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In Cleveland yesterday a negro dropped
dead while depOsiting his fare in a street
car box.
The Convention Of Railway Presidents
at indianapolis yesterday were obliged to
adjourn for want Of a quorum.
The German patriots Of 1913 and 1913
celebrated their 18th anniversary in New
York yesterday.
The President has nominated Pierce b.
Hawkins for postmaster of Bowling Green,
by.
The first annual meeting of the Second
General Synod Of the Reformed Episcopal
Church was held in New York yesterday,
Bishop CummiDs participating.
The Office of the Herald, Republican
paper at Clarintla, Iowa, was burned out
Monday night, only the books being saved
-incendiarism.
Two thousand cOopers are on the strike
in New York. The object IS said to be
neither more wages nor less hours, but to
compel the discharge Of non union cOOpers.
Admiral Franklin Buchanan, late Of. the
Confederate navy, and for many years a
distinguished officer of the United States
navy. died in Baltimore Monday, aged "a.
Fraudulent coupons Of the bonds Of the
Massachusetts bounty fund loan, have been
put i'm circulation. No. 4, AS is the high
est number of the regular bonds
About 100 delegates are in attendance on
the National Prison Reform Congress IN
St. Louis, HOratiO Seymour, President, be
ing absent, il will be called to order by the
chairman of the local committee ON arrange
mentS.
The penny contributions in the Cinein-
natl Churches last Sunday for the Louisi-
ana sufferers. pan out g. 900.
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FOREIGN.
Strange Tragedy I'm Central
America.
The Gar Reaches England ON /:
Visit to His Daughter.
A Cabinet Crisis Threatened in
France.
GAurEHAna.

NEw YORK, May ia Panama letter
of May detsils curious tragedy at San
Jose de Guatemala. Tie Commandante
had street fight with II. B. lHer Britain
nic?] Vice Consul Magee about the clear
ance Of a vessel. Magee was sentenced to
receive 400 laShes aud be shot if he sur
vived. After he had received 200 lashes,
COmmandante Gonzales keeping the tally
himself, the surgeon protested, and the in
Fiction Of the rest were postponed till next
morning Immediately before his execution.
During the night Gonzales with fiendish
cruelty visited his victim several times,
placing pistol TO Magee's temple, and ask
ing if he didn't wish 10 be put cut of his
misery. The circumstances Of the United
States Consul were in vain, and next
morning Magee was brought ont to be
scourged and shot, when he arrival of
troops from San Salvador induced Con
zales 10 seek refuge on the Pacific Mail
steamer Arizona. an order on the captain
to surrender him was disObeyed, but Con
zales was shot dead by some one among
the passengers. The Arizona also dis
obeyed an order Of the United States Con-
sui to remain in port, for the protection of
foreign residents and sailed at once for
Panama
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THE FLOODS.
Water Three Feet Deep in the
Streets of Friar's Point.
Another Crevasse Breaks the
Opposite Shore.

MEMPHIS, May 13.-About daylight yes
terday morning the leyce broke at Apper-
sons plantation, opposite Friar's Point.
At last accounts the crevasSe was one hun
drcd and fifty yards wide, and the water
Spreading ever the plantation, ole or Tie
finest Of that Section. The crevasse at
Miller's, OH the Mississippi side, is now six
hundred yards wide, and the water in tse
streets Of Friar's Point, is three feet deep.
Families are moving out and merchants
are busily engaged in removing goods.
The whole c0untry in the rear is rapidly
being Inundated. Some idea may be for
med of the water rushing through this ere
vase, by its tearing up huge cottonwood
trees two and half feet in diameter and
scattering them over the neighboring plan
taiions. Steamers now all come through
the Council Bend-cut-
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sCHUHzs MISTY THEORIES.


