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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
The Progress of Reform Within the
THE Nation

The news from Washington shows
pretty conclusively that the "Old
Man" as he is playfully or affection
ately called by his friends, has got
his back up" Having got rid Of
Bristow, New and Yaryan, and so
deepened the attachment of Mckee
and Mcdonald to the party, he has
followed this up BY the decapitatlon
ofDyer, the district attorney who has
been blocking the wheels of Govern
ment, first by prosecuting the leading
Republicans of Missouri, and then by
refusing to approve their application
for pardon. Having thus made rea-
sonably sure of carrying one OF the
principal Western States, the odd.
Man has now begun to turn his at
tention to another, and, in order to
carry Indiana" has first turned out
Mr.. Jewell, who has made himself
disgusting to some of the most expert
euced' statesmen Of the country by his
idealism in Disappearing of the prac-
tice of securing post-ofice contracts by
felouious abstraction and examina-
ton of competing bids, and has putin
his place Mr. Tyner, second assistant
postmaster general, strong supporter
of the Morton policy in the South,
who got his present Office for voting
for the force bill last year. He is par
ticularly opposed to the habeas corpus,
and thinks the president ought to have
the right to suspend it when he pleases,
and will not be likely to tolerate any
nonsense from rebels" along the
postal routes in the South. Mr. Pratt,
the internal revenue commissioner,
has been got rid of for giving Yaryan
letter of recommendation aud regret
on the latter's dismissal, which shows
that General Grant means his employ
cs shall not only be faithful them
selves but shall frown upon unfaith-
fitness in others. The INDUSTRIOUS
character of the whole proceeding be-
comes more glazing when we reflect
that it follows close upon Hayes let
ter, in which, announcing himself as a
candidate, he promises to break up the
very system by which Zach" Chan
dler and the "0ld Man" are now
working tooth and nail to elect him.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
Ohio Germans,
Isl. Louis Anzeiger. |


The Independent Germans of Ohio
appear to be most enthusiastic for
Tilden and Hendricks. The Waechter
am Erie in Cleveland publishes a call
fer the organization of Tilden club,
which is signed by nearly five hundred
German citizens of Cleveland. The
signers Of the call are nearly all men
of more or less influence in the city
and large majority of them voted for
Hayes last year for Governor of Ohio.
Some of them, as Louis Ritter, Jacob
Mueller and others, helped found the
Republican party. Among other
things the "call" says
Wehave taken a stand under Tildens
banner without regard to past party
connection and without regard to any
peasonal feelings for any of the Presi-
dental candidates. We have been
guided only BIZ the force of facts aud
from patriotic motives. We entertain
no unfriendly feelings towards Mr..
Hayes, but in his candidacy we are
fighting the continuation of the Re-
publican rule, which we think has al
ready lasted four years too long, and
which has in the last few years assum-
ed almost despotic sway over the peo-
pie and become the protector of monop-
Olies and subsidy corporations.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29

The Republican papers have never
published any statement showing how
and where they have ever established
that great school system" in the
Southern States, which they say will
be destroyed, together with the school
houses and all the churches, if the
Democrats come into power. The in
formation made public on that point is
to the effect that, after heavily taxing
the Southern property holders for
school purposes, the school officials
and rpet-baggers generally have
stolen all the funds, as is frequently
the case in Northern States, where the
Radicals are continually asserting that
"our public school system is in dang
err" The best kind of school system
in the South exists to-day in the States
where the Democrats have recovered
their power.-CoMier- JourndL
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29

The New York Herald would be
proud Of our country if there we're
more men of the type Of Lamar in
public life. 1t is not merely his abili-
ty and eloquence that excite our adj
miration, although we do not under
value bis brilliant intellectual gifts /;
but what especially commands our
esteem and homage is his moral char
aeter. He is one of the few men capa-
Bile of rising above the murky atmos-
phere Of low partisan politics, one Of
the very few who habitually make US
feel the value ofenlightened conscience
inpublic affairs"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
Buffalo RulAs Opinion.

