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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-08
THE TURF.
A Gala Day at Memphis.
The Most Exciting Contests Ever
Witnessed in That Section.
Quartermasfer and Jack Frost tie

Quartermasfer aud Jack Frost The
VictOrs
MEMPHIS, May This has been a gala
day for the ChickaSaw Jockey Club. More
people were in attendance than were ever
before seen upon tie course. The Grand
Stand was completely filed with ladies.
There was hardly s;snding-rOom for gen.
tlemen. Hundreds ofour most distinguish
ed citizens were seen bobbing about the
quarter-streteh The day was bright and
clear, and the track in good order. The
programme was unusually attractive.
The first race was a mile and a half for
all ages for a club purse of 81 200. The
entries were Quartermaster, Limestone,
Edwin Adams, Savoy and Captain Hutch
inson. In the pools Quartermaster was
the fayorite, selling for 100, Edwin Adams
so. Limestone 80, the filly 30. The start
was bad. When the drum tapped, Lime
stone was fully eighty yards in front of
Edwin Adams, with Hutchinson second,
Savoy third, QuarterInaster fourth and Ed
win behind. Limestone continued to lead
until near the finish, when QurtermaSter
came with rush and won by short head,
Limestone second, Edwin Adams a good
| third-the others not placed. Time 2:46.
The second race, two mile heats, was the
carnival event Of the day, as it brought Out
A. NJ Barton,s Jack Frost, Geo. ii. Rice's
Stampede, VIM. Jennings Silent Friend,
and A. b. Lewis x Co.'S Bessie Lee.
Every horse had his friends, and at one
time it was hard 10 say what horse was
the favOrite. The following was the clos
ing rate of the pools: Jack Frost, 50;
Silent Friend, 50; stampede, 65; Bessie
Lee, So In the first heat, Stampede and
Jack Frost set out in earnest, Frost in
the lead. The first mile was run in 1854
Frost leading by one length. Entering the
second mile the pace was made faster,
Frost maintaining his lead until the finish,
although hard pressed by Stampede. Frost
won the heat by neck, Stampede second,
Bessie Lee ten lengths behind, tapped by
Silent Friend. Time, 3:5It. This is the
best heat ever run over the course, eOnsid-
ering that the track is not fast.
After the heat Frost was the favOrite a
hundred to seventy-fve over the field.
When the start was made Bessie Lee went
off with the track and led for three-qua-ters.
Jack Frost then came 10 the front and pass
ed the stand two lengths ahead of Stamp
ede in ISL! Up the back stretch Jack
Frost and Stampede went at it in earnest.
From the head of the home stretch until
the finish il was the most exciting contest
ever looked upon. The crowd on the stand
shouted stampede wins" as he gained on
Frost OH every stride, but il was no use.
Old Frost stuck and won the heat and race
by the shortest of heads, Stampede second,
Silent Friend six lengths behind, three
lengths in frcnt Of Bessie Lee. This closed
the best DAYS racing ever seen in this part
Of the country. Time, 3:46... A large
number Of horses here 90 TO the Nashville
spring meeting over that course.
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THE sNUB DIRECT.
why Brooks Attorney General Didn't
Get Along with Grant
Little Rock Gazette, Wy 8:

Judge Yonley returned from Wash
ington yesterday morning. We dis
guised reporter and sent him to IN
terview the facto Attorney General in
the guise of a Brooks sympathizer
and soldier. The following is the sub
stance of the conversation:
Rep,-Glad to see you back, Judge.
How does the thing stand at Washing
ton 2
Yonley.-Oh, hi, we can do moth
ing there. Clayton played the devil
He didn't manage the cards right.
Rep.-Indeed? How's that?
Yonley-I don't know. We got
started all right. but Grant was slow
to act. went forWssd early to explain
the law to TIE President. but he didn't
seem to desire to talk to me.
Rep.-What did he say to YOU?
Yoniey-Well, he iRst asked the
question Tat on. if Baxter was not
slscte1 u n 1 was?
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THE FLOODS.
Eating CarriOn in the Arkansas
Swamps.
Crying Need for More Supplies.
Sickness Following Starvation
Medicines Wanted.

