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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-25
FEMALE RIGHTS.


Only the female spiders spin webs.
They own all the real estate, and the
males have to live a vagabond life I'M
der stones and In other obscure
hiding places. If they come about the
house so often as to bore the ruling sex
they are m~ercilessly killed and eaten.
The spiders skin Is as ~unyielding as
the shells Of Holsters and CRAPS, and is
shed from time to time In the same
way to accommodate the animals
growth. If you poke over the rubbish
in a female spiders backyard, among
her cast-off corsets you will find the
jackets Of the males who have paid for
their sociality withtheir lives-trOphies
Of her barbarism as truly as scalps
show the savage nature of the red man.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-25
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
NICHOLS, SHEPARD & co.'s
vibrator Thresher.

The BRILLIANT SUCCESS Of this Grain
Saving, Tfme-SayiDg TMREsHER, is
unprecedented in the annals OF Farm Machinery.
In a brief period # has become widely known
and FULLY ESTABLISHED a. the
LEADING TIEREsHING HACHINE."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-25
PREF. LEO. SIEBEcK,

+ FORMERLY OF THE FRENCH OPERA
Of New Orleans, and now located in Nashville,
has the pleasure to announce to the patrons of
music that he is now ready to receive pupils
to study the different branches Of Muscular
monte, Composition, VOcalization, Piano and
Violin. Prof. s. can be seen for terms at r.
Dorman s Coz Music Store, No. 50 Church ST.,
daily, between the hours OF Il A. N. and u NJ.
Best Of reference given.
an25 sur. thurs Nv
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13

ONE Of the chiefs of the Roman Catholic
party in Geneva, M. de Sequesser, has writ
ten an interesting pamphlet upon Protestant
ism, in the course Of which he makes the re-
markable assertion that the feelings of the
Vatican were anything but favorable to
France during the late war. "It is the con-
stant principle of German policy" says the
pamphlet, "not to permit any Catholic prince
whose sphere of action extends to Italy to
become too powerful, and thus interfere with
the independence of the pope. We have
seen popes stop the victorious march of
Charles V. against German Protestants; in
an underhand way fight against Philip II. !;
and all Henry ". to seize the throne of
France in opposition to Spain and the league.
In our days We have seen the papacy turn
ing against Austria, ard then against France,
which had acquired preponderating infu-
ence in favoring national unity. These facts
manifest the policy Of the Roman cura.
The victory of France in the war of 1870
would have augmented her influence in the
peninsula, and the Vatican did not fatter
itself with the hope of that influence being
employed to re-establish the temporal power.'
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13
[From the Detroit Free Press. j
Mr., Warner Tries 1t.

Mr. Warner, a respectable and law-abiding
citizen of Baker street, rode home in an ex-
press wagon the other day, having hand fire
extinsuisher and the driver for company.
whats that thing?" asked his wife in con.
temptuous tones as she opened the hall door.
What's that? Why that's fire extinguish-
er-best thing you ever saw-meant to have
gos one year age"
"Jacob you are always making a fool of
yourself" she continued as she shut the door
Every patent right man gets around you as a
Cat lays for mouse"
"Does, eh? If you know anything at all you'd
know that every store and office in Detroit has
one O these. They've saved lots OF buildings
and may save ours
''You throw it at the fire, don't you?" she
asked in sarcastic tones.
He carried it up stairs into a closet without
replying, and she followed on and asked:
Don't it shoot fire out?''
"If you don't know anything, I'll learn you
something! 1t is full of chemicals; you strike
on this knob on top and she's all ready to open
this faucet and play on the fire.
She grinned as she walked around it and fl J..
nally asked
"Do you get horse to draw it around?'
'No, don't get horse to draw it around
You see these straps? Well, back up, put
my arms through them, and here it is on my
back"
"l see it, she sneered.
@hhN Coh l. Auh w auy pdIb VI Lu0 uUuS6
with it?'' he demanded "See-- see --?''
And he cantered along the hail. into the bed
rooms and out, and was turning the head of
the stairs when his foot caught in the carpet
He threw up his arms and she grabbed at him,
and both rolled dowE stairs. He yelled and she
yelled. Sometimes he was ahead and then she
took the lead, aud neither of them had passed
under the String when the extinguisher,
humping and jamming, began to shoot off Its
charge of chemicals
''You old--p' she started to say, when
stream from the hose struck her between the
eyes, and she didnt finish.
''What in-o chr roared MI Warner,
as he got dose in the ear.
They brought up in a heap at the bottom of
the stairs, the stream playing into the parlor,
gainst the hall door, ana up stairs by turns,
aud she gasped:
s'Ill have you seat to a feol asylum"
"Whos fool?' he roared, dancing around
with his eyes full of chemicals,
pm faintngp she squeaked
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13

