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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-17
AbOlisl,iDg Nunneries.

ROME, June 16.-The bill for the sup
preston of religious corporations having
passed the Chamber of Deputies is now
before the Senate, which has adopted the
first seven clauses.
40 Spaniards Rite the Dust.
HAVANA, June 16.-A detachment of
ninety soldiers was surprised by the insur-
gents under Ssnguile, near Yucatan, and
forty killed, including the commanding off
Ger.
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An Old Rotten Boiler.

The old steamer Kill Vankul exploded a
boiler this morning, when the loaded pas
sengers from ElzabetI Port aud others
were landing on the Kills. The entire
boat was filed with steam and great alarm
manifested, but the passengers were all
taken of uniDjured by the ferry boat Thorn
as Hunt. The vessel was little damaged.
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TEEN EssEE BONDS closed in New York
lSst eve ing at 793 for he OLE issue, and
70! fa'fhe new.
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NEW YORK.
Fleetwood Stables Burned.

New YORK, June 16.--All the club
stables at the Fleetwood Course were burp-
I'd early yesterday. Two horses of local
celebrity were lost.
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GOLD cloted in New York last evening
at ll5s61l55
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CoTToN advanced to 20.c. for middling
in New York yesterday, with a moderate
d .mand
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MaioM aud Amerieau.

rERMs OF sUBsCRIPTEON,
BY NAIL or Az THE BusINRss oFFroz.
Daily, Y months, in advance. e............. $40 90
" .............. 5 90
r. 5ao- :, -Hsa ...--..-..... 80
:. i-sl -...-.--....--. 90
"0Ons .....-.....-.. 70
DKLIvIREp By CARRIERS IN THE OIrY AND
EDGKFIELD.
Daily, IL months :. . =. q. !. Z. si2 90
:, .s...ss-......--.-........ 90
IL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. leo
4 Noeh f-s..s.... 70
Bemi-WeeHiy. 81. Weekly 90.
FAYABLR IN ADVANCE. u
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stAuIy,s Expedition.

Sioux CRY, Iowa, July l6. = The
steamer Peninah which Left Camp Candy,
is now at the military post on Yellow
stone, located about thirty miles above
the mouth Of the river, at Glandive falls.
The Indians have left Grand river and
other agencies, and are concentrating
three or four thousand strong on Powder
river, to oppose the passage Of that
stream by Stauly's expedition. Stanly
is expected at Camp Candy by the FIRST
Of August. In the meantime the post is
held BY three companies Of infantry, Who
have made barbados Of their supplies
and equipments to protect themselves
from threatening attacks The captain
Of the Peninah saw a few Indians on his
way dovR, but they we're not trouble
some ||
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A CORRESPONDENT Of the New York
World says: THE iron fields Of Dixon
and HUMPHREYS counties IN Tennessee
one hundred aud twenty miles from
Memphis, east of the Tennessee river
are famous for the peculiar quality OF
their ores. The iron is very soft and
very tenacious, and is deemed Of great
value. 1t Is used in giving proper quail
tiles, BY Admixture. TO ores taken from
Iron Mountain, Mo. A company has
been organized 10 buy all the IRON fields
Of the counties designated. Three hun
dred thousand acres have been secured
the whole will be mortgaged, and the
money borrowed will be used in con
structine A narrew.gauge railway 70 the
Mississippi ut Memphis. The ores are
now hauled in wagons to the Tennessee
river. of uncertain navigability, and
thus distributed among cities along the
Ohio and Mississippi. Cincinnatians
are the leaders in this scheme, in which
one capitalist has invested three hun
dred thousand dollars"
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FOREIGN.

MADRID, July l6.-The insurrection is
spreading in the south of Spain, and is
assuming threatening proportions.
General Canburos is at the head of the
insurgents, and their chief headquarters
are at Carthagena, where they are
strongly fortified. 1t is stated that the
officers and crews of several Spanish
war frigates have openly revolted and
sided with the insurgents. The author
tiles of the province of Murcla have is
sued a declaration Of independence. A
meeting of the Cortes was held to-day,
but the session was attended with great
disorder and confusion, and was adj
journed without any definite action be-
ing taken looking to the suppression OF
the instruction movement
BARCELONA, July l5.-InformAtion of
a reliable character just received here
states that the Carlists, through French
sources, are receiving large supplies Of
arms and ammunition. A dispatch from
Germany states that a large supply Of
rifles and cartridges had been landed at
the seaport town of Selva de Maron,
near the frontier of France, where the
supplies were received by the Carlist
agents.
COSsTASTINoPLE, July l5.-The coun-
Gil Of ministers have returned an I'M
warrantable verdict against Mohammed
Pshah, ex-Vizier Of Turkey, who was ar
raigned before the tribunal to answer
charges Of maladministration in Office
during bis term as Vizier.
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EmbexzIement.

