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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1875,

THE SELFISH and mean spirit that
in the midst of the misfortunes of our
neighbor city of Chattanooga, would
seek to profit by them, deserves rebuke.
Knoxville needs no such aids. We
are sorry that any one should let his
zeal so far surpass his judgment and
sense of right as to permit himself, in
the public prints, to call attention to
and enlarge upon his neighbors' losses,
to the end that he might profit by them.
Our citizens deeply deplore and sym
pathise with the good people of Chat
tanooga in their losses. It's citizens
have shown degree of enterprise,
pluck, judgment and faith that are
commendahle. In a humorous way.
it has been customary to allude to the
city as liable to overflow. and the first
day of the recent hard rains, before
anticipating any serious results, we
published in our local columns humor-
GUS dispatches from that city; but to
deal seriously with its mistortunes
while they are yet upon the place is in
wretched taste, and does not meet with
the appreciation of this community.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10

THE arrival of our delayed mails
brings us the detailed statement of
Treasurer Morrow's estimate of the
current actual expenses of the State.
heretofore alluded to in our dis.
patches.
The prospect is not very encour-
aging one, although presented in q
more favorable light by the Treasurer
than the facts warrant. The amount
Of our expenditures to be provided for
is $2,653,591. The assessment for
1874, upon which tax can be levied,
is $289,000,000. To this the Treas
urer adds SOL, 100000 of railroad
property; but as most of these roads
claim that their charters exempt them
from taxation for 1875, and will con-
test any attempt to levy a tax by
litigation, it is useless to expect any
aid from that quarter 20 meet the
expenditures for the present year.
But, even including this railroad
property, the Treasurer admits a de-
felt of $23O,585 upon forty cent tax
Mr.. Morrow then makes an estimate
upon sixty cents basis, and is COM
PEELED to admit as follows:
"Now, if all collections cam be made
within the year as above, including the tax
on railroads, then we should have a surplus
in the Treasury of S349, 8l5, but if coiec-
tons average as they have since 1865, then
even this tax would hardly yield enough to
meet our demands as they mature"
He says that experience shows that
only 80 per cent. of the taxes are
collected in time to be of use during
the year for which they were levied.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10
THE RAILROAD QUESTION.

The great question now before the
people Of East Tennessee, in particu.
lar is. shall the great railroad leading
from Bristol to Chattanooga, the use
of two hundred miles, finally prove a
success, or shall it be destroyed?
We desire to make a few brief re-
marks, pointed and plain, upon this
subject; and in what we say, we wish
it distinctly understood that we intend
no personal reflections upon any party
or parties who may have questions of
controversy with the road unsettled.
Nor do we come before the public in
4 complaining spirit, intending to in
tluence public sentiment for or against
the road.
We have thought, for many months
past. that the suits in the courts of
the country against the road were
multiplying so rapidly as to render
the stability and usefulness of the
road questionable. We suggest that
parties who have just claims upon the
road be met by arbitration and COM
promise. The officers of the road are
a high.minded and honorable set of
men, and as such they would be will
ing to do justice to the parties who
claim to have been damaged. In
every instance the claimant would
receive more than would be given to
him by a jury of the country--when
lawyers fees and costs are deducted.
If these suits are continued, they will
increase in number and in violence.
and may so seriously embarrass the
operations of the road as to destroy
it, and then the prosperity of East
Tennessee is done for. Destroy this
road, and you will ruin the country.
The high prices you are receiving for
real estate will dwindle down fifty per
cent, and will never come up again
during this generation.
The question now at issue has mar
rowed down to this point: Shall the
road be run by the employees, or shall
it be run by the stockholders whose
money built it? We may be allowed
to say, in closing this appeal to the
parties in litigation, that we are not a
stakeholder, or have we been requested
by any friend of the road to say a
word, either by way of apology for
the plaintiffs or defendants. We have
at heart the prosperity of the road,
and the satisfactory adjustment of the
claims against it. In other words,
Let us nave peace :"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL IN NEW
YORK.
Intentions of HOtel-Keepers and Res
IRurant PrOprietOrs.
New York Tribune, March 81

