The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-07-30

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- About the most ridiculous thing
out in the way of city doings is the run
ming of two municipal governments, in
Knoxville.
r5r The President has issued procla-
nation announcing the adoption by South
Carolina and Louisiana of the 18th arti-
Gle, amendment to the Constitution.
The Electoral College Bill, giving Con-
grcss the right to decide whether the vote
of the Southern States shall be counted
or not, has been passed over the Presi-
dents veto.
" Secretary Seward has addressed a
letter "to whom it may CONCERN" an
nouncing the adoption Of the Howard
Amendment, provided the withdrawal of
assent on the parts of New York and
Ohio should prove invalid.
" The Tennessee River Improvement
Committee, becoming inpatient at the de-
lay of the Senate about acting on the
House bill in relation to their project,
, have met and passed resolutions urging
the Tennessee Senator's to bestir them
selves in the matter
" Oats are said TO have been raised
in Davidson County, the stalks of which
we're six feet high and one inch in circum-
ference. The heads bore $50 grains each.
E. u Mr. Seymour has been twice elect
D ed Governor of New York. He has been
= candidate four times, but at two cleo
, stions was dcfcated.
= " Brick Pomoroy has relieved the
? curiosity of his friends on the subject by
coming out strongly for Seymour and Blair
He says the Democratic platform is the
peoples platform, and, with the motto
Principal non kOmines, he rushes into
the campaign, always to be found where
the fight is hottest.
VI The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
in Brownlow Providence evidently intend.
ed to show how much of the hyena and
how little of the man was necessary tC
constitute Radical Governor.
II A military court is in session il
Montgomery. A number of soldiers are
on trial, and among them Lieutenanr
johnson, the petty despot who arrested ;
lady at Tuscaloosa, and compelled her t.
walk under the United States flag.
" General Scott, the newly elected
Governor Of South Carolina, is earnest il
his advocacy of the Blue Ridge Railroad
He shows decided interest in the mate
rial prosperity of the State over which h
happens to preside.
" That able paper, the Scientif
American, argues that the mission of chol
era has terminated, and this terrible pes
thence will scourge the earth no more
The chief reason is the discovery that car
bonic acid will prevent the spread of tn
epidemic.
" The report that Mr.. Doolittle ha
resigned his position since the meeting 0
the Democratic National Convention il
consequence of being Unwilling to supper
the Seymour ticket is pronounced false h
that Senator. He will support the tick
ct and engage actively in the canvass, ant
is perfectly sanguine of its success.
" Later adyices from Millican, Tex
as, confirm the report of serious negro dis
turbances, and it is doubtful if they ar
yet quoted. The telegraph IS. interrupt
ed and no advices have been received la
ter than the eighteenth.