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Year: 1868

MEcHANIC.-They are the palace
builders of the world; not a stick is
hewn, not stone is shaped in all
the lordly buildings of the rich, that
does not owe its beauty and fitness
to the skill of the mechanic. The
towering spires that raise their giddy
heads among the clouds, depend
upon mechanics art for their strength
and symmetry. Not an edifice for
devotion, or business, or comfort,
but bears the impress of their hands.
How exalted is their vocation, how
sublime their calling. Their path is
one of true glory, and it is their own
fault if it does not lead them to the
post of honor and renown.-PuHs-
burg Aavocdte.
Year: 1868

Judge DuThe, Ol tne COuTIu JuOl-
cial District of Ohio, in charge to the
grand jury of Summit county, is re-
ported to have instructed them that
the recent act disfranchising persons
having q visible admixture of African
bleod, was "clearly in violation of
the Constitution of the State of Ohio,
and utterly null and void in all its
grounds of challenge, conclusion and
penalties, and should be so regarded
and treated by the jury"


This rather astounding information
having reached the Legislature, Mr..
Pennisten, of the House, introduced
series of whereases and resolutions
setting forth the alleged facts, de-
claring the charge "false and will
full misrepresentation of the law"
asserting that the law requires per
sons of "distinct and visible admix-
ture of African blood to establish
the fact that they are entitled to vote
as white male citizens of the United
States;" and finally resolving that
the Judiciary Committee of the
House be instructed to inquire into
the facts, examine the charge of
Judge Burke, and report to the
House at an early day whether the
Judge should net be impeached for
high crimes and misdemeaners, I'M
der the provisions of the constitution
of the State.


We trust Judge Burke will inter
pose no obstacle to the inquest OF the
Judiciary Committee, but will rather
assist by furnishing a copy of the
charge, that the committee may be
able to report Immediately and have
the trial for impeachment set at an
Aarly day. The high and mighty
puissances who have set themselves
up in the Legislature to override the
Constitution and the decisions of the
Supreme Court of the State, in order
to disfranchlse few voters who they
are apprehensive will not vote the
Democratic ticket, ought to be made
as conspicuous before the people as
possible, and an impeachment trial
will assist nightly in their eleva
| ton.


These fellows know their law is
unconstitutional-that it is made in
contravention Of the Interpretation
given to that instrument by the high
est tribunal of the State-and they have
confessed their conscious guilt by
deyising bill to prohibit the Su-
preme Court from taking up cases
oat of their regular order. They
are afraid that case may be made
up between this date and the Octo-
ber election which will bring their
mean law into Court, and with no
other result than It's condemnation.
If they believe their law to be con-
stitutional, they would resort to no
such despisable trick to stave off
decision by the Court. But they are
as conscious as Judge Burke that the
law is as vile piece of partisan leg
islation as ever soiled the reputation
of General Assembly. -.


Judge Burke was undoubtedly
governed in his charge to the grand
Jury by the opinion of the Supreme
Court, which was supposed to set at
rest the question of qualification OF
| electors raised under the constitution
al clause. He believes that decision,
which hits the present infamous law
sauarely in the face, sufficient for his
guidance, and it remained to be seen
whether it is not sufficient to justify
the charge given to the grand jury
of Summit County.--Cin. Com.
Year: 1868

IT is a matter of small moment
whether General GRANT is good SOL
dier or poor one. This is not the
question the people desire to have an
swered Just now. The popular query
is, "what is his policy what course
will he pursue if elected ?" To this
query the General gives the emphatic
reply in his letter of acceptance, 81 will
have no policy of my own"
Year: 1868

THE Radicals are not quite so jubi-
land over the Vermont election as they
were q day or two ago. Later and more
definite returns reduce their majority
considerably below the first reports,
while they show q vast increase in the
Democratic vote. The same ratio Of
increase will give every important
Northern State to the Democrats.
Year: 1868

