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QUA NATIIIoNAI yTEALTw.

An elaborate statistical brochure, CON-
piled by DIR. Francis A. Walker, Superin-
tendent. of the Census Bureau, contains IN
teresting information, pertaining % the
wealth Of the Union, obtained from the an
prsisement Of each State and county by the
United States Marshals. The amassed
wealth Of The whole country, according to
these statistics, was in 1870 $50, O6s. 4ss, 5o7,
against sic, I59, SIC, O6s in 1860, and 7.l95
80, 22S in 1850. It viii thus be seen that,
notwithstanding the immense waste and
loss Of property during the exhausting four
years war, together with the
loss of $2OO,OOOOOO in slave prop
erty, the increment In national
wealth during the past decade reaches lit
tie over SO per cent, while during the last
two decades the gain has been little more
than three hundred and ten per cent? The
growth Of real and personal property in the
leading States has no parallelin the worlds
history. New York greatly exceeds in
wealth than any other State in the Union,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois,
Missouri and Indiana ranking next in the
order written. The following table exhibits
the increase of wealth in the States in the
last decade in the matter ofreal and person
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Grand Total. So, O68, 488, 507 s16l59 ,616,O6S
The true valuation of the property of
the whole cour try, it will be seen, is rising
S30,OOO,O0O,OO0, and exceeds that of the
British Isles, which is set by the eminent
statistician, D. A. Baxter, at f6,0O0,OO0,-
600 sterling. The two valuations differ in
other particulars. In Great Britain the ae-
tive capital exceeds that of the United
States, the chief investments here being in
land and buildings. In Great Britain, also,
the returns upon investments average a lit
tie more than four per cent, while in the
United States they average nearly eight per
cent. They differ also in this, that the
debt of Great Britain is nearly twice
that of the United States, and the
American valuation would pre-
ponderate were the debt on each side to be
deducted. A portion Of our national debt
is held abroad, but the yearly growth of
that part abroad is more than balanced by
an annual growth Of $250,0O0, 900 in our
railway investments into which British iron
enters. The wealth Of the United States
is more progressive in its character than
that of Great Britain. It nearly doubles in
a single decade, while that of England
takes ten decades to accomplish an equal
growth. This rapidity of our growth will
carry the valuations further apart in the
future. The foregoing figures clearly
demonstrate that the material progress Of
the country, during the last ten years, has
been extraordinary and unparalleled.
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SEVERAL months ago the Pension Agent
at Washington, one Collins, was discovered
to be defaulter, and it was then stated
with apparent authority, that Che amount
would not exceed $4,000. As now esti-
mated in the Second Comptroller's Office,
the defalcation will amount altogether to
about 100000. The vouchers submitted by
him cover his disbursements up to Dec. /,
bringing the gross apparent balance on the
accounting officers books, down to the fig
ures above mentioned, and it does not ap-
pear that be viii be able to further reduce
his deficit. What the government is going
to do about the matter has not yet trans
pired.
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The Washington Patriot states that ar
rangements are about to be made to divert
the great through mails between New York
and Washington and New Orleans from
their present route at Cleveland, Tennessee,
so as to pass thence to their destination,
via Dalton, Georgia, Calera, Montgomery,
and Mobile, Alabama. By this change, the
mails viii reach New Orleans at 2 A. NJ.
ten and half hours in advance Of their
present time Of arrival via Grand Junction,
Tennessee, and render practicable the de-
livery Of letters before the opening of the
business day instead of the afternoon as
heretofore. A sure connection at New
orleans with the morning mails for Texas
will also be thus effected.
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RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

