Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1865-08-04

KID RIVER BRiD0E--We are grained 70 know
that there Is project foot that bids fair to
coed in placing the construction of this important
work under contract. How far II has progressed
We canaot exactly say, but we are assured that It
meets with the warm approval Of our best business
men, aud what Is still better--ther hearty support
1t is awork Of almost vital importance II is one
which every business man and every property
holder in the city should take hold OF with real ear
nestness and not rest from the good work until IL
is fairly completed. Other towns and cities are
making haste to repair the damages which have
befallen them, and getting ready for the great
race for commercial prosperity which can only be
won By enterprise and energy. While they are
doing this shall we lie aupinely upon our backs and
wait for some miraculous event-some wandering
Aladdin, with his magic lamp TO come along and
rebuild our bridget Or shah we wait. for that re-
liable public scrvant--Mr. "somebody else,"--who
is so often called on In such cases, 10 help u.s. No:
we are glad TO learn that our citizens have deter
mined to do nothing Of the sort but have set the
project on foot with their own hands, and intend 10
keep It there until the work is accomplished. h.
Then let there be no pulling back by any one
let no obstacles be placed in the way by lack of
coneertof action in any of the corporate bodies
which have the matter under consideration, but let
feeling of liberalty and an acknowledgment Of
the importance of our home interest prevail over
everything else and success will crown our efforts
in this or any similar enterprise.
16- We have always thought II was one Of the
strangest things imaginable, that men doing bust
ness of any kind in a community, whereby they
expected 10 receive living patronage from their
neighbors, should expend their surplus for the
modities Of life, outside of the place they make
their money in. We cannot see how any man,
acting thus can have the face to ask his neighbor
to buy his wares or merchandise. That excellent
sheet, the Cairo Times, has the following in rela-
ton to this matter, which we commend to the at
tention of all, if there be any in our midst, who
are guilty of this practice: '4'H '.
CARRYING Goals TO MISUNDERSTANDING of
this city inform US that agents Of printing establish
ments located in foreign cities, have lately visited
Cairo soliciting orders for job work, but the press
upon our columns for the past few days has been 90
great that we could not spare space sufficient TO al
lude to II before. s. ar. tfatlt
Wehave not learned whether the agents referred
to succeeded in procuring any orders but we are
prepared to say that if any Of our business men
have responded favoraby TO the patronzing schemes
Of these gentry, they have committed an act Of
folly Of which they should be heartily ashamed
We believe we are not actuated by selfish or jealous
impulses in making this assertion, but by motives
which should animate every man having the inter-
ests of his immediate community at heart. Our con-
vicons are that the people of Cairo, are, one and
all, to great extent dependent upon each other
II needs but a small modicum Of common sense to
comprehend this proposition. The house-keeper,
hotel proprietor or master mechanic, living in our
midst who would go out of Cairo, to obtain the
ness while establishments containing all he requires
loom up on every hand contiguous to him, would
be considered, and very properly too, as unworthy
the patronage and support of the community in
which he had settled and to the advantages
naturally accraing 10 honest citizenship.