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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
WISCONSIN ARIRE!
Houses, Barns and Fields i'm
Flames.

The Only safety Under Ground.
MILWAUKEE, Sept 27.-Late news from
the fire raging along the coast between
Msnitowss and Chicopee, state that the
flames were tapping up everything, sweep
ing houses, barns, stores and piers in its
course
Henry Marshall, of this city, who made
his escape through the fiery element
at the risk of his own life and his horses,
which were badly scorched, counted %
dwellings, and barns reduced to ashes.
The losses in Kewanee county will reach
quarter of million. The farmers are
burying their household goods in the
ground to save them from destruction.
as communication has been cut off the
exact situation cannot be learned, but it
is feared that unless rain sets in, the dam
age and perhaps loss of life will be fear
fuL The wells are all dried up, and the
lake is the only resort.
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Tennessee and Paciflc Rauroad,

Though this road, connecting Nashville
with; Lebanon, ia only thirty miles in
length, yet its freight and passenger traffic
is both large and profitable. The road bed
has been improved very much within the
past few months and is now smooth and
easy. The passenger coaches will compare
favorably with those Of any road in
the Stats, while the freight cars
are substantial, well built, and the
locomotives of fine workmanship and great
power. The road at present is in pros
porous condition, and We hope to see it
extended within the next twelve months.
Its management, under Col. Psrsmore, has
been judicious, economical and satisfacto-
ry to all parties interested, and its conduc-
tors are polite, efficient, and atten-
tive and courteous 10 passengers.
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Resolutions Endorsing the Admins
tration and Counting the Women
BALTIMORE.
The Commercial Convention.
whIskey and Insurance,

whiskey and Insurance.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 27.-The National
Commercial Convention assembled at ten
o'clock.
The roll of the States called for res0lu-
tions and the following were Offered: rel
ative to making Helena, Arkansas a port
of entry; improvement of the st. Johns
river, Florida; relative to abuses of the
Internal Revenue Department by the
seizure of goods, by irresponsible agents,
for alleged violation of law; relative to
change in the law taxing whisky; for
abolshing all special taxes and fixing
general tax to be paid at the distillery;
also that Congress pass an act establish
ing an export tax on raw tobacco; State
legislation in regard to insurance compa-
MES; recommending the removal of all
discrimination by State laws against the
companies of other States, and memorial
iZing Congress TO consolidate the per
diem barrel tax en- dis illed whisky;
asking an appropriation by Congress for
aid In constructing and repairing the
levees on the Mississippi river; relative to
appropriations by Congress for improV-
ing Charleston harbor, the Ohio liver and
other waters; recommending all States to
enact free general railroad law; relative
to the removal of the duty on Canada
white pine lumber; to check the destruc-
ton of cur own pine forest; scknowl-
edging the authority of Congress over the
territory of the United States, and its
right to grant charters for the
construction of roads in the
several States, which was offered by
Mr.. Rhodes, of Ohio, also offared a
resolution as to the necessity of discrim-
mating between Eastern steamboats, and
ocean steamers carrying passengers and
Western steamboats, and steam tugs car
ryipg freight only in cSnformity to the
legislation of Congress, all of which reso-
lutions were appropriately referred.
Mr.. CoIbett, of New Orleans, submit
ted an opinion upon the cOnstitutionality
of imposing discriminating tax upon the
sale or introduction within the State lin
its of articles produced in or introduced
from sister States.
The report of the committe appointed
at the Cincinnati Convention to raise
funds for the survey of the gulf coast
and Florida peninsula, was read, stating
they found it impossible TO raise the
money, and recommending that an effort
be made to obtain appropriations from
Congress for this purpose.
A special committee was appointed to
enquire into the improvement in railroad
brakes, switches, ETC., and report to the
next convention. Adjourned till to-mor-
row a. 10 A NJ.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
Number OF indictments.

