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Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24
EtherIdge Nominated.

The Rebel-Johns0n- Conservative Convention at
Nashville, has nominated Emerson EtheriGge for
Governor He is a sedtious and malignant rebel,
and was arrested and imprisoned in 1865, by Ma
jor-General Thomas for disloyaIty and reasonable
speeches He advised the overthrow Of the State
Government by force-the shooting down Of the
negroes and those who commanded them-dened
that the slaves were free-denounced Mr.. Lincoln
Is liar and usurpe--and supported Mcclellan for
the Presidency in 1864 This is, in brief the re-
cord Of the man the great Law and Order party
have put forth, and he truly represents, in senti
nent and temper, the gathering Of rebels that
nominated him.
Personally, the success defeat Of either of the
candidates amounts TO but little but the success or
defeat Of the principles and parties their nomina-
lions represent, are Of great moment, and involve
everything fer the future Of Tennessee and her 10y
al men. The present incumbent is willing TO leave
the settlement of the question TO the legal voters of
the State and has no fears Of the result The good
people Of Tennessee--by whom We mean the loyal
people-bAve had enough Of rebel rule--Snd have
no wish 10 again see the State come under the con-
troll Of traitors and disorganisers. The loyal men
now have the whole matter in their own hands,
and If they don't hold on and take care of them
selves they deserve defeat and overthrow.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24

cisI tribunal Of the State has recently pronounced
If constitutional7 These mob orators profess rev.
ereoe for the law, and malicionsy provoke the peo
pie 20 trample on law which had been atHrmeo
and approved b. our Srprerne Court composeo OF
Judges ail siouthern born men and loyal
Cameron touched lightly on the record OF the
Union army, out Of revenge probably for his dis
honorable dismissal, and eulogized the rebel army
extravagantly as the embodiment OF all honor and
chivalry and worthy of immortal honor. The del
egates at least one-half of whom disfranchsed
rebels yelled with delight at this sentiment, and
perhaps exulted in the momentary thought that the
day might come when such men as Thornburgh,
Welsh, Frierson, Brownlow and Trimble would
have to Ay their native State Cameron then made
bitter TRADE against the aboiitonists of the North
as being the original authors of the The reo-
els again yelled the colored portion OF the audi
ence gazed at each other in significant and eloquent
silence. They were st no loss to divine the real
feelings cherished toward themselves by crowd
who shrieked wild approval at the villifcaton OF
such men a. VIM Lloyd Garrison, George H. Ste.
vens, John Brown, Charles Summer and Wenoeh
Phillips. The remarks of Hon. Edmund Cooper
we're feeble and spiritiess. Those Of John Baxter,
Esq, of Knox We will notice sgain.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24
From the Nashville Press and Times.
The Orators OF the Convention.

The drst speaker in the Rebel Democratic Con-
vention OF yesterday Hon. Dorsey Thomas.
HIS remarks were singulsrly unfortunate in many
instances. In drawing comparison between the
present and the past be said that nee or SIR ,,,ar,
ago the rights of the people Of Tennessee were Sc
| cured by legal government. Six years aro yxonId
carry back 10 the rebel rule Of Gov Harris yvho
held the State under JEFF Davis bsyonets As Nr
Thomas announced himself as r. candidate for he
Legislature that year on the rebel platform, In a
printed circular be probably meant to say that be
liked Gov Harris better than Gov. Brownlow. he
also said that under our form of government il was
an inblenable right Of the people 70 revou4ionize
the government A majority Of the people Of Ten
believed that i TO their interest 10 rebe
against The United States and they bad a right 70
believe 80. They believed that their rights ws-e
jeopsrded, and perhaps were deceived. he also
affirmed that the State Constitution had not been
lawfully altered, and that stood precisely where
oe stood at he bCgiiHIag OF The iVer.
If those astonishing positions be admitted, the
people OF Tennessee are under no legal obligations
70 obey or respect the emancipation of their slaves
nor the eniranchisement Of freedmen and the frst
movement made by the Rebel Democracy IL thew
should get INTO power would be 20 set aside the nr
ent Constitution, restore the old pFc-slaverv Cor-
stt9hon and re establish slavery IN all its horrors
cameron OF memphis, the next speaker, boosted
That al good Union soldiers like himself onDossd
the Radical ticket Ills military record vii moi
oeAF examination, any better than that OF Joe VIII
ams, the hero Of the ball and chain ana the pusrs
house ''0 s"@A1
Official records in the Governors Office show that
Cameron tried by Military Court ana -
missed the United States service Ninety.nine
Union soldiers, cut Of every hundred Of honorable
record, m this State viii support Gov Rrownlov
Nhiie sueh fellows as Joe Williams and Cameron
oppose him. We prefer that thew sho,IS ".
"a , Nsh, Them. Cameron, like Dorsey Thomas
mat the authority q the Legislature was cues
sna,bn- ne wonld Ike 10 iHo.in the people to
40 y, reeeillon How dares any one stziing him,
- friend Of the law assaii the F-anebise act g.
PRONE N"nr' Of Tennessee tho highest jpai
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24
A Dead FaiIure.-.Half the Counties
not Represented--.COlOred Delegates
Missing,

