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Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-22
BELLOWS Factory.

7 AM PREPARED WITH A LARGE STOCK
L of BELLOWS, Of all sizes, for the market
all warranted perfect. They will be found with
all of the Hardware Merchants Of Nashville.
Customers from abroad will be supplied by al
dressing me through the Postofice at Nashville.
promise perfect satisfaction in the werk, or TO
be returned for exchange. at my cost for trans
pOrtatiOn. n. BROWN.
qroa
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EXECUTORS SALE
DIR. J. NJ. WaisOn's Property.

ON TUESDAY. APRIL 2D. 1851. At ELEVEN
" o'clock 4. r., on the premises we will sell nj
public sale that most valuable property on Nc
Lemore street. Just outside the corporation.
being the beautiful residence Of the late DR..
John "a. Watson. divided into twsnty-nine
l0ts. The dwelling will be sold with about four
acres. being a most desirable residence. free
from the heat and corporation taxes Of the city.
Also. az the same time we will sell Lot ~. Balch
and Whiteside's plan, lying between Summer
street and the sulphur Springs. divided into
hiteen lots. DR.. VS. viii requires the property
10 be sold IN a gwen time, and the sale will be
opportunity IL now offered 70 secure most desi-
Gable property adjoining the city. yet FREQ from
ite burdens. Terms in hand BILL Omnibus and
COLLATION. free IS usual
K. W. BROWN. Executor
j. l. * 4. W. BROWN. Agts.
DoLIN BAKSEs. Auctianccrs. narlg 3w
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HurIey's Popular WOrra Canav

As this Is really Specific for Worr-s. and the
best and most pala e form to give to Children
It Is not surprising at i is fast taking the place
less, any child will take it.
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TRAINS SOUTH,
TRAINS NORTH

Train No. South connects at Decatur for
Huntsville; at Corinth with Mobile and Ohio
X. r. for Selma, Mobile and intermediate
points. Connects at Grand Junction with Miss
Central r. r. for New Orleans and intermediate
points.
Train No. South connects at Decatur for
Huntsville. Memphis and intermediate points.
Train No. 2 North connects at Nashville with
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, for the East,
North and Northwest and with n. & C. and n.
& N. w. and E. & X. Railroads, for all points
on those lines.
Train No. South and No. ! North run daily
eueept SUNDAYS
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-22

The great Blood Purifier, as sprins and Sum
mer Medicine stands unrivaied renSvss al -
purities RON the blood. and gives health ard
strength to the system.
HURLRY. RUDOLF 4 Co.
prnurf.fo--
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Two Daily Through Trains, Making
Direct Connections at Louisville for
the East, West and North.

vile daily at 10 A. N. and P. NJ, arriving in
Cincinnati in time to take early morning trains
for the East
Passenger car attached to freight trains-
Leaves Franklin, KY, Mt 700 A. NJ, and Gallatin
st $50 A. NJ, arriving in Nashville at l1:50 A. NJ
Leaves Nashville at BIO P. NJ, arrives at Gala
tin 600 P. NJ, and at franklin 90l PM
ALBERT FINK,
General Superintendent L. &NR.R.
dacQ
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FOR CHILLS AND FEVER
Use the Best!
HURLEY's AGUE TONIC

Never Fails-Always to be Dspended Irpou-.
Nothing more reliable than Huriey's Tonic.
w LII cure Agus and Fever. ChilIs and fever. In
termlttent Fever, Dumb-Ague. Every person
who has tried Hurley's Tonic speaks IN tbs brhest
terms OF IT. As curative agent it is unsurps Ssed
and more CERTAIN than quinine No had rtS1Its
from using HURLEY'S Tonic. EveTvboJ,r si,.1,i3
use HULEY'S AGUE TONIC. Send orders III
HURLEY. RUDDDLF 4 COZ
ProprietOrs LouigviIie XIV
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Splendid Sleeping Cars A (
fached to all Night Trains.
Columbia Accommodation Train
Daily, except Sundays.

