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Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-15
ANNEXATION.
A Voice from the Southern boundary
The Legislature Invoked and the
Corporation DenOuuced-A Tax Pay
er's Notion of City Extensions.


! Voice from the Southern boundary
The Legislature Invoked and the
Corporation DenOuuced-A Tax Pay
er's Notion Of City Extension.
The following document, addressed TO
the Legislature by property holder re-
siding beyond the Southern suburbs of our
expending and expanding metropolis, was
handed us yeste rday for publication
To he Members Of The General Assembly,
1t appears that the city authorities have
asked your honorable body TO make an
extensive annexation TO Nashville, them
selves not SO much as consulting the
property holders or citizens within the ter
ritory proposed 10 be taxed
Has il really come to this, gentlemen,
that you are presumed TO be capable of
acting toward your fello-wcitizens as If they
were
Dumb driven cattle ?"
Will you say to us as these fnnctionaries
have virtually said:
=" HE along, oxen
Get along faster
The straw tor yourselves,
But the grain for your master
As we'll might each bankrupt in the
State, ask the Legislature to pass law
compelling his more prudent, though I'M
willing neighbors, to pay his debts. If
any sufficient reason exists for enlarging
the area of Naslyille-and / know of none
let the authorities, for conscience sake,
come 10 us with clean hands, and with an
honest and honorable proposition In
other words, let them pdg aChdt they o,te,
then manifest due respect for the wishes
of their neighbors. Until they can show
more financial capacity than they have
recently exhibited, We outsiders prefer to
remain outside, and TO manage our own
interests according TO our best Judgment
Such a specimen of injustice as is pro-
posed to us, is probably without
parallel or precedent. 1t is an insult
both to the intelligence and good morals
of the Tennessee Legislature, for a
corporation which has spent its substance
in rIinous shifts and shaIns, and in such
silly and heavy expenditures as is dis
played in the spelling of the capito! |
grounds, TO come before your honorable
body with request that you compel their
innocent neighbors to help pay their enor-
nous debts Will you, can you, for mo-
ment entertain such proposition? Nash |
vile is the capital of the State of Tennes- |
see, and county town. There possibly |
would have been come show of Justice on |
the part of these dignitaries TO have asked |
you, as Representatives of the State, to pass
law making it the duty of the State |
Treasurer to pay the ancient debts of this |
venerable city. There would be some pro-
priety in annexing and taxing-for taxa
ton is what they are after-the whole of |
Davidson county, and thus equalize bur
dens after the payment of old debts But |
to measure of hundreds of acres, as ia the |
southern boundary, and make the owners
thereof pay tribute to the city, when they |
have neither streets, houses, gas, water,
schools, colleges, police force or any such
thing, is, to say the least of it, singularly |
unfair, entirely wrong and most ridiculous. |
/ am, gentlemen, very respectfully yours,
in hope Of FAIR DEALING.
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TIE SoUPHoUsE MAcBINE.-The Soup
house, while it may have benefited many
of the starving poor Of Nashville, has
proven almost as much a nuisance as a
medium for the relief of the destitute
Scores Of idle negroes, able-bodied, and
who ought TO be banished from the city,
are daily fed there at the expense of the
people, and refuse TO accept employment
anywhere. A gentleman who wished to
hire a number Of negroes to 90 10 work in
Hickman county, visited the Souphouse a
few days since, and was highly edited by
the sight of more than hundred of these
big lazy raseals drawing their regular al
lowance, not one Of whom could be in
duced on any terms TO 60 to the country.
And of such are the Qualified voters" of
Tennessee
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DIED,
Couutv Jailar,