We have little hope of a successful
campaign against the party IN power
upon any such issue as ''Shal the peO-
pie govern themselves ?" There is a
vagueness about this declaration, which
reminds MS CT the question IN hui
morous paper, Are telegraph poles un-
healthyf" Misty declarations of an
abseraet faith in abstract ideas arenev-
er successful in political warfare. Bel
and Everett ran against Lincoln,
Breckenridge and Douglas upon plat
form of three lines about the Union and
the constitution. 1t was a good plat
form and they were good candidates,
but the people chose to vote for facts.
not for men and ideas. Senator Schurz
cannot ignore the finances or the tariff
or reconstruction. Upon all these
questions the next canvass must turn.
The practical pOint that majority of
Western Republicans deliberately re-
pudiated the financial declarations Of
their platform, and the grave fact that
there isno conspicuous Republican jour
nal or statesman that dares to ask the
President whether he will run for a
third term, are of more consequence
now in casting the horoscope of the po-
litical future than all the misty theo-
ries Of the eloquent Senator from Mis-
sN,,,-i
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SOUTHERN METHODIST CON.
FERENCE.
Parting Greetings to the North
ern Commissioners. t
Warm Manifestations OF FraternaI
Reeliog

Warm Manifestations Of FraternaI
Feeling.
LOUISVILLE, May 13.-A resolution
signed by DIR. LOvick Pierce and others was
referred to the College Of Bishops, request
ing pastoral on the subject of social meet
ings Of the Church, class-meetings, the du-
ties of pastors, scripture reading, family
prayer, etc,
The following resolutions, offered by
Judge Jackson, of Georgia, and Gov.
Trusten Polk, of Missouri, were then read:
Resolved, that the message Of love and
brOtherly kindness fiom the Methodist
Episcopal Church has been cordially re-
ceived, and has been referred to commit
tee of nine, who, in due time, will formally
and fraternally reply thereto.
Resolved, that We regret that the dis
tinguished messengers sent By that Church
cannot Temain to await the presentation
and reception Of that report, but under
standing that they leave us to-day, we are
unwilling that they should return home
without carrying with them the knowledge
Of our appreciation of their courteous and
fraternal bearing among us, and our wishes
and prayers for their future happiness and
prosperity.
F. w. Earnest suggested the word 'Chr;s-
tian" instead of courteous"
Judge jackson accepted theword ''Chris-
tian," but retained courteous" also.
DR.. Cranberry said he highly approved
the spirit Of the resolution, but objected to
the form. II should read whereas, etc, we
therefore give, etc.
Judge JacksOn--I am utterly Indifferent
as 10 language. desire simply to show to
the world that we let nobody be above us
in courtesy and fraternal love, and l wish
to express to the whole Christian brother
hood from whom these brethren are sent,
and to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ
in sincerity, that we respect their greet
ingS as children of him whom we are told
is love.
DIR. Sehon said: know the Importance
and responsibility of this hour. The adop-
ton of tat resolution is due to our diStin-
guished visitors, to the occasion which
brought them TO us as General Confer
ence. The appearance of this Commission
from the Methodist Episcopal Church has
brought an hour which my soul has long
desired to see. pray the blessing of God
upon them as a member of the old frater-
nifty; and as a member of the new | rejoice
at any omen Of peace and good feeling. 1t
is the demand Of the age, of the period in
which we live, and Of our glorious religion,
that We extend to them fraternal hand. /
say nothing of differences. Let the future
care of ITSELF Let us now extend TO
them our hands in Christian fraternity.
DR.. Sehon's remarks were received with
great applause.
DR.. Edwards, DIR. Lee, Judge Brown and
DIR. S. NJ. Anderson made eloquent speeches
being interrupted with cries of Vote Vote,
and the resolutions were adopted.
The departing commissioners then adj
dressed the Conference.
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THE Treasury officers of the State of
South Carolina are In New York seek
ing a conference with the bondholders
Of that State in regard to funding the
bonds at fifty cents upon the dollar and
promising to pay interest upon the
funded bondss in July. This amounts
to exactly the same as the three per
cent plan lately preached in this State.
Has Tennessee fallen to the low estate
of negro-ridden South Carolina?
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ENGLAND.

