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Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-09-11
From the Nashville Press and Times
TERRORISM In DIFFERENT SECTIONS.
Union Men Threatened with Death.
Bodies OF Men Organized to Drive
them from the OOuntrya-ReliabIe

II hoped that after the election the political ex-
element and feeling incident upon that occasion would
subsde and that peace and quiet would reign through
out the Sas Il however that these hopes have,
In great many instances between disappointed and in
stead Of old suds being forgotten they have been famed
into hereer flames
We printed yesterday savera letters from reliable per-
sons in Sumner county, and follow them up to-day
with others from other sections Of Middle Tennessee.
We assure readers that the statements which they
make be relied upon the writer's IN every
stance Trustworthy We withhold their names for Tea-
which viii suggest themselves to every reader.
With all these complaints and petitions reaching him
daily Gen. Cooper feels t to be his duty cease nus
ering out the militia. They raised to afford pro
lection TO the people, and that alone. It was expected
that after the election they might be Dispersed WITH but
that hope has been disappointed.
The FIRST letter give below is from Lieutenant Hatha-
way, in command Of tho State Guards al Liberty.
LIBERTY, De KALB Co., August rs, 1867.
Cen Joseph E. Cooper, Nashville Tenn:
DEAR Sin have been in White county; just return
ed from there The rebels turning of all the negroes
that voted. While was there, rebsl boys went
uhere the negroes carrying meeting, near
sxaRdrs, and fred into them. Several bullets went
through the house.
General, what shall do with them Can l arrest
them snd bring them to Nashville am going start
after the msn that shot AskeW in the morning
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FAYETTEVILLE, Lincoln County, Tenn,
august 9th, 1857.

70 Osspk 3. Cooper, General Commanding State Guards,
Nashville, Tenn.
EEH; By request Of The Union men living on Fsrris
Greek, Lincoln County Tennessee write to inform you
that sere IL reign Of terrier in that section Union
are in constant dread Of assassination. They in
form me that party Of headed by Joe Rodgers,
notorious guerrilla during the war have threatened their
lives. saw two Of the Union from that section
the hunt for land wishing from that section
Cone and Lawyer were the names Of the men. They
told that the life of Cones was threatened and
that he escaped by getting out Of the way quietly
possible. He told BY Of this hand that he did
not have long to live. The of their luminosity
against Cones is that he member Of the Home
Guards during the Sawyer belonged to Illinois
regiment during the war Joe Rodgers boasts that he
has crimfoned his hands in Yankee blood and says be
intends to do il again Fars Greek is about four miles
south Of LynehbErgh. If something is not done it viii
be almost mpossiby for Union to live in peace
in this country would suggest that If you send any
aid 10 the section speaking Of that you send about
10 men mounted men along with the company. As you
are not acquainted with me, refer you 10 Thomas A.
Kerchiva Representative elect of Davidson county,
LYENvILLE, GILES COUNTY, TESE,
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CHARLEs McDoNALp 3 Co.

" g SLAUGHTER 70 take his deposition in case sow
pending in the Graves Circuit Court 6LAUeHrxR during the
war went from bis home IN East Tennessee and worked for
J. D. StTaub Co., Of Oncnnat and from there to
Mayeld and worked mill for CHARLES Mcdonald Co.
II Mr. this he VIII please write any
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NANTED--EVE RYWHERE- SALES
w MIN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEE-sloo 70 ss5o
MosTH-To sell the genuine Common ssnss Family sew
Ing Machine. Price only SIS. This machine will SsitCh
hen, fell tuck bind guilt braid and enbroidsr. The cloth
caRnot Be paed spart after cutting the
every quarter Of inch. Every maskns waFraated for
three years Send for ercnlars and SCENTS call
HeDoEslis Block fonftk and Green ST. Louis
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wln C. MccanmoB. Adm'r. Is. John ncOammon.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH A DECREE