The following is the number of indict-
ments pending in the United States Court,
at Nashville, under the Sd section of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Oonsti:u-
ton of the United States. Supreme judges
l; Circuit Judges, 2; County jude /;
Justices Of the Peace, 2S; Circuit Court
Clerks, 8; County Court Clerks, 1; Deputy
Clerks, 1; Revenue Collectors, 8; Consta-
bles, 6; Sheriffs, 5; Sheriff., Deputy, B.;
Clerk and Master, l; member House Rep
Fesentatives, /; member Senate, /; maxim g
in all fifty eight indictments, some of which
include several persons indicted jointly.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
ST. LOUIS.
The COIored Convention.
Gem. Grant Renominated

ST. LOUIS, Sept 26 The National
Colored Convention this morning, after a
closing speech by Mr.. Mshoney, of Indi-
ana, came to vote on the msjority re-
port of the Business Committee on the
subject of amnesty, and adopted it unan-
imously. This report reaffirms the ns-
tional Republican platform of 1853.
The Business Committee then reported a
series of resolutions taking strong grounds
in favor of the Republican party and
nominating Gen. Grant for President.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
TENNESSEE NEWS.

A negro living near Lewisburg, Mar
shall county, Owls an eight months old
pig that has three ears.
The Marshall Gazette is publishing in
series very interesting and ably written
sketches of Marshall county.
Rev. ]. FL. Mengert, ofBsltimore, held
meeting night before last in Chatta-
nOoga for the purpose of founding an
Anglo German Lutheran Church there.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

1t is perhaps we'll to remind all parties
concerned that by the act of 1868 8, chap.
56, section SO, passed Feb. 25, 1869, the
charter of the city Of Nashville was so
amended ''tba. hereafter no person shall
be entitled to vote in any municipal cleo
ton in the city of Nashville for corporate
officers thereof, who is not bona tide reg
ident Of the ward in which he shall offer
his vote, and qualified to vote for men,
bers of the General Assembly under exist
ing laws of the State. All nonresident
property owners shsll not be entitled to
vote in said elections unless they have
owned the property six months before they
offer their votes"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
FOREIGN.
GREAT BRITAIN.

Claim against a City for Assassina-
tion.
LONDON, Sept. 27.-The relatives of
the Fenian informer, Talbot, who was
killed several months ago, have preferred
a claim of $4,000 against the city of
Dublin as compensation for his death.
Royalty.
The health of the Queen has not i'm
proved. Gladstone is paying her visit
at BslmoraL The Prices of Wales has
returned.
One thousand pounds has been raised
in London for the sufferers of the hurri-
cane and earthquake on the Island of Au-
tiCua.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

The Catholic Record

Dan NeyIan, Pablo Square, has placed
on our table the October number Of this
religious monthly. Among its contents
we notice a timely disquisition on the Dol
linger move entitled Another Reformation;
The Monks Story; The Home of the ex-
lied Stuarts; characterization; The Legend
Of Blessed Spirit; The Catholic Idea in
Dramatic Literature; Ohateaubriand, and
The Bible Before the Reformation, besides
the usual miscellany of lighter reading.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
Special Premiums for our Fair Next
Month.

In addition to the regular premiums for
model gelding and mare in harness on
Thursday the 4th day of the Fair Mr.. John
Cheathsm offers the following: A fine
buggy whip to the best broken mare and
gelding in harness and q fine pair Of driv-
ing gauntlets to the next best, besides
awarding to each contestant farm right OF
his ''patent farm gate" The test as to the
superiority of the harness stock will be
made by driving through two Of his gates
erected for that purpose in the ring.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
THE COURTS

CIsc1Tr . UBr Ia ihs suit Of Geo. ".
Sad. ~ rs lmes Il Campbell and 9th
ers Judgment was rendered against the
l-t:er for 800. Testimony, argument and
charge we're heard in me case Of FsrRus0n
* Creighton Va. The3. Seifrisd, and the
iury Iespited until to-day. This morniDg
the dOekst win bs called from No. s61 10
No. $50.
CRIMINAL CoUBr.-Owing to the absence
Of Gen. Bate, counsel foE the defendant,
the trial Of Patrick Moore, indicted for
murdeF, ~as deferred until Monday next.
james Roy. indicted for larceny, plead
guilty, the jury axsd his tenn at hve years
and sentence was passed upon him Pat
r:sk Halfiu, iadiotsd for malicious stsboing
was acquitted as to that ehaEge, and foHnd
guilty Of assault and battery. sentence
rot vet passed. Trial was commenced in
| the case Of the State vs. Willis Roberson,
| colorsd. iadiotsa for arcsDy, and portion
OF lhs testimony heard before ths hour of
adjournment -......-
BHEs / asvOlsd to God my ease, my
,ig. ...' Iiis, did I except my FepGtstioo7
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

The editor of Nears State Gazette
offers three premiums $3.50 at the Dyer
County Fair commencing Tuesday, Oct.
II, and continuing five days.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

The rural portions of Rhode Island
complain that Providence hiss too much
pow r in their Legislature. 1t is a COM
plant never made in any other State in
the Union. t.. -.aF+4s ...
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
Charge Not Sustained. .

