The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-28

Col. PEEBLEs, candidate for the State
Senate i'm the 18th Senatorial district,
made a ishort speech in this place last
Monday. He said it had been charged
that he was an ANDY JOHNSON man u
in favor Of declaring null the election OF
Senator HENRY COOPER. 1t was true
that i'm the late contest in the Tennessee
Legislature for United States Senator,
he did express a preference for h <
President over Mr.. ETHERlDGR. An
DREW JOHNSON did things during the
war re~prehensible in the highest degree
but after the wal circumstances placed
him where he did great service to the
South and { O constitutional liberty, and
he thought 1t would advance the inter-
ests of the whole country to send the
courageous and able Ex>President to
the United States Senate. Col. p. added
that he might have been mistaken in
this opinion, and on several occasions
since the election, when reconstruction
was imminent, he thought he had been
mistaken. At any rate he condemned
the course Of Mr.. JOHNSON in sowing
seeds Of discord in the Democratic ranks
after the State Convention, Is well as the
general tone of his Gallstin speech.0
1t had been circulated in Columbia
that he had been ignominiously expell>
ed from the Spring Hill School, for
fraudulent use of the school fund: Col
PEBBLES said that last summer there
was a difference of opinion between the
Trustees of the Spring Hill Academy
and himself in reference to the price of
| tuition, but it was finally settled by a
reduction of prices. He commenced
teaching in August, a month earlier
than other schools. Several weeks after
the school commenced, he was urged by
| his neighbors and friends over the coun-
| ty to run for the State Senate. Finally
no consented to run, fully believing that
it would not be necessary to canvass the
| district, after the action of the COnyen-
| ton, so great was the democratic ma
jority. Capt. .PLUMNER, however, be-
| came an independent candidate, and
he found that this duty to his party
and his friends demanded that he should
make a Some dissatisfaction
| ensued in the school, and he concluded
| to adjourn ibis school till after the
electionI The election was just one
| month off, and as he commenced his
| school one month earlier than the usual
| custom, nothing would be lest. The
Board had, he learned, elected a teacher
to fill out the unexpired term of the
session, and he was very glad they had
done so, as it relieved him of a severe
conflict of a choice between duties.
In regard to the street charge that hi
was guilty of embezzling the Spring Hill
School Fund, Col. PREBLEs simply read
acard from Major N. F. CHEAIRs:
MAJOR n. F.. CHEAIRs' CARD.
1 was Chairman of the Board OF Trus
tees of the Spring Hill Male Academy
when it met for the purpose of selecting
a Teacher to fill out the unexpired tern
of Col. PEBBLES school and am therefOr'
prepared to say that the charge, thai
he was ANONYMOUSLY expelled from
the Academy for embezzling the SchoO
Fund ofthe Academy" is totally false
There eve has been q dollar Of Schoo
Fund belonging to the Academy. n,
man stands higher for honor and integ
rity than Col. PEBBLES, and in the vii
lage and civil district where he lives
there was not a dissenting voice in thu
meeting that first nominated him for th,
State Senate. n. F. CHEAIRs.
Spring Hill, Oct. oath, 1870.