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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-27

The New York Financial Chronicle has
returns from the Southern ports showing the
receipts, exports, ETC., of cotton for the
week ending Feb. q. From the figures
thus obtained it appears that the total
receipts for the seven days have reached
100, l53 bales against 122,052 bales last
week, 126,521 bales the previous week, and
Ia GIG bales three weeks since, making the
total receipts since the first of September,
1872, 2,610,52 bales against 2, 166, 957 bales
for the same period of 1912, showing an
increase since Sept. 1, 1872, of As, 563
bales. The exports for the week ending
same date reach total of so, 1877 bales, of
which 50, 1920 were to Great Britain, 14,025
to France, and II, 142 to rest Of the CONT
nent, while the stocks as made up are now
512, 135 bales. Compared with the CORES.
ponding week of last season, there is a de-
crease in the exports this week of 868
bales, while the stocks ale 37,506
bales less than they were at this time a
year ago. We make the following extracts
from the Chronicle at hand:
BOMBAY SHIPMENTs.-Accordi ding to our
cable dispatch received to-day, there have
been 10000 bales shipped from Bombay to
OlOdb OiloaAA tlO paob WCCh duu Ouly t,OOO
to the continent, while the receipts at Bonn
bay, during the same time have been $1,000
bales. Compared with last year there is an
increase this year in the weeks ship
ments to Great Britain of 5000 bales, and
that the total movement since Jan. l now
shows decrease in shipments of $4,000
bales over the corresponding period of 1872.
The unfavorable report with regard to
the crop which we received by cable last
week was the result of frost in the more
northern districts of India. No reference
is made to it in to-day's dispatch.
VISIBLE SUPPLY OF COTTON MADE UP
BY CABLE AND TELEGRAPH.-By cable
we have tonight the stocks at all the Eu-
ropean ports, and also the India cotton
afoat for all of Europe, and the American
aaoat for each port as given below. From
figures thus received, we have prepared the
following table, showing the quantity of
cotton in sight at this date (Feb. 21) of each
ofthe two past seasons:
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The Price of Coffee.

One of our leading grocery firms received
yesterday from Baltimore some samples of
choice coffees, which will cost to put in
store at this place all of 5 cents per pound.
According to Eastern prices, choice arti-
Gle purchased to-day could not be laid down
at a fraction under this figure. We thus
see that the future of coffee is upward. Our
grocers who were fortunate in having large
stocks on hand, have thus far been able to
keep down prices, but as soon as the pres
ent stock is exhausted, and new purchases
made, an advance will most certainly &C.
cur. Accompanying the samples above
noted from one of the most reliable firms in
the country, was business letter, from
which we are permitted to make the fol-
lowing extract:
BALTIMORE, Feb. pa Our
market is decidedly strong, and prices are
steadily advancing. We can see nothing
bat high prices during this crop year. There
is an actual scarcity of stock, and if the
Western trade were 10 come in for fair
supply, our entire stock would be used up.
The amount on the way from Rio is very
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ALKALE LANDS.

Probably more agricultural interest cen.
tres in the alkali lands on both sides of the
Cordilleras than in any other in the United
States. The interest is by no means linn.
tied to the power Of retaining these desert
plains, however extensive, but extends to
the improvement of all soils in all nations,
by means found SO eficacious in the great
West. The estimated value of these
boundless sage and saline "table lands''
may be seen in the following report of the
Commissioner of the General Land Office
to the Secretary of the Interior for 1868
and 1869:
aThe table lands afford excellent winter
pasture in the white sage which they pro.
duce, but are Of doubtful capacity for rails
ing cereals by irrigation. The alkai lands
are beyond the po,oer Of reclGmG ton By
any means no,o knoton to man."
What was unknown four years ago, or
very little known TO any one, is now q well
established and mcst instructive fact. The
Agricultural Report for 1871, page 270,
says: "In Colorado the produce OF alkali
land has been as high as 20 and so bushels
of wheat to the acre, and it can easily be
made to yield 40 or so tons of beets per
acre"
1t is simply question of water, either
from artesian wells as at Los Angeles,
where thirty flow constantly, or catching
rain in large reservoirs, as practiced by Mr..
KONG, or by turning mountain stream in
canals and bitches over a salt plain and
washing the saline particles out of the sur
face soil. A wheat crop is largely increased
by having about ten times more salts of the
earth in titled land than our wheat fields in
Tennessee generally have on fair limestone
land. Our agricultural salts wash into
rivers, and much of them into the ocean.
This results from the fact that some four
thousand tons of water drop from the clouds
upon every acre of our lands in year.
Put twice as much of the soluble salts of
lime,. potash, soda ard magnesia,
on an acre of Tennessee land, as exists on
the plains of Utah or Colorado, and the ex-
cess to injure crops will be removed in IS
months by the fall of sixty inches of rain
and snow to every square inch, more or
less. II an excess of saline matter could
never be removed by teaching and diffusion,
then no salt plain could be reclaimed for
agricultural uses and purposes. The truth
is that our soils and subsoils give up so
much of the salts of the earth, when the
land is plowed and washed, and washed
and plowed, indefinitely, as to make them
very poor and nearly valueless. This abund-
Snce of rain calls for more grass and less
blowing, unless land-killing is to be the
rule of our farming. 1t is only
a question Of time when gen.
eral reform will come from necessity.
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NASHVILLE UNION AND AMERICAN THURSDAY FEBRUARY a. ISM

