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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27
CONSTITUTION of the National Grange

CONSTITUTION of the National Grange.
Adopted.
The report of the Committee on In
surance was received, and it was or
dered that steps be taken to carry its
recommendations into effect, which re-
suited in electiug j NJ. Head, Presi-
dent; A. g. Branham, of Davidson,
Secretary; Messrs. Boyd of Crockett,
Clay of Hawkins, Mcfarland of Will
son. Fulton of Williamson, aud Gooch
of Rutherford, Executive Committee.
Mr.. Fulton offered resolution to
pay the Worthy Master 81 900 for his
services for the year 1874. Adopted
The Committee on Obituaries re-
ported suitable resolutions in regard to
the death Of Sister Thurston, past Po-
mona ofTennessee State Grange, which
were adopted.
A report was submitted by the Com
mittee on Agricultural Implements.
The thanks of the Grange were re-
turned to the Master and officers of the
Grange for the prompt and efficient
manner in which they have discharged
their duties. p
The report of. the Committee ON Pc
titions and Memorials was recon-
mitted, with instructions to the CON-
mittee to memorabilia the law-making
power In reference to railroad diserim-
nations in freights.
The report of the same committed
in reference to memorializing Congress
In reference to appropriations for i'm
proving the Tennessee, Cumberland
and French Broad rivers was received
and referred to the same committee,
with the same Instructions
A resolution by Mr. Rice, OF Lau-
derdale, to memorialize our Legisla-
ture to use their utmost endeavoprs to
enact such laws as will compel each in
dividual to keep his stock from the
premises of another, such enactments
to be left to the vote of each county
separately, was adopted
Mr.. Alternately. of Giles, offered q
resolution to memorabilia the Legisla-
ture to regulate night traffic in farm
products. Adopted.
Col. Charlton offered resolution il
reference to public roads. Adopted
H. I'll. Hubbard, of Messy Greek
Jefferson county. was elected a mem
Der of the Executive Committee.
Resolutions of thanks to the report
ers of the Union and American, thu
Knoxville Press and Herald and the
Knoxville Chronicle. for their full anC
correct reports, and to the citizens o.
Knoxville for their hospitality, wer'
adopted.
A proposition to tax from the table
and adopt petition to the Legislature
in favor of repeating the conventions
interest law was rejected by larg'
majority.
Mr.. Clay. of Hawkins, offered res
olution that the Executive Committee
be instructed to eudeavor to secure the
location of the National Grange a
Nashville.
The Grange then adjourned to NEE
at Jackson, on the third Wednesda!
in February, 1876
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27
HEGIRA OF BLACKS.
They are Emigrating to Kansas and
Mississippi by the Hundred.

4 hegira of negroes has set in for
Kansas and Mississippi. To some ex-
tent the drouth of last season is sug-
gested as the cause of this sudden ex-
odus from a locality where wheat
promises bountiful harvest this
spring. If the drouth is the real
cause of their departure, it would ap-
pear that they are emigrating to a
country which suffered far greater
plaques last year. In Kansas and Ne
braska the chintz bug began the de-
vastation, a drouth came on, and was
followed by the plague of the grass
hoppers, which finished up the work
of devastation to perfection. The
people of Tennessee did succeed in
saving something, though in certain
localities they were greatly damaged.
While it can hardly be denied that in
some of the farming districts much
suffering has ensued, yet no one has,
as yet, as we have been informed, died
from starvation.
If they can better their condition in
Kansas, and we believe they cannot,
We do not know that much objection
should be urged. Those who emigrate
to Mississippi will get into a somewhat
warmer climate, but they ought to re-
member that Mississippi, for the most
part, has to import its grain and pro-
vender, and that they will have to toll
until next fall before they will be able
to realize the profit of their labor.
About five hundred blacks, coming
from Giles, Maury and Rutherford
counties, passed through here via the
Northwestern road Friday for Kan
sas. 1t, is said that hundreds more
will follow them, but will divide, some
going to Mississippi and others to
Kansas.
Two colored ministers from Ruther-
ford County were in the city yesterday.
They stated that not less than 1000
negroes in that county were contem-
plating departure for the West and
South.
The most harmful result to follow
so great An exodus of farm laborers is
in the possibility of not getting all the
wheat harvested.
The only means of supplying this
loss of labor will be the encourage
ment of the immigration of white
laborers and farmers from other States.
To do this, every inducement should
be held out to promote. an influx of
whites from the Northern States and
Europe.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

