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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12
THE MESSAGE.

The Presidents Message came to-
hand last "Wednesday, but is too long
Tor our space. aHd of TOO little value
70 repay its reproduction. 1t opens
with the currency question. and with
out accounting for the great CONNER
cialz prestration. weighing upon the.
prosperity of the country. says it can
not be ascribed to want of capital or
.labor--boih of which are ia excess Of
the demand All said upon this sub
lect, is intended to recommend a re-
turn to specie payment, in the interest
of New England and the money rings,
and this idea is made more eonspicu-
Gus by the recommendation of an in
crease of revenue to obtain the gold
wherewith to redeem the currency. To
commend specie payment to the pub
lie, the repeal of the legal tender act,
is to be the initiatory step, in order to
depreciate the currency by taking from
it its chief and only yalue-the law
which makes it, ike, gold, legal ten
der for all contracts. 1t is easy to fore
see the evil that must follow the re-
peal of the act upon which the present
currency depends for its value as
medium Of exchange, and 1t is clear
that the President looks to the COM
mercial chaos that must follow, to
make popular the scheme of the money
rings to multiply their wealth and per-
petuate their power After resump-
ton free banking would become ne
cessary as means of giving expansion
TO the currency. But why expansion
should be necessary after resumption
and not before, is a conundrum
which the President does not endeay-
or to answer
Our foreign relations, the President
thinks, are satisfactory. though moth
ing, at home. seems to please him, ex-
cept his peace policy in Indian af-
fairs, which promises TO end all Indi-
an troubles by exterminating the race.
The worst feature of the message. is
Grants attempt to justify his treatment
of Louisiana and Arkansas, by as
Stunning as true, the outrages manufac-
tured by Williams and others. The
President knows they are false, and
knowing it is cowardly fraud to
make them the pretext for usurpation
and abuse of power. His treatment
of the southern question is the style Of
the ambitious demagogue who stickles
at no means. however corrupt, to give
plausibility to his motives and actions.
He regrets the responsibility thrown
upon him to regulate the domestic af-
fairs Of the southern States, but means
to exercise that power with rigor, un-
less Congress, will do the job for him
There are great number and varie-
ty of topics embraced in the message,
but we claim the right, like Congress,
to treat them with utter indifference.
The utterances are said to be Grants;
and if this be true, the value is fixed
in the minds Of all who know the
measure of his intellect and moral
worth.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

THE platform of Ben. Buffers new
party, is to be protective tariff, for
the East, and paper money to catch
the gulls of the West. Grant will
probably carry the East, on the gold
basis and thus knock the underpin-
ming from under the Beast. But al
though both will ignore the South as
a party concerned, neither can make
the tariff go down with the West, and
neither is needed by the South and
West, to procure an abundant and
cheap currency-this is the fat of a
power that can no: long be, success
fully, resisted. New England and the
middle States, the money centers OF
the country, will struggle hard for a
return TO specie payment because it
will make money scarce aud dear
and thus prolong their power
over labor and its productiOns-to
this end, the tariff is only an incl
dent-but the people, who are fast re-
gaining the power they threw away.
during the war, are determined thai
their interests shall no longer besacri-
feed on the altar of the Golden Call"
nor be spbservient to the money and
manufacturing rings, built up by the
government in the interest of ceutral-
ization. tyranny and corruption
Westward, the star of empireis leading
the votaries Of liberty and universal
prosperity, and neither Butler nor
Grant can stay their onward march to
the point marked ont by the hand OF
destiny
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12
The Conspiracy Trial Abandoned.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Dec. 9.-At-
torney-General Williams to-day sent
a communities ton to the judge of the
criminal court, informing him that the
Government has abandoned the safe
burglary cases under late indictments,
which have been pronounced a nullity
by the Supreme Court Of the District
of Columbia, owing to the Illegal con-
stitution of the grand jury.
The judge, after directing the COM
municatiou to be placed on file, order
ed nolle .prosequi to be entered in
these cases, and also discharged the
bail of the defendants, Harrington,
Whitley and Williams. No further
action will be taken at present.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

