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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-06

TIE editor Of the Press am Herald
Of September 3Oth, 1873-meridian
time-difTers from the editor Of the
Press anil HciuH Of September, 1873,
The present editor thinks inha-oh-
expansion Of the currency is all that
is needed to revive business. The
Democratic editor of the Chattanooga
Times thinks differently. lie says
The merchants and fnsnciers Of New
York find the imitation platforms Of Ohio
and Pennsylvania the greatest obstacle to
% revival Of business
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-06

JUDGE PER~HING, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Pennsyl-
vania, has written a letter which is
severely criticised by certain of his
party journals. He refuses to resign
his office as Judge, and make a can
vass before the people This is not
satisfactory to his party. They eX-
pected him to show confidence enough
in his election to resign his office
They are hard pressed in a close fight,
and they want their candidate-wAo
was nominated as a "reform catch
to play his part before the people
They think it looks like Sinking duty
to hold on to his judgeship and leave
the hard work TO be done by those
who have far less interest in the
result.
He was nominated on a notorious
imitation platform. That wa, sup
posed to be another " catch for votes, -
50 the hard money leaders were
slaughtered, and after a hard fight the
iniationists carried the day. They
boast Of it, and appeal to the people
for votes on that platform. But their
candidate in his letter Of acceptance,
trying to ride two horses, says the
platform does not mean imitation.
Imagine the disgust Of the infationists
to have their victory in convention
thus neutralized by the timidity Of
their candidate! His letter mean,
neither hard money nor imitation, and
so he catches it from both hard and
soft money Democrats, lie seems u
be a poor candidate for the emer
gency.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-06

WE are anxious to see how the
Democratic press will treat Carl
Schurz's frank explanation Of the
circumstances under which he APP
pears in the Ohio Canvass. The
short.sighted, bitterly partisan class
of them have charged him with "sel'
ling out TO the bond-holders and
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-06
The Coal Product.

The miners OF the coal regions in
Pennsylvania are now said to be fairly
at work, after six months of strikes.
The Philadelphia Inquirer thinks that
the coal product for this year will be
half million Of tons less than it was
last year, and last year the product was
beyond million tons less than in 1878.
Therefore it appears that, according to
every probability, the coal product and
consumption for this year will be, in
round numbers, a million and haif of
tons less than it was two years ago.
A writer to the Richmond (Va.)
wing proposes to initiate movement
during the State fair toward raising a
fund for the erection of an equestrian
statue Of General Robert E. Lee. He
says: "Englishmen have given us q
statue of Jackson let Virginians
themselves provide one for Lee.h The
proposition has already received the
endorsement of number of the news
papers of the State.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-06

WE need not argue the currency
question entirely upon facts devel.
oped during the unfortunate depres-
sion in business that has followed the
panic of 1873. We have the eXpe.
rience of other countries to throw
light upon our uncertain future and
illumine the path we should follow.
France has passed through exactly
the same stagnation we have expe-
rienced. Her war with Germany
compelled her to issue immense sums
OF paper money. But as soon as the
war was over she began at once to re.
trace the steps she pursued in her
imitation march. She has contracted
her paper money and is preparing to
resume specie payments on Il fixed
day. According to our imitation doc.
tors, this contraction ought to cause
stagnatlOn, bankruptcy and ruin, but
She trade statistics for the first eight
months Of 1915, show an increase in
trade of lG7,O0O,OOO francs.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-06

The party that hopes to succeed
in this country on the presumption
that the American people, as a class,
are ignorant, dishonest or bankrupt,
and will find themselves in the min
GRITTY. Yet the initiation Democracy
of the West and South are proceed
ing on this presumption They are
not inhationists from principle, for
creed Of their party for years has
been hard money. Their old argu-
ments for coin circulation have been
that the Government did not have the
power to make any other money legal
tender for debts. When the only
emergency came that ever justified q
disregard of this constitutional limi'
tatiOn upon Congress they opposed
its infringement. Now, in a time Of
profound peace, when no exigency
demands such an exercise of power
when the national honor and prosper
ity demand that the Government
treat its creditors honestly and pro
tect its people by maintaining an hon
est currency, great party in the
second and third States of the Unior
advocates u policy the inevitable re
suit of which will be to lead us t
bankruptcy and ruin. That is wha
initiation means.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-06

