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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-05-13

his fiddle and the music commenced
AT first II was soft and low, aud stole
upon my eur In the sweetest strains,
Then 1t got n little louder and holder,
and then still louder, and after awhile
II lost its sweetness altOgether--nnd
finally I thought they were going to
tear their instruments to pieces. The
fellows with the horns seemed to be
trying who could blow the loudest ;
their cheeks were puffed out so that
their faces looked like the full moon,
The chap with the big fiddle gave II
thunder, and Mt one time l thought
he certainly would saw the strings In
two. He screwed and twisted his
mouth, and knit his brow, and grin
ned and cut so many antics that I
came to the conclusion that he was
beside himself. The fellows with the
little fiddles seemed to be affected In
the same way, but they did not show
off to the same advantage. The flute
players squinted and snapped their
eyes and blew with all their might,
bu. couldn't hear much of their
music, for the noise was so great that
a note from their instruments only
reached my ear now and then. AT
last they got through, and j felt
greatly relieved. They laid down
their instruments--wiped their faces
and most OF them went out OF q little
door under the stage. 500 reslJ .na8s
As soon as the music ceased, /
heard little bell ring and the cur
tain rose. l did not like the play 1T
was all blood and tragedy, and was
all romance and sentiment. The ac-
tors tore around and fiourished their
swords and foughtlike wild cats. One
was dressed In velvet, with gold trim
mings, and thought played his part
very we'll. !, / took q great fancy to
one of the ladies', because she had
hair something like Rosabelle's. The
play being concluded, she appeared
before the audience and bowed very
gracefully several times, after they
had made q tremendous noise.
thought her exceedingly pretty, and
wondered II the fellow that kissed
her 80 often during the play was
married to her. .'ri''ia..a
ss Ilikedthe farce much better. There
was some love in it. A young DASH
ing fellow ran away with pretty
girl, the daughter Of q rich old liarm-
err. He had hard work to get her,
and when they returned to get mat
tiers rcconciled, the old man, after
having some explanations, threw his
arms around her neck and kissed her,
and then they all kissed each other.
/ clapped my hands and stamped my
feet until they ached and so did every
body else. This was the last scene in
the farce, and as soon as it was ended
the curtain dropped, and the peo-
pie dispersed. I babe good night. to
my friend, the conductor, a the door
of the theatre, and found my way
without difficulty back to the hotel.
l told the proprietor that / wished to
retire, and was escorted to my room
10y the same boy who carried up my
trunk before tea. Being weary and
tired, IsOon fell to sleep, and did not
wake until long after sun up. e.,
.r.- ~ FRO BE CONTINUED $500
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-05-13
EnrN,s FLAG.
NY FATHER RYAN.