We publish on first page, the ad-
dress of Gen. VIM. 4. Quarles, in
which he Announces himself a can
ditate for United States Senator.
We commend the views be takes
of what should be the policy of the
Democratic majority in the next Con-
gress-they are eminently conservative
aud sufficiently comprehensive to en-
brace the leading issues of the day, as
well the manner in which they should
be dealt with, in order to subserve the
interests of the whole country and to
maintain the credit and honor of the
government 4 careful reading VIII
more than repay the time and study.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

THE movement made at Vicksburg,
to bring Ames to trial for melting the
negroes to attack that city, if success
full, will bea righteous retribution act Of
justice upon traitor and tyrant. But
Beast Butler will uphold his worthy
son-in-law, and knows how to make
the President do the same thing
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12
THE sENArORsHIp.


The press Of the State Is 10 fever
ISL excitement about who shall be q.
S. Senator, Much Of this excitement
is purely personal, or local, and savors
strongly of purpose to dictate to the
Legislature which, alone. has the right
to say who shall be Senator. The
members of the Legislature are from
every county and Senatorial District
in the State, and it is, at least. fair to
presume that they are as competent to
know the popular will as those who
volunteer to instruct them. 1t is
their true policy, however, as the APP
peal argues. to meet in council and
fairly and dispassionately canvass the
claims and the strength of each aspi-
rant. dropping the hindmost, until the
choice is narrowed down to one. and
then elect him as soon as possible, in
order that excitement may be allayed,
and the business of the session be re-
lieyed of the embarrassing topic.
It was never intended that Senators
should be the immediate representa-
tives Of the people, but of the reserved
rights Of the States and their local
sovereignty, and although, in maintain
ing those rights, they are directly sub
serving the interests of the people, yet
tits not in accordance with the spirit
of the Constitution that they shall be
partizans, in the common aceeptation
of the term. That they may be can
didates before the Legislature, may be
admissible. hut it is perversion IF
the spirit of the Constitution-the the
DRY Of the government-and lower
ing of the dignity of the Senate for
any aspirant thereto. to go before the
people and solicit an election with
which they have nothing to 40, except
as an incident to popular sovereignty.
The people elect their State Legisla-
lures and their immediate representa-
tives in the Lower House of the feder-
al Congress, but it is reserved to the
States, in their sovereign capacity, and
through their legislatures, TO elect the
United States Senators. This may
seem to be distinction without a diff
ference, but there is a world of con-
seryative wisdom in this provision of
the Constitution, which will make it.
self manifest to every rejecting mind.
and since it cannot be shown that any
thing has ever been gained to good gov
eminent, by departure, even in, APP
parently, non-essentials, from the let
ter or spirit of that instrument, an en-
barge should be laid upon every at
tempt to popularize the Senate-to de-
grade its dignity by opening its doors
TO the spacious demagOgues who seek
to enter them through the agency OF
popular prejudice and clamor If a
change is needed, let it be in the ac-
ton of the people, whose duty and in
terest it is to elect to their Legislature,
such men as they can trust to select
agents that will best uphold the right
of the State in the federal Legislature
and in strict conformity with the pro-
visions of the constitution.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

The managers of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad are considering the feas-
ibility of line of steamers between
Baltimore and some port in France.
There is plenty of freight for export,
and if a freight and EN- grant bus ness
ca be developed on the other side, it
is thought in Baltimore that some of
the French steamships now lying idle
at Havre will be put in such line. al
though Marseilles is more likely to be
the sailing port in France, on account
of the Italian emigrsnt business which
could be had from thence.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

SOME of the papers are censuring
Belknap for suffering Grant to show
himself, at the theatre in a state of in
toxication. Belknap thought, perhaps,
that he was doing right to let the
President show of, at least one, of his
varied accomplishments. in mixed
crowd of ardent admirers. For aught
we know, the keeper may have been as
drunk as the man at the other end OF
the avenue.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12
THERE died. on the Sd of Octobe,

