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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-25
SIX GOOD RULES.

Mr. Greeley's statements of what be
knew about farming have long been made
the text for many a joke at that practical
and good man. Not very long previous to
his death he laid down some maxims on
that subject which good many who have
been tillers of the soil from childhood to old
age would do well to take heed:
~. That the area under cultivation
should be within the limits of the capital
and labor employed; or in other words,
that on impoverished soils no one should
cultivate more land than be could enrich
with manure or fertilizers, be it one acre
or twenty.
90. That there should be law COMPEL
ing every man to prevent his stock from
depredating on his neighbours fields.
90. That green soiling is more economic
al than loose pastursge.
81. That deep tillsge is essential to good
farming.
"5. That the muck-heap is the farmers
bank, and that everything should be added
to it that will enlarge it and increase at the
same time its fertilizing properties.
&c. That no farmer or planter should
depend upon one staple alone, but should
seek to secure himself against serious loss
in bad seasons by diversity of products"
We have no doubt that if every farmer
in Tennessee would act upon those six
rules, the agricultural wealth Of the State
would be increased three-fold within five
vears
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EARLY PAsTURING.

APRIL 5.-Not blade of grass has ap-
peared in the pastures yet, but | notice
that farmers are already turning out their
stock, with the hope, / suppose, that some
stray mouthful overlooked last fall may be
picked up. Now this tramping Of mea-
dows and pastures by stock in early spring,
while the ground is wet and soft, appears
to me to be poor economy. 1t is no won
der that Mother Earth refuses to yield q
good living TO people who abuse her in this
manner, and it is as true as preaching, that
the men who practice these skinning sys-
TENS, calling them economical, are always
unlucky, their cattle taking every disease
that comes along, and their crops usually q
little too meager to pay a good profit. If q
pasture is expected to hold out during the
hot, dry westher, the grass must not be
pruned too early In the season. A good
growth Of top means q corresponding ex-
tension of root, and without this no plant
can survive for any considerable length of
time.-RtuGl Neto Yorker.
There Is s'heap" of good sense in the
above paragraph which we clip from the
Rural NesO Yorker. A good pasture or
meadow is like cash in bank, which il
drawn out and spent, sometimes foolishly)
becomes valueless as reserved capital. First
rate meadows and pastures are uncommon,
because so few can abstain from tramping
them and feeding improperly. The tread
of cattle and horse stock in wet weather is
ruin to grass in bottoms, and injurious every
where. If one has small farm, better use
q one horse mower, and feed grass and hay
in stables and yards, and haul out manure,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-25
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The new road law is reported as very un-
popular in Granger county.
The mosquitoes have opened the spring
campaign at Dyersburg already.
Mr.. George A. Fain is shipping live East
Tennessee beef cattle from Morristown to
Baltimore.
The prospect is that the fruit crop in
Granger county will not be SO large this
year as last. ....
A young man named Organ was killed in
Hamblen county on the 10Th inst. by tree
falling upon him.
A youth in Granger county named Nc
Daniel, fifteen years old, weighs one hun
dred and ninety pounds.
Messrs. Turnkey, Ely & Co. have
established an agricultural implement man
ufactory at GAINESVILLE.
The residence of Rush Persons in Jack
son was destroyed by fire on the Goth inst.
The household furniture was saved.
Rev. d. r. Smith, recently of Meridian,
Miss, has accepted an invitation to become
stated supply to the Presbyterian church at
Athens.
VIM. Ray, of Anderson county, was i'm
prisoned in the jail at Knoxville on the 22d
inst, for alleged Illicit dstilling of spurious
liquors.
Mart Tessley attempted to bill a barber
named George Carter in Knoxville on the
I'D inst, by shooting at him with pistol.
The bullet missed him but passed through
the pants of boy in the shop. Teasley
was arrested.
A negro named Samuel Hooper shot and
killed another negro named Ofen Jacks on
at GAINESVILLE on Saturday night, the 10Th
inst. The Tobacco Leaf says: "Hooper
owed Jackson five dollars, and the latter
dunned him for it. Hooper didn't have the
money, and they got into a quarrel. The
shot took effect in the nose and entered the
brain, killing him instantly. Hooper made
his escape. The negroes here are rejoiced
over the matter. Jackson is known among
them as faith doctor and snake charmer,
and was great terror to them. The debt
which led to the difficulty was a trick
feaD
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X /. .#31"t
! ten busI1els Of corn more to the acre. The
| result last fall was, my pooreet acre Welded
| foty-hve bushels, and NY best acre eighty
seven and five eighth bushels. think the
drilling process added at least ten bushels
to the acre to the old way. -Four or Eve of
my neighbors made The same experiment
with about like results. Indeed, it is no
longer experimenting here, as facts, for the
last few years, have proven that drills are
more profitable than bills, and o large in
terest is being manifested in it. Uisa pous
ular error that corn can only be drilled With
a machine on smooth land, as part of the
land drilled last year was just cleared and
full of stumps.
At the Michigan Agricultural College, in
1858, two plo.s of land were set apart, sub
stantially equal in character of soil, each
measuring forty-eight rods in width. The
ground was plowed May 5, and manure was
spread evenly and worked in BY a cultiya-
tor and harrow. Yellow Dent corn was
planted May "a, in rows four feet apart;
one of the plots being planted in hills, the
other in drills. The plots were cultivated
and hoed June -, and July 7, the plants
being thinned SO Is to leave the same num-
Der of stalks on each plot, including the
equal distribution of plants throughout the
subdivision of the plots. : As near as
possible, each of the two plots received
the same amount Of labor and eultivs-
ton. The stalks were cut at the bottom
Sept. II, and stacked in good order; three
weeks afterward the corn was husked and
weighed. The. stalks then again carefully
stacked, and we're hauled and weighed, in
good condition, Oct. IL. The corn on the
portion planted in hills was better in quail
ty than on that planted in drills. But the
drilled portion produced IA 1-6 bushels
shelled corn, and three tonso Of stalks to the
acre, against 654 bushels of shelled corn,
and p tons Of stalks per acre produced by
the portion In hills.
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DEEP.sEA SOUNDING.

