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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-11-24

bras, es saber 81 cayendo un rayo en-
una palma viva que sirva de poste le
JOS de una estacion telegrafica, puede
8 no causar desgracias personales en-
ella. La Ragon cree que 81; ell BoLET1N
que no. ST es como dice ell colega,
nosotros defendemos ell error q sablen-
das y carece de toda autoridad cuanto
hemos escrito y escribamos en- defen-
sa de nuestros principles; 81 es como
dice el BoLETIN, La Ragon es la que
de6ende ell error sus laboriosos ar
t1culos en- pro del radcalismo no me-
recen consideration alguua por parte
de las personas de buena intencion
recto criterio. Todo este segun ell mo-
do de discurrir de nuestro antagonis-
ia: 81 en- clio hay soisma no somos
nosotros los soGstas. Vamos, pues, q
cuentas.
Empezemos citando algunas leyes
y teorlas de los buenos autores de Fl
sica y de Telegraffa:
"Dos cuerpos cargados de la misma
electricidod, Sc repelen, y de electrici
dad contraria Sc atraen.' CD
"Ias repulsiones y atracciones en-
tire dos cuerpos electrizados estdn en-
raSom inversa del cuadyo de la distan-
cia." (2)
Gun cuerpo electrizado obra sobre
otro en- el estado neutro de la misma
manera que ei imam sobre ell hero
dulce, es decir que descompone Ell t7ui-
do nemtro, atrae la e7ectricidad de nom-
bye contrario d la que posee, q yrepele la
del misnao nombre" (3)
"Cuando Sc hace pasar la descarga
de una baterfa al traces de I'M azanebye
de hie,yo 8 de acero Sc vueIve rojo
blanco y arde con una luz deslumbra-
DORA Los alambres de platinO Gel mas
infusible de los metales), de orc 8 de
plata, Sc .tAmden q volatiHzan. Van-Ma-
run, con una tuerte maquina de dos
platillos y con una poderosa baterla,
taemdi6 wn alambre de hero de 16 me-
tros de longitud." (4)
'Los mejores conductores Ode la
electricidad) son los metales, la antra-
cita, la plombagina, el coke, elcarbon
de lena bien calcinado, las piritas y
la galena, siguiendo luego las disolu-
clones salinas, ell aqua en- los estados
de vapor y lfquido, el cuerpo humane,
los gegetdles y t0d0s los cueypos hatme
dos" 90
LA duracion de la propagation ode
la eiectricidad) es inversamente pro-
porcional & la conductibilidad de los
los cuerpos recorrldos por la corrien-
te; directamente proportional al cssa-
drado de s~ l0ngitad; iuversazmente pro-
porcional al drea de su seccion." CO.
"No Sc ha dado case en- que un te-
legrafista al cargo de un aparato, haya
sldo estropeado por una descarga,
pues los Instruments suministran me
ior camino q la electricidad que ell
cuerpo humane" "Cuando tiene lugar
ma descarga entire las nubes y las
lineas telegrafcas, es decir, cuando
el rayo here los alambres, la cmga Sc
escapa por los postes, rqjdndozos (the
% Tratado dc Fisica de Ganot, traduecion
de Monlau ediciOn de Ba1lly Bailliere, 1859, pa
gina 49,
(2) Id pag. 49,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-11-24

aHojado los vlnculos quessle unen al mundo,
y tai es 10 que Harold experimentaba la
saxon Porque habia un corazon que le
consagraba un grato recuerdo y una dull
ce confianza, que le interesaba por igual
al suyo; y ese corazon era 10 que absorbia
todas sus horas de enternecimiento.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-11-24

Region para mi tan bella
Nj en- que tanto Sc gloriase
La madre naturaleza, -,
ST tus ojos con los mios
El curse del Rhin siguieran,
Prestando asl nuevo encanto
A sus mfrgenes amenas!
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-11-24
IL.

