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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-04-18

--" Forgiveness is rarely perfect
except in the breasts OF those who
have suffered"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-04-18

How one can get out Of the
world withor, getting into heaven IL,
to ~, a phys,cci..mystcry.-B b. Il.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-04-18

FiHsbWgh, Nwch, 10, 1872.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
THE PRESIDENT AND THE GENERAL ORDER
BUSINESS.

The enemies of the President have all
the time been striving with great zeal, to
connect him in an odious manner with the
General Order abuses in the New York
Custom House. In their zeal, they have
unwittingly removed the thin veil, be-
meath which they sought to conceal their
real purposes, and now every one can see
that if they could not convict Grant, they
didn't care to convict any one. On Mon
day the investigating committee heard
General Porter, keeping him ON the wit
ness stand five hours. 1t will be seen by
the following report of his evidence, which
we find in the Courier Journal, the lead
ing southern Democratic paper, that his
evidence does not criminate the President
in any sense:
WAsHINGToN, March 4.-The investigation
into tlro SorSTrtiens Of the General Order bust
sumed at the Capitol by the Special Committee
on Retrenchment, and General Porter, the
PRESIDENT Secretary, was examined at great
length. Ills evidence covered nearly five hours
OF time, most of which was occupied in severe
and most searching cross-examination byMessrs
Bayard and Casserly, which brought out all the
witness said he could recollect relative TO what
was done and said at the Executive Mansion as
business, In brief this most protracted exam
ination amounted to just this in the main, that
while the President had given Leet, of his
former staff, a letter to Collector Grinnell,
of simple introduction, he had before that
directed General Porter to write Leet that the
President did not think that any one who had
been connected with him as Leet had been
ought to become interested in the CUSTOM
house contracts or business in any way. The
original of this was followed by q statement
that the first that was known at the Executive
Mansion that Leet was in any way connected
with the custom house was the appearance of
Leets name in the evidence of the old Re-
trenchment Committee This announcement
created some surprise. General Porter then
explained that the famous military mess about
which so much had been said was merely an
economical arrangement between Leet and
Babcock and himself and their families to live
cheaper, and that the highest bill any one paid
IN one month was not more than sixty dollars
instead of thousands as heretofore stated.
The statements of the witness in New York
that Porter was in the custom house, the latter
pronounced to be utterly false and their authors
slanderers, liars and libelers. In the case of
Mudgett who made such statement, Porter
read letters from all the parties whom Mudgett
gave as authorities for It, to prove it untrue.
These were the three points of the direct exam
nation, and their elaboration by the witnesses
simply left the inference that Leet had used
the Presidents name without authority,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN,

General Grants administration has had
the courage to expose and punish the little
corruption that has tainted it. Mr.. Lin
coin was too much engrossed with the
great responsibilities of the war to look
especially after corruption, and Pierce
Buchanan and johnson had not the cour-
age to deal with the rascals that infested
public places under them. OF late, there
fore, the country has had the first example
OF Furnishing and exposing frauds.
The consequence is that Democratic
papers are now teeming with articles
about corruption. We have no inten-
tentlon to appear as the apologists
for corruption. We admit it exists now
in the public service and we fear it always
VIII exist. We do claim, however, that
wherever 1t is found now it is rooted out
and punished. 1t is not, however, con-
fined to any one party. On the contrary,
we believe 1T is protected by the Democ-
racy. Recent Investigations in New York
have brought out new frauds in the Tam
many ring, The Post puts it thus: "The
COMMITTEES report that from May, 1867, to
July, 1871, the Collector of Assessments
received from the city, as fees for his dep
uties, nearly six hundred thousand dol
lars. They find that the entire duties of
the Office were performed by the Collector
and four or five clerks, whose fees together
10 not amount 10 eleven thousand dollars
per year. Consequently, more than half
a million of dollars have been paid to the
deputy collectors" who have done no
service at all according to the Collector of
Assessments himself [
The list of these deputies tells the rest
OF the story. Among them appear the ia
miliar names of William NJ. Tweed, Henry
smith, James NJ. Sweeney, HenryW Genet
and A. ID. Barber. Imagine these men
going about among our citizen passing
Judgment upon the value of their taxable
property or doing clerical work at the
moderate fees usually allowed by law for
such services. Tweed, as usual, gets the
lions share, his " fees being one hundred
thousand dollars. Smith and Barber were
treated to equal amounts--siXty-five thou
sand each. Sweeney got fifty-nine thou
sand dollars. The remainder went to diff
ferent clerks" who were unknown in
the office, except twenty-seven thousand
dollars, which went to the credit of poll
teal purposes. "
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
THE TINE 10 RAISE SHEEP.