new 1OrK Tribune, March B.
At several of the most prominent
hotels in the city, where INQUIRIES
were made yesterday as to the action
proposed to be taken in relation to the
Civil Rights bill, the managers were
found TO be very reticenL upon the
subject and disposed to evade the
question. At the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
Mr.. GriswOld said he did not think
that the bill would trouble the New
York hotel propretors. To the ques-
ton if he would permit colored men
to have such rooms as they desired, he
said he did not allow his present guests
to dictate to him as TO what portion of
the house they would occupy: thew
were assigned such rooms as he saw
fit to give them, and if they were not
satisfied they were at perfect liberty to
go elsewhere.
He declared that his course would be
such as was for the best advantage OF
the house and for the comfort If his
patrons but if colored man came he
would give him room. In answer to
the question if he would allow colored
persons to sit at the general table, Mr..
Griswold said that there was more
than one dining room to the hotel,
that he certainly would not refuse to
feed a colored guest, and would take
him into such Of the rooms as he saw
fit.
At the Grand Central, II. l.. Powers,
the lessee, was called upon, and in re-
ply TO the question whether he would
entertain colorod guests, he said that
he did not think he would be either
honOred or troubled with them. When
asked if he would allow them TO sit at
the general table, he said that the hotel
was provided with three dining rooms,
and as he did not allow any one TO
dictate I'm his establishment, he could
dispose Of colored guests as he saw fit.
aud that if he saw fit 10 put any one
In the smallest dining room he should
do 80.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10

A REPORTER of the Baltimore Sun
has interviewed Bishop Wayman, of
the African NJ. f. Church, on the sub
ject of the Civil Rights Bill, and the
course colored people will likely pur-
sue under it. The Bishop makes
some sensible suggestions on the sub
ject. The Sun says:
Bishop Wayrnsn said the colored peo-
pie have numerous churches and schools OF
their own in Baltimore, and, said he, they
nave their own graveyards, too As tc
theatres and restaurants, the good Bishop
did not care about them at all, but he know:
the colored people are too well accommoda.
ted with drinking places Of their own, and
they have very numerous public entertain,
meuts at scores Of halls all over the city
Houses Of public entertainment KEEP. by re.
spectacle colored people are as plenty d
the needs Of the population demand, anC
no disposition is manifested 10 interfer,
with the white people by respectable color
ed people. Neither the Bishop nor Mr.
Webb expressed any qualification at th'
passage of the bill, nor did they state an
objection toit, Both we're ofopinion that tn,
colored people could not be elevated in tn,
social scale by legal statute, but must de
pend upon their personal worth and en-
deaVor. They said that in week, if thu
question was not agitatei by the whit
people, it would be forgotten in Baltimor,
that there was civil rights bill. If am
overt acts are undertaken by colored PEG.
pie here they would be by strangers or de
signing politicians among the colored resi-
dents Of the city
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10

IL THE Graphic, of March 3, we
find a tabulated statement of the city
debt of New York, with the amount
of taxes paid each year since 1905.
The rate of taxation in 1874 was
$3.50 per 500 of taxable property.
add the debt is S114,979,969.99.
The debt per capjta of the popula-
ton is S114.98. The total amount of
taxable property in the city is put
down at S1,154,O29,117. The tax
per head of the population last year
was 1921. This immense debt, the
heaviest that rests upon any people in
this country, is the legacy left by a
corrupt ring which held power
there for years, and which used all the
appliances of Tammany Democracy,
20 manacle their victims. In speak
ing Of tax ridden" people, the Dem
ocratic politicians never look to New
York. They cast their eyes in the
direction Of some State that has had
Republican administration, and
with an assumed holy horror, descant
with hypocritical compassion upon
the woes of the people. Beware of
such hypocrites, Their exterior ap-
pearance is fair enough, but inside
they are full of rottenness.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10
THE ToRBETT ISSUE.

The Supreme Court of Tennessee
decided at Nashville last week that
the notes Of the Bank of Tennessee
issued after May 9th, 1861, and com.
monty known rs the Torbett issue.
are legal and valid issues Of the
Bank, and that the State is bound to
pay them. The facts connected with
the issue of these notes are notorious.
They were put forth to aid the State
then in rebellion against the lawful
authorities of the Government of the
United States. They were issued of.
ter the State went into rebellion, and
as we now recollect the testimony
by the order and through the inhu.
ence of Gov. Isham G.. Harris. The
notes outstanding amount to at least
S1,5OO,000, and no one knows how
much more. They were sold after
the war very cheap, as few believed
they would ever be paid. The PEG.
pie generally looked upon them as
part of the rebel debt repudiated by
the amendments to the Constitution.
The decision of the Supreme Court
of the State may be appealed from,
and the case carried to the Supreme
Court of the United States. We are
not advised whether any one feels in.
terest enough in the case to carry it
there or not.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10