ONE Fadette, diver, has been elected to
the Quebec legislature During the canvass
the charge was thrown at him that he could
neither read nor write. The diver acknowl-
edged the charge, bat claimed that he was
nevertheless an educated man, and made the
following ingenious plea: "Gentlemen. it is
believed that can be prevented from being
elected by reproaching me with ignorance:
but believe can do without the vote of
educated people if all those as ignorant as
myself will vote for me. Yes, if all the igno-'
rant people will give me their votes 1 shall be
elected by great majority. Gentlemen, they
talk to you of educated people. Well, what do
these great savants know? They talk to you
of all there is in the earth, or in the firma.
ment, but have they ever spoken to you of
what there is in the bottom Of the sea? Well,
can tell you that. It's long since you elect
your advocate, doctors and notaries. Now
you want diver" And they got diver.
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13

THE AHa Californian makes a ccrrec. lion
of a very old error. For many years every
table of State areas has set California down
as covering 1SS,9S1 square miles. The ap-
parent exactness of the figures is deceptive.
The official documents have perpetuated the
error, which has been contained in the CEN
sus reports of 1850, 1860, and 1870. 1t turns
out, however, that the amount is too large by
more than one-fifth. The lines, as established
by the United States survey. show that the
area is in reality only 156,720 More than
one-half the entire area has been actually
surveyed, and the accuracy with which the
coast line and all the inland borders have
been fixed leaves no room for doubt that the
smaller amount is substantially correct.
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13
STANLEY Again.

The war; cry in Msrmion seems to be ever
ringing in the ears of the adventurous young
explorer who once penetrated Africa and
found Livingstone, and who has been gone
these many months in search of the great
twin lakes which Speke discovered. From
the shores of the Victoria Niyanza Henry
Stanley writes to the Herald under date of
March the first. He tells us that he left
Zanzibar with over 800 followers, and of
these he lost 154 from bnnger, disease and
battle, before he reached the lake. He struck
out a new line to the Niyanza, and by the
last day of 1874 arrived On the western from
tier of Ugogo. Two days later Usandawi ga
Country famous for elephants was reached.
there he was deserted by his guides. and
thenceforth had to make his own way as
best he could along the narrow track con-
fused with elephant and Ihinoceros trails.
Great suffering was endured from hunger and
thirst and the difficulties of the way, and
many men died before the adventurous ex-
plorer and his party came upon the head
waters of the Nile. For three days battle
was waged with the fierce and warlike Wa
turu of the Leewumbu river. The camp of
the adventures was surrounded and twenty
five of them were killed. Finally, after great
privation and danger, the shores of the lake
were reached on the 27th of February of the
present year.
Mr.. Stanley's first letter, published in the
Herald of Monday, gives an entertaining and
% fho
sage, of the savage tribes met, of the confgur-
alton of the country about the lake. 1t adds
materially to our knowledge of African ge-
ography and gives promise of solving the
mystery which hangs about the Albert and
Victoria Niyanza and the watershed of the
Nile. As Mr.. Stanley brought his letter to a
close he was about to launch the first Eng
lish boat that ever foated upon the waters of
an African lake. His next letter already in
the hands of the Herald, will be awaited with
countries peopled with dwarfs and giants,
and of lands which possess breeds of great dogs
compared with which his own large mastffs
are but poodles. 1t is Mendez Pinto and
Lemuel Guliver come again. But the late
history of African exploration has taught us
to be surprised at no marvels, and to accept
in good faith the wondrous tales at which
we should have scoffed score of years ago.
Mystery has ever been associated with Af-
rican travel. As the London Telegraph, the
journal associated with the Herald in fitting
out Stanley's expedition, says: Something
more than ordinary emotion, attaches to
communications thus almost providentially
received from the sombre depths of the Afr-
can jungles. They are bought for science at
the cost of the lives of devoted and brave
men; they come to US through hairbreadth
escapes and untold anxieties; they are writ
ten by hand burned by fiery suns, and COM
posed by brain full of all the constant cares
of an expedition which demands the gifts of a
soldier in unison with almost every other
quality which makes man,
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13

