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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
ARUMORED NEW PARTY.

There is a rumor from Washington,
whether purely sensational, or well
founded is not yet known, to the eff
feet that 4 new party is to be built up,
on the ruins of RadicaRsm. TherumOr
has it that the leading features of the
Republican partywill be retained, with
an entirely new policy towards the
South, looking to its rights and inter-
ests. Such a party if organized, can
have no other hope of success, but in
throwing Grant overheard and Kidding
itself of those extreme partizans who
look upon consolidation and empire
as the only hope for the government
and country. This would, at once,
create another party, Of pretty equal
strength, composed of the extremely
Radical haters of the South and of the
monopolists and ring-masters who
hope to perpetuate their money power,
only by means of a strong government
and the extinguishment Of every YES
tige of popular liberty.
The new party, to counterbalance
the numerical strength of the impe-
rialists, will expect by their real, or as
sumed moderation to rope in the lib
eral Republicans and war democrats
and, by their promise of justice to the
South TO retain the negro vote and win
over the disaffected and disappointed
of the pretended conservatives-Whigs
and Democrats-WhO may hope to fat
ten ON pastures new, and be revenged
on those who failed to see and reward
their merits. Such a party, in the
South at least, may serve to carry oft
the scum and drift which obstruct the
current of southern prosperity; but
the solid men, the intelligent and pa
triotic, will see the wolf under the
Sleeps skin, and keep aloOf from all
utilization with any party recognizing
the leading features Of northern Re-
publieanism as the basis of its organ
ization. Moderation and justice to-
wards the South have never been the
policy of northern Republicans, and
any change insuch policy, now, should
be regarded, not as a result of honest
conviction, but of the November de-
feat. But, let us wait for farther de-
velopment and not anticipate the re-
suits of movement which may never
be made.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
GRANT AND HIS ApOLoGIsTs.

A Radical exchange, in the intensity
of its desire to justify Grant'sinterfer-.
ence in Louisiana. disregards all the
rules of logic, and begs the question
from beginning to end. He says, and
nobody denies, that under certain con
tingencies, the constitution authorizes
the President to interpo>e for the
maintenance of peace IN any State
where the same is endangered by insur-
rection. He assumes that such a
state of things exists in Louisiana.
and claims, that the returns of the
Returning Board were ample authority
for Governmental interference. But
he fails to recognize the fact. that the
majority of the Returning Board are
the corrupt tools of kellogg that
kellogg is an usurper placed in power
by Grant, and kept there as the cor
rupt agent of the President for the
sole purpose of working UP fraudu-
lent case, that he may have sheer
prtext for Intervention, in palpable
violation of the letter and spirit of the
constitution. And whilst this instru-
ment clearly gives him the power to
interfere under certain defined con-
tingences, it nowhere aufhorises him
so to meddle with State affairs as to
create the conditions upon which feder-
al authority may interpose its power
In Mississippi, Arkansasand Louisiana
he did so NEEDLE, and for no Other
purpose than to raise a preteXt fol-
controlling the elections in those
States, in the interests of his own sell
fish and sordld ambition. If good
government, law and order be the mo-
tives which govern his administration
why has he never interfered to stop the
bloody or-strikes in northern
States? Because such action would
endanger his aspirations after the in
sigma of royalty. For, though the
people of the North had their owl
hands tied, whilst they were tying those
of the South whilst they are gazing
about them, with the vacant stare o
half awakened Consciousness upon thC
ruin they have wrought, Grant knows
that the sudden shock of an armed in
reference in their domestic con.
Germs would bring. them. TO theil
senses and spoil all his schemes Of
power and grandeur. This discrimi
nation against the South, in the exer-
else of what he claims to be cOnstitu.
tional authority, brings into the light
of day, the baseness of his motive:
and of his reasonable Vaccination;
against liberty and the constitution
Partizans are expected to defend him
but they need not stultify themselves
in the effort to prove that black Ii
white, OF that Grant is n patriot AND
statesman-embodying more than all
the wisdom of his illustrious prede
cessors in Office.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

