Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-05
FROM MEMPHIS.
Ene Registration FaEee.-A Wee Bst Of
ScandHi-The Black Crook ana BasI-

ness.
Correspondence Of the Union and Dispatch.
MEMPHIS, March 8, 1S68-A few items
from this, the main objective point of the
wicledneas perPetrated by the scurvy fel-
lows on Capitol Hill, may not prove I'M
interesting 10 your readers. Not that
Nashville Is exempt from their machiua-
tons, but IL seems 10 me those patriotic
individuals find il particularly hard work
to keep the ''uhreconstructed" straight in
this section. Half the Radical fugIemen
of West Tennessee are constantly in Nash
vile engineering pet projects, or endeavor-
ing TO flank others, who long for fat pick
iHgs. | observe in the Nashville papers
that burglary, garroting and other metro
politan eceentricities are cropping out par
ticularly lively in you1 city just now; and
il is an astonishing fact that every hsgira
from this point capitalward reduces that
species Of crime here. Being truly "loil,"
OF course don't mean to intimate that our
hegina il the cause of the astonishing in
crease Of sensations in the UNION AND
DISPATCH local department; but doesn't
it look funny?
THE REGISTRATION HUMBUo.
Pending the election the grand scramble
fer evidences OF citizenship is progressing.
Certificates Of registration, particularly on
days devoted TO that "culled enss from
Africa" literally gush from the Commits
sioner, who being a business partner Of
the little fellow of the name of Smith,
who represents a few hundred West Ten
nessee niggers in the State Senate, may be
set down as one of the anointed. Oar late
municipal election demonstrated that with
a fair chance the Conservatives could carry
the day in any contest Gov. Browniow
annulled the registration, and after much
delay, furnished the said Commissioner
the blanks, and told him to ego in" He
went in, and so did the niggers, who, on
"blaek" days have crowded the registra-
ton Mecca thicker thar leaves in Vallam-
brosa. The Commissioner has had a fra
grant time Of it. Being a flll-blooded
Radical he can endure great deal, but
occasionally, with nasal organ held closely
between thumb and finger, he is compelled
TO haul off for repairs. To be black is TO
be "loil." To be "loip is to receive GER
tificate, and everything works beautifully.
But poor white trash" have rough time
of it. Loyalty and white skins fail to as
simulate to the satisfaction of the Commits
soner and his owners, and fifty fragrant
freedmen are squeezed through the ma
chine, while one poor fellow who was fool
ish enough to be born white. is satisfying
Mr.. Commissioner that he has been 'sun-
conditionally loyaP since the seige of
Jerusalem. The registration will close
Thursday, and the list will doubtless reach
eighty thousand. Much interest is felt in
the result and the candidates on either
side are sparing no effort to come out up
per dog in the fight" Each ticket has
very strong and very weak men, and
Scratching" will prevail to an unusual ex-
tent
LITTLE SCANDAL.
OF course the telegraph and papers have
advised yon of the latest sensation, which
is now shocking the moral sensibilities of
Mr.. and Mrs Bon Ton, and even agitating
sans euloits. Its peer has never been known
here Society" is shocked, and when
modern Society" gets shocked look out
for squalls. Society" says it is terrible
affair, but hasn't decided exactly why or
how. Mrs. Leech, the lady in question, ia
the last person from whom any one would
anticipate an improprietg; but the young
scslawag Lewis a gay bank clerk who
figures in the affair, has never been ac-
cused OF more moral or pecuniary integ-
rity than would float an ark Whether he
would bring his grandmother before the
\ coroner in the hope of specializing on her
releains in the soaPssreAse line, am not
preysred to. say. It would doubtless de
pend on the state of the market. He vol
unfairly made oath to improprieties with
the poor woman, who is still in France
unconscious of the sensation rife here at
her expense, and left the city before her
father, who had little bnsiness of
somewhat personal nature with him, could
get glimpse at his face For two years
he was book keeper in the DeS0to Bank,
whose owners have several reasons TO re-
member him. The principal reason il a
little deficit of $4,000 in the accounts-a
mere trihe, you know. Leeoh, the hus-
band, has gone 10 Paris for his chill
dren, Lewis has gone to the = bad, and
society" has gone crazy over the sensa-
tion. Ii is discussed everywhere, in every
way and by every body, in parlors, on the
streets, at the theaters / have not heard
Of il reaching the churches, but how il will
keep out of them is not clear. A variety
of opinions are expressed about the matter.
The cause of the lady has many earnest
champions. Universal sympathy is ex-
pressed for her, and there areno few who
believe that revelations yet to be made will
: open more peoples eyes There are some
queer things connected with this sudden
explosion, Of which, more hereafter.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Black Crook is here and runs we'll
+ on account Of its numerous legs, l suppose
| II il a slight improvement on the beagle
! contraptioD, and draws different class
IL will be sncceeded Monday by Joe JEFF
/ | ierson.
: Business is extremely dGll-duller thar
ever knew it before. "For rent" is more
, thckly labelled than in the memory of th'
"oldest inhabitant," whoever that aston
ishing chap may be. But we live in the
/ hope that "there's better time coming
! boys" though il may swamp many poo
; fellow to wait little longer"