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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02
WHITHER DRIFTTNG1

Judge Bradley has shown himself a
Radical of the most approved type. Here
is the evidence furnished by the New
York correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette
SIT is understood here that Judge
Bradley, after his confirmation and before
going to Washington to take his seat in
the Supreme Court, advised the Directors
of the Camden and Amboy railway, of
which he has long been counsel and a
heavy stakeholder, to call "a meeting,
which he attended. The Directors voted
to postpone the payment of the bonds and
interest affected by the legal tender de-
cision for one year. 1t is understood that
this is the explanation of the significant
editorial in the Tribune concluding as
follows ''This question largely involves
the pecuniary liabilities of powerful rail
road and other moneyed corporations. We
insist thatnO one heavily interested in them,
either as a stakeholder or as a long re-
tanned counsel can, witheut gross indie
cency, sit on the trial it raises. The ques-
ton has lately been much discussed
among the members of the bar. We ini
sist that no one, fresh from the bar, can,
after having already, as an advocate, ex-
pressed opinions concerning the points
now to be tried, sit as a Judge on their
trial T"
Grant went into Office with great pro-
LESSONS as to honesty in the public SER
vice, but some of his appointees are show
ing themselves to be the most corruptmen
that ever held office. In the ''purer days
of the republic" how long could this man
Bradley have held his Officer He alone is
relied upon to reverse the decision of the
Supreme Court that the legal tender act is
unconstitutional, and here is the CORE
spondent of Radical journal showing
that he is personally as well as pro-
fessionally interested in such reversal.
Whittier are we drifting2
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

WASHINGTON dispatches state that Gen.
Logan intends introducing, in a few days,
a bill incorporating the Irish National
Colonization Association. The managers
comprise leading wealthy and influential
Irishmen in every city in the Union. The
principal object of the bill is to remove
the surplus Irish from the overcrowded
cities of the East and place them on
farms, as well as provide means of trans
portation for the poor class, who are
daily arriving from Europe to our shores.
1t also provides for the establishment of
loan Offices and immigration agents in the
different cities of the seaboard.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette furnishes an additional
evidence that '1Oyalty pays" In his let
ter of March 80 he says:
"Mayor Bowen and Corporation At
torney Cook have been discovered in a
Interpretation, which indicates the char
acter of the entire municipal government
"f Ills city. A contractor, having claim
al eight thousand dollars, tried long time
u get the Mayor to pay it. Finally an
arrangement was made through Cook to
have the bill paid on condition that $500
should be given to him, as he said, for
campaign purposes.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

A LARGE number of Representatives
and many members of the House Com
mittee on Postoffices are reported to have
declared their belief that the Senate will
take no decided action in regard TO the
House bill abolishing the Thanking priv
lege. 1t is believed that the Senate will
delay the consideration of the bill as long
as possible, and endeayor to postpone &C
ton until the end Of the session, OF that
it viii be SO amended, if action is had,
as to render it impossible for the House
to concur, and thus effectually defeat the
hill
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

GRAY & KITsKEsAN, Agents,
apl2 1t Nashville, Tenn.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

THE New York Tribune is not salts
fed with the lame attempts to palliate
and cover up the recent massacre of In
dian women and children in the West.
1t still contends: "There are great
many reasons why the affair should be
thoroughly investigated by the military
authorities, under the direction of Con-
gress; and the full text of Gen. Sher-
mans letter, given this morning, fur
pisbes no reason to the contrary.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

iHE New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette writes, March so:
Collector Bailey's defalcations, thus far
discovered, are about one hundred and
seventy-five thousand dollars. No pro-
ceedings have been taken against his
bondsmen, and some of them viii oppose
payment on the ground that the revenue
officers knew of the defalcation several
months ago, and it was their duty to in
form the Government If the bondsmen
are held responsible, they will call these
officers into court to testify
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02
AN UNREGENERATED RADICAL.
The Knoxville Wing of the 31st ult.
prints the following:


CARD.
To the Voters of the Third Judicial Circuit:
The Rebel convention having provided
for the vacation of the Judicial Offices in
the State, and the Rebel voters having
ratified the new Constitution, take this
method of announcing myself as candi-
date for Attorney General of the Third
Circuit.
The Republican party, in my opinion,
have right to control the office.
-. l would rather be defeated as Repubi-
can than to be elected as a Democrat.
am decidedly in favorof Congressional
interference in Tennessee.
The present State government ought to
be Ousted-the State re-registered, and q
new election ordered
Gentlemen who propose TO be candi-
dates ought to come out and let the peO-
pie know where they stand. Respect
fully, R. b. DowRLL.
CLINTON, Tenn, March 80.
That fellow Dowell is type of the
East Tennessee Radical he believes
that 'Rebels" ought not to be allowed to
vote so long as their votes will disturb
the '1ittle arrangement" that existed in
this State previous to the great moral
can-can enacted in the capitol on the
goth and Dist of MAY, 1869.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02


hue and CRY about crimes being daily COM
mitted in TENNESSEE. The Circuit Court
has been in session here for three weeks,
and yet not single man has been sem
fenced to the Penitentiary, and not one
has been convicted of any sort of crime.
And it is notable fact that this is the
first time that such thing ever happened
since the war. Very frequently while the
Brownlow party was in power ten and
fifteen were convicted at . single sitting
of the Court. There is not name on
the Williamson county docket charged
with murder. We simply mention these
facts to show that fewer crimes have
been committed in this county in the last
two months than ever before 800 Il
1t will be seen from the vote. in these
two counties for and against the new
Constitution, that they are what the ex-
treme Radicals would call Rebel counties.
And yet we win venture that there are no
two counties in any Northern State that
can present better showing for law and
OrQeIs .eHs-f- f...a - a.ssi4 .lftsik Z
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

THE "gold conspiracy investigation
has called forth some sharp hits. The
New York Post Republican,, under the
heading of "Who shall guard the Shop
herds 2" has the following: ''The com
mittee appointed to investigate the gold
conspiracy intends, so it is reported from
Washington. TO sit in perpctuity, for the
purpose of protecting members of Con
gress from bribery and corruption Be
nevolent committed Happy Congress f!
But, alas in this wicked world some ser
pent always insinuates itself in the CON-
pletest Eden. And so-who viii watch
the committee What shall protect
them against bribery and corruption 2"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

The Boston Post says: ''The Presi-
dent continues to lobby industriously and
upon an extended scale. He is determin-
cd evidently to fight out several projects
ON that line, if it takes aI-summer He
is engineering the San Domingo treaty
with uncommon zeal and earnestness. 1t
would be well, to save questions about the
Presidents prerogatiyes, to declare him a
member of both Houses, with a right TO
vote as well as to Veto
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

Conservative members of the North
Carolina Legislature have issued an ad-
dress in reply to the action of Gov. Holden
in. declaring one of the counties Of that
State in instruction, and calling upon
Congress to suspend the writ of habeas
corpus throughout the Commonwealth.
They assert there is no general resistance
TO the civil law, and that there is not a
county in the State in which any sheriff
or any peace officer may not go unat-
tended and with perfect safety and exc
cute any process upon any citizen of the
State. These facts are well understood,
and yet Gov. Holden, for partisan pur-
poses, is willing to injure the State, by
officially proclaiming the insecurity OF
life and properly, and asking the genera
Government TO billet troops upon the
people. In the language of Mr.. Farms
worth, this is raising the Butler shrek OF
''Murder, " in order to afford pretcxt for
legislation of a sectional character.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

apr2-0ds No. "a n. Cherry ST., Nashville.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

WASHINGTON dispatches state that the
Supreme Court of the United States de-
cided yesterday by five to -four, to recon
slider the late legal tender decision on the
18th inst This isregarded as forshadow-
ing q reversal of that decision.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

The Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Commercial writes, March 81:
''The President stated to-day that he did
not believe the time had come for the full
restoration of political rights TO Rebels,
and was not going to issue an amnesty
proclamation nor stir that question mp at
present.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

MONEY was active in New York yester-
day, and call loans advanced to cor per
cent. A prominent city bank called in
three millions Of its loans yesterday,
which was regarded as stimulating the
demand for money.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

The Attorney General of the State of
Florida has given an opinion that the al
legged forged statute on file in the office OF
the Secretary of State, entitled SAN act
to authorize the Governor to ask for and
receive the agricultural land scrip from
the United States, 2 and purporting to have
passed the Legislature at the session just
adjourned, is not law. 1t must have
been wise Attorney General that found
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02
TRUSTEES SALE.

