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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08
THE GREELEY$TATUE.
Elizabeth Cady stanton Gives Five
Dollars I'm order 10 Get q Shot at b.
Franklin.

Elizabeth Cady stanton Gives Five
Dollars In order to Get a Shot at b.
Franklin.
From the New York Sun.
To Editor of Stm-Sir: Ever since the
proposition was made to erect bronze
statue of Horace Greeley, 1 have felt a
strong desire that the women Of the country
should express their interest in this work of
art in some tangible form. But so long as
the subscriptions were in the hundreds /
did not feel able to set them an example
However, on reading the San this morning,
my difficulty was relieved by the letter from
Gen. Banks announcing a subscription of
five dollars. The example of this distin-
guished statesman and military chieftaiD
brings my financial capabilities on par
with my feelings of respect and admiration
for our later Franklin. So please accept
my subscription of five dollars. Small,
however, as this sum is, give it with one
proviso, and that is that some woman of
artistic skill shall have the glory of cutting
and carving the statue of this noble man.
There is poetic justice in placing work of
art from the hand of woman where Frank
lin may contemplate it through those
bronze eyes for ages to come, as he was
proverbially faitbless to the "fair sex" He
neglected his wife, did not see her face for
eleven years, was harsh to his children-at
least to those Of them he knew; and Mr..
Greeley, speaking TO toast at the recent
Franklin dinner, eulogized him as as "a
philosopher who never loved"
Perhaps, with this view of the divine pas
sion as unworthy philosopher, Mr.. Gree
ley might object, like Abimilech Of old, to
accept Immortality even at the hand Of
woman.
However, 1 suggest that this honor be
accorded some fair artist, and that my
eouutrywomen all send their subscriptions
with the ''Stantou Proviso.'
Yours respectfully,
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
Feb. l, 1872.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08
ARIZONA.
Apaches at Large.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. THE troops
who were sent after the Apaches who cap
tured two stages near Tucsan, Arizona and
murdered the driver and passengers ,Ifound
the mails cut up and destroyed, and buried
the dead, but were unable to overtake the
savages.
Detachay and his band ran away from
Camp Mcdowell, stealing Government and
citizens stock, and taking into the war-path
thirty-tWO citizens.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08

THE New York Commercial AdUertiSer
(Radical) stated few days ago that the
New York Tribune lost heavily in the way
Of subscribers because Of its opposition to
Grant. The Tribune of the 9th inst. pub
fishes a statement of the subscribers receiv-
ed by mail from the several States and Ter
ritories and foreign points during the month
of January, 1871 and 1872, which shows an
increase this year Of 15,206; Its oppOsi-
ton 10 Grant must be popular.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Memphis demands a "varmint" law to
nd the streets of goats and hogs.
Joe Anderson, a colOred Memphian, while
trying to shoot brother negro on the 9th
inst, shot himself, inficting a severe wound.
Squire John i. Norton was shot in
Memphis on the evening Of the 9TH inst.
by Deputy Sheriff F. A. Schreyer. The
officer attempted twice during the day to
serve a subpoena on Norton, but failed.
He tried a third time to serve it, and was
thrown out of doors falling on his back in
the street. While lying in that position he
fred at Norton, wounding him dangerously
in the abdomen.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08

THE army has its fascination for boys,
but they soon tire of playing soldier. The
Secretary of War has informed the House
Committee on Military Affairs that during
the past calendar year, 1000 applications
have been made for the discharge of soldiers
on the ground of minority. The Secretary
recommends that the law regarding enlist
ments be amended so that no recruit can be
permitted to enter the service, whose age by
his own oath, is shown to be under twenty
one years, the oath, as now, to be taken as
conclusive.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08
NEW ORLEANS.
A System of Wholesale Bribery.

The Secretary of State Convicted by
His own Testimony.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 7.-Before the Con-
gressional Committee F. J. Heron and
Postmaster Lowell testified. Heron at
first declined giving any explanation regard
ing the checks drawn by him varying from
five hundred to three thousand five hundred
dollars, which had been traced to members
of the Legislature by the testimony of
other witnesses. He said they were not
given to members of the Legislature or
State officials, except 1000, a check which
he loaned Mr.. Young. He subsequently
stated portion Of a thousand dollar check
was given to defray the funeral
expenses of Walter Wheyland. The check
being dated prior to the death of Wheyland
the committee desired to know if he (Her-
ROM had drawn it the day before in antici-
patton of that event. Heron could neither
remember the date of the check or the date
of Wheyland's death.
The committee expect to conclude their
labOrs tomorrow.
[NoTE.-The above is given to show how
Louisiana officials swear. Heron is Secre-
tary of State.
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MEMPHIS.
Alexis. Alden.

