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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-17
VICTIM OF LAND SWINDLERS
More About the Scott County Land
Frauds.
From the Knoxville Chronicle, Aug. Is.

From the Knoxville Chronicle, Aug. 10.
A Mr.. Michael White, of East End, Pitts
burgh, Pa, came 10 the Chronicle oice, in
Knoxville yesterday from Scott county,
where he has been in search OF $500 acres
Of land which he purchased from land
agent at Pittsburgh, Penn. last month.
The deed was executed on the 1ss Of July,
1873, from DorTins Z. Atkinson to Michael
White AID wife. The price was $500 cash.
The BEGINNING corner Of tn land is describ-
ed as at "tTO white posts near the six mile
post on the Huntsville and JacksborOgh
road" After giving the boundaries it says:
SIT Heing 25 90 acres Of Grant No. 4O,265 to
William Anderson on February 10th, 1873,
and the north half of the same
tract conveyed By j. Hen
derson Campbell to the grantOr."
Mr.. White went to the "two white posts
near the six mile post on the Jscksboro and
Huntsville road" and found some very fair
land thee that had been in the quiet and
uninterrupted possession Ofsome Eas! Ten
nessee farmers for many years. Then Mr..
White saw through the swindle. He is
hard working, honest and intelligent man,
and talks very sensibly about his expenses.
He saws Mr.. Atkinson Hho sold to him is
Innocent of the fraud, be thinks, and is
amply good, so that he will lose only his
time and expenses. Atkinson took the land
in payment for services to Campbell & Co.
Before Mr.. White purchased, by advice, be
wrote about the land to an attorney at
Huntsville, Scott county. The latter re.
ported favorably on the title and endorsed
q certificate from clerk that the attorney
was reliable, and the land and tie was
good, etc. Mr.. White has promised to send
us This letter which he Is anxious to have
published so that, as he says, other limo
cent parties may not be imposed upon in
the same way.
1t is high time Ten Iesse3 was rid of
these swindlers who iHjure Us and break
down all honest efforts at immigration. We
are reliably informed of at least one impor
tant enterprise inI mineral lands and iron
manufacturing, that has been broken up,
for the present at least, by this Scott county
swindle.
We hope to expose the guilty parties and
if any Scott county officials are engaged IN
it, we hope to see them severely aud
promptly dealt with. We hope they are
not, but Mr.. Whites letter will throw some
light on the subject. The Chronicle has
spent too much labor and money 10 Efforts
to attract immigration to Esss Tennessee,
to suffer few unprincipled scoundrels to
undo it all By their miserable land swindles.
The title to lands in East Tennessee, Is
easily traced, and in almost all cases per-
fectly good. We have our swindles as they
have in some other States, and it is our pur-
pose to expose them, and put stop to their
nefarious work.
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HOW EUGENE CONQUERED KING
CHOLERA.
From Appleton's Journal.

FROM AppletOnS JOuIndi.
must tell you one splendid incident of
the Empress Eugenie's visit TO AmienS, I'M
der the empire. 1t seems that the cholera
was really very bad there, and, what is
worse, a perfect panic had seized on the city.
So the Empress thought she would go
down and try and infuse a little moral
courage into the people. Arrived in Amiens
she found authorities and all in alarm, She
went straight to the hospital, and sat By the
beds f the patients, encouraging both them
and The attendants. Suddenly a priest
rushed into the hospitsl-a very hly-liver-
ed priest-and gaspad out, 80, your maj
esty, viii you believe it? Two hours
ago ny vicar was breskfasting with
me, and now be is dead" Awful terror
all around. "That is very good" said her
maj ssty, calmly. "Goodp cried the fright.
ened priest and people. "Yes, very good"
replied the Empress; ''for whenever the
cholera becomes as violent as that, IL al
ways ceases" The effect Of this comfort
Jog statement, which it must have cost the
Empress something to make, vas extra
ordinary. There was at once feeling that
the worst was over. So much for tact and
quickness. The Amiens doctors said the
visit 7ss a remedy for cholera far beyond
any which they had in their pharmacopoeia.
This story has the advantage Of some others
of being absolutely true.
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NASHVILLE.
FOREIGN.
Politfco.Religious.
OF