In New Orleans. on sl6th of January, ls6s,
Of cholera, SELyEsTER HAEFER, formerly ofthil
city, aged thirty-one years and seven months.
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BANKRUPrcY.-Five hundred and forty
seven petitions in bankruptcy have thus
far been filed in the United States District
Court. The following persons have fled
petitions since our last report:
Davidson eounty-Frederick NJ Mitch
ell, David Humphreys, VIM. p. Elliott,
Phillip Blnmenthal, P. B. Vaughan, Louis
Karger, Nashville; NJ. L. Cartwright,
Edgefeld J. D. Easley, Jr., Lavergne.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. B. Rozell, Thos.
A. Pope, Franklin; Jacob T. Martin,
Thompson Station.
Hickman-E. A. Hornbeak, Centeryille;
c. II. Church, Collin A. Shelton.
Montgomery - G.. A. Woodson, Jr.,
Clarksville; James w. Trshern, New
Providence; w. Il. Marshall
Maury e. /. Lansdown, Clair & o Neil,
VIM. II. Davis, James J. West, Geo. W.
Campbell, Columbia; W. w Mccormick,
Thos. w. Blair, Jas. o. Blanton, Spring
Hill; j. o. York, VIM. Blanton, Miles G.
Higdon, j. c. Lavender, Jas. " Chandler,
Pinkney NJ Wright, VIM. b. Leeich.
Wayne-Wm. H. Farria.
Franklin-Wm. p. Keith.
Bedford-P. H. Reeves, J. l.. Dyer.
Ruiherford-Robert G. Bass.
Dickson-Wm. w. Norris
Stewart-J. w. Parchmsn, Cumberland
City; r. A. Barker.
Humphreys-Abner c. Parrish, Bruce
L. Phillips, Waverly; Pugh Haynes.
Giles-Robert H. Butler, Knight & Har-
rison.
Final discharges were granted the follow
ing named persons VIM. A. Griffith, w.
H. Sorrel, Davidson county; j. II. Wag-
goner. H. j. Davis, Montgomery county (;
G. L. Porter, Sumner county.
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srrLnF has received the latest snd
freshest periodicals, weeklies, monthliss
and dailies. Call and look at the most
extensive stock of literature in the city.
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Tar MF1RoPoLITAS PoLIcE CASE
The Metropolitan Police case in the SUI
preme Court will no; be reached under two
weeks.
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Diaarici Of Tennessee.

THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY GIVES
I notice 81 ms appointment ~ sssignee Of
". W. hoss aud AisI. A. kincent. Of the county
Of Rutherford and State 81 Iennssses. WithiE
said district, whobaTe beer. adDudsst haEkrnEt
on their own petits0ns, b TIE District Court u
EDWARDL. JORDAN. Assignee.
f.L- --or
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Nashville live stock Market.
NASHVILLE, Feb. IA, 1863.

The market has a fair supply of fat
beeves during the week. Prices are about
as last week. We quote
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Our CIarlsvIIIe Agent. JOHN W
FAEON. Of the Northern Bank Of Tennessee
ia our authorized agent at Clarksville' Iennes-
see. 10 receive and receipt for subscriptions and
a....lt. nrrnnt. Cor the INInN AEn DIsPATCH.
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MARRIAGE LICFNsEs.-The following
marriage licenses were iasned from Eth. 7ih
10 Feb. l4lh
Christian Hook To Caroline Simon.
Charles Squires TO Julia Phelps.
Valentine Weigd to Caroline Bohne.
Michael Murray 10 Eliza Cassidy.
Reuben F. Wood to Eliza Yandell.
Henry Fitzsimmons to Sarah Madigan.
VIM. II. White to Eliza Phelps.
James Chamberlin TO Adelaide Nichol
A. w. Moore to Matte f. Brown.
August Shill TO Mary Davis.
+. A. Harrison TO Ida Watson.
VIM. s. Sawrie TO Marian McAlister.
Seven licenses we're issued to colored
,oranpo
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NrsRo SHor.--A negro was shot dead
in Williamson county on Wednesday, 10y
man named Thomas Crow. The matter
T. 10 he investigated before magistrate.
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WATER TAx.-Persons having to pay
Water Tax, or other taxes due the corpo-
ration, can get Corporation Checks in
amounts to suit, of Thos. s. Mari, corner
Union and College streets. febll lw.
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PAYMENT OF THE POLICE AND EN-
PIoyEs-The Metropolitan Police and
city employees are net to be paid until next
mall
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NOLENsVILLE NURSERY
CHRISTIAN & GREEN, Projectors.

3HHA THE BEST AND CHOICEST VA
kR i Tieties Of Fruit Trees, suited
sfz8to the soil Of Tennessee and the
South can be supplied in any guam
EkA. titles and will be warranted as rep.
resented Send fer a catalogue. Orders viii
reseivs prompt attention. Address or call on
M. J. GREEN. Agent.
Al stratton. Cheney 4 kOys. No. 10 Broad
street, Nashville, Tenn. iebi I'm
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The following are the New York quota
tons Of gold yesterday: Opened at 40,
was 140t at 1890, l40t at noon, and
closed at 14ot at P. NJ, and after the
board it was quoted at l4l. Dealers here
we're paying 1891 and holding at al.
Government securities were quoted in
Me- Vo-I- -o,4orJ,- - e.JJo
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The weather is again moderating. Capt.
j. Y. Galum returned yesterday. We are
informed he proposes retiring from the
river, and has been prospecting for an Illi-
nois farm. The Mississippi leaves for
New Orleans Friday.
by Telegraph.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 1.-THE river is rising
slowly, with eight feet in the canal by the
mark. Weather clear. Thermometer AZ.
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. l4--Weather clear and
mild.
PITTsBURG, Feb. 1.-THE river ia fall
ing, with seven and one-half feet in the
channel
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CRIMINAL CoURT.-The jury in the case
Of n. Watson, charged with the murder
Of Joseph b. Frame, are still unable 70
agree. though they have been ont several
days
The argument IA the case OF ex-police
man Green b. Thomas charged with XIII
ing Samuel Walker vas closed yesterday
snd the case given 20 the jury, which viii
probsblv return a verdict to-day.
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Cincinnati Market.
New York Market.

