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

Whether the increase of American
travel abroad, with the consequent
spending of our money in foreign lands
be a benefit or a disadvantage to this
country, ID a question that elicits ami
mated discussion and varied response
amongour politico-economic exchanges.
The matter hinges mainly on tariff or
no tariff, and 50 long as we are cursed
with the present highly protective -
system, we cannot, on either patriotic
or pay-triotic grounds condemn those
who Ire fortunately able to escape its
exactions. Primarily, we must remem-
Der hat the class of citizens who can
afford 10 visit Europe are above the
need of work. They are not pro-
ducers, and their absence does
not detract from the productive
power of the country. They invest
their money here because it pays a bet
ter interest than in Europe,
but they 60 to Europe because
they can live there cheaper. This COM
parative cheapness Of living increases
their surplus for fresh investments.
Take a nan owning a mill worth $780,
600 and yielding $4,000 a year profits.
If he has a large family living in mod
est style, the entire profits viii be con-
sumed IN this country. But in Europe
he can rear his family in the same style
for $1,000 to $4,000 a year, and viii
consequently have at the end Of the
year a surplus Of $1,000 to $1,000 to
enlarge his business or invest in some
other way. Permanent "~absentees" do
not decrease our muscular power, but
do increase our money power; they take
nothing from production, and at the
same time add to accumulated
wealth, thereby increasing production
or stimulating it in fresh channels.
In the same way every traveller
who buys a suit Of clothes in Eu-
rope which escape the tariff as being
personal apparel, benefits the country
and increases It's wealth by the differ
ence in price. The man who buys in
Liverpool for $50 a suit which would
cost him 500 in buying in New York
makes himself and the country $50
richer by his foreign purchase. That is
the way the tariff works; it goes rath-
er hard on home merchant tail0rs and
others, but the tariff is expressly de-
signed TO protect home industries
and home labor, you know. As for the
loss Of duty to the government on the
importatiOns Of fortunate travelling
m1rtals, no one regrets it, the general
impression being that entirely toe much
revenue is already collected for moral
or political health of Washington or
the purity of government.
Therefore we hold that, under pres
ent circumstances, absenteeism Is
rather an advantage to the country as
well as the absentee. An economic
traveller can, at the cheaper cost of iv-
ing and his necessary purchases, &C.
tually save the expenses Of a six
months European trip, counting what
the six months would cost him to sit
stil at home. But if he undertake to
travel six months In this country, he
will find occasion to double his de-
| mands on his banker.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07
THE SOUTH IN THE REVOLUTION

In the present lull OF politics, our
leading Northern exchanges are de-
voting much attention to the North
Carolina Centennial, and some which
at first ridiculed it, like the NeU York
Times and Chicago Tribune, are now
hedging" and revising their opinions.
Only ten days ago, the latter summari-
" disposed Of the Battle Of the Ala
nance by asserting that such a bloody
affair would have depopulated the
whole region, leaving no one to tell the
tale; now it repubishes the account of
that battle given by the British Gov
ernor Tryon, which can hardly be
gainsaid. The NeW York Herald IN
publishing the correspondence from
Charlotte, n. c., reproduced elsewhere,
says Of the Mecklenburg Declaration:
Let the controversy be decided as it
may. it will not affect the credit and
patriotism Of North Carolina. So far
as it is a mere question Of date the
trihing difference Of eleven days does
not undermine, does not even touch,
the claim of the M~ecklenbUrg patriots
to priority. Between May 20, and May
81, l775, nothing was done elsewhere
which can be put IN competition with
the M~ecklenburg manifesto. So far as
the question Of priority is concerned it
is a question between the M~ecklenburg
Declaration and the Philadelphia De
claratlon, which did not take place IN
til July 4, in the following year.
The ilustrious services of the South
can never be disputed. The author Of the
national Declaration Of Independence
was a Southern citizen; the Command
er-In-ChIef Of our armies IN that he
rOic war, the most resplendent name in
our history, was also a Southern citizen.
Patrick Henry, the forest born De.
mosthenes, whose eloquence has never
perhaps been oqualed IN modern times,
and who was the first to declare, with
the winged words Of a soul on fire,
we must fight" was also a Southern.
er. The browning event Of the war,
the surrender Of CORVALLIS, took
place In a Southern town. The most i'm
portant battles IN the earlier years of
the war were fought N the Northern
States; but, with the exception of
Bunker Hill and Saratoga, those bat
ties were fought on u side by troops
under the Immediate command Of
Washington, a Southern general The
series Of battles By which the war was
brought to its glorious close were
fought OF Southern soil. These great
and conspicuous facts, which can never
be disputed or belittled, take out Of our
hands and out Of everybody's handsthe
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