LONDON, May ij.-s-The Russian Impe-
rial yacht DeFsherua, with the Car ON
board, went aground yesterday while iedy-
ing the harbOr of Flushing, and was no.
fioated until ii o'clock this morning. An
immense number Of persons have left here
for GrsFesend to welcome his Majesty, and
large crowds not aware Of tie detention are
gathered at the railway station. He will
not reach these shores before q O'Clock this
morning, which viii be several hours be
hind the time fixed in the official pro-
gramnis.
LArER-The Czlr and Grand Duke
Alexis arrived at Dover this evening.
Immense crowds Witnessed the debarka-
tiOn and greeted them with hearty cheers
The Duke and Duchess Of Edinburg, the
Prince Of Wales and Prince Arthur were
waiting to receive the Imperial visitors and
conducted them to Windsor Castle, where
they arrived at 10 o'clock tonight.
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IT is evident to every one that IN
less some determined action prompt
ly taken on this subject midsummer
viii come and find Congress still al
work on the Appropriation bills Some
of the most influential members OF the
House express the opinion that it will
not be necessary for Congress TO re.
main in Washington after the LIST OF
June.-Washington correspondence Ne'7
Y5yL. Tribune.
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IT has often been remarked that. in
ProPorho-l to their means, the poor are
more generous than the rich. Poor
Memphis, head over ears in debt, with
taxes amounting to fveper cent, yester-
dP-y made present to rich Uncle Sam
of a lot worth 100000, on which to
build his Custom-house. A few DAYS
ago the same City Council refused an
appropriation of $4,000 for the relief
OF starving humanity almost at its
doors. Now they give 100000 to the
most profigate government on earth.
Is 1t not written that to him who hath
much, more shall be given?
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THE leaders of the combination which
was SO successful in the last Maycralty con-
tess are getting scared about the August
elections The combination is badly dis
organized; the Leaders secured once put
zhe rank aud file were left out IN The cold
Several Of these leaders are now breaking
ground, preparing for a return or turn over
to eryatism.-MemphiS Ledger.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-14

WHITEwAsH is still abundant IN
Washington, though not always Of a
good quality. An immense amount
has Just been applied by the Commit
tee on Ways and Means to Messrs.
Richardson, Sawyer and Banfeld- The
damning spots which the investigation
into the Sanborn contracts has left all
over them has been most industriOusly
pIastered over with whitewash by the
committee; and yet they remain to be
seen of all men, and are even more dls-
gustingfrom their superficial whitening
than they were before.-Ne'0 York Sun.
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ROME.

ROME, May 13.-The Pope to-day re-
ceived number Of Cardinals, Bishops and
other eminent dignitOries Of the Church.
In reply to one Of the visitors from Ameri-
ca, he animadveIted severely on the gov
ernments Of Mexico and Guatemala, for
permitting a litter persecution Of the
Church In those countries. The Pope ap
peared to be fatigued, and was unable 20
give audiences 10 all the delegations whsh
waited upOn him.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-14
ESTABLISHED MARCH 80, 1873,

THINGS having been made lovely in
the Second Congressional district,
Maynard has gone back to Washington.
With the Democrats and Conservatives
a unit, his Gnbernstorial hopes have
faded into nothingness. In the mean
time, Houk and Thornburg are
''chawing" each other as vigorously as
if they were not to be kicked off the
track after Congress adjou-ns.
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"IAM going" said a conceited Mem
phis politician, to friend ito deliver
a speech on low taxes, in Nashville. .
Il am glad Of it" said his friend lal-
ways disliked these Nashville people.
Memphis RegSsteF.
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The West is far from being a unit
for imitation, judging from the returns
collected by the Chicago Tribune. Of
9SS newspapers scattered over nine
northwestern States, a handsome
majority positively sustain the Presi-
dents recent veto. The majority on
the same side in the South is, we be-
lleTe not SO large
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he would ask the Senate to remaii Id ses-
sion to finish the bill.
MIR. salisbury gave notice that on the
Goth inst. he would call up the Alabama
contested case of Sykes against Spence
The Indian appropriation bill was re-
ceived from the House and referred TO the
Committee on Appropriations. =
The Senate went into executive session
and soon after adjourned.
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The news from Arkansas this morn
ing is more pacific, the usual daily
street fight resulting yesterday in only
two wounded. The Legislature, having
obtained a quorum, has called on Bax-
ter for any message he may desire to
communicate, thus virtually re-
cognizing him as the Gov
e1ror. Brooks, or rather the st.
Louis Democrat, has endeevored
to invalidate this Legislature by assert
ing that it was swearing IN fraudulent
members to secure a quorum. This
view does not seem to have made much
impression in Washington or anywhere
else. President Grant and Attorney
General Williams have all along recog-
nized the Legislature, and the recent
negotiations were based entirely on
leaving to that body the deci-
sion of the contest. Yet the
brief dispatch from Washington
isvague and unsatisfactory. Itneither
says that Grant will decide the matter,
nor that he will sustain the decision of
the Legislature, but merely hat it will
be settled to-day 50 far as the general
government is concerned. This mag
mean that, since Grant finds he cannot
dec,.le for Clayton's friend Brooks, he
has concluded to let them fight it out
in their own way.
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THE VETO.
A Census Thereon Of the WESTERN
Press.

