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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-01
HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIvEs.

TUESDAY, Jan. 31.-The House was
called to order at 10 o'clock by Speaker
Perkins.
NEW BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.
Mr.. Lackey-A resolution pledging
each member to remain in his seat until
Monday next. Adopted.
Mr.. Rhea-A resolution directing the
Superintendent of the Capitol to have
the statuarv around the Capitol repaired.
Adopted.
Mr.. Enloe-A bill to construe the
meaning of election day, in regard TO the
sale of liquors. ...
RESOLUTIONS,
Directory to the Penitentiary Commit
tee Rejected.
Senate resolution appointing James
Park a Trustee in the East Tennessee
University. Adopted.
Senate resolution directing the Comp
troller to issue a duplicate bond to
Thomas ]. Hough. Adopted.
House resolution directing the issuance
of duplicate bonds to N. F. Manning
Adopted.
Senate resolution authorizing the Comp
troller to appoint an agent in each d.
vision of the State to. collect the taxes on
land sold for taxes. Rejected.
House resolution to authorize the
Treasurer to employ a clerk. Adopted.
/ House resolution inviting immigration.
Adopted.
Senate resolution appointing A. j.
Smith to prosecute certain suits. Adop-
ted. us-.
ON GOVERNORS VETO.
The bill to repeal al act passed Jan.
I6, 1869, to establish the Tennessee
Agricultural College, was called up on a
message from the Governor disappearing
the bill, and the question was put to the
House on the passage of the bill, the veto
| of the Governor to the contrary notwith-
| standing, and the House refused to pass
| the bill.
SENATE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
For the relief of Federal and Confed-
crate soldiers. Passed.
To amend the act to protect county
revenue, and to appoint Railroad Com.
missioners for counties. Rejected.
To change the time of holding the
Chancery Court in Hamblin County.
| Passed.
SENATE BILLS ON SECOND READING.
To reopen the navigation of the Big
| Hatchie river. Passed.
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To create the Office of County Judge OF
| Carroll county. Passed.
To change The line between the coun-
| ties of Dickson and Hickman. Passed.
To construe the act TO fix the license on
retail liquor dealers. Passed
To regulate the printing and binding
of the decisions of the Supreme Court.
Rejected.
To amend sections and 4 of an act
passed May II, 1855, to amend the Grim
inal laws. Rejected.
To regulate giving bonds in cert ain
cases. Passed.
To amend the criminal laws relative to
the sale of liquors. Rejected.
To authorize county courts to dispose
! of railroad stocks. Passed.
To authorize county courts to impose
tax to keep up public roads, Re-
| jected.
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TIE w All
Paris Being TPrOvisiOned
French Advance on the Loire.
Will South France StillFight?
Fighting on the Swiss Border
Conference Again Postponed
Italy. Prussia russia and the Pope
PARIS.
Great Distress-Revictual and
Repairing the RailxHaYs.

Great ss-RevictualIfng and
Repairing the Railways.
VERSAILLES, Jan. 30.-The distress In
Paris is very great. The destruction Of
the railroads impedes the revictualling Of
the city. The Germans in the meantime
are supplying articles of prime necessity
BRUSSELS, Jan. 3O-Immense quantities
of provisions have been forwarded to
Paris, and great efforts are being made to
restore the railways. "a
The Scissors line will be repaired In
forty-eight hours, and the direct route IN
eight days. aE 20
The capitulation of Paris has caused
feeling of stupor in the north of France.
LONDON, Jan. 3l.-An the rivers and
railroads have been opened for the trans
portation of food to Paris. The 46th Prus-
sian regiment has occupied the fort of
Mont Valerian. -
Postal communication between London
and Paris has been re-opened. The Prus-
SLAMS are driving cattle into Paris to feed
the inhabitants. Bismarck has notlf1ed
the British Foreign Office that Dleppe
alone is at present available for the trans
portation of provisions to Paris, but till
sufficient supplies can be received the
Germans will share their stores with the
citizens The election terms of the con-
vention between Favre and Bismarck pro-
ceeded yesterday without interruption.
Another General Suicides.
EoNDoN, Jan. 31.-The Echo Du Nord
asserts that General of the army OF Paris
has committed suicide. No name Is given.
King william Starts for Berlin.
LONDON, Jan. 81, 1890 P. M.-Bismarck
will leave France after the meeting of the
National Assembly. An early return of
the Emperor to Berlin is expected. 1t is
reported that he will start to day, Tues
day. The Germans will enforce rigid pass
port regulations during the armistic e.
Terms of the Armtstfce and CaPitu.
Iation.
LONDON, Jan. 31.-The armistice in
France begins instantly at Paris and three
days later in the departments and expires
at noon, Feb. 10. The line of division
between the German and French forces
separates into two 'portions each of the
departments of Calvado and Orne. The
Germans hold those Of Sarthe, Loire ct
Thur, and Loire ct Yune. The neighbor-
hood of Jura is excepted from the pro-
visions of the armistice which includes the
naval forces of both powers in all parts of
the world.
The terms of the armistice are: The
prisoners of war to remain in Paris du-
ring the armistice, having first surren-
dered theirs arms. The National Guards
and gendarmes to retain their arms; also
the police. All francs-trieurs to be dis
banded. The German prisoners to be
exchanged. The public funds to remain
in Paris
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LOUISVILLE.
A Spiritual Suicide