Mrs. TILToN's latest letter was not
read to the jury, which may be some
disappointment to those who contrived
it, as its one strong POINT was the ap.
peal against a divided jury, which would
leave her and her children under a
cloud. 1t was published in the news.
papers, however, where the jurymen
a read it, which suits perhaps as well,
while she escapes the perilous pitfalls
of cross-examination. But the public
are not likely to be dazed by this ad-
rOit maneuver, and already the press is
demanding that, since Mrs. Tiltcn
seems so anxious to be heard, she might
make a deposition before some conve-
nient magistrate, and publish her own
sworn version of the story. As an eX-
tra-judicial proceeding, this would in
volye no perjury penalties, but rest
solely on the religious element of the
oath, and is therefore the least she
could do.
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THE people, of Westmoreland county,
Pa, propose to celebrate on the 10th
inst, four days ahead of the North Car,
olini4ns, the centennial Of what they
term a declaration Of independence
made there May Is, l775. To be sure,
we can hardly call that a declaration of
independence which begins with a
formal affirmation Of the most un-
shaken loyalty and fidelity to his Ma
jesty King George the Third" Nor
does the resolution that the association
shall be dissolved when the British
Parliament shall have repealed their
late obnoxious statutes" sound much
like an assertion of political independ-
ence. But, considering the times in
which these u~tterances were made, and
the rigor with which contumacy was
punished, the action Of the Wes.moTe-
land patriots was courageous and in
part prophetic. Nor does it detract
one iota from the laurels Of the men OF
Mecklenburg, because it happens that
Westmoreland was settled by the same
indOmitable race of Sootch-Irish,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07
BOWIE'S A
A Wholesome "Reminiscences for the
Presidential Puffer.

The NeU York Tribune publishes the
following story, told by a correspon.
dent as he heard it forty or fifty years
ago:
A stage coach was going along an
Arkansas road. On the back seat were
three women; on the middle one, two
men, tall and muscular; while the for
ward seat held only a small a
wrapped up completely in a blanket.
After a time one Of the powerful men
on the middle seat lit a cigar and
smoked. The smoke went full in the
face Of one of the women, who was
both young and timid. She sickened,
and then requested the man to stop
smoking. This arOusedthe rufian in
him, and be roughly declared, i have
paid myfare; 1t IS customary to smoke,
and l will smoke as much as l have a
mind to- Accordingly he took out a
fresh cigar, and started the
smoke-cloUd again. The woman
could only add that smokers ought
not to forget to be gentlemen" This
suggestion excited the mans rage to
white heat. At this point the small
man on the front seat laid aside his
blanket, put his left hand on the knee
of the enraged rufian, in order to with
draw his attention from the woman and
to himself, while with his right hand he
drew u bowie knife from its case be-
tween his shoulder blades. Pointing
the weapon at the heart Of the brute,
and looking him square in the eyes. the
little man quietly said: Il am Col.
James Bowie, and unless you throw
that cigar away IN one minute, | will
put this knife into your heart, as true
as there Is a God" The rufian COM
pretended IN an instant with whom he
mad to deal, and threw the cigar out of
the window without adding a word.
Col. Bowie replaced his weaDon drew
ms blanket about him, and relapsed
into a condition Of apparent indiffer-
ence. If he had lived in the ancient
times, his contemporaries or the genera
ton Immediately following, would have
made a god Of him.
ApropOs Of the above, and a state
ment made by the Tribune as to Grants
smoking in a drawing room car Occu-
pied by ladies', between New York and
Boston, the same correspondent gives
the following from his budget of rem
i~niscences:
Some few days after Gen. Grant was
inaugurated rs President the first time,
I went into the Executive Chamber
with the Republican members of the
Pennsylvania delegation in the two
houses of Congress. Soon the Presi.
dent came In, with a cigar in his
mouth, nodded at some Of the
persons present, shook hands with
others, and while they resumed
seats, took his stand near a table on
which was a pile Of books. Leaning
his left elbow on the topmost book, lie
pulled away the tobacco smoke. The
Oldest member of the delegation, seated
a sofa at my side, could hardly re-
strain his indignation. He whispered
in my ear: Il have been about the
Capital for many years, and under diff
ferent administrations, but have seen
nothing to compare with this The
President had patronage; the Senators
and Representatives wanted the dis
pensaLion of portions Of it as means
for sustaining themselves at home; and
they held IN check the natural disgust
they felt.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07
MIR. KELLEY HAS GONE OVER.

