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The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-12-14
congrcssIonal RobberI for 1s12.

The other day, upon the meeting of
Congress We give the political complex
ion of the two houses, There are now
in the Senate II members, Of whom So
are Republicans and Is are Democrats,
There will be 2G vacancies on tho 4th Of
March, 1872, and of these ID, as indica-
tons now are, will hezfi4ed ny Republic
cans. In the House are 2l3 members;
Of these about 100 IRE Democrats, the
rest are Republicans. Among other
measures which will be introduced at
the coming session, Mr.. Sumner has a
bill to give equal rights, without dis
tinctiOn of color or race, to all persons,
in theatcrs, hotels, public c~onyeyances,
Institutions Of learning authorized by
law, churches, cemeteries, etc. Sundry
Constitutional amendments dre also on
the tapsis. These are ali numbered "the
sixteenth" One relates to female sui
(rage, another to uniformity of divorce
laws, another prohibits Congress irem
chartering private corporations to do
business IN States, another relates to the
election Of officers. There are also three
States knocking ut the door-Uolurddo,
New Mexico and Utah. If these are nd
mittod we shlll have forty States. Iu
1877 there We're twenty States, In 1897
the number was twenty-six. There it
renamed until Florida and Texas came
in, in 1916. California was the thirty
first, and slowly, in these twenty years
past, the other six have entered. So the
States Of the Union have doubled in
number and more than quadrupled in
populationnwithin the memory Of thou
sands now living. If San Domingo is
annexed we will have another State, and
two 9 territories are also TO be organ
lied.
But in addition a correspondent ofthe
New York World makes II careful digest
Of a heterogeneous mass of nearly eight
hundred bills now ON the files Of the
Senate and House, of which over two
hundred and fifty relate to pensions and
private claims, and about one hundred
TO railroad, canal and steamship Jobs.
Besides, there,are the subjects Of fiscal
legislation, specie payments, revenue Gus
toners, the repeal or the reduction of
certain taxes, the %remodeling Of the Judi
cal districts, the Ku-klux crusade, the
removal of political and civil disabilities,
Alabqma claims, the labor subject, home
stead laws, bOunties, Indian affairs, in
ternal improvements and communica-
ton, French spoliation claims, the new
postal and other codes, the appropria-
tons demanded for new public build
ingg, the next congressional apportion-
ment, specific remedies relating to the
maritime interests OF the country, ilnmi,
grafton, Land and submarine biography,
and a bewildering variety OF schemes.
At least thirty-tive of the bills ask for
land grants, to the amount Of 30, 1000, 900
acres, and provide for the construction
Of l2,OO0 miles of railroad.
From what is here already mentioned
it is to be feared that the lobby will be
unusually active, and chat some very
vigorous RAIDS VIII be made upon the
public Treasury in the way of railroad
legislation, grabs ut the public lands,
and schemes for subsidizing steamship
lines.-BaHncr.
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The Cnrse of the Age,

There is u dread monster pervading
every circle Of society whose touch is
blight, and whose track is q little mound
OF earth, beneath which rappse the NOR
tai remains OF one who ills a drunkards
grave.
It's baneiul influence has been folt by
millions. 1t first approaches its victim
with a cat-hke step, but soon makes
him so completely its prey that it can
safely return with the daIhor Of q troop.
of h|orsemen. It seems to have gained
the mastery Of the age, Il has grappled
the throat of the present generation
with IN unyielding grasp. 1t his bereft
tue family Of afiuence as wei as ihdi-
gence, Of its paterh0l head. Every son
ut once feels licensed to initiate the ex-
ample of his natural guardian, conse-
queutly it were better that IL father put
II pistol to his own head and blow out
his own brain, for then he kills but one,
rather than let Il thief in at the mouth
to steal away his BRAN, for by this ex-
ample he hazards not only his W life
but that OF his, son, as well.
Not satisfied with the domestic and
social circles, this destroyer has, with
sure approach gained the redouhts and
IS fast demorahzing the citidal of our
whole political machinery. 1t has, with
stately tread, visited the chnirs OF State
and bent our Governors with q power
to them omuiIotcnt. II has stalked de-
family into the councils of the nation
and confused the finest minds Of the
age, The Executive head of the Gov
eminent has not always escaped its
tempting snare.
This yielding Of genuine manhood 10
the potent power OF the bowl; this reck-
less qualification Of the appetite at the
expense of much suffering, u premature
death and the consequent suffering of
their own families has been felt by
thousands Of men. We have not suhi-
cieut space to array any extended Stats.
ties, nor is it necessary, when It has been
ascertuined that more than hye-ei 5hths
Of all the suffering and misery in the
land is. truccable either directly or midi
rectly 10 the iutemperate use Of alcohol
ic liquors. The manufacture Of intox-
icating spirits is recognized by the laws
of the land as a legitimate business,
hence there is one more feasible way to
rid the country Of this gigantic evil than
by bringing about the repeal OF the law
above referred to by moral s]uasion.
Moral suasion works well in theory but
is Of little efficacy i'll practice, TO in
duce your ncighbor to abstain, you must
give him an example, else your words to
him fall from hypocritical lips, and i'll
stead Of doing good probably ~oggrayatc
the case, Precopt is u curse, without
all according example. ~
We have II specific which exactly COW
ers the case. AS this fend never visits
Il subject the second time if not enter
tanned the first, it will abundantly suffice
to ~resolutely deny yourself the disas-
trous luxury ofthe first cup. This re.
solve strictly adhered to and the demon
will never make a track of you; other.
wise you have no security.
Take your choice.
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Night.

