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Brief communications upon subjects of
public interest solicited.
No attention paid to anonymous letters.
The editor is not responsible for the views
of correspondents.
Address: CHIEF, Donaldsonville, La.
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Communications should be addressed to |
the Secretary. l.. E. Bentley. Donaldsonvillc. !
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Transient advertisements 81 90 per square
first insertion; each subsequent insertion,
IS cents.
All official notices 81 90 per square each
publication.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

The Savannah Republican regards
the future of Georgia as decidedly more
hopeful than for several years. That
journal says in its issue of March 90:
Reports from the plantations all over
Middle and Southwest Georgia are
that the planters are planting more
grain than they have done any year
since the war. Three times the amount
of land has been sown or will be, In
oats, corn and other species of food for
man and horse than IN 1873. Indeed,
there are hundreds of them who even
now have enough to run them until an
other crop of corn natures, and many
more who can get alongwithout buying
until oats come In, seven oreight weeks
hence. The unerring barometer of the
actual situation is seen In the small
amount of freight of that kind coming
down the Macon aud Western Railroad.
Where in other days we saw hundred
Of car loads pouring down that iron
artery of commerce, only dozen come
now" Whenever the Southern peO-
pie raise the grain and provisions
they consume, then will cotton be re-
munerative and they become lndepen-
dent
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
FxPERIysENTAL.

In the work of selecting candidates,
as a general thing, we do not think 1t
safe to venture on novel experiments,
until the work of organization is more
thorough. The developments Of the
past two months lead US TO the opinion
that the convention system, after all
that can be said against it, is the safest
and surest, for the reason that our peo-
pie are more familiar with its workings
are more familiar with It's faults,
and can therefore guard against them
better than against others equally
Grave which inhere In other sys-
TENS and in all human devices.
The primary system has its abuses,
and they are the more liable to escape
detection because our people as a rule
are unfamiliar with their workings.
Besides, thorough organization by pre-
cincts Is necessary 70 the successful OPP
Grafton of the primary election. while
registration lists and small precincts
are great helps, both Of which We lack.
We believe that in most counties, the
majority are In favor Of conventions.
Men who viii not abide by the majority
Of their own party, are equally liable to
fv the track whether defeated ont of a
convention or in it. There
fore. we can but urge or
ganization by counties, commencing
with precinct clubs, as being needed
for effective work under any system.
For moot counties we believe the con-
yention system, based on the precinct
club. and built up by the peoples del
eeates into county, hoaterial, congress
sional and State conventions, Will afford
the most satisfaction. Because, know
ing what abuses this system is liable
to. we are more likely and ableto guard
against them than others that attach
to novel experiments. II is easier TO
fv the Ills We have than others weknow
not Of.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

THE augusta CoRstitutionalist re-
minds the Republicans who have so
much to say about Brooks contribu-
ton to the death of Senator Sumner,
that the Republican party had about
as much share in his death as the
SouthICarohnian. 1t says:
Of Charles Sumner died of nervous
disorder. let the blame rest upon Mas
sachusetts for censuring him through
her general assembly-an action re-
pented Of entirely too late. That blow
in the house Of his friends did more to
Kill than anything else. 1t ranked
and festered in the innermost recesses
of his nature, and tore his vitals where
he was most sensitive. The fierce and
uncompromising warfare from his par
tisans which broke Greeley's heart,
gave the finishing stroke to Charles
Sumner. 1t is an idle and a diabolical
aspersion to ascribe his death to the
imprudent act of Southern man. His
assassins were Massachusetts politi-
clans"
The degrading of Sumner from the
Craftsmanship of the Senate CoTmittee
of Foreign Relations at the bchest of
Grant, had also a good deal to do with
fastening his death. 1t is a well
known fact that since that degradation
was put upon him, up to the day of
his death, he neverexhibited the spirit
that had previously characterised his
whole public career.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

