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EDGEFIELD.
Meeting az the Hoard % Mayor aaa
Aldermen.

80 = - AA-I aA4+AAAA - III u - al
Aldermen.
An adjourned meeting Of the Board Of
Mayor and Aldermen was held last night.
Present = Mayor White and Aldermen
Barthell, Oiwill, Jenkins, Joseph. Glenn.
Alderman Joseph, from the eouln1if1ss
appointed to take into Consideration the
best method Of laying of the city into NIX
wards, recommended that the whole mai ter
De referred BACK to the Board
The Board then resolved itself into a
COMMITTEE OF the Whole, when AID. Ol.zil
submitted plan for The proposed waris,
Which was discussed and amended in aalnt3
particulars, and finally adopted. as follows:
WARD No -i--Beginning in the mi7Ee
OF CumDeriand RIVER opposite the csnser
OF Nam. street. and running thence With
center OF said street to its intersection With
Oak street; themes with the center Of Oak
street to Fatherland street and the cyutsr
OF said street to its intersection with South
Oak street; themes with the center Of sid
Oak street to its intersection with Valley
alley, and with center Of said alley to The
center OF Shelby avenue; thence with & ia
avenue to the middle Of Cumberland river
and down the river to the beginning
Ward No 2-Beginnine al the norfa-
east corner Of Ward No. I in the center Of
Nam street, and opposite the center Of
oak street, and running thence with Nam
street to opposite the center Of. Foster
street, and with center Of Foster street TO
Lhe center OF Sewer street. thence with
SEWER street to the center Of AIinnielx streft
hence with Minnick street to the center AZ
Williams street, thence with Williams sf,t AZ
o Tulip street, thence with an aIIsx 70 A
'tone planted at the intersection 81 al
llley with Valley Alley, and with Vaav
Alley to South Oak street, thence with said
ltreet tO-the center of Fafherland strsek
hence with Fatherland street to OAK stree :
md with Oak street to the beginning.
WARD No. 3.-Beginning at the NORTH
eastern boundary line Of the corporate n
n the centre Of the railroad; themes wes--
ward with the centre of the railroad 10 the
centre OF Spring street; thence with Spring
treet to Main street; thence up Man
'treet 10 Foster street; thence VIM roster
'treet southwark to the corporation lfie;
hence eastward and nOrthward with the
corporation line to the beginning.
WARD No. 4.-Beginning ct the norih-
vest corner Of Ward No. I, in the middle
Of Cumberland river, and opposite taa
centre of Main street; thence with the cen
re OF said street 10 the centre Of Sprii1
street; thence to the centre Of
he White Creek pike; thence with
aid pike to the centre Of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad. theme
With the centre Of said railroad to the mid
lie OF Cumberland river, thence Up the
liver to the beginning.
WARD No. 5-Shall consist of an that
portion of territory north OF Spring and
sast of Bell street.
WARD No. 6-Shal consist Of the terri
DRY north of Spring and the railroad, and
vest Of Bel street.
A bill defining the boundaries Of the
'boye wards was then passed upon its fist
eading
After the transaction Of other businesa
in its nature, the Board i'd
burned.
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LADY readers may be interested in
knowing how roysl persoDages dress for
levees. At late leyee the Queen wore a
black silk dress, with train trimmed with
fringes and Grape, and the usual white
tulle cap, with long veil and coronet of
diamonds. Her Majesty also wore dia-
mond necklace, the Koh-i-nOOr as a
brooch, the Riband and Star of the Order
of the Garter, the Orders of Victoria and
Albert, and Louise of Prussia, and the
COburg and Gotha Family 0rdef. Her
Royal Highness Princess Louise wore a
train of rich blue crystalline, trimmed
with blue satin and tulle, and a petticoat
of glace covered with lace and trimmed
with satin bows and yellow roses. Head
dress-Feathers, veil and diamonds, dia-
mond ornaments, and the Orders of Vic
tOria and Albert. st. Isabel, and the Coburg
and the Gotha Family Order.
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UTAH.
,cciE.v,o,, thc Pacific Road.

