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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30
VIRGINIA.

The Old Dominion will be one of the
most interesting political battle fields of the
current year. Virginia politics have al
ways been somewhat peculiar, and have
lost none of their popularity since the war.
Virginia held on to the Union longer than
South Carolina, but when she did con-
| clude to secede, her rebellion was of a
| more intense character than that of the
latter. The South Carolinians were impul-
sive. Virginians rejoiced in kind of sui
| len aristocratic air. There, negroes have
been hated with all the deep, bitter feeling
that man or woman is capable of exercis-
ing.
But latterly a change has come over the
Mother of States and of Presidents" and
live issues have been and are being consd-
cred. A successor for Governor Walker is
to be elected this fall, and the question of
rank in the Confederate army will not
probably be the overshadowing one of the
campaign. 1t is true that an obscure
young man, with no peculiar talents, a
son of General Robert T.. Lee, has been
mentioned for Governor, but the
probability is that a man of ripper
age and more general expert
ence will be selected as the Democratic
candidate for the position. The Republi-
cans are likely to run good man. The
great questions of the campaign will prob
ably be ola financial character. The net
work of Railroads which are intersecting at
so many points in the State despite Vir-
ginians are likely to raise questions for de-
cision at the ballot box. Already the
railroad question is an overshadowing
one, and warm controversies have occupied
the columns of some of the leading news
papers of the State. One of them went so
far that the honor of participants was
wounded to such an extent as to make a
resort to dueling pistols considered ne
cessary to heal it. These controversies
will probably be kept up and form an inn
portant part of the discussions in the cam
paign. Virginia is a large State, but
not large enough for even temporary res
idence for two large men like Tom Scott
and Gen. Malone.
One journal of that State-and one of
which we expected better things-has
openly proclaimed the policy of Virginia
for Nirginians," but the spirit of progress
is taking hold of the State, and such a mar
row policy is not likely to long retain foot
hold. If either party should proclaim such
policy, we predict that such proclama-
ton will not give it any strength. We will
be right glad to see the old State thorough
ly alive with excitement on the live issues,
which we trust are to be prominent in the
coming campaign. We predict a future
for the Old Dominion, which for material
prosperity, will be a grand improvement on
the past. So mote it be.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

THE Courier Journal raves through a
half column on the subject of Louisiana
affairs. 1t is written in the same spirit that
infiamed the hearts of Southern men pre-
vious to 1861, and which led them to take
step that resulted disastrously to theA-
selves and to the whole country. If the
departed spirits of the thousands of brave
young men who fell in South
ern armies, in a vain attempt to
to break up this Government, could come
back to earth and speak for themselves,
they would charge that these reckless agi-
tators were the cause of their death and
consequently their murderers. These same
agitators are again at work and would
plunge the country into civil war again,
to crafty their own ambition. Here is a
specimen of the COurier-Jo,anapS talk:
But there is something dearer to true
men than life. There is something which
the torture of an inquisition can not wiring
from them. The thrust of the bayonet is
to be preferred to the application of the
lash, the bright, high-tempered sword that
lets out the life-blood is to be preferred to
the handcuff, the badge of slavery and dis
honor.
All this is true, but who proposes to APP
ply the clash" or to place the bandcuff up
on the law-abiding people of Louisiana
If the leaders who are responsible for the
late inhuman massacre can be arrested,
they deserve handouts, chains and dun
geon. Nay more, they deserve the gallows.
The Courier-JourndpS picture is over
drawn. 1t is a conclusion without rea-
sonable premise, and is calculated to stir
upstrife and getthose into trouble, for whose
benefit it is ostensibly written.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30
Rolling MIL Items.

The Roane Iron Company are now work
ing both mills day and night, with an am
pie supply of coal, iron, ore and old rails.
Things begin to look brisk in the neigh
borhood OF the mills, and the men wear
very different faces from what they did in
the dull times caused by want of supplies.
The Company are now building new
pudding furnace of the old fashioned
style, in which they propose to test the
question again very carefully which is the
best method of pudding their iron, by
hand or by machinery. - Chattanooga
Times.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30
Some Coal.

