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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30
CL a Il K SyI.LLE
Friday, August sOth, 1851

Dsg- Gen. Fosteyhas issued an order for
bidding any one in Davidson and the adj
joining counties north Of the Cumberland
to go into the United States without pass
The order is a proper one as far as il goes;
and whilst we admit the importance of
guarding against the transmission Of infor-
nation TO the enemy by parties living here,
we contend that equal vigilance should be
extended over persons coming here from
States North of us. A man may steal a
horse in Indiana and come here with a
"cock and bull story" about having been
driven from home on account of his South
ern sympathies, and is welcomed as a mar
tyr to the cause Of freedom, though, for
aught we know, he may be an abolition
spy--if not fugitive from Justice There
is laxity of discipline on this point that is
really culpable and it is no wonder that
every movement we make is as well Known
to the enemy as to ourselves. We are no
advocate Of injustice-nor would we press
vigilance to the point of persecution but
no honest man will object to gentlemanly
inquiry into his residence, destination, and
business, and objection to such reasona-
BILE measure would be prima .tacie evidence
ola guilty purpose. We have preached
this subject with reluctance, because we do
not wish to insinuate that there is remiss.
ness on the part of those upon whom this
duty sis incumbent; but complaints are
constantly reaching us that strangers find
too ready ingress to, and egress from, our
midst. Prudence tells us that too much is
hazarded by this indifference to our com
mon safety, and we poorly discharge our
duty to the South when we omit such an
obvious precaution Good Southern men
mnst get pass in order to go from home,
but dangerous Northern men may go and
come at pleasure, But this is in keeping
with everything that is done here. If it is
anybody's business to see to these matters,
nobody seems to know or care, and we go
ahead as if all we're peace and no enemy in
thousand miles. ....
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

nay Since the year l776, the fundamen-
tai idea Of our government, rs set forth in
the Declaration of Independence, has been
that ''all government is derived from the
consent of the governed" This theory of
popular liberty has been proclaimed by
millions of tongues and responded to by
millionssof hearts from Maine to Georgia,
and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
SO fully has it been recognized as the basis
of free government, that it has been con-
sidered little less than treason to call it in
question But whilst the doctrine has been
SO universally received as true, radical
misconstruction of its true import, at the
North, has so far COMPOUNDED liberty with
licsnciousness that, in the hour of trial,
its people have proved to be incapable of
discriminating between them. The first
shock has found them ready to trample un-
der foot the Constitution and the laws and
to deny to ten millions of people the in
alienable right to govern themselves, and
to enforce this denial of the fundamental
idea of all our institutions, they submit to
the rule of military despot and uphold
his glaring usurpations of constitutional
power In attempting to coerce free
people to submit to a government not of
their choice, the people of the North have
heedlessly abandoned their principles and
sacrificed the dearest rights of freemen.-
The cry that they are fighting for the I'm
ion is Aimsy veil to hide the ranking
malice which constitutes the sole motive
for an unnatural war which they feel that
they caanot prosecute under any plea of
Justice and right. And knowing that all
government should be derived from the
consent of the governed, and that the
South is asserting an inalienable right, in
its efforts at independence, the North
skulks behind the idea that the Union is
indissoluble, and that war can unite its
broken fragments.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30
Tyler Defeated!

PADUCAH, Aug. IS.
gentleman from Cairo says there was fight
at Cape Giradsau yesterday. Confedera;es vietori-
Gus. Great commoton in Cairo. No particulars
up to the time informant left. a0
PHILADELPHIA Aug. GA man named Akin has
been arrested MS Confederate agent ot f.tl
woman from Beauregard's headquarters was
arrested. Letters were found on her duplicating
prominent parties.
All the mutineers, including those Of the Second
Maine, Thirteenth and Twenty-first New FORK reg
iments, are sent 10 Tortugas.
Mrs. Green Howe, widow of the former Librari-
an, and translator, has been arrested.
Mrs. Senator Gwynns trunk was examined, and
traces of the Washington Notifications by some
clerk, found. Dr. Manning was arrested to-day.
The Times says Mrs. Phillips wife of Phillip
Phillips, well known counsellor here, has been ar
rested, Mrs. Phillips prepared to illuminate her
house over the Bull Run victory, but was dissuaded
by her friends. Orders have been sent to arrest
Mrs Gwynn at West Point Regular Lieutenant
Kunewell who fought at Bull Run, has gone TO the
Confederates in Missouri
Foreign Federal Ministers, in letters to the De-
partmen. do not disguise the fact that the Govern
ment suffered severely in the estimation of Foreign
Governments by the disaster at Manassas. 1t is
conceded that the defeat closes the door to conci-
alton
The Herald says the city is excited by report
of martial law,
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

