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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
RADICAL CONTRIYANCE,

The New York Tribune some time
ago became a little nauseated by an over
dose of the ''Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, and talked out plainly in an article
replying to one Henry w. Bennett, of
Davenport, Iowa, who had taken it to
task for what it had said of the thing,
saying:
''These men combine for political pur-
poses. They mean to control cOnven-
tiOns and nominate men to office. We
believe the soldier should receive abund,
ant reward. When a soldier and civilian
apply for Office, all things else being
equal, we should prefer the soldier. But
we dislike this making privileged class,
and especially we dislike this getting into
a corner and having passwords and
grips, and making an exclusive class.
Washington foresaw this when he Op-
posed the Society of the Cincinnati. He
saw in the association the first step to-
ward an aristocracy, and he declined to
ally himself with it. What Washington
said should be remembered now.
1--WE say this, and sacrifice none of the
principles defended by Mr.. Bennett. He
is, no doubt, earnest in his belief that his
work is worthy. But there are crafty,
bold, bad men who look upon these So
cieues as so many instruments for their
own advancement.
''From this Grand Army of the Repub.
lie, now parading through political con-
ventions in the West, commanded by the
captains of the caucus, the lobby and the
bar-room, we appeal to the Grand Army
of the Republic which carried our ban
ners over hundred fields under the eye
of Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. We
denounce this new secret association as
out of sympathy with the Republican
party and as inimical TO the Constitution
and the Union"
This is the organization that controls
the Radical party, ana its conventions
and nominations. Grant favors it.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02

The price of all kinds of game is rapidly
falling in Memphis, owing to the UMPIRE
cedented success of private hunting
parties who return to that city loaded with
Nimrod's spoils. 1t is said that out be-
yond the Tennessee Ridge, deer and
squirrels were never so numerous as this
year. The price is also falling in Nash
vile.
The Board of Directors of the Knox
vile and Charleston Railroad held meet
ing in Knoxville on Tuesday, and unani-
mOusly elected Maj. Thomas O'COnner,
President, and r. H. Campbell, Treas
urer. The first act of the new Board of
Directors was to reduce the expenses of
officials So, $50 per aunum, fact not
very often related now a-days of railroad
Boards.
The GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf saws
that Mr.. W. H. Bryan, of Montgomery
county, has discovered on his place a
large deposit of pipe ore, which is said to
be the oily deposit of any volume now
in the country. The ore is limonite, or
brown hematite, pipe ore, which has
hitherto been discovered only in small
quantities, and is very highly priced on
account of the superior quality of tough
iron made from il.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02

tion. The citadel of Amiens capitulated
after shert resistance, in which the
commander was killed, and four hundred
prisoners were taken. ssas'a
An Ambuscades
Tours. Dec. 1.-The department of
Cher is declared in state of siege. A
band of francs-tireurs, ambuscaded in
forests of Mont Argis, surprised Prus-
sian detachment and killed and captured
eleven.
The War I'm the West Indies.
HAVANA, Dec. 1.-The French man.
of-war, Tslisfnan, has returned to this
port short of coal. 1t is supposed she
will leave again shortly in order
to intercept German steamer from New
Orleans.
The Sanguinary Battle before Paris
YesterdaY-The French RcPulsed.
VERsAIttRs, Dec. LA lively fire was
maintained all last night from the forts
around Paris, and in the morning the
garrison made sorties at various points on
the Seine and Marine.
The Prussian positions were attacked
at II A. NJ, aud sanguinary battle took
place, in which the Wurtemburg troops
were mainly engaged by the portions of
the 18th, I'd and 4th corps. The fighting
ended with the night. The enemy were
everywhere repulsed.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
A NEMESIS ON THE WAR PATH.

