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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13
Fifty Thousand victims OF the Flood.

1t is estimated by the Distributing Com
mittee, which holds its sessions daily on
Carondelet street, that there are fifty thou
sand persons in this State who have been
made homeless and foodless by the inun.
dation of this State.
That this is no exaggeration is shown by.
the amount of ration which are being dis
tributed. AT least forty thousand per-day
are dispatched to the various agencies, and
these do not meet the demand. Yesterday
there were acquisitions for 10000 rations
fromtwo. localities in the Ouachitta Valley,
The Purchasing and Distributing Commit
tee are kept busily at work from 8 till 8
every day, and still the labor and demand
grow upon them. The liberal donations
received from various quarters of the
country will be judiciously and faithfully
applied. Thus far we believe that the
money donations reach about $50, OOO
Besides these there are large amounts of
provisions, which are promptly forwarded.
These timely and generous contributions
will tend greatly to alleviate the condition
Of many, but it is not reasonable to expect
that all of the suffering which has resulted
from so wide spread disaster will be re
lieved from these sOurces.-NeW Orleans
PicdUtl7lc, MAJ ..
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13
That Oldest Inhabitant.

The Athens Post says: Mr. Chrlsly la.
ker, of this county, is now in his l06th
year, and is believed to be the oldest man
in East Tennessee. Though feeble and
frail, he is still able to get about, and reads
without the aid Of glasses. There are two
other citizens in the ueighborhood aged 81
and 9S respectively.
The same paper says Reports from the
wheat fields Of McMiun continue favora-
bic, except along the bottoms where it has
suffered from iuundatiou The damage in
the county from this cause will not fall
much, i any, below : 900 bushels Much
Of the wheat is already heading out, and
from present appearances harvesting will
commence at least ten days earlier than
usual
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

THE zeal with which the Press and
Herald rushes to the defense of the Public
Schools of the State, to save them from an
imaginary danger, is refreshing. The
friends of free schools remember very well
that it was but a few years ago that we
were trying to "smoke it out " on this
school question. All during an exciting
municipal canvass, when the issue was
"public schools or "no public SCHOOLS, -
it could not be forced to commit itself in
their favor. Now, when there is no
issue, it rushes about like mad bull
in china shop stirring up prejudices and
bad blood, when every sensible man
knows there is no need for it. There are
parcel of demagogues in the State enjoy
ing fat places under the Brown Burch adj
ministration, who, have been uneasy for
fear they would have to go to work to earn
an honest living and who are now making
the speeches of the late Colored Conven-
ton raw-head and bloody-bones, with
which to divert the attention of the peo-
pie from the rascslities of their corrupt
and imbecile State Administration. But
they will find it won't work.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13
The Maynard Free Banking Bill.

A Washington Dispatch of the 9th
INST. says: 1.-The Senate Finance Com
mittee to-day took further action on the
House currency bill, and by a majority
vote agreed TO recommend the incOrpora-
ton in il of the following provisions:
The maximum greenback circulation il
to be SSS2r0O0,O COO new National bank
notes are TO be issued to the amount of
Sl64, 900, 900, provided that for each million
of such notes issued, there shall be $780,
600 greenbacks retired. until the total
greenback circulation shall have been re-
duced TO $500, 100000. The committee
voted to fix January i, 1877, as the date at
which specie payment should be resumed,
but did not reach conclusion as to what
system should be employed for that pur-
pose, whether of interchangeable bonds,
or by means ofaDy other plan proposed. ="
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

THE Jonesboro' Herald and Tribune
has supported the farmers movement in
Washington county. But few days ago
the Changers, or farmers clubs, called a
county convention to nominate county
officers. Thereupon the Herald and Iri-
Gure says:
1--WE are we'll aware that there are many
good and true men who have joined the
farmers movement from the purest of mo-
tives and without any intention of max
ing it a political organization. We have
received many assurances from them that
they have no sympathy with the move
ment inaugurated on Monday last. 1t is
to these men and to such as these that we
make this appeal. We expect nothing
from the political demagegues who are at
tempting TO make this farmers movement
a stepping stone to political power. These
men we believe to be honest, and we call
upon them to so manage the organizations
that politics may be entirely excluded, and
that the legitimate objects of the move
ment may be carried OUT
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