LOUISVILLE, Jan. 31.-The body OF
Abraham Samuelson was found on the
back porch of a deserted building near the
Jewish Cemetery, this afternoon, shot
through the heart Letters on his person
expressed the intention of committing sui
eide A pistol, one barrel discharged, was
found in the right hand pocket OF his
pants. The deceased was spirituallst,
and, in the letters found, said he wished
to join his dead wife.
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RaIlrOaditIes.

Fifty hogsheads more sugar arrived by
the EdQefeld and Kentucky railroad yes
teriay for this market, aud it is expected
that in all there will arrive, within a few
DAYS, 100 car loads. Twelve to fifteen
hoesheads make q car load.
A train of cars loaded with Robertson
county whisky arrived last night, from
Springfsld-"and wen all drink stone
blind, Johnny, fill up the bowl"
Tnree new passenger coaches and two
beautiful new engines passed down, for the
Western and Atlantic road
Very close connection was made between
the Chattanooga and Louisville trains-s
moment longer and the latter would have
been gone
Passenger trains are well loaded these
days, in all directiOns-there's a heap OF
folks on the move.
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New Railing Received.

Three hundred tons of new English rail
road iron has Just been received, which
will be put down on the Nashville end of
the Nashville and Decatur Railroad just as
soon as the weather opens sufficiently to
Justify such operations. This road we are
eratifed to sag is looking up, both in f.
nancial prospects and in popular favor;
both shipments and travel having greatly
increased upon it during the past season.
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MASQUERADE Ball.

There will be grand masquerade ball
given at Concordia Hall tonight, it being
the occasion of the grand annual ball Of
the Ooncordia Association. The most de-
lightful music will be furnished, as every
one knows, those annual balls of the Con-
cordia are among the most brilliant, agree
able and recherche assemblages of any
that are held in our city. We bespeak a
full attendance and much enjoyment at
the Concordia tonight.
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Thomas Green, the oolored m an who
was quite severely stabbed on South Sum-
mer street. Monday night by James Ste
phens, an artery in the temple having been
cut in the affray, was, we learned, imProv-
ing yesterday, with prospects of his speedy
recovery.
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JAPAN,
On the Hog Question.

SAN Francisco, Jan. 3l.-Hitherto the
Jananese Government has prohibited the
raising of swine as impure, but recently
has declared it advisable to encourage the
production of pork as an article OF 1000,
has removed the prohibition and has sent
agents to California by the last steamer 10
purchase stock on Government account.
Several steamers are taking out animals.
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WILHELMSHOHE.
LIN Consideration.

