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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25
THE NASHVILLE JOLLIFICATION.
A Small Crowd-NO Euthusiasm-A
Failure.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 10, IA.
Correspondence of Knoxville Chronicle
The Democrats have jollified. They
commenced at o'clock this afternoon.
Cannons doomed, sky-rockets flew,
and the multitude rejoiced. The null
titude was largely composed of small
boys and negroes. The small boys
made the vocal demonstrations the
negroes the multitude.
The caunoEs opened the ball on
Capitol HUI. They were borrowed of
Kentucky; were disloyal during the
war. They fired away for about bali
an hour, and rested. Al seven they
commenced again and burnt their
powder another half hour, when their
mission ended.
Seven o'clock was the hour at which
Nashville was to illuminate. count
ed five Chinese lanterns.
Since two O'clock, Governor Brown
has been civil rightsIng; Judge Porter
scalping Mr.. Maynard j. Proctor
Knott thanking God; Governor -
(which is TEX ~ McEnery scattering
brine over Louisiana, and the smaller
fry numbering Ben. Butler. Civil
rights, carpet bags and Butler were the
themes upon which that talent spread
Itself. 1t was an awful spread The
very rafters echoed with enthusiasm,
while the jubilants preserved the 81.
lence and solemnity of the tomb
broken only by an occasional wal
whoop from the obfusticated corner.
did not hear Governor Brow n
Judge Porter nor Mr.. Knott, except
when he flung his immortal soul in.
to civil rights and Ben. Butler. II
TOOK him one long tedious hour to tel
| what these elections betokened. They
were the conservation of all good anC
the destination of all things evil. He
didn't make Duluth speech.
There was so much sulphur and brine
mixed up in McEnery's wailings thar
| 1t would take first class chemist tC
tell what he did say. ANYHOW, h,
said Louisiana he'd some carpet bags
and Ben. Butler was thief. AfteI
running upon the platform he did il
1877, he occupied the same position
upon civil Rights that the boy die
when the COW kickel him.
Altogether, | never saw as miserabl,
a failure as this demonstrations
There was no crowd, 10 enthusiasm
no eloTuence. Everything was yer,
dry and dull, with here and there
small boy. l think that had Parsol
Drury's recipe for revivals been tr ed
there would have been "the d-est re
vival you ever saw
About ten barrels OF whisky woul,
have done the work. SHELLEY.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

WE PUBLISH elsewhere an article
from the Memphis Ledger, on the sub
ject of taxing railroad property. The
term during which railroads were ex~
empt from taxation under their char
ter has passed and the question is now
a legitimate one for discussion by the
people. Ii must begin there, for some
additional legislation is needed to Sc
cure initiatory proceedings on the part
Of assessors. AS the laws now stand
there is no power delegated for the re-
vision of the assessors works after il
has passed through the hands of the
County Court. Ia most Of the States
railroads pay good share of the pub.
lie burdens. They should be taxed and
be made to bear their share of our tax,
Is. We see or know Of no reason why
they should not, and as we are JUS
now very much in need of help in thI,
direction, we think the subject on,
proper for consideration in behalf 0
/ the people.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

WE learn through private advices
from Nashville, that J. J. Womack,
Esq, is a candidate for Comptroller.
Womack was Hobbs' clerk, and is the
man who lost situation on account
of Hobbs i'll health, brought about by
the humid atmosphere Of the State
Capitol and twelve thousand dollars.
1t would be an act Of justice now, to
elect Womack and restore him to the
Office he was traded out of. 1t will
be remembered that he has suit
pending in the Law Court at Nash
willie against Mr.. Hobbs, growing out
of this transaction.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

