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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10

The Georgia Radicals who are seeking
to reconstruct Georgia again in their own
interest are losing cast with their party.
Tho Chicago Journal, one of the most
cutspoken Radical papers in the North
west, says:
F'The Georgia bill has been postponed.
There is very decided difference between
the reports the Bullock faction make in re-
gard to the condition of affairs in that
State, and those made by their opponents.
IF the Outrages reported have actually oc-
clrred, and are occurring, with no pros
pect of improvement, then the Carpenter
plan should be adopted by Congress,
namely, giving the President ample au-
thority to restore order, at the same
time keeping Georgia in Stdtu quo. If
the State is really in as good condition
as the balance of the South, then it should
be admitted with the Bingham amend
ment. In no event should Congress at
tempt to continue Gov. Bullock & Co. in
Office beyondthe time for which they were
elected y
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10

THEY RESPECTFULLY INFORM THEIR
Il friends and the public generally, that they
have reduced the Wholesale Prices of
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10
THE NATIONAL BANKS AND THE
FUNDING BILL.

Not satisfied with their present bank
ing monopoly and the immense profits
derived from it, the National Bank stock
holders and directors, who are members
of Congress, are endeavoring 10 so manip-
ulate the pending Funding bill as to ena-
bic them to still further increase those
immense profits at the expense of the
people. They are assisted in this effort
by some of the officers of Government.
The New York Express asserts that the
Comptroller of the Currency, Mr.. Hub
bard, proposes TO legislate for the banks
alone, and does not hesitate to use his
official position with this end in view.
He urges the National Bank representa-
tives not to oppose the funding clause in
the Senate Funding bill, but to urge Con-
gress to relieve them from the tax of one
per cent. on circulation, one-half of one
per cent. on deposits, and one-half of one
per cent. on capital not invested
in United States bonds. Mr.. Hubbard,
in a word, proposes to substitute a three
millions tax on bank deposits, and three
millions on bank circulation, to a tax of
$4,000 on circulation This proposition
is made as bride to the banks to take a
new class of bonds bearing less rate of
interest. "Pay the expenses of the Comp
troller's Office, say $850,O0O per annum,
and you may reduce your taxes five mil
lions six hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars" This is the practical proposition
of the Comptroller of the Currency to the
National Banks now. 1t remains to be
seen whether the bride will be accepted.
The banks are rich, their stockholders are
rich men, and their dividends have been
from ten TO twenty per cent, with large
SURPRISES to meet an emergency. They
have almost shut State Banks out of ex-
istence They have monopolized most
of the profits of banking. They
have enjoyed the most profitable
business and the greatest monopoly
in the country, and the oolproposition of
the Government Comptroller is to relieve
them at once of tax of nearly six mil
lions of dollars, and to impose this tax
upon other people and departments of
trade. The tax now imposed upon the
banks is spread over more than four hun
dred millions of bank capital, and, there
fore, is not onerous. 1t is also spread
over a circulation of $500, 900, 900, on
which the banks receive at least twenty
one millions of dollars as interest. Then
the bonds in bank, even at four and
half per cent, would pay fifteen millions
of dollars interest in gold, making thirty
six millions of dollars received as interest.
To this may be added at least twenty mil
lions of income from deposits, or say
fifty-six millions of dollars of income,
subject to tax of $3.50, 600 or 1915, OOOl
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10
NATIONAL ACKNOWLEDGING.

Persons who cherish a rosy hope that
the taxes are to be reduced, the Journal
of Commerce thinks, should ponder the
propositions in Representative Hoar's bill
''to establish system of national educa-
tion," which has been favorably reported
by the Committee on Education and
Labor. In his Fifteenth Amendment
message, the other day Git says, President
Grant droppeda significant hint for Con
gress to 'take all the means within their
constitutional power to promote and en-
courage popular education throughout
the country On the same day that
bis message reached the Capitol
the extraordinary bill that we now
proceed to notice came back
from the Committee 10 the House, CO.
incidence best explained on the suppose
ton that the President and committee had
conferred, and that Congress had been
sounded on the subject and is expected to
mass the measure. A more cleyerly con-
triyed scheme to make thousands of new
officeholders, maintain national taxes, find
work for revenue assessors and collectors,
and strengthen" the central government,
has never come under our eyes. As
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suNDAY, APRIL Io. ls1o.
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THE LEGAL TENDER COMPLIoA-
TION

