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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-03


of the Radical party, till this govern
ment Is restored to the ward and Gus
tody OF competent, honest and patri-
otic men.
III have any preference ofone man
over another, 1t will not be because
he was not Wing or u Democrat in
former days, but solely upon my esti-
mate of his qualifications for high Of
fetal trust, his capacity to marshal
our strength for victorious conflicts,
and bring back peace and prosperity
to our impoverished and distracted
State.
1 sincerely hope the future histori-
an of Tennessee will have no such
painful duty to perform as to write of
us we were torn asunder by discord
aud dissentions amongst ourselves, at
a time when 1t required the earnest
and ective corporation of Whigsa
Democrats and all Others who had
kindred afIinities with them, to
wrench the sceptre from the grasp of
a tyrannical party who were holding
on to 1t with the tenacity of DEATH
Let him rather have tile gratifying
spectacle to present to the world OF
Wings and Democrats, though anci-
ent political rivals, drawn together
by mutual concessions, n sense of COM
mon danger, and patriotic determi-
nation to resist the aggressions of
depostic power, contending only with
each other who shall most faithfully
serve the country and redeem 1t from
the thraldom of a corrupt party who
were sapping its foundations, soiling
its honors and plundering its revenue.
Let him not have to say of us, "so
long rs they were true to themselves
and their county they were invinci-
bic, but when discord and dissention
prevailed among them they became
an easy prey to the Vaccinations OF
their enemies" Let him not have
to write our epitaph in these sad and
mournful lines.
= Twas no fOeman's arm that fellcd them
Twas their own that struck the blow
With sentiments of sincere person
al regard, l remain your friend and
fellow-citiZen. G.. A. HENRY.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-03
Truth I'm COurtship.

Be true to your lover. Idon't mean
to stick to him, but don't deceive him
Let him know what sort of a person
you are. Tell each other your faults,
make known your real opinions, state
your views of married companions.
Despise and ALLURE the humbugging
which is almost universal among low.
ers. Girls keep out of sight theii
failings, and do their best to cause
their beaux to think them angels, and
men bow likes slaves to every wish
Or whim of their lady-lOves, and seem
to live but to make them happy
Now that Is not as 1t ought to be; II
will not he SO after marriage. The
woman will grow weary of acting
her prettiest, and the man will moi
endure all sorts of inconveninces
and submit to all sacrifices to please
the woman who is securely his own
1t is the dearest pleasure of every
true woman to obey and make hap
py. the man she loves, II he Is kind
and reasonable, but how much bettel
IL would be teach the sweetheart as
TO her true position. I won't say any
more to the girls, for as they have e
be wooed and won, and as they have
fewer chances than the men have,
there Is more excuses for them To put
the best side out only let them strive
to keep 1t out; and we have no furth-
er controversy with them. But tho
men are without excuse for holding
out such pretences as they do. Cruel,
because the pain which the woman
will feel when all his subserviency and
preference TO her il withheld, will be
In proportion to the pleasure with
which IL Is received; unwise because
II may be such shock to her as Il
cause her resolutely to rebel, or silent.
ly cease to love. In their case, the
husband will be sorely punished fol
80 long ignoring their just relation,
to each other.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-03
TIE followInr Is a list Of the FslI

THE following Is n list OF the Fall
elections and the dates on which
they occur: California, September O.;
Maine, September II; Vermont, Sep
tember 9; Florida, October 8; Indiana,
October ]; Iowa, October IL; Missis-
sippi, October Q; Ohio, October IL;
Pennsylvania, October IL; West Vlr-
ginia, October ~; Georgia, In No
vember; Delaware, November I; I'LL
nois, November =; Kansas, Novem
Der 1; Louisiana, November 1; Mary
land, November 8; Massachusetts,,
November y; Minnesota, November
1; Missouri, November !; New Jer-
sey, November \; New York, Novem-
ber 3; South Carolina, November Z;
Wisconsin, November 8.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-03