In the letter received by Mr.. Ono
hundro from Buffalo Bill, the latter
says There is going TO be the dam
dest Indian war ever known, and no
man can say when it is going to end.
The Indians have thus far whipped
every command they have met. They
have one village that numbers ten
thousand fighting men. They boast
that in a mountainous country they
can whip all the whites that may come
against them, and many a white man
will turn up his toes before they are
conquered. Iexpect to hear of yolun-
teers being raised. IN. y. Herald.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
THE ILLINOIS CAMPAIGN.
Can the Democrats Garry the State
From the Emingham Democrat.


From the Efiingham Democrat.
Can the Democrats carry Illinois? is
q question frequently asked by not
over-confident Democrats. We answer
that we can carry Illinois rs easily and
certainly as any State in the Union, if
our convention, which will meet at
Springfield on the 9th inst, shall act
as wisely and with as good judgment
as did the late National Convention at
st. Louis. La the first place, we have
over $4,000 German voters In Illinois,
who will almost solidly vote for onr
Presidential candidate. These $4,000
German voters will vote as ur,itedly for
the Democratic State ticket as they
will for Tilden and Hendricks, provi-
ded the convention shall present good
men for the State Offices. Coed mem
competent, honest and true represen-
tatlves of reform for candidates on the
State tickets therefore an essential
requisite for the Accomplishment of
the object IN view. With the German
vote for our ticket, we feel reasonably
sure of carrying the State. But to
render success doubIy sure, and be-
yond the possibility of all doubt, it is
only necessary for the Democrats to
affiliate with the Independents, and
the opposition elements thus united
would throw the Republicans in a
hopeless minority. If such an alliance
can be effected at the convention,
without sacrifice of principle, though
it may involve the sacrifice of men,
we are heartily in favor of the alliance
being formed. The Democrats and
Independents holding substantially
the same principles, we fail to Sc why
they should not occupy the same plat
form. By our next Legislature a
United States Senator will be chosen,
hence the Importance of the political
complexion of that Legislature must
be apparent to Democrats and Inde-
/, pendents alike. Anything to beat
John A. Logan-the defender of the
whisky ring and all other &C sruptions
of Grantism-should be the war-cry
of the delegates to the Democratic
State Convention and the Executive
Committee of the independents, who
will meet them there. We are in ia
vor of an aggressive warfare along the
whole Radical line, and nothing but q
demoralizing defeat of the Radicals
in Illinois at the November election
will justify the Democrats and indie.
pendents in the conscious belief thai
/ they have done their duty.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
sImMER ADHERr1sINa.
4 Word 70 JudIeI0us BuaIness be

A word to business men on an inn
portant subject. The people read
more at this season than in the winter
when they have more amusement, more
work and the days arc shorter. The
man who keeps his name AMI business
before the public during the hot. dull
weather viii not be fofgOtieS ID the
fail. The country customer who reads
his Sun three ugh, line by line, adver-
tisements aud all, will consider iiim a
live man aud call al his place Of bust
ness when he comes to town III it Is
a retail business, the city trade will
flow to the man who advertises. We
know it requires nerve TO advertise
during months when there Is nothing
doing, but we believe ii pays intheend
aud often brings an immediate return.
Those who do not feel like putting IN
a double column sixteen-square ad-
vertisement, eau insert something
smaller. liz will be read and the people
will be attracted 70 the place. When
the business season sets In nearly
everybody ndyertises, the papers are
fun, everybody is in a hurry, and a
business card is more likely TO be over
looked or overshadowed by large, cost
lyand fashy Advertisements. We say,
advertise in the summer, even N you
go a little lighter for it in the winter.
II is great mistake TO wait until BUSH
ness is at its height 70 advertise, for
the effect cannot be the same as II the
effort had been made sooner. People
read, think, talk and form plans in the
dull season, and when the rush Of buEi-
ness comes their minds are pre-oc-
cupied, their connection formed, and
they have little time TO change about.
Try summer advertising ~ DdslsUitle
San.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
StraMa,

In brief Interview with one of the
shrewdest observers of Ohio cam
paigns, he says to us: There is not,
an observant politician in the State
but comedies the electoral vote to Til
den and Hendricks" His reasons :
I'm the first place Hayes was not cleo
ted Governor by Ohio votes. Twenty
thousand illegal votes were cast for
him in his election against Allen. We
propose in the future to guard the
borders. Wall street disgorged for
him against Allen. That influence
will not be for him ip the Presidential
contest. The banks, politicians, and
capitalists ofCincinnati were for Hayes
for Governor. They are for Tilden
for President. The laboring classes
were for Hayes. but are now for Tilden.
| took the vote of one establishment.
In the election between Hayes and
Allen, % men for Hayes. and 5 for
Allen. Now 26 are for Tilden, and
aud 4 for Hayes. We will carry Ohio
for Tilden and Hendricks.--Fr Frankfort
PeOnaGa.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29