II was rumored in Washington on the
7th inst, that one of the new judges of
the United States Supreme Court Brad
ley, of New Jersey, declines to sit on the
legal tender case, in consequence of his
having been counsel in several cases bear
ing upon the subject previous to his APP
pointment as judge. If this should prove
true, the court viii probably be equally
divided on the question, in which case the
former decision viii stand.
There was another movement made in
the legal tender case in the Supreme
Court on the Sth inst Mr.. Beck fled a
petition in the case of Hebron against
Griswold, taken up from the Kentucky
Court of Appeals, already decided by the.
court, asking that the case may remain
within the control of the court until the
argument is heard and a decision made in
the two cases already advanced in the
calendar. and which involve the direct
question of the constitutionality of the
legal-tender act. The court had decided
in the Kentucky case that one of the par
ties must satisfy debt in coin which was
contracted before the legal-tender law was
passed; but now, as the constitutionality
of the latter law is about to be de-
cided by the full court, two members
having been added since the decision
was made, the counsel for petitioner came
into court and ask that it may be held in
allegiance, so to speak, till the new cases
are decided; and they do this on the
ground that, if the court sustain the law,
then the petitioner will only be required
to satisfy the debt in legal-tender notes in
stead of coin as heretofore decided. Mr..
Clarkson n. Potter, of New York, ap-
peared for 6rfswold to oppose the motion
to file the petition by argument, but the
court decided that under its rule argument
could not be heard, and the motion was
merely taken under advisement. Al
though the mandate of the count, in the
case already decided, is not enforced until
the court adjourns for the term, the
petition filed by Mr.. Beck forms an inter-
esting feature of the new phase of the
legal-tender question.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10
TIE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

The Times speculates upon the causes
of the present dizziness of business, and
remarks that-Without any disturbance to
our industry from strikes, or the want of
raw material, or any demand upon US for
money from abroad, in the midst, indeed,
of health, plenty and quiet, severe suffer-
ing has been lett. We have had all the
conditions for success upon which COM
mercial nations rely to accomplish sue
cess; but instead of the prosperity that
was expected reVerses haze followed.
We are exporting grain, cotton and pc
troleum, but profit is only realized in cot
ton, and middlings, which sold last year
at this time for 30 cents, now brings only
% cents. The refners of petroleum are
selling it for export at FROM a dollar to
dollar and half per barrel under cost.
Upon grain the producer is suffering a
loss greater, probably, than that of the
refiners of petroleum. There are numer-
GUS buyers in the market, but they pur-
chase sparingly, and the idea appears to be
quite general among them that We are on
the direct road to specie pay
ments, and the reason is given
for their light purchases that
when the event arrives, they prefer, in
stead of holding large stocks, to be in
situation TO purchase freely under the new
conditions. There has been no time, says
the Times, since the close of the war,
when the circumstances were actually less
favorable for return to specie payments
than now, because our Indebtedness to
the other sile has been augmenting with
each successive day-yet the delusion that
we are about to reach the promised goal
cannot easily be dispelled. The misfor
tune of nearly all producers and traders
here is that they have paid currency prices
for what they are selling, and are obliged
to sell at very nearly gold prices. If the
fall can be maintained, (says the writer,)
the problem will be solved that 1856, 109,-
621 illegal tenders, $50, 56S, OIL 81 of frac-
tional currency, $40, 800, 900 of three per
cent certificates, $38, S4S, 500 of gold GER
tificates, and nearly three hundred million
dollars of national bank notes-together
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10
JACOBIN WITNESSES.

