The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 4

THE GENERAL AsSKHBIiY SELLDIO AT COST FOE State by the zaaBtog of time roade by the State throng the. amcrr ot SieeirVBr Tdtlttfcdiiorottba In conseneaoe bf grave -tvttoirraTfrical OUR SXOEWAXHS. A Few Practical IUaatrmtiM Uwir General Caadlttea Wlbtufce Hep-. frm 8ke4y Mr MulverhiU, the honorable representative from Shelbv. has done some traveling.

KashriUe, WefaewUy, Jeb. 5, 187. W-E CRT, DJAHOTOS, TYATrrra Solid SILVEB-WARB, Will offer their Entire Stock At cost for Cash JEWBIBBS. Tor 80 Days. sc jc sjc CALL EABLY If yon want BABG ALUS, for we Mean BUSIHB3S, and are detenninedtoBedueeoar gtoek.

noli tthpeodtt de29 errors, owing to csnissions ci. DQnctnatioA. marKsin toe copy tne tabular exhibit of the Usned yesterday, is republished to-day, witn theprcwrtoala rr- The. amount of Imsiness transactor? atther Nashville Post-office, during; laayear, was mucm larger than could have been Jim aairaMyebeinan general satisfaction to the, public," and very few. if anvrcomblaiaia have been made.

Thefollowmff table shows what was don mum omoe uunug ion Jan. 90 Newspaper Postage .1,730 89 1,412 00 Fostage Stamps sola 49,572 59 Dne Postage collected on de- -livery of Letters SIT Waste Paper Bold S3 00 Miscellaneous 150 00 Total Postal Eevenne collected during year $56,991 49 DBA IT DEFARTltENT, Collected on Department Drafts Bent to this office for collection ilnrine $2,871 12 RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT Cash remitted from other offices, tueir quarterly balances $12,19 17 fcONET ORDER DEPAttrJtENT. Cash on handJan. 1,609 87 Domestic money orders Issued fiCS, amonntlnff to 111,849 SO British money orders issued 171, amounting to 2501 00" SwIbs money orders Issued 46, amounting to 1,393 00 German money orders issued 24, amounting to 57S 00 Amount of money order fundi) received from other officers 251,883.60 Total money order $370,124 46 Total cash receipts from all sources during the 24 DlSBUnSEjtEKTS. The above named sum has been disbursed as follows Puld 10,780 money orders drawn on this office.

$274,421 60 Repaid money orders drawn by this 731 93 Paid foreign orders drawn on this office 290 85 Paid expenses connected with Money Order Department SOG 49 Remitted to Cincinnati and New York for payment of money orders drawn on these offices throughout the country. 89,425 00 Paid mall contractors, mall messengers, letter carriers, employes and office expenses 72 Balance on hand Dec. 31, T2 5,474 40 $442,700 24 LETTER CAHBIEBS DEPARTMENT. The following Is a recapitulation ju the Carriers' Department during the yean Number of carriers emoloycd 9 Mail letters delivered. .927,443 Localletters i 55,314 Newspapers 326,474 Newspapers collected: 23,019 Letters collected 405,003 The following is the comparative state ment: THE SOUTHERN CARRIAGE FACTORY.

ESTABLISHED IX 1S52.J 49 and 51 Front Street, near Suspension Bridge, Nashville, Tenn. Hare on hand the largest stock BAROUCHES, BUGGIES, GLADSTONES, DOCTORS' PHAETONS and Express- Wagons, of their own manufacture, to he iountl in the city. All in want of any ot these articles are Invited to STINE BIRMINGHAM, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN STAPLE AND FAKY GROCERIES, Foreign and Domestic Wines and Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco, ANB GENEBAX. AGENTS FOB KeUey's Island Wine Company, Warner's Wine of Life and English Gin, AndHorgan's Celebrated Century Soap and Sapolio. NO.

33 PUBLIC SQUARE, Corner CEDAR NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. 5 -r gggs s3sl iSI--S I M'-SSS 15 a TTT 1 i 8 TTTT7. lil: I 1 I M- 0 lisi tis I I Ills I I a rt 1 5 S. 3SS 5 35 bs- IHS i ill si I like man who, boQnd bv iMfihackka rejbjs tiunata out bc right and left, strikmg Inaty blows nere jxtatBererana. sucn you propose to be.

tgkeWman who tflowa that raenraay diifer widely in opinion, and is willing, to give air play to both sides, when theques-turn is of great thia ea editor of an jcnrnall under- stana you to wining to do. so far. ai my extended, thus far in the discussion of the Question of. imnroved laws in reference to the liquor traffic in the state, tne space, occupied Jy the friends of the measure has been less than one column, while the anti men have had more than two and a half columns so that I feel sure you will not object to having your space occupied crowded, and valuable as it isjust at this time by this letter. The friends of the legislation proposed only ask to put the traffic in all kinds of liquor on the same footing with legislation on all other similar matters.

We ask neither for prohibition nor license. We say to every man who desires to do so, keep seliingliquor to your heart's content, but if damage arises therefrom, you must be responsible. Just as the laws now declare, you may own a gun, dog, cane, bnt if through fault of yours another party is damaged in life, limb or property, yon shall be responsible. The same spirit of law extended to railroads adjudges them responsible, even in case of accident; to druggists and physicians, holds them responsible for honest mistakes where they might with dne diligence have known better. The most rigid national and State laws have been enacted relative to steam vessels, captains, pilots and engineers.

What we claim is, that the present system of license allows the dealer in liquors, for a paltry sum, to become an exception to the general tenor of our laws, and we ask cut bono? What great good accrues to the State through this traffic, that it should- become the excepted favorite of our legislators? The friends of the present law urge that the traffie should be thus nursed and favored, on occounl of the revenue which it brings to the State treasury. Take the recent report of our careful and painstaking Comptroller, and you will find that the stubborn logic of figures bursts this bubble in mid air: It has been ascertained approximately by the writer, that five-eighths of the criminal prosecutions in the State arise from liquor drinking; others think six-eighths. We take the smallest figure. The whole amount of costs to the State from these prosecutions for 1872, in round numbers, was $200,000. To this should be added a part of the expenses under the heads, "Judicial Court Expenses," "State Pemtenb'ary," lunatic Asylum," aggregating in round $230,000.