SOME DAYS AGO the Press and Hcr-
ald put forth a most slanderous and
damaging statement rejecting severe
ly upon Gen. Cooper. 1t charged him
"a United States officer, occupying a
responsible position-and his sons
with forcibly resisting a process of the
Supreme Court of this State. The ar
ticle was republished far and wide and
much significance attached to it be-
cause Of Gen. Cooper's position and
well known relations TO the Govern
ment and the Republican party. The
story was a fabrication from beginning
TO end, so far a. Gen. Cooper was con-
cerned, for he was absent from the
county at the time, as Sheriff Swan,
the alleged informant Of the Press and
Herald, well knew. We published,
few days ago, reply from Gen. Coop
er, written after his return. Its sting
ing and severe in It's facts. 1t remains
70 be seen whether the Press and Hcr-
dtd proposes to allow such "a damaging
exposure Of its mendacity and utter
want Of control Of its own columns 10
pass i'm silence. A more inexcusable
aud wicked SANDER was never put
forth, and to treat IT with silence
would prove the paper TO be more ut
terly obliyious to public opinion than
we have ever supposed II to be.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

AMONG the personal" in the last
number of Hdrper's Weekly, we find
the following:
Mr.. Mast made such a hit with his
lectures last season that we are not sur
prised to learn that he is again in great
request but we are authorized to say
that he will not lecture during the
coming season, and that he will make
no exception whatever to this deter
mination. 1t would be a waste of time to
apply to him on the subject, and the
large audiences that were last season
delighted by his mirth-provoking pow
eTs Of caricature must be resigned Ia
the disappointment this notice will
create
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25
THE MORMONS REJOICING OVER
RECENT DEMOCRATIC
VICTORIES.

1t is said that the rejoicings over the
recent Democratic victories are no
where so universal nor so overpower-
ing as in the dominions Of Brigham
Young, the great polygamist of the
Nineteenth Century. The Mormons
interpret it as meaning that in the fu-
ture, a man may havejustas many wives
as he desires, or as he can get, and no
one dare to modest or make him
afraid. \ correspondent writing from
Salt Lake City, to the Cincinnati Cam
mcrcidl says
OF all the forty-odd millions in the
| United States none are so delighted
/ over the Democratic victory as the
| Latter. dav Saints of Utah. They can't
keep still about it. Day after day their
papers enlarge on the subject, filling
/ their columns with notes Of triumph
| over the defeat OF this or that prom Il
nent man whovoted against" this peO-
Pile" while the elders 90 about the
streets with faces wresthed in smiles.
They shout and sing in politico-relig-
iOus frenzy. They sit down to laugh
and rise up to crow. They expect nuIh.
ing less than complete reversal ot all
that has been done in Utah since 1861;
considering it is settled thing that
the Republican party will never carry
another election, and that Titan viii
be admitted Internationally rs state
as soon a- Congress Is Democratic Al
the old and bitter prophecies about
Edom shine with meaning, the Re.
publican party il Auak fighting against
God 10 is Amalek hinderiug the march
of Israel, it is the A,sYrian host blot
ted out in one night, 1T is Babylon
overthrowu by Democratic Cyrus,
who will permit the rebuilding OF
Zion That ludicrous application
of HeUraic simit,2 which is SO charac
teristic of MOrmuuism, is never more
amusing than when applied To politics,
and for every Incident IN the last cam
paign, indeed in the whole period since
they were expelled from Missouri, they
have found an exact precedent in the
fruitful annals OF Israel.
The correspondent then enumerates
how they regarded Gov. Boggs as Ne
70, Gov. Ford az Plate, while James
X. Polk was the first ruler who be-
friended the people of God.
They claim that under Democratic
administrations in the past, they have
enjoyed a freedom in following after
their peculiar customs, which has been
constantly interrupted under a Repub-
lican administration. They claim that
when the Democrats come into power,
Utah will be admitted into the Union
as a sovereign State, and then their
cherished institutions will be protected
by the strong arm of the law. If such
a thing should come to pass, the cor
respondent of the Commercial says the
whole machinery of justice would sc
into the hands Of the Mormons, Of
which event he takes this cheerful
view:
"All the prominent Gentiles would
emigrate mighty sudden. | know o.
one who wouldn't stop here over night
They could convict me of treason
murder, robbery, arson, larceny, rape
burglary and fornicatiou, within
twenty our hours-as quick as tn,
afiidavits could be made out aud thu
witnesses swOrn-and send me to TIN
penitentiary twenty-five years on eacl
charge"
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

