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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-06
Duty vs.. CAPRICE.

Day by day since the war we have
noticed that men entertain less and less
respect for the ballot. That which in
our youth was regarded as the highest
privilege Of American citizenship, is
now looked on by many, very many, as
a bother and a bore, to be avoided if
possible. And so, on election days, we
catch honest, industrious citizens, re-
sorting to strange streets in going to
or from dinner, in order to avoid the
polling booth and its Jealous ropcrs-in
on either side. We know many attrib-
ute this growing apathy among our
citizens to the admission wholesale of
the negro race to the franchise. In
other times in Tennessee, as in other
States now, men said it was useless to
vote, as the result depended altogether
on the fiat Of a Brownlow or the count
Of secret Radical committee I'm
doubtedly these two cause.-the lower
ing of the ballot to the negro instead
Of elevating the negro to it, and the
dominant corruption in Radical States
have contributed much to that leth-
argy Of the wcll-to-do classes which
alarms every one who thinks.
/. e., doesn't take his thinking at
second-hand-rcady-madei for all he
knows, to government orders. But
these depressing circumstances do not
abate one jot the responsibility and du-
tyof each intelligent citizen. Political
duties are as positive and imperative,
though on a lower level, as those Of re-
ligion. Sincerity and honesty should
govern the whole man in all his varied
relations; and our duty to the commu-
nityat the polls is one we have no more
right to shirk than the payment Of
taxes To do what We can for the right,
or to stem the tide Of corruption, is a
duty we owe to the State which protects
our person and property; it is a duty
we owe to our neighbors and friends; it
is a duty we owe to our own family; it
is a duty we owe to our own pockets.
The highest patriotism is but enhght-
cned self-interest, just as the highest
religion consists in laying up treasures
that never fade. Our political duties
should be carefully studied over, and
conscientiously performed. There is
altogether too much looseness and friv-
olity in regard to these duties. Here is
a field inviting both the preacher and
the teacher, as well as the press.
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TO CAPITALISTS.
,shyiIIo and Decatur II. Il. Co.

NaShyilIC and DECATUR Il. IL. %.
C,ECRETARY'S OFFICE, NASHVILLE,
oct. %, 1ST3.-The annual meeting OF the
StocIlboIders of the Nashville and Decatur Rail-
road company will be held at the Depot OF the
Company, in this city,
On wednesday. the 10th day of No
" Vember next.
Oc24 I'd u. w. Oh l 2oo y
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the adoption of some measure whereby
the volume ofeurTency may be controll-
ed so as to meet thelegitimate demands
Of trade and commerce that is, con-
tracted or enlarged as occasion may re-
quire. If Congress and the Admins
tration cannot give the country cur
rency convertibleinto specie at thepleas-
ure of the holder, let us have culren-
CIV convertible into bonds. Thus when
there is a redundancy of currency, re-
sulting from the presence of dull sea-
son or any other cause, let the holders
have the privilege of converting it into
bonds bearing low rate of interest;
and when there is scarcity of curren-
cy, resulting from activity in trade, let
the holders Of these bonds have the
privilege of converting them into green
backs. Some such arrangement as this
would give the country a flexible cur
rency which could be controlled
in its volume to meet the
legitimate demands of trade
and commerce, and prevent the ''lock-
ing up" and boarding of currency which
often result injuriously, if not disas-
trously, to the legitimate business Of
the country. In the absence Of a cur
rency convertible into specie, this would
be the next best thing the country could
have in that line. The panic through
which the country is now passing has
demonstrated that the stiff, stilted cur
rency system we now have, is wholly
unsuited to the wants of great and
growing country like ours, and espe-
cially to the commercial and manufac-
turing interests. As long as the Fed
eral Government assumes to shape and
control the banking system of the
country, it must furnish or make pro-
vision for currency that can be con-
tracted or expanded, as under the old
State bank system, so as to accOmmo-
date itself to the wants of the legiti-
mate business of the country. If we
had had such system as this, the pre-
sent panic could not have occurred, at
least in its terrible severity.
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TENNESSEE NEWS.

