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miscellaneous.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-Secreiary Me
culloch had bad fall to-day, and is con
fined temporarily to his room.
The Secretary ofthe Treasury sent to the
House the estimates for the revenue cut
ter service for the year ending June 1867,
amounting to 81, 327 600.
The reported resignatloa of Charles
Francis Adams is confirmed. He is said
to be superinduced exclusively by a natural
desire to return home and take care of his
large, neglected and private interest
NEw YORK, Feb. 6.-Mr. Arson Herr
lick, we'll known journalist and ex-Con-
gresham, died to-day.
The schooner James Young, arrived
from New Orleans, with a cargo Of 1400
bushels corn, being the first cargo of grain
ever shipped thence in bulk.
AT a meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce to-day, memorial was ordered to
be prepared and sent to Congress asking a
reduction of the American dollar to the
reduction Of franc pieces, without limi-
tation, which maintains the integrity of ex-
isting contracts. A communication was
read from the President of the Suez canal,
announcing il to be opened for the largest
ship by October 1860.
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Meedtsg OF the Array OF the Cam
beFland.'

Meettsg OF the Army OF the Gem
beFland.'
CINCINNATI, Feb. 6.-The officers of the
army Of the Cumberland met at Hopkins
Han this mOrning-Gen. Gross temporary
chairman. Letters were read from Cen
erals Pope, Schofeld, Stoneman, Gillem,
Newton, Geary, Cooper, Reynolds, Ord
aud Morgan, expressing regrets at not
being able 10 attend.
The Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land re-assem5led at 8 P. NJ. in Mozart
Hall, and was called to order by General
Gross.
Gen. Stone, on behalf Of the committee
appointed for the purpose, reported con-
stitntion, which was al once adopted, adj
hitting TO membership all officers and sol
diers Of the Army Of the Cumberland, the
meetings TO be annual.
The committee appointed on permanent
organization of Offices, reported General
G. II. Thomas for President, and General
w. d. Whipple and Capt. Fisher for Sec
Vice President from each State represented
in the Army Of the Cumberland, was
chosen. The report Of the committee was
adopted with great applause.
The society adjourned TIL 9 O'clock to-
morrow morning.
The banquet takes place at the Burnett
House tomorrow night, when Gen. Sher-
man wall deliver an address.
The meeting was a grand success. Large
numbers Of former officers and soldiers OF
the Army Of the Cumberland were IN at
tendance to-day. The greatest enthusiasm
preTsils.
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ANDREW JOHNSON, THE PARTISAN
OF THE CONSTITUTION.

Let us not mistake the issues before us.
The Radicals arc working to destroy the
constitution and the free institutions Of
America with it. Their course during
the last two years, ia and out Of Congress,
shows this to be the fact, as everybody is
aware At the outset oftheir Vaccinations,
they met a stern opponent in the Presi-
dent of the United States. He became,
at once, the partisan Of the constitution
and the rights and libertiesOf the people
under it. For more than two years, under
every term of obloquy, under every
measure of personal and official embar.
rassment, under threats of impeachment
and even Of personal violence, he has
stood steadfaStly by the constitution,
without shadow of waver or turning.
He has been tried in the furnace, and
stands without need of refining
Recently the heat has been increased
upon him. The General of the army has
defed his authority and treated him and
the country with cOntumely and insult
He still stands unmoved. A patriotic
people are justly indignant and alarmed
at the revolutionary and destructive turn
their affairs have taken They look with
an earnestness never before displayed for
the person who opposes or is likely to
oppose the most powerful resistance to
these vicious and ruinous measures.
They look only to the front man in the
government and in the struggle, and that
man is Andrew johnson, who met the
issue at the outset, and has contested it
with heroic firmness, in all its stages
from its inception to the present. He
has encountered the champions of cen>
tralized and m9bocratic despotism indi>
yidualfy and en- mdssee, from the begin
ming. He has displayed an innate
power, an extent Of individual resource,
and n devoted and unbending attach>
ment to the constitution Of our fathers,
which deserves the unstinted praise of
his country and his eountrymen
There are those, not knowing whether
they will have country or President
a year hence, who are quarreling and
chafFering about a nomination for the
next Presidency We submit that it is
the duty of every patriot to uphold and
sustain the present President in his
great contest The people should in
dorse him, and while he is identified
with the peril Of the country, we should,
by every available means, give him
strength Let the people sustain the
constitution and our free institutions UNI
der it first, and then they may think Of
their choice of men to administer it The
public safety first, and personal PREFER
encps afterwards.
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Special kilograms to the New York
,World, which appear in our dispatches
this morning, indicate the defeat of the
Black-and-Tan constitution prepared for
Alabama, under the reconstruction laws.
We have DO doubt the information tele-
graphed to New York is correct, and that
the overwhelming sentiment Of that State
is opposed to the atrocious calumny on
free institutions which the negroes and
mean whites have set up as the organic
law for the people.
But the telegraph informed US few
days ago that Gen. Meade had gone down
to Montgomery to superintend the cleo
ton, and to receive the returns. Whats
ever the people may say, we must,
therefore, wait the decision of General
Meade If he acts honestly and fairly,
and discarGs all stuffed ballot
boxes and bogus returns, the constitution
for Alaba ma will be condemned, and re-
construction under Jacobin manipulation,
as to that State, turn out a signal and
ingloriors failure, by the decided majority
Of $4,000, as announced by telegraph
But while the liberties Of the people and
their ballots are in the breaches pocket
Of a military satrap, their destinies are
never known until that functionary opens
his month and speaks
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From MeNirn.

