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TRANSFORM.
How the Astronomers Inter-
viewed Our NeighbOr
Venus.

A Peep at Her Cusps-HOw She Be
haved I'm Company with the God Of
Day.
LONDON, Dec. .10.-The following dis
patch has been received from Prof. David
son, Chief Astronomer Of the American
expedition to Nagaski, Japan:
During our observation of the transit of
Venus to-day, the weather was unusually
cloudy and unpromising. The time at
which it was calculated the transit would
begin, passed away without our being ena-
bled to record the exact moment of the
first contact with trustworthy result. After,
about quarter Of an hour before Venus
reached the stage Of her second contact,
the observer at the equatorial caught a
glimpse Of the sun and planet. He was quite
successful in taking several measurements
of the planets cusps during the interval be-
tween the first and second contact Short
IL after the second contract, further meas
urement of the distance between Venus
and the suns western edge were made with
the microscope. In all there were taken
$50 micrometie measurements Of the lire
between the cusps. Besides these, thirty
one micrOmetric observations were made Of
the passage of both edges of the sun across
views of the right and left rims of Venus in
crossing the same line. Eighteen micro
metic surveys were made of the
and planet by observing both
ing the meridian. About sixty excellent
photographs Of the transit, during the va
TiOus periods of its recurrence, were taken.
IL
for, just as Venus departed from the sun,
the clouds began to gather and threatened
rain towards the close. We were enabled
to telegraph the difference of longitude to
Vladevostek, so that the location of the po-
sitiOn here is definitely determined.
Prof. Hardness, of the United States
Naval Observatory, sends the following re-
garding the observations Of the transit of
Venus at
HObartOHn, Tasmania.
Although the weather was bad, our OBJ
seTvatiOns at the time of the transit were
partially successful. We succeeded in
taking l13 photographs of Venus during
her passage over the disc Of the sun.
British Reports.
LONDON, Dec. 1O.-The transit of Venus
was successfully observed at HobartOwn,
Adelaide and Melbourne, and at points in
India, China and Japan. The American
party only partially succeeded at Hobar-
town.
Persia.
TEHERAN, Dec. 10.-The observation Of
the transit of Venus at this point was very
successful.
AsIaGIe Russia.
LONDON, Dee. 1l.-Telegrams in regard
to the transit of Venus say that the obser-
walton failed in Orendurg, Casen, Uralsk,
Astrachan, Merth and Tifis, but were en-
tirely successful at Y okohama.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-11
LONGFELLOw AND HIS VISITORS

A letter TO the NelC York World saws:
We last saw LOngfellOw at the funeral OF
Agassiz. The old college chapel was filled
with the perfume of flowers, and through
the arena the delicious music of Cher
ubini's requiem was sOlemnly falling. He
looked wrinkled and old, his hair was thin
and silVery, and he seemed to feel that
around the generation Of men he repre-
scented the shadows Of the eventide were
falling. He has three daughters, who
usually remain with him in Cambridge,
though somewhat fond of society and
travel.
His residence is much visited, so much
so, in fact, that horse cars usually stop be-
fore the house, and the conductors shout,
'LOngfellOw's.'
CuriOsity-seekers sometimes venture
within the inviting precincts of the poets
estate. A party some time ago made such
a venture and were Hospitality received by
the poet, who astOnished them with the
historic associations of the house. As they
were about leaving, one Of them asked:
'Can You tell us who lives here nOw?~
Certainly, sir; ! live here
"Oh, you. What is your name.:"
"LOngfellOw."
"Any relation to the Wiscssset Long
fellers?i
The poet bowed out the party ref ectiyely
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-11
VICKSBURG.
Another Day of Peace.
Business Resuming-A Special Eles
ton for sheriff Ordered

