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Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-06
An Old Soldiers Story,

Several powder begrimed veter-
ans gathered in a certain police sta
ton the other evening, says the
Louisville Courjer-JournoL, to
keep out of the rain for a few
minutes, and while there discussed
the late war.
81 remember" says one, "that a
bullet passed clear through George
Gray's body and never killed him"
81 recollect," said another, "that
a ball lodged IN Bill Payson's lung
and was never taken out, but he
lived"
a." said a third, "know well
when the doctors thought Henry
Hills life was gone up as a min
ME- lodged within an inch of his
heart, but he lived"
"Jake Johnson's head was
pierced by a ball, and he lived"
exclaimed the last man but one.
These remarks produced consider
able surprise and excited speech
from all save a tall, slim and sleepy
individual, who waited till his
companions concluded, and then
drawled, in piping accents: "These
fellows was Il little tough, / allow
but Jim Jones who fit aside of me,
was shot in the neck so that his
head jist hung by the skin"
"Great heavens!" calculated all;
"you don't mean to say he lived,
do you?"
"Oh, no, he died." drawled slim
and sleepy.
Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-06
A "Presbyterian Supper"


From the Columbia Is. CO. Register.
He caught a chair after a short
race and sat down. "Where have
you been!" that's the first question
before they say they r going home
to their father, but he had an an
swer that would have stunned any
woman living.
"B'n Presbyterian supper"
"W-h-a-t' Who did you go with!'
"Wizze boys"
"Alle boys, Preshbytery Morrera-
tor 70 ALL"
Here Mrs. W bowed the
frill of her night cap and wept, and
he explained between convulsive
jerks at his boot.
"Sno use crying. Good company.
Bet Morrerator e couldn' say Ten
Commandments. Losh my money.
Took mother drink. Whent my
head. Six a-dog. Ladies all helm
head"
Oh, Charles Another woman
held your head !" Sobs.
Now, Maria, don't be a fool
Who said huzzer CONAN helmhead?"
"Why, you said SO yourself" g
More sobs.
Never. I'm furrel liar. Tell
you truth this time. S'elmpe Bob,'
and doubtless he would if he hadn't
gone dead to sleep while he was
talking.
Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-06

"Dont draw no derringer on
me-" warned the boy as he backed
of, "nor don't think you can scare
me with any of your bowie-knives!"
The principal walked in and
shut the door, and after the new
boy had stood there long enough
TO show that he wasn't afraid, he
turned and walked of, growing to
himself:
"I'll git the foreman of No. 6 ia
pound that Teller afore he's a week
older!"-By ". Quad.
Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-06
Two Reasons Why,

While some boys were skating
on the slips mp the river a gentle
man noticed one on the bank who
looked longingly, but who had no
means of enjoying the sport.
well, bub, haven't you any
skates?' asked the man.
mo, sir"
"Why not?"
"'Cause mother says I amt pre-
pared to. die, and father says he
needs the money to buy some I'M
dershirts," was the lonesome reply.
-Detrot three Press
Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-06
Education !

The vital issues of the times, the universally of Education, will not
be neglected. This department will receive the attention of a finished
scholar, who, we feel confident in saying, will deal many a telling blow
in behalf of education and the Teacher. We call the particular atten-
ton of teachers to thsdepartment-invite their aid in making it what
we would have it become, a power for good and a help to the teacher.
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H G. r EAT
CENTENNIAL

The most important in our C~ountry's history, draws near and every
thou ghtful voter should. study the situation carefully, which he can
only do through the newspaper. State elections are now coming of
in rapid succession. The People are settling down to the tug Of war,
and each man should prepare himself for his own share in this great
struggle between Constitutional Government and the Corruptions and
Innovations of a New Order of Things. n) # O. se
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Editorial Comments

On Current Politics and the Principal events Of the Day, from an In
dependent Democratic standpoint. We shall strive by moderation and,
the desire to do simple justice in every case to win the attention of our
readers. But we shall not hesitate to speak, where bold speech is re-
quired, not recklessly, but plainly and positively always. M
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The New Boy.

