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The anti-monopolist., 1875-10-11

Ole C. Olson reports 100 acres and threshed
5000 bushels, being Is bushels per acre. These
samples are about an average Of the crop OF the
county.
The anti-monopolist., 1875-10-11

S. Hartstien, Agent, 95 east Third street St.
Paul. The best imported and Key West Gig
ars and tobacco Of all kinds. Oct. 18th At.
The anti-monopolist., 1875-10-11

Philip Turck had l26 acres in wheat, and
threshed therefrom 1851 bushels, making an
average of nearly 81 bushels per acre.
The anti-monopolist., 1875-10-11

Chas. A. Cavender, one of the popular con-
ductors on the ST T. Il 2. K. 4. called on us
yesterday.
The anti-monopolist., 1875-10-11

Prest Geo. L. Becker, Genl. Sibley, T.
Campbell and b. Beaupre, are here spending q
The anti-monopolist., 1875-10-11

Judge Brown, convened District Court here,
yesterday, and immediately adjourned till 9Th,
Of Nov
The anti-monopolist., 1875-10-11

Capt Jno. Z. Vanderhorck, of Minneapolis,
spent the day in town. Jno. is one OF the good
Dutchmen that we all like to meet.
The anti-monopolist., 1875-10-11
LITCHFIELD DEPARTMENT
JESSE V. BRANHAM, Jr.. Editor.

If you want drugs or medicines. call on V.
H. Harris.
The anti-monopolist., 1875-10-11
Best Time On Record!

Chas. Olson, left Minneapolis, at :. M, 9Th
Of Oct and arrived q Iitchfeid. at 4s30 p. M,
same day, ina Zone hos shay."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
NOT A HARD HONEY ORGAN.

In defending Itself from the charge
Of being an organ of the "hard money
faction, the NeiC York Bulletin says:
The Bulletin is not in favor Of the
hard money" doctrine, Us it Is COM
monty understood, viz: the substitution
of coin for greenbacks; but regards
such a substitution as a needless waste
Of wealth, a gratuitous increase Of the
burthens Of taxation, and, fortunately,
an operation impossible Of achievement.
But 1t does, as 1t always has, favor the
placing of our paper currency upon
basis which Will at all times give it
purchasing value equal 10 that Of gold.
It would have the greenback currency
retained at its present volume and with
its legal tender quality; first, because
there is no evidence that 1t Is redUn-
dant, and next, because 1t cannot be
contracted without deranging the whole
framework of trade and france. But
it would have the greenbacks made
convertible into gold at the earliest
possible day, thereby making not
only the legal tenders worth
their face in gold, but also the bank
note circulation, which is payable in
greenbacks. 1t would also have the
banks, both State and national, free to
issue circulating notes without any
other limitation than such as may
arise naturally from the present re-
quirements as to the deposit of bonds
for securing the note-hOlders; which
would provide all the circulation the
country may require; and, to prevent
any redundancy Of circulation, 1t
would have the existing arrangements
for redeeming bank notes continued
until better can be agreed upon.
In these views might be found, we
think, a safe, conseI vative course be-
tween undue expansion or contraction
Of the currency. There is, however,
one Objectionable feature in the plan
that by which a deposit of government
bonds would be required to secure the
note-holders of State banks. 1t is
clearly a matter which the States them
selves should regulate. What the people
demand is that the National Banks be
abolished, and that the Government 60
out Of the banking business altogether.
If we cannot have a currency,
based upon the national good faith and
of a volume commensurate with the
growing necessities of the country,
why not 60 back to the old system of
free banking, under which the people
were certainly more prosperous than at
any time within the past fifteen years
of financial tinkering by Congress and
Secretaries of the Treasury who neither
understand nor care for the public in
terests?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
RIVER IMPROVEMENT IN UPPER
EAST TENNESSEE.

