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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-29
4 Short Address.

Citizens and Voters.
Are there any men now in political life in our
State who would not take bride?
Are there any three men who If they desired
to accomplish some purpose which would adj
vance their Interests would scorn to offer some
little compensation for the vote of Il man in pow
or, provided that this man might look with n fa-
vOrable eye on the same?
Yes, | believe that the modest work of God"
an honest man-one OF stern, unhinching un-
yielding integrity-s not yet entirely the base
less fabric OF IL vision, though too much indeed
like angels visits-few, and far between
Why do our people vote for those whom they
cannot esteem, either in their political record or
personal attributes?
Must party feeling carry us so far that no in
qu!ry need be made, who is this man ?" or
what are his principles" but only, what
party claims him 2"
Our people are unjust TO themselves 70 their
own interest and TO their country; and yet
what lamentations do we hear of what poor re-
representatives. we have
Who IS TO blame? Every man who casts Il
vote without knowing or without regarding the
true standing of the candidate.
II is not always the best man who pushes him
self forward, and feigns that at the solicitation
of many friends &c he will allow himself to
be elevated to some post of honor "Fcathcra
iclL f0at.'
| do not believe that the world is 50 much
worse than it ever was before, nor do | believe
that we have no able and noble men who, for
ACKNOWLEDGMENT or hopes Of rich pickings from
the already impoverished pockets Of the State
viii stand forth and endesvor TO redeem our
Tennessee from the crushing oppression which
now assails her.
Are the political campaigns carried with the
elevated tone Of dignifed debate? Do not
some who claim 70 be representatives of our
people descend rather 10 the discussion Of small
and Insignificant scandal seeking to make man
itest that their opponents are unit without in
the least proving their own ability?
We are taught 10 believe that mind is ever on
| the increase, but where il an orator who can
kcompete with those Of past ages Have we a
| Cicero Pitt ? Webster? Perhaps he may
| be among the flowers " that
| Are born 10 blush unseen
| And waste their sweetness on the desert air"
until destiny calls him forth But let us not
| sleep waiting for the coming future. Corrup-
| tion is at the heart of legislation Whose hand
| is steady enough-whOse eye is clear enough 70
| excise the thorn from the feverish wound
| Tennessee must redeem herself. Let truly
noble honorable, incorruptible men come forth
and do their duty, forgetting self work for the
| public veal And ye who vote, shall it be for
| such man or for one selfish and corrupt, with
whom. perhaps, some Of you woald be unwill-
ing % a. late intimately, whose whole being
Is absorbed in the desire for power and wealth
The result rests with you. Reflect Decide
), ROBIN.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-29
Peculiarly Success OF New York Journal


James Gordon Bennett, who began the
Herald with 5000 or $500 borrowed money,
i'm an Ann street cellar, writing on Il board,
is now worth S5,000,000.
Manton Marble, who, ten years ago was
a task writer on the EUening Post at SIS a
week, Is at present sole owner of the World,
valued ut least at $500, 900, and has an in
come of S75, 600 year.
Henry j. Raymond, at the time of his
death, was worth S3OO,OOC, and made every
cent of it out of the Times.
Horace Greeley, with all his carelessness
Of, and sovereign indifference to, money,
could be sold out for Sl50,000, though he
made his entry into the metropolis poor
printer boy, with all his fortune in small
bundle of clothes swung on a stick.
Robert Bonner, not long since printer
at the case, making, with very hard work
$50 week, boasts of possessing 500, 900
worth Of horses has an annual income of
nearly 100000 from the Ledger, and would
not sell his popular weekly for 81 100000.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-29
MEASURING THE BABY.
ny EupA ALICE BROWNE.

