Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-01
ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS.


General Geo. II. Thomas is to succeed Cen
eral Howard, as Commissioner Of tho Freed
men's Bureau.
To BE TRIED.--The trial of Major Dick
Mccain and Captains Roddie and Cain is
fixed for the 10th prox. ate knoxville.
GEN. JOSEPH +. JOHNSTON has been elected
President of the Alabama and Tennessee
Railroad Company. 1t is thought he will
accept.
General Wigfall, ex-Confederate Senator
from Texas is in London, and about starting
out TO lecture on the negro beginning in the
juneles in Africa, and concluding with re-
view of his present position (?) in America.
AMONG the passengers by the Moravian at
Quebec, last week, was Mr.. Mason, the rebel
commissioner to England.
Two large cotton factories are being built
near West Point, Alabama. One will start
5000 spindles which can be increased to
80, OO0 The other will commence in the
fall with 200 spindles and 100 looms.
A HIGH official stated Thursday that an
other officer Of the army would soon be de-
tailed as Commissioner of Freedmens af-
fairs in General Towards place.
The remains of Col. Lewis @. Quacken-
bush, of the 9th Michigan infantry, killed
in the seven days fight in front Of Richmond,
have been Unidentified and forwarded to his
friends in Michigan.
Capt. Terrill the notorius guerreilla, made
raid on Shelbyville, KY, last Saturday and
was captured, after being MORALLY wounded.
One of his associates, Baker, was killed, hav-
ing received nine wounds. Terrill was taken
to Louisville.
A dispatch from Detroit Michigan, says
that three children died there, on Saturday,
from adissease supposed to be Asiatic cholera.
The children belonged to an emigrant party
Just arrived on the Great Western Railroad.
Quite panic was created among the citizens
of Detroit.
The correspondent of the New York Her
aid, who accompanies Gems Steedman and
Fullarton, says in the case of Maj. Gee, that
''the evidence given tends rather to excul-
pate than to crimnate him in the atrocities
committed at Salisbury"
The proposed appropriation of eleven or
| iNtlNt VI lOI tuc use Vi
Freedmen's Bureau is creating some little
stir among public economists. 1t has al
ready become question whether that item
Of the appropriation bill can be passed with
out serious curtailment.
The president is preparing proclamation
10 explain that his recent peace proclamation
abrogated martial law throughout the South,
and that this one is necessary TO disabuse the
public that military inference in the coming
JEFF Davis trial will prevent an expression
of a jury.
A GIGANTIC cotton factory, called the "Ma-
nassas," mandatory, has been built at Car
rolton, Miss. 1t contains l80,0O spindles.
300 looms, and goes into operation July
LIST. The stock now stands Is per cent.
above par. The company owns LOO acres
Of land contiguous to the factory, which
would do honor to Lowell or any other
place.
Treasury Department are 10 take effect June
30. The department was thoroughly can
vassed short time since and its attaches
classed under three acknowledgement in
termediate and incompetent. In this latter
CLASS especially tue sihugntner mas Deen maue
There are over three hundred more to co.
The object is retrenchment.
| Mr.. Beecher remarked the other day, at
the woman's rights convention in New York,
that woman who is content to wash stock
ings aud make jonny-cakes and bring up her
boys, is an undergrown woman, and when
she comes TO heaven she will spend the first
| I 900 years in getting To that state to which
she ought To have attained before she died.
The reduction of military divisions and
departments has been under consideration
for some time past by the War Department,
and was probably the subject of Cabinet con-
sideration to-day. II is generally believed
that Gen. Thomas military division will be
abolished, and many, II not all, of the States
and his command be merged into depart
ment II is also rumored that the Assistant
Commissioner of Freedmen win be superse-
ded by General Thomas, who will discharge
It's duties in connection with that VI military
commander,