practice the tactics with which they
are so familiar. They propose to
keep the outside world ignorant Of
the real state Of affairs there, by de.
nying that there is any trouble. Hence
when Gov. Ames makes represen-
tation showing forth the outrages of
the outlaws, they straightway join in
contradicting him. They endeavor
to impress the outside world that he
deals only in misrepresentation, and
that they alone are capable Of telling
the truth. This serves as q screen,
behind which they carry on their
bloody work with IMMUNITY. In the
meantime a reign Of terror prevails
in many localities, and we will not
be surprised at all if the election de.
monstrates the superior strength of
the cartridge.box as against the bal
lot-box.
Only a few days ago, a correspond
ent Of the Cincinnati Commercial
witnessed the spectacle of passengers
on a railroad train shooting at colored
laborers in cotton field, as the train
passed by. 1t was royal fun, no
doubt, to the heightened (?) fellows
who did the shooting, and as the vic.
Tins of the practical joke were only
negroes, nothing was said about it in
the local papers, This and similar
outrages following the Clinton mas
sacre have inspired colored voters
with wholesome fear Of the out
laws, and thousands of them will re
main at home on election day, fear
ing that the shooting process will bC
repeated, only more vigorously.
1t is with this state of affairs that
Gov. Ames has to deal. The only
way to meet such outragos is will
bayonets and hemp. The leading
characters in such outrages. as Ions
as they can keep the outside worlC
ignorant of their real acts and pun
poses, and so long as they can evade
by falsehood and misrepresentation
the strong arm of the Federal Gov
eminent, will continue to murder an
intimidate colored voters, and b.
that means will be successful at Jh
ballot.boX this fall,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-06

OUR Democratic friends who have
always favored q strict limitation of
Governmental power now want the
entire volume 0. currency to be under
the control of the Government" its
volume to be controlled by the de-
mands Of trade That is, when the
Secretary Of the Treasury thinks the
business Of the country demands
more money he is to issue it as fast
as the printing presses can print it.
When he Thinks the business OF the
country demands a contraction he will
withdraw Treasury notes from circu-
latioD. But how is he to determine
whether the country wants imitation
or contraction His judgment will
likely be Influenced by his own bust
ness, and by the representations of
those who are his advisers and friends.
That would be a monopoly, sure
enough. Carl Schurz, on this point,
says:
The private fortune of every citizen i,
placed at the mercy of the Government
arbitrary pleasure You can not venture
upon any business enterprise; you can not
sell or buy lot Of merchandise ON Time OF
even for cash You can not make "a con-
tract involving the outlay or payment Of
money, but the Government will have the
power to determine whether it will be tc
your profit or loss and perhaps, in extreme
cases, whether it will make you rich OF
bankrupt This, then, is the awful power
7 Of Government intru.tcd with the offic,
Of making and keeping the volume Of cur.
rency equal to the wants Of trade
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-06
FARMERS AND HARD MONEY.

There are men who pretend to re-
present the farmers Of the country,
who demand for them initiation Of the
currency. We hope they have little
influence with the class they pretend
to represent. There is not a class
more interested in honest hard
money, or a currency redeemable in
coin, than the farmers. Their pro-
ducts are invariably sold by a gold
standard. The price of wheat is
fixed by the demand for it in Europe.
Every bushel of wheat sold for eX-
port is sold by 4 gold standard. 1t
sells for what it will bring in Liver
pool or Uavre, in gold, less cost OF
transportation and handling. The
price Of almost every leading farm
product was but little greater in 1870
than i'm 1850. When almost every
article the farmer consumed was
much higher, owing to the deprecia-
ton Of our paper money, what he
offered for sale brought but little
more than in specie paying times. \
barrel of flour, in 1860, brought S5.i2
and only about S5.4S in 1870. We
quote prices from the report of the
New York Produce Exchange: Pork
sold almost as high in 1860 as in 1870.
The same was true of wheat. These
facts show how little the farmer
profits by high prices caused by an
irredeemable and redundant curren-
cy. If he wants to hire help on his
farm he pays high prices, when de-
preciated paper money floats plenti-
| fully. If he wants to ship his wheat
. or corn on the railroad he pays high
prices, when imitation is the order OF
the day. In short, when we have a
. deprecated paper money the farmer
pays high prices for all he wears and
consumes, for his hired help and for
his transportation, but gets but little
more for his produce than when We
have q gold circulation These are
the facts, and we can produce abund-
ant figures TO sustain our statement
Then, how is the farmer to be bene
fitted by imitation? These men who
propose to lead them into the repudi
alton camp Of the imitation Democra
cy ought to he able to convince then
that they are interested in imitation
and high prices before they sell then
out to the spectators and Wall stree
gamblers, who always favor "mor,
money" and flush times. The far
mers are, above all others, interested
in 4 sound currency, redeemable il
gold. for they are not spectators, bu
producers. who sell about all the,
raise at prices regulated by gold.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-06

