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DUNNELL'S BILL.
4 land and Immigration scheme
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To the Union and American:
MCNIINNvILLE. Tenn, March 1G.-In a
recent number of your paper was repub-
liShed from Chicago journal what pur-
ported to be the SYNOPSIS of bill lately i'll
PRODUCED into Congress, which was de-
nOunced as an attempted fraud and swim
die. Ny name and Others from Tennessee
were given as coTporators. Not knowing
anything Of the matter, bat knowing how
unreliable sensational articles nowadays
are, / inclosed the extract to the Hon. John
Wilson, Of Washington City, and asked
him to tell me the truth about it. With
this you will receive a copy Of his reply,
which, as a matter of Justice TO those who
have been slandered. you are respectfully
requested to publish, with this note.
Ed. w. MUEFO3D.
LETTER From ME-. WILSON.
WASHINGTON, March 1, IS74.-COl. T..
W. MunfOrd, McMinnville, Tenn.-Dear
Sir: Yours of the 9th ult. Just to hand.
The immigration Bill to which YOU refer
was drawn 10y me, carefully criticised and
corrected by number Of gentlemen, and
its objects are to secure heavy immigration
to this country, with suitable encourage
ment TO insure safe transit and comfortable
homes. l wanted you on il, and had your
name put down rs one of the COTpOrators.
You know me well enough to know that
would not have anything TO do with a
fraudulent matter. Truly yours.
JOIN WILSON.
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MEMPHIS.
a Rad SnecuIasiOu.

MEMPHIS. March 1.-THE directors Of
the Memphis and Charleston railroad to-
day refused to accept the proposition of the
Southern Security Company, to annui the
lease and restore control of the road TO
the stockholders, on the payment Of a
bonus OF 100000 which the Security
Company claim they have lost in running
connecting roads.
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NORTH. CAROLINA.
Threatened Volcanic Eruption of Bald
Mountain.

hOuht<tAh
RALEIGH, March 17.-Passengers from
the west on this mornings train confirm
reports of rumbling noises on the summit
and the general upheaving of Bald Noun
tain in Western North Carolina. People
living on and near the mountain are re-
moving, and a volcanic eruption is ex-
Pected. Reporters leave this evening for
the mountain.
NEW YORK, March IA Raleigh. Y.
C., dispatch says Bald Mountain, in the
western part of the State, is in state of
volcanic eruption, and that the houses and
cottages on its sides and at the base of the
mountain have been thrown down. The
inhabitants of the locality, terror stricken,
are seeking safety in flight. A thin vapor
sinks from the top of the mountain, and
low rumbling sounds are constantly heard.
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LOUISVILLE.
A lEeartIess SRindIe.

LOUISVILLE, March 11.-AIike MahOn
alias NJ. l.. Mason, was presented before
the city court this morning on the charge
Of swindling. 1t appears Mason has flooded
the South with letters addressed to various
parties, representing himself to be proprie-
tor Of the Atlantic House in this city. and
has in his possession trunks and money be-
longing to a relative of the party addressed
who died 81 his house. He requests the
payment of a bill against the deceased and
the valUablcs viii then be forwarded.
Hundreds Of letters containing money have
been received to MasOn's address in the last
few days. He was once a peddler in the
South and availed himself Of his extensive
acquaintance. There is no Atlantic House
in the city, and the whole thing is an in
geniOus SWindle.
Tired Of Life.
LOUISVILLE, March 17.-H. a. Holmes.
for many years salesman for Bamberger,
Broom u Co., shot himself through the
head this evening and will die. Cause
family troubles.
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Another Enforfnnafe.

PROVIDENCE, II. l., March 1I.-George
Il. Downing, agent Adams Express Com
pany, .suicided in his private Office, shoot
ing himself through the head. lie had APP
peared to be in usual spirits a few moments
previously. He was a young man much
esteemed
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The steamboat Southwestern hence
Thursday for Shreveport, with a full list of
passengers and five hundred tons of assort-
ed cargo, was burned at COlfaX Sunday
morning. The boat and cargo are a total
loss. Value Of cargo unknown, the boat
was valued AT $4,000, insured for $4,000.
The passengers lost their baggage. The
officers and crew of the Southwestern re-
turned here by the Maria Louise.
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COTTON was in active demand in
New York yesterday at an advance to
l6sc for middling,
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Jail Delivery.