ASHES FOR FRUIT TREEs.-The ed
itor Of the The Horticulturist says
1--WE have known quite "a number OF
instances-indeed, so often as 10 make
II quite rule--tbat old orchards ap-
parently dying out have been brought
back again to fruitfIlness by the lib
eral use Of wood ashes; also stirring
the soil. Potash IL the most impor-
tant element in the successful growth
of all kinds of fruit trees. An old
gentleman told club, not long ago,
that he had known n man make and
preserve an orchard Of apple trees In
a fiourishing and productive condi-
tion, originally placed Oh very poor
ground, by sprinkling every year
around each tree 10 the circumference
of the extent of its branches, half a
bushel of ashes. We con ilder this q
very important item.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-03
CLARKSVILLE
CANDY MANDATORY.

nERHAPS 1T II NOT GENERALLY
known that there Is such n thing as
Candy Manufactory In Clarksville; but
uiact,,re OF the best and purest article of
Plain and Fancy Candy, which offer 10
the ira te, wholesale and retail. ut Louis
VILE prices, freight and charges added.
Encourage Home Irotie, aud get the Una
tf,tferdfed article. BB-Counfry merchants
would do well TO examine my goods be-
fore they send their orders away rom
home.
have on hand q large lot of toys for the
Christmas hoiIIays-aiso Keep Cakes anu
Bread of every description.
dec. 4, 1850. III.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

Es- Captain GEo. III. MEADE, locating
engineer of the Little Rock and Fort
Smith Railroad Company, came up, over
the old survey, during last week, recon
noitering, and spent day or two in our
city. From him we learn that the advance
of the Engineer Corps is now opposite
Clarksville, Johnson county, and expect
to reach this place in the course of two
months We found Capt MEADE very
quiet, unassuming gentleman, who seem
ed to have the best interests of the com
pany in view, without regard to what
might be regarded as the local interests
of individuals lie visited Fort Smith,
and was, we learn, very favorably i'm
pressed with the feasibility and desira-
bility of completing the road to that city.
1t is very encouraging to the people all
along the route, to see the work SC. .ener-
getically pushed forward, and TO none,
more so, than to the citizens.of. Van Bu-
rem and Crawford county generally, who
have so long, and so tenaciously held
asst aud encouraged this great Railroad
project, which is to prove the life and
salvation OF the beautiful valley of the
Arkansas. In few weeks the voters of
this county, will be called upon to express
their feelings towards this great beneficial
project at the ballot box-and we hope
to record but very few, if any, dscord-
ant votes
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

Gsr Maj. f. C. BouDISoT writing from
Washington to the Fayetteville, Ark,
Democrat, under date Of Feb. Sth, says:
There is q strong disposition in both
Houses of Congress to pass the Indian
Territorial bill The Cherokee dclega-
ton have protested against it, but they
acknowledge in such protest that they
have not read the bill; whenever it is
shown to me, wherein it departs from the
provisions of the Treaties Of 1866, | will
be ready to oppose it. The Cherokee
Delegation are too slow; they rely too
much ON Sophmorean Counsel. One
Morris makes an argument before the
Committee on Territories, that any Ar
kansas boy of ten years of age ought to
be whipped for maling--so stupid and
ridiculous it is--and yet it is published
as the talk of the Cherokee Delegation
Nann has more sense in minute than
Morris ever had in his life, aud Adair
could do better than MGt, if he would but
try.
"The argument of Mr.. Morris is de-
void of good sense, and has no tounda-
ton in fact it is worse than worthless.
There is nothing in the future more
certain, than that the relations of the In.
dian Nations towards the United States
must speedily change; whether it is right
or wrong is not the question, but that
such change will take place within two
years, any sensible man who is at all cog
infant of the working of affairs here, can
not but know"
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
Texas Politics.

