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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

The statement is occasionally pub
lished, that the trade of New York is
sensibly declining and the New York,
Day-BQok admits it, by asserting that
the cause is the persistent effort to
prevent the recuperation Of the South.
This cause would suffice to make the
same remark applicable to the entire
northeast, were it not for the persis-
tency of the South to bald upthe trade
and increase the wealth and power of
that section so hostile to southern
rights and interests. The four great
staples-cotton, tobacco, sugar and
rice-if judiciously raised and han
died, would build up the power and
wealth of the South to the point of
absolute commercial independence.
But under the suicidal policy of pro-
ducing the staples in order to pay for
northern bread and meat together
with almost all other articles con-
sumed by the South, the picture is re-
yersed-the North reapins the profit
and the ACCOMPLISHMENT, whilst the vas
sal South, all poverty and oppression.
New York took an active part in Grip
ling and starving the southern goose
and, therefore, has no right to COM
plain that her share of the golden eggs
is diminishing. Had the South, for
years past, pursued the policy, which
the Changers are trying to enforce,
that of becoming self-sustaining, as a
fundamental idea, and looking to
the growth of the leading money sta
pies for the sure annual profits, hard
times would not now be the almost
universal complaint of its people.
Capital, under that wiser policy, would
have accumulated and, by its applica-
ton to the development of the resour-
ces of the country, would at, this time,
have raised the South to position COM
handing the respect of the world and
exerting an influence amply sufficient
to secure the protection of its rights
and to have freed itself of the oppres-
sion and insults now being heaped
upon it by vindictive sectional tyran
ny. The former slaves seem to have
impaired to their owners, their own
native chacteristics, improvldence,
want of enterprise and business tact,
as we'll as that manly pride which
prompts to independence of others,
when dependence means want of man
hood, and subordinate position in the
scale of active life.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17
GAINESVILLE :. APRIL II, 1875.
Ix,be trial &c he f,r.nt p.,;.b case.

In the trial Of the Grant Parish cases
before the United States Supreme
Court, Justice Clifford asked the At
torney General whether the attempt to
prevent a white man from voting
would, under the enforcement act,
bring the case within the exclusive
jurisdiction of federal court? The
Attorney General thought it would
not Then Justice Clifford asked, if
under this view, the negro has not
more rights in court. than are ac-
corded to the white man? To this the
Attorney General replied, that he
thought not, because the original Con-
stitution conferred the privilege of
suffrage upon 10 one, but that an
amendment to it conferred that privil-
ege upon the negro, and hence the au-
thority of Congress to legislate for
the special protection of the negro.
Why did not the original Constitu-
ton confer the privilege of suffrage
upon any one? Simply because the
authority to do SO was explicitly re-
served to the States. yet to defeat the
purpose of those who so wisely defined
the limits between Federal and Stateau-
thority, the Radical usurpers, by the
bined influence and of force and fraud,
stimulated by hatred of the South and
republican freedom, tore down this
principal barrier between constitution
al liberty and despotic consolidation.
And by way of adding insult to injury,
the symmetry ofthe constitution was
married and its fundamental idea per-
verted, not to promote the welfare of
the race by whom, and for whom, the
government was created, but to subject
large portion of that race to the pO-
litical domination of semi barbarous
creatures, and to make citizens of
whom, it was necessary to emasculate
the constitution that reasonable usur-
pations might hide its ugly form under
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of constitutional
authority.
We do not know how the Supreme
Dench may reason, or feel on the sub
ject, but they must be partizan beyond
the gravest doubts of their willingness
to sustain justice and the con-
stitution, if they evade the vital issue,
or express their preference for Grant
and consolidation over all the great
interests they have sworn to foster and
defend. None know better than they
how the amendments were adopted, for
what vile purposes they are intended
and how violative of constitutional law
and the broad principles of political
justice, are the enactments which have
followed upon the heels of that great
iniquity. Some of them, we fear, are
also fully cognizant Of the price they
promised to pay for their elevation to
the seats they occupy-that price is
perjury and treason, positive as to their
own consciences, though only construc-
tive perhaps, as to public opinion.
These last, will strive to stave off a
decision until public sentiment shall
indicate whether it will be more prof.
table to do right than to commit per-
jury.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

