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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

JOHNSON knows and feels that he
wsuld have gone down before the
savage onslaughts of Hoods discharg-
ed veterans, led on by Isham G.. Har-
ris, had it not been for the little band
of Republicans who naturallyr allied
to the gallant Conservative Union
squad who were fighting heroically
about their old and tried leader. The
opponents of Johnson made mis-.
take in the issue they rendered. Had
they put forward a statesman of broad
and national sentiments, man of
cool head and liberal impulses, a
civilian of recognized abilities and
spotless character, the Republicans
could have had a choice. But when their
ex-rebel generals donned their uni
forms and shook their military rec
ords before the Legislature as their
sole title TO senatorial honorS, the
Republicans could do nothing else
than vote for Andrew johnson. who
in 1861. and all through the war,
stood unfinchingly by the Union.
All other issues sank into insignif.
canoe. His former opposition to the
Republican party could not drive the
Republican Legislators to Bate or
Brown. The issue was clearly de-
fined by these candidates and they
have gone down before the people, as
we hope they always will in Ten
nessee, whenever they force the is
sues of the war as the line upon
which voters must divide.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

WE LEARN that some of the friends
Of the rival candidates for Senator
persuaded most of them to have Their
portraits taken for popular effect
General VIM. b. Bate, we are inform
ed, had his taken in the full dress
uniform of Major General, c. S. A.
Andy has taken the starch out of that
gray suit certain, The election OF
johnson, who was one week ago in a
decided minority, shows that the peo-
pie have become tired of the Isham
G. Harris and General Bate, Qnarles
and John G. Brown ring airing their
gray uniforms at every election.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

JoIISsoSs speech at the Nashville
jollilication was an earnest appeal to
his countrymen to stand by the "Con.
stitution." He gave the military ring
at Nashville a side wipe and turned
his face towards the White House.
Colyar's allusion to the Presidency
in 1876, was unfortunate for Andy
The Republicans can't boast him into
the White House again. They helped
him out at Nashville because Bate
and Brown we're running the war is,
sues. If Johnson goes to the Senate
10 fight the extreme Southern ele.
ment now coming to the top through.
out the South, as he has done it in
Tennessee, he can be Of great service
To the country.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

HOBBS seems sublimely unconscious
of the offence he committed in selling
for money one Of the most important
offices in the State. All through his
examination he testifes as one telling
of an ordinary business enterprise.
He closes it with a tender of compli-
ments to the Governors Secretary, it
never occurring to him that perhaps
the Secretary would rather be spared
from his endorsement in the very doc.
ument confessing his shameless cor
ruption. Here is Hobbs dispensing
his compliments:
As to Major j, ). Wilkes. l must state
thVt ! found him to b as long as remain.
ed in the Capitol one most courteous and
obliging gentlemen | ever met with.
Playing the chivalric gentleman on
the outskirts of felons cell,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

The House of Representatives. for
the past two days, has been in q dead
lock over the Civil Rights Bill. 1t is
on the Speakers table and obstructs
general legislation. Some twenty.
seven bills ready for action of the
House are delayed by it. The Re.
publicans at their caucus Monday
night determined to dispose of the
bill one way or another, and the Dem.
ocrats are fllibustering. The bill
now under consideration does not
provide for mixed schools or GENE
teries. 1t seems to us from the re
ports coming up from the far South
that the colored people need a good
many things more than civil rights
And Congress need not obstruct leg
islation on account of that bill.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

THE election of ex-President John
son as United States Senator is due
partly to the bad management of his
opponents, but largely to his personal
hold upon the masses as a represent
alive Of the Union, Conservative ele-
ment in Tennessee politics. When
the balloting ended on last Wednes-
day, but few people believed his cleo
ton possible. A clear majority of the
Legislature were committed against
him. But an utter indifference on the
part Of the opposition TO the interests
Of the people in prolonging the con-
test, merely to satisfy the ambition Of
his rivals, intensified the personal zeal
of Mr.. Johnson's friends, and pro-
yoked public sympathy. The popular
feeling in his favor has gained rapidly
within the past five days. The mean
opposition that he has encountered
has won many to him, in spite Of their
former political differences and dis.
likes.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

