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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-26
FARM AND GARDEN.
Covering Potatoes Win straw asser
PLANTING


Covering Potatoes with Straw afteu
Planting.
A correspondents of the RuraI
World states that potatoes, after
planting, should be covered with
straw to secure a good crop, He
says it is often done in Madison
county, His, where he resides, with
good success. For covering the
potatoes with straw-~any rotten
straw win do. The ground must be
dry and high-wet, fat land won't
do--and well plowed and narrowed
poorer land should he lightly ma
nured. The burrows should be very
shallow and near together, say two
feet or less; the potatoes may be
planted in the burrows at the com
mon distance and covered very light
ly with the hoe or pillow. As soon
as the potatoes make their appear
snce above ground so that they can
be seen all along the rows, they
should be covered with straw to the
depth of about sixteen to twenty
inches, and as even as possible. He
believes that to harrow the potatoes
lightly before covering them with
straw would be beneficial Very
late potatoes might be planted
and covered a little deeper.
Nothing else has to be done then
until fall; then, of course, to dig
the potatoes, the straw has first to
be removed. Some plant their po-
tstoes in this way: When the ground
b ready for planting, they walk over |
the patch and drop the potatoes as
near together as they desire, and
step on them lightly with one foot
in walking, and then haul straw |
right away to cover the potatoes.
But he prefers the first method.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-26

A FTER AN EXPERIENCE OF FIFTEEN
"A years in the Carriage business at our old
stand, Nos l32 and I34 North Cherry
street. we are satisfied that we know the
styles of vehicles that will suit this community.
Our shops were greatly enlarged last year, and
we are now prepared to furnish not only our old
customers, but the public generally, with the
best work that can be offered for sale in this
market, and that, tso, on as reasonable terms
as can be offered by any other mandatory here
or in the East. Our work is all made of the
very best selected materials, and by the best
workmen, and warranted for one year.
All repairing done in the neatest style, and
pom the shortest notice. fet7 3m
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-26
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
COMPREHENSIVE NOTICE.

r HAVE THIS DAY ASSOCIATED WITH
me in the Drug business, Mr.. }. Bowling
Hadd0x, late of Spring Hill Maury county.
and will continue the business at the old stand.
firm name Of DORTCH & HADDOX.
Iwould return many thanks to my friendsaud
the public generally for their liberal patronage
heretofore extended to me- and will endeavor
to merit a continuance of the same to the new
firm.
All persons indebted 20 me will confer 3 favor
By coming forward and settling promptly.
Feb. 19, 1868. NAT. +. D0RTCH.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-26

STATE OF TEyNEssEE, CoNPrRoLLER's OFFICE,
nashville. Jan. l, 1858.
1, G. W. BLACKBURN, Comptroller of the
Treasury. do hereby certify that the Knicker-
boxer Life Insurance Company. located in New
York, has produced to me satisfactory evidence
that said Company has complied with all the
requirements of the laws of the State of Ten
nessee imposed on Insurance Companies; and
further certify that Isaac Litton, Agent of said
Company. has also complied with the require
ments of the laws of the State. made and pro-
vided in such cases.
Wherefore. said Knickerbocker Life Insur-
ance Company has authority to take risks and
transact the business of insurance in this
State, at Nashville, Tennessee.
q. W. BLACKBURN,
Comptroller of Tennessee.
By PLUNKEF.
feb 93w
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OTJR AGENTS..

The following gentlemen are authorized
and requested to act SIS Agents for the
UNION AND AMERICAN, and to receive and
eceipt for subscriptions and advertisements
the same.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-26
BUY AT HOME.