Gently il throws its mantle over the
carts, sending first the ouiet twilight rs
forernuuer If its coming, and the weary
world sinks GLADLY into its resthl arms.
FORGOTTEN are the busy cares Of day,and
the mind, released from activity, sinks
into rest, or royes still through fancied
worlds and events, The blue of heaven
deepe1rs. and the stars Step Awinklino
forth unon the armament. attending the
silver aueen of NIGHT in her Journey
throuch the heavens, The mtsic of the
birds is hushed, and the light winds
play but idly through, 1.-THE trees, while
solemn ouiet awakens pure and holy
tbouobts, until the soul wanders from
fine creation TO file Creator with feelings
Of deem love- and reverence. and the
tbongbt uNTv Father made them all"
crooTs ;nyoIHpIarilv to The Inns Il.
VIZ III. n-,iatLaa,I1 10 Nat olu ova.
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In a recent letter to the Archbishop
of Cologne, the Emperor William uses
the following emphatic language.
1 had hoped that the powerful ele-
ments of the Catholic Church, which in
former times opposed the national move
ment led by Prussia, would now, after
the legal organization of the German
empire and in the interest of the State,
lend it their Voluntary support. The
benevolent terms in which His Holiness
the Pope welcomed by a writing III his
own hand the reconstruction of the en-
pire made me hope SO. But even ifthat
hope should not be realized, no disap-
pointment ON that ground would ever
prevent me from watching that full and
liberty should be secured, in the
present and the future, to every relig-
ious belief in my States, in conformity
with the-rights and the equality OF all
before the law.
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SllERIEFSALE.

By virtue Ol an urde' of sale now in my
hauiS, is,Hed from the Clerk Of the Cir
cunt Court of Monroe county, Tennessee,
and TO me directed, | will sell for cash in
baud, At the co4lt house dOorinthe town.
Of MmIisoHrblq, Tenn, oH Monday the
iiu,t day Of January, l8l2, to the highest
and best bidder, the ioIiOSiug described
real estate, to, wit:
One hundred aud City acres of aud, DO
the same more or less, situate in the 18th
civil Gi,trlctdf Monroe county, Tenn, add
iuiuiiig the lands Of Joseph B~reakbill,
Juachum Wolfand others, the same being
all the lands that 5amue! Edingtou Owus
ON the West side If the Madi-Onyille aud
London rOaGin said Ith district oF said
county aud levied upon Ms the lundS Of
Sathuet ELLINGTON to satisfy an execution
in favor OF Lewis Stephens, which exccu-
ton was rendered On. the 23i day Of Jily
1871; against j. K. %lleniy aud Samuel
Ellington. rar j.. Il. HOUSTON, Sheriff.
noy23 ,4trf$5 g
Also, at the same time and place, and
by the same authority, | will offer for sale
70 the highest and best bidder for cash in
hand, one hundred and sixty acres of land
lying in the tenth civil district Of Monroe
county, Tenn, on the waters Of Island
Creek adjoining the lands Of John McAfrey
John Cole, David Blair and others. Lew
ted on as the property Of Joseph Shields
to satisfy an execution in favor of Joseph.
Johnston, which execution was rendered
On the Sd day of May, 1860, against the
aforesaid Joseph Shieids. aYaUECr-A
no~v28.Itps4 Y'7''H'
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The Past.