THE Texas Pacific railroad project
will come before Congress next win
ter, with a new programme. Tom
Scott is to be stricken from the list OF
Directors, and the names of prominent
southern men used in connection with
its construction. As a southern road,
it is appropriate that southern men
should be prominent in its construc-
ton and have a say-so in the location
of its branches and termini.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

SENATOR GORDON wisely declines to
let his name be used in connection
with the Vice Presidency. He says
the time has not yet come when that
position will be conceded to an ex-
rebel. The North has SO far surren-
dered its self-ereated antipathies as to
make no open objection to rebels voting
for rebels, but we doubt the policy of
asking northern votes for an ex-rebel
for the Vice Presidency. Of course,
we despise the malignity engendered
by conscious wrong-doiug, but the life
of the Republic is at stake, and it
were better to save it through northern
fundamentally than lose it through
northern antipathy to the South.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17
TILE TAXES OF 1874.
Six per Cent. Interest Charged on All
Unpaid Dues After November LIST,
0f That Year.

The Comptroller of State has issued
a circular letter TO the various County
Collectors, constituting the law granting
until next November to tax payers to
pay their taxes. He instructs them,
under the law, to collect interest at the
rate of 6 per cent. per annum on all
taxes for the year 1874 not paid before
the first of November of that year.
1t will thus be seen that while the law
seeks to afford temporary relief to tax
payers, it also imposes 6 per cent. in
terest, so that they will gain nothing
but time by the postponement of the
day of payment All those who are
able will therefore save the accumulat-
ing interest by paying their taxes with
out further delay. The same ruling
applys as well to corporation as to
State and county taxes.-NashriHe
Banner.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

BEECHER says it was Tilton's pro-
elivity to leak at every side" which
caused him Ito suffer the torments of
the damned" This bears no other in.
trepretation than an indirect confession
of guilt. No man ever suffers thus
because another blabs, unless that
other may blab out some fatal truth
involving fearful consequence to the
voluntary sufferer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

fT is said that the new tax on tobac-
co is acting injuriously upon the plant
ing of the weed, in Virginia and North
Carolina. Of course it is, for Con-
gress intended it. The policy of the
Radical faction, ever since the war,
has been to run the government in the
interest of New England, and how can
this be more effectually done than by
forcing the South and West to bear all
the expense of running the govern
ment? The tariff, instead of being
shaped with an eye to the largest
amount of revenue, is intended for the
exclusive benefit Of eastern capitalists,
whilst the West and SOuth-their pro-
ducts and labor-bear the unequal
burden of furnishing the far greater
part of the revenue that finds its way
into the federal treasury, there to be en-
bezzled by Treasury thieves, or lavish
ed upon rings and projects of which
New England is the chief beneficiary.
Well this is the peoples government
and if they prefer to be ruled by rings
andill-gotten capital and corrupt ofici-
ais, they should not complain of the bur-
dens they bear, nor be surprised that
every interest is depressed by public
debt which they have paid twice over,
aud the debt still weighing upon them,
because the money raised by taxation
has been cOrruptly misapplied. 1t is
TO be hoped that the South and West
will soon become sensible of their duty
TO themselves and country, and that the
Changers will take the matter in hand
and make themselves heard in man.
ner MOTTO be misunderstood.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

THE postal frauds, now being un-
earthed, promise to develOpe second
Credit Mobilier steal, in which are i'm
nhcated prominent saints of the Radi-
cal church. Like all other Radical
yiIlainies. its exposure will not be full
until the government is administered
by honest men.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

