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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-09-03
PIANOS s.

VlKEE GOLD MEDAL YVES award
Il ed at the lato fair On Bsltimore) to
Chas NJ. Stiff, i'r the b, st Piabos now
made over Baltimore, Philadtlphia, and
New York Pianos. Office and Warerooms
M. North Liberty ST., near Baltimore
ST., Baltimore, Md.
Site ifs Pianos have all the latest improve
ments, including the Agraffr Treble. Ivory
Fronts, ond the improved French Acti n
Fully warranted for five years, with priv
lege Of exchange within twelve months, if
not entirely satisfactory to purchaser.
Second hand Pianos and Parlor Organs
always on hand from $50 to $500.
Reference, who have our Pianos in use /:
Gen. r E Lee, Lexington, Va, Gen. Rolt
Riwson, Wilmington, n. c., Gen. d. IL
Ii'l, Charlolie, N. @ Gov. John L-tcher,
Lexington, Va, D. B. Payne & Brother,
Lynchbnrg, Va, Martha Washington Col.
lege, Abingdon, Va. I, rms liberal. A
call Is solicited. Oc'3J ly
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-09-03

ron THE GENTLEMEN NEXT,
A MAMMOTH STOCK OF
READY.MADE CLOTHING
AND PIECE GOODS.
Equal to il not larger than many VIII. losoIe
houses either IN Baltimore ar Ny,r,lk
ttf ShH aud auun Boot
r'' .rI Hti.
F l..r. osn sI....
ra. Hid rs NUT aAsr Ta.
sHA T. IN T Is tLthNr
ASSu TMLNT,
Ana ga iarI rc benefit have bought
! DOZEN CuHd's Nt,ociped 3, the latest
thing out; aud the Great Mammoth
Elephant W ich will be on
Exhibition for only thirty DAYS at
W. d JONES' NEW BRANCH STORE
West end Mein Street, Bristol, Tennessee
after which, as the weather gets warm.
er, will move him farther North
l have on hand and for sale:
81 900 lbs. Bushongs Castings
10000 /" Bristol Foundry Castings.
| $1,000 " Garter and johnson county Iron
0,On0 " Roll. Band, Rod, and Tire "
| LOCO ' Bar Lead, at manufact'rs prices
1000 Gals. Keys Best Painted Stoneware
500 Bunches Cotton Yarn.
20 Holston Farmer an Y, Prem Pillow.
2 Thimble Spindle and 2 Wood Axle Wagon.
just received from he manufacturer. -.
adde's, Brides, and Harness, in great yo,
riety, for sale cheap. Conf ectionerics
Oysters, Canned Fruits, Hardware.
Drugs, Cutlery. etc., etc.
and many, very many otberar-
ticles too numerous to mention.
Also Agent Tor the Celebrated Buckeye
Reaper and Mower, combined or single; III,
best Machinec now in use. Also:
Buckeye Threshers and
Seperators that
will throw
straw 100 feet in the air and also
Agent for the Salt works.
Plaster Banks. &c.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-09-03
,E INFIDEL AND HIS
DAUGHTER.

q. The damps Of death are coming fast,
NV father, Ger my brow;
The past, with all its scenes, has fed,
And must turn me now
To that dim future, which In vain
Nv eyes seek to descry;
Tell me, my father, in this hour,
In whose belief to DIE
AIN th;neY I've watched thy scornful smile,
And heard thy whitening tone,
whene'ef the Christians humble hope
Was placed upon thine own;
Eve heard thee speak OF coming death
without shade of gloom,
I'D laugh at sill the childish fears
That cluster round the tomb.
cor Is it in my mothers faith
Now fondly do trace
Through many weary years long past
That calm and sanity face;
How often do call to mind
Now ehe's beneath the sod)
The place, the hour, in which she drew
Ny eager thoughts to god
Twas then she took the sacred B, ok,
Ind from its burning page,
Lead how its truths support the soul
IN youth and failing age.
Aud babe me in its preccpts live,
And by its precePts die,
That mi ht share n home ofloye
nNO.ILs -! ohd the sky.
"My father, shall look above
Am d the gath oring gloom,
To him wnOse prom Of love
Extend beyond the tombR
Or curse the being who has blessed
This checkered heart Of mine
Must l embrace my mothers faith
Or die, my sire, by thine? 2"
The frown upon that warrior brow
Passed, like a cloud, away.
Aad tears coursed down the rug yed che eks
That flowed not till that day.
mo not in mine, with choking voice
The skeptic made reply
''I3ut in thy mothers holy faith
Nv dauOhfer mav'et tkOu die.b
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-09-03

m, Mr. r. H. srARKE-Sfr After giving your ne W
Plow very severe trial ! am COMPELLED 10 saw Il
comes up inlly TO your recommendation Upon ne a
,allow Il surpasses any pillow have ever seen used
10 no instance have seen 1t choke except where
there close clay soil bich was moi In r,ore,
oidcr ior ploWing. All who have seen It work are
PioAsed' am, very truly, yours,
wv. V. tRoxroN.
~ CAL at Fowler Gibboney's and see samples
u '"eSe lows. apr. ely
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-09-03

