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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-12-30
NEW YORK.
Tilton Making Ready for Fizsle.

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-The writ of
habeas corpus in the case OF VIM. Nj.
Tweed was dismissed to-day by Judge
Barrett, and the prisoner remanded to
custody.
NEW YORK, Dec. %. -Beecher, in an
editorial in the Christian Union, de-
clares he will not compromise with his
enemies and will write and speak while
health lasts, He knows his own in
nocence; God knows 1t, and as to
mems knowledge that shall be as God
pleases.
Agents of the steamer South Caro-
lima are ashore on the Jersey coast.
They say that she has sustained little
injury and but a small part of the car
go has been thrown overheard.
LATER. The South Carolina is
making no water and If the weather
continues good there Is a fair prospect
of getting her off.
The steamship Leasing from Ham
burg has arrived.
The following dispatch was received
to-day by the directors of the Pacific
Mail Company in relation to the loss
of their steamer Japan at Hong Kong,
December %, 1874: "The chief cook
CuSsdCh, was uION htu' duu SiiSl httl
Bennett aud quartermasters Hutton
and Harris are missing.
New YORK, Dec. 26.-Tilton in a
card says he would not accept a
penny, but complains that the manner
in which cross suits are engineered
will not bring Beecher's guilt in ques>
ton.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-Gerret Smith
j. dying of appoplexy.
Later-Gerret smith is sinking, but
still alive.
Gerrett Smith is dead.
Rev. Mr. Glendening declines to
preach until his appeal from the Press
bytery is heard by the Synod.
The committee investigating the dis
bursement of three quarters of a mill
ion dollars is in session. 1t is suppos-
ed q person named King, said to be a
postmaster in the House of Represen~
tatives, drew a check payable to the
bearer for $4,000 The bearer of the
check refused to give his name but
was Swallowed.
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TEE WEEKLY CHRONICLE publishes
IN erery issue facts about he soil, climate, pro-
auctions, price Of lands, and advantages offered
70 Immigrants in East Tennessee. These drti-
cIsS are intended 10 afford reliable Information
to strangers, and are prepared carefully, and
oford The cheapest and most reliable in}ormd-
ION obtaindble. Specimen copies Of The paper
sent on opplication. For terms see third page.
70 CORRESPONDENCE desire ae,rs
rom all parts Of East Tennessee. Short and
pointed letters, full Of NEWS, are especially de-
Ss-dbie. But as tre cannot gire to each locality
U TO each euent the space or prominence they
sometimes merit, pe beg our correspondents to
bc brief Write whdt you rant in a fer words.
.5Ach communications dlIDdys are acceptable.
We cannot fnd time TO re-tcrite long communi-
cations. To condense them is often impossible
in The hurry o. our cork. Be Shorthand spicy.
That is the secret Of success in newspaper
,giting.
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sitting the voice of the people has
never been meditated.
(Signed), JOHN MCENERY.
AUGUSTA, GA, Dec. 2S.-Two men
were killed at Columbus.
NJ. w. Murphey, Chief of Police,
while attempting TO arrest some drunk
bama, was MORALLY wounded. Milford
Bayley, one of the desperadoes, who
attacked the police, died Sunday
morning. The friends of the assaii.
ants having threatened to break open
the Jail and rescue Benagley. The out
ragged citizens determined to deal sum.
marily with the surviving murderer.
The Sheriff called on the military for
assistance. They responded, remain
ing on duty all sunday night, thus
preserving the peace.
Marshal Murphey was buried Sun
day afternoon. Six thousand people
attended his funeral.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2S.-Eighty
carriages andahundred persons on foot
followed Byerley to the grave.
MONTGOMERY, Dec. 2S.-Two fires,
supposed to be the work of an incendi.
airy occurred here.
The negroes are contracting with the
planters for next year. There is less
talk about going West.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2S.-Sheridan, who
is still here, yesterday informed an in
terviewer that he had no instructions
about Louisiana. The story of his de-
parture for New Orleans is unfounded.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 2S.-James Webb,
director of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, is dead. Aged so years.
Boston, Dec. 2S.-Geo. w. Daring
& Co. were robbed of $4,000 worth
of watches, diamonds and other stock.
ROME, GA, Dec. 2S.-Col. Eugene
Lehardy, well known throughout the
country as prominent civil engineer
and railroad man, who spent many
years Of his life in efforts to build up
the South and draw the attention OF
Northern and European capitalists tc
this section, died here yesterday. His
loss is universally deplored.
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George d. Prentice and Mike walsh.