The operations of the English deep-sea
sounding expeditions in single year were
carried on in the Atlantic ocean at q depth
of Il, 615 feet, or over two and three-quart-
er miles. The deep bed of the ocean was
found to contain rich and varied collec-
ton of organisms which are more delicstely
and deliberately formed and more exquis-
iteiy beautiful in coloring than those inhab-
ting the belt of shallow water fringing the
land. BY these explorations the bed of the
deep sea, lao, 10000 square miles in ex-
tent, has been added to the legitimate field
Of natural history. The deep-sea dredgings,
it was first supposed, though enormously,
would bring up creatures which would
strengthen the Darwinian theory of the or
igin of species, through notifications by
descent, but the results of exploration have
shown that species are permanent within
narrow limits of variation. Every species
1t is stated, appears to have an area ofmax-
imum development, which has been termed
the metropolis of the species.
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THOSE TRANsPLANTED TULIP
TREES.

One year ago transplsnted quantity
of Tulip trees from the woods, cutting them
back severely at the time, as 1 supposed, to
Insure life and growth. They lived, and
made fair growth, q fact which l men,
toned in my "Dairyn last summer; but the
Industrial Agent of the Kansas Pacific Rail-
road kindly Informed me through one of
the Western papers, that my success was
only prospective, because the trees would
probably die the next winter. But the
next winter is past, and my tulip trees are
alive, and have not found dead one
among those which made ever SO feeble a
growth last summer. Let those who de-
sire forest trees from the woods adopt this
plan of transplanting early and pruning Sc
verely, with confidence of success; for when
it is well done, it is cheap way Of OBJ
tanning trees. Even from the nurseries,
the earlier In the season trees are removed
the better. Waiting until the ground is dry
and warm before planting hardy trees, is q
great mistake, which costs the people of
this country about as much as those which
they succeed in making live. This planting
trees that persist in dying may be good for
trade, but it is very discouragipg to those
who only have shallow purse.-Rwal
Netc Yorker.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-25
SYMPATHETIO.

The tender regard felt for murderers In
the metropolis may be very fairly gagged
by the fact that lately ball was given in
the Bowery, for the benefit of Nixon, now
lying in the Tombs under sentence of death.
This is novelty, indeed, and we doubt if
it could take place in any other city in the
world. A bali for the benefit of an assas-
SIM What mockery! What horrible as
ISOLATION of ideas is there in mirth and
murder. What wanton defiance of pro-
priety, of decency and of public opinion
there was in the proceeding. OF course, it
was simply an appeal to the scum of the
city to come forward by way of an encour-
sgement to their unfortunate "chum," and
to show that whatever law and the public
thought of the crime for which he is to suf-
fer death, he had their fullest sympathies
and endorsement. But even the vile and
degraded refused to come forward in body
for such cause, and the ball was only at
tended BY few girls whose characters need
not be the cause of any very long doubt.
The thing was miserable failure, as it
richly deserved to be, but it stands forward
as terrible warning Of the defiant attitude
the banditti of New FORK take against law
and order. We presume they shall next
have banquets in honor of imprisoned for
gers and costly testimonials to baffled burg
lars. We have almost ceased to eyince sur
prise at anything done in New York.
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aasnv1Ile srocerz lrarkes.

