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The Tennessee National Bank
AHair

The Memphis Ledger, referring to
what is called the school fund, saws
"there is a whisper on the streets that
So, 900 or S57 900 of the assets of the
Tennessee NationaI Bank, which should
go so far to replace that fund, is at pres.
ent in the hands of a certain party" in
Memphis. We have several times called
attention to the matter of this so-called
school fund and the Tennessee National
Bank There is something mysterious
about this affair 1t was reported at the
time the committee from the Legislature
went to Memphis to investigate the
transaction, that they had secured $500
GOO in money, aud had taken the notes
of the President of the bank for the re.
mainder. 1t was stated then that if
suits had been instituted large portion
Of the missing fund could have been Sc
cured. But this was not done. How
the matter was really settled, nobody
seems to know. There were rumors at
the time of the course in which the
school fund had gone, that thorough
investigation would develop an extraor
binary amount of fraud and rascalitv
This was so freely talked of that it could
not nave IalIeu 10 reach the ears OF the
members of the Legislature. As
the committee on the part of the
Legislature did not give the result of
their investigation to the public, the in
ference is legitimate that they found a
very bad and damaging condition of af
fairs. 1t is true, it was a Radical trans
action, but why should that operate to
screen the guilty. [ was rather broad
~ hinted that members Of the Lecisla
ture were implicated in the matter. and
that was referred to by parties who could
get no positive information on the SUBJ
Jeet as reason for the refusal of the
committee to make public what a rigid
These things have been freely talked of
throughout the State, yet no step has
been taken to relieve members of that
Legislature of the odium that attaches
to them for permitting this transaction
to be covered up as it has been. The
present Legislature seems utterly obliyi-
Gus to the fact that the people have lost
nearly 100000 by this Tennessee Ma
tional Bank transaction, the benefits of
which should have accrued to their chill
dren, and that their predecessors are re-
sponsible for the loss of this large
amount.
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OLD PROC. AGAIN.
why he Abolished the Right Of
Appeal.
From the Nashville Banner, ODD.

From the Nashville Banner, 22d.
1t is we'll known in East Tennessee that
the eulpable obstinacy of Governor
Brownlow in refusing to fill the seat on
the Supreme Bench made vacant by the
resignation of Judge Milligan, has al
ready operated most injuriously to the
interests of that portion of the State,
Litigation is almost at a stand-still, and
the right of appeal has been practically
abolished.
Why, do our readers suppose. is
Brownlow persuing this policy, which
has already alienated many who have
been his frmest supporters We can
solve the problem. There is certain
carpet Dagger in Knoxville, who rejoices
in the name of George Andrews, for
whom Brownlow is reserving the birth.
1t happens that Andrews has not favored
the State with his presence long enough
(three years. 20 be legally qualified for
the position; so Old Proc is keeping the
seat warm for him a few months. This
insulting refusal to recognize the native
legal patent of the East Tennessee bench
and bar is of course fully appreciated
by those who suffer therefrom and it is
for this reason that a bill taking the
whole matter out of Brownlows hand,
and placinEs.it la>akasa he people rI,srs
.l...ate naSo hand D sails Ssstts.cf5SSf
8 sected ,...,-sl,, be.s
passed tne s5eils.sss. s.l.si' ssiff undoubtedly
pass the House. some time this week.
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IMPEACHMENT AGAIN-The ire
ypressible Wendell Phillips is again rails
ing his voice upon the situation, and de-
clares that Congress must impeach the
President. 'sor share the infamy and
blood guiEtiness TO when history will
condemn He assumes that a thousand
Union men will be murdered in the South
before the 18th of March next unless the
President is removed. Mr.. Phillips is
behind the times. The Philadelphia
Press 4ys, Grant is elected and pea@ is
breaking" Mr. Phillips ought to be
aware that the election is over, and the
Radical manufacture of murders for
northern consumption has measursbly
ceased. There will be no more Union
men killed till the canvass for the next
batch of important elections. Besides,
Andrew johnson will have but little
more than three months to hold office af-
ter the assembling of Congress, which
will scarcely give time to try him, and
afford an opportunity to the ad interim,
to save the lives of these thousands
| Baltimore lSH1l
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BRUTAL AssAULT.-An old man
named Leech was taken from his house
near Mayield, by a squad of men in
masks, whe. asked if he had any money +;
being told that he had not, they proceed
ed to hang him up, when he acknowl-
edged that he had little, and told them
where it was and after drawing him up
three times left him, without getting the
money-Padueah Gazette. s
These scoundrels should be followed
up, and if captured they should be sum-
marily punished Such outrages are be-
coming too frequent in the country, and
while we do not favor Lynch law, we do
think it the duty of good and true citi-
zens everywhere to aid in bringing to
justice all such outlaws and depredators
as these. PodRcoh Herald.
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On the 10th instant, the Circuit Court
at Madison, Wis, made a most import
ant decision 10 the case of Emma Schnei
der VS.. the Provident Life Insurance and
Investment Company of Chicago, III.
The action was brought to recover the
amount of an accident policy on the life
of the husband of the plaintiff, but upon
trial a non-suit is granted, the court
holding that the deceased lost his life
while attempting to get on the cars while
they were in motion, the defendant was
not liable to pay the amount of the poll
icy. This is a most important decision,
aud should be remembered
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How TO be miserable.

