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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

Next week we shall proba-
bly, have occasion to speak of
the superior qualities of Boots
and shoes kept by b. F. Coul-
ter. 1t is common sense
proposition that good mate
rails and good workmanship
cannot be obtained at SHoDDY
PRICES. Auoid Shoddy Goods,
and 60 to Coulter's and buy
his custom work. You will
in the.end save money by do
ing so, and not only save
money, but save the time and
troupie of buying shoes every
few weeks. Shoddy Shoes,
even at shoddy prices, won't
do. Try Coulter.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

A GOLD currency for the Govern
ment and rags for the people, is a
financial plank in the Radical platform.
which is not likely to win 1t is aris-
tocratic in theory and destructive in
practice. Experience, all the world of
over. has taught thata mixed currency
gold and paper-the latter based upon
the former-has ever been unstable,
producing commercial paDics by alter
nate contraction and imitation. And
since an ample metallic curreney-gold
being the metals an impossibility,
the impression is rapidly gaining
ground that there is no better medium
of exchange, for this country, than
greenbacks, made receivable for all
dues, individual and governmental.
These issued by the Treasury and
based upon the wealth of the country
aud the good faith of its govern
ment, are the currency the people want
1t is no wild experiment, but has been
tested by years of experience un-
der circumstances well calculated to
proYe the thoroughness of the test,
that tho entire availability of green
backs, as a standard ofvalues, is not
inferior to gold. Bonds must be sold
to buy gold and silver with which
to redeem greenbacks-these bear no
interest. but the bonds into which they
are converted bear gold interest, and
the people must be taxed to pay this
interest Of forty millions and this must
be borne, nominally to return to specie
payments, but in fact TO increase the
wealth aud power of bondholders and
other dangerous monopolies-to i'm
poverish the people and enrich the
various rings that virtually control
every department of the government,
in the interest Of Capitalization aud
deSpotism. This is the game Radical
ism is playing, and it will require all
the energy of united Democracy to
defeat it. Union means victory, and
division, defeat.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

We do not pretend to know the
cause of the Conservative defeat in the
election for Mayor of Nashville, but
we do know that the blame rests upon
the party defeated. Want Of unity,
want of clear perception of mutual
interests, opened the way for frauds
and invited the consequences which
are to follow discord and want of or
ganization. 1t is dangerous example
to be set by the Capital of the State.
1t is also culpable breach of faith
and gross individual wrong TO bring
forward an honest and competent man
as candidate for office, and then SUI
fer him to be beaten, nor is the wrong
rigkted by subsequent apologies 10
the shape of speculations as to the
causes of his defeat.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

The term grass widow is said to be
a corruption of grace widow" the
former expression being merely bar
barism. Grace widow is the term
applied to one who becomes widow
by grace or favor, not of necessity, as
by,death, originated in the early days
of European civilization. when di-
vorces were granted, but seldom and
wholly by the Catholic Church. When
such decree was granted to woman
a papal receipt stated "Viduca de
gratia, which interpreted is widow
of grace. la the law of the French
it would read "Veuve de grace" or
grace widow" 'veuve' being translat-
ed as widow" .la.e
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

Hon. J. B. Beck. of Kentucky. was
in Washington the other day. and was,
of course, interviewed regarding the
political situation. A Washington
letter thus reports him:
He is confident, as are all the Dem
ocratic politicians in Ohio, that Gov
Allen will be reelected by tremend-
Gus majority; and while he is of opin-
ion that Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
are not infationists within the strict
meaning of the word, those States are
not ready to reduce values to specie
basis for several years to come. Re-
specting the influence of New York in
the presidential canvass, he said that
selecting a candidate from New York
in 1868 and 1872 would give the West
a claim to recognition, and he believed
a Western man weuld be the choice of
the National Convention
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02