The Shah of Persia is very expensive
man to entertain as guest. He never visits
any one without expecting to receive pres
ents. Not long since he was entertained for
a whole day by Mira Hussein Khan at his
house in Teheran. The Shah breakfasted
there and received many presents, $4,000 in
cash for himself, and jewels and 100 CASH
mere shawls for his ladies. The entertain
ment cost Hussein Khan 100000.
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13

GEN. Bartlett doesn't care to identify him.
self with the Democracy. 1t is authoritatively
stated that he has written letter which will
soon be published, declining the Democratic
nomination for Lieutenant Governor. Be-
cause man is heartily in favor of reconcil-
iation between North and South it does no.
follow that he is Democrat.
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13
,ERMs $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

THE hope that the conviction of Westervelt
would lead to the discovery of Charley Ross
is not likely to be realized. The convicted
man has been promised pardon and a large
sum of money to tell the hiding place of the
missing boy, but again affirms his ignorance,
and it is probable, under the circumstances,
that he tells the truth. The only advice he
has to offer is that the Roman Catholic Or
phan asylums of the country be searched
and this he says is merely guess.
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13

THERE appears to be growing feeling in
Worcester that the Hon. L. W. Pond, who
disappeared from the steamer Providence,
was not the victim of foul play, but is still
living, if indeed he did not commit suicide.
1t proves that his Indebtedness was much
greater and more widely extended than at
first anticipated, that his help had not been
paid siEce August 23d, when the July pay
ment was made, and that his business ac-
counts were gcueraly at loose ends. 1t is
sad case.
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13

And I've broken my backp' he shouted,
1t was sad house when those two hieblv
respectable old people got so that they could
use their eyes and discuss matters calmly, And
she doubled up her fist and hoarsely said:
Take that investigator, or extiaguisher, or
whatever you call it, back down town, and tell
everybody that you are lunatic"
And he said:
"Dnmmit, 1 know more than you and all
your family put together"
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13

j.. KossUTH is living in comfort at Barre
come, a village between Turin and Rivoli,
absorbed in the cultivation of fruit, flowers
and vegetables, and keeping an eye on his
collection of insects and minerals. Kos
suth was seventy-three years old on the 10th
of September.
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13

ADAM Seitz, eighty years of age, is a keen
legician. Recently he applied for admission
to the German orphan asylum in Baltimore,
saying that ne was an orphan, and had
heard that the institution was provided for
such. He evidently thinks an orphan asylum
should be all the name implies.
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13

If the London Times can have its way the
system of cumulative voting will be adopted
in France That Journal proposes that the
system shall be grated upon the Scrutin de
lste. Itis well known that a controversy
exists in France between what is called the
Scutin asTondissement and the Scrutin
de Este. The former method is that of elec-
tion by single districts, and the latter an elec-
ton of all the members to which a depart
ment is entitled by general ticket. How the
device of cumulative voting can improve the
latter plan does not clearly appear.
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13
THE PRESS.
MORNING, OCT. 1s. 1875

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley z.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon by demanding
credentials of every person claiming represent
The Portland daily press., 1875-10-13

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1875-10-30
THE JETrIEs.