THE Washington correspondent OF
tho baltimore Sun states that several
cases are pending in the Supreme
Court Of the United States in the ma
ture Of a test as to the obligations OF
Northern life insurance companies
which had agencies in the South up TO
+bo breaking out Of the war. The
eases are those Of the heirs of parties
who had effected assurances on their
lives with the local agencies OF certain
7Ior4barn insurance companies. They
had maid up promptly, and the heirs
offer to prove their ability and willing
ness TO continue the annual payments,
which were either refused by the local
,,ants or the said agents had left the
Confaderacy. Among the eminent
counsel engaged in these cases IN ex-
Justice Curtis, Hon Lyman Tremalne'
and Gen. Garfield. for the insurance
comnanies. The insurance companies
bava secured an able array Of counsel
- maintain their cause, for If the Su-
I'm. Cour, should decide against
t,en, thev would probably be called on
20 nav in hundreds Of cases. involving
a very large amount.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
PINCHRACK's BACK Up.

from lnt 81, LOUIS hepuDlicdh-
WASHINGTON, March 20-Pinchback
has returned from New Orleans, and is
not in an amiable frame of mind. He
thinks he has been very badly treated
by the Republican party, and is busy
devisinG ways and means Of getting
even. He may be depended on TO do
all IN his power to disturb the serenity
of Kellogg, Duren & Co., and medi-
tates no kindness toward Senator Nor
ton, who kept him out of the Senate,
nor to the carpet-bag delegation from
Louisiana, which kept HIM out of the
House of Representatives, and unless
he Is placated he viii be likely to play
an important part in distraotipg the
Republican programme in Louisiana
next fall. He says sthe Opposition
press will make a serious mistake if 1t
PERSISTS in pitching INTO him from
this time on, whatever that may sig
Nifty.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
THE ALABAMA SENATOR.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.

WASHINGTON, March 2l.-At a
meeting of the Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections, this morning,
the Alabama Senatorial contested elec'
ton case was virtually settled in favor
of the present occupant of the seat,
Mr.. Spencer. Members of the CON-
mittee present were Senators Morton,
Carpenter, Logan, Anthony, Mitchell
and Salisbury, and the absentees, Sen
ators Hamilton, of Maryland, and
Alcorn. The question was decided on
a purely political basis. Spencer is a
Republican and Sykes, his opponent, a
Democrat. Consequently the only vote
received by Mr.. Sykes was that of Mr.
Salisbury.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
For County Trustee.

WE are authorized to announce JAMES
w DAVIS as candidate for Trustee Of Da-
wilson county at the August election
mh22 te
WE are authorized TO announce ". A.
w KNIGHT as a candidate for County Trus-
tee at the ensuing August election. feb25 I'd
I the urgent solicitation of many Of the
n citizens Of Davidson county, / announce
myself a candidate for reelection to the Office OF
County Trustee at the ensuing August election.
If elected will, in the future in the past, dis
charge the duties of the office 10 the best of my
ability. ID. r MARSHALL.
Nashville, March 8, 1874. mh3 te
EDITORS UNION AND AMERICAN
IA Please announce me in your paper a can
didate for county Trustee, at the election in
August next ISAAC PAUL
feb22 te
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
ANOTHER SUCCESSION.

10 tnc l mon anu AlileIAcdh'
We like the plan of a County Con-
vention, suggested in your paper of
March 20, by your Gibson county COR
respondent. We would however sug-
gest an amendment. Let each candi-
date select his friend in each district to
canvass the voters of the district as to
their first, second, third or fourth
choice; if there should be four Candi-
dates; then let these delegates meet in
convention and compare the votes. If
no man is the first choice of majority,
90 to the second choice. If no man
has a majority as second choice, go to
the third and on throughout the list.
If no man has majorityon any choice,
then add all the votes together, of each
candidate separately, and the one
having the largest vote in the county,
let him be the candidate.
PROGRESS.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

