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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-19

Music. --I4 tsdks sA4 Till in this beanti-
fnl At be spread among n, and eze.I ,a1.ily
Nv atFac1Sn.I eosiAfyinter(b ~ m Z
more sheerM, nd a i1poces ~ cl MI .
Sdpplied to the community ;~AY10ht Tmn4A-
ment bringing multitudes together to kindle
one emotion, to share the same innocent joy,
having. = hupsaiziqs inaaseea iand among
these bonds Of society perhaps no one pro-
duces SO much unmixed good as muslt.
What fulness of enjoyment has our Creator
placed xithin our reach, By surrounding AZ
Nth an atraosph@re vhick nay be shaped
INTO sweet sounds And ye4this koodnesa -
almost lost upon us through want Of culture
of the organ BY which this provision is to be
enjoyed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-19

BY ALFONSO DAYTON.
Oh, rose-dipt clouds, that ebb and fow.
Upon . blue And sapphire sky,
Hift up your golden hem, and Show
Me whore the hidden sunbeams lie.
OH white-lipped sea, with coralsset
In magic beauty on thy breast,
Roll pack thy crystal waves, and let
Ne look upon thy hearts unrest.
Oh, silver moon adown the sea,
Turn not thy timid face away,
But bring my darling back to me,
For | am weary of his stay.
Weep, clouds, upon the sunset vest
Moan out, cold ocean, ell thy pain;
Moon, slip into the blue seas breast;
Ny love will never come again.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-19

EOR SALE Eighty acres Of improved
4 land seaf Charleston Lee county, Is~s. 6ocd i'm
provements thereon Prizes - per scts-xWy cheap.
Good tttie. Knquirecf ~ yUL10H.
ass2o ksai Estate Agent, H. - Asaaa tteset
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For Sale.

a DOUBLE one story Frame Dwelling
IA House, con aiming -ix cellar full Lot
good veil OF water and frame stsie situated Bank
between LIST and ID streets. Enquire Of
WM FULTON
jyl0d Real Estats Agent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-19

BY ALpHoNso DAYTON.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-19
For Sale !,

For Sale.
OTIS O. TO- j. H. and 10 feet On east side Of LOT g.
Block 81 With an 0ctagon Stone Dwelling House,
oontsning eleven large rooms seven small rsoms Bath
rooms and closets also brick stable snd WOOD house
Title good. Enquire Of WI FULTON
apr24-d Real Estate Agent.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27


BoIAHy BAY.-A few days since, forty
eight negroes, male md female, who had
been arrested, in Washington, for stealing,
were discharged upon condition that they
would go South. With this understanding,
they were sent off towards Louisiana. Very
recently, tie authorities at Washington, re-
monstrated against similar act, on the part
OF Switzerland, towards the United States
hut il 81 ems that, whilst so groes wrong
will not be submitted to when perpetrated
by a foreign power, the Government of the
United States is ready to sanction similar
wrong when inflicted by Northern faction
upon the people of the South. What has
been done at the seat of Government is
likely to be followed up by the whole North,
and the property wrested from the South,
by force, may thus be sent back, graduates
in criue, to rob and murder those who once
made them contented with their lot and use
full to the whole civilized world. We hope
that those who have the power will not let
this act be repeated.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27


The Reconstruction Committee agreed to-
day that the Constitution must be SO amend
ed that hereafter no State shall make any
discrimination on account of color after
July 4th, 1876. Negroes must have the
right to vote. There shall be no represen-
ta,ion between 1856 aud 1876, for colored
persons not allowed to vote, and that South
cru States may be represented on the terms
OF taking the test oath prescribed by Con-
gress
The Directory may have so decided but
we beg leave 10 inform that notorious body
that there are two sides to the question, and
that the South has yielded all it intends to
sacritie for the sake Of Union. If il be
desirable to keep as out, and the experiment
will pay, do il; bat the South will bear it in
mind, thal Uaion, with Consultation thus
muuiated, can entail upon her nothing but
vassalage and dishonor. We will enter the
Uaion with former rights restored, OF stay
out as conquered subjects of a central DIES
potism.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27