-
Unroll Erin's nag fling It's fold to the
Let Il fioat DER the land, let it flash DER the
Lift It out of the dust-let 1t wave as of
When its, chiefs with their clans stood
That never mo L--never, while God gave
And they had an arm and sword for the
That neverI- -no!-never, that Banner would
As long as tie heart of q Ceit was It's shield
While the hand Of celt had weapon to
And AS last 4 drop of blood was unshed on
Lift It g. p pe,a wave thigh It's as bright as
Not stain on Its Green, not abbot on Its
Though the woes and the wrongs of three
Have drenchod Erin's sunburst with blood
Thougl, the clouds q oppression enshroud
And around il the thunders Of Tyranny
Look aioiti look aiotl 10! theclouds drift
There's 4 gicam through, the gloom, there's
light IN the sky,
'Tisthe Sunbursl resplendant far, flashing
Erin's dark night is waning, her day dawn
Is h'sh III
N'' Gre e. nv ~ UP '''' o'u i""'''' y
The blood Of Its sons has but frightened its
y sheen; M M IN aSl ~
whati-thoush the tyrant has trampied 1T
Are IT'S H' folds not e,nblasoned with deeds OF
What -though for ages It droops in the
Shall il ifoop thus forever mo. no God
rnt,e II y nni take n nm, from the tvrant,s
Let hi H1t te .aea Tie Green tux-wo viii snatch
ma beneat,, N we,ii b,eet, MS anr. foretntb.
.rs hia,, "'SS'' '' e''
And we'll VOW by the dust In the graves Of
$50 'r.i.a,r - '''o - o "
- ""' ~S"'7 90
A,,.f we,,t s,voor hy tha blood ,vtici, t,a
-" Britton Inns shed" "' o'o'1 80 !" "''- ''''
Aud wall vn,v 10 :, x,,, ,ct, throrot,
M Erin he spTe .te fecA' "n'''' '"'o"s''
Aud vail swenr nv t,,c thors,pds xvho
Died down in the ditches-wiId howline
And w ,"r Ir yow bv our heroes whose sp,r,ts
And we'll Veil swear wen bv the bones in eac,, cot.
That w Witt sa Tsi tho pr,,on throuyn danu.
1850 or NJ .sra,J. " ''"N 'o"e" e
That we'll Tic cling to The cause which we glory
= =" ~ u,.J s w ''e o""'s ""'e" w e'o''
TIN The ~ pIe,,,,n of our stee, mud the shock
~ mr. i..,t - o"' ''o'i anu '"o 'Ao'"
Shall pr oar i To- our foe that we meant VIA,
Tint WE ws' S'I' n nm ,hot;,es, nm, Ion
T''N' ,Io,,,, ti,a 80 ' W ''t'~''
Is uo~i' ''e i'e'' ~ 81
riy ~, H.. f.rao,, a., al, a, .,,.
:" bo me- "'eei mug On ""ah'S 10 70
p,,u inu a., -.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-05-13

THE bottom Of the North Atlantic
Ocean, says Professor Huxley, Is one
of the widest and most even plains
In the world. II the sea were driven
of, wagon might he driven all
the way, from Valentia, on the
west coast of ireland, TO Trinity Bay,
in New Foundland. From Valentia
the road would lie down hill for about
200 miles, to the point at which the
bottom Is now covered by 100 faith
Oms OF seawater. Then would come
the central plain, more than a thous-
and miles wide, the inequalities oi
the surface of which would be hard y
perceptible, though the depth of wa
ter upon IL now varies from 10000 to
$1,000 feet. s ne r
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-05-13

THE GAINESVILLE CHKoNrcrE, now
in its forty-second volume, Jays its
regular visits to our sanctum. } and Is u
good paper. The local editot, In his
last issue, complains of 4" suffering :
for q Whole week with the ext rucIat-
Ing pains OF neuralgia" and would
lead one to infer he wished ID, make
an apology for the sparcity or luality
OF his columns. None needed sir; e
was much better paper thin the
week previous. Send Ii al0nas aud
quit your (" neuralgia. "--Spiri! Of the
Aac.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-05-13

THE fences OF the United States
cost more than the houses, cities in-
cluded more than the ships, vesselr
and boats of every description which
sail on the ocean, lakes and rivers;
more than our manufactories,w with all
their machinery, and more than any
one class OF property, real estate ex-
cepted. Those of New York are put
down ut Sl44, 100000; those OF Ohio
at 1000, 900, and Pennsylvania ut
$3.50, 900, 900. At this rate the money
invested In fences IL more than the
national debt. As fences require tn
be renewed, on an average, once in
ten years, the annual cost IN the
country Is not far short Of seOo, Co.,
900. aai ein
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-05-13

/ put the violet back into the note,
and the note with the other things
info the box--folded the wrapper
around it, and placed it again in my
bosom. | crossed my arms and sat
up very straight and commenced
whistlfng Yankee Doodle to keep up
my spirits. 2 sfsas'fs
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-05-13
ROSABELLE.
A Story OF the Heart.

