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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
ST. LOUIS.
$4,000 I'm Cotton Prem iums.

ST. Louis, April 29.-The Cotton As
ISOLATION of this city have decided the offer
premiums, aggregating $4,000 for cot
ton be exhibited at the Annual Fair of to
the st. Louis Agricultural and Meehani-
cal Association next October. The States
to be invited to compete for prizes, are
Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Indian
Territory, and that part Of Texas, Louisi-
ana and Mississippi lying North of the SD
parallel of latitude. There will also be a
grand sweepstake premium offered for the
best bale Of cotton grown in the United
States.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

The Senate bastens to respond to the
demands Of the Nashville Colored Con-
vention by bringing the supplementary
civil rights bill to the fore. Who dares
to doubt that the Tennessee man and
brother is still a power in the party
its backbone, in fact. Let Brownlow
hide his diminished head.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
WASHIN GTON.
Improvement of Southern Rivers
List of Leading Appropriations Re-
commended.

The House Committee on Commerce
have completed the river and harbor bill.
Owing TO the financial condition of the
Government the committee have concluded
not to report in favor of new works, but
confine their recommendations to the pres
ervatiOn and completion of those already
commenced. Among the large items In the
bill we notice for the South:
For improvements OF the Mississippi.
Missouri and Arkansas rivers, 100000; re
moving Red river raft, $4,000; improving
the mouth of the Mississippi river, $780,
600; Mobile harbor, $4,000; White river,
above Jacksonport, $4,000; Usage river,
So, 900; Tennessee river, above ChatianOo-
ga, $50, 200, and below Chattanooga, in
Guiding Muscle Shoals, $4,000. The bill
authorizes about forty surveys to be made,
fifteen of them in the South. The entire
amount of the appropriations is S4,500,0O
or s., 100000 less than the amount reported
10 the House last year.
Colorado.
Tha Senate in Executive session to-day
considered the nomination of Gen. Nc
Cook to be Governor of Colorado, and de-
batod it- .s s7rao-slsnSsh,- adjourned
without action.
District Secrets.
The joint special committee, investigat-
ing the District of Columbia affairs, held a
secret session this morning and examined
Edward B. GraysOn and VIM. A. Mattingly.
No facts concerning the testimony can be
obtained, but it is alleged to relate to the
whereabouts of A. B. Kirkland, Grayson's
son-in-law.
MOnOPOIists QuarreIing over the
Tariff
The room of the Committee on Ways
and Means was crowded to-day with repre-
sentatives of the iron and steel interests.
Arguments were made by consumers from
Boston and Syracuse, who ask that the
duty on steel be made specific. The repre-
sentatives of manufacturers of steel from
Pittsburgh and New Jersey will be heard
tomorrow in opposition.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

THE acquittal of Mrs. Glen, an
nounced by telegraph this morning, is
a signal illustration of the chances af-
forded criminals by the delays of the
law. The ground assigned for this
final disposition of the case is purely
technical one.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

ALL Democrats viii rejoice over the
prospect that the rumor lately current
of Mr.. Beck's retirement from the
Kentucky delegation in Congress may
prove premature. He Isl an Industrious
worker as well as an able debater, and
the Lexington District cannot better
sustain its historic reputation as the
home OfClay and Breckenridge thanby
returning him to his present field of
usefulness.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

SOMETHING new under the sun, is
the proposition soberly offered at the
meeting of English farmers to supply
them with all the laborers they need
from Ohio at fourteen shillings week,
or about four dollars in greenbacks.
When we compare the cost of living in
the two countries, this is really better
wages than the bulk of farm laborers
In this country, North and South re-
ceive. Under Republican rule things
are coming to such pass that we no
longer offer superior Inducements to
emigrants. Meanwhile the condition
of labor in old, despotic countries seems
to be improving yearly.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
AUGUSTA.
a Spirited Watch for a $4,000 Purse.