OMAHA, March I7.-Last night two
prisoners confined in the county Jail at
Grand Island, Neb., surprised and knocked
the .jailer down, handcutled and locked him
up in 4 cell, and leisureiy made their es-
/ cane
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y WASHINGTON correspondent calls at
tentiOn 10 the number Of American ladies'
who have married foreign diplOmatIsts who
have visited this country. Mrs. Gen.
Griffin has become the Countess Esterhazy;
little blUe-eyed Camilla Webb IS now the
baroness Won Havre; Miss Williams, of
Georgetown, became the bride Of Count
BOdiscO, and another Georgetown girl has
given her affection TO an Italian count, who
has left her here, expecting his tardy re-
turn, which looks too prolonged TO promise
any realization; Miss ROmaine Goddard,
step-daughter IF Admiral Dahlgren, be
came Madame Won Overlook, and has made
her home amidst the steppes Of Russia; a
Washington girl was made the wife of the
Mexican minister, Romero; recently Miss
Campbell married Mr.. Charlton, Of the
English legation; another New York belle
married Senior Roberts, formerly SPANISH
minister; and the daughter Of Mr.. Riggs the
banker, is now Mrs. Howard, Of the Eng-
lish legation
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Instantly Killed.

TOLEDO, O., March 17.-Geo. Lavine, a
farmer residing five miles below the city,
while on his way home, last night, drove
his team over an embankment fifty feet
high and was instantly killed.
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THE 'GOod Mrs. Brown" of Dickens is
OutdOne by a Liverpool woman, who has
been committed to trial for stripping little
children whom she met in the street, and
turning them adrift in the cold with scarce
ly any covering on their bodies.
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a CreyaSSe.

a break occurred in the upper Bass e.
wee, three miles below Lake Providence
last Friday. The break was two hundred
yards long ut last accounts. A dozen or
more large plantations back of GoOdrich's
landing will overflow from this crevasse. 1t
is reported it las already stopped the run
ming Of trains on the Vicksburg and Shreve-
mort railroad
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TENNESSEE BONDS We're quiet and
nominal in New York yesterday, with
both issues at 909.
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ONE OF BEAU HICkMAN's TRICKS

Beau once made a raid on the Baltimore
restaurants. He determined to dine we'll
that day. or know the reason, why. He
walked into GUYS restaurant and asked
for the proprietor.
"Sir," said be, Il want the best dinner
you can give me-"
s.All right, SIR" said Mr.. Guy; ''walk in
here showing him into a neat little pri-
vate room.
The Beau ate and drank Of the best, and
lust after he had finished his cup of cafe
Roir, and had lit his cabana, a servant en-
tered with folded paper on silver waiter,
which he gravely handed to the Beau.
"What is this?7 inquired the Beau.
"De bill, sah,' said the waiter.
"Bill; don't want any bill. Ask the
proprietor to come here"
The proprietor appeared, bowling and
smiling; he hoped there was nothing
wrong, and that his guest had liked his
dinner.
81 liked the dinner we'll enough, and the
wine," said Beau Hickman, ''but want to
know what this means"
.sThat's the bill, sir" said the proprietor.
"Well, l never pay any bills. am Beau
Hickman. / don't pay anybody. Besides,
YOU have no right to charge me for this din
ner. asked you for tine best dinner you
could gire me.
swell, Beau, you have rung in on me
and got the better of me fairly. Now, I'll
not only forgive You for this trick, but I'll
give YOU SIS if you will play this trick on
the St. Clair, on the other side of the
way"
The next day the Beau Jared sunptuous-
Iv af the ST. Clair, and the scene was re-
enacted. The bill was presented, and the
proprietor wound up with, "Beau, | will
give you $50 if you will play this of on
Guy"
s.My dear sir" said the Beau, ''why didn't
| call here first9 Guy has paid me 50 to
play il on YOU"
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Postponed.

