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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
Gold and Silver.

Sir Isaac Newton being called by
the English Government as an eX-
pert in coinage and finance, said in
his official report
"That where silver has been de
monetized and driven from the cir
culation of a country, it necessarily
sends the price of gold up higher,
and that fall in gold will inevita-
bly, follow, and by no human inge-
nuity can be made to precede a re-
coinage of silver"
1t was the well-knOWn fact that
the demonetiZation of silver sends
up the price of gold that caused the
change in the coinage regulations
in 1872. In England the remedy
was found as follows:
parliament passed a recoinage
act, and Newton set ten furnaces at
the mint going night and day to re-
store the silver coin of England to
its old standard of weight and fine
ness. After the new coins began to
go into circulation, gold began to
drop down, and soon came to its
natural equilibrium with silver and
became interchangeable Herewith.
The panic ceased, and confidence be-
came again restored"
What we want in part is to "drop
gold down" to its right place. Ci1l-
ciIlndti Commercial.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

talk, and has any eye full of light
and movements full of life, after
his half century of hard work, it is
because he has been a judicious
steward of every force with which
Providence has endowed him.
Posi- SCRIPT.-We have now
given our readers the portraits in
printers ink of the three stars who
are to take a leading part in the
great drama for which the stage is
clearing in France. There is one
other name which is in the ascend
ant and we should like to have a
little about him in our next, but
have not the material-could not the
able interviewer of the London
World manage a visit to M. Gambet-
ta? If he will do so and give US the
benefit of his experience we could
promise our readers a fourth pOr-
traint to complete our gallery of
French notabilities. AS it is they
will have to be content for the pres
ent with the illustrious trio Simon,
MacMahon, Thiers.-ED. CHRON-
ICLE.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
The Debt Of Tennessee.
St. Louis Tlmes, fDemocratic. I,

/ 81 LOUIS
1t was thought by those interested
in the matter that an early and sat
isfactory adjustment of the Tennes-
see debt would be effected last win
ter, but all attempted negotiations
and propositions and counter-prOpo-
sitions were summarily squelched
at last by the nOn-action of the Leg
islature.
The debt with interest, foots up
about $23, 100000, the greater por-
tiOn of which is held by parties resi-
dent in Europe, who bought before
the war at very nearly par, when
the credit Of Tennessee was
in a solvent condition. The future
at that time was bright with health
full promise and the State received
full value for almost every dollar of
the obligations thus incurred, in the
various public improvements by
which the people have been so large
ly benefited in facilities for railway
tranSportiOn and commercial traffic.
1t was not the outgrowth of any
dire adversely, nor the legacy of
corrupt mal-administration, nor
forced like a milestone upon the
necks of an unwilling people, as
frequently happened elsewhere dur
ing the reconstruction era but a
free, voluntary and profitable act,
which the citizens of Tennessee,
without evasion or excuse, are in
honor bound to look squarely in
the face and accept the entire re-
sponsibility it imposes.
1t is certainly to be hoped, not
only for the good name of Tennes-
see, but for the credit of the whole
South and West, that some meas
ures be promptly taken to relieve
the State from her present unenvi-
able attitude and put her right upon
the record again. To follow in the
wake of Minnesota would be almost
in the nature of national disaster
and infiict a blow upon the financial
standing of our Southern neighbOrS
all the more deplorable because of
its utter want of excuse and rank
SAVIOR of fraud. Tennessee is rich
and resourceful, her people are rap
idly recovering from the prOstrating
effects of the war, they are thrifty,
and honest, and we can
not believe that they will willingly
consent to be led into any pitfall
through the Wilful negligence or
fault Of their legislative representa-
tives. If the full debt is too heavy
a burden, let it be lighted. The
bondholders are anxious and ready
to meet the State more than half
way with an honorable compromise.
They have offered all that could be
reasonably expected. To insist upon
more would be, indeed, humiliation;
to procrastinate action is dangerous
and unbecoming; to decline pay
ment altogether involves positive
and permanent disgrace.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
The yaIue Of Advertising.

