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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1874-08-25
A CARD.

A the lease of ou: Store does not expire until
our stock in the DOm~stic Line We will il
TO sell our ensire stock C"st. We would offer
. great inducement TO any person wishing to buy
our complete stnCk. Gail and look the bargains
please come forward and settle at
February ,. 1874 j: ROSE BRO.
PRESERVE YOUR FURS AND W0OLESS
PY using Anti-Moth Cedar Sosp, Can phorated-
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sale by e BELLER
July 8, 1873.
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AM prepared to furnish this delightful bev-
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nCt: SypSon 5s Is1 Bottles to supply taIn,lies
A invi,etion is extended to the spirit EMPLOYEES
20 Try IL Free and II other friends Z tickets
May 26, 1874.
A1roN'S Alph. Pea. the earliest and most
- delicate favored OF all the blue wrin kled va
rteties. being productive and more desirable
THAI tbs celebrated Mclean Little Gem, cannot
fail to please all lovers of good Peas DON'T fail to
give them trial c. E. BELIER
March 10, 1874.
q Mixed and Gold Mixed Water Proof Cloth.
Cotton Laps, Canton FIanneIs. Gum and Arct;c
Overshoes, and a lot of good Home Made Yarn
Socks. FIT GRovE
+MAsoNIC c CRIP. for ending China Porcelain,
short. every thing that can be broken every fam
February 10. 1874. - 80 ' G. E. BELLER.
DOOKS in the Library-Rul~er's Trollope,s
ID Edvsrds', Whites, and all popular writer's
October %, 1873. GEO. T. LIGHT.
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Drugs.
Drugs
DRUGS, MEnIClHES kHD CHEMlcALS,
PATENT MEDICINES.

embracing all of the most popular and reIiable re-
needles. aud also the latest Novels and finest kinds
OF Stationery.
e. As the quality of Medicines is arwavs of the
Ereatest importance bath to the Physician a nd his
Patients, we make 1t constant care to secure
none but the purest Medicines aud By his long cx-
perience in the retail business he il prepared to
NIL Physicians Prescriptions and Compound Medi-
eInes az cording to the latest strctcst rues
Pharmacy The public confidently RELY on
having their prescriptions carefully and accurately
prepared at all hours of the day aud night
N. B.-l take this occasion return my ailcere
thanks for the very large patrons besto upon
me by the community. and to express INV grateful
acknowledgement of the high appreciation OF n
feowcitizens of my etfnrts serve them trusting
that may be able in the future render entire
port aud confidence. GEO T. LIGHT
February 20. 1872
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ADVERTISING RATES.
l@TRANsIRNT BILLs-eAsH.

one square Il inch or less,) 10 ; weeks. 81 50
Each subsequent insertion. ..s.-..... Sc
One square, three months......... ...-....-- 400.
One square, six mOnths ...-... 00s
ons square. yeAr...... ..s.... 1000
CASpIDATES' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS County, Of
neers, $500; State OF Congressional. 8 10 90.
LSgaladvsrtisements AT the pubfished fates,
per line. -
% Alltransient advertisements due and collect
able after the 6rst insertion
~. Liberal deductions made for Quarter, Half and
n Mhole Columns for Annual. .semi-Ap aud
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GkANU, .o.IlAI.N. !, ..lA., utll,ulIT

HAVE received up~ards of FIFTY EIRsTPR
SSAfiU Ms and are sntoug the best-ho " rnxde.-
Every INSTRUMENT Iully nted for five Years-
Prices as low Az the exclusive of very nest
materials and the moe: thorough wOrkma ship will
the piano purchasing public. of the south espfci.
ally. unite in the unanimous verdict of the su.
periority of the STlEFF PIANO. Th" DURAB IL
TY oi our Instruments s In n esta bshed by over
SIXTY SCHOOLS AND cOLLEG ES in the South,
using 800 of our Pianos.
Sole Wholesale Agents for severa I of the priu.
cipal manufacturer Ca binet and ParIor Organs;
prices from StOt" S600. a liberal discount to
Clergvmen and Sabbath Schools
A large assortnen. of SecOnd- Hand Pianos at
prices ranging from R75 S3nO. aIwa xs on and.
Send for illustrated Catalogue, containing the
names of over , 900 S"uthrrners, who have bought
and are using the Stlef Piano.
=CHAS. VI STIEFF
Warerooms, No " Thertg St Balto., Md.
Eactori 9, - and IS Camden St, and IS aud 47
PerrySt. April2S. 1874
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NEW Orleans MoIasses, for Ba king for tale bv
~ Dec. 10, 1878. c. W. T. KEARSLEY.
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tIce . uny IN ~
table coaches at
I. We baye seen kos.i b.. .a.. III I.,|.'.s
bhtBe haze ney9r seehAa Defter lioe OF il.v-
el than We nov have II this Valley Of tbs
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JUST RECEIVED.