huONFllle Press anu 1icIalQg ull IL
Mai. WIN. NJ. Gordon, of the United
States corps of civil engineers, is in the
city. At the last session of Congress
an order was made for the survey of
POwell's river from Three Forks, In
Wise county, Virginia, to the mouth of
Clinch, in Tennessee, and Of the Clinch
from the mouth of Powell's river up to
the mouth of Indian, In Tazewell cOun-
ty, Virginia. Mai. Gordon has been at
work on the survey ordered. Com.
mencing at Three Forks in Virginia, he
surveyed TO the mouth of Powell s, which,
with the exception of the first thirty
miles, can readily be rendered naviga-
bic to fat boats, and accessible TO
larger crafts by a small outlay. Major
Gordon Will IN short time commence
the survey Of the Chnch. The apprO-
priatiOn made for these surveys is
very small-nOt more than sufficient to
make more than preliminary survey. A
further appropriation, looking to the
ultimate improvement Of these streams
SC as TO better adapt them to nayiga-
ton, viii depend upon the reports
made by Major Gordon. That a great
extent of rich country can be opened
to commerce by the improvement Of
these streams is undOubted, and the
residents along their borders should
render the engineers all the assistance
in their power, and call their especial at
tentiOn to the resources, agricultural,
mineral, etc. of their region.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
HUDSON RIVER VILLAS BEGGING
FOR PURCHASERS.
New York Times

Within the past season, a WELL
known estate on the upper hudson,
beautifully situated and carefully laid
out, which cost the owner 500, 600,
was sold for less than the mortgage
upon it, or for $4,000. As the trav-
eler sails up the Hudson from New
burgh he will within a short distance
see three fine properties, one Of which
belonged to a British Ambassador,
another to one of our own foreign
ministers, and the other to an equally
prominent person, all Of which are in
the market, unsaleable and unrentable,
one, indeed, being turned into a brick
yard. Passing still further up the
stately river, the traveller will
be pointed to other splendid prop
ties belonging to old immortal
estates-sOme whose titles came from
the British crown, and others whose
deeds were signed by the Indi N chiefs
now utterly worthless as sources of
profit, the expenses of keeping them up
exceeding any rent possible for them,
and they themselves not finding a
buyer at the prices of the mortgages
upon them. These places, too, it should
be remarked, are among the finest in
the Northern States, with handsome
lawns and gardens, oldtrees and parks,
and superb views of river and noun
tain. The houses themselves are per-
haps old, but not uncomfortable, and
they are easy of access by boat and
railroad. The same state of things
prevail further from the river. There
is one place In Duchess county which
is said to have cost $4,000, and which
could not be rented, and probably not
sold, for a third of its value.
In the interior of the State there
are numerous other estates IN the same
plight.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
THE EXCITEMENT IN THE WHEAT
q IN

MAGs1 II.
Should the weather continue favor
able, very large proportion of the
Tennessee wheat crop will be ready for
market by the close of the present
week. From one end of the State to
the other the farmers are using their
utmost exertions to finish threshing be-
fore further rain can interfere with
their operations. 1t is not simply a
question of bread; the surplus viii
bring into cur State sufficient currency
to meet at least ordinary wants until
the corn, cotton and tobacco crops can
be sold.
Meantime, the breadst1ffs market
has taken turn very advantageous
for producers, if they bat Will seize
the opportunity and hurry forward
their wheat while remunelative prices
are obtaina5le. In Sundays issue we
gave sOme points concerning the ex-
element in Chicago and New York,
and our telegrapbic advices of this
morning from those and all other lead
ing markets, announce that still higher
prices have been reached. Let
Tennessee farmers wisely take the
bird In hand" Now is their time to
sell, for there may be danger ahead.
Already vague hints are afoat of prep
arations being made In Chicago for
another corner in wheat. If this be
so, it is for the farmers themselves to
apply a remedy by quick delivery East,
and so Illustrate what is nothing less
less than a conspiracy to defraud them
OF fair market for their crops.
The demand that has sprung up at
such an oppOrtune time seems based
upon speculation abroad; but, as a
general thing, foreign buyers # our
grain know what they are about. The
whole wheat growing area of the W rid
has been placed under such a system
of inspection and report that the pros
pect from day TO day can be judged
with remarkable accuracy; and, there
fore, while it is possible that Euro
pean speculation may exceed the war
rant of facts, yet there is always rea-
son to suspect, when foreignersare buy
ing as they have for the last few days,
that they have some good reason there
for. 1t is well known that England is
suffering from heavy. rains upon the
ripe and ripening crops, and that the
disastrous French floods are also an IN
favorable element in the Continental
market, while the most recent advices
from Hungary and the South of Eu-
rope, are of an altogether unsatisfac-
tory nature.
With ali these facts before US, We re-
peat the suggestion that our farmers
will consult their own interest best by
selling while the situation is 50 much
in their favor. Should they do this,
Tennessee will be hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars better off before prices
fall back-of which there does not
seem to be an early probabiIity-to the
old quotations.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
OHIo'S RAGGED EDGE.
Presidential AsPiranis In an AWk-
ward Dilemma.

