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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-06-17
Reputation.
From the N. Y. Sun .

One of the results likely to accrue
from the extension of the right of
suffrage to the freedmen of the South.
and the consequent pillage of the
Southern people by the negro, car
pet-bag, and scalawag rulers, who
from partisan considerations have
been so fondly cherished by Grants
Administration, is a general repus
diation of public Indebtedness by
those States which have suffered the
worst from spoliation.
The average Southern negro re-
CARDS the idea of paying taxes with
intense disgust. and among all the
black Legislators who have so recE-
lessly voted to increase the debt Of
their various States by millions of
dollars. the number who have con-
tributed to the public revenues by
any direct payment of taxation is so
insignificant as not to be worth
mentioning.
A great proportion Of the bonds
of Southern States is held by North
ern capitalists, the most of whom
have been conspicuous supporters Of
the Administration, which has en-
oouraged the plunder of the recon-
structed States and there is a very
large class of Southern taxpayers
who believe that it is such men as
they who are really responsible for
the ruin which has been wrought by
misgovernment, and therefore would
take infinite satisfaction in seeing
these bOndholders whistle for their
interest and principal.
Such people will have little diff
Guilty in persuading the blacks de-
pendent upon them for employment
and subsistence that it will be inn
possible for them to pay the enor-
nous taxation which would be re-
quired to maintain<the credit of their
several States, and at the same time
pay living prices for labor; and this
proposition once made plain to the
perception of the colored voter, the
latter will be as anxious to procure
exemption for his white employer as
for himself. Perhaps if the question
of Reputation should be left entirely
to the whites it wonld be defeated
at any cost; but if in the cotton
States the whites who favor such a
policy should be reinforced by the
solid colored vote, the value of a
great portion of Southern securities
would at once become iniinitesimal.
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In twenty years, in this way, we
shall have reduced our debt 81 Ga :
GAL, and be in a condition to pay to
the sinking fund thereafter over $2,-
100000 annually, without increasing
the rate of taxation. But we have
other expectations of increase in
taxable property. BY 1875 nearly
every railroad in the State will be
liable to taxation, which will add
$70,000,000 to our taxable property,
though we have included one half OF
this in our estimates. All the ele.
ments exist in the State also for Civ.
ing full development to the manu-.
featuring industry of the people.
Within the next decade all the pent
up forces will burst forth, and the
erection of manufacturing establish
ments will proceed with marvellous
rapidlty. Evidences Of this are be-
ginning to be seen. Without some
unforeseen calamity, at the present
rate of increase 800, 600 will be
invested in manufacturing enter
prises within the next ten years, and
the debt of the State can be almost
extinguished at the present rate of
taxation. Financially, there are but
few States in a more prosperous
condition when the aggregate wealth
and undeYeloped resources are con-
sidered. The surest way of dimin-
ishing taxation is by stimulating de-
velopment and production, and this
the people of the State are begin.
ming to do.
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T'ENNESSEE'S FUTURE.
Good Cheer for Those in the
Slough of Despond.
femphis Appea.

