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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

The campaign in Connecticut IS being
actively pushed. The result in New
Hampshire has had the effect OF animat-
ing the Republicans, who were already
confident. On the other hand, il has
aroused the Democrats 10 the necessity OF
straining every nerve to secure their hold
on the State. In weight and ability OF the
speakers engaged, the Republicans have
q decided advantage, and they are max
ing the best use OF IT, The dispatches of
our special correspondent will show the
activity and spirit with which the canvas,
is being conducted. Meanwhile, we beg
10 remind our friends that meetings and
discussion are excellent, rs planting and
cultiyatiug are, but the harvesting IS
equally important, and that consists in
organizing TO get out every Republican
voter on election day. On the success
with which that is done the result will
depend, and Il is a work in which every
one can do his share. We can only lose
Connecticut by neglect; we ought not TO
do that, and Judging from the reports we
have OF the energy Of the Republican Or
CARNATIONS, we do not fear that we shall.
But no effort should he spared.-New
York Times.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24
OUR SUBSCRIPTION LIST.

The Nashville Union and american,
ten or fifteen years after the death Of
Henry Clay, charged that he was
guilty of bargain, intrigue and cor.
ruption, and had sold his vote for
office in the election of President in
1924
Some of the same men who write
for that paper now wrote for it then
and, upon an examination of our files
of long years ago. it would be found
that we gave them an excoriation, for
which they would now seek revenge.
At the date we refer to, every
Democratic paper in the country, ex-
cept the Union and american, which
had ever made the charge was either
ashamed of it or had too much respect
for the good opinion of all decent
people to repeat the vile calumny.
That paper, now as then, is nothing
if not malignant. Take from its col.
umns its misrepresentation of all who
differ with it politically, and the un.
gcntlemanly and dirty filings it in.
dulges in, and there would be nothing
left Of the concern.
Thus much we say explanatory Of
the animus of that paper in noticing
some comments it makes rs to om
subscription list.
We would remind the Union ana
American of the proverb SuppreSsic
Uerj, suggeStio fllsi. 1t is stated
that we gave to q certain person in
Knoxville tie list of the subscriptions
received by us since the publication
Of our prospectus, and that this list
was very small. We handed to q
person q list, but only q small frac.
ton Of the list which had been re.
ceived for the WING. Our list was in
the possession of an associate, who
was at the time in Washington City.
As to subscribers, we have by far the
largest list Of any paper in East
Tennessee, and in one year we expect
the largest Of any paper in the State.
During the past week we have received
many subscriptions from Oregon,
New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Kentucky, and from several
other Northern States, besides numer-
BUS subscriptions from the South and
different parts of Tennessee.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

TIM Chicago Tribune says the
heir, Of ex-senator Sebastian, of Ar
kansas, have pctitioned the Senate
to expunge that portion Of the record
Of that body relative to the expul-
sion Of the said Sebastion in 1861
for disloyalty. In the interest Of re-
Cancellation, and with view Of re-
moving the stain from the escutcheon
Of that proud family, the Senate had
the petition referred to q committee
for investigation 1t has been dis
covered that the Senator served but
two years OF his term, and, in the
event Of favorable action on the pc
tition by the Senate, these truly loyal
heirs will be entitled to draw from the
United States Treasury the sum OF
S25, 900, being the amount of addi
tional salary which the Senator would
have been entitled to had he served
out his full term. As there were ter
or twelve other Senators expelled al
the same time and for the same rea
son, it is presumed that this fact viii
have its due weight in deciding the
case.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

The all absorbing topic of CONVEX
sation in East Tennessee is the infa-
nous decision of the Supreme Court
in the matter Of the "Torbett Issues"
and the infamous action Of the State
Senate in ordering tie peoples law
officer, the Acknowledgement, not to
appeal in behalf of the people to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
The overwhelming majority Of the
voters Of East Tennessee are more
indignant at this decision of parti-
san Supreme Court and the action of
the State Senate than they have been
at any occurrences during the past
fifty years, except the firing on Fort
Sumter, and the passage by the
United States Senate of Summers
provision for mixed Schools.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