A Spirited Match for n $4,000 Purse.
AUGUSTA, GA, April pa trotting
match for $1,000, mile heats, best in 5,
took place at the Lafayette Race Course this
morning. J. b. Harris entered Basil Duke
and j. II. Chambers entered Malsey. Basil
Duke won the first and second heats in 2:40
and 2:35a. Malsey won the third and fourth
heats in 2:52 and 2:319. Basil Duke won
the fifth heat and the race. Time, 2;34Ii.
The track was in good condition and the
attendance large. Six or eight thousand
dollars changed hands.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
THE MILK IN THE COCOA-NUT

THE MILK IN THE COCOA-NUT.
Gov. Baxter letter, mentioned in this
mornings dispatches, reveals the real
cGsus bella IN Arkansas. Clayton, who
has been the bette HojT of that State for
years, and his colleague Dorsey, want
the whole machinery of the next cleo
ton cooked up to return them to the
Federal Senate, Gov. Baxter claims
that their accredited agent sought to
bride him by the offer of a United States
judgeship and all the ready money he
wanted. This is matter the investi-
cation of which would not be beneath
the dignity of the United States Sen
ate. 1t is precisely similar to
the case lof Old Subsidy Pomeroy,
aggravated in only two particulars, the
wholesale corruption of the ballot-box
and the hawking of Federal judicial
Office. The Senate, with any decent re-
spect for itself, can hardly allow this
case of bribery to go unchalleuged.
At the same time We think Gov.
Baxter has been rather tardy In his
revelations. If the infamy had been
denounced at its inception, the authors
of the present troubles would have been
paralyzed by the exposure. tbs false
expediency which leads an honest Off
cial to try to keep the peace with such
schemes. If he is determined to OBJ
serve the law, open rupture is only a
question of time. After being thus fore
warned of the desperate game these
men meditated, it is strange that
Gov. Baxter failed to watch
closely their subsequent moves and
allowed himself to be caught, as hewas,
unprepared.
Brooks, in his letter, not only repu-
dates Baxter's authority to convoke
the Legislature, which is natural
enough from his standpoint, but he
seems to repudiate the Legislature
itself, proposing to have nothing to do
with it. Exactly how he can sustain
this latter position is not clear to such
as think there is any law left in these
United States. He says the Legisla-
ture cannot decide who is Governor ex-
cept when there is a contest. Most
newspaper readers are under the i'm
preston that there as a contest of unu-
sual dimensions. He proposes, how
ever, to submit to the courts, which
is safe enough, as the Supreme
Court has already decided that
it has no jurisdiction over the
matter. Washington dispatches go
to indicate that neither Legislature
nor court Will be permitted to decide.
Attorney General Williams is prepar-
ing an opinion, and in due time the de-
cision of the people of Arkansas at the
ballot box will be confirmed or vetoed
by Generahssimo Grant. If this be-
comes the approved usage in regard to
the Governors. our various candidates
for the office in Tennessee might save
time and trouble by making terms with
the President, instead of wasting their
Breath on the dear people.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

The principal merchants of Hazlehurst,
Miss, publish a card in which they warn
their customers that they will not, after
this year, furnish on credit oats, corn, hay,
for teams, or cOrn-meal for bread, and they
publish the determination in order that
their friends may raise such things for
themselves, or be enabled to pay cash for
them.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
Cuba.
An Income Tax OF Ten Per Cent.

An Income Tax Of Ten Per Cent
HAVANA, April pa decree of the
Captain General, Coneha, establishes al
extraordinary contribution Of ten per cent
on all incomes exceeding $1,000 annually
only the army and navy excepted. Tht
proceeds Of the tax are destined to the pay
ment Of the public debt and the redemption
of the DaDer currency
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

THE telegraph closes without any
fresh news from the floods on the lower
Mississippi, but the dispatches received
indicate that the river is falling at
Memphis and below. The elimination
has doubtless been reached and passed,
but much suffering will continue for
weeks after the subsistence of the
waters, and Christian charity will not
withhold it help.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
LEXINGTON, KY.
Preparations for the Spring
Races.
A Prospect for Rich sport.

A Prospect for Rich Sport.
LEXINGTON, KY, April 29.-Owing to
the extremely bad weather of late, the
preparations for the spring races have been
much delayed, but the prospect for sport is
very good. The entries in the stake races
are all excellent, but the chief sport will be
derived from the purse races, some of which
are expected to be unusually good. Mr..
Price McGrath has announced his determi-
nation to run Tom Bowling in the mile
and-a-half dash on Tuesday, and in the
three-mile dash Saturday. He will be op-
posed by the best horses in this section.
The Congressional Race.
The people of this Congressional district
are becoming considerably excited over the
Congressional race and the rumors that a
pledge had been extracted from Mr.. Beck
Just before his last race that he would not
run again. The popular feeling is to re-
turn Mr.. Beck regardless Of any pledges he
may have made.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
COAL AID IRON LANDS.
A Big Investment by Former
NassRVfIIian.