THE CRUEL STORY that Secretary
Stanton took his own life, by cutting
his throat with arazor, is again revived.
There Is not a particle Of reliable lesti-
mOny, that we have ever heard, to sus-
tain this story. 1t is based on susbi-
cion aroused by the sensitiveness and
natural Tepugnance Of his widow to
have any stranger prepare or care for
the remains during or preparatory to
the burial. We know of some Of the
best Of our public men who saw Mr..
Stanton's remains, and we have the
best Of reason for knowing that this
story is cruel and groundless, Secre.
tary stanton died Of Over-work. The
country owes as much to him for its
preservation, as to any other one man.
He stood a bulwark against everything
corrupt, trihing or half-hearted. and
pushed forward with his iron-will and
ureless energy the great work Of his
Department His zeal, his honesty,
his efficiency have aroused the indy
ing hatred Of the enemies Of his coun,
try, and they have ever pursued him.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

The NEW YORK Sun has a long ed
itoral as to whether the Republicans
or Democrats will have control of the
Senate under the next President. Its
calculations are Substantially the same
as those submitted in the CHRONIcLE
some days ago. Though it does not
frankly admit what its own figures
show, it subsequently, comedies that
the chances are more than good for a
Republican Senate to begin March 9TH,
1877, under the new President. Should
he by chance be a Democrat, he would
find himself shorn Of most Of his pow
or by an opposition Senate which
must confirm his appointments to
Office.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25
GLADSTONE AND MANNING.

The controversy between such EN-
inent scholars and representative men
as Mr.. Gladstone and Archbishop
Manning, as to the effect upon civil
government of the doctrine Of the In-
fallibility of the Pope, naturally at
tracts general attention and is watched
with the deepest interest. Over year
ago, in several editorials, the CHROME
Gle advanced the opinion that this
doctrine, carried to its legitimate and
logical conclusion, must end in the
subversion of all civil government,
whenever aud wherever the subjects
Of the Pope were commanded, from
the Vatican, to do any service that
brought them In conflict with their
temporal rulers. Mr.. Gladstone, In an
exhaustive article, enlarges upon this
subject, aud demonstrates rs conclu-
lively as though it were a mathematical
problem the inevitable tendency of this
dogma.
The stability of all civil Govern
ment rests upon the supreme allegi-
ance Of its citizens. Any power that
steps in between the Government and
the citizen, and demands of the latter
superior allegiance, undermines the
very foundation upon which the form
er rests. Nothing can be plainer.than
this "A citizen can not serve two ru-
lers, each claiming his supreme al
legiancc. Sooner or later there must
be a conflict, and the one or the other
establish its superior claim. But
Archbishop Manning evades this il
resislible conclusion 10y asserting that
the Pope's Infallibilty does not reach
temporal affairs. But this is paradox
zeal. An infalible spiritual ruler sub
iect to falljble civil rulers, when it is
apparent from the whole history and
spirit of the Roman Church that a
conflict with civil Government is
inevitable?
On this subject Mr.. Gladstone as.
serts that the declaration Of infallibil-
ity reaches to all former DEGREES of the
Popes, and, that they have repeatedly
attempted to dissolve the allegiance OF
subjects to rulers, are matters of history
too well established to require more than
an allusion to them. The excitement
growing out of this controversy
throughout Europe, will spread into
America, where the subject is of ab.
sorbing and startling interest in sec
tions where the power of the Roman
Church is rapidly on the increase.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

THE Shelbyville Commercial thus
alludes to the proposition to make
jeff. Davis the next Democratic can
didate for President of the United
States:
While the Democracy of the South
hold Mr.. Davis in the highes. esteem
as Il citizen, statesman and patriot,
they at the same time have no more
idea Of bringing him forward as their
standard-bearer than they have of be-
ing defeated in 1916
IT says further:
We are inclined to believe that
Charles O'COnner will be the strong
est and most available man that the
party could nominate, as his nOmina-
ton would insure the State Of New
York for the Democracy. He is a
man of acknowledged ability and pop
ularity, and being Of Irish descent
would add great strength to the party,
as the Irish of America would cast a
solid vote for him.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25
IDLENESS THE CURSE OF OUR
STATE.