At called meeting of the Tobacco
Board of Trade, to take action upon
the proposed increase of taxes upon
manufactured Tobacco by the United
States Congress; a committee of three
was appointed by the President, COM
posed of Allen j Johnson, Vice Presi-
dent, f. G. Irwin, ESD, and NJ. III,
Clark, Secretary, to draft appropriate
resolutions. The committee reported
as follows:
LIST. Resolved, unanimously, That
the Tobacco Board of Trade of Clarks-
vile, Tenn, earnestly protests against
the proposed increase of taxes on
manufactured tobacco by the United
States Congress from the present rate
Of 20 to a cents per Id. as unjust, and
injurious to an interest which is already
burdened with taxes in greater pro-
portion than any other manufacturing
interest of the country. That though
tobacco may be the rich mans luxury,
it is the poor man S comfort, and the
tax bears most hardly upon the labor
ing classes of the country.
End. That this Board believes that
the increase of tax on manufactured
tobacco would simply add to a burden
already grievous, without adding TO
the revenue experience showing that
the former reduction of taxes, gave a
large increase OF revenue from this
interest.
Sd. That our representative in Con-
gress, the Hon. j. d. G.. Atkins, oe
respectfully requested to use his in
fiuence against the proposed injurious
Increase of taxes on manufactured
tobacco, as unjust to that interest, and
the section Of country which he repr
reSentS.
ST. BEAUMONT, Pres.
NJ. III. CLARK. Scc'y.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27
The Experience of a Louisiana Bandit.

Eight years ago | thought myself a
well-to-do man. had a regular in
come of ten thousand year, every
dollar derived from real estate My
property was all paid for, kept in thor
ough repair aud fully insured. If pre-
cautions are possible, thought | had
taken all the most prudent could sug-
gest. There is not man who has at
tended more closely to his business
during those eight years than L. l
have entered into no bad speculatiens,
in fact, no speculations at all. My
business has been entirely legitimate,
and its income regular. [ have not
lost day from sickness or any other
cause. I may possibly be able to pay
my taxes this year, but, if things don t
change, Heaven knows where the
money is to come from for the next
For this house in which we now are |
paid S25 900, and it was well worth the
money. | could not sell it now for
nine. A friend of mine the other day
sold residence, the lots and buildings
of which cost him thirteen thousand
dollars, this does not include stabling,
out-buildings, and a hundred other
conveniences put to it since. He got
four thousand dollars for it, and con-
sidered himself lucky.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

The Northern papers which claim
that theelection of johnson commits
the Democracy of Tennessee, TO the
doctrine of reputation, are very much
mistaken. They are right in the as
sumption that Mr.. johnson is a repu
diationist, but in error. in assuming
that he is the Representative of the
Democratic party of Tennessee. 1t is
true that he was elected by legisia-
sure overwhelmingly democratic, but
shat de portion Of it which elected
him, REPRESENTED their constituents is
:. point TO be eettled by the next State
election. Reputation of the caucus
srstem. accounts for his election, the
mystery otherwise remains uneEplain-
ed so 9sx; but no explanation, past OF
future, ean ssake it appear that he
goes to the Senate IS the choice of the
Democracy OF Tennessee, But, If the
rerudiatianists Of the North, wish to
nut him forward as their leader, he Is
the rightman, provided they vail insure
him promotion. As well might the
extrepe Radicals claim his election as
an endorsement of the civil rights bill,
by the Denscraey of Tennessee, upon
the assumption tbat tie people who
would send to the Senate.ihe hoseS 81
she negro race, are prepared to wei
como that iniquity.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

We have no room for the majority
report on Louisiana. Suffice it, for the
present, to say that it not onl3scon-
firms, but strengthens the report ofthe
sub -committee, and leaves no opening
for any interference by Grant. Itmay
be that the compromise proposed by
the Conservatives will be accepted ; in
that event, the trouble will be tenn
porarily removed and home rule must
do the work of peace and order, here
after. The question is, will Grant be
restrained by the action of Congress
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27
Currency Plucked from the Burning.