IT is an undeniable fact that Radi-
cal Congress has, in the third year of
peace, confessedly made way with four
hundred and seventy-one million dol.
lars of greenbacks, taxed from the peo-
pie, deducting therefrom the thirty
four millions in the Treasury. Under
Democratic administration before the
war, the account stood, eighty millions
to four hundred and thirty-seven mil
lions in the third year after the war,
under Radical management.
Year: 1868

The New York Courier, an independ-
ent journal, thus pictures the inevitable
future, should GRANT be elected: "At
our present rate Of national living, we
shall soon como to q settling day, aud
have nothing left for it but to stick the
sherifs flag ont of the window of the
Capitol, and sell ont the national real
and personal estate for the benefit OF
whom it may concern"
Year: 1868

decisions of she Supreme Coart OF
Tennessee. af Nashville. December
Term, 1857.


Reported for the Union and Dispatch. by S. J.


Henderson. Attorney st Law.


Where party takes an appeal and afterwards
obtains writ Of error coro1a nobis he cannot
dismiss snid writ in the appellate court. The
same is hereby part of the record"


Thomas Cheathar in error gs, William STRAIT


Ton Co. -


The defendants in error recovered a
Judgment by default, against the plaintiff
Ia error in the Circuit Court of Maury
county on the 23d August, 1864, but it not
appearing what amount of damages the
plaintiff had sustained, jury was imme-
diately empanneled who rendered YER
dict for the plaintiff for the sum Of $1,000,
for which a Judgment was pronounced, to
reverse which the defendant has prose-
cuted a writ of error to this court.


The defendants in error now come and
suggest dimination of the record in the
cause, in this, that since the rendition of said
judgment the plaintiff has filed his petit
ton in said court, and has sued cut a writ
error cOraan nobis in this cause, which was
at and before the suing ont the writ Of error
in this court, and still is pending and I'M
determined in said Circuit Court, and asks
that csrtiorayi be awarded to bring into
this court fill and perfect transcript Of
the record, and thereupon the counsel for
the plaintiff in error admitted the sugges-
ton is true, and moves this court for leave
to dismiss the writ Of error eoram aobis
pending in the Circuit Court, and to proceed
upon the case as it is stated in the record
now on file in this court


We do not think the defendant in errcr
can in this court dismiss his petition for a
writ of error cordm nobiS now pending in
the Circuit Court of Maury country.


We are also of the opinion the same is
a necessary part Of the record in this cause,
and without determining more now we will
award the certiorarj asked for.


HAWKINS, Judge.
Year: 1868

The New Orleans Times reviyes the fol-
lowing reminiscence of Beast Buffers reign
in that city:


After General Butler had issued his
proclamation of Ist May, 1862, in which
be prescribed the rights and duties Of the
population Of this captured city, he was
called upon by a committee of the press of
the city, with view Of inducing MIN TO
render more definite the clauses of the
proclamation referring TO the terms on
which newspapers could be conducted.


The gentlemen Of the press stated the
object of their mission, and assuming that
the General did not intend after guaran~
teeing the rights Of person and property to
the people Of the city, to impose condi-
tions which would prevent the publication
Of newspapers, requested an answer to their
proposition. Thereupon the General arose
with all the port and consequence of
practical stump speaker, and with The con-
sciousness of his power and security, with
one eye resting on the six barreled reyol-
yer on the table, and the other glancing at
the whole regiment of infantry under arms
visible from the window, and delivered
himself of the following notable explosion
Of his peculiar style of Democracy and
progress.


