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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10
FIAT JUSTITIA.
October l, 1874.

We are indebted to Mr.. A. David
son, deputy clerk. for the following
proceedings of the county court held
last Monday:
But little business of interest was
done in the court Monday, being most
" routine work.
There was an order appointing T. D.
Leonard overseer of the Lower Red
River Ferry road-a road which should
be put in order, for the convenience
of the public.
Permission was granted Joe John
son to open ferry at the sand bank
above town.
The Poor House Committee report
ed the fences greatly in need of repair;
but no appropriation was made. There
are four paupers now in the Poor House.
Three white and one negro.
The 18th District was divided into
two voting precincts, Franklin street
being the lines; and, in the country,
the Russellville pike on one side and
the town road on the South side.
Hence franklin street, extended on
both sides forms the boundary. All
north of that vote at the Court house,
all South at Caldwell's stable, until a
better place is provided.
Esquire Dunlavey asked for an ap-
preparation of $75 to repair the levee
on the South side of the river at the Z
mile ferry-which was granted.
r. II. Williams was elected Notary
Public in place of Jno. Faxon.
The appropriations altogether
amounted to $1,000
Tom Smiths delinquent list was re-
ferred to committee.
r. D. Moseley was allowed releases
on 200 or 800 polls.
John r. Martin was allowed a num-
Der of releases for several years,
amount not yet ascertained.
Judge Tyler, DR.. Cobb, and Squire
Mallory appointed to ascertain the
amount of the past school indebted
ness and report whether the county or
the State is liable for its payment.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10
The Changers.

One grange in California took seven
hundred shares in the Grange Bank.
The Changers of Bracken county,
KY, will have grand rally near Eos
ter, on the 18th of October. Several
oranges from Ohio will cross the river
20 participate in the festival and socia-
BILE.
The following resolution was adopt
ed by the 0skaloosa, Jefferson county,
Kansas, Grange: Resolved, That We
are opposed to stay-law, and will not
take refuge behind such shelter.
That we are opposed to reputation,
and that we are in favor of paying ev-
cry dollar of obligation resting upon
us, either public or private.
Much depends on the master in the
grange. He should be progressive,
reading, thinking, active man. He
should lead as an officer, and have his
suggestions matured and sound, and
then he will have the confidence of the
members. Let the masters wake up
to the importance of their position, and
be prepared for any emergency.-.South-
ern Agricutturist.
The grange movement in Texas has
made rapid progress during the last
twelve months. There are now over
six hundred organized oranges in the
State. and a number of deputies are in
the field organizing more. 1t is esti-
mated that the present cotton crop of
that State, belonging to Patrons, will
be handled for one-third less than last
year, and that the business men who
propose to sell at these prices, are
among the best in the State. Colonel
w. W. Lang, of Marlin, Texas, a ma
tive of Wayne county, Mississippi, and
for many years a resident of that State,
is Master of the State Grange of Texas.
In defense of secrecy in the Grange.
a correspondent of the Western Rural
says: I'VE have ample evidence of the
excellency of secrecy, inasmuch as we
are taught to pray in secret, to give
aims in secret, not letting our left hand
know what our right hand doeth, ETC.,
etc. And we might call attention to
many Of the finer relations and charac-
teristics in life which we hold in abso-
lutte secrecy Nothing is made COM
mon but the drops of life, and the
drops only of everythingare made COM
monplace. Whereas, shut up in the
soul are the grand desires and aspira-
tons of the heart, only made known to
our dearest friend, and even then in
secrecy"
The spirit of all secret orders is too
often lost sight of-mere form taking
the place of that purer. higher and
more noble sentiment of fraternity up
on which all orders, and especially the
order of Patrons, ARE professedly found
ed. The moral, instead of the mental
faculties, the heart instead of the
head. should guide and govern the
thoughts and actions of the Patrons in
a far greater degree than they do. We
do not fulfill all our solemn obligations,
voluntarily taken, when We go through
with the forms and ceremonies of the
ritual there is, or ought to be, holt
er motive for our actions than the too
common one of sordid gain or excel
lence in prescribed formality.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10