The Rebel-Democratic Convention was q lame,
tame and spiritessi affair. There was striking
contrast between its dull monotony and general ao-
athy and the fiery, all-consuming universal entha-
siasm and ardOr of the great Brownlow- Radical
State Convention.
When the Secretary called the roll of counties,
ne went through almost the entire roll of East Ten
nessee without obtaining single response. Only
iorty-two counties, one-half of their number
were represented by delegates ct all The eastern
gallery was hled with colored and white Radicals
with only two exceptions. Two-thirds of the whole
number Of persons present we're residents of David
son county and most of these citizens Of Nash
vile. We looked in vain for the colored delegates
of which so much had been said beforehand The
inevitable Joe Williams and the coored brass band
from Memphis, who stood in the corner to the left
Of the Speakers chair were al the colored persons
visible.
Judge Whitworth's reserves vera invisible The
coalition and tender embrace Of the Banner and
Joe Williams proved utterly disgraceful failure.
II was hasco ridiculous as the immortal one of
Concordia Hall. 1t whispered in the morning
that the editor of the Banner and Joe Williams
would open the proceedings of the Convention by
entering arm 10 arm, after the famous Couch and
Or tableau1 in Andy's Convention, but the Ban
ner mans courage failed rs the white mans gov
ernment fellows poured in. The Gazette and Boil
var Bulletin have completely whipped the Banner
aad Dispatch. Il is noticeable too, that the band
was permitted TO play only national air Yam
kee Doodle, and that received in sulen silence
The crowd evidently wanted Dixie" or THE
Bonnie Blue Flag" but prudence overruled and the
airs of the Confederacy were not played
On the whole the Convention was a signal failure
TO rally the people against the Republican ticket
II was oppressed with nightmare which palsied
its limbs and stuffed its breath. One Of the
speakers eomplsiaed of the evident apathy of the
Conservatives, as the great obstacle TO success
Press and Times.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24
The Blindness and Deafness or Smokers
and Drinkers.

M. Sichel, in the course of twenty eight
years practice, has frequently met with
blindness from paloy Of tho optic nerve, pro-
duced by the abuse of smoking, and he be-
lieves that there are few persons who can
smoke for any long period more than five
draehms of tobacco daily without their
vision, and otter their memory, becoming
affected. he had previously spoken Of
another form of amaurosis, symptomatic of
delirium tremens, and caused by alcoholic
drinks. 1t is frequently accompanied by
trembling of hands in the morning, and at
later period by morning vomiting. Both
of these varieties are very slow in their pro-
gress towards cure and very refractory to
treatment. This latter occupies long time,
and an essential point, of course, is the dis
continuance of the practice that has given
rise to the blindness. We cannot attempt
to give in this place even an outline of the
treatment.
M. Triguet states that in smokers and
drinkers an insidious and obstinate form Of
inflammation Of the ear (OtttiS) frequently
becomes developed. There is q kind Of
numbness or torpor of the ear, with sense
of cold, but hardly any pain. There is no
wax IN the ear, but extreme dryness and
minute granulations of the throat the pas
sages of the nose, and the tubes on each side,
leading from the mouth, behind the palate,
to the middle ear. Noises in the ear almost
always occur at an early perion, and it is i'm
portant to notice that they beave kissing
sound. The disease exhibits itself in three
perioes: /. That of excitement, in which
there is intolerance of noise and kissing
sound in the ear; 2. That Of depression, in
which the kissing sound disappears, or only
remains as distant and feeble echo; and,
3. That Of aparalytic condition Of the audi
tory nerve, in which the sense of hearing is
more or less completely, and often perma-
nantly, last. In this period there is also
often trembling of the tongue, embarrass-
nent of slooooh and dint.sxl,rsrIt5x Of szsaso
The prognosisis very unfayorable, for those
persons alone are susceptible Of cure who
will consent to leave off the bad habit which
has produced the disease.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24
Lean Contributor.
For the wing.

