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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

MORE than fifteen years ago a Chinaman
graduated at Yale College. Now we are
told that he is about to return, bringing
with him thirty other Cinnamon, who will
enter the same college. This is new form
of Chinese immigration. The solitary Chi
naman who has at rare intervals entered
an American college has been welcomed
by his fellow-students as an interesting
novelty. Thirty Cinnamon, however,
who will form little colony of their own,
and will keep up the national customs of
dining and dress, viii be a new element
in collegiate life. The Chinese freshman
flying his leisure kite upon the college
grounds, instead of carrying off midnight
gates and Enailing up obnoxious tutors;
the Chinese sophomore feasting upon the
frugal rat, instead of lavishing his money
on bad champagne; the Chinese Junior
making his own clothing, instead of max
ing the fortunes of designing tailors, and
the Chinese senior preferring to translate
Confucius into English rather than to firt
with the traditional belle of New Haven,
will utterly confound the traditions of Yale
and provoke undergraduate hostility to
cheap Chinese study.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

tanti-ism y you would be obliged very soon
to swing your steed round on his launches,
and make him leap back to please your
audiencei
"But no, the wings Of Pegasus bear him
over miry and marshy places, where eoarser
steeds would clog and baulk; and brightly.
beautifully, yet firmly too, you have held
him on his way. wish that Mrs. Brown
ing were alive that we might send her your
book, both champions, as you are, of wo-
manhood"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
oTHE MUCH vEXEn, QUEsTION., ;,

We copy below an extract from an able
and well considered letter written by Hon.
j. NJ. Coulter, the distinguished Senator
from the Etheridge district, TO the Trenton
Gazette OF last week, on the much vexed
subject of taxation. 1t covers the ground
so fully, and meets the issue so squarely,
that we deem comment unnecessary. The
Senator says:
The universal cry for a decrease of taxa
ton which comes up from one end of the
State TO the other, may so operate to pre-
vent the present Legislature from fixing the
rate Of taxation high enough to defray even
the ordinary expenses. The State Legisla-
ture is composed of men, properly very SEN
sitive to the wishes of their constituents
and timiG in breathing the censure of an
over taxed people, which may possibly lead
] to rate Of taxation wholly inadequate TO
meet the demands urgently pressing upon a
depleted treasury.
The masses Of the people need inforIna-
tiOn touching the financial embarrassments
of the State, that they may properly realize
the peTpleXities which surround their Rep
resentives in endeavoring to satisfy the pop
lar ClamOr for lower taxes upon the one
hand, and in keeping the machinery Of the
State in successful operation on the other.
No men would rejoice more sincerely than
your immediate Representatives, in being
able to proclaim to our people that their
taxes are greatly reduced. Our sympathies
are heartily with the people, and our best
efforts. shall be directed perSistently to the
accomplishment of this end. We shall en-
deaver to secure the greatest permanent
good 10 the greatest number, prompted by
the laudable ambition Of meeting the intel
ligent approval of our constituency. But
this desire shall never induce us to disre-
gard the future good of our country, for the
ephemeral praise Of the hour. The wisest
legislation looks, not short-sightedly to the
cornoraut present, but to ulterior good, at
tended with rs little present pain as possible.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
CINCINNATI.
Presbyterianisn.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 14.-From statistics
furnished by committee appointed to report
on Presbyterianism in Cincinnati, it appears
that within the city limits, and including
Cumminsville, are eighteen churches, three
thousand five hundred and three members,
and from twelve to fourteen thousand under
the spiritual care of these organizations.
The church edifices estimated to be worth
nine hundred thousand dollars. The ave-
rage annual expenses of maintaining the
churches are about seventy thousand dollars
or twenty dollars per member.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

IT is sad to learn from French CORE
spOndence that the tax of three francs per
head upon all cats is rapidly driving the
purring pets to that bourne from which
no kitten ever returns. Aside from the
depreciating effect it has upon the meat
market by oyerstOcking the rabbit and sau-
sage supply, there is a sort of divinity at
taching to the subject itself, so that it is not
without a shudder that we see violent
hands laid upon Miss Tabitha. Time out
of mind pussy has been an object of rev.
erence, and even of fear.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
GREAT BRITAIN,
The Late Prince Consort as a social

