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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
The Literary OutIaw.

Where are Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stoves friends? BY "Uncle Toms
Cabin" she earned the hostility of the
South, and now in equal proportion
Is receiving the disapprobation Of the
men and women of the NOrth-the
men openly protesting their disgust
at the nasty story she has concocted
at so much a page; and the woman
so far as they speak in public-driv-
ing her out OF their suffrage conven-
tions by reason of her recommend
ing that man be the head of the
woman as Christ is the head of the
Church. Where, then, is Mrs. Stowe
to go? Back to her Florida-hOme ?
No; for that, bought by some juggle
for mere song at tax sale, has re-
verted, with purer administration
Of justice, to It's rightfui owners. To
England? She would be secuted as
one making merchandise of family
secrets. There but remains for her,
then, some home in that North where
her name was once the synonyme OF
glowing defence Of negro weakness,
but must henceforth be linked with
the preparation of as heinous piece
of bawdy as the literature of licen-
tiousness in this country presents
Ne,O York World.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
PaternRI Influence.

Parents should always be aware
that conduct before q child, In word
or deed; forms II part of its education.
They create the moral atmosphere for
good or evil their little one must
breathe. 1t Is common TO find the
public and private life of public men
very different. The explanation is
that a mans public life Is what his
public education had madeit, and his
private life has been formed by the
Influences and associations that have
clustered around him In the home OF
his childhood. Example is the best
OF all teachers, or the worst, as the
home may be the best, or worst, OF
all schools. When they are the for
mer, keep your children at home;
when they are the latter, reform
them, or pack your boys and girls OIL
10 boarding schools.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
Apples.

There is scarcely an article of vegi-
table food more universally liked than
the apple. Why every farmer has
not an orchard, where the trees will
grow at all, is one of the mysteries.
Let every house keeper lay in good
supply of apples, and it will be the
most economical investment in the
whole range of culinaries. A raw,
mellow apple Is digested in an hour
and a half, while boiled cabbages re-
quire five hours. The most health
ful desert that can be placed on the
table is a baked apple. If eaten fre.
quently at breakfast, with bread and
butter, without flesh of any kind, it
has All admirable effect on the gener-
al system, often removing constipa-
tion, correcting acidities, and cooling
Off febrile conditions more effectual-
ly than the most approved me-
icines. If families could be in
duced to substitute apples-sound and
ripe-for pies, cakes and sweatmeats,
with which their children are too fire.
quently stuffed, there would be di-
minution in the sum total Of doc
tors bills in single year, sufficient
to lay in stock of this delicious Fl uit
for the whole seasons use.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
Blushing.

What Is more mysterious than q
blush +? that single word, or look, or
thought should send that inimitable
carnation over the cheek, like the soft
tints of summer. sunset. Strange 1t
IL Is, also that the face only-and that
the human facets capable of blush
ing; that the hand or foot does not
turn red with modesty or shame, any
more than the sock or glove that COW
ers them. 1t is the face that bears
the angels impress, it is the face that
is in heaven. The blush that tinted
woman's face when she awoke in
Eden's sunny land, still fingers with
her fair daughters. They caught it
from the rose, for the roses were first
white; but when Eve plucked one,
the bud seeing her fair face, more fair
than the flowers blushed and cast its
reflex, on her velvet cheek. The face
is the table ofthe soul wherein 1t writes
its actions.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
Mechaniccs' Wives.

1t is in the middle rank OF life
where we behold woman I'm all her
glory-not doll to carry silks and
jewels-not puppet to be flattered by
profane adorati0n; reverenced to-day,
discarded tomorrow; admired, but
not esteemed; ruling by passions. not
affection imparting her weakness,
not her constancy, to the sex she
would exalt; the source and mirror
of vanity-we see her as a wife, par
taking the cares and cheering the
anxieties Of husband, dividing his
toll by her domestic allegiance
spreading cheerfullness around hei
for his sake; sharing the decent re-
finements Of the world without being
proud of them placing all her joys
and sorrows in the man she loves. As
a mother, we find her the affection
ate, the ardent instructress of the
children whom she had tended from
infancy; training them up to thought
and virtue, piety and benevolence
addressing them as rational beings
and preparing them to become men
and women i'm their turn. Mechan.
ics' daughters should make the best
wives In the world.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