Gentlemen, before reply to the inqui-
ry you have addressed to me, should be
pleased to hear from you, or any one else,
a satisfactory argument to remove from my
mind a very strong conviction that the
world would be morally, Intellectually and
politically benefited, if there was not a
single newspaper in existence p


Pausing for reply, one of the gentle.
nen answered, ave do not come TO you
TO discuss that question, but would suggest
that if You limit your proposition by the
proviso that political demagogism should
also cease with the press, it would be difi~
cult for us successfully TO combat your con-
viction. Certainly ifthere were no design
ing demagogues, there would be really less
need for any newspapers than there now is
in the country, with such an excess ofthat
pestilent class of disturbers and demoral-
izers of the popular ideas and sentiments"


The General was so much disgusted with |
this answer, that he determined TO take
possession of all the newspapers in the city
and run them on his own account. As long
az they were used to advocate his purposes
and ideas, his convictions in regard to the
power and utility of the press, as political
engine, became fixed and determined; but
when they opposed him they were worse
than useless.
Year: 1868

And for the special pleasure and profit Of the
young, each week We will give q general literary
and religious miscellany. Nothing shall End
its way into our columns unht for the perusal


he mothers and daughters Of the land. Depre-
eating the dsmoraliEiaE sensAtiouAlism Of many
contemporary journals. we shall escheW that
character; striving to sive the reader substantial
matter, preferring to be useful rather than


enssnonsl,
Year: 1868

BY A CONSOLIDATION OF THE lash
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and by the generous and united
support Of the UEIOE AND DIssATcH by the
patrons of both the former papers. the ProPrie-
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hithe
TO unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNEsS AND ACCURACY
NEWS. our paper will compare favorAbly lib


best in the entire country; and in sayins


we only repeat the expressions Of many


patrons. who are most capable Of judging 10


matters.
Year: 1868

We shall constantly AdmOnish the Southern
people to be self-reliant. and shall do what we
may be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures In our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end We will pay special attention
10 the oosF and STATISTICS Of manufactures
and exert ourselves to encourage the divsrSii-
cation of Southern industries and the develop
nsut Of Southern resources.
Year: 1868

And kindred topics. we shall also give an ex-
tensive variety Of valuable and interesting mat
tsr-4he best adapted to the farming classes %
our State. which will. in great measure. sup
My the place Of family agricultural paper.
Year: 1868

Other nations and other people in other
lands than ours have passed under the rod.
Broken-hearted, heavy foot
sore and weary, they travelled as we are
travelling now exiles as it were, in their own
land but in their sufferings and sorrows
they clung to their past. Proud of the his
tory which they have made, and reverence
ing the memories associated with it, and
the men who died for it, they preserved
their honor and their manhood.


By the hallowed associations of the past
and the hopes of future, which will sure
ly bring with it glorious reward, let us
never forget to honor the men who, wear
ing the Gray, went down to death for US and
posterity.


The twenty of April has just past
This was the day set apart for decorating the
graves of our departed heroes in Georgia
and other States of the South. Bear it in
mind that the 10th inst, is the day set apart
for decorating the graves in Tennessee
On that day let our noble women repair
to the resting places of our dead and
strew the sweetest floral offerings of nature
on their lonely graves, and thus will We
keep fresh in our memories the worth and
heroism of our fallen braves, and exhibi
some appreciation for the cause that il
sleeping with them.
Year: 1868

'Tis the midnight hour of awful gloom
Dark rolls the fearful cloud,
And warriors leave their battle tomb,
Arrayed in soldiers shrOud.
With solemn tread they form in line
That lone and dead Brigade,
Their banners from each staff untwIne-
Unsheathes each battle blade.
The drum it rolls loud tattoo


The fife's shril1 note is heard,
The pale, dead host in grand review,
Obey great Jacksons word.
Now right, now left, they flank and file,
As on that awful day,
Their TshOut-StOnewall-O native soil
Forever live the gray.
Their ghostly Chief with voice and mien
Of more than kingly state,
To the front he rides mid warriors sheeny
As if to learn his fate.
lie pauses now, as on that eve,


lie stood before the foe
While Time and Death their glory weave,
Pure as the stainless snow
But once again tho drum doth beat,


And echoes through the gloom
The dead Brigade with spirit-feet,


Return unto the tomb.
Their Chieftain's face with glory beams,
AS points his sword on high
Each warriors eye immortal CLEANS


