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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26

will. For instance, the Washington
Express, speaking for this class, says:
ALREADY we begin to witness signs Of
misgiving. Eager looks overspread the
countenances Of our Radical friends.
Whispered consultations are held when
ever two or three assemble together.
Each word uttered by Gen. Grant is
weighed to ascertain its full meaning,
and his every action is canvassed with
intense interest. They take note of the
company he keeps, and if a prominent
Democrat happens to talk with him semi
confidentially, they indicate By their
looks that they fear the worst is about to
happen In short, never was trium'
plant party 80 put to it." True, they
know their chieftain has never pledged
himself to carry out their peculiar ideas,
and that previous to his being made q
candidate he had never identified himself
with their party-indeed, with any party,
unless as we have right to claim, he
belonged to the Democratic organization,
because his last vote was given for the
Democratic nominee for President. He
made no particular declaration of politi-
cal faith during the canvass nor since,
and no man has been able to extract from
him word endorsing the views of the
Radical extremists. Hence the alarm
and uncertainty observable among the
Radicals
What of Grant From what "a dis
tinguished Radical Senator" and the
penny liner says of him, it is exceed
ingly difficult to tell whether he is pig
or pup" "-
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26

his property, rendered no profit to
the government, and served only to en-
bitter feeling and embarrass the restora-
ton Of a pacific temper. This feature
was purely punitive, and wholly without
warrant in the fundamental law, which
forbids the sequestration of property
without the trial and conviction of its
possessor under previous law.
lis political object, which was to pun-
ish the Southern landowner into acqui>
essence, and to buy the landless white
into accord with the party in control Of
the government, and to drill the negroes
into great voting reserve corps, was its
most damnable feature. 1t has been par
tally accomplished, however. The
Presidential election is over, and hence
there is no further use off
A folly, blunder, and crime, it will
fifty exemplily to after times that while
it flourished, vice held sway and impious
men bore rule.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26
THE MAGISTRATES, COURTs.

The Senate Judiciary Committee have
in charge the bill increasing the jurisdic-
ton ofJustices Of the Peace, and estab-
fishing an advanced rate of fees for those
officers. The interests of the people re-
quire that such a measure should be well
scrutinized before it becomes a law
There is danger that it will not only in
-crease legislation, but add to its cost, and
it is the business OF legislation to curtail
both Under the present law, a large
proportion of the judgments Of magis-
trates are appealed to the Circuit Courts,
and the dOckcts of the latter are crowded
with cases covering amounts varying
from two dollars and q half to twentyS
five dollars. 1t is 4 question whether
it would not be wiser to restrict the
jurisdiction very considerably below
what it now is, and make the decisions
unaTPealable If the people could get
along without lawsuits altogether, it
would be better, but the enlargement Of
the machinery prOyokes them, and thus
increases apublic evil. To furnish every
county in the State with an average Of
twenty-five or thirty judges in matters
involving a thousand dollars, and
many Of these not competent to decide
the question Of right to a moth-eaten
coonskin, and make such positions the
fat Office this bill proposes, would soon
convert the whole State into a huge
magistrates Office; and more time, trouble
and money would be spent in veSatiOus
litigation than would replace the lost
school fund.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26
RI. AND Al

BY fiat Of law, and the order Of the
Commissioner-in-C Chief just promulgated,
the institution designated by the cabalis-
lie letters above, ceases after the 3lst of
December proc. One month is allowed
Assistant Commissioners in the capacity
Of Superintendent of colored schools
and collectors of bounties for colored sole
diers. and then there are to be no more
cakes and ale" of that sort.
Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands were the matters in charge Of the
Freedmen's Bureau, now having served
its purpose, about to be abolished. That
there were and are men now employed in
this department of the public service, who
are honest as the world goes, and have
eudeavored to administer it uprightly,
there is no doubt. Structures upon it are
not intended to reflect upon its officers as
a class, though, bad as it is intrinsically,
il has been abused to worse purposes
than its authors meditated. To restrain
a wholesale swindlc 10y some of its agents
fortunately exposed a few weeks since and
before it could be consummated, gen
cral order was required. This outrage
too. was contrived against the ignorant
people the Bureau was professcdly organ
lied to protect On the whole 1t may be
said that taken byand large" as the
saving is, the Freedmen's Bureau has
done nothing well. Its possible and ac-
tual mischief has greatly oycIbalanced
the modicum of good that has come Of it.
1t will not GO out Of existence a day too
soon, and will go into record and be
prescribed in history as one Of the most
vicious measures Of the war period and
its immediate successor.
In the pension and protection It offered
iorefugocs, it increased that class OF per-
sons. These were people who fed from
their homes without cause, and preferred
to live on the public bounty rather than
earn livelihood for themselves. 1t was
government bid for idlencss and vaga-
bondism, and was responded to at costly
rate to the tax payers.
Itassumed charge Of the negro just at
the time when he should have commenced
to learn the responsibilities Of his new
relation to society, and dobauched him
into a nuisance. The mass Of the freed
people in the South were Of no account
TO themselves, and worse than useless to
the community, as long as the Bureau
controlled their conduct towards their
EMPLOYERS. Since the sphere Of its ope-
ratious has been curtailed, and they have
been permitted to contract and labor
without its interference, they have great
" Improved. In every district where the
Bureau failed as such, the. freedmen
worked better, and there have been fewer
camplaints of lawlessness than where it
was in full operation.
The jurisdiction it held Of absn-
doued lands was but a species Of tenn
porary connscation, which gave to the |
wner tTcubl TO rescue
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26
JNION AND AMERICAN.
THANKSGIVING

