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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-05
SINBAD OUTDONE.
A Remarkable Magnetic Chamber
I'm m California Gave.

I'm n California Cave.
The author Of "siiibad the Sailors
Adventures" must resign his laurels.
One w. II. Stokes has been exploring a
recently. discovered cave, near Pine
Grove; Anadar county, California, and
writes TO the SMtter Creek Independent
an account of his Investigations. Mr.:
Stokes vouches for the exact truth OF
his narrative in every particular, and
we doubt not the reader will readily
credit it from the following specimen
description Of one OF the chambers the
party entered: After iouriieying for o
mile and ddaftef through the under
ground passages, Stokes and his party
found themselves in ''long but rather
narrow chamber, the walls of which
are not limestone, but a v1llowlsh
brown and black iron orr This
chamber beats sinbsd's MAGNETIC
mountain which drew all the
nails from his ship, and thus
caused it to fall to pieces, all hollow.
Listen to Mr.. Stokes: upon entering
this chamber we noticed most pech-
liar disturbance Of the magnet, the
needle constantly vibrating from side
to side, and frequently whirling around
for a minute at a time with velocity
which rendered it invisible. We also
experienced a singular sensation-a
sort of chill appearing to commence at
the back of the neck and extending to
the very tips of our fingers and toes.
AS we advanced in this chamber we
found these singular sensations to IN
crease in intensity until it became ssal-
most unbearRble. We ventured on
still further, however, though it became
evident that we could not long remain
IN this mysterious place. l omitted to
mention that the walls and floor of this
chamber, especially particular rocks
therein contained, were highly magnet
ic, and became more so the farther we
advanced toward the north. One Of
the party who carried Ratchet had
it suddenly wrested from him by a
magnetic rock near which he
passed, and the combined strength
of four of US was insufficient to detach
it. A pocket knife, which accidentally
dropped to the floor, had to remain
there, none of the party having sufh-
Gent strength IN his fingers to pick it
up. Mason, who had put on for the
occasion a pair of miners boots, the
soles of which were filled with nails,
could walk with difficulty, and, happen
ing to step upon a portion of the floor
unusually magnetic, found himself sud-
denly affixed thereto and unable to
move. He was compelled to withdraw
his boots and leave them there, tearing
up his coat and wrapping the pieces
around his feet to protect them from
being cut by the rocks. We had re-
manned in this chamber about ten min
utes, when suddenly the chilling sensa-
ton began to increase, the feeling be-
ing as if cold and piercing wind were
blowing upon us and becoming each
momeEt more intensely cold. We
hastily retreated, and soon reached,
feeling more dad than alive, the large
chamber containing the hot spring.
We then retraced our steps along the
Irvine. and In couple of hours emerged
from the cave.
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OLD BALDY SUBSIDIES.
ssSaWbOnes'' TELLS How the Volcano
Ended I'm SmOke-A Lively Photo
graph of scenes and Incidents.