MEMPHIS, May Is. johnson, planter
from Chioota county, Ark, arrived here
this morning. He brings distressing ac-
counts of the suffering among laborers and
their families in that vicinity, many of
whom, he says, have subsisted for several
DAYS upon the icarscases of the cattle that
have died from starvation or been drowned
in the overflow.
Citizens complain Of the action of the
New Orleans Relief Committee i'll not
sending supplies outside of the State of
Louisiana, but this doubtless arises from
the scarcity OF supplies and the great
amount OF destitution nearer New Orleans.
The Relief Committee here are actively
engaged in collecting supplies 10 relieve the
immediate wants of these people. Further
trouble is apprehended from rise in the
st. Francis river.
Louisiana from Exposure
Medicines Wanted.
New ORLEANS, May THE Governor
and Relief Committee receive letters daily
from the OverflOwed parishes giving details
of the condition of the inhabitants. Recent
letters from Calahoula, Caldwell, Concor-
dia, franklin, Ouchita and Tensas parishes,
show no improvement, but indicate addi-
tional afiliction by sickness. From the
great mass of correspondence the following
is selected as showing substantially the pilr-
port of the whole:
Mr.. Redditt writing from Cuba, Ouchita
Parish, says: All the country for miles
around is submerged. Twelve farms are
almost entirely uader water within three
miles of this place, with a population of
90persons, from the breaking of the Cuba
levee. The levee broke April Sth, and the
current of water was so strong that it
washed away everything in my lot except
my dwelling house and store house. Ny
corn, horses and oxen are all gone. The
water in my dwelling is four feet deep, and
rIshes through In such a current as to
make it tremble like a leaf But do not
look to me alone. There are SIX or seven
hundred others similarly situated within
three miles. w. J. Ellis has lost every
thing. The water on the floor Of his
dwelling is five feet deep, and he has not
one pound of provisions on hand for HIM
self and fifteen freedmen, and no chance
of getting any in the neighborhood.
DIR. r. G. Burch, writing from Boscobel
plantation, Ouchita parish, SAYS there are
800 people within the limits of his practice
many of whom are suffering from sickness,
caused by exposure on account of the over
flow. He is unable TO supply the demand
for medicines, and asks that medicine be
furnished, offering to distribute il to the
sick and suffering,
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WASHINGTON.
The oeutennial Lobby.

WASHINGTON, May 7.-Muth interest
was manifested throughout the proceedings
OF the House to-day on the centennial ap-
preparation bill. A large number of Penn
sylvanians being in the galleries and lob
bies. The alternative is now between lay
ing the bill on the table and rec0mmitting
il to special Centennial Committee where
ii is hoped by its friends some modifica-
tion viii be made to render it acceptable to
a majority of the House Ii is certain,
however, that the House will not vote three
million dollars at the present session.
The Weed. So
The bill agreed upon by the Ways and
Means Committee to-day, to exempt from
tax Sl00 worth of tobacco sold by a pro-
ducer to a consumer, is similar to the one
passed by the House last year and defeated
by the Senate. 1EL
Loyal Claims.
The Davis bill, to extend the jurisdic-
tion of the Court Of Claims. introduced in
the Senate, provides that the Court shall
have jurisdiction over all claims of loyal
citizens for supplies furnished to or taken
by the army or navy, aud for The use or oc-
cupation of real estate, and for the loss or
destruction of property during the war Of
the rebellion. All such claims exceeding
$1,000, which are now pending before the
Department of Justice or the Southern
Claims Commission, are TO be Immediately
transferred to the Court of Claims, with all
the papers and proofs accompanying them.
Richardson Himself Again.
a letter has been received from Secretary
Richardson dated Augusta, May 5. Rich
ardSon was in excellent health and will
return to Washington early next week.
Important to DisfiIIers.
Supreme Court decision-Pahtman ct al
VS.. Roster in error to the Circuit Court for
the Northern District Of Illinois. In this
case the Court affirmed the power Cf asses
sors and surveyors in estimating the true
capacity for distillery to fix upon a Ger
tain period as the true fermenting period,
and assert thai those officers are not bound
in this respect by the period stated in the
application of the distiller.
The House Committee on Appropria-
tions to-day heard Prof. Baird on the prac-
ticability of introducing shad in the
Mississippi river, and asking an appropria-
tion for the purpose.
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NJ. L. CHURCH SOUTH.
Committee Appointed to Inyesti-
gate the Case of L. ID.
Huston.
Fraternal Greetings from the
Northern Church.
The Commissioners to be Re-
ceived To-day.