Leaves Columbia at............-.-.......6 :23 A. NJ
Arrives at Nashville at................... 900 A. NJ
Leaves Nashville at.....................4 400 p NJ
Arrives at Columbia 6:37 p NJ
The Columbia Accommodation Train will run
on the above time permanently from year to
year. except that in summer the time of depart
ure from Nashville will be 500 p. NJ, instead Of
400 P. NJ.
For through Tickets and other information,
please apply at the office of the Nashville City
Transfer Company, Northeast corner of Summer
and Church streets. and at the Broad Street
Depot, Nashville, Tennessee.
j. h. VAN DYNE,
jan27 General Superintendent,
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CHURCH STREET BAKERY
No I76 Church street.
VI. MeGOUGH

r RESPECTFULLY INFORM MY FRIENDS
i and the public that can ~ pply them with
Fresh Bread and Rolls morning and evening,
made Of the very best materials. Families will
be supplied regularly By leaving their ordsru.
A fne assortment Of Cakes and Pastry con
SANITY on hand. Orders plieite8 and every
thing warranted 70 be made Of the very best
materials, By superior Workmen.
maFl2 I'm
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THE NASHVILLE CHTnNrYswErP.

THE NASHVILLE CHTuNEYsWEEP-
Il AAG COMPANY.-This Company are now
in thorough and satisfactory manner. They
hope 70 receive large public patronage All
parties are interested In having their chimneys
clean, end thus far preventing the danger OF
hres. The price for cleaning each chimney -
placed al the low sum Of Fifty Cents.
Omcs-No. "a Rroah street. mari2 3m
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oeHtons ChemlchI Wrti1g FIuid e becoming
Orld-renoWned for its superior quality Having
been introduced only about six years. Il has be
come the principal in use with those who want
fine free lowing ink, md for its permaneney Ii 3
decidedly the best ink for records that can Be
used. For counting houses. banks or schools, Il
Is uneqalled. and needs only to be tried to be ap
proved, For sale by Druggists and Merchant
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saturday. MARCH asrd. 1sez.

Lots Nos, 10 and "A in WinstOn's plan in Edge
field, each fronting 50 feet on East street. and
running back III feet.
TERMS.-Credits Of six, twelve, eighteen and
twenty-fOur months, with interest from day of
sale. Notes required with approved security and
lien retained.
MARI I'd NJ. B. HOWELL. Am.
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HURLEY RUDPLE Z co, Proprie.Ors.

LO1lHVllIe, Kentucky
For sale By Berry, Demoyills 4 Wharton. j K
HarWell Bitterer & Cabler; PuiliRm 4 Neon
Tough; Blood 4 Gregory. Nashville: and by,
Druggiss. iunelS-lyd&w
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I'HIS ACADEMY WAS FOUNDED IN 1897.
! for the purpose Of enabling parents and
guardians IN the South and Southwest 10 impart
70 their daughters and wards a thorough and
solid education.
The Acadsmy is about one milo from the city
and is situated in one Of the most beautiful and
healthy localities inHs vicinity.
each and terminating about the 3sh Of June.
Special attention Is given 20 the different
branches usually taught in Academies.
foR TERNs, FTc, apply 10 the Mother Supe-
risr, Nashville, Tennessee
jAnlT-iy
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Jno. D. Jamesvs r. L. Bingham andothers.
IN PURSUANCE OF DECREE OF THE
L ChRncery Court al Nashville, in THIS cause.
l will sell a. the Courthouse. at Nashville, on
Saturday, March 23d, 1867,
a Lot on the East side Of Summer street Ia
South Nashville, fronting 555S feet and running
l76 feet 70 an alley, adjoining the lot formerly
owned BY the Union Bank
TERMS.-Credits Of six. twelve and eighteen
months, with interest from day Of sale. Note
required with approved security and a lien
retained. Sale free from redemption
MARI ID NJ. b. HOWELL. c. Nm
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Mary A. Ragsdale VS.. E. G. Pearl and other

