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GB-" What are you digging there for9"
said an idling fellow to sturdy laborer
who was at work on a piece of waste land.
am digging for money" The news
few the idlers collected. "We are told
you are digging for moneyP' Well,
amt digging for any thing else." "IIave
you had any luck ?'' +" First rate luck
pays well, you had better take hold.'' All
doffed their coats and laid on most vigor-
ously for a while After throwing out some
carloads the question arose; "When did
you get any money last?'' Saturday
night" "Why, how much did you get?"
Eighteen shillings." "Why that's rath-
er small. ""It's pretty well; three shillings
a-day is the regular price for digging all
over this ERE district"
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-04-01
QA 900 TO BE CREDITED TO
J MUTUAL POLICY HOLDERS
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The Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company
having had but little loss during the past year, the
annual assessment on Mutual Pocy-holders VIII
not exceed 60 per cent. on the usual one year cash
rates, which would be equal to q dividend OF Az
per cent as calculated in Stock Companies, or
deduction OF per cent on the notes below the
usual assessment; and as the Company has over
$500 600 in premium notes, the whole amount cred;
tied to mutual policyholders over cash rates VIII
amount to $4,000. Had the same policy;hoders IN.
would have paid $4,000 more than it has cost them
in this Company. Yet some of our neighbor
agents are running about crying Fraud Fraud
and declare that mutual company must fail.-
But they don't say how many stock companies are
failing every year. or how many worthless stock
companies are represented in Perry County
to-day.
1t is a well-known fact that a Mutual Company
cannot break. -
JAMES II. GRIER,
25tf Sec'y of Penn'a Central Insurance Co.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-04-01
Perry County Bank !


TIlHE nndersign ID having formed Banking As.
Il ISOLATION under the above name and style, are
now ready to do General Banking business at
their new Banking House, on Centre Square,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24

Plumbers, Gas and Steam Filters.
HENDERSON BROS & co., 70 n. Cherry street.
Photograph Galleries.
C. c. GIERS, IS Union street.
II. POOLE, corner Cherry and Union streets.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24

but what per centages go to the Indians
and what to the agents we cannot say
In every item there is an increase, ex-
cept in the solitary instance of the
Marine Hospital establishment. OBJ
serve, too. that the current fiscal year
is destined to show large advance on
the disbursements of the last In the
year ended June 80, 1866, the last year
of the war, the expenses of the Govern
ment, after deducting the interest on
the debt, drawbacks, pensions and the
cost of the Army and Navy, were only
S34, ole, 1856. The same expenses
last year were S75, 791, 125.05, or sever
al millions more than double. In 1868
they were S51, 6SS, 50l.74. The respon-
sibility for the rapid increase of the
public expenditures cannot be saddled
on the panic or on Gen. Buriel. The
taxes must at no distant time be in
creased, and the reasons why an in
crease is necessary must be sought in
the reckless infdelity of those in power
both in and out of Congress. Shall it
continue unchecked, and unrebuked?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24
BUYING An ELECTION IN SOUTH
CAROLINA.

4 dispatch was recently sent all over
the country from Columbia, S. c., an
nouncing that Senator Patterson had
been tried and honorabiy acquitted of
all charges of corruption lii securing
his election to the United States Sen
ate. The Charleston NelcS and Courier
says the dispatch was a misreprescnta-
tionofthcfacts in the case, concocted and
forwarded in the interest Of Mr.. Pat
tcrson. and adds: ''The fact that the
election Of Patterson was procured
solely by the use and promise of money
is perfectly notorious in South Carroll
ma. and the United States Senate can,
if it likes, easily satisfy itself that the
partial defeat Of the feeble efforts
which have thus far been made TO
bring him to justice was accom-
pGshed by the very same means" The
Nc,cS and Courier prints the afidavits
of some Of the African Legislators as
to the price for which they sold them
selves to John Patterson. One Miller
swears he sold himself for sixty-fve
dollars, which is far below the old price
for good field hand. Another, like
" fellow. named Ellison, swcars before
Trial .'Jcstice" Kirk that he sold him.
self for any sum Of money between five
hundred and a thousand dollars, and if
SO, that comes nearer old prices. An
other. one Battcas, says he was offered
four hundred,dollars. 1t viii be seen
that the range Of prices is 50 wide that
they fail to establish reliable quota
tons. The object Of these oaths is to
convict John Patterson of bribing his
way into the Senate Of the United
States-a piece of business which no
man in the Emitted States doubts that
the said John Patterson did successful
" transact-paying for the Legislative
votes considerations varying from
two gallon jug Of whisky to a thousand
dollars a head.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24
"A DTMORALTsED CONGREss.' .