JUST NECEItEDs
On PIECES new style Spring Prints.
d.f HALF~BLEACHED Cottons. L. D. and
~. II other leading brands Shirtns Cotton
NTAMSU1~rA, Twist of the Loom, and lower
w grades Of Beached Cottons.
RED Ticking. Hickory. 1O-4 Brown and B leached
ID Shirtings.
Drown and Bleached Drills.
tn GROSS Wood nIou!ds, all sizes for tb.C,sb
w or Country Produce
February 3, 1874. FRANK T GROVE
I AD'ES' Particular Attept tinn ie called to the
magniticentstnck of MILLINERY GOODS at
GOldsnith's Twin Fronts. room liz the rcer of
Store l9 IL prepared for tn" exhibition. nd Fash
lOnable MilIiner is in cJnstant attendance. The
styes are the very latest. and perfectly beautiful
Prices less than could be ina gined
o. Call early and make your selections.
October !, 1878.
EeTTNITED States Bonds. - by Rev DR.: Handy.
y for sale by GEO T LIGHT, Agent
E'REsH GROUND PLASTER. for .ais by
Il Mar. ;. WASHINGTON * LIPPITT.
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Train leaving Charlestown at lG3S, A. NJ, NJ
nects at Rarpers Fctry with Mail Trains Eas nd
West, which psss over the Old Route 10 aud from
Baltimore Other trains Pass the Metropolitan
branch.
Ex. Freight. No. I26 Icavea Stnur+on at ? 4OP. NJ.
-rasses Charest"wn 1T ,.45 A. NJ, and reaches
Harper Ferry MT , 35 a. NJ.
Ex. Freight. No. l27 leaves Hnrrcr's Ferry at
Ills p. VI pnsscs Charrstown at IL. 90 A. NJ and
arrives at Staunton at 1900 a. NJ.
A. R. WOOD, Agent, HArper's Ferry.
THOS. r. SHARP,
JaIy 81. 1874. Master of Trausportation:
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TERMS OF sUBsORIPTION..,.The Paper
VIII be furnished to subscribers at 50 .5S mar
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When not paid strictly in Advance, So, 90
win pOsitIVeI! be charged.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23

Real Estate agents.
ARLINGTON, FARRAR EEAKLET, So North
COnegestreet-
THOS. C+LLENDER 80 North Cherry street.
JAMES HICKMAN, No. IS Church St, Maxwell
House.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
GUESSING AT CROPS.

Thirty-folr years ago MIR. Ellsworth,
Commissioner of Patents, and a Con-
necticut Yankee, good at guessing, in
augurated the silly government system
of guessing at the amount of different
crops annually raised in the United
States. Thecontinuanceo of the practice
with no improvement for thelifetime of
a generation, shows that information of
this kind is needed by the public, and
also that the public is profoundly
ignorant as to the proper ways and
means for obtaining it. The National
Grange. through Its numerous subordi-
mates. and hundreds Of thousands of
members is about TO try its hand and
machinery at this crOp-guessing bust
moss There would be quite as much
sense in guessing at the number of
neonIe in Davidson county for an ofici-
Al census. as in guessing at the acres
nlanted in corn, and the average yield
per acre in any year. Guessing to fix
the question of numbers was natural
and legitimate before counting and the
science of arithmetic, but to guess at
the number of acres III farm instead
of measuring it, is absurd. When we
measure our fields and their pro-
ducts. such statements will have a de-
gree Of value, and rot before. a BRAN
That can master the multiplication
table should be ashamed to accept
guess as fact.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
NORTHERN FAKHKRE IN EAST
TENNESSEE