We commend the following from
the Nashville Banner, as being timely
aud to the point:
We must begin to look more to the
pennies, and let the pounds take care
of themselves. The street gamins who
sell newspapers, and actually water,
at two-and-a half cents n glass, set an
example worthy the emulation of
some children of larger growth, who
hold up lamp-posts with their shout
ders for nothing per hour, or white
chips from country horse-blocks for
worse than nothing per annum. Go
to work everywhere in Tennessee, if
you would make Tennessee glorious
and powerful. Be everybody useful i'm
something, without regard to age, sex
or condition or complexion. Let those
be honored of men who are the most
useful-the most industrious. And
make vagrancy odious in whatever
shape or guise it comes. COuntenance
no thriftless member of the commune
ty and give aid and comfort, and al.
ways words of encouragement to the
doors and workers.
The fact is, disguise it as we may,
idleness and general good-for-nothing-
ness is the curse of our State, and not
ours only, but Of a goodly number of
Others we might mention. There are
enough men in Tennessee, who spend
large proportion of their time in
whiting chips" who, if they were
| following some useful occupation,
would add one-fourth to our products.
If every man who could reasonably do
so would go to work to earn something,
we would hear far less about hard
| times. We have had occasion before
to speak of the crowds Of idle, aimless,
thriftless men and boys of all ages
and coors, who may be seen
almost any day lounging
about railroad stations, with apparent
ly nothing to do but to watch the ar
rival and departure of trains. They
are not confined to the railroad sta.
tons, either, by any means. They
may be found at street corners, at
country crossroads and in bar-rooms,
talking politics and retailing gossip.
They are sponges on society, fit for
nothing, and absolutely doing nothing
but absorbing what their more indus
trious neighbors produce. They
may be found all over the country.
There are men who will spend their
time with half starved dog and a gun
hunting game, and exc out q miserable
half dead, half living existence, who
if they would bestow the same amount
of physical exertion in some useful vo
cation, might be living like princes
We repeat, that idleness is the curse o.
our State, and if we ever rise, it mus
be by going to work and earning {
comfortable living.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

THE denial of the story put afoat a
few days ago by a Herald correspon-
dent, To the effect that the President
had telegraphed to Minester WASH
burn to come to Washington and give
political council is hardly necessary.
But lest there may be some over-cred-
ulous individual who believed it, we
give what the reliable Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, a
Democratic paper, says about it. The
story was concocted by one of those
irresponsible fellows, who hang around
the National Capital and disgrace
American Journalism.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

Ex-PRESIDENT JOHNSON is not keep
ing quiet. He still talks about the
Senatorship. He made "a speech at
Newport last week, to a large crowd.
He alluded to John G. Brown, and to
the two CoOpers in his usual style.
Andy may expect to be elected TO the
Senate but we hardly think so. He is
too " old coon not 10 know that the
men who control the party in Tennes-
see are not favorable to him. Nothing
short of a political tornado or earth
quake would shake them up to that
point. They are just about as likely
to elect Benjamin j. Butler 10 succeed
Senator BrOwnlOw as they are TO
choose Andrew Johnson
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

THE Memphis Appeal, Nashville
Union and american, and several 9th
er newspapers, which we might men
ton, have been going for independent
voters" " Independent candidates y
and an independent press with
gloves Off Per contra the Aualanchc
observes
The fact is gradually forcing itself
into the intellectual department Of the
rabid Democratic partisan journals
which glory in being organs, that but
for the Independent voters the Oppo-
sitiOn victories Of October and NOyem-
Der would have been defeats.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

