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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1871-03-30
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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10
WHERE DO THEY STAND.

A correspondence the Press dndHerdid is
inquest of information upon the city school
question, and asks that paper to explain
just what it is the Catholics demand. He
wants to do what is right, he says, but in
order to judge of this, seeks exact and re-
liable information. We know there are
several readers of the Press and Herald in
the same situation, and we cannot see how
that journal can longer refuse to give
them the facts they want. Will il say to
Justice" just what it knows of the situa-
ton, and just where it stands? 1t refused,
as will be remembered, to publish Zone of
Very Many's" article. 1t holds itself out
as the organ of Mayor Van Glider, and is
SO considered. 1t is known that FOR some
years it has cultivated the Catholic infiu-
ence in this city. 1t is supposed, by reason
of its relation to the party in control of our
city affairs, to know of the plans and pur-
poses of the school committee-in fact, by
One of Very Many" which it knew
would appear in the CHRONICLE
Sunday morning, Oracularly put
forth the same morning the plan of the
school committee and city council-there-
fore, all these things considered we think
1t very desirable that its views should be
known, and we hope it will enlighten
Justice" upon the points as to which he
inquiries: We hope it will also join with
US in calling upon Mayor Van Glider and
DR.. Boyd, w. \. Henderson and l.. c.
Shepard, of the school committee, to say
TO the public just what has been done or is
proposed TO be done, in the matter Of organ
izing our city schools. This is a question
upon which the people of this city are en-
titled to information and they want it, as
We know. Any newspaper or city official
that occupies an equivocal or neutral posi-
ton on this question, will be likely to be
remembered hereafter. We call upon the
parties interested to give the people infor-
nation.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10
THE DANGER NOT IMAGINARY.


The men who, last winter, opposed the
levy of tax for city schools are mostly in
favor of the demands made by the Catho-
lies of the city for division of the fund.
They have, ever since the decided express
sion of public sentiment in favor of educa-
ton, been too timid to openly oppose that
great cause, but they have secretly hoped
some such movement as the present would
defeat it. They now favor division Of
the fund, hoping thereby to break down
the whole common school system. 1t is
worthy of suggestion in this connection
that Father Finnegan and his people
solid[y and octively opposed the proposition
to vote a public tax for school purposes.
They are now opposed to general educa-
ton upon the American system, as very
plainly appears from Father Finnegan's
last letter, and their supporters and SYM
pathizers in this unreasonable demand are
men who would rejoice to see the cause
of free education in Knoxville fail.
As we have said before, we are not strug-
Cling against an imaginary danger. The
bold manner in which Father Finnegan
presses his claims shows that lie is con-
scious of strong support. The refusal of
the Press and Herald and the City Coun-
Gil to speak out shows they realize that
this is not movement hastily put forth
and wanting in supporters. They are
afraid to commit themselves on the sub
ject. They will avoid the issue if they can
by some compromise plan. They will
take Father Finnegan's school house,
probably, place in it teacher either a
member of his church or in sympathy
with his views, and the result will be a
practical triumph of those who want di-
vision in the school money. We say to
the people to keep alive their interest in
this matter, and watch the movements of
those in charge of this important trust.
Eternal vigilance is not only the price of
liberty, but in this instance is to be the
price of universal education. We urge tho
people to be on their guard.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10
ANOTHER OUTRAGE IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

The Nashville Banner of Friday brings
us the intelligence that colored man was
seriously dealt with in Williamson county,
on the 18th of last month. We will let the
Franklin Rcuic,o tell the story of how it
was done:
1t was in tho still hour of midnight, when the
door of Eyal Cannon's house was raped on by
parties without. He arose from his bod and
asked them what they wanted. They replied,
a rope lie informed them where rope could
be found Just at that time four disguised men
forced their way into his presence and seized
him. When he asked them what they wanted
with him, their only response was come and
go with us down below Sam Mortons about n
the negro SO that he attempted to break away
from thom and started of in the direction of
Mrs. Kinnards house, they firing four shots at
him as he ran, which took effect just below the
shoulder blade killing him almost instantly.
After the assassins had performed this damnn-
bic deed they took chunk of fire from his
wife's house. and by the light thereof, satisfied
themselves that he was dead Then with saw
age laughter, and yelling like demons, they left,
firing pistols or guns as they went
Nothing is given as to the identity of the
murderers, but being of the same charac-
ter as many other murders in the South,
where eolored men have been the subjects
and masked villains the perpetrators, it re-
quires no great stretch of the Imagination
to divine the same. When will our noble
State get rid of such infamous proceed
ings?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10
A WORD ABOUT TIE CHRONICLE.

