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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

A Mr.. BLANDY, of Ohio, a leading
anti-slavery Radical, frankly acknowl-
edges the blunder Of his psrty in its
dealings with slavery. Perhaps he now
thinks it would have been better had
his party consulted reason, rather than
fanatical passiou-the spirit Of Christi
anity. rather than the demon of hate.
Here is what he now says:
ST. / feel no little apprehension over
the condition of the South. A SYM
pathy Tor my feilow-creatures made me
the negro's first friend, because /
wanted TO see him lifted out of slave
ry. ConferFiag the right of suffrage
on him vas political necessity, but he
proved himself utterly unfit for self
government. He is not fit to sit In the
balls of legislation to make laws for
Others. He ought not 10 have iseceiv
Cd the ballot without some restrictions.
We are now suffering from the evils of
our too hasty action, which must be
remedied in some manner, but how is
the great prODlem.
This confession would have been
more candid and truthful had he used
the word party before necessity" in
stead OF the word political" So far
from there having been q political
necessity" for conferring suffrage upon
the negro, every political eonsidera-
ton, which wisdom and patriotism
could suggest, condemned the act as
unnecessary, impolitic. unjust and in
furious to the best interests of the
whole country. Nothing but bird
hate, or besotted ignorance could have
I failed to see the total unfitness of the
negro for self-government, and moth
ing but Radical love of power and peli
would have dared to insult the genius
of liberty by placing free institutions
under the guardianship of such an adj
.dition of ignorance and vice, to pop
ulation already Astounding with those
destructive elements. No man with
sense enough TO carry inwardness
to bear can plead ignorance as an ex4
cuse for such crime against the let
ter and spirit of a Constitution basine
its doctrines and its hopes of theiI
success in practice. upon the intelli-
gence and virtue of the people.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

IRIS pity that the administration
is not content to dishonor the country
at home. So far from it, it sends its
pet rasclls on foreign missions, where
they degrade diplomacy and the honor
aud dignity of government that ought
to rank as foremost among the govern
ments OF Christendom, and would, but
for its corruption in every department,
by its dishonest and contemplate Of
fcials.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

THE Key West Dispatch heads an
article about Grant: Great, but not
ambitious" The devil of that Office
ought to be kicked out for thus put
ting the cart before the horse. Truth
demands that the first and last words
be transposed. Consider it so marked
On the proof sheet.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

MATT CARPENTER has no doubt
that Grant will again be nominated for
the Presidency; more, however, through
necessity than choice. Well, as the
head and front of Raicalism, there is
4 fitness in his receiving the beating in
reserve for him aud his party. Car
penter clearly indicates that Grant
will be placed upon the hard money
platform, the weight of which will sink
him and his party to sure destruc-
ton.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

BEEcHER has given up his lecturine
project and will devote himself to the
building up ofthe Christian Union, we'll
nigh ruined by his indiscretion. and to
finishing his life of Christ. What u
biographer Of the Lord of the uni
verse; fH-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

ATTORNEY General Pierrepont says
he has received no kuklux outrages
since he has been in Office. This is
strong presumptive proof that those
purporting to have been received by
his predecessor were manufactured by
himself.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

The leading carpet baggers ofSouth
Carolina, having reached the pinnacle
of infamous fame, are, one by one, and
in quick succession, tambling from
their elevation into the depths of deg
radiation and poverty. They find now
that, though retributive justice may be
slow, it is ultimately sure. Their
plumber is passing through the hands
of the sheriff and their characters
have been passed upon by public opin-
ion as infamous as crime and villainy
can make them.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

JUDGE SHERMAN, of Ohio, argues
that the currency is not a party ques-
ton, and that its settlement should be
left to the Democratic Presidential
Convention, and deprecates. in the
meantime. any party division on that
issue.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

1T seems as if the finsncial crash of
1873 is about to be repeated. The fail
ure of Duncan, Sherman & Co. has al
ready been followed by others of less
magnitude, and the end is not yet. 1t
will hardly be denied that the causes
at work in 1873 are at work now. and
to be followed by the same effects.
These must be a change in the fnan-
q policy Of the government, or we
have not1seen the beginning of the end.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

