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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24
SCHOOL ELECTION.


We invite attention to the ecommunica-
ton of "Cosmopolita, printed elsewhere.
The friends of common schools cannot
more efficiently serve the great cause than
by looking after the coming election for
commissioners. We sincerely hope IN ev-
cry district good men will be chosen for
this position, and voluntarily, and cheer
fully render the public the service. 2 There
ARE hundreds of men in this cityand coun-
ty who have not the moral courage to op-
pose schools-though in their heart they
earnestly hope they may never be estab-
lished-but who hope to see them fail
through the Indifference or misguided zeal
of the friends of the cause. All such men
will hope to see inefficient men chosen
commissioners. TO insure good schools
we must have good men, truly friendly to
the cause, elected, and We again urge upon
our readers in every civil district in Knox
county to see that this is done. We would
be glad to have for publication the names
of the commissioners chosen in each dis
trict. ..-
To our friends in Knoxville we need
hardly say that, in view of the discussion
recently held in our columns and of the
demands" then made, it behooves them
to look closely after this matter. Who
will be the first to suggest some good
names for these positions?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

THE New York Tribune, on Thursday
of last week, printed in foil the Treaty
of Washington" The Senate, feeling the
premature publication a reflection upon
the honor of some of it, members, has APP
pointed a committe to investigate and re-
port how the correspondent obtained pos
session of their copy Their efforts thns
far have been futile. Messrs. Ramsdell
& White have both refused to say from
whom they received it, and warrants for
their arrest and imprisonment until they
to do answer, have been issued.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

A RATHER exciting railroad meeting
was held at Augusta, Ga, last week. The
excitement grew out of a proposition for
the Georgia State Road TO endorse the
bonds of the Western and Atlantic Road.
The proposition was discussed with no
small amount of acrimony, by Linton
Stephens and Robert Toombs against the
proposition, and Ben. II. Hill in favor of
it. The proposition carried.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

THE Memphis AvaIaRche continually
twits the appeal, the organ of the old
bourbon Democracy of Memphis, over the
progressive spirit of Democracy. We have
not heretofore been inclined to consider
the party very progressive, but the recent
consolidation of Democratic organs in this
city, whereby an ex-Loyal Lacquer is
placed in editorial charge of the consolida-
ted organ to speak for the unwashed, un-
terrified Democracy of this city, furnishes
such striking proof of the Auaianche's
boast, that we are inclined to qualify our
first impression. We commend this in
stance of progression (?) TO the AUolanche
as additional proof of its boast. We hope
the Appeal will see and be convinced.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

HORACE GREELEY is creating a sensation
down South. He is received with enthu-
siasm everywhere. This is quite a change
within q few years. Ten to one, if he had
taken the same trip ten years ago, he
would have been treated to coat of tar
and feathers, and allowed the privilege of
a free ride on a rail. Great changes have
taken place, of which we, as people, have
cause to feel proud.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

THE st. Louis Times, some time ago,
charged Jim Fisk with stealing $50, 900.
Fisk grew indignant, called it libel, and
brought suit for $780, 900 damages. The
Times has recently filed their defence.
They don't whine about the g freedom OF
the Press and attempt to break down the
plaintiff by ridicule and false allegations.
but come square up and say: d" We did
charge Fisk with stealing, and can sustain
our charge Their plea ends as follows
That prior 10 said publication the plaintiff
was a worthless, untruthful, unprincipied and
knavish man, Of no good name, fame or credit
amoag those who knew him. and that he bore
the reputation among those who knew him Of
being dishonest untruthful, hypocritical and
knavish fellow"
That's the way newspapers not paid for
libeling good citizens defend such actions
They act from high motives to begin with
and follow il up hy defending, not by aI-
pc ling ~ nubiic e. aihy, but by plead
iuT Is Z. IN!
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

THE treaty of Washington meets with
bat little opposition, and when ratified as it
it uRdoubted will he, will prove one of the
most substantial and gratifying features of
President Grants administration. The
New York Herald says of it 'All things
considered, the Joint High Commission,
in this treaty, have achieved a great and
glorious work, worthy the two great ma
tion- of the English-speaking races
worthy of their boosted enlightenment
and advanced civilization and full of
promise to the general interests of man
kind in the cause of peace
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

