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Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
DEFERRED EDITORIALS.
memphis, Jackson and Knoxville
Railroad.

MemphiS JACKSON ana AhoANAAAe
Railroad.
On Saturday last, His Honor,
James Fentress, Chancellor of this
Division, granted to the following
gentlemen their prayer for the priv
lege of building railroad from
Memphis to Jackson, by way of
Somerville: r-
The Commissioners for Shelby
county are, John Miller, Ii. Owen,
l.. j. DuPre, VIM. II. Moore and
n. c. Perkins.
Those for Fayette county are,
Col. Jos. Il. Mosby, j. 1. Williamson,
J. J. Tharpe, Ed. r. Scruggs and
IL. III. Perry.
Those for Hardcman county are,
Robt. F. Jarmon, p. J. Nicely, is.
Robertson, 4. III. Duncan and =. c.
Wilkes.
Those for Madison county are, +.
E. Snipcs, Col A. Il. Reed, DIR. L.
Ii. Newbern, Gen. A. w. Campbell
and Il. Il. Hurt.
The next duty to be attended to
is to have a meeting of the respec-
tive county commissioners and open.
the books for the subscription of
the capital stock. Let there be no
coquetting and no child's play about
it. If the road is TO be built-and
we believe it is-it behooves our
citizens to be up and doing, aud not
waste Il single day in commencing
operations. .- al-.57 t,-.7l
We are assured by those who pro-
fess to know, that Shelby county is
all alive to the work, and will do
her full duty in the matter, and do
it tpromptly. la s
Fayette county is SO deeply, not
to say so .yitally, interested IN this
road, and is represented by commits
sioners of so much intelligence and
worth, as to forbid the idea that she
will play the laggard now aud the
cbAlCA NltlO Il UtCOHs hhiGh ldNOAo
this road, rs well as the one to Boli-
var, assures us that Fayette VIII
raise 100000 for the two roads-a
sum sufficient to build it through the
county-the track from Memphis to
Somerville being common to both
roads.
That portion of Hardeman county
interested in this connection is rep
resented in the board of commits
sioners, every one ofwhom is wide
awake and full of energy, and who
will do their whole duty as becomes
men who are struggling for the
right.
As for Madison, we think, without
shadow of doubt, that she will dc
her whole duty, and do it promptly
The names of her commissioners ar,
intimately known to the whole peo
pie, and we are willing to trust t.
their integrity and intelligence for
right issue in this emergency.
That the road viii be built, anC
built at once, there can be no ques
ton. Let it be in running order il
time to carry off the next crop o
cotton. Why not
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
Contracts for ConvIcts.

Yesterday a contract was entered
into by Gen. n. B. Forrest on the
one part, and the Board of Inspec-
tion of the State Penitenitiary, on
the other relative to the employ
ment of convict labor on the Ten
nessee part of the Memphis and Sell
ma Railroad. The Inspectors hired
one hundred and fifty convicts at 81
per day each, to Gen. Forrest to be
worked in the State, the conditions
requiring, as in other cases, bonds
in sufficient sums to insure the pro-
per treatment, return, etc, of the
cOnVicts. This makes one hundred
and seventy-fve convicts now en-
ployed on railroads, twenty-five
being permanently engaged on the
Northwestern Road. There are one
hundred and seventy cOnYicts in the
mines. The number hired to Gen.
Forrest and those engaged at work
on the capitol grounds, takes up all
the residue of convict labor permit
ted outside of the prison wall. As
there are eighteen miles of the road
to be built, Gen. FOrrestsexpects to
have them employed only about six
months. The Inspectors will place
their report relative to the employ
ment of convict labor in the hands
of the Executive tomorrow and af-
ter that we viii give our readers a
synopsis of it, which is intended TO
be exhaustive of the subject. - IN
ion and american
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
a WIPE TO HER HUSBAND IN
THE IEGISLA'rURE.
AZ oFather, CONC Home. ;,