new AcIA herald July II.
The grodnd taken In the Ohio plat
form is the popular ground in the West,
and all Presidential candidates are so
well aware of it that neither Blaine,
nor Wilson, nor Tilden, nor Hendricks
will utter lisp on the currency until
after the Ohio election. 1t is the pop
ularity of initiation among both parties
In the West and South that makes the
dangerous Ohio platform "the ragged
edge" of our politics. The political
courage of the hard money Presiden-
tial candidates ON both sides wits In
view of the situation If the Democrats
carry Ohio both parties will trim on this
vital question. Ohio is the only great
State which will hereafter hold an De-
tOber election in the Presidential year,
and the preliminary contest in October
viii virtually decide the Presidential
election, as it has generally done here
tOfore when Pennsylvania was leading
State. 1t is with an Ill grace kthat the
friends Of other Presidential candi-
dates denOunce Senator Thurman for
mis- silence, when it is certain that
Blaine and Wilson and Hendricks and
even Tilden viii be as dumb as oysters
until it is seen how the political cat
jumps In Ohio. Thurman is in a more
difficult position than any of them, be-
cause Ohio is his own State and he is
compelled u take an active part IN the
canvass. All other Presidential candi-
dates, of both parties, will watch with
keen and curious interest his deport-
ment on the ragged edge.
Thurman is not lacking In dexterity,
and his most obvious cue, 50 far as he
discusses the currency question on the
stump, is,tO expose tine inconsistency
and hypocrisy of the Republican OppO-
sitIOn to the Democratic platform and
hold up the initiation record of Morton,
Butler, Logan, Kelley, Ferry, Carpen-
ter, Cameron and the Republican ma
jority IN both houses of Congress. He
will represent this campaign against
the Democratic platform IN the light Of
a suit brought for adultery by a hus-
band who can be convicted of the me
Offense by overwhel ming proofs Such
a countercharge does not, indeed, estab-
lish the innocence Of the accused wife,
but 1t defeats the suit. There is moth
ing which public patience is 50 little
disposed to tolerate as Satan rebukiDg
sin, and Thurman will make such
handle of the votes and speeches of a
majority of the Republicans in the last
Congress as will cause their shafts to
fall harmless at the feet of the Ohio
Democracy.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20

GEN. CARY, the Democratic candi-
date for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio,
opened the campaign at Niles, last
Saturday. He made a powerful on
slaught upon the National Banks, thus
explaining the positions occupied by
the two parties in that State:
OF all the contrivances which have
ever been devised to rob labor and en-
rich capital, banks Of issue take pre-
eminence. Our system Of National
Banks is a stUpendoUs swIndle. Five
men holding 100000 government
bonds organize a bank, deposit their
bonds with the Secretary of the Treas
ury, receive ninety thousand dollars OF
bank currency TO loan or use as money.
On their bonds, which Is their cap
itaI, they receive six per cent. gold
interest, and they have an equal
amount less ten per cent. IN
bank notes which they can employ
IN any way they please. Their money
has one merritt Is good. And 1t Is
GOOD because the bonds Of the people
are security for its redemption. The
people pay more than tw,nty millions
of dollars of taxes in gold per annum
for the privilegeof using national bank
notes. This enormous sum goes into
the vaults Of moneyed corporations,
every dollar Of which would be lett IN
the pockets Of taxpayers if greenbacks
were substituted for graybacks. Two
thousand national banks, with capital
Of four hundred millions Of dollars,
constitute a perfect network, making
them a dangerous power. They can
combine to control the Government or
bankrupt the people at pleasure. We
have nothing to say against the bankers
themselves; 1t Is the system that Is
condemned. The Republican party
advocated not only the perPetuatlon Of
this system, but its extension until It
shall displace the greenback and fur
nish the entire money circulation. The
Democratic party opposes the monop-
DIV. and demands that its circulation
shall be displaced by the greenback'
and that legal tenders shall be the only
money. In this, as in all other meas
ures, the Democratic party takes sides
with the people.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20

