Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-23
Decrease for Graft.
.SI26.7OO 9I9


Decrease for Graht............SI26 700. 9ig
Our cotempOrary does not find it con
venient to state that the whole of this De,
crease, and more, too, is to be found in
the army and navy, which have b-en
| largely reduced in numbers within the last
| two years. Is Andrew johnson TespOnsi-
| bic that the army and navy were not Ie-
duced il his time? That it was not was
the fault of the Republican Congress of
| that day, who alone can increase or d.
minish the military forces. The upsb0t
of the matter is, that 4 Republican Con-
gross kept up far larger army and navy
under the one President than the other,
| and partlsans now claim that Grant is to
be credited with the difference in favor
of economy, which the discrimination
produced. Here are the figures:
johnson. Grant
Var Department .33lss4 SlOl, 73F $50
Navy Department 49,96i,5S6 3O,956, $50
AS to the receipts, the Gazette makes
this showing:
Receipts under Johnson. S664, 4OS, 442
Receipts under Grant.......,., 74S, 399, 1872
The increase has been owing to the
natural progress Of the country in It's
business aud resources. There has been
a longer time for the South to Tecuperatc.
Il has had twJ excellent crops, instead of
two poor ones the years before. The
misfOrtunes of the war, in even an indus
trial aspect, were far more severely felt
from 1869 to 1871. Oar capacity to i'm
port was then less. The Gazette talks
oI, hri q. Of
under Grant. Yes, but they have been
such reductions as would increase, and
not diminish, the revenue. We receive
more money u-ldcr fifty. cent whisky tax
than we could under two dollar tax, and
for very obvious reasons to all who have
reflected upon the matter. But with
these reductions Grant has had nothing TO
90 but to assent TO them when Congress
adopted them, as Andrew johnson would
have done if Republican Congress had
given him the opp5Ttunity.-Cfncinn0
Enquirer.
CAMEL BREEDING IN THE WEST.
A Nevada paper gives the following
interesting account of the acclimatiOn and
use of camels in that State: Goa a ranch
on the Carson river, eight miles below
the mouth Of Six-mile Cannon and about
seventeen miles east of the city, is to be
seen q herd of twenty-six Camels, all but
two of which were born and raised in
the State. But two of the old herd of
nine or ten brought here some years ago
are now living. 1t would seem that the
original lot fell into the hands of Mexi-
cans, who treated them badly, over
loading and abusing them. The men
who have them now are FfcIChmen,
and men, it seems, who had formerly
some experience with Camels III Europe.
They find no difficulty in rearing
them, and can now show "a fine, healthy
animals, all of WashOe growth. The
camel may now be said to be acclimated
in Nevada. The owners of the herd find
it no more difficult to breed and resr them
than would be experienced with the same
number of goats and donkcys. The ranch
upon which they are kept is sandy and
sterile in the extreme, yet the animals
feast and grow fat on such prickly shrubs
and bitter weeds as no other animal would |
touch. When left TO themselves, their !
great delight, after finding themselves !
with the coarse heritage Of the desert, is |
to lie and roll in the sand. They are used |
in packing salt to the mills on the river,
from the marshes lying in the deserts,
some 60 miles TO the eastward. Some of |
the animals easily pack l, 100 pounds. !