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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22

whole Union. Let this huge obliga-
ton, the Abolition war debt, stand
uncancelled o quarter of n century
and 1t is rs sure to pauperize and de-
base two thirds of our people as the
sun Is to rise tomorrow. Impoverisll
and socially degrade millions of in
dividuals, who have hitherto held q
high social and intellectual position,
and debt will as surely do 1t as strip
ping Of the individual of his property
and casting him to penury and want
will finally corrupt and destroy his
better nature. Debt is a fearful curse,
which brings poverty to the debtor,
and poverty has never been chris
thanking agency, either with individ-
uals or nations, since the world be-
gan. The philosopher who first ut
tered the phrase that "a public debt
was public blessing" was either n
knave or an egregious fool, and Jay
Cook, tribe of this country, when
they lent themselves to the degrad-
ing task of shackling the millions,
with the bondholders, ball and chains
musically chanting that refrain while
they riveted the manacles upon the
limbs of the Glover orders,1 knew
the baseness of the falsehood, and de-
served the gibbet for their moral
crimes. This great debt was conceiv-
ed In the iniquity and brought forth
I'm the sin of niger equality. The
bondholders has received thirty four
per cent per year, for every dollar he
lent the government, and there are
millions in the country now stagger-
ing under huge taxation who feel
in their souls that he has received all
he deserves, and that the debt is to-
day morally discharged.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22
IMPORTANTTOToB DEALERS
Decision I'm Relation 10 Rcpacking
and ReinspectiDg Certain Kinds OF
Tobacco.

|
The following important decision by
Thomas Harland, Acting Commits
sioner Of the Internal Revenue De-
partment ut Washington City, has
been issued, and will be the guide of
all parties interested in matters there
in referred to:
WASHINGTON, Dec. %, 1S6S.-Sec-
tion 7S of the act of July 20, 1868, as
amended by the act of December %,
1868, provides that after the fifteenth
day of February, 1859, no smoking or
fine cut chewing tobacco or snuffshall
be sold or offered for sale unless put
up in packages and stamped as re-
quired by said act. 1t is represented
chat, Notwithstanding the extension
of time, many dealers will be put to
great inconvenience and expense un-
less they can be permitted to repack
stocks on hand now in bulk packages
into the packages as now required by
law, under the supervision of. the
proper officers of internal revenue.
In order to furnish the relief desired
1t Is directed that the repacking and
reinspecting of such stocks may be
made under the following regulations,
viz
Any dealer in manufactured tobacco
who has made true and correct in
ventory and return of the same to the
assessor of the district as required by
section 7S, may apply to such assessor,
and on submitting to him satisfactory
proof that the tobacco which the
dealer desires to repack and have re-
inspected was properly inspected un-
der the former law, and was included
In his inventory made pursuant to
section 7S of the act of July 90, 1868,
said assessor may direct an inspector
of tobacco for the district to supervise
the repaclling. The tobacco having
been put up in the packages required,
may be packed in cases or enclosures
of such size rs the dealer may desire.
1t will be the duty of the inspector
to personally supervise the packing
in these cases or enclosures, and when
the work Is done he will transcribe
upon each case or enclosure the in
spection marks and brands upon the
original packages, and also mark as
follows, viz: "Repacked under my
supervision, together with the date,
the State and district, and his own
name and official title; and he will
Immediately make u detailed report
to the assessor showing the number of
packages branded, the kind and guam
tity in each, and the name of the per-
son or firm for whom the reinspec-
ton was made, with the number of
original packages, and the original
inspection marks or brands upon each
package. The inspectors fee will be
the same as heretofore established i'm
each district, to be paid by the dealer
for whom the work is done.
THOMAS HARLAND,
Acting Commissioner.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22
Georgia.