HAVANA, Feb. Ga steamer from
Vera Cruz reports thai a severe gale
had visited that harbor on Jan. 20.
The steamship Nightingale was found,
cred at Anchorage and seven Of the crew
drowned. All of the officers and the rest
of the crew were saved.
The bark Bienville, from New Orleans,
was also wrecked, and the crew saved.
Several Generals in the Mexican army
pronounced against the government. An
attempt at revolution is feared.
1t is reported that Pa6ere Diaz will soon
be appointed Minister of War.
The Mexican Congress passed bill to
abolish death penalty. 1t was defeated.
Egabado arrived at the capital, and it is
rumored that he intended to resign his
command of the Third Division of the
army.
Mexican travellers in Guatamala are i'll
treated in consequence Ofrumors Of an in
vasion.
The project for uniting Mexico with the
United States by rail, is ipkthe hands OF
the Commissioners.
Companies are forming to work in the
gold ulines discovered in Osgaes.
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THE KU-KLUxTN CONGRESS-.

Arnen, Bragg's Rebel tanner and
leather contractor, has astonished the
country by introducing the question of
the Ku-Klux into Congress We have
seen, for a year and a half squibs from
some of our country exchanges, relating
10 the Ku-Klux, but have never looked
upon the subject as worthy Of serious
thought OF investigation But Mr. Arnell
directs the attention of the country to
the subject in 80 grave a manner that we
must look upon it as something, even
though there should be nothing whatever
in it We have received, also, a letter
from Bedford county, which states that
on the morning of the 9TH inst, hand-
bills were posted in Shelbyville, on which
was printed, Resistance to tyrants is
obedience to God, aud the people of that
town were somewhat excited thereat
The appearance of these bills were as
scribed to the Ku-Kiux. Upon these
facts the question arises who are the
Kn-Klux2 and what are they Having
never seen one, 10 know it, and knowing
nothing whatever of the organization, We
must await Arnell's proposed investiga'
ton for an answer. In the meantime
we deem it proper to caution the public
against being unduly excited upon the
subject It is more than likely that It Is
a Radical trick to get up popular elanor
for the advancement Of Radical purposes
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ments published in the New York Herald
of the 9th and 9th of February, TO the.
effect that this company has proposed to.
sell its lines and property 10 the United
States government for sixty millions of
dollars, are wholly destitute of truth. No
offer TO sell our lines or any of our property
for sixty millions or any sum has been
made or authorized to be made, directly or
indirectly, either TO the United States or to
any party nor has any officer Of this
company. or agent thereof, or other person
made or been authorized or requested to
make any negotiations, or do or say any
thing relating to such sale or any sale
whatever. In brief, our lines have not
been, are not now, and will not hereafter,
while entrusted to the management Of the
undersigned, be offered for sale
w. ORION, President.
B. r. McALPINE, Vice President.
o. III. PALMER, Sec'y and Treas'r.
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TIE Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald states that the Judi
ciary Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatiYes had the matter Of the alleged
iniudicious utterances of Judge Field
under consideration yesterday. Mr.. VIII
son, of Iowa, chairman of the committee,
testified that he had heard remarks of the
tenor charged in the resolution under
consideration fall from the lips of Chief
Justice Chase and Associate Justices
Davis and Field All these gentlemen
had pronounced the peRding reconstrac-
tion hill unconstitutional.
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ONE of the pitiful lodges of the petti-
fogger who wrote Grants part Of the re-
cent correspondence with the President
is that referring to his "honor as a SOL
dier" What in the name Of sense has
his honor as a soldier TO do with his duty
as a civil officer Of the government
Why was that lugged in except as an
ad cGptdndum appeal Was it intended
aa card for the Array Of the Republic
Grants position is weak and contempt
BILE enough at best. Such resorts to
fortifg it only make it more SO.
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RAILROADS AND THEIR RELATION
To THE STATE