MACK" the Washington correspond
ence of the Cincinnati Eaq"irer, writing
from Washington, says:
The Legislature of Texas meets ON the
Sth Of February. Its most important
work will be the election of United States
Senators, Of whom there are three to
choose--one to serve until the 4th of
March, 1871, and one till the 4th Of
March, 1878, and one to take his scat in
II and serve till VI The Radicals claim
a majority Of twenty two on joint ballot !;
but there are rumors of an effort Of the
conservatives to arrange for the election
Of Jack Hamilton. l hope nothing of
that kind will be done. If there is any
chance for conservative victory its fruits
should be more worthily bestowed. Jack
Hamilton is an unprincipled vagabond-
nothing more nor less; and the meanest
Radical in the State is preferable to any
such conservative as he ! have not
forgotten that it was Jack Hamilton who
first agitated the negro suffrage question
in the Radical Convention ut Philadel
phia in 1866 have not forgotten that
Jack Hamilton was chief among the
crowd of free lunchcrs who travelled
through the North in 1866 as Southern
loyalists, begging where they couldn't
steal, and stealing where they couldn't
beg | have not forgotten that Jack
Hamilton, in the few sober brcaths and
the myrads of drunken ones he drew in
Washington City during Johnson's Ad-
mnistraton, was the chief advocate of
impeachment. And remembering all these
things, must be pardoned for declining
to join in the wish for a " conservative y
triumph which would involve his election
From what | learn here, think General
Reynolds will be one of the Senators and
Mr., Davis another. Reynolds is about
the best Of all the instruments of Con
gressonal vengeance sent South. His
rule has been that of an ofhceraud a gen
tlcman---in proof OF which he is quite rs
popular with the Conservatives as with I
The Radicals. And if Texas must 90 |
abroad for Senator, she can't make
better selection, Davis ia an old citizen |
Of the State and has been Radical all !
along. MACK.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
Hr- When the chaplain Of the Unite

IS- When the chaplain of the United
States Senate, on the first day the ses.
sion, informed the Almighty that tho
country is "blessed with an economical
administration he had evidently forgot.
ten to consult the Department estimates.
Some considerate Senator should now
move that he be permitted to print, by
way of an erratnn, in the Congressional
Globe, for the better information Of
Providence, a few extracts from Mr.
Dawes speech.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
- ee>s
Ter The Fort Smith Herald il ,

Is- The Fort Smith Herald is agitat.
ing the subject Of an Express Agency at
that place--that is good And recon
mends our young friend, \. WAssoN as
Agent-that is better. Western Arkan-
sas needs, at least one Express Agency
on the river. Let us have it.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

DEATH OF JOHN QUNDLEY.-lt is our
painful duty to record the decease of
another Of the good and brave old pio-
neers Of the country-that of John
Quindlcy, who died at his residence in
this city on Saturday morning, at O.
clock, of congestion of the lungs. He
was aged about 50 years.-LiHle Rock
Tdzefte l2M
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

Es," We learn that W l.. TAYLOR, has
been appointed by Governor Clayton
Clerk Of this county, in place Of GEO.
DVELBIss, resigned on account Of i'll
health Mr.. Taylor, We believe, will
make a very competent officer.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

ES- We are indebted TO the Hon. \. A.
C. RoGrRs, NJ. C. for copy Of the able
speech of the Hon. ID. w. VOORHEES,, Nj.
c. Of Indiana, on the National Indebted
moss
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

The CENSUS OF 1S70.-Washington ad-
vices state that all Gtempts to pass the
new census bill eye>lil1ely to fail, and the
law of 1850 viii lgqbahly stand as the.
law for the taking ofthe national census
this year, Congress previous to the re
cess passed a joint resolution suspending
the law Of 1850 untl the lst inst, when
the suspension expired by limitation and
the old law again become of force.
According to that law the Secretary of
the Interior will have charge Of taking
the census. The enumeration of people
and collection of statistics will be under
direction Of the United States Marshals
Il H. Gazette.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

ET Commodore Vanderbilt refuses to
make will lie desires that his youth
Ml wife shall have her full legal share Of
Of bis property. She viii be heir, there
fore, when lle dies to some S23 ,000, 900.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

TS-" Pears to ne some folks are
mighty particular was the remark of a
negro as a lady refused to let MIN sit in
her lap in New York street car.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

ofthe prisoners, to throw bombs through
the Emperors wsndow at the Tuileries.
New YORK, Feb. 16.
Cotton heavy and lower, sales 900
bales, uplands 2i55
LIVERPOOL, Feb l6.
Cotton quiet, uplands l1@11l, Orleans
u3@lli, sales 10000 bales.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 16.
Cotton easier at 23-5-3, receipts l,l93,
exports 1868.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

&S- All the Boston city bells were
tolled one hour Tuesday. the Sth, in re-
spect TO George Peabody.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

DIP You EVER Ever WHAT Why
when the Democratic party was in power,
did You ever hear Of spies nosing among
your private goods to see ifyou had com
piled with the provisions of an unknown
and unpublished law:
Did you ever near of stamps?
Did you ever nave to swear as to how
much money you made
If manufacturer, did you have to
make a monthly report to some lazy of
fetal at five to ten dollars per day?
Did you ever hear Of a tax on every
thing YOU eat or wear in addition to n
State, county and municipal tax?
Did YOU ever hear men (as you now
do) advocate the policy of paying the
laborcr with paper rags and the money
shavers with gold
Did you ever hear that negro was
better than a white man
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

