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MAYNARD As a BANK LEIGH.

Not on the tariff alone has Maynard
shown his disposition to legislate SO as
to make the rich richer and the poor
poorer-beneftting the man of money
at the expense of the man of muscle.
His course in support of the present
system Of national bank leeches, draw
ing double interest from the people
direct and from the Federal Treasury,
is in consOnance with his uniform sup
port of New England interests while
representing Tennessee. He Is the
creature of capitalists. When bank
ing legislation was before Congress,
and the question was mooted wheth-
er members who were bank Pres
idents, directors, etc, should vote and
thus legislate money into their own
pockets, Maynard gave an emphatic
aye. When challenged by Judge Por-
ter on this point, he says he would as
soon ask how much land a member
owned as how much bank stock. The
analogy Is lame. Banking is priv.
lege, and Radicalism has made it a
grinding monopoly. Land possesses
neither privileges nor monopolies.
Land cannot run away, and therefore
it must foot all the bills The simple
question on which Mr.. Maynard voted
aye, was whether hundred bank mo-
nopolists on the floors of Congress have
the right to legislate more profits into
their own pockets. The vote is charae-
teristic of the champion salary grab
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AVERY BOLD GAME.

The PittSburg PA Post exposes
well-put-up Job by which Alabama
Radicals attempted to swindle Pitts
burg firm out of arms to be placed in
the hands of the negroes, and at the
same time to make the white people
bear the odium of pretended prepare
tons for aggressions against the
negroes. Orders for arms, to be ship
ped by express and paid for on delivery,
were sent to the Pittsburg firm from
Verbena Station, Ala, on the South
and North railroad. The several or
ders were signed by Speers, Coleman,
and others, who were in reality one
man clumsily signing several names IN
the same handwriting. The general
wording of the orders conveyed
the impression that the arms
were wanted by whites. The
guns were sent according to directions,
but upon their arrival at Verbena no
Speers or Coleman appeared to claim
and pay for them. In fact, no Speers
or Coleman lived in that neighborhood
at all Claimants, however, were not
wanting. The carpet-bag forgers who
sent the orders came forward and at.
tempted to seize the cases from the ex-
press company on the ground that they
were intended for the "White League, !"
an organization which does not exist
in Alabama. The express company got
the cases out of the way of the thieves,
and the Pittsburg firm was very glad
to get the arms back after paying ex-
press freights on them to Alabama and
back. The carpet-baggers are a thrift
ty and ingenious set Of men, but their
ways are fortunately not always past
finding out.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
no. s,OSSl
Ili ChnIrceru al .I'GshriFEe.

AAG lseAhaGNES ba - Sae1tNsttSs
C,TATE OF TENNESSEE, OFFICE CLERK
- and Master Chancery Court, Nashville, DC
tOber y, 1874.
Whereas, The Hyde's Ferry Turnpike Co, a
corporation chartered BY the General Assembly
of the State of Tennessee, has this day nled its
petition in the Chancery Court at Nashville,
praying for amendments 20 lis said charter, as
follows:
/ The next meeting Of stockholders for the
clifton OF directors shall BE- held at the IOllgdte
of the Company on HeatOn's Creek. Davidson
county, on the first Saturday Of November,
1875, and every two years thereafter the stock
holders shall meet at The same place for the
election Of directors
= That the stockholders in all elections shall
have the right TO cast their votes by proxy. The
person who casts vote or votes by proxy
for any stakeholder or stockholders, shall pro-
uuCe an authrlty IN writing empowering hiu 70
vote for said stakeholder or StOc khOders-
>. All stock shall be transferred on a record
book TO be kept by the company, and such trans
fers shall be signed on the record book by the
party making the transfer, and mis- certificate OF
stock shall be delivered up TO the Secretary OF
the Company and be cancelled.
l. The road-bed Of the Hyde's Ferry Turn
pike Road shall be sixteen (i6l feet wide clear
Of bitches, and twelve (l2l feet wide where there
are cuts or ILLS, where the road-bed has to be
cut through rOck, or where, upon hillside, it
has to be cut into rock or nearly perpendicular
earth. The grade Of the road shall not be over
six (t0 degrees. 1t shall be covered with gravel
or broken stone ten (l0l feet wide and six (6)
inches deep.
1t Is therefore ordered that all persons who
desire 10 resist the granting OF said amendments
or PRAYER Of said petition, enter their appear
anCe herein on or before the first Monday IN
April, 1916. and then and there show cause, If
any they have or can, why the prayer OF said
petition should not be granted and sail charter
amended, and that a copy Of this order be pub
liShed for thirty days in the Nashville Union
and American.
A COpy-Attest:
NATHANIEL BAXTER, JR.,
Clerk and Master.
Samuel Watson, Jr, Solicitor for Petitioners.
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STILL HARPING.