We measured the riotous baby
Against the cottage wall
A lily grew at the threshold,
And the boy was just as tall
A royal tiger lily
With spots of purple and gold,
And the heart like a jeweled chalicc,
The fragrant dew to hold.
Without the blue birds whistled
High up in the old roof trees.
And to and fro at the window
Thn red rose rocked her bees;
And the wee pink fists Of the baby
Were never moment stu,
Snatching at shine and shadow,
That danced on the lattice sill!
His eyes were wide as blue-bells-
His mouth like flower midtown
Two little fair feet, like funny white mice,
Peeped out from his snowy gown;
And we thought with thrill Of rapture,
That yet had a touch Of pain,
When June rolls around with her roses,
Wen measure the boy again.
All me In a darkened chamber
With the sunshine shut away,
Through tears that fell like a bitter rain,
We measured the boy to-day;
And the little bare feet. that were dimpled
And sweet as n budding rose,
Lay side by side together,
In the hush of long repOse!
Up from the dainty pillow,
White as the risen dawn,
The fair little face lay smiling,
With the light of heaven thereon
And the dear little hands. like rose leaves
Dropped from n rose. lay still
Never to snatch Mt the sunshine
That crept to the shrouded sill
We measured the sleeping baby
With ribbons white as snow,
For the shining rosewood casket
That waited him below
And cut of the darkened chamber
We went with a childless moan
To the height Of the sinlcss angels
Our little one had grown
Hearth and Home, June I.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-29
SHERIFF'S SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION ISSUED FROM
ID the Chancery Court of Knox county, Tennessee,
and to directed will sell for cash in hand in front
of the court house in Knoxville Saturday the Erd
day of July 1870 all the right title claim, interest
and demand that p. IL. Cardwell has in and to. a
lot situated in Knox county, Tennessee in the city
of Knoxville and fronting one hundred feet State
street running back seventy two feet on james Ken
nedy's line to VIM Bon's line; levied as the prop
erty of p. H. Cardwell to satisfy Judgment in the
Circuit Court of Knox county, in favor of Fred PaNon
d Co. VS.. p. ii. Cardwell.
jun2Sdltw4t. V. +. GOSSETT Sheriff.
DY VIRTUE OF A VENDTTI0NI ENPONAS,
ID issued from the Chancery Court of Knox county
Tennessee, and to directed. will sell for cash in
hand in front of the court house in Knoxville, on
Saturday. the 2}d day of July 1870 tract of land
containing twenty acres or less being the tract
purchased by the defendant, John Y. Wells, ut chan
Gerry sale of j. H. Norris deceased situated in the 18th
Civil District of Knox county, adjoining the lands of
L. Bearden Isaac Ellege and Others to satisfy judg
ment in favor of Robert Harper, admir-, vs. Par. Il.
Morris and others.
jun2S-d1tw4t V. Il. G0SSETT, Sheriff.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-29
TRUST IN GOD.

When, counting slumber,
The hours | number.
And sad cares cumber
Ny wearied mind
This thought shall cheer me,
When Thou art near me.
Whose ear TO hear me
Il still inclined.
Ny soul thou keepest,
Who never sleepest;
Mid gloom the deepest
There's light above
Thine eyes behold me.
Thine arms enfold me,
Thy word has told me,
That God is love.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-29

They have undertaken to cure the social
evil in New York by inviting fallen wo-
man to eat Strawberries and cream at the
midnight mission
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-29
A. S. MARINER.
Coal and Wood Trade,
Notice.

I WILL SELL FOR CASH. on THE 9th DAY
i Of June next, at the business house of Coffin <
Martin. the following property q gallons of Corn
Whisky, small lot oil Brandy. Wines and Empty
Bottles, with other things generally used in retail gro
ceries seized as the property of f. f. Wood for viola
tion of the Internal Revenue Law.
Leahy.
And on the same day will sell for cash, at the door
of r. NJ Beardens business house two barrels of APP
pie Brandy, seized for violation Of the Revenue Law.
junl5-dltw3t. S.P. EVANS U. $. NJ.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-29

Savannah shipped, on Saturday, 200
crates of vegetables 10 New York. The
temperance cause is on the increase in Sa-
yannah.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-29
Attachment.
Original Attachment.

Christian Co. vs.. Thomas Hopwood.
1T APPEALING PROM AFFIDAVIT FILED IN
this case that the defendant, llopWood is non res
dont of this state Ii is therefore ordered that publ
cation be made for four successive weeks notifying said
Thomas Hopwood to appear before =. ID. Jourouon,
county, Tenn, the Sd day Of December 1870 to an
swer then and there to suit brought against him on
be taken for confessed and hearing ex pare II
il further ordered that the plaintiffs have this notice
published in the KNOXVILLE CHRoHICLE.
iuneS-w4w r. u. J0UR0LMON. j. r.
The weekly clarion., 1870-12-22
Anew Trick Upon Travellers.