Doors, Blinds, inside and out, Pivot and
Stationary Stats, Frames Of every description.
Brackets, Cornices, plain and Ornamental
Boards, Flooring. Poplar and Pine csilinE
Plank. Weatherboarding. and Building Mate
rial generally. Also. Builders and Contractors
All az as low rates as can be imported Of equal
quality. Send orders. Punct1ahty and dis
patch are our business creed. Once and Fac
tory adjoining Nashville and ChattanooEa Rail
road Locomotive Shops, Cedar street, Nashville.
TURBTVTLLE q FUE.CHKR.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, l..
State of New York. City and County Of N ~. %
Be it remembered. that en- this sd day of
January In the year one thousand eight hun
bred and sixty-nine before me, the undersigned,
Edwin 4. Corey, Commissioner, resident in the
City of New York. duly commissioned and
qualified by the executive authority, and under
the laws of the State of Tennessee. to take the
of deeds, &c., to be used or
recorded therein, Personally appeared Erastus
Lyman, President, and George T. Snifin, Sec
Rotary. of the Knickerbecker Life Insurance
Company, of New York, who being by me sew
orally duly sworn, did depose and say that the
matters and things as set forth in the annexed
statement by them subscribed, were true to the
best of their knowledge and belief
IN WITNESS whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my official seal. the day and
year aforesaid. ..
EDWIN, +, COREY, Sur.
Commissioner for the State of Tennessee.
Office 81 Wall street. New York.
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" merit contlhuance OF INC saIlS " ING ne"
An persons indebted to me will confer favor
Feb. 19, 1863. NAT. +. D0RTCH.
NAT. F. DoRFcE. J. BOWLING HADBOx.
Lateof Spring Hill. Tenn.
DORTCH & HADDOX,
DRU q SITS,
Corner OF College aud Union streets,
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE,
WILL KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
w large and complete stock at Iowess casf1
prices, Of PURE DRUGS, MEDICINES.
PANTS. Oils. Varnishes. Dye Stufs. Window
GLASS. Putty, American and imported Co
Combs, Brushes and Toilet Articles generally.
in endless variety; handsome Toilet Sets. Vases
and Cigar Stands.
F. L N H. n e A ..
We claim t. have the most superior Teas ever
brought to thisn rket- Also. best Cocoa and
Cigars and Tobaecos Of the finest brands.
Fine Wines, Brandies and Liquors for Msdi-
cal use.
A large assortment of Landreth's Garden
Seed on hand.
Also, Manufacturers Of Dr. A. G.. Goodlet's
HOUCK'S VEGE "a BILE PANAOEA. for
the cure Of Coughs, Colds. COstivensss. Dys-
pepsin, Liver Complaint, Disordered Stomach,
and the best Blood Purifier manufactured.
The Panacea is prepared with great care un-
der the personal supervision Of f. E. Goodlet
an experienced druggist, and son of the late DIR.
A. G.. G0Odlet.
Read the certificate Of T. j. Wilson, of the
firm Of w. j. Wilson & Co. dealers in stoves
and tinware:
Mr.. Mar. F. DoRTcH-Dear Sir: 1 have used
DR.. Goodlets Houck's Panaeea for twenty years
and conscientiOusly believe it to be one of the
best remedies ever manufactured. have used
1t for UySDeDsin in its most ARQray ated form nm
on both myself and wife with the most gratifying
result. L regard it as O most excellent remedy
to prevent the return of ehills after they are
checked. have found it to act admirably upon
the liver. stomach and bowels, removing all OBJ
struction. For coughs and colds it Is unsur-
passed by any remedy l have ever used. In
short, regard the Panacea as the best family
medicine known. / would earnestly advise
those who are afflicted with any of the diseases
for which the Panacea is recommended to give
it trial, firmly believing that they will be ben
Gifted thereby. Yours respectfully.
fehN tlde22 TT. WILSON.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24
The Cuban Sympathixers.

