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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

THE telegraphic extracts from the
editorials of the leading New York
journals, which we publish in this is.
sue, indicate that a great revolution in
public opinion has taken place in New
York and Brooklyn by the publication
of Mr.. Beecher's statement. We give
full extracts from it elsewhere, but the
full text of it is not yet before us. If he
gives a satisfactory explana ion of his
letters published by Tilton,as his state
ment would seem to be complete. The
whole Christian world will rejoice to
acquit Mr.. Beecher.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19
A Grange at New Market.

EDITORS CHRONICLE: AS q great
many "Grangers" are readers of the
CHRONICLE, will you allow me space
to note the organization of a Grange OF
the Patrons of Husbandry at New
Market, in Jefferson county, Tenn, on
the 18th inst. The man who a short
time since sang:
81 want to be a granger,
And with the grangers stand, )" &c,
will be gratified to learn of the exist
ence of this grange at New Market,
with full complement of officers and
charter members, consisting of some of
the best and most enterprising farmers
of New Market and vicinity.
l will give you list of the officers
for the ensuing year, which are as fol-
lows:
r.. j. Anderson, w. NJ; w. H. Dick
o.; w. b. Gilmore, Steward; j. Mon
roe Meek, Lecturer; II. G. Whitaker,
Secretary; CIV. Dice, Treasurer; Ed.
Whitaker, a. S.; Thomas Northern,
G. X; w. b. Coldwell, Chaplain /;
Miss Matte Sawyers, l.. A. S.; Mrs.
J! Monroe Meek, Ceres Miss Minnie
Goodakoontz. Flora; Miss NJ. G. Ray
mond, Pomona.
Forward" is the watchword among
the farmers now. Respectfully,
JOHN NJ MEEK.
Strawberry Plains, Aug. IA. IA.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

SENSIBLE Republicans will not con-
slider that Col. ThOrnburgh's Repub-
licanism should be questioned because
he so discharged his official duties as
Attorney General of this Circuit as to
win from! Democrats their endorse
ment of his acts as a prosecuting Of
ficer. On the contrary, they will feel
that such endorsement is something OF
which Col. Thornburgh has reason to
be proud.
Perhaps some of the other foxes who
have no tails want Col. Thornburgh
to cut that obnoxious one off. We adj
wise him, however, to keep it on and
flaunt it around whenever he has a
good opportunity. 1t is nothing to be
ashamed Of, even if little out OF fash.
ion with his opponents.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

in Missouri, at the present juncture.
His defeat will be as humiiatinp as
that he sustained at Cincinnati, when
he attempted to dictate the nomination
of Adams.
How different men appear when re-
viewed from different stand points (!
When the Union and american looked
a. Carl Schurz standing on the Gin
cinuati- Baltimore platform supporting
Horace Greeley, he was a pretty clever
sort Of man. Then he was trying to
disorganize the Republican party.
Now he is engaged in a similar under
taking with the Missouri Democracy,
and he is regarded as a "party trim
mpru
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

certiOrdri and SuperSededs, seeking to
supersede in one case the State and
county tax, and in the other the tax to
pay the interest on the bonds issued by
Sumner county to the Cumberland and
Ohio Railroad Company.
The company alleged that ii was not
subject to taxation, and that as its
shareholders paid taxes on their shares,
that the capital stock nor road-bed,
fixtures and rolling stock of the COM
pany could not be taxed.
The petition seeking to supersede
the railroad tax, raised a number of
questions as to the subscriptions to the
Cumberland and Ohio Railroad Com
pany and the value of the bonds
issued.
Judge Guild, feeling the importance
of the questions raised, allowed the
defendants to answer said petition.
The case was ably argued by coun-
sci on both sides, when Judge Guild
decided as above mentioned, holding :
lst. That the Louisville and Nash
willie Railroad Company, by its charter,
was not exempt from taxation.
.. That it was subject to taxation
under the revenue law of 1873.
8. That the shareholders might be
taxed, and that did not exempt the
capital stock or rOad-bed, fixtures and
rolling stock from taxation.
4. That the question of the validity
of the subscription to the Cumberland
and Ohio Railroad Company, or the
validity of the bonds issued, could not
be raised in this cause. That the ques-
ton was not one in fieri, but was one
already passed upon by the county au-
thorities, and could not now be raised
in such a cause.
He dismissed the entire proceedings
and the railroad officials appealed to
the Supreme Court. If the court of
last resort should affirm the decision of
the lower court it will prove a matter
of the very greatest importance to the
State. This is the first time the ques-
ton has been raised, we believe. fit
is decided that railroads are subject to
assessments for taxation, it will add
about 500, 1000 900 to the taxable prop
erty i'm Tennessee, and will do a great
deal toward solving our fnancial prob
lem.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19
Items from TnCkahOe.
THORN GROVE, TENN,
Aug. l4th. 1877