The national and State authorities
have set apart, and requested the people
Of the State and country, to observe to-
day as one of thanksgiving, for the Provi-
dental blessings Of the past year. Let
it be observed ACKNOWLEDGEMENT in the
mere cessation Of ordinary pursuits, but
in genuine heart-offerings to Deity for
multifold and substantial comforts that
each of us have enjoyed. As individuals
none have cause to grudge such tri-
butte Of gratitude to Almighty God for
the lenience with which He has viewed
our follies and tolerated our short COM
ings.
As communities, States, and Union
Of States we have still greater cause to
be thankful. Not, it is true, that we
have lust and honest municipal rule; not
that we have wise and pious State Cows
ernor not that the national administra'
ton is united in the highest and noblest
effort Of human rulers, to bring peace,
prosperity and happiness to the toiling
nultitudes Of the human race but that
we have and still look up to a self-existN
ent and eternal God, who perpetually
reigns, and whose laws are above the
the hand Of the human intermeddler,
and whose dealings with mankind, though
often past finding out, still aggregate
blessings and mete out just rewards and
punishments to its subjects.
Let, therefore this day be marked as 8
pause-as period--wherein all can and
will turn back from the fearful pursuit O
evil intents and purposes, review the past
and cast the dim horoscope Of the future
1t is day for the skeptic as well as tht
believer. 1t is alike for the diseased ant
the healthfal for the oppressor and thu
oppressed for the plunderer and thr
plundered; for the proud and the lowly
for the rich and the poor. 1t turns on
CONCENTRATIONS from the fierce and bite
contests of the world, to the severe crit
cisms Of conscience. In that forum tn
day is useful beyond computation. !
may, if properly used, be worth a month
year or a decade Of ordinary time.
Reader, what will you do with it o.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26
Farmers, Buy at Home

NIOUR WAGONS AND AGRICULTURAL
implements. | am manufacturing the very
best Of Steel Plogs. and other 1mpiements
AIso wagons of the very best material and
workmanship. }. h. hUMSE4,
No. 334 South Cherry street, between Ash an
HuInerry streets oct6 6m
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26
JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Whenever the United States Circuit
Court Is about to sit ut Richmond, We are
treated to a dissertation upon Jefferson
Davis. and the probability Of his trial
being entered on. A few days sicce 1t
was positively announced that the Chief
Justice would order up the case, though
Mr., Davis. as it is well known, is in
Europe. There has never been a posi-
bility that Mr.. Davis would be tried at
this term, and we have long since arrived
at the conclusion that it is impossible to
try him at any time. The Chief Justice
evidently does not want the questions
involved, before the court, and the party
in administration has no interest in hav-
ing them judicislly decided. Except IN
breasts where the hellish fires OF
sectional hate are still burning, and these
are comparatively few, there IS no desire
to visit yindictiye punishment on Jetter-
son Davis and the leaders in the Radi'
cal party know that if they could coerce
a conviction, the enforcement Of the
sentence would shock the civilized word,
and react injuriously upon them.
In addition to these general reasons,
the annual term Of the Supreme Court
at Washington over which Judge Chase
presides is too close at hand, even II the
accused were in the country, to conclude
the cause if it were commenced. We
have no idea that it was contemplated 10
try him now.
Gen. Grant could not commence his
ADMINISTRATION with wiser, juster or
more magnanimous act than he.issue to
Mr. Davis and the distinguished leaders
Of the Confederacy, Of free and unHon-
ditional pardon, and recommendation
TO Congress to ratify it and remove all
the disabilities which attach TO them
To hope for this, would, perhaps, be 10
expect much to but, nevertheless, 1t
would be craftsmanship. 1t would 60
ont with healing on its wings, and give
earnest that a reunion Of the nation on
the basis of genuine confraternity was
about to commence.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26
,TyEHUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD

UvHEREAS, CERTAIN EYIL-DISPQSED
w persons and violent men are, ana nave
been burning barns and school-hlGusef, , anu
firing and attempting to burn dwelling houses
in the dead hours Of the night N our own
county of Monroe, in the State Of Tennessee;
and ali, L,
different localities in the same county, anu u en-
are forced 10 guard their property by hlSnt'
now, r
of the state Of Tennessee. do hereby offer re-
ward Of $500 for the arrest ard delivery 10 the
Sheriff OF Monroe county, OF any Such person
or persons, OSE-HALF to be paid by the Statg
and ONE-HALF BY the citizens Of the 9ioTes3tu
county The further condition upon when THIS
reward will be paid Is that the parties MAKING
the arrests shall furnish testimony when sHaII
lead 10 the cOnylcuon OF me cIlN'lAai '''oi0
the civil tribunals Of the country; -
Governor as aforesaid, have hereunt9 SET
lis my hand and caused the Great seal OF me
state 10 be affixed. at the Department IN
Nashville, this sd day Of November, 1858.
By the Governor: ~ , DDOyrNrOv
Al FLETCHER, Secretary Of State.
In;ar p;Iot Athens Republican, Knoxville
Wing and Nashville Press aud limes PGP D.
three times. Ho'-'o''
1t was in loyal East Tennessee that
the revenue officers had so much trouble
with the loyal distilleTs, and to which the
military had to be sent to enforce obedi-
ence to the laws. 1t seems that the spirit
of deviltry has broke out in a new chan
mel in that loyal region. The Governor once
threatened to use the torch in punish
ment of "Rebels" in a certain contlngen-
cy. His loyal subjects in Monroe must
be practicing for that icray. Why did
not the Governor get Gen. Thomas to
teach the people Of that county that the
laws must be respected, instead of issu-
ing proclamation which will only give
a sop to a few Radical papers, his own
included?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26
THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF EDU
CATION.

CATION.
Our readers NAV not knoW-we cons
fess, that in the Heterogeneous mass of Fed
eral legislation brought forth in the last
three years, we had overlooked it-tbat
there is a National Department or Bureau
of Education Some recent charges Of
Official shortcoming against the Commits
sioner-Dr. Henry Barnard-has drawn
attention to it. The law establishing it
went into force in March, 1867. The
fact that it has accomplished nothing of
note in nearly two years, except to de-
monstrate the incapacity or derolictions
of its head, is sufficient to Justify the OBJ
jections urged against such an institution
at the time the measure was before Cona
gress.
The obiectan will admits worthy one
The diffusion in the public mind Of the
correct value of education as an agent OF
civilization, and the promotion Of the
| good OF society; and the devlsal OF means
to secure uniformity and efficiency in the
various systems of public schools is we'll
But is this the duty of government, or oil
private citizens engaged in the cause o.
education? Clearly the latter The
Federal system did not contemplate thi'
and matters like it, in its scheme. 1t Is
proper enough for States and municipal
corporations to assist and oversee to :
certain extent, educational affairs Blu
a Bureau at Washington, with its attend
ant expense, will cost more than it cOme
to- 1t will not educate any child, roI
advance the system of schools in prctici
ency, and will serve only to put another
spoke in the great iron wheel which nov
revolves with crushing weight over muct
/ ron many thinGs
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26
VALUABLE FARMS!
$40 Acres for SaIe-Three Farms
Samuel l.. CaIhOun's Lands, Seven
Miles from Lebanon.

