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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19
LET Us HAVE PEACE.
The Mississippi Delegation and Gen
Grant-A Satisfactory IufervIaw

The Mississippi Delegation and GEN.
Grant-A Satisfactory Interview.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette,
+ WASHINGTON, Feb l4-Ye sterday,
soon after Gen. Grant had received the
official announcement of his election as
President of the United States, he was
called upon by Hon. Albert G. Brown
and his colleague Judge Simrall, of Mis-
sissippi, accompanied by the venerable
Francis ?. Blair Mr. Blair introduced
the Mississippi delegation, when the par
ty were invited to be seated. Gov.
Brown proceeded to call the attention of
Gen Grant to the bill reported on Fridav
by Mr.. Boutwell, from the Commits
tee on Reconstruction. General
Grant remarked in iocular
way, Il slept late this morning, GENTLE
men, and have had no opportunity to
read the bill, and requested that its
features might be explained. Governor.
Brown stated that the bill provided that
the late convention might reasssmble
and appoint Provisional Governor of
the State, and order a new election. The
objection the delegation urged to this
was &uOWlng tne OOnFenClOn 10 appoint
the Provisional Governor, as they desired
that the appointment of that officer be
left to President Grant himself The
General quickly eOmprehended the whole
case, and even surprised the delegation
by suggestions which seemed to offer an
easy snd speedy solution Of all their diff
fieulties.
Gev. Brown promptly replied that he
would undertake to say that the people
of Mississippi wonld, with a unanimity
never before known, sanction the Gener-
ais views, which extended even to the
mode and manner of securing a fair
election.
1t is now believed that the bill repor-
ted from the Reconstruction Committee
will be SO amended as to give the APP
pOintment of the Provisional Governor to
the President instead of to the Carpets
bag convention.
General Grant left upon the minds Of
the delegation a very decided impression
that he was determined to have peace.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19

Gov. Scott has issued an order to Adiu-
tant and Inspector Gen. Moses to organs
ize his department and proceed to enlist
the force referred to in the joint resolu-
ton authorizing the Governor to employ
an armed force for the preservation of the
peace in South Carolina.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19
NEW SERIES---NO. I49.

the rates must be the result Of
TINS eager competition in pro-
duction. We notice that there
IL some indisposition among the
freedmen to contract for last
years wages. This is right where
he is worth more; but for the plan
ter to agree now to pay an exorbit-
ant rate, just because cotton at the
moment is high, would be only to
insure for both parties disappoint-
ment and loss-in fact, to check the
prosperity which the past year has
begun to develop throughout the
South. Then, again, it is of the
greatest Importance that as much
wheat and corn and provisions be
planted as was planted the past
year. 1t is desirable that cotton
should be the leading, but not the
only, production. A disregard of
this idea was the error of the first
year after the war, and short bread.
stutfs crops in Europe put the prices
of corn and wheat to figures which
resulted in the fearful distress of the
winter of 1S67-6S.
We think little caution now on
these points would be Of inestima-
BILE value TO the South for years TO
come. Not that we desire a small
crop of cotton to be raised-for we
believe the true interests of the
cotton States demand a large crop
and low prices, which will drive
out competition-but simply that
the greatest economy in production
be used, no contract for labor based
on present rates for cotton be made,
and a sufficient supply of food pro-
duets be put in to make that section
Independent of others for their dali
" bread. The observance of these
precautions will insure a prosper
Gus year for the South, and do much |
toward imparting activity to the
industries of the whole country
Neoc York Commercial and F2non-
rial Chronicle.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19

The LATE COLD SNAP.-The severe
frost was supposed at first to have killed
the young orange trees, but on examina-
ton it is found that really very little
damage was done. 1t is true that it
affected the fruit, but most Of the crop
had already been gathered, so the loss
was not great. In some exposed situa-
tons the newly budded shoots were
frozen, and such will have to be renewed;
as general thing, however, the orchards
are not hurt at all, only the recent young
trees damaged, and they only slightly.
The freeze occurring when the sap was
down, the trees escaped. Had such
frost happened in March or April, when
the sap was up, it would have been fatal.
We have heard from all quarters, and are
assured that the supposed damage is not
realized.-JacksORUaIe, (FIG.) Union
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19