Business Resumfng-A Special Elec-
ton for Sheriff Ordered.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 10.-The reported burn
ing of gin and farm houses by negroes in
the vicinity of VIcksburg, telegraphed from
here Tuesday to several Northern papers,
was purely sensational.
VICKsBURG, Dec. 10.-All quiet in city
and county. The county authorities have
buried the bodies of fourteen negroes, and
about the same number were buried by Pri-
vate individuals. The white citizens St,il
retain possession of the courthouse and
Jail, acting under advice of the County
Board of Supervisors, the members Of
which are negroes, except one.
An election for Sheriff, Dec. 81, has
been ordered, and gives general satisfac-
ton. The Mayor will issue proclama-
ton in the morning, that peace prevails,
and requesting citizens to resume their
usual avOcations.
The Negro Sheriff or the Radical
Governor Responsible for the Blood
shed.
In an interview of the VickSbwg Herald
reporter to-day, with Andrew Owens, the
negro commander of the Columbus ne
NlONC otlCGtf WIN
is a prisoner, Owens reiterated that Sheriff
Crosby ordered him to come to the city
with all the armed men he could get, aud
that Crosby gave Ames as his authority for
calling out the negroes. Crosby says
Ames and Attorney General Harris adj
vised him to call posse to reinstate HIM
self in Office; but he did not do it, and dis
claims any responsibility for the columns
which marched on Vicksburg.
The Infamous Cardoza Proposes that
the Negro Women shall Join I'm the
Fray with AK aud knife.
JACKSON, Dec. 10.-The proclamation
by Gov. Ames converting the Legislature,
is unanimously condemned. T. CardOza,
than whom no man has done more to create
this trouble, declares that the race conflict
is now on us, and the negro women are
ready to commence with AK and knife to
slaughter the white women and children.
One remarkable fact is that only the coun-
try negroes have been drawn into the con-
flict. The town negroes are too smart to
be duped by their leaders. The actual
number Of negroes killed in Mondays fight
was probably 80. Forty-eight were buried
in one field yesterday.
Inc litAest-
MEMPHIS, Dec. 10.-A Vicksburg tele-
gram to the Western As ,Ociated Press to-
night says the war is over and all is quiet.
Scouts report all quiet in the country and
the negroes, who were massing, that come
here from Kinds county are dispersed.
Dorsey, the embeZZling Circuit Clerk,
was arrested to-day and made to go with
committee of taxpayers to find the stolen
records of his Office. Courthouse villianies
are still being brought 20 light, and nearly
all the county officers are implicated.
Crosby, the cOlored sheriff and leader of
the negroes, is still held, but the other
prisoners are released on promise of good
behavior. No violence is offered.
Republican Views
The Times, (Rep.), says: "The attack on
the city was as impracticable as it was
atrociOus, and the leaders ought to be
punished" 1t says Crosby is as big fool
as the other negroes, and intimates that
white men were at the bottom of it.
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Republican Views
NEW YORK.
Another Chapter in the Plymouth
Farce.
TiItOn Makes Affidavit, Showing Why
He Cannot Make Out n Bill Of Par


TiItOn Makes Affidavit, Showing Why
tieulsrs.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-The argument on
the order to show cause why a bill of par
ticulars should not be granted in the Til
tOn-Beecher suit came up to-day before
Judge Mcclure in the general term court
at Brooklyn. TiltOn was present. Shear
man opened the argument by reading the
order to show cause, etc. Ex-Judge Nor
ris then read the affidavit made BY TiltOn.
1t recites that the sum total of the knOwl-
edge now possessed by him
of the conduct complained of
between Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth
X. TiltOn, and of the times and places
thereof consists of confessions made by
Beecher TO IF ID. Moulton, Emma r. Mouton,
Theodore TiltOn and others; confessions
made by Elizabeth r. Tilton, Emma r.
MOulton, Martha b Bradshaw, Florence
p. TiltOn, Theodore TiltOn and others;
written and printed papers, documents and
letters. Tilton concludes by asking the
court, in case a bill of particulars is grant
ed, to insert a clause to the following effect:
But this order is not to be so construed
or applied as to prohibit the plaintiff from
introducing evidence which may be adj
missable under the general rule Of evil
dence, as if this order had not been made,
and which do not in terms refer to any in
tercourse, or act, or time of adultery,
proving, by such evidence, the adulterous
intercourse charged in the affidavit, al
though it may not thereby appear TO have
been committed on any particular day, or
at any particular place.
The Judge reserved his decision.
Pacific Mail Subsidies
Ex-President Sage and Managing Di-
rector Hatch of the Pacific Mail Company,
Commodore Garrison, of the New York
and Brazil Company, and other gentlemen,
left tonight for Washington on a summons
of the Ways and Means Committee of the
House Of Representatives, to testify, it is
understood, in the matter of the steamship
subsidies of the last and previous sessions.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-11

SOME readers have criticised the
active part taken by this paper in the
recent canvass for Police @ Commissioner.
Our only explanation must be that, in
our view of journalistic duty, whatever
concerns the public welfare should
concern us, whether it be in poll.
tacs, morals, industrial economy or
civic administration. We congratulate
our citizens and City Fathers on the
results of last nights election. Messrs.
Thos. Parkes and John L. Glenn, will
both prove ID the future as in the past,
paInstakuig, conscientious, industrious
and Efficient servants of the public.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-11

AMONG the many evidences of the
progress that characterizes the age
we live IN, we may point to the numer-
GUS dispatches published by US yester-
day and this morning from India, Per-
STA, Japan, China, Australia and the
South Sea Islands Of the antipodes, de-
failing the principal observations of
the transit of Venus. We may yet
establish direct communication with
our beautiful celestial neighbor. Who
knows? The child may be already
born who will make the heavenly ether
itself messenger of thought. The
fancy is no stranger than that of har.
Messing the lightning would have
seemed enc generation since.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-11
A FOUR LEGGED TENNESSEE GIRL
Lynchburg (Va.) Republican.

AshIAouA6 Afd'J 1SSpuDlASau.
We yesterday had call from the little
four legged girl and her father, when we
had an opportunity of witnessing this Won
derful freak. The little girl is in her
seventh year, and was born in Lincoln
county, Tennessee. Two of her legs are
of natural size for child of her age, while
the extra appendages are some three or
four inches shorter, and are corresponding
ly smaller in size. One of her feet is
somewhat misshapen, the ankle appearing
twisted, but with this exception, the four
legs are perfectly formed, and present a
healthy appearance. The little girl walks
with ease on her two natural legs, and is
quite interesting in appearance and con-
versatiOn. Altogether she furnishes a
wonderful example Of the freaks in which
Dame Nature is sometimes wont to III
dulge.
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h. Y. R., of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, interviewed ex-President johnson
at Knoxville recently, and comments
as follows:
Up and down the line, among friends
and enemies alike, it is understood that
this IS the old mans last fight. If he
wins the term it is for six years, and he
Will hardly ever want Office again, and
# he fails he can never get it again.
So all are coming up to the scratch
with long finger nails and bloodshot
eyes, and wool Will hy.
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SPAIN.

HENDAYE, Dec. o, via LONDON, Dec.
1O.-Gen. Iona is preparing a proclama-
ton, summoning the Carlist Insurgents to
order within thirty days, and threatens to
deyastate the country occupied by them il
they further resist.
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An Easy SNearer.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. IO.-W. W. DrummOnd,
who claims to be brother Of Judge Drum
mond, of Chicago, and says he was form
erly Judge of the United States District
Court, of Oregon, was arrested here to-day
on the charge of perjury, and in default of
$500 bond was committed to Jail. In
October last he was accepted on the bond
of John McCarty, arrested for passing coun-
terfeit money, and swOre TO possessing large
wealth, which subsequently proved to be
false, aud he was indicted.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-11
LOUISIANA.
The Latest Device Of RaseaIity.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 10.-The Return
ing Board were considering the returns
from St. Helena parish which had evidently
been tempered with, when the COnserva-
tive Committee proposed that the Commits
sioners of Elections be sent for to testify as
to the condition of the returns when they
were found. A member of the Board in
reply, said that if the Board could not
arrive at a conclusion regarding these re-
turns by the evidence present, the case
would be referred to the Legislature. Ap-
prehensiOn exists with many Conservatives
that enough Conservative parishes will be
referred to the Legislature to give the Re-
publicans working majority in the House.
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To save any reader the trouble, who
may feel an itching to con suit a die
tionary while reading about the tran
sit of Venus, We may be permitted to
state that ''cusp" is thehorn or point
of any crescent-shsped luminary.
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of Course.

CINCINNATI, o., Dec. 10.-At a con-
ventiOu of the Western Tobacco Cutters
Association, representing the Middle and
Western States, held here to-day, resolU-
tion was adopted opposing the passage of
the bill now pending in Congress permit
ting the sale of untaxed leaf tobacco to
consumers.
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KENTUCKY.

More Trouble for the DueIIIst ONCE
Holder.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 10.-The grand jury
at Frankfort, KY, yesterday found an in
dictment against Thomas c. Jones, present
Clerk of the Court of Appeals, charging
him with usurping an office established by
the Constitution, by being ineligible, from
the fact that he accepted a challenge to
fight duel. Jones gave bond in the sum
of $4,000, and the case was set for trial
next Tuesday.
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BOLIVAR H.ECGOKEI&ICO.

Hare lust reeeiusd an ELEGANT LINE
Of MEMS CASHMERE SUITS for
the HOLIDAYS, jn al Shades Of
COIOrs, ranging az price from S4.50 .
Suit TO $500 per SUIT Have also IL
STOCK an IMMENSE number OF
BEAVER OVER COATS. GLENGA.
RVS, KING WILLIAMS. and Tai
mas, Which lriU be sold to the TRADE
at PRICES 10 sHit the times. Orders
solicited. g. II. COOKE e. co.
nOv15 dtillianl. r75iSwlt
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severe storm.

The storm of yesterday was very disas-
trous to the shipping. A dozen vessels are
ashore at Whitby. One is reported sunk
with all aboard. Heavy damage was done
to work in the harbors Of Jersey. Two hun
dred yards Of the pier were swept away,
and blocks Of concrete, weighing several
tons, were displaced and broken. The
storm was very severe on the Continent.
The telegraph lines between Italy, Switzer-
land and Paris are down and eommunica-
ton interrupted.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-11

PAUSE, rashs youth, if you are in the
habit Of removing the postage stamp from
your sweetheart's letter and pressing the
under side Of the same to your lips under
the rapturOus delusiOn that the h0neyed
labials gave il adhesion to the envelope
oh, pause, for Williams Of the NOTsiStOscn
Heraid detected al the pOsiOffice the other
morning lis .ady loves cOachman applying
tie stamp % The last letter she sent him
80 perishes forever another Of loves young
dreams
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Pacific Mail Subsidies
MEMPHIS.
Important Ruling of Federal
Judge.

charged from the U. 3. District
Court.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 10.-In the United Dis
trict Court to-day, argument was continued
on the motion to quash the indictment
against the Gibson county Ku-Klux on the
ground of want of jurisdiction of the court,
coupled with the fact that they were under
Indictment for the same ofense by the
State courts. The motion was sustained
by Judge Ballard, and the prisoners dis
charged.
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FOREIGN
GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON, Dec. 10.-Alex. Macatier, Of
Baltimore, was married yesterday to Vir-
ginia, daughter Of the late Jas. Brooks, in
the Roman Catholic Church of the Assump-
ton, Holborn. Minister Schenck was pres
elt. Mon. SignOr Capel performed the
MARRIAGE caramODv
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of the House on other subjects than the APP
preparation bills.
An effort to have to-morrow's session set
apart for debate only, was successfully re-
sisted.
Committees.
The Speaker announced the following
appointments to fill vacancies on commit
tees: On Arkansas Affairs, Mr.. Scudder, OF
New York; on judiciary, MIR. Finck, Oh
Ohio; on Civil Service Reform, Mr.. Chit
tenden, of New York; on Centennial,
Mr. Schell, of New York; on Invalid Pen
sions, Mr.. Strawbridge, of Pennsylvania;
ON Education and Labor and also on Ex-
penditures in the Naval Department, Mr..
Carpenter, of South Carolina. The Speak
er announced that, by the operation Of the
rule, Mr.. Harmer succeeded to the chair
manship of the Committee or the District
of Columbia, instead of Mr.. Hale, Of New
York, resigned. Adjourned.
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Two Pns.enEer Car Upset

CINCINNATI, Dec. N.-TwO passenger
coaches on the Piusburg and Connells-
Vile Railroad We're Upset by the breaking
Of 4 chain plate near UniOntOwn, Pa, last
evening. Six passengers were seriously
hurt.
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AROSE" by any other name would be
got up"
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A MUSICIAN is an airy fellow; but he
can't help it.
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CoTToN continues dull in New York,
at l43c for middling.
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1oLD opened at llO2 in New York
yesterday, and closed at Ill4.
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and could secure for themselves whatever
was right. On the same principle there
would be no ruling of the negro over the
white race. The people were able to
govern themselves, and they should be al
lowed to do it. In closing, he spoke fer
the rights of the minority. Though he
would not argue that the SOutherners
could claim any rights, they constituted
A MIGHTY POWER
The General Government might crush
them out, but We wanted no more war, no
more force, no more blOOdshed. WeshOuld
strive to find those grounds Of amity on
which harmony between all sections and
all classes can be secured.
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"a 90 WeeEiy.......S2.O %
PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
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TEHERAN. Dec. 10.-The observation Of
the transit of Venus at this point was very
successful.
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LONDON, Dee. 1l.-Telegrams in regard
to the transit of Venus say that the Obser-
Walton failed in Orendurg, Casen, Uralsk,
AstTachan, Merth and Tiflis, but were en-
tirely successful at Y Okohama.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-14

Lqh Shining out of Darkness. 1t has
been q minister OF comfort to thou.
sands, aud will continue to be . favorite
lyric in the church in all coming time.
Let us not fail to remember the singu-
lar providence by which the life OF its
gifted and pious author was preserved,
IS We sing it and thus deepen our trust
in Him who. .... ---.s
Dee in unfathomable mines
or never-failing skill,
Doth treasure up his bright designs,
And works his sovereign will.
The Rev. Robert Robinson composed
the very familiar hymn,
"Come thou fount Of every blessing"
at an early period Of bis life, when his
religious emotions were deep and fer-
vent. He became afterwards . man OF
eccentric religious views and social
habits, but rithal a very popular
preacher. His eccentricity fostered Q
mirthfulness ill suited to his profession,
and q sensible decline in his spiritual
life took place in bis later years. He
was travelling in a stage
coach on one occasion, towards
the close of his life, in conn
pany with lady, who had just been
reading the hymn in question. Not
knowing Mr.. Robinson, the lady asked
his opinion OF the hymn, and expressed
her own admiration of it in strong
Language. For q time be evsded an,
swering her question, but being pressed
with interrogatories by the lady. at
length burst into tears, and, with
great agitation of soul, exclaimed !:
MADAME, am the poor, unhappy man
who composed that hymn many years,
ago; and I would give a thousand
worlds, if I had them, to enjoy the feel
ings / then had" What q commentary
does this incident furnish on the words,
Prone to wander, Lord. feel It.
Prone to leave the God eve!