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The U. S. SenatOrshlp in Ohio.

a Washington dispatch to the Bos-
ton Post says "Lctters received
hers to day from prominent Democra-
tic politicians in Ohio.state that while
a few friends of Vallandigham will
press his claims for the Senate, Mr..
Pendleton will be elected by the
almost unanimous vote of his party,
and will be pat forward by the De-
mocracy of the Northwest rs their
candidate for the Presidency" On
the other hand, s S. Colfax tslegraphs
to Washington that neither Valland.
igham nor Pendleton will get the
United States Senatorship. He says
that either Judge Thurman or Judge
Rannsy will surety get the place.
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-10-25
OUR PLATFORM.

WE ARE IN FAVOR or TnE ENTIRE ENFRAN.
CHISEMENT or THE CoLOREr RACE, AND THE
pISgRANCHISENENT OF TIE REBELS OF THE
SOUTH UNTIL IT Is SAFE TO INTRuST THEM
WITH THE BALLOT. THE CONGRESSIONAL roll
ICY OF RECONSTRUCTION THE C~oNFISCATIoN
op REBEL PROPERTY SUFFICIENT TO PAY THE
EXPENSES OF TIE WAR, AND ~REMuNERATE
LOYAL MEN FOR THEIR LOSSES INCURRED
THEREBY. AND We WILL SUPPORT NO MAN
FOR THE PRESIDENCY WHO WILL o COM
sug HIMSELF TO THIS PLATFORM OF RIGHT
AED JUSTICE.
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ITALY.

LONDON, October 19-Noon-Tho,
Times, in q leading article this morn
ing asserts that the Italian Prime
Minister, Ratazzi, is pledged to enter
Rome rs o o as the French feet sails.
1t seems that the place held by the
insurgents is not the seaport Ostia,
as teIcgraphed last evening, but the
town of Orte, on the Ti5cr, in the
province of VitcrbO.
A Spanish fr1eatc has sailed from
Cadjz for Civita Necchia.
New YORK, October 20.-Special tel
egrams by cable from Florence des.
cribe the Roman situation as more
serious than heretofore reported.
Eight Italian iron-clads have been
ordered to the coast.
1t is reported that The revolution
broke out in Rome on Friday night
and the excitement at Florence was
very great.
FRANCE.
PAatsH, October 20-A. N.-The
official journals of Saturday concur in
declaring that within twenty-tour
hours Italy must announce her de-
termination either to support the re-
vOlutionary movement on Rome, or
allhtully execute the September con.
vcEtion, and France must declare
for peace or war accordingly.
FLORENCE, October 2O-A petit
ton, signed by swelee thousand Ro-
mans, has been presented to the
Pope by the Rome City Council,
headed by n Senator Of Rome, pray.
Ing his Holiness to allow the LtaHan
troops to occupy Rome.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, October 19-Noon.-Thc
steamer from Melbourne. which ar.
rived to-day, brought 100000 in
gold
LONDON. October 10-Noon.-The
Fcnian alarm does not abate.
Last evening repeated efforts were
made by the Fenians to burn the
police station at Chester, and thus re-
lease some of their comrades who are
there confined,
Tho fire was in every instance ex-
tinguished before any damage was
done.
The Government is on the alert,
and precautions are every where tax.
en- to guard against a surprise.
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and the moral principles OF its government
will march from conquest to conquest, diff
fusing the blessings of her evangelism
throughout the parish o: her lab6urs, until
Constitutional Law and Liberty shall be the
~rallyiug cries ofthe disenthralled and redeem
ed millions of every lip, kindred and CLINE.
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-10-25

~ Andy's original platform must be carried out,
aud traitors must take back seats, " until they bring
fJ,th fruits meet for repentance.
ne. Treason must be made oilous. Traitors must be
published aud Impoverished 'huy nuSt not only bH
punished, hat their social power must he destroyed; and
ator making tirisuu odious, every Union man and the
SoyrrYmsut should be reimbursed out of the pockets of
'hvs, who have inflicted this givjt suffering upon the
country ANDREW JOHNSON, Ap-l ], lsd5.
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-10-25

ssl-The Mormons in Utah are be-
coming more violent in their decla-
rations of hostilities to the United
States Government, and assert that
they will maintain polygarmy at all
hazards.
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-10-25
Chanccry Court JOnpSb5rO', Tenn,

