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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18

BY FATHER RYAN,
The waves were weary and they vent to sleep,
The Windswere hushed,
The starlight flushed
The furrowed face of all the mighty deep.
The pillows yester eve SO dark and Wild, -
Wave strangely now Hss
A calm upon their brow, =
Like that which rests upon a Graded childL
The sky was bright, and every single star,
With cleaning face,
Was in its place,
And looked upon the sea--so fair and far.
And all was still-still as temple dim z-
Where low and faint
As mourners plant,
Dies the last note Of the Nesper hymn.
A bark slept on the sea--and in the bark
Slept Mary's Son.
Whose face Is Light! where all, all else is dark!
His brow was heavenward turned, His face was
he dreamed of me flair;
On that still sea- g
The stars, He made, cleaned through His hair,
And 10! a moan moved DER the mighty deep,
The sky drew dark!
The little bark
Felt all the waves awaking from their sleep.
The winds walled wild, and wilder pillows beat;
The bark was tossed:
Shall all be lost?
But Mary's Son slept on-serene and sweet.
The tempest ragged, in all its mighty wrath
The winds hOwled on
All hope seemed gone,
And darker waves surged round the bark's lone
path.
The sleeper woke! He gazed upon the deep
He whispered-HPea ce!
Winds-wild waves, cease!
Be still" The tempest fied-the ocean fell asleep.
And all ! when human hearts by storms are
When life's lone bark tossed;
Drifts through the dark,
And mid the widest waves, where all seems lost,
He now, as then, with words of power and peace,
Murmurs-"St Stormy deep,
Be still-still-and sleep!"
Aud 10! great calm comes-the tempeSt's per-
ills cease!
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18
NECKS AND ARMS.

One of the Eastern papers, speaking of
the necks which are so lavishingly exhibited
by the toilettes of the day, says scraggy
necks are the fashion, and where ladies have
no hollows, and creases, and bones, they
employ artists to paint them, and that per-
son would be astOnished were he or she to
have a view next morning Of the neCks
which had appeared so old and yellow and
wrinkled the night before, to see how plump
and white they were. Another tells a story
of gentleman who had lady on his arm
who wore very handsome, wide bracelets,
and who was remarkable for the beauty of
her arms. The lady's bracelet became I'M
clasped, and while she was herself fastening
it-which she insisted on doing-he OBJ
served a peculiar movement in her flesh
from the wrist to the elbow. The move
ment continued all the while the lady was
working with her bracelet, but ceased when
she removed her hand. He concluded from
what he saw that there were such things as
arms parts of which were laid aside at
night.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18
NELSON'S CRAZY LOVER.
He Got Out Of the Lunatic Asylum
but No One Knows How.

From the New York World.
It will be remembered that one Charles
T. Busch was confined in the lunatic asy-
lum some five or six weeks ago, having
been adiudged insane on account of his
annoying Mile. Nilsson, by entering her
room at the Clarendon, and by attempting
OsculatOry salutes. He had been incarcer-
ated but a short time when the warden Of
The Workhouse, discovering that he was
Onlya monomaniac on the subject of Nils
sons love, made him messenger of that
institution. He performed the duties in
cumbent on him faithfully, and gave gene
raj satisfaction until four or five days ago,
when he was sent with letter from War
den keenan, to the captain of the boat
which plies between the city and the island
under the auspices of the commissioners of
charities and correction. Tie Warden, at
ter waiting two hours for an answer, con-
Guided to seek for the delinquent, and found
him not. Every Granny and nook on the
island was searched, but no traces of the
missing Busch were found The washtubs
were counted, but all were there save the
one used wO months ago by the mad youth
who employed it to cross the swift and tur-
bid current which separates the ''island"
from its neighbors. The boat was searched,
but no stovy-away was there, and as she
had not left her moorings since Busch was
last seen the mystery of his escape
was deepened, and, indeed, it has not
vet been calculated. Subsequent
ly an officer was put upon the track of the
escaped prisoner. He searched the city
from end to end, and was about giving up
his task as hopeless, when he heard, while
standing in front of a house on North
William street, sweet airs of "Mignon"
and "Traviata," for all the world such as
he had listened to innumerable times as
they were struck from the hand of the de-
mented lover He stepped closer to the
window and peered in. There truly was
Busch, seated at the piano, running bis
fingers nimbly over the keys, and weeping
at his own melody The arrest was made,
Busch was again transplanted, but how he
ever got away from the ''island" is thing
that, as Duntlreary says, ''no fellow can find
ONT
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18

