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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-04-05
TIE POLICY OF PAYING.

The Sun objects TO The TRIBUNE's policy OF
vigorous and constant reduction OF the Ma
tional Debt. In order that our readers may
see both sides, we quote the gist OF Its article,
and shall be agreeably surprised by reciplo-
city, Listen first to The Sun:
TnB TRIBUNE rejoces at tho fact that the Secretary
Of the Treasury has paid more than eleven million do-
srs OF the National Debt during the month OF March,
making two hundred and fifteen millions paid since Mr.
Boutwell, took Office 90, exclams Mr. Greeley-'O that
we might keep paying at this rate till the last dollar
was wiped out might be in less than twenty years!
Yes and every man IN business in the United States
would be wiped out with Il the poor would be ground
down into inextrcablc poverty and iwrechednoss; ana
all the property In the country would belong 10 few
stony souled men, whose wealth would be counted by
hundreds Of millions.
Paying your debts when they are due Is well; but
robbng the poor in order pay them before they are
due Is folly The war against the Rebellion was not
waeed for the beneat OF the present generation alone
and none but mailman would desire to force upon the
present generation the whole payment Of its cost How
ever Mr. Greeleys notions have prevailed in the legis
aton OF the last Congress and of that In session
They have done nothing take of the great burdens
that are destroying tho industry ana business of the
country and the Republican party will have to bear the
consequences.
Does Mr. Greeley remember the great political revo-
luton of 1870 by which the Democracy wiped ont
That revolution grew OF financial distress out Of the
sagnaton OF business tho stoppage OF manufactures
the turning out OF employment Of myrads Of laboring
men, Such condition Of things is now upon US aud its
effect will In due time be made manifest"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-04-05
Bnsinces Notifies.

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-04-05
NIRLo's GARDEN.

The last week of THE Black Crook has ~
length arrived, and four performances more VI" A
pete the run OF this spectacle Good Attendance -
course be anticipated. "Richard the IhHu an
brought out ne xt Monday. Mr.. James Bennett, VIZ
personate GoSier, arrived, by the Java on ,
Mr.. l.. r. shewell has. believe. been eogas' =,
senate Richmond in the place OF MI T. H. ,s,.as
who relipqushed the part. The character OF co. "a,
will be presented by MIR Mines Leyick' WHOSE
long since been made good among our mos - az
tious studious, and aspiring actors Ih'' '...nts
Richard III :" although made osten'iby a. I'., n
must nevertheless attract the thonshtiu no.
that part of the public which FOX art ana As
We believe IL will be well made we OeepoAA ~. IA
widest and kindest consideration; ana we eoiU''
IL the amplest
LIMA EDwIN's rucArER. ,rr.n
The hast nights of Mr.. Gnd Mrs. W." w.,
Horace Iingard are announced. ut Lana low" ,,h,s
Their engagement has proved successful IL, ,,,v
and limitations given by Mr. Iinsard re'ai" M
larity. and afford great deal OF innoceh' a
musical buresque OF Pluto" IL no" the 'n'.' uss
tho bills At this tAe4tor bus We uaJegs'AHi ''-
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1871-02-03
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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
THE WHARTON TRIAL.
The Defence.

Francis D. Cleary, of the firm of Latimer
& Cleary, Washington, D. c., was called
and sworn as first witness for the defence.
BE remembered an interview at bis office
on the Oath of June last with Gen. Ketchum
and Mr.. Carusi. The day was excessively
hot, and Gen. Ketchum seemed to be suffer
ing from the heat. Mr.. Cleary testified
that Gen. Ketchum deposited the full
amount Of the purchase money for his house
on June Is.
Ellen Dedrick, colored, sworn, was living
with Mrs. Wharton when Gen. Ketchum
died; remembers when he arrived there.
Waited at the tea-table that night, when
Gen. Ketchum and Mrs. Chubb took tea,
when Gen. Ketchum ate very heartily,
and spoke as if he had to make up for two
meals. He certainly took three cups of
coffee, if not four, but will not say four,
positively. He ate five or six buiscuit; ate
of all an the table except bread. During
the Generals illness there were great
many persons in and about the house. Sew
eral times servants came In to bring things
for Mrs. VanNess. The closets and refrig-
orator were not kept locked. Medicines
were kept in the wash stand in Mrs. Whar-
toms room, in the second story, which was
then kept locked, and witness had free ac-
cess to the washstand and all parts of the
house; saw the phial or bottle introduced
in court by DR.. New Wlliams; had seen it be-
fore; was shown her by Susan she thinks
on Tuesday.
Being questioned about the vials and
medicines kept in the washstand, the wit
ness said paregoric, aInica and Jamaica
ginger were kept there.
Adjourned.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
SOUTHERN LIFE POLICIES.

