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Connecticut western news., 1873-09-12
Rebuilding the Column Yendome.

The London Builder gives the first definite information as to the progress and difficulties of the work of recon structing the column Vendome at Paris. It appears that the masonry work is only just begun. There are more diff culties in the way of this part of the undertaking than most uninitiated out siders imagine. It is imagined that the foundation and pedestal base can be built like an ordinary wall. That is impossible. From motives of economy it is intended to utilize the stonework of the old column-at least all those portions of it which have not been ex- cessively attenuated or defermed by the demolition. Two thirds of the ma terials can be so used the remainder of the work will have to be executed as at the first erection of the column. But even among the two-thirds judged ser viceable there are only two steps abso- lutely intact. The others require to be repaired, and will be replaced or re- jointed by means of cement in the Place Vendome itself. But this repara- tion is not the most difficult operation. The interior of the column Is formed by huge square blocks of stone, pierced at intervals with large holes, into which are soldered cramp-irons that hook the outer bronze plates by species of horseshoe eyelet attached to the inmost surface of the plates in the foundry. The problem to be solved now is one fact that requires the incest precision. The completed column will be sur mounted not by the little legged Caesar, placed there in 1s64-65, but the old statute, relegated to Courbevoie, of the Emperor in gray redingote and jack boots, with the arm crossed in the legendary attitude. The statue is con- siderably injured, but not irreparably. The new column is not likely to be com pleted before the end of the year.
Connecticut western news., 1873-09-12

lest her resolution should fail. "Ihave treated you very badly, but it was all Q ridiculous misunderstanding"
 "Of course you were forgiven before you asked" he said, still gravely, and without offering to sit down. The mar rator discredits this magnanimous state ment, but the young man said it, never theless. "And now, he resumed; suppose I may ask the promised ex- planation."
 ''It is too preposterous," cried Hetty, breaking into irrepressible laughter. ''The truth is, I lost my doughnuts, and I thought you had taken them just for joke"
 "But did take some, you know," he said, looking puzzled.
 "I know you took two," answered Hetty, bursting out again; "but lost at least bushel."
 Frank Kennedy had come to this in- terview with determination to be dig nifed, and, if necessary, stern but as the sun sank beneath the horizon be- lated swallow hurrying home to his family might have heard him remark,
 "Whatever else we have at the we'd ding-supper, be sure and have batch of doughnuts.
 "You may depend on me for that, J replied Miss Hetty, smartly, "for shall rely on that argument to bring Uncle Baxter round."
Connecticut western news., 1873-09-12
A Pat ReiOinder.

At Oxford, some twenty years ago, 8 tutor of one of the colleges limped in his walk. Stopping one day last sum- mer at railway station, he was accost- ed by 3 well-known politician, who was not the chaplain of - College at such a time, naming the year. The doctor replied that he was.
 "I was there" said the interrogator, and knew Gou by your limp"
 "Well," said the doctor, cit seems my limping made deeper impression than my preaching"
 "Ah, doctor," was the reply, with ready wit, Git is the highest compli- ment we can pay a minister to say that he is known by his walk rather than by his conversation.
Connecticut western news., 1873-09-12
The Philadelphia MOrgue.

Disclosures made by the Police De- partment of Philadelphia reveal sad state of affairs. at the City Morgue. The body of Thomas Munce, wealthy farmer of Washington county, who left his home in the early part of July last, has been found pickled in the dissect- ing-room of the University. It had been sold to the College by some one con nected with the Morgue. The family of the dead man were in Philadelphia and identified it. The discovery was made by finding the watch of the deceased in a pawn office, where it had been pledged by one William McEwen, who was the driver of the coroner's wagon. Munce was found drowned on the morning of July 3, and McEwen removed the body to the morgue the same day. On the 9th it found its way into the college. McEwen has been arrested and the in vestigation is being further pushed. The Deputy Coroner states that he holds a receipt of the Superintendent of the city burial ground for the body. It ap- pears that at the time of the inquest the deceased's name was not known.
Connecticut western news., 1873-09-12
Cheese It.

