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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-11
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.

The details ofwhch are as follows:
From Passengers Il ool ook az
4, urelsht, 2,0iO,233 10
4. AnAmVsT' 5l4l3 Us
. ,,..hr' 1856 5 80
i, Mls'nhnvH1-, ~ 6g6 81
Government troops. 1907 Il
:. 90 tractors men ?oi''iiS % %
material, 96S,43O 30
Tola, a ooe All Al
H.laFse umpuht II only an indication of the i'm
n'ise traffic tina: must 60 the throu gh line In
lew months, when the great Tide of Pacific Coast
travel and trade will begin. 1t Is estimated that This
business must make the earnings of the ROAD ram
FIFTEEN TO TWENTY MILLIONS A YEAR
As the supply Of these Bonds will soon cease oar.
ties who desire ~ invest in them will tud it for their
interest u do so AZ once. The price for the present
IL par and &C rued intcaest from JAM /, in CURRENCY
Subscriptions viii he received in Wilmington. by
r. II. ROBINSON " Co,
Jon MoLEAR & son.
wooIsToN & co.
aud in New York
Atthe oonipany's ofnce, No. 20 Nassau Al.
john j. Cisco g. Son, Bankers. No. 90
Wall Street.
ans by The Co7panys advertised agents through ,,,
the United States.
Bonds sent free, but parties subscribing through
local agents, will look to them for their safe delivery
NEW PAMPHLET AND MAP WAS ISSUED
Oct lst, containing report Of the progress of the
work to that date and more complete statement in
relation 10 the value of the bonds than can be given
in an advertisement, which viii be sent free on an
pcation.
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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-11
FIRST Mortgage Bonds
AT PAR

by l's lharier, tie Company is permitted 10 issue
its own FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS to the same
amount as the Government Bonds, and no more
Ihese Bonds are First Mortgage upon the eu,irt
road and MI its equipments.
THEY HAVE ThIRTY-YEARs TO RUN, AT sls
PER CENT, and, by special contract, both
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-11
TESTIMONIALS.

Being Fire, Water and Steam Proor-Lght ant
Durable and equally adapted 10 any form Of ROOF
steep or fiat.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-11

CFsTREvIIiE, DgI., Jan. 2s 1862
:, Mr.. Robert Atkinson-Dear Sir: The Plastic Slate
kooi VII ell yOu put on for me In June, 1866 answers
every purpose Tor which a roof il intended 1t has
neither run nor craesed, is perfectly sound and hard
as safe Itself, and think frm all appearances II will
last IS long as building. feel confident of liz
success as . roofing. material when properly made
and applied. Yours, Respectfully,
A, H. DIXON
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-11

s STRAWBERRY BASKETS,
STRAWBERRY CRATES.
Beecher's STRAWBERRY BASKET is now fully
knowledged to be the best in all points Of any be.
ore The public. pint Of berries in tais basket will
often bring more money than quart in the old styles
CRATES for these baskets Of any pattern to suit
shipper; built for service.
PEACH CRATES and LADDERS in their season.
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS,
MorLDINGs, sCRowL SAVING
TURNING and JOB WORK
or Even, DESCRIPTION.
Furnished OF excellent material and best workman
ship.
sS- Send for price list.
WHEAT & BENNETT,
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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-11

Please read the following Testimonials; go aud
sec these roosand you will be convinced that Plastic
Slate IL the
Pest Ronfuu Novu il, ITao
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-11
GIFT BOXEs

are useless. 1t has been found by experience
that this theory, very pretty in the abstract,
does not work in actual practice; instead
OF being a help, it becomes mere foot ball,
repudiated alike by both buyer and dealer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
FRIDAY. JULY 2. 1868.
Col. A. J. TrpUoN of ~

Col. A. ]. Upton, of Carter
county, announces himself through
the Knoxville Wing a candidate fol
State Superintendent of Public In.
struction, "upon the National Re
publican platform of universal
suffrage" ~ % a
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
An OPINTON AND A FACT.