TIE signs OF the times all indl-
cate the utter ruin of Democracy in
East Tennessee. The vast army of
Democratic office-holders in Knox
and other Republican counties of
East Tennessee will "step down and
out" at the next election. The YER
dict of the jury of inquest will be
"Died of the assinine stupidity of the
Tennessee Legislature and Demo.
cratic rascality in general, but Tor,
bett Issues and Lunatic Asylum
swindling in particular"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

TIE Republican majority of
SIX thousand five hundred in the
Knoxville Congressional District was
reduced to one thousand at the No
vember election. With the load of
the Supreme Court decision in re-
decming the "Torbett Issues" to
carry, the Republican party, at the
next election, will recover all the
ground it has lost, and roll up its
grand old majority.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24
DEATH OF JOHN Mitchell.

DEATH OF JOHN Mitchell.
A telegram from London announces
the death, on yesterday, at Droma-
lane, Ireland, Of John Mitchell, the
famous agitator.
Mitchell is well remembered In
Knoxville. where he was for year or
two citizen and journalist. He
published here the Southern Citizen,
in which he advocated the dissolution
of the Federal Union and the reopen
ing of the African slave trade. He
was brilliant and forcible writer,
but his newspaper had sickly exist
ence, and from the publication of its
first number lost money, for the rea-
son that his peculiar doctrines were
unpopular in this section.
Mitchell was recently elected to the
British Parliament from Tipperary,
Ireland was refused his seat in that
body, and after that again elected by
the same constituency and would
again have been refused his seat had
he lived to have knocked for admis-
sion at the door of Parliament.
His election to Parliament and his
death suggest a striking contrast be-
tween the government Of Great Bri-
tain and the United States in their
dealings, respectively. with refractory
ard rebellious subjects.
Mitchell was not refused a seat in
Parliament because of any fraud or
irregularity in the manner Of his cleo
ton. Not at all But what, reader,
do you conjecture to have been the
cause
That twenty-seven years ago, when
young man, he ddUiSed resistance
to the laws Of England through tho
columns Of newspaper which he
edited, He committed no rebellious
act, he dlUjSed resistance to legisla
ton, which the British people have
since confessed to have been Oppres-
sivQ to the Irish people.
For that publication he was sen
fenced 20 fourteen years Imprisonment
as a fclon After undergoing three
years Imprisonment he escaped to the
United States, and after n lapse OF
twenty-seven years the gray-headed
old man was still outlawed by the
Government of England
Seven years after the close of our
American rebellion, without undergo
ing any Imprisonment or confscation
or property, the Vice-President of the
Southern Confedcracy takes his seat
in the American Congress.
We don't complain Of the clcmency
extended to Mr.. Stephens, or the one
hundred ex-rebels now in Congress,
|. but we refer to the contrast so
strikingly presented that our South
crn fellow-citizens may have better
appreciation of the magnanimity Of
the glorious Government under which
they live, and that our whole people
may understand the duplicity and
demagogueism of the Bourbon politi-
clans who pirate of their wrongs and
expressions at the hands Of General
Grant and the Republican party.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

AS \ GUBERNAToRIAL CANDIDATE
James ID. Porter received the unani.
nous vote of the East Tennessee
Conservatives who were opposed to
Secession but have likewise opposed
the Republican party. There arc
many thousands of these voters in
East Tennessee, and Gov. Porter is
the only Confederate who has ever
received their undivided support.
The first important act Of Gov. Porter
was to unceremoniously remove John
NJ. Fleming from the Office of State
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
And the only reason he had for 50
doing was that Fleming had been q
Unionist during the war, and he was
the only Unionist holding a State
office.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

