Year: 1870

tanooga spreads itself" a little more is
Justly styled the commercial center Of East
Tennessee, and is likely to continue to be
the great political hub for years to como.
One hears more politics in Knoxville than
in any other town Of its size from Maine to
California. This city, during the last fifteen
or twenty years, has also been the scene of
more blOodless encounters than perhaps
any place Of ike Importance in the Union
encounters in which the pen and not the
sword has been the principal weapon, and
in which the whole English language has
! been exhausted In order to get up a supply
of ammunition with which to kill off an ad-
versary. Intimate friends Of yesterday are
to-day firing hot shot at each other with all
the venom of viper, and enemies of old, as
well as recent date, are to be found billing
and cooling and working shoulder to
shoulder today in their attempts to beat
/ down common adversary. The fact that
any two prominent citizens to-day are init
mate fricads, is no evidence that they viii
not have a hot newspaper controversy next
week, which. will probably end in their
uniting their forces during the week follow
! ing against a third party. The ways of the
Knoxville politicians are past finding out
The one great thing lacking among the hot
heads Of Knoxville, is a knowledge of the
code-they need Galloway and a Dubose
in their midst, men who would just as soon
! see u few Of them adjourn to some shady
| place on the ether side of the river, or over
into Buncombe, and take pop" at each


other, as no5-such men in Knoxville would
be the means of making many speedy and
more lasting friendships, er of relieving the
community of excitements which, too often,
unnecessarily occur. Men of their tenn
permanent and ideas of honor, with proper
degree Of influence, might soon teach the
Knoxville politician that the epithets liar,
ScoumdreL and couard have q different
meaning from that which they have become
accustomed to attach to them.


Knoxville supports three daily news
papers of unmistakable politics WAig,
Press and Hrald, and Chronicle The


Whtg Is owned by Gen. J. R. Mabry and
edited by Rev c. w Charlton an ex-rebel
and local Methodist minister. The Whig,
so long a Radical sheet is no longer such,
and know Ct no surer way to arouse its
editors wrath than to call it such. Mr.
Charlton seems to have the agricultural in
terests of East Tennessee very much at
heart, and devotes considerable time and
attention to the subject. Through his
efforts sufficient sum has been raised to
improve the fair grounds near the city in a
substantial and handsome manner, and ar
rangements lave been completed for hold
ing an East Tennessee Agricultural and


Mechanical Fair commencing on the 4th
and ending on the 7th Of October next
The sum Of $1,000 viii be distributed IN
premiums and sufficient interest is al
ready manifested to warrant the prediction
that the fair will be a success. Mr.. Charl.
ton IS a bold writer aud does not hesitate to


pitch into politics when occasion requires,


The Press and Herald Is also strongly


Democratic, and is extensively patronized


by the people of East Tennessee, while the
5 Chronicle is Of recent birth and may be


styled the Radical Organ Of the State How
n long it will run is hard to tell, but at pres
ent its existence Is a necessity to some oil
y the ready writers Of Knoxville who think
r "the pen mightier than the sword" and
s. who from the position and surroundings OF
. their opponents, are denied the use of the
, columns of the Press and Herald and WHfg
i They (the friends of the CAronicze) are sup
u posed to have plenty of money, and until
/ they succeed in demolishing their adver
Is saries or become tired of the fight it is safe
to conclude the Chronicle will continue


while it claims to be a party paper it seems


to be more of q personal document, and t.


be run IN the interest of few


The approaching Judicial election seems


to be the all absorbing qaestion of .poIitica
y interest, and regret to find that there i
Of not that harmony existing in the Demo
to cratic party of the district and division


which is so necessary to success where the
= Radical element is so strong as it is here


From present appearances the races fol


Circuit Judge and Chancellor will be very
close Hall (Radical) and Young Demo


crat) for Circuit Judge, and Temple (Radi
: cal) and Brown (Democrat) for Chancellor


Senator Brownlow arrived at his home il


Knoxville few weeks since, and it may b.


matter of interest to your readers to know


that the old gentleman's health Is very mucl


improved of late, and that he now bids fai
7. to outlive many of those who have been


waiting for an opportunity to step into hi


shoes He is now able to walk and to d,
re his own writing, while he has always beer
to able to do his own thinking. 1t is nov


several weeks since he has appeared in prin


and t is safe to say we win hear from min
s' ! again soon through the columns Of tn