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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
A Brief history OF Mexico.

The Galveston News gives the fol-
lowing summary of the revolutions,
etc., in Mexico since 1921:
1S21.-The independence of Mexi-
co is declared.
1825.-First Congress assembled.
1S26.-Guerers being President,
Bustamente, commanding the army,
induces his soldiers to declare him
President, and compelS Guerers to
abdicate. Santa Anna plays the
same game on Bustamente, and is
himself declared President by the
army. Three Presidents govern with
little fighting.
1829.--Government State was
abolished by the revolution, and
Santa Anna made President. Same
year Bustamente was recalled, Santa
Annals defeat at San Jacinto having
deprived him of power.
1838.-MeXicO reVOlutioniZed; had
an unpleasantness with the French
who blockaded Vera Cruz; Santa
Anna drives off the French.
1840.--Federalists, led by Urea,
revolution.
1841.-Revolution of Santa Anna,
who is made Dictator and banishes
Bustamente.
1842.-Junta of Mobiles revolution
against Santa Anna and form the
republic.
1843.-New Constitution adopted
Catholic religion and Apostolic Creed
to exclusion of all other religions.
1844.-RevOlutiOn by Peredes,
Santa Anna deposed, and Herrera
made President by Congress.
1845.-Santa Anna banished and
Herrera elected President. Same
year Peredes revolts, and ordering
an election, is elected President.
1S46.-Santa Anna is recalled.
Peredes is deposed and Solos elected
President; Solos sells out and Santa
Anna is made Provisional President.
War with the United States is in
progress.
1847.-Americans victorious; San
ia Anna flies, and Penas is made
President protein.
1848.-Peace is made with the
United States.
1S51.-Arista elected President.
1851-2.-General revolution.
1oOo.-AFlSld TcSlSuS, anu od1Id
Anna made Dictator.
1854.-RevOlution led by Alverez;
Santa Anna abdicateS.
Carrerera made President,
resign, and Alverez is made Dicta-
tor.
1956.-Comforts heads a move
ment against the church, is elected
President and sequesters property of
the clergy.
1857.-ComfOrt is depOsed.
1858'-Zuloaga is made President.
1860.-RevOlution headed by Mi
ramon.
1861.-Juarez elected President
and declares himself Dictator. The
French invasion and Juarez, LerdO
and Diaz have kept things lively
since 1861.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
Wheat Topics.

I
AS to wheat, the basis of the drop
of 203c was larger arrivals yester-
day of new spring in Chicago. This
was the ostensible reason given, but
it is no doubt due to the desire to
get the price down to the lowest pos
sible point, at which they will buy
the crop as usual, and when it is
out of the farmers hands (whose fl
nancial necessities, it is thought,
will compel him to realize early this
year, let prices go up. Large deal
ers here express the belief that they
are OVERRIDING the thing, and
that at 81 in Chicago and 70 cents
for the farmer, he will not send
much wheat forward, at present, at
least. The old proverb is, that far
mers will not market their wheat
freely when they do not get a dol
lar per bushel, delivered on the cars.
The market however, is getting in
to a critical and interesting position,
as the shippers are still buying most
that is sold, and re-Selling it on the
other side at a good profit, as the
new crop prices are regarded there
as cheap, and have been since it
came to be offered. When, there
fore, the wheat comes to be called
for on these future contracts and
shipped, as it is certain it will be
from the large grain chartering
movement of yesterday, in spot YES
selsand near by, there may be anoth-
er element than plenty of wheat in
the country to determine the basis
of values. Flour continued on the
decline. from natural causes-redu-
ced cost of new Wheat-and oats
were off again on the near approach
of the new crop. Rye was also cas-
ier, and not an article on the list es-
capped the general depression.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
WHOLE NO. 1900.
The virginia CONSERVATIVES.
u,.,,, fha Naobvf1Ia Amqrican.

