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New-York tribune., 1879-05-07
TIE NEWS TINS MOANING.

FoRIIGN.-It is reported that NJ Lepere, the
French Minister of the Interior is preparing a bill
20 promote freedom of the press. &C.
Sub-Iieutcuant Coyte has been convicted of
originating the pirate-snip hoax, and has been dis
missed from the British Navy. - The explosion
at Stratford, Canada, was caused by blasting
powder. == Robert Barrett, a Lancashire mill
owner has failed.
DoMrsIIc-The Mississippi Valley Labor Con-
vention at Vicksburg yesterday a lively affair."
two sets OF resolutions were presented the colored
men took no part in the voting on them the white
men of the convention did not attribute the negro
exodus 10 political causes == Fifteen States are
represented in a convention Of colored men at Nash
vile. =- The nomination Of d. I. CoTbn to be
Chief-Justice of Utah is opposed by Mr. Nj. c. But
ler -= The Cabinet discussed the invasion Of
Indian Territory by white men yesterday. -
The convention of the iron manufacturers has
organized at PittsburC. == The State Senate yes
terday failed to override Governor Robinsons vetoes
of the Code and Professions bills. - The Assem-
bly, passed Mr.. Strahans bill regarding civic APP
pointments, and advanced to a third reading the
bill for the sale of Robbins Reef.
CoNGRrss.-The time Of the Senate was consumed
Yesterday in a toggy debate point Of fOrdeT, and
in discussion of the Kellogg-SpOAOTd case Mr..
Conklug made pointed explanation Of the parti-
san object underlying the movement against Kel-
logg and Mr. Thurman came down from the chair
TO reply 10 him; no action was reached.
--The House passed the Democratic caucus
bill without debate a vote first taken a
substitute offered by Mr.. RObeson. which was
defeated the Democrats refused to allow Mr.. Con-
ger 10 offer an amendment the Republicans fill
bustered for an hour and then allowed the vote to
be taken: number of new bills were introduced
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Tho Mayor sent nOmma-
tons for several vacant city Offices to the Board Of
Aldermen, but they were laid over until Friday;
the nominations created great dissatisfaction among
politicians - Nearly all the remaining members
of the BROOKLYN Presbytery expressed their views
on Mr. Talmage's case. -- John Dobbs, we'll
known criminal was captured with stolen bonds of
the Manhattan Savings Institution. -= AT the
anniversary Of the American Sunday Union,
DR.. John Hail. the Hon. Edward S. Tobey and
Others spoke - Five cases of suicide were
ported - Gold value of the legal-tender silver
dollar 412l2 grains $3.50 cents. Stocks active
and higher, closing strong.
THE WEATHRB.--TRIBUNR local observations in
dicate clear or partly cloudy and cooler weather.
Thermometer yesterday Highest, 72o; lowest,
b3o ; average. 62lso.
New-York tribune., 1879-05-07

We fear that the Mayor of Boston is not per-
fecy patriotic person. for he has actually suggested
to the City Council that it would be just as well TO
dispense with the customary Grafton on the next
Fourth of July. We would do no man injustice, but
really this seems almost as bad as proposition to
dispense with the Fourth of July itself. For one
hundred years. upon the of that historic
day, there has been an epidemic of elOquence. and
the praises Of the Fathers have been set forth in
sounding sentences the glory of the American Eagle
asserted metaphorically and POLITICALLY We might
give up the crackers and the flags, aud the dinners
and the parades and the professions, but the ora
tious ueverl Some of them have been extremely
good ones by able men. and those not exactly good
were at least funny. But we have fear Ma
tions do not change their customs easily. The
orator may be silent in Boston, but there will be
eloduence as usual elsewhere.
New-York tribune., 1879-05-07
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PooIH's TuEATRR-0pera Bouffe Les Coches oe
COrncVille"
RRoApwAY rHEATRR-" Otto German"
FIFTu AVENUE rHEATRE-" Faunitza.
GLOBE THEATRE" III. NJ :. PlnafOre.'
INCTUM rHFATRE-Mmstrcls.
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE" Ahetmatn''
NlBrO's GARDEN" Black Crook
OLYMPIC THEATRE" LASsommoir."
Pam IatATRE-" lie Petit Due"
San Francisco MTNsTRElS OrERA HOUSE.
STANpAEp THEATRE" II. VI. :. Pinatore."
ONION SoVARE lHEArRF--"Ihe Lost Cmluren' , -,
WAIrAclS-s TIC lrRt-2 p NJ: III. NJ. 5. Pinafore."
SPM: "The SNOWFALL"
ACADEMY OF DFsIGN-Auuual Exhibition.
MAsONlC THNPlE-2 and z. ~. The Mdgets
NV -NoEK ACUARiUN-Day ana Evening.
New-York tribune., 1879-05-07

the Car has lost faith in Liberalism
and plunged the Nation into the abyss
of despotism. On the other hand, rev.
oluti0nists must have creative as well
as destructive instincts, and must regu-
late their work by high moral standards, or
they will drag the people down into
the bottomless pit of anarchy. Nihllism has
method in its madness-but it has no con-
New-York tribune., 1879-05-07

