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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11
NAKROwGAUGE IN EsUssIA.


Robert F. Fairlie, the chief protector
of the narrow gauge system in Great
Britain, in a letter 10 The Railroad Ga
zette of Chicago, says:
''The Imperial LiVny Russ;an Narrow
g feet ipch) Gauge Railway is built
and worked on the principles l have for
go msny years advocated. Tie Inc is
81 versts (3S miles, in length, AID has
very sharp curves and very heavy gra-
clients. The worst gradient is in so fer
seven versts. The line and lis equipment
have been completed for less than two
thirds the cost OF the most cheaply con
stTGcied broad Is fceO gauge line in Rus
sis. The train loads are 345 Tors gross,
exclusive Of engine, and the dead wright
of such load is only 81 tons. This
leaves 3 paying loSd Of 254 tons, or ? 8
to If you will compare This ;esult
with the working Of your owe lines, On
which the loads are neatly as one g. one,
YOU will find that TO move the 25f tuLs
of goods you mus, have at least $50 iona
of wagons, instead OF the 81 tons which
in Russia daily perform his duy. III.
general result is thst comparatively
light engine, or light and inexpensive
uarrow-gauge road, suffices for train
carving more tors of goods than are
moved on any of the RussiSn broad-gauge
lines: and much DOUBT if any of your
broad. gauge lines in Hnefica could dc
more. It must be remembered that '2e
Livpy lire hiss a gradient OF in 80 I i
five miles, With many small reversed
curves; and also iha, which l have just
described as its sexual performance lat!s
saoit OF VIVA. could b. Goer o. liz
Fairlie gauge Of only ihree feet.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11

The true danger of Imperialism at this
time is gradual concentration of power
in the National government, which may
make it almost imperial in power for
ordinary purposes, though acting in con-
formity with law. The peril cow Inn
pending. is not a .Nlpoleonic seizure of
the reins of government and an overthrow
of the law, but gradual, steady and in
sidious undermining of republican gov
eminent, which, in come distant day,
with an Aaron Burr in control, would
render usurpation possible. Nor is it
necessary even to suppose violent usur-
patton at all, provided the constitution
and the laws should be 80 gradually
altered in the direction of concentration
as TO rob the States of their former pre-
negatives, and make them mere append
ages to the machinery of the National
government.
What need would President have of
defyipg the laws, if the laws should give
him all he desired2 Only the insane fan
cy to change his title, and TO ape the style
of European mcnarchs, could lead some
crack Drained ruler to lose the substance
Of power in aiming at its shadow. The
real danger for US is rather in continually
arning the Executive with fresh powers,
and squirting him to acts which tend d.
reclly toward the imperialism" 50 uni
versally deprecated. 1t is not so much,
thus far, the man as the laws regarding
which we need be anxious; but the argus
ment, always ready, that the President
can be trusted with extra powers when
he does not show disposition to abuse
them, is dangerous. The precedent may
one day become fatal, and the misuse of
power win then be too late to control.
The 'jmperialism" of Congress
would certainly be as disastrous to re-
publican government as the usurpation of
one man. The latter could be easily
checked ard thwarted; but the gradual
concentration of local powers in Congress
carries with it show Of lawfulness
which puzzles the popular mind and d.
vides opinion. The real political danger
of cur day is in the concentration of
power at Washington; and no one can
successfully deny that such concentra-
ton is taking place, or that it is opposed
to the original spirit of our national
p1li'y.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11
SEsaTnR HARLAN.

The New York Sun makes palpable
hit in its allusion TO Senator Harlan, one
of the leading lights of Western Radical.
ism. Last winter, Gen. BoyntoD, as
Washington correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Gazette, a paper whose Rsdicslism
cannot be doubted, made very full ex-
posure of 'the tricks that are dark, Of
which Senator Harlan had been guilty.
The Sun says:
A follower Of Wesley and preacher
of righteousness came to the Senate from
a Western State, pious and poor. Serving
first in the north wirg of the Capitol,
then in the Department of the Interior,
and then again at the Capitol, he wsxod
rich, 1velt in his own lavishly garniShcd
brown-stone mansion, snd kept a car
risge which the Archbishop of Csntor-
bury would have envied. Oher Senators
who came to Washington poor but not
pious row revel in fortunes.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11

