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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-06
The Safe Burglars-An Important
Telegram stolen I'm COurt

Riddell presented documentary evidence
that ShIbley had engaged the man Will
liams, alias Geo. Miles, to commit this
burglary; that Miles was convicted of ar
son and burglary and sentenced to Auburn
prison for ten years, and he was pardoned
ont at the solicitation of Whitley, and, feel
ing under obligation to him, committedthe
burglary at his request. Davidge objected
to the proof of their authenticity, but the
court decided the papers were properly au-
thenticated.
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ITALY.
A stunning Programme.

ROME, Nov. Sat the request of Gen.
Garibaldi the subscriptions for his relief
have been SUSPENDED.
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NEW YORK.


New YORK, Nov. SIT is announced
that the new Direct Cable Company ex-
pect to commence business this month, and
have made contract with the Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph Company for the trans
mission of their messages at the end of the
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9eml-Neekhy - % Neokhy.ss'.''SS'
PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
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WE publish elsewhere some rather
sensational statements made by the
Washington correspondent of the Nea0
York Tribune, with regard to the Sugg
Fort claim against the government,
paid few months ago. Though igno-
rant of the facts involved, We believe
Mr.. Fort to be incapable Of assisting In
the perpetration of such fraud as that
charged. 1t is understood at WASH
ington that the long threatened inves-
tigatlon has been entered upon at the
instance of certain claim agent there
who was disappointed at not getting an
exorbitant fee out of Mr.. Fort
u. S. Commissioner Trimble now has
the papers IL the case.
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so. O.OOO TO POLICY.HOLDERs

since its organization
Those who wish % patrOnize home company
organized upon a solid basis aud eO.serv&tivolI
managed, viii find the Equitable, Of Nashville,
worthy Of their confidence. my30 II 1ep.
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Death of an Earl.

The Earl of Charleville died yesterday at
the residence Of William Butler Duncan,
Staten Island. The Earl was % years Of
age, and in bad health for a few years past
Archbishop McCloskey, of this city, and
Rt. Rev. Dr. Bacon, Bishop of Portland,
Maine, arrived yesterday from Havre. DR..
Bacon, who had been travelling several
months in Europe for his health, was taken
to St. Vincent's hospital. He is not expect
ad IN racovpr
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MICHIGAN.
VIII mot EIeet n Democratic Governor
TIL NEXT Time

DETROIT, Nov. 5.-Returns received by
the Free Press up TO this time from all
but 13 small counties, give Bagley, Repub-
lican, for Governor a majority Of ,922. In
the Eighth Congressional District, the vote
is exceedingly close with chances in favor
of Bradley, Republican, by from 81 to 100
majority.
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Special to the Union and American.
DICKSON STATION, Nov. with one
district to hear from, the vote of the county
now stands as follows:
Porter, 903; Maynard, 224; House, s93;
Harrison, 227; TrOtser, S22; Moody, 496;
Bibbs, 254; Pollard, 655; Smitlow, 346.
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HHE Memphis Ledger, of Wednes-
day, says:
Andrew johnson got 4.200 votes. but
the total vote cast was $3.50, the mega
tive expression of the people being
against instructing Senators and Rep
resentatives TO support MIR. johnson
for the United States Senate, OF rather
to go to the Legislature untrammeled.
OF course, the Ledger has reference to
the Democratic vote in the total above
given
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-06
MEDICAL
DR. SAMUEL ARNOLDS

WIDow BRITTLE SAYS: THAT TwENT
w by spell OF sickness for two mouths, durii
on which showed itself, in roll, upon the side as
Dickinson, and the most distinguished physicians
command, for thirteen years, instead OF growing 3
At the end Of this period, when she was suffer
OF the liver, and was greatly prOstrated with no
her brother, W. G. McATurry, gave her the s(,reat
other night for three nights; then missing three
frequently.
In about twelve months the enlargement was
out the use Of any other remedy.
The above statement Is true.
Nashville, May Is, 1859.
LITTERER q
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GOLD ranged at llOsa1lo4 yester-
day. closing at the lower figure
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AaI2.0O0 Vardicf.

the Memphis City Railroad for S12, 700, for
services as President, and against which the
company brought coUnter-suit for $780,
600, for alleged damages sustained under
FaTingtOn's administration, the jury re
turned verdict granting Harrington nearly
$4,000, and the eOunter-suit was thrown
out of court.
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FIRE INSURANCE.
EQUITABLE
Fire reInSuranceCO..
No. IA North Cherry St,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
$1,Ooo,ooo.
TWENTY PER CENT PAID Up
v. W. BERRY, Pres't. WM. A.WKBB, ssep
JS0. PORTERFIELD, VIee-PresIdeaG
DIRECTORS.

0NHIS WELL-KNOwN COMPANY COS-
4 tinues 70 insure property against loss or dam
age By fire. It's usefulness and willingness n
meet its engagements have been shown By the
paYment Of over
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THE NEXT CONGRESS.

The following table shows the COM
plexion of the present House of Rep
resentatives. and the changes brought
about hitherto by the elections:
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ono Congressmau Gained.

TOPEKA, Ks, Nov. 5.-Returns from
sixty-two counties insure the election of
Osborn, Republican, for Governor, The
majority Of Goodin, Democrat, in the
Second District, will be less than 1000.
Osborn's majority for Governor two years
ago was $1,000.
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LOUISIANA.
The Reconstruction Juggernaut Sun
Rolls On.


Rolls On.
NEW IBERIA, Nov. 5.-Gentlemen from
st. Martinsville report arrest the day
before yesterday, by a Deputy United
States Marshal of Gen. DeClaust and son.
Both were released or bond. There were
arrested yesterday, VicOr Lognan, Alfred
Patin, Edmond voorhees,, Oscar Durand,
Eseamer Wiltz, and they are here under
the guard Of a squad of cavalry, with
Marshal Monroe. Marshal Selye and
Lieut. Hodgson, with the cavalry, left this
morning, going West. Further arrests are
expected in Lincoln and Clayben parishes.
There is great rejoicing over tie election
news from the North.
The MajOrities.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 5.-AIoncure's ma
jority in the city is 12,126. Leeds major
ity for mayor is 11,G94. For Congress in
the First District, Gibson's majority over
Sypher is about $500. In the Second
District Ellis majority over Dibbel is about
$500. In the Third District additional re-
turns indicate the election of Darrell by
about 500 majority. No additional returns
from the other districts. A hundred guns
were fired this evening in honor of the
Democratic victories.
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MEMPHIS.
stryehnIne saicfde.

MEMPHIS, Nov. 5.-EnOch NJ Leaning
Of NOblesville, Hamilton county, Ind,
was found dead in bed in clearinghouse
on Main street this morning, having sui
cided with stryehnine. he left letter to
his wife and children, and request to the
Masonic fraternity to bury him.
Capt. TOOmas F. Wright, a well known
steamboatman, died here to-day.
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@1INIINI1'N111-7
Levee construction tax ON land, II per
cent. on valuation.
1t viii be observed that the leVee con-
struetion tax is II per cent. on valua-
ton; this is Is mills on the dollar. The
total taxes, therefore, are 46 mills ON
the 81, or $3.50 on the 500, or 4.6 per
cent. The levy in Bolivar, an adjOin-
ing county, is thus given:
BOLIVAR COUNTY, 1874.
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The WhoIe State Tfeket EIeeted.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 5.-The Erening
Telegraph says the Democratic State ticket
is pretty certainly all elected. Gen. Nc
COndlers undoubtedly defeats Gen.
Beath for Secretary of Internal Affairs.
Judge Olmstead, the Republican candidate
for Lieut.. Governor, leads his ticket here
and elsewhere, but the chances appear to
he AGAINST him
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Total. .......,-...-...,..
To show how rapidly these leVies
have increased, it is stated that in 1866
the taxes in Washington county were
only five mills on the dollar, 10 Bolivar
three mills, and in Issaquena mills-
growing from these low figures up to
their present excessive proportions.
The GreeneUiLle Times, from which
we take these statements, says that
even this is not al-for there are, be-
sides, in Washington county a tax of
] cent per pound on cotton, and anoth-
er Of Is cents per acre on lands. These
yielded in the year 1873 S142, 900; and
on this basis it estimstes that the total
taxes in that county are 10 IA per
cent. on the valuation.
1t may be asked how property in
Mississippi manages to bear such taxes
as these. The answer is, 1t cannot bear
them. They are confscatory in their
effect. They ruin property owners,
and the proof of this is found in the
gradual impoverishment Ofland owners
and the large amounts of land that
d4C DCAAS NAcC4 4OI
taxes. There is a pol-tax levied on all
adult males in addition to the property
taxes; but this is paid only by proper
ty-holders; the negroes, who are in
majority, do not pay it, and there is
no process by which it can be extor ted
from them. They govern the county,
but bear none of It's burdens.
These facts explain the difficulty of
inducing immigration to Mississippi
and the ether Southern States in a
similar condition. Other things being
equal, man can make twice as much
money raising cotton in Mississippi as
he can raising grain in Illinois or
Iowa, and this fact, if not modified
by adverse conditions, would induce
thousands Of small farmers and labor
ers In the West to migrate to the South
and engage In cotton planting. But
no agricultural pursuit can be pro6ta-
bic in a region where nOn-property-
holders govern and levy taxes of per
cent. on the lands that yield all the
wealth..
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A Democratic Legislature.

The Senate will stand % Republicans,
to 22 Democrats, but the House will have
from ten to twelve Democratic majority,
making the Legislature Democratic on
joint ballot, and securing to the Democrats
a United States Senator il place q Scott,
Republican.
The Latest.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 5.-0f sixty-six
counties in this State, fifty-fve officially
heard from give Latta, Democrat, J7,45S
majority. This will be reduced about
1900 by Philadelphia, leaving 5000 for
Olmsted to overcome, for which he hsS,the
large Republican counties of Delaware,
Allegheny, Bradford, Luzerne and Potter.
If Latta is elected it will be by a small
majority.
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sag2 cod tin nOv2s
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-25

appropriation bill occupied the morning ses-
sion. The main disagreement with the Sem
ate bill was in regard to the payment of post
age on newspapers, the House insisting that
one and half cents per pound was enough,
while the Senate had fixed the rate at four
cents per pound. A committee Of conference
on the postal bill was then ordered.
The suudry civil appropriation bill was
proceeded with in the Senate on the 10th, and
a large number of amendments were offered
and agreed to. In the House, after lengthy
debate, vote was taken on the question of
concurring in the report of the committee OF
conference on the currency question, and the
report was agreed to-yeas 221; nays 49,
Efforts were made to refer the civil rights
bill to the committee on the judiciary, which
failing, it was then moved to put the bill on
its passage, which likewise failed by a vote of
40 to 91-fourteen Republicans voting in
the negative
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-25

embarrassment of the Sheriff, but if there
were no funds in the treasury he was without
remedy by summary process. He suggest
ed that lien be given on the crop OF the
county farm by the Commissioners. The
Commissioners had officially Informed Judge
Mackey that Mr.. Yocum presented an account
for 1856, and refused to take 5000 in part
payment. The County Treasurer also certi-
fled that he had already paid the Sheriff g.
1925, nearly one.6fth Of the whole tax for
county purposes, and more than double the
amount ever drawn before in one year; this,
too, in face of the fact that in January there
was not prisoner in Jail or criminal case
on docket. The Judge, however, authorized
the removal of one prisoner to York Jail, and
the release of the other, who was within i've
DAYS of her time of release, unless the justice
would provide for her.
Sheriff Yocum replied, denying that he
had been offered 5000, and claimed that the
same influences which had so long kept him
out of his money were still at work. He
claims that he has receipts for more than the
bills he presented to the Commissioners. He
claims to have served more State papers in
wear, than had been served before in twenty.
He also claims that there have been more
prisoners in Chester Jail this last year than in
any two years previous since reconstruction.
We do not know what will be the upshot
of the matter.
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TaE Y0RKYxhLK UfRER.

five shareholders of the proposed organiza-
ton, which should be accompanied with the
endorsement of the Senator or Representative
of the District where the bank is to be located,
giving satisfactory information in reference to
the character aud means Of applicants. Ap-
plications will be considered Immediately up
on their receipt, anlifapproved, the necessa-
ry forms for the organization of the new
banks will be al once transmitted. Under
the new apportionmeut, all Western and
Southern States, with the exception of Colo-
RADIO, Montana and Wyoming. will he entitled
to circulation. The State of Indiana will be
entitled to about s2,S00,0O0; Ohio, to about
$6,OO0OO0; Nebraska about 100000. The
other Western and Southern States will be
entitled to much larger amounts. A number
Of banks have already been authorized to
commence business.
Civil Rights and Free Schools.
- In the Republican convention of Robe
son county, N. c., held last week and COM
posed ola majority of negroes-the committee
on resolutions consisting of two white men and
four colored-the following resolutions touch
ing co.education of the races, were reported
and adopted. 1t would seem that the Repub-
licans of either color in Robson county do
not have much faith in the civil rights bill:
"That in the public schools maintained by
the State, we are opposed, unalterably, to the
commingling of the white and colored races
in the same. That in the question of educa-
ton, as in all other questions affecting the diff
ferent races, the Republican party holds the
doctrine of equal rights, without commingling
of races which secures to the children of the
colored man course of educational training
in the public schools devoted to his race equal
to that which the children of the white man
enjoy in the school devoted to his. Equality
of training and educational advantages, in
quantity and quality, but always separate
schools.
"rhat we earnestly deprecate and deeply
deplore the attempts that are being made to
establish in our country different arrange
ment for the education of the races by the
State, as tending to destroy and render impos-
sible system Of public schools in North Car
olina in which both races can receive the ben.
eits of an education, besides endangering feel
ings of hostility and hatred between the races
that may cululinate in civil disorder and
bloodshed"
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This comparison makes a very unfavorable
showing for the present condition of the crop,
the cause of which is thus we'll explained in
the report: "The season has been remarkable
for heavy and frequent rains during the month
of April throughout the cotton States. In
some sections the aggregate rainfall reported
exceeds sixteen inches. All the rivers, creeks,
and spring branches even, overaowed their
banks, destroyed the plants, and prevented
termination in newly planted lands. In the
more southern belt replanting Was general,
both in bottoms and uplands. From the first
week in May to its close drought was almost
universal. The soil was packed and afterward
baked by the sun, retarding cultivation and
preventing growth. The stand is, therefore,
very poor, many plants not having made their
appearance on the first Of June. Since the
last of May light showers have been general,
and the prospects are much improved: Fields
are much cleaner than at this date last year,
and can easily be kept free from weeds. With
favorable weather rapid improvement is GER
tain, and fair comparison with July is quite
probable at the next report. :,
The following comparison of acreage planted
with the actual crop, each year since 1869,
shows that the correspondence between the
yield and the area planted is by no means
uniform
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-25

Carolina, August 6; Vermont, September l.;
Maine, September IA; Indiana, Ohio, Iowa
and Nebraska, October 13; Georgia, October
IA; West Virginia, October 22 Louisiana,
November 2; Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware,
Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Michi-
gan, Massachusetts, Missouri, Minnesota, New
Jersey, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
and Wisconsin, November 3. Besides State
officers and Legislatures, varying in each
State, the above thirty-two States elect this
year Representatives for the Forty-fourth
Congress, which is to assemble in 1875. Next
year elections to complete the Congress will
take placein New Hampshire ; in April, Com
necticut and Rhode Island; in September,
California; and in November, 1875, the State
Of Mississippi.
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Per cent. decrease on 1878, ,...""".....".. 1914
In the case of every State, except Texas,
there is material decrease, compared with
last year. in the area planted. The total esti-
mated acreage last year was 9,S49,723; while
this year, as shown in the above statement,
the returns of the agricultural department in
dicate S,785, ,756 acres, or 1,057,96 acres less
than in 1873. All other things, being equal,
this decline Of 1914 per cent. in the area
planted would imply a correspondingly smaller
crop than last year, or, to be more explicit, a
reduction of about 100000 bales compared
with the crop of 1873. But we cannot be by
any means certain that all the conditions at:
fecting the outturn will be equal to those of
last year. The conditions of weather, labor,
state of soil, insects &c., are all at present un-
determined, and we have, therefore, no means
of Judging how far the yield will correspond
to the reduction in the acreage. The agri-
cultural report gives estimates as to the condi-
ton of the crop in June: the estimates being
expressed by regarding 100 as representing
normal or fair condition, while the figures
show the approximation to that standard.
The following are the estimates for each State,
compared with the like returns of condition
for Tuna 1879.
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ningham, to carry his baggage from Old Fort
to Ashevlle, and it seems that in secluded
spot Cunningham killed Mr.. stienberger for
the purpose of robbery. The dead body was
found few days afterward, and an inquest
resulted in fixing the crime upon Cunning
ham, who is from Shufordsville, Henderson
county. He is only seventeen years of age,
and respectfully connected The accused was
arrested after he had been to Greenville, S.
c., where he purchased a stock of goods, and
he is now in the Asheville Jail.
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From the New York Bulletin, June IL.
THE COTTON ACREAGE OF 1874.

The department Of agriculture has issued its
usual June statement of estimates of the acre
age of land planted in cotton for the current
year The estimates are stated in percentages
of the area planted last year, aud therefore,
in order to reach a definite result, we have to
take the estimated acreage Of last year, and,
from the percentages given in the department
report, deduce the estimated acreage for 1874.
This we have done in the following table:
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JOB PRINTING.

Having determined to devote more atten-
ton hereafter to job printing than we have
done in the past, we would inform the public
that our office is now we'll supplied with new
type of the latest styles, and the best ma
chinery in use; and with choice stock of
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