We do not know that it is more legiti-
mate for q newspaper to speak of itself
than for individuals, but this being the
first number of the second year of the
DAILY CHRONICLE, we cannot refrain
from saying few words of its experience
We feel this due not only to ourselves, but
to our friends, who have from the begin
ming given us a most enthusiastic support
When we announced our intention of
publishing daily papqE in this city, we
were told it could not Iucceed, as Knox
vile already supported two daily papers.
We determined nevertheless, to make the
attempt, believing that an enterprising,
trustworthy paper, actively devoted to the
local interests of the city, county and Ill
vision, would in time meet with the sup
port it deserved Our aim has been to
make the CHRONICLE n paper of that
kind-faithful and firm to the principles
it espoused, fair and just in its controver-
sizes, and, above all, prompt, full ana accur :
rate in its news. We can best judge of
the success attending our efforts by the re-
suits of our years labors which we briefly
present. We have in the first place
made the first year of the CHRONICLE
more than self-sustaining, claim but very
few papers can make at the end of their
first year. We have secured for our DAILY
a larger circulation in this city, n larger
circulation in East Tennessee, larger cir
culation generally than any daily paper
now published, or than ever was published
in East Tennessee. We have secured this
not by undertaking in the price of our
subscription, or by any other unusual eff
fort. We have secured it by legitimate en-
terprise, and not only claim it, but knOW
that aUe haze 1t, and defy contradiction.
We believe we have a daily circulation in
East Tennessee, outside of Knoxville,
larger than both the Press and Herald and
Wing and Register.
We claim for our WEEKLY larger cir
culation in Knox equity than was ever at
tanned by any weekly paper ever publish~
ed, a larger circulation in East Tennessee,
and larger circulation generally than any
weekly now published, and can satisfy any
one of this fact.
We make these statements merely to
show what we have done, and to let our
friends see that their efforts in our behalf
have been successful.
We can only say of the future that moth
ing shall be wanting on our part to make
the present volume better than the first.
We mean to give to this city daily paper
that shall present abroad its business, its
advantages, its growth and its daily his
tory We do not think that all our people
appreciate the aid given to their interests
by daily papers, or they would support
them more literally. We hope to greet
our readers on many an anniversary able
to report as encouragingly. IF they will
continue their generous support we prom
Use to do all we can to merit it.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10
AN OUTRAGE"


The Louisville COUrier-JoUnaL saws that
to wrest millions of dollars worth of prom
erty in slaves from a people was an out
rage Oh the part of the Government that
did it, but goes On to add that it does not
propose to restore slavery. Why not?
Inc reason is obvious. 1t is because the
power TO do so does rot rest with that
journal. Is it human nature for men
when they have the power to prevent If
70 alloN an outrage to pass uncorrect-
ed AS long as former Shareholders re-
gard 1t as an outrage on the part of the
government to take away their slaves i
IL not reasonable to suppose that they
Wish compensation for their slaveso An
outrage indeed! The leading Democratic
paper Of the South boldly announces that
IL was an outrage on the part of the Gov
eminent to deprive Shareholders of their
slaves. such an idea might have been ne
cepted IN the palmy days of slavery. when
IIle establishment of a slave Oligarchy was
hoped for and prayed for, but i'm these lat
Ter days, 1t Will be considered at variance
with every principle of humanity. such
u remark might have been received as truth
IN the dark ages, but in this latter part of
the nineteenth century it can ONLY nro-
coed from mind incapable of appTeciot-
ing truth, or else so darkened by partisan
prejudice as To be unable 10 recognize the
true state Of affairs
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10
EMBARRASSING.

We understand there is general feel
ing of regret and modification among re.
spectacle and leading Democrats of the city
that the suspension of the IJHig and Re.
9istcr leaves their party with no other pa
per than the Press and HerdLd. They feel
that there is a gross inconsistency i'm haV-
ing an organ edited and controlled bv an
eX-member of the Loyal League of Chat
tanooga, but few years ago engaged in
publishing Radical paper at that point.
Being an adventurer in the South-a gen
uine ''carpet-bagger' feel his ante.
eedents are really in his way, and make
his present position before the community
such as no honorable man can respect. He
cannot efficiently do what Democrats
paper Is expected to do i'm this city. II he
abuses Radicals or the Union League, his
own record is produced and all his blows
fall harmless
III he abuses "carpet-baggers" or corrup
tlon, his own autecedents and notorious
Venality again furnish most witherinp
ana confOunding reply.
For these reasons the Democracy of the
city and county feel that they are worse off
now than they were before. Whatever
might be said of the Wig and Register. it
had nosuch embarrassing antecedents to take
all force from blows or deprive il of even the
respect of its friends. The probable result
OF this embarrassing position will be the
establishment of n new paper, with capital
enough to give it the confidence of its en-
ployees and creditors, and with editors
and publishers who have a record as some
guarantee of their sincerity and good
faith
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