POI1tIc0.HekigtOus.
GAsTEIN, Aug. 16.-The Emperor Of
Germany, now here, gave audience yester-
day to DR.. Phillip Schoef, bearer of con-
gratulations from the New York General
Conference of the Methodist Ep,sc"pal
Church. In bis remarks in reply, the EN-
peror dwelt upon the necessity of christians
working together in order to combat iDidel-
ity and superstition.
A Coming Event.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-A Berlin cores
pondent says: One of the events for which
it is well to be prepared is the death Of the
German Emperor. Apprehensions about
his case arise, not so mUch from specific
attacks Of illness as from ssricus s'gns, / n
significant when taken apAi /, Lat iull of
significance when grouped together. Soon
after the dissipation of the st. Petersburg
visit, the Shah arrived and to the physical
fatigue IF his host was added nervous suf-
fering brought on by the eccentricities of
that guest. & Was supposed at one time his
illness was feigred in order to escape fur
Their interviews with the "king OF kings"
After the departure Of the Shah the En-
peror returned to Potsdam where one hot
evening he suddenly fainted, falling heavily
forward on the floor and enly an hour after
was he brought to consciousness. The
Emperor is petuIant and validating and
has a morbid dread of being alone. He
the extent to which bis government has be-
come involved in war with the Holy See.
Those Unfortunate Jesuifs.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that during
disturbances at Pernambuco, growing out
of the measures taken by he Brazilian
bishops a-ainst freemasons, the Jasui col
lege Was b oxen into, the sacred pictures
destroyed, the confesionsls shattered, and
four of the reverend fathers beaten, one of
whom, was i'll, dying from the blows re
ceiVed. The Office of the bishops news
paper was entered and the materials thrown
out of the windows, and the paper burned.
Looking After the DeerhOund
MADRID, Aug. 16.-A British gunboat
has arrived at Alicante with di patches for
the commander OF the English fleet.
A Triarsuisr TrIHc.
BAYoNNE, Aug. 16.-The Courier of to-
day anticipates that the capture Of the Deer
hound by Spanish man-of-war will in
volYe the gOvernme lis of England, France
and Spain IN diplomatic e5ponGeuce, be-
CAUSE TIE NCeS6l WuICE CApSN4Cu thO LUZ
hound assumed the British cOlOrs aud the
capture was effected in French waters.
ROYAL HEADQUARTERS, Aug. TO-
Herald special-The yacht Deerhound is
detained at San Sebastian. Col. Stuart is
prisoner on board. The capture comprises
1900 rifles and 10000 cartridges.
Russian Influence.
BERLIN, Aug. 16.-There is no truth in
the report of the Paris papers that Metz will
be restored to France through the influence
of Russia.
LONDON, Aug. 16-Tbe Imperial family
of Russia will assemble to formally welcome
the Duke of Edinburgh who goes to st. Pc
tersburg on Dec. l. His marriage with the
Grand Duchess Maria will take place the
January following.
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Condensed TeIegrams.

Secretary Richardson is en- route for
Long Branch. Attorney neral Williams
Is g Ding to see his parents next week.
st. LOuisans "msnifest great interest" in
a disgusting lawsuit designed to te st the
validity of a city law regulating bsgnios.
All such regulating, in so far as it secures
the safety of "patrons," is direct encour-
agement to evil practices.
New York reports the robbing in street
car of widow with four children.
A destructive fire is raging in the woods
near Halifax and several farm houses have
already gone.
On Aug. o, a mob at Tucson, Arizona,
hanged four men the murder of an old
pawnbroker aod his wife.
= Two schooners, from Chicago and Erie,
collided off Thunder bay yesterday, serious
ly damaging both and drowning one sailor.
New York reports 1888 immigrants last
week and 68S deaths.
A reporter on Brooklyn journal was
killed yesterday in jumping from Jersey
train.
Dalano left 81. Pauls yesterday for tour
among the Indians.
The steamship Vaderland from Antwerp
is disabled off Atlantic City, n. j.
G.. W. Balm, the Kentucky temperance
lecturer was struck with paralysis of the
spine yesterday.
Dr.. Ray, of Henderson, KY, sues q
neigkbor for damaging his practice to the
tune of $4,000.
Sc ALA, Mo-, reports an incendiary fire
$4,000.
The cell house of the State prison at
Michigan City, Ind, took fire yesterday but
was heroically saved by the convicts.
New York FreDchmen are said to be get
ting up testimonial subscription for ex-
President Theirs.
Several failures in the Liverpool cotton
trade were announced yesterday.
Nail reports of the railroad disaster a.
Wigan, England, Aug. 2, mention Il killed
AMI - MANNED.
English weather is wet and unfavorable
TO crops.
We suppose Paraguay, Brazil and the Ar
gentins Republic have been at war, from a
mention by telegraph that they have made
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WAWASSETT.
Developments of the Government In
VestiSatiOn.


