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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-04-28


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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-04-28

~rEI<Y.-Oi All Tie seasons Sprfnr i
n. most cnqlrtti-h. III. i Ike tia. . ira-
rc~> who stopped anA Kissed the >lrrp,n.
poet under the ;rec VINO :. III slept on. IN.
':realaeI Il different Ir,lIn The cIr. Il
Wt~ hardly cou~2iuU~ t5it spring htI com,
I'll. v'S'rli.tv. hrn tn. bli, ~>i..S ,Irolp...
ethereal ln',,;n"-S (Thnnl,~on) on her.
.'n~' n L iS indeed tle tim" when tA,.
y''l.I-. the rosy >Ilr NJ riv,> to tn. hr,., Z.
TIER scented WIG (A;.;t-r-on) and April i
-1r.aHd'o' with -. tn .l.rr>. 1lrweg> ana
freshest TN i the earth brings for-h (>r,,n-
~"l). NolI VS. j. .. rived. jl.t Ht>- IN
army d..e tea. Tie snow la.h !c.rr:,t Il
lN"rd>W. W.rt.) and thai i.,. !i,l.t~ ui.a
il pW'r~ .'rr "chcd III every LU- tprum
IL nd-) ;h"lEh w IItI~i no, lrt :, ul, h.
Hu.l th-ln. l- swallow al-n !, ii:c- Il
,h,. seas n OF v,rn,l delight; with hi, ack
all Il S.th."an b ] < o. white lAnonymru-l
anI There are dliip ...~ which r,:.- i4.iur
N swallow q ir''~ nj take tiar winds 81.
NIrrh with Ariu,v t>!lthe~irar,p. II til,
>nrln- = .II-hirr cr.m> II barns unrn tn.
r"h:n LAra~. (Icuny~onD ial i youn-
man ian y l-It \ tIrn~ to thDu-I-> o..
love iAiD Now j. heard ia. >,,..nd .:
NtiIr. Showers on the IN linz -ra~-
t>ari"y. AMI with hi umhr,llt wanI,r~
ioih IN" hElc!mt.lInr boy. tn- whom morn
well m IN break and April h,.,nm !:m. +
no Now shall wc notice lInvv or >wif
p ii-c h al'- the orchard ill' II boom an.I
scent ll"W,lD. AM the mail.n II re-
,Hrn~ "iiha petty haste (Btrl-y CaInwrlD
\"N q" IN" n1j"rlty o. intelligent ianpl,.
ihlnN j better - sport wish AaiIryl ! HI
the ii id,' or with the tlnrr~ of N,:r.:t- :
hlIr. (NlIilan) than creep into some. 4 en-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-04-28

When Colonel Smith ordered the re-
treat, although he and his officers NAV
have had some mi>givin~S, they had prob
ably lost them in the contempt of regu-
Lars for militia But from the moment Of
the firing 1t Mcrriam'> Corner they We're
undeccivcd. The landscape was alive
with armed men. They swarmcd through
every wood path and by-way, across the
pa>ttlre, and over the hills. Some came
up in order along the road, as from Read
inc and Bllcric;,, from East Sudbury and
Bedford. and John Parkcrs company from
Lexington waited in a woody detile to
avcnge the death Of their comrades. The
British column marched steadily on. while
from trees. rocks and fences. from houses,
barns and sheds. blazed the withering
American fire The hills echoed and
flashed. the woods rang. The road became
an endless ambuscade of flame. The
Americans seemed to the appalled, British
troops to fall from the cloads, to spring
from the earth With every step the at
tack was deadler, the danger more immi-
nent For some time discipline and the
plain extremity of the peril sustained the
order of the British line. But the sitting
clouds Of dust, the consuming thirst, the
exhaustion of utter fatigue, the wagons
full of wounded men moaning and dying,
madlv pressing through the ranks to the
front, the constant falling Of their com
rades, officers captured and killed, and
through all, the fatal and incessant shot OF
an unseen foe, smote with terror that
naughty column, which, shrinking, bleed
inr, wavering, reeled through Lexington,
panic stricken and broken. The officers.
seeing the dire extremity, fought their way
to the front, ami threatened the men with
death if they advanced. The breaking
line recoiled little, and even stcadled
under one of the sharpest attacks of the
day. For not as yet were Hessians hlred
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-04-28

