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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-04-09

TIE NEW JERsEY RAILWAY COMPANY
organized yesterday under the Ne aeral r.si,rsEf
tne Delaware river, f0ur miles above Trenton,
70 Sound Brook, and then 20 Waverly station,
IN me city OF Newark. This road runs In sonlo
places within one hundred yards OF the NATIONAL
route. sE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-04-09

ST. CATHEnIsEs, CANADA, April AHA
welland Canal win he opened on he sist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-04-09
EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

INTERNAL REvENuE.-The receipts from this
source to-day were S25t, 673 20
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-04-09

Zee Freshes In the uIuassa.
PoreHEEEfsfR, April 9.-All the ice i'm TIA
Hudson river n on the move this morning.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
An EXTRA CONGRESS

From various sources we gather that Sen.
ator Morton is anxious for an extra session
of Congress to dabble with the financial
crisis. What bedlsm of legis alton thew
would make of it, may be readily conceiv.
ed. Such confession Of the utter made.
auscy::of Our present system of finance. we
hardly expected from the Indiana Senator
but he bases his desire for an extra session
on the following grounds, riding 10 the
Washington correspondent OF the Cincin.
natl Commercial:
The Senator thinks the crisis has not been
reached, fears the worst is yet to come, be-
lieves that the present calm is merely su-
perficial, that the President will not, and in
law can not do anything further to keep up
q superficial heat in the condition of affairs;
that if anything further is to be done Con-
gress must be calledRtogether in extra ses-
sion Immediately, and that an ex-
ira session would most assuredly
result in Fastening return to specie pay
ments. In opposition to these views are
the opinions of certain prominent officials
here, one of whom remarked that, as a pep
Die. we have gotten too mach in the habit
of expecting Congress to settle all sorts of
questions, and to do things that belong to
the people in their Individual capacities.
Even if Congress is the proper quarter to
which to look for aid, it would take about
month to get the two Houses together,
nearly another would be consumed in or
gsnizing the House and its committees, and
in going over the entire grounds of opposing
principles and conflicting theories. In the
end nothing better than the creation of a
new evil, such as the initiation of the cur
rency as a temporary relief from present
suffering, would likely be afforded,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
ssMIxED MARRIAGES., -

Hon. Robert Townsend, Nebraska Pro-
bate Judge, has recently taken some pains
to ascertain, as far as possible from official
sources, the law in all TIE States concerning
the intermarriage of whites and blacks.
The Omaha Republican, publishing the re-
suits Of bis inquiries, says that such inter-
marriages are now valid in New York, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,, Con-
nect'cu', Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, Iowa, Kansas, New Jersey, South Car
DINA, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
isna, Texas, Arkansas, and the District of
Columbia. Maine, Michigan, and Illinois
report that, although they have prohibitory
statutes, yet the law with them is dead
letter, and that "such marriages fr, quertly
occur" The gentleman replying from Com
necticut said: "There is no law in This State
that prohibits the intermarriage of whites
and blacks, unless, the black objects"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
WHO WAS RENEFrrrEpr

Our Radical exchanges begin to show q
disposition TO harp on Grants "ready re-
lief" in the Wall street crisis. While blsi-
ness IS suffering in all legitimate channels
throughout the whole county, 1t is well
enough to inquire who were benefited by
Judge Richardson's depletion of the Fed
eral Treasury. The Washington CORE
spondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
telegrRphs under date of Sept. 90: Z i :,
Thsre is reason to believe that no sub
stsntial immediate relief to the business
community hiss resulted from the action of
the New York banks in their plan of certi-
flying checks, and in the purchase of bords
by the Government. The direct benefici-
arie Of these acts are the gamblers iu Wall,
Broad and New streets, and the banks that
hold the currency and certified checks.
Such Is the tenor of letters received
here this morning from New York, the
writer's bsing business men on War street
and thoroughly conVer3ant with the
ailsirs of that vicinity. They ssy the banks,
though claiming only desire to prevent a
run upon them by the certifying process,
are really enabled to make use Of large
amount of currency in illegal loans. These
banks only discount for chosen friends,
among whom are their secret agents or the
agents Of Directors. These agents can get
any amounted discounts; and With the. cur
rency thus derived they go into Broad and
Wall streets aud there loan the money at
about one-half of one per cent per day, and
sometimes at greater rates Their ,pcofits
are divided With the bark Directors, as no
legitimate business men can affo!d to pay
such rates, ana only the stock and gold
Spectators do pay such usurious interest.
1t follows that scarcely any of the large
amountof currency held ~ the banks, nor
The proceeds of sales of Government bonds,
goes directly to the relief Of the legitimate
business interests CT the country. TIE
banks are relieved froU runs, and are par
mitted to suspend. Practically the goll and
stock gamblers and the Shylo ks of Brosd
street are supplied with additional capital
to ply their ruinous trades, and this is about
all that has yet come of the purchase of
Government bonds and certifying bark
checks.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
A MATTER OF TASTE.

