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The call for the Tennessee Democrat
&c state convention says that it will
nominate candidate for Governor, and
..take such other steps, in view Of the
.nproaching state and presidential
elections, as the condition sfthe country
s....s 60. - s., nyASfin0
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Atamcc,ing of the Rase Ball fratcrn-

At meeting of the Base Ball fratcrn-
isy. on Monday evening, a club was
formed and the following officers were
ciecsil for the ensuing session: Pres
ident. J.. A. Brown: Vice President,
&. r. Gilbert: Secretary. y. l.. Allen I.
Treasurer. :. T. Bell: Directors. Geo.
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LUTTE
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In the Congressional proceedings of
April 2nd. we find the following:

April End, we find the following:
Various bills were reported from the
Committee on Public Lands. explained
and passed. including the following:
To amend town size laws: TO declare
the Usage Indian trust lands in Kansas
subject to disposal for cash only to
actual settlers, in quantities not exceed
ing 100 acres, in accordance with the
general principles of the presumption
laws
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spank myself"
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HE NNtSLf1 AND SOlL.
The word valley is ordinarily appli-
cd to such lands. called in the west
''bottoms," as are adjacent to stream
and considerably lower than the up
lands or hills which lie farther from
the stream. Applying the word strict
ly in this sense. it is difficult to tell
the width of the Arkansas Valley.
There is occasionally tract oflsnd on
the margin of the river, which is SO
low that il is too wet for cultivation
during high water, and must therefore
be devoted chiefly 10 the grasses. but
the rise is gradual as we travel back
from the river, that few can tell here
the bottom ends and the upland
begins. That portion of the Valley be-
low Big Bend is from five TO twenty
miles wide. The soil is chiefly sandy
loan. made up of such mineral elements
as have been washed from the Rocky
Mountains by the attrition Of ages. 1t
is a marked leatnre of Kansas soil that
it contains . nqch larger proportion
of mineral waiter than the prairie soils
ofIllinois and Iowa, which are chiefly a
vegetable Moald. For this reason
Kansas win Improve by cultivation.
Especially II this true of the Arkansas
Valley. To those only accustomed to
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" " EMANUEL.
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TIMBER.

The Arkansas Valley is but sparscly
timbered. Indeed ii is for this reason
alone that this valley remained unset
tied until the rapid construction of the
Atchison. Topeka 4 Santa Fe Rail-
road rendered il certain that in very
little time. building material and fuel
would be brought to every mans door
on the cars There is enough timber
for the immediate necessities of set
tiers. and IN this quick soil and congo
NAL climate very few years suffice
to grow timber. Ten acres planted to
quick growing varieties, interBixed
with Others of slower growth and more
enduring qualities, will after five years
supply any farmer with all the timber
needed on a farm. as less time and
very little labor viii have fenced his
premises into convenient lots protect
cd BIZ the Invaluable Usage Orange.
The latter plant is native to the coun-
try. but shor. distance south of Us.
TIE HERD LAW.
By the taking effect of this law
which would not have been accepted
in this valley, if the first settlers had
found an abundance of timber-every
acre of this land may easily and CHEAP
IL be fenced with Usage Orange. and
orchards, groves aud field crops grv~n.
Far better j. II for this region f!sat il
have the herd law and little timber
than be deprived OF the herd Law. with
an abundance Of timber. The euor-
nous cost and trouble and delay Of
fencing is here avoided. amt poor
man NAV grow into all the improve
ments of first class fsr,n. As for rich
farmers, il certainly must be true that
wherever poor man can thrive. a rich
man cannot well fail. As 10 STOCK rais-
ing it is cheaper for aeiglibors Ia PIT
their stock into herds aud hire keeper.
even If the country was fenced. than TO
perMait them TO run at large aad lake
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MOUNT VESUVIUS.
The Eruption Seeming to SHbside-
New Craters Still Opening
mense Clouds Of Smoke
and Ashes.

