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THE DAILY AMERICAN NASHVILLE SATURDAY JANUARY 20 1877 KiHiimbi) KKXATOR BA ILK THE NATIONAL CAPITAL A LITTLE STORY JJhe JJailg JAmcricau fine appearance and were as soldierly in their appesrance as ever then moved out of the hotel and the as tti blage dispersed Together with Its Application to the Present Eltaatloo tobe mom's rostrate Plot Analost Wkl ttherar GRAND OPERA HOUSE DA VET Prop JOS BROOKS Mangr THREE NIGHTS ONLY! Thursday Friday and Saturday Jan 18 19 and itO pie Hillary ao Otherwise Aroand the hite-bonne EDUCATOR IX COUNCIL Joint Setslsa of the loBBty Map v-lnte4enta and State Teacher' Association Don't Loot- a Iiinbfr Thf wltlrvwi on oorh i) of the wftima wnt by uuil has alo the ate tutUrli the ub-orrlptliii ha Woo paid All paper are dlorta-tinned at the rtpirnUou of the lime xtiit for To avoid mLts pjle nnmtier stilarlber should watch the adore and renew In time to prrTent ant oloppasr Will there be Coo promise on the Cantf err- items ty 27 Cherry st is the place for everybody to patronize Baths for 25c Try them lw ty At We will sell at New Y'ork cost all our zephyr embroideries Slippers cushions chair tops brackets of every description positively at cost Bohan fc Floersh jal5 tnesthurssatsun TATE OF THE HEATHER Local Report for the City Friday Job 1 1877 Thi Weather Foggy Cloudy Light i aln 1 DO a a 1 8 00 a I The Favorite Artists THE WALLACE SISTERS! JENNIE MINNIE MAUD Supported by their own Powerfol Combination Sn perb Orchestra The Convention of County Superintend enta met in the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture Statistics and Mines yesterday morning and was called to oraet Supt 8 Caldwell of the Nashville Pub- WTkt DAILY AMFJtK'AN will he supplied to the traveling public all railroad centering at Ka hvllle and at all railroad Halloa by tar agent of Mroara air A Mallory at fin acta par Cost FRIDAY EVENING Fred romantic drams In the Toil SATURDAY Edmund beao-tlfal Irish drama The Hose of Killarney MATINEE SATURDAY Minnie's Luck Maxim am temperature 53 deg minimum temperature -fct deg mean temperature 490 deg ratn-fall 010 Inchee Telegraphic Report from Signal Service Corpi A of Obeervation al 3:5 Reserved seats now on sale at McClure's jal4 6t POWERS SON Placet TAi Placet TA Wea'ri 41 10 Clo'dy Memphis (Naahviile New Orleans Omaha Pittsburg 46 rain 49 Clo'dy 73 1 Clo dy 29 Fair 3S 53 Foggy 49 Clo'dy 11 Fair Shreveport lib St Lou! Cairo Cheyenne Cincinnati Davenport Dubuque Denver Fort Sully Galveatcn Indianola Tx Keokuk LaCroeee Leavenworth Louisville St Paul San Salt Lake Vicksburg i (Washington Yankton DT Fog 44! Clo'dy 61 24 Fair' RIVER NEWS wti Daily Rtj Report of Stage of Water with Chang the if hours ending tpm Jan 19 1877 Changes abvt low wter Washington Correspondence of tha Cleveland Herald (Republican) Our present political situation is prolific of much philosophizing over the tracer-tainty of office-seeking man are you for?" is the national conundrum of the hour In the general on-the fence movements of scores of politicians I am reminded of a little story One morning a party were sitting around the spring at White Sulphur and the conversation had alien upon the late war Personal reminiscence was in order Each was the hero of his own hair-breadth escape and the sequels were blood and thunder Within ear-shot saf an old gray-coated Virginian attentively listening and turning his cud reflectively between his teeth At length he spoke: "Gentlemens all been through a heqp but they haint none of you had a wus time nor I bet" "Which side was you on?" asked one "Nary a side gentlemens but I had a moustrous hard and the old fellow drawing out his cud of reflection proceeded: "Wall when the fust broke out I know much about it no-how I was a studying it out but come to no judgment One njght my darter Mary Ann was took powerful sick The doctor he wrote a script and told me to go right off and git it So I bridled my old and started Wall gentlemens when I got I reckon khree miles from home it was monstrous dark some one called out and I hilted Fust I knowed I was a prisoner and the boys was round thicker nor June bugs Sezthey: are you fur Sez I my darter Mary Ann Sez they il ary Ann! Who are you fur? Speak out Hurra for I studied a minit then sez I on a like for Jeff They sez mad as hornets told you he was a rebel Git off that mar I haint telling you no lie when I sez they took me off' my aud bucked me over a log and bit me five hun dred It hurt powerful bad I was monstrous sore I mounted my and started on I got three mile when I heerd another voice call out 1 hilted and agin the boys hed me are you sez they sez I my darter Slary Ann is powerful sick the doctor 'Damn the doctor! Who are you fur? Hurra for "I to be kotched agin so I Jest took off hat sez I as loud as I could for sez they inedder nor blazes told you he was a a traitor! Git down of that They tuk me off that and bucked me over a log and jest whar I was sore they gin me five hundred It monstrous bad But I got on went along Jest as I was into town another man called out I hilted agin are you siz he 'Hurra (ientlemen I never to be kotched agin I jest sez you jest be so kina as to hurra fut jest this The powerful application of this story is perceptible to all who have been over the last political log rise Stations ladn to Mew Aanritor arolo Money to loan Stork for sale Furniture for vale A Way preaa wantt-tt Gold locket loet rvwaitl offered Take dinner at the Hitlttleburger to-day See dissolution notice on second page The drummer who carried off a pair of spectacle will return time to this office Stated meeting of Cumberland Lodge No 8 and A to-night at 7 The iteamer Julia No 2 Hart ou a trip up the rirer this attorn mo at -t o'clock Attend sale of Yeafgin Co al 10 o'clock thin morning Sulzbacher Bra hare received a freah con ignorant of oup oyster and will tel! them at lOc per quart or 10c er doen The steamer Celina leave Nashville every Tuesday afternoon at 1 for Ft lea bel and intermediate points and will con linue to do ao Jong a tlierc i enough water in the river to float her See adver liaement on second page The Naahviile Savings Company corner Union and Collcire atreebi are doing a reg ular exchange and banking business