MEMPHIS, Feb. THE Grand Duke
and party left for New Orleans on the
steamer James Howard at ten o'clock this
morning. Several ladies and gentlemen of
this city accompanied the party.
Death of Davis COckreII.
Col. Davis Cockrell, for many years pro-
prietor of the Gayoso House and Peabody
Hotel, died to-day after protracted illness.
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BALTIMORE.
Deatl, of Archbishop spasding.

Death OF Archb1ShOp SpaAd1ng.
Spalding, Primate of the Catholic Church
in the United States, and Archbishop of
this diocese, after a protracted illness, died
this afternoon at o'clock, at the Archbish-
ops residence. The funeral will take place
Monday at 10 o'clock. He was in the cd
year of his age.
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MISSOURI.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. THE concurrent res
olution to pay maturing State bonds in cur
rency instead of coin passed the House this
afternoon over the Governors veto by a
vo5e of IA to 45. The vote on the original
passage of the resolution stood S8 to 80.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08

sCoTToN is more active in New York and
has advanced to 2Sac for middling, with
sales yesterday of 1900 bales, according to
our cipher kilograms.
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10 SuRsCRIRERs.

Subscribers desiring TO give any in
struetions about their papers should al
ways give the name of the PostOfiee to
achick the paper is sent.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08

The Prince of Wales is advised by his
physicians to avoid excitement.
Speaker Dennison, of the House of Com
mons, has resigned on account of i'll health.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08
SPAIN.
Off for Cuba.

MADRID, Feb. THE two thousand
troops asked for by Valmazdea have sailed
from Cadiz for Cuba.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08

The vote for Constitutional Conven-
ton in Ohio, as canvassed by the LegisIa-
ture, is 264, $40 yeas aud 104, ,2S1 nays.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08
SmaIIpOx and Street Cars.
EHectnaI Quietns.

Roosevelt 81. Jerome, son of Alderman
Jerome, died yesterday from an overdose of
opium to quiet his nerves, prostrated by
iquer. His mother has become insane and
his father is very i'll.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08

GOLD is strong in New York at 1103.
TENNESSEE BONDS closed in New York
last evening at 65 for the old issues and Go
for the new.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08
NEW YORK.
Jury Reconsiderfng.n

NEW YORK, Feb. 1T is rumored that
the grand jury is summoned to meet to-
morrow to reconsider the vote on the in
dictment of Mayor Hall, which is said to
have been carried by bare majority.
RObbing Stokes Counsel.
An attempt was made last night to rob
the house of John Graham. The thieves
were arrested and committed for trial. 1t
is believed they were employed to destroy
certain papers in Graham's possession,
bearing on the Stokes murder trial.
Smallpox and Street Cars.
Seven persons prostrated with smallpox
were found at No. 123 West Thirty-irst
street to-day, and sent to the hospital.
The Board of Health has ordered an exami-
nation of all the City Railroad cars and
other vehicles, to see if they are detrimen-
tai to health.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08

Ohio has law requiring all passenger
cars to be connected by aprons or bridges.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08
Scmi-OmcIaI View at w

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-The position
taken by gentlemen closely connected with
the administration Of the Government is
that the British High Commissioners per-
fectly understood the views ofthe American
High Commissioners in the negotiation of
the treaty of Washington, both from its
terms and association in protocol, and that
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-08
THE ALABAMA WAR-OLOUD.
Jews of the Continental Press.

The British Note on the Subject.
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UNION AND AMERICAN.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION

BIZ CARRIERS IN THl
EDaEFIELD.
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JOHN j. 8. HOOK,

tsuccessor to j. H. O'COnnen & Co..
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-07-19

If the experiment shafts prove sue
cessful, books will be opened for
further subscriptions to the stock,
and work will be pushed vigorously.
The completion will be only ques-
ton of time. Five years have been
thought sufficient, but it seems
hardly possible that SO gigantic an
undertaking can be accomplished in
SO short a space. The cutting will
be comparatively easy, unless the
geologists are at fault; for the only
resistance is said to be a soft chalk
rock that can be easily bored. There
will necessarily be great danger
connected with the work, from the
liability of letting in the sea, and
the difficulty of securing ventilation
during the progress Of the excava-
tion. When completed, the tunnel
will be twenty-three miles in length,
and fresh air will probably have to
be forced through its entire length
by artificial means. If modern en-
gineering is able to provide for this
there can be no doubt of the success
of the undertaking.
Both countries are expected to
join in the expense of the enterprise
but the laboring oar will fall to
England, since the finances of
France have been SO severely Grip
pied in the late war with Prussia.
This is probably, all things con-
sidered, the most gigantic and diff
cult piece Of engineering that was
ever undertaken.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-07-19
The Great Tunnel Commenced.

