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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-10
PASSOVER.
Its Origin and Observance.

EtS OTiSAn anu ODSeIb&ACes
We are now in the days of the Passover
the season having commenced on Friday
evening last. Passover is from the Hebrew
pesdA, to leap over or pass by. 1t is He
brew festival, and is claimed to have been
instituted by Moses in commemoration of
the Israelites remaining intact on the night
of the destruction of the frst-born in
Egypt, Immediately preceding the exodus
from that country, (see the twelfth chap
ter of Exodus.) Originally it was OBJ
served by sacrificing passover lambs on the
evening of the 18th day of the first He
brew spring month, and eating them on
the following night as well by excluding all
leaven from the meals of that evening, and
the following seven days, the first and
last of which were observed as holy.
Since the final destruction of the
Temple of Jerusalem the passover
is observed by eating unleavened
bread during the seven days, by abstinence
from labor on the first and last, and by the
observance on the first evening of various
domestic rites, commemorative of the
deliverance from Egyptian bondage, in
Guiding the recital of scriptural and legend
airy narratives and familiar conversations
on the same national event and the chant
ing of psalms.
Though scattered over the four quarters
of the globe, and without distinct nation
atty, the descendants of the patriarchs
hold in high veneration the ancient GUS
toms and festivals The Hebrews, the
Jews, through all the changes and chances
of revolution and the mutations of time,
have adhered with unwavering tenacity to
the worship, religion and ceremonials of
their fathers. Everywhere this people,
sober, industrious and thrifty, have their
synagogues and an established community
of interests and religious observances OF
| their own.
The annual Passover is observed yet, and
probably will be for hundreds of years in
the future, as it has for hundreds of years
in the past.
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New Advertisements.


Judge Thomas n. Frazier is announced
as a candidate for Judge of the Criminal
Court of this county. His impeachment
penalties. SO uniustly imposed, have been
reversed by the potential voice of the peo-
nile. and be is now as well eligible as he is
competent.
T.W. Haley announces himself as can
didate for Attorney-G General of this county.
He is an attorney of application and ability,
and has been a working man In our midst
for many years before his admission to the
bar. He is in all respects trustworthy.
Andrew J. Caldwell, sterling member
Of the Nashville bar, is announced as a
candidate for Attorney-General at the
ensuing August election
The ladies viii be attracted by the sale OF
fine dress goods, laces, ETC., ETC., at W. w.
Berry & Co.'s, Church street, which takes
place at auction tomorrow morning.
The attention of persons desiring to pur-
chase vehicles Of conveyance, is called to
the advertisement of buggies, carriages
and spring wagons; inducements are
offered
BIZ. Cheatham, State Agent of the
Nashville Life Insurance Company, gives
notice of the appointment of Maj. j. D.
Cross as a general travelling agent for the
company.
F.w. Sparkling, Assessor for the Fiji
District, gives notice of the completion o
internal tax list for 1869, and of his readi
ness to hear appeals. See advertisement
See Mansfeldand Higbees advertisement
of their celebrated medicines among tn
city notices.
Browns & Cheatham advertise a sale Q
fifty lots in McCampbell's addition to Nash
Vile See advertisement.
See insolvent notice of the estate of L
NJ d. Yoland
Read ''The great spring remedy" on sec
ond page.
Madame Stuart's-the celebrated Medica
ClairvQyant-card may BE found on tn
second page.
The closing sale of fine oil paintings by
Yeatman, Shields & Co. viii take plac
Monday morning, commencing at II
o'clock.
Yeatman, Shields & Co. have an impor
tant peremptory auction sale on Tuesda,
morning.
Are You RESTLESS, nervous, in a bad hu
NOR and losing your appetite +? Would 70
rest well, get fat and be happy? If so, US
Lillard's Misunderstanding slayer.
Mrs. J. G. Barry has just returned from
New York with a stock of millinery an,
fancy goods that have rarely been equalls
in this city. She will have them open an,
arranged for inspection on the 18th inst.
when all our lady friends will certainly b
present to see. See her card
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The colors and designs of the forth
coming issue of United States postage
stamps are as follows:
l cent, head of Franklin, ultra marine
blue . cent, head of jackson, rich Van
dyke brown; 8 cent, head of Washington,
malori green; cent, head of Lincoln, red !;
10 cent, head of jefferson, light brown /;
y cent, head of Clay, dark purple; II
cent, Webster, rich orange; "a cent, head
of Scott, pure purple; 80 cent, head OF
Hamilton, black; 80 cent, head Of Perry,
carmine
The designs are all taken from the best
busts known, and will excel anything in
the stamp line that has ever appeared.
There is some talk of raising the denomina-
ton of the 80 cent stamp to one dollar.
The new stamps we learn will be ready
for distribution soon, when the Nashville
postof1ice will receive a supply.
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MORE MUSCLE.
L WGman makes n Brilliant Strike
at MurfreesbOrO and Produces a
Sensation and n Black Eye.