they receive deposit and allow interest tberci they furnish drafts in sums to suit on Ureal Britain they negotiate loan on favorable terms and they al all limes pay the highest rates for bonds stocks etc If you want freah tropical fruit tust from the South attend the auction sale of 8 Bradley this morning at Beadle's old stand 138 South Cherry street He leas a car load of nice cocoanuts and bananas hich he will sell out at auction beginning at 9 Those who go early will get ptek and choice and bargains may be expected MCiL loruu Wru TURKEY stuffed with oyster for din ner at the Hiddleburger Restaurant tliUday UuKtcxitKiKK WillsRT is made with great care grain all picked and clesmed water from the finest spring in the county of Hob orison and cleanliness the standing order of the distillery sat tall tn In ft 5" 7 4 7 1 lie School who said he had been requested by State Supt Trousdale who is 0 unwell as to be unable to be present to set as chairman in his stead Supt Bonkette of Rutherford waa appointed Secretary The following counties were represented by their Superintendents John Dean Blount Supt Goddard Coffee Wilson Davidson Weakley Wm Harrison Franklin Hampton Giles Y'ancy Lawrence Buchanan Obion Walter Shropshire Robertson Denison Rutherford Baskette Smith Lorenzo Stokes Sumner Cochran Tipton Wm Page Wat K- Mromack Washington Presnell Williamson Berry Pickett There were also present a large number of member of the State Association all of whom stated briefly the condition of the schools In their respective counties The meeting then adjourned to vilit the institutions of learning in the city Between Uie hours of 11 a and 3 tbe teachers and superintendents visited Vanderbilt University the State Normal School and Fogg Htune ami Howard buildings of the Naahviile Public Schools AFTERNOON SESSION The County Superintendents' and die State Association met in convention at 3 Superintendent Shropshire presiding The only address was that of Dr Wm A Smith of the Columbia Athenaeum who clnse for the subject "Hygiene in the School-room" Resolutions were adopted iu favor of re quiring teachers to attend the institutes held iu their respective districts and counties subject only to excuse by sickness or tbe State Superintendent The convention also adopted resolutions of thanks to the press the railroltds and hotels for courtesies The following resolutions were unanimously adopted Resolved that this convention heartily indorse the plan of Hon Leon Trousdale State Superintendent of holding District institutes throughout the State during the coming year and promise him our hearty support in carrying on the same llesolved that we indorse his administration generally and promise to give him our co-ieraUon in the jierformancc of ail his official duties The convention then adjourned tint die Cairo Cincin tl Dubuque Keokuk LaCrosse Little R'k 6 52 From Oar Regular Correspondent Washington Jan 17 The developments oftne week before committee which is investigating the conspiracy against Whitthorne would incline me to moralize on the terrible condition of public morality id this city had not the morals of the present Administration and its friends been at extreme low ebb so long that one is surprised at nothing now There was time in the day of the Republic and before these the day of the forty thieves when a public man however intense a partisan he might be would have considered it beneath him as a gentleman to deliberately conspire to ruin the character of any contemporary in public life Alas those days have passed and the developments of the sale burglary trial the Congressional investigations of last session and the pending investigation into the ways of Murtagh and his Police Board prove that the men who have reigned in the Republic for the last decade can not only contemplate with equanimity but have actually breaand encouraged a system of intrigue and espionage which would have disgraced the days of Richelieu I have no disposition to do Mr Murtagh any injustice and certainly none to forestall the judgment of the proper tribunal but the case as it stands at present certainly looks very black not only for Mr Murtagh the editor of the official organ but also for the higher officials by whom he seemed to have been inspired Three witnesses the late Chief of Police and two of his detectives have testified in the plainest possible way that Murtagh did solicit Maj Richards the late Chief of Police and the two detectives through him to conspire Against the fair fame of Congressman Whitthorne with intent to hinder the investiga tion into the management of the Navy Department which he was conducting and to break the force of tbe report which it was certain he would make The testimony of all three is that it was a deliberate plot to en trap Mr Whitthorne by any means however foul into some ahamful act which might be thenceforth suspended above his head like the sword of Damocles held up by the slender thread of their forbearance and that to be cut the instant he dared to do his duly That the plot failed was no fault of the instigator It remains for the House Committee to ascertain if it can whether the real instigator was Murtagh who is declared to have urged it upon the Chief of Police or one higher in authority than he Allot the witnesses have made the suggestive statement that Murtagh said tne Navy Department wanted Uie investigation stopped and intimated that the Navy Department would countenance tbe plot proposed And what is the Navy Department in these days? One man alone has stood for all that is left of that Department (ittce Grant plucked Robeson from a petty law practice in New Jersey to place him in his cabinet and llte plain inference of the testimony thus far elicited before LeMoyne's committee is that itobeson was cognizant if be did not inspire the foul conspiracy which appeared to have hatched Ordinarily il would be in credible to believe a cabinet officer capable of such falseness but of Robeson well let all doubters read and ponder over the testimony taken before Committee last winter Alter all it is not so strange when we i-top to consider that the present state of IhiDgs exists here The war lifted au illiterate soldier into civil power Is it strange that he surrounded himself with