Gov. SESTEIs has appointed Mrs. Has
VIM. Il. Haskell, State Librarian vice DIR.
Wharton, deceased. This Is nothing more
than fit recognition Of the eminent rde-
ceased, and is an appointment TO which
IRE people of the whole State will say
men.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

correspondent Of the lIujnc Farmer saws
the following is an effective remedy for
Group: Half a teaspoonfiil of pulverized
alum in little molasses. 1t is a simple
remedy, one almost always at hand, and
one dose seldom fails TO give relief, If it
should, repeat il after one hour.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24
KNOXVILLE, WEDNESDAY, MAY "a

GOV. SENTER has offered a reward of
five hundred dollars for the apprehension
of parties in Madison county, guilty of re-
Gently burning colored church and school
house. Can no more effective. way be
found for furnishing outlaws than offering
rewards, which experience teaches us
amount to nothing?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

\ GENTLEMAN came into our Office q
day or two since-a strong Democrat and
a rebel during the late war-who has been
a subscriber to the Wig and Register.
Since the list has been turned over to the
Press and Herald he has stopped it and
now subscribes for the CHRONlCE. He
says that he prefers a straight Republican
paper to Democratic sheet, controlled by
a member of the Union League.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

THE narrow guage is destined to be the
railroad Of the future. The Iron dye says
that a comparison, which it gives in brief,
of all the essential elements in the cost of
construction and operation of railroads
will show that the cost per mile of the mar
row guage, from three feet to two feet, is
from one-half to one-third that of the
standard guage Of four feet eight and half
inches.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

u Philadelphia, at the close of last year.
had $50 public schools, with | $50 teachers
and 81, S9l children, The school expenses
of the year amounted TO 81 1877 SOP, Of
which sum over STA, 900 was ex pended in
teachersl salaries. L----- !. ~
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

editors in New York are women-NIiss
Mary i. Booth, of the Bdear, who receives
~, 900 year, and Miss Mary T.. Dodge. of
the Heorh and Home, who has a salary
of 50 900. i-3' 'i' 5hl IT -f''-I1'1
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

'sA CORREsPoNDENT of the New York
~ SfOunc, thus gives his derivation of the
reord kuklux. On the death of John
1seury, Welsh conformist, few
5A1nes OF ryhme were written about his fate,
thich concludes as follows:
a. a. And though he be hanged
m 1 Yet be is not Wranged
e. . The dell has him fanged, y ll 7
, In his kruked kluxks'
an The correspondent thinks the tleriPs
'Arukcd kiurkS' CROOKED claws an APP
name for those "emissaries of
Satahs II known infouE days as the 1lsu-
kluX +.F' TN CT ~ WIDTH
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

awaiting the action of the City Council
which thus far has preserved a StuClief
and significant silence on the subject.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-24

As announced on Sunday morning, we
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09
A GrOOm's Blunder.
From the WASHINGTON Cbronicl,