THE great double. barreled DEM
ocratic organ Mt Nashville has not
smiled since Kercheval was elected
Mayor of Nashville last Saturday. 1t
is endeavoring now to show that he is
ineligible.
THE rpadcrur the Press and Her.
aid of a year ago, never once supposed
that that paper would now accuse
Carl Schurz Of being the merceuary
tool Of the bond holders Yet, such is
life. But then the p. d H. of 1874 is
not the p. d II. of 1915. The do
minion of the money power explains
it all.
Gov. Hayes, ia his speech Is in
Ohio, answers the Democratic speaks
ers' plea for lutlation by the Democrat
ic platform of New York, which points
out clearly that ia" only road to "a re-
vival of bu,iur-- and restoration of
confidence is D.. a resumption of specie
payments. II L. very convenietn to
answer Democratic thunder in Ohio
with Democratic thunder from New
York.
Our adviceS all lead u TO con-
clude mat he coming E,strrn Divi-
sion Fair will Ue The most successful
and the largest -ver held in East Ten
nessee. 1t ought to be largely attend
ed. and the exhibition promises 10 he
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02
An Opinion Of Old Miners

Thc Chicago Tnbunr'S Black
IIm, .,rro,,,,,l,,t ox,roysa. IN.
Hollow : "P."'o'' VI W" '''''''' :
An old horse, an old gun, or an oId
watch, Is very poor property; am
old Mom'omaA"s a devoted mother,
an indifferent aunt, aodan aGom'"a
bic mother ln-'aW; oUt an oId miner
is a drIu>ion and 4 snare. \ vi.
famous Swlndie, a mass of ne,
tcrogrneonS r"GuerN, Wh" would
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02

which would not be the case if the
garden were more remote. IL IS
visited more frequently; the growth
Of weeds and the presence OF IN
sects and vermin are detected III
season, and before they work ire
parable mischief There is also
lesson in the proverb for that large
class who are more concerned
about the faults Of other people
than about their oWn-Who are
more occupied in evangelsIng the
heather than IN grubbmg up the
weeds and destroying the vermln
that infeSt their own hearts-Who,
as Demuintenon SAID OF Louis XIV,
",hink to eXpiate their own sins 10y
being ineXorable toward the SINS OF
their frllow-creatures." Their gar
den is so far from home that it is
ovCrrun with weeds and insects OF
>elt-IghteouSne>S, and Whatlt yields
is only fit to be burned or ted to the
>winr.-Joh~ Bigel01o, Huper's
.Uliqu2ti,e.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02

Ju'1m loi1 q,meb0 Gtte. THE
qarde" far, the yuobo (ochrn)
SDo2o. Those who have lived
among slaves know the difficulty Of
having a garden. The propensity
ofthc$e drpcnderS to forage upon
the vegetables and poultry Of the
proprietary class is incurabIe. 70
this is owing in a great measure the
fact that with manifold advantages of
so !, of climate, and of cheap labor
such a thing rs a good garden IN
the slave states Of America was al
most unknown. In the days of
slavery, lady OF South Carolina
told me strawberries and peas were
rarely seen in the Charleston mar
kot, though the richest city, for its
population, in all the Save states.
Now, OS-3) she said, for six miles
around Charleston the land Is n
coniunoUS market gaden.
The ncgros plea for treating his
masters fruit As his own is the same
As that which the Hebrews may be
Suppo ed to have used when re-
preached with appropriating to their
own use the inwclry Of their
Egyptian task-mastcrS. a garden,
therefore, not under the immediate
and watchful eve Of the master, was
,,+ :, rr,,.n. uu,,rnfitahln nrnpnrtv
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02
A Negro Prayer.