The Late Prince COnsOrt as a Socialist
LONDON, Nov. 14.-Scott Russell writes
to the papers to-day giving history of the
so-called social movement. He says if
Prince Albert had been living he would
have been its leader. The movement orig
mated in proposal to form a union be-
tween the peers and the workingmen. He
denies most positively that its object or
methods were political or revolutionary.
He strongly advocates perseverance in the
effort in the interest of social progress re-
form.
DIR. Livingstone.
The British Government has granted a
pension of three hundred pounds to the
children of DR.. Livingstone, the African ex-
plorer. Livingstone when last heard from
was slowly making his way towards the
coast.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Train lectured in Louisville last night
The female sutfragists congregate in Phi
ladelphia on the 21st.
Some 600 architects are in annual con-
yention in Boston.
Chas. Francis Adams sailed yesterday for
Geneva.
Philadelphia rejoices over 491 cases of
small pox last week, being a reduction of
IS from the week previous.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

THE Princess de BeaumemOnt has re-
newed her suit in French Court for sep
aration from her husband, to whom she
brought a large dowry, on the ground of
neglect and cruelty. As an instance of
neglect, it was brought forward at the first
trial that the Prince who served through
the Mexican campaign, never wrote to his
wife during his absence from France, and
on arriving in Paris he contented himself
with sending the following telegram to his
wife, who was in the country: 81 can't find
my shirts" During the recent war he was
taken prisoner, and not only neglected TO
write to his wife, but on his return declared
he did not wish to see her again.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
WASHINGTON.
Paving. .fnterest Abroad.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-It is unOfhcially
stated that Secretary Boutwell,, in his next
report, win strongly recommend the neces-
sary legislation for the payment in Europe
of the interest Of so much of the new loan
as is or may hereafter be placed abroad.
This, it is claimed and believed, will greatly
extend the European market for U. S. seeu-
rites,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

A RETIRED governess says: 81 am one
of those whose lot in life has been to 90 out
into an unfiendly world at any early age;
and Of nearly twenty families in which l
made my home in the course of thirty years,
there were only three that could be desig-
mated as happy families. The source Of
trouble was not so much the lack of love, as
the tack Of care to manifest IT," The clos
ing words of this sentence give us the fruit
ful source of family alienation, of the heart
aches innumerable, of sad faces, and gloomy
home circles. .--.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

Mrs. ABBY MCFARLAND
SAGE, who is old enough to know thing
or two, and sage enough to give it spice,
says that three-fouTths Of all domestic mis-
cries are caused by She-"shen being YER
nacular fer servant, or, more correctly, for
''help2-and as everybody seems to agree
with her, it must be true.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
PERSIA.
The Horrors of Famine.

New YORK, Nov. 14.-In letter in the
London Times of the 1st inst, from Persia,
an English official states that the people
there are more emaciated than ever. AT
least twenty-five hundred besiege the Eng
lish residences for food every morning, and
in their rush actually crushed two women
to death. Infants and young children are
lying about the streets scarcely recognizable
as human beinos
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

THERE is a vast difference between the
two parties in our country. The Hartford
Comm Times says: "a hundred Repub-
licans may be defaulters and prove to be
such, and half of them escape by pardon
or otherwise, and the Republican party
ta&e the wickedness as a matter of
course and stand by their organiza-
ton just the same as if all its office
holders were honest. The President
may shield those who have defrauded the
government in heavy amounts, and it is all
the same. The Republicans are quite as
well satisfied. But the Democratic party
isthrown into confusion when four of its
members are charged with fraud, with the
publication of evidence that fraud has been
committed, though there is no trial and
conviction These facts show the indifier-
ence Of the one party, and the sensitive
ness of the other in cases of fraud within
their ranks"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
MEMPHIS.
A MurderOus Negro,

