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The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-08-29

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Asad the New York Tribune Of August
| l7,S has the following: :.
"Firss-elass tickets from New Yort
70 oan Francisco, $3.50, second elass.
SO. A palace car will lsave ~ night
70 70 to Sacramento withose change.
Extra charge for double berth and
double seat, through, $72." This
standing announcement 10 Plaearded in
frost Of the. Broadway ticket ohces.
Az the two Pacific Railway Companies
have already found it to their interest
- put on daily through cars, and estab.
lish passenger rates ~ $50 and $40,
the public will cheerfully wait until ar
rangements can be perfected for the
fal6llment of their much-heralded
promise to carry emigrsnts from ocean
to ocean for the sum of $50. But We
earnestly trust that this will soon be
done. California aud Oregon want set.
tiers from tho Atlantic coast; our East
err States want laborers from China; the
companies want the additional trans-
continental business which the filling
up Of our mountain and Pacific States
will give them. If they were to carry
out free every emigIant who will
open Q farm or . mine, or build . saw
mill or factory anywhere upon their
long line, they would find it perman-
sntly remunerative, just a. English
roads carry business men who settle
near them to and fro gratuitoulsy for
the sake of the fares paid BY their
families.
Frsights from New York to San.
Francisco now stand:
First class. so per 100 pounds
Second class. ! 80 per lOO pounds
Third class. ~ per l0O pounds
Ordinarily, fr-,ghus OF the first class
from New York to Chicago command
about 81 So per hundred; but the war
jus, now raging between rival lines has
brought all classes down to twenty-five
cents per hundred. A declaration Of
peaes: or a truce between the belliger
euts, liable to occur any day, may re-
establish old standards, and increase
the rates across the
continent. the ordinary freight time
rom ocean to ocean is now from twelve
10 eighteen days; ultimately, it should
,sttle at from twelve to fifteen. The
abel "California Pears" has already
become familiar at the leading fruit
tands of St. Louis, Chicago and New
York; but nearly all the fruit thus far
las come BY express.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-08-29

Mons PRoDIGAL Sons. - Joseph E
Eckley, ex-State Printer, together with
Peter Meyers and John F. Pynch, two
other Printers who have been out revel-
ing among the husks of White Pine for
several months past, returned this
Within the last week or two
a large number of old residents have
also returned, glad to get back to the
Comstock range ard the fatherly
shadow of old Mount Davidson. For
the names of the few yet to come back
here from White Pine, we refer TO our
lists of departures last fall.-Gold Hill
Ners 27h.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-08-29

"ISourRER," CARsoN.-Don't you 60
to throwing off on your own local ar.
rangements at all. Recollect that "char-
ity begins at home" Wouldn't like TO
accept of your kind offer just at present.
Gold Hill Neus. 28M.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-08-29

MARRIED,
In San Francisco. August 24th, A. N. Fisher to
Harriet A. Decoudes.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-11
Card from Mr. Beecher Relative to
the RI richardson Tragedy.

Henry Ward Bsecher, in his card ex.
planning the interpretations in his funeral
sermon, says:
New YORK. December 7. 1869.
know personally none of the parties
to this sad history. I bad only
vague impression Of the facts. Those
impressions, whether right or wrong, are
these: That O worthless man had proved
in every way unfaithful to his marriage
relations that, worn out by ill-treatment,
the woman left her husband; that Rich
ardson, after the separation, became
deeply interested in her; that she pro-
cured divorce, which was not only legal,
but we'll founded upon the strictest moral
grounds. These were my Impressions.
| confess that it would be difficult to tell
exactly on what grounds formed them,
for did not read any part of the testi-
nony that appeared in the habeds cor
pus argument l am not q reader or
lover of such news, but those whose
judgment / respect found to be firmly
on Mr.. Richardson's side. Their declara-
tions were unequivocal that, while his
conduct would not bear the test Of deli
cacy or of prudence, it had not over
stepped the bounds of Christian moral
ity. This was the judgment of men who,
as / do, regard the marriage relation with
rigorous strictness. 1t was upon this
state of facts that was asked to perform
what may be- cal ed o mortuary service
for Mr.. Richardson. Only in case he
should sink and death be imminent, was
to be called 10. The question for me to
answer was, Ought this dying man to
extend some protection to the woman
who had been joined with him in this
miserable tragedy? Ought this woman
to be left by him without name or sup
port2 Whether secretly or not, believe
that she was legally and morally free
from her husband, on the grousds of the
strictest construction of Christianity. II
the investigation which will ere long be
conducted shall show me that | had
formed judgment injurious to McF'ar-
land and incorrect in regard to the other
parties, she'll accept the truth and
make such re rtparation to Mcfarland as l
can. But no man can act upon ssy
after-knowledge, and must depend only
upon the light which be has at the time.
Whatever changes may hereafter take
place in regard TO my judgment of the
parties, it will not alter the fact that i
believed they were legally aud morally
divorced, and that this marriage was at
once an act of justice and mercy.
(Signed) HENRY WARD BEEoHEE.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-11
A Jump from the steepIe of Notre
Dame.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York World says:

Dhutts
The Paris correspondent of the New
York World says:
The Moreue stands almost in the
shade of Noire Dame de Paris, and the
poor corpse had not far to be carried
The church towers are 204 ieet in hight,
the new spire 280 feet The man sought
was the only occupant of the Morgue.
he was stretched on one of its dozen
benches, which are shut from the spec
tators by glass partition, with little
stream Of water percolsting on his head,
and dark rug spread about his loins
Otherwise he was perfectly nude. His
years must have ranged from fifty to
sixty. A browuish complexion, black
eyes, gray hair, neatly and recently cut,
and stature Of about five teet six
inches, were his characteristics. His eyes
we're wide open and fixed in q
look of scornful resignation, and
his face and head we're evidently
those Of an educated thinker l
would have set him down as lawyer or
a professor in some educational estab-
lishmeut. His clothing did not seem to
appertain to the condition in life that |
havs suggested the shees were new, but
such as might be worn by the vulgar.
There was no papers upon him By which
he could be recognized. The great fall
had very little dis6gured the appearance
of the corpse. His spine was broken ia
several places, but as he Icy on his back
we did not see these wounds. His right
arm, however, was black with his bruises
from the ends Of the fingers to above the
elbow. Beyond this there was no mark
of injury visible to the public.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-11

Adelina Patti (Marquise de Caux), is
said to be amasslng fortune at the rate
of one hundred thousand dollars year.
Twenty-Five per cent. Of her earnings is
settled upon herself. At her marriage,
the sum OF two hundred thousand dollars,
of her previous gains, was settled upon
her in such a manner that no one, not
even herself, can disturb the principal
The Marquis de Caux, her husband,
though a man OF fsshion merely, and not
likely, therefore, to prove either an ss-
siduous or very useful helpmate, has, so
far, belied the expectations of many, and
been not only a very devoted spouse, but
an indefatigsble surveillaut of ell her
business matters. 1t is said be is very
anxious for her to smass as rapidly as
possible q large fortune, that they may
retire to the private life and old habits
Of luxurious ease be naturally prefers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-11

A young man who was killed in Web
ster, Mass, last week, had received a
rew days before letter from q lady in
Maine, to whom be was engaged to be
married, in which she said she felt some
thing was about to happen to him, aud
that she did not believe be would ever
come home again. But how many young
ladies' have written just such words, only
10 be-disappoiuted
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-11

A nominee for Judge in New York re.
Gently, 10 bis speech Of thanks, said that
for tseniy-eighf years he bad belonged
TO the party, and had voted with i
twenty-eieht times. This was too much
for one OF his auditors, who grovled out !:
"Whai's the use Of talking about twenty
eight times in life3 | voted thirty times
in one day. What ought TO get z
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-11

The New York Erening Post says: I:
"Mr. Richardson left no will. He was
worth about seventy fvs thousand dollars.
His interest 10 the Tribune alone was
valued at forty Thousand dollars" The
New York Commercial AdDertiser ssys I:
"Mr. and Mrs. Mcfarland were married
by Theodore Parker. All Of the witness
ses to the ceremony are now living
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-01