By the power in me vested by Deed of Trust,
made by W. II. Gordon in favor of Z. A. Cheatham,
and recorded in the Registers Office of Davidson
county, in Book A. page ILL., will SELL at the Court
house in Nashville, on SATURDAY, THE ID DAY
OF APRIL at IL o'clock, to the highest bidder, for
cash, the following described property:
lot of oak Lumber, about % ,0O0 feet, now
stored at the Seay place. on the Broad Street pike
near the city. Also, one sorrel FLY. 'Grenadinen
by Brown Dick, out of Velvet by Wagner.
mar3l-H ISAAC LITTON. Trustee
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

ABILLis pending before Congress to close
up the Freedmen's Bureau and transfer its
educational work to the Bureau of Edu-
cation. In connection with this subject
the Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette (RadicaD writes,
March 80:
'sOn the 1st of last September, Gen.
Howard had on hand about 81, zoo, 600,
subject to use for the purposes of his
bureau. On the 1st of last February he
reported TO the Retrenchment Committee
that he had spent all of this but about
500, 200. Last week, in response to
further inquiry, he reported that there
was only $3.50, 600 left and unappropri-
ated. How be has used SO much money
since last fall has not yet come out in
debate"
What has become Of this money! VIII
t;,nrress look into the matterl
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02
To the above letter sent the following


reply:
OFFICE HALLS SAFE AND LOCK co.,
CHICAGO March &C. 1870. {
JAMES SARGENT, Eso-sIR; Your communi-
cation in answer to my acceptance to pick your
Automatic Bank Lock was received by me at IL 80
A NJ. this date. You say first: you VIII not per-
nit me to have the Lock examined prior to making
the test. Do you suppose am willing to accept
lock from your hands to mako picking test upon
without the privilege of satisfying myself whether
it was t7icked or not? Your wel-known ability in
the art of lock-tricking might have led YOU to
negative conclusion. You also say, if make the
test it shall be done in the Office of your fuglemen
That proposition also possesses a degree Of cool
ness that is quite unnecessary at this of the
year. Would you have come into my store to at
tempt picking test upon one of my locks? think
not. You wish to change the combination your
self. have no objection TO, and concede that
point without further parley. You also say the
time occupied in the test shall not exceed six days
when you took from Feb. &c to March to work
upon my lock Gin your own office at that, and then
failed to open it. The fact is that you do not In
tend to give me chance on your Lock. You dare
not have it tested unless under circumstances over
which you and you only will have complete control.
Now, Mr.. Sargent, will accept your proposition
to operate upon your Lock, upon the following
conditions: That you Will remove that Safe to
suitable place, where there viii be no interruption
In our working, and you allow me the privilege Of
having the said lock examined before commencing
the test that may acertain it has not been tricked
for the occasion. I'D.
grant you the privilege Of changing and setting
up your own combination in the presence Of the
committee, and you to be the sole recipient there
of. If this is satisfactory, your immediate reply
will facilitate the arrangements necessary to be
made before We proceed with test.
RpsnnctfnlIv
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

We have complete returns from forty
one counties, which give sc, GOO for the
new constitution and II, 100 for the old.
The majority for the new constitution SO
far is 40 S00
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02
TIE New York Herald of the sOth

TIE New 1ork Herald Of the 30th
ult has the following paragraph
''The Knoxville Wing calls for first
class daily paper in that village. The ex-
pertinent is worth trying; but it win re-
Quire little more than Parson Brown
lows influence, we opine, to make it pay.
There are several very fine weekly papers
published in Tennessee, and the Memphis
and Nashville dailies are not discreditable.
A frst-class daily in Knoxville would be
feature for East Tennessee at this time. y
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE SUBSCRIBERS