Gone, forever gone FROM us5is the
past, with ali its joys and Sorrows, its
pleasures bnd pains, Mover ayaln but
IN memory, shall we grow happy in the
sunlight Of its gladness on bow beneath
the weight Of ItsNti.cting hand: Yet
we love to wander back through its dea-
olate halls. and imagine them again peo-
pied with their former inhabitants.
; We love TO go baek to chiidhood's
hours, and imagine orrrstlye, surround
ed with those who were our companions
when our highest ambition was some
school boy triumph, aud our greatest
grief no more lasting than a summers
day. We pause and considerif the hopes
OF those happy hearts that surrounded
us in our youth have been realized; II, in
the great battle Of life, they have achIev-
ed the triumphs they anticipated. Am
bition, the guiding star Of youth, seemed
TO point an easy path to iames sguinit.
Hope whispered sweet words to the
painting hert, and all VAS Joy and glad
ness.
But we pause notlong for reflection
a grassy mound, beside the stream where
often we had wandered, marks the rest
ing-pnce Of s9pe; and nticlmlona
never realized tell the late Of many stu
numbered with the living.
Yet. how instructive ure the simple
records of7the past There is arios5gr
read to us from out their midat that il
not to be- mistaken. As Ne 1e New The
season Of youth VT may learn this lessor
from its departure: HE is fast passing
away, and before we are aware OF i
another stage OF existence will be usher
ed in upon us. Let us remember tha
hope CLEANS out IRON every action Of
w~ell-spent life, and true happiness is Oh
ly found in doing good. .-, ".
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Congressional.

On Tuesday last, in the Senate, Sum
ner introduced a bill for mixed schools
in the distric. He urged early action.
and hoped the example would be speed
lily followed III the States.
West introduced tha following:
ReSoiced, That the Committee on FL
nance be requested to inquire into the
expedioncy Of exempting from the pay
ment of custom duties all mateSials III.
gliding, iron ties, imported into the
United States, which are used for the
purpose Of baling or bagging cotton.
Morton's motion to adjourn sine die,
on the third Monday i'll May, was amen
ded with a proviso that nc adjournment
take place until the supplemental Civil
Rights bill, reduction OF the tariff, and
Civil Service bill pass. No action.
Executive session adjourned.
In the House, the Committee on Elec-
tons decided Clake and Herndon,
Democrats from Texas entitled to be
sworn i'll on prima flcia evidence Of cer-
~titicute. The decision does not effect the
ultimate result.
Herndon was seated. There being
objection III Clarkes case, it went over.
The Committee on Expenditures was
directed to examine the financial condi-
ton of all the Departments.
Farnsworth's Post Office bill passed.
The bill for the relief OF purchasers OF
lands sold for taxes in the insurrection-
AIRY States, passed.
The bill to pay the interest due to
South Carolina was referred to the
Claims Committee.
The House went into Committee o.
the Whole on the Apportionment bill
No action. Adjourned.
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Southern Claims.

Tho Commissioners OF Southern
Claimso expect to present their report to
Congress about The 18th OF December,
or time enough before the Christmas adj
joirhuieut to get Imprinted for the House
Committee on Claims. Their decisions
OF Che six hundred claims, more or less,
that they expect to submit for Congress
sional approval, are briefly stated, with
the ground Of their conclusions in each
case. Claims to about a million and q
half are embraced in this first list, but
the aggregate allowance will very little
exceed half q million dollars, and may
even fall below that sum, This reduc-
ton has not been effected in Il purely
arbitrary manner, but in part Ivy the nat
ural results Of investigation into the 10y
atty Of the claimantst to the United States
through the war and the evidence adj
duced to sustain II reasonable degree Of
military necessity for taking private
property and its probable or actual use
by the sarmy, as an equivalent for sup
plies that the Government would other
wise have to furnish in the more custo-
mary mHnne The greater portion of
tho allowances made are for the two
items of fuel and forage, Taking the
coming report of the Commissioners as
q fair exhibit of those to follow in sue
c%essive sessions Of Congress, it is thought
that q fnir settlement can be made with
the loyal people Of the South for such Of
their property as really went into beno-
fetal public use, at a cost not exceeding
ton or fifteen millions of dollars, instead
ola hundred millions as many profess to
believe. .'.
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BILE O'morrow. But the one important
and g~ratify ing fact brought to the surface
by this DISCUSSION is the complete break
ing away BY the Southern press from that
Intense political partisanship which his
been a most fruitful source Of disaster.
With the press able, calm aud courageous
enough to look at public questions from a
standpoint which ignores partisanship aud
partisan machinery, the South need have
no tears for the future. The journals
which condemned others for taking the
positions long ago to which all have ut
last come, can now see that those who
drew their eensnrs we're wiser than they,
aud able to look farther iuto the future.
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Washington.

