Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-11
WARRINGTON.
Important Railroad Questions before
the Federal Supreme Court.

Through WHICH tlle TOau passes. ana W1otnef
it is competent for county to tax for I'M
organized territory adjacent to it under The
law of the State. VIM. NJ EvRrts appears
for the Company aIid J. NJ. Woodwork, of
Omaha, Tor the State.
Ex-President johnson Makes a Raise.
Among the depoSitors who to-day re-
ceiyed thirty per cent of their deposits in
the First National Bank was ex-President
johnson, who received nearly $4,000.
A German Lunatic.
A young German from Baltimore was
arrested at the Executive Mansion while
endeavofing to see the President, in order
to obtain from him S15,000,000, which he
claims the President owes him. HeI was
put on the afternoon train for Baltimore,
being evidently a lunatic.
Iehiis6n's Reply 10 Holt.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Andrew john
son has been closely closeted herefor a fort
night. He has composed vigorous reply
to Judge Holt. and has read parts of the
same to critical friends. Your correspond
ent called on him to-day to get the points
of his statements about the execution of
Mrs Surratt, and he said that he would be
somewhat delayed by the embarrassments
thrown in the way as to obtaining points at
issue. Except in the old rebel circle, there
is very little curiosity as to what he may
have to say.
Gen. BeIlxnap,
who has been married almost daily by the
correspondents, said, to-day, that he has
been much amused at the wedding items
printed about him. He conveyed the I'M
preston that he should make no change for
the present in his widower affairs.
General sherman
has been surprising his auditors, high and
low, by saying that the run of failures in
railway, mercantile and speculative life is
of no real consequence, and that it ought
to 90 on until the constituencies element is
eliminated from banking and commerce.
He thinks that if sufficient of these failures
occur we shall have an easy money market
in a few months.
The Election ResuIts-BicIxerings
Among Officials.
Considerable resolution has been shown
since the State elections, as to compelling
changes in some of the potential bureaus Of
the Treasury. The opposition is directed
against Secretary Richardson and his So
licitor. Mr.. Banfield, and also against Mr..
Knox, the Comptroller of the Currency.
Banfield is one of Boutwells appointments,
and his advice as Solicitor has, it is said,
brought the Treasury into the present snarl
with the canal companies. Knox is de-
nounced as incompetent by the creditors Of
the banks which have recently failed.
Among the charges brought against
hun is one by Gov. Shepherd, of
the District OF Columbia, that he has
been pursuing the National Metropolitan
Bank vindictively, because his brOther-in-
law was refused place on the Board OF
Directors. Shepherd told Knox that if he
had shown common sense i'll looking after
the First National Bank, the remaining
banks of the District of Columbia would
not now be compelled to carry all the bust
ness in this region over the period Of strin-
gencv. In the case of the Ocean Bank, OF
New York, Knox subjected the Govern
ment to damage before the Metropolitan
Courts by his Ignorance Of the law Of con-
tracts entered into by the said bank with
its attorney, named Wilson, who brought
suit against the Receiver and recovered the
full amount of his fee with interest and
drawback.
ttHtIutOEt anu ObAo
While the Pennsylvania Railroad has re-
peated the dodge of script dividend, its
rival. the Baltimore and Ohio road has just
paid semi-annual dividend of five per
cent in cash. The latter company acknOw-
lodged a large falling off in freights, but it
is probably the only railway corporation in
the country which is going on with its eX-
tensions; and full gangs of laborers are lay
ing track up the valley of Virginia to Salem,
and putting down a triple track on the
main stem.
WindfaII 10 GresWeiI.
Postmaster General CreSswell has re-
ceived present Of fifty thousand dollars
from Jacob Tome. his aunt's husband, a
wealthy operator Oh the Eastern shore OF
Maryland.
Carl ScIlurz
has come back from Europe well satisfied
with the relative prosperity and discretion
of America. He says that Austria is rot
ten, France haggard. Spain hopeless, and
North Germany debauched with the sudden
influx of money. Schurz left this morning
for st. Louis.
EOnciIiatOry Advances TO Liberal
Senators.
+ A review Of the situation appears to in
dictate profiers of renewed consideration to
the Liberal Republicans, Sumner, SchurZ,
etc. by the regulars, in order to stave oil a
Bourbon reaction. Mr.. Sumner retains no
i'll feeling for any Of his fellow Senators
with whom he was embroiled, but persist
emily refuses to have any relations with the
| President.
Tom ScOtt's fisfOrtunes
have fallen with equal weight upon very
| many of the moneyed politicians. Among
the sufferers are Henry 5. McCOmb, author
OF the Credit Mchilier suits, who had one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
| Scott's Construction Company, and Ed
ward 5. McCook, who had forty thousand
dollars in the same concern. Discreet crit
| les now saw that no new railroad to the
Pacific will be built for ten or twenty
years
WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-All the public
interest about the Executive person centerS
to-day upon the capture Of the Nirginius
and the execution Of her prominent pas
sengers. Mr.. Fish, who has been the main
STAY Of neutrality, shows an awkwardnesS
| in the midst OF the Indignant CSElama-
tions and protests from every side.
| The President has always occupied
| wavering position on the Cuban
question:, and Gen. Sherman seldom
lets slip an opportunity to put in a word
! for the oppressed Cubans. Mr.. Fish, whose
| son-in-law Webster, has been the Spanish
Attorney in New York, is very persistent
| in his position. and his resignation is well
understood to be pendent upon any act OF
interference with Cuba by the Government.
He has been supported in this position by
! the merchants and conservative capitalists
who have strengthened his hands with COM
plimentary correspondence. The Presi-
| dents sympathieS are with the Cubans, but
the helpless condition of our navy and ON
| finances have restrained him from advanc,
ING beyond a conversational expression OF
compassion.
| To-day some of the military callers-iI
urged the President to take thepublic mine
off the monetary panic and give the unem,
ployed operatives something to think about
| bv a bold expression on behalf OF the fret
cause in Cuba. The diving condition o
old Mr.. Dent, and the equally hopeless SIT
nation of Judge Lewis Dent exercise al
unfavorabe effect upon the Cuban cause
The Ereling star which supports any Ad
ministration i'm power. comes out today II
"A leading article for the recognition OF "a