Four ladies of the treasury depart
ment are constantly engaged in restor-
ing charred currency SO as to render
It's identity such as to SECURE its re-
dgmpti0n. After Chicago great fire,
two hundred cases of money, all in
cinderS. aggregating, at owners valga-
ton, Si6ln97 81, were forwarded to
this bureau, and out of that sum
SI26.5l1 80 was redeemed and its
equivalent returned to the owners
So Boston saved sSa,a9Q 50, out Of
sSs,S1g 80. The PROCESS is to detaeh
from the charred mass each little
shrivellcd piece and lay it on hlotting
PAPER. This is done with very thin
knife. The pieces are examined with
magnifying glasses. and when deci-
phered are pasted on thin strips Of
paper and added to until perfect bill
Is made. A skillful operators Glee do,
ciphered SlS5, 0G0 OF 500, 900 that had
been in the hold Of a burned vessel
for three years. and the express com
pany responsible for the amount, gave
her $500. Again, the quartet laborer
faithfully over some bonds which a
crazy cashier had thrown into the FIRE,
and phoHgh the dlfclofs ssked 81!
100000. they picked ont Sts ~ over
that amount. The oyerjoyea direct
ors instantly, and with the generosity
of true moReybags, Wads each Of the
Iadias a present Of 81. Perhaps II
would be better to prohibit TIE opera
tors from aceeptinga reward res M
tersstea parties. Under a. golden or
creenback stimulus their visual organs
might reach abnormal powers.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

AN Alabama editor thinks the civil
rights bill will be imperative because
the negro cannot prove that he was
denied his rights on account of his
color. This is forlorn hope, because
the intention of the bill is, that his
color shall be the only witness the ne
gro will need. The law has no other
object in view than to arm black against
white and, in any conflict before the
courts, color will decide for the one
and against the other. The Radicals
are too shrewd to leave that question
to be decided, like others, by the
weight of testimony. The fact that
the bill allows a negro to bring his ac-
ton in federal court privilege de-
MED to the white man-exposes the
usurpatien, and the UNCONSTITUTIONAL
ty of the act, and its studied peryer
sion of that equal and exact justice
which the constitution guarantees to
all. Whilst the Radicals have no more
affection for the negro than an eight
year-old horse has for his dam
yet as an instrument for the perpetua
ton Of Radical power, he must be pet
ted and preferred at whatever cost tt
/ justice and the white race.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

Our LEGISLATURE so far, has not ac-
complished very much, but has laid
out work enough to keep it in session
until May-provided it does well all
that it proposes to do. We wish that all
legislative bodies wonld bear IN mind
Jefierson's maxim-that the fault ofall
governments is that they govern too
much. Laws are too numerous and
too often changed to secure anything
like stability in the administration OF
justice, or to give the people an oppor-
tunity 10 learn anything about the laws
which govern them. An indifferent
government honestly and intelligently
administered, conduces more to good
order and the general welfare, than the
best, administered in the interest oil
rings and politicians. This is lesson
the people cannot learn too soon or toe
thoroughly.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

THE Southern Democratic members
of Congress, have issued a very patri-
ic and sensible address to the South
ern people, commencing, as the only
true policy, perseverance in the same
policy of forbearance, under almost
intolerable wrongs, which has won fol
them the praise and sympathy of good
men everywhere. Where resistance
would be madness, exhibitions of vi,
olence are as unwisc as they are impo.
tent for good. Patient and heroic en-
durance will effect a greater revolution
than can be effected by the armed re,
sistance of the few to the many. Be
sides the later remedy is the one which
our enemies pray that we will adopt
they need it as pretext under which
they hope to veil the enormity of then
crimes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27
THE TENNESSEE PATRONS.
Adjournment of the State Grange Yes.
- terday.
Jackson to be the Next Place of Meet.
peoial to the Union and American.

