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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

into the curd Of tlnmbs of mouldy
barley bread, which are thought to
give the product its peculiar flavora1
The curing is carried on in immense
limestone caves, many natural and
some artificial, which are reckoned
among the most valuable properties in
the district, one very large one COM
handing yearly rental of forty-6ve
thousand dollars. .ye
Few memories of my childhood are
more vivid than that of the annpal
strengthening. The master of the
flock was the most merciful of men. so
they usually kept on their winter raj
ment we'll into the long, bright days Of
June. It.matters not that every bush,
brier, and fence corner in the pasture
futtered woolly flag; he did hate to
see things turned out naked in cold
weather." so they sweltered through
the spring. When the shearing did
begin there was a delightful hustle.
The shears always seemed to have be-
come Independent members of the or
der of peripafetics, as they were always
sure to be considered likely to be found
in at least dozen places. When they
we're found and the. painting animals
driven into the shearing pen, what fun
it was, securely perched ON the highest
fence-rider, to watch the bright blades
clip, clip, clip, and the great fleece, so
tangled and bury on the outside, rolled
deity back, showing the fine, soft tex
ture at the root Then at the close;
how laughably lank seemed the ami
mails, at morning almoststately in their
full-wooled pride, yet how gleefully
they dashed away to pasture, evidently
relieved of burden. Truly, / think
there is need that God should temper
the wind to the shorn lamb "a saying,
by the way, which, like cleanliness is
next to godliness, some people, who
should be better informed, attribute to
st. Paul, instead of Its very un-Pauline
author, Sterne.
There is, | suppose, necessary con-
nection betwixt working in wool and a
capacity to work wonders, but that such
a connection may accidentally exist, is
notably proven by the histories of Co,
lumbus and Shakespeare, not to men
ton the ew-buried statesman who for.
sock wool-combing and thereby reach
ed the Presidency.
fl should even mention the phrase
casting sheep seye," or suffer myself
to think of the sharply significant con
trast embodied in sheepish and lamb
like, l might be led into physico
sycho-philological research that woulG
make this paper unbearably long
wherefore, in illustration of how moi
to do it, | will stop short.
s. NJ. A. C.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18
COL. JNO. L. HOUSE.


We copy the following compliment
tary endorsement of our fellow towns
man, Col. House, from the Waverly
Journal:
with regard to the Congressional
candidate from this district, we have
lately heard but one name, mentioned
therewith-that of John F. House,
of GAINESVILLE. General Vaughn, of
Davidson, was some time since men
toned as a probable candidate, but we
have since learned, on good authority,
that he will not be a candidate before
the convention. This leaves the field
so far as we are advised open to Mr..
House alone, for the present. Others
will doubtless present names before
the convention assemblies. We have
no idea, at the time of writing, who
will be the choice of the people of
this district for Congress, but we be-
lieve that no better selection could be
made than Mr.. House. He is certain
ly pre-eminently qualified for the po-
sition. and should he be elected, would
reflect great credit upon his people
and State as representative. An
accomplished lawyer, ripe scholar,
an effective public speaker, gentle
man of ACKNOWLEDGED ability and of
the most exemplary moral character,
and possessed Of talent of the highast
order, he is we'll qualified to adorp
and honor any position in life, with
which he may be honored, by the suf-
frages of his people. Being welded
to his profession, of which he is a
leading and brilliant member, he has
never heretofore sought political pre-
ferment, aAd is only now q oandidat tie
in response to what seems to be gen
eral desiEe upon the part of the peo-
pie of this district. u
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

THE press of the State is teeming
with complimentary notices of Gen.
Marcus j. Wright of Memphis, as
suitable candidate for the Office of
Governor. Without any personal ac-
quaintance with the gentleman, we are
willing to take him upon hearsay, pro-
vided he is the nominee of the Con-
vention. We have seen so much Of
the disorganization and demoraliza-
ton, resulting from the reputation of
party discipline, and of the moral aud
political evils resulting from indepen-
dent candidates., that a regular nomi-
nation by an authorized Convention of
the opposition, is sine qua non with
us. And whilst we will not, knowing
ly, support an unworthy nominee, We
are willing and resolved to know no
personal preferences in a matter of
such vital importance as the continued
removal Of the State beyond the reach
of Radical rule. Gen. Wright, as the
nominee of the Convention will find
in us an earnest, though feeble, sup
porter, and more than this, it is need
less to say. Every man has his choice,
but no man is patriot who will suffer
that choice to drive him from his par
tvs appointed leader, in a crisis like
this. no matter to what Office he is
nominated.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