If idIeness leads. to vice and the
commission of crime. the Radicals
ought to be held TO severe account
for whatever evils may follow the
throwing out of employment the tens
of thousand recently making a com
Portable support, bat now driven TO
support life by means immoral and IL
legal. The policy which makes the
poor poorer il, of course, the corruptor
Of public virtue. Extreme poverty,
like necessity. knows no law except
that of self-preservation, yet the pow
erty- stricken victims of bad govern
ment are not allowed to plead in ex-
tenuation of this conduct, that the
government has driven them to evil
courses as the only means of sustain
ing life. Nor,heru papers TEEN with
accounts Of" trainps.' - who infest high
ways and by-ways, levying coutribu-
tons upon travellers and house-keepers
at the muzzles of pi tolls; but the fact
is withheld that those ''tramps were
Industrious and skilled laborers until
contraction and the tyranny of the
money power forced them from the
sum total of public virtue the
workshops with no other alternative
than beggary, theft, or starvation.
Yet. in spite of subtraction from the
suffering inflicted and the loss Of
wealth to the whole country, the guilty
authors are stralning every nerve
and resorting to every disgraceful de-
vice to perpetuate the policy which has
wrought the widespread ruin of pub
lie morals, individual comfort and
commercial prosperity.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02
TARIPrs ANp TAxEs.

They are greatly mistaken wbo
charge the burdens they bear, in the
shape of taxation, to the laws Of their
respective States. 1t is true that local
taxes are high. and necessarily SO, be-
cause the Southern States are heavily
in debt and have no other means with
which TO pay their debts except taxa
tion of individual property. And heavy
as this is, it is light in comparison with
that which is imposed by the revenue
laws Of the Federal go7ernmsnt-its
internal revenue taxes aud protective
tariff. Even this latter covert impcsi-
ton would not be so grieyous did it
bring into the Treasury a revenue pro-
portioned to the burden it lays upon
the shoulders of the people; but it is
a conceded fact That high tariffs yield
far less revenue than those adjusted to
the revenue standard, and hence the
distinction between tariff for revenue
and tariff for protection. The latter
prohibits foreign competition. because
the foreign product viii not be sent, to
this market, the manufacturer knowing
that he can not pay the cost Of trans
portation and ahigh duty and then
realize profit in competition with
similar articles of our home ma1ufac-
ture. The importer is prohibited by
the same considerations. from bringing
foreign products to his home market,
and the result is that protected monop-
olies, secured against competition,
make large profits at the cost of the
consumer and rob the Treasury of the
revenue it would have derived from a
properly adjusted scale of duties. If
every man ofsubstancei in and through
out the country would procure a copy
of the last tariff act and single out
from the thousand others the articles
he consumes yearly. and make note
of the amount of duty laid on each,
he can form an approximate idea of
how much he is forced to pay to
monopolies which are protected by the
sectional and partizan administration
that robs him of his substance, under
the false pretence Of raising revenue
for the support of the government.
And when he learns that for every pair
of heavy blankets he buys he pays three
dollars to monopoly, and on all other
articles in proportion, he will cease TO
ascribe his peeuniary oppression to
State taxation alone, and seek his
remedy in the humiliation of the party
in power. An acre of tobacco, if the
land be rich and the crop well handled,
or four acres of wheit will more than
pay the average State tax of farmers;
but when he has paid, in addition, the
tariff dues upon what he consumer, of
his whole crop, little is left in the shape
of surplus and still less of profit upon
his years labor. Still he labors on,
ignorant of or Indifferent to, the causes
of his present and increasing poverty,
content to ascribe to his local legisla-
ton the blows at his waning prosperity
that are dealt by the federal hand.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