The case of the Cubans and Cuban sympa-
thizers, charged with breach of the neutrality
laws in fitting out in New York an expedition
against the Spanish authority in the Antilles,
has entered new phase of legal process in
being removed from the jurisdiction of the
United States Commissioner for trial on in
dictments before the United States Circuit
Court. The United States Circuit Court served
bench warrant on the Commissioner, in obe
dience to which he terminated the investigation
before him, leaving the parties to take chance
under the new issue-that is, as many of them as
are amenable. Colonel G. P. Ryan, is not, it
appears, in this position. This gallant gentle
man when in charge of an officer ''went in"
for refreshment and-as we have had to re-
cord frequently heretofore in cases of ''re-
freshing" prisoners-disappeare or evapo-
rated, whichever may be the proper term to
apply to Irish gentlemen who are given to
levanting from the officers. The Colonel was
so fully imbued with that ''spirit of liberty"
of which the poet Moore speaks, that he deter
mined to not let it ''rest till it breathes like a
beam DER the face of the west" and conse-
quentiy ''cleared out" to give, we presume,
the slight of his look" to some other
borrowing spot"
The New York herald., 1869-06-24
The Assistant Aidermea and the Supreme

Court.
1t is an admitted principle Of our republican
system that legislative bodies are themselves
the ultimate judges of all questions relating to
their cOnstitution-that they alone shall finally
determine whether given man shall hold a
seat. Nor can we concede that it ought to be
otherwise; for it cannot be admitted that any
power outside legislature, except the people,
shall have the right to say who may be a
member and entitled to vote. To give to
any court the power to make legislators in any
emergency is to give it the power to make
laws, and this would be the defeat of the re-
publican system. Applied fully in the United
States Congress and in the State Legislatures
there is no good reason why the same princi-
pie should not equally prevail in our muni-
cipal legislature, and therefore we hope the
Board of Assistant Aldermen, acting on the
hint of Mayor Hall, will insist upon its position
in the case of McVeany. This gentleman con-
tested in the Board the seat of sitting mem
ber and failed to get it. From the Board he
carried his case to the Supreme Court, which
declared him entitled to seat and ordered
the Board to admit him. Without at all
touching the merits Of the case we think that
out of regard to its own privileges the Board
must deny the authority OF the court and still
refuse to accept the member.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

CROTON AND KERosENE-IIOw TO GET AT
HM.-The man who befouls with gas refuse
one of the sources of the Croton water is q
public enemy, and especially the enemy Of the
people Of this city, and the people have a
remedy within easy reach-one more imme-
diate and effective than even the legal remedy.
The man makes the gas to supply his hotel,
and his hotel is sustained by the people of this
city. Well, let the people go to some other
hotel. Surely every New Yorker must feel
sufficient interest in the purity of the Croton to
do this for it. II the mans hotel is left
severely alone he will not need any gas, and,
therefore, will not make and will not poison
the water
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

We understand that the steamboat Jesse
Hoyt, of the Long Branch line by way of Port
Monmouth, and the steamboat Magenta, of the
Long Branch line by way of Sandy Hook and
the Selshore Railroad. have commenced the
summer amusement Of racing The two boats
leave the city at the same hour in the after
noon ; both boats are fast, and captain, crew
and passengers generally on each are ambi-
tious to beat the other and so this summer
amusement of steamboat racing has been re-
vived with the reopening of the season.
Within the last two or three years there have
been some narrow escapes from serious acci-
dents, as we learn, by these and other summer
boats running the lower bay, and with the con-
tinuaton of this dangerous sport, from the
growing recklessness and negligence Of the
parties directly concerned, we may expect
some fine or stormy afternoon to hear of a
horrible explosion, collision, or conhagration,
that will shock the whole community. As the
pitcher, after many trips to the fountain, is
generally broken at last so steamboat, after
many races, may at last in the midst of her
sport be enveloped in sheet of fire or blown
to pieces. While this racing which we have
indicated Is continued we would suggest to
passengers, and especially to heads of fami-
lies with women and children in charge, tc
avoid this triiing with human lives, and that,
without mourning the risks of such perilou.
folly, they can reach ''the Branch" or any in
termediate point
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