L Woman makes n Brilliant Strike
at MurfreesbOrO and Produces n
Sensation and n Black Eye.
A Nashville woman, whose present name
|, is Mrs. Foster, having not many months
since been united in marriage to man of
that name, who was at that time the agent
of travelling physician then in this city,
assaulted the aforesaid physician at a Muir
freesboro hotel last Friday evening, and
the affair resulted in considerable excite
ment and a black eye to the assaulted
party. The woman alleges, we under
stand, that the doctor had endeayored
to bring about separation between her
self and husband, and hence the trouble.
The doctor denies having interfered with
the marital relations of his former agent,
and therefore claims that the assaulting
party was either misinformed or too hasty
in her construction of the code of female
muscle as expounded by Lydia Thompson
at Chicago How this is we have no
present 1Aeans of knowing, but are
reliably informed that the attack upon
the doctor at Murfreesboro was very
vigorous, and might have been
still more disastrous in results but for the
timely interference of peace-mskers. The
assaulting party went before a Magistrate
where the case was being heard, when she
again lost her temper and made another
attack upon the Doctor, without, however,
doing much damage The train brought
all the parties to the city Friday night, and
it is to be hoped that hostilities have per-
manently ceased. Such things don't pay,
and as John Midway would express it,
cant he made to pay.
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The following are the cotton quotations
received at the National Savings Company,
corner Union and College streets, where
cotton, gold, bond and stock quotations
are received hourly, and are always Access
sible to the public:
LIVERPOOL, 11:15-Cotton market quiet
but steady. Sales 10000 bales; uplands
lid; Orleans IL I'D.
New York, 1O:25-Cotton dull and prices
unchanged.
LIVERPOOL, market closed quiet.
Sales 10, 900 bales; shipments from Bonn
bay since last report to the Sth is $1,000
bales.
New YORK, 2:15-Market quiet bui
steady. Sales 1000 bales on the spot
Sales on time, June 21a and pc.
New YORK, 3-Market quiet but steady
Sales 1000 bales for export; 300 bales FOL
spinning; 10 bales for speculation.
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PALM SUNDAY.
Holy Week.