TIE adaptation of education to life
pursuits is an important consideration
which is entirely overlooked in every
system of common schools. The far
mer's business is with plants, yet what
does he know of botany, or the physi-
oligy of the plants he raises? He has
TO deal with animals of various kinds.
butts taught nothing of their pyhsiolo-
gy-their diseases and the remedies to
be applied. From the soil he derives
his support, yet knows nothing of ge-
ology, mineralogy, or Of analytical
chemistry which would enable him to
determine the constituents of his soil
and detect such as are wanting for the
perfect growth of the plants he cult
Yates. He has to do with machinery.
yet knows nothing of its construction,
or the laws which should govern its
movements. Then his education
amounts to this-reading, writing and
arithmetic, and with these, he must
work out his destiny, good or bad, ac-
cording to his native powers of intel
lect and the circumstances by which
he may be surrounded.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10

IT speaks badly for our farmers. that
meat of every kind, eggs, milk and
butter are almost at famine prices, the
wear round, in the market here. b.
comparison. we find that the necessa-
ries of life are dearer here than in
many towns with many times the popu-
lation of this. If the Changers want
to do,the fair thing they will remedy this
evil. The poor can barely live under
this condition of things, and should
they cease to be consumers and become
producers, the farmers would soon see
the markets glutted with provisions
and their small profits beautifully
less" Besides this, business men who
have to pay exhorbitaut prices for
meat and bread, in order to save them
selves, must go back on farmers, so far
at least, as charging corresponding
prices for the wares they sell. This
makes an unhealthy condition oftrade,
and leads TO mutual charges of extor-
ton. Hence the prejudice between
town and country.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10
Read, COl0red Voters!

The emancipated, disenthralled slave
owes no measure of gratitude to US.
We were opposed to his liberation ;
we strove against it; we begged, we
besought the people against it; We
pointed it out as one of the results of
the war, and we tried with might to
have peace. They (the rebelsl are the
men that inaugurated emancipation,
and are entitled to the full credit.
Give it to them, Press full measure
and running over. Horace Mdyn.
ard.
Experience has shown that no race
which has ever come in contact with
the white or Caucasian type has per-
mauently prospered.-Horace Mayn-
ard. ar-.
What has been the result to the
Indian race will just as surely be the
fiual termination Of the African race.
They will gradually disappear from
among US, until our grandchildren,
three quarters of century hence,
will find negro as scarce as We now
find the Indian.-Rorace Maynard.
Your Governors were shareholders,
your Judges were shareholders, your
members Of Congressman most OF the
members of you Legislature. 1t was
high, proud and lofty institution
Horace Maynard.
1t will present as the summation Of
all [ have offered on this occasion,
and as the two great and prominent
ideas which | wish to leave imprinted
on your memory, regenerated South
and the euthanasia death of the
black race in America.-Horace
Maynard
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10
Citizens OF Alabama Chained Togeth-
er Like Felens and Hooted at by e
Negro Hob.

At 5c'el0ck. last evening, United
States Deputy Marshals Williford and
Randolph reached this city, having in
charge Messrs. Stephen Renfro, Chas.
Bullock, Frederick Childs, and VIM
Hillman, arrested in Sumter county
on the trumped-up charge of the muir
der of w. p. Billings, on the LIST of
last August. These four gentlemen
were hand-cuffed and chained together
by chains connecting the handouts
with each other. They were arrested
within an hours run Of Meridian, be-
tween which city and Mobile there is
direct communication by rail. Yet
they were pompously paraded through
the State Of Alabama to Montgomery
dragged like convicted felons through
cities and towns-badgered and hu-
INFLATED, Ito make negro holiday
to land, after one hundred and thirty
miles travel, at point thirty or forty
miles farther from Mobile than when
they started. This was a most unnee-
essary and wanton display of brutality
We have no idea that any man be-
lieves these unfortunate prisoners to
be guilty. Their conduct is at war
with every theory Of guilt. We are
convinced that their arrest was or
dered by the Radical ring masters
without reference to any probability Of
their guilt, and as part of deep laid
scheme of villainyl Political CAPT
tal'' is what they desire; but let them
beware that their schemes do not re-
turn to plague the inventors.
We learn that at Manack, in Lowndes
county, negro mob gathered about
these manacled and defenseless men
and hooted and yelled insults at them
One negro, holder than the rest, placed
his hand behind his back as though he
intended drawing pistol to shoot the
prisoners, but one of the deputy-mar-
shals fired at him and put him to fight
Montgomery (Ala.) advertiser, Oct
4th.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10
Collectors Report.