TnE LEesLATURE.--ln the Senate this
morning the Committee on elections repor-
ted adversely TO the claims of Messrs. john
son and Garrett 20 seats The matter will
come up for action tomorrow. II is evident
that the Radicals are determined to admit
no more Conservative members into either
body Of the Legislature.
The House Franchise bill was put on its
second reading, and will doubtless be passed
finally to morrow. Mr.. Trimble's Universal
Suffrage bill also passed its third and final
reading but will not become a law, as the
House is hardly yet prepared for negro suff-
rage.
Messrs. Johnson, Carrigan, Frazier, OF
Knox, and Nelson, Of the Conservative par
ty, opposed those Radical proscriptive meas
ures, as far as was possible for a small mi
nority, but without avail.-Nashpille Banner
IS, INST
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27

Mr.. LATHAM, Congressman from West Vir-
ginia, has discovered that Tennessee is in
condition to exercise the functions of a
State, and ought, therefore, to be admitted
into the Union. If he has derived his in
formation from the existing State govern
ment, his ideas of fitness prove his own un-
fitness to be an agent in any decent govern
ment. The government of Tennessee is
more despotic than that of Macmillan, and
the party who control it have more of the
insticts of brutes than characteristics of men.
We protest against the admission Of Tennes-
see delegates until the government is made
republican, and gentlemen can be heard in
the choice Of Representatives.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
TFor the Chronicle.l
HAfTON FUND ASSOCIATION.

Il is only necessary TO call the attention Of
the i4,h Regiment to the fact, that the widow
and little children of their brave and noble
General, are pecuniarily embarrassed on ac-
count of security debts. With your assis-
lance, and that of your friends, their home
may be wrested from the gavel of the auc-
tioneer. Come forward, then, with that
tommendable spiri; you ever showed at the
call of bis c'arion voice, aud sustain that
reputation for honor which you gained upon
every field.
The following committees have been ap-
pointed:
For Clrkspitle.- Mamie Haskins,
Mary Boyd, Juliet Mcdaniel, Bette Garland,
Mamie Cobb, jamie Moore, Carrie Faxon;-
Maj. J. H. johnson, John J. Massie, VIM. NJ
Daniel, T. o. Anderson, Capt. VIM. Moore,
1t. Irwin Beaumont, 1t. B. A. Haskirs.
For Nep Propidence--Mrs. B. N. Herring,
Capt. Il. Hewitt @. Michigan.
For The County Misses Agnes Wisdom,
Dora McCauley, Mamie Tyler, Molle Fergu-
son, Matte Green, L. e. Anderson, Jane
Ward, Rebecca Alternately, Mrs. Bryant
Whitfeld-Wm Green, Jesse Allensworth,
Col. James Lockert, Boyd Moody, James F.
Johnson, G. Weatherford, Tho's Kirby, s. E.
Ramey, Col. NJ. G. Gholson.
All contributions must be handed, or sent
to the undersigned at the Northern Bank Of
Tennessee, GAINESVILLE.
JouN W. FAxoN,
A-..s tvJ.Itsu R....s A..eo:.s:.-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
ExEcurlvs UrrraAscEs.-president john

ExgCUTIvR UTTERAScEs.--President JGhn-
son has made speech to delegation of
soldiers and sailors, in which be reiterates
his policy of restoration, and his determine
ton to follow it out to its legitimate results.
There seem to be points in the speech sug-
gestive Of much more than meets the eye Of
a superficial reader. But whether this be
50, or not there is much in the speech to
cheer the friends of Union and liberty,
North and South, and to swell the volume Of
indignation against the petty Congressional
tyrants who seek to destroy both. The
President suggests that there may be dis
content on account Of his moving too slow
ly in the direction he has chosen. 1t is
needless to disguise the fact, that there is
dissatisfaction on this score; but, in the
South, II is moderated and modified by the
reflection, that the President is resolved to do
right, and that his position enables him to
take more correct view Of the entire field
than any private citizen. Possessing this
advantage, tits to be presumed that he will
avail himself Of it. to the fullest extent; and
upon this presumption, we build our faith
that the good work is going forward securely,
even though impotence may make it seem
slowly. 1t cannot be denied that the coun-
try is suffering severely whilst the contest
for despotic power, on the one hand, and
constitutional liberty, on the other, is being
decided; but delay is sometimes true wis.,
dom, and the precursor Of victory that
might have been lost by indiscreet haste
Let US wait patiently and hopefully few
months, or weeks, will settle the question Of
national prosperity or ruin.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
GREAr MULE MORTALITY IN LOUISIANA.

