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JVnoirbUIc Witt (ftlljig ant 0mrlt : McDntstmg, 12, 18'a. KmntHIr WIH ttll.hrt 111. Hmioliirl hralrli t HblUln t 170. WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1S75. or TBI DAILY CHK0N10I.E AWU THE Weekly Whig and Chronicle, DAILY. On year $8 00 MX lll'ilitli 4 00 One uiiuuli 75 WEEKLY. One Copy ono year $ '1 00 (JlieCiipy eix UiolilliH 1 00 Ten copied "lie year 17 50 Twenty copies 80 00 Heiiator Krownlow will have control of the. eililoriul coIuidiih, which, ill view of his Ion experience and re cognized jourimlinlii! ability, is a suf ficient jriiaralilee that the W'HIO AND Chronicle will be a lively journal. The terms above given will be rigid ly adhered to, and payment will inva riuMy be required in advance. Remittance may lie made by draft, money-order or hy reentered letter at uur rink. Give posiolllce addresn in full, including htnte and county and address. Whir and C'hkomclk, Knoxville, Tenn. A dun huw in the exciting topic among the steady-going people of 8prinlb ld, MamaehuettM. A::iin intelligence cnmes that tile V pe in in i'l heallli. Me i. ceiling old, ami in the onliiiurv c n.i-- o hu-iil-tii -v-hiH, can not If expected to survive luiij;. Already his u' ilirntr ha-iieeii extended 'r n.y.. mi the av erage of bin predece-for-. Why are these Democratic ed itors in Tennessee Oelubirii g ineir readers Willi pro-y imt lon- im'.ed editorlaN about lirmny in the p:irtj? Wln-re is the itifL'-ird? Tlit'.v have everything (iieir "n way in ihin State. I'loy evidently f-el that the party in approaching u cri-i- '" -.tine sort. m We will not say that the following from the Houston (Texas) Aye is ex travagant, but will give it and leave our readers to judge for themselves : 11 We love Jeff. Davis as we do our life, and it does our soul good and exalts us to do him honor. God only makes a few men in a century, and it is a little singular, but none the lees true, that the only four in America, livini; when the late wr began Bam Houston, Jeff. DavU, II. E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were Southern men. We hope lo hear President Davis speak during our fair, and that thousands will flock lo bear him.'' " DEFYING PUBLIC OPINION." The Nashville Banner reads the President ot the United States a se vere lecture on defying public opin ion, and talks very fluently about "unblushing eirronterj'," "outrage of decency," etc. 'In order to get off all of these things, it sets up a man of straw as its target. It is asserted that the President has recently ap pointed a Mr. Maynadier Paymaster in the army, after he had been once before appointed to the same position and rejected by the Senate. But as we understand the facts, this is not true. The Senate failed to act at all on .Maynaaier s nomination, it is a pity to spoil the ?" theory after such a brilliant editorial based uionit, but truth should always be observed The Clarksvillc 7Vxvo Lrnif calls attention to the fact that durin these hard times crime is notably on the decrease. It gives us a reason that the idle have been campellod to work for something to eat, und as idleness diminishes crime decreases Whatever may be the causes for the decrease of the idle, loafing crowds about our city, our contemporary is right us to the great source of crime. Idleness is the curse of this country We can not reach it by legislation, but public opinion can cure it to some extent. Even at this season of the year, when every farmer and every producer ought to bo as busy as a bee, yon can find in the bar-rooms and on the streets idle men from the country and idle men in the towns, It is when the bar-rooms are full and liquor flows freely that crime is rant pant. When young men whose homes are destitute of ordinary comforts, or whose parents owe every grocer in the city, can find timo to loaf the streets, play cards in the saloons, smoke fine cigars, play billiards and be hale fellows with everybody, and still pass as respectable youDg men, there is something wrong with public sentiment. TAKING THE BULL BY THE HORNS'. , During tho past week a mild ar ticle appeared in this paper, which gave such offenso to Mr. Miles, of Knoxvillp, as to induce him to order, " Stop my paper." The following is an extract from the article : "One of the greatest dangers to which, as a nation, we arc now subjected, is the di vision of allegiance of the citizen between hit Government and his Church, Bismarck, in Germany, and Gladstone, in England, have unmasked the batteries that are point ed against their respective Governments, and the issue in this country must come very toon. In Ohio the coalitiou betweon the Catholic Church and the Democracy is unblushingly announced. When the Leg islature of the State rms-ed the Gfghan bill at the commands of the church, by which tLe institutions under State control were thrown open to the priesthood, the Catholic Tc'rrjrnph, of Cincinnati, said : The unbroken folid vote of the Catholic citizens of the State will be given to the Democracy at the fall election.' '' Mr. Miles appears in the Demo cratic organ of this city, over the signature "Catholic," and gives us this important item : "There is not a Catholic in the country who re.