THE Quaker State seems to have
gone daft upon the subject of centen-
mails. Not content with the centen-
NAL of government which no longer
exists, except in theory, ii proposes a
centennial celebration of the society
for the abolition of slavery. The first
is contemplate, as a money making
scheme aud mockery of republican lib
erty-the other in wretchedly bad taste
and spirit, intended, as it must be, to
reflect upon the South, and to revive
anlmoSitles that ought to sleep. Slave
~ is forever abolished, and as the man
ner of its abolition reflects no credit
upon the North, why STIR the question
now that the unpatriotic efforts of that
society have been accomplished. The
time will come when the tone of
exultation will be mellowed into
silence, and shame for a great wrong
foully consummated in blood, will be
substituted for the present feeling of
self glorifcation.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

LYNcHBURG (Va) News: Mr.. c.
III. Lynch, whose death was announced
recently. was the grandson of Charles
Lynch, the originator of the famous
Lynch law" and owned and resided
at the home of the latter, which he in
herited. The venerable tree is still
standing in the yard on which the vic
tins Of Judge Lynch" we're accus-
toned to receive their punishment.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17
An Act
To Protect Farmers and Prevent Injury to
Crops.

To Protect Farmers and Prevent Injury TO
Crops.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of Ten
nessee, That all persons owning no.
torious Eischeivous stock, that are
known to be in the habit Of throwing
down or jumping fences, shall be res
quired to keep the same confined upon
their own premises, so thatit be notal-
lowed to ran at large, to the injury of
the enclosures or crops of any other
person or persons whatever.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That
all owners of the stock shall be liable
for all damages done by the same to
enclosures or crops of others; and
upon proof of the amount ofsueh dam
age, aud Of the character of the stock
committing the tresspass, recovery of
amount and cost of suit may be had
before any Justice of the Peace.
SIC. 3. Be it further enacted, That
to secure the payment Of such damage
and co Its, executions shall be levied
upon the stock committing the tress-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

The Nashville penitentiary has
l.O12 couvicts. Six hundred and
seventy-tw arc employed outside of
the walls Of the peniteptiary and four
hundred inside. 1t is predicted that
the number of conyicts will be swelled
to 800 during the year.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

SINCE Grant has said to prominent
member OF the international peace so.
clety that he prefers arbitration to the
sword, maybe he will let Louisiana
alone.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

RIGID party discipline, says the local
press, enabled the whites to defeat the
black and tan, in Little Rock Arkan.
sas, and YazOo, Mississippi.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

pass, and after ten days notice shall
be sold to pay said amount of damages
and costs.
Passed March %, 1875.
LEWIS BOND,
Speaker of House of Representatives.
THOMAS III. PAINE,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved March q, 1915.
JAMES ID. PORTER,
Governor.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17
BlacksmithS, Carpenters
B u LID Err -
FOX 81 SMITH.
April IL, lS75-tf.
In Chancery at ClarksyiIIe-State OF
Tennessee.

Tennessee.
CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE,
April Sth, 1875.
Turner & Hooper ct ais. Complainants, VS..
The GAINESVILLE Cooperative Manufact-
uring Co. ct ais. Defendants.
happening from affidavit filed In this
cause, that the Defendants, W. Roach, A.
g. Dick, ]. NJ. Dabney, w. NJ. Kerr, j. p.
MeFerrin. Il. =. Moore JnO. l.. Duff and L..
FrOehlich, are non-residents Of the State.
of Tennessee.
IL is there ore Orderer that they enter
their appearance. herein, before or within
the first three days after the 2nd Monday OF
the next term of the Chancery Court, To be
held at GAINESVILLE on the eth Monday in
April, 1873, and plead, answer or demur to-
Compliments Bill, or the same will be
taken for confessed as To them and set for
hearing ex parte; and that a copy of this
order be published for four consecutive
weeks in the GAINESVILLE Chronicle.
A Copy-AtteSt:
POLK g. JOHNSON, CAM
HOUSE x NJ MERRITT, -.
QUARLEs q DANIEL, 80 - "a e"ii ~
April 10, lS75-4w, pr Zee s..
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17
WANTED

