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UNIVERSAL AMNESTY.

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial states that Presi-
dent Grant, in an interview with Senator
Foreman, of West Virginia, and Senator
Johnson, of Virginia, on the -23d inst,
stated he had already prepared special
message to Congress, in which he recon-
Ymended the passage of law granting
(, universal amnesty to all lately in rebellion.
He stated he was in favor of granting
amnesty to all and every one who desired
il. and that all they would have to do
would be to make a record of the same
at the nearest court etc. Senator Bore
man said he was in favor of general am
nesty, with but few exceptions and
Il. those he would never consent so far as
he was concerned, to being given the
franchise privilege. The President re-
piled that he did not desire to make any
exceptions, and his message would recon-
mend nothing but universal amnesty. He
said. further, that after Texas and Geor-
pia are admitted he would send in the
message alluded 10. Senator johnson
said he was sure il would do more to heal
all differences in regard to the late war
than any act that could be done.
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THOMAS AND PER-
FEENG

Yesterday morning we announced that
( Speakers Thomas and Perkins passed
through the city from Washington en-
route to their homes.
We now add that during their stay here
we had full conversations with both of
Z them. One of them spent more than an
hour in our Office, giving us the partieu-
lars of their visit TO Washington. Both
requested that we should not "repod .
the interview with them, and stated that
they had requested the same of our city
contemporary, and gave US as reason for
/, their request that some of the greatest
stumbling blocks which they had encoun-
tered in their mission were editorials from
Tennessee papers that they found in the
possession of Gen. Butler, Chairman of
the Reconstruction Committee. They
: also assured us that none of those eliiO-
rails were from the UNION AND AMERICAN.
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A Radical who has come down from
Chicago to Tennessee, writes from Mem
phis to the Chicago Tribune (Radical) as
follows:
'Upon this matter Congressional inter-
ference) l find much solicitude is mani
fest among the Republicans. have
spent several days in endeavoring to get
at the actual tone of public feeling among
the more prominent Republicans, that
might truthfully and fairly represent them
upon this all important subject. With
the most diligent inquiry have been una
bic to find a single fair-minded Republ-
can but what expressed himself as bitterly
opposed to the measure. Indeed, outside
of the blacks, who, as a class, cannot be
said to reason at all, | have found, in
the city of Memphis, though per-
sonally acquainted with nearly every
Republican, but one who would COM
init himself as in favor of Congress
sional interference, and he candidly adj
mitted himself to be of the red Republi-
can stamp, and in favor of anything tend
ing to q Capitalization of power. find,
too, as | expected before my arrival, that
scarce a Republican but scouts the very
idea of there being in the main shadow
of truth in the terrible outrages reported
in Tennessee, as arising from, or even in
any manner growing out of political
causes"
This is the testimony of every I'M
prejudiced Northern man who has visited
this State. 1t is the testimony which ex-
Federal officers and soldiers who have re-
sided in the State since the close of the
war, bear as to. the condition of affairs.
Candid Radicals, like the one who writes
to the Chicago Tribune, are compelled to
admit that the clamor for reconstruction
is the work of a few demagogues, who
know of no other way to get office than
through Congressional interference.
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A FRANoo-AUsTRIAN alliance is now
more than ever probable, owing to theev-
ilent design of Prussia to push her pre-
tensions south of the Main. Napoleon
wishes TO settle Tie issue between France
and Prussia while he holds the baton of
command. He docs not desire to leave
such legacy TO his son, while Austria is
ready to aid any movement by which her
old enemy viii be humblcd. Albert,
Archduke of Austria, is now in Paris, the
guest of the Emperor, and a special en-
voy has been dispatched to the Emperor,
at Vienna. Such an alliance would enlist
the support of Italy, and the triumvirate
could dictate terms to Prussia, or point
their guns at Berlin. As no interests of
Russia either present or prospective,
would be served by aiding Prussia
in such contest the Car would keep
his squadrons at home. Sadowa may yet
be avenged by another Jena.
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WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE CON-
STITUTION.