Mr.. W. d. Kelley, of Pennsylvania,
reminds one very forcibly Of the Incl
dent recorded By Mr.. Disraeli in "LO-
THAR" Some -countesses and peeresses
went on a winter tour to Rome and
went over to the Church Of Rome,
~whereupon their husbands went in hot
pursuit after them to reclaim them, and
also went over. When Messrs. Foster,
Phelps and Wheeler went TO the South
they certainly came back as converts,
and proclaimed that the South was ira
duced, that 1t was oppressed by a vii
famous regime Of thieving carpet-bag-
gers and scalawags,. and an utterly ig-
norant negro rabble; Mr.. Kelley was
loath to believe 1t, and showed his dis.
belief by voting for the enforcement
bill. After the close Of the session he
went to the South and investigated for
himself. He mas now returned to
Washington loudly ~proclaiming that
there Is no NOR necessity for military
rule IN the South than there is in Penn
sylvania; that his greatest remorse
during fourteen years Of service IN the
House is for the vote he gave for the
Enforcement actin short he has
gone over
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

The great blue lead Of California, which
is nothing more than the bed of an ancient
water course, whose sands and gravel are
rich in float gold, is now reported to have
been traced through Northern California,
Oregon, Washington Territory, and Brit
ish Columbia, for a distance Of W seven
hundred miles. All the gold taken from
the younger placer and lode workings since
the settlement of the Pacific coast will not,
if this be true, represent a tenth Of the
precious metal yet lying untouched in this
ancient water course.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

In the Boston suit, alluded to a few
days ago, to determine whether the
city was liable for the destruction Of a
house blown up by ~gunpOwder to stay
the great fire Of 1872, the evidence was
insufficient to show that the Fire Ward
ems ordered it to be done. The decis-
ion reached by the Federal District
Court, relieving the city, was therefore
based on the fact that only five persons
were proven to haveparticipated in the
act, whereas it requires twelve or nor
to constitute a mob or riotous assem-
blage. The case will be carried to the
United States Supreme Court. Other
suits may be instituted against the in
dividual participants, among whom is
Postmaster Burt, who seems to have
ordered the destruction of the building
in dispute, without consulting the Fire
Wardens.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07
NONRESIDENT Notice.
In the County Court Of Dickson County,
Tenn.

In the County Court Of Dickson County,
Tenn.
OFFICE OF CLERK AND MASTER
- County Court, CharlO te, Tenn, Mays, 1873.
James McWiliams, Administrator of John
Russ, deceased, vs.. Henry Ru-s ct ais,
In this cause it appearing from the allega-
tiOns in the bill and the affidavit thereto, that
the defendants, Henry Russ, Alfred Russ,
Amanda Russ, Catherine Russ, Emeline Russ,
Elizabeth Russ and Rebecca Russ, are
non-residents Of the State of Tennessee,
so that the ordinary process Of law cannot
he served upon them: IL is therefore or
deIed that publication be made for four
successive weeks in the Nashville Union and
American, a newspaper published in the city OF
Nashville Tenn, requiring the said nOn-resi-
dent defendants 70 appear before the County
Court at its June term, to be held at Charlotte,
Dickson county, Tenn, on the first Monday and
18th day Of June, 1875, and plead, answer or de-
muir to compliments bill, or the same will be
taken for confessed as 10 them and set for hear
ing eN parte.
THOS. X. GRIGSBY, c.. & VI.
7. c. Morris, Attorney for petitioner.
nv dlt&W3t
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