CoRR1ENNE, UTAH, April Ia train OF
passenger coaches and caboose emlgrant
train from the West due here at 1918 thus
morning. was thrown from the track and
Jo,,yT aT5 'ernl,ankment a short distance east
Of Promontory, at o'clock in the evening
today. The Road Master, Conductor oil
tbe train. four male and two female pas
sanoers we're slightly wounded. The
.wonnded were brought to this city for
medical treatment. The cause Of the accl-
dent is unknown.
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ENGLAND.

Parliamentary Dryn ess--COlonfal
independence and Emigration.
LONDON, April 2.-Ths Spectator laments
the utter aridity of the debates in Parlia-
ment lately. The same paper thinks that
colonial independence would divert the
tide of emigration now running SO strongly
from Great Britain to the United States
Pussy on Bible Revision.
Rev. DR.. Pusey publishes a communica-
ton in the Record arguing against re-
vision of the recognized version of the
Bible
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CONGRESSIONAL.
: 'WAsH1NeToN, April 2.-Yesterday the
Senate adjourned over till Monday.
HOUSE.

4 HOUSE.
The Oregon Railroad land bill, which
was before the House when it took recess
yesterday, was by consent RENTED TO the
Speakers table.
ldr. Wood objected to proceeding with
business in the absence of quorum, and
moved call of the House. Negatived-
yels %, nays ia. More than quorum
voting, the House then proceeded to bust
ness. A large number of private bills were
reported and passed, and some adverse re-
ports were presented and laid on the table.
Among the bills passed were the follow
ing: Giving the consent of Congress to
the city of Cleveland, Ohio, for construct
ing and maintaining crib on Lake Erie
for tunnel to supply the city with pure
water. Continuing to Harriet @. Parker
the rights of her deceased husband, w. II.
Parker as discoverer of two islands in the
Pacific Ocean. Bill to authorize the city
OF Buffalo to construct and MAINTAIN a
tunnel under the Niagara river, and to
erect and maintain and let pier therefrom,
was also passed.
Bills were introduced and referred for
the redemption, in sums of twenty-five
dollars, of bronze and nickel coins, and for
collections of debts due the United States
from certain Southern road corporations.
Senate joint resolution providing that
the law of January 81, 1870, prohibiting
the assignment of retired army officers to
dutY, shall not apply to officers selected for
dutY at the Soldiers Home, in the District
OF Columbia Passed.
Tariff--Teas, Coffee, etc.
The House went into committee on the
tariff bill. The clause fixing the duty on
tea at twenty cents per pound was dis
cussed by Messrs. Wood, Beck, Ingersoll,
Allison, Hay, Schenck, Marshall and Clark.
The amendments looking to reduction,
offered by Messrs. Wood, Ingersoll and
Loughridge, was rejected, and the tax re-
mains as reported in the bill, viz. twenty
cents. During the discussion, Mr.. Sohenck,
in reply to a question, said an internal
revenue bill would be reported reducing
the total amount at least $50, 900. He de-
clined to go into particulars.
Mr.. Sheldon, of Louisiana, moved to
strike out the line taxing coffee four cents
per pound, and proposing that it be put
on the free list, which was discussed by |
Messrs. Loughridge, Stevenson, Schenck, |
Kerr, Cox, Dawes and McNeely, and then |
MIR. Stevenson moved to make the tax |
three cents instead of four Rejected.
No other amendments were offered and |
the tax on coffee remains as provided for |
in the bill, at four cents per pound.
Some few other clauses of the blu were
read, and no amendment made. The |
question of sugar was reached, when the |
rose and the House adjourned
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NEW ORLEANS.
metairic Itnces-FIrst Day.