EThe eight of the Banner to canvass sub
scribers for Northern Radical journals i.
unquestionable. There is no disputine
about tastes. But when it recommends tc
our people a journal Which only three
weeks ago spoke in Encouragement of i'm
migration to Tennessee, we claim the right
to call attention to this little matter. We
have said naught in disparagement of the
Cincinnati Gazette as a newspaper, but we
decidedly dislike its politics; and we sub
init that newspapers equally able and fully
as favorable to the interests Of Tennessee,
might be recommended to our people by
those engaged in the canvsssing business.
This same Cincinnati Gazette, with its Ku-
Klux scare. crows, has done more in the
past four years against Tennessee than it
could undo in the next ten years, if
It We're so inclined. When we come to re-
commend a Cincinnati journal TO Tennessee
subscribers, we snail certainly prefer,
upon the score Of friendliness to our State,
if no other, both the Enquirer and Com
ypercidL.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
WHO Is REePONsIBLE?

The Cincinnati Enquirer, noting the
railroad origin of the pending panic rem srks
The sensid7eness of the monetary barom-
ter, and the pernicious ambition of the
banks to loan the .moneyof other people to
excess, made it possible that an embarrass-
ment SO originating should cover all the
cities and towns aud interests OF the coun-
Try. The origin of the difficulty should
not, however, be forgotten, and the respon.
sibility therefor should be placed where il
belongs. The Republican party is the au.
thor and supporter Of the existing system
Of building railroads That system clings
to The theory that railroads should bsckon
population, and not that population should
beckon railroads. The evils which accom-.
pany such an unnatural process have
abundant illustrations. The Credit Mo-
bilier swiDdles were one of the acc0mpani-
ments of the railroad mania. AS the mat
ter stands, the policy Of the dominant
party .ouching the construction of railroads
and its policy touching the National Banks
are clearly chsrgeable with the grave disas-
ter that has fallen upon the country"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
THE BURSTING OF THE GREAT
RUBRLE

The late financial epoch marks salient
epoch in tie economical history of this
country and of the world. Il wSs one OF
those sudden, terrible and uncomfortable
efforts of capital 10 resdjust and redistri-
butte Itself, when it has been ipjudiciousIy
heaped up on the most unstable foundations
and rashly forced TO the last limit of IN
naturalness in its correlatiens. 1t has been
a complete revolution, and one that is
full of lessons long to be remembered.
The business Of railroad building had be-
come an er ormity, of which we give plen-
teous proof below. It has consequently
made itself a burden TO the people and
given rise to al open issue between produc-
ton and transportation. The Tyranny and
oppression Of railroad corporations is COW
easily explained. We give below, from a
reliable source, facts and views that will
clearly explain the cause Of the panic:
(. The following is statement of the con-
diion of the railroaCs of the United States,
r., -; L.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
SERIOUS AFFAIR I'm ANDERSON
CibEJNTY.