SUGARs-New Orleans, in hogsheads 6
| Ole for fair to choice; Demerara 113G
l2c; standard hsrds 1910; New Orleans
clarified white 1246l24c; do. yellow 124c;
A coffee 124!6124c; B do. 125612sc; extra
@ do. 126124c; Porto Rico 11n12c.
MOLAssEs AND SIRUPs-New Orleans
7O675c; sirups $4,000; golden strip 65
| 670c.
CoFFEE-Market steady as follows
Rio, common to choice, 22sD24c; LaguAyrs
| 23624c; Java 27N29c.
NAILs-We quote at $5.75 for 10ds, and
26c additional for diminishing grades.
SALT-We note heavy receipts, and
prices declined materially. We quote I
bushel barrels at s2S5 per barrel in depot.
CAEDLKs-We quote star 2062O3c %
b.
FIsH-We quote as follows: Half bar
rels, Nos. l, 2 and 8, $500, 81. Is and $500;
In kits, Nos. 1, 2 and 8, $3.50, $500 and
$1.75.
RIcE-We quote at &c.
CHEEsE-We quote Factory at 16A17c.
TEAs-We quote Imperial $1.00N1.5O;
Young Hyson $1.15n1.50; Black 75e6
$1.25; Gunpowder $161.50.
POwDER-Mafket steady as ollows: Du-
pont SIPS; Sycamore Mills S7.25; Hazards
S.25; blasting 1925; fuse per 100 feet 75c.
SHoT-We quote patent So; Buck 1928.
LIQUoRs-We quote common rectifed
whisky % gallon 81; Robertson County
S1.75G$3; Bourbon $1.25n5.50; Lincoln
County $1.7502.25; Highwines 81.
COTTON TK@We quote at 94d10c.
BRooNs-We quote at $2.50n3.60 y
doz.
SoAP-We quote at 6Gsc y d, or $50
$50 % box.
BAseMe-We quote at 14R14ac for
hemp and fax.
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IMPORTANT DECISION.
Suit Against Telegraph Company.
From tho Milwaukee Wisconsin. Anril Is.

