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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06


span with the others were cut, so that
should it go over it would not drae
the iron portion of the bridge. Thirty
or forty men have been constantly en-
ployed in keeping off drift wood. A
house aud furniture went floating down
yesterday. 1t was kept off the bridge.
Another went in the same direction
o-day,
At II o'clock last night the water
lacked three feet of being up to the
bridge at Decatur, Ala. The river is
rising at that point. and fears are en-
tertained that it will reach the bridge
BY tonight. The line of read along
which the water has backed up for two
miles is closely watched. in order that
no accident may befall the trains which
daily pass over it.
Tho Cumberland is nearly on a
stand. 1t is expected that it will fall
to-day. General Superintendent Tho
mas, of the Chattanooga Road, return
ed last night from near Bridgeport,
where he had gone TO look at the rack.
CHATTANOOGA, March l.-Therive
has Leen ON a stand since this morn
ing, covering Market Street from the
river to Ninth Street, submergiDg the
union depot, Van Horne and Read ho-
tells, very nearly all the business
houses on Market and Ninth streets,
of South Chattanooga, and a great
many houses in the main part of the
city, in one of which, one man, who
was intoxicated, was drowned Satur-
day, and Two last night. One was the
chief engineer of the Chattanooga Iron
Works, named Jones. This comprises
all the fatalities known.
Railroads are cut in every direction,
consequently there have been no mails
Tor several days past until now. 4
steamer has gone down the river with
mail and passengers. to Bridgeport,
where it will meet the train for Nash
vile. Only one telegraph wire re-
mains up and its loss is momentarily
feared.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06


under the law, such killing shall be
murder, punishable with the death
penalty.
Section eight confers civiland crim;-
nal jurisdiction under this act on
United States courts.
Section nine provides for the ap-
polntment of general supervisors of
elections in all Congressional districts,
In the same manner as is now provid-
ed. In any town from ten to twenty
thousand inhabitants. The super
visorS may be appointed from any part
OF the district, and are to be appointed
by the judges OF the United States
Circuit courts thirty days before reg
istration. There is to be chief sup
ervisor in every district.
Section ten provides for the extern
sion of the existing law as to Deputy
United States Marshals so that mar
shals may be appointedin every county
and parish in every Congressional dis
trict.
Section eleven prescr:bes the duties
of the officers in charge of the ballot
boxes on that day of election: makes
it their duty to count the votes before
leaving the ballot boxes, in the pres
ence of the supervisors of election or
deputy marshal, and to Immediately
send a certified copy of the returns to
the chief supervisor of the district
and to the Clerk of the National
House of Representatives.
Section twelve provides that no
officer acting under the act shall re-
celve compensation.
1t is provided by section thirteen
that the ballot boxes, papers, etc.,
shall be retained by the custodian
until the close of the first session of
the Congress to which they relate it
also prescribes the means whereby con-
testants in Congress may obtain certi-
fed copies of the ballot.
Section fourteen provides that when
ever any such unlawful combinations,
as defined in the revised statutes and
under this act, shall be organized or
attempted, and so numerous and pow
erful as to be able, by violence, to set
at defiance and overturn any State au-
thorlties, in all such cases, such CON-
binations shall be deemed rebellion
against the United States, and during
the continuance of such rebellion
within the limits which shall be pre-
scribed by the proclamation of the
President of the United States, it may
be lawful for the President of the
United States, in his discretion, to
suspend the privileges of the writ of
habeas corpus and it is provided also
that all the. provisions of the second
section of the act of March 8, 1865,
relating to habeas corpus, are revived
in full power.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
SUBMERGED.
SUBMERGED.
Chattanooga Buried Beneath the
Waves of the Tennessee.
Three Men DrOwned-The Last Con.
Meeting Link About to be Sun.
dered.
The River Still Rising at Bridge
pOrt-Immense Losses OF -
Property.
Thrilling Scenes and Incidents OF the
Floods at Huntsville.
The Waters at bridgeport.
The Waters at bridgeport.