THE proceedings in the General Con-
ference ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, at Louisville, on Friday last, were
of the most intensely interesting charac-
ter. 1t was the day agreed upon for the
reception of the Commissioners, bearing
fraternal greetings from the Methodist
Episcopal Church to the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South. They are Rev. DR..
Hunter, of New York, Rev. c. II. Fowler,
d. D., of Illinois, and General Clinton b.
Fisk, of st. Louis.
Each one of these gentlemen, upon being
introduced, made addresses upon the char
acter of their mission, full of burning elo.
quence, and which were received with
applause. Their reception so far has been
all that could have been expected and their
visit will doubtless result in good.
The Conference on Saturday appointed
a committee to formally reply to this Com.
mission, consisting of the following gen.
tlemen:
A. M. Wilson, of the Baltimore Confer.
ence l.. Parker, of Louisiana; A. l.. p
Green, of Tennessee; G. w. Miller, Of
Kentucky; r. i. Alexander, of Texas r.
w. Jones, Holston ID. w. +. Smith, Nir'
ginia; John l.. Deyampert, Little Rock
ID. l.. Pittman, Missouri, with the request
that DIR. Lovick Pierce act with the com
mittee, if his health permit.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

First fruits of the inflammatory speeches
in the Negro State MISREPRESENTATION
of the free school fund from five cents to
one mill, by the County Court OF Maury
county.-C6lun,Jia Herald.
There, that is what we call Democratic
craftsmanship. How quick those hoary-
headed old Bourbons are TO give the " mig
GER a kick! That will settle the civil
rights bill, of course! But what about the
poor white children turned out of school
to grow up in ignorance? Well, of course
that's bad, but it is all the fault of those
"niggers at Nashville, If they had not
made those speeches the poor white chill
dren of NIaury county would still be
going to school. The very tdlk of
mixed schools reused those old
Bourbons so that they locked the school
house doors, and swore that nobody should
be educated. They couldn't wait until the
issue was forced upon them by law, which
might never come, but the very suggestion
was enough.
Suppose the Board of Education of Knox
vile should close the schools, or the City
Council refuse to vote a school tax, because
the smallpox is in Chattanooga, what
would the people say? Wouldn't they
suggest to them to wait until the danger
was at hand? And yet the latter course
would be even more sensible than that of
the Maury County Court The civil rights
bill may never become law. Is that wise
court going to keep its schools closed and
allow children toIgrow up ignorant for fear
the law aoW pass? Or was the order passed
for political effect to aid the close corpor-
alton" at Nashville in working up race
preiudices for the August and November
elections?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13
LABOR REFORM CONVENTION.
~ Resolves 20 Vote for no Higher Tax
Than Twenty Cents.

