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Washington.

Mr.. McCullOch decides that he has
power to issue legal tenders redeemed but
not cancelled, provided the amount out
standing does not exceed four hundred
millions.
The present complexion of the next
Congress is Senate, 81 Radicals to ii
IL Democrats. House, l42 Radicals to
80 Democrats.
The latest dispatches from Minister
johnson do not Indicate that the details
for the settlement of the Alabama claims
have assumed any definite shape.
Negotiations for the right of way over
the Isthmus of Darieu are progressing IA
vorably. ..Ta.t# ..
McCulloch has ordered the reissue Of
three millions Of the three per cent. tenn
pOrary loan to relieve the money market.
A special from Lexington, KY, says
Barns, Republican, carried the Eighth
Kentucky District by 1900.
The following is General Grants letter
declining reception at Washington 81
will make no formal reply, but | wish you
would say to the gentlemen in charge of
the movement, would much prefer re-
turning quietly to my home without any
demonstration. | appreciate their mo-
tives and will take the word for the deed"
The customs receipts from the 18th to
the 3lst, Inclusive, were $2,66j,OOO
Private dispatches at Memphis state
that Governor Clayton has declared mar
tial law in eleven counties in Arkansas
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12
Tennessee Matters.

Special Dispatch to the Louisville Journal.l
NASHVILLE, Nov. GA dispatch from
Shelbyville to-day says that the majority
of G. A. Sheafe, Democrat, in the 4th
Congressional District, will be between
800 and 1000. The statements sent
from here to radical papers with regard
to frauds in that district by the Demo-
Gratis are entirely false, as the polls were
in charge of radical judges and clerks.
The franchise law renders it impossible
for Democrat to have anything whatever
to do with elections in an official capac-
ity, as the Registration Commissioners in
variably appoint men of their own party.
who are bound by no regulations, and re-
ceiye or throw out votes just as they
please. The facts that United States
troops were stationed in every town
throughout Sheafe's district, and that not
single disturbance of any kind took
place, are sufficient to refute the radical
charges Of fraud.
Captain Sheafe, the member elect, serv-
ed four years jp the Federal army and set
tied in Tennessee since the close Of the
war. His election is owing almost solely
to the change in the negro vote, which
has already alarmed the radical leaders in
this State far more than even the defeat
of Grant would have done. When tho
official returns are all in, this change as
developed in Middle and West Tennessee
will be shown to be of such extent and
significance as to startle the country. All
the prominent radicals here cOncede the
election of Ieftwich, Democrat, in the 9Th
District. An attempt is also being made
to prove frauds in his case. There is no
longer any doubt that BrOwnlow's majority
of 1861 has been reduced fully one-half.
A negro named jim johnson has been
brutally treated at Knoxville by radical
negroes, because he voted for Judge
EIouk, an independent radical, who ran
for Congress in that District against May
nard, the regular nominee.
Even Tillman, the opponent Of Sheafe,
admits in his paper, the Shelbyville Re-
publican, that the latter is elected by sew
eral hundred.
The belief is now entertained that Mid
die and West Tennessee have been carried
against the radicals, but East Tennessee
has of course gone solid for the radical
ticket, which will make their majority in
the State about twenty-five thousand.
There is terrible ferment among the
corporation carpct-baggers about Judge
Shackleford's action enjoining Mayor Al
den and several members of the City
Council from receiving salary and holding
office owing to frauds in their election and
non-eligibility.
Fears are entertained by the Democrats
that Brownlow will refuse certificates OF
election to both Sheafo and Leftwich.
The Legislature assemblies on Monday
and hopes are entertained that its action
will not be so proscriptive as heretofore.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" General William Gates, who died
in New York on the 9Th instant, aged 80
years, was in the United States army for
81 years, and was Il commanding officer
for 40 years. He served in the Florida
war, also in the Mexican war. He was
never reported sick during his service in
the army.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

VI The London Times, discussing the
election, says the Democratic party is yet
powerful. No one is disposed to regret
the election of Grant. lie has forcbly
won his high rank by lard work. He is
no politician and will take his office with
greater freedom than if he had uttered all
the shibboleths of party.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

VI Rail Road officials in Europe are
sometimes brought to a realizing sense
of their responsibilities. In Rome lately,
a station master started train when he
ought not. 1t came into collision with
another train, and five persons we're killed
The station master was tried and sentence
ed to five years. hard labor at the galleys.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
says that the people have "espoused Gen.
eral Butler" We presume that only one
person ever "espousep him, and we APP
prehend that she has Been sorry for it ever
since. ms'.a
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