THE delegation of the New York
Chamber Of Commerce, who attended
the remains Of the late Senator SUM-
ner to Boston, were the recipients of
many courtesies at the hands OF the
citizens, being lodged in the elegant
apartments at the Revere House oecu-
pied by the Prince Of Wales, the Duke
Alexis, Jenny Lind and Nilsson. There
was also a delegation Of distinguished
colored men, who accompanied the
remains from Washington to Boston,
but no mention is made Of special
oourtesies extended to them, nor are
the public informed at what fashion
able hotel they were quartered. 1t /
not improbable that they received but
very little attention.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
En6dIes Hnrness Ell

Paints, Oils and Glass.
CHLs. II. GAUTHIER, Is n. College street.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
ASSESSED AND TRUE VALUE OF
PROPERTY IN TENNESSEE

The Memphis appeal effectually ex-
tinguishes one of the arguments
which the regulators have been using
quite freely of late to bolster up their
onslaughts upon the credit of the State.
That journal says: ''Some newspapers
in this State are asserting that the
property Of the State is assessed at
more than its true value. Whether
these remarks are made for the purpose
of sustaining an unsound position, or
are the result Of ignorance, We do not
know; but they are contradicted by the
facts of the case. Mr.. Pennebaker, our
late Comptroller, showed most conclu-
sively that the assessment was far be-
low the true value of property. The
census of 1870 places the true value OF
property in Tennessee at S490,237,124,
whilst in that same year assessed value
of property in the State was only
1858, 782, 16I, and IN 1871 1T was
S287, 9O5, 020, Hon. w. 7. Williamson,
member Of the last Legislature from
Shelby county. in his ablepamphlet, by
the most elaborate statistics, shows so
far from the property of the State be-
ing assessed at too high figure, ex-
actly the reverse is the fact, and that
one of the great evils under which this
State labors, and has labored, has been
too low an assessment of the property
of the State; that, in fact, If there was
a full and proper assessment the rate
of taxation could and would be reduced.
He says: cit is generally conceded
that real property in Tennessee is as
sessed at about one-haf its true value. y
There is not a county in the State
where the lands can be purchased at
twenty per cent. more than their as
sessed value. This is not only the case
in Tennessee, but in every State in the
Union. Is there a man of ordinary
information who believes that the
land in Fayette county can be
bought at an average of nine
dollars and forty-three cents per
acre, and theland of Madison county at
eight dollars and forty cents per acre,
and so on of the other counties IN West
Tennessee? There are some papers
and some persons that seem anxious to
convince the world that our people are
oppressed with taxation, so far as her
State taxes are concerned. When 1t
comes to county taxes and city taxes IN
this county and city, it is very different
and it will be found that some of those
who are now clamoring for low State
taxes have advocated every scheme to
increase the indebtedness of our city
and county. We do not fear that
these men or journals can permanently
iniure our State credit, but theyare do
ing manifest injustice to our State by
creating false impressions, to her pre-
iudice, which as citizens of Tennessee
and not as mere partisans, we fee
bound to correct. We do not rely up
on mere opinions, but upon actual facts
and figures, taken from official reports
which were made not with a view to
sustain any partisan purpose"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

ARLINGTON, FARRAR HEAKLET, SO North
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

~ IN the Senate on the Doth inst, Mr..
Haight, of California, in presenting a
Joint resolution Of the Legislature Of
his State against the further importa-
ton of Chinese, stated that the Chi
nese who came to California came I'M
der servile labor contracts, which are
not only in violation of the treaty but
in violation of orr laws. All the CHI
nese in California are owned by SIX
companies in San Francisco. They
have their agents in China, and they
bring on the most degraded of that
population. and after they arrive they
own them Just as much as the slaves OF
the South were ever owned. Have the
sympathies of the philanthropists Of
the North been exhausted upon the
negro:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