Memphis has lost eight policemen by
death during the last month
DR.. j. 5. Parker, Of the Memphis InfirIn-
airy, is to publish a pamphlet on the plague
of Memphis.
The directors of the Memphis Exposition
have resolved to open that ins tuition on
the 10Th of this month, and continue it till
the 10th of December.
Garrett Jones' charged with shooting his
sweetheart in Memphis, has had his pre-
liminary examination and been RENTED
to Jail in default of $1,000 worth of friends.
Two prominent magistrates of the six
teenth district of Shelby county, recently
escorted handsome widows to the anvil of
hymen, and, roleIltes were put i'll the per-
petual Shackles Of wedlOck.
The Memphis AcdIdncbe Of the 4th says:
\ requiem mass was celebrated at St.
Peters Church, yesterday morning, for the
repoSe of the souls of the dead. The altar
of the church was draped in black and the
services were of unusual SOlemnity.
The HROrUiUc Chronicle Of the 4th inst.
says: w. B. G. Smith, one Of the parties
arrested for cOunter1eiting, had a hearing
yesterday before Commissioner Aiken.
Several witnesses We're examined. The de
PENDANT was bound over to court in the sum
of 5000.
The Memphis "charity bale" of cotton
has reached New York and has brought
about S6,565 so far We clip the following
from the Memphis Ledger of the 4th: "a
New York dispatch Of last night says:
The bale of cotton shipped to Norton,
Slaughter & Co, to be soldfor the benefit of
Memphis sufferers, brought S2,S75, more
than So per pound. Saturday it was
shipped free by the White Star Line to
Liverpool, there TO be rolled over in other
sales.n
The KaOrUHIe Press and Herald of the
4th says: We learn from a citizen Of Chat
tanOOga, that a few days ago q party of
English gentlemen, representing great
Wealth, purchased from Col. HOSllins of
Kentucky, about four thousand acres of
land, adjacent TO Bells Landing, on the
Tennessee river, about thirty-five miles
from Chattanooga, for which they paid
S12j,000. 1t is the intention Of the pur-
ChaSers, we are informed, to proceed to the
development Of the iron wealth of their
purchase.
The GreencUdIe Union states that by
decree of the ChanceTy Court the Greene
County Iron Works was sold on the
9th ut. to satisfy debt against the COM
pany, held by VIM. Duryea, Of New York.
The agent of Mr.. Duryea bid his debt,
$4,000, on the property audit was knocked
down to him. The property is worth three
times the amount bid for it, and Mr.. Dur
yea has made good thing of it if he
chooses to keep all the advantages of his
purchase.
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WHY NOT TELL THE WHOLE
STORY?
The Nashville Banner says:

Figures are Extensively unsentimental
The following returns, from 1867 to 1873,
half dozen years, indicate the increase Of
the Democratic vote in Ohio:
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The Memphis Aralanchc being an
independent" concern, which sloshcs
into politics occasionally just for the
fun of the thing, casts the horoscope
of Tennessee in this fashion:
1--WE shall doubtless have a lively can
vasS in Tennessee next year. The political
probabilities" indicate a falling barom-
ctcr, with the storm center, now at Greene
Vile. moving westward and spreading over
the State. Maynard'S garments recll with
the foul odor of the Congressional salary
crab; Houk'S influence with the Republi-
can members ensured the passage Of the
Funding intamy, and the Funders, ire
Spcciive of party. should give him the emp
ty honor of their nomination. Baxter is
not likely to succeed before convention.
But where are Horace II. Harrison, Free
man. Barbour Lewis, Gen. w. J. Smith
and host of other Republican party wheel
horses? Certainly, there is Gubenatorial
timber west as well as east of the Cumber-
Land Mountains. But there is plenty Of
time TO investigate, and a score Of reputa-
tons may be made and unmade before the
4th of July"
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IT is the Peoples Paper.
1T is the Defender of the Peoples
Rights.
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..NEW ISSuE.v
We find in our Southern exchange
the following imnortant telecram:.