Like him, they cannot die
Year: 1868

The McMinnville Enterprise. which is
not sufficiently enterprising enterprise to
exist upon its own merit, unaided by the
State patronage. justifes the designation of
Radical newspapers to receive the legal Rd-
vertising, upon the ground that the law
makers have the right to designate news
papers that shall receive such patronage.
Nevertheless it is the right of might only.
and it is nothing less than wholesale piracy
to so appropriate the money of the people.
If there was common decency in the afoFe-
said lawmakers s, and common honesty in
the laws they frame, the advertisements in
question, which ought to reach the largest
audiences, should be printed in the jour
mails which enjoy the largest circulation, re-
gardless of politics. The uppsrmOst idea
in the Radical mind, always has been the
public ''pap." The public desire to have
the legal notices printed in those papers
which they can and do recsiVe into their
houses-not with the desire 10 have their
favorite journals receive the patronage
merely, but for their own convenience and
accommodation. The Radical papers des-
ignated do not circulate among the people


They have comparatively no circulation al
all in communities where legal notices
should be distributed.
Year: 1868

DR.. GRAY, the distinguished elocutiOn-
ist, and author of the following beautiful
little poem, and who favored the citizens
Of Pulaski with two of his entertainments
last week. after filing his engagements at
some points below here, will return to this
place, and favor US with another intellectu-
al feast. This, the Doctor assures as will
be within a few weeks. Those who were
so unfortunate as not to hear DR.. GRAY
may judge of his ability as an author by
the beauty of this production


THE DEAD BRIGADE.
Year: 1868

@eSS~SS~-@ANS %NH<AesSASA-s


The Franklin Review Justly complains at
the onerous taxes imposed upon the people
of this State. That paper says:


Each and every citizen of the county
has to pay tax of at least two per cent. up
on the yalue of his property. Il has al
ways been considered good farming in this
section of the country when the farmer re-
alizes three per cent. upon his capital
Now, two per cent. goes to pay taxes. and
the poor farmer is allowed to retain one
per cent. for himself. For example, a far
rer owns land and other property worth
$4,000; at three per cent. he will realize
$500, out of which be must pay $1,000 in
taxes. In town it is even worse. The me-
ehanics after paying this two per cent. tax
upon property must pay various special
taxes. Truly there never was
people so oppressed by taxation as are the
people of Tennessee. Our last tax Law was
passed by Radicals, and we would venture
something handsome that the Radicals, as
numerous ard powerful as they are in the
State, do not pay Oue-tenth of the tax of the
whole State"


These be grievous burdens that our Rad
ical rulers have imposed upon this people,
and the Review estimates that the Radicals
in this State do not pay one-tenth of the
taxes, is no doubt correct. It was in view
of this fact that the governing class pay so
small portion of the enormous amount
necessary to carry on the State government
that we suggested some weeks ago that the
people should pay these iniquitous sxac-
tions only at the eud Of the law, since the
great body of them were deprived of any
part or voice in the direction Of affairs.-
The men who pay the largest portion OF
the taxes are disfranchised, yet they are
made to bear the burdens of the govern
ment the same as If they participated ac-
| lively in enacting our laws and electing Of
| fcers TO execute them. The men who are
deprived of these rights BY an arbitrary sx-
ercise of power should refuse to pay the
heavy taxes imposed upon them. Resis-
tance 10 usurpation must commence some
where. It is true, the Radicals have c 0n-
troll of the Judiciary of the State, but let
the people appeal 10 the courts for redress
of their wrongs, and force the Judges to
take cOgnizance of the matter or show that
they have no regard for law. II this poll
cy Should be pursued by this oppressed
people, they will finally triumph, for there
are some Judges who would hesitate TO rem
der thier names Infamous through al time
to come. 1t was thought that Chief JUS
tice Chase, whose political affiliations are
= strongly marked, would favor the Radicals
in the impeachment trial, but, so far, be