$40 Acres for SRfe-Bhree Farms
Samuel l.. CaIhOun's Lands, Seven
Miles from Lebanon.
DY VIRTUE OF A DECREE OF THE
ID Chsncery Court at Lebanon, Tenn, am
Bursuant to The terms of Deed Of Trust exc.
cuted by Samuel l.. Ca!houn-On Monday,
18th December, 1858, at TaylOrsvIIIe, VII.
son county, l will offer at public sale. to the
highest and best bidder, the fine farm lands OF
Sam'I L. Calhoun, as follows:
Home Place. 253 acres. with good improvements,
Provine Place, rs acres, small
Rutherford Lands, Il2 acres, no
And two Store Houses and about = of an acre
of land in Taylorsville.
These lands are valuable and desirable; neigh
borhood excellent; the sale absolute. Pur-
chasers will have possession LIST day OF Janua
ry, 1867. The lands must be sold. and bargain
may be expected. Apply on the place and eI-
anime, or 10 me in Lebanon, Tenn.
TERMS-0ne-third cash. and the balance in
one and two years, without interest. Notes
with two or more approved sureties. Notes
will be discounted at . Ier cent. if purchasers
desire TO pay.
The land is sold without redemption. and to
pay debts. Come and buy bargain.
EDWARD 1. GOLLADAN,
Trustee and Commissioner
Lebanon, Nov. l., Is63-novi7 law4t
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26
The TORCH IN LOYAL EAST TEN.
NESSEE

Monroe county is truly loyal spot in
this great State. In August, 1861 ii
gave 977 votes for Brownlow and lGl fol
Etheridge. That is proof Of its loyalty
1t is this county in which the Union
Pilot is published. This paper is q
Radical organ, designated by the Gov
ernor to do legal advertising. It was this
paper, published in this loyal county,
that advocated the suppression of free
speech by stopping Democrats from
making speeches in the presidential can
yass The reader will not therefore be
surprised when informed that the follow
ing appears in the Governors paper, the
Knoxville Wing, Of Nov. y
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26

Large sales of fine Coal will be made at lie :
figures. and capitalists who think of going to
manufacturing, are earnestly invited to confer
with the officers of this Company upon the sub
jecL of a permanent supply Of cheap Coal.
They claim that the problem has been solved.
and that CHEAP COAL for manufacturing pur
poses can now be guaranteed
The New York herald., 1868-05-27
AyIUSE1lKNTS.

B'N'mAi r5slfiynIT 5afAtih LAST WEEK RE!ss % " 0A
A cuANnMFR. MR. AND mrs. BARNEY wiLLlAE c-
NE. XNH MRS. % WILLIAMS IN gfATHH BOTH Pieces.
,, WEDNEsDAf AND Thu RSDAY.
- AL HALLOW EVE; OR SNAP APPLE NIGHT
NJ NJ y wuS hody O'Connor
IXTiEisi IRox HEw york. Any AHs'A
MS .sertna sprout
sATUkDAY, FAREWELL WILLIAMS HHTiNEE. hTi NhETEsAD
MqNpApi qSp pI pHE IHE,,A ,AARgiST, MATILDA HERON,
Seats secured from til 9, six days in advance
BROADWAY THEATRE
ID EXTRA ANNOUNCEMENT
FAREWELL BENEFIT OF MRs BARNEY WILLIAMS.
AND POSITIVELY THE LAST APPEA RX NOE
BUT ONE THIS s ASON OF
MR.. AND MRS. BARNEY WILLIAMS,
MONSTER PROGRAMME WILL BE PREsRNrRD
Mr.. AND MRS. BAR EY II ILLIANS
IN FIFTEEN CHARACTERS, SON ,S AND DANCES
SHANDY MANURE.
Mr.. BARNEY WILLIAMS. .as..... .sHANDY MAGUIRps
MRS. BARNEY WILLIAMS
wonderful impersonation of eight m
HOUR IN SEVILLE,
WITH SUPERB COSTUMES.
Box book open during the week
DLIND TOMS CONCERTS
ID AT CONTINENTAL HALL,
(Greenpoint, l.. I.,)
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY ~,
THE WONDERFUL NEGRO soy PIANIST,
Positively night only
At Flushing, L. l., Thursday evening, May o.
AT Williamsburg L.. l., Friday and Saturday evenings
On MONDAY AND TUESDAY EVENINGS, JUNE and 2r
at the TABERNACLE, JERSEY CITY.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-08-05

