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flies AMI mosquitoes. Congress annually
gives thousands and hundreds of thous-
ands to the carpet manufacturer of the
East-tens of thousands to one wire
mandatory in Pawtucket, r. I.-both
increased in July by G ngress in which
MIR. Wilson is member, and by his vote
too. Every spoon and fork farmer
uses, beyond wooden and iron one, is
going to cost more soon after January
next, because some tens of thousands of
dollars were voted into the pockets of
Mr.. Joseph Wharton, of Philadelphia, by
voting him thirty cents per pound bounty
on his nickel. Every painter, glazier, and
vanished leather user will have to pay
more for his linseed oil after Jan. l,
the duty having been raised from % cents
to 80 cents per gallon, solely for the benefit
of the few crushers of liDseed somewhere.
would go on to show to Mr.. Wilson, if
it did not so much leDgthen this reply,
that the manufacturers and mOnOpo-
list and jObbers last July secured all the
revenue reduction of which he boasts,
while the reduction of tea, coffee, and
sugar was only thrown in, the better to
give ~ IuItc ScEblcLu6u, Oue now n6m-
Der of Congress, and the other a fresh
ex-member, who have the patent monOp-
oily of making Bessemer steel rail- a
bounty of $28 per ton for all the rails
they Mako bounty worth millions 10
them as long as their patent rights last,
heavy tax, though, upon every barrel of
-four or pork transported by rail from the
West to the East; q bounty, too, in the
nature of mortgage of all the real estate
of the simple men of the West to those
three wise men of the East. But you
have enough, Mr.. Randall, in the expOsi-
tons have made here. My only regret
is that have not strength or time enough
to mount the pedlar's wagon l spoke of
in the House last March, so as to show
up all these bounties to the eyes of the
people of the South and West; for,
wherever and whenever this is done,
there will be no more monopoly members
of Congress reelected from Pittsburg, in
the East, to the Puget Sound, West, or
to the Rio Grande South.
Truly yours, JAMES Books
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What Our Exchanges Saw


As we have repeatedly said of late the
Tennessee State Fair, which will COM
mence here to morrow, Oct. 3, will be,
from the signs of the times, one of the
largest attended, most successful and
attractive that has ever been held in the
Stale. The Directors have left nothing
undone to insure its success. The grounds
are In excellent condition, and the CONNIE
tition will be animated and extended.
People we are assured are coming from all
directions. The exhibition of stock and
farm products will be uns lrpassed. Our
State exchanges speak of the prospects as
We do, in the most exalted terms. Nearly
all Of the State papers make favorable mem
ton Of the event. We subioin the remarks
of few of them.
The following is from the ShelbyviIle
Rescue. The Fair at Nashville bids fair
to be the best ever had in the State. The
premiums were large, and we learn there
Is great excitement, and will be fierce con-
tests for the $1,000 premium offered by
the citizens. Great numbers of fine horses
that have carried off the prizes at the
county fairs, will meet at this graduating
point in the State, to contest for the diplo-
ma. The managers have added to their
| already nice grounds, gorgeous improve
ments. A stir We understand is being
made in the city for general holiday and
jubilee on Tuesday, 4th. Let everybody
go.
The Athens Post says: We take great
pleasure in calling attention to the Second
Annual State Fair to be held at Nashville,
Oct. 8. The large and handsome grounds,
the beautiful and extensive amphitheatre,
the magnificent Floral hall, and the ample
and well arranged mechanical hall, all tes-
tify to the energy and earnestness of the
managers. All desiring to fine stock and
excellent folks and plenty of them should
be sure TO attend
The Winchester Home Journal saws:
The State Fair at Nashville, Oct. 3,
promises to be the best they have ever
held. A great and growing interest is
manifested all over the country, and we are
informed by the knowing ones that from as
far of as the New England States letters of
inquiry and entry are received. Parties
visiting the fairs in adjoining counties re-
port great disposition to visit the State
fair, see what is to be seen, and to
contest for the premiums Indeed,
this will be the place where all the
fearless ones will meet to fight their blood
less battles over again, and we wish them
happy time.
Thanking our friends for their kind
mention, we assure them that all who may
come to our Fair will not be disappointed
in the high estimates of enjoyments and
attractions they have made.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Monthly Debt Statement
The Great Virginia Deluge
Harper'S Ferry Half Flooded
Over Fifty Persons Drowned
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON.
The National Blessing.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The debt state,
ment is as follows: Amount bearing coin
interest $l,96l, 152, $50; accrued interest
81, 1872, 1853; bearing currency interest
$49l, $50, 600; interest $519,577 matured
debt not paid 3,437, O67; interest 45O, 936,
bearing no interest 400, 216, 455; total debt
S2,432, $40, 572; interest $42, 123, 246;
total, principal and interest, 81, AIS, $685.
S19; coin in Treasury $96,861, 661; cur
rency in Treasury, $32, 08S, sos; debt, less
amount in Treasury, 2, 346, 9l3, 652; de-
crease during September 9,007, 1913; de-
crease since March l, 1894, 1924.
Missouri Difficulties.
Both the Administration and the Con-
gressional Republican Committees have
repudiated Senator Schurz and his Liberal
Conservative party in Missouri. The
Treasury and Postoffice Departments are
engaged in overhauling all Missouri ap-
pOintments made on the strength of
recommendations of Senator Schurz,
Congressman Tenkelbery, Dyer and
Asher, and the work of removing Post
masters aud other officials in Missouri
has commenced. The patronage of the
Executive Departments has been placed
at the disposal of Senator Drake, who is
in the interest of the Radical State ticket.
Letters have been addressed by several
C. ELECTORS of Customs to Secretary Bout.
well, asking if they should permit assess.
ments for political purposes to be made
on their clerks, and he has replied in the
affirmative.
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WHO SHALL REPRESENT US

