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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04
SENATOR SUMMERS WEAKNESS.

Democratic papers are industriously cir
culating some very unjust and unkind
criticisms on President Grant, alleged
to have been pronounced by Senator
Sumner. We have no hard words to
say of Mr.. Sumner, for heroic strug-
gle of near life time against Democ-
racy, allied to slavery and treason, in
our Judgment excuses in great meas
ure his present attitude, especially when
we consider his position was assumed
through his personal quarrels with the
President and his colleagues in the Senate.
But while we are not disposed to say harsh
things of the eminent Senator, we can not
refrain from saying that his present posi-
ton in the party and his public utterances
show how exceedingly foolish great man
may sometimes make himself. The peo-
pie of this country are not fools, as Sena-
tor Sumner well knows, and the man who
undertakes to pronounce President Grant
the "lowest man, intellectually, morally
and physically, that ever sat in the
Presidential chair" insults the intelligence
of the country, and proves himself SO pre-
judicial and passionate as to make his
opinions in such a matter utterly worth
less; aye! even ridiculous. 1t is useless to
discuss such charge. There are too many
thousands yet living who witnessed Grants
great achievements as a General on the
most historic fields,,of the rebellion to make
more than a statement of such an opinion
necessary to insure it ridiculous. There is
not rebel General living that will not say
that such an estimate of the man is absurd.
A grateful, people, led by his unfaltering
courage and sublime endurance through
painful anxieties, grave perils and the
deepest distress to glorious victory and
restored and prosperous country, will not
dignity such judgment by serious no.
tice. Rebel papers may find satisfaction
= =. 1,,N - 1,
Judgment enough to know that it carries
on its very face such conclusive and
damaging spirit as to be in itself its best
refutation. 1t would be unkind to the
President to answer such venomous at
tack with more serious notice. We are
panied to think great man like Mr.. Sum-
a glorious career by such a speech, and
such we must believe are the feelings of
his friends.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04
FOREIGN.

The Germans have evacuated all the depart
msnts contiguous to Paris. -Rochefort has ner-
yous complaint-The cholera is abating in Ger
many.-Rumor says Francis Joseph of Aus
tria, is about to abdicate. Gibbons, Conserva-
tive, has been elected Lord Mayor of London
-Druoyn de pHuys is appointed Ambassador
to Austria-Victor Hugo petition. Theirs to
use clemeney towards Rochefort-A fight oc-
CURED at Cork on Sunday between police and
supposed Observation-Disclosures arise between
France and Italy respecting the pontifcal debt.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04
OCTOBER 4, 1871.
WEEKLY SUMMARY OF NEWS.


Arkansas has the gold fever.-The Agricul-
tural College scrip of Mississippi, consisting of
10000 acres, has been sold at 90 cents per acre
Mrs. Jno. ii. Hamblin was brutally murdered,
on the 9th ult., near Nashville.-At the Wcr-
cester State Republican Convention, on the 9th
ult., Washburn was nominated for Governor of
Massachusetts; the resolutions endorse Grant
and admit that woman suffrage requires careful
consideration.-Th Commercial Convention for
1872 will meet in st. Louis.-The New York
treasury is empty; the employees are unpaid for
last month.-A serious riot occurred in Dan.
ville Va, on Monday, between whites and
negroes.-Times are squally in Salt Lake City;
the Mormons threaten to resist the Federal au-
thorities.-An immense warehouse was burned
at Chicago on Monday loss, Ss0O,O Oo.-The
Virginia and Tennessee railroad has been en-
joinedto prevent consolidation with other roads
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN NEW YORK.