Senator Sherman lays il down that
no position taken by the Democratic
party since 1916 can be defended be-
fore the country. He is mistaken. In
1847 the Democracy expended only
500. 80l 900; in 1913 only SO, 227, 600;
making total for the two years ofthe
Mexican war about 500 ,000, 900. This
is only about half as much ($l94, 49,
000) as the Republican party expended
10 the single year Of peace. 1874. That
is one thing, at least, the Democracy
can defend before the country.-iS.
Louis Republican.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29

WE learn reliably that Mr.. Robert
Ingersoll, of Illinois, who made the
famous speech in the Cincinnati con
veptiou nominating Blaine, is reported
to have said that unless better efforts
arc put forth, his party will lose that
State in the Presidential election. As
proof that he is correct in this, aud
that great change is taking place in
Illinois, our readers will be glad to
learn that Rohert Lincoln, only sur
vivipg SON of the late President Lin
coin, and w. A. Herndon, for twenty
five years the law partner and bosom
friend of Mr.. Lincoln, have decided
to labor in Illinois on the stump for
Tilden and Hendricks and REFORM
Memphis Appeal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
In the Circuit Court at ClarksVlne--.
State OF Tennaaaea.

Isaac Marcus lcoD W.. Betsy Marcus tcolQ.-
Bill for Divorce.
Itappearing from affidnvit filed in this
cause, that the Defendant Is a nonresident
Of the state of Tennessee and that tile or
binary process OF law cannot be- served on
him. IL ~ therefore ordered that publicn-
ton De made In the Ciarksvillc CHRONT-
GLE for four successive weeks. command
Ing the said Betsy Marcus 20 appear before
the Circuit Court NJ It's next term 10 be held
Tor Montaomery county, at the Court-hOuao
IN ClarlAVille. ON tho LIST Monday ia sep
tember next, 1875, then and there 10 an
swer the Dill nled against her By lssac Mar
Gus for divorce.
-, CD. BAILEY, CArrK.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
Federal Taxes.

The subject of Federal taxation is
one that is not fully understood by
many of the people of the United
States. Because the Federal taxes are
placed upon articles of consumption,
and not upon property, many seem to
think they amount to but little, when
in fact they are the real source of bur-
den to the country. The poor, igno-
rant negro, W no pays no tax whatever
to the State, is not aware that upon
every blanket that he buys nearly one
third of the cost Of it is a tax paid to
the Federal government. The farmer
pays tax upon all the articles used
upon his farm. This tax goes into
everything, reaches every man home;
neither the rich nor the poor escape it.
Often the men of small means 1.-The
lahOring man, the mechanic, and the
farmer-pay more than men who own
large property. 1t is this which is
grinding the faces of the poor, and
which is causing so much distress in
the land. If this tax were taken
directly from the people, lift had to be
collected by regular tax-eollectOr, If
every man had to pay openly, what he
does now covertly, seven dollars on
every member of his family, there
would be such burst of Indignation
that it would sweep the present party
from power as with a tempest. 1t is to
reduce this taxation, to place it more
upon articles of mere luxury than upon
articles of absolute necessity, that the
election of the Democratic candidates,
Tilden and Hendricks, is so much
needed. The people feel that there is
a disease gnawing their very vitals,
and threatening them with destruction;
but many of them attribute it to the
wrong cause. The only hope of relief
is in the election of Tilden and Hen
bricks, and in the substitution of a
cheap government for an extravagant
one-of just and equal system of tax
alton for the present most unjust and
ruinous system which bears most heavi-
ly upon those least able to bear it
Mealphis AppeG!.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29

Under the amendment of the postal
Jaw the following matter will nOE be
carried in the mails at the rate Of one
cent for two ounces or fractional part
thereof:
SAIL pamphlets, occasional publica-
tions, transientnewspapers, magazines,
hand bills, posters, prospectuses,
books, proof-sheets, corrected proof
sheets, maps, prints, engravings,
blanks, flexible patterns, sample cards,
printed cards, Photographic represen-
tations of different types, and all other
printed matter which may be declared
mailable by law. Articles of mer-
chandise, Photographic paper, letter
envelopes, postal envelopes and wrap
pers, plain and ornamental paper,
seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, sciohs and
unsealed circulars, will be oaEried at
the rate of one cent per ounce"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
Peace the Desire Of the South.

