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GfnrraI Notices.
And Sill They Come!

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: esp C.E, BROWNE.
, 1866-01-19

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on all matters pertaining to life and health. She
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Identifying The perton or persons concerned With 70
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us,ox srocx YArps.-At \ meeting Of the Di-
,,ctoI. Of The Uniou STOCK Yard T1nnsit Co, yes-
,esdsy, r. f. Chandler ESQ.,. was elected President
IN plece Of John N. Douglss. Esq. rrsigncd.
, 1866-01-19

EOTIcE.-stcoad Grand Fancy Dreas Assembly
and Masquerade On FRIDAY EVENING, Jan. 18th,
bY particular request.
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LOCAL MATTERS,

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where. e5B
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Nine. .ABBTAT1 and Sig. PERoSI.
.....-. NEW PROPERTIES.
MACHINERY hrd APPOINTMENTS BY Nj. WAL
LACE HUME.
The ca*t embraces The following eminent artsts:
GAZZAN1GA, 10TIl. rUtLINt, WFlNHOLD BOS-
cHETTt. OLLAND1EI. EQLETTI. LA POKTE, No.
SIAM, M1LLERI. FsLLtEf, EOASsO.
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FROM THE RIO GRANDE.

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the employ ofths Michigan Southern railroad com.
psny, crsred work. In consequence Of this action
considerable dlMcnfty WAs experienced in getting
od the regular ttatns yesterday.
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CHICAGO B1H1E SouEII.-The 18th Anniversary
Of The Chicago Bible society win he held on Sunday
evening, at the Frzt r1esb5 b5terian Church. Ad-
drcs.es will BE- delivered By Res. DIN. Patterson,
Hatfield uud Gullivcr.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
The Franchise Law.

To Samuel NJ. Arnell of Middle Tennessee be-
longs the honor of introducing the proposition in
our Legislature for the dsfranchisement of unre-
pentant and malignant rebels.
In advocacy of this noble measure, the unselfsh
patriot and able legislator of Middle Tennessee made
a lengthy and powerful speech. From it we extract
the following eloquent passage:
II know not how others may feel; but standing
here as Representative of the first General As
semby of the free State of Tennessee, and accepting
all the odium and hatred which may follow snch
declarstion neV ertheless boldly declare that we
are false 20 ourselves false to our constituents and
false TO the country, if fail to pass bill which
shall make treason odiGs and protect from the pow
er of traitors the loyal people of this State.
Upon a dozen battle fields in Tennessee the SOL
diers of the Union bled and died to crush the ser
pent that had Missed defiance at the Government
IN COMING TO THIS ASSEMBLY WE
PASSED OVER THEIR HONORED GRAVES
Let the dumb eloquence of those graves exhort us
l have appealed TO you in the name of the living to
guard the State from traitors and now l say to YOU
that if false TO the great trust which the fall
len egions of soldiers died to place in our hands
they ought to rise in tumut from their graves, re-
form their ranks and with their cleaning bayonets
march forth to thrust from these halls p
Loyal men of Carter Hawkins and Hamilton,
can you endorse the reachery of the apostates and
renegades who have misrepresented Won in the Leg
islature7 Then on the 3lst Of March, by an over
whelming majority, rebuke the apostates who have
proven that they were and are false to the great
trust which the fallen legiens" of East Tennes-
sees sons died to place in our hands"
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
The Coming Election.