The following are the cotton quotation,
received at the National Savings Company,
corner Union and College streets, where
cotton, gold, bond and stock quotations are
received hourly, and are always accessible
to the public:
LIVERPOOL, Feb. II, 11:15-Cotton firm.
Middling uplands l156114d; Orleans 11ad.
Sales to-day 1900 bales.
NEW YORK, Feb. II, 10:1O.-Market
firm. Ordinary 204c; good ordinary 21fc;
low middling 22aac; middling 235c; Alabama
234c; Orleans 233c; Texas23ac. February
delivery 224c; March % 13-f6c; April 90 &c.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. II, 3:00.-Market un-
changed. Middling uplands 1150l14d; Or
leans IT'D. Sales 1900 bales.
NEW YORK, Feb. II, 12:10.-Market
strong. Ordinary203c; good ordinary 215c;
low middhng 22sc; middling 234c; Alabama
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18

When slowly In the crimson west
The evening shadows gently fall,
I. And twilight hour-the one loved best
80 Comes stealing softly Ger us all,
( u love in easy chair TO sit ss
And muse, while quietly knit 9u
I dream of years when was young,
Ia And lovers limited was fair.
81 And Of my eyes in rapture sung,
Or praised my silky nut-broWn hair.
Twas long ago-yet here sit
Before the IRE and calmly knit.
Alasl those locks are scant and gray,
The eyes have lost their witching light;
The lips that praised have passed away,
And over all has fallen the blight
OF time-and here alone sit 81
Before the fire and sadly knit
1 think Of those who'ye gone before
The dear ones so fOndly loved
And yielding to the magic power
OF memories all too deeply moved,
sOftlyweep as here sit
Before the fire to dream and knit.
And soon too shall pass away,
And one who now is young and fair,
Will often sit at close of day,
As twilight shadows gather near,
And tell how "mother" used to sit
In the old easy chair and knit.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18
WOMEN AND sTIMULANrs.

The English papers have again taken up
the subject of intOXicatiOn among women,
particularly among those of the higher
classes. One of them lately tells and vouch-
es for fearful story Of titled mother who
not only drank to intoxication, but poured
brandy down the throat of little daughter,
a lovely child of three years of age, whom
she was in the habit of taking out with her
in her carriage, because it made her eyes so
bright and her cheeks so red, and she pratt
tied SO fUnnily. Some of the New York
papers have lately drawn attention to the
advertisements of certain apothecaries, who
state that they have fine old brandy put up
in pint and half pint bottles for medicinal
purposes, 1t is their way of informing
their female customers where they can get
the stimulant without trouble, and with no
questions asked. Physicians of the present
day are beginning to hesitate in any case
to prescribe alcoholic spirits for their
patients, particularly for women,
as the habit of drinking is known in very
many cases to have been contracted by fol-
lowing doctors prescription. a very en-
inent physician, however, disagreed with
many of his brethren in this particular. 1t
is his opinion that the temperament of the
American women is such that they need
stimulants, and should take them every
day at their meals in the form of beer, ale,
or wine. More rare beef and beer, he says,
would make better mothers and stronger
children. In general, they are confirmed
tea and coffee drinkers, because they feel a
need which tea and coffee supply, but which
beef and beer would much better furnish.
He speaks ofan Eastern city where the wo-
men in late years have learned to "dip."
Their mouths are constantly foul with snuff,
to the use of which the same want has
driven them. In men he says people call
this inclination diseased appetite; in wo-
men it is a diseased temperament. Let
them use wines as the people of Europe
use them, and both their health and morals
won d be improved by their so doing.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18