Five-eighths prosecution expenses, one-third of other items mentioned, which must be below the true figure, and we have from these the sum of the two amounts 201, CG0. Whole amount of income from "tipplers" from October 1, 1871, to October 1, 1872, Leaving the tax-payers of the State to foot the tipplers' bills to the amount of $93,000, We do this for no other class of men. Why in the name oi simple justice ore we compelled to do this for the liquor dealer alone? We protest we ask a candid hearing and on impartial verdict, and equal legislation. Only two objections have reached us as coming from thoughtful men. The one is that the laws will be a dead letter on our statute books.

We reply, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan. Wisconsin and Rhode Island, have embraced in their legislation the features we auk for; the courts have decided favorably to the constitutionality and execution of the laws. As to the inability to reach the seller, we reply, Sre may fail to do so in ninety-nine cases, hut the hundredth will answer our purpose. A damage of $10, (XX) in one case out of a thousand will protect our boys from twelve to twenty-one against the tippler's arts, and close all bars to the man who it is known is liable to intoxication and riotous conduct With a bond on the tipplers, no one rill sell but responsible parties and this responsibility will prevent sale to minors and drunkards. We leave the moderate drinker to his own conscience, and protect the State and tax-payers at a point where taxation is most onerous.

The other objection which has reached us is, that the drunkard, or the man under the influence of liquor, and not the seller, ought, as matter of legal justice, to be made responsible. He is already responsible, but we claim, on the soundest principles of legislation, that the responsibility ought to attach to the vendor as well as the consumer. The true and first principle of all government is the right of men to combine for the object mutual protection. No man yield, by entering this compact, any right he previously possessed, for, by the law of nature, all men ore restrained from injuring their fellow. The divine expression of this law is "thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself." But as governments become advanced in civilization and complex in, their workings, this principle logically ramifies in a thousand directions, so that a man is not only restrained from directly injuring another, but also indirectly, when ordinary intelligence and care would have enabled him to expect the occurence of the injury from his act.

A dam is built across a stream; the natural result from the peculiarity of the location is damage to another, the owner of the dam is made responsible for the indirect damage done. A dealer in fire-arms places in the hands of a person known or reasonably conjectured to be insane or an idiot, a pistol, the dealer is held responsible. A dealer in fire-amis sells to a man in a rage, or who he reasonably mav suppose intends to use the pistol for purposes of muraer, tne aeaier is neia as accessory to the niurder. Now this principle extends with unerring certainty to the tippler the laws of drunkenness in this year of our Lord, 1873, are as well known to every sane man as the laws which govern the flow of water. The fact that the man who drinks to inebriation becomes thereby on insane man, is perfectly known to the dealer, let him decline to sell to such a man, or be responsible for results of the insanity he has created.

The probability that crime will be committed by a drunken man if not restrained by another, is so well known, that the dealer should be held bound to restrain the man. who he has made drunk, or bear the responsibility of his wrong doings. I am willing in any arena where logic and precedent are to govern the discussion, to moke good the equality, justice and republicanism of the principle we here assert. I have been more succinct than the nature of the question and its importance allow, but I know that it would be discourteous to ask more additional space than will print the following petition which gives on out-line of the legislation proposed. Yours, D.

C. Kelley. The River. Business on the levee was ery light yesterday, till the arrival of the Tyrone, after dark. She came in, loaded down to the guards, bringing a large lot of bacon and general merchandise and 4,000 sacks of corn.

The Ella Hughes did not put in an appearance; neither did the Jno. S. Brans-ford, bnt both ore expected to arrive, beyond doubt, to-day. The heavy rain fall Monday night has caused the river to begin to rise again, and there are now five feet large oh the shoals. A Sxeajcjoatman's Alhaxac.

Commodore Rollingpin (Carter of the St Louis Times) compliments us with a copy of his Almanac for 1873 something that everybody who lives within thirty miles of a running stream ought to have. It is instructive as well as unique, from the Rollingpin coat-of-arais that adorns its front, to the genial phiz of the Commodore, as he ruminate over a shattered lamp-chimney, the last of a large number of first-rate comic woodcut illustrations. It may be had for thirty I cents and is worth double that; it mav be hod by addressing the river editor of the 1 runes, at. ixms. The Tyrone will certainly leave for Cairo at i p.

m. to-day. A Bru. to abolish the punishment of floe. ging is before the Virginia Legislature.

Sheppebd At Christ's Church. on Tuesday afternoon, 4th inst, by Bev. Graham, Mr.D. of Memphis, Tennessee, and Miss Rebecca Correy, of tms city. The Senate met at lOo'clock, mT, Speaker Laoey the 'j.

By Mr. Hugbee-fFrom citizens of War ren County relative to the temperance question. By Mr. Jiichardson Irom citizens of Bulherf ord 'Oourity in relatioh to insur-' TO MBS. POZX.

Mr. Jones offered a resolution providing for a joint committee to wait upon and inform Mrs. James'IL'Polkthat if it meet with her approval, the General Assembly will visit the tomb of her illustrious husband and also visit her on such a day as will be convenient to herself. Adopted. NEW BXLtS By Mr, Tillman To dimmish the fees of all jurors.

By Mr. Richardson To provide for the inspection of steam boilers. By Mr. Allison the benefit of agricultural fairs and associations, granting them power to issue notes or bonds. By Mr.

Coulter To amend the laws exempting certain property from taxation. By Mr. Coulter To prevent unjust and extortionate discrimination on the part of railroad companies. By Mr. Smithson Relative to acta of goaraians.