GENERAL GRANTS ADMINISTRATIONS
1t is rather early to speculate, upon the
administration" of General Grant, for it
is quite probable that the great smoker
will be permitted to remain in his present
position at the head of the army, but the
following from st. Louis, may interest
some of our readers.
General Sherman returned home yester-
day. A gentlemen who spent two hours
with him recently, says that the General
is confident Genreal Grant will be elected,
but expressed the belief at the same time
that his administration of the Executive
office will disappoint the extremists of
both parties, it being Grants intention, if
elected, to select men of moderate and
conservative views for his Cabinet,
and initiate SUCH policy as will harmon
ize conflicting interests and restore peace
to the entire country-Grant and Sher-
man recently spent several days together.
. T VickSburg Times.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" The Louisville Courier announces
that pork packing is just about to COM
mence in that city, and its eight establish
ments have capacity for killing and
packing $4,000 hogs daily. He says the
''out look of affairs is cheering" But he
could not have consulted the hogs on that
point. -- -L Nv --.-----
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

A farmer, near Richmond, Virginia, has
raised two crops of potatoes and one crop
of turnips from the same piece of ground
during the present year. He first planted
potatoes in the spring, and gathered fine
crop. He then removed the vines, pre-
pared the land and planted it in turnips,
He got good crop, and has now another
fine crop of potatoes, which has grown
from the small potatoes left in the ground
when it was prepared for turnips. One
hill Of of this crop furnished twenty-eight
understandable potatoes. The last crop oil
potatoes began growing on the 18th Of
August. lie used one ton of poudrettC
to the acre on the land from which these
crops have grown.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" The United States army consists
of five artillery, ten cavalry, and forty-6ye
infantry regiments, comprising 1898 EN-
listed men and 1918 commissioned Off
GERS.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" James NJ. Hughes, an extensive
manufacturer of leather in Warren coun-
ty, Tenn. offers premium of five hundred
dollars for the greatest variety and best
specimen of tannery, to be exhibited at
the Warren County Fair in l869-seven
entries.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" G. Brink, conductor on the Nash
vile and Decatur railroad, was knocked
off of freight car last Wednesday and
had his thigh broken by contact with a
bridge. He is recovering.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12
= Novel SNinale.

A novel swinde has been garfield on in
Jersey City, for some months past. The
operator called G. G. Clarke, sent envel-
opes containing a genuine ten cents stamp
to all parts Of the country. This was ac-
companied by a docoy circular, stating
that the stamp was Of his own manrFac-
ture, and offering to sell the same at the
rate of eight dollars per thousand COPIES.
The strictest secrecy was, Of course, en-
joined. In few days the harvest began
to come in. Clarke was perfectly inundat-
ed with letters, each containing money in
sums varying from two to fifty dollars,
and requesting immediate transmission Of
the coveted stamps. The money was
pocketed and so were the letters, and the
successful swindIer laughed to himself at
the credulity of his dupes. So large u
correspondence soon aroused the suspi.
cions Of the postmaster at jersey City
which he communicated to headquarters
| Investigations we're set on foot which re-
suited in the seizure of a great many let
tiers, and the escape of the culprit. There
the matter stands. The letters now OF
hand will be returned to the writer's, with
their envelopes intact, but the great bulk
of the money is beyond recovery.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" p. Dickinson, Esq, of Knoxville,
has been appointed President, pro tenn, Of
the L. Y. and Va. r. r., Col. Branner,
the President, being too i'll to perform the
dntins
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" A duty of 81 so per pound, and
25 per cent ad uaIorem is to be assessed
upon all cigars, cigarette and cheroots.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" j. T. Alternately, Internal Rev.
enue Collector for the Knoxville dis
trict, has resigned, and the position has
been rendered to Col. John Williams.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" A man in Trumbull county Ohio,
last week deposited $4,000 in greenbacks
in his parlor stove for safe keeping, inform
ing his wife of what he had done. Next
day she had company, forgot about the
money, lighted fire in the stove and
the money vanished iuto smoke.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

johnson, Democrat, tele graphs to Wash
ington from California that he has been
elected to Congress.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" A person in a dry curpeted room
by running back and forth several times,
and slipping the feet upon the dry car
pet, can light gas by simply touching
the finger to the burner as it is turned on.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" The Press & Herald understands
that Judge ShacklefOrd has accepted Il
temporary appointment as Supreme Judge
and that Horace Maynard has been recom-
missioned temporarily, which with Judge
Smith will make full bench.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12
"NIalxing over" Property.

