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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08

THE article going the rounds Of the
press In reference to the disgusting In.
eident in the family Of Gen. Mower
at Ship Island, is certainly creating 8
passing sensation. It may, or may
not, he true that the negro soldier Sc
duced his daughter, or that the daugh.
ter seduced the negro, or that neither
Is true. Still there is an air Of prOba-
bility about It, when we consider the
legitimate consequences of Radical
doctrines about universal equality.
The young woman In question, like
thousands in the North, has been
taught in common schools, Sunday
schools and pulpits, that the negroes
are noble and prosecuted race, inf
nitely superior TO the whites Of the
South. Such teachings give rise, es-
pccially in young women, 70 tender
sympathies, which are easily exsg-
geratcd into love. Such unnatural
love suggests moral and. physical
eriminality, and the result is that the
deluded woman consigns herself to a
condition of incurable disgrace and
lifelong misery.
In case of rape committed by q
negro upon a Southern white woman,
Gen. Mower rescued the prisoner
from the gallows to which he was
legally condemned. But when his
own daughter, voluntarily, submitted
TO the disgrace which was forced upon
the other, the negro, less guilty than
his paramour, is secretly murdered by
order Of the upright judge and SUI
preme military satfap. This murder
takes nothing from the guilt of his
daughter, but adds UNNECESSARILY to
the infamy of the father, and we can
but look upon the reported disgrace to
his family as an act Of retributive
justice most wisely administered.
AS above stated, the story may, or
not, be true; but it is precisely the
character of fruit to be gathered from
the doctrines of abolitionism. Those
who believe in the unqualified equal
ity of the races, are simply consistent
when they act in accordance with
that belief. Many such are too igno-
rant to read the marks of inequality
stamped by the hand of nature upon
the types of mankind-no less dis
tinct than those visible upon different
species of animals. To those thus
taught, the buzzard is the peer of the
eagle, the gorilla of the negro, and
the negro of the Caucasian. In ac-
cordance with such belief, there can
be no moral or natural iniquity In the
process of miscegenation, and Gen.
Mower is dishonest in condemning
the conduct of his daughter, and in
tensely criminal i'm the murder of her
gizzard-footed lover.
We care not what may betall Now
er and his daughter, individually, but
for the honor of the Caucasian race,
we hope the story is fabrication.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08

OLD Ben. Wade's Southern policy
Is to increase the army, to keep the
negroes uppermost and the whites
mdermost, and then sell the lands OF
the whites to pay the bill. We do
not believe that even so infamous a
wretch rs Wade could have originated
an idea SD fiendish. The devil must
have whispered it in his ear, and his
willing agent adopts it rs his own.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08

lHE pfot%WHty IL tnHt, ere our next
issue, the curtain will have dropped
upon the last act Of the impeachment
farce, and the long expcctant audience
will have etircd-some exulting over
the success Of usurpation and tyranny;
Others saddened by the painful con-
viction that liberty is dead and that
the boosted capacity Of the American
people for self-govcrnment was but
the idle dream of the patriots of "7e.''
The wisdom of Washington enabled
him to foresee the dangers ahead and
he mapped out the breakers upon
which the Ship Of State has been
wrecked. The virtue and intelligence
relied upon TO guide the helm and
keep this chart ever In view, sue
cumbed IN the mutinous, ignorant
and corrupt crew which steered blind
ly for the point Of danger, and 10 the
wreck!
No matter what may be the decis-
Ion Of the Senate, the overthrow Of
the government Is already a fixed
fact. An emasculated Executive and
a Supreme Court subscrvient to the
will of the usurpers have the effect to
make Congress supreme over the CO
ordinate departments and with the
sword and the purse in its hands, it is
idle to expect that it will part with its
power, or suffer it to be wrested from
them through the agency of the bal
lot box. Bayonets and money will
carry the next election, and another
four years Of Radical tyranny will
enslave the country for generations
to come. A people too corrupt and
mercenary to resist the first blow ut
their rights and liberties possess too
many Of the attributes of slaves to be
awakened to love of freedom until
driven to despair by intolerable op-
preston.
Should this time ever arrive, the
present generation of knaves, fanatics
and fools will have entailedupon pos
terity all the wrongs and sufferings
endured by the people of England ere
they wrested the magma charta from
the grasp of enthroned despotism. A
brave spirit and sturdy blow at the
right moment would have secured the
blessings of freedom to the present
and many subsequent generations
But this spirit was stifled by the nox-
ious influences of unhallowed ambi-
ton, selfish knavery and blind fanat-
icism, and the arm that should have
struck the blow was unnerved by fear
or by motives even less honorable
The result is a government subverted
and whole people enslaved. If this
picture is too dark, let those give it
brighter colors who believe that the
virtue and intelligence of the few can
control the frenzied ignorance Of the
mosses-first maddened by knaves
and then corrupted.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08