By Mr. Smithson To punish guardians or administrators for appropriating to their own use any trust fund. By Mr; Robertson iW the relief of labor, with respect to contracts between employers and employes. By Smithson To distribute unclaimed assets in certain cases. HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND BEADING.

Repealing the act passed for the benefit of agricultural societies. This act allows agricultural societies to distribute prizes. Mr. Richardson moved to amend by providing that the act be not repealed until after the 2.th of December next Not agreed to. The bill then passed by a vote of 18 to 4.

To repeal certain sections of the act to change the time of holding the courts in the First Judicial Circuit Passed. MOTION TO RECON Mr. White moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill in relation to the proceedings for the sale of land which had been bought in by the State for taxes, was passed. Agreed to. Amendments offered by Messrs.

Coulter and White, providing against land being sold for taxes more than once, and fixing the fee of the Commissioner at not more than $10 for each tract of land sold, were agreed to, and the bill as- amended was senate bills on third reading. For the benefit of married women, providing that their property shall be exempt from sale for the personal indebtedness of the husband. The Judiciary Committee recommended various charges in the wording of the bill, by which amendments the property' of the husband as well as that of the wife is exempt from sale on execution or attachment on account of debts incurred by the other previous to marrage. The amendments were adopted. A lengthy discussion was had with regard to this bill, Speaker Lacey and Messrs.

James, Richardson, Brandon, White and Smithson, making strong features in favor of its passage, and Messrs. Tillman and McCall speaking in opposition. Mr. McCall held that the passage of the bill would be a dangerous innovation upon the laws of the State. Mr.

McCall moved to moke the bill the special order for 3 o'clock to-morrow. Lost The- question being upon the bill as amended, it was passed by a vote of. IS to 5. To secure mechanic's hen upon the property of married women. Passed.

To authorize the county of Davidson to issue new bonds. Bill in lieu offered, authorizing all coun ties to issue bonds in lieu of bonds outstanding, which cannot be paid. Adopted ana passeu ou umu ruuuwg. To secure the rights of stock-breeders. Rejected.

SENATE BILLS, SECOND READING. The following Senate bills were read a second time and passed: To change the line between Hawkins and Hancock counties. To appoint special administrators in cer tain cases. Authorizing administrators de bonis non to sue former administrators. Prohibiting non-residents of the State to act as aaministraiors on estates.

To extend the jurisdiction of justices in cases oi misdemeanor. Adjourned until 10 a. m. to-morrow. House of Repretteniailvea.

-The House met at 10 o'clock. Speaker Mcliaugney in tne cnair. PETITIONS. Mr. Overton presented- a petition asking more perfect laws for protection of mechanics.

Mr. Trousdale presented a petition from citizens of Sumner County, asking more stringent liquor laws. Several other petitions on the some sub ject were presentetu By Mr. Lindsley In behalf of John B. Hill, Nathan Greer, W.

G. Smith, W. M. C. Greer and Wm.

Greer, securities for Geo. Greer, State Revenue Collector for 18C5 The petition aiserts that Geo. Greer owes the State 2,750, and is insolvent, and they ask to be allowed to settle tne same in State bonds. NEW BILLS. The following new bills were introduced: By Mr.

On To amend section 32 of the Code. By Mr. Overton To amend section 198G of the Code, giving the journeyman me chanic a lien lor worn done. Bv Mr. Overton To amend the mechan ics' lien law and to further protect the ar tisan.

By Mr. Denny Declaratory of the jurisdiction of County Courts, giving the same concurrent jurisdiction with and Circuit Courts to sell real estate of dece dents, and for distribution or partition. By Mr. West To provide for having public roads worked. By Mr.

J. R. Bond Relatinp to land ti tles. By Mr. Kerr To authorize the people to call a Constitutional Convention.

Mr. Kerr's bill differs from the bill of Mr. Lindsley, now pending before the Houre, mainly in dates, the latter providing for the submission of the question to a vote of the people, and the election of delegates, in November, 1874, and the assembling of the convention in the following December, while the former provides for the vote on the question of a convention, and election of delegates, in May next, and the assembling of the convention in the following June. By Mr. Snyder To regidste the power of Chancery Courts in regard to the charters of municipal corporations, and prescribing the powers of said corporations.

This bill covers some very important ground in regard-to the powers of municipal corporations, and remedies the existing difiiculty in regard to how far Chancery Courts con alter or existing charters, HOUSB JOINT RESOLUTION. By Mr. Cummins Opposing the purchase of the telegraph by the United States Government, and requesting our national representatives to oppose such a measure. Lies over. By Mr.

Trousdale That the committee appointed to look into the current expenses of (he State officers, be further instructed to compare the expenses or lotz witn those of others of the past seven years. Adopted. Providing for ft convention to elect a Register of Lands for the Eastern Division of the Adopted. By. Mr.

Trousdale To require the Judiciary (Committee, acting under House resolution No. 48, to furtherinquire and report whether any, and if any, how many bonds were loaned to each of the delinquent railroads since May 1, 186V, and under what circumstances; at what prices were the bonds sold; through rhat influences was the issuance of these bonds obtained; at what dates were they authorized to bs issued, and what were the dates of their actual issuance; which of the roads were, completed at date of sale by the Railroad Commissioners; the ability of the companies to complete such of the roads as were unfinished; what the annual profit or loss to the mittee on Public Grounds, aftd1 nbtie Buildings to mveatigato and report the amount. that has been erperwled on the Cap-tol undVand, whether or1 riot the work cannot now be suspended with" Advantage to theStat-i Lias over, SENATE JOINT To have the report of tt Sunermtendent of the Hospital for thelnaaneprtoteA The blank wasfiUed with 3,900 copies for the' House. 1 THE CENTENNIAL QUZSTlbki. which was the special order, for 11 o'clock was, on motion of Mr.

Kerr, postponed tffl Tuesday, 25th February. SENATE BILLS ON FTB8T BEADBtQ To repeal all acts requiring enrolled causes. Passed. HOUSE BILLS ON THTBD BEADDIO. To fix the fees for taking depositions.