The GAINESVILLE Patriot still In
sists that persons who hold7certih-
Gates of registration from clerkso
County Courts are not legal voters;
that this question was not before
the Supreme Court at Brownsville,
and that the court gave no opinion
upon that point. Nowfor a fact. The
act of Nov. 26, 1866, provides
+" that in all trials Of civil or crimi-
nal cases in any of the courts ofthis
State, it shall be good ground OF
challenge for causes as to compe-
tency of any juror, that such juror
is not a qualified voter of this
State" In a recent case before Judge
John Hugh Smith, of the Criminal
Court of this county, juror was
challenged on the ground that he
was not a qualified voter. He pro-
duced a certificate of registration
from the Clerk of the County Court
of Davidson, and Judge Smith de-
cided that, under the decision Of
the Supreme Court at Brownsville,
he was a qualified voter, and he was
accordingly accepted as a juror.
Thus the courts are settling this
vexed question. a vI Ga7..E
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02

The Knoxville Press and Herald
says: ave cannot compare the
effect produced on the leaders OF
the Stokes faction-by the appoint
ment of honest registrars to take
the place Of the miserable dodgers
who have so long denied the lawful
voters OF Tennessee the right OF
sutfrage-to anything more strik-
ingly appropriate than the effect a
shower Of shells produces on a
batch of camp followers. No sooner
is the first shot heard, than they
scatter, get behind trees, creep into
holes, raise white flags and IN num-
berless other ways, proceed to pub
hsh their cowardice. So with the
DISTINGUISHES. No sooner do they
hear that the Taxpayers are to be
allowed to vote, than they raise the
cry, "Stop it" and commence throw
ing obstacles in the way of regis
tration. We have but a word to
say to such miserable scamps, and
that is, that the sooner they seek
obscurity, the more leniently an
honest, but enraged people will look
upon their past delinquencies.
Those who, at this late day, talk
about keeping the people of the
State from participating in its gov
erDment, by proscriptive laws, are
simply making themselves ridicu-
lone -
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
Marshal's Sale.

ON THURSDAY THE TWELFTH DAY OF
~ August, 1862 at the Courthouse door in
Nashville will sell at public auction for cash,
to the highest bidder, a. the right snd title TO
and interest 10 the Nashville Gun Factory prop
erty Of all the owners claimants of said
property except the city of Nashvii g. to satisfy
q vendiIioni exDonas to me directed from the
Circuit Court of the United States, pursuapt to .
decree Of said court at its April term 1863:
The property so dec-eed to be sold and so TO
be sold is the fee simple of lot on College
street in south Nashville, beginning at the line
of division between 1t and NJ c. CotIOn's home
place, aud thence running with College Street
iowa DIS Mulberry street thirty feet, and run.
ming b ack between parallel lines. perpendicular
70 college street one hundred and thirty-sigh
feet. Also, the eighty-fve feet of said Gun
Factory prop, rtY fronting on Cherry street. and
running back between parallel lines perPendic-
ular 10 Cherry street, 10 the rear line " said
first mentioned lOr, and the prolOnsarign there
OF, constituting the rear line of the lot belong.
ing TO the city of Nashville and constituting
part of said Gun Factory pr. prrty.
The portion Of the improvements fixtures
and az purtenances annexed to said lots is 10 be
go herewith. plat Of said ground will be
exhibited at said sale, and can be sen Prev
ously by application 10 me at my flee in the
Federal Court Room, in the Ca itol at Nash
vile. L. X. GLASCOCk.
Marshal, Middle District of Tennessee.
lt-u'fy
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02

is claimed to be part of the con-
sitution is thus explicit in secur-
ing to those who have been legally
registered the privileges of the
elective franchise" the State Jour-
nal in the interest of Stokes claims
that citizens registered in this
county by DR.. Doris have no legal
right to vote. We have rarely met
with SO unfair and liberal con-
struction of law as this. In thus
eDdeavoring to deprive citizens OF
their rights, the Stokes organ evin-
ces a desperation ofwhich We would
not have suspected it. There can
beno principle of law palmer than
that simple act of the Legislature
cannot repeal what is held by the
courts to be part of the constitu.
ton. The holders Of the Doris
certificates are therefore safe.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
TIE DORRIs CERIIFICATEs