In the issu of the KrsozriLLe Commercial April
18th, J. TO- patterson, the little informed his one
hundred readers through his litts paper, "that he,
she or it," whichever Lean Contributor" may be,
made merry over the Conservative meeting at the
court house in Knoxville on Monday last. My
dear sir, you are mistaken. l never make merry
over small things l never make merry at the
death of neighbour though he be very bad one.
Make merry when the would-be Conservative party
was gasping for breath. Make merry when the
grim monster" has taken hold Of weak, sinful,
poor emaciateo party Laugh when they must
shuttle of this mortal col" die and no longer live
Make merry, indeed The g Lean Contributor was
better raised than to laugh on funeral occasions,
when anybody or anything was about quitting earth
forcysf, no matter which way the spirit went up
or aovn.
There is one correction desire to make Gen.
John CrOzier Ramsey, late of the Confederate
States Army (so-called,) well known to their sor-
row, by many Union men, was in the court house
in attendance at the Conservative meeting, but
owing to press of business he left just before pat
tsrson and Beiskell, making four Conservatives
present, instead of three as reported before.
The distinguished nobody that we ever heard
Of before Commercial.
Why, you must be mistaken small patterson, if
you never heard of the Lean Contributor before.
Of course the world knows nothing of him. The
idea that the public ever heard of any that has
not been spoken of by the Editor Merchant Prince,
Conservative, forgiving, all-soued far-famed war
rior, Tin a horn,) is preposterous and not to be
thought Of
Lean Contributor did not think that sickness
would result from the very short obituary notice of
the Conservative party in the WING of the 10th.
Be just as cheerful you can, we RAIDS will see
your decently las necessarily inferred August next
until which time, would advise that you keep
he corpsein ice-house. Loyal persons cannot
be annoyed by the stencil of defunct corpse in
their midst during the coming summer. Advice
gratis. Yours alphabetically,
LEAN CONTRIBUTOR.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24
Six Months Ago.

In the Knoxville rebel organ of the 10th
of October last, Messrs. Frazier and Heis
kell are extolled as patriots for coming out
in cards in opposition to negro roting, and
the article adds
1t viii require more ingenuity and po-
litical Juggling than Brownlow and his par
ty are capable of, to force upon the country
this Infamous doctrine, for it is too reroting
and too much at war with common sense
and the genius of our institutions to be rec
ognized by sensible people as measure
Of safety and benefit to the country"
Speaking of the purpose of the Legisla-
lature to enfranehise the negro, the same
article closes in these words
And be it known that such is the dam
nable design Of the whole tribe of abolition
lists, and they mean to carry it out though
it may involve the country in another ter
rible convulsion"
No,c, that party are better friends to the
negro than these Abolitionists Cant fool
the colored man this way.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24
East Te7HesS;Iee 05DDefI7ead5.


East Tennessee was largely represented
in the Convention, ind without single
exception, by men who were loyal to the
Government from the first to the last
Banner.
According to the Banners published list
SeceH counties in East Tennessee were &C.
tually represented, and tco by proxy, and
the sum total of their delegates amounted
to tsceuty.fow. The most prominent Of these
delegates was John Baxter, Esq, Of Knox
vile, who made speech in the Conven-
ton. He ran SIS candidate for the rebel
Congress and was beaten by Swan. When
the Union forces occupied Knoxville, q lot
Of papers were captured at the house of L.
G. Haynes, then Senator from Tennessee
in the rebel Congress, and now supporter
ofEtheridgt. Among the captured paperswas
a letter from John Baxter, ESQ, to Haynes,
asking that large fund be put at his (Bax-
ter's) disposal by the Richmond govern
ment to enable him to go North and sub |
sidize the leading newspapers of the North |
to take ground against Mr.. Lincoln and the |
further prosecution of the war for the |
Union, and to advocate the election of the |
Copperhead ticket.
Baxter is one of the four lawyers of
Knoxville who published an opinion advis-
ing judges of elections to pay no attention
to the Franchise law, assuring them that
they had full power to set it aside. For
further particulars Of Baxter's record we
refer the curious reader to the terrible ex-
eoriation given him some time since at
Jonesboro' by Hon A. J. Fletcher. That
eastigation did the job for poor Baxter. he
hasn't enjoyed a Saints Rest" since.
During the deliversnce of his incoherent
and rambling speech in the convention, he
looked nervously toward the door, as though
he expected to see his remorseless tormen-
tor make his appearance and put him to
punishment again.-PresS and Times
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24