CONCERNING the situation II Mauly,
the Columbia Herald and Nail re-
marks:
Those candidates who have refused
TO 90 into convention viii not be voted
for in the primary or district elections.
1t is very much t. be regretted that
there are any who viii not abide the
action of a convention. 1t IS partlcu-
lar.lv to be regretted IN regard to the
ofice of Sheriff. Should a Radical be
elected to that Office it viii be IN his
power to annoy the people more than
anv other county officer, with negro
iuries. and 50 fort. These matters
Should awaken the people to a lively
sense Of duty TO themselves. Farmers
had better lose an hour OF two on the
first Saturday in April than have our
offices filed with Radicals and negroes.
There is more danger now than there
ever was before. 1t viii be suicidal for
our people to be slothful IN tins
matter"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

The Atlanta Herald makes the point
that the negro is fast learning the po-
litical habits of his white imam and
brother" Less than two years ago,
says that journal, the whole African
race in this country denounced Senator
Sumner for treason to their cause IN
opposing Grant and going for Greeley
for President, and declared he had
been bought up by the Democrats; now
they are holding mass meetings OF con-
dolence and extrolling the dead Sena-
tor as the climax Of craftsmanship and
devotion to liberty
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
whole public c

THE rivalry between st. Louis and
Chicago crops out in the newspapers of
those cities very frequently, and as
often affords them an opportunity to do
a little putting. The Chicago Times of
the Dist inst. furnishes the last in
stance, as follows:
Statistics of hog-packing for the
season of 1873 show that Chicago leads
the world, with indianapolis second,
St. Louis a bad third, with Cleveland
and Cincinnati neck and neck, bring
ing up the rear, but almost out of sight.
What is true of packing in the case of
Chicago, is true of all other legitimate
business. Chicago ism the foreground,
St. Louis in the middle distance, and
Cincinnati well in the background"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

Tobacco, Cigars, Etc.
J. & L. WHORLEY, a s. Market street.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
DIVIDEND.

ATA MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
a Directors OF the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St Louis Railway, held on the Sd day of March,
1874 a dividend of two per cent was declared on
the consolidated stock OF the Company, payable
on and after April l, lS74.
This is virtually six per cent on the old Nash
Vile and Chattanooga Railroad stock. hope
stockholders will so understand 1t.
Those who have not had their stock renewed
will receive two per cent upon the consolidated
stock, or six per cent upon their original stock
W. A. GLEAVES, Secretary.
nh6 till apl Banner and Bulletin please copy
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

IT may be taken as one Of the pOiti-
cal signs of the times that Hdrper'S
Weekly, which not long ago was as SER
vile a partisan sheets as any avowed
"organ, is becoming disloyal. In Its
last issue it speaks of the New Hamp-
shire election as indicating strong dis
approval of the present tendency and
condition of the Republican party.
saThere is" 1t says, immense dissatis-
faction III the Republican, camp, and
its best men are wondering whether re-
form is hopeless within the orsaniza-
ton"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Proposals for Printing.
CONTROLLERS OFFICE,
NASHVILLE. Tenn. March q. 1874.

DY AUTHORITY OF AN ACT, ENTI-
ID tied an act to provide for the editing and
publishing of the Reports Of the Supreme Court
of Tennessee, approved April /, 1872, sealed pro-
pOsals will be received by the undersigned Tor
5) fifteen days from this date, for the printing,
stereOtyping and binding of three-pOssibly
four-yOlumes of Heiskell's Reports. One thOus-
and copies of each volume will be required,
each volume to contain not less than 500 pages.
Specimen copies can be seen at the Comp
trOller's Office.
The work to be begun and finished as rapidly
as possible.
JNO. c. BURCH, Comptroller.
CHAS. y. GIBBS, Sec'y State.
W. MORROW, Treasurer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

Trunk Manufacturer.
WIN. DUSSTEID, 81 n. College street.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

THE Chicago Tribune expresses the
opinion that ''the most fitting mark of
respect to the great Senator would be
the passage of his famous battle-fag
resolution, word for word as it came
from the brain which has now done
with earthly thinking" Such thing
would induce terrible howl from the
SUPERFICIAL.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

The Nelv York Tribune says that the
sevents Of the last twelve months de-
monstrate the badness of our paper
money system with sufficient clearness
to make every sensible person IN the
land an advocate for the restoration of
the gold standard.''
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
WHAT 1T MEANS.