OIL lts hinges. lie went IN with
the crowd, when the bell rang, and,
finding no empty seat, he perched
himself on the wood-box. When
The children repeated the Lords
Prayer in concert, the new boy
"kept time" with his heel, and
when hley came to sing, he argued
that variety was the spice Of song,
and attempted TO sing one Of
his own--one about a gentleman
named Daniel Tucker, who dream
ell that he was dead, and so forth.
The teacher warned him to keep
still, and he replied that he
wouldn't come to that school if his
musical qualifications were to be
overlooked. When school finally
opened, the teacher secured his
name, and began asking him ques-
tions, in order to find out how he
should be graded.
Can you spellY' she asked.
"What kind of spelling?" he
cautiously replied.
"Spell house if you please"
"Frame or brick house?' he ask
ed.
"Any kind of house." ..-
"With n mortgage on itY"
"You may spell man if you
will" she said, giving him a severe
look.
"Man."
Eyes" .||I.
81 don't care much about spell
ing man this morning, but l will
this afternoon. I've spelled 1t with
my eyes shut"
"Do you know your alphabet%
she asked, changing the subject.
"Never had any," was the prompt
reply.
"Do you know anything about
reading?"
81 read like lightning" he an
swered.
She handed him a reader and
said:
"Let me hear you read"
"Read right out loudY"
eyes"
"Tm afraid it would disturb the
children he whispered.
go on and let me hear you
read"
"He looked carefully at the page,
sCowled his brow, and read:
"If | was a lame boy, and didn't
get any peanuts in my stocking
Christmas, dun my eyes! but I'd
make things jump around that
house next morning!'
He handed the book back, and
the teacher asked:
"Ricdard, how many are three
and three?'
"Three and three WHAT" he In.
quired.
Anything"
"lt's a good deal according to
what it u.s." he replied as he set
tied back. 81 know that three and
three cats don't make a dog"
"Did YOU ever study geography,
Richard?"
eyes, man,"
"What is geography"
dts u book
"Is the world round or tlat?"
"Hills and hollars!" he replied.
Orchard, can you write?'
Write what?"
"Can you write your nameY"
II could, I suppose; but I've got
my name without writing it,"
"Can you write a letter."
"Who to-"
"To any one"
ayes, / could, if l had money to
pay the postage"
"Well, Richard" she said, in
despair, "you'll have to go into the
lower room if you want to come to
school here"
"Pd ruther stay here.'
"But you can't"
oil bet you this knife agin ten
cents | can"
She took him by the arm to re-
move him, but he laid his hand on
his shoulder and said in q warning
voice:
"Don't get me mad, now, or I'll
let myself loose"
She called the principal down,
and as he approached the boy he
commanded:
"Boy, what are you doing here?'
"Gitting educashun!' replied
Richard.
"You 60 right down stairs, now!'
continued the principal.
"Well, don't sass me, for / was
never here before!" replied Rich
ard, slowly moving his legs as if he
meant to get down.
The principal took him by the
collar and jerked him around, got
kicked on the shin and bitten in
the wrist, and finally landed the
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-04-15

A PRIVATE telegram from Columbia, S.
G., conveys the intelligence that Cham
berlain shed tears in the convention and
begged the delegates to elect him as one Of
the representatives from his State to Gin
cinnati. So touching was the Governors
appeal, and experimenting lest he and q
few of his followers get up boiling dele
cation, it was determined to allow him to
be added to the list of delegates. Cham
berlsin will in no sense be leader of the
South Carolina delegation to Cincinnati.
Not one of his colleagues but who is OPP
posed to him, and he will be hardly master
of his own vote. We think the conven-
ton made a mistake in allowing him to
persuade them into electing him delegate,
and if we mistake not, he will yet head q
boiling delegation of the bread and butter
brigade to Cincinnati. His henchman,
Cardozo, and other so-called Republicans,
will assuredly advise his adoption of such
q course. Be that as it may, the over
whelming defeat experienced by the ad-
venturer in the election of a chairman of
the State convention goes to show how
thoroughly he is repudiated by the South
Carolina Republicans. This is all the
more glazing when We reflect that the
convention was composed mainly of his
officeholdeIs
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-04-15