neA. The special Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Exchange under date of the GOTH
has these items, which have never been admitted
by telegraph;
Among the disaffected regiments principal
grievance is the pitiful proportion of Republicans
in the army Over and over again have been as
sured by federal officers that in their own regi-
mvuts the proportion of Republicans to northern
Democrats would be found as one in ten In many
regiments there are no Republicans at all. But in
the lobies of the several Departments at the bars
of hotels. and in the cars there is dearth of "ci
Williams" whose sentiments are rabid as their
garments are seedy, and their party claims greedy
There is evidently the greatest CONSERVATION in
Washington about the movements of the Confede-
rates, aud fear of an immediate attack.
The Pawnee and the Pocahontas have not yet re-
turned and it is supposed they have been disabled
by some of the rifle batteries the Virginia shore
Griffins six gun battery, hear, has gone over to
the enemy and this afternoon a large force of cav
airy was sent over the river to assist in queing
instruction which had broken out there in four
regiments; the latter has become matter of course
aud longer excites the civil military denizens
of Washington.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

pA- From all that we can learn, the peo-
pie of Montgomery, in a militafy point of
view, occupy avery anomalous position
We have militia officers, but-if-the Minute
Mer are not subject to their command, we
have no militia. Were it necessary, a draft
could not be made in the county, because
all subject to military duty-outside of the
volunteers-are Minnie Men, according to
one construction, and as Minute Men, they
cannot be forced to leave the county, be
cause such is one of the conditions of their
organization. If the law was intended to
supercede the militia by the or
ganization of the Minute Men, it must
have been studied effort to shield the peo-
pie of Montgomery from a draft, and at
the same time, give them specious pre-.
text for not volunteering. But as we can
not believe that the Legislature intended
to bring about such state OF things, we
must believe that the Minute Men were in
tended for mere police duty in each Civil
District, whilst the great bulk of the peo-
pie was left subject to militia officers and
to all the duties of militia men, as before
the act organizing the police system We
are neithor lawyer nor military man, but il
appears clear &c us that the militia laws are
neither repealed nor modified by the act
organizing the system IF Minute Men, and
that it was not the intention of the Legis-
lature that they should clash in the slight
est degree, There are men enough, over
forty five, in each Civil District, for police
duty, and to them the duty should be as
signed-leaving those subject to military
service unembarrassed by enlistment in the
police force.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

BAY Lincoln, in his message, ridiculed
Kentucky neutrality, and has not hesitated
to violate it whenever it suited his purpose.
The seizure of private citizens in Ballard
county the capture of the steamer Terry,
at the Paducah wharf, and the Transports
ton of munitions of war across Kentucky
territory, at sundry points, areall palpable
violations of neutrality, and afford ample
justification for an invasion by Tennessee,
were its authorities disposed to wage war
upon neighbor. Lincoln never acts with
out acting the fool, and he will soon 6nd,
to his cost, that his treatment of Kentucky
is rapidly converting Union men into
friends of the Southern Confederacy,-
Kentuckians have endured long, for the
sake of peace, but their patience is ex-
haustible,
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30
sgAdjutantGeneral John L. Hodsden,

