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Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-03-27
The Pacific Railroad.

This most stupendous undertaking OF modern
times approaches completion. and it is conf
IDENTIFY predicted that tie last rail will be laid by
the first of May next, and an unbroken track
stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The
Union and Central Pacific, in their exciting
struggle for the magnificent donations of the
general government in aid of this enterprise,
have progressed with a rapdity never before
known in the annals of railroad building-nfne
miles of track having been laid in one day. We
Die destined soon to witness tide of immigra-
ton flowing from the densely populated East to
this coast, eager to cultivate the soil or gather
the gold and silver scattered almost everywhere
throughout our vast domain. Now that the
construction of the Pacific railroad is assured
the following description Of the route, taken
from the Sacramento RECORD, will be found in
teresting;
The Central line, commencing at Sacramento
which is 56 feet above tide-water, climbs the
steep and rugged Sierras, till it reaches the sum-
nit, at an altitude of 7,O42 feet, where tunnel
$50 feet long, leads to their eastern slope, down
which the track follows till it reaches White
plains, 1921 feet above tide-water. Again it
ascends till it reaches Pequop pass, on Toano
divide at an altitude of G. lSO feet and again de-
scends to the point where it is to connect with
the Union Racifc at Monument Point, 65l miles
from this city, and 4,29O feet aboye the legel of
the sea. Then the Union Pacific line COM
mences, and keeps ascending till it reaches
Quaking Asp summit, at an elevation of 1916
feet, and then descends to Omaha, which is 967
feet above tide-water, and then onwards by easy
grades to Chicago, and afterwards to New York,
making the total length from ocean to ocean, in
cluding the Western Pacific, which will shortly
be completed, Of 3,305 miles. The route lies
between parallels 379 and 43o of latitude The
elevations on the Central line are not as high
nor of so great an extent as on the Union line
Snow, so as to seriously blockade a railroad, ex-
cept during extraordinary storms, in the lati-
tude where the line is located seldom occurs at
an altitude below 1000 feet. The Central road
has LOO miles of road more than 5000 feet
above the sea, and only ten miles higher than
$500, while the Union line has 200 miles 1000
feet high and more than 200 miles over $500
feet high. The Central road, wherever expert
ence has shown the necessity, is protected by
snow sheds. They have line of such sheds 80
miles long, and more than 10000, 900 feet of
lumber used in their construction. 1t is hardly
possible to protect the Union in such a manner
unless about $50 miles of like sheds be erected
However, if necessity demands it, we have no
doubt it will be done.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-03-27

| WHITE PINE AND CALrFoRNIA.-The highly ex-
aggerate6 accounts published by newspaper
correspondents have drawn considerable atten-
tion to White Pine, and undoubtedly an immense
emigration from the East will set in for the new
district rs soon as the railroad is completed and
opened. That many of these emigrants will be
disappointed no one can doubt They are en-
tirely unacquainted with mining, but have read
the highly colored pictures of White Pine, drawn
by correspondents, in which the country is rep
resented to be full of silver that they walk
upon silver and are surrounded by silver. They
believe that the harvest is ready, and they have
only 10 come, gather the silver, and return with
fortunes. These hopes will soon be dashed
when they enter the new district, and find it so
thoroughly prospected that shaft can hardly
be sunk without throwing dirt in another one or
upon an adjoining claim, and ascertain, after
running over the hills for weeks, that every foot
of ground is located, and the district is so
crowded that parties are leaving every day for
other localities. The truth is, White Pine is al
ready running over with people, and every man
who goes there with great expectations of
wealth, soon begins to ask why be sees so little
work done, and parties of ten and dozen eav-
ing for other points every day Why the peo-
pie don't stay and dig, if there is so much sill
ver?" The only answer White Piner can give
is, 90 The Eberhardt is very rch'' and this is the
sum and substance of all there is of White Pine
But the immense population coming from the
East to a district already overfowing with peo-
pie, will be compelled to seek other homes, and
many of them will come to this State and enter
into business here. Other parts of Nevada than
White Pine will be benefited by this emigration,
for it is probable that many of them will be men
of energy and enterprise, and that they will
bring some capital with them. 1t is possible
that this State will gain much more than she
has lost on account of the White Pine excitement
in this way. There is ample room anywhere in
this State for men of energy and enterprise, and
for the use of capi,al. New industries are only
waiting on those for development, and Califor-
mia has within her reach and advantages to make
her one of the leading States of the Union The
White Pine excitement will ultimately and un-
doubtedly help in the work.-Nepada Transcript
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-03-27

