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URBANA Champaign Co. Illinois.

Weather reports from the famine dis
tricts of India for last week are more ia
voraEle.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01

the number of silver ounces to pur-
chase an ounce of gold was 1859,
the normal average being 1850.
We have done our best TO put this
statement Of facts in a readable
form. The knowledge Of these
facts is essential to the formation of
a right Judgment on the great ques-
ton of the day, the silver question.
tits one ON which every voter ought
at this day to be able to form
a rational judgment; we will at least
assure our readers of this, that by
studying this and our other article
on decentralization in the United
States, they can get at those facts
with very much less labor than it
has cost us to collect them. Our re-
sources for doing so have been the
voluminOus reports made to the
British Parliament in 1876 by a
special commission with the great
financier, Mr.. Goschen, at its head;
a report made to the United States
Congress this year by similar COM
mission with Mr.. Jones, of Nevada,
as its chairman; the elaborate re-
view of the British report in the
London Economist, and the speech
made by Mr.. Jones in the United
States Senate April "A, 1876. These
facts established we viii be ready tC
discuss in our next paper the past
effects of decentralization and the
anticipated effects of remonetiza
ton. Our readers, we imagine, vii
wait for it with patience.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01
New County Map.

The new map of Montgomery
county and GAINESVILLE, executed by
d. G. Beers & Co., of Philadelphia,
from surveys made last Summer by
Mr.. Bealer, is now ready for deliv-
cry to subscribers. 1t is a very COM
plete and accurate presentation of
the geographical features of this
county and city. The names of
property holders, the course of rivers
and creeks, the locations of roads
and lanes, are all given with an ac-
curacy and minuteness that astonish
and delight us. Our country friends
will not be alarmed we hope, but
as soon as the roads are in tolerabIe
travelling order, we intend to make
a general visitation around, having
been hitherto deferred from doing
so by the certainty that we should
get lost were we to trust ourselves
three miles from GAINESVILLE in any
direction. Messrs. Beers & Co.,
have our thanks for much needed
publication which we hope will be
found as profitable to them as it is
acceptable to us.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01

The weather changed most aus
piciously for the due celebration of
this peculiarly American festival.
The unseasonably warm Indian
Summer which had prevailed for
some weeks before had given way
to several days of dismal, drizzling
rain, which threatened to give the
present November its old character
as the suicidal month; but on We'd
nesday night the temperature be-
come sensibly colder, the rain ceas-
ed, and clear bright frosty morning
inaugurated the eucharistic day.
Everyone's spirit rose, even those
OF the turkeys; for those destined
for the Thanksgiving feast were al
ready dead and could not be any
worse off, and those which survived
congratulated themselves that their
time had not come yet. Stores were
closed and counter.jumpers looked
out for dogs and guns, and their en-
ployers sought recreation in the
bosom of gay and happy families,
and then the church bell called to
remembrance the sacred purpose for
which the day was set apart by the
fathers of our nation. Earnest and
solemn preachers recalled the bless
ings of the past year, and urged
| their hearers to manifest their
4 thankfulness in neWness OF life,
and then a joyful psalm of praise,
and then home to dinner. There
the stately gobbler, redolent with
savory sauce and stuffing, seemed
rather the high priest than the vic
tim of the festival, and, what with
merry conversation, what with
sedulOus mastication, boards wag-
ged and jawbones worked till the
piles of debris demonstrated the ac-
cOmplishment of a hereculean task
in the way off deglutition. The
''sacred rage" of hunger appeased,
pGteLJdn1iJidS did not as usual hurry
off to his Office or his store, but So
cial intercourse and the indulgence
of domestic affection closed the day
with that unelouded because blame
less happiness, which is perhaps in
itself one of the most acceptable
forms Of thanksgiving to a benig-
nant Creator and Father.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01
Meeting OF the school Board

