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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-19
THE FUTURE IRON INTEREST
OF TENNESSEE.

OF TENNESSEE.
The Nashville Union and Ame1icUl
publishes an interview with Colonel
Killebrew, giving the result of his ex-
plorations of the iron and coal regions
of Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.
He is very enthusiastic, and predicts
that Tennessee is to be the great iron
center of the Mississippi Valley. He
was accompanied by Mr.. VIM. Burns,
of Pittsburgh, whose opinion, we are
led to believe from the Coloners re-
marks, concurs with his. The in
terview is long one, but, briefly eX-
pressed, the points, are these: Ten
nessee has abundant deposits of coal,
and as iron can be made cheaper by
transporting the ore to the coal than
Uice UerSd, he concludes that we will
become the center of the manufacture
ing business for the three States
named. The Sewanee mines are sur
passed by but few in Pennsylvania,
Mr.. Burns thinks. The Cincinnati
road cuts through miles and miles of
the richest coal beds of the MISSISSIPPI
pi Valley. Our Knoxville and Ohio
road, when complete, and even now,
strikes immense beds that will some
day be mined with profit. We have
the coal then in abundance, and the
ore will be brought to the coal to
make iron.
OF the iron beds tributary to this
coal region we have frequently spoken
Here in the vast manganese iron beds
is the Unaka Mountains, stretching
along our southeastern boundary. Oh
this range he says: This range o.
mountains consists of several long
high, parallel ridges, intersected by
deep cuts, or chasms, through whict
the Watauga, Nolachucky, Frencl
Broad, Big Pigeon, Little Tennessee
IIiwassee and Ocoee Rivers flow il
raging torrents out of North Carolin'
and Georgia into the State. Now, be
tween this double range is a series o
hills running the whole diagona
length of the State, and every one O
these hills are filed with limonite iron
ore and ores intermixed with oxide o
manganese. Time will make thes,
mountains luminous with the fires o
furnaces and FORCES, and Knoxville
and Chattanooga and probably Nash
vile, will become the great iron EN-
Iporiums of the Mississippi Valley"
4 In Georgia, Col Killebrew says
" ten days ago, short distance from
Amberson's Station, in Alabama, Oh
the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad
| rode over four hills, covering from
two to twenty acres each, which re
semble exploded planets, shivereo
and torn into millions of fragments
These hills, | am satisfied, are noun
tains of Northumberland TO shoy
the depth, a well dug in a valley be
low, sixty feet deep, passed all tn,
way through the shivered mass. Anc
at Priors Station, on the same rail
road is an outcrop Of iron ore, cor
rect description Of which would no
/ be credited. About mile from tn,
railroad an isolated mass and almos
solid, covering about an acre, is tn
. first indication of ore. From this
. line Of hills running northeast ant
southwest extends for the distance o
two miles, and rise in height from fit,
TO one hundred and fifty feet. Tn
largest of these hills covers fort,
, acres and boulders Of ore as large a
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-19

public buildings, and which the character
Of our soil seems to demand in building
Of the size and weight of the proposed
Custom House. Meanwhile, if this work
OF tearing down and rebuilding has TO be
commenced Mr. Rankin, the ex-superin-
icndent, may thank his stars that he lives
in America and not under a monarchical
form of government, in which he would be
made to suffer full penalty for bis neglsct.l'
U'fr ---l So ~ EHff.
THE city fathers are again wrestl-
ing with the question of abating
the hog nuisance Mayor Staub
favors a vigorous hog law and stands
squarely up for his views on the sub.
ject, for which he deserves and win
receive credit. We supposed few
weeks ago that the Board would sus-.
ton him, but it begins to look doubt
full, judging from the vote on Fri
day night. ....,...., .,......
WE learn that the proposition to
turn over the management of the
Eastern Division Fair to the Patrons
of Husbandry and the farmers gen.
orally, meets with the most favorable
response, and the indications are that
it will prove success. We would
like very much to see the farmers
take hold of the matter and let us
have a grand gathering here in the
fall, that will do our section good.
The benefits of such an organization
under such circumstances will not be
confined exclusively to the farmers
by any means, but will be felt by
every branch of industry.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-19