Sit by the window and look over the
table to your neighbours excellent man
sion, which he has recently built and
paid for and fitted out.
"Oh! that | were a rich man"
Get angry with your neighbor aud
think you have not friend in the world.
Shed tear or two, and take walk in
the burial ground, continually saying to
yourself:
Sign note for ifiend and ne, for
get your kindness, and every hodsTa the
day whisper to yourself: Il wonder if he
will ever pay that note?"
Think everybody means to cheat you
Closely examine every bill you take, and
doubt its being genuine until yoI have
put your neighbor to a great deal of
trouble Put confidence in nobody, and
believe every man you trade withlo be a
rogue.
Never accommodate if you can posi-
bly, help it.
Never visit the sick or the afflicted,
ane never give farthing to assist the
poor.
Buy as cheap as you can and screw
down to the lowest mill Grind the
faces and hearts of the unfortunate.
Brood over your misfortunes, your
lack of talents, and believe that at no
distant day you will come to want Let
the workhouse be ever in your mind
with all the horrors of distress and pow
erty.
Follow these recipes strictly, af5l you
will be miserable to your hearts 9ntent
IF we may SO speak-sick at hekt and
at variance with the world. II thing
will cheer and encourages, nothing will
throw CLEAN of sunshine or s5ay OF
warmth into your heart.
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SHoEMAKERs do not approach starva-
ton any nearer than they did years ago +;
yet, excepting in the cutting, scarcely
any handwork is done in the large shoe
factories. Machines do everything. The
leather goes to the top Of the building in
sides and skins, and comes down from
floor to floor in various stages of progress
until it comes into the salesroom in a
finished CONDITION. Machines punch the
holes aud insert eyelets, bevel the heels
and connect the uppers, and do all the
sowing. ~
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ELECTION SwINDLE BEING COOKED
The Cincinnati Gazette, of Saturday,
has special dispatch from Nashville.
which says:
Horace Maynard is in Nashville this
evening. While here he will assist Gen
eral w. j, Smith in presenting to the
Secretary Of State the evidence in refer
ence to the frauds committed in the
Memphis District, by which it was
sought to cheat Smith of his seatin Con-
gress. The certificate has not yet been
awarded either to Leftwich or Smith, but
that Smith will get it there is little doubt.
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THE Richmond (Ky) Register says !:
In Estill county there lives one of the
most remarkable families probably in
the State 1t is that of Rev. VIM. Rog-
ers, aged 76 years, and his wife, aged 73
years. They now have % living chill
dren, all of whom are married, and are
the grand parents OF tloo hundned and
serejt as far as heard from. Mr.. Rogers,
as we are informed, fills his appoint
ments at five different churches, and is as
active and 'jubilant" on deer hunt as
aany young man of any place"
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The Lady of the white House.