John Bull will not be content
until he can go to France dry-shod.
For many years the project Of bridg.
ing or tunneling Dover straits has
been considered, and various are
the schemes that have been brought
forward to accomplish this object.
The best engineering skill has been
employed, and the most careful
examinations and estimates have
been made, with view of deter
mining its practicability and proba-
bic cost. The necessity for such a
work is more and more felt each
succeeding year, and the enormous
traffic now passengers and freight
seems to demand that the work be
undertaken. 1t is an enterprise Of
vast proportions, and will require
an enormous outlay and consume
many years before it can be com
plcted.
Tho various plans for bridging
the channel, including the visionary
scheme of suspending the structure
on balloons, we believe, are al
abandoned, and the only practica
method Of getting railway across
to France will be to 60 under thu
sea. The work, therefore, of cutting
a tunnel has at last been entered up
on, and a company has been organi
zed and registered in London TO
commencing the work. About $2,
O0o, 900 will be first expended il
sinking shafts and thoroughly test
ing the feasibility. of tho plans. 1t i
estimated that, the completed worl
will cost moro than twice this sum
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-07-19
JULY

speak at Hanover Square Rooms in
manner that might be initiated
with advantage by the gentlemen in
the House Of Commons who recent
ly referred to them as creatures of
sentiment.
"If it be allowed, then, that wo-
men may speak in public, it seems
to me no more than just that one of
my sex should return hearty thanks
to the managing committee of this
dinner for treating them as though
they were not too good for human
natures daily food. 1t is useless to
talk of the equality of the sexes so
long as men sit down to turtle soup
in one room and women stand up to
tea and sandwiches in another,
waiting with becoming humility for
admission to Barmecide feast of
reason and flow of soul. I never
knew a woman who did not protest
against similar custom which de-
prives public dinners of half their
utility, as well as all their bril-
liancy, for as the object Of these
dinners is the raising of money,
these managers show little discern
ment ignoring Sisters of Charity,
who in any country are as effective
in opening the purses as they are in
touching the hearts of their lay
brothers.
"In conclusion, and in the name
of the ladies, I thank you for the
cordial manner in which the toast
has been proposed and received,
and trust that the management com.
mittee may never regret having
recognized women as creatures with
appetites."
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-07-19

tors desk. This wizard of the
waltz puts his own excitement into
the whole body of musicians. 1t
was said that the orchestra went
raving under him the first day, and
have kept the fever up ever since.
Certainly nobody ever listened to
such life in playing as they show
under the gentle, bewitcling wand.
Out of its possession Came such
stealing, winding charms of sun
shine, summer, and delight, as
make it the very melody of pleasure.
The Yankee pine-board Coliseum,
the practical audience, forgotten;
instead, open the halls of roses in
the garden of Ispahan, and every
tempting reach OF Imagination. A
man who brings this enchantmcnt
to bear on this everyday world,w
creates a soul under the ribs of an
orchestra, and sets Puritanic souls
wandering in the mazes of care-free
delight is no genius? Then Tenny-
son; who sang for Claribel and the
good Haroun-la-R -Raschild and the
Lotos- Eaters, is none, and Morris is
none, and Milton had none when he
drew pictures Of "Sabina sitting un-
der the CLASSY cool translucent wave"
for Strauss music is just the re-
sponse to such words. 1t is what
this troubled, dissatisfied, chilled
nature of the West wants-a music
Of flight and freedom, and warmth
to ensnare it into repose. / have
solemnly made up my mind that
Strauss waltzes may be played in
heaven, and danced too, and all
Boston people will have to unfold
their hands the very first thing
when they get there and learn
them.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-07-19
KING OF THE TURF.
Description Of the Winner Of the
0reat Race at Long Branch.

From the New York Herald.
Longfellow is brown horse, FIVE
years old, nearly seventeen hands
high, with one white heel behind
and blaze OF white in his face
He has large, strong fetlock and
paster joints, filling the hoof finely,
the cannon bones of each Of the
hind legs running up broad to the
hook, the hook spread outside and
as clear as a deer's, with full, large
stiles. Longfellow is long from
the hip to the whirlbone, the crup-
per, where it reaches the tail, sets
out strong and high, like the Ara.
bian stock. He is wide in the hips,
but round and smooth; we'll ribbed
back, with a round chest; long ta-
pering shoulders, running obliquely
toward the hips, making the back
look strong and short, presenting
much capacity for carrying weight.
He has strong, well-turned neck,
filling the shoulders wide from the
crest down; the pole of the neck
running into a prettily formed head,
with open jowls and large throttle,
indicating easy breathing powers.
To the connoisseur in the race horse,
Longfellow, presents more beauties
of racing form than any horse we
have ever seen. The arm at the
elbow, where it leaves the body, is
broad and strong, tapering well to
the hoof, with plenty of substance.
His true thi gh. from the whirlbone
to the stifle, is SO long that it makes
the gaskin, or second thigh, appear
almost as broad as the stifie itself.
The horse appears in perfect order
and fit to run for mans life, and,
barring accident, it does not seem
to us that he is beatable. His own
er, Mr.. John Harper, is SO well
pleased with him now that he de-
clines selling him at all, and in
tends taking him back to Kentucky
after his engagements in the North
and breed from. him. He will be a
capital horse in the stud, as he is a
bennington all over, with a little
more horse. Longfellow was sired
by bennington, dam Nantura, by
Counterplot (known as Brawner's
Eclipse), grand dam Quiss, by Ber-
trand; g. g. d. by Brimmer; g. 6.
G. d. by Blue Beard; 6. 6. 6. 6. d.
by imported Buzzard (known as the
Tarleton mare), who was also the
dam of Old Court, by Vests Para
gon; Huntress, by Cherokee; Wood
pecker, by Bertrand; Lady Adams,
BY Whipstcr, etc.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-07-19
The Valley Of Death.