CINCINNATI, March 1.-THE Enquirer
Mclean contempt case was yesterday post
poned TO Wednesday next.
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LOUISIANA.
The Grant Parish Prisoners Ac-
quilted,

But Reulanded 10 Jail on Fresh
Charges.
New ORLEANS, March 1.-THE jury in
the case Of the Grant parish prisoners
brought in a verdict Of not guilty. As to
Alfred c. Lewis the jury said there was no
possibility Of agreement. As to the others
they were discharged by Judge Wood and
were remanded on motion Of the District
Attorney who announced that there were
other indictments against them.
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BISHOP HENSEssEY, of Kansas, has pro-
hibited dancing at Catholic fairs and festi-
walls in that diocese.
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IL PARIS the most fashionable ladies
viii have none Of the afternoon receptions
and kettledrums, but receive in the evening
only. Calls alone are tie thing for the
DAYTIME. Receptions by sunlight may do
in England, but the fashion of France re-
pudiates them as in bad taste.
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HENRY WARD BEECHER preScrites
Christianity as cure for Communism.
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GOLD IN New York yesterday rang.
cd between 1ll5a1l24 closing at 10.
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The Richmond Wing says some children
in Indiana were lately excluded from
public school because they were one
sixteenth Indian, their great grandfather
having been of Indian descent. The pa
rents appealed, and it was decided that the
children were in effect colored children,
and could not be allowed 10 attend school
with white children. If the two or three
hundred thousand ''deScendan's of Poca-
hOLtas,' now living in Virginia, were to go
to Indiana, they would be in a bad way so
cially. They are "lirst families" in the
Old Dominion.
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New York Parades go, 900.

New York Parades 1900.
NEW YORK, March 17.-Saint Patrick's
Day was honored by a pOntifcial mass in
the Cathedral and high mass in most of all
the churches. The customary march Of
Irish societies took place, notwithstanding
an unceasing rain. The start was deferred
till = o'clock. The procession took one
hour and twenty minutes to pass the City
Hall, marching closely and fast ON account
of rain, and numbered between 1900 and
10000. Brooklyn, jersey City and neigh
bering towns have their professions also,
but the rain plays havoc with the glitter
and show. Dispatches from New England
tell of professions and rain there.
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The Catholic Move.

\ circular has been issued in behalf of
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America, explaining the plan ofpermanent
and effective organization of the total alb
stinence forces, and calling upon societies
in all quarters TO connect themselves with
this union. 1t is purposed to retain the
temperance societies under the supervision
of the heads of the church.
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CHICAGO, March Notwithstanding
the failure of the temperance ladies last
night to secure the repeal of the Sunday Or
dinance by the City Council and their brJI-
tai treatment by the street mob last night,
they declare their intention of carrying on
the fight, and have called mass meeting
for tomorrow and Thursday night.
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On the Curb-Stone.
Poor Success.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. March 1.-THE ladies'
committee Of thirty is busily engaged in
canvassing the city with various pledges
but so far with poor success A committee
of four ladies waited upon the City Coun-
ell at its last meeting and presented petit
tiOns praying the enforcement of the tenn
perance-4aw by the city authorities which
was received and filed but was honOred
with no further attention.
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CLEVELAND, o., March 1.-THE whole
Irish population of Cleveland have been
celebrating to-day. The day was beautiful
and the procession the largest Of the kind
ever seen here. Banquets are being given
by various societies in different parts Of the
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VOL. V.--NO. 10Y