PooR DAYS IN LANCASHIRE. Man
chester mill owners have petitioned the British
government to assist them with money for the
production Of cotton in India. During the pro-
gress of the American rebellion England re-
ceived cotton from ffty-one new fields other
than American, and mostly Indian. The
working of the material was vastly detrimen-
tai to the health Of the people engaged in it,
while the manufactured fabrics were Of the
coarsest and, consequently, cheapest kind. A
few days ago ship cleared at Savannah for
Liverpool with three thousand eight hundred
and thirty bales and bags Of uplands and Sea
Island staple Of the real ''old sort, valued at
over half million of dollars. This supply will
afford hope TO the British cotton men, as
it will be worth ten times the amount of the
fossy, dusty stuff received from India. Man
chester has little reason to thank Liverpool for
the Alabama, but our natural resources are
immense.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

AN OMISSION. Sumner, Butler, Wendell
Phillips and all the other Down Casters who
have been lost in the glories of the Jubilee must
buckle on their harness and come out again.
There is no equality in Georgia. There is one
very important right that the niggers down there
do not possess, and it must be given. They
have not the right to marry white wives; and
a Judge in Georgia says marriage between
black and white is nullity. Bring out the
ark and the pitcher and the lamp, and the
other utensils, and annihilate this judge at
once
The New York herald., 1869-06-24
The mo-Mascniine Element In MIassachu.
sctts still Lives.

In the early part Of March last we published
an account Of a regular prize fight between
two women in a suburb of Boston. The de-
tails of the affair were shocking to human
nature and disgusting in the extreme. II was
to be hoped that the notoriety given to the
abominsble spectacle would have so shocked
the femo- masculine element in the moral region
in which it occurred as to have deferred it
from encouraging another exhibition of the
kind But it seems that this hope was not to
be realized. BY despatch from Springfield,
Mass. received yesterday we learn that prize
fight occurred near that city, which was wit
messed by three hundred spectators, ''one-
third of whom were women"
without stopping to inquire into the charac-
ter Of the latter portion of this delectable audi
ence, we feel justified, in view of the number
of women's rights, female suffrage and other
strong minded women's conventions recently
held at the ''Hub," to put certain interpreta-
ton upon the whole dsgraceful affair. Il
affords another evidence Of the downward
tendency Of female morality In a section Of the
country that has plumed itself upon its right
eousness; that has presumed to set itself up a.
the exemplar for all that II is chaste, modest,
pure and noble in the feminine character;
that has sent missionaries among the benighted
heather for the purpose Of proffering the cup
Of grace to their lips and instiling the sent-
ments of sanity love and virtue into their
hearts; that has filed the sohoolhouses OF
the South with New England schoolmarms,
to teach the little nisgers their A, B, C's, and
to learn them for the first time who their
Maker was, as we'll as to impress upon their
delicate understanding the now well estab-
lished axiom that "a white man Is as good as
a nigger, IL he only behaves himself" Alasi
that IL should be so Alas! that the senti-
ments Of the noble-bearted matrons Of the
Revolution--of the days Of the Adamses, the
Hancocks, the Otises--should be obliged to
give way before the Attilan career Of batch
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

He HAD BETTER Nor Go AGAIN. Webb is
In a dreadful state with his disgust at the Bra
zlians, and the whole result of all his great
diplomatic efforts will be, we fear, perma-
nently sour temper-an incurable irascibilty.
Ministerial duties are bad for him, and we
recommend that he be permitted TO stay at
home four years and recover the serene
squanimity Of his earlier days.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

SOMETHING TO BE REMEMBERED That
when taxpayers urge the construction Of splen-
did public parks, grand boulevards, costly
bridges, and so on, for the improvement of a
city, and Of course of their own property, they
have no right TO complain of reasonable in
crease in taxation. 1t Is only when such i'm
provements are made corrupt jobs Of by un-
scrupulous men, and thereby causing an ex-
orbitant increase Of taxation, that these tax
payers have just reason to complain. Those
who dance must pay the fiddler.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

A CARPET-BAGGER who has fat Office in
Nashville went to shoot a resident editor who
had been sharp on him in the morning edition,
and got well pummelled instead In aping the
manners of the chivalry these arpet-baggers
are clumsy. They do the bellicose badly.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24
THE HERALD IN BROOKl YN.

Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers.
BROOKLYN CARRIERS AND NEwsNEN will in
future receive their papers at the BRANCH OFFICE
OF THE NEW YORK HERALD, No. las Fulton street,
Brooklyn.
ADVERTISEMENTS and SUBSCRIPTIONS and all
letters for the NEW YORK HERALD will be
received as above.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

BosToN has not been known to be so dull for
forty centuries as now. It is the reaction after
the awful jolity Of the Jubilee. She, like
Jacques, can suck melancholy from songs as
weazel sucks eggs, and only imagine the
amount that must have been drawn from songs
on such gigantic scale. She got q great
quantity from the "Anvil Chorus" that song
of the Sigh-clops
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

ANOTHER WAY TO SOLVE THE INDIAN
QUESTION. Emusic hath charms TO soothe
the savage breast why don't the government
engage Gilmore TO take his mastodon chorus
and orchestra among the turbulent Indians
If one blast should not have the effect Of sooth-
ing their savage breasts second would scare
them TO death, which would be happy method
Of getting rid OF them.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

GEORGIA will certainly have to go out of the
Union again, since a nigger cannot marry
white woman there aud law cannot be made
TO give him that privilege. Some of these
Southern States will soon be like the little
joker under the thimble, dodging in and out
so often that we cannot tell where Il is.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

PRINCE AND TURK chawing each other up
for three hours In the presence of six hun
dred fanciers Of that sport, all shut together in
a small room so that the noise might not pass
out nor fresh air pass in. This is a scene we
commend to the contemplation of the phloso-
piers who have the best opinions of the civii-
zatiOn of the age.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

A LITTLE TOO FAsT.-A California paper
boasts that while it's contemporaries only gave
the simple announcement of the death Of the
Pope it gave lengthy obituary Of the Pontiff.
Unfortunately for the enterprising journal
his Holiness "still lives
The New York herald., 1869-06-24
TRI PIE S II E E 7
MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS.

The DAILY HERALD Will be sent to subscribers
for one dollar month.
The postage being only thrty-fve cents a
quarter. country subscribers By this arrangement
furnished in the city.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

THE BEST REMRDY.-Five thousand more
emigrants left Liverpool last week for the
United States. All the Parliaments of the Old
World, with their best wisdom, are puzzlng
for remedies for the evils that afflict the
people, and the people in their simplicity
adopt remedy better than altogether of those
the Parliaments propose.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

PIKE COUNTY will have worse reputation
in the world than Barnegat If 1t can be
proven that men up there endeavor to throw
the Erie trains of In order 10 rob the dead and
dying. The crime Of the Barnegat pirates Of
decoying ships to the beach by showing false
lights seems infinitely less horrible than this
charged against Pike county.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

UNEAsY-The Austrian government as to
the issue of the Ecumenical Council. Its
course cannot be ''foreseen," it is said. Most
likely not in Vienna, as the Emperor is not
in the ''odor of sanctity" Just now.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

A Coop APPoTNTMEyT.-Wea are gratifed to
record the appointment of General Butterfield
as Assistant Treasurer of the United States
at New York. The Office is one Of great i'm
portance and responsibility, and the officer
chosen is thoroughly qualified to fill it. He
has the reputation of distinguished soldier
and an accomplished and intelligent civilian.
He. possesses the Jeffersonian requisites of
honesty, capabilty and fidelity, and we are
sure that in this practical test Of his fitness
for the position he will sustain our opinion of
his ability and his integrity.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

JOHN BULL says that Brother Jonathan is
very good boy for not letting naughty fellows
pepper poor old Spain, and this is just what
Jonathan did it for.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

the female, or hen conventions, are now styled
by Western paper 20 Cluckers."
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

ANxIoUs-The bondholders of the old At
lantic Telegraph Company. With respect to
the profits of the new line.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

GENERAL DULoE is in quarantine Oft San
tandar, Spain. The Cubans say that he
needed publication before be left Havana.
The New York herald., 1869-06-24

The GREATEST FLYING TRAPEzE FEAT on
REooRD-Ex- Secretary Stewards leap from
Auburn TO Sitka,