EARLvILLE, Ill, July l6.-M. Fl.
Signor, local Republican politicians Of
this place, and father of the editor Of
the Earlville Gazette, was arrested for
the embezzlement of the school fund.
After a hearing, in which he waived ex-
animation, he was bound in the sum of
$4,000, the amount of the defalcation.
He surrendered his property as indem-
MITIGATION to his bondsmen. JAS. Hart,
an old line Republican and q member of
the State Legislature, is said to be badly
mixed up with this steal.
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MENDOZA, ILL., July l6.-A most
1endish crime was attempted at the H.
tie town Of Walnut last Friday. A man
named Fisher tried to rape a Mrs. Bee
bois. Fisher being on spree, was
ready to do anything. Going to the
house Of Beebois aud finding no man
around. he made an attempt TO rape the
woman, which may prove fatal 10 her.
In the scuiile she got hold Of a revolver
and tried to shoot him. He succeeded
in getting il away from her and then fell
10 beating and choking her until she
became senseless. He tore most Of her
clothes of, owing to her violent struggle
to preserve her chastity. The brute did
not succeed. Fisher was locked up.
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OILvILLE, ONO, July l6.-The heayi'
est thunder and rain storm Of the sea
son passed over this place last night, do
ing great damage to crops, fruit, etc.
The spire of the German Reform Church
was struck by lightning and completely
destroyed. Near Fredericksburg in this
county, a man whose name is not
known, stood under tree while the
storm ragged. Lightning struck the tree
and instantly killed him. The body was
found scorched and blackened so as to
be unacceptable.
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BURLINGTON. Iowa. July l6.-A party
OF seven lads yesterday, while the work
men were at dinner, took a skif from
Berry's planning mill and proceeded out
into the river for a jollihcation. They
com menced rocking the boat for sport
when il suddenly filed with water and
drifted hopelessly toward the bridge,
William Cropton and a companion
named Collins jumped out to swim
ashore, which the latter did safely, but
Cropton was drowned. The other boys
chung to the drifting boat, and when it
struck the piers of the bridge they saved
themselves.
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Sturgeon gives utterance to the broad
est views on the subject Of open COM
munion. He says: There is not a
Christian beneath the scope Of God S
heaven from whom am separated. AT
the Lords table always invite all
Christians to come and sit down and
commune with us. If any man were to
tell me am separate from the Episco-
palian, the Presbyterian or the Method
list, would tell him he did not know
me, for love him with pure heart fer
vently, and l am not separate from
them"
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OFFICIAL. Vlly
DIN A N q 10
To FIX the Rate of Taxation for the
Forty.sixfh Corporate Year.