SOME idolatrous Radicals have sac
relegiously dubbed Grant the second
Washington. Let US look at some
points of similituGe: Washington, as
commander-in-chief of the rebel army
defined any pay except for actual ex
penses. Grant, as commander, took
all the law allowed him, and as much
more as came conveniently to hand in
the way of belligerent rights. As
President, Washington accepted no
pay beyond his expenses. Grant, not
satisfied with $4,000, greedily signed a
bill to double his salary, and wants tO
be elected for a third term, which
Washington sternly declined. Do you
see the points of similarity, SO far?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

The Managers of the Direct Trade
Union met at Savannah, a few days
since, when complete arrangements
were made to ship grain and cotton to
Liverpool. Slowly the South is being
aroused from its mental lethargy to
consciousness of its talent, power and
the grand destiny that awaits it, when
enlightened energy shall shape its
course. Manufacturing has proven a
success, in all but the limited scale
upon which it has been tried, and now
that the experiment of direct trade, is
about to open up another channel of
southern wealth and commercial indie
pendence, it is to be hoped that new
life and energy will be infused into ag-
riculture and every other industry es-
sential to a prosperity commensurate
with the resources of the most favored
country on earth Foreign capital and
foreign whites skilled in the various
branches of manufacturing, is the i'm
migration the South needs to develope
its wealth and to maintain that race
ascendancy which Radicalism is striv-
ing to subvert and reverse, in all the
southern States.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

CRUTcHFIELD. the Radical Con-.
gresham, from the Chattanooga Dis
trict, threw bombshell into the Rad
zeal wing of Congress when he offered
as an amendment to the civil rights
bill, substantially to this effect-that
any lady decling the attentions of a
colored beau, on account of race.
color, or previus condition, shall be
not less than $500, nor more than
81 600, and be imprisoned not more
than six months. Maynard, Butler
and others gathered around him for
the purpose of inducing him to with
draw an amendment which exposed so
clearly, the fact that Radical villains
were striving to pass laws for the OPP
preston of the South, but to have no
effect in the North. But Crutc6eld,
though Radical, affected not to see
the point and attempted to test the
sincerity of those who pretend to wor-
ship the negro in the South, whilst
they despise him at their own homes
in the puritan North. IF in earnest,
it was capital argument against the
barbarous bill, if jest, it was the best
possible hit at the double dealing of
northern Radicalism In its treatment
of the South.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

ALEX. III. STEVENS, in consequence
of failing health, will not be candi-
date for reelection to Congress. AS
much as we admire his talents as
much as we deplore the sacrilegious
violations and mutilations of the Origi
nal constitution, we think nothing is to
be gained, by sending to Congress, ex-
Founders of that original charter, TO
men who disregard its provisions, not
from ignorance, but a settled purpose
to destroy it as check upon their trait
orous intention to substitute a consol-
idated despotism for free Republic.
Truth and logic, in Radical Congress,
are intrusive defenders of liberty and
Justice and wholly without power to
persuade. or convince those who re-
pudiate every motive of action, not
prompted by the foul ambition to revel
in corrupt power and wealth, or be
crushed under the ruins of the gov
eminent they are striving to destroy.
Stevens and Andrew johnson, though
men of marked ability, are equally dis
qualified to serve the South so long as
Radicalisin is in the ascendant. Both
are aggressive in spirit, and the truths
they may utter and the logic with
which they may defend those truths,
serve only to stir up the vindlctlve
passions of the North and stimulate
its leaders to more hostile legislation,
that treason may be made odiOus, and
rebels taught more. servile obedience
to their despotic rulers who cOnfouud
the freedom of the many with the
RIGHTEOUSNESS of the few, and constl-
tutional authority with the brOadest
construction of brute force. The
time has not come when the South
wants constitutional 'shoulderhl
tiers" in Congress, because the time has
not come when the North desires
free institutions, or can receive the
enuuciation of political truths as Othel
than an Impeachment of their lawles'
and vindictive policy towards the
South.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18
The Late DIR. McCauley, of GAINESVILLE.