An important decision has been rendered
by Judge Blatch ord, in New York, in a
suit growing out Of our late civil war,
brought by Peter Hamilton, as the executor
of Duke W. Goodman, of Alabama, against
the New York Mutual Life Insurance CON-
psny, the points of which are stated as fol-
lows: ..-... -. ....
"The action is brought TO recover 5000
on life Insurance policy issued to Mr.
Goodman on the oath Of March, 1858. 1t
was claimed by the defence that the policy
ceased to exist on account of the non-pay-
meDt OF the annual premium on March 2,
1852, and that the previous payments were
forfeited to the defendants. The plaintiffs
oontended that the defendants, by with
drawing all of their agencies from Alabama,
where Goodman resided, in March, ! 1851, pre-
vented the payment by him Of his annual
premiums on the policy, and thereby waived
such payments, all of which became due
after the 10th of August, 1861, the act of
the defendants having prevented the pay
mentS in Alabama, and the effect of the
war being to make such payments in New
York by Goodman unlawful. The Judge
decided that the obligation of the company
was not dissolved by the war; which neces-
ssrily resulted in interrupting COM
munication with the South. Judge
Blatchford concluded that he had
carefully considered all the views urged by
the defendants, and that he was entirely
satisfied that the plaintiff was entitled to a
decree with costs. There is ordered a
reference before master to take and state
an account ofthe amount due on the policy,
with interest, such an amount to be COM
puted on the basis before stated, and the
defendants to be allowed credit for the un-
paid snnual premiums"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
A PROMPTER'S DIFFICULTIES.

II is a popular notion that, although all
persons may not be endowed with histrion-
ic gifts, it is open to every body to perform
the duties of a prompter without prepara-
ton or study. Still the office requires
some exercise of care and judgment.
'.Here's nice mess you've got me into,"
once said tragedian, imperfect in his text,
20 an inexperienced or incautioLs prompter.
"What am to do now? Thanks to you,
I've been and spoken all the next act"
And the prompter has a task of serious
difficulty before him when the actors are
but distantly acquainted with their parts,
or 'shy of the syls"-that is syallables, as
they prefer to describe their condition.
"Where have they got to now ?" he has
to ask himself, when he finds them making
havoc Of their speeches, missing their cues,
and leading him a sort of steeple-chsae
shrough the book of the play. 1t is the
golden rule of the player who is ''stuck'-
at loss for words-to "come to Hecuba,"
or pass to some portionOf his duty which
he happens to bear in recollection. 'What's
the use of bOthering about handful of
wordsp demands a veteran stroller. 81
never stick. l always say something and
get on, and no one has Missed me yeti" L,
was probably this performer who, during
his impersonation of Macbeth, finding him
self at loss as to the text, after his COM
mencement of his second act with Lady
Macbeth, coolly observed: "Let us retire
dearest chuck and con this matter over in
a more sequestered spot, far from the busy
haunts of men. Here the walls and doors
are spies, and every word is echoed far and
near. Come, then, let's awayi False
heart must hide, you know, what false
heart dare not show" A prompter
could be oflittle service to gentleman so
fertile in resources. We read of a useful
property man and scene shifter who was
occasionally required to fill small parts in
the performance, such, for instance, as the
"cream-faced loon" in "Macbeth," and
who thus explained his system of represen-
tation, admitting that from his other occu-
pations he could rarely commit perfectly to
memory the words that be was required to
utter. 81 tell you how l manage. l in
wariably contrive to get reg1ar knowl-
edge of the natur' of the character, and
ginnerally gives the haudience words as
near like the truth as need be. / seldom or
never puts any ofyou out, and takes as
much pains as any body can expect for two
and six week extra, which is all gets for
doing such like parts as mine. find
Shakespeares parts worse to get into my
head nor any other; he goes in and out so
to tell a thing. I should like to know how
1 was to say all that rigmarole about the
wood coming; and I'm sure my telling
Macbeth as Birnam Wood was a-walking
three miles off the castle did very well.
But some gentlemen is sadly perticular,
and never consider circumstances" Such
players as this must needs be the despair
Of prompters, who must often be tempted
to close their books altogether.-AH the
Year Round.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
h PRETTY KETTLE OF FISH.

