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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-20
Cotton.

Referring to the course Of the cotton mar
ket and the low prices recently ruling, the
Boston Commercial Bulletin calls attention
to the fact that last weeks rates showed
the lowest price, without exception, that
has ever been recorded in this country. AS
compared with a year ago, and making due
allowance for the difference in the gold
premium, prices show decline cf twenty
per cent, or one-fifth. Nor does it appear
that the bottom has yet been reached. Even
this heavy decline does not seem to have
discouraged production, as would have
been expected; for, SO far as the South is
concerned, the planter there finds that no
other product that he could raise prom
ises any better, and 80 has gone ahead and
put in the same or a greater acreage
this season. In view of this state of things,
fail to check production, what reason have
we for believing that the crops will not go
on steadily increasing until cotton sells tor
eleven, ten, nine cents pOund" That
there will be such continued increase of
production is quite likely, seeing that this
crop is peculiarly the one best adapted for
the soil Of the South and the prOcurable
labor there is of precisely the kind most
available, from long training, for this
branch of agriculture. Then what shall be
the outcome of condition Of affairs SEEM
answer must be found in the gradual ten
dency toward cheaper cotton, to- be sure;
but also toward our own country monopo-
lizing the market as in years long gone.
AS figured out by our wide awark Bos-
ton contemporary, we can raise cotton more
cheaply and market it more handily than
any competitors in the far-off Oriental or
South American climes. No doubt the wall
over low prices in the past has been exag-
gerated, since in spite of steadily declining
prices the production on our part has stead
lily increased, until the acreage planted is
greater than ever before. Sane persons do
not rush on to ruin, as a regular annual
habit, year after year, and we may there
fore assume that there has been of late
years more talk than reality about the ruin
GUS results of Southern cotton planting
else why has the production been on the up
ward scale all through the low price period!
The secret probably is, as has been init
mated, that the staple can be raised at a
profit, even at the low rates latterly ruling
And if this is so, competition from Egypt,
East India, Brazil and Peru must in time
and inevitably draw of, and leave the field
to our own sunny South.
Meanwhile the price may, for tims 60
lower, but not for long. When our greater
production, and its demonstration Of ability
to supply the world with cheap cotton, shall
have become q realized fact abroad. the
market will again be ours, and so remain.
And, so long az we do not actually surfeit
the foreign market with our crops, prices
will finally adjust themselves at q point
which, even if low as compared with the
old King Cotton days, will remunerste the
planter, while still enabling him to defy
the competition which, OF late years, has
made him 90 much trOuble.-Ne,o York
Mail.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-20
More About the Jetties.

Our inquisitive, investigative and philo-
sophical friend, rip Arian," has mailed
us the following from his suburban home:
MY DEAR FRIEND-The Trumpet has
just issued an extra with startling tele-
gram from Captain Esds, announcing the
fact of the passage between Eads' and
Vests jetties of Q steamship twenty feet
deep and 200 feet wide. If this be true,
and mind you do not question its truth,
it sets me all aflOat.
One of my neighbors, who has just re-
turned from New Orleans, says that he has
seen the official figures, which are as fol-
lows:
When the steamship reached her wharf
twelve feet six inches. This measurement
was taken by two experienced sea captains
with an excellent bulls eye lantern. Be-
fore measurement the water was blown cut
of the boilers; the bi]ges pumped; water
buckets emptied and the steward threw
overheard all the broken crockery ware. If
these acts were performed with malicious in
tent they have recolled on the head of their
instigat0r, for they led to an accusation
which showed that their effect was simply
to diminish the average draft by one and
three-sixteenths feet; hence we have 12 6-12
plus 3-l6 equal l3 33-48 which is very
near IAN. Now, in coming from what
used to be the South Pass bar to the city
of New Orleans, this steamship consumed
q certain amount of coal, and her pas
sengers consumed . certain amount of
dead weight sometimes called grub, which,
by the accurate mode Of calculation before
used, should have lghtened her exactly
fifteenth sixteenths Of . foot. Adding this
to the previous total, We have an actual
draft in crossing the place occupied by q
har Ona vaar aOO Of ID 3R-40 feet Now IL
is we'll known that vessel rushed at full
speed upon one of the Mississippi mud bars
'buries" q certain amount, vari0usly esti-
mated by the unlearned. A careful estimate
shows that the steamer should have buried
about 36.48 feet. This estimate was made
by the chief engineer of the New Orleans
Bulletin, and must be accepted as correct.
Adding, we'have IA 38-48 plus Sc 48 equals
Is 26 48 feet.
1t is said that there is something called
"squatting" on places where bars have
been. The calculation of the amount the
steamer must have sqnatted at South Pass
maticians of his age. who presented the
following: Squat-0. .4583333x, which makes
nearly sixteen feet. Adding one foot for
tide makes nearly seventeen feet. Two feet
of water under her bottom, 48 out of the
channel, 1-4S intrusion of Major Howell and
as 4S opposition of the REPUBLICAN makes
exactly twenty feet, as every ignOI anus
must acknowledge.
Introducing the modifying influence OF
latitude, this would make twenty Two feet
at Vicksburg, twenty-three feet at Cairo
twenty four feet at St. Louis and twenty.
eight feet at St. Paul, and Manitoba not
heard from. Now, this proves conclusively
that the jetties are grand success.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-20
NEW YORK