sG-AdjutanfGeneral John L. Hodsden,
writing to Col Dunnel-both of Lincoln s
as follows;
You will require several dozen handouts for prs-
oners taken in battle if not for your own folks and
you bad better procure them now.
This explains the mystery of the thous-
ands of handouts taken at Manassas, and
discloses to the whole civilized world the
savage barbarity of the Northern people.
Could the South so degrade itself, it would
be but just to apply those shackles to the
wrists of the Federal prisoners taken along
with them. But to follow the example,
and adopt the intentions of a debased peo-
pie, would be to place ourselves upon le-
vel with them-a depth of degradation re-
voting to every Southern heart
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

peA- We have read, with pleasure, in the
official report of the battle of Manassas,
the high encomiums passed upon Sergeant
j. M. Galbraith, of the Washington Bat
terry, for his GOODNESS, decision, and effici-
ency during the whole Of that terrible fight
He is most worthy young man, and his
brave conduct must be soursr of pride to
his mother, and other relations and friends
in this place.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

ANOTHER EXPLOIT by CAPTAIN MARSH MILLER--A
SHOW Boar AND CONTENTS CONFERENCE.-The 9TH
er day Captain Marsh Miller of the Grampus, agreed
for consideration" to tow a show boat, which con-
tanned stuffed lions, tigers anacondas leopards,
works and other "beests OF pray as Artemas Ward
would observe, from Hickman TO Columbus. The
floating menagare was tackled on TO the Grampus
aud the eject started in grand style. But instead
Of heading toward Columbus the Grampus Vould
turn down stream, and almost before the exhibitor
of stuffed animals was aware of the fact hist'show
was rapidly nearing New Madrid Marsh reported
himself to ,neral Pillow, who took possession of
of five hundred dollars, which formed the cash cap
ta of the Snowman, who during the trip, had jump
ed overheard and escaped by swimming, and turned
the boat and "contmptions' over to The captors
This is the first menagerie which has fallen into the
hands Of the Condolences Memphis 1rgus.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30
[From the Richmond Examiner, Aug. 81

BsS- A bill has been reported by the Judiciary
Committee of the Confederate Congress for the for
fixture and confscation Of the estates, property and
effects of alien enemies The sense of Congress
is understood to be decided in favor of this retalito-
r. law.
The provisions of this retaatory enactment are
in view of the act of the Lincoln Congress preen-
ding TO confiscate the property Of Southern people
Except their saves) and to liberate the slaves
The bill confscates all property, of every dcscrp
tion owned, possessed or enjoyed by alien enemies
since the 2lst day of may, 1861 and condemns it
for the full indemnity of the citizens Of the South
who have suffered any loss or injury under the act
of the United States, to which it is retaliatory.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

peA- OF all the bulwarks created by the
old Constitution for the protection of the
rights of the people, not one remains in
all the North. Despotism has swept them
all away, and life, liberty, ond property are
at the mercy of a tyrant enthroned upon
the ruins of the Constitution, and sustain
ed by willing and degraded slaves. Licen-
ciousness has long been paving the way for
the advent of the despoF, and preparing
freemen for the condition of abject, yet
voluntary, slavery. The Goddess of Lib
erty has fed from the North, and her Tenn
pie is, henceforth, in the South.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30
Gen. McCullough's Official Dis
patch,

SPRrNeFIELD, No. VIA LITTLE Rock, ARK,
August ID, 1861.
Hon. L. P. WALKER The battle of Oakhill has
been fought, and we gained great victory over
the enemy commanded by Gen. S. Lyon. The bat
tie was fought ten miles from Springfield. The enc
my were nine or ten thousand strong. Our force
was about the same. The battle lasted six and
half hours The enemy were repulsed and driven
from the field, with the loss of six pieces of artl
lery, several hundred stand of small arms, eight
hundred killed one thousand wounded, and three
hundred prisoners. Gen. Lyon was killed, and
many of their prominent officers Our loss was
two hundred and sixty-fve killed. eight hundred
wounded, and thirty missing. We have possession
of Springfield and the enemy are in full retreat
towards Roa. .. .Hr.
BEJ. McCULLoUGH,
Brigadier-General Commanding.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