Special Dispatch to the Banner.
BRIDGEPORT, Ala, March l.-a:3l
Z. M.-rEo greatest food that has visit
ed this country since NOah's, with one
exception, is now sweeping down the
valley of the Tennessee. La portions
of upner East Tennessee the water was
higher than ever before known. All
the low ground about Chattanooga is
submerged and there is great loss OF
property. Every railroad leading into
the city is badly washed, and whole
sections submerged. The East Tea-
aessee road is cut Iii twenty places.
The Western and Atlantic Road has
lost many bridges.
The Memphis and Charleston Is IN
der water for miles, and has lost heav-
liz in bridges. The Nashville and
chattanooga road is also great suf-
ferer. The great bridge across the
tennessee here Is In da1ger, bat, as i
i heavily weighed down With ioaded
ears il is thought thatit may be saved
The river is still rising slowly; ne
destruction in fences, stock ana houses 5
for three hundred miles up ana Gown
= vary areat ths gEeatess eyer knoE1
sa;sb rbs ,,ossible exception Of the Mood
y a;a l~e yssrs ago. The steamer vii.
der n ran, ran from Chattano6ga here in three
hp Tbe ' washing ont Ofthe wooden span
oetba br;dge has become 40 iInminent
s. t ii IdIit;opal loaded ears have been
ma. III. men II. The rails uniting that
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
Don't be Deceived.
CoUlter's Business
rs STILL GOING ON.


I have been informed that report,
are in circulation that | am closing
out, and could not supply customer,
with goods, and therefore they need
not visit my store expecting to gel
what they wanted. This is a mistake.
| have now the Best Stock Of Goods
in this Section. | expect to start to
New York in a few days for New
Stock. | am determined that no house
shall keep a better stock or sell at
Lower Prices. My course heretofore
and absence from business this winter
were a necessity, and not pecuniary
one, and | am determined to maintain
my trade and supply my customers
with the best goods at the
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06

SHOULD the bayonet bill become a
law, we see no other chance for the
Republic than for Congress to refuse
all appropriations that may be used
for purposes of tyranny and corrup-
ton. Itwere better that the wheels of
government be stopped entirely, than
that popular liberty shall be crushed
by their continued revolutions. With
ont money, Grant will be powerless,
and the next Congress can block his
game. or make the issue between him
aud liberty too plain to be misunder-
stood 10y the most stupid Of his Wor-
shippers. This is the best card the
Democrats can play, provided the rev.
olution Of November does not progress
until safety is assured, and provided,
farther. that Grant dGeS rot precipitate
civil war under the power conferred
upon him by the present Radical Ma
jOrity.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06

NlR. HAwLEY-Radieal-from Con-
necticnt publicly announced on the
floor of Congress, that he has taken a
new departure and no longer afiliates
with that party. La the course of his
remarks. he clearly indicated his be-
lief in the doctrine of States rights.
Rat like, he is escaping from the sink
ing ship, probably to find refuge amid
the ruins of the government he has
aided in destroying.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06

Orr prophecy, nearly ten years age,
that the Radicals would not go out Of
power, without having FIRST de-
stroyed the records of their infamy.
seems in i fair way to lie verified
judging from the repeated attempts to
burn the record departments Of the
War and Navy offices.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
Carriages, Buggles and Wag-
ems For Sale CheaR

Twill. In ihe next sixty days. eiose o1s
the remain ing stock Of Brock ssasss a Ring
hurst at unprecedented ioN prices fer sss n
Said stock consists OF Carriages Btgxica
and JACKEoS WAGONS The gepatafiou 81
the latter - too EeA knO&b In thfa and
adjoi ming cSuntie u. n18ed aonnrnendnflor.
and this - probably TAG last chance you
viii ever have At them. Rrocl<man &
BrluaisGxsts obi stand, Ffanllln Street.
y. s. RRISGHUEST.
,faA. %, 75-2ia. Receiver.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
THELEGIsLATURE AND INTEREST.

