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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27
NEW: YORK.
The Reward Of McrtI-GreeIey Gets On
Omce-Tbe greatest ntiIIRrd match
of Ghe bay.

The Reward Of Stertt-GreeIey Gets an
Omce-1he greatest billiard match
of Ghe bay.
Nkw YORK, April 2G.-The Sun in a
prominent heading AT Last has a
Washington dispatch stating that tresi-
dent Grant has appointed Hon. Horace
Greeley. and that gentleman has accept
cd the Office Of Commissioner OF the Ia
cifio Railroad The President has APP
pointed the other four commissioners for
which the resolution approved on the
10Th Of April provided, but he will not
make known their names till they ac~
cspt
Bishop SOulbgate administered the
rite OF confirmation to twenty-five cam
didatos lsst night at the Church of the
Redeemer, corner of Fourth avenue and
Fighty-sixth street
The grand billiard tournament for a
goli cue commences o-night at Irving
Hall. Randolph, Hines, Snyder, Daniels,
Dixon, Deery, Glldthwaite and Foster
will take part therein The prizes given
IN this tournament as in that Of 1868,
nv Michael Phelsn are a cue valued al
SIX hundred dollars, and one thousand
in cash to this will be added; entrance
money TOUR hundred dollars and ontirt
receipts above the cost Of hall and ad
yertis,nr The second prize will be tire,
hundred and fifty dollars and twenty
five per cent OF the nett receipts. Th
third prize will be two bundled and tiltl
dollars aud twenty per cent The lourtl
xrill ~, ,ne hundred and sixty five dollar
and ten per cent and the fifth will b
seventy dollars and five per cent Ate
to-day two games day will be played
Four players will be required to be pre-
sent at the opening of each game, SO tina
there may be no disappointment.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27
sew COUKf RULE.

Judge Smith, Of the Nashville Crimi-
nal Court, has caused the following rule
to be entered on record in his court:
Ordered by the court, that hereafter
any practicing attorney Ct this court, unN
der indictment for any crime declared IN
famous by law, shall be suspended from
practicing as such attorney IN this court
until the final disposition in his case
This is progress. Under the old
regime, forfeitures of right were declared
upon conviction and not upon ind1ct-
'naent for crime. By a little false swear
ing before grand jury. any one of the
graceless scamps who dishonor the pro-
fession at Nashville, as elsewhere, could
suspend the Nashville bar for term or
two, and thereby turn an honest pen
n.y. probabIy-Kno1UiHe Press nd
Her0IH .#. .. #... l.4 ... DR..
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27
THEcoNTEsF FOR GOVERNOR
/ The Knoxville Wing Comes
Out for Senter.
The Hero of Calf Killer Thrown
a5n Overheard.
From the Knoxville whis. April "a.
three

. fta .. aafa
In less than month the State
Republican Convention to nominate
a Governor and Superintendent of
Public Instruction, will be held at
Nashville, More than usual activity
and zeal are displayed by the friends
of the several candidates in favor
of the man of their respective
choice. This is well. Gov. Senter
and Col. Stokes are the leading as
pirants for the position. Others
are talked of, and they have their
active friends. But there can be
no question that the two gentlemen
named are far ahead of all other
candidates. Both these gentlemen
are unimpeachable members of the
Union Republican party. We have,
and we expect to have, nothing to
say in disparagement of either Of
them. The friends of Col. Stokes
have procured his name to be an
nounced in several papers, one of
them in East Tennessee, as the
candidate of those conducting
such papers. We have deemed this
hardly fair in advance of conyen-
ton. Yet it has been done, in
one instance and perhaps more, for
Gov Senter, as we'll. As an East
Tennessean, as interested in public
improvements, and as opposed TO
sectional prescription, We favor the
nomination of Gov. Senter, not that
we understand Col. Stokes to be
opposed to internal improvements
or to favor the prescription of new
corners. But we know where Gov.
Senter stands on these questions,
and we do not know Col. Stokes
position on these questions; he has
not, as yet, pronounced himself, so
far as We ere apprised He may be
all sound upon them and if so, he
owes it to himself and to the pub,
lie, to declare how he stands. Then
as an East Tennessean we are in IA
VIZ VI OONs SOHICLs I1ACCpb III bLAC
cases of Andrew johnson and Sen
ator Brownlow, Middle and West
Tennessee have had the governor
ship for a whole generation or
longer, and on that account East
Tennessee is entitled to it. Then,
moreover, we believe the untram-
meled choice of East Tennessee
would be for S.nter by large
majority. Besides all which, East
Tennessee is entitled to eonsidera-
ton on account of the overwhelm-
ing majorities which East Tennes-
see has always given for the Re-
publican party since the war. Ger
tainly these are grave considers
tons, and they add great weight to
our view of the subject
Under all these circumstances, we
hoist the name of Gov. Senter to our
column head as our choice, subject
of course and always to the decision
of the convention. If, however,
Col. Stokes should secure the nomi-
nation at the convention, we pledge
him the earnest and vigorous sup
port of the WRig. s..s
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Piles, Piles. Piles

