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der. The telO de Sc was denied the
rites of,religious sepulture, was Iasti-
" and stealthily buried at midnight
at the. crossing Of, public roads,
where as mark Of ignominy,
rough stake was driven down through
the corpse of his own making, that
bis example might be a warning and
a discussion against q hideous crime.
There are still remnants of this le-
galized superstition, living roots Of
a tradition that had strong hold upon
the hearts of the burners of witches.
Even where enlightened motions
have aeceded, the old forms Of exs
preston are retained, deceiying the
ignorant. 1t is time that the bar
barism Of assailing the name and
character of the insane suicide-no
less a barbarism than that once in-
hicted upon his helpless corpse-4
should give place to something more
charitable and more in accord with
medical science. The losses, cross
es, pains, sorrows and maladies
which superinduce the mania under
which the act is done, appeal to our
commiseration and charity.
All of which is sensible, truthful
and just. But the argument is not
sufficiently comprehensive, 1t is
not only true that anything within
US which wars against the instinct
of life is disease, but anything we
do to defeat our own happiness is
done from disease or misdirection,
happiness being the higher law Of
human life and the motive which
impels to all human action, Ought
not the class, then. we call criminals,
be regarded as people diseased or
perverted minds and treated accord
ingly3 There is grave question
for you to consider.
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schools and her scholars is of itself
an inheritance, with such examples
as Lawrence, Boutwell,, Hoar, what
may you not hope for Of usefulness
in the councils Of the state and ma
ton 7? ise
Contrast our condition with that
of the European nations, alternately
torn and Impoverished with wars,
credit it as you may to the better
education of the people, and you will
realize the value of the example old
mother Groton has set you, SO wor-
thy of your ambition to follow
Build schools for your children and
find talent to teach them, then intel
ligence and integrity in prosperous
and happy homes will be your sure
reward. 800 osa
Associated as you have made me
with your veal and wo, | wish |
might be allowed to contribute from
my means such asthey are something
towards this first foundation of the
public good. $500
Gentlemen, | have detained you
too long. Oppressed with the fear
that | do not deserve the distinction
you bestow, pray God to make
me worthier, and to smile upon you
with His perpetual blessings.
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Thirty-fve years ago on the 9Th,
the great Davy Crockett was Killed
at the Alamo fight, in Texas.
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THOUGHTS ON DEATH.

who has not been deprived Of a
friend by. death Who has not seen
the sparkling eye, heard the love.
thrilling voice for the last time p
flushed in deaths cold slumbcr IS
the voice of father, mother, broth
er, sister, friend, or the wife of your
bosom; yet the memory of such re-
main. Impressed upon our hearts
pure tablet is the face, form and
deeds of the loved yet departed one.
But Where are those, the departed?
That's the query. Dwell they in
the grave, or have they scared to
lands unknown to us, whore happi-
ness reigns supreme--a land of light
and love, rendered thus by the yisi
bic appearance of God Z Whel
darkness peryades our sight, when
sorrows rankle in our heart, when
loved one is torn from our bosom
and consigned to the damp, cold
grave, we pray for their return; but
should we? Why wish them back
to be sufferers, mayhap victims to
treachery or vice, ON this sin-stain-
ed earth ? Why wish them to be
partakers of misery2 Let them
rest; wish them not back. We
shall soon meet with them. Soon,
aye, very soon our dust will be
mingled with ithcirs--our souls go
where theirs have gone. We are
being swiftly borne down the rapid
stream of time. Ne can almost see
death, gate, so nigh have we ap-
preached the line, the boundary line
that connects life with death. Then
mourn not the departure Of friends.
They have but passed through what
awaits every one Of poor dying NOR
tale 9s1h 'sa.# 1nt ~ 'aa a45
| 81. r..Uetfrs Al - H.1L sE.a.st
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a TRAGEDY.

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Now, there comes from st. Clair
county, Alabama, a tale almost too
horrible to credit. The Tax Col
lector of that County, had collected
a large amount of tax money, and
gave It to his wife for safe keeping,
stating that he was necessarily COM
PEELED to be gone from home several
days. His wife received the money
and deposited it away. He depart
ed and about ten o'clock that night,
three disguised men called upon this
defenceless women for the money.
She firmly refused to give it up,
knowing her husbands honor was
at stake if it was missing. They
searched the house and found it and
secured it on their persons, and then
ordered her to cook them supper
She did SO, and unnoticed she slip
ped arsnic into the coffee She was
preparing. The men drank freely
of it and in few minutes fell dead
from the poison in this way admin
istered. She removed their masks
and found two Of them to be strang-
ers and the other one her own hus1
band. Oh, horror He had PlanE
ned this means of robbing the peO-
pie of their taxes.
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Schedule w. & a. n. Road.
, CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.