THERE seems to have been gener-
al rejoicing in Arkansas over the de-
feat Of Congressman Wards resolu-
ton TO reconstruct that State. A
dispatch to the New York Herdd
says:
"The humorous features Of settlement
are numerous whisky flows freely, and
symptoms Of universal hilarity are every
where displayed by ezhilarated Democrats.
Several enthusiasts appeared to-day attired
IN blue dress coats with brass buttons, in
honor Of the stereotypei costume Of Judge
Poland, Chairman Of the Arkansas Com
mittee.U
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.

The Democratic leaders in Congress
are talking about reading Alexander
II. Stephens out of the party, because
he voted in favor of suspending the
rules in the House, so as to take UP
the Louisiana Compromise measure.
Some Of them were so incensed
that they talked about denouncing
him as being false to the sentiments
of his constituents. 1t is said that
his age and infrmity was all that
kept them from carrying out their
purposes. His Georgia colleagues
charge that he was led to this course
because the President allows him to
control the Federal patronage of his
District. 1t will be found, no doubt,
that Stephens has a mind Of his own.
and that he will not be deferred from
voting his sentiments, by implied
threats or empty sneers from his par.
ty associates. 1t is predicted that he
many prove troublesome to his par
ty leaders in the next two years.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10

THERE is time for all things, the
wise man said. So Andrew Johnson
thinks, perhaps, and consequently he
refuses to take part in the canvass in
New Hampshire. There is a time to
speak, and time to keep silence.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10

The reason why SO many mcn-and
women alsO-dO not succeed in life is that,
like Micawber, they are whiting for some
thing to "tun up" 1t is better to mate
an opportunity than 10 wait for one and
Infinitely wiser 10 do well the humblcst
work than 10 stand lazily hoping for more
cOngcuial occupation.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10

Mrs. GooDwYy, Of Alabama, q
granddaughter Of the late President
Tyler, is making quite reputation as
dramatic reader. She is to give
readings in New York City soon.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-05

J. T. Brown and F. T. Reid SoIicita-s ta-
COmplainants 40 49,, - = IN
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-05
selling LIQUOR TO Epebr,a,es

The following bill has passed the Senate
and has a good chance Of getting through
the House.
a bill to be entitled an act tOprsyent the
sale Of intoxicating liquors to inebriates.
Section /. Be it enacted BY the General
Assembly Of the State Of Tennessee, that
any person having a license to sell spirit
ons, vinOus or malt liquors by the drink or
otherwise, shall be subject to a penalty Of
twenty-five dollars for selling. giving or
permitting TO be sold or given to any known
lnebTiate any spurious, yinous or malt
liquors by the drink. or IN any quantity
whatever, and, for violation Of this act, the
wife or any relative Of the inebriate NAV
recover the said amount for her or his ben
efit, before any court Of competent iurisdic-
ton, provided, that notice in writing that
the person receiving such liquors is an in
ebriate, and foIbidding the sale or giving
Of such liquors to him has been first served
on the person so selling or giving the
same.
Sec. ?. BE it further enacted, that this
act take effect from and after its passage,
the public welfare recurring il.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-05
Waking Profanitu PA

That wicked paper, the ClarksriHe To-
b0ccO Leaf, thus sneeTs at a great moral
reform thar is going on in our midst:
''Ihere is an anti-pIofanity society in
Nashville, which charges its members five
cents for cussin'. The price is shockinglv
low. One dollar for plain, s. for mixed,
$ for twisted, 81 for doubled and twisted.
and $40 for regular double, fore and back
action, angular, searching, side-wipe and
corrugated oathS is cheap enough. with a
liberal discount for large orders and special
occasions.
"The Society lately gave the Woman's
Mission Home S2.20, as the result of their
months work. They will have to have a
more stringent assessment Law, or some
new act for The collection ofthe revenue. or
the unfortunate class this tax is to save
from sin will perish. Il is a new IDEA to
make one crime HeUtralize another in that
alkai against an acid. These
boys will have, however, to cuss more, or
sin will OutgrOW their efforts. Let US see.
$3.50 will just save-hoWever, the calcula-
ton is intricate, and they are, perhaps, do
ing their best. We are sOTy to say. we
can pick ont boys Who will beat that at )
cents per cuss."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-05
CRIMINAL NOTES.