STETUElONs
The Hon. John Quincy Adams made
speech before the Constitutional Club of
Boston, on Washington's Birthday, in
which he reviewed the political situation,
and in which he stigmatised in severest
terms the course Of the administration at
Washington:
81 mean to say" said Mr.. Adams,
"and l say it with a sense of response
bility, that to-day there is nothing of the
old Constitution of our fathers left to US
except what was always understood and
believed to be mere incident of cOnstitu-
tional power, and that is this war powerl
The old constitutional
edifce of the fathers was built of white
marble of the States, which they
brought together voluntarily as a work of
love, and piled up there one by one, each
in pride and delight, adding stone after
stone TO the beautiful and symmetrical
edifice under which we all lived. But
what is this thing which we now see there
in Washington? Is that built of those
stones? Is that put together by any such
bands as those which cemented the old
Capitoll Why, gentlemen, it is built Of
the volcanic lava, but yet hot from the
results of the outpouring of the mount,
and it is clamped together by great bands
of black, rusted iron letters. It's no such
edifice at all; and now we have in the
Presidential chair a man who, when
he swears to protect and defend and pre-
serve the Constitution, seems to think
that this is the Constitution which he
swears to preserve"
Abiding to a proposition which was
made in the Massachusetts Legislature,
few days before, to fire hundred guns
on Boston Common in honor of the rati-
fication of the fifteenth amendment, Mr..
Adams said:
81 was only sorry that was not in the
Legislature to propose, as an amendment
to it, that the United States be humbly So
lcited to allow the State of Massachusetts
to fire that salute from Fort Warren, and
that the guns might be shotted, in order
to show the process by which the amend
ment had been carried"
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The incendiary Aati-,SldUery Sand
ard has, in its last issue, characteristic
and violent appeal for renewed Congress
sional interference with The reconstructed
States, based upon the reports of renewed
lawlessness at the South. 1t paints
gloomy picture OF the condition of affairs
in this section, and goes off into parox-
ysm of indignation and retaliatory coun-
sells. 1t thinks reconstruction failure,
aud amnesty and Cancellation mistake;
and holds that continued territorial rule
and oonfscation should have been in
ficted.
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STATE AFkfA1RS.
While some of the lesser lights Of The
Radical party are urging Congress to in
terfere III the affairs of Tennessee, we are
gratified to see that papers of the stand
ing and influence with its party, which the
New York Times holds, see the ruinous
folly of their continued aggressive recon
struetion. From its issue of Che Esd we
extract: a.ts
One of the greatest residuary evils OF
the war is the feeling of distrust of the
South which has naturally been engend-
cred in Congress and among the Northern
people Tuere exists very prevalent
constituencies and apprehension among
those who manifest pronounced loyalty,
less the ex-Rebel clement should in some
way thwart the final contamination OF
reconstruction, and battle the policy
which has been agreed upon. The effect
of this is evident in proneness to exag-
gerate the significance of acts which
would otherwise be attributed to the nor
mai lawlessness of suilen evaporation and
ugly prejudice, and in disposition to APP
ply fresh Federal legislation TO each re-
curing incident, instead of appealing to
existing laws. The popular feeling,
doubtless, stimulates Congress to this
course, and the habit of special legislation
makes it easy for that body to respond.
These facts present very grave politi-
cal problem, andthoughtful observers who
are not unduly partisan, begin to inquire
into the probabilities of final termina-
ton of the policy of constant aggression.
They argue that there must be an end
some time, or the country will drift into q
condition of chronic antagonism, little
short of perpetual political anarchy. &c
| our mind the true course to be pursued
| toward the Southern States is one of paci
fication; but it should be pacificatior
based upon adequate legislation, and
a prompt and firm enforcement of the
law. Congress ought to be equal to ths
task of framing such laws as are re
| quired, and when that has been done il
| should leave the rest to the executive AMI
judicial departments. For five years tn,
best energies of Congress have been ad
dressed to that work, and now that re
construction is at the very point of com
pletion, there ought to be no need of ad
ditional laws.
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SOME of the obscure country papers as
sociate the name of Ben. Butler with the
sale of cadetships. This is rather hard on
those who were so unfortunate as 10 be
canaht. in this sDeculation- Truly the
way of the transgressor is hard.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-26
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
The Responsibilities Of the Liver.