Vd5GINIA. At RULES HELD IN THE CLERKS
VmeS o we Sir or Court Of farewell County on
John NJ. Witten, oompl't,
0gdinst
Geo W. Deskins, John p Ander
son, Robert Chiddx aud jane his I
wife, VIM. Cecil and Nancy bis In Chancery
wife, harinda Anderson, James
:. Anderson, Robert Smith los
stras, and VIM. L Watkins Defts
The object Of this suit Is TO Bava tho ,i.t.,,s
u BIS titut ted 10 the rights of he a. i ,ai,,.iH
Watkins, who is Judgment creditor Of Wiiiisa,
4naeison, ana TO have any funds in the bands Of
vytn1 S'seph s'iss Robert Smith, William H.
NhklNs amt HeoTge w Deskins subieeteA 10 ~,
payment 81 the Plal9tii's claim aud i appearing
ens, Hilliam :. Cecil aud Nancy ti % ~ ,g 5
Chiddis ana Jane hi. wife, Msfinda anderson and
james >, Anderson are not residents ~ ~ So.
OF Virginia, Il IA ordered that thrv a 'av S'ale
Within one month fvom the due pabiilatlon bsteat
aud do what Is necessary to project his intsr,st
this suit. 'ei's' H'
A eopy,--,ssis - p. R. sPRAcHER, D. O
aug q fwI 49,"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10
COTrON MANUFACTURES IN THE
R0UTH.

The Augusta Factory has de-
clared q quarterly dividend of FIVE
per cent, and the Graniteville Mans
ufacturing Company a dividend of
ten dollars a share. These facts
show what cotton manufacturing
will do in the South. 1t is the most
profitable branch of industry in
which capitalists can embark. The
manufacturing of cotton in the
South is bound to become large and
extensive. The surplus profits
arising from the production of the
raw material will necessarily be in~
vested to large extent in manu-
factories. First, because no other
investment will pay so handsome a
profit; and second, because there
will be nothing else to invest their
surplus in. If laborers could be
multiplied by the mere force OF
capital, as was the case in the days
of slavery, large amounts of each
years profits would be invested in
labor and lands for increased pros
ductiOn. But this is not the case
now. We have a limited supply of
labor. No amount of production,
no extent of price will enable
planters now to increase the area
of their crops. The suplus profits
cannot lie idle. Cotton manu-
featuring is the nearest approach
to their lifelong vacations, and to
this new branch of industry the
greater portion of their money will
be directed. In less than ten years
all the cotton grown in the South
will be required to keep the looms
and spindles of the American mile
ers in operation. The South will in
that time require for her own mills
a million bales, and perhaps much
more. We are in our infancy now
in this branch of industry, and yet
we find that the consumption of
cotton the past year in the South"
ern States reached 1929 bales,
while that of the North was S21,-
924 bales. The increased consump-
ton of the Northern mills last year
over that Of the previous year was
only 22,107 bales, Notwithstanding
the demand for cotton fabrics is in
creasing in a greater ratio than the
production of the raw material.
The indications are that the South
will show a much larger increase
in consumption than the North,
and but a few years hence this Sec
ton will not be dependent upon the
North for its cotton fabrics.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10
JOHNSON ON THE SITUATION

