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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26
A Decision that Gusts the Republi-
cam GiYCHif NMdRcS

COLUMBIA, S. c., Jan. 22.-The
State Supreme Court decided, to-
day that Circuit Judges must be
elected by ballot instead of eiUd rOce.
This decision Gusts all the Circuit
Judges elected prior to 1877 by the
Republican Legislature, and retains
Kershaw and Wallace, elected last
wear by the Democrats. Ii was n
constitutional question, involving
the construction of the word 'Bal-
lot" The Supreme Court was divi-
ded, Associate Judges McIver and
Haskell agreeing that the ballot was
required, and Chief Justice Willard
dissenting in favor of the Uird Coce
vote, which was uniformly prac-
ticed by the Republicans. When
the decision was announced to-day,
Judge Townsend Immediately adj.
journed the Circuit Court.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26
Death Of III. HI. Harrison 4 veteran
Steamboat Captain.

This pioneer bOatman of the Cum
berland is dead. Fifty years ago he
began his nautical life az clerk on
the PRbus. For more than q quar-
ter of a century he has been an ac-
tive business man in Nashville, and
his white hair and gray beard had
long been a familiar feature about
the corner of Broad and front streets
in that city. In 1880 he was appoint
ed by the Government to the com
mand of the United States snag-
boat Hercules, and, in connection
with Captain Shreye, ordered
to remove the raft in Red river, a
work which, however, he failed to
accomplish. In 1884 he purchased
the Native, and, as her master, ran
her until 1888, when he was placed
in charge of the New Orleans and
Tennessee river steamer Tuscumbia.
In 1889 he built the Bloom, and
commanded for the KanaWha Salt
Company their steamers Tide, Paul
Pry and PIMA. In 1910, ON his
boat, the Rio, he carried the Tenn
essee delegation to the battle-ground
of TippecanOe. While in command
of this craft he ran. her into corn
field near Palmyra, and grounded
her. In durance vile there she re-
manned with a load of pig-iron on
board until the river rose and float
ed her. Having put in one year in
that cOrnfield he proceeded on his
voyage without further delay. Sue
cessiVely he commanded the Live
Oak, Emma, Hibernian, and DIR.
Watson. In the Mexican war as an
officer in the employ of Gen. Thos.
Jessup, he was prominently cOnnec-
ted with the transportation of our
troops and military supplies across
the Gulf. First commanding the
United States transport steamer
Gopher, then experimenting the
constructions at this city Of the two
sea-going vessels, f. A. Ogden and
Ann Chase. Captain III. was in
command of this last mentioned
vessel when, in 1916, she was de-
stroyed by nOrther" fifty miles
south of TampicO. In 1853 he was
appointed United States Local In
spector of Hulls for the port of Nash
vile. The present Inspector of
boilers at Nashville, Samuel Mont
gomery Bell Harrison, is a son of
the diseased. The writer first be-
came acquainted with the subject
of this sketch at Vera Cruz in 1847,
and has known him intimately
ever since.-Bttz, IN Gin. Gdz.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26
A TEN-INcH TRACK.

Some months ago the narrow
gague railroad was earnestly dis
cussed here in reference to our pro-
tected line from GAINESVILLE to
Princeton. Those who We're inter-
ested in those days may like to
read description of a very narrow
guage now in operation. We cut
it from the Nashville Gospel Advo-
cate;
From the Boston correspondence
of. the New York Express, we con-
dense the following account of a
narrow guage railroad from North
BilIerica to Bedford, Mass 1t was
devised, and an experimental sec
ton built by Mr.. Geo. +. Mansfield:
g To show how narrow a track
may be, and be practical and safe,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26
PETITION.
Every Southern MAN should
Sign il.

The following petition has been
extensively circulated and signed
in Kentucky and other adjoining
States; it is not right that Tennessee
should be behind in a matter so
nearly affecting her interests and
those of her neighbors. We believe
nine-tenths of the whole population
of this county would sign it if ii
were rightly placed before them,
but who Is To appeal to them?
Our politicians about election time,
when there is something TO be got
by it, know every person of intiu-
cnce in every district Of the county,
and know also how to get at them.
Will they not, iii a case where the
interests Of the whole South are
nearly concerned, interest them
selves in bringing the great South
ern railroad scheme before the peO-
pie. Our able representative, Col.
House, Is a member of the Standing
ing committee which has this mat
ter in hand and his hands would be
much strengthened by Il numerOusly
signed petition from this county.
Who will move i'll it!
To JNo. F. House, NJ. C.-We,
the undersigned citizens of your
Congressional District, respectfully
solicit and urge your active sup
port and vote in favor of national
aid to bill to secure the early COM
pletion of the Texas-P Pacific railroad
rs a competing Southern line of
railway TO the
Pacific coast, believing that this
line will supply a great want now
felt by the commercial interests of
the whole country, and be an act of
Justice to the South in equalising the
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26
ORGANS GROSS ROADS.