This is Palm Sunday, or the COM
mencement of Holy Week. The cere-
monies of the Holy Week according to our
authority, begin on the Sunday when
Christ's entrance into Jerusalem is COM
memorated by blessing palm or other
green branches, and distributing them to
the people, whence, the day is called
Palm Sunday. Holy Week is the name
given in the Roman Catholic Church to
the week Immediately preceding the fes-
tival of Easter, because she then celebra-
ties the most sacred mysteries with
solemnities of peculiar interest. 1t was
in ancient times called the painful week,
or the week of sorrow. On the Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday evenings, the
office of the Iene6rR (darkness) is
chanted. This consists of the mathis and
lauds for the following mornings, which
it is customary to recite over night.
During the service a large candle
stick, supporting fifteen lights, ar
ranged in the form of a triangle, which
denote Christ and the prophetswho predio-
ted his coming, stands in the sanctuary;
the lights are one by one extinguished I'M
til only the upper one remains, which Is
taken down and placed under the altar I'M
til the close of the Office and then brought
back; this symbolizes Christ's burial and
resurrection. On Thursday, sometimes
called Holy Thursday, the institution of
the Lords Supper is commemorated, and
in some places the priests wash the feet OF
twelve poor persons in imitation of the act
performed by Jesus towards his disciples.
1t is done by the Pope to thirteen, priests,
but why the number should be thirteen in
stead of twelve, it appears is not well un-
derstood. The bells are not rung, nor IN
struments of music soundeH from the
Gloria in ercelsis in the mass Of Thursday,
until the same. time on Saturday. A
consecrated host is carried in procession to
some temporary altar prepared for 1t, and
kept there until the next day, when the
priest carries it back to the main altar and
consumes it. There is no mass on Good
Friday, and the altar is stripped of all its
ornaments. The ceremony of kissing the
cross, sometimes called the alteration
of the cross, is performed by all the faith
full. On Saturday the services begin by
the blessing of fire and water, and of the
paschal candle, an emblem of Jesus Christ,
which is lighted in token of his resurrec-
ton, and burns during part of the Mass
from Easter until the Ascension. 1t was
on the Saturday in the Holy Week that the
early church used to administer baptism to
Catechumens, and parts Of the service still
relates to this custom. Holy Week is still
observed with its solemn usage, the inaugur-
alton of which begins to-day with the ex-
ercises of Palm Sunday.
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An Gid. Valuable and Honorable
Land Title
The LindsIey tract of land, near Leba-
non, Wilson county, is doubtless the oldest
land title in Tennessee. It has been in the
family about ninety years. It is revolu-
tionary grant, given to one of the ances-
tors Of the Lindsey family, for honorable
service in the war of Independence of
1776 Lieut. Lawrence, while a mere
youth, unable to resist his love of coun-
try, left his college for the battlefield,
fought calamity through the war, then re-
turned to his college and graduated with
the highest honors. For these services he
was rewarded by the Government with
grant of the tract of land under mention.
In the early days of the settlements it was
known, and for many years afterward. as
the big Survey" Its original owner once
offered to sell the entire tract at twenty
five cents per acre, but, luckily for the
descendants, could not find purchaser
Much of it has never been fenced, nor had
tree cut on it, except by the hunters
axe. For miles around it has been the
great hunting ground for everybody. Here
the student from Cumberland University
has oftimes passed his Saturdays with his
shot gun, and returned at evening heavily
laden with game. Here, in the good old
times, there resounded through its
primeval forests the hunters horn by night,
summoning the impatient hounds to the
fox hunt, while Sambo made constant
nightly warfare on the possom and rae
coon. There is an Indian mound in the
forest, which has always been place of in
terest and resort in the county. More than
one unsuccessful person has dug deep in it
for hidden treasures. While the trees on
its summit have attained their full growth
and the mound seems as old as the neigh
boring hills, yet the circular ditch or forti-
fication around it evidently, from the large
trees in its bottom, made at the same time,
is perfectly plain. The greater portion of
the tract is covered with magnificent tim
Der. To show its great value for lumber
purposes, exclusive of the land itself, we
need only state that Philip Lindsey, Esq,
of this city. in one of his sales of timber,
sold all the standing trees, fit for stock
logs, on one hundred acres, for the sum OF
twelve thousand five hundred dollars And
in this sale all the labor and expense OF
cutting and removing the timber is borne
by the purchaser, while the land itself is
still held by Mr.. Lindsey.
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RIVER AND WEATHER.

The river was again rising yesterday,
with fourteen feet on Harpeth Shoals. A
constant rain during the day.
The Mallie Ragon arrived last evening,
discharged her cargo, and departed on her
return trip to Evansville.
The L N. Phillips left for Evansville, to
go the dock.
Tobacco is now being shipped from
GAINESVILLE to New York at fifty cents per
hundred.
The To-be-Hurt is to besold at BIarshal's
sale at Memphis, on Tuesday, the 10th inst.
Here is a chance for steamboat spectators.
A st. Paul dispatch of the 18th inst says
The river at this point is at a very high
| stage. The entire lower parts of the city
are under water from bluff to bluff. West
st. Paul is entirely overlooked. The rise
from four o'clock yesterday afternoon up to
| seven this morning was eighteen inches.
| 1t has since been rising at the rate of one
inch per hour. If this rate continues all
warehouses along the levee will be under
water before morning. Weather clear and
very pleasant.
The Vicksburg Times says: ''John Gaff-
ney, deckhand on the Belle Yazoo, was
shot and killed by a negro at lager-beer
saloon on Sunday night. He was an in
dustrious man and much liked The boats
! in port had their flags at half-mast in honor
of his memory"
The Armada, Capt. r. Y Northern, is the
regular Paducah packet on Monday, at 10
A. NJ. L. III. Cobb is in the Office.
The Tyrone, Capt. Tom Harmon, is the
regular packet for Cairo on Monday, at
P. NJ. Capt. Wash. Weaver is in the Office.
The Spray, in charge of Capt Gus
Brown, clears for Cincinnati on Monday
evening at o'clock. James Wilson is
clerk
A big rise is reported in the upper Mis-
sissippi.
The Missouri river at last accounts was
declining.
! The Arkansas continues to reeede, with
no improvement in navigation. White
river is falling, with fair stage to Augusta.
There is an excursion party from Cincin-
natl on the steamer Spray, which is ex-
peeted to-day.
LOUISVILLE, April 9-River continues to
recede, with 10 feet inches in Indian
chute down the falls 75-feet under the
bridge for passing steamers.
The Lawrence passed up from Nashville.
| DeParted-LaClare, for Tennessee river.
The Petrol, with eight barges salt for
Nashville, passed down.
CAIRo, H., April 9-River has falling
feet inches, leaving stand of 81 feet
inches. Weather cloudy with some rain.
PrrTsBURG, April 9-1he Monongahela
is falling slowly with feet II inches. The
Allegheny 9 feet 0 inches and falling
| slowly.
J. CINCINNATI April 9-The river has fallen
feet in the last "a hours, with 81 feet in
the channel, and 65 feet space under the
bridge.
Departed, Emma Floyd for Nashville.
ST. LOUIS, April 9-River stationary,
but all the upper streams rising rapidly.
Weather cloudy, with ram.
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wonders of the Plant World.