AN and After Sunday, February H. 1871,
" the Passenger trains will run on the 81
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAIL ROAD
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TIE SOLDIERS OF 1912 OUT
RACED.

The Washington Patriot says: "The
action of the Commission Of Pensions to-
wards the soldiers of the War of 1872,
residing in the Southern States, to whom,
in common with others, pension of eight
dollars per month was granted, under the
act of Feb. Il, 1871, may be briefly and
bes. described as an outrage. The law
provides that the applicant shall not have
adhered to the cause of the enemies of
the government during the late rebellion,
or exercised the functions of any Office
under any authority whatever in hostility
to the United Slater. Also, that the Sec
rotary of the Interior may prescribe the
rules and regulations by which proof shall
be made, to enable the applicant to be
placed on the pension roll. 1t is, there
fore, clear that two facts only have to be
established to obtain the pittance
granted by this act: First, the service,
and next, the loyalty of the applicant.
This latter condition might have been
well omitted, considering that, when the
rebellion commenced, in 1861, the young
est of these veterans must have been
sixty-four years of age, if he entered the
service, in 1912, as boy of fifteen. In
the case of the Northern soldier, the
Pension Office has only required proof in
the usual way; but for the Southern
soldiers, who ferved in the same fields, a
discrimination has now been officially
promulgated, which deserves the out
spoken condemnation of every liberal
mind. An order OF the Commissioner
requires that, when witnesses testify to
TIE loyalty of claimant, their Oa0's 10y
atty must be shown by the ceTtifi-
cate of an officer of the United
States Court, United States Commission
er, or an officer of the Internal Revenue
Bureau This regulation is wholly IN
precedented, and is in palpable violation
of the spirit of the law. 1t is malicious
continuance, by which, under the same
act, and for the same patriotic service,
veterans of the North are preferred, and
veterans of the South are prescribed. A
mean and perVerse ingenuity has been
exercised to prevent these old soldiers
from receiving the bounty of Congress
under any circumstances, by requiring
the proof to be made in the most imprac-
ticable manner. If there had been the
igas! disposition to aid them, the local
postmasters would have been authorized
to take testimony. 1t is almost impos-
sible to comply with these arbitrary
aud vindictive rules. Most of the
pensioners are feeble, old, and scattered
in the interior, distant from the officers
named before whom proof is to be made.
The requirement is an absolute denial of
the stinted justice of Congress, and
wantou cruelty to the aged and infrm,
who fought the battles of the country,
when perhaps the fathers or kindred of
these loyal Radicals Were burning
blue-hghts in Connecticut or advocating
secession in Massachusetts, to give aid
and comfort to the enemy. This prosti-
tuition of Office to perpetuate sectional
discord, and to keep open the wounds of
civil strife, by invidious injustice, is one
of the worst features of this cruel wrong
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against that decreasing band of old heroes,
upon whom the country looks with q
feeling of reverence, affection, and
gratitude. 1t is this wicked poll
cy OF persecution, which has shown
itself in all = the legislation of
Congress, and in every branch of admin
istration. devised with deliberate purpose
to prevent reconciliation, that has served
to ALLEVIATE portions of the South, and to
prevent that perfect union, which the
best minds have honestly sought to es-
tablish over the ashes of the rebellion.
What would be the temper of the North,
If, changing the relations of power, the
South had instigated malignant and de-
spicable trick like this, to cheat her vet,
Grams out of their scsnty rewsrd2 The
Commissioner may have earned the ap-
plause of his Radical masters for this
tyranny, but be has also insured to him
self the scorn and contempt OF the Amer
can people" i-I-q5 --to % ~. Hl
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EDWIN j. SooTr, chairman of the com
mittee appointed by the South Carolina
Taxpayers Convention to investigate the
transactions OF the financial officers Of
the State, reports that Mr.. Parker, Slate
Treasurer, refuses TO let his books be ex-
smined The State Comptroller and other
officers Offered to furnish every facility in
their power for The examination of the
books and papers in their offices. Parker
is friend of Grant, and it is intimated
that there are certain items in his books
which would not look well in print.
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a NEW LEAGITE.