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.neif circuiaton' put, rainier tnan moi re'l,e
.ne "hoie Oh II ana Witnoraw .neI Nno'e
oeposit OF Donos' o'ner ns'iohAi ",no
up tneir atiairs, cease 70 DC ns'lossi oanks.
ana commune business a. PriVse nrms o.
as oorponuons unoer e~s iawssytns
iaree amounu Q. money Wnica nsse Dsea
lying love IN NeF iork ana our othef
money centres nass ennanceo .ne premium
On oonos ana on other seeure inseetmene.
Inc pressure ior money In o'ner iocaii.ies
ana the aign premium on oonos nave To-
getner auorueu 10 panhs ING opportunity 10
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-04-15

ganization. 1t soon became apparent that
the colored delegates, who were almost
unanimously in favor of Mr.. Morton, were
dissatisfied. mainly because Mr.. Ssner, who
vcfkd while In Congress against the civil
rights bill, had been selected to be perma-
nsnt chairman. Even the Temporary
Chairman, by his acis at frst and by his
speeches, subsequently,, protested against
this arrangement and at times the proceed.
ings were stormy and disorderly. Had Mr.,
Blaine been present, he would most assur-
edly have discountenanced the course pur-
sued by his friends at this juncture, because
it resulted virtually in choking Off the
minority. Finally, in the interests of har-
mony, compromise was effected by which,
instead of resolution instructing the dele
gates to vote solidly for Mr.. Blaine, dec
lsrstion of preference for him as candi-
date for President was adopted, and an
other strongly indorsing Nj. Morton was
carried unanimously. The final result was
the selection of q delegation unpledged to
any particular candidate, and composed Of
men, some of whom will vote for Mr..
Blaine, and others either for Mr.. Morton or
Mr.. Conkling. The exact strength of
either of these gentlemen in the delegation
is necessarily matter of surmise, but it is
not improbable that the delegation is about
equally divided between them. This be-
ing the case, the State cannot be claimed as
the especial property Of any one man, or,
as the delegates themselves expressed it,
Virginia does not wear any mans collar
on her neck"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-04-15


From the above exhibit it appears that
in 1860, 81 clerks settled only $500,
averaging 395 each, at . cost of $35 in
gold, while in 1875, 173 clerks settled
IA, 1873, or an average of III SO, at a cost
of only $3.50; that would be nearly three
times more work at about one third the
expense. This does not include the i'm.
mense number of letters and other CORE
spondence or the vast amount of miscel-
laneous work performed. 1t may not be
out of place to say that clerk in 1875 was
worth as much to the Government as three
clerks in 1860, while said clerk received
$1SS. 60 more pay in gold. Ifthere is any
truth in figures, or the data presented, in
stead of decrease in the pay Of the clerks,
as proposed, there should bes large increase
in their compensation, as well from the
amount of work performed as from the
large amount to be performed, as the work
is about five times as much in this office
as it was IN 1860, while the force to do it is
not three times as great without any re-
duction. We submit this matter to the
careful and dispsssionste attention of Con-
gress. We have constantly disclaimed
partisanship in this matter; and when we
say that the extravaganza of the Wing
and Democratic parties thirty years ago
far exceeds anything known since the war,
except only the great increase of pay
which Congress had been pleased to vote
themselves, we mean no reflection on the
great and good men Of the past We wish
the men of the present would emulate
them. In presenting this statement we
only desire to show Congress and the peo-
pie the inside workings of q few of the
offices about which, unfortunately, there
is q great want of information. The clerks
in the Departments are not appreciated by
Congress as they ought to be, and while
q few Senators and more members have
been educated in the Departments, and
while these thoroughly understand the
machinery of the Executive Government,
very many know little or nothing about II,
and it gives US pleasure to post them up
occasionally, and now is most opportune
time. We do this for the public good.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-04-15
THE LYNcHBuRe CONVENTION.