We have long believed, and often
argued, that the wisest thing the legis-
lature can do, in connection with in
terest, is to fix legal rate-six per
cent.-for the adjustment all cases in
which, no rate is specified, for the set
Element of intestate estates, and the
protection of minors, and then leave
money, like all other property, to bring
what it is worth in market. The same
theory which demands protection for
individuals. lest they be cheated by
lenders of money, equally demands
that they be protected, by law, against
paying to merchants and traders more
than certain fixed profit upon the
goods and wares in which they deal
This doctrine, if pressed to its logical
conclusions, would require the legisla-
ture to fix prices for every article of
commerce, and afix penalty to every
departure therefrom-thus asserting
that men are Incompetent to manage
their own affairs, and that all, like
children, must be brought under the
guardianship of the Solons of the leg
islature, and society be resolved into
the conditions of guardian and ward.
The hair splitting distinctions between
money and property, which are as
sumed to create the necessity for laws
against usury and the establishment
of one uniform rate Of interest, are
the offspring of speculative theory
backed by the traditions of centuries.
The argument that money, as the re-
preventative of property and the regu-
lator of commercial values, requires
peculiar laws to control it is a circu-
lating medium, is more specious than
sound. Money and property are re-
ciprocally representative. Land that
will command a thousand dollars in
cash, is as much the representative of
that sum of money, as the Money is
the representative of that amount of
land. The cash value Of all property
involves the admission that property
is the representative of the amount
of ready money it will command in
market. The peculiar feature ofthere-
preventative character of money, is that
it is portable-transmissible by mail
and, by means of checks, to and from
remote points. If a man here, owes
$1,000 to man in Liverpool, and by
agreement, sends, in lieu Of the money,
its equivalent in tobacco, which is the
representative in this case, the tobacco
or the money? Are they not mutual
ly representative? The train ofreason-
ing merely indicated here, leads us to
ask whether supply and demand do
not constitute the true standard of
values, and whether money is not less
a standard, than convenience ia
cility for expressing values The value
of bushel of wheat may be briefly
expressed by the term one dollar, yet
it is supply and demand that fix its
value at one dollar, or at more, or less
than that sum. The money, in such
cases, does not fix the standard of
value, but simply expresses itintelligi-
bly, and conveniently. Then if money
be not strictly representative and a
standard of values, we see neither wis
dom nor justice in restricting free trade
in money more than in any other com
modify.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06

ORR government, not long since,
with the hurry and indiscretioa char
acteristie Of incompctency, recognized
the projected republic of Spain. But
4 few days since, With equal haste, 1t
forwarded It's recognition Of the mon
arehy and Alfonso as king. The first
act was to fatter our people, the last
10 please Grant whs Is eager for SIM
liar recognition of himself by Spain, at
an early day.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
II. d Vup--5s 7 INsiuLHt.
FRED. Il. SOUTHWARK, See'y.
PgFiI.sF Reductions by the Pennsyl.
ranls CsGt:al,

BALTIMORE, March 2.-The Penn
sylvauia iIailroad reduced its fare for
passengers itsm Baltimore. sfollOws
To Pitt,barg, s.; 10 Waeeiiag, $3.50.
to Cincinnati, So; to Indianapolis, 81;
TO Louisville, S.; to Chicago, $; TO St.
I.Uus. SO.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06

If the Radicals force called session
of Congress, it may prove the means
of tying Grants hands and neutraliz-
ing much OF thevenom now being in
fused into latter-day- Radical legisla-
ton.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06

We DO not belieye-as is charged
that \. J. paid $4,000 for the support
of the Shelby delegation. They were
Influenced, no doubt, by sympathy with
his disorganizing. regulating and COM
munistic doctrines.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
Second Round of Quarterly Meetings

Antiorh, at ut. Zion, Feb. % and q.
Point Rock, at Amanda's Chapel, Feb
q and Is.
Dickson. at Chester's School House
March land
GAINESVILLE, March and 7.
Saline, at, March IL and II.
Montgomery, ut -, March 20 and q.
Asbury, at -, March q and q.
w. BURR. Il. l..
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
SOUTHERN SEED & PLANT co.,
GaliatIp, Tenn.

lie MEscHAcEiiz says OF US: Their
rare and ys,dlsious vegetables elicit the
adHIfrationOf all who have The good for
funeto vfsit their eelebrsted easslefis ne
GaiIaiin." March 6 '75-lIn.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
Saturday March 20. 1875.

