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The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1870-12-14
TRANSPORTATION.
OFFICE OF NORTH LA. ~ HEAA"
RAILROAD COMPANY.

MoNRoE, La, Dec "a, lo'V.
On and after Sunday, the Attn INST, '''
trains on this Road will run as foiloWs'
PASSENGER TRAINS.
Leave Monroe daily at 3 A. NJ.
Arrive at Delta III % a. ID.
Leave Delta at 2 90 p. NJ.
Arrive at Monroe 7.45 P. N.
FREIGHT TRAINS.
Leave Monroe at A. NJ. on MONDAY, "e"-
nesday and Friday. ,. Thurs
Leave Delta at I A. NJ. on Tuesday, Ihurs-
day and Saturday. Ill, Iva o,r-
Through freight per car load will be car
red by passenger train. .a ~, freight
WAY freight will be shipped py ireish'
Freights for Flag Stations will De de e,,,
cred at the designated points at OW NEno
RISK. whether there be any person there ~
receive it or not. ,,o ,ro-
Freights for Flag Stations must De pre-
paid. oo,ohos connect
at Monroe for Shreveport-thence wa S9ut SCUM
ern Pacific Railroads.&c. Marshall, haiis-
vile and Longview, Texas.
Engineer and superintendent
. decl2-d3m
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1870-12-14
uENRY KING, JR.,

HENRY KING 'R.'
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, AND
PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
MONROE, La,
Keeps constantly on hand large and
well selected stock Of
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS AND CAPS,
CLOTHING,
HARDW AXE,
SADDLERY,
GROCERIES, (all kinds,)
WINES,
LIQUORS.,
tSc., &C., DC,
and will sell them as cheap as the cheapest.
n. B.-Highest cash price paid for Cotton,
Hides and Country Produce. decl2-d3m
1T GERSON, JR.,
LIZ DEALER IN ..
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hats and
Caps, Notions, dc, Groceries, CrOckery
Saddlery, Guns, Pistols, and General Plan
tation Supplies. ..f.
Highest price paid for cotton and other
produce.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23

their construction, and we note two or
three:
|. They should be narrow--no wider
than is necessary to admit tbs passage of
travol-and the bitches on each side should
be deep and kept clean
. These pixies must be made in the
spring Of the year. so the earth which is
thrown upon the bed Of the road out of the
bitches may he dried and hardened by the
heat of summer. Repairs should also be
made early in the season, and they will be
required only once each year.
3. The leading implements to be used are
heavy turning plows, to loosen the earth
and serapers, to haul it up into it's position
on the road. The other utensils will be
mainly to remove trees and stumps, and to
level up" the bed of the road, which
should be left very rounding
!. The bitches should be from two and
onc-half to three and one-half feet deep.
The facility and rapidity with which
these simple roads are built, the hills cut
down and the hollows filled up, is sur
prising, and the expense of them is cores
pondingly small, and is of that nature
which il not felt. To ask if this under
taking will pay, is to display weakness and
stupidity. But to illustrate: Over one of
our ordinary roads, an average two-horse
load of not more than twelve hundred
pounds is hauled, say, eighteen miles in
one day and for four dollars which is ex-
ar, at the rate of one hundred pounds,
| one mile, for l and 23-27ths of one cent.
But on good dirt pike, the same team, in
IT, same time, will, with as much ease,
duy ia md day out, haul one-half rs much
morc or eightren hundred pounds, at
least 'Wcnty-four miles, which is exactly
at tic rate of one hundred pounds, one
| mile lor 25-27ths Of one cent--or, in other
words, the carriage costs on the pike pre-
cisely onc-half OF the expense over a poor
road
These figures, which are based on obscr-
walton, and -Iieved to be fair, suggest their
own impressive lesson. They should be
remembered too, in connection with the
subject Of immigration, the general APP
pcarancc of the country, the comfort of the
inhabitants, ihe increase in the value Of
our lands by good inland communications
as..well as the more important estimates o
the outlay required to market our various
| and cxhaustlcss products.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23
ANTAGONIST OF RACES.

