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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
The Picture of the Campaign in New York.

A correspondent of the Fiat Contribu-
tor'sn Saturday Night alludes to the cam
paign in New York in the following cheer
full style:
Greeley still holds his tree-hacking Sat
urday afternoon matinees at his Chappa-
qua farm, after which he goes and dimes
with somebody. In fact the old man APP
pears to be getting along pretty nicely with
his board and lodging. 1t costs him nothing
and he gets the best. Whaclls for Horace !
Hdroer's Weekly still goes for the old
philosopher and worries him rs flies worry
n short horned bull. In fact, / am told
that he so far forgets his former practices
as to swear like trooper at Tom Mast, and
one other artist who does the cartoons for n
well known comic paper here. His friends
know it would not be best for him to show
his wrath and so they stroke his back and
manage to keep him quiet.
But the way they do Horace up in all
kinds of pictures is enough to make a
Quaker dance. No wonder he gets mad.
The last thing on Horace is a full life-size
face, white hair, whiskcrs and all. 1t is
comical and ought to elect him. If the old
man lives until election day he will do
well, for such crowd of all kinds as Ego
for him" from early morn until dewy eve
is enough to worry bronze monkey into
its grave. 1t is giving him a foretaste of
w ultC IlOuSe lllct IL he SeLS lHeTe, anu IL
does seem as though a rational man would
shun such hoOors.
If Mr.. Greeley does not carry this State
it will be on account of the San. Talk
about damning person with faint praise,
the Sun is fast damning Horace with too
much. Ninety-nine lines out of hun
dred of its reading matter consit in full
some, foolish praise of this candidate, and
AT the same time it is well known that
Dana hates Greeley as the devil hates holy
water, and many believe that he is taking
his revenge in this way. One thing is per-
fectly certain, if his eXtravagant praise of
Greeley becomes rs sickening as his TRADES
against Grant have, they will do him
much harm.
But above all things the campaign songs
published in this paper are the most dis
gushing and silly. The friends of Horace
ought to take measures to stop them, for if
n man was in doubt who he should vote
for and should happen to read one of these
songs he would instantly decide to vote
against the subject of it. 1t is thought
that the Sun furnishes employment to at
least one insane asylum for the especial
production of Horace Greeley campaign
songs.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
From North Carolina.

The Washington Chronicle of Wcdnes-
day says
Mr.. X. r. Cobb, brother to Hon. Clinton
j.. Cobb, member of Congress from North
Carolina, has just arrived in this city from
that State where he has been actively en-
gagged for several weeks past in the political
canvass. He has visited almost every city
and town of any Importance in the State,
and says the utmost unity prevails among
the Republicans that they are very en-
thusiastic and confident of an easy victory
He says in the western portion of the State
large numbers of Democrats will not go
near the polls, whom he states are out
spoken and very bitter in their denuncia-
tiOns towards the action of the Baltimore
Convention in nominating Horace Gree
ley. Mr.. Cobb says the contest will UNI
dOubtedly be close in two or three of the
Congressional districts, but otherwise the
result he thinks will take everybody by
surprise and convince the Liberals that
Greeley's strength in the South at least has
been greatly exaggerated. He stated furth-
er that there was not a Republican of any
prominence in the State except Mr.. Hell
per that had joined the Greeley movement,
while on the other hand accessions We're
daily being made to the Republican ranks
from the Democratic parry, and from the
present feeling Gen. Grant would carry
the State by much larger majority than
Mr.. Caldwell would receive next Thurs
lnV
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE,
Climate.
No. INV.