At special meeting of the Tennessee
Pharmaceutical Association, held in
Nashville, July 9th, the following
resolutions of respect to the memory
of the late President of the Associa-
ton, DIR. r. ID. McCauly, were passed !:
Whereas, it has pleased Almighty
God to remove from our midst, our
fellow-member and President, r. D..
McCauley, NJ. d., of GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
therefore be it
Resolved, That in the death of DIR.
McCauley, the Association has lost a
most valuable member and officer, and
that we tender our sympathies to his
bereaved family, and to our sister city
in the loss of valuable citizen.
Resolved, That the proceedings of
this meeting be sent to the family of
the deceased, and to the Mayor of
GAINESVILLE; and also to the Pharma-
cal Gazette and Nashville and Clarks-
vile papers for publication.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18
COMPROMISE AND REPUTATION.


Though opposed, on conviction and
principle, to Reputation, we may be
pardoned for offering a suggestion to
those who would be regulators of
Federal and State debt. We offer the
suggestion as a compromise between
wholesale reputation and a plan of
relief, not without some show of JUS
tice, when viewed from standpoint of
self-protection. tits an incontrover-
tible fact that the bondholders, FEEDER
al and State. taking advantage of the
real or supposed necessities OF the
people, in their aggregate, or govern
mental capacity, bought the bonds. as
a general rule, for greatly less than
their face value, in many cases for less
than half Without doing much vio-
lence to the moral aspect of the ques-
ton, the repudiator MAY ask why it is
right that the State shall pay one dol
lar for the half dollar borrowed, and
interest upon the one dollar instead of
upon the half dollar realized. The
seeming injustice is farther increased
by the fact that the bondholders pur-
chased with the expectation of max
ing off the people double the amount
they invested with double interest
upon the sum invested. Then if it
was not immoral 10 capitalists thus TO
gouge the State and people, will it
be grossly immoral and unjust if
the Legislature shall scale the bonds
down to the prices paid and reduce the
interest accordingly? 1t will certain
ly be more in conformity with equity
than total reputation, and since the
bonds were sacrificed to necessity, may
not the bondholers, under the same
plea, consent to receive the sums ac-
tually invested with full interest upon
the same rather than lose the whole
The question is between necessity on
the one side, and avarice on the other,
and between the two impelling mo-
tives, morality may well be neutral,
whatever may be the requirements Of
the law. We offer these suggestions as
a ground of compromise between the
regulators and the bondholders, be-
lieving it will relieve the former Of
some of the odium they are incur,
ring, and save to the latter, all they
risked, instead of losing princi-
pal and interest. What effect this
dodge would have upon the credit Of
the State we do not propose to inquire
we are merely the bearer Of flag
of truce between the beligerents
and shall leave it to the commanders
on either side, TO settle the points il
issue; but if admitted to the consul
tation, would reject the proposition
as not in conformity with law anC
usage an such eases. We charge moth
ing for the sage suggestion, but shall
be amply repaid If it bring both repu
diators and bondholders to conside
the subject, with an eye to the best in
terests of the State and upon the basi
of reciprocal justice.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

GEN. GORDON is doubtless correct
in his belief, that Grant aims at third
term and that, to secure it, he will en-
deavor TO cOnciliate the South with
promises of Justice But he forgets
that, with such man, promises are as
easily broken as made Besides other
obstacles IN the way Grant will find 1t
difficult game TO play the two races in
the South, against each other. Should
he veto the civil rights bill. it will ar
raw against him the entire black vote.
aud the thousands. of negroes with
white skins who adhere TO the sons of
Africa for The sake of the ivory and
gold-dust TO be gained by bartering
country and race for pclf and self
DEGRADATION. Should Grant cGnciliate
southern whites by veto, the votes
he will lose in both sections, will suf,
fee ia defeat him. The negroes in the
South. and the negro worshipers in
the North. are power In the land
which will hold him between two fires,
whatever may be his course in the dis
posaI OF the civil rights bill. What
he may gain in the South, by veto, he
will more than lose in the North, and
what he may gain in the latter, by sign
ing the bill, he will more thaS lose 10
the South. Thus situated, his hope OF
a third term lies in square Radical
nomination and a lavish use of capital
(which he has poured into the laps OF
the rings and mosopolies which he has
helped TO build.up aroppd him. Votes
are the cheapest commodities iG mark
81, aed the msnied aristocracy, rather
than lose the hold upon power and
profit, Eili bid freely for votes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