IT has been said for some time that
the magnificent new Custom House
planned for Chicago, and which is in
process of erection, was q large fraud.
We noticed several days ago that
General Holman, who superintendent
the construction of the Court House
and Postoflice building here, had been
ordered there to inspect the work and
to take charge Of the building. 1t
appears now that the stone being
used is worthless, and that the walls
are already crumbling. The Chicago
Tribune speaking of the matter says /:
at now seems altogether probable that
the walls Of the Chicago Custom House
will have to come down. Though this
course will involve an additional outlay of
hundreds Of thousands of dollars and the
practical loss of two years time, it is bet
ter that the loss should be bravely faced
now than to postpone il and carry with it
still greater loss by adding TO the blunder.
We may better charge it all up now among
the other disasters incident to the official
career Of Richardson and Mullott, and start
out de aOVO with the sweeping reforms of
Bristow and Potter. We scarcely think
that new walls will ever be commenced
without the driving of piles, which is done
in ST. Petersburg in the case Of all large
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-19
AN UNHAPPY JOURNALIST.

The Nashville Union dnd America,
is the only journal we have received
thus far, that is not pleased with the
exposure Of the great Whisky Ring.
1t grieves over it. 1t bestows faint
praise for the final act, but with an
air Of sanctimonious hypocrisy, which
deCeivcs no one, it talks about the de-
lay. Oh what paragon of virtue is
this Nashville Democratic organ
What throes Of agony torture its
honest soul, when it sees the corrup.
ton Of these latter days! If this
wicked and perverse generation would
only consent to be governed by the
precepts of this pure sheet, vice would
give place to virtue, the millennium
would one Of these fine May morn
ings make the earth glad, and the
wilderness would blossom as the rose
The waste places would be restored,
and this world would become veri
table garden of Paradise. 1t is sad
to reflect that we lose so much by
merely failing to follow the teaching,
of the pure patriots, who send forth
words Of wisdom to enlighten be
nighted world, through the luminous
columns of the Union and Americdn
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-19

In discussing the only question that
Democratic editors seem to care about
now, the Memphis AOaIanche says;
Washington acts convinced the coun-
try that he was preparing to retire to pri-
vate life at the end of his second term (:
Grants convinced the country that he is
sparing no effort 10 secure third term.
Now we would like to know where
in the acts Of an honest President,
when he expects to retire at the end
of his term, should or would differ
from one who expected reelection.
1t is very certain that if the President
is a candidate for a third term, he is
not looking for any aid from the
powerful whisky ring, which he has
just assisted in breaking up. We
shall not be surprised to hear Demo-
cratic editors charging that he did
this in the interest of third term.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-19

These crooked whisky seizures strike
ne terror to our soul We always take it
straight. - Onion and american.
An honest confession is good for
the soul.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-19

THE great musical festival at Gin
cinnati during the past week was y
decided success.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-19

Last winter will long be remem-
bered by our neighbors in the North
.ern States for its more than ordinary
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-03
DISCOVERY OF A CORPSE IN BAYOU
LAFOURCHE.
An Old Fashioned Coffin.
Some Mystery Involved.

few days ago a coffin was discovered in
the Bayou Lafourche, about half mile from
the railroad bridge, where the water had gone
down. One end was sticking in the soft mud,
and the sight that first met the gaze was one
Of the most abhorrent nature. The discover
ers of this mysterious coffin, alter making
the necessary arrangements, approached and
found that the casket was one Of the first
patents Of metallic case invented, being
raised at the head and loot considerably above
the level of the body of the coffin.
At the head was a small glass put there, to
disclose the face of the corpse, which had
been broken evidently by contact with some
harder substance, perhaps struck by the bow
of boat passing up the bayou Upon close
examination, the body of child about
four years old was found; the face was par
TALLY decayed and from the appearance Of the
remainder Of the body it was very conclusive
that the glass had been recently broken, but
all other appearances went to show that the
corpse must have been in the bayou some
fifteen years, the case in which it was lying
case, none Of which have been in use for
years past.
There was nothing in the coffin to give the
slightest clue to this deep mystery, which yet
remains to be unraveled only by the divine
hand Of Providence. If murder, who
knows but the murderer of this little child,
though undiscovered for years, may yet be
traced up and receive the punishment which
he deserves. The body was taken to the
settlement, where an Investigation into
the mystery will be made.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-03
ENTERPRISING JOURNALISM.