The School Board met at the resi-
dence of A. Howell on Tuesday
night last. Present-Lewis, Moore,
Hyman and Howell, when the fol-
lowing proceedings were held:
Superintendent Brooks read his
report for the school month ending
the 23d ult., showing the workings
of the schools, which report will
appear in the city papers.
Hyman, Johnson and the former
chairman, were appointed a COM
mittee to visil the schools and re-
port to this Board at next regular
meeting.
The one session a day was adopt
ed for school months of December,
1877, and January, 1878, common
cling next Monday.
The schools will take holiday from
Dec. y, 1877, TO Jan. 2, 1878.
a. HOWELL, c. & T.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01
WHEAT CULTURE IN TENNES-
SEE,
BY J. II. ki1IebreTV, Commissioner
of Agriculture, Statistics
and Mines.

and Mines.
OF all the important papers which
hive emanated from the Bureau of
Agriculture, ETC., in this State we
deem none to demand attention
more imperatively than this one.
Wheat we consider to be prospec-
lively the great staple ofTennessee,
the conflicting claims of tobacco and
cotton to the contrary nOtwitstand-
ing. Cotton is confined to the
Western alluvial plain, tobacco to
the Northern portion Of the Cum
berland valley - wheat prospers
everywhere, and even in the tobac-
co belt must supersede the nicotian
weed, which is essentially a crop
for new lands. Wheat is our reli-
ance when the era shall have passed
away which is now already showing
signs of approaching termination
the era, namely, of surface scratch
ing and subsequent hurrying to new
tracts. The new tracts are growing
scarcer every day, and those beyond
tire Rocky Mountains are only for
large capitalists who can afford the
preliminary expense of irrigation;
so that the present era of wasteful
and imprOvident farming will be
succeeded by one in which it will be
the object of the farmer to conserve
and renovate the soil rather than to
exhaust it as rapidly as possible, as
now, and when that time comes
Tennessee will stand forward as a
wheat producing State, rivaling in
productiveness the now rich wheat
lands on the Southern coast of the
great lake region. Our farmers had
better be preparing themselves for
this era, for they cannot tell how
soon it will be upon them, and no
better preparation can be initiated
than by reading the careful and
scientific report OF Commissioner
Killebrew.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01
TOBACCO BOARD OF TRADE.
a Move Looking to the Improve
ment OF River Navigation, Etc.

ment OF River Navigation, Etc.
At a called meeting of the Clarks-
vile Tobacco Board of Trade, held
Nov. 22d, the President called the
Board to order, when the Secretary
offered the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the Hon. Jas. Z.
Bailey, United States Senator, and
Hon. Jno. f. House, Member Con-
gress, are hereby respectfully re-
quested to use their best eXertions
to procure a speedy appropriation
from the General Government for
the continuation of the improve
ment of navigation of the lower
Cumberland river, and also an APP
preparation of not less than 81, 800
for the improvement Of the naviga-
ton of lower Red river the said
Improvements being of great neces-
sity to the trade of this section, IA
cilitating the movement of the pro-
duce of Southern Kentucky and
Northern Tennessee, drained by
these two rivers, and giving COM
peting rates of freight with the rail-
roads passing through this section.
Second, That these gentlemen are
also requested to solicit the aid of
the Representatives of our neigh
boring Districts of Kentucky, who
are equally interested, to secure the
necessary legislation for the purpO-
ses above mentioned. Carried unan-
imOuSly.
The Secretary was requested to
forward copies of above resolutions
to the honorable gentlemen above
named.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01
Tax sales for Is7e.