THERE died, on the Sd of October,
at Med a. Pennsylvania, Mrs. Gather
inc Reilly, at the advanced age Of one
hundred and four years and FIVE
months This venerable lady was
born near Cootehill. County Cavan,
Ireland, May 4, ITO She came to
this country in 1910, landing in Phila-
delphia, and for many years sub>e-
quently resided there. She had seven
children and twenty-four grandch Id
rem. and belonged to a long lived
family. an aunt having recently died
in Ireland at the age Of one hundred
and eight.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

The Dresden Democrat says: AS
an evidence of the hard times. there
are one or two hundred deeds lying in
the county clerks Office that have
never been recorded-dee to land
made to men in this county who do
not ordinarily permit their matters to
be neglected in that way.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

GRANT, it is said will throw out as 4
tub TO the whale, general system of
internal improvements by the general
government. This is anti-DemOcratic
doctrine and, with a debt of some
three thousand millions of dollars
resting, like an incubus, upon the pros
perity of the country, We can not en-
dorse the measure as either wise or
constitutional.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

A TELEGRAM from Berlin says that
the Federal council has accepted the
principal of the Imperial bank, aud
agreed TO the conditions submitted by
the government for the cession of the
bank OF Prussia TO the empire,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

THE way to make money plenty in
the South and West, is for both TO
make themselves self-sustaining. Sell
ing their own productions for what
ever eastern capitalists will give, and
reinvesting the money in the produc-
tious of others. is a losing game.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

The Key West Dispatch, (Rad)
saws the Democratic victory is Simply
an endorsement by the people, of Rad
zeal theories of government. The en-
dorsement of the principles of a par
~ by the defeat of the party itself, is
= conundrum which none but Radi-
cal would PROFOUND, and none but u
,lamphool Radical viii undertake to
answer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

y The conviction seems to be gaining
ground that the whipping post is the
cheapest and most efieciusl preventive
OF petty thieving. Butthe Pnr tans who
hunt in rings, as wolves hunt in packs.
inyeigh against it as a relietef barbar-
ism. So is stealing; which relict shall
we cherish. the crime or the mode of
its punishment?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

\ DISPATCH from New Orleans, says
that the infamous Judge Durell has
rendered his resignation, and that
kellogg is quietly disposing of his
stolen goods preparatory TO ''vamOs-
ing the rancho" An atmosphere of
liberty and justice is fstal to such YER
min. and the day is not distant when n
scallawag, or carpet Dagger will be a
curiosity in the South, though not in
northern prisons.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

THE New Orleans Times, speaking
Of man who had lately d ed, says that
he has passed to his 5, mp ternal heri-
tage." THIS is a good phrase, bat,
after all, it leaves torturing doubt
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

If Vagrant Vicarious Smith is not
made Governor of Arkansas, it will
not be Grants fault
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

J Asan evidence of Radical disregard
Of public good. and its anxiety to
thwart the vii Of the people, it is stated
that Congress will make an early.
move to admit Colorado and New
Mexico az States, 10 order to ret four
Radical Senators and two Congress
men. Neither Territory has the re-
quisite population, but that is small
matter to party that has made and
maintained itself BY bold usurpations
of power and violations of law.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12
ACTION OF GOVERNOR AMEs.

The latest evidence, Just received,
rendeis it ab olutely certain that Gov
ernor Amesa and MS Attorney-General,
George L. Harr $. melted and advised
the iuvas on of the city by the negroes
to-dly. THIS evidence has been laid
before the ablest lawyers of the city,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12

The river is still falling, with four
feet of water on the shoals. sufficient
depth for small crafts, which continue
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12
STATEMENTS BY CAPTURED NEGROES.
DEpREpATIoNs REPORTED.
ALL THE ROADS PIcKErED.

1t is reported this evening that
egroes are committing depredations
n the country.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12
TWENTY-FIVE NEGROES KILLED AND
WOUNDED.

NEwORLEANs, Dec. IA special
dispatch to the Bulletin from Vicks-
burg says:
Seven hundred negroes attacked the
city this morning on three roads. They
we're driven back by the citizens with
the loss of twenty-five killed md
wounded, and forty prisoners. Th'
whites lost one killed and two wound
ed. The attack was made for the pur-
pose of reinstating Crosby, The Sheriff
who was requested to resign because
he had not given any bond.
The negroes in the country are re-
ported burning dwellings and gin
houses.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12
vIcKsBuRG.
The Courthouse Seized by the Citizens
and the Negro sheriff Made
Prisoner.
Hundreds Of Armed Negroes March on
the City TO Reinsiafe the; Sheriff.
They are Routed on the Different
Roads, After a Series of Sharp
Fights.