THE Grant organs are resolved, if
possible, that the sectional reconcile
alton, so happily begun, shall not be
consummated. The bloody shirt ar
gument which has so long kept Radi-
calism 10 the ascendant, will be re-
peated by every ring organ with such
variations as the situation may demand.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

THE big warriors of the Indian ring
have laid down this programme for
Delano: If the Commissioners white
wash him, he viii resign; if be is
found guilty. Grant will white-wash
him by retaining him in office.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

THE Cuban insurgents are said to
have gained, recently, some important
advantages over the Spaniards if so,
the independence of the island is only
a question of time.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

SECRETARY New is not likely to be-
come old in his present position.
There are limitations, already, that he
intends to resign, because Bristow tres
passes upon his rights.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

THEdishonesty of Plymouth Church
is conspicuously displayed in its lavish
bestowal Of money upon Beecher aud
its total neglect of Mrs. Tilton. his
miserable victim.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

DELANo has not yet " stepped down
and out, and the threat he made to
hurt somebody, if forced to resign, has
so far quieted Grant that he will not
interfere.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

THE Commission to try Bishop
Witthingham, of Maryland, decided
that the evidence is not sufficient to
put him on trial before the House of
Bishops.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

BEECHER has hay fever again and
has gone to the White Mountains. If
he had never had any other than hay f.
yer, his moral health would be better.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07
THE PATRONS OF uUsBANDRY.

At a regular meeting of Montgomery
County Council, Patrons of Husband
ry, August End, 1873, on motion the
regular order Of business was suspend
ed and a CONN ittee appointed to draft
resolutions relative to the death of ex-
President johnson. The committee
submitted the following which were
unanimously adopted
10 NE members of the Montgomery
County Council:
We, as your committee to draft re
solutions expressing coincidence and
sympathy forthe death of ex- President
johnson, beg leave to report the fol-
lowing
l. That we have heard with sorrow
of the sad bereavement of the country
TennessSsssss ct at an able statesman, and
I =. That We deeply sympathlze wl,n
his aged and afflicted wife aud family
in the loss they are called to mourn.
3. That in his death the order OF
Patrons of Husbandry has lost the
prime instigator, as well as strong
supporter of the order.
4. Resolved, therefore, that the
Council Hall be draped in mourning
for thirty days, and that copy of these
resolutions be furnished the Clarks-
vile papers for publication, and that a
copy of the same be sent the bereaved
family.
r. III. OGBURN,
Ed. Ross,
N. i. WHITFIELD,
- Il. f. MOODY,
Committee.
B. w. UssERY, Pres't.
z. SMITH, Sec'y.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

THE Boston Journal dominates for
the State ticket, an Adams for every
Office. The Journal, no doubt, thinks
it A-damstrong team.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

AFTER lapse of Fifty years, the
English seem to have come to the con-
clusion 10 erect monument to Byron.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07
citing Secretary of State

LONDON, August 1.-The London
Times in its obituary article on Andrew
johnson, says his career illustrates
both the strong and weak points of the
American social and political systems
During his tenure of Office he showed
himself wanting in tact, refinement and
knowledge of men, yet he had some
qualities which are not so abundant iu
American politics as to be despised
when found. He had dauntless cour.
age. some political insight and honesty
never Swallowed by suspicion.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07
The Water Creeping over the Levees,

MEMPHIS, Aug. --LATEST reports
from the river below here state that
ApperSon plantation of nine hundred
arres at Fort Peny, opposite Friar S
Point, is submerged. a crevasse has
been made at DeSOtO, twenty seven
miles below here on the Mississippi side,
but the planters were endeavoring TO
stop it. Planters are all at work
Strengthening levees, The water is
puring through Old Town crevasse.-
The stencil from submerged cornfelds
is said to be terrific, owing to the corn
souriug.
The river at this point is rising
steadily, having risen an inch and a
half since last report, and is now with
IN fourteen inches of the dang line.
which covers the country westward TO
Madison, Arkansas, distance of 40
miles. The feeling this evening among
those interested is more hopeful in
consequence oithe decline at st. Louis;
butreports from the Ohio cause gloomy
feelings. The river rose an inch and
half. Weather clear and warm.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

