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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
ARE EXPRESS COMPANIES sUPEE-
FLUOTB9

Anent the recent conferences OF rali-
way magnates at Saratoga, rumors are
current that the different roads intend
to combine and do their own express
business; that is, carry the packages
and receive the full price themselves
thus making the profit now made by
the Adams Express Company. This
would indicate a disposition on the
part of the railroad. to take pattern by
the Changers and dispense with middle
men. but the legitimate result ought to
be some reduction In express charges,
if the present system is really super
fiuous. Middlemen of all sorts are
very convenient, where we do not pay
too much for our whistle. The Net0
York Journal of Commerce, however,
doubts the rumor because the Adams
Express Company contracts continue
in force for ten, fifteen and twenty
years. no contract of theirs having less
than ten years from this time to run
1t further says that the scheme for the
establishment of railroad telegraph
company is exploded in the same way,
on account of existing contracts with
the Western Union Telegraph compa-
ny, to allow exclusive privilege of com,
mercial telegraphy along the line in re-
turn for certain benefits to the railroad
companies. 81.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
EMIGRATION VERSUS IMMIGRA-
TON

Tennessee is not the only State from
which dissatisfied ones emigrate.
Americans are a restless people, and
the facilities for free travel here are in
fnately superior to those of Europe.
We have no passport system or from
tier patrols on this continent. Radi-
cal rule has resulted IN such oppression
as to make the people still more rest
less, and the dissatisfaction is making
serious inroads among tie foreign born
among MS, whose steadiness and eau
ton, made hereditary by centuries of
over population, have passed into a
proverb.
The New York papers say that thou
sands of emigrants are leaving that
port every month. AT the same time
reports are coming IN of an enormous
falling off in the numbers of incoming
Storage passengers. 1t is found that
outward bound steamers are filed with
steerage travellers as never before.
Nearly 1900 steerage passengers sailed
from New York last Saturday for
Queenstown, Liverpool and German
ports. OF course many are only visit
ing Europe temporarily; but the num-
Ter is double that of any corresponding
period in the past years. The papers
say that the mass of emigrants who are
thus filling outward bound steamships
is similar to that which is each day ar
irving at Castle Garden.
The exodus is accounted for mainly
by the fact that since the panic last
fall employment is hard to obtain and
not we'll paid, and the emigrants find
their condition no better in this coun.
try than it was in Europe, while a
great inducement to them to return IS
the extreme cheapness of Storage pas
sage to Liverpool. The war among
the steamship companies began several
months ago, when the National Line
withdrew from the conference and re-
duced its rate of passage. Since that
time the tendency has been steadily
downward, and the rates are now less
than half what they were four months
ago. The passage then was S3l and
S29; now it is nominally SIS, and tick
cts are actually sold at lower figure.
The Tribune says that it is mainly
the better class of emigrants who have
some money left who have returned,
while those unable to do so have be-
come tax on their friends or the COM
munity.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

How the farmers of Wright county,
Iowa, drove away the grasshOppers is
revealed by the local paper. The crops
in the county were abundant, and anx-
ious husbandmen were in hopes that
these destructive pests would not appear
till after the harvest. At once they
came, however, in clouds and
darkened the sun. By preconcerted
plan the farmers set fire to piles Of dry
straw ON the bOrdersof the wheat fields,
and smothered the fire with green hay.
That caused volumes of smoke
to roll over the fields. The grass
hoppers didn't relish the procedure at
all. They rose with such multitude
nous hum Of wings as to deepen into a
roar ike distant thunder. and fled the
county. In that way the Wright conn
ty farmers have fair prospect of
saving the crops. In Europe the peas
antry depend on noise to keep the pests
from alighting All the church bells
are rung, while men, women and child
rem arm themselves with kettle drums,
tin pans, horns, and what not, raising a
din that would wake the dead.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