Mil batallas han asaltado tus riberas, pc
70 de todas elias no queda ya el menor re-
cuerdO, = ri subsiste siquiera Ia mitad de.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-11-24

EteP
NtanGaso oedn
taes
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-11-24

Pero 10 que mas deseo,
ESQ en- ell Rhin no Sc encuentra.
\ es tn mano entire las mias
Para estrecharla con elias!
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-11-24

a. Culley, A Handbook Of practical Tele-
graphy, London 1868 pdg. sly 49,
(8) George B. Prescott, History Theory and
practice Of the electric Telegraph, Boston, 1859,
pag. 299.
(9) Ganot, pag G1s.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-11-24
MUM. l39.

doen CaptaY
Unmesii ienl a.
nsueto2 2rs TNwen
esu uagaes
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16

BILE as to upset the received theories of all
ravies, commercial or belligerent, that the
world had ever seen. The Tennessee
was about 800 feet long, drawing about
seventeen feet water, with very large
three and four-bladed screw under stern.
If her engines should have become dis
sbled, she could neither lay to nor work
to windward. Her only possible course
would be TO leeward; and if there were
gale winds following the sea, she would
certainly run on to her, or, in seamen
phrase, scoop her." being thus at the
mercy of winds and waves.
She might go off to the eastward q
couple of hundred miles in three days,
and then be driven back in three days
more. and so on until favorable wind
would drive her on some shore. Dicker-
son was not precise in his recollections of
the machinery of the Tennessee since her
reftting at the Brooklyn Navy Yard;
therefore he hesitated to say positively it
was actual murder on the part of the
authorities who knew her condition, to
send human beings to sea on board of
her, but unless she had been radically re-
formed at Brooklyn, he thought that
| putting her into the commission was an
act of homicide, the degree of which
should be left to the decision of jury or
| criminal cases.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16

Grand total 2,7s9 s75,C54,OOO 1851 SIS. 2i2, 600
The total number of failures in 1863
was 2,6OS, including liabilities to the
amount of $63, IA, 900, and in New
York city and Brooklyn, All, with
liabilities of $Sl, 1884, 600. So, while
there has been a general increase
throughout the United States in the
amount of liabilities by reason of fail
ures, there has been a decrease in New
York and Brooklyn. The increase in the
extent of failures for the whole country
is 25 per cent. over the year 1869, and 80
over that of 1868, which, says this au-
thOIity, indicates want of success not
only as applied to individuals, but must
more or less represent the general success
of traders throughout the country. 1t
may be pretty safely concluded, that tie
surplus which has been added to the gen.
eral wealth of the mercantile community
by the years transactions is but trifiing
The firm making the report take some
what gloomy view of the situation"
though not other than that justified by their
figures. One point however patent TO
others is not stated in their review.
The failures given are taken wholly
from their own reports, and as
they give no data to estimate how
much their business has increased during
the year, it is possible that the increased
ratio of failures may be overstated. The
fact that the number of firms reported by
the firm has increased over forty per cent
since 1860, while not fairly indicating the
exact increase of tire past year as COM
pared with 1869, sustains this point we
make, and should greatly modify the con-
illusions arrived at in the report. The
following comparison of the number of
failures and the total liabilities in past
years, is interesting, as showing the effects
of the war upon the business interests of
the Northern States:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16
le Northern States:


The statement concludes as follows
'In the above comparison in must be
borne in mind that the number of traders
now reported has beenrapidly increasing,
and that in 1870 we had on cur books
500, 900 reports as against perhaps $780,
900 in 1860. The proportion of failures,
Therefore, is not so great as appears at
first glance, the ratio now being about
one failure to every 14O persons IN bust
ness
There is reason 10 believe, says the
New York Shipping List, that the for
tunes amassed during our civil war have,
in a majority of cases, been swept away
by the reversal of the tide of business,
but it does not follow that the surplus
wealth of the country has been seriously
impaired. The constant shrinkage in
value for the last three or four years has
entailed great hardships upon the
mercantile classes, but the process is we'll
nigh ended, and the hardest spot on the
road to resumption has, doubtless, been
passed, and with proper management
business men will have fewer impede
ments to encounter in the near future.
The mercantile classes are, for the most
part, now in a position 70 compromise
with adverse contingencies of the future.
They have learned (many of them at a
heavy cost that to stipulate for safety
with small profits is the only condition
under which they can hope to safely tide
over the remaining period of transition
from initiation to solid commercial fOun-
dstion. Only let the currency question
be finally solved, 50 that business may
rest ON some permanent aud calculable
basis, and there will be a speedy restora-
ton of commercial prosperity, more solid
and enduring, from recent hard expe-
rience, than the country has witnessed in
a long series of years.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16