We are indebted to Judge Tyler for
the following report of the Collectors,
for the months Of August and Sep
TENDER:
For the months of August and Sep
TENDER, 1874, j. j. Rawls, railroad tax
collector for 1870, 1871 and 1872, has
collected and paid into the First Ma
tional Bank, 1857 90.
Peter Oneal, Collector of privileges,
has collected and paid into the North
ern Bank, S2,05S %.
A. Il. Smith, Revenue c Hector for
1870, 1871 and 1872, has collected and
paid over to the County Trustee,
$319.Sl, and school tax Sl72,60.
c. d. Bailey Circuit Clerk, has col
lected from fines imposed in Criminal
court, $40 90. From taxes for the
year. 1S73-redeeming lands sold by
Colleeto is, S33 ~
r. d. Moseley, School Tax Collector
for 1873, collected on polls, $50 90
Total for the two months, $3067 Go.
r. d. and j. L. Moseley having
finished their collections for County
and Railroad purposes by August Sth
and consequently have no report to
make for these two months.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, October 6.
Last night five negro prisoners broke
Jail here and escaped. One OF them,
James Perkins under death-sentence
for murder, struck the guard, Mack
Hill, on the head with bar OF iron,
causing Hills death at five o'clock
this Afternoon. The sheriff posse re-
captured all of the prisoners. Hill Is
a brother of James Hill, secretary Of
state. The feeling among the colord
people is such as would render Perkins
life unsafe outside of jail.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10

THE municipal election last Satur-
day, not only indicates where the bal
lance Of power lies, but the ease with
which it can be controlled for purposes
at war with the best interests of those
who own the property and pay
the taxes. The game played here,
may be as easily played in the county
election, in the absence of that intel
ligence which should estimate the evil
consequences, and of that public vir-
tue which alone can apply an efficient
remedy. Wherever this balance OF
power exists, there will be found men
selfish, unpatriotic and reckless
enough to try to WELD it for individual
advantage, and until public opinion is
enlightened and unanimous enough to
frown down disorganizers, the reign
of corruption will continue. In fact
the better class of citizens deserve to
suffer all the political evils which they
will not combine to remedy or avert
For the city, the true remedy-as we
have elsewhere stated-is an amended
charter that will secure the pro.
lection of property by removing it be,
yond the possible control of a vote
which represents nothing but preju-
dice, passion and ignorance.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10
Interest to all on the Important Sui
jet Of Boots and Shoes.


CLARKsvLLE TENN 10TH S7In order the people
with Fall Stock will endavor in this short advertisement
short history Eastern together
profits and to begin will Being fully aware of the disastrous results
drouth fully would
Be both lmpoe and H to hold high prices and 6g prea hen
this principle have this Fall marked will
divide profits with friends and thereby enable them
Fall
readily and with they did when
hush And then another favorable
and Shoes when East this Fall doub
Stock CHEAP and this successful the
goods was bought from % soc less than regular and thus
selling
buyer from 5 20 great goods For several
sell Boots Shoes than
which
others do from Eastern Manufacturers the decline
Shoes
Boston hunting cheapest aud best places buy then those
those who do
commend Shoes customer so am ~g hare
the Shoes repaired buy only from reliable and
their Goods As evidence the decline Boots
Shoes
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10

We see that the people of Staunton,
Va, raised, in few hours, $4,000, for
the building of cotton factory. We
are always pleased to see such evil
dences of energy and public spirit in
any of the southern colonies of New
England. A forty thousand dollar
factory in GAINESVILLE, under the su-
pervision Of an experienced manufac-
turer, with corps of skilled opera
tives. would add greatly to the wealth
and population of the city and in ad-
dition to this, would invite new enter
prises of similar character, and de-
veiop more, or less rapidly our admir-
able locality as manufacturing cen
tire. But, we beg pardon for making
so extravagant suggestion and iudulg-
ing in passing hope FORTS realization,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10
RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE.