On Friday night, about ten o'clock, Off
Ger Hinkle, of the fifth precinct, while walk
ing down Twelfth street and when near c.
saw young girl with two men enter no
torious drinking place. He was informed
by some pas ers-by that the men intended
to get the girl drunk. The trio entered and
drank Soon the officer entered and took
one OF the men and the girl in custody
When they arrived at the central guard
house the man gave his name as James NJ
Austin and said the girl was his wife. He
informed the officers that he had been mar.
ried at Baltimore on the same day. The
officer asked the certificate, license, etc. A
look of blank establishment stole over the
face of the girl, who, in a plaintive voice,
remarked, "Jim, did you forget it? Jim
replied that he did. The officer then asked
who married them and at what church.
The newly married man forgot, and the
whisky he had drank helped to mix his
thoughts. The officer began questioning
him, when he made the following statement:
"You see, sergeant, me and Sip 1.-THE girls
name is Mississippi Burks) wanted to get
married, and we left eur homes up in
Liberty, Virginia, and came to Baltimore;
| went to preachers house today for
got his name, and what street it is on-and
got married to Sip; indeed, she is my wife.
We then came to Washington, got the
seventh room at the Columbia House
here's the key now if you want to see it
and put our baggage in it. met fellow
named Charley; he said he would show lis
where the theatre was; we started; he
brought me to where the officer found me,
and told me it was the theatre, and we got
to playing cards, l took two drinks of
brandy. Sip took half glass of pop. Now
I'm here if I've done wrong"
The officer informed him that they would
have to lock them up till morning to in
vestigate, and they were allowed to rest in
separate cells. Yesterday morning they
arose, and, thinking they had not been
married right, sent after detective, who
procured license for them, and they were
pronounced man and wife by Rev. DIR.
Newman, in the parlors of the Metropolitan
church, in the presence of several officers
and reporters. The happy couple then
started for Liberty, Virginia The girl
looked as if she was about fifteen years of
age. She was attired in aneat-itting calico
dress. 1t was the intention of Charley"
whoever he is, to rob the groom, and for
that reason enticed the verdant couple into
the house above named. They thanked
the officers profusely for assisting in having
them protected, and, what was better,
married right"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09

An Ohio paper publishes a pitiful letter,
purporting to have been written by a Nor
mon woman to her brother, a resident of
ago started overland for California with
her husband, that he was murdered by "the
Saints" and his effects confiscated. and.
that subsequently, not aware of the manner
in which he met his death, she was induced
to marry a Mormon. Everything was
pleasant for awhile but at length he grew
more and more matrimonially inclined, and
married other wives. With every new
comer-they now number fourteen-her
sorrows were increased, aud she writes:
my troubles have no end but keep COM
ing, one after another, until my cup of bit
terness IS running over. | can not endure
it any longer. My husband has got an
other little red-headed imp that he calls his
wife, and she says she has got Just as good
a right to everything as have, and he tells
her the same, and then because can not
submit to it he whips me like dog. | can
not stand whipping. No pen can tell
what suffer. | can not wear the yoke any
longer; and now, dear brother, for the love
of Heaven, help me away, and will thank
you more than can tell. have had quite
number of rivals, and have managed to
put up with all, until the last one came.
and now fOrbearance has ceased to be a
virtue, and being abused beyond endu-
rance, must and will leave this den of in
fanny, and l hope to live few of the last
days OF my life in my native land among
my friends"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09
For the Sunday Republican.
WOMAN AND HER EDUCATION,

A good education, agreeable to an old
adage, is a handsome fortune. True, if
rightly applied; if abused, curse. 1t is
not intended here to elucidate the advan-
tages of good education or the evils of
bad one, neither to discriminate between
the two or cavil at the branches now taught
On the contrary, we hail with pleasure the
opening of free academies and public
schools, thus offering facilities for the ac-
quirement of knowledge to all classes.
Why should not the mechanic and the
laboring man and their children have the
some opportunities afforded them as the
mammon- raised gentrys Should crippled
| means present barriers to those who live
by the sweat of their brow! Enough; the
chains which have SO long bound the pub
lie mind are burst asunder, and wisdom
crieth out that it is only the ignorant who
have anything to fear from the dissemina-
ton of knowledge.
The establishing of free schools is one of
the brightest epochs in the onward and
rapidly progressing career of America.
This one step of a republican govern
ment will stand translucent, scattering far
and wide its rays.
Nowadays, seminaries for young ladies
are plentiful. Here they are instructed in
all the branches requisite to enable them
to move in the highest sphere of life
French, Spanish, Italian, German; and
science, with all her sister arts, and even
classics aro not uithhaId
Certainly there can be no objection to
this wide range. A woman has the same
| capacities as man in the way of acquiring
knowledge, and is equally capable of
rightly applying it. Time was when the
education of females was limited. Civil
lied society at present justly affords them
facilities for high and liberal education
Collectively this is well; but when we come
to analyze the consequences which result
therefrom, some evils will stand prominent.
The brightest hopes of a mother, in
gazing on her infant daughter, is when she
grows up to give her that which no human
hand can snatch from her-an education
to be a lady in every sense of the word.
This done her duty is performed.
Balls, parties and gaieties of every shape
and form, are next had recourse to. in order
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09