EDITORS CHRONICLE: As an item
of news, and a. your very excellent
paper has always enjoyed quite an
extensive circulation in the neigh
borhood of this place, l concluded
that you would be pleased to learn
that we, through the kindness of
our very efficient representative in
Congress, the Hon. Jno. F. House,
have succeeded in the establishment
of a postoffice in Civil District No.
Il Of Montgomery county, known
as Orgain's Cross Roads. The con-
tractor on the GAINESVILLE and Nc
Alister's route has already been
ordered by the Postofice Depart
ment to make regular trips by way
Of our Office twice a week, on We'd
nesdays and Saturdays, which will
enable US to receive the CHRONICLE
and other mail matter before it be-
comes stale, as has so often been
the case when we had any regular
conveyance. From and after this
date you may send our package by
mail addressed to Orgain's Cross
Roads. Although Uncle Sam has
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26
FROM DICKSON CoUNTY.

EDITORS CHRONICLES: | begin to
feel like this was a southern cline
again, as the weather is very fair
and bright to what it has been for
several weeks. 1t seems though
that everyone is out of something to
do, or do not want to do any
thing, one or the other. The cOun-
try never was so full of lOafers. All
the farmers are done stripping to-
baccO, and some have sold, but a
great many will hold their tobacco
for higher price. 1t does not pay
a man to sell his tobacco at the
present prices, especially if he has
debts to pay, as the debts were con-
tracted when everything was high.
Our Dickson county oil wells have
played out again, and the wells will
have to be bored deeper to ever
reach oil in ineXhaustible quanti-
ties. The present wells are not
more than one-third as deep as the
deepest wells in Pennsylvania, and
there is no doubt if the company
bore deeper that they will make a
paying business of it. The present
company is a stock company gotten
up in Dickson and Davidson cOun-
ties, and are determined to find oil
if it can be found.
/ visited Montgomery county a
few weeks ago and the picturesque
little city of GAINESVILLE. My visit
was short but sweet, and | will
ever remember it as one Of the
most enjoyable trips OF my life. ]
was off for recreation and do not
believe that | could have gone any,
where where | could have enjoyed
myself better than / did with the
young ladies and gentlemen of the
south-side. | know of no neigh
bOrhOOd where there is more beauty
and morality combined. Every
young gentleman is moral, and
every young lady Christian and a
model woman. The Dickson girls
say that the young gentlemen here
think that the South-side is Para
disc, and really some of the boys
have came to the conclusion that
it is about as near that blessed place
as they will ever go. We are hav-
ing weddings here by the whole
sale, there are four every week.
One gentleman in this vicinity who
came from Pennsylvania about four
years ago, and whose wife died
about four months ago, sent North
and had a wife shipped to him. He
met her at the railroad station and
married her the next day. That is
what call business.
Our boss pig here, now ten
months old, weighs 400 pounds and
is still growing. I'll tell your read
ers when he gets grown. a great
many of Dicl1sOn's boys have been
going to Texas and the van is re-
turning, some sick, and all strapped.
Some bought through tickets and
turned to a right shoulder shift be-
fore they got there. Others have
gone into the fruit business, that is
actinga as travelling agents for the
nurseries. 1 hope the boys will
make some "tin" but / am afraid
they would better have stayed at
home and raised tobacco at five dol
lars per hundred. ALPHA.
Cumberland Furnace, Jan. Is,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26

Mr.. c. w. CROCKETT, of the
Dover Courier, has this to say about
his recent visit to our city:
We have just returned from a
business trip TO GAINESVILLE, that is
we went there on business, but
really, it was so pleasant, in every
particular, that we almost forgot
what took us there. Without eX-
ception, the people of GAINESVILLE
are the kindest, most hospitable it
was ever our pleasure to know. We
are indebted to so many. that we
cannot individualize, but return our
grateful thanks to all.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26

not as yet furnished us a mail key,
we expect to receive one next week.
In case of failure, will follow
the mail to Pleasant Mound and
get all mail directed to this Office.
No neighborhood news, only the
measles are playing fog with our
colored friends. a considerable
number of deaths have already oc-
Cured, among which was that Of
old Dan Moody, last night, one Of
the most honorable and obliging
colored men in the county.
DIST. No. II.
Orgain's Cross Roads, Jan. 81, rs.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26

