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Southern Shoe Factory
OF JOHN HANSEN,
IN and 81 Canal street, New Orleans.
TO ALI, SOUTHERN CITIZENs.

lam of the same opinion as yourselves and
ana determined to help build up the manufac-
turing interest of our native State In order to
which would otherwise go to the North. at home.
About year ago started my Factory and by
using the best material and paying my hands
business and support 800 women and children
that would have otherwise left the State. In
order still to increase my Factory, would
the city. but of the whole country. to give me
their aid and announcement. Come and see me.
d9141Y Juno. HANSEN.
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At a meeting Of the Board OF Directors held
on the Sd day OF June, 1876, II was resolved 10
pay to the Stockholders. on demand, FIVE PER
GENT interest on their stock
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THE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE So
LIGHTED.
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13

controversy within the constitution so
do we; but let the traitors who are
proposing To arrest members of the
Legislature. if they do their duties as
legislators, know that if once they 60
outside of law and resort to force there
are forces against them on which they
have not calculated.
That, however, is not the present
question, the power of granting or
Withholding money, most clearly res
tricted to the House of Representa-
tives, is a strictly constitutional one, and
if its assertion should lead to war, as
Messrs. Bayard aud Lamar both plain
ly intimate that it would; those will be
responsible who are prepared to resist
a strictly constitutional action. The
ideas so strangely put forward by these
two Democratic Senators would be
more appropriate in the mouths of
Laud and STAFFORD in the days of
Charles i
For our own part, while war is often
quoted as uLtinaa ratio reguna we look
upon firm grasp on the public money
as ultima ratio p0puloTane.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
OUR ANSWER TO THE TOBACCO
LEAF.

Our contemporary and neighbor the
Tobacco Leaf takes US to task for the
following words, which we applied to
the recent letters of Gov. Hampton of
South Carolina and Mr.. B. HI. Hill, of
Georgia.
We had said that they take the
pains to have it understood that what
ever may happen, forcible resistance
forms no part of their programme
under any circumstances that may
arise" and then to show that these
words have misrepresented Governor
Hampton he quotes passage from his
letter which to our view exactly coE-
firms what we said {" 1t is their firm
and deliberate purpose to condemn
any solution of the existing political
problems that involves the exhibition
of armed force, or that made through
any other channel than the prescribed
form of the Constitution or the peace
full agencies of the law"
1t will be observed that this con-
demnation is laid down without any
exceptions. 1.-The exhibition of armed
force" therefore, is condemned,
though the usurpers should resort to
it. The prescribed forms of the
Constitution are to be observed,
though the military despots should
override them. The peaceful agen-
cies of the law are the only means to
be exerted, though the violent agencies
of armed forces should be put in action
by Grant, Cameron & Co. This is the
plain meaning of Governor Hampton
and this is what we object to. We
would rather have seen him take the
position which the Leaf itself takes in
another article: 1t is not idle talk
to say that if they persist in their
efforts and override the law of the
land, as we'll as break down the sover-
eign will of the people, they will find
themselves mistaken if they think that
they will not be met with all the force
which the lovers of honest government
can command"
With these sentiments of the Leaf
we are in entire accordance, but we
do not see how they can be reconciled
with the words of Governor Hamp-
tons speech above quoted.
Allowing for this mistake we do not
yield to any one in admiration for
Governor Hampton and sympathy with
the cause he is so nobly maintaining
in South Carolina.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
CONVENTIONAL INTEREST.