At Douglas City, March 22d, LENA TRAsK
wife of B. F. Trask, aged 23 years.A
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-03-27

nag We are glad to learn that the I" Pain
Killer is having so large sale in our city.
We have every reason to believe it to be an al
most never failing cure tor pain, and a medicine
that no family should be without.-Montreal
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-03-27
AGENCY NOTICE

THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY rNpopurn
i that have left my accounts win nna
Junkans, of Weavervile, and have annt;.sayy 10y
him agent TO collect and receipt for ,ba .an.a
All persons knowing themselves indehteS - "e. 1s.
are hereby notified to make immediate navman. me
January %, 1859. 4-3t "D0N
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-03-27

BEB " sHUJUIH tnt IUIIO"IHp HIT
davit in an injunction suit formerly pending be-
tween Mercado Seully, plaintiffs, and e. A.
Simon, defendant
p sainsevaiu being duly says That the article
known SaiDsevains California Wine Btters nanufac
by Nercado Seuy. about the month OF March, 1861,
without the said Sainsevain Brothers having any in
thereof That deponent has always known
and considered said Mercado Seuy the Sole Propretos
Of the Sainseyain California Wine Bitters."
Notwithstanding the above affidavit the said
P. Sainsevain is putting up compound under
the name of Sainsevain's Wine Bitters, repre-
senting it to be the same as our celebrated Bit
tiers, which we have been manufacturing and
selling in immense quantities since 1860, and al
atfixing n nearly similar label to that used on
our genuine Wine Bitters BE NOT DECElV-
ED Send for
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-03-27

1T IS reported that Grant will send Ouakers to
take charge of Indian agencies.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-03-27
SPECIAL MEETING
OF THE
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS,

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT A
~ Special Meeting of the Board of Superv-
sors of Trinity county will be held at the court
house, in Weavervile, in said county, ON Fri
day, the I'd day of April 1869, at three o'clock
P.M for the purpose of appointing Road Over
seer for Trinity Center road district, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of James
E. Carr. By order of the Board.
JOHN W. PHILBROOK, Clerk.
March 26, 1869. l2-lw
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Good Pictures Guaranteed.

He has lately made arrangements by which
those desiring LARGE PICTURES can have
them done in San Francisco style, at moderate
prices, in India Ink, Coored or Oil Painting.
Old Daguerreotypes and all other kind of pic
lures copied
Instructions given in the art. l2-n
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-03-27
PHOTOGRAPHY!

OIGNOR HU EMBUG HAS GONE, AND Mr..
~ NORCROSS has resumed picture taking at
his old stand.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22
CHINESE IMMIGRATION.

Gov. Haight in his recent message to
The Legislature of California discourses of
Chinese immigration as follows:
We need population-not of races in
feriOr in natural traits, pagan in religion,
ignorant of free institutions, and incapa-
bic of sharing in them without putting
the very existence of those institutions in
peTil-but we need immigrants of kindred
races, who will constitute a congenial ele-
mont and locate themselves and their fam
lies permanently upon the soil; who can
be admitted to an equal share in our polit-
ical privileges, and respond to all the OBJ
legations imposed upon our citizens under
q republican government One great need
of California is a farming population from
Germany and other European States, &C
customed to the cultivation of the grape
and other branches of agriculture, to
which our climate and soil are so pecu-
liarly adapted. The
people of the State have so often and
50 emphatically expressed their hos
tility to the importation of Chinese la
borers that their representatives will
doubtless leave no legitimate means IN
tried to execute the popular will in this
respect. 1t is of vital importance, also,
that the infamous business of importing
Chinese females by the hundred, for the
vilest purposes, should be arrested at
once by stringent measures. l do not
propose TO renew the discussion of the
subject of Chinese immigration in an
economic, moral or political aspect, be
cause it is needless to discuss a question in
reference to which public sentiment here
is so nearly unanimous. The Legislature
have power, without doubt, to make such
provisions as viii secure the people of the
State against the stream Of filth and pros
titutiOn that has been pouring in from
Asia for the past twelve months, and at
the same time secure the working people
of the State against the importation of a
class whose servile competition tends di-
reCtly to cheaper and degrade labor.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22
COMPENSATION OF TEACHERS IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