The Picay,,ne of Friday morning contains a
paragraph rejecting on the Jet.y Company
and intimating that the work is not progress
ing as it should, and even giving publicity to
a rumor that the company will fail in keeping
the requirements of its contract. We have
made special inquiries in reference to the
matter, and find that the work is going on
very we'll indeed, and that the company have
by no means lost confidence in their ability
to fulfil their contract
The piles in the eastern side of the jetty
have been driven to the farthest limit, dis
tance of $4,000 feet, and the willow mattresses
are nearly all in position. The work on the
western side is also progressing rapidly, and
everything that has been done gives entire
satisfaction to the company. Over five hum
dred men are employed, and We learn that
about tive hundred thousand dollars have been
already expended on the work by the COM
ponv
The New Orleans bulletin., 1875-10-30
IN MEMORIAM.

at is not said the schoomaster, as he bent down
to kiss her cheek and gave his tears free vert ~ is
earth COMPARED with the world to which her young
snirit has winged its early flight and say, II one de-
berate wish expressed in solemn terms above TINS
bed could call her back to life, which OF us "oulu
utter itl'-Death of Little Nell, Chas. Dickens,
'.SARSFIELD, aged five years and one month"; ana
JOHN. aged three years and SIX months; Sne '"o
The hand that might be brave grows tlIniu as a ~
offers this honest fearful ibute to their pereveu
father and mother and 10 dear remembrance Oh 'nei Ne
happy household ways The two only sons OF .
ia her and mother. Around me stand my three sons;
and they whisper softly Mamma, sarsfeld and and
John both dead9" YES" answer, when my sobs
and tears will let me- their little bodies are-but
thanks to great Creator-only precious impress
sion is lost but none can tell how dear 1t was to
father and to mother" raise little hand In mine
and hiss it tenderly-" This for Sarsfeld, my boy,
and this to my youngest boy for John their two
oAy sons" p;,
dom whose glory language is faint to portray, and
whose spiritual splendor is as simple and sublime as
the life of the LORD Jesus Christ.
can OF pay my tribute in studied phrase or set
expression My offering is from q mothers heart
and nature unto mother s. hardly trust myss1 70
write the grief is yet so fresh. the wound SO peeH
Ing that even sympathy seems intrusive. But there
is comfort roll back thy golden splendor ana vel,thy
sayly tinted sunset glory, cloud land snow 'nllie
azure beauty, thou Ornament that God created ana
oh sacred gates of Paradise reveal thy halowed So
crets unfold for one brief space, and see 9ereaVea
IA her ami mother your Two Gnly son; h,nthers
hanQ, In inc Iuu llEnU VI Al'lnty,
move sofy into the great essence whose impress they
vet wear Fear not father and mother for they do not
The hand of Gold has touched the great chord OF
music that is hidden in human natnre-and In chId
hoods beauty snd innocence-rings out the spiritual
melody, from your two only sons-we are here ana
and forever in aove love and duty the little
brothers Sarsfield and John Gidiere shall have in
Heaven God for their theme, father and mother the
loving remembrance of earth. In the DRIED hight OF
and in the golden glory of the sum- in the bloom
of the wild flower and toe pride of the blushng per
fumed lose your friend will hear the childish voices
Of Sarstield and of John.
Oh thank God all who see it. for that older fashion
vet of Immortality. And look upon us, angels Of
young children, with regard not quite estlanged
when the liver Gears US to the ocean," n. l..
The New Orleans bulletin., 1875-10-30

mada the condition of their employment.
All EN- ployees in Federal and State depart
ments are accustomed to the levyiDg OF
regular discount on their salaries, for the use
of the party in State and national campaigns;
but this service of the Radical party is pure
10Y, while the Democratic service is character
lied as "slavish" by the Inter- Ocean and
journals of that ilk Desperate negroes and
villainous carpet-basgers may and do commit
robberies and other crimes in our parishes dd
kbitun, and little or nothing is said, unless,
failing in obtaining legal redress, the victim
Furnishes the criminal, and then an immense
shout of terror is raised in the Radical ranks,
and the punished criminal is straightway
made q martyr, whose example bis fei-
lows are taught to emulate. Officials
high in station are charged and shown to be
guilty of felonies which should consign them
to the Penitentiary, but are subjected to the
party whitewash and sent away purified and
exalted. If any honest official raises an OBJ
jecting voice, he is soon taught his position
and slavish submission to party will Is re-
quired on pain of immediate official decapi-
tation.
In the approaching campaigns in the South
ern States and the great national election;
waning Radicalism, finding how weak and
worthless is all that can be said in their be-
half, will doubtless adopt the negative plan
of perverting facts and misrepresentIng
circum stances in order to show that
their opponents are no better than themselves
in the hope that by so doing the discontented
in their own party will be kept within the
ranks. Any and all sideissues or any policy
subject to the least misconstruction should
be carefully avoided by the Democracy,
and the one broad principle which In
in the vocabulary of the administration
names them as the "Opposition," should be
the one and the only one under which they
enter the struggle which must lead to
victory.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1875-10-30