The New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer makes some rather
astounding revelations. He says under
date of Dec. %;
Senators Edmunds, Conkling and Nor
ton, in objecting to an investigating commit
tee, are striving to suppress some racy facts
that have since leaked out from the New
York Customhouse. One of the partners
IN our New York Customhouse general or
der business had been living for three years
with a lady who was supposed to be his
wife; but recently thinking that his position
might be strengthened by real matrimo-
NAL alliance, he determined to be married
to another woman. To this the quasi wife
objected, contending that she was by the
laws of New York his lawful spouse. Yet
he married the other woman, and thereupon
the deserted lady, following the example set
by Miss Josephine Mansfield in her war
with Col. James Fisk, Jr., put into the
hands OF some Of the antagonists of this
enormously profitable storage and cartage
business mass Of testimony establishing
ali sorts of awkward facts which cannot
now possibly be suppressed. One of these
facts is that the profits of the general order
and carriage business in New York have
been distributed in four shares, of which
two have been regularly paid over to Gen.
Horace Porter, one of the Illegal Military
Secretaries of the President"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28

An old MSS. containing Indian tales,
prepared by one Elan Crane has the follow
ing: 'Red Jacket $50 well known as the
brave chief of the Senecas) once made a
visit to Canandaigua, and not arriving I'M
til after dinner, the girl was ordered to
make preparations for him. She, through
carelessness or thinking it would do well
enough for an Indian, placed on the table a
dish Of meat that had been visited by the
flies. Red Jacket advanced to the table,
and seeing the maggots busily engaged In
the meat, took the dish and placed it on
the sill of the door, stepped back, took his
rifle, deliberately took aim and discharged
its contents through the meat. The re-
port of gun alarmed all the house. They
ran to inquire the cause. Red Jacket re-
piled that he always killed his meat before
he ate it p
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
British Annexation of the Diamond
FfeIds-GOId Discovered.

British Annexation of the Diamond
F1eIds-GOld DiscOvered.i
LONDON, Dec. 27.-The mail steamer
from Cape of Good Hope brings intelligence
that the announcement that q treaty of an
nexation of African territory to the British
had been finally concluded, produced much
excitement in that territory. Brand, Presi-
dent of the free States, had issued a formal
protest against the transfer of the diamond
fields to Great Britain.
Discoveries of gold in considerable guam
titles had been made in Ira isvoal Repub-
lie. The reports attracted many adventur-
ers to that quarter. Diamond seekers were
abandoning the diamond districts for the
newly discovered gold country. Capetown
continued to be thronged with arriving and
returning fortune hunters. The business
of the colony was making great strides.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
THE METROPOLITAN ADMIN
ISTRkTION CHURCH IN WASH
INGTON-DR NEWMAN