LONDON, Jan. Sit is reported con-
sternation has been caused at Wilhelms-
hohe by the news of the proposition to
convoke the Constitutional Assembly of
France
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HOW Is ThIsl

feeling OF uncertainty as 10 the future
and a desire to wait for the conditions of
peace before deciding upon plans for the
future.
How Is This? 600
1t is reported that the Germans have
invested Abbeyville Notwithstanding the
armistice.
Gambetta Catechising Favre De-
mOnstratiOns in south France
against the Armistice.
BORDEAUX, Jan. 30.-Gambetta for
warded dispatch by telegraph to-day to
Favre, at Versailles, requesting him to
break the silence maintained by the Paris
government, and state the name of the
minister whose coming to Bordeaux had
been announced, and his motives for the
delay in his movements, and to give pre-
else information respecting the condition
of Paris.
Demonstrations have occurred in several
French towns against both the arInistice
and any violation to the territory of
France. The municipality of Lyons ap-
pears to maintain its resistance to the
Germans, and has sent deputation to
Bordeaux to urge the adoption of general
measures for the same object.
French Advancing on the LOire-The
Latest of BOurbaki.
AS the French forces were again ad.
vancing south of the Loire, the Prussisns
destroyed the bridge at Blois. This
stopped the advance, and the French sub
sequently retreateG southwark. The 4th
Prussiau reserves took 200 prisoners al
Pottevant. Gen. Manteuffel encloses the
army of Bourbaki on the Swiss frontier.
He overtrok the retreating French al
West Pont, and captured Chappoy snd
Sombrecaurt, with 5000 prisoners and
six pieces of artillery.
Will DeChaussey Assent to Armi
| sIICe.
LEMANs, Jan. 31.-World special
Prince Frederick Charles has commune
Gated the stipulations of the armistice &c
General Chaussey, and asked whether ht
regards them as binding on him.
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Atthe Jail

Brown Green, for assault and battery,
and Harry Stevenson, for fraudulent breach
Of trust, were committed for further hear
ING to-day, before Squire Lapsley.
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THE CONFERENCE.
Again POSTPONED

LONDON, Jan. 31.-The reassembling of
the Conference has been again postponed
in consequence of the illness of Earl Gran
Vile,
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The Cuban rebels are surrendering in
squads and their House OF Representatives
have scattered, sauve qu peut.
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OMAHA.


Another Radical Governor 10 De I'M.
Peached.
OMAHA, Jan. 31.-The investigation
committee of Lincoln is getting the State
officers in an unenviable position. Ticknor
testified that he got loan of $4,000
through the Governors Auditor. The At
torney General paid Brock, the acting de-
nutv of the Treasurer a thousand dollars
bonus. Brock has acknowledged the trans
action. Rich developments are expected.
The Resolutions of impeachment of the
Governor are the special order Tomorrow.
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CONGRESSIONAL
SENATE.

n WASHINGTON, Jan. S1.-The Vice
President announced the return from the
House of the income tax repeal bill, with
suggestion that under Section 2, Article !
of the Constitution, the House had the
sole power to originate such measures.
Mr.. Scott moved not to concur in the
reason assigned by the House for the re-
turn of the bill, and asked o Committee
of Conference. Agreed to. -
Mr.. Pomeroy submitted resolution
acknowledging the early sympathy of
France for the United States, and recon-
mending the suffering French 70. the
charity of Americans. - 81 e.fsa,A
HOUSE. -asA ~ ~
Damages wanted for the oneida.
Mr.. Maynard, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, reported q bill author
izing the Secretary of the Navy, after
consultation with the Attorney General,
to institute proceedings of law or other
wise to obtain full damages and indem-
MITIGATION for the destruction and loss of
the sloop -of-war ONEIDA in the Bay of
AOUuOs Jdpnu, Ny VIC SOiAAlonuCA VI thO
steamship Bombay. Passed. % --'s-iE-
Cultivating the Asiatics.
Mr. Sergeant introduced bill auth riz-
ing Schnell, of Cal. =, to enter at the proper
United States Land Office $40 acres OF land
at the minimum price per acre, according
to the lines of his Improvement, for tea
gardens and other culture, and to which
there may not be any claim except that of
the Uniied States. Mr.. Sergeant explained
that Schnell was making successful expe-
riment of establishing colony of Japan
ese and cultivating tea raising, silk-worms,
etc., and that he wanted more land than
he could enter under the presumption
laws. Passed.
The Speaker laid before the House
message from the Senate, requesting a
Committee of Conference on the question
of issue between the two Houses, as to
the right of the Senate to originate bill
repeating the income tax. The commit
tee was appointed.
I'm Bankruptcy.
Mr.. Root introduced bill to extend
the time within which debtors may re-
ceive discharge in bankruptcy whose
assets do not pay so per cent. of the
claims en- the estates.
Mr.. Dawes reported to the Committee
on Appropriations a bill sppropriating
$15, 900 for expenses of the Southern In
vestigsting Committee.
The House passed on motion of Logan,
the Senate substitute bill, abolishing the
Office of Admiral of the Navy and
Vice Admiral. Not concurred in, and
Committee of Conference asked.
More Test Oaths.
Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts, from
the committee on reconstruction,
reported back, with recommends
ton that it pass the Senate bill
prescribing an oath of Office TO be taken by
persons who participated in the late re-
bellion, but are not disqualified from
holding office by the fourteenth amend
ment of the constitution.
Without disposing of the question, the
House, at half past four, adjourned.
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THE PROVINCES.
North France Astounded.