New York City has lost millions of her
wealth by the plundering hordes of DEM
ocratic Tammany, but their worst offence
is not yet fully realized. They increased
the burdens of taxation. ruined her credit
abroad and made her courts of justice a
mockery-a place where rights of person
and property were bartered as merchandise
to the highest bidder. All this the world
knows now by heart
But recent developments show that, not
content with it, these INSCRIPTIONS rulers
have dealt a serious if not fatal blow at
the public schools of the city-the hope
for its future. Step by step, through the
insidious efforts of Romish priests, has
the unholy war been prosecuted. First,
the reading of certain passages of the BIZ
bic was forbidden, then, in some schools,
the whole book was thrown aside. His
tory, which the priests deemed as objec-
tionable as Holy Writ, was then either en-
tirely stricken from the studies to be
taught, or so modified as to be unobjec-
tionable.O
But the work of demolition did not pro-
gress satisfactorily enough for the Church
of Rome. Some few bold fearless men,
elected by the people, held positions on the
school boards, and they, for a time stem
med the tide. But the priests were not to
be thwarted. They ruled the flour thieves"
who in turn ruled the city. So they de-
manded the repeal of the law allowing the
people to elect the school commissioners.
A subservient Democratic State Legisla-
ture obeyed the edict, and the selection of
school commissioners was vested in Mayor
Hall, i. e. in the Catholic priests of New
York. This same Legislature voted thou
sand of dollars to Catholic institutions of
every kind, "from the Protectory to the
Founding Asylum What is the result
1t is stated on good authority that this
new board is driving out of the schools |
the protestant teachers; prohibiting the
reading of the Bible that in one schoolthe |
children were found celebrating the Catho- |
lie feast of the Ascension, and that since |
1869 there has been steady decline in the |
numbers of the pupils and in the disci- |
pline and value of the schools.
In this war upon the public school sys-
5em of New York, Tammany acts for the |
Catholic priests, and the success of their |
Efforts and the prompt betrayal of the pee
ple's rights by the Democratic Legislature
1t Albany shows how satisfactory and close
S the alliance in that great stronghold, be-
tween the Romish priests and Democracy
AS we said before, the exact extent and
nature of this triumph of the Romish
Church is not yet known, for, like every
other feature of the corrupt rule of Hall,
Sweeny, Tweed and Connolly, this part of |
their work has been done covertly and
with as many blinds and turns " as pos
5ible. But it seems to Us the most danger
BUS blow at honest government that has
ever been delivered, for it strikes at the
very foundation of our civil and religious
liberty.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04

AN Ohio Republican, writing to the
New York Tribune, says Ohio is good for
large majority for Noyes. Some Republi-
cans, he said, relied upon a light Demo
cratic vote because of the exposures of
Tammany, but he says "they are wrong,
and you, am confident, will see not
vote lost to them owing to 50 immaterial
consideration as that they may have lost
their leaders at the penitentiary and their
principles at Appomatox.n
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04

a STATEMENT has been prepared at the
State Department, Washington, showing
the amount of the different classes of
claims to be settled by the Geneva Confer
ence. They amount altogether to over
thirteen millions of dollars. The Commits
sioners have now all been named, and the
government is busy preparing tlaetase for
hearing. The Commission meets, we be
lieve, in December.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04
PUBLIC EDUCATION.

The National Commercial Convention
which has been in session in Baltimore
during the past week, among many inn
portant measures acted upon, passed the
following resolutions, offered by Judge
Hammond, of Georgia:
WHEREAS, There is q large portion of the
people of this government yet without the bless
ing of general education, and believing as we
do that the triumph of our common country So
cially, politically and religiously can rise Sc
curely only on the foundation of wisdom, virtue
and integrity therefore
RESOLVED, That the States and localities in this
government which have not already adopted a
system of public schools, be earnestly recon-
mended by this convention to do so at once, as
it is the sense of this convention first that it is
the best possible method of educating correctly
and thoroughly the masses of the people; Sec
ond, that it is the only system of education by
which the elements of society can be so thor
oughly blended as to give successful co-opera-
ton to united and physical effort; third that it
is the only method by which the whole masses
of the people can be educated at an expense not
exceeding the amount heretofore expended in
the education of the few.
This action of n convention assembled
for the purpose of celebrating upon mea-
sures for the common welfare of our coun-
try, is 10 be commended. Disseminate
universal education among the people, and
the basis of all prosperity is fixed.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04