Father, Come Home
Husband. dear husband, come home to me
now,
From Che city and statehou-e 80 warm;
'Tis lonely without you, why 10 you not
And see to the things ON the farm:
You told me, when you were elected last fail,
IL / would but once let you so,
You'd surely return before April was past.
And / really believed 'twould be so.
Come home! come home! come home.
Dear husband, kind husband, come
home. -
Husband, dear husband, come home to me
now, aHs &
Come home ere the spring time is through;
The old brindle COW has got a white calf,
And the young lambs are bleating for you;
The hens have been sitting a fortnight or
more, A
They soon will be OF with their brOods.
'rhe old speckled turkey has stolen her nest
Away in the brakes or the woods.
Husband, dear husband, come home to me
The garden needs spading for peas,
The boys should be picking up stones in the
lot,
And you should trimming the trees.
When viii you get through with "bills"
and resolves
Stop talking Of license and rum,
or railroads and tunnels and such ether
things,
And tend to your business at home.
Husband, dear husband, don't write TO me
more,
OF the theater, lobby and club;
Nor dinners you've eaten at the "Mer-
chants and Max"
But hurry away from the Hub.
Yes, hurry back home, your Betsy is sad,
Her heart is SO honest and true:
All winter she's slept in the bedroom alone,
Aud say, dearest husband, have AoUY
Husband, dear husband come home to me
now,
Come home while the birds sing in May;
And let not the smiles in the gallery there
Distract you ortempt you to stay.
The voice of your Betsy is calling you now,
Come home, for you know what it means;
Pm getting quite nervous about you, come,
And we will have eowslips for greens.
BETSY JANE.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18

~The following beautiful and
expressive lines were written by our
little friend w. J. Wilson, of Jack
son, Breathett County. lie is six
teen years old, and shows decided
genius in the poetical line:
BECAUSE SHE Is SO SWEET.
/ love you, maid OF beauty,
And my words are as Heaven iru';
20 think il Is my duty
To tel my love 10 you.
love you darling Anna,
You are my joy and pride;
l chose you out Of many,
And l wish you were my bride.
1 love yOu, Anna Seweil,
Because you ale 80 sweet;
lou are precious jewel,
To all you chance TO meet.
Hove you little Nsiaen,
You are like an angel neat;
The reason why love you,
I>-because you are so sweet.
Hove you little sweetheart,
And il e'er we chance 10 meet
Will Kiss you when We part,
Because you are 80 sweet.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
wore Convict Labor wanted.

General y. b. Forrest arrived here
yesterday, from Memphis. We un-
derstand that he come with view
TO contracting for the labor of con-
victs TO be worked upon his Selma
and Memphis Road. President
Wicks, of the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad, is also here for the
same purpose. II is believed that no
action will be taken in regard 10 the
matter by the Penitenitiary Com
missioners until some determination
is reached by the Legislature as 10
the manner in which cOnvicts shall
be hereafter employed.-BanBer.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
YESTERDAY.

Mhat makes the king unhappy:
His queen is young and fair,
HIS children cling around him.
With waving yellow hair.
His realm j. broad and peaceful,
he fears no foreign foe,
And health IN his veins come lcaping
In all the winds that blow.
What makes the king unhappys
Alas a lhtle thing.
That money cannot purchase.
Or ie,ts and armies bring.
And yesterday he had ID,
With yesterday IL Went.
And Yesterday II persisted.
With all ihckine's cOnicuf.
fsr this he Sits iamenlns.
And sighs, .'alacg alack
I'd give one-half my Kingdom
Could yesteriay coaie back -
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18

United States District Attorney
Camp, ofEast Tcnncsse, arrived too
late to prevent his removal. 1t ap-
pears that the President suspendcd
him some days ago. unou renrese,,ta-
of Tennessee. 1t now appears that
the chief worker against him was
Roderick II. Butler, who has been
pursuing him for the part he took
year ago in collecting evidence in
Buffers pension frauds. District
Attorney Fisher, who prosecuted
Butler here, now says that he only
escaped conviction by perjury of
witnesses, and forged papers used
as evidence.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
Chicago Lawyers.

The Chicago Journal says There
is not a law office nor a law libary
left in Chicago, except the few
small duplicate libraries at the resi-
dences OF the leading lawyers. There
IS not paper showing that there is
courts of record in Cook county,
including the federal court. There
isnot an Indictment in existence in
the county against any one, not a
Judgment, not petition in bank
rnptcy in the fedeaal courts. Even
the duplicate files thaI the LAWYERS
keep in their offices of important
cases are all gone A few may have
escaped by being taken to the hou-
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
ExpIo.ion % r,vo:noiler,

St. Louis, Oct. 3O.-A boiler in
Vulcan Iron Works, South St. Lou
is, exploded about 10 O'Clock this
morning, and an hour after another
blew up. James Memory was IA
tally scalded and seven or eight 9TH
ers more or less severely. No ma
terial damage done to property.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
LEXINGTON, ky.
The Mayor ana many other City
Officials arrested, charged with
FciOny---GcneraIE Indignation.