Be Il ordained by the General Council Of the
Il Section /. That the following rates Of taxa
tiop, for the following specified purpose, Ds
taxes according to such rates shall be levied
and collected upon the taxable properly
within the city Of Memphis, as assessed Tor
taxation. for tho forty-sixth corporate year
ViFliH PstDFcr the sole and special purpose Of
having the Interest rs the same may become
due on the bonds issued or TO be issued by the
city Of Memphis. one dollar on each one hun,
dred dollars worth OF propefgs snS sor
the sole and special purpose Of paying the
said interest, fifty cents on each one hundred
dollars worth Of property, rs assessed i9r
taxation. In the limits Of the addition made
10 the city by the act Of 1867.
Second-for the sole purpose OF proyid-
ing q sinking. fund TO be used in retiring
the bonds of the city, twenty cents ON the
one hundred dollars, worth Of taxable prop
erty In tho old city limits, and ten cents on
tho one hundred dollars worth Of taxable
property In tne new limits added thereto BY
the act Of 1867.
Third-For the purpose Of delraying the OK
penses necessarily incurred In admiR istering
The affairs Of the. city. one dollar ofrthe one
hundred dollars worth OF taxable property
Fourth : For the support Of the public
schools Of the city, and TO purchase lots and
for the erection Of school buildings thereon,
thirty cents on the one hundred dollars worth
Of taxable property in the city.
Sec. 2. That the taxes for the torty-sixth
corporate year shall DO due and payable on
and after the first day of August. 1873.
Sec. 3. That, In order TO encourage tho
prompt payment Of city taxes for the forty
sixth corporate year, the City Tax Collector
be and is hereby authorized and instructed 70
allow each and every taxpayer who shall,
previous 10 the 9Th Of December. 1873, pay the
taxes due from him OF her TO the city Of Mem
phis for the said forty-sixth corporate year
(lS73) discount at the rate of two and one
half per ceutum per month on the amount Of
such taxes so paid for the perisd Of time il
shall be so paid previous 10 the first day OF
January, 1874, and the amount so paid shall
be taken and accepted by the city as full
payment Of such tax due by such person.
The privilege hereby offered shall not be ex-
tended beyond the 18th day Of December, 1873.
After that date the Tax Collector is hereby
taxes then remaining unpaid.
Sec 4. That this ordinance take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
Passed first reading, further action deferred
and ordinance printed by Board of Aldermen
June %, 1873. Passed first reading by Coun-
Gil June %. 1878,
We. the committee. report its passage.
JOHN WALSH,
Chairman Aldermen Committee.
CA BEEHN,
Chairman Council Committee.
Report adopted and passed second and tnal
reading by Iouncil and Board of Aldermen
Approved July 9, 1873.
. JOHN JOHNSON, Mayor.
Attest-L. r. RICHARDS. City Register. -,
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NOTICE.

NOTICE = PURSUANT TO THE PRO-
~ visions Of an act Of Congress, approved
March 3. 1873. authorizing the construction Of
a bridge across the Mississippi river. at St.
Louis, Missouri, By the 81. Clair and Caron-
delet Bridge Company, the Aforesaid company
hereby gives notice 10 all concerned. that they
will, on or before the 10th day Of JULY next,
submit to the Secretary of War. for his exam
nation and approval, a design for a suspen-
sion bridge. consisting of two channel spans
Of six hundred feet each. and two end spans Of
three hundred feet each. with an elevation o.
one hundred feet above low water marx;
They will also hle map giving tne pIopsestso
location Of the bridge. the topography Of me
banks Of the river at high and low water the
direction OF the current at AL stages. and the
sor,5;ncs ehovinr accurately the bed Of the
stream, and furnishing. such other informa-
ton a. may be required tor iuil and salts
facforv understanding Of the subject BY the
AZ order Of Board Of Directors Of the 81.
Cisfr and Carondelet Bridge Company.
NJ. HENDERSON. Sec'y.
81. Louis, No, June 80, ls7s. ll3-ll2
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THE Liverpool Post says that the vel
low fever, with the aid of an unusually
stagnant atmosphere, is now bursting
forth on the west coast Of Africa. In
spite Of every precaution it steals on
board nearly every vessel which APP
proaches the coast. The African royal
mail steamer Liberia on her last voyage
lost FIVE Of her crew from the fever; the
steamers Benin and Loanda lost about
the same number, and another Of the
companys steamers lost nearly all her
crew at Sierra Leone. In order to dis
sippate the miasma the captain OF one
of the vessels makes it rule when near
the coast to light sea coal fires.
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Friday, the LIST of August, 1873,