Aug. l4th, 1874.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: Since you
have few contributors from our village,
and many of your readers may not
know what is the hub of the upper
part of Knox county, we will send
you few items of news.
The farmers are generally buoyant,
having garnered fine crops of wheat,
and becoming jubilant over swimming
bowls of cider. They give thanks to
q merciful Providence that sent the
rains in season to cause the fields to
TEEN with the golden corn,n which
will be more than an average crop in
this section, from the fact that the
farmers did not cease TO pillow when
the drought came.
Few pursuits now interest the people
of Thorn Grove more than the erection
of school houses and studying the best
plans for putting into operation good
schools. We wish it to be generally
understood that, hereafter, no section
of country can surpass ours in promo
ting general education.
Our graded school house, which is a
model of architecture, will be ready
for use on the 3lst inst. The directors
have secured the services OF Prof +. G..
Beamam, a. NJ, who will be the prin-
cipal of the school, than whom no
better educator is in the State.
Board in private families can be
secured ct low rates, also rooms for
those wishing to board themselves.
More anon. w. d. BROWN.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19
AN IMPORTANT RAILROAD SUIT.

An important railroad suit has been
decided in the Circuit Court at Gallatin,
Tennessee, involving the question as to
whether or not railroads and railroad
property in Tennessee may be taxed
by the State. Judge Guild decides
that they are subject TO taxation. The
suit in this case was brought about by
the County Judge of Sumner county
issuing a notice to the officers of the
Louisville and Nashville road to appear
and give in for taxation their entire
taxable property in the county. The
company appeared by an agent and
resisted the assessment. The County
Judge, after hearing proof and fully
investigating the case, held, according
10 correspondent Of the Nashville
Banner, that the road-bed in the
county, thirty-four miles long, with its
fixtures aud pro rata share Of rolling
stock, was liable 10 taxation at its
value, and that from that amount
should be deducted the thirty-five
miles represented
The correspondent OF the Banne,
says:
The railroad then files two petitions
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19
About the Washington Schools.

A part of the movement to get up a use.
less agitation of the negro question has
consisted in incorporating in the most
shameful manner the action of the Com
missioners of the District of Columbia.
These gentlemen have found it possible, by
consolidating various subordinate organi-
cations, to make a change that promises TO
save hundred thousand dollars yearly to
the District in the management of its
schools. This is their sole object, and the
sole effect of what they have done. But
they have been accused Of endeavoring to
force on the people Of the District mixed
schools This accusation will be circulated
widely throughout the South, and though
it is entirely false, it will never be contra
dicted. A new FLIP will thus be given to
the evaporation of the whites, and new
pretext furnished for white leagues" and
that sort Of nonsense. This may be good
political strategy for the time being, but its
authors will find that it won't pay year
and half from now,-Nel0 York Times.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19
American shIpbuiIdIng.