SCENE in House Of Commons: DR..
Kenealy-Is it that both sides of the House
are agreed that the conduct of the Judges
in the late trial was beyond possibility OF
doubt? lCheers.l If so, l do not envy
you, gentlemen. L"Order, Order."l The
Speaker must remind the honorable
member that il is one Of the rules Ofdebate
that every member should address the
Chair. DR.. Kenealy-I beg pardon if |
addressed the House by the name of gen.
tlemen. loud laughter.1
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mo. 1Oo2I
SHPriT'S Sale.

nY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OF FL. FA
ID TO me directed, and delivered from the Hon
Orable Law Court of Davidson county, Tenn.
at its May term, 1875, l will Expose tC
the Courthouse door, in the city Of Nashville,
on Saturday, the 18th day of May, 1875, with,
in lawful hours, the following described real
estate, to-wit All the right, title, and interest
of y. HObsOn in and 10 a tract of 46a acres OF
land on the Whites Greek pike, abOut3k miles
from Nashville, Tenn, and adjoining the lands
Of Sam Casey, W. B. Ewing and - Morrow,
in the DIST District Of Davidson county, lem
also lots Nos. 333, S34, and 10 feet Of lot $50 in
Ewing's addition to Nashville, fronting east side
of Ewing avenue 80 feet each and 100 feet deep,
more or less, and being levied on as the prop
erty Of n. HObsOn 70 satisfy a Judgment
against him and in favor of Alex. A. Han for
s6s2.73. besides interest and costs.
Dated this 9th day Of May, 1915.
+. d. WHITWORTH, Sheriff.
By T. NJ. WOODALL, Deputy.
w,v- Il %
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

As another strong link in the chain
of brotherly love and good feeling which
is everywhere in the Union cropping
out, much to the disgust Of the few who
would cherish fraternaI hate as ameans
of perpetuating the official power
which they have abused" the Memphis
appeal of yesterday publishes some
patriotic correspondence between the
ex-Federal and x-Confederate officers
and soldiers of Memphis, in which it is
agreed that arrangements shall bemade
for a Joint decoration, on the oath inst,
of the graves of those whOfell on either
side during the war.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

THE adjournment of the Supreme
Court without publishing its decision
on the Grant parish cases is generally
taken as being adverse to the cOnstitu-
tionality of the Enforcement act. 1t
is reasoned that if the decision had
been favorable, it would have been pro-
mulgated without delay.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

WHILE the argus-eyed country editor
con iuues to 60 prowling about after sin,
virtue will be protected. Amoral Indiana
paper, referring to a young man who has
been guilty Of carrying on a Irritation with
two girls at the same time, observes, "He
is still in town, holds high his head, and
seems the persOniication Of perfection, but
his small, shriVelled soul knows not one
ray of light emanating from integrity Of
character
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

MR. JOHN F. HARTLEY, the Second
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
who has just given place to Curtis F.
Burnam, of Kentucky, entered the
Department as a clerk IN 1888, and
gradually rose by promotion during
his thirty-seven years of continuous
service.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

DR.. OTTo LEIBREICH, the famous
German physician, has lately discover
ed five new a~nasthetic agents, of
which, entitled "Denomine," possesses
the wonderful power of putting the
patient into a deep but healthy sleep,
One hour of the sleep induced by 1t Is
equivalent IN reparative power to eight
hours of ordinary sleep. Tne slumbeT
is profound, and the medUIIa ObJOngata,
whence are spread the nerves which
govern the lungs, must be powerfully
affected, for the breathing is deep and
rapid, whereby enormous quantities Of
oxygen are taken into the system anda
proportionate amount Of carbon elimi-
mated. If more extended experiments
establish the harmlessness that is
claimed for this new drug, the name Of
Leibreich viii become familiar as a
benefactOr Of suffering humanity.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

THE heather Chinee was originally
imported into this country to confuse
the trades unions and check strikes,
but now the Celestials with their imi-
~tativeness have learned the trick, and
can organize strikes much more eff
fectively than their pale-faced breth-
rem. The Chinese tailors Of San Fran
cisco are up in arms Just now, and
publicly offer $500 for the head of any
pig-tailed "rat," and 800 for that Of
any employer of rats. Notwithstand-
the publicity Of these bids forI assassi-
nation, which are ~placarded over the
city in cabalistic characters, the au-
thorities seem to be utterly Powerless
IN hepTemises.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