IN THE MOUNTAINS, May 80, 1S7f.-
The farce is ended The lights are
out, the curtain down-the wirery
spasms have ceased! George has
turned out his mules-ihe old wagon
is at the blacksmith shop, and Old
Bald has settled down for long nap
When the inhabitants of Pompeii,
who were SO fortunate as to escape
from the dry rain that surrendered
that city, returned to seek their mar
bic palaces they did not find them.
The inhabitants of Old Bald have
returned to find their log palaces intact
except the smashing of widow Nam
ny's mud chimney!
The natives who got religion when
| destruction was impending, have all
backslid and are worse than they had
been. George thinks they are trying
to make up for lost time.
George is here-dressed in a suit of
store clothes-and is using the longest
and most unintelhgible words l ever
heard.
He learned them from the scientists
who visited the volcano.
He has turned scientist himself. He
thought of adopting the Farmers
Friend or the Vegetable Bitters busi-
ness, but he says the Science business
is the thing.
He will lecture this summer on the
cause of earthquakes, volcanoes, origin
of man, and such like.
He rejects the Garden of Eden
theory and substitutes one of his
own, which is both novel and start
ling.
He viii lecture In your town and
then you viii know how it is yourself
He has adopted the Glazical theory
has found scratches at the foot of
Bald.
His son tells me that all the scratch
es there were made by widow Nanny's
children.)
saw the biologists en- route for the
volcano. They were In uniform, ex-
cept the chief, who was distinguished
by a remarkably shaped hat.
1t is known as the Bald Mountain
hat, and is in shape like the Bald
Mountain.
The chief had also a metal box at
his side. l did not examine it, but
think it is the instrument invented by
the late Lieut.. Derby, q. S. n.
The box contains clock-works, with a
diafon top. A metal rod about two
feet long passes down inside the pants,
and is strapped to the leg. The action
of the leg when walking operates the
machine, and by looking at the dial
you can tell how far you have travelled.
Derby called it goometer.
George met them, and is uneasy!
Being in uniform-One of them
having a gun-and that strange hat,
may induce old Belcher the distiller)
to mistake them for revenue officers
Then there viii be trouble:
Besides, rattle snakes are bad this
spring.
| look forward with great interest for
their report Old Bald has been play
ing tricks on the scientistsi There are
so many Of these that they will sur
round the mountain and catch her at It,
SAwBONES.
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fresh water, and kept in an ordinarily
comfortable place, they will pay, and
well. Last spring we were told by one
Of our customers, who has only enc Of
our small town yards, that during the
previous year (lS7s) his eggs only cost
him one-half penny each all the year
roGnd, and this result can be obtained
by all who take ordinary care of their
birds. ~ M
We learn from the Ansericdn Grocer
of recent date that four hundred mil
lion eggs were sold in that city in 1873;
and at the average price Is cents a
dozen brought six million dollars. They
come mostly in barrels packed in rye
straw cut fine, say a half inch IN
length. Each barrel holds from
20 to IS dozen. 1l.l -i
The manufacture, preservation and
marketing of eggs is a branch of rural
industry which is not so well under
stood as it should be. Eggs are very
liable to spoil, break, and cost more
than they are worth to the consumer.
There is no vital machine on the farm
that yields a better profit in a small
way than poultry, but the machine
should be run by one who understands
it. Green feed, like tender grass, clo-
yer, cut up turnips, carrots and refuse
fruits, improve the health and laying
functions of fowls. They are apt to
suffer from lice and other insect pests,
and their rooms should be often cleaned
and whitewashed with lime and little
sulphur. Give them plenty Of dust
to wallow in, and sometimes sulphur in
corn-meal dough.
Microscopic parasites kill many chick
ems, and some adults, for which sulphur
is perhaps the best remedy. Give
poultry as wide a range as possible to
destroy insects, and transform them
into fresh eggs and chicken meat.
Inc laUcsI Improvement IN the egg Dus-
mess is to dry the meat of fresh eggs
promptly; grind it and seal it up in air.
tight cans that may be sent round the
world on the equator for years, and
never damage. The UNION AND AMER
IcAN publishes almost daily news from
people whose feet, if walking, point to
our feet when walking, and before the
news is q hours old. Fresh concentrated
eggs, condensed four into the space of
one, that viii keep sound and fresh
thousand years, are not more extraor-
binary. Fresh fish are dried and put
up in the same way; SO are Irish and
sweet potatoes, and many fruits as
well as vegetables.
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TOBACCO.