1t must be said of King Caucus that he does
business with dispatch when he chooses. The
new Amy bill was put IN form on Saturday
was introduced in both houses on Monday,
and was passed in the House of Representa-
tives yesterday under the previous question
and without a word of debate. The bill was
presented just as it was prepared by
the Democratic caucus, and the Repub-
lican bill was presented just as 1t
was prepared in accordance with the views
of the Republican caucus; the Democrats,
moving in solid phAlanX, cut off all debate
and all opportunities for amendment except
that they did allow vote upon the Republi-
can bill as substitute. Thus the singular
spectacle was presented of the two caucuses
doing the actual work of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes and the latter body merely
serving as the registering instrument
of the Democratic caucus. If this were
done after allowing the minority proper
opportunity for debate, and with decent
deliberateness there would be less cause for
complaint Where there are parties there
must be caucuses, and where there are long
debates the previous question must now and
then be ordered. But this conversion of the
popular branch Of Congress into species Of
pneumatic tube, which merely serves to shoot
a most important bill from the caucus
to the Senate, is a disagreeable innO-
walton. We might have inferred, how
ever, that the new King Caucus pro-
posed to be an absolute monarch, from the
recent declaration of one of his chief minis
tiers, Lord BlunderbOre Salisbury, that the
minority in Congress will not be expected
hereafter to have anything to do with legisla-
tinn.
New-York tribune., 1879-05-07

The scheme TO empower savings banks to
invest in District of Columbia 3-65s met with
a decided defeat yesterday in the Assembly,
probably final one. This bill is opposed by
both the law and banking departments of the
State Government, and would set dangerous
precedent for savings banks.
New-York tribune., 1879-05-07

The Senate of the United States is capable
of more solemn frivolity within given space
of time than any other Legislative body Oh the
globe. Strong circumstantlal evidence on this
point will be found in our Washington dis
matches,
New-York tribune., 1879-05-07

So long as the juries at Salt Lake City will
give us minute convictions for pOlygamy.
the MOrmOns may walk up and down the
streets of that city in procession, In honor OF
Mormon witnesses, TO their hearts content.
Ten thousand of them, it seems, paraded last
night in glorifcation of a witness who refused
20 dvulge the nature of the Endowment House
ceremonies in celebrating pOlygamous mar
rage No doubt it was pretty spectacle. but
the memory of it will hardly make the peni-
tentiary more delightful to the Mormon who
has discovered at last the sdvisabiity of rec
sgnizing the authority of the United States.
The letter addressed by Mr. Is. +. Nourse,
Of Boston, TO Senator Hoar. which VIII be
New-York tribune., 1879-05-07

For want of single vote, the supplement-
airy chapters of the New Code fail to become
law. An attempt to pass the bill over the
Governors veto was made i'll the Senate yes
terday. and with the aid of one additional
vote would have been successful There Will
be an effort to reconsider, but the right of the
Senate to do so is not clear, and the prospect
is that the New Code will remain i'll its pres
ent tluncated state for another year at least.
The profession will undoubtedly receive this
announcement with much regret. The senti-
ment of the bar throughout the State has
manifested itself as unmiStdkably in favor OF
the passage Of the nine chapters. An enumera-
ton of all the lawyers who chose to express
an opinion upon the matter-and the wishes
of those who would not take the trOuble TO
express an opinion were surely not worth con-
sidering-shOwed that two-thirds of them were
warmly in favor of the completion of the New
Code. The sentiment Of a large majority of
the profession has thus been set at defiance
by n single member OF it. Under the circum-
stances, the respect entertained by the people
of the. State for Governor RObinsons character
will hardly check the feeling that Senator
Edick was justified in declaring this reiterated
veto an exhibition of mere mulishnesS."
New-York tribune., 1879-05-07

found on another page, is designed to sug-
gest action by which the steady progress of the
United States toward silver mono-metallism,
as this writer believes it to be, can be
checked Mr. Nourse urges that there is no
escape except by bringing about international
bi-metalism, that there is strong feeling
both in England and France for triplrtite
agreement to this end between those coun-
tries and the United States, and that the
proper way to accomplish such union is by
secret and diplomatic negotiation, not by an
international conference.
New-York tribune., 1879-05-07

