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An act to Amend the Criminal Laws
of the State.

SECTION |. BE IL enacted by The Gem
eral Assembly Of The State ofTennessee,
That all the voters of the State shall be
required to vote in the civil district or
ward in which they may reside. Any per-
son violating this act shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than twenty nor
more than fifty dollars: Provided, that
Sherifs and other officers holding elections
shall be permitted to vote at any ward or
precinct in which they may hold an cleo
ton.
Sec. 2. Be it further enGctsd, That
it shall not be lawful for any qualified vo-
ter, or the persons attending any election
in this State, or for any person attending
any fair, race-course or other public assem-
bly, of the people, to carry about bis per-
son, concealed or otherwise, any pistol,
dirk, bowie knife, or Arkansas tooth-pick,
or weapon in form, shape or size resembling
a bowie knife, or Arkansas tooth-pick, or
other deadly or dangerous weapon.
Sec. 3. Be 1t further enacted, That
all persons convicted under the second
section of this act, shall be punished by
fine Of not less than fifty dollars, and by
Imprisonment, or both, at the discretion
of the court.
Sec. 4. BE it further enacted, That
no liquor shops in-this State shall be kept
open on election days, nor shall any person,
on said days, give or sell intoxicating liquors
to any person for any purpose at Or near
an election ground.
Sec. 5. Be 1t further enacted, That
the grand jurors of this State shall have
inquisitorial powers concerning the con-
msion of the o~ffenses created by these
acts, and may send for witnesses, as in cases
Of gambling, illegal voting, tipping and
o%ffenses now prescribed by law.
Sec. 6, Be ii further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the Circuit and
Criminal Judges of this State to give the
above in special charge to the several grand
jurors of the courts.
Sec. Z. BE ii further enacted, That
there shall be no property exempt from
execution for fines and costs for this ~offense:
Provided, That if from any cause there
should be a failure to hold an election in
any civil district or ward, then nothing in
this act shall be so construed as to prevent
any voter from voting in town, for State
or county officers, at the time prescribed
by law.
Sec. 8. BE 1t further enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
Passed December |, 1869.
W. ON. PERKINS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
d. B. THOMAS,
Speaker of the Senate.
A true copy of the original now on file
in my office. A.. j. FLETCHER,
Secretary of State.
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IIOmSR-

A bill was introduced increasing the
punishment ofrape by making it a hanging
%otfense.
Mr.. Walker introduced a bill repeating
section p of the act Incorporating the
Cincinnati and Chattanooga Railroad
Company.
Mr.. Fleming offered an amendment in
cooperating the Knoxville Real Estate AS
ISOLATION, which was adopted.
House bill incorporating the Louisville
and Chattanooga Railroad Company passed
second reading.
The bill granting the right of way to the
Cincinnati Railroad Company was taken
up on third reading, and after a good deal
of fllibustering, the House adjourned
without taking any action on it.
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Southern Steamship Line to Europe

The Norfolk Board of Trade held a
meeting on the Sd inst, and passed reso-
lutions pledging the aid of the Board to
the Mediterranean and Oriental Steam Nay
igation Company, of New York, in estab-
fishing a line of Steamships from Norfolk,
Port Royal, Brunswick and other South
ern ports; approving of the bill to be pre-
sented to Congress to incorporate and aid
the Company, and praying its passage by
both houses, and its approval by the Pres
ident.
The bill referred to guarantees to this
company the conveyance of the mails to
Southern States, which bonds are to be de-
posted in the Postofice Department pro-
vides for the carriage and proper treat
ment of immigrants; obtains the privilege
of purchasing steamships from the govern
ment condemned as useless to the Navy De-
partment, and guarantees that all opera
tons Of the company "sha!l be carried on
in steamships built in our own country,
out of native material, By our own me-
chanics, and sailed under our own flag, by
our own citizens, and governed by laws
enacted by Congress.
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Tennessee Legislature.
Senate.

NASHVILLE, December 10.
Mr.. Hall introduced a bill repeating the
law imposing a tax on billiard tables.
House resolution requesting Congress to
reduce the tax on small distilleries, and
authorizing the Secretary of State and
comptroller not to issue any more bonds
to railroad companies, until action is had
by the Legislature on the various PROPOSE.
lions on that subject now before it, were
concurred in.
Senate bills Incorporating the towns of
Maynardyille and Wartrace passed third
reading,
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We buy and pay as much as the market will

We buy and pay as much as the market will
justify,
Bacon, Lard, Wheat, Corn,
Eggs, Butter Feathers, Dry Hides,
Clean Cotton and Linen Rags,
Tallow, Flax Seed, Dried Fruit,
Meal and Flower.
We are also Agents for the
Holston Plaster Company, and are
prepared to furnish Plaster by the
Car Load, or in small quantities.
We notify all that we are
Agents for the sale of J. H. Tay-
lors' Brooms Manufactured by him
in this county, which can be pur-
chased from us by Whole sale, at
New York prices. They are
equal, if not superior to any broom
Manufactured in the North,
Call and examine before you
purchase elsewhere.
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&$l,5OO CASH PRIzEs.-
POSTPONED Sheriff Sale.

pY virtue ofain order of sale, issuei from the
ID Circnit Court of Monroe county, Tenn, and
to me directed, J will expose to public sale, to
the highest bidder, lor cash, at the Court House
door, in the town OF Madisonville, on Monday,
the 10th day OF January, 1870, al! the right, til
tie, and interest that J. II. Worthy has in and
to one hundred and twenty acres Of land, more
or less, adjoining the lands of VIM. Brelkbill, on
the North, James Breakebill, on the East and the
heirs of Abijah Fowler, jr., on the West, and
others, and that of George Worthy, on the South,
to satisfy a Judgment that VIM. Weaver obtained
for Joseph Cathcart, against James H.. Worthy,
A. Morrow, md George Worthy, to satisfy debt
and costs OF suit. j. j. CRIPP1N, Sheriff.
dec 9-4t prf $500.
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sWEETWATER HOTEI,
known as the ]. G. Vaughn Housed

CHARLES Ii. BEAN, Prop'r.
SITUATED IN A FEW STEPS OF H DEPOT.
MO PAINS WILL BE SPARED TO RENDER
lN Guests comfortable in every respect.
Baggage conveyed to and from the Depot, free
OF charge. Persons from this and surrounding
counties can have their horses we'll cared for.
Prices moderate. dec2tf
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The first bill to go to the President this session
for his signature is one for the relief of a man
interested in a patent for the improvement of
pistols. 1t passed the Senate last March, and
was put through the House on the 9th, and sent
in to the White House in the afternoon.
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EAST TENNESSEE
CHIN A f.


TN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR CHRIST
l. mas Goods, we are now Offering everything
in the way of China, Glass and Queensware at
greatly reduced prices. Call and examine the
largest stock Of Croekery ever opened in East
Tennessee. See our prices before making pur-
chases. We import directly from manufacturers,
and are at all times prepared to sell lower than
the goods can be bought elsewhere. But
NOW is the TIME FOR BARGAINS.
We must have room for new goods about to ar
rive, and have marked all goods downtown,
Avail yourselves of the opportunity, and save
from twenty-five to fifty per cent. Money
saved Is money made. We can
not enumerate in an advertisement the thousands
of articles which go to make up a complete stock
Of a first class China Hous-but in the East Ten
nessee China House you can find anything you
need. Come and look or send your orders.
EY~ Letters of inquiry promptly answered.
II. NJ. Doll 81 Co.,,
nov25tf. So Gay Street Knoxville, Tenn.
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40 SECRETS FREE-CLARK & CO., Newark,
New Jersey. otl4-3m
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A bill repeating all Laws granting State aid to
internal Improvements has passed both houses
Of the Legislature and is now a law.
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4 FRAUD.
Young Fellow PaIning Himself ON n,
PresidenI tsrnnfs Nephew.

" OUhR EctlOW PHiintnR Himself DH
President Grant's Nephew.
We hnd the following in the World'S Munich cor.
find a curious story about sef-styled nephew
OF General Grant, who has been astonishing the
natives in the Austrian lyrol. The is interest
ing psychOlOgcally. young fellow Of twenty, en-
ploycd in savngf bank at salary of 800 6orins
labout $3.50 year, and who had been so employed
for six months, was set to count So 600 nOfins
In bank notes, which the bank was to forward to
imsbruck This was at Linz, the town whose
bishop got himself locked up The other day for con.
tumaciously resisting the law.
The handling of these rustling, mighty bank notes
was too much for the poor lads weak wits 1t liter
ally made him drunk drunk with vague desires and
bewtdering dreams; drunk by the touch of
Aladdin's lamp. lie priviy abstraCted $500 horns
from the pile gave the rest to his chief as 'a right
and, at the close of business hours, bolted. For
three days he was neither seen nor heard Of. The
deficit was discovered at once, of course, and the
police were set on the track Of the defaulter. On the
sixth day after his fit of abstraction took him. he
captured at ST. Gilgal in the mountains He had
rushed of it seems, at once from Linz for q tour
cn grand Setgneur "Being very dark, almost a mu-
latto," says the narrative he thought to pass him.
self of for an American"
Very natterng this to the pure Yankee race! He
registered his name at the hotel as Lewis Grant,
said he was "a nephew of the immortal ii. Sidney
Ulysses Samuel exhibited a dagger which he de-
cared had been ''prescnted to his grandmother by
the mother of the late Abraham Lincoln" and sig
naZed himself everywhere by the most astounding
and proluse generosity. one waiter testified that
the noble youth gave him Give noTlns' fpr bringing
him glass Of wine. Another said, 81 have served
many great lords: one so lavish las this one"
dgo HE insisted on presenting the land
lOlu vi Juc mn hHtlC lfC 'SJOppSu
with handsome snu6-boX, saying, .It is my custom
to give everybody a gift" Lewis Grants last per-
formancc before his arrest was to cause the land
lord at st. Gigal to invite all the village, at his ex-
pense, to grand ball. For this he insisted on
having the American nag hoisted on the highest
point near the lake. Tile landlord was all COM
plisnce But where to ind the flag of the free?
Lewis Grant kindly condescended to have one
made. He sent for the village tailor and caused
that worthy to construct flag of three
white stripes on a red ground, with
blue field in the corner and seven stars thereon"
This all ST. Ggal took to be the 'star-spangled ban
neT, greeted it with loud acclaim danced and drank
beer under it, and wondered gladly at the grace and
generosity of our truly noble countryman Itsounds
like scene from vaudeville does it not? But it is
the simple story of haplcss young scamp gone mad
With dut,lch among the ignorant country people of
the eSaem TYR. The next day came repentance
an9 liz fne ponce "a a t M, his native town.
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own constitution 10 interfere with her wishes That
Eugenie had anything TO do with the final unlucky
decision, has been strongly denied, with a semi
official air by, believe the Pdtric, and t was added
at the same time that the popular notion that the
Empress exercises great influence upon the policy
OF the Government, Is equally mistaken. I doubt II
this assertion found many so credulous
as TO believe 1t.
That Eugene has always meddled in politics, and
that she still does that she is is quite natural
always manouvrng for her son; and that, in case
regency is for any reason, made necessary, she
will make stroke for the regency in her own per-
son; that she is the life and soul of the French
movement against Italy, and that she sent the SOL
deTs to Rome, and kept them there-who, outside of
little circle Of lmperlasts, does not believe And
the belief of q whole population, strengthened by
years OF observation upon passing events, is not to
be broken up by simple newspaper paragraph.
What makes IL likely enough that the wishes
and interests OF Eugene may have been con-
suited in fixing so late day for the convocatOn, is
that is the only which has any reason in 1t.
II cannot nave been on account OF Louis Napoleon's
health, fOr.that was as completely restored week
ago a. IL is ever likely 10 be- The Leg slative body,
as the trains for Versailles had to wait the other day
for her departure!
may add here, that il the French people are eX-
pected to believe that Louis NapOleOns wife plays
no part in politics, the Austrian people, according to
all accounts, are by no means OF that opinion. Oni-
Cally her reception IN Vienna has been all that
could have been desired, and the people have
thronGed in crowds 10 the fireworks and illumi-
nations but Eugene herself has been treated by the
people with merely respectful politeness, mingled
with natural curiosity.
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DISASTER.
Explosion of Gas in Il Wn.ar Works shaft
-Four Tfen Injured.

IRON The tlereland LcGder Of IWesday
Yesterday morning at half-past O'Clock, the men
Worg IN ,n td Ss n mf Of e Wafer
which is about foot deep at the bottom OF the pit
They worked there some time without experiencing
any Inconvenience They were all working in the
bottom Of the pit filling large bucket with dirt and
bringing it up to be emptied as often as filled. The
accident happened as they were coming out of the
nit Two OF them were standing in the bucket and
the third right on the edge.
fourth person was standing at the mouth of the
pit looking down. AS they had come up about thirty
ieet from the bottom of the pit, one of them lit
match, and the explosion then Immediately took
place. Men then near said il sounded like distant
thunder. The earth seemed to shake beneath their
feet. The first thing they saw on looking towards
the pit was several tmOers nylng through the air,
and then they heard the cries of the three persons
in the pit The man standing at the mouth OF the
shaft, the bumper, was but little injured ana WIN @
two other workmen Immediately descended into the
pit to give relief to his comrades. James Morrison,
who resides at No. SO Mulberry street, was standing
on the rim of the bucket, ana was tnroWn ,, up
into the air and fell down distance Of from thirty
to thrtyflve feet lie was burned terribly All over
his body, and the lower part OF his body was mmi-
diately paralyzed. His spinal column was also Dadly
injured from the fall Charles Jackson was also Sc
rousy injured, but may recover He resides at NO
3S Mulberry street. The third sufferer, whose name
we could not learn, appeared more injured that any
of the others. Hts face and body were very badlY
burned, DR.. n. b. Wilson was Immediately sum-
moned to the scene of the calamity and with DR..
Prentiss, who soon after arrived brought every
possible relief to the sufferers one was taken TO
the Wilson street Hospital and the others TO tnelr
| homes on Mulberry street
Our reporter was the ground about an hour
after the accident took place. and learned the above
| particulars from the WOrkmen present and from Dr.
| Wilson. No work was then being done Al the bot
tom of the pit gas was sti bubblng forth and sent
an odor up to the surface OF the ground The heavy
| beams above had been wrcnched completely ont oi
place, and boards were lying forty feet of, where
! they had been thrown by the explosion. The result
! OF the accident also seen in deep cracks ana
fssures in the solid brick wall, which was shaken a
| if by an earthquake.
The clothes worn by the three victims were all tina
| remained on the ground to show the ehect of tn
| filled with large holes burnt by the sudden flame
| and show thai the whole BODY was almost enNe
oped al the same time, no one knew why the matci
| was lighted, but the bumper says y was merely L
| see Whether there was any gas so high up
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Rev. Hemnn Bangs.

From the Nety Hduen Journal, Noe. 3.
We are called upon this morning TO make the pain
full announcement of the death Of the venerable
Rev. Heman Bangs, which took place yesterday at
his residence, No. 90 Howe street, after illness
lasting many weeks Rev. Mr. Bangs had reached
many years past one of the foremost preachers
OF the Methodist Church in the New York
East Conference. For more than forty years
he has been an active and effective min
lister, having been settled during that
time in several places one OF which was the Second
NJ. Z. Church in St. John street. in this city For
several years he was the Presiding Elder for the
Elder of the South Long Island District which in
cludes large part of the city of Brooklyn. At the
last Annual Conference, held in Mddletown, he
stated that increasing years and falling strength
rendered 1t necessary for him to give up the active
duties of the ministry, and he intimated his desire
to not engage further in active work, which wish
was granted, and at the same time, through the
efforts of few friends, he was presented with $4,000
The occasion was one OF great interest to all the
clergy present. No man in the Conference was
known more intimately and favorably than the de-
ceased
Passing through ministry Of over forty years, in
which he performed much arduOus but poorly COM
pensated labor, he by his active, earnest and most
jealous efforts, built up and strengthened the
side warm and lifelong friends At the camp meet
ing and the revival his plain, practical and strong
common sense style OF presenting the Divine truth
had powerful effect, and brought many penitent
within the fold of the Church. He was everywhere
known as an ardent, faithful worker, unOstenta-
whose death will be learAed with deep regret
by all members of this Church, and sincerely
lamented by thousands who have abored in other
parts Of the Lords vineyard.