CHICAGO. May l3-The Tribune this
morning publishes rex lies received 10 a
circular sent to the press Of Illinois, Indi-
ana. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
iowa. Kansas. Missouri and Nebraska. ask
ING how each stood on the Presidents veto
of the eurrericy bill. The summary shows
that OF 933 papers answering the circular
514 sustain the veto; Ans oppose il, and III
are noncotmmttal. Of those sustaining the
veto 295 are Republicans and Zl7 OppO-
sition. Of those opposing the veio 20 arr
R.Dublirans and Ia Opposition Ih.ii@;a,
Missouri and Kansas are the only States
where majority of the papers oppose the
veto.
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THE Memphis Aralaneke suggests IA
cetiously that we .'repudiate'' the
PFesidentof the UNION AND AMERICAN
Publishing Company in stating that he
does not control the editorial depart
ment of thispaper. Any journalist or
dinarily familiar with the practical
details of his profession understands
that ownership In such cases does not
imply responsible management, though
we supposed that the matter had been
stated in our columns with a distinct
ness sufficient for even tie dullest COM
prehension.
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FRANCE.

PARIS, May 13-The Duke de Broglie
declares that he will call up for immediate
discussion the new electoral bill. The Len
and extreme Right oppose its present con-
siderati0n and will make it a Cabinetques-
ton. The debate occurs Friday or Satur-
day. The Assembly to-day reelected Buff
fet President, and all the Vice Presidents
of the late session.
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NEW ORLEANS.

High Officials Indicted for Robbery.
NEW ORLEANS, May 1O.-Tbe Spanish
Consul Don Carlos Pie, Gen. Badger, Chief
Of police and Detectives Harris and Pear
son gave bond in $4,000 each, TO appear
for trial upon the charge of the robbery
suffered by Capt. ROderiquez, the Grand
jury having found true bills against them.
The Augusta Convention.
The Board of Directors of the Cotton
Exchange, in consideration of requests
from other exchanges, have passed a resolu-
ton suggesting June 10 as tie day for the
assembling Of the Cotton Exchange Con
yentiOn in Augusta, Ga; also, that the
number of delegates from each exchange
be increased to five.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-14

ACCORDING to the Near York Tri-
bHne's Washington correspondence, a
general feeling prevails that Congress
and the President will not agree upon
Currency bill this session. The bill
reported by the Senate Finance Com
mittee suits no one exactly, and very
few in any considerable degree, and it
is the general impression that it WI
be impossible for that committee to
frame bill that can become a law.
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The NAV Meetings.
CONNECTICUT.
WIN. W. Eaton Nominated In Caucus
10 Succonh RucIri.nnI.n.,,

WIN. W. Eaton Nominated In Can Gus
10 Succeed buckingham.
New HAVEN, MAY Is, $50 P. M.-The
Senatorial caucus held. this evening by the
Democratic members of the General As
sembly for the nomination of a United
State Senator was unexpectedly qniet. A
choice was made Immediately after the
first informal ballot, which resulted as fol-
lows: Whole number of votes cast 15T;
William W. Eaton, 81; VIM. II. Barnum,
46; Gov. Chas. r. Ingersoll 20. There
upon a motion was made to declare Mr..
Eaton the unanimous nominee of the eau
Gus which was unanimously passed amid
great applause.
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Battle Between T~oyrribes OF Indian
I'm Northern Dakota
MEMPHIS.
L,nch Law ON a steambont.