his friends 31 1 Out- Low Prices INVITE INSPECTION agy minus tendency to tall plus The river is risiag with about 32 feet on the shoals There were no arrivals The John Bransford left for Point Isabel The McDonald from above with coal the Stahlman from Point Isabel and the Anderson from Paducah are expected The Julia No 2 did not leave ss expected but will depart positively for Burksville to-day DIED TKRRASS At 4 A 19th Inst at the residence Fontenelle Place Mkdoka daughter of John Terr ass in the 14th year of her age The funeral will take ulace from the residence at Il o'clock this (Saturday) morning to which friends are respectful Invited Services by Rev A Hoyt Carriages will leave Groomes at 10:30 A FALL AND WINTEB Clothing- TOB lien Youths and Boys AND A FULL LINE OF FURNISHING GOODS Invite the public to call and examine our Stock before purchasing elsewhere POWERS 6c SON Block Corner Public Square and Market Rt oc5 sat snn tnl ly Yf Inn vlllr NaUfrfl To tbe American MtNN ruK Jon 17 A Mr Hrpf nine Ike (Schools The Thirteenth district schools which have been suspi ndcii during the lf! weather will be mqraned neat Monday It I cl ou a Hat Sttare James Cunningham colored was arrested by Officers Massey ami Hchnetder eater-dy for stealing a hat from the store ot Redman Co on the Public Square Turkeys Ter the Mouth From one to three car-load i of turkeys per week are sent to Southern markets from the counties of Robertson Sumner and Wilson It has grown to be a profitable traffic Ml aw A bout Taking Oat Their Lire urea Only fifty of the five hundred merchants of Nashvlle have as yet taken out their licences At this time last year more than double that number had paid for ami re ceived them from the County Court Clerk The Moutheaatern Road All Right Hr the removal of tUe ice blockade in tin-Olio river trains on the Southeastern road were yesterday enabled to make through connection 1 tegular time will now be made over that road from Nashville to St Lours It was ooe of those occurrence that dews not spread upon the wings of madame rumor only a few friends of the arties having been admitted into the arena And they were seen meandering their ways down toward the banks of the turbid Cumberland at about the lime the clock on the school-house was preparing to strike nine The second were on hand who placed the respective combatant in position And when the signal wsa given they "ftt into each other" with all the pugilistic force that they possessed After an interesting scene of fifteen minutes the re-suit can be readily imagined One black eye ooe pug nose two bloody shirts and a part of a pair of pantaloons The grounds around hod the appearance of a meeting of wild leasts meeting in a deadly affray And all on account of a Let all beware The North Edgefield Baptist Sunday-school have elected the following officers for the ensuing year Buttorff Super iutendent Jones Assistant Superin tendent A Grisham Secretary I) Rose Treasurer Culley Librarian BeUur Artist Much complaint is made this muddy weather of the want of substantial sidewalks along the principal thoroughfares of the city It is suggested that the amount psli for gas be usrei in making the street passable even in daylight Hugh Heverin our former jailer has transferred hi Interest to the Sylvan City and has started a grocery at the junction of the Creek and Dickerson turnpikes Beal Estate Transfer The following transfers of real estate were recorded in the County Court Clerk's office for the week ending yesterday Reasooer to James Ferguson acres in Twenlyfourth district $56 Robt Ewing Clerk and Ma-ter to Wm Hume undivided interest in lot 21 Front street free territory $400 Brien to Thos Woodard lot on College near Brood street $10000 Root Ewing Clerk and Master to Crossway administrator 'Ml acres inTwen tieth $17W Some and Hadley to Aotbeny A Bro -50 feet on Maple street $WJ Hadley to Anthony A Bro 9 acres in Fifteenth dlstri Thomas 8 Marr to Lawrence Kennedy 100 feet on South College and one tract in Ninth district $3479 Patrick Byrd and wife lo David Hughes 5J id feet on McLemnre $150 Woodall Sheriff to Joel Hayden Jr 24 feet east side of North College street $27 79 A Herman to Eugene A Carsey trustee deed of gift land tn Wilson county EUislon and wife Leona Elliston trustee and Robert Ewing and to Morris A Stratton St Charles Hotel and adjoining $10000 wood lo Mrs A Wood lol in Martin Humphreys A Houston's addition Henry Metz trustee to Albert Maus et al Nashville brewery property and fix $10000 8 Childress to Stubblefield lot corner Addison avenue and Clay John Overton to John Pendergrast lol In $2 500 Dallas Winbonru to Edward Stout tot in Harding's addition $100 Bright for himsell and a agent and attorney in fact for Bright lo Bright land In Lincoln county $7500 0 Whitworth trustee I Gibson Keeling by James Whitworth attorney to Gibson 100 by 210 feet Church street Edgefield $600 David Parkes to Randall llrown fifty seven feat on Jackson street Thirteenth $500 Samuel Watkins to I) Parrish lot 13 north side Line street Thirteenth district $500 Itobert Ewing Clerk and Master lo Turner Williams seventy acres Mill Creek Sixth district $1750 II McKinney to Marish Scat 28hj feet ou From street $000 Martin Woods to Wheeler part of lota 14 15 and Iff in plan 453 feet oa South College street $500 George Dale to Jacob and George Anthony lot 105 in plan 7th ward 30' feet on Maury street $355 Isaac llaker and wife Emelinc Baker Isaac Baker trustee land in Williamson county Than ha to the Water-supply Com mlttee The following resolution was adopted at a meeting of the Board of Health yesterday Whereas at an informal meeting of the Board of Health held Nov 28 187(5 the following named citiens were apjiointed a corn mittee on the water supply of Nashville and requested to report viz 1 11am iltou Prof Si Salford Madden I) Judge Lea A Atchison 0 Morris and Altoway- and Whereas they have performed in a most efficient and thorough manner the duties assigned them as is evidenced in the cx ccediogly interesting able and exhaustive report which has just been read therefore be it Resolved that the thanks of the board arc hereby returned them for the report and also for the several pertinent suggestion they have seen tit to add regarding sewer age