A wife poisoning case is exciting great
interest in Boston. 1t appears that a
Mrs. Pyke died somewhat suddenly; her
husband has been arrested on suspicion
OF poisoning her; he denies the guilt of
murder, but confesses to criminsl inter-
course with his wife's daughter by for
mer husband, of ten years duration. A
Radical exchange from the Puritan State
describes Pyke as a fine gentleman. It
may be so according to Boston ideas.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19

The New York papers notice that, con-
triry to expectations at one time enter
tanned, the ice crop is being gathered in
security and abundance, and by the close
Of the present week the work will be
finished. Probably not fa1 from a mil
lion tons of ice will by that time have
been secured by the great ice companies
and private dealers in and about Now
York. What is true there, is of course
applicable throughout the North.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19
FOREIGN.

MADRID, Feb. l8.-The COries requested
Serrano to organize the cabinet.
PARIS, Feb lS-The Minister of the
Interior announces his intention to re-
press all abuses of privilege conceded TO
public meetings.
LONDON, Feb lS.-Bullion in the Bank
Of England has increased f62, 900,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19
A NEW JERSEY LOVE STORY.
Death of the Husband Ofa Day-The
Conductor and the school girl.


Our readers may remember bit o.
horse-car romance that happened a
while ago to a conductor in Jersey City,
which, beginning in delicious Irritation
with a breadsand butter schOol>girl of
sweet sixteen" gradually rose, through
all the gradations Of eourtship, to a set
tied engagement of the loving pair, and a
final elOpement and marriage IL turned
out, however, that the girl had sod the
conductor, who for his part, imagined
that he had won a splendid prize, and
that the weary days Of his horse~car
drudgery were about to terminate forev-
er. 1t seems that the girls head was
full Of yellow novels, that she lived in
the atmosphere of runaway matches-of
rich heiresses marrying iHcog noblemen
and so she persuaded herself that she
was an heiress, and that her father was a
Western millionaire, wLo had doomed
her to the slavery of a school life, when
she ought to be enacting yellOw-htera@
ture drama, and be the heroine of stun
ming romance The conductor was first
caught by her luxuriant locks, and then
by her raey yarns about her fathers
fabulous possessions in the growing
West And SO the couple were married,
the conductor borrowing the money
wherewith to enslave them both until
one of them should die The young wife
was sent by her husband to her aunt
in New York, to whom she blabbed the
secret Then the bright side of the fu>
ture history was turned, and the dark
side began to show itself The girls pa
rents were made acquainted with the
fact that their gal ''Sal' had become
woman and wife, and they hurried to
New York and carried her of with them
to the West The husband went after
her, and there learned that his wife pa
rents lived in log house, and that pas
chariot was a Wheelbarrow, and bis
chooses" an old buck goat and a cow
The conductor returned to Jersey City "a
wiser and sadder man. Last evening,
as he was coming to the city as passen-
ger on an Erie street car, and when he
had reached the intersection Of South
Sixth and Erie streets, and while he was
good humoredly talking with the driver
on the front platform, the horses gave
sudden leap, and he was hurled over.
board, and run over and killed.-Neto
York Sun
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