VIcKsBURG. Dec. REPORTS in cir
culation last night that large bodies OF
armed negroes were on the way 10 The
city to take possession of the court
house. were confirmed this morning at
9 o clock when the alarm bells were
rung to alarm the citizens. Business
houses of all kinds were closed. and
the whites got under arms, marching
out on the various roads to meet the
enemy. The courthouse is in possess
sion Of the whites, and the negro
sheriff is prisoner. Great excitement
prevails.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-09
NASHVILLE TENN, TUESDAY, JUNE 9. 1914

ested and amused the House with a de-
risiye description of the Louisiana election,
which he declared was in all respects a
fraud.
Mr.. Darrall moved as a substitute for
the majority resolutions resolution that
Pinchback is entitled to the seat priIna
fhcie.
The question was passed over to be voted
on tomorrow.
Mr.. Rusk presented the conference res
ports on the bill fof pension laws and the
Bill regulating pensions for total disabilities
which were agreed TO.
Adjourned,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-09
A CIVIL RIGHTS WATERLOO.

Ben Butler make another effort in
the House yesterday to go to the
Speakers table, and take up Brown
lows sum of villainies. The Is
Republican votes yesterday with the
IS Democrats who are solid against it.
give 101 votes, while SO would suffice
in full House to prevent its passage
over the Presidents veto by a two
thirds vote. Under these circumstances,
all further attempts to bring it up out
side of the regular order, is merely a
blind to humbug the negroes into be-
ieving they would pass it if they
could.
On the other hand, if it were certain
chat Grant would veto the bill, and if
anything were to be gained by his re-
toording himself against it, the Demo-
Gratis could afford to allow the bill to
come up by merely absentihg them
selves. We see absolutely nothing to
be gained by giving Grant a record on
1t, and he is such an uncertain quaint
ty that the venture would be hazardous.
He might at the last moment change
his mind and approve the bill. Their
duty Is to stand firm as heretofore, and
even BrOwlow might yet find it in his
heart to thank that noble little band of
Democrats who have saved the country
from this ''quintessence of abomina-
lions"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-09
No Wall RobberN al An.

To the Union and American.
CARTHAGE, Tenn, June Ain tO-day's
paper find a short article pUrpOrting to be
the substance of a communication from the
Postmaster at Carthage, addressed to the
Nashville Newspaper Union, stating that
there was a robbery of the mail on the 26th
ult. somewhere on the stage line between
Carthage aud Gallatin. Being the present
mail-carrier, / feel that it is due to myself
to answer said communication. The facts
aie as follows: There was a registered let
ter mailed at Gallatin, for Carthage, con-
tanning as / have been informed, the
sum Of s., which was found on the
evening of its arrival at or near the
office Of the Postmaster, James p.
Kee, after the mail had been opened some
time, with the largeienvelOpe torn of In
a small en.elOpe, which had never been
opened, was recovered the above amount.
The said Mckee, as believe, knew before
he transmitted said communication to the
office of the Newspaper Union, that the
mail had hot been robbed, and male the
charge TO shield himself from the charge
Of negligence and 10 injure me. There
were passengers on the stage during the en-
tire trip who know that the mail was not
robbed while in transitu.
A. G.. GLASGOW.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-09
EDUCATIONAL.
commencement Exercises at Wards
Seminary