with an amount claimed by the Govern
ment against said company. The bill had
previously failed on a third reading for
want of constitutional majority. Motion
to. reconsider was carried, aud the bill
placed on the calender.
To FIX the time of holding the Circuit
Court Of Union county. Passed.
To increase the jurisdiction Of County
Courts. Passed.
To fix the powers of corporations. Made
special order for tomorrow at 10 O'Clock.
HOUSE BILL ON SECOND READING.
For the benefit of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum at Knoxville, appropriating $780,
600. Amended by striking out $2O,O 600 and
inserting $4,000, and passed.
SENATE RESOLUTION,
requesting the Government of the United
States to reimburse the Southern Methodist
Publishing House for damages done to their
building. Pending discussion of the reso-
luton, call of the roll showed that there
was not quorum present, and the House
adjourned till 10 A. NJ. tomorrow.
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THE COTTON MARKETS.
Augusta. Ga, Feb. "a.

Au8AS1tas Otssg = OOs -1s
The demand for fine coaOn continues;
no inquiry for low qualities only at reduced
prices. Market closed easier at 19c for
middling. Sales S03 bales; receipts 574
bales.
Macon, Ga, Feb. "a.
Cotton-There is no change to note in
quotations, though the demand to-day was
good and the sales larger-reaching some
thing over 500 bales. We quote: Ordi-
nary 16a617e; clean reds 176l71c good
ordinary 17ac; low middlings 184c; mid
dlings 1Ssc. ..
Columbus, Ga, Feb. "a.
Cotton-Market quiet. Ordinary 166
163c; good ordinary 1746173c; low mid
dlings 18t01S3c; middlings 19c; sales 7
bales; receipts 223 bales; shipments lis
bales.
Boston, Feb. "a.
Cotton-Gross receipts 753 bales; sales
200 bales.
Wilmington, N c., Feb. "a.
Cottou-Net receipts 24S bales; stock 81
S32 bales.
Baltimore, Feb. "A.
Cotton-Gross receipts 20 bales; exports
to Great Britain 775 bales; coastwise los
bales; sales lis bales; stock 9,774 bales.
Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 20.
Cotton dull and nominal at 1SR61Sac.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
PURE AND CHEAP MILK.

In London the names of those who are
known TO sell adulterated milk are publish
ed monthly, and it is said with good effect.
The plan has been attempted in some
American cities, but with only partial sue
cess. Americans like to be cheated, and
are remarkable fo- patronizing dealers in
diluted milk, liquors, groceries, drugs and
medicines.
The Aylesbury Dairy Company in Lon
don has leased fifty acres near the city as
headquarters for pure milk; obtaining it
from all reliable sourct 5, and constantly
testing its purity as it is received for gener.
al distribution. This cNnpany began with
a capital Of fifty thousand dollars, which
has grown by new subscriptions to five hun
dred thousand. A dividend has Just been
declared Of ten per cent. Stockholders
should not ask for larger profit, but re-
dpce the price of pure milk to consumers if
possible. The writer remembers the time
when farmers in Genesee county, n. z,
sold new milk from the COW at one cent a
quart for consumption in the city of Buffalo,
Consumers paid two cents quart. House
keepers in Nashville would be agreeably
surprised to obtain rich, new milk at two
cents quart. Il is more likely to be
twenty in few years. The same system
Of management that has raised the price of
milk from five to ten cents quart, is almost
certain 10 raise it from ten to twenty cents,
in the near future. All this comes from the
waste of fertilizers in city and country.
The consumers of bread, meat and milk,
refuse to feed the land that feeds them.
Nature appears to regard this conduct as
dishonest, and she raises the amount of labor
or currency demanded for board by the
month or year. What statesman or philan-
thropist in any city troubles himself about
keeping up the fertility of the grain fields
that supply -four and meal 10 the whole
population, or corn, hay, oats and fodder
for horses and COWS? Wise agd simple,
good and bad characters, evidently believe
that milk for children, and eating material
generally, are matters that will take care of
themselves with no public attention. Is
thisidea sound or unsound?
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nashville Rrocerz szarzes.