Under this caption the Boston Aduer-
tiser, an Administration Republican
journal, thus..raps Its party:
What the nation regards, and viii
bthceforth regard more serious than
ever before, is not the loss of few
hundred thousand dollars, more or less,
but the loss Of dignity; not the eXtrav-
-, 49, ~ aol,s.,,aaollt Of public
morals. No tax could be 50 oppressive
on discOuraging as these repeated evil
dences Of demoralizationi high places.
They poison the fountains Of virtue all
over the land. And in this direction
Gen. Butler, twice repudiated by Mass
achusetts, is a fit leader Gentlemen
Representatives, Republicans or Dem
ocrats, who follow such leading, you
may well believe the people are not
blind. Do what you may, the
principles involved in this salary bust
ness, viii be among the
issues on which the country
will pass Judgment. Your attempts to
whistle them down the wind viii not
avail. That part Of the Republican
party which assists or countenances
such attempts Will be defeated. Neither
presidents nor cabinets, nor prestige
nor patronage, nor the cant of dema-
gogues can save 1t. The moment it is
clear that corrupt and corrupting inhu-
enccs have procured control Of the Re
publican party and cannot be shaken
off, there will be new birth in poll
ties. The forwardness of preparation
among the people for such a contin-
gency is much greater THANH. common
Iy supposed. The events in Washing
ton since Congress has assembled have
not tended to quiet apprehensions that
the Republican organization is drifting
to the bad. No department Of the pIb-
lie service is in a satisfactory cOndi-
ton, and. worst Of all, there seems to
be an indisposition to work reforma-
ton. There is everywhere Indifference
to the suggestions Of wisdom and com
mon sense When an administration
ceases to trust true men whom the peO-
pie trust, rcserving its honorable Ie-
wards for subservient incapaclty, the
country Will prepare for a change, and
there is no help for it.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24
BILL FARRA, COIOred,

Knox county, &c years old, 8 feet 6H inches high.
weighs 151 lbs; scar on right side Of the mouth
1,F4h III
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24
A STARTLING STATEMENT.

The Cleveland Ohio Herald, an IN
wavering supporter of the Grant ad-
ministration, says:
when Mr.. Dawes states that the
pay Of the President, including salary
and perquisites, amounts to 100000
for Presidential term, he states fact
that commands the attention of the
country At that rate of pay the Office
of President Will be sought for its pc
cuniary value. And when we arrive
at that point we have entered upon the
downward slope in the history Of this
Republic. 1t is a fearful thing for
Congress to say to this country that
the highest Office in its gift is position
for the attainment of wealth."
There is reason to fear that we cen
tered upon the downward slope" when
the Republicans bought Grant and
elected him President. We have GER
tainly been going from bad to worse
ever since his Inauguration. Here is
one Of the evidences as furnished by
the Nely York Tribune of Dec, Is:
eff there is anything in which mere
partisanship should be avoided, it is
certainly in questions of public money.
We appeal to thoughtful citizens of all
parties, and to all honest Congressman,
however classified, to consider dispas-
sionately the present alarming def
cheney in the revenues of the United
States Treasury. The temporary de-
preston in our foreign imports pro-
duced by the panic has undoubtedly
diminished the revenue, but the extrav-
agant appropriations of the Forty-sec-
ond Congress would have produced a
deficiency without the aid of the panic.
Certain it is that the expenditures of
the current fiscal year will exceed those
of the last by several million dollars,
and yet the rdinary expenditures of
the last fiscal year are without prece-
dent in the history of the country
Why should the army expenditures be
nearly three times greater than they
were in 1860? Why should the cost of
the navy have more than doubled in the
same time? Why should it still cost
six per cent to collect the internal rev.
enue?
1.-THE fiscal year 1868 was the last
complete year of Johnson's administra-
ton. Since then it has been claimed
that the government has grown eco
nomical. We should like to see in what
branch Of the public expenditure this
economy can be found. The public
debt has decreased, and therefore the
interest account is less burdensome
than it was six years ago. Six years
ago the army was larger than it is now,
and vast sums were distributed about
that time in bounties to the soldiers
These two items Of extraordinary
expense have naturally ceased
to exist. But the navy costs as
much and amounts to as little as ever.
The chief remaining items of public
expenditure, so far as the Secretary of
the Treasury furnishes information
upon which a comparison can be based,
compare as follows:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24

Hats and Gents Furnishing Goods.
JOHN NJ. MCKEE & BRO. Sc Union street.
VAIN & WALKER. a Public Square,.
ISAAC WATERFIELD. IS Union street.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24
IRON, TIMBER AND COAL.

