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The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-08-16

thea.tempted assilsiilalioii Vi INV
ty Judge of Washington county IN the
Little Rock Gazette;
FAYETTEVILLE, August lst, 1871.
El,ior Gagette-The county scrip
ring of radical ofice-holders here hat
made way with the county "tax-books'
1t is charged that after the assessment
LIST was sent to Little Rock, large
numbers of additional entries were
made OH the list here, and money not
accounted for collected from taX>pay~
ers. A motion was made for & rule
on the the etegk, shea on the sheriff;
for the books. The sheriff (radicaD
testified that they were last seen in
possession of Deputy Sheriff Gilllland
ladical), who is also town. marshal.
Gilliland was subpnnaed as a witness;
he refused to testify. After taking it
under advisement, the county court,
composed of G. G.. Gilbreath, Captain
Harrison (brother Of the United States
mail agenD, and Todd, all radicals,
fncd Gilliland SIS, and ordered him
to Jail for his contempt. Brought up
the next day, he continued refractory
and was remandsd, bat never really
imprisoned by his principal. Thcnext
night, Saturday, about one, some one,
or more, fired through the wall, at tie
head of GilbCeath's bed, missing his
head an inch or two, the bail knocking
the plastering in his face, cutting the
bedclothos alongside of him, aud lodg-
ing in his daughters bed, on the oppo-
site side of the room, As he sprang
out of an open door, gun or guns
were fired ut him as he ran, filling tie
wall with huckshot, but he made his
escape unhurt TO his friend Ilenderson's
living near by. also Il radical, whose
daughter taught the negro school here,
Henderson says 10 was sitting on hia
fence 10 cool of, saw the flashes, but
could not see the assaillnts, although
the night was very bright, in the full
of the moon. Yesterday the enclosed
hands>bill was issued from tho office of
tho Echo, republican paperhoro. The
perpetrators are supposed to be we'll
known. Citizens, without regaed to
party, are much excited
The following is the poster alluded to:
Mass MEETING, TAX PAYERS WAKE
UP.- Whereas, au attempt has been
made to assnssinate the Hon. G. G.
Gilbreath, judge Of Washington coun>
ty, BY firing into his bed at midnight,
because of the faithful discharge of
his sworn duty, and in an effort to pro-
tect the tax xpayers from being wrong~
ed and swindlel, and IVhcrov, threats
are made to use further violence, to
prevent the administration Of Justice,
the call i made for a mass mooting of
the people, irrespective Of party, at
Fayettevi a, Oh Saturday, August 9th,
at | | o'clock n. m, to take action in
this matter and determine whether the
court shall be sustained in its efforts to
protect the rights and liberties of the
people-whcther law and order shall
prevail, or whether mob violence shall
rule our country.
MANY CITIZENS
Commenting on the above, the Fay
ettville Echo (rep.), of the 2l, says:
A call has boon issued for a mass
meeting of the citizens of this county,
at the court-hGUse, neat Saturday at
eleven o'clock, We appeal to tho law
abiding citizens to attend. Calm,
prudent counsel is needed, and every
citizen is interested, With the Off
GERS Of tho law, whose duty IL is TO
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-08-16

Town is very dull. Several of our
citizens are ab1ent5 visiting watering
place
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
FREE LIBRARY IN LOUISVILLE,
TO BE CALLED THE
Public Library of Kentucky.

The Concert and Distribution will take place
undor the INN sdiste supervision Of the Trustees
mentioned in the act OF incorporation.
rhe Trustees will be assisted by We IL known
and eminent citizens Of Kentucky, who have con-
scented to be pres snt az The c9ncsIt, and superi1-
tend she drawing an distribution OF lifts.
The holders OF tickets to which gifts are award
ed wi be paid on pressntstlon OF them or their
fraction, st the ONCE in Louisville, the second
day after drawing, and every business day for
six months thereafter, and may be sent direct OF
through any Bank or Express 20. for collection.
Ali oroers accompanied with DhAits, PostOf1cs
Money Orders, or GreenbAcks, will be promptly
attended to and tickets returned by mail, regis
tered or expressed, as desired
Tickets are like greenbscks-good only to the
holder.
Buyers will note that there are only One
Hundred Thousand Tickets, instead OF Two
hundred Thousand, rs in the San Francisco
Gilt Concert and that there Is S0O,OOO more
distributed. sold that and made the awards
in four months and paid S4SS,OOO to ticket
holders IRON Nov. 2 to IS, 1910. and turned over
sI2,O0O to the Secretary due tickets not pre-
sented
1t will be particularly noticed that it is a
mat er Of inpossiDility for any one to know
what numbers draw gifts, a. II Is not known
what the gift OF any number drawn from the
first wheel viii be, until the sealed box, with
amount OF tae gift plainly printed, Is taken
from the other wheel and opened in iull view
of the audience: therefore the larger gifts may
not come out until towards the last, or IL the
middle of the drawing The 100000 sift in the
San Francisco Gilt Concert under the manage
ment of Q. Il. Peters, was the 20th number
drawn, and WAS awarded and paid TO gentle
man in New Orleans. 72I gifts is all that can
be drawn in one day.
EaF~ The numbers and gifts are drawn by
bin children from to IA years of age.
The drawing will be extensively published,
and pa ties ordering tickets will nave printed
string information will please address this Of
fee.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19