SAVANNAH, GA, Jan. 14.-The
News publishes the report of q con.
vention held by its editors with ne
groes concerning the Ogeeche troub'
les. The negroes say Colonel VIII
liams, whose report was forwarded by
Gen. Sibley, only visited one planta-
ton three miles from the scene oI
disturbance and didn't go to Other
places to ascertain the correctness ol
reports concerning outrages. He
asked no questions, except whether
they had any complaint against the
planters, whether they were at arms
against the United States, and what
injury was done by the Sheriff's posse
He asked no questions about the re-
sistance or robbery of the Sheriff. Ht
went down at night and returned be.
fore daylight next morning, and was
accompanied by one of the leading
disturbers of peace Of Savannah -
The reporting party was arrested by
the negroes, and released upon VIII.
liams explaining who he was. Shcr'
if Dooner publishes a card denying
Col. Williams statement.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22
CHEAP HOUSES.
Interesting to Men Of small Means
[From the Chicago Post, sth.l

l'Aoh thc tuichBO tOst, otn.
There are thousands of families in
this. city living in rented houses, pay
ing large monthly rentals, wandering
about from year to year subjected to
all the losses and annoyances of
moving day." and never really
knowing what the home feeling is,
who might be snugly settled down in
their own cottages, regardless of the
terrof's of May day, If they only knew
how good a dwelling they could OBJ
tain Tor the sum which they now pay
for rent In very few years. When
1t is considered that a comfortable
house can be built for from six hum
dred 70 two thousand dollars, it seems
strange that so many of our thrifty
mechanics and salaried men continue
to waste their substance on landlords.
The subject Of cheap houses has re-
ceived considerable attention of late,
but 1T cannot be too often discussed. -
The Builder, an excellent monthly
publication In this city, devoted to
architecture, is doing good by pub
fishing In every issue plans and esti-
mates of neat but inexpensive dwell
ings, showing that they can be built
at much lower figures than Is gener-
ally supposed. The last number con-
tains two cuts. One is of pretty
story-and-a-half cottage, with base
ment, portico and yeranda, and seven
rooms on the main floor, besides hall
and closets, which it states can be
furnished complete for $1,000, and
which would afford fair accommoda-
tions for family of six PERSONS
The other represents q French
cottage, two stories high, with six
large rooms, besides closets and
front portico, which can be built for
81 5000. A house of this kind may
be seen in Hyde Park. We have
seen plans for a row of four small,
neat Gothic houses, two stories high,
which can be erected for 81, 900 each.
Still cheaper than this comes class
of small One-story cottages, hundreds
of which have been built in this city
for from 5000 to $500, and which af-
forded comfortable homes for work.
ing men. Although the price of city
real estate has advanced immensely
in the last two or three years, there
are still lots to be obtained for from
$500 upwards, and there is every en-
offered to men of small
means to endeavor to become owners
of homes for their families. Better
plans even than those referred to may
perhaps be devised, but these are
mentioned as illustrating the fact
that the man who can secure few
hundred dollars can attain to the
and respectability of a house.
owner If he will. The subject ought
to be continually agitated by those
who are not yet thus provided for un-
til they find the means of accomp-
fishing the result so promotive of the
happiness of their families and in the
end of their pecuniary interests,
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22

o. \. GILMAN, of New Hamp-
shire, who is stationed at Paris, Ken
lucky, has shipped 25,OOO head OF
sheep 10 Boston since the first of May
last. lie pays from five TO six cents.
lie has also shipped since May last
ll0 toas of turkeys, thirty tons 0i
which were from Paris
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22


SENATOR WILSON AND THE Ma
TIoNAL BANKs.-Among the finan.
cial measures brought before Congress
Senator Wilson's bill for amending
the National Banking act is specially
important. n New York exchange
says:
The one section changing the meth.
od of calling for the quarterly reports
will be generally approved. The
Others betray either q great Ignorance
of the methods of business in our
large cities, or purpose to change
these methods to conform to the pc
.culiar notions entertained Mt Boston.
One section forbids "the certification
of checks, or the issue of any evil
dence of debt, unless at the time the
whole amount so certified is in the
actual keeping of the bank, and pay
able on demand" This would revo-
lutionize the methods of business
here. Another section makes it tYfl-
lawful TO pay interest on deposits
This, If adopted, will drive q large
portion of the best deposits out of the
organized banks into the hands OF
private bankers. Another section
prohibits the use of government de-
posits for any purpose but to pay the
official drafts To which they are sub
ject. This would compel the Banks
to ace as agents of the Treasury, with
no reward whatever for the service,
Those institutions that were prosper
ing ms State organizations will now
recall with some distinctness, we be-
lieve, our advice against the woke
they vol UNFAIRLY assumed when they
changed their allegiance to the De-
partment Mt Washington. The re-
quirenents of these amendments, II
insisted on, will proably do much to
hasten the return of all sound banks
To the state system, a consumation
at some day inevitable.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22
G IL 4 n II
What He Says About His Cabinet
Special to the New York Times.