Col. Frederick w. Holiday, the
Conservative candidate for Governor
of Virginia, was born at Winchester
Feb. %, 1927. He graduated in the
academic department of Yale and
at the University of Virginia in the
schools of moral philosophy, politics
and law. He was a Colonel in the
Confederate army until he lost an
arm in the battle at Cedar Noun
tain. He then became member Of
the Confederate Congress, defeating
Hon. Alexander r. Boteler. Since
the war he has devoted himself to
the practice of law at Winchester.
He was Centennial Commissioner
from Virginia, but the duties of that
position were performed by his as
sOciate commissioner, and was an
elector-at-large on the Tilden tick
ct. AS to the State debt Col. HOl-
liday says: Z" am opposed to the
repudiation. would not have such
a stigma cast upon my State any
more than upon my private fame
but whilst am thus opposed to re-
pudiation, for the same general
reason am in favor of some speedy
settlement of the debt, honorable to
our State and satisfactory to our
creditors" Again: But the road
to prosperity is not through the door
of repudiation-that is the road to
her doom. And would not beckon
her in that direction for all the honor
any office she may have can confer.
Indeed, what would the Office be
worth when won? 1t would be
barren sceptre,' if not disgraceful
prize" The declaration adopted by
the convention which nominated
Col. Holiday, concerning the State
debt, is as follows:
While the Conservative party,
true to the past glorious history of
Virginia, and proud of her good
name and fame among the nations
of the earth, would scorn to repudi-
ate her just obligations, and are re-
solved to preserve inviolate the pub
lie faith and credit, yet we cannot
but view with concern and anxiety
the accumulation of our financial
difficulties and the increasing weight
of our public debt; we therefore
urge upon the Legislative and Ex-
ecutive branches of the Government
the importance of using all just and
honorable means of bringing about
an adjustment of the obligations Of
the Commonwealth which viii
bring the payment of interests upon
our entire Indebtedness within the
resources of the State derived from
the present rate of taxation, and do
equal justice to all classes of credi-
tors"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
The Rights of Labor.

The position of q. s. Judge Drum
mond in the following address is SO
sound and so well expressed that we
should only impair its effect by any
attempted commentary. The occa-
sion was the sentence of eight rioters
for obstructing the Toledo, Peoria &
Warsaw railroad:
The rights of labor result from an
agreement made among men, not
by a statement, or an order, or a
dictation from one man to another.
The rights of labor, as thus under
stood, we all admit, and it is not
improper, perhaps, to call those
rights sacred. But when the right
of labor consists in the claim of not
only refusing to labor, but interfer-
ing in the labor of others-in other
words, trampling upon the rights OF
Iabor-We of course can have no
feeling of respect for any such right
as that. 1t is criminal it is unlaW-
full it puts an end to all the relations
of life and strikes at the root OF ev-
erything in which the right of labor
consists. / suppose that it was un-
der the claim of protecting the rights
of labor that these men lnterfered
with the rights to labor of the en-
ployes of the Toledo, Peoria and
Warsaw Railroad Company. This
was the pretext. But how absurd
and unreasonable it was we all must
now acknowledge. 1t is impossible
for the Court to lose sight of the con-
sequences of the acts of these defen-
dants. 1t was not interference
merely with private property, held
by an individual, which had simply
a private object to accomplish, but
it was interference with property
which had a public object to accom-
plish as private one. 1t was en-
plOyed in transporting property
from point to point, persons, and the
mail. 1t was at once means OF
communicating intelligence and
carrying on the business of the coun-
try. These railroads are among the
principal means of modern civiliza-
ton by which the business of a
country is carried on. Thus COM
merce accomplishes its principle OBJ
iect. Therefore, when a man inter-
feres with property whose object
is so important, which affects so
much all the relations of society, he
commits as great an offense against
the rights of individuals, against the
rights of the public, as can well be
imagined. It is impossible to esti-
mate in dollars and cents the damage
which has benn done to this country
by lust such acts as these defendants
have performed within the last ten
or fifteen dayS.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25

A tall, elderly, refined-lOOking
gentleman recently went into a
small pOstoffice in rural region OF
England. He asked some questiQn5
relative to the registering OF a let
ter, and was very sharply, rudely
and unnecessarily snubbed by a
young woman in attendance. He
asked her if she thought that prop
erway to answer an inquiry in apub-
lie Office. She said she thought that
she had been quite civil enough for
him. He asked her, with an Omin-
ously increasing mildness Of man
ner, if she would favor him with
her name. She emphatically de-
clined to do so, He then said he
thought he would tell he1Shis name,
which, however, she declined TO
hear, saying that his name was no
concern Of hers, He calmly replied
that he thought it was, for his name
was John Manners, and he was the
POstmaster-Gen
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
-Four MILLIONS of IDLE Hands.

