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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06
FOREIGN
Bismarck Heard From Again on
Relations with the Pope.
A Breezy Debate i'm the French
Assembly.
GERMANY.


BERLIN, Dec. 5.-The Reichstag was to
day engaged in a discussion upon the esti-
mate for the foreign Office.
The Ultramontane deputy, Windhorst,
spoke to-day at length. He assailed the
government for suppressing the legation at
the Vatican, and declared that such an act
ton would not estrange the German Cath
olics from the Pope.
Bismarck said that upon reading the re-
port Of the last debate in the Chamber, he
discoveredthat he had expressed concilia-
tory sentiments which he must now with
draw, because he did not desire to expose
himself to the Misrepresentation that the
Imperial Government sought peace with
Rome upon any terms. Germany recognized
the Pope as the head of the Catholic Church,
but required no legation at the Vatican.
Ii negotiations with the Pope were neces-
sary, they could be conducted through the
Ambassador to Italy. So long as the Pope
urged the Catholic clergy to break the
laws Of the States in which they lived,
diplomatic relations between himself and
Germany were useless. The Vatican de-
sired victory for France in the late war.
That could be proved. In conclusion, Bis
marck said he would meet Windh0rst in
discussion on this subject again in the
Prussian Diet.
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An EneouraxinE Prospect.

The Louisville CO,TieI-JOlTHM of yes
terday has this 10 say concerning 4 railroad
enterprise in which our people are deeply
interested:
"At meeting of the Board OF Direc-
tors, with a committee on the part Of the
creditors o. the Evansville, OwensbOrO and
Nashville formerly OwensbOrO and Rus
sellville) Railroad, held Dec. , at the Calf
House, some vesy important changes were
effected which adgur well for the future Of
the enterprise. Hr. President Weir and
four members of the old Board retire., and
the board as now constituted consists of
Morris Mcdonald, Of New Albany, Presi
dent; r. S. Bevier, Robert BTOwder, Logan
county; James Weir, OwenSbOro; John q.
Barret, Rudolph Fink and James Todd,
Louisville; j. J. Brown, New Albany, Di-
rectOrs. The new members Of the Board
represent large caDital, and give assurance
Of an earnest desire to complete the road,
and its friends may look forward with hope
fulness to the result Of the md bting."
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NATIONAL BANK STOCK.
An Interesting Case I'm the Chaneery
Enurf-

Court.
About the first of November, the share
holders in the Fourth National Bank, un-
der the style of VIM. ii. Evans and others,
filed bill in the Chancery Court versus
the Mayor and City Council of Nashville,
enjOining the defendants against the col
lection Of S11, 5000, taxes assessed against
their individual shares, and which the Col
lectOr was proceeding to collect by distress
warrants.
The shareholders insisted that the cor
pOration was not authorized, under the
National Banking act Of Congress, passed
in 1854, and amounted in 1868,
or by the statute of Tennessee,
passed March %, 1873, to levy a tax on
their individual shares in said bank, ex-
cesding that levied by the State for State
purposes, the tax levied by the State being
four-tenths of one per cent, land that by the
corporation two per cent.
A few days ago City Attorney McAll lister
and X. McPhail Smith, counsel for the city,
gave notice that they would move to dis
solve the Injunction. The case was taken
up and argued last Friday and yesterday
before Judge 10. C.. Guild, at chambers, by
the city's counsel and Ed. Baxter, counsel
for the plaintiffs. At the conclusion Of the
argument yesterday, the motion to dissolve
the injunction was granted.
The case will hereafter be heard upon its
merits in the Chancery Court, but in the
meantime the city can collect the $1,000
taxes by giving refunding bond.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06

AN orator at a colored Democratic iolif-
cation in Opelika, Ala, illustrated the
amount of plunder that Grads" give their
cOlored voters in this story:
''Sam and Jack went 'poSsum hunting,
and caught little 'possum. They put the
varmint on to cook. Jack went to sleep,
and Sam, smelling how good the little pos
sum was, conceived tine idea of irving him.
A taste did not suffice; he by degrees ate
the whole animal. Now lie was troubled
about Jack. A bright thought came. He
creased Jacks mouth and hands and hid
the bones by his side. When Jack awoke
he smelled 'possum strong, but he saw noue
in the pot. Look yer, Sam, whar dat pos
sum? go off! you eat him up, Jack.
Look at your hands and mouth, and see
dem bones well, Sam, eff l eat dat pos
sum he fills less space dan eny 'possum
eber seedP Yes, they eat the 'possum
and grease the mouths of the poor negroes .
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PACIFIC MAIL.
The Pot Calls the Kettle Black.
A Credit MobiIier Sensation
Coming.
$3.50, 900 To Be Accounted Fol
Was It Distributed Among Congress.
men ef als.f