Edward Jordan and wife, colored, were
yesterday srrsigued befo:e Justice GAS
getty on the charge Of kidnapping female
child. Thsy we're acquitted.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

MOST of the shadows that cross our path
through life are caused by our standing in
our Own light.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

James Garter, the colored individual ar
rested last Tuesday for passing ountsrfeit
money, was yesterday committl u to jail by
United States Oommissi oner, Tnmble.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

There Is an essential mesnness in the
wish TO get the better of any one; the only
composition worthy wise man is with
himself.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

TENNESSEE RoNDs closed in New York
last evening at n for the old issue and
71I for the new.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
SWITZERLAND.
TrucuIent Psace-makers,

LOUsANNE, Sept. 26.-The session of
the Peace League Congress to-day was
tumultuous. Many speakers defended
the acts of the Paris Commune.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

DIFFERENCE is the most delicate, the most
indirect, and the most elegant of all COM
pliments. .-iShenst0He.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

BE not sorry that men do not know you,
but be sorry that you are ignorant of men.
Con fucius.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
TNON AND AMERICAN.

GoLD opened dullin New York yestef-
day at 114s aud sold down to dll4s, but
subsequently advanced to 1l4s. ~
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

Last weeks Lincoln County Ne,O8
has sn atDrac ige and valuable sketch of
Lincoln county.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

More men grow Old from having nothing
to do, than from overwork. The running
machine win ketp bright for years--the
idle machine will soon rust out.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
THE
CLOTHING TRADE.

We haze Just opened a
taryer Stock Of Ready-mGde
Goods, adapted to tie early
Fall and Winter acear of the
Southwest, hdn eUer before,
a0htch a0e aoiU sell Ito mer-
chants Only) at tie Gerry
10 VEST EASTERN
PRICES, aad lCe earnestly
ihvjte buyers to call dnd er-
anime our Stock.
Particular attention Is cali
Cd to Oatr Nea0 Styles Of SuitS.
These Goods haze been con-
cedet By all a0hO hare eram-
t@ed them, superiority IN
make, color and finish, and
a0iU satisfy any one hat, at
the prices at aohich ace offer
them, they are the cheapest,
by tar, Of any jn MiS market.
4 full line Of Bearer o.
Goats and Gam Clothing on
sale. Orders carefully filed.
BOLIVAR H. COOKE & Co.,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
b. II. COOKE,
J p. WHITE.
IKarer00mS No. 20 Px6Iic
Square.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

CorToN is in good request in New York
at 1870 for middling.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

PRIDE is increased by ignorance; those
Who sssums the most are usually those
WAC know the Ieas..
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
-"
THE MEDICINE HE NEERED.