Peace is not only the policy of the
South; we mistake the temper of the
people if it is not there. We give
them credit for higher ambition than
merely to keep within the letter of the
law. They must wish to see these law
less outbreaks end. that cast shadow
over our whole civilization. All in
telligent and patriotic Southerners
must wish to see the negro protected
in all his rights and privileges, and as
free in their exercise as though his
skin were white. We believe Mr.. La
mars voice of condemnation to be the
voice of the South, and shall trust to
time to show that We have not mis-
Judged it.-Neao York Tribune.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29

The Cincinnati Enquirer is really
becoming sanguine enough that the
Democrats will be able to carry Ohio,
after all. Hear it;
"The accessions from the Republican
and Independent ranks, which we are
certain to have this year, coupled with
the almost solid Democratic vote, will
give the State to Tilden. We must
expect some dissatisfied Democrats to
keep away from the polls, but they
will not be in sufficient numbers to
lose the State, if Tilden continues to
develop among Republicans as he is
now doing"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29

CIcINNATI, July 25.-W. A. Vince
Ter, the Republican candidate for vice
president, 10 reply to letter from
VIM. Ampt, OF this city, in regard to
his action against the Ohio river inter
ests while in congress, writes as follows:
The whole extent and nature of
opposition on my part to the Ohio
river interest has been grossly mlsrep-
resented. Gen. Garfield Is now pre-
pairing an opening campaign speech,
wherein the matter viii DO fully ex-
planned"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
The estate Of Edwin Booth, the act

The estate of Edwin Booth, the act
or, which has been in bankruptcy for
two years and half, has just been set
tied up, the assignee, Mr.. John Plat.
having presented his FINAL report. All
the claims weEo bought BY friend Of
Mr.. Booth, and thus he gets a virtual
discharge. although he has not formal
ly applied for one. A dividend Of 81
per cent. has been paid. His stage
was sold for $1,000 library
aud private theatrical wardrobe 81 500
paintings, 81 $50. The unsecured
claims fled amount to S250000
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
Reputation Denounced by Repub.
Iican Organ.

The Southern Era, the Republican
paper published at Nashville, and ed
tied by +. I. Reid, in reply to an ar
tiele on reputation in the Memphis
appeal, says:
The Republicans here are almost,
if not quite, unit in favor of an hon-
est payment of the debt, and in favor
of the adoption by our next legislature
of appropriate measures to meet and
pay the accrued interest, and tho in
terest as it hereafter falls due. If the
Republicans, or any Of them, in West
Tennessee, oppose this, they place
themselves iu fagrant defiance to the
principles of their party as announced
by the last State Republican conven-
ton. On this subject they have aban-
doned the Republican faith they may
disgrace themselves they cannot dis
grace the Republican party. That
party is, and always has been, commit
ted to implacable denunciation of re-
pudiation in its every form and guise."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29

Custer and his gallant fellows did
not 60 down alone. The latest reports
inform US that Sitting Bull, Crazy
Horse, and some four hundred others
of the noble red men" were carried
down with them in the canyon Ofdeath.
History will canoize the heroes Of that
charge and place them on a level with
Leonidas and his men at Thermpylm
and the race into the valley Of death
at Balakava.-iSt LOais RepHJlic4n.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29

A number of citizens in different
parts Of the country write to the Sun
to inquire what Gov. Illcleins reiIglon
is. He is a member OF Ene FresDyte-
rian Church, aswe have already stated
and the gentleman in Washington who
has bet one hundred dollars that the
Governor is not Catholic has won the
bet.-Nea0 York Sun.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
Total $40, 4S4. SI43,l 8.