to ensllvc Americans, AMI it was En4Ii-h
blood and pluck on both sile-. At two
O'Clock in the afternoo". i h2li-n;Ie be
vond Lexington meeting house. l>t Il, tn
English officers tw thl destruction or
surrender was the only alternative, Lord
Percy with reinforcement Of twelve
hundred men came up, an opening with
tNo cannonS upon the Americans, sue
core,i lis flying anI de>partle comr.,dc-.
who fell upon the grounI am ns Percv's
troops, their parch"l ton ,u-s hanging
from their mouths.
TIE BRITISH Eo}I.
The flower Of General & GtG.'> army was
now upon the field but il, commander ~aw
ut once that its sole hope Of sAf,-t.- WIS to
continue the retreat. Aftcr huff al hour
delay the march Was resumed. IN with
1t the btrharitic> Il VIII Il th.- -aticringS
of war. Lord Percy threw oat Thinking
ptrtirS which entered the houses nl III the
linz OF march, Ilunderinr aul blning.
Ihe fields OF Mrnot"my or Arlington,
through which lrv the rorl, h"cimr Il
plain of blood and ike. But the Amer
ican pursuit WI, rc,ruil">N, iii b hIoud
Lexington the lower counties ;tMi towns
came hurrying /" tin hattir. Many =
m IN ,itcrW;ud famous Wa cons ~pir!oN>
that day, an near Wc~t ClMnrilgr
Joseph Warren W - the inspiring >u:l oI
the >trug@lr, 1t wa low past five "'clrrh.
The British ammunition WIS irving "ul.
The officers. TOO rhush exposed m t.lr sad
de, alightcd and mprclicd with tn mrn.
who. 4. they approached Chulr>toVn, IN
c"un'clcl HE ho:t,-; fire Of tn day. Cen.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-04-28
Z Ile freeman,
The Concord Centennial.
-lEIE WILLIAM tEE4I-

..,I- I-ilu. Citizens OF Il great. tree ami
.r,-u roH- country. We com" hither to
r,. the mon. cur i1rih1l>, who, on Hi
tan rppn TIN day. Il hundred y"Ir~
a. ; u \ the fist blow in tire contest
..-l ma e lie uutry ir4cpcnitr:t
II r,. n,u,lth the hills they trod. hv the
,..t ctul river on whose shores they GWclt.
.4t = the fields that they spwrd and
.1ur.I. pruu liz recalling tllrir virtue am
II. IF VI .r. We come to tell their story To-
.-..ou ( ives hv their lofty standard to-
-,.. if We .,r,. :ir.r worthy clIiI !rcm: an.
>..u,i.nr rcvcl-n'lv where they stood and
t,5,.it and died l., ~, ;lr before God and
,..-.t ,..l-r. ii the wor i OF him upon
viii ln IN pur Il nv th. spirit of the Rcvoiu-
1,u,rv Fthcr> Ni~.hjy descended. that
.,,v,riImril, oi tn People. ltr the People
..r the People. ~AlIl not perish from Iii.
tti. h.
ItIluFJLNE>; I" IIl. DAY.
I.., an lent town. VITA it, nci.hhor~
H1, share t. glory, his n"Ter failed litly
g., .,un."lrrs-t tIis great DIV uI il
5.-.,-r Fifty v,+tI- aLr. while SOM
-.. .,r, f tie Concord fight were Yet
.Hc tW,u'v-tlvr Vc:l> az. while still
o., venerable Survivors I.nLrtrl with
.~...- :uI ,loyurmcr and song 1uu rr-
,.,.,i "a. Iin't- Vow. Bu: th.. la~t IiEin.
-, Nuu til E.v".g-ion ht- long ben
.vu. Gr-:tt crcm-~ and i III glitter
--..--I. Iliyc absorbed our own genera
u y. wr VINO stand here to-day have
. sympathy with the men n the old Nort!
!;I-c which those who preceded u~ herr,
.- ..-.i-r celebrations could no. know.
Wt.-I.,iu VIZ Il name and Il tradition.
-,-v..t and ya>t had been the chang.
.g fa.. j.. v-I'Imeut of tn country TIM.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-04-28

