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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-27

THE Louisville Courier journal remarks
that William Shakespeare wrote some
thing for everybody, and gives the follow
ing as what be wrote for Grant:
"You yourself
Are much condemned to have an aching palm,
To sell and mart your offices for gold
To undeseryers."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-27

1T is stated that Grant man at st. Louis
is now Greeley man, because, after tele-
graphing three times to Gen. Grant, at
Washington, to know II he would run
again in 1876, only the following response
was ELECTED:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 1S72.-To -:
Gen. Grant refuses to answer.
OPERATOR
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A YOUNG married woman in New York
wears breastpin which excites admirati on.
1t is apparently beautiful carving in some
dark, glossy stone Of lions head, heavily
set in red gold. In reality it is the front of
favorite meerchaum belonging to her hus-
band. He was an inveterate smoker, but
to please her gave up the habit, and she
wears this peculiar ornament as Q trophy
of her victory.
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Gov. WARMoTH, who returned to New
Orleans on the 2lst, from an extensive tour
through Louisiana, gives assurances that
the State is safe for Greeley and the fusion
ticket, which hasI finally been made up,
after various changes, SO as to suit the par
ties to the coalition.
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ESTABLISHED MARCH 80. 1886.
WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, ID. Co Oct. 26.-The
case of Col. Bale Peyton, OF Gallatin,
Tenn, a distinguished member Of Con-
gress during Jackson's administration, was
before the Claim Commission to- day.
The Alabama Troops.
A dispatch received from Montgomery
says that troops are being quartered
throughout Alabama. An inquiry at the
War Department ascertainei that not more
than two companies have been distributed
at three or four points in that State.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer says: "Tbe
population Of Indiana is 1,655,873. At the
late election the State polled 1900 votes.
This is at the ratio of one vote to four and
four tenths Of the Inhabitants. There is no
one who does not know that such vote
must be largely fraudulent. We have new
er cast but $4,000 votes in Ohio, which is
one to more than five Of our population.
Were we to vote as Indiana, We should
give more than SiI hundred thousand uOtesl
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-27

IA LETTER to the New York World, In
speaking Of the approaching marriage Of
Miss Hattie Risley, sister OF Miss Olive
htsley Seward, goes into some interesting
details Of the close relations that existed
between the two families Of Risley and
Seward, and the causes that led to it. Mr..
hsley, the father, was solicitor Of the
treasury under Lincoln and johnson.
als eldest daughter, Olive Risley,. now
OiiVe klsiey Seward, was the most intimate
friend OF Mr.. Stewards only daughter Fan.
ME, whose purity Of character and inno-
cent and winning ways attracted all who
met her. Payne, when he attacked her
father, was, In reality, the murderer of Miss
Seward. It was she who struggled with
the assassin, and It was she who Afterwards
identified Payne. But she never recovered
from the shock Of that fearful night. and
slowly, but surely, her health failed, until
she died after several months' confinement
TO her room. Mr.. Seward adopted her
friend rs his daughter. She accompanied
him In bis trip around the world; was his
faithful and untiring amannehsis when his
arms about three years ago, became para
lyEed, and was with him, untiring in her
attentions, to the last.
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in the public stables are unfit for use, and
there is general depression of business.
OeDENsBURG, N. z, Oct, ga dis
patch from Malone says that fifteen cases
of the new horse disease have been dlscev-
cred there.
Michigan.
DETROIT, Oct. 26.-The prevailing horse
disease made its appearance in this city
Thursday. A large number of horses are
now affected. The street cars on four routes
were hauled off yesterday. The disease
has also reached the numbering district
narth of Saginaw.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-27
About q Fashionable broadway
House.