John =. ~pEADEBICK EN'r Of O. ". Wiuctt decd
~ W. Benz. hale. In this case by the officers re-.
urn on subpmud from Jackson county, Tennessee,
defendants former Residence. II appears that the de.
LcndantisH nonresident u johnson county Illinois.
II is therefore ordered that he appear before said Court
on The eth Monday of November lSG7, and defend or
10. 1867, HENRY HOSs. Q. & NJ.
kI7Ocf2Iwtpfs5
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DY VIRTUE of a ri. Fa issued liou !.
ID Circuit Court of Washington Uo's
to me directed, | will expose to PuOns A,
for cash in hand TO the highest bldd'l .,o
Court House door in the town Of Jon' ,ss;.
on Saturday the goth day Of OeioO,, ,bt,
all the right, title, claim and lnls's, 4.
Nathan Barnes has in and to a trae' ~ a
uated in Washington County, Dlslfiil nj.
adjoining the lands Of Nathan onlPs!, MOTT
vim Cox and others, containing u s'Is, ,bs
or less, to satisfy a judgement ana " y,,sn
VIM. Perry received against the saia ;a,ss
Barnes 10 the Circuit Court Of Wa'Dp a
County at June term 1851 for TIE , ,ssi
S504 IS. This the 25th day Of sep IA
lse1sept27w4pfs5 s. 7. shlPLhl-
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-10-25
JONESBORO' MALE INSTITUTE.
NOTICE.

TIVE REVENUE COLLECTORS OF EAST
Tennessee will hereafter send their mon.
~ to Nashville By the Southern Express
Coupsny taking their receipt for the same
addressed 70
JOHN R. HENRY, Treasurer,
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-10-25

WTM G.. BROWNLOW, GOVERNOR OF
w the State OF Tennesse-To the sheriff
Of the country OF Johnson in said State,
greeting
WHyREAs, | am officially informed that the
House Of Representatives has declared vacant
:ue seat Of the Representative from johnson
county.
% You are hereby commanded to open and
hold an election al all the places Of holding
elections In your co1nty, on Saturday the
10th day OF November next, after having Civ
en- the notice required by Law, for the cleo
ton Of a Representative in the General As
sembly in said State, to fll the vacancy &C.
casioned by the action Of the House Of Rep
resentatiyes in declaring said seat vacant,
and due return thereof make to Inc, according
to law.
- To testimony whereof, | have here
Sra, unto set my hand, and caused the
~ Great Seal Of the State to be afix-
- ed at the department in Nashville,
on the 18th day Of October, 1867.
By the Governor:
W. G. BROWSLOw.
A. j. FLEroHER, Secretary Of State
Knoxville Wing, Greeneriile Era, and
Jonfsboro Flag copy till eleclion.1
ls61ocl6ttde.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.

VHE UNDERSIGNED having Iaii a note given by
/ John Mead, wherein, Christly Bashor, Madison
bowman, Henry LiuHweayer, John Dashor aud Al
phcus Dove are securities, l therefore would notify
John Bishor and Alphous Dove that / will appear be-.
fore John =. Grisham in the town of J0up-boru' at his
office on the l,t Monday Of December 1867. aud then
aUd there move for judgement against them for their
Proportional part as co-sccurties unless the same is
paid. This tie 2lst day Of October 1861.
JOHN WALTER,
lS67oct2jw4pfsS Ex'r. Of c. Blshor, deed
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FOR SHERIFF,
lOE ~SHLNlff,
S. T. GRIFFITH.
Education.

Subject to lie decision Of a nominating Lonyen'Io
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-10-25

The late patriotic General Assembly enact
ed a wise and desirable School Law, and At a
time when The wants Of such a system was
damaging the interest Of the State, both At
home and abroad. The wants Of a sound
aud liberal school system, 10 any State, is
well calculated to drive men Of capital, en-
%ierprise, and intelligence. from our midst, as
well as to deter others from coming among
ms, ns Il must be construed into opposition
to'the cause Of education. The Law, as II
now standa, is a liberal one, and reflects
Bat Ibis Law is detective in several imporisn.
particular and I50uld be improved by you
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-21