A terrible murder, says the Sacramento
Bee, of the 18th inst, was committed
last week near Centreville, in this county,
by an Indian woman named Anastaba.
Some few months since, Anastaba's hus
band was killed by another Indian near
Alyio Rancho. Anastaba since that time
has been wandering about swearing ven
geance on the whole Mexican and Indian
race. On Wednesday last she seized an Ak
and rushing upon an Indian named Juan,
dashed his brains cut with it; she then
turned upon her own daughter, girl
about ten years Of age, and struck her q
blow upon the head with the axe. She
then took the child in her arms, and car
ried her about mile down on the marsh,
near the bay shore, and after splitting the
child's head wide open, she hid the body
in the grass and weeds. After this she
attempted to kill herself, by chopping off
her head with the axe. The Indian man
was found dead, and the child being
missed search was instituted, and the
body found as above described. She ad-
mits the killing and says she wants to be
hanged.
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THE FISHERIES.
Thou SfvnpfuofS..


TORONTO, Dec. The Globe this
morning, in reference 10 the New York
Tribune's remarks urging the immediate
settlement of the fishery question. saws;
we ID canada have an impression there
3 very little to settle. We already have
granted very reasonable concessions, but
cannot allow American fishermen to steal
cur nsh- American fishermen cannot
plead ignorance of our regulations, from
f1e tact that their own Government at the
commencement of the season warned
them of the existence of these regulations
and the consequences that would ensue if
they were disregarded. If a reckless
schooner or two from New England
chooses to infringe on our domain, we
can not on that account set about tinker
ing old treaties or patching up new.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
BREvITIEs AND LEvITIEs.

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dero
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t ~, pls h;1 1actaS m. wife No. Q don't
cave what ia done With him, and wife No.
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The New Orleans Times suggests the
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A Serious Practical Joke.
SAN FRANCISCO.
suing His Pastor.

SAN Francisco, Dec. 1.-THE celebrat-
ed libel suit of DR.. White against Rev
DR.. Cox, for $4,000 damages, for al
legged libel contained in charges preferred
by latter as pastor against plaintiff on
which he was dismissed from the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church resulted IN verdict
for defendant.
Chinese Going Home for Christmas
The Great Republic, for Yokohama,
to-day carried 569 passengers, all
but sixteen of whom were Chinese, going
home to spend the winter, with $500, 900
IN treasure. Her cargo is valued at only
$55, 600, including 800 barrels of -four.
Mr. Frank Cotton, agent for the Pacific
railway and connections, goes out in her
TO establish passenger agencies in China
and japan.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02

WE repubiish elsewhere long editorial
taken from the columns of the UNIoH AND
AMERICAN. We commend it TO the care
full pefusal of all true Democrats. 1t
embodies the principles which govern the
party and presents fairly and squarely the
living issues which divide Democracy and
Radicalism. Calm and dispassionate, it
carries conviction with it, and if all the
Democratic journals of the country would
endeavor to present the policy of the par
ty in this manly and straightforward me-
thod, we would soon lose sight of those
jeslousies and chickering's which so fire.
quently disturb the harmony of those who
claim to act with the Democracy. Long
life to the paper which proclaims the
truth so forcibly l-FFankIin Journal.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
FROM PRUSSIA.
The Rhine CanaI-Railroads.

BERLIN, Dec. 1.-The Rhine Marine
Cansl has been reported opened the entire
length, and the event is important for
manufacturers who previously were un-
able to get any coal by railroad, the eX-
elusive use of which is required to bring
up supplies for the army.
The Minister of Commerce has address
ed a circular TO the Directors of both
State and private railroads, ordering that
the service on some lines shall be restrict
ed to the minimum rate so as to furnish
as many revenue officers and as much
rolling stock as possible for the service
on the lines in French territory.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
FORTY YEARS IN THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS.