GREAT MULE MORTALITY IN LOUISIANA
A gentleman who arrived here Saturday,
Informs that during the week preceding his
departure from Millken's Bend, La, more
than two hundred mules had died ON twelve
plantations near that place. The mortality
had become so serious as to cause apprehen-
sion as to the effect such heavy loss Of an
finals would have on the production of the
growing crops.
Our informant, whom we know to be a
gentleman Of reliability and intelligence,
says that the mules swell up and while still
alive burst with a noise like the report Of
musket II is bis impression that the NOR
tality "a caused by "bufialo gnats," which get
under the hair and into the large veins and
into the nostrils of the animals, producing
the consequences stated. Old and eKpe-
rienced planters Know how to prevent and
REMEDY the evil, but tue new inoomers who
were expecting to realize rapid fortunes at
cotton planting, will find that they have
much to learn, and that many difficulties be-
set their pathway.-[Lou. Courier.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
CIRCULAR
OF THE
President and Managing BOARD
OF THE
Tennessee Orphan Asylum Society,
cLARxsyILLE, rEsxEssER.


FOR the information Of those who only
wait an opportunity to extend a helping hand
10 the helpless, we will state that the Ten
nessee orphan Asylum Society has been
formed ior 'ne pnrposc OF establishing and
maintaining, in or near the city OF Clarks-
vile, rem, an instituton Tor the parental
guardianship OF those unfortunate orphans
OF the south, made norelessly destitute by
tne casuaities OF our Late unhappy civil
s'rne.
Inc ooc'ey organization Is now complete
a nroad ana wen matured Constitution
ana bylaws having been adopted, which
wiii oe printed IN pamphlet form for distri.
ou'ion immeuiately after tne hrst annual
meeting OF tne society.
nut inns Is not all that IS necessary 70 IN
those innocent ana sniverlng orphans from
tne Periis incident 70 poverty and Ignorance,
up 70 Ine projecting influences OF comfort
ana eniigh'ened training. The institution
must 90 placed upon nrm money oass.-
10 snel'el, c'o.ne' ieed ana Train 70 naoi's Oh
Ur'"ous INDUSTRY, requires more tnan rme'
nine sympatny ana action; the manly gene
rosi'y ., Tie s'erher sex must De enlisted 70
secure tnose essential aids requisite 70 place
,ne ins''tu.loh In permanent working con-
al'ion. we nave Already met WIN an en-
courage%ent .nat places tne question o.
success beyond q DOUBT YET tnat success can
ony w 'ea'lzeu oy continued e1ert'on on
our Pa,t anu an approving generosity on tne
par. oi tne puoiic.
All WIZ DC expected TO DO something. NO
one eau ~ any law OF morals De exempt
.,oh 'ho cohgation OF anoroing some aio In
.ne ahehorsuon OF sunering 30 wide, 90
cngn'ne anu 20 pregnant win evils 70 the
rlSsg generauou. Inc heid OF our iaoors u
certainty large, ana the desoiation truly
Pa."yAng 70 timid spectators; YET TINS Is
Du' nao'ner stimnins 10 brave neaHs-to
'nose VINO are determined 10 rescue rom ig'
no,snce ana wee the innocent onspring OF Q
noDle anu gallant dead.
our constitution provides that payment
nve oohars annuaiy VIII consutu'e the
uonor memoer OF the society, wnicn gives
inc r'ght OF attending and participating 10
tne business OF the annual meetings OF the
society, the oo)ec@ OF when meetings are,
10 receive ana ACT upon the annual reports Of
omcers, to alter and amend the constitution,
II required, and to elect new officers and q
new ooard OF managers.
Inc payment OF twenty-five dollars enti-
Ties the donor to iite-membership without
annual payments which confers the right
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27