SHOULD Grant, by means of armed
force, secure the vote Of the South, in
1876, for himself, it is clear that,
though the Northern Democrats may
not feel the point Of the bayOnet, they
will be practically disfra nchised to the
extent of the Democratic strength in
the South. This consideration, if nc
other, ought to stimulate the North
ern wing of the party, to exert all it,
power and influence to secure to the
South the free exercise of its right Of
franchise. So long as the South is
controlled by the will of corrupt
usurper who owns the army of civil
officers, as well as the land and nava
forces, Northern Democracy will be
kept under the heel of the Radical
party. If it has not the patriot
ism and magnanimity to stand up'fol
the rights of the South, it surely ha:
enough of selfishness to battle for Its
own interests.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

THE Indiana Legislature nominated
a Democratic Senator, with only one
bolter from the caucus. Our legisla-
ture had better have done the same,
with dozen boilers from the caucus,
than create hundreds, of factious par
tizans to spread discord throughout
the State. No party can afford to viO-
late its usages, or compromise It's con-
victions, with the hope of conciliating
discomfort and retaining in its ranks
those chronic disorganizers, whose loss
will always be a gain to the party they
have infested and cursed. A caucus.
in the beginning, patriotic and honest
in motive, and firm in purpose. could
have secured the best material for
Senator, given general satisfaction and
driven off such only as would be
ashamed to proclaim the motives
which controlled them.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
WE publish to-day, the report ofthe

WE publish to-day, the report ofthe
sub committee on Louisiana affairs,
but it contains too much truth, and too
little toadyism to suit the views and
policy of his imperial highness and
his serVile courtiers, and the COM
mittee is ordered back to New Or
leans to make the state Of affairs con-
form to the written programme of
Grant and Sheridan. 1t can not have
escaped the observation of intelligent
and rejecting men that Grant is max
ing the issue, squarely, whether this
shall become a military government,
with himself as dictator, or land of
freedom under the constitution of
our fathers. All the demonstrations
made by himself, and all the acts of
his servile Congress point to this issue
as the great question to be determined
within the next twelve months 1t il
true that the North is prociaiming, in
subdued tones, modified indignation
atthe usurpations oft administration
and its glaring acts of tyranny, but
this only tends to irritate the despot o.
the White House and to hasten tn,
consummation of his scheme Of abso
lutte power. The northern people d.
not appreciate the situation and not
not, until too late, will they learl
that, in pinning together the Union
with bayonets, they have lost all thu
, blessings that Union was design
, to bestow. The North is pre-
pairing to place itself in the condi
, ton of the South, and will yet fnt
that the success of the rebellion wa
, the last hope for the preservation o
, liberty on the American continent, an
that with its failure, the spirit of lib
erty departed from US.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE,
1t Makes Report to the Governor as
to what it has Accomplished.
And Recommends the Blending Of the
Bureau Of immigration with it.

The following report was submitted
to Governor Brown by the President
of the Bureau of Agriculture. It
will be sent TO the Legislature to-day
with special message from Governor
Brown:
To His Excellency, Gov John C. Brown:
On the 18th of July last, as Presi-
dent of the Bureau of Agriculture. l
submitted to You report of the oper-
atloas OF this department for the two
proceeding years. Owing to the limi-
ted number of copies ordered to be
printed by the previous Legislature
and the extraordinary demand for the
work, the Commi, sioners have order
ed an abridgement of the general re-
port to be made, which work has since
been completed by the Secretary, j.
B. Killebrew, which, after being ster-
eotyped, is now passing through the
press. 1t comprises about 40 pages,
and treats of all those subjects of
which person desiring to remove to
the State would like to know. A copy
of the agricultural and geological map
of the State will accompany this
abridgement. In addition to this duty
the Secretary was also ordered, in con-
nectiOn with the State Geologist and
Chemist of this Bureau, DIR. j. NJ.
Stafford, to collect specimens of the
various agricultural, animal and min
eral products of the State and place
them on exhibition in one of the rooms
of the State Capitol, In obedience
to this requirement these gentlemen at
once set to work and have now on
hand large number of such speci-
mems, without, however, being able to
secure room in the State Capitol, as
contemplated, for exhibition.
With pleasure We notice the sugges-
ti0ns in your recent message on this
subject. More than twenty years ago
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