NAPLES, April 29.-The storms Of
lava which threatened the villages of
Resina and Persinia have ceased and
the molten mass is now cooling. The
eruption is decreasing but villagers do
not yet dare to return home.
The fires of Nesuvius are slackening
and a new crater opened near Tersigna,
but with every fresh opening the
violences of the eruption seem to abate.
Yesterday the entire mountain was con-
cealed from sight by the smoke which
settled around il, and this morning the
heavens We're darkened by the dense
clouds Of smoke and ashes. The view
of Mount Vesuvius from the city now is
the grandest that has been witnessed
since 1881. Many persons have taken
advantage of the panic among the peO-
pie in the towns threatened with de-
structiOn to take whatever goods they
could find. The government has been
compelled to order troops TO these places
to prevent the stealing Of the aban-
doned property In this city the bOurse is
closed and business almost entirely sus-
pended The people use umbrellas to
protect them from the falling ashes.
Rain is badly wanted or else the crops
will be destroyed. 1t is now believed
that the over anxiety of the people has
considerably lessened.
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CHEATHAM.
The Gallant General Retires from the
GubernatOrial Contest.

Special 20 the Appeal.
NASHVILLE, April 29.-Gen. Cheat
ham publishes in the Union and AD'eri-
can tomorrow the following card:
To THE PEOPLE o. TEasSSEssE In the card
declaring myself a candidate for Governor. it
was stated that I had applied TO the Execu-
tive Committee TO postpone the Convention Of
the ninth OF May TO such time as would eua-
BILE me 10 canvass the state, and a time which
would enable that body fairly and fully TO re-
fleet the party viii and wishes in the selection
Of a candidate. This request, In the judgment
Of my friends and myself, was so right in prin-
ciple, and, at this juncture, so proper to party
expediency, that / confidently trusted it
would, for these reasons, have been conceded
to. The reply Of the Chairman Of the commit
tee, and his announcement through the Union
and american OF the 2)th instant, not only ex-
presses a total unwiIlingness TO allow the re-
quest, which, TO impartial judgments, may
seem as important to the party as to my own
individual Interest, but renders it also con
elusive to my mind that no efforts on the part
OF my friends win avail to procure postpone
ment Of the nomination. Under these eOndf-
tions feel constrained todecline any further
contest for the Office Of Governor. The many
friends who have rendered me their support
well know ! am sincere in returning heartfelt
thanks for their kindness.
ISigneU F. F.CHEATHAM
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The Norfolk Va Journal says: al
the Liberal Republicans shall openly
and boldly assume an attitude of un-
qualified antagonism to the usurpatory
and oppressive policy of the party in
power, the Democracy will, undoubted-
iy, march out from their own camping
gronnd to meet them, and greet them,
in an earnest alliance against the Radi-
cal candidate to be brought forward at
Philadelphia in June. Then, too, the
Conservatives of the South will enlist in
the same cause, and follow the same
leaders. 1t is probable, more than prob
able, that the Cincinnati platform and
the Cincinnati candidates for the Presi-
dency and the Viee-Presideney will be
accepted and sustained by all the Oppo-
nents of the administration in every
State in the Union. 1t is Indispensable
to the overthrow of Radiealism that it
shall be So"
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Tha flnnvanaInn.

