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Year: 1871

The honorable Secretary of the Treasury re-
Gently made a speech in Ohio, in which he
gave flattering statement of Uncle Sans ti-
nancial affairs, the management of which is
pretty much in Boutwell's hands.


The New York Herald thinks that bis talk
about financial reform is but an electioneerlng
dodge. If that be so, there are more OF these
" artful dodgers" than the Secretary of the
Treasury, for Deano, and all the campaign
orations of the season, are singing the same old
tune to lul the popular disquietude.


The policy Of the administration is to keep
the taxes at high figure in order to give pro-
lection to the manufacturers. 1t may be that
the Great West will see this matter in its true
light ere next fall, and vote accordingly.


The Baltimore Sun truly says "werc it not
for the wonderful resources Of the country and
the surprising industry OF the people, MIR.
Boutwell, would find himself in an embarrass-
ing situation. Whatever good he may have
done has been forced upon him. As minister
of finance be is a failure"
Year: 1871

Round the idea of ones mother the mind oil
q man clings with fond affection. 1t is the
first thought stamped on our infant hearts
when yet soft and capable Of receiving tho
most profound impressions, and after the feel
ings of the world are more or less light In
comparison. Even in our old age we look
back to that feeling as the sweetest we have
through life. Our passions and our wilIful-
ness may lead us far from the object OF our
love; we learn even to pain her heart, to op-
pose her commands; we may become wild,
beadstrong and angry at her counsels or oppo-
sition but when death has stlled her monito-
ry voice, and nothing but still memory re-
mains to recapitulate her virtues and good
deeds, affection, like flower beaten to the
ground by past storm, raises up her head
and smiles among her tears. Round that idea,
as we have said, the mind clings with fond
affection and even when the early period oil
our loss, forces memory to be silent, fancy
takes the place Of remembrance, and twlnes
the image Of our dead parent with garland ol
graces and beauties, and virtue which we
doubt not she possessed.
Year: 1871

The evening Of every mans life Is coming on
apace. The day Of life will soon be spent
The sun, though it may be up in the mid-heav-
en-, will pass swiftly down the western sky,
and disappear. What shall light up mans
path when the sun Of life has gone down p
He must travel en- to the next world; but what
shall illumine his footsteps after the nightfall
of death, amid the darkness of his journey
What question more important, more practi-
cal, more solemn for each reader of our journ-
al to ask himself2 That is long journey to
travel without friend. Yet every man must
perform it. The time is not far distant when
all men will begin the journey. There is an
evening star in the natural world It's radi-
ance is bright and beautiful, and cheering to
the benighted traveller. But life's evening star
is in a good hope Of heaven. Its beauty aud
brilliancy are reflected from the Sun of Right
oousness, whose bright rays light up the even.
ing of life, and throw their radiance quite
across the darkness Of the grave into Imman-
uel's land 1t has illuminated the footsteps Of
many traveller into eternity. 1t is Of price,
less value. A thousand worlds cannot pur-
chase il; ; yet it is offered without money and
without price to him who will penitently and
thankfully receive it.
Year: 1871

The symptoms Of Liver


Complaint arerneasines
and pain in the side.-
SIMNONS' Sometimes the pain is in
the shoulder, and is mis-
taken for rheumatism.


The stomach is affected
with loss of appetite and sickness, bowels in gen
eral costive, sometimes alternating withlax. The
head is troubled with pain, and dull heavy sensa.
ton, considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with painful sensation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done; Often com
planning of weakness, debility, and low spirits
Sometimes many of the
above symptoms attend
the disease, and at other
LIVER times very few of them !;
but the liver Is generally


- the organ most involved.


Cure the Liver with
Year: 1871

A Beautiful Arrangement for ths


Radical Ku- Klux TO ImpOvertsh


Ihe People.