Our intimate friend, Jones, has been tax
ing his meals at a fashionable boarding
bouse, but he don't now. The fact is,
the landlady discharged him, the other day,
and this is the way it was brought about:
Jones had never boarded at a frst-class
house in his life until he made arrange
ments to get bis hash at the very exclusive
establishment of Mrs. -, who takes
boarders merely for company, you know,
and all those who are fortunate enough to
satisfy the very fastidious lady of the house
with regard to their social standing, live as
members of one family, happy and con-
tented. Jones passed the custom
airy examination, and anticipated pleasant
time, but sfhere's where be made a mis-
take" for he soon found that the bill of
fare provided for Mrs. IS bosrders was
not very extensive; on the contrary, it was
rather thin, but what was lacking in this
particular was more than made up for in
style. Our friend had been at the house a
couple of weeks, during which time his
avordupois had materially decreased, as he
possessed an excellent appetite; but yet he
hung on with commendable determination,
and would not change his boarding house,
because he was charmed with the stylish
manner with which the scanty dishes were
served up, bis elegant fellow-boarders, and
the aristocratic exclusive air which pre-
vaded the establishment, although he
would have been better pleased if the " ex-
clusiveness" had not applied to the COM
missary department. Two weeks of this
kind of living told fearfully upon Jones,
but he fattered himself he would get used
to the very moderate fare provided, after
awhile, but one day nature asserted her
self. Jones took his seat at the breakfast
table and was asked by the lady of the
house, who presided at the head of the
table, if he would have ga small piece of
the steak, or would he prefer a
small piece Of the cold
beef?" accompanying the inquiry with
sweet smile calculated to do much towards
satisfying the demands of hunger; our
friend, however, was desperate and he re-
sponded with: 'tT'll take a large piece of
both, if you please, madam" Poor JonesI
That reply finished him, for the astonished
lady gave him one annihilating look, and
then convinced that he was too hearty a
'feeder" for her establishment, improved
the first opportunity to quietly inform him
that lie would confer favor if he would
seek boarding elsewhere. He now takes
his rations at German restaurant, and is
rapidly regainiDg his lost flesh.
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CARD FROM MIR. s. 8. HOUSE.

To the Editors OF the Union and American:
NASHVILLE, TENN, Oct. 26, l972.-
GENTLEMEN: Ny attention has been
called to a communication, under date of
"Franklin, Oct. 81" addressed to you by
"Cheatham Man." which does me great
injustice. l am represented in that COM
munication as having said in a speech made
by me in Franklin, on the 10Th instant,
that "we don't want any more Generals,
but want Union man as we'll as a South
erner. The Saviour of mankind was
prosecuted, and we must forget that man
was not in the Confederate army; we
would have to forget it; the time was
near at hand when we would be forced to
do 80. The people were tired and dis
gusted with voting for soldiers" wish to
say that your correspondent heard me use
no such language or utter any such senti-
ments on that or any other occasion. In
Justice to myself ask you to publish this,
believing that you have no desire to do me
any injustice In the matter.
Respectfully, SAM S. HOUSE.
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THE Cincinnati Enquirer of Oct. % says;
eve conversed yesterday with gentleman
just from New York City, whom we regard
as one Of the best calculators and ablest
politicians in the country. He assured us
that there was not the slightest doubt of the
State going for Greeley by a large ma
ioritH.n
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UP In A BALLOON.
Frightful Fate Of an Unwilling
AerOnaut.
A Jump into Eternity.

"A Sump Into Eternity.
CHICAGO, Oct. 26-A fearfuly balloon &C
cident happened at DeKaIb, ILL.,, yester-
day. A Deripateic seronaut had his bal
loon ready to ascend when, before
he had entered the car, it broke
loose and few upward. A hanging rope
caught around the leg of man named
McGann, and carried him up with it to the
height of about one hundred feet. He
managed to climb into the basket, but when
the balloon had reached distance of four
hundred feet from the earth he deliberate
ly jumped out and was picked up dead.
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GEN. CHEATHAM.