From the Knoxville and Press Herald, Sept. 80.
Last Saturday night, band of disguised
men went to the cab n of negro situated
between Clinton and Wallace's x Roads,
and ordered the tenant to rise from his bed
and go with them. At the instance of the
negro's obstinate refusal to comply with
their demands, they forced him to do so by
harsh measures. After going a few hun
dred yards they paused and told him they
intended to shoot him. simultaneously
with this remark one of the Dand fired at
him but missed, and accidentally MORALLY
wounded one of his own party. In the con-
fusion naturally incident to such a serious
matter, the negro effected bis escape. The
wounded man was taken 60 Clinton where
be died during the night. Though the
band of men were out on foolish expedi-
ton, wishing to do no one any harm but
merely TO have fun, the result is to be de-
plored.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
SPECIE RESUMPTION.

a lew Gays since we Ventured sugges-
ton thAt If the stringent scarcity of paper
Currency should continue the psople might
cut the Gordan knot by spontaneous re-
turn to gold values. All values are only
comparative, the one only standard basis be-
iagthe actual cost Of living. The return to
gold would depreciate our nominal wealth,
but would not de9reciate its purchasing
power. Among the thousand advantages
OF specie resumption, not the least would
De the humiliation OF hat gamblers den
the Wall street gold room. Whether the
United States Treasury, IS at present man
aged, would fad resumption as easy mat
ter as the public at large, is very
doubtful, bu5 We are glad to
see Influential papers of various sections
discussing the prscticabllity Of this obvious
route out of all our difficulties. The Gin
cinnati Gazette has already limited st it,
and the New York World argues its feasi.
billy at length. The bugaboo OF resump-
ton heretofore has been that it implied a
considerable contraction Of values, but the
present crisis has already brought about q
prodigious involuntary contraction, more
especially in that class Of speculative prop
erty whose owners have hitherto been most
strenuous in opposing resumption. We are
enduring all the distress and CONFUSION
predicted of resumption, and why not re-
sumo? Besides, other circumstances are
favorable. For soma time past our impor-
tations have seen cartsiled, while we have
abundant grain crops coinclding with
short crops in many portions of
Europe, and a fine cotton crop
to bring up the rear. Large expectations
with moderate imports have been UNIVERSAL
ly preached as the most favorable conditions
for specie resumption. If it be said there is
not enough specie in the country now for
circulating purposes, We can but call stten.
ton TO the immense sums of gold being |
daily shipped here from England, adding |
another favorable feature to the present |
combination Of conditions. These ship |
ments would naturally increase with our
increased use of gold. The outlook for the
future is equally promising. The b1ilding 1
of premature railroads, with their rush of
bonds 10 Europe, has been pretty effectual-
ly checked, and the same is true Of sll other
doubtful enterprises. Sober caution fol-
lows every panic. The only argument
against resumption is lis effect
on the debtor class, but that
argument will be equally potent
at a. y future period, and if listened 70, will
prevent resumption forever. But, in fact,
the effect on the debtor class is exaggerated,
for every merchant is creditor as well as
3 debtor, and what be loses IN the one rels
ton he would make up 10 the other. There
used to be another STOCK argument against
areturn tospecie payments-exploded now!
the alleged security against CREST financial
crises afforded by our paper system. We
may excuse ourselves from wasting words
on that delusion. 1t lies before US pros
trate corpse, as dead as julius Cesar, "with
none so poor to do it reverence"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
ANTI-MONOPOLY CONVENTION AT
CHICAGO.

The State Central Committee OF the Hi
nois State Farmers Ass Jciation have is
sued q call to farmers clubs, grangers,
farmers associations, agricultural societies,
boards of agriculture, aud other organiza-
tons Of the industrial classes of the Uni. ed
States, requesting then, to send from their
own numbers, identified with their interest,
one delegate from each organization, 10
meet in Chicago on October %, for the
purpose of discussing the prevailing over
charges in transportation, to insure per-
feet organization of the agricultural and
other industrial classes who chiefly suffer
from these oyercharges, in every State, Ter
ritory and province in the country, with a
view of throwing combined and over
whelmiug influences against future exac-
tons, and to take such measures as shall
secure prompt and efficient legislation that
shall end in the complete extinction of all
railroad or other monopoles now preying
on the pro tueige interests OF America.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02

nually, 10 apply toward the payment of an
indebtedness of over one hundred millions
OF dollars, brings the payment within the
compass of thirty or forty years, if not fur
ther increased. Is it any wonder that this
great bubble at last burst? Even the efforts
Of President Grant, in his last annual mes
sSge, to further initiate it by promises of aid,
availed nothing. The worst form of these
railroads is those carried along By the Ad-
min!stration. But the brokers of the Ad-
ministration could carry them no longer,
and they have tumbled, carrying with them
in their crash many other houses linked in
with the vast and complicated credit sys-
tenn of the country.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
Stuipn aud gmetifaa.
THUKsDAY. oUrOBER 2, ls7s.