New YORK, Dec. 5.-The Pacific Mail
discussion continues the sensation of Wall
street, and interviews with both Rufus
Hatch and Russell Sargeant are published
to-day, each accusing the other Of willful
lying and being concerned in short specu-
lations, and using their official positions to
further their speculative plans. In regard
to the San Francisco over-draft, Rufus
Hatch said to Times reporter that it
amounted, Nov. l, to $4,000, but has since
been considerably reduced, and was caused
by heavy purchases of coal. To the same
reporter a paragraph in the forthcoming
statement of the company's affairs was ex-
hibited, showing that the receipts from
freight alone for September, October and
November of the present year amounted to
S675, 900, against $4,000 the same time
last year. Messrs. Guyon, Alexandra and
Talcott, of the committee who examined
the affairs Of the company in September
last, publish card affirming that the re-
port then rendered was correct in every
particular, except as TO the taxes, which
were then reported as in dispute, the COM
pany admitting an indebtedness of 43, 900,
while the courts have since rendered judg-
meHt for S132, 200, which has been paid.
Putting Money Where iG will do Most
Good.
Richard Irwin, former agent of the Pacific
Mail Company in San Francisco, has arrived
to answer the company's suit against him
for three-quarters of a million dollars,
which he says he had expended at
the instance of former management to
procure government subsidy. Should he
tell all he knows in relation to that ex-
penditure, sensation is promised rivaling
the Credit Mobilier.
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FRANC =

PARIs, Dec. 5.-The National Assembly
has been engaged in an exciting debate for
the past two days On bill, supported by
the clerical Deputies, for freeing the Uni
versity from the control of the State.
The principal speakers were Bishop Dupan-
lOupe Negitimist) and Challamel La Cour,
Radical deputy for Bouches Du Rhone.
Bishop Dupanloupe, in the course Of his
remarks to-day, paSsionately declared that
danger to society was to be apprehended of
the friends Of those who favored the shoot
ing Of the Archbishop.
This remark occasioned a great tumult
in the Chamber. Upon rhe restoration of
order, Challamel La Cour retorted upon
Bishop Dupanloupe. He said he left such
personalities to the judgment of honest
men, and those who had sOme regard left
for the dignity of the French Episcopate.
Upon the conclusion Of the discussion,
the bill passed its second reading by vote
of 553 against 133.
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MYSTERIOG DISAPPEARANCE OF
A CONTRACTOR.

hAoAhAAAC 4 AN0S oAAN AASAtAlNB DNNs T.
Information was brought TO this city yes
terday Of the mysterious disappearance of
sub-cOntractOr on the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad named Sheah. On Friday morning
last, Mr.. Sheah left his boarding house,
Immediately after breakfast, for the scene
of his works, he being of the firm of Kin
sella & Co., sub-contractOrs under Messrs.
Fitzgerald, Mallory & Flynn, and having
a section a few miles from Huntsville, Scott
county.
From that time Mr.. Sheah's whereabouts
is unknown. Mr.. Grimes, also a sub-con-
tractor, left the vicinity on Tuesday morn
ing of this week. He reports that Mr..
Sbeah's hat had been picked up lying be-
heath a tree. At least one hundred and
fifty men had been constantly searching for
him, but no trace had been discovered up to
Tuesday morning, four days after Mr..
Sheah's disappearance.
As might be expected, the affair caused
great excitement. Rumors of the presence
of ruffanly characters in the vicinity have
been rife, and the disappearance of Mr..
Sheah is thought to have been the work of
some one or more of these desperadoes.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06
NASHVILLE TENN. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1874.
THE VALLEY STATES.
Notable Suggestions of the Mis-
souri, Grange.
Western Farmers should Patronize
the Mississippi River I'm Preference
IN Eaafarn RafIr-o