Our accounts from the East Tennessee counties
which select Representatives on the 3lst of the
most cheering character. The glorious Union col
umus Of Carter, Hawkins and Hamilton are facing
the enemies of their country with the heroism with
which the "Old Guard of Napoleon met Yelling
tons hosts at Waterloo. Ever living hope beams in
their eyes, and courage marks their STEP If there
be apathy among any, we know they will shake it
of before election day arrives. Not TO do so would
be to mar the bright page East Tennessee's sons
have made on the battle-felds of freedom. Yes
they WILL arisel awake shake off the dew drops
which may glitter on their garments and march once
more TO battle and victory.
Loyal men of Carter, rally to the support OF old
Abe Upton. A better Union man never lived. He
was too old to carry musket in the war; but he is
a better friend of the twelve hundred discharged
Federal soldiers Of Carter county, than his compet-
tor who was in the army. Remember, soldiers, that
Aaron Burr fought for American independence and
then endeavored to destroy the great government of
our fathers. Loyalists of Hawkins and Hamilton,
be seepless in your vigilance and vote with three
cheers and a tiger" for the Union capdidates. Let
there be such a ground-swell of loyal indignation
as will consign to disgraceful obscurty the betray
ers of your confidence
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
Case Of CAPTAIN Harris.

The following letter from John L. Moses throws
additional light upon the case of Captain Harris,
and reflects credit upon Col. Cummings The
statement of Mr.. Moses is entitled to full conf
dence:
EXETER, n. h, March 9Th, 1866.
Editors RaorrilLe Wig:
Nv eve has to-day fallen on number of your
.paper issued several months ago, containing &C
count of the capture, trial and imprisonment of
Captain S. T. Harris, of cambridge charged, in
1853, with recruiting for the Federal army within
the Confederate lines. Will you allow me to add
to your history of the matter fact which is known
to but few of your readers?
After the death sentence had been passed upon
Captain Harris by the court-martial before which
he was tried, Colonel David 81. Cummings, of the
Confederate army, weHt TO my office in Knoxville,
told he intended to intercede with the authori-
ties at Richmond, in Captain Harris behalf and
asked me to go with him to the Telegraph Office. l
gladly accompanied him, and he prepared a strong
appeal for the interposition Of Executive cemency
in favor Of Captain Harris and submitted it to me
for inspection. Feeling that could not materially
improve it, I suggested merely verbal alteration
or two, and it was sent over the wires to Presi-
dent Davis"
The Communication of sentence, which was receiv-
ed directly afterward, 1 have ever since supposed
attributable in part at least to the action of COL
Cummings: but whether so or not it can hardly be
amiss to bring his honest and earnest effort to the
knowledge of Capt. Harris, his friends, and the
public Very respectfully, yours,
,JNo. l.. MOSES
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
Vile Slander Of East Tennesseeans.

We invite the attention Of every loyal man in
East Tennessee to the following declaration of the
Nashville Banner of the 10th inst:
but IN HONEST TRUTH, THE GREAT
MAJORITY OF THE SO-CALLED UNION
OR LOYAL MEN OF THE SOUTH WERE
TIE MEREST TRASH THAT COULD BE
COLLECTED IN A CIVILIZED COMMUNI-
TY, OF NO PERSONAL CREDIT OR SOCIAL
RESPECTABILITY."
This vile organ of treason at Nashville, which
thus speaks of the Union men of East Tennessee, is
edited by two rebels, one of whom served in the
rebel army and the other edited rebel paper dur
ing the war, and until the surrender of the rebel
armies.
Tennessee Unionists can understand from this
what is the meaning attached to the terms "concil
iaton," "forbearance" forgiveness" often used
by reconstructed rebel citizens and politicians.
This Nashville paper declares in substance tatthe
rebels arc the only persons of personal credit and
social responsibility in Tennessee or the South
In saying this the Nashville Banner gives utterance
to the sentiments of nine-tenths of the rebels of
Tennessee. The Memphis Avalanche and other
rebel papers of the State denounce the proposed law
TO disfranchise rebels, the ground that it gives
too much political power to Eas: Tennessee
They cont think East Tennessee should have any
power in the administration Of the State Govern
ment because as the Nashville Banner says, /" the
greet majority Of her citizens the nereSt trash
They think the East Tennessee trash should take
a back seat and allow respectable rebels to govern
the State. Their motto is, Up with Gov. Harris
rebel chivslry and doOn with the farmers, mechan-
les and poor white men of East Tennessee"
The editors of this rebel paper at Nashville are
the class of who ased subservient tools Will
liams, of Carter, Willis of Hawkins, and Hood, Of
Hamilton.
When such hatred of loyal men is expressed by
Tennessee rebels it is not to be wondered at that
President johnson, the other day. said that unless
the Union men in Tennessee disfranchise the
rebels the rebels will disfranchise the Union men,
The loyal men of Carter, Hawkins and Hamil-
ton counties will have an opportunity on the Slst
Of this month to rebuke the apostate men-mankind
forgive the insult-who betrayed them and sold out
TO these arstocratc rebels. Will they do it? To
doubt that they will is to insult brave and patri
otto people"
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
influence of O Newspaper.