We observe with much regret that
an effort is to be made this session of
our Legislature to repeal the conVen-
tional interest law. This is virtually
an act to render all rates of interest on
money above six per cent. illegal. 1t
is an irrational error now dying out In
all enlightened communities to sup
pose that the rate of interest can be
controlled by legislative enactment.
Legislation of this sort either becomes
by evasion entirely imperative or it
simply prevents loans from being made.
We are informed that this is mainly a
farmers movement. Now it is quite
natural that a farmer should dislike
paying ten per cent. for borrowed
money, and that he should make every
effort to get it cheaper, but an arbi-
trary fixing of the rate by law will not
give it to him at six per cent, it will
simply prevent his getting it at all.
In all our cities, where business men
have wide experiencein the laws which
control the diffusion of capitol, petit
lions against such legislation are
widely signed. These business men
know that money, which they want to
borrow as much as the farmers do,
will desert communities where lower
interest is imposed than it can COM
mand elsewhere, and we have reliable
that large portion of the
improvements which have Of late been
carried out in GAINESVILLE would never
have been initiated even. unless the
ten per cent. law had been in exist
ence. They could not have been built
without advances, and advances could
not have been had at six per cent
We hope to see petitions from all the
business men Of GAINESVILLE against
what would simply be measure for
driving money out Of the State of
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13

consent of both houses of Congress.
No State vote has ever been or ought
to be. Since the foundation of the
Government to the present time. in
Guiding the evidence furnished by the
Republican leaders themselves, all au-
thority sustains this position. On it
the Democratic party plants itself, and
means to stand until it is driven off at
the point Of the bayonet. 1t is for
our people to determine, therefore,
whether this shall be done. IF they
will rise in their might, and, exercising
the peaceful right of petition, will me-
moraliZe the Senate to do its duty, to
do that which every Republican mem
Der Of the Senate is committed to, and
will send hundred thousand petition
ers to Washington on the 18th of Feb
ruary to present the memorial in per-
son. there will be no usurpation and no
civil war. The conspirators will be
thwarted. There will be Republicans
enough in the Senate to defeat them, and
weshall have the presidential result set
tied by well-established constitutional
methods. Otherwise those Republl-
can senators who wish to do right, see
ing that the country is going to sub
nit, will submit too, and we shall drift
into a new era of popular discomfort,
the end of which no man can see.
The convention called to assemble in
Louisville on the 18th should consider
these things. There is little complex
ity whatever in the situation. All that
l have written here may be relied upon
with absolute assurance. 1t is no
pleasure to write such things; but
they should be written simply and dis
tinctly. IF the convention wishes to
do something, let it take ground firm
pointedly, and ly, for the joint right of
the two houses, fortified as it is by all
precedent; and having thus memorial
lied the Senate, let it provide for the
presence of at least ten thousand un-
armed Kentuckians in this city on the
coming 18th of February. Less than
this will be of no avail. So much,
supplemented as it will be by other
States, will secure through civil agen-
cies the peaceful settlement of the
most dangerous issue that ever men
aced the existence of free govern
ment. Ii. w.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13

their acquiesence in the business of
the count, and that this shall be at
the earliest day consistent with due
deliberations, to the end that the dis
quiet which now pervades the people
shall be allayed.
Resolved, That. according to the
plain meaning of the Constitution. and
according to all past political usages
the power of counting the vote resides
In the two houses of Congress.
Resolved, That we denounce the
proposition that the president OF the
Senate has the power, not only to open
but to count the vote, as an innova-
ton, which the sentiment of the peo-
pie will not tolerate. If such power
shall be assumed, and its exercise at
tented, we call upon the two houses
of Congress to take prompt and effec-
tual measure for the assertion of their
constitutional prerogatiVe in that re-
gard.
Resolved, That if Congress shall
provide by law just plan for count
ing the electoral vote-one which will
be fair, not only in the present emer-
gency, but for all future elections-we
pledge our acquiescence in the result,
whatever it may be.
Resolved, That if the Senate shall
claim that its presiding officer, like the
Returning Boards of Florida and Louis
ian, have the absolute power to des-
ignate the president and vice president,
we will call upon the House of Repre-
sentatives to exert all its constitution
al powers to defeat the usurpatiOn,
and we pledge it our support, with all
the resources which a people whose
fundamental liberties are threatened
eau command.
Pending the adoption of the resolu-
tons a specially eager patriot tried to
get embodied in them the words, A
fair count or a free fight" After a
short discussion however they were
unanimously adopted as reported.
Loud calls were then made for Mr..
VOORHEES,; he said in the course of a
most eloquent speech:
My countrymen this is not ques-
ton of whether Samuel j. Tilden
shall be president, or whether Ruth
erford B. Hayes shall be president. 1t
is question underlying all true gov
eminent, for which our fathers made
hundred battlefield of the Revo-
luton red with their precious blood.
1t is a question whether majorities
shall govern, or whether minorities
shallrob majorities of lawful results.
| GCheers, and voice ''That'sthe doc
trine!''] It's a question that rises
high above parties and appeals to the
eternal principles of republican gov
eminent, the eternal principles ofpop-
ular liberty, as directly and immedi-
ately as was ever shown in any former
issue in the history of mankind.
After this the meeting. on motion,
adjourned.
The whole conduct of the assemb-
lage was that of men eagerly enthusi-
astic and terribly in earnest.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
A DIRTY JOB.