1t is now fact well attested that Cheat
has is the strongest candidate in the race
for Congress for the State at large. But
the chances Of Maynard are far better than
one in fifty Of the people suppose. The
Radical strength In Tennessee is much
greater than we are in the habit Of think
ing. Hitherto, since its overthrow In the
State, it has not been organized; but now in
every place in the State it is under thorough
drill.
Here then are Cheatham and Maynard,
and the race is emphatically between them.
Every vote against Cheatham Is help to
the latter; and unless the people reflect So
berly and wisely they will elect Maynard,
without having intended TO do it. There
is great danger ahead of us, and we sound
the note of alarm in the ears of prudent
and intelligent people. We advise the pub
lie Of the prospect of Radical representa-
tive for the State at large, in order that
they may secure themselves against il.
We appeal to our readers, that we have
been prudent and temperate In this canvass.
We now say, emphatically, that the only
way to insure the defeat Of Maynard is to
concentrate upon Cheatham, as the strong
er candidate on the Democratic or Liberal
ticket. We trust this will be done by all
the people, In an emergency like the pres
ent; because sad will be the day Of the re s.
toration OF Radicalism in the State Of Ten
nassau
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NEW YORK.
Minister Washburne.

Minister Washburne.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Arrived, the
Deutschland. Minister Washburne Is a
passenger.
a public dinner is to begiVen to Minister
Washburne by number OF prominent
gentlemen.
Aid for AHsatfans.
Fifteen hundred dollars were received 70
Alsatian emigrants at French dinner lasr
night. A Committee of Fifteen was elect
ed 70 raise fund sand issue an address.
4ha.s Mad. Jumel.
The second trial of the Jumei will case
Is fixed for December.
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THE fun-monger of the Danbury Ne,cs
takes the following apple tart method of
informing the girls that he's bachelor, and
sleeps cold O. nights: "Msjor Wood leaves
us an apple, pippin, which measures 49,
inches about the waist, and weighs Is
ounces. 1t casts a shadow large enough
for boarding house bed-quilt."
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Christian MISSIONARY.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct 25-The Genera
Mission Society to-day adopted resolution
to employ an efficient agent to raise funds
to establish normal theological schools to
educate the colored ministry. The con-
venLion adjourned sine die.
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TENNESSEE BONDS closed In New
York last evening at 74s for the old issue
and ISL for the new.
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Drowned i'm Twelve Inches Of Water.

CHICAGO, Oct. 26.--At Aurora, H.,
yesterday M. B. Mattngly assistant editor
Of the Aurora Herald was seized with q
fit of apoplexy while walking along the
bank of mill race and falling on his face
in the water was drowned though the race
was not over foot deep.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26.-The race be-
tween occident and Lucy was postponed
on account Of rain. Notice will be given
when the race will take place.
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ILLINOIS.
Newspaper Arraigned for Contempt OF
knnFaFnA

Supreme Court.
CHICAGO, Oct. 26.-The Supreme Court
oil illinois at Ottaria yesterday teIltered a
rule against the propretors of the Chicago
EUentng Journal, requiring them to show
cause why they should be committed
for contempt for the recent publication Of an
article criticising the action of the court in
granting writ Of supersedeas in the case of
RAFFERTY, under sentence of death for the
murder Of policeman O'Meara. Justices
Breese, Scott and Sheldon dissent from the
majority of the court.
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NEW sERIEs----NO. 1929.

well sdvised as to Polk and Bradley, though
In our estimate Of the relative vote in lower
East Tennessee In another article, we gave
Mr.. johnson . liberal count in the two
counties last named. OF course, we are as
susceptible Of being deceived as any other
unrrejudiced mind, but We can't possibly
Tx It up any other way than that Cheasham
is The man upon whom to rally to make
Maynard's defeat dead sure thing.
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COTTON continues firm in New York at
1850 for middling.
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From the Athens Post.
MCAINN COUNTY.

We are almost every day asked the ques-
ton how will McMinn vote as between
Cheatham and johnson. We are without
reliable information from three Of the sew
enteen civil districts. The Democrats and
Conservatives ought to poll at least twelve
hundred votes. OF that number, from the
present outlook, Cheatham will receive
eight hundred, johnson four hundred.
Should the vote be less, we think it will be
divided between them in about the proper
tiou stated. In the Athens district It is
claimed that johnson will lead Chestham
twenty odd votes. His friends here are en-
thUsiastic in his support, and are laboriDg
under the delusion that he will beat Cheat
ham in Middle and West Tennessee. In
the estimate of the relative strength Of the
two candidates in the county, we give Mr..
johnson twenty-five votes the advantage in
the town district. There are some men in
the county-a small nnmber-who are not
vet decided as to which is the strong man.
We take it for granted that nearly all these
will vote for Chestham, and have 90 count
ed them in our estimate. We know Of but
two Republicans in tie county who viii
not vote for Maynard.
1t is only few days to the election, and
it would be worse than folly to attempt to
deceive or mislead now. We are free from
any prejudice in the matter, and speak
from the best information we can get.
Meigs, we learn, will throw three-fourths
of its Democratic vote for Gen. Cheatham;
Rhea and Monroe ditto. We are not 80
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Homeopathic insanity.
MIDDLETowN, n. Y, Oct. 26.-The
corner stone of the first homeopathic In
sane Asylum in America was laid to-day.
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THE HORSE DISTEMPER.