The railroad officers in the United States,
as well as the American people generally,
have bad name abroad for csrelessness.
The Railroad Commissioners Of Massachu-
sets have gone into the work of compare
son very thoroughly, and the result is that
there are killed and injured, in series of
years, on
British Railroads, one in....... 100000
Massachusetts, Railroads, one in. !, Az, 900
Belgian Railroads, one in. 600, 900
Prussian Railroads, one in. ......3, 600
French Railroads, one in...... 100000
The investigation also shows that dis
asters of a distressing character are not
peculiar to America, but are similar in all
countries. Several accidents, similar to
that in Revere, Mass, occurred in France,
England, and other European
countries during the same year. As it has
been the universal impression that accidents
were both more frequent and more distress
ing in this country than in Europe, we read
lily confess surprise at the statement. The
Commissioners also say, that, upon cal
culation of average chances, any person
would accomplish "a, 904, 048 Journeys of 19
miles each, or an aggregate journey Of 324,
100000 miles, before meeting with any &C
cident resulting in death, though there is
still chance that the traveller may meet
with the fatal accident the next mile
be travels. The Commissioners recommend
for their own State, and for others without
proper caution
l. A revision of rules under which roads
are operated, and the rules of all the roads
harmonized.
2. The general adoption of brakes opera
ted from the locomotive, to enable the en-
gineer at all times to control his train. If
an engineer can apply the brakes, thus saving
delays in whistling brakes, many collisions
might be averted. The economy of time in
regular trsin-stops, which is of great conse-
quence where stations are near together, is
also presented. F
3. The construction of all new passenger
cars so as to prevent telescoping in case of
accident. Indeed, the best comment is
found in the experiences of the Burlington
and Missouri Railroad Company, on which
the use Ofthe Miller platform, for the past
four years, has absolutely prevented tele-
scoping.
4. The adoption of approved standard
heating apparatus, and the disuse of anv
Illuminating substance other than candles,
or fluid incapable of ignition at less than
800 degrees Fahrenheit, with precautions
against the danger OF fire.
5. The substitution of French lanterns
in place Of the ordinary tail lights now in
use, so as TO prevent collisions of trains fol-
lowing each other on the same line of track.
6. A brakeman to be stationed upon the
last car Of every train, whose duty it shall
be to have charge of all train signals, and
to provide for the safety of the rear of the
train in case of danger; all employees Of
trains to adopt uniform dress or cap, and
the telegraph utilized more extensively in
aid of the present timetable system.
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AMERICAN people are accustomed to speak
of Mexico as barbarous country, but here
after an exception will have to be made OF
the editors. These gentlemen OF the quill
resident in the City of Mexico have just
formed themselves into a society, the mem
bers Of which are all bound to abstain from
personal attacks upon each other when dis
cussing politics and other inhammable sub
jects. Here is an example for New York,
though if it were followed it would leave
some Of the journals Of that city bare Of
eyerything but adyertisements.
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.orced by this trite quotation:
Rather bear the ills we have,
Than flV To others TINT We lrnl

THE system Of compulsory education"
has become the subject of general discus
sion in the provincial assemblies throughout
France, and the chief difficulty in the way
of its adoption, to the French mind, is its
interference with parental rights and pre-
negatives, which is far more extended and
arbitrary than it ever could be il this coun-
try. But it is said one of the French coun-
ellis has hit upon an ingenious compromise
which may end in the adoption of a modi-
fed scheme of this sort. The principle Of
compulsory education was acknowledged as
an enlightened one by this assembly, but an
amendment was unanimously adopted, Civ
ing ''the absolute right to parents to select
the manner and the place of teaching for
their children"
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LITERATURE.
Ariel Before the Public
THE SECOND TIME.

.sTHE NEGRO ENLARGED, WITH
4 Criticisms and Reviews of AriePs Review
ers, exhibiting the cleaning Of the Learned"
an Octave Volume, price S1-5O, with usual dis
count to Book Sellers and News Dealers.
~ Showing that God could not make 8 black
man or negro with the endowment of life be-
yond the grave, commonly called a 'ssoul," any
more than he could make fire without the en-
dowment of heat and light.
~ That God never made or created, nor put
on this earth either BtEIGtto or mule.
(3) That the Hebrew words Adhom, Ia adkoTa,
by which the white man IS designated; and
the word ISL, by which the black man Is desig-
mated, and the word eRosh, by which the first
cross of whites and blacks is designated, and the
word drIshey, by which further crosses Of whites
with muiattOes are designated, are never con-
founded together by the Divine writer's; and
where it occurs in the Bible it is evidently mis-
take of the copyist in copying MS.
(4) Our Bible Translators have grossly and
falsely translated all the above words by one
word, man, or men, If plural.
This work will be out and ready for sale in the
next 20 days.
Any paper inserting this notice once will have
a copy sent them by mail on forwarding paper
containing it.
Orders solicited. PAYNE, JAMES & co.
Nashville, Tenn, MayT, 1872. MY Sw
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THE New York Express says: "WhiIe
upon this question, as so much has been
said to the contrary, it is proper to add that
while the National Democratic Executive
Committee, which met on the Sth inst. in
New York, took no vote and proposed no
vote of preference as to candidates, all of
them preferred Mr.. Greeley to Gen. Grant,
While John Forsyth and others are for a
direct Democratic nomination at Baltimore,
Gen. VIM. B. Bate, the delegate from Ten
nessee, and others, are against any nomi-
nation at BALTIMORE
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NEW SHORT line