Many dreary years havepassed away
since first saw Rosabelle. | was
living in a mountain home-one that
was dear TO me then. How often
memory carries me back To those de-
lightful days how often | have
thought Of them, when buried in the
solitude which surrounds me, in my
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-05-13

APPLES AND THE BLoOD.--The
eating Of fruit, and especially apples,
has tendency to purify the blood.
If n person VINO IL troubled with scrof-
uious humors eats freely Of good, ripe
fruit, after long abstinence from the
same, he will be likely 10 be troubled
with u" breaking out" the fruit will
drive the humor from the system,
causing II To pass on through the skin
10y means Of postu!es.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-05-13

The Mayfield, KY, Democrat says
that q gentleman living In that vi
entity recently shipped q hoeshead
of tobacco to Paducah, for sals, and
shortly afterreceived account otsales.
The freight, storage, drayage COM
missions, ETC., deducted, left him the
entire sum Of of sixty-five ceilts for
his years labor. rs
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-05-13

THE Chicago Post thus cl,uckIcs
'"rhe amnesty bill Is def ated In
Washington. Now let the Sc nth give
some pledge Of good behavior, and
the measure will pass next fyinter.''
The South has been giving pledges
ever since 1895, md keeping them.
The radical party has been doing the
same thing, and breaking them. -
That's what's the matter" sW. Louis
Times.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12
PROssER CoNrEsTs.

Col. w. f. Prosser, caused notice to be
served upon E. l. Golladay yesterday
that he shall contest his right to seat in
the House of representatives. in the
forty second Congress. The grounds for
this contest are stated to be that there
was no valid election held; that there
was system of terrorism and iutimida-
ton practiced upon and against the negro
voters and most of the white Radical
voters of the district, so thorough and
effective that they were afraid to go to
the polls, and were thus virtually dis
1rauchised, and therefore the election was
not fair expression of the popular will !;
that the laws of the State require that the
elections should be held by the Commits
sloners of Registration, who should also
register the qualified voters; and that the
great majority of the votes for Golladay
were cast by persons not qualiiedto vote.
Frosser thus attacks the action os the peo-
pie in calling convention, and the acts
OF that convention. In other words, he
holds that the present government of the
State is bogus. Col. Prosser has hereto
fore professed to be q fair man, but he
shows that he possesses all the instincts
OF the csrpet-bagger. He clutches at
Office with a death-grip, even after an
appeal TO the people, has been decided
against Hmm. He made the impression
during the canvass that be would abide
the verdict of the people at the ballot.
box, but true to his Radical instincts, he
will do no such thing, now that the re-
suit is against him. Whenever Radical
gets beat in a contest before the people,
he appeals to Congress to give him the
seat TO which he was not elected, but we
are at loss to know how Col. Prosser
could ask Congress to perpetrate so gross
an outrage upon the people among whom
he has taken up his residence, as to dis
franchise them by giving him the seat to
which they elected Col. Gollsday.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12
RADICAL USURPATIONIN FLO
DA AND GEORGIA.

If in the organization of the Legislature
of any Southern State, the Democrats had
for the purpose of giving them control of
such Legislature, arbitrarily assumed au-
thority to organize such body and to dis
franchise whole counties, as was done by
the Radicals in Florida, Congress would
hardly have hesitated q day TO reconstruct
that State, nor would Grant have waited
an instant TO sign the BIZ. The Radicals
arc specially fastidious about the purity
of the ballot. They are SO anxious that
no perniciOus Democrat shall approach
the polls, that they surround the ballot
box in the Southern States with hired
rufIians, and forcibly prevent legal voters
from exercising the night Of suffrage.
When this expedient cannot be convent
emily adopted, the canvassers, appointed
by carpei-bag inflencc, declare the Radi-
cal candidates elected, and refuse to count
the votes or examine the returns. This
was the way the thing was done in
Florida at the late election, and the
people, who gave the Democratic
ticket majority, were defrauded
of their rights. \ majority of
the canvasserF, one of whom was a negro
Secretary Of State, and another the
Deputy Federal Marshal and Attorney
General, arbitrarily ovcrrode the law and
declared the Radical State ticket elected.
Col. Gamble, one of the Board, and State
Comptroller, refused to sign the report
and protested against the whole proceed
ing The Radicals secured their triumph
by throwing out nine counties that gave a
large Democratic majority, and if the
votes had been counted, the Radicals
would have been defeated. An iniunc-
ton was sued ont, but the Radicals disre-
garded it, and arrested the Judge who
granted it, on the pretense that he had
violated the enforcement law. Thus the
State Judiciary, the last protection of its
rights, property and liberty, received q IA
tai stab. But they were not content with
arresting the Judge, for charges were
Matched up against several Democratic
members of the Legislature, who were ar
rested ard taken off to Jacksonville so
they could not participate in the organ
izalion of that body. Since then the
indictment against Judge White was
quashed by the Judge of the United States
Court, there being not even a pretext
upon which to found an indictment. BY
Illegally throwing out these nine counties,
the Radical leaders secured two results:
First, they proclaimed their State ticket
elected; and, secondly, granted certificates
to a majority of the Radical members Of
the Legislature. The exclusion of nine
counties gave them control of the lower
House. And this is one of the ways in
which the Radicals, when they have the
power, secure to the people ''repubi
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12