A gentlemen recently travelling from
Philadelphia to New York. fell into a chance
conversation in the smoking car with a
stranger having all the outward appear
ance of respectability. After some quarter
or half hours talk. the stranger politely
asked the gentleman If he would not take a
cigar, at the same time holding out two ci-
gars, one looking like a Regalia, the other
smaller, such as is usually called a London
size. The gentleman happening to take the
larger one. being the nearest to him as pre-
sented, the stranger recommended him TO
take the smaller one, remarking that he
thought it was of better flavor. After smo-
king about a quarter TO a third of the cigar,
the gentleman discovered that he was sud-
denly becoming very dizzy. suspicion
flashed through his mind that the cigar was
not all right. He Immediately threw it
away; but his giddiness increased so much
that it was with the greatest difficulty that
he preserved his self-possession. In a few
minutes a most copious perspiration started
from every pore of his body and the water
fairly ran eff his person.
The stranger meanwhile was apparently
sound asleep on the other end of the seat
On his arrival at New York the gentleman
with great difficulty got out of the car and
took a carriage for his hotel, where he was
violently attacked with vomiting. and pass
ed very sick night. He had been for sew
eral wears a resident of Cuba, great smo-
ker, and is fully convinced that the cigar
was drugged. and that this is new dodge to
entrap the unwary for the purpose of rob-
berry, He attributes his escape to the fact
of his smoking but little of the cigar, and
to his very robust constitution. Our rail-
road managers will be Obliged to issue a
supplement TO the notice" sometimes seen
| in the cars: Beware of well-dressed men.
who ask you to play euchre," cautioning the
public to Beware Of well-dressed men who
offer you cigar, Boston Traveller.
The weekly clarion., 1870-12-22

There is nothing mean about farm
work. There are no such sore or sour
things 10 deal with rs we meet every day
among mean men. Deiaulters, liars. and
thieves, have no place on the farm. -
These miserable characters are in towns
The farmer ought to be good man. -
He has less temptations to be bad man
than any character We know Of All his
work is ennobling. His contract is with
nature. His dealings are with the old
earth which is the mother of US all, and
which will take us all into her kindly
arms again, when life's ftful fever is over.
o! it is so delightful 10 turn the back
upon anxious, quarrelsome, struggling
men, and look upon the green fields, and
commune with the honest cattle, aud live
with nature and her children. The far
mer's noble work is worthy of a noble
ecration.-Lawrence journal.
The weekly clarion., 1870-12-22
From the Canton Mail.
SOLDIERS MEETING.
LEE MONUMENTAL ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of Confederate soldiers of fMad-
ison county was held at the Court House on
Monday, the 5th inst. Gen. Jos. Il. Davis
being called to the chair, addressed the
meeting briefly, explaining its object.
The following was offered by Major Hen
ry ). Foote, and adopted:
Resolved, That we hereby constitute our
selves the Lee Monumental Association of
Ma Olson county, and do enroll ourselves as
such. The -Secretary made the required
enrolment. fSehning list of members.
Col. S. 5. Cahoon offered the following
motions:
That the acting chairman of this meeting
be made permanent President Major Henry
5. Foot and Singleton Garrett, Vice Presi-
dents, VIM. Handy, Secretary. and James
McFarlane, Treasurer, of the Lee Monu
mental Association of Madison County.
That the evening of the Second Monday
in January be selected as suitable time for
an adjourned meeting of this Association.
That committee of three be appointed.
with the President of the Association as
chairman, to solicit Col. L. Q. G. Lamar of
Oxford, TO deliver an address on that occa-
sion. Adopted
On motion of S. Garrett, committee was
appointed, consisting of one member from
each company of volunteers raised in M9di-
son county. to confer with those who had
been members of their respective companies
concerning the nature and object of this
Association; and endeavor to secure the
presence db our Lutcilil& " De iAS1u III
airy. of all for whom 1t may be practicable to
attend.
VIM. Handy, Esq, moved that a commit
tee of three be appointed TO arrange suita-
bic place for the meeting to be held on the
evening of the 10th prox.
That the public, and the ladies especially
are invited to attend on that occasion.
The committee of arrangement are Geo.
Harvey, Esq, B. III. Luckett and F. E.
johnson.
On motion of Major Foote, all papers
throughout the State friendly to TO the
cause we have in hand, are requested TO
publish these proceedings.
Meeting then adjourned.
JOS. r. DAVIS, Chairman.
SINGLETON GARRETT, Sec'y.
The weekly clarion., 1870-12-22