After many years of depression Ameri-
eau shipbuilding begins TO revive The
shipyards on the Delaware are full of ac-
tylty, and, although working a large num-
Der Of hands, they are many months in ar
rears Of orders. The Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company are building five large iron
ships, and the American Steamship Com
pany have ordered as many more. Forty
built for the Reading Railroad Company.
In the Merrimac shpyards fully ten ttous-
and tonnage is IN process of construction,
an p esent contracts will keep the yaad
busy far into the winter months This cheer
ing information gives hop that our mer-
chant marine may yet recover its former
prestige and compete successfully in the
carrying trade OF the world.-Bait, Sun.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

THE Boanerges of the Loudon Times,
who is a regular man.eater, eating
a full grown man every morning for
breakfast, says:
"In Loudon county, Robert Kittrell,
a clever man and well qualified, with
Thornburgh fastened to him, found
himself in the same condition that
Sinbad the sailor was with the old man
of the mountains on his back"
How, then, is it in Blount? Both
the Sheriff and County Court Clerk
elect are open and avowed Thornburgh
men.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

THE Republican papers who turned
upon Grant two years ago did the
dirty work for the Democracy in get
ting up scandals and plots, and foul
ness generally on Grant. A few of
that same class of sheets are doing
similar work for the Democracy as
against Thornburgh. Anything to
beat Grant is now with them, "any-
thing to beat Thornburgh." Calumny
and scandal are their only weapons.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

Henry Beecher, the Plymouth pas
tors eldest son, is living with his
family in his fathers house on the
Heights. He is in the insurance bus
mess in the firm Of Beecher & Benedict,
on Court street. Brooklyn. He is past
thirty, and was a Colonel i'm the war
The second son, William, is a Yale
graduate, about twentythree years old,
and studying in "A Brooklyn law Office
Herbert is eighteen aud is the youngest
Of the family and is an Undergraduate
of Amherst College. The only daughter
is Mrs. Harriet Scoyille, the wife of "A
miuisierin Norwich New York. Henry
Beecher's wife is the sister Of his part
ncr, and daughter of Mr.. Benedict, u
resident Of the Heights. Mr.. and Mrs.
Beecher have buried two or three
young children.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

THE Nashville Banner quotes from
Hyberger's letter to the Chattanooga
Commercial to show that the CHRONI-
Gle is getting into hot water" Not
at ALL We have been in that hot water
for four years. That crowd has been
fighting us for four years and are only
now little more open than before.
The result of the recent election is in
nart Iheir work.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

THE MARYvILLE Republican wants
to know what Col. Thornburgh has
done for the Republican party, that he
should be entitled to denomination ?
There are two kinds of service Repub-
licans can render their party. One is,
for those in office to give it strength
before the people by so discharging
their official duties that through them
the party shall win the confidence of
the people. Through dishonest and
inefficient officers party loses its hold
upon the people faster than in any
other way. How does Col. Thorn
burgh's official record stand to the
Republican party? When appointed
Attorney General by Governor Brown
low. and afterwards elected by the peo-
pie, did he not so discharge its duties as
to win praise even from the opposition ?
Has not his official record as a MEM
Der of Congress been honorable and a
strength to his party? Did he not by
virtue Of his reputable discharge of the
duties of Attorney General have such
personal strength as to carry more
than his party strength and thereby
secure a Republican victory in the ia
nous battering ram" district two
years ago?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

THE LoUDoN Times has suddenly
changed its tactics. 1t is now praising
Gosse,t. 1t, and its friends, in this
county, having done what they could
to defeat him and finding that the Re
pubIicans Of Knox county are justly
indignant over it and propose to hold
the proper parties responsible for it, it
now pats him on the back. Rather
hin and rather late!
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

WE give elsewhere an explanation of
the action of the District Columbia
Commissioners, in recognizing the
School Board of the City of Washing
ton. The cry of "mixed schools " is
another " campaign story"
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

THE Clarksville Tobacco Leaf says
that in the recent election in that count
tv.the negro vote was equally divided,
but it has been a more disgusting dis
play of the absurdity of having that
element at the ballot box that ever be-
fore exhibited.n
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

THE DEMOCRATIC call for the County
Convention to assemble this morning
is signed by men who never authorized
their names to be put to it. That is an
old trick, however, in this county. It's
one way to get respectable names to
such a document.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

in China shop. They will not try
the experiment again, perhaps. Andy
Johnson and John II. Savage for the
Senate would make matters lively.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