and since then they have been labor
ing to support themselves and pay the
rapidly accumulating interest.
While / do not think this good
agricultural country, | do think 1t most
eminentsy adapted to the culture OF
grapes and fruit growing. Grapes cer-
tainly grow here to miraculous size
and in the most wonderful profusion
The best varieties are the Cucamango
Malaga, Muscat, Mission, Blue Elba
aud Zinfandal. The Museat is a large
thin skinned, white grape, and makes
splendid rasins. The Mission is con.
sidered the finest grape that grows
here, it is decidedly the best for table
use. You would stand petri6ed with
wonder to see some punches of the
Flaming Topaz" and really I an
afraid to risk my reputation for verac
iiy by telling you what | have seen
A great deal Divine and brandy is mad,
and shipped annually, and | belieg,
that this country will one day rival, i
notexcel, thegrape producing countries
of Europe CALIFORNIA.
Los Angeles, Sept p, 1875. lf.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

PEACE and good order are said to
prevail throughout the State of Mis-
sissippi, much to the regret of its in
famous Executive. But all his efforts
to procure bloody shirts enough to be
waved in the Northern States having
failed. he ought to be preparing for the
fate that awaits nina permanent re-
tirement from public view, carrying
with him the ineffable contempt of all
honest men.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

In Detroit, recently, when a crowd
had collected around boy who had
been run over and badly hurt, man
rose up and said: I'm sorry enough
to cry, but I haven't time. ! want TO
call your attention to my new patent
clothes wriuger, which is warranted
to-" At this point he came down on
tho pavement, several parties stepped
on him, and as he was being sponged
off in drug store, he inquired, Is
this Texas or Michigan ?" ~
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

If it be true that selfishness is the
predominant motive of human action,
we can not justly eensure the bond
holder for being in sympathy with the
hard money party, or voting for its
continuance in power. Still, such sell
tishnesS is almost criminal when it su-
pereedes patriotism and ignores the
considerations upon which the general
welfare essentially depends. Were it
in our power, We would smash the
golden calf and force IFS worshippers
hands from the pockets of the people,
with the hope that portion of their
idOlatry might assume the form OF de-
vOtion to their country.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

General Fitzhueh Lee, the Exon
federate General. has received a very
fiatteripg letter from the Khedive OF
Egypt, who, after paying General Lee
high personal tribute. says that ne is
DESTROYS of forming a body of house
hold troops, to constitute his body
guard" and that he wishes it to con-
sist of veteran soldiers, and also that
they shall be picked men from the
whole American cavalry in the late
war. He suggests that General Lee
make an effort to reorganize for this
purpose the noted BLACK Horse Cav
air" of Virginia.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02
Los Angeles, Sept. p, 1915.

DEATH OF Rev. A. w. SMITH
The death of this truly good man took
place in Columbia, Tenu., on the 23d
ult. He was pastor of the Methodist
Church in New Providence, last year,
and endeared himself to the people
there and here by his consistent course
as minister and citizen. The follow
ing, from the Herald aud Mail, of the
9th ult., are words ftlyspoken:
Rev. Austin Willis Smith, pastor of
the Methodist Church, in this place,
died at the Parsonage, yesterday morn
ing, at lbs, calmly and peacefully, as
babe at rest. lie had been sick more
than month, and for nearly three
weeks, his life has hung, as 1t were, on
single thread; for weeks he has been
nursed and visited, by kind and sympa-
thizing friends, and everything that
human science, and skill, and love could
do, has been done to keep him with us,
but all in vain. DIR. Smith was sent
here in October, 1869, from Lebanon,
by the Tennessee Conference, and he
so won the affection and love of his
people, that he was kept here for four
years, which was as long as the Method
list Church allows a minister to be sent
| to one place consecutively. just as
soon as it was possible to get him back,
at the expiration of Conference year,
the people here, Methodists, Cumber-
land Presbyterians, Presbyterians.
Baptists, Episcopalians, and those who
belonged to no church-everybody,
white and black, who had chance,
said to the delegate to the Conference.
BE certain to bring us DIR. Smith.
Had he lived, he would have been kept
here for another four years, and then
after the lapse of another year to meet
the church law, he would have been
brought back, as long as he lived. And
he would have come, let the pay be
small or large, it was all the same to
him. He didn't work for pay, but for
his Master, whom he loved, with love
that was more than loYe !; and loving
Him, he loved the people, especially
the poor people. And the poor people
lONeu nun. DuIluS HIS SlChuCco, CNCi
body you met, asked the question,
How is DIR. Smith," Probably no
man ever died in our town, who had
so won the respect, esteem and atfec-
ton of everybody. His open, manly
face invited the friendship of all who
met him, and he always had kind and
cheerful greeting for everybody. And
when he came to die, the last ray Of
consciousness that emanated from his
face, was bright smile for the grief
stricken ones assembled around his
bed. And thus passed away, to his
Savior, as noble a spirit as ever lived.
He was of such material as martyrs
are male-aH gentleness, glove and
purity, but firm 10 matters of principle,
as the everlasting hills. The world is
better because he has lived in it, and
is loser now that he has left It. As
soon as he died the Presbyterians I'M
animously rendered their Church for
the funeral services. Dr. d. q! Kelley,
of Nashville. who is very like DR..
Smith in disposition and whom he
greatly loved, came out 10 see him Fri
day night, and consented to preach his
funeral, which will take place to-mors
row morning at half past ten o'clock,
In the Presbyterian church. .9.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