No one who could have heard Andrew
Johnson's speech in front of the Court
house in this city yesterday could have
been induced, by sneers from Northern
Radical presses, to believe that the man
was dead or GEOGRAPHICALLY, morally
or politically. Those of his fellow-Ten-
nes5eeans who felt yesterday, as of old, the
glitter and magnetism of his eye, the
power and force Of his argument, the
moving elOquence of his voice, carrying
conviction in its every ringing tone, the
impressive earnestness of his manner, his
evident sincerity and honesty, rendered
more impressive in the fact that he was
not in the attitude of a political candidate
for office or reward, could for moment
have considered these the potent infuen-
ces Of a very dead advocate of a right.
eous but imperilled cause. On the
contrary, they recognize in him still, a
wonderful vitality. No intellectual or
physical weakness manifested itself, sure ",
in his powerful effort of Yesterday,
Though, doubtless somewhat wearie1 with
travel and much recent speaking in the
open air, for three hours he kept that Vast
audience eDchsiued, and, in voice and
manner seemed as fresh It the cl se ss
when he commenced the speech. We need
not, at This time, comment upon the vari.
ous effective points Of his speech. Il is
published in full elsewhere, and eloqnent-
iy speaks for itself. His exhaustive re.
view of the national finances and the bur-
den of the public debt, with his solemn
warning to the people; his timely and
pertinent counsel TO the colored PEG.
pie, who owed their emancipation
to himself; bis terrible denuncia.
ton of the Leagues and the
League managers, and earnest protest, in
the name of republican liberty and con-
slituiional government against martial
law IN time of peace and the monstrous
wrong and injustice of taxation without
representation, were telling points that
left their impress deep in the hearts of his
hearers. We bespeak for this speech a
careful and attentive perussl at the hands
of every Tennessean, we care not what his
politics or his complexion, believing in
it to be contained lessons worthy the calm,
impartial consideration of every rejecting
man who is lover OF liberty and not the
imbeciIe or knavish oath-bouud tool of
party, clique or secret league.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10

al. c." DECLINES the honor OF
representing Virginia in the Senate
of the United States. He says in
New York Tribune Of the 9th inst
that he "has endured in perfect
silence the newspaper discussion of
his fitness to be chosen" to that
position, and adds
But he has recently received personal
advices which assure him that the move,
ment TO elect him az aforesaid, whether
formidable or not, il thoroughly earnest,
and impelled by motives which he must
respect, and confidence which he CRATE
fully reciprOcates; and, az the Legislature
Of Virginia meets to-day, he feels bound
in caudor to state that he could not &C.
cept the exalted trust in question, even
though it we're unanimously rendered. His
friends will understand that this decision
is irreYocable.'
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10

The bread question is beginning
TO engage much attention in the
middle and northern portions of
Georgia, and We regret TO see the
conclusion pretty general that the
State will not produce provisions
the present year sufficient for its
own support. The following para.
graph from tho Macon Telegraph
Of the 9th inst, the Savannah Re
publican is constrained TO believe
overstates the amount of iestitu-
ton.
"The food prospects, in Georgia were
never darker, even during the war, than
they are now. If left TO her own re
sources, half Of the population of Geora
gia would probably starve before another
crop is produced. More than one-half
the food we shall consume before next
fall must come from abroad, and come
from land of scanty crops and scarce
supply. Already forage and cora are so
scarce in the West that stock is sacri.
feed to prevent winteriug; and when we
come to buy food in those regions and
bring it here, we shall suffer in the
pockets"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10
THE BAYoNEr TAX COLLECroR.

To Brownlow's card about that ST 500
that Andrew johnson gave him, intended
for publication in the Knoxville Wing,
was the following postscript, which the
editor of the Wing says escaped his nos
tice:
"P. S.-While Military Governor Mr..
johnson made large assessments upon the
rich Rebels of Middle Tennessee, and com.
PEELED them to pay over TO him thousands
of dollars. As he ia undertaking to ex-
plain what he did with other moneys
these Rebel contributors would like to
know what has been done with the money
wrenched from them at the point of the
bayonet. w. Il. B."
Abb nc! That is not what they wish 10
kncv now. That was in lime Of war, SC
far in the past, that it is forgotten. What
they wish to know now is what has be-
come of The school fund They wish to
know also who ia to foot the expenses Of
the militia bill, and if the taxes to meet i
are to be collected at the point Of Cooper
bsyonets Banner, April IL, 1869.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10

Nh. A. c. Fisk, the Chairman OF
the State Executive Committee of
the Dent wing Of the Republican
party in Mississippi, telegraphed to
President Grant on the 9TH inst,
as follows:
"Gen. Ames, in an official interview
with citizen Of this State, on Monday
last, used this language, 4 intend to carry
the election in November against the
ticket, if have 10 march nv soldiers from
precinct 10 precinct TO effect it, Will
such action fall within his legitimate
official power? The people wish a fair ex-
preston Of the public will in the choice Of
Governor. The contamination of the mill
tary commanders aVowed purpose wi II
render the election a cheat and national
degrf dation."
1t is reported that when the Presi-
dent read this dispatch he remarked
that he did not believe that Gen.
Ames had made any such remark,
and he would therefore send no re-
ply to the telegram. OF course he
would not. lie would rather hear
that Ames had adopted precisely
the plan suggested TO defeat Dent
Whom the success of the Radical
party can be secured by any means,
however foul, it may be set down as
certain that Grant will not be in the
way. His course in the matter is
entirely characteristic.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10