Democrats speak of the colored vote 90
ing solid for the Republican ticket rs being
likely to produce a war of races. The
wing and Register of yesterday, in speak
ing of AN interview between Virginia
carpet-baggers and parties at Washing
ton, hints at it. Now, we suppose colored
men are actuated hy pretty much the same
motives as other men. They are human,
and possess all the instincts Of human ma
turc. Men naturally favor that which
they believe is for their good. CoIorcd
men arc not such fools as to know nothing
OF the party which has befriended them.
They have sense enough to know that the
late civil war was inaugurated becaus e
their masters supposed it was the intention
of the Republican party to interfere with
slavery. They know that they became
free from the shackles of slavery by Inc
proclamation Of Il Republican President
and by sundry acts Of Republican Con
gres-. They well remember that measure.
for giving them civil rights were intro.
duccd by Republicans and passed by Re.
publicans, over the most determined oppo
-itiOn from Democrats. These things they
know. They are fresh in their memories
Is il strange, then, that they should vote
for party which has done all this fo
them? For doing so, do they deserve tc
be annihilatcd 10y the white race? How
can it then produce war of races ? Awal
with such hcathenish stuff!
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS PARTY.

The Democratic newspapers profess TO
think that President Grant does not enjoy
the respect and confidence of his party
Never were men more mistaken. There
has been but few Presidents who have en-
joycd in Il higher degree the confidence of
the party which elected them, than has
President Grant. He come into office,
pledging economy in the public eXpendi-
lures, an honest and faithful collection of
;he public revenue, and reduction of the
public debt. Who will say that he has not
pursued policy calculated to bring about
these results? The facts, and figures
which cannot lie mark his administration
with wisdom and practical statesmanship.
This being 50, he OF course commands the
respect, not only of those who elected him
70 the high position he occupies, but also
of all reasonable men in the country, re-
CARELESS ofpolitics. Demagogues may mis-
represent, and fools may rave, but the
figures show for themselves, and To them
men OF sense will 90
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23
MANUFACTURES AND WEALTH.

I'm the days of Hollands great CONNER
cial and manufacturing glory, the Dutch
use to boast that The English sold them
pclts and then bought back the tail of each
hide at the same price they had received
for the whole pclt.
Now the English have got the other end
of the bargain, and il is they who buy the
raw material and sell it again, manufacture
Cd at an enormous profit They buy, for
instance, very large proportion of the
cotton crop of the world, AMI, after passing
of it su1ticcs to pay for the cost OF the
whole.
That little misty island, where millions
of spindles are in motion and thousands of
trip-hammers dealing their ponderous
blows, is the richest country in the world
and draws to it the cotton of America and
India, the wheat of our own country and
of the vast plains Of Russia, the wines of
France and Spain, and the jewels of the
tropics, and yet remains everybodys cred
itor instead of debtor.
\ manufacturing country lays IA purely
agricultural country under tribute. A
country that cannot or will not make what
ii needs, pays-and often pays dearly-toa
country that can and will make them pay
for it.
A section that manufactures intelligently
and skilfully articles that meet with II
ready sale at Temnerativc prices, grows
rich in spite of itself Especially is a sec
ton favored which, like our own, cannot
only manufacture, hut raise sufficient grain
for home consumption (which England
docs not do)tand for expectation.
What has made New England, with its
sterile soil and harsh climate, the most
wealthy portion Of The Union? Mainly its
manufactures
One of the railroads leading from this
city is said to have actually laid one por-
ton Of its track with imported rails over a
bed of native iron orc. While such things
remain, and we bring here from Europe
or the North nUmberless articles which we
have every possible facility for making at
our own doors, the balance of trade will be
constantly against ~, and in our race for
material wealth we viii be left far behind
our neighbours Aided by commerce and
agriculture alone, Knoxville may in ten
years double Its presont population, per-
hap-, and perhaps not 80 soon. Aided also
by manufactures, there j. no reason why we
should not have a city Of fifty and, oventu-
ally, a hundred thousand people, and a
surrounding country sharing in its pros
perity.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23
OUR ROADS