-pects his religion Or hinielf, who can vote the Hepublican ticket.'' We have always expected this issue, but were not prepared for it being forced upon the country so soon. Our motto is, take the bull by the horns, and meet the issue fairly and square ly. It is nothing new to us to be told that the Catholics will in no event vote for a Republican candi date. We have watched their cotlrse with vigilance, and wo have invaria bly found them on the Democratic side. We have, witlt our limited knowledge, battled against them for thirty-five years not against their good deeds, good characters, and their good men and women, but against their aims to unite church and state, which they have aimed at all their lives. Oin advices from our correspond ents throughout East Tennessee leads us to believe that considerable dam age was done to early wheat by the frosts of last month. We invite at tention to the article cf an experienced farmer in this issue of our paper on this subject. All this leads us to urge upon our people the great im portance of our small industries. We have too many idle hands in East Tennessee. The great and prosper ous North grows by work. People there work hard, and work incessant ly. Our people waste too much val uable time, and we are sorry to say it. Our farmers rely too much on their wheat and corn crops. There are other departments of their labor to which they might profitably devote themselves. Most farmers North expect their small economies to pay their family expenses. Their butter and eggs, and honey, and feathers, and poultry, and dried fruits keep up the home expenses, and swell the yearly profits of the farm by so much. In one of the finest climates in the world, uited to all sorts of industries, we are poor, simply because we will not work to grow richer. Our towns and cities arc filled with too many idle men, and our fields are left to grow up in sedge grass, und our farnv crs to spend their time and strength in half-way cultivating too much land. I in: last iikiit statement put forth by the Treasury Department will dispell all forebodings of fman cial embarrassments to the Govern ment. A comparison of the condition of tho Treasury to-day and one year ago is entirely favorable to the pros, perity of the country. During the first ten months of the last fi-cal year the public debt had been reduced, but 2,000,000, whereas in the first ten months of the present fiscal year the reduction has been $ll,77K,KO'.).2."(. The following facts as gathered from the latest review of the Treasurer's report are of interest : On April 3D, one year ago, there was in the Treasury $W6V,vryS gold belonging to tho Government. Yesterday the Govern mout owned $7'J,22a,3C'J 23 gold. ThUt is an excess of gold in the Treasury, owned absolutely by the Government, of more than $15,631,000. The currency balance a year ago wua $6,258,074 02. This year it is $l,0'Jti,S7u 70. The Treaaury had, there fore, nearly eleven and a half millions of dollar! more in its vaults than it had on the last day of April, 174. This does not look much like impending bankruptcy. I'p to and including the 1st of July, (ha cur rent expenses of the Government, the in terest on the public debt, and the LouJa for inking fund will have to be provided for. The balance is already large enough to pay the interest and redeem the bonds for the inking fund, and t till leave several mil lions to apply to current expenses. With moderate) receipts from customs and in ternal revenues through May and June, the Treasury will discharge all its debts for the year, and have a fair beginning of the new fiscal year. THE COUNTY Bill DUE. There seems to be an almost uni versal feeling in favor of rebuilding the county bridge over tho Tennes see river at this place, swept away by the storm of the 1st, The manner iti which it shall be done is a question about which there seems to be a difference of opinion. It Las already been an item of heavy ex pense to tho tax payers of the coun ty, and there arc a great many who feel that