We are glad to see our suggestion
taken up, that Memphis malcontents
might turn their attention to the heavy
local taxes which burden that city and
constitute four-ffths of their grievance.
The Memphis avalanche, of the 22d,
has the following:
sit is not easy to understand how it
is that the city levies for the year 1873
taxation to the amount of four per cent
on the assessed values of property.
Authority to levy to that extent seems
not to be found In the law. The char
ter allows only one per cent to be
levied for the purpose of defraying the
expenses necessarily incurred in the
administration of the affairs of the
city, and not exceeding one-half of one
per cent to provide a sinking fund for
payment of bonds; and, for the purpose
of paying the interest on the bonded
debt, an amount not greater than may
be necessary for the purpose We
have not the information whereby to be
able to state exactly the rates levied for
general purposes, and for interest on
bonds, and for the sinking fund. 1t is
safe, however, to say that the whole fall
greatly short of the four per cent, and
probably do not reach as much as two
and one-half per cent.
To show the motives Of the little
clique of disappointed politicians about
Memphis, who are trying to create re-
pudiation party with a view of dividing
the Democratic party, we will, in this
connection, repeat what We have here
tofore stated, that they donot advocate
reducing the city taxes of Memphis to
one per cent or even two, which are
now four per cent, while the Avalanche
doubts whether there be legal authority
to go beyond two and one-half per
cent. These heavy taxes are the bur-
dens from which Memphis is suffering,
and some of these very men have never
done anything to reduce them or the
tax imposed by Shelby for county pur-
poses. There is no outcry against
these taxes, while the State tax in that
county is only drop In the bucket.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

A FEATURE of the reception of the
Duke of Edinburgh and his bride, at
Gravesend, was the strewing Of flowers by
one hundred girls, dressed in sailor cos
tune of white serge, trimmed with blue
serge and white braid, gilt anchor buttons,
blue stockings, black boots, white kid
gloves, plain white linen collar ana cuffs,
and narrow blue ribbon tie, the sailor hat,
with fiat brim, and ''Darie' in gold letters
on the ribbon.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24
CALENDAR OF POLITICAL EVENTS

The entries on the political calendar OF
1874 are, at this time, as follows;
April l. Rhode Island election.
April 6. Connecticut election.
Michigan town elections.
April I. Illinois town elections.
Wisconsin town elections.
April s. Oregon Republican COnven-
tion.
April ii. Illinois State Grange, Bloom
ingtOn.
Industrial Congress, Rochester,
- Y. Y.
y pril Is. Oregon Independent COnven.
ton.
MAY 5. Illinois Farmers Association,
June /. Oregon election.
June 9. National Convention of Farmers
and Mechanics, Cincinnati.
June II. Indiana Republican COnven-
ton.
June q. Maine Democratic Convention
July 10. Indiana Democratic Conven-
ton.
Ohio Democratic Convention
July 20. Alabama Conservative Con.
ventiOn.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

DEING pleased with the duties and satisfied
Id with the perquisites of the Office of Register
for Davidson county, announce myself can
didate for reelection on the first Thursday OF
August next. / purpose making the race on
merit alone, and respectfully solicit the support
of all who believe that have done my whole
duty in the past b. +. BINkLEf:
Nashville, Jan 20, 1874. Jan2O I'd
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-24

AN Independent State Convention
has been called IN Oregon to meet at
Salem on April Is, for the purpose of
nominating candidates on a platform
distinct from that of any political or
ganization.