Ninety per cent of our people can,
with the machinery we Americans
use, produce all that the whole peo-
pie can consume. That means that
SO, 100000 can produce all that 40
OO0, 700 can use, and that, unless we
re-establish our foreign commerce,
1000, GOO at least must remain idle
and are condemned to beggary or
starvation. If the workingmen OF
the country were wise, instead OF
striking and suffering they would
unite to send up to Congress mon
ster petitions for the repeal of re-
strictive laws on foreign commerce
This is not question of free trade
or protection, or of Republican QI
Democratic politics, but q question
of bread and hutter, of clothing, Of
comfortable homes, of work and
wages or of continuous poverty and
starvation,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25

If it be true that the Russians
have determined not to attempt to
pass the Balkans this year, they
must have decided to make a watt
ing business of it. 1t is hard to tell
how they will be any better able to
cross the Balkans next year than this;
they will not fight any better, nor
the Turks any worse. They have
no other war on their hands at pres
ent, and if, with their immense re-
sources in men and material, they
confess their inability to capture
Constantinople by hard fighting,
how are they to get there at all
There is but one answer to this queS-
ton: they expect to exhaust the
Turkish eXchequer by delays which
will force the Porte to maintain
large armies in the field without
having anything for them to do
they hope the Turkish GQVerament
will collapse and fall to the ground
for want of money, and when that
occurs they will march to Constants
nople with little opposition. 1t Is
impossible to avoid comparing the
present war with the FrancO-Ger-
man war, seven years ago. Turkey
is a much feebler power than France,
and Russia is supposed to be as
Germany was in 1870; yet the Ger
man invasion of France was mark
ed by pFodigous fighting, victories
and c0nquests, while the Russian
invasion of Turkey:is an empty re
cord of timid delays. The Turks
evidently could take care of them
selves if they only had the money
to carry on the war. They show
better strategy and better fighting
than their enemies, and the only aiC
they urgently need is that of a full
money chest.-Ndsh. Banner.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
The Horrors of Savage Warfare in
Turkey.
London Standard, August l.


GABROVA, MOnday.-YOu will
not, perhaps, yet have received the
letters and teIegrams in which | de-
scribe at length the operations that
have resulted in forcing the Schipka
pass, but l have obtained permission
to report by field telegraph one ter
ribIe affair.
After attacks in front, right and
rear, the Turks fled, on Friday
morning, from eightpositions, which
were almost impregnable, when we
made demonstration of fresh at
tack from here.
Going on, we entered their camp,
and a three miles march across the
mountains brought us to the last
positions held by the Turks, where,
streWn upon the hillside in spots
which were the most conspicuous
Law a score of human heads.
Worse horrors, however lay hid
den amongst the trees. Ascending
again the next day, [ found the
bodies to which those heads had be-
Ionged stretched out for burial, while
the heads had been gathered in q
| heap at the foot efa rude cross.
IT was a sight too ghastly to dwell
upon. On opening the black mouths
OF some of these heads we found that
the tongues had been cut out. l saw
a leg and an arm prOtruding like
models in white wax dabbled in
blood. There were probably more
underneath.
Going on l found a great many
Turkish dead lying on the path, to
gether with some Russian cOrpseS
| have seen the human slaughter
house at COomassie, and shuddereC
at African barbarity, but we have
savages as vile in Europe.
The Russian dead had been lef
untouched, but the wounded, afte
being put to torture, had been be
headed. | know this by the same
CHASTITY experience in Ashantee.
Each headless corpse had its Tin
gers bent and clutching its throat
as had our own poor wounded sol
dierS who were maSsacred at AInoa
full, when their bodies were found
Among the multitude was ON!
still bearing a Red Cross brassard
He was a soldier. Raising gently
the white cloth that had been tnfOWI
over him, I was shown his ribs an(
thighs, all gashed, and the foules
possible mutilatiOn had been com
mitted. Another cloth was raised
and | was shown similar spectacle
Perhaps a score Of headless mel
lay there among others who ha(
been killed in the fight and left un
touched, but 1 was too sick to coun
all. Certainly all have not been dis
covered, as we know by a tearfu
computation of the limbs.
Had these deeds been COMMITTEES
by Bashi BaZOuks no one WOult
have been surprised, but all the pris
oners agree that there were none bu
fourteen battaliOns of Redifs ant
Nizams in the pass. Their officer
must have seen those heads an,
limbs lying on the bare turf at eac
glance from the doors of their tents
One more observation. All thes
heads were cut off clean, not hacke
as with q sword or ak, A knit
must have been used for this diff
cult operation,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
State Debt.