garbsgeetc Building Permits The following is a list of the building permits issued since our last report: Michael Sinnatt one-story frame -488 South Cherry streel $5C0 Humphrey Timothy repairing building formerly occupied by John Langham Pub lie Square $-500 Jos BuiAanaa improve and repair brick building on the southwest corner of Cherry and Cedar streets $800 as McGarvey two-roomed frame building south tide of Brooks' alley $5-50 Mrs Pohl frame staxie rear of lot or the southeast corner of Summer and Mon-r streets $100 Ed Laurent frame kitchen to residence No 3-'2 North Summer street $150 The weather has been so severe as lo al most aui-um to a prohibition in the wav of erecting ouses It is believed however that a good deal of building will be done os uouathe weather (will permit naeSxr Licenses The County Court Clerk issued marriage licenses to the following named persons during the week ending yesterday WHITK Alotwo Carroll to Auns Criddle I McKee to Mary Tynes Fillmore Sweeney to Fannie Brannon Costello to Cauvin Allen to Break Owen McDermott to Bridget Homily Ferdinand Ferguson to Mary Bums Henry Hicks to Addle Towns David Wood win to Nancy Perkins Grors uM Vaughn A Uicvctuon to Katie Dodd (tlUXHKU Wesley Gowett to 4 lice Porter Robert Uixqier to Olevin Foster terMKi Ocn Kirby Hmitb formerly of thin ciur but at present of the University of the South at Hewancc is spending few days in the cilf A Hughes of the Columbia Ti arrived yesterday morning Ilev ones posLjr of toe Paris Nunnelly wife of a saloon-keeper hefe got tired of this life and attempted to commit suicide a day or two ago She took an overdose of morphia and when found was well nigh dead But for the atte ntion of Dr Black site would have died She i now better but has not yet explained why she yearns for death The McMinnville Manchester railroad carries from here this morning seven car loads of live stock horse hogs and cattle tbe property of Jobu lUntsey and Crock Grocy bound for llte Southern mar-ket An Oratlnn to Hina by the 4'ltiaean of (onhvtlle HI Patriot! I Iterance on the Ijnes-Hon of the rial The Porter Rifles with the St Total Abstinence Band serenaded Senator James Bailey id the Maxwell House last evening In anticipation of the serenade a large crowd of citizens collected In the rotunda By the lime the bond had played through one air the floor of the rotundaand the corridors were densely packed with people In the corridor were quite a large uumber of ladies anxious to hear what the Senator elect had to say General enthusiasm prevailed Senator Bailey was introduced by the Hon Lewis Bond of Haywood the able Speaker who presided in the House in 1875 Mr Bond said Fellow citizens Let me have your attention Tor a moment Yesterday the gentleman whose name 1 shall presently call was known and distinguished amongst you as the beloved neighbor the upright judge aud the great lawyer To-night he come before you in another character In the free exercise of your sovereign trill you have to-day crowned him wilh the highest honor in your power to I now nave the pleasure of introducing to you the Hon James Bailey one of your Senators in the Congress of the United Stales Senator Bailey was received with a round of hearty cheers from the assemblage and said Fellow citizens ladies and gentlemen The representatives of the people assembled in legislative capacity to-day have done me the honor lo elect me to a position in the great Legislature of the Republic I feel deeply the honor fellow -citizens that has been bestowed upon me by the people of my native Slate through their reprcsenlalivea This distinguished honor conferred ujxio me has marie a deep impression upon my heart and from its profoundcst depths I thank you Called to this position in a time of extreme peril to the Republic when the gravest questions are agitating the minds of the people when section is arrayed in some degree against section when partisan feeling reaches its highest ixpresdop 1 feel the grave rspousil 1 ities resting upon me But 1 will say to iKuno crats and Republicans that In my seal in the Senate of the nited Stales I will en deavor to represent' not the Democratic party nd the Republican party but all the people of my native Slate (Applause It is true that 1 will endeavor to carry into ef feet the principles of government the tenets maintained by the Democratic party for it is by that method 1 lielieve that the great eat good is to 1-e done for the whole people of the United elates but iu doing that 1 will endeavor to do injustice to none Democratic principles contemplate justice to all I will weigh cv-iy question and give il my calmest Consideration and endeavor to do my whole duty cot only to you my fellow citizens but to the people of the entire I country Grave questions have been pro settled for the determination of the Congress of the United Stale temporary in their character but still calling upon llte whole country to exercise the utmost forbearance calling upon your statesmen now assembled at Washington to exercise the greatest and most cautious deliberation calling npon every man of every party from every section to exercise the bioodcst and most charitable feeling that these grave question my- be settled for the lasting good of the Republic As one of the arbiters I will endeavor to execute justice in the presence of my God and my country I will endeavor to decide upon these questions in such a manner as will Itear the light of fu lure history But there are questions be yond the questions of the hour that may be settled to-day I lielieve that there is patriotism and virtue and there arc those qualities in the movements and effort of the Anteri con people that will relieve us of the pres- ent crisis and carry us safely down to the great future Thut future will present for determination every question of national policy os relating to economy as re-iating to questions of finance us relating to the revenue of the Government of our country These matters 1 will endeavor to consider so as to carry out the principles embodied in the teachings of the Democratic patty and in this 1 can only say to you I (relieve I will represent the true in terests of every man of Tennessee Applause Let me say fellcwciticns 1 110 not propose to represent