ifs into vigorous setion restoring % health and .,r
disease Hence rapidly variety Of complaints 49,
caused BY impurity Ofthe blood sue as Srels or r.
Er Tasors Ulcers Sores, Ersptous Pnosss Block. Ef e
AathOny's Fire Rose EyspsEas, T or aR REeun s.f
Head Rs Eoras Cauesr Caseous Turors Sore Eye, p
male DISEASES such Retention, hsguary Suppression WI
ery, also Syphilis TsHsaf Dsases Lirr Couplrus ana
Heart Diseases, Try Ayers Sarsaparia and see for your,.g
the surpng activity with which the blood ana
cures these disorders.
During late years the public havs been ed BY large bot
ties pretending give quart Of Extract S4rsapara for
dollar. Most Of these have been frauds upon the for
they not only contain t II any, sarsapariIa but often
curative properties whatever Hence bitter dsappofp4
has followed the Of the various extracts Of sarsaoa
rla which food the market the name became
synonymous with imposition and cheat stu We call This
compound "ssraparlla and Intend to supply ,ueh re.
dy shah she from the load oboquv which
rests upon IT, We think have ground for believing has
virtues which irresistible BY the ordinary The dis
eases Il is intended only the sick that
ener them the best Alternative which how to pro
Suse' and We have believe By most e.
partner Of the blood yet discovered By any body
CHERRY Pset0al universally known to surps.s
eno s"eay ior the cure Of Coughs Colds Inauenzs
nOarssnss Group Bronchitis Ineipen Consumptiop and
lot me rsi OF oonsamptvs Patients in advanced stages Of
tns disease that useless here recount the evidence Of
its viEtues- The world knows them
Prepared By J. c. AVER CO.. Lowell Ms and sold ~
Druggists and Dealers everywhere Knox4le at wholesale
and retail By E. j. SANFORD 4 co. mars-2u
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24

A Convention Of the people Of I'd Congressional
District having been called to meet at Athens, on
the llth day Of May next, for the purpose of nom
mating candidate TO be run on the Radical Union
ticket TO represent the people of this district 10 the
Fortieth Congress- and it being very desirable that
the people of Knox county should be represented
in said Convention. The Radical Union men Of
said county requested to meet at the court house
in Knoxville, on Monday, the 9Th day Of May, for
the Of appointing delegates 70 the Convention
Unity of action is very desirable in this matter
and tho Radical Union men of the county are ex-
pected 10 turn out on this occasion.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24

WHEE the rebels Of Nashville collected few
rebel negroes in the court house TO hold Demo
cratic Ohnson- Colored- Convention, the colored
Radical. met and voted them down. The radical
organ, the J5'ioa ana Dispatch thus abuses the
colored Radicals:
When question was put they would vote, and
yell, and using every CHER nsisy 70 stop the
proceedings. We are glad TO say that there
not well known colored person Of respeciRbility
engaged In this vile business. All who were thus
employed, We learn, were Of the very lowest and
mot degraded class, inhsmed with mean whisky.
and rsheArsed In the paris 70 be played, by lower
and bAser Radical whites.
This abuse Of Radical Union colored men, comes
from party who put forth as leader Of white and
black rebels, rebel darkey, who has served time
in PennsylvAnia State prison for stealing pocket
bsok
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24
A Call for a Convention In the I'd
Congressional District, To Meet at
Athens, Tenn.

