Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-06-12
NEWS ITEMS.

REaIsRAf WILLIAMS, of Memphis,
succeeded, during the recent election,
in issuing 1000 certificates to negroes
and only 800 to white men. There
are serious charges against him.
HARTsyILLEy Tenn, has sub
scribed, says the Vidette, $500 for the
preliminary survey of the Nashville
and Cincinnati railroad from Wilson
county through Huntsville and La
fayette to the Kentucky State line.
THE National Division of the Sons
of Temperance Of North America
will meet in annual session ut Wash
ington on the 9th inst.
THE President has made the fol-
lowing appointments VIM. A. Pile,
Governor of New Mexico; Christie
pher G. Sheath, Consul at Elisnore;
VIM. u. Kendall, Postmasterat Ply
mouth, Ind. %
J. b. GUTHRIE, a prominent clerk
In the Office of the Secretary of the
Treasury, and for n long time legal
adviser of the departments of internal
revenue and customs regulations, has
resigned.
1t has been enormously stated that
Secretary Fish has affected an ar
rangement with the Spanish Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs, by which
the Spanish Minister here has power
TO settle all ordinary questions arts
ing between the United States and
Spain with reference to Cuba. The
arrangement Is between the Minister
and the Captain General of Cuba, by
which certain losses ofcases hereto
fore brought before the Captain Gen
eral will he adjusted at Washington
through the ishMinister.
THE Public Debt Statement has
been delayed until tomorrow, owing
to the fact that all the accounts are
not yet properly prepared The opin-
ion prevails at the Treasury Depart.
ment that the statement will show O
large reduction, though 1t is not posi-
lively certain the decrease will bt
S1O,0 900. It will also exhibit &
heavy coin and currency balance.
THE Louisville, Cincinnati ant
Lexington railroad will be opened TO
traffic on the 10th of June.
THE earnings Of the Terre Hautc
Alton and st. Louis railroad for tn
month of April We're Sill, 1858. Fo
the same month in 1868 the earning
We're S155,30S.
CAPT, COLLINS PETERSON, ofTole
do, was accidently knocked overboar'
from his vessel and drowned, nea
that city, last Thursday.
GENERAL REYNOLDS has directe
that one hundred and fifty dollars b
expended In repairing that Atom
monument, where Crockett was slain
A CONVENTION of negroes is In sc:
sion at Binghampton, n. p. Tn
object OF the convention Is to organ
ize committee In every city, tow
and state ~ serve as canvassers an
do other duties In the fall campaign
when the new Constitution Is sui
mitted TO the people.
THE depredations on our India
frontier are fearful. \ dispatch frol
Topeka, Kansas, reports Thrice
persons, men, women, and children
killed I'm Saline county recently, an
as many more missing. The wome
carried OF suffer worse than dealt
The settlers in Saline county are con
ing eastward for protection. A 60
respondent says if the Quaker agcn
do not hurry up, the poor, innocci
savages will destroy all the frouti
settlements of Kansas and Colorad
BEFoRE the adjournment of Il
New School Presbyterian Assembl
in New York ON Monday night, Il
resolution concerning members
church visiting the opera and the the
ter, aud indulging in social dane
and card playing, was referred To
special committee TO report TO Il
Tittsburg Assembly. The first Sa
bath in January, 1870, was appoint
rs the day of prayer for the conv,
sion of the World. Tho Presbyte
of south Carolina was added TO &
synod of Pennsylvania.
AN old negro man named Wyl
Pea, residing near birmingham, Ma
shah county, Kentucky, was butte
cred by his son in the night tin
lately, and dragged with n horse sol
distance from the house, thrown In
n log-henp and burned up. The 4
H,an had logged tho hoy the day
fore for stealing an AK. The murd
or Is In hall.
IT u reported that an Irish lady
st. Petersburg recently prescott
Minister &. NJ. Clay for an assa
upon. her daughter. The Russi
Minister Observation-Disclosures the "hC
or" of our Minister by ordering /