MR. STEVENS AND SEcEssIoN.-The Hon.
A. II. Stevens, in reply to question by
member Of the Reconstruction Committee,
said that his opinion on the abstract ques-
ton Of the right of secession had not been
changed by the war, but he acquiested in
the abandonment of the right, as result Of
the conflict The question was fooli h one
and will so appear to every man who has
sense enough to know that principles are
fixed and interchangeable. War may, and
does, settle policy, but no amount of fight
ing can settle, or unsettle principle. And
if we receive, as an axiom, the declaration,
that a people have the right to change their
form of government, that right is inalenable,
aud is as completely vested in the people of
the South now, as it was in 1860. What
then, has the war settled as regards this
point? 1t has simply resolved what has
been regarded as peaceable remedy, into
the natural right Of revolution. The South
claimed the right to secede; the North de-
cided that it should not, and the war, having
revealed the inability Of tire former to en-
force the right, has made it a dead letter in
the code of political laws, and affirmed that
States have n, remedy against nsufferable
oppression except through bloody revolution.
This is all that the war has accomplished.
In reference to this subject None but fools
can expect that the people of the South have
changed their views of the abstract right Of
recession, and none but ignorant tyrants
would exact the change.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27

THE CRoPs.-We receive fattering &C
counts OF the condition of the growing crops
of grain and cotton. There are some excep-
tional cases where the freedmen not doing
well, but in general planters appear to be sat
isfed with the prospect ahead. If the radi-
calls will only let us alone, in few years we
will get out Of the mud and mire, and put
much money into Uncle Sans big box at
Washington. One cotton crop of two mil
lion bales would put us on our feet again -
Shall we have it? Let the Radicals nswer.
The fruit promises well in this section,
and the danger is well nigh over of possible
damage by tine Ice King Milledgeville
(Ga.) Union, l7th.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27

Forty Irishman, in Cambridge, Masschu-
sets, lately refused to work in an establish
ment where two or three negroes bad been
employed as colored laborers, wherupon the
Irish were discharged and their places filled
with colord gentry. We are glad it. They
helped the yankees to make the negro SUI
perior to the white man, and ought to sui
fer for their folly. This preference for the
negro will soon manifest itself throughout
the North, and the white laborer will find
out what he gained by warning against the
South.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27

TAKE TaEx Hoxs.-ws would suggest
to Sumasf and Stevens, that they can ave
timer money and the wear and tsar Of con
science, by taking the niggers to the North.
There they can give them the right of suf-
frage without amending the Federal Con-
stitution, and make them equal, and even
superior, to the whites, without the aid Of
the Bureau, without violating the rights of
the Southern States aud without insulting
Radical prcjndices. BY this means, they
can avoid collsion with the President, and
ward off the damaging effects of his veto.
If this idea has never occurred to them, we
hope they will loose no time in laying it
before the Central Directory, and by it's i'm
mediate adoption, give peace to the country.
They can, by doing so, secure the votes Of
the niggers to themselves, and by recalling
their school Marms, give living examples of
practical miscigcnation which will illustrate
the beauty of the theory, reduced to
practice, and remove whatever of mawkish
sentiment remains to check the propagation
Of hybrid race that cannot fail to i'm
prove the present breed of Radicals. This
arrangement will increase the representation
Of the North, and diminish that of the South
by looping off the three. ffths niger count.
No scheme brought forward in Congress
presents half the advantages embraced in
this; and as IL obvates all objections, vio-
lates no principle Of constitutional law, and
infringes no reserved rights of the Southern
States, it affords an easy solution of every
difficulty and leaves nothing of the radical
programme unaccomplished, save the total
ruin of the South. Then take the niggers
home, gentlemen Radicals You will find
them your equals, at least, and if they are
not your superiors, the Lord have mercy on
the poor, degenerate creatures.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27

Mr.. Stewards correspondence, on the
Mexico Macmillan question is being ven
tilated by the press. We had hoped that
difficulty was adjusted and that we should
hear no more of it; but it seems TO be a
mania with this people to NEEDLE in the af-
fairs of the whole world. 1t is bad trait
in individual or national character, and it is
especially disgusting to see people med
ding with foreign government when their
own is going to the devil at railroad speed.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
Agent "Hatton Fund Associatio
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.