These various returns show the great
activity OF the breadstuffs trade this sea
son as compared with former years. They
also 90 far towards explaining the reduC
ton at this port in white Michigan of
81. 40 to 81, from 81. 40 to 81 this time
last year, with corresponding reductions
in inferior grades.
The average of 9Oc. in currency, equal
to 73c. in gold, per bushel Of No
wheat at Chicago, leaves a very narrow
margin for farmers, after deductng the
cost of transportation from the interior TO
that port In Iowa the prices range from
Soc. currency, at Dubuque, TO SOC, at
Independence gold at 100 makes Doe in
currency, worth Sc. in specie, so that
the average gold price of wheat in Iowa
is about zoe This is the selling price, it
should he remembered, at the railroad
stations, and covers the expenses of time
and carriage in transpOrtating il from the
farm to a market.
The majority of farmers live from five
to ten, many of them twenty, miles from a
railroad depot, and must spend a couple of
days and employ two-hOrse team in con
veying a load of 20 bushels to market
In fact, if the farmer could obtain the
grain by merely shoveling il off the ground
it would scarcely pay him to carry it to
market The condition in Iowa applies
equally TO Minnesota, Michigan and other
States
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-01
THE Hack SPOTS.

Even the Massachusetts, Radicals thinl
there are some black spots in the RECORD
of President Grant. The Springfield Re
publican says that the administration OF
Gen. Grant has certainly mawed its gen
orally wise and satisfactory service by
some very injudicious appointments to, a
well as 10y some very unjust removals
from, office. The public do not need tC
he reminded Of the conspicuous cases OF
immoral, bad-tempered or incompetent
men who have been appointed to Office,
sometimes 10 take the places of men very
much their superiors in every respect, and
equally good Republicans. indeed Tho
cases of wrong done to individuals and
the public service, by the removal OF
honest and capable officers, at the demand
of some selfish local political ring, or at
the bidding of an aggrandizing, revenge
full local politician, or because the incum-
bent had qualified his Republicanism with
a tinge of conservatism, are, perhaps, not
so notorious, hut we fear they are quite
as numerous, and altogether make the
worst blot upon the fair fame of the adj
ministratiOn.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-01
TIRE DECLINE IN WHEAT--THE
EI-I,ILRE nE TEE TRADE

The question OF prices of wheat during
the present winter and the coming spring
is one that engrosscs more than usual
attention. Up to the present time the
tendency has been rapidly downward,
aided in the first place by greatly in
creased crop and accelerated afterward by
decline in the premium of gold, the lack
of sufficient currency, and not least, by
high rates of freight from the grain fields
of the West 10 the Eastern markets over
the usual channels of transportation. In
addition TO this an impression has eX-
listed that, in consequence Of the large
shipments to England during the fall, the
markets there were fully supplied, and
that the foreign demand for the balance
of the season would be comparatively
small. OF course these facts exercised a
depressing influence upon the Eastern and
Western markets. An examination of
the import returns published in the Mark
Lane Express Oondon) of Nov. !,
would lead to the belief that England has
taken no more of our wheat than neces-
sity compelled her, and further, that this
demand has not even yet been supplied.
These returns show a decrease in the i'm
ports of wheat into England for the nine
months ending Sept. 80, to be l,4Ol, 795
centals or >, 1886, 325 bushels This tabu-
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-01
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT

Peter +. Sweeny, a leading man in the
Democratic ranks in the State of New
York, has written a letter opposing the
Fifteenth Amendment He thus depicts
some of the evils which will flow from
the ratification of this proposed amend
mcnt:
After prohibiting the denial of the
right 10 vote on account of color,
race or previous condition of ser
vitude, the authority is conferred on Con
grcss 10 enforce the article by ''appTOpri-
ate legislation" Suppose Congress should
deem il appropriate to do this by APP
pointing directly, or through its agents.
inspectors for every election poll in the
United States, to decide on the qualifica-
tons of electors and to receive and count
the votes cast. Would not this be all
sorbing in Congress the subject of suf-
fragc If Congress may so ap-
point the judges of elections, may
it not appoint them all of
the deepest dyed Radical stripe, and i'm
port them from one State 10 conduct the
elections in another State! What tribu-
nal is to decide the meaning and limit of
appropriate Legislation? Why, Congress
itself, in the first instance at least. And
if the power should be resisted in any
State, we would see a repetition of the
scenes of 1864, when our Democratic
strongholds, especially in the city of New
York, were filled with armed soldiery
and parks of artillery, to oyerawe the
people under the command of such con
scryatiVc warriors as Major General Ben
jamin F. Butler
Such constitutional amendments do not
mean recunstruCtiun-thcy mean rcvOlu-
ton.
1t may be said that the assumption by
Congress under this amendment to en-
force its operation by exercising super
visory control over the elections would
bc a stretch of authority. When did a
Radical Congress hesitate to stretch or
strain authority or override restrictions
for The accomplishment of political OBJ
jcct or 10 aggrandize power
Ii would have been very different
matter if Congress had amply defined the
rights of citizens without regard to color.
race OF previous condition, and stopped
there. Then the right of the colorcd
man would have stood in the same cate
CORY with those of the white man, and
could have been exercised and enforced
in ike manner, leaving the regulation
and control of elections where they were
placed 10y the trainers of the Constitution
in the several States, for their protec
ton and preservation against destructive
Capitalization.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-01

II. c. docs not think SO poorly of the
South as many of her own citizens. lie
thinks there is life in the old land yet
In a recent article lac takes a very hopeful
view of our condition. The South, lac
says. hastwo noble chara ctcristics, which
left 10 their natural working in society,
are enough In themselves to lift comma
mites from any depth of disaster and set
them on the highway of rcnown. She
has a brave way of looking facts full in
the face, admitting the truth, compre-
hcnding the extent of a disaster as a pre-
lminiary to fresh enterprise This she
honestly came hythroUgh the blood of the
men who two hundred years AGO felled the
original oaks and pines On The banks of
the Potomac, the James, the Roanoke,
and the Savannah Second, the crown
ing occupation 10 which every good
Southron aspircs, the noblest, purcst,
most honest, and permanent vocation for
man. is in his opinion that of a tillcrof the
soil. Given these as premises in any so
cictv. and no disasters can prove ire
friyah}c.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-01
THE INV YORK JUDICIARY

The constitution recently adopted by
the people Of New York, makes some
very decided changes in their judiciary
system. A new court has been created,
and the official terms Of the judges have
been heightened The terms of the
County Judges have been extended from
four 10 six years, and of the Appellate
Judges from eight to fourteen years. Anew
feature has also been adopted in the cleo
lion of the Appellate Judges, that is the
proportional system, SO that the Judges
on the bench, although all elected at the
same time. will not all be of the same
political faith, but viii beof both political
parties ia preparation to the number of
votes cast by the two parties respectively.
Another important feature is the submis-
sion 10 vote of the people in 1873
whether the Judges Of the higher courts
shall thereafter be elected 10y the people
or appointed by the Governor with the
advice and confirmation of the Senate
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-01
HON. EDWIN Il. EWINGs--A DESAP-
POINTmENT.

We are reluctant TO announce, and The
people of the State win regret to hear,
that Edwin II. Ewing viii NOT be . mem
Der of the Constitutional Convention. OF
half q score of eminent men whom we
had earnestly hoped would enter into the
composition of that body, Mr.. Ewing was
one Of the most prominent, 1t is ser
vice that his retiring disposition and other
employments would induce hln TO shrink
from; but the expectation was generally
INDUCED that he would yield his consent.
and that the unanimous voice of the con-
stituency in which he resides would
coerce his great abilities into this import
ant work The correspondence with the
committee of the Rutherford county meet
ing dispels this hope.
The State needs now its mastery minds
and its judicial scholars. Mr. Ewing
would have brought to the councils of the
Convention, attainments at once accurate,
varied and profound. He is statesman
and lawyer in the highest sense of these
terms. His studies and pursuits have
skilled him in the science of government,
while his thorough knowledge of the peo-
pie, and hisbroad common sense, peculiar
ly adapt him to the duty devolving on the
body about to assemble. In all the ele-
ments of wise lawmaker, he is the peer
of any man, not only in Tennessee, but
in the nation.
In abiding TO the grievOus disappoint
ment which viii be experienced in the alb
sence of Mr.. Ewing's name from the roll
of the Convention, we cannot refrain
from urging again that the best men in
the State should be brought forward. The
good of the State demands that, among
the seventy-five, there should be num-
Der of controlling intellects-mcn son
whose brows deliberation sits and public
care, and with Atlantean shoulders fit to
bear the weight of mightiest monarchies. "
A company of LilIiputians, no matter how
clever in the American sense of the
word, viii not suffice for this exigency.
Indeed, it may well be feared to prove an
unqualified evil. Let the people heed,
and compel the most capable men into the
service
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-01