parts the tall then putting one foot on the joint Of
the horses Leg they ascend as if going up stairs
They usually stand erect on the horse before sitting
down. The horses never kick or stir while this
curious process is going on.
- seems that Senator Wade, Of Ohio was
on a committee of the two Houses appointed te
investigate the pecuniary condition in which Pres!
dent Lincoln family was left and report bill, Il
necessary for their relief In conversation during
the present week, Mr.. Wade emphatically contra
dicted the statement of Mrs Lincoln that Mr.
Lincoln had left little or no property behind him
'We looked into the natter says Senator Wade
Every carefully. The Illinois men wanted us tc
give her one thousand dollars, and we agreed te
do so, if it appeared that she really needed it. we
sent for the administrator Of the estate, and he
testified that Mr.. Lincoln left seventy-fve thou
sand dollars in Government bonds, or something
like that, besides some little productive property
in Springfield, HL,-in all, about one hundred
thousand dollars. We thought then, that TWEEN
ty-6ve thousand dollars would be enough-the
same as was paid to the widow Of General Harm
son. Mrs. Lincoln was very well off, and didn'i
need even what she got. She took hundred
boxes of something or other-l don't know VIVA,
away with her, and the Commissioner OF PUBLIC
Buildings swore there were fifteen other boxes
that she wanted to carry off, and he had to inter
fere to prevent her. At any rate, she cleaned out
the White House. I don't know but what she wa: VI !,
going to run big hotel with oil she carried on.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-21
GREENBACKs AND GOLD.

One of the greatest errors committed by the peo-
ple of this District at the close Of the late war; was
to ignore, in their business TRANSACTIONS the use OF
the lawful money of the country The error has
cost them heavy price, and Notwithstanding,
it still continues to q great extent unconected.
Our farmers at the close of the war sold their
cotton and other produce for gold for the natural
reason that their confidence in all paper currencies
was lost. Their purchases had to be made in gold
and silver, for they had no other money to offer,
and the merchant was compelled to mark his goods
at gold prices in order to meet the convenience OF
his customers. The merchant thereby became a
money broker, and goods dealer at the same
time, and in many instances the profits realized
from buying and selling specie falls little short of
his profits on merchandise. But why broker
Because he buys goods in currency, gives notes
payable in currency, which he must meet in cur
rency when due. His customers furnish him with
gold which he must sell or exchange in order to
procure the proper medium in which he was to
pay. But in taking the specie of the purchaser,
the merchant takes at from two to five per cent
less than market rates. thus realizing q profit to
this extent over and above the profits on sales of
goods. Thus when gold rules at sl.40 in New
York, it is rated at $l.35'in the rural DISTRICTS
giving wide margin of profit to the speculator
This is an error so easy of correction that we are
surprised it is still permitted to exist The origin
of it is with the producer and he alone is the loser
Let him sell his produce in the currency Of the
country-the same used in every town and hamlet
in the Union 1.-THE military districts excepted), and
buy with the same medium, and thus save the
enormous premiums that he pays money dealer
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-21
mERE.MENTION.

Gen. Swayne, Military Governor Of Alabama,
has issued an order giving freedmen lien on
crops for their wages This lien to be subordinate
to prior liens. ''''''"Sxteen- hundred executions
for State taxes are in the hands of the Sheriff Of
Fairfield District. ''''''':'An exchange says that
nine hundred and ninety millions Of men use to-
bacco. Bennett offers to contribute 100000
in Government bonds toward general bonfire OF
those securieties in City Hall Park. '''.'Chase is
reported to have said that he is more radical in
name than in fact, and complains that he has in
discreet friends. .'''..''Three thousand men have
got up revolution in Venezuela, and the Govern
ment, with four thousand, has thus far been bea-
ten. ''.'''Pope intends sending list to Congress
of the rebels fit to be enfanchised. .''.'..In Ja-
maica coolies are sold for seventy-fvo dollars a
apiece. '.......Ex- President Buchanan is not e1-
pected to live through the Winter. i", Mers,
the famous Jewish banker of Paris, has become q
Roman Catholic. Two tons Of prepared
sponge for upholstering are manufactured daily in
Lebanon. N. Fl. ..'......'The N. Y. Herald claims
that its daily receipts average $6,OOO or over g.
OOO, 900 per aunun. 1.-THE proprietor Of the
Cincinnati Times refused $25O,O00 cash for his
newspaper establishment. .,,: ..: =. ..s, {.
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is probable that many of the registered negroes
can explain the discrepancy in the figures.
Texas Politics.