ElSSCisti W tuc -NtW 1oTh
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1O.-"ZVhat l.
Gen. Grant going to do ?" and "\VhC
are TO be called to his Cabinet? ?" are
the two great questions at present
perplexing and puzZling Congressman
and politicians. Gen. Grant has been
approached again and again on the
subject, but no one, so far, is able to
discern the particular man on whom
his eye is placed for this position or
that. In the course of conversation
yesterday with two members of the
House, he said $50 far as the Cabi-
net and my views of public men and
things are concerned, you had better
consult the columns of the New York
World" Gen. Grant continued i:
"Therc has been great deal Of spec
ulation and surmise as to the probable
appointments which / shall make
But Senator Pomeroy hit the mark
closer than any one else when he re-
lated the story that Mr.. Lincoln used
to tell about his Cabinet experience :
IF l had to form my Cabinet again,
/ should see that L had more than one
voice in it," Gen. Grant then said
that this story, attributed to Mr.. Lin
coin, reminded him. of another story
which President Taylor used to tell
about his Cabinet. "'A man came
to me- said Taylor, and asked me for
an appointment. i told him that /
should consider it, and, If possible,
comply with his request, asking him
to call again in few days. He came
to me, and / had to tell him that i
could do nothing for him; that l had
submitted it to my Cabinet and they
outvoted me-" These are the only
positive indications that Gen. Grant
has yet given in reference to the for
nation of his Cabinet. If they indi-
cate anything, it is that he will be
President dc Jdoto as well as de jure.
Some members of Congress are be-
ginning to see it in this light.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22

GAMBLING CLERKS IN NEW YonK.
The officers of the New York Society
for the prevention of gambling report
that during the past year over one
thousand clerks and others were re-
ported to theiremployers rs frequent
ing gambling houses, and that three
hundred and seventeen Of the places
were closed through the workings of
the association. IL ssaid that fear OF
exposure has deferred many clerks
from gambling, thus materially di-
mlnishing the revenue OF gambling
saloons.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22
A NEW YORK COTTON VIEW.

The circular of Messrs. Bryan,
Watts & Co., cotton brokers of New
York, dated the 1st of January gives
the following statistics in relation to
the cotton crop of last year, now COM
ing to market:
The total stock in our ports Is 29d,-
432 bales, against $50, $50 bales same
time in 1868. In the interior towns,
December 10, the stock was 53,7S7
bales, against los, ,566 bales year ago.
The stock in Liverpool is 352, 900 bales,
of which $1,000 bales are American |;
afioat 265, 900 bales, of which 105, 900
bales are from American ports. One
year ago the stock in port was 447 900
bales; 100000 American afioat 1884,
600; 10000 American. The present
visible supply in Liverpool, London
and Havre is S74,2lS bales, against
S54, 705 bales on January /, 1885,
Manchester stock is estimated at SO,-
600 bales. Receipts at all the ports to
date show an excess of 1O3, ,O29 bales
over those of 1868. Exports show an
excess of 81, 1874 bales. The excess of
receipts has been reduced 43, 144 bales
OF January, last year, the weekly re-
ceipts averaged SO,555 bales; during
the first three weeks of February
81 ,56S bales, or say S5,27G bales for
the. first seven weeks of the year,
and on the 21st of February the stock
in Liverpool was reduced to the min
imum of the year, 267 900 bales, with
900 bales afioat. The deliviries to
the trade, during these seven weeks,
had averaged 81, $40 bales per week /:
deliveries for shipment 1850 bales;
Middling Uplands sold, on the date
referred to, at 10d. For the five years
just previous to the war, the receipts
to the first of January had averaged
473 per cent. of the total receipts of
the year. Last year the per centage
was about 4i!. Butapplying the first
formula to the present receipts, the
result would indicate 2,147, 500 bales
as total port receipts of the crop of
1868. The improved facilities for
overland transportation lend proba-
bility TO the belief that this per cent
age is too liberal. We refer here to
the fact that these improved facilities
for overland transportation to the
mills, leave a larger per centage
of exportablc cotton in the ports,
as compared with the entire stocks,
than in years before the war. It is
generally believed that planters are
holding back a portion of their cotton
in order to make receipts light and to
advance prices. Certain it is that
they have already received nearly
Sl25, 100000 for previous shipments,
and are strong enough TO undertake
this hazardous enterprise.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22