LOUISVILLE, KY, May TN the Gen
eral Conference to-day, a committee of one
from each Annual Conference was appoint
ed TO investigate the case of Lorenzo ID.
Huston. expelled from the Baltimore Con-
ference.
A resolution of regret was offered in re-
gard to the murder of the Rev. Mr.. Stevens,
in Mexico, appointing the 5th Sabbath of
this month as the time when prayer should
be offered in behalf of foreign missions.
Referred to the Committee on Missions.
A resolution proposing to transfer the
power of licensing and recommending
preachers from the quarterly to the District
Conference was presented, read and referred
to the Committee on Itinerancy.
Bishop Paine in behalf of the College OF
Bishops, in answer to a resolution offered
Yesterday, requesting information as 10 the
ordaining and election Of native born mis-
sionaries, stated it as the decision was ofthe
College. thai the matter should be left
with the Bishop in charge of the mission.
The matter on motion was laid on the
table for one day.
A resolution was offered calling for the
appointment of a committee of three to
correspond with the various Methodist
bodies of both Europe and America, look
ing first to the union of their various mis-
sionarr efforts Throughout the world; Sc
cond, the adoption of a common hymn
book; third, the adoption of some plan by
which preachers may be more easily trans
ferred from one conference 10 another.
The resolution was laid on the table.
The Northern Church, Greeting.
Bishop Paine stated he had received a
communication from gentleman appointed
by the General Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church to convey TO this
body. Its fraternal greetings, announcing
| their presence in Louisville. The CON-
munication was presented and read as fol-
lows:
GAIT HOUSE, LOUISVILLE, KY, May Z,
| 1S74.-Bishops and members of the Gener-
al Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
| Church, South, now in session in Louis
Vile. Ky.-Dear Fathers and Brethren
We the undersigned have been appointed
by the General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church TO convey the fraternal
greetings of said body to the General Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. We await your pleasure. Fra
ternally yours, ALBEIT ,. HUNT,
c. II. FOWLER,
CLINTON b. FISK.
The following resolution was offered,
read and adopted:
Resolved, That it be the pleasure of the
General Conference TO receive the Com
missioners of the NJ. Z. Church On to-
morrow morning at 10t o'clock, to receive
the fraternal greetings they bring to us
from their church, and that the Commit
tee on Introductions inform them of the
readiness ofthe Conference to receive them
at the hour appointed.
After some further routine of business
the Conference adjourned.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-08
PHILADELPHIA.
Deceived.

PHILADELPHIA, May I'm the COM
mon branch of the council to-day an an
nouneement that the centennial bill had
passed the House, created considerable ap-
plalse, aud resolution was passed rsluest-
ing the Centennial Board Of Finance to
take immediate preliminary steps for the
contract for the building, machinery and
conservatory. The resolution passed into
the select branch for concurrence, but by
the time it was called up there was accu-
rate news. The non-action of Congress is
denounced here.
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DOWN SOUTH.

Large parties of Catholics ffom all the
cities of Georgia attended the cornerstone
ceremony of Pho Mono College in Macon,
ON Sunday, the Sd inst
The body Of Uriah CrOnSton, who died
in-Savannah, on. the 10Th of March, was
exhumed the other day upon suspicion that
he had been poisoned, and the stomach,
liver. etc, obtained and sent to New York.
to Le examined by the noted chemist, Prof.
DOremus. The result of the analysis will
probably not be known for a month, and
until then the matter rests. The deceased,
a short time before his death made a will,
giving a certain sum TO Anne Bryson, his
housekeeper, during her life, and upon her
death to 90 TO some Catholic institution.
The bulk Of the property was willed to the
Catholic Orphan Asylum. These facts
seemed good reason to suspect foul play,
when considered with the matter of the
death, but not until after due deliberation.
MIS-. Maria j. Westmoreland, author Of
"Heart Hungry" ETC., lectured az Atlanta
recently on .The Daughters of Eve and
delivers the same lecture tonight in
Augusta. The lecture concludes with the
follOwingsvery creditable perOration: $50
then. to conclude this discourse which, al
though protracteJ, has but barely touched
the outlines of this great subject, We find
that women who have ruled through
their beauty alone have had hold upon
power as fugitive and unstable as their sole
gift itself; and the most powerful Of those
who have ruled through their intellect have
sometimes been cruel, sometimes the
teachers Of infidelity, sometimes the insti-
gators Of crime, and often very unhappy; in
emancipating themselves from the trammels
Of their wsmanhOod, they have lost their
surest hold up the regard of their fellow
beings; in unsexing themselves they have
departed from the order of nature and be
come monstrosities; and finally, that if we
would fiRd examples Of women who have
made the deepest impress upon humanity
have most contributed to the advancement
of the name, and have earned the clearest
right to the Immortality Of fame, We must
seek among those who, whatever other gift
they may have possessed Of beauty or in
tellect, have crowned them all with that
greatest of all beings Of the Divine creation
"a supreme moral existence
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-08
CHA.