A school teacher who has been engaged long
time in his profession, and witnessed the influence
of newspapers on the minds of a family of chill
dren, writes as follows:
III have found it to be universal, without e1-
ception, that those scholars of both sexes and of
all ages who have access to newspapers at home,
when compared with those who have not, are
l. Better readers, exceeding in pronunciation, and
consequently read more understandingly.
O. They are better spoilers, and define words with
ease and accuracy.
g. They obtain practical knowledge of geogra-
ply in almost half the time it requires others, as
the newspaper has made them familiar, with the
location Of the most important places nations their
governments and doings on the globe.
f. They are better grammarians, for havingsbe-
come SO familiar With every variety in the newspa-
pers, from the commonplace advertisement to the
finished and classical Grafton of the statesman, they
more readily comprehend the meaning of the text
and consequently analyze its construction with &C.
curacy.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21

Three loyal East Tennessee counties, Garter,
Hawkins and Hamilton, have been cursed by hav-
ing men in the Legislature who have wholly mis-
Represented their wishes on the subject Of disfran-
chising rebels Other ioyal counties in East Ten
nessee are misrepresented on this subject but the
members from the counties referred to did not con-
tent themselves with opposing the excellent bill Of
the majority on this subject. They Seeded and
REBELLED against law and order in q manner as
reprshensbh as JEFF. Davis and Isham G. Harris
were ever guilty Of.
They were parties to the effort to break up and
destroy the present loyal Legislature of the State
that rebel and traitorous Legislature might be in
stalled in power. As an evidence of the class Of
men they eonspired with, we give the name of VIM
Brandon, member from Stewart county, Middle
Tennessee. This fellow Brandon was Colonel of {
rebel Tennessee regiment and was wounded a
Fort Donelson in fighting under the rebel flag.
We trust that the voters of Carter, Hawkins and
Hamilton will elect, on the 3lst of this month
TRUE MEN to represent them; men pledged tt
vote for the Franchise bill. Do this and rebuke thu
men who have aided in stopping the Legislation o
the State, and adding FoRTY-FIvE THOUSAND DOL
LARS to your taxstion.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
Knoxville Conservatives.

Some of our Knoxville neighbors seem to believe
that the course Gov Brownlow is pursuing will doom
him to political death and consign him to Dsi,'Ori
tg party The Governor thinks his friends are mis-
taken about this. He believes that the HEROIC
UNION PARTY which put down the rebellion will
control the country. If it does he will be with the
winning side. If it does not he don't desire to be
with the majority party. MinOrites have terror
for him. He remembers that Noah was in a small
minority with reference to the food Lot was an
equally small minority in Sodem; and that Jesus
Christ was in a minority when be was crucihed.-
He reflects that at this time, minoritss are occupy
ing the palaces in and bivouacking on the plains
of glory. while n,ajOrities are crowding the deep
and pitching their tents the hill tops of
hell.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
FalSehO0d and Duplicity.