AN ELOQUENT DEFENCE OF WO-
MAN. "Dey may rail against wo-
men as much as dey like" said n
darky, lately, dey can't set me
against dem. / hab always in my
life found dem to be fust in lub, fust
in quarrel, fust in de dance, fust in
de ice cream saloon, and de fust, best
and last in de sick room. What
would we do without dem? Let us be
born as young, as ugly, as helpless as
we please and a woman's arm am
ready to receive us. She it am that
guv us our iust dose ob castor oil, and
puts up our foots and noses i'm long
flannel petticoats and it am she, as
we grow up, dat fills our dinner basket
wild doughnuts and apples as westart
for school, and licks us when we tear
our trowsers.n
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

ARTEMUs WARD i'm one of his let
ters, thus gives his ideas "of reorgan-
ization :"
81 never attempted to reorganize
my wife but once. l shall never at
tempt it again. I'd been to public
dinner, and had allowed myself to be
betrayed into drinkin' several peo.
ple's healths and wishing to make
me as robust as possible. / continued
drinin' their health until my own
was affected. Consekense was, /
presented myself to Betsy's bedside
late at mite with considerable Ticker
concealed about my person. / had
somehow got possession of hOss
whip on my way home, and remem-
BERN, some cranky observashun OF
Mrs. Wards in the morning. Isnap-
ped the whip putty lively and in a
very loud voice ] said: Betsy, you
need reorganizin' l have come
Betsy, i continued, crackin' the whip
over the bed. Il have come to reor.
ganize you.
i dreamed that mite that somebody
had laid hosswhip over me sev'il
times, and when woke up I found
she had. l haint drunk much oI
anything since; and If ever have
another reOrganizin' job on hand
shall let it out.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
Truths in Agriculture.

The farmer who stiHts his fields, Is
as unwise and improvident as he who
starves his working cattle-in both
cases Is he diminishing the ability of
q faithful servant to be useful TO
him.
The farmer who obtains from a
field not properly fertilized ten BUSH
els of grain when, by manuring, he
might have obtained twenty, is sell
ing his labor at halfits value.
He who does not give back TO his
fields as much as he takes from
them, sells their fertility in crops
and the fertility Of the soil Is the far
mer's capital.
The farmer who will keep these
truths In view, and act in accordance
with the rules they suggest, will find
his compensation i'm the increasing
products of the farm, and the aug
mentation Of general prosperity.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
The Difference.

One young lady rises early, rolls
up her sleeves; goes in the kitchen to
get breakfast, or insists upon doing
so, and afterwards with cheerful and
sunny smiles, puts the house in order
without the assistance Of" Mother.n
She will make good wife and render
home a paradise. Young man, "get
herW
Another young lady Is parl0r
beauty, pallid from company, dissi-
patton and want Of exercise, reads
novels and almost dies of laziness,
while the poor old mother does her
washing. She is a useless piece OF
furniture, an annoyance to the hus-
band she may chance to "rope in"
and will go whining to her grave
Young man, "Let her alone"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
A Good One.

. Old Judge Barbour of Virginia,
after enjoying the highest honors and
retiring to private life was prevailed
on to be candidate for local office.
The opposition trotted out an Hitter
ate, rough and tumble politician
named Bill Naples, against the old
man. In accordance with the strict
rules of conducting political cam
paign in those days, Gov. Barbour
was to take the stump with Naples.
But Naples could always beat him
In abusive language. The final speech
of the campaign was abusive beyond
all precedent. The following Is Bar
bour's reply, which we think Is the
most complete thing in its way that
we ever read. Said the Governor:
+" Fellotc- citizens when / was a
young man, now nearly forty years
ago, your grand fathers sent me rs
their representative, for four terms, to
the House of Delegates, and / was
chosen speaker of that body. At q
subsequent period was twice elected
Governor of Virginia. Afterward,
aud for ten years, I represented this
commonwealth In the Senate of the
United States, where 1 was the CON-
fidant, and perhaps 1 may say the
peer of Macon, King, Galliard, Pick
ney and Van Buren,. Mr.. ]. Quincy
Adams subsequently conferred upon
me place in his cabinet, and for
three years / shared the COUNCILS oi
Clay, Writ and Mclean. was then
appointed Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court
of st. James, when it became my
duty to conduct negotiations with
the conquer of Napoleon. Judge
then, fellow citizens, of the ineffable
disgust feel after such career, and
in my declining years, to find myself
here to-day, engaged In a low, pitiful
contest with such add disagreeable
little cuss as Bill Naples.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
THE hand full of Seminoles who