The following additional resolutions.
adopted by the WOrkingmen, in their
State Convention Tuesday, are all that has
been furnished the press for publication :
ResoIred, That we will support no man
for Governor or member of either house
of the General Assembly of the State,
who is in favor of continuing the system
of farming out of convicts as laborers.
Resolved, That the right of the Govern
ment to control railroads should, in the
language of the farmers of Illinois, "Be
sustained and enforced" And also in the
language of the Illinois farmers it is
ReSotUod, That the past record of the old
political parties of the country is such as
to forfeit the confidence and respect of the
people, and that we are therefore absolved
from all allegiance to them, and will no
longer act with them.
Resolved, That the charge made in re-
spect to the sale and purchase of the Office
of Comptroller demands a full, free and
impartial investigation.
WHEREAS, We view the passage by the
last Legislature of what is known as the
Funding act,n the work of corruption
and fraud, an utter disregard of the rights
and interests of the workingman and pro-
ducing classes of Tennessee; alike unjust,
corrupt and fraudulent; a scheme of rob-
berry, conceived in "a spirit of oppres-
SlNb SDtCuidllOli, anu vain lillO tAlSl-
ence by the combined influence of a
bribery and treachery which the people OF
the State can not, should not, and will not
submit to. Therefore,
ReSolUcd, That we are opposed to any
| further grants of public lands or loans OIL
the public credit, National, Safe or local
subscription in aid of corporations.
Resolved, That we will support no man
| for any office in this State, who is in favor
of a State tax exceeding twenty cents on 8
| hundred dollars.
Resolved, That we are in favor of re-
duction of the fees, salaries and perquisite'
of officials as a means of relieving the bur
dens imposed upon the people, and to pre-
vent corrupt men from seeking office fol
| the spoils.
Resolved, That all districts not yet sup
piled with rituals and instructions be no.
titled that they can obtain the samt
| by sending to the Grand Marshal, Henry
| Adderholt, at Collinsville, Tennessee, O
to the Grand Secretary, care of b. +. G
Brooks, editor Independent IVorkingnlaR
Nashville, Tenn.
The convention, yesterday, after fiv,
ballots for a candidate for Governor, ad
iourned to meet again in the city on tn
4th of July, at which time a candidate 70
| Governor will be selected.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

THE Memphis correspondent of the Ban
ner is right. Ever and anon the question
comes up, "Who is Hobbs" No, not
exactly that either, but, "What did Hobbs
do?" These are troublesome questions to
some people. There are aspiring men in
our State who would have the Hobbs ques-
ton forgotten, but it does not "down" at
their bidding. 1t comes up at the most
inconvenient seasons. Make the Guberna-
torial contest just as short as you can, and
avoid stump-speaking altogether, and
yet the Hobbs transaction will be talked
about. That twelve thousand dollar iot
looks queer to taxpayers, and they feel
interested in knowing more about it.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13
County sup't. Of Granger count.

General Sherman is credited with say
ing that there is foundation for the report
that it is in contemplation to remove the
army headquarters from Washington 20
st. Louis. General Sherman says that he
always preferred st. Louis as u place OF
residence. The change will not probably,
however, be made for some time.
A Washington special TO the Courier
Journal says; "1'here is authority for
stating that Hon. Edwin @. Morgan, OF
New York, has been telegraphed TO come
here, and IL is supposed by some knowing
ones that he can have the Secretaryship OF
the Treasury Department il he will ac,
oept 1t. There is difficulty in the way
that New York has already a Cabinet APP
pointment.n
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

NEWSPAPERS conductors are leader Of
opinions, expOnt MS of thought, teachers
OF the puollc mind. Ia a crisls, they are
expected to declare he u-eIv g, take side =
and maintain their p, ut Ons by argument.
Pres and Herald.
If We ever bad any aspirations to I'll
the above ideal Of "a ne~spsper, which the
Press and Htrad puts forth, We should be
deterrtd by its own experience 1t has
furRished & me striking evid noes Of how
in crisis " Il paper "shou d take sides, y
and then-not " maintain their positions
by Argument but Eat their own words
like c"vsd curs Tho old adage never
jump fence until Gu Ret Ia il " /, God
one, and il our neigipb' wo o'oe We it
its friend- might b. srrd N umilia-
iiAg evidences Of c VIZ 'cc.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

THE Union and american, in an editoria
of more than a column, reviewing An
drew Johnson's financial views, contains
a paragraph holding the Republican party
responsible for the large debt contracted
previous to Mr.. Johnson's administration
Does it seriously mean this? VIII the
Union and american openly make that
issue? Does that journal, as the central
organ of Tennessee Democracy, desire to
preaching campaign2
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