W. B. sHATTUO, GEM Pass. Agent, II. z.
Gent Southern Ag't, Cincinnati, o. mhH Il
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Mrs. STANTON is never at a loss for a
story to 'point the moral or adorn the
tale" Of her argument. In one of her late
lectures on which the superiority ofwomen
in executive ability to men is argued, she
says: "There was no head in nv mothers
family. remember my little sister swal-
lowing leaden bullet. My father. being q
timid man, hid his face. My mother took
her daughter by the heels and shook her
If she had waited for the head Of the family
to act, she would have lost her child" The
Boston Globe says this touching story of the
prompt devotion ofthe mother in taking her
daughter by the heels, is certainly strong
and almost convincing Argument, but the
majority of skeptics on the woman question
will insist upon additional instances before
DING over altogether,
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clerk of the Criminal Court,

w MCKEE, JR., the present Deputy Crimi-
nal Clerk, a candidate for Clerk of the Criminal
Court Of Davidson County, to fill out the unex-
PRED term of the late Hugh w. Frizzell.
and American. ap2S-td
WE are authorized to announce w. H.
w JOHNSON, as a candidate for Criminal
Court Clerk at the ensuing August election.
ap2Std
WTE are authorized to announce SAMUEL
wv D0NELSON, a candidate for Criminal
Court Clerk, at the ensuing August election.
% may2-td*
HTE are authorized to announce Mai. j. d.
w Nancy as candidate for Clerk of the
Criminal Court Of Davidson County, at the cleo
ton in August. my1O td#
WE are authorized to announce CHAS. e.
wv DIGGONS as a candidate for Criminal
Court Clerk at the ensuing August election.
myil td$ T.
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1CerS or the BOarc
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ADJUSTMENTS.
MHCHANTCs pTcNTc.

Nj ~----->-a-s----- ~ -
HfHERE WILL BE A GRAND. lRAfT.RoAT
Excursion and Basket Picnic at
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The Louisville Ledger is mistaken in
saying that the representative from this
State failed to attend the meeting of the
National Democratic Committee. DR..
Leftwich, who was originally appointed on
the committee, died two or three years ago,
but Gen. w. B. Bate, who was selected TO
ill the place thus vacated attended the
meeting of the committee.
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For Revenue Collector.

XLIE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE
w JAMES I. PATTERSON, of the Ninth
Civil District, as a candidate for Revenue Col
lector of Davidson County, at the ensuing Au-
gust election. mig I'd
WE are authorized to announce b. +.
w GLEAVES, ESQ.,, of the 4th Civil District,
as a candidate for County Revenue Collector at
the August election. mhTT I'd
WE are authorized to announce j. II. COLI
w Inns as a candidate for Revenue Collector
at the ensuing August election.
March q, 1879. mhA te*
WE are authorized to announce E. E. GOOD
w LETT as a candidate for Revenue COllec-
tor Of Davidson county at the ensuing August
election. mh31 te
WE are authorized to announce THOMAS II.
wv SNEED, of the 14th District, for Revenue
Collector of Davidson county at the ensuing
August election. apis te*
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WE have a new version as to the age Of
the earth. From the discoveries lately
made by Jules Oppert as to the old Egyp-
tan calculation Of time, he finds that they
were a nation, and had records, Ii, 2S4
years before Christ. The Chaldesn system
Of calculation, as at present understood,
has an interval Of S2,542 years between the
creation aud deluge.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-12