Sheu ulSgrace the State, sooner than !
the people will be robbed of their last
dollar. 1t is coming to light,
since the decision of the Supreme
Court, that this, that, and the other
man hold large amounts of these
Torbett Issues. An ex.ConGederate
Governor of Tennessee has stated TO
man of undoubted veracity, that he
holds twenty-five thousand of them.
Keep it before the people, that this
Democratic party, in four years, have
brought the State of Tennessee to the
ragged edge of bankruptcy, and four
years more of their misrule and cor
ruptions, will bring bread.riots and
armed resistance to suppress their
mockery of laws.
Keep ii before the people, that all
this plundering and stealing in high
life, is the work of the party that
brought on the war, the leaders of
which are seeking to get up another
rebellion, that they may all obtain
positions in the commissary depart
ment, and make fortunes for them
selves and their children.
Keep 1t before the people, that it is
the duty of all patriotic men of all
parties, to hold meetings in their re-
spective counties, and denounce this
wholesale robbery, and the thieves
and counterfeiters, who command the
great army Of rascals seeking to ruin
the State, destroy her credit, and
bring nakedness and starvation upon
the laboring masses. Require, at all
hazards, that the redemption of old
issues of the defunct Bank of Ten
nessee, and the Torbett Issues, must
come to an end, and let them know
in terms that can not be misunder-
stood, that if they can't terminate
these robberies and thefts, the people
will do it Tor them.
Keep 1t before the people, that during
the rebellion, these bank officers and
military gentlemen, travelled through
the Southern States with the rebel
army, and had their bank printing
offices on wheels, and they ground
out Tennessee bank bills like turning
grind-stone; hence the supply of
Confederate bank notes, and that of
the Tennessee Torbett Issues was al
ways equal to the demand. And here
we raise question of law upon the
Supreme Court, as well as upon par
ties in the State. Are the hundreds
Of thousands of dollars, which they
printed on the wing, and flooded the
States of Georgia, Alabama and
North Carolina with, lawful money?
Especially we ask. if the issues print
ed in the State Of Georgia were law
full money? Rather, were and are they
not fraudulent forgeres? Where are
those itinerating banks? Have they
recourse to them now? If 50, how
many millions do they intend to
issue?
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

Ills name is Smith. They say he
lost prestige in Memphis; and, having
failed to obtain situation there, went
to New Orleans and secured q place
on the Times. TO get even with
Memphis, he started the story about
the Shelby county delegation selling
out to Andy johnson for thirty
pieces Of silver" or words to that
effect That's the Bluff City" side
Of the story.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

For one time, if never before or
again. the people of Tennessee will
recognize the wisdom of the late
Constitutional Convention in restrict
ing a session Of the Legislature to
seventy-fve days. How much longer
would it have taken the present con-
Germ to have dragged the whole State
TO perdition
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

TX the House of Representatives
on Friday, the Senate resolutions re-
lative to the Torbett Issue were 50
amended as to require the Attorney
General to take the case to the Su.
preme Court Of the United States. 1t
is possible that the thunders from
East Tennessee have been heard at
the Capitol.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

a Giles county man, who knows a
thing or two, writes to his Represen.
tatiyo in the Legislature, You had
better repeal the tax on jackasses, or
a majority Of your body will catch
thunder when the Revenue Collector
comes around"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

II is getting to be az difficult to
find an aspiring man in East Tennes-
see, who endorses the decision Of
the Supreme Court in the redemption
Of the "Torbett Issues" as it is to
find an advocate Of Summers mixed
school provision Of the Civil Rights
Bill.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24
PROSPECTUS
OF THR
D ALLY CHI R NICL E
AND THE
Weekly Wing and Chronicle,
AND TIE
WEEKLY.

senator Brownlov will have control
Of the editorial columns, which, in
view of his long experience and re-
cognized journalistic ability, is a suf-
fcient guarantee that the WING AND
CHRoNICLE will be a lively journal.
The terms above given will be rigid
Iy adhered to, and payment will inva-
riably be required in advance.
Remittances may be made by draft,
money-order or by registered letter at
our risk. Give postoflice address in
full, including State and county and
address.
WIG AND CHRONICLE,
knoxville, Tenn
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

TIE bill restricting the Justices
who compose the Quarterly Courts to
one-half the present number has be-
come z law. We give no opinion to
its merits, until we have had an op-
portunity to read the law in full.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

IP Ben. Butler retires 10 private
life, it will take the wind out of the
sails of more than one Democratic
paper. He was the butt Of all their
sharp sayings, yulgarities and abuse.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

liz has spoken. lie has once more
spread out the Constitution and uu-
furled the flag. lie feels easier, no
doubt, and will enjoy better health
this summer than he would have done
had he remained silent
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