A New Market correspondent of the
EIsoSUiUe Chronicle writes to that pa
per: about eighteen months ago, a
well-to-do Ohio farmer, G. w. Hills,
purchased farm in the vicinity of our
village, and has established a reputa.
ton as 4 successful farmer, and has de-
monstrated what may be accomplished
by energy, industry and good system
of culture ofou East Tennessee lands.
He has Soda large surplus, the product
IF his toll and application, and that,
too, on a farm where the former own
ers have scarcely been able to produce
a sufficient amount to maintain the
family, and the stock usually kept on
the farm. A few days ago another
farmer from Iowa, Mr.. Goodykoontz,
seeking q home in East Tennessee, WIS.,
tied the farm of Mr.. Hills, was pleased,
and became the purchaser of the farm
and growing crop, and having his fam
ly with him, has taken possession and
gone to work. The farm is desirable
one, pleasantly and conveniently loca-
ted. Mr.. Hills and family start in a
few days on visit to friends and rela-
tives in New York, Ohio. and Michi-
gan, and assures us.be will return in a
short time, and pledges to bring with
him on his return number of farmers
to locate in our midst. We hope he
may be successful in his mission as a
self-conshtuted immigration agent.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
GRANTS RATI0NS.
Their DemorsIizing InHucu nee On the
Louisiana Negroes

Their Demorslizing Enfluc nee On the
Louisiana Negroes
The Southern papers comefilled with
incidents illustrating the demoralizing
effect which the indiscriminate distri-
button Of rations is having upon the
negroes in the regions adjacent to the
Overfiowed country, as well as upon
many OF those who have actually been
sufferers by the floods. The PicGyltne
estimates that there are yet $4,000 des-
titute people in louisiana who cannot
help themselves, and have no opening
for work; but while there is a scant
supply of food to send to these, great
quantities of the relief supplies are alb
sorbed by lazy negroes who have no
claim whatever for charity. In the
parish OF Lafourche, for instance, plGn-
tiers are ready to supply day labor. wood
cutting, or to furnish land for cultiva-
ton on shares, sufficient to maintain
all the idle population of the parish;
but they find it almost impossible to
procure laborers, the negroes believing
that there is no need of their work
ing while the Government will support
them. The most interesting mani.
festation Of this expectation OF main
tenance at the public expense yet re-
ported is given in the Baton Rouge i'd
Uocate. At Point Coupee, perfectly
protected section, where there had
been no overflow, nor any prospect of
any, the colored population held meet
ing and passed resolutions demanding
that they should have a share of the
provisions sent up for the relief Of
those in the adjoining inundated d,s-
tricts. The meeting was composed of
men who were all engaged in working
crops, either for wages, on shares, or
upon their own account, and nine
tenths of them rode to the meeting on
their own horses; but they determined
that Rhep rahons were going round
they would have their share or know
the reason why. So they resolved to
make a requisitinp on Kellogg for sup
plies, and further, that N case he re-
fused to comply with their demands,
President Grant should be notified that
the coveted provisions must be forth.
coming. In order to give point to their
application, resolution was adopted
that if it became necessary to apply to
Grant for rations, he should be in
formed that they chad put him in and
could also put him out" 30 that he
could govern himself accordingly.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
For County Trustee.

FDITOR UNION AND AMERICAN: You
II will Oblige me BY announcing TO the citizens
OF Davidson county that am a candidate for
County Trustee at the approaching August cleo
ton. ask at the hands of the people a faVOra-
bic consideration, and promise, il elected, to
make a good and faithful officer. Yours respect
fully, GEO. r. BUCHANAN.
my.S te%
WE are authorized to announce JIM
w DAVIS as candidate for Trustee OF Da-
wilson county at the August election
mh22 te
UTE are authorized 70 announce W. A.
w KNIGHT as q candidate for County Trus-
tee at the ensuing August election. feb25 I'll
A I the urgent solicitation OF many of the
n citizens of Davidson county, L Announce
myself candidate for reelection "a the oifice Of
County Trustee at the ensuing August election.
II elected viii, in the future as in the past, dis
charge the duties OF the Office to the best Of my
ability. D. II. MARSHALL.
Nashville, March 5, 1874. mis- te
EDITORS UNION AND AMERICAN
Ia Please announce me in your paper as q can
didate for county Trustee, at the election in
August next. ISAAC PAUL.
feb22 70
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23

In face of all the damaging revela-
lions about the present government of
the District of Columbia, the Wash
ington Chronicle boldly takes the
ground that the Board Of Public
Works have done-preeisely what they
were created by Congress to do, that
the United States, through its Repre-
sentatives, authorized it and are re-
sponsible for it. Though not saying
SO directly, the impression made is that
the Chronicle holds Congress and the
United States responsible for all the
stealings as well as the rest, and the
people at large may be called on to
foot the bill, now amounting to about
as much as the State. debt Of Tennes-
see. There is just enough in this ar
pument to set honest folks a>thinking
about how the whole country is respon'
sible for the doings of Congress. 1t
certainly is awkward TO ask the prop
erty-holders Of the District 70 pay a
debt of over twenty millions created in
a few years by the cormorants set over
them by Congress, and whom they re-
strain by such means as are enjoyed by
tba .:+;vaus of States
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
TEE AnnRExs