After having been in communication with the "a
Congressional Committee, who was appointed a.
the Mass Meeting held at Nashville, on the I'D Of
February, 1867, for the purpose Of calling Con
vention TO nominate candidate TO represent the
people Of the ID Congressional District Of Tennes-
see in the counses Of the nation, for the two years
next ensuing and Easjority Of the Committee
having agreed upon SATURDAY, the 18th day Of
May next, as the most suitable time and Athens
McMinn county, IS the place.
Said Convention will therefore meet at Athens,
McMinn county, on theSATURDAT, the llth day oil
May next 10 nominate a candidate for Congress Tor
the District.
Claiborne, Union Campbell, Scott, Morgan, An
derson, Knox, Rome, Blount Monroe, McMinn,
Polk and Bradley-counties composing the Second
Congressional District-will hold County Conven-
lions 20 nominate their delegates to said District
Convention. Let each county be fully represented;
If not in person, then by proxy.
II is 10 be hoped that there will be good turn
out and full Convention such an one as will sur
prise the COPPerheads.
NJ. l.. PATTERSON.
Chairman Of I'd Congressional Committee
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24
Old wings vs.. Radicals.

Some mon oppose The Radical Republican Party,
on the ground Of consistency Boosting that they are
Old wings devoted 10 principle, and can never
change. For this very reason 'Os are Radical Re
publican, and stand by the Radical Congress-
That Congress has brought into successful play
nsnFy Gays American System system that we
nave advocated as Whig, for thirty-hve years.
Zoe present Protective Tariff, the construction
o. the great Pacific Railroad, the improvement of
Rivers snd HArbors the e.,.hl;.A,,o,, ~ n.
Iona, ..''So.h &c. eli Mr.. olAys bill fully, and
s..s 'DO SSIA''y ls'' what the whig party have
sAio "Ou'0 MAKE TIE country prosperous and hsnnv
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24
DEF4BTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office ADril a lee-

fenslon Omce, April 4, 1867.
SIR have the honor to acknowledge yours of
the 27th ult relative to the fees of Claim Agents
and particularly the charge of one-third Of the
amount paid on cases restored in the Southern
States with five or six years Of arrearage The law
establishing fees for the prosecution of pension
claim applies strictly to the claimants under the act
Of July H. 1862 But Congress having expressed
It's views feel disposed to apply to cases restored
TO the rolls, which requires less service than an
original claim, such remedy as lies in my power
have one case under consideration of this kind
in the State Of Tennessee, where the attorneys
changed one-third Of the amount collected, and the
explanation demanded is not received vet Tie
compensation to the attorneys would reach 100 70
200 dollars, which is excessive. If the attorneys
cannot be prosecuted under existing laws remedy
sui exists in suspending them attorneys for pros
eenting snd collecting pensions. Upon satisfactory
representations of excessive fees this course might
De parsued with beneficial results.
am, very respectfully,
our obedient servant
Jos. Il. BARRETT, Com'r.
Hon. Horace Maynard, 7ossc Of Rsp.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24
TweIrIh and FIfteenth Of AnrII.

Henry Clsy was born on the 18th of April, I777.
In the county Of Hanover and State of Virginia.
II he we're living he would be ninety years Of age
The 18th Of April is memorable day, as the birth
day Of the " Great Paoifeator, the Father Of the
American System and the Champion Of the
Union
The 18th OF April Is equally, but mournfuliy
memorable, As tho day on which J. Wilkes Bootbe
q Co afsassinsted the patrios and philantbyopist
Abraham Lincoln '''''
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24

The Houston Telegraph speaking of
Judge PaschaIs letter to the Galveston
Neics, says:
And then the people Of Texas cannot ae.
eePt Judge Paschal's Interpretation of
either the past, the present, or the future.
They do not forget their course in the past
but having failed in the establishment Of
what they believed, and still believe. to
have been right, and finding themselves
under military government, which is their
only protection for life and property, they
know to obey it and support it, without adj.
vice, based upon principles which they do
not accept, from men who deserted them in
the hour of their sore trial. Our leading
rebels, so-called, are the only men to
whose advice our people viii listen.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-24

Messrs. Broa0nlo,O g. Hasos,
Several old pensioners. whose pensions were dis
continued during the war, and who, on their sppl-
cations were restored to the rolls applied to me to
learn what fees were allowed to Claim Agents for
services in such cases. complaining of being they
thought, overcharged.
To obtain for them more satisfactory information.
l addressed the Commissioner of Pensions His re-
ply, if published, will save me the necessity Of
writing to interested parties and besides is docu
ment Of general interest TO both pensioners and
agents. HORACE MAYNARD