Captain General Concha of Cuba, has
issued decree in which it is stated that
the Railroad companies have now to suffer
the inevitable as do all other interests in
the country in consequence OF the present
financial condition Of the island. BY de-
cTees issued last December, the companies
were allowed to fix their rates for each
month according TO the premium Of gold
current ON the 20th Of the month, but it is
alleged they have been in the habit Of
charging much higher rates than allowed.
Gen Concha has inierposed and fixed the
increase for May at fifty per cent over all
their rates.
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NEW YORK.
Supported by Two Husbands out Of
Three.

Supported by Two Husbands ont OF
Three.
New YORK, May THE curious case
Of thrioe-married woman who draws ali
mony from two divorced husbands, was
discussed yesterday in the Supreme Court.
An inferior court refused the application of
| one of the disbanded husbands to be re
leased from the legal obligation to support
another mans wife, and the case became
public on his appeal. ~
In the suit of VIM. Fallon against the
Belt Street Railroad, in which the plaintiff,
a little boy, asked $4,000 damages for the
loss of both legs, the jury to day awarded
him $500.
The Danish c0nvicts, who arrived here
by the steamship Washington, will be sent
back to Denmark by the same vessel.
Two hundred labOrers were discharged
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday,
and four hundred more will be suspended,
Saturday, until June 1.
Political.
The annual reunion of the Manhattan
Club took place this evening. 1t was re
sarded as of much political importance
aside from its social character. The as
semblage was very large. Among those
present were Augustus ESchell, Auguste
Belmont, Gen. NJ. w. Ransom, of Nortll
Carolina; John B. Gordon, of Georgia; ex-
Senator Bradbury. ex-senator Ben
iamin Stark. of Oregon; ex-GOv.
Randolph, of New Jersey; ex-Goy.
Lawrence, Judge Osborne, of Illi-
nois; ex-Judge Shipman, of Connecticut;
Henry B. Smith, of Vermont; Stokes Boyd,
of Pennsylvania; Chas. W. Perrigan, OF
Pennsylvania; Samuel J. Tilden, Francis
Kiernan, Chas. OConor, Fernando Wood
and Algernon S. Sullivan Speeches were
made by Amasa j. Parker, of Albany; Sen
ator Bayard, of Delaware; Gov. McEnery,
of Louisiana, and Fitch, of Nevada.
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Condensed TeIeSrams.

The trial of PioG Swing for heresy, at
Chicago, win probably close with acquit-
tai to-day.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
held its 106th annual meeting yesterday,
electing VIM Z. Dodge, President.
Charles Pope, the st. Louis actor, is
winning golden opinions from al sorts OF
people on the San Francisco boards.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention ap-
plies cumulative voting TO all counties en-
titled to two or more Representatives or
Senators.
Five hundred coal beavers are on the
strike at Cleveland, o.
philadelphia contributes $4,000 for
Louisiana relief.
The constables of Worcester, Mass, con-
fscated 100 kegs of patent beer yesterday.
One steamer bore off to Europe yesterday
half million gold.
Gea. s. B. Buckner is in Chicago.
a Jewish Rabbi addressed the Unitarian
Conference at st. Louis yesterday.
fechter's Theater in New York has
passed into the hands of the sheriff.
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WITHIN the past few days. the Ban
ner has fallen into the error of referring
to Col John c. Burch as the editor of
this paper. Col Burch has no connec-
tion with the editorial management of
the UNION AND AMERICAN, nor any
control whatever over its columns.
= From the day he entered the Comptrol-
ler's Office, he has neither written nor
dictated an article for this paper, ex-
eept articles on one or two occasions
when requested TO furnish information
connected with the financial interests
of the State.
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THE RAILROADS..
st. LouIs 10 Austin, Texas.

