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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29

IT Is no eXaggeration to say that
there are thousands of persons in ev-
cry State north of the Ohio river who
are tired of the long, cold winters of
that locality, and who, if convinced
that they would be well received, and
that they could do well in business,
would at an early day secure homes
in the more hospitable climate
of the Sunny South" But they
have not felt disposed to incur the ex-
penses of an extensive trip through
the Southern States, and have not
had facilities for acquiring desirable
information of this country, upon
which they could act. We have said
a great deal on this subject, and our
views, we presume, are well under
stood. There has never been that eff
fort to advertise and make known to
the world the advantages Of our own
State that should have been made.
The consequence is, we have not had
our share Of the tide of emigration
which has been coming South, and are
that much worse off than we should
be. We are glad to see the press Of
the State keeping this matter before
the people. A late number of the
Nashville American gives a letter
from a correspondent in Michigan, and
says:
Arrangements should be made for re-
duced rates of transportation TO excursion
parties from the Northern country desiring
to visit Tennessee. OF those who come and
do not remain permanent settlers at the
time, they are so many walking and talk.
ing Advertisements Of the States advan,
tages Of soil and climate, when they return
TO their Northern homes. Those who should
settle in Tennessee, become Immediately
identified with Tennessee interests, anC
their letters TO Northern friends and kins
people attract more and more every year
A few thousand dollars judiciously spen
in advertising the State would return mil
lions. 1t was in this way, on correspond
emit tells us, that Michigan was built up
Tennessee was populous State when SOM
Of these Northwestern States were wilder.
nesses, but they have outstripped her il
population and commercial importance b,
the exercise of enterprise and energy ii
securing new settlers Of the industriou
and useful kind. The South purchase
nearly the whole Of its farm mschiner.
north of the Ohio river. She spends mil
lions annually in the purchase of thes
goods. Yet she has superior timber an
facilities for the manufacture Of all thes
goods, and could save many thousands il
the difference in prices aud transportatiO
by SO doing.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29
PERSONAL.

General Mcclellan has taken up his per-
manent residence in Baltimore, mainly on
account of his wife's health.
The Hon. Alex H. Stephens calls Mr..
George II. Pendelton the brightest and
brainiest man on this continent
"Stonewall Jackson's Life" by John
Esten Cooke and Rev. DR.. j. William
Jones, has just been published in New
York.
1t is announced that Colonel George S.
Bangs, superintendent of the railway mail
service, will resign his office on the first of
January to accept lucrative private posi-
ton.
William Lloyd Garrison few days since
observed a semi-centennial anniversary at
Newburyport, Mass, by taking his place
as a volunteer compositor on the Herald of
that city, on which he set type half CEN
fury ago.
Being asked the ether evening the con-
yentional question of chow he liked Amer
ica," Won Bulow replied that he thought
it country Of wonderful liberties. I'm
deed" said his friend, inquiringly.
YES" said the Doctor, land think they
have all of them been taken with me-"
Samuel Bowles withdraws Charles
Henderson THE blood of the martyrs is
the seed of the church. Troy Times.
Senator Conkling is not keeping
house this winter in Washington, but
lives at Wormley's Hotel.
Ex-senator William A. Richardson,
of Illinois, is dangerously i'll with a
stroke of paralysis, at his home in
Quincy.
Gen. Lane, candidate for Vice-Presi-
dent in 1860, is now farmer in Oregon.
His son is Representative in Con-
gress from the same State.
A committee of Massachusetts, gen.
tlemen, of which Ex-Governor Claflin
is chairman, has issued a circular ask
ing for subscriptions, which will be
limited to S. each, to procure a full.
length portrait of the late Henry Will
son, to be painted by some leading
artist, competent for the task, and to
be placed in Faneuil Hall, Boston.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29
HOUSE BURNING IN GRANGER
COUNTY.
The supposed Perpetrators Under
Arrest.