State Assessor Briggs states some objec-
tions elsewhere to Mr.. Varnum's bill for the
reduction of taxes, urging that the annual re-
ductOn in the rate of taxation, provided for
in the bill, will not afford any relief to tax
payers, inasmuch as the assessed valuation
will necessarily increase with each year OF
returning prosperity. Mr.. Briggs seems TO
have overlooked the fact that Mr.. Varnum's
diminishing rates of taxation are all based
upon the valuation of 1873, but he is un-
doubtedly right in suggesting that it would
be far better to provide that not more than a
certain definite sum shall be raised by taxa
ton, and then to see that as Little OF that
amount rs possible is wasted on sinecure Offices
for worthless politicians. His additional sug-
gestion that the city should fund It's debt at
four per cent as soon as it has the option 10
do so, and should issue the new bonds Ill ms
small sums as $40, is one that Deeds no
argument. A long step will have been taken
toward municipal reform when great num-
Der of our citizens OWE the bonds of the city.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-08

For the credit of the press we trust
Mr.. Atchison win make successful
defense, but, in truth, things look
ugly against him. Even the minor
ity committee of ring investigators
have nothing to report but suspi-
cions.
And now we must close our ac-
count of the report on the debt, as
we find that we cannot receive an
authentic copy Of the evidence soon
enough to analyze it. It's true that
a surreptitious copy of part of it has
been published in the Nashville
Banner tthe paper recently edited
by the uniucky Atehison), but this
is only partial statement, and, as
we are informed by the American,
it was q gross breach of faith to
publish it at all. We await therefore
the official publication of the evil
dence, a large portion of which is
quite irrelevant as affecting the val
idity of the bonds, if we may judge
of the whole edifice from the
brick furnished by the Banner. The
report without the evidence we
shall certainly not publish, as il
consists simply of the well known
slang of Reputation.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-08

GAINESVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 81, rs.
1Kessrs. Walter McC0Da6 & Co.,
Cgarksrilte, Tenn. Gentlemen: Last
spring we recommended the use of
the "Anchor Brandt fertilizer in
the cultivation of the tobacco crop.
We had never before recommend
ed the use of any article for sale,
and were only induced to depart
from our custom by the con-
viction that the free use of this fer
tilizer would be great benefit to
our planting community, and there
fore called their attention to it. We
knew some of the members COM
posing the Company which pre-
pares this fertilizer, and we knew
them to be gentlemen of high in
tegrity, who had sought with much
energy and perseverance to produce
an article which would fill much
needed want in the tobacco growing
sections, and perfecting it, would
keep their brand up to the standard
of merit. We also examined care
fully the reports of prominent Vir-
ginia and North Carolina planters
who had used it, and the reports Of
the members of the Virginia tobac-
co trade, who gave their judgement
upon the grade of tobacco made
with its use, and we then gave the
"Anchor Brand" our hearty recon-
mendation, which it well deserved.
We have been much gratified at
the universal good reports received
from its use in our section this past
season. 1t certainly increases the
yield per acre, and enables a good
crop to be raised on even poor land,
and orr planters will no doubt find
itan invaluable aid in raising plants,
as it seems to afford full protection
to the beds from the fly, partly by
producing vigorous growth, and
partly perhaps from its odor, driving
the fly from the bed. The bulk of
the tobacco crop of 1874 was lost for
want of plants, which might have
been saved by the use of such aids.
We have not yet seen the crops
raised with the "Anchor Brand"
but will report to you on their quail
ity when they appear upon our
market. We are,
Yours truly,
NJ. III. CLARK & BRO.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-08
LYING CHESS.