To the Editors Of the Union and American:
In few days the people will be in
convention, to select candidate for Con-
gress. 1t is time now that the interests
of labor should be considered by one
schOolod in the art of taking care of him
self from bOyhood to manhood. Practical
success in the departments of useful in
dustry is the man our society needs.
These people are now about rising from
a condition of merton to one of activity
and actual life. Every interest of society
is in its infancy, and needs the care of one
trained in the hard school of experience;
who can bring TO its demands the skill.
tact and knowledge acquired by ears Of
toll judiciously and skillfully applied.
1t is of graver importance to represent
the industries of the country in Congress.
lfthey are to befOstered, who can do it 50
weIlas one who loved and hOnoTed them and
who has been rewarded in return for his
earnest and noble efforts. If the people
mean to encourage labor and make it
honorable, let them show their faith by
their works and select faithful repre-
sentative of the labDIiug interests.
il simple show and mere words are the
media of a proper candidate, II will be
readily seen; but if solid government and
an understanding capacious of successful
results in the domain Of the useful, are the
marks of a proper representative, 1t can
as readily be discovered. The event will
show at once the prevailing purpose of
this district
There is one name before the people
who has ever been identified with labor,
who has persistently and constantly adj
hercl to it, and can show in all his acts
the indications of toll exercised under an
uucrring judgment. His interests are
the interests of the whole country. He
can claim the sympathy Of ali the great
Northern interests and will be recognized
by them. No one will mistake the man,
Michael Burns. Let him be selected for
the representative Of the interests of the
dist let and satisfaction will be gwen.
OBSERVER.
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suddenly destroyed. The Civil Guard re-
Gently doing duty at Marseilles has been
disbanded. 1t is thought the Prussians
are preparing for grand attack on Paris
from the North at Gennouvilles.
The peasants who fled to Paris on the
approach of the Prussians from the east,
have asked permission to return to their
homes. The Prussian General refused
on the ground that his object is to starve
out the city. The town of Tournon is
filled with German wounded. Most OF
them participated in the late unsuccess
full attempt to capture Clarendon. Lyons
is perfectly quiet.
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The following is the delegation appoint,
ed from GAINESVILLE to the Commercial
Convention which meets at Cincinnati on
the 4th OF October: Hon D n Kennedy,
for this congressional district; Capt T P
Gracey, for the city; Capt NJ 81 Clark, for
the Clarksville Board of Trade; Capt Robt
Meek and G G Breed. for the Memphis,
GAINESVILLE and Louisville railroad.
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PITTSBURG.
The Fire-Fiend.

PITTsBURG, Oct. 1.-The loss of Jones
& Nimick, Manufacturing company,
burned this morning, is 100000 on ma
chinery $50, 600. Stock on hand $50, 900.
Building Insurance is $50, 900, of which
$50, 900 is in the Pittsburg companies,
s., 900 each in the Delaware of Phllsdel.
phia and Enterprise of Cincinnati. VIM.
Reed, tow boat fireman, was killed by the
falling walls.
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Will DeIanO Do Likewisel

