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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-04

THE IMPENDING WAR OF RACES
Elsewhere we publish the programme
Of tie negroes in New Orleans to-day.
That the same leaven is working among
ms in town and country, an insolent
speech delivered at .Williston, Fayette
county, last Saturday by Oscar Will
hanson, colored, may be taken IN evi-
dence. Among other things. he said:
Il am going to have my social rights,
let it cost what it viii, if have to ride
in the blood of sswhites to my bride
bits. I am ready to begin now and die
before night if necessary" Pointing
10 the Academy, he asked: Are We
allowed To send our children there: No,
But we lriH hare our children on top If
it sinks every white child in Fayette
county to hell"
AT the close Of this villainOus
harangue. another negro mounted
box and proposed three cheers for the
speaker and his sentiments, which were
heartily given. Had it not been for
the presence OF lew OLD, thouShtIul
citizens, who advised to the contrary,
the scoundrel Williamson, might have
met the fate his insOlence invited. The
r7sident ss1s6asls-lgrslve apprehen-
sions in regard 10 the future relations
that are to exist between the two races,
and leads the SomerUiUe Falcon to say,
warningly: White peaple, do not de-
lude yourselves with the fanciful lull-
ing belief that the masses of the ne
groes will never endorse such meas
ures. They always follow their leaders,
no matter where they lead. We low
sound the note Of warning. Such an
incendiary policy. if not nipped IN the
bad, is only too likely to lead TO riot,
bloOdshed and a war of races"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-04

B1-FFALo. y. Y, July Cha. les Sig
vald. the contractor convicted Of man
sIgnobter in the fourth degree for the fall
inc 0r a building under his construction
Nv which several lives were lost, was sen
fenced This afternoon 10 pay a Gne Of $500.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-04

If the libel suits Of the Banner and
ComptroIler Burch are not frauds, or
ar. prosecuted. the truth will ONE
.ut But there is a sudden lull along
th- battlefront at Nashville that ~
-Tninops -Ea0yuiHe Chronicle.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-04

TENNESSEE Bonds closed In New
York last evening at Sic for both is
sues.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-04

NEW YORK Cotton Exchange closed
yesterday and to-day.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-04

THE mole We are Obliged to do, the more
We can accomplish.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-04
UNION AND AMERICAN.

GoID dropped as low as lioi in New
York ycst rday, closing at ilos.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-04

10 secure harmony.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
Idle Steamships.

For several months the foreign steam
! ship companies having agencies in New
| York city have manifested anxiety at the
| serious diminutiOn in their business. In
regard to steerage traffic, one of the
| chief sources of profit to the steamship
companies, the present year has been
one of the worst ever known. There
have been, to be sure, more outward
bound steerage passengers than before,
but they have carried discouraging IL
dings of the condition of affairs in
this country, and have thus prevented
large numbers of their countrymen
from leaving their own shores. Steam
ships, which year ago were bringing
from l, 600 to 1, 800 in the steerage, this
season seldom land more than 500 on
the Castle Garden wharf. The dimi-
mutton in number of passengers is not
all On account of the strong compe-
teton between the rival lines, rates
which a year ago were $50 and up
wards have this season been only SI5,
and sometimes even less. The German
lines, which held alOOf nearly all sum
mer from the controversy, and declined
to reduce the prices of their tickets,
were at length obliged to succumb
almost at the very moment tEe Egg
ilsh companies were once more on adj
vancing rates. The present season has
not been notable for its record of cabin
passengers. Pleasure seekers and bust
ness men have been few, and only the
cabins of the best and most popular
steamers have been crowded.
Meanwhile freights have also been
diminishing in quantity, and shippers
everywhere manifested a strong desire
to economize. Rates have consequently
fallen and shipments are smaller than
they were 2 year ago. This condition
of affairs has naturally caused alarm
among the companies having immense
interests at stake. Some which have
formerly sent out two steamships weekly
throughout the summer have this year
dispatched only one, and the frequent
extra steamers OF other years have this
eason been almost unknown.
The effects of this stagnation in bust
ness have been felt to greater or less
degree by all the companies, but some
of the German lines are the greatest
sufferers. Both the Hamburg and
Brennan lines have withdrawn several of
their steamers. The most serious dis
aster, however, is that which visited
the Baltic Lloyd steamship company,
whose vessels ply between this port
and Stettn, touching at Copenhagen.
With this company business is now
wholly at a st2ndstill, and their steam
ers are lying idle at Stettin. It is
doubtful if any other business Will be
done by the company before spring, as,
on account of ice in the Baltic sea, their
vessels are always obliged to lie MEM
ployed IN the winter.-N Y. III iblHle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
TyndalI's Departure.