at II o'clock am, in front of my Office, No:
351 Second street. Memphis, Tenn. proceed
TO SELL to the highest bidder. for cash, the fol-
lowing described real estate, to-wit: Begin
ming at point on the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad at the northeast corner Of lot
formerly owned by d. M. Leatherman. rum
ming eastwardly along the south line of said
Memphis and Charleston railroad to stake
fifteen feet west of the house formerly owned
by Frank Smith; thence southwardly on a
parallel line fifteen feet west Of said house to
point on the old Fort Pickering railroad;
thence westwardly along the line of said rail-
road to the southeast corner of the lot for
merly owned by ID. NJ. Leatherman; thence
northwardly along the said line to the place
of the beginning. Excepting from levy and
sale out Of the above described property the
following describrd portion thereof. to-wit
Beginning at a stake fifty feet south of the
Memphis and Charleston railroad, and six
feet west of parallel line with the west end
of the old residence; thence south and par
alel six feet west of the west end Of
said old residence TO a stake on the north
side Of the Fort Pickering railroad, two hun
dred ard seVenty-one GID feet more or less;
thence west on the north side Of said railroad
forty (40) feet to stake; thence north and
parallel with the first line two hundred and
eighty eight (2SS) feet to stake fifty feet from
the center of the Memphis and charleston
railroad; thence east fOrty-one and a half
(il14 feet 10 the beginning, 25-lO0 acres.
Levied on as the property of defendant A.
7. Lacey to satisfy said judgment. interest
and costs.
Sale TO commence at II o'clock am.
W. j. p. DOYLE,
Sheriff Of Shelby County. Tenn.
Brown x IYLES, Attys. tm-llS-l3O
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sons OF Ham.

The writer Of an article in the Corn
hill Magazine, under the designation Of
the Sons Of Ham, gives some reasons
for thinking that that race is not de-
rived from Ham, at least not through
Canaan, as the popular theory goes. His
reasoning on that point is the following:
To justify the position Of those who
yet believe in the degrading influence OF
the curse Of Noah upon the Africans
and their name is legion-it is neces-
sary to prove that they are the descend
ants Of Canaan, at whom alone the
curse was launched, and that slavery
has been specially associated with them.
But there IS abundant evidence, sacred
and profaRe, TO show that of all the
sons Of Ham, Canaan was the only one
who never entered Africa. His descend
ants occupied, without exception
Asiatic localities. We are told in
Genesis x, 10: The border Of the
Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou
goest unto Sodom and GomOrra, and
Adman, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
Whereby Palestine is unmistakably in
dicated. And Jssephus also says Ca
naan. the fourth son Of Ham, inhabited
the country now called Judea, and called
Il from bis own name, Canaan" From
which IL is evident that the Africans are
not the descendants Of Canaan. and that
there Is no foundation. therefore, Tor the
assertion that they are Of some my steri-
Gus spiritual necessity doomed 70 be the
servant Of servants, inasmuon a.
Noah's maledicti0n, v hich n eraNeiy
supposed % entail this degrasation, can
not be shown 10 apply to them. Ihailii
vas ever thought 70 do 20 i but another
proof OF the power Of selfinteresi and
preiadice 10 sfulffy the mind and per
vert the conscience.
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Is Chicago, convicting persons for SELL
ing liquor on the Sabbath day seems
to be difficult matter, especially when
gentlemen of the Jewish faith are on the
jury. The Bible teaches them that the
Sabbath falls upon the seventh day OF
the week Saturday and not on Sunday,
which is the first day of the week. The
statute Of Illinois prohibits selling liquor
on the Sabbath day.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
rHE CODE DuELLo Ar:rHE NORTH.