In answer to repeated inquiries, we pub
fish below an article on our climate that
will we know be of general interest:
Letters from every Northern State come
20 us every day, and the burden of COM
plant in nine cases out of ten of them, is
the long, cold winters of their Northern
homes. Roads and farms are deep under
snow, rivers, lakes and creeks ice-bound,
coughs, catarrhs, consumption, &C., are
the Affections that turn the minds of our
correspondents to the South fer homes.
They prefer East Tennessee because of its
fortunate situation midway between the
oppressive summers of the Gulf States
end the protracted severe winters of the
North.
We propose to answer the many nqui-
ries in reference to our climate by facts
and figures that can not be disputed and
that show our climate entitled to even
more praise than it receives. We have
frequently discussed our climate as to its
favorable influences upon agricultural pur-
suits. We have shown that frequently
our real winter weather does not extend
over two months. We have shown how
in some years (lS60 for eXample) our far
mers could pillow half the month of January
and how nearly every day of February was
pleasant for out door work
But figures will show this much more
forcibly than explanations. We give be-
low table of meteorological observations
made since 1854 at the East Tennessee
University in this city:
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
HON e NEWS.
Great fire in BrooisIyn-Loss u Half Mil
lion.


NEW YORK, July 25,-The shops of the
Erie Rroad, in Brooklyn, are burned. Loss
q half million. Insurance 100000. The
foreman was killed by the falling walls.
Five hundred are out of employment.
The Erie buildings that were burned last
evening, covered an entire acre. No such
fires had ever before been witnessed in
Jersey City. Besides engineer Mccarthy,
who met horrible death from falling, q
fireman named Charles Maybe, stroker of
the same engine, was also crushed, but cs-
capped with a broken leg. One man, n ma
chinest, entered the buildings near the
commencement for tools; it is feared he
persisted. The fire lasted two hours, and
it is estimated it destroyed property
amounting to two and n half millions. All
the property excepting the tools was insur-
ed.
\ significant fact connected with the fire
is, that ut the late strike all Jersey City men
were notified that they could not be again
employed. This threat was carried out.
The employees were from New York and
Paterson. The flames communicated to
the shipping in the river and extended to
the New York side for great distance.
The scene around the fire was one excite
ment and bewilderment. The mechanics
and their wives were rushing to and fro to
give expressions of regrets at the loss of
tools, and prospective idleness. The en-
tire premises covered five or six acres.
Upwards of eleven hundred hands have
been employed. There is no instance on
record, of destruction so sudden and COM
plete. The machinery can only be used for
old iron.
NEW YORK. July 26.-Dr. Simon p.
Taft, of New York, has been arrested on n
charge of fatal abortion.
The Hcrad publishes letter from Dr.
Livingstone to James Gordon Bennett
Jr.,which fully corroboOtes Stanlcy's nar-l
ratiVc.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
Reduction OF FreighIs.
EAST Tenn, Va. AND GA. r. r. {

EAST Tenn, V A. AND GA. X. X. Co.,
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July q, 1872
TO the Merchants Of HHorrWe and East Ten
RCSScc
l am glad to be able to announce the follow
ing important reductions in freight rates from
Eastern cities, to take effect from point of ship
ment, on August lst, 1872:
From Neie York, Philadelphia and Boston to
kaorriNc.-Per 100 lbs LIST Glass, SLIGO; ID
Glass, $40; 3D. Glass, Sl.05 4th Glass, Sc !;
9TH Glass, Csc.
From Baltimore 10 K,oEpiHs. Per 100 lbs (;
lst Glass, Sl.4j; I'd Glass, Sl80; 3D. Glass, 9jc I;
4th Glass, 75c 9TH Glass, Csc.
The amount of reduction on the various class
es is as follows:
From Boston and Phiiadelphia.-P 100 lbs:
lst Glass, lie; ID Glass, BE; Sd Glass, 27c Ith
Glass, 25c; 9TH Class bic.
From Nci0 York-lst Glass, sc ID Glass, sc ;
ID Glass, zoe; 4th Glass, zoe; 9Th Glass lie.
From BGltiu,ore,-lst Glass, Sc; % Glass Sc;
Sd Glass DC 4th Glass, 23c; 9TH Glass, l5c
Corresponding reductions will be made at the
same time TO all stations on the line of this road
Very respectfully,
JAMES r. OGDEN,
General Freight Agent
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
The Great Race Horse Harry Bassett.
From the Saratoga Correspondence Of the New Yor
Heradl