DR- WESTERVELT'S MAGNETIC PRE-
IL psraIiOns are a specific comedy and
Never Falling Cure for Piles He has
prescribed them for the last Twenty-Five years.
and has never known them TO fail Of Curing.
even in the worst cases of Ten and Fifteen
years standing They give Immediate relief.
and effect q perfect curs in shorter time than
any other remedy. They CONTAIN NO MAR
cutie, MERCURIAL or POISONOUS Drugs.
and may be used with perfect safety BY either
Ladias or Gentlemen under any and all circum-
stances, or in any condition Of health. They
can be Sent By Mail to any part Of the
United States. 70 any person sending me IF
teen dollars. | will send the remedy. post paid.
by return Of mail, that | will warrant TO
enre the worst case Of Piles within one
month, and if in case the disease should re-
turn st any time within i've years, after using
these remedies strictly according 70 my diFec-
tons, will bind myself TO REFUND EVERY
DOLLAR PAID NE by the patient; ard in or
der to convince the most skeptical STRANGER that
this is no hunbuE. will give RELIABLE So
CURiTY. If desired for the full and faithful
performances of the contract. Address Dr. p
A. ESEEhVELT, Electric Wafer Cure, No.
IS Mulberry St.. Nashville, Tenn
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Barney Aaron, the pugilist, has issued
challenge to fghtany man in the world,
white or Black, at 10 p0unds, for 5 300
a side.
A farmer in Washington Territory
brags of having eaten bread from Hour
made of wheat sown only four months
before.
A. J.'s property is valued at only S75,s
600. The Gift Enterprise has already
produced three times that sum for his
successor.
The agent Of the Lyman Miles at
Holyoke, Mass, has compelled all the
operatives, about 200 in number, to be
vaccinated. ta
In an address at Limerick, Father
Shanahan said, "If harboring the senti-
ment of ireland for the Irish makes a
Fenian, am one"
Ste edman remains in New Orleans,
with no apparent intention of putting
himself within reach of the ferOciOus
Spanish tigers in Cuba.
An artificial sponge made by filling
India rubber, in fluid state, with bub-
bies of gas, and allowing it to harden,
has just been introduced. titia'33
General De Moltke, of the Prussian
army, had the present of magnificent
sword from the king last month, at the
end of fifty years service. 3r. ~
There are reports in England that Mr..
Disraeli will be raised to the peerage at
the close of the Parliamentary session,
under the title of Viscount BeacOnsfield.
A large band of Gipsies, with new
and costly wagons, eight fine horses, and
women, children and dogs, have gone
into camp in the suburbs of Hudson,
Columbia county, New York.
A grand one-mile velocipede race 70
one thousand dollars and the champion
ship is to come off in New York
Brooklyn on the 23d OF June next, be
tween Frederick Hanlon and Frank
Swift.
That inveterate old scalawag, Joe
Brown, now Chief justice Of Georgia, has
volunteered the unnecessary information
that he is not candidate for appoint
ment to the Supreme Court of the United
States. y
The President has decided that he will
give the Brazilian mission to Missouri,
and it has been rendered to ex>Congr ess-
man Blow, ee-St. Louis, whose accepts
ance is awaited. Should he decline it
will probably be given to Mr.. Hitchcock,
a lawyer of that city. .a.
An owa paper records the escape of
a prisoner thus: The constable and
prisoner disagreed as TO which was the
best route and as the prisoner has not
been heard from since, it is supposed he
took the wrong route" p.
John A. Poindexter, one Of the most
prominent ex-Confederates in North
Missouri, died at his residence near
Cairo, in that State, on the 18th Inst.
lie was a brave and honorable soldier in
war, and a peaceful, industrious and
public spirited citizen in peace.
Judge Jas. c.. Taylor, an independent
candidate for the office Of Attorney Cen
eral in Virginia, says in an address to
the people: :" am a supporter Of the
present administration of the National
Government so far as am able to under
stand it."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27
GREAT MUsICAL FESTIVAL.