y
Tint group of Nlildlr>cx farmers. here
upon Punkata>srt. without hu3gh. tha,
they were heroes, or that the day and is
deed were To be 50 momrntou~. is :, q up
a, memorable Il the men of Rutii on the
>wi>, Alps. or the bsron~ in the meadows
of Runnvmclr They confronted the
mi9hlir~t empire in the world. invincihl,
on land. supreme on srt. hose guns had
ir~t been heard in four counties II once,
girdling the globe with victory. And
thu: empire was their mnthcr-lanl in
whose rcnown they had >hlrrd-thc land
dear to their hearts 10y a thousand tit.~ of
love. pride ana reverence. They took 4
sublime AMI awful responsibility TAry
could not know that the otter colonies. or
even thrir nrigIborS of Massachusetts,
would Justify their action There WAS Vet
no Declaration Of Independence, no Cont
nen'i1l amy. In 're was. indeed, 4 g'n-
eral feeling that 4 blow would soon be-
struck but to mistake the time the. place.
the way might be to s'crilicr the great
cause itself, and to ruin America. But
their conscience and their Judgment as
>'Ircl them that the hour had come. Be-
fore thrm lay their homes and on the Hill
b,vond, the graveyard IN which their fore
fathers Slept. \ guard Of tn" hing s
troops opposed their entrance t. thrir own
vili1r". Those troops We're 1t that mo-
m"nt searching their homes. pcrhols in
-ulling th,ir wives and children, Already
they law the smoke, n Of burning houses
rising in the air. and they l,salvcd 10
march into the town. and 10 fire upon lhr
troops if lhcv were opposed They rc-
solved upon org ,njznd. aggressive, ,torcihlc
resistance To the military powers of Great
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-04-28

Ncnwiiilr the B.li~h bayonets, Glis-
t"ninr in thn iu9rn. moved steadily nlonE
the r.rtd. Colonel ~mi.h Ee;ird AMI saw
that the country was ;,rous!, and sent
back - Boston for rrinforcrm"ntS. order
Mai3. Pitcairn with six companies To hast
en- toru lrl and eeiz, be bridges ut Con-
cori. Paul i;rv,rc and Dorr had reached
Lexington hy- liIilm ght. and had given
the. aItrrl I!r 1n.-n OF Lexington IN
-tlntlv mustered on the Green, bat as
there WIS no si-n of the enemy, they
were. d: -n.i--cl 10 Wai' his coming. lie
W. clos. at han-I. Pitcairn swiftly adj
vauccl. ling every man upon the road,
ard Wa not discovered till half-paSt four
n tn morning, within a mile or two OF
Lexington meeting house. Then there
was Il general alarm. The bell rang,
drums beat. guns fired, and sixty OF seven
" Of ,hc Laxing on militia We're drawn
up III lin" upon Tie green. Captain John
Park + nj their hta I. The British bay
onpt> oii9tcning in the dawn, moved rap
illy toward them. Pitcairn rode up, and
an@rilv or,!crel the militia TO surrender
ana disper,r But they held their ground
The troops ired over heir heads. Still the
militia stand. Then 4 deadly vollev blazeC
from The Br.ti-h lne. and eight Of the
Americans fe.i dead AMI ten wounded al
tie doc Dt Their homes AMI IN sight OF
tlci.. kindred Captain Parker. seeln=
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-04-28