Within the last six months two thous-
and persons have died of small pox in
San Francisco alone.
twenty-five sporting men were ar
rested in a Buffalo cockpit Thursday,
and fined from So to $25 each, netting
S245.
A woman in Clyde, confirmed opium
eater, was fined $40, few days since, for
stealing lump of opium from drug
store.
A coroner's jury has been summoned
to Danbury to investigate the condition
of the kohanzia Dam at the time of the
late accident.
Goulding, the English runner, made a
mile in 4:45 at Savannah the other day,
beating man that was entered to run
two miles to his one.
A movement is on foot to properly
drain Staten Island, as the late epidemic
of scarlet fever was owing to the low and
undrained localities.
At the last ball given at the Louvre in
Paris most wonderful effect Of illu-
mination was obtained by use of the new
oxy-hydrogenic light.
A well known stock broker of Paris
recently committed suicide on becoming
aware Of serious defalcations on the part
of his confidential clerk.
The passenger receipts OF the st.
Louis and Indianapolis railroad for the
month Of January were $50, 205, and the
revenue tax 81, $50 u.
Maj. Gen. George T. Meade, with his
military and ecclesiastical family, are en-
joying sojourn at Savannah and the
good things at the Screven House.
Demopolis, Ala, has lost another one
OF her Oldest and best citizens, Gen. N.
3 Whitfield. He leaves large number
of relatives and friends to mourn his
death.
Twelve samples of kerosene, purchased
at as many different places in Mt. Vernon,
were tested few days since, and the
majority of them was found below the
standard prescribed by law
1t is denied that Cornell University will
admit ladies next fall, or at any time, as
the faculty are nearly u Unanimous in their
opinion that the admission of women to
the University is impracticable.
The statement is made in papers pub
lished in Kentucky, that the "Blue
Grass section Of that State alone, has
sold to the South, this fall and winter,
fully 100000 worth of mules.
NJ. Droun de L'Huys has been elected
an associate Of the Imperial and Central
Agricultural Society Of France, section Of
legislation and rural economy, in the
room Of NJ. de Monny de Mornsy
Judge Carpenter, Of the Circuit Court,
has pronounced the Homestead law of
South Carolina unconstitutional and void,
as regards judgments obtained prior to
the passage Of the act creating it.
The remains of the tribe of Onondaga
Indians, some three hundred and ninety
in number. reside on tract Of land seven
miles square, about six miles south Of
Syracuse, and receives State annuity of
$1,000.
Some splendid specimens Of coal and
iron ore have been found on the pro-
posed line Of the Bedford, Bloomfield and
Terre Haute railroad, near the former
place. The coal is equal to the best
Pittsburg.
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ARREST OF ALLEGED KU- IN Pa
NoLA COUNTY, MIss.--We learn that two
or three days since, by order of Gen.
Giilem, commander ofthe District of Mis-
sissippi, six men were arrested near
BatesVille, Pamela county, charged with
being Ku~Klux. Their names are
Pearce Perry, Andrew Dickens, Sam.
Dickens, John Merdock, DR.. Miller and
Robert. We have learned no particulars
relative to the charges. but presume that,
like the majority of arrests of this char
acter, they are the result of trumped.up
stories.-Nemphis AUalanche, Feb. 16.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19
GREECE AND TURKEY.
Vexed Questions Settled - Adjourn
ment of the Conference.

VeXed Questions Settled - Adjourn
ment Of the Conference.
PARIS, Feb. 1S.-The Conference OF
Great Powers met tosday to receive CONS
munications from Athens, Of which NJ
Walcroski was bearer. The reply of the
Greek government to the propositions of
the Conference was satisfactory, and a
resolution was adopted that Greece,
having yielded, the great powers
reserve to themselves the right to protect
the lives, property and interests of their
christian inhabitants of Turkey. The
representatives of the powers finally gave
their signatures to the Protocol, and the
conference dissolved
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19
RICHMOND.
TIE Murderer Of Pollard Refused Rail
Phillips RCsLIGcd.

Phillips RCsIitcd.
RcHNoND, Feb. lS.-James Grant
who has been out Ola bail since the mur.
der of Pollard, was to-day committed to
await his trial
James Jeter Phillips, who was under
sentence Of death, whose case involves
the legality u Virginia courts, and is to
be heard IN the United States Supreme
Court, was TO- day respited by the Gov
ruor until March 10.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19
HOUSE.