From the Saratoga Correspondence Of the New York
Herald.I
Shortly before o'clock the four-year-old
racer, Harry Bassett, ridden by the frecl-
led boy, Roe, came on the heavy track,
carrying his head sideways, as If he meant
to play q race, instead of working it out.
His white feet were splashed with clay
his short sheared, thick sorrelish tail and
finecomed name were handsome appendix
ges to his great length and somewhat friv-
olous and feminine face aud carriage. Bas-
sett il perfect colt in behavior, with Won
derful parts and speed, of which he seems
unconscious; Il love of horse company,
so that he will never run his best unless
some very fast horse will run with him and
make it agreeable, and he lacks that cheer
full earnestness and look of individual re-
sources and responsibility which make
spectators love Longfellow as a high re-
minder of the human neighbor and fellow
laborer while they admired the splendor of
his performances.
The present champion, Bassett, has The
bearing of q Bohemian-able TO do q better
thing than anybody, but doing it so nom
chalantly that nobody gives him credit for
the eXertion he is making. Light of color,
and therefore, like all blondes, seeming to
lack strength; handsome, but childish in
manner, kicking out at the grOoms, and
looking behind him when at full speed,
this horse is almost type of the behavior
seemed to have no sense of the gravity of
the performance, and moved around the
track as ifhe would run twice as fast, with
out hesitation, with a good payfellow.
His way of planting his feet in gallop,
almost feline in tough and thump, is one
of his merits. Although very large
horse he drops as softly as a bad boy out
of n cherry tree and Kills better purposer
and rivals as pretty woman breaks hearts.
There is poor Longfelow in the stable to-
day, with his whole leg and shoulder swo-
tous ne STORM While This e' extraordi-
nary and inconsiderate Bohemian stands
in perfect shape and style, ready to run
anything from rabbit to a greyhound.
Nothing can beat Harry Bassett,' said
Mcdaniel to me at the pool-roOm =" his
| speed has never been fully gotten from
him. He won't leave a horse in n race, and
that is why I.know he has resources great
or than have yet been tested.n
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31

healthful cities in the United States. We
have clear, bracing atmosphere, good
clear water and are free from ali MAS
matte influences. We have no epidemics
and the general health of the people is
" distressingly good.n
We have three burying places about the
city-Gray Cemetery, the Catholic Gene
terry and the PASSPORT Cemetery, for col
ored people.
We have a report of the interments in
each of these places, for the years 1SG9-7O-
Il:
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
An Interesting Tahle.

The following tabular exhibit, from the
Boston Globe, will possess unusual inter-
est for politicians just now. We advise
them to clip it out and lay it aside for ref
erencc. 1t shows the electoral vote under
the new apportionment, and also gives n
statement of the popular majority in each
State in the general election which last oc-
CURED in each
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
A Pond OF Water More than one Hundred
feet Deep.
From the New Bedford Mercury.l

From the New Bedford Mercuryl
Just below the summit of the Green
Mountains, three-fourths of a mile south of
the Hancock turnpike, is situated pond
of water that deserves to be classed among
the curiosities of Vermont. Its length is
some one hundred rods, while its width is
about fifty rods. 1t is of unknown depth,
but has been sounded one hundred feet
without bottom. AS far as known, il is
fed by only one small spring of iee-cold
water that would scarcely fill half-inch
pipe, while its outlet il six or eight times
az large. Its waters are very warm.
Trout and leeehes of large size inhabit the
pond in goOdly numbers, the latter espe-
elally.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31

The Cincinnati Commercial says =
The tone of the German press Of this city
on the mastery speech of Carl Sehurz at
ST. Louis, is unworthy that effort, ana of
the editors, who seek to belittle with petty
criticisms one of the most remarkable in
tcllcctual etI9rts Of the :amnaicp.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31

The growth of cotton as a staple product
in the warm valleys of California has been
attended with such satisfactory results as
to encourage the belief that, before many
years, the production of the country will
he materially augmented by the supplies
from that source
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
PHILADELPHIA Grain Market.

market quiet; old western red at $3.50 !;
new southern red at 81. 70(9I.75; amber at
Sl.0O and white at Sl.05. Rye is held at
7SCGS0c. Corn is dull small sales of yell
low at Ella So; mixed at soc. Oats move
slowly; sales of 900 bushels white at 42c.
and mixed at 4OGt4lc.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31