MEMPHIS, May 13.-Harry Powers, Cap
tain of the steamer GAINESVILLE, is held 10
answer in the sum Of $1,000 for hanging up
5. BeiTman, young Hebrew passenger, To
make him confess 10 having robbed fellow
passenger, and then putting him ashore
with his hands tied behind him.
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ScOundreiisnu.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, MAY 1S.-An acct
dent occurred on the l. B. and W. railroad
last night by some scoundrel disconnecting
the switch az a small station near Craw-
louisville. An engine and. nine freight
cars were wrecked, and the engineer and
fireman seriously injured.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-14

GAUzE is thin.-Menapkis Avalanche.
But not so thin as the Aralancke's
declaration that its editor wants moth
ing within the gift of the people of
Shelby.
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determined 10 Die.

ERIE, Pa, May 19.-Tilson X. Way,
a well-tO-do farmer near this city, suicided
this morning by tying a shirt around his
neck and to the bed post, and then bracing
AGAINST il till sufiOcated.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-14

= WILSON county has voted down the
free school tax by more than four to
ore. The Colored Convention and
Civil Rights are supposed to have had
something to do with it.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-14

This mornings dispatches indicate
that the bold Sioux have pretty full
control of the country through which
Jay Cookies Northern Pacific railroad
runs--in the dim prospective.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-14

TENNESSEE BONDS closed in New
tork- hast evening at SO for the old
ISSUE and S2a for the new.
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ATLANTA.
Opening of the Agricultural
Congress.
First Days Proceedings

First Days Proceedings.
ATLANTA, May 13.-The attendance
from the South is large and fully repre-
sented. The delegates from the North
west have not generally arrived. The
morning session was devoted TO addresses
OF welcome by Col. Spencer, Mayor of At
lanta, and Gen. Colquitt, President of the
State Agricultural Society. to which Mr..
Greene, of Indiana, and Rev. A. Means. OF
Georgia, responded On behalf of the con-
gress. 4 preliminary report of the Com
mittee on Credentials was presented. The
Secretarys report was read, and on motion
was received, the separate suggestions con-
tanned therein being referred to special
committees.
transportation.
The Committee on Transportation ap-
pointed last year, by its chairman, Win
born Lawton, South Carolina, presented an
elaborate report, which was read and refer
red to special committee of five. The
president named III. L. Pritton. of Virginia,
j. X Hodge, of Washington, D. C., A. H.
Coiquitt, OF Georgia, E. w. West, of Hi
noiS, and DIR. VIM. Maxwell, of Tennessee,
as said committee.
A communication from Messrs. Fanchey
" heOert, OF New Orleans, La, was read,
asking that the Agricultural Congress
would memOrialize the United States Con-
gress on behalf Of the Fort StPhilip canal,
winch was referred to the same committee.
Il resolution was adopted for the appoint
ment OF committee to consider the reor-
Sanlzaiion of the Congress, so as to secure
a more Intimate relation with open local
5 ncletieS and the clubs of the country.
The presidents address is set as the special
order at ten O'Clock Thursday morning.
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The Senate yesterday confirmed the
nomination of Alonzo G. Sharpe as
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Third District of Tennessee.
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TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.

=
The annual meeting of the Tennessee
Press Association will be held at Browns
vile, commencing on Thursday, June IL.
Tie Business session wiz be Of unusual
iulpor' ance. as the ASSOCIATION viii then, IN
accordance with tie constitutional amend
ment adopted at Pulaski, be recognized
upon the basis Of representation by presses
insfead Of by individuals.
TIE public exercises will comprise an
Grafton by Or. George \. Mathes, OF the
lS0raeruiIe Falc0n. an address by Capt j.
3. Murphy, Of Columbia, and poem by
the editor Of the Lebanon Herald.
Il is Il. ped there viii b. full attendance
Of rneTnl,ess cf the Association. Journal
ISIS fhrossl.out TIE Stale are Cordially IN
vited 20 be present.
j. o. GRIFFITH, President.
RI. c. WHITE, Secretary.
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On the subject of defaulting bonds,
a correspondent of the London Times
asks that journal to charitably inform
Its readers whether there will be a s.Fi.
nance Department" at the projected
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition,
where the holders of American ssecur-
zfies" viii be able to exhibit to the
world samples of their coupons which
have been returned to them unpaid.
and OF such of their bonds or other
American securities as are under the
ban OF Republication" The suggestion
is commended to the thoughtful con-
sldersItiOn OF the Twenty Centers.