A Belleville Ol.) correspondent of the
Missouri Democrat tells the following
interesting incident:
On last Saturday morning an old gen
tleman made his appearance in this city
under such peculiar circumstances as TO
attract the attention Of even the least OBJ
serving. He had fine porly person,
large round olive cOlOred and healthy
looking cOuutenanee, with coarse gray
hair which indicated that the frosts of at
least seventy winters had passed over him,
and attired as he was in bran new suit
of ready-made clothes, in which he seem
ed uncomfortable in the last degree, he
was observed scanning every face he met
closely, and staring at the houses around
the Square, and at the Courthouse, in
perfect wonderment, like one newly risen
from the tomb. A little inquiry on our
pari, however, soon solved the problem
of the mysterious stranger. His name IS
Paschal Pensoneau, and he is q brother
of Narcissa Personesu, well known In
this county and almost everywhere else.
The old gentleman has just returned
from the Rocky Mountains, where he
has been forty years. He left this part
of the country, OF st. Louis rather, in
1880, in company with some Indian
traders, and hsseeve since been leading
a wild and adventurous life with the red
men of the forest, far removed in the
wilderness Of the West from the intrigues
of civilization, and with the squaH whom
he married quite number of years ago,
and with whom he has raised a large
large family Of children, claims to have
found that sweet repose which is quite
unknown TO the seemingly more favored
ones of earth. Very few of his old com
rades remain, while many of the persons
whom he knew as children are now not
only grown up, but have become old men
and women. Forty years is a long cycle
in the period of human existence, and it
is not to be wondered at that the old gen.
tleman, when revisiting the place of his
nativity and the fsrmer scenes of his boy
hood, should be struck with amazement
at the mighty changes which civilization
has wrought. He has been for number
of years past acting as Government inter-
prefer with the Indians, and is now on
his way to Washington upon business
connected with some of the Indian
AGENCIES
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THE EASTERN QUESTION.
Will the Conference make Peace i'm
The West

Will the Conference make Peace in
the Westl
LONDON, Dec. 1.-The Times has a
special from Versailles announcing that
the negotiations for conference are pro-
crossing.
Prominent members of the ministry
are urging the immediate calling of a
convention to settle the Russian question,
and that it shall also arrange and adopt a
peace policy for Prussia and France.
England Wants the Suez Canal and
Says Russia May Have as much
Turkey as She Wants.
LONDON, Dec. IA Herald correspon-
dent at Versailles sends the following sin
gular rnmor: Turkey is not disposed to
resist the note of Russia. Bismarck is
favorable to England's obtaining pro-
tectorate over the Suez Canal, in conside-
ration of which, England's own road to
India being thus rendered secure, Russia
may do what she wishes with Turkey.
This is another blow aimed at France.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs.

1t is seldom anything happens at Mo-
bile. 4 coming horse fair is deemed
worthy of telegraphic mention.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
awarded new trial to Nancy Z. Clem,
recently convicted Of the murder of Mr..
Young and wife.
A dispatch from Washington, announc-
ing Grand National Council of the Union
League on the 18th inst, warns us thar
this dangerous secret society is still in
being.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
A FAIR HIT.

Two wags passing out town on the
Galveston road, says the Kansas Tribune,
were struck with the beauties of Law
renee.
"Whose place is that?" said one of
them.
'That is the lordly residence of Maj.
George A. Reynolds. Cost thirty thou
sand dollars2"
"Whst is his business2"
'Indian Agent"
"What is his salary, and how long has
he held his office ?"
1.-TWO years, at fifteen hundred dollars
year."
'eWhat did the honest fellow do with
the rest of his salary2"
"Sta1tsd bis brother and two other
honest men in the newspaper business to
denounce corruption"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
CANA WOIAN KEEP A SECRET

The Nineteenth Century, periodical
published in Charleston, thus treats this
much-mooted point:
''Men say women can't keep secret.
It's Just the reverse-wOmen can, men
can't. Women carry with them secrets
that would kill any man. Woman never
tells; man always does. Woman suffers
and dies, man blsbs and lives. Man can
not keep a secret; woman can not make
it known. What is sport to the man is
death to the woman. Adam was sneak.
Eve would have kept the apple secret.
Be We faithful. Whoever heards woman
talk about her lovers iascos? Every
body has heard q woman gossip. Man
delights in telling of his illicit conquests
woman would cut her tongue out first.
Men are coarse in their club room talk;
women refined in their parlOr converse
ton. Who ever heard of a woman tell
ing of her lovers9 Who has not listened
to the dissipation of men9 Men boast
women don't. Women never tell tales
out of school; men are always blsbbing.
So down with another old adsge. Woman
can keep secret, and her ability to do
so is proved by the conduct of st. John
New Brunswick girl who did not tell
her lover she was worth four millions in
her own right until after her marriage
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02