O1tS
'EWAsHINGToN, d. c., Nov. 3.-The
United States Supreme Court to-day
decided, in the case Of the State of South
Carolina, &c rel. Wagner against Stoll,
County Treasurer, from the Supreme Court
of the State, involving the question OF the
validity of the issues of the Bank of the
State during the war. The charter of the
bank, framed in 1872, provided that its is
sues should be receivable for taxes, but the
County Treasurer now refused to receive
them on the ground that they were issued
in aid of the rebellion, and were, therefore,
no tender. The court below sustained the
| objection, and the judgment was for the
| Treasurer. On a former argument OF
the case in this court that Judgment was af-
fir1ned, but upon a re-argIIment had at this
term there is a change of opinion and the
| judgment is now reversed, the same Judge
| writing the opinion, the court holding that
as the faith of the State was pledged for
| these bills, the holders We're entitled to
rely upon that credit and to its protection.
| The credit of the State could not be with
| drawn without an open and clear declara-
| ton to that effect, and such a declaration
was not made until 1865, by the repeal of
| the charter, which was too late TO render
the bills no tender in the present case. One
other case was decided by the decision in
| this. Justice Hunt delivered the opinion.
Justice Bradley dissented."
The facts given in this dispatch are
too meagre to enable us to determine
whether or not this South Carolina
case will settle the questions involved
in the cases which have been brought
to test the validity of the ''new issue"
of the Bank of Tennessee. When the
full text of the decision is received we
shall learn whether the tender of pay
ment for taxes out of which this litigation
arose, was prior or subsequent to the
ratification OF the fourteenth amend
ment to the Constitution of the
United States, July 81, 1868. We shall
also probably be enabled to determine
whether or not there has been that ac-
ton by any Constitutional Convention
or State Legislatures as amounts to
such San open and clear declaration"
of the withdrawal of the credit of the
State as to render our new issue" val
ueless in the hands of the present hol-
ders. We may add that the holders of
the "new ISSUE were quite jubilant
yesterday over the decision in the South
Carolina case, contending that the
notes of the Bark of South Carolina,
issued during the war, occupied pre-
cisely the same status as the new
issue" of the Bank of Tennessee.
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THERE has been a mysterious move
ment Of 100000 IN Pacific railroad
bonds, from the assets Of Jay Cooke &
Co. to the United States Treasury 1t
has been ascertained that Jay Cooke &
Co, who borrowed from the First Ma
tional Bank Of Washington nearly
100000, have since their failure with
drawn these bonds and deposited them
with the Secretary Of the Treasury as
security for SIS7, 900, which had been
deposited in the bank by the Secretary
only few days before its failure. The
creditors of both the First National
Bank and Jay Cooke 4 Co. are COM
planning Of this; saying they would like
to know why the Government should
be a preferred creditor. They say if
the Cookies have 100000 it belongs to
them, and that the Government has no
right to deprive them Of their pro rata
dividend.
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Nos. So, 81, S25.l
SEFEESFFF,S SIZE,

DY VIRTUE OF \ WRIT OF THREE
ID Vend. EN-. to me directed, and delivered
from the Honorable Law Court of Davidson
county. Tennessee. at its September Term, 1873,
J will expose to public sale, TO the highest bid
der for cash, at the Courthouse door, in the city
Of Nashville, on Saturday, the 10Th day OF No
ycmbCr, 1873, within lawful hours, the following
lots OF parcels 81 land to-wit: Lot No. in Mary
+. GOodwin's plan OF lots on the NoleuSyile
pike, containing II acres, 1913 poles. See book
H. page pc, Registers office. Davidson county;
Lot No. Il in Hines Addition TO Nashville, 'front.'
ing 20 feet the south side Of Church, corner of
an alley, running back 40 feet See book n,
page 2i6, Registers Office Davidson county, for
which reference l. hereby made. Also eleven
acres and IS poles on BUnaviSta pike, in owen 5
plan. For further reference. see book a. page
246, Registers Office Davidson county, Teunes-
see, and being levied on as the property of R.K.
Greenfield. to satisfy three executions in my
hands in the cases Of the Nashville Commercial
Insurance Company vs.. r. X. Greenfield, for
S255.3O S16f.20, and S2553O respectively, besides
interest and cost
Dated this 9Th day of November. 1873.
J.. u. WHITWORTH, Sheriff.
BY T. NJ. WOODALL, Deputy.
move. 15,S22
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no. SOL
.SEEEREFF,S SIZE,