This seems TO be the age of leagues.
The last out is s'The Victoria Lesgue."
We have received communication dated
New York, Aug. l, announcing the Vie
toria League, an association now organ
lied, equipped, and in working order,
having its headquarters in New York, and
its cooperative agencies iu Boston, Phila-
delphis, Cincinnati, Chicago, ST. Louis
and San Francisco.
'1ts mission is to unite the progressive
portion of the American people into a
new political organization, or body of
voters, called the Equal Rights party,
consisting of both sexes, and founded on
the constitutional right of suffrage which
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
mtnts vest in women as well as men.
sit demands from Congress, at its next
session, declaratory act, setting forth,
definitely, this Interpretation of these
amendments, together with immediate
legislation 10 insure the free exercise, by
women, as by other citizens, of the cleo
i've franchise in the several States.
''It nominsles, and viii support, and
expects 10 elect as the next President of
the United States, by the combined suf-
frages of men and women, in 1872, Mrs.
Victoria c. Woodruff, Of New York"
We are further informed in this com.
municstion, that by the same mail we 'will
rec.iVe copies of correspondence be-
tween the Victoria League and its Presi
Dental candidate, 10 which our attention
is directed, the more especially from the
fact that, in Mrs. Woodhulls letter &C
cepting the nomination, she has given a
full statement, at the request of the
League, of the argument by which she
deduces, from the new amendments, the
right of her sex to the elective franchise. "
We have not yet received the coues-
pondence referred to. We are inclined
to think that the mails have played
scurvy trick upon this female candidate.
The Victoria League in the earnest
hope that we viii lend our editorial good
viii TO the Equal Rights Party and lis
candidate, subscribes itself Respectfully
Yours" We assure the Party and its
Candidate that they Lave our edi yOrial
good will, hut we cannot vote the ticket.
We always vote straight ticket no
other sort.
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The New York Journal of Commerce
favors the recognition by law of suicide
as felony. 1t would punish the attempt,
since it could not accomplishment of the
act. That paper says: s'The public well
fare is in many ways endangered by
allowing people to kill themselves at
pleasure-suicides often assuming an cpl
demic type, unless checked, as is well
known, and, hence, there should be a
punishment inflicted upon those who
attempt to commit the supremely selfish
act OF suicide, in contempt of ali obliga
tions to God and man."
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CIVIL SERVICE REFORM IN
PRACTICE.

PRACTICE.
The Civil Service Commission met ia
Washington, continued in session for ten
days, and then adjourned without sccom-
plishing anything. In the meantime the
q ant administration is progressing On
the old line. The New York Eve'ling
Post, one OF the most respectable Radi-
cal journals in the country, says: sit is
not pleasant 10 recollect the canvass in
Missouri asst fall, when the most faith.
full United States officers were removed
because they refused to support the fac
ton in favor at Washington. Ia almos!
every instance these oflicerareceived com
1limentary notes from their superiors,
who declared that, in the essential points
of honesty and efficiency, it would be
hard to fill their places" But the EOeH
ing Post says it is too often reminded of
that disgrsceful interference by acts
nearer home. Mr. Nicholas Leonard has
been faithful and efficient Deputy Uni
ted States Marsha, a. Albany. He re-
ceived note few days ago f,om Ger.
/. F. Quinby, United States Marshal,
who is rot only his superior officer, bit a
personal friend of Gen. Grant, in which
Gen. Quinby says:
'TPolilical considerations render it nee
essary that should vscate your appoint
ment as Deputy Marshal l do so on
account of no personal considerations, and
assure you that your official relations have
always been of the most pleasant and sat-
isfactory character.
The ''political considerations" are not
that Mr.. Leonard is not q good Republi-
can, but that he is opposed TO the re"elec-
ton of Senator Conkling, and is suspect
ed of being also opposed to the renomina-
ton of Gen. Grant. The EUeRing Post
well asks, sis this what the Republican
party and the administration mean by
civil service reform2" That is precisely
what is meant. 1t is subject that viii
do to talk about and theorise upon, but
when it comes to acting the practice is of
an entirely different character.
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THE National Labor Union party APP
pears to be the first in the field. The
President of that organization has issued
q call for political convention of the
representatives of the union, to be held
at Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, the
18th of October next, to nominate csndi-
dates for President and Vice President
for the election of 1872
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II is stated that new Radical paper
will be started in Washington about the
lat of September, as the organ of the
Southern Radicals, and that it will sup
port the present administration, favor the
rcduc ion of tsxee, oppose the payment
of The national debt by the present gen.
Grafton, and insist on having full share
of The federal spoils. 20 al l7 -1a1-3i-
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Stockholders in the Nashville & Cha
tanooga Railroad Co.

