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THE BAR MAIDS, CONTEST.

Apropos of an absurd contest that recently tool
place in England, in which competition 'tgood
character, business habits, neatness Of costume
and responsibility were the chief points, the
following witty verses have been pub ished. "Tae
Ten Little Niggers," made popular by the
Chr1stys, Of course suggested the lines: ~
Ten little barmsids sitting in a line; ---
One answered saucily, and then there were nine
Nine little barmaids, trying to be great;
One lookd too pompously, and then there were
eight.
Eight little barmaids--one came from Devon
Not quite genteel enough-and then there were
seven.
Seven little barmAids-one was up to tricks,
CHANGING st the gentlemen-and then there were
six. -t
Six little barmaids, eager all to strive;
One fell TO quArreling, and then there were I'VE.
Five little barmaids, counting up their store;
One showed her dirty hands, and then there were
four.
-Four little barmaids evidenced their glee-
One not respectfully then there were three.
Three little barmsids said it was "a do;a
One said &c lOudly-and then there we're two.
Two little bsrmaids wished 1t all was donSS
One yawned too plainly, and then there was one.
One little barmaid thought it famous fun;"
She took he prizes-and then there were none.
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4 SNAKE STORY.

The jackson Wing and Tribune of
the 1st inst. relates the following snake
story:
A few weeks since our informant made
a visit 10 Wayne county, and was the
guest for a short time of Mr.. Abram Mon
tague, an old and well-known citizen of
the county, whose residence is situated
eight miles east of Clifton, on Hardin
creek. Mr.. Montague is seventy-three
wears old, and is a member of the Print
tive Baptist Church. Here is the snake
story, as il was told by him to our in
fOTmant:
'About the first of August last negro
woman on nv place, while al work, saw
\ large ratll snake enter a hollow log.
She came to the house and told her hus-
band, old uncle Bob, who went immedi-
atelv to the spot and began TO beat on the
log with large stick. While
thus engaged, he heard rattle
as If inst under his feet Stepping back,
the fearful sound was repeated as if just
under his new position. Another step,
and another rattle, and still another, and
poor uncle Bob's courage failed ana on
he ran. a distance of one hundred yards
or more, Not 10 be outdope, the old
negro repaired again TO the spot and, ap'
preaching cautiously, began to beat on
the log as before. Presently large rat
-'~suake thrust its head out of the log,
..-r - dag f. body slowly out.
WEau Hsli wig 0,s IuCls Bob killed 1t
80, f, ..ng- B,iI-sim14 a.roke. Then
-. met the EsLGR fate.
Three o. fol 3e1 nlf1''''' s.leSes ~ p,
and all were instantly dispaa <. y. :
few moments hey began to Ane tpr.n
again, and continued to glide opt pn1l
t6irty-five, most of them full grown, lay
dead a. the mouth of the log"
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For FIOaler.

We are authorized to announce JAS. NJ. MAR.
SHALL candidate for Floater in the District com.
posed of Smith, Sumner, Macon and Trousdale
Counties, at the ensuing November election.
oct8
We are authorized to announce N. W. MoCON-
NELL, Esq, of Huntsville, a candidate for FloateI
for the district composed Of the counties of Sum-
ner, Macon and Smith, at the ensuing November
election sep15te
We are authorized to announce John e. SturdI-
want, of Montgomery, as a candidate for Floater
in the next Legislature, for the District composed
Of the counties of Davidson, Robertson, Montgom-
cry and Cheatham, subject to a nominating con-
ventiOn, if necessary. sepf4-td
We are authorized to announce Col Isaac Far
mer, of Robertson, rs q candidate to represent
the Pictorial District composed of the counties of
Davidson, Robertson, Montgomery and Chatham,
in the next General Assembly of Tennessee, sub
ject to a convention if necessary. kU31-tf
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The Union AND AMERICAN
OCTOBER