it would be unwise to further increase the debt of the county to the extent the reconstruction of the bridge would entail. It appears now that nothing can be done before the meeting of the 0,uarterly Court in July. Judge Moses, the chairman of the Court, feels that he has no power to call a meeting of the Court to de cide what shall be done. This is a serious defect in our laws and should be remedied. On important occa sions like this, the chairman ought to have the power of convening the Court at any time. If, when the Court does meet, it is felt that the financial condition of the county will not justify tho addition- il expense of rebuilding the bridge, provisions should be made to turn the franchise tiud abutments over to a company that will rebuild it. In do ing this, terms reasonable to the peo ple and the company can no doubt he agreed upon. The piers will be of no benefit whatever lo the county, unless there is a superstructure upon them, and if the county can not build this, jve believe a company may be formed that will. At any rate, the bridge ought to be rebuilt at an early dav. MOUMON POLYGAMY. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Common-tut, writing from Suit Lake City, relates the queer fact that a Mormon was recently arraigned in court there on a charge of polygamy, before a Mormon jury and convicted. The chances for punishment, however, arc only prospective, as he appealed to the Supreme Court and gave bail. The same correspondent gives it as his opinion that Mormon polygamy is on the decline. We arc not surpris ed at this. Certainly as the people become more enlightened, such an in stitution will grow weaker. But whether the institution of polygamy will die out in a century, without the intervention of the law's strong arm is another thing. This foul blot on American civilization has already been dealt with too tenderly. It en tails suffering and disgrace upon too many people to be temporized with after the manner in which the Gov eminent has treated it. AVc trust this prosecution and conviction is but the beginning of a policy, the vigorous enforcement of which is to extirpate a great evil. Thkue is an old Russian heathen who says he predicted last Summer that wc were to have a remarkably cold winter and late spring. lie may have confidentially told his wife so, but he was jiever "interviewed" to that effect, for no editor with a "nose for news" would ever allow sttcli a prediction to be whispered about in a private circle. Perhaps ho sold his prediction to a syndicate who are put ting up a corner on wheat and dried peaches. If the old man had only given us a chance here in East Ten nessee, we would have stopped the peach buds with ice factories from Chattanooga, and made anice thing olf of our peach crop. Then our Grange friends could have kept their wheat back and wived their early gar den truck. Then consider for a moment what a torment the old blue-beard could have spared the ladies. Here they have been a'l through these frosty Sundays, boxed up with their new spring bonnets and latest spring suits The Church services have lost half their interest, for the new bonnets were at home, boxed, instead of bob' bing lively under Mrs. Sprigginses jealous eyes und ttirned-up nose, Arid the dear little Sunday school scholars ; how much miscrahlcncss they have seen, and all because this brute of a Russian never pro mulgated his discoveries in time to have enabled us all to have saved our spring expenses by buying summer garments to put on the moment our winter robes could le safely laid aside. What subscriber will finish reading tho following vivid descrip tion of new spring sensations in New York without joining us in nnathc mas against the horrid Russian whose name is Kopper. The follow ing is a specimen of the trouble he has brought upon the fashionable world of New York. A correspond ent says: "Wo have all got neuralgia in our shoulders from wearing apriug clothes, and many new drosses are supplemented across the backs by porous plasters, and next to a vest front a mustard poultico is generally most worn. Young ladies alternate be tween a necklace for street wear and a flan nel rag for the bouse. Diamonds aro worn in the ears with much effect abroad, but a lock of cotton and a little roast onion is the usual adornment at homo. Pearl pow der is applied to the shoulders for full drees, but camphorated oil and hartshorn linoment are considered very pretty also by the sull'crers. I notice silk stockings, ith colored clockings, are the things for low-slashed shoes, but pails of bot mustard water and warm bricks nro also much worn on tho