EF We are under obligations to the
Hon. ak. MCDONALD L. s. Senate. for
congressional favors.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

E1 The richest gold mine in Califor-
MIA last year yielded profit of $4,000
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

ET Old maids. are described as "em.
bers from which sparks nave aed."
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

kT Grants has refused two gifts. One
was Of land in New Jersey, the other a
dog The first was sand, the other came
without tle express charges paid.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
AMNESTY.

The movement towards general am
nesty on the part of Congress has at last
assumed positive shape This morning
the reconstruction committee directed
Mr.. Butler TO report to the House Oil
by which Congress transfers the greater
portion Of the pardoning power to the
United States Districts Courts. 1t pro
vides that every citizen dislranchised by
the third section of the fourteenth amend
ment, except persons who have held com
missions in the army and navy or have
been members of Congress, shall be re-
stored to all the rights of citizenship on
applying by petition to such court in
any State or Territory in which he had
his home during the war, setting forth
what Office he ever held under the United
States prior to April /, 1861, which, by
law, required any oath to support the
constitution, and also in what manner he
had given MD or assistance TO the rebel
lion, or whether he had held any Office
under a State or the Confederate govern
ment, or either Of them, daring any part
of the war, giving Il particular descrip-
ton Of the acts done and offices or places
held by him in that behalf; and that
therein and thereby he renounccs all allie
glance or fcaIty to any supposed govern
ment heretofore set mp against the Uni
ted States within the same, and that he
truly intends hereafter to act and conduct
himself as a true and loyal citizen, and
will bear true faith and allegiance to the
government; that he has not done since
June lst, 1868, any get of hostility to the
United States or committed any crime by
violence against the laws thereof, or
against the laws of any State; and that
he has not endeayored since that time by
force or fraud to interfere with the civil
rights Of any citizen, or to prevent the
freedom Of election or of speech that
from that day he has been a wel-dispos.
ed and good citizen and that he prays
that his rights be restored to him This
petition is to he sworn to in open court,
and is to be publicly advertised thirty
days, at the end of which time any per
son may appear and oppose such petition.
But if there be no oppoton the judge
can issue a certificate to the petitioner,
whercupon his disabilities shall be re
moved If there be sufficient evidence
showing why the certificate should not
be granted, then the petitioner is forever
debarred from relief except by special
act Of Congress Nothing in the act is
to be construed to restore any rights of
property heretofore lost OF forfeited by
any citizen, or to allow any claim ON
Congress for the same. When the bill is
reported Mr.. Beck, Of Kentucky, will
move to strike out the exceptions Of eX-
army and navy officers, and eX- Congress
mon and Gen Farnsworth, a Republican
member, win move substitute that all
political disabilities of citizens Of all
States whose Legislatures have ratified
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments
be removed
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
Proclamation.

IN pursuance Of an Order Of the Honorable
L County Court Of Crawford County, made
at an adjourned Term thereof on the
sth day OF February a. d. 1870, there will be
Special Election, held in the different Vot-
ing Precincts in this County to wit:
Van Buren Township, Court House.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
M A r RIED

A the Episcopal Church, in Fort Smith on
Tuesday night last, by the Rev John Sandels,
Mr.. EDWARD MCkENNA and Miss MILE
BosIICK.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

| would respectfully call the attention Of
the Ladies of Van Buren, and the citizens
of Crawford, Washington and Benton coun-
ties generally, to my large and varied assort-
ment of Dress Goods, Trimmings, Nc.
which will be found the largest ever brought
to this section Of the country, and which
will SELL LOWER than ever offered be-
fore.
Ny Stock of Staple and Fancy Dry
Goods is also very large. and CALL will
convince the most skcptical that | can sell
as low, i not l0leer than any regular house
in North West Arkansas.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
MEMPHIS, Feb. Is.