The Houston Telegraph says:
The Convention is now favored in Texas by the
Austin Republican, San Antonio Erpress, Flake 8
Bulletin, Mckinney Messenger, and Tyler Lnder ;
the last q new paper which we had not seen until
lately With these exceptions, the whole press OF
the State, so far as we have learned are either de-
cidedly opposed to the Convention, orhave declined
to give it any support. We have about forty jour-
mails against the Convention and four for it
The Right of Petition. nH.
The National Iatekgencer, in an able article
on the condition of the Southern States, advises
them to resort to the practices of 76 and to petl
ton Congress to afford them relief from the curse
of negro reconstruction 1t says:
1.-The people have distinctly protested at the
ballot boxes of the North against the excesses and
expressions which abound in the legislation of the
past year touching the South Everybody knows
it, and most of the Radical press are ashamed to
deny, and buntly admit it. Then, may not the
people of the South lift up their manacled arms
and show their chains? May they not ask the re-
peal of the anomalous, tyranncal, and revolution
ary programme of reconstruction They would be
addressing themselves to representatives who are
to be reelected next year. and who dare not turn
deaf ear to petitioners for whom their constitu-
ents have so clearly manifested sympathy and re:
morse. Let the case be made on the hoors>6l
Congress. Let no scrap-book tattlings deform
again the consultations of National Legislature
but let the solemn appeal be made as becomes o
noble people, and let it be heard as BELTS high
deiberatve body, and let its prayers be granted, a.
commanded 6y the nadgndnin,o,is masses OF ht
North at the recent elections.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-21
THE METEORIC DISPLAY.

Our readers will remember that Astronomer:
predicted that on the l4th of November, 1866
would occur a repetition of the grand meteorit
shower, that so startled the world in 1888 Thcil
calculations were somewhat at fault, for the STAR
G;;dd not shoot, as was expected. Nothing daunted
however, the philosophers of the stars, asserted
that they had found al error in their calculations
and that the grand display of pyrotechnics would
happen at 2 o'clock on the morning of the l4tl
of Noyemo Der: 1867. This time they were correct
and those who were fortunate enough to witness
the spectacle, say that it was grandin the extreme
The Charleston Courier says:
"At one time the heavens seemed to be all a
fame with the brilliant meteors, of the number o
which some conception may be derived from TIM
fact that, although occupying location in which
our survey was restricted to part only OF tht
heavens, we counted more than three hundred II
less than an hour Last night there was recur
renee of the phenomenon, but not so striking ii
appearance.
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ANOTHER NEW PAPER.

Gen. JOHN A. WAGNER the indefatigable Com
missioner of Emigration for this State proposes tt
become the Editor of new weekly under the title
of the Charlestoner Zeitg, in the interests of tho
German population of the State, and to be devoted
to the encouragement of emigration. G. G. ERcK
MAN & Co., are the proprietors, and the subscrip
ton price is $500 per annum.
General WAGNER has evinced rare ability
and industry in the labor to which the State ha:
called him, and deserves the hearty encouragement
of her people All who can offerinducements to EN-
igrants by the sale of cheap lands or by providing
them with employment, would do we'll to make then
terms known to Gen. w. who will herald the infor
nation at once throughout the old world: We be-
speak for the Zeituag kindly greeting from oul
brothers of the quill, and substantial suppor
from our people.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-21
THE GREAT DANGER.