If the last Legislature had passed
no funding or assessment laws, but left
the State debt and expenses to accu.
mulate indefinitely, the Memphis Ava-
Ianche would have died of insanity. In
a recent issue we find the following
piece Of reckless assertion:
Armed with the present assessment
law, the State Comptroller is seeking
to force from the people, by adding to
the face of taxable values, the addi-
tional revenues demanded by the fund
ing ring, but which the Legislature
refused to provide by increasing the
ad valorem tax to 60 or zoe, as de-
sired by Gov. Brown. Thus he has
already forced the face values Of real
estate from S272, 100000 to S320,OO0,-
600. Unless the next Legislature in
terpose, this outrageous, unjust in
crease will be further inflated to 800.
100000. This is the programme. 1t
is necessary in order to enforce the
provisions of the funding law-that
rich legacy which Gov. Brown viii
leave to the people of Tennessee.
Now, every man in Tennessee, who
has opened his mouth on the subject,
in public or in print, faEors material
notifications Of the present assessment
law, especially in its inquisitOrial fea-
lures. We have not ourself been at all
backward IN criticizing it, and showing
that oaths-taking viii not produce uni
forrnity SO long as consciences vary IN
elasticity. But the arrant absurdity
and gross injustice of such Onslaughts
as the above, tend rather to retard
than promote the work of amendment.
They defeat their object, if indeed they
have any object beyond bewildering
the people and embarrassing the De-
moeracy In the midst of a political
struggle for perpetuating self-govern-
ment.
We ne. d but remark that the State
Comptroller has no voice or part in the
appointment of assessors, nor could he
have any, except through collision with
the ninety-three county courts through
out the State, which are elected by the
taxpayers direct. Our contemporary
talks as though each assessor were a
subaltern, at the beck of the Comp
troller, ike so many Federal marshals
under Attorney General Williams.
The Comptroller has no more authori-
ty over the assessors, or TIE assess
ments they make, than has any other
citizen.
Our contemporary is mistaken in
saddling upon real estate the increase
of assessed values between 1872 and
1873. That increase comes mainly from
the personal property unearthed by
the new law and which previously
escaped taxation altogether. 1t does
not come from the farmers or mer-
chants, but from the men who hold
moneyed securities, bonds, notes, mort
cages, etc. This is a feature in the
law which some seem very prone to for
get, but We do not think it to the IN
terest of the great mass Of Tennessee
ans that it should be so forgotten.
The closing nsinuatiou above, that
the present Governor or Comptroller
has any means under the law for forcing
assessments up to S4OO,OOO,OOO next
year, after their term has expired, is
altogether too ridiculous for comment.
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Gals, in the Southern States, for cam
paign purposes -------------------
5. Refunding the cotton tax.
s. The extension and enlargement OF
previous land grants to railways.
Action, at the last session, on many
of these schemes, was postponed, the
majority of the members preferring to
get reelected before voting for them.
The Tribune adds that part of this
vast subsidy scheme, embracing inter
ests in all parts of the country, is the
third term. None of these measures
can become laws without the Executive
aid Executive APPROVAL is as essential
as Congressional favor, and hence the
importance of the third term in the
grand distribution of subsidy money.
The reelection of any member, who
voted to postpone these jobs until after
the elections, will be a hazardous Ope-
ration for the country.
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Notice to Show Cause in Bankruptcy

Samuel Watson, Jr., Solicitor for Petitioners.
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Aggregate Of straight cash jobs. 5.