It is known that Grant has been dis
charging the police of the District of
Columbia for reasons known to him
self. Now, the President has an or
gan edited by man named Murtagh,
called the Washington Republican. 1t
is the duty of this organ to play what
ever tunes the President presorib es,
he, the President, pitching the key
note. Murtagh is specially qualified
for his duties as editor by his evident
delight in dirty work.
When the police were discharged,
the organ declared that it was for COM
plicity with gamblers. The discharged
superintendent considers this as peach
ing on pals, and hints that if he should
take to squealing he could squeal to
good purpose, as he has done work for
the administration that would not bear
the daylight. As a specimen of what
he could do if he tried, he relates a
little plot which was planned between
himself and this very editor Murtagh,
in the interest of the governmentclique.
1t was thought necessary to break down
the character of Mr.. Whitthorne, of
Tennessee, who was enquiring too
closely into navy yard abuses and
this was Murtagh's plan: Whitthorne
was to be beguiled by certain fair
friends of Murtagh-not so chaste as
led by them into some house
of i'll fame, upon which the police were
to be sprung upon the concern, and Mr..
name be brought before
the public in association with disrepu-
table characters. Mr.. Whitthorne did
not listen to the voice of the charmers
and the plot failed, and would never
have been heard of but for this thieves
quarrel, which brings it to daylight.
Bury it again quickly, the nostrils of
cannot tolerate such filth.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
THE SENATORSHIP.

All the political men of ClarksIille
have been this week in Nashvillead-
vancing the claims of our fellow-iti-
zen Col. JAS E. Bailey to the reire-
sentation of Tennessee in the national
Senate.
Our readers are aware that two Sh-
ators have to be elected by the present
Legislature, one for the full termpf
six years, the other to fill the unek-
pired term of Andrew johnson d.
ceased.
The election for the long term wss
decided at the first ballot by an ovel-
whelming majority in favor of the Hon.
Isham 6. Harris, formerly GoyernSr
of the State Admiration for his GREET
talents and high public character, Is
we'll as the impulses of private friend
ship, render it a grateful duty to con
graduate Gov. Harris on this the high
est recognition of his many good aud
great qualities by his native State,
At the time when he so magnanimously
resigned the dictatorship for the State
at large under the expressed apprehen-
sion of some that his secession record
might prejudice some Union men
against him, and so impair his efficien-
cy, we expressed our conviction that
the objections to him came rather from
politicians who found him in their way
than from the people, and that senti-
ment is now stamped and sealed by his
election to the proudest and most re-
sponsible position in the gift of Ten
nessee. He will honor their choice as
their choice has honored him.
The elaetion for tho shnrt Senatorial
term has been protracted. We give
the first vote of Tuesday last and the
last vote of Thursday:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
The Story of the Florida Returning
Board.