DY VIRTUE OF \ WRIT OF VEND. EX
ID to me directed, and delivered from the Hon
Orable Law Court Of Davidson county. Tenmes-
see, at its September Term, 1873, | will expose
to public sale, to the highest bidder, for cash. al
the Courthouse door, in the city of Nashville on
Saturday. the Goth day of November, 1873, with
IN lawful hours, all the right title and interest
that S. E. Hare has III and to the following real
estate, tO-wit: One lot of ground in the city OF
Nashville, being lot No. II, fronting 10 feet on
South Market street and running back to an
alley between Market and College streets, in
the city of Nashville, Tennessee, and registered
in Register Office of Davidson county, book 49,
page 81, to which reference is hereby made, and
being levied ON as the property OF S. Z. Hare to
satisfy u judgment against him, and in favor OF
E. w. White, for S396.lO-1O0, besides interest
and costs.
Dated this 4th day of November. 1873.
T.. ID. WENTWORTH Sheriff.
BY +. NJ WOODALL, Deputy.
noY6, 1892
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Grand Total, 10000 Gifts, all Cash. GOO
Whole Tickets So, Half TicA cts $3.50
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Il DECIDED change has come over the
political views Of the people Of Iowa
since the election Of last year, if those
views are reflected by the vote Of 1873.
Last year the Radicals carried all the
nine Congressional districts in Iowa by
majorities ranging from rs to l1,041
McCrary was elected in the First dis
trict by a majority Of Ass; Cotton, in
the Second, by Us; Donnan, in the
Third, by l,SS0. and Loughridge, in the
Sixth, by 1886. This year the anti
Monopolists carried McCrary's district
for their candidate for Governor by AS
majority, Cotton's by $50, Domains by
1900, and Loughridgc's by 1873. The
total anti-Monopoly majority in these
four districts is 1862, against a Repub-
Hcan majority Of last year Of 9,178.
This looks like a lion in the path Of the
three-term scheme.
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.SHEREFFS SIZE,

by VIRTUE OF \ WRIT OF VEND. EX
ID to me directed, and delivered from the Hon
orable Supreme Court of Davidson county
Tennessee, at its june Term, 1873, | will expose
to public sale, to the highest bidder for cash
at the Courthouse door, i'll the city of Nashville
on Saturday, the 10Th day of November, 1873
within lawful hours, the following property, to-
wit; Being tract or parcel Of land situated in
the city Of Nashville, Tennessee, fronting 81
feet inches on Front street and running back
TO low water mark, being No. 263 North Front
street, and being levied ON as the property OF
Caroline johnson to satisfy Judgment against
her and Bailey johnson, and in favor of II. c.
jenkins, for S85.79-lOO besides interest and
costs.
Dated this 4th day of November, 1873.
Z. ID. WIIITWORTH, Sheriff.
BY F. N. WOODALL, Deputy:
nOYf 15&22
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No. ~.
SHEREFF',S .S.TLE.

DY VIRTUE OF \ WRIT OF VEND. EN-.
ID to me directed, and delivered from the Hon
Orable Law Court Of Davidson county, Temes-
see, at its September Term. 1S73, | will expose
the Courthouse door. in city OF Nashville, on Sat
urday. the 29th day of NoYembcr, 1873 within
lawful hours, all the right, title, claim and in
tercst that Il. X. Greenfield has in and To the
fronting 30 feet on Cumberland street and run
ming back $50 feet. Also one lot on NIurtrccs-
b0ro pike, containing 80 acres and Is poles, be-
ing lot No. in Tord's plan, and being levied on
as the property of Il. X. Greenfield 10 satisfy an
execution in my hands in the case of Il. c. Ne
Marry vs.. II. X. Greenfield, for S2ll65, besides
interest and costs.
Dated this 9Th dav Of November. 1873.
+. u. WHITWORTH, Sheriff.
BY NJ. WOODALL, Deputy.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-06

THE Ne1v York Tribune states the
important fact that careful comparative
tables show decrease in the receipts of
foreign dry goods at the single port of
New York, during the last ten months
of S20,000,000. The total is nearly
$l3,00O,000 less than the corresponding
aggregate for 1871, and the next two
months are likely to widen the differ
ence still more.
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A CARD.

T r.. & C. II. FREEMAN & co. HAVING
| 4, sold their stock of Pier and Mantle Looking
Glasses Portrait and Picture Frames, Gil
Moulding, Window Shades, etc. to Freeman \
Orchard, and their Wall Paper Stock TO c. H
Freeman, who will respectfully continue the
business, | take pleasure in Recommending then
to the public, while returning my own and the
thanks of /. r. q c. II. Freeman & Co. to those
who have SO literally patronized the house IL
the past. w. FREEMAN.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-06

ONE Of the delegations Of Indians,
now in Washington, want to sell their
reservation to the government, saying
very frankly that they had no desire to
live like white men, and small blame to
them if, by white men" they mean the
usual border-ruffian type that trades
with them and cheats them, robs them
of their land, and invokcs the aid of the
government to hold their unlawfully ac-
QUIred possessions.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-06

THE Cincinnati Commercial calls
Secretary Richardson's five dollar re-
sumption of specie payments "home-
pathy in finance" The New York
Democratic platform denounced the
Presidents pill for panics,'' and the
Boston Post speaks of the ''dime poll
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MORAN d PERRY,
Solicitors OF CL.4I.uS'

NJ 7 MORAN, 40 Cedar St, Nashville, Tenn.
VI " II IT. PERRY. 1 AS F St, Washington, D. G.
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4 PEN PICTURE.