Taking for its text a statement
that a prominent dry goods house in
New York continues its liberal ad.
vertising, the Courier-Journal thus
pertinently remarks:
And thereby continues its liberal
system of making all the money it
wants. The house has the good
sense to know that ifit were to leave
its advertisements out of the news
papers people abroad would soon
lose sight of it and half its custom
ers would gradually drift in the di-
rection of houses whose advertise
ments they still found in the news
papers. 1t may be set down as a
fixed fact that the merchant or man.
ufacturers who adopts or maintains
a liberal system of advertising, and
at the same time manages his busi-
ness with ordinary skill, is not only
panic proof, but is always enabled
to meet his bills promptly and inev-
itably makes a fortune in the end.
A general recognition of this fact
would revivify the dulest and dead
est of cities, and give it business
prosperity of which it never
dreamed. But there are people who
wouldn't believe it though one were
to rise from the dead and tell them
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
Thirty Years Ago.

Erastus Brooks, formerly of the
New York Evening Express, in his
"What l have Seen and What /
have Read, "says ofthe press of thir-
ty years ago;
Thirty years ago there were no
curbstone brokers and bankers, no
bands of reportorial interviewers,
passing up and down the earth, and
visiting public men like the plaques
of Egypt, and not only to extract
from them all they say and do, but
much that they never said or be-
lieved. Startling sensations were
kept for yellow-covered literature.
A black lie was a lie then, and rare
ly framed i'm gold. A spade was a
spade then, and the lie was not one
of Mrs. Opie's harmless fictions, nor
the iron spade silver spoon or ladle.
"Things by their right names" is
sometimes INDUCED in now, but il
is hard for organs to speak the truth
Of friends, however ready they may
be to do So of their enemies.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

The Misses Vance, of Memphis,
Tenn, have been among the most
famous beauties of the South, and
one of them, Miss Susie, obtained
some literary reputation few years
ago by a popular story of fashionable
Southern life. A few days since
another sister, Miss Lulie Vance,
achieved reputation of another, but
certainly not less valuable sort, by a
heroic attempt to rescue a drowning
child. AT picnic party just below
Memphis, a little son of Mr.. Alex
ander fell into the Mississippi, and
Miss Vance, an expert swimmer,
jumped into the river without an
instant's hesitation, and had almost
reached the drowning boy when he
sank beyond recovery. Meanwhile
one of the gentlemen in the party
was swimming out to her rescue,
but, discarding his aid, she reached
the shore without difficulty. The
boys body was shortly afterWard
discovered, but life was extinct.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

ing of the 22d. There was too much
of it, and it was on too grand a scale
of magnificence for description. The
entire building was brilliantly illu-
minated; the many dancing rooms,
drawing rooms, dining rooms, dress
ing rooms, parlors, halls, galleries
and promenades were gaily and taste
fully decorated with countless flags,
festoons, flowers, wreaths, notices.
pictures, &c, and filled to overflow
ing with the chivalry, manly pride
and queenly beauty of Clarksville,
in honor of her guests, who were
made to feel at home among their
friends. Polite, agreeable gentle
men and charming, lovely ladies,
of whom this delightful little city
has as many as any place of its
size in the world. Clarksville is
an old, well established place and
noted for the high standard of her
intelligence for the elevated tone
of her society, and a fuller and
more complete development of re-
finement than is usually met with
in cities larger or smaller. The amen
tiles of life are strictly observed by
her people. A grateful memory
shall not fail to mark with a white
stone through all coming years the
anniversary of our visit to Clarks-
vile.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
Onr State Debt.