Prentice notwithstanding hi, tumultuous
career, his violent controversies, and bitter
quarrels, was generous and forgiving, if not
amiable. Shamcfully and persistently sian
dered-he admitted that he had faults
enough to render malignant invention su-
pernuous-he was ever ready to meet his
enemies halfway in reconciliation, and he
rarely remembered injuries where there was
any disposition toward atonement.
The noted Mike Walsh and himself had
had fierce newspaper bouts, but had never
seen each other until they met one day in
Washington. .r
Walsh, ewing him, approached and said,
" y GU are George u. Prentice, believe. -
The LOUISVILLE editor responding in the
affirmative the SitGterTdnedn scribe con
tinued, You've skinned me like an eel,
Prentice; but you did it so well that don t
particularly object to it. You're a man OF
genius and a good fellow, and want to say
that | admire and like you
The Manhattan agrarisn offered his hand,
and the biOgrapher of Clay cordially Shoes
it, with the remark, " l think well have to
toss up, Walsh, to determine which OF us is
the eel. '-JuniuS Henri BrOl0Re, in
Hdrper'S Magazine for January.
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what n single Ballot Accomplished.

In 1880, Dan Stone of Cincinnati was
candidate for the State Legislature. Walk
ing up Main street ON the morning of cleo
tiou, he overlook an acquaintance going to
the polls, who intended to vote the opposi-
ton ticket: Stone solicited this vote. ave
are old friends, said he, land know you
will show a friend that mark of kindness.
Party spirit was then comparatively quiet.
The voter replied. "Well, Dan, you are T.
clever fellow, don't care if do The vote
elected Stone, aud gave a majority Of onein
the Legislature which made Thos. Ewing
United States Senator. Mr.. Ewing's vote
on the question of confirming Martin Van
Buren, as Minister Plenipotentiary to Grea.
Britain enabled the Vice President to give
the casting vote against it, and called M.
Van Buren, first Vice President and then
President, and determined the general po-
litical policy of the country for four year.
One vote accomplished all this.-Ohio
State journal.
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To the young men annually making
their entrance upon active life, with
great ambitions, conscious capacities
and high hopes, the prospect is, in
ninety~nine cases in q hundred, most
perpleXing. They see every avenue TO
prosperity thronged with their supe-
riors In experience, In social advant-
ages, and in the possession of all the
elements and conditions of success.
Every post is occupied, every office
filled, every path crowded. Where
shall they find room?
Ii is related of Mr.. Webster that
when a young lawyer suggested to
him that the profession to which he
had devoted himself was crowded, the
great man replied: Young man.
there is always room ut the top"
Never was wiser or more. suggestive
word said. There undoubtedly is al
ways room enough where excellence
lives. Mr.. Webster was not troubled
for lack of room. Mr.. Clay and Mr.
Calhoun were never crowded. Mr.
Evarts, Mr.. Cushing, and Mr.. O'Couor
have plenty of space around them. Mr..
Beecher, DIR. Storrs, Dr. Hall, Mr..
Phillips Brooks would never know, in
their personal experience, that it was
hard to obtain desirable ministerial
charge. The profession is not crowd
ed where they are. DIR. Brown-Se-
guard, DR.. Willard Parker, DIR. Ham~
mond, are not troubled for space for
/ their elbows. When Nelaton died in
| Paris, he died like Moses on noun
| tain. When Won Graefe died in Ber-
lin, he had no neighbor at his altitude.
DR.. Holland in January Scridner.
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Charles Summers Eternal Creditor.

Webster financial notions were always
loose. The rights Of property were some
thing which his mind, with all its capacity,
did not take in. When he was quite young,
and diligently practicing law in Boston,
Charles Sumner and himself were engaged
by the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts to
defend a suit that had been brought against
it. They were allowed $1,000 each for their
services. A few days latter Webster enter
ed Summers Office and said "Sumner,
Pm going over to the State House to draw
my 1000, and I'll draw yours, too, if you
like, to save you the trouble Of going
there
Sumner thanked him kindly; but having
some understanding of his legal brothers
peculiarities, remarked that he did not care
for the money Just then, and would prefer
to let it lie.
Daniel rather insisted on getting it, and
Charles equally insisted that he should let
it alone. Al last the former said; ooh,
well, do as you choose, aud went out.
Webster went to the State-house, drew Sum
ner's as well as his own money, kept it, and
never mentioned the circumstance to his
late colleague. As may be imagined, the
famous expounder never discharged the
debt-in truth, Sumner never tried to col
lect it. He knew that once having got it,
possession, especially with Webster, was
nine points Of the law-ifno. -'vcral points
besides
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TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY
HONE.