Passed. Motion entered to reconsider. To have the record books of theLand Office at Knoxville indexed. To change the lino between Putnam and Smith counties. Passed To change the line between the counties of Campbell and Scott Passed.

'lo change tne tune of holding the Criminal Court of Williamson County. Passed. To provide, for the appointment of a Deputy County Snrveyor. Passed. HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND READING.

To amend an act creating County Courts. Tabled. To change the line between the counties of Cumberland, Boone and Morgan. To repeal an act ao far as it fixes the time of holding the Chancery Court of the Sixth Division. To amend section 558! of the Code, and for other purposes.

Introduced as a bill in lieu, by Mr. Cumznings. Passed. SENATE BILL ON SECOND BEADING. Repealing an act concerriihg seining in Stewart Passed.

Adjourned till 10 a. m. to-morrow. TfceCeaita Supbeme Court. The case of Pool and Mohoffey, for murder in Robertson County, occupied one section.

The other is still engaged on the case of Smith County vs. the Tennessee and Pacific Boad. Criminal Codbt. The testimony in the cose of Young Alexander, charged with the murder of Stewart has not yet -been -concluded. There is still very little diminution of the interest manifested in it on the first day of the trial.

Zebras. The following prisoners arrived yesterday: T. A Smith, white, from Shelby, horse stealing, five years. From Madison, W. J.

Lyon, white, murder in the second degree, ten years; Jim Plunket, colored, assault with intent to kill, three years; Wash Connolly, colored, three charges, mayhem, house breaking and grand larceny, twenty-five years in all. Broncht Here from Syringfield. Hiram Pool and C. J. Mahaffey, charged with murder, were brought here from Springfield yesterday, and committed for trial before the Supreme Court, to which they took an appeal.

EAST TENNESSEE. The Watkins Troupe played in Knoxville Friday and Saturday nights, 0. J. Bacon, formerly an attorney of Jonesboro, has left for parts unknown, and left his wife and children in Chattanooga in' distress. All the railroads entering Chattanooga will make important changes in their schedules about the 7th of this month.

The dwelling, house occupied by Mr. Ross Andes, near the Chalybeate Spring, Washington County, was entirely destroyed by fire, with all its contents, a short time since. In Chattanooga Saturday morning, a little colored girl, the daughter of Mrs. inn man, was burned to death. She was alone in the house, and her clothes caught from an open fire.

She ran out doors, which only mode the flames bum the fiercer, and before assistance could reach her she was fatally burned. The Athens Post, Sweetwater Enterprise and Jonesboro Flag have been considerably reduced in size. Hard times will tell. The "West Chattanooga Literary Society" has been organized in Chattanooga. Rebecca Humphries, the woman who was charged with infanticide, and committed last summer, in Knoxville, was, on Friday.

lound guilty and sentenced to six years 1m prisonment in the penitentiary. The Cumberland Presbyterians of East lennessee are seeding to place JUCliee uoiiege on a secure foundation. WEST TENNESSEE. Bv tba explosion of a coal oil lamp Satur day night, Mrs. Martha, of Memphis, was burned to death.

Stephen Autrey, living near Oak Grove, in Decatur County, committed suicide on lost Saturday by hanging himself. "Uncle Sam" is to be produced at the Memphis Theater this week. Father Burke has been in Memphis over a week. It was expected that he would preach or lecture there. The state of his health, however, will not permit it His physician at New Orleans told him emphatically that he would have to forego la boring until he should entirely recover from his indisposition.

The Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Jackson, has engaged the pastoral services of Rev. Stanford G. Burney, formerly of the University of Mississippi. "Fatty" McGinnis, one of the worst of the chrome roughs or Memphis, has been incarcerated in the penitentiary for a two years term. At North Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

last week, a man who was cleaning snow off a live-story warehouse, slipped and fell, feet foremost, into a snow-bank below, escaping with a severe shake and a few bruises. It is suggested that, in view of the complexion assumed bv the Credit Mobilier. in vestigation, the Chaplain of the Senate, next Sabbath, preach from the text: "And they an with one consent began to mase excuse. NEW ADVEEHSEMENTS BLACK ALPACAS BLACK GRO-GRAIN SILKS! JOHN GLLGAN CO. Invite attention to their Silk-Finished Alpacas Black Gro-Grain Silks, lia Church Street, Between Summer and High Ste.

fetttttbp THE CITY. New AdrertWinent. Prewitt, Spun- A Co, have a card on our first page, in which they advertise a fall stock of cedar-ware, oak well bnckets and ash churns, beside largo supply of" the finest dreosed lumber. Their saleft-rooni is at 21 South Market Street Arringtoa, Farrar Weakley offer six lot in Payne's addition to Edgefield, at great bargains. A fine stallion is advertised for sale.

John Vogel offers a fine new Hall's safe for sale. Teatman, Shields Co's book sales con-, tinne every evening this week. Jail Statistic. Eighty prisoners were furnished quarters at the Pattersonian Ee treat daring last month. Of this number twenty-four were discharged, and fire sent to the penitentiary.

On the first instant there remained on hand tdxteen whites and thirty-five blacks. Included in this number were four females. There are now fifty-six prisoners in jaiL Indicted. Tom Watkins, colored, was indicted yesterday, for stealing cotton. Watkins was a teamster of one of the transfer wagons.

"While on his way to and from the depots with a load of cotton, he employed a boy to take out about five pounds of cotton from the sample hole in each bale and had it sold to the junk stores. Scaaal Paod Apportionment. The following is the school fund apportionment for the month of January: First District 7,533 00, 2nd $492 30, 244 80, 4th $405 0Q, 5th $365 40, Cth $259 20, 7th $306 00, 8th $332 10, flth $3G4 0, 10th $9C 40, 11th $409 50, 12th $232 20, 13th $1,503 00, 14th 342 90, 15th $284 40, IGth $113 40, 17th $1,085 40, 18th $536 40, 19th $21G 90, 20th $523 80, 21st $243 DO, 22nd $224 10, 23rd $337 50, 24th $240 30, 25th $280 80, 2fith $90 00. Total $18,044 10. Fifth apportionment, rate per scholar 90 cents.