Te the Editors Of the Union and American:
1t is quite interesting in a visit to the
Patent Office in this city, to see the relics
of the Dlustrious George Washington and
his most worthy spouse, contained in one
of the countless hundreds of cases which
are arrayed in the spacious halls Of this inn
mense building-fOr the means Of display
ing the thousands Of models for the thous
apds Of inventions that are the fruits of the
industrious brain. of the Yankee nation.
There before the eyes Of the admiring be-
holder hang the blue swallow-tailed brass
buttoned coat, the buck-skin vest and pants
of the above distinguished gentleman.
Dangling from the shoulder frame upon
which they hang, they look exceedingly
cOmical and one is prone to eXclaim
Shrine of the mighty, can it be
That this Is all remains of thee!
And in the same case is the camp-chest Of
the immortal 'sRebel." The three tin-plates
need polishing immensely and doubt
not bat that the worthy Mrs. Martha
Washington would think so too, were
she alive to behold them. The iron
knives and forks, with black horn handles,
need the attention of thrifty house-keeper.
Surely Gen. Washington never ate peas with
those small, twO-pronged forks. And there
Is the blue porcelain table service presented
by Gen. Lafayette to Mrs. Martha Wash
ington. Surely, Mrs. Martha, china has i'm
proved since your day. And there are her
blue glass fnger-bowls, into which she dip
ped her aristocratic fingers after dessert.
There is the quaint old bureau, with its
Inountines Of brass, and the small oval
glass in which Mrs. Martha gazed upon her
own happy countenance. Who knows but
what this most worthy woman sometimes
fixed her lips, whilst gazing into this little
mirror, into the "prunes and prisms" smile
SO much admired by the late Mrs. General in
Iittle DOrrit," Many of these souvenirs have
been taken from darlington, once the home
of our great and beloved "Lee." To me
thew were more sacred from thatreason than
that they had once belonged to the great
Gen. Washington.
In a case adjoining is the original chart OF
the American Independence. 1t has been
much remarked upon that, whilst the de-
claration itself is intact and perfectly legl-
bic, only the names of one or two OF the
signers are to be read, even that OF John
Hancock is scarcely legible. The names
like those who wrote them have faded away.
The tsTreasIlre Chest Of the Government
Of those DAYS is a small iron box about a
foot and a half long and one foot wide
hardly large enough for a "Lady Teazle" to
carry her laces in. And so in these cases
are contained antiquities of the "FatheI
of his Country"
You can see Grant almost any
day walking down Pennsylvania Av-
enIa with cigar in his mouth
Yais very much like his portraits, only moi
[,,,,te 90 GOOD looking and has by no means q
military air or carriage. Mrs. Grants not
handsome woman-on the contrary, il
MAI the French call ''laide," and is very
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18
SAFETY VALVES.
To Owners and Captains Of steam Ves-
sells, and All others intersaeed
I'm Steam GauEes-
Clark Steam ReglSterfne Garge.

O10AA OtC4Au htsISktIlUk UlE8Cs
HAVING BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED
Supervising Inspectors for application tc steam
vessels, in conformity with the rules and regula-
tons passed BY them for the Carrying cut Of the
Steamboat Law, requiring the application Of
steam he gistermg Gauges to all vessels prOpell-
ed in Whole OF in part BY steam, as PROMULGATED
by circulal order from the Treasury Department
bearing date Nov. 6, ISL,
And being the only Registering Gauge
now Manufactured
and offered to the public, filing the require-
ments Of said rules and regulations, We, the nm
dersigned, respectfully call your attention to the
fact that we are the sole owners Of tie right to
manufacture and vend said Gauges, and are now
ready 10 I'LL orders therefor in any required num-
Der and pressure We warrant these Gauges TO
be OF superior wsrkmanshfp, and to have beeFi
tested by a Standard Mercury Column before
leaving the factory.
This Gauge is specially adapted for application
70 az boilers In use for land purposes, IL being
the first invention in the history Of the world
brought out at any time for the purpose Of regis
tering steam; thus giving TO all parties who are
using steam Tor land purposes, not only prOtee-
ton 70 life, but absolute protection 70 property;
ahording positive knowledge as t. whether their
boiler, under excessive pressure, has at any time
been strained, which no steam gauge now in use
except this has been able b give. Parties who
are using steam can readily appreciate its i'm
pOrtance, aud We cordially invite all sueh to call
upon our Agent, whOWIll be happy to show them
the Register and Its operation under pressure.
IN proof Of their merit we insert the following
testimony:
WAsHINgTOS, d. G., March -, 1SI1.-Rear
Admiral John A. Dahlgren, u. 5. n, Command
ant-SiT: In obedience 10 your instructions of the
18th inst, have examined and tested the Regis
tering Steam Gauges invented by Mr.. Z. Clark,
and respectfully report that it is exceedingly
simple In its construction, certain in its action,
reliable in its indications and liable 70 little
no arrangement. 1 think the device complete
for the purpose intended 70 be accomplished.
Very respectfully your Obedient servant,
(Signedl CHAS. H. EORING,
Chief Engineer, U. s. n.
Respectfully, WHITE & PAYNE.
JEWELL & BACHUS, Louisville, XIV,
General Agents South and West.
PERRY &c DUMONT, Agents, .r.
jaul9 eOdf Nashville, TeDn.
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UNION AND AMERICAN.
For the Union and American.
AT NIGHT NEAR MABEL LEE.
BY GEO. F. sTAEsBURY