AFFIRM at present engaged in Berlin is
manufacturing ozonized water for medici-
nal purposes. From tfeprevailing opinion,
which is not altogether witaout scientific
probability, that the sanitary effects of sea
air are to be ascribed TO its relatively great
proportion of ozone, the enterprise of the
manufacturers vii most likely be rewarded
By considerable demand for the substitute
they offer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02

It will thus be seen that if the railroads OF
the country were all combined in one Or
ganizatior, and paid but six per cent upon
their aggregate Indebtedness, they could
have paid last year but ten millions of dol
lars upon their Indebtedness, ard that it
would require one hundred and fifty years
a. that rate, to iquidate that debt. This
method OF comparison, however, gives to
the Western ard Pacific States the adVan-
tlge of the b3tter condition of the railroads
OF the Eastern and Middle States, which of
course they will never receive. We there
fore separate the two sections,
The following is statement of the con-
dition of the railroads of the Western,
Southern and Pacific States:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
The railroads Of the Eastern and Mid!
States make the following exhibit:
U Y Ut .
The railroads of the Eastern and


States have an annual surplus of five m. llions
of dollars to apply towards the liquidati IN
of S465, 100000 of Indebtedness; and the
railroads of the Western, Southern and Pa
cifc Safes have surplus of five and half
millions, to apply towards the liquidation of
thousand millions of Indebtedness The
statement makes it entirely clear, that the
roads of neither Of the sections are doing
more than pay their way, as a whole; and
thai the prospect of the payment of their in
debtedness is enthusiastically small. This
method of comparison, however, is Elusive,
for the reason that it miugles paying and
non-paying roads In one confused mass. l.,
however, brings out the point we desire to
impress the more clearly. If the debt
OF the non-psying roads could not be Iiq-
u;da'ed, even With the aid of paying roads,
within century, when are these debts to
be paid from their own resources? If we
divide the dividend and non-divideId roads
Into their separate classes, the prospect
would te seen to be very discouraging, even
for the roads which pay dividends, much
more for those which do not. The follow
ing is a statement Of the per centsge of div
idends paid upon capital stock, in the five
great sect ons; Eastern, 6.65; Middle, SO;
Western, 2:S3; Southern, 1.75; Pacific, moth
lug.
The following is statement of be con-
"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02

WherA there is no second horse, the Associa-
ton will retain second money.
Half the money offered in purses will be given
for walls.
Entrances for Association Purses, per cent.
All CO MmunicatiOns addressed TO the Secre-
tary. W. II. JOHNSON,
GEO. W. DARDEN, Sec'y. President
5. ID. MURPHY, Treasurer. sep17 I'd
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
Fifth pay-wednesday. Oct. 8. Is7s

EIItu Day-"6Uuesuay, VCNs >, 1873.
FIRST RACE-Yonng America Stake No. 2,
for two-year olds; dash Of mile; S25 entrance,
p. p, the Assoc alton to add $500; the winner OF
Young America Stake No. to carry 10 lbs. ex-
ira; to be run IN tn fifth day of the meeting; $50
SECOND RACE-Sou hern and Western
Turf Congress Stake; four mile heats; $3.50 sub
scription, p. p; the Nashville Blood horse Asso-
citation to add 81 co., in which 1t is expected that
the Lex DgtOn, ST. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile
and Nashville Associations will be represented.
THIRD RACE Association Purse, $500; dash
of mile and half.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
stxt, D.x-Fr,dav Oct. 10. Iszs.