The steamer Tennessee was formerly
called the Madawaska. She was built as
a fast vessel for chasing blockade run
nerg. Mr.. c. II. DickersDn, a gentleman
whose professional connection with the
engineering department Of the navy
during the past ten years gives value to
his opinion on the subject, has been in
terviewed by a reporter Of the New York
Herald to obtain his views as 10 the con-
EtructiOn, equipment and sea-wOrthiness
of the Tennessee. DiCkersOn knew the
vessel under its former name, NADIA
wsska, and related interesting facts in
connection with her construction and
outfit. She was a vessel universally ad-
mitted 10 be good one to stay at home,
but the idea of sending her down to the
Antilles, or any other voyage whereby
any possibility of stress Of weather might
be encountered, was so preposterOus that
it would be comcal, if not for serious
loss of life and property that might be
involved.
She was, he explained, one of the nu-
merous costly experiments undertaken by
the Navy Department during the war, to
prove that the ideas of certain class of
very progressive dreamers were so valua-
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16
GRANTS PROSPECTS FOR A RE.
INCLINATION.

The politicians and party managers of
the Radic.l party-the friends of the va
rious sspirants for the Presidency-are
earnestly at work in Washington shaping
things for the convention which is to no.
inmate the candidate in 1872. While the
friends of the other aspirants are keep
ing their movements as much in the dark
as possible, Grants ''backers" make no
secret of the fact that he will be a csndi-
date before the Radical National Conven-
ton for re nomination; and it is SAID that
Grant himself does not deny that he
desires to make a second race. The
Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing Feb. II,
says: ''There was a time when no other
person than Grant was mentioned as the
nominee of the Republican party. Dur
ing the last few weeks, however, other
aspirants for the Presidency in the Senate
aud House have begun to be mentioned
by their friends. There are those among
the Republican Senators and members
who make bold TO say that they do not
think Grant can be renOminated, and that
if he is successful in obtaining the nOmi-
nation, he is likely to be defeated by the
Democratic candidate, provided that parry
has the good sense to put in the field a
man with a reasonably good record, on a
platform which will command the conf
dence of the people. This is the talk
which you hear in the halls of Congress,
in The Hobbies of the hotels, and wherever
politicians are wont TO congregate. Sena-
tor Schurz is reported as saying that
Grant cannot secure the large German
vote in the next campaign; Senator Sum-
ner does not think the Republican party
can afford TO have Grant as a can
didste; Gen, Logan is doubtful about
the Republican convention Tenomina ing
Grant, and lesser lights in Congress shake
their heads omlnOusly and say, 1t looks
blue for 1872. +" This correspondent tells
of smother class of Radical politicians
"who manifest cold Indifference about
the denomination of Grant, and yet show
no particular Partially for any other
candidate" Careful investigation, says
the correspondent, shows that at present.
this class is by far the most numerous.
Among them are such men as FentOn,
Trumbull, Patterson, Morrill,, of Yer
mont, Spencer, Upton and Sherman IN
the Senate, and Farnsworth, Dawes,
Banks, Kelsey, Schotield and Garfield in
the House These men are not
absolutely against Grants nomiua-
ton, but they are not cnthusi-
astic for it According to this
correspondent, the political managers
who desire the denomination of Grant
belong to the ultra Radical wing, disciples
of the gos4a of hate, like Morton, Bot
tied Ben. Buler, Henry Wilson, Zach.
Chandler, and Conkling, of New York.
The prospect now is that Grant will
have some strong competitors for the
nomination-among whom is mentioned
Gen. John A. Logan, the head of that
semi-political organization known as the
Grand Army of the Repubic-and it is
quite certain that if he secures the NOM
nation he and his friends will have to do
a good deal of hard work.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16
In Chnncerr at NashviIIe, Tenn.