ITO THE CHURCH AND SPRUCE STREET
Il Railroad Extension will meet at my Office, No.
AZ Cedar Street, on next Tuesday evening at 2
O'Clock, for the purpose Of organizing and eecting
Directors to serve said company for the next IL
months. THOMAS CALDWELL. /
April l. 1870 app st
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RESDLRCES.
S5I6,O7O Al
LIABILITIES.
s516,o7O Al
STATE OF TENNESSEE,l =,
COuDtv of naviJoor %

STATE OF TENNESSEE,( CO
County of Davidson.
I, W. B. DORTCH, Cashier of the Second Ma
tional Bank Of Nashville, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true, to the best Of my
knowledge and belief. W. B. DORTCH,
Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me, this LIST day
Of April, 1870. H. L CLAIBORNE,
Notary Public.
Correct-Attest:
JAMES MCLAUG LIN,
HUGH MoCREA,
j. NJ. SMITH,
apr2-lt Directors.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02
GRANDE NOUVELLESI

EEIHE FRENCH EMPRESS HAS COME
i down to Nashville. at p. Gravtlie's
a. air store, whore everybody Gan see her
With the best assortment Of Hair Braids. Curls,
ChiKnons and Wis. better made and cheaper
than any tther establishment in the city.
Also. Hair JeTslry, Pe7fumerisS, Coubs,
Brushes. SOAP. etc, etc.
C0Eae and See for Yourselves
P. S.-Private Room for Ladies' Hair p-ess-
ing and Childrsn's Hair Cutting.
Gents Wigs made TO order cheaper than IL
New York city. 2. GRANVILLE,
nsy7 IF . n. Cherry St.. cor. Bank ALLY.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

COTTON was firmer yesterday in New
York, closing at 22ac, which is an ad-
vance of &c.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02
.RUSTEE5S SAIE.
To the Nashville Public.

/ EARNING THAT FALSE IMPRESSIONS ARE
IL being made by interested parties in regard
to the sprinkling of Streets we deem it our duty
to give statement Of facts, showing why Mr.,
Carpenter is not permitted to hydrant water to
other party. By an act of the City Council passed
Dec. 2, 1869, two contractors are prohibited from
sprinkling the same territory On the LIST of Janu-
airy last, Mr.. N ). Dodson applied to the Superln-
tendent of the Waterworks for permission to snrn-
ke certain streets, which was granted and the tax
paid to the Collector for the same. In few dsvs
Mr.. 1. W. Carpenter applied for the privilege Of
sprinblng the same streets, which application was
refused, being in violation of the act referred TO
above. No application had been made prior TO that
of Mr.. Dodson, and any statement to the contrary
is untrue JAMES WYATT,
Supt Waterworks
JOHN l. GLENN,
April /, 1S70-2t W. I. Collector.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02
IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

A Block of four three-story store-houses and
Dwellings, on the west side of Market street. be-
tween Union and Spring streets; No. 80, lot 1S2S
By 128 712 feet: No. Sc, lot 10 Al ID by 1872 l-I2
feet: No. "a, lot 10 ~ by 113% feet; No. 80, lot
q by 115 feet; next lot, No. % of original plan
Of Nashville, on west side of Market street. be-
tween Spring and Broad; Lot No. l. subdivision of
said lot 20 by 104 1912 feet, with part of brick
house recently burned; Lot No. 2, q 7-12 by
104 10-1 p feet, with part Of burnt house Lot No. g.
q Hip by 104 1O-l2feet, with three-story brick
store-house and dwelling, No. 81 Lot No. 4l99l by
1O4 1912 feet, with three-stOry brick store-house
and dwelling No. 80; next, six lots on east side Of
Front street, y feet south of Broad street. being
Nos. l, 2, 3, 4, and 6, of r. C. McNairy's plan:
No. fronts 266 feet, Nos. 2, 3, 4, and front
each % feet, and run back 141 feet to the wharf
they are under good around rent and
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02
JOSEPH L. HALL.