From The Educational Monthly.
The following groteSqac yet sol
emn prayer is \ verbatim report
taken in the winter of 1923, at Il
Methodist meeting he'd by planta-
ton negroes in u settlement near
camp:
9" o Lord God of this glorious
universe, wilt dou look down IN the
omnipreSeucc Of dy eye upond csc,
Idly collard children, bowed upon dc
! knucklebone dis night. Take 4
solemn peep upon us, and let heap
q LIGHT in. Dou knoWest what
desc dy poor darEieS need. Dere
be sam, deere be Jerry, deere be
Pompry. Dey are in deere sins
. dar's what | reckon. Help dem to
cit from the wilderness Of sin and
come into de clearing Of salvation.
Take a solemn peep also upon de
i darkirs in de other cabin, who fiddle
and whirl upon do bombaStic toe,
while dy servant Eliminates words
to dee May dey ri,eabovc the an
thratorv things OF dis world and fly
/ like NIns>a Likumc balloon, heaven
ward professor loves balloon
was anchored near by.) Ruler Of all
humans ON dis earth. wilt don Dress
|dc generals in the field dis hi-ht, if
In be cjrcumyprclion IN dy eve.
Brcss De colonies in dc field dis
nirht. irit be cirrumspection in DIV
|diScrret eve, and 50 Dress de
/ Union soldiers. who carry de
|muskct and ch w the cartridges
Guhtjur for tine lraion and de Stars
ami S,rincs Dew tipht i'm a Scicn.
tifc cause, and be de bcstcst ob
mon. but rood Lord, may drv
svo,,, loss and pray N, re-. And
finally bress dy humble servant now
Snrniiro,ino dee in behalf OF desc
hcn;rh,nl ! ,rrirs / bnhoovrs dec
10 dTa deem and sound in de very
.b,ttnm of MS hrart. MAY deere be-
n,,.y hlimm,u, between myself and
my Sayour, In de- language of de-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02

THE Back Hills commission have
finished their work preparatory 70
the Grand Council to be he'd at
Shadron Creek, aud left for Rcd
Cloud on the 10Th. There IS no
doubt that a treaty viii be conclu-
ded. but it will not be in full force
until ratified by Congress. 1t Is
the opinion OF the Commissioner and
Gen. Ord, and indeed Of the miners
now i, the Hills, who have come in
contact with the Commission or
Gen Crook that the Hills cannot be-
thrown open to settlement until
after the meeting Of Congress, bnt
there are others who are sangunc
that so soon as the Indians consent
to any terms there will be such a
rush of miners TO the Black Hills,
or such a pressure from all quar-
tcrs, that no further obStructl"nS
will be placed in the way Of settle
meut. The Tribune is confident
DhcIIr Is will be practically thrown
open about the 25th Of September.
Quite late in the fall, it is true, but
the Black Hills country is a good
locality to winter m BiSnlurch
! Iyj6liyP
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02

cate rich diggings?" | asked. 81
want ter see a pIantin-ground," he
replied. ga plan.in-ground! DO
you mean a garden or a FARM"
mo, a burying ground; graveyard
that's what we must have when
we strike somethin' rich; and, the
more shoorin' and cuttin' there IS,
the bigger the graye-yard'I be; and
the bigger the graveyard, the
richer yer'll find the prospec'. "
"Joe" uses knock-down arguments,
but he may not always be right III
his conclusions.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02
GENERAL ELECTION NOTICE.

