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NEW YORK.

The Wit Of Andrew j. Rutter-NOth-
ing Left Old Ben-ArriVRI Of n Dis
tIuguished CubRn-FIeIghts 20 the
West, Etc.
New YORK, Aug. 23-A copy of the
,rIII of Andrew j. Butler and of the in
Veptories and schedules fled by his brother
and executor, Gen. 3. F. Butler, is pub
aisbed. The schedules show that the es-
aate is insolvent, and that no money re-
mains 10 be divided among his heirs, who
are Gen. Butler, Mira. Butler, wife Of the
deceased, and Geo. ii. Butler, his son.
Two undertakers in the llth precinct
are engaged in a quarrel as to who shall
bury the corpse Of woman named SUIT
ton, who died Saturday. One oil them was
sent by a coroner, who made an lnvestlga
lion of the case, but the other was called
first by the womsn's relations. The coro-
ner's man insisted on his right to do the
business, but the police were called in and
The matter referred to Inspector Mailing,
who referred TO the public administration.
Meantime the body remains unbGrled.
Col, Ouesada, brother OF the Genersl~in'
Chief. arrived in New York yesterday on
diplomatic mission and as the bearer Of
important dispatches for the Cuban au-
thoTities.
There was death from yellow fever on
Canal street yesterday. The party was
recently from the South.
The rate of freight to the West to day is
understood to be forty cents per hundred.
Capt Shaw, of the London Fire Brigade,
has Itft here for tour of the large South
ern aHd Western cities, and will probably
on his return home recommend adopting
many of the best features Of the American
system.
Railroad freights to the West are to-day
advanced TO the following figures: Chicago
80, Cincinnati 35, Louisville 80, st. Louis
SIC per cWt.
A lightning express has been ordered on
tho Erie railroad, which takes passengers
40 Chicago in thirty hours. Fare is ex-
Dacted 10 be reduced. 1t is certain that the
advance 10 freights will be maintained
Reported that contract for the consolidation
~ The Central and Hudson roads is ready
for ratification aud about to be signed.
Seven laborers were precipitated TO the
ground by the falling of scatfold, on a
new pas tank ia the east on the Dist, and
all seriously injured.
Peter III Walker is under arrest for at
tempting to shoot his brother, wife and
children.
A death from the Asiatic cholera oc
Gu, red to-day German named Her
shell Cohen.
The reported death from yellow feve
was simply q case of the congestiye inter
mittent tcver.
Fred Lsw, of Elizabeth, was dubbed T.
death bv Policeman Farran at Bergan las
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NEW SERIES. NO. 3OS
TIE CITY.
The InseIenee Of Omce,

| Within the past few years the people o
this community have had ample oppor
tunity TO see and determine what hatefu
thing is "the insolence of Office" especi
ally as exhibited by gang Of unprin
cipled and irresponsible interlopers, who
taking advantage of the disfranchised con
dition of our citizens, usurped authority
for which they we're neither mentally nor
morally capable. Hoping for the time
when their voices would again be heard in
the selection of their official agents, the
people were patient and quiet. They de-
sired peace, and in order to sustain it have,
without resistance, save that CT a legal
and constitutional character, passively
submitted to the grossest insolence
and most fraudulent practices on
the part of those who have
wrongfully assumed authority over them.
The good time hoped for has come, and in
future public officers will be the servants of
the people and not their masters. If this
remark does not fully apply to the federal
ofiice-holders in this district, it is to be
hoped that they will, even in the absence
of any direct responsibility TO those among
whom they live, except that of a common.
ly recognized duty to conduct themselves
like gentlemen, properly realize the na-
ture of their relations with the people, as
well as their obligations to the government
whose interests they represent. We trust,
therefore, that it may not become
necessary for any of our citizens to make
public complaint of want of fairness and
courtesy on the part of any one of these
holders Of Office under the national gov
eminent. 1t would be painful to Us to
chronicle the fact that either of them was
using mis- "brief auth ority" to insult or OPP
press any person with whom the business
of his Office requires him 10 deal. Inso-
lence in office and fidelity to official trust
hardly ever go hand in hand. The one is
never ft or agreeable companion to the
other. Collectors, assessors, postmasters and
other agents of the national government,
can easily comprehend this truth, and in
order that complaints now uttered in gen.
TEST whispers may not gain more audible
sound, we feel that it is hardly necessary
at present to do more than quietly direct
attention to the fact that it is yet possible
for a government officer, even under
Prssident Grants administration, to con-
duct himself in all respects like gentle
man.
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INCOMES.
The Treasury Department Proposes
10 Increase Taxation.