''ln old times, when etiquette ruled all
things, the rule was that no one should speak
to the King until the King had first addressed
him. But this is quite changed now, and be-
fore a King is well seated upon his throne,
and almost before he is King, an interviewer
pounces upon him, and cross-eNamines him
as if he were doubtful witness in court of
justice. The new King of SPANS crown,
though ordered had not as yet we believe.
been sent home by the maker. before an
emissary of New York journal called at the
Hotel Basilewsky and said to the porter,
King Alfonso at homer Well. sir, said the
porter. ne is at home, but 49, Just take him
up my card; he'll see me; don't be afraid.
q few minutes afterward in comes the
King, trying to look as old as he can.
Please to answer a few questions and be
good enough to speak slowly, as I've got to
take down the answers, says the emissary.
Now, then, are you prepared to negotiate in
respect to Gibraltar Yes, replies the
King, not quite understanding the question,
but thinking that his interlocutor expects
yes Good Would you like to settle the
Cuban difficulty OF course l would says
the King; but it isn't SO easy. oh, where
there is will there is way, says the inter-
viewer, encouragingly. BY the way, have
you got the Pope's blessing? All, that's all
right. Well sell some ten thousand addi-
tional copies on the strength Of that This
is nearly the sort of thing that Kings seem
glad to put up with nowadays" London
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-03
LOYAL MERRILL.

The present theory Of the United States
Government is that whenever a colored man
fails to vote the Administration ticket he is
inundated. If he fails to vote for either
side it is mild but unmistakable case; if he
votes the opposition ticket it takes the form
OF an outrage; if it happens that great
many OF them vote the Conservative ticket
and elect it, then, in the language Of the
patriot Hester, :. intimidation reigns su-
preme, and it is time to proclaim the people
"banditti and try them by military COM
ment.
This is the present Interpretation of the
Constitution. Merrill understood this, of
course. He went up to Shreveport as Saul
went to Damascus, fully determined to enforce
the Constitution. His suspicious of the dis
loyalty OF the people were confirmed as soon
as he discovered that nobody invited him to
dinner, and that there was a Conservative ma
jority in the parish. He immediate observed
that there was intimidation in the air. Many
cOlored persons were afraid to write their
names III full, and only made their marks
with laborious hand and lolling tongue
Meantime the sweet potato crop was Kept
back by intimidation. There was much com
plant Of burdensome taxation, and everything
looked as though the Conservatives would
carry the election.
There was but one thing for Merrill as a
man and Major to do, and he did it. He
opened an attack on the town with affidayits
He appeared as public prosecutor. He made
things lively In Shreveport. He enforced the
Enforcement Act. He gave the ssbanditti''
to understand that while he wore spurs and
commanded at Shreveport nobody should
combine against Kellogg or speak unfavor-
ably OF the taxes Shreveport was awe struck.
good many citizens beat hasty retreat
And Merrill had his guard mountings and
reveilles and taps and dress parades and such
with military regularity, aud never failed to
impress the citizens with the conviction that
behind his affidavits was the whole military
power of the Government
Notwithstanding this vigorous administra-
ton of both civil and military afflirs in the
subjugated district, there were army officers
who raised technical objections to his thrill |
ing performance. Even Gen. Emory, his |
commander old fogy who has |
very absurd notions about the distinction be- |
tween civil and military functions strongly |
lisapproved Of Merrills energetic admins
ration It was Gen. Emory's notion that the
functions of an officer of the army did not ex-
end to the prosecution in the courts Offend
9rs against the provisions Of the Enforcement
Yet. Merrill differed, And so Merrill wrote
report on the subject which has Just been
ent to the Senate with other documents.
Doubtless it will enliven that body on the
questions inyolved.-Nelc York Tribune, 9th
ne
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-03
Don't Want Christianity.