THE hand full of Seminoles who
yet linger among the everglades of
Florida are governed bya chief named
Tiger-Tail, a relative, doubtless, of
Spotted-Tail and this particular Tail
being, in politics, a Burbon, a China
man, or whatever else of that sort you
choose to call him, declines to learn
anything, butvapors about the good
old times" The result is that he has
recently fallen upon and slain squad
of government surveyors who inva-
ded his swamp, and company of va
riegated militia has gone for him. Ii
gerTail will probably be cut Off from
the Seminole body of which he Is far
from being an ornamental member.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
Death of the Wickcdest Man I'm the
world.

John Allen, noted two years ago
as the Wickedest Man in New
York, ;" died on the 10th of last month,
at West Perth, in this State, where
his father resides, John, il may be
remembered, kept dance house and
drinking saloon in Water Street, and
turned his establishment into n place
of daily prayer, under the influence
of several gentlemen connected with
the Howard Mission. More than a
year ago he moved into large brick
building, which he had erected at
Roosevelt and Batavia Streets and
kept grocery on the ground floor
The upper stories he rented to fami-
lies. At first he attended to business
and prospered; but after the death of
his wife his old habit of drinking over
came him. He lived I'm idleness for
six months previous to his death, and
his store was without goods. In Au.
gust he went TO his fathers farm and
remained there until hisdecease. He
leaves over Sl00, 900, earned chiefly in
his nefarious Water Street pursuit.
While residing in Roosevelt Street
he frequently visited the Howard
Mission in his sober moments, and
professed religion. New York San.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
The History of /. Dcmucs Horse.

A young gentleman, just out of col
Ilege, once remarked that IL was ex-
ceedingly insalubrious to inhale the
obnoxious effiuvia arising from the
cadaverous carcass of defunct horse.
He was undoubtedly right, and
science has found a way of remedying
the evil. They now make SO many
things out of the dead body ofa horse
that the animal must be q remarka-
bly, fine one If he Is worth as much
when aliye as he Is In the retorts and
kettles of the chemist. AS soon as
the horse is dead, his blood is sought
by the manufactures of albumen, and
by sugar refiners, and by the burners
of lampblack. Not a drop oft Is al
lowed to go to waste.
The name and tail are wanted for
hair cloth, sieves, bow strings and
brushes. The skin Is converted into
leather for cart and harness, for boots
and shoes, and strong collars. The
hoofs are used for combs, horn work,
glue, in old times were the chief
source OF the spirits Of hartshorn, now
obtained from the gas house. The
flesh Is bOlted down in the rendering
vat, and much oil and fat is obtained
from 1t. Some of the choice bits may
find their way into cheap restaurants,
and play the part of beefsteak, or help
to enrich the hasty plates of soup to
those establishments
The flesh Is left after all has been
extracted from 1t that Is of any SER
vice, and Is sometimes burned to be
used as manure, or Is worked up into
nitrogenous compounds such as the
cyanides, to be used by the photo
grapher for taking our pictures.
The stomach and intestines also
make valuable strings and cords for
musical instruments, and out of the
bones SO many useful articles are
manufactured that 1t Is almost i'm
possible to make a compete list OF
them.
Among them are buttons, toys,
knife-handies, rulers, dominoes, balls,
ETC., and the residue from all these
things is burnt into bone-black to be
used py the sugar refiner, who thus
puts in second claim upon the dead
horse; and some part of the bone.
black is burned white to be used by
the assayer in testing gold. The
teeth are used as substitutes for ivory,
and the iron shoes, If not nailed
up over the door to insure good for.
tune to the household, are worked up
into excellent wrought metal.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

DARKEY In Louisiana was recent
ly discussing the negro equality ques-
ton, to which he Is bitterly opposed.
He said: " My friends, God a nifty
made de white man white. He made
de black man black nobody can't
make 'em muffin else. You know
how de turkey he roost on de fence,
and de goose he roost on de ground.
You pull de turkey Off fence, and
he get up again. You crap his wings,
but some how or nudder, he's gwine
to get back on de fence. Now you
put IA goose on de fence aud he fall
off-he don't belong dar. Now, dat's
white man and niggs-white man
roosts on de fence, and niger on de
ground"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
WHOLE NO. 2,tSO.

