Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-09-24
From the Nashville Banner.
GAINESVILLE.

Business-F Female Academy--iSte,cart Col
lege-Free Schools-Bank of America.
Tobacco Crop.
Last week we spent few days in Clarks-
Vile We found everybody busy prepar-
ing for the approaching business season
The merchadts have large stocks of goods
and are anticipating heavy sales There
has been great increase of trade in the
retail dry goods department in the last
few years, and it is still increasing Sew
eral large Touring mills have lately been
erected, and four or five new tobacco stem
meries are in process of construction
The railroad is fourishng, and for the
first time since the project was started,
the people have some confidence in its
speedy completion. A spirit of enter
prise, unusual even to the energetic
Clarksville people, has taken possession of
them. New buildings, for business houses
and residences are going up in every part
of the town.
While in Clarksville, we visited the new
Female Academy DIR. Hamilton, the
gentlemanly President, showed us through
the building. 1t is one of the most ele-
giant, convenient and complete buildings
we have ever seen, and will compare ia
vorably with any erected for similar pur-
pose in the south. We were surprised to
find so many young ladies attending the
school. Though it was the first week of
the first session of an entirely new institu-
ton, there were about one hundred and
forty pupils in attendance. Such deci-
ded success in a new enterprise is, we be-
lieve, unprecedented. DIR. Hamilton has
expended large amount of money in
furnishing the rooms of the Academy
buildings and making the house comfort
able. He has also been fortunate in the
selection of his faculty With such a
magnificent building SO elegantly fur
nished, and such a corps of teachers as he
has collected in the Academy, its career
cannot be otherwise than successful.
The Stewart College commences the
present session under favorable auspices
A new faculty has been formed, and it is
hoped that they will succeed in giving the
college the position it is entitled to among
the literary institutions of the State
With such professors as VIM. Stewart and
W. A. Forbes, there is nothing to prevent
it from taking high rank among the col
leges in Tennessee.
The Free School, under the charge of
William Adams, a talented and we'll edu-
Gated young gentleman, is now in very
fourishing condition, and is very well
managed. With so many advantages as
the people of Clarksville have in an edu-
cational point of view, it will be their own
fault if their children are not we'll edu-
Gated.
The Bank of America is regarded by
the citizens of Clarksville as perfectly sol
vent. The merchants are still taking the
notes for dry goods. The assets amount
to three times as much as the liabilities,
and it is believed that the bank will speed
lily resume payment.
From all that we could learn, the tobac-
co crop will be about average in quantity
but not in quality The season has gen
orally been unfavorable. A large crop
was planted, but the plants are small. A
hail storm injured a large quantity of the
growing tobacco in Todd and Logan coun-
ties, Kentucky, and Montgomery and
Robertson, in Tennessee. Fortunately,
the farmers who suffered from the hail
had cut considerable portions of their
crops.
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THE SLAVERY DEBATE.-The exceed
iingly interesting discussion between Par
son Brownlow, of Tennessee, and Parson
Pryne, of New York, on the slavery ques-
ton, terminated on Saturday evening at
the National Guards Hall, in the presence
of very intelligent audience. Numerous
ladies were in attendance, and they SEEM
ed to share in the close interest with which
the remarks of the different speakers were
received.
Mr., Brownlow was still indisposed, and
his address was read by Col Small. 1t
was a summary of his previous arguments,
relative to the Divine approval of slavery,
and of the benefits Of the peculiar insttu-
tion, as inferred from various comparative
statistics of crime, &C., in the North and
South. 1t contained several of his popular
hits at "NOrthern Abolitionsts and blue
bellied Yankees" which were received
with considerable laughter and applause
by portion of the audience. There were
several telling points, and the whole speech
was able throughout.
Mr.. Pryne responded Nearly every
sentence Of his impromptu and spirited
rejonders elected a round of cordial
plaudits. He advanced no new arguments,
but contented himself by summing up, in
the style of his opponent, all the good
. things he had previously said and in CON
e clusion made an earnest appeal to his
hearers to aid the anti-slavery cause. We
have no room for even sketch of these
concluding speeches PhHadelphia Press.
} The New Orleans Picayune, of last
' Saturday, says of the cotton crop in its
money article:
: The prospects of the crop come in for a
considerable share of discussion just now
, Letters and accounts from the country arc
replete with worms, caterpilars, milcrs.