TIE financial distress in New York
is painfully felt, outside of the bond
and gold rings, as it is in the oppressed
South and West. The consequence is,
that it is doubtful whether the masses
of the city or State will endorse by
their votes, the resumption features of
the New York Democratic platform.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

Seven years ago George Francis
Train stood in front Of the Bank OF
California, and pointing with his cane
to its frowning stone walls, remarked
that the people of San francisco would
live to see it collapse 10 9 single day
He made the same assertion III a pub,
lie hall, aud came near being mobbed
In the streets.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

THE way to settle the question of
paying the principal and interest of
the bonded debt in gold, is to mike
greenbacks its full equivalent, and
make speculation in gold impossible
by making it par with other metals of
equal intrinsic values and no one Of
them an arbitrary standard of values.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

IT is often asked: Why the abund-
ant crops have not afforded pecuniary
relief? 1t is because contraction is
still going on-two hundred millions
since the crops were planted. 1t is not
because the necessaries are scarce,
but because the dimes are. That's
what's the matter.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

New MEXICO has elected a Demo
crat to Congress by majority of about
l 500, and the Democrats of Wyoming
have made a clean sweep in that Ter
ritory. These would be small matters
did they not show that the tide of rev,
olutiou has reached the extreme West
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

BONDS are printed on paper, so are
legal tenders, and since both are based
upon the credit of the United States,
how does it happen that one is mere
rags, whilst the other is not, but is
at par with gold? The law which
makes this distinction can remove it
and make them equal, and the same
basis of credit can keep them so. c
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

"SET rogue to catch a rogue, is
an adage as polite as old, but the Rad
icalIadministration has so far reversed
it as to make it read-commission a
rogue to acquit rogue. All the in
vestigations set on foot for several
years have been conducted and con.
cluded in conformity with this new
reading of the adage.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02
One Of the Younger Brothers Arrested.

LOUISVILLE, Sept. N.-The sheriff
of Fentress county, Tenn, captured a
man who answers the description of
Cole Younger. He had 81, 400 and Of
fered all to be released. He is now
in the Jail of Fentress county, and is
believed to be a partner of Jesse
James, who was killed at Pine Hill,
KY, last week. James and Younger
were both concerned in the late Vir-
ginia bank robbery.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

1t is calculated that there are 10000
horses suffering in some degree from
colds and sore threats at the present
time in New York, the symptoms being
precisely those manifested when the
epizootic first showed itself The lead
ing feature of the present attack is a
constant hacking and coughing, with
sore throat and slight running at the
nostrils. f
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