THE following item appears in the
Washington dispatch of the 9TH
inst. to the Cincinnati Chronicle:
The fact that the Assistant Attorney
General TO the Southern Confederacy was
employed TO represent the Cubans at the
preliminary examination before the Uni
ted States Commissioner at Wilmington,
caused considerable surprise here among the
friends to Cuban independence, and vas
generally disapproved as an unwise move,
II aid from the North is expected in the
future"
The canting hypocrisy of the
Radicals is aptly illustrated in this
affair. They profess to be in favor
offs restoration of fraternal feeling
between the sections, but all the
advances and all the concessions
leading to this restoration must
come from the Southern people.
The implied threat contained in the
closing sentence of this extract, is
ineffably mean.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10
Nine wears ago the military d

NINE years ago the military de-
partment of this government was
kept up at an annual expense of
about ten millions of dollars, and ten
thousand soldiers were looked upon
as an unnecessarily large army:
The late war closed four years ago
but we have peace establishment
that numbers about fifty thousand
men, kept up at an annual cost of
fifty millions. When the people are
ground to the earth with taxation,
what justification for this enormous
and unnecessary expenditure And
is not Radicalism an expensive in-
stifufiOn
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10

aREENBACKs FOR BONDHOLDERs.
We called attention the other day
to the fact that the Republican
State conventions Of Indiana
and Ohiol IN February and
March, 1865, had by formal
resolution,-zdeelared7 in. favor of
paying the bonds of the United
States in greenbaeks, except where
they provide otherwise. The Indi-
ana Republicans declared "that the
public debt, made necessary by the
rebellion, should be honestly paid,
and all the bonds issued therefor
should be paid in legal tenders,
commonly called greenbacks, ex-
eept where, by express terms, they
provide otherwise, )" and the Ohio
Republicans pledged themselves ''to
tho faithful payment of the public
debt according to law and at the
same time expressed their convic-
ton that, according to the laws
under which the I've twenty bonds
were issued, said bonds should be
paid in the currency of the country
which may be legal tender when
the government shall be prepared
to redeem such bonds The posi-
ton Of the Ohio Republicans was
sustained by Senator Sherman.
Here is what he said on this ques-
ton: Els 90 "a. -- aa.-i oad q. d
UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER,
WAsHIRaroN, March 20, lS6S-DEAR
| SIR: | was pleased TO receive your letter.
| NV personal interests are the same as
yours, but like you do not intend TO be
Influenced By them. My construction OF
the law is the result of careful eKsmlna
| lion. and feel quite sure an impartial
court would confirm it, if the case cluld
/ be tried before court. | serd you my
| views IS fully stated in 8 speech. Your
idea is that We propose 10 repudiAte or
| violate promise when We off TO redeem
the principal in legal-tenders. -.-... .
| az think the bondholder violates his
4 promise when he refuses to take thu same
kind of money he paid for the bonds. If
the case is to be tested by the law, l am
right; if it is to be tested by Jay Cookies
advertisement, am wrong. l hate repu'
diation or any thing like it, but we ought
not to be deferred from doing what ia
right by fear of undeseryed epithets. Il
under the law as it stands, the holders Of
five.twenties can only be paid in gold
then we are repudiators if we propose to
pay otherwise. II, on the other hand, the
| bondholder can legally demand only the
kind of money he paid, then he is q repu'
diator and extortioner to demand mon ey
more valuable than he gave. .t
Truly yours JOHN SHERMAN.
To Hon. A. Mann, Jr, Brooklyn Heights.
| Mr.. Sherman secuted the ides
that he was even leaning toward
reputation when he declared tha'
the bond-holder should be paid il
legal tenders.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10