MANY Southern journals whose editors
are " fire-eaters having Joined in the
whine against dueling siace the Rhett-
Cooley fight took place at New Orleans
II is refreshing to CLEAN the following
sensible reflections from leading North
ern journals. The Cincinnati CONNER
oial takes a square view Of the situation'
The hanging Of Rheit " for the murder
Of Judge COOLEY" is an amlaole sugges
ton. Cooley was responsible ior the
duel. He used language that IN the lat
;tnde Of New Orleans would have de-
Graded Rbe,t if he had not sent chal-
ienge. II was Cooley who not only
forced the fight, but selected the DOUBLE
bsrreled shotgun to fight with. More
than that. Rhett was defending in New
Orleans the liberty Of the press to speak
freely of public robbers; and whether
that liberty is to be enjoyed is becoming
In this country very practical question.
The New Orleans ring will not dare 70
attempt the hanging Of Rhett. The
nnblic sentiment in favor Of fair play is
too strong for that.
The Pittsburg Post, a leading paper in
Pennsylvania, places the matter IN the
clsarest light under the heading Worse
than the duello"; LllfLo
A vast deal Of cheap morality has
been expended over the death OF Judge
Cooley, who fell by the hand OF Colonel
Barnwell Rhett in duel which grew out
Of the base election frauds in Louisiana.
There may be no logic in the dusllo, but
there are after all worse things. For
instance. II is worse to rob the people OF
q whole State Of their freedom than IT is
TO kill one Of the accessories TO the rob
berry in q fairly conducted duel. II not,
then was the war OF the Revolution a
deadly sin. and no one Of Washington's
soldiers drew his trigger upon the enemy
without being q murderer. Possibly the
death Of Cooley will let the earpet-bag-
gers of Louisiana know that the liberty
Of the press will be defended at every
cost. II the death OF Judge Cooley pro-
duces a disposition in the mind OF kel-
logg and Of his master to cali of their
dogs and permit the Louisianians to be
their own rulers, it will be moderate
price for great good; but if it only
wbets the appetites of the Olood-hounds
of Radicalism for the blood of Rhett, as
seems TO be indicated by therecent news
from the Southwest, we apprehend that
even still the Picayune will not be muz-
zled without a struggle. In fact the
cause of that paper is the cause Of every
newspaper in the country which is not
run by an officer Of the government, or
filled to the very lips with government
advertising; let these people triumph |
over the Press in New Orleans, and sue
coed in dragging the editor OF the n. I.
Sun to Washington to be tried by one OF
Grants police justices, and hard times
will have come to the proprietor OF every
Democratic paper in the country.
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ChoIernin Lower ILLINOIS

CAIRO, Ill, July l6.-Twenty deaths
from cholera are said to have occurred
during the past ten days in Clear creek
preeint, in the upper end of Alexander
county, and the farmers have left the
harvest fields untouched and fed the
precinct. Sixteen deaths are reported
in Paducah since Sunday. No cholera
in Cairo yet.
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And now scientists claim that the
moon, instead Of being so cold and
chaste and pallid, is in reality red hot,
so much SO that no living thing kaown
to our world can live on there. This
also knocks the green cheese theory.
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Toledo Regatta.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, July l6.-Detroit
will send several crews to the Toledo
regatta of the Northwest Amateur Boat
ing Association next week. The Detroit
boat club will send a six-oared shell and
a ten-oared barge. The Excelsior club
will send similar boats and crews also.
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The last pun in Paris apropoa TO the
dismissal Of the shAhs wives, who were
not permitted 10 see the ballet at Mos
COW. il that they solAce themselves with
a natural compromise; "Qaand 10 Shah
est absent lee hours dansent"
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General Havelock's memory is to be
kept afresh by the rebuilding of the
chapel which he FIRST put up for the sol
diers Of his regiment. The congrega-
ton is still made up principally Of sol
diers, who now appeal to their friends in
England to help them in their neble OBJ
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liz August the remaining four hundred
millions of francs Of the French war
debt will be paid, and the last German
soldier will carry his spiked helmet from
of the soil of France When this shall
have been done there will come the
breaking Of the hollow truce between
the rival factions in France, the army in
favor of Bonapsrtism, the clerical party
in favor Of Henry Y, the Conservative
Republicans in favor Of Theirs govern
msnt, and the Reds csmoring for
Gambstta or sn unadaliered, red-hot
democracy "a IS not unlikely that
France will be torn ssunder by intestine
wars for years 10 come when the pas
sions are turned loose after German oc-
cupAtion has ended la accordance
with The treaty signed in Berlin last
March. under which the Departments Of
the yosges. Afdennes. Mense, and
Msurtle-st Mofelle. as wen as the for
tres sod arondiszemento Of Belfort. are
10 be svacua,ei on the payment Of the
ssoord iustalimsui q The last milliard
Of tbe var indemnify. the German
troops commenced 20 retire on the Sd
instant The Withdrawal viii continue
by detachment. antil August 18th. when
the above meotioned coBntry viii be en-
arsly sTsousisd.
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DETROIT, July l6.-It is rumored to-
day that Newman, editor of the New
World, has decamped, leaving his en-
ployes unpaid and considerable sums of
money due to other city creditors.
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RRISER--On July 18th. JAooB. infant son
Of Jacob and Margaret Reiser, aged seventeen
months and sixteen days.
Friends Of the family are respectfully invited
10 attend the funeral from the residence, rear
ofFourth street. between safIarAns and Looney
streets, tomorrow lThursdayl morning at 10