The anti-funders and twenty-cent
men are lavish of denunciatiOn of the
Conservative Legislature, which did
the best it could, in relation to the
State debt; but not a word of censure
have they, for the Radical swindlers
who entailed that debt upon us. On
the contrary, so in love are they with
the corrupt despoilers of Tennessee,
that they have not hesitated to create
a breach in the opposition ranks
through which the marauders may
once more enter the Capitol and seize
the treasury. The hair of the dog is
good for the bite" is their idea of
craftsmanship.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

GEN. GORDON, Senator for Georgia,
if fairly represented by the reporter
who interviewed him. has fallen des-
perately in love with Grant, whose af-
lection for the South keeps even
growth with his desire for a third
term. The military men of the lost
cause seem in hurry to forget Rob
ert L. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in
their growing admiration of the
Yankee chief who dispenses the official
patronage of a government built up
by The patriots of &c and overthrow
By the Puritans Of 1860.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18
TO THE READERS OF THE CHRON-
ICLE,

would say that have Just received
my Spring and Summer Stock Of
Clothing, for Men, Youths aud Boys
and full line Og Gents Furnishing
Goods, to which | especially invite
your attention My stock is composed
Of some of the finest goods of foreign
and domestic importation, and made
In the latest and most approved styles,
so if you want a fine Dress Coat and
Vest, with black French DOeskin
Pants to match. REMEMBER.
If you want a nice Business Suit,
with single or double-breasted Froek
or Sack. in any kind Of goods from
that of fine French Coating to ordin-
airy Cashmere, REMEMBER.
l have also good assortment. Of
Coats and Pants not in suits.
REMEMBER. that / have a good line
of Cashmere aud Union Cashmere
Pants, that are REMARKABLY CHEAP.
REMEMBER. a good stock of printed
Satinett Pants, 81 50 to 50 90.
REMEMBER. good stock of donble~
stitched COttonade Pants, 81 q to,
- 90.
REMEMBER. those good blue, Asown
and gray Jeans Pants, 81 90 DO 3 %.
REMEMBER. the best Brown Dril6 80
Drawers for so cents and 73 cents.
REMEMBER, in addition 90 this stock
of Clothing. my Mems and Boys
Furnishing Goods are proportionally
low
REMEMBER, have an immense
stock of Shirts white and colored)
and wiz allow liberal discount on
a third OF dozen or more, and Re
MEMBER, | guarantee FITS aud satisiae-
ton in all Instances.
REMEMBER, the place, and give me
IA trial
j. L. BLANTON,
franklin Hall Bnilding,
GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
A mil 4 IS74-tf
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18
CIarksyllle Congressional Convention.

To the Editor of the Banner;
|, as Chairman of the Executive
Committee for the Sixth Congressional
District, request that 10 view of the
great importance of entire Immunity
in the action of the people of this dis
trict, and the difficulty Of converting
this entire committee again in this city,
the people do on the 9th Of August, or
any other day they may choose Through
their county chairman TO nominate,
select their delegates to go to Clarks'
vile 80 lomilala suitable gentleman
to represent Us in Congress, being SAT-
is6ad of the fairness of the PROPOSE
tioni and request the other gentle
men Of the committee to unite ~ this
request. Z, n. WINSTON.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

HUGHES. Judge of the United States
Circuit Court for the Virginia District,
affirmed the title of the Lee family to
the Arlington estate, by ordering the
mill portion of the property to be res
tofed TO Gen. Custis Lee. This settles
the title, as to the balance of the eS-
tate, and unless Congress consents to
pay for it. the price demanded by the
righful owner. he will institute suit for
it, and the decision is already given.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

SEE the card of Col. House, in an
other column. its statesman-lke
views are characteristic of the man,
and clearly Indicate his fitness for the
position selected for him BY a large
postion of this Congressional pistrict.
Comment is unnecessary.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

SOME papers insist upon primary
election and others, upon conventions,
as the most satisfactory modes of bring
Ing out candidates. But what is the
use of either as long as there are can
didates who will run at all hazards,
and voters who will sustain them.
Until the people can take an intelli-
gent and patriotic view of their own
political interests, and are resolved to
choose as agents, men honest and ca
pable, elections are mere lottery in
which every prize is worse than a
blank.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18


A DOCTOR. in East Tennessee, gives
an account of the removal Of two rat
tie snakes from the abdomen of a
woman. Their presence IS accounted
for by the statement-that years ago,
she swallowed two soft eggs supposing
them to be bird eggs. A plausible
theory, but for the fact that venomous
snakes lay no eggs.
THERE has been another dam food
in Massachusetts,, destructive of much
property but no lives. The waters in
that puritanical State are determined
not to be everlastingly damned, what
ever may be the fate of the pious souls
that dam them.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18
ELECTION NOTICE.