The Treasury Department. proposes
10 Increase Taxation.
New YORK, Aug. 23.-The Herald's
Washington special says the movement
alluded to some time ago favoring a modi-
fication of the laws affecting incomes has
assumed a more formidable and gen.
eral character. The plan proposed is to
increase the tax on whisky to onedollar pr
gallon, which it is claimed will realize
SIS, 900, 900, if the means now within reach
of the Revenue Bureau for the prevention
of fraud shall be adopted. From tobacco
at least $3,000,000 can be realized from
stamps. With modification Of the present
law, say SIC, coo, 600 from fermented liquors;
$l0,000,0O0 from license, and then from
| the modified income tax but $l5OOO,OOO
would be required to mskea total Of $l55,
| 900, coo, an amount equal TO Secretary
Boutwell's estimate for the present fiscal
year. The plan is to conhne the income
| tax TO the tax on interest paid on the IA
tional debt, the per cent 10 be deducted
when the interest is paid. This will re-
alize S62, SD. 900 without dollar OF eX-
pense incurred in the collection. The
balance il is proposed to raise by taxing
incomes derived from the surplus property
embraced in the stock of banks, railro ads
and other corporations, and from the in
terest paid on bonds of such corporations
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MUNICIPAL.
The mayoralty.-Hon. Jas. whItworI

knc ubyoraihy. -AAOns JUS VhAe"oA ah'
To the Editors of the Union and American.
Herewith, the name Of james Whit
worth, Esq, is suggested as a candidate for
Mayor, subject to the decision of the Mu-
nicipal Convention suggested, and which
will be held as appointed.
Judge Whitworth has proved himself
competent to the discharge of the more
than usually arduous and responsible du-
ties which will deVolVe on the incumbent
of the Mayoralty for the ensuing year.
With the exception of the financial en-
barrassment of the corporation, the May
orally is an cay beth. Numbers Of
citizens could fill it we'll. But the
coalition of affairs needs a cool,
clear. headed, sagacious fnancier. In The
capacity of County Judge Judge Whitworlh
has shown his ability in this respec'. If
proof is needed, let US look at Davidson
county bonds and their value 10 the mar
ket, and inquire to whom the financial
credit Of Davidson county is chiefly due.
Judge Whitworth is unconnected with
the contest thus far, and doubtless does
not desire the place. But a portion OF
his fellow citizens think that he could
unite the votes of the Conservatives, and
they know that no better selection could
be made for Mayor. Therefore, his name
is presented without consultation with
him, and if he will permit it, will be
urged before the convention by
NUMEROUS VOTERS.
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HALIFAX.
Arrival OfPrInce Arthur

HALIFAX, August 23.-Prince Arthur
arrived this morning by the steamer City
of Paris, two companies of the 18th High
landers forming guard of honor. The
streets in the vicinity were crowded.
Gov.-Gen. Young and Lieut.'Gov. Doyle
went on board and soon returned followed
by the Prince, Col. Elphinstone, the
Prince Governor, and Lieut. Bickard. The
appearance of the Prince elected cheers
and the band played national anthems.
The Prince took carriage to the Governo
ment House, and attended special service
in the garrison chapel at $50 P. NJ.
The formal landing will take place at
her Msjesty's dock yard tomorrow, when
the Prince will be received by Gov
Young, Admiral Nuudy, Vice Admiral
Wellesley, Lieut.. Governor Doyle and the
Judges of the Supreme Court and members
of the local and provincial governments
An address will be presented by Mayor
Tob;n, bells rung, and Examinations.
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THE CONVENTION QUESTION