The supposed Perpetrators Under
Arrest.
The dwelling-house of Mr.. Nelson
Mynatt, in Granger county, about
mile from Blain's X Roads, was con-
sumed by fire on the night of the 10th
inst, the work of incendiaries. SusN
picion rested upon several parties as
being concerned, and Henderson Har-
gis, his wife and two sons, and Jane
Frost and two sons, were all arrested.
Hargis had a hearing before Justice
of the Peace, but there being no evil
dence against him, he was released.
The other parties, however, were held
and remanded to Jail, (unless they
have given bond, until counsel could
| be procured for the prosecution, and
they will be tried Friday next.
| The house was unoccupied at the
time, but Linnyille Mynatt was to
move in the next day, and these par
ties arrested were opposed to his COM
! ing there. 1t appears, and we are told
it will be in proof, that Jane Frost had
some lumber in the house and was
told by Hargis' folks on Wednesday
evening to get 1T out, for the house
would be burned. So the lumber was
token out after dark and shortly af-
ter the house was discovered to be on
fire. So it seems that it was cons
eocted plan among them against Mr..
Mynatt, who was not on very friendly
terms with them.
1t was certainly a dastardly act,
and if the parties are guilty they
should suffer the extreme penalty of
the law in such cases.
Mr.. Mynatt desires us to state that
the ill-feelings between him and the
parties implicated do not date back as
far as the "late unpleasantness."
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29

The Southern Catholic, published
at Memphis, demolishes the whole
Methodist Church in q short para.
graph. Here it is:
"The present strength Of the Methodist
Church is not due to the doctrine Of
training up the child in the way he should
go, but to the revival system, which plays
not upon their reasoning powers but upon
their passions or animal natures. In fact,
if there is any truth in the doctrine OF
mesmerism, its efficiency is never more de-
Veloped than ut Methodist revival. 1t il
not the eEcitable preacher who can sue.
cessfully crowd the mourner's bench, but
on the contrary, it is the cool and deliber-
ate man, who with power sways the weak
minds before him TO high and eKcitablC
pitch Of frenzy, whilst he himself remains
cool, calm and self-possessed. 1t is posi-
BILE for few daring, bold and fanatica
leaders OF this sect to produce in our land
a state of affairs far worse than ever ex-
listed in the days of Cromwell in England
What a terrible state Of affairs this
Methodist Church is capable of pro
ducing
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29

The impression prevails gener-
ally that Congress will make an APP
preparation of 81, 500, 900 for the benefit
Of the Centennial Exhibition.
Speaker Kerr recognized the
" Liberalism" OF General Banks by
placing him at the tail end of the Com
mittee on Rules.
The Nashville American is pain
fully silent on the slight circumstance
of hard money man being appointed
Chairman of the leading House Com
mittee. Why don't it insist on Kerr's
immediate resignation.
1t is said that the Chairman and
every member of the Ways and
Means Committee, appointed by Mr..
Kerr. with two exceptions, are hard
money men. The Nashville Ameri-
can will make note OF this fact.
The Centennial Commissioners
at Philadelphia presented the Presi-
dent with handsome walnut chair,
made according to the style in vogue
a century ago. Now let the virtuous
Democratic apostles preach sermon
on the sin of gift-taking.
The Chicago Tribune, says that
out OF two hundred and thirty-three
bills introduced in the House on the
first day the States were called, the
majority were to ''enable ex-rebels to
get their hands into the treasury and
remunerate themselves for losses in
Cured in the war of rebellion"
President Grant, accompanied
by Postmaster General Jewell, Mr..
Blaine, Gov. Hartranft and ex-Secre-
tary Borie, attended the religious SER
vice Of Moody and Sankey at Phila-
deiphia, Saturday night. Ex-Speaker
Blaine said Mr. Moody was the most
remarkable man he ever heard, and
Postmaster General Jewell said his
remarks in the latter part of his dis
course were wonderful. The President
expressed pleasure at the services.
"A Washington correspondent OF
the New York World says that
there have been ten thousand office
seekers in Washington since the meet
ing Of Cangress. The officers of the
House-Speaker, Doorkeeper, Ser
geant-at-Arms and Postmaster-have
about three hundred offices to give
away, so that the great disappointed
army numbers about nine thousand,
seven hundred. And yet we are some
times told that Democrats are not hun.
cry for office.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29
The Mississippi SenatOrship.