BY WILLIS GAYLORD CL.ARKsr frrI
Sweet Sabbath Of the year!
While evening lights decay, r.
Thy parting steps methinks hear 80
Steal from the world away.
Amid thy silent bowers
It's sad, but sweet, TO dwell, -
Where falling leaves and dropping no"eiH
Around me bid farewell
Along thy sunset skies ayQ 4
Their glories melt in shade,
And ike the things we fondiy prize, -
Seem lovelier as they fade -
A deep and crimson streak
Thy dying leaves disclose;
As on oonsumption's waning eneeA,
Mid ruin, blooms the rose.
Thy scene each vision brings
OF beauty in decay;
Offair and early faded things,
Too exquisite to stay
OF Joys that come no more;
OF flowers whose bloom Is fled; asa
OF farewells wept upon the shore;
OF friends estranged or dead; 20 Ii
of all that now may seem,
To Memory's fearful eye,
The vanished beauty Of 6 dream,
Ger which we gaze and sigh.
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Edgefield 3 Kentucky Railroad

ERoM AND AFTER THIS DATE, JUNE u
IT 1870, trains on the Edgehcld and Kentucky
Railroad will run as follows.
Mail and Express leaves Nashville ut / 30
p N. Arrives at Guthrie at AIS p. x.
Accommodation leaves Nashville at $50 A. n
Arrives at Guthrie at II 80. Connects with
tain for CIarksVfIe.)
Mail and Express leaves Guthrie at 2 so P. n.
Arrives at Nashville at $50 P. n.
Accommodation leaves Guthrie at 80 A. n
Arrives at Nashville at 80 N.
Passengers can leave Nashville at 1 80 P. Y.
and make direct connection at Guthrie vii Z
through trains sleeping cars attached) to
Memphis, New Orleans, Mobile, and all points
in the Southwest Time TO Memphis fourteen
hours
Mail train leaving Guthrie at 2.5O D. n
makes direct connection with trains nc "a
Memphis and New Orleans
HTime from Memphis to Nashville, thirteeu
hours and forty minutes.
Both trains make connection at Nashville
morning and evening with through trains On
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Tor a.
points South end all way stations on line Or
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.
For through tickets apply at City Transfer
ONCE, Maxwell House, and to Capt J. r..
Brooks, at Louisville and Nashville RailrOai
Depot.
Trains run daily except Sunday.
NJ L. BLASTON, sup't.
We. OoEsELL, Pres't and Receiver. juf4tt
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR Congress,

We are authorized to announce Col W. +. Pros.
ser as candidate for re election to Congress from
the Fifth Congressional District Of Tennessee, al
| the coming election. sep3J-tde
To the Voters of the Fifth Congressional Dis.
trict, composed of the counties of Davidson,
| Wilson, Williamson, Sumner, Robertson and
| Cheatham:
/ After consultation with many friends
through the District, and in obediencS TO their
opinions aid wishes, as well as my own / now
announce myself candidate for Congress. at
tne ensuing election in November, subject to
the action Of nominating convention to be
held by the people ofthe District.
My views on the questions and duties of the
stances and time will permit, in card and in
speeches, before the assembling of the conven-
tion. EDWARD + GOLLADAY.
Lebanon, Aug 20, 1S70-td.
We are authorized to announce Gen. W. O. Whit
thorne, OF Maary county, as candidate for Con
gress in the Sixth Congressional District Of Ten
nessee. Election In November next. jy30-te
We are authorized to announce Joseph Motley,
Of Wilson county, as candidate for Congress
the counties of Davidson, williamson Wilson,
Sumner, Robertson and Chestham. Election In
November. ty29-te
We are authorized to announce Hon. W. ON
PERKINS, OF Williamson county, IS q candidate for
Congress from the Fifth Congressional Division
composed of the counties of Davidson williamson
Wilson, Sumner, Robertson and Cheatham. Elec-
ton in November. iyI9 te
We are authorized to announce Hon. 10. G. Oar
rigan, OF Lincoln, candidate for Congress from
the Fourth Congressional District, at the ensuing
November election. jun2o-tdes
We are authorized 10 announce Jos. 81. Black
burn, OF DeKaib county, as q candidate for Con-
gress In tho Third Congressional District, at the
November election, jun2S-tdes
To the Editors Of the Union and American:
IRrUNE Tenn, June IA 1670.-Piease announce
me as candidate for Congress in the 5th Con-
gressional District, subject to . nomination by Q
convention Of the people, and oblige yours, etc.
ToM BENTON SIXTH.
We are authorized to announce Hon. Bale Pey-
ton, of Summer, as acsndidste for Congress from
the Fifth Congressional District. Election in No
vember. l..l--r. jun1l tide
For Congrcss-FOurth District.
We are authorized to announce Hon. JOHN NJ
BRIGHT, of Lincoln county, candidate for
Congress in the Fourth Congressional District,
composed Of the counties of Rutherford, Bedford,
Coffee, Cannon, Franklin, Lincoln, Marshall and
Giles. Election in November. ALI his disabilities
have been removed by act of Congress. sep23te
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a CARD.