New ORLEANS, April The spring
meeting of Metairie Club commenced to-
day. The attendance was large. The first
race a dash of two miles for $50, was won
by Coquette in $3.50, beating six horses,
The second race, for the National Half
Eagles Stake, one hundred half eagles to be
added, was won by Ida Grisson. Time
I:504, 1:50.
Municipal and Railroad Difficult
ties.
III. Oglesby having declined the may
orally, the Governor has appointed ez-Gov.
Sanders Mayor.
Gov. Yarmouth viii receive bids until
the 9th for the purchase of State stock IN
the New Orleans, jackson and Great North
ern Railroad, at which time stock the viii
be awarded to the highest cash bidder.
The City Council at its last regular meet
;lng last night carried through an ordinance
directing the City Treasurer TO sell the
city STOCK in the New Orleans and jackson
Railroad, tlus disregarding the injuncGons
of the courts.
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and to him went for advice, in my dis.
tress. He took my dreadful exhibition OF
receipts, he put on his glasses, he took
his pen, and presto II was pauper !
1t was the neatest thing that ever was.
He did it simply by manipulating the bin
of DEDUCTIONS. He set down my
Estate, national and municipal taxes at so
much; my CLOSES by shipwreck, fire,
ETC., at so much; my Closes on sales of
real estate"-on 'slive stock sold"-on
REPAIRS, Improvements, interest'-on
previously taxed salary as an officer of
the United States army, navy, revenue
service, and other things. He got as
tonishing deductions" out of each and
every one of these matters-each and
every one of them. And when he was
done be handed me the paper and I saw
at glance that during the year 1869 my
income, in the way of profits, had been
one thousand two hundred and fifty dol
lars and forty cents.
"Now,n said he, "the thousand dol
lars is exempt by law. What you want
to do is to go and swear this document in
and pay tax on the two hundred and fifty
dollars
While he was making this speech his
little boy Willie lifted a two dollar green
back out of his vest pocket and vanished
with it, and would bet anything that if
my stranger were to call on that little boy
tomorrow he would make false return
of his income. @ g
edo you,n said j, edo you always
work up the deduction after this fash
ion in your own case, sir 2"
swell, should say so If it wern't
for those eleven saving clauses under the
head of deduction | should be beg
CARED every year to support this hateful |
and wicked, this extortionate and tyran-
nical Government"
This gentleman stands away up among
the very best of the solid men of Buffalo |
the men of moral weight, of CONNER |
cial integrity, of unimpeachable social |
spotlessness- so l bowed to his ex
ample. went down to the revenue of
fee, and under the accusing eyes of my !
old visitor stood up and swOre to lie af |
ter lie, fraud after fraud, villainy after |
villainy, until my immortal soul was coated |
inches and inches thick with perjury, and /
my self-respect was gone forever and
ever.
But what is it2 1t is nothing more
than thousands of the highest, and rich
est, and proudest, and most respected,
honored and courted men in America do
every year. Aud so l don't care. l am
not ashamed. l shall simply, for the
talk little and wear fre-prOof
gloves, lest l fall into certain habits ire
vocably. MARK TWAIN.
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SPAIN.

Unpopular COnscriptiOn Colonial
Liberties.
MADRID, April 2.-There is an angry
feeling manifested in regard to the new
CONSUMPTION bill. Trouble is apprehended
at 6. demonstration tomorrow by the OPP
porents of the measure.
Senior Moret, the new minister for the
Colonies, declared to ,the Cortes to-day
that the question of liberty in the Antilles
was a very important one. He said he
would examine the condition of Cuba and
report to the Cortes.
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War in Richmond Renewed.
RiOting at La Creuzot.
WASHINGTON.
GOV. scnter's Mission.

WASHINGTON, April Gov. Senter, o.
: Tennessee, will reach Washington on bust
: ness before the Committee on Reeonstruc-
ton, to reply to the charges against that
State and oppose reconstruction.
Memphis and lei Paso--Fremont Ex-
poses an Intrigue of Minister
Washburne.
Gen. Fremont, in letter to the Senate
Committee on the Pacific Railroad, in re-
lation to the FL Paso and Pacific Railroad,
says Minister Washburne was using his
official position and the weight of the Gov
eanment for the qualification Of personal
hostility and to break down American en-
terprise with the French Government Mr..
Washburne was not successful with the
Government, but his efforts against the
company had bad effect on the market,
causing it much embarrassment.
Expenditures.
The payments Of the Treasury Depart
ment during March we're for civil and mis-
celaneous, $4,O1S,S31 war, 81, Isl, 43l;
navy, S1,S76, O30 Interior Department,
So, 500, S7S. Total, SIG, $50, 40. This
amount does not include payment on &C
count of interest and principal of the pub
lie debt
Another Proclamation of the Fiji
teenth Amendment.
The National Executive Committee of
colOred men have issued proclamation
announcing the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment, and as to-day is the anniver-
sary of the fall of Richmond, as they say,
the death-knell of the rebellion, national
salute was fired.
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PHILADELPHIA.