Tennessee alone but while reprinting Tennessee I will also represent the people of the whole country and in that capacity endeavor to discharge my duty to the whole country look ing to the utmost of my ability only to the interest of the United States And you geutenten of the Porter Rifles I desire to thank for the compliment you have paid me The name you licar ia one honorable to you and I trust you young ntlemen will take him a your model The gentleman whose name you liear is as a citizen blameless and pure a a soldier brave and unflinching as a slatcsmau in-corruptible I repeat 1 trust that you will take bint a a model and that all through life your conduct will be governed by the same high and elevated principles that have made him the model gentleman of Tennessee (Cheers) I thank you ladies and gentlemen for the compliment you have bestowed upon me this evening Prolonged applause The Poru-r Rifles then gave three cheers for Senator Bailey in wbiih they were joined by the whole assemblage Calls having been made for the gen lenteu named brief leeches were made by Speaker Taliaferro Attorney Ueueral Luke Wright of Memphis Representatives Washington Travis Wilson Frazer Capt Donelson Speaker McAdoo Col James While and James Stokes Col A James of Chattanooga said: Fellow-citizens ladles and gentlemen 1 make that remark because all the other gen-tlemen made It Laughter and applause You have now solved the great question of Senatorships The Legislature has ujw another duly to perform which may per haps not be so hard to solve and that ia with regard to the dog law I think that law will be repealed Laughter) I feel like talking tonight it la like talking at own funeral ou bad a birth to day and several deaths Laughter and applause 1 hope the gentleman born by this Legislature to the Senate of the United Stales will be as highly honored a he has been here and I nave no doubt he will Cheer 1 had a first choice I was not like a great many members of the Legislature I didn't have a second choice Laughter and applause) I am giad to kuow however that my section of the Slate was well represented even on the last ballot Applause and laughter We believe that Judge Key represented lYnncssee equal to any man in the State and that he filled worthily the chair of Andrew Johnson the great defender of the Constitution Applause I believe that he was a true patriot an honest man and a Christian and when his boat went down il went down with flying color Applause But there is now no division ol sentiment with regard to the man presented to you and we bow in submission to the will of the people as expressed by the Legislature 1 Applause 1 am glad to sec 0 iusay latli" here tonight You find them all in the humbler walks of life Y'ou found them duriav a war at the couch of the dying soldier and it is but meet they should be here 00 this occasion I know" from their presence and happy face that tqey sanction of the camps Is it strange that he and they have clung to the methods of the military Tbe war necessitated the use of spies The (OL THOHPMOX A 11rlef Hlographleal Hketch of the Peaator from Davlttnon anil IVlInon CIRCUS GONE TO 8MASH The Augusta (Ga) papers announce the seizure by the Sheriff of Richmond county of Great London circus at that place It was owned in part by Mr Barnum and John Kelly the New York banker The original coat in London was 1180000 During its existence it made for its proprietors over $250000 The indebtedness of the show consists of a printing bill of 32000 to a New printing establishment Richard 11 Dock rill holds a mortgage for $18200 on it The 8 Rolling Stock Company of Cleveland Ohio claim $97 7 52 for reut of cars belonging to the company and in possession of Mr Barnum The expenses are two hundred dollars per day The employes were paid off About $10000 was paid them The circus will be sold on the 29th A FIGHT WITH A SHIRT COLLAR Boston Commercial Bulletin There was collar and elbow wrestling at the residence of our esteemed fellow-citizen Seth Spicer last week that gentleman having undertaken to fasten a collar on a 15 shirt band 1 he first bout was short and sharp Spicer came up to the dressing glass smiling fastened two buttons clutched himself by the back of the neck and tried to drag the third buttonhole over his neck stud when the top ot his right thumbnail gave way he rammed his fist into his clean shirt-bosom trod on the baby's Christie as dog and smashed the bark out of it barked his shin against the bureau and the offending furnishing goods earnestly Mrs here remarked that he not use such dreadful language with the children in the next room I never saw a man that had a bit of continued Mrs Spicer as she stepped forward to take a hand in the contest Spicer took one step to the rear and lan ted the heel of a No 10 boot on the toe of his slipper Ow shrieked the counsellor of patience and good language great clumsy lummux you have trodden on my lame toe No you sorry I saw you grin in the and Mrs limped out of the arena Spicer took a fresh hold and refreshing himself with the remembrance of tbe time he lifted eleven hundred and fifty pounds at gave a mighty tug and tore two button-holes clean out There was murder in eye and perspiration on his forehead as he went calmly to work on the second piece of neck gear but a happy thought occurringto him he seized a boot-buttoner and wrenched the refractory linen into place Just as Mrs catted from the hall that the carriage had been there for half an hour and Lash and Drivem always charged for waiting the rear button gave way and the triumphant linen rode up into back hair The unhappy man jabbwl a big pin into the place cf the missing button and rushed off to enjoy a social party with a necessity produced an army of spies The coming ol peace left this army without employ Naturally they gravitated to Wash-ington in squads The military men in and about the White House found the implement ready at hand Is it strange that they used it The moral is obvious So long as tbe people have to endure the rule' of the military so long will they endure the spire of the military So long as the spies of the military are countenanced so long wiH intrigue fiourish and conspiracies rise and prosper The disease feeds upon itself and waxes fat