Not the least ingenious suggestion offered to the Commissioners of the Centennial Exposition comes from New Hampshire. A citizen of that State communicates the following colossal plan " Dear Sirs |: I speak of cheese cheese in the grandest and most sublime sense of the term, cheese such as the world has never seen-cheese hundreds of thousands of pounds of it. It shall be an immense plain, the con- solidated efforts of every cheese manu- facturer in the United States, and will be capable, when laid down upon it's side, of accommodating many hundreds of people. Such a cheese as the one I speak of would certainly create aston ishment, and would gain for our manu- lecturers the admiration of the world. I desire space for such cheese. Can l have it Answer"
Connecticut western news., 1873-09-12
A Story of Dean Richmond.

Dean Richmond, the politician, rail- way magnate and stock operator, had Q son whose habits and character were not entirely in accord with his fathers wishes. He would not hold pen be- hind his ear, nor perch himself upon 0 stool in the office, nor did he exhibit any of the qualifications for success full bull or bear upon the stock market. The father lost confidence in his son, and so strong became his dissatisfac- tion that he eventually ostracised him. He was allowed to labor and shift for his own support. He became a con ductor on his fathers railway, the New York Central. MT. Richmond told him that the least infraction of the rules of the company would insure his immedi- ate removal, and especially was he warned against allowing any person, whether a friend or not, to ride without showing pass or ticket, or paying the necessary fare. He had been em- ployed in this capacity for some time, and there had been no complaints, when one day Dean Richmond himself became passenger himself on his sons train. The conductor came to the old railway magnate, when tho following dialogue occurred
 "Ticket, sir ?"
 "Ticket {! Get out am president of this road. I don't buy tickets"
 "That makes no difference. It is against orders for me to allow anybody to ride unless he pays his fare, presents a ticket, or shows pass. Come, hurry up P
 We'll, sir, you know who I am, and know that am entitled to ride on this road free. I could make out a pass but haven't any blanks. You go on it's all right"
 "See here, old gentleman, it makes no difference who you are; give mo { ticket, show a pass, pay your fare, o1 get off the train."
 "Humph young man, you are get ting mighty arbitrary. If you don't gc about your business I'll have you dis charged"
 The young conductor made no reply but gave a vigorous pull upon the bell rope. As the train checked it's speed and the father saw that he was about tC be treated like any other passenger and was really liable to be set dowl alongside the track, midway between the stations, he pulled out his walle and paid his fare. This little episod, gave him new insight into his son. character, and he forthwith commenced casting about for some business occu patton for him.
Connecticut western news., 1873-09-12
A Song of Killarney.

A Song of Killarney.
 Show me sight
 Bates for delight An ould Irish wheel wid young Irish girl at it. O! No!
 Nothing you'll show Aquals her sittin' an takin' twirl at it. Look at her there,
 Night in her hair The blue ray of day from her eye laughin' out on us
 Faix, an foot,
 Perfect of cut, Peepin' to put an end to all doubt in us That there's sight
 Bates for delight An ould Irish wheel wid young Irish girl at it. O.! No
 Nothing you'll show Aquals her sittin' an takin' twirl at it.
 See the lambs wool
 Turns coarse an dull By them soft, beautiful, weeshy, white hands of herl
 Down goes her heel,
 Roun' runs tine wheel Purrin' wid pleasure to take the commands of her.
 Then show me sight
 Bates for delight An ould Irish wheel wid young Irish girl at it. o! No!
 Nothin' you'll show Aquals her sittin' and takn twirl at it. Talk of Three Fates,
 Sated on sates Spinnin' and shearin' away till they've done for You may want three
 For your massacre, But one fate for me- boys, and only the one for me.
 And
 Isn't that fate
 Pictured complate; An ould Irish wheel wid young Irish girl at it ? O! No! Nothin' you'll show Aquals her sittin an takin' twirl at it.
Connecticut western news., 1873-09-12

A man thrust his arm into lions cage, at Mansfield, Ohio, recently, and nearly lost it in consequence,
Connecticut western news., 1873-09-12
ADVERTISING RATES :