SUGARs-New Orleans, in hogsheAds 8
0llc for fair TO choice; Demerara liz o
12c; standard hards 1336133c; New Or
leans clarified white 124612sc; do. yellow
123c; A coffee 1876; B do. 124612sc; extra
@ do. 1916; Porto Rico 11G12c.
MoLAssEs AND SIBUPs-NeH Orleans
Toe; sirups $4,000; golden strip 65670c.
CoFFEE-Very strong, and lower here
than in any market in the country. We
quote: Rio, common TO choice, 225H24c;
Lagusyra 23G24c; Java 27G29c.
NAILs-A decline of SOC is noted. We
quote st $3.50 for 1Ods, and 25c additional
for diminishing grades.
SALT-Very scarce, dealers being sup
piled By daily arrivals. We quote nomi-
nally at $500 per barrel for ST bushel bar
rels and s. 40 per barrel for Z bushel bar
rels.
CAEDLEs-We quote star 206203c az
ID.
FIsH-We quote as follows: Half bar
rels, Nos. l, 2 and 8, $500, $7.25 and $500;
in KITS, Nos. l, 2 and 8, $3.50, $500 and
SI.75.
RICE-We quote at &c.
CHEEsE-We quote Factory at 16617c.
TEAs-We quote Imperial $1.00D1.50;
Young Hyson $1.1561.5Oi Black 75c0
$1.25; Gunpowder $161.sO.
PowDER-Market steady az follows: Du-
pont S7.25; Sycamore Mills $7.25; Hazards
S7.25; blasting 1925; fuse per 100 feet 75c.
SEoT-We quote patent So; Buck 1926.
LIoUORs-We quote common rectified
whisky a. gallon 81; Robertson County
S1.75TS3; Bourbon $1.2505.50; Lincoln
County $1.75652.25; Highwines 81.
COTTON TIEs-We quote st 9461Oc.
BRooMs-We quote st $2.5063.60 p
doz.
SoAP-We quote 1t 563c y ID, or $50
$50 SS box.
BAeGNe- We quote at 16G17c for
hemp snd fsx.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-27
FITZHUGH LEE AND PIECHBACK
DINE TOGETHER.

From the Washington Republican, Feb. "a.
A few days ago at the Arlington, Senator
elect Pinchback, of Louisiana, was seated
at the dinner table, when Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, of Virginia, son Of the late Gen. R. E.
Lee, ana well known as gallant officer in
the rebel army, came in and seated himself
at the same table. Neither recognized the
other, except to casually note the peculiari-
ties of personal appearance, and each seemed
to be satisfied that the other was respect
able if not a good-looking man. When
they finally separated Pinchback was in
formed who bis neighbor was, and re-
marked that he had not been injured by
the contact. Lee on receiving similar in.
formation, remarked that ne had noticed
gentleman who was his us ois, and who
appeared to him to be a very quiet Cuban.
He further said that accepting the changed
condition of affairs as he does, he could not
object to the circumstance, and was glad to
know that he had been in such good COM
panY.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-27
STEAM FLOWING,