A clerk of the United States Treasurer,
name ed C. c. Edevins, of Binghampton,
confessed yesterday that he embezzled
$1,000 of public funds, which passed
through his hands. Gen. Spinner, upon
hearing of the defalcatiOn, without mo-
ment's hesitation, sold some of his own
bonds and replaced the amount stolen;
be holding himself individually respon-
sible for any deficit in his department.
This is the first case of fraud in the
Treasurer's office under Gen. Spinner's
administration
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THE GREAT FLOOD.
HarPer'S Ferry Half Submerged
Brick Houses Swept away-Over
Fifty Lives Lost

WHEELING, Va, Oct. 1.--Dispatches
from Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, via
Sandy Hook, Nd, announce great flood
in Shenandoah river. The lower portion
of the town is completely submerged,
and many substantial stone and brick
houses have been carried away, and a
great number are rapidly crumbling. Over
fifty lives have been lost, and great num-
bers are in imminent peril without the
possibility of help reaching them.
The Wheels of Government BIOCke ed
RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 90.-The Legis-
lature meets TO morrow but will have no
qu,rum in consequence of members being
detained by the flood. The Rio Mills,
Rio Anna river, were among those washed
away. The James River is now still
Using rapidly.
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ROME
PIebiScite To-day,

ROME, Oct. 1.-The plebiscite is to be
voted on Sunday, 0o-mouow.) 1t will
be thus stared Is q union with the
Kingdom of Italy under the constitutional
rule of Victor Emanuel and his success
sOrs desirablel
The King awaits the result at Florence.
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MINOR EngagementS.
FROM ENGLAND.
Doubtful News Prussians Driven
Ont of Versailles.


LONDON, Oct. IA war bulletin sign
ed by GaDbetta is published extensively
this evening, announcing that the Prus-
slams were routed, that Vincennes and
Versailles have been retaken with 5000
prisoners including Prussian staff Off
GERS and much artillery; and that commu-
nications between Paris and Rouen have
been restored. The dispatch generally is
thought spurious.
The French have a report that on We'd
nesday the bridge spanning the Disc at
Creil gave way under the weight of
Prussian CannOns which were being NOV
ed across, whereby several of them were
precipitated into the river. There was
also some loss of life.
Fourishen has not resigned his place in
the French Provisional Government as
has been reported. An election for men,
bers of the Constituent Assembly in
France will occur on the 10th inst.
An aGTeOnaut, with mails from Paris,
descended yesterday at Dreux He has
pushed forward for Tours, and will pro-
baby arrive there this afternoon.
LONDON, Oct. Late reports of fight
ing before Paris On Wednesday and
Thursday are false.
a Messenger from Metz 10 the En-
press.
New YORK, Oct IA special from
London says that Gen. Bambakc has
escaped from Metz. He left the fortress
and city in the garb of peasant, and in
this disguise got safely through the Ger
man line, and he arrived in England yes
day, and Immediately took a train TO
Hastings, on visit to the Empress. 1t is
believed that the General is the bearer of
dispatches from Bazaine, and it is GER
tain he will, now that he is outside of the
fortress, have those notions dispelled as
to the present-existence of the Empire.
Prussians Preparing for Grand
Attack on Paris from the North
An Assault on Fort Clarendon
LONDON, Oct. 1.-The Prussians are
approaching Maintenon in the department
of Eure Et Loire. Communication be-
ween that place and Charities has been
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IMPORTANT TO
PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS !
Printing Presses, Steam Engine
and Boiler, Type, etc.
FOR s ALE.

THE HEAVY INCREASE IN THE CIRCULA-
- TIoN of the UNION AND AMERICAS has forced
US to purchase new and faster press and more
powerful engine, in order to meet the mails and
supply our city subscribers at reasonable bour.
we nave therefore ordered dOuble-cyinder press
and a t"elVe-horse power engine We have also
ordered lew job presses and type, to accommodate
the increasing dem and upon our Job Department.
In order to make room for these presses, etc, we
offer for sale at great bargains the following:
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FROM PRUSSIA.
German Commerce.

BERLIN, Oct. Gen. Falkenstein, in
announcing the termination of the French
blockade in the Baltic and North Sea,
says all haste will be made to restore
lights, buoys and other facilities for for
eign. trade.
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The letter carriers report for the month
of September is as follows: No. of letters
delivered 81, AS; No. OF papers delivered
2l,017; No Of letters collected %, $40, No
of papers collected 1,272.
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One small Cylinder Taylor Press. almost as good
as new, capable Of making 1000 impressions DER
hour. Size 3Sx46k inches inside of bearers.
Price $4,000 1t is pronounced the best and fastest
small cylinder press in the South. The UNION
AND AMERICAN is printed on this press, and is 3
specimen Of the kind of work it will do.
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One Large Drum Cylinder Potter Press; bed
SOK44 inches inside of bearers. This is just the
press for Country Newspaper ;..win make from
LOCO to 200 impressions per hour, and can be
run BY hand, horse or water power 1t will do ex-
cellent newspaper, poster, handful or common
book printing. Price 81, OO0. great bargain.
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GUBEBNATORIAL CANVASS.