has stood up for the law and the right, not


withstanding this course has brought much
obloquy upon him from his own party
+ He could not afford to sacrifice himself to


party behests. and thus render his name


Infamous in hetOry. Let the oppressed


people of Tennessee take courage from this


incident and strike for their sights.
Year: 1868

What ridiculous things occar sometimes
at funerals For instance, on one of those
solemn occasions out West there stood in
the house Of the defunct an old fashioned
clock, which, when it finished the announo-
ment of the meridian hour was made to
play a tune. The officiating minister was
in the midst of his sermon whenSnoon hav-
Year: 1868

universal love and refined affection cannot
be torn from the privacy of the family cir
ela and the reoesses Of the heart. There,
at least, these memrOies can be held sacred
and cherished till the dawn ola new era,
in which it shall not be deemed reasonable
to pay homage to the names Of the gallant
dead, who went down to death because they
were not afraid to defend their rights ard
die in defence of their native land. That
day will surely dawn in which it will be
deemed an honor and a duty by the Amer
ican people to participate in ceremonies
commemorative of the "Lost Cause" and
tie martyrs who marched so grandly and
sublimely through the valley ofdeath in its
defence. It is only the good and true who
hold fast to the faith that is born of virtue
and valor when disaster and defeat is upon
them. The mean and ignoble are towards.
| and towards are not far removed from trail
tors, having no regard for God or country,
but always ready to fall down, and fawn,
and cringe. and worship at the footstool Of
power. And so it is, alas that our own
bright sunny land is now afflicted and sore
ly oppressed By those who were once the
loudest lip-tOngued braggarts in her de-
fence, who, fOrgetful of her past and their
own manhood, have igDOminiously sold
their birthright for mess of pottage-In-
sulting the memory of the dead, and ignor-
ing the presence of the living.


Wrongs are sometimes neglected even in
our little world, and when righted those
instrumental in inhicting them do not al
ways escape that reward which is theirs BY
the laws of retributive justice.
Year: 1868

They still revolt in Mexico, and they are still
put down. Getting up revolution and putting
it down is the principal business of the people
and the government. 1t is the only way in
which they keep up their mutual relations.
People would hardly know they had not a
government if its agents did not come to levy
forced loans and these coming the people, or
dozen of them, pronounce; and the indiffe-
rent masses, caring only for plunder, sympa-
thize with the side that opposes law, and so
revolution comes up. Give this story over
two or three hundred times and you have given
the history of the republic that triumphed in
the killing of Macmillan. What is to become
of it2 No one respects order; no one heeds
the law no one has power. to enforce it no
one will even care now to seize the country,
with the possibility that such seizure will unite


into an effective force all this worthless power,
as the attempt to establish the empire did.
Singular State, that left to itself is worthless,
powerless, denoralized horde of wretches,
but that any foreign attempt to seize and
govern Immediately converts into a semi
respectable Power. This is, perhaps, the
natural attendant of its barbarous condition,
making it present fair appearance in war,
but making it also unfit to stand in the numoer
of civilized nations in a time of peace.
Year: 1868

The Commercial Dcbate-Free Trade tho


Policy Of the Empire.


PARIS, May 20, 1888.


In the Corps Legislatif to-day, during the debate
on the Interpolation in regard to commercial treaties
Minister Of State ROuher made an important speech,
defending the free trade policy Of the government
He declared that the commercial crisis raised in this
Chamber was now ended. France would not re-
nounce the treaty Of 1880 with Great Britain nor
fOrego the advantages OF other commercial treaties
OF q similar character, nor would she destroy this
good effects Of the vote OF the Chamber In the cause
Of commercial reform; for the tendency of the gov
ernment was to refer questions of reform to the
Legislature. He concluded by expressing the con-
vction that free trade constituted the basis of the
future greatness and commercial prosperity OF the
country.