FROM the very beginning of the excite
ment occasioned by the lamentable TRACE
dy of last Wednesday, we felt the import
ance to this community of showing posi-
lively that political dninlOSities had no.
thing whatever to do with the affair. All
citizens were anxious that every effort
should be made to have that fact under
stood. But the Press and HerdIds article
of Friday morning, dragging politics into
the case, will be eagerly copied into the
papers of Alabama, as we are very sorry
indeed, to see from the Montgomery i'd
Uerttser, some indiscreet friend of Gen.
Clanton, in telegraphing the news from
this city, made an effort in the same direc:
ton.
Our contemporary, perhaps, was advised
of the tenor Of those dispatches, and saw
proper to support and encourage it. Our
city, through the efforts of the two parties,
will find itself VIGOROUSLY and unenviably
advertised in Alabama. To those of our
citizens who knolO that in fact there is no
Ioretert for the case taking such an unfor-
tunate aspect, the efforts of these hot
headed friends to turn it in that channel
will be deeply deplored.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04

Mr.. BoUTwELL's great speeches in
Ohio, one in Cincinnati and one in Cleve-
land, will be read with interest by men all
over the country, and of all politics. His
exposition Of the financial policy of the
Government is clear and satisfactory to
the friends Of the present Administration.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04

WE have been asked by very many good
citizens what Fleming meant by denying
that Nelson was Conservative, when eve
rybody here knows he was ?n We gave
the only answer we could, at is the ma
ture of the ANIMAL to be mean and tell
falsehoods, and he can't help it,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04

BY the Tammany frauds the school
teachers of New York city are deprived of
their hard earned wages. There is SlGO 900
due them.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04

THE recent harvest of violent deaths in
Memphis has directed the attention of that
community to the causes, and called forth
from both the Appeal ard avalanche some
very earnest and decided protests against
the very general practice of carrying con-
cealed weapons. Most of the :olentvi
deaths occurring in our State are directly
traceable to the reckless regard of
human lives that this practice in
evitably produces. The very pres
ence of deadly weapons on the person
The man carrying pistol or knife is fire.
quently contemplating the possible neces-
sites of using it, and thereby becomes
gradually reconciled to criminal acts. A
man maddened with liquor frequently
commits crimes of which he would never
otherwise think. Many an impetuous,
fiery spirit under the influence of liquor,
is driven to rash and unjustifable acts.
Add to the ordinary influence of liquor
that recklessness which the carrying of
concealed arms most always induces, and
you have men ready, on slight provoca-
ton, to commit grave crimes, which in
volve communities in serious troubles and
bring sorrow and distress upon honorable
and uneffending parents and friends.
The causes once recognized, it seems to
us the duty of the public is plain. Too fire.
quently are we warned by the great ca
lamities thus occasioned. Public senti-
ment is needed to insure the rigid enforce
ment of the laws. Statutes and courts can
not alone effect the reforms. A pronounc-
ed. positive public sentiment is needed to
aid in the work The carrying of conceal
ed weapons ought to be pronounced an of
fence against law, and true manliness and
the public ought so to treat it. If this end
can be reached we will have fewer violent
deaths and great public misfortunes.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04

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The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-05-13