THE Athens Post does not agree with
the Press and Herald, in its proposition
that Gubernatorial candidates should no
canvass the State. 1t says:
The Democracy have had control of the
State for the past four years serious
istration, and for one we want to see the m
met and boldly and thoroughly discussed
before the people. If the policy of the par
ty has been hurtful, we want the masses
to be shown wherein that they may apply
the corrective. Power is always stealing
from the many to the few; but we hardly
think the people, who constitute the COM
mOnwealth are yet prepared to abandon
all interest and concern in State affairs,
and commit them to the custody of a half
dozen politicians of either party at Nash
vile, Memphis and Knoxville.
The editor of the Post will be looked
upon by those who are behind the curtains
in the party as an unsophisticated old man,
too honest to live long. The idea of going
before the people and discussing the sale of
offices for twelve thousand dollars; defend
ing our Ubiquitous assessment law answer
ing for the "rings" that have sprang up
and grown rich under the fostering charac-
ter of the present administration, is thing
90 preposterous to be entertained by q lat
ter-day Democrat. Men have been court
martialed and shot for less offenses against
the great party that is to save the country.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13
The civil Rights Biz y and the School,


EDITORS CHRONICLE: Perhaps it
is not necessary that an expression
should be had from the people, as
to whether they are ready and willing that
Congress should say, by actual law, that
the white race and the colored are socially
equal, but then again it may be. In either
case, however, the good people of Grain
ger county are not willing to be silent spec
tators of the conflict SO persistently urged
upon them, not only by the legislators
at the capital of the nation, but even
by the cOlored conventions, which have
called themselves together in some places
in the State.
II the colored people desire that the
coloTed children have the benefit of public
schools they would do well, and more than
well, to stop upon the threshold of the great
waste and miserable ruin into which their
vain desire is about to lead them. Under
the school law as it stands upon the statute
books of Tennessee to- day the colored peo-
pie have an equal benefit with the white
| race; but change that law, as the civil
rights men would do, and the necessary
| result would be, that no tax would be
| levied, no schools would he in existence,
| and more still would result. An absolute
| bitterness would spring up, bringing in its
| train all the evils that a strife of that ma
ture could engender. There is not Coun-
| ty Court in the State, we are persuaded,
anu We poSlIlNely hIOW lHal the maSlS-
trates here would emphatically refuse to
levy a tax for school purposes, and the
| people, without exception of party or color,
would say at the ballot box, "well
| DONE" The colored people here
| do not want their children placed
in the same school house with the white
children, even though it could be done.
They, as the white people, demand separ-
ate schools. They feel that social equality,
as contemplated by some, can never be.
They know that if they were to have the
law for mixed schools, that in reaching
forth their hands for that, they would
| grasp nothing
1t may sound well in theory, but the
thing wont harness. There is no govern
ment power on earth that can change the
| feeling of society, or render void the law
that nature has seen proper to make. Nc
| power of earth can cause the social equal.
ity of the races to be recognized And
whenever the barriers, that nature has
seen fit to build up, are attacked by the
| puny power of man, nature herself rises
in her omnipotence and stamps the impu-
dent offender with her seal of crushing
| shame
There are but two ways, and Congress
of course will select the one that seems &c
suit its interest, perhaps, ssand the colored
people may elect, They can have the law
or they can have the school. One or the
other can not be.
We do not write as politician, nor vel
as private person, but We write as thC
peoples officer, and expressing their open
ana declared intention, and we ask oul
representatives not to disregard our wishe
on the floors Of Congress.
J. n. GOLDMAN,
(OfInTN Stunt Of (fraiDper pouptAr
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

Mr.. james Miles, who lived and died in
Jonesville, Lee CO., Va, was twice mar
ried, ard was the father of "a children, %
boys aud two girls. Seven of his boys
wete killed while IN the Confederate ser
vice or his grandchildren 10 were kill
ed in She Confederate army aud oneiu the
Federal What family can beat this?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

AT the municipal election held in
Raleigh, n. c., on the 4th inst, Hon. Jos.
w. Holden, Republican and temperance
candidate for Mayor, was elected by three
hundred and twenty-six majority. The
question of prohibiting the sale of liquor
in the city was carried by majority of two
hundred votes. The temperance issue grows
in popularity.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