Common roads are said 10 be a Kind of
criterion Of the wealth, resources and intel
ligence Of the community in which they
are situated. IN this view, We suspect our
people would shrink from Il submission of
their claims to that test alone. The war
with its ruvage- furnished an excuse for
the past, but it has ceased to be an apology
for present. apathy. Probably, no State
has road laws more strict than those Of
Tennessee, and the fault, of cot lse, is the
neglect TO work the roads suf1ic entIy-in
the proper way and at the proper time.
The almost general practice is for the
overseer and his hands 10 90 on their road
from one to three weeks next before each
term Of the Circuit or Criminal Courts of
their county, and do everything but thor
ough-going work The objective poins of
this tri-yeary campaign is to mutually
prove attendance" and to escape pun
ishment by the Grand Juries, who, in
their turn, must strain their cOnscienccs TO
" be easy upon those who are responsible.
The character Of the labor thus done T..
known-some rocks are removed. some
gullies are filled by brush and light earth.
some other repairs are made; but the gen
eral features of the road rcmains-and it is
poor one This is unwiSc and wrong,
and no one denies it. What remedy is
practicable? There are, too many public
roads Of the lower grades, but roads once
opened are seldom closed. Again, County
Courts grant too many changes I'm the o.-
tabliShed roads, for the accommodation OF
adjacent owners and to run around their
respective plantations. The old country
man that stated that twenty years ago, hc
lived just five miles from his county size,
that he had not moved, nor had the loea-
ton of his court house been changed i'm
that time, that what was called the same
road he still Travelled, but it had become 80
crooked that he was now upwards of six
miles from town--relatcd in principle a
general experience.
But we are not able to macadamize our
roads, and perhaps the most feasible plan
is 10 construct gDod dirt pixies. These are
no longer experiments, but demon ,tratsd
successes. There are some requisites in
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23
FREE SCHOOLS AND ImMIGRATION.

y friend Of ours, in neighboring couu-
~ oi East Tennessee, who owns a large
landed property, recently sent to another
state for good farmer to take charge of
his farm. He was anxious to get a good
man and willing to pay literally. A man
was found, highly recommended and ap-
parcntly eminently suitable But he nat
uraily made inquiries as TO his proposed
new home, and one Of the first things he
asked was whether there were free schools,
On learning that there were none in oper-
alton, he declined coming, saying he was
not willing TO live at any place where
he could not educate his children.
20 it will be in the future. if our present
condition continues. The best class Of
Immigrants, those who would make the
most valuable citizens and add most To the
wealth and prosperity of our country. are
not willing to come where their children
must grow up in ignorance. A year ago,
we had good school system. We sincere
ly regret that the dominant party of our
state has been so blind to the interests of
our citizens Of all parties so recrcant to the
present as well as the coming generation.
as To destroy our schools. We trust the
force Of public opinion, or public indigns-
ton, may yet bring them to their senses.
Whether a school system is conducted I'M
der the auspices Of one political party or
the other, is OF comparatively little consc-
quence The matter of importance is,
that the children be gathered into schools
and taught A NcHT auO this was done
Now ii is not. When will it be done
again? Let those now in authority in
Tennessee answer.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23
OUGHT WE COMPLAIN 2