There, Ulysses, you are making rapid
progress in simple addition since you
went to school in the White House,
and at this rate you will soon get into
multiplication if you continue. But
perhaps you had better step down and
let Sam. Tilden try his hand at sub
straction. and it wouldn't hurt if he
were to get to long division before you
begin again.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
The Radical Press on the Hamburg
Riot.

The following paragraphs are cut
from the Louisville Courier-J ournal.
The radical journalists do not seem to
appreciate the fact that sauce for a
goose is sauce for gander. The Bos-
ton paper urges lynch law as cure for
lynch law-and the Pittsburg paper
while shrieking against lynch law in
the South praises it in the North:
The Boston Journal asks :'IfSouth-
ern Democrats are really in earnest in
denouncing the course of the whites
at Hamburg, S. c., why don't they
string up the ringleaders, who are per-
fectly well known and boast of their
bloody work." The answer to this
query is very simple one. The
Southern Democrats are not running
the government Of the State of South
Carolina, or they would see that the
laws against mobs and lynching are
promptly executed. The Radicals
have possession of the State, but they
have never been known to do any
thing to suppress mob law when a ne
gro gets killed. On the contrary, in
South Carolina and other Southern
States where Radicalism prevails,
bloody riots have been encour-
aged on the principle that the blood of
a few negroes will greatly help the Re
publican party. The Boston Journal
moreover advocates mob law when it
counsels the stringing up of the lead
ers of riots without trial.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
TRUST SALE.

By virtue OF the authority vested In me
by Deed OF Trust from John =. Major 10
me as Trustee, for the benefit O'Bryans 4
washington made May ~, 1870 ana regis
county, Tennessee book ID. pages az AMI
as. win, &C Majors store In Montgom,fy
county, Tenn, at II o'clock, "A. m.
Thursday, August "a, 1876,
sell for cash, TO the highest bidder-the
equity OF redemption being expressly
walved-the following two tracts OF land,
in District No. O, OF Chatham county. 1fn.
neSsee. The LIST tract contains 2lO A cras
more or less, and bounded as follows: Be-
Hn aihl nsn a. an Elm on ne north side of
up SAID creek with its ineanders 70a -
poles 10 stake, then n 90 e 20 poles, "a o.
e :, % poles, a 70. II poles 10 a hack berry,
then y poles 20 a stake and blackberry
pointer, then ~ poles 10 said creek, then
u SAID creek ~, e ~ poles rs q Sipolos.
90 ~ poles, AZ ~ poles, N ~ ~
stake on said creek, l.. FraIierss corner
then n l2 poles TO n stake, pole north OF
rock corner, then n SO W lSi1S poles 20 pop
lar, then 201 poles 20 a stake and poifi-
ter on the south hank Of Lick branch.
then 5lI 6T54 poles 10 n branch on tho
south bank Of said branch, then \ lGa
e 30 poles % beach and sugar tree nj tpc
loot OF the nil, then 90 AZ poles. IO5
81 poles 10 the beginning, being the land
bought by John s. Major nom James II.
The and tract contains $50 acres mora or
less (a So'acre tract comes out OF this as de-
seribed below begins at a stake on tie sido
ollhe ROAD near Adkins store and runs \.
100 poles TO awhile oak, then q 2u3L poles
10 sugar tree, then 5714 poles 10 n stake
and pointer, then S0n 80 poles 10 n beech.
then lll14 poles TO stakean pointer, then
W ga poles 70 white oak on branch
then n rt W 191S poles 10 a white oak. thcn
n ~ poles TO white oak. then W 2aaE poles
70 the beginning, Including aud exeindlDg
N. Gupton. ~ 80
This sale Is free from the equity OF re-
aeln ptlon, anu affords superior Induce
ments for purchasers
July 20, lS76-4t.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
A LITTLE SUM.

Gen. Grant came into Office in 1868.
We subjoin few items of the Nation
al expenditures in that year before
Grant handled the keys, and side by
side with them, the expenditures in
the same departments in 1875, the last
financial statement which has been
made.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-29
INsOLYENF NOTICE.

Having suggested the Insolvency Of tho
estate of John Black, decd, this Is 10 notify
all persons having claims against said
estate, to file them with the Clerk OF tho
County Court, properly authenticated, on
ar before the Ord day OF October next, or
the same will be barred.
o. NJ. BLACKMAN, Admir-.
July p, lS7G-iw.