The Washington correspondence Of the
Cincinnati Times and Chrqieie (Radical)
writes:
Let US Join the fashionable crowd Of
wOuld-be worshippers and enter this church
to which the Administration goes. We fnd
it crow he'd to its utmost extent, for when
the pews are filed camp-ehairs are placed
in the aisles.
After The deep-tOned organ had praised
the Lord, a tall, digniied gentleman rises TO
his feet and presents a benign oOuntenanes
between the handsome boquets on the altar.
With an enunciatiOn clear as crystal, with
poises graceful as an ancient statue, and
with emphatic gestures, DR.. Newman pro-
ceeds with the service. His sermon Is en-
celent, eiIectually proving by scientific and
theological arguments, the immateriality
and Immortality of The soul. After the
service he requires the eOngre CATION TO ~
main seated; he then appoints several gen
tlemen to collect $500 in fifteen minutes.
DR.. Newman's style in this particular
is unique. he reads on certain
number of names, and expects
the gentlemen mentioned 70 give
fifty dollars each, another set to give TWEEN
ty-five, another twenty, and so on 10 i've
dollars: then basket collection is taken.
To those who have nothing to give, the
operation is moDOtOnOus, to say the least.
But at last the funds are obtained, the ben
ediction is pronounced, and We pass out
lust behind Heathen Japanee, only he
isn't heather, for he IS eommunieant Of
the NJ. Z. Church, and prince in the bar
gain. He is studying law in this city with
Judge Fisher.
Al around US we see men and women
who would be celebrities in any place but
here, where Presidents, Senators, Members,
etc., are so common. There is the lazy
reporter who takes down the sermons In
those wretched hieroglyphics. Her fgure
resembles the capital letter /, and her facs
is anything but pretty.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
CHIC0T.
radical Excuses for Negro Ku.KIux.

Radical Excuses for Negro Ku-KIux.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27.-The Democrats
Little Rock, Ark, special says arrivals from
Chicot county report that, after shooting of
the murderers, Sanders, Garrett and DugaD,
and the destruction of Garrett's store,
where Wynne was murdered, the crowd
Immediately dispersed, and the Sheriff and
his posse have since remained in peaceable
possession of the place. Sanders, Garrett
and Dugan had been notoriously bad char
acters, one having committed several mur-
ders, and another having whipped negro
and broken his arm previous to their COM
bined attack on Wynne. These circum-
stances rendered the negroes, when assem-
bled, uncomfortable until they had secured
themselves from any other violence at their
hands.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
CUBA.
Last Call to Unrepentant RebeIs-Ne-
gro Equality.

Last Call to Unrepentant RebeIs-Ne-
gro Equality.
HAVANA, Dec. 27.-In the recent en-
gagement near Manzanillo, Spanish Col.
OBregan was killed. Valmaseda
has issued proclamation in
which he says the offer of pardon to in
surgents cannot last forever. He now pro-
claims that every insurgent captured after
tie 18th Of January will be shot. Those
surrendering after that date will be sentenc-
ed to perpetual imprisonment. Negroes are
to be treated the same as whites, all negro
women captured viii be delivered to their
owners, and will be compelled to wear
chain for four years, all white women cap
tured in the woods after the 18th of Janua-
ry will be banished from the country chiefs
Of insurgent bands will be allowed to sur
render until the 18th of January under
conditions hitherto granted.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28

THE carpet-bag Governors have diferen
methods ofavoiding impeachmet for their
crimes. HoldeH, Of North Carolina, stood
his trial and was convicted, and is an out
law. The others, as far as heard from, do
moi propose to take the extreme penalty.
Bullock, of Georgia, resigned and abscon-
ded. Yarmouth procured the election Of
the negro Pinchbeck as Lieutenant Govern
or, who would become Governor In case of
. vacancy in the executive Office. and as he
is as bigsa thief as WGrmeuth himself, be-
sides being black, it is supposed that a
dread of his becoming Governor is sufficient
protection for tie present incumbent. In
South Carolina, Gov. Scott headed off i'm
pdachmept by sort of coup detat, calling
The Legislature together after it had ad-
Journed for the holidays, procuring the i'm
peachment project to be voted down., and
then dispensing the body of puzzled ne
groes and other ignoramuses whom he had
% peremptoiily summoned together.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
SOUTH CAROLINA.

