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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-15

NEW OhK, JanuaFy 20, IoII'
Capt. S. Alerander, Supt., Richmond, Va:
Dear sirA-Y Your favor OF sd 10 hand. Am pleased
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-15

to hear of the quick of the Upton, aud Of yonr
prolpect of good freight next trip II We had
fill her .som shis end of the line, before she had
made many trips, and more especially if we could
get the outlets for ireignts from Norfolk and
Petersburg once opon J.. We enclose you herewith
copy of our lc letter, of 20 lay, :, Gen. Malone
In reply to his OF the goth. On rssding his lett,r,
we think you will agree with us, tat his frst (of
14) wa but mere garblo and that the limit of his
equal terms" are, in effect, charge us loal iates
.som Norfolk. OF corr.s this shuts out at once.
The freight mentioned in letter to him consisted
of some ten tons, all of which was to have gone by
next trip, but we now consider 1t improper TO take
more oft, and ave compelled to decline the balances
except what is already on tho pier. Indeed, until
We can effect some through arrangement from Nor.
fok or Petersburg, 1t would seem advisable fer rs
- copfne ourselves 10 local reights. How much
stock blve you yet taken towards another ship
We think Anderson in deep earnest, and If We man-
age rightly we N another ship through him.
RESPECTFULLY,
RS gledl WASHINGTON Go.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
VI. LOUIS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,
III North Sixth street, ST. Louis, Mo.

Sold in Nashville at retail by G. W. HEN
DERSH0TT, and all Druggists At wholesale
by BERRY, DEMOVILLE 8 CO., and all
Wholesale Druggists.
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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30

I'm the seven years the total vote OF the
state has doubled, while the Republican
majority has quadruped."
Who is this man Austin, whose re-elec-
ton by an increased majority affords so
much satifaction to our Louisville contem-
porary? The Milwaukee Meas says: "a
dozen or fifteen years ago, the State of
Minnesota contracted a railroad debt. 1t
loaned its bonds TO certain railroad COM
panies to be used for procuring money to
build the lines of railroad which they had
projected, the State taking as security from
these companies, a first mortgage on their
graded road beds, franchises and property
Of every description, including land grants
of twenty sections of land to each mile of
road. The financial crash of 1889 over
whelmed these railroad companies, and
they were unable to pay interest on the
STATE bonds, las they have agreed TO do,)
or to proceed with their lines of railroad.
The State, thereupon, foreclosed its mort
gage on their property and franchises, in
Guiding miles and miles Of graded road-bed
and their land grants as an entirety. Then,
with all this property Of the defaulting
companies in its hands which it seized to Sc
cure itself for the bonds which it had issued
and agreed to pay if the railroad company
did not pay them, II repudiated the bonds,
by constitutional amendment,
ratified by the people. 1t obtained pos
session of the property mortgaged to it,
for the purpose of reimbursing it in case it
should become liable on the bonds, and
then formally, by a constitutional provision,
refused to pay them. Such uncommon
rascality was never before perpetrated by
any municipal body. 1t is as much worse
than Mississippi reputation as the Tam
many robberies are worse than the theft of
a loaf Of bread by a starving man. On this
tide of reputation the Radical party in
Minnesota came into power. 1t elected this
man Austin to the office of Governor,
and while in that office he Dor
rowed 5000 on straw security of the
President of a railroad company, who
wanted his signature to the deed by which
the State conveyed to the company $4,000
acres of certain land grant. This scandal
lOus transaction was exposed before the
late election. Commenting on this expo
sure, the Governor said be preferred the
reputation of a knave to that of fool, and
he was reelected by bigger popular ma
jority than was ever before cast In the
state. Birds of a feather flock together.
The repudiators know their man"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
REPUBLICATION DEARER THAN
ROYALTY.