Schedule of prices for Advertising furnished on application at this office.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13


THE Agricultural Department at
Washington announces the fact that
there is a steady decrease in the
amount. per acre. of wheat grown in
the United States. This is a sad re-
Election upon the wisdom and energy of
the farmers in general. Some philos-
opher has said that he is benefactor
of his country who grows two blades
of grass where only one grew before;
he is none the less a benefactor who
succeeds in growing upon one acre the
equivalent of two. This is easily done,
and while doubling the yield per acre,
it curtails, by half, the cost of labor
employed, hence doubling the yield at
half the cost, is the most profitable
kind of farming, as well as the strong
est argument in favor of the subdivis-
ion of large farms and the restriction
of each farmer to the cultivation of
only so much land as he can till, on the
basis of continually increasing fertil-
ity. There can be but little profit in
the present system of farming, or in
any system which does not add to the
fertility of the land in cultivation
Working poor land is poor chance for
profit, and since the labor upon it costs
as much as upon rich soil. the invest
ment pays lover the left" And as
long as the policy is persisted in farmers
will become poorer, and the cry of hard
times! become louder and equally in
vain.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13

THE following resolutions were
adopted by the Church at Cedar Hill,
at their last quarterly meeting, ex-
pressive of their appreciation of Rev.
A. Mizell's services as Presiding Ell
der of this District:
WHEREAS, By the Disciplinary lin
itation of the Nj. 4. Curch South, our
dear brother, Rev. A. Mizell, P. E.,
GAINESVILLE District, will be removed
from us at the next sitting of the Ten
nessee Annual Conference and
WHEREAS, He has served us faith
fully for the period of four years, en-
dearing himself to US by both pulpit
ministrations and private walk among
us, edifying and building up the church
by the one, and recommending practi-
cal piety by the other, therefore
Resolved, By Cedar Hill Charge, in
Quarterly Conference assembled, that
while we bow to the constituted au-
thority of the church, we deeply de-
plore the removal of one whom we
have known but to love; and
Resolved, That while we deprecate
anything that ''invades pragmatically
the Bishops prerogative. we commend
him to the kind consideration of Bish-
op McTyeire and his honored Cabinet
feeling that the interest of Metho-
dism in any department of the church
would be safe, under God, in his hands.
Resolved, That we commend him
and his kind family to the tender mer-
cies of God who has promised to be
with them always, even unto the end
of the world.
Resolved, That the Christian Ad-
yocate, and secular papers of the Dis
trict, be requested to publish the above.
c. G BELL,
j. r, DUNN,
j. NJ. SPEER.
Committee.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13

OF the seventeen Presidents of the
United States, predecessors of U. s.
Grant, all seem to have been content
with 5 200 year, and by their con-
duct, seemed to prefer the honor of the
position to the salary attached to it.
With the present incumbent, the case
is different. He esteems it his right
to double his salary, to receive, brides,
under the guise of friendly presents,
whether they be of money or real es
tate, to sell offices for equivalents,
without giving thought of any other
qualification than the ability to pay.
The Presidency, with its immense pa
tronage, is his private property, to be
used by him in the way that will do
the most good" towards the advance
ment of his private fortune. Moral
and intellectual fitness for office are
considerations which weigh nothing
with him because he has no standard,
within himself, by which to weigh
them, and all he wants to know of an
applicant for Office, is-will he do the
dirty work required of him as party
slave will he surrender individual
scruples and betray his country in re-
turn for the Office. In this way-whilst
degrading himself-he debauches pub
lie virtue, and degrades his country to
a lower level than has been reached
by any other government claiming to
be civilized. The blame is not all his,
however, for had not circumstances
brought him under the influence of
Puritanism, he might have been per-
suaded to do better-though he could
never have been made a decent
successor of any President, prior to
the war. But the wonder is, that the
people who are the source of allpoliti-
cal power should, so suddenly, have
been made slaves and the authors of
their own ruin.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13