How GEN. GRANT TRAVELS. The editor of
the, ,Leavenworth" Bulletin" who went some dis
tance with Cen. Grants party ON their West
ward trip, and who gives glowing account of
the Generals enthusiastic RECEPTION along the
route, says in conclusion -rr, ;.r ,ian'
I'm travelling over the country Gen, Grant
has sprsad out before him large map of Ell, this
new portion of the Union. He examines the
country makes inquiries about everything which
he does not understand, makes notes and cor
recbons on his map, and hardly allows a mo-
ment to pass unimproved. He is very, pleas.
ant companion. talking only when necessary and
always TO the point. Will all The other mem.
.bers of the party frequently INDUCED in cigars.
it was noticeable that Gen. Grant did not smoke
at all, He told several good stories during the
day. and seemed to enjoy tn trip with genuine
heartiness. Cen. Sherman, however. did most
of the talking--he never stops-while Gen.
Sheridan was full of lie, fire and fun. He runs
over with merriment, and has vitality enough to
supply whole army corps. Success to the tour
lists At Wamego, Manhattan. Fort Riley juno
ton City aud, Ellsworth they must hcve had
sOeAi" 8u9ef y"cioome' u :. - Hl'" ur'n
One thing mora tHa,Till add. We have been
out with many parties. public and priyate, on
the new Pacific Railways, but this is the first
one which had no intoxicating liquors of any sort
with it, There were no baskets of wine. private
bottles or TASKS. fever man had the appear
ance of being strictly temperate that man is
Gen. Grant. Hardy less remarkable than thie
was the fact that there, was n9t,an oath uttered
by any man in that car Yesterday"
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-08-05
a}l iseGll Il.

SOUTHERN VIEWS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
We feel bound to keep our readers full
ly enlightened as to the response given at
the South to the Democratic platform aud
ticket, because it is there that the true
an mus and effect of the Democratic posi-
ton Of to day is tc be seen Now, rs
heretofore, the Southern wing of the De
mecracy is the positive, directing, wing ;
aud although it assumed at New York a
novel appeal ance of disihterestcdness and
deference to its Northern complement,
which was equally becoming aud adroit
under the circumstances, its controlling
influence was, ncvei tbeless, as manifest
as the presence of powerful magnet In
the midst of metal particles. The pros
poets of Judge Chase, which had loomed
up SO brilliantly, suddenly collapsed. as
if under some mysterious iuAuence The
platform. which it was intended should
be uice piece of dovetaied negations,
uuitable to all sections of the party and
offensive to none, came out of the hands
Of the committee decided repudiation
and revolutionary document. Frank
Blair's letter, which. in the opinion oil
nine tenths of the most judicious New
England Democrats, would have killed
all his chances for nomination, really
made him the fayOrite Of the hour.
: Such was the attitude of the Southern
Democracy in the New York Convention
and the spirit and the style in which
( they have since opened the campaign arc
yhat might have been expected from the
key note Struck in the National Conyen
ton. II anything. they have grown more
audaciods, as If greatly encouraged and
stimulated bv the unexpected sympathy
of their Northern brethren. Among
those who have returned to conduct tb'
Southern canvass for Seymour and Blai1
is John Forsyth, Of the Mobile Register
who gives his views in a carefully framed
editorial, vh.cA Is we'll Worth consider
ing here at the North. II takes th'
ground, 1t will be seen, that the disfran
chiscmont of disloyal men by the recon
struction laws SHOULD be openly disrc
garded by the Southern people, as follows
I'VE start with what we regard as
postulate, and that is that nothing bu
an overwhelming Democratic victory II
November, the effect of which will be
drive from power the enemies Of flre
goVerament, and the oppfessors ol 10
people Of ten states, can acert cioH 'oa
Ia Inc hnd. II by any species Of chlca
hery or ifaud the Legitimate voices Of
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-08-05

DUToH CuURCH--lIGHTNING ROD Alta
parish meeting in one Of the towns in the
interior of Pennsylvania, where a new
Meeting House had just been erected, the
question was agitated with respect to
having lightning rod put up Opinions
were freely interchanged, and the projeca
seemed to meet with general favor, until
an influential and wealthy old German
thus let himself swing ;-eiving ptterarce
to rather novel sentiment, one not in
accordance with the generally received
opinion of sae established laws of Nature
and Provi ience.
"Now gentlemens, | tells you vat l
links. l tink we hash beens to much
troohle and expense, and none hash gin
tollars more as |, to build o church for
tie Lord, and next Sunday we gives it to
him. and if he will dounder down his
own house. den says let him aoGndst
away gives no vote nor mouish for
doundcriug rodI" y., 80 ~,
This multum in parvo spsech proved o
settler of the question, the enterprise vas
abandoned, the meeting was adjourned
sine die, and the worthy Pensioners
harmOnizcd beautifully over glass of
lager at the village inn. ,..v