HaS1NkAlAeAAA-
Tie Chattanooga Times Of yesterday
says:
ave are informed that a sale was con-
Guided yesterday by Col. w. A. Hoskins to
DIR. r. {. Gardner, OF New York, Of an eX-
tensive tract of coal and iron property in
the Seauatehie Valley, near Jasper, con-
tanning about l.2J0 acres of fine coal land,
known as the Moore Coal Banks and about
nine miles in length Of iron ore. DR..
Gardner was formerly partner in the firm
Evans, Gardner & Co, of Nashville, which
was one of the iarges; dry goods houses in
that city, previous to the war, and has
been engaged in business in New York city
of late years. He goes East in few days
to organize a company to work this prop
erty. We understand that Dr. Gardner
also contemplates some investments in this
city"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
ri MALL OR AT THE BUSINESS OFFICE

ACCORDING to the st. Louis Globe,
Henry Clay Dean and Senator Morton
'are On the same platform now"
Which will regard that as the greatest
insult?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
Next Weeks Races.
The Charleston Road.
CHICAGO.

Prof. Swing Determined tn Face the
Music.
CHICAGO, April 29.-The friends of
Prof. Swing request the Associated Press
to contradict the statement of the Chicago
Times Tomorrow, that he is to dissolve his
connection with the Presbyterian Church,
and not stand trial before the Presbytey.
lie VIII appear on Monday next at the trial
unless prevented by illness, and has no
thought of any other course.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

Jackson, Miss, was in anxious suspense
for several days about the disappearance Of
one W. ii. Allen, who was supposed to
have been drowned. The body was at last
recovered from the water and the uneer-
tainty removed.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
FOREIGN.
Ohio Laborers for the English
Agricultural Districts.
BiIboa to be Assaulted i'm Front
and Rear.
A Destructive InundatiOn at
Bagdad.
ENGLAND.

LONDON, April 20.-The farmers have
had a meeting at Newmarket to consider
the present difficulties with the labOrers.
Among the speeches delivered was sOne by
Mr. Wood, native Of England, but now Of
Ohio, who offered to bring from that State
any number of persons who were willing to
work for 14s a week.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

AT Omaha yesterday young man step
ping on train accidently stabbed himself,
seyerlng an artery and bleeding to death in
9 few moments.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

The mails ct the Amerieue have been
picked up in an abandoned boat in latitude
AZ, longitude Z degrees west.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
METHODIST CHURCH SOUTH.
Approaching Session of tn
Quadrennial Conference.
Expected OVertures for Reunion will
the Northern Church

Expected OFertures for Reunion with
the Northern Church.
LOUISVILLE, April 29.-The General
Conference of the NJ. E. Church, South,
meets in this city Friday next. Delegates
are arriving on every train. and the attend
ance is expected to be larger than at any
previous Conference. Commissioners from
the Northern General Conference will be
present with a view Of meeting any arrange
ment for union between the two branches
if proposed. Ample arrangements have
been made for the accommodation of all
the delegates while here. The Conference
is expected to continue in session three
weeks.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
CARL SCHURZ.
The Missouri Senator's EuIogy ON
Charles Samner

Charles samner.
Boston, April 29.-The City of Boston's
tribute to the memory of Charles Sumner
took place in the Music Hall this evening.
Although the weather was rainy and tenn
pestuous, the hall was filed and tickets
were in such demand that $40 was refused
for one. Wendell Phillips who had just
returned from the funeral of his sister, in a
few eloquent words introduced the orator
of the day, Senator Carl .Schurz. The ora
ton will fill from eight to ten newspaper
columns.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
MEXICO.

Further of the stephens Murder
Another Assassin DOOmed-Two Ed
ftors Reported Murdered.
CITY OF. MEXICO, April 20-yia HA-
vANA, April 29.-QuirinO Rubio, another
of the murderers of the Rev. Mr.. Stephens,
is condemned to death. The cold weather
has killed the wheat crop in MichOacan.
The Apaches are raiding in Chihuahua It
is reported that two Guadalajara Journal
lists, who attacked the Catholics ON account
ofthe murder of Stephens, have been foully
dealt with, one poisoned and the other dis
appeared.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
SPAIN.