FIRST BACE-Maxwell House Stake, for
three year olds; mile he IT'S SIS subscription, p,
p; the Maxwell House to add S4OOi 800 to Sec
ond hOr-e; to b arun on the last day Of the meet
ing; closed with 25 nominations.
SECOND RACE-Association Purse, $780,;
mil heats
THIRD RACE-Associatio Purse, $500; dash
of mile and quarter; Sl25 to the first, $50 to
the second, and S25 to the third.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
THE Republicans have been telling us

THE Republicans have been telling Us
for years that our gree1back corrency was
too redundant-that it must be reduced.
They, therefore, reduced it from 81, 100, 0OO,-
Oo0 in 1866 to SG5O,OOO,0 OOin 1873, although
eleven States tshe it nov that did not use it in
1865. But what do We see now? The banks
all over the country are susp9ading payment
because they fear that they have not green
backs enough to carry them through the
panic. Even the New York Times COM
mends the views Of a correspondent who
demonstrates at length that "the commerce
of the country hiss outgrown the circulating
medium"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02

THE Cincinnati Gazette does not seem 70
relish the suggestion Of Roscoe Conkling
for Chief Justice. It says:
We can agree. With the Boston Advertiser
that the judges Of the Supreme Court Of
the United S a;es should be chosen from
the profession of the law; on men who
bave given their lives TO its study and prac-
tice, and who have by long professional
habit come to regard the principles OF law
as supreme, rather than from men who
bsve devoted most Of their active life TO
political affairs in party government,
which, besides leaving them deficient il
legal learning, tends to eive them frame Of
mud which is the reverse of judicisl.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02

THE New York Times Grants OWN
double leads the following editorial Of Sep.
26: e..
Specifically, the financial crisis seemed
to have rated yesterday, and because there
were no failures, many people supposed
that the panic was over. The Government,
however, is doubtless better informed. 1t
must kno z, for instance, that the crops
have suddenly been checked in their Prog
ress to the sea-bosrd; that tie grain Already
here cannot be shipped; that foreign ex-
change is almost extinct; that we are grad
ually getting back to the primitive system
Of barter. We are no alarmistS, as our
readers win lear witness, but it is impossi-
bic TO be blind TO what is now going on.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-02
RAILROADS.
RAILROADS.
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LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE
Great Southern
AND
SOUTH & NORTH ALABAMA
RAILROADS..


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<zA-S8kSzA& e II Il w w
| NOMMENCING MAY 25th, 1873, TRAINS
| ~ viii leave Nashville, from l. q II. Z. 4. De
pot, North College street, as follows:
| ION A. n. daily, except Sunday, fer Decatur
s'AV stepping at all stations aud rnekinE direct
connection with III. & G. 2. Z. for polDt ives
| and east.
S,O0 P. M, Daily, for New Orleans. Mobile
O'AV and Montgomery via Decatur. Sleeping
Csrs attached run through from Nashville to
Montgomery, without change. This train d0es
not stop at Stations between Nashville and Co.
lumbia, except Franklin. arriving at Decatur at
for Memphis.
Colum6ia Accommodation discontinued until
further notice. .rE
Tbe7:OO a. n. train arrives daily except Sun
The Galatin Accommodation arrives daily ex-
cept Sunday.
S.fsfA A. NJ, daily, for Louisville, has Sleep
y'VV ing Car attached, running through from
New Orleans via Mobile and MONTGOMERY &c
Nashville and Louisville without change.
6;GO A. " and 1:2O P. n. trains for Louisville
connect with trains with through Sleeping
and Day Cars attached, for ST. Louis, Chicago
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and inter.
mediate points in the East, North and West.
All trains named above viii arrive st and de-
part from L. q y. Depot, on North Collegestreet,
wy - VI Az * ". duO Ne q LIZ
Railroads and at N. & @. Railroad Depot to take
On and let of passengers.
~ Passengers from GaIlatin snd points South,
arriving at Nashville at 700 A N, have until 400
n IN which to attend 20 business before return
ing.
Trains arrive at Nashville as follows: From
New Orleans, Mobile and Montgomery, via De-
catur, $40 N; from Decatur, 12:4O n; from
Louisville and the East, North and and West
at 7:0o A and 500 NJ
For through Tickets, Baggage Checks, end
further information apply at General Ticket
Once, under Maxwell House, and at L. q NJ
Depot, North College street.
OCT If W. H. KING, g. p. & T. A.