HOUSE.
THURSDAY, Feb. l8.-The House met at
9 A. M, Speaker Richards in the chair,
and ,fftyreight members present
By Mr.. Thornburg, of Jefferson Reso-
luton instructing the Senators and Rep
resentatives of Tennessee in Congress to
inquire into the cause of the non-resump--
ton Of the collection Of direct United
States taxes in 1868. Adopted.
AN OMNIBUS BILL.
Mr.. Welsh moved to reconsider the
vote passing Senate bill with regard to
the first judicial district. Carried and
the amendment offered yesterday by Mr..
Singletary was stricken off
The following amendments were Of
fered and disposed of:
By Mr.. Doughty: Creating a County
Judge for Anderson county. Ado pied
By Mr.. Cordell: Extending the pro-
visions of the act to Scott county Adop-
ted.
BY NJ Welsh: Increasing the salary
of the County Judge of Sullivan county
to 5000. Adopted.
By Mr.. Shepherd: Legalizing certain
acts of the County Court of Hawkins
county. Adopted. r--.-r-.
Mr.. Cordell offered US an amendment
his bill for the publication of a new and
correct map of the State Ruled out of
order
By Mr.. Poston: Establishing special
court in Dyer county. Tabled.
BY Mr. Mason Authorizing the COun-
ty Court of Roane county to look after
certain taxes collected by Samuel Bur-
net, deceased. Adopted
By Mr.. Turner For the election of
jailor in Lawrence county every two
years.
By Mr.. Kerchival Authorizing the
County Commissioners Of Davidson eoun-
ty to appoint another Notary Public, who
shall reside in Nashville. Adopted.
The bill as amended then passed its
final reading
THE BROWNJow INVESTIGATION.
Mr.. Thompson, from the Investigating
Committee in Col Brownlow's case,ssub-
mitted report which will be found elses
where.
Mr. McFall, a member Of the commits
tee, wished it distinctly understood that
he had no hand in the report, and did
not endorse it H~
SENATE BILLS.
Senate bill amending an act appoint
ing Notaries Public for Montgomery
County passed third reading,
Senate bill more fully defining the
rights of landlords and tenants were re-
jected.
DISPOSITIONS.
House bill to authorize the taking Of
dispositions 10 certain cases passed third
reading.
Adjourned until clock tomorrow
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TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

SENATE.
THURSDAY, Feb. Is, 1869.-The SEN
ate met at 10 A. NJ, Speaker Senter In
the chair and twenty-one members
present.
NEW BUSINESS.
By Mr.. Patterson A resolution reo
lieving G. w. Welsh from the payment
of $21S. Laid over under the rules for
2ne day. >
By Mr.. Lyle A bill to incorporate
the GAINESVILLE Manufacturing Company.
Passed.
ADJOURNMENT.
The Joint resolution to adjourn sine
die was taken up.
Mr.. Garner moved to insert the lst
day of March.
Mr.. Aldridge moved in lieu Of that the
9Th of March, upon which the ayes and
noes were called and resulted-ayes 4,
noes 16.
A motion TO pass the resolution over
informally was lost.
Mr.. Parker moved to make it a special
order for next Friday week. Lost.
Mr.. Aldridge moved to make it the
special order for next Wednesday.
Carried. Ayes IL, noes A.
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD RADING.
To incorporate Union Bank OF Knox
vile. Passed.
Bill to release the Lessees Of the Penis
Tertiary from their contract. Passed.
Adjourned until tomorrow morning
at 9 O'Clock.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19
PARAGUAY.
LeneE Refnses 90 Surrender.

Lopez Befases 10 Surrender.
RIO JAEEIRo, Feb. lS.-A letter of
the Sth gives an account of the assault
and defense of Angustura. Lopez had
been formally called upon to lay down
his arms, but Indignantly refused. The
American Minister, Mcmahon, it is said,
advises Lopez to continue the fight.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19

THERE is now living in Darien, Conn.
in the same house in which she was
born, lady in her eightieth year. She
has been away from home but once in
her life. She lives within few feet of
a navigable river, and within one mile
of a railroad, yet has never seena steam
boat or locomotive.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19
NEW YORK.
Counterfeit NOIeS-ReecheI' Illness
Strikes. nIr.