4 CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Post,
who has been interviewing" the Marie
shipbuilders-or, more properly, the own
ers of idle ship yards in Maine-has
picked up some interesting facts. One of
the principal shipbuilders of that State
furnished him with very practical Illus
tration Of the effect of The tariff upon
American commerce, 70 the following eff
feet: 'Iet me tell You of one instance of
one Of oar smNtcs5 and most reliable sea
captains. In the early part of the year
1860 bull. him !, 200 ton ship at
cos. Of SIS per ton. lie had previously
sailed and owned in our ships, and made
gTcat deal Of money for us. lie did
well in this one. Three years ago built
him q similar ship that cost $40 per ton.
Vita Just rs much 'nsrgy, enterprise and
reliability EOw o. he hsd then, instead of
earning us dollar, his chip is $50, 900 in
Geb.. rs 10 iault OF his It's all owing
&c. the h,gl tariff, d precision Of business,
auG unfagorsbe compe lion with for
oigu.hulJ vessels, England's especially"
Another important fact was communi-
Gated by the same shipbUilder, which
shows how little regard is p ID by the
Government 10 the interests Of com
merce. We quote as fcIlowE: ''Defcrc
1850, the Announcement and registration
Of any vessel over 100 and under 500
tons cost about s., now it costs $l7. It's
only small item, but not one mill of the
$l4 extra goes 10 the Government or to
the under officers. The Collector pock-
cts the whole of it as g perquisite. have
this from official authority" These are
some of the reasons why American COM
merce does not revive, and if any more
are wsuted they will be found by an ex-
animation of the system of tariff legisla-
non which has for its object the suppress
OF cur foreign trade for the bsneft of
home mouopohs:s. For Congress TO
continue this legislation in force and, at
the same time, 70 discuss plans for the
restoration of American commerce 10 q
folly, as much as to choke a sicl, man tn
death With one hand, while dosing him
with drugs and applying restoratiyes n
his nostrils with the other
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19

THE expenditures of the Government
for the fiscal year ending June SO, 1871,
amounted to 1922, 900, 600 only, as Off
cially announced by the Treasury Depart
ment- Tribune.
Is the Tribune joking, or not? But
when Buchanan's administration expended
$7O,oo0,0 600 it was put down as the
height of extravaganza. The public
debt then was SIS, 900, OoO, and now runs
over into the billions. Each tick of the
clock for the last ten years has added
IS 2S TO our national debt, and every
time the second hand has made COM
plete revolution, 1896 so have accumu-
lated to thst already weighty incubus.
At every inhalation and exhalatiOn SIG Sc
hsve been put upon the debit side, and in
the little time we take to consume our
dinner, at least $9,9SG have been con-
sumed by the Radical party at Washing
ton. D..
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
STRAW BIDS.