We are sometimes asked if we are
in favor of scaling the State debt ?
The State is debtor, and 1t is for
her to pay and not to make propo-
sitions. To scale the debt is as
much reputation, as to the amount
scaled, as to openly refuse to pay the
whole debt. There would be moth
ing dishonOrable in the State receiv-
ing any propositions, if they should
be voluntarily made by the credi-
tors; but never let it be said that
the people of Tennessee bought a
compromise of their bonded obliga-
ton; and never let it be said that
they are faithless and careless of
honor and integrity. But suppose
the creditors come up and say they
will take forty cents on the dollar !
what assurance have they that it
will be paid, either principal or in
terest? When compromises are af-
fected between individuals, the
debtor Is expected in consideration
of the reduction to pay the balance
in cash or secure its equivalent.
This the State cannot do; and, hence,
after the creditors claim had been
by consent, reduced more than half,
he would still have to rely upon the
pledged honor and faith of the State.
The people several years ago,
through their properly appointed
representatives bonded the debt and
renewed sacred promises; if they
fail and refuse to meet this Obliga-
ton, upon what foundation would
the creditor build a hope that the
debt would be paid after it was
scaled. 1t would be wiser to take
the chances on the whole debt. II
seems to us that any sensible busl-
ness man would take this view OF
the question,-C Columbia Jdl0ndt
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
The Majesty of the Law.

Justice is not half so slow of foot
as many a man to-day would like
to believe. 1t is noteworthy fact
that the civil power moved faster
last week than the military; in
many instances the leaders of the
riot were in Jail before the riot itself
had been quelled. Thus in New
York, while the strikers at Hornells-
vile were yet meditating violence,
their master spirit, one Donahue,
was captured by the police and
hustled off for trial. At Albany,
before the rioters had made up their
minds whether or not to initiate the
performances of Pittsburg, their In
ternationalist chief was run down by
railroad detective and taken " in a
shackles" to prison. In fact it is
safe to say that in every city where
the mob enjoyed its brief hour of
unreasoning violence, the ringlead-
ers are now within the clutches of
the law, with prospect of suffering
its severest penalties The majesty
of the law is still something more
than a name in this countrywide
inlOre Gazette.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
Girls, Attitude to Young Men

There is a thing of which ! want
to speak, and that is of the behavior
of young girls toward young men
who are not lovers, but simply
friends. Let me tell you plainly
that our sex were not meant to be
wooers. The custom prevalent
among certain class of young la
dies Of asking, directly or Indirect
ly, the attentions of young gentle
men is not an admirable custom.
"Myson,' said lady to me not long
since, is much prejudiced against
a young girl whom l admire, be-
cause she Is constantly sending him
notes, inviting him to be her escort
here and there, and planning to
have him with her" A modest and
dignified reserve, which is neither
prudery or affectatiOn, should dis
tinguish your manner to gentlemen.
Too great familiarity and too evil
dent pleasure in the society of young
men are errors into which no deli
cate and pureminded girl should
fall
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25

GEN. FIELD, of Fredericksburg,
Va, has recently returned home
from Egypt, where he held a high
position in the army Of the Khe-
dive. His withdrawal from that ar
my grew out of the Turko-Russian
complications, in which Egypt,
through her vassalage TO the Sultan,
has been forced 10 take part. The
American officer could not conscien-
tiously take the field for the Cres-
cent against the Cross, and so re-
signed. In fact, it is stated tnat all
the American officers in the Khe-
dives service have been gotten rid
of in one way or another.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
MOdern Ruth.