The Plantation for February contains an
account of successful trial of steam power
for blowing and sub-sOiling made by David
Landreth & Son Of Philadelphia, dis
tinguished as having probably the largest
seed growing establishment in the world.
English stationary engines for blowing have
not satisfied Americans. They want a
locomotive power to travel across wide
field or prairie and draw a gang or train of
plows after it. The engine used by Land
reths was one Of three wheels, rubber-tired,
invented by Thompson of Scotland, and
greatly improved by Williamson Of New
York, who has a patent for his improve
meut.
At first come difficulty was found in
steering the engine so as to have each fur
row lap regularly on the preceding one, but
a little practice enabled the operator ID
overcome the inclination to deviate from
the proper line. The gang of plows, five
or six in number, are made OF
steel and fastened to an Oblique
beam so arranged that the plows
may be raised or lowered. If eight inches
be the mean depth, then the plow may be
Sc; TO run nine or ten inches, or seven or
six inches, as may be desired. Mr.. Lam
dreth did most of his blowing with five
pleWs in gang, each cutting a furrow
slice IA inches wide and s inches deep.
he plowed in this way an acre in an hour,
and eight acres day, consuming, probably,
more time in supplying coal and water than
would be necessary after this lew business
became reduced to order and system. The
speed attained exceeds that of mules or
horses. There is another tillage instru-
ment called sEbreaker" by the English,
which, followed by good harrow, will en-
able steam to do better service ia
cullivating the earth than by plow-
ing it in the usual way of turning the
soil over. The breaker, consists Of many
coulters set in frame which break up the
soil and subsoil, without lifting either out
OF its natural place. The power required
to do this work, is less than that of Lifting
so much earth in blowing over, consequent
ly, nine feet of subsoiling is done at one
time through the field with the engine.
The harrows follow in the same train. We
esteem very highly Mr.. Landreth's sugges-
tons that he viii break up with his turn
ing plows, his five or six hundred acres of
garden land in the Fall, and in the Spring do
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-27
FERTILIZING MELONS AND CUCUM.
HERS

The Gardeners Magazine says: "The
artificial fertilization of the female flowers
of cucumbers and melons constitutes a
most important article of faith among prac-
tcal horticulturists. Ire settings of the
crop by hand is insisted on in all garden
calendars; if it is not necessary, i'm
mense amount of time consumed thereby
is wasted. In the thousands of gardens
where handsome and well-favored fruit is
everything, and seed of no consequence at
all; we believe the operation to be alto
gether unnecessary. At all events, we
have mansged to secure for our own use,
for many years past, cucumbers and mel
ons in sufficient plenty, without putting
ourselves to the trouble of applying the
pollen, aud have long since been satisfied
th,t, except for the production of seed, it is
lobor wasted"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-27
House OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House met at 10 A. NJ, Speaker
McGaughey presiding.

The House met at 10 A. NJ, Speaker
McGaughey presiding.
NEW BILLS.
By Mr.. II. r. Moore-To change the line
between the counties of Franklin and
Moore.
By Mr.. Mulverhil-To repeal sections
1871 to 1889, inclusive of the Code.
By Mr.. HGuk-To amend the act to es.
tsblish Bureau of immigration, and for
other purposes.
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To form the county of Webster out of
parts of Claiborne, Campbell and Union.
Passed.
Directory to the Comptroller to issue his
warrant 10 defray certain expenses in the
prosecution of one Calvin Logsden, for
murder. Passed.
Making one guilty of felonious assault
where, if murder had ensued, it would have
been murder in the second degree. Passed.
To abolish the Law Court at Rumb ,ldt.
Rejected.
The bill to lessen the costs of litigations
was taken up on motion to reconsider the
vote by which it failed for want If a con-
stitutional majority. The motion to recon.
slider was tabled.
To estsblish the Seventeenth Judicial
Circuit. Amended by changing it to Six
teenth Judicial Circuit. Passed.
Adjourned i'll 2:30 Pm
Afternoon Session.
The House met at 2:30 P. NJ, and PRO-
ceeded to the consideration of
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD HEADING.
To repeal the act creditiug the McMinn-
vile and Manchester Railroad Company
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TOO RAPID GROWTH OF TREES IN
IURIOES