We, in the country, arc sometimes dis
posed to complain At the situation, and
speak dcspairingly of the future. \ great
many men believe that the country will
never recover from the effects os the I'M
happy civil strife through which we have
recently passed. Let us see how this is.
Let Us examine if we have anything to
warrant our complaints, or to discourage
and dishcarten us as to the future pros
poets of our country. Six years ago-only
six years--the two sections of the Union
were arrayed in deadly hostility against
each other Two powerful armies were
contcnding for the mastery. A large pro-
portion of our able-bodied population was
in one or the other of these armies. Cities
were being burned, fields laid waste, bust
ness was parayzed, churches were closed,
schools were suspended, and our whole So
cal system was rupturcd. Manufactures
ceased in "A great measure, except to man.
ufacture implements of war and equip
ments for the army. Portions of the coun-
try, in the immediate vicinity where the
armies were operating, became 50 destitute
This state of affairs continued until 1865.
Tho struggle ended with the surrender
of Lee and Johnson The Confederate gov
crnment collapsed. The effort to sever
the Union was failure. The Federal
Government was triumphant. Who at
that time supposed our condition would be
so favorable in the short space of five years,
- to II; 4 10
the social relations between the two sec
tons would be more pleasant? We do not
mean to say that all prejudice has been
forgotten, we arc sorry we cannot say it,
but we think we have made some progress,
even in that direction. We hope to for
get foolish sectional preiudices entirely, by
and by. The man who does not labor for
this end is an enemy to his country.
We sometimes complain at high taxes.
Now, laying aside all political prejudices,
are our taxes any higher than we expect
ed? Did We then suppose that with the
| enormous public debt we were creating,
| taxes would be lower?
While we cannot say much of the facili-
ties for acquiring an education in our own
Hldtp, IneS are elual now 10 WHAT they
were before the war. We would like to
| see thcm improved. There is room for vast
| improvement, and we hope to see it.
Here in East Tennessee our population
has increased 10000 in the last ten years
notwithstanding the wBr, while the value
! OF property has increased at least 80 pei
cent. Take everything into CONSIDERABLE Lon
and We think our condition is far better
! than VIC expected it would be five years
t ago.
! This to our mind is encouraging. Let
us go OH in this way, and in ten years the
| effects of the war will not be perceptiblC
upon the business prosperity of the eoun-
| try, except, perhaps, in the matter of taxes
! No man who favors the honest payment
of our public debt, expects taxes to be us
| low as before the war. But, even in thi,
respect, if our manufacturing, agricultural
and commercial interests continue to i'm.
prove our wealth will 50 increase that
taxation will soon cease to be Il burden.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23
SELLING OUT.

Some persons, through malicious mo-
tives, have been circulating it i'm certain
localities that the present proprietors of She
Chronicle intended to sell out" We
will say, once for all, for the benefit of all
such as may credit such report, and for
those who originated it, that we have no
idea of any such thing. We have every
assurance that the CHRONICLE will prove
a success, politically and financially If
this paper is ever sold out, it will be done
by the Sheriff, after our patrons have fail
ed to sustain MS.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23

SUPERVISOR EMERY announces that UNI
der the new ruling of the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau, permitting mechanical means
Of distillation, a large number Of d,tiler-
les will be started in this State. If he had
written this before the election il would
have been held up by Democratic poIiti-
clans ~ an clcctionccring dodge
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23
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RepMnIienn mi tvr.IOl

Five States have yet to choose their dele
cations The election in Georgia comes
off on the 2lsr, 22d and 23d Of December ;
California and Texas vote in February
New Hampshire on the second Tuesday in
March, and Connecticut on the first Mon
day in April These States are only esti-
mated in the above statement.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23

THOSE who believed that the climax
of Radical ycuaIity' had been reached ON
the morning of the day proceeding the re-
cent election, and that horde Of ne
groc- were brought here only to vote for
Mr.. Maynard, are referred 10 our special
dispatches from Washington.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23
THE NEXT HOUSE

Thirty-two out of thirty-seyeu States
have chosen their Representatives to the
42d Congress. Official and approximate
returns indicate that the House will stand
politically az follows:
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23
SCHOOL FUNDS AND SCHOOLS.

Some months ago an apportionment OF
school money was made to the various
counties and warrants issued to the Trus-
tees. One of our contemporaries announced
the fact with grand flourish of rhetorical
drums and trumpcts, and declared that
" the teachers will now be paid" and in
voked the plaudite of the public on tho
good effects of Conservative rule.
We showed at the time that the amount
apportioned was certainly much less than
the amount due, and that grievous wrong
was wrought against the faithful and hard
worked teachers.
But what has been the result in regard
to the small amount of money thus appor-
toned? Has a dollar of IL been paid ?
Not that we can learn. Is there any pros
pect of its being paid? Not for many
months at best. In some instances Trus-
tees have been able to convert a portion of
their warrants into State bank funds, at
the request Of teachers who preferred to
take this deprecated currency rather than
incur the delay and risk of waiting. Even
this could only be done through private.
sources, and the great bulk of the amount
apportoned is still held by the Trustees In
unpaid State Treasury Warrants, and a
large number of teachers, utterly dissour-
aged and disheartened, have soldttheir
claims at a discount to spectators. These
claims were schools begun during Repub-
lican State Administration.
No sooner had the Democracy come into
power than matters assumed such n shape
that there was no danger of any teacher
making a new contract to teach a free
school. So thoroughly has the present
Democratic Administration convinced the
people of its perfidious hostility to the
cause of public education, that teachers
could not be found to-day for treble wage,
were they obliged to look to the State for
! payment. We have no free schools The
houses that, under Republican Admins
| tration were full, are now empty, save the
| few where schools are being taught sup
ported by private subscription. There have
been divers bodies of public men in the
worlds history, of which in after time no
one would willingly admit he had been q
member But we know of no set of mer
recently who have more justly earned the
hearty eXecration of all good citizens than
the dominant party in the present Legsla-
turc who turned out of the school-house
! the children of Tennessee.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23