IT has been discovered that the sys-
TEN prevailing in Northern cities Of
Sailing the tracks Of street cars dur
ing the winter gives rise to dyptheria
and pneumonia, besides being ruinous
to horses. A House bill is now pend
ing before the New York Senate forbid
ding the use Of salt or saltpetre for the
purpose of dissolving snow on any
street, highway or public place.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Notice to Those Interested.

HE ADVERTISEMENT OF THE zoL-
hcOfer Block on Broad street, Nashville, for
sale for city taxes for 1872 and 1873, will be dis
continued, the taxes having been paid this May
G, 1875. B. W. MCCAIN,
NV 1tH City Revenue Collector.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

SARATOGA is becoming famous as
the meeting place for all sorts Of peo-
pie. The turfmen and the boating
men are drawn thither by the horse
racers and rowing-matches. The rail-
road kings find it a comfortable place
at which to meet and plan an increase
of freight rates; and now it Is an
nounced hat the representatives Of l.
200 banks are to meet at Saratoga next
July. After which money viii be
tighter than ever.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07
FOUR .~aTTEI'TTOH'!
THE UNION AND AMERICAN
E~preParedt to execute every description Of
JOB PRINTING
IN THE BEST STYLE AND on FIRST
CLASS MATERIAL.

TINE PUBLIC MAKE A GRAVE MIS-
take when they 90 OF send North and East
for work that can be as well and as eheaply done
in Nashville by the Union and American Mer-
chants will fnd,u upon comparison Of work and
prices. that they can do better in the Job Rooms
OF the Union and American than they will do
bv going abroad, and that it is a great mistake
10 assume that work done at a distance Is neces-
sarily better than they can obtain at home.
They should remember that the more work they
have performed by their ~neighbOrs, the better
able will their ueighbQrs be % do fine work; ar
the more they do abroad, the more they Will
have to do abroad, because there VIII be roth
ing TO induce hrst-class printerstO come AID re-
main among US.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

OF the one hundred and five acces-
sions to Beecher's Church Sunday,
eighty-two were women and only
twenty-three were men. But woman
has always been and viii ever beasyrn-
pathetic creature.
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question whether the South did its full
share of efficient service In "the times
which tried mems souls"


THE New York papers publish full
reports Of a remarkable address de-
livered by DIR. W. A. Hammond before
the Neurological Society, of that city,
Monday evening, a synopsis of which
we give elsewhere. He undertakes to
show that the brain is not the sole
organ of the mind, but merely the
largest collection of nerve substance
in the human organism, performing
functions which do not differ essential
ly from those devolving upon the tissue
forming the spinal cord and the ner-
vous ganglia. The difference of func-
ton between the gray or cellular and
the white OF fbrous nerve tissue is
very clearly illustrated. While the
first is the generator of nerve force,
the second serves as the medium
by which the force is trans
mitted. The gray tissue is found
equally in the brain, spinal cord, and
gangia of the great sympathetic and
other nerves, and it is to the remark
able distribution of function among
what may be called the minor nerve
centres that DR.. Hammond's address
is mainly devoted. His experiments
and observations are certainly very
difficult to explain upon any other sup
position than that the spinal cord
shares with the brain to some extent
the faculties of perception and volition.
The theory Is one calculated to attract
very general attention among the
medical profession.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

The Democrats are responsible for
all the dust that has been raised about
the third term, aud their party is the
only one that would really Hk to have
ter. Grant r~enuminated. That Is the
best chance they see of an easy victory.
Chicago Tribune.
If this is 50, why doesn't Grant
dampen that dust by simply saying
that he won't be candidate: Can the
Tribune answer this COMMUNICATIONS
ciHHQti Enquirer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-07

A CHICAGO tailor has secured a patent
for what he calls "the married mans pre-
cautiOnary cOat-cOllar." The collar is
made Of some glazed substance to which
a hair cannot adhere, and which will bear
the closest inspection Of the wife of his
bosom.