BAYoSSE, April 29.-Dispatches from
the seat Of war state that Gen. Concha is
moving with 20,J00 men on Valmaseda,
with the view If attacking the Carlists at
Bilbca in the rear. SeTrano will attack
simultaneously in front. The Carlists are
reported strongly eutrenched.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
MEMPHIS.
The Plot Thickens-A Mysterious
Young Man and His Travels

The Plot Thickens-A MysferIou.
Young Man and His Travels
MEMPHIS, April 29.-Henry Pulliam
the young man who disappeared so mys-
teriously ten days since, ON the eve of hi:
marriage, returned to-day on the steamer
Arlington. He can give no account of hi:
mysterious disappearance or where he ha:
been since.
LATER.-Y Dung Pulliam is deranped
He can give no account of himself from
the time he disappeared until Monday last.
when he found himself at Point Pleasant
Mo.
Next Weeks Races.
There are sixty horses at the Chickasaw
race course. Among the stables represent.
ed are Alcorn's, Balls, BarTy's, Barton's
Brady's, COfiee's, Hitchcoek's. Jennings
Ll0yd's, McMahon's, Rice's and O hers will
come during the week. The weather is
now clear and the prospects fine for good
racing next week.
The Charleston Road.
The stockholders of the Memphis and
Charleston railroad met TODAY TO consider
the proposition of the Southern Railway
Security Company to annul the lease OF
the road. A committee was appointed TO
examine into the financial condition of the
road and report tomorrow.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
TURKEY.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, April 29-I.ate heavy
rains caused an overflow of the Tigris, in
volving great destruction Of property at
Bagdad, and the loss of several lives.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
DEALERS IN HAIR.
A CARD.

a CARD.
lI1E WISH TO INFORM OUR CUSTO-
w mers and friends, that no mistake may be
made, that our Hair Store is
No. 25 North Cherry Street,
and on the North corner Of Bank Alley.
feb22 eod6m j.. p. GRANVILLE CO.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

TO, RETAIL Blu n ERS:
very SELECTION Of W0RSTED and CASHMERE
SUITS NEW TASTEFUL STYLES for BUSINESS and
DRESS WEAR.
In SUITS, DOubie-Breaei CUTAWAY COATS.
SUITS ENGLISH WALKING COATS.
COATS
In ALBERT COATS
becoming UNUSUALLY POPULAR
fail attention discriminating visiting
LIBERAL.
B. II. COOKE * Co
N. full line of ALPACA and LINEN COATS on hand
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
ARKAN SAS.
Baxter Explains His Rupture
with Clayton and Dorsey.
Federal Judgeships at Auction
to the Lowest Bidder.
Efforts to Have the Governor
ship Decided by Grant.
The RIVAL L,etter vrtters

NEW YORK, April 29.-Jsseph Brooks
and Elisha Baxter, each signing himself
Governor of Arkansas, have published let
tiers in paper here, giving the story of the
troubles in Arkansas.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

to the Constitution, and 10 define certain
rights of United States citizens in foreign
countries, and was addressed by Mr.. Hale,
of New York, in opposition to the bill. 1t
made a distinction between the rights of
The Placer herald., 1874-11-21

nse Of all this waste Of room on such an in
-li'ulion? 1t Is advertising i:self-as FAR as
it eoes-io the people, as a base 'nnferfrit !;
as lying tool in the hands of a comp ring
monopoly click; run by political numb
skull, who is as soft clay in the hand. Of his
employers, to be moulded at will into any
dodge, lie, scheme or trick, and the people in
great majority understand it, and that is
enough, without much aid from us, to insure
our fair county and her people from the
ravages of its designs, when we reflect that
majority still rules.
The Placer herald., 1874-11-21
THE MINiAG LAW.