Aggregate OF straight cash jobs. .s645, OOO, 600
In addition to these raids on the
Treasury, there are numerous other
Jobs rich with dividends, but in which
there are no direct appropriations of
money, the profits being consequential.
The more profitable of these are stated
by the Chicago Tribune as follows:
/. The organization of the Indian
Territory under political government,
with authority to grant lands to rail-
road companies.
,. The additional grants of 100000
600 acres Of land in the agricultural
colleges.
g. Grants of land and money to es-
tablish national schools and a mann
moth university at Washington city.
T. Indefinite appropriations 10 cover
the expenditures by United States Off
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III. V. R." asks US not to confound
those gentlemen as to whose standing
he certifes "with the average Clayton
and Mcclure crowd, and damn them al
in heap together" We know abso-
lutely nothing of any save three, and
had to Judge them by the company in
which they were found. 1t is very un-
fortunate for them
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AND now Bristow is accused of
weakening. The Washington cores
pendent of the Cincinnati Commerce.!
states that he is beginning to be a
cause of dissatisfaction to many of his
friends. They complain that while he
started in very vigorously, and
promised to be frst-class re-
former, he has suddenly let
down, and beyond the pushing of his
determination to have no more than
one member of family borne on the
rolls, he is doing nothing. They say a
change has come over him in some way,
and they are Inclined to think that the
White House influence has had some
thing to do With it.
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How quietly the country, and the
Democracy itself, take the recent rev.
olution at the ballot-box! No great
bOnfres, salvos of artillery and blazing
torches, such as were won't to make the
welkin ring in the youthful days of the
republic. Are we getting older as a
nation, sobered by experience out of
the enthusiasm of youth? Orhave the
people been under the yoke 50 long that
they are afraid to rejoice aloud, lest
their Radical masters be aroused 60
fresh efforts at despotism? 1t looks as
though they were afraid to halloo till
they get out of the woods. In
olden days, the country would have
been ablaze with Examinations, while
oratory and music welcomed the aus
picious omens of November. As it is,
the only sound Of jubilee we hear
comes from California, that maiden
State, which has chung to its own God
given currency, and whose skirts are
clear of fratricidal blood.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-21

THE Republicans in the Legislature
of Indiana gerrymanded:: the Fifth
Congressional District of that State so
as to count upon majority of about
1,5OO, with the view of keeping the
Hon. VIM. S. Holman out of Congress,
but the people elected him las week by
a majority of 1000.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-21

IT would be very rich thing now,
suggests the Cincinnati Enquirer, to
republish the articles which appeared
in the Republican press a little more
than year ago, prcnouncing the de-
mise of the Democratic party, and pre-
dieting that it would never reappear in
American politics under that name, and
the late articles from the same papers
announcing overwhelming Democratic
victories IN the great States of the
Union.
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EUnRUnA

The Tallahassee FtorididH, IN pub
fishing a review of the comparative
cost of running the State government
under different administrations, says:
Sixteen years elapsed from the time
Florida was admitted into the Union,
in 1915. up to the war During that
period we had four Governors, and the
record of their several administrations
has gone into history. In eaehof these
administrations there were Indian dis
turbances, which involved heavy ex-
penses. but, Notwithstanding this, when
the war of the rebellion commenced,
in 1861, the whole amount OF the IN
debtedness of the State was S37O,6l7.
For the sake of reference, and be-
cause of the contrast between
the frugality Of those days, when
government was administered for the
benefit of the people, and the extraya-
gance which has marked the rule Of
those who imagine that government is
instituted for the benefit of those who
govern, we present the annual receipts
and disbursements for the sixteen
years. beginning in July, 1915, and
ending with the fiscal year in October,
1861, and for the FIVE and one-half
years beginning June, 1868, and ending
Jan. l, 1874, viz: 1916 to 1861. receipts
81, 49,, S60.94; expenses, 81. 49,, 93S.4l;
1868 to 1874, receipts, 1853, 664.33;
expenses, 2,155, 1852. OF the re-
ceipts of 1873, S2l2, 900 were received
from the sale of bonds of 1878, and of
the payments, SOL, 1852 were for the
redemption of bonds of 1S6S-69, hy-
pothecated in New York.
LET us sum up and see how the ae-
count stands, bearing in mind that
when the Republican party took charge
in 1865, the debt of the State, bonded
and floating, was s523, S5695.
Bonded debt Jan. 1, 1s74..........Sl, $50, 223 os
Floating debt, Jan. !, 164....-..... l9O,5S5 10
Total 81, 62O,s SOS q
Increase of debt in five and a half
years. SisuSo,S9l D.
Add expenditures in iye and half
years. .........-.-...-..SzfioS'lSo o.
Cost of Republican rule in FIVE and
hall years. .So-zoz'lS4 ~
''This is most stupendous exhibit.
1t is the record which those In power
have made for themselves, and speaks
in trumpet tones to those who feel any
concern for the future of the State"
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L. n. ELDRIDGE, IS Church street.
MRS. GEO. GREfG, AZ Union street
JUNGERMANS & CO., "a Public square,
A. RANEIF. "a Broad and 100 S. Market 81.
GAS. s.S,flERTSON, p N Market street.
q. II. VESSEL. 80 y. College street.
w. :. CURRIN, 295 South Cherry Street.
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H V. R." certifes as to the respect
ability of eight of the Tennessee dele
gates in the Chattanooga Outrage Con-
vention, but GA. S. PrOsser, Chair
man." is not among them. Certificates
are in order for the others.
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BESIDES showing how outrageOusly
It was garbled in the official synopsis
telegraphed from Washington, by
which sixteen of the negro prisoners
taken from the Gibson county jail were
alleged to have been hanged, the report
of United States District Attorney
Murray to Attorney General Williams,
given elsewhere, isnoticeablefor thefact
that the writer, a mere subordinate law
officer of the Government, undertakes
to back up the usurpation of his su-
perior by passing in review the general
operation and efect-not the spirit
of the laws on the statute books of
Tennessee. 1t is not ntimated that
there is no disposition to execute these
laws impartially, but simply that the
Federal grip would be stronger, and
Williams would be surer of his prey
with fewer challenges for the defend
ants. a very Daniel has come to
Judgment in that neck of the woods.
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Lumber aud Building Material.
NORTHERN & HOWELL, 1s4 Cor. Broad and
High streets,
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Administrators Notice.