Saa Kee, a Chinaman resident of San Fran
cisco, and professor OF the English language,
protests through the press of that city against
Christian missionary effort among his people
He hollis that the religion Of Confucius is all
that is needed to insure those who follow its
commandments blissful immortality Those
Chinese who have been converted to Chris
tianity are, he declares, 'the most sycophant-
ic, fawning and contemplate Of the nation"
He draws parallel between our administra-
ton OF justice and that of the land Of his
fathers, and makes out bad case against u.s.
The New Testament in great part, he as
serts, was remodeled from theaancient writ
ings Of Chinese sages. The communication
IS written in a style that shows Prof KEGS
acquaintance with our language to be per-
feet, as regards rhetoric and grammar, while
the lines fairly blaze with the writer's con-
tempt for Christianity. We blush while we
Gull the following Christians often abuse
their own families, even to the Abandonment
Of father and mother. Such thing unknown
IN China No matter how degraded a man
may be, he never forgets his duty to the aged
and helpless.
public sentimentiin Chinaiwould punish
him severely should he neglect that duty.
Compare the morals of this Christian land
with ours? They dare not publicly do it.
Justice, which Christians talk 50 much about,
is nowhere SO importantly administered as in
what you are pleased to call heather coun-
tries, and punishment can not there be
evaded. No cases of crime are put off or
laid over in China that the criminal NAV
escape. No prisons hold lives of wretched-
ness from which there is no appeal; no
packed juries can ever shelter crime there.
Tine evidence is demanded and heard on
both sides, and just judgment rendered
and Immediately executed. Your bolts and
bars. your locksmiths, your iron safes-made
larger and stronger each year-are all speak
ing commentaries on your boosted Christian
teachings. Count the criminals in your pris-
ons. Forty-nine in every fifty are protesting
Christians! and they admit it, too. We. as a
nation, do not believe the Christian religion
has any foundation whatever, except as it is
based upon the writings of Contucius, who, it
is well known, lived and wrote five hundred
years before the New Testament was known"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-03
LIGHT FOB THE COMMITTEE.

Desiring to assist the present Congressional
Committee in its search for the causes thai
underlie and have occasioned the violent an
tagonism of the people to the usurpatlon and
everything that is connected with 1t, we re-
produce for its especial edifcation an extract
from one Of the many infamous laws that dis
grace the statute book of Louisiana-laws
which were passed with the deliberate pur-
pose of robbing the people and Of preventing
them from even appealing to the courts for
redress.
These acts of spoliation, be it remembered,
were passed by Legislature over which Kel-
logg exercised supreme control, most of them
emanated directly from him, all Of them were
signed by him. We ask the members of the
committee to read over, carefully, this extract
from one of the many unconstitutional and
outrageous acts of the Kellogg Legislature
and then ask themselves whether the fact that
the people of this State have RETAINED from
exercising the divine right Of revolution does
not prove them to be meeker than Moses,
more long-sutfering than Job himself.
They have only to glance over the acts of
the Kellogg Legislature to discover cause,
and much more than cause for all the trouble
there has been in this State since the usurpa-
ton was erected by Federal violence upon
the ruins of the legal State Government:
Extract.
Gan act to enforce the payment of taxes
due the State, providing for the seizure and
sale Of the property of delinquent taxpayers,
and regulating the proceedings against them
and against their property and tenants
tySEc S. Be it further enacted ETC., That
the taxpayers who are now, or shall become
delinquent by the non-payment Of taxes on
real estate, as is provided for in this act, and
shall have been SO returned upon the rolls OF
the tax-collector to the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts, the Auditor shall publish in the Off
cial journal of the parish in which such
delinquent resides, or by public notice,
insertions within ten days, the name
of and amount due IRON
such delinquent taxpayer, and such
delinquent taxpayer shall, after thirty days, |
forfeit his right to bring sH on be tcitaess for
or IN his o,ca Jej,af before dny Justice, Parish,
District or State Court, and euery court haring
jurisdiction aoiUin tie State shall deny and re-
fuse to issue a ciuH process Of any kind or na-
ture aohdterer IN his o,ea name or for his oapn
benefit, u'da he shat, if a resident Of tie Parish
Of orleans, hare procured from the auditor Of
Public accounts, or If resident Of q country
parish, from the tdr collector thereof. certificate
setting forth that all such claims for delinquent
tores md costs thereon agai1,st said delinquent
taxpayer haze been paid
CHARLES W. LOWELL, Speaker, etc.
G. c. ANTOINE, Lieut.. Governor, etc.
Approved March IA, 1879
WILLIAM p. KELLOGG,
Governor. etc.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-03
A QUERY.
Editor New Orleans Bulletin