The stockholders of the Memphis and
Little Rock Railroad met at Hopefcld
to-day, and reelected the old board of
directors, consisting Of Brinkley, McDon-
aid, Owen, Edmumds and Porter. Il. c..
Brinklcy was reelected President, by the
board. Arrangements have been perfect
ed to complete the road with the eXcep-
ton of White river bridge, by the lst
July.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
WASHINGTON, Feb. l6.

Banks, chairman of committee on for
eign affairs, introduced the following,
which was read and referred to commit
tee on foreign affairs:
Resolred, That the President of the
United States be and he hereby is author
lied and Instructed to declare and main
tain strictly impartial neutrality in the
contest now existing between the people
of Cuba and the government of the king
dom of Spain and be it further
Resoioed, That all acts or parts Of acts
and all provisions OF statutes approved
April Goth, 1861, entitled An act in ad-
dition for the punishment of certain
crimes against the United States and to
repeal act therein mentioned" which are
or may be construed to be in conflict with
the faithful execution Of the object and
purpose of the former resolution, shall
be and hereby are declared to be, in re-
gard to the existing contest between the
people of Cuba and the government Of
Spain, so long as that contest shall con
tinuc in operation, null and void
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
p O w . Z r.

M LYNCH has the Agency Of the .Ameri-
vi. can POwder Company and will supply
the trade at low prices for cash. dec.bo
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
New IoRK, Feb. 16.


A Byron banquet is to be given in this
city on the 9th of April next, auniyersa-
ry of Byron's final departure from Eng
land, by a large number of prominent
bankers and lawyers, who propose by
this homage to the poet to testify their
reprobation of the SANDERS hcaped upon
his memory
Dispatches state that twenty five Gu
bans have been murdered in the streets of
Havana since the funeral of Castenon
The appointment of General Jordan
IS commander in chief of the Cuban ar
mics is fully confirmed,
II is said that bankers, brokers, insu-
rance companies and business men in all
pats Of the North have sent word to
southern lawyers and business men that
they shall not take advantage of the re-
cent decision Of the Supreme Court in re-
gard to contracts and mortgages.
At term of the Supreme Court had
in Brooklyn, yesterday, by Judge Pratt,
the recent decision Of Chief Justice Chase.
holding that the principal and interest of
all contracts entered into prior to The
passage of the legal tender act of July
llth, 1862, were payable in gold, was
practically applied in the case ofJohnson
Leak to Alfred Doubleday and others.
Plaintiffs sued for the close of mort
gage Of si5, dated July lst, 1857 Pratt
gave judgment in favor Of the plaintiff,
the principal and interest to be paid in
gold or the equivalent of gold in green
backs, acting under the Supreme Court
decision above referred to.
The funeral Of Mr. Harper will take
place tomorrow at Sands street Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. Brooklyn Mr..
Harper, during his illness, made the
choice of persons who should act as pail
bearers Mt the funeral, comprising four
of the trustees Of the church and four of
the Oldest employees of Harper Il Bros.
PARIS, Feb. is.
The government has proof of a plot to
assassinate the Emperor and Prince I'm.
pcrial and has seized plan found on one
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
MEMPHIS, Feb, l6.

Capt John X. Moody, n well known
steamboatman, died of consumption last
night.
The Chamber Of Commerce this morn
ing appointed an agent to canvass Ar
kansas in the interest Of the Kansas City
Railroad,
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22
S a L r :.

lust received $50 bags Of Salt, to be sold
- cheap for cash.
dee. 80 NJ LYNCH.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

fA Nr pour paper.
The Van Buren press., 1870-02-22

The government has proof of plot to
assassinate the Emperor and Prince I'm.
pcrial and has seized plan found on one
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-21

STORM IrEM-On Tuesday afternoon, schr
Silver Moon," lying at anchor in Camden
harbor, dragged both anchors, owing to the
severity of the gale, and was driven out of the
harbor and upon the rocks. The captain, crew
and passengers of the schooner, seeing where
the vessel was going, abandoned her; but the
lighthouse tender Iris coming along, sent
her crew on board the "Silver Moon" hoisted
her anchors and brought her back into the
harbor. The crew and passengers of the schoon-
er landed on Negro Island.
There was considerable confusion in the har-
Dor yesterday afternoon, owing to the high
gale, which blew from all points of the COM
pass. A great number of coasters came in
fuking under close reefed foresails. Some of
the vessels dragged their anchors, among them
the San Carlos" which was brought to by the
tug Charles Pearson.