The Supreme Court now in session at
Washington will adjourn on the ODD to
January I'd.
There was a fnll Cabinet meeting on
Tuesday.
1t is stated that four members of the
Ways and Means Committee, have Is.
sured the tobacco men they will favor ii
uniform tux of sixteen cents.
The Republican Senators caucussed
three hours to-day upou the Joint Com
mittee of Retrenchment and Civil Ser
vice, without any result.
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TIE ENTERPRISE.
Sweetwater. Thursday, Dec. II, 1871,
Hon. IT. .NixsOn Nandyka for Su-
preme judge.

Ia III ~.
Hon. I, A. r. Nelson having resign
ed his scat on the Supreme Court Bench
OF Tennessee, Governor Brown has APP
pointed Hon. Robt. Mcfarland to I'LL
the uneGpited term.
The election for new Judges will come
ofin August next, and we-eontend, as
We did in tho last election that Lower
East tennessee is Justly entitled to the
position, hence we advocate the claims
of Hon. 4. n. Vandyke, of MtAinn. He
has the ability, and viii make a good
Judge. He suffered in a Northern pri-
son, as We are informed, because he was
true to his State and the South. he lost
three sons in the late war, aud not only
himself, but his family were ciIrrled
North and Imprisoned. TennesscGOwes
this debt to Judge VandyEe and should
now bcstow upon him the honors that
ara iustly due INN at our banda We
hope the presslof Lower East tennessee,
will advocate his claims. Let who will
20 against him, as for rs we are heart
and soul in favor Of his election to the
high and honorable position Of Supreme
Judge. Not only because he was 80
badly treated during the war by our
enemies, for there are may who suffer
cd as badly as he, but on the grounds
that he is U%mmiheutly qualified, and will
preside withiasmuoh dignity, and with
more satisfaction tpthe people than any
other man intthis division Of he State
1--WE make this nomination for Lower
Fast Tennessee YHOndshope thst the peo-
pie will at t~heiprpper tinie 6oraesnpat
one man to tie ~saprortof Judge Van
DIXIE. lr oalp1Hy y1s .lu... iu iat1 Z
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The boldest game of the season was
played at Doniphan, Kansas, Il night
recently, which was pretty much Of 4
"joke ON Murphy" A man went out to
spend the evening at his usual lOating-
place, and his wife, when she got ready,
put out the light and went to bed.
Presently the husband (supposedJ came
home, deliberately undressed, and went
to bed also, never saying aMord. After
lying until he wasn't sleepy any more,
he got up, dressed himself, and took his
departure. The woman, astonished ut
the unusual movement, made d hasty
reconnaissance, with the terrible dis
coyery that it was some other man! She
fairly raised the neighborhood, but the
burglar had escaped, The next day,
several persons were arrested on suspi-
cion, but discharged. At length they
arrested a person employed onnthe new
railroad; but lie knocked the constable
down and discharged himself, making
his escape across the river. 1t was be-
lieved that he was the chap that stole
the onions.
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War.

Every soldier or mariner who served
ninety days in the Union army or navy
aud WAS honorably discharged tberefrom
can Homestead 100 acres of Govern
mont land within the limits of the grant
to the Southwest Branch of the Pacific
and the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. No
one else can Homestead more than 80
acres. VIM A.t4 r'
. The Government made this muniicent
provision to reward the men rho stuked
everything on their country's alter.
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Terms of Sale: ,

Ten per cent of the purchase money will
he rr9pired in hand pn'the day of sale,
aud for the remainder ofthe purchase mo-
hey, notes With approved security will be
required from the purchaser, dine iusqnHl
annual ii>ta.lmenrs, and lien retained
on the land until the purchase money is
paid. 49, ~. II, HlEKS, Clerk.
Nov. 10, 1871. ... nov lG-4tpt$l2.
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An Admirable Portrayal.