Special to the Union and American.
KNOXVILLE, Feb. 2O.-The Stat,
Grange, after very harmonious SEES
sion, has adjourned. Its next session
will be held at Jackson, West Tennes
see.
After | closed my report of the pro
eeedings, Thursday, Col Charlton in
troduced a resolution asking the Leg.
islature not to interfere with the pres.
ent status of the East Tennessee In.
sane Asylum, which gave rise to some
discussion. The matter was referred
to an appropriate committee.
Resolutions were offered by the same
gentlemen touching the duty of the
Order in participating in the Centen,
NAL exhibition also, one relative to
cheap transportation, and still another
about the Improvement of our water
courses, Muscle Shoals and Harpeth
river.
Committees on various SUBJECTS were
appointed.
Resolutions. were introduced memo
rializiDg the Legislature to pass bill
to repeal the exemption laws, and to
prohibit the sale Of farm products af-
ter night; also resolutions memorial
izlng Congress to appropriate $4,000
for the Improvement Of the Tennessee
and Cumberland Rivers, and to estab-
lish an experimental farm.
In the afternoon, DIR. William Max
we'll, of Gibson county, Worthy Master
Of the State Grange, submitted his an
nual address which was full of encour-
ageIhent and sound advice to the Order.
At night DIR. j. b. Lindsey deliv-
cred his lecture on normal schools to
a crowded house.
Yesterdays proceedings were devo-
ted chiefly to hearing the reports of
committees. a-
The delegates speak enthusiastically
of their treatment by the citizens of
Knoxville and vicinity.
Your reporter was the only repre-.
ola daily paper published
outside of Knoxville who attended the
sessions of the Grange. - r.. ii
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27
FROM A FOREIGN STANDPOINT.

Judging from the tone of foreign
Journals, they are amazed at the hadi-
cal usurpations of power, as well as at
the stolid indifference of the people of
this country, to the rapid destruction
of civil liberty. They see here, no
rival claimants of sovereign power,
each with his followers. and both rely
ing upon the arbitrament of the sword
for the settlement of their respective
claims, as in Spain, at this time, and
cannot comprehend the spectacle of a
people who, after having enjoyed the
blessings of civil liberty for three
quarters ola century, now patientlysub-
nit to its destruction by a handful OF
ambitious and corrupt demagogues.
Had Grant seized the reins of govern
ment and made himself its master, as
the sequence of an unrighteous war OF
invasion, history can furnish precedents
enough of such usurpation of supreme
power by successful military chief
tain; but we furnish the only instance
of people, Boosting of land OF lib
erty, of advanced civilization and chris
tan, convictions so demoralized BY cor
ruption in high places, as to view-some
with exultation. and others with stolid
indifference-the total destruction Of
the institutions to which we owe ouI
past prosperity, honor and greatness.
Well may England, especially, view
with astonishment, not unmixed with
contempt, the degeneracy fher decen-
dants here, who cast aside, as an idle
form, the charter of civil liberty-the
writ of habeas corpus-which she ac-
ouired at the cost Of blood and treasure,
andhas preserved through generations
ofceaseless vigilance. 1t is true Eng
land furnished the puritanism which
poisons our social, moral, religious and
political institutions, yet there would
have been conservatism enough to neu-
tralize that poison, but for the deep
seated corruption superinduced by the
virus, ere the dangerous symptoms
were clearly developed--as a people,
we were rotten before we were
ripe, and hence our passive sub
mission to a corrupt despotlsm.
Viewed from abroad, the great Repub-
public-the asylum of the oppressed
and home of the brave and free, must
cut contemplate fgure-iss officials
embezzling and squandering the earn
ings of labor, whilst drunken mill
tary officer makes himself master OF
the government and pulls down and
builds up States at his own will and
pleasure.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

IT will be a singular, and very pos.
sible coincidence, should the second
century of the United States com.
wence like the first, with an armed
struggle between liberty and deSpO,
tism. All the present indications
point to that result. Grant so wills
it, and the most corrupt and malignant
of his party in Congress, are working
to that end. Should the calamity be
averted, we shall owe it, not to the
wisdom and patriotism of our rulers,
but TO the sober second thought of the
people, and the eoersiye power Of pub
lie opinion.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27
LETTER FROM DICKSON COUNTY.