The way to get public sentiment
with regard to the State debt, in a
healthy and common sense condi-
ton, is to state plainly the fact, that
the creditors of the State have the
same right to be considered and con-
suited that is claimed for the State,
and that all movements that would
leave our creditors out of the settle
ment, are reputation square and
simple. We do not believe that the
people of Tennessee are dishonest,
we do not believe that they will, af-
ter mature reflection, endorse a
''stand and deliver" policy, and it
would be humiliating in the eX-
treme to conceive that such a policy
is possible. To say that we would
scale the debt to suit our own views,
that we will pay so much and no
bitratiOn nor legal adjucation, but
illinsist on debating his own terms,
is to place the State on the black rec
ord of repudiatiOn, and declare that
the people of Tennessee are dishOn-
est. Confront the people with this
fact, and they will no longer listen
to the teachings of irresponsible
dead beats, or professional dema-
gOgueS, or idle, brainlesS declaimers,
but will reason about it as they do
about private obligations and be as
jealous to protect their public as their
private honor. However much Ian
guage and rhetoric may disguise it,
yet the doctrine that the people of
a State can honorably dictate their
own terms in the settlement of a
debt, is as dishonest and disgraceful
as if an individual should say to his
creditor, 81 owe you so much, but I
don't intend to pay you but half of
it, and | am bOmb-prOof, and you
must take what offer, or nothing"
Now we submit, is this sort of thing
less than robbery, less than ejuris-
prudence of highwaymen? Is there
right in it? Is there justice in it?
Let every TenneSSean who esteemS
his personal honor take the matter
home to his own heart, and ask him
self if he is prepared and willing to
fix a stigma on his State, that he
would blush to have blistered on his
own good name? What we want is
an honest discussion of our State diff
ficulties, discussion that will en-
brace both sides of the question, and
that will recognize the rights of the
creditors as well as the embarass-
ments of the State. This mode of
dealing with the question can alone
secure a just and honorable settle
ment of the State debt.-J0ckSOn
Tribune and San.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
Who VIII Take Care Of Them z

1t tiscommonly supposed that engi-
neers get so accustomed to fast run,
ming that they are unmindful of the
perils which beset them during gevery
minute of their journeys. This is a
mistake. They appreciate the dan
gers of their occupation, and though
it is rare that an engineer falters in
his duty, they do not, as a rule, like
to exceed a certain speed. This aver
sion to extraordinary running was
illustrated in the remark of an old
engineer, yesterday, when informed
that he must take out one of the fast
trains on Monday. Removing his
slouch hat, and running his fingers
nervously through his hair, the old
engineer, who has made all sorts of
time in daylight and darkness, for
twenty years, said: "All right, boss,
I'll ltake her through, but who'll take
care of my wife and five children if
anything should happen ?" The re-
mark showed that engineers some
times, perhaps often, think of their
families at the same time they are
watching their engines, and that
there are some things that they like
better than running fifty miles an
hour. Chicago Times.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

THE Turkish government has or
ganized a corps of divers, whose busi-
ness is to root up the torpedoes which
the Russians plant in the Danube
and on the shores of the Black Sea.
These divers are Mohammedans
from LaZistan, and a certain num-
Der Ofthem are eattached to each of the
Turkish sqaudrons. When the ships
arrive near spot where the exist
ence of tOrpedoes is suspected, two
divers row to the place in a very
light boat, which draws so little wa
ter that there is scarcely any danger
of its striking against a torpedo.
On arriving at the destination one
of the oarsmen dives into the sea /;
if he finds the wire or rope by which
the torpedo is attached he cuts it
with a sharp instrument, and re-
turns quickly into the boat. The
liberated torpedo floats to the sur
face of the water, the men pass a
sort of lasso round it, take it in tow,
and then row back to the ships as
quickly as possible. For each one
thus captured divers are paid about
$50 in addition to half the value of
the torpedo itself.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
Good Flour.

In selecting flour first look to the
color. If it is white, with a yellow
ish tint, buy it. If it is white with
a blush cast, or with white specks
in if, refuse it. Second, examine
its adhesiVenes3-wet and knead a
little of it between your fingers; il
it works soft and sticky it is poor.
Third, throw a little lump of dry
-four against a smooth surface if il
falls like powder it is bad. Fourth,
squeeze some of the flour tightly in
your hands; if it retains the shape
given by pressure, that too is good
sign. 1t is safe to buy flour that
will stand all these tests. These
modes are given by all old flour
dealers, and they pertain to q matter
that concerns eYerybody-the staff
of life.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