THERE is trouble in the Navy Depart
mcnt at Washington. The trouble seems
10 grow out of the question as who is the
proper person to prepare the annual re-
port. When Borie was appointed Secre-
tary of the Navy, Admiral Porter was de-
tailed TO do the work, and was in fact the
head of the department. But Borie has
gone out and one Robson has gone in.
1t is now said that Secretary Robson has
written one report and submitted it to the
President, while Secretary Porter has pre-
pared one and submitted it to the press
RobeSon complains because his was not
submitted to the President.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-01

THERE is no country in Europe wherein
religion of all kinds is so carefully and
impartially cherished and maintained by
the State as it is in France. The Roman
Catholic Church, being the established
church of the country, receives $40, 0O0,-
900 annually from the government while
the Protestants have $29S, 7S5, and the
Jews 81, 800 from the same source.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-01
:. ANDY JOmNsON's THIEVES


The Radicals are loudly Boosting of the
triumph of the Grant administration in
reducing the debt and collecting the
revenue. The increase in the revenue
receipts is attributed by them to the
turning out of Office of what they
are pleased to term candy JohnsOn's
Thieves" They forget to tell who
put said thieves in office, and who
passed a law, over President John
sons veto, To prevent his turning those
same thieves out of office. And as
for Butterield and his sort: Oh, no;
they never mention them. The Chicago
Times says that Andy Johnson's Thieves
have deserved better treatment from the
party of "moral ideas" than they are now
receiving. The majority of them were men
who served under Mr.. Lincoln's admins
tratiOn, and after the fashion of their
party, engaged in the interests of God
and humanity" Those in the revenue
service were selected by the pious and
patriotic Rollins on account Of their '1oy-
atty A large majority of candy John
sens Thieves were men selected by Rol-
Inns and our noble and incorruptible Con-
grcssmcn. ANDY" would have kicked a
great many of them out. He said he
would have kicked them out when he
swung around the circle, at St Louis, had
he not been prevented from so doing by
civil service bill. Our noble and incOr-
ruptible Congressman passed the bill to
protect the thieves. Gonner has never
written to johnson to inquire if he was
one Of the thieves. He never thought
that proper regard for his reputation re-
quired him to publish letter in the New
York LedgCr denying that he was one of
the thieves. There was no evidence con-
Meeting him with the gang, by ''confirma-
tons strong as proofs of holy writ.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-01
County Court at Nashville.

E. F. Work and W. X. Bowling vs.. libby Work
ct al.
A T THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE
~ County Court ut Nashville, ON the 22d day Of
November 1869, on motion of complainants, by
counsel in the above cause and it appearing 70 the
satisfaction Of the Clerk that the said defendants,
Ann NJ Work and Ann Eliza Work, are nOn-resl-
dents Of the State of Tennessee and therefore the
ordinary process Of this Court cannot be served
upon them: il is therefore ordered by the Clerk
that publication be made FOR four weeks in success
sion in the Nashville UNION AND AMERICAN,
newspaper published in the city of Nashville, re-
quiring the said defendants to appear at the next
term Of the County Court to be holden for the
county Of Davidson, at the Courthouse thereof, in
the city Of Nashville, on the first Monday in Janua-
nv next and answer said bin, or the same Will be
taken for confessed IS to them and set for hearing
ex parte. p. 1. NICHoL,
nov23-4w Clerk.