The market remains firm and active,
with a general advance over previous quo
tations. The Capitol warehouse sold 101
hhds- as follows:
ii hhds. Robertson county medium and
common leaf at S11.25, 1870, 1910, 1850,
9.60, 9.z5, 900, so, $50, 100, $40.
IL hhds. Sumner county medium leaf at
5000, 1000, 1000, 1000, $50, 9.1O, 9.10,
$50, $50, $40, 1000.
8 bids. Smith county medium and COM
mon leaf at $1,000, $40, 500, 500, 500,
100, 7.40, 7.25, 100.
4 bids. Trigg county, Ky, medium and
common leaf at S9.25, $50, 500, 100.
hhds. Monroe county, KY, medium and
low leaf at $500, 6.75.
hhds. Benton county medium and COM
mon leaf at S9.75, 100, 7.6ti, 6.25.
2 hhds. Weakley county medium leaf at
$1,000, 9.S0.
3 hhds. Macon county medium leaf at
$3.50, $40, 500.
hid. Humphreys county common leaf
at S7.T0.
hid. Clay county common leaf at $3.50.
bids. Crittenden county, KY, common
leaf at $500, 7.T5.
hhds. Dickson county medium and
common Ieaf at $50, 7.30.
1hhd. Williamson county medium leaf
at 5000.
hid. Henry county medium leaf at
$1,000. ti % alt+
3 hhds. Russell county, KY, medium leaf
at $3.50, SIS, $40.
3 hhds. Stewart county medium leaf at
$685., $50, S.25.
hid. Jackson county medium leaf at
1920.
40 hhds. Tugs at 500, 100, go, go,
ESQ, 6.T5, 400, 4.S0, 40, $40, 6.20, 40,
$40, $50, $50, 80, 5.25, 400, $50, $50,
$50, $40, $40, 500, 800, 500, 500, 3.95,
400, 40, $50, $50, 40, $40, $50, $50,
600, $50, $40, $50.
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CONDITION OF THE LEVEEs.

NJ. JEFF Thompson, Chief State En-
gineer of Louisiana, reports to Gov.
Kellogg under date of the 9th of May
as follows concerning the condition of
the Mississippi levees: 81 have Just
returned from a reconnaissance of the
levees and crevasses on the Mississippi
River in this State, and l have found
that we viii require a much larger
quantity of earthwork than for several
years TO give our people any promise of
safety frcm overflow next spring. The
tax provided to pay for the construc-
ton of new levees will not build one
third of the number actually needed,
and see no safety for the State ex.
cept through the powerful hand Of the
United States Government, therefore ]
must pray you to take such steps as
will present ourcase tothe present Con
gress as soon as possible, as few days
delay, SO near the adjournment, may
deprive us of this sadly needed aid
for another year, and entail upon the
present suffering thousands of Ourpeo-
pie another year of desolation and ruin.
The river actually run over about 800
miles of our levees, which will have to
be raised and strengthened, and the
yawning crevasses at Ashton, Bass,
Point Pleasant, Buckridge, Hard
Times, Disharoom, Waterproof, Green's
Glasscock's, Old River, Morganza,
Morrison's, Point Manor, Lobdell's,
Hickey's and Bonnet Care will have
to be closed, besides the numerous
small crevasses and the additional
number of breaks that will occur from
the caving of the banks when TIE water
falls, which will have to be built up, as
well as the numerous works needed on
the Lafourche, Atchafalaya, Red River
and Ouachita. The needs for the CON-
ing levee season viii be not less than
three millions of cubic yards, and it is
impossible for the State to pay for one
million ,ubic yards, and therefore this
additional amount must either be left
unbuilt. and the State again flooded, OF
the General Government will have to
give us its mighty aid"
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THE FEEDING OF POULTRY.