NINE A. SELTZ RESPECTFULLY INFORMS
WI her lady friends and the public in general
that, having attached to her establishment com
petent hand direct from FRANCE, she is pre-
pared and will devote her attention to Cleaning
Bleaching and Mending all kinds Of Laces, Cur
t2ins, etc, making them equal to new. She Is
also prepared TO cut and make chidren'5 suits for
either sex, BY MEASURE, In style which can
not be e1celled.
All orders will receive prompt attention, and
will be executed at the shortest notice. at No. 1fC
Church street, or 1s1 North Market street.
sep29-tf
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For Sfafa Senafe.

We are authorized to announce Thomas Il. Pee
bles q candidate for the State Senate at the ensu-
ing November election, from the District com
posed of Maury, Hickman, Dickson, etc.
dwksw-tde
We are authorized to announce A. q. Merritt
candidate for the State Senate, froua Davidson
county. sepl1-tde
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pared resume oil the nome ana foreign
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the Farmer and the Housewife; and delightful
miscellaneous melange. The Paper for the House
hold the Business Man and the Lsbering Man.
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WHAT OUR CONTEMPORARIES
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The Trenton Gazette says: ave take pleasure in
recommending it to the people Of this county As
the sblest, soundest and the most rellaDle paper
published in TENNESSEE
The Murfreesboro Monitor says: at is now the
largest weekly in Tennessee and ts hlled to reple-
ton with the choicest reading matter, telegraphc
news, commercial summaries, etc.
The CiArksvils Tobacco Leaf says 1t is "the larg-
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the equal Of any in the South.
The Knoxville Wing says: ut is ono OF the most
splendidly gotten up weeklsee in the South"
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UNION AND AMERICAN is now the largest paper IN
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The Union City Herald says: at is one of our
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The Rogersville Journal says sit is the largest
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The ST. Louis TiIlss says: ''It ia one Of the finest
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The Gellatin Examiner says: 1T II whale, ~
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rails upon passing events, and the publishers have
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increasfn gC1rCulatlOn OF the UNION AND AhhiICA'
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F. E M A LIZ,

The approach of the menses is looked for with
anxiety, as the first symptom in which Nature is
to show her saving power IN difusiDg the circulA-
ton and visiting the cheek with
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CON SUMPTION

Is talked of. and perhaps the youth is removed
from school and sent into the country. This L.
one Of the worst movements. Removed from or
binary diversions Of the ever-changing scenes Of
the city, the powers Of the body, too much en-
feebled to give zest 70 heathfu and rural exercise
thoughts are turned invards upon themselves. II
the patient be . -- ..- -..-.. r.-,
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You Want 1t! Everybody Wants It!
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the Largest, the Cheapest, and the
Best Paper i'm the South.
A SeVenty-TwO Column Paper for
Only Two Dollars "a Year.

The latest News by Telegraph-Full dstails Of
the stirring events in Europe-s carefully pre-
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. complete Agricultural Department, invaluable TO
the Farmer and the Housewife; and delightful
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hold the Business Man and the Lsbsring Man.
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The Bloom of Health.