The Press and Times of yesterday
contains letter addressed to the Cover
nor by prominent member of the lie
gal profession of East Tennessee, in
which it is argued that the late act of the
Legislature entitled an act to amend
the internal improvement law of Febru-
airy llth, 1852" did not amend or alter
the provisions of the original act. The
argument is that the provisions Of the
original act are a subsisting and binding
contract irrepealable by law, and that
the recent act wrought no modification
Of the relation previously held by the
State with railroad companies
The letter consists wholly of special
pleading, and fails utterly TO make out
the case. Section lib Of the Code,
which is the substance Of a section Of the
original act, reserves to the Legislature
the right to pass all laws necessary to
protect the interests of the State from loss
in the bonds issued This, the act
of 1867 did, and amended the original
law by granting to the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad Company and
others, bonds upon new and different
conditions from those required by the
act Of 1852 The Legislature would have
given no State aid to any company if, as
the latter says, there had been ground to
believe it would be "frittered away"
But it fundamentally altered the terms
of the law which experience had shown
to be defective, and applied new and adj
ditional safeguards. Instead of giving
a Receiver unlimited time to use both
the property of company and the bonds
of the State, it proposed to issue directly
to the company a certain amount of
bonds, and on failure in a specific
time 1.-TWO years. to pay the interest to
foreclOse the lien upon all the property
Of the company, and make the
Governor, Secretary of State and
Comptroller Board of Commissions
ers to sell it in the interest of the State
The act plainly, ard by manifest interest,
dispenses with the Intervention of Re-
ceivers 1t was the mind of the Legisla-
tire that it did not pay the State to run
railroads as a way of getting its money
back. It, therefore, made more specific
contract than that in the act Of 1852,
both as to time, terms and mode of set
Element Consequently it is contended
that Receivers, except by express consent
of the companies, are unknown to the
amended internal Improvement law, and
that the bonds authorized under that
law can only be legally issued 10 the
companies after their acceptance Of the
terms, and to them alone
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The United States Navy Register for 1868
shows that there are six squadrons on for
eign service, comprising fifty-one vessels,
with an aggregate of four hundred and
thirty guns, and in special service
seven vessels, with an aggregate of sixty
six guns. Thirty-nine vessels have been
sold or lost since the publication of the
last Register, in 1866, and fity-three iron
clads are laid up at yarions naval stations
at home. There have been thirty nine
deaths among the officers during 1867, in
Guiding four Rear Admirals and one Com
modore. At the Naval Academy, Annapo-
Lis, there are stationed nine vessels not in
cluded in the above lists.
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TIE latest plan for the relief of traffic
on Broadway, New York, is TO tunnel it,
supporting the present road-bed on arches
of masonry and iron columns. In this
tunnel there will be room for four tracks
and sn extension on Fourth avenue 10
Harlem river, with SIX tracks, is intended
to enable all the trains on the Hudson,
Harlem and New Haven railroads to run al
undiminished speed 10 the heart of the
CITY. The scheme is before the Legisla-
tnre for charter. The cost IL about $1,000
600 per mile.
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AT the meeting OF the Universal Peace
Society in Washington last week, the chair
stated that about ten thousand ministers
not such as were about the capital and
other places, but ministers Of the so-called
Gospsl--had been invited to the previous
meetings, bat up to this time not one had
ar,naared
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A Contradiction.