THE Democracy of Frederick, Maryland,
had grand jubilee last week, over their
victory in that Congressional district
Among other manifestations Of JOY, they
had torch-light procession. They car
ricd in that procession number of trans
parcncies containing such inscriptions as
the following "No Negroes i'm the Jury
Box" awe Whipped your Negroes,
Bring on your Green Chinese" Carpet
baggers, pack up and leave" "Thc White
Vote sends Ritchie to Congress- "Thc
Culled Troops Fiji Bravely," "Fredcricx
County true TO the White Man" etc, etc.
Straws show which way the wind blows.
and these Democratic straws show pre-
ciscly how that party regards the colored
man. Does any reasonable man pretend
10 say that, if the Democracy should once
gain political aseendansy in this country,
the colorcd man will not he prescribed, os-
'raciscd and virtually placed in bondage
again?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23

WE surrender large portion Of our
space this morning to report OF the Coun-
ty Sabbath School Convention, held at the
Second Presbyterian Church yesterday.
The proceedings will be read with interest
10y all friends of the Sabbath School cause.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23

MORE than IA week has elapsed since the
election, and still the work for the custom
house goes on. The people or Blount
county Were informed it would stop at once
when the election wa over. Somebody
has lied
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23

THE society OF the Army of the Cum
bcrland holds its annual meeting at Cleve-
land, Ouio, on the the 2lth and 18th insts
Members will be passed over the various
railroads leading "a that city at half fare
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-23

THE .>uadoy wig and Rcnister swells
all over with indignation at the idea of Il
war being forced upon the country ''for
the purpose Of pcrprtt;sating power in the
hands of such hlockhead n Graf or
men of such infamy as Ben Butler and his,
friends Now, we would like to- aak the
wig and Register, if Il "blOclhead' could
force the hosts of Democracy to surrendertO
him a. was done at Vicksburg and Apo
mattoX, were not the leaders who sur
rendered somewhat stupid? Is it not
strange that men of such military skill "a
the Wing and Register and other papers
of that ilk, would have us believe Lee and
Johnston were, would be forced to succumI
to a "hlockhead ~ But the idea Of calling
President Grant blockhead, and other
hard names which heDemocrats are wont
to bostow upon him, is too silly to require
notice.
The wing and Register adds:
The people of the United State have too
much sense to permit such men to gamble for
power, especially when the blood and bones Of
our citizens are to be the stakes upon which
| they may win or lose.
WV We Jllllihp dISO JildI lIt people Oh lllt
United States have too much sense to per-
nit any set of men to gamble for power,
when the stakes are 1.-THE blood and bones
of our citizens, but we would not have to
go very far back in our own history 10 find
time when such thing was done.
jeff, Davis, Yancy, Toombs, Wigfall,
Cobb, Floyd, and a host of others equally
infamous, were permitted to gamble for
power, when the stakes were the "blood
and bones of thousands who now fill sol
diers graves. These men all belong to the
party which is now advocated by the WHO
and Register. Soldiers graves, widows
tears and orphans cries, all over the land,
testify the character of the Stakes in
that Democratic game. We belive the pco-
pie of the United States have too much
sense now TO permit such thing, having
had the experience of most bloody war,
foisted upon the country by few Demo
cratic politicians, whose names will appear
in impartial history as II SYNONYM for ev-
crything that is detestablc and infamous in
pOlifii.S