In his much criticised address before
the British association for the advance
ment of science, its president, Prof.
TyndaIl, said
Trace the line of life backward, and
see it approaching moro and more to
what we call the purely physical condi-
ton. We reach at length those organ
isms which have compared to drops of
oil suspended in a mixture of alcohol
and water. We reach the preferences
OF HReckel, IN which we have ga type
distinguishable from fragment of al
bumen only by its finely granular char
acter." Can we pause here? We break
magnet and find two poles in each Of
its fragments. We continue the pro-
cess of breaking, but however small the
parts, each carries with it, though en-
feebled, the polarity OF the whole.
And when we can break no longer, we
prolong the intellectual Wis on to the
polar molecules. Are we not urged to
do something similar in tire case OF
life? Is there not temptation TO close
to some extent with Lucretius, when he
afnrms that mature is seen to do all
things spontaneously of herse without
the meddling of the gods ?" or with
Bruno, when he declares that matter is
not that mere empty capacity which
philosophers have pictured her to be,
but the universal mother who brings
forth all things as the fruit of her own
womb" The questions here raised are
inevitable. They are approaching us
with accelerated speed, aud it is not
matter of Indifference whether they are
introduced with reverence or with ir-
reverence. Abandoning all DISCUSSES,
the confession that I feel bound to
make before Won Is that II prOlOuo the
vision backward, across the boundary of
the experimental evidence, and discern
in that matter, which we in our igno-
rance, and Notwithstanding our rever-
ence for its Creator, have hitherto COW
cred with OppTobrium, the promise and
potency of every form and quality of
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
Iron Clad Navies Of the world.

The most reliable information relative
to European armies has been for long
time found in the military papers of
Germany, especially in the 1Iilitarishe
WOehenblatt. The same thing happens
now with regard to navy affairs for, as
soon as Germany concluded to possess
a feet, she began by sending all over
the world special officers entrusted with
the duty of studying, and carefully re-
porting upon the real status of foreign
naval affairs. Even London papers are
| compelled to pick up their Information
on the subject from German papers.
The BorsenZeitung, of Berlin, says that
according to the last official reports the
total number of iron clads possessed by
the various naval powers of Europe, in
Guiding those employed on coast service,
Is pa. The total number of screw
ships, exclusive of coast steamers and
gunboats. Is 431. Belgium, Switzer-
LAM and Servia do not possess any navy
at all, and Roumania has only a few
gunboats on the Danube. Holland,
Sweden, Norway, and Portugal. though
they have fleets, have no iron clads for
war service. Greece has two such iron
ela1s; Germany, 3; Denmark, 3; Spain,
z; Austria, II b.; Russia, IS; Turkev,
Is; France, %; and England, S.
There is no coast feet of iron clads in
Austria, Italy, Greece, or Portugal.
Holland. on the other hand, though she
has no iron clads for war service, has IS
iron clad vessels for coast service En-
gland has %, and France 30. As re-
CARDS turret ships, Germany has 2 !;
Spain, Norway and Denmark, 3 each !;
Turkey, B; Sweden 8 Cincluding, how
ever, 4 small gun boats) and Russia,
ID OF screw ships England has 1872 !;
France, 81; Russia, As; Turkey, A /;
Spain, 81 Holland, %; Italy, 81 !;
Germany and Denmark each Is; Aus
tria, IA Portugal, s; Sweden and Nor
way, > each and Greece, 2. Germany,
therefore, occupies the last place but
one as regards iron clads for war ser
vice, the last place as to coast iron
clads, and the eighth place as regards
screw ships but in 1875 her strength
IN iron clads for war service will be in
creased to 9, so that she will occupy the
seventh place, between Spain and Aus
trla. The Borsenzeitung adds that the
naval power of a state is determined
not so much by the number of its ships,
as by the thickness of their iron plating,
the power of their engines, and the
number and quality of their guns, and
that by next year six of the new Ger
man iron clads viii be among the most
powerful ships in the world, in these
respects far surprising those of Austria,
Italy and France. The number of sail
ors, engineers, stokers, ETC., employed
in the various nayies of Europe is as
follows {: England, S. 64 Gncluding
% 600 of the naval reserve); Russia,
$4,000; France, 33, $40; Turkey, q, eco;
Spain, 14,009; Germany, u, $50 Aus
tria, II $50 Italy, II, 200; Holland, s.
260; Denmark. $500; Norway, $500
and Portugal, $500.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
A Curious Birds Nest.