Suit Against q Telegraph Company,
From tho Milwaukee Wisconsin, April Is.
Judge May yesterday fled an important
decision in the case of John Hibbard ct al.
against the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany.
The case, briefly stated, was this: The
plaintiff, Mr.. Hibbard, who lives in Sagi.
nav, Mich, sent an order to Mr.. William
B. Hubbard, of this city, by night dispatch
over the wires of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, to purchase for him 90 900
bushels Of wheat of a certain grade, etc.
The telegram, though received here, was
not delivered. Two days later Mr.. William
3. Hubbard was advised by mail from the
plaintiff that the telegram had been sent
and of its contents. During this time the
price of wheat had changed, so that
the plaintiff, if the wheat had been
bought the day tia telegraph ought
to have been delivered and sold
the next day, would have re-
allied $1,40O. The plaintiff consequently
commenced suit against the company for
the amount of nominal loss. The defense
put in was that the contract on the back of
the blanks, on which night messages are
written, relieves the company of any LA
bility for delay, ETC., and among other
points that the damages asked were Gre
mote, speculative and contingent" The
other points in the defense, save the last,
the Court held to be of no force. In re-
gard to this point, however, the Court held
that it had no right to predicate a judgment
for damages on the result of what might
have happened but never did take place.
The Court said:
81 cannot say from the testimony and the
law that the defendant is liable for what
the plaintiffs might have made, If trans
action had actually taken place, because it
cannot be considered as proven that if he
had bought on the 7th he would have sold
on the 8th at profit, and because even if /:
had been, or could be proved, such remote
and consequential damages, possible gains
and contingent profits are not allowed"
The judgment was for the defendant and
the suit dismissed.
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It lies there alone; 1t Is rusty ard faded,
With patch on the elbow, . hole in the side
But We think Of the brave boy who wore IT, ano
Lock on it with pleasure and touch it with
A history clingsto it; over and over,
We see proud youth hurried on to the fray,
With his form Hike the eak, and his eye Ike the
How.gaIlsnt lie rode in the ranks Of the '.arayl"
1t is rough, it is worn, it is battered in places,
But love it the more for the story It bears,
A story of courage IN struggle with sorrows,
And heart that bore braveiy Its burden OF
( ,-lr cares. III sfiiut ice41r II = b q
1t is ragged and rusty, but ahi it was shining
In the sst sheen when ne t more y
When Is sPSEsag to his place in the ranks of
There's rip in the sleeve, and the collar is tarn-
The buttons all gone with their glitter and
IT'S thing Of the past and we reverently lay it
Away with the treasures and relics Of old;
As the gifts of love, solemn, sweet and un-
Are cherished sssSSd as leaves from long vanished
We win keep the old Jacket for sake of the
I loved ono
VINO rode in the van in the ranks of "the
/ tray"
Shot through with buIlet-right here in the
And down there the pocket is splintered and
q soiled, ~ = : e-r ~.
Ali more-see, the lining is stained and dis
Yes-blood-drops the textures have stifened
and spoiled,
Itcame when he rode at the head Of the column,
Charging down in the battle one deadliest day,
When squadrons of foemen were broken asun-
der,
And Victory rode with the ranks Of "the
Gray"
It's mem'ry is sweetness and sorrow eommipgled,
To me it Is precious-more precious than gold;
In the rent and the shot holes volume is writ
ten,
In the stains OF the lining is agony told.
That was ten years ago, when, in LIES sunny
He rode with his comrades down into the fray,
And the old coat he wore, and the good sword he
welded,
Were all that came back from the ranks of
''the Gray"
And it lies there alone; win reverence it ever
The patch in the elbow, the hole in the side,
For a gallanter heart never breathed than the
loved one
Who wore it in honor and soldierly pride.
Let me brush of the dust from its latter and
tarDish,
Let me fold it up closely and lay 1T away
1t is all that is left of the loved and the lost one
Who fought for the Right in the ranks of ''the
Gray"
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LocAL STOCKS AND BoNDl

Il . =
Tennessee bonds appear rather weak
being quoted in New York YESTERDAY fore.
noon at 80 and in the afternoon al 791.
They would bring here about 10. The past
due coupons are dull at go.
Comptrollers' warrants are in very little
demand BY taxpayers, and dealers will not
offer over 9S694c for small amounts, while
large lots would probably. not bring over
Our local stocks and bonds are very quiet,
though they may all be considered as firm
at the quotations. Nashville and Chatta-
neoga Railroad stock is very firm st 10;
Nashville and Decatur firm at 43; Louis
vile and Nashville firm at 76; Cotton Fac
tory stock firm at 43. Davidson and VIII
son county bonds of long dates, firm at N,
Fer rates paid for other stocks and bonds
we refer to the quotations as published BY
the National Savings Company, corner
Union and College streets.
Southern Bonds i'm New York.
The sales of Southern bonds at the New
York Stock Exchange on the 21st inst. were
as follows:
1000 Tennessee six per cents, old......7e
5000 North Carolina six per cents, new....n
SECOND BOARD.
1000 Tennessee six per cents, old. BIS. -. 80
10000 Tennessee six per cents, new b3. so
1900 Georgia six per cents. ..........74
1000 Missouri six per cents.....-.-.........93X
The sales on the 22d inst. were as fol-
lows:
FIRST BOARD.
1000 Georgia seven per cents. .............90
5000 Missouri six per cents.
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We are indebted to McAlister q Wheless,
Commission merchants, corner Broad and
College streets, for the following cotton
quotations in New York and Liverpool
during the day.
LIVERPOOL, April "a, 11.O0.-Cotton
steady. Middlipg uplands 9a69Id; Or
leans 9ad. Sales to-day 10000 bales.
LIVERPOOL, April "a, 1:3O.-Cotton
dull. Middling uplands 9569!d; Orleans
9ad. Sales to-day 1900 bales, of which
1000 bales are for export and speculation.
LIVERPOOL, April "a, 5:00.-Cotton
quiet. Middling uplands 95d; Orleans
95d. Sales to-day 10000 bales, of which
1900 bales are for export and speculation.
Sales of American 1000 bales.
NEW YORK, April "a, 10:20.-Market
quiet. Futures steady. Ordinary 15c;
good ordinary 1870; low middling 1890;
middling 1890; Alabama 1850; Orleans 19S;
Texas 204c. April delivery ncnlinally
IS 1876; May 1Ss61s5c; June 10 3-16c;
July nominally 10 Bloc; August 10 3-160
1910. Sales 800 bales.
New YORK, April "a, l2:15.-Market
quiet. Futures quiet and steady. Ordinary
l5c; good ordinary 1910; low middling 1Ss;
Lliddling 1890; Alabama 1880; Orleans
1870; Texas 203c. May delivery Is 1916
1S5c; June 10 3-16619!c; July 10 SLIGO
1886. Sales for exports $50 bales; for con-
sumption II bales; on contracts $500
bales.
NEW YORK, April "a, 1:1O.-Futures
quiet. July delivery 1890. Sales $500
bales.
NEW YORK, April "a, 2:05.--Market
quiet. Futures steady. Ordinary 15c;
good ordinary 1910; low middling 1890;
middling 1890; Alabama 1852; Orleans
1890; Texas 20tc. May delivery 1876.
Sales on the spot estimated at 500 bales; on
contracts 6,4O0 bales.
NEW YORK, April "a, 9:35.-Market
quiet. Futures quiet. Ordinary uplands
15c; good ordinary 1870; low middling 1890;
middling 1880; Alabama 1890; Orleans 195;
Texas 204c. April delivery Is 13-16618sc;
May Is 1916; June 1900 7-16e; July
10 11-l6c619sc; August 10 7-16619sc.
Sales for exports 277 bales; for consump-
ton 131bales; on contracts 5000 bales.
New Y oRK, April "a, 4:00.-Net receipts
38,0S0 bales; exports to Great Britain A.
004 bales; to the continent II, 159 bales;
stock 459, 781 bales.
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RAISING cEIERx-