MEMPHIS, April 1.-The Avslanche's
jackson special says Gov. Alcorn in a
message to the Legislature to-day says
that rewards for detection of men en-
gagged in outrsges perpetrated by what is
called the Ku-Klux in any county shall
when paid by the Executive be made q
special tax upon that county with the
right to change the venue on the part of
the State. he asks authority to organize
and call into the field q cavalry regiment
of picked men for operating whenever
masked assssslns shall be seen, the cost of
subsistence of said regiment to be levied
as q special tax on the county to which
they shall have been called by the appear
ance of masked aSsassins. With this
power the taxpayers who shall dare TO
tolerate by their sympathies the perform
snces of Ku-Klux will soon fad out that
such liberation will have to cost them
heavily in penal taxes. While leaving
nothing undone to repress violence it is
our solemn duty to see that they leave
nothing undone to relieve ali possible
grounds for its provocation.
Year: 1871

Messrs. Newsom, Horton Z Co., will
offer to the public the entire inse est of
Mrs. Gov. Foote in the Boyd & CockrilI
Spring additions to Nashville, orders
having been given to close them out
for what they viii bring These lands all
lie west Of the city, and as regards beauty
Of location require no commendatiOns from
rs. They are already eloquent with their
own intrinsic merit, and viii speak for
themselves on the day Of sale. The history
of cities is, almost without exception, that
their growth Is westward when there is no
natural barrier to prevent It; from the
single fact that a western location is more
conducive to health, being free from the
malaria manufactured by the heated filth
of the city during the summer season.
The west wind prevailing at this season
comes fresh from the highlands In the dis
tance Identifying and blessing; before
they become freighted with the deadly
poison from the city to be con
veyed to the dwellings at other
points. These particular lands in this
respect are highly favored, being a gentle
depression between the city and the long
range of hills far away in the distant West,
30 that the winds from the wooded hills Of
Harpeth come over these lands as pure
and as sweet as the gentle zephyTs that
float through the gardens and groves Of
''Arsby the Blest, and when we meet
Cockrill's Spring we meet with the Ioveliest
spot of all, the western terminus of the
Boulevard The gushing waters Of the
81 ring; TIE lovely fair grounds; the gently
undertaking surface of the surrounding
country, all impress the beholder with the
great truth that this spot is destined to De
the great parade ground of wealth and
fashion. A few short years will realize the
the picture of numerous white cottages,
embosomed in myrtle and vine, and
guarded by oaks and elms of gener-
alton past, looking up to the tall
church steeple, or watching the sports
in the College play grounds; no unsightly
smoke stack spreading IFS mantle Of SCOT
and smoke over every thing that is lovely;
no clanking machinery grating on the
nerves of the sensitive; nothing to disturb
the quiet which reigns supreme except
the merry ringing laugh Of innocent child
hood and the sweeter song Of the bird .
The only thing necessary to realize the
picture is the completion of the boulevard
from Broad street to Cock,iPs Springs.
The fact is if these lands possessing the
advantages they do were in the vicinity Of
any other city, their price per foot would
be within the reach of but a favored few.


These lands before the war were oS ned
by two or three parties, and could not be
bought at any price, thereby Constituting
perfect barrier to the growth Of the city
in that direction. Since the war they have
beeu offered to an impoverished peoples
and not fully appreciated But we are
getting to be ourselves again, and we are
much mistaken If ths sale on Wednesday
does not place these lands in the front
rank Of of ali our beautiful suburban prop
ersy. We shall see.
Year: 1871




The following is an exact copy, says the Mem
phis AUdldnche of Tuesday last, of petition
for divorce recently filed in the First Chancery
Court of this city. While it may be wanting in
earnestness, there is no lack of humor;-


Sarah W VS.. Randall W, alias Ran


Your petitioner who has been for two years
and is now a resident of Memphis, represents to
your Honor that on or about 23d October, 1867,
she was lawfully married with defendant, Ran
dal W, who sometimes calls himself Randall
P, also a resident of Memphis and has made
him a dutiful and obedient wife. They lived
together about two weeks; they were united as
two clouds which meet at evening. They were
two souls with but single thought two hearts
that beat as one For the first week he was kind
and their lives were harmonious as music. Dur
ing the second week he was harsh, cruel and
inhuman in his conduct, and made il unsafe for
her to live with him and be under his dominion
and control. He was the worst kind of an
Othello; threatened to drive her out of the
house, and tried TO force her to leave him. He
then deserted her. leaving her on the classic
Hatehie, like "Anaden weeping by the waters, +"
or like Dido, with a willow In her hand. He
has never returned TO charm her loneliness.
Promises considered, etc, prays for such relief
as your Honor may grant, and the complexion
OF the case may demand.
Year: 1871

FLORENCE, Feb. II 1871.
The debates which are progressing in the Italian
Legislature Of very important character, par.
uculary inasmuch as they relate TO the diplomacy
ana government action towards Rome.


am enabled to report to the HERALD that during
the session OF the Lower Chamber yesterday the
committee reported an amendment to the Papal
Guarantees Bill, empowering the supreme Judiciary
TO authorize an official to enter the Papa residence
In Rome.