A writer in the Rural NeiC Yorker says,
that COWS should be sa ted every morning,
and IN the stable before foddering, but
never after taking water. This is the prac-
tice Of the best stock,keepers Of Switze
land and no thinks itquite preferable to
sailing them once or twice a week, or 20
keep It constan.ly within their reach
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

A FIRE occurred at White sulphur
Springs on Sunday morning, destroy
ing property to the amount of ten
thousand dollars
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

-< q s-
TO DAY the Democratic hosts as
semble in Nashville to save the State
once more. The Knox county deIega-
ton left on the II o'clock train last
night full ofpatriotism and good cheer,
determined to DO their part in the
great performance that is intended to
give Tennessee a Governor for the
next two years from January, 1875.
| Delegations from some of the counties
east of here have also gone forward to
the front. 1t is hard to guess who
will be the lucky man. 1t is pretty
certain that he will come from West of
the mountains.
We conversed with some of the dele
gates Monday, and predict that Dor
sey B. Thomas will receive a warm
support from several of the East Ten
nessee counties. Washington coun-
ty instructed for him and some
of the Knox county delegation
favor him. In Middle Ten
nessee he is not without strength,
either. He Is q leading Granger, and
the influence of the Patrons will be
exerted in his behalf. If they make a
strong demand they may brighten the
convention into nominating him, al
though he is not the choice of one In
ten of the leading Democratic politi-
clans.
Davidson county instructed in favor
of Michael Burns, of Nashville, as did
Sumner, also. Mr.. Burns is an old
citizen, once President of the Nash
vile and Chattanooga railroad, and a
successful business man. The Column
bia Herald and Mail evidently does
not favor him, however, for in its last
issue it says:
Our candidate for Governor should
be pure man and powerful speaker.
We want no dumb candidate.
If Burns ever made speech in his
life we have no information of it. The
Nashville papers are both committed
to his support, the Banner espousing
his cause very heartily.
The Gallatin Examiner is also out
for him.
Among other candidates from Middle
Tennessee is Judge Marks, who has
developed some strength.
In West Tennessee, the candidates
are as numerous as grasshoppers in
Minnesota. Every county has one OIL
more-some Of them a half dozen
Among them is Col. Kerr, who has
stumped the State urging his claims
and who will be nominated about the
same time that telegraph line il
established with Memphis and the
moon as its terminal points. Judge
Porter has some strength for the nomi
nation, A man by the name Of Enoch
Ensley, said to be a man of wealth and
business qualifications, has been men,
toned. His " Views on Government D
have furnished the subject matter fol
numerous supplements that have
come to us in our Democratic ex-
CuhuBes'
But the people will give themselves
little concern about the action Of the
convention, for they well know that
whoever may be nominated, even if he
should be elected, he can not be worse
for them than the administration in.
flicted upon them two years ago. II
might prove better. At least there Is
great room for improvement.
| Ex-President Johnson was in the
city Monday, and we learned was on
his way to Nashville. What he will
do there no one cal tell, but If the
position is thrust upon him, we are in
formed that he is not AYERS,
, to entering the lists for tn,
Senatorial race on the Demo
r cratic ticket. The Democratic lead
ers snubbed him two years ago. wber
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

OUR CONTEMPORARY thinks the re-
cent dirty attacks upon the CHRONICLE
by certain anonymous dead beats and
certain mushroom newspapers are what
we deserve for the hard things" we
have said about other editors and poll.
ticians. There is this marked differ
ence: The "hard things" we have
charged we can prove. 1t is not abuse
or vituperation to tell the truth, how
ever severe.
We are in the habit Of talking plain
but we talk truthJully; therefore, we do
not feel sorry over it. If we had said
" hard things" unjustly, we are ready
to answer for them. We have no OBJ.
lection to the truth being told about US.
five have mean spots in our record
let them come out. We are ready
to meet them. But when we
are misrepresented and covered with
general scurrility and abuse
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