Pittsburg- Thief Arretted. Detective Larry Byan received a dispatch from the City Marshal of Bowling Green, directing him to arrest a man named John Kolen, alias McGeary, who had robbed two rooms of the Bitter Hotel at that placo of a lot of clothing. Detective Byan came upon him on South Cherry Street with one of the stolen coats and a pair of pantaloons upon his person. A fine "beaver overcoat which he had left at the Depot Hotel was also recovered. Nolen confessed the crime, said he hailed from Pittsburgh, and had been running as a brakeman on the Louisville and Nashville He was committed to await a requisition from the Governor of Kentucky.

Amusements. There is a total absence of amusements here for this week. Next week, however, is to make ample amends in behalf of the amusement lovers of Nashville. The dashing, mirth-making, fascinating Lydia Thompson, with her famous troupe of burleaqners, will open at the Opera House next Wednesday evening, and remain for two evenings only. On Wednesday evening will be presented Blue Beard, with a full cast of characters and all the gorgeous paraphernalia incident to this superbly ridiculous and extravagant burlesque.

Thurday evening we are to be treated to Kenilwortn, a most successful stage travesty upon the familiar romance of Walter Scott. In this Lydia assumes the role of Leicester, Harry Becket that of good queen Bess, the charming Weathersby that of Amy Bobsart, and Edovin appears as Var-ney. Two Rubinstein concerts are also arranged for at Masonic Hall, on the evenings of the 13th and 14th. These musical entertainments are spoken off very highly by the press. SIDEWALK.

NOTES. From January 10 to February 4 Railroad Collector Knight was paid Only five delinquents put in an appear ance before the Becerder yesterday. Temperance speeches and sermons are now all the go. A large railroad boarding house is to be erected at Decatur. With Che moderation of the weather the demand for coal has greatly diminished.

F. C. Maury is to erect ten cottages in cviA uciu tut owu on uia cauutu wui permit. iaucn improvements are in great demand. The scavenger force was out yesterday uitempuug 10 maau we streets a wue more passable.

Roil road Collector Patterson colli ec ted $1,250 on the tax list of 1871 during January- Our neighbors across the river are talk ing of having a fire engine. Nashville wants a fire alarm telegraph and must have it. The improvement of the office of the St Louis and Southeastern Boad, corner of Locust and College streets has been com- lietecL The present municipal administration are evidently not in favor or sidewalk improvements. If they are tjiey never have shown a great deal of enthusiasm on that subject During the recent cold snap, a poor woman and child, in West IS asnville, were compelled to lay abed to keep from freez ing to death. Good Samaritans hearing of cer destitution ameliorated ner condition.

Host of the juvenile iron thieves, who peregrinated the city in nearcn of everything on which they could lay their hands, have been committed for trial before the Criminal Court The city fathers of Edgefield are really in earnest about tne roacauimizanon of tne streets of that burg, and it will not be long ere we will see not only tnat but side-walk improvements. Edgefield is to have a committee on The immense amount of gas gotten off semi-monthly by its municipal papas is not enough for it it don't light np the streets nor illumine the houses. -The average depth of the mud in West Nashville is twelve inches. Little feet, carrying a weight of from 100 to 150 pounds dare not venture out, for fear of being lost in the mud beyond recovery. Edgefield mnd has such an affection for the pedestrians in that town that it insists upon accompanying their cones togas everywhere they go.

Bootsellers consequently rejoice. Cal Wagner's Juveniles give an entertainment at McClure's Hall to-morrow night, after which they give a grand ball Little folks and large will find any quantity of fun by patronizing this famous combination. The slushy weather has caused a change of fashions in Edgefield. Black hose is now all the rage. Dinah rejoices in the ohang and has accordingly dispensed wifh that article as a matter of economy.

A young man named Samuel Brantly, attempted to cut a block of wood with a hatchet in Edgefield, a day or two since. The consequences was, that he parted with a finger. Samuel has concluded to bury the hatchet The distillery building on South Summer Street is not to be rebuilt The "extra hazardous" insurance on the residences in that neighborhood will not permit it Besides the owner cannot afford to exchange $11,000 in cash for insurance. It is a losing business. A discussion relative to the geographical position of the various territories was had opposite Link's Hotel yesterday, terminating with general dissatisfaction to all parties.

The momentous geographical question arose from a dispute as to whether the hind quarters of a certain animal, hanging in front of that establishment, were those of a bear or buffalo, and as to where they most used in the great West This attempt at investigation was as hopeless as the County Court in one of its parliamentary entanglements There are, perbp few cities' in the United-States of any note he has not visited and whose sidewalks he has jiot pressed, 'ai limited cxtentpflntn' ma number 7 pumps, but never was there a cityju all his experience harder for a stranger to get over than Nashville. A Banner man happened into the private office of Postmaster Prosser, the other day, when Shelby's representative was favoring -that -gentleman and a few. friends with a satirical description of his perambulations when he first attempted to make the acquaintance of the City of, on his arrival here from Memphis. Hod one of our progressive city fathers been present to have heard and admitted the justice of the criticisms of Representative Mnlverhill, his municipal pride would have deserted him, and left him humiliated, to think over the many possible accidents, the broken legs and arms, and the deaths of his constituency, that might occur in a few minutes' walk from their residences, together with the appalling amount of damages rising up inconsequence. A day or two after the Representative arrived, he made up his mind to see the Capitol by gas light While on his way up the hill his feet unaccountably became entangled with the loose bricks on the pave ment on (Jedar, near High street and down he come with the force of a mother-in-law's right arm.