A mans wife should always be regard
ed as preferred creditor, and we cannot
blame any man for making her secure,
even at the expense of other creditors
when adversely with her ruthless broom,
threatens to sweep away the crumbs that
helpless ones depend upon. But, in Mis-
sssippi, if a man is in condition to avail
himself of the full benefits of the exemp-
ton law, he cannot honestly go beyond it;
and if zoe psre the wife Of any man, wo
had rather go to the woods on a root dig
ging, and chnquepin gathering expedition,
to fill the little mouths, that God no lon
ger sends his ravens to feed, than permit
the iron heeled and hearted world, to
point at my husband as he passed, as a
man whose comfort and security, was wo>
ven from the threads that would have
been the wool in his needy neighbours rags,
had he dealt fairly with him.
This habit of making over property to
their wives, to a greater extent than me-
cessity's cravings demand--and to great
err extent than our most prodigal and
generous exemption law permits, is becom-
ing painfully prevalent in the South; and
by making those who should be the custo-
dams of the public honor, particeps
criminis, much is being done to depreci-
ate the standard of purity, honesty, and
nobility, that characterized our heroic
women.
A husbands honor and good name,
should be dearer to his wife than all
his lands and stores; and if he but pre-
serves these inestimable treasures, she
should be ready and willing, for time,
to Danish luxury and plenty, when they
but represent unpaid debts, loss of Com
mercial integrity, ana the suspicious of
the world.-Aberdeen( Miss Examiner.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

Crawford's statue of Washington in
Richmond, Virginia, is represented to be
in shaky condition. Some of the iron
bolts, with which it was fastened to the
granite pedestal, have, by corrosion and
abrasion been reduced to half their origi-
nal thickness, and the bands holding to-
gether the blocks comprising the peltssal
are also considerably worn. Portions Of
the granite have crumbled beneath the I'M
menso weight of the statue. The diseov-
cry of these facts has been followed By
prompt measures to prevent the downfall
and consequent destruction Of this magnj-
6cent work Of art.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" General Reynolds will resume
command of his regiment on the Goth of
March next. 1t is stationed at Austin,
Texas. ..t.E.t. ANY, a.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

FoRrY MnEs OF Snow SHEDs,-The
Pacific Railroad Company are now engag-
ed in erecting sheds over the cutting and
other exposed points. They are OF heavy
timber framed work, with pointed gable
roofs, and look rs if they could Withstand
almost any pressure Of snow. Nearly
forty miles of the track will have to be
thus covered, the quantity of timber re-
CURED will be enormous. Not less than
twenty-five saw-mills, most Of chem work.
ed by steam, are run night and day. EN-,
ploying nearly two thousand men; and
yet they do not work up to the needs OF
the Company. 1t is estimated that it will
require no less than eight hundred thou
sand feet Of lumber to construct a mile OF
sheds. SO great is the demand that the
country on both sides of the track is being
rapidly denuded of its forests.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" The papers deny the rumors of a
change in the Secretaryship of the Treas
ury at least for the present.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12
Agents for the Forerunner.

Gr Governor Wells, of Virginia, has
resplted Phillips, who was to have been
hung on Friday last, for sixty days.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

" Schenck and Morgan have decided
for no session of Congress month.
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The Freedmen's Bureau, except regard
ing education, has ceased in 'the District
of Columbia. ... ... ..... .
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-12

VI General Candy will agree to act
as assistant commissioner of the Freed
mans Bureau for Texas. --.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-07
| Charleston, Courier

The Globe publishes list of Rep
resentatives, with their post Office
address, occupation and residence.
The following occupations are repre-
sented to the members set down:
Lawyers, 118; manufacturers, IA;
merchants, 10; editors, Baldwin,
Blaine. Brooks, Getz. Glosahrenner;
printers, 2-Ela and Van Horn; coal
operator, /; general business, 8;
bankers, 4; lumbermen, 2; physi-
clan, L; railroad manager, 1; horti-
culturist, 1; real estate agent, 1;
hotel-keeper, /; clergyman, 1-PiIe;
civil engineer, /. -
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ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. Coroner
Whiting held an inquest, at No. 22
Morris street, yesterday afternoon,
upon the body OF George 3. Toomer,
o colored youth, between sixteen and
seventeen years old. son of Robert
Toomer, an old resident and highly
respectable colored man of the class
of free colored persons before the
war. ,-..
From the evidence, it appears that
the deceased, with two companions,
went out shooting Saturday morning,
and on their return, about12 o'clock,
discovered some birds in Potter's
Field. In passing through this field
after the birds, Toomer's gun caught
in the bushes and suddenly went of.
discharging and lodging the contents
in the left side of the deceased, SET
ting his clothes on fire and burning
them off his body. The unfortunate
youth died almost instantly. t
Charleston Courier. Z.
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THE Ten THoUsANDrH HELL1su
OUTRAGE.-A negro in Henry Coun-
ty, few days since, went to the
house of respectable family by the
nome of McKissick seized young
lady and carried her into the woods,
choking her into n state OF uncon-
sciousness, and inflicting upon her n
suffering worse than death; and then
to complete the horrible tragedy took
a pine knot and broke her skull, end
left her for dead. To avoid suspi-
cion, he then returned to his work in
the field, as though ignorant of what
had occurred. Contrary to his expec-
tations, the poor girl recovered and
crawled back to the house. The
negro was soon arrested and acknow-
lodged the crime. He is, we learn,
now in jail awaiting his trial. But
how long will his fellow-leaguers per-
NIT him to remain there? a log hut
Oil :hs ground, little stronger than
common gin house. which permit
ted two general Jail deliveries last
year, will not hold such q fend very
long.-Clayton Times, 1911.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-07