The ides of February are close at band and tbe soloos of the Capitol cannot much longer dally with the settlement of the Fres-dentia question Just now the public eye is centered on the committees of the two houses on the counting of the electoral vote The Senate committee formulated a bill last week and on Friday two committees began to consider it jointly Every precaution is ill taken to keep the deliberations moloundly secret The main points of the innate committee's bill however are as follows It holds first That the President of the Senate has no judicial power in the count second that the powers of the two houses are co-ordinate third that when there is but one certificate returned from a State tbe vote of the State shall not be rejected without the concurrent action of 1 oth houses fourth that disputed questions shall be adjudicated by a joint commission to consist of nine members of the House and Senate and the four oldest Jus tices of the Supreme Court The 4th projiosi-tton contained the kernel of the whole matter There will be little diffiulty in agree ing on the other points but whether the House will agree to the admission of any arbiters outside of Congress is doubtful The four eldest Justices Miller Swayne Davis and Clifford happen to be divided evenly in ttteir political affinities This may help matters some but the House Demo crats as a rule hold that the Constitution does not confer upon any tribunal other than Congress the power to count a Pres1 dential vote At this writing however it looks as though it must be this compromise or nothing If the two committees fail to agree no one may predicate the result The plan of the conspirators has undergone some modifications but is thesarae in its essential feature to-wit -a revolution and Hayes peaceable If the people submit forcible if The Memphis Ledger has been publish ing biographical sketches of the member of llie jit eseDt Legislature This is what it says concerning the Senator from Wilson and Davidson The Senator from the Twelfth District was born at the Cockrill Spriug place near Nashville on the 27Ui of October 1824 He descended from the Thompsons Cockrill Me airy and ltobertsons four of the old eit families of the Stale families distiu guished for their courage and patriotism and intellect Members of his family have filled every position of honor in the State Government and in the Federal Government except President and Vice President Robert Thompson his fattier si a lawyer of great ability and made considerable reputation although but thirty -two years of age when he died He was the owner of a large prop erty at his death but having become in-voKed in security matters his estate was dared insolvent and Senator Thompson was left at the age- of ten without a dollar He determined to educate himself and having an unconquerable will nothing could deter him Notwithstanding up to the death of his father he was Indulged in dl the luxuries that wealth could afford at thirteen years of age he bought a blind horse and a market cart and marketed to Nashville for four years and realized $1100 which he expended iu obtaining an education at different places He was in tbe senior class half advanced in Cumberland University when he married Miss Mary Tolliver daughter of Col Tolliver of Lebanon in 1844 Senator Thompson box resided in Lebanon ever since and has twelve times been elected mayor of hi town He has Ren a member ot the House of Repreaentativ twice in 1830-1 and 1852-3 and was elected over prominent men by the largest major Ities ever given in the county In his own district with four opponents all strong men and two of them living in the some civil district he received 547 voles out of 550 He was elected to the Senate this time over Tarver Esq and exBenator Hamilton by an overwhelming majority He beat tbe first at a primary election over two to one and tbe second at the regular election by 3729 votes When he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1851 with four strong men against him Including such men as Jordan Stokes an 1 Dr McCorkle the Eighteenth district of Wilson county gave him 119 votes when there Kenewlog Railroad Brldftn About sixteen bridge carpenters were sent out with a train of lunflier to Dry Creek trestle on the Pacific road ith a view to the renewal of that structure Timbers arc now being gotten out for the treading of Stones river bridge Chronic Caaen John Sharp colored was arrested yesterday on the charge of loitering around the markebhouse He is a chronic work house case Humphrey Dickersou colored was ar rested on the charge of trying to maintain himself by undue means Annual Ball of the Mt Aloysio Ms- fitly McClure's Hall Uniou street was crowd ed to its utmost capacity last night by the triends and members of die St Aloysius Society on the occasion of their first annual ball The efficient floor committee consisted of Messrs Thoe Tansey YV Smith A Floersh Farrell and Connell Southward Bound Cattle An average of four car loads of cattle are daily sent from Nashville to the New Or leans market where they come In competition wtth and are preferred to Texas cattle Caidc from this noint have usually been sent North but a heavy trade seems now to have set in South It is sufficiently evident that Tennessee can sell profitably all the stock cattle and sheep she can raise A astral Hale The band connected with the Wallace Si troupe gave a serenade on the Public Square yesterday Afternoon One of their auditors was a musical mule which went through the motions of dancing and received an encore from the highly amused asaemblsge It is anpjioacd he must have had tome connection with a circus in his youthful day Attempted Muteldr Miss Martha Antanda Capps who reside in South Nashville attempted suicide Thursday morning by taking arsenic bub failed in her purpose having taken an ovn-dose and causing severe vomiting This contlnuing she went to drug store yesterday afternoon to procure relief which afforded her poverty and distress were the principal causes which led her in attempt self-destruction A (Tight far llmusu rrlght The attaches 150 in uutfiber of London Circus which went to smash at Augusta a few days ego p-awrad through here last night ou" their way to New York by way of the Cincinnati