PHILADELPHIA, December 22.-The
BoaId of Trade passed resolution
looking to the restraint of everybody
from inquisitorisl and unreasonable
searches into the private affairs of
commercial firms running or manu>
featuring, or other business men, upon
any pretense whatever.
TRENTON, n. j., Dec. 22.-Three
children were drowned here by ven
turing on the thin ice.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 2:.-Gen. Finch
Tilghman is dead, aged 90. He gradu-
ated at West Point in class thirty
three.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 22.-J. b. Laird's
saw mill boiler exploded, killing 10
and wOunding 20.
BOSTON, Dec. 22.-Tbe courtesies of
the city were rendered King Kala-
kama.
WATERTowN, MASS. Dec. o.
Blodgets Metallic Art Works has been
burned. Loss $4,000.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.-The child
drowned, supposed to be Charlie Ross,
proves to have been hardly two years
old.
MINIATURES, Dec. 23.-Only six
]
! plOsion in Shawanaw county.
MOBILE, Dec. ga fatal duel was
( fought to-day near the line of Ala
hama aud Mississippi, between A. II
/ Tardy and Il. ID. Lay, of Mobile, Ala
/ Tardy was killed by the first fire
Both are insurance men, and the par
/ ticulars of the difficulty are unknown
| MEMPHIS, Dec. 23.-Last week VIM
/ Kingsbury, John Ivey, Van Hatfield
/ Henry Wood, Carey Young and Vim
cent Pattie, all colored, were arrested
/ at West Point, Miss, for the system.
attic robbery of freight cars on the Mo
/ bile and Ohio railroad. All of then
are prominent colOred men, Pattie be
| ing county treasurer and Ivey aH al
derman. They have been operating
/ for long time and it is supposed thai
their rObberies amount to several thou
sand dollars.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2G.-In figh
to-day between Dan. G. Byerley
manager of the Bulletin, and eX-Gov
ernor Warmoth, on Canal street
Byerley Knocked WarmOth down will
a stick and jumped on him, wher
Warmoth, drawing his knife, stabbed
Byerley several times in the abdomen
The wounds are dangerous. War
moth was arrested.
Two negroes were killed in a row
In another row two soldiers wer,
wounded severely.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Governo
McEnery, in a dispatch dated 25th, t
the Herald, says: "The wrong jus
perpetrated by the Returning Boar
against the people of Louisiana, ant
which vitality threatens the safety ant
integrity of Republican institution
in the United States, is a more crown
, ing infamy than the action of tn
Lynch Returning Board-surpasse
even the midnight order of Durrell
and would not be submitted to by an.
, free people. Resistance to the nation
al authority represented here, by
large portion of the army and nava
fleet sustaining a usurpation an
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Alabama consists of Coburn, Albright,
Cannon, Buekner and Luttrell.
The Virginia State Senator Gorham,
whom Mr.. Ordway wants in the
Stowell case Involving rascality in the
navy cadetship business, Is still non est.
Rev. James Walker, formerly Presi-
dent of Harvard College, is dead He
was eighty years of age.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-Congress-
man Crocker, of the Tenth Massachu
sets District, is dead. He was 10 years
of age.
Bristow has ordered the Solicitor OF
the Treasury to bring prompt action
against the bondsmen of defaulting of
ficers
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Payments of IOrlgnges.
New York Graphic.

One effect Of the Presidents message and
the report Of the Secretary Of the Treasury
recommending measures for a return to
specie payments has been to hasten the
liquidation of mortgages. Persons who have
mortgages on their property argue that II
is better TO pay them now in deprecated
currency than to pay them later in gold, Il
day is really fixed for resumption we shall
find that general revival of business viii
Immediately follow, since the desire TO ge
rid of depreciating greenbseks will be uni
versal,
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DIR. TutI's Celebrated ENpectOrant-
How Ii Acts.

First it detAehes from tho bronchial Or
wind tubes the mucus or matter which some,
times adheres to them with the tenacity OF
glue. Secondly, 1t mitigates the pain and
removes the construction Of the bronchial
tubes and muscles of the chest, Thirdly. L.
resists the progress of Inflammation, and
assists the lungs to throw of the irritating
matter which aceumulAtes,
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The Debit aud Credit Account.

