Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-08-28
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TELEGRAPHIC.

MONTGOMERY, August 21.-Hon
w. b. Jones, Elector on the Repub
lican ticket in the Fourth Congress
sional District, has taken the STUN,
for Seymour and Blair, and publishe
the following: lEa
Thomas A. GlasScocls, Chairman of Reput
lean Executive Committee, Montgomery
Alabama: H.t.fIII III =
Dear Sir: respectfully decline {,
serve as Elector for Grant and Cola,
in the Fourth Congressional District
Respectfully, w. b. JONES.
Hon. j. Materson, Republican
from Lawrence county, has also de
clared his intention to support Sey
mour and Blair.
The following card is published in
this city: s....
I'm consequence of the want o.
patronage sufficient to meet the daily
expenses of the office, am compelled
to suspend the publication of the
State Sentinel. Since the establish.
ment of the paper in this city, going
on two years, / have sustained the
publication of the paper with my
own private means. This l cannot
DO any longer; | must abandon the
business, and go into some pursuit
that will at least furnish sufficient in
come to meet the outlay.
Signed: JOHN HARDY.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2l.-Gen.
Schofield issued an order to-day.
which includes an extract from the
army appropriation bill passed last
year, prohibiting military organiza-
ton in the Southern States. 1t is
done to quiet the clamor of the Radi-
Gals over SchOfield's refusal to furnish
arms to the militia South on the an
plication of their Governors, and also
for information to officers of those de-
partments.
WASHINGTON, August 24.-.The
Democratic National Committeebere
has received tiattering advices of our
prospects in West Virginia. 1t is
claimed that the Democrats will make
a clean sweep in November, carrying
the State for Seymour and securing
thelegislature, which elects Senator,
and two Congressman. Montgomery
Blair will canvass that State.
Gen. Sherman's dispatch that he
deems further forbearance with the
Indians impossible was submitted to
the PRECEDENT to-day. The President
approves the rigid course of sherman.
but Expresses the hope that the in
nocent shall not be punished with the
guilty. The hostile Indians will now
be driven back south of the Kansas
line.
Rollins says he will never accent
Secretary McCulloch's propositions
that one-half of the revenue supervi-
sors shall be Conservatives. He adj
mits that all his nominations are Re-
bublicans, but claims that they are
capable and honest. This dead lock
will continue until Rollins is forced to
vacatc.
Inc Workingmen'sc committee wait
eel on the President this morning, ask
ing recall of the order of the Secre-
tary of War; reducing the wages of
The workmen ut Rock Island under
the eight-hour law.
a remittance of $4,000 in coin has
been received at the Treasury on ac-
count of custom dues from Alaska.
rms evenings papers assert that in
view Oh ms prospective certain defeat,
without some change is effected,
.trants Keepers Will concoct a letter
Iour MN taking conservative posi-
Iion. The report needs combination
Ihe statement that the Mexican
Minister, ltosecrans, Is instructed to
lld the Juarez Government, and that
me United States contemplates q |
over Mexico, is entirely |
without foundation.
Inc instructions to Roscncranz are
not specific or in detail regarding any
particular interest or course. The |
)niy thing that partakes of the char |
meter OF Il particular instruction is the |
emphatic INDUCTION to keep entirely |
lloof from the controversies of yarious
factions in Mexico, and remain en- |
Ilrely neutral, Roscncranz has leave |
Jf absence till October first.
The business of the Bureau of In !
-erlial lteVcnue, so far as the uppoint- |
nent of supervisors provided by the
new law is concerned, has come 10 n
lead lock, and Secretary McCulIoch |
IN Saturday absolutely declined the
ofpersons recommended
~ Rollins unless he could dictate fhe
names of an equal number.
This isin pursuance ofa determine
ION on the part of the President and
hose members of the Cabinet who
side with him TO give more active
support To seymour and Blair. There
,re indications that the influence of
he Postoilicc Department will he ex-
'rted in the same direction, and II Is
understood that Mr. Randall, who
las madean arrangement satisfactory
a himself with the Democratic lead |
RS, is TO give his personal counsel In
'cgaru TO the organization of the par-
y and the conduct of the canIpaigu
n the Northwest.
Large posters are out here announce
ng an excursion 10 grand masked
,all at Green Brier, White sulphur
springs, Va, on the evening of the
''th INST As an inducoment for the
public 10 attend, the list of managers
printed. Among them are Gems.
r.. Lee, Beuregam, Col. G.
\dams, OF Mississippi, Alex. IL. Ste
HENS, j. L. Perkins, of Alabama,
Governor Pickens, of South Carolina,
@tcller, of Va, and +. =. Stockdalc,
{ Texas; Commodore Maury and Il. ,
'owar,t at the Richmond Dispatch,
nj Others of little less distinction.
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