GEN. MEADE seems to he emulous
of the undying fame won by Beast
Butler. In sentencing four men To
the Dry Tortugas for thrashing Rad
zeal thief he has gone bowshot
above Butler, and committed crime
against justice and humanity greater
than stealing every spoon left in the
South
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08
9TH DAY OF JUNE. 1853.

the land mentioned In the pleadings, lying
i'm Own District No. IA, containing about
one hundred and three acres, being the land
belonging TO the estate of - Carroll, de-
ceased, and Ellinor. his wife.
TEnMs--3O per cent cash, the balance ON q
credit Of one and two years. Notes win
good security required lh interest rom
money is paid
:. PETER oNEAL, elk aud Com'r.
May s, 1888 tbs.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08

Banner of the SOuth-Edited by Rev.
A. Ryan, author of the Conquered Ban
ner,"" The Sword of Lee" &C., &c. Terms,
So per annum. Back numbers furnished
Subscriptions received and forwarded free
of charge, by JNO. w. FAXON, Agt,
Mt the Northern Bank.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08
Commissioners Sale of Land.

J.W. Burton ps Carroll 4 Carroll.
In pursuance of u decree made In this
cause by the County Court of Montgomery
County, Tennessee, will sell at the Court
house door, In the city OF GAINESVILLE, ON the
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08
Boots and Shoes I
Hats and Caps!
LADIES' AND GENTS FURNISHING GOODS!

T HAyEJUST RECEIVED A COMPLETE
1 stock of goods in the above line, of which
! respectfully invite an examination. 1
nave every variety OF Ladies' high cut
Kid; Ladies' and children's front lace and
congress Caters, all grades Ladies' Glove
Kid slippers, an entirely new and nice ar
ticle; Ladies' Kid and Lasting Slippers :.
Gents fine hnnd-scwed Boots and Shoes,
made expressly to my own order. Y
All grades of Brogansand Women = ncavy
Children's British Hosiery. 'Ii7D
A call from purchasers In respectfully So
licited. w. w. VALIANT.
Successor to Valiant & Lander.
April "a, lS6S-lm. tI- ITT11E
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08

OF the latest styles. all of which bought
for cash, which enables me to make all
kinds OF Boots and Shoes ut greatly reduced
prices. large stock of made work on
hand, which Warrant, at greatly reduced
prices.
All merding done with ncatness and dis
patch. Boz. -
With many thanks for the liberal patron
age, for many years, NJ my old friends and
customers, ! most respectfully solicit con-
tinuancc of the same. I
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08
SEVENTEEN YEARS.

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sIttH>T1T f3'aainIa) IlaaYa,
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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08
To the Citizens Of Clarksville and
Surrounding Country. a.

EWOULD STATE THAT HAVE JUST
Il returned from the Eastern cities with n
large stock of the best brand OF French Cal Z
skins, together with very large stock OF
material Of every kind for malii curing
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-08
PURE SEED WHEAT

so that when You raise n crop you will have
NOTHING BUT WHEAT, and consequent
| ly will raise three or four bushels more Ia
| the acre.
1t cleans Wheat for market ,WYTHOUT
W:4STE, saving the small grains. II will
chaff from 300 to 400 bushels of wheat per
day, and cleaner at one ranning through
than any Fan in the market. w ~
1t cleans Corn, Oats, Rye, Barley, limo
thy, Clover Hemp, Flax and Hungarian
Grass Seeds; and If Glover and Timothy
Seeds be mixed II will separate them
Grain Dealers Will give from twenty-five
to nifty cents more on the bushef for foul
Wheat cleaned ON this Fan.
Millers can save from one-third to one
half of the SdREE.NT.NrgS, which they
would otherwise feed to their hogs and
from which they can make good famiiy
-four. To. :
1t empttes the Wheat directly into the
half bushel,, thereby avoiding the WASTE,
as well as the TINE and LABOR formerly un-
avoidable in measuring up the grain.
The best Farmers, Mtllers, Grain Dealers
Machinists and Business Men pronounce
This Mill n perfect success, and q valuable
Invention which has long been needed
We challenge the most rfgfd aWd thor.
e.gh test of this Machine, and ask all en-
tcrprising Farmers, Grain Dealers, and
others interested In this kind of machinery
tog give this
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-23