New YORK, Feb. 14.-Cotton dull, and
4@9c lower; sales 21OO bales uplands at
204 @202c. Rice quiet. Coffee quiet and
firm. Sugar quiet; Havana 5@144e.
Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat quiet
and firm at 50 1902 SO.
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Leaves Nashville Tuesdays. ThHrsdays ana
SATURDAYS at 3 o'clock A. NJ, arrives 81 Nash-
VILE Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays at /
o'clock P. n.
LFwrsBURG AND ToLEEsvILLE STAGE,
Leaves Nashville Tuesday. Thursday, and sat
urday at 100 A. NJ, arriving at bewisburg same
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PERSONAL Gen. Forrest and Andfew
jackson Donelson are registered az the ST..
Cloud
Gen. W b. Barnett and Major Wm.
Fessenden, near relative Of Hon. Wan.
Pit Fsssenden, are at the Stacey House.
Ii !. understood that Gen. Barnett aud
MAJOR Fessenden are here on business Of
the Revenue Department.
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London advices Of yesterday quote United
States sos at 723
Exchange on New York was taken by
the banks yesterday at &c discount, and
sold by them at par.
neutrality-suspicious. checks we're bought
at 35c discount
There was but little demand for govern
ment bonds, and no change in uncurrent
money.
The sales of Southern State bonds at the
New York Stock Exchange on the l1th inst
we're as follows:
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IOr1svIIIF AND NASHVILLE kAil.h'A"'
800 Nashvitle AZ ...-. roe A. N. and 7.i5 ?. N.
6rrive AZ Nashville 100 A. 4. and 529 P. y.
Franklin Accommodation train arrives ~
Nashville ll.S5 4. n. and leaves bZp P h.-eA-
cept on Sunday.
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y 80 ~ ~ - tNt-fasNtas.
ets aPsys
FIRST Northern.
" A. y.
Serond Norihern.
... ~ ...-......-..A4f p. NJ
it,st Washington and Southern Via
Chattanooga.
l2h1 midnight A. A.
sscanss Wa<htaggOa aud Southern via
Chattanooga.
1 ~ D. NJ .......... -..--..-..-.--..4.t p. n.
decatur. Memphis and New Orleans.
57il midnight. A. n.
Memphis aud New Orleans.
$40 p M......-..-....-- P. n.
EaueaeId ansi Kentucky r. r.
i015 90 A. N.
Northwestern II. n.
1900 midnight .-............. P. N.
Lebanon VIA Stage.
1910 p. n.
ThomRsviIIe via Stage.
Thursdav
300 midnight.. Saturday $40 P n.
Jordan's Store VIA stage.
Monday l2.e1 midnight ----.-.....-.-...--.loo N.
Weinesaav do .....-...-..-.. 20
Friday do .-...-.-.....-.-..-. DO
IIberty-Via Stewards Ferry. Cainsville and
Statewide.
Thursday 300 midnight Thursday S:OoP. ".
SPARTA STAGE.
Arrives Moudays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
at4P. N. Leaves Tuesdays. Thursdays and Sat
urdays, OF An.
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New York HONEY and Atock Market.
New Orleans Market.