Look to the supplemental for an &C
count of the opening of the Cub erna.
torial canvass at Chattanooga.
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NEW YORK.
FiftY.five Cases of YeIIow =

EIftY-1Ve Cases OF Yellow Fever.
New YORK, Oct. 1.-Fffty-fve cases of
yellow fever and sixteen deaths, are said
to have occurred in this city and neigh
bOrhOod during the past month. The
fact is developed of strange condition of
professional disagreement among our
health authorities. Governors Island,
the seat of the disease, has been quaran-
tined. There were no new new cases
Yesterday.
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EAST TENNESSEE.
THE
Knoxville Wing and Register
PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY.

PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY,
HAS LARGE CIRCULATION IN EVERY
IL neigh bOrhOOd in East Tennessee, and also
extensively IN North Carolina, Virginia, North
Georgia, North Alabama and Kentucky.
The Weekly is q triple sheet, twelve page, sixty
column paper, and IL read by everybody in this
section
Daily paper, 50 per annum, or Is csnts per sin
gle month. Weekly, 81 per snnum, 81 for six
months.
Ts-ms Of Advertising moderate Specimen
numbers sent on application. Address
SAUNDERS, CLARK co,
sep29-dHTn Knoxville, Tenn.
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FASHIONABLE GOODS!
THOMPSON BROS. & KELLEY.
Summer Street.

Summer Street.
RIcH PARIS SILKS, new shades
LYONS BLACK SILKS, warranted pure
BYADoRE vALENCIAs, new and bs.us,tui
PARIS sATEENAs, in the new shades.
SILK AND WOOL REPS, all shades
VELOURs, in rich pIaids.
NEW PLAIDs AND STRIPES for Children.
DOUBLE CHAIN BLACK MoHAIRs.
BLACK ALPAoAs, best makes.
BoMBAzENE ALPACAs for mourning.
ELEGANT FRENCH CHINTz, new designs.
REPELLANTs tEAserprOofl new patterns.
cERAoPLoTHs AND FLANNELs.
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Many persons have wondered why
horse-chestnut, hOrse-radish, etc, are so
called. A Scotch work, entitled, city
mons of English Words" says that the
original word was 'harsh"-harsh-c chest
nut, harsh-radish, and the French and
Swedes translated it 'horsc'-hence the
common error.
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THR Mexican Gen cral Angelo MARITIME
has arrived at Hamburg, in order to offer
his services to the King of Prussia in the
ysst against France. He says that the
Mexicans have never forgotten the
French,f for their dastardly attack on the
Mexican Republic, aud that they sympa-
thize cordially with the Germans.
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THE CITY.
THE NEW CITY COUNCIL.
Organization of Both Boards.
Board of Aldermen.

At IL o'clock yesterday the members of
the Board of Aldermen elect assembled in
their chamber, and were qualified by the
Recorder, after which they took their seats.
The new Board consists of the follow ng
members.
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One Adams Book Press, somewhat worn, but
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One Half Medium Nonpareil Wells Jobber
A strong, serviceAble press,fAs good as new, and
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PARIS BROCHE .sHABLs.
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WHITE BALLARD VALE FLANNELs.
GENUINE SHAKER FLANNELs.
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One Half Medium Liberty Press; nearly ew
and does nne work. Price $3.50. great bargain.
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If were to go on and thus analyze the
whole tariff, l could show that while
Congress reduced the duties ON tea and
coffee (Which we do not raise, and there
fore only pay one price for, or on sugar,
raised partially in Louisiana and in Yer
mont (msple sugar., it kept up or in
creased the duties on all, the article man
ufaetured in Massachusetts or made by
Massachusetts capital, on such articles,
too, as, under the tariff bounty
system of taxation, we now
pay two, or three, or four prices for :;
on iron, say cast or wrought, in pig
blooms or bars, down to the wire in crinO-
line or corset-nay, even down to nets for
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One Of Wells Nohpareil Bfl-Head and Card
Presses. Works well. Price $50. Very cheap.
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First Rate Portable Steam Engine and Boile
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Also, lot of NonparsiI and Long Primer body
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Type, in good order. VIII be sold remarkably
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UNION AND AMERICAN

All these presses are now in use, and can be
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Rich Goods for Bridal Outfits.
Mourning Goods.

Fringed Over-dresses, very new