Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-07
PULASKI.
The Old and New-Lecture by III. VI.
SPonOrd-ChrfstmaS Sehoess


The Old and New-Lecture by III. NJ.
etc.
To the Union and American:
PULASKI, Jan. 1.-The old year with
its dying gasps in the shape of Christ
mas sports, Christmas guns, Christ
mas freerackers, squibs, fireworks,
Christmas parties and Christmas we'd
| dings has breathed its last and a stran-
ger Is upon us. How many have be-
sought the ''old year not to die" be-
cause death ever brings change and
change has its train Of new faces, new
places, and hearts whose beatings may
or may not Ee kindly towards the sub
jects of change! But this stranger
born from the womb of fruitful time is
among us, and by it, whether we viii
or not, our destInieS must be shaped,
and during its quick transit our for
tunes must be begun, lost or won.
Has the friend or foe, for both it has
been, that We have Just buried, and
whose memory is fast passing out of
our minds, taught US any lessons from
which we Will know how to begin
our fortunes and always to win?
1t is pleasant to think that, with the
same breath we pray for pardon for all
the failures and evil deeds during the
year 20, we can ask for new and better
strength, new and higher purposes and
a more perfect emancipation from evil
hearts and unsubdued wills, during the
year "A. Christmas week passed o Fl IN
our town in a more quiet manner than
usual, not having been disgraced by
| excuses so common to the occasion.
Boys viii and should be boys; girls will
be girls except when they try to be boys,
so that one and all they are to be par
doned for their noise, tricks and petty
annoyances. We have had a few par
ties not particularly distinguished, as
no new beauties ,or handsome gallants
were fedged for the occasion; the
beauties being the same OF one year
ago and the gallants ditto with one or
two small exceptions
The close of the year was signaliZed
by the first of a series of
FREE LECTURES.
Pulaski seeing Disadvantages derived
IN large cities from lectures intended
to inform, shape and direct public
opinion, through its leading citizens,
requested the Hon. H. NJ. SpOfOrd, to
inaugurste a course Of public and free
lectures. In accordance with pub
lished notice, a large audience gathered
at Antoinette Hall on yesterday even
ing to hear the distinguished gentle
man, who had been selected for the
occasion. The size and intelligent
appearance of the audience, was graft
flying to the gentlemen who introduced
the course, and was a compliment
to the speaker. This was happy
beginning, and it is to hoped the lee
| lures viii be as well attended In the
future. There is nothing we so much
need as a well directed, heightened
public sentiment, and nothing more
likely tOproducethed desired cOnsumma-
ton than the plan fallen upon. 1t is a
| growing evil all over our land that
public thought is left uncultivated,
and adult mental culture is without
order or system. The remark is ven
tured, that there was more mental ac-
tivity IN the right direction last night
In Pulaski, than there has been for
months. The lecture began by illus
trating the different kinds Of goodness.
There Is the man who like
THE DUTCH CLOCK,
runs because 1t is wound up every Sun
day morning. Then there is the man
who is good from a sense of duty; the
man who Is good because Of fear of the
hangman's rope. But the man whose
/ Il l.
loves virtue for virtues sake and be-
tween whose soul and virtue there Is
spontaneous harmony. This character
loves nature and through this love
was drawn TO God between whom and
nature then Is no enforcement. We
may learn lessons Of the purest virtue
from nature IS manifested and ex-
planned by the physical sciences, for
between the religion of the Bible and
the religion of nature as seen and IN
| derstOod by scientific men, there Is no
war. TheOlogians make the great mis-
take of crying war when there is none,
and so long as this strife between re-
ligion and science is kept up by the
pulpit, so long viii religion miss the
| aid of its twin sister science and the
worship of the great intellects who,
though loving religion can never be SO
irTehgiOus as to make war on religion
by opposing its great helper science.
The lecturer while aiming to do no
more than bring into a close summary
the progress Of physical science, did
much more; for by the beauty and Of
tentimes sublimity of his descriptions,
he took from his subject its apparent
dryness and unattractiveness and pre-
scented it to his hearers as a thing Of
beauty, and to many it will long be
Joy. The lecture was as strikingly a
success In its effects as in its delivery
and matter. A good commencement
has been made in the cause of enter
tainment and mental improvement dur
inc the winter months.
CRIMINAL COURT
begins on Monday with a full docket,
though there are only three or four I'M
portant cases. Judge McLemOre has
no superior for dispatch of business.
Gases in his court must be tried or
good reasons given for delay. His
court is a frying pan to lazy lawyer,
showing, be it said with due respect,
the advantage in having young and ac-
tive men on the bench.
The great financial panic Is
JUST GETTING HERE.
Our townsman, Louis Solinsky, hithcr-
to prompt in paying his debts, has had
to surrender to the hardships of the
times, or something else. He has made
an assignment of his goods and wares,
his debts being about $4,000, mostly
In Louisville and Cincinnati.
For the want of funds our
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
have closed, so that 80 far as noise
goes we will have Christmas some time
yet, as boys must yell and shout and
throw rock unless at work or at school.
1t is a great pity the good Lord does
not keep them to himself while young,
or not let them be born until they are
twenty-one years old. JULIUS.
NOTHING can convey more impress