Within the past few days the UNION
AND AMERICAN has mentioned three
instances in which loss of life has re-
suited from persons encountering car
bonic acid gas in wells which they en-
tered to clean. If the same gas were
discharged in the same quantity
through common spring of water, 1t
would be quite harmless g Why, them
SO fatal in well? Because it has no
way of escape except to fill the well
and run over at the top. In the spring,
the moving air and wind remove the
gas as it rises from The ground or water.
Wells in constant use rarely have Car
bonic gas enough to do any harm to
persons entering them. If one has
been little used for some days or weeks,
a man should take the precaution Of
letting a burning candle or lamp down
with cord to the water or bottom OF
the wen, before going into It. II there
is vital air to support the life OF the
lamp or candle, man can breathe and
live in it; but if the candle goes out,
persons should not enter until
the bad air is destroyed. A
handful of quick,lime drawn up and
let down Just above the water will soon
absorb the excess Of carbOnic acid gas,
for which it has anafionity. This gas
is more than twice as heavy as common
air, and may be drawn out of a well IN
an apparently empty bucket, the same
rs water. A tumbler-full poured on a
lighted candle viii putt out. Taken into
the stomach in saltwater properly pre-
pared, it is harmless and pleasant; but
forall the purposes of respiration, it is
very deleterious The common air we
breathe contains one part of carbonic
acid in $500. The same AIR when it
leaves our lungs in respiration has one
part of carbonic acid in %. proving
that 100 times more carbon leaves the
body by constant breathing, night and
day, than enter it from this source.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

AT the recent District Conference OF
the Methodist Church South, held at
Warrensburg, Green county, Rev. L.
NJ. Bcwley. local preacher of the
Northern Church, was introduced and
made an able address. A correspond
ent of the Kno1Uille Press dEd Herald
epitomizes his remarks:
He regretted that some of the men,
bers in his own church seemed deter
mined to force the question of social
equality with the blacks upon the
church. and declared himself opposed
to it. He said that whenever the time
came that he should be forced to choose
between the races; he would 60 with
his own, and he only uttered the senti-
ments of thousands Of his own church.
He is man of ability and influence in
his neighborhood.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08


Uuder guidance of the Grange
the farmers are learning the,
ways of the world sufficiently
to hold their own against spec
ulatuve rings and combinations in many
matters. For several weeks past the
Grange Outlook has been urging East
Tennessee farmers to hold their wheat
till the ''bears" should be compelled to
break and let prices come to tn air
natural level Thus far the effort has
been comparatively successful. y The
last number of the Outlook contains the
following significant paragraph:
Those who are skeptical enough to
doubt the compactness and cohesive
power of our organization, need only
be referred to the significant fact that
to-day not bushel of wheat can be
moved at present prices. This magic
influence has passed along from one
end of the vast cloumn to the other.
In vain have dealers endeavored to
break our ranks by offering one dollar
and ten and fifteen cents. They might
as well sing psalms TO dead horse"
as to attempt to buy at these figures.
In like manner the Kentucky hemp
raisers around Lexington have deter
mined 10 get some share of the real
value of their staple, which hitherto it
has never commanded until afterit had
passed beyond their control. Some ac-
cuse the farmers of making corner
in hemp, but the least that need be
said is that farmers have as much right
to make corners as middle men,
and less arrangement is liza
bic to result, because farm
ers have not the run of the banks
like the others, and, as we take it, are
really seeking to do no more than re-
store the equilibrium that has been
periodically disturbed to their disadvan-
tage, by sheer speculation, backed with
the money monopolies, and preying
alike on the needs of producers and
consumers.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

THE NeIr York Herald pronOunces
the death of the woman suffrage move
ment, thus: The attitude of n woman
Ike Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the
Plymouth question has done more
harm to the woman's rights movement
than twenty years of agitation viii
remedy. Society sees that under the
movement. even as represented by a
woman like Mrs. Stanton, there is a
warfare against the sacred traditions
of home, marriage and honorable ma
ternity; that it countenances simply Ii
cense and shame in their worst phases
Mrs. Stanton gave her life to build up
this movement, and in day she de-
stroys it all"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