The Cincinnati Commercial asks: "Since
the expenses Of royalty in England have
been figured up by Sir Charles Dixie, has
any American been at pains TO calculate the
cost of Presidential election?- The New
York Bulletin, in view Of the extravaganza
aud corruption which characterize almost
all departments of our national government,
is half inclined TO come to the conclusion
that our republican system Is failure. 1t
SAYS 1--WE have all the evils consequent on
Democratic form OF government without any
of its advantages" The people Of South
Carolina and some of tie other Southern
States certainly have cause to entertain such
an opinion as this. The Bulletin adds:
'Instead of being more economical than
despotism or limited monarchy, it is far
more costly if we take into consideration
the enormous cost Of our constantly recur-
ring elections which far exceeds, in the az
gregate, the cost of royalty. Nothing but a
return to the utmost possible decentraliza
ton in the exercise of political power and
in the expenditures which it entails. (the
latter Of which should be reduced TO the
lowest possible limits by delegating no action
TO government, whether local, State OF Fed
eral, that can be safely left to Individual of
ficers,) can eradicate the evils from which
every portion of the Union is now suffering
10 intensely"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
RADICALIsm AT THE SOUTH.

The New York Tribune has had no meI-
cy on ''the thieving carpet-baggers" for
months, and it is now beginning to discover
that the leaders of its party in the South are
about as bad as the carpet-baggerS. Speak
ing of reconstruction in the South, under
the management of the Grant administra-
lion, the Tribune says;
For months the developments of rascal
ity in the management of the reconstructed
governments of several Southern States
have been growing more and more oonclu-
siye. No intelligent man longer doubts
that those governments have been fragrant
ly expensive and corrupt; that they have
increased taxation, incurred debt, and is
sued bonds to an enormous extent. The
facts are IN part concealed or obscured, but
cannot long remain so; enough is already
klo"h TO JUSTIFY tile very gravest ap-
prehensiOns. In the two Carolinas es
pecially, the robberies appear to have beep
quite as gigantic, when the relative wealth
# the respective communities is considered
rs in this city. Yet men whom Un have
esteemed honest talk as though all exnosnra
aud apprehension of these villainies sbouId
he left TO the Democratic journals-that we
ought to ignore, or befOg, or belittle them
They represent such exposure as is calcu-
lated TO damage the Republican party gen
orally; we hold that, even If this be so.
that party will be far worse damaged by
seeking to cover up those iniquities, and
thus making them, to some extent, its own.
Let it promptly and fearlessly expose and
denounce the criminals, if it would vindi-
ate itself from all completely in their
crimes" l.r..
If the Radical journals in the North would
generally speak out in this manly way, the
Grant administration would be forced 10
drop the men who have done and are still
doing so much to stir up strife and ruin the
South.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
RESIGNATION OF JUDGE NELSON

The people of Tennessee will learn with
regret that Hon. T. A. r. Nelson, one of
the Judges of the Supreme Court of this
State, has resigned his position on the
bench, TO take effect on December 9TH.
The reputation of Judge Nelson as a law
yer, high as it was before, has been in
creased by his opinions as enc of the Asso-
ciate Judges of our highest State Court.
While his brother Judges and the bar will
especially feel his resignation, the public,
which has become to know him better and
esteem him most highly, will all join in the
sorrow which his retirement will produce.
To fill the vacancy occasioned by the re-
signation of Judge Nelson, his Excellency
the Governor has appointed Mr.. James T.
Shields, of Granger county. To the peO-
pie of East Tennessee, and to the bar of the
State, Mr., Shields is well known as a lawyer
of the highest standing, one who will wear
the ermine gracefully and 50 devote himself
to bis high calling as to carry conviction
that the position is as much honored by the
occupant as the occupant by the position.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
THE BEST OFPROOF.