On our fourth page this week will
be found the delinquent tax list of
1876, advertised by r. d. Moseley,
Trustee. The sale viii take place
on the Goth day of December at the
Court House, and those in arrears
would do well to call on him and
settle up before the Goth. This is
important and you had better at
tend to it at once.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01

THE last Bowling Green Panta-
graph says: Claypool & Co., killed
on Monday 500 hogs and on Tues
day 500. They have killed up to
date 1900. They were paying yes
terday four cents, and buying all
good hogs that were offered.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01

THE negro Dick Ross was SEN
fenced to be hung at Lonoke, Ark,
Friday, $500 persons assembled to
witness the execution. Ross con-
fessed the murder, the moose was
adjusted and the trap about to drop
when the telegraph operator rushed
in with reprieve from the Cover
nor for ten days. Ross smiled and
all the Others swore.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01

THE Ladies' Pearl, a monthly
magazine published at Nashville by
Rev. S. p. Chestnut, lies before us.
The Pearl is growing in popularity
every year, and should, for it is one
of the best magazines in the South,
being replete with the choicest lite
rarY matter from the pens of gifted
writers.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01

SAM HoUsToN, NJ. D., oldest son
of the illustrious President of the
Republic of Texas, thinks of leav-
ing the profession of medicine for
that of an editor, and viii probably
locate at Longview.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01
Death of am Eminent Christian
Minister.

Death OF am Eminent Christian
Minister.
Bishop Marvin of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, died at St. Louis
on Monday, the 18th inst, of ple,~o-
pneumonia. The Bishop was look
ed up to as a father by the Metho-
dist fraternity, and the esteem in
which he was held was far from be-
ing limited to that organization.
His death was regretted by Chris
tians of all denominations
Enoch NJ. Marvin, d. d., was
born in Warren county, Missouri,
June 18th, 1923. He entered the it
inerant ministry in the Missouri
Conference in 1841. His first APP
pointment was to Grundy Mission
and afteward at different stations in
Missouri. His fourth appointment
was the position as colleague of Rev.
Wesley Brown at St. Louis. He
filled positions in different points of
the State. During the war he came
South and served the Marshall Sta
ton in Texas, but remained a men,
Der of the st. Louis Conference I'M
til his election to the Episcopal office
in 1866. Since that time he has
been actively engaged in his Epis-
cOpal duties. He had Just finished
& four round the world, the account
of which was published in thirty
seven numbers of the Nashville
Christian Advocate. While on his
tour, he in company with Rev. Z.
L. Hendrix attended the conference
of the NJ. E. Church, South, held at
Bristol, England, last July and Au-
gust, at which time the conference
adopted the following resolution:
The Conference heartily welcomes
the esteemed brethren who have
come as representatives Ct the Meth
Odist Episcopal Church, South,
Bishop Z. NJ. Marvin and Rev. E.
r. Hendrix, and is gratified to re-
new fraternal intercourse with that
and important branch of
the Methodist Communion.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01
GREAT NAVAL DISASTER.
One Hundred and five Men Drown
ed by the WOrthlessneS OF one of
RObesOn's Contract Ships.

One Hundred and five Men Drown
ed by the WOrthlessnes OF one of
RObesOn's Contract Ships.
The United States steamer Huron
is a third-class iron screw-steamer
of 81 tons, displacement, 1920, tons,
built about three years ago, She
has been in commission about a
year as one of the North Atlantic
squadron. She was carrying stores
from New York to Cuba, and put
in for coal at Hampton Roads last
Monday week. The next day she
set sail again and met fierce storm
from the Northeast. The SUPPOSE
ton is that while tryingtO hold her
head to the wind her machinery gave
way, and, her sails being useless in
such weather, she helplessly drifted
ashore and then went to pieces.
Thirty men, four of them officers,
are saved. The following is the
despatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer
from its correspondent at Washing
ton:
The loss of the man-of-war Huron Off the
coast of Hatteras has created painful solicit
tude in naval circles here. On almost every
lip of those who knew of the unseawOrthi-
ness ofthe vessel there is INSTRUMENTATION
of EN-Secretary Robson, under whose man
agement the boat was built. She was one of
seven war vessels let out by contract, and
built more with an eve single to make money
for contractors than with any special refer
ence to the sea going qualities, safety or size.
There is hardly a naval officer here who has
seen the vessel who will not testify that she
was not fit to be sent TO sea.
One result of the sad loss will be the
prompt and vigorous investigation by the
Naval Committee of EX-SeCretary Robson.
There is talk, too, of the creation of a Board
of Naval Officers to inspect all vessels now
in naval service, as One-third of them, at
least, are not fit to float. The wreck OF the
Huron recalls with some ViyidnesS the letter
read in the House a few days ago, written by
a United States naval officer, who assumed
that if Congress directed Board of Naval
Inspectors 10 inspect our war-Ships, half of
them would have to be laid up for repairs OF
put out of commission.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01

