Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-07
POLITICAL.


leo 70 the I6VOlt ot bIc McU0cs, anu OF
ten previously published, the commission
ers, ailuding to assassination Of Gen. Can
by and Peace Commissioners Thomas, say
treachery so base admits of no palliatiar
nor can any punishments meted out to The
perpetrators of the crime Ee too severe
| The Modec war, it is held however, can
| not be charged against the Presidents peace
policy, and it isalso affirmed that the mis-.
| deeds of Individual Indians or bands should
not be charged against the innocent or up
on the race. The red man has no friends
| to take his side Of the story. No degree ol
exaggeration or falehood is too gross to be
uhhesitatingly accepted by the public mind
against him.
The report says 1t has never been the ex-
pectation of the friends of the Indian policy
that it would in the short period of a few
years civlise the sasage tribe, nor could 1t
be expected to bring the red men in three
| years to become as free from crime as the
white. 1t is the opponents of the policy
who expect the Indians to be more free
from criminality than the people of our
most civilized communities. Four years
of trial have proved the peace policy to be
success and with the exception ef con
tests with few tands of Apacnes and the
present unhappy struggle with handful of
Modoc braves, the country has been saved
from Indian wars. The christian denomi-
nations are invited to cooperate. Then
the most inveter Indian haters will hard
ly venture to complain of the policy or the
results.
The Civil Service-ssIncOuipete Ac.
ceunsants,'' who Make ALI TheiE
Mistakes ON One Side.
ST. LOUIS, May 6.-The Republican
learns that mistakes in bookkeeping in the
Office of Major James Lyds.y, Pension
Agent of this city, have been discovered to
the amount of $4,000, and that Major
Lydsay has made the amount good out of
his own private funds. The errors are
said to have resulted solely By eason of the
incompetency of accountants. It is stated
that Col. A. r. Easton, the present United
States Revenue Assessor, has been offered
and accepted the position of Govern
ment Pension Agent here.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-James Lydsay,
Pension Agent at st. Louis, has been sus-
pended for irregularities, and A. Z. EastoD,
OF st. Louis, appointed to succeed him.
A Rabid Ru.Klux.
Mr.. McWaters, who broke into the Wy
oming, Nebraska, postoffiee and assaulted
the Postmaster, aud killed Judge Wolf,
who was assisting the U. S. Marshal to ar
rest him, was arrested at Kansas City last
night and will be taken to Nebraska to-day.
The st. Louis Congress.
Over 200 Congressman have accepted in
vitations to participate in tie excursion
planned by the St. Louis Chamber of Com
merce, which is to leave that city on the 10Th
inst. for Texas.
ST.. LOUIS, May 6-Mayor Brown, Presi-
dent of the Executive Committee, has been
directed to confer with the authorities of
New Orleans to ascertain if they will take
charge of the excursionists at Galveston
and bring them to New Orleans, by the
way of the Balise, so that the Congressman
can see the real obstructions to the devel-
opment of the trade of the valley.
VIM. G. BrOwnIOW.
A committee has been appointed to re-
ply to Parson Brownlow's letter of declen-
sion printed in the Knoxville Chronicle, it
being believed that be totally misapprehend-
ed the object of the convention.
UnifcatiOn.
NEW YORK, May 6.-Vice-P President
Wilson arrived in this city this a. NJ. At
noon deputation from the German Amer
ican Society called upon him to ascertain if
he would speak at a mass meeting to be
gotten up under the auspices of the society
the latter end of the month. Wilson re-
gretted that he could not be present, but
assured-them that the object of the society
the uniication of the different races in the
United States, had his approval. 1t is un-
derstood that Chas. Francis Adams and
Andrew D. White will speak at the meet
ing. 81
The ''RefOrmers'' SquabbIiDg Over
the SpoiIs.
1t is reported that combination in the
Board of Aldermen has decided to lay all
future nominations on the table until the
Mayor feels disposed to give them voice
in the distribution of patronage.
The Tour OF Recreation.
CHICAGO, May 6.-President Grant spent
to-day at Geneva lake, as the guest of Chas.
Levison, of the Chicago EUening Journal,
in company with Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan,
Gen. Anson Steger, of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, and several personal
friends.
Indisna Town Elections.
INDIANAPOLIS. May 6.-The following
returns have been received from cities
where municipal elections were held to-day :
In Lafayette the entire Democratic ticket
was elected, the Council being Democrats
and Republicans. Three tickets were in
the field-Democratic, Republican and
Temperance. At Richmond the Demo
Gratis elect the Mayor and Assessor; the Re-
publicans elect the Treasurer, Clerk and
Marshal; the Council tie. At Arazil, the
issue was temperance, without regard to
old party lines, and the anti-temperance
ticket was successful.
James l.. Mitchell, Democrat, for Mayor
in this city, is elected by from 800 to 500
majority. The balance of the ticket is Re-
publican by a small majority. The Coun-
Gil will stand the same as last year-11 Re-
publicans to Z Democrats.
A Boston Preachers Compliments to
Ben Butler.
LOUISVILLE, May 6.-The following
card appears in the Courier Journal to-
morrow, from Rev. James Freeman Clarke,
of Boston:
A little paragraph is going the rounds,
saying that l proposed b. +. Butler IS
Governor of Massachusetts. have only
once referred to him and that was in
a sermon preached IN Boston on
fast day on the humiliation OF
Massachusetts, in which spoke ofthe dis
grace which came upon Massachusetts, from
her treatment of Sumner, the connection OF
her members of ofCongress with the Credit
Mobilier scandal and their completely with
the salary grab. then added that it was
understood that the member from Massa-
chusetts headed that foray on the Treasury
had announced bis intention of being the
next Governor of Massachusetts. If he
succeeded in this said / hoped he would
not omit the word Humiliation
in his proclamation, for Ger
tainly Massachusetts would never be
more humiliated than by such an event.
His friends regard this as a nomination.
They are welcome to it. L ask that this
statement be copied.
JAS. FREEMAN CLARKE
TEXAS.