NASHVILLE, OCT. G, 1S74.-Having quali-
~ fed as administrator of the estate OF p T.
Nshonev, deed, ! hereby notify all persons
having claims against his estate 70 ME mem
within the time required by law, OF uieH VII i,e
bsrre,I- AMI an rersons indebted 70 his estate
viii settle, or vii proceed 10 collect according
70 law. JEhht AlAhy-'A-A @A''i'' -
o,4 oaWatF
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NASHVILLE
CITY BUSINESS LIST


JOHN L. SHIfH, Cor. Union and College street
over Third n. Bank
WI. c. SMITH, 103 Church st., st. Cloud BLOCK
p. J. WILLIAMSON, Cor. Charch and Summer
streets, Lewis Block.
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mOCRATIC STATE EXECUTIVE

MOCRATIC STATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE.
JAMES L. RICE, Chairman.
I. JOHN T. HELMS.
IL. r. n. HOOD.
III. P. d. SIMS.
". JOHN A. FTTE.
V. JAMES W. NEWMAN.
VI. F. C. DUNNINGToN and j. NJ.
SHARPE.
VII. Z. I. TALIAFERR0.
VIII. D. NJ. WISDOM.
IL. HIRAM JOHNSON.
y. LUKE WRIGHT.
All communications relating to the canvass
should be addressed to the Chairman OF the
t,om.,;ttee
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In the County Court of Humph-
reyS County, Tenn.

Robt. T. Turner ct ais vs.. Wm. E.Dickson ct ais.
Petition to sell land for PARTITION
IN THIS CAUSE 1T APPEARS FkO4 l
afidavit that defendants, William L. Dick
snu and Clark Dickson are nOn-residents OF this
state, so that the ordinary process OF law can
not be served ON them il Is therefore ordered by
the clerk of the County Court Of Humphreys
Countv. Tennessee. that said VIM. L. and Clark
Dickson appear before said Court on the hrst
Monday in November, 1874, and answer eoIh-
plainant's bill in this cause or II VIII De PIe-
orIer be published four consecutive weeks IN
the NASHVILLE UNIOS AND AMERICAN. IEls
Oct 3, 1874. pocrpS clart
McAdOo & Lanier, Solicitors -.
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In 1872, Garfield carried the Nine
teenth District In Ohio by II, 1856 major
ity. Now he carries it by only 3,27l.
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Boots and Shoes.