Mr.. Mandy Grouse, whose husband
was lately killed by the terrible col
lission near Carter's, has compromised
her threatened suit against the East
Tennessee, Virginia g. Georgia Rail
road Company, for the loss Of her hus-
band, and received about twelve hun
dred dollars for compensation, at least,
so we have been informed. Capt.
Jaques is going in future to try and
settle all such cases without litigation.
Capt. Jaques is noted for his kindness
and liberality, and the above Is a man
Hesitation Of it.-Bristol News.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

JOHNSON ALPHABETICALLY declared
last summer that he intended to bust
the John c. Brown ring at Nashville,
and it looks as though he had done
it. When he made his speech at the
Opera House last fall, he was urged
by a large number of Democratic
friends, not to make war upon Gov.
Brown. He replied that he was sat
isfed the Governor had kept a set of
plundering rasCals about him and that
he intended to let the people know it,
and those who heard or read his
speech know how effectively he did it.
He was importuned at the same time
and by the same men to advocate
Porter's election. but that he refused
to do also. He knew that the John
{. Brown ring had been saddled onto
Porter, and he did not want to travel
in the same crowd. These things will
account for the bitter opposition John
son has encountered at Nashville. and
that far at least his triumph is a cause
for sincere congratulation by every
friend Of honest government in Ten
neSSep.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

THE BOURBON REBEL element in the
Legislature is too strong. They were
over confident in the last fight.
They felt they had Johnson beat and
could afford to fight among them
selves, as to who should dangle the
Military Governors" scalp at his
belt. There was Gen. Brown and Gen.
Bate, and both wanted Andy's blood
on their tomahawks. 1t is notorious
that when Gen. Bate was within one
vote of an election, Gen. Brown could
have given him that vote. Orr, of
Marshall county, threw off on Brown
on that vote. He could have elected
Bate, and that is what makes the
friends of the latter so bitter. They
damn Andy and theUnion Democrats,
and when they get tired of that the
Bate men damn the Brown men and
the Brown men damn the Bate men.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

The HOUSE of Representatives, by
a vote Of 1874 to lO4. refused TO sub
init to the people of the United States
a 10th Amendment TO the Constitu-
ton, making the President and Vice
President eligible TO but one term of
six years. 1t required a two-thirds
vote, and therefore was lost. The
vote is supposed to be fatal to any
third term scheme. Some thirty Re
publicans voted for it.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

IT Is EVIDENT from the course of
the crOss-eXamination in the Beecher
trial that Moulton is to be confront
ed with from ten to twelve witnesses
CT high character, to whom he has
admitted the innocence of Beecher.
coupled with many emphatic declar-
ations as to the character of those
prosecuting him. Evidently Moul.
ton has said nothing severe enough to
describe the character he now occu-
pies.before the country.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

EANe TENNESSEE seems to be get.
ting her share of the offices at Nash.
vile. Johnson elected Senator. and
now comes Col. James Gaines elect
ed Comptroller-neXt to Governor,
the most important Office in the State.
Col. Gaines is a clever gentleman.
and, we doubt not, will make good
officer.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

TIE Columbia Herald and MaH says
Hobbs stands to-day before the PEG.
pie adisgraced and dishonored man.
And Mr.. Duncan, who acknowledges
that he bribed him, is scarcely less to
blame"
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

WE are led to infer from some OF
A. Johnson's recent references to the
Constitution" that he still proposes
to cling to that "organic law" and
that perhaps is why the " John c..
Brown military ring" didn't want
him elected.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

THE HOBBS committee read unan-
imous report, generating Governor
Brown and Comptroller Burch from
completely in the Hobbs swindle.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

WE hear the name Of Col. J. b.
Killebrew mentioned as the probable
appointee of Gov. Porter in the ina
portant Office of Superintendent of
Public Instruction. Col. X. is a gen
tleman Of untiring energy and large
capacity, and would, we believe, dis
charge the duties of that Office with
entire satisfaction. He would do
very much to popularize our school
system. 1t is unnecessary for us to
add that he is not of our school in
politics. but he is not an arbitrary
partisan, and in this case a mans
personal qualifications and not his pc.
litical name should receive consider
alton.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

JOHNSON would not have been
elected without the seven Republican
votes. They are printed in italics in
our special.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

BURNSIDE'S ELECTION to the United
States Senate from Rhode Island will
give general satisfaction in East Ten.
nessee. The General was a favorite
in East Tennessee, as his reception
here last Fourth-ofJuly demonstrated.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