The Radical intellect, ever fruitful in
connecting mIschievous, thievish snd ras
cally designs, has been able, during tie
len years it has had control of the gen
eral government, to bring the science Of
stealing from the public treasury to the
very height of perfection. In every en-
ceiyable shape and way have they ap-
preached the public chest, and unde, The
plea of serving the public interest. they
have been filing their private pockets.
They hsye drawn money from the Treas
ury for their own enrichment, by shodjy
contracts. railroad and steamship subi-
dies, Grants free negro bureau and negro
colleges, and in every unthOught Of
way and form. One of these tricks by
which money is stolen from Unclc Sam
is an old one with very few sharpeTs,
but is one that is now universally prac-
ticed by the honest Radical contractors
and cOnnived at by the equally honest
Radical officials. II is for those desiT-
ing contracts for large mail routes to
furnish straw bidders, who, Of course,
put the figures so low that they get the
award, then fail to appear, leaving the
department ST the mercy of the real cons
tractor, who, with conveyances all ready,
will carry the mail for the highest figure
inssmuch as bona .jicle bidders at a lcs9
figure, supposing the contract TO have
been LET, have not made any preparation
for such a contingency. The Washing.
ton Patriot has the following in regard
to this matter:
An act of the last Congress requires
bidders to deposit five per cent on al
proposals exceeding $4,000. But i
furnishes no protection. Take the case
of any of the large contractors in Texas.
or the Southwest. He puts forward his
straw bidder for So, $50 in Ten or a dozen
cases, and deposits the five per cent, or
S255 in each case. When bid is form
ally accepted, the deposits must be re-
turned 10 the competing biddeIs-all
proDaoly representing one combination.
The ''strsw" gets the contract, and he
fails, as in the first instance, at a sacrifice
of 1856, while the old c1ntractor-ibe
two being really one and the same ne
sons employed to continue the service
at the highest price, aid 10 LAUGH in
the face of all candid competition. AID
so the vicious circle ia rounded dur.
ing the four years, while the country is
robbed in the name of carrying the mails
This scheme, If applied TO only a few
bids in the Southwest, would put moGc
than half million of dollars in the peck
cts of the Postof1ice Ring, and, if extend
cd to the Pacific coast and other parts Of
the country, would swell the toll levied
on the Treasury TO millions. Il "a in
keeping with the outrageous frauds which
were disclosed last winter, in which Mr..
Creswell, Mr.. Earle, MI. Cessna, and NJ.
Chorpeuning figured as the principal par
ties in deliberate conspiracy to appropIi-
ste half million dollars, by means Of $
legislative trick, for a pretended claim,
which had already been paid three times
over, and never had any legal existence
whatever
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
The New York Sun says the sickness

The New York Sun says the SICKNESS
of the Presidents colt, about whose sore
tail the whole officsholding world was SO
greatly exercised, was due, we learn, to
the circumscribed quarters devoted to the
Presidential stable. To guard against
such misfortune in future, Grant is erect
ing a new palatial structure adjoining the
State Department on Seventeenth street
for the royal stud. This edifice is to be
60 by so feet, and three stories high. 1t is
to be built of pressed brick with brown
stone trimmings, while the interior will
be of hard wood, oiled and finished in
imperial style. The basement floor is
destined for the Presidential dairy stock,
the first floor for fifteen horses and equi-
pages TO match, and the upper stories for
provender and residences for the liveried
servants. The cost of this imposing
stable will be betrayed, not from the
Pr sidential privy purse, but from the
appropriation for the erection of the new
State Department.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
RAILROAD SALE.
On "Wednesday, the Goth day of
SePtember, 1871,

ATTHE EAST SIDE OF THE CAPITOL IN
"A Nashville, the undersigned Commissioners
Of Railroads for the State OF Tennessee will sell at
Public auction the Following Railroads In the
STATE Of Tennessee, under various DEGREES Of the
Chan-ery Court % Nashville, made in the case Of
the stare Of Tennessee vs. tao EOgefeld and Zen
tuoky 2ailIosd and OSICr Railroads and parties,
with their fEanchisss, TUl ing stock ard equip
ments viz:
The Knoxviila aud Charleston Railroad,
TIL ROgersvile and Jefferson Railroad,
Iue knoxville and Kentucky RAILROAD,
And unless the decree OF the Court shall be CON-
piled with by the Nashville AMI Northwestern
Ralr I'D ordering the payment of the debt to the
Stase within thirty days f. ON tue Sth Of Jdly,
1871, that Road, with its franchises and equip
IneEts will also be sold Also the interest OF the
Railroads viz:
The southwestern RaiIrosd, and
Tie Western End North Caro- inG Railroad
The debt sgainst the first being s49O,OOAJ0,
and the debt against The last being S14S, 90.
In the meantime scaled proposals for said
Roads and d btS " u be received by the Comm =
sioneTs and can be sent so the Comptroller Of the
State at Nashville to be opened on the day Of
sale and should any such proposals be acceptable
TO TIE Commissi 1nsrs, no sale Of the road to
which they apply Will be made
The sale as t. the others viii proceed imme
diatsiy. The payments may be made in the bonds
OF the State and their coupons, one fourth at the
date OF saIe, and the residue in one, two, and
three year5 from the day Of sale, " tn personal
security ana z fsD upon tlo properly eOin
The i've other delinquent Railroads, viz:
Edgeiicld and Kentucky RailrO a.,
Memphis, Clgrb syille and Louisville Rail-
road,
Winchester and Alabama RailrOsd,
ECNinnville and Manchester Railroad,
CincinnBti, Cumberland Gap and Charleston
Railr al,
Havc everaIiy msdo propositions to the
Court for a ijuStment of their respective debts
TO the state, which, if promptly comp led with
in the times limited by agreement, no sale OF
said roads will be made, but on failure to do 50
said roads will be exposed TO sale under the
decree of the Chancery Court
AL necessary explanations viii be made on the
DAY # sale, and any information in the mesntime,
VIII be given BE- the Comptroller.
l. J. MCKINNEY,
A. WRIGHT,
T. b. FOaG,
D. W. q. Sc TEE, Gov,
T. II. BUTLEH, Sec. state,
ED. r. PESEEB ARER, Comp,
Nashville, July 26, 1871. Conmi sioners.
f-gI I'd
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
GIVE US PEACE