WHAT is termed luck is more truihfu' :
ly expressed by perfxipg p to the VOID.
Pluck, not luck, is generally the road to
success a young man writes 10 the
New York Journal of Commerce to the
effect that after ten years service as a
clerk or book keeper he has saved only
SIS. and asks if he would not do better
if be left New York and went to some
rising Western town to grow up with the
place. The Journal tells him very
plainly that the trouble is probably with
himself. If he has not been more saving
in New York, he cannot succeed any,
where unless by an entire change OF
habits. Economy and industry are as
essential 10 prosperity on q Western
prairie as in an Atlantic city.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11
HE NATIONAL LABOR USEO

4 EEE y ABsSHA a. AJAhDsG sNAOas
This organization has just adopted, 81
st. Louis, The declaration of principles
upon 1hich ii, as party, proposes to go
before the country next year. Their
platform will be found under our tele-
graphic head on the third page. Il VIII
be seen that there Is much in il that is
essentially Democratic; indeed there ia
much in it which sounds as though it
had b, en- written by Democrat is war
upon monopolies and official corruption,
its demsnd that the rights OF
the producer shall receive attention as
well as those of the consumer, and lis
complaint that labor is disIegarded in its
struggle with capital, are doctrines "a
miliar to the Democracy SIS household
words. No Radical can stand on that
platform. 1t is astonishing 20 US that
Gov. Geary, Of Pennsylvania, who is
said to be one OF the most prominent of
the Labor Union party, can stin msiG'ain
his advocacy of Gen. Grant for the next
presidency.
Our present conviction IS that the best
thing which the Labor Union party can
do in the next canvass will be to unite
with the Democracy in defeating the
Grant party and putting into power a
Democratic administration which, even il
i: does not carry into effect all their ptin-
ciplcs in detail, will sustain as Of old the
Fundamental principles upon which theiI
organization seems to rest.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11

a supporter of Greeley for the Repub.
licGn nomination, says ii becomes day by
day mere apparent that the only way tha
Republicans can maintain thig present
hold ugoR The colored vote through the
Presidential e!yciiCn is t. nominate the
Ioa. Horace Greeley, who was the friend
Of the negro whea Grant wss supporting
buchanan.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11

Hon. Richard H. Dana, one of the most
eminent Journalists in the United States,
and one of the warmest supporters of
Grant and Colfax in 1863, depicts the
President of the United States in the
following terms:
jefferson died poor, and Monroe was
indebted TO charity for the stone that bore
his epitaph. To think of our President
dying poorl Let the admirers of Grant
rest assured that no such calamity awaits
his final exit, if it can be averted by the
laying in of large supply of lands, tene-
mentp, houses, bonds, stocks, plate,
horses, carTisges, and other valuables,
the gifts of grateful officeholders, and of
hungry expectants who await his re-elec-
ton TO thrust their hands into the
treasury.
On the Sd of March, just befoie he as
cended the Capitol steps to take the oath
of office, Grant accepted gift of $64,-
600. On the 9th OF March, with the
pledges OF his inaugural lingering on his
lips, he appointed the largest contributor
to this fund Secreisry OF the Treasury,
and the two most active SCENTS in raising
it Sub. Treasurer and Collector Of the
Customs at New York. ..
Jefferson, with an instructive sense of
propriety betting the high station of
President, refused, during his eight years
Term TO appoint any of his relations to
Office, however worthy and eminent
Grant in the first two years of his term
has opened the way for forty-one or more
Of his relations to thrust their vulgar
noses INTO the public crib. Does not such
President bef0Ul he chair once filed
by Washington, Jefferson and JacksJnf
Ii these things are done in the green
tree, what will be done in the dTy2 When
the root rOis, do we wonder that the 70
liage diesl When the Executive Mansion
at Washington is converted into an ex-
change for the barter and sale of offices
and contracts, do We marvel thst the mi
nor departments Of the national Govern
ment are nests of rcgueTy, that the State
Legislatures are sinks of corruption, and
thai city municipalities are dishonesty
administered? Were Grant driven from
the White House with the brand of in
fanny on his brow, We might hope that
the marx, like The characters traced on
the wall before the Eastern ruler, would
deter others from the commission of Of
fences against official propriety and in
tegii;y.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11