sell TO the higbesi bidder. at the C0nrt-
hcuse IN Ci9skssiiie. Tenn. "A ecrfai8 tract
81 land sifIrsfed In civil District, No. 4
bounced ~ Baybham. Morris. REEVES, ana
Others and containing "a, acres n plat and
frH description OF which Will be shown on
the day 81 NJ IL. Said land belongs 10 the
heirs ~ Joseph Sliefsweli deed, and u sold
for division
1EEag-tash TO pay costs nd Attorneys
fs.es, balauee on a credit OF a. ~. ~ and q
months. notes with good security Eetliirstb
bearing Interest from date, and n len re-
tanned for all the purchase money.
HiFTER GSEAI.. ok. 4 Com'r
Feb.Z7 '55-fw-adv. & Bills s9.50.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE,

Having qualified az AdtsiniSgrator OF
I9bb Il. M;srabfs, ST., decd. All persons in
debtea 70 add estate are hereby notified TO
make Immediate payment, and al who
have claims against tie estate viii present
them 10 me duly authenticated, within
the time prescribed by law. or they Will b.
barred. j. III. MAltAtl4E jks
Feb. q, Iy55-sw.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
STRANGE BUT TRUE!

The TOong Qua Cucumber grows TO
weigh 20 pounds each ard fine quality. Is
cents per seed; 10 seeds, 81. Snake Gu
eumber grows from T. feet long and
coils like snake. 70 cts per paper. Per-
sian Watermelon. Very superior. and
keeps perfectly Il esb and sweet throughout
the winter. % cts per paper. SfrAwber-
ry Watermelon, finest in cultivation !;
20 prizes: 10 cts per paper. Japan kasi-
fsI. Pods feet lOng, aud delicious; u cts
per paper. Mammoth Cabbage. Heads
weigh nom ~ 10 ~ pounds each; tender
and sweet; 10 cts per PAPER. SOnqueror
Tomato. ten days earlier than any Other
variety - cts per paper.
JAPAN PEAS-dO bushels per acre on
common land: uBequaled Tor stock or table
use /; grows on an upright stalk. II cts per
paper. 20 els per pint, ~ cts per quart.
CIGUFAs-FHrnish grazing All summer
and food for yourself all winter; fine for
poultry. and fatfeTs more hogs than ten
lines the area Ia corn: 10 bushels per acre
on poorest lanI- 10 cts per paper. 10 cts per
pint. % cis per quart, so per busiifi.
NO MUH.uG-We have certificates 10
prove oil these claims.
T It0SE saGPs = With good reG.lE. of any
variety the purchaser may elOo3e at for
50 cts. for q, % fS-r -. l00 for -.
AisO, potato. c-.bDage and Othe.' plants at
low rates.
seeds and roses by natl, post paid.
Send for our free catalogue giving full
list, descriptions and testimonials from
those who have grown The above seeds.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
G ANCERY SALE.
commissioners Sale OF VAL
liable Farm.

a. J. ShcTowell ct ais. " shemwell's Heirs
Petition FOR Sale OF Land.
Pursuant 10 n decree Of the County Court.
rendered at the August Term, Is18, win. ON
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
Keep Good Stocks
and sell goods at
NEW YORK COST.

l commencedselling goods in Clarks-
vile nearly a quarter of 4 century
ago. | have never had to resort To
Tricks to sell goods. 1t is too late
in life for me to begin it now, even if
it were necessary, which is not. My
friends are many and true. / hope to
add many others, and l say to one
and all
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06
THE CAUCUS BAYONET BILL.