HOBBS says he received ten thous-
anu dollars of Mr.. Frierson through
Mr.. Duncan, as the price of his resig-
nation. Ducan denies having paid
Hobbs cent for himself or Frierson.
We hope the committee will succeed in
clearing up the dark transaction and
fixing the responsibility upon the gull
ty parties alone-leaving no suspicion
of guilt elinging to the innocent.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

THE subcommittee report on
Louisiana has been laid before the
full committee, which is at a loss
whether to make it public, or go back in
a body, TO New Orleans, and patch up
4 statemement which will sustain
Grant, Sheridan and kellogg. The in
ference is that the subcommittee re-
port does not justify the villainies per
petrated upon people once free, pros
porous and happy, but now struggling
against theItyraunYofthe meanest gov
eminent that ever disgraced an age OF
christian civilization.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

against the white race, of the want of
security to peaceabie citizens and their
families which existed, for those reas-
ons and also on account of the pecu-
liar formation of the police brigade.
On the other hand, the Republicans
assert that this is an armed body of
volunteers, existing for the purpose of
lnttmIdating the blacks and overthrow
Ing the Kellogg government.
That it had any considerable rela-
lions outside of the city of New Or
leans, or that it was intended in any
way to interfere with the rights of col
ored citizens, did not appear. Nor on
the other hand did it appear that there
was any extensive secret league among
the blacks of any kind.
That the White League would read
lily co-operate In any feasible scheme
for oyerthrowing the Kellogg govern
ment, your committee do not doubt;
so will substantially all the white citi-
zens ofLouislana. Such organizations
may be dangerous and are very rarely
to be Justified.
THE FOURTEENTH OF SEPTEMBER
The affair of the 14th of September
Is an illustration of this. The COM
mittee give detailed account of the
trouble at that time, and say the Con-
servatiyes of Lo1isiana do not propose
to fight the Federal Government. They
submit, not because they want to, but
because they must; not because they
proclaim any enmity against the flag,
not because free labor has not been
found practicable, not because of any
hostilities to the colored people
but because they regard themselves as
defrauded out of the election of 1872,
yet more out of the last election, and
because they think their State govern
ment has been to the last degree de-
structiye and corrupt.
Indeed in our judgment the substan-
tial citizens of the State will submit to
any fair determination of the question
of the late election, or to anything by
which they can secure firm, good gov
eminent.
What they seek is peace and the OPP
portunity for prosperity. To that end
they will support any form of govern
mentthat will afford them just pro-
lection. In their distress they have
got beyond any mere question of polit-
ical party. s
NO RECOMMENDATION MADE.
The committee recites at length the
facts relative to the attempted organi-
zation of the Legislature January 4
concludes as follows:
Your committee have not been able
to agree upon any recommendation
but upon the situation in Louisiana
as it appeared before US, we are al
agreed.
The report is signed by Charles Eos
ter, VIM Walter Phelps, and Clark
son N. Potter. The evidence upon
which the Subcommittee bases Its
conclusions is not yet written out. Ii
will be submitted hereafter if it shall
be deemed desirable.
The committee voted to adopt the
report and also to report the same to
the House, with the recommendation
that the same be printed and recon-
mitted.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

THE Chattanooga Commercial says
Some pieces Of ancient pottery: and
the skeleton OF man about twice as
large as the present full-grOwn human
being were recently exhmed from a
point twenty-five feet below the sur
face on the fIrm of Arch. McCaleb.
Some of the bones OF the skeleton
persisted when exposed to the air,
while others were capable of preser-
walton.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