A COUNTY meeting held in McMinn
last Monday, selected delegates to the
State and Congressional Conventions.
The Athens Post finds in it, or rather
Out,of 1t, some occasion to scold:
Our friends from the country dis
tricts. as usual, seem To take but little
interest in anything Of the sort. They
are generally liberal and loud enough
in complaining of high taxes and bad
and defective legislation, but 1t is al
most impossible to induce them to en-
ter heartily into any public step hay-
ing for its object the removal of the
alleged evils This is a great blunder
If they see an evil they should be swift
aud active to aid in applying the cor,
receive, and not leave the primary work
to be done 10y half Il dozen men whose
misfortune it is, perhaps, to live in the
county town,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

A CONVENTION Of the people Of
Humphreys county was held at Wa
verify last Monday, and full delega-
ton was chosen to the State COnven-
ton. The WarsrIy Journal states that
in consequence Of some misunderstood
ing three members Of the Democratic
Executive Committee had resigned,
but after explanations it was moved
and carried that the gentlemen who
had resigned their positions be re ap-
pointed. When the people go in to
win, the policy of harmony must and
will prevail.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
~ w yTeCauu et al, Ex'Or, etc, vs. j.
n. McCapn et al.

~. 81
A LOT i'm Nashville at the intersection Of
Rroad and Summer streets, fronting % feet on
BROAD street and running back 46 feet 20 an :
foot alley, and being lot No Al IN the plan OF
College street. -
D 4 LOT beginning on the east side of Summer
street at a poiut 81 feet from the intersection Of
BROAD and Summer streets in a southern direc-
tion. running thence caStwardly towards the
river parallel with Broad street, 40 feet; thence
soutIIwar,ilv and parallel with Summer streetZ
feet; thence west TO Summer street 40 feet
thence northwardly with Summer street 2 feet;
3 A lot fronting 81 feet on Summer street and
running back at right angles within y feet OF
half way 20 Cherry street ~
A lot in Nashville, beginning at Pauls line
and running with his line toward the river 70
feet. thence parallel with Summer street =
feet: thence parallel with Broad street and
Paul's line as feet to Summer street, thence Y
feet TO the beginning. Cd.
: A tract OF 2N0 acres, more or less, IN the eth
Civil District Of Davidson county, on COLIN ;
Creek. :. A..
G. A tract of 100 acres and square pole IN the
9Th Civil District Of Davidson county, OF the
line of the Nashville and Chattanooga RailrOad'
near Antioch Depot
TERMS OF SALE--Ien (IOl per cent
cash and the balance on credits OF o, L, 10 ana
- months with interest from day OF sale.
Notes required with approved security and Zen
retained. ,--,,,,,
auos o7.S,99 0t Clerk and Master.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

GEN. DIBBRELL is mo doubt good
man. In the estimate Of the Athens
Post, but that journal suggests that
the unfortunate controversy which has
been pending for several weeks be-
tween that gentleman and Col. Thomas
B. Murray, of Warren county, may
make it polite and proper for the Con-
vention to look beyond the pretensions
of either for a nominee"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

EXCEPTIONALLY unexceptionable
is the phrase by which the Montgomery
advertiser characterizes the State ticket
put in the field by the Alabama De-
mocracy. Let such be the character
Of our ticket every where, and success
is ours. 1t is due to the principles we
advocate that our standard-bearers
should be the embodiment Of honesty,
intelligence and activity.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

Now that the August canvass is
over and brilliant victory achieved,
we cannot better express our attitude
toward Independent anti-Radical can
didates than in the words of the Jack
son Couricr.Herald. The trouble may
come up soon again in the legislative
canvass. Our contemporary says:
We have no war to make upon indie
pendent candidates and their friends,
but they certainly act against their
own interest and against the best In
terests of the county. Their course
strengthens the Radical Civil Rights
party at the expense of Conservatism,
without a reasonable hope of any ben
eft to themselves. Let them pause,
and reflect upon their action before it
is irreparably too late. We know they
have nothing in common with such a
party, and, when the conflict is ended,
will regretfully remember their eonnec-
ton with it.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

BROOKLYN has appropriated for
charities this year 100000. Of this
amount $4,000 goes to pay last years
debts. and $4,000 to salaries of Of
ficials, leaving only 100000, or one
third Of the whole, for the poor and In
sane. Public charities are a cumbrous
humbug when it costs $4,000 in
salaries to distribute 100000 among
the needy.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
Proclamation by the Governor.

