Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-10
A Fenian Riot In NsyO.
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The Italian Post.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The additional
postal convention with Italy announces the
rate reduced ten cents per half ounce. Pre-
payment optional. It takes effect on the 18th.
Poor WidOws!
The Secretary decides where invalid pen
sioners die without filing claim for arrears,
the right thereto dies with him.
COVingtsn Gets Jesse again.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The President to-
day sent the following nomination in
jesse Il. Grant, Postmaster, CovingtOn,
The Georgia KnquisitiOn.
The Committee on Judiciary to-day
heard the fifteen Georgians, who are here
as delegation Of Conservatives, who took
the ground that the present Legislature IL
illegally constituted owing to the admission
of minority candidates, and argued IN favor
of the reorganization Of that body.
BuII FIght-BuIIOck W Bullock.
Gov. Bullock and others on the Repub-
lican side, spoke briefly in opposition.
Senators Carpenter, Edmunds and
Conkling remembered that at the former
hearing Gov. Bullock said the expulsion Of
negroes and seating Of minority candid
ates instead, was mere usurpation. The
committee viii on Saturday give Bullock
opportunity to explain his apparently con
Trajectory position:
A general order from the War Depart
ment provides that no coal oil shall here
after be used for the Illuminating Of mill
tary posts Lard oil Is TO be substituted
generally in its place.
Cheap for Cash.
The House Committee on Military Affairs
was to-day engaged in the investigation of
alleged sales of cadetships. Only one wit
ness was examined, and he positively testi-
fed that member of the House in the
last Congress sold naval appointment for
$500. The youth, however, did not pass
examination and the parent lost his money.
Cincinnati Southern.
The House Committee on Railroads re-
ported bill incorporating the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad without expressing an
opinion. A number of amendments were
also submitted. The bill and amendments
were made the special order for Tuesday
next.
Shielded.
Valentine Ebut, a stone IL, ason, aged 45
suicided to-day, cutting his hroat with a
razor. Cause, supposed insanity. he leaves
q wife and five children.
Chance for COunIerFciGng.
There are now in the vaults of the
Treasury Department thirty four boxes Of
cancelled steel plates and other materials
heretofore used by the American, National
and Continental Bank Note Companies in
the printing Of government stamps and
money bonds.
The Secretary has requested Senator
Thayer to act as chairman of the commit
tee TO examine the contents of the boxes
and compare them with the schedules Of
those furnished 10y the bureaus Of engray-
ing and printing and internal revenue, they
are to be taken to the navy yard and there
melted in the blast furnace.
Gen. Porter SubpOcncd.
The Banking and Currency Committee
have subpGned Gen. Porter for tomorrow.
Agreed.
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee
to-day agreed to report favorably on the
the proposition for the Joint Committee on
Indian Affairs.
Our Decline.
The Select Committee on the decline of
American commerce have nearly completed
their report. They will recommend a
drawback on all ship building materials,
and a repeal of the tonnage duties on Am
eTican vessels.
Spanish GUnbOats.
In tho Senate to-day, Mr.. Morton, in
speaking on the neutral relations Of the
United States, said that Spain had lately
fitted ont in the the harbOr Of New York,
thirty gunboats, and publicly enlisted
crews for them in the streets of that city,
for the avowed purpose Of subjugating the
people of Cuba to her rule, which Is the
most despotic and unhuman known to
modern times.
We had knowingly furnished ships and
sailors to put down the effort Of nelghbor-
ing people with whom we were on the most
friendly terms and enjoyed the most init
mate commercial relations, who were strug-
Cling to free themselves from the military
despUtism of a cruel and effete nation,
separated from them by broad ocean. lie
proposed soto amend our statute that these
things should not be repeated by authority
Of law.
If any principle Of law of nations re-
CURED that Spain should receive this sub
stantiaI assistance at our hands. that prin-
ciple was not based on reason, and was
improper He held that no nation shoald
feel bound to administer any pretended
rule of law Of nations, when TO do so would
he to iutiict great injustice, cruelty and
destruction upon large masses Of the pco-
pie and cited from various authorities upon
international law in support OF his posi-
ton. The relation of the parent States
and colonies were those of parent and child,
and when protection, support and educa-
ton were given on one side, then
should there be obedience and submission
on the other. But when the son had ar
rived at manhood, and the colony was
entitled to the functions OF a State cap
able of self-government and selfprotec-
ton, parental control should cease and
independence be accorded.
He insisted that there was difference
between an attempt at revolution Of a
colony forming an integral part of king
dom, and a like attempt on the part OF a
distant colony. He remarked that the
time had arrived to proclaim this doctrine
as one indicated alike in reason and justice.
The allegation that when a nation took
possession Of distant territory and estab-
lshed there, such territory became part
of the nation equally with It's former
possessions was Unsupported 10y reason and
facts.
The American Colonies of England,
France and Spain had never been treated
theoretically or practically as integral
parts Of those empires 1t WAS a horud
mockerv. when the Spanish Government
affected 10 treat Cuba as part Of the king.
dom of Spain, while she denied her rights
under the Spanish Constitution, and treat
ed her as mere possession governed by
the will Of a despotic Captain General.
Without meaning to assert that the
United States should interfere 10y military
force In behalf of Cuba, be would MAINTAIN
that the United States should not contrib
ute, directly or indirectly, to uphold The
power Of Spain over that Island. Leaving
ont Of view the question as to whether th,
present condition Of Cuban affairs iustiho,
our concession Of belligerent rights, 1t wa
sufficient that we knew that a cOnsiderabl
portion Of the Cuhaus were in arms L
ihrow Off the Spanish yoke. and therefor
u We could not AID one side We could no
mid the other
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