Peace has its trophies as well as war,
and among them may be classed the
great peace musical festival to be held in
Boston on the 18th, 10th and 18th Of
June, 1869. An amphitheatre is in
course of erection, capable Of accom-
modating fifty thousand persons, an in.
Vulnerable quantity of artists are en-
gagged, and preparations on a gigan-
tic scale are contemplated to give eclat
To the occasion. DodWOrth's and Graifu-
las celebrated bands from New York,
comprising more than one hundred in
struments, will be united with organiza-
tons from other places, and form such a
combination as has never been heard in
this country. There will also be press
emit number Of the most distinguished
performers and Vocahsts from Philadel-
phia, Chicago, St Louis and other
prominent points in the country THE
Anvil Chorus will be performed by a
hundred operators, who are now being
drilled in the exercises; and, to crown
ali for thrilling effect and sublimity, the
national airs of our country will be
symphonied by salvos of artillery dis
charged by electricity at the wave of the
baton of the conductor The occasion
will be one of great interest, and Boston
NAV prepare Tor a vast addition to its
ponulation on the days named. hd l
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27
HORRIBLE DEATH-A DRUNKARD
ON FIRE.

About midnight on Sunday, the 18th
inst, the people of the village of Ram
bow, near New Haven, Connecticut, were
awakened by the cry of fire, which
proved to be caused by the burning of
two. story frame house, owned by John
Darwin, and occupied by him as liquor
saloon, which was completely destroyed.
Those neighbOrs first on the spot foend
Darwin lying on the ground so badly
burned as to be nearly insensible. he
was conveyed to neighbOring house,
but died in great agony before morning.
Il appears that the unfortunate man, as
soon as he had discovered the fire, ran
out of the house, but subsC quently re-
turned to save his FIVE sleeping children.
He was badly intoxicated at the time,
and entering the burning building the
flames struck him in the face, and immen
diately, owing to the amount OF liquor
he had drank, set FIRE to the inside OF has
throat and stomach, burning up has
tongue, so that when he was found that
organ was q mere crisp. The children
were saved by the neighbOrs, one OF them
badly scorched. The eldest boy says
general carousal had been going on IN
the saloon, and while some one intoxl-
Gated was drawing liquor ne probably
set fire to an old feather bed near the
barrel Everything in the house was
burned. and ths,children are thus left
orphans and unprovided for.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27

The Prince Imperial has received the
relies of Napoleon the First, which his
aunt Bacciochi had collected and be-
queathed to him in her will. Among
them is u gray overcoat worn by Napo-
leon atSt Helena; a fowling piece which
he used in hanting; the tri-col0red sash
which Napoleon put on upon visiting the
plague stricken patients at Jatfa; the
spurs which he wore ut the battle OF the
Pyramids; many snuif-boxes, among
them the one which Louis the Eighteenth
forgot at the Tuileries upon escaping
from Paris after NapOleon's return from
Elba, and which MAJ o,6on put into his
pocket and constantly used afterWard
and great many books eontaiDi1gau'
tograph notes by the first Emperor.
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A lively gathering of the friends Of
Hon. NJ. NJ. BIieu, candidate for Chan
cellOr, was held at the head Of the market
place last night. Alfred Menifee, colored,
was made chairman of the meeting and
a colored man named Knowles appointed
secretary. 1t was expected that Judge
Brieu woald address the meeting, bat an
agreement having been made between
Messrs. East and Brien not 10 speak
during the campaign, the Judge was not
present. AS some compensation for this
disappointment the leading speech vas
made by Mr.. Embry, OF broom straw fame.
He spoke in highly eloqent but some.
what exhaustive strain, finally breaking
down in painful fit of superb hoarseness.
He said enough, however, to satisfy his
hearers that be was luool dyed Republican
and for Judge Brien, because the latter
had been a staunch Republican for at least
twenty years. At the close Of Enjoys
tremendous effort, there we're loud and pro
Ionged calls for Rsxford, new candidate
for the CHARACTERISTIC, but that person
not responding to the call, Secretary
Knowles took the stand and spoke
a piece in behalf of the Brien inter
est. lHe was followed BY George Bar
tee and Randall Brown, both of whom ex
pressed themselves in favor Of The election
of Judge Brien. In the course Of his re-
marks, Commissioner Brown look oecs-
sion to defend his own Republication,
which somebody had called in question
and forgetting the CHARACTERISTIC for the
moment, devoted most Of his speech los
defense Of his official record. he
also took occasion TO make
few heavy digs at the City Council ring
and their miscellaneous expenditure Of
the public money. John Cockrill and
other distinguished speakers were e1-
pected to address the meeting, but abe
Ialeness Of the hour deprived us the pleas
ure of bearing them.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27