The same firm has furnished us with the
above work which fully vindicates its title
in laying before us in highly attractive
form the wonders of the plant and curiosi-
ties of vegetable life, and notices of re-
markable trees and flowers. 1t is very
attractive limo, elegantly bound and pro-
fusely illustrated, containing PAS pages of
neatly printed and highly interesting and
instructive reading. From hasty glance
at its table of contents and pages, we take
it to be one of the most readable books of
the kind that has yet appeared. 1t is got
ten up in the best style of the printing
and binding art, and will richly repay pc
rusal and study.
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The AdeIphi.

This association, organized in the fall OF
1858, under the name of ''The Montgomery
Bell Debating Society" have lately fitted
up their hall, and are in prosperous con-
dition. The cost of fitting up the hall is
nearly 5000, most of which they obtained
by subscription from our citizens.
The Society adopted the following reso-
luton at their last meeting:
Resolved, That the thanks of this So
ciety be and hereby rendered to those citi-
zens of Nashville who have so literally
assisted us in furnishing our hall.
The following are the officers
President-C. P. Curd.
Vice President-C. S. Briggs.
Recording Secretary-B. S. Adams.
Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer
F. NJ. Frizzell
Editor and Critic-A Helms
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Looking for a Factory Location.

Three gentlemen representing an Indi-
ana association which proposes to engage
in the manufacture of wooden goods at
some point in Tennessee, have during the
past week examined several places in and
near the city, with view to purchase and
location. These gentlemen, in converse
ton yesterday with one of our real estate
agents expressed themselves as well pleased
with the facilities afforded here for the
character of manufacturing in which they
are engaged, and the probabilities now are
that theirnew enterprise viii be established
in or near Nashville II so, they will be
cordially welcomed by our citizens, who
are not slow to recognise in the increasing
manufacturing interest springing up here
additional evidence of The growing thrift
of the city.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
..nur Enther,s Honse ;,

Is the the title of a new work by Rev.
Daniel March, d. D., author of ''Night
Scenes in the Bible" with which our read
ers are acquainted. The former is a com
panion work to the latter, and is most
worthy one. The learned and devout au-
thor treats Physical Nature as the house
God has built for, at least, our temporary
habitation; and most beautifully and phiio-
sophically is the work executed. It ha:
received the unqualified commentator Of
the most distinguished scholars and divines
of the country North and South. 1t is sold
only by subscription. The lady agent,
who sold the might Scenes in the Bible,
in this city, will, during the present week,
call upon our citizens in behalf of this truly
great work, ''Our Fathers House, or the
Unwritten Word
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middIing uplands 1l4; orIeana 11I. sac