IT. A<1<&< - 4O4N W. u ME.
On the 9Th day of August. 1874, / will open
and hold an election in the different pre-
cincts of Montgomery County for the pur.
pose OF electing l County and Criminal
Judge. ! Sheriff, l Circuit Court Clerk,
County Court Clerk, l County Trustee,
Revenue Collector, Register, | Attorney
General, and Constables of the several dis
tricts; and the following Judges, Clerks
and officers are hereby appointed 10 open
and hold the election, and make due returns
according to law:
Dist. No. ii. W. Fort, s. p. Holland, 10
Linebeaugh, Judges; Jas. f. Wilcox, X. b
Williams, Clerks; j. :. Bryan, Officer.
No. 2-Rob't Ferguson, John Manson, W
L. Childs. Judges; Jas. Kennedy, r.. A
Barnes, Clerks: Hervey Whitfield, Officer
No 3-W. b. Collins, Jas. Kiliebrew, Jack
Anderson, Judges; F. o. Anderson, John
No. AZ p dennis, W G Grifiey, X Rives
Judges; Tom Mabry, II 5 Payne, Clerks; J
X p Merritt, officer.
No.5-Felix Northington, David Grant
J Il Elliott. Judges; ID ) Gum, q L Fry
Clerks: II X Rogers, Officer.
No. 6-S NJ Lyon, II NJ Dudley, A V
Johnson, Judges; Geo VI Johnson, G p War
field, Clerks: Theo Waithal Officer
No. 7-R + Bridgewater, j Il Osburn, j n
Scott, Judges; JnO w Scott, w n Osburn,
Clerks; JnO r Martin, Officer.
No, 81 Howard, Il W Humber, II
Pollard, Judges; Nj w Ogburn, Jas Dubois
No. 9-Esqnire Lowery, Levi Cooper, II
Coleman, Judges; Thos Morris, q W eau.
die, Clerks; q Tomlinson, officer.
No. l0-JnO Helm. Thos Majors f /, vii
liams, Judges; + NJ Nolen, Jim Majors
Clerks; = T Williams, Officer.
No. LIEN Brawner, w y Stephens
Richd Winn, Judges; Henry Brown, Henry
CrotZer, Clerks; Jesse Bailey, Officer.
No l2-Thos II jackson, Jno Perkins, San
Johnson, Judges; Dave Mattill, Charles
MunfOrd, Clerks.
No. l4-TOm Atkins, Henry Wheless, JOSH
Humphreys. Judges; A T Atkins, Jno L
Adkins, Clerks; Rufus King, Officer.
No. l5-Bob Morrison, Jesse CrOtzer, JAKE
Ramey, Judges; Nick BagweIl, Wiley Crot
ger. Clerks; 5 A Clifton, officer
No. l6-TnOs BatsOn. brew Hunter jane
Mavety, Judges; Jno BatsOn, 10 Blackboard
Clerks; Tom Harper, Officer.
No. E-Pleas Cooke, Thos Mills, Arch Heg
gle, Judges; Wesley Orgain, Terry Ramey
Clerks: c ID Roberts, Officer
No. lS-Wm CHANNEL. Hen V Lyle. W I
Martin, Judges; Tom Sechler, lobe Heggie
Clerks; NJ q GhoIson, Officer.
No. 19-JW Elliott, r III Mccall, Alex Out
law, Judges; Bob Swift, Billy Williams
Clerks; j NJ Peacher, Officer.
No. 20-W G. Allen. z Smith, V w Smith
Judges; Jno McFall, Jas Trice, Clerks; Wn
Thorne, Officer.
]. J. RAWIIS, Coroner
July IL, lS74-iw.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-18

Several fine farms and town lots for sale
FOR particulars apply TO
B. b. JOHNSON. Agent
July 4, IS54-lW-