TAKE NoTICE-THAT THE NEXT ANNUAL
i meeting of the Stockholders OF s4id Company
will be held In Nashville on Wednesday, 10th day
of August next, for the purpose OF eiecting
fifteen Directors for one year ensuing the date,
and to transact such other busiress rs m ay be
brought before them. Ssockhoiders, IS usual,
Will be carried over the Road the day before, the
Day of ard the day after election, by showing
their certificates Of stock to the conductors.
W. A. GLEAVEs, Treasurer
jyl6 d&wtd Banner.
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NorIorNe the fact that the State debt
of Georgia has been run up TO over
$50, 1000, 600, and thst only IS, 600, 600 Of
this amount Is said to be legal one of our
exchanges asks: "Where is the New
York TTn1esg" That paper is not par
ticularly interested about Radical frauds
and corruption. iii. .- y.
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Is BANKRUPTCY.

THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, THAT ON THE
i Sd day of August, A. D. 1871, warrant
John r 5 Fall, in the county of Davidson,
and State of Tennessee, who has been ad-
judged bankrupt on his own petition: That
the payment of any debts and delivery Of any
properly belonging to such bankrupt, to HIM
or for his use, and the transfer of any property
b. him, are forbidden by law: That a meeting Of
the creditors Of the said bankrupt, TO prove Their
debts and TO c. DOSE one or more assIgnees of his
estate, will be held At Court of Bankruptcy, to
be holden on the 10Th day of august, A. d.
1871, at 9 O'Clock, NJ, at the ONCE OF the Re
gister, 81 Cedar street, before Alexander e. Brad
ley, Esq, Register T. ]. HARRISON,
ae6 1t U. s. Marshal, Messenger.
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What We are Surprised At.

WE ARE SURPRISED THAT MEN IN THE
w City Of Nashville should rent houses from
year 10 year, and pay out enough money to pnr-
chase home, when we have for sale on SO .ong
time, and at low prices. SO many snug cottages In
the city and in Edgefeld. Real Estate will per-
hAps never be lower in this country than it is
now. We invite ali to read our Bulletins and
examine our lists.
ARLINGTON, FARRAR wEAKLEY,
Agents, No. "a North College street.
iaQQ tiIl oct8
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ssWHAr is the world coming to-" 8

aWHAr is the world coming to" asks
the New York 7ribuAe, abiding to the
late speech Of the Prinee of Wales in
defence of his brother and Of Mr. Glad
stone in behalf ofthe Queen, i'when it is
found needful TO defend the uselessness
of Princes and argna about the personsl
standing of the Queenfp
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"NOTICE.''
THE CONNECTICUT
Mutual Life Insurance 60.


Over 5000 members. Dividends payable in
1871, s4250,OOO 90; Assets SS2 500 900; Annual in
come $40, 600; Surplus 80 600, 90; Total Claims
by death paid to date over 100000; Total sur
plus premiums returned to the reinsareo, over
x11 600, 600.
Expense OF manag sme { lower than in any
other Company. Ratio OF expense to total re-
csipts only 8.35 per cent. Beyond doubt the
strongest Life Insurance Company ia the world.
The undersigned has assumed the Agency Of
the above named Company. Once No 80 Cherry
street, Nashville, Tenn
arp4 Ct a. w. Wills.
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Oakland School.

I q MILES EAST OF NASHVILLE AND Ia
10 miles from Mt. Juliet Depot, 7. Il P. r Z.
Session begins Sept. 4, 1871. PaIents and guard
ians, seeking good school where they can board
their daughters and wards, at most reasonable
rates, should apply Immediately to
JAMES E. SOOBEY, Principal,
jy27 2taw wed&sun 4w' Green Hill, Tenn.
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FOR SALE.