The year 1872 will be a profitable one for
wool growers. For the two years just end
ed tens of thousands of sheep have been
slaughtered in the North for their pelts.
They were bought up by droyes at fifty
cents per head and slaughtered for their
hide and tallow. This wholesale destruc-
ton of course caused rapid decrease in
the production of wool, and rapid in
crease in the price. Last year the wool
demand was far greater than the year pre-
ceeding, and this year it promises to be
still more. We are advised by a gentle
man now in the city, from one of the larg-
est wool producing counties of Ohio, that
agents are now busy throughout that Sec
ton, contracting for the coming wool clip
ON %he foot, at sixty-five to seventy-five
cents per pound, one half more than paid
two years ago. Sheep are hard to be
found, and the class that sold two years
ago for fifty cents, are now bought at from
three to five dollars.
The above facts are worthy OF considera-
ton in East Tennessee. We have heard
lately of parties going through our coun-
ties buying up sheep at low figures and
Strengthening them for their hides. The
farmer that sells sheep now for such pur-
poses, is pursuing a very short sighted pol
icy, For the next few years wool growing
must prove profitable everywhere, and par
ticularly here, where sheep can be raised
and kept for one half what it costs in
Ohio. We have repeatedly published the
statement of experienced wool men, that
East Tennessee presented more induce
ment to this interest than any other Sec
ton. We believe that if our au-
thorities would tax dogs and
kill off all that are not proper
ly fed and kept, we would soon
boast of some of the finest flocks of sheep
anywhere to be found. We know of farm
ers in Ohio who fed during winter three
thousand head of sheep and made money,
with wool at fifty and sixty cents. How
much better would the same business pay
here, where the winters are milder and eX-
ira feeding necessary only few winter
months We hope the prospect now be-
fore wool growers will induce our people
to stop the foolish killing of sheep for their
hides and encourage them to raise them
for wool.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
THE TRUTH WILL COME.


When Colonel Baxter published his
charges of fraud concerning the public
printing, against the Nashville Union and
american and Banner, IL was denounced
as |" Radical move" because the expos
ure was made through the CHRONICLE
Relying upon party spirit to acquit them,
the accused demanded of the Legislature
an investigation. Testimony was heard
and the material charges sustained to the
satisfaction of every fair-minded man in
the State. But the Legislature white
washed the papers as was expected. We
pronounced 1t at the time whitewashing
affair but coming from " Radical " pap
er, the unwashed would not, of course, be-
lleve it.
Recently the Nashville Union and
american, embarrassed by being deprived
of its extortionate and swindling charges
for public printing, cut from its exchange
list the country weeklies. The latter, ex-
asperated at such treatment, are " talking
out in meeting" The Lebanon Herald
thus ventilates the Union and american.
(The Italics are our own y
Suppose that the country press, during the re-
centsession of the Legislature, had not allowed
regard for the honor Of Their ogn party and
ed generosty,to induce them to suppress many
facts, but had taken the liberty to print i0hat
they k1iet0 to be true-would 9DhttelCdSb hare
OeCb qUtte as 6UCCLhdt. Lnlnk you suppose,
finally, that the country press, which this great
metropolitan newspaper regards as not worthy
an exchange, should conclude now to tell qchdt
ii ko,os about special legislation and tho like,
do you imagine that the odor in which tho
Peoples Own Paper would be held by the peo-
pie themselves would be altogether as savory as
the propretors of the Peoples desire?
If the CHRONICLE had intimated these
things it would have been radical lie,"
but as it comes from an orthodox journal,
and has been approvingly republished in
the Sweetwater Enterprise and other SINH
lar papers, supposed to be informed, there
is no longer room for doubt that Baxter's
charges were true, and that in reporting
to the contrary, the Assembly "white-
washed " the papers accused. This is an
honest confession from democratic papers
worth noting. The Herald closed its ar
ticle with this recommendation to its
weekly contemporaries I" TO resolve that
hereafter they will print the full truth
about all matters which concern the peo-
pie, whether it hurt political friend or
foe" We hope this noble resolve will be
adhered to, no matter what the motives
are that prompted it. If so, the people
will soon hear enough of Tennessee De-
mocracy to insure its speedy overthrow.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
HARD TIMES.

