Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1865-09-08

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GEs. Mansfield Lowell Is one Of the editors Of
the New York News.
TIE report that NIL the colored troops are to &c
mustered out Of service Is Incorrect D 4
Hon. O. H. Yeaman, formerly member Of Con.
gress from Kentucky has been appointed Minister
to Denmark.
A dispatch from Washington dated the goth inst,
says the President pardoned Thos. A. Evans, of
Nashville, on that day.
THREE hundred bales Of cotton were consumed
by fire at Selma Ala. on the 22d. inst. Supposed
to be the work Of an incendiary.
TnE New York Herald has private advices from
England that the defect in the Atlantic Cable was
intentional and caused by rival contract for the
wire.
The Murfreesboro Monitor says the crops in Ruth
erford have been very seriously damaged by the re-
cent dry weather.
THE Springfield tSIass) RepsJIean cnlls upon
the Freedmans Bureau TO send competent colored
women to the North for kitchen help.
The Louisville Democrat estimates that over CO.
600 slaves have crossed over the Ohio river under
Gen. Palmers passes, since the LIST Of May At
this rate the whole slave population Of Kentucky
will "pass away" in less than one year.
A LARGE meeting Of the Oldest planters OF La
fouche, La, vas recently held when they resolved
TO quit trying TO raise sugar The report of their
committee argues that cotton connot be raised with
the present labor force in the State and they recon-
mend planters to turn their attention entirely to corn
FATAL disease somewhat resembling cholera in
hogs prevails among the sheep in the northern Sec
ton Of Monroe county, Missouri. Lambs lively
and risky in the morning are found dead in the
evening. One farmer has lost thirty head from the
disease, Others in the same neghborhood, small
er number.
BRTaADIER General Mason, post commandant at
Nashville, has issued general order prohibiting
The carrying of concealed weapons in the streets OF
Nashville. Such weapons are TO be con6scated
The military commanders are 10 inspect the troops
and quarters and to seize all arms not authorized
In the equipment of the command This order is
caused by the frequent late ARRAYS and highway
robberies.
The Kingston East Tennesseean reports that frost
visited that region on the morning Of the gath inst
THE Atlanta papers speak in glowing terms Of
the business prospects of that city. Macon and
Augustap papers, however, mention the glut of goods
in the market and the scarcity Of buildings suita.
bic for business purposes.
GOVERNOR Holden, Of North Carolina has issued
second proclamation, dated nj Raleigh on the 9th
ut- appointing Thursday, the 2lst of September.
for an election to be held throughout the State, to
choose one hundred and twenty delegates 10 con-
vention which is to meet at Raleigh, ON Monday,
the 22d Of October.
The Franklin Reviev Says: ave understand
that about forty persons of Giles county, having
been declared outlaws by the milicery authorities,
have been shot down or hanged within the last
three weeks.
UNDER an order of Gen. Stoncman, ali white vol
unteer troops in Tennessee are to be mustered out
between this and the first OF October
The number Of men now remaining in the Regu-
lar army, including officers, does not exceed forty
six thousand.
ONE hundred and eighty six Southern post Offices
were reopened last week, and one thousand and one
huAdred miles Of small routes let.
By rewashing the dirt from which gold has been
once extracted, negroes are said to be making two
or three dolrrs day in the North Carolina gold
mines.
| TELEGRAM from Washington announces tina,
the trial of Jefferson Davis will take place before
United States Circuit Court, but the particular one
has not yet been designated,
THE Attorney General has notified Gov. Pierpon,
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other middle men delay rather than accelerate the
getting of claims and pardons.
AN interesting trial took place in Ravenna, Ohio
last week under the Ohio liquor law. A ret urned
soldier named Greer, while in state of intoxica-
ton, was robbed Of $lo3 by some unknown per-
son. His wife brought suit for damages against
the saloon keeper who sold him the liquor, aud OBJ
tanned verdict in her favor Of $l4O
The Raleigh Progress gives The following cur,
for felon "As the part begins to swell, ge
the ;inctuTe Of lobela and wrap the part affected
with cloth saturated thoroughly with tincture, anC
the felon is dead. An old physician says he hal
known 1t to cure in scores Of cases. and it never
fall if applied in season.
The President pardonei number to-day, anon,
whom are b. G. Yancy, of Ala, and L. G. Fins
ley, Of Va, former editor of the Richmond Dis
patch
large number of post Offices in Tennessee hav,
been reopencd, and postmasters for the same up
pointed.