LEXINGTON, October 29.-The
Mayor and many of the officials Of
this city have been arrested on an
Indictment from the Federal Court,
charged with felony, growing out
of the disturbances at the August
election. General Indignation Is
felt at this outrage instigated by
leading Radicals of this place.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
ATser nuIInck.

An officer from Georgia has ar
rived in Washington with warrant
for the arrest OF Governor Bullock
on the charge of a misrepresentation
of the State bonds. Had he not re
signed it was the intention of the
authorities in the State to proceed
with his Impeachment. The story
goes that two or three millions are
involved.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18

ses for Sunday or night work. We
may add that there are in Chicago
about five hundred lawyers.
The Journal certainly forgot, in
its enumeration the five hundred
petitions for divorce. If any Of the
unhappy couples desire to return TO
their first love, the way is now
clear. There is no evidence that
any petition for divorce has ever
been filed by any of the numerous
y,o,45ou
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18

The committee appointed to ex-
anime into the charges preferred a.
gainst the Comptroller i'll COM
munication of j. III. Mathes, pub
lished in the newspapers of Sunday
last, met at the Comptroller's office
yesterday afternoon. On examining
into the entries, they found that Mr..
Mathes had been duly credited with
all he claimed, and $92 over Union
Isl
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
,iartiaI Law for tne south.

Washington Nov. 1T is assert
ed on authority of Senator Poole
that President Grant has expressed
his determination to declare mar
tail law throughout the entire South,
in consequence of continued outra-
IeS.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18

The opponents of Gov Brown are
endeavoring 10 deceive the public
by declaring that lie urges AN in
crease of faxes to pay the interest
oh the bonded debt of the State,
when ia fact Gov. Brown recon-
lnends a decrease Of taxes ten cents
OH the hundred dollars and clearly
leaves the payment Of interest to the
next Legislature which will be bet
ter able TO determine what should
be done, than can now be decided by
this legislature Union.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
Negroes and Loyal Leagucrs
Arrested for kukIuxEsn.

SPARTANsBURG, S. c., Oct. S0.-
Letters state that the troops arrest
ed four white and twenty negro
KuIIlux in the town of Union. Gen.
Bates, prominent Union Lacquer,
and his son are under arrest and in
ioiI
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18

C~ The following article which
we copy from the Louisville COu-
Tier Journal, cont ins so much of
what we have long believed, and of
ten in our feeble way attempted to
express, that we commend it to the
careful consideration of-not mere
partizans-but every man who is ca
pable of rising above the level of the
partizan, and looking from the stand
point of patriotism and a native love
of free government:
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
Texas Under MARTIAL Law.

The Governor of Texas has de-
clared Martial law in several coun-
ties in that State, and has arrested
and imprisoned a number Of the
citizens CT that State.
At the town of Groesbeck, at the
recent election, several of the Gov
lerner's policemen created a distur-
bance and shot an unoffending old
man. The murderers were arrested
by the county authorities, where
upon the Governor declared Mar
tial law. We copy the following
account of affairs as they now stand
in that State, from the Louisville
Courier journal of Tuesday:
Gen REYNOLDS, the military COM
mander, went to the place, and, az
ter an investigation, declared that
martial law was wholly unnecessary.
Still he was unable to remedy the
matter, and the people are still sub
jected to the rigOrs and cruelties of
bayonet law as executed by the
Governors police, Mr.. W. G. Tom
linson, editor of the Groesbeck En-
terprise, a Democrat paper, was ar
rected on a charge of melting the
riot by publishing an extra"
which only contained an account of
the murder, thrown into prison and
allowed to communicate with 10
one for several hours, when he was
released upon $4,000 bail.
This direct assault upon the press
and people is the last and most dam
gerours act of this outrageous otii-
cial. 1t is indicative OF what may
await the inhabitants Of any county
that dares arrest the Governors po-
lice when they commit cold-blOoded
murder, or any Journalist that de-
nounces such crimes and calls for
the punishment Of those who COM
nit them. The muzZling of the
press is a new undertaking for Da-
Wis, and he will find it an exceeding
ly Improbable one. 1t was tried by
Holden in North Carolina, under
about the same circumsta tances, and,
when he lost his grip upon the bayo-
net, he found himself impeached and
ousted from the office which he had
disgraced. The day has come when
the popular uprising OF inc peOJle
is a last resort. The battles which
they once fought are now left to the
press, which has grown to be a
power which the mightiest rulers
respect. 1t is the voice of the peO-
pie, and only when it is completely
trodden under foot by the power of
the bayonet does it become neccs-
sary for the people to speak in pro-
PTid perSOn9. The press of Texas
is able, brave and powerful, and
Gov. Davis will find in it a dan
gerous enemy.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
+. q. DuNNINoroN, Secretary.