There is a negro in Glassock coun-
ty, Ca, about fifty years of age
whose face, hands and feet, and
most of his body, have turned com
pletely white. He was once black
all over said to have been very
black. When a boy white spot
appeared on his body, and since
then he has been gradually turning
Ethiopian and Caucasian color.
There is a similar case in one of
the counties of central Kentucky.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26

The Champions Oh the Red Cross.
A meeting of the Supreme Exec
utive Committee of the Independ-
ent Champions of the Red Cross, is
hereby called to meet in GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, on Saturday, February ,, at
9o'clock, a. M, to transact import
ant business. Every member of
said Committee is earnestly request
ed to be in attendance.
w. R. FALL,
Corresponding Secretary.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26

The following committee is now
prepared to receive proposals from
property holders, for sale orgift, of
a suitablesite for the above building.
Also plans and specifications from
architects for the above building.
The same to be of brick, and suita-
BILE size for the purpose intended.
M. II. CLARK, Chm'n.
p. c. HAMBAUGH.
IKE III. SHELBY,
r.. ID. MosELEN,
THOS. HERNDON.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26

Remaining at the GAINESVILLE, Tenn, Post
Office, Saturday, Jan, %, 1873, If not called
for in thirty days, will he sent to the Dead
Letter Office:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-01-26
rhe New ronncco Exchange.

Orgain's Cross Roads, Jan. 81, rs.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-02-14
). q. CaAME1BRRnAIN,s cARRER.
tyssioasufs's fittla short:hnna Note Book
---fzcys UlaaInnoRIaih lgads the EtGss san-
pOst HIS Ressssn OrHass
CohunHre. sd 81, ,Iannnrv
4cOrFe,poadenes.c Of tAe Ne,gs Yiors ls,.s.,