me- The N. y. Express thinks that no
man in the North will dare to advocate
peace on the terms demanded by the South.
We are not aware that the South has laid
down any terms, and believe it will not do
so until repeated tbrsshings prepare the
Yankees to accept them without hesitation.
Indemnity for the past, and security for
the future, will be prominent conditions,
and nothing short of this will secure peace.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30
p@- T. A. R. Nelson has published a

n@- T, A, r. Nelson has published a
card to the people of East Tennessee, in
which he declares his purpose to submit
fully to the will of the majority, and advi-
ses all his friends to do likewise. He
yielded to Kindness what he never would
have conceded to force, and being SO won,
we hope more from his influence He is an
honest man, and his mistakes are of the
head rather than the heart.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30
STEWART COLLEGE,
C1arksVille. Tennessee.

O4SbAA6VA1ACt 1CAlCbSCCs
WHEN our Northern invaders declared war
against the South OF the Professors of this n-
s'uiion, and nearly every student who was Oble to
bear arms, promptly enrolled themselves for the
defence of the South, and are now Ia the army.
On the frst Monday in September next the exer-
cises Of the College will again be resumed.
If our soldiers shall not have driven back our OPP
pressors ere that time most Of our older students
will, of course, not be with us at the commence
ment of the session, but the younger members can
come. We earnestly hope that before September
our invaders will have received such salutary les
sons will induce them TO remove their p0lluting
feet from our sacred SOIL so that teachers and pu
pills may return TO their literaKF andaEdentifc pe-
suits. But IT, in this, we are disappointed, We will
wait til our brethren and feow-students shall
have taught the President and Cabinet 70 mArrh
from Washington in still more lively double
quick step than they employed in marching to il.
DtscipItne.--0ur motto is this: W. act To-
'card evey student as christian gentlemen and re
require them 10 Hect as in like manner. And we are
happy tosay that thus far they havenobly COM
piled with our requirements
All young men studying for the ministry, In
any evangelical denomination, viii be instructed
gratuitously.
Experimentation per session Of twenty
weeks, 81 o to $25 90. Contingent 50 90. Boar
ding, including lodging. washing fuel and lights,
500 90 per session. ua
Exercise. - The students win be drilled
daily in military tactics. tNII
There is direct communication with GAINESVILLE
by Rail from all parts the South and Southwest
Further information can be had by applying 10
Rev. r. b. McMULLBN, d. d.,
President.
July 10, 1891 Ga
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

pA- When the Lincoln gunboat seized
the Terry, the crew were permitted to leave
it, and on the same day, the said crew sci
zed, by way Of retaliation, the steamer Orr,
with a cargo of coffee, sugar, &c, valued at
seventeen thousand dollars and ran it safe
ly up to Fort Henry. This was a prOata-
bl. exchange as we'll as righteous act. p
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30
Plenty of Salt.

From recent developments there is likely to be
plenty of Salt within the limits of the Confedera-
ey, for all the uses of our people. Arkansas has
salt springs, and In the rear of Corpus Christi in
the Laguna. Madre, some thousands of millions of
bushels are deposited, being the process of natural
evaporation, aud equal in quality to Turks Island
Salt Any quantity can be delivered to Corpus
Bay at the rate Of ten cents per bushels. From
Corpus Bay there is inland navigation TO within
twenty miles OF BrazOs River, so that no blockade
OF Lincoln could interrupt The supply from this
source.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

Bd- On reading the catalogue of ar
rests made by Lincoln's orders, one would
be astonished at the large proportion of
females were it not borne in mind that wo-
men aud children have so often been the
victims of the barbarous abolitionists. In.
nocence is ever the object upon which guilt
lavishes its hate, and weakness ever pro-
yokes the attacks of cowardice.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30
CLARKSVILLE
FEMALE ACADEMY

tbs next session Of this Institution win begin
tho first Monday IN next September. II ID the
largest and most fourshing school Of Us kind and
age in the South. Il is emphateally Southern,
neither its principal nor any Of It's teachers, being
Northern born OF bred. Those out of the city, who
may wish 10 send their daughters As boaroeFs, are
requested 10 indicate the same a. soon as practical
blc. For terms circulars or any other particular,
address Rev. j, s. MALONE,
49,. Clarksyle, Tenn.
July IL, lsoi-2m
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

r@- The mutiny amongst the troops, in
still causes great trouble to
the Administration and we would not be
surprised if Gems, Scotland Mcdowell are
pleased at the demonstration.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