5000 Bushels Choice White Wheat. de-
hvered at any Station between Guthrie
ana sCiaTks s for which win pay the
ap- II, 75-2wl cHAs. L MUNFoRD.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

To amend an act to establish and maintain
a uniform system of public schools. pass
ed March 6, 1873, and approved March 20,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17
oranges.


those principles and habits that tend
to promote the happiness and prosper
ity of the farmer should be frequently
agitated; such as domestic economy
industry, sobriety, complacency, etc
Economy among farmers is principle
that enters largely into our means OF
success, although very common ex-
preston, it is, perhaps less understood
among the farmers of the South than
any other that IS as often spoken OF
and cannot be too frequently discussed
in the grange. A new meaning VIII
almost grow out of thorough lnvestl-
CATION and application of this doctrine
so indispensable to our vocation. LII
will be found to present deluslve faces
and without the strictest understand
ing of its diversified forms, we are la
BILE to be deceived, and lose instead oil
gain, by our efforts, it being a princi-
ME too that enters into and accom-
nI;sbes the minutia of successful agrl-
cnItural movements, it should be stud
led and assiduously applied in all OF
our operations.
Industry is habit that is indispen-
sable to your success, it aderns the
farmer and his household. When con-
nected with a we'll cultivated taste,
(the incubation Of which should in no
wise be neglected in our grange,) will
beautify all things around you. Your
farm will present to the beholder an
index to the prosperity and wisdom of
the owner. Your little orchard, vine
yard and garden, handsomely arranged
and highly cultivated, will show your
ability to dispense to your friends and
brothers the many luxuries and boun-
teous inequalities of prosperous
farmer. Your house and yard, the
one adorned with the bright foli-
age of rare creeping vines and flowers
about the windows and doors; the
other tastsfully laid out in walks
mounds and Summer houses, and dec
Grated with towering shrubs, vines
and ANIMALS of choice selections, will
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

| Otner Sucn friendly c0urteSleS and cl-
Whites that love and brotherly sym
pathies will be irresistible.
Will not the discussion of subjects,
so peculiar to your welfare be sufi-
cient within themselves to awaken a
lively interest in our order?
Surely you cannot be contented to
sit listlessly by and see this noble or
der, designed for your special ameli-
Grafton and SO well adapted to that
desired end, languish and sink into dis
Indignation, when the means for sus-
tanning it are directly for your eleva-
ton and prosperity. 1t has just ar
rived at that point in its history that
it may be efficient at time when it
may be of great benefit to you, if pro-
perly supported. Shall all now be
thrown away and that bright banner
that you have loved to rally around
with so much pride and that golden
star that adorDs it, the emblem ofyour
hopes, be suffered to go down because
of your apathy and culpable indliier-
ence to a noble cause? The present
fiourishing condition of the order IN
the United States exceeds the hopes
and expectations of the most sangulne'
its membership reaching near l,ooo,-
900, and that of your own State over
10000. Its course, in the main, has
been marked by wisdom and fore
thought, commendable in its leaders,
and with the vanishing gifts novelties,
its realities appear in bold relief, and
its ultimate aims loom mp in the fu-
tuye, beckoning you onward.
AS a subordinate grange. your duty
is two-fold first to love and, maintain
those cherished principles, so forcibly
inculcated in the order; secondly, to
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-17

Two thousand negroes from William
son county, Tennessee, are going to
Kansas.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-06-02
Abbeville, S. G.