The Stokes organ is perverse
not only that, it is disingenuous.
The Supreme Court has rendered
one of the plainest decisions it well
could as to the effect of the regis
tration Of a citizen, and the Judge
of the Criminal Court here offlci
ally recognised that decision as re
investing such citizens as had been
registered by either county court
clerk or registrar appointed by the
Governor, with the right Of which
an attempt had been made to de-
priye them. Notwithstanding this,
the State Journal insists that not
only are the certificates issued by
county court clerks void, but so
are those issued by DR.. Dor
ris, as registrar for Davidson
county. The State Journal relies
upon the third section of the act of
March s, 1867, to sustain this last
position. That section provides
that the registration in the coun-
ty of Davidson heretofore had
under the franchise act Of May B,
1866, be and is hereby declared
null and void; and no person shall
be entitled to vote by virtue of
any certificate issued under said
registration" The act from which
this is quoted is simply an act OF
the Legislature. 1t does not pre-
tend to be an act to determine"
the qualifications of voters and
the Limitation to the elective fran
chise," but is simply ''an act to
amend section 2114, article ?, chap
ter !, of the Code of Tennessee,
and for other purposes. 1t
would be an extraordinary
stretch of authority on the
part of the Legislature to claim
that this act, which is a jumUle
about homesteads, registration, en-
rolling of State prosecutions, bills
of cost, civil law suits, exemptions
from garnishment, is a part OF the
constitution in the meaning OF the
decision in the Ridley-Sherbrook
case. There is a clause OF the fran
cbise act of Feb. 25, 1867, which is
i settler on this point. 1t is the
proviso to the eighth section, and
is as follows - arT,g EE-sa
Provided. That all certificates OF reg
istration legally issued by commission
ars of registration, by virtue OF the pro-
visions of the act passed May g. 1900
shall be deemed good and valid, to enti-
he each person 30 legally registered TO
the privileges Of the elective franchise
Notwithstanding the law which
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
Three Days Trotting Races !
Purses Amounting to Five
Hundred Dollars!

FNNHE PhOP w q N NON
i Driving Park, agree to give S. in purses,
TO be trotted for over the Nashville Driving
Park, commencing JulS I. 1859. two races each
: FIRST DAY.-FIRsT RkCE-Match race be-
tween two horses that have never appeared in
public. Five hundred a side. play or pay. o.
Towles enters. Capt. S. Widener enters.
SRccSD RACE-Ssme Day-Purse of SIS, for
horses that have never beaten 800 in public;
mile heats, best 3 in 5. to harness or wagon.
SECOND DAY.-FTRsT RAOs-Purse OF SIS;
for horses that have never beaten minutes in
public; mile heats; bsst in s. to harness or
wagon.
SECOND RAcK-Same Day Purse of 800 for
horses that have never beaten 2:48 in public;
mile heats; best in 5; to harness or wagon.
THIRD DAY.-FIRsT RAcB-Purse of SIPS,
free or all horses; mile heats; best 3 in s. 10
harness or wagon.
SRCcxD RACE-Same Day-Purse of s75 free
for AL pacing horses; mile heats, best in 5; 10
harness or wagon.
TaIRD RACE Same Day-Trotting race: purse
of $50 for beaten herses; mile heats; best in 5;
TO 60 as they please. Horses entered in the
race free. for all are not allowed TO go in this
race
Entrance fee to all purses, per cent. Two OF
more 10 make a race.
Entries to the above purses 10 be made a. the
Merchants Exchange. on the day previous >
the race. BY o'clock N.
Competent judges will be in the stand.
Admission 70 sill parts of the trac so cents.
FUTCHER & WAND. Propriei ors
N. R-No extra charge for carriages iy2 lW
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
NEW FLOUR.
EdgRfGld Carriage Mandatory
COR. WOODLAND AND BARROW SITS,
EDGEFIELB, TENEESsEE.

VEHICLES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
from the most stiiish to the plainest, built
to order. Repairing done in the best style.
All our work is put up in the most durable
manner, and satisfaction guaranteed.
mayl3 If SMEDES & LESLIE.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02

No. g North College Street,
(Successor TO Weskley 4 Yarbroueh,)
rs JUST IN RECEIPT OF A FRESH oIOoB
l. Of Groceries and Liquors. consisting in part
d hhds New Orleans Brown Sugar.
~ Is. Hamsrsrs Ssasy
no bags choice Rio Coffee.
90 bbls Golden Sirup.
Is " Crushed Sugar.
: Is Powdered Sugar,
so hlf-bbls Mackerel. assorted.
200 s. Star Candles.
100 s. Starch
100 Cove Oysters.
10 casks Soda.
Is boxes Soda, lb. papers.
so dozen Brooms.
100 Painted Buckets.
100 caddies assorted Teas.
IS boxes Mustard, assorted sizes.
50 |" RumiOrd's Yeast Powders
Is cases Richardson's Matches.
80 boxes Pickles.
100 Cigars, assorted brands
100 bills Magnolia Flour,
100 Black Lick Flour. --.s
so boxes Cheese. ,.o
Spice. Pepper,
Ginger, Madden,
~ Indigo, a. Candy,
ssz- Fancy soaps,
rll Eufmegs, Mace,
Wrapping Paper, Pepper sauee,
wines Liquors
All Of which will be sold cheap for CASE only
In store small lot of Mess Macksrsl. - kn'
as ever brought TO this market
r. L. WEAKLEY,
novI2 ~ No NorIh roIIao~ sweat
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
/ GOOD NAN FOE TIE SENATE.