This is not, says the Cincinnati Com
DlercidI, to be a mere mass meeting with
a crowd and enthusiasm, to nominate
an ideal ticket and prepare a sentimental
programme, The convention has be-
come a matter of business. There win
be struggle for nominations, and con-
test as to Oplanks in the platform. There
are six candidates for the Presidential
miaation-Adams, TTumbull, Pal
mer, Brown, Davis and Greeley. A par
eel of Democratic Congressman have
been working qp tne Judge Davis
scheme, and he will make a serious
showing Of strength. His real weak
ness is in the appearance of elaborate
effort IN bis behalf, His plaims have
been too qdFoitlY and vigorously worked
up, and there is too much of an appear
ance Of Democratic dictation in
his behalf, Eraz RroWn's pgomis
neneR grows aut Of the fact
that il is the Missouri precedent that
this convention follows, and that Brown
was elected Governor Of Missouri when
the revolution there occurred. General
FalmeF Is p9nsplQioBs because he il the
eiqyepnaF Of CHE Qf the most important
and one of the most doubtful Of the
States, and his point is that he has OBJ
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This leaves Pennsylvania in doubt /;
and as one hundred and seventy-nine
votes are necessary to a choice, as goes
Pennsylvania $50 goes the UnioR.' If
Pennsylvania casts majority of her
votes for Hartranft in October she will
do the same for Grant in November, and
will carry the close States of Alabama,
Indiana, Louisiana, Nevada, New York,
Oregon and West Virginia, with their
seventy-three votes, over to Grant.
While, on the other hand, if her OctO-
Der elections goes against the Cameron
Hartranft combination, her majority in
November will be still larger against
Grant; and the close States of Ala
bama, California, Connecticut, Ne
braska, Illinois and Wisconsin, with
their fifty-five votes, probably Ohio,
with her twenty-five, will be cast
against Grant and for the successful op-
position.
The ticket that will achieve this re-
suit is Andrew g. Curtain, of Pennsyl-
yania, for President and ex-Secretary
Cox, of Ohio, for Vice-President.
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The Lawrence (Kansas) Democratic
Standard says: "This convention
will represent most of the earn
estness and worth of the Republican
party. 1t viii have just as much right
to speak for that party as the packed,
cut and dried conclave which will meet
at Philadelphia on the fifth of June
next.
The mOstprominent names mentioned
for the first place on the ticket, are those
Of Trumbull, G. F. Adams, Judge Davis
and B. Gratz Brown. One of these -four
will undoubtedly be nominated. Either
of them can be elected. The campaign
will soon be hot enough. Let every
man who feels any interest in redeem
ing his country from the corrupt and in
capable rule under which it has fallen.
be ready to put forth his utmost exer-
tions in the good cause, which is nothing
less than that of civil libeEty and hon
est government"
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r.1,.--......

CINCINNATI, April 29.-The hall IN
which the convention viii meet was
turned over to the committee to-day.
IL is thought that it will accommodate
comfortably over ten thousand persons.
There are one hundred tables pro-
vided for newspaper reporters alone.
Immediately IN the rear Of the plat
form the national eolors are handsomely
displayed, with liberal festOons Of ever
green. Still above this is the orchestra,
which is also tastefully provided for.
The entire hall is decorated with ma
tiOnal flags, interspersed with the coat
Of-arns of all the States. The floors are
covered with sawdust or tan-bark, so as
to avoid disturbance from the moving
masses about the house.
The business of seating members and
others entitled to admission will be COM
mitted 10 Mr. Lloyd, the experienced
ticket-selleFof Pixies Operl-hOuse, which
insures the Convention against any con-
fusion. The ladies will be admitted
from the Plumb street entrance, so as to
avoid the annoyance of issuing from the
crowd that will be met At the main en-
trance.
Ample telegraph Eacilities are pro-
vided at the hall, the Western
Union Telegraph Company alone having
wires communicating with the build
ing, and an arrangement has been made
by which the hacks will take two visi-
tors to and from the Convention hall at
twenty-five cents each.
Carl SchurZ had a reception from his
German friends at the Washington
Platform tonight.
Tomorrow morning at eleven, O'Clock,
addresses will be delivered by the Ken
tueky State Liberal Republican Conven-
ton in Covington.
The following is the plan Of OrganiZa-
ton which has been unanimously agreed
unon by that committee and the repre-
seDtatives consulted. The National
Convention will be called to order III the
Exposition Hall at noon, on Wednes-
day. After effecting the temporary or
ganization it viii then be adjourned at
once, and the members from the sew
eral States will proceed 10 assemble
in State Conventions to elect del
egates from each State that shall be
entitled to representation upon the ba-
sis of four delegates at large and two
for each member of Congress allotted to
it under the new appOrtiOnment, and
these States are to recommend to the
street delegates from the Congressional
Districts as far as possible i'll case
any State shall not be represented by a
number Of persons equal to that to
which it shall be entitled under the fore
going rule, then those present shall be
entitled to east the full vote Ofthe State.
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MOBILE.

