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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31
AWFUL AFFAIR.

Jas. W. Morris and Ben. B. Morris worked
with me last year, ON my farm in district
No. 3 of this county, and after selling the
tobacco, which was raised on shares, gave
the money to their older brother, Tbos. j.
Morris. who refused to give me my portion
of it. On my asking for my money, they
cursed me, knocked me down and stamped
me, and then threw a large rock ON my
head and tried to murder me. They asked
me what wanted with the money. l told
them / wanted to pay my debts. They said
damn my debts: they were going to keep
the money and pay their debts. Their
mother told them TO hold on to the mon
ey, they could fix me up that night. Tom
told her to come and go with him to Jep:
Morris and they 1.-THE boys would kill me
before day. They carried their mother OF,
and came back that night. l had fastened
the door of my room and they could not
getin. but stayed there some time. shooting
and trying to get in. They did not succeed.
left home next morning because Thought
they would murder me II stayed there.
had raised these boys, educated tnem.
and done all could for them, and TINS is
the return they make me for All the KIND
ness have shown them. They are my
step children, and had raised them IRON
small children, and / want the world 10
know what they have done TO me:
ROBERT c. HARDING.
May 81, l673-4v.S rtl- - -
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31
Gen. ID. III. Hilrs Comments on the
Death of Gen. Candy.
From the Charlotte IN c. Home.

From the Charlotte IN CO. Home.
At the outbreak of the war in 1861
he deserted his own section and took
his lot with its enemies. He seems
to have won rank and reputation in
the Federal service, and was one of
the six Brigadiers appointed in the
regular army, on the peace establish
ment. He was given command of the
Department of the Carolinas; and ear
ried out ruthlessly all the cruel
measures of remorseless Congress-
The war against his own land and peo-
pie seemed to have destroyed all his
noble qualities, and to have transform
ed him into the usual type of the rem
egade. A citizen at Charlotte was
present in Richmond when Gen. Can
by personally superintendent thehang-
ing of a white man up by the thumbs
for kicking an insolent negro out of
his saloon.
Jim Lane cut his own throat STAN
ton most likely committed suicide.
King drowned himself. One by one
the Oppressors of the South come to an
ultimately end. Some of the most
atrocious are now covered with the in
fanny worse than death. Is it accident
or is it retribution?
The history Of renegades is getting
to be instructive. Mr.. Lincoln de-
stroyed his own people, violated his
conscience, and stultifed his oft-ex-
pressed opinions. He was foully and
atrociously murdered. Gen. Thomas
pledged himself in Lynchburg at the
outbreak of the war to stand by his
neighbors and kindred. Seduced by
Office he fought against them. AT the
close of his brilliant military career,
popinjay was put over him and he
dropped dead in San Francisco. Old
Brownlow was the strongest pro-slave-
ry man in the South. But he cast his
lot with the Abolitionist and persecu-
ted his own people. He is now a par
alytic and almost a driveling idiot.
Professsr Mahaonwas an ardent South
erner and could hardly find language
wherewith to express hisabhorrence of
the disunion Abolition party during
the war, and became very bitteragainst
his own section. He was superseded,
when his work was done and threw
himself in the Hudson in the madness
of his despair. Who would not rather
be a crippled Confederate soldier,
munching a crust of bread, than poor
Longstreet, the pet of Grant and the
idol of Louisiana thieves?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

THE dissatisfaction which is mani
tested with regard to some of the acts
of the last Legislature, is causing many
to demand some mode of reform that
may secure to the people better repre-
sentatives and fewer and wiser laws
The people have the winning cards in
Their own hands and if they will not
play them, let them put up with what
they lose. We would suggest however
as a partial remedy for the evil COM
planned of, that the Legislature meet
once in four years instead of two, and
that the pay be doubled. Thisincreas-
ed compensation may bring out more
competent men, and in four years, the
people may learn something of the
laws before they are repealed.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