Col. A. S. Colyar, of Nashville, is i'm
Pennsylvania among the iron furnaces and
coal beds. He has been figuring some on
the coal trade in that section and gives
these facts: ..
The rolling mill of Jones & Laughlin
consumes daily ten thousand bushels of
coal, and their blast furnaces consume S..
900 bushels of coke. Coal has made this
the richest portion of the United States.
We have in Tennessee the coal to make us
as rich, and in iron we are far ahead of
Pennsylvania. The statement of startl-
ing fact sometimes sets people to thinking.
The coal dug in Pennsylvania last year
would make train of cars, allowing 10
tons to the car go feet long, which would
reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific
ocean; and the coal dug in England in the
year 1872, would make a train of cars
which would go twice around the word
and have 100000 tons not shipped for
want of cars. A. S. CoLYER.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

THE attempt of Charles Francis Adams
to give to Mr.. Seward two much credit for
the success of Mr.. Lincoln's administration
meets with the criticism we anticipated.
Mr.. Dana, of the New York Sun, at one
time Assistant to Mr.. Stanton in the War
Department, says in reference to this part
of the oration:
No doubt the Secretary of State had his
full share in the transactions of that time
He was much consulted by the President.
who was fond of his conversation and his
society but the truth Island this we say
not from reading, information or inference,
but from personal acknowledgement man was
ever more entirely the master of his own
affairs or of his own conduct than Presi-
dent Lincoln of the executive power of
this Government. He was on friendly
terms with all the members of his Cabinet,
and gave them due latitude in the discharge
of their proper duties but when any one
had to yield his opinion it was the Secre-
tary and not the President and his judg-
ment and his orders had to be followed in
every one of their departments. There
were of course, occasional differences be-
tween him anGahem but there never was
a day when he would not have immediate
ly accepted the resignation of any one of
them had 1t been offered, and there never
was day when any one of them was reso-
Lutte enough to make his resignation the
alternative of the rejection of his advice
This we say not to lessen the Just glory of
Mr.. Seward, or any of his colleagues, but
to state the exact truth and do Justice to
Abraham Lincoln.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

II is not remarkable that Mr.. Adams
should find himself running counter to
public opinion in his comparison between
Lincoln and Seward. 1t would be hard to
say in the light of history that Mr..
Stewards management of the State Depart
ment was not one of the strongest features
of Lincoln's administration, but to
point to any one event of that ADJ
ministration-such as the Trent affair
as its saving act will not do. Mr.. Lincoln
and the country owes full as much, and
many will say more, to Mr.. Stanton as to
Mr.. Seward. But behind the great learn
ing, caution and diplomacy of Seward and
the untiring energy, great foresight and
strong will of Stanton, the country saw
the stout heart, strong common sense and
great tact of honest old Abe and it was his
strong hold upon the common people of
the country backed by the ability and pa
triotism of the cabinet that carried the Adj
ministration through.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

a NEW company has been organized in
New York with capital of five millions
of dollars for the purpose of carrying on
the LiUery business. Their vehicles run on
iron roads by steam and at a lightning
speed. They have for hire as shown by
theirreport, IS locomotives, So, 1stclass and
Is I'd class passenger coaches, % baggage
and ?, 1856 freightca cars. They rent these cars
and engines to railroads and their business
is profitable and growing. Gen. Geo. b.
Mcclellan is President of the company.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

THE Nashville papers are very enter
prislng, but they will get their geography
badly mixed Thus the Banner locat-
ed the German riots over the price of
beer at Frankfort, kentucky, instead of
in Fatherland. The old granny of the
Union and american, after hours hard
study, concluded to be safe and published
the dispatch 50 that the reader might locate
it in Kentucky or Germany, as best suited
him. On the whole, we most admire the
conservative course of the old granny 1t
is a safe old organ, always to be relied on,
sticks close to presidents and old land
marks and it evidently didn't propose 10
be caught on mere question Of geography.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

A PATIENT German student has found
out that the right of trial by jury, for gen.
erations supposed to have come down to
us, as first granted to the Anglo-Saxons,
is, in fact, of Norman-French origin. So
the orators at the bar must take heed, lest,
in their perorations hereafter, they fail to
change this part of them. Some of the
intelligent jury " might otherwise think
them as deficient in legal as historical
knowledge.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

THE frequent reports we are called upon
TO make of brutal murders, cutting scrapes
and drunken brawls, should serve to
arouse the public to the fact that prompt
and severe punishment of offenders is
needed. Let our Courts wake up and en-
force the laws. A few hangings in Ten
nessee would have a good moral effect
The carrying of knives and pistols must
be prevented. Enforce the laws and
crimewill decrease.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

THE organs will have another fine
chance to howl. President Grant, while
in st. Louis, took occasion to visit his farm
and take look at his fine stock. The
Union and american will please take no.
tice. 1t should not miss such an opportu-
nifty to write a two column leader on the
dangers of Capitalization and the bad char
acter of the President.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

THE Cincinnati Gazette contains this adj
ditional proof of the Generalization of the
Nashville press. Their photography is as
bad as their geography:
The Nashville Banner credits the Gazette
with "oracular intdlibiity." Our cOntem-
porary doubtless intends to be courteous,
but we must decline all compliments that
are not correctly spelled.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

A SPECIAL to the New York Times says
Gen. Butler recently announced to friend
that he was squarely on the track for the
Governorship of Massachusetts,, and that
he should not only be nominated, but also
elected.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