Business generally during the past week
has been dull, though in some branches of
the wholesale trade there has been consider
able animation. Especially has this been
observable in dry goods, the sales of which
this season have been Of greater extent than
in any corresponding period since 1867.
Dealers in this class of goods are fully sup
plied with the latest styles, and are prepared
to offer the best of terms to buyers. There
has been but little life in Western produce;
for -four there is small demand for local trade,
but We have heard of sales to arrive to a fair
extent for the Havana market. Sugar has
commenced to come in quite freely, prices
ruling more in favor of buyers.
Cotton has been in ample supply and met
a fair demand for Liverpool, Havre and the
Continent Buyers for the North also have
operated to limited extent The movement,
however, has exhibited fair degree of ami
nation, and within the past two days prices
have ruled more in favor of factors
The receipts proper for the past week show
an increase over last week of 799 bales and
over last year of SSH.
The low water in Red River has had the
effect of curtailing orders from that section OF
country, and our wholesale grocers are not
happy.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1875-10-30
THE OLD ORY OF INTIMIDATION.

Terrorism is Q feature of the opposition
campaign. Those who can not be persuaded
to vote its ticket are sought to be pressed
into the slavish service by threats. Chicdgo
Inter- Ocean.
By the "Opposition" is meant Of course
the Democratic party, and to them this sam
pie Radical organ attributes terrorism as q
campaign feature. We're this statement pecu-
liar to the Inter- Ocean 1t would hardly be
necessary to file denial, but it is q common
cry with the Radicals that the Democratic
party is the party of intimidation, and that its
service is a slavish one. There never has
been party in the politics of the world whose
platform or whose campaigns were less free
from anything bordering on terrorism. The
only acts that could be tortured even by
Radical Misrepresentation into anything like
force have occurred when after appealing
time and again to the proper authorities for
help or redress, or goaded into anger by the
oppression or taunts of their despotlc rulers,
citizens have been compelled to adopt the
most effective means Of protection at hand {;
and as soon as this was done the throat OF
Radicalism was made hoarse with loud cries OF
Intimidation !" and rebellion I" Every
conceivable means of obtaining votes either
by honest or dishonest means, by per-
suasion or force, have been adopted
by the Radical party, not only in Louisiana,
but throughout the South. Threats, deep
and dire, have always been made to the negro
that unless he remained true to the party,
calamity would surely overtake him, and how
often do We hear Of colored men being beaten
bv others, under instruction, because they
expressed their determination of voting as
they thought proper. Is there city in the
whole broad Union, where Federal patronage
is worth anything at all that it is not made
the instrument through which votes are
coined in lots to suit? The New Orleans
Custom House has been fruitful source OF
supply to the party; for years it has been GUS
tomary to employ numbers Of workmen
lust before the election and discharge them
soon afterwards. Their votes were
The New Orleans bulletin., 1875-10-30
DIED.

JAMESON Friday October 49, 1873, at i:oo a.
NJ, Gaspard James aged A.
His friends are invited to attend the funeral al io
A. M. This Day Saturday, from his late resioenoe
Washington Avenue. between Gooochiioieh anu
Morales streets, Third District.
GENERES-At Havre October % 1o71, l.. :.
Generes native OF Alexandria Va, and for the las
fortv.seyen wears resident OF this city.
The New Orleans bulletin., 1875-10-30

Edwin Booth made his first appearance
since his accident, on last Monday night. at
the Fifth Avenue Theater, New York. His
reception amounted to almost an ovation, and
although he betrayed some tenderness for his
wounded arm, the critics say he never played
/" Hamlet" near SO well as he did that night
His reading is particularly mentioned as
being even better than ever, and the necessity
of avoiding gesticulation with one OF his
arms only proved the wealth of his power OF
gesticulation. After every act he was recalled,
and at the end of the play made q short
speech of thanks