STATE OF TRNNESSEE-Ofic Clerk and J
Master, Chancery Court at NaShyllle:
January the 20th, 1911. J
The State of Tennessee complainant vs.. the
Edgedeld and Kentucky Railroad Company
and others, defendants.
1t appearing from the allegations of the bill
filed in this cause thst the names ana res
idenGe OF a humber Of tho stockholders of the
defendants, the Edgeheld snd Kentucky Rail-
road Company, the Nashville and Northwest
err Railroad Company, the Memphis. Clarks-
vile and Louisville Railroad Company, NC
Minnville and Manchester Railrosd Com
pany, Winchester and Alabama Railroad
Company, the Southwestern or Southern Rail-
road Company, the Knoxville ano Kentucky
Railroad Company, the Cincinnati. Cumber-
land Gap and Charleston Railroad Company,
the Knoxville and Charleston Railroad Com
pany, the ROgersville and Jefferson Railroad
Company and the East Tennessee and Western
North Carolina Railroad Company. are al
unknown, as also the names and residences OF
number OF the holders of the bOnds issued
by the complainant, the ate Of Tennessee, to
the be ore named Railway Companies, and
also of the holders of the bonds issued by said
Railroad Companies, or any OF them, and also
of a number of the creditors of said Railroad
Companies, and that the Dames and residences
of q number of persons interested in said be-
fOre-named roads, OF Railroad Companies, are
also unknown, it is, therefore, in pursuance Of
the provisions Of an act Of the Legislature of
the State of Tennessee, passed the 2ist day of
December, 1870, entitled "An act to amend the
act OF 1870, chapter 70, for the sale of the in
terest of the State, in delinquent RailOad
COmDsnies, passed July l, 1870" and of the
allegations and prayer Of said bill in this
cause, ordered that all said unknown stock
holders, holders of the bonds issued by
the State to said companies, or of the bonds
issued by said Companies, creditors OF said
Companies, and other persons interested in said
several roads or Railroad Companies. before
named, enter their appearance Lerein at a special
term Of said Chancery Court at NsShyi'le, TO b.
held on the first Monday in Msrch DeJt QS7I) 81
that all Of said defendants, or many of them Of
the differen, classes as the Court may deem sum
cient to represent al Of each Glass; be required to
answer the allegations of the bill on oath, and put
in such defence to said bill they may respective
ly deem proper, under the provisions Of the said
&C. Of the 2ist December, 1870, or the said bill viii
be taken for confessed as to them, and set FOR
hearing ex parts and that a copy Of this order be
published for four consecutive weeks in the Nash
vile Union and American and the Republican Ban
per. A true copy-Attest:
NATHANIEL BAXTER, JR,
Clerk and Master.
E. H. Ewing, ". +. Cooper, W. Il. keese, soiic-
for COmplainaut ian22 QAW
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16

The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press says Grant, Sin con-
versstion with a member of Congress
from the South few days ago, said he
wished that while Congress was about ii
they had passed bill repeating the test
oath absolutely; he would have felt more
like approving such bill than he did the
one now before him, which was only
partial repeal, and, so far as he could
Judge, was more in the interest of the ex-
Rebels than of the Union men," Grant
is 10th to do anything for "exRebels."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16
TRUSTEES SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST Exc
ID cuted to the Nashville Building Association
on the 18th day OF October, 1885,, and registered
in the Registers Office of Davidson comfy, Tenn.
in Book No. 20, page 3Sl, will, on WEDNESDAY,
MARCH l, 1871, expose to public ssIe, at the
Courthouse door in the city Of Ma Shvil e. for cash
without the equity Of redemption, the real estate
described in said deed situated In Nashville, d.
wilson county, Tenn, on Line street, between
College and Cherry streets fronting Is feet the
south side OF Line street, and running back IS
feet, more or less, on which is two-story brick
house: mOrtgaged to said Association by GeTfss
Seiferle and Lis wife Victoria
The proceeds to be applied to the salts action of
the debt secured in said trust deed, there being
balance due to this date Of $57752 without usury
day of February, 1871.
By order Of the Board of Directors.
febl6 2W ANSON NELSON, Treasurer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16

A CORRESPONDENT of the Washington
Patriot says: Speaking of explana-
tons, would ii not be proper to have an
explanation IS to the occupation of
Charles Lemos, ostensibly employed as
clerk in the Treasury Department at
$1,000 per aunum, but who performs
duty at the Executive Mansion as barber
Whom does he shaver As the President's
face requires no razor, is this conven-
fence provided for the military staff at
the peoples expense?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16