Nearly ALI Sick in New York.
10000 In the Worst Stages.
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FOREIGN.
HAn Imam.

NEW YORK, Oct. ga London special
says that names of the Imperial advisors
in the San Juan award on whose reports
the judgment was based are Grimm Vice
President Supreme Court, Kiepert, the
eminent Geographer, Goldschmidt, Mem
Der Of the Superior Tribunal OF Leipsig.
They handed in their reports four weeks
ago. The reports will not be published.
They chanae England with vagueness in
the wording of the Treaty of 1846, and
state that the word southerly means the
shortest channel to the straits Of Juan.
De Fucs, special messenger, Berlin last
night for Washington.
Prussfa's PrOKress-Baekward
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-L2te European
papers say it has been announced that
from the LIST Of November the Germans
will insist on every French subject travel
ing In the new Empire being provided
with passports bearing the wise Of the
German legation. This measure has been
interpreted as specially directed against the
inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine. who
have chosen to abide by their nationality.
A different face is put on the matter by an
explanation of the National Zeitung.
That paper says it is necessary measure
of retaliation.
Suez.
PARIS, Oct. 26-The Tribunal of Com
merce has decided against the claim Of the
Suez Canal Company, Of the right to alter,
on their own aut Iority, the tonnage dues
on vessels passing through the canal. The
Company will probably appeal from this
decision Of the Tribunal.
Republic OF SO Following the Re
pubaico AS.
PARIS, Oct. 26.-Papers foreshadow the
adoption of the coming session Of the Ma
tional Assembly Of constitutional amend
ments making Theirs President for life,
creating an upper chamber and the office Of
Vice President, partially remodelling the
assembly and providing restriction upon
the right Of universal suffrage.
Charles Sumner.
LONDON, Oct. 26-Sumner has returned
to London. His health Is improved.
Geo. w. Banerort.
BERLIN, Oct. 26-Bancrott, American
Minister, has left for Italy, and expects TO
remain in that country q month and be-
fore returning visit Egypt.
Aid for Cuba Rebels.
NEW YORK. Oct. ga Puerto Prin-
cope letter announces the successful arrival
of q small expedition which l6t Puerto
Plata with few arms and good supply
Of powder and lead for the Cuban insur-
gents.
A Cuban Town Given to the Flames.
HAVANA, Oct. 25.-One thousand In
surgents attacked the town Of Guisa on the
10th inst, and burned 80 houses. The
government troops encountered and re-
pulsed the Insurgents. Seven Of the latter
and three Spaniards were killed.
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WHAT THE PAPERS SAT-.
cHEATHAM AND JOHNSON.
From the SomervflIa Faloon

We wish in all candor and with much
earnestness to call the attention of Mr..
Johnson's friends to one striking fact.
They have been made TO believe that he IA
very strong in the State. We wish To ASK.
who, more than the Radicals themselves
have tried to make this impressionP We
VIII cite few instances. Judge Henry q.
Smith, the Radical Elector, made a broad
defense OF Johnson in his speech at Somer-
vile last Monday, avowing at the same
time that be was no johnson man. Again
at Paris last week, it was discovered that
those who cheered loudest for johnson
were Maynard's strongest friends. And
again, at Jackson the 18th inst, the Radi-
Gals assisted largely In making the johnson
noise. Such reports reach Us through our
exchanges from nearly every portion Of the
State, and we do not hesitate to put them
down as strictly raliable. What are we to
infer from the cheers and compliments be-
slowed on Johnson by the open supporters
OF Maynard? The conclusion Is obvious.
They wish to counteract the opinion that
johnson is the weaker man, and thus rally
to his support, men who would otherwise
vote for Cheatham, and In this way make
an equal division Of the Conservative vote,
while the Radical strength will be cast as o
solid shot for Maynard, and his election
would be certainty. This Is without
doubt the plan Of the Maynard party.
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ONLY ONE PARTY.