The liver has very important part to perform
in the animal economy Its function is two-fold
Thu fluid which it secrets tempers the blood aad
regulates the bowels, and upon the quantity and
GUILTY. Of the secretion depends, in a great de
grse, the adaptation Of the blood 10 the require
racnts of the system and the dao removal of the
refuse matter which remains tn the ntestines after
the work of digestion has been accomplished.
One of the principal uses Of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is TO tone and control this somewhat un-
rny organ. The antibilious properties of the pre-
paration are scarcely secondary to its virtues as
stomachic Its operation upon the liver is not yio-
lent Ike that of mercury, but gradual and gentle.
Instead of creating sudden tumult in that SEN
sitive gland, it regulates its action by degrees.
Hence, it is safe remedy for bilious disorders,
wlile mercury, being tremendous excitant, is
not. Themore naturally and quietly diseased or
gan can be restored to its normal condition the
BETTER and it is the peculiar property ofthis harm
less vegetable Alternative to rtnforce and regulate
without exciting or convulsilg.
The success which has attinded its use as rem
edy Tor affections of the liver is proverbiaL Per-
sons OF bilious habit who lake it habitualy as
protection against the attacks to which they are
consttutionaily liable, proRpuace it the best liver
tonic IN existence. The symptoms Of an approach
ing ut of biliousness cnn hardly be mistaken A
pain IN the right side or undsr the shoulder blades
sanron Gnge in the whites OF the eyes, sick
headache, feeling of droxsiness, low Spirits loss
OF appetite, constipation and general debility are
among the usual indications of morbid condition
OF the liver, and soon as hey appear the Bitters
should be resorted to in erder to ward off more
serious consequence mar24-deodIw&wIt
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''THE fifteenth amendment, " says the
Philadelphia Press, twill add largely to
the Republican vote" Certainly it win,
or there would have been no fifteenth
amendment.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-26

PRIVATE advices from Europe report a
very fiat market for American securities,
with feeling of idistrnst in regard to the
future course of such securities.
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Az unTegenerate 1890 ;!

z II t.uI05IIlOI1ItJ IJ0lIUDI4lIO pNIIoI,
which is evidently in need of reconstruc-
ton, says that at latest adyices from
Washington, Sumner was in consultation
with Revels as TO whether the potatoes
should be baked before the 'possum, or at
the same time.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-26

TENNESSEE BoSDs were quoted in New
York yesterday at IS for the old and 500
for the new.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-26

F. P. Mixes, of Tennessee, has been
confirmed by the Senate as Consul at
Montevideo.
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GOVERNMENT BONDS were dull and
lower in New York yesterday.
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TENNESSEE IRON STORE.
HILLMAN, BRO. & SONS,

Nos. j2 and 81 North Market Street,
uAvE IN STORE AND ARE DAILY RE-
IL CEIVING
Tennessee Charcoal Bloom Iron, h.
u. as
Kentucky Charcoal Iron, II. Bs Il =.
Ohio River u Iron
SsLaReIie,' Nails and Spikes.
Horse and Muie shoes and Horse
Shoe Nails.
AnViEs, Vises. Hammers and Bel
lows.
Steel Springs, Buggy md Wagon
AXIes.
ThiInbIe Skeins, Wagon Boxes and
Castings.
Carriage and PIow Bolts, Nuts and
Washers.
Steel PlOVY Plate, Gas Pipe.
ENvO-EsOrse Wagons, ErOned with
our kY. IRON.
Hubs, SpOkes, FeIIOes, and "a full
stock OF WOOD WORK, PIOSVs, etc.
Which they offer low for cash, and to prompt deal
ers only on short time.
HILLMAN, BRO. & SONS,
Nos. 50 & 50 North Market street,
feb20-taprl Nashville, Tenn
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s5OLp Opened ~ NeW fork yesterday AZ
1929, declined to l1ls, and closed at 1ll5.
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INTERESTING to the LADIES!
Something every Family Should Have.

T HAVE PURCHASED TIE RIGHT TO SELL
Il and instruct in the use Of
JOHN Il. MOVES
New System OF Cutting Garment
This ISvEyTIoS CONSISTS Of FIVE DIFzERES
plates.
No. cuts ladies' and Misses dresses, every
size, style and fashion
No. cuts Mems and Boys vests, every size,
style and fashion.
Nos. and cut Boys pants and coats, different
sizes and fashions, and
No cuts the MOST PERFECT FITTING Shirt IN
the world.
Any person can leslrn it in few minutes. Cal
and soe it. We give all instructions in the above
named system FREE OF CHARGE
1 recommend IT as being the only perfect system
Of cutting by measurements without the trouble Of
trying on MRS. TYNE6,
No. 133 Church street,
feb26-hu nov20 Nashville, Tenn.
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TIE COLORED PREsENTMENT.