TwENTY-THEEE standing commit
tees have voted to confirm DR. Jag
ger as Bishop Of the Diocese of
Southern Ohio. So his confirmation
by the House Of Bishops is almost
certain. 1t is about equally certain
that DeKoven will be rejected by the
committees of q majority of the Do
ceses.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

LET the new law taxing dogs be
rigidly enforced, and soon farmers
may raise sheep without being sub
jected to loss from the depredations
of worthless ours. We believe this
matter was first brought TO the 1T
tention Of the Legislature by the
Patrons Of Husbandry in Uppo: East
Tennessee, and they have cause to
congratulate themselves upon the sue
cess Of their efforts. We congratu.
late our Granger friends
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

IT was believed by some that Mr..
Beecher would be put upon the wit
ness stand yesterday to testify in his
own case. Our dispatches, however,
do not mention that such was the
case, and we presume that he was not
called.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

HENRY NJ. ATKINSON Of Nebraska,
the new Commissioner Of Pensions,
is son.in.law Of ex-senator Upton.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

TIE extreme Democratic newspa-
pers in New Orleans opposed the
compromise of the Louisiana troubles
by the gentlemen composing the
Congressional Committee. But by
the advice and efforts Of the Presi-
dent, Gov. Kellogg and some OF the
Conservatives and business men of
the State, it was affected. The Bull
letiD, of New Orleans, opposed it,.
But now that it is accomplished that
paper states that the merchants Of
that city are fast recovering their
chcerfuincss; that trade is reyiying,
the shipping looking up, the city re-
gaining its cheerfulness, and the city
almost ready for the Mardigras ccIe-
bration which was postponed some
time ago"
TIE correspondent Of the CoprieJ-
Joua0,, who has been 1T Nashville
constantly during the entire session
Of the Legislature, comes TO this con
clusion as TO what that body will do:
1.-THE tax rate viii remain at forty cents,
aud the money ~ NEE. deficiencies viii con-
time 10 10 borrowed az before, thanks to
tba veto message Of Gov. Porter. This will
probably be the exact status when the hour
Of adjournment arrives That means tha.
no assessment bin has been passed, and
that no revenue bin has been passed, and
that the State Of Tennessee has paid these
gentlemen four dollars per day for the last
seventy-Gve days for the purpose Of simply
slecting A. johnson TO the United States
Senate. That's about all they have done,
and quite a number Of them are sorry they
did that"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

TuE Nashville Unioa anil Amsrtcun
is the only Democratic paper we have
seen mean enough to give expression
to the hope that the WING AND
CHRoHIcLE win be unfortunate in its
financial and business management.
Despite the rcvengeful outgiyings
OF this Bourbon sheet, we can assure
our friends that the success ofour pa
per is already assured. And we can
reply to the Union 0~d AmgicaR that
we have succeeded, and will continue
to succeed, without engaging in Pub
lie Printing Swindlcs
The decision Of the Supreme Court
and the action Of the Legislature in
the case Of the "Torbett Issues" has
aroused a storm of Indignation all
over East Tennessee, the like OF which
has scarcely ever been seen in this
division OF the state.
Porter is the only Democratic can
didate for Governor who has carried
East Tennessee since the lamented
Hugh l.. White routed the Democratic
organization Of the State.
Now if Porter were a candidate
Maynard would beat him several
thousand votes in East Tennessee.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24