Reading of the dying off of hundreds of
peach, pear, apricot, nectarine, and plum
trees in California without any apparent or
known cause, reminds of what all our best
pomologists have repeatedly asserted, viz:
that an extra stimulated growth and great
fruitfulness while young will cause early
death to the tree. California fruit-growers
are already beginning to ;ealize the truth Of
this, and in recording it we caution fruit
growers everywhere glinst too great sti-
mulating supply of food to the orchard. A
growth of one foot or eighteen inches a
year, with good, deep green foliag, is all
that should be required. Such condition
gives firm, healthy wood, capable of endur-
ing sudden changes of climate; while the
spongy, open texture of wood grown from
excessive stimulus of plant food is readily
Injured by frost or droughts, and liable TO
every fungoid sporadic disease that may ex-
list in the season. ~.
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We are indebted to McAlister & Wheless,
Commission merchants, corner Broad and
College streets, for the following cotton
quotations in New York and Liverpool
during the day. ... .- .-.
LIvERPOoL, Feb. 20, 11:0O.-Cotton
quiet but steady. Middling uplands 9ad;
Orleans 10d. Sales to-day 10000 bales.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 20. 1:00.-Cotton
dull. Middling uplands 9ad; Orleans 10d.
Sales to-day 10000 bales, of which 1000
bales are for export and speculation.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 26, 4:30-Cotton dull.
Middling uplands 9sd; Orleans 10d. Sales
to-day 10000 bales, of which 1000 bales
are for export and speculation. Sales of
American 5000 bales.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 26, 5OO.-Cotton
UNCHANGED. Middling uplands 9sd; Orleans
10d. Sales to-day 10000 bales, of which
1000 bales are for export end speculation.
New YORK, Feb. 26, l0:3S.-Afarket dull
and nominal. Futures dull. Ordinary II &c;
good ordinary 184c; low middling 1890;
middling ZOsC; Alabama 21c; orleans q &c;
Texas 21sc. February delivery nominl II;
March 20 5-16c asked; April 203N20 9-16c;
May 20Sc; June 21tc; July 2l5.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 1l:05.-Futures
steady. Sales 1900 bales. March delivery
20 5-16c; April nominally 20 9-16c; May
nominally 20 29-92c; June 2I4c bid; July
213c bid.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 12:O5.-Market dull
and nominal. Futures steady. Ordinary
Use; good ordinary 1890; low middling
1890; middling 20zc; Alabama 21sc; Or
leans 215c; Texas 213c. Sales for con-
sumption go bales; on contracts 1900
bales; last evening for consumption PSI
bales. February delivery 205c; March
20 9.16c; April 20 916c; May 2Ogc; June
21c; July 21ac; all bid.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 1:O5.-Futures
quiet but steady. Sales 5000 bales. Febru-
airy delivery 20 Bloc; March 20 5-16c;
April 20se; May 20 1870; June 2l.c; July
21ac.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2:O5.-Market duh
and nominal. Futures steady. Ordinary II !;
good ordinary 1910; low middling 1890;
middling 204c; Alabama BIC; Orleans
214c; Texas 21Sc. Sales on the spot esti-
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New Life for the Languid.

Perfect health is vouchsafed to few. Probably
ninety persons out of every hundred who call
themselves healthy have their "turns" of Ian
guor, exhaustion, depression of spirits and bodi-
ly pain. At these times wineglassful of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters is as refreshing as "the
shadow of a rock in a weary land" 1t invigo-
rates and rests the system and cheers the mind
The effect of the Bitters in cases of nervous de-
bility, produced by either undue physical e1er-
ton, over-study, intense anxiety, or any other
cause, Is wonderfully reviving and invigorating
In fact, this healthful vegetable restorative pos
sesses medicinal properties which entitle it to the
rank of an article Of prime necessity, and it
should be kept on hand in every dwelling, and
promptly taken as a remedy Tor all the minor
feb25 deod1w tSw1t 3dp
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ROSE-RUSHES.

Insects of various kinds mutilate and de-
stroy the leaves of rose-bushes and other
garden shrubs. A member of the Illinois
State Horticultural Society, at the last
session, stated that strong tea made from
quassia bark and sprinkled on the leaves
would effectually drive them away. No
statement was made as to the frequence of
the application, but this can be determined
by careful experiment. Rose hedges are
coming into use as screens, and can be
made very beautiful. Strong growers and
profuse bloomers are used, and when de-
sirable to have the hedge of certain height
this can be done by using trellises.
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The above totals show that the interior
stocks have increased during the week l.
TAI bales, and are tonight 8, 71S bales more
than at the same period last year. The re-
ceipts have been 1,745 bales more than the
same week last year.
The exports of cotton this week from
New York show a decrease since last
week, the total reaching 9,27S bales, against
1886 bales last week.