Realizing the painful and undignified position to which alegislator of the great people of Tennessee had been lowered, he hastened to "lift" himself np and regained his feet Being somewhat of a Btranger to the place, and as it was dark) he was at first thoroughly convinced, from the bruizes he had received, that he had strayed from the pavement" and fallen among a lot of loose stones, but ne was mistaicen. a lew nights after that ho determined to help his digestion by taking a short "stroll ont from ma notet ne wauced some distance on pretty smooth sidewalks when, all of a sud den, he took a preciptious step and was thrown headlong upon his hands and knees at the some time involuntarially dispensing with a choice Havana, from which he had just began to draw real comfort Having examined nis peaai extremities to see whether they were still on, he got up in a regular Eip Van Winkle sort of style and limped back to his hotel from which he concluded not to venture out alter dart, until he should become little more famil iar with the sidewalks, if such some of them could be called. As well as we are acquainted with most of the thoroughfares we would not venture to along some of the shams without nrst navmg insured our- iiie. There is no end to the uneven surfaces, toe-smashing bricks and rocks, which jut up here and thereandeverywherethroughoutthecity. In the heart of the city pedestrians have to go over the sidewalks very little better than the slushy streets.

In many instances the streets are by far the safest. As for the suburbs, tnere are not even pretentions to sidewalks, and the mud is intolerable. It is time the City Council was waking up to tne importance or smewaucs, tnat tney may be constructed, during tne summer, throughout the city. The Centennial Commission. At the late meeting of the Board of Commissioners and Corporators of Tennessee lor tne international ol 187G, it was ordered that the following executive committees for Middle and West Ten nessee, be appointed: Also, it was ordered that the next meeting of the Board shall be held at the Capitol in Nashville, on the 20th day of Febrn ary next, at 12 and that the members or mesa several committees oe earnestly invited to attend at that time.

A full and prompt attendance is requested. Also, it was ordered that the Chairman, Hon. Thomas H. Coldwell, and the Secre tary, Colonel W. F.

Prosser, shall be ex omcio unairman and secretary or tne Committee for the State: EXECUTIVE COinHTTEE FOB EAST TENNESSEE. Chairman, C. W. Charlton; William B. Carter, Elizabethtown; James Wright, Whifcesburg; James II.

Hasson, Jonesboro: Andrew Johnson, Greeneville; John Has son, Kogersville; ranK lay lor, xCusseUvilIe; Sam. N. Favee, Mossy Creek; Richard M. Wilson. Bockford; John T.

Wilder, Bock- ford; Thomas Lenoir, Sweetwater; J. Nixon Vandyke, Athens: J. L. Rhat Cleveland: C. H.

Chamberlain, Chattanooga; David Richards, Knoxville; A E. Jackson, Jones- boro; Henry Erwin, Battle Creek; W. W. Woodruff, 0. P.

Temple, Knoxville; C. W. Bradley. Jonesboro? E. A.

James, H. N. Snyder, Chattanooga; Isaac King, Union; i. iowe, (jnattanooga; w. T.

Gleason, Greeneville. "XKCrriVR COMMITTEE MIDDLE TENNESSEE. Chairman, A. S. Colyar, T.

H. French, Wm. Stock ell, S. D. Morgan, Nashville: Asi Faulkner, McMiunville; Levi H.

Goodrich, Waverly; F. H. Trocoy, Clarks- ville; Orollatin; A. U. liandis, Nashville; A Cox, Pulaski: Frank Hardi- man, Franklin; Geo.

T. Lewis, McMinn- ville; J. At bafforu, Lebanon; no. P. Mnrray, Ghunesboro; Jno.

Frierson, Nashville; W. Y. Elliott, Murf reesboro; A T. Lollard, Lillord's Mills; J. B.

Jenp, Nashville; Henry Yeatman, Colombia; J. B. Killebrew, Clarksville; Samuel Watson, Nashville; John P. Stute, Shelbyville. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOB WEST TENNESSEE.

Chairman, Wm. R. Moore, James Bossa, M. Burke, W. N.

Ferris, Benj. F. Fenton, John Cubbins, B. F. Gross, Amos Woodruff, Memphis; Robert B.

Hunt, Jackson; Alfred Stephens, Dyersburg; Charles H. Gibbs, Union City; Rob't Quinn, Galway; PitzerMiller, Bollivar; Northcross, Trenton; H. A. Bradford, Brownsville; W. H.

Stephens, A J. Keller, Memphis; W. W. Lea, Fulton; BoVt Foster, Brownsville; J. B.

Bingham; Nashville; Wm. M. Farring-ton, F. A Tyler, L. J.

DuPre, A. J. Keller, Jas. Fentress, B. J.

Morgan, Memphis; Melton BroVn, Jackson; Jno. S. Mosby, White Boyd, Sommerviller Thos. A. Nelson, Memphis.

Personal. W. W. Durand, general agent Great Eastern Menagerie, passed through here yesterday. Will exhibit in Nashville 7th and etn or March.

To the Editor of the Banner. We regret that our old friend Dr. R. Knaffle has changed his domicile to Knoxville, and take this occasion to express our esteem for a man who was so highly respected as on eminent physician and benevolent citizen. He was educated in Vienna, Germany, and after receiving his diploma, had the rare honor to be appointed a member of the celebrated operating institution of the Emperor of Austria.

His skill and long experience saved many a life, and made him thousands of friends in this community. We have no doubt that ho -will be honored and respected wherever he goes. mos nopKins. Max sigis- mund Bosenheim, J. M.

Northman, Chas. M. Goldsmith, E. Northman, George Re- bay, M. J.

B. Jeup, Geo. Bsenstein, W. Prosser, H. E.

Winters, A. D. Otterson, Samuel C. Marshall, John Ruhm, A. Klooz, Thomas Olsen, D.

N. Peabody, Paul Hoffman. Hotel Iilcenne. To the Editor of the Banner: Will you be so kind as to give this place in your valnable paper. Being a citizen of your city and county for many years standing, I feel a deep interest in the welfare of its inhabitants.