Mary A. Ragsdale vs. E. G.. Pearl and others.
IN PURSUANCE OF DECREE OF THE
i Chaneery Court at Nashville in this cause
l will sell at the Courthouse at Nashville. on
Saturday. March card, 1857,
Six lots or tracts Of land Of the subdivision Of
the Ragsdale Lands. about six miles from Nash
Vile, on the Gallatin turnpike, and Of the fol-
loving eimensi0ns and character:
Lot No. l, containing i3 acres and having
upon Il the mansion house in which B. II. Rags
dale formerly resided.
Lots Nos. and 8. each containing 13 aeres
all cleared. These three lots front Z91z poles on
the Gallatin turnpike and run back an average
depth Of 5S15 poles. The Louisville and Nash
vile railroad runs across them-nearly parallel
with tho turnpike.
Lot No. s in the rear Of these and separated
from them BY Lot No. 4, (which IS not solid and
containing Is acres. all cleared.
Lots Nos. 6 and Z. each containing f7acres, good
wood and grass land. These three lots front
each about 30 poles on the lane North Of the
property, and run back about 90poles.
TERMS.--Credits Of six and twelve month";
Notes required with approved security and lien
retained. Sale free from redemption.
MARI I'd M. ID HOWELL. g. a NJ
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OFFICE OF GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT.
NASHVILLE Il CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD,
Nashville, Tenn, Jan. o. 1867.
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, JAN. 81,
" 1857, and until further notice. Passenger
trains will run as follows:
Leave Nashville for Washington New York
Atlanta. Macon, Montgomery, Augusta, Savan-
nah, New Orleans and Mobile at 500 A. N. and
Soc P. NJ. arriving in Chattanooga at 200 A. N.
and 200 P. NJ; both Trains making close con-
nections at Chattanooga with East Tennessee &
Georgia and Western Atlantic Railroad
Trains. Returning, leave Chattanooga at TAO
A. N. and $40 p. NJ, upon arrival of E. 7. & Ga.
and W. i A. Trains, arriving in Nashville at
4:30 A. N. and 4:30P N.
Elegant palace Sleeping Cars on all
Night Passenger Trains.
SHELBYvILLE ACCoHMODATToN-Leave Shell.
byville $40 A. n. and 1880 p. NJ, arriving in
Nashville lilo A. n. and 4:30 P. NJ Leaves
Nashville for Shelbyvile 500 A. NJ and 500 P NJ,
arriving in ShelbyVille 900 A. N. and 9:05 P. NJ.
Nashville and Northwestern Railroad.
PASSENGER TRAIN - Leaves Nashville 300
P. NJ; arrives at Johnsonville 500 P. NJ. Leaves
Johnsonville 4:OO A. NJ arrives at Nashville
lO:O0 A. NJ.
w. II. VNNES, Gen'l Supt,
Il. & c. and n. w. K. l.
J. W. BROWN, Gen'l Pass Agent.
jan&-G
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Nashville and Chattanooga
r "A / L r O A D
CHANGE OF TIME.

Two Daily Trains Leave Nashville
for Washington, New York, and
all Points East and south. Close
Connections Made at Chatta-
nOOgR Morning and Eve.
ming for all Eastern and
Southern Cities.
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Saturday, March 2srd, Iss7.

a Lot on Maple street, in South Nashville, be-
ginning at Jesse L. Dortehe's Southeast corner,
running thence SOutheastWardly 200 feet-being
a portion of the property of the estate of John
Corbitt, deceased, directed BY his will to be sold
TERMS.-Oredits Of six and twelve months,
with interest from the day Of sale. Notes err
quired with approved security and lien re-
tanned Sale free from redemption.
MARI I'd M. B. HOWELL, G. x NJ
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Nashville, December Term, 1866.
Reported for the Union 4 Dispatch by Lindsey
& Reid.
l. Interest, DATE or COMPILATION: The
time from which interest may be computed,
shall be the day when the debt IS payable, un-
less another day be fixed in the contract.
z Upon the maturity of a note, the interest
that has accruc1dOes not become principal up
on which interest will run; interest upon inter
est Is not allowed before the rendition Of u
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-15
Philadelphia Trade Report.