CHARLESTON, April 29.-COttOn alm; mid
ding 221sc; net receipts, 1872 bales; exports
coastwise, 267 bales sales, 200 bales; stock A.
06l bales.
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The Evansville Ind Courier says:
GAS the time for the holding of the Gin
cinnati Convention is approaching, it
becomes apparent that Charles Francis
Adams will be the nominee of the Lib
eral Republicans for the Presidency.
His nomination is certain to be followed
by his triumphant election, and Will
present the remarkable circumstance of
three persons of one family, in direct
line of succession, occupying the Presi-
Dental chair. John Adams, of revolu-
tiOnary fame, and who was the second
President, was elected in 1876. In 1924
his son, John Quincy Adams, the old
man eloquent was elected to the Chief
And now, after the lapse
of nearly half a century, Charles Francis
the son Ofthe old ran eloquent.
is likely TO assume the Chair Of State.
There is yet another, a son of Charles
Francis Adams, who may yet be called
to the White House.
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sena.or Fen.on on the sItuntlon.


Senator Fenton was interviewed by a
Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Times, ON the eighteenth instant.
Explaining the meaning of "a Republic
can statesman trained in Republican
IDEAS y in his Cooper Institute letter, he
said: "The supplemental condition
was inserted to emphacize and make
clear to the mind of every one that the
Senator desires a different man for
President than q. $. Grant. The Sena-
tor thinks that, perhaps, to the critical
reader, the words in question We're SUI
perfiuous. He authorizes me to say,
however, as practical test of what he
does mean by "a statesman trained in
Republican IDEAS is that Illinois pre-
sents the names of three statesmen
Palmer, Davis, or Trumbull-either one
of whom, if nominated by the Liberal
Republican Convention at Cincinnati,
viii satisfy him, and enlist his earnest
support. In addition TO these, the Sem
atOr adds that Mr.. Greeley, of New
York, or Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, of
Massachusetts, would fill the bill, and
that either, if nominated, would
have his best efforts to secure
his election. Mr.. Fenton expresses
the opinion that either of the
gentlemen named is eminently quali-
fed for the high and responsible duties
of President; that each one has been
trained in principles, sentiments, and
manners consonant with the highest
forms and ideas of Republican govern
ment in the brOadest and highest sense.
After carefully canvassing the gentle
men named above, and the tickets
which have been discussed as likely to
be nominated at Cincinnati, Senator
Fenton said: There is no doubt that
Davis and Andrew G.. Curtin would
make strong and popular ticket On
the subject of Vice President, Senator
Fenton assured me that it is his express
wish that his friends will not mention
his name in connection with the Office,
He has no desire for the place. In this
connection / am at liberty to state that
Senator Fenton is preparing a letter for
publication in answer to some inquiries
made by Republican journal IN New
York State, which will place his views
and purposes relative to the political sit
uatiOn in a light 50 clear and compFe
hensive that they cannot be miscon-
strued."
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CINCINNATI, April 29.--At meeting
Of the New York delegation held to-day,
q paper from Whitelaw Reid, of the New
York Tribune, was presented, which il
is understood embodies Mr.. Greeley's
views Of revenue plank in the plat
form to be constructed. This provides
substantially as follows:
Finding ourselves not fully agreed with re-
spect to free trade as opposed 10 protection,
we respectively commend the grave issues in
VOWED in that controversy 10 careful study
and unbiased adjudication Of the people,
urging them TO choose members OF Congress
who truly embody and will faithfully reflect
their viii on that subject. Pledging ourselves
that that will, when thus authOritattyely
made known, shall be implicitly Obeyed.
1t is understood that this was gem
orally acquiesced ia by this delegation,
of which Governor FentOn is a MEM
Der; that it was presented to a private
meeting Of revenue reformers held at 4
later hour.
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THE MORMONS.
Meeting Of the Mormon COnferenee-Im-
mense Assemblage Of the Saints and
SainteSSes- -Great Enthusiasm.
Brigham Thanks God that Things are
Not as They should be-Defies the
World as to His Character.