PARsON BROwNLow, in his far
reaching wisdom, has discovered that
Hon. Jefferson Davis is to be the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of Ten
nessee. In view of that coming event,
he has nominated II. L. Foote as the
Radical candidate for the same posi-
ton. Mr.. Davis will forgive the in
suit in consideration of the source
whence it comes. But if Brownlow is
really anxious to help Foote to high
position he ought to send him back to
Mississippi, where AlcOrn, Ames and
Ham. Carter-a scallawag, a carpet
Dagger and a gentleman of color-are
Candidates for Governor. Foote is the
very man to square the triangular
fight, and they being foemen worthy of
his steel, he can turn himself loose
and display all the activity of little
dog in tall oats.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13

THE fuss made about the lawless-
ness and crime so rife, in portions of
Kentucky, tempts one to ask what has
become of the chivalry of the famous
hunters of Kentucky" Has not
enough of their manly spirit been in
herited to prompt their descendants to
repress such outbreaks, without the
hazardous experiment of invoking
federal aid. If the law has provided no
efficient remedy, it seems to us that
volunteers enough can be enlisted to
clean out the brigands, and that the
next Legislature will not only sanction
the movement, but liquidate any debt
incurred for the accomplishment. of
SO important measure as the exter-
mination of those brutal robbers and
murderers.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13

THE tyranny which Massachusetts,
did SO much to build up, is being felt
within its own borders. Whilst the
little decency still surviving in that
stronghold of higher law Puritanism,
is striving to sustain its honor by re-
pudiating Butler, Grant is forcing upon
that State, as Governor, a man whom
they pretend to despise. We are glad
of it, and hope Grant will succeed as
well there as in Louisiana. Not until
the people of the North feel the force
of reaction, will they be awakened to
a true sense of their danger, from the
usurpations, and oppressive enactments
Of the party they placed, and have re-
tanned in power. Massachusetts will
now understand that Grant has the
same right to make Butler Governor
of that State, that he had to impose
kellogg upon Louisiana.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13
UNION is STRENGTH.


A Meridian, Mississippi, paper ssys
that if the whites will unite, and act as
one man, they can crush Radicalism at
the next election. That is as true of
most of the Southern States. But
how is that unity to be brought about?
There are white men in every State
who don't care a straw whether their
State is under the control of intelli-
gence and virtue, or of ignorance and
vice. There are others who will vote
only for Observation-Disclosures it be
money or mistaken preference, and
others who pride themselves upon
their independence and who assert it
by boiling conventions, when, in fact,
they are being led by the nose by some
designing demagogue who, by hatter-
ing their vanity, or playing upon their
prejudices, induces them to believe that
they-like the fly on the pole of the car
riage-are running the machine, whilst,
ike the fly, they are ignorant of the
destination to which they are being
driven. These and other clements of
discord, whether they originate from
want of patriotism, or the ability to
discriminate between craftsmanship
and selfish demagoguery, do exist and
how to harmonic them is the problem
to be solved. Proper education may
be too late. Division not only weak
ems, but invites open and covert as
saults, by the vicious, upon the rights
and the interests of the well meaning,
but thoughtless majority. In this way
governments are overthrow. or per-
verted to the vilest uses and We see
this truth illustrated, not only in the
Federal and State governments, but
in those of cities, towns and villages.
The ignorant and thoughtless many
are, everywhere, the victims of the
shrewd and vicious few, and the coun-
terpoise is to be found only in virtuous
motives and intelligent action. Unity
of the whites can correct the ills of
corrupt governments everywhere, pro-
vided that unity is upon correct prin-
ciples and directed by genuine, patri-
otic wisdom. But as long as ignorance
cannot appreciate those principles,
and intelligence will not endorse and
act upon them, unity would seem to be
impossible. 1t was once secured in
Tennessee. and indicated its value as
the element of political power most
effective in crushing usurpation and
corruption in Office, but scarcely was
its triumph felt, ere discord shivered
it and disastrous defeat followed. Its
broken fragments may be again &C.
mented, by outside pressure, though
we have ceased to hope for it through
the attraction of affinity.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13