WE find the following marriage nos
tice in Nebraska journal "On the
east half of the northwest quarter of
section twenty-five, township twen-
ty-one, north of range eleven, In an
open sleigh, and under an open and
unclouded canopy, by the Rev. J. f.
Mason, James b., only son of John
Cox, OF Colorado, and Ellen c., eldest
daughter of Major o. Harrinton, of
Burt County, Nevada"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22
Indian Murders ON the Union
Paclnc Railroad.

\ Fort Fred Steele correspondent
of the Cheyenne Argus writes, under
date of the 30th of December, that he
had Just ascertaincd from u gentle
man who had arrived there n few
days before from Medicine Bow sta
tion, Union Pacific Railroad, forty
eight miles east of the Fort, that ON
the 23d of last month the Indians
killed and scalpcd six white men near
the above named station. These men
were, at the time they We're murdered,
employed by the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company. The bloody and
tragic affair occurred near where the
Union Pacific Railroad crosses the
Medicine Bow river, which by actual
survey Is cighty-four miles south of
Fort FcttCrmnr, aud Is one of the
principal and mVorlte routes travelled
by the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians
i'm passing from the Arkansas river
country south and southeast of there
10 the Yellow Stone River country
north and west of there. There was
n band of Indians seen near tho Fort
n few days before the correspondent
wrote, and on the 22d of December,
while out hunting, about eight or ten
miles northeast of there, General
Stevenson and Lieutenant Young,
United States Army, discovered the
trail of n large body of Indians, which
evidently had been made only few
hOurS
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22
no. SQUARES. NO / NO NO ! NO ia NO
To Advertisers.

no. Parties sadyertisingb by contract, for q
mate buginess; anything outside of this
will be charged for separately,
ns- Advertisers, for a.spccifcd time, ex-
cocding three months, win have the privi-
lego of renewing their advert iscInents
quarterly; all extra changes will bo
enargdS ,JI, .sr - ,,5;,,...r,,s,,or,s IL. nil,
be charged onc-third moro than regular
rates for single ce1wnff.s. 90
MS. Funeral Notices, Obituaries, or any
other matter spbServing private interest.
no Notices In local and special columns
are matters of special contract.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22

A PINE tree was recently cut near
Bay City which made twenty-four
logs sixteen feet long, and the wloio
scaled lO,09S feet. Tho stump Of the
tree measured seven feet in.diametcr,
and short distance from the earth
formed four perfectly straight branch
-, from which the logs were cut
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22

SOME one vcrsed in the double rule
of three has calculated that ii will
take tifty men, working twelve hours
n day, seven years, four months and
thirteen days 10 read through all tho
public documents issued in the United
States rNrry three months.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22
THE ST. LOtJIS
MUTUAL
EIFE INSURANCE COMPANY!

'ruIs COMPANY. so EXTENsIvELY
i pntronizcd throughout the, West and
South, has proved their friend in need and
establishcdi Its claims To their esteem and
confidence. go
Its semi7npnnai report and statement 10
the lst OF July, 1865, shows an increase
highly satisfactory to its officers and policy
holders and also To the Hon. Elixur Wright,
the highest authority on Life Insurance In
tlie United stntes.. Amer yaluing It's poll
cics and. liabilities March Sist, lsdS, he says
briefly of this company: ain perfectly
sound, and indeed highly prosperous con-
dition,"
Vote ifs procrc.-. .ripcs January Isl, 1891:
Assets January lst' ,Sit t.'.'~'''".s 9S 5 az
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OF IN, tho financial ifistiLdtions of our
times, Life Insurance Companies have the
most intimate and far-reaching, ~ not tho
most extensive, relatiQps with human
hopes and happiness, and the most need
both of science and presciencc for their.
successful and safe management. The above
speaks for itself in behalf of the Company.
@. J.. RIDpELIt, Agent.
.., ',' ONCE on franklin Street.
Oct. 0, '0s-3m.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-14
The Yerger Case.
, the Columbus lOhiol Cribs. |