Ex-Gov. Hamilton of Texas in recent
speech exPounds one branch of political
science in America. He says he never saw
any of the members of the Texas State Gov
eminent steal any thing, but awhen we see
poor, miserable cuss, who never had $50
in his life, come to Austin, borrow money
to pay his expenses, and presently find him
losing a thousand dollars night at faro,
driving round in a fancy team, making
liquor bills, wine bills, and all sorts Of bills,
and buying buggy and fine horses to go
home in, we know he is thief as well as
{ we had seen him steal.r
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30

THE women's rights women are not gen.
orally very great admirers of Grant. They
have made him no presents, and the con-
sequence is, he is probably opposed to their
departure" Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
writes letter to the Golden Age, New
York; in which she strongly opposes Grant,
and suggests, as the most feasible way of
defeating him, that electoral tickets be run
III every State without a platform, except
that of opposition to Grant," leaving the
choice for President and Vice President en-
tirely to the electoral college. She concludes
as follows:
"The electors thus chosen could meet in
general convention and nominate PreSi-
dent; then assemble in the capitOls of their
respective States, and cast their votes for
the nominees of the convention. Thus
would the spirit of the constitution as laid
down by the fathers be indicated, and the
Presidential chair be occupied by a scholar,
a gentleman, statesman, and an honest
man, which we all know is not the fact to-
dayv
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30

''These are samples of what has been
done, and bitter presage of what may yet
be accomplished unless there is reform.
Of course expenses have been made indis-
pensable by the changed condition of
affairs. Public buildings have been neces-
sary, and there have been taxes for public
education. But, outside of all this, there
is ample evidence of rapine and fraud as
worthy of rebuke, correction and punish
ment, as any that have been discovered in
New York city. The true relation of the
'carpet-bagger' to the community where he
lives and thriyes is not well understood, and
the Northern press can do a great public ser
vice by helping along new order of things
and by restoring the South to free and COM
plete autonomy. In Virginia there is quiet
and good order. There the blacks are full
well behaved and well treated. In that
State are three thousand public schools.
The Virginians have shaken off carpet
baggery and all its works. We believe We
should hear less of Ku-KluX if the same
could be said of the other States"
These facts explain how it is that the car
pet-baggers have defeated the Radical party
in so many of the Southern States in which
they held power Immediately succeeding the
close of the war. They not only run up
immense debts against the Southern States,
but robbed the people in all sorts Of ways.
Offices without number were created for
them, and the people taxed to pay their sal
aries. Sothatthe estimate ofthe Commercial
Advertiser that the debts of these States
have been increased under Radical rule by
more than S150,0OO,OOO, does not embrace
the item of money collected in the shape of
taxes and appropriated by Radical officials
the larger portion Of whom were perhaps
carpet-baggers-as payment Of salaries.
There has been great deal said about the
corruption Of the Tammany ring in the city
of New York, and justly too, but here is a
field of corruption which has never been
thoroughly explored. Those Radical pa
perS that made themselves 50 busy have no
words of condemnation for the spoliation
of the South by their own party. 1t
was through the instrumentality of
the carpet-baggers and scalawags
who thus robbed the people Of the
South, that has been brought about con-
dition of affairs such as curse South Caro-
lima to-day-with the barriers of civiliza-
ton and social order dismantled, broken
down, and scattered to the winds, and the
direst calamity fastened upon that people
which could possibly befall an enlightened
and christian community, that of being
domineered over by semi-sayages and out
laws from every sentiment and principle of
humanity.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
HOW THE CARPET-BAGGERS DE
FEATED TEE RAnBrAHR


The Washington Chronicle, whose prin-
cipal editor is w. W. Holden, attributes the
defeat of the Radicals in Virginia to the In
huence of the carpet-baggers. That paper
says:
"1he Federal revenues in Virginia should
be collected by citizens of the State. Non
residents and strangers are Objectionable to
the people, and cannot have the interests of
the Republican party as much at heart as
citizens. This is not cold, hard govern
ment, which would think only of the reve-
nue., and pay no respect to the feelings and pre-
fereDces of the people from whom the reve-
nue. is drawn. A discreet and thoughtful
officer, known to the people as one Of them,
can collect the revenue with as much ease,
make himself more agreeable TO the people,
and thus more greatly enhance the popu-
larity of the Republican cause than a
stranger or nonresident can"
This man Holden, while Governor of
North Carolina, assisted the carpet-baggers
to rob the. people and to pile up an immense
debt against that State. He knows that
their influence is baleful, and hence he
warns the government against them. But
he is simply following the lead of Mr..
Greeley in this matter. For years Mr.,
Greeley has been denouncing the carpet
baggers through the New York Tribune as
thieves, and the refrain has been taken up
by few other leading Radical journals Of
the North. In this connection, the follow
ing exhibit taken from the New York Com
n1ercial Advertiser, Radical journal, will
be interesting:
"The South is depressed and burdened
by men whom even Mr.. Greeley has de-
nounced in no measured terms-men who
eat out the substance of a long-suffering
people by exactions and debt, under which
richer communities would stagger. The
entire debt of the following named States is
stated as follows for 1861 and 1871:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30

