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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-04-13
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

APRIL 5TH.-In the Senate, the House
resolution directing inquiry into the loss of
the Oneida was passed. The Georgia Bill
was resumed, Senator Sumner speaking
against the Bingham amendment. In the
House, the bill establishing q Bureau of
Education and discontinuing the Freed,
mems Bureau, was passed. The Tariff bill
was considered. 4f a4
APRIL Griffin the Senate, the Defi-
cheney Approximation bill was passed. The
Georgia bin was made the order of the dry
for next Tuesday. In the House, Fernan-
do Wood preferred charges against General
Howard, attacking his honesty and official
integrity. An investigation was ordered.
Some progress was made on the Tariff bill.
APRIL 7TH. - A resolution was intro
duced in the Senate, directing an inquiry
into the effect of the Fifteenth Amend
ment upon the Indians. The House passed
the Diplomatic Deficiency bill.
APRIL STH.--A bill was introduced in
the Senate, to transfer the Cherokee and
Greek Indian tribes, i'm the Indian Terri
| tory, to the Western District of Arkansas
At the expiration of the morning hour, the
| Senate adjourned as a mark of respect &c
| the memory of General Thomas. In the
House, Bill was introduced, providing
that after the present Congress, the House
| of Representatives shall be composed of 81
members, and of such members az any
State thereafter admitted may be entities
to; and directing the. Secretary of the In
| terror 10 ascertain from the preliminary
Census Report of-ls70, the basis of repre-
sentation and superintendent of each State
Mr.. Dawes introduced resolution direct
| ing the Clerk to report by what authority
| 81 ,S72 have been paid TO the Washington
| Chronicle for advertising certain statement
in relation to the 37th Congress.
April 9TH.-No business of importanc
in the Senate. In the House. $1,000 wa
appropriated from the Contingent Fund t
reimburse Gen. Butler for expenses incur
red in defending himself against Wooley
imprisoned by the Impeachment Commit
tee.
APRIL l9TH.--A resolution was adopte
in the Senate, instructing the Agriculturs
| Committee to report bin providing TO
the proper fare and water for cattle trans
ported by Railroad The Tariff bill wa
under discussion in the Senate.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-04-13

A good old Quaker lady, after listening
10 the extravagang yarn of a shopkeeper
as long ms her patience would allow, said
to him: Friend, what a pity IL is sin
to lie, it seems so necessary to thy hap
pipess.n
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-04-13
GENERAL THOMAS.

Personal RecoiIcctions-..Iris Appearance
and Habits.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-04-13

But, Sir, if the state of the southern
part of our island has furnished me with
one strong argument, that of the northern
part furnishes me with another argument,
which is, If possible, still more decisive
A hundred and fifty years ago England
was one of the best governed and most
prosperous countries in the world Scot
land was perhaps the rudest and poorest
country that could lay any claim to civil
isation. The name OF Scotchman was
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-04-13

subserIbe tor Die CmnoNIrld.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-04-13

az say, therefor, that the education of
the people is not only a means, but the best
means, of attaining that which all allow
TO he IA chief end of government; and, If
this be so, it passes my faculties TO under
stand how amy man can gravely Contend
that government has nothing 10 do with
the education Of the people,
My confidence in my opinion IL
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-04-13

trhis, then, Is my argument. Ii IL the
duty of government TO protect our persons
and property from danger. The gross ig-
norance of the common people Is princi-
pal cause of danger to our persons and pro-
perty. Therefore, IL is the duty of the Gov
eminent to take care that the common peo-
pie shall not be grossly ignorant.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-29
THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF ILLINOIS
A MODEL DOCUMENT.

There are some features in the new
constitution of Illinois that are really
an improvement upon the old one, as
we'll as those of some other States. We
have only space for the mention OF
few articles it contains, or those of the
most practical value:
Religious belief is fully protected, but
licentious practices are prohibited even
when under this guise. Oaths are not
excused on account of any religious Tor
irreligious) belief, and their consequent
ces are alike to all persons. A grand
Jury is required, but their duties are
carefully defined and Disseminated.
All penalties must be in proportion to
the offense. No imprisonment for debt
except where there is presumption of
fraud. No private property to be taken
for public use without just compensa-
ton to the owner. The fee of land
taken for the use of railroads to remain
in the original owner, and only subject
to use for the purpose for which they
were taken, and to revert to the owner
whenever not used for the purpose for
which they were taken. There shall be
no irrevocable grant of special privi-
leges in communities. The military is
subordinate to the civil authority. But
one subject can be introduced into any
act of the Legislature. No county, city,
or town, or other municipality shall
become a subscriber to the capital stock
of any railroad, or private corporation,
or make donation to or loan its credit
in aid of such corporation. The State
shall never pay or assume debts or ex-
tend its credit to aid in any public or
other corporation, or association, or in
dividual. A public debt of no more than
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
can be created. Special legislation is
prohibited, but all necessary legislation
by several acts may be made for incor-
porations, sc. All State officers to hold
for four years, except the treasurer, who
holds for two years.
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THE WAR CLOUD IN EUROPE.

The aspect of affairs In Europe, es-
pecially as relates to the menace Of
conflict between France and Prussia,
has thus far partaken more of the char
acter of threat of hostilities and of
active preparation for war, than of any
of its common acts. II is still rumored
in some quarters that much of the war
news we have received may have been
manufactured to order, under the infiu-
ence of bond holders and spectators.
If there is no more real cause for the
conflict than has yet been communica-
ted, a reasonable excuse for resorting 20
arms cannot be easily appreciated. That
there are active preparations being
made, both by France and Prussia, we
have no reason to doubt, while it will be
remembered that such preparations
have sometimes proved to be among
the most certain means for avoiding a
conflict. The bold movements of the
French Emperor will be likely to furn-
ish him the information he most needs,
or as to whether the conflict will be
safe, and whether the nation will en-
gage with such enthusiasm as will prom
Use success. If not firmly backed by
these influences, he will be likely to
find convenient way by which he can
creep out of the positions he is taking.
As bold a userper as he has proved
himself capable of being, he will be
likely to avoid such throws in the game
as will be more likely to lose than to
win. Louis Napoleon is most remark
able for his cunning craftiness, and for
his cool arts of usurpation, which he
has been able to carry out under the
guise of false names and issues. He
has never allowed the shedding of tor
rents of the blood of his subjects to
stand in the way of the qualification of
his ambition. He most likely intend
ed they should not forget how wanton-
ly he piled his artillery down some of
the most frequented boulevards, and in
discriminatory slaughtered large num-
bers of his subjects, at the time he es-
tablished himself upon the imperial
throne. No one has been able to dis
cover the intent of this act of cruel
murder, unless it was in order to give
an exhibition of his power, and his abil-
ity for strategy, and to so intimidate
his subjects that they would be slow
with regard to any act that would indi-
cate that they dared to question his au-
thority, or the power of his govern
ment.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-29
CHICAGO. SOUTHWESTERN AND PA
ClFEC RAILROAD

We clip the following from the Tope-
ka Record of the 18th We are glad to
know that this road is to be extended to
Topeka at once. The people of this re-
gion of country need this road for a
connection with Chicago:
"a charter for the above road was
filed Yesterday in the Secretary of
States office. tits the Topeka and Lea
wentworth road. The following is the
Board of Directors: V. I'll. Winston, OF
Chicago, President of the G. & s. w. r.
r.; G. e. Campbell, of Chicago, Attor-
ney of the Chicago and Rock Island Z.
R. j. F. Tracy, President of the Rock
Island g. N. w. r. r.; A. III. Harring-
ton, Chicago, Attorney of the c. & n.
w. r. r. j; Malvin Cartwright, Erie,
Penn, Director in G. & S. W. and c. &
r. 1. r. R.; w. L. Scott, Erie, Director
in the same roads; Henry Edgarton
and w. p. Borland, of Leayenworth
T. ii. Walker and Henry King, of To-
peka, and e. o. Sale, N. p. Ogden and
/. N. Burns, of Weston, Mo-"
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A SUCCESSFUL FARMER.

EDITORS NEWS: A few days since, in
company with Hon. Charles Drake, of
the Goth District, the undersigned paid
q flying visit to Capt. R. McMillan's
place away up in the northwest corner
of this Lyon) county, and was very
much surprised, as we'll as pleased, to
learn that such a fine farm and such an
enterprising farmer held forth in that
part of the county. That the Captain
has ''made his mark" as a farmer, is be-
yond a Peradventure. He has 24O acres
mostly under handsome and substan-
tial stone fence, $50 acres in the highest
state of cultivation, 100 hogs, 200 head
of cattle and horses, and other things in
proportion. He raises wheat, corn, oats,
Hungarian, millet, etc. He goes in for
the best of everything, and was par
ticularly struck with his "white Gene
see," or the finest wheat ever saw rails
ed in Kansas. This wheat will yield, he
thinks, one-third more this year, per
acre, than the May wheat, so common in
this county. From one bushel two years
ago, he now has $50 bushels, which he
offers to sell in small lots to introduce ii
among many, at $3.50 per bushel, well
cleaned. It is to be hoped that our en-
terprising farmers, will try this or some
other variety of white wheat, as it will
command from Is to % cents more per
bushel for grinding, than the red varie.
ties. His Surprise oats are the larges.
and best filled / have seen this year, and
are everything farmer could desire in
the way of an oat.
Having large perceptive faculties, the
Captain is first rate observer. Nothing
escapes his notice. He is a good res
soner as well. Among the many good
things he said, I can only mention a few
Said he: "In sowing oats, if the spring
is wet, scratch in the seed; if dry, pillow
in. Sow your fall wheat between the
Goth of August and the 18th of Septem.
Der. To save hauling, consume your
grain, ETC., on the farm, and drive Whai
you have to sell to market. The more
you cultivate your land the better it be.
comes. Instead of raising one crop o.
grain and one of weeds, raise two crops
of grain"
The Captain is as hospitable as he il
intelligent and energetic. He wanted
rs 60 stay \ week with him. he is !
/ EoGel farmer, sure, as well as gentle,
man. Long may he wave. ia.
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written Fv.o,,. ~.


EDITORS. NEWS: Are you not rather VEN
tnresome? In the last number OF your paper.
you speak Of = correspondent "a. W. Brix) as
member Of the society Of Friends. It occurs
to me, gentlemen, that you either have not the
fear OF your indignant correspondent, "Real
Friend before your eyes, or else you have for
the nonce put aside your usual sagacity, and
laid yourselves open to the attacks of this
doughty scribbler. Don't you know it is
mortal offense to an oyer-sensitive mind whose
shortcomings you may have inadvertently laid
open, to sign an anonymous name or nom de
plume. Come out in future like men, and
when you write on any subject, good, bad or
Indifferent, sign your own name, creed or oc-
cupation. If you don't be careful, your read
ers will have to take another rehash from vel
low-eoyered literature, dished up in tine inim-
liable style that HReal Friend'' knows so well
how 10 use. suppose none Of your readers
ever have seen or heard of the reference made
use of to illustrate her articles. Il beg pardon
1 take it for granted that those terrible, scorch
ing. Notwithstanding replies, were written by
one of the softer sex, whether masculine or
feminine, deponent saith not
Irepeat: Suppose none Of your readers have
ever seen the references, don't that prove the
utter stupidity Of your population, and don't
1t also show that you have \ pen wielder
among you, who is some? It's true, this at
tempt at blue stockingiEm may, to some, ap-
pear ridiculous-this plainly saying, 1hat Z
don't knotc, it could not pay to learn. This
aping the iiterati, as If they, and they alone,
were the sine que non Of correctness, is rather
amusing to all Of your readers, who have not
the fear Of this modern squire of knight
Errantry before their eyes. But, then, how
either Of you, SO noted for your modesty,
should dare, in an editorial, to intimate that a
writer who entirely ignores s'thees'' and
''thous," and "yerily,'' should be Friend,
passes my comprehension.
Whew! my hair fairly raises up with terror
at the bare thought Of how you'll catch it in
your next number. Please suppress my copy.
have an engagement out on Saturday next,
and don't want to have his or her indignant
anathemas ringing in my ears all Friday night
Pm dyspeptic, and can't digest such exQui-
site correctness. I am one of those old-fash-
fashioned bodies, who believe in doing good
with naked hands and open heart, and there
fore approve all articles calculated or intended
to caution the needless and unwary, whether
written with hands covered with perfumed
gloves, or callused over with marks OF honest
labor. So mote it even be.
COMMON SENSE.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-29

We suppose our Congressional dele
cation have returned, with the excep-
ton Of Pomeroy. He stays in the East
until just before the time when he
wants to be elected to the Senate. We
are not in favor of the return of E. G.
Ross TO the United States Senate, but
we wish to say that we believe he is by
all odds the decentest man of the three.
He is made respectable by comparison,
II by nothing else. He has quietly at
tended to his business, and has done
more to give Southern Kansas her re-
cent increased mail facilities than both
the other members put together. Clarke
and Pomeroy have fought him and rem
dered him to q great extent powerless.
They have even gone so far in some in
stances as to get mail routes discontin-
ned after Ross had them established
and service put upon them, for fear he
would get some credit for attending to
the business of his constituents. While
we are opposed to his reelection this
coming winter, we propose to give him
credit for being possessed of desire to
do his duty, and for accomplishing all
he could for his constituents.
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NOTICE,
A. A. SouthwIck,l In the Ditrict Court
VS.. for Lyon county,

A. A. sOuthwick, In the Ditrict Court
John r. Rintner.j State Of Kansas
John R. RINTNER, defendant in the above
u cause, of parts unknown, will take notice
that A. A. Southwick, plaintiff III said cause,
did on the sd day of July, A. d. 1870, file in
the Clerks office Of the District Court for Ly-
on county, Kansas, his petition against the
said John r. Rintner, defendant, setting forth
that the said Southwick is the owner In fee
simple, and in the actual, quiet, and peaceable
possession of the following described premises,
to wit: The southwest quarter of section nine
teen. (19) township (1s) eighteen, range (11)
eleven, situate in said Lyon county, and that
the said John r. Rintner sets up and claims an
estate and interest in said premises adverse to
the estate and interest of said A. A. South
wick. And the said John r. Rintner will take
notice that unless he answers said petition on
or before the twelfth day of September, A. d.
1870, the same will be taken as true and judg-
ment rendered according to the prayer Of said
petition; that the said John r. Rintner may be
compelled to show his said title, and that it
may be determined to be null and void as
against the said title Of the said A. A. South
wick. RUGGLES & PLUMB,
1922 Attorneys for A. A. Southwick.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-29

Austria has issued a proclamation OF
neutrality similar to that of Russia.
A Berlin dispatch announces that
railroad passenger traffic win cease to-
day.
The plate and jewels of Princess Leo
pold have been taken to London for
safe keeping.
There is a general feeling in Wash
ington that France viii be compelled to
draw her troops from Rome. and that
Italy will then, at once, unite with the
Prussians. Italy had better turn her
attention to the Pope.
The Prussians are concentrating a
powerful force at Mayence. They use
balloons for observations.
A ministerial decree has been pub
lished in Paris, forbidding the publica-
ton of any of the movements of the
French army or navy.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-29

It makes the heart sick to think
of the suffering that in all proba-
bility must soon take place OH the
Rhine. The sick, the wounded, the
dying will strew the battle-fields and
crowd the hospitals, crying for water
and gasping for breath. The hot sun
will pour down upon them, relentlessly,
volumes of midsummer heat in which
the poor victims will swelter and suffo-
cate. The cries of the wounded, the
means of the sick and the groans of the
dying will fill the air. The telegraph
will carry volumes of heart-piercing
news to the ears of mothers, and
fathers, and brothers, and sisters. And
all this must come to pass because a
despot, growing uneasy lest the throne
OF France should slip from under him,
and hoping to direct the eyes of his
subjects to q more hated enemy than
himself, wills It to be.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-29
STATE TREASURER.

The Olathe Neacs Letter is author
lied to announce Col. j. E. Hayes, of
that town, as a candidate for Treasurer
of State. The friends of the Colonel
all over the State will be glad to hear
this, as all know him to be one of the
truest and best of our citizens, as well
as a man fully competent for the place.
The Netcs Letter says:
We are authorized to announce the
name of j. E. Hayes, of johnson coun-
ty, as a candidate for Treasurer of the
State of Kansas, subject to the nomlna-
ton of the Republican convention of
Kansas.
Col. HAYES is we'll and favorably
known throughout the most trying
days of our young State. He emigra-
ted to Kansas in an early day; was
elected from johnson county to the
first House of Representatives of the
State in 1860. In 1861, on his return
home from his Legislative term, and on
the breaking out Ofthe war, he recruit
ed a company of volunteers for the old
4th Kansas Cavalry, and was elected
Captain of his company, and the organ
ization of the 18th Regiment in 1868,
was chosen as Lit. Col. of that regiment,
and was in command of his regiment
at the battle of Jenkins Ferry, Arkan-
sas and in that engagement he lost his
leg, and fell into the hands of the enc
my, and as prisoner of war was drag
ged from one rebel prison pen to anoth-
er in Arkansas and Louisiana, from his
capture on the Both day of April, 1864,
till his exchange on the 29th day OF
February, 1865. On returning to his
home in Olathe in the fall following, he
was elected to the Office ofcounty treas
urer of johnson county. He served in
that position over two years, attending
to the duties of the Office a great por-
ton of the time in person, and received
the highest encomiums from the people
of the entire county for his honest and
faithful transaction of the business OF
the office. His friends now present his
name before the party he has served so
long and faithfully for the office OF
Treasurer of the State of Kansas
johnson county will be solid for Col
II HaUaS
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above, making perfect skylight. We
have named it Skylight cave. We are
going to explore it in a few days. The
prairie between Grouse and the Walnut
is about as good as the average of Kan
sas uplands, but not as good as the up
land on the divide north of Arkansas
City. We arrived home in the evening,
having been gone five days. We took
supper at the Eskridge House. Mr..
Eskridge is natural hoteiist and ac-
He sets a first class
table. He is adding two additions to
his house, which will make it quite
roomy. He is compelled to do this to
accommodate his rapidly increasing
number of boarders. M.F.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-29

The N. Y. Tribune thinks the attitude
which Spain and General Prim have
assumed since the declaration of HOSTILE
ties is very suspicious, furnishing very
strong grounds for the belief that there
was a very good understanding between
Napoleon and General Prim prior to the
war. Prim now takes sides with France,
and 1t is a very plausible inference to
draw that the project of offering the
Spanish throne to a Prince of the House
of Hohenzollern was first suggested to
General Prim by Napoleon himself, in
order that a pretext for war might be
furnished. Ifthis indeed be so it shows
q baseness upon the part of General
Prim of which we coulG scarcely have
believed him capable.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-29

Napoleon says he knows that France
Is behind him and believes that God
protects him, and hence victory is before
him. His confident state of mind is
certainly very enviable one with which
to 60 to war. However, from what we
know of Napoleon's eager desire to
draw the sword, without even 80 much
as q plausible pretext, we fear his trust
in divine protection will prove a snare
to his feet. In war, If the God of bat
ties is disposed to help either side, He
generally leans to that one with which
at least some fragments of justice and
right are to be found.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-29

The new Internal Revenue Law has
undergone very considerable revision
and repeal. Instead of repeal of the
income provision, it has been materially
cut down so as to reach comparatively
few, and the tightening of the rate upon
that few, will render IL q rather harmless
affair. The 81 1000 exemption has been
increased to $4,000, and the rate of tax
put at 81 per cent instead of 5, and
this shall be imposed for the years 1870
and 1871, and no longer.