The character of the negroes sent to
Washington by the Radicals to testify
against Tennessee and Georgia, and who
have been most prominent and active In
the work, is gradually coming to the
light. ''Dr." ]. B. Young, who has been
a prominent witness before the Recon
struction Committee, testifying to alleged
atrocities in Tennessee, and that white as
well as black "Unionists" were not safe
in the State, is vicious and abandoned
criminal, and has been denounced as such
by prominent negro preacher in Knox
vile, where the 'Doctor" has held forth
since he came from New York. A. Al
peoria Bradley, negro lawyer, and
Senator in the Georgia Legislature, is a
leading member of the Georgia delegation
in Washington urging the reconstruction
of that State, and testifying to atrocities
of the most outrageous character which
they allege are perpetratedupon black and
WlllIc IldulCdlS. II lew va > oiuCC 4ll. 1Atu-
die presented the petition of this fellow
Bradley for admission to the bar of the
Supreme Court of the United States, but
a fact has been discovered which was re-
peatedly charged in Georgia, that Brad
lev had served term in the penitcntiary
at Sing Sing, N. Y. On the Sth inst. Mr..
Riddle appeared in court and withdrew
the petition and apologized for having
Offered it. This is the character of men
sent to Washington to urge the striking
of States from their places in the Union,
so they will have to go through the pro-
cess of reconstruction for the benefit of
Radical oflice-seekers. Very little doubt
now exists among candid Republican mem
bers of Congress that the reconstruction
committee, under the leadership of But
Ter, has encouraged, and is encouraging,
rascals who do not hesitate to commit
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perjury, to invent stories Of Outrages, and
appear before the committee and swear
that the concoctions are Yeritable facts.
Gen. Farnsworth, in substance, charged
this when the Georgia bill was under dis
cussion 10 the house, and said Butler and
the Washington Chronicle were engaged
in the business of manufacturing out
RACES. The Chicago Times, commenting
on this state of affairs, says:
ga committee of the national legisla-
ture, whose sworn duty it is to protect
law and act for the preservation of order,
plots 70 overthrow State government,
and substitute despotism for a free, con-
stitutional government in regular opera.
ton and justly administered. 1t is strange
that, in working to sthis end, it is found
necessary to foully traduce the people of
the State by the testimony of ignorant and
vicious knayes and demagogues, who
eagerly swear to statements prepared for
them2
''The fact that the charges of
lawlessness in Tennessee are SO gen
eral in character, and do not
specify dates, localities and particular
transactions, suggests that they originate
in Washington, and that Buffers skill is
exercised in putting them in such shape
that they cannot easily be disproyed.
'FWe have heard much of the crime of
the South in rushing into rebellion, and
her men have been stigmatized as Rebels
and redhanded traitors, and by other cpl
thets describing great criminals; but the
Confederate leaders never conceived a
crime of such meanness and wickedness
as has been perpetrated against Georgia,
and as Butler has planned against Ten
nessee. The war decided that the Union
shall remain unbroken, but it is now hardly
claimed, by intelligent journalists of any
section or party, that so far as the legal,
technical question of secession is con-
cerned, the position taken upon it by Alex.
II. Stephens and Charles O'Conor can be
successfully controverted.
"The Confederates were not guilty of
treason, but the men who have over
thrown the State Government of Georgia
have been guilty of it. The present Con-
gress and administration, in that act,
made war upon every principle of our
Government. The probabilities that
Bingham's amendments to the Georgia
bill will be defeated in the Senate give
Butler reason to hope that his plans fol
the reorganization of hell in Tennessee
will be sanctioned in Congress He pre-
pares the testimony which he thinks will
help his case, and witnesses of the order
of Young swear to it.
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STOCKS and BONDS:

One share of stock in the Nashville Female Acad-
envy, exempt from taxes until 1884.
The following stocks, being each SIS per share:
50 shares Broad Street Bridge Company; l16 shares
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company; 6
shares of Nashville and Decatur Railroad Compa-
ny; shares Of Nolensville Turnpike Company; 4
shares Nashville and Kentucky Turnpike Compa-
ny; 5 shares Franklin and Columbia Turnpike
Company; 20 shares Columbia, Pulaski and Elkton
Turnpike Company; shares Agricultural and Me-
chanical Association. Also, 2 shares Of Nashville
Horticultural Society, $50 per share; so shares
Gun Factory, $50 per share; 30 shares Second Ma
tional Bank of Nashville, 800 each; 80 shares
Nashville Commercial Insurance Company, $50
each; 200 shares Tennessee Marine and Fire In
surance Company, $50 each in new company, and
200 in old company.
The following bonds of 81, 600 each:
Montgomery County Bonds, due July 1888, is
IA Sumner County Bonds, due 10th of April, 1877,
issued 1861.
u Henry County Bonds, due April 1, 1872, issued
1857.
city of Nashville Bonds, due October, 1882, is
sued 1852
City of Nashville Bonds, due July, 1884, issued
1866.
State of Tennessee Bond, due first of January,
1892 issued 1866.
10 City of GAINESVILLE Bonds of $500 each, due
July /, 1885.
8 City of GAINESVILLE Bonds of $500 each, due
October l, 1887.
3 MONTGOMERY County Bonds of $3.50 each, due
October l, 1881.
City of Nashville Coupons of $50 each
Also, sundry City Of Nashville Corporation
Checks and Railroad Tax Receipts.
The July and October Coupons for 1870 are on
all of the bonds.
All persons desiring good investments are most
earnestly invited to attend this great sale. The
terms being CASH, great bargains will necessarily
be given. PHEBE HILL, Executrix.
BROWNS & CHEATHAM,
Real Estate Agents,
apr2-60ds No. GA n. Cherry ST., Nashville.
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AMoNe the bills favorably reported in
the United States Senate on the 9TH inst,
was one giving $64, 12S to Cowan & Dick
erson, of Knoxville, Tenn, for two hun
dred and fifty six bales of cotton seized
by Gen. Burnside, in November, 1868,
and used in making the defenses about
Knoxville against Longstreet.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10

IT is reported that Senator Drake in
tends to take the stump in Missouri against
the proposed Embarrassment of all the
white people there. Drake has no objec
ton to the ignorant negroes of his State
voting, but he has very decided objec
ton to the white men voting, because.
they know him and his party too we'll
Even negroes should be suspicious of a
white man who has no standing with his
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE GREAT SPRING REMEDY.

TN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR NATURE DE-
i mands an assistant in driving out the morbiic
substance collected in the blood, which is sure to
generate bilious complaints and derange the en-
tire human system. The only remedy adequately
effectual in cases of this character is Mishler's
Herb BitterS which thoroughly purifies the blood,
corrects all the irregularities of the system, rein
vigorstes the general constitution, and produces
perfect health and good spirits where now is gen.
eral debility, nervousness, etc. For all diseases
arising from impurities of the blood Mishlers
Herb Bitters is pronounced by the highest medical
authorities the most certain, speedy and agreeable
remedy extant. Thousand have tested its efficacy,
and declare it is the greatest assistant of nature in
her conflict with disease, that the light of science
has ever brought to our knowledge. Sold by all
druggists and dealers. DR.. s. B. Hartman & Co.,
Proprietors. Lancaster Pa. aprl0 deOdAwly
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10

THE President has pardoned Henry
Bloomgardt, who was convicted and SEN
fenced to the psnitentiary some time ago
for defrauding the Government at Louis
vile, Ky. Wonder if the Radicals will
have anything to say about Grant turning
criminals loose?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10

THE Democracy of Wyandotte, Kan
sas, nominated and elected at the recent
election negro candidate for justice of
the peace, much TO the disgust of the
Radicals thereabout who are now clamor-
ing for repeal of the fifteenth amend
,..a,,s
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10
NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
MADAME STUART,

VNHE GEL EBRATED MEDICAL oLAIRV0YANT,
has lust arrived in this city from New York,
after an extended European tour, and has taken a
suite of rooms over II. v. Bassetts. on Cedar
street. near the Postofice, where she can be con-
suited from A. II. until s P NJ. She sees your
surroundines: tells much of your past, whether II
relates to business, health or love matters; pays
particular attention to stolen property and guaran
tees the recovery Of the same Prices moderate.
apri0 II
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10

The ladies of New Orleans have re-
solved to form an association for the pur-
pose of purchasing the picture known as
g Heroes of Charlottesville" in order TO
present Il to Gen. Lee.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10