The Cincinnati Commercial has q
lengthy and very sensible article on the
discrimination in the public schools of that
city. against the female teachers in the
regulation of salaries. We make the fol
lowing extracts: "There are upward of
five hundred females employed as teach
ers in the public schools of Cincinnati.
The majority of these young women have
no other resource for their support than
the amount they receive for their services,
while many of them have infirm parents
or younger brothers and sisters 20 whose
maintenance they generally give the greater
part of their wages"
at becomes asquestion of serious i'm
portancc to these female teachers, there
fore, when any change in the amount of
their salaries is spoken of, either by the
Board of Trustees or the people"
'In the high schools the lowest salary
paid a male teacher is 81, 800 a year, and
goes up to 81, 800, the salary of the Prin-
cipal, while the highest salary paid the
female is but 81, 100"
eve have said, and repeat it here, that
no satisfactory reason has ever been as
signed for this discrimination in salaries
which runs through all the public schools
from the highest to the lowest.
"There is a lady teacher in this school,
of most excellent repute, who supports
two children and herself on $500 year,
while the male teacher of the same grade
wakes fat and kicks on 1900, and no
body but himself to care for"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22


THERE is an old adage about mistakes
occurring Gin the best regulated families.
One recently occurred in the White House
which is quite annoying 10 Grant and the
Radicals. The Washington correspond,
ent of the Cincinnati Commercial says in
his letter of Dec. 10:
"a singular mistake occurred in the
copying of an anonymous letter sent to the
President by Rebel woman in this city,
who for some time past has been annoy
ing him with abusive papers relating to
Georgia. The document which has now
inadvertently found its way into official
type is a scurrilous attack on Gov Bullock
and the Republican State Committee. The
letter lay on the Presidents table when
the papers were handed to the clerks for
copying, and as a consequence, was
picked up and copied among the rest. 1t
was intended for the waste basket, and
not the Senate, and the President will
send in a message to that effect to-
morrow"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22

THE Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says Senator Fow-
Ter and Representative Hawkins did
not sign the protest against the legality of
the election in this State. This precious
document, the joint production of those
malignant malCOntcnts, Horace Maynard
and VIM. B. Stokes, ''c'aims that Congress
should set aside the whole election as void,
and declare all acts of the new Lcgisla:
ture illegal, and the call for Constitu-
tional Convention without lawful au-
thority." This same Horace Maynard
took a very active part in the "conven-
ton" of January, 1865, which assumed
authority to propose amendments to our
constitution, but he seems to have been
troubled with no qualms of conscience
about the legality of that body or its pro-
ceedings. Maynard furnishes most apt
Illustration of the righteous Judge whose
bull had gored his neighbours OK.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22

THE bill to reconstruct reconstructed
Georgia, which passed the Senate Friday
night by vote of As to 8, strict party
vote except Mr.. Fowler, who voted
against it, passed the House of Repre-
sentatiyes yesterday. Only four Republi-
can votes were cast against it. It goes to
the President to-day, and there is scarcely
doubt that he win approve this assas-
sination of State. The bill is printed in
full elsewhere.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22
THE SECRET HISTORY OF IM-
PARCHMENT.