lFxpelIed from Plymouth ChuYxA-
New YORK, May 19.-Bowen Ess t~1C
expelled from Plymouth Church. Re s<sfax
the reporters the last of the scandal 10 uxkf
yet heard.
Sub.Treasury.
Sub-treasury balances Gold, $5D, ,ysH. .SBZ
currency, $37 1882. The sub-Kysasesussn
paid out $lS8 600 ON account Of INTEREST
and $135.O00 for bonds. Custo1ss 1scjip4ss
to-day $224,00O.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-20

ELEGANT RESIDENCE AT AUCTION
Messrs. Nash g. Hodgson, auctioneers, sell
at l2 M. to-day, at the st. Charles Auction
Exchange, for account of succession OF
elijah Peale, that valuable residence and
pronnds, No. 25 Coliseum street. Ihe
tarms 40 easy, and the property very de-
a;rable. Dse the advertisement and attend
the sale.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-20
Tho Temperature.

The thermometer at Louis Frigerio's, No.
30 Chartres street, stood as follows May IS:
At 8 A. NJ, 10; at P. M, $50; at 6 2. NJ,
$50. Lowest point during the night OF
May lS, $50.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-20
FOREIGN.
Return Of the Prince Of Wa }

Return Of the Prince Of Wa besA.
LONDON, May l9.-Today having hnaa.
fixed upon for the Prince of WAlee' yi6t Sa
London after his return freue .Ehtsfs rcxssr
elaborate preparations have BEEN nsaaaskx
his entertainment.
Nearly all the princes and 2s.rxs esxs Ssa3
tho royal family, Mr. Disraefl ana xn6neH
CONTINUED ON SIXTEENTH PACE
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-20

Fall coats, to be worn during the cam
paign. should be made without buttonholes.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-20

Kentucky farmers curse the day ths
grasshoppers learned to chew tobacco.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-20

CONTINUED ON SIXTEENTH PAGE.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07
Col. Bailey in McMinnriIIe.

Judge James E. Bailey, as per ap-
pointment, address ed large crowd of
Warren county people in the Court
house last Monday. The Judge is
forcIble, earnest speaker; one who
impresses his hearers with the honesty
of his convictions in whatever he says.
His speech of near two hours duration
was listened to with marked attention
His whole time was devoted to dis
cusslon Of National matters, in the
course Of which he severely, but calmly
aud mildly, and very gentemanly ar
raigned the Republican party for the
prodigality with which they had used
the peoples money. He adduced fig
ures, by comparison with past admin
istrations, both under the old Wing
and Democratic parties, to prove his
assertion of untold prodigality on the
power. The audience of the Judge
were very favorably impressed, and
his speech was we'll calculated to do
good The Judge told the people that
the public debt of the nation was two
billion one hundred million dollars,
and perhaps upward, and that by a
constitutional amendment there was
no escape from its payment, and that
the Government derived by its impost
duties one hundred and sixty-five
million dollars annually, which amount
comes indirectly from the people. lie
also impressed his hearers with the
belief that he favored the adjustment
Of this source of revenue, which crea-
ted the enquiry in our mind how the
deficit from impost duties was to be
supplied, as the Judge is a pay all
man.-AcMtRDUiUe NeW Era, Sept. 21
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07
IIoMio do Good.