A Washington special to the New
York Herald says:
The Senatorial election in Missis-
sippi attracts a good deal of attention
here, and the conservative and prog
ressive Democrats are very DESTROYS to
see Mr.. Lamar succeed. The news
here is that he will probably be elected.
He is the most popular man in the
State, and the one best known all over
the Union. He has against him a few
of the extremists and fire-eaters whom
he offended by his liberal and peaceful
counsels during the canvass preceding
the State election. Lamar opposed
the color-line movement of these ex-
tremists, and defeated it in the State
Convention. His wise, statesmanlike
course in the House of Representatives
has gained him the confidence of the
best men of his party in both Houses
here, and the respect of the Republi-
cans. He was unanimously made
chairman of the Democratic caucus
high compliment.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29

THE New York Evening Post, one
of the leading free trade journals of
the country, has this TO say of the
new Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee:
"This much is known OF Mr.. William
r. Morrison, of Illinois, whom Mr.. Kerr
has put at the head of the Committee of
Ways and Means: He is n man of high
character and ability, and a strong advo-
cate of sound financial principles. He is
credited with the victory of hard money
last year in the Democratic convention in
his own State. The World says that he is
not "an orator either. upon the stump or
upon the floor of popular conventions or
legislative bodies" Perhaps this is not
greatly to be regretted. The best leaders
are not always those who talk the most or
loudest. The most skilful party chieftain
must know when to say nothing as often as
when to say something and to say the right
thing. Whether such leader has been
secured by the Democrats in the person of
Mr. Morrison is yet to be seen but at least
they may be congratulated upon not making
the mistake of believing Mr.. Fernando
Wood to be such a one. They scarcely
could believe so after his blunder on the
first day of the session. The experience
and talents of Mr.. Wood are secured to the
Ways and Means by the concession of the
second place on the committee place
which he will more cheerfully and effect.
lively fill under new man than under one
of his old rivals"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29
DEMOCRATIC "OBSCURANT-
ISM

Napoleon used to say Of history:
at is only conventional fiction, and
in our nineteenth century, in spite of
the o5scuraatiSm with which we are
threatened, people will not live on fic-
ton" This term was used at that
epoch in France as an adjunct or
complement to Bourbonisnl' to de-
signate an intellectual overshadow.
ing, or state of darkness, which the
court and priesthood were DESTROYS of
bringing about, by suppressing free
inquiry and scientific studies. While
the Bourbons would learn nothing
themselves, the obscurantists who
we're their advocates, would prevent
everybody else from learning any.
thing. Such are the Democratic
statesmen and press of to-day. En-
listed in the cause of restoration of
the Bourbons, they try to stop the
wheels Of progress, by covert attacks
on free education and open opposi.
ton 10 all liberal measures, while
hypocritically stimulating disturb.
ances out of which TO make political
capital against the Republican party,
which they falsely charge with the
authorship of rows of their own
making. AS unmindful of Tweed as
his recent escapade permits them tc
be, they set up howl about the mi
quities Of the whisky ring which
would do credit to a new quota fresh
! ly marshaled amongst the culprits in
side and outside of the Penitentiary
for Belzebub's dominions. The how
is intended to simulate virtuous in
dignation, but unfortunately, the vo
cal organs have been 50 long attuneC
TO the Rebel yell, that their musi,
sounds like old Billy Benton's cracked
clarionet in the play of The Wan
dering Minstrer-so excruciatin,
that everybody paid him to leave til
premises.
1t is all very well for the Nashvill
American TO assail our treatment {
Bourbonism as a trite subjec
and to unite in the clamor against tn
Administration Tor hunting down il
friends, the distillers of Bourbo
whisky, with the Presidents declari
ton, I" Let no guilty man escape !" bu
the obscuraatism about this polio
consists in calling attention only
the guilty officials who have trade
upon their positions, without givir
credit TO the Administration, whic
after having found them out, is brin
: ing them to justice, as we'll as Il
large number Of eminent Democrat
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29
THE Chattanooga Commercial very