they agreed to concert of action,
however, as TO the quantities in
which they would allow the two
metals to be coined.
Now it is important to remember
that down to 1871 no change had
really taken place in the relative
values of gold and silver. A very
large depreciation of silver did oc-
cur after that year from causes which
will be investigated hereafter; but
at present from 1856 to 1879 the
alarm which led the world to sup
pose that the increase in gold pro-
duction would continue to go on was
not verified by the event. The yield
of gold has diminished since 1856,
but, commencing in 1861 and down
TO the present time, a very large in
crease has taken place in the pro-
duction of silver from the opening
of the Comstock lode. This increase
in silver production is estimated in
the report of the Silver Commission
presented to Congress this year as
follows: The five years between
1851 and 1856 being compared with
the five between 1870 and 1875, it is
stated that the annual production
throughout the world during the
latter period over the former is 49,
449, $40. Comparing the production
of gold during the same periods il
is found that it is less in the latter
period than during the former by
| S44, 1886 900. To tabulate this state
ment, then, it is found that in the
period extending from 1856 to 1875
the average annual production o.
gold and silver has changed as fol
lows:
-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01

FIVE cents viii buy a HAVANA
filed cigar that is splendid at A. A.
Johnson's.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01
.sl9,446,s7O
.e44,G1,WU
SILVER AT A DISCOUNT.

SILVER AT A DISCOUNT.
In spite of all this, so long as sill
yer was money and recognized as
such, the relative value of the two
metals had not altered, but stood,
down to 1871, at 15I silver to gold.
In 1871, Germany, which had de-
monetized gold in 1857, remonetized
gold and demonetized silver. This
was the fatal movement which initi-
ated that great silver panic which
eliminated so disastrOusly in 1876.
It was not dictated by any change
in the relative value of gold and sill
yer, for none had taken place at that
time, and it is now necessary to en-
quire what was the motive which
brought it about.
The year 1870 is known as the
date of the war between France and
Prussia, which terminated in the
conversion of the kingdom OF Prus-
STA into the Empire of Germany, in
the loss of Alsace and Lorraine to
France, and (what most concerns us
now in the imposition of tribute
of $500, OOO,O 900 on France to be paid
within three years. 1t is well known
that France paid it in gold before
the expiration of the second year.
In receiving this immense mass of
gold into her treasury, Germany
found herself embarrassed with her
riches. Remember that, thirteen
years before, she had demOnetized
gold and esilver thesinglestand-
ard of value. AS she was then the
only nation in Europe which had
doneso, this had necessarily attracted
a vast amount of silver into her cir
cuIatiOn to replace the gold, and
now, in addition to this excessive
silver circulation, she has all this
gold to dispose of; what shall she do
with it? She cannot issue it as cur
rency, for her own laws have de-
monetized it. She cannot get rid
of it in foreign commerce, for in
proportion to her population Ger
many has less foreign commerce
than any nation in Europe. Shall
she buy silver with it? She has al
ready redundant silver circula-
ton, and breads the rise in prices
that would result from the depreci-
alton of the current metal. Shall
she Tetrace her steps and remOnetize
gold? This also would produce the
dreaded glut of money and rise of
prices, when an already redundant
silver circulation should be supple
mented by a sudden influx of gold
coin. She could not afford to let it
lie idle in her treasury, for it was
the means by which she calculated
upon paying off the heavy expenses
of the great war she had just closed.
Her splendid gold tribute was like
the proverbial purchase of the ele-
phant-she was at a loss what to do
with it. Finally she adopted the
most Tuinious eXpedient of all-she
reversed both ways her previous
monetic policy; she demonetized
silver and remonetiZed gold.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01
so T H w EST Err N
PRESBYTERIAN
UNIVERSITY.
STEWART COLLEGE.
Session 1878 Begins Sept. g.
FACULTY