The Columbia Herald finds work for
the next Legislature to protect the tim
Der in the iron counties of Hardin,
Wayne and Lawrence, from destruction
by the annual burning of forests in that
region. Col. Klllebrew is credited, by
the Herald, as making valuable sug-
gestions on this subject, based on his
industrial survey of the State, whichisin
progress. The following is copied from
the Herald:
''Now it is possible by any efficient
law to keep the supply of timber con-
slant. 1t is estimated that an area ex-
tending in every direction from the
furnace of six miles would keep one
with economy in blast perpetually, if
there was stringent law In action
against firing the woods. These flies,
which are kindled every year in the old
coaling grounds, sweep with resistless
fury, destroying not only the leaves, but
all the young sprouts that shootup from
the stumps of trees which have been
used for making coal. These sprouts, if
protected, would be of sufficient size in
twenty-five years to make good coaling
wood. Nor is this a matter of surmise.
Much of the land near Wayne Furnace
from which fires have been kept out,
has been twice coaled during the past
thirty years, and the sprouts after the
second cutting are now from eight to
ten feet in height On the other hand
there are large areas covering thousands
of acres which were coaled over twenty
years ago in which not tree as large
as mans arm can be found. And the
cause of this is the annual burning
which kills the young shrubs as fast as
they shoot up, The excuse given for
kindling these fires is that it induces an
earlier growth of the grass, and that
stock are able to subsist two weeks
earlier in the spring in consequence of
this buring. Now the woods may be
valuable to that class of farmers who
rely upon the commons for pasturage,
but we protest that the loss to the
owners of this property, and to the iron
interest of the State is ten times as
great as the value of the new grass for
stock If these fires are kept up the
seats of the furnaces will have to be
changed every twenty or twenty-five
years, and large extent of the country
rendered fruitless and worthless; a
weary wild desert unprotected from the
parching rays of the summer sun,
wild waste where even the barren grass
will soon refuse to grow"
There can be no reasonable doubt as
to the soundness of these views; and
with the loss of timber will follow less
rain in the summer season and more
severe drouths. Indians may kill TIM
Der to make wastes and prairies, but
civilized white people should know and
do better. Well managed, cord of
wood will grow on an acre in a year,
which gives640 cords on a mile square
of land. With good iron ore that costs
nothing, coal made from forty square
miles will yield a very desirable crop of
this metal. By working up our pig
iron into castings, bars, steel, nails and
other articles, the value of the annual
growth of timber rises into indefinite
millions annually.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24
LEWIS HARRISON, COIOred
JACKSON BROWN,

nox county, q years old, 5 feet 81 inches high.
eli CHS 14S lbs; has scar on left hand from a
Il and small scar on the forehead.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24

Every year since the war Congress
has met and with becoming gravity de-
clared it to be wise and proper "to
make provision, at the earliest practi-
cable period, for the redemption of
United States notes in coin. This
Radical humbug has becomeso polished
by use and friction as to excite the adj
miration not only of all the supporters
of Grant and Richardson, but of all
who participate in the fun of a protita-
bic joke. Trading with and in the de-
preciated notes of the government is
far from being an honest calling. 1t
corrupts the nation at its fountain; and
where the head springs send forth
water that is impure and poisonous, the
contamination extends through all the
stream that lies below. Congress can
not practice the tricks Of bankrupt
gamblers, paying one paper promise by
issuing another, and not foster and
patronize gambling universally. All
the talk about making provision to
redeem United States notes in coin" is
a thrice acted farce, of which school
boys ought to be ashamed. Reducethe
expenses of the Government to what
they should be, to meet the ideas and
condition Of the people, and all depre-
ciated paper would at once disappear,
and be a matter of past his
tory, The nation is to be plum
dered, and its credit, as well as
its cash, must be handled. How
long viii the country uphold this iniqui-
ty? The shrinking inssvalues that has
already taken place renders this very
favorable time to resume specie pay
ments. If Congress waits for another
initiation of prices, there must be anoth-
er crash. with another contraction, tens
of thousands thrown out of employ
ment, with universal suffering, that
long cultivated humbug may be prac-
ticed as a fine art. No other reason
can be given for the present bankrupt
condition Of the Federal Treasury than
to general squandering of the public
money. The doubling'of the Presidents
salary, and more than doubling of the
annual expenditures on the executive
are fair samples of the way
that economy is practiced by a Radical
Congress. There can be no reform till
the people takethe subject in hand, and
punish every member who does not labor
faithfully to cut down expense, reduce
the tariff, and pay promptly all debts
that are due. The extravaganza of
Government is without parallel in our
history of one hundred years, and has
become very hotbed of crime. If this
crime in public servants is not con-
demned and punished, its influence on
society at large in all the States Will be
most calamitous. Washingtonis city
whose example will corrupt both public
and private morals far and near. Men
now 90 there to steal themselves into
the first circles in the Union, and the
people are taught to believe that such
political and financial conduct is all
right.
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Retail Dry Goods.
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Bakers and Confcctioners.
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JUNGERMANN & Co. 81 Public square.
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Furniture Manufacturers and Dealers.
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Total inc. Grant over Buchanan. .S1S5, 105.S12
Grant over Lincoln...... 15S, $50, 1856
If the present Administration had
displayed the economy that was exhibit
ted under President Lincoln, themoney
which it has squandered in one term
would have sulIiced to carry it entirely
through another term; for the increase
is much more than double And the
amount of that increase is the measure
Of the plumber secured by Administra-
ton hangers-on.
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SlAION AbELEeo,
LEAYENwORTH, KANSAS.
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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24