Minister LAMA opposed the amendment, and
defended the guarantees necessary to tranquIize
the Catholic conscience and prevent accusations OF
bad faith on the part of the King. He announced
that the Ministry had determined to consider the
proposed modification OF the bill Cabinet question:
The committee defended their amendment but
did not ask for party vote, leaving each member
to vote according to his conviction.


The House adjourned the debate until Monday.
Year: 1871

The Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad


Our law report yesterday showed that the
affairs of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Rail-
road Company have been thrown into bank
ruptcy in this and other districts of the coun-
try through which the road passes It is re-
presented that the company are in a state of
insolvency, utterly unable to meet their liabili-
ties. This is point, however, upon which no
decision Of our courts has yet been obtained
but If 1t really be the fact that the company
cannot ful6l Its engagements 1t may be legit-
mately asked where is the money to come from
to pay the fees of the array of lawyers who
appeared in court on Saturday representing
various interests in connection with the road
The skirmishing up to the present time In this
suit has been merely Of q preliminary charac-
ter. As yet the small arms only have been
discharged but what will 1t be
when mitrailleuses and the great loud
guns Of the law begin to fire off
their heavy artillery The proceedings, so
far, relate to certain points raised in an injunc-
ton restraining the petitioning creditors from
further steps In bankruptcy against the COM
pany until the Circuit Court has passed upon
these points. The real merits of the case
have not yet been touched. But it may, in
deed, be very well suggested that If the COM
pany are In the condition represented and find
1t impossible to meet the demands of their
creditors, an amicable settlement of their
affairs might be effected; for If the litigation
which is apparently threatened be pressed to
decisions Of the courts law costs will undoubt-
edly swallow up handsome dividend that the
creditors would rather find in their own
pockets than see transferred to the pockets Of
the lawyers. On the other hand, IL the suit
can only be brought to an end through the in
terposition Of the law courts the counsel
engaged ON either side will doubtless do their
best to help the court to arrive at proper
decision.
Year: 1871

Tic study, and are not the hastily uttered sem


tences Of q man who has just looked at o
text Of Scripture and read q chapter in
Hitchcock's geology before he stepped into
the pulpit. His eloquence Is, perhaps, more
In action and manner than in words. He is
a. different from the other two divines whose
names with his head this article as they are
from each other. His school of thought Is
just as necessary to the completeness Of Chris
tian truth and teaching as theirs, and while
they may exhibit the justice of Ged he repre-
sents the mercy of God, and both
are as necessary to the character of the
Father as they are to His children.
Then, when we come to analyze the thoughts
and the words of men like Hall, Beecher and
Hepworth, we shall find that, though they
may be called by different UNCONVENTIONAL
names, they are, above oil UNCONVENTIONAL dis
tinotions, Christian teachers, each doing the
Masters work with such tools and talents as
the Master has given them; and we are glad
to perceive that every year the classes whom
these men teach and represent are coming to
see eye to eye more clearly than before that
God is no respecter Of persons or of creeds,
but that In every place he who feareth God
and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him.
And no one will rejoice In this result more
than we do, who have labored to bring It to
pass.
Year: 1871