COLUMBIA, Dec. 27.-In the United
States Court to-day, Stanbery moved for a
new trial in the case Of Mitchell, on the
ground that the Ku-Klux conspiracy culmi-
mated March @, 1871, and was sought to be
punished by the law enacted April 20, 1871.
He also moved for an arrest of indictment,
on the ground of the unconstitutionality of
the Ku-Klux acts.
The cases of Brown and Miller the
alleged Ku-Klux were taken up, and Brown
pleaded guilty.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
NASHVILLE, TENN,
FOREIGN.
FRANCE.



Telemachus and Mentor I'm Calypso's
s Den.
PARIS Dec. 27.-Gen. Sherman and
Lieut.. Grant son Of President Grant, are ex-
pected to arrive in this city tomorrow.
Rebellious Ladies'.
Theiadie of Strasbourg have organized
a committee to receive subscriptions to-
wards the payment of the French indem-
nifty to Germany. -
Income Tax. z
In the National Assembly to-day the pro-
posed income tax was again under discus
sion. Minister of Finance, Ponyer Quer-
tier, spoke in opposition to the measure,
Which be denounced as arbitrary and in
quisitorial. The speaker cited Lord
Brougham and President Grant in support
of this remark. In the course OF some al
lusiOn'to England, the Minister asserted
that she was only a free trader, where there
was no competition.
Waloski's proposal for the imposition of
the general income tax was finally voted on
and rejected by large majority. i
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
FoX-HUNTING was

FoX-HUNTING was never so much III
vogue within the British Isles as it now is.
There are now 123 packs of English fox
hounds, and pack which hunts four days
a week cannot be kept for less than three
thousand pounds year. 1t is also COM
puted that an average of60 horsemen follow
each pack upon every day when it takes the
field. By far, the largest portion of these
horsemen hunt at a cost of five pounds per
day if they have but one horse.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
ROME.

ROME, Dec. 27.-Cardinal Amat-De- San
Fillippo-E-Sosso, Bishop of Palestine and
Vice Chancellor ofthe Holy Roman Church,
is dead. He was elevated to the Cardinal e
in 1887, and died at the age Of 78.
His Majesty, the King of Italy, sent his
congratulations to the Queen of England
on the announcement that the Prince of
Wales was out of danger.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28

A MONUMENT has been erected to the
memory of Flora Macdonald in the church
yard at Klimuir, Isle of Skye, over the grave
OF the heroine. 1t occupies commanding
position on height about three hundred
feet Immediately above the sea, at the ex-
treme northwest of Skye, and will be a
conspicuous object to persons passing up
the Minch within sight of land.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28

''Throw away your cigar, sir" said por-
ter the other day to gentleman who was
just entering one of the public buildings
with freshly lighted cigar in his mouth.
"But have always smoked here" was the
reply. 'No smoking allowed; you will
have to throw away your cigar" The de-
mand was grumblingly complied with, and
five minutes after the gentleman coming
out saw the porter complacently finishing
the Havana which he had been compelled
to cast away.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28

TIE Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Ledger says "Certain Georgia
Radicals have been persistent In their efforts
70 induce Grant to iraoerfere In Gergia az
fairs to the enc. that Gov. Smith nigh,
De prevented from taking the gnber-
nsioriai c--lair. They succeeded in enlisting
Cam@sron and Delano in the scheme, but
..irant ami the Cabinet concluded it would
be unwise and dangerous to Grants chances
Of reelection to humor their Georgia friends
in their little caprices, and declined to inter
fere in the matter, at which said friends are
very much disgusted." #
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The Connecticut Democracy meet in
State conventiorFeb. 6.
Carl Schurz lectured in New York last
evening on the Franco-Prussian war.
Chicago has in store 5,2lS,000 bushels of
grain.
Halifax is the only garrisoned town in
the North American Dominion.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
THE GULF.
SprunR q Leak.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27-The steam
ship Florida hence for Apalachicola, sprung
a leak and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, on
Dec. %. The officers and crew took boats
and landed twenty miles east Of Mobile
point. John Reed, colored, was drowned
by the swamping of boat in the surf. VAL
ue $4,000. No insurance.