The Valley of Death, almost as
terrible as the prophets valley of
dry bones, lies just north Of the old
Mormon road to California, region
thirty miles long by thirty broad,
and surrounded, except ut two
points, by inaccessible mountains.
1t is totally devoid of water and
vegetation, and the shadow of bird
or wild beast never darkens its
white, glaring sands. The Kansas
Pacific Railroad engineers discov-
cred it, and also some papers which
show the fate of the "lost Montgom-
cry train," which came south from
Salt Lake in 1850, guided by a
Mormon. When near Deaths Val
ley some came to the conclusion
that the Mormons knew nothing
about the country, so they appoint
ed one of their number leader and
broke off from the party. The lead
er turned due west; so with the
people and wagons and flocks. lie
travelled three days, and then de-
sccnded into the broad valley,
whose treacherous mirage promised
water. They reached the center,
but only the white sand, bounded
by scorching peaks, met their gaze
Around the valley they wandered
and one by one the men died, and
the painting flocks stretched them
selves in death under the hot sun
Then the children, crying for water
died at their mothers breasts, and
with swollen tongues and burning
vitals the mothers followed. Wa
gon after wagon was abandoned
and strong men tottcred, and raved
and died. After a weeks wander
ing, a dozen survivors found some
water in the hollow of q rock in th'
mountain. 1t lasted but u shor
time, when all pcrished but two
who escaped out Of the vale.
and followed the trail of thei
former companions. Eighty-sevcl
families with hundreds OF animals
perishcd here, and now, after TWEEN
ty-two years, the wagons stand still
complete, tic iron-works and tire
are bright, and the shrivcled skele
tons lie side by sidc.-Spri~afel
Republican,. va@i ie t"aa' h
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-07-19
Strauss in tho Boston Coliseum.

Ifany one doubts whether or no
to call Strauss a genius, let him
watch the leader. To see Strauss
conduct the playing Of his own mu-
sic is to see the spirit Of tho waltz
before one. All the quickness and
mobility that belong to the Wen
nesc are found in this man of low
stature, whose limbs bend and sway
like slender reeds. His face is Gu
riously like Carl Zerrahn's. Their
pictures would pass for light and
dark engraving of the same person,
Strauss taken with too much ink,
and Mr.. Zerrahn's when the plates
were worn. When time to play,
Strauss springs nimbly up the steps,
gives the movement with his baton
to different parts Of tho orchestra,
and flies into the measure. AT con-
certs, his baton is the bow of his
violin, with which he leads in nice
passages, and at rehersals he plays
vehemently OH an imaginary instru.
ment from time to time. The hero
of Charles Auchcster was said to
have 4 violin face, it was SO express
siye of emotion. Strauss is violin
himself, his whole supple body
seeming charged with music as i
might be with electric fluid. A
gentle movement of his bow opens
tho easv measures. gliding through
a dream of sweet sounds into rush
and swell, which he emphasizes
with bow and violin, in both arms
held out; then rs the crescendo re
cedes. he extends his hands be
| secchingly, marking the faint pas
| sages with his finger-tips, which
seem to curl and crinklc with ex
citement. 4 measure does not come
up to his idea; gesture appeals
for silence; they start again, Strauss
playing it OH his empty left arm
brings the movement up with a crisl
turn. which mono of the orchestr'
will ever forget. Now, the music
is soft, and tho tenderly-movin!
hand cnforccs the expression; nov
it is loud, and his arms, flying will
nervous gestures, lead it, while hi
feet mark time without lifting, ant
| his knees twitch to the measure
Supple, graceful and ready, ever.
inch of him, every motion nervou
and graceful, his South German fac
beaming with pleasure as he lean
his check against violin to play
favoritc passage, responding to an
possessed by his own music. Noti
| ING more subtle and vivacious ha
! ever crossed the steps Of condut