The Paris InteHigencer, Of the
18Th, records the burning of four
tobacco barns in Henry county last
hundred pounds of tobacco, viz:
that Of II. II, Tharpe, six miles from
Paris, Yves. Turner, near Mansfield.
JnO. COwan, near Mansfield and
Frank Martin, near Haglersvillc.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18

The Washington Patriot makes
this point on Grants Thanksgiving
proclamation: Five days to pre-
pare for martial law and thirty davs
Tor THANKSGIVING"
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18
ADDRESS

OF the HendeFson County Commits
si 0ners of she jackson and Ten
nessee River Railroad 10 Ihe PeO-
pie OF Henderson, cOunty.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-18

have always been Of the most intimate
character, the undersigned have come TO a
conclusion different from what had been
their first intention. The belief Of the un-
designed that their demand was a just one
and the fees reasonable has undergone no
change, and self respect demands of them
that they should not abate their charges or
higgle with the Commissioners or the Leg
islature in regard TO them. The only
course open to them. therefore, is to make
no charge, to abandon any claim they may
have to said bonds and leave the whole
matter to the sense of justice OF the Legs
lature. In accordance withthis determine
ton they viii leave the bonds with the
Commissioners to be handed over to the
Comptroller, orssueh other officer as the
Legislature may direct. In regard to what
is claimed to be an act of the Legislature
at its last session, fixing a limit to the com
pensation of the Commissioners and coun-
sci they have a few woTGs to say. Some
time after the fling of the bill by the States
counsel, two of them learned that such bill
had passed the House Of Rep
resentatives and gone to the
Senate. These bwo of the counsel
conferred together and feeling that it would
be improper TO allow such an act to pass
without notifying the Legislature Of their
objection to it as providing insufficient com
pensation, one Of them applied to Senator
and told him that the counsel could not
afford their services for such compensation.
He further told the Senator that be might
state TO his body that the counsel preferred
10 give up the case and let the State employ
other counsel, if it thought proper. Soon
after this, the counsel for the State were in
formed that the bill did not become law,
and that the Legislature had adjourned
without completing any action upon it. The
counsel in the mean time proceeded with
the bill and were far advanced in their &C
ton under it before they heard that this
bill appeared upon the statute book, as a
law. They did not deem it binding upon
them, and do not now, as they are informed
that it never did in fact become law. 1t
is unnecessary, perhaps, now to say that it
was only for abundant caution, and to fore
stall any supposed acquiescence on their part
that they interfered in regard to the pas
sage of such law.
The undersigned herewith transmit the
following paper, viz: Paper marked A,
being an extract from the decree fixing a
lien upon the bonds by the Chancery Court
in behalf counsel, etc Paper B, being the
decree of the court ordering the bonds TO
be delivered to the counsel of the State, and
Paper C, being the receipt Of counsel fol-
said bonds.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
EDWIN II. EWING.
w. F. COOPER.
w. b. REESE.
Nov, l6, 1871.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-18
storv Ola Heroic Woman.

st. Louis and Cincinnati papers having
lately made reference to the published state
ment that woman who had walked more
than hundred miles, bringing her baby in
her arms, came to Nashville to intercede
with the Governor of the State in order TO
have her husband pardoned out of the Peni-
Tertiary, our local cotemporary seeks to
mar the romance of the story by stating
that no such case has been brought to the
notice of Gov. Brown. No wonder. The
circumstances transpired just before the ex-
piration of Gov. Senter's term of office, and
was well known to persons about the Capt.
tol and also to the city authorities, who
contributed to the necessities of the unfor-
tunate woman and aided her in the accom-
plishment of her self-imposed and difficult
mission. The application was made to Gov.
Senter, who, after learning the circumstan-
ces, cheerfully granted the desired pardon.
This is the truth about the matter, the
mixed version of our usually correct CO.
temporary to the contrary, notwithstanding.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-18
New Advertisements.