JoHN c. BROWN, Governor Of the State Of
Tennessee-TO all who shall see these
presents, greeting:
WHEREAS, II has been made known 70 me
w that a certain MORRIS GRIFFIN,
charged with having committed foul and
atrociOus murder, on the 9Th day Of February,
1871, upon the body Of Richard Curtin, late OF
our county of Maury, has fled from justice, and
Is now running at large:
Now, therefore, 1, John c. Brown, Governor
a. aforesaid, by virtue of the power and author
ity in me vested, do hereby offer reward OF
five hundred dollars 10 any person OF persons who
may apprehend the said NORRIS GRIFFIN,
ami deliver him 10 the Sheriff or Jailer OF our
county Of Many. in order that justice IN that
behalf NAV be had and executed.
In testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto
set my hand, and have caused the Great
n. = 1Seal OF the State 10 be affixed, at Nash
willie, ON the 9Th day OF August, 1sIi
JOHN C. BROWN, Governor.
BY the Governor:
CHAS. y. GIBBS, Secretary Of State.
aug7 4t
80, F.fl;,,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

WE can imagine no more pernicious
appeal to prejudice, or unblushing
piece of demagoguery than isembodied
in the cry of the UNION AND AMERI-
CAN for a white mans ticket. 1t is a
direct appeal to race prejudice which
has been unhappily stirred up by the
discussion Of the Civil Rights bill, in
behalf of party interest. 1t is an at
tempt to drive all the white people of
the South into one party and the color
ed into another, result than which
there could be nothing more undesira-
bic for the good of both races.-Chottd-
aOOgd Commercial.
Our Republican contemporary does
not want the Civil Rights bill discuss
ed. Oh, NO. Ben Buffers programme
is to enact it under the gaglaw without
discussion. Our contemporary, like
other Republicans, are more anxious to
have this sum of villainies" passed
than discussed. So they would have
MS pass" all Radical shortcomings
and rascalities without discussion.
AS to the attempt to drive all white
men into one party and all the blacks
into another, such has been the grand
aim and result of Radical legislation
and tactics since the war, That party
has made the negro solid against the
whites, and seeks to keep it 50 by such
bats as social leveism. 1t is not that
they love the negro, but the negro S
vote. Southern whites have more kind
ness of heart for the negroes, and do
to-day more for them as a race and IN
dividually, than all the political dema,
gogues that may carpet-bag the South
for a century; but we cannot concede
to them rights which we do not cOncedt
to each other.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
Michael Kean vs.. John watson
n. 6RI

2. u
A house and lot in Nashville, beginning at the
corner of an alley, feet l9k inches "ldei bethg
fhe northeast corner Of StOrehOuse and dwelling
No 80 North Market street; thence southwark
lv along the west margin Of Market ST. Il ieet
sfnches 10 the middle Of the dividing " ali be
tween lots Nos and 4. thence westwardly with
the middle OF SAID dividing wall 81 feet inches
thence northwardly - inches; thence westward
IN along the south side OF the dividing wall be
tween lots 5 and 4, % feet II inches 70 an alley
a. feet wide; thence northwardly along the
margin of said alley Il feet 70 an alley lee tand
lng Inches; thenceeastw ardly along the south
margin OF said alley l2s. feet TO the beginning
TERMS Credits OF and " months ,,- Notes
required with approved security and lien re-
tzlined-
sale free from redemption.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

BY direction of the Committee for the Sixth
Congressional District, Democratic and Con-
ervatiye Convention, TO nominate a candi-
date to represent the District in the next Con-
gress, Is hereby called to meet at GAINESVILLE, at
IL O'Clock a. N. on Wednesday, the ID day Of
September next. The several Counties com
posing the District are requested to appoint
delegates to thesame.
- &. X. WINSTON, Chairman.
Newspapers of the District please copy.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
State of Tennessee---Cheathan
County.
O.W. Davis vs.. q. w. Smith.