that it was massacre, not battle, ordered
firing upon the enemy. The British troops
who had suffered little with a loud huzza OF
victory pushed On toward Concord, six
miles beyond.
TIE FIRST CONCOED MU&1E!i.
Four hours before, Paul Revere an, Eb-
cnezcr Dslr hal left Lexington to rouse
Concord, and We're soon ovcrtaken bv Dr.
Samuel Prescott of thtt town, wlo had
been To Lexington on 4 tender errAnl. \
british patrol captured Revere and Dor
but Prescott lclpcd 4 stone wall and dash
&c! on To Concord. Between one and two
O'Clock IN the morning. Amos Melvin, the
sentinel 1t the Court House r:lnr the bell
and reused the town. He sprang Of hero
ir stock. One of his f.mily lh " Years
before had comm1nAe,i Il company 1T Lou
lsbuigh and another IL Crown Point.
while -four brothers Of th. same family
served In the late war; and the honored
names of thu three who prri~hcl are
carved upon our soldiers monument
" hen the bel rang the first m that :lp-
pc;'rrd WAS William Emerson. lile minis
ter. with his Gun III his hand ii was his
faith that the scholar should be the M II
ute man of li'-erty. Il ftitl which his de-
reiidcntS have pioIsv c!irr-hcl and illus
tr.,tcL before The world Thr minute men
gathered hastily upon the Common. The
ciliz n, hurryiry from thcir hou-c-. sc
rrcttd the military stores. Messengers
were sent 10 Ike nci1 1hborinw villages. and
thr prtcelil town prepared! for battle. The
mIuuIc men ot Lincoln. whose Clptlin
WIS William Smith, AMI who's. li"utrnrnt
Midd.c>rA, iii Massachusetts, and in
Tie rnuujrN. and wherever known still
h,nurcl lor Tie no!lcst qualities Of the
men of thr Revolution h III irinrd the Con
cord militia AMI minutr-men AMI part OF
them had marched down the Lexington
road 10 rcconno!tcr. Seeing the British.
tllcv fell ia K toward the hill over tho.
rn;,i 1t the entrance of thr village. uroI
which stood the liberty pole.
1t was now Seven o'cl"ck There were
perhaps two hundred men in arm, upon
the hill. Below thcm,upon the LcNington
road. 4 quarter of Il mile away. rose Il
thick cloud of dust, from which. amidst
proudly rolling drums. eight hundred
British hayonrtS flashed n thn morning
sun. 1hn Americans saw that battl,
where they stood would he mere hutchcrv
and they fell gradually back to risjn@
/ grounds about Il mile north of the meeting
house. the >p't upon which We are now
assembled.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-09
The Rothschild Women.

The Jewish Messenger says: We
take pleasure in referring to the merits
of the Rothschild family, not because
they are wealthy, but Tor the simple
reason that in spite of theif wealth
they strive to be useful to their kind.
The men are immersed in business.
They are charitable, but the people
will say it is easy to be charitable il
you are rich. The women are public
spirited, intelligent and warm hearted
founding hospitals, reformatories,
chiidrcn's homes, endowing scholastic
institutions, encouraging struggling
professionals, and taking a personal
interest in the doings of the poor
Baroness Lionel makes weekly visits
in the meaDest portions of London,
Frightening the home of the Jewish
artisan, giving her good counsel to the
earnest teachers Of the free schools,
the matrons and assistants Of the
various charities. The daughter oil
AIphonse, Of Paris, teaches a good
lesson to her sisters in faith, and to
rich young ladies' of every creed, by
receiving a well-deseryed diploma as q
teacher. Anselm's daughter in Wen
ma is prominent in music. not only
composing songs that attain popularity,
but aiding struggling musicians by pen
and purse.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-09
Gen. Lee in the Hour of Defeat.