In connection with the election of
Gen. Grant to the Presidency, aud only
second to it in point of interest is the
promotion of Mrs. Grant to the post of
" Lady of the White House. 1t is
gratifying to think that the position is
one which Mrs. Grant will fiji with true
simplicity of an American woman There
Will be no attempt to ape the grandeur
at a regal court, and no vulgar striving
after mere sensation. Mrs Grant is
lady who has maintained, through every
event which has marked the vicissitudes
of her husband life, a marked propriety
of demeanor She has been help mate
in days of adversely, and has shared his
houors without being dazzled by the
position or contaminated by the foolish
adulatious of those who worship at the
shrine of success, so says one of our
Radical exchanges.
THE SPEAKERS WIFE-The Wash
ington Star says . Miss Wade (now Mrs.
+ Colfax) resides with her stepmother, her
father and mother both being dead. She
is the niece of Senator Wade, who re-
sides at Jefferson, fifteen miles from
Andover. Miss Wade is about thirty
years Of age, of medium size, good figr
ure, dark hair, brown eyes, and has a
pleasing face, indicating goodness and
intelligence All who know her speak
~ rA -s--l-:i.sJ ---1 -t----- ca .---.--~,
as qualifying her admirably to preside al
the house of the Vice President elect
Three years ago she spent the winter ip
Washington with her aunt, Mrs Senator
Wade, at the house of Mr.. Burnett, on
Four aud half Street, where Mr.. Col
fax also stopped and the friendship
formed at that time probably laid the
foundation for the present more intimate
/ relations.
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THE Germans in the United States,
according to the census of 1860, number
1,301, 1876, divided among the principal
States as follows: New York, 256. 252
Ohio, les, 21O; Pennsylvania, 138, pa ;
Illinois, 130,S04; Wisconsin, 123,S79 ;
Missouri, IS, 487; Indiana, 66,705. The
German in the principal cities are dis
tributed as follows: New Y ork, lis, 97T;
St. Louis, 50,510; Cincinnati, 1921 ;
Philadelphia, 1863; Baltimore, g.
6O3; Chicago, %, 227; New Orleans, 49,
729; Boston, 3,202.
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TRY IT FOR ONE YEAR
The Great New York Agricultural,
Horticultural and Family
Al ewScaper.

THE RURAL AMERICAN, published in
the city of New York, is noM the Largest
and most Elegant paper of itsclass in the
United States. Price 81 so year; 10 copies
Sl2-50 20 copies $50, only one dollar a
year Every subscriber in clubs of ten, at
$3.50 will receive a free package of Early
Rose Potatoes, selling at $40 per Dbl, post
paid, worth Sl.25. The "Rural American"
is everywhere admitfd to be the Best, the
Cheapest, and most Tactical Farmers and
Fruit Growers paper in this country. Its
editor-in-chief is an old farmSS and fruit
grower of Forty Years exPGQencei The
publication of this paper was removed in
June last from Utica, New York, to New
York city; and the EDITORIAL and Business
Office to New Brunswick. n Y, fnear New
York, where its proprietor owns farm
within the city limits of I'D acres, worth
$50 00O and also has a large cash capital to
ensure permency to his publications Climb
agents wanted everywhere, w&Dare paid a
liberal compensation. Samples of paper,
blank subscription lists, &C., free. Address
T. b. MINER. New Brunswick. NJ.
~
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In England there are many farmers
who more than support themselves and
large families on the product of six acres
besides paying heavy rents Agricultu-
ralists in Germany who are proprietors of
six acres, support themselves on two, and
lay up money on the remainder.
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York member in communication pro-
poses an investigation into the Alaska
business as soon as Congress convenes.
1t is asserted by we'll informed parties
here that they have the ability to prove
that the Russian authorities and the
State Department disbursed a secret ser
vice fund Two Washington newspa-
pers, it is alleged, were handsomely re-
warded for their action in the matter
Telegrdphic dispatch.
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GRANTS INAUGURAL
1t has also been ascertained that the
seneral's inaugural will be very brief.
A STRAW.

Genel Grant called on Governor
Morton to-day, and Senator Trumbull
visited the General at his house tonight
The unusual early arrival of these Sena-
tors gives rise to the idea that they will
counsel with him. If true, it may be
accepted as an auspieious omen from
their high character and conservatism.
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Ex-PREsIDESF Pierce writes as fol-
lows to friend 81 was quite free from
pain yesterday, and am comfortably so
to-day. If the weather shall be favora-
BILE Tomorrow / hope to put my foot be-
yond the outer threshold. which have
not done fer three weeks. :
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THE SPY.