Alas! increase Of appetite has grown by what it
fed on; the energies of the system are pros
trated, and the whole economy is derAnged The
beautiful and wonderful period in which body and
mind undergo so fascinating change from child
to woman, is looked for in vain the parents heart
blseds in anxiety, and fancie4 the grave but wait
ing for its victim.
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LOSS OF POWER,

These symptoms, If allowed to go on-which
this Medicine invariably removes-soon follow
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-10-19

Spread over the bottom of the barrel a
layer of rock or solar salt one and half
inches think, pack the pork edgewise as
compactly as possible, cover it with salt
as thick as the bottom layer and SO con-
tinue until the whole is packed, finishing
with salt. Put weight on the pork, and
make sufficient brine as strong as possible
of rock or solar salt, to cover it several
inches
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-16
The Foreign Demand for Breadstuffs

The War in Europe has already
caused considerable advance in the
price of breadstufs in this country;
and there are good and weighty rea-
sons which induce us to believe that
there will be a large and active de-
mand for our grain and -four by the
people of Europe.
The London Times recently assert
ed that the wheat crop Of Great Brit
ain would be less than three-fourths
of an average crop. Also, that the
severe drought of June had reduced
the hay crop more than one half
England always looks to the United
States to supply any deficiency Of
food; and as we shall have a surplus
to spare it is evident that we must
feed the English people, to a greater
or less extent, until she gathers
another harvest.
The crop reports in France exhibit
a poorer harvest than in England
The drought has been so severe that
grain fields, pastures and forests have
been literally burned up. To cor
roborate this wholesale destruction
Of grain and vegetable crops in
France, the English newspapers draw
attention to the startling fact that
France plunges into war with a sad
deficiency in her grain crops-with a
grainery not half filled. A writer in
the London Economist estimates the
loss OF wheat by the drought in France
at fifty million bushels. Here is
another market for American bread.
stuffs. France, even with peace and
general prosperity, would have to
purchase large quantities of food for
her people. But with war upon her
hands, and perhaps upon her own
territory, she must send her ships
across the Atlantic for both grain
and -four. As Prussia has very
small naval power, there is little dan
ger OF her capturing French merchant
men on the Atlantic.
The wheat deficiency in Europe is
not confined to England and France
Reports from Spaiu, and portion O.
Germany, indicate a third less croI
than usual. Austria, Hungary and
Russia have abundant crops. Blu,
these nations, with prospect of be
!, ing drawn into the Franco-Prussiar
, contest, will endeavor to hold theil
surplus grain productions for thei
own consumption. Hence, the mos
available and advantageous marke
| for Europe to supply herself witt
t breadstuffs is in this country. w
have no particular desire to see -four
: corn or other grain advance in price
I The Iaboring people of the Unite'
! States are now paying as much 70
these necessities as their income vii
warrant. Still, we are satisfied tina
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Boston Wool Market.

The wool market has been active during
the past week, with some speculative feel
ing on the part of buyers, and many lots
in this and other Eastern markets have
changed hands. Dealers have generally
small stocks and the whole supply in the
hands of the regular trade is much less
than at the corresponding time last year.
The receipts, also, continue very light, as
Western holders are not willing to sell, or
consign, at rates current in our great con-
suming markets. 1t is now generally ad-
mitted that the clip of most of the Western
States will fall some 25a30 per cent. short
of last year. This deficiency, however,
will in some measure be made up by the
increased production of California and
Texas
These incidents, added to the higher gold
premium and the improved prospects of
the domestic goods market, resulting from
the war in Europe, have developed very
strong feeling in wool. and prices of the
low and medium grades of Western fleece
have advanced 1a9c per ID. here during
the past week. But prices in the country,
where the balance of the clip is mostly in
| the hands of spectators, have also advanc-
| ed and are now full 3a5c higher than at
the opening of the season. Hence the in
terror markets continue relatively above
the level of the seaboard, and the improv-
| ed rates now realized here will hardly suf-
fee to replace dealers stocks.
The latter are very Indifferent to sales
since, in view of the short crop theory,
they are looking for material advance al
later period of the season. The early
low priced receipts have all been taken fol-
consumption or in speculation, and the
Western wool now arriving has only been
secured at higher cost, and many of oul
merchants are not Offering their recent in
voices at current rates. Manufacturers are
buying freely wherever they can obtain
desired lots at about former prices. But
they are very reluctant to pay any advance
as there has not yet been any substantial
improvement in goods, but only prospect
i've.
Buyers still continue to give the prefer
ence to California wool, which is taken a
fast as received. But the supply of thi
description is rapidly disappearing ant
unless there shall be material decline il
fine foreign wool, as the situation in Eu
rope now seems to indicate, consumers vii
soon be compelled to submit to the newt
able, and meet the enhanced views of sell
ers of domestic, trusting to luck and tn
chapter of accidents for remunerative pr
ces for their products Commercial BuLle
tin.
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AUCTION.