The agent of the Associated Press at
Lynchburg, during the session Of the late
State Convention of the Republicans of
Virginia At that place, failed 10 give any
adequate idea of the proceedings Of that
body, and, at the same time. the CORE
spondent of the New York Herald, the
only special on the ground, exaggerated
his accounts in the interest of sensa-
tional Journalism. The public is therefore
at a loss for information regarding the
action of this body. From the most relia-
Die sources we learn that the conyention
was largely attended, and composed Of an
unusually large number of the most respecta.
BILE white and colored Republicans in the
State. A number of counties in which
formal selections Of delegates had not been
made were represented by non-residents TO
such an extent that the charge was made,
with some show of fairness, that the
real sentim emit of the party was
not Indicated but before the I'D.
tournament occurred, Q sufficiently har-
monious spirit was asserted to render
the final results acceptable to all con.
cerned.. Some of Mr.. ex.Speaker Blaine's
friends fooiishly attempted to make 1t ap-
parent that he was the unanimous choice,
and In 70, doing provoked animosities,
which for the time being were calculated
to do him grest injury. In fAct 1t appeared
that 81 Of the so-called '.rotten- borough
delegstes, |" those who represented counties
In which they did:not reside-were for Mr..
Blaine, ana they with few others sought
and obtained control Of the Temporary OF:
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-04-15

THE demonstration by the freedmen yes
terday was a glorious exhibition of the
grateful appreciation by an oppressed and
long-enslsyed race of the great service rem
dered them by him who set them free at
the sacrifice of his own life. The subscrip-
ton, which was started eleven years ago
by poor washer-woman in Ohio for the
purpose of commemorating the martyrdon
of her emancipator, yesterday eliminated
in tine completion of the memento and in
auguration of q bronze representation Of
the dramatic chief actors in the great
emancipation scene appearing in the very
act of severing the chains Of slavery. With
what bushes of shame did white people
turn their eyes from this accomplished fact
as a result of the combined efforts of four
million freedmen in eleven years, to
wonder unfinished and utterly incom-
plete shaft which they some thirty
years ago. determined to erect to the
memory OF the Father of his Country"
The modest and unpretending efforts Of
the people of day have utterly thrown
into the shade the mighty boasts of forty
millions of those who make great profess
sions, talk very loud, and give but little.
We say that the demonstration of yester-
day, judged in this light alone, reflects am-
pie cre!it upon the colored race, and we
may 60 further, and say that if the white
race had shown equal self denial and pa
triotism in the prosecution of their monu-
mental design, and had contributed the
same quota per capita ever since they be-
gan the work, toward its completion, they
would not now be lamenting that the one
hundredth anniversary of theindependence
which the services Of Washington secured
had arrived before their task was done.
Shall we, then, acknowledge the superior
ity of the eolored race? Shall we ad-
nit that in fidelity, tenacity of purpose
and gratitude it excels the whittier This
would seem tn be one of the lessons Of the
Nreciacfe of yesterday.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-04-15
DOES CONTRACTION CONTRACT +,

During the past month the contraction
of the currency, under the operation ofthe
act Of January IA, 1875, has been greater
shan during any previous month since the
passage of the act. This fact may, at first
sight, be taken as adverse to the business
interests of the country, and it will be in
sisted upon by the opponents Of the law
and those Of the national banking system
that such is the case. A short explanation
will, however, show that although there
has been decrease In the aggregate amount
of the paper circulation of the country,
there has been an actual increase in the
amount circulating in those localities where
business most requires it. In other words,
q redistribution of currency Is brought
about by the operation Of the act and this
redistribution must have benefcent effect
The contraction is mainly caused by the
surrender of their circulating notes by ma
tional banks, with or without going into
voluntary liquidation snd leaving the sys-
TEN. A bank with circulation of 500, 900
has on deposit with the United States Treas.
urer 800, 900 in United States bonds as
security. The premium on Eve per cent.
bonds is about sixteen per cent. The bank
decides to retire q portion ofits circulation.
/. 1t would, perhaps, retire the whole Of it
it could do so without leaving the sys-
tenn but there is . provision Of law pre-
venting national association from reducing
its bonds below $50. 900. The bank accord.
ingly retires one half of its circulation, viz:
$4,000. The process "a Usually this: The
bank creates bin payable BY borrowing
s45 900 in 1egal-tender notes In New York
or some other place where money Is plenty
and deposits this sum with the Treasurer.
This officer notifies the Comptroller Of the
Currency of the deposit, who authorizes
the Treasurer to transfer to the bank $50, :
600 of its bonds on depositiEith him. These
bonds are sold for $5s, 600. The bank pays
the s45, 900 borrowed and has $13, 900 NET
legal tenders to loan out 1t home, incfeas-
ing the circulating medium in its immediste
locality by &1siooe. - 81 2g q
This course has been found SO profitable
in many places that mot only do banks re-
naming In the system retire portion. Of