Some twenty-five years ago, Deacon
p, good citizen of Gloucester, Mass. +,
was taken i'll with fever. The doctor
was sent for, the good old deacon went
through with the fever, and there was
but little prospect of his getting well, he
was so weak. He was dreadful hun
cry ell the time, so much so that he used
40 dream of good things 10 eat, and
when he awoke and found it sll dream,
was terribly disappointed. The doctor
absolutely forbade his eating anything but
thin Cruel, and a small allowance even of
that Now, the deacon thought he might
as well die one way as another, and was
not going to be starved If he could help
it. Ole morning as he lay on his bed
half ssletp, he saw his wife pass through
the room with roast chicken, which she
was G ing to put in the closet of the room
adjoining, to keep for supper.
Ee quickly resolved to eat that fowl
himself, so when his wife returned, he
called her 20 his bedside and said ''that
he believed he could get some sleep if
she would lot enter the room during the
forenoon, and would also keep the chill
dreD from making any noise" To this
she willingly assented, and when
she left he made all the exer-
ton in his power 10 ''get up
and get" for the chicken. He was fear
fully weak, but hunger drove him on, aud
sfter q severe trial, and obtaining the
fowl, he crawled back to bed. Wasn't it
delicious, and didn't he roll the savory
morse.s under his tongue2 Nor did he
stop until all was eaten. What
10 d. with the bones was the
next thing. He was too weak to get up,
so be put them under his pillow and
quietly went to sleep, feeling much re-
freshed with his meal. When he awoke,
the doctor was there, who congratulated
his patent upon the marked improvement
In bis appearance, remarking ''thst he
knew tue medicine left the day previous
w,,uld have an astonishing good effect.
This made the deacon smile, ss well it
IL ght Now the wife thought that with
tae 5ctor's assistance, it would be cap
isl chance to get her husband up and
mske the bed. He protested against it,
but finally assente :, and the good woman
in pulling off the sheet pulled the pile of
bones TO the floor. If ever there was a
surprised femLe it was the deacon's
wife She locked st the deacon, and
the deacon looked at her, and finally told
his story. The listeners were borri-
fed, fearing that death would speedily
en-ue from such meal by a sick man.
"Don't trouble yourself about that, for
the chicken was all needed" said the
deacon, "and am going to have another
tomorrow, as tie ore ate to day has
had most astonishing effect" The
doctor protested against it, but it was of
no avail The deacon's dander was riz,
and by means of a generous diet he was
Up and about his business in ten days
time
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
KS0XVILLE.
Fatal Rencontre Yesterday

Ht3ll HencOntr6 OsItIuaJ
A SON of Judge Nelson Kills }. HI.
CIanton, of Alabama.
KNoxvlLLE, TENN, Sept. &.-CoL d.
NJ. Nelson, son of Judge T. A. r. Mel
son, of the Supreme Court shot and
killed Gen. ]. 81. Clsnton, of Ala, this
morning in a personal rencontre.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
SYRACUSE.
Tbe ClashiDg OF the CLANS.

A Succession of UprOarioui
t Scenes.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28
TRE NEW QUEEN OF SPAIN AND
HER yUBJECTk. k4-

The sullen hostility of the nobility deem.
ened on the arrival of the Queen Dons
Maria Victoria at Madrid. While even
the rabble remembered the respect it
owed to the woman, if not the queen, and
'ealuied her kindly though without enthu-
'slasu, the mobiles fairly exhausted their
ingenuity In devising modes of mani
testing their spite and iIl-breeding.
when the queen drove past the
- veloz Club, its members stepped on the
balcony and pressed their hats over their
heads as low as the chin. The principal
palaces, the Medina Cell, the Vista Her
mosa, the Sexto, the Xipre, the Retortillo
and others of medieval fame, were not
only undecoTated, but locked up, when
she entered the capital Open
warfare wss insugurated by the fe-
male wing of the Grandeza against
this foreigner, this upstart. The most
bitter and unrelenting among the
Queens prosecutors were the Duchess of
Medina, Cell, and the Duchess of Cexto,
the latter Russian by birth, who had
become e French patriot as Duchess de
MorDy. and had subsequently, blossomed
out into full blooded Spanisrd. To ex-
hib4t their hatred of the ErtrGnQeri8inlO
ia the most public and offensive manner
became the whole study of these women.
On the Fuente Castellana, the fashion.
able drive, they appeared dressed in the
Bourbon fashion, white mantillas, lilac and
gigantic combs q lG Isabel When the
royal pair for the first time visited the
F1eDte Castellana, the Governor Of
Madrid wished nobility to comply with an
old custom by lining the drive with their
csrrisges on both sides, SO that the car
riages Of the Msjesties might psss up and
down alone in the center But no sooner
had the royal equipage reached the center
of the drive than all the carriages of the
mobility left the place. The next day this
insult was repeated, and with the aggra-
walton that the servants were clad in deep
mourning. But the rage and indignation
Of the mobiles eliminated when the
Queen, in defiance of the tradI-
iionsl etiquette of the Spanish court
ventured to show herself on the Prado,
unattended even by single maid
of honor. Since that fatal hour they
have broOded over the dark echeme to
emigrate in q body to Seville, and to
shake the duss of desecrated capital en-
tirely from their sristocratic feet. Such,
at least, is the threat gravtly held out by
the organ OK the nobility, the LilU
FIoJCeT and the Csrlistic Mdr9aritG.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-28

Bmss / GsvOSsd to God my ease, my
,ig ."e hie, did except my reputation ?
- RsslSg. " @ W q.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-10-13
RCTOES 4!