Asa Faulkner, Esq, announces
himself in the McMinnville New
Era candidate for Senator from
the counties Of Cannon, Coffee, Van
Buren,, Grundy and Warren. Mr..
Faulkner regards the franchise
question the paramount issue of the
canvass, and should he be elected,
he will ''favor the most expeditions
way possible to enfranchise the
white taxpayers of the State, and
in order to accomplish that desira-
bic object, shall favor the immedi-
ate calling of convention to so
amend the constitution. OF Mr..
Faulkner, the New Era says: "His
moral and political integrity are SO
well known throughout the district
as TO require no eulogism at our
hands. Committed to his legis
lative care we shall feel safe
knowing that no money can buy,
nor threats drive him from course
he believes to be right; and being
from among the people, he is emin
emily one of them in feeling and
interest. While he is honest in his
political convictions, and above the
power of State bonds or champaign
suppers, he is possessed of an ut
usually strong and executive mind,
and unalterably welded to his
conviction of right. He is emin-
emily safe and sound, and as such
will make q valuable acquisition to
our senatorial councils. While
Mr.. Faulkner is what is now termed
Conservative; We are glad to
know that be is nevertheless, the
choice of that large portion of the
Radical party who desire to see q
stop put to the vile and reckless
legislation and expenditure of
money which has been INDUCED in
by previous sessions. He is the
nominee of no political party, but
is eminently peoples candidate"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02

The State Journals great stick
lei for what the Legislators ineor.
porated in the constitution unde,
the authority delegated by the
ninth section of the schedule. The
sixteenth section of the franchise
set of Feb. 25, 1867, provides chat
this act shall not be SO construed as
TO allow the colored man to hold
office or sit on juries." That por.
ton of the constitution has never
been repealed, yet by authority of q
simple act of the Legislature ne.
groes now hold offices and sit on
juries. How does the State Journal
reconcile this with its protested re.
gard for the constitution:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
gard for the constitution;
RECORDS-sENr EK AND Stokes


We cautioned the friends of
Stokes a few days ago that they
had better let Senter's record alone,
for the reason that Stokes record
was infinitely worse. Here is an
indication from the Knoxville
Wing Of June 30:
Much objection has been made to
Senter upon the ground that in 1859,
Senter voted to expel free negroes from
Tennessee. Now mark your attention.
reader: In 1851 when Stokes was
member of the Legislature, bill was
introduced to expel free negroes from
Tennessee. 1t was referred to a
committee On motion Of William
d. Wisener. The committee re-
ported in favor of its indefinite
postpOnement, which in effect would kill
it. Stokes voted against its indefinite
postponement and in favor of taking it
m - .....
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
THE RADICAL EUITORs' wAR.

One of the features of this can
vass is the manner in which the
Radical editors have been holding
each other up to scorn and con-
tempt. Nothing that Democratic
editors have said of their Radical
contemporaries equals the bitter.
ness with which the latter assail
each other. Their relations have
been hereto fore very intimate and
the public will be very apt to cred
it each one of them in this Instance.
The GAINESVILLE Patriot of the Both
ult. takes tilt at the Stokes organ
here. 1t says:
"For the past year we had occasion to
ventilate some acts of our own party, and
have every time been cursed by the Press
and Times then edited by 5. c Mercer
the Knoxville Wing, edited by BrOwnlow
d Co., and the Jonesboro Flag managed
by Geo. E Grisham and 8 A. Bowel.
we I0OuDuE tue IdilEOdO pan VI buC
State could be improved, and the grand
larceny practIsed upon the school fund
in 1865 6 ought to be exposed, and we
did our part in the work We not only
received no sympathy from the Press and
Times and Flag; but did receive unmer"
tied rebuke After what was intended to
be a State Convention, we received thrust
after thrust from the Press and Times
and if a mewling cry came up from the
Flag it was too weak, puerile and ehemi-
nate to attract our attention
That journal (the Stokes organ) bleats
and brays about school funders." We
now call upon the editors to give the
names Of those corrupt men who have
stolen the school fund and squandered
the railroad money, and we will show to
Tennessee list Of pimps for whom Geo.
Z. Grisham and W. B Stokes have stood
godfather and apologist for the last four
years.
These Radical organs profess to
know each other very well, and
they tell some very strange tales on
each other. There is some hope
that the secret history of the last
four years will yet be divulged.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02

Ed. WHITE, a negro, has been
nominated by reclamation by a
convention in Montgomery county,
as a Radical candidate to represent
that county in the Legislature. The
GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf gives a
graphic account Of the proceedings
Of the convention.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02