MEMPHIS, Nov. 14.-While the Susie Sill
yer was lying at the wharf last night, a negro
named Sam Orrings made savage assault
on deck passenger named Pat Ryan, with
a razor, in1icting dangerous wound. In
the affray he also wounded Thos. Halligan
and Geo. Ross. He was arrested and com
mitted to Jail.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

TIE Cincinnati Times and Chronicle
says: "Whst splendid Republic France
is! NJ. Theirs has prohibited the circula-
ton Of newspapers among the army. They
might see some such phrase as Vive L'Ena-
Pereur, you know" Thiers is only follow
ing the example of the Federal authorities
during eur late civil war.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

The demand for troops to '1sy' the Ku-
Klux in the South, which the Radicals are
making, greatly exceeds the supply. 1t win
require an army of two hundred thousand
men to send troops where every Radical de-
mands they shall 90.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

a Miss BRIEL, of Richmond, Va, who
was in Europe during the late Franco-Ger-
man war, has received from the Emperor
William, of Germany, a splendid Cross of
Honor, in recognition of the services rem
dered by her to the sick and wounded sol
diers.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

A SoUTH CAROLINA paper thinks Union
county owed its exemption from martial
law to its name, Grant supposing that all
the people Of Union must be loyal. He had
probably heard somewhere that ''Marion"
was the name of 'Rebel" General; there
fore, be included Marion county in the
proclamation, and if he had known that
Sumter county was also named after a
F'Rebel' General, no doubt that county
would also have been included.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
BOSTON,.

A Claim of 100000 Against the Gov.
ernment.
BOSTON, Nov. l4.-The Merchants and
State banks which settled the controversy
about the six hundred thousand dollars lost
through the operations of Milton Ward &
Co., by sharing loss, intend to bring the
case before the Court of Claims to recover
the above sum from the United States, as
the money was placed IN the Sub Treasury
without consideration.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
WISCONSIN.
Terrible Domestic Tragedy.

1eEElble DOnleSthc lEaSeuys
CHICAGO, Nov. 14.-At Kenosh, Wiscon-
sin, this af1e2Raap,, E. f. Morris, an old
resident Qf hat CITY, shot his wife, killing
her instahss &c then placed the muzzle
of his gun ilr lis mouth and blew off the
left side of 'hIs" head. No cause is assigned
for the terrible deed.
Houses for the ShelterIess.
Gov. Fairchild, of Wisconsin, has author
lied the furnishing of three thousand feet
of lumber free of expense to every family
who will rebuild on their lots recently de-
vastated by fire.
A Lucky knight of the Paste-POt.
The Fond Du Lac, (Wis.) Common
,oedlth says that George G. Chase, book
binder of that establishment, has estab-
lished his claim to a fortune in England
which win give him one million five hun
dred thousand dollars.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
SAN FRANCISCO.
Laura Fair.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14.-The appel
lants to the Fair case have twenty days to
file their brief. The people have the same
time to respond. 1t is doubtful if a decision
3 rendered before Jan. l.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

THE vote fc1r Public Printers yesterday
was for Jo..,es, Prrvis & Co. So; for Paul,
White . Co. IL; for Thomas Waters 12;
scatlInr:ng .. -...-..
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

Very pretty tablets for ladies' memoranda
are made of thin sheets of prepared ivory
beautifully bound in Russia leather. They
are Of English origin, and very sristocratical-
ly expensive.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

COTTON is in fair reque st In New York
and prices have advan.ed to 1ssc for mid
ding.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
UNION AND All AMERICAN. RI CAN.

TENNESSEE BONDS are strong ii New
York, closing last evening at 6S1t for both
issues. w.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
LITTLE ROCK.
200 BALLOTS Witbou. N Choice.

