Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-12-09

special attention 10 the need Of the DepartmenE
for new gallery for the renepfleR Of the exhibits
lng the exhibits Gonated By very many fereiRa
Nations and to the Recommendations OF the Conn
The reports Of the District Commissioners ana
fne Bqard Of Health are JUST received; toe late 10
and are herewith submitted.
CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION.
The International Exhibftion held IN Philadel-
hHndredfh anniversary Of Imsrican independ-
enee, has proven great success, and viii doubt
shown great progress the arts. sciences and me-
cnanieal SKIN made In single century, and demon
strated that We are but little behind the other Ma
tions in any one branch, while in some we scarce
y nave rival It has served, too,
duets Of skin and labor from sn parts Of the the
world together. but tn bringing together people
from all sections Of our country which must prove
a great benefit in information impaired and pride
OF country engendered. Ii has been suggested by
Smithsonian Institutein q ceramunic ZION that the
government exhibit be removed to the CAPITAL.
and suitable building be erected or purchased
for its accommodation, as permanent exhibition.
earnestly recommend this; and, believing that
directed that ali Government exhibits at
the Centennial Exhibition sh0uld remain
where they are, except such as might be in
jured by remaining in q building not Intended as
protection in Indictment weather. or sach as may
until the question OF permanent exhibitien il
acted on, Although the moneys appropriated by
Congress- to enable the participation Of the sew.
eral Executive Departments in the Inferna tionai
Exhibition of 1876 were not sufficient to carry cut
the undertaking the full extent at first centem-
plated. it gives me pleasure to refer to
the very efficient and creditabIe manner
in which the Board appointed from
these several Departments to provide
an exnloltlon on the part of the Government
placed at their command. without a precedent to
guide Them IN the preparation of such display,
the success Of their 1abors was amply aitested by
the sustained attention which the contents of the
Government Building attracted during the period
of the Exhibition. both from foreign and native
people ] am strongly Impressed with the value
q the coHecIion made By the Government for the
fr does, the general resources OF the
country, the statistical and practical evidences
OF our growth Nation. and the uses OF the mer-
camille arts and the applications of applied science
IN the administration OF the affairs of the Govern
ment Many Nations have voluntarily contributed
their exhibits the United States to increase the
interest IN any permanent exhibition Congress
may provide for. For this act of generosity they
should receive the thanks OF the people, and re-
speefully suggest that resolution of Congress to
that effect be adopted.
NATIONAL ELECTIONS
The attention of Congress can not be too earn
estly called to the necessity of throwing some
greater safeguard over the method OF choosing
and decial ing the election of President. Under
the present system there seems to be provided no
remedy for he election in any one State
ment OF the Electors. The compulsory support of
rhe free school, and the Acknowledgement of all
who can not read and write the English language,
after fixed probation, would meet my hearty APP
proyai. would not make this apply, however, to
go after the expiration OF the probation
Hxeo upon. Foreigners coming 10 this
country to become citizens, who
educated in their own language. would acquire the
requisite knowledge OF ours during the necessary
residence to obtain naturalization. II theydid not
take enough interest in language TO acquire
sufficient knowledge OF it to enable them TO study
gently. would not confer upon them the right to
make such laws. nor TO select those who do.
ADMINISTRATIVE EvEETs-sAS DOMINGO AND CUBA.
append to this message, for convenient refer
ence, synopsis of administrative eventa and of all
recomnendaIionsto Congress- by me during the last
meudations not to have been wisely conceived, but
1 believe the larger part will be no discreoit TO
tons met with the united opposition of polIt-
ical party in the Senate, and with strong onposl
annexation of San Domingo to us, to which I shall
specially refer, maintaining, as 1 do, that If my
views had been concurred in, the country would
be in more prosperous condition to-day. both
politically and financially. San Domingo is fer
tropical products of which the United States
use so much, and winch are produced or
exclusively. namely, sugar. coffee dye-wOods, ma
hoganys tropical fruits, tobacco. DC. About seven
sumed in the Uuited States; a large percentage of
the exports of Brazil also find the same market.
These are paid for almost exclusively in coin, leg
islation, particularly IN Cuba. being unfav0rable
/ to mutual exchange of the products of each
70 havana, can pass by the very entrance TO
the city, on Its way to portion OF Spain, there
pays a duty fixed upon the articles to be re-ex
ported and transferred to Spanish vessel, and
brought back almost to the point of starting, pay
what would be received by direct shipment. All
| that Is produced iu Cuba could be produced in
States, commerce between the island and the
main land would be free; there would be
import duties on those coming here. There
would be no import duties upon the supplies of
machinery. &C.. going from the States The effect
that would have been produced upon Cuban
merce with these advantages TO America is Obsery-
able at glance. The Cuban question would have
been settled long ago in favor of free Cuba"
hundreds of American vessels would now be ad-
and other products of the soil of the island
to market and in carrying supplies and emIgrants
It has an area snficient for The productive
employment of several millions of people. The
States capitalists. The products valuable
IN commerce that emigration there would have
South would have found there eOngenial home.
where their civil rights could not be disputed,
and where their labor would he much soughtafter.
The poorest among them could have found means
| to 60 there. In cases of great oppression and
many places within the last eleven years, whole
communities would have sought refuge in San
have gone, is it desirable that they should
Their labor is desirable, Indispensable almost,
territory would have left the negro master Of the
situation, by enabling him to demand his rights at
not present these views now as recorfn en- dalton
for a renewal of the subject OF annexation. but L
regard to it,
With the present Congress my official life ter
Will again receive attention from me, further
than as a citizen of the Republic, always taking
deep interest in the honor ana integrity and pros
perfty of the whole land q. S. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 8, 1876.
THE number OF immi grants arriving in Texas by
way of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
for the last eight months is put down. by the Gen
eral Passenger Agent, at twenty thousand. For
the same time the number Of wagons and persons
crossing Red River, at COlbert's Ferry, winch is
SIX miles from Denison, are gIven as follows:
Number of wagons, 1850; number of people, "a 900,
M a n TaP
by way of Denson, since April last.-GGalyestOn
News.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY having, at London lecture
the other night, gwen some striking instances of
the i'll effect public health of neglect OF drain
age. showed by the OF the town OF Salisbury,
that consumption, which was mole fatal than all
the Zymotic diseases combined, might be dimin-
lshed much aAtifty per cent. by thorough drain
age of the subsoH.
CONGRESSMAN TOWNSEND, OF New York. pro-
tests that he has been ff0r fortynine years very
humhIe meTnber of the PresbVterian Church and