GRANT, fearing that the villainy of
his administration may arouse some of
his devoted slaves to sense of danger,
and thus peril the success of his eff
forts for third term, is taking steps
for a war with Mexico as diversion OF
popular mind from a too close scruti-
ny into his lawless and corrupt abuse
of power. The ruse may be success
full, for hatred of the South has SO
long made their own burdens light,
that the people of the North may ac-
cept any amount of addition to the
public debt and official corruption and
usurpation, rather than depose the
scourge of the South and curse of the
wholecountry.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

THE French seem to have learned,
like this people, to accept, without ex-
element, movements in favor of mon
archy. Such we conceive to be the
tendency of the substitution of Nc
Mahon for Theirs, as President of the
nominal Republic. Perhaps France
has learned what a republic means-as
illustrated hereandis quietly and grace
fully receding from dangerously false
step. All the people of Europe should
learn from the signal failure of oul
experiment, the worthlessness of re.
publics, as security for. life, liberty
and property, and be warned in time
against revolutions, costly in blood and
treasure, in pursuit of the phantom o.
liberty, only to realize despotism I'm.
der a new name.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

WE clip the following from the Bos-
ton Transcript A curious fact show
ing the unreliability of circumstantial
evidence, has just come to light in
connection with the case of Dennehy,
who was recently tried and sentenced
at Providence for killing a man named
Favor. Much stress was laid ON the
fact that the officers found on the pris-
oner a white-handled, two-bladed
knife, which was positively identified,
by several witnesses, as one belonging
to the murdered man, but which Den
nehy stoutly asserted was his own.
Since the trial it has been discovered
that some of the employees of the IN
dertaker took the murdered man S
knife from his pocket and laid it away,
where it was forgotten until aceidently
discovered.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31
Sustain Coed Newspapers.

We commend to our readers the fol-
lowing good item, which we clip from
one of our exchanges, in reference to
the hard workers on the reputable
and useful journals of the day;
They publish good newspapers, and
they strain ever nerve to do this, but
the populace do not consider this, nor
the fact the newspapers are fair in
dex of their own intelligence and en-
terprise Some papers are put to all
sorts of expedients to get along, when
there are scores of influential men who
do nothing to sustain them. They
might speak a good word for them,
get their friends to subscribe for them,
sustain them with their advertising
patronage, and thus remunerate the
hard working newspaper men. Every
citizen ought to be animated by suf-
ficient pride, if for no other motive,
to sustain good newspapers, and thus
see them worthy representatives of the
people.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31
Who Can Explain2

The creeping" of railroad rails has
attracted some attention of late, and
while we do not attempt to explain 1T,
we offer point on the fact that, on
lines running north and south, the
western rail "creeps" faster than the
eastern rail that is, this strange
movement of the rail toward the south
is more marked in one rail than in the
other on the same track. Further
more, it has been noticed that on such
line the eastern rail wears out the
fastest Both of these points, we think,
can be explained by the motion of the
earth as it turns from the west toward
the east. Everything that has free mo-
ton is dragged after the whirligig.globe;
every wind that blows, and every tide
that moves, feels the influence, and
our train'going north or south is pulled
over toward the east, and naturally
presses the eastern rail most heavily.
The western rail, being relieved of its
share of weight, ''creeps" more freely
and quickly. 1t is also noticed that
the wheels that run on the eastern rail
wear out the first, and we can but think
that this earth motion is the true cause.
The practical side of this is, that the
eastern rail and wheels should be stron-
ger.-ScientJfc american.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31
HopKINsyILLf NEW Era %

HoPKINsvILLE NEW ERA, %: "a
distressing accident occurred at the
depot in this city on last Mondayeven-
ing. Grant West, a son of Mr.. Henry
West, who lives about two miles from
this city, was run over and killed by
an engine under the charge of Vim.
Standfeld as an engineer. 1t appears
that the engine and tender were back
ing from one of the side tracks, and
just as the tender reached the main
track opposite Linden & Edmund s
mill, the little fellow got on a narrow
piece of timber connected with the
brake at the rear of the tender to ride.
The jostling occasioned by passing over
the switch caused him to lose his
footing and he fell on the track at the
crossing of Hickory street, and was
dragged about thirty feet before the
engine passed over his body. A son
of Mr.. j. f. Wilson, who was present,
gave the alarm, but life was extinct
before any one reached the body"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