FRIDAY, Nov. l5.-Bark is in good demand
and the stocks are light; sales OF l6 hogsheads
No. l Quercitron at s55 % ton.
Seeds-Cloverseed is in fair request, with sales
at S675@7'S711 p 81 pounds. Timothy may be
quoted at $2'4V@2 65. 200 bushels Flaxseed sold
at $3.50. -.
The aggregate transactions in Flour are small
but there Is no disposition to make coucessIona
The demand from the home consumers is reon.
lated by the immediate wants of the trade.
sales OF few hundred barrels at $7'50@S so for
superhne; $4,000 so for extras; $I09IO rs fof
Northwestern extra family; Sll@l275 Tor PENN
sylvania and choice Ohio do. do and Sl3@I4 foT
fancy brands, according TO quality. Rye Flor
Is selling at $4,000 U barrel Nothing doingi,
Corn Meal.
The Wheat Market Is quiet, but the receY
advance is well maintained; sales of comma
and prime red at So 2U@2'55 Rye is steady vVib
sales of Pennsylvania at 81 60 Corn-Tnei6
quiry is moderate, with sales of 5000 bushal
yellow at Sl'36@l'38 afioat and in the cars an
Western mixed at 81 38. Oats are held firnIt
with sales of 1900 bushels Southern and PENN
sylvania at 68@75c.
WhiRky-Nol hing doing.
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FROM EUROPE BY CABLE.
The China Arrived Out.

The China Arrived Out.
QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 15.-The steamer China,
from Boston via Halifax, has arrived.
Increase OF Gold in France.
PARIS, Nov. l5.-The bullion in the Bank of
France has increased 10, 600, 900 francs.
Noon Report of Markets.
LoNDoN, Nov. 15-Noon.- for money,
943; United States Five-twenties, 7Ol; Erie Rail-
road, 474; Illinois Central, 842.
FRANKFORT, Nov. 15.--Unlted States Five
twenties, 75a.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. IA - Noon.-Cotton - The
sales for the week have been go, 600 bales, in
cluding 10000 bales for export and 1000 for
speculation. The market opened dull, and
prices have declined t@4d. The quotations
are as follows:-Middlng uplands, SID; mid
ding Orleans, 8sd.
The stock of cotton in port is 52S, 900 bales,
including llI0O0 American. The sales to-day
are estimated at 5000 bales.
Breadstufs, Provisions, and Produce are un.
changed.
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Rte, Etc, Etc, G.O., ltO., Ets.
MOUNT VESUVJITS.