C0GUEBYE, s. c., January 81.
The faTautf5 memorandum book used
by Oakes AInes 70. deinolish go many
Cone graesionai regulations has found il
colnterlSst in the skoFt-iiand notes
wi,teh for niatiy yeasA past have becn
taken BIZ Woodtnh the former Repubii.
eau Clerk of the Eeuate in this State, Il
seeE1s that svsn IN the flush and lily day
OF I5adtcni rule this man sas locking fos-
ward 10 the day whom he himself and hia
political iAtes w0nid be eailed TO &C.
coune Tor the eorraption and Sillainy
zhith marked all their official laCsions.
EGinking that ia sueh ad hour of TRIAL il
miRht hea well IN have, hiais itaenaarv
ssgea8t thened by documentary evidences
against those taho were then his fiieads,
he 65linitted To- paper the re16Td Of
every criminal tganEacsien la which he
nRg bean engaged, and arranged the
ssssssssss and papers og iis basihoss Sslab-
iishIaesit 10 Bneh manner as to present
tstll ecoryp pbprAti0a of whatever charges
he might res fit 10 make. - ~ ~ 3
o0drOlf srld bis friend Jotiea. Clerk
of the Horse OF Representa- tive, were
he pgopFieseIs ard sanfes iscs OF &c
Rannh hlican Printing COMPANY. and the
ElogE isTii5iiz q ropEiati0n we're Annually
rlasEs for stBs benefit by the General .As-
sesnbi tn order shEt from the proceeds
the leadiag memb bcts of the. Sonata aud
the House might 30 hesFiiys IsTibed 60
give their votes 20 Whatever sileayares
taIls nEinkiha ss.aanvi Nasnl.k ls...A ltse
ksnd. NFheneYer 6 brih wis paid: I, &
tulL nli iiinte bhere0ff tTR5 gaad 10 81 81 ooti. !.
tufIa little boo is nntnG of ste re-
cipl leat fhe aisognt said 10 hill, dhfo of
hsyel lspt whether ii check .oe money,
and sthe ciEcunas ises sstte dirx the
;EfTss. A II f1ege boob an9 papers.
keps by FoodsnlI. With IN. eyS u Ils
personal protection, hayo bsen TUNED
3Ye 81 tlss ia sc Ing committee, and
sastzy y siehi NOR q as \ b cen evolved
there fsoln. fhe aid OF thes ,otas.
ssaalls fhs nsssf0 Islssi, sgas con.
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.
i5 Tho NeiCs and Caarier. announces that
Governor Hampton favors she payment
OF the Consolidation debt without refer
ence to Ito frauds. This may have been
the Governors petition before the invea.
CATION, but We cannot believe it is his
position now, ycF there 10 no ground upon
which TO call upoI. sho people to pay tho
portion of the deht reported absolutely
against by the commission, and we
do not believe any unbiased and can
did man would think Of calling on Ire
people TO pay for any such rascality.
This statement waa no doubt made TO
to control the Legislature as far as pos.
sible by the use OF the Governors name,
but We do not tiitpk 1t will have much
effect, for the people, the Legislature, and
no doubt the Governor himself, are be.
coming tired of the newspapers contin.
ually Juggling him into the settlspstent OF
questions before tho Legialature. Coy
ernor Hampton. 10 sensiblo man and
knows how to talk for himself without
having to be Interpreted to The Legisia.
ture BY some newspaper. Whenever he
deaireB 70 communicate with the Legfsla.
tufe he will, most probably follow the co.
tabliuhed precedent Of sending In O mes.
sage, and not have the circumlocution OF
Q anewspaper interpreter. Until he pur.
sues this course no attention should be
paid to the newspaper talk rs 60 what he
thinks, The people hayo sen. their rep
Tesentstiyes Z, Celumhis 60 isglslate for
che t6tate, and not to record the edicts
which correspondents Of newspapers aay
canie from the Governor. Legislators
should act independently of any man, and
bo governed BY sheiy duty 70 their con.
stitutcn'a and sheis .!sweaf right. Let
justice to the burdened people of South
Carolina bo done though the heavens
fall.
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money there rs long as possible. SO 40 to
make it available In his denomination for
ofhce-eo g 70 say 10 every member Of
the nominating coH7ention, who had Q
claitp against the State, "sote for my
nomination and viii have yonr claim
Psid; vote against me- and you may
ewhistle for your money" But tenlpta-
ton came 70 Chamberlain In tbs shape
Of Price from Philadelphia, with an
earnest demand for payment Of his bill,
and to get it he consented to part with Q
little Of the money for the support Of sho
Unios- Herald.
One James G. Thompson was the
editor Of this paper. Through Tc=rrscs
Chamberlain communicated with Price,
and told him that 1t would be q felony
under the law to have his bill paid out
of any moneys then in the taeasury,
and that CardOzo, the Treasurer, would
certainly not pay IL and take such risk
unless he, Chamberieiu, advised and re-.
qaosted him 10 do "a. But that IL Price
would constitute him, Thompson, his
agent for the collection of the 800, 600,
and would pay him $1,000 out of il for
the benefit Of the Union. Herald, he,
Chamberlain, would order Cardczo to
pay the money.
Price at once consented TO do 80, as he
despaired Of getting his money in any
other way, and Cardo2o paid the 500, 600,
out Of which $4,000 were reserved by
Thompson on Governor Chamberlain's
account. Thus the $l1 600 needed were
made up, and the pockets of Cardozo
and Chamberlain were saved from fur.
ther depletion. The parties 70 this
transaction still live. Price Is rich
book publisher, &C.. in Philadelphia,
Chamberlain practices law in New York,
and Thompson is the Columbia CORES.
pondent of New York paper. Blu,
Cardozo sits in Jail, convicted and pun
ished, and pondering the truth contained
in the old fable of the monkey, the cat
and the chestnuts raked from the fire.
OF both of these bribery transaction,
in which Chamberlain was the bribed
party the Democratic investigating com
mittee has full legal proof.
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The publication Of the report of the
Bond Commission excludes many news
items from our columns this week, and
we ara rEablo to comment editorialIy
upon It in this issue. We may say, how
ever, that iii is ably prepared and ex-
Saustiye. The Legislature should at
once adopt the Bonds reported as good,
and pay the interest on them. They
should also reject the 1855, 900 shown
to 30 fraudulent, Ild then ASCERTAIN what
is right and just rs to the remainder
We will comment further on this subject
next week.
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AN .IAPUDENT sLANDER.