Now, Mr.. Sargent, as you have seen fit
to close the controversy as to my picking
your best four-wheeled Automatic Bank
Lock, and have resorted to an undetermined
course, by saying you have drilled the
spindle of my Lock, 1 am now ready to
enter into contest with you, or any par
ties who represent you, as to drilling spin
dies or testing in any other way the burglar
proof qualities of our respective Locks or
spindles. l am ready at all times to put
any amount of money you may name be-
hind my Lock, you to deposit the same
amount behind yours, and the party that
first gets through the Lock of the other,
or opens the Safe upon which said Locks
are on, shall have the whole amount SO de-
posted, CT, if there is any other COMPETE
tor in our line of business who is using
your Lock, who viii stoop SO low as to aid
and assist you in your underhand work, 1
am ready and prepared to meet them in
any issue as above stated
JOSEPH L. HALL.
GRAY 81 KsEskfSAS, Agents,
apl2 1t Nashville, Tenn.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

TENNESSEE BONDS were quoted in New
York yesterday at IS for The old and
OF for tAe new. - ",
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I'D OIL
TROTTING STALLION,
NASHVILLE CUSTOM HOUSE.

DROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED AT TIE
Il office Of the undersigned until II NJ, April 2
1870, for the purchase of the property owned by
the United States in the city Of Nashville, Tenn.
fronting 100 feet on Cherry street and 1OSK feet
on Spring street, or for its exchange for another
lot in the same city, suitable for the wants Of the
Government.
Proposals viii also be received for the sale to the
Government of a lot site for the proposed Gus
tom House building, to be so located as to secure
light on all sides, to be nearly level as possible
and to be not less than 100 by $50 feet.
No proposition will be considered that does not
comply with these conditions.
ADAM WOOLF,
mar1G-td Act. Surveyor of Customs.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

sale to continue from day to day until all are sold
The following lots in Boyds addition to Nash
Vile: Lot No. 276, fronting 81 feet Charlotte
pike, runs back $50 feet more or less, to alley ;
Lots 294 and 2S5 each fronting SO feet the Char
lotte pike and run back 225 feet, more or less to
an alley; Lot SO in Balch & Whiteside's addition,
fronting 800 feet on west side of Spruce street and
2O7 on the north side of Crawford and 207 on the
south side of Washing ton street.
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EXPENSES SAVED.
Hot Springs in the shade!

HEALTH HEALTH! HEALTH!!!
Tho way to procure it, is by using the RED
SULPHUR WATER, fresh from the Springs. For
sale in any quantities, by PINK DEWS,
Ku-Klux Saloon, Broad street.
mar5O-lW Nashville, Tenn
TNRUSTEE,S SALE. :
Il By virtue Of a Deed of Trust executed
TO me, on the 18th day of October, 1869, by
Michael L. and Della Keggins, will sell to the
highest bidder in the town of White Bluff. Dixon
county, Tennessee, on the 18TH DAY OF APRIL
NEXT, the property mentioned in said Trust Deed,
II being Lot No. Is in said town of White Bluff,
and the same upon which Dr. Charlton now has his
once Terms of sale, one-fourth cash the bal
ance on six and twelve months credit
March 81, loIO-lOds L. OLWILL, Trustee
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02

He dare not put any money behind his
Lock, and let Hall pick it by a fair test.
Sargent>now closes the controversy, as
viii be seen by the subjoined letter: 2
a A [coPT.l
& af-s CHICAGO, ILL.,, March &c, 1870.
MR. JOSEPH l. HAIL-SR: Your favor Of
yesterday is at hand. have to say in reply that
do not propose to entertain your friends by an ex
summation Of the Lock to help you decide whether
you viii accept my proposition or not, nor am
disposed to have the safe removed from where it
now stands-the same position In which my trial
was had upon your Lock-and further: propose
to set the combination myself, and that it shall be
known only to myself, or such other persons as
may choose to act IN my stead.
temporary room can be built around the safe
the same as used by me during my trial on your
Lock, picked by me. The Lock is now adjusted to
the safe and works readily upon its combination
In this condition it awaits an immediate com
mencement of your trial. the $1,000 placed behind
1t to be yours if you open it in thirty (3O working
hours, without injury to Lock or Safe the time to
be occupied in said trial not TO exceed six from
its commencement, Sunday excepted. As the time
named by me for the trial has fully arrived, and
you do not make your appearance to commence
operations, now give you until two (2 O'Clock this
afternoon to do 80, after which time negotiations
between us viii be at an end
JAMES SARGENT.