the carriage affer passing the city limits
Upon the suddenness of the blow and the
celerisy Of our movements we depended for
| success. By the time the alarm could have
been given, and horses saddled, we would
have been on our way through Southern
| Maryland toward the Potomac river. To
| our great disappointment, however. the
| President was not there. but one of the
Government officers, Mr.. Chase. if / mistake
not We did not disturb him, as we wanted
| a bigger chase llaugterl than he could have
| afforded US. IL was certainly q bitter dis
appointment, but yet l think. most for
| tunate one for US. 1t was our last attempt.
| We, soon after this became convinced
| that We could not remain much Longer un-
| discovered, and that we must abandon our
enterprise. Accordingly separation final
| ly took place, and never after saw any Of
| the party, except one. and that was when
| was going from Richmond TO Canada. on
business of quite a different nature, about
which will speak presently. Such is the
story of our abduction plot. The last time
that saw any OF the party L went TO the
hotel and stopped over that night. As a
detective had been to my house inQuiring
Of the servant my whereabouts. in the early
train next morning, Tuesday. April 4. 1865
left for New York, and that was the last
time ever Was in Washington till 1 was
brought here by the United States Govern
ment captive in irons-all reports to the
contrary notwithstanding.
The United States, as you will remember,
tried TO prove my presence in Washington
on the 18th of April, the day on which Mr.
Lincoln met his death. On arriving in New
York, L called at Booths horse, aud WAS
told by the servant that he had left that
morning suddenly. on the ground of going
TO Boston to fulfill an engagement at the
theatre. In the evening of the same day |
took the cars for Montreal, arriving there
the next day. put up at the ST. Lawrence
Hotel, registering myself as John Harrison.
such being my two first names.
Then he details his trip made once to FL
myra, y. Y, to make sketch OF the Con-
federate prisons there and 10 perfect a plot
formed in Canada to release the prisoners
The next day after his arrival at Elmyra he
heard of the assassination. and Just as he
was about TO start for Washington; but he
reconsidered his trip and went straight back
to Canada, where he was secreted until he
went to Europe.
He repels the charge that he deserted his
mother, and saws that his Washington
friends advised him that she was in no dam
ger, but does not mention that she knew
anything of the abduction plot He says
that the witness, Weichman, on whose testi-
mony Mrs. Surratt was hung, was in the alb
duction plot, ands while clerk in the War
Department furnished Surratt with
knowledge of Federal troops, which the lat
ter conveyed To Richmond.
The weekly clarion., 1870-12-22
From the GreeavilIe Times.

We agree with The CLARION and Herald
as to the desirability of repeal Of the lien
law of 1867; however much it may add TO
the security OF collections, its effects are ru-
inous to the planting and mercantile inte-
rests and continual source OF vexation and
loss. In departing from PLAIN and Cenable
application, the Mississippi Legislature was
not Influenced. if we remember correctly, by
any such object as the making of the msr-
chants preferred creditors; except that II
IN light induce foreign merchants and capi-
talists TO come to the aid OF our planting
community at that time of great disaster
aRd distress. Under no other than the most
urgent considerations, would our law
makers have framed this unnatural aud dis
criminative process.
The reasons necessitating the Lien Law
having passed, it should be abolished.
The weekly clarion., 1870-12-22
SHIssIssIPPI.