IT is reported that after the Cincinnati
Convention, the Chairmen Of the Republi-
can State Executive Committees of Illinois,
Wisconsin and Iowa hurried of to Wash
ington, to urge the nomination Of some 9TH
er candidate than Gen. Grant at Philadel-
phia.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-12

BOSTON is afflicted with gas monopoly
"A thing which people generally regard as
Of no recent occurenee-snd there is talk
of getting up an opposition company, and
the profits Of the business are pointed to
as reason why capitalists should embark
In the enterprise.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-12

4 a SARCASTIC Ohio editor notices that
''last evening the beautiful daughter of Mr..
Loyepuf, the accomplished and gentle
manly wagon maker Of this vicinity, was
united in wedlock to George Beerstat, the
talented artist whose charming landscapes
are upon the dashboard of every buggy
ever turned out of his father-in-law's shop,
and who at stripping carriage wheels has no
peer living since Rubens died"
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR Ennrerna .Indra

ITO THE PEOPLE OF TENNESSEE In
i response to the expression Of a popular de-
sire, sufficiently general and influential to con-
troll my action IN the matter, hereby announce
myself candidate for the office of Judge of the
Supreme Court, made vacant by the resignation
of Hon. I. A. X. Nelson. Election, first Thursday
in August next. j. B. COOKE.
CHATTANOOGA, March II, 1872. mhI2 to
WE are authorized to announce HON. ROB-
w ERT MCFARLAND, of Morristown, JEFF
ferson County, Tenn, as a candidate for the Of
tce Of Judge of the Supreme Court, to I'LL the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. T.
A. r. Nelson. Election in August next
mh23 ten
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THB ENGLISH MEDICINE
has
SAVED Many FROH AN EARLY GRAVE
what is Money Compared to
Health
Read the following Testimonials
From the Rev. DE-. HUNTER and Others
Il.
-Our oldest and most respect.
able Citizens:

able Citizens:
Dr.. g. W. HKEDERsHoTT, Agent-Dear Sir:
I was suffering this Spring with torpid liver. I
used part Of a bottle Of your "THORTON'S
ENGLISH LIVER AND BLOOD PUEI-
FIER.n 1t cured me at once. Several others,
to whom / have spoken Of it, have found great
benefit from its use. am glad TO commend what
IbelieYe to be so good medicine.
JOHN w. HUNTER. T
Nashville, Sept. 10, 1s71.
g. W. HKEDKRsHoTT-Dear Sir: was sub
ject to chils and fever Tor more than three years
and nothing but the English Liver Remedy would
cure me. I think it the best medicine In the
world. recommend it to all. Yours truly,
VIM. WILES. 4
Residence, Busnz Vista Springs, Davidson
Co, Tenn. e.
MR. HKNDERsHoTT-Tou called nay attention
TO an English kidney remedy which think high
ly Of, and you win please send bottle by bearer,
and oblige yours, ETC., s. ARNOLD M. D.
RY, DEMOVILLE q CO., LITTERER q
CABLER, g. W. HENDERSHOPT, and all
respectable druggists in England and United
States. dec12 o dt
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TIA Elmira (N. " Gazette Of the 9Th
contains the names Of many Republicans,
formerly warm supporters Of Grant, who
come out square-toed for Horace Greeley
for President. 49,
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4 Law has just been passed which win
make those who fab in any Of the streams
of the interior of Iowa liable TO IS fine
for every fish caught by other means than a
hook and line, a
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For sheriff.

We are authorized to announce f. N. WOOD
ALL as a candidate for Sheriff of Davidson
County at the ensuing August election.
mh2 te#
TTTEFare authorized to announce E. ID. WHIT
w WORTH as a candidate for Sheriff of Da-
wilson County at the ensuing August election,
subject to a convention of the people.
mh26 te*
WE are authorized to announce MILT, o.
w BROOKS as a candidate for Sheriff Of Da-
wilson County at the August election, subject to
a Democratic Convention. mh28 te
T hereby announce myself as a candidate for
i Sheriff of Davidson County at the ensuing
August election, subject to the action of con-
Tention. w. q. SHAW.
mh2S I'd
WE ARE AUTHORISED TO ANNOUNCE
w ID. A. COLE as a candidate for Sheriff of
Davidson county at the ensuing August election.
apl17 te
WYE are authorized to announce VIM. j.
w WADE, OF the Fourth Civil District, a
candidate for Sheriff of Davidson county at the
ensuing August election. ap19 td#
TIO THE PEOPLE OF DAVIDSON C0UN-
ty.-I hereby announce myself candidate
for Sheriff of Davidson county at the ensuing
August election, subject to a convention of the
people. w. n. MCCOOL. .
ap23 If
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Dissolution Notice.

