Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1865-08-11
OUR NAsHvnLEeo KREspoyDENT.


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~. Cnfaaiels The past week has been rs.
markably qaiet onef 81 this city. Noibing ia the
wy of novelty or Excitement has occatred 70 vhry
The dull nionotony Of everyday life.
In. the way OF business, there is almost utter
stagna,ion except in the street fruit trade. That
. remarkably brisk, rand Ishould think, from the
price Of the different commodities very lucrative
June apples the harbingsrs Of this trade, and
when they first appeared, were sold at Eve and
eight cents piece, and those now on the market
not first rate either sell at three to Eve cents.
Peaches on their first appearance brought anything
asked, Five cents piece, and ethree-for-arqaar-
tor" are now tho ruling prices and Il is rare y
That you see a No l peach at that Ia water
melons, however, il was reserved to, he seen what
people win submit to in the way of extortiopate
prices, Two dollars to two and a half and even
more was the price at the opening, for such as we
used to deem high at 40 80 cents; and, now,
when they are found on every street and corner
from dollar 10 a dollar-fffy;ais demanded for
them. There Is an immense trade done in this
business, here, full share OF il By negro nroprie
tors Of street stands There IA one Of these, lust
across the street. that told frequently takes in
$500 a-day. 1t Is owned by a couple Of negroes,
who in the three years, OF 90, since they aset up
for the se'vs," have invested several thousand
dollars in real estaei In the published list of real
estate last week, see they figure as purchasers Of
"a lot in the city, 81 900, co." These negroes are
specimens Of the few sharp, prudent provdent ones,
of which you find about one to the thousand in
every community The great mass Of them, you
know, live "from hand to mouth" without ever
accommodating, or laying up, cent. I have thus
written Of this small matter to give you an idea Of
what IL costs to indulge in "luxuries," here, and
to what an extent people alet themselves in"-
AS TO my indulgence,-I venture on a peach now
and then, and that's about ALL As to water
melons | have fully persuaded myself that they
don't agree with me, and, indeed, that they are not
the thing they are Hcfacked-up to be- after all
/ noticed at my hotel, this evening though pile
Of twenty or thirty very fine ones, which, was
intimated to me In high authority are to be served
at dinner to morrow; 50 may manage, by that
time, to mitigate somewhat of my scruples, and
indulge to the extent Of one or two--biq slices
The election, last Thursday, npassed off quietly,
10 use the stereotype language Of the newspapers,
and resulted in handsome minority, for Campbell,
the Conservative, or as the Radicals term him. the
Copperhead. The vote was avery small one-only
some 24oo--+although nearly or quite double that
number had naturalised" The Press and Tines,
radical organ said the day before the election that
the city ought to give Carter 400 majority, and
would do so, If his friends would only do their
/ duty. Now that was a very wide miss for one,
who might be supposed to know something near the
true state of public sentiment and can be accounted
for only the superstition that be was not sincere
in what he said, and was only casing" or elze
that something Of the programme of his party
failed to be played. The latter conjecture, a
friend tells me, was the truth Of the case that up
to the day of election, some four thousand votes
were calculatpd on that the marty fonnd MT tho