From the Columbus (Ohiol Crisisl
A negro wench in Washington re-
Gently murdered her loyal white par
amour by chOpping him to pieces
with an ak. A jury of six negroes
and six white solutions tried and ac-
quilted her, this being the first trial
by black and tan jury in the Dis
trict. The lawyers i'll the case had
no trouble in convincing the negro
jury that the case was one affecting
their own race, and that an acquittal
would be vindication of their rights.
The whole power of the Federal
Government was eXerted to secure
her relase OIL the ground of insanity,
and the thing was a success. The
man murdered was only white man,
but he was very loyal, and even this
latter quality stood to show against
color. Per contra. In the State of
Mississippi, Yerger is tried and con-
victed of murder for killing in sud
den quarrel an officer who had forci-
bly, taken piano from Yergers
house to pay an illegal tax. There
was no court-there could be no jury.
The trial was simply a military con-
spiracy, and the execution of Yerger
under their sentence, will in law
faint his judges with the crime of
murder of which he is accused. An
assassination of this kind, compared
with the trial at Washington, would
serve to show off the degree of civil
| ization achieved FIR this country
through the philanthropic efforts of
the AbOlitiOnists. The courts in
Mississippi are open and unobstruct-
ed ; in Washington they are simply
negro mObs. The wench in Wash
ingtOn had all the protection which
the law extends the white man in
Mississippi had only the consolation
of being tried by mob organized to
convict, and bribed to execute. This
hideous farce at Jackson, enacted
1" by the kings command" in viola
ton of the oaths prescribed by the
Constitution, finds no relief from the
case itself, or the admitted guilt of
prisoner. The crime of his Judges
who live in Washington and have
taken official Oaths, consists in the
perjury they commit and the usur-
patton they perform IN assuming judi
cial and executive powers. The
Yerger case is now, it is understood,
in the hands of Chief Justice Chase,
Of the Supreme Court, and for the
honor of the American judiciary, as
well as as for the credit of the peo-
pie, it is hoped he will rebuke this
growing military insOlence and in
subordination by remanding the case
to proper court for trial
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-14
After Potatoe Digging.

The usual crop after potatoes is
weeds, which have ample time to
nlatuie their seeds before frost comes,
aud to make trouble for many years
afterwards. Few farmers estimate
tie amount of damage done to their
lhnds' by this untimely seeding. We
have seen land so stocked with char
lock, Canada thistles, and other
weeds that the cost of all hoed crops
upon it was fully doubled. Their
presence depreciates the value of the
oats and barley, and even of grass.
No grain or grass seed fit to be sold
can be raised upon it, and even the
manure made from the feeding of
such crops is less valuable by reason
Of foul seeds. Yet many farmers
press right on, stocking their lands
with weeds, as il they were a most
valuable crop. The potatoes are
dug and marketed in july, Or early
August, and the ground lies waste
TOR the rest OF the season. Ii CROPS
are not wanted, the opportunity
should be improved to destroy weeds.
Flow the land as soon Az the potatoes
are OF. After ten days. 90, over il
With harrow. This will destrey a
second crop Of weeds. In ten DAYS
more go over 1t with brush harrow.
which will destroy a third crop. In
two weeks, follow with a harrow.
and so on, until the frost comes in
November. A second crop NAV be
taken from the potato ground. If
not in good heart, SOW good super.
phosphate, or Peruvian guano, at
the rate of 400 lbs to the acre, on
the old rows. Go over the rows once
with eultivatOr Sow turnip seed
sparlngly upO the fresh soil. and
pat them in with ~ light one horse
barrow or bush, Wlien the turpins
are up, cultivate between the rows
and keep these spaces free from
weeds. The turnips will soon shade
the ground, and prevent the growth
OF weeds in the rows. There arc
frequently three months or more be
tween the early potato harvest and
the closing of the ground, and il
this time q fine crop of white turnip.
may be grown at cost of less thai