Proposed Tribute 90 Gen. Thomas
Coal Strike.
PHILADELPHIA, April 1.-The Pennsyl-
vania Equal Rights League will observe the
10th inst. as day of thanksgiving for the
Fifteenth Amendment
The Grand Army of the Republic will as
semble on Monday evening, at the Academy
of Music, to pay tribute TO the memory of
Gen. Thomas. Bishop Simpson will make
the principal address. Grant and Sherman
viii be present.
A strike of the Schuylkil miners COM
menced to-daY.
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BALTIMORE.

One Effect OF the Fiftectb Amend
menL
BALTIMORE, April Gov. Bowie has
vetoed the act incorporating Chestertown,
Kentucky county, Maryland, because the
citizens entitled to vote under the provis-
ions of the bill are described as white male
citizens
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INFLAnm.TORY EHEUMATIsY.

A gentleman who was afflicted with
this distressing malady, and experienced
relief by the use of particular remedy,
has placed it at our disposal for the bene-
fit of such of our readers as may be SINH
larlv afflicted The recipe is given as !:
Hyd. potassa, drachm; extract ,cOrnii,
l drachm, and 4 ounces of water. Dose,
teaspoonspoonful every six hours; par
ticuiar attention to be paid to the time
for taking. -EnoGvill Whig.
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II is related Of Madame potssdaa-,.ee

II is related of Madame Potesdad-iISe
Miss Randolph of Virginia. noted
horse-woman and belle of Washington,
that on one occasion, when staying at the
Warm Springs, in Virginia, she started
ont with q riding party for the Warm
Spring Mountain and dared the gentleman
accompanying her to 80 whatever she
did. This mountain is quite high, and has
at its summit a rock jetting over prcci-
pice. To the extreme verge of this RICK
Miss Randolph rode, to the great conster-
nation of her friends. She did not even
leave her horse room to turn round, lIut,
having accomplished her purpCses she
backed him from the dangerous position
and forced the rest of the party in triun ph.
Not a man would follow her example.
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TuEY tell this story at the expense

THEY tell this story at the expense of a
Virginia lawyer Once upon time when
he had gained case, his opponent told
him that he would appeal it, and he re-
piled: 'sVery well; viii meet you at
Malachi" But a brother lawyer wills
pered to him: "Phillippi, Phillippi; I"
when be said: every well i" adding !:
"Malachi or Phillippi-they were both
good men"
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LOUISVILLE.


LOUISVILLE, April 3.-River rising, with
35y feet in the canal and 23I in the chute,
with 81 feet space under the bridge for the
passing of steamboats,. Weather cloudy
and damp. Freights scarce. Arrived,
Robert Moore from Cincinnati; departed,
Robert Moore. for Nashville.
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The MAJORITY Rule.
PRUSSIA.
American Railroad Bonds.

American Railroad Bonds.
FRANKFoRT-oN-THE-MA April 2.-$5,-
DOC, coo of the mortgage bonds ofthe Oregon
and California Railroad have been negoti-
ated
The bonds of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road have not yet been introduced on the
market
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-03

A New Orleans paper laments the de-
cline of the bar in that city, saying that
while it has increased to more than four
hundred members, candor compels the
admission that not one-fourth of them
are lawyers in the true sense of the term,
but merely attorneys for collecting claims.
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PETERSBURG.

IrOnHOrks Burncd-LOss 100000
IRICEIoND, April 1.-The Petersburg
iron works were burned this morning.
Loss 500, 600.
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4 certain amount of opposition is a
great help to man. Kites rise against
the wind; even a head wind is better than
none. No man ever worked his passage
anywhere in dead calm. Let no man
wax pale, therefore, because of opposi-
ton; opposition is what he wants and
must have, to be good for anything.
Hardship is the native soil of manhood
and self-reliance. He who cannot abide
the storm without finching, lies down by
the wayside to be overlooked or forgot
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ARKANSAS.
Steamer Snagged.

MnwHIs, April 1.-The steamer Thomas
II. Allen, from Little Rock for Memphis,
struck log in Swan Lake yesterday, and
sunk in four feet water. She will be raised
TO-DAY
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TEXAS.
IccisIaturc ConYoked.

GALVESTON, April "A special from
Ansti,1 SAYS the Governor issued a procla-
nation to-day, calling a session OF the
I,eoislat, We 70 meet at Austin on the -"-h
inst
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DELAWARE.