DR.. johnson wisely said, "He who
waits to do q great deal Of good NJ once
will never do anything" Life il
made up Of little things. It is but
once in an age that occasion il offered
for doing great deal True great
ness consists in being great ia little
things. How are railroads built2 By
one shovelful Of dirt after another
one shoyelful at time. Thus drops
make the ocean. Hence VIC should be
willing to do a little good at a time;
and never wait 10 do a great deal oi
good az once"-little acts one after au-
other, speaking a word here. giving "a
tract there, and setting good example
all the time; we must do the FIRST thing
we can, and then next aud next, and
so keep on doing GOOD. Thus only shall
we do all the good in cur power.
DO somethinsi do It now with all thy
might!
An angels wing would drop iflOng az rest.
And God himself Inactive were no longer
blcst."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07

CLARKsvILLE, Sept. %, 1876.


EDITORS CHRONICLE: say to the readers ofyour
most excellent paper that the Rebellion above referred
to is -AGAL1ST HIGH PRICES Boots Shoes, Hats,
Caps &c. and naugurated and is being success
fully carried on by v L. WILLIAMS Also that am now
receiving my large and elegant stock of goods for Fall and
Winter wear which bought at the very lowest prices
direct from first hands, and which will be sold at "LLVE
4N-D LET LIVE PRICES'' would further say that my
stock this composed OF really better and more dr
able goods than at any previous season have just re-
ceived another lot of those e good Kip Boots one pair
of which will ordinarily from twelve to twenytour
months hundreds who have them for the past four
years will testify My stock is now very complete in all
its departments, including large line Of Mems, Boys
and Childrens Hats Caps &c Don't forget that we take
pleasure in showing stock whether you buy or not
All are cordially invited to examine goods and prices
Respectfully,
: ".-a ". Il. WILLIAMS
Sept % 1861
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07
Description Of a Quadrllle.

1t is described thus by young man
who tried it:
1--WE both bowed to both of us, and
then tother; then the fiddle tuned and
the thing started. | grabbed for her
female hand, and she squeezed mine,
we both of US slung each other, then
we changed base clear across the room,
jumped up and down ever so many
times; then my dear dozed hop and
doe, and scotched home again (from a
foreign shore); then we two forwarded
four, ladies changed, we crossed over,
turned around twice, chassayed side
ways, backed to place, she dittoed;
side couples to the LETT; side couples
turn ladies; ladies turn side couples,
all hands round back again. First fell
low takes opposite gal, take your own
gal, and tother feller's forward and
back gals two times, sling 'em to oppo-
site feiler, let him do as he pleases;
light gentleman balances to heavy lady,
heavy lady duplicate; promenade all;
gals to the center, fellers ketch hold
of each others hands, bob up and
down, each fellow takes his gal back
to place Right gent spin right lady,
left lady spin left gent, all twice each
other, do it again, over, repeat, keep 1t
up; all turn t'other backward, side
ways, each couple swing t'other couple,
cross over back, again to our seats.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07
A GateMar to the Sea.