This is also an entirely new article,
made of silver and brass. tits intended
to be placed among your bills when play
ing any game 1t is entirely concealed
from your own aud opponents sight. 1t
is to be used when you deal. BY letting
the back of the hand rest upon con
cealed spring a beautiful reflector comes
into proper position, and remains there
Just as long as you are dealing then
goes out of sight the instant you are
done.
With this you can tell every card your
opponent has in his hand and play ae-
cordingly This is valuable, as it can be
played upon smart men as well as suckers.
1t is neat and compact, and can be carried
in the pocket without getting out of
order can be picked up with the money
when not wanted Sent free by mail
deter POSTAGE on receipt of price, SO.
All orders for any goods filled promptly.
Directions for use sent with goods.
Your cheapest way to get any of my
goods, should you at any time wish for
them, is to inclose the price in register
ed letter and send at my risk. as thus
your whole expense will only be the price.
If sent by express, G. O. D., it will cost
YOU the price of the article and the cost
of transportation and the express charge
| for returning the money to New York
They va be sent either way. as desired.
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Moran, building, le.s SI.50O Xse
Gibbs, building and saloon, loss S3,O0ei
Andy Malone's houses, loss $1,000 r.
n. Irvine, books, notes, accounts and
buildings, loss S15, 900.
There was but one policy of insurance
u NJ White & Co., have policy IN
Nashville Office for 81, 600, which viii be
paid. Jno. Meadows and. jesse Gibbs
had policies, but they had run out oaly
few DAYS previous to the fire. Meadows
lost all his books, accounts, &C., aud Is
by far the heaviest loser, as none OF his
goods were saved, and he had recently
purchased a new stock in Louisville.
This is certainly severe blow upon our
little town. and falls with crushing
weight upon some of our most enterpri-
sing citizens.
1t was thought at one time that the
entire town would be destroyed, and it
required the greatest efforts to save the
large dry goods house of w. c. Scott x
Co. and the large aud elegant ST. NIGH
olas Hotel; which by the way, is now one
of the most complete establishments ~
this country, having been recently re-
paired. reftted aud refurnished from TOP
to bottom. Mr. E. ID. Hicks of Nash
Vile is here, with a view to the adjust
ment of the loss sustained by Messrs
White & Co.; Mr.. Ii. being the agent Of
the insurance Company.
[ l., arm that several of the parties con-
template building again, as soon as pos
sibIe. and to erect a large block of brick
where the frame row stood, which wa:
burnt down. | omitted 10 mentio tina
it is conceded on all sides, that fire
was the work of an incendiary. air
s2;s5ss sum sfsHI ca sus So ssh h,
law will be enforced, and tl Siit
wretches will be made to pay th ben
atty. SIAE.
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JOHN BULLS WORM DESTROYER.
Parents Read this Important Lsffer-- HoB are
Interested IN its CoHteHts.

.- MDDLEross, Ind, April &c, Go.
No NJ. i. Duplan writes | do not know
that Bulls Worm Destroyer needs any more
recommendations than it has already attain
ed by its own merits but will state that my
little son, aged sboet three years, was Be-
verely attacked last fall and winter with
light spasfns, or perhaps more properly fits,
lasting from half an hour 10 one and n half
hours; at the same time the child had strong
symptoms of worms. Ny physician-one
Of the best in this part Of the country--ex-
bausted all his skilI and the Materia Medica
to expel the worms, and entirely failed to
bring any. Thought John Ban" could
do it, and gave the child the contents o.
three boxes, in triple doses, night and morn
ing, with happy results. The child has not
had a spasm for over three months, and in
stead OF the bioated mass that he was, he IL
now wen and hearty. John Bull did IL.
Yours, truly, NJ. L. DOPLAN.
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The Mysteries Of the Gaming
Table

Peter Runnells and A. j Carlin, alias
Williams, two men hafling from Quincy,
Illinois, and who were arrested as sus
pected felons. On their persons had
been found several circulars of New
York house, one of which was printed
in green, and read as follows:
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Observation-Disclosures CtrH.