TILE COLORED PRESENTmENI.
1t seems that another one of the colored
Committee on Crimes does not know any
thing of the outrages of which that com
mittee recently made special report to the
Reconstruction Committee at Washington.
One Allen NickeIson was one of the
signers of that document The following
is from the Chattanooga Times of yester-
day, the 25th:
We alluded, in an editorial upon this
subject on Tuesday last, to the fact that
this document was signed by Rev. Allen
Nickerson, pastor Of the colored Baptist
Church of this city, 'who must have
known that his statements were a libel
upon the community"
Yesterday Mr.. Nickerson called upon US
and made the following statement which
he requested us as an act of jnstice to him
to publish as a card, and append his sig
nature. He further stated that if a meet
ing was held to protest against reconstruc-
ton he would participate in it.
CARD.
To the Editor of the Times
have read what you say in reference
to my signing a paper about crimes and
outrages committed in the State, and wish
to say that was sent as q delegate to that
Convention from this county. A Com
mittee ON Crimes and several other COM
mittees were appointed. was put upon
the Committee -on Crimes. told them
that so far as Chattanooga and the coun-
try around was concerned, it was per-
fectly peaceful and harmonious, and had
never heard of any crimes or outrages
upon the colored people here.
Isigned my name to the report of the
committee, not knowing anything of the
truth of the reports made by others from
other parts of the country; but the report
as read in the Convention, l am sure, said
nothing about Chattanooga, for had told
them there had been no outrages on the
colored people here. l think that has
been added since the Convention.
A good many reports were brought in
of outrages, of which l knew nothing. l
said but little in the Convention, but did
not and could not say anything against
the people of this part of the country. l
have been here four years attending to
my duty as minister, and all that time
it has been peaceful and harmonious.
If we always get along as well as we
are doing now, and no worse, we shall be
very well off. ALLEN NICKERsoN.
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CorroN was steady in New York yes
teraay At 2sgc.
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MosEr Is easy IN New York at 4@S
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FOR SALE--FOR RENT

= S-.--4@- = OLs AA14a4s
tFT1 RESIDENCES m CITY AND EDGE
Il Held; several hundred vacant lots. $1,000
acres mountain lands; farms in this and adj0ir-
ing counties for sale. Several Offices under MAR
wei House; two large stores on Market street; one
on Broad, and residences in city and Edgsheld
Tor rent. A. II. 4 W. p HURLEY.
Zeal Estate.Agents, n Maxwell House.
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In Chancery at Nashville.

No. 6,2l3.
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Office Clerk and Master, Chancery Court at
Nashville, December the 18th, 1860.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-26

The testimony Of ex-Federal officers
aud soldiers sent TO Washington, as well
as published in the papers of the State,
refutes the charge of murders, assassina-
tions and crimes" brought against this
people by the Commercial and shows
how utterly reckless that paper is in the
assertion contained in the closing sentence
of the extract we have made from its
n,1rr,,ao
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-26
RADICAL TESTIMONY.

A Radical who has come down from
Chicago to Tennessee, writes from Mem
phis to the Chicago Tribune (Radical) as
follows:
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-31
Foreign News.
GREAT BRITAIN.

;, LONDON, March 3O.-On motion to pass
tIe IRISH bill to its second reading in the
.?uee OF Lords the Marquis of Salisbury
sala the Irish must be made to fear the law
before they will love it.
Inc foSt says Government ia Drenarino
an expedition of one thousand men. with q
battery OF steel guns, to suppress the Red
kIyer insurrection in British America,
Tennessee and Georgia railroad bond.
we're introduced on 'Change TODAY.
The Globe intimates that John BRIGHT
will soon resign his place in the Cabinet.
MADRID, March 30.-E1-Queen Isabella
of Spain aud her husband, Don Francis
Assis, have compromised and signed paper
agreeing to separate.
The medical students made another dis
orderly demonstration to-day against DR..
Fieldna.
SPAIN.
MADRID, March 30.-Rivero has created
a sensation in the Cortes by proposing q
measure for 10000 fresh troops.
The reports of recent Cuban battles are
discredited by the Government here.
ROME.
LONDON. March 30.-It is believed that
the Council at Rome has adopted the scheme
de fde.
The Democratic papers Mt Ravanna pub
lish letter from Mazzini urging a revolt
in Romagna.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-31