A dispatch from Mobile gives the
following concerning matter already
alluded to in these columns:
Brigadier General W. N. Pendleton,
late Chief of Artillery Of the Confed-
crate Army of Northern Virginia, and
now pastor of the Episcopal church at
Lexington, is on a lecturing tour
throughout the South for the purpose
of raising funds to build q tomb to the
memory of General R. E. Lee. He has
spoken in nearly all the principal cities
South, but General Pendleton eclipsed
his former lectures by making most
astounding charge of treachery against
Longstreet.
In his lecture delivered in this city
| for the Lee memorial fund, Pendleton
solemnly arraigned General James
Longstreet, that tireless fighter and
proven hard hitter, and to his delay
attributed the lost opportunity at Get
| tysburg. The lecturer said that, to his
personal knowledge derived from Lees
own lips, Longstreet had the night be-
fore the battle, received from General
Lee in person orders to advance at the
dawn of the next morning that ht
| General Pendleton) had made re-
connoisance in person, and declared tC
General Lee the perfect practibility Of
immediate assault upon the then un
prepared enemy; how he had waited
impatiently till IL o. clock how Long
street at that hour rode up to his sid,
and sat upon his horse useless and in
active, until 4 o'clock p. NJ; then wheI
the head of his column did go in, his
soldiers were futile against the nov
massed and concentrated enemy ant
still Roberto. Lee General Pendle
ton said) refused to lay the blame upol
the shoulders of the man who hat
fought so often and SO well for him.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

THE following extract taken from a
correspondence to the New York OBJ
server, from WATERFOWL, N. Y, will
be of interest to the many admirers of
Mr.. Earle in this city and vicinity:
"On the 10Th of April, the Evangel-
list, Rev. A. B. Earle, commenced a
union meeting in the Baptist and First
Presterian churches, and the work of
the Lord eliminated under his labors.
He preached twenty-five sermons, the
interest rising to the close. During
the last three days places of business
were closed from 3 to 5 P. NJ, and
the largest church in the city was
crowded until the people could not
get in. Mr.. Earle is Baptist but his
catholicity and orthodoxy are beyond
question, while his spiritual power
seems truly apostolic. He avoids all
exciting addresses, appeals only to the
Judgment and common sense of the
people, and relies solely on the truth
and Spirit of God"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

WEpublish to-day, for filling, Grant S
Louisiana proclamation which is char
teristic of his despOtism and stupidity
The law requires that the proclama-
ton shall precede the resort to force;
Grant strikes first and then proclaims.
Besides he lies deliberately, when he
says Congress gravely considered the
subject and tacitly conceded the legal
ity of the kellogg usurpation. He
knew that Congress carefully evaded
the subject because it involved danger
to Radical harmony, and at the same
time, that body, as well as himself
cared not a straw, what became OF
Louisiana.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31
TENNESSEE NEWS.


The West Tennessee Democrat re-
ports counterfeit $50 bills in circula-
ton in Weakly county.
A boy and girl living ON Lick creek,
in Green county, were killed by light
ming few days ago.
The Greeuville New Era reports the
finding of another lead mine In the
northern part of Green county.
A colored man, Tobias Cain, and
his step-son, boy about Is years OF
age, named George, gotinto difficulty
at their home near Russellville last
week, in which Tobias was shot and
killed. The son has been arrested
and placed in Jail.
jackson Wing and Tribune: "A
venerable and provident hen calls reg
ularly every day and makes deposit
in the Bank of Madison. She comes
in quietly, transacts her business and
retires without vainglory. White in
variably places her deposits where they
will do the most good"
Saturday night last party of dis
guised men visited house in the
neighborhood of Winters Gap, in
Roane county, on the hunt of a man
by the name of Bludford Braden, and
after finding him, took him out and
gave him an unmerciful pounding, III
the most approved Kuklux style.
The Nashville Union and American
says of the Confederate burial ground
at Mount Olivet Heretofore the f.
nancial condition of the association re-
quired the asking of contributions Of
visitors, but through the iberality OF
few individuals the balance of the
debt of the ground and the removal of
the bodies has In the last few days
been paid, leaving the association free
from any pecuniary obligations, and
now there will be no contributions
asked"
Dyersburg Progress: I'VE under
stand that it is the intention of the st.
Louis and Iron Mountain Company to
extend its road South, crossing the
Mississippi at Point Pleasant, Mo-,
thence to this place, and on to jack
son, Tenn. We think this highly
plausible from the fact that the Missis-
sippi Central road is being extended
from Jackson to Cairo, and that the
Mobile and Ohio intends making Cairo
its terminus, thereby cutting off all
connection South for the Iron Noun
tain road. The latter road must have
a connecting link South in order to
compete with the Illinois Central,
which will have two Southern outlets
at Cairo"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