Gen. S. L. WoOdford, of New
York, struck the key note of a diff
cult chord in his Oxford address
when, in a liberal-minded manner,
he declared that lawlessness per-
vades the entire cOuntry-not Mis-
sissippi, nor South Carolina, but the
United States; that labor riots, ex-
press rObberies occurred in the
North, political and personal feuds
in the South; in Colorado men
fought for place, in Pennsylvania at
the dictates of secret Molly Mcguire
associations. Everywhere lawless-
ness "grOWs from want of respect
for the law of the land, from a gross
abuse of authority and a trampling
upon right; occasions may differ,
but crimes grow from the want of q
laW-abiding spirit such as makes
England the abode of law and
peace" We are not actuated by
sectional animOsity when we refer
the reader to the facts of the case.
During the last six months only
one noted outrage against the law
of the land has occurred in the
SoUth-the ChisOlm affair. While
in the North we have had a number
of labor demonstrations, sometimes
accompanied by murder, after by
mayhem and arson, in the West,
various cases Of lynch-law eXecu-
tions. AS these disturbances have
nothing to do with politics, they are
generally passed overin silence. The
result is, that while the people of the
North appear as saints, the South
rOns obtain a character for wicked
ness which alarms ordinary people,
and these are deferred from coming
among us for fear of losing either
their property or their lives. We
are glad to see a Northern man do
ing us justice. General WOOdfOrd
has our thanks.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
What Allied the Pup.
New York Tribune


When that cultivated and intel
lectual middle-aged, Miss Mary Ann
MOXOn, of Cambridge, Mass, had
the collar of her offensive poodle in
scribed "I'm Mary Ann Moxon's
dog; whose dog are yOu?" she
thought it was rathera a clever joke on
the casual citizen who might en-
counter the pup and investigate his
reason for being. She was of that
mind for several days. But one
morning the poodle, bowling as
he was carrying all the parts for
Sirius in the morning stars, and sud-
den, as if fired out of a gun, shot
into the Moxon presence, with his
tail tucked very close and a business
card card tied on to his collar. Di-
vining that some one had set the
poodle up in the carrier-dove busi-
ness, Miss Moxon seized the missive
and read: "Turpentine is what ails
me; what's the matter with you ?''
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

IN no spirit of banter, but in the
spirit of clear perception and firm
maintenance Of the right which
freemen must ever cherish, we have
only tosay, and do say, to our North
ern brethren what their fathers and
our fathers said to England through
the Colonial Congress of IVA: "Per-
NIT us to be as free as yourselves
and we shall ever esteem a union
with you to be our greatest glory
and our greatest happiness; F; but we
must tell you that we will never
submit to be hewers Of wood and
drawers of water for any ministry
or nation in the world" What
their fathers and our fathers said
also in the Congress Of 1875 to the
Lord Mayor of London we repeat
in spirit: "NOrth America, my
Lord, most ardently desires a last.
ing connection with Great britain
on terms Of just equal liberty, less
than which generous minds will not
offer nor brave and free ones be will
ing toreceive. ."-HOn. j. W. Daniel,
of Virginia.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
Long Boards.

The longest beard on record Is
that Of John Mayo, a celebrated
German painter, surnamed "John
the Bearded" who used To fasten it
up in his girdle. Though AVERY tall
man, il reached the ground when
loose, so that he could step on t..
The Emperor Charles ". used to di-
vert himself by making Jonn stand
in the open air among his courtiers,
that he might watch the wind make
it fly i'm the faces Of the lords. OF
Sir Thomas Moore IL is said that he
saved his beard by joke. The eN-
ecutioner had already lifted the axe
to strike, when his victim, looking
up for a moment, exclaimed: "At
least let me put aside my beard (;
that has committed no treason, and
it would be an injustice TO punish
IL -
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

WHEN Garrick was in Paris, Pre-
vile, the celebrated French actor,
invited him to his villa, and, being
in gay humOr, he proposed TO go
in one of the hired coaches that reg
ularly piled between Paris and YER
sailles, on which road PreVille's villa
was situated. When they got i'm,
Garrick ordered the coachman to
drive on; but the driver answered
that he could not until he had got
his complement of four passengers.
A caprice Immediately seiZel Gar
rick. He determined TO give his
brother player n specimen Of his art.
While the coachman was attentively
looking out for passengers Garrick
slipped out at the opposite door,
went round the coach, and, by his
wonderful command Of facial ex-
preston, palmed himself off on the
cOachman as a stranger. This he
did twice, and was admitted into
the coach each time as a fresh pas
senger, to the astonishment and adj
miration of Preville. Garrick
slipped out a third time, and adj
dressed himself to the coachman,
who said, i'm surly tone, that he
had "got his complement" He
would have driven off without Gar
rick had not Preville called out that,
as the stranger appeared TO be a very
little man they would accommodate
the gentleman and make room for
him.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
Brain and Muscle.