Mr. Edward Thomas Brown, Newcas-
tie, England, has published an interest
ing pamphlet on this subject, from
which the following extract is made:
The keeping and feeding of poultry
is generally looked upon by farmers
and those who have plenty of chances
of keeping them, as an expensive hob
by, only to be INDUCED in by those who
can afford to ride it; but the fact that
in 1871 we imported from France alone
522, 132, go eggs, being Il IN the year
for every man, woman and child in the
country, and several thousand tons Of
poultry, together amounting to three
million pounds sterling, proves that the
French make the keeping of poultry
pay. In France an enormous trade is
done in these products, they being a
staple article of food, and tits estimated
at fI0,000.OO0 per year. In fact, in
Paris alone, the trade is reckoned at
I,4O0, 900 per year, and it is said, upon
an average, every Partisan eats 100
eggs annually. -.
The ideal that poultry don t
pay'' is, undoubtedly, mistaken one;
but, nevertheless, it is generally held.
Most assuredly they will not pay, if
the fowls are allowed to look after them
selves, never taken any care of, and put
into an old tumble down house, that
cannot be used for any other purpose,
with food, the cheapest rubbish that
can be found, thrown down upon the
ground in any sort of place. But if a
little care is taken, if they are properly
tended. fed with a modern quantity of
good food, provided with plenty of
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LINE

DIR. SCHENCK's PULMONIC SYRUP, SEA WEED
TOXIC, AND MANDRAKE PILLs.-These medi-
cines have undoubtedly performed more cures
of Consumption than any other remedy known
to the American public They are compounded
of vegetable ingredients, and contain nothing
which can be injurious to the human constitu-
ton. Other remedies, advertised as cures for
Consumption, probably contain opium, which il
somewhat dangerous drug in all cases, and If
taken freely by consumptive patients, it must
do great injury; for its tendency is to conne the
morbid matter in the system, which, of course
must make cure impossible. Schenck's Pull
monte Syrup is warranted not to contain par
ticle of opium. 1t is composed of powerful but
harmless herbs, which act on the lungs, liver,
stomach and blood, and thus correct all morbid
seeretiOns, and eXpel all the diseased matter
from the body. These are the only means by
which Consumption can be cured, and as
Schenck's PulmOnic Syrup, Sea Weed Tonic
and Mandrake Pills are the only medicines
which operate in tn way, it is obvious they are
the only genuine cure for Pulmonary COnsump-
ton. Each bottle of this invaluable medicine
is accompanied by full directions. DR.. Schenck
Is professionally at his principal Office, corner
SIKH and Arch streets, Philadelphia, every
Monday, where II letters for advice must be
addressed. my31 deod&w1m
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GROCERIES.