The Chattanooga Commercial has
the following about corn: Several
small lots of corn sold yesterday and
the day before on the wharf, for mill
ing purposes, at so cents. This figure
is about tie average thus far for new
corn. Last year, from November goth
TO December Goth, the price on the
wharf ranged from 55 to 65 cents.
After that time it gradually rose till it
reached at one time late in the season.
Sl.05.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

ONE of the speakers at the late
Democratic jollification at Richmond,
Virginia, during his speech drew out
q Confederate flag, and waving it be-
fore the crowd, said, ~ expect yet to
live under that banner
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

ALL those heavy damage suits at
Nashville might be amicably adjusted
10y electing Womack, il that gentle
man would agree to give Burch a first
class clerkship. We charge nothing for
the suggestion.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

Gov. JNo. c. BROwN was one of the
big lies at the late Democratic
Notification at Nashville. Andy John
son was at his home in Greeneville,
utterly ignored by Swans of the party
at the State capital. When they say
let by-gones be by-gones they
don't mean that it shallapply to Andy.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

IN August, one Thos. i. Jones was
the Democratic nominee for Clerk of
the Court of Appeals, in the State of
Kentucky. The Louisville CONNER
cidl, AN able and heightened Republican
paper, made the point against him
that he was ineligible, for the reason
that he had, few years previous to the
time Of the election, accepted a chal~
lenge to fight aduel. But jones par
ty spurned what the Commercial had
to say about it and elected him by a
majority of $4,000 votes. 1t will be
seen by reference to our dispatches
this morning, that the Supreme Court
has sustained the position taken by
the Commercial, and that Jones is de-
clared ineligible. Some newspapers
and politicians assume that there is nc
political virtue outside of the Demo.
cratic party, but we do not accept theil
assumptions as correct.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

Mr.. G. w. LEFFINGwELL, of Mem
phis, is candidate for Comptroller
DR.. J. NJ. Sharpe, of Davidson, is also
announced. But Burch is the coming
man. He knows how to do it,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

A CoLORED DEMOCRAT represents
South Carolina Democracy in the
House Of Representatives. They took
him as choice Of evils just as they
took Greeley
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

THE editor Of the Athens Post an
ticipates lively times at Nashville this
winter. lie says:
Our friends are admonished in time
to keep away from the State Capitol
during the struggle for the Senator
ship. The contest is likely to be fierce,
and there is no telling where the light
ming will strike.
The question of taking care of two
millions of dollars to be paid by the
people of Tennessee annually, seems
not to command half the attention as
does this Senatorial election. Is this
as it should be?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

thing of the manner of his election,
whether it was fair or unfair, but we
do think if the Legislature Of that
State has nothing fgreater importance
to consider than that, that it might adj
journ sine die, without detriment to
Arkansas.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

THE CENSUS returns of 1870 show
that there were fewer carpet,bag-
gers in the South than in 1860. Yet
from Democratic exchanges one would
suppose they had overrun the South
worse than the grasshoppers did the
West.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

KNOXVILLE Is BUILDING three or
four railroads on paper. Let Us build
one with iron and wood and see how
il works.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

J. PROCTOR KNOTT, the funny"
Kentucky statesman, wants the Bird Of
November made national holiday.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25
TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25, 1S74,l

WE will have both sides now. Burch
represents one side and Womack the
other or Hobbs side of it.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

a literal-minded youngster was
picked up by a visitor of the family,
who, dandling him on his knee, said T:
" / wish had this little boy; 1 think
there's money in him." To which
promptly responded the child: o.
know there IL, for / swallowed a cent
when l was at graudma's the other
dpv.u
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

ELECT Womack or Burch. we don't
care which. They have Doth tried the
humidity of the Capitol and still live.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25

A RESOLUTION has been introduced
I'm the Arkansas Legislature, provid-
ing for an investigation Of the manner
of Senator Dorsey's election. We are
not special champions of Senator Dor
scy and do not pretend 10 know any