II is charged by the Radical journals,
North and South, that the Democratic
party is wholly and solely responsible for
all the vice and lawlessness which is al
legged to prevail at the South. In an
swer 10 this, il is sufficient TO say, -
reasonable men, that there is a good deal
of human nature wherever you go,
whether in the North or in the South; and
further, that human nature does not en-
courage vice and lawlessness unless, in
the psrlance of the day, il pays. With
the exception of the carpet-bag-
gers and fcslawsgs, there is no
portion of the people of the
South whose every interest does not de-
msnd and require peace and good will,
law and order. There is but ore class of
community anywhere, within the realms
of civilization, that can profit by or en-
courage vice and lawlessnesa, that is the
class to which peace brings no prosperity,
who tstten and flourish alone when quiet
has ceased 10 reign, and when justice
does not prevail. The citizens Ct the
South, whether native here or ours by
adoption, who live by industry, shuu
strife as lnimic2 TO personal pros.
perity and the general good. Let
those who charge disloyalty and turbu-
lence on the South, show how and where
we can be benefited by any other taan 8
peaceful and industrious life. Let them
show how those whose only means of q
livelihood is in turbulence can dcsiIe
peace and quiet, and then they may Per
laps, be able to establish that the masses
of the South are guilty Of exaggerated
violations of Law and given 10 private
quarrels and public disturbance.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
FOR SALE.

TOR THE CASH 1 WILL SELL TWO DEsIR.
Il able Building Sites each embracing shout 40
Acres of Ground, one of which embraces o
choice Apple Trees and tao acres in hye Straw
berries. ths same two places being part of my
homo tract. and being the east and west end
both "a: GELS honnded on their south nds BY tbs
waters 81 Mil Or ek, AID 6 miles from Nashville
adjoining the Iuna'ic Asylum Tract.
1y27 sOdlm' n BROWN
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
InsOlVent Notice.

HAVING THIS DAY SUGGESTED THE IN
Il L solSenoy OF the estate Of Thomas Moran
deceased, to the OieTk OF the County Court If
Davidson county, this is 20 give notice to sl psr
sons having Chains sgSGst said ests te to file I'M m
duly authenticated as the law directs, with the
Clerk OF said Court, on or before the 10Th day of
November, ISL, or tho same will be barred
both in Jaw Al equity. This, the 18Th day Of
july, 1871. JOHN q. EERRIs s.
jy22 laESst til Pub Admir-.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
q, S. Claim Agency.

THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING ESTABLISH
/ ed General Clam Agency, respectfully So
licits the prosecution of claims held against the
Q. 3. Government, whether for stores or supplies
fGrnisbed or taken, pension or bounty.
Col Paramore, of the Arm of Psrsmore & Sow
els, and Gay Roberts, late General Cisim Com
missioner of the StSte Of Tennessee, have trans
ferred to me all claims placed in their hands for
collection, and in connection with these gentle
men am prosecuting said claims, and would ask
that all persons who filed their claims with either
Of said parties, please write me call at n Of
fee st their earliest convenience. My long exue
Tience and knowledge of this business. toEether
with the fact Of having connected u yself with ore
of the first Attorneys in Washington City, as
suves me that will be in tia futuIe, as 1 have
been in the past, successful in prosecution Of
all claims entrusted 20 ne for collection.
refer to n Burn, Es,., President First Ma
tionSl Bank, Hon. " T. Prosser, Postmaster, and
others. A. " WILLS,
Late United States Army,
je4h No. 90 Cherry street, Nashville Tenn.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
THE NEXT SUMMER.