has sw;ndled her colored population ont
Of their right TO Office The construction
she thus makes Of the law 10 absurd an
honest judiciary would set II aside.
But Congress must trust 10 no such
deputy. II muat face the duty fear
lessly' II must find or make some way
10 keep such a State out OF Congress.
The legal acumen Of the Senate will be
sufficient. we doubt not Meanwhile we
venture to suggest that, IL no better way
can DO found, both Houses lay the Gre
dentials Of the Georgia members on the
table, and leave them there until the If
tesnth amendment is adopted. Then,
under that provision, bar out the State
until she complies with II.
We shall take occasion to present in
detail tho urgent reasons for each OF
these. For the present, we simply sug-
gest the points, and most earnestly
demand action. wEsDKLL PnILLIPs.
Saws Horace Greeley, in his prospectus
for 1869: "The Tribune will contend,
in the future as 10 the past, for universal
amnesty as well as for impartial suffrage.
II has no faith in vengeance, in proscrip-
ton, ia confsoation, nor in the shedding
of blood otherwise than in actual and
necessary war. There is time for war
and time for peace; aud the latter
follows swiftly on the heels of the former.
Whenever those who fought agGinst the
Union shall have in good faith given up
the contest, they are no longer our foes
but our eonntrvmen."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-23
a Bargain.

AM AUTHORIZED TO OFFER AT A
Il veFy low price the new and well con
10. AZ, with the rronld lease for eight years
from January Let. lst9.
The house i a well -lnished frame bail ling,
with four larse rooms ano two basement rooms.
The let fronts on Vance street ffy feet NEARLY
arposits the residences Of Mr.. =. B. Darif).
with : deptE Of enc hundred and ffty feet.
The above described property-n not sold
privately before the ID day Of January NEXT
that day. a. pubIic outcry, for cash, 10 front Of
tks Chsnccry Court buildine, % u o'eiock. m
HE hours L Numbered 81 and -, Vance
street NM. l.. VANCE,
9ils. 30. - Mad itcn trset.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-23
Something Fresh from Wendell Phillips.
grom last weeks Anti Slavery Standard

Something Fresh from wendell Pnillips.
From last weeks Anti-Slavery Standard
There are three points to which we ask
earnest and immediate attention.
The first is an amendment of the Con-
stitution. Several members, in House and
Senate, have offered forms for this, while
Mr.. Sumner proposes bill for the same
purpose.
A constitutional amendment is prefer
able. Slow and somewhat uncertain as
this is, we dread Chase and bis Court sc
much that we hope the Constitution vii
be fortified. Meanwhile every form thai
we have seen is deficient
Judge Kelley offers the following:
"Resolred, That, two-thirds of both
Houses concurring, the following article
be proposed to the Legislatures Of the
several States, as an amendment to the
Constitution Of the United States, which,
when ratified by three-fourths Of said
Legislatures, shall be valid as part Of
said Constitution. namely:
ARTICLE :. No State shall deny OF
exclude from the exercise Of any Of the
rights and privileges Of an elector, any
citizen of the Unitei States by reason oi
race or color"
We remember the example Of Georgia,
aud hence we claim the insertion, after
the word elector," Of the following
"or from ineligihilily TO Office" Tbii
addition seems indispensable.
We urge immediate action. The usual
law Of political reaction leans to giving
the Government 10 the opposition 10
1872. There is no such loyal majority a.
guarantees against it. Twenty-seven
thousand votes. changed from one side 10
the other, would have elected Seymour.
In ruch circumstances the present Con-
gress ought TO anchor this great principle
beyc-d .ke possibility Of ever beinf
moved.
2. If johnson goes quietly out Of ofic'
on the Al Of next March. il viii Be proc
that no President can be impeaehed-
that republics cannot defend themselves
II this be 90. We shall advocate the sboli'
ton az the Presidency. Il must not b
possible hereafter Tor the prince Of aGsas
siss 20 bold the White House 10 behsll
of the unsheliersd loyalisis of the S0uth,
We clain the immediate iupeachusut Of
Andrew Johusou-
9 TIE siiuation Ct Georgia dsmsnds
tie instant siisBtiou Of CongrssL She
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-02-06