The Masonic authorities of Iowa
have decided that dancing in the lodge
room is inconsistent with the good OF
the craft We can imagine some OBJ
jections to round dances, but we
should think square" dances would
come within the compass oil the craft.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

AS there was no Radical at Jack
sonville, Ala, competent to discharge
the duties of postmaster, Democrat
had to be appointed, but his commits
sion had to be withheld until he was
thoroughly investigated. 1t was then
forwarded to him in spite of his pub
lished declaration that he was not one
of Grants minions.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

A bachelor says that all he should
ask for iu a wife would be a good tenn
per, health, good understanding agree
able physiognomy, figure, good connec-
ton, domestic habits, resources of
amusement, good spirits, conversation
al talent, elegant manners-money.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

THE Louisville National Granger
says:
The hog crop is fattening finely, and
some early penned hogs are coming
forward at full prices for butchers use.
Probably the number will not be SO
large as last year, but the weights will
be greater, and prices are stiff. Drovers
will have to watch combinations,
formed by packers in the early part of
the season to depress prices, similar to
those made last season.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

DELANo, whitewashed. will step
down and out" but he had better step
out of the United States, if he would
avoid the consequences of an honest
investigation and thorough exposure of
his vilfainous official acts.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

JESSE JAMES writes from st. Louis
to the Nashville American that he is
not the murdered robber of the bank
Of Huntington. IF it be jesse that
writes We do not understand why he
should disclose his place of residence
when he is so much wanted in sundry
other places.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

+ An exchange says, stove luster when
mixed with turpen,ine and applied IN
the usual manner, is blacker, more
glossy and more durable than when
mixed with any other liquid. The
turpentine prevents rust, and when
put On an old rusty stove viii make 1t
look as we'll as new.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

A MIXED currency of geld and pa
per affords a wide field forspeculation,
contraction and expansion, at the will
of aecumHiators of gold, to be follow
ed necessarily by panics from which it
takes years to recover.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

JOHN Quincy ADAMS, in 1874, as
serted that slavery should be abol-
lshed if it cost the lives Of 100000
men," 1t has been abolished at double
that cost of human life and an meal
culable amount of property and, worse
still, has destroyed public virtue and
cursed both races without advancing
the interest of humanity in a single
particular So much for Puritanical
philanthropy.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

. The Secretary of the Treasury has
given directions or the retirement OF
$3O4.584 of outstanding legal tenders,
that amount being so per cent. OF tne
national bank circulation issued DUR
ing the past month. Until further or,
ders the outstanding legal tenders wall
be $313, 91 ,l24.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

In view of such tragedies as that al
Bellfontaine, Ohio. and the subsequent
kukluxing, it would seem that federal
troops are needed 10 several Northern
States, and Grant would promptly fur
nish them to suppress Democracy.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

We scarcely read paper which
does not tell the failure ofsome heavy
bank or other business firm, causing
losses to innocent parties, and yet the
work of contraction goes on in the in
terest of bondholders and monopolies.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

TIE Syracuse Convention and plat
form have sounded the death knell of
TIlden hopes of nomination for
the Presidency. 1t has done more-it
has ratified the treaty between the
hard money Democrats aud the Radi-
Gals. the bond of interest being Their
mutual relations 10 the money power
Which is to swallow the other is =
matter of no coDsequence-the hybrid
thu. created will look as ugly vhethe'
il be called Republican Democratic
mr. Democratic Republican party.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

The Natehez New South, an intense
ly Republican Journal, writes long
article under this caption, Purify or
Perish" and closes with this sentence:
If the purifying and unloading i
not done at once, it will only be ques-
ton of few months. or years at most,
before the Republican party in this
State becomes defnnct, and on its grave
will be read the epitaph: Died from
the corruption that existed within
itself.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

WILLSoHURz take his SIG, 900 salary
in rag money? Of course not. The
institution which employs him-Au-
gust Belmont-is specie paying, and
Schurz is too big man to sell himself
for rags