The oldest house in the United States
retaining its original form is to be found
in Neponset, Massachusetts,. 1t was
built by John Minot about the year l64O,
and 10 still in good repair. The MnOt
family still hold possession of it In
1910 it was attacked by three Indians
during the absence Of the male portion
of the family A female servant and
several children were in the house. The
girl hastily barricaded the door, and
seized Il loaded gun. The first Indian at.
tempted entrance by an open window
but was met by shovel Of burning Goals
from the soplace, which was thrown IN
his face by the girl Another savage who
appeared at the window was shot dead
the survivors beat hasty retreat.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27
THECOMING WHEAT CROP ON IHE
PACIFIC SLOPE.

The San Francisco Commercial Her
aid of the 10Th inst. reviews the pros
poets of the coming wheat crop of the
Pacific slope, and closes as follows
The area sown to wheat is very mu;h
larger than ever. 1t is estimated that
the growing crop will yield over 1000 b"
600 centals for export while Oregon
promises to increase the volume by 3
600 600 centals more. An interior con-
temporary has the hardihood to predict
that there will not be halfa crop. Upon
what ground this piece of ratiocination
is formed does not appear. Every time
that journal foretold drought, it ralned;
when it prophesied rise in price, wheat
and -four declined in al. markets. Per-
haps we shall be told that the season
has been too wet; that the wheat is
going to rot; that it will all run TO stalk
without heads; but all such apprehen>
SONS are not shared by the farmers,
whose only anxiety now IS where to Ind
a market. Our receipts Of breadstufls
for the first nine months Of the current
harvest year have been, when reduced
to a wheat basis, 100000 centals,
against 100000 for same period last
year. For the first quarter Of 1869 the
shipments have been 1860 centsls;
1881, $50 during the same period OF
1868, showing gain Of l34, 47O centals,
but the prices realized have been much
smaller. During the past three months
our shipments Of breadstuffs to New
York have fallen off 274,57 barrels OF
flour and gained G,S32 centals of wheat,
as compared with the first three months
Of last year. To England we have sent
90 4OS barrels of flour less, and 1881
centals of wheat more. To China we
sent 1902 barrels Of flour more, and
1900 centals of wheat less. Rio de
Janeiro has taken 1896 barrels Of
-four more than in the first quarter O.
1868. Oar exports of breadstufis to this
port have been materially modified.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27

INDICTED FOR WITCHCRAFT.-Ihe Eas:
ton md Star says ave understand
that at the present session Of the Circuit
Court for Caroline county, Maryland, the
grand Jury indicted a woman for witch"
Craft The witch is negress, and the
trial no doubt will be an interesting one.
We had supposed that the days OF
witchcraft had passed away IN this
country, never to return, but the action
of a Caroline grand jury, it seems, have
revived them. The world move back
ward .'
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27
THE COTTON QUESTION.

The editor Of the Columbus Sun has
been on tour of inspection, and thus
relates his experience
"The opinion has gone abroad that the
breadth Of cotton going into the ground
this spring will far exceed that Of last
year. Is this so? We feel certain it
cannot be so. Laborers are necessary
to enable the planters to plant and
cultivate. Some have planted more
cotton to the hand, whilst many
have not. By deaths and the
retiring of women from plantation labor
the force at work on the plantations in
the cotton States is at least one sixth
less than last year. Labor in cotton
culture has been reduced from three
causes Emigration to the towns and
cities to take the places Of those that
die there, the deaths on the plantations,
and the retiring Of women from farm
labor.
Indeed, as far as the writer has been
able to learn from inquiry in number
of neighborhoOds heretofore densely pop
Mated with negro labOrers, there is a
falling oil of one-third from last year,
and seldom has he been able to find one
planter with the same number of hands
employed last year. Few, il any, have
left this section for other parts OF the
cotton States on the contrary, We ireo
| ouently hear OF letters being received
from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and
Arkansas, from negroes who have heres
tofore been induced to leave us, express
ing a desire to return, and cautionlng
those they left behini TO stay where
they are.
"Our inquiries have extended oyerEs
large portion of Georgia and Alabama
| What is true Of this section applies tC
the entire cotton growing States. Moth
ing but the free use Of fertilizers ald The
best success in cultivating the lanC
planted, can bring the yield of cotton thu
present year up to that of 1867, OF ever
up to the yield of 1865, which will be al
Of 100000, bales short Of the crop Q
| 1862
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sPRAGUE AND ABBOTT.
The Talked Of Connlct-AI Talk.