Tho Tennessee-Our Opinion About Her


In this season of doubt and uncertainty re.
garding the whereabouts and condition of the
Tennessee opinions on the subject are numer-
GUS. Landsmen and sailors express theirs,
Cabinet Ministers do likewise, the Presi-
dent has his opinion and gives it, and
among them all not few will COM
pare with Jack Bunsby's. Opinions are good
they attract the eye, everybody reads them,
and then they are about as wise as before.
Some, who are fond of looking on the black
side of everything, are Of the opinion that she
has gone to "Davy Jones'" with all on board.
Others, less sanguine, think only that
some accident has occurred whereby
her passage has been delayed. Indeed,
the case has been so thoroughly dis
cussed and picked to pieces that it is hardly
possible for anything new in the shape of an
opinion to be brought forward, but we ven
ture ours, nevertheless. Itis our opinion that
the Tennessee is where her commander and
the Commissioners desire she should be-either
at anchor in some harbor or making
passage between two ports. If the former,
all that can be spared from duty are enjoying
themselves on shore; If the latter, they are
having good time on board, satisfied with
the voyage, the places they have visited, the
people they have met, and with the country
1t is proposed to annex to the United States.
tits our opinion that all on board are not half as
uneasy about us as many of our people are
about them, and it is also our opinion that
when they hear how much commotion they
have occasioned by reason of not being able
to communicate their arrival they will enjoy a
laugh at our expense. Such Is our opinion,
and we think 1t good.
Year: 1871

The NEGRO POPULATION in the South ap-
pears to have thrived and increased since and
during the war. They now count one hun
,dred and six thousand more in the old slave
holding States than they did in 1860, and this,
too, in the face Of the general understanding
that freedom was to be the death Of them.
Year: 1871

"A little deaf and demb girl was
once asked BY a lady, who wrote the ques-
tion on . slate. What is prayer ?" The
little girl took the pencil and wrote the re-
ply, Prayer is the wish of the heart" So
it 10. Fine words and beautiful verses said
to God do not make real prayer without
the sincere wish of the heart.
Year: 1871

THE houSekeepsrs of America very gen
orally know DR.. Prices Cream Baking Pow
der and Special FlAvOrings. They are be
yond al question the best and most perfect
Of anything for the purpose in the market
and are now having the largest sale. Al
most a million families use them constantly
and the housewife who has used them once
will never be without them. Grocers and
dealers can supply you.
Year: 1871

tbs direct Federal tax for the year end
June 30, 1871, was three hundred and eigh-
W-tErse millions three hundred and toenty.
three thousand nine hundred and forty
four dollars. This is over million day,
Sunday included. The tax law works on
Sunday, taking no rest, and making over q
million of dollars and yes not radical par
son has said word about this violation Of
tha Sabbath
Year: 1871

The New York Telegram thinks "there is
punishment worse than Sing-Sng. lis to wait,
as Connolly has waited, for the friends of bis
prosperous days to come forward to his help now
In his great need, and to find that they do not
come"
Year: 1871

A MAN may borrow money, steal from wild.
ow' discount his own whisky bill, or nip " a
prayer-book from dying heathen, and still have
some chance of pardon but when he swindles a
poor printer out of his bill, we think the devil
has such firm grip on the seat of his pantaoons
that repentance and forgiveness are utterly out
of the question.
Year: 1871

WATER SUPPLY FOR SAN FRANcIsco. The spe-
cial committee on water supply for San Francisco
have reported that there is water enough on the
peninsula TO supply the city for fifty years to
come, and recommend that it be appropriated
and that the city own its own works, which will
require that the Spring Valley Water Works be
bought. General Alexander and Professor Da-
wilson concur in this opinion
Year: 1871

If long hair be the glory Of woman, then there
Is a glorious young woman in Boston. Her hight
is five feet three inches, and when she is stand
ing erect her back hair falls to her feet and trails
quarter of yard On the floor. 1t is seventy
FIVE inches in length.
Year: 1871

JUMPING AT CoNCLUsIoNs-The Sac
ramento Union, commenting on the loss Of
a Republican Senator from this District,
infers that the .'cause must be owing to
some special defect in the Republican can
didate. La this conclusion the .nion
does injustice to MIR. Stratton, our Senate
rial nominee. We have lost the Senator
because the District has Democratic ma
jority, and for no other reason The vote
for Governor in the district is very close,
neither party having much of majority,
but Mr. Booth leads the State ticket in
both cou ties. Trinity county has been
conceded to be Democratic for the past two
years by twenty or thirty votes, while
heavy immigration into the eastern part Of
this county has turned the tables on us, and
everthrown the Republican majority which
Shasta county would otherwise have given.
Mr.. Stratton Las polled fully as large a
vote as any Republican could have done.
and that he is defeated must be laid to the
fact, that Democrats do not recognize SUI
perier qualifications nor personal friendship
in preference to party Claims, bnt vote
straight ticket for Legislative officers on
all occasions.
Year: 1871