DURING the fiscal year ending on the
30th of June, 1873, the imports from
Cuba into this country amounted to
81, 469,S26. Exports from the United
States 10 Cuba during the same period,
SIS, 2Sl ,039. With a good government
in Cuba, a government that would pro-
tect the people in all their rights, our
trade with that Island would quadruple
in single year.
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PRIZE LIST.

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The title to the above real estate is guaranteed
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The liberal terms of the scheme brings itwith-
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PRICE OF TICKETS.
Single Tickets, $3.50; Eleven Tickets, $500;
Fixty-six Tickets, $1,000; One Hundred and
Fifty-six Tickets, S2JOO0.
The drawing will be made under the superin-
tendence of "A committee appointed by the high
est officials in the State, duly to the faith
full performance of the duties assigned them
The highest officials both of City, County and
State have not only endorsed Mr.. Abeles, but
also his scheme.
The demand for tickets is unparalleled, nd
all desiring to participate in the drawing sho,
at once form their clubs and send in their orders
Agents Wanted in all States, Cities and Towns
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~ Money should be sent by Registered Let
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For further information and particulars, send
for circulars to the Manager and Proprietor,
and address
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LEAyENwORTH, KANSAS.
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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24

THE Pittsburgh Post says: General
Neighbour own General Negley-has
been reelected President of the Union
League of America. Considering the
fact that he is one of the leading de-
tenders of the salary steal, the Union
League of America has done well. .
Negley is the sort of men the Republi-
can leaders delight to honor as has
been demonstrated in CONGRESS.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24

A WESTERN paper relates, as an illus
tratiOn of the power of love, the case of
Miss Catharine Oates, of Cornwall, Eng
land, who travelled allthe way to Toulumne
County, California, to wed the lover she
had not seen for eight years, and found
him welded to Mexican ranchero's daugh-
ter and the father of five children.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24
PROFLIGACY OFTIIE ADyEINISTRA-
TTON.

The reckless prohigacy Of the Ad-
ministration is in the highest degree
alarming, as a comparison with former
Administrations will show. In this
comparison We exclude war, navy and
pension expenditures, as the response
bility for those expenditures rests upon
those who provoked and produced the
rebellion. Aside from this expenditure,
we have the following exhibit:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24
NOTICE..

/ HE ANNUAL MEETING of the Stock
holders of the First National Bank of Nashville,
Tenn, will be held at the Office Of said Bank on
Tuesday, Jan. 10, 1874, for the purpose Of elect
ing seven Directors TO serve the ensuing year.
deci6 sod W. c. BUTTERFIELD, Cashier.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-24
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SHEREEE,S SIZE

DY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OF VEND.
ID Tx. to me directed, and delivered from
the Honorable Circuit Court of Davidson coun-
ty, Tennessee, at its September Term, 1878, 1
will expose TO public sale, to the highest bid
der, for cash, at the Courthouse door, in the city
of Nashville, ON Saturday, the Cd day of Janu-
airy, 1874, within lawful hours, all the right
title, claim and interest that 4. A. Spencer has
in and to the following property, to-wit: Fifteen
(15) shares OF the capital stock of the State III
surance Company, each share representing a
nominal value OF one hundred dollars, and being
levied on as the property Of A. A. Spencer to
satisfy a Judgment against him and in favor Of
Gennett & Co. for 81 200, besides interest and
cost
Dated this sd day of December 1873.
Il. ID. WHITWOBTH, Sheriff.
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