"The Conservatives Of Tennessee may
well dread the effect Of Johnsons pereI
CARNATIONS. 1t will do more to unite and
energize the Republican party in Ten
nessee, and the South generally, than
any other one thing could OF course
maDy of the friends of, and mourners for
the lost cause can not see this result; but
it is certain as that night succeeds day.
-HnoruiHe Wing.
Then, if that is so, why do you warn
the Conservatives against Andy's perez
grinations2 DO you not want the Re.
publican party united" and "ener-
gized? This is the whine of every
whipped cur in the carpet-bag kennel.
The Conservatives are not in the race.
johnson is not in the race. Yet if John>
sons "peregrinations" do this direful
thing, why do yOu wish it to
cease Verify, art thou sincere,
oh Pearne Else, art thou not
most sanctimonious falsifer p
Banner, April 20, 1869.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10

The school fund party in this State
persistently remind their disfranchised
and plundered victiEs that Andrew John
son, initiated the measure of dlsfran-
Inent. Now Il these hypoerites, at this
late day, condemn him for it, they have
been long time correcting the error,
though having the power. Actions speak
louder than words.-Banaer, april is, 1869.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10

THE Press and Times says that Andrew
Johnson's "friendship is fatal. His en-
brace ia az sitting as that of an anaconda"
Does the editor speak from experience
Ii we mistake not, he was a prOtege Of
Governor johnson after the Federal occu-
patton of Nashville. Did his embrace Of
our contemporary have a sitting effect
On the contrary, We rather think the effect
was as that of the asp warmed TO life in
the bosom of he man in the fable, whose
reward for the act was s sting. IhCre was
the fatality of that friendship !-Banner,
Aprl 10, 1869.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10
A SINGULAR rRANsAcrIoN.
The New York Tribune Of the
1st. makes tho following statement I:

The New York Tribune Of the
1st. makes the following statement:
"Baring Rrolhers \ Co, iorsseeipg an
opportunity for neat turn 10 the late at
tempt to ball gold, borrowed from our
Treasury, through Embsssador Morley,
come $4,000 600 OF gold on deposit Of
securities in London. When the rise Of
Friday last was at its height the. order 10
cell this gold was given 10, B broker, who
planted, some 50 100000. Of it on Albert
Syeyers at 100. so the transaction stands:
Albert Speyers has purchaed 100000
OF gold Of The BIrings at 100 They 1.-THE
BsriDgs) can cover at 100. Profit on the
turn, $2.7o0,O 00-if Speyers pays for the
gold. Up TO this time, it is believed, he
has not done So" .E 1all'as ss4
So the administration at Wash
ington loans the public funds to
English gold gamblers to enable
them to operate in Wall street and
make their pile. The Cincinnati
Enquirer asks: "Is it to be sup
posed that the Barring Brothers .
Co. were not advised that the Wash
ington administration would not
interfere with the gold market for a
stated number of days? Corbin,
the brOther-i nolaw of President
Grant, operating with Fisk, Gould
& Co., in New York, and Barring
Brothers & Co. operating with En-
bassador Motley, in London How
much gold the Treasury at Wash
ington loaned Corbin has not yet
transpired. Sham Republicanism
at Washington, is making a beauti'
full display of itself.''
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10
THE APPEAL AND ANDzEw JoHN-

SUN.
The Memphis Appeal announces,
as we are informed by telegraph, its
unqualified adhesion in the pend
ing Senatorial contest, to Andrew
johnson, 1t has ever confessed
Mr.. Johnson's greatness and was
only induced for time to withhold
its approval Of his elevation because
of prejudices engendered by the
extraordinary events of civil war,
But seeing the dangers which en-
velop US, it lays aside old preiudices
and takes ground with the people
for Andrew Johnson.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10

THE Indianapolis Sentinel says ::
"Stokes, the defeated candidate for
Governor Of Tennessee, is making
considerable of a joke Of his 10y
atty. 1t will be recollected that he
acted with the Confederates at the
beginning Of the unpleasantness,
but now he opposes the election of
Andrew Johnson to the Senate on
the ground of his disloyalty.
Stokes has the assurance of the
Old Boy himself" .. ..
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10

THE Washington correspondent
of the Philadelphia Press writes on
the 9th inst. as follows:
"a letter has been received here to-
day from the Hon. Emerson Etheridge,
containing a statement that he does not
believe he will be elected Senator, and
that johnson cannot get votes enough to
elect him, so that neither of them is
likely to come to the Senate. On the
other hand, a well-posted Tennessseean,
arrived here to-day, says johnson will
receive the votes of two>thirds of the
Legislature"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10

ALcoRN, the Radical candidate
for Governor Of Mississippi, who is
a renegade "Rebel," in his letter
accepting the candidacy, appeals
strongly to the negroes for their
votes. He is evidently laboring
under the impression that the ne
groes hold the balance of power.