The Barataria canal-projected by
Capt. John Cowden-is attracting the
attention Of business men not only in
Mississippi valley, but in England.
Capt Cowden recently declared it will
"be more useful to the people of this
valley than mere politicians and their
rotten, meaningless, two-faced plat
forms" The commercial results of
the building of the Barataria canal
will be the reclamation Of the low
lands the Florida and Tchuantepec
ship canals; and the trade of China,
East Indies and South America. 1t
will save twenty millions annually to
the earnings of the South, and to the
West one hundred millions. On every
ton of grain shipped to foreign ports
there will be six dollars saved over
transportion via rail. 1t will make the
Mississippi valley the manufacturing
center of the continent. 1t will open
the gates of free trade, and constrain
the mills and shops Of New England to
locate near the cotton gin houses.
Build this canal, and New Orleans
will be made the first commercial and
maritime port of America. and Mem
phis will be one of the great distrIDut-
ing cities of the valley and manu-
featuring mart of the interior. when
all the vast productions from the foot
of the AlIeghenies on the east, or the
Rocky mountains on the west, are
TRANSPORTED down the Mississippi river
to the markets of the world for less
than half the expense it now costs via
rail. the commercial and political map
of this continent will be changed
J Memphis Araldnche.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07
Advice 10 Girls.

An exchange says, "Why will girls
run away to get married? we give
It up." answers the louisville Courier
Journal but we know a lot here
who would be glad enough TO stay at
home. or jump at the chance TO walk
off and get married. The boys ain Z
around asking them like they did II
takes more money to run one uf them
nowadays thanit does tOruu n steam
boat, and they can see more fun with
a steamboat. All girls it's your own
fault Swap off your silks and satins
tor lawns and caliooes shut up the
piano and dive into a wash-tub; throw
awayyour fancy needle-work aud tackle
a red hot stove in the kitchen. In
stead of receiving Brown, the bankers
son, in the parlor, keep your eyes
skinned for Bill Burns, the black
smiths son, as he goes home from
work; kiss his dirty face through
broken pane Of glass in the kitchen
widow, aud after awhile, when he
learns his trade and you know your
business, get married, go to house
keeping by yourselves, help each other,
live happy, raise a family that will be
an honor to your names aud credit to
themselves, die happy, and the angels
will not turn their backs upon you up
there"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07
Curious Facts ADOnt Blind Tom.

Blind Toms birth place is Georgia,
and he began to excite attention as a
musician at the age of four years. All
sounds afforded him delight; even the
crying of child causes him to dance
about in a state Of ecstacy. Wien at
home he often bit and pinched his
brothers and sisters to make them
emit cries of pain. If kept away from
piano. he will beat against the wall,
drag chairs about the room, and make
all sorts of noises. When in London
a flute was procured for him Of very
complicated pattern, and having TWEEN
ty-two keys. He frequently rises up
at night and plays this instrument. i'm
itating upon it all sorts of sounds which
he may hear at the time. Once when
the agent attempted to make him stop
playing the piano in high toned hotel
at three o'clock 10 the morning, Tom
seized him and threw him through the
door. In Washington he threw man
down stairs who came into his room.
When at home in Georgia, he lives in
a building about two hundred yards
from the house, and there remains
alone with his piano, playing all day
and night, like possessed with mad
ness. Bad weather has an effect upon
his music. In cloudy, rainy seasons,
he plays somOre music in minor chords;
and when the sun shines and the birds
sing, he INDUCES in waltzes and light
music. Sometimes he will hammer
away for hours, producing the most
horrible discords imaginable. Sud
denly change comes over him, and
he INDUCES in magnificent bursts of
harmony taken from the best produc-
tons OF the masters. Since his child
hood he has been an idiot, and he
played nearly as we'll at the age seven
as he does now but now his repertoire
is much larger, as he can play any
thing he has ever heard. He now
plays about 1000 pieces, and picks up
new ones everywhere. 1t is a curious
fact that he will not play any Sunday
School music if he can help it, having
great dislike to it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07

The Nation, of Sept 2lst, says
When we remember how the inherent
difficulties Of the Southern situation
have been aggravated by rascally Of
ficials, under the form Of Republican
Administration at Washington when
we remember the Freedmen's Savings
Bank aud its Republican trustees !;
when we look at Casey, Packard, Spon-
Ger and their compeers; when, in "a
word, il is considered that the Repub-
licons have controlled the general gov
ernment since the close Of the war,
aud that it is under their own admin
istration that the South has come TO
its present condition, the eiTrontery
with which the party leaders, confess
ing no errors and Offering no new
ideas, demand new lease Of power
simply on the ground that they alone
are iii to take care of the South, is
simply amazing.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07