Western Farmers should Patronfze
the Mississippi River I'm Preference
20 Eastern Railroads..
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5.-The Executive Com
mittee of the Missouri State Grange, which
has been in session here several days past,
adjourned to-day after the transaction OF
considerable business appertaining to the
order. They also adopted series of reso-
lutions approving the efforts now being
made by citizens of st. Louis toppe direct
trade between the Mississippi Valley States
and Brazil by steamship line from New
Orleans and Arkansas, the farmers
of the Valley States to aid
in supporting the enterprise. They
recommend the farmers of Missouri and
the other valley States to make every effort
to induce shipments down the Mississippi
river, instead of by rail to the East, and
assert it is the policy and imperative duty
OF the farmers to patronize Western and
Southern railroads in preference to feeding
Eastern roads and capitalists. They also
recommend to the Oranges of the valley
States to adopt resolutions requesting their
Representatives and Senators in Congress
to give such support as they can to Capt.
jas. B. Eads' jetty plan for the immediate
of the mouth Of the Missis-
sippi river.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06

WE rather think the projected raid
on the Federal Treasury by the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, is fore.
doomed to failure. The rouges have
fallen out too soon. All their junket-
ing of Congress last May, when the
wheels of government stopped an en-
tire day for the helaunching of the Pekin;
and Grants nice little jaunt down
Long Island Sound last summer on an
other of their steamers, all goes for
naught. Likewise some S750,OO0 in
hard cash, distributed somewhere, of
which we will hear more anon. The
Jig's up.
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THE IRON TROUBLES.
Failure of the Pennsylvania
Manufacturers and Pud.
dlers to Agree.

All the Mills but Two will Suspend
TO-MOrrOw-Over 10000 Men 10 be
Thrown Out of Employment.
PITTsBURG, Dec. Sat the final con-
ference between the iron manufacturers
aud puddlers this afternoon, the proposition
made by the manufacturers of S. per ton
for boiling, was rejected by the puddlers.
The result is that general suspension of
the mills will take place on Monday, with
the exception of one or two
mills, which will continue at the
present price, So per ton, until
their contracts are filed. A large
amount of muck-bar and finished iron is
held in stock by the various firms in this
city, doubtless sufficient to meet the de-
mand for some time to come. The result
of a continued lockout will be somewhat
discouraging. The failure of the two par
ties to come TO an agreement, will throw
out of employment forty thousand men and
seriously affects the iron and coal mining
interests of the State.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06
HAVEMEYER.
The Funeral OF New YOrk's Late
Mayor.

/ ---~~~
Mayor.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-The walks OF
Broadway are thronged with people waiting
| the passage of the funeral procession OF
Mayor Havemeyer. Business generally is
suspended. The residence of Mayor
Havemeyer was crowded this morning with
relatsves and immediate friends to attend
TO the private services which were perform
ed by Rev. DR.. Bethune of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and Rev. DR.. Burchard,
Presbyterian. The choir of the St. Paul
Methods. Church sang hymn after which
DR.. Bethune delivered an address on the
life of the Mayor as a public man and
private citizen. DR.. Burchard also made
an address on the career of the deceased.
After the services the employees of
the Sugar Refneries filed past the
casket, those from Jersey City having a
wide piece of Grape hanging from the back
Of their hats, in old Dutch custom. The
body was then transferred to the bier, and
the procession, composed Of the attaches
of the various municipal departments and
the scholars of three public schools, the
bier being carried on the shoulders of men
from one of the refineries, marched to the
church. The church was filed with ladies,
CACtpb TIC pDlNlOu lCsCANcu lOI dlNClLltu
and other functionaries, and delegates from
numerous organizations Of the city. There
were no funeral decorations of the church,
but there was a profusiOn of floral offer
ings in various device. After an anthem
was sung, prayer was offered by Rev.
Hutton, and addresses were delivered by
Bishop Jones, Rev. DR.. Hare, and benedic-
tion. After the services in the church, the
procession took up its march down Broad
way under escort of the 9TH, 22d, 9th and
Sth regiments, under Brigadier General
Ward, the old firemen and the old guard,
as guard of honor, with Gov. DiX's staff.
Governor elect Tilden and other eminent
men were the pall-bearers. The procession
passed down Broadway TO Exchange street,
arriving at the South Ferry at 3 O'Clock.
The,immense cOncOurse of people presented
the most decorous order. On reaching
Brooklyn, the 23d regiment, together with
the authorities of that city, escorted the
remains to Greenwood Cemetery, the cor
tege there being witnessed by thousands of
people.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06