Ex-Governor Wise as much us they do Cha
hoon, and are now fully convinced that
tease men sometimes do foolish things.
Brick Pomcroy lecturcd here last week
on "Thc Future Of America only he
talked altogether about the past. His
speech was n strange compound Of huff
foonery, wickcdncss, and good sense. Mr..
Pomeroy is not fit to speak to refined
audience.
We have recently had T." pleasure Of
hearing an address before The Young Mems
Christian Association Of the University
from Bishop Doggctt. of your city. 1t was
pronounced 10y competent JUDGES both
learned and cicrant.
There have been two cases of smallpox
in town, but no fear is now entertained Of
the spread of that loathsomc disease.
IFDETTE
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-31

The RAILROAD ENGINEERS OF AMERICA.
Brick Poneroy, in all article recounting
the heroism of an engineer on the Erie
road, closes as follows:
"And who of these who ride ever think
of the engineer with his oily clothes, his
keen eye, his well-trained hand, his ad-
vanced position, and his responsibility :?
Too few of us we fear. We chat with the
conductor, we tell him stories, we soy he is
q good fellow, as he is; but there is an
other on the train in whose keeping we are
when rushing over the rails, and that is the
engineer.
"Thank God, they are brave, sober,
earnest men. They are undervalued,
overworked, and underpaid; they are not
noticed because they do not dress well,
they are seldom thought or spoken OF be.
cause theyare workingmen or mechanics.
but who of us all are better, Drawer, or
more deserving, than the railroad engineers
of America"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-31
Financial and Commercial.
Grain and Flour Market
Corn AND FLOUR EXCHANGE,
RICHMOND, Va. March 30, 1870.

RICHMOND, VA, March 80, 1870.
OFFERINGS.
Wheot.-W lite. 2n6 bushels. Ped. 10 bushels.
Corn. White. 5l6 bushels. Yellow, rs BUSH
els. Mix. d. 10 bushels.
O,ta. 500 bushels.
Dried Jpptes 3! pounds.
SALES.
Wheat. White, IL bushels nj Sl.si: 10 bushels
very good at 81 40 tot /, lsG bushels. Red, 20
rehcls foul at S.l9 q busi:cl, inferior mt Fllo
loa bushels common at Ills total 10 bushels.
Corn.-Wiitc, 10 bushels pr me ut 81 ldo bush
els fair on private terms total, 3lG bushels. lcl
low. l2s bushels prime at acc. Mixed, 100 aushcls
prim" III g:c-
oats --66 bushels good ut ESQ.,: 3!H bushels good
on private terms 80 bashcls far IT 5Tr led BUSH
els prime at ID Total, 5'2 hu shells.
nE-EyHIGIrEp.
fi.H.-Yellov, PAS bushels.
OutS.--2t0 bushcls.
Offerings On the corresponding da,c % Inst year
were:
Wheat--White $50 bushels. Ped none.
Corn.-Nhitc, ssi bush. l. yellow. non:; mixed,
As bushels.
U,i.s.-..so bushels.
RI. IS hu>hnl:.
NtIt.-* one.
pnuS.-.cI bushels.
The prices o.. that day were rs follows !:
ITbfat.--W lltc, none sold: red. none SOLD.
f0rD.-N hlte very good on priva'c tcrma. ci-
low, none sold mixed. very coed. ice.
Oats.-Tery good. Goc.
Rye.-Sonc sold.
-Hedl.-Sir.
p,aS.-- None sold.
F2"ur.-s amlly, $lo.75 Extra. Sa.:5; superfne,
ES.37.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-31
Marine News.

FORTRESS MONROE, March 3O.-Passed
in, for Baltimore, bark Steele, from Cardiff :;
brig China, from West Indies brig Maria
Wheeler, from West Indies bark Canada,
from Cardiff for Alexandra.
Bark Cricket, from Rio for Baltimore,
went ashore about seven miles north of
Cape Charles Sunday night in gale. The
crew and eight passengers were landed.
The vessel lays easy, and will be gotten off.
Wrcckers are going 10 her assistance.
HAvRE, FRANCE, March 3O.-Ship
Martha Cobb, from New Orleans, arrived
here reports passing schooner ]. c. BAKER
abandoned Mt sea.