THE following allusion to A. r.
Stewart, appears In recent novel en-
titled +" Chris and Otho.n
"Why not go to oStewarts at once,u
asked Sabrina, "where they keep
every-thingT
Because" replied Mrs. Walsing-
ham, "they have such an unpleasant,
Indifferent, supercilious set of at
tendants there. / went last year to
buy large bill while I was ordering
Pussy Ashcrott's trousseau four little
Texas friend, you know, and asked
for the first thing on my list-a lace
cape. Two clerks were convursing
together, and I spoke twice before
they even looked at me. Then one
did turn and stare up and down my
gray travelling dress, and cody inform
ed me they had none likely to suit
me; none under fifty dollars and the
fellow presented his shoulder and the
two brass buttons In his back,
and resumed the account of
a street brawl which had daring
ly interrupted. Quite guenched I re-
treated to the glove counter anil took
modestly a pair aes gd,,ts, which got
tossed down before me, after couple
Of entreatfes, and tried the leather
and examined the makers name"
"Don't stretch those gloves that
way, ma'am, II you pleasep expostu-
lated the clerk In tone of the deep
est injury.
Absolutely extinguished, I drop
ped the hand-shoes and withdrew
glad to get off with my head on my
shoulders, and I cut loose from Stew
arts forever; and know that mine
Is not solitary case. Yes, know 1t
quite well. A lady who goes In o
plain dress has no chance at oil, uir-
less she is willing to be snubbed. and
takes joyfully, contemptuous looks
and supercilious service, which l am
quite willing to admit I do not. II
l am about to spend money, like to
leave 1t with agreeable, cheerful peo-
pie, who are not too fine to attend to
their duties, and who will not glover
at my clothes and toss their goods
about as IL the sight of me was hate
full and my simple inquiries a person.
al afiront."
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

A CORRESPONDENT of the Charles
ton Courier relates a conversation as
1t occurred at political mass-meet-
ing In Kingston, South Carolina, be-
tween Hon. r. b. Carpenter, the re-
form candidate for Governor, and one
Powell Smythe, Radical candidate
for State Senator:
Judge Carpenter was alluding to
the heavy increase of taxes, when
Powell Smythe interrupted him,
saying: MAY ask you a question.
Judge ?'
The Judge" Certainly, ifyou will
allow me afterwards to ask you one."
Smythe-" What was the tax on
slaves in 1866 ?"
The Judge-"There was not u slave
in the United States In 1885,"
Smythe-"I l mean I'm 1866 ?n
The Judge -" "There were none
then"
Symthe-" Well, mean i'm 1854 ?''
The Judge-"I don't know-at
that time was not here, / was on
the other side fighting i'm the Union
army. And now for my question:
Are you the man iDho had a wif6
and sir children in Clarendon, and
toent to. Columbia, Joined the Scott
Ring, got rich by By bribery, married
another ,Don,an there ~
The crowd" Yes, that's so he's
the man."
Smythe, (sheepishly)-"I wasn't
married to the first One!'
The Judge-"The children were
your own?'
Smythe-" Yes but she was not
my wife; only lived with her ~
Judge-"You were i'm the Legisla.
ture two years? Now I'll tell you a
law that you don't seem to know
anything about. That law makes
man and woman who lived together
as you have In this case, man and
wife; and IL you don't mind you will
go to the Penitentiary as a bigamist
instead Of going to the State Senate p
This was too much the crowd
white and black, who knew o.
Smythe's villainy, yelled, and the
poor devil skunk away in the crowd
He never asked another question, anc
don't think ever will again.
This fellow Smythe's qualifications
as Radical leader are scarcely infe.
rior to those ofBowen, South Carolint
Congressman, who was recently mar
ried to his third woman, having two
other wives living. 1t seems thai
the last refuge of villiany and infa
my Is Radicalism.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15
A KISS AT THE DOOR.