LILLE, Jan. 3d. The armistice has as
founded the people of North France
though the general impression is rather
favorable than otherwise. There is
feeling of uncertainty as to the future
and desire to wait for the conditions of
peace before deciding upon plans for the
future.
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FOR SALE.

THE LEGISLATURE AT THIS SESSION, AL
Il though tie committee reported fAyorsbly
thereon, having declined TO purchase my House
on Park street for Governors Mansion, / low
offer the same for sale 70 private parties.
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TUESDAY, Jan. 31.-The House was
called to order at 10 o'clock by Speaker
Perkins.
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KENOSHA.

Fearful CatastrOphe-A Lady ana
Four Children Perish in a Burn
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1t is reported that the Germans have
invested Abbeyville Notwithstanding the
armistice.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-11-09
Grant as a GENTLEMAN.

The article "POliti9s Of Women, -
in the August number of LippineOtt
has this:
The best bred men in America are
the officers Of the regular army and
navy. They have been taught to look
up 70, to reverence authority and to
be respectful. Il never leaves them /;
they become the most dignified and
the most simple men In the eOmmu-
nifty. Our Chief Magistrate is a very
conspicuous example Of this. Bred a
soldier, raised by the most extraOr-
| binary series Of events TO our repub-
lican throne, and having to contend
with an inyineible shyness, it is only
fair to say that our President has the
best manners in the world. Never too
cordial, always sufficiently 80, never
/ forgetting his station, and yet never
intruding il, it would be difficult 10
/ find a man who has committed fewer
sOlecisms, or has made more people
happy by his unaffected and simple
/ greeting than President Grant; and
yet he is man who has probably not
thought twice on the subject in his
/ life. His manners are the Out-crOp-
ping Of q training in q school which
has produced the perfection Of man
/ narz
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-11-09
Practical Education
The Giristidn Union hits off popular
errors in regard to practical education
as follows:

The Christian Union hits off popular
errors in regard to practical education
as follows:
P,mch picture a parent complaining
to 9 pedagOgue, 81 see ye've put my
son into grammar and jography.-
Now as neither mean him to be a
minister, or a sea-captain, it's no use.
Give him a plain business eddicatiOnn'
This practical-minded gentleman is
only an extreme member of n party
which numbers many respectable sup
pOrters. Half the talk Of the day
about educational reform rests on a
similar idea. The liberal education of
the past, whatever its defects-they
are serious, tried by the standard of
our necessities-had this great merit,
that it aimed to be truly liberal. It's
purpose was to enlarge and elevate a
man, to give something better than
ability to make money. To do this it
would familiariZe him with other civ
ilizatiOns than those in which he liv-
ed would strengthen the noble fac
ulty that grasps pure distractions I;
would open to him, in short, world
of knowledge and enjoyment wholly
beyond the visible present in which
lies his bread aud butter. But in this
age there is a tendency to make the
whole of education n mere preliminary
training for success in the profession
al or business pursuits Of after life
Against this we hold that, wherever
it is possible, the first eighteen or
twenty years Of life should be devoted
to developing and enriching a mans
nature in its brOadest range. After
life will press hard toward making
him a minister or a sea captain, or
merchant, as the case may be. 1t is
the proper work OF liberal education
to secure that, over and above the ca
pacity for his special vocation, he
Shall be a man. So we plead that the
boy shall learn biography" though he
is not to be a sea-captain; and not
only grammar, but rhetoric, logic, and
the languages, though he is not to be
a minister.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-11-09
the Knnha-