VestigatiOn.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-The examina-
ton into the Wswassett disaster was COM
menced to-day at the Treasury Department
before George W. Taylor, Acting Superin-
tending Inspector General of Steamboats,,
and other Officials. The matters of inquiry
were: first, the equipment Of the steamer;
second, the origin of the fire; third, the COZ
duct of the licensed officers both prior and
subsequent to the alarm being given.
The first witnesses examined were ies.
D. Lowery, Inspector Of hulls and William
o. Ssville, Inspector of boilers at Baltimore
who made the last inspection from whose
testimony it appeared tie steamer was
thoroughly inspected in March last and
ev2rytbing which the law requires was
found there without single exception.
Capt. Wood saidghe called TO the passen-
gers 10 keep cool, as he did not see any rea-
son for excitement; butin less time than he
uld now relate the fact, he flames burst
out in heavy volumes. What he did on that
occasion, he would repeat under similar
circumstances.
The pilot was licensed by the United
States, but the captain was not. 1t is
bLO IL VIZ AANAssAA y
room. No doubt The fire had beer burning
some time before the door was opened
which gave draft to the flames.
The Captain said there were on board
one hundred and twenty five passengers,
not counting children. The license show
ed the boat was permitted to carry only fif-
ty passengers The Captain sad he was
under the impression that be was allowed
to carry one hundred and fifty passenger.
Fifty passengers would not pay the expsn-
ses of the steamer. The boat was well
provided with all appliances for saving the
boat and lives. There were bet"een four
aud five hundred life preservers, only two
of which were known to have been used.
Not a soul would have heen lost if the en-
gines bad not suddenly stopped.
Robert Nash, engineer, was examined
He had alwaS found the Iiremen attentive
to business. Nothing whatever was the
matter with the boiler to cause the fire.
Mr.. Sayille said he he'd known Nash 70 r
wears. He was strictly sober and comps
tent engineer, and was always found OF his
post.
LATER Capt. Gedley says the license
produced to-day, allowing only fifty psssen-
gers to the Wawasset, was erroneous, as he
had in bis possession apermit gned by the
proper officers, allowing for this year, as
heretofore, $50 passengers.
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POLITICAL.
The Matt Carpenter Scandal.
His Radical Constituents Invite Hin
To Rise and Explain.

His Radical Constituents Invite Him
to Rise and EzplaIn.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 16.-The evening
Wisconsin Republican to-day abiding to
charges published against the private char
acter of Senator Carpenter, SAYS: The New
York Tribune and Chicago Times have
made most serious charges against the pri-
vate character of Senator Carpenter, charges
too grave to pass unEoticed. They are
uttered by journals of ample pecuniary res
possibility. They can be made to suffer
seriously if they have given currency to re-
ports that are false and litelous, and the
constituents of the Senator have the right
to know the truth. If they are false per-
sonal malevolence could go no further, and
any Jury would award such damages as
W juld be lesson to all future journalists.
The people demand that the Senator of
their choice should yindicate bis character.
The President BefOgged-How Reye-
nue Cutters are ''ExprOpriated.''
PORTLAND, Me, Aug. 16.-The Revenue
Cutter McCulloch, with President Grant
and party bound for Mt. Desert, put into
North Haven last night On account of dense
fog. She was expected to resume the trip
to-day.
Kensas Farmers.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Aug. 16.-A large
meeting of farmers and others was held at
Oloathe last night in regard to cheap trans
portation. Speeches were made faVoring
Government or State control of railroads,
river improvements and barge navigation
on the Missouri river.
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NEW YORK.
The CustOmhOIise CesspOel,
How Merchants are Bedeviled with
SuhOruph SOieR.