Except in Tennessee, the Democrats ana
Liberal Republicans are one party, united
upon the same ticket and platform and sus-
tanning the same organization. In Ten
nessee the men who are opposing the Libe-
raj organization are not Republicans and
are not Democrats. They are simply po-
litical sore beads with fancied grievances,
chief among which is the belief that their
merits have not received proper recognition.
They really prefer the election of Grant to
the triumph of the principles proclaimed at
Cincinnati, if that triumph is to result in
the advantage Of the Democratic party
which adopted those principles at Balti-
more. The organs Of these sore heads
support Gen. johnson in opposition to the
regular nominee simply as q means Of de-
stroying the Democratic party, and openly
proclaim that they will sacrifice Greeley to
obtain votes for johnson. We do not see
how any Liberal or Democrat can consist
emily support johnson now any more than
Grant.
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Fearful Commissions Of Coughing.

New and Alarming Symptoms
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GOLD touched 1lS in New York yes
terday bat closed at 113a0lIS4.
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JOHNSON RESPONSIBLE FOR CHEATHAMs
NOMINATION.
From the ShalhvHille Cnmmercial


The friends and admirers Of Andrew
johnson, who give as an excuse for their
strange course that the Democratic party
should have presented better man than
General Cheatham, are here reminded that
Mr.. johnson Is to blame, If another should
have been selec.ed. Many Of the conven-
ton there thought General johnson would
be candidate, and in order to get a man
more suited, they adopted the "two-thirds
rule" which promised the defeat Of both OF
them.
Mr.. johnson had not given satisfactory
evidence that he would not be before the
convention, and hence the two-thirds rule,
it was thought, would give the people
another man. But fol- this, no doubt the
convention would have been more satisfsc-
tory.
When the vote is announced and john
sons defeat as justly disgrsceful a. 1t viii
be, we do not expect to exult In the face
of his friends. We want the issue to die,
and when the ex-President repents we
want him forgiven, but we don't want our
Southern people ever to endorse him. Let
the disgrace which he has brought upon
himself elicit only sympathy for bis fol-
lies,
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from the trenton News.
If General CheAtham was not our first
choice Gas he is), we would feel impelled to
support him as the nominee of the Conser-
vative party, the only party in the State
that offers opposition 10 the Radical party.
General Cheatham, with little or no OBJ
position, was nominated by the second
largest State Convention ever held In Ten
nessee. The largest Convention ever held
was the Convention of 1870, that nomiAa-
ted Jno. g. Brown for Governor-in this
Convention sixty-five counties were repre-
sented. In the Convention that nominated
General Chestham forty-nine counties
were epresented-which was the
second largest Convention that ever
assembled in Tennessee. And John
son was the candidate for
Governor as the nominee of a convention
composed of at one time twenty-three and
at the other time thirty-three counties.
The next largest convention to the conven-
tion that nominated General Cheatham
that ever met in Tennessee, if we Temem.
Der, was composed of thirty-seVen counties.
Hence, how can Conservative or Demo-
crat vote otherwise than for the nominee Of
of his party, and that too when that nomi-
nee is represented in the person Of General
Chatham, the patriot and soldier Of Ter
nessee? To vote for General Cheatham is
vote to preserve our organization against
Radicalism, and to vote for johnson Is Q
vote to disorganize upon the field in the
very face of the enemy. Then, we repeat,
let every voter remember, on the 9th Of
November next, that every vote cast for
johnson is vote for disorganiZation and
is vote for Maynard indirectly il not d.
rectly-and that every vote cast for Gen.
eral Chestham is vote against Maynard
and disorganizatiou.