MAYOR Witt, of New Orleans.
taking Grant to be sincere when he
declared that the act of De Tobriand.
in expelling members of the legislature
to have been unauthorized, innocently
asks for reinstatement. We shall not
be surprised if he is contaminated
for characterization to the will of
our military dictator.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

GEN. IsHAM q. HARRIS is in Nash
vile and moving for an investigation
into the issue of State bonds to the
Memphis & Little Rock. r. r., which
bonds were repudiated by tie Fund
ing Commissioners. The proof is
ample that they were issued by Andrew
johnson, as Governor. If issued
without the authority of law, he, alone,
is responsible.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

THE Democrats, of the North, fail to
assert the superiority of their wisdom
and devotion to the highest good of the
country, when they leave in the back
ground such men as Schurz, Seymour
and Jere Black. If this policy is pur-
sued everywhere, little is to be gained
by Democratic supremacy. We want
intellectual giants, with no faint of the
demagogue ABOUT them, to consummate
such revolution as will firmly re-es-
tablish liberty upon its throne,
with integrity and patriotism as its
prime ministers. Will Tennessee do
better than the States referred to?
The question will soon be answered.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

Gov. Brown, with grace and digni-
ty, on Monday last, retired from the
Executive chair which he has filled
with honor to himself and the State
and his successor, Hon. James ID. POr-
ter, with modest dignity, assumed the
responsibilities of the vacated seat
We predict for him a successful ad-
ministration and an accession of well
earned honor and popularity.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
Carriages, BuggieS and Wag,
OnS For Sale Cheap,

Twill, in the next sixty days, close out
the remaining stock of Brock man & Bring
hurst at unpreceden ted low prices for cash.
Said stock consists of Carriages, Buggies
the latter Is too well known in this and
adjoining counties to need commentator,
and this Ia probably the last chance you
viii ever have Mt them. Brockman &
Bringhurst's old stand, Franklin Street.
L. y. BRINGHURST,
Jan. %, 75-2m. Receiver.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
Report Of the Congressional Com.
mittee,
President of Bureau

mittee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The sub
committee. appointed to visit New Or
leans for the purpose Of Investigation
has reported To the general committee.
After giving full account of the ac-
ton of the Returning Board, the
committee reports thatitis constrained
TO say that the action of the Board in
the rejection of the returns in the par
lsh OF Rapides, and giving the seats of
that parish to the Republican candi-
dates, Was arbitrary, unfair and with
out warrant of law.
1t the committee were to 60 behind
the papers before the board and CON
slider the alleged charge of intimida-
ton upon proofs before the committee
their finding would necessarily be the
same. Rapides parish was ia ken as a
sample parish of intimidation. Many
witnesses of both parties show beyond
question that there was free, full, fair
and peaceable election and registration.
NO EVIDENCE OF INTIMIDATION.
There vas no egidsnce of intimida-
ton of voters practiced on the day of
election, although it was asserted that
the Intimidation of colored men before
the election had been effected by threats
OF refusal to employ them or to dis
charge them if they voted the Repubs
llcan ticket. No evidence, either Of
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

We are seriously apprehensive that
the election of United States Senator
will prove a wedge to split the Opposi-
ton and spread discord where harmony
should prevail. We still hope that,
ere this is published, the candidates
themselves will see the wisdom of
securing unity and, to do so, will con-
fer together as statesmen and patriots
each resolved that his ambition shall
be no obstacle to the preservation of
harmony, or the election of a man of
whom the State may well be proud.
The effect of such q move would be to
relieve the Legislature ofall embarass-
ment and give satisfaction to the peo-
ple.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Having been qualified as the Admins
traitor of James 7. Smith, decd, and Also
having suggested the Insolvency of said
estate to the Clerk OF the County Court of
Montgomery County, notice is here given
for all persons having claims against said
estate to present them to the said Clerk of
the County Court properly authenticated
within the time prescribed by law for pro
rata distribution, and those knowing
themselves indebted to saFi estate will
please come forward and make immediate
payment or the same will be enforced nc
cOrding to law.
A. MCDANIEL, Admir-.
Jan. Is, '7j-4w.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
THE NASHVILLE BANNER.