We print the following from the
New York Herald. Its appearance in
that paper is the more significant as
the Herald has for the last two weeks
been decidedly in favor of Hayes:
Our special Washington correspond
ent gives a concise account, from
democratic sources, of the manipula-
tons by which Florida was declared
first for Stearns and Hayes, aud on a
recount ordered by the Supreme Court
for Drew aud Hayes. If this story is
true the Returning Board has been
clearly guilty of fraud the republican
managers are also guilty of fraud in
the counties mentioned, and the re-
publicaus cannot afford to count in
Mr.. Hayes by such fraudulent methods.
If they cannot show that the vote of
the State was honestly taken and fairly
counted public opinion must set
against them. IF they can retute this
story we advise them to do so without
delay. They had control of the State /;
their Governor was a candidate for
reelection; they appointed the election
officers, and they are fairly accounta-
BILE and must show that they dealt
honestly.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13

There are 100 votes altogether, of
which 20 are Republican, 2 Indepen-
dent and rs Democratic. 1t will be
seen that the first ballot indicated the
race to be between Gen. Bate and our
esteemed fellow citizen Judge Bailey
that Bate led Bailey by votes at the
first ballot, and Bailey led Bate by
eleven at the last. The Indepen-
dents seem to be voting with the
Democrats and the Republicans solid
by themselves at first for Pettibone,
afterwards for Maynard. The friends
of Judge Bailey have entire confidence
in his ultimate success.
We may yet receive further tidings
before going to press.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13

President Grants suggestion that IL
literates and foreigners who have not
learned the American language should
be disfranchised for the future, may or
not be a reasonable one, but it is GER
tainly most inconsistent as coming from
the chief ola party which insisted upon
the enfranchisement of the negro. The
lowest and most ignorant emigrants
are far better fitted for political privil-
ege than any but very few exception
al negroes, and those who would be dis
franchised by the requisition of knowl-
edge Of the language of the country
would be not the lowest but the high
est class of emigrants.-LOndoa &dad-
0rd
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
AT SALEM OREGON.

A large and enthusiastic meeting
here; in the resolutions the following
sentiments were embodied:
They so!emnly protest against the
Inauguration of Hayes and Wheeler,
and denounce the threatened attempt
to prevent the House of Representa-
tives from participating in the count
ing of the electoral vote as threat of
revolution and a menace against civil
liberty. They appeal to all citizens
of the republic to resist this revolu-
tionary attempt upon the government
by all the means known to law-abid-
ing, liberty loving people. &"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
DESTROYING the Evidence.

A Washington special to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer says:
Since Friday last over a cart-load OF
kilograms have been sent from the
Office of the Western Union Telegraph
Company in this city to the New York
Office. Included in this freight are all
the messages sent from this city to the
Southern States having reference to
the recent political campaign: They
are to be destroyed at once. If ques-
toned by any Congressional committee
as to why this course was determined
upon, the officers of the company will
hold that under the Constitution no
citizen is to be deprived of his liberty
or property without due process of
law. The kilograms are to be made
away with in advance of any process of
law reaching the company, to the end
that subsequently there will be no
occasion of violating it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13

ONCE let it be established that an
agreement as to the mode of counting
the votes by the two houses is as prae-
ticable now as it has always been, with
nd without any special rule, for
eighty three years, and the chief diff
Guilty In the way of an adjustment will
be removed. 1t is the apprehension
of an attempt to usurp power that
causes the present anxiety.-Neoc
York SIN.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON.

A very imposing meeting was held
on the Sth at Washington, at which
speeches were made by Merriok, the
Hon. Henry Watterson and Mr.. Jos.
Pulitzer of St. Louis:
Mr.. Watterson declared his belief
that the vote would be counted as it
ever had been counted. Civil liberty
cant be wrested from the people un-
der any circumstances. All the appli-
ances of peace would be resorted to to
settle the questions at issue; but the
people would not submit to usurpation;
and should they need leader, another
Jackson would stand ready"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13

MAY they alwf VS. live in peace and
harmony" was the way Yankee mar
riage notice should have wound up !;
but the compositor, who couldn't read
manuscript very well, put in type and
Mortified the happy couple by making
it read, May they always live on peas
and hominY.'
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
InSOIVent Notice.