AS Tar as civil rights is concerned. nv
heart, my brain, and my pen have been busy
in its behalf. No man, true to God, true to
humanity, true to his race, true to the cause
OF universal freedom, and true to the feelings
Oh his better nature, could lay one straw in
the way of civil rights!
When the call was issued in Boston-if
there was ever one issued (?)--to consider
the matter OF electing delegates to the Ma
tlonal Civil Rights Convention, to be holden
in your city, was absent from Boston.
When arrived in the city was informed
that meeting had been hastily called by the
Young Mems Republican Club" and dele
gates duly chosen. Whether these men were
"thc chosen of the people," 1 forbear to
say(?)
80 you see that / was not present, and,
therefore, know nothing of the above men
toned meeting. had conversation with
Hon. j. b. Smith, and urged him to attend
the convention. Mr.. j. NJ. Trotter and
had long talk on the Civil Rights Bill, and
also concerning the impending convention.
MIR. Trottcr urged me to attend, which was
unable to do. While was in your city, Mr..
Martin and other gentlemen entreated me
to return to the convention, but important
duties in my church forbade my accepting the
invitation.
The week the convention convened wrote
letter on the convention, which appearcd
in your columns and the same week called
upon Mr.. Sumner in relation to the bill.
L cannot think Of man in Boston so cow
ardly, so unnatural, so unprncipled, as to
charge me with treachery to the cause of
human justice and free citizenship!
l can point, though young man, to a re-
cord in war and in peace not blotted by deeds
OF faithlessuess to the flag, the State, or the
Church, but record dampened by my own
blood! lido not speak egotistically. know
of what affirm. 1t moves me to be misrep-
resented, and especially in matter so dear
to my heart.
From 1868 to 1874 have ever, in my feeble
way. endeavored to serve in righteous
cause. During the war l received baptism
of blood, l entered the enchanted circle of
spend my days in the cause of human free
dom. And trust that the immortal lessons
that were cut into my body while fighting the
battles OF my country may ever remind me
OF the awful price of freedom and it's many
duties and responsibilities!
God knows that my heart loves the cause
Of my people, and that all my powers, few
though they be, have been long agolad upon
the altar of our common cause!
Again, in conclusion, allow me to say that
never by word, influence, or act, opposed
civil rights or any measure destined to bring
to us the rights, privileges, and immunties
for which we have so long prayed, fought,
and looked!
Yours, truly,
GEORGE w. WILLIAMS
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before the coming campaign, quiet; although
"The muttering storm in the distance is -
heard, and the opposing hosts are preparing
for the onset. 1t will be u fierce contest.
The Democrats are over confident because
of their accession to their ranks of those re-.
stored TO their franchise ; and the Republic
cans because of their former success. One
thing is sure, the colored citizens will vote
soldly republican and the accession from the
other States is pretty large.
Our schools are mostly closed throughout
the State on account of the late de-
cision Of the Supreme Court, that State
scrip is receivable for all taxes except the
sinking fund tax. This reduces the school
moneys about one half, and with the excep-
ton of Pine Bluff and Little Rock the schools
are all closed for lack of means. Our last
legislature left the school laws in such bad
shape that no State school fund has been
drawn in two yaars. AS q general thing our
schools in all cities and towns have been
good most Of the teachers from the north !;
but our country schools hare not generally
been a success, although there has been a
large expenditure of money! Time will i'm.
prove this; and with such a school law as
we may have and must have, Arkansas will
rise rapidly in general education. Our State
University is being managed with ability,
and already counts its students of all grades
by the hundreds. z
N. ". MARTIN.
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HON. 8. y. sgis,Sicr.
Speech Delivered ut Charleston 8. e, March
., 1874.