We were standing IN the doorway
My little wife and L
Tie golden sun upon her hair.
Fell down so silently,
a small hand upon my arm,
What could l. ask for more,
Than the kindly glance of loving eyes,
As she kissed me at the door,
Iknow she loves me with all her heart
The one who stands besidel
And the years have been no joyous
Since the first called her bridei
We've had SO much of happiness
Since we met in years before,
But the happiest time of all was
When she kissed me at the door.
Who cares for wealth of land or gold,
OF fame or matchless power?
1t does not give the happiness
Il of Just one little hour,
with one who loves me as her life
She says she "loycs me more"-
And thought she did this morning,
When she kissed me at the door.
At times 1t seems that all the world,
With all its wealth of gold,
Is very small and poor indeed
Compared with what hold
And when the clouds hang grim and dark
only think the more
or zone who waits the coming step
To kiss me at the door.
II she lives till age shall scatter
The frost upon her head,
know she'll love just the same
AS the morning we were wed;
But If the angels call her
And she goes to heaven before
Ishall know her when meet her
For she'll kiss me at the door.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

A LETTER nom Washington, Lou
isiana, says: "rhe total number who
have been sick in Washington and
immediate vicinity, amounts to one
hundred and sixty-two, out of which
number thirty-one have died. The
fever is very fast abating for want OF
material. Those who have II, with
very few exceptions, are GONZALES
cent, and improving very fast. The
fever Is by no means Of that malig-
nant type of 1867.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

AN exchange paper furnishes the
following: IA Dutchman i'm desert.
bing n pair of horses he had lost,
said: Dey vos mooch alike, specially y
de Off one. One lookt 30 mooch like
poth, could not tell toder from vich
ven vent after one, always caught
dc oder, and l Wiped one most dead
cos dc oder one kicked me-"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

TT Is the opinion of many persons
that the late unprecedented freshet In
the James and Shenandoah rivers was
not caused by n continued rain, but
by something like the bursting Of a
water spout on or about their head
waters, and their sources are not a
very great distance apart. The flood
came down in the Shenandoah in
great waves succeeding each other
rapidly.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

THERE is an old negro in Mobile,
81 years of age, who Is now living
with his seventh wife, and is the
father Of Al children, the youngest
being five months old. He was born
in New London, Conn, was stolen
and brought to that place when q
child, and has lived there seventy
years. His name Is Stephen Short.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

THE war among the Missouri Rad
icals is becoming interesting. Tho
party is In rapid process sofextinction,
for which hepeople ofthe State ought
to be thankful, The split is complete
and the contest promises to be lively
andhot, and characterized by showing
up OF Radical rascality that will as
tonish the Radicals themselves.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

In the choice Of wife, prefer the
person before money; virtue before
beauty; the mind before the body
Then hast thou wife, friend, n
companion who will bear an equal
share in all thy tolls and afiiictions.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

A LADY entered store few days
ago where butterand eggs are sold, and
complained To the proprietor, named
Charley that half the eggs which she
had purchased were rotten. As an
excuse Charley replied as follows :
" ! can't help 1t. This time Of the
year the hens are siek, aud often lay
bad eggs.p
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

THE negroes in Holmes county,
Mississippi, puffed up with the advice
Of their loyal league leaders, have
held meetings and resolved that they
would not work for white people next
year Oh any account or In any capac-
ify
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

A religion that never suffices to
govern man, will never suffice TO
save him that which does not suffi-
ciently distinguish one from II wick
cd world, will never distinguish him
from n perishing world.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

A SOUTHERN census taker says
that they generally have to guess ut
the ages 0fthe negroes. The freedmen
date their ages by the family events,
the time Of which they cannot recol-
lect.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-15

MEN OF GENIUs.-lf we scrutinizs
the lives Of men OF genius we shall
find that activity and persistence ars
their leading peculiarities. Obstacles
cannot intimidate, nor labor weary,
nor drudgery disgust them.