Will be sold at public auction on Friday Aug.
rs, 1870. at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, my farm, situated
in Greensboro, consisting of 245 acres of good
land. Said farm is situated one-fourth mile from
the main road, is well divided into tillage, now
ing and pasturing. Good buildings, all in good
repair. good sugar place OF 500 trees, new
arches and pans, and good assortment of buck
cts, holders, and other articles necessary for su-
caring also 20 cords of sugar wood. Said farm
is capable of keeping 20 cows and a team, and is
one of the best farms in Greensboro. Also will
be sold so tons of hays tons straw, 200 bushels
oats, 80 bushels wheat, 10 good cows, one full
blood Durham bull, hog, calves. SO cords dry
wood, farming tools, dairy tools and other arti.
credit on all sums over $40.
A. W. WILLIAMS, Proprietor,
B. S. WILSON, Auctioneer
Greensboro, Aug. IL, 1870.
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Metz.

This city which will probably be the
scene of the next conflict between the
French and Prussian armies, is thus des-
cribed by the New York Times:
Metz is the centre of the triple range of
fortresses with which the celebrated Vau-
ban, the architect of Louis XIV, attempt
ed to defend France against Germany from
the North and the East. Round these
frontiers he constructed no less than eighty
eight fortresses, of which Valenciennes in
the north and Metz in the east are the
strongest. AS said before, Metz lies in the
centre of the triple range, having as ad-
vanced post Thionville, and in the rear
Nancy. The Mosselle here is still very
small, and scarcely practicable for small
steamers that go down with the current to
Thionville, Sierck and Treves. At Cob
lentz it flows right through the city; one
part Of the river is still water. Metz is
very irregularly built, has population Of
about $4,000, and something like $4,000
men in garrison. 1t is surrounded by three
walls, forming two bitches, which are alb.
out so feet deep, and being connected with
the river may be inundated at five min.
utes' notice. On each side of the place il
situated kind of natural fort, called, or
the right side of the river, the Fort Belle
Croix, and on the left side, the Mount St
Quentin. On the top of this latter, com
handing a view of about twenty-five miles
is an optical telegraph, hesignals ofwhict
may be seen from the Cathedral of Metz
The chepeaur de .trise or .tosses aux Ioups
consist in deep bitches, filled up with bay
onets, swords, shells, grenades, &c, which
are covered with the ground so carefully
that the most practical eye is scarcely abl'
to detect them. All the buildings outsid,
the place are wooden frame work, 81
that they can be destroyed at a moments
warning. The Fort Belle Croix is com
pletely undermined, and the mines ar,
| connected with the arsenal, so that they
can be blown up from this latter place.
The Porte DIES Allemanda' is a historic
ally curious place, and the only remainde
| of the old fortress as it had been construct
ed by the Duke of Lorraine. This gat
was assaulted in 1915 by Charles V, En-
peror Of Germany and King Of Spain, bu
the Emperor, victorious on all other points
was defeated on this by his external enc
my, Francis I. of France. 1t is not to b
expected that the Prussians will carry thi
fortress as easily as they seem to have car
ried the little but strong place of Bitsche
and the experiences of the Prussian Gen
erals will scarcely allow them to leave 5
strong place in their rear, so decisiv
battle may be looked for in the plain SUI
rounding Metz.