No one can pursue business intelligent.
ly and proftably without carefully kept
debit and credit accounts. With these &C
counts carefully kept, the farmer can by
yearly balances see Just what he is doing.
If the account is too heavy on the debit
side, the farmer can see Just where he is
tending, and will by this information be
influenced to take new tack, and recover
himself before he has gone too far
Now, January will soon be here and we
advise all who have not done so before to
open an account with the farm and its eper-
atoms. Here are the items that should be
CHARGED AGAINST THE FARM:
Interest on the capital invested, at the us.
gpl rate, 10 per cent.
The taxes.
The depreciation in value from exhaus-
ton.
The interest on the capital invested in
implements, farm machinery and the stock
employed to work the farm.
The depreciation in value Of these from
use This item can be estimated by the
average length Of time these articles last by
good usage.
The value of msnures and seeds, and of
the materials for repairs and improvements.
The interested on these until returns are
had on their use.
The cost of all labor, both of the owner
and his hired help, at the rate he pays for
'help.
The actual cost Of board for his hired
! help.
All female labor employed in the produc.
tion of butter, cheese, etc.
CREDIT THE FARM WITH:
All its products, both that sold and that
consumed by the family.
The enhanced market value of the farm
Permanent improvements.
The rent of the dwelling-house.
We can not too strongly urge the impor.
lance of a knowledge of just how our affairs
are going. If the facts, which will be
brought out in these accounts each year
show that we are on the down grade, We
shall be prompted to call halt and TO be,
gin earnest inquiry as to what we should
do. If it should be found by comparing
notes with our neighbors that exclusiv,
corn-growing was the cause Of our trouble
we should take a new tack. If it should
prove to be an attempt to grow wheat, Of
any other special crop that caused the fail
ure, we should cast about to see just wha
our farms, and our locations to markets, re-
quire that we should do.
Friends, we repeat again what we havl
often said in the Farmer: information
about our business, and upon kindred topics
lies at the bottom of success. Success wa
never secured without it, except in rar
cases of force of circumstances. We must
above all, have reliable information abou
our business affairs and how can we hav
it, except we carefully collate it, and con,
pare it, and weigh it?
Open your account on the LIST ofJanuary
keep the items. 1t will prompt you to loo
carefully after the little details, and say
much hat is now wasted.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.


by vote of 81 to IA, party vote.
WAsHINGToN, Dec. IS.
n the Senate to-day Mr.. Carpenter
was elected President, pro t0m1)Ore.
Mr.. Morton submitted the following
and asked for its present considera-
ton:
" Resolved, That the Senate recog-
uiIes the validity of the credentials of
p. b. S. Pinchback, as certified to by
GOV. VIM, =. Kellogg, of Louisiana,
under the seal of said State, and the
Committee on Privileges aud elections
sre instructed to examine and report If
said Pinchback is entitled to be adj
nitted on the prima .fdciC case thus
made, or if such admission should be
postponed until investigation be made
a. 70 the charges of corruption i'm his
election alleged against him.
Mr.. Thurman objected to a present
consideration of the resolution, and it
went over.
Mr.. Clayton submitted the following
and asked its present consideration
ReSOiued, That the Secretary of
War be requested, if not incompatible
with the interests of public peace, to
law before the Senate the official re-
p5rts and communications of Major
Lewis Merrill, L. S. A., relating to
certain disorders in Louisiana known
as the Coushatta troubles"
Mr.. Bayard objected, and it was laid
over.
Mr.. Merrimop, of North Carolina,
PRESENTED a resolution of the North
Carolina Legislature in favor of an APP
propriation to enable the New River
Canal Company to connect the inland
water system of North Carolina with
the Atlantic and Gulf States. SRefer
red to the Committee on Commerce.
Also resolutions of the Legislature of
that State in favor of granting pen
'sions to surviving veterans of the
Mexican war. Referred to the Com
mittee on Pensions.
Mr.. Hamilton, of Maryland, moved
that the resolution of last session in
regard to the compensation of +. w.
sykes. who contested seat of Spencer,
O.! Ala. he rt-committed to the Com
m-ttee on Privileges and Elections.
Agreed To.
Mr. Norwood, of Georgia, moved
that the vote ty which a bill to estab-
Iish Atlanta, Georgia, a port of deliv-
cry, which was indefinitely postponed
on Monday last, be reconsidered and
the bill be placed on the calendar.
greed to.
The Senate coniired Joshua b. Hill
70 be United States Marshal of the
Eastern District of North Carolina.
senate adjourned until January 9th.
HOUSE.
n the House after considerable mis-
ce.laneOus business a motion was made
70 go to the Speakers table in order to
get at the Senate's Finance bill. The
Democrats opposed the motion because
the Civil Rights bill might thereby
get a move forward A fillibustering
movement was set on foot to prevent
such "A thing, but finally a compromise
was effected by which the Finance
uill was made special order for the 9Th
q January.
Nessrs. Coburn, of Indiana, Al
bright, of Pennsylvania, Conner, OF
Illinois, Buckner, of Missouri, and
Luttrell, of California, were appointed
the Select Committee on Alabama af'
fairs. The first three are Republicans
and the other two are Democrats. AL
the Committees for the South will
cave Washington next Saturday
The House adjourned until Tuesday
the 5th of January.
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The Nashville Banner of 23d says /:
W. II. Harrington, George Myers,
Webb Purdom, and Berritt Purdom,
were committed to Jail, yesterday, by
the Sheriff of Grundy County, for safe
keeping until they can be tried on the
charge of numbering man named
Baur, in that county, recently.
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WASHINGTON.
The Work Mapped Out for Special
Committees.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2I.-The Court
OF Claims has adjourned until January
nth.
General Sheridan has ordered his
soldiers to drive the whites from the
Black Hills country.
The subcommittee on Pacific Mail
Affairs will sit during the recess.
A majority of the Special Committee
viii report in favor of leaving Arkansas
alone.
The special committee to see about
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GENTLEMEN.