DAY The war is going on in Missouri. Another
vigorous attack has been made upon Gen. Price by
the Diarrhea.-[ Louisville Journal.
But Gen. Price was not so badly scared
as to mistake it-like Bob Mallory-for
hemorrhage from an imaginary bullet hole
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

R0s- Old Abe has decreed that every
soldier who loses his gun, on the field of
battle, shall have twelve dollars deducted
from his pay, The poor Yankee devils
who are fighting to enslave themselves,
have hard master to deal with-one who
resorts to the most contemplate tricks to
cheat them of their pay.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

S6- Among the prisoners taken at Ma
nassas, was free negro who was Chaplain
to Connecticut Regiment. We hope the
sable minister will find a master who will
give him better employment than praying
for abolition devils.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

seA- 1t has been ordered, at Washington,
that the oath of allegiance shall be admin
istered to all prisoners. Gen. Scott has ia
ken that oath so often that it is doubtful
whether enough of it is left to- go around
or if enough, whether there is any virtue
left in it.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

R65- The Lincoln organs in Kentucky
attempt 10 injure the South by charging
that JEFF Davis is tyfant, and that every
thing is done at the point of the bayonet !
yet these libellers of their betters can not
point out an instance Of the infraction the
Confederate Constitution by Davis, Or any
one else in authority. The freedom of the
press and speech, the writ Of habeus cor
pus, and every other guaranteed right, are
strictly respected throughout the Southern
Confederacy. Liberty has no abiding
place on this Continent except in the Con
federate States. ar
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

We are grdtifed TO learnthat many Of the delu-
ded Union men who recentsy left, thnir home in
East Tennessee, for the Kentucky border are re-
turning satisfied with the little experiment they have
made. SO far as the war Is concerned. <-ntucky
processes TO be neutral These parties in going there
to procure arms violate the laws of their own State
and the neutrality of Kentucky too No wonder
some of them were in hurry TO get back.--Athcns
Pest Aug 30, -......
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

Ia addition to the above, we have full stocks of
other goods, and we invite the early attention of
buyers to these goods. We have the largest and
best stock that can be offered this year, and per-
sons who wish to save money and secure useful
supplies for winter, should give us early CALL
We sell exclusively for CASH, and no one, however
prompt and responsible, should expect us to keep
accnnnIs
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30
MACRAE & COULTER.
Special Notice.

We wish to buy all the Wool, Jeans,
Linsey Ond socks, that we can get and
viii pay the highest market prices In any goods W.
have. Remember the large new store-roon( on
Franklin Street. near the Market-housc, an% you
can easily find MACRAE h COULTER.
Aug % 1861
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

p9- An exchange says that the Bull
Run race between some of the members of
Congress was very tight. Of course Bob
Mallory is not included, because he ran
with Ioosepess.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30

D9~ Two of the prisoners released by
McCulloch, and belonging to Seigers Bri-
gade, report that they were fed on raw
green corn. Hogs don't often complain
that their corn is not cooked.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-30
ELECTION NOTICE.

will open and hold an election in the various
precincts of Montgomery County, on The 18th day
of October, 1861, for the purpose Of electng SUI
preme Judge for said State, 10 fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the resignation OF Robert L. Caruthers,
The Constables ia their respective Districts, are
hereby deputised TO advertise and hold said cleo
tioa and make due returns to me the Monday fol-
lowing at GAINESVILLE.
S. E. RAMEY, Sheriff.
Aug %, ls6l-Tw