The rate of taxation, which will
at present pay current expenses
and interest, will. at the average
rate of increase in taxable property,
absorb tie principal in few years.
The true value of property in the
State in 1854 was $20l ,246.6S6; in
1860. $494. 903, ,892; in 1870. $49S.-
237.724. In the decade between
1850 and 1860, the value of property
increased lac per cent. In the sue
ceeding decade it did not increase
quite one per cent, though this was
owing to the destruction of proper
ty by the war. 1t is estimated that
at least 100000, including
slaves, were lost to the property
holders of the State between 1860
and 1870. But for that calamity.
$700,000.00 would have been the
true estimate in 1870, or about
forty-two per cent increase. Esti-
matimating the same rate of in
crease to have obtained since 1870,
and we ought to have 100000, 900
in 1875, $7O0,O0O,O0O in 1880, and
100000, in 1890. In sixteen
years from the present time we
should collect double the amount
of taxes. at the same rate of taxa
ton and the same relative assessed
value of property as in 1870. To
put it in a different way: If the
increase in the value of property be
four per cent. annually, the increase
in the amount collected at the same
rate ought to be four per centum if
the ratio between the true and as.
sessed value is maintained. If the
revenue derived from taxation on
property in 1876 should be enough
to pay the interest on the State
debt. we can set aside as a sinking
fund in 1876 four per cent. of the
present revenue derived from prop
erty in 1877. 8 per cent; in 1878,
II per cent; in 1879, 16 per cent;
in 1880, 20 per cent; in 1881, "a
per cent; in 1882, % per cent; in
1882, % per cent; in 1888, 30 per
cent. Assuming the taxable prop
erty will be in 1875, $320.000,00o
at 40 cents. the present rate. the
revenue from this sourse should be
$1,280,000. Now, in 1876, if the
property Of the State should in
crease at the rate Of 4 per cent per
annum, and the rate Of taxation re-
main the same, we shall have the ex-
hibit as given below. The first
column represents the annual in
crease of revenue above that of
1875, because of the increase in
the value of taxable property; the
second column represents this in
crease, with interest on the amount
paid toward the State indebtedness
added:
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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, !
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OFFICE I
NASHVILLE, May n, 1874.
To County Superintendents and Public SehoC
Directors throughout the State of Tennessee

The civil rights bill, pending be-
fore the United States Congress, in
its provisions concerning public
schools, is in direct conflict with the
law Of Tennessee under which the
public school system of the State is
organized. and by which its officers
are governed. 1t is furthermore in
conflict with the 18th Section of
Article IL of the Constitution, which
provides: "No school established
or aided under this section shall al
low white and negro children to be
received as scholars together in the
same school, So that what the bill
commands, our State Constitution
and public school law forbid. That
bill has already passed the Senate,
and all the indications point to its
passage by the House of Represen-
tatives.
In view of the fact that in many
of the counties schools, now closed,
are expected to be re-opened for the
summer session, in the month of
June, and inasmuch as it is desirable
to avoid, as far as possible, the en-
harrassments that will necessarily
follow the enactment of the civil
rights bill, deem it tie part of
prudence to suggest that for the
present, and until further advised,
TO new contracts with teachers. for
either white or colored schools. be
entered into by school directors.
By observing this suggestion much
complication and unnecessary ex-
pense may be avoided
Should the civil rights bill fail to
pass, then no serious harm can have
resulted from this admonition.
Should it become q law, in its pre-
sent shape. then further instructions
from this Office will become neces-
sary. and will be promptly given.
Very respectfully,
JNo. NJ. FLEMING,
State Superintendent.
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Remarkable Accident.

Gel. L. M. Temple, who broke his
leg five weeks ago, while putting on
a new boot, in his Office on Dead.
erick street, had the bandages re-
moved recently by direction of DIR.
Eve, his leg having knitted thor.
oughly together.
Last Sunday he met with another
remarkable accident. While simply
turning over in bed, he broke his leg
again, about five inches below the
former fracture. It would seem that
his system has become so thoroughly
depleted that all the enduring quail
ties of his bones are gone. and there
is scarcely anything left but chalky
substance. lie is now pronounced
to be in very critical condition.
Nashville Bonner, 9th.
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A Car Load.

Often people are anxious to know
what constitutes car load, and we
annex the following for the benefit
of any who may desire the knowl-
edge. The figures may not exactly
suit everywhere, but approximate
so closely TO a general average that
shippers will find them a great con-
venience as reference: As a gener-
al rule, 10000 pounds or 20 barrels
of salt. 20 Of lime, 80 of -four, 60 of
whisky, 200 sacks of flour, 6 cords
Of hard wood. Z of soft wood, 18 to
20 head of cattle, so to go head of
hogs, 80 to 100 head of sheep. 5000
feet Of solid boards. 1900 feet of
siding. $4,000 feet of flooring. 10000
shingles, one half less of hard lum-
Der, one-fourth less of green lumber.
one-tenth less of joists, scantling.
and all other large timber, $40 bush
els Of wheat, 800 of corn, $50 of
oats, 400 of barley. $50 Of fax seed.
$50 of apples, 500 of Irish potatoes,
$50 of sweet potatoes, l 900 bushels
of bran.
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"WhOse Been Here Since I've
Been GOne?''

The poor fellow to whom this pa
thetic inquiry is attributed, says an
old Democrat. could scarcely have
been more shocked than the Demo
Gratis are at the changes wrought du-
ring their twenty years absence.
The nation was almost free from
debt; now it is measured by thou
sands of millions. Such a thing as
direct taxation had never been heard
of; now it is familiar and painful
grievance. Official robbery and cor
ruption were unknown, now it is a
virtuous day which reveals nothing
of the sort. Our commerce was up
on every sea, with fair prospects of
exceeding every nation of the world ;
now it is limited to a small coasting
trade. Then we had a government
of law, now of party necessity. We
had men in Office we find block
heads, thieves and tricksters now.
Verify, "who's been here since
we've been gone ?'-Des Holmes
Leader.
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The Negro in the schools.

A CIRCULAR FROM THE STATE SUPER
INTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUC-
TION-THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL IN
DIRECT CONFLICT WITH TIE con
sTITUTIoN AND LAWS OF TENNES-
Sea RECOMMENDATION THAT NO
NEW SCHOOL CONTRACTS BE ENTER
ED INTO.
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has bit for long time. Here it is
| will hurry home and build me
boat-finish it before these island
melons get ripe. Come down about
that time and we will paddle up
there some night and show Col.
Dickinson new way to raise melons.
Yours, +. SLICK.
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GRANTS FINANCIAL VIEWS.
A Presidents Notion of Desirable
Legislation.

The Time Come for a Return to
Specie PaymentS--The Retire.
ments of Small Notes to Empty
all the Old Stockings.
WAsHINGToN, June 5.-The fol-
lowing correspondence on the finan-
cial question between the President
and Senator Jones of Nevada has
been obtained for publication:
UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON, June 4, 1874. )
To the President.
was so deeply impressed by the
clearness and wisdom of the finan-
cial views, some of which you have
fortunately reduced to writing, re-
Gently expressed by you in a con-
versation in which | had the honor
with few others to be q participant,
that | cannot dismiss them from my
mind. The great diversities of ideas
throughout the country upon this
subject, and the fact that public
opinion concerning the same is still
in process of formation, lead me to
believe that the publication of these
views would be productive of great
good. venture, therefore, to re-
quest of you that may have a copy
Of the written memorandum to which
/ have alluded, with your permission
that it may be made public. ] have
the honor to be, very respectfully
your obedient servant, (Signed),
John =. JONES.
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than ten dollars and that in one
year after resumption all bills Of
less than five dollars should be with.
drawn from circulation, and in two
years all bills of less than ten dol
lars should be withdrawn. The ad.
vantage OF this would be strength
given to the country against time Of
depression resulting from war. fall
ure of crops, or any other cause, by
keeping always in the hands of the
people large supply of the precious
metals. With all smaller transac-
tions conducted in coin many mil
lions of it would be kept in constant
use and of course prevented from
leaving the country. Undoubtedly
a poorer currency will always drive
the better out of circulation. With
paper a legal tender and at q dis
count, gold and silver become ar
ticles of merchandise as much as
wheat or cotton. The surplus will
find the best market it can. With
small bills in circulation there is no
use for coin except to keep it in the
vaults oF banks to redeem circula-
tion. During periods of great spec
ulation and apparent prosperity
there is little demand for coin, and
then it will flow out to the market
where it can be made to earn some
thing, which it cannot do while ly,
ing idle. Gold. like anything else,
when not needed becomes surplus,
and like every other surplus it seeks
a market where it can find one. BY
giving active employment To coin,
however, its presence can. it seems
to me, be secured, and the panics
and depressions which have occur
red periodically in times of nominal
specie payments, if they cannot be
wholly prevented, can at least be
greatly mitigated. Indeed, | ques-
tion whether it would have been
found necessary to depart from the
standard of specie in the trying
days which gave birth to The first
legal tender act had the country
taken the ground of no small bills
as early as 1880.
ECONOMY AND TAXATION.
Again would provide an excess of
revenue over current expenditures.
[ would do this by rigid econo-
my and by taxation, where taxa
tion can best be borne. Increased
revenue would work a constant re-
duction of debt and interest, and
would provide coin to meet demands
on the Treasury for the redemption
Of its notes, thereby diminishing the
amount Of bonds needed for that
purpose. All taxes after redemp-
tion begins should he paid in coin
or United States notes. This would
force redemption on the national
banks. With measures like these
or measures which would work out
such results, l see no danger in au-
thorizing free banking without limit.
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A number of newspaper men and
other well-known citizens visited
HopeweIl lake yesterday on a pisca-
torial excursion. The party was
gobbIed up by the negro magistrate.
and each disciple of Isaac Walton
had to seek for his pocket-book In
order to appease the colored squire
who does not believe in fishing in Ar
kansas on Sunday.-MenaphiS Ledger
June 1.
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TERMS
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THE GAZETTE is a permanently established
Tewspaper with paying and constantly increasing
list Of Subscribers It's circulation in the counties
of HambIen, Hawkins, Cooke, Jefferson Granger
and Claiborne is more general than any other pa
per-rnasing it the best advertising medium in
Upper East Tennessee.
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rhe Morristown Gazette.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE Il. 1874.
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For the Cincinnati Connection.
TIE PROSPECTS OF COMPLETING TIE
THROUGH LINE.

TIE PROSPECTS OF COMPLETING TIE
THROUGH LINE.
The Charleston Meas and Courier,
discussing the prospects of a con-
nection with Cincinnati, says there
are two gaps between Knoxville and
Charleston to fill, one of forty miles
between Wolf Creek and Asheville,
the heaviest work of which is done
and another of seventy-four miles
between Spartanburg and AsheviIle.
As to the gap between Knoxville
and the Cincinnati road as now be-
ing built it publishes the following
letter:
"OFFICE X. & o. r. R.,
KNOXVILLE. Tenn. May 27. IA
"a. c. Kaufman, Esq, Secretary
and Treasurer Spdrfdnbarg and AsLe-
ellie Railroad Company, Charleston,
S. c.:
DEAR SIR-Yours of the 1st in
stant to the President of this com
pany has been handed to me. In
reply | state that connection will
undoubtedly be made between our
road and the road now in progress
from Cincinnati and Louisville, al
though | am not now prepared to
state the exact mode in which the
result will be attained. It will re-
quire the construction of but little
more than twenty (20) miles of rail-
road to connect our line with the
Cincinnati Southern at Chitwood.
Very respectfully yours.
"JoHN l.. MOSES,
"Sec., Treas. and Supt.''
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ScrOfuja. or Kings Evil. White

ScrOfula, or Kings Evil, White
Swellings, Ulcers, Eryspcas, Swe!lcd Neck,
Goitre. Scrofulous Iniammations, Indolent
1nhammations, Mercurial Affections, Old
Sores, Eruptions Of the Skin, Sore Eyes. etc.
In these, as in all other constitutional Dis
eases, WALKERS VINEGAR BlTrERs have
shown their great curative powers i'll the
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DR.. RAD WAY s
SarSaparillial ReSglTGlt

lFE GKENl bLOUD FJEtFIEK.
HAS MADE THE MOST ASTONISHING CURES: 50
32 6INh N Rrfp E YnER E TR NE
OF THIS TRULY WONDERFUL MEDICINE,
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Seasonable Hints on Tree Planting.

When trees are growing naturally in
the earth, the little fibres push their
way through the solid ground, and of
course, are in this way in close contract
Herewith. They then draw in moisture
easily. When trees are transpanted it
is almost impossible to pack the earth
so closely as it was before. a large
number of little roots do not touch the
soil, and then they are unable to be of
any service in supplying food to the
plant. In fact, the plant might as well
not have these roots. a plant thus
imperfectly planted, is in the condition
practically of plant with half its roots
cut away. The good planter, therefore,
takes care to have the earth packed as
closely as possible about the roots
No matter, however, how we'll this
may be done, there are always some
space left. There is generally some
water in the soil at tree planting time,
and as the dry weather comes on and
this water evaporates, the soil shrinks
and separates from the roots. Now,
the remedy for this is good pounding
down about newly planted tree, as the
weather becomes dry. Last season, in
the height of the dry spell which occur
red late in the Spring, the writer was
passing through one of our leading
nurseries where large quantity of box
edging had been set out. The proprie-
tor was afraid it would be all killed bv
the drought. Most would have set to
and watered it, but he had a couple of
men with hammers, who were going
along the rows ramming the earth
against the plants, much as pavior
rams the stones in the streets Meeting
him in the Fall inquiry was made of
his success, and though the season was
terrible on Spring planted box edging
and other small things, he reported all
in excellent condition. There is no
doubt that good pounding and ram
ming of the loose earth under newly
planted tree, when the weather becomes
hot and dry, is much better than any
amount of watering. OF course this
must only be done when the ground is
very dry. If done when wet, it will
only shrink again as it dries
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Thus, by repeated selection alone,
e length of ears has Teen doubled,
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FOR RENT.

STORE HOUSE Main street. opposite the
National Bank of Elkton. VIM. Ii. EDER.
Ekton, Aug 10, lS74-4ws
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FEVER AND AGUE.

FEVER AND AGUE cured for fifty cents. There il
a remedial agent in this wurld that will cure Fcve
and Ague. and all other MaariOus Bilious, Scarlet
Typhoid Yellow, and other Fevcrs Laided by RAD
WAYS PILLS. 5 quick ) RAILWAYS READY RE
LIEF, Fifty cents per bottle.
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How TO FEED RYE-The AMERI-
CAN AGRICULTURIsT say We have
fed rye to horses and cows as green
fodder, cut when coming into ear, in
which state it is very excellent feed
To feed rye that has been cut ripe, we
would thrash it, grind the grain along
with corn or oats, cut the straw in a
fodder-cutter, moisten it with water,
sprinkle a handful of salt and three
quarts of the ground feed upon large
pailful of the moist cut straw. This
makes very good feed for an ordinary
sized horse when working moderately.
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GRUB.-Some one has cured grub in
the head by filling a clay pipe with
tobacco, lighting it and inserting the
stem in the nose, applying the mouth
to the bowl of the pipe and blowing the
smoke into the sleeps head. Another
has cured sheep so affected by blowing
camphor, vinegar and black pepper into
the nose of the sheep, About hun
dred remedies" for this plague in
sheep have been published, some of
them good enough. These may be so
also. No harm to try.
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DRUGS, MEDICINES, Chemica
AND
Toilet Merchandise.

Physicians Prescriptions accurately compounded
from and carefully selected materials. A Specialt
ha-The patronage Of his friends and the public
generally most cordially solicited.
April Is, IS74-tf
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Shiia., vii. & Bait. Railroad.
Trains leave North East station as follows
(Sundays excepted.)
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
4 NtfAE L..

T0AE.-
~ The Celebrated Baltimore Company Coal for Fam.
lily USE on hand and for sale. L. SCOTT BRD