Short Line Pan ban die A Pennsylvania railroad route (Juilc a struggle between railroad gents with regard to transporting the patfy occurred at Au gusts but Col Sidney Jones General Agent ot the Pan-hand! a route and John Kilkenny General Agent of' the Cincinnati Short Line were on the ground early and PAINT And Wall Colors ready mixed for use Any one amly them Cheap Beautiful and Humble Also Painters and Wax-flower Materials of every kind YOUR Broadway Style Silk Hats Fifth Avenue Style Silk Hats The American Team Hat New Styles Stiff Hats Fine Soft Hats New Styles Hats Cloth Hats and Seal Skin Caps White Coney Caps AT VERY LOW PRICES AT JESSE 5 Cherry ML Opposite Maxwell House bov is MMunmes 17 thp FROST BITE PILE8 SORLS CUTS AND BURNS Speedily cured by Invaluable Ointment Price 25 cents Drag store Northwest cor Pnbllc Square j14 suptneat 4th NASHVILLE they do nut It must be confessed that their vantage ground Is greater than the people at large seem to sOmiL They have than the realizing sense all the evening devotees used to feel who wore a hair shirt or spiked collar with the points inward CITY ITKU ing of how those were only 118 registered votes in IhcdUlrtct He is a man of great personal popularity his friends trill not only vote for him but HOUSE no8 wedfrlMttsunAwoamly NASHYILLE CAIRO Packet Company IW Oysters at Only 50 Cents a Quart-Having received a consignment of fine soup oysters we will offer them for two days only at 50c a quart or 10c per dozen Bring along your buckets to Sulabacher Also a full supply of fish and celery ja20 2t iW Bargains in chromos bargains in books bargains in toys and bargains in everything else that is for sale at as he ia compelled to reduce his stock Come early and get what you want Remember the place 38 Public Square de26 tf given up the plan of having Ferry count the vote but they propose to accomplish the same result by having biro announce it If the precedents are followed the Senate will I appoint one Republican teller and the House one Republican and one Demo rat In the contested case a majority of the tellers would count the Hayes certificates and Ferry would announce that the count showed that Haye was elected If the House should guard against this by appoint-l ing two Democratic tellers the Senate Republican teller would count the Ilayes certificate and it is whispered that a man will be In the presiding chair ho will even then dare to annouoce the election of Hayes The result once announced the conspirators consider the inauguration a forgone conclusion The North- will not fignt for Tilden they say He might be inaugurated in New York but what then He could not take a step could not even form his cabinet without the consent of the Senate This is the logic of the conspirators a they have let it out by piecemeal Over against it stands the constitution the law and the votes and a growing belief hee that Congress contains a sufilciem number of hottest men who will discuss question on higher level than all partiei and decide according to the right Lcthkr RYMAN Superintendent The Only Bag Manufactory in the State For Clarkorlllo Paducah THE new and elegant par sen get steamer ARDKRRON DAYst4 pMhTille boTe every MON- No 17 and 19 Booth Market Street Nashville Tenn 3S New Store New Goods and Low Prices I Rice Con 48 College street second door from Union A large stock of dry goods and the cheapest in the city A call from our friends and the pnblic in general respectfully solicited Rice Co 4C College street tf The new and elegant steamer KDDVVIia tor the above point every FRI -qran will IeavTiIsfivUle DAY attru will fight for him when necessary As a popular orator he has but lew equals in the State He bat as many of the elements of greatness as any uian in the State and would have occupied a much larger space in the public mind than he does hod he not been very hard of heat ing and although be ia a man of unbending will and reckless courage he is unassuming and child like in his manners and has a great contempt far pretenders He was on uncompromising rebel in the late revolution he is now for union and harmony for burying the past and looking to the future ije is a bold advocate of the rights and interests of the totting millions lie is opposed to high to the ten per cent law He Is in fa vor of low taxes and for compromising the State debt for curtailing the salaries of all the officers nd bringing the State government to a plain economical basis Senator Thompson is lawyer and has considerable reputation as a criminal law yer He I well versed in parliamentary law be has an industry that never tires and he will doubtless be of great service to his cor-stitsets in this time of embarrassment lie Is member of lew Judiciary and tbe Fi nance wys and Means Committees two of greatest in iKfi He has already introduced a number of important bill AM 1 HEN I Methodist Church Is In the cltjr I) Hickerson one of the lessoc of the Memphis A Charleston itailrod Col Sydney It Jioai General Passenger Agent of the Pan Handle roqfe and Kilkenny whai Urn Legislature ho and if the 1 jellied Ap- plauc and laughter bagged the game Driven Oat the Bark water From twenty to thirty families residing in the depressions made preparations last evening to vacate their houses on a further rise of the river All of them were in con sequence in a state of great uneasiness last night While a few had to desert their home it wav expected that more would have to leave them to-day They deprecated the ruin and though the back waters would approach to the height it attuned three years Ago The Tennessee river continues to rise fthrwly but it i bellowed jt will nut do any damage The gorge in the Muolsdopi rivtr at Hickman Ky broke Wednesday tunraing carrying away the wharf-boat at that pince and scores of canoes and skiffs On Goods In all their grades are made a specialty 8y os We mmufecture extra sizes to order and from no other house In this city can you get tbe ooase quality of Boars at the prices which we offer to There hare not been any committees of investigation the soldier present have not LOftc to bulldose (Laughter and cheer but If Judge bad been elected 1 know whether to man- pf these would be present or not Had he cb Tennesseeans would havd tonight and shouted for