lie money, and arc fast growing to be the
wealthiest church in that great metropolis.
Thus on the 2Srd ofApril we published an
item from the New York Tribune, that of
the Ss5O,OOO appropriated by the Legisla-
ture on the 10th, the Roman Catholics got
dUO-thirIS.
We do not wish to make war upon this
denomination because of their religious
tenets, but it is their alliance with the
Pope, and the struggle in this country for
political power that alarms us and leads
us to warn the people agains its plots and
purposes. As against its religious doe
trines, we leave the religious world to con-
fond
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10
THE ROMAN CHURCH IN AMERICA.

We publish elsewhere an account of the
vigorous manner with which the Roman
Catholic authorities of BavariS second the
efforts of the greatest minds in that Church
to resist the dogma of Papal Infallibility
The most striking fact, says Harper's
Weekly, connected with this question of
InfallibiliH is, that while the Catholic
powers and leaders of their church in Eu-
rope are resisting this preposterous dogma,
" the most SCCUilc Oc6UieSGelsess in If 80
iUund among the Romanists of the Amer
lean Republic" Cardinal Bellarmine said
that the Pope "hath full power over the
1VhOle aCOrld, both in ecclesiastical and ciua
affairs, and that to question it was a detes-
table heresy." Pope Paul the second told
the ambassador of Queen Elizabeth that
England was held in fee of the Apostolic
See" Yet what do we see to-day in Eu-
rope. A Roman Catholic government
takes possession of the City Of Rome
and divests the Pope of all civil functions.
The same government, composed of his
own churchmen, propose to separate en-
tirely the church and State In Austria.
an earnest Roman Catholic country, the
Government has positively forbidden the
priests to NEEDLE with the schools. and
when the Pope protested, promptly and
rebuked him for his interference. In Ba-
varia the government sympathises with
DR.. Dollinger and refuses to allow the
publication of the Vatican decree of infal-
libility. In these countries the history.
spirit and objects of the church are known
from dear experience, and hence its pro-
posed cncrodchDlontS are resisted.
But if we turn to New York city, now
under the control of the most corrupt and
intolerant ring ever known in this coun-
try, we find its government practically
under the control of the Romish
Church. The voters in that city upon
which Hoffman, Tweed and Hall
rely are Irish Catholics. They are under
the control of the priests, and whatever Is
ordered to be done, they willingly and
do. They are practically in con-
troll Of the public schools Of that city. They
control indirsstly the State Legislature
and the immense revenues of the city. In
made for asylums, churches
and schools they get the lions share. What
they have secured in New York through
the connivance and aid of the Democracy, |
The party with which they invariably act
hey seek to secure elsewhere The same |
contest we are now to meet they have
pressed everywhere. They demand"
heir share of public monies, to be used,
lot through public agents for the public
rood, but through their own priests for
heir own purposes. They want to break
Town our public schools, for they know
hat they are the greatest barrier to
Will we allow them to do it ?
5 there no danger? In 1900 they were
,ut one-seventeenth Of the population of
he United States. In 1870 they Were one
'1th' They practically control New York
nj are daily receiving from its Demo-
ratio Legislature large grants of the pub-
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

PRINCE Bismarck, in the German Par
Lament, on the bill to incorporate Alsace
and Lorraine as part of the German En-
pire, made some interesting statements
concerning the relations between France
and Germany before the war part of which
we extract:
Prince Bismarck rsstated the arguments on
which the measure was based The annexation
of these provinces to Germany was necessary to
give her q bulwark against the recurrence of
French aggression, cases of which had been so
frequent in times past One instance of COM
paratively recent date was cited. On the 9th of
August 1866, Franco sent to Berlin an ultima
tum demanding the cession of Mayence The
illness of the Emperor of tho French alone pre-
vented hostlities then. During the late war
foreign powers proposed tho naturalization of
Alsace and Lorraine; but that would be INSULT
Gent for Germany,and could not be thought Of
AS for the inhabitants still averse to their faith
erlsnd," said the Prince in conclusion 1--WE
shall strive to win them back"
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