The death Of Gen. George 4. Pick.
EFT, of Virginia, has been announced
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07

JUDGE Morris, counsel for Tilton,
has served notice on Sherman and
Sterling, attorneys of record for Mr.
Beecher. to be prepared to answer in
a new trial on the first Monday in
September.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07
Executive Order on the Death or the
EX-PI esident, 5

Executive Order on the Death OF the
Ex-PI esident. .1A
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The follow
ing Executive order has been issued
Washington, July 81, 1975.-It be-
comes the painful duty of the Presi-
deut to announce to the people Of the
United States the death of Andrew
Johnson. the last survivor of his hon
ored predecessors, which occurred in
Carter county, East Tennessee, at an
early hour this morning. The solem-
nifty of the occasion which called him
to the Presidency, with the varied
nature and length of his public SER
vices. Will cause him to be long re-
membered, and occasion mourning for
the death Of distinguished public
servant. AS a mark of respect for the
memory of the deceased. it is ordered
that the Executive Mansion and the
several Departments of the Govern
ment at Washington be draped in
mourning until the close of the day de-
signated for his funeral, and that all
public business be suspended on that
day. 1t is further ordered that the
War and Navy Departments cause
suitable honors to be paid on the oc-
casion to the memory of the iIlustrious
dead. 81, U. s. GRANT.
"By order of the President,
john l.. CADwALADER,
A G. A. O..
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07
DRY GOODS WAR

BOOTS E SHOES
DOWN TO COST
LESS THAN CDS'El
Railroads Fight and Can Afford 1t.
Merchants Fight and Cannot Afford L!
My friends have asked why | FOL
LOWED in offering my goods at COST.
[ am simply fighting to retain Gus
toners and make How ones, and do not
intend Tor any house to offer stronger
inducements i'm Prices. No house can
offer Equal inducements in Selections.
[ have no OVER STOCK of Goods,
bought at HIGH PRICES, to WORK
OFF UNDER A COST EXCITEMENT.
Am not selling AT COST to- raise
money to buy New Fall Stock----though
[ need money. Don't need house room.
Am doing business ON very small ex-
penses. Expect to keep my stock FULL
and COMPLETE throughout the season,
ll@ And sell at Cost for Cash -
till Jan. 1, 1876, or longer, if necessity
requires. - =
1-2 PRINTS REDUCED to 6 1-2CTS.
Very ReSpectfully. l14o
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-29
A PLEASANT ENTERTAINMENT.

On Thursday, September %, most enjoya-
BILE entertainment will be given at the Varie-
ties Theater in behalf of the Battalion of
Washington Artillery, which is to visit the
Centennial next year. The object is one de-
serving the support of our citizens, as each
and every one of the members of the battalion
are veterans of the late war, and represent a
corps made famous for its gallantry and of.
tective service in the cause of the South.
They go to the Centennial as representatives
of the men who wore the gray, and it be.
hooves US to aid them in making q note.
worthy display.
The programme, as far as arranged, will
consist of farce or short drama by some oil
our most admired amateurs, a violin solo by
Mr.. Marx Kaiser, song by Mr.. Meteye, the
recitation of the Wounded Soldier by Mr..
Fred N. Thayer, the farce of "Box and Cox
by Messrs. Thayer, James and Coleman, and
in conclusion the famous old army chorus OF
"Upide" will be sung by the whole battalion,
arranged in an appropriate camp scene.
This certainly will afford ample amuse-
ment. The price of admission will be only
fifty cents.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-29
NOT AT ALL UNUSUAL.