RELEASE OF Col. GRANGER.
McCunn, of New York, on Saturday re-
leased Col. Louis E. Granger, who was
lately arrested, at the instance of Gov.
Warmoth, of Louisiana, on charge of
altering his pay-rolls as Assistant Adju-
tant General of that State, and forging
Gen. Longstreet's signature to them. On
Sunday A. S. Badger, Chief of the New
Orleans Police, arrived with a requisition,
and declares he will cause his rearrest if
he can be found. Granger, when arrested,
was on his way to Boston to marry Miss
Thorndyke, who came to this city on
hearing of his arrest, and was married to
him on Saturday, after his release. -NeaU
York Tribune, NoU. %.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02

In noticing the fact that Gen. de Tro-
bland, of the United States army, has
gone to Europe on a six months leave of
absence, contemporary mentions that 3
prominent command in the French army
has been rendered him in behalf Of the
present French Government, and that he
has declined ii. Gen. de Trobisnd is q
FIenchman by birth, but an American by
adoption, and while his sympathy with
the calamities of France is profound, he
does not consider himself at liberty to
lay aside the obligations of American citi-
zenship, and of his commission as an
American soldier. Such a sentiment is
proper and creditsble.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02

MARX TWAIN produces one of the most
striking cases of meanness on record He
says he knows a society which hired a man
to blast rocks, and as he was pounding the
powder with a crowbar an explosion took
place, sending the man and crowbar out
of sight. Both came down all right, and
the man went to work again promptly.
But, though he was gone only fifteen min
utes, the company ''docked him for lost
time"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02

We gave in the UNION AND AMERICAN on
the morning after its occurrence, the par
ticulars of the murder of William Parrow,
in Lebanon, by Colbert, a Choctaw In
dian. We have since received the Leba-
non papers, but do not see any reason 10
correct any of the statements heretofore
published. t-Tsfss;;
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
FROM ENGLAND.
Rescue of Passengers on a German
Vessel.

Rescue of Passengers on a German
Vessel.
LONDON, Dec. ALI the passengers
on the Bremen ship Union, which re-
Gently went ashore off the coast of Scot
land, have been safely landed. -.r-.a
Another Gable Crazy.
The Falmouth, Englsnd,) Gibraltar
and Malta cable has broken down some
where between Lisbon and Gibraltar.
Messages for India and the East are now
forwarded overland to the Mediterranean
coast, and thence per cable to Malta,
10 Egypt, down the Red Sea to the In
dian Ocean. --
The Suez canal.
The Suez canal is to come under Eng
fish control. The Duke of Sutherland
will probably be chairman of the COM
pany.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02

The GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf might,
perhaps from its name, be supposed to
argue in favor of the use of the weed.
But in its lsst issue it quotes from an ex-
change the fact that Michael Edmonds, of
Virginia, claims to be the eldest fireman
in the United States, being one hundred
and four years old, and having constantly
used tobacco for ninety years. eff Ed
monds had never ured tobacco, y says the
Leaf she might have lived to be one
hundred and forty-four.n sijs o.. + Oh
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
FROM ITALY.


