Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-02

ma. Many Of the most amusing recullarities Of
our newly ernancipated citizens of the ''Cullurcd
Sideboardn were to he enjoyed by visitant to the
wharf on last Sunday evening. boat, from
Nashville, discharged at our landing some several
hundred Of the "Corps dd frique' who, we found,
on inquiry, had just been discharged from the
vice Of the Uncle in whose eyes they have found
so much favor lately--that Is "Unce Sam" IL
seems that all who landed here had before their
enlistment resided somewhere in this vicinity, nnd
80 they were coming back "home," and they all
seemed certain that II was still somewhere in the
neigbborhood of where they had left it. Their
colored friends in the town had evidently received
some intimation of their coming, for, before the
steamer which brought them had landed, the en-
tire wharf and all the streets leading thither were
filled with jubilant darkes' And we noticed that
hardly one amongst this vast throng did not find an
acquaintance amongst the sable sons Of Mars
Each war-worn veteran had several of Ethiopias
fair daughters surrounding him, and little black
urchns vieng with each other for the honor of
carrying his gun and accoutrements. The "pomp
and circumstance Of glorious war seemed to have
as much attraction for the coored fair as was
ever engcndered by tales of chivary and romance.
The citizen beaux who accompanied them to the
river aspiWl only to carry the luggage Of the
'conquering heroes" whilst the latter walked up
the hill, carcssing ind caressed. "Scip, hearu you
was married?" said one of the darkest of these
dark damsels to her glover from the wars" as
dat fact2 ow don't you tell me lie, case know
its So" He had her by the hand, and replied
with an air of most inimitable empresser,enf, ala
Fan, you spose guine TO forgit what promised
you when lief you de last timer Shur, jus cum
back here now to marry you, and wants to do it
right away--but deg say dey'll want us agin putty
soon to make Mexico git out of dis country. If
dey do, lis guine shure but If they don't, den you
my wife-you hear dat! md Is got you fine
weddn dress in dis box-puttiest thing ever you,
you seed-you heard me n "Why Scp, is mar
ried since you gone away--did'nt you know dat p
THE hill you say who turf" "Jim B"
"What!-dat id old fool niger! Goodbye
gal" and off he went, singing stavc from old
"John Brown"
We saw white man trying to make contract
with one of these soldiers, who was most conspic-
uously marked with the smallpox, to attend some
persons who were down with the disease. He re-
piled that he had money enough to last him whet
yet and he was going to have some fun before he
went to work again. We observed that almost
every one Of these soldiers had his musket, and,
upon enqui y amongst them, we were told they had
bought them from the government at very low
figure. This fact impressed us with serious fore
holdings of that future harmony between this pop
uation and the white that is the only condition of
the prosperity Of either. We iancied that we saw
| in this retention of their arms after being dis
charged from service the result of those Infamous
influences Of bad men that lead them to believe
they will need these arms, either in sef-defense or
in the dispossession of the whites from the homes
that they may have been told will in time be their
own. Such a circumstance is to say the least Of
it. pregnant with ominous meaning, and by no
means calculated to dissipate that i'll feeling be-
tween the whites and blacks which the Northern
Radicals are so anxious to foment by every appli-
ance in their power, so much to the injury of the
whose interest they hypocritically profess,
20 desire. What can these discharged soldiers
mean by retaining arms that worth nothing
except for military purposes? With such signs and
portents as these, we see future of untold misery
for the South, and for the whole country, unless a
Ear wise, staesmanship controls our national af-
fairs and far more fraternal feeling towards the
South, obtains, in Northern hearts, than now exist.
There now seems probability Of presenting to the
world, in this the 10Th century, the wOfullesi
tragedy Il at has ever been enacted in the drama
of humanity.