New YORK, Feb. 6.-Ths following is
sent by request Of Mr.. Orion:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAPH COMPANY, las BROADWAY.
NEw YoRK, Feb 6, 1s6s.-The under.
signed officers Of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, and together constituting
its Executive Committee, respectfully beg
leave 70 inform the public that the state
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AVAILABLE land is becoming SO scarce
ip Kansas that the Legislature asks Con
gress not to allow any one person to pur-
chase large tract, and to compel the rail
road companies TO whom grants have been
made, to put them into the market
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Tar Washington Star of the 81 inst.
says: Colonel Edmund Cooper, acting
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury, ar
rived here Saturday from Tennessee. IL IS
his purpose to resign the Office Of Assistant
Secretary in few days. whether the Presi-
dent shall or shall not in the meantime
nominate a successor. Me-. Wells, Of
Michigan, is named as possible successor
for Colonel Cooper as Assistant Secretary
Of tho Traasurvn
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THIs has been rather dull year for pc
litical iokes, but this one will pass. The
New York Tribane said the other day
They have been hanging Of late years
pretty vigorously in Pennsylvania. We
do not know State in which the halter
has had fairer swing" The Boston Pos
replied This is the reason the Demo
Gratis have gained 8 majority ia Pennsyiva-
ME We sunDosep
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A eooDrY number of citizens Of this
region have received the circular letter
Of A. r. Stewart Il Co, general dry
goods and political stock jobbers, TO
take a chance in the grand Cooper lnsti-
tute lottery seheme-the chief and only
prize being Ulysses s Grant as Presi-
dent after the fourth of March next In
behalf Of large majority Of them who
hold such invitations, we would state that
they don't think the game worth the
candle, ana the investment is respect
fully declined The envelopes we're not
marked 10 be returned il not called for
in ten days, but Mr. Stewart is informed
they viii be returned if desired, and no
questions asked.
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PRIVATE letters from Chicago represent
Mrs. Lincoln as unquestionably insane.
One of her delusions is that she will come
to want, and she sells everything she can
lay her hands upon. She is said TO be
living in house allthe furniture of which
she has disposed Of, with two old men as
her body guard.
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THE gold fields of Nova Scotia yield
annually about $500, 900 worth of gold. In
the Sherbrooke district, in 1862, each
miner averaged for his earnings 1851 IS,
while, in 1867, the average had risen to
$1,000 20 for each miner, the number of
workmen having also increased
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THE lower house of the New Jersey
Legislature has passed a resolution in
structing the Congressman from that State
to vote against the supplementary recon-
struction act.
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In is stated in Raleigh that Hon. James
Brooks, of New York John Quincy
Adams, Of Boston, and other prominent
gentlemen will be present during the SIT
tings Of the North Carolina Conservative
State Convention, which meets On the 9th
Of March.
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III now seems that there is probability
of the acceptance of the terma-ten million
dollars-offered by Commodore Vanderbilt
TO the English capitalists for the Atlantic
and Great Western railway. L..
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1T,ddIe ntstrtct Of Tennessee.

.ucnF t1EpERsIGNED HEREBY GIVES
notice Of his appointment as Assignee OF
John AnsTsws Le e s1b fe in ne eo1nfg 81
nsvsss ard State Of Tennessee within said
Ds..,srf VIC have been sdiudged bankrupts
- fbsir own petitions, By the District Court Of
a~ia D'''',As A. 5. CHADBoURNEs Assisase.
jau22 lswSt' Onlce' S<75 OnaFcn stfee'-
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CHICAGO, it is announced, breWed beer,
ale and porter enough last year to furnish
every inhabifant of that city with barrel
full Of malt liquor.
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The Spiritualists claim that there are
eleven millions of people of their persua-
sion in the United States.
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THr Havana lottery, it is said, draws
million ofdollars annually from the pockets
Of the inhabitants Of New Orleans.
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a LADT's VIEW on THE cas-

a LADT's VIEW or THE CASE
An esteemed friend writes Us as fol-
lows
My vile thinks thai Andrew johnson
Is the only tnedlloatsr in America between
the Conservative and the Radical desfruc-
iionisfs; that no other nan, living or dead,
could have stood his ground against them
as Andrew johnson has done, except that
illustrious man, ANDREW Jackson, in the
days 81 his glory"
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STOLEN.