THE McMinnville NelO Era wants
Col. John II. Savage to go to the
United States Senate, or it says so, at
least. Speaking of his Claims" it
says:
His modesty since the war has given
him place in the hearts and conf
dence OF his people that no other gem
tleman enjoys. His ripe experience in
legislative matters, his known integri-
ty, his utter freedom from demagog-
ism, his answering firmness and con-
slant desire for the greatest good to
the greatest number, all point to him
as the man to succeed Brownlow in the
United States Senate. The demand of
the mountain section of Tennessee for
his services in the Senate is in earnest f;
and with him in the seat which has
been defiled by the eX-Parson, Ten
nessee would have a representative of
whom she would justly feel proud,
and who would be of incalculable adj
vantage'in bringing our State back to
the high standard she enjoyed in the
councils Of the nation before the war.
If the editor of the NelO Era desired
to perpetrate a piece of first, class
irony in the above, we give it credit
for having succeeded admirably.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

THE latest intelligence from Austin,
Miss, is that in the riot there a few
days ago, which attracted so much at
tention, one negro was killed and no
white man even wounded. AS the
Memphis troops, whose thirst for me-
gro blood was manifest, were return
ing to their homes, elated with their
victories no doubt, they were firing of
their pieces at random, when a stray
shot struck white lady, near Fort
Pickering, infiicting painful, though
not dangerous wound in the arm. One
white woman wounded is the result OF
this expedition of hot-heads from the
Bluff City" Like the Somer-
vile affair, the alleged Austin
troubles were greatly exagger-
ated. At Somerville three hun
dred armed men were called out from
Memphis, upon a rumor that the ne
groes of Fayette county were going to
burn the town. We have not seen any
evidence that there was the slightest
foundation for the rumor. The Austin
affair turns out to have been grossly
exaggerated, and the hot haste whic h
characterized the Memphis people in
arming themselves is not encouraging
to the friends of peace and law in the
South.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

THE Union and american gets after
the Bannor's candidate for the United
States Senate in Missouri, Mr., Schurz,
with "sharp stick" 1t says:
Schurz has a way, when his tower
ing ambition meets with hindrance,
Of trying 10 break up the organization
with which he may happen 10 be
cooperating, and such is his purIo,e
with regard to the Democratic party
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19
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THE Loudon "organ wants to
know who the disorganizers are in
Knox county. 1t ought to know.
They are all of them readers
of that sheet and recruits to its
guerrilla warfare. They make war up
on everybody that don't muster under
their black flag. They were in close
and hourly consultation with the Dem
cratic ring Of this city during the last
canvass. They are now chuckling
over their work.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

without any ground for it, we do OBJ
ject, We object to respectable news
papers opening their columns to de-
bauched, debased, anonymous fellows
who have no character to back their
charges. This the Press and Herald
has done aud will do again, and we are
not surprised at it. The truth is never
libelous fdischood is, aud the differ
ence is worth remembering.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19

WEINvITE attention to an editorial
from the Louisville CoWjcr-JOurnal,
published elsewhere in which the
"pistol i'm Kentucky is made the oc-
casion for most revolving picture of
crime. 1t is not so bad in Tennessee,
but murders are more frequent than
they have been. Carrying concealed
weapons is more common than ever.
A little whisky, little excitement, a
few hot words, a suspicious movement
of the arms-a home is made desolate.
Judge and juries are carried away by
the ehivalrous appeals of hired coun>
sci, the law of self-defense is tortured
into Justification for murder, the widow
and orphan and the good of society are
all forgotten. Public sentiment is
at fault. The press is at fault. The
pulpit is at fault. From the beginning
of the year to the end it is silent on
such subjects, even though they con-
Germ the Church as much as the State.
Society opens its doors to the murderer
as to the law abiding man of honor.
The courts sit quietly by and see pre-
cedent after precedent accommodating
strong enough to almost override stat.
utes, and yet no words of .'rebuke or
alarm do they sound. The South must
check this tendency to violence and
murder, for it is becoming an alarming
obstacle to immigration.