4 special dispatch TO the COwier-.JournaI
dated at Washington, July 25th, says: Tho
Radical candidate for the Vice Presidency
reached Washington to-day, from the trip
To the North Carolina campaign, aud has
given the Administration officials the most
encouraging accounts,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-31
ATHs IN KNoXvILLE FOR 1Sd9-7O-7l

The above deaths, as near as we can es-
innate, cover about all that lave occurred
and represent a population, for the time
mentioned, of about 10000.
Some interments of paupers were made i'm
the county graveyard and Il few in other
places, but the above is as near the exact
figures as is possible
We have then for three years, but three
and quarter per cent. of the population
dying or n small fraction over one per
cent. per gear OF deaths ont Of ten thousand
population. We have now, including our
suburbs, n population of twelve thousand,
but making the estimate for three years
we take the above average
We doubt whether any city can show Il
more healthful record than the above and
invite the attention of our Northern rea-
ders to the figures given as well of Knox
vile as of East Tennessee.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-20
,ct yirsinians Occupy the Pass!
communicated 10 the Dispatch.l

R1,pynNn. VA. December l9th, 1872,
Tr. Richmond Wing OF this morning con
..,, s. paragraph which seems deserving o.
l.. - comment. The language is rs follows
i. .yryrinia'> safety is III holding the pas:
,.n Richmond To Quantico. II there b'
.urar her sons prompt and willing 10 sur
-.a,i.r this pass, in any mora aspect O
a. ,uc>,on. what better fate do they de
.N,' for htying sold Us out III Il timc O
-, pracc.' than those who, III time o
ly,r. sold themselves and their country
i, treason for money less base, less vcnal
. ;~Hce than in war;
T. strip this moroccan Of twaddle ana come
the questions Of fact, we should Ike tc
,., the Wing if Virginia does hold the pas
rom Richmond 10 Quautico: Ii 50, when
..i il PASS into the hands OF Il Virginia man
...9l>nt: When did Mr. John Robinson
avg, that policy which the Wing for three
wars - bitterly denounced as hufttui &c
..ry interest Of the State:
not the manner in which il Is operated
r'.r.> >amr as when, in 12GS-'G9, the Wing hao
na words too severe for UUtrry against tnt
r.'ti,l.ltohinson dynasty: DO not the same
.4g4iAiiurv rates remain, as then prevented
Nfh1ftilN- Ibi'lS !INUi N~iii- INT h'S'iiii'i''
..,l fredericksburg line: Is not the return
o., through freight still 30 ridicui"uSly Smal
. ~ prove not ouly the object but the eflec
~ Mr. Kohm>ou's peculiar policy: Is not 4
Philadelphia interest still Suhordnating III,
, Dqrtic, Of this work Tor public usefulness
,u la"ir larger private interest in the Sea
',.lsu ana Roanoke route: i not \lrglnf
particularly Richmond and Petersburg still
e u>cr Just in proportion IL the Weldon
.r. BAY route Is the gaiucr hv this gigSn4
.,c.,~> What reason has The Wing to ash
Ell. public to reconsider the opinion itself st
ftiHIy advanced short time ago:
AUi lastly, in response to the heroic burs
.ta which the Wing indictS some traitor
- il, vivid Imagination, may ask the We,
I'VE q g"ioinder TO this query:
Nir&ina's safety is in holding The pas
" m Richmond TO Quantico." Does In
5l1 mean keeping the pass under It's pre-
>tr' control: II SO, when it is searching 70
,.ur vi her sous who are prompt an
'lHuy to surrender this pass" Will tn
f.o5 lind out and answer whether th
ioGU>on> have not long ago, aud more tla
,.,r,. offered 10 ">cll that pass TO tn
39's b,ie nor, the Pennsylvania Con
.4u}t
'atryUrical replies Will greatly oh!ige
\ tONSuIlpATIO&iST.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-20