I am now engaged in keeping a hotel for the public, and take every precaution to make my guests comfortable, in all the departments of hotel life, for which I pay a license, required by law. Now, is it right, just, or proper that our county jail should be used and converted into a hotel, and pay no license? If the County Court has any rooms in the jail building vacant, they might be rented for profit to the county. As my understanding has always been that the jail was built for criminals, and not for hotel purposes: but if bo used, in violation of law, they must also pay a license therefor. ft. RAKKliXH.

No. 105 College Street, Franklin examine their stock before boring. Jfllre and Marine. Stale Insurance Of Nashville. Capilal, Office in the Company HBuildinffy SO JVbrlA College SI.

Toftn JAimsden, 3. Johnson, Secty. tei 4thp ly Phillips, Jackson ABE NOW OFFERING VEItt" LOW TO the trade, 500 Cases Canned Tomatoes. 500 Cases Canned Peaches. 500 Cases 1 lib.

Oysters. 500 Cases 2 JAt. Oysters. STANIAK1 BRANDS. Also a fall assortment of Groceries, Liquors, Tobaccos, Etc.

PHILLIPS, JACKSON ft Ho. 42 South Market St ON MARRIAGE. gpES Wen from tlje effects of Errors anil Abuses in early lUe. Manhood restored. Impedimenta to marriage removed.

New method of treatment. New and remarkable remedies. Books and circulars sent free, iu scaled cnelopes. Addmss JJowaud Association, No. 2 Sooth Ninth Street, Philadelphia, on Institution having .1 repnUtion for honorable eondnctand professional klfl.

delfl dAW3mn4thp XrO. 1 I Worcesterehire Sauce. Bayers are cantloned to avoid the numerous counterfeits and imitations offered for sole. JOHN DUNCAN'S SONS, New York, Agents for the United States. oc9 eodly 4tlip REMOVAIj.

JOHN Iu smith7 architect, HAS REMOVED niS OFFICE TO Third National Bank Building, SonthcaPt corner of Union and College Streets. Entrance ou Colleg; Street. jaacodly CAUTION CAUTION EOKER'S BITTERS. PARTIES nsillN( TO BUY THESE CEI.E-hratcd Hittcre, and ilesirniiK of obtaining the gentiine article, are cautioned airninet the imitations and count erf eitH, offered In the American markets by unscrupulous hut easily recognized by the poor way Iu which they generally are put up, nud principally by their vfle taste, whilst the genuine article, though a Stomach is. very palatable awl pleasant to every refined tnstc, and has nothing of the Apothecary Shop.

Buy only of respectable liouses. L. FUKKE, Sole Agent. P. O.

Box No. 1,029. No. CO Liberty SL, N. Y.

jagSarttnthani TRUSTEE SALE. TY VIRTUE OP A DEED OF TRUST EX- oncti io me on nie 'oin uny OI tJUne, lbCfi, liy Isaac Paul, to secure certain debts mentioned in said conveyance, I will sell, at the Court-house door, in Nashville, Tenn, on tbe 22nd day of February naxt, for cash, between the honre of 11 a. x. and 1 p. the property mentioned in said trust deed, it being his borne place in South Nashville, fronting about 't-TO feet ou College and running back to Market St.

E. II. CHILDRESS, jn3Q eoflsw Trustee. COUNTY COURT SALE. A.

C. Tucker, odm'r, vs. Martha C. Tucker, et al. IN PURSUANCE OF A DECREE OF THE County Court of Davidson County, rendered at uic January term, 1873, In the above cause, I will offer at public sale, at tbe Court House door In Nashville, at 12 o'clock, JC, on Saturday, February 8, 1873, the following real estate belonging to the estate of Stephen I.

Tucker, deceased, to-wit: A certain tract of land lying In the UUi Civil District of Davidson County, near the Granny White Pike, con-tainin" aavs, and adjoining the dower of Mrs. W. C. Tucker. Terms or Sole.

Enough to realize the sum of $175, the banco on a credit of 12, and 18 nviitthn. Willi note ami good security. jalS, 26, feb 6 W. H. EWIN, Clerk.

Administrator's Notice. AVINO QUALIFIED AS ADMINISTRATOR of the estate ot Nnncr F. Dcatleiick. de ceased, all persons Indebted to said estate are requested to come forward and settle, and all parties holding claims agalnBt suid estate, arc notified to file them as required by law, or they will te barred. DANGEUFIELD DEADEKICK.

ja23 tn3t Administrator. Administrator's Notice. Tins IS TO NOTIFY ALL WHO" ARE INTER-estcd, that I have been qualified as the administrator of the estate of lico. S. Klciscr, dee'd.

All u-iii art; Indebted to the fish eatntii nn rwinnafvl to call on me, at tbe Battle House, Chnrch street, and settle" said indebtedness. All having claims against sold estate will present them property authenticated, as the law directs, or Uier trill htt for ever barred. J. HENRY KLEISElt, AdnliUstrator. CITY ITEMS.

Extensive Book sales, Yen I man, Shields every evening this week. e5 4t 1ST It is said that every extensive advertiser has to pay a very large sum for experience before he learns how to invest his money judiciously. It would be befUr to entrust the business to a responsible advertising agency, like that of George P. Bo-well No. 41 Park Bow, New York, and thus gain the benefit of experience without cost.

Contracts can be made with them as low as with; publishers direct. fe.r It Dbess Makxxq. Mrs. B. "Wright has removed to No.

120 Church Street, over Wheeler Wilson Sewing Machine Office, febl' lw Maxilla. Papeb. We have on hand a good stock of Manilla Paper, suitable for tieiug up boots, shoes, hats, etc While- man No. iSouth Market St febl lw Waggoner's Restaurant, 2IS Cedar Street regular dinner every day from 12 till 4 o'clock. lw CSUse the Charter Oak Cooking Stoves, the best in the market Try one; if not satisfactory, return the stove and get your money.