Reader have you ever seen living game
of chess ? if not, you viii have the opportu-
nifty on next Friday, when an exhibition of
the sort will come OF at the Academy Hall
for the benefit of the lady's fund of the Meth
odist Church.
the game is that of chess PLAYED accord
ing TO its regular rules; but the squares are
marked of on the floor. and the chess men
are living ladies, gentlemen and children.
The kings and queens are arrayed in royal
robes of their respective colors, the bishops
are in ecclesiastical garments with mitres
on their heads, the knights in full armor,
and the castles are men or boys encased in
a light pasteboard structure, resembling cas-
tie of the middle ages; the pawns are usually
represented by children in fantastic dresses.
The game is played on an ordinary board
behind the scenes by two good players,
and the moves repeated on the floor under
the directions of an usher, ny the performers
stepping from square to square, while the
pieces taken are led of the board and stand
in a row on each side as spectators. If the
costumes are good and the moves well con-
Quoted, the effect is both brilliant and in
teresting knowing the parties who are ar
ranging this game, weare certain that every
thing will be done in the best style. 1t
should be observed that, while a knowledge
Of the game of course increases the interest,
the spectacle is very enjoyable TO those ig-
norant oft.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-08
BUREAU Of MINES, AGRICUL
TURE AND STATISTICS.

We give elsewhere at least one
report made by the present Legis-
lature of Tennessee to which we are
able to accord our entire apprOba-
ton. Commissioner Killebrew is,
we firmly believe, the hardest
worked and most inadequately re-
munerated public functionary in
the State, and if his remuneration
were estimated by the amount of
benefit which his services have con-
ferred upon the State, ten times
what he has received would be a
scanty pittance. We trust to see
him long the occupant of the Bureau
he fills so well, and trust that no
considerations of mistaken economy
will be allowed to cripple its useful
ness. We are almost afraid, in
these days of cheese-paring, of en-
quiring for that map of Tennessee
for which ne has prepared such val
liable material at such an expense
of labor and study. Will it never
see the light?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-08
A card From gTcCormac.

From this date 1 will be compel
led to carry on my business for
cash, and make no tickets for any
one.
My losses by the fre-when set
Ting day came-were heavier than
even l expected, setting me back at
the foot of the ladder where-I be-
gan in GAINESVILLE 26 years ago, with
the added burthen of heavy debts,
which l am finding trouble in meet
ing.
am unable to make tickets or
keep books any longer. 1t is either
strictly cash or "go UNDER" with
me. decline to do the latter.
To those friends who have so
kindly given me their patronage
heretofore, and to all who desire
work done in Photography. I say
come along, | am prepared to
work at the lowest figure, and turn
out pictures of the very best quail
ity. Respectfully,
w. j. MOCORMAC.
March 8. 1S79-2W.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-08

The following decisions have been rem
dered since our last issue. The Court ad-
journed ON last Saturday:
Hamburger & Goodlett VS. a. ]. and V. ].
Roberts. Confirming sale.
Taylor VS. BeadIes. Ordering attorney S
fee paid.
Lewis VS. Lewis. Reviving former order.
Holt Holt Order TO rent land.
Nebiett VS. Keesee Appointing guardian.
Tyson VS. Tyson. Order for account
Coulter VS.. Tyson, Judgment and appeal.
Daniel, admir- VS. Pritchett. Order for re-
Merritt and Fort VS. Howard. Order for re-
Martin VS. Martin. Order for report on
Manson VS. HARRISON. Order for settling
Pollard VS. Wilcox. Order on petition of
Bowen.
Pollard VS. Wilcox. Order to pay Walthal.
Pollard VS. Wilcox. Order releaving Pol
lard as administrator.
Crabtree VS. n. P. Mills Co. Disallowing
Stewart VS. Woodward. Order to supply
Taylor VS. Poindexter. Order to pay cost,
AlIsbrook VS. Gill. vacatos decree of sale.
Manson VS. HARRISON. Former decree
modified.
johnson VS. Smith. Reference on neces-
ShacIzaIford VS. HarreI. Reference on fees.
Stewart VS. Woodward. Report recommit-
ted.
Anderson VS. Wood. Decree for title.
ROardman VS. Willis. Reference.
Caudle VS. Thomson. Dismissed.
Lewis vs. Smith. Decree for partition.
johnson VS. Smith. Decree for sale.
Blair VS. Stevens. Order TO erect mOnu-
ment over grave of sarah Blair.
Beaumont VS. Beaumont. Cause revived.
UsSery VS. Vaughan, Guardians fee al
lowed.
Williamson VS. Roberts. Final decree and
appeal,
Wall VS. Wall. Decree for title.
Merritt VS. Leavell. Same.
Brandon VS. Hamburger. Attorneys fee
allowed.
Fisen VS. Fisen. Final decree.
Stewart vs. Greenfield. Final decree and
appeal.
Pettus VS. Smith. Order of payment
Hart VS. Horne. Final decree.
Caldwell VS. Dixon. Decree for sale.
Carver VS. Breeder. Same.
White vs. White. Sale confirmed.
Bell VS. GlaSscock. Former decree modi-
fed.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-08