The Necessity for u constitutional
Convention - The Taxpayers De
mRnd &c.
From the Trenton Gazette, Aug. q,
We regret to fnd there is in some quar-
tiers, among the liberal element of this
State, feeling of opposition to calling a
State convention 10 purge our present
constitution. This opposition, howev-
er, we are glad 10 know, is confined TO but
few. The mass of the intelligent tax
paying people of Tennessee demand that
the fundamental laws of the State
should be reconstructed. They want
an expurgated constitution. They
demand that no stain of the present .fran-
chise law shall rest upon the escutcheon of
our State. What has been done since the
war, was done without the authority
Of, and never has had the sane
ton of the people. Let there be
an election in which every male citizen Of
q years of age in the State shall partici-
pate, to elect delegates who will represent
the will of the entire people. Let
that convention draft a eonstitu-
ton which shall embodJ the principles OF
a Just and liberal Republication. Let it
wipe out the last vesiige Of prescription Of
white men. We must be rid oil
the present political machine called
a Supreme conrt. Our judicial
districts must be enlarged; our common
school system with the State and county
school superintendents must be modified
or abolished; in a word every av-
enue to fraud and reckless expen.
diture must be closed against the action oil
future Legislature. Again we speak for
the people and demand the calling Of .
convention at the earliest practicable
Il momonf
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PARIS, Aug. 23.-The following news
has beeen received from Spain: the united
Carlist bands under Galindo Sales, Rule
and Rocher, have been defeated in the
province of Castillon De La Plata, Val
lencia. The Carlist chieftain Saviergas
has reappeared in Spain with fifty armed
followers
The barracks at Lagrona were burnt &c
the ground last night; the FIRE is supposed
TO have been. the work of an incendiary
The press of this city concur in urging
the government to extend clemency to thC
Carlist n risouers.
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CINCINNATI.
Great Reduction in the shipment of
Elaur

Great Reduction An the shipment of
F4eur,
CINCINNATI, Aug. 23.-The Baltimore
and Ohio railroad has arranged TO carry
-four from Lafayette. Indianapolis and Gin
cinnati, without breaking bulk, at 20 cents
per barrel cheaper than routes TO New
York.
By connecting with steamers at The dock,
transferring without additional cost and
shipping thence to Liverpool at the same
safes as from New York to that city it pro-
poses, including the saving Of hauling
and forwarding to make the rates on -four
from above the places 80 cents on the bar
rel cheaper via Baltimore than via New
York to Liverpool. This matter is now
engaging the attention of merchants
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WEST TENNESSEE.


MEMPHIS, Aug. ga negro at Mscen,
Fayette county, Tennessee, got into diff
cnily with boy, brother Of whom took
il up and uounced the darkey. A crowd
of blacks gathered and made
threats of sacking the town. One OF
the negroes was shot, Crowds
of darkies gathered from the surrounding
country and made an indiscriminate attack.
The white boys had to leave the tswn.
The sheriff Of the comfy started from
Someryille with a posse and 1t is repor,
ted several of his party have been crippled
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AGaanIf

Martha Sipply was arraigned before
Justice Lapsley yesterday with assaulting
a woman named Bell in the Market house.
She plead guilty, and the sentence was
reserved until the civil suit for damages
has been heard.
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Personal.

We had the pleasure of meeting in the
city yesterday with Walter Proctor, Esq.
junior proprietor of the Mammoth Cave
and Glasgow Junction Hotels. Several Of
our friends at the cave send him here
greeting with endorsements loud and long
We welcome him 10 the city, and hope his
stay among us may be both pleasant and
profitable.
Our good looking Union street friend,
James A. Mcclure, returned home on
Sunday morning last after a pleasant
sojOurn at Montgomery Springs, Virginia,
and several Of the Northern cities.
Among the arrivals at the Stacey
House yesterday were Thomas Fletcher o.
Arkansas, F L Bouque, st. Lonis, and w
r Proctor. Mammoth Cave.
| W G Jackson, Of the house OF Thoma
karkes & CO. returned yesterday from thu
Red Sulphur Springs, Macon county.
w ] Parkes, banker, of Pulaski, was il
the city yesterday.
We noticed in the city, mingliBg will
his friends yesterday, Gen. John C Brown
Of Giles county.
Mr.. George F. Akers, The largest tobacco
commission merchant Of our city, returned
yesterday from an extended visit among
the manufacturers and growers of tobacco
in Virginia, and reports that the growth o
last year is about exhausted by the manu-
facturers and exporters, and that the pres
ent growing crop in the counties Of Apo
mattox, Prince Edward, Buckingham
Charlotte, Halifax, PittsylVania, franklin
Patrick, Henry, Bottetourt, Bedford
Clmpbell, Amherst, RockbFidge, etc, il
so badly injured by the long continued
drought that the yield will not be hal
The two causes combined have caused an
advance in leaf of from four 10 eight cent?
in Lynchburg, Richmond and Petersburg
markets
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MISSISSIPPI.
.mes Ignores civil Authority.