IT is true that farmers were once,
the most independent of all the indus
trial classes. But it ceased to be true
when, ignorant of their power and in
different TO their best interests, they
suffered themselves to be made the
tools of demagogues and the victims
of monopolies. Awakened at last, to
a sense of their wrongs and humilia-
ton, they are rapidly combining for
self-preservatiOn and with a seeming
determination to break down the
dangerous monoplies which have
bought the government and are run
ming all its machinery in the interest of
centralized capital. We trust they
will succeed but fear defeat for two
reasons: One is that they have deferred
action perhaps, too long-the' other
that too many of them have long been
the jealous partizans of the faction
whose policy and interest it has been,
to build up and sustain those monopo-
lies against which producers are waging
war. Political sympathy, such as has
given success to Radicalism, is not
lightly shaken of, and may be pro-
ductive of lukewarmness, if not of
treachery in the hour of greatest need.
We have lost much of our faith in
mans integrity and, therefore, fear the
power of money and of those who WELD
it to buy those even whom the people
have most trusted.
No sooner was the Convention at St.
Louisassembledthan Tom Scott enticed
Its members off to Texas, paying
their expenses, plying them with
whiskey and perhaps greasing their
palms-all paid by railroad capital,
but to be repaid, with interest,
by the farmers in the shape of the in
creased prices Of transportation.
The same sort of influence will be
brought to bear upon any and every
agencywhich the farmers mayrelyupon
for working out the glorious results at
which they aim. Judges. legislators,
commissioners and committees have
been bought by monopolies, and will be
again. But these facts should rather
strengthen than shake the resolve of
the producers to crush the ruinous
power of capital for the control ofgov-
eminent and the ruin of the people.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

VIRGINIA Cry, New, May PA
telegram from the deputy sheriff OF
Elko county, sent to investigate the
reports of Indian troubles at Spruce
Mountains, reports a large number OF
Snakes and Shoshones are holding a
council at Deep Creek, in the vicinity
of Spruce Mountains. The redskins
have all disappeared from around the
settlements in that section. Herders
in charge of Government cattle near
the scene of troubles have been mott
fed by the Indians to leave the coun-
try Immediately on penalty of being
killed. The settlers near Spruce
Mountains are securingall the arms and
ammunition passi ble.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

TWELVE iron enterprises are in OPP
Grafton or projected in Rome, Georgia.
Five of these are in operation, yielding
forty tons per day. All of them will
be in operation within six months, and
the probable yield will be 120 tons per
day, or over two millions of dollars per
year in the value of the products and
giving employment to over thousand
men. At the present rate the net
profit from these twelve furnaces will
not be less than one million of dollars
Der annum.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

KELLOGG must be very conscious OF
his blood outlines when he resorts to
the trick of sending negro voters to
the North, at the expense of Louisiana,
with the hope of bolstering up his in
fanny The negroes of the North, will
swear, now, that Kellogg is right, but
the whites of that section-the decent
ones at least, would prefer different
class of instructors. We will say how
ever, to allwhom it may concern in the
North, that there will not be one among
the negroes sent to enlighten the North,
who is not more of a gentleman than
Kellogg.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31