THE statue Of Lafayette, the gift of
the French Government to the city of
New York, reached that port on We'd
nesday. 1t is the work of Frederick
Bartholdi, native Of Alsace, and is
seven feet high exclusive Of the pedi-
ment. The project of its presen-
tation.to New York originated with the
Theirs Government and nearly $50, 600,
gold, was appropriated forsits execution
In bronze. The Tribune says. the. design
of the sculptor represents Gen. Lafay-
cite in his twentieth year,.at the time
when be Joined the Continental Army.
He stands upon a ship as if IN the act
of speaking. His right arm is extended,
and the left is thrown across his
chest, with the hand grasping the
pommel of his sword and. a mass OF
drapery which fails at his feet. The
body Is firmly posed upon the right
foot, while the left leg is extended.
The head is slightly turned to the right.
The statue Will be placed in Central
Park, and the unvailing will probably
take place early in the fall.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20

The Prussiau Secretary of the
reasury, Herr Camphausen, says that
ermany is not the only country now
ffering from over speculation in con-
sequence of war; she is somewhat con-
soled by the company Of Belgium,
England, and the United States. More
over, that German manufacturers have
yet to learn the lesson Of not exceeding
the market demand for consumption.
Things might be worse, and although
the iron and textile branches are In the
midst of a crisis, and living is dear, the
extravaganza Of the past few years has
been checked. The trouble is that Ger
many Is relying too much upon armies
and war accidents, to the serious detr-
ment of trade.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
Is THURMAN TO BE Read OUIG

CINCINNATI Eng ulEtI5 July II.
The Apostle Of Hard Money, Sena-
tor Allen @. Thurman, has been inter-
viewed by a reporter for the Baltimore
Gazette. He was found rusticating at
Deer Park. Mr.. Thurman expressed
himself in opposition to the financial
plank of the Ohio Democratic plat
form, and gave his interrogation to
understand that he would make
war upon it IN his speeches during the
canvass. MIR. Thurman Is precisely
where we expected to find him-down
on his knees to the Money Power. His
Eastern friends will be delighted. Mr.
Thurman's silence last year was highly
creditable to him. His proposed OppO-
s:tion to the party which has given him
all his honOrs Is simply disgraceful.
We can say to him now that his
services are not desired in the Ohio
canvass. He is not of rs. The Demo
cratic party of Ohio is In death-strug-
gle with the money power. Mr.. Thur
man proposes TO assist the men who
are praying and working for our over
throw. His expressed desire for a
Democratic victory will weigh as moth
ing. Let him sneak off to Maryland,
as he did last summer, fo- his declara-
ton of war will be met as it should be.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
WATERS NEW SCALE PIANOS

fine singing tane, powerful, pure and
even.
WATERS Concerto ORGANS
cannot Be- exeelied IA tone or beauty; hey
defy Competition The Concerto stop e
a fine Imitation Of the Human Voice.
RICaS ENrREMELT Low for cash
during this Month. Monthly INSTALL
meats Received; Pianos ana Organs 80
Let. and Renf-HOney allowed tf Pur-
chased. Second Hand Instruments
AT GREAT BARGAINS. AGENTS
WANTED. A liberal discount 20 Teach-
eTS, Ministers, ChHTchss, Schools, Lodges, etc.
Special Inducements TO the trade. IL
Illustrated Catalogues Mailed. HOR-
ACE WATERS & SONS, ISL Broadway,
New YORK. Boz 1857.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
DEALERS IN MUSIC.
ORGANISM
MeCIures' TemDIe Of Musie,

Hing the renowned makers, Steinway & Sons,
knabe & Co, Durham & Sons, Haines Bros
new-besides secondhand, from the above and
nearly every known maker, together with 81
Church and PariOr Organs from Burdett,
j. Estey & Co, Prince & Co., and others, viii
offer for the next ninety DAYS instruments at 25
PEI cent less than usual prices, IN order TO re-
duce this mammoth stock. ShOrt-tirne paper
will be taken in part, charging interest on same.
Those who wish TO purchase 70 advantage can
now have an opportunity. Circulars sent on sp-
plicatiOn, and fun satisfaction guaranteed In
case Of sale. Having large stock of sheet
Music and Small Musical Instruments, can Of
fer great inducements. Gail and see.
-. A. MCCLURE.
feble deodtf
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
EDUCATIONAL.
THE
COLUlIBIAATHRNlEUM,
COIIJIIl biG, Tenn.
4 Boarding and Day School
FOR YOUNG LADIES.