The general visitor who goes to Long
Branch never hears of Gen. Grant, unless
he makes especial inquiry for him. Even
then, if he goes out among the hackmen,
who are understood to know everything
of the locality in which they operate,
seven out of nine of them will say that
his cottage is up the beach, somewhere
beyond Chamberlin's Club House, with
out any distinct knowledge of his Long
Branch habitation, but answering with
the general idea that it must be some
where in the direction and neigh
boEhood of the club house. Cham
berlin is one of the original set
tiers of Long Branch, of great
courtesy and conyiviality; exceedingly
polite to strangers, fond of good horse,
good cigar, and good bottle of wine
Hence it is believed, upon first sugges-
ton, that President Grant and John
Chamberlin are bosom friends. We IN
derstsnd that Chanberlin emphatically
denies the soft impeachment. He is
good judge of wine, of cigars and of
horses, and, more than all, he is good
judge of men. The general impression
is now getting to be, notwithstanding his
extrayagant puffiog, that President Grant
is good judge of neither, but simply
the creature of most unfortunate circum-
stances, both to the country and to his
own reputation, as it will be judged by
posterity. So completely has Gen. Grant
become convinced of the public senti-
ment about him, that he is said to be
heartily tired Of the ceaseless roar of the
waves that wash the beach at Long
Branch, where
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
CHAS. r. PETERS, Manager,
Louisville, Kentucky.
InSOlVent Notice.

uAvISG THIS DAT SUGGRs TED THE IN
! solvency Of the estate OF G.. L. Jones, de-
ceased, to the Clerk of the County Cour. of Da =
wilson county, this is TO give notice to all persons
having claims against said estate to file them
duly authenticated the law directs, with this
Clerk Of IS Court on or before the lO.h day of
November, 81, or the same will be barred both
in law and equity. This July 18Th, 1871.
JOHN q. FERRI. s
jg22 lawSat I'd Pub. Admir-
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
IL Tickets for 800; 28 Tickets,
S255; So Tickets, $500; lib
Tickets, $1,000.

The undersigned, late princi al business man
ager OF the very successful Mercantile Library
Gift Concert at San Franc SEQ, Cal, has been
appointed Agent and Manager of the Gift Con
cert in aid otthe Public Library of Kentucky.
The drawing will take place in Pr bile, and
everything viii be done to satisfy buyers OF
tickets that their interest will be rs well pro-
tect-d as If they personally superintendent the
anfira affair
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
1864 Tickets DISMISSED Of in Irlv.

To insurs ticket holders, the pubic are S.
sured thas IL only %, 600 tickets are SOLD, only
$500 numbers 60 10 the large wheel, the TIl
gifts awarded, but diminished pro rats, In case
90 900 tickets only sold. only numbers / to
$4,000 go Al the large wheel, and the To- gifts
diminished one-hAI; snd iu c.se only IS, 0
tickets are sold tne ont re 72l gifts Will be paid
IN fnli-it beng intended that no unsold tickets
shall participate.
The Manager has already paid into the Citi-
2ens' Bank S50,OJO to yards uafrsying the eI-
penses, and does no. depend on sales Of tick eta
20 Pay hts expenses of Printing, Advertising, &c.
Tine public are invited to the utmost scrutiny az
TO the reliability OF the entire affair.
Persons DESTROYS Of acting sc agents for the
sale Of orr tickets in, any city in she United
Nf9fpS n Canada -Idfnsa
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19

A gay and brilliant party of eNcu-s on.
lists from Mlrfreesboro visited LDOk0u,
Mountain few days since.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-19
h0tiee 70 St0ne MaS9nS.

THE HONORABLE COUNTY COURT OF LIN
Il coin County, Tennessee, At Il cir Jlly term,
ISL, determined TO bu III q bridge cross Eik
River. at shiloh, tho piers and 2butmenfs Of
whieh shall be built Of stone. Two piers and IN
abut;uent esch side Of the River al 10 contain
about 525 c10ic var 3, q be put no hr-tsiAss dry
mAsOnrl well jointed sud bsdded Ths Commit
tee appointed By said Court to C Jntra't for and
superintsnd he building vi the piess and abut-
msnts. viii re -eiTs sealed proposals TO- said work
until the 25Lh Il. The prop sails Shsii b. 70 DO
the work by or for 80 mach per cubi.s ard, in
Guiding Golfer dams. excavations for f0untS-
uCns, etc.
Pond with approved security In double the
smourt Of the contract vil be required Of the
Contractor for his faithful and tim ~ rerfOFm-
ance Of the wOrS. JOAN CRABTREE,
J.S. II. WAbhEN,
JAS. II TAYLOR
Augut l, 1871. Oemmitsse,
All cOmmunioztions hould be addressed to
Jos. Il. Taylor, Georges store, Tenn.
aug4 3W