Men who use their muscles imag-
inc that men who use their brains
are strangers to hard work. Never
was there a greater mistake. Every
successful merchant does more real
hard work i'm the first ten years of
his business career than a farmer or
or blacksmith ever dreamed of.
Make up your mind to work early
and late, If necessary, that you may
thoroughly master every detail OF
the business upon which you purp-
ose to enter. The habit of persist
ent, rapid work once formed, you
have gained a momentum that will
carry you very successfully through
many a pinch i'm business where "A
less persistent worker would tlnd IL
vastly easier to lie down and fail.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

THE Chicago Times isso suspicious.
1t goes so far as to throw a blaze of
dubiousness over the Presidents as
surances to Langston. The Times
says:
"He 1.-THE President has even, ac-
cOrding to Langston, exhibited some
anXietyto have cOlored persons sent
out as Indian agents; but there Is
room for a dreadful suspicion that
he only wanted TO send out a few of
the most persistent bores of that coli
or to Sitting Bulbs dominiOns, in
the hope that that eminent connois-
seur i'm hair might take a fancy TO
raise wool for awhile.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
Pc Kind to the book agent. HC

Be kind to the book agent. He
has a father, perhaps, and a mother,
who knew him in his innocent
youth, Perhaps even now, in some
peaceful New England village, fond
hearts are beatingfor him, and sweet
lips breathe loves dearest prayers
for his welfare. Lay him down ten
derly, fold his hands peacefully on
his breast, and close his eyes gently,
as you put him to rest under the
branches of the weeping willow,
where the birds carol all through
the summer days their softest songs.
But plant him deep-plant him
deep.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

AN old Highlander, rather fond
of his toddy, was ordered by his
physician, during a temporary III
ness, not to exceed one ounce of spir-
its daily. The old gentleman was
dubious about the amount and asked
his son, a sehOOlbOy, how much an
ounce was. ''Sixteen drachms make
one ounce" was the reply. "Six-
teen drams! What an excellent
doctor!" exclaimed the Highlander.
"Run and tell Donald M'T'avish and
big John TO come doom the nicht."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

SECRETARY MCCRARY has writ
ten letter to the Governor Of Utah,
informing him of his purpose 10 for
ward additional troops to that terri
tory. The Government officials in
Utah claim TO have testimony Inn
plicating prominent Mormons, and
there are fears of trouble. It looks as,
If the lOng-impending raid on the
Mormons was at last about 10 begin.
The opportunities for speculation
will be magnificent, whether the
MOrmons decide to fight or 10 emf
CRATE and the virtuOus officials who
uphold the Republican banner in
that country have a good time com-
ing.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

KIND words bless him that uses
them, A sweetsound on the tongue
tends to make the heart mellow.
Kind words react upon the kind feel
ings which prompted them, and
make them more Kind. They add
fresh fuel to the fire of benevolent
emotion In the soul.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

There is a newspaper which might
have contained an account Of the
crucifictiOn of our SOviOr had there
been a correspondent at the time Of
that great event. The Gazette Of
Pekin, China, was started 7l3 years
before the birth of Christ, and Is
still a journal In good standing.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

GENERALIIUGH MERCER, a grand
son Of General Mercer, who was
killed at the battle Of Princeton,
New JeTssy, died at Baden Baden,
Germany, a few days ago. lie was
graduated at West Point I'm 1928,
and was a classmate Of Jefferson
Davis and Generals ROsecrans and
Buell.. He served as a brlgadicr
general during the war in the Con-
federate service, most Of the time
under General Joseph Il. Johnston,
and at one time had command Of
the military district of Georgia.