IN THIS CAUSE 1T APPEARING BY
| affidavit that the defendant, G. W. Smith, is
indebted TO the plaintiff in the sum Of 500, as
damages for breach Of contract, and that the
said G. W. Smith does not reside in the State, 80
that the ordinary process OF law cannot be served
mon him, and an original attachment having
been levied urOn his property, il i therefore or
dered that publication be made in the L mon
and American, newspaper puolished IN the
eitv OF Nashville For four successive weeks com
manding the said G. W. Smith TO spPear before
me at nv Office, in Ashland City, in said county
OF Cheatham, on the 18th day Of September,
1874, at Il O'Clock, and make defence 70 said suit
g. T.. SLOAN,
Justice Peace for Cheatham Co.
Aug. z. 1874 aug dl&w3t
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
FTfth congregational District.

FAYETTEVILLE, July 10, 1S7i.-A convention
Of delegates. selected by the Democratic and
Conservative voters OF the Fifth Congressional
district, is hereby called to meet at ShelbyTille
on the 10th of September, 1874, for the purpose
Of nominating candidate for Congress, and for
the transaction Of such other business as may
properly come before the convention
By order of the Executive Committee.
j. ID. TILLMAN, Chairman.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
FOR SALE.

4 4 BEAUTIFUL LOT, As FEET FRONT,
L. on North Market street, below the Louisville
Depot, with frame house, No. 202. occupied by
prompt paying tenant; and .
2. Nine acres of land ON the NOlensVilie PIKE,
3 miles from the city, both tracts belonging 70
the estate Of II. Lettering, deceased Terms
highly acceptable. For particulars apply 10
j. b. JEUP, Attorney,
5SY Cedar street, Nashville, Tenn
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
Enardian'S Sale.

ny VIRTUE OF A MORTGAGE Exc
b cuted by Catherine and Patrick Lyons to
Daniel DOugheny, and of record IN the Kegs
ter's otfice Of Davidson county in book ~, page
43l. | will, at u o'clock ON August Is, 1871, at
the Courthouse door, at public sale, proceed 10
sell the lots known as lots 80 and 81 IN Boyds
addition to the city Of Nashville, fronting lOO
feet and running back $50 feet. Said sale Is TO
nav note of 800. -, interest and expenses OF
ale Said sale free from all equity OF redemp-
ton. JERRY MAhONE1s Ouai Ni'N-
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

An exchange laments that "theorig-
inal founder of the Changers, Mr.. Saun-
ders, of Washington, is incapacitated
for the Presidency of the United States
by the fact that he IS a Scotch
man.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
Strayed or Stolen.

on THE CRU INST, FROM NEAR THE
Penitentiary, one dark sOrrel mare, about
lSy hands high, with small Jumps on each Shout
der blade small star i'm forehead, about 3 years
old, and small lump ON left jaw. Also, one bay
horse, about Is hands high, nine or ten years
old, star in forehead. slightly bumped on the
back. 1 will give a liberal reward 70 any per-
son who will give information or return said
stock 10 L. y. Rail, State Prison, Nashville,
Tenn. augS q sat6tue$
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08

LOCAL option was one of the issues
in Kentucky last Monday and in many
places negroes staggered up to the
polls, as full of whisky as they could
hold, and voted against the granting of
license to sell liquor.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
Newspapers of the District please {
Fourth congregational District Con.

BY direction Of the Committee for the Fourth
Congressional District, Democratic and Con-
servatiye Convention, TO nominate candidate
TO represent the District in the next Congress,
is hereby caledt 70 meet at Carthage at II O'Clock
A. N. on the first day OF october next. The seve-
raj counties composing the district are requested
to appoint delegates to the same.
.JoTIS A FIFE, Chairman.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-08
Calls Upon Persons 90 Become Csndi-
dates for Once.

Er dates for Once.
We adopted rule three years ago that we
uld require payment, Of twenty cents per
inc, for all communications calling upon per
cons to become candidates, or conmnnications
commendatory of candidates. This rule has not
been changed, and viii be adhered to in the fn-
ure, as heretofore. All interested viii please
take notice. -.
In all legitimate demands Of the Democratic
party, or of the great interests Of the general
public, upon our columns, the UNION ANDANKR-
IcAN viii not fail of its duty; but where mere
individual schemes or interests are to be promOt-
ed, it will be done as advertising, and at the
rates stated above.