middIing uplands III; Orleans III. Sales
of 10000 bales.
New York Money Market.
New YoRK, April 9.-Money easy at
soc on call. Sterling firm at s5@9.
Gold firmer; opened at 1124, touched 1871
and closed at 1884. The advancing tend
ency in the market is due to the upward
turn of exchange, and the rise to-day is
generally credited to operations in lend
ing. Foreign exchange firm. Carrying
rates 4@54 q cent Clearances 81, 00O,
coo. The tone of the market is healthier;
fewer bonds are offered and offers to buy are
more numerous. State bonds are quiet and
firm; old Tennessees 5si; new 50. The
failure of an old member Of the Stock Ex-
change is rumored to-day.
UNAVOIDABLE BANK STATEMENT.
The Bank statement is again unfavora-
bic, showing loss In the legal reserve Of
So, 500,0 900. Loans $272, III 1888; increase
$414,577. Specie $2s, 767, 692; decrease
S109, $40; circulation S33. 754, 253; increase
ST. s9. Deposits $2O1, 752, 434; decrease
| 81, 651, 996. Legal-tenders $67, $50, 633;
decrease So, Al, 16O.
New York General Market
New York, April Cotton closed
| steady; sales of 500 bales; middling up
lands 234 Rice dull. Coffee dull Sugar
quiet; Cuba 9@9s. Molasses dull.
New Orleans Markets.
| New ORLEANS, April Cotton firm
and in fair demand; middling uplands q J;
sales 5000 bales; receipts 9, 2OS bales; ex-
ports 5, 525 bales; stock on hand 179, 376
bales. Coffee unchanged. Sterling ex.
change I2aa. Sight exchange on New York
2 cent premium. Gold 1122.
st. Louis Markets.
ST. LOUIS, April 9.-Flour quiet-super-
fine g. SCOT. 10. Wheat, No. red fall, 1.Os
@1.o6. Corn, Sic. Whisky dull at 1. OF
Pork, 27.50 Bulk meats, 102@142@154c
Bacon, 11k@154@1G4. Lard, 154@153c.
Cincinnati Markets.
| CINCINNATI, April 9.-Flour and grain
unchanged and quiet. Cotton steady; mid
ding pc. Tobacco unchanged and firm
at full rates. Whisky LOO. Provisions
unchanged and quiet.
Louisville Markets.
LOUISVILLE, April Cotton steady; mid
ding pc. Flour 500. Wheat 1. 1901 20
Corn 95c. Oats 63c Rye SOC. Grocerie
firm but steady. Pork $500. Bacon IL
@152 and 1910. Bulk meats 102@14
and 15c. Lard ice. Hams Isle. Whisk
LOO. Tobacco-sales 232 hhds. at so
@7.52 for trash to Tugs; S.00@2450 70
low to good leaf
Memphis Markets.
MEMPHIS, April Cotton 22Sc. Re
ceipts ASP bales; exports 3O9 bales.
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HOW a Serenade Ended.

A few evenings since, when the stars
blossomed on the canopy and the chaste
young moon hung on ''the horizons
verge" and all the air was redolent with
the young perfume of spring flowers,
a party of our gallant and susceptible
youths went to serenade a fair young
beauty From beneath the window where
their love was supposed to lie dreaming,
they poured forth their dulcet strains.
After rising to the fullest and richest melo-
dy, the music toned down to the tenderest
and sweetest notes of love, that trembled
upon the night air soft as the dream of an
angel. The upper window was slowly
raised and the dainty curtains drawn aside,
when
''Say, look here, said one Of Africa
sable daughters, ''Missis ajR't here, bit
pleese pLay de NoekiR' Burd fur me, a00n't
ye7"
Tho G,ouciol-,roU e116sida5
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Daily Help i'm the way of Holiness.

We are indebted to Messrs. Paul and
Tavel, for this doudecimo volume of 1862
pages, by the Rev. John Dryer. The
book comprises five divisions of the sub
ject 1.-THE necessity for holiness, ''the ma.
ture of holiness" Holiness attainable, "
encouragement in the pursuit of holi-
ness" and ''our duty in reference to holi-
ness" 1t is composed of choice selections
from the sacred scriptures, and admirable
verses appropriate to the same. 1t is
neatly printed on good paper and with
clear type, and rs well bound.
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strawberry BOxes!! Strawberry
ROXeSIII

The fruit boxes for marketing and ship
ping small fruits, berries, etc., of different
kinds, manufactured by the enterprising
firm, c. COLBY & Co, South Pass, Ill, are
the cheapest, most convenient and desira-
bic in the market. Small fruits can be
shipped further and with less damage in
these boxes than by any other means.
A large shipment just in store, of all
sizes and patterns, quarts and pints: also,
the crates for shipping in, and for sale
cheap, at the Edgefeld Drug Store. Call
and see them. j. B. MATHEWS,
apr3-2w Agent for Middle Tenn.
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Probate Court.

Letters of administration were yesterday
granted Joseph @. McCrory upon the es7
tate of Henry Case, deceased.
The following named constables elect,
gave their bonds and were qualified and
commissioned: A. G. Tucker, tenth dis
trict; Zach Stull, eighteenth district; James
I. Binns, second district; b. L. Waller,
sixth district, and A. L. Watson, seventh
district.
James Allen, constable elect for the
twenty-second district, refused to qualify.