LIE CnaItanOOga COmmerclal very
pertinently says:
"Is it not possible that some of the able
bodied and stropg-lunged Democratic poli>
ticians Of Tennessee, who are so blatant
about Radical iniquities, and so DESTROYS
to have things investigated, could find fair
employment for their vigorous brains and
sensitive honesty in devising means to pre-
vent their own State from being plunged
into the abyss of reputation 1t seems to
US that folks who are so terribly particular
about the conduct of their opponents ought
to mount the seat Of judgment with clean
characters. There is touch of Pharissism
in the assumption of superior wisdom and
virtue by party whose representative
Governor is forced to acknowledge that lin
few years of unembarrrssed administra.
tion, it has succeeded in destroying the
credit Of the State, and row proposes tc
complete the job by robbing the creditors
Of the little value there is left in the bond
which they paid their money for. Ant
that is exactly the meaning Of the recen
letter Of Coy. PortcN
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Theodore TiItOn's lawyers have served
notice for new trial of the Beecher case. and
our advice to the jury is. if the case comes for
trial. to supply themselves with TASSER's GER'
MAN OINTMENT. 1t will not cure wounded con-
science. but it is the best save in the world for
chafes gals. sores. bruises cuts, burns, &c. &c.
Price only rs cents. Sold everywhere.
SANFORD. CHAMBERLAIN & ALBERs. Wholesale
Agents, Knoxville, Tenn, viii24d&wly
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29
OUR JUDICIAL EXPENSES.

1t is not amiss, in our present
deplorable financial condition, to re-
fer occasionally to the items of pub.
lie expense. In looking over the last
report os the State Treasurer, Mr..
Morrow, we find in a recapitulation Of
disbursements from the 1sJ of Jan.
uary, 1873, to the Goth of December,
1874, the following heavy items:
State prosecutions, [: S475, pa 40
Judicial salaries, : 241, 1923 SO
Executive salaries, 2l,045 "a
Executive expenses : 1850 Is
Legislative expenses, 6S,073 81
Convicts to Penitentiary, : 25,767 40
These items embrace the principal
items of expense incurred by the
State for a period Of two years, lack.
ing ten days. The two heaviest items
are for costs in State prosecutions and
Judicial salaries, which two, added
together, make the sum of S716,S6Il2.
Add 10 these $25,76I69 for expen.
ses in taking convicts to the peniten-
tiary; for Attorney General and Re.
porter's salary, $4,000; for Special
Judges, $S,429.O2 for Supreme Court
expenses, s13,34S.O6; for officers of
the penitentiary, S19,945.5O; for ar
rest of fugitives, SIS, 964.95, and we
have the snug sum of S800,317.54,
which it cost the State to administer
justice for the term of two years.
Besides this, when we take into
account the enormous bills of
costs paid by the counties, and we
find that our courts are an expensive
luxury.
1t will not be amiss for the people
of Tennessee to take into considera-
ton whether these expenses can not
be curtailed. We are not in a condi-
ton to indulge in the payment of fam
cy salaries, or in extravagant expen-
ditures for any purpose. Under our
loose, slipshod way of administering
justice, we know that there are a thou
sand leaks that ought to be stopped !;
but whether, under the present sys-
tenn, it can, or rather, whether it will
be done, is quite another question.
1t will do no harm, however, for the
tax payers Of the country to keep in
mind that this is one perpetual drain
upon their purses, and remember
that, unless a change for the better
comes about, this drain will continue.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29

ventriloquist puts voice in its mouth,
is to unroll its mummy cloth little
way and read a few lines of its history.
w. G.. BRowNLow,
Senior Editor Wing and Chronicle
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29

The Athens Post says several droves
of horses and mules have passed down
the old stock road in the last six
days, bound for the South and a mar
ket. Over $4,000, in money, have
been paid out in this county since the
middle of August for wheat, hogs and
beef cattle, to say nothing of other ar
ticles of produce which are daily being
bought and sold.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29

The New York Herald says of Nor.
rison, the Chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee:
"If he has any qualifications for the
Craftsmanship of Ways and Means the pub
lie does not know how he has acquired
them. He has never served on that COM
mittee nor any committee charged with
the examination of similar subjects This
appointment is, as yet, an unsolved riddle,
the public having no other evidence Of his
abilities than the encOmiums of people
who have discovered that he is profound
hnancier within the last three days
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29
Chancery Court, at Knoxville
No. 27Sl.
o. p. Temple VS..