ef said Court shs af IT, April Terra 1857
win sell court Knoxville Friday septs
Der oh part the whole 81 tract 81 land In the
Civil Dstris Of csanty les Fecsntiy assigned
% said Jshn MeCammon n ths appcronsnt 81 Of
Ihonas HoAahan and sanusl Menahan de- d. will o5sr
hEst absat n ceres which is unincanhered should
briag enough to pay the dsb due viii then s 81
snhjsct "a the widows dover.
TEAMS and II moRths time, without The equity Of
dempton requiring bearing interest with good sccur
y, ami retaining ffrn till paid.
Aas p, ise7-4w ps6 D. A. DEADERTCK, O. NJ.
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oakland HALL ENGLISH, CLASSIC
Thiis Is no Humbugg

DY SENDING 40 CENTS AND STANg,
ID age height, color Of eyes and hair, you wiz 70
csve by nall correct picture Of ye1r future nus
band or wife, with and date Of marriage Address
MINNIE CLIFTON, P. o. Drawer No. IS, Fulscnvie,
n. 7.
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WANTED.-AGENTS TO SELL THE
w sCrsscent sswng Macbine' che seost pro6tsbs Ma
chine for agents SELL Price SIS seBd for circulars and
samples Of Swing 9ssy Ingram, zi5 Second ST. Mem
phis, Tenn.
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YEAR,

paper twice as large ~ the ona nou ssus address
York.
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Il made in this By said Court At its July To- 80,
vii sell e the court heuss IN KRoxvs on Frdsv
10Th 1857 tract q land beionEag 10 the estate ~
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county Of aboif 100 credit 81 h uonfb
espt that SEQ r - required IN hand and ncies taE
Ing interest VITA good securitys and lien an b
payment Of he pu-rhass mpne5.
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

The JENKENs.-In case any gushing
young man should wish to describe the dress
es of the ladies who attend parties in this
city, we recommend to him the following
style:
miss s., old Smiths daughter by wife's
first husband wore a short dress of sorrel
poplin, striped with brown gew gags, with
tight fitting basque, made out of her ma s
last winters cloak, sleeves of MORE antique
to match her highest underskirt, and bon
net of red oak bark tied with slippery elm
strings. She looked a little odd and anna
zing lypretty.
Miss H--x, alleged to be the wealth.
est girl on Sugar street. wears black and
tan Irish terrier poplin suit, trimmed with
bias folds of straw colored bombazine, with
blue stitching put around the skirts with
Spaulding's glue. Short saeque. tight IN
der the arms, and bonnet of gourd leaves,
trimmed with pieces of grapevine"
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23
The Presidential Candidacy.

1t is impossible to avoid regarding with
suspicion the effort now being made in GER
tain directions to force General Grant into
the field as presidential candidate and to
compel the republican party Of the nation at
once to assent to his nomination. That
movement originated with the politicians of
Thurlow Weeds soup kitchen in Ne " York.
II is now being urged forward mainly by pol
iticians of the Conservative" school, or by
those who are, by long usage, accustomed to
look primarily at the prospect Of mere
party success. 1t may be that Gen.
Grant can be wisely and safely made the re-
publican candidate for President. But the
fact does not yet appear. Whether it will
be seen at all depends, we must repeat, on
the developments of the next six months
Dap Gar. 7 ~ sz--
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Isnor.ns. and virulencs of Senator Wilson

Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts,, in a re-
cent letter to q radical mass meeting, says
that in 1862 New York elected Seymour to
burden for two years tie great heart of Alb
raham Lincoln" That "great heart' must
have had burden of its own, irrespective of
Governor Seymour. On the 18th of June,
1863, 1.-THE first year of the governors term
of ofice,) Secretary Stanton telegraphed to
Governor Seymour to know if he could for
ward to Washingtonltwenty thousand militia
as volunteers, at once, and, receiving an
affirmative reply the same day, the secreta.
~ was directed by the great heart Of Abra.
ham Lincoln" to telegraph the governor as
follows:
'<The President directs me to return his thanks
with those of the Department for your prompt
response"
And again, four days later, another tele-
gram of similar import was despatched
''The President again directs me to return his
thanks to his Excellency Governor Sey-
mour for his prompt and energetic action
1t is not surprising that Senator Wilson
should have erred so grossly, since he i:
never particularly happy in his references tc
history-always excepting his startling an
nouncement in the senate that Waterloo
was the location of one of Wellington's bat
tlessin Spsin.-Neo York World.
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ed altogether in such associations, or both
parties should be fairly represented. Dem
ocrats who are members of these societies
have borue loo long and too patiently with
the injustice, and Partially With which they
have been conducted in the selection of lee
.turers. Radicslism is Ingenious and imper.
tinent in the agencies Il smPloys to- advance
its doctrines. II has seized churches, pro
fessedly religious, and literary and agricul-
tural newspapers, charitable associations,
public schools, military organizations avow-
eddy formed to promote the interests of SOL
diers, and has in many instances taken pos.
session of boards of trade and organizations
Of stricely business character. One of The
most efficient agencies in propagating radi.
cal doctrines has been the employment of
such lecturers as we have named by young
mems associations and as 1.-THE lecture sea-
son" is now upon US, and Sumner and other
Of the Jacobin school are perambuiating the
country and making, or trying to make, con-
verts to Jacobinism, let democrats insist that
thrs shall be a cessation of the impotence
and injustice which selects lecturers only from
among the ultra men of one political party
- CHICAGO Times. -ets#
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'1776--lS67--T Have Chsnged-Ropes
and Lamp-posts for the RAIDS"
Post, Oct. ID.

Considerable merriment was occasioned
on Grant street early on Saturday morning
by a good sized piece of hempen cord, at
tached to a lamp-post with moose tied at
one end, and a card bearing the inscription
that heads this item.
The Every Objectionable sight to the
loyal shoddyites was not allowed to remain
long, as, during the time negro worshipper
was pegging his way the mayors office to
secure posse to remove the cuss, the jolly
natured democrat, who had placed it there,
had it taken down, and order reigned in
Warsaw. Only think ofit--ropes for Coy
a." folks in Allegheny county
OF course it was intended merely as q
Joke, as democrats don't use such arguments
to intimidate those who have different no.
tons, but prefer to await the sober second
thought of the people. When we look back,
however, to '6l, when the posts were deco
rated with ropes for the "cops" it is some
what pleasant to know that ''times have
changed
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

II is assumed by timid politicians that the
defeat of the suffrage amendment in Ohio is
a sure indication of the unpopularity of i'm
partial suffrage all over the north and west.
Z = To all such we have one word to
say. That word is that the republican party
of Iowa must and VIII 90 for,card on the suf-
frage question. In this contest our
colors we nailed to the mast. Under these
colors we shall certainly march to1rcard, and
to certain victory. If cravens and towards
are frightened by the result of the Ohio cleo
ton, they are to be pitied, but cannot and
will not be followed in their crdwling back
,rard. For all true men the watchword for
the hour is Go FORWARD !-Ddcenport Ga
zette.
You said the same thing about the Maine
law question, but you 'crawled backward
on that.
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ty over that Of Scott. The Gazette thinks
we are "hallooing before getting fairly out of
thsIwoods p Brilliant idea! A Scott coun
~ republican Journal, just whaled clear put
Of its boots, and deep in the most urnbra.
peous awocdsr ever heard of, talking % us,
il the gorgeous sunlight of an unparalleled
sictorv. about being in the woods Say.
Won Gazette folks-shut up! Brag about
your onions, your saurkrout, and SIGH, but
keep mum on the political power question !
We've got you-worse than Caleb had the
feminine rooster ,-Muscatine Journal.
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The Lecture System.