As an evidence of the corruption IN
high places In the Radical psrty, we are
told that the executor of g United states
Senator, who was on the committee lDa.
regulated the impeachment proceedings
against ex. President johnson, claims that
bv virtue of q certain agreement large
sum is due TO the estate of the deceased
Senator for services rendered in the pas
sage of Pacific railway bill through the
Senate while he was member. Such
are thy beauties, o Radicslism!
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11

ND stated at the outset that the effect
of the Ku- Klux Investigation Committee
would be to bring to Washington
swarm of vile characters, who would be
enticed by the mileage and per diem al
lowed them to give all manner of false
testimony touching affairs al the South.
This prediction has been more than yeri-
fed. The witnesses against the South,
as general rule, are of the most disrep
utsb,e character; so much 50 that the
Radical Congressman themselves are
ashamed of them.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11

The Washipgsongcorespondentot ire
Cincinnati AEaouiger states that Com
missioner Douglass will treat Pieasanton 5
decision in relation TO the tax on borrow
ed banking capital as dead letter, ana
direct The Revenue Collectors to proceed
with the collections as heretofore.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11

TEE Washington correspondent OF the
New York Times says the story about
Secretary Fsh's retirement from the Cab
met hardly need be refuted. There i
lust as much foundation for it now SIS
when IT was first invented.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11
What We are Surprised Al.

WE ARE SURPRISED THAT MEa IN THE
w City Of Nashville should rent houses from
wear to year, and psy cut enough money to pur-
chase 3 home, when We have for sale on 90 long
time and at low prices, 30 many snug cottages In
the city and in Edgeneld. Real Estate viii per-
hzpa never be lower In this country than IL Il
nov. We invite all to read our Bulletins and
ARLINGTON, FARRAR WEAKLEY,
Agents, No. 81 North College street,
lea IN octs
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iy2sf MADISON sERATTON & co
Notice to Stone MaSOnS.
Real Estate and Collection Office Of

JOSEPH WIRELESS. IS NORTH CHERRY
d Street; special attention given to the col
lection of rents and every description OF paper.
claims prosecuted through all the &C uTts.
References: MeAlister Il Wheless, Mas hviIle;
X. HObson, Nashville; j. o. Griffith. Nashville.
apr23-d6m -
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11

GIN. SPINNER writes from Switzerland
that his health is better. ''He is silent,
however," We are told, "about the new
loap." Spinner is quite right to spin no
yarns on that subject. The less said
about that new loan the better. l. would
be more to the point to have something
from Boutwell, about that old deieit.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11
CHEAP COAL +!

TEAYING TAKEN AN INTEREST IN THE
1 / spacious Goa, Mines OF Kentucky, known as
the st. Bernard blues, on the Evansville and
Henderson Railroad, and having control Of the
disposition OF said Goa al south of springfield,
Robertson county, Tennessee, We are determined
to furnish Nashville, Edgeheld, and the EUR
rounding country and towns 30 cheap IS to put
fires in the reach Of the POOR as well as the rich.
We can furnish a superior article and sbund-
ant supply.
oFFICE-Oorner Union and Cherry streets.
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Edgeield and Kentucky
r "A L l. e . A d

ON AND AFTER MONDAY, JUNE 5TH,
" Trains on the Edgehsld and Kentucky Rail-
EOAd VIII run IS follows:
Mail leaves Nashville, ................. 500 4 n.
Express leaves Hashvilie..-............ ESQ p n
Mail arrives - .................. 6:20 P. n.
Erpress arrives .................. $3.50 A. n.
Train leaving Nashville 81 500 A u. runs
same cars through to Henderson, Ky.,
making direct connection for Evansville, st. Louis
and al points North Northwest
Train leaving Nashville st 12:50 ?. n. car
rfes through mail, and connects directly at
Guthrie With trains for Memphis and New Or
leans.
TrSin arriving at Nashville st $40 P. n. runs
through from Evansville.
Trains run dsily, except Sundays.
J. n. SPEER, supA
VIII HART, Treasurer and Gen Ticket Agent.
ieIEH.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11
je2T til Aug2l
DOCEdGE ESz5gE'TEEiL
RJ1 ST. Charles ST

