Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-08-11
CLARRsViLLE.
White vs.. Black The GubeEnatOrIaI
Kase-The state Credit-The
Growing Tobacco Crop.

! From Our Special Correspondent
| CLARKsvILLE, TENN, August 10, 1874.
Since the county election OF last week
Clarksville has been uninteresting to
those of loquacious propensities. The
| Radicals had no ticket in the field, and
the negro vote was divided among the
various candidates on the Democratic
ticket. This is significant fact, aud
indicative that no responsibility or hon
est manhood is left among the advocates
Of the infamous civil rights bill, alike
disgusting to every white man in Ten
~essee and indorsed only by the most
lOathsOme specimens of corrupt human
! ity. Negro equality is blue-ma pill;
q kind of ipecac which turns even the
| political stomach. The white people of
Middle Tennessee aIe jubilant over their
success, and rejoice To hear that Mem
| phis and Shelby county have defeated
| the social imps OF the Radical party.
The power of the Memphis press-that
especially OF the APPEAL-so far remov-
ed from personal acts and selfish policy,
in having aroused the general opposition
to negro equality, and effected such no.
BILE results in your last election, is cause
of much comment in Middle Tennessee.
God grant that long years of such splen-
did usefulness remain to the APPEALand
its cotempOraries.
;. THE GUBERNAToRIAL CONVENTION
is arousiug attention, not only in this
Montgomery county, but all over Mid
die Tennessee. While the nomination
of a governor is generally conceded to
West Tennessee, still in various parts of
the State there are aspirants who believe
they alone must be nominated. Even
some of the newspapers of Middle Ten
nessee are about to ask that this section
nominate the Democratic candidate for
governor. The Clarksville Chronicle
has expressed quasi preference aud
an apologetic Endorsement for Hon.
Dorsey B. Thomas, of Waverly.
While it had been hoped that w est Ten
nessee should be permitted to select the
candidate, and that instead OF attempt
ing 20 create diseOrd, arouse sectional
bitterness and cause local opposition in
the gubernatOrial convention, the papers
and Democrats of this and the eastern
portion of the State would have at least
exercised that judicious consideration
for the welfare OF our party whose best
interests, as well as that OF Tennessee, is |
being jeopardized by such selfish De |
mands, and can only result disastrously |
to the future good OF the people.
THE STATE CREDIT.
Throughout Middle Tennessee the I
people are unit for the upholding of |
the State credit upon the basis of as |
small taxation as can be possibly con-
sistent with such purpose. The twenty !
cents proposition is not indorsed, and ] I
have heard several leading men express /
the belief that the Democrats Of Middle |
Tennessee would vote the Radical in |
preference to the Democratic ticket If I
the State credit was to suffer through |
low, or rather, inadequate taxation. It /
Is no use for West Tennessee to confuse
local with State taxation aud then
clsmor for a quasi reputation. This I
will not take either in Middle or East
Tennessee, and can only result disas-
trously to the Democratic party.
THE TOBACCO CROP
in the Clarksville district is an unpre-
cedented failure, and from the most cor
rect estimate only eleven hundred hogs
heads will be sold on the breaks Of this
city the next season, against fifteen thou
sand hOgsheads the present season, VAL
ued at near two millions of dollars. The /
Clarksville tobacco is known throughout
the wodd, and is even quoted in Cal !
cutta papers. The price of the weed will |
60 up, as the failure of the crop extends /
through Virginia, kentucky and Mis-
souri,; hence, the operators who had the /
sense and nerve to buy freely will reap I
reach rewards. ClaTksville naturally |
feels uneasy because of this drought, az |
feeting 50 seriously her mercantile COM /
munity as well as the planting interests
Of the surrounding county. This city's |
market has in operation six large tobacco
warehouses, besides six or eight stem
meries, which annually bring hundreds /
Of thousands of dollars circulating during
the season, and give the four banks all |
the business they want. Yesterday | |
visited the large tobacco factory worked |
by Messrs. Gray 4 Kerr, who employ |
from one hundred to one hundred ana /
fifty hands during the press of the sea- !
son. They are by far the largest STEM !