Col. BURCH has telegraphed an
answer to the aspersions cast upon
him by Gen. Mabry before the Debt
Committee. We have not yet done
with that committee, and will say
no more about either the attack or
defense at present except that Col.
B. challenges the most searching
Investigation of his conduct by the
committee, and pending that indig-
nantly repels all of Gen. Mabry's
allegations.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-08

In the evidence of one of the rail-
road officials who testified before
the committee on the public debt
are some statements apparently in
tended. to reflect upon the character
of Col. Burch, one of the proprietOrs
of the Nashville American. Col.
B. is in Washington City canvassing
for the Office of Secretary of the
Senate i'm the Forty-siXth Congress.
He had expressed his willingness TO
be examined before the committee,
but was notgrantod the opportunity.
He will return Immediately to vim
dictate his character, and meantime
fair-minded people will suspend
their judgments. The testimony
before the debt committee is not so
unexceptionable itself as to be valid
against the character of a gentleman
hitherto unimpeached.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-08
A GLIMPSE OF THE SENATE
NEARLY HALF A CENTURYAG AGO.

We are again under obligations to
our friend Ed. Williams, Esq, for an
interesting printed document of
bygone times, being a copy of the
"Political Register" published in
Washington, with the date March
25, 1893. 1t contains the memorable
debate between Senators Calhoun,
of South Carolina, Webster, of Mas
sachusetts, and Poindexter, of Mis-
sissippi, on the report of the Judi
ciary Committee which gave origin
to the celebrated force bill for the
suppression of South Carolina multi
fication.
This debate arouses strange men,
Dries in us, for it calls up the recol-
lection of the first gentleman who
guided US, then stranger on Amer
lean soil, to a clear comprehension
of the relation of the Federal and
State Governments to one another
under the American Constitution.
Judge Charles Pinckney Smith, OF
Woodville, Miss, considerably over
thirty years ago handed US copy
of this very debate, for the purpose
of rendering Ineligible to us the
complex problems arising from
these relations, and, though
thoughts of the United States Sen
ate in a day when there were intel
lectual giants on the floor would be
with most men the first ideas ex-
cited, with us it is the image of oul
old friend long since departed which
is called up by these associations o.
memory. Judge Smith was one o.
the many sterling Democrats o.
Mississippi who was repealed from
political life by the unhappy repudi'
| alton heresy which had short time
before infected the Mississippi Dem
ocracy. We little thought Their
that we should find ourselves sc
many years later almost identically
in the same position in State
which was at that time throwing
unlimited obloquy upon the State
whose unfortunate example she
seems now to be following.
For these "reminiscences, as vel
as for a very valuable historical
document, we must reiterate Oul
hearty thanks to Squire Williams
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-08
AndnCiOuA Robbery.

Judge LuTton is well known as a gentle
man of genial hospitality. He delights in
keeping his hall door open, considering ii a
sign of churlish inhospitality for his visitors
to find II locked in their faces when they
come to visit him. Moreover, he keeps, or
did keep, a handsome silver pitcher filed
with iced water for their refreshment on the
hall table, fanked by silver goblets and a
silver bowl. Alas that noble Arcadian sim
plicity OF such an arrangement should be
abused. While the family were at supper
on Monday night some child of perditiOn
quietly walked in, cleared of the whole
array of silver, and was doubtless very soon
on tie cars and on his road to regions I'M
known. The ladies went ont to visit a
friend after supper, and, as the hall had not
yet been lighted, did not discover their loss
till their return, when il was too late to
trace OF pursue the thief. The Judge was
not at home. Our citizens viii have TO learn
that GAINESVILLE is no longer a village, but a
city, and that such confiding arrangements
as hall door unlocked after dark won't do
any longer. The family silver also had bet
ter be excluded from the public gaze.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-08
Pocket Book Lost

1t was in the town of e., and
Mr.. S. had just concluded some
purchases, when he made the start.
ling discovery that his pocket book
was lost. While searching his
pocket he found buckeye, and
said-"Gentlemen, my pocket book
is lost, but there has been something
discovered by DIR. Tabler, of Nash
vile, of far greater value. 1t is the
Buckeye Pile Ointment, which will
cure Piles in all cases, when used
according to directions" Try it.
Price so cents a bottle. For sale by
owen & Moore.
Jan. 25, 1879-tf.