JACKSON, Aug. 2S-Gen. Ames has
issued the following order 10 the COM
mander of the military post in Mississippi,
The Commanding General directs that
YOU do not obey in future any wrlt oil
habeas corpus issued by the United States
Court and Circuit Court, or any mode BY
such court for the release of the prisoners
in your custody. Should such writ or
order be served upon you, report the fact
hy telegraph.
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ILLINOIS.
Some BeIt-BnrgIars shOt-A Preacher
mObbed.

Some BeIt-BnrgIars ShOt-A Preacher
MObbed
The largest belt in the world has Just
arrived in this city for the mammoth new
grain elevator of Buckingham & Co, near
the Illinois Central depot. 1t is OF rubber,
800 feet long, 5 feet wide, from ! to I
of an inch thick, and weighs 5000 pounds.
1t cost about S., 1900, or 81 pound.
Buck Holbrook and Johnny Murphy,
two well known Chicago burglars, were
shot and killed at Hennipin, Illinois, yes
terday morning while in the act of es-
Gaping from the county Jail in that place.
They had been confined to answer the
charge of burglary. A youth named
Fitzgerald, who also broke Jail with them
escaped.
Major General Hancock, commanding
the department of Dakotah, arrived in
this city this morning with his family.
While Rev. J. g. White, clergyman oil
Jacksonville, was delivering lecture on
Catholicism in the hall of the old House Of
Representatives at Springfield, mob Of
Irish made a violent disturbance and
threatened the life of the speaker, who had
to be protected by the Sheriff, the Mayor
and other officers to save him from serious
harm
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who Should be senatorr

The Senatorship Of the United States
from the State of Tennessee seems to have
dwindled down to a contest between ex-
President johnson and Emerson Etheridge
When we consider that the present Senate
is the same that exerted every effort 10
break down johnson, by impeachment and
otherwise, would it not be right to elect
johnson and enable him TO meet upon a
fair footing those who have endeavored Ia
destroy him?-Rnorville Press and Herald,
Auc %
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GETTYSBURG.
Wis. Better from General Lee

GETTTYsBUEG, Aug. % - Governor
Gesry and others, who took part in the
war, will arrive tomorrow. Exconfeder-
ate officer Col. Walter Harris has arrived.
General Lee, in acknowledging the receipt
Of an Invitation TO be present, says, his
engagements will not permit his attendance;
and sdds, at il wisest not to keep open
sores ofwar, but 10 follow example of those
nations who endeavored 10 obliterste
marks of civil strife, and commit TO OBJ
liVion the feelings it engendered."
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FOREIGN,

PARIS, Aug. 23-The Empress departs
on her Eastern tour to-day.
LaFrance ssys, however painful il may
be for Spain to accept the suggested solu-
ton of The Cuban difficulty, there is no
other plan possible.
DRoHEDA, Aug. 23.-An open-air meet
ing, attended by twenty thousand persons,
was held here to-day in favor of granting
amnesty to Fenians. Bands played popu.
lar Fenian airs, and enthusiastic speeches
we're made. The resolutions adopted de-
clare that further detention of Fenian
prisoners is unwise, impolilic and unjust.
MADRID, Aug. 23.-Marshal Serrano
Regent has returned to Madrid from La
grange.
Eleven Csrlists, among them Galnedo
and Rocher, were killed in the recent fight
at Castilon De La Plsna. Many prisoners
we're taken by the troops
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Alarming Extent of the DrOugl

BALTIMORE, Aug. 23.-The accounts
from all sections of Maryland represent
the drought as prevailing to an alarming
extent. No rain has falleu Tor weeks. In
some counties the farmers despair oil
making even half crop Of corn. Potato
vines have become parched and dried up
before maturity. The tobacco crop ls sui
fering dreadfully.
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To the Editors of the Union and American:
BRENTWOOD, Aug. %, 1S69.-In COM
munication from your correspondent
"Echo" on the 18th ult., 1 find the follows
ing sentence: "Mr, Newland of this place
hired two colored men, Phil Hughes and
Mark Sneed, to dig deeper in his WE'LL"
Neither of them were employed By me
and their descent into the we'll was with
out my solicitation or request, and L was
not present when Phil Hughes descended
the well. No one regrets the occurren &c
more than do. Very respectfully
w. P, NEwLAND.
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AssanIt anlI Rafferr

Thomas Turner was arrested yesterday,
and arraigned before Justice Cassetty, on
the charge Of assault and battery upon
Jane Hawkins. He was discharged upon
the payment of the costs of the suit
He was also bound over to keep the peace
for six month";
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ST. LOUIS.