THE appeal Of the Missouri Grangers
to the Valley States strikes the key
note of cheap transportation. The
West went TO war for the freedom of
the Mississippi, but during the war
naturally fell into the habit of patron.
IzJng Eastern railways, and since the
war have never resumed the use of the
great river. Flowing water is cheaper
than doubly protectediron. For bulky
freights and all produce that will not
spoil, natural channels must speedily
prove their superiority to artificial ones,
SO soon as the economic mind turns its
attention to the subject.
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Pneumatic Death.

FALL RIVER, Mass, Dec. 5.-The names
Of the killed by the explosion Of the pneu-
matte cylinder at the Old Colony railroad
bridge, yesterday, are Chas. Ellwood and
Timothy Haley, both of Leavenworth, Ks,
and jeremiah Groux, of Fall River. John
Quigley, of Fall River, was fatally injured,
and Henry Swift, of Somerset, seriously
injured The strength of the cylinder at
the place Of breaking was estimated at
eight times the strain to which it was sub
jected, and the cause of the explosion is a
mystery.
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pedia of Printing, 2,0S7 ems; H. C. Tarle-
ton, thermometer, Loss ems.
The tournament took place in the Ma
ttondL Republican Office. The decisions
were made in accordance with the rules
previously established, and none were pre-
sent except the judges, referee and proof
readers. The tournament closed with a
grand banquet tonight.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06
THE DISBANDED KU-KLUX.
One Hundred Have Surrendered, and
still They Come.

1O luC OlAlOA anu AulCAlCdhs
CHESTNUT MOUND, SMITH Co, TENN,
Dec. 3, 1S74.-Since / wrote you last ]
hear that more of the Ku-KluX have sur
rendered. The number who have given
themselves up is now about one hundred,
and still they come.
Petty, your agent, and friend of mine
tells me that one of the party that surren
deed last week at Carthage, drove his last
and only head of live stock there to-day to
pay his fine. The animal was a middling-
sized calf. Dark and thorny is the path
way of some poor people.
L will be at home on Monday or Tues
nay next, JACK PRICE.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06

Miss CLARA Louise KELLOGG was
born in South Carolina. Her whole life
has been devoted 10 music Her mother,
who always accompanies her, says that at
the age Of ten months her daughter hum
med plantation air which had been daily
sung to her by a colOred nurse. But while
Miss kellogg has great natural gifts, her
life has been one of hard study, and she
has gained her present high position in the
musical world only by great and continu-
Gus effort. Her intention is to remain on
the stage four years longer, devOtiDg her
self to the establishment of English opera,
after which she will retire to enjoy the
fruits Of her labor.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06
Fatal Locomotive ExDIosiop.

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 5.-A locomotive
exploded at Delaware, o., last night, while
standing at the depot. The fireman, Wm.
Hutohins, son of the engineer, was scalded
so badly that be will probably die. Several
bystanders were more or less injured, but
none seriously. Cause of the explosion
unknown.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06

THE Richmond Wing says that the fol-
lowing letter, written in London. on Aug.
q, 1902, to a colOnist of Virginia, is still in
existence there:
We send you shipment, one widow and
eleven maids, for wives of the people of
Virginia. There has been especial care in
the choice of them, for there hath not one
Of them been received but upon good re-
concentrations. In case they cannot be
presently married we desire that they may
be put with several hOuseholders that have
wives until they can be provided with hus-
hands.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06
Day OF the Congressional Election
Changed in Arkansas

LITTLE Rock, Dec. 5.-The House pass
ed the bill changing the time of the Con-
gressiOnal election from the first Tuesday
in November to the first Monday in Sep
tember, the day of general election.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06