The counsel for Rev. Mr.. Bcecher are
seeking to bury the charge against their
client under evidence that Mr. Tilton has
been guilty of immoral practices This is
confession Of weakness. 1t does not fol-
low that because Mr.. Tiltou may be
whited sepulchre Mr.. Beecher is q spotloss
lamb. The question is not whether Tilton
Is a sad dog, but whether Beecher is guilty
Of the charge brought against him. -Ne1a-
phis Aralanche.
Paragraphs similar to the above we
frequently see in newspapers whose
editors profess to be sensible and
qualified to discharge their duties.
OF course Beecher's lawyers try to
prove Tilton and Moulton, and the
whole batch Of conspirators, black
mailers and perjurers, men and women
Of bad character. 1t is the testimony
they are expected to produce. There
is no proof Of Bcecher's guilt except
the alleged uerJoI confessions he has
made to this crew. They do not
prove by any responsible witness n
single suspicious act Beecher can
not prove by ten thousand witnesses
that he is a man Of good moral char
acter, or that he never committed the
ofense charged, for that is negative
testimony which the law excludes
where the former good character ~
admitted. 1t certainly is not only
admissible, but legitimate and essen
tial that Beecher should break down
the testimony of the plaintiff by prov
ing him and his witnesses free-lovers,
adulterers and blacllmailers. 1t is
also his duty, if possible, to prove Il
series of facts with which can be re-
conciled his letters which the plaintiff
introduced in q garbled, forged and
unfair manner. The only way a con-
spiracy and matchmaking scheme of
the extent, character and duration of
the one he is now unfolding can be
proved is by circumstances and evi.
dence the relevancy Of which is not
always apparent to the public.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24
THEIR SPIRIT.

The first act of the rampant seces-
sion Democracy of this State, in ac-
curing n new lease of power under
the leadership of James ID. POI ter,
was to expel from Office John NJ.
Fleming, Superintendent of Public
Instruction. Mr.. Fleming was turned
out solely because he had been a
Union man during the war and he
was the only Conservative Unionist
who held office under the State gov
eminent. No man tried harder than
Fleming to be q good Democrat, and
no one was a more earnest and faith
full hater of what is called Radical
ism, but in the estimation of Gov.
Porter and his advisers, he had COM
mitted 1.-the objectionable sin" in
opposing Secession.
The next act of Porter and his
WAC w StiuOblOll viz AC-
cision of the Supreme Court in the
redemption of the issues of the State
Bank called the "Torbett Issue"
An issue of paper for the sole purpose
of waging war upon the Union, and
in the possession of none but the
politicians and money sharks.
The Conservative Unionists of East
Tennessee as well as the Republicans
see the spirit of Tennessee Democracy,
and, our word for it, the next election
will show Porter and his friends that
such a spirit Will be Indignantly re.
buked by the large majority of East
Tennessee voters.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-04-20
Gaming License.

HEACH AND EVERY PERSON WHO
IL shall deal. play, carry. on, open, or
cause to be opened. or who shall conduct,
either as ewner or employe. whether for hire
or not. except under a license. as hereinafter
provided. any gam OF faro, monte, roulette,
lansquenette, rouge ct noir, rondo, OF any
banking game played with money. dice or any
other deyice.swhether the same be played for
money checks, credit, or any other represent
alive of value, shall be guilty Of a misdemea-
nor, and on conviction thereof shall be pun
ished by a fine of not less than one thousand
nor more than three thousand dollars, or by
imprisonment in the County Jail not less than
three months nor more than one year, or By
both such fine and impris0nment."-lAn act
to restrict gamlng-stat's. 1853, y. ll9.
In conformity with the requirements Of the
above section Of an act entitled AN act to
restrict gaming" all persons now carrying on,
or intending to carry on, any banking game
are notified that they must procure a license
for such game before op.ning the same. The
game OF honest lnjun" Is included.
q. W, GILMORE,
Sheriff Of Eureka county.
T.. i. KING, Under sheriff.
Eureka, April IA. 1875. apli
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-04-20

SARi, NO. 623 KEAkNy 81 ~
corner Of Commercial, San FL.
cisco. Private entrance on Inlah-
mercial street. ESQ hl:1I !.0n.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-04-20

80 u 80
TyHE A. q. II. meet every first and third
II SATURDAY EVENING Of each month.
1T 8 O'Clock, at the corner of Clark and
Monroe streets, until further notice.
THOS. HALEY, President.
JERENIAH SULLIVAN. Secretary. aU7
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-04-20

MINERS AND ALL OTHERS onsoI.
Nl hereby notified that the Basyv; nj not DO
dated Mining Company tLimiter' or material
asreemsnts to work on any Of the I sglsewhers
mines in Pinto, Secret Canyon u WIIfrRPHY,.
in Eureka county. JOHN \. MSnntsndent
Eureka. New. Octot or Z. 18Th -