The Ninth Annual Commencement of
Wards Seminary began yesterday morning.
The exercises commenced with Latin sa-
lutatory by Miss Jennie Claybrook, of Tri-
une. Interesting essays were re by Miss
Ida Allen. of Nashville; Miss Kittie Rogers,
of Wallis Station; Miss Mary Bate, Of
Nashville; Miss Isabella Blackburn, of
Natchez, Miss; Miss Bette Cabbler, of
Nashville; Miss Roberta l.. CALDWELL, of
Edgefeld; Miss Ella Cooper, Miss Alkaline
Mcdowell Deaderick, Miss Mary Ellen De
moville, of Nashville; Miss Matte Figures,
of Huntsville, Ala; Miss Mildred II. Ford,
of Arkansas; Miss Sallie Green, of
San Antonio, Texas; Miss Birdie
Henry, of Guntersville, Alabama.
The large chapel in which the exercises
were held was crowded with parents of the
pupils and friends Of the school. The fair
graduates were dressed in pure white and
in elegant taste. Bouquets in showers and
festoOns greeted every fair reader. There
was an air of sOlidity and cultivation about
the whole exercise, graceful action and re-
fined voice, self-pOsseSsiOn and conscious
power. that showed the faithful work done.
We have no space 10 more than mention
the music, vocal and instrumental, which
agreeably interspersed the whole. The eX-
ercises will be resumed with a fine pro-
gramme at o o'clock this morning.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-09
Board of Health.

The Board of Health met at the Mayors
office yesterday, President Plunkett in the
chair, and a quorum present. DIR. BUST,
the Secretary, being absent, DR.. Compton
acted in his place at the request of the Pres
ident. r-u H.rr e4.a.
The committee appointed to select rooms
for the Board were granted further time in
which to make their report. rs 90. rarr
The committee appointed to draft rules
and regulations for the government of the
Board, submitted report, which was con-
CURED in.
The Secretary was instructed to notify
DIR. Morton Of his election as Health Oil
Ger, and also to notify the City Council Of
their organization.
The Board then adjourned to meet next
Friday at 4P. N.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-09
ENGLAND.
Drunk as aIort,.

LONDON, June e.-The Earl Of Var
brough, said to be frequently drunk as a
Lord, is again missing and the police are
now making search to find him. Tuesday
last the Earl was in the House of Lords,
and deputy sergeant alarms, thinking
him in a worse condition than usual, ae-
companied him into one of the ante-rooms.
A short time afterwards the deputy re-
turned to the room, but the Earl was not
there, and since then no one who knows
him has seen him.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-09
RRrannnI

William Scott, the good looking hard
ware man, has returned to the city after a
few weeks absence in the country
Stephen McGavOck, Of Franklin, who has
been attending Medical lectures at s..
Louis for the past seven months, was in the
city yesterday.
Col. A. J. Kellar, editor OF the Memphis
ArGlGRche, was CHARTERED at the Maxwell
House yesterday.
Mr.. AlphonsO JOnnard and bride. returned
last evening from Louisville and CINCINNATI
In the former city, they were the guests
of VI. Kean, Esq, of the Louisville Hotel.
MeSsrs. TheO G. Meier, Z. W. Marina
duke, VIM. p. ShTyock, Of ST. Louis, and
B. W. WATSON, N. Hirschberg, W. ".
Taylor and G.. W. Rowland, of Cincinnati,
were in Nashville yeSterday,en route TO the
Cotton Exchange Convention at Augusta.
The Nashville delegation to the Cotton
Exchange Convention at Augusta, left for
that city yesterday.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-09

Mr.. PENTEcosT, one of the candi-
dates for County Court Clerk-and
who is also an Alderman, by the way,
and chairman of the Street Committee
would not say, at the meeting last
night, how he stands on the Civil
Rights bill and demurred to Juggling
politics" into the canvass. This will
not do The people do not regard the
Civil Rights infamy as politics, and
Dir. Pentecose will have to speak out if
he expects to carry with him a cor
poralis guard of the white voters.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-09
Chaneery Court.

w. F. Prosser vs.. C.. ]. Zeutchen,
confirmation Of sale; Thomas b.
Craighead, ex parte, order TO
Clerk and Master to collect funds; Battle
VS., Gray, report confirmed; Voolfolk vs..
Peay, decree Of sale; Merritt vs.. McNairy ;
petition of Enoch Cunningham, revived in
the name administrators; Young vs.. Dun
can, demurrer oyeTuled, and time given TO
answers; Watson VS.. Duncan, same entry;
Rice VS.. VannOy, report confirmed.
Adjourned until Friday.