The National Savings Company, corner
Union and College streets are doing a regu-
lar exchange and banking business, they
receive deposits and allow Interest thereon;
they buy and sell Exchange on New York,
Cincinnati and New Orleans; they furnish
Drafts in amounts wanted, on London, Dub
lin. Edinburg, and all parts of Germany;
they keep for sale Government, State and
County Bonds, and they at all times pay
the highest rates for gold, silver aud unCur-
rent money.
Warner & Brothers have opened new
market at Ne. SIS Church street, opposite this
office, where they keep constantly on hand
fresh meets. They are also prepared to
nil orders in their line at the pOrkhouSe of
Phillips, Hooper & Co.
Orders addressed TO 7. J.. Nichol, ll3
Church street, viii secure white and colored
camelias; also, boquets, crosses, designs, ETC.,
in flowers for parties and weddings.
Fine saddle and harness horses for sale at
A. Church street.
Barnes, Spitz & Co. sell at auction to-day
q big stock of wines, liquors, etc.
Browns Bronchial Troches knock colds
and coughs higher than kite.
Chas w. Anderson, General Freight
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RIVER News.

The river was still swelling very slowly
yesterday evening, and nearly at a stand.
Weather clear and cool.
The l. n. Phillips raised steam yesterday,
proceeded to the other side of the river and
pumped out her barges, TO have them in
readiness for business as soon as the river
opens.
The Pilots held another meeting yester-
day, with closed doors. 1t is understood
that they adopted a schedule of wages,
which all will be governed by during the
approaching season.
The Evansville Journal of Thursday has
the following:
Our young Saxon friend, Fighting Bob,
of the St. Cloud Saloon, will come out on
the West Wind as spiritual comforter for
that same Strong man and his friends on
the Cumberland river.
Nashville was represented yesterday in
our city by Captains Strong, Bateman,
Simms and Egan. Long may they wave.
Mr.. James Carroll, pilot of the Burks-
vile, reports Fanny Brandies aground at
Cumberland bar; passed the Eddyville at
Bay City; Greenback aground at Shawnee
town; Summer Koon at Walkers bar, and
three feet scant on the way up.
The st. Louis Democrat Of Thursday
says:
The river has fallen at this port five inch
es in twenty-four hours. The Tennessee is
at six feet, and rising. Delightful weather
once more. Our upper rivers are on a
stand. Boats have no difficulty in the Hi
nois and lower Missouri, and between
Keokuk and Cairo. Tonnage for New
Orleans continues heavy-somewhat in
excess-and freight rates are consequently
weak.
Onthe last trip of the Andy johnson to
New Orleans, her officers were much an
noyed near Austin, Mississippi, by num-
Der of negroes who construed the words
"KeOkuk Packet" on her wheel house, to
be ''Ku-Klux packet" They went for her;
and saws the Memphis Ardidnche, which
tells the story: "The steamer backed out
from the landing just in time to save her
self from assault"
A. Wool, Surveyor Of Customs, returned
yesterday from trip to Loudon, on the
Tennessee, where he has measured the new
steamboat r. c. Jackson, and issued her
first license and enrolment. She was built
by the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
gia Railroad Company, and is the best boat
ever built by the Company at Loudon, and
the first one equipped anywhere at this
port under the requirements of the new
law. Her measurement is as follows:
Tonnage 146 16-l00, length 12S feet,
breadth % feet. Her commander is Capt.
w. c. Henneger, an old and experienced
steamboatman, having been forty years on
the Tennessee.
by Telegraph
CINCINNATI, Nov. 1.-THE river has
fallen one inch, with four feet eight inches
in the channel. Weather clear and cool,
and a smart frost last night.