John Quincy Adams has written a let
ter to the Missouri Republican in which
he portrays tie danger which all patri-
otto men should endeayor to avert. He
says: Il regard the, present ~administra-
ton as a national calamity, and itscon-
tinuance should be averted at any sacrl-
fce-not because republican in politics,
but because it is mean in character, SOL
did in tone, and ignorant corrupt and
arbitrary; because, more than any adj
ministration we have bad it has disap-
pointed the hopes and deadened the
generous aspirations Of the good men Of
all parties, because it is doing more to
permanently disunite the State than the
government oil Jefferson Davis ever did;
Lecause its chief c0uceives there is no
meai.s for a free government but military
f rec; no public action, but private plott.
Four years more OF such education,
family patronage and martial law, will
so blunt the keen sensibilities of popular
liberty that our ignoble incubus will re-
main "a fixture,
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He took her fancy when he came; he
took her hand; he took q kiss; he took
No notice Of the shame that glowed her
happy cheek at this. He took to comiiig
afternoons; he took an oath he'd no'er
deceive; he took her fathers silver
spoons; and after he took his leave.
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Petition for Divorce.

In the Circuit Court Of Monroe County, Tenn.
Armina Hall, 1t appearing from tee al
,I' vs.. legations contained in
George Hall, the bill, which is sworn
to, that George Hall, the Defendant In this case
is Il nonresident ofthe state of TENNESSEE.
1t is therefore ordered that publication be
made for four successive weeks in the Sweetwa-
ter Enterprise, u newspaper pubiishela at Sweet
water in Monroe county Tenn; 4 requiring the
in Madisonyille, Monroe county, Tenn, on tho
second Monday in January next, and plead,
answer, or demurr to said hill ,Or the same will
he taken for confessed and set for hearing ex-
parte AS to him.
novel 2-4tprs5 a-~E. E.GRIFFtrH, Clerk
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eentleman having col ont Of

A gentleman having got out Of al
patience with one Of his servants, an
Irishman, called him in, and after giving
him a sound scolding, wound mp with
the stereotyped phrase. ave must part"
The servant stood scratching his head
for a moment, and then said, with look
of much concern, "Sorry l am that we
must part, yer honor; But if we must,
may I make SO bold as to ask where
your honor's going?" ' H
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Thrilling Scene in IA Catholic Church.

Thursday morning, during the 8
o'clock service at the church of ST.
John the Evangelist, a scene took place
that struck terror into the heart Of eve
ny mother present. Father Mcmahon,
while earnestly addressing his congrega-
ton, was interrupted by one of his as
s~istants handing him a note. On peru
sinS it he remarked; 'If there is a lady
present by the name of Curtis she will
please follow Inc to the clergy-room,'
adding shat something had occurred at
her home since she left it N %hourago."
There was a general stir throughout the
assembly, and presently Il lady arose
and made her way towards the front
Of the church, the priest followed her
ont. He shortly returned, however,
saying the lady who had responded wls
the wrong person. 1t was some other
Mrs. Curtis whose attention he desired
to attract; but as no one moved he con
tinued, that the child of the woman
whose attention he desired to attract
hid been burned to death since she LETT
it that morning. An exclamation and
n woman's shrek of agony succeeded
the announcement, and the poor moth
err was lead through the crowd. A
nameless fear had kept her from obey
ing the first summons.-N. Y. Herald,
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A stranger meeting a man in the
streets of Boston, a few days since,
roughly accostsd him with: Here. I
want to go TO the fremont House" The
deliberate reply was, "Well, you can go,
if you won't be gone long"
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Negro Legislators,

DN According to the count of the Atlanta
Sum- there are twenty-three negro mem
.bers III the Legislature of Georgia-six
In the Senate and seventeen in the
1Horse. Hipr.tid .sii"t" 70 ilh
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Don Piatt's Washington Capital says;
Grant always looks for some lurking
when he hears himself called
the most gifted" and "notable" person
ago III America.
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18th Day of December, Next,

at the court house aooY ~ Madiloakihe,
Tenn, a tract of land consisting of fifty
acres, more OF les-,risaossin the IT'D
Civil District Of. Monroe, c9pPty, being
part of al SShtE w EST Aarl GaSection
3d. TpSusbip72 %, Range 2ds HiTas'se
District, beYngr 2 portion Of the lands Of
WHICH Ch%fsy Hicks died. seized shd pos
sessed. NH'- Oh ~"