HOW Merchants are BedeV1led with
SubOrned Spies.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Speciai Agent
Jayne, of the Customhouse, has been made
defendant in a suit for treSpass brought
against him by Plat & Boyd, the glass i'm
pOrters who are being prosecuted for the
recovery of million dollars revenue. 1t
seems that Plat & Boyd discovered five of
their clerks were giving information TO
rival horse and discharged them. Jayne
Immediately took them into his service,
and from information given obtained war
rant giving him right to seize the books
ard papers relating tc certain specific
frauds. But, according to the affidavit Of
the firm, Gsyne, I1alieiously intending to
injure them and to frighten them in the
payment of large sum Of money, in or
der to obtain back their property, and pc
vent the interruption Of their business, and
consequent: injury to their eommerci Il stand
ing and credit, violently seized and caused
to be carried away all the books and papers,
as well as those which he was advised were
referred to in said warrant. The firm
charge Jayne with gross impropTieties of
speech, manner and action. When be first
entered their store he Threatened TO put
them all into Ludlow street jail, saying, as
alleged, 81 will lock up the who'd Id lot
of you tonight, il it takes the whole army
and navy of the United States to do it."
The Grand Army OF Public Sinners.
It's again stated that list Of names of
customs inspectors against whom grave
charges are made has been forwarded to
Washington for action by the Secretary Of
the Treasury. The Express says q prom
inent official admitted 10 Its reporter that ID
vestigations are constantly going Cd; inspec-
tors being dismissed for neglect Of duty, for
intoxication and beyond doubt some for re-
ceiving brides, for, do what we can, such
things viii occur.
James A. Meline.
The funeral services Of the late Col. Me-
line takes place tomorrow morning at 81.
Peters Catholic Church. In the evening
the body will be forwarded to Cincinnati
for interment.
The Landing of the Puritans.
Nineteen families of the Mennonite
sect, one hundred persons 10 all, arrived
here Yesterday from Prussia, bound for
Kansas. They will not leave the city till
Monday, as they say they cannot travel On
Sunday. This advance guard of the sect
is principally composed of young families,
there being few old people among them.
1t is their intention to 60 to Elkhart, Ind,
where acquaintance are and remain there
prospecting until a permanent home is
chosen. They are nearly all sgricultuTists.
10 1871 the British Government held cut
inducements to the Mennonites to settle in
Canada, promising them complete immunity
from military service, but the people re-
fused, saying they would prefer to come to
this country. A delegation recently visited
the West and reported on their return to
Russia where to plant the colony, and hope
to send out company Of 5000 in Hay
next.
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CRIMINAL.
A Costly Collision.

CHICAGO, Aug. 16-A collision, which
resulted in the fatal demolition of fifteen or
twenty freight and two passenger cars, &C.
CURED last night on the Chicago nd Alton
Railroad, six miles south of Bloomington,
between freight train and an excursion
train. Three men were badly hurt and
are supposed to be killed and are still in the
wreck. Criminal carelsssness it is said was
the cause Of the accident.
Suicide.
Mrs. Ellen Mckinney to-day poured ker-
oseDe on the fire and burned herself and q
4 year old child to death.
QUINCY, ILL, Aug. 16-J. Hancock, a
weli-to-do farmer, living in Adams county,
While, as is supposed, insane, yesterday, cut
his Wite's throat and then hanged him
self.
Catching H-ll.''
LEAvENWoRTH, KS, Aug. 16.-Tbe
bridge Of the Missouri Pacific Railroad,
seven miles aoove here, was burned early
this A. M, ard westward bound freight
train barely escaped going into the stream.
A note was found on the TRACK near by, in
forming the Railroad Co. that if it did not
pay for stock killed they would catch he'll.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 1G.-Obsiruc.ions
were placed on the Western Pacific Rail
road, two miles above l. avenworth, last
night, consist G of two rails and ties, into
which a passenger train ran this morning,
ditching the engine, but doing no further
damsge.
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THE famous "Pro-rata freight" law of
the State of Illinois is likely to find its way
to the Supreme Court Of TIE United States.
Some of the railway companies, which
object to it, hold that ii is an encroachment
on the authority given to Congress to ere
eulate commerce among the several States"
a recent decision of the Supreme Court
in the case OF the Reading Railroad vs..
PENNSYLVANIA sustains this view OF the case,
and interprets the authority of Congress as
extending to the regulation of all freight
taken up within State and carried out of
t, or taken up out Of it anc brought within
it; in other words, all freight carried across
State boundaries.
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PrecinIfssI Is Feet.