The Japanese now coming into Cali
fornia promise to be most valuable
order of immigrants. hose who have
purchased the six hundred acres of the
Ada Ranch will be quite an industrial
colony, cultivating the tea-plant, the
silk. worm aud its tree, the bamboo escu
Tents. which taste like n mixture of
aTtichoke and asparagus, aud the fish
harvests, which will be nourished in
LARGE lime-cemented tanks or lakes.
Their Japan siik-wOrms feed on the oak
and other trees, producing beautiful
erav silk, and the tea~nuts give China
oil" which makes such clear, pure
light.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
MARSHAL'S SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF AWRIT Fl IA. TO NE
ID directed from the Circuit Court of the
United States for the DisnicJ of Middle Ten
nessee, at its April Term 1859. will sell TO the
highest bidder for Cash. at the Courthouse do r
in the city Of Nashville, ON THE 9th DAY
OF JULY. 1869, all the right title, claim, in.
terest an estate which A. Nj. Bailey has in and
e. the following described piece or parcel of
land tO-wit.: .
Lying in Maury county. Tennessee, in civil
dis rict Me- % beginning at stake the D Il
corn OF the DR.. U. j. Polk tract; thence n
SeHo W 30 oh linRsto q stake 10 Mrs. Eliza
Nick endrick's north bouDdry line; t. ence n 10
ch 81 links to stake; theOce W Is ch % links
to stake; thence n 81 CD 81 links to the center
of the railroad; thence with the railroad " $40
Il Sch; thence n 5lAo Il 6 ca Is links thence
4 6l0 Il oh IS links; thence S 20 " ~ ch 46
links to stake, A Ihomysnn's snuthVes cor
neT; thence n Syo G. 81 cd 80 inks TO black
oak STUMP, in A. L Ompsons south boundary
line; theme . 1+o E Al CD 81 links TO tue begin
ing, containing TWO Hundred a. Sixteen
Acres. more or less, levied upon and sold 20
satisfy an execution in favor Verheoff Nc
Cam bell h Co IS. A. NJ. Bailey
{. X. GLASCOCK,
junlS Wat N. NJ. ID. +.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
+. WHO CAN VOTE p.

In an article under this heading,
the State Journal, representative of
Gen. Stokes and his friends, un-
covers the cloven foot. We have
several times repeated the
question as to whom that paper
held qualified to vote for delegates
to a Constitutional Convention.
This we assume to be its reply. 1t
is virtually an argument to set
aside the unanimous opinion Of the
Supreme Court in the case of
Staten and, if we understand it
correctly, we have heard enough
to satisfy US, that the franchise
rights of the people of Tennessee
under the present laws, cannot be
safely entrusted to such hands, and
to admonish us that we have
nothing to expect in the immediate
future from that source.
We will not follow up the falla-
cies of this article. They have
been answered and reanswered
heretofore in these columns. Judges
Smith, Andrews and Shackelford
have pronounced an authoritative
answer. The substance of that de-
cision is, that if the act of June 5,
1865, was a part of the Constitu'
ton, and a County Court Clerk de-
cided upon and invested party
with the franchise, it cannot be d.
vested except by the Judgment of his
peers and under due process of law
when on trial before competent
Jurisdiction; thati if the act of May
8, 1866. was part of the Constitu
ton, the Commissioners under that
statute conferred the right and Sc
cured it beyond molestation by any
power except that of court, and
hedged it with the same munimentsi
that the act of Feb. 25, 1867, did
the same thing. -goigo1Ia 5
And to sum up we assert, under
the authority of this, decision, that
this right once vested is secured in
the Bill of Rights and is indefeasi-
BILE. -L .eErL.. tsEG
Says the Court:
The seventh section of the Bill of
Rights declares shat no freeman shall
be taken or imprisoned, or disseized Of
his freehold, liberties and privileges, OF
outlawed or exiled, or in any manner
destroyed or deprived of his life, liberty
or property, but by the judgment of his
peers, or the law of the land" The
phrase, ''the law of the land, is another
expression for the "due process of law,
and is of equivalent import in respect tc
the question involved in the present lit
lgatiOn. -..s- e..
The twelveth section of the
eleventh Article of the Constitution
places this right and every other
one in the Ark of the Covenant,
and beyond the reach of the cur.
rent party prejudices and passions
of the hour. 1t says:
The declarations of rights heretofore
prefxed is declared to be part ofthe Con
stitution of this State, and shall never be
violated on any pretence whatever. And
to guard against transgression Of the
high powers we have delegated, we de-
clare that everything in the Bill of Rights
contained, is excepted out of the general
powers of government, and shall forever
remain inviolate.