ST. LOUIS, May THE consolidation Of
the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Cairo and
Fulton Railroads has been fully effected,
and new board of directors elected. The
road will hereafter be known as the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Rail
road. Arrangements have been made 10 gun
trains through from here to Austiis Texas,
via the International road Of Texas FROM
4exarkana.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-08

DAWES afirms, and none denies, on
the floor Of Congress, that not one
dollar of the National debt has been
paid this year, and the Fedora Treasu-
~ is to-day s29.OOO,OOO behind its
obligations. He alludes of course to
the fiscal year beginning July l, 1873,
but newspaper readers viii bear his
statement in mind when perusing
Richardson's 8 monthly exhibits.
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UNION AND AMERIctN.

NASHVILLE, May 4. ls74.-A meeting
of the Democratic State Executive Com
mittee viii be held in this city on Thurs
day, the 2lst of May.
Every member of the Committe is
earnestly requestd to be present.
JOHN c. BURcH,
II. Chairman.
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FOREIGN.
Cuba Regulating Railroads.
ENGLAND.

LONDON, May 7.-The fire on the steam
ship Ohio seriously damaged the cargo.
What the hero OF Santiago Didn't
Say.
Sir Lambton Lorraine in a communica-
tion to the Pal Mall Gdzette says: The
reported interview with myself Published
in the New York paper is fictitious.
never said blood was thicker than water,
that the people Of England have strong
affection for their American cousins and
that it would give me great pleasure to
receive a silver brick. Whatever may be
my opinion, am no admirer of those
EngliShmen who are given to fawning up
on their American cousins at the expense
Of their own seIf-respect.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-08

WE had written neat little note of
thanks TO Congress on killing the Gen.
tennial job--for it has become a job,
however pure In the ineeption-when
the House at the last moment spoiled
it all, by reconsidering its action. This
three-million bill comes up again to-
day. probably to be recommitted.
Meanwhile the petty appropriation for
the relief of the sufferers by the Missis-
sippi foods hangs fre-whether be-
cause the majority of the sufferers are
negroes, or because Congress cannot
entrust its aims to the Kelloggites, re-
mains In doubt.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-08

DoS MANUEL CoNCHA, who is said
to have resumed the command Of the
Spanish Republican troops, is nearly
eighty years old. His brother. Dom
Jose, who has beed lately named Gov
ernOr of Cuba, Is over seventy-four-
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CONFUSION WORSE COMPOUNDED.

CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUSDED.
I'VE are making history" impa-
tiently exclaimed Abraham Lincoln,
amid the petty ambitions that hampered
him on every side. So, these bellicose
litigants of Arkansas are making prec-
edents of very awkward naturefor 9TH
er States, if not overruled. A prudent
lawyer may think that in October
last the Supreme Court went beyond
the subject matter before it, In de-
Gliding explicitly that no other State
court, had jurisdiction over a contest
for Governor, which is purely
political. Yet this is necessarily
implied in the decision denying
its own jurisdiction and pointing
out the Legislature as the only compe-
tent tribunal Baxter was then on
terms wieh Grant, Clayton and Dor
sey; now he is not. These Supreme
Judges were elected as Administration
lists, and their conception of law seems
to be to grind out different decisions
as heAdministration changes its mind.
We see from the Tribune Almanac that
two Liberals, Bearden and Hamilton,
were elected to the Supreme Bench IN
1872. but these names do not now ap-
near on the record, and they were
doubtless disposed of long since IN some
way best known to Radical law. 1t will
be noticed that two of the Judges, Searle
and Stephenson, join in reversing their
decision of a few months ago. If
Arkansas Judges are thus unreliable,
what is there to prevent similar ap-
pliances from revolutionizing the
Legislature? Or, suppose the latter
body stands by its miscount-then we
have the law making department array
ed against the law-cOnstrueing depart
ment, each upholding a rival claimant
of the executive chair.
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Bismark WON'T ReeoxnIze,

LONDON, May S.-After the capture of
Bilboa, the Spanish Government again ap-
piled to Germany for the recognition ofthe
Republic. Detached bands of Carlists
continue to h4rass the iieighbOrhOod Of
BilbOa.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-08
SPAIG.

MADRID, MAY T.-Replying to congratu-
lstions Of a provincial deputation, Marshal
SerTano said that the Carlist movement
was only shaken, not vanquished entirely.
Don Carlos has issued proclamation to
his followers, expressing confidence that his
cause will ultimately triumph.