There is bird in New Guinea called
the MegapOdius, which in the size of its
eggs and its manner of Matching them,
must be considered extraordinary. 1t
is not larger than one of our ordinary
fowls, but IFS eggs are three inches long
by two and half in diameter. It does
not attempt to sit on them. A colony
of birds lay their eggs together in a
large mound, in the hottest part of the
year, from September to March, and
leave them to be Matched by the sun.
The mound is made of sand, loose earth
and sticks and leaves, which latter by
their decay increase the heat. The
mounds are wonderfully large, being
ten feet high and about sixty feet in
circumference at the base. The young
birds come out at hole in the top.
The mother birds wait on the trees
around till their chicks are Matched,
and then each leads off her own brood.
How each knows it's own is a mystery.
The eggs are much relished by the ma
tives, but not at all by Europeans. A
native of Cape York ventured one day
into nest of eggs, and while he was
exploring the hidden riches of the
large mound the upper part fell in and
he WAS smothered. He was afterward
found in the very act of digging-buried
alive in a birds nest.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24

"The walking, Miss Nowbray, i
found very pleasant. She was almost
ready to die with vexation.
81 don't see how you can say SO. sir.
when the dust is perceptibly ankle-deer
in the road"
cit is very easily explained, Miss
Mowbray. 1 used the sidewalk y
Oh and so you are going to Cali.
fornia?"
Her eyes were obstinateIy fixed upon
the carpet as she spoke.
cit was my intention to do so. and ]
called to announce my Departure
She assumed indifference, but the eff.
fort was very transparent.
gone ?"
"That depends entirely upon circum-
cumstances. If 1 can make q little
arrangement which have in view I will
not be gone for long"
The blush again came to her cheek,
and her heart began to thrOb strangely.
Mr.. Willis took up the album and be-
| gan to turn the leaves carelessly.
May l inquire whose picture this
is?"
"That? Why, that is one of mine
an excellent likeness they tell me-"
| Hardly like the original, in nv
/
out, he put it In luis pocket.
Have the kindness to ask nv per-
mission before you make the appFopria-
| lion, Mr.. Willis !" haugktily calculated
the astonished young lady.
Had 1 asked in due form, Miss
! Mowbray, my request would doubtless
have been refused. To avoid all risk I
take the thing for granted" CThis
with gOod-natured smile, and the black
eyes looking straight into hers)
There was a silence for few minutes,
and then Miss Mowbray, looking at his
coat-lapel, seid:
This is a peculiar-lc'oking flower.
What do you call it %
-, +" 1t is called the 'Ye nus fy-trap.
Allow mo to present it. You can look
Tor the sentiment at your leisure"
And before she could reply he had
placed it in her hand.
Will you attend Mrs. Austin's last
reception before you go? I think they
are very enjoyable"
al do not think Twill. Idetest these
receptions. One feels stilted, being
pent up In crowded parlors.''
She gave an impatient little stamp of
her foot.
"Why do you always oppose and con-
tradict me? Does nothing that I say
please you ?" Tears of modification
stood in her eyes.
A strong arm was thrown around
her.
Blanche p said its owner, "what is
the matter ?"
g Matterp' exclaimed the fair one.
You do not acquiesce in a single as
sertiOn I make. It is mortifving %
She made an attempt to remove the
arm but without sucCoss
. 1t was part of my plan, Blanche. 4"
80 What plan ?"
g Will you ever like me, Blanche ?"
You, you"
g love you"
az d"
eyes, you do. May I have the pic,
The arm was trembling now, and the
! deep voice had a quaver in it.
"No."
"Oh, pshaw That was said in the
! spirit of contradiction. Let's have
done With it. Is my love returned ?"
"N-n--yes. But why have you
acted so ?'
Z" It was the only way to win you.
Forgive me-"
And having effected "that little ar
rangement, he went to California,
OE course they married.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
Vegetable Instinct.