A Philadelphia publisher has recently is
sued "a new and enlarged edition" of work
which bears the title of " Beautiful Snow!
and other Poems. BY j. w. Watson In
his advertisement of the book he says:
"'Beautifnl Snow treats well-worn subject
with originality and feeling delicate and In
tense. The despair of the wretched out
cast, as she watches the falling of the pure,
beautiful, yet cold and unfeeling snow, and
remembers that she was once as fair and
pure, is depicted with true artistic effect"
This is the same beautiful Snow" that
was written by the late Henry Faxon, and
his mother, who now lives in Clarksville,
has in her possession the manuscript from
which it was first printed.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
AccoRD1NG 10 the review of the return

ACCORDING to the review of the returns
from the principal railway lines of England
and Wales, for the six months ending with
the month of October, as published in the
London Times, the companies generally
have had season of almost unexampled
prosperity. The fourteen leading lines have
received revenue of ELI, OPS, which is
an increase of fS21, PCS over the cores
ponding period of last year. As the returns
Of last year themselves showed a healthy
increase of traffic, the latest figures are n
proof of great prosperity and success.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30

THE Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati; Gazette says, Nov. %: "Foster
Blodgett, who has-recently been indicted at
Atlanta, Ga, for mal-appropriation Of State
railroad bonds, in conjunction with Gov.
Bullock, has arrived in this city. He pro-
poses to continue the contest he inaugurated
last winter for seat in the Senate, but the
Judiciary Committee are prepared to report
adversely on his case as soon as Congress
meets" BlOdgett has the impudence Of
Old Nick. 1000 ..,.--.--,,s -s..-.-s
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30

AT a recent meeting Of the Canadian
Colonization Society, of New York, resolu-
tions were passed favoring the annexation
of Canada to the United States. The mem
bers Of the society are all British residents.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30

IldOt ]. s..ss...s UlUVU,UUV ..s.....
"Here is an increase of debt in ten years
to the amount of more than $150,000, 900,
and for all this sum there is really little or
nothing to show. The debt has been In
creased for the building of railroads and
other improvements, and these have mostly
no existence except on paper. In addition
to the debt incurred, there has been an en-
ormous increase in county taxation, as a
few figures will show:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
City Poll Tax Notice.

A LII MALE PERSONS, BETWEEN THE
"A ages of p and 80, residing within the city
limits are listed for Poll Tax, and the book con-
tanning their names has been at the Collectors
Office since July 1, 1871, at which time the tax
was due. After the expiration OF 20 days from
the date of this notice, warrants will be issued
and costs charged against all parties not having
settled by that time. B. W. MCCAIN,
Rev. Collector, City Hall, So. End MarkethOuse.
noy29 A.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
PARTNERSHIPS.
Partnership Notice.

WE HAVE THIS DAY ASSOCIATED
w ourselves together to do General Com
mission Business, and act as Agents for the Vir-
ginis Manufacturers of Chewing and Smoking
Tobaccos. W. B. g. K. L. ARMISTEAD,
Nos. II and 10 Market street
NASHVILLE, oet-a1. Xxi. oc22 t
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30

- This medicine has been used in our prac-
tice for many years, and with thousands treated,
it has not failed in a single instance.
~ Each package of Vegetable Cure is wrap
ped in ultramarine blue paper, printed in gold
letters, and contains one bottle llled with Sugar
coated Pills, and one vial filed with Medicated
Powders sufficient to make One-half pint Of in
lection, and one Syringe.
~ Price, 80 per package; sold by Druggists or
sent by mail on receipt of $3.50.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
Special Sale of Boots and Shoes.

FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. l, at 10 O'Clock,
IL Yeatman, Shields & Co. will sell late con-
signments of Mems, Boys Ladies', Misses and
Children's Boots and Shoes, Hats, Clothing, and
a line of seasonable Dry Goods in variety, for
cash on delivery. No regnlar sale Thnrsday. II
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
On Wednesday, the 9Th day Of
December, 1S7I,

At z O'Clock H., the following Real Estate, to
Wit:
A certain piece OF lot Of land lying and being
in the city Of Nashville, Davidson county, Tenn,
fronting 1877 niHety-uine feet on South Market
street, between Franklin and MulOy streets, and
running back to a line half way between Market
and College streets, bounded as follows; Com
mencing at the northeast corner Of Lot No. !, ~
numbered in the Academy Lots, laid OF By the
Commissioners or Trustees Of the Academy
running sOuthwardly with Market street ninety
nine feet To a point; thence south about MY
seven degrees west one hundred and tWenty-one
and 9.i2 feet TO point; thence west about thirty
three degrees north (9) nine-nine feet TO pOinti
thence north about 81 degrees east one hundred
and FIVE and 9-i2 feet 70 the beginning, being
part Of the lower half Of Lot No. in the Acad-
emv Lots, as laid OF BY the Commissioners o.
Trustees Of the Academy, and part Of the Lot
conveyed to Samuel Wolfe by y. H. Marshall b.
deed recorded in the Registers Office Of David
son county, in Book 'fY.'' pages 500 and 4, the
same sold BY order of the County Court Of David
son county, on the 9th day Of July, 1867, and
bought by Joseph Wolfe The whole lot viii b
divided into lots TO suit purchasers on the day o.
sale.
TERMS-Cash. Sale free from the equity Of
redemption ". g. EWIN, Clerk
nOv16t&25&dec5
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
TEMPLE OF MUSIC

TINE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFULLY
il announces TO his friends and the public that
he is receiving daily his mammoth stock of fanOs
for the fan trade, embracing
SteinWay, Knabe & Co., Dunham =
Sons, and Halnes Bros,
conceded by the Musical Profession to be the
best makers, all Of which are offered at the lowest
New York prices.
Sole Agency for the 9Burdetf'' and
Prince a Co.'S PRFlOr and
Church Organs,
the acknowledged fsvOriues Of all who are 40
Quainted with them.
Sheet Music, Music Books, anG Small Musical
Goods in full stock.
Pianos and Organs, (new and second nand) fR
rent at low rates Rent applied in payment Of
purchase.
Schools, teachers and the trade furnished AZ
wholesale prices, same a. Northern cities.
Every instrument fully warranted. Cal At %
Union street and be convinced.
sept deOd&w3m LAS A MeCLE M
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
CITY ORDINANCES.
AN ACT
To Prevent Hogs from Rum
ming at Large.
BE it Enacted by the City Council of

BE it Enacted by the City Council of
Nashville,
OEC. I. THAT IT SHALL NOT BE LAW
y full for the owners of swine to permit them to
run at large in any OF the Streets, Alleys, or
Squares of the City of Nashville.
SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the City
Marshal and of the City Police to take up all
swine found running at large within the city
limits and cOnfne the same in the WOrkhOuse
for three days. IT, within that time, the owner
or his agent shall call for said swine, they shall
be delivered upon the payment of one dollar for
each one 80 taken up. If no person comes to
claim the same within three days, then such
swine shall be sold for the benefit of the city.
SEC 3. That this ordinance be published daily
for one week in three of the city papers, and shall
take effect from and after January /, 1872.
Approved Nov. IA, 1871.
a true copy:
THOS. j. HALLE, Recorder.
noy24 1W B., f.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-30
A MODEL RADICAL GOVERNOR.

The Louisville Comm, rc;di (Radical) has
this bit Of political news in its issue of
Nov. 2S:
The majority given for Gov. Austin is
the largest ever given for any Governor in
Minnesota. The previous gubernatorial
rnaiorities have bean as follows: