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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22
EAST TENNESSEE NEWS.
interesting Summary of Events from Our
Exchanges.

The Bristol Ne2yS speaks encouragingly
of the growth of that enterprising place,
which our readers will be glad to read
Mr.. c. II. Lewis returnedsa few days
since from Rhode Island, where he pur-
chased three large new carding machines,
one large picker, two jacks of 200 spindles
each, q card grinder, wool buster, one gig
for mapping cloth, five looms, one card
lathe, one spooler one reel, one fulliug
mill, four latest improved looms one broad
loom, shears and all necessary accompani-
ments and auxiliaries for the complete con-
Quoting OF his wooden factory. These are
all of the most improved and excellent
character now known in the world.
The Jonesboro' Echo tells of the repeat
ed robberies that have been made on the
trains of the railroad. Suspicion attached
to Looney Washington, a track hand.
Search was made, and it says, there
was found in his possession several
sacks of coffee containing 24O pounds, 525
combs, 279 suspenders u plugs of fine to-
bacco, 27l flour sacks, a car key, so pods of
snuff, and several other small articles.
The Athens Post says the wheat crop of
Meigs and McMinn counties promises bet
ter than ever known, and that the acreage
in the latter county is immense. The same
paper says:
"Nr. Wm..L l.. Rhat, OF the Savanna
Farm, Polk county, is now milking be-
tween fifty and sixty COWS, and manufaC-
| The Savanna is on the Hiawassee river,
near the gap of the mountain, and is one
of the most valuable pieces of property in
| East Tennessee
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22
EXPANSION Or CONTRACTION

There seems to be great difference of
opinion, at Washington, as to whether the
laws recently passed by the House of Rep
resentatives add to or contract the volume
of currency. 1t was plainly the intent of
both the Senate and House to increase the
currency, but the provisions changing the
reserves to be held by the banks is expert
mental, and special to the Cincinnati
Commercial, of the 18th, says:
Treasurer Spinner stated this evening
that he, in company with other arithmeti-
cal financers of the Treasury Department
had devoted themselves to-day to the work
of ascertaining the precise effect that would
be produced by the operation of the new
currency act as adopted by the House yes
terday. He says that their labors resulted
in the development of the fact that the law
would bring about contraction of the vol
ume of the currency to the amount of
seven millions of dollars. There is no
doubt expressed here as to the signing of
the bill by the President.
"Congressmen from the West and South
are daily receiving applications from their
| constituents for National bank charters
under the new law, but the applications do
| not by any means cover the authorized in
crease. Unless this is all taken by the
Western and Southern States within two
months the East will be permitted to alb
| sorb it, as the law stands
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22

WE sympathize with the Nashville Ban
ner overGts distress on the subject OF Gre
nation. We have not seen an issue of the
paper since the recent suggestion of burn
ing dead bodies was made in New York,
in which the editor did not show deep con-
Germ on the subject. 1t lie evident that all
the Banner corps, even down to the de'Tl'
are alarmed about what is to become OF
their poor forms when they have put up
their last stjck of independent news.
The old Bourbon Democrats in the State
think the same concern over the future OF
their spiritual parts would be encourag'
ing.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22

The Senate Select Committee on Trans
portation held meeting on Saturday
night, and adopted q report, which it is
understood will be presented in the Sen
ate on Wednesday. The report is elabo-
rate, embracing Large mass of statistics,
and containing discussion of the alleg-
ed defects and abuses of existing systems
of transportation, and also the proposed
remedies in detail The remedies dis
cussed are:
First, unreguiated competition between
railroads.
Second, direct Congressional regulation
of freights and fares.
Third, the ownership aud control of one
or more lines of railroad by the Govern
ment.
Fourth, the improvement and creation
of water routes. The constitutional ques
tons are fully discussed. This report will
be looked for with no small degree of in
terest.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22

THE Washington correspondent OF the
Baltimore Sun gives what the President
said on Wednesday, on the subject Of the
Senate and House currency bills. He does
not seem pleased with either. He thinks
the former is not such bill as could be
desired. and could not be considered as in
hation, while the House bill was
good as far as it went, the objec-
tionable feature being that it did not
sufficiently provide for responsible redemp-
ton. The President will not act has
tily. but will carefully consider each
provision of the Senate bill before signing
or refusing to sign it. AS means ofreach-
ing specie payments, he believes i'll requir-
ing the banks TO surrender fifty per cent.
of the interest on their bonds, that amount
to be kept in the treasury and certificates
of deposit issued therefor. The interest
paid by the government on the bonds de-
posited by the banks amount to about $780,
600, 900 annually. Fifty per cent. of this
would be $40, O0O, 900. This amount, there
fore, he regards, should be retained in the
treasury and kept there until it approx
mates the total Of the resources.
He thinks also that the government
should contribute its proportion to the
same specie resumption fund, which would
be about fifteen millions annually. The
two would aggregate twenty-five millions
annually. In three years this would be
seventy-five millions. With this and the
specie on hand in the treasury, (which
ranges from seventy-five to one hundred
millions, both the government and the
banks would be IN condition to resume
specie payments. The President is not in
sensible to the fact that as things now are
it is not for theinterest OF the banks TO re-
sumo, and for this reason he favors specific
legislation defining specie resumption a!
the Fixed aim of the financial policy of th'
government. Without this he thinks i
possible that the banks never would re
sumo, nor allow the government to dos il
they can help it. He believes that TO com
pei them to leave the coin interest in the
treasury as part Of the reserve which they
are now required to leave there in Iega
tenders, would materially aid matters, and
would be no special hardship to the banks
except the amount they realized by selling
the gold
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22

OUR dispatches of Friday morning tell US
there has been another "affair Of honor,r
near Bay st. Louis, in the State of
Mississippi. This is favorite resort for
the hot bloods of New Orleans, whose
honor is so much injured occasionally, that
nothing will restore it but gun-powder and
human blood. The refined arts of the
code are frequently practiced whereabouts
and, occasionally one of the participants,
loses his life. In the case reported this
morning, it is said the whole party was ar
rested. We hardly know what would
be the best manner of disposing of this lot,
which is evidently composed of the
"small fry" faction Of that class usually
so scrupulous on the honor question.
We presume the law, if strictly enforced,
would incarcerate them for a time in a
State prison. But the most expeditions
and least expensive way to dispose of them
would be to drown them, like 30 many
blind puppies, in the adjacent bay. Aud
we think this course would be effeC tive
in restraining others of that ilk in en-
gaging in like imbecile undertaking.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22

THE Athens Post, allluding to the lee
ture Of Gen. Wilder at that place, together
with other lectures that have been deliver
ed there, adds this remark
Our people appear to have but little taste
for literary entertainments. Only the few
est number will walk across the street of
a pleasant evening to be present at a
feast of reason and flow of SOUL" while
the large majority would undertake to
swim the Tennessee at full tide if old John
Robinson and his Circus were advertised
to exhibit on the opposite bank. In using
the expression q" our people, we don't re-
fer exclusively to Athens.
Brother IYins is justifable in this gentle
hint to our people" He is right in not
referring to the people of Athens alone.
His timely remark applies to every COM
munity in Tennessee, and quite a number
of other States. People Will turn out in
all sorts of weather, and pay
their money to see something at which
they can laugh, but they never think of
patronizing a lecture from which they
gain real instruction. They will patronize
a troupe of blackguards, not one of whom
would they invite into their houses fit as
associates for their families, but they can't
| attend literary lectures.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22

NEVER in the history of the Presidents
eventful life, has greater responsibility
devolyed upon him than now. His politi-
cal friends are almost evenly divided on a
question of great mportance-that of the
currency. In some parts of the nation,
mainly in the East, where men have grown
wealthy and are now the owners Of princely
fortunes, to all outside appearances, the
majority of the people are opposed to
increasing the volume Of currency,
and in favor Of resumiug specie
payment at an early day. In the South
and West the majority seems to entertain
opposite views. An act has passed both
Houses Of Congress carrying out the views
of one class Of persons mentioned, and il
only awaits the signature of the President
to become law. Eyes from every guar
ter Of the nation are turned upon him, and
regarding his action with feelings of the
profoundest solicitude. No matter what he
may dc, he will be criticised by men who
are his political friends and denounced and
charged with improper motives by his enc
mics. Under these circumstances it is moi
difficult to appreciate the delicacy of the
high and important task devolving upon
the President, or 10 give him due credit fol
honest motives, no matter what course he
may choose to adopt
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22
Ntce for the Carl.

A correspondent of a city paper in New
York writes very handsomely about " En-
gagged Young Ladies'" Our Knoxville girls
may know something about it. Here il
what he says:
Engaged Young Ladies are done by
writer in the Jewish Messenger, who says /:
So nice, is it not, to be engaged? Every
morning her young man calls upon her ca
his way to his office, kisses her, and pre-
sents her with fresh rose, so emblematic
Of herself; and every evening he calls
again, kisses her, and bestows upon her a
new novel and a dainty bouquet. Then
those heavenly evenings in the parlor, with
the gas dimly burning, the old folks asleep,
club, the teasing sister studying her les
sons in her bed-room-they two alone in
their happiness was ever such bliss eK-
pected when she used 70 talk TO her school
mates about her future 90
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22
THE paEcK1KRrDeE MURDER.


The murder of young breckenridge by
young Anderson at Lebanon, again di-
reefs the public to the evil results of in
temperance and the uncivilized habit of
carrying fire arms. All accounts of that
unfortunate affair agree in representing
young Anderson as an unusually bright,
promising young man when sober, but O
perfect terror when drunk. To allow
such a man to carry fire arms is as
outrageous as to allow nitro.glycerine
to be stored in the midst
of city. Our State in Middle, West and
East Tennessee, is acquiring an unenvia-
BILE reputation for this kind of butchery.
1t is all the fault of our jurors, courts and
legislators. There is no use of hiding the
| fact, for it is too patent-our laws are de-
fcient of reaching this class of criminals.
We need change in public sentimental
! change that will drive the best men of the
State into the jurors seats, and then work
a reform in the mode of administering our
criminal laws.
The Lebanon Herald has some vigorous
comments on the murder of Breckenridge,
| which show the need of the reform to
which we have so often heretofore alluded.
1t says:
No definite news of Anderson has been
received since Thursday. 1t is presumed
that he left the city early that morning.
A mild pretence of attempting his arrest
was made during the day, but it was so
utterly ludicrous-so transparent an effort
merely to keep up appearances-that it was
| simply the boldest of farces. In
deed, the part taken by the authorities
| in this matter has been, from the begin
ming, anything but creditable to them or to
| the good name of our city and county. A
| foul and atrOcious murder was committed
on the Public Square, and the perpetratol
remained within the corporate limits fol
hours afterwards, leaving finally at his
| leisure without being arrested. An inof.
fensive, mild-mannered gentleman, 6
stranger in our midst, was shot down like
dog, and his corpse lay in our city fol
thirty-six hours, without the slight
est pretence of an inquest hav
ing been made. We do no
know where the fault lies-but we do know
there has been gross and objectionable neg
| ligence in this matter. 1t will not be long
if we continue at the present rate, befor,
Wilson county justice will be bye-worC
and reproach throughout the land-if
indeed, such is not already the case. 1t il
certainly already true that the highes
grades of crime can be perpetrated almos
with impunity; and no remark is NOR
frequently heard than the assertion that
Wilson county jury never Furnishes muir
derer. This must be stopped.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22
AN APPROPRIATE WAY TO CELEBRATE THE
CENTENNIAL.

The Baptists in the United States have
conceived plan, and are executing it
with a will that is highly .commendable,
for an appropriate celebration of the Cen
tennial. 1t is nothing less than PROPOSE
ton to raise six millions of dollars during
that year, for the purpose OF endowing
educational institutions. This Is large
sum, but if the Baptist denominations in
America determine to raise it, it can be
done easily. For the purpose of carrying
out this gigantic measure, commission
has been organized consisting of an eX-
ecutive committee, located at New York
and four advisory committees, located in
Boston, Richmond, Chicago and Nashville,
all of whom, when sitting together, con-
stitute the Board of Counselors, of the
American Baptist Educational Commits
sion. This Board of Counselors have de-
termined to avail themselves of the popu-
lar interest that will be awakened by the
approaching Centennial Anniversary, to
grouse the whole denomination in this
country, in favor of a munificent endow-
ment of their institutions of learning.
mere are IIlOIt lDtl - anu - nan
of Baptists in the United States, many
of whom are wealthy and well able to con-
tribute thousands of money to this most
laudable enterprise. The plan is to or
ganize a simultaneous movement all over
the nation, and the plan meets the APP
prevail of all the Advisory Committees.
The Nashville Committee held a meeting
at Murfreesboro' on thel4tb inst, some no.
tice of which has already appeared in these
columns. They have determined to es.
tablish great Central University for the
Southwest, to be endowed with at least q
half million. The committee proposes to
raise million dollars by the Baptists OF
Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, DIississip'
ri, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Mis-
souri,. With this they will rear monu
ment to the liberality of American Baptists
of the present age that will stand for cen
turtles, and also to encourage institution:
already organized and in operation. The
Richmond committee will undertake ;
similar amount inthe Southeastern States
while the Chicago and Boston committee
| will each undertake to raise two millions
We can conceive of no more appropriate
way for the Baptists to acknowledge thei
gratitude for the great prosperity which ha
attended them as a denomination, in tn
past hundred years than this. They de
serve credit for the conception of the plan
ana its contamination will rebound to tn
| honor of the Church.
If other denominations would, in
spirit of Christian rivalry, emulate thei
worthy example, the cause of education
would receive such an impetus in 1876 a
to make our irst centennial, the begin
ming of a glorious epoch in our country
history.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22
WhinkY W.. Xater.

The Chattanooga Commercial Of Satur-
day says:
We learned last evening that Mr.. John
Dady and his team were drowned yester-
day in the back water on the Shallow Fort
road, between here and Missionary Ridge.
Mr.. Dady had brought load of wood to
the city, coming around the water, but
after disposing of it he procured some
fire.water, as he usually does, and proceed
ed home. Being embOldened by the effects
of drink he attempted to go the accustom-
ed road, which was now overlooked, and
was drowned.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22

THE deadlock in the Massachusetts,
Legislature is ended, by the election OF
Gov. Washburne. 1t was evident from
the beginning that a compromise man
would be chosen. The Senator.elect is the
present Governor of the State, and man
of experience in Congress. His election
will relieve the people of the State, who
have become disguised with the deadlock
of the psst two weeks.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22
THE IRON AND COAL OF TENNESSEE.

We have received from Col. J. b. Kille.
brew advancedsheets Of the chapters on coal
and iron Of the forthcoming volume OF the
report of the Agricultural Bureau OH the
resources Of Tennessee. 1t presents in q
form valuable for reference, interesting
facts about the coal and iron resources OF
Tennessee
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22

The Mississippi Legislature has passed a
law providing that no person should be
licensed to sell liquor without first securing
the signatures of more than one-half OF the
men over twenty-one years of age, and of
women over eighteen years of age, in the
township or municipal corporation where
he proposes to open his bar, requesting that
such license be granted.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22

Vermont sheep are noted all over the
country, and large locks are constantly
shipped to the western States. A few days
ago a flock was sent from Pittsford to
Washington Territory, a distance of nearly
four thousand miles.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-22

THE Memphis appeal suggests that the
Democratic State Convention for nomina-
ting candidate for Governor, should not
meet before September. This looks to q
short canvass, less than two months.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-16
RATIONS FOB 1875.

In few months the generous contribu-
tions of distan Mt sympathy will have been
exhausted. Its continuance will be spasm-
odic and precarious. Meanwhile, other
claims upon tbs commiseration of Congress
and the people may intervene, and there
may yet be intense suffering in Louisiana
before the losses sustained by inundation
can be replaced. The colored population
must participate principally in this
anxiety. Unless the levees be restored,
there must be an immense extent of arabic
lands for which the proprietors will hest
tate to employ labor. We may, then, ap-
prehend starvation or migration, either
Of them serious evils. Just at this crisis
Of our laborers, comes bill passed by
the House Of Representatives appropri-
ating all of eight million dollars to the
construction of ship canal, entirely
within the jurisdiction of Louisiana. How
would this large sum be expended? In
provisions, materials, implements and
animals, but chiefly on laJor.' 1t is well to
consider, then, that the colored laborers
of Louisiana, who may be discharged, or
badly fed and paid, il 1875, upon our i'm
periled plantations, will find fund in
cidentally provided for them, from which
they may draw respectable subsistence
and satisfactory wages. In this point Of
view We can not withhold our surprise if
any representatives from the sugar or.
cotton lands subject to inundation, and
interested in opening deep water outlet,
shall offer any impeachment to the imme-
date construction of the canal. The OBJ
lection that there has been inadequate
survey would come with bad grace from
any one who had proposed to intrust the
outlet improvement to single contractor
who had made no survey at all. But these
surveys have been fully and completely
made. There can be no impeachment which
q friend of Louisiana should suggest. The
reports of the engineer commission and
of Major Howell have convinced distant
Representatives that the work is prac-
ticable and should be constructed at
once. But if more undoubted evidence
is desired, and members will not ac-
credit the additional studies of Montague,
who was not subject to the disadvantages
of being federal engineer, we have to
cite conclusive document, never, to our
observation, quoted fully by any advocate
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-16

establishment. " It was as e6octual IS the
phrase put up or shut up, so often used
to silence braggarts on the race track.
The resources Of this State are made
quate to the stupendous task of maintain
ing the levees Of the Mississippi river.
This is admitted by the managers OF the
Levee Company. The errors In the syss
tenn lie in the fact that no more than the
nominal sum of three-quarters of a E1ii-
lion year has been applied to forward a
work that will require close on to two
millions to do for number of years at
first. And of the whole levy, insufficient
as it is, very large amount remains IN
collected, and nearly all of it was held
back so long that large sums were paid
for interest. If the State were prepared
with ready funds to pay the Levee Com
pany for the work which it has honestly
done it would not experience any great
difficulty in obtaining an annulment Of
the contract, since experience has de-
monstrated there is no money in it to the
contractors. The representatives of the
people, who came here to censure, found
very soon after arriving that their own
constituents are as much to blame as
because no more work has been
done on the levees, and having no instruc-
tons to censure those who sent them con-
cluded it was time to return quietly home.