GENTLEMEN : Ii affords ne pleasure al
ways to meet my friends, and when under.
existing circumstances the compliment of
this serenade has been paid me, it is an adj
ditional evidence of the confidence reposcd
in me, not only as a public man, but as your
immediate representative. This, gentle
men, is not the only occasion upon which
you have Indicated an approval of my hum
bic efforts in the field of politics. remcm-
Der, in the dark days o: 1864, you indicated
your confidence when you placed upon me
the responsibility Of pioneering certain move
ments looking to results that have been in
great part attained. When, in 1865, the
first Republican Convention was held in
South Carolina, where colored men met and
expressed, and without molestation, their
opinions as to their condition, you invited
me through the delegation to represent at
Washington their grievances. In 1868,
when, under the reconstruction Acts of Con-
gress, South Carolina was called upon to
frame her Constitution and Government
aereeably to those Acts, you rendered me a
unanimous nomination as Il member of that
Convention and subsequently, in 1870,
through your representatives, you gave me a
unanimous nomination rs 4 candidate for the
office of Acknowledgement Of the State of
South Carolina and at a still later period
YOU AGAIN IcIltcIcu nOniinu-
ton for the position of Congressman for
this District, and those are compliments of
any public man may well be proud, and for
which | am thankful. Gentlemen, | have
tried TO do my duty, and if at any time have
failed il was not because | did not care to
succeed or that ! WAS indifferent to your
interests. Gentlemen, though the Republic
can party, as an organization, has achieved
glorious victories in the past, though the ma
jority of us as a race have, through trying
ordeals, made marked progress, we are called
upon to-day to pass upon questions in which
the entire past and future are intimately
| wrapped up and interviewer. Holding the
position which do, gentlemen, and coming
| amongst you after an absence of nearly four
months, at time, too, when the gravest
questions in which is wrapped up the good
name of the Republican party, and the inter-
csts of all as a people are being discussed, it
would seem proper that L should say word
in addition to the acknowledgment of the
compliment you kindly tender me.
| All over the country the belief obtains that
the situation of affairs in our State is most
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never to be forgotten as long as the country

never to be forgotten as long as the country
stands.
OF Benjamin f. Butler have still more
to say; 1t is this, that he is not only the
friend of the negro but the friend of every
poor man he is the friend of mankind in
general; he is the friend especially of equal
ity. And L thank God for having destined
him for our next Governor; yes, the next
Governor Of our good old Bay State. Let
those who think differently remember the
negroes of Massachusetts never forget
friend; yes, let corruption tremblc but let
the friends -of liberty and equality rejoice
that it has been so ordained by a just God
who never fails to reward the deserving.
The negroes will not forget the man who
led their brethren VIGOROUSLY through the
fields of Louisiana, and thereby gave to the
negro name for heroism and prowess I'M
surpassed, and consider that every colored
man in the good old Bay State owes a vote
to Benjamin f. Butler for Governor; it is
the least they can do for that tried friend and
hero.
Ii there is one negro in Massachusetts who
is so base that he would be bondman, him
has he offended; if there is one so lost that
he would not be an American citizen, him
has he offended; if there is one so vile that
he does not love his country, then him has
he offended. He has proved himself true to
all, and all should do their utmost to secure
for him that situation which the Almighty
has appointed him FILL
With an earnest prayer for the success of
Mr.. Butler and the advancement of the COL
ored race, am most respectfully,
L. w. ii.
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From Arkansas.
PINE BLUFF, March Is, 49,

PINE BLUFF, March Is, 1874.
To he Editor Of the EtD National Era:
SIR feel to "mourn with those who
mourn and weep with those who weep" as
I know four and half millions of newly en-
franchishea people will mourn and weep as
for father.
My daily of yesterday contained the sad
news of the nations loss in the death of the
Hon. Charles Sumpcr, the true and tried
friend of humanity; and we very properly
wonder on whom his mantle will fall who
will stand for the right of man without re-
gard to race or color as he has. Will Mr..
Hoar press the passage his Civil Rights bill
as he would have done? How pleasant to
think of that the recinding of the hasty reso-
luton of censure which took place before his
death. Arkansas is much as usual, so long
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From Massachusetts.
(G2 Phillips strect,)

BosToN, MASS, Feb. 2S, 1874.
T. he Idfar ofhc ye,o Naii,aaE Era:
l have just been Informed by member
of"The Standing Committee on Civil Rights"
that, when Prof Z. ii. Clark called the
attention of the convention TO the reading
ola papsr written by myself, that one of the
Massachusetts, delegates rose and objected
to the paper, stating that he knew the writer,
and that ] was opposed to civil rights
Now, Mr.. Editor, am decidedly opposed
to disputations Of any kind, but when man,
who claims to know me-and l am sure that
would like TO know him-rises in a conven-
ton that has for its end the good of the
race, and lays at my door sin of which
am innocent, am anxious and glad of an
opportunity Of publicly denying any such
falsehoods.
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