u T. Temple vs..
H. W. johnson, Earnest @. johnson, Arthur c.
johnson, Mary J, Burnett, Lydia u, Dean,
Baily s. Dean and Chas, ID, Moduhey. adm
Of j. b. johnson, decd.
1T APPEARING FROM THE AMENDED
J. and Supplemental Bill, which is sworn TO-
that the defendants, Henry w. johnson, Earnest
o, johnson. Arthur O. johnson. MARY j, Bur
nett, Lydia Is. Dean and Baily S, Dean, non
residents Of the State Of Tennessee II Is ordered
that the defendants above named appear before
the Chanoery Court at Knoxville, Tennessee, on
defense 70 the original and amended supple
mental bills filed In this cause. or the same will
be taken for confessed, This notice will be pub
lished In the Knoxville Whiz and Chronicle for
four successive weeks, A true eopy-Attesl.
NJ, i, PATTERSON, o. a M,
December 3. 1875 -xiiWlt,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-12

DECALCoMANIE.- This is the name of a
comparatively new art that is attracting
considerable attention at the present time
It consists in transferring pictures which
have been printed upon paper in high and
beautiful cOlors to any object one may wish
to ornament, such as fans, work boxes,
vases, flower pots, articles of furniture, &c.
When transferred these pictures lock as il
painted upon the article ornamented, and
they are much more attractive and beauti-
iul than they would be if painted with
brush, unless executed by very skillful
artist; indeed this beautiful art offers a
complete substitute for the process of hand
painting for most purposes. The pictures
embrace great variety of subjects, such
as heads, landscapes, animals. insects,
flowers, comic f2ures,& The art is easily
acquired, and children even soon become
experts. Transferring these pictures is a
charming pastime for old or young. and
serves to cultivate taste for the beauti-
full. We have received from j. L. Patten
u Co., l62 William Street, New York, who
are dealers ia transfer pictures, some hand.
some samples Of their goods, These gen
tlemen will, for the small sum of ten cents,
send full instructions in this beautiful art,
together with ten. handsome samples of the
pictures, or for fifty cents they will send
one hundred attractive pictures,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-12
Personal.

II. Ostorberg, the purchaser of the
Rockford Rock Island and St, Louis Rail-
way, at the Grand Pacific Hotel, in Chi
cago. He claims to have the means to
comply with the order of the court. 9th,
ers douotit very much.
Among the guests at the Harpe: House,
is Hon, Bernard Arntzen. of Quincy, dis
tinguished Democrat of Illinois, and a
candidate on our state ticket some years
ago
Louis B. jerks, of Indianapolis, Ind,
son of Capt. Geo. W. jerks, formerly Of
this city, but now proprietor of the Sher
man House, indianapolis, is in town on
business for his father. The play mates
of Louis will be glad to see their young
friend of other days. He is at the Harper
House.
t Among other guests at the Harper are
Hon. j. Zunryinzoff, of st. Petersburg
Russia; Mr.. J. S. Cook, General Freight
and Ticket Agent P. P, & J. R. R., o.
Pekin; j. Mcclure and wife. Peoria; Mrs
D. j. Furst, Lock Haven, Pa; J, +. Ack
erman, n, Y: A. S, Kendrick, St. Louis
j. +. Harris, Chicago; +. G.. Leonard
Boston; u. q. lSlep, Long Island
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-12
The Temperance Parade.

On the return of the Catholic temper
ance societies to Davenport, on Sunday,
they proceeded to St. Mary's church, on
the bluffs near the LeClaire residence,
where an eloquent and stirring address on
temperance was delivered by Rev. Father
Flavin, the pastor. We understand that
there were nearly 500 in the procession,
altogether
The Democrat says, 1T was an over
sight in somebody in not inviting the tenn
perance society of st. Anthony's church,
but we suppose it was not generally known
by the Rock Island brethren that there is
a large and furnishing temperance organic
alton attached to that church Also"
1t certainly was the desire of the Father
Mathew Society, of Rock Island, to have
all temperance societies and temperance
people, whether members or not, join in
the procession in honor of the memory Of
Father Mathew, and that desire was ex-
pressed through the papers before the
parade. The temperance societies con-
nected with st. Marguerite's and st.
Mary's Churches turned out noDby, and
the Gazette says, ''The society connected
with st. Anthony's, having been recently
or gained, received no invitation, but
several members joined with their brethren
in the celebration"