Eggleston says of Gen. Lee in a
Rebels Recollections." II saw him
for the last time during the war at
Amelia Court House, in the midst of
the final retreat, aud | shall never
forget the heart-broken expression his
face wore, or the still sadder tones of
his voice as he gave me the Instructions
| had come to ask The army vas in
utter confusion. 1t was already evil
dent that We were being beaten back
upon James river, and could never
hope to reach the Roanoke, on which
stream alone there might be possibil-
ity of making a stand. Gen. Sheridan
was harrassiDg our broken columns at
every step, and destroying US piece
meal. Worse than all, Gen. Lee had
been deserted by the terrified govern
ment in the very moment of his
supreme need, and the food had been
snatched from the mouths of the
famished troops (as is more fully ex-
planned in another ehapter,) that the
fight of the president and his follow
ers might be hastened. The load put
thus upon Lees shoulders was very
heavy one for so conscientious a man
as he to bear; and knowing, as every
southerner does. his habit of taking
upon himself all blame for whatever
went awry, we cannot wonder that he
was sinking under the burden. His
face was still calm, as it always was,
but his carriage was no longer erect,
as his soldiers had been used to see it.
The troubles of those last days had
already ploughed great burrows in his
forehead. His eyes were red as if
with weeping; his cheeks sunken and
haggard; his face eolorless. No one
who looked upon him then as he stood
there, in full view of the disastrous
end, can ever forget the intense agony
written upon his features. And yet
he was calm, self possessed, and delib-
crate. Failure and the sufferings of
his men grieved him sorely, but they
could not daunt him, and his moral
greatness was never more manifest
than during those last terrible days.
Even in the final correspondence with
Gen. Grant, Lees manliness and cour-
age and ability to endure lie on the
surface, and it is not the least honor
able thing in Gen. Grants history that
he showed himself capable or appre-
ciating the character of this manly
foeman as he did when he returned
Lees surrendered sword with the re-
mark that he knew of DO one so worthy
as its owner to wear it. isa
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-09
s1.5oo,OOO,OeO.
A Bonanza Big Enough to Pay the Na-
tiOnal Debt.
San Francisco Chronicle.

Mr.. Sharon's modest estimate of
$500, ,00O, 600 rs the value of the great
bonanza already impeaches him as an
unskillful cipherer, and the very men
who but twelve days ago ridiculed his
estimate, have now no jeer for Mr..
Deidesheimer, a mining engineer of
large experience, who, with unbound
ed faith in the probabilities and en-
thusiastic disregard of the uncertain
ties, sets the thing at merely 81 ,5OO,-
0O0,0O0l Prodigious figures, whose
bare comprehension strains ordinary
arithmetical capacity
A reporter of a contemporary on
Monday interviewed Mr.. Deideshei-
mer, who returned last Saturday from
Virginia City, whittier he had gone to
inspect the mines referred to. The re-
porter asked: 81
Did you 60 through all the mines
Consolidated, California and Ophir p
No; through Consolidated Virginia
and the California drifts. After see
ing them, man don't want to see any
more mines"
What do you think of them?'
Well, l hardly know whether l
ought to say; if do. people viii set
me down as crazy man; just as they
did when, a couple of months ago, /
told them California and Consolidated
Virginia would go to $500 before the
close of 1875"
But the readers Of the Post would
like to know, anyhow they can draw
their own conclusions"
We'll, nothing like these mines has
ever been seen, or heard, or dreamed
Of in the world before. They are
richer than l can tell"
How rich are they?'
well, there is one pillar in the
Consolidated Virginia that contains,
according to my calculations, so, ,000,-
OOO."
Seventy million dOllarsl That is
enormous"
"Yes, but that is nothing. I tell
you that nothing likei it has been heard
of or dreamed of before, and when a
man goes through the mine as / have
done, and makes his calculations, the
result is simply astounding.
well, what is the result Of your
calculations ?"
Allowing 800 feet for the depth of
the ore body, | calculate that there is
in these mines 81 SOC, 100000 worth of
bullion.
but is there any justification for
believing the ore body extends that
deep?"
at has already been exposed to the
depth of 200 feet; and, from the un-
failing indications horizontal and ver-
teal exposed By the different cross
cuts-indications Of the kind which
have marked every body yet found on
the Comstock, and every other body of
which | know anything-Iam satisfied
that the depth Of ore body will far ex-
eeed 600 feet. In the Crown Point,
the ore in the widest part was but I6S
feet, and not over $50 feet in length.
yet it went to the depth of 500 feet.
This ore body, as we know, is at least
LOO feet long. The depth of an ore
body is always proportiOned to its
| length.
''But fifteen hundred millions is an
/ enormous SUN"
Il know il is. But there has never
been anything like this before. Ii
will not be long before experts and
mining capitalists will be foeking from
all parts of the world 10 see this won
derful BONANZA. Flood. O'Brien,
Mackey. and Fair will be the richest
men in the world
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-09