We hear great deal said abont ''hard
times" in East Tennessee. Thepeople are
all complaining about the scarcity ofmoney.
We are not surprised that this is true. We
send our money away to other sections,
and the balance of trade is against US. For
instance: We are informed from reliable
source, that company of itinerant stove
dealers, who have Travelled over large
portion of East Tennessee within a few
months past, have received from our peo-
pie for their wares, upwards of S2OO,O
This amount is about the same as a clear
loss to this section. 1t is true, we have re-
ceived large number of inferior stoves
for our money but it is gone, and we will
derive no more benefit from it.
This is only an example of what we are
DONG In many other instances. We have
plenty or money, or ought to have plenty,
70 supply every branch and class Of trade,
but Instead OF keeping it, we send it away
from nome for the purchase of articles that
we ought to manufacture ourselves. 1t is a
species OF suicide for us to send away more
than 100000 in one season, when money
is so scarce, for the purchase of stoves,
While our hills and mountains are full of
iron and coal. While we continue to pur-
sue such pol cy, we must expect to re-
main poor. Hard times" is the natural
result OF our Observation-Disclosures.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
THE SUPREME JUDGEsHIP.

The Democratic press throughout the
State seem to have discovered wonderful
Judicial capacity, beneath the somewhat
uncouth exterior of our friend Burch
Cooke, and with one accord they pro-
nounce him just the man for the Supreme
Bench. r..
The Banner says he has been solicited
by the press in various portions of the
State TO become candidate" &c. That
journal concludes very flattering notice
of Burch as follows: -
He is a gentleman of commanding presence
and acknowledged ability, and has host of
friends not only in East Tennessee but in the
other Grand Divisions of the State, who will
labor zealously for his support should he re-
spond to the repeated calls of his friends and
announce himself candidate for position.
AS matter of course, this is a disinter-
ested notice, called out by the pecu-
liar merits of the subject. We
won't insinuate that any suits are
ever to be decided in the Supreme Court,
in which anybody wants some one of the
bench to be under obligations to them
This would be all wrong. We suggest
however, that it be made known at once
that "Barkis is willin',n which will re-
lieve the suspense, which has rendered the
''press' so solicitous about the personnel
of the Supreme bench.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
A STUPID MISREPRESENTATION

A friend has called our attention to a
tupid false hood in the " Educational Year
Book, " published by A. $. Barnes * Co.
We give the following extract, in refer
snce to Tennessee:
The State is embarrassed for want Of means
to develope, as they ought to be, her school re-
sources. The Eastern portion is filed with vice
and Ignorance, which, If the light of education
could shine through, might become q halo of
glory. The mind OF these uneducated people
IS like rich ground run 10 waste. II is q crying
shame that SO much good material should
be allowed 10 go uncultiVated."
If this is specimen of the 'Education-
al Year Book" it is of very little value.
We are deficient enough in education if
the truth were told, without any exagger-
alton. But that East Tennessee is so far
behind other portions of the State or that
il is " flied with vice and ignorance is SO
utterly false as 10 need no denial. We
have no idea that A. s. Barnes 4 Co.
would make wilful Misrepresentation,
but that they rely on some stupid block
head for at least a portion of their infor-
nation, is evident.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
HARD TIMES AGAIN.