= CRIME Is said to be rampant in Louis
lana but we hear of no demand for the
reconstruction of that State. The reason
is that the Radicals have control of the
State.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10
COURTHOUSE IN NASHVILLE,
at IL o'clock A. NJ,
Thursday, june 2, 1870,

sale to continue from day to day until all are Sold
The following lots in Boyd's addition to Nash
Vile: Lot No. 276, fronting 81 feet on Charlotte
pike runs back $50 feet, more or less, to alley
Lots 2s4 and 2s5 each fronting so feet the Char
lotte pike, and run back &25 feet more less, to
an alley; Lot SO in Balch & Whiteside's addition,
fronting 800 feet west side of Spruce street and
207 on the north side of Crawford and 207 on the
south side Of Washington street.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10

TENNEssEz BoNDs were quoted in New
York yesterday at 5eA for the old and
52s for the new.
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Auction Sale of so Lots i'm McCamp-
BELLS Addition TO Nashville.

THURsDAY, APRIL IA, 1870, at IL O'CLOCK A
Il NJ, on the premises, between Franklin and
Granny White pixies, for one-fourtn cash, balance
in 6, u and Is months with interest, and lien
tanned Free collation. and omnibuses
BARNES, Auctioneer
BRowSs CnEATHAAT, Agents, GA N. Cherry ST.
apri0 At
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. L O o o o 9,

payable in one, two, three four and FIVE years,
with interest Or we will lease the property for
ten years for $500 per year. for twenty years at
$500 per year, payable annually. Or with person
or persons of industry and energy who has 900,
we will 60 into partnership, provided we can
agree upon the kind of manufacturing to be done.
Address US either at Nashville Manchester,
Tenn. WHITMAN BROS.
feb2-3m TB1 W. S. WHITMAN.
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sE- R A. TOoN will continue the Nashville
Broom Factory at the old stand, No. 81 Broad
street, where he will be pleased to see its old pa
irons, and any number Of new ones, and will guar
antee satisfaction to all apr5-lw
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10

ITO THE WORKING CHASING are now pre-
Il pared to furnish all classes with constant en-
ployment at home, the whole Of the time. or for
the spare moments Business new, light and profit
able. Persons Of either sex easily earn from soc
to % per evening, and proportional sum by de-
voting their whole time TO the business. Boys and
girls earn nearly "a much men. That ali who
see this notice may send their address, md test the
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BILL FOR DIVORCE.

Circuit Court, May Rules, 1870.
Mary Barley VS.. Thomas J. Barley.
IN THIS CAUSE 1T APPEARING TO THE SAT-
isfaction Of the Clerk from the allegations in bill
that the desendant il a nonresident Of the State Of
Tennessee, that the ordinary process of the law
cannot be served on him, it is therefore ordered
that publication be made for four successive weeks
in the UNION AND AMERICAN, a newspaper pub
hshed in the city Of Nashville, Tennessee redulr-
ing the defendant to appear at the Courthouse in
the city of Nashville, on the Sd Monday in Nav
next, then and there TO plead. answer or demur 10
compliments bill, or the same will be taken for
confessed and SGT for hearing ex-parte.
mr20 law4t DAVID C. LOVE CLERK
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SEWANEE COAL.
NASHVILLE, TENN.

ME ARE NOW PREPARED TO FILL
w promptly, at low rates, orders for ALL
GRADES Of Sewanee Coal
Special attention given to shipments TIE car
load, or hogshead- Parties purchasing an MAKE
settlement with Railroad Agent upon receipt q
Coal
OFFICE: No. u North Cherry street.
mar23-1m Z McTYER 3 CO.
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GOLD opened in New York yesterday al
1924 and closed at IIs.
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THE BUCHANAN PROPERTY AT
AnCTI0N
DISSOLUTION.

TTNHE FIRM OF R. A. TOON & 90. is THIS DAY
l. dissolved by mutual consent. r. A. Toon as
s1mes all the liabilities of the firm, and is alone
authorized to collect the debts due it and give
ceipts for the same. R. A. TOON,
E. HOWERTON,
j. j. HAM.