James Martin and Lloyd Craighead were
| fined s. each in the police court Yesterday
morning, for being drunk and disOrderlv.
Officer Fletcher yesterday arrested Rose
Harris, cOlOred, on the charge of stealing
cotton from Ordway, Gordon & Nc,
CURE.
4 negro named John HAYS was commit
ted to Jail by Justice Everett, YESTERDAY.
for trial before the Criminal Court, on the
charge Of gaming.
Bill Clark, a stout looking negro bow.
representing himself as being from Ken.
lucky, was arrested by officer Burns yester-
day, on the charge Of vagrancy.
BillSnider, cOlored, was before Iustice
Everett yesterday afternoon to answer the
charge Of fraudulent appropriation Of prop
eTty in the sale of a horse. Z. w. Napier.
the prosecutor, withdrew the warrant and
agreed TO pay the costs Of the suit.
A negro named George Taylor got into
difficulty yesterday with William Bowls,
who very quickly ended il BY knocking
the darkey down. Mr.. BOWles was arrest
ed by officer Fletcher, and gave bond for
his appearance before Judge Duling this
morning.
John POsey, well known in police cir
--' --e-~ . A-A-1-AA-NlNA 9lsAA4AAAAA- EolELudN
with a young lady named Alice McCombs,.
which resulted, it is said, in his Stamping
her jaws and kicking her about generally.
He was arrested by officer Frazier and
locked up in the wOrkhOuse.
Officers Frazier and MasBey yesterday
recovered two OyercOats, a pair Of gloves
and walking cane that had been stolen
by Lewis Reed, cOlOTed, who is low in iail
awaiting trial before the Criminal Court.
When the prisoner was arrested Wednesday
! case Of fine surgical instruments was
found in his possession.
Mile Hart, c0lOTed, was bound over BY
Justice Campbell, yesterday, in the sum Of /
$50 TO keep the peace for six months to-
wards Henry Petty, Colored. She swore
out warrant against Petty charging him
with breach Of promise Of marriage, but
the case was dismissed, the evidence having !
been insufficient 10 sustain the charge.
-Four colOred youths, from fifteen to |
eighteen years Of age, were arrested and |
taken before Justice Campbell, vest erday, !
on the charge OF disturbing a colored |
school. Il is alleged they went to Mckee |
school No. >, during recess, and attempted |
10 raise disturbance with the pupils. As |
AlOnzo Napier, the principal, appeared on |
the scene, the TaScalS scampered of. a /
number Of witnesses were examined and |
the case held under advisement till to- |
day.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-05
RELIGIOUS REVEALS.
Messrs. Bliss and WhittIe Invited 10
Enter the Lords VIneyard Here.

Mes5rs. Bliss and WhittIe Invited tO
Enter the Lords Vineyard Here.
In compliance with the published call,
the following ministers met at the Office OF
DR.. Summers, In the Methodist Publishing
House, yesterday, to consider the propriety
Of inviting the Teyiyalists, MessTs. Whitlle
and Bliss, now in Louisville, 70 visit thi S
city:
Rev. T. A. Hoyt, First PRESBYTERIAN: Rev.
Dr. J. W. HOyte, Second PRESBYTERIAN:
DR.. J. B. Lindsey aud Rev. VI. B. De Will.
Fist Cumberland Presbyterian; Rev. L. G..
Jones, DID, First Baptist; Rev. A. D..
Phillips, Mission Baptist Church; Rev. R.
h. HargrOve, Methodist, McKendree; Rev.
w. D. F. Sawrie, Claiborne Chapel; Rev.
+. Il. Hill, Elm Street; Rev. ]. w. Hill,
Arlington Church; Rev. W. II. Green,
West End; Rev. W. 4. Nelson, Baptist
Church, Edgefeld; Rev. J. II. McNeillv,
Presbyterian, Edgefeld; Tulip Street.
Methodist, and Cumberland PRESBYTERIAN.
Edgeheld, represented by proxy. Besides,
the Rev. DR.. Summers, Methodist; the
Rev. DR.. Kelley, Methodist; the Rev. DR..
a. L. Hamilton, Methodist; the Rev. DIR.
Shelton, Baptist, and Rev. DR.. J. B. Me
FerTin, Methodist, were present.
Rev. Dr.. McFerrin vas called TO the
chair, and Rev. w. a. Nelson was appoint
ed secretary.
The object Of the meeting was explained
by the Rev. DR.. Hoyte and Rev. Rlr.
HOyt and others, to-wit, that it had
been suggested that Messrs. Whittle
and Bliss, now in Louisville, KY, might
be induced to visit Nashville and COOPER
ate with the various churches here in 1ro-
noting a revival Of religion.
After a free conversation, it was. on mo.
ton Of Rev. DR.. Jones, seconded by the
Rev. Mr.. McNeilly, unanimously resolved
to invite said gentlemen to visit Nashville
IN the Interests Of our common Christi |
anily.
It was resolved that the proceedings of |
the meeting be published in the religious
and secular papers of this city, and in the |
ChT1StldH Observer, Louisville, Kv., and a |
copy be transmitted to MessTs. White and |
Bliss.
The revivalists are laymen. Mr.. Bliss |
IS musical comnoser Of considerable |
fame and fine vocalist. Mr.. WbittIe is |
also remarkable man, having given mn a |
very lucrative position in Chicago. for the |
purpose Of devOting himself to the immor- |
tai interests Of his fellows. Under this |
in connection with that of the |
resident pastors, Louisville has had :
memorable revival.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-05
ALL OVER THE CITY.