feet. Thus far the fashion news." The Supremo Court of tho United States on Monday delivered an im portant decision in the matter of the right of State of Maryland to a capita tion tax of one-fifth tho fare charged passengers on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Washington and Baltimore. The charter granted by tho State provided that in considera tion of the franchises therein granted the railroad should pay to the State annually one-fifth of the passenger larilf collected on passengers between the cities named. Tho road resisted the payment on the ground that the tax was unconstitutional and amount ed to an impediment on the com merce between tho States. The Court affirmed the validity of the tax. It is estimated that the amount involved up to the present timo is half a mil lion dollars. In the same opinion the Court went somewhat out of the record to express an opinion as to the power of Cotigress to regulate inter-State com merce. The Court, in substance, de cides it is often difficult to draw the line between the power of State com merce and the prohibition of the Constitution. It is indisputable that the States can not impede commerce in their attempts to regulate it. The question practically is, where the regulation of commerce by a State ends and the obstruction to travel begins. The chief remedy of the public ngainst excessive tolls is in competition. The question whether Congress has the power to regulate inter-State commerce has occupied the most powerful minds of the country. This power was exercised in com pleting the old Cumberland road and the Pacific Railroad. It is to bo hoped that no occasion will again arise to make the exercise of this power necessary, and that the States will not be so regardless cf their own in terests as to endeavor to impose re strictions upon travel. If the States do this, they may expect that Con gress, to protect the citizens of the Nation, will exercise to tho utmost degree its constitutional power to control inter-State commerce. The progress of merchandise must be un impeded. Commercially this is one country, and the general interest of the whole country demands that there shall be no interference with the due progress of commerce. No local m terests can be permitted to interfere with this great principle. The Memphis Apjx'ul evidently thinks "tho State organization" at Nashville ought to bear part of the responsibility for the murder of Reid It says : ' We have only space to-day to say that wo utterly and altogether, and without re. serve, condemn the murder of the negro Rcid by the handful of Nashville assassins The people of the Capital enjoy the be nes His of the Stnto organization and have that of a city und county controlled by them. selves, and are, therefore, without excuse or palliation for the murder of the wretched murderer of the policeman Frazor. If they do not wipo the stain away by the ar rest and punishment of the miscreants, tbey must forever boar the brand. Krliobllraa Proaprela la Indiana. So fur at beard from, the results of the charter elections in Indiana, yesterday, are not discouraging to the KepublicaiiH. In dianapolis was hotly contested, but the Ko- pubheans carried, on the prize, mey Ui fvatod the Democrats in Logansport, and recovered lout ground in Richmond. In Lawrenceburc it was a drawn battle. In Shelbyville the llomocralio Mayor was oleoma, in jenorsonwuo ana new Aioany the Democrat made a clean sweep. In Valparaiso lemDerance was the issue, and the result baa no political significance. We inter iroin tne meagre ana imperioci re turns that the average result has been in favor of the Kopublicans. At least they have held their ground, and made gains in some of the more important towns. Cm. Commercial, bti. SIMMONS' JiaiEECS XU JXj For DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Hilious attacks, SICK BEAD ACHE, Colic, Depression of Spirits, SOUU STOMACH, Heart Burn, &c, &c. Th a fault' cm family tndicine, 1064 not dunrranrfl iha n?t m la sure to curt il taken riuUny, I no nrnotic Tiolant medicna, l)o9 not interfe' with buiinefn la no intftiicatin bTerar, Contains ih uropleat and bett remeliM. CAUTION ! ! Iluy no lmdrM or I'rcpHrrtl MnJIOV I IVKll RM.I L. TOH unit In our entcru ved rapper wltli Trtt Mai k, Hamp mid fclvaHture unbroken. ou oilier in genuine. J. II. ZtlLI.V & CO., Macon, ;.. und IMHiadclpliIa. THK SYMPTOVSnf Liver Com plaint sro an efiue ami rain in the Bide, tvimetimes vfae pain p in the boulder, and in mittakm fur rheu mfttitm. Tue nt'inmuh iff aff-cted with of ap petite anl giekne', dowIb in general rottvr, a inetim(4 alternatinr witb lm. 