There has been no riot at Brashear. nor at
tempt at riot. The account published in the
New Orleans papers emanated from bowling
idiots.-Ne,o Orleans Dispatch to Cincinnati
Commercial, 4ugust 26.
If our friends of the Commercial lived here,
they would not be astonished to hear that
these rumors were unfounded. 1t is not at
all unusual for newspaper correspondents in
the South to allow themselves to be gulled by
designing politicians into disappearing or
magnifying the facts in reference to disturb
ances in the country.
The Brashear enae,tte was, it is generally be-
lieved, a systematic plot on the part of a few
Radical scalawags to provoke the white peo-
pie into the commission of some act that
might be tortured into an "ontrage' on the
poor black Republicans. We're getting used
to hearing such canards down here, but it is
a difficult matter to become reconciled to
them, and still more to the folly of the Asso-
ciated Press agents in spreading them with
the addition of their own distorted state
mentS,
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-29

al terrace or fiat roof. Only those occupied
by the foreign consuls have windows opening
on the streets. The palace of the Bey and
some of the Mosques are buildings of some
pretension to architectural taste, and the in
habitants can also boast of their spacious ba-
zaars and caravanseras, and Of their conve-
nient public baths. The harbor is safe, but
only accessible to vessels drawing less than
eighteen feet
The defenses Of Tripoli consist of high
wall fanked by six bastions, mounted with
about fifty guns, the ramparts being also sup
piled with brass cannon. The only difficulty
the American squadron would have to over
come would be the shallowness of the water,
which might possibly prevent them from
using their artillery at the proper distance,
but we hardly think the Tripolitan authorities
will run the risk of collision with the United
War vessels, and we presume they will hasten
to apply the proper kind of plaster to Mon
sieur Vidars wounds. Of course there can
be no idea Of annexing Tripoh as it could
not fail to prove an elephant of immense size
and extremely expensive to keep, but serious
damage would be done them by simply block
aiding the capital, which is the only outlet
for their exports and the only place visited
by foreign trading vessels.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-29
PRICE-FIVE CENTS.
ON DIT.

| The Orleans Dramatic Association will
give their fourth and last complimentary en-
tertalnment OF the season, at the Varieties
Theatre, on Monday, August Goth, when the
standard and elegant play of 1.-THE School
for Scandal " will be presented.
The argument in the habeas corpus
case of Francois Frilot and J. I,srrieux WAS
resumed Saturday morning, and, after con-
siderable talk on both sides. was continued
until Monday morning.
80. The bill of the man who furnished the
twelve thousand poisoned sausages, for the
vagabond ours of the city. was presented to
Administrator L andry yesterday. Itamount-
ed to S2l0. The twelve thousand sausages
laid out, according to the police report, two
thousand and nine 'purps."
-. A movement is on foot to organize q
social club, having for its object the raising
OF necessary funds to carry its members to
the Centennial of1S76 1t is urged that there
are number of young men who would like to
go. but individually have not the funds, and
it is thought if they could be got together,
that collectively they might do it.
There are probably hundreds of per-
sons in this city to-day who have articles or
property of some kind which they are ex-
tremely anxious to dispose of, who never
think OF advertising it. There are other hun.
dreds of persons who are very much in need
of many things readily attainable by adver-
Using, who never think of newspaper, but
choose to wander about making inquiries of
friends and wasting many valuable hours.
The next number of the New Orleans
Monthly promises to be literary treat. 1t will
be issued to-day, and will be replete with va
ried and choice contributions from our most
artistic pens. Paul Waterman discusses sour
Amateur Actors" DR.. James Burns contri-
butes poem; Albert Fabre treats of "a
Model Republic, and we linger with pleasure
over the Swine and Walnuts " OF E. G. Han
cock, Esq. There is also delightful morceou
in prose from the pen of distinguished
scholar and Hterateur of New Orleans
-. The Howard Base Ball Club is still in
the field. The following is list of the
officers and the business" members of the
club:
Charles T. Howard Honorary President Chas.
Kaiser, President and Treasurer; Ed. Peters,
Secretary Jim Rankin, Captain and center field
T. Derry, pitcher: J. Tennyson, catcher; j.
Hickey, first base; l.. Whitley, second base G.
third base; F. Kuhn, short stop; A.
Berrlll, left field; Bunce Bell, right field.
The Towards go on the grounds to-day, at
the Louisiana Base Ball Park, with the Jack
son Club, and good match and lively game
may be counted on.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-29
THIRD WARD RIVERSIDE DEMO
CRATIC CLUB.