Vicksburg has a roller skating rink.
Bishop Green was in Holly Springs on the
9th.-Reporter.
The Gipsies are visiting Goodman.-Cen-
trail Star.
The Corinth cotton Factory will be COM
pletsd next spring Record.
There are in Tippah county between the
ages Of five and twenty-one years, 2,74i
white and 7S3 colored children.
Mr.. j. Hale's gin house near Lockhart was
recently destroyed by fire, and 20 or 25 bales
of cotton lost.-Meridian Mercury.
Special taxes 10 the amount of 90, 272 were
collected for the month of November in
Monroe county.-Aberdeen Examiner.
The vallonian says the Swedes who were
reported at Lynchburg as on their way TO
Water Valley did not stop there, but passed
through en- route for Texas.
The Aberdeen Examiner says a Beaver
was killed near that city recently that
weighed about forty pounds gross. His hide
or fur, was sold at - so per pound. and his
flesh at 10 cents.
We learn from the CLARION that Presi-
dent Davis was in jackson last week. We
wish the noble, brave old patriot would
come to Iuka some time. 1t would do Us
good to see atwenty-carat Statesmen and a
first water patriot in these degenerate days
-Iuka Gazette.
The Natchez Democrat says, having yes
terday made visit To the studio of Mrs.
Alice Cooley, the sculptoress Of our city.
we had the pleasure to see almost completed
her clay model of the bust Of Gen. r. +. Lee,
which she begun on the day of his death
The artistic has happily caught the form and
expression of the great Captain, and will
we think, present, when she completes it. a
work doing full justice to the subject and
rejecting great credit upon her genius.
The weekly clarion., 1870-12-22
a Pleasant Revolutionary Remi-
uiScemcc.
Lafayettes Faculty Of Remembrance.

The Richmond (va.) whig contains the
| following from its Danville correspondent
"It was often remarked of General Lafay-
cite, when be was on his tour through the
United States in 1924. he possessed in a very
extraordinary degree the faculty of recog-
niZing at glance his old companions in
arms whom he had not seen for more than
fifty years. He could call by name as well
the private in the ranks as the highest Off
GERS ofthe line.
The following incident was related to me
in the year 1892 by the late Judge Brooks,
of the Court of Appeals of the State, who
had been Captain in the war of the revo-
luton.
while Lafayette was in Richmond. a
guest of Virginia an obscure individual
living in Person county, North Carolina,
who was known in the revolutionary war
as Sergeant Hood, who belonged to the
company commanded by Captain Brooks
and who, on account of his singular daring
and uniform good conduct. was a pet of his
officers, visited the capital for the pur-
pose of greeting his old commanding gem
eral.
Judge Brooks said that on walking
across the capitol square one morning, he
met an old man who inquired of him if he
could direct him to the quarters of General
Lafayette, adding that he had fought under
him when he was a youth, and had come
one hundred and fifty miles to see him
Before the Judge had time to respond, the
stranger said to him, . Is not this Captain
Brooks to whom am talking z" On receiv-
ing an affirmative answer, he said, q" You do
not appear to recognize me. am Sergeant
Hood, who belonged to your Ompany dur
ing the revolutionary war. The Judge told
me that he was Immediately filled with the
most pleasant recUllections of the Sergeant's
many deeds of valor performed under his
own inspection, that he gave him cordial
grasp and went with him to Lafayette's
room.
.'On entering, and before a word was spo-
ken by any one else, the Marquis. who was in
a remote part of the Om,eagerly approach
ed the strange old man, ana eXclaiming,
g Sergeant Hood - fell on his neck and wept
tears of joy. He recognized this humble
private soldier in an instant, and recounted
some of his deeds of daring TO the astonish-
ed company. That he should have recog-
niZed any of his brother officers after a Sc
of more than half a century. dur
ing which time they must have undergone
the usual change wrought in ones appear
ance by old age, Will his own eyes must
have grown dim,' was matter of no little
surprise, but that he should have hailed an
humble private in the ranks by name excl
ted the astonisnment of ali who were pres
ent. The Judge remarked that it was one
Of the most agreeable and joyful reunions
in which he ever participated"
The weekly clarion., 1870-12-22
The State superintendent and
the School Books.
From the Examiner.

The State Superintendent publishes an
advertisement over a column long in the
Radical papers, giving a list of the school
books TO be used in the public schools of the
State. The books are to be furnished TO the
schools by the county boards of directors.
and, we suppose, at the expense of the tax
payers. Ii any of the books named by the
superintendent have ever been used in any
school, academy, college, or university in
this State, or any Southern State we are
certainly not aware of it. We think il like
ly that the books selected have been fixed
up specially at the North for consumption
at the South under negro and carpet-bag
influences. and how much our State Super
intendent and county boards are to be paid
for forcing them into the schools Of Mssis-
sippi. we may perhaps never know. But
this we do know, that all children who at
tend the sspublic schools" win be required
90 use only such books rs may be selected
by the carpet-baa and negro politicians
who are engaged In running the school law
in the State.