'I he hftt'i troubled with pKin, and dull, hetvy aenntitinn, couxidc mble l uf memory, accompanied with gainful fnnatmn of harinv Itft vndvnr mmr thinn which ouirht to have been done. Olten om plaining of wtakn'M. debility, a d low spirits: iSoniMitunn pinny of rhe above py nipt -ma attend the difBitpe. and at other times very few of them, bu' the Liver it generally the organ mo-t invol ved. NKAKI.Y AI.Is lIKANKS orijrina'e from Tndiantinn .md Torpidity of the liver, and rtl in alwayi Rnxinutdr fought atter. If the Liver in A'rWufxHn it action, health in almost in varia bly secure i, Want of action in the Liver caue Iteadnvhe. thnitipatum. Jaundice, fain in the Shoulder. Otufih, Chill, JUztine, Sour ttomurh, Hul Tte in the Muvth. ltiiuu Attack. Palpi tation of the Heart. J h predion uf Sfirit. or the, iHuen, and a hundred otbe symptoms, lor whiob MinOV I. IV Mi KM.rXvrOH i the bentremety that hm ever been dicorered. arts mildly, effectually, and, heinir a simple vegetable compound, csn di no injury in any quantities that it may be taken. It is harmle in every wey; it has t ten uiedft r 40 years, and huudreds ot' the good and great from ail parts of the country will vouch fur its being fAe pureat and bent. THK CLKRGY My wife an J s-lf have used the Rcituiaor for year., and testify to its great vir tues." Hev. J. K- Fri.dkr, t erry. Oa. LADIES IND0RSKEENT I have (riven your medirine a thorough trial, and in no esse haa it failed to give lull sUifarUn." Km n Al each am. Chattahof.cheo, Fla. HUGH LMcCLUNG&CO. PRODUCE 1 COMMISSION Bavins; rented the Dpot formerly occupied by the lauu more recently oy Messrs. iioug i Commission, Produce ADVANCES Com, Wheat, Oats, Bacon, Flour and other goods in Store WILL KEEP A STOCK OF THE MOST APPROVED AND POPULAP. Agricultural Implements, And can supply fnrmerj and the trade up n the bent terms as to price. Field Seeds of Every Description On hand in the proper seasons. We prop-) to supply the farmer with all that t her need !nthe departments, and to ex tend. to them every facility tor dmpoiiug of the Product of the Farm TO TttK All Business Intrusted to Us iv22Jw o1Iouh Fancy oo1h, Ate. SAMUEL B. BOYD, WUOLKSaLK and rktail dealer is Carpets, Oil Cloths, Mattings CURTAIN MATERIALS, White and Mourning Goods HANDKERCHIEFS. HOSIERY AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, The largest Stock of thasa Goods ever brought to this market, nd PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. The attention of the ladies is specially called to nir Stock of EMBROIDERIES, HANDKERCHIEFS, WHITE: 0S)S AXD GUIMPUItE LACES At Greatly Reduced Prices. Call and stem, and SAVK MONET. Cirpetscut. made and put down an short notice Orders solicited and prompt attention given. aprMdw2mo CIIANCEUY HALK OF A Valuable Lot on Mabry Street i the City of Knoxville. No. 2.754. Samuel N Ka n ts L A Uutton end others. -)VRSUANT TO AN INTERLOCUTORY 1 decree pronounorf in th. abov. caute at tn. March. 1475, term uf th. Chancery Court at Koeivllle. Tenn.. I will sell in front of th. Court llo.ie door in Knoxville, at public auction to th. high.it bidder Oa 'aturdtty, 1M1 day of May, .eil, at 11 O'clock A. AI., the let of land mentioned and described in th. pleading, lying oa Mabry straet in the City it Kuoiville. Tenn. being the eastern portion of a lot purrhued ot Win Bond by b N Fain and by biinsold lo J 11 llutton and L A Uutton. TERMS : Said lot will be sold on a oredit of six month, and is bar of th. equity of redemption, th. pur cbaeer executing a not. with security. April, is, Ulb. il. h. 1'AIIfcKaON. C. k il. ivlodlw3 iEL rjF OE XLC . East T'linetsee and Virginia Railroad Ompaay a vo-j, wc are prepares to an a general and Storage Business. MADE UPON shall have Prompt Attention. HU. L. M'CLUNC & CO. SAMUEL B. BOYD. CIIANCEUY HALK OF A Valuable Lot iu Knoxville. No 3614 A Sbowalter and wife et al ts Tbos Collins and wife, PURSUANT TO AN INTERLOCUTORY DE 1 cree pronounced in th. anove causa at th. March term. 17,S, of the Chancery Court at kooi ville.Tenn, I will sell, in front of the Court llo'iae door in Knoxville, at publio auction, to the highest bidder Oa Naturday, the l.ttu day of May, Xext, at 11 o'clock A. SI., the lot of land described as th. " foot" lot, lying between Front itreet and Sandford's river front, in th. City ef Knoxville. having a front of &) feet on Front street and Santiford's river trooU TERMS: One-fourth of th. parches, money will b. re- Juired in hand and the remainder on a aredit or. and 12 months, taking a not. bearing inureet from dale and retaining a lien on th. tut ae , curity. April l ls" UlodlwJ U.L. PATTERSONC.AU.