LITTLE Rock, ARK, Nov. 13.-The new
City Council has been in session all day,
endeavoring to perfect organization. There
are four Clayton men who hold over, and
four Brooks men elected on Tuesday.
Three hundred ballots have been had for
President without any choice. The coun-
oil Il rnnu- In sassinn
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

QUEEN VICToRIA's Christmas present
to the Emperor Alexander viii be six south
down sheep from the Northumberland
folds. Does she mean to pull the wool over
his eyes?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15

A South Carolina Presbyterian thinks
that Grants "Let us have peace" must have
referred to that peace which 'passeth all
11ndprStandinr''
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
THE TABLES TURNED.
From the Quincy Wing.


On Thursday last Savannah, Mo-, was
the scene Of rather a good joke. A we'll
tO-do farmer living some four miles from
that place, and who is afflicted with tempo
rary fits of insanity, had come to town, and
becoming somewhat Obstreperous, the Sher-
itf, with couple of physicians and posse
inveiged him to a room in the courthouse,
where they proceeded TO examine him, pre-
paratory TO sending him TO the asylum for
the insane. The farmer answered their
questions, and laughingly pretended not to
know the object of the investiga-
tion, when, watching his opportunity, he
darted through the door, and as quickly
locked the entire crowd inside. With an
exultant laugh, he walked off swinging the
door key on his finger. and informing every
one he met that he had a dozen lunatics
locked up, and had strict orders from the
President TO keep them in close confne-
? ment. No entreaty availed to make him
relinquish the key, when crowd finally
surrounded him and forced a surrender.
The sheriff, posse and physicians were then
released after some hours confinement,
when the former offered to ''set them upr'
If the matter was kept secret, but the joke
had got wind, and the vigilant officers won't
soon hear the end Of it.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
ROME.
Going to Stick,

LONDON, Nov. 13.-The statement that
the Pope requests residence in Frarce is
untr1a
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15


1t has been lately reported that Grant
has written letter to the President of the
Seneca Stone Company, advising that his
S24, 900 worth of this stock be disposed of.
This is not so. The true version of this af-
fair is about as follows: A cautious local
financier had an interview with Grant, and
the President was urged that his
owning stock in this Compa-
ny was not only doing him great
political injury, but it was likely
to indirectly affect the sale Of the stone.
The President was told that he must not
actually dispose of his stock, but only to
put it out Of his hands in formal way, and
the result would be all the same. Grant
assented to some such arrangement, and
the public have been given to understand
that the Presidential stock is for sale. On
last Friday Grant was joked about his con-
nectiOn with Seneca in Cabinet meeting,
and it is asserted that he did not take the
badgering at all quietly.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
ARIZONA.
Another Illustration of ''Let us Have
Peace"

SAN Francisco, Nov. 13.-Advices from
Arizona charge Vincent Collyer with float
ing his Indian reservations over the lands
pre-empted and occupied by the settlers in
the Verde and San Pedro Valley. Gov.
Stafford publishes letter recounting the
murders and outrages by the Indians from
the reservations, and bitterly araigning
Collyer's late operations.
Set n Thief TO Catch a Thief
The Pella Indians of Arizona made raid
on the Apaches, killed thirty-five, took eight
children prisoners and recovered plunder
taken the day previous from the white
settlements.
APrOmtsIns Young Author Murdered.
SANFRANCIsCo, Nov. 14.-Mr. Loring,
numbered with others in the Arizona stage,
was a popular author and journalist. He
was on his way East, intending to lecture
on Arizona, and expose Collyer's Indian
peace negotiations.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
Internal improvements.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Nov. IA firman
has been issued by the Sublime Porte di-
recting the Minister Of works to inaugurate
a comprehensive system of public improve
ment. In view of the net work ofrailroads,
projected by foreign capitalists on the Otto
man dominions, the harbors are to be i'm
proved, the rivers made navigable, new
roads to be built, the old ones repaired, and
every effort made to establish lines Of con-
nection with the new railways from all parts
of the country.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
MIKE POWERS
Star Clothing Store,
Corner Market and Square,
sepZ3 eOd3m spIstP NASHVILLE, TENN.
WHOLESALE CLOTHING.
THE
CLOTHING TRADE