THE Louisville CONFECTIONERY the lead
ingDemocratic paper the South speaking
of colored suffrage, says that to take
up huddle ofignorant negroes just eman-
cipated from bondage, and make them cit
liens and voters, was dangerous and un-
Just assertion of Federal power" The
CoutrieY-JOundl, be it remembered, is one
of the most liberal papers o. its faith and
order in the South. Is it reasonable to
suppose that men who hold such opinions,
if they held the power, would permit ne
gro suffrage? We care not for any protes-
.-4soIIs 70 Tie contrary, II a man DeneNeS
negro suffrage is wrong, he viii not per-
NIT it, if in his power to prevent
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

THE most sublime example of mora
courage we have ever witnessed was the
declaration, yesterday morning, boldly put
forth in the Press and Hcrold, that
"neither threats of personal violence nor
fears of libel suits will deter US from I'M
ceasingly exposing fraud and villainy in
high places" For q journal that has two
libel suits on hand-one for publishing an
obscene libel for few paltry dollars, and
one for shamefully libeling some of the
best men in Blount county-we think the
above declarations the most ridiculous and
presumptuous We have ever read. We do
not believe one of it, readers read the re-
marks without a smile. As for threats Of
personal violence, we would like to see the
man who would make them Bergh
would soon be after him.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

II is pertinent to the discussion now
going on in the columns Of the CHRONICLE,
Tor the public TO know that the first COM
munication from One Of very Many
was offered to the Press and Herald and
declined. Take the silence of the City
Council ON the question of proper dispo-
sition of the school fund, together with the
refusal of their organ to publish an article
calling attention to such disposition, and
it looks rather significant We again say
that the people would like to know some
thing of theplans of the school committee
and whether or not any preliminary nego-
tiations have been made or entered into
looking to such disposition of the school
fund as would place any portion thereof
under the control Of a sect or religious de-
nomination.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

BRICK PoMERoY, after disgusting the
decent people of this whole country by re-
failing his blackguard illusions through
his Democrat, has Disguised his wife in
such a manner that she applied for di-
vorce, and employed Hon. B. F. Butler as
her counsel. The divorce was granted
with alimony amounting to 100000.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

THERE are two sides to every case, as
very forcibly appear from the card of Gen.
Coopers, which we give in another col
umn. Any article coming from the New
York Sun, particularly if meanly inspired
with abuse of the President-againstw whom
its meanest and vilest articles are directed
ought to be accepted with great caution,
base lies.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

THE Wig and Register, of yesterday. in
speaking of the strike, and of the employ
ment of colored mason, says that it did
not set well on the stomachs of white work.
men, all OF whom were of course Republi-
cans ~ The insinuation is, that lndnone
Republicans are employed TO work at the
Custom House. 1t seems that this has
been subject from the beginning upon
which Democratic politicians could CRAFTY
their propensity for falsehood They first
said il was a political job" 10 be aban-
doned Immediately after the Congressional
election. Then they were not bold enough
10 publish such a falsehOOd in their news
papers, but did it in a sneaking way, with
clandestiDe circulars. Now they have
grown boider and insinuate that which
they know 10 be false-that mans politi-
cal opinions are made the test for employ
ment there,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

THE Democrats in Connecticut show the
weakness of their cause, by stubborn
opposition to any investigation of reported
irregularities in the late Gubernatorial
election. They allege that English has a
clear and fair majority, but manifest oppo-
sition to any movement for ascertaining the
truth of certain reports as to erroneous re-
turns
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

THE Southern Claims Commissioners in
order to ascertain correctly the loyalty of
Southern Claimants will send to every
Government official in the South list of
claimants and witnesses to prove their
loyalty and ask them to report upon all
cases where parties are attempting to inn
nose upon the Government.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10
KNoxv1LLE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10

THE impression prevails in well inform
ed circles, that if circumstances justify it,
the next session of Congress will abolish
all internal revenue taxes except upon
spirits and tobacco, repeal the income tax
and abolish the duty on tea, coffee, salt,
and perhaps coal.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10
THE PUBLIC DEBT.

The public statement to the first of May
has just been received. The total debt
principal and interest, is 80, 422, s84. II. The
decrease of the debt during the past
month, is S6,l24053, l3. The decrease of
me inc, debt from March LIST, 1869 TO March 1st,
1871, is S204, IA, 1890.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

MEMPHIS, May 6.-The decoration of
Confederate graves entirely SUSPENDED bu-