"CAS'T Do WITHOUT 1T."-This Is what the
stage and horsc-car companies. livery stable keep
erS, members Of the turf nnd all grooms md train
ers say of the MUSTANG LISIMENT. They "can't
do without it," And why? Because 1t lnfallibly re-
duces The external swelngs, &c, which. under VA
r!ous nancs impair the uscfuness and value of the
king OF qHadrupe's, and also because, for sprans,
strains, gals, and other injuries TO which horse
flesh T. liable, II Is the most Trustworthy preparation
I'm the market. Yet these recommendations COM
prise only portion of its claims TO public conf
dcnce During period of more than sixteen years 1t
has been recognized specific for many of the most
agouizing disorders which aflict the human fami-
ly-such as rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, lumhago.
ticdoloreux, sore-throat, earache, toothachc; and
likewise as peerless application for cuts, bruises
burns, and scalds.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-20
r, ,bc Petersburg lailH Appeal. pecemher lsj
p, 1ruSt md viii be Done.

rro osrc clad to see from IN article pub
/. ,,A IN Yesterdays Ia0ier that our esteemed
.&,,'h,r i in fun accord with Us as to the
..r>,;tv .. ,-.,; Of through rail freight line to
~t oar cites with the northern and
,..~n ma, \ct>. and thus. enlarge our trade
.,;r, We are glad to have him as CO.
I s;.,,r, in the work Of keeping this subject
..~r The people. for il is matter winch
....., welt engage their most serious attention.
,.- ,fadr and manufacturing interests i'm
.r,;;yc,y demand such line. and sooner or
s.r .ncy will have il. Public sentiment is
|, .,,,.Y- in that direction. and every day
~, uses will serve TO strengthen that SCH
|. ~..t, until it carries with ii such power
.,. i will override existing monopo!ies and
.'-, obstacle in its way. Looking only to
h.. h,>;rblc end, it is n small matter who
.-vl,t NAV be the instrument Of its accom-
,.4.nra;. We look to results, and our
~. hnor only differs with IL rs TO the means
q ching the same end, which difference
NJ small consequence. We are satisfied
. .,r rhi, without discussing the merits OF
....r,rN hc>ucgcSts forattaning the desired
.s We are glntifcd that hc is with lis on
.. ..urrA results
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-20

MoTIoS TO RFnEAR CoUPoN CASES DES!EI
~ TIE Court or ArPEALS.-On The open
Ing Of the court Yesterday Judge Christian,
Who preSidcs IN the hearing of the coupon
,aseS. said:
In the eases Of Antoni Is. Wright, She
rif, and Wright, sheriff, Us. Smith, known as
the coupon cases, the petition for rehearing
tIcd By the Acknowledgement has been duly
considered In disposing Of this motion we
havc only to say that these cases have been
e'o5oratcIy argued, and have been the sub
t"rt OF the most deliberate and anxious con-
liberation BY the court. Every possible
Jew OF the important questions TO be con-
>tliclcd were presented in argument or suS-
1r>tcd by members Of the court in the care
~ examination which the large interests in
|ovcd and the high responsibilities OF our
positions demanded. Under deep ana
ir,in!ul sense of these responsibilities our
opinions were deliberately formed ai'ci
Tie most caretal investigation. AS u
the correctness of these opinions, there
+, npt one Of US (of the majority VINO
h@> The shadow Of Il doubt. \ rear5u'nent
cnnot possibly change our settled ana con-
.rcutious convictions. And We have thought
Il proper to dispose of this motion at the
"aIliest practicable moment, In order to re-
move any doubt or uncertainty III the public
u.iud IL 70 the final action Of this court. The
credit .f the Commonwealth and the public
welfare alike require that the important
Questions arising out OF these cases should
IL. put at rcst-so far, at least, as the action
q this court can have that effect.
"Tbc motion for rehcaring must be over
Ucd.o
IN our report of the proceedings of this
Court on Wednesday, which WAS the flrst
Gas that the petition for the rehearing was
reilly filed, we omitted tc notice this pro-
c,edIng at all, for the reason that we felt
sure that the motion would be promptly act
III Oh and oYcrruled by the court, and we