EVERY intelligent family should be
supplied with their County newspaper.
and one paper from the Capital of their
State. The Nashville Hammer. issued
from the seat of government, is % wide
awake, enterPrising and interesting DEM
Ocratic newspaper Its commercial re-
ports are invaluable to IRerch mt and pro-
Queer. Prints all telegrapbie dispatches.
home and foreign, OF Western Associated
Pres, of which it is a stock holder and
member. Its editorials are up with the
advanced Democratic Sentilaent OF the
stat and the Union. Its legislative and
Congressional reports are full aud aceu-
rateg The great political campaign of 1876,
Stale and National, will be inaugurated
this year. We are on the threshold of mo-
mentous political eveutss rake the Ban
ner and keep posted. Remember that the
paper is sent postage free, aud no increase
or subscription rates, 'fhe Daily Banner
IS $40 a year, the Tri-Weekly Banner s. a
wear and the Nam moth. Weekly Banner
50 year. Your Postmaster viii receive
and receipt for and forward subscriptions.
Address, ROBERTS * PURvIS. Nashville,
Tennessee. Jan. Is, 'I5-tf.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

The citizens of Bloomfield district,
Nelson county, have voted in favor of
retailing spirituOuS liquors.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
NOTICE

Persons knowing themselves indebted 10
the GAINESVILLE Cooperative Manufacture
ing Company will find the claims in the
hands of an officer unless they settle by
February list. Those having claims against
the Company Will file them with me by
that time or they will be barred.
w KEESE&, trustee.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
GEiRKSYILlElHMAEE ACADEMY

The next Term of GAINESVILLE Female
Academy begins Jan. 18th. Music will be
thoroughly taught Ivy Misses Hall and
Samuel. There is also corps of most eX-
cellent Literary Teaehers..
ss,;-.-t REV NJ. WRIGHT. Pres't.
Jan. l6-lw.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

MASSACHUSETTS has elected Dawes
to the Senate.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
THE WHITE LEAGUE.

OF the White League of New Or
leans, the Committee say It is an, Or
ganization composed ofdlfferent clubs,
numbering in all between 2 500 and 2
500. the members of which have pro-
yided arms for themselves, and with
or without arms engage in military
drill. they have no ngifOrM, and the
arps are property of the .Indlyid1GHIals
aud not Of the organizations. They
comprise a large number OF reputable
citizens and ofproperty holders, Their
purpose they declare to be SIMPLY pro-
lection, necessity occasioned by the
existence of leagues among the blacks,
Of the hostility with which the Kel-
logg government arrayed the black
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
~ REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK

OF GAINESVILLE, TENNESSEE,
At the close of Business on the 3lst day Of
December, 1874.
RESOURCES:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23

A. AaA Per Day at home. Terms
80 to $Z rec Co. fSafsss e. M sFHssOS
Jan, %, '71-ly,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
PUBLICSALE OF REAL ESTATE

BY virtue of a deed of trust executed TO
me by John Manning and yflfe, Julia Man
ming, on the 2Dth day OF December, 1873,
and registered in book c, pages 24i and 2ij,
I will, on
Monday, the LIST day Of March next,
sell at Public Auction at the Court House
in Clarksville, tine lot of Groun nal. lying on
the East side of the Public Square, and be-
tween the LOT formerly owned by John
Mitchell aud that belonging to the heirs Of
Joshua Elder, decd said property VIII be
sold fnr One-half Cash. the balance in two
equal payments at 8 and u months, the
purchaser executing notes, with security,
bearing interest from date.
WALTER McCOMB, Trustee.
Jan. IS, '75-7w.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-01-23
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

NASHVILLE, Jan. Is, 1873.
The Senate was called to order at 10