There are rumors on the street that
the chief officials of the E. T., Va.
& Ga r. r. have combined with the
Penn. Central for the defeat of the
entire railroad policy Of Va. and Ten
ncssee. To lie specific and bricf,
they are said to have sold to that cor
poration their own stock at par, slip
ulating that they are to be kept il
Office FOR tie Consideration that the
Memphis and Charleston Road be cut
off Fl ON lis Eastern connections, and
Malone from his Western connec-
tions, thus de troy ing the through
business OF both lines AID conyertin.
them into mere local reads. Nay
more! They were offered par fo'
the entire stock Of the road, thu.
saving ali the stockholders and pre-
serving the whole Interests oc bott
states, but they refused and left tho
large minority bound hand and foot.
We wish we could pronounce these on
ly rumors. Alas they seem we'll au
then,iuatad. We wish it cUnli ONLY
astound the people to whom we speak
But it will strike item with a dismr,
which We hope will cause them t.
arise in their legislative might to
ave themselves from a plot which
implies their ruin. Our space is ex-
hausted and we defer until our next
issue.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-10-13
Dcs,r..cliel ef Chicago.

The fifth in population of American
cities is in ashes. Chicago the latest
and grandest monument of Western
energy is first to fall. On Sunday
last that mighty city stood glIttering
in all the tinsel of wealth and magrili-
cence. On Monday its vast temples
and towers were gone. a fire the most
disastrous in the history of the West
crn world broke out Oh Sunday night
and the combined efforts of its three
hundred thousand people were utterly
Inavailing against it. Not until Tues
Gay was the mighty work of destruc-
ton stayed. lis hotels. Banks. Depot.
Telegraph and Express offices,
hurches and Newspapers, Except
the Tribune.l are gone. Its bridges,
ijs stores, Its elevators and its vast de-
pots Of grain are destroyed. \ hun
drcd thousand people are homeless
ANA hungry. Beneath the heated rub
l.sh of its demolished walls lie an un-
Known number of victims, burn ed
ai.d buried in the one moment of death.
Two hundred millions o dollars have
disappeared. The mightiest InSur-
snce companies of the Union are bro
Fen. New York itself tremhles he
Ioiu the awful disturbance. A num-
l,.f of firms have already failed
" here the shock will cease to be felt
il IL impossible 10 say, but under the
Sanihilation OF time and space,
wrought 10y the Telegraph and 10y
Steam, America has beco.le vast
1--we of busy cities, from which Il is
Impossible that one @; The chief of them
can he hurled without Il general shock
To all the others. Even Bristol may
feel the loss of Chicago for Il season.
quite trade has sprung up between
our merchants aud that late city. In
1887 Chicago had little over 1000 in
EIbitants. By the census of 1870 il
had 2'g, 900. Twenty-Five railIoa
found their termini in il and an hun
drcd aud fifty trains of cars, laden
with the trade and wealth of the OPP
uient Northwest, made their daily en-
trance into it. II was the great entire
lot for the commerce of the Mississip-
a. Valley which sought water COM
H.taicatIon with Europe. The burnt
district is five miles long and and one
Inilc wide, and the number of houses
d ',trnycd l. over ten thousand. But
the city will rise fIom its ashes and
a AIN astoniSh mankind.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-10-13

Col. w, NJ. Hopkins thinks We do
him injustice in connection with the
Saturday caucus in Abingdon, as he
was not in town on that day. Yet he
admits that on 2hurSday he vas acjds
tie parties named ia the CGfce alluded
to, and that the subject discussed was
the caliing o. Co"re,,tiOR, though he
says he expressed the opinion that a
contention was not necessary. Col
II. may see tie distinction, but the
people will fail to see the difference.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-10-13

TIE riot in Dauville Oh the 30th
W of ~ serio' p7opoIti ms than
'.,nsequence. The arrest of a negro
Lny for theft, was resisted by his
brother. and the policeman calling
IF aid. some three or four hundred
negroes, men, women, boys and girls
ADDED in resisting the posse. The ri
ct act was read by tie mayor. and
the Grays called out, and bayOnet
barge ordered. The mayor and sew
e Al Others, were slightly injured
worst d tnc negroes was severity
h;yo etcl.