WILMINGTON, DEL, April AT the
school election here to-day negroes voted
the first time in the State.
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Why is the earth Ike a blackboard
Because the children of men multiply
upon the face of il.
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ROME.


PARIS, April 1.-The Memorial DipIo-
aadtiqUe says the Pope defers promotions
to the Cardinalate until September.
Something Like N Rack-dOwn.
La Li6erte announces to-day that NJ.
Daru has abandoned the idea of sending
a special ambassador to Rome. The Mar
ouis of Bonneville, French Minister to
that city, who is at present in Paris, will
therefore return to his post in January.
The reason for this is found in the failure
of NJ. Daru in his recent mediation at
Vienna and Florence for plan looking to
concord of action.
The Majority Rule.
ROME, March 2.-Tne CioittG CdttoItcd
to-day publishes long article in view OF
the approaching discussion on the propo-
~i'i"n for defining Papal Instability,
tending to show that the Pope has no par
ticular need of unanimity In the Council.
but that simple majority is sufficient to
establish the dogma.
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How is this for high: 'Life is the
garnered condensation of objective i'm
pressions; and, as the objective is the re-
mote father of the subjective, so must
individuality, which is but focused sub
jectivity, suffer and fade when the sensa-
lion lenses, by which the rays of impress
sion are condensed, become destroyed. "
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CINCINNATI.

S5O,OOO for Preliminary Survey of
southern Road.
CMC1NNA1I, April 1.-The Council, by
unanimous vote, granted loan of S50,-
600 TO the Trustees of the Southern Rail
road, to be used in making a preliminary
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1t is remarkable how many men go TO
Congress poor and soon become rich. A
salary of s., 900 year affords. the means
of living extravagantly through the ses-
sions, travelling in Europe during recess,
and after few terms putting by hun
dreds of thousands:
''How happy the soldier who lives on his pay,
And spends half crown out of sixpence dayI"
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u. =. H0LLINS, late Hollins, Wright 3 90.
G. r. HUTTON, Of Putnam County.
SHADE MURRAY, late with HoliiIs, " righi
& CO.
Jos. 5. REEVES, Of Hereford, Reeves :
90.
r Burton.
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During the examination of a witness as
to the locality of stairs in house, the
counsel asked him: (Which way do
the stairs run 2" The witness very inno-
Gently replied: cone way they run up
stairs, but the other way they run down
stairs. - The learned counsel winked
both eyes, and then took look at the
ceiling.
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This has been day of great activity in
local politics. A great effort is making to
Influence the colored vote in doubtful
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Never confide in a young man-new
pals leak Never tell your secrets to the
aged-old doors seldom shut closely.
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THE ELECTION.
Official and Reported Eseturns-Ma-
JOrify for the New Constitution
E4.IGy.

EAST TENNESSEE.
New Cons. Old Cons.
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Who could have been guilty of the
preparation of the following:

''Beanty has claims, for which she fights
At ease, with winning arms;
The women who want woman's rights
Want, mostly, womans charms
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-23
mo. IL.
JOINT RESOLUTION Submitting a


JOINT RESOLUTION Submitting an
Amendment to the Constitution of the
State, to the effect that Article Fifty OF
the Constitution shall be abrogated and
stricken out.
and House of representatives of the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
two-thirds of the members elected to Ach
House agreeing thereto, that at the general
election for members to the General Assem-;
bly,, which will take place in November,
eighteen hundred and seventy, an amend
ment to the constitution of the State shall
be submitted to the qualified electors of the
State for their ratification or rejection, in
the words following:
article fifty of the constitution, which
reads as follows: The Governor shall be
Ineligible for the succeeding four years
after the expiration of the time for which he
shall have been elected shall be abrogated
and stricken out of the constitution Of the
State"
Sec g Be it further resolved, etc., That
at the said general election the said pro-
posed amendment to the constitution of the
State shall be submitted to the qualified
voters of the State for their ratification or
rejection, in the manner following, to wit:
Each voter shall have printed or written on
ticket the words "Abrogate and stricken
out article fifty Of the constitution" or the
words "Retain article fifty of the constitu-
ton" Upon the closing Of the polls the
tickets shall be counted, the returns made,
and the result declared in the manner and
form OF returning the elections for State
officers, prescribed by the general laws rela-
tive to elections.
SEC. 3. b It further resolved, etc., That