Editor New Orleans Bulletin
Under the caption Of Compromise Again,
your issue OF Tuesday contains a communi-
cation signed Citizen" Allow me to ask the
writer, through your columns, in what part OF
the PicdWu'e, Of Monday morning he finds
the announcement that Mr.. Wilt had, with
other Conservatives, conference with kel-
iogg, Packard and Campbell and the Con-
gresslonal Committee. | have searched the
ftcdyne Of that date thoroughly, and have
not found the statement quoted by "Citizen."
ANOTHER CITIZEN.
The writer Of the article in question clearly
labored under an erroneous impression, as
the statement in the Picayo,e did not men
ton Mr.. Wilt as having been party to any
conference. We published in our mornings
edition the assurance of Mr.. Wilt that he
has not been in conference with the Congress
sional Committee or with Kellogg. Packard
& Co. The position of the members of the
legal House is very proud one, and it only
remains tor them to stand BY the people with
the exalted and unhinching courage exhibited
by them thus far, to entitle them to the graft
tude and admiration of the whole country.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-03
The Demon Business.
MAX ADELER.

| The leading tragedian of our little theatre is
named Hammer, and he has gone away now
on sick leave. They produced a week or
| two ago piece entitled, "The Demon of the
HartZ, and Mr. Hammer assumed the char
acter Of the demon. The Young man upon
whom devolved the duty of opening and shut
ting the traps was also instructed to fash
crimson flames up through the hole at inter-
walls, for the purpose OF creating the impress
sion that the internal regions were immediate
iy beneath the stage, and were in a condition
OF terrific and perpetual combustion. He was
somewhat inexperienced, but he seemed to
plunge along well enough for while.
In the third act, Mr.. Hammer, the demon
aforesaid, had to go down the trap, and his
purpose was to descend to eternal August with
sardonlc laugh and fiendish smile npon
his torbldd1ng countenance. The Young man
below concluded that if there ever was time
when display Of diabolical fireworks would
be appropriate, it was when the head demon
was coming home after hard days work so
when MI Hammer was about halfway down.
and was laughing his very sardonic best. the
pyrotechnlcal person let off half barrelful
OF red fire, III which the homeward bound
Spirit of Evil was entirely enveoped
The rest of the way he went down suddan-
ly, and then they laid him under the fre-nlno
while the water played on him. As soon as
he was extln9ulshed, he rose up and sought
the tire-hend, and at the conclusion of the en-
counter the latter was carried round to DR.
stone office on stretcher by the carpenter
and the low comedian. Mr. Hammer then
went home to see what his wife would think of
him without eyebrows or hair, and then he
retired to the country for few weeks until
they grew again. ''The Demon of the Hart"
has been permanently withdrawn.
AN EXPLOSIVE FIsH-A machine has 81
length been constructed which will travel 81
a speed OF nine knots an hour for three Inn
dred yards. and at lower speed for no less .
distance than mile. 1t will maintain anv
direction impressed upon it, and it can he
launched either from a boat or an iron-clad
by night or by day. In short, it is a kind If
an explosive fish, which, in obedience to it's
masters, will swim for mile toward anv ad.
versary at which it will be directed. and will,
strike dangerous, if not a fatal blow. IF
ships at distance of mile can be struct
with certainty by mechanical fish discharoed
from harbor, no anchorage will be safe. and
when two fleets approach one another. each
VIII have to encounter innumerable foes
Every sea and harbor will practically be q
mine OF torpedoes, and any vessel Of liobt
construction must be hopelsssly doomed.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-03

Agentleman whose house was repairing went
out one day to see how the job was getting on,
and observing quantity of nails lying about,
said to the carpenter, "Why don't you take
care of these nails They'll certainly be
lost" "No, fear Of that" was the reply !;
You'll find them all in the bill ~