T .ONGER LOCATED IN ST. LOUIS TEAM Az ChroL.
II Physician successfully tire = Simple ana yOmf IL
Gated YeneTeS. Disease TO b-ns nattclt from every
State His hospital oppcrtuGes. hfetiHe nerence.
with rurest drugs prepared in estabskment
cases civ Up Others matter Who fledi tell your
private trouble Consultation free, Send stamps for
medical essays. MAslEooD. NCNAsHooD, sent
BIZ mall I5cens sarh both for Is l0rsges. All has
the curious d0Ub m inquisitye wish 70 know all aocut
Self Pollution, HrJycntcl3 Marriage Every young man
end ought % read IL Rs warning The nervous
dehilate1 orparally impGent scientifically advised
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11
Supreme Court Sale
Valuable House and Lot in Nashville
Farley, Morrison & Go. VS.. John 5.
DRShiel ct ats.
On the 2lst Day Of August, 1871,


1t the Courthouse door, in the city Of Nashville
sell to the highest bidder, at public ou'cry, The
following described House and Lot in the city OF
Ma shvile, being part OF Lot No. 1913 in the ori-
ginal Ian Of the city of Nashville, on Vine
street. Beginning on Vine street at stone, the
corner OF an alley between said lot ard lot No
129; running thence along Vine street towards
Spring street co feet to the line of alfred Harris
heirs part OF said lot thence at right angles to
tie bsck line of ss'd lot No 1913; thence along
the back line OF said lot towards Broad street to
the line of said alley, and thence direct line
with the line of said alley, and thence direct line
with the line OF said alley to the beginning on
Vine street..
The above described lot is well improved; has
large two story brick house, with servants and
outhouses On the premises, and Is situated in
desirable part Of The city.
TERMS OF sALR-cssh; fee from the equity
OF redemption.
Office of the Supreme Court at Nashville,
July ~, 1871.
... z. @. DUNHINGTOE,
iy23 law3t Clerk and OOIn'r.
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u. s. Claim Agency.

THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING ESTABLISH
Il ed 6 General claim Agency, respectfully Sc
let's the prosecution of claims held against the
U. 8. Government, whether for stores or supplies
furnished or taken, pension or bounty.
Col. PSramore, of the firm Of Parsmore Sow
ers, and Clay Roberts, late General Claim Com
missioner Of the state Of Tennessee, have trans
ferred TO st claims placed in their hands for
collection, and in connection with these gentle
men am prosecuting ssid claims, and would ask
that all persons who fled their claims with either
Of said parties, please write me or call at nv Of
fee at their EARLIEST convenience. Ny long expe'
Tience and knowledge of this business, together
with the fact of having connected myself with one
Of the first Attorneys in Washington City, as
suTes me that will be in tbs future, as have
bean in the psst successful in to osecution Of
al claims entrusted 70 me for collection.
refer 70 ". Burns. Esq, President First Ma
tlonal Bank, Hon. ". F. Prosser, Postmaster, and
others A. W WILLS,
Late United States Army,
je4u No. 80 Cherry street. Nashville. Tenn.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11

THE NAME OF THE COMPANY is THE
Il Niagara Fire Insurance Com
pany of New York. 1t is located in The city OF
New
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-11
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
County Court Meetin

i ty IRE requested to msst in the County
Court Room THIS MORNING, at 1917 O'CLOCK, to
take action in relation to the death of the Ron.
W K. TURNER, late Judge Of the Davidson Coan-
Is Court. W. q. RWIN, Clerk.
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Choice Farm OF so Acres.
VIE HAVE FOB SALE a CHOICE FARM OF
w so acres Of good land and good improve
ments and choice orchard, miles from NASH
VILE on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
aud Mill Creek vsiey Pike. P.ice $1,000; $l,UO0
cashs; remainder in one, two, three fonr and i've
year, with interest at 6 per cent.
ARRIAGToN, EAkRAK & WEAKLEY.
jy25 till octS Agents.
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srArEnEnr OF THE cOHD1r1oA
NIAGARA Fire Insurance Go.

OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,
On the LIST day Of July, 1871.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-11-30
BE Guided by what you Knew.
Oct IL, 1871

There is an old proverb which says, "Expe-
rience is the safest guide" To this guide the
sick and ailing naturally turn when casting
about for the means of relief They enquire
what a medicine has done for others, before they
adopt it themselves. Of all the remedies and
preyentives in use, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
meets the test most triumphantly, and hence its
immense popularity and vast sales. The suf-
ferer from indigestion is sure to find some one
among his friends who has been cured of this
ailment by the famous vegetable stomachic.
The victim of fever and ague, liver complaint,
constipation. nervous prostration, or general
debility. has only to make inquiry in the neigh
borhood where he resides in order to discover
what this standard restorative has effected in
cases similar to his own. In the published tes-
timony to its merits he will find volume of
proofs of its sanitary properties which it Is i'm
possible for his common sense to resist. He
tries it. and the effect it produces on his system
adds another to the host of witnesses in its favor.
Thus, its reputation founded on facts, not as
sertions continually grows and spreads. Char-
latans and imposters, some OF them mere local
tficksters, and others who take somewhat
wider range attempt to thrust into the hands
md down the throats of invalids, their hap
hazard concoctions, as substitutes for the tonic
which for so many years has been med1clnal
staple throughout the United States, Spanish
America, Canada, and the West Indies, but
only succeed to Il limited extent. In this reas-
oning age, the people, having ascertained what
is really deserving of their confidence, decline
running after strange gods"
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OUR UNFORTUNATE FINANCIAL C08DI-
TIoN.-The Beaufort Repu6 licdn, which seems
to be aloof from the populations and manage
ment of the Ring, takes this view of ourpres-
ent financial condition: =, e.rs
The entire press of South Carolina have be-
come fairly awakened to the enormous frauds
that are being unearthed regarding our unfor-
tunate financial condition. What course to
pursue is not one easy of solution. Some OF
the more immoderate ones look upon repudia-
tion as the only panacea to cure the evils
Desperate diseases requires desperate remedies,
but we cannot counsel 80 dangerous and at the
same time 80 disastrous a remedy as repudia-
ton. To do that strikes blow at the credit OF
the State from which she can never recover.
1t is plainly evident that the Governor is at the
bottom of the whole affair, and that he is pull
ed and hauled by the ears to suit the ring II
the ring did not include the majority of both
branches of the legislature, we might look to
them for some relief, or perhaps they could
manage to impeach him, that seems to, be the
most popular political word in the great Una
bridged. That course, if successful would give
us new Governor, from whom better things
may be expected, if he had the moral courage
to smash this Tammany offshoot. Anefoft is
now being made to get the State Treasurer out
of the way. AS he has made cd6l million
since he has been in Office, he can afford to pack
up his carpet-bag and go to Yankeedom. But
that will not cure the evil. 1t may be the
means, however, of having this imbroglio pre-
sented in its true light, if there is any truth in
the old axiom, that when thieves fall out hon
est men get their dues.
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Blue RIDGE Railroad.

trAt a meeting of the new Board of Directors,
held in Columbia last Saturday, we understand
that Col. James S. Cothran, of Abbeville, was
duly elected President of the Blue Ridge Rail-
road.e It is reported that this election is merely
temporary, and that II Is expected the Road
viii pass into the hands of other parties Of an
Early date. President Magrath, on behalf Of
the South Carolina Railroad, has offered to
take the State interest in the Blue Ridge for
0,eOO, and guarantee its completion within
two years, under penalty of forfeit of the
advance. We trust that arrangements will be
made, either with the South Carolina Railroad
orsome other corporation, to push forward to
complexion this great highway to the West.
III the meantime, We feel confident that Presi'
dent Cothran will maintain intact the best in
ttesests of the State and all parties interested.