The BANNER pronounces the Radical
amendments 10 the Constitution Of the
United States dead issues and finds
fault with this paper for showing that
they were never legally ratified. In ITS
zeal TO make it appear that these amend
ments are irrevoCaby fixed upon us, and
therefore "dead issuCs"-not for the pur-
pose of propitiating favor with the Dem
ocrsts, certainly-it ingores the fact that
thousands among the best citizen of Ten
nessee who have been indicted for hold
ing State and county offices in violation
of one of these amendments, will insist
in their justification and defense that the
amendment, while II has never been
legally ratified, is &c post faCt0, and
therefore repugnant to the Constitution
which il assumes 10 amend. There are
thousands not only in this State, but in
every other Southern State, who are pray
ing the Supreme Court Of the United
States to give the fourteenth amendment
its quietus, hut that has not yet been
done.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12
GRANT NEW ROLE.

The New York Nation, one of the
ablest and most respectable of the Radi-
cal journals in the country, gives cur
rency to 3 story that Grants opposition
to Mr.. Motley originally arose from the
fact that the latter parts his hair in the
middle. How true tlis may be, rests
with Grant and his conscience. AS soci-
ETY. is at present constituted, Mr.. Motley
cannot, unfortunately, demand any re-
dress for this sighting conduct of the
President. The story may he true, for
prejudices are not only very silly, says
the New York Express, but go great
ways. We read how Alexander the
Great caused his army TO be closely sha
ven, on his fancy that a long beard gave
the enemy an advantage, by catching
hold of it and then chOpping off the head
of the wearer. The North American In
dams shave their heads with the exception
of one long tuft of hair at the top, called
the ''chivalrous lock, which gives a sue
cessful opponent hold with which TO
take the scalp CT the man he has over
come. Peter the Great prescribed boards
in his kingdom. When Louis VII, of
France, allowed his locks TO grow long,
his wife Eleanor regarded it IS weak and
elfemnate, which led her into marital
faithlessness, and this in turn to divorce.
Then she married Henry IL, of England,
and bringing him the provinces of Gwinne
and Potion, gave England that foOthold
in France which was afterward so great a
bore of contention. The Close-cut head
and long Curls intensified the war of the
Roundheads and Cavaliers. Since Sam
son and Delilah, the church has hsd some
about the hair. Old Bap-
fists and Methodists regard q moustache
or masculine hair parted in the middle as
an evidence of the devils work. Let US,
therefore, be lenient to one who forgets
taste, literature and friends to dismiss an
for wearing his hair in the
middle.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12
THE Washington Patriot Gays

s'There is considerable canvaSsing, and
not a little excitement, in the House of
Representatives over the offices to be
filed in the House by the rext Congress,
and numerous candidates are named for
the several positions. Representative
Stokes, of Tennessee, is said 10 be can
didate for Sergeant alarms, and it IS
understood that he is trying to make CAPT
tai by proclsiming that his life would be
in danger if he should return to Tennes-
see. OF course this is all bOsh, but it is
q convenient means of argument, and will
do well with the Radicals of the House,
perhaps"
1t is the worst sort Of bosh. So far as
his Democratic constituents are con-
cerned, Col. Stokes would be equally as
safe at his home as at Washington.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12