An exchange gives some interesting state
ments concerning the effect of the now com
pleted Alabama and Chattanooga railroad
IN developing the vast iron interest of Ala
mama. 1t says that by the completion Of
this road vast beds of Alabama iron ore
have been made accessible at a low cost. of
a quality, it is asserted, better suited to the
manufacture of steel than any other native
or foreign ore. 1t is to be hoped that this
will tend to the development and utilization
OF these inexhaustible supplies, that can be
made to be of more real value to that State
than are the White Pine silver mines to
Nevada: Pig iron is now made in Alabama,
1T Is said, thirty-three per cent cheaper than
In the most favored regions of Pennsylvania,
and the experiments recently made by
Messrs; Holly, Winslow g. Griswold. at
Troy, New York, ON iron manufactured in
oheioy county, Alabama, were entirely
satisfactory, and concluslvely proved the
great value of the product. The Alabama
ores are free from sulphur, and by care in
manuIacturlng them into pig iron. the
PHOSPHORUS they contain can be reduced
TO 5-lOO of one per cent in the pig metal.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09
Railroad TO San Antonio.

The following dispatch from Galveston
was special to the Times of last evening {:
GALVESTON, July AT the election in
San Antonio over two-thlrds OF the registered
voters have voted in favor of the subsidy of
five hundred thousand dollars to extend the
Galveston and Harrisburg railroad from
Columbus, or Eagle Lake, to San Antonio.
The engineers compute the difference at
100000 in favor of the Eagle Lake road.
That west of Columbus is subject to over
flow.
The Indianola and Victoria railroad is
completed to within four miles of View
Victoria, and will be in running operation
in six days.
The mails in the interior are greatly de-
ranged. some of the contracts for which ex-
PRED on the first. The old contractors will
not now renew on the terms rejected by the
Postotfice Department. The Bulletin calls
a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to
take action in the matter, and Geographic
memorial will be sent to the Postmaster
General at Washington to send special
agents to make contracts.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09
For the Sunday Republican.
CONSCIENCE.

Each and every individual has within
himself tribunal where his thoughts,
words and actions are passed to be judged;
thoughts, even before they have assumed
the shape of thoughts; words before they
are spoken; actions before they have been
committed. They are judged truly, and
oft rigidly, and await but the confirmation
of divine Arbiter for their sentence.
How often do we hear it said land how
often do we not ourselves say it), that we
spoke heedlessly; that we acted without
suspicion of wrong. How far is this true
Does not conscience, with lightning like
rapidity, decide, before we have time to
speak or act, the justice or the iniquity of
the word or action9 That faithful minis
ter never relaxes its vigilance. Its zeal is
ever on the alert to guard us from evil for
well it knows how our poor human nature
is prone to it.
Some there are who attempt to deny the
existence of conscience, but they know in
their Utmost hearts that they speak not
truly They may have stified it for time,
and on this foundation base their denial,
but the tiny voice is not etfectually stilled.
Do what they may, and let them call it by
whatsoever name they please, conscience is
still there, and its existence at one time or
another will be known to them, for no &C
emulation of vice can dethrone it from its
position in the human heart. What is that
in man which causes him to be SO exhilar-
ated at the performance of noble action,
and, if he is not entirely lost to all sense of
virtue, so Inundated at low, degrading
one, if it is not conscience But since
many may cavl at the term, let call it
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09
TWO WOMEN.

She held him in her bare, brown arms,
His baby face her own beside
His red lips smiling daintily-
His dark eyes startled, opened WIDE.
So like high born heir he looked.
In regal pride of babyhood; -r
His mother but a gypsy tramp.
That by the village fountain stood
My ladys carriage passed so close
The dust fell on the girls dark hair,
Who frowned TO note its coat OF arms
And pow dered fo0tman standing there.
A passion kindled in her eyes,
She worked the problem out with fate,
Why one should beg. and starve and steal,
And one should ride thfo' life in state.
My lady saw the boy look up,
With soft rare wonder in his face,
And poverty, nor dust, nor soil.
Could hide his beauty and his grace.
NV lady clenched her fingers close
Above her bosom bitterly, .+E
Where once mothers heart had be en-,
And now was hopeless agony.
What story of broken troth,
of sorrow, shame. and weary days
Was hers who stood beside the we'll,
With anger in her bitter gaze?
God knows, not l. Unequal fate
She envies gold and gems; heart wild,
NV lady fain would yield them all
For This one gift, the gypsy's child
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09