A correspondent desires Information in
the matter Of raising celery, and we pro-
coed to state facts, and make suggestions
thought to be useful. Celery is a biennial
plant grown from the seed. The seed is
usually sown in bed like cabbage seed, and
the young plants are transplsnted into
trenches prepared for their reception. A
half ounce of seed will sow bed ten feet
long by four or i've in width. The seed
bed should be rich, with a fine filth with
perhaps half bushel of good ashes raked
in. Pains should be taken in raking in the
seed not TO cover them too deeply. Celery
grows wild in England, and like asparagus
prefers saline soil. It grows in damp,
low ground near the sea. Celery growing
in trenches needs deeply spaded or
plowed ground, rich by former manuring
or by recent applications. Salt
is useful as an extra fertilizer; and in case
of drouth, one should be prepared to water
the plants.
al OBOA NOLu Pd1bLACub VI AlCu SIOuuu
should be selected for trenches, and these
should be made with spade about a foot
wide, straight by line, and three or four
feet apart. Their depth should be about
hal! tho length Of spade, and the earth
taken up should be placed on either side,
convenient for filling in around celery
plants to blanch them in after months, but
perhaps better Ieveled down than left in a
ridge. The bottom of the trench should be
light dug, and if not rich, well rotted ma
nure should be applied before forking up.
The plants selected for transplantirg should
have their struggling tops and long roots
trimmed, and be planted in
single row by ditble along the
middle of the trench at the
distance of four or five inches apart.
Water should be given copiously immedi-
ately after transplanting; and If the weather
be dry, it should be occasionally repeated
till all the plants have fully spread their
roots into the soil. The principal after
culture consists in successive earthings up
of the plants, till they become in gardners'
phrase completely landed" After the
celery has grown two or three inches it re-
ceives the first earthiog. As the plants rise
in height they receive the aereate soil
thrown out of the trenches; and they may
be blanched and grown from twelve to
twenty-fcur inches according to the variety
and skill of the cultivator. All winter
crops should be well earthed in autumn
earlier or later according to the climate and
weather. Some do more transplanting,
and blaDch with decayed chips, tan bark, or
some material lighter than garden soil. The
gain by these changes is small, if any. If
one wants large and snowy plants, the
whole ground should be double lied and
all made very fine and fertilized with old
rotten manure. To this considerable salt
should be added, (Which is excellent for
cabbsges as well as for celery and aspara-
gus.) Mats should be used to protect Gel
cry beds from frost in cold weather.