FLORENCE, Dec. 1.-The delegation
from the Spanish Cortes will arrive in
this city on Sunday, when the vote of
the Cortes and the acceptance of the
Duke of Aosta viii be officially submitted
to King Victor Emanuel.
Three hundred and thirty deputies of
the Italian Parliament have been re-
elected. One hundred and seventy Dep
uties are new members.
A Spanish fleet with committee from
the Constituent Cortes on board has ar
rived at Genoa. A deputation from Rome
has gone to welcome it.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
MEMPHIS,

Can the People Choose their Oys;c.rs
in a Republicl
MEMPHIS, Dec. 1.-Judge Fmons in
his charge to the grand jury OF iba limited
States Circuit Court, urge, them n IN
quire rigidly into all the :.f.o sss ~ ~
provisions of the for llacIlons VI .lle
in regard to boldinr 4rteenth amendment
her of tbe. nO'c . & Office. A largenum-
court. >0ses art aiieauy DeiOle
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02

A JAPANESE pillow is curiosity in its
way. 1t is nothing but a rocker of a
cradle, broad enough to stand alone, with
q semi-circular depression on the upper
side. The japanese lie at full length on
the floor, place, not their head, but their
neck in the crescent-shaped hollow on the
upper side of the pillow, and rocl, them
selyea TO sleep in few minutes.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
Wuvx Miss Kate Field lectured in Ros

WHEN Miss Kate Field lectured in Bos-
ton che was dressed in rich blue silk,
with wife lace trimmings, bunch of
rOsebuds on her bosom, and the red cover
of her manuscript book gave the necessary
points of deep color to the blue and white,
while the same idea in color was carried
out in the stage arrangements--a stand
of lovely roses was in the foreground,
and farther back a blue cloak trimmed
with ermine lay upon the arm of Grim
pon chair,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02

A DAY OF two since man living in Mon
tague, Lewis county, N. z, went forth to
butcher hog. The animal was caught
and the man proceeded to cut its throat.
After this act was performed, the swine of
course made desperate struggle for life
and liberty, and in doing so the knife
that struck the hog was by his struggling
accidentally forced through the mans
heart, and before the hog was dead the
man was corpse. Such an accident we
never heard of before, and we probably
never shall hear of its like again.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02

The San Antonio CTexas) Express
says: The pecan crop this season is a
total failure. The shipments will amount
to nothing. We nave not learned the
reason of this, but presume the frost had
a hand in the spelling of the fine pros
pects. Parties who have Travelled through
the pecan regions of the different streams,
report an unusual meagreness of yield.
What few there Gre will be consumed at
home.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
ALABAMA.

The House in SessiOn-Popular In
dignatiOn at H0ld.for-eVer smith.
MONTGOMERY, Dec. 1.-The House of
Representatives met to-day and transacted
considerable business. No session of the
Senate. The delegation from Medson coun-
ty, consisting of Republican Senator
and three Democratic Representatives,
have telegrsphed their constituents that
the law has been fully complied with,
and call for meeting, irrespec,
tive of party, to denounce the action of
Smith and Bingham. -,---r.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
PHILADELPHIA.

Masked characterization the
Merlish
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1.-The house &C.
cupied by Patrick and Mary Mccullough
was broken into this morning by four men
ia masks. The occupants were gagged,
tied down, and Patrick stabbed in various
places. The robbers secured 81 500 from
a bureau in the room, and departed.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
ILLINOIS.
rhe Right Of Yennr Amer


The Rights of Young America.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-The Supreme Court
of this State has just decided there is no
power to confine a child in q reform
school unless it has been convicted of
crime. This decision will release large
number of children from our reform
school.
A Serious Practical Joke.
AT Monmouth, Ill, this morning, while
an omnibus containing three young ladies
was standing at the depot of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Raj way, an ehl-
ploye. of a train which had arrived a few
moments before, out of pure deviltry,
blew the locomotive whistle. The horses
at once started to run, the young ladies
jumped from the omnibus, and one was
fatally injured. The people of Mon
mouth were highly indignant at the man
and threatened to lynch him. He has
been guilty of like Offenses before.
AWifc.whipper Shot Dead.
At Pekin, H., Tuesday, Pat Doyle,
while beating his wife, was shot dead by
VIM. Cartley, negro. The affair has
caused much excitement in Pekin, espe-
cially among the Irish.