B. r. CUTTER, corner OF Broad and College sta
b. N. EATHERLf, 81 n. College street.
CHAS. B. HALL, 81 n. College street.
JOHN H0LAKAN, 9 Union street.
NANCY 4 BRO, go Church street.
TRECT & COYLE. q Union street.
I. Z. WINSTEAD 4 CO., I n. Cherry street.
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Attoywegs-at-Laav.

z. L. CARUTHERS, IT., 8 J. W. BONNER, No.
46K N. Cherry st.
J. P. JKUP, Once S3X Cedar street.
WM. X. HeALISTER, Jr., IS n. College street.
SMITH, BAXTER s. ALLISON, No. Porter
Block.
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Carriage Manufacturers and Dealers.
=. N. ALLEN G co., 1872 and IJ4 North Cherr!
street.
W. S. HUNT, No. II9 North Cherry street.
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Manufacturers and DeaLersia HAIR Work
J. p. GRANVILLE 4 CO., Is n. Cherry street.
JOS. L. LOISEAU CO., q n. Cherry street.
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MilliAsTy and Dress Making.
MRS. J. C. BARRY, 40 Union, near Cherry.
HIS. TINES, p y. Summer street.
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HAS and Gents furnishing Goods.
VAIN & WALKER. q Public Square.
ISAAC WATERFIELD. % Union street.
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Gun Makers and Dealers IN Guns and
Pistols.
FL. BTTTERLICH J. LEGLER, No. q Dead
erick street.
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Manufacturers Of Looking Glasses, VIM
don C0TRics and Frames.
FREEMAN & ORCHARD. q North College SC.
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GRESS
lican pyramid

The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette states that ''some
Of the lobbyists who have been very
active in trying to get Gen. Jewell to
cancel the contract with the Plympton
Company for supplying stamped envel-
opes, evince much chagrin at their
failure, and are going around declaring
that they possess the power to have the
Senate reject his nomination when it
comes up for confirmation in Deem
ber;" and that Senator Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, and his crowd, are
quoted as being opposed to Gen.
Jewell, and are determined to make
fight in the Senate over his
confirmation. 1t is notorious that
the lobbyists claimed to have control
of the present Congress, but they will
have to make haste if they expect to
get their jobs through. With even
the Senate in their pockets after the
expiration of the present Congress, if
the Democrats secure a majority in
the House, as now seems almost ceg,-
tain, the lobby must lose its grip there.
The approach of the meeting Of Con-
gress naturally draws attention to the
schemes of plumber proposed at the
last session, but discreetly postponed
until after the elections of this fall.
Here is a partial list of the pending
jobs:
Northern Pacific RsiWay-indOrSe-
meHt OfitS bonds. .......... O0.0O0
Texas Pacific Railroad Company
Endorsement of bonds. 5O,cooOOO
Georgia River and Canal Company
Endorsement Of bonds. ............. $4,000 600
James River and KaHawha improve
ment, purchase Of canal from Viz
ginia, etc....... -.................. GO.OOoOOo
Purchase and enlargement OF Erie
Canal..................... 25,ooO,oOo
Assumption OF debt of District OF
COlumbla...---s- -s..-.........--.. 20,Oel,0UO
| Increase Of army tper annum)....... 100000
Increase Oi the law 25.on,uOO
Deficiency bill ..................... 20,On0, 900
| Postal telegraph purchase. 10000, 600
| Centennial at Philadelphia ......... l0,OOO,OOO
| Assumption of the Southern State
debts -. .................... ~, 900 900
| Pacific Steamship subsidy (annuaD. 5,OO0,OOO
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Notice to Creditors.

nTrRsUANT TO A DECREE OF THE
Chaneery Court at Springfield, Tenn, Ten-
iered ~ its September Term. 1874, in the cause
~, r : Rrovn and j. X. Finch, Trustees, VS.
.Jpo. 3 Hart ct ais, all creditors Of John 5.
Hart or = n. Hart, or the firm Of JnO- ). Hart
& Co are required 70 make themselves
~ netifion in this cause, and file their claims,
-roIerIy authenticated. with the Undersigned
AZ Shrugged, Tenn, on or before the frst DAY
OF January, $50. o,,-,, ~ eNf
Oct 9, 1874 w D. 1--we " u W.
nauvIf
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Plumbers, Gas and Steam Filters.
DAVID GREWAR, 81 and "a Church street.
HENDERSON BROS & CO., 70 n. Cherry street.
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Honey! .uOneyH .Uoney!1
w E WANT TO BORROW MONEY ON
al kinds of good securities. We want money
for Real Estate that will pay Ii per cent, net
ARLINGTON, FARRAR 6 wEAKLEY,
Agents,
Oc2I diff No. 20 North College Street.