Section |. If two or more persons
within the jurisdiction of the United
States or of any of the States of the
Union shall forcibly overthrow State
government, or any Of the constituted
authorities of the same, or interfere in
any forcible or unlawful manner with
the due execution of the laws of
State, or of the United States, or con-
spire for such purposes with the intent
to commit crime, the person so Of
Tending shall be deemed guilty of
felony and punished with a fine not
exceeding ten thousand dollars and
Imprisonment at hard labor not ex-
ceGdlng ten years.
See. z. If two or more persons shall
consplre to usurp by force any such
government, or department thereof, or
shall attempt to subvert or usurp such
State government, or shall actually
overthrow the government Of any
State, such person, upon conviction,
shall be deemed guilty of crime and
fined not less than five thousand dol
lars and Imprisonment not exceeding
two years.
Sec. 3. No citizen of the United
States entitled to vote at an election
for Representative in Congress, under
the Constitution of the United States.
or under the fundamental conditions
prescribed in any Of the acts of Con-
gress admitting any of the States late
" in rebellion, shall be deprived of
such right to vote by any action of such
States, whether by act Of the Legisla-
ture or amendments to the several
State Constitutions. If any officer
charged with conducting such election
shall refuse st any election for Con-
gress to receive the vote Of any such
citizen in consequence Of any SUCH ac-
ton, he shall be guilty of misde-
meanOr, and upon conviction be fined
from five hundred to one thousand
dollars, and Imprisonment not exceed
ing one year.
Sec. /. Any persons using firearms
or other deadly weapons against any
persons at any place on the day of reg
istfatiGGs fOE the Congressional elee-
ti0Gs for the purpose OF intimidating
or iujuring such persons while such
election is In progress, and who shall
do the same before any election shall
be guilty Of a crime penalty five
hundred to two thousand dollars i'm
priSonment not exceeding three years:
Provided, that if any persons shall
garry concealed firearms or other
deadly 1eapous at sach elections or
place ct registration this shall bs
taken az presumptive evidence of the
intent to lntlmidate under this act.
Section five provides that any regis
tratlon officer or supervisor appointed
under the laws of any State. who shall
Feiuse IL permit citizens to vote or to
register, or to allow them suIneieut ep-
portunities to register OF to obtain
proper information, shall also be
deemed guilty of a crime; penalty,
500. to $1,000; Imprisonment, six
months to two years.
Section six relates 10 baiiot-bGKes,
poll-lists and other papers connected
with elections. 1t declares that abb
dactiou or mutilation of any of these
papers a criue. punishable by fine
Of Eve hundred 70 three thousand 40.
lars and imprisonment two to i've
years.
Section seven provides that if epy
person shall be Killed Rhiie acting
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-06

4. ii. shAHs,
J. 3. payne.
{. B. CHiCkERIYG,
Comlnittee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-06-08
STATE OF MAINE.

PISCATiQUIS SS.-Court of County Commits.
sioners, April Term, A. D., $50.
Upon the foregoing petition it Is considered by
the Commission ers that the Petitioners res pom
siblc and that they ought to be heard touching the
matter set forth in their petition and said towns
No. s, Range s, called Howard, not being a town or
plantation required by law to raise money to make
and repair highways they therefore order that the
County Comm ssiOnerS meet at the dwelling house
of Charles Hammond of said No s, on Tuesday
Aug. l0th ISIS, at ten O'Clock A. NJ, at which time
and place hearing OF all parties Interested will be
had, whereupon said Commissioners will proceed
to view the route mentioned in said petition; i'm.
mediatey alter which view, hearing of the parties
and witnesses will be had at some convenient place
in the vicinity, and such further measures taken In
the premises the Commissioners shall Judge
proper. And it is further Ordered, That notice oil
the time, place and purpose of the Commissioners
pOratons interested Ohe owners OF said township
being unknown by posting up attested copies of
said petition and this order thereon in three public
places in said township thirty days at least before
the time appointed for such hearing and view, and
also by publishing said petition and order thereon,
six weeks successfully in the kennebec journal
being the public newspaper published by the print
crs to the State at Augusta in the county OF kenne-
bee, the last publication being thirty days at least
before the time appointed for such hearing and view,
and also by publishing the petition and order
thereon, three weeks successfully in the Piscata.
quis Observer printed in Dover, in said county of
Piscataquis, the first publication to be thirty days
at least before the time of said view, that all per-
sons and corporations interested, may attend and
be heard if they think tit.
Attest HENRY B. FLINT CLERK.
A true copy OF the petition and order thereon.
Attest HENRY b. FLINT, Clerk.
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STATE OF MAINE.
TREASURER'S OFFICE,

TREASURER'S OFFICE,
AUGUSTA, MAY -, 1878.
T1PON the following townships or tracts of land
u not liable TO be taxed III any town, The follow
ing assessments were made for the County tax OF
1875, by the County Commit sioners of Franklin
county on the twenty eighth day of April 1875 viz