Also agents for the sale Of the Gel
ebratcd Philadelphia Improved Rus
tic Window Shade, which for drra-
bility, cheapncSS. convenience and
beauty, cannot be surpassed. Each
shade is furnished with all the tiXt-
ures complete, and only requires two
la,h nails or small screws to tilstcn it
up With. Should they bccomc soiled
by flies, they can be spread on 4 table,
washed and made as bright as new,
and wil' last for years. This style OF
shade is much superior to cloth
shades. In warm weather, when the
window is raised, the shade admits
the air bat prevents flies and mosqui-
toes entering the room. The simpllc-
i!y of their fixtures is much in their
favor, as they require no rollers, each
shade being complete, and any one
can drive two nails by which to hang
them. They are low in price, dura,
bic, convenient. and never get out OF
order. Call at store and sec samples.
Nov. Is, 1874 32-tf
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-06-02
Keep it Before the People

TT AWSON'S is the place to purchase
IL your STOVES. Remember each
Stove has the following fixtures: 3 pots,
l ham boiler, l Tea kettle, l spider, ]
long gliddle, l waffle iron, 8 iron pans,
l bread pan, pudding and , custard
pans, large fork, l spoon, cake turn
er, coffee pot,l dipper and Is feet pipe.
We name below some of the Stoves
we sell: CHARTER OAK, FOREST
CITY, FIRE SIDE, MARION COOK,
HELP, DIRECTOR, STONE WALL,
COTTON STATES, COLUMBIA
COOK, ALL RIGHT, BEST and
ACORN COOK, warranted by the
manufacturers to last 25 years.
We will send any of the above Stoves
with fixtures complete, freight paid to
Donnaldsville, Belton, Honea Path,
Hodges, Greenwood, New Market and
Ninety Six, at the following prices :
No. 7, S3l 4; No. 8, $3G; No. 8, S4l.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-06-02

week or so ago three Marquette sports
went down to the Dutch settlements On Q
deer hunt, which was to last several days;
They put up with "Louis," an agricultural
resident Of that locality, who occasionally
entertained the sportive Nimrod; and 40 the
allotted time for the chase had drawn to o,
close without that degree Of success they
had hoped for {they had not in three days
hard t-amping seen a solitary deerI they
proposed to Louis, as they sat blythe fre
that evening, that in the morning, before
they started for home, he should put up
some of his chickens at distance OF thirty
rods and allow them to shoot at them for o
compensation. "Yah, dat ish all right"
said Louis, 'you gif me ten cents every
shoot, and ven you gill him he ish yours"
This arrangement completed, the sports re-
tired with an anticipation Of fun IN the
morning. So, after breakfast they settled
their bill, had their team brought up aud
hitched to the fence, and all arrangements
made to start off as soon as they had cleau-
ed the dutchman out Of all his chickens Of
ten cents apiece. While the sports were
fixing up crest" Louis took fine rooster
under his arm, and started for . stump
thirty rods distant. . =
After tying him securely he returned,
and putting board across the ra1n-barrel'
commenced to make change. Young PFes'
ton laid his improved Remington in the
notch and blazed away, but the majestic
chanticleer didn't even turn his head Or
wink his eyebrow. Evidently Preston had
missed. A smile Of pity for the inexperi-
ence of their comrade beamed on the faces
of the others as Lattimere adjusted his
niece and fred. "Beats all!". he remarked
after pause, as the rooster gave no sign OF
being hit. -,
satterlee, Jr., laughed long and loud as
he threw himself upon the plank and peer.
ed through the globe of his fancy Henry.
"Watch i'm now,'-bang! They watched
him, and evidently he was watching Them
and wondering what in thunder they were
irving to do. The next two rounds were
fred without much comment by the SPORTS
and his nibs never futtered. Then they
got some hot water and cleaned their guns
and fred at target. 1t was easy enough
to hit the target, but when it came to that
rooster "they wasn't there"
Finally Lattimere hit upon happy idea
, His gun was doubl -barrelled-one rif1e
and the other for shot. and as he quietly
slipped in sixteen bnckshot and leveled
over the plank, a smile Of sardonic sweet
ness Illuminated his features. The repore
was terrific, and the head Of the rooster
dropped down beside the stump, but he
himself stood up there yet in all the, prls-
tine majesty Of former days. 1t was q
sight to see! Silently, and without q word
those three young men entered their cutter
and drove away. Louishad killed the roost-
er the night before and frozen him harder
than the language those young men induls-
ed in on their way back to Marquette. +. =;