The New York Citizen has an account of a
team of trained surgeons which draw a
boat on the Lehigh canal. The driver has
his seat in the bow and directs their course
with a goad, which is a long pole, as thick
out at right angles from the end, and it is
surprising with what alacrity they obey.
When they are to be turned TO the right or
left, sudden prick on the opposite side of
each sturgeon causes the pair to take the
desired course. When a greater speed is
desired they are pierced near the tail; when
they are required to halt the goad is reached
forward and they are pricked in front OF
the head
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09

Colonel Cyrus C. Carpenter, the Repub-
liean candidate for Governor of Iowa, is a
native of Susquehanna county, Pennsyl-
vania, and was born in 1929. He is self
educated, having begun life in wooden
mill, and studied surveying during his
leisure hours. He went to Iowa in 1854,
where he was engaged for time in survey
ing and teaching school. He served three
years in the army during the rebellion. In
1866 he was elected register of the Iowa
Land Office, in which Office he served until
1870 He is a member of the Methodist
EpiscOpal Church
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09
s1ei,, Orleans 8epabGfa,l,
egF,clsL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
LIFE.
BY FATHER RYAN.

a baby played with the surplice sleeve
OF a gentle priest, while in accents low
The sponsor murmured the grand Il believe,
And the priest babe the mystic water now
I'm the name of the Father of the Son,
And of the. Holy Spirit'-Three IN one.
spetless as lily's leaf
Whittier than the Christmas snow
Not a shade of sin or grief
and the babe laughed sweet and low.
.as,niIs fitted over the baby STAGE
or was il the CLEAN of its angels wing
Inst passing then, and leaving trace
OF It's presence as it SCARED to sing -;
hymn when words and waters Wild
To grace and life child OF SIM
Not an outward sign or token
That the child was saved from woe
But the bonds of sin were broken,
And the babe laughed sweet and io"'
n eIond rose up to the mothers eyes
And ont of the cloud grief's rain fell fast;
Same the baby's smiles and the mother sisn'
out of the future or the past ,aa+
All CLEAN and gloom must ever meeT'
and gall must mingle with the s"ee''
Yes upon her babys laughter
Triek lied tears-tis always So
Mothers dread the dark hereafter
But her babe laughed sweet and low.
And the years like waves broke on the shore
or the mothers heart and her babys life
Rut he lone heart drifted away before -f
Her little boy knew an hour OF strife
Drifted away on summer eve
ERE the orphaned boy knew how to grove.
Her humble grave was gentle made,
Where roses blO0med in summers glow;
The wild birds sang where her heart was laid
And her boy laughed sweet and low.
He II Dated away from his mothers grave,
Like a fragile flower Oh bright stream 8 tde
Till he heard the moan of the mighty wave
That welcomed the stream TO the ocean Wloe
out from the shore and over the deep,
He sailed away-and he learned to weep!
FIIrroxed grew the face once fair,
Under storms of human woe;
Silver gray the bright, brown hair;
And he walled SO sad and low.
and wears swept on, as erst they swept
Bright wavelets Once-vild pillows now;
Wherever he sailedihe ever wept,
And a cloud hung DER his brow
Over the deep and into the dark,
But no one knew where sank his bark
Wild roses watched the mothers tomb
The world still laughee-'tis ever 80;
God only knew the baby's doom,
That laughed so sweet and low!
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09

A distressed father found his fugitive
daughter in low den in Rochester, and
proposed that she should abandon her
present course of life, return to the city
where her family reside, and go into an
asylum, where her wants would be sup
pied: These terms she refused but she
signltied her willingness to- return if she
The father rejected this overture, and re-
turned alone to fis homo, -