E .. I.
The Charleston Mssna sad CH,.:T7sssP iI
speaking Of the political aspect of the
public debt question says: l
At Che laSt general election the CRY
ssas sskssss ksss ssks s:.a1ssa ag stS EEe=..==.:;; !,
candidates, particularly In the South,
would be dangerous TO tho Eepublic, be.
cause the South Has disposed TO support
Injurious and revolutionary legislation.
For this cry, born Of the sxigencies OF
tho canvass, thersl Ii now somo excuse,
90 tho Southern Conggesanen are found
to be, % Q body, in favor of cheating tho
public creditor, aud the WORKING man boz
sidea, by Aooding! the country with de-
based c1fTsacy, which IL liiS ON Ito face.
inaainuch @ IL Is me- tne dollar In facs
that It ID in name. There has likewiss
& Decn an attempt TO repudiate the public
K onligatsonS In diGerent Southern ss..sstes.
Louisiana IL "a honorable execution.
In South Cafoiins the people and the
/, party RSre pls1ged TO abide by the iex.
iating setslamanE OF tho debt, and thc
4 pledge was given with compiete Enoygl.
edge OF ito meaning, The National
Democratic party viii Eaye o heavy load
to carry, IL South Casolinn should f!lll
ffofl her high pnsiiinn apj be; in Dem.
octatiG hands, % arrant o doubla-dealer
s a3 under SCOTT and Mosea. Can fiis
STATE afford 70 lay even q leather on the
back OF the Dom ioctatic party
s5 What tsle lss.as dlid Cburliess hare esys
OF the seashesn Copgrsssmen ii an in.
aenlk 20 tho ghels South and deserves lha
seondsmnation Of eyesy caHdid man. for
ve pre- s1tne thas Is Will be difficult 10 con.
vince even ths mon stupid person shas
sho GcpTea entatites Of the South in Con.
gresa aro s;ls d 6cdly %, ~ ehedtinS slss
pubic crsIi ard ne ,s5g sisg s,sn tesidss.
1t is the right of theillEe7esss and C0u, isr OF
any othar eapss u pres its siews upon
francs Ok any; other question, but other
-paopls have tha Rsgre Eightn, and the fses
tllat even nenbsss ct Csnggess do not
accspt The dogaaa ps ffiiaanee as laid slo,ss.
by tbe s:neEEing if pen Of tho a ves0s and
C6tiris, does not justify this ss.s conatitu.
ted dictatcr Of right 6F aEonr TO call tho
preseataiiEss cg the ,pg.sls ed i BODY &
sse OF cheats.
hs 1ssss asld COtiris alse nisststea
EzArF5 zssua5 ~ a;II9 70 ~ IN gtDuEnerSi
en- ESQ in tyAr. of flooding
tho cOuntEy with d dob asea clirrsncy,
ssaiSh Is s lia on its tacs, iiiasianclI as il
mos the dollar In tllat it Is 81 |
xtAales' 4 IN voting ssIi tho silseg SiolIar,
pathssh Con ssnly y6sssa ID
pOin tsas dollar psed Byys ,ytir fathers aud
reoohixsa By cur conatitn lion nc sis ID
hs of tko sflli6 upositiuti agid weight
s4 fli y S5r N JUS
saas ahd p bsar slie ianpFs ion &c tllS
81 tho Sans crest goyeYnrnsets
'Sgtll iE be i he. II Sill II Iss ae siireF |
sleEsseT of she Unise STATES sof kSlSesiss? |
Iss use cs tlsis tauhEsg By the
dsi,E q intended r. srigsl teia any Ess5iaIa4
ess thn aTs tiinid b % ia fsete1
fhslS sss hope, lsr the sa Hon 81 |
sl IFels. thsttaoae ii = viii l,s |
eseslgh n itld e such gi-ss ~ ~ / /
II saips and sss hefs, III ii ) EeSa.
tsa6 s,c s5 "a x65;iSF. Ii
shIl plllEsh IL di6iise {
lSSIl fl,s Sss0siss
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ri OTIUF FINAL SETTLEMENT :.
~ The undersigned, Admin istrator OF
Elijah and Nancy Elrod, deceased, hereby
gives notice that he will apply to the judge
nettiement of sr1 Estates on tho 2pth day
of Ms=cs :.szt, I'd %. . iisiisi disuiiarse. +
I Ali persons sing demands against tn Q
said Estates:are hereby notified to present
them on or before that day or they will be
barred. J. P, JOHNSON, Admir-
Feb Il 1873 I'll. ~ ~ 90
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We are informed that the provisions Of
the new fenco law have been adopted by
the Legislature for the whole County of
Anderson. We will publish this law in
our next issue, and hence advise our
readers TO cease work upon any other
than pasture fences until they see the
new net.