LAW REFORM seems TO be the oIder
with some of the Northwestern States.
In Michigan, grand juries have been
abolished. The law provides that the
District Attorney shall present all crimes
for trial by Indictment and that no in
formation shall be presented, except in
cases which have been first examined by
Justices of the Peace. Should the District
Attorney decline TO draw an information,
he is directed 10 report the case with the
evidence to the Circuit Judge. The law
further provides for an arrangement before
the County Judge, 80 that if the defendant
should plead guilty, he msy at once be
sentenced, and not be compelled TO lie in
iall awaiting the session of the Circuit
Court. A bill has been introduced in the
Wisconsin Legislature TO enact q similar
law for that State.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12

can form of government. One of the
pretenses under which the Radicals fast
ened many bad laws upon the Southern
States, was the idea of securing to the
people of these States Ga republican form
OF government" We have Just shown
how they managed the thing in Florida.
1t is entirely safe to say that such
things could not be done by
Democrats with impunity. We have evil
dence of this fact in the history of Geor-
gia. The Radical convention which
framed the constitution of that State, in
serted a clause in that instrument which
rendered the negro ineligible to hold Of
ice. In accordance with this provision
OF the Radical constitution, the negro
members of the Legislature of Georgia
were unseated, and white men were elect
ed to fill their seats. This gave the Dem
ocrats majority of the Legislature. The
Radicals appealed to Congress to give
them the control of the State again, and
that body passed a law, and Grant ap-
proved it, requiring the expelled negro
members to be reseatcd in order that the
Radicals might regain their majority.
The Radicals in Georgia and in Congress
were afraidto appeal to the people in new
election, for they feared the Democrats
would carry the Legislature by an over
whelming majority, as they subsequently
did. We thus see that there is no rule
nor law by which the Radicals will DO
governed in their efforts to control the
South. There cannot be a doubt but
that the late high-handed usurpstion in
Florida would have met with q swift re-
buke had it been perpetrated by the DEM
ocrats, yet il is winked at and justified
by Grant and the Radical authorities at
Washington, because it gives the Radi-
Gals control of a Southern State.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12

THE Knoxville Wing and Register
says: In the Federal Court, on Thurs
day, the jury rendered a verdict of 81, SOC
damages in the celebrated preacher,
whipping case, in which Rev. Jacob
Smith, a minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, was most bru-
tally, cruelty and outragaously whipped
in Blount county, in 1869. This was one
of the most damnable outrages that has
ever blackened with iufamy the fair name
of our State, or disgraced the civilization
of the present age. There is no language
with which it can be tittinely stigmatized,
no excuse that can be rendered for such
Infamous conduct. A fine is small
punishment for such an outrage.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12

The usual statement from the New
York Mercantile Agency of the number
of failures and amount of liabilities re
ported during the past year, shows an in
crease of 20 per cent. in failures, as COM
pared with 1869, and thirty-three per
cent, as compared with 1868. In 1869
the number of failures were 2,7S9, and
the amount of liabilities So, O54OOO. In
1870 the failures were 3,55l, and the
amount Of liabilities SIS, 243, 900.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12

The st. Louis WeStliche Post, Grad
ical, the leading German paper in Mis-
souri,, is of the opinion that the recon-
struction hobby has been rode quite long
enough. 1t would be hard to convert the
carpet-baggers and scalawags of theSouth,
who have been cleft out in the cold' in
the late elections, to this idea.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12

TIE Democratic State Central Com
mittee of Michigan have called a State
Convention, to meet in Lansing, on the
2lst of February, to nominate candidates
for the offices of Justice of the Supreme
Court, and two regents of the University.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12

BEN BUTLER squints very stron ely to-
ward female suffrage, and Mrs. Victoria
e. Woodruff pats him on the back, and
says all manner of complimentary things
to him. The Providence Herald wonders
if Mrs. Woodruff thinks Buffers famous
New Orleans order was calculated to eel
evate the standard of womsnhOod2'
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12

The Banner would very likely "-7e
pronounced the legal tender act 'dead
issue, but there were some people simple
enough to think otherwise, and strange as
it may appear, they finally iriumphed be,
fore the court of last resort.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-12

A WASHINGTON dispatch to the CIncin-
natl Gazette says: "Senator Morton Is
i'll and confined te his room, partly on
account of his apprehensions as :" the
San Domingo Commission"