Twin Domiuo-W. NJ. Bearden.
Twin Domino-C. j. McClung.
Father Grimes-James Rodgers.
Claude Melnotte-J. p. Craighead.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Taylor.
Black Donald-James Boyd.
Jack of Hearts-John Baxter, Jr.
Knight of l, O. U.-Louis Baxter.
Iago-Jack Williams, Jr.
Pirate-Frank G. BeaTden.
Rev. VIM. Kesterson, Of Ta2ewell-
j. /. Thomas.
Domino-C. A. Kirby.
Domino-Gen. Kirkland.
Count of Monte Cristo-E. l.. Par
melee.
Huntsman-Arthur Jameson.
Isaac Abrams, the Cheap Clo' Mer>
chant--C. Dawes.
Domino-Matt. McClung.
Sir William Wallace-Wm. Sneed.
Black Domino-James Kennedy.
Haiwatha-Will Jackson.
Count Robert de Paris-Albert Van
Glider.
Jolly Boy-Charles Seymour.
MephistophOles-G II. Mason.
Count Cut-the-cats. tailOffski-W. f..
Williams.
GRAY Domino-F. II. McClung, Jr.
Xouave Brave-Albert Payne.
Mexican Cavalier-Geo. +. Hoppe.
LADIES.
Evening Star-Miss Lillian Branner.
The Old Woman who Swept the Sky
Miss Ruth Branner.
Morning Star-Mss Carrie Taylor.
The Unknown-Miss Linda Will
liams.
Old Ponkey- Miss Ella Wicks,
Work BoX-Miss Mary Welcker.
Cloud-Miss Mary Barnes.
Blue Cap-Miss Bell Welcker.
Mary Queen of Scots-Mrs. Doctor
Burnett.
Shepherdess-Miss Carrie Nichol-
son.
Old Fashioned Girl-Miss A. Wood
ward.
Gipsy-Mss Katie Crozier.
Cornicopia-M NJ. Woodward.
Glover Girl-Miss Sallie Moore.
Night-Miss Lille Powell.
Titania Queen of the Fairies M ISIS
I Emma Albers.
swiss Personalities Rosa Staub.
! Folly-Miss Lille Woodward.
Queen Elizabeth-Miss Margie Nc
| Ghee.
SUPPER
Was announced at eleven o'clock ,..and
such a supper as the larder of the La
mar supplied was sufficient to estab-
! lish the reputation of Scherf's ciHsiHe,
! if IL had not already been an oft-tOld
tale. 1t is said that when Napoleon |.
wished to be particularly gracious to a
foreign minister, he would send him
10 dine with Cambaceres, but then he
didn't know John Scherf and was ex'
cusable. Every obtainable luxury was
on the tables, which were garnished
with all the etceteTas and sparkling
with cut glass and silver, while rare
old wines "gave their color in the
cup and as the ruby contents wert
auaffed, the cheek of beauty glowec
responsive to good wishes and hopes
of many returns of similarly happy
occasions.
After supper dancing was resumed
and prolonged until long after thu
echo of the Christmas bells had dieC
on the early morning air, and q" Tn,
little ones were all fast asleep in theiI
BEDS
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Col. S. H. Collins, prominent laws
yer of Sparta, Tennessee, committed
suicide on the 18th.