A gentleman who has for long time
been engaged in business in Knoxville,
and who had read our editorial of We'd
nesday, entitled "Hard Times" called
upon us and suggested that we might make
the case stronger by going more into de-
tail. He went on to speak of what he has
been selling to the people of Knoxville
this winter, that he had purchased North,
which ought to be produced right here in
our midst. He mentioned hominy, white
beans, pickles, potatoes, sour krout, canned
fruits, &C., for which we annually send
away thousands of dollars, and all of which
could be produced at home. Take the first
article mentioned above. We send our
corn away and receive for it from fifty to.
seventy cents per bushel, while we are
paying out to other communities double
that amount for corn in the shape of
hominy. We pay twenty dollars per bar
rel for pickles, when we might raise our
SO it is with beans. We might raise all
we want and to spare, making them a
valuable crop, but we do not plant them.
So it is of all the articles mentioned, and
many more. Is it any wonder that we
have " hard times ~ as the result of 50
foolish a policy? 1t is remarkable that a
people so highly blessed by nature, who
make any pretensions to sanity, would be
guilty of thus defying so important law
III political economy. We are in situa-
ton to be the most independent people in
and advantages of an agricultural and at
the same time a manufacturing commu.
nifty, and yet we move as if we were blind
and did not care to see. We are ignoring
our advantages and trusting to luck. How
long VIII we continue in such state?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
FOREIGN.

The Tichborne trial has been concluded in
England and the false claimant indicted for per-
jury; he has been imprisoned......T The groom,
John Brown, who saved Queen Victoria life,
has been presented with gold medal and a life
pension,,.... Mazatlan is still held by the Next
can rebels. Maxine Gomez succeeds Cespe-
des as President Of Cuba. Earthquakes pre-
vailed in Germany last week.. The Emperor
William has pardoned all French prisoners held
for civil ofenses.....Tho cz-EmPcror Napoleon
cleared 500, 900 by the sale Of portion of his
property on the corner Of Broadway and Day
streets, last week. Queen Victoria will soon
visit Germany. 1.-The Prince and Princess of
Wales are in Paris......The seat of government
of Mexico will be removed to Vera Cruz.
England has contributed &l62, 900 for the relief
of Chicago.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
WHY IMMIGRANTS COME TO EAST TEN
NEsSER

Mr.. William Smith of Lansing, Iowa,
under date of February 9TH writes of
some specimen copies of the CHRONICLE
and Munson & Bailey's Land Register and
County Map: " I" have circulated these
and the CHRONICLE among my friends,
and, like myself, they are favorably i'm
pressed with Knoxville and its surround
ings, / have concluded to come to Knox
vile with my family, not because of its
natural advantages alone, but of its re-
ported heating climate, its educational
advantages, and the oft-repeated as
sertion that the rights of Northern
citizens will be respected and pro-
tected. If these advantages are all
verified, a little effort will give you a
good increase of the right kind of
Northern population. / expect to be in
Knoxville next April Our intelligent
population believe Knoxville to be a de-
sirable Southern location for the reasons |
have enumerated, and after have exam
ined the country and decided that North
ern people are cordially received shall
frankly say so to my friends, and / shall
start from here fully believing and sincre-
ly hoping that all that has been and is
now claimed for East Tennessee is true.r
Our people can see from the above what
1t is that induces immigration, and those
counties that vote "No Schools can
make up their mind to take back seats in
the future progress of East Tennessee.
There is bright prospect for East Tennes-
see, and all we need to insure speedy
growth is effort. A little enterprise and
united action and we will have plenty of
new life infused into us.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
WEEKLY SUMMARY OF NEWS.
HOME.