We haze just opened a
larger Stock Of Ready-made
Goods, adapted to tie early
Fall and Winter aoedr of tie
Southwest, haD eUer before,
aohicb ne a0iU sell Ito mer-
chants only at the Uery
10 WEST EASTERN
PRICES, and ne earnestly
jaevite buyers to call and &c
anime oar Stock.
Particular attention is CALI
ed to oar Nea0 Styles Of Salts.
These Goods hare been con-
ceded By all e0ho hare eram-
med heDs superiority m
make, color and finish, and
o0jU satisfy any one that, at
the prices at a0hich a0e offer
them, they are the cheapest,
By tar, of any IN this market.
A taH line Of BeaUer o.
Coats and Gam Clothing on
sale. Orders carefully filed.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
FOREIGN.
Cholera Increasing at COnstantinOple.
CONSTANTINOPLE.
The Cholera Spreading,

LONDON, Nov. 14.-Letters from Con-
stantinople represent the cholera spreading
in that city. The number of deaths is in
creasing daily.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-15
Negro Ku-EIux.

A man named Ray, colored, struck a
white boy named Leroy, with an AK yester-
day, inficting a serious if not fatal wound.
Seven Hundred Ballots!
e LITTLE Rock, Nov. 14.-After ballOting
over seven hundred times for President
without result, the City Council adjourned
at one o'clock this A. NJ. until Friday night.
The vote is tie, all new members voting
together and old ones together.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-16

attention of the public from the extraordinary
rovanes of the same fiery element in Micnlgao,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana ana e'se'
where. Immense fires have been raging III
the Western forests for the last TIVE weeks. II
10 said that in Wisconsin the fires have had no
narsllel since the settlement Of the country.
Two thousand square miles are reported TO De
swept BIZ the fianses. In Michigan it is stated
that five villages have been entirely ano
two partially destroyed. AL that poruon
Of the State east of Saginaw Bay, anu
north OF a point forty miles above Fort
Hnron. has been burnt over, and mum
hers of persons have perished. scarcely
county in the State but has suffered more VI
less. The damage 10 the pine lanas is luca'-
cu,able. There was a light rain on "eones-
dav which seemed to have checked the pro-
rrsss of The fires through the State. The fires
have burned iercely in the immense woods IN
some portions of Minnesota. Wood and pra-
re fires, as published in our latest dispatches,
are also reported to be raging along the line OF
the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago rail-
road, between New Albany, Indiana, and La
tayette, on the North End road, destroying
miles of fences, hay, grain in stack, corn in
the field, houses, barns and cattle pens. There
had been long and protracted drought In the
West, and the flames went over the country as
if it were tinder 1t is feared that the losses
will prove enormous, and assistance is said to
be needed nearly all through the Northwest
where these fires have been raging.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-16
The Columbia Ring.

The war upon the Columbia Municipal
Ring il carried on by the MenLc with
vigor and judgment, but the South Carolina
Keysers and Ingersolls will not abandon
their schemes OF plunder without fight.
AS we understand it, the condition OF affairs
at the capital is this: The City Council, con-
trary to the expressed wishes OF the tax
payers, advertised for contracts for tue
6utfding-of city hall and market. Three
bids for the city hall were made, and two
for the market To Senator Allen, as the
lowest bidder, Was awarded the contract for
the city hall at Sl2S,000; the contract for
the market ut SlS,6 being awarded to
Smith & Simons. AS these sums were vastly
more than was expected 10 lie paid some
disnterested citizens, at the suggestion of
the Phenic, undertook to investigate the
matter, and they soon obtained proof that
the amount agreed upon was $40, 200 or
$50, 900 more than the legitimate cost OF the
Etwo buildings. They also discovered that
lshere was only one genuine bid for each
'building-that OF Allen, who is well-knowu
lin connection with eXtrlvagant contracts
for s'puttlng pane OF glass" in the State
capitol. No member OF the Radical City
Council raised his voice ageinst the mon.
stroas contracts; but Alderman Wigg did
condescend 70 say that Columbia "was not