~ .'Do you believe in the ap,
pearance of spir;ts?" "No," said
josh. 81 believe in their disappear,
ance and have Witnessed great deal
of it."
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-02-06

CURVED LlNEs.-How remarkable
it is that throughout the domain of
nature, in every vegetable and ami
NAL form, a curved form is recogniz-
ed. The margin of every leaf, the
shaft of every tree-and, in fact,
every internal organ = represents
somewhere on its exterior segment
of circle. There are no trait lines,
either inside or outside. All the yes
sells circulating fluids are round, or
at least presents curves OF various
diameters although they may not at
first appear to be so. An exception
is noticeable in what is called by an.
atomists, the longitudinal sinus,
which carries the blood out of the
head that has been carried there by
four arter les. 1t is nearly triangular
but its direction is the arc o. the cir
Gle. Sound moves IN wavelets,
which are convex on the outer sur
face; water, running in waves, assum.
es segments also of circles; the earth
revolves on its axis; and the whole
solar system moves with incompre
hensible momentum around the sun.
Still further, astronomers believe the
starry heavens are coursing in a vast
circle, around a central point of uni
versal attraction, which may be call
ed the throne of Deity-the God who
created and controls the destiny of
all.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-02-06
TO BE CONTINUED. I

WORTHY OF IMITATIoN.-Ane ex-
change says: We notice the fact that
there is q merchant, in the town in
which the paper is printed, who,
whenever man buys a good bill of
goods from him, makes the purchas-
er a present of the village paper, in
which he advertises, for one year,
and thus he manages to keep the
customer continually reminded of
his business, and he will never for
get such apresent. Should that man
give his customer two dollars in
greenbacks or goods it might soon
be forgotten; but when he is once a
week, for fifty-two weeks, placed in
receipt of his friends bounty, can
any one doubt it, being a good way
to advertise? This is worthy of i'm
itation by business men.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-02-06
GALLIPOLIS, OHIO FEBRUARY 6 1868

heels; but finally they withdrew their
heads. from the sheltering hay
and listened to the assertion that
the ghost was a live woman
and was now imprisoned in the
cellar; descend thither, how
ever, they wouldn't, until Moses
Pocketfull, several persons of i'm
portanee and authority, and little
throng of curious neighbors had been
summoned to the spot. Then, rend-
cred courageous by numbers, the
door was opened, and the little pro
cessien, provided with lamps and
clubs, penetrated to the recesses of
the cellar.
( 1t was damp, wretched hole,
unused for years because of its con-
ditlon, and extremely dark-a ghost
ly place enough; and, as their eyes
deserted gaunt figure at the farther
end, the bravest felt a strong dispo-
sition to retreat. But Moses Pocket
full, furious in his anger against the
being who, had been the cause OF
such great pecuniary loss to him, ad-
vanced and seized the shrinking
form in an iron grip, and held her
her babe wailing in her arms-as
the rest gathered round.
"Who are your he cried,, sand
what are you doing here?"
And faint voice answered.:
don't you know me, father? 1t
is your daughter, Ann"
And Moses Pocketfull staggered
back with a groan.
So the ghost was laid, and the
truth known at last. The miser's
daughter, to whom, because Of her
marriage with poor man, he had re-
fused aid and shelter in her woman
hood, driven to desperation, had
concealed herself in this deserted eel
lar with babe but a few days old
There, fer year, she had been hid
den, subsisting on such food as she
could perloin at night, and sleeping
on bundle of straw in the dark and
unaired place, until bad air and star
vatien had made her CHASTITY enough
TO he indeed taken for spectre A
helpless, useless sort of woman, she
had never thought it possible to earn
her own bread, and had, to the best
of her ability, encouraged the terror
of those whs inhabited the house,
hoping in the end to become its sole
occupant.
She was worn TO skeleton, and
seemed to have but little hold upon
life, and her piteous tale excited
such sympathy in the breast of her
listeners that popular opinion grew
too strong for even old Moses to re-
sist. And so, of his large posses
sions, he made provision for his
daughter and her child, and install
ed them comfortably in the house
they had so long haunted, to which,
with all the rest of his real estate,
they became heirs at his death,
which occurred shortly Afterwards.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-02-06
Green Things Growing,