New ORLEANS, Feb. l4.-Cotton easier; ;
sales 200 bales; middings 1890; receipts
1887 bales; no exports; sales of the week
"a, 500 bales; receipts 80, l8l bales; exports
coastwise 1858 bales; foreign 1920 bales /;
stock 52l ,8l4 bales. Sugar and molasses
active and unchanged,
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T FLU. TT Y.

oFESlNG Ann CHASING oF TaE
ssttS-AEGNST tst -0ascia..
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,gAsHvTIl.E AND HORrfrw EsTERE RAILROAD
Passenger Trains.
Leaves Nashville nj 49,. I245 4. N. and 5v2 P NJ
Arrives at Nashville st.7;l5 A. H. ana e'VO P NJ
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PRICES CURRENT
OF
r.. Ct. RLATHERWECK

FFIC
Nashville Gas Light Company
Nashville. Feb. q. 1898.
THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THIS COMPANY
are hereby notified that the annual election
of Directors for said Company takes place
on the
5fh Day OF March, 1865.
By order Of the President.
JAS. II. KENDRICK, Secretary.
feb7 til lB. q. P&Tl
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~ A ~ n IL vi II N a
or TIE COEBITGOS OF Tbs
Continental Insurance Co.,
Ofthe City Of New York. on the LIST day Of Ian
uaIy. A. d. 1868. made to the Comptroller OF
the State Of Tennes'ss. pursuant to the stat
ute Of said State

NAME AND LOCATION.
The name of this Company is the Continental
Insurance Company. incorporated ia 1852. snd
located in the city Of New York.
CAFIFAL.
The Capital Of said Com
pany, actually paid up
In cash, is-..........-........ e10O 900 %
The surplus on the lst
day Of January, I86S......i. 3l4, $50 81
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New York Dry Goods Market.

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-Goods are adj
vancing. SPrague prints are mp to lac.
Indian Head heavy. Brown sheetings lSe.
Print cloths are firm at SIC. Bartlett four
quarter bleached muslins have risen from
16 to l7c. There is apparently a great
scarcity of popular makes, and a tendency
toward higher rates.
New York Money and stock Market.
NEW YORK, Feb. l4.-MOney easy
and steady. Sterling quiet at 9@94c.
Gold 40s@403.
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LEBANON srAsF

FDaEFIEID AND KENTUCKY RAILROAD.
Arrive NJ Nashville ~ A. ~
rare Nashville r a.
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Total amount of Capital and Surplus ga. $50 81
ASSETS.
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MESSING.
A BOEus Agent Of Nashville
House Abseonds.

Pulaski has been humbngged by some
body. The Citisea of yesterday has the
following
If reports be true, and they seem to be
very reliable, Mai. Alex. Gregg, who for
some time has been located at this place,
Pretending 10 do business for the house oil
Thos. Parkes a Co, Nashville, has alb
seconded, leaving several individuals in this
place and his own employers at Nashville
small legacies in the shape Of unpaid board
bills, saloon bills, drug store accounts, Dor
rowed money Indebtedness, etc. In an
swer TO = letter Of inquiry addressed to bis
former employers by a gentleman of this
place, from whom he had borrowed thirty
FIVE dollars, as he said, to finish paying for
a lot Of cotton for them, they reply that
they never received but one lot from him
all the time be was here, and that he drew
on them for the full amount. They know
nothing Of his whereabouts.
Maj. Gregg came to US well recommen-
ded for veraciiy and as having made
distinguished Confederate soldier and Off
Ger during the war, and up to the time be
left here we proved that our confidence in
bis integrity had not abated by loaning
him money to pay his expenses to Nash
vile, whittier he said he had been called
Unexpectedly on business, but would re-
turn in a few days and liquidate. That's
the last We have seen Of him.
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..eeaInE % ihe Democratic Central
Committee.
There viii Ne a meeting Of the Demo
cratic Central Committee tonight, at :
O'clock al the law rooms Of Judge Gaut
oveT the Bank Of ihe Union" The 81
,.naapce Of every member is desired.
b order Of the Chairman,
1. D. WALBrR, sec'y.
Feb. Is, 1868.
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SAsHvrrIF AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD.
t.sve Nashville at...........s00 A. n. and ~ p
ag,;ye ~ Chattanooga..- 900 A. A.. and 500 p. NJ.
GheIbvville and TuliahOma Accommodation
- 81 -,.-....-.., lo.O0 A. N.
lanndANs aNeaniehl
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
Foreign Markets