We give place elsewhere to this doc
ument. formally announcing the call
for a State Convention on August IS.
As every one who feels an interest
In the public welfare viii read it, we
need not here repeat its good points
and the policy it suggests. The fact
is fixed that we are to have a con-
vention, the character and work of
which viii determine the success
of November. 1t remains for
the press and the people to
make that body all it should
he. The best of Committees and the
wisest of counsellors go for naught,
unless the people put their hands to
the work in precinct, ward, county and
district. Now, in the months inter-
vening before August 10. is the time
for honest work and honest workers
not after the convention has come and
gone.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
NO COMPROMISE.
The BIount County Negroes ON Civil

The Biount County Negroes on Civil
Rights.
The colored citizens of Maryville
met last Monday to take into consid-
Grafton matters affecting their interests
as a race. Among other resolutions
unanimously adopted were the follow
ing:
Whereas, the press of Tennessee
and some of the leading politicians of
the two existing political organizations
IN this State, have declared that the
colored people repudiate and condemn
the action of the recent convention at
Nashville.
Resolved, that we heartily endorse
the resolutions adopted by the State
Oolored Convention, and earnestly
recommend the colored citizens
throughout the State to call public
meetings and endorse the principles
adopted by the Oolored Convention at
Nashville.
Whereas, the impression is made by
designing demagogues that the colcred
people do not desire the passage of the
Civil Rights bill, with the mixed
school clause.
Resolved, that we earnestly petit
ton Congress to pass the Civil Rights
bill as originally introduced by the
Hon. Chas. Sumner"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
oun MURDERoTs CIVILIZATION.

Nordhotf remarks: As you exam
inc the works of the old Hawiians,
their fish ponds, their irrigating canals,
their long miles of walls inclosing
ponds and taro fields. you viii not
only see the proofs that the Islands
were formerly far more populous than
now, but you get respect for the feu-
dal system Of which these works are
the remains" Our civilization has not
reached the line of human development,
where feudalism left it IN the Sandwich
Islands one hundred years ago, in the
matter of irrigating canals, and wall
ing IN extensive fields to hold water
for the annual precipitation of fertile
mud, brought in brooks, creeks and
rivers, from hills and mountains. Our
crops often suffer from drought, but
we have ne canals nor extensive bitches
for watering them. Sediment from
our limestone hills and valleys is rich
in plant food, but it goes down to the
Gulf to form sedimentary rocks in the
sea, instead of reeuperating soils de-
pleted by raising cotton and corn. VIII
it require century for our skill in
planting and farming, to reach that of
the nude Hawiians, before any white
people settled among them?
Under the feudal system, one hun
dred years ago, the Sandwich Islands
were estimated to contain 100000 in
habitants. The census Of 1882 gave
I3O,315 souls; that of 1872, Sc. S97. The
natives and half-castes we're 5l,531;
and foreigners and their children !, 1866.
These striking figures are not in favor
of our boosted Christianity, which kills
thousands by assumed kindness. Well,
it must die out as well in the far West
as in the far East; but what can be
truthfully said in commentator of the
wisdom and virtue which succeed feu-
dalism? Our Bible tells us that the
Glove of money is the root of all evil"
yet this is the only root universally
cultivated in all Christian nations.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
Retail Dry Goods.
THOMPSON BROS KELLY, Il n. Summer st.

Paints, Oils and Glass.
CHAS. n. GAUTHIER, Is n. College street.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
-CONSECTICUT,s REVOLT.
A Period Of Democratic Aseendency
Predicted.