Almost daily we read accounts of
hundreds and thousands of northern
laborers thrown out Of employment
because supply exceeds demand 1t
is probable that the hardships they
viii endure through the rigors of
long winter, will teach them that the
poverty to which they have helped to
reduce the South, is reacting upon
themselves. The immense supplies
which used to be boughtfor negro con-
sumption, the negroes are too poor
and improvident to buy for themselves,
and the luxuries in which wealth was
want to indulge are cut off by the
hand of poverty, or forbidden by
wise economy. Thousands, who once
looked TO the labor Of the North for
every article of consumption, are now
creating what they consume. The
wiser portion of the southern people
are beginning to see that every factory
erected in the South, is a blow at
northern labor. and through a well d.
rected system of manufacturing, they
are beginning to discern the broad,
plain road to political equality and re-
newed prosperity. Millions of bushels
of grain once supplied by the north
west, with corresponding amounts of
hay and pork, will soon be no longer
needed in the South, and the farm
laborers will be the sufferers.
With such prospects before them,
each section will learn ere long, the
wisdom of change of policy. The
South to abandon its ruinous policy of
dependence upon hostile section, and
the North, its brutal and short-sighted
policy of oppression and insult, and
learn the wiser lesson of justice and
Cancellation, honesty and patriotism
All things are tending to these results,
so far as the people are concerned, and
unless despotism soon compasses its
aim to crush both sections into one
consolidated mass of political slavery,
these results will be reached through
the workings of cause and effect.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10
Stand by the Nominees.

The Memphis Appeal gives some
wholesome advice for the benefit of a
small but noisy class. We make the
following extract:
z The Radicals are too shrewd not to
know that it is impossible for them to
elect nominated party candidates for
the Legislature, and hence they are
ransacking every hole and corner in
Shelby county, with the hope of dig
ging up enough renegades to organize
a regular independent ticket. Trait
ors often turn up about the time of
elections, or soon after nominations
have been made, and we would not be
surprised if enough Democratic and
Conservative apostates could be found
In Shelby county to form an in9epend-
ent ticket. But the Democrats and
Conservatives of Shelby are deter
mined to stand by their regularly nom-
mated candidates for the Legislature.
The masses of our people have far
more discrimination and sound judg-
ment than politicians usually credit
them with. They understand full well
AANSPOdOCut dEC
self-seekers, and that the true patriot
will always prefer to submit to positive
neglect and wrong at the hands of his
party than to endanger the public veal
by calling in the enemy to help avenge
his private wrongs. In order to save
the State from ruin, utter and CON-
plete, the Democratic party must be
preserved intact, and unless party dis
cipline is preserved, this cannot be
done. Let it be understood that the
man who opposes the regular nominee
in this contest places himself beyond
the pale of the party, and must look in
future to the Radicals for promotion
There are some who will not be affect
ed by this, as they have no future, and
are only catching at the few straws
which promise to keep their heads fol-
brief moment above the waters of OBJ.
livion. Away, then, with independ.
ents and the usual complaints of dis
appointed aspirants.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10
Public Speaking.

Col. John F. House, Democratic
and Conservative Candidate, and Judge
Horace Fl. Harrison, Republican Cam
didate for Congress, wiz speak in this
city on Monday night, October 18th.
They will also address the people at
the following times and places, viz:
At Palmyra, Tuesday, Oct. 10th, at
Erin, Wednesday, Oct 2lst; at Majors
Store, Friday, Oct. 23d; at Ashland
City, Saturday, Oct. oath.
They will publish at Nashville list
of appointments for Davidson County.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10