CROSSING NIAGARA ON A TIGHT
RopE.-Signorina Spelterini, the rope
walker. crossed the rapids below the
suspeDsiop bridge at Niagara on n
rome stretched from shore to shore.
This Is the third since Blondin. She
anneared on the American side dressed
IN low neck, shortsleves and silk tights,
carrying a balance pole weighing forty
pounds. Crowds thronged the bridge
and the Enclosures at the ends Of the
rope. At $50 Spelterini ventured on
the rope, advancing in a slow walk to
the center over the boiling caldron. A
tumble would have been death. Still
this fair girl, not over twenty-five, had
nerve enough to sit down on the rope,
and make the ladies on shore turn
their backs on her in painful suspense.
Then a sprinkle Of rain came up, when
she resumed her dangerous journey.
When she came off the rope her brow
was covered with big drops of perspir-
at;on-she seemed dizzy. A large man
received her-employer. lie rope es
sleepry," she said. Il mos fall. Sail
I?" she asked, in Broken English.
The people all said mo, nop' aud so
the manager was satisfied.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07
Marrying for Money.
The Rev. George &. Baldwin very
truthfully says:

The Rev. George q. Baldwin very
truthfully says:
Gold cannot buy happiness, aud the
parents who compel their daughters 10
marry for money or station, commit
grevious sin against humanityand q God.
And the woman who marries a churl
for his wealth will find that she has
made terrible bargain, that all the
glittering Of heartless grandeur are
phosphorescent glitterings of heart
wretchedness that her life will be one
Of gilded misery, aud her old age will
be like crag on the bleak side Of "A
desert mountain, where cold moon
beams sometimes glitter, but no birds
sing, but wild storms howl and hoarso
thunders roar aud through the sweep
ing storms shall be heard the stern
voice of the Great God, saying, "Your
riches are corrupted, your garments
are moth-eaten, your gold aud silver
are cankered, and the rust Of them
shall be a witness against you, aud eat
your flesh as if it were fire"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07

In st. Louis a large establishment
is engaged in drying eggs, and bushels
Of eggs are being crushed aud dryed.
The eggs are carefully examined 10
see whether they are good, aud they are
thrown into an immense receptacle.
broken, and, by circular motion, the
shells are separated, when the liquid
is dried by a patent process. The
dried product resembles yellow sugar,
and is barrelled and ready for ship
ment aud transportation 20 any part Of
the globe. IL cannot be distinguished
from fresh eggs IN omllat ~ cooked n
any manner in whith Ihc form Of the
egg is broken.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07

1t is not uncommon, in giving ad-
vice to newly-married young ladies who
marry poor young men, to allude to
the fact that Eve married a gardener;
but they don't say any thing about the
gardener losing his situation on ac-
count of that match,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07

1t is not believed that there is an
artist in the world who can catch the
expression Of woman's face as she
puts her nose into the milk,jug and
flnds that the thunder has soufed the
contents.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07
MERCHANT ]
CONTMTTSS SION
rCLARKsvILLE, TENN.
Sept %, 1876-tf.

desire to call your attention to my large stock of
Wagons Bugges, Wheat Drills Hay Rakes, Bells Plows
ing Double ShoTels Thomas Smoothing Harrows, Wheat
Fans, Corn Shelters Road and Pond Scrapers, Spring
Seats and Breaks for Farm Wagons Sporting and Spring
ers and Mowers Cutting Boxes Single and Double Trees,
Choice Northern Rye Orchard Grass Blue Grass Herds
Grass and Timothy Seeds, Winter Oats, Feeding Oats
Bran Corn Flour and Lime Etc Orders promptly filed
at Lowest Prices Call and examine All goods
ranted. Very Respectfully
TT. p BUR -.
SoDt 70 1S76-tf
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07

The Falmouth, KY, Independent
makes mention ola tobacco plant raised
by Squire Jesse MeKinly, Of Short
creek, which measured 2 feet and 4
inches across the top.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-07

"A musical contemporary asks.
What il the principal test ID lho 81.
periorify Of violin music Y" The in-
teatino Of ccursn.-- Boston Times,