Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-24

might have saved from destruction. Where
are the pampered children of wealth who
do not know what to do with their
useless millions; the McFlimseys with their
fashion and folly, and the Brother Beech
ers with their twenty-five thousand dollars
salary, and their charming Sunday
schemes of philanthropy; that they can do
nothing to save these poor children of
misfortune from the jaws of destruction!
In every block you find magnificent bar
rooms, and above them you generally see
brilliantly lighted up rooms, where the tiger
may be bsttled with, and where so often
veFdant ones are mercilessly chawed up
by that savage animal. Here and there
you see a policeman going his rounds,
and in every nook and corner you find
masses of humanity waiting for daylight.
You hear, perhaps, pistol shot, and a
rush of men bearing bleeding body to
the statiOn-house. And so, the night
moves on till daylight appears again.
THE FRANCo-FRUsSTAN WAR N NEW YORK
AND NEW JERSEY.
The outposts of the Prussian army now
extend clear across the Atlantic into
New York and New Jersey, and numer-
GUS skirmishes have already taken place.
Woe to the unlucky individual who dares
to say word in defense of ella Grande
Nation He is pounced upon at once
and threshed into silence. "Fritz and
Bismarck" is the only battle-cry here. A
few weeks ago Senator Carl Schurz made
a very Incorporate clap-trap speech atthe
Cooper Institute, in which he succeeded
in warming up the Teutonic blood to such
degree that a kind of international war
has been declared between the different
nationalties here. The noble Senator
seems to have forgotten that in 1S4S he
had to leave Prussia in disguise, for that
now canonized King would have sent him
to the gallows without mercy if he had
fallen into his hands. As Ger
man, l have, of course, my SYM
pathies, but as Americans we must
not forget that King William
is the stern representative of government
by "DiVine right" and Napoleon that
of consent" He is the Emperor of the
French people just as Grant is President
of the American people, whilst King Will
liam claims to be King of Prussia by di-
vine right and the grace of God, Why
did the German monarch refuse the impe-
rial crown rendered him by the German
people in 1S48l Simply on the plea that
he was King by divine right, and conse-
quently could not accept it from the
people.
''LET Us HAVE PEACE"
The event of the day is that the great
Eric will cooT1 Gonna 70 q oIaoa Rinn
Vanderbilt and ]. Gould had a meeting
at Saratoga, where they kissed and made
friends AS Erie stock, which is now
worth but "a per cent, will soon go up to
60 per cent, you will do well to send me
few hundred thousand, which 1 will in
vest for you and make your fortune.
Don't fail.
TBE SOUTHERN ROUTE. ...
There are quite q number of Southern
merchants here, shipping off their goods.
Several hundred cases were sent off to
Selma and Montgomery by that route yes
terday, to be delivered there in eleven days
from Boston, and the rates of freight were
exceedingly low. A freight blockade,
such as we experienced last year on the
Ohio and Kentucky roads, to the great
inconvenience of our Southern merchants,
can never take place on this route. As
there is much talk in the South about en-
couraging our own men and their enter
prises, we sincerely hope that our citizens
will practice what they preach, and try
the Southern route, which l am certain
will carry their freights as cheaply and
expeditiously as any other. / have made
an arrangement with Mr.. c. E. Evans, the
energetic and accommodating agent of
that line, to forward immigrants and their
effects to the South at lower rates than by
any other line. G.