MoRE MINERs WLsSrHD.-The White Pine
News say: AL the producing mines on Treas
ure Hill are Increasing their working forces
oy as many men az they can possibly get and
md room for Ard more men are wanted to
go INTO. the numerous ciaims on which the
work OF development is commencing on q
Larger scale. o A thousand hore men ought TO
be at work to-day on Treasure Hill and White
flne mountain. some people have found
isuit With us for advancing Shis judgment, but
trip around over t1c section named will
readily sustain us. The outcrops of ores on
the two mountains indicate underground
working space for thousands Of miners. But,
Leaving all that, Benjamin assures US day
the great want of the district II large tnf-
grafton of practical miners To 60 into the sew
eral mines now open for thorough work.
The.tramway is about ready to stat, aSd
when the International mill starts up at least
one hundred men will be wanted. in addition
to the large number Of miners now In demand.
Miners in Storey county, who are sweltering
In the depths ], 400 feet under ground, might
greatly improve their conditions great many
OF them miRht-by removing to this district,
and procuring employment where daylight
and pure air are plentier. Three dollars and
half, gold. with pure spring water and pure
air. are considerations to be weighed
The signs are propitious-the metal Is in
siRht-the harvest is abundant; and now the
want is workers. We hope they will come,
for with their aid White Pine will be restored
on practical, producing basis, TO the proud
prominence which il aforetime enjoyed by the
dazzling promise of its high-fguring crop
pings. .. .r...~ ...
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-05-13

CHAs. l.. PEpEiSs, STATE rriuter, formerly one
Of the publishers Of this paper, now one Of the
proprictors Of the Carson Register passed through
thE tout on SatutdAy last on his way To utah
ami Wyoming. From the Carson rlcgistet VI the
10th instant, We learn the following.
4 letter received by Mr. Perkins from ms old
friend, Thomas Mcdonald. alsayer and metalur.
gi-t, Of salt Lake CITY (and formerly Of Cope,
White Pine and Idaho, requested him t0 come for
the purpose Il going out into Wyoming, about 700
miles this side N Omaha and thirty miles OF the
Union Pacific Railroad. to locate under the pre-.
cmptiun laws an Immense deposit Of pure carbon.
ate of soda. Mcdonald, who Il u thorough chem.
ISL a. well as mnerulOgist and metalluTgi-i. says
this deposit is produced by the evaporation Of
water from the surface Of several ponds, aud forms
layer Of from three 10 six inches thick. looking
like ice. and covering an area Of more than one
hundred acres The writer says the deposit in.
tended to be located Is only thirty miles from the
railroad, and every season nearly 10000 tons 81
solid soda can he cut, the same ~ ice. Cnrb nat"
OF soda il used in immense quantities IN the man.
uiaCturc Of glass, soap, baking powders and In
the preparation Of various other compounds Ui
soda, aud Ia an inyaluable lux in the smclting Of
lead ores. II Is worth $40 ton In the market,
and Mcdonald estimates that IL can he collected
and hauled 10 the Union Pacific Rail-, AL for sl0 a
ton; and allowing 900 ton for railroad freight On
very high cstnRtc), SlO ton can bC cleared IN
every ton shipped leaving an annual profit Ot
ei0O,OOO. The shipping point will probably he
Rawlings, 100 miles this side ui Omaha. or Scpa'
ration station, II mites tni. side OF Rawlings
McDJuald, who h Ennjhar with the chemical mar
kct. says there Is no fear 81 oycr-toCking II with
carbonate of soda, ~ Utah VIII consume thou
sands OF tons Of II annually In her smelling fur
naccs. the freight on which will not be more than
81 or g. per ton. .. ......
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-05-13

THE LAID OF VEGETABLE WONDERS. soil Of
California tcerns with vegetable phenomena, giant
trees plants. roots and herbs unknown elsewhere
Prom that vas; BOTANIC held culled the ingred!
enir n DIR WaLKER's NiSEGAR BfTTERs a medicine
that IL astonishing the world with lis cures, and
throwing all other tonics alternatives and inyigurants
into the shade A. It's benefits extended indiges.
ton. bllliOnsne-s, intermittent fever. rheumatism
kidney diseases. bowel complaints aud all scroful Gus
and scofbutic disorders, lose their terror
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-05-13

]. o. o. F.-The Grand Eucampment Of
California held its annual meeting in Sacra-
mento on the 9Th instant. The annual meet
ing of the Grand Lodge WAS held on the 9th !;
and on the 10th the Odd Fellows Temple was
dedicated. Grand Sire Parnsworth, Of Tennes-
see, presiding. The Grafton was delivered by
Newton Booth. The Fraternity WAS largely
represented and the dedicating ceremonies
were imposing
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-05-13