SINCE the editor of the Union and liner
lean wrote biographical sketches of the
Legislators, and didn't get to be Comp
troller either, he is worse than snake in
dog days. He strikes blindly all around,
and doesn't appear happy. The approach
of warm weather must prove a source of
solicitude to his neighbors. II is bad
enough in cold weather. Better keep him
well sailed. Disinfectants are recommend
eli
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

A PARTY of gentlemen few days ago
discovered amid heap Of the ruins of the
Chicago fire of eighteen months ago pile
of glowing Goals burning yet,a remnant of
the great conflagration. They roasted a
few potatoes by the fire and took Il lunch
to make the fact a memorable one in their
experience. .f. ...# rr.r
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

WE would be gladt to have the friends of
the CHRONICLE throughout East Tennes-
see send us short letters giving us the local
news, crop prospects &C., in their localities.
Brief pointed communications are always
gratefully accepted.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

A CONVENTION of prominent railroad
men will be held at Augusta, on the 18th
of next month, looking to direct competing
line of railroads between the Northwest
and Southeast. -
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

WE regret to notice the death of Mrs.
Purvis, the wife of one of the publishers
of the Nashville Banper. She is referred
to as lady of unusual beauty and noble
character. .- ..t......... .. H-..
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

THE men who lead in reforms must ex-
pect to meet with the opposition of drones
and old fogies. But they generally live
long enough to see their progressive senti-
ments endorsed by the substantial, wide
awake citizens about them. We see in a
Granger county letter to our cortempora-
~, that the worthy representative from
that county, Mr.. Tate, is threatened with
defeat, should he hereafter come before the
people for office, because he favored new
road law. Now we trust for the sake of
the general reputation of his constituents
that this threat comes only from a few old
drones. We have not yet heard from a
progressive citizen any complaint at the
CHRONICLE for advocating better road
law, but on the contrary our efforts have
been approved by the best men in East
Tennessee-men upon whom the new road
tax will fall heaviest, Time will vindcate
the votes of all Representatives and Sena-
tors who saw the necessity for reform in
this direction. We could suggest some i'm
provements in the new law but every
one familiar with the procedure of legis-
lative bodies will realize the impossibility
of securing perfection in the first law of
such a character. The great want of bet
ter roads is now fully appreciated. Our
miserable public highways have been a
great drawback to the State, and all good
citizens will endorse those public servants
who have endeavored in good faith
to remedy the evil. The sentiment
in favor of better roads will grow as
rapidly as the public sentiment has on the
school question. When the CHRONICLE
in its first, and almost every subsequent
issue, agitated the school question we
were told by the old fogies that it would
papers then opposed to the great cause,
Foremost in claiming honor for its present
popularity. So it will likely be with the
road law.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

McNELLEY of the Cleveland Bdnncr,
hungry perhaps. At any rate he is grow
ing desperate and threatens his non-pay-
ing subscribers with the Modocs.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

THE Press and Herald re-published on
Sunday the extravagant assertion of some
irresponsible Washington scribbler, that,
while the South pays more taxes into the
national treasury than the North, only
from fifty to one hundred thousand dollars
was appropriated by Congress to public
buildings in the South whereas millions
are to be expended in the North
Now every sensible reader knows
the statement to be false, and the
Press and Herald ought to have known
it also. Within sight of its editorial rooms
is a magnificent marble structure being
erected by the Government. The las:
Congress appropriated Sl6G, 900 to complete
the building and yet our contemporary
tells its readers that in all the South the
appropriations made are but from $4,000
to 100000. Nashville has an APP
preparation for Sl50,000 for Gov
eminent building, and Memphis has
still larger one. So while in
Tennessee alone over a half million dol
lars have been thus appropriated, paper
published in the State, tries TO mislead its
readers by re-publishing false statements,
and all to encourage a miserable, sectional
prejudice. Such stuff is relaIled out to
readers in all parts of the south and IA feel
ing thereby encouraged that for the past
ten years has filled our land with blood
and anguish. Is it not about time such
falsehoods were suppressed by papers pro-
Tossing to have the happiness and pros
Gritty of the whole country at heart
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

IT has been noted that President Lin
coin and General Candy, who were very
intimate friends, were both assassinated
on Good Friday.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

THE New York Graphic thinks the eff
fort to reorganize the Democratic party is
heroic but it is the heroism of despair.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-30

A WASHINGTON correspondent of the
Courier-JoTnaI says she has seen letter
from Walter Scott, and that he spelled
Tuesday Teusday and society scosclety, :"
and, therefore, she concludes that, under
the system Of competitive examinations
lie would not have been eligible to O Fed
eral office
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-06-16
IntoIernbIa Mennnean.