The Volcano in Action-A Pillar of Fire
Flaming FOrLh-New CrRtSrs Formed
Red Hot Stones and Lava EjecLed aud
~ Grand Eruption ImnAtnent.
NAPLES, Nov. A.-Mount Vesuvius. on the
east side of the Bay of Naples, is in volcanic
action and sending forth pillar of 6re, which
has a magnificent effect as seen from the city,
New craters have been formed. and the usual
point of lssue-in latitude 4G'49 north aud long,
tude 1926 east-is also engaged. During the past
night red hot stones we're elected in large
quantities from the burning mountain.
The surrounding earth is in tTenulous motion
for a considerable distance; the lava is pouring
forth and running down the sides of tue noun
tain in volume and with rapid flow, aud the
general upheaving from the volcano gives warn
ing of a grand, unusually grand eruption, from
which we may look for very serious conse-
Quences as in former years OF the more re-
markable phenomena from Vesuvius.
The first eruption of the more serious kind
from Mount Vesuvius occurred in the year 70,
when the elder Pliny pershed, and the then
vast cities OF Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Sta
big were overwhelmed by the burning torrent,
and buried in lava and ashes thrown from the
crater. Forty-nine eruptions of Vesuvius oc-
Cured from that disastrous period to the year
1850, of which the most celebrated IN history
took place in the years 472, 177o, 1894, 1915
1889, ami 1859,
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Markets hv TeIegranh.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 5-Stocks open very strong
Cbicago and Rock Island. 9s!S; Reading. 95, Can,
land aud Pittsburg sSsh; PtLsburg and Fort Wayne,
9S Michigan Central lO91S; Michigan Southern SiIs!
ierTed, ll41s; Pennsylyanis Coal, 3ON. Cumberland
preferred, 26 Missouri IS, 95: hudSOn RIVER 1885,;
Fivetwenties, 1862 OS; do 1894 lO5jS do 1855 lOs
Ten-iorties, lO229 seventhrues, 1855 Sterling Ex-
change. l09&. Money. per cent, 3od l405S.
BALTIMORE, Nov. l5.-Cotton dnll 176pi5 cents for
middlings Flour dull and unchansen. Wheat
steady Corn active and unchanged. Oats d III at
5C@74 cent?. Rye. l'S5@155. Provisions very dull.
Lard active at l251 cents, with sales for export.
NEW York, Nov, l4.-Gotton quiet at $40. sfor
miodllng Uplands Flour dull aud 561l0c. lower;
sales OF 300 harrels-State ss6O@lO40 Ohio t9'sO ID;
western f85O0Bl2SO Southern elOl5lI4 2G California;
l2gls,s5 Wheat dull Corn duIl $4,000 bushels sold;
mixed Western. SlS6R(0l 3f1S Oats quiet at 7Sls.
Barley dur. Beef quiet. Pork dull; new mess s2075@
o. Lard quiet. Whisky dull, " w
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FROM BALTIMORE TODAY.
The Mete0rIc Shower - The Pollard.
Wise ImbrOgIIO-DOings OF the Mayor
and Council, Etc.

The Mete0rIc Shower - The Pollard
Wise ImbrOgIIO-DOings OF the Mayor
and Council, Etc.
ESPECIAL DESPATCH TO EVENING TELEGRAPH |
BALTIMORE, Nov. 15.-There was handsome
display of meteors here between four and five
o'clock yesterday morning. Some who wit
messed the display assert they saw fifteen hun
dred to two thousand. They were of various
hues, sizes, and colors-many large and brill
liant. Persons from the sursoun ding Tcountry
also report having witnessed the display to
great advantage.
Edward A. Pollard, who was shot yesterday
by the Wises, is suffering intensely from his
wound, and lockjaw is apprehended.
The Wises, after giving $4,000 security each
to appear for trial, went home to Richmond.
The witnesses go before the Grand Jury i'm
mediately. Smith & Wills are PolIard's
counsel assisting the prosecution.
The Wises are defended by Messrs. Marshall
Teackle, Mcclure, and Griffith, all able lawyers.
There is no doubt of an indictment being found.
1t was John s. Wise, the ex-GoVernor's son,
twenty years old, who did most of the shooting,
and hit Pollard.
Our City Council has authorized Mayor Banks
to suspend further issues OF the five hundred
thousand dollars Union Railroad bonds, en-
dorsed by the preceding Mayor and City
Council
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FINANCE AND OOMMER0E.
OFRTCR or THE EVENING TELHeRAPR,l
Friday Nov l5 1857.