PRIOR to the war, the cry of the
abolitionists was, that the government
was controlled by a Darbarous slave
ocracy. Barring the offensiyeness of
the term, the declaration is literally
true. For seventy, or more, years,
southern craftsmanship, scrupulous
honesty and ability did give shape to
the administration of the government,
to its fundamental ideas and
the highest post of honor amongst the
governments Of the earth. During
that period, official dishonesty was as
rare as the advent of comets; public
virtue and general prosperity we're the
fruits of patriotic wisdom and genuine
love ofcountry, the grateful return for
the blessings conferred by pure and
honest government. And if any doubt
existed in the past, of the saving
efficacy ofsouthern integrity and states
manship, that doubt must now be dis
PEELED by the fact, that as soon as these
were banished from the several De-
partments of the government, official
thieying, usurpation and almost uni
versal corruption became the charac-
teristics Of government and people.
If all the existing evils-lawlessness.
robbery and monied tyranny, have
followed the abolition of slavery, there
is no process of legitimate reasoning
which can evade the conclusion, that
the institution was blessing and that
with it has passed away the last hope
of the republic. Instead of extend
ing the area of freedom, the abolition
lists have made slaves of all classes,
save the few who have robbed the peo-
pie of their liberties and secured imu-
nifty, by terrifying themselves with
stolen money and a mercenary soldiery.
The innate greed of the puritan yam
kee, for money and power, suggested
the invasion of the South whose saving
influence having been destroyed, the
yankee mask of purity and piety was
at once laid aside and a carnival of
crime, inaugurated which, by contrast,
gives responsibility to the despotisms
of the East.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13

ONE eolored member of the Missis-
sippi Legislature has been arrested for
stealing a hog and another, who stray
gled off to St. Louis, for stealing
clothes. They ought to be punished
but not too severely censured. They
hear that their white leaders in Office,
steal millions and go UNPUBLISHED, and
cannot realize the Justice of Furnishing
them for doing little petty larceny.
A Radical and not steal, is too hard a
conudrum for them TO unriddle.
Besides the example which encourages
them, they have an inkling of the fact
that not few whites, once deemed
decent, are converted to Radicalism by
its free license to steal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13

THERE is a movement on foot in
Tennessee to make Col. John Ford
House, of GAINESVILLE, the next Gov
ernor Of that State. IF Tennessee
should never have worse Governor
than the genial, the accomplished, the
brilliant John Ford House would
make, she will always be prosperous
and happy. He is one of the most
gifted Of her sons-one Of the most
charmingly eloquent of her orators
and her highest honors would long
since have been his if he had asked
them at her hands, which his modest
and unambitious spirit has never per-
mitted him to do. Courier
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13

IT is reported that ten or a dozen
Ku-kluxes have been arrested in Owen
and Henry counties, KY, and as some
of them have turned States evidence,
the vile bands may be broken up.
The witnesses are doubtless the most
criminal of the marauders, but they
will be rendered harmless in the fu-
ture, by the fact that they are known
and will be watched.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13

FRANCE paid the last of its debt to
Prussia, on the 9th inst. If this
country had been blessed with hon
honest President. like Theirs, our war
debt would have been paid too. As it
is, the money squeezed out of the peo-
pie to pay it, is squandered by officials,
and the debt is larger to-day, than it
wasat the close ofthe war, and the peo-
pie, outside of the rings, are poorer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13
THE Paducah Kentuckian says:

made by the merchants of GAINESVILLE.
Tenn, to the merchants of Paducah to put
a boat in the trade between these two
points. provided. the merchants of Padu-
their patronage. A regular packet. with
Paducah as its Southern terminus. would
add To the facilities Of trade. We think il
would be for the interest of Paducah to ac-
cept the proposition.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-13

Hon. JOHN 4. HOUSE, of Clarks-
vile, is conspicuously mentioned in
connection with the next Governor
ship of Tennessee. Mr.. House is one
of the great lawyers of that State, and
is a popular orator of the highest
order, He has, as We we'll know, no
political aspirations; but we hope that
the people will imperatively demand
his services as their chief executive,
He would make magnificent Gov
ernor.-Bosoling Green (Ky.) Demo
crat.