We publish this morning highly in
teresting letter from the Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
Radical, purporting to give the outlines of
the secret history of the attempted
impeachment of President johnson.
Whether its revelations are true or not we
cannot tell. But it is TO the honor of
President johnson that this Radical cor
respondent can find nothing to his dispar-
agement in any of the transactions con-
nected with this most celebrated trial. The
Gazette, speaking of this letter, says:
The serct history of the attempt to i'm
peach Andrew johnson, which we print
this morning in a letter from our Wash
ingtOn correspondent, is rare and valua.
bic contribution to the records of that re-
markable event. 1t is particularly Valua-
BILE because it is entirely reliable-in sub
stance, at least Butler, it viii be seen,
attempted to buy up Wendell, and in the
course of the investigation he managed to
keep out testimony upon that point As
to the political part of the proceedings,
in which Trumbull, Grimes and Fessen-
den participated, our correspondent says
there is no doubt. These Senators were
convinced that johnson could not be le
gaIly convicted, but they were troubled lest
an acquittal would bring, through the rash
ness Ofthe President, evils upon the country.
Hence the conference with and the pledges
made by johnson. In the programme
agreed upon withrefcrence to the cabinet,
the name Of w. S. Groesbeck was in
cluded, but this part of it was not carried
out. Evarts and Schofield were, however,
appointed. 1t is also noteworthy that
johnson protested against the use of
money, but that part of the scheme was
assumed by Randall and Seward. Woolley,
who appeared before the country as big
figure was really a very small person in
the matter. Cornelius Wendell managed
the business, and he was too old fox to
admit small potato men into the secret 1t
will also occur TO the reader, after pcrus-
ing this letter, that the conduct of the
investigation on the part Of the House
III e., =,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22
THE ELECTION FOR THE CON-
EENIION.

The indifference manifested in Tennes-
see regarding the election of members to
the Constitutional Convention is proof
that the people were very well satisfied
with the constitution as it is, and that the
Convention is the work of politicians who
have certain political ends to subserve,
and which cannot be reached while the
present organic law stands in their way
Cincinnati Commercial
The Commercial is mistaken in its
conclusions. The small vote cast on
Saturday is easily and properly accounted
for by the lack of opposition. The
weather was exceedingly Indictment, and
in but comparatively few of the counties
in the State were there any opposing can
didates for the Convention, or any avowed
opposition to the Convention. Hence,
there was no necessity for the voter to ex-
pose himself to thestomy weather of that
day to carry the election. If there had
been, the number of voters for COnYen-
ton would have been trebled.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22
JUDGE HOAR.

A special to the Cincinnati Enquirer
says: The nomination of Judge Hoar to
the Supreme Bench meets with disfavor
from a combination of opposing circum-
stances, and an informal canvass shows
that he will probably be rejected. The
eleven Democratic Senators will vote
against him, because of his opinion sus-
tanning the military commission in Texas,
a few months ago, which tried and con
victed man for murder The Southern
Senators viii oppose him, because he is
placed in the Georgia Circuit, which, they
say, is entitled to the vacancy, and about
dozen other Senators viii make up ma
iority against him on other grounds.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22

Mr.. MORRILL,, of Vermont, has been
making a speech in the United States
Senate in favor of the repeal of the law
fixing eight hours as a days labor, on the
ground that it only applied to those labor
ers in the employ of the general govern
ment, and that it was offensive to all
other laboring men. The Cincinnati
Chronicle (RadicaD takes up the cudgel
in favor of repeal, and remarks that
'there are workingmen who think it quite
enough that Government labOrers
should be better paid than others, without
the additional advantage of working two
hours day Less 1t was Radical law,
but the Radicals are already displeased
with il.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22
ED &c FIE
Something Extra for Christmas.
MEATS. TURTLES, DUCKS

7 @. COLEMAN WOULD RESPECTFULLY
81 notify his patrons that ON Friday morning
next, his Meat Store will be supplied with choice
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22

A WASHINGTON letter says: "There is
strong probability that majority of
the Southern and Western members, who
insist upon a redistribution of the Ma
tional Bank currency, viii agree instead
tothe plan of the Secretary of the Treas
ury for Withdrawing the three per cents.
and issuing National Bank notes, while
the Eastern States would oppose the re-
distribution desired, as the amount would
be taken mostly from Massachusetts, Con
necticut and Rhode Island. 1t is be,
ieved the Secretary's plan will meet with
the wants of those who demand increased
banking facilities"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22
NOTICE.

TTNHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
i holders of the Nashville Life Insurance Com
pany will be held at the office of the Company No.
is Maxwell House, on MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1870
for the purpose of electing Seven (0 Directors to
manage the affair of the Company for the ensuing
twelve months. VIM. HENRY SMITH,
NASHVILLE, Dec. 10. [decl9 ST. Secretary.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22

Mr. MUNGER, of Ohio, who advocated
the reputation of the national debt, in a
speech in the House of Representatives on
the 10th inst, voted against the proposed
increase of $44OOO,OOO greenbacks,
whereat his constituents are greatly in
censed, and there is some talk of formally
, calling upon him to resign.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22
I'm Cbancery nt Gainsboro.


Patience Brewington Silas r. Jackson, ct ais.
ON MOTION OF COMPLAINANT BY HER
" Solicitors, and it appearing from an allegation
in compliments BILL which is sworn to- that defend
ants heirs-at-aw and children of John Brewington,
deceased, names unknOwn,) defendant's heirs-at-
law and children of ellis Brewington, deceased,
(names unknown Reuben BrewingtOn, Jane Brew
zngtOn and her husband, Thomas BrewingtOn, and
Joseph BrewingtOn, are nOn-residents of the State
of Tennessee, so that the ordinary process of the
law cannot be served upon them, it is therefore
ordered by me that publication be made, for four
consecutive weeks, in the UNION AND AMERICAN, a
newspaper published in the city Of Nashville, Ten
nessee, requiring said nonresident defendants to
appear before the Chancery Court of Jackson coun-
ty, at the Courthouse in the town Of GainsbOrO on
the first Monday in February next, then and there
to plead, answer demur to compliments bill, or
the same will be taken for confessed and set for
hearing ex parte, as TO them.
ROBERT A. cox, G. &M
DENTON & WAsHBURN, Solicitors for complainant.
deCl6-dlt-w3t
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22

IT was announced some months ago in
a shape that was the next thing to being
official, that the highest judicial tribunal
of our country was of the opinion that
the reconstruction acts were unconstitu-
tional. The Supreme Court is to be so
constituted, now that it has passed under
Radical control, as to pronounce those
acts in exact accordance with the cOnsti-
tuition. There can be no doubt as to what
Stanton will do. He is man without 4
conscience. Should HOar be confirmed
he would not dare disobey his masters.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22

An examination has disclosed the fac
that each member of Congress has had
four tons of books and documents to send
out under his frank in two years. 1t is
estimated that it would require over seven
hundred thousand dollars in postage
stamps to have these documents trans
ported to the persons for whom they
were intended
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22

In the debate on the Georgia bill in the
United States Senate on the 18th inst,
Mr.. Morton, of Indiana, was candid
CT Jugh to confess the object of the re-
construction of Georgia He said:
"He believed the vote of Georgia was
vitality necessary for the adoption of the
fifteeBth amendment. Then the Demo
Gratis would give up their efforts to get
control of the Ohio Legislature, New York
would not rescind the amendment, there
would be no fear of Rhode Island, and the
Democrats would go to work to conciliate
the votes of American citizens of African
descent If this requirement was not made
he did not believe there was one chance
in fifty that Georgia would ratify ii. q"
That is the way States are to be coerced
into submission TO the dictation of Con
crrpcS
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22
Third National Bank
NASHVILLE, TENN.
UNITED STATES DBPosITAkY
EgST
NATIONAL BANK
Nashville. Tenn.

nESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF THE
~ United States and Fiscal Agent for the
State Of Tennessee.
Capital Stock Paid In.-............s250,o0 Geo
Surplus or Contingent Fund, $4,000
A. 9. SANFORD. Pres. R. G. JAMESON. cash'r
deel2 sp ~.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22

VIRGINIA was promised immediate rep
resentation in Congress upon the ratifica-
ton of the proposed fifteenth amendment.
The Legislature elected in that State made
haste to ratify the amendment but the
Radical Congress has 50 far failed to re-
deem its pledge to Virginia, and it is not
probable the State will be admitted until
after the holidays, if then. Such is Rad
ical faith