GREAT satisfaction is expressed in
Canada in relation to the High Commits
sion movement to adjust all difficulties
between the United States and Great
Britain. Most of the Canadian journals
denounce annexation, but say, get US
continue good neighbOrs and good Gus.
TONERS to one another as IN the past.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16
TRUSTEES SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF DEED OF TRUST Exc
ID cuted to the Nashville Building Association
on the 7th day Of December, 1883, and registered
in the Registers Office Of Davidson county, IL
Book No. 90, page 276, will, on WEDNESDAY
MARCH /, 1871, expose 10 pubic sale, at the
Courthouse door in the city of Nashville for cash
without the equity Of redemption, the real estatt
described In said deed, situated in Nashville, Da-
wilson county, Tenn, being 40 feet on the north
part Of lot No. 20 IN the plan OF Elysian Grove
property, and Running back to an alley ana bought
by Joseph Alley from Isaac Paul; mort aGtd by
Joseph Alley to said Association.
The proceeds to be applied to the satisfaction oi
the debts secured in said trust deed, there being
balance due to this date Of $236.17, without usury
besides the costs Of executing this trust. This
18th day of February, 1871.
By order Of the Board Of Directors.
febl6 Wv ANS0N NELSON, Treasurer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16
TRUSTEES SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF DEED OF TRUST RXR.
ID ecuted TO the Nashville Building ssociation
the 2lst day of eptember, 1858, and registered
in the Registers Office OF Davidson county, Tenn.
in Book No. %, page 263, I viii, on WEDNESDAY
MARCH l, 1871, expose to public sale, ut the
Courthouse door IN the city Of Nashville, for cash
without the equity Of redemption, the real estate
described in said deed, situated IN Davidson coun
ty, Tenn on the north side Of Cumberland river
in civil district No 49, containing 10 acres Of land
IS surveyed By B F. Woodward, and sold by b
". Hall to VIM. Bsyley, and mortgsged to said As
sociation by VIM. Bsyley, per Z. d. Payne, his at
tOrney in fact, registered IN the proper Office
in Book No. %, pages 264 and 265.
The proceeds to be applied to the satisfaction Of
the debt secured In said trust deed, there being
balance due to this date of 81 1858 90 without usu
ry, besides the cost of executing this trust Thii
10Th day of February, 1871.
By order Of the Board Of Directors.
febl6 2R ANSON NELSON, Treasurer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16
TRUSTEES SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF DEED OF TRUST Exc
ID cuted to the Nashville Building Association
on the 18th day Of June, 1857. and registered in
the Registers once Of Davidson county, Tenn.
in Book No 20, page 179, will, on WEDNESDAY
MARCH l, 1871, expose to public sale, at the
Courthouse door in the city of Nashville for cash
without the equity Of redemption, the real estate
described in said deed, situated in Nashville Ds-
wilson county, Tenn. being 80 feet Of lot No. Isl
in Hynes' addition to Nashville, on Ewing street
on which is 9 small brick house; mortgaged &c
said Association by Madam J. P. de st. Marc.
The proceeds to be applied to the satisfaction OF
the debt secured In said trust deed, there being
balance due to this date Of 1916 Os, without usury
besides the cost OF executing this trust This 18th
day OF February, 1871.
By order of the Boa-d OF Directors
feds Nv ANsON NELSON, Treasurer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16
TRUSTEES SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST Exc
ID cuted TO the Nashville Building Association,
on the I'd day of August, 1855, and registered in
the Registers Office Of Davidson county, Tenn,
in Book No. 20, page 81, l will, on WEDNESDAY,
MARCH l, 1871, expose to public sale, at the
Courthouse door in the city Of Nashville for cash,
without the equity OF redemption, the real estate
described in said deed, situated in Davidson conn
ty, Tenn, on the Lebanon turnpike, in civil dis
trict No. 2, adjoining the lauds Of G1odlett, Arm
strong and Campbell, containing sH acres, and
being the tract Of land purchased by Cstharine
Lee, from Geo. D. Hamlet, and mortgsged by
Cstharine Lee to said Association.
The proceeds to be applied to the satisfaction Of
the debt secured In said trust deed, tn re being .
balance due to this date Of $3ls without usury,
besides the costs of executing this trust. This
18th day of ebrusry 1871.
By order Of the Board Of Directors.
febl52w ANSON NELSON, Treasurer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Times (RadicaD gives this notice:
eff Secretary Boutwell, collects any
further income tax from me, it will not
be until the courts compel me to pay,
and recommend TO my fellow sufferers
the q lontion of the same course.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16

WITH all the boosted intelligence OF
New England, Rhode Island is wonder
fully behind hand in the matter of edu,
cation. 1t is estimated tina, in this little
State alone there are 10000 children, un
der Is years, who attend no school, and
more than 10000 persons, over Is years
of age, who can neither read nor write.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-16

The New York Times (RadicaD
anxiously inquiries: "Shall an odious tax,
which the Treasury can very well spare,
be continued, to please Mr.. Boutwell,, OF
abolished to please the country" This
of the income fax