SALT LAKE, April 2S.-At the Nor
mon Conference to-day, morning and
afternoon, about eight thousand persons
were present, including q large number
Of Gentiles. Brigham Young diseoursed
at length, thanking God that he was
permitted to be with his people again.
He hoped the time would come when he
would have anOppOrtunity before a court
of Justice of proving the falsity of the
charges against him. He defied all the
people in the world to show any sign
against his moral character. He was
glad neither he nor his brethren had the
power of God till they had the wisdom
to use it, OF they might be led TO destroy
all their enemies. They should demand
from those who had been prosecuting
them all the papers connected with the
cases, that posterity might know who
their prosecutors were. He praised the
Deputy Marshal who had him IN charge,
denounced the lawyers, scolded those
saints who had not paid heir tithing
promptly, and finally, with his blessing
closed the Conference till next October.
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DESTRUCTION OF ANTIOCH.
Further Particulars from the Inflated
City-Oyer Sixteen Hundred Per-
sons Killed in the Cts aud
Vicinity.

LONDON, April q. The baefifulars Of
DE late earthquake, at syria, arc nGE
coming o hand, The fatalities are not
the greatest IN the city OF Antioch, but
in the vicinity oftne city. A letter from
Antioch of April fourth gays: The
American Protestant church was severe
IN injured, and four Of the American
community killed, all members Of the
families of missionaries. so far the
number Of persons killed I'm the city OF
Antioch aFe less than three hundred
but i is known that sixteen hundred in
the towns aud country where the shocks
were as severe il not greater Than here,
was killed, though this number may be
increased. The distress Of the peG4jle
viii BE- only temporary, as the crop pros
psots are GOOD and the supply Of provis-
ION on band age moderate. CoEespon-
dents of the L0DdOh papers praise The
Rev Mr. Powers, an American Mission
ayy, for assisting and minisiering to the
relief Of the afflicted peole. m
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INDIRECT DAMAGE QUESTION.
Fish to Sehehek, Sehenek to Granville,
Granville to Her Majesty's Gov
eTnment, and Vice Versa.
Fish Arrives at the Conclusion that
he has Settled the Matter, Pro-
Vided II. MS Govern
ment is Willing.

New YORK, April 29.-The New York
Herdtd's Washington special says that
Mr.. Fish, last night, sent long dispatch
to General Sehenck, containing the last
words of the State Department on the
question of consequential damages at
Geneva, and in support of the new
principle ofinternatiOnal law, which our
government demands in return for the
modification of the American case.
There is every reason to believe that the
negotiations now going forward viii
succeed. The only danger apprehended
is from the violence of the opposition in
the English Parliament tomorrow
night. The reply of Mr.. Fish to Earl
Granville's second note is not expected
to arrive in London before Tuesday.
This viii probably delay the action of
Parliament till some understanding is
based on the negotiations outside of the
formal argument, before the claim can
be reached.
Earl Granville has informed our gov
ernment that the proposition we have
made will require time for considera-
ton.
Mr.. Fish is understood to have in
structed General Schenck to say that
we are ready to make a supplemental
treaty, in which the negative Of our case
at Geneva will be agreed upon as the
governing conduct of two nations, when
one or the other is at war.