LYNN, Mass. Aug. l6.-Gecrge Gus ener,
James Manning and Patrick CASTILLO work
ing Oh the High street Baptist Church to-day
were with six hundred pounds of brick pre-
Cipitated distance Of Is feet by the break
ing of SD over loaded scsti0ld. CuseI err
was fatally and the others seriously injured.
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"REAL1Y, my DEAR" said poor Mr.. Jones
to his better half )" "you have sadly dissp-
pointed me. once considered you a jewel
of a woman, but you have turned out only
TO b. bit OF matrimonial paste"
"The1, my love-" was the reply, "console
yours If with the idea that paste is very
adhesive, aud will stick to you as long as
Vol live"
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ga LITTLE girl living at the Warren county,
KY, poor house, recently fell into fifty
five foot we'll. The keepers wife, Mrs.
Mary Breedlo7e, lowered the bucket and
called upon the child to get into 1t. 1t did
so, and was drawn out unhurt, notwith-
sanding there were fifteen feet Of water in
the well.
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CHOLERA.


ST. LOUIS, Aug. 16.-The number of
deaths in the city for the week ending this
evening as reported By the Board of Health
was 2C6 which 10 were cholera and 26
cholera morbus.
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Wai1m aud Amerieam,

GOLD opened in New York yesterday
at 1867, declined to 1145 and closed with a
rally 10 1853.
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TENNESSEE BONDS closed in New York
last evening at an advance to SO for both
issues.
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CorToN is weak and irregular in New
York, with q moderate request, st 195
for middling.
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undesired Immteration.

OMAHA, Aug 16-Immense clouds of
erasshoppers pas ed over this section to-day
southwark. Multitudes are alig hting, and
have commenced on corn. Thermometer
10
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IT appears that Tuscumseh is to have
bis statue-on Queenstown flights, in Can
ada. The inhabitants of Ontario are to be
asked to give one cent each to pay for it.
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THE TURF.
Closing Day at Saratoga.

SARATOGA, Aug. 16.-Eolus won the
handicap of ! miles in 2:O2a, Minnie W,
the favorite ID and Joe Daniels Sd, The
four mile race for $4,000 was won in 7:54s
and S:2S1 by Arizona, Hubbard the favorite,
contesting holly the first heat. The steeple
chase of three miles was won by Blind
Tom, in SAC. Notary Public fell, but bis
Jockey remounted and took him over the
course for the third money. Wiley refused
tho lao no and Tntirod.
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Pent-uu-Utiea.

UTICA, Aug. 16-Track heavy from rain.
St. James wol first money in $4,000
purse in 2:25a; 2:25a and 2:3O. Brother
Jonathan won second money. His driver
was changed on the third heat, the
judges being satisfied that he was not driven
TO win. --
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Gentlemen lockers at Long Branch.

LONG BRANCH, N. j., Aug. 16-The
Gentlemen Jockey Club gave two races and
three prizes were to be run for, but as only
two Of the five gentlemen riders heard the
word 'fgo," at the staff, a third race became
necessary. As no horse ran away with his
rider, remarkable time was not made. Tbs
affair caused a good deal of amusement.
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Dispatches from Austin, Texas, state that
Gov. Davis, on his return to that city from
the North, repol ted that be had received
offers of seventy-fve cents on the dollar for
100000 of the State bonds which he took
with him to negotiate, but declined to part
with them for less than ejghty-fve. The
State officials have decided not to offer bonds
again until better condition of affairs ex-
lists in the money market. Gov. Davis
friends express the greatest confidence of
his denomination at Dallas next week.