The following conversation, or col
Ioquy, occurred between 'eute New
York ''peTforatOr in real estate, {"
travelling by pOeket-cOmpass in one
Of the last sections opened in the Gov
eminent land region beyond Gotham
and Alaska. His interlocuSOr was a
woman, standing in q seanty but airy
garment at the door Of a log shanty,
TO whom he thus addressed himself: :
'sDO you like 10 live in the woods,
these distant woods, 50 FAR away
from any other human habitstiOn ?"
''Woodsl like 10 live in the woOds!'
she echoed and repeated; "bless your
lawful sake, you don't call this woods,
do We? There are no bears nor wolves
nor catamOunts, nor Hlde-sdl-qers
around here-nOt within twenty
miles. Why, we've got bedsteads In
this cabin, we don't sleep in hollow
logs as We used to. The stumps are
out Of the middle Of the road, most OF
them; and bless you, don't YOU see
we've got some fences? Look over
therei We raise our own good-sized
pork; we lay our own eggs; we have
tame hens and rOOsters, and pumpkin
pies, and twisted-neck squashes, and
appetiZin' eOOkin'. Woods! she re-
Peated again; ''live in the woods, IN
deed "-NsD York Ecsnilg Post
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-11-09
A Seminole Tradition.

Among the Seminole Indians there
is a singular tradition regarding the
white mans origin and superiority
They say that when the Great Spirit
hade the earth he also made three
men, all of whom were fair complex
iOT1ed; and that after making them
he Isd them to the margin of a small
lake, and bads them leapin and wash.
One Obeyed, and came out of the wat
er purer and fairer than before, the
second hesitated a moment, during
which the water agitated by the first
had become muddied, and when he
bathed he came out cOpper-cOloFed I;
the third did not leap until the water
became black with mud, and he came
out with its own color. The Great
Spirit laid before them three pack
ages; and out of pity, for his misfor-
tune in color, gave the black man the
first choice. He took hold Of each of
the packages, and having felt the
weight chose the heaviest. The cop
per-colored man chose the next heav-
lest, leaving the white man the light
est. When the packages were opened
the first was found to contain spades,
hoes and implements Of labor; the
second, enwrapped hunting, fishing,
and war-like apparatuses; the third
gave the white man pens, ink and pa
per, the engines OF the mind-the
means of mutual mental improve
ment, the social link of humanity,
the foundation of the white mans su-
periority.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-11-09
Romance OF an American Belle.

The romance of a former American
belle has been revived by her death,
recently, at the Isle of Wight, of con-
sumption. Her name was Mrs. p.
LOriilard ROnalds, and she was form
erly Miss Fanny Carter, a Boston
girl. She went abroad soon after her
marriage, and was some time a bril-
liant star in Partisan society. She was
received at court by Louis Napoleon
on account of her great vocal powers,
as well as for her beauty and intelli-
gence. It was she who created such a
furOre at ball at the Tuileries by ap-
pearing with her head lit up with lit
tie gas jets, the reservoir of which
was concealed in her hair. Mrs. Rom
aids resided for some time in Frank
fOrt-on-the-Main, where her husband
had house. Finally they separated
and he remained at Frankfort, while
she went to live with her father and
mother. Their heirs had been left by
will of one of the LOFillards hand
some fortune, which the father has
been trying for some time to get hold
of, but he has been unable to accom-
plish it, as no law existed in Tunis by
which he could secure possession of
them. On one occasion he went after
them with band of Italian despera-
does, but was frustrated by the Bey of
Tunis, who was a warm personal
friend of Mrs. ROnalds, and who had
stationed guards to kill any one en-
tering her house. Mr.. Ronalds is her
second husband. Her first was a
grandson of Peter Lorillard, the great
tObaccanist of New York. Her sec
Ond. Mr.. Ronalds, is a brOther-in-Iaw
of United States Senator COnkling.