SENATE.
MONDAY, April 23.-The Senate met at o
o'clock, AN. Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Phillips.
MEMORIALS.
Mr.. Carrigan presented memorial No. rs,
as follows, and it was referred to the Com
mittee on elections:
To the Senate of the State of Tennessee !:
The memorial of Cave johnson, citizen of
Montgomery county, respectfully represents
That, at an election for members Of the Sem
ate to represent the counties of Robertson,
Montgomery and Stewart, by virtue of a
proclamation Of Governor Brownlow to fill
vacancy occasioned by the death Of Senator
Peart, who represented the District; that he
was regularly elected on the 3lst Of March,
by Unqualified voters of said District with
out opposition; that the sheriffs of the three
counties forwarded their certificates Of his
election to the Secretary of State, who is
sued his certificates founded thereupon, GER
tifying his election, which was presented to
the Senate on the 9th of April, together
with a certified copy Of the oath taken by
him before the clerk of the county court of
Montgomery county, as a candidate.
The speaker of the Senate informed your
memorialist that he could not be qualified
and allowed to take bis seat, in the absence
Of a quorum, by the rules of the Senate.
Your memorialist rested satisfied with the
excuse some eight or ten days, although he
believed that the universal practice Of legis-
latve assemblies to have been to admit and
qualify members upon the production of le-
gal certificates of election as was done at the
organization of the present Senate and House,
as must necessarily be the case upon the as
semblage Of every legislative assembly, as
there can be no quorum until after the quail
ifcstion and admission of members. Upon
some occasions during the suspension of his
claim, the admission of himself and the
member elect from Smith, quorum of the
Senate would have been present. and might
have proceeded in the discharge of the bust
ness o. the State.
After delay of some eight or ten days, a
quorum of the Senate appeared, and, upon
the submission of his certificate of election,
instead of allowing him to take his seat in
the usual manner, they were referred to the
Committee on Elections, where they have
since remained.
Your memorialist alleges that he is in all
respects qualified IS required by the consti-
tuition of the SJate; that he was born in his
district in 1893 and has ever since resided
in it, and been citizen of the United States
as well as of this State. So far as he knows,
there has been no contestant for his seat, and
no legal or reasonable excuse for keeping him
longer out of it..
That he feels it his duty to truly represent
the people who have so generously extended
to him their con6d nee, upon the important
measures now pending before the Senate,
upon which he believes the peace and pros
perity of the State in a great degree depend
Your memorislist therefore respectfully
asks the Senate to have his case at once dis
posed Of, so that he may be enabled 10 enter
upon duties in their behalf. G.. JOHNSON,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27

DR.. Stevens Merritt, Of Indiana, who tes-
tilted before the House Judiciary Committee,
on Friday, relative TO JEFF. Davis completely
with the assassination Of Lincoln, was re-
examined yesterday, when ne virtually con-
tradieted his previous statement, and testi-
fed that he was not aware of any compiled
ty Of Clay, Saunders and Davis with the
conspiracy, though aware of their compiled.
~ with the raids gotten up in Canada for
the United States. The witness also admit
led that he testified on the conspiracy trial,
aud mad been liberally paid by the Govern
ment for bis services.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
RHLrAsKp.-We are pratif;ed 70 learn ,ba,

RELEAsED.-We are grati6ed TO learn that
Captain l.. b. Burnett hate of the Confed-
crate Army, who was sentenced by Mill
tary Commission, a few weeks since, to the
Peaitentiary for killing Sergent Pollard, Of
the is4th Ohio Regiment on the 26ih Of
December las' was Yesterday released, IS
order of Gen. Thomas.
No one regretted more than Captain Bur-
nett the unfortunate occurrence which led Ia
his Incarceration. His return 10 liberty and
the society Of his friends, is matter for cor
dial congratulsiion among his numerous cir
Gle Of acqu ,iGtsaees. Na'keil,e Bnaer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN HAWKINS Cousr,

A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN HAWKINS COUNTY.
-The Bristol News states that terrible
tragedy occurred on Sunday, the 18th inst,
At a church called Union, in the Northeas-
tern portion of Hawkins county, some nine
miles Northwest of Kingsport Tenn. The
funeral Of John Ellis Jr- who had been a
Confederate soldier, was TO be preached, by
the Rev. r. NJ. Hickey, of the Holsloa Con-
ference. Two men by the name OF Walters,
perhaps brothers, manifested disposition to
disturb the quiet az the assembly. Eldridge
Hord, Esq, Of that community, demonstrated
against their conduct, Some angry words
ensued and Walters sAot ilord, woun.ing
him severely ia the thigh. Whereupon,
Sam Smith, who had been Confederate
soldier, fired twice upon Walters, killing him
upon the spot The other Walters then shot
Smith, wounding him slightly. Smith re-
turned the FIRE, wounding the second Walters
morlally, and then made his escape.