Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-15
MARROW THE BONE.

! An EmpecunIOus Muss-YOu 60 ON My
Bond and TIL go ON Yours. Don't Yen
See-A tCOnstabWlary SttcIsiag PIas-
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About the middle of December last,
the publication process that was forever to
free Nashville from the affluvia of past
Rebel deeds was commenced in earnest.
Old things were done away and all things
we're to become new. Dispensaries were to
be dispensed with, the city was no longer
TO be bored with Board of Health, and
the Board of Education was 10 be abated
as a public nuisance. New prophets had
sprung up in Israel, who knew not Joseph
or any other man that had ever been ac-
guainted with him. New teams were to
be put in the municipal harness, full rig
ged and equipped for crusade against all
the old tracks that had been successfully
driven over; new drivers were employed
for these teams. New hands were pnt at
the public pumps of city affairs
They have run the machine one month
and few days. Their chance Of growing
fat on the public carcass is slim, indeed
there are two many of them the pickings
have not been sufficient to feather their
nests, satisfy the cravings OF their hungry
maws, or to present any thing hattering in
the future. So many providers had rioted
and fatted at the public crib before they
came, that they found bnt little left. HaYN
ing nothing whatever 10 fall back upon,
they find themselves where the whang-
doodle mourneth, with nothing LEFT but
dry bones, destitute Of marrow.
They went into Office with grand flour
ish of trumpets, and great reformatory
ideas were to be elaborated. From seven
O'Clock in the evening till two the next
! morning was exhausted on the first heat,
ard from seven till eleven on the next, be-
fore from the assembled wisdom there
present, selections could be made. After
the election, days were occupied in driving
around, riding around and walking around
to drum up securities for the bonds which
the law required. Afser repeated efforts
partial success crowned their efforts. A
piece of strategy that would have done
honor to Cesar, Hannibal or Napoleon
was resorted to. Finding the refusals fre>
quent, a council of war was held, and
every expedient was thought of and evolved
in vain. At length bright idea struck
the elect. 1t was suggested upon the prin-
ciple of reciprocity, that, as they were all
in Office, they were good. Then the propo-
sition was, "You 60 on my bond, and Pll
go on yours, don't you see ~ This sub
lime idea took-it was the only thing that
could take-each other in. After Peter
had signed Paul's bond, and Panl had
signed Peters, a few outsiders who had
| property, and who, something like the
jackass in the fable, hesitated as to which
stack they would feed from till all the hay
was gone, were logged in 70 the signing Of
the bonds. Things were working amazingly
we'll. Unfortunately Ringler sprang the
trap before the time. A very big sunbeam
struck the hitherto Opaque visual organs
OF the aforesaid outsiders, and a very
small sized financial galyanic battery
thrilled along their nerves. "Take me
offp "Take me out p they cried with one
accord ard with loud voice. Offthey came
and out they went. One by one they slid.
Loyalty itself wilted before the facts of old
grand grind, hard times and pros
pective bleak houses. Officials left alone,
cling now 30 each other the closest kind in
their leanness, there being nothing between
them. In this state of the case it were petit
| able to disturb them. But Eaisfortunes never
90 singly; no sooner than their under
pining is knocked out than sticking plas-
Ter is placed upon them. On yesterday
Constable Creighton, in his official ca
pacity, forgetting entirely the former
majesty of these great people, absolutely
had the official impudence to serve notice
upon two of Nashville's highest dignataries.
Mayor Alden is by this notice restrained
from signing any more checks, or author
| izing the collection of the same, and Capt.
Sheridan is restrained from making any
more collections till the proper securities
are made and entered into. What amazing
impertinence in Creighton is this. This is
an Interesting impecunious muss, and we
know not where it will end. New men
will go on the bond, and We presume thai
Capt. s. viii stamp them till they stick
whether he hath greenbacks or not, he
will have to show that he can be a bond
holder before such chaps as Creighton will
let him rest. f-r srsr
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