THE Democrats of Bedford county held
a convention last Monday, and nominated
full ticket for county officers.
The Democrats of Coffee county had a
meeting on Monday, at which a full ticket
for county officers was nominated, and a
choice expressed for Gen. Cheatham as "a
candidate for Governor.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

TIE onion and american says that the
costs to the State for criminal prosecutions
in Shelby county, for a single term COM
mencing with September, 1873, were ST.
9o5.60. The net revenues paid into the
State by that court for nine months pre-
vious, was only Sl7OG3. These figures look
pretty steep to country folks
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-13

THE "close corporation at Nasty lie
have been trying 10 dodge the question CT
taxes, funding, penitentiary rings, Gale Of
ComptroIlership, &C., &c, but Andy John
son says that's the question Of the day md
he PROPOSES 10 bead them toit
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-12-03
Remarkable Railroad Accident.

About 4 ?. NJ, November both, says
Q Baltimore dispatch, while the New
York accommodation and the Cache
River accommodation trains were pass
Ing over Swan creek, near tho Relay
House, on the Northern Central Rail-
road, nine miles from the city, tho
bridge suddenly gave way with q crash,
causing the tenders. baggage and smok-
ing cars to fall into the water. Tho
passenger cars Of each train remained
on terra frma and did no 60 over or
jump a rail. The trains had the ap-
pearancs OF suspended bridges over
deep water. The engines stood on top
Of the tenders and partly In the water.
The baggage cars on the opposite side
and smoking cans had the ann position
as the tenders, coupled to the rear car
on terra hrma and also overhanging the
water. This was the case with both
Trims. Several passengers were on
board. Ayoung farmer named Upton.
living near Cachol river. who vas on
board on a cunning expedition. was in
the baggage car whom tho crash came.
His gun exploded, the charge entering
his head and killing him instantly.
Geo. wesner, another passenger. had
one leg frightfully mangled and his alb
domen torn. The conductor OF the
northern train was hurt, and John Pur-
iy. engineer Of the southern train, was
badly bruised. Several other persons
were more or less injured. Bishop
0'Hara, OF Scranton. who was among
the passengers, has Just arrived here.
He had, with the other passengers, to
cross a temporary bridge OF broken cars
and planks on his way, and describes
the scene Of the wreck as awful. Wes-
nsr was brought to this city in a dying
condition.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-12-03
A Remarkable Adventure.


About Eve weeks ago n son OF DR.. W.
ii. Eldridge Of this district suddenly dis.
appeared, and wal not heard from until
last Saturday. The boy says that on
the evening OF October 10th, as he was
leaving the apothecary store on Bunker
Hill street, where no was employed, he
wa approached by q man who informed
him that q fire was raging in the vicin-
ity Of Chelsea bridge, and was asked to
60 down and see IL. Arriving at the
bridge no fire was to be seen. and when
Just on the point Of returning he was
seized around the neck by the man, who
choksd him until he became unconscious.
robbed him, and then threw him over
the railing into the waters Of the Mys-
tic. The chill which the plunge into
the river gave to his system restored him
so that he was able to attempt to save
himself. The tide was running out, and
he, being n skilful swimmer. kept from
drowning and fioated down the stream
until opposite East Boston, where a
friendly spar which was floating in the
water came near TO him, and gaining
this he hoated out to sea. He sub
sequsntly became unconscious, and
when he rallied again he was out OF
sight OF land. still clinging to the log.
After remaining in the water nineteen
hours he was rescued by n brig bound
for Greenland, and as he did not care to
visit that country he was placed on
board an English steamer. the name Of
which he states was tho Norman, and
carried to Liverpool. Ho improved the
first opportunity to return homo in the
steamer Smyrna, which arrived at this
port last Saturday .-Boston GLOBE, No.
RENDER 2lsf.