The indications are that the Congressional plan
of reconstruction will prove monstrous failure.
Not, indeed through want of conventions in the
excluded States; for it is certain that oil OF these
will have their reconstruction conventions in full
blast, manufacturing constitutions as mechanically
as if they were so many undertakers, making COT
fins for the liberties of their respective States.
And right there is the weak point Of the Congress
sional plan. These new.Hedged statesmen, fresh
from the cotton patch, the Union League, the rog
shop, and in some cases, the JAIL have at least one
idea in common. They think they have been cleo
ted for the purpose of being as Radical as they car
be- and the one end which they all have in view.
is to elevate the negro" This is very good
end if properly understood, and no class OF people
in the country will more cheerfully aid in accom-
plishing it, than the whites Of the South. Bu,
these legislators understand the meaning OF the
phrase to be the setting of the blacks over the
whites. They believe the whites have no rights
and are the enemies Of the blacks. ,s-.
These teachings have been drilled into the ne
groes for nearly three years, and they have natu
rally produced an antagonism Of interest and feel
ing between the two races. We are soon to learr
the practical working of this antagonism in the
constitutions Matched out for the disorganizec
States. The conventions, relying upon the ON
impotence of Congress- too Ignorant to understand
the dangers of such conduct, are more than likely
to frame constitutions that will trampe the right:
of the whites into the dust. The Alabama conven
ton is already considering the overthrow OF the
present State government the wholesale disfran
chisement of all "rebels" and the punishment by
er post tacto laws, of alleged crimes which have
been tried by the courts. no ... ..gs..-.
Such 'sconstitutions," if they are allowed to g
into operation, so far from accomplishing recon
struction, can only result in a war Of races. The
Northern people, in the late elections, show rap
idly growing dislike of the threatened negro supre
macy. If such constitutions are approved by Con
gress the North, as well as the South, will resist
themN '..
But the necessity for desperate measures, on the
part of the Radical leaders, threatens the country
with the danger of their trying to rush the excluded
States into the Union as negro States. They see
that they are losing ground at the North and their
only hope is the negro It is greatly to be feared
that they will accept any constitutions csused by
these States, provided they will ensure the election
Of Radical delegations to Congress. THIS is the
danger to which our country is now exposed. The
whites and blacks of the South could easily make
equitable laws for themselves if let alone. But il
is to the interest of Northern Radicals that they
shall not be friends.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-21
THE LIGHT AHEAD.

We are beginningto look forward with hope and
confidence, to time when this long night of po,
tcal sorrow and despair shall break into glorious
day. But if we ask ourselves where we find aught
to foster such predictions we are at loss tor an
answer. Every white man, woman and child in
the South, to-day feels that its bondage is lighter
than 1t was u few weeks agy, lvoaueo rhle - 90.
press him to the earth, there is somewhere Whls'
pering in his ear, promise of relief and liberty in
the future. ...,L,...Z ....t,.
This newborn hope is drawn from the recent
elections in the States North and West, where ex-
treme radicasm has been in some places rebuked
and shorn of some of its strength This hope-if
we examine it closely-is of very fragile texture,
and something more must be done than has been
some great awakening of the American people, to
their danger, must occur, before such hopes can
bear the semblance of realization. We are under
the dominion of party whose only hope Of perpet'
uation, is in the present system Of in
the South and that party controls the Congress
through which If deliverance come at oil, we are
to expect it. That party is fully alive to the dan
gers that threaten it; but whatever may be the
election results, it feels toleraby secure of another
long stretch of power A new Congress will not
sit until long after the negro governments in the
South have gone into operation, and these ten
States will give all the reinforcement" perhaps,
that may bo necessary to control the presidential
election and maintain standing majority in both
houses of Congress. This will give the radicals
the spos of office in oil the States, whether they
are rejected by the people or not; and with this
they will be content. The South once 'recon-
structed on the negro basis, with radical Congress
men, she will bea great lever to uphold the sinking
fortunes of the party and will enable it to control
the country, perhaps for several years to come.
In the meantime the Conservatism of the North
may make rapid strides toward the rescue of the
government; but it will not only have the present
radical majority at the North, to overcome, but also
the additional strength given it by the twenty Sen
ators, and ffty-six representatives sent from the
Southern cotton fields. The Conservative party
can defeat radicalism at home perhaps; but can
it WELD weapon powerful enough to crush this
Southern monster likewise?
Thus while we hope for deliverance, we must
confess that the chances for it are not promising.
The light that is discerned gmmering ahead Of US,
may prove only jack o'lantem at last; and this
people be left to staggar through a. long night Of
political anarchy and misrule '"Fhy Will, not
ours, Oh Lord be done.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-21
THE ALABAMA CONVENTION.

The sable darkies and the few white men VIII
constitute that delectable assembly-the Alabam'
Reconstruction Convention, have found themselve
at a sqaure stand-still Thequestion Of disfranchs
ing all the whites who many way engaged in the lat
war, was the first under consideration, and tn
disfranchising clause was about toreceive the sane
ton of colored majority; when one Of the WOOL!
heads wanted to know whether or not Congress
would let 'em' do such-a thing. The question wa
an embarrassing one, and to solve it, member
was posted off forthwith to Washington to conte'
with the ''he'' radicals upon the matter: In the
meantime the Alabama Reconstructlon ConVentlo1
impatiently awaits the return Of. its messenger
as also the instructions he is expected to bear from
THAD. STEVENS and others upon this all import
ant matter