If pail of water be placed within six
inches of either size of the stem of 8
pumpkin or vegetable marrow, it will In
the course of the night approach 1t, and
be found in the morning with one of the
leaves on the water. If prop be placed
within six inches of a convolvulus, or
scarlet runner, it will find it, although
the prop may be shifted daily. If, after
it has twined some distance up the prop,
it be Unwound and twisted in the oppo-
site direction, it will return to its orig
inal position or die in the attempt; yet,
notwithstanding, if two of the plants
grow near to each other, and have no
stake around which they can entwine,
one of them will alter the direction of
the spiral, and they will Irvine around
each other
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
No Gold in the Black Hills.


At a meeting of the Minnesota Acad-
envy of Natural Sciences, in AIinneapo-
lis, Prof. Newton II. Winchell, state ge-
oligist and professor of natural history
in the state university, who accompa-
MED the Black Hills expedition, some
what dampened the enthusiasm created
by the late glowing reports of gold dis
coveries IN that region. He says he did
not see any gold, and no one brought
home any for examination. Some
brought home what they thought to be
gold-bearing quartz, but on examination
it was found to be mica stained with
iron. He would not go so far as to say
that there is no gold there, but he saw
none, and it Is his opinion that there is
none. He was led to disbelieve the re-
ports for another reason, viz: The
character of the men who talked up the
expedition, and who induced the gov
eminent to explore the Black Hills,
would lead any one to distrust their state
ments. No one but these men prete Il
ded to have taken out any gold, or to
have seen any at all worth speaking of
in or near the Black Hills. He said the
country was beautiful, the atmosphere
salubrious, and thatthereis plenty of ar
able land to support large population.
There was heavy growth of Norway
pine and abundant water power. OF
minerals he found gypsum and valuable
quarries of marble.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
Men as Cooks.

By way of triumph over the monster
man, Kate Stanton writes as fol-
lows from Paris "'The Paris men
have found one proper vocation.
namely, to cook and wash dishes and
admirable cooks they are. Paris is the
most scientific city Ia the world, and
mems sphere is here scientifically
settled in one respect, I am happy to
know. If men fall below women IN
every other fine art they may claim the
palm in cooking. It is delightful to see
how domestic and useful men can be
when they are in their natural element
1 am led to believe that one of the
charms Of the tented field is the
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
Rustic Gentry.

Walpole says, in speaking of the gen
try of the country "Only imagine
that here every day see men who are
mountains of roast beef, and only seem
just roughly hewn out into the outlines
of human form, like the giant work of
PratOlinOl I shudder when 1 see them
handle their knives in act to carve, and
look upon them as savages that devour
one another should not stare at all
more than do if yonder alderman at
the end of the table were to strike n
knife into his neighbours Jolly cheek
and cTt brave slice of Drawn and fat.
have an aunt here, a family
piece OF goods, and an old remnant of
1nqulsitive hospitality and economy,
who, to all lntents and purposes, is as
oeefy as her neighbors. She wore me-
so down with interrogatories that I
dreamed all night that she was at nv
ear, with who's and why's, ana whens
and where's, till at last in my sleep I
cried out, For God in heavens sake,
madam, ask me no more questions !
am so far from getting used
to mankind by living among them that
my natural ferocity and wildness does
but every day grow worse. They tire
me they fatigue me I don't know
what to say to them fling open the
window and fancy I want air and when
1 get by myself I undTess myself, and
seem to have had people in my pockets,
IN my plaits, and on my shouldersl I
indeed find this fatigue worse in the
country than in town, because we can
avoid 1t there, and have more resources :
but it is there too"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
War e reliouad al ha1f