HERE is the way the proposition to
Hobbs to resign was put. It's a
model for future statesmen in Tennes-
see to study. Hobbs tells the story
himself. He says - Billy Duncan ap-
preached me at the Maxwell House
and said, Hobbs. you have been talk
ing about resigning, and l believe
that it would suit you better to be at
home with your family" And after
a little persuasion in the shape of
$4,000, Hobbs concluded Billy a"
was right.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

Neutrality-suspicious.. Funeral
services at Nashville. Particulars
hereafter.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

TENNESSEE is not the only State
that travails over new Senators. West
Virginia finds it hard job to fill Sen.
ator Boreman's chair. Wisconsin
comes within a half dozen votes of
electing Carpenter, but these half
dozen are slow in coming up. In
Florida parties are pretty evenly di-
yided in the Legislature and a few
Independents seem TO hold the bal.
ance of power.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

IsHAM G.. HARRIS is emphatlcally a
dilapidated politician. To use a ia.
miliar expression, Gle is too dead to
skim
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

observation-disclosures. For
further information apply to A. John.
son.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03
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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3, 1875.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-12-24

The Fatal and Destrurtive Exu,oS,ow
ora Gas MRin In BOsSOn,

BosroN, Mass, Dec. 22--Shortly before
o'clock, this evening, u terrible explo.
sion occurred IN South Boston, by which
large number ct persons were injured
aud several hilled. As yet 1t IA i'm
possible to learn the cause Of the
explosion OF the extent Of the
damage. The large gas main running
under Federal bridge to South
Boston and thence along the waters
edge under the pavement on Federal
street, exploded with loud report, tear
ing up the pavement a distance Of $50
feet or more. The street was throngcd
with people at the time and many were
buried under the debris. CrOsby's grain
warehouse was badly shattered and will
have ~ be taken down. Tho foreman
was instantly killed. 1t is supposed that
several persons were blown into the wa
ter. Several dead bodies have already
been taken out.
. LATER.--Tle list Of killed aud wounded
as lar as ascertaincd, Is as follows
Killed, =; fatally injured, 4; seriously
hurt, D; slightly injured. 3. Seven per-
sons were missing, and II is supposed
that they were blown into the water and
drowned. As yet there Is 10 positive
knowledge OF the cause Of the explosion,
but II IL supposed that the recent cold
weather caused the pipe to burst. and the
ground becoming impregnaled with gas,
1t ignited from some cause, and, CON-
municating the fire 20 the confined gas,
caused the explosion. An eye
witness states that the first intimation
was bright flash about midway ot ,l1c
sion, paving stone, gravel aud the debris
dying IN all directions, and almost imme.
diatcly thereafter the causcway on the
right hand side. under which ran the gas
main, fell Into The river, carrying with
Ii several pei sons, who were stunned
injured or Killed by the explosion. The
number of these Is not yet ascertained,
but it is feared that several were buried
under the debris at the bottom OF the
river. The pavement was completely
torn up for a distance of Us.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-12-24

to make preparations for next years fair,
aud proposes to have all the preparations
completed In the spring.
Chicago West Side. "Ilon. ID. W..
Mum, lately indicted for rObbing the
government at St. Louis, was the leading
Pilgrim orator at our late county election
lie was model Huck man."
Cairo is asking Congress to help pro-
tect her levcss. -Pdduch Ne,cs.
This Is a mistake. Cairo IL not asking
Congress to protect her lcvees. She asks
Congress to Improve the Mississippi ut
this point aud will then take care Of her
levces herself.
Mrs. David q. Croly, "Jennie
june" writes to the Baltimore Ameri-
can as follows: at IL understood In
press circles that a new venture has been
determined upon in weekly Journalism.
Three prominent gentlenen--David A.
Wells, Col. Grosvenor, and Carl Schurz
have purchased or obtained n large
proprietary interest in the Ffnancier,
which is to take the new name OF the
Pabtic, ana become the organ of adminis-
trative financial reform. With such
leaders Its tone will necessarily be jidic.
ial AMI statesmanlikc. aud will doubtless,
In great degree, take the place OF the
Nation. which hardly sustains the inn
preston upon the public mind 1t first
created
The Chicago Tribune Of Wednesday
savs. .sn,.~ csectfon yesterday for Judge
| OF the Illinois Supreme Court, to mn the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation OF
Judge AcAllister, resulted Ia smc success
of the Hon. 4. Lyle Dickey. who was by
common consent and understanding sup
ported by those who were opposed to
Mr.. H. b. uurd, the nominee of the Re-
publican convention. But little in
terest in the canvass was shown in
Chicago. where the vote was ex-
ceedingly meagrc, falling nearly
5000 short OF the vote cast at the No
vchber election. In total vote OF 10, 25S
in the City of Chicago, Judge Dickcy re-
ceived 1929. and Mr. Hurd 2.G29. the
formers majority being exactly 5000.
Returns from the towns In Cook county
and other counties comprising the Sew
enth Jucicial District have not come to
hand at this writing, but it is probable
that Judge Dickey's entire majority will
exceed the figures above given.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-12-24
PRAISlNG THE PURlTAMS.
Slcrnsnn's After.Dimmer speech He.
fore the New England society Of
New York.