From the Pittsburgh Commercial-Gazette.
A young lady from the South was
wOOed and won by young Califor-
mia physicians. About the time the
wedding was to come off the young
man lost his entire fortune, He
wrote the lady a letter releasing her
from her engagement, And, what
does the dear, good girl do2 Why,
she takes q lump of pure gold which
her lover had sent her In his pros
perity as q keepsake, and having It
manufactured into a ring, forwards
II to him with the following Bible
inscription engraved in distinct
characters on the outside: Entreat
me not to leave thee, or to return
from following after thee; for With
er thou goest / will 60, ana whittier
thou lodgest will | lodge ; thy peo-
pie will he my people, and thy God
my God; where thou dieSt Will l
die, and there will be buried the
Lord do so 10 me, and more also, If
aught but death part me and thee"
We may add, concludes the Com
mercial, :" that fortune soon again
smiled upon the young physician,
and that he subsequently return-
ed to the South to wed the sweet
girl he loved, and who loved
him with such undying affection.
Reader, this Is all true. Young la
dies who read the Bible as closely
as the heroine Of this incident seems
to have done are pretty sure to make
good sweethearts and better wives" +"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
Gon. Putnnm,s Rirth place.

Gen. Israel Putnam's birthplace
is still standing at the foot of DOdge's
Hill, in Danvers, Mass, and is Occu-
pied by the Putnam family. The
original house was built in 1913. To
this an Experimentation was made
in 1744. The room in which the
brave soldier was born still remains
unaltered; the heavy Oaken beams
projecting beyond the plastering, the
weil-worn floor, the antique furni-
ture, all serve to awaken feelings of
renewed admiration for brave " Old
Put" The house is full of curious
and interesting relics. A military
button from the Generals coat, a
deed with his autograph, a bullet
mold that he used, a bit of stone
from the den of the famous wolf in
Pomfret, a copy of the original
Stamp Act; are all carefully pre-
served, and one very interesting
relic is box made Of playing cards,
picked up on the camp-ground oc-
cupied by Gen. Gage about three
miles distant, left there by the Brit
ish soldiers.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25

THE Turks have a German at the
head of the central army, an Eng
lishman at the head Of the Black
Sea feet, two Prussians prominent
among the engineers, an Egyptian
taking the lead i'm the artillery de-
partment, and another Englishman
handling the cavalry. The Rus
slams have five or six German gene
rails, a Polish chief Of staff, two Ar
menians i'm command Of Asia, and
81 variety OF other foreigners SCAT
tered through their service.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25

THE Democratic party Is the only
party before thecountry with living
principles, and in the "solid South, \
at least, IL has very many years ol
honor and usefulness ahead Of itI
Observer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25

HOME has been happily saved and
many a fortune retrieved by a mans
full confidence in his wife. Woman
is far more a seer and a prophet than
man, if she is given a fair chance, As
a general rule, the wives cnnfide the
minutest of their thoughts and plans
to their husbands. Why not recipro-
cate, if but for the pleasure of meet
ing confidence with confidence? i
am certain no man succeeds so well
in the world as he who, taking a
partner for life, makes her the part.
ner of his purposes and hopes.
What is wrong Of his impulses or
judgment, she will check and set
right with her almost universally
right instinct. And what she most
Graves and most deserves, Is conf
dence, without which love is never
free from a shadow,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE,

w. A. HaVnes. deceased, all persons m
debted TO said estate are notified 10 Hlake
immediate settlement, and Gil naVIns
claims against the estate will present IIlsIlls
duly authenticated, within the time pre-
Scribed by law, or they will be forever
barred. BETTE a. HAYNES,
August II, lST-4w Administrators
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25

SEVEN Republican newspapers
printed in Louisiana have suspended
since the Inauguration Of democratic
government i'm that State.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25

THE population of AHstria con-
sists of 5000, 900 Germans, 10, 900, 900
Slaves, 6,0OD,O00 Hqngarians, and
500 900 Italians