Repeated inquiries have been made of ns,
regarding the amount of the annual expendi-
ture required TO be made OH a mining claim,
in order to hold it, and frcm what date these
annual expenditures begin. For the benefit
of all seeking information on these important
points we produce the following. A part OF
Sec. s. of the Act entitled can Act to pro-
mote the development ofthe mining resources
of the United States, passed May 1G, 1872,
reads:
On each claim located after the passage Of this
act, and until patent shall have been issued
therefor, not less than one hundred dollars
worth OF labor shall be performed or improve
ments made during each year. On all claims To-
Gated prior to the passage of this act ten dollars
worth OF labor shall be performed or improve
ments made for each one hundred feet in length
along the vein until patent shall have been is
sued therefor, but where such claims are held in
common such expenditure may be made upon
any one claim; and upon failure to comply with
these conditions, the claim or mine upon which
such failure occurred shall be open to re-loca-
ton in the same manner rs If no location Of the
same had ever been made
1t would perhaps be proper to state here
that the reason for tie difference in the
amount required tc be expended on claims
located prior to the Act. ond those locafef
under the Act, is accounted for from the fact
hat under this Act l 800 feet is counted u
claim, while prior TO the passage Of this Act.
200 feet was the limit Above we give the
law as it reads in the original Act but il
will be remembered that this same clause of
the law was amended At the last session OF
Congress, rs follows:
''I3e it enacted that the provisions OF the fifth
section of the Act entitled AN Act to promote
the development Of the mining resources Of the
United States, passed May 16. 1872, which re-
qnres expenditure OF labor and improvements
on claims located prior to the passage OF said
Act, are hereby amended that the time for the
first annual expenditure on claims locate d prior
to the passage of said Act shall be extended tt
the lst of January, 1875"
This amendment was put through for the
benefit of speculators-a fact which we full,
act forth at tie time of its passage. How.
ever, it is the law, and we must abide by it
BY comparison of these two clauses miner
need no longer be in doubt us to the amount
required to be expended annually, and whel
such expenditures begin.
The Placer herald., 1874-11-21
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7,h, 1874.
MINERAL CITATION.
UNITED STATES LAND Orr,cr


Sacramento, Cal, Nov. 6. 1874 I
YNO Michael McGonagle, Z 7 Loving, Wm,
l. Turner. VIM II Orr, and to all whom il ma
concern Whereas, mineral afhdavits Nos On
Ind 23 were filed ia the U S Land Office. alice,
ne the = of SW 4, and S a Of NV ounrtsr
Of Section 8, in Township l3 North. Rance <
East. 10 be more valuable for mining than foy
agricultural purposes, and By Commissioner
letter. dated December I'd, 1911, the same Land
IS to be treated'as mineral in character. unt th.
contrary is proved, after due notice
And Whereas Ludwig Schneider. (nos,.ofsoa
address Auburn, Placer county Cal. did on tbs
18th day OF December, 1872 file IN the Reo;s.
ter's Office of this district, his decaratorv STAT
ment. claim ng the above described land and
as applied to enter the same as aercnltnr i
land. alleging it to be more valuable for aor;'
cultural than for mining purposes: o.
Therefore, you will take notice, that undsr
and by virtue OF instructions from the Comn,s
sioner of the General Land Office, dated Nav e
1871, we have fixed the 29th day of DecemIor
D, 1874, at 10 O'Clock N, ut this Office hafor,'
The Register and Receiver. for the hearino ~
proofs to determine the character OF said landS
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set on,
~ hands and affixed the seal of this of
s1AL fee. the day and year first above
wv written.
T.B. MCFARLAND. Register
HART FELLOWS, Receiver.
The Placer herald., 1874-11-21

PaIDE AND FALL.-Ihe Grass Valley
Union relieves itself on last Saturdays great
four-mile and repeat horse-race, as follows;
Pride always goes before a fall. That
was particularly the case with Californians
in that great horse race Of last Saturday.
Last year some Eastern horses came out here
and gave the Calfornians tusscl at a horse
race. Our horse won and all of us became
proud. California is good on the lhow at all
times-in season and out of season. In the
race horse "Thad Stevens" California
thought she had basis for the blow. "lhe
greatest race horse in the world, sir! " was
the constant. and confident exclamation Of
California. Those Easterners just let Cali
fornia blow away, while they went back
home and hunted up an equine qnadruped
that could beat "Od Thad" They found
the requisite animal in "Katie Pease," and
they brought her out, and at the same time
they brought along empty bags in which to
take back California coin. Those Eastern
ers have cut the comb of California $ pride
and they have won the golden twenty dollar
pieces. 1t may be that after taking few
more expensive lessons the California men
will find out tha. people in other lands may
possibly know something about some things,
but we doubt it.