Visited school house in this district
school not in session The settlers in this
district are st located as to render it inl-
possible to accomn odate all, and it occurs
to us that the present location of the school
house is about as good, taking everything
into consideration, as could be selected
Year: 1871

Adjournment Till Next NIOnday-A Movement


for Jail Delivery.


Before Judge Barnard.


This met eleven A. NJ yesterday pursuant to ~
ournment The hronged In the expectation THAI
the trial Of


MURDER CASES


would there being three OF this class
the calendar Mr. Abraham H. Hummel stated the
were called William F. Howe, counsel for the pr
oners engaged In the Court of General Sessions and
be buy occupied there during the Upon this state
the trial OF these postponed TIL next Monday
the Jury discharged till that time. Following this
movement was iusuGurated looking toa


GENERAL JAIL DELIVERY -
OF tho inmates of Ludlow Street Jail began WIN
brief consultation between the Judge and Assistant Dst
Attorney sullivan and the former handing to the latter e
which had been returned the prisoners confined Ludlow
Street JAIL Of whom from inability to find ball or 70
pay nes prison for great length OF tina
Judge required Mr. Sullivan examine Into the acs
relating these and after suitable inquiry to bring sc
them he thought right to the attention OF the Court OF
Oyer Tcrmner the opening of the Court noxt MOI
morning. In order that wherever the cases required
and humanity. consistent with law and justice would war
that suitable orders should be made for the relief and
these whose confinement virtually for
spirit Of the law. .
Mr. Sullivan the list and promised to bring al sueh
before the Court of habeas and to
that notice sent to the prison and also pushed
through the newspapers that all who Interested might
have fair opportunity of bringing to his notice and to the
eIahl exercise wisely and humaney its dhcrs-
uonAry power In the
Year: 1871

Hitch In the Public Business.


Judge Benedict entered Court yesterday at the hosT
for the purpose dsposng of the upon the criminal
calendar. His Honor however, unable to make any
advance the discharge OF the public business, owing
the fact that the had failed bring prisoners
down from Ludlow street jail After waiting for hal
hour the Judge inquired OF Mr.. Purdy. United States
Assistant District Attorney II the prisoners mad been yet
brought down. Mr.. Purdy replied he expected them
every moment adding that though not the Of tns
District Attorney procure the attendance Of prisoners
was that there should be no delay whatever
his part bringing them to trial.


Judge Benedict very emphaticay and properly
marked that very wrong have the time OF the Court
the bar and in this Valuable time
had been nothing had been DONE 1t was quite cyl
dcrecton OF duty somewhere ana ne
should like to find out 1t was.


The Judge then directed mr. Shields 70 can over tne names
of petit urors Mr. shields called the Jurors, and sew
era answered to their


The Court was adjourned till this morning..


proper observe that the Court sat last Monday cx
the purpose trying criminals and though eight days nave
now gone over, not single criminal has yet been
brought to trial Where the fault lies s hard 70 say
Sometimes the ready and sometimes u 10 no
Frequently prisoners cannot be found ana as oen !no
hoes-never to be heard OF upon the legal stage
Year: 1871

Charge Of Opening Letter in the Post Omcos


Before Commissioner Osborn


The United Stltes John Moon-The defendant who had
been assistant inspector In the box department Of hs
Post ONCE charged with opening embezzing st
containing order for 81 Counsel for defendant made
heightened argument, contending that there ev
dence whatever show that Mr. Noon had embezzed the
the Of which was torn for the purpose redirect
ing It, he had previously done In other similar and
his heightened connection with the Post Office and his
circumstances went dspove the fact that he intended TO
stea embezzle or destroy the letter Mr. Davies. for tns
the Judgment of the Commissioner The Commi.soner Do
Jury the charge of opening the letter. Mr. Moon out
on bail