70 the Sheriff of DoUgiaS Comfy;
NOTICE. Is HEREBY GIVEN, That ut the Gen
y rrI Election to be held IN the several Town,
wards, aud Election Prec nets, in the state Of Wl'>
c,usI. on tie Tuesday succe ding the ii It VI nj y
bpIng tue second div of Npvrmhe, next the following
officer, are to be elected to>w.t:
A Guvrr'lpr.In the place of WIN r. TAYLOR VIII Sc
term of Office Will expire IN the first Moud ~ in Jan~
nary 1876.
A Liruren,nt>G Governor in the place of Charlie D.
PARKER, whose term Of office will expire on the fl -st
Monday in Janu,ry l>76.
score Olry of State ia the place of Peter DOYLE,
whose term of Office will expire on the first Monday
in Janu,r,, SIG
A state Treasurer in the place Of Fred Kuehn
whose term IF iice wall expire on the first Monday
IN January 1876
An Attorney General in rlace of A. Scott sloan
whose term OF office viii expire on the first Monday
IN Jauulry 1876.
state Supe ,ntendent in place of Edward Scar
ing, wno,e term # office viii expire on the first
NJ uay IN January 1876
stlte Srn,t,T IA the Second Senate Dstr ct.
comprising the counties of Brown Door. AMI keWau~
nee ia tn. place OF john VI Read whose term If
office VIII eXpUe on the N'st Monday iuJ rmary, 1876
stare senator in the Fuurth Senate District
COMPRISING the oupties of Monroe and Vernon. in
place of \ f Bleekman, whose term of Office VIII
expire on the Il st Huud,v H. January 1876
State senator in the Sixth Senate District, CONS
prsing the Third. Fonrtn F,ith seventh and
towns of Franklin. G eentirId. Lake and Oak Greek
intne county Of NIy ukee, in place of John B,c;
whose term Of office Will 4yuire O, the first Monday
In I,uuary lS-6
A >t,tr : n,tor in the EIGHTH Senote Dis,
trfcr com .,srn, the couptie, of Keno,ha and Wal.
worth. i, the place of d. Wees whose term of
one wnl expire on the first Monday in January,
1910.
HI'te H'"""T III iie iehih seh',e district, com
P''WE 'h' COUNT" 90 Nn"N'SIt' III pace o' J"hn A.
NICE "h IS run u 5Ln'e VIII expire on inc hr5t
''u".nJ ~ '""N''S i''o ,c, r....
"a So oc1"l'' III .ne t"tulu oenue pl','cl
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-02

blind old woman, hobbling along
on crutches, she so straight in.
Amen"
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THE POST.
Middleburg, May 20, 1875.
Where Wool COM, Efn n.

IL we were 10 take M handful Of
soil aud examine IL undcr ~ MRS
scope. we should probably nul IL to
contain number of frnym mis- pf
wood. small broken pieces OF the
branches, or leaves or other r,rts of
the tree II we cuuld c.a'nina it
chemically, we should find yet more
strikingly thnt it was very nearly the
sane as wood in it's composition
Perhaps, then, it may bc said, the
young plant obtains its wood from
tue eaith in vhch IL grows TIL,
following experiment VIII show
whether this conjecture is likely io
he correct or not Two hun lrpi
pounds of clrti wore dripl in au
oven. and afterwards PIT INTO q large
carthcrn vc-- j The earth was then
moistcncl with uin.wator. aud a
willow tree, weighing five pornls
was planted therein. Du.pr the
space Of five years the earth was
catcfully watcrcl with rain water ot
pure water. The willow grcw AMI
furnished. and. to- prevent uIc earth
l'cing mixed wi h fresh cuth. or 1i,t
being blown upon it hy Tire winds. II
was covered with metal r'f. fail
OF minute b, les which would o.clul,
everything bat nif IRON, g,t.iug nr-
cess to the earth h,iIw &c. Ait,r
growing in the earth for i've veurs.
the trcr wJe removed, uul ON buu-
weighed, vas fouuI 10 have eiarl
one hundred and siNty plm L.. AuI
this estimate hlr5t m.Mda ID
weight OF 'hc leaves or dead branch
cs which I'm i've yrars fell fruu the
ircc. Nos came the application OF
the test Was all til. obtained from
tic cwth II hll not scI.uuty d.
'uiui,hcl hui, In u.,pcts upk. the
experiment conclusive. IL wss amiu
dried in gl oven atl put in th. bi'-
uncn. Astonishing WIS The result
the earth weighed ou,, tau ounces
less than it Ill v'cn tlic willow wa,
fist pbut,d ia it., set the tree had
gained one huudr"i aud -isty four
pounds M0nilr-tIv Dl,uu. the wood
thus gained ia this .pi'r at tim, wa.
mot obtained from TIE Garth: we "a,
therefore comr,llo1 t. repeat ,ar
qpostiou, "Nh.ro does a., wood
Tome from We urr icit with only
tvo e.t., .Ir; o." vri,r u,n
which II vnI refreshed. or the nir IN
which ], lived n clula .l.vu that