BY GEO. F. sTAEsBURY.
When the evening shadows creeping
Meath the winters dismal sun;
And the playful firelights leaping,
Woke the fancies that were sleeping
Till the evening had begun;
When the duh gray day had ended,
Peace and satisfaction blended,
Every happy face attended
At the fireside then, Sdre one.
I'll ere was one, among the number
of the faces meeting thine,
Which the graver shades cucumber,
One on which the fanCies slumber.
And that gTaveT face was mine.
For l felt that in the faces
Stationed in fam liar places,
There was not, amid their graces,
Room for strangers to entwine.
And I thought of other meetings
In a great tar distant town,
Where the dear ones in their greetings
Mark the iaggard times slow Feelings,
With jealous setting down
OF each wintTy storm, whose blowing
Seems to mark each weeks slow going,
To that time, with love o'erfOwing,
They can welcome me, their own.
If seem'd a little lonely
While your face was bright and gay;
If / shOw'd that / was lonely,
And my face, and my face only,
Lacked a single cheerful ray;
Oh, believe me, was drinking
Eager thoughts of home, and linking
Your sweet face, that set me thinking,
With their love, some happy day.
1 have asked you if you love me,
BuL the secret still has slept.
While from out the clouds above me
As Il naught / said could move thee
Silence, tween US two has Crept.
II YOU care to move this sadness,
And to make my heart all gladness,
Or 20 light my face with gladness,
Say the word that you have kept.
Tell me that you love me, Dearest!
Then my loneliness will be
Far of gone when you are nearest
All nv fancies bright and clearest;
Ailmy happiness, in thee!
If thy dearest of caresses
Be the tenderness that blesses.
IN feel, in the face mine presses,
Their love, in yours, Mabel Lee
And III never, never ponder
When the tirelights dancing be.
Nor III never, never wander
From the sweet spell III be under
In your love, sweet Mabel Lee.
But the home loves will be shining
Brightly on your face, entwining
Theirs with your sweet love, combining
All in all the world for me.
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Nashville Grocery Market.

SUGARs-New Orleans, good to prime
96114c in hOgsbeads; .Demerara 12B6l3c,
Porto Rico 10611t by the hogshead; stand
ard hards 1890; New Orleans clarified white
12a612ac; do yellow 1910; A coffee 13c; Is
do l2sc; extra G do 1870.
MoLAssEs AND SYRUPs-We quote New
Orleans soc; syrups 456s0c; golden syrup
75c.
COFFEE-We quote Rio, common TO
choice 246253c; Laguayra 25626c; Java
304032ac; Costa Rica 25626c.
NAILs-We quote at 1925 for i0ds and
25c additional for diminishing grades. Stock
almost exhausted.
SALT-Has been reduced to s. per bar
rel for bushel barrels by the car load.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18

23ic; Orleans 2Ssc;; Texas .s35c. February
delivery 22sc; March &c; ldsy 25sc.
NEW Y oRK, Feb. II, 2:30.-COtton quiet
but firm. Future deliveries strong. Ordi-
nary uplands 205c; good ordinary pc; low
middling 222c; middling 233c; Alabama
235ac; Orleans 2Sac; Texas 24c Sales So
day 201 bales for export; 240 bales for con
sumption. February delivery % 1l-10c;
March CSC; April 23sc. 15
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18
SPECIAL NOTICES.
ON MARRIAGE.