Foreign Markets.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 14.-Evening
slightly lower, but closed with frmer feel
ing; middling uplands s4@8tc; Orleans
| 9f@8td sales 10000 bales. Advices
from Manchester are unfavorable. The
markets for goods and yarns are heavy.
Breadstufis and provisions are unchanged.
LONDON, Feb. l4-Evening-Consols
935; Illinois Central 895 Erie 494
louisville Market
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 14-Tobacco market
firm, SIS 259l7 so for Tugs to Medium
leaf; 1872 for manufacturing. Flour $50
8 %; superfne $12 SO. Fancy corn dull
and lower shelled in bulk 74c. Oats 66
667c. Wheat So 5O@2 SIS. Lard lac.
Mess pork $23. Bacon-shoulders l0sc !;
clear sides 13s@l33c. Bulk meats
shoulders 94e; clear sides 1899. Cotton
l8@1s4c Whisky Hominal.
81. Louis Market
ST. LOUIS, Feb. l4.-Tobaeco slightly
easier. Flour very dull and unchanged.
Wheat 81 1902 l6. Corn SEQ 90c. Oats
dull at 65@58c. Fall barley So 60. Rye
81 55@l 60. Mess pork 500 20G23.
Bacon-clear sides 123@13c; shoulders
lGc. Lard dull at 1899
Cincinnati Market.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 14.-Flour steady and
firm at $l1@1l so. Wheat 4565Oc.
Corn 82@s6c Rye 81 G5@1 6S. Oats
firm at 66@67c Barley So 1902 as.
Mess pork unchanged. Bulk meats $40
1O3@l13c. Bacon l04@114@124@l3f.
Lard is held at l4f@143c. Butter higher,
at 36@4Oc. Eggs 32c. Clover seed 1870
14c; timothy 81 60.
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it,+t Washington aIsd Southern Via
Chattanooga.
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NASHVILLE oorroN STATEMENT.
,o-day at the Chamber Of Commerce:

The following dispatches were received
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Leaves Nashville.....---........--..'.--'.''''''
Arrives at Nashviiic--....---.---..'-------.'''.4
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Omee Hours
RAILROAD AND STAGE TIME TABLE

Prom 2 t.wtosP.M. Sundays. 7 to9 An.
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FIRST Northern.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-20
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 90 1885,


the principles upon which he was
elected or appointed, who is guilty Of
neglect of duty or malfeasance or corrup-
ton in office, whether federal or local,
whether Democrat or Republican, de-
serves reprimand and exposure from every
Independent journal. Partisan presses of
either side who fawn upon and defend all
in Office of their own party and attack the
honorable and upright public officer of the
opposing party, indiscriminately with
those deserving public reprobation, are not
models for such a journal as the REPUB-
LfcAN.
The news department of this journal will
receive special attention, particularly the
local. The courts, the councils, delibera-
tive bodies, and public meetings will be
carefully reported. 1t is my wish to make
the paper not exclusively political, but TO
Increase its literary and commercial de-
partments. Communications and coutribu-
tons of that character will be encouraged
and are respectfully invited.
MICHAEL HAHN.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-20
THE WAR AGAINST CITY NOTES.

The able tinanciers in the City Council
having been heretofore unable to max
money out OF nothing, or cure the cit
credit by high-sounding resolutions hav
at last discovered a way to take up the out
standing shinplasters. The plan is an in
genious one, and only lacks public conf
dence, or perhaps we shorld say credulity
to make it complete success.
:. 1t consists in taking up one class of city
notes by substituting another. In Other
words, the city, finding itself bankrupt OF
at least in condition Of suspension, pro.
poses wholesale renewal. A. tax of one
fourth of one per cent is to be levied to
pay the interest on the new notes. To
make the scheme appear popular a vote of
the people is to be taken for or against
the plan.
Now, if the Council can do one thing
without the authority of law it NAV do
another. And as The members do not en-
terrain very high re gard for l.ws in
which they have no individual interest,
they might as well have proposed at once
scheme to levy direcs tax
OF one-hal. or one-quarter of
one per cent, payable in city notes. for
taking up all the outstanding currency.
The money thus received fer this special
tax to be at once cancelled and burned
whenever $4,000 should be received into
the treasury. The iaree of submitting this
to the people would result as satisfactorily
as did the one enacted some years ago when
the voters were called upon to assent to
that honest little transaction with the
Pontchaltrain Railroad. This hIyAly fos-
SLICED concern pretended that they wanted
to build great road to Mobile, but wanted
money. They would proceed with the work
ii the city would subscribe and issue bonds
for some hundreds of thousands. The
Council of that day being quite as enlight-
ened and honest as that OF to-day, submit
ted the vote to the people. The railroad
company took care of the elections, and
the bonds were issued. The city has been
paying interest on them ever since. But
The road has not yet been finished. When
we shall chronicle the event.
With this brilliant example before them.
md the other no less sharp transaction by
which the custom of Issuing city notes was
Initiated, our City Council might have sub
nitted- to the voters of the city the question
whether or not,this tax should be imposed
t is true that there would be disregard
f law involved, but such is the usual Gus
ON with the Council.
We suppose there is a day of reckoning
omiDg for these law breakers. and we can I
ford to bide cur time.