There was more disposition to operate in
Stocks this morning, but prices were unsettled.
Government loans were firmly held. REGISTERED
1O40s sold at l0l4, no change, and '67 6-20s at
1919, a slight advance. llS was bid for IS Of
1881; 1861 for June and July 1905; 1881 for '62
6-20s; 1861 for '64 5-20s; 1861 for '65 20s; and
1914 for July, 65, 6-20s. Clty, loans were in
fair demand; the new issue sold at l0lS@l0l};
a slight decline.
Railroad shares continue the most active on
the list. Pennsylvania sold at So no change;
Philadelphia and Erie at 24b025, an advance of
/; Camden and Amboy at l25, no change;
Minehill al 81, no-change; North Pennsylvania
at 80. an advance of !; Catawissa preferred at
l9{@20, decline OF 4; and Reading at 485, a
slight decline on the closing price last evening.
City passenger railroad shares were un-
changed. Hestonville sold at l0S; Ga was bid
for Tenth and Eleventh; 18 for Thirteenth and
Fifteenth; "a for Spruce and Pine; As for Ohes-
nut and Walnut; 30 for Green and Coates; and
26A for Girard College.
Bank shares were in good demand for invest
ments at tull prices. Manufactures sold at 305,
no change; l02 was bid for Seventh Nationals
SO for Northern Liberties; 80 for Mechanics;
So for GIrard; 81 for Western; and II tor City.
Canal shares were unsettled. Lehigh Navlga-
ton sold at 8003l4, an advance of "a on the
closing price last evening. o. was bid fer
schuylkiil Navigation common; 20 for preferred
do; 10 for Susquehanna Canal; and 46 for Della
ware Division.
Quotations Of Gold-lOA A. NJ, 14l; ia. M,
1402: IL NJ, 141; / p. NJ, 14lh, an advance OF /
on the closing price last evening.
The New York Herald this morning says:-
money was In lighter demand than yester
day, and lenders had some difficulty In employ
ing their funds at seven per cent. Loans we're,
therefore, made in not few instances to fret
class houses at six per cent, without regard
to the class of collaterals, provided they were
good. On Government securities the rate was
six per cent, almost without exception. There
is q little less distrust OF mercantile credits at
the banks, and the latter are disposed to accom-
mOdate their customers with discounts OF the
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LOUISIANA.

Money Panic Probable Ia New Orleans
The German Citizens Rampant Over
the Depreciation OF the CIty Currency
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. A.-A money panic, and
possibly riot, is near unless Hancock arrives
soon and reconstruots the city government. At
a mass meeting OF five hundred citizens, mostly
Germans. last night, violent speeches aud pro
fame oaths were uttered, aud a riot was openly
biuted at. A committee was appointed TO con-
fer with Hancock, and mass meeting VIII be
baId IN LAFAYETTE square at an early day The
orievance compIaiped of is the depreciation Of
The CITY currency from two aud half before
military interference TO eighteen per cent. 1t is
not political movement, IL is u0@ poPWtI
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FROM WASHINGTON TODAY.
Internal Revenue Matters-Report of
Commissioner Wells.
ESPECIAL DESPATCH TO EVENING TELEGRAPH |

Internal Revenue Matters-Report of
Commissioners Wells.
ESPECIAL DESPATCH TO EVENING TELEGRAPH
WASHINGTON, Nov. Is.
The report from the Hon. David A. Wells
United States Revenue Commissioner, on Taxa
tion, Revenue, ETC., will be completed and laid
before Congress before the middle or close of
December. 1t is understood he will recommend
thetrepeal of the tax on cotton, and reduction
of the tariff duties on imported cotton and wool
len goods.
His report will also suggest some changes in
the present system of collecting the revenue,
which will secure greater accountability on the
part of revenue officers, diminish the expense of
collection and the temptation 10 fraud and cor
ruptlon; but how this is to be brought about
has not yet been disclosed. The present laws
governing revenue officers are stringent enough
and abundantly sufficient to prevent corruption
where they are really enforced but 1T is
all nonsense to expect any Improvement while
nally placed in the hands of the Secretary of
the Treasury, while in fact the President can
appoint and remove them over his head,
which effectually nullides the powers which
should be exercised exclusively by the Secretary.
There are plenty Of men in Office to-day in
whom the heads of departments have no conf.
dence, but as they are friends and parasites of
the President, any attempt to bring them under
discipline would be visited with their hostility
upon the Secretary who would dare to interfere
with them.