For by Buttorff No. 22 College Street at reduced prices for the next sixty days, at Dnnstead's Trunk Store, 31 North College Street He deals exclusively in Trunks, Valises, Ladies' and Genu Satchels. Trunks repaired and covered. ja2tf Botax. Havana Lottery.

$330,000 iu Gold drawn every seventeen days. Prizes cashed and information furnished. The highest rates paid for doubloons, all kinds of gold and silver, Spanish bonk bills, Government seajMefl, oto. 'Jay lor fc Bankers, No. 16 Wall Street, New York.

First of the Season. Broadway Spring Style Silk Hats, just received at Benson's, 23 Cherry Street ja31 tf. STThe purest and sweetest Cod Liver Oil in the world is Hazard Caswell's, made on the sea shore, from fresh selected livers, by Caswell, Hazard New York. It is absolutely pure and sweet Patients who have once taken it, prefer it to any other. For sale by all druggists.

ap3 wesaly Best and Oldest Family Medicine. Sanfords Liver Invigorator. A purely vegetable cathartic Bad tonic for dyspepsia, constipation, debility, sick headache, billions attacks and all derangements of liver, stomach and bowels. Askyonr druggist for it Beware of imitations. jaSeodWly Meboanttle Printing.

The Banxeji Job Boohs, connected with this office, turn out every description of mercantile and' counting-honse or railroad printing in Metropolitan style, and at the cheapest living rates. It is by odds the largest and the best stocked printing establishment in the whole section, and its work is not excelled by any printing house in the Union. We shall be thankful to our friends for their patronage, and guarantee entire satisfaction. je30 tf Neglected Coughs and Colds Few are aware of the importance of checking a Cough or "Common Cold" in its first stage; that which in the beginning vronld yield to Brown's Bronchial Troches," if neglected, often works upon the Lungs. tA tathsa lw C5T Thosfl who desire a aaoA art.iciia fn Btpre gray hair to its youthful color, we would.

recomnienar to purchase Hall vegetable Sicilian Hair Benewer. a most excel lent and valuable preparation. Sold by all Druggists, fcblsatuthltu "HTTake Ayers Cherry Pectoral to stop your Colds, Cbuglis and Bronchial Affections, before they run into Consumption that you cannot stop, feblsatuthlm 3" Chapped hands, face, rough skin, pimples, ringworms, sal rheum and other cutaneous affections cured, and the skin made soft and smooth by using the Juniper Tar Soap, madb by Caswell, Hazard New York. ap2 tufri ly Suffer no Mobe. Dr.

T. Bracking, corner Church and Summer, cures any case of Piles by a single application of medicine, No operation nqnixed. ja26su tf It will be seen by the above comparative statement or tne business ior l70-i-7, that a marked increase. in last year's busi ness is shown over the two years immediately preceding. This is an encouraging inaex also oi tne increase oi tne local commerce, daring the past three years.

The Jubilee Singers Visit CIrard College, Philadelphia. The Fisk University Jubilee Singers have been visiting (iirara College, and this is what the Philadelphia Enquirer has to say in connection with tne visit: Fisk University, Nashville, is one of the seven chartered institutions founded and fostered in the South by the American Missionary Association of New lorn. The universitv has given instruction to several thousand students, and has furnished a large number of teachers for the public scnools. ine present ana buildings have answered the demands of the last seven years, but the grounds are at present too small, and the buildings are at present only temporary frame structures, used for hospital purposes during the war. The jubilee singers are eleven in number, and composed of the students of the University.

They are traveling under the charge of Mr. George L. "White, the treasurer of the institution. Though their efforts they raised $20,000 last year, clear of all expenses, and they confidently expect to add $50,000 to the amount the present year. The sum of $20,000 will pay for the new site, which contains 25 acres, and' is beautifully located on the outskirts of the city of Nashville, and will build Jubilee Hall, the first of the permanent buildings.

The work on this hall has already been begun, and will be pushed rapidly forward. The educational work in the meanwhile. is going on in the old buildings with on in- crease ot students ana encouraging progress in all departments. Yesterday afternoon this troupe of jubi lee singers, all colored, gave a concert in the chapel of Girord College, in the pres ence of the boys, teachers and invited guests. This is a new sensation for the musical people of our city, the concert being given by colored people who only recently escaped rrom bondage.

Aitnougn diametrically op posite in style of music and words to the common operatic and classical music of the day, this is. pernaps, tne very quality wmcn gives it its attractive power. There was a weird, wailing pathos in such songs as "steal away to Jesus, ana a loyousness in such as 4tTurn back Pharaons army," and Oo down. Juoses. The voices were all well cultivated and remarkably sweet, one of the females being an excellent soprano singer.

At tne conclusion of the concert the party repaired to an adjoining building, where they partook of a collation provided by the President, Dr. Allen. The Girord College band, under Professor Bostert, performed several airs, and the jubilee singers repeated some of their popular songs, including a medley and the "Star Spangled Banner, which was sung in a superior manner. A concert will be given at the Acddemy of Music, on Friday evening, at which an address will be delivered by General! Clin ton B. Fisk, from whom the institution takes its name.

It is to be hoped that the spacious edifice will be crowded, and that rtus wormy cause wiu receive me jjbudu-age of our citizens. Committed on a Capias George Eobertson, colored, was committed on a capias yesterday, to await trial on the charge of larceny. FUNERAL NOTICE. Sunn The friends and acquaintances of the late Mrs. Margaret Smith, and of hereon, E.

B. Glascock, and son-in-law, W. Hy Smith, are invited to attend her funeral, which will take place at 10; a. m. to-day, at Elm-street Church.

Divine service by Rev. Drs. B. A. and John B.

MoFerrin. Nashville, February 5, 1873. DIED. Ross At the residence of M. Henderson, February 3, Robert Ross, aged S3 years.

Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend his funeral from the Second Preslnr terian Church this evening at 2:30 o'clock! Divine Berviceaby the Bev. Dr..