FACULTY:
Rev. j. B. SHEARER, d. D., President.
Rev. WIN. Finn, ID. D., Professor of Met
aphysics, Logic, Rhetoric, Ac.
JAMES DINwIDDIE, A. NJ, Professor Of
Mathematics.
d. N. QUARLEs, Grad. of University of
Va, Professor of Latin, &C.
Wv. IEGARE, A. NJ, Professor of Greek
Natural Philosophy, sc.
s. j. COFFMAS, Grad. of University of Va.
Professor Of French, German and English.
j. w. CALDWELL, A. NJ, N. D., Prof. Of
Natural Sciences.
W. n. STEWART, A. NJ, Professor (emer-
itus,l of Geology and Mfneralogy.
Biblical Course now taught by Rev. VIM.
Finn d. ID.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-12-01
TIE SILVER PANIC.

This was a tremendous revolution.
BY the act of its own Government
in the previous demonstration of
gold, Germany was using more silver
than any other nation, and all this
silver suddenly ceased to be money
in the hands of that people. That
the movement might not produce
utter ruin to the holders Ofsilver land
everybody held it), it was decreed
that silver should still be receivable
for taxes, and it was announced that
the silver so received would not be
reisSued but melted down and sold
as bullion in the European markets.
Here was an obvious cause for de-
preston in the silver market. 1t
was not merely that a large amount
of that metal was suddenly to be
thrown upon the worlds markets
provided that amount had been
definite one, known at once, it would
not have produced half the depres-
sion which was affected by the con-
slant apprehension that the largest
silVer-hOlding nation in Europe
would from time to time throw
masses of silver into the general
stock for sale; nobody knew how
much, nobody knew when. Specu-
lators in any article of commerce
know that an indefinite apprehen-
sion of this sort has a more deter
ring influence on buyers than any
definite increase of supply however
great; and the sales of silver by the
German Empire have been produc-
ing this effect for the last six years,
though, it is believed, the end is
nearly attained now.
France now took the alarm, and
in monetary affairs France included
the Latin League, viz: Belgium,
Italy, Switzerland and, afterwards,
Greece and Roumania. These States
did not even now deprive silver of
its character as legal tender, but,
to protect themselves from an in /
fiux of German silver, they refused I
to coin any while the market held .
its then abnormal character. All /
the world now took the alarm; Hol- |
land silver in 1873, and, |
as we have seen, the United States
followed suit the same year. Ever
since that the silver market has
been seriously depressed, touching
the lowest point in April, 1876, when ]
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-29
The Beer Bottle Trade.

Glass manufacturers say the trade IN
beer bottles still keeps increasing. VI
the seven bott factories In this CITY
four are now especially engaged in turn
ing out p.nt and qusrt bottles, and the
fifth is preparing to start up. From this
city are shipped annually $4,000 gross Of
beer bottles to St. Louis, $4,000
t. Milwaukee and Chicago each,
10000 gross to Cincinnati snd
10000 gross to Louisville. In
terror cities of the West send in
orders in proportion. For instance, q
South Side firm this week received an or
der tor 5000 gross from Aurora, Ind.
In the late disaster on the river 81
Wheeling, the Giant model barge, con-
tanning 1900 gross of bottles for S..
Louis, was wrecked and WAS n total loss.
The goods belonged to Cunningham x
Ihmsen, and were fully insured. The
81. LOUIS breweries export to South
America bottled seer, and the bottles are
never returned, hence the greater de-
mand from that pOint.-PittS. Post.