Bach boat make close connection at Paducah with Upper Ohio River boats and at Cairo wtth fire class steamers for New Orleans and all potato on the Lower Mississippi Special Inducements of-miS" to t0 Ml potato In Arkansas and Texas and the Northwestern Territories a a Wlb BOWMAN deS8 6m4thp Gen Agent No 8 Broad st JO FURTHER EXCUSE FOB GRAY HAIR with those who prefer its being the original or form er color Green Tenn) RESTORATIVE does not gum the hair dispenses with the necessity for champootag by keeping the hair and scalp nice and clean which will save you more than the Re- THK lOtRT Si Court Arguments were beard in the following cases Scott William vs State bnrglary Jerry Stokes vs State murder Harrison vs Slate murder Opinions will be delivered to-day Criminal Court Samuel Brown colored larceny six months In the county work-house Thus Kendregan white two cssea one for three years and one for six months in the same institution The coart adjourned until Monday morning PliojjATS Wm Luton Httl and John powers were poiq ed to set aside a support for becca Smiley widow of John Smil ceceaaed Hrwitt it Is said by a newspaper correspondent has long been a sufferer from insomnia and dyspepsia Abundantly blessed in worldly goods extraordinarily happy in hia domestic life his ill-health has been the gall and wormwood which destroy tbe flavor Bags are sold by other parties In this territory but we are THE ONLY KAXU VAtTI KKRai of this due cf goods In this 14 fate and consequently the only ohm Iu this city from whom you can get ty Coal Coal 1 Coal I am now able to supply coal in any quantity either by car or cart load Gome one see me 0 Hurt 51 8 College street Jal8 eodlw 8 Eee begs to announce hi removal to the premises No 150 Church street Block where he will be pleased to wait on his old customers and the public generally Ladies' and shoes of best quality and at lowest prices Give him a call jalO eodlw gy Upon the health of the teeth depends the purity of the breath Preserve them unblemished by the use of the famous Soz-odont that perfectly harmless vegetable preparation and yon will never regret it Jal8 New Store New Goods and Low Price Rice ft Co 46 College street second door from yniooA large stock of dry goods ami the eheapret in the city A coll from our friends and the pnbllc 1r general respectfully solicited Rice ft Co 40 College street jal4 tf oger Agent of the Lojjlf vile cinnati Short Line arrived frwai Georgia last night and leave for home this morning L- Harris County Court Clerk of Humphreys county is is the city Prof Sevier of the University of the South arrived yesterday Among the arrivals in the city yesterday were Jordan Memphis if Caldwxl' Pulaski Wad Boring Hill A Jackson Knoxville Wm Grover Co-lumbus Mis John Yf Payne Hopkinsville Ky Gen Gordon of Shelby a rived yesterday Hon antes Bailey leaves for Clarksville this morning and will be in his seat in the United Staten Senate by next Wednesday Col Anderson brother lo PaUon Anderson is in the city 1st a short time Mr Holly the well-known mechanic! engineer will attempt to hem the entire city of Lockport by steam The city Is divided into districts and each district i to have It separate boiler Maips flora each boiler are run to the different houses and all the occupant has to do is to turn a faucet and obtain $tflhc heat he wants Oaxito Or sax A fair hope they! Judge Bailey may not bavs teen the first choice of East Tennessee he will be supported by the Democracy of that part of the State Ladies and gentlemen I hope (cries of gw on I I never could speak at a funeral much" I feel that I have been dragged from I a political graveyard to make a speech si a festival Laughter and applause I believe you have done what you bel ieved to have been ur duty and that you have endeavored Hselaet whom you conceived to be the beat naan and if he is not the best man he can be made the best man by upholding him ia the contest soon to be brought on in the United States Senate I thaak you for the compliment Cries of go on) Lndiesnnd gentlemen I had five weeks experience in Oils and I am not an eight day clock that will run down ia day applause and laughter 0 1 hid you good night The Iorter Rifles who 1 presented a very The DrlfwrooO (ary A large quantity of driftwood ha- been floating down the Cutn'erUod during the past few days That as much of it as might be saved for the Knctlt onu uw of Nashville about fitly men appeared in dug outs up and dowu the river and commenced Wednesday to take it in out of the wet There were not lass ih a twenty -three in a cluster np alum the water work yesterday afternoon all bnsily engaged la picking up saw-log roils and lumber of ail descriptions A part of what is sup posed the false work ore- the bridge of the 'incinuati Southern Itulrosd at Point Isa-bel wti caught yesterday Where two men go in partnership they cau secure at nil thirty cords of wood per day so that the fifty men so employed would aggregate 1500 coniser day part in strong emotional style and was much appreciated by the audience She was excellently supported by the other sisters Minnie and Mand as well as by the toll company The play throughout held the interest ot the house and drew very frequent applause This afternoon they give the success ef the first night and in Uie evening the Rose of They deserve a crowded house on both oc- Its former color cleanses the head of all toUtaoff SolFatthe veryrea able price of 50 Cents Per Bottle The bottle hold aa ranch ae the dollar bottles of other kinds and Uie quality ia guaranteed equal in all respects to any tn use as nothing but strictly flret-claas articles enter its composition Give It trial and if it falls to satisfy you be sore to return it Jtobfic1 quarel0le7 Drag northwest corner tyr 4th auntaassat novl dad? BAND We guarantee every instance Peanut and Cattforot bags made a specialty yoqr HOME MANUKA CTIT KERB the euly HTBICTLY FltUsT-CLABM BOODlS at law prices offered In this market Order will have our personal attention OGDEN BROS iW Is ample Ume for all demands we will have from 100000 to 800000 selected eesmd-hand nla Bags which we will sell at ttttoa 5d second-hand Califor-at prices to to thur son tf overlook exhibitions of temper which trader sufferings like this are almost a- lw-.