Editors Chronicle: You have heard
of tree stories, and | do not doubt but
what you have seen some very large
ones, but there was one felled at this
place on the 10th inst. that beats any
thing in the shape of black oak / ev-
er saw or heard of before in this coun-
ty. There isn't any selling about this
tree, it can be seen by any one that is
so unbelieving as to doubt the veracity
of it. The lap made seven cords of
wood and four ten foot cuts made sew
en- hundred (T00) rails. There was
enough rough timber left that could
not be made either into rails or wood
that would have made at the least cal
culation seven cords more of wood. 1t
is estimated thatifthe whole tree could
have been made into cord wood that it
would have made % cords, which would
have yielded eight hundred 5000 BUSH
els of coal, enough to melt fifteen tons
or 34020 pounds of iron ore, which ac-
cording to yield of ore here would
make six CO. tons of pig iron, at $50
parton $3.50, the value ofthe black oak.
Send me a sample copy of the Chroni-
Gle l will get up subscription for it.
Yours very truly,
w. r. H.
Cumberland Furnace, Feb. IL, 1875.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

WE do not expect a court. organized
to defend and uphold the bOldest usur-
patton. to pronounce the civil rights
bill unconstitutional, still it is a spe-
cies of purely class legislation not
countenanced by the constitution. nor
would it have been by the judges of
other days, who sat upon the Supreme
Bench. A white man, dirty, ragged
and impecunious, if refused admit
lance into a hotel, or theatre or palace
sleeping car can have no redress from
the law; but negro, under the same
circumstances, has a court provided
for the redress ofhis imaginary wrongs,
and is allowed premium of five hun
dred dollars for his impudent demand
to be treated as decent gentleman.
Such is the tyranny of Radicalism,
sanctioned by the northern haters of
the South.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

Mrs. Woodruff says she hasa book
in preparation, which will ventilate
the whole Beecher- Tilton scandal.
We hope the authrities will be decent
enough 70 suppress the book. Enough
of obscenity has already been publish
ed in connection With that affair, to
corrupt the present and the rising gen
Grafton of both sexes. let her crate
on the witness stand and her utteranees
be restricted TO the more ephemeral
columns of newspapers-books should
contain purer and more instructive
matter.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

We see.it stated-though not au-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A. j. is, or will
be, an independent candidate for the
Presidency. We have looked for this,
since his election TO the Senate. If
The Democrats nominate him. he will
gladly run as their leader; if not, he
will endeavor so far to divide the par
ty as to secure theelection of the Rad
icai Rominee, as in the case of May
nard
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27
SATURDAYS Proceedings.

DR.. Currey offered resolution look
ing to the'prevention of discrimination
in freight by railroads. Referred to
The Committee gu Direct Trade
Mr., Gooch, of Rutberilrd. otfered a
resolution changing thass clauses in
the State Grange Constitution IN rela-
ton to the election OF officers in subor-
dinate Oranges so as to conform to the
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27
LOCAL OPTION AND POLITICS.
Nashville Correspondence ofthe Louisville
Courier-Journal

Courier-Journal
[ do not like to assume the role OF
adviser-general to this General Assem-
bly,, but in the light of the past | think
it would be well for them to make
haste very slowly in regard to all tenn
perance laws. While [ am theoreti-
cally and practically in favor OF tenn
perance, | can still see reasons why the
agitation of such questions oftentimes
leads to worse evils than those sought
to te corrected.
BY the election. of Andrew johnson,
the Democratic party of Tennessee has
brought into its ranks thousands of
foreign born citizens, who will not
hesitate TO return to their former al
legiance if the whiskey question as
sumes too much prominence at the
the hands of the Legislature. The
Radicals lost Ohio, Indiana and Mas
sachusetts by reason of the agitation of
the liquor question, together with the
rottenness of their party. May not the
Democrats lose Tennessee quite as ca
silly, should fanaticism rule the hour !?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

If Mrs. Moulton's testimony did mt
place Beecher, once more on the rag
ged edge of despair, it is because he
has become hardened, which last
would seem to be the case, or he would
hardly have characterized that lady's
testimony as lie.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

Ii may be an omen of moral reform
that the manipulators of the Beecher
scandal, refrained from offending pub
lie descency so far as to suspend the
dirty exhibition on Washington BIRTH
day.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

john mitchell, though refused a
seat in the British Parliament, is again
a candidate John is peripatetic
firebrand, and eonfagration political
or social, is sure to indicate his where
abouts.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-27

PINCHBAcK. in his indignation at
not getting his seat in the Senate,
threatens to go back on his party, by
disclosing some ugly features in the es-
adjustment of the kellogg govern
ments.