New York, Feb. lS-Countcrfeit .
on the Union National Bank If Kinder
hook are in circulation.
Beecher continues confined to his
room
1t is stated that nearly all the Trades
Union IL the city are organising for a
combined strike this spring for eight
hours and full paw.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19

DEACON BRAKEY JENKINS and wife, of
West Barnstable, Mass, are respectively
aged ninety-four and ninety-two years.
They have been married nearly seventy
one years. They enjoy good health, and
their memory Of events, both recent and
remote, is unimpaired. The deacon did
his garden work last summer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19

TIE crop of ice harvested in the Vi
entity of Portland, Maine, has not been
so large as usual, but what has been Sc
cured will be from sixteen to eighteen
inches thick,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19

The pork dealers of Cincinnati have, it
is estimated, made clear profit this sea-
son of three million dollars.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19

On the Leather COckade" question a
gentleman writes to the New York Post
Il use them to distinguish my coachman' :
hat from my own. We are both good
looking men, we both wear ten dollar
hats, and when we go out for a drive in
the park l think it due to myself that the
public should know who owns the car
rage and who drives it."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-19
EX GOVERNOR DENNIsOx

There are many who believe that Ex-
Governor Dennison, and not Ex-Governor
Cox, will be the Ohio representative in
the Cabinet under General Grant. As
sigrs, they refer to the fact that he ha>
resigned The Presidency of the Hooking
Valley Railroad, in which he has large
interest, and that he is preparing to 60
to Washington. The Washingt Star,
which claims to be in the confidence OF
Grant and his friends, also says that he
will lie Postmaster-general, the old Office
which he filed under LincOln's Admins
tratian. - Cincinnati Enquirer. Feb l6
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WASHINGTON.

TO TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS FY TIE WESTERN
Union LINE
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TELEGRAPHIC.
WASHINGTON.
TREATIES WITH FOREIGN G0y-
ERNMENTS.
Official Appointments by the
President.
POstpOnement Of Mississippi
Reconstruction.
The Case Of ThOs. A. Hamilton.
Cuban Refugees In Florida.
The Eastern Trouble Settled.
The Paris Conference Dissolved.
WASHINGTON.
varsOus Personal and Political Afrai

: TIE soUruERN. ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC LINE.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-06-15

Tur pFAcH QUESTION IN CouRT.-The peach
season approaches, and Delaware promises to
send forth one of the largest crops OF peaches
ever produced in one season in any part oil the
world. As growers intend to forward the~
crops by all the conyeyances attainable IN TINS
and other States through which they must
mass to reach a market, and as there are GER
tain duties and responsibilities resting between
shippers and the companies acting as common
carriers by authority of law, we have obtained
for publication from CHIEF JUSTICE GiLpIS, OF
our State, the elaborate charge delivered by
him to the jury a short time ago, in the case OIL
Irudn VS.. The Philadelphia, Wilmington ana
Baltimore Railroad, and known as the grea,
peael ease. In this charge the Judge reviewed
the whole law upon the subject of the relative
rights and responsibilities of the parties, ant
gave his opinion with such minuteness o
detail upon every possible point then in con
troversy, and which may hereafter arise il
similar suits, that there can hardly be an,
need of collision between the shipper and thi
company in future transactions. W. Wal
publish the charge entire on Friday next, ano
will print an extra edition in order to supply
the demand that will evidently be made upor
us by all parties Interested; and there is
scarcely farmer or fruit-grower in Delaware
or elsewhere, that is not interested in th'
decision of the question, whether he be
peach-grower or the producer of any articl'
grown upon his farm. the transportation o
which may involve litigation and an appeal t.
the law for settlement.