1t has been the habit of young mems as
sociations in the different cities of this coun-
try to hire lecturers. The lecture season
begins in the fall and continues until spring
The lecturers are Wendell Phillips, Hor.
ace Greeley, Charles Sumner, Anna Dicken-
son, Fred Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Tilton,
John B. Cough, Schuyler Colfax, and other
long-haired men and short-haired women of
the radical persuasion. Their name is le-
gion, but there is no difference of opinion
among them on the one subject on which
they all lecture. 1t is hardly necessary to
say that that subject is the niger.
Some of these men are very good men in
their way. Three of them-Greeley, Phil.
ips and Douglass-are men of more than
ordinary ability, and an occasional lecture
from them, even on the stale subject of the
niger aad his accessories, would not be
without interest The others are simply
borrowers of the ideas of these three, and OF
opinions and thoughts which are better and
more forcbly expressed in the majority of
the radical newspapers. Beecher, in the
pulpit is occasionally sensational, and would
like always to be so. The constant pursuit.
of this wish has enabled him to say many
things which were more strange than wise,
and has gained for him credit for originali.
ty to which he is not entitled. When he dis
cusses political questions, he simply repro
duces Phillipsisms and Greeleyisms. The
only instance in which he failed to do SO
was in. his letter to the soldiers convention
at Cleveland. There was a mixture of COM
mon sense and christianity in that letter
very different from any political discussion
in which he had before or has since en-
gagged.
Such are the men hired by the young
mems associations, and such the subject
with which the young men and the audience
are RECALLED. fthose associations are simp-
ly institutions for the propogandism of the
political teachings of such agitators as we
have named, the selection Of such lecturers
and none other, cannot be made subject OF
complaint by democratic newspapers. There
is prevalent impression, however that the
associations are, professedly at least, literary
rather than political in their character. Il
this be so, how poorly the purpose for which
they were formed has been carried out, the
facts we have cited will disclose.
1t is not denied that literary associations,
such as are now common in all our cities.
and known generally as young mems asso-
Citations, may, with entire propriety, invite
prominent members of the different political
parties to discuss political questions. Such
course affords an easy, and very frequently
an impressive method of instruction. When,
however, the lecturers are invariably select
ed from one of those parties, and only politi-
cal lectures are given, the association be-
comes merely political club. As such in
stitutions are now conducted, democrats
should have nothing more to do with them
than with union league climbs.
Political lecturers should be either reject
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23
Mrs., Lincoln,

Washington (Oct.l6l Correspondence of the New
York Tribune.
The man who held the position Of garden.
er at the White House during portion of the
late President Lincoln's administration, and
who now keeps q rum-miu in this city, has
been trying lately to sell, to newspaper cor
respondents here, letters which he asserts te
have been written to him by Mrs. Lincoln,
in which she requests him to commit forgery
and perjury for the purpose of defrauding
the government. He also promises, for q
consideration, to give full history of the
secrets of Mrs. Lincoln's domestic affairs
upon which he claims to be well posted.
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What Did TT

The republican papers have adopted vari
GUS methods of accounting for the change in
the popular vote shown by the recent elec-
tons; but the best explanation we have seen
is the following from the Belfast Maine)
Journal:
A war began in this country six years
and half ago. Ten states of the Union
had the right to 60, AID the power to go,
President, said they couldn't 60. He said
the Union was perpetual and indisso!luble,
and they couldn't 60. Congress said they
couldn't go. Seward said they couldn't go.
Chase said they couldn't go. Fessenden
said they couldn't 90. Morrill, said thev
couldn't 90. So did Blaine and Pike, and
all the radicals. All the governors of the
states and all the legislatures said. they
couldn't 60 out. All the radicals said the
same. The small fry politicians and hang
ers on of the party echoed the cry
"1hey cant go out THEY MusN'r GO OUT
THEY SHAN'T GO OUTr'
The ministers prayed that the states might
be kept all in the Union. They implored
the Lord to aid in composing that end.
They asked him to counsel, direct and aid
everybody who was trying to keep the states
from going out of the Union.
The radical party claimed to be the party
that was going to keep the states in the
Union. MIR. Lincoln said TIE party that
elected him was strong enough to do it. No
one was allowed to doubt that the party was
going to keep the states in the Union. If
any one said he had doubts about it. the cry
was, "Mob himi Tar and feather him!
KNOCK HIM DOWN. KILL HIM.
Men wcye mobbed, and beaten and killed,
and their murderers acquitted, because thew
doubted ifthe party meant to keep the Union
together. Jails, and prisons, aud forts, were
full Of men who said they doubted it. Men
who couldn't persuade themselves that the
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