THE COMPREHENSIVE HERETOFORE
j existing between E. Taylor, G. II. Barry and
j. S. Vedder, of the Tennessee Chair Factory,
under the name and style of Taylor, barry s.
Co., is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
Mr.. Barry retires from the firm, and the bust
ness will be continued in the name of Z. Taylor
& Co. E. TAYLOR,
May 9, 1872. G. H. BARRY,
myiO If J. S. VEDDER.
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TEE Huntsville (Ala) Reporter, which
supported the Labor Reform ticket davis
and Parker), has run up the Greeley and
Brown ticket.
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For Tailor.

NTE are authorized to announce WESLEY
w DRAKE as a candidate for Jailor of D0-
wilson County at the next August election, sub
ject 20 convention if one is held. mh12 ter
WE are authorized to announce BOB.
w PATTERSON as a candidate for Jailor
at the August election. mhI7 I'd
AYE are authorized to announce ALEX. S.
w EDWARDS as a candidate for Jaior of
Davidson County at the ensuing August election,
subject to a convention of the people.
mh26 te
WE are authorized to announce JAMES D.
w CASTLEMAN, of the 18th Civil District,
as a candidate for Jailor of Davidson county at
the ensuing August Election, subject TO Con-
vention of the People. APPS I'd
I'VE are authorized to announce j H
w BURKE, of the 9th Civil District, as
candidate for JailOr of Davidson county, at the
ensuing August election, subject to a convention
of the people. ap2S-te*
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THOSE Radical editors who had so much
to say about the 'tstolen vouchers" which,
it was said, had been distracted BY the
Tammanyites in New York, have been
very quiet on the subject of the disappear
ance of the Buell. courtmartial record.
Why they are silentwhen SO important a
document has been stolen?
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
o-v0O>oOOo1vNNcSJoc lN0NoJo.no1sONNONa
PeremDtOrY Trade Sale.

THURSDAY MORNING, f4rTt MAY, COM.
i mencing at 10 O'Clock, YeatIaan, Shields q
90. will close out to the highest bidder a we'll
selected line Of choice seasonallle Staple Dry
Goods, TRAININGS, White and Variety Goods;
also Retail Stock on account of party declin-
ing business, and an invoice of Dress Goods for
whom it may concern, presenting rare chance
for bargains. myl2 2t
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EStraYed.

H between Madison aid Monroe streets, a
bright bay Mare, about Is hands high, on Thurs
day night May 8; had on pair of rubber beads
on left fore ankle, with sore from interfering;
also had on leather halter A liberal reward
will be paid for her return.
H. G. LINCK,
my11 Of "a Union street
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County Court Judge.

T am candidate before the people of Davidson
j. county, for Judge of the County Court, sub
ject TO the will and wishes Of a majority.
Respectfully, JNO. G. FERRIS.
8pr26-td --
INTE are authorized to announce Hon. P. G
w SILVER PERKINS as a candidate for
County Judge of Davidson county, at the en-
suing August election. may2-td
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OFFICIAL NOTICES.
>~D~oooOorOOrlu v,,NcyO,D,N0,Oc lvleruuuoI,,l.
United States Internal Rev
enue.
AcarcunuJc Or,r,Y 5sr1r TTr,y,

Assessors OFFICE, 9TH DIST. TENN.
Nashville, May 8, 1872.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN list of assessments on income and special
taxes for the year 1872, is now complete, and
open for the inspection of any person for the
purpose Of appeals, during the business hours of
each day, at my office, No. 81 Cedar street, for
ten days from this date.
All appeals must be made in writing, specify
ing the particular cause, matter or thing respect
ing which a decision is requested, and should
also state the grounds Of error complained of.
my4-1Ot ID. B. CLIERE.