The Nashville Bulletin of this week
charges that the State Comptroller is
sued to the Public Printers warrants
for S., ,329 In excess of what they should
have received for printing the report of
the Bureau of Agriculture, entitled
'The Resources of Tennessee" 1t
does not charge him with dishonesty,
but simply with "gross neglect" Ac-
cording to the BulLetin's statement, the
allegedover-charge would have beenpaid
had not Radical publishing concern
OF this city, known as Wheeler, Mar
shall & Bruce, entered theirpro.est with
the Board of Public Printing. Of
course the Bulletin is in a bad way
since the elections and is naturally
anxious to make all the points it can
against a Democratic official Very
few people read the paper, and its &C
cusatlons, even when true, do not hurt
much. But, in the present case, the
lung VI gan 10 dAUOScIuCE
at fault. Its informants, Wheeler,
Marshall & Bruce, have yearned for the
public printing ever since the contract
system was adopted, and the fat pick
ings from "4th Heiskell" have only
whetted their appetite for more.
They could make a good thing
out of the State, but the Comptroller
Is candidate for reelection and might
possibly be in the way. He has a
name for looking rather closely into
accounts, whatever may be charged to
- contrary from Radical sources.
That burst of virtuous indignation in
the shapeof an ostentatious protest was
lamentably thin. All the points of the
case had been anticipated, and the mat
ter is still In the hands of the Attorney
General for his opinion. Not a cent of
the disputed account has been paid to
the public printers.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06
Hallway Ticket Robbers.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5.-Two men giving the
names of W. NJ. Shook and II. B. Carroll,
having in their possession about two thOus
and dollars wOrthof railroad tickets supposed
TO be part of thO.e recently stolen from the
Pennsylvania Railway Comp'ny's office at
Hamburg, Pa, were arrested here yesterday,
and are being held for instructions from
the railroad authorities.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06

THE taxpayers of Ohio must meet
by Jan. 1, 1876, 2,694, ,S65, but 81 ,262,.
600 of this sum VII be applied to the
sinking fund, to reduce the public debt.
The Tennessee debt does not decrease
The funding ring would not permit a
provision for asinking Memphis
avalanche.
What richness The champion or
gan of anti-funding and low taxes
grumblng because the last Legislature
did not call on the people of Tennessee
to provide a sinking fund, when this
same organ has been preaching daily
that we cannot even pay the interest.
We must go slow, and do what we can
these hard times. After few years of
prosperity, we should be able to follow
the example of Democratic Ohio, and
begin sinking fund to extingulsh the
principal of the State debt. The peo.
pie of Tennessee have no notion of
wandering in the wilderness forty years,
as the AUaldnche sometimes predicts.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06

The river is again rising at this point,
the rise for the "a hours ending at 8 P. NJ.
yesterday amounting to feet 4 inches.
We report feet on the shoals.
The Burksville left at IL NJ. with a good
trip for Paducah.
The George Spangler is expected from
Evansville in place Of the SilverthOrn.
The A. p. Green did not get of on time
yesterday.
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Killed bv FAILING Ont of Red.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 5.-Mrs. Daniel Lo-
gan, the wife of wealthy farmer Of Mont
gomery, in this county, weighing 2S0
pounds, was instantly killed Thursday
night by accidentally falling out of bed,
breaking her neck in the fall.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-06
HOmeuard Bound,

Nearly all the Sir Knights have gone
home. The outgoing trains were crowded.
The following steamers, with Commando
ries on board, departed: Sherlock, for Gin
cinnati; Idlewild, for Evansville; Thomp-
son Dean, for Cairo; Great Republic, for
st. Louis.
AscalOn Commandery CHALLENGED st.
Louis No. 1 to drill to-day, but the chal-
lenge was not accepted.
Supposed TO Have Been Murdered.
Jules COwley, a well known liquor mer-
chant, disappeared from his home NOvem-
Der "a, with 5000 in his pocket. He has
not since been heard from, and is supposed
to have been murdered for his money.
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0hlO LRRialafiOn-

COLUMBUS, Dec. 5.-In the Senate thi:
morning bill was introduced to provide
for the better collection of special asses
ments on property. In the House a bill
was introduced to provide for the publica-
tion of an annual financial exhibit of the
counties, in two newspapers of different
politics in each county.
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ArerrihIr Rereared Family.

ROCHESTER, n. Y, Dec. 5.-Three
children of Moses Homar, two boys and a
girl, aged 10, II and II years, broke through
the ice on the millpOnd while attempting
to skate yesterday, and all were drowned.