FEt0tCtt4-
:. New York Tribune, May %,
There has not been a time within
twenty years, till the present, that
William w. Eaton had the slightest
chance to attain what has VIGOROUSLY
been the measure of his ambition, a
seat in the Senate-of the United States.
That he has at last attained it. and
that Connecticut has deliberately turn
ed away from the men who have had
her confidence for over twenty years,
to lift to her highest representative
pc sition the man she has feared and
hated most, and whose political opin-
ions she has repeatedly repudiated and
disowned, is an event of peculiar sig-
nifcance. Whoever should have said
two years ago, when the Republicans,
strong in their majority, quarreled and
split into factions over the election of
Senator, that VIM. w. Eaton would be
the next Senator elected, would have
been compassionate as lunatic. Such
a prediction few months later, when
the State was carried overwhelmingly
for Grant, would have been wilder
still. @ s.
In the same spirit in which conserva-
tive Connecticut swung over from
Buchanan's Administration to Francis
Gillette in 1854. she has swung from
Grants Administration to VIM. w.
Eaton in 1874. The people are tired of
platforms and protestations. They
have begun revolt. Does the party
IN power understand the situation?
AS for Mr.. Eaton, with al his faults,
and they are such as may seriously i'm
pair his influence, he has distinguish
ing virtues that may make him very
useful representative. The lesson Of
1854 to his own party, and the lessons
of his twenty years experience since
then, are not more his to profit by than
those of the last two years, which seem
specially directed to his opponents. If
history does repeat itself, Mr. Eaton's
election to the Senate opens a period of
Democratic ascendency, just as Francis
Gillette's led the way to twenty years
of Republican rule in the State.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
Cirenit Cart CI.-.r

tITE are authorized TO announce ALBERT
w AKERS as a candidate for reelection 70
the Office of Circuit Court Clerk of Davidson
county. Election in August: my1O tea
EDIfOR Union and American: Please an
II ncunce me As a candidate for the Gfice of
Circuit Court Clerk at the August election. II
elected, VIII cheerfully perform the duties Of
the office with faithfulness and kindness TO all
who may call upon me- Respectfully, NAT E.
DORTCH. my3 tide
WE are authorized to announce ISAAC
w LITTON a a candidate for Circuit Court
Clerk OF Davidson county at the ensuing August
election. mhI2r
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23

HdtchBsGkeTs and JetccleTs.
ATKINSON b ALSTEAD. q v. Cherry street.
1. N. sOBEL & co., IS y. Cherry street.
r. ii. STIEF, Union street.
Z. WIGGERS, sly \. Cherry street.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23

As sample of how things are done
under Radical rule in Arkansas, We
may mention that on Tuesday last
Gov Baxter sent telegram TO Wash
ington mentioning Col Terry as a
witness who would testify that Judge
Bowen, Dorsey's opponent for the
United States Senate, was paid $4,000
by the latter to withdraw from the con-
test, and stating that Baxter himself
was told by Dorsey that he deposited
100000 in the bank for the purposes
of bribing the Legislature.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
HINTS TO ANDREW
JOHNSON.


Ex-President johnson has been to
Memphis, where he gladdened the souls
of the anti-funders and cheap tax men
with speech for all the world like the
one delivered at Nashville the preceding
week. Seriously. We are sorry Mr..
johnson has taken the shute he has in
State policy. 1t would seem that retire
ment, the valley and the shade, was the
most fitting place for a man who, in his
own language, has filled every position
from the lowest to the highest, but as
he appears anxious to liuger superfu-
ously on the stage, we would have no
objection TO assisting him to a seat in
the United States Senate, though he
would probably find some difficulty in
forcing his burly and well preserved
form INTO the attenuated garments of
the present incumbent. We can't,
however, support him on that twenty
cent platform. 1t is false and decep-
tious-fraught with mischief, if not
ruin-and whiletemporarily postponing
the evil, would increase its magnitude
fvefold. Mr.. johnson made a serious
mista Re two years ago; we are afraid
be Is now duplicating the blqader.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23

Mattress Manufacturer.
I'd. II. MILLER, North College street.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-23
SUMMER RESORTS.
The TulIalaonna Hotel

THIS HOTEL, FORMERLY THE NORTON
IL House, Is sItnaIed close to the DEPOT Du-
ring the past few months Il has been greatly en-
larged and improved throughout. II now con-
tains 81 sleeping rooms, besides dining room.
parior, etc, each room being newly plastered,
handsomely papered, and 50 arranged that thew
may De occupied by families OF ssngly. Voran-
floors.
This Hotel Is now in charge OF Miss NJ. II.
MATHEUS, ~PrOprietress, with +. CORZE-
LUIS Clerk and Manager, who viii spare no
pains to make 1t one OF the best Hotels in the
state, ana who VIII leave nothing undOne that
may add 70 the comfort and convenience OF
visitors Special arrangements viii be made
with merchants or others WHO may wish 20 send
their families here during the summer months.
Sulphur Water viii be supplied thu guests daily
A cal IS most respectfully solicited.
M. H MATHEWS,
myzl eodZm per F.. COrzelius