TOR THE CASH WILL, SELL TWO DEsIR-
Il able Building Sites, each embracing shout 40
Acres Of Ground, one Of which embraces $40
choice Apple Trees and two acres in fine Straw.
berries. the same two places being part of my
home tract. and being the east and west ends /;
both parcels bounded on their south ends by ths
waters OF Mil Greek, aud miles from Nashville,
adjoining the Luna:ic Asylum Tract.
jy2T eodlm' N, BROWN.
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st, MARY'S COLLEGE,
MARION COUNTY, KY.
FOUNDED IN 1921.

THIS CoLLEsE, SITUATED ON THE LIZ
Il hanon Branch Of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, has been placed by the Rt. Rev. W. Nc
Closkey, ID. d, Bishop Of Louisville, under the
Resurrection of our Lord,H and is now being re-
fitted preparatory to its reopening for the educA-
ton Of young men on Monday, Sept. 4.
The salubrity Of the 81 uzuon, its easy acSess
by railroad its total seclusion from al that is
calculated to divert the mind Of youth from study
and its thorough equipment, adapting it to the
requirements Of the physical mental and mo-ai
culture OF its inmates, Afford advantages to pa
rents and guardians unsurpassed By any College
in the country. In Gd Mtion to the TemOdeling
and renovation now in progress, il is presided
over by religious order OF learned eccles astics,
who are bound by the most solemn VOWS to de-
vote their lives and best energies to the material
ana moral welfare Of their pupils, and whose
number embraces corps OF efficient professors.
The plSn OF studies eRb aces . thorough Com
merciaP Course, and classical Course OF An
Client and Modern Languages, with the various
auxiliary studies as pursued in the best Euro
peAn and American Universities, While tbs
strictest supervision is exercised over the morals
OF pupils the religious opinions OF none U De ~
teIIcred NTH,
Terms.-FOF ordinary Collegiate SEES
sion of TensuOnths, 5000.
FACULTY:
REV. FATHER Ed. GLowALsKT, G r., Presi-
REV. FATHER DAVID FENNEssY, @. R d.
REV. FATHER JOHN woLowsKI, OR
BROTHER - DZUROWICZ, @. r,
" CHARLES LAUZ, @. L,
4" JOHN SAGLE, Oh.
PROF. NJ A. FRAwLEY.
For prospectus and further particulars, address
REV. ED, GL0WAL9KI,
@. R Prest, or
PROF. FRAWLEY,
at. Msry's P. o., Marion County, KY.
Also, J. T. Webb Il Co., 186 Main street; @. A.
Rogers, ll3 Jefferson street, and N. Plaggenberg,
Green street, between Jackson and Hancock,
Ioui .YlIle Ky Aug8 st 6th. l8thk20th
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SLATE ROOF @,

DYw.o. THo1As, 257 CHURCH ST., NASH
ID vile, Tenn. I su now prepared to put on
Plain and Ornam ental slxte Roofing with the ut
most dispatch, and in the best manner. Large
quantities of tie best quality always on hand.
orders promptly attended to, aud all work war
rartsd - jySo tt.
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MEDICAL.
Tho Rridal Cbambar

ESSAYS FOR YOUNG MEN, ON GREAT
II Social Evils and Abuses, which interfere with
sure means Of relief for the en-
ring and unfortunate, diseased and debilitated-
Sent free, II sealed envelopes. Address Howard
Association, No 2 g. Ninth St, Philadelphia, Ps
mvl4dkw5m
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TIE Cuban flibtsters IN Canada find
the usual difficulties IA their way. Tine
Governor General of the Dominion mas
issued his proclaim iion, warning all
s0a;nst anv infringemeas Of the neutrality
laws, and arrests have been made o. lal &c
numbers of suspected parties.
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erected at . cost Of 800, and now routing FIR
$500 per snnnm palatisl and cottage residences:
vSlu sble business houses prominently located :
beautiful suburban homes; fine plantation in =
high state Of cultivation, ne4r the city ard other
req ty, ranging from 81 go TO $4,000. All under
the MANAGEMENT Of P4ssm0re L Rufi Real estate
Agents, Memphis, Tenn who respectfully refer
to the citizans of that city. - :