BY THE AUTHOR OF "JoHS HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN >
Oh! the green things growingi the green thing:
growing
The fresh sweet smell of the green things grow
ingl
would like to live, whether laugh or grieye,
To watch the happy life of the green things grow
ing.
Oh! the huttering and pattering of the green
things growingl
Talking each to each whenAo mans knowing:
In the wonderful white of the wierti moonlight,
Or tine gray dreamy dawn when. the cocks are
growing.
love love them so, the green things growing
And 1 think that they love me without false
showing;
For by many tender touch they comfort me so
With the mute, mute comfort of green things
growing ~ r.te.
And in the full wealth of their blossoms glow
ing,
Ten for one take they're on me bestowing:
All should like to see, if Gods will it might
be, -A tis
Many. many asummer of my green things grow
ing.
But if Imust be gathered for the angels sowing
Sleep out of sight awhile-like the green things
growing;
Though earth to earth return, l think shall not
mourn.
If 1 may change into green things growing. !.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-02-06
Number 12.


:. Nork:-The first settlers landed
AZ marietta, lth April, 1888
As meeting of the directors and
1ssn's ae Marietta, on the I'd day of
July, lIss, when were present
Gems Samuel H. Parsons.l
Rufus Putnam, D;,eo.,-,
James N. Varnum,
and John May, Winthrop Sargent
and others, agents, representing $50
shares, when it was
ReSolped, That the lots "a and 80,
and the fractional parts of 35 and
Sc, of township No. 2, in the sth
range, and No. 10, %, and 20, and
the fractional part of 81. in the Sd
township, of the same range, (being
in commons annexed to the city,)
be laid out into one thousand and
five three acre lots, five of which shall
be appropriated for public purposes,
and the residue be drawn for, as
soon as may be.
Resotued, That the city near the
confluence of the Ohio and Musking-
um, be called Marietta. That the
reserved public square in the city, in
Guiding the buildings at the block
houses, be called Campus Martius;
the elevated square No. IL, Quad.
ranou; No. 19, Capitolium, and
square No. 81, Cecilia; and that the
great road through the covert way
to Quadranou be called Sacra Via.
At meeting of the agents at Ma
rictta, December Sd, 1888, it was
Resolped, That so much of the
lands in townships No. l, 2, 3, 4, in
the Sth and 9th ranges, and No. 1, 2,
3, 4, ., in the 10th range, as will
amount to 160 acres to share, in the
funds of the Ohio Company, be di-
vided as soon as possible.
AT meeting of the agents at Ma
rletta, March I'd, 1889, it was
ReSot0ed, That the directors be,
and they are hereby authorized to
sell the interest the Company have
in the lands in Campus Martius, on
which houses are built by private
persons, and also, in the gardens an
nexed to the same.
At a meeting of the SCENTS at Ma
rietta, October 26th. 1889, it was
Resolyed, That the secretary to
the company, when the evidence of
the sale or transfer of any shares
having been made, shall be produced
to him, record the same, in the cem-
pany's book.
At meeting of the agents No
vember 25th, 1895, at which time
$50 shares were represented, it was
RESOLVED unanimously, That from
the most accurate returns which have
been obtained, and documents pro-
duced, the number of shares, CON-
posing the Ohio Company, be en-
tered in all the future draughts, eight
hundred and seventeen.
Resolved unanimously, That the
superintendent of surveys, be re-
quested to lay before this meeting,
as soon as may be, an exact list of
the number of eight acre lots, house
lots, and one hundred and sixty acre
lots, remaining to the proprietors of
the Ohio Company, that the earliest
provision may be made to supply the
deficiencies.
Adjourned.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-02-06
Er A rnmor is afioat that two of

H A rumor is afoat that two of
our citizens, who pride themselves
on their peculiar knowledge and abil-
ity as traders were taken in and done
for, one day last week, by q young
man from the country. The young
man exhibited for sale what our
traders supposed were two nicely
dressed rabbits. They invested, took
their ''rabblts" home, cooked and
ate them. One of the parties dis
covered afterwards that their ''rab-
bits" were skunks, and informed No.
2. 1t is curious to note the effect of
the knowledge upon our two traders
One swears vengeance, while the
other will not acknowledge that he
was beaten in the trade, but protests
that he knew just what he was buy
ing Viaton Record.