The insolvency OF the estate of II. II.
Pinson, deceased, having been suggested to
the Clerk of the County Court of Cheatham
county, all persons having claims against
said estate, are notified to appear and file
the same with the County Court Clerk au-
chemically as prescribed by law, within six
months from January LIST, II.
W. w. PINSON, Admir-.
Jan. 10. IS77-4m.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
Montgomery County Gran ge.

AT regular meeting of Montgomery
County Grange, held in GAINESVILLE,
January s, 1877, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
W.M.-Dr. B. F. Moody.
Or, H. Or burn.
L,-Dr. b. w. Ussery.
S.-H. r. Burchett
Ass. d. Powers.
C.-J. NJ. Swift.
T.-John NJ. Smith.
Secretary-Z. Smith.
q. K.-J. NJ. Trotter.
C.-Mrs. r. II. Ogburn.
F.-Mrs. b. f. Burchett.
P.-Mrs. J. II. Marahle.
l.. A. Ss-Mrs. Marshall Tyson.
The officers elect will be installed
at the regular meeting in April (the I'd.
Monday. r. H. Ogburn, j w.
Blackford and L. B. Ross were elected
an Executive Committee. DIR. N. L
Northington, r. III. Ogburn and Dr.
B. W. Ussery were appointed to rep
resent the Montgomery County Grange
in the GAINESVILLE Tobacco District
Council.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
MILITIA

AS a wind up of the days work,
Gov. Nichols in the afternoon review
ed the State militia to the number of
5000 men and then dismissed them,
the metropolitan police being amply
sufficient to guard the courts.
Good bye Packard. Well done
Nichols, good and faithful servants.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
knights Templar.

At regular meeting of GAINESVILLE
Commandery No. s, Knights Templar,
December 18th, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing twelve
months:
f. CA d. Sears.
G.-I. &. Read.
&. &C. +. Il. McCauley.
Frelate-J. ID. Moore.
s. W.-D. KincannOn.
j. Wv. j. McCoTmac.
Treas.-Peter Oneai.
Reef. G.. Williams.
Std. BIZ. j. Hamlet.
Swd. B.-W. McComb.
W.. d Kerr.
Guards-J. j. Rawls. q. B. Wilson, NJ
Mattill.
Capt. of Guards--W. G. Barlxsdale.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13

NEW GOODS RECEIVED DAILY!
And with fair trial of the people of GAINESVILLE and
rounding counties, promise to give satisfaction to ALL
We have in store 5000 yards of remnants in Calico
which we will sell for six cents per yard
We employed HARRISON of this place aad he would
please the friends Of the late firm Of Harrison, Son
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13
who was elected last winter the legal
A NEW COUNT.

incumbent.
NEW COUNT.
The legally appointed and elected
judges will Immediately order new
canvass of the electoral vote, the for
mer one being pronounced illegal, the
existing law providing that the Cover
nor, Attorney General, Secretary of
State and district judge shall act as
a canvassing board-the legal canvass
will show large majority for the Til
den electors and they will be com
missioned by Governor Nichols.
THIEVES FALLING OUT.
Meantime Anderson and Wells, the
white men of the returning board are
in a violent quarrel with Kellogg and
Packard. Kellogg wants to go to the
Senate which is not the Boards game.
So they intimate that they have
good grounds for reconsidering their
canvass, having been deceived by the
bogus Custom house afIidavits. So
the police is deserving. the counted-in
legislature is deserving and even the
Board is deserting-carpet- baggery is a
leaking and sinking ship and the very
rats are leaving it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-13

Gen. Augur in command of the
United States forces on being ques-
toned said he was not instructed to
recognize either one or the other of
the claimants but to interpose if fight
ing should take place.