Happy Relief for Young Men from the ef-
fects OF Errors and Abuses in early life. Man
hood restored. Seminal emissions cured. ImPe-
diments to Marriage removed. New method OF
treatment. New and remarkable remedies.
Books and Circulars sent free, in sealed en-
velOpes. Address, HOWARD ASSOCIATION,
No. 2, South Ninth St., Philadelphia, Pa
decZT-dScW3m.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18

Gold opened in New York yesterday at
110!, and closed at the same rate. Dealers
here were paying 109a and wele holding at
1104.
Exchange on New York is taken by the
banks at ! discount and is sold by them at
premium.
Government securities were quoted in
New York yesterday as follows:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18

aloe. Coffee quiet, ordinary zoe, fair 2O2
621c; good 2ld21c, prime 2l2622c, all
others unchanged; repeat yesterdays prices.
Sterling 195; sight /! discount Gold 10.
chicago Markets.
CHICAGO, Feb. 7.-FloH-There Is a
fair feeling in this market Influenced by
good inquiry and rather limited offering.
The demand was mainly from the South for
low extras and superine; the range for
spring extras was S5.7566.75. Wheat
81 25sd1.255. Corn 405e. Rye 726173c.
Barley 583d59c. Mess Pork S12. 35612.4O.
Lard $3.50. Picked hams unchanged.
Bulk meats strong and a shade higher,
shoulders 4sG4ae; short rib middlings Gle;
short clear middlings SIC. Green meats
steady, shoulders 4c, short ribs 5ic; short
clear &c; hams 63c. Hogs, S4.1564.s5.
Dressed in moderate request at 1856.
Whisky sc.
81. Louis Markets.
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 17.-Flour sG.5O6S.25.
Wheat-No. 2 spring S13456135; No. 8
fall $1.6S61.69. Corn I64I5c. Oats 3Sc.
Barley 75e. Rye 776S0c. Whisky dull at
SIC. Mess Pork $3.50. Dry salt meats
quiet. Bacon unchanged; shoulders 6d64c;
clear rib 72c. Lard-considerable demand
for future delivery; prime steam delivered
in April Sc. Hogs 4604ic. Cattle quiet
at 2653c.
Cincinnati Markets.
CINCINNATI, Feb. I7.-Flour aud grain
unchanged. Groceries steayy. Linseed oil
S7aS9c. Lard oil S3aS5e. Eggs Soc. Butter
20625c. Cheese I4616Bc. Mess pork
S13 offered, S12.25 asked. Lard-9a94c.
asked, and but few sellers. Bulk meats ga
6.d63c; holders not willing to sell to any
extent. Bacon dull; shoulders and sides
6s67Ic. Hogs $4.50U4.75. Whisky SIC.
LOWIsVIIIe Markets.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 17.-Bagging IN
changed. Flour, extra family 1913. Wheat,
red and white, S1.GO61.75. Corn Coo.
Oats 50652c. Rye 92c. Provisions active
and prices well maintained. Mess pork
$3.50. Bacon, shoulders sc; clear rib 75c;
clear sides 75c. Bulk meats 1c less THAI
bacon. Hams, sugar cured, 123c; plain
11ac. Sales 500 tierces on private terms.
Lard unchanged. Whisky S7dSSc.
Memphis Markets.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 17.-Flour market bare.
Corn 5S659c. Oats 5Sa6Oc on store. Hay
quiet and unchanged. Bran-Market bare.
Bulk shoulders SIC; clear sides 7sa7ic.
Lard 9Ja105c.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18

THE Chucbman has something to say in
condemnation of the "extraordinary taste
which this nation has for doing itself dis
recent funeral of James Fisk, Jr. Owing
to his having been a ''notOriety," the jour-
nal referred to thinks that thousands upon
thousands tlocked to his funeral, utterly re-
CARELESS Of the responsibility which they
took upon themselves in honoring a man
who, neither in morals, manners, education
nor actions, had any right to be approved"
The writer's conclusion is, that ''pompous
obsequies are the mark Of anything but a
true and lasting respect
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18
BURNED At SEA.
Full Details OF the America
Horror.

Over Sixty Lives LOst-TerribIe Spec
tacIe, with Fire Amid-Ships-AF Fran
tic Crew and an Unavailable Set of
Fire Escapes-The Captain the First
Man TO Desert His POst-Scenes and
Incidents.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-18

L OSr-A Brindle Pup Slut, white paws,
/ 4 ears cropped, and black tail. If returned to
ANTHONY BROWN, No. 100 South Cherry
ntreet finder will be paid for trouble ltM
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The Shelb. vile Bulletin says there is
more business done in Wartrace than most
persons imagine 1t is surrounded upon
all sides by a itch country, rich traders and
rich farmers. As q consequence a great
deal of stock is shipped from there almost
daily. These shippers want goods, grOce-
ries, etc., audh ence you find there produce
and commission merchants, dry goods
houses, and in short every thing that goes
to make up a thrifty little town.