The Nclv Orleans Picayune, in a re-
cent article, summarizes the causes
which have made the Republican party
odious in the Southern States as follows:
Because, from its inception to the pres
cnt time, it has been the symbol of our
humiliation, degradation and poverty.
Seated by violence and fraud, it has been
administered forno other purpose but open,
undisguiscd robbery; it has absorbed prop
erty, repealed capital, impoverished and de
moialzed the people and rendered their
condition almost hopelessly deplorable.
We do not oppose these men as Republi-
cans. but rs robbers
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NEW FIRM.

I r. FREEMAN AND ,JNO. w. ORCHARD
l. 4. have formed COpartnership under the firm
name of Freeman & Orchard, and will continue
the manufacture of Pier and Mantle Mirrors,
Picture and Portrait Frames, Mouldings, etc,
at the old stand of L. Il. & G. II. Freeman IL
Co., No. - North College street, where they
will be pleased to see their old friends and the
public generally.
FREEMAN & ORCHARD.
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THE Memphis Register states; 1T
is estimated by an insurance agent
here, who is pretty well up in the fig
ures, that $4,000 viii have to be paid
by the various companies on account of
the late epidemic. This amount Of
money, if retained here and ever SO lit
tie of it put in circulation, would have
perceptiblc effect upon local finances.
But we fear that unless assurances can
be soon given Of better sanitary sys-
TEN, the benefciaIaes viii convert their
means into five-twenties orremove from
Memphis entirely"
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ADJUSTMENTS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
lNo. 1,5I.
,SHERTEFE S.FEE

DY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OF VEND. EX.
ID to me directed, and delivered from the Hon
orable Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee,
at its june Term, 1873, will expose to public
Courthouse door, in the city of Nashville. on
Saturday, the 18th day of November, 1873, with
in lawful hours, all the right, title, claim and
interest that II. NJ. Hayes has in and TO the fol-
lowing real estate, tO-wit: Lot No. 81 in O. b.
Hayess plan Of lots, and containing by survey
. acres and 120 poles For a more minute dis
cription see page 81 of Plan Book 21 and regis
tered in Registers Office of Davidson county,
Tenn, in book 43, page -, and being levied on
as the property of IL. NJ. Hayes to satisfy a
Judgment against him, and in favor of William
Evans, for S129.75, besides interest and costs.
Dated this 4th day of November, 1873.
f. ID. WHITWORTH, Sheriff.
By f. NJ. WOODALL, Deputy.
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DR., WHITTIER.

6l5 st. Charles street ST. Louis, NO. has been longer
gagged in the treatment Of all yeaeTeal and sexual diseases
than any specialist Louis the city papers She
also spermatorrhGa sexual dest and impoency the
result Of self in YOUTH sexual symptoms
being nervousness seminal 0u Gcbiitv drnncss Of
sight deectse memory pimpics che face steal decay
aversion TO society OF females confusion Of ideas loss OF
sexual power permanently cured. Pamphlet IS
free. Every letter of inquiry with stamp answered.
sep IL
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.FCOi6 0lSOcES.

A VICTIM OF EARLY INDISCRETION,
n causing nervous debility, premature decay,
etc, having tried in vain every advertised rem
edv has discovered Il simple means Of self-Cure
which he will send free to his feiOw-sUiierers.
Address j. Ii. REEVES, IS Nassau street, New
York Oc4 eOd3m
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THE Salem l0rego'a) Mercury pro-
poses that Grant shall be impeached for
interfering with the rights Of Oregon
in the matter Of Furnishing the Modocs
for crime committed on the soil Of
that State.
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SKIN DiSonNRS,

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Black Worms, BIOtChCs, Freckles, Moth and
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glow. Also sure process for the growth of Hair
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