The grocery trade was more active and
unchanged.
SUeAR-New Orleans, (new) in hogs
heads 96l0sc for fair to choice; Deme-
rara I15A12c; standard hards 11sc; A
coffee 10.c; B do. lose; extra G do. 1Oac;
yellow G. 9sd104c.
MoIAssEs-New Orleans 6Sd75c; sirups
55665c; golden strip 65dSOc.
COFFEE-RiO, common to choice, go
25ic; Laguayra 27ac; Java 33c.
CHEEsE-FactOry, 1Sc.
NAus-10ds, per keg, $500 and 25c ad-
ditional for diminishing grades.
SALT bushel barrels, in store or on the
wharf, 1925; by car load in depot, S2.35.
CANDLEs-Star 16Tl65c y n.
FIsH-Half barrels, Nos. 1,2 and 800,
$50 and $3.50; in kits, Nos. l, 2, and 3,
$3.50, 500 and $1.75.
RICE-Best Carolina by the barrel, &c.
TEAs-Imperial 75cdSl.25; Young Hy-
son T5cfS1.25; Black 50cdSl. 90; Gunpow-
der 75cH$1.25. .srrr H.--
PowDER-DupOnt S7.25; Sycamore Mills
1925; blasting $500; fuse per 100 feet o9c'
SHor-Paten: S2.25; Buck $3.50.
LLQUoRs-Co Common rectihed whisky "
gallon 9Ocd$1.00; Robertson County $l.75
$500; Bourbon $l.2565-jO; Lincoln
County S1.75d3.OO; Highwines sl.OO.
COTTON TIEs-Per ib. 1Oc.
BRooMs-Per doz. at S2-25d3.5O.
SoAP-COmmon to fancy, 5dSc u u, or
$3.25d4.50 % box.
CANDIEs-CommOns stick, lac; common
fancy 15c.
PEPPER-Per h., 25c.
SPICE-I'er h., 16c.
GINGER-Per h., 16e.
CLovEs-Per h., 6067Oc.
STARCH-Par b., 5d5ac.
SoDA-Per H., Gd64c-
PECANs-Per h., 1Oa61lc.
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lessness, shallowness of thought and
knowledge, frivolity of taste and pur-
suit, absorption in the art of men,
pleasing-are these, indeed, the essen
tial characteristics of womanhood, and
and is she who combines them the type
of the
perfect woman, nObIy planned,
To cheer, to comfort, to command?
We must look for the answer some
what deeper than the surface and con-
ventional rules of society, and, going to
the constitution of things, ask ourselves
what special functions woman has to
perform in this world as woman, apart
from the function common to all hu-
man beings invirtue of their humanity.
That function is motherhood. 1t
is IN her motherliness that We
find her womanliness. She may not
be, or ever become, a mother, but
she cannot be a perfect woman I'm
less she possess all the attributes which
belong to perfect motherhood. What,
then, are these attributes? First on
the list stands tenderness; the mother
must, above all things, be tender and
pitiful; for her love is the highest type
of human tenderness, the truest symbol
of the divine. Next comes strength:
the mother must be strong and help
full; for how else shall she protect and
guide the helpless lives clinging to
hersf She must be pure, not only with
the purity which is ignorance, butwith
the purity which, knowing ell, abhors
it for is she not the representative to
her children of divine purity? She
must be true; for if her chill
dren find their trust In her de-
ceived, in whom else will they
have faith? She must be a lover
and promoter Of order; for order in the
family is like law III the State; with
out it there is only anarchy and con-
fusion. She must be Just; for children
have keen sense of justice, and will
pay respectful and cheerful obedience
only to the rule they feel to be just.
She must be self-controlling and self
forgetting; for she cannot rule her
children unless she can rule herself,
and she cannot have that perfect SYM
patty with them that shares and lives
IN their life, unless she can forget her.
self. She must have high ideal; for
how else shall she inspire her children
with the love and worship of a good
ness, justice and beauty transcending
that Of earth? And, finally, she must
be crowned with wisdom; for her
love must give light as well as
warmth; she must be able to guide as
well as to cherish. This is the type of
the perfect mother, and therefore it is
the type of the perfect woman. Here.
then, we have the standard we wanted,
and may lay down as the rule, whose
application admits no exception, that
whatever action, pursuit or profession
is incompatible with this type is I'M
womanly. Whatever habits of life, or
methods of education, tend rather to
repress than to cultivate those attri-
butes of perfect womanliness-tender-
ness, strength, purity, truth, justice,
noble ideaGsm, order and wisdom-is a
wrong course, and a radically faulty
method of education.
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FINANCIAL.

Business Is very dull with our banks,
and they all report an accumulation Of cur
rency, with but little demand for discounts.
And though such is the case there is no dis
position to loan at less rate than ten per
cent,
Gold was still lower yesterday, closing in
New York at 111.. Our dealers have
followed the decline and are willing TO sell
at 1lIa, while they offer ITO.
Government securities are lower. The
following are the quotations at 2:20:
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LtGAL SALES.
TRUSTEES SALE.
Valuable City and Country
Property.