The Talked Of COnfict-AII Talk.
New YoRK, April ga Washington
dispatch says: In conversation with a
gentleman Sunday, Senator Abbott de-
clared again thai he could not see any
escape from collision unless Sprague
makes a retractiOn. "But," said the gen-
tleman, "Sprague will not suffer himself
to be struck by any man. If you ass
sault him he will shoot you "Well,
sir, let him shoot, if he gets chance,
replied Abbott. This remark is taken to
mean that if Abbott gets q blow at
Sprague there won't be any occasion for
a second.
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ODD FELLOWS.
Celebration of their FIGtieth Anni-
versaFy.


Celebration of their FIGtieth Anni-
versaFy.
PHILADELPHIA, April 26-The whole
city is decorated with flags, and]the Odd
Fellows procession is very large. The
celebration commenced by singing the
anniversary hymn written by Ben. Shell.
laber, and an Grafton at the Academy OF
Music this morning AT noon a salute
was fred in tbs public square when the
grand procession began to move.
MEMPHIS, April 26.-The Odd Fellows
celebration to-day was grand affair, the
largest ever seen here. After marching
through the principal streets, the lodges
adjourned to the Opera House, where an
address was delivered by P. G. y.
Wheeler.
LOUISVILLE, April 26-Tbe semi-cen
tinenial anniversary celebration by the
Odd-FellowsR in the leading cities OF
the East and We were generally sue
cessful in every particular. The pro-
eessions were large and imposing
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27

SPIRITS VS.. WATER-The oldest IN
babitaht' has been reading a series OF
articles on the adulteration of liquors,
and has arrived at a somewhat singular
conclusion. The analysis of those
liquors showed an average of about sixty
five parts of water and thirty-hve OF
spirits 'They don't give the spirits a
fair chance" said the aged bacehanal;
they'll keep on foOling with water until
IL depopulates the earth.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27
RnfHrnRT

The Knoxville Press and Herald
SAYS Senator Brownlow, after his se~
we're contest with the world, the flesh
and the devil at Washington, and all the
beasts of Ephesus, arrived at Knoxville
Saturday. We heard of no foul attempts
at assassination ON the way. The dia-
bolical wretches had been informed, some
how or other, that my son, john"
would be along, as he was. So was DIR.
Boynton, my son-iR law" So was
Mullins, with his carpet sack and
''brown cotton umberill," looking for all
the world as if he was in quest of the
shadow Of agreat rock in a weary
land - .... 10
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27
mURFREksBoRO PIC MIC in
Pr,.,dent Johnson Invited.

Xxx Prestdeot SOnnson snStseu.
A number Of the most prominent citizens
of Murfreesboro, have addressed an invi-
,ation to ex.President johnson, requesting
him 10 attend the grand pic mic at that
city, on Saturday, May |, 1859. And We
learn from those intimately associated
with President johnson, that be viii aC-
cent the invitation.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27
INCIDENT AND ACCIDENT.

New YORK, April ga private letter
states that on the LIST inst the schooner
Ellen NJ. Pennell, of Machias, Maine,
while in British waters, off the Great
Bahama Island, was fired at and brought
to by Spanish war vessel, and her pa
pers and cargo examined. Finding the
Pennell had nothing oontraband aboard,
the Spaniards permitted her to proceed
on her voyage without further molesta-
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-27

TIE nutmeg tree, it is reported, is
found growing in the Sierra Nevada range
in California. The San Mateo Ual)
Gazette says that some years ago nut
megs equal in strength and flavor to those
of the East Indies, were plueked on the
head waters of the Feather river, Placer
county. The tree, it is reported, resembles
certain species OF pine. In the early
times of California, nutmegs were gath
cred in Placer county, and sold in small
quantities.