THIS INSTITUTION OF LEARNING Of
i fers educational advantages that are unsur-
passed. It ia situated in Columbia, Tenn,
which Is remarkable for Its SalubTity and for its
successful education Of ladies. 1t Is OF easy &C
cess by the Louisville and Nashville aud Great
Southern Railroad. The AthenRum session be.
gins on the first Monday IN September. full
and efficient corps Of professors and teachers
directs the course Of instruction, which is liberal
and practical. The Collegiate Department is
divided into twalve separate schools, on the plan
adopted at the University OF Virginia. The ar
embroidery and fancy work OF every description
are extensive, and the AthenRUm Is well pro-
viGed with an excellent library and apparatus
for illustrating the sciences The charges for
board, tuition. etc, are very reasonable. Is
pecial care is displayed in making the AthenRUm
a pleasant home, as well as a thorough school.
For circulars, etc. address
VIM. A. SMITH, NJ. A, NJ. T., Secretary,
jylO deOd2mSw6t Columbia, Tenn.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20

A TALE of truly tragic advertising
is told in the following headlines from
the Chicago Tribune of Saturday:
Fate of Prof. Donaldson and Newton
S. Grimwood - A Rotten Balloon,
Worthless Gas, and a Reckless Aero
naut-Their First Immersion Thirty
Miles Northeast of ChicagO-Hopeless
Pursuit of the Air Ship by the Schooner
Little Guide-They Probably Sank in
the Lake Before Midnight-No Chance
of Their Living Out the Hurricane Of
Thursday Night-Opinions Of Experts
on the Condition Of the Gas Bag-It
Gould Not Float IN the Air Over Six
Hours-The Hippodrome Becomes the
Sensation Of the Day, and Donaldson
and Grimwood Forfeit Their Lives to
Make 1t So"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
Greenwood Seminary,
Select Boarding SchOoIJor Young Ladies

CESSION BRGINS FIRST MONDAY IN
- September. Health regarded equally as i'm
pOrtant as mental culture. Being select and
private school, each one receives that personal
attention TO her wants. comforts and improve
ment which cannot well be given In an over
crowded Seminary. First-class facilities for
Vocal and instrumental Music, Drawing, Paint
ing, Wax, Hair and WOTsted Work. No extra
charge for French. Charges moderate. Daily
train TO and from Nashville. For circulars
etc. address
MRS. n. LAWRENCE LINDSLEY,
jy2O deOdtl sepiSw6t Principal.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20

ONE of the best things the Republi-
cans could do would be to let the cleo
ton 60 by default in Ohio this fall; but
they probably have not the courage. If
they beat the Democrats there it will
save the Democracy all over the coun-
try.-Nel1 York Herald.
The Herald is nothing if Lot emf
nently original Senator Thurman,
WAC is supposed to have some slight
inkling Of the situation in Ohio, and
whose views are published in this morn
ing's UNION AND AMERICAN, does not
fancy that way of saving the Democ-
racy. He thinks it would be suicidal,
and so do we.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20

TENNYsON has written a letter TO the
managers of the Poe monument in
Baltimore, expressing his qualification
that the memorial is to be erected, and
speaking Of Poe's works as the "im-
mortal productions of the American
poet" He classes Poe with the most
brilliant writer's of America, and re-
quests a photograph of the proposed
monument.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
Union AND AMERICAN.
TUESDAY. JULY 20. lsz5S

The small extent Of the damage done
IN Kansas by grasshoPpers is shown
by the fact that her uresent crop of
wheat is the largest ever raised In the
State-the surplus for export being
estimated at about ten millions Of
bushels.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-20
Trustees sale.
NOTICE.

AMEETING OF THE OWNERS OF THE
Pylaut Springs, in Franklin county, Tenn, viii
be held at the Office Of Col H. l.. Claiborne, No.
IS North College street, on Friday, July %,
1915. The object OF this meeting is the election
Of Board Of Directors from among the owners
OF the Springs, to which viii be entrusted the
control Of the Springs property, and authority
to improve the same by obtaining Of additional
subscriptions from present owners or outside
parties, and to lease the property to some party
the Springs.
jylS st L. g. TARBOX, Seey.