The base ball players were in council Mt
Cleveland, Ohio, last week.."Dr Jayne, of
Philade phia, lost 81 900 900 by fire on the night
of the 4th inst.. The Geneva Watch Company
have been enjoined for frauds.....Cold weather
prevailed universally last weck.."..The editors
of the Richmond, (Va) Wing and the Enquirer
were prevented fighting duel last week......A
convicted criminal who had been pardoned by
Warmoth, of Louisiana, has been rearrested.
..... Henry Berry Lowery, chief of the North
Carolina outlaws, is reported killed the report
is discredited by the North Carolina papers,.
The Democrats carried Troy n. Y, in re-
cent municipal eleetion-,."Col. Lanahan,
prominent lawyer was killed in Paris, Tenn,
last week....,G General Hawloy is President Of
the Centennial Commission"...Ownerso of cotton
ask to be paid for all taken after June l, 1865,
less FIVE cents per pound for expenses."...Dr.
Huston, Baltimore clergyman is in bad odor
just now, on account of alleged laSon8 with fe-
male members of his church,. Mayor Hall, of
New York is on trial for mafeasance in office
Garvey, one of his colleagues in guilt, has
turned State } evidence and things look discour-
aging to him......An Indiana Sheriff has been
sued for sos 600 in the United States Court for
not using proper efforts to suppress riot .....
The Government stone cutters at Columbus, 5.
c., are on o strike-...T The Hudson and other
Northern rivers are blockaded with ice.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13

WnEN the swindling operations of the
Nashville dailies was first exposed, few
people were bold enough to tell the truth
about them. The country press are talk
ing plain about them now, however The
Pulaski Citizen says: ..-
Our people are thoroughly disguised with the
littleness Of the dailies now being issued from
our State capital.
The Lebanon Herald says;
Many Of the best citizens of our county have
spoken to US on the subject, andexpressed de-
sire to have an opportunity of subscribing for a
Nashville daily which they could support with
out seeming to indorse parsimony and pettness.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13

AMONG themany distinguished Speakers
who have taken part in the New Hamp-
shire canvass, is our own talented Repre-
sentative in Congress, Hon. Horace May
nard. AS usual, his efforts have elected
the highest applause.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
CONGRESSIONAL.

An additional representative has been allow
cd Tennessee, New Hampshire, New York,
Vermont, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Alabama
and Florida......The japanese Embassy has
been received by the President...... The Chicago
Relief bill is opposed by Michigan lumber
men.....The heirs Of John Minor Bolts will be
compensated for property taken during the
war;. Pittsburgh has been made q port Of
entry.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13

A CONGRESSIONAL Investigating Com
mittee looking into the affairs of the Dis
trict OF Columbia, has developed the fact
that VIM. M. Tweed is one OF the largest
stockholders in the Washington Patriot,
paper whose abuse of Grant has found
us way into every Democratic sheet
throughout the land. 1t Is "a fit represen-
tatiye of its chief
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
ENCOURAGING TO EAST TENNESSEE

The protection American iron men want
is against the pauper labor system of Eu-
rope. The recent strikes in England have
resulted in advancing the price of labor
nearly twice what it was year ago.
There is still trouble in the mining re-
gions. The result, of course, is an adj
vance in the price of iron in England. If
these advances continue until English
workmen shall be paid fair prices for
their labor, we shall not need any
tariff AS it is now, these troubles
in England, added to the increased de-
mand for iron here, have given new hope
to our iron men. We referred to this sub
ject few days since, and do so again only
TO incite those interested in iron enter
prises i'm East Tennessee to new exertions.
We see from our local exchanges from
Greene and Washington counties that the
iron men of that section are doubling the
capacity of their furnaces, with some pros
pect of new enterprises in the same in
dustry. - rsa @
The result of these encouraging in
fluences will be not only to spur up
those of our people already engaged in
this work, but to invite to our sec
ton capitalists from Pennsylvania and
other iron sections. We have unsurpassed
facilities here for producing iron and the
prospect of an advance likely to last fo-
some time will enlist capital and skill now
employed in other branches of industry.
We think the prospect is that the pres
ent advance will last for some time. 1t is
hardly possible to force wages in the iron
districts of England back to the old stand
ard. Men who have for years been OPP
pressed with half living wages, viii
not, if it is possible to avoid it,
go back from the present advance
to the trials and anXieties of the old
W. H..
ent hopeful promises may be fully realized,
and that we may soon see the long predict
ed smoke of the furnace and hear the long
promised ring of the anvils throughout
the coal and iron valleys of East Tennes-
see. Then indeed will we see our towns and
cities prosper and our hills and plains BIOS
som and become fruitful as the garden.