In some instances members from East Tennessee
returning from Nashville, have excused themselves
for having voted against the Franchise Law of the
House, and for having entered into the conspiracy
10 break up the Legislature, on the ground that eff
forts we're made to force negro suffrage upon them.
This is false in every particular, and dscloses an
amount of dupcity unworthy of any msh elected
to the Legislature. Negro suffrage was in no wise
connected with the Franchise Law, except in such
cases members Of the fsctous minority offered to
amend by allowing all men to vote irrespective Of
color. Such propositions were invariably rejected
by the friends of the bill Men now take advantage
of the prejudces of the people against negro suf-
frsge and base upon ase footing their excuses for
doing what rebe influences and rebel kii. led them to
do. namely, 10 misrepresent the known wishes of
the people who elected them. Let men come out
frankly and confess that they have betrayed the COR
fdence reposed in them, acted and voted with the
rebels. and against the Union men, and not impose
upon the honest people by falsely raising an issue
that does not exist Let the people read the address
- -..ss-- 81 .ha Houee and thew will SEQ what
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
PENNSYLVANIA.

Major General Geary is the Union candidate for
Governor in Pennsylvania, and Hester Clymer is
the candidate of the johnson Democracy. Clymer
is enc of the rebel sympathzers who, in 1868, in
suited johnson at Harrisburg, and refused to hear
him speak before the Legislature. Who has chang
ed, Clymer or the President? We are not able to
say, but we are confident of the election of the
brave and gallant Geary. he fought through the
Mexican war He was then made Post Master at
San Francisco by President Polk. He appoint
ed Governor of Kansas by President Pierce. He
fell back on his farm in Westmoreland, and from
there he embarked in the war of the rebellion and
made brilliant record in that war. He is now
but forty-six years of age Such a man can't be
defeated even by combination of Rebels and
Democrats
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
East Tennessee ReVOlutiOnists.

We hope our readers will carefully read the ad-
dress which we publish in this paper signed by the
Union and law-abiding members of our Legislature
We especially ask our readers in Carter, Hawkins
and Hamilton to read and reflect upon it.. They
will gather from it some idea of the GREAT CRIME
of which their representatives have been guilty
The most prohigate of the Roman Emperors the
beastly and drunken CALIGULA, raised his horse 10
the dignity Of Consular office that, in former
times, had been filed by the greatest warriors and
statesmen Of the Republic. The Consuship was
not as much disgraced by that scandalous transac-
ton as has been our Legislative Halls by the men
who REBELLED against the will of the majority,
and ingloriously fed from their seats in the House
of Representatives. To return such men to the
Legislature would be greater burlesque on the re-
sponsiblities of this high Office than to raise "cOn-
DENIED mule" to Consulship in Rome
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
President Johnson on DiSfranchise.
menu

Andrew johnson said the other day to Col. w. B.
Stokes "UNLEss THE UNION MEN IN TENNESSEE
DIsFRANcHIsE the REBELS the REBELS WILL DIsFRAN
CHIsE THEM" Loyal men of East Tennessee heed
the warning of your President before is too late
and you are shorn of your strength as Sampson was
when shorn of his locks On the 3lst of this month
the glorious Union people Of Carter, Hawkins and
Hamilton will elect Representatives. They will be
compelled to choose between misrule and anarchy
or law and order. Between loyal legislators who
would have the State governed by loyal men or rebels
who would see our State under the control of JEFF.
Davis minions. We say rebel, for there are but
tsco sides to the question, UNION and REBEL, and
every voter must join one Of these parties. There
is no middle ground. No man can successfully ride
two horses at the same time unless he is in circus
and then he must have good band of music.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
President Johnson a Radical.

Candidates for Office in East Tennessee, who are
calling themselves Conservatives, are trying to
righten the people into their support by denounc-
ing their opponents Radicals. Andrew johnson
has given one of the best definitions of conservatism
we have ever seen. While Senator in Congress
in 1858, he gave his opinion of Conservatives His
speech may he found 10 the Congressional Globe,
first session, a5th Congress Andrew uses this Ian
guage: Conservatism! 1t is the argument OF
despots and tyrants that entails an existing in
stitution It's present FORM whether it be right or
wrong"
To the same effect, the great English historian,
Macaulay, said: Everywhere there is a class of
men who cling with fondness to whatever is ancient
and who, even when convinced by overpowering
reasons that innovation would be beneficial consent
to it with many misgivings and forebodings."
"Tbey slaves who dare not be,
In the right with two or three"
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
Antiquity OF Freemasonry.