Death Of John II. VaIIe-MOre Whisk y
Frauds.
81. LOUIS, A1g. 23.-John b. Vale,
formerly a prominent merchant Of this
city, died in Southeast Missouri a few days
ago:
John w. Long and james Cumisky
we're assested to-day for breaking into a
whisky warehouse that had been seized by
revenue officers, and removing spirits
fhare frOm
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CUBA.
A Mixture of Defeat aud Victory for
the Insurgents.

shC
HAVANA, August 23.-Col. Nicolan with
three hundred men and two pieces of ar
tillery attacked and routed four hundred
insurgents near Jecotia, in the central de-
partmert. The lstters left twenty men
killed on the field. The Cubans we're
fighting with a characteristic earnestness
that was irresistible.
Advices from Cuba to 18th, received by
Cuban sympathisers here, give accounts
of a fight between Gen. Gordon's command
and corps of Valmeseda, near Puerto
Principe, numbering at least ZOO, we're en-
camped near Ruarto Padre, where they
were attacked by a force of Spanish regu-
lars and volunteers over 1000 strong. In
the first attack the Cubans were compelled
to fall back, and securing more defensi'
Bile position, they repulsed the SPaniards
on their second attack.
The loss of the Cubsns in the contest
was $50 in killed, wounded and missing.
That of the Spaniards is represented as
more than double that number. Col FL
auarro commanded the Cubans. The fight
is reported TO have been one of the most
desperate.
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EVANSVILLE.
Suicide Of an Army Officer

EVANSVILLE, Aug. 2S.-Mai. Lewis
Mandazi, formerly Of the tenth Tennessee
infantry, and afterwards a staff officer
under Gen. Gillem, committed suicide last
night by shooting himself through the
head. The cause of the rash act is sup
posed to have been mental dependency.
He was formerly in the Austrian army
and took part in the revolution of 1913.
He served ten years in the first United
ST ates infantry.
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SARATOGA.

Mountain Boy and Lady ThOrne.
SARATOGA, Aug. 23.-In the trot to-day
Mountain Boy beat Lady Thorne in three
straight heats. Time 2.27, 2.249 and 225f.
Commodore Vanderbilt and wife were on
the pround
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Criminal Court

John Patton, assault with intent to kill,
nolle pros.
The argument in the case of John
Sneed, colored Baptist preacher, charged
with horse stealing, was commenced. The
case will probably be decided by the jury
to day
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Recovering stolen Property

A man who requested his name not to be
published, was taken before Justice Cassetty
yesterday, on the charge of receiving a
watch knowing it to have been stolen.
He was bound over to the Criminal Court.
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CRoNsTADT, August ga violent storm
visited this harbor to-day. During the
tempest monitor broke loose from her
anchorage and ran into a screw frigs:e,
sinking her almost instantly. Sixteen of
the frigate's crew were drowned.
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Paid the Costs

John W. Lloyd was taxed with the costs
yesterday by the Acting Police Commits
sioner, for drawing a pistol and threaten
ing to shoot James Murphy.
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WE PRESENT THIS SEASON. MOST
unqusstiOnably. the LARGEST and FINEST
stock of Linen Clothing in TOnnssuss. Our
goods are the most perfect character in poi
of FABRIC. CUT. FIT, GENERAL MAX
UP and ELEGANT PROPORTION. These
goods are known to have undergone a thoroush
process Of shrinking before making up,
beautifully IaundriSd after they are made.
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Affairs In mississippi.

Heavy order from Ames.
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The Necessity for Constitutional
Convention - The Tax-Payers De
mRnd &c.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1869-09-02

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From Dr., G. 3. NEAL, Buriis Iowa, Dec 90 1856
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