THE Estimated receipts Of the British Chan
cellor of the EIchequer for tue year are 1915.
600. 900. of expenditures, $500, 600 600 The
Chancellor proposes TO make up the deficiency
by an increase OF taxes on loRacies and success.
sious. on dividends belonging to Foreigners
and on matches. Tho army costs $50, 500, 600;
the navy, $iS, $50 600; and the civil list shows
AN increase Of 80, $500. To the war IN
Europe tho increase In mainly attributed.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-05-13

GEsERAL Crook goes TO Arizona about the
ist of June To- take command there. Governor
Stafford IL acting in concert with Governor
pesquiera, of Sonora, and together they in
Apaohos. which Stafford thinks will settle them
In twelve months.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-05-13

THE railroad from Santiago, Chile, ACROSS
tho Andes into the Argentine Confederation,
has been begun Its ultimate destination Is
10 Buenos Ayres.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-07-18
The Fourth at East Hickory.

Ed. REPUBLICAN Tho East Hick-
ory people held a grand Sunday school
picnic on Independence Day. Some
seventy dollars had been raised to buy
gun-powder and confectionery, and
then, besides, there were lots of home.
made pie, cake and sweet fxings of
all sizes and patterns. The event
proved u success, despite the rain, the
material and intellectual entertain
ment beth being quite excellent. The
good people of Tionesta, whose pres
ence we thought joy, we're caught
out in the rain, while being brought
from the kailfoad to the Church, and
no doubt some them felt the tiscum-
fort Of having t, wear We. clJ,h,ng
longer time than they isncied.
Rev. S. 5. Burton delivered an able
and highly satisfactory address. After
this, the crowd adjourned from the
Church to the grove and partook lib
orally of the refreshments that were
there in readings.
The gathering again assembled
around the stand, when the following
resolution offered by G. 5. Smith, Esq,
was seconded, put to vote and unani-
mously approved viz Resolved, That
hearty vote of thanks he given to
the efficient Committee of Arrange.
ments, Messrs. I. ID. Collins, John
Siggins, and g Il. Middleton, to the
Chief Marshal, Capt. Ii. II. st, W, to
the President of the day, james Gilfl-
Ian, Esq, to the Vice Presidents,
Speakers, Musicians and Auxiliary
Committees and to all who by counsel
effort aided i'll carrying out the pro-
gramme Of the day in pleasing and
satisfactory manner.
Adjourned by singing Old Hundred
and the Benediction by Rev. 5. S.
Burton. V. ID. NJ.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-07-18
Clarington Correspondence.

CLARINGToN, Pa, July II. 1871.
ED. REPUBLICAN: The fourth of
July coming last week, caused us to
postpone our letter until this week that
we might let you hear about it. 1t
passed off here very quietly. there be-
ing nothing Of any importance going
on. Every person was sober, 'cho
could get no achisky. We saw several
bottles of it going around in the dis
tance but could not get near enough
to obtain even a smell of the cork.
Several of our friends were urged fire.
quently to imbibe and we, thinking
that partiality was used, left the town
and went to the more thriving village
of HagertytowD, where we spent a
very pleasant afternoon.
Owing to the good order kept dur
ing the day, few arrests were necessary.
Warrants were issued for the arrest of
some four or five on the charge of riot;
three were arrested, two of whom gave
bail, and the tnird agreed to leave the
town, and, we hear, is now boarding
in the borough of Brookville, at the
county's expense.
Several members of the "Clarion
River Navigation Co." passed here on
their way to the mouth of the creek,
We hear that they were letting con
tracts for clearing the creek, and also
looking out sites for the dams which
arc to be erected next summer. Judge
Coon has taken the contract for clear
ing the creek from Reynalds' dam to
State Road Ripple.
The ram of last Sunday brought the
creek within a few inches of running
stage. Several boats got started from
this place on Monday, but no RATS got
off. Yours &c,
GrCafA