the many differences Of atomic shape |
characteristic of the pollen of different |
plants. This much has been certainly de- |
termined-that it is vegetable matter and |
not mineral. We hope the savans of the |
country will yet find its precise nature and
origin.