The back-pay grab, which we hoped to see ben
eft the Hampton Normal School through the
awakening of the conscience of the Hen. Mr.
Platt has been surpassed in meanness if not in
magnitude, as we learn through the Washington
correspondent OF the New York Times. From
him we learn that the "Medical and Surgical His
tory of tha War" has been made the subject of
traffic by many honorable members OF Congress-
to each one Of whom nine copies were allowed.
The object in printing this costly work was to In
form the physicians and surgeons of the country
in regard TO the results arrived at during our un-
happy war, aud the distribution TO Senators aud
members was made in the expectation that they
would send them to the most prominent medical
men in their respective districts. But many OF
those thrifty gentlemen who live aL the public
crib showed themselves ready not only to MUNICH
all the available corn, but to masticate the crib
also
In evidence of this the letter writer already re-
ferred to tells US that these rare and valuable
books "found their way into the hands of dealsri
in secondhand books aud document brokers
and at one time they were selling for 80 and $l(
sat The price has since Increased somewhat
but there arc still sets to be had at a very mode
rate price compared with the cost to the Govern
ment. There is no doubt that several member
sold their sets outright, or allowed persons con
nected with or dependent upon them to max
the sales and pocket the prices"
These people must be kin to the fellows VIII
used to send their clothes home to be washed il
the United States mail and should be hauled owe
the Goals by the Press and their constituents 70
their intolerablc meanness.-NoyfoK ViTginiar
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-06-16
wIImlngton Industrlea.

From the American Manufacturer. Pittsburg.
The plate mills of Messrs. Seidel II Hastings,
Wilmington Del, have a capacity of from 5000 to
4, 500 tons per annum, large portion of the pro-
duct being used for ship building. The
steam engine which drives the rolls of their
mills has been in constant for tha psst twenty
five years.
The Harlan and Hollingsworth Company,
Wilmington, Del, although more largely engaged
in ship-building still employs from 25O to 800
men 10 construction OF Railroad cars, condning
themselves for several years past exclusively to
passenger cars, including Puman coaches. Cars
were built here as early as 1886, and steamboats,
in lsiS. They employ at present about l.OOO
men. Their vessels, which are all of iron, range
from ordinary coal barges to ships OF 5000 tons
burden, of which they built altogether about 'one
hundred and fifty, mestly ranging from 1900 tons
upward.
Messrs z. Il A Belts, OF Wilmington, Del, art
engaged in the manufaetuFe of maehInists' tools.
Among the many lahor-saving tools made bJ
them may be noted lathes, planers, shapers, Dor
ing and turning mills, horizontal and FadIea
drills the latter being made in large numbers ant
OF great weight and superior workmanship. Du
ring the last year they built two Of their larges
planners, one Tor the Philadslpbla and Reading
railroad, and the other the Scott foundry il
Reading, Pa, which plane 10 feet wide, 10 fee
high, and over 20 feet long, and weighed Abop
10000 pounds eaeh.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-06-16
How the Case stands.

The repndistion ofthe carpet-bag State debt |
IS agitated in North Ca.oliua, and it would not
be surprising il similar question was raised in
all OF the Southern Stat which have been sub
jected to carpet bag rule While repudiation of
Just debts, or any breach of faith on the part Of
State ora nation, is not only most dishOnOrable,
bat generally disastrous to lis citizens, it ia a
question for arguLIent whether there would be
any breach Of faith in repudiating debt like
that which HOLDEN saddled upon North Caro-
lima, or that with which South Carolina was
burdened under SCorT. Of the methods Of
creating debt in the latter State Assistant
Secretary SAWYER, one cf the few honest men
sent to the Senate from the South soon after the
clo7e OF the war, has freely and openly stated
that the State officers would buy the passage Of
bill by the Legislature of such an infamous
character that even corruptcarpet bag Governor
dare not sign it. The lattez would then veto il,
and aiterward purchase its passage over his veto
by the Ignorant blacks who composed majority
OF the Legislature, and who neither compre
hended the nature Of the bill they were passing
nor had any characters to lose.
Were the parties who knowingly accepted
bonds issued by such means innocent purchasers
Did they not connive with the carpet bag StatG
oticers to rob the states, and did they not COZ
tribute considerable portion of their i'll gOiteT
gains toward maintaining the same style o
robbing rascals in power?. Even if the .presen
holders Of these Statebonds are innocent parties
ought they not FIST to call upon those from
whom they Obtained thCm, and who are moral,
in the position OF endorseFs?
: Did the people of the Southern states eve
authorize the contraction Of these debts2 Wer
they not contracted by dishonest men from othe
states, who were forced as rulers upon them b
Federal bayoneta, and sustained in authority b
the same military power? Under a republics
Government can people be bound by the aei
: of officers whom they had no voice in electini
. and whose ac'' they denounced as robberies I
the time?
> These questions are not mere conundrum
but are worthy of the serious consideration
a the people everywhere.