The Nashville Reading Club meets Al
the Maxwell House, this evening, at hall
past seven O'Clock.
A bit Of q sensation was caused on the
Square yesterday afternoon by the charging
around Of frightened steer.
A coal cart broke down near the eastern
entrance to the Capitol grounds, YESTERDAY
morning, aud remained there all day.
Quite rush has set in for tickets to the
Parable Of the Ten Virgins, tonight.
Dornan's is the place to get them-the
tickets.
Alta meeting Of the school committee
yesterday afternoon, the contract for finish
ing the painting Of the Fogg school build
ing was awarded to WalwOrk & Ridge.
Since Jan. 1, cotton has advanced in
Nashville q to p cents, the advance on or
binary having been q, on good ordinary
%, on low middling 255,On middling y and
on good middling PC.
a meeting of the special joint commit
tee, to whom were referred all bills relat-
ing 10 the taxation of railroads, was held
at the Maxwell House last night, and
had some Of our leading railroad men be-
fore them.
The stockholders Of the Nashville Gas
Light Company held meeting yesterday
and elected the following Board Of Direc-
tors: Samuel Watkins, Samuel Pritehett.
William f. Cooper, John Browne, T. D.
Craighead, Samuel N. Murphy and John S.
BranSf0nd.
We have been shown a copy Of a "Con-
cOrdance to the Holy SCI iptures, with the
various readings both in Text and Mar
CINE, in More Exact Method than Hath
Hitherto been Extant," printed at Cam
bridge University in 1862. 1t was the
property Of the late Dr.. Jos. A. Bowman,
and is now in possession of A. Setliff & Co.
Everybody should bear in mind the
"Parable of the Ten Virgins" an amateur
dramatic performance to be given at Ma
sonic Hall tonight. II is original and
promises to be a great success. Its most
striking features viii be iableaux of unex-
celled beauty and music Of unexceIled
sweetness, all subordinate, however, 20 the !
simple plot Of the parable.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-05

A musical and dramatic entertainment
was given al tie Old Academy last night
by number Of Young lady and gentlemen
amateurs OF this city and Edgeield. The
auditorium was fairly jammed with a re-
lined audience, who atteSted their apprecia-
ton Of the histrionie efforts of the voung
people by the most hearty applause. The
INST part OF the performance consisted of
duets, solos, a series Of waltzes, and the
"Quiet Family" The second act com
prised piano sclo, recitation, duet, piano
and lutte, and "Box and Cox
A well known business man presided as
stage manager, and was warmly greeted
when he made his little speech thanking
the audience for their attendance.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-05
ORIGINAL Attaobmen+

Jno. Alex Campbell, Solicitor for CompiaiI
eut5- febI2 Oaw4t Fri
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-05
Lame

This is the name Of the latest burning
oil introduced in this market by ChaS. u.
GauthieT, No. - North College street, and
is destined TO supersede everything in the
way Of burning oil. It makes a beautiful,
clear and brilliant light, equal to the best
gas, and cannot be exploded, no matter to
what test IL is put. We have seen it put TO
various tests, all giving the utmost satisfac-
ton. Nothing has yet been distilled from
crude petroleum 10 equal il. Those in
want Of a reliable burning oil should not
fail to use EaiuC.