Before the election we were told that the
democratic party, being party of repudia-
tion,its success would destroy the credit of the
government and send gold up out of sight.
The result was exactly the reverse of the
prediction. When the news reached New
York of the splendid democratic triunphs
in Ohio and Pennsylvania there was de-
probation in the price of gold in Wall street.
A democratic victory is taken by business
men as pledge that the credit and liberties
of the nation will be preserved
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ASSESSORS NOTICE.
FARM FOR SALE,

T OFFER MY FARM FOR SALE IT Is SIT
l. uated one mile south of Coal Valley village
and adjoining lands of the Coal Valley Mining
Company, and consists of about $50 acres of roll
ling prairie. and has coal unddr the whole of it.
Over SO acres of the land is under cultivation.
The fences are good and there is considerable
good hedge. There is good two story farm
house and plenty of sheds; also plenty of good
water.
Terms easy. JOHN CLARK.
Coal Valley Oct Is dwlm
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

The person who was employed as garden.
err by Mr.. Lincoln appears to be in the mar.
ket with Mrs. Lincoln's private correspon.
dence, and threatens to wash what Napoleon
used to call an extensive lot of "dirty linen"
if not bribed to hold his tongue.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

An old gray-haired political preacher went
to White Haven a few days ago to solicit a
call. He attended prayer meeting and
made loyal political prayer, during which
al the democrats left the house excepting
one deacon, who followed with democratic
PRAYER, during which all the ''loyal' left,
leaving the deacon and political preacher
alone. The deacon concluded not to give
him a call ColumLia Herald.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

The radicals attribute their recent over.
whelming disasters to Gen. Apathy, Gen.
Discomfort, and number of other informed
oilers in the elections. They make no al.
lowance, as yet, for the influence of Gen. In
fali;popoa
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

A radical divine in Chicago thinks that all
men who grow grain and hops with knowl-
edge that they are to be used in the manu-
fscture Of highwines and beer, are guilty of
great sin before God, which ought to be
prohibited by an act of the legislature.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

The New York Times wants the "republi-
can managers to hold back the more fran
tic orators" who ''did great damage to the
republican cause in Ohio" But who shall
speak for the party, if not its head in the
senate, Ben Wade, and its head in the house,
Colfax, whom the Times now calls "frsntic,' ~
in New York?
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23
Another Radical Leaves his Party

BosroN, Oct. 2l.-J. s. Stevens, formerly
merchant, and recently in the employ of
the congressional committee in session in
in this city on the subject ofthe treatment of
Union prisoners, committed suicide this
morning by hanging.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

At the election in Richmond, Virginia, on
the I'D, the radical negroes attempted to
mob the conservative negroes, but were re-
strained by the military.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

Lo How TRUE.-The Manhoods, before
the elections, claimed that the cooperheads
were lions in peace and lambs in war. May
be, may be. Anyhow we damned thunder
out of the high old morality chaps, on Tues
day last, and it wasn't good day for lambs
either. Do it again some day.-Columbus
o.. Statesman.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

The democratic gain in Thad. Stevens
county at the late election was only one
thousand. That was comforting to the great
impeacher and con6scator. ata $50
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

Anna Dickinson Classics humanity as
women aud idiots. Anna is both,-a sort of
hermaphrodite.- Boston Post
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

The Davenport Gazette politely and fun
nily slangwhangs us for Dragging about the
superior political power" of Muscatine coun.