this Of the stocks low the best and most de-
friends the public large reception Of line Of nice new
greatly
prices In grades goods having hand offering
unparalleled bargains stock before buying elsewhere
generally reduced the beginning of the New
Year favors and wishing them
al happy and prosperous New Year, am +.
Very Respectfully v. D. WILLIAMS.
S-To those who have been trading with this
would give trial this don do well better than
adverte-and fail satisfaction then
your place trading The public don't know where
bargains until they have looked around Please remember
tisa dremtm mber V. L. WILLIAMS.
jan uarj 8, 1875-tf .i-- ..sr
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-09
How to Conduce a Courtship.

: Don't be too sudden about it. Man,
girl has said mo" when she mean
7 yes" simply because her lover didn'
choose the right time aud pop tn,
question gently. = 10
Take darR night for it. Have tn.
blinds closed, the curtains down, anC
the lamp turned almost out. Sit neal
enough 10 her so that you can hook
your little finger into hers. Wait un,
| til conversation begins to flag, and
then quietly remark:
Susie, want to ask you some
thing?"
She will fdget around little, reply
yes, and after pause you can add
Susie, my actions must have shown
ECthat is you must haye-I mean you
must be aware that-that'-
Pause here for while, but keep
your fingers firmly locked. She may
cough and try to turn the subject of
by asking you how you liked the cir
Gus, but she only does il to encourage
you. After about ten minutes you
can continue:
Twas thinking, as came up the
path tonight, that before | went away
| would ask you-that is, would
broach the subject nearest MY mean
would know my
Stop again and give the hand gentle
squeeze. She may give yank to get
it away orshe may not. In either case
it argues we'll for you. Wait about
five minutes and then go on" :" ara
THE past year has been a very hap
py one to me, but | hope that future
years will still be happier. However,
that depends entirely on you. | am
here tonight to know-that is to ask
you'll mean | am here tonight to
hear from your own lips the one
sweetS-
Wait again. 1t isn't best to be too
rash about such things. Give her
plenty of time to recover her compo-
sure, and then put your hand on your
heart and continue:
"Yes, | thought, as / was coming
through the gate tonight how happy
L had been; aud | said to myself that
if only knew you would consent to
be my-that is, | said if only knew
if / was only certain that my heart
had not deceived me, and you were
ready to share
Hold on; there's no hurry about it.
Give the wind chance to sob and
moan around the gables. This
will make her lonesome and call up
all the love in her heart. When she
begins to cough, aud grow restless, you
can go on:
Before [ met you this world was
desert to me. didn't take any pleas
ure iu going black berrying and steal
ing rare-ripe peaches, and it didn't
matter whether the sun shone or not.
But what a change in one short year
1t is for you to say whether my future
shall be prairie Of happiness, or a
summer fallow of Canadian thistles. |
Speak dearest Susie, and say-and say
that-that'- p
Give her five her minutes by the
clock, and then add:
THAT you will be-that is, that you
will mean that you will-be mine !"
She will heave sigh, look up at the
clock aud over the stove, and then, as
she slides her head over your vest
pocket she will whisper:
You are just right will.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-09

THE ST. Augustine Fla Press says
that wild ducks are now caught at the
light house. They fly against the light
with sufficient ferce to kill themselves.
and they drop to the ground aad are
gathered up in the morning. On Mon
day night, while the night watchers
we're at their post, two ducks few COM
pletely through the outer glass Of the
light, which was One-fourth of an
inch thick, and the pans;s very large.
Two of these lights Of glass we're
broken and eight ducks picked up in
the morning. They are blinded BY
the strong hgkt. and ay reekleslsly
against the glass.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-09

NoTEs OF OUR NEIGuBoRs.-The
full complement Of machinery of the
Tennessee Cotton Mandatory, at
Nashville, consisting of 400 looms aud
1880 spindles. will be put in opera
ton within the next month, employ
ing 325 hands. 1t now gives work to
304 persons 1