fore the New England society Of
New York.
New YORK, Dec. pat the seventh
annual dinner of the New England soci-
ETY. tonight, President Bailey presided,
having vt his right President Grant anu
on his left General Sherman. Many dis
tingnishcd persons were present and
responded to toasts. President Grant did
not speak, but General Sherman, in reply
to "the army and navy" said, upon the
civilization vi New England is based the
civilization Of North America. The black
man IL US free as am. The japanese
are tree TO come here, SO are the Chinese;
but the civilization OF New England will
remain and will govern this continent
The New England man, 90 where he
| will, carries centre which, enlarging
will affect everything he comes in contact
with. lie is the embodiment of all the
English-speaking people who believe in
honesty, truth and patriotism.
THE LATE WAR.
Referring to the result OF the late war
he said: "Never was there such an ex-
ample OF the cOnquerors giving con-
qucred the same rights they themselves
possessed. The moment the vanquished
laid down their arms we said to them,
Go home, go to work for flag which is
to be the common one Of our home
say to every Southern man who will 90
with us heart and hand to build up this
land, they are rs welcome, just AS il born
OH the very surface Of Plymouth rock.
But II they cherish any hopes for the
old conflict, a storm will arise oyer their
heads ten times rs heavy as the last one.
speak for the army and navy-the men
of bone and muscle, the brain
and sincw that aggregate Americans"
| The HARD lines.
lie referred to the hard times and said
"Iho trouble is that people flock too
much to cities. ask them to come West
[laughtcrl, there is no trouble in ST.
Louis, plenty to eat and to drink-antl
we will give you a hearty welcome and
good speed to the best land west of us. II
the people Of New York will learn a les
son of the pilgram fathers and go back to
somewhat Of their economy the national
debt will extinguished in tive years, and
specie payment would come naturally
Let us 60 back to such times as those be.
fore the war, and, II necessary. | myself
will give the example OF earning my own
living. But in doing SO let US still keel
ourselves prepared for war whenever Il
comes. Letu keep the act Of war be
fore us, SO that one will not have the
modification of sending to GsrNGS.yn nov nv
soldiers to drill our col III INC IVA
! war [C-s~. cneerihy.I
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-12-24
OF The
city Of Cairo,
a No. I Laundry -.

1t 10 now conceded that Mrs. Coleman,
the lsundress, No. ~ Fourth street, be-
tween Washington 4 Commercial avenues,
has one OF the best conducted laundry Is.
Adjustments IN the city, and landlords of
hotels and boarding houses will lind It to
their advantage TO call upon her.
Her prices are as follows: Hotel aud
clearinghouse washing. IS cents per
dozen. Foi piece wnrN s-'---
as ,o,,c,-- ,ingie shirt and col.
'ar, 10c; per dozen s0c; socks &c; two CO
lars, DC; two handkerchief, &c; vests zoe;
and all gentemen's wear, SOC. per
dozen. Ladies' dresses, % TO Soc;
skirts 10 to Doc; drawers 10 to l5c; two
pair hose &c; two collars to l0c. For 10.
dies plain clothes 81 OO per dozen; for 10.
dies tine clothes, 81 u per dozen; done
promptly, and promptly delivered. Pa.
tronsge solicited. S-3i.lm