The Tribune, Of Wednesday, has a
most admirable editorial article in de-
nunciation ofthe spirit that appears
to actuate the Grand Army of the
Republic" in its warfare upon the
Confederate graves. 1t says:
OF course we discover in thisdemon-
stration of indignation at the proposed
Insult" the evidence of profound pa
triotism and earnest loyalty. We
should, perhaps, be thankful in such
times as these for the nice sense OF
honor, the exquisitely sensitive love Of
country, the reverent patriotism, the
constancy of devotion to the Union
and the undying hostility to its dead
and buried enemies, of which we have
here such tokens. For it must be
confessed that many things of late have
made us skeptical of any such keen
ness of susceptibility. For in reality
when we sell our seats in the Senate
and our Senators themselves are
bought and sold, when our Judges
haunt the lobbies of Congress to In
fluence legislation for pay, when elec-
tions are carried by fraud and the per-
petrators of fraud are protected by
Executive pardon, when we peddle
out our honor and trade upon our dig.
nifty in the face of all the world, when
We are scandalized in all departments
by venality, corruption and incompe.
tency, we should perhaps welcome any.
thing that seems an honestburst Of
indignation for whatever cause that
has in 1t something akin to pride Of
land or race.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

THE GAINESVILLE Chronicle has Johnson
on the brain. What pity our contempt
rary has not some of Johnson's brain"
Franklin RerieW and Journal.
1t needs none of Johnson's brains to
make any man an honest patriot. But
judging from the above paragraph, We
have no fears that our contemporary
will ever be afflicted with johnson
on the brain" however much he may
suffer from j Johnson on the conscience
We covet no mans brain, however
large, that feels not the promptings Of
an honest heart. 1t is the want of the
latter that makes demagogues of men
otherwise qualified to become great
benefactors. tits not want of brains, but
of honest patriotic hearts, that is the
curse of Four country. We shall be sorry
to believe that our contemporary takes
different view of the subject.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

New ORLEANS, May 26.-Gens. De.
Blanc, DeClout and others from st
Martin, were to-day tried before the
United States Commissioner. There
being no evidence to sustain the char
ges against them, theywere discharged
Residences Nos. As and As, Prey
fare street, are burned. Loss 10000
Kellogg's Attorney General this
morning, in the First District Court
filed on information against NJ. M. Co
hen and G. r. Railey, jointly charged
with attempting to murder w. P. Kel-
logg, the assassination case. The par
ties were bailed in the sum S. ,000
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

SAN Francisco, May 24.-The set
tiers in Surprise Valley are alarmed at
the fact that the chief of the Winnie
mueeas has gone north on the war
path with sixty warriors. He was fol-
lowed by cavalry and asked where he
was going. He told the officers to
mind their own business. If they
wanted to fight he was ready. He was
warned to behave himself and went on.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

THE Congressional eXcursiOnistS,
into the South have had a jolly time of
it. and promise great things in the in
terest of cheap transportation for the
valley of the Mississippi. We accept
the promise, as made in good faith m
der the influence Of good cheer and in
the absence of the party check-rain /;
but promises made in New Orleans, to
he reeonsidered in Washington, under
the lash of party discipline, are OF
mare than doubtful fulfllment.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

IT is rumored that the infamous
judge-Durell-is about to resign. We
know not which is the greater disgrace
to the government, his retention in of
fee, or his being permitted to retire
from it, by resignation. He is recon-
mended for foreign mission. We
care little whatever befall fate him, but
think there are already too many repre-
sentative scoundrels abroad for the
honor of the country.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31
fADvERTIsEMENT.]

EDITORS CHRONICLE, ClarksyilIe,
Tenn: Will you please publish the
enclosed letter, which the editors of
the Tobacco Leaf, not only refused to
publish, but gave an editorial explana-
ton, to make other unkind illusions,
such as he (editor) knows nothing
of him, or his (Massey's) character,
and I'VE can't see that there is any
reflection in it any way
W. l.. VOOLFOLK.
Keysbury, KY, May q, 1873.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31

We are under obligations to our old
friend, Mattill, for treat to that re-
freshing luxury, Ice Cream, which he
knows so well how to prepare. He
has a very nice saloon fitted up in the
rear of his confectionery, where he
keeps this delicacy on hand at all
times.