.,RoM THE SUBSCRIBER, AT 2z BROAD
X A,SHst = EIsek and Tan TERRIER SLUT
- n ~ Iso-irs5 A reward of Five Dollars will
- siSs1 tbe finder By returning same 70 above
~ So Gu - TH0S. HEFFERHAE-
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STATE OF TENNESSEE,

Ut ''''11I'''@ . = ~ TIT y I'7'7iJ
I, q. w. Blackburn. Comptroller Of the Urea
sury. do hereby certify that the Etna Life In
surance Company located 90 II artf0rd in the
State Of Connecticut. has produced 10 nee saIis-
factory evidence that said Company has com
piled with all the requirements of the laws OF
the State Of Tennessee. imposed on Insurance
Companies; and i further certify that WILL
LIAM u. TALBOTE, General Agent Of said
Company. and P. P. PECK, have also complied
with the requirements Of the laws Of the State.
made and provided in such eases wherefore.
said htnH Life Insurance Company has author
lty TO take risks and transact the business Of
Insurance in this State. a. Nashville, Tenn.
Il. W. BLACKBURN.
Comptroller Of Tennessee.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
RASE BALL.

MEMBERS OF THE NASHVILLE BASE
vi Ball Club are requested % meet at their
Hall on Broad street. THIS friday EVEN
ING. Business Of Importance to be transacted
n. CONSTANTINE. Sec'y.
fabT Il
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One Hundred aud FOFty-three Eats is
BaFrSSs's ansi HObsOn a WheIess'
Additions Sc EdxeasId.
STAT + NJ Mt
0f THE coyDrTIoN oF rHF
Home Insurance Company


Of New Haven. Connecticut. ON the
9Ist day Of December. 1857. Me-
fuFness 90 the Comptroller of the
state OF Tennessee.
Am't Of Capital aHthd by Charter s. 90. $40 40
Amt actually paid IN cash.. l.O0069 Go
Aa9ETs:
sl.6lse7o "A
LIABLLITIES:
Losses adjusted and due-.--.-.-..--.-. None
Losses adjusted and not due. N0ne.
Losses In process Of adiustment....s %. $50 a.
Amount Of IRE risks outstanding 30. III 31l q
Amount OF inland risks outstanding ~. ~ %
Largest amt insured in any one risk Zoo %
ID. r SAT1EkLEE, President
WN 3. 9OODELL. Secretary.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
NEW HAVEN COUETT. 50.
Personally appeared. b. r. Satterlse Presi-
dent, aud VIM. s. 8oOdell, Eecrstarv CT the
Home Insurance Company, Of New Ha-
ven. Connecticut, who being severaily sworn,
depcse and say that the foregoing Il q fall. true
and eorreet statement o. the Affairs Of said IN
surance Company, and that they are the ao0Fe
described officers thereof
JOSEPH SHELDON. Eatsrz Pubic
r p. PECK, Agent.
No. So. North College ST. Nashsilis'
janS0 Sw
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OLD RYE WHISKY.

WTE HAVE A FEW BARRELS OF
w Leekey's, Firebsugh's 4 Zollman.s eele
brated pure ROckbridge (Va.) Whisky, very
Gne AKERS Il HERRICh.
Corner Church and College streets.
feb7 II
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EA. BJLKELEY. President.
u. 0. ENDEk9. 8eeretarY.

STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
COUEFY % Hartford.
Personally appeared before me T.. A. Bake
ley, President, and Z. o. Finders, Secretary. to
me personally known. and subscribed and
made oath to the foregoing statement.
lsEaL.l CHAS. j. COLI,
Notary Public.