EDIToRs CHRONICLE The world
needs correct information from Impair
tial and unbiased observers. Your
correspondents are generally of this
character, l suppose.-know nothing to
the contrary. Two communications,
however, in your issue of September
26, which did not reach me till yester-
day, deserve attention. They furnish
you with religious intelligence. about
which no one ought to write, unless he
or she can and will give facts. One
who views the movements of the
Church in the light of the ludicrous, or
he who occupies a sectarian stand
point, do not make reliable chroniclers.
To ridieule religious revival is
characteristic of acknowledged infdel-
ity and spurious christianity. Being
without fact or argument to sustain
their respective positions, and know
ing the terror of the worlds dread
laugh" they resort to derision for the
purpose of lettering persons from seek
ing religion, and preventing, as far as
they can, those churches from spread
ing their borders, which adhere to the
custom of the fathers in holding pro-
tracted meetings. Some seem to think
that it COMFORTS with high order of
intellect to see nothing but fun at
revival. Some are merry. on the same
principle that the boy whistles so loud
ly while he passes graveyard-they
are trying to drive away the encroach-
ments of conviction.
Bigotry received the severest rebukes
that ever fell from the pure lips of our
blessed Savior. 1t is certain to crop
out from some quarter when more than
one denomination of christians are put
to the necessity of organizing in the
same house. A union church is a
grave mistake. Two families cannot
long keep house together in peace I'M
der the same roof. Rupture is one of
the inevitables in such case. Some
body will think something that ought
not to be thought, and then say some
thing that ought not to be said, and
away goes peace. Church members
are still human beings after they are
converted. At two churches that l
know of several denominations wor-
ship and labor together, and have been
blessed with good meetings" Each
will be duly accredited for services
rendered to Him alone who Is capable
of discriminating in such matters. To
one of these denominations your cor
respondent does not accredit any of
the success that has attended our joint
labOrs nor is this the first time that
the form of sectarianism has shown it
self-from another quarter heretofore.
however. What seems somewhat
strange is, that the denomination is ig-
nored which has the largest member
ship, the greatest number Of accessions,
most working members, as frequent
preaching, to which one of the houses
actually belongs, and which alone has
an organization in the other.
Remarkable harmony has, in the
main characterized the joint labors Of
these christian people, and | do not
believe the time has yet arrived for
either one to engage the services of a
sectarian reporter. As yet, we be
brethren"
FIAT JUSTITIA.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10

THE present condition of the cotton
market, controlled by rings and corners,
clearly demonstrates the importance.
to the cotton States, of direct trade
with foreign ports. The planter should
not rest satisfied until he can realize
all the benefits of foreign demand I'M
diminished by the profits of interme-
date agents in the interior and at the
seaboard. Direct trade and water
transportation to the Gulf, are the two
leading questions to be solved by the
Changers.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10

GRANT says he is going to make it
perfectly safe for a man, from any
where. TO go where he pleases within
the borders of Louisiana. A gentle
man can do that now, and if he means
that thief shall be safe anywhere in
the State, he must first thoroughly
Radicalize the entire population. We
hone. however for the honor of the
country. that he has made no such fool
ish declaration. There is no specific
in his alchemy that can fuse honest
men and rogues into homogeneous
mass.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10
The FREEpMEN's BANK.-Thy

THE FREEDMEN BANK.-The com
missioners who were appointed to in
vestigate the affairs of the Freedmen S
Bank, after three months of delving
into its rottenness. have at last been
obliged to announce that, however
much it may be regretted, it is never
theless true that this company is in
solvent and unable to pay its deposit
ors and other creditors. This is poor
consolation for the creditors. They
do not even get the satisfaction Of an
assurance that the commissioners will
fasten the responsibility upon the prop
er parties in the Washington ring who
stole the money of these poor colored
people and prosecute them. They are
hopeless victims, and their money is
in the pockets of the ring.-Ch'cdgo
Tribune.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-10

FINE ToBAcco.-On Friday, and Sat-
urday, October 10th and 18th, 1874,
Harrison & Shelby will sell 300 or $50
hdds. of fine Tobacco (Clarksvills Sc
lections), consisting Of Balers, Ger
man, Black and Swiss Wrappers, all
the selections of j. W. Shaw, Lenox
& Edwards, r. Sorry & Son, McMurry
& Bro, N. Brown & Son, and others,
which makes it the finest selection of
Tobacco ever offered on this market.
This will be the last sale of the kind
this season.