BRUTEs.-ANTI-M MARRYING CtuB-
London is overrun by set of men who
imprudently proclaim that thew do not
want to marry-nay, that they want not
to maryland that they will not take to
themselves wives on any consideration.
They even pretend to erect their own
practice into precept, and to be the
apostles of new creed, whose first and
last commandment is, " Thou shalt not
be such an ass as to get married." Thev
freely allow that they are new variety
OF the human species but they plead
that they are superior variety-in fact.
the finest variety that has ever vet been
produced. Were we to confine our obser-
yatIon to their plumage we should. per-
haps, be forced to concede their claims
As far as feathers go, they certainly are
magnificent specimens of the domestica-
ted human biped. Another, and perhaps
the most observable of all, is their pro-
pensity to gourmandize To them no
day is without its event, so long as it is
not without its dinner Breakfast has
some little interest for them, and lunch
con is by no means matter of indifer-
ence, but neither of these meals, nor per-
haps the. two together, would suffice TO
make life agreeable, were it not for the
larger eating e.--hich they are but
: AMEr1Care-s,,vet of
the importancessly for this magazine, whic
Tel =
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THE Radical papers fud fault with
the Southern people because they do not
hold perfectly still in the CALLING yoke
of Congress. MA, make Bill be quiet
every time | hit him on the head, he
boilers"
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A call from sTInnessota.

KIyosrox, P. o., Mceken CO., Min, APl. 7, sc.
Nh. JOHN BgLL-Dear Sir l moved from
Kentucky to this place. The stores have
none of your Worm Destroyer for sale Tacy
are greatly needed here in Minnesota.
trial il all that is needed to give them
reputation. We can t do without them. Do
send some on this way.
Yours, sincerely, D. G. AIRoWoOI.
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Fulton Common Pleas Ccur
Fulton Common Pleas Court.

Fulton Common Pleas Court.
NJ Lunsford, admtrS)
vs. Notice
Jas Pate's, admir-
A II persons holding claims against the
"A estate of James Pate, decd, hereby
notified to prove and file the same with 9,
at my Office, in the city OF Hickman, KY. on
or before the Third Monday in December,
1858, or they will be, forever barred from
prosecuting their collection against the adj
ministratrix of said decedeDt's estate.
ta TO G0ALDER,
sep26-2m Master, Commissioner.
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T. S.-The following was written April
30, 1865, by Mrs. Jennie johnson, mother Of
Capt. Johnson
DIR. BuLL-Dear Sir My husband, DIR. c.
s. Johnson, was a skillful surgeon and ply
stefan in Central New York, where lac died,
leaving the above c. p johnson TO my care.
At thirteen years OF age he had a chronic
diarrhea and scrofula, for which / gave him
your SarsapariIlh. Ir CURED HIM ] have
for ten years recommended it to many in
New York, Ohio, and Iowa, FOR scrofula,
fever sores, and general debility. Perfect
success has attended il. The cures effected
in some cases of scrofula and fever sores
for my son to again have recourse 20 your
Sarsaparilla.~ lie is fearful OF getting
spurious article, hence his writing 70 you
for 1t. His wounds were terrible, but bs-
lieve he will recover.
Respectfully, JENNIE JOHNSON.
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THE BUG.

This is a new invention, intended to
assist the player in holding OUT any
number of cards, and it will do it 1t
is very simple in its construction, easy to
operate, and every person who knows
that 2 and are / can use it. 1t eau be
carried in the vest pocket alt the time,
and is always ready for use, not liable to
get out of order; and, should it do so,
any matchmaker can put it ia order for
a trife, as the whole expense of manu-
facture is only about fifty cents. Then
why ask So, you may say. For' this
reason-that one is all you would ever
want to buy, as they do not wear out like
cards Also, after using it you can get
one made as well as any other man,
and you will wonder that the thing was
never thought of before. With it you
can hold out one or more cards, shift
and make up your hand to suit, and your
hands and person arc at perfect liberty !;
up your sleeve-there Is nothing TO be
seen After having used it once you
would not be without it for any price, as.
like all good inventions, its simplicity Is
a great point in its favor. They will
be delivered free by mail (sccurely seal
ed, on receipt of price. When sent by
express, c. .. D., cost of collection will
be added to the bill.
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while &c. run the risk of ever dining bad.
They have conventional joke about cold
mutton; but as they are not celebrated
either for wit or originality, we must
take their humors as we fluid it.
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Grant TaIk.
GRANTS MESSAGE.

= GRANT MESoAUE4.
An intimate friend of Gen. Grant says
that in his first message to Congress, he
will recommend the adoption OF an
si.arti~ssesiFiin,g 70 aSs
- ..,s : @,,s.a -
-. p sTfs..sf O. sfl34l not be etiSt-