mems cooking. War is relieved of half
its horrors, in my eye, if the soldier
can only enjoy a good breakfast cooked
by French men, before he goes out to
be shot down wish American gem
tlemen would turn their attention to
the art of scientific cooking. I know
many household where turmoil inces-
SAINT reigns and I am now disposed TO
attribute the fact to the bad cooking of
the hostesses. Let men govern the
cuisine, and bring in peace. Tens of
thousands of men who have failed as
merchants, manufacturers, spectators,
teachers, lawyers, doctors, and minis
tiers might make good cooks. Let them
try"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
SHIPS.

A child, played beside the sea,
Across the far horizon line;
SHIPS came and went the whole day long,
ana went and came-but none were mine.
girl, sat upon the shore,
AID dreamed sweet dreams Of what might b.
When: out Of trOpic attitudes,
Ay laden ships should come to me.
woman, stiu unsatisfied,
climbed the cliffs and gazed afar.
My wishes frightened every ship
mat sailed across the harbOr bar.
Near by, upon the rugged rocks.
Dright-faced workman toiled and sang.
Ana loudly, over wave and beach,
Tie strokes Of AZ and hammer rang.
watched him, ~ be hs1ged and joined
- As slowly, day by day, be wrought
INC 81 Fong Proportions u 3 ship,
F9uch as had lived within my thoughth
AZ lesgth sought his side aud asked
" Why soil FROM dawn to.sst of day?
come watch with me; ere many hours,
Your ship may anshoF IN she bay"
The workman smiled. my ship, you say,
MY stips are railing south and north,
NV ships arc those bu.td aud launch
Year after year. I send them forth,
Laden NNh comfort and content,
To Within hsaRts beside'the sea-
] know not If, across She brine.
A ship sails now, to gladden. me-.
" But this know, that When my handa
Are weary, and my hair Is gray,
When sit IDLE on the strand,
The ships that have sent away
" Shall crowd with sails the empty east.
Where mistily they passed before;
Shall bring me back, from over seas,
More treasure than gave Of yore."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24

MEDICAL MANIACs.-There are num-
bers of medical men so welded to the
old formulas, that all changes seem to
them like innovations. These medical
maniacs are, fortunately, incapable of
much mischief in this practical age.
While the Vinegar Bitters are curing
indigestion, nervous debility, constipa-
ton, and countless other diseases that
defy the remedies of the pharmacopeeia.
it is impossible to thrust down the
threats of intelligent invahds 81 heroic -
doses of mineral poison, or to persuade
them to take adulterated alcohol, i'm
pregnated with cheap astringents, as a
healing BALM or a "ba1sAmic pre-
paration." Vinegar Bitters, a pure bo-
tanical tonic, and Alternative, guitless of
the curse OF distilled or fermented
liquor, is actually accomplishing what
the mineral and alcoholic cure mongers
have so necessarily promised but have
never yet performed Under these cir
cumstances it is no wonder that this
medicine has taken precedence of all
those burning fluids mis-called tonics.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24

Ladies Desire what Men Admire. And
this little thing is beauty What do we say is beau.
tifuie a transparent complexion and luxurious
head of hair. What viii prod ace these9 Hagan's
Magnolia Balm Will make any lady of thirty APP
pear but twenty; and Lyons Kathairon will kesp
every hair in its place, and make it grow like the
April grass. 1t prevents the hair from turning
gray, ersdicates dandruh, and is the finest Hair
Dressing In the world, and at only half ordinary
cost If you want to set rid OF saIlowuess, pm
pies, ring marks, moth patches, etc, don't forget
the Magnolia Balm, ladies.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24

WE hear very favorable encomiums
regarding the ElmwOod and Warwick collars
manufactured by the Management Collar
company. These collars have linen facing,
and owing TO the popularity of cut, are most
edges of the collars are folded in underneath
all around thus strene thening the collar aud
preventing the points from turning up. We
recommend these collars to our friends
Fashion Article, ". 7. EUeninq lIdH