The meeting which was held last night over
steve's House, Magazine street, in response to
the call of the Third Ward Riverside Democratic
Club, was one of the largest and most respect
able gatherings of the kind that has taken place
in our city for some time.
The meeting was called to order by Mr.. P. j.
Churchill, on whose motion VIM. Conway, Esq,
was elected temporary President, and Mr.. J. F.
Henderson temporary Secretary.
After the meeting was fully organized and in
working order, the following resolution was
adopted as the platform Of the club
Resolucd, That while we zealously and sincere
" urge the reorganization Of the Democratic
party Of the State Of Louisiana, we also earnest
" advocate the organization OF our party upon a
broad and comprehensive basis, in order that
whatever may have been q voters political ante.
cedents he may without hesitation forthwith in
corporate himself in the Democratic organization
as the only party competent to defeat and over
throw Radicalism.
A motion to authorize the chair to appoint a
was adopted, and in accordance Herewith the
chair appointed the following named gentlemen
Messrs. Eugene Tisdale, G. A. Buehler and Jos
Gauche.
Mr.. P. J. Churchill, who, in consequence Of
being member of another club, could not en-.
roll himself as an active member, was, in reward
for services rendered the Riversides, and as a
merited compliment, elected an honorary
member.
The club adjourned until Saturday evening
next.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-29
JEALOUSY.
BloOdshed the Consequence.

| About o'clock Saturday morning as BuLLE
TIN reporter was quietly vending his way home
ward, his attention was attracted by the stead,
tramp of four men bearing upon their shoulder,
| a stretcher upon which lay man apparent,
dead
Our reporter fastened to the scene and dis
covered that the ma was still living, but that he
had received severe pistol shot wound, from
which tbs blood was flowing freely. Following
the stretcher and the crowd accompanying it, tt
the Charity Hospital, it was discovered that the
man was Louis Grady, we'll known in the con1mu
nifty. Our reporter followed him into the ward
when the following particulars were CLEANED
FROM the wounded man:
He states that Friday night there were three
men in company with girl named Rosana Mel
don, alias Schumacher, who works as sheer
jerker" in the Winter Garden, at the corner of
Royal and Customhouse streets : that he was
following in the rear, and he supposes that one OF
the men, he tn INKS Sweet, by name, imagined
that be was after the GIRL and that he (SWeet)
turned within twenty PAGES of HIM and fired.
That he does not know Sweet intimately. nor
the other men that were with him, and he could
not swear that Sweet was the m n who shot him,
but that he thinks it was, as the woman has
been intimate with him for some time.
Subsequent y, Samuel Carloso, VIM G. Sweet,
VIM. Schwam and the woman above mentioned
were arrested by Officer w. Nickerson and taken
to the rhir! Precinct Station-the men char cd
with disturbing the peace and violating Article
635, city ordinance, and the woman charged with
being accessory to the shooting.
Saturday morning at II o'clock, our reporter
visited Grady at he hospital. The ball entered
about three inches above the right nipple, and it
is thought by the physician to have penetrated
the lung and entered the plural" The courte
GUS DR.. Castellanos says that he can not as yet
express any opinion as to the final result but
that in all probability the man is fatally wounded
Grady is only twenty-five years Of age, and
being of very strong constitution. may recover.
though at present his condition is very critical
From the appearance of the orifce of the wound
the shooting must have been done with der
ringer or very large bore pistol, the hole
being about an inch in circumference.
Sweet and his companions refuse to make any
statement of the affair; but it is claimed by sew
eral of Sweets friends, who claim to have wit
messed the ARRAY, that he was at acked by
Grady and his friends, who were lying in Wait
for him at the corner on which the shot was
fired.