Freemasonry is older than letters Brands En-
cyclop@dia of Science, Literature and Art, SAYS,
'That from Egypt were derived the principal mys-
teries and that it in the darkness of subterra-
mean apartments that those institutions had birth,
in which secresy was the first law. According to
Plutarch, the Spinxes, with which the entrance to
their temples were decorated, signifed that Egyp-
tain mythology was mysterious and emblematic.
In these temples the line and square sre never absn-
doned, they had no circular monument, and their
temples were covered with symbolic characters.
Thus has masonry seen the introduction OF letters
she discovery Of the and science and the spread
of the Christian religion; it has witnessed the rise
and fal Of all the old nations Of the earth; sur
vived the darkness and turmoil of the middle ages,
and now stands & wonder of the world"
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21

WIN. d.. W0ODCOCK,
Representative from Macon county.
A. A. sN0DDERLY,
Representative from Union county.
W. L. WATERS,
Representative from Wilson county.
W. Fl. GRIMMETT,
Representative from Wilson county.
JOHN p. WALKER,
Rep. from Rhes, Hamilton, Bledsoe and Sequachie.
R. s. RAULSTON,
Representative from Marion county
JOHN r. SHULTZ,
Representative from Cooke county.
THOS. A. KERCHIVAL,
Representative from Lincoln county.
w. j. SMITH,
Representative from Hardeman county.
G. UNDERWOOD,
Representative from Weakley county.
F. A. SMITH,
Representative from Obion county.
JAS. A. DOUGHTY,
Represe NATIVE from Campbell and Anderson.
RUFUS DOWDY,
Rep. from Fentress, Morgan, Scott and Cumberland.
FURNEY JONES,
Representative from Claiborne county
JAMES JONES,
Representative from Greene county.
WILSON DUGGAN,
Representative from Sewer county.
81. P. MURPHY,
Representative from johnson county.
JAM Id 0AhEh,
Representative from McMinn county
j. A. FUSON,
Representative from DeKalb county
VIM. WINES,
Representative from Montgomery county.
]. S. MULLOY,
Representative from Robertson county
JOHN NORMAN,
Representative from Carroll county.
REUBEN RODGERS,
Representative from Campbell county
JOSEPH HUDSON,
Representative from Cheatham county,
JAMES E. McNAIR,
Representative from Gibson county
S. j. CARTER,
Representative from Davidson county
JAMES MAXWELL,
Representative from Hardin county.
]. N. PICKETT,
Representative from Hickman county.
JEREMIAH GILLMER,
Representative from Maury county
THOMAS G. MASON,
Representative from Roane county.
W. W. WOODS, Jr.
Representative from Stewart county.
JOHN PORTER,
Representative from Wayne county.
JAMES NJ. MELTON,
Representative from Morgan and Scott.
JAMES HALE,
Representative from Jefferson county.
L. M. BLACKMAN,
Representative from Monroe county.
j. K. CLINGAN,
Representative from Bradley county.
G. INMAN,
Representative from Knox and Sewer counties.
JOHN WEIGH,
Representative from Sullivan county.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-03-21
Commissioning SheriffS.

The Nashville Banner one of the expounders of
the Constitution in this city, said yesterday
"WHo SHALL BE SHERIFF I'VE hear it stated
that Governor Brownlow has refused Captain Pat
terson his commission as Sheriff. on the ground that
he had served in the Confederate army"
If the Banner had known anything of the Con-
stitutien of which it has so much to say it would
have added that Sheriffs are not commissioned by
the Governor; that the Governor has nothing what
ever to do with it. The Banner is good specimen