COURT OF APPEALs.-We under
stand that Chief Justice Dunkin and
his associates have ordered q special
term OF the Court OF. Appeals, to be
held in Charleston, commencing on
Thursday next, the 9th instant.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-07
NEMr.ssIs: s:-The New York Herald Be- 3 ]

NEMEsIs.-The New York Herald
thinks the people will upset Congress
in the autumn of this year. But it
fears Congress will upset the people,
before the fall. When both are.
pretty we'll knocked down. tIe South
may expect sympathy. Last year,
when prosperous, our Northern
brethren trampled upon us; this
year, when out of pocket, they are
very affectionate. The Augusta Con-,
stttuioAalist thinks total loss Of the
cotton crop Of 1868, would wonder
fully expedite restoration on white
basis. rs ~ &e
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-07

An old gentleman from George
town, attended Mr.. Johnson's new
years levee, and complimented him
by saying that he had shaken the
hand of every President, and felt
gratifed to clasp that of the last
President. Query: Ia Mr.. Johnson
to be the "last President?" That is
what the rebels said of Mr.. Lincoln.
But "Mr. johnson smiled" says the
chronicler, and so, We suppose, he
either has no fears, or sis willin.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-07


PRESTON, THE BosroN INSURANCE
DEFAULTER.-On Saturday, Mr.. Ben
iamin P. Eldridge, of the Boston
police, arrived q. the Charleston
Hotel, with requisition from the
Governor of Massachusetts on the
Governor of this State, fol- trans
fer of Robert Preston, :.hhe insurance
defaulter. Preston was taken in Gus
tody by Mr.. Eldridge, and lodged in
jail until he is ready to start North.
ward. Nsf ... %
A lady in Mount Vernon, Ohio,
having given birth to five children
at single birth-three boys and two
girls-all of whom are doing well:
and it having been ascertained that
the family are all Democratic, and
intend removing to Sullivan county,
forty acre tract of land was imme-
diately donated for their benefit by
some of the citizens.
Governor Worth has created. by
letters patent, certain colored men
of Wilmington, N. O., O body corpo-
rate, under the name of the "Wil-
mipgton Colored Educational Insti
tute," for the purpose of establishing
schools for the education of the CO.
lored children residing in the city of
Wilmington, without discrimination
as to denomination. '3t
FATAL AFFRAY.-Mr. George W.
Gelzer, native of this State, but for
many years past resident of Jeffer-
son County, Fla, was shot and in
stantly killed in Monticello, on
Christmas day, by a young man
named Richard Hightower. The
parties had quarreled the previous
day. '5",
Thomas Walsh, boy of nineteen,
was hanged at Newark, N. j., on the
2d, for the murder of Patrick Tormay.
on the night of the Fourth of July
last. He met his death boldly, hav-
ing taken cool view of the gallows
the day before, while lie smoked q
cigar.
A new volcano about twenty-four
miles East from Leon, Nicaragua,
has been in grand eruption, throwing
out fire and cinders from two craters,
and lately has sent out heavy showers
of fine black sand, which reached
Leon, covering the streets of that
place to the detph of half an inch.
Touching the late railway dis
asters, q correspondent asks "Why
not have two fanges on the car-wheel,
instead of one, as they are at present
constructed? Any obstruction that
unseats the wheels of one side, could
not then easily unseat those of the
other.
ECLIPSE OF THE MooN.--Louis
Napoleon's Government has recently
disgraced itself by proceeding against
nineteen opposition papers. La Lime
(the Moon) was suppressed, but has
re-appeared as the Eclipse.
A lad employed in the Office of the
Fernandina (Fln.) Courier, caught
last week, in about three hours, over
200 trout, with n simple hook and
line, some of which weighed seven
and eight pounds.
During the last ten days of the old
year there were $50 deaths in New
York and 210 in Brooklyn. There
were during the year %, 7I0 deaths
in New York and 1895 in Brooklyn.
Blondin broke his arm by q fall
from his rope at Cologne.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-07

. BASE BA1h.-We have been re-
qussted7so state that there will be o
game of base ball, between the first
and second mines, University Base
Ball Club, on the University Green,
this (Tuesday) afternoon, commenc-
ing at half-past Q o'clock. The
honorary members and public are
invited to attend.