Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-10
NEW YORK.
Horace Greeley Goes Back
the Women Suffragists
Tho city Accounts.

| The City Accounts.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-The city &C.
counts are in the hands of printers and
will be issued next week. They will
make book of upwards of 5000 pages,
and will contain the names of sll persons
| employed in the various courts and mu-
nicipal departments, with full explana
ton, defending the action of the Mayor
and Comptroller in reference to signing
warrants and the disbursements of money.
| H1race Greeley Repeuts the Sins of
His Youth, and Refuses 90 be n
Female Candidate.
Horace Greeley has addressed a letter
to the Golden Age defining his views on
the woman question, saying that while he
| does not deny that persistent fagitious
adultery of the husband or wife affords
good ground for divorce, transient in
| fidelity to marriage vows under the influ-
ence of passions intiamed by wine or 9TH
er unnatural excitement should not, if re-
pented, be adequate reason for divorce.
The doctrine of remarriage of those wild
owed by death should be governed by
circumstances. In most cases where
| couples are happily united it will be bet
ter in higher life if neither were married
second time on this Planet. The main
spring of his hostility to woman
suffrage is due to this conviction of the
proper indissolubility of the marriage tie.
His conversion to the movement of
woman sufftage is morally impOs-
sible. On that account he has writ
ten little of what has appeared in
the Tribune editorially upon this subject
for the last ten yeara, and concludes by
saying, 81 believe our countrymen are
indebted to you for having discovered,
perhaps 1 should say invented, me as
a possible though most improbable
candidate for the Presidency. Ais
low me then TO thank you, for
your carly and frank demonstration.
can in no contingency be counted on
your side, for the women suffrage
candidate. As you forcibly and Justly say,
there is not even remote possibility of
my ultimately adapting myself to this
end. My difference with your crowd are
too vital, too radical, to permit the most
saE guine dreamer to hope for conversion.
| am growing old, my opinions are toler-
ably finn, and an advanced female of the
Laura Fair type, who kills her paramour,
whom she claims to be her rightful affinity
and gives the lie in open to the wife she
has doubly widowed, is my pet aversion.
But why should any man be the candidate
for President of the woman suffrsgists2
Logically and consistently feel the can
didate should be woman. She ought
moreover be one thoroughly emancIpaied
from absurdity, folly, narrowness and
baleful conser 9atism which am too old to
outgrow. Could you not find one who
illustrates in her own personal history what
you so felicitously term the liberal thought
of this enlightened age, Let her boom who
has two husbands after some sort, lives in
the same house with them both, sharing
the couch with one but bearing the name
of the other, to indicate her imp artiality
perhaps, and the cause and the candidate
will be so fly mated that there will be no
occasion, even under the most liberal,
progressive and enlightened regime to sue
for divorce. Could not one OF this class
be persuaded to overbear her shrinking
modesty and nominate herself
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Tne Children's
Aid Society sent out delegation of one
huAd1OO a1O lullbJ-1OuA DClbOuo W w do1=
ington, Ill, yesterday; others will follow
in about two weeks.
Deaths from the Heat
Several deaths are reported from the
excessive heat yesterday.
The westficId and its Victims
The Westfeld is being fitted up to be
in readiness to resume trips in two weeks.
Jno. Wilson died yesterday from
wounds received by the explosion of the
Wes:feld. Twenty three patients are
yet in the hospital. =
The COroner's Inquest,
The coroner's inquest commenced TO-
day in the Westfeld disaster. julius Ray
mOnd testified that his father was killed
By the explosion. He was certain he was
the only person in the engine room for
about ten minutes before the explosion.
He observed the steam guage Just before
the explosion, but did not notice the
figures presented.
Robert Gellan and Charles EIlrick, pas
sengeTs on the Westfeld, testified that
they heard no steam blown off.
L. F. Locke was about 100 yards from
the Westfield at the time of the explo- |
sion, and did not hear any steam blown
off. Had occasionally seen Engineer
Robinson, of the boat, on the ship; did
not see him thrt day.
On Duty!
Michael j. Melan, a passenger, was
blown overheard; saw the Engineer on
board. His eyes were closed and his |
back was against the gentleman's cabin in |
the forward part of the boat. His feet |
were on seat. This was about five
minutes before the explosion. The En-
gineer was about seventy-fye feet from
the engine room. He recognized the En- |
gineer since, and is sure it was the same |
man ne saw asleep. Saw him at the in |
vestigstion to day. Upon the conclusion |
of Melsn's testimony the inquest ad- |
jonrned until to morrow.
The Government Investigation.
Inspectors Boale and Hill continued tie |
investigation of the explosion to-day. |
Inspector Matthews admitted that inspec-
tors deputized work>clerks who gave |
certificates in the name of inspectors. |
Inspectors do not go inside the boilers to |
test them. Bslknap said Matthews was q
good engineer.
The United States Inspector spent the
entire day examining the boilers of boat
running at Staten Island ferry. By his
inspection of the boilers of the North
field he discovered that the gauge of the
latter was wrong.
The body of an unknown man, sup
posed to be one of the victims OF the
Westtield disaster, was found floating in
East river, near the scene of the explo-
sion.
100 Murders,
Another death from the Westfeld ex-
plosion is reported at Bellevue tonight,
making the total number 100.
Yellow Fever
John II. Horn, I'd officer ON the
steamer Sherman, died to-day at Quaran.
tine hospital of yellow fever.
Hard to Please Everybody.
There is displeasure expressed among
the Italians at the refusal of the Mayor
to review their forthcoming procession.
Compromising Crime.
In the case of VIM. II. Beare, a mer-
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