nv VIRTUE. OF The AUTHORITY IN
ID me vested As Trustee OF the estate q Suiei
x Pfeiffer, and in accordance with powers
franted me i'm the deed OF trust OF March Is,
1874. OF record in Book No. 81, page 50, once OF
Davidson County Register, viii proceed 70 sell
On Wednesday, june N, 1874,
AT nuble auction. to the highest bidder, the fol-
lowing described Real Estate, Improved and uI'-
imprOyed- -.... -. 81
n. lot. IS feet front on South College, corner
of Petwav street adjoining the residence or
Henry Metz. with twO-stOry teneme1It.
p lot Of - fest fr0nt oEs S0uth cherry street,
Immediately north Of Capt, Stoekeil : residence
This lot II the most desirable site for residence,
in the best locality 0f the city.
g. Dairy farm in Thirteenth civil District,
two miles from the square, on the Hyde's Ferry
Pike with brick building, stables, OuthOuses
etc. a. acras-fOrmer1y owned and occupied by
FlOrian Heinz.
A. Dairy farm OF y acres, with stone and frame
dwelling, stables. OuthOuses, etc, situated en-
the Buena Vista Pike. one and a half miles
from the Square, formerly occupied by ME-.
Singer.
TERMS OF SALE-One-third cash, and BAL
ancn of purchase money in and II months.
Iiemretained. Sale positive Private bids VIII
lie received up % the day Of sale Inc vemtu
wall be continued from day 70 day anti al tne
property is-sold. Time and place OF sale VIII De
added to this notice in cue time.
HENRY METZ, Trustee
mv29 st fri Tenn. Post
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THAT CIVIL RIGHTS AFFAIR IN
MI RFREESBORO.
MurfreGg7Oro Monitor, june

Two men, one white the other color
ed, came up from the depot Monday
night after the arrival of the 1O:45 p.
NJ, train, and entering the Willard
Hotelregistered their names thus: j.
c. Lott. Washington, d. c.; J. G. Ma
pier, Washington. d. c." This worthy
couple then called for room and soon
after retired, no one suspecting that
Napier was a negro, as he had straight
hair and light yellow complexion. At
ter the two men had retired, w. W.
Gunter, of Shelbyville, who is a
government official entered the
hotel and seeing Napier's name
on the register, said that he was a ne
gro and a revenue clerk, and that he
would leave the hotel, as he would not
remain In a house where a d-n negro
was allowed to stay. Several persons,
who were in the hotel at the time, went
up to the room where these boon COM
panions had stretched their weary bo-
dies upon downy touches and informed
the colored administration pet that he
had to eight out" of there Both the
men were terribly alarmed, and begged
the protection of the police. The negro
said that he protested against imposing
himself In such a way on the landlord
of the hotel, but that the white minion
with him told him that they would
leave before breakfast, and the impos-
ture would not be discovered.
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SUNDRIES.

BAGGING-Hemp and fax, l5G16c-
CoRDA6E-Jute, 13ci grass, zoe; cotton
26d2Sc- -
COTTON YARN@Per H., lie, 13c, 15e
and tic for zoos, COOS, 50Os and zoos.
FLAsKs-Half pint $3.50; pint $3.50;
GLAsswARE-sby 10 SC. 10; 1Oby12 $7.25;
10 by IA $500; 10 by 10 1915; II by IA 1918;
II by 16 1915; II by Is S9.25; IL by 20
1925. Discount, so per cent?.
IRoN-Tennessee bar &c P ID; Ken
tuclry do. &C; Tennessee band S6Sac; Ken
lucky do. 5i5sc; Tennessee boiler plate 81
sc; boiler heads &c; fire box 9sc; sheet,
common, 5d6c; do. Kentucky, 667c; do.
Tennessee, Sd9c. Usual discount to the
trade.)
SHUCKs-Hackled, S2.75 per 100 fbs, and
75c6S1.O0 for rough.
WRAPPING PAPER-Smail, 45e, medi-
UNI, 65c; double crown, Soc.
CATTLE, HOGS AND SHEEP.
CATTLE-Scalawags, 1ad2te; common
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Tennessee bonds are still lower, being
quoted in New York at S0dSI and at 62a
d63h. There is no demand for these bonds
here, though it is seldom they are offered
for sale. Dealers would pay about so and
6ld62, though in selling they would ask
considerably higher.
Our local stocks and bonds are all very
quiet and generally weak at the quotations.
For rates we refer to those given by the
Nashville Savings Company, corner Union
and College streets