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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
Hugh Jewett for President

We cut the following from the
Sandusky (Ohio) Journal without
endorsing or opposing it. Mr..
Iewett or any sifi4ar rasnac+ahle
Democrat can reunite the New
York Democracy and carry Ohio,
he is unquestionably the man for
the nomination.
The Democracy of the several
the political field for the strongest
and best candidate for the Presi-
dency. We observe that many of
the Democratic papers and public
men are beginning to regard Hon.
Hugh j. Jewett, president of the
Erie Railway, as the right man to
nominate. 1t is understood that
the Democracy of the great State of
New York could unite on him, and
that would insure him the electoral
vote of the State. He is known to
be very strong in Ohio-fully as
strong as any man who is likely to
be named for the position. He was
a member of the Ohio Senate from
the GAINESVILLE District, tWenty-siX
years ago, during stormy political
times, and was a leader in the body.
He was a member of the National
Convention, held in Cincinnati,
twenty years ago, which nomina-
ted the last Democratic President
who was inaugurated. He was the
Democratic candidate for Governor
of Ohio, the first year of the last
civil war, without the hope or eX-
pectation of being elected. 1t was
we'll understood that he consented
to make the sacrifice to run, in Or
der to preserve and maintain the
Democratic organization in this
State, at that critical period in our
history. He was the Democratic
candidate for Congress in the Mus
kingum Valley District the year
Lincoln was elected President the
first time, and, while the district
was Republican by considerable
majority, he came within less than
fifty votes of being elected. Twelve
years ago, he represented Muskin-
gum county in the House of the Fif-
ty-eighth General Assembly of Ohio
and was leader in the body. The
year that Greeley ran for President,
Mr.. Jewett was elected to Congress
from the Columbus district, by an
overwhelming majority, and served
with great distinction until he was
called to take charge of the Erie
Railway, and bring it out of its
financial troubles and difficulties,
which it is understood he has done.
He has been a success in every POI
sition he has ever held, and his
friends believe he would be a sue
cess as the Democratic candidate for
President of the United States this
year and a success as President dur
ing the four years beginning on the
fourth day of March, Eighty-one.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
The Game Law.

The legislature did we'll to re-en-
act the game law. Since the pas
sage of the original act for the pres
erVation of game in this State in
1876, there has been but one intelli-
gent opinion as to its practical ope-
ration, and that is in favor Of the
law. The predictions of the friends
of the measure, that it would be-
come generally acceptable to the
people, and make friends Of those
few who originally opposed it, have
been fully realized.
The history of game laws in
America may be very briefly writ
ten. In each State successively,
stringent laws have been passed for
the preservation of game when IL
had almost reached the point of to-
tai determination. In some States,
notably Ohio and Pennsylvania,
some kind of game birds became so
rare that laws were passed absolute
ly forbidding any person from kill
ing them for q series of years.
There has not been a State, with
one or two exceptions, that has TAX
en- this subject in hand in time.
Nobody, it seems, attached the
proper value to game birds and an
imals until there were but few left
to protect.
Mississippi, four years ago, wise
ly adopted measures for the protec-
tion of its game. The only fault
that could be found with the law is
it is not quite stringent enough in
its protection of quail. But it is TO
be hoped that the proper amend
ments and improvements will be
made hereafter from time to time.
We notice that special bill for
Adams county has passed the Sem
ate forbidding the trapping and net
ting of quail; a measure that reflects
credit on the Senator and represen-
tatives from that county, and we
will add, the provisions Of this spe-
cial act ought to be Incorporated in
a general statute for the State at
large.
Everybody in the State is equally
Interested in the protection of our
game, birds, fish and animals. The
game of the State is common prop
erty and not the special property Of
individuals, and for the common
benefit of all, it should be protected.
--.JuckSOa COD1et.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
Jere. black ON the rhird T.rnl.

That sterling Democrat Jere.
Black is out with one of his trench
ant letters in refutation of Mr..
Howe's argument for third term.
1t is too long for us to publish, espe-
cially as no one here is in favor of
the innovation, but we give one
paragraph as a specimen of the old
mans vigorous writing:
It is time now that we come to
the concrete part of the subject. The
practical object of Mr.. Howe's arti-
Gle is to make Gen. Grant President
for another term. 1t is not for an
abstraction that he denounces the
two-term precedent and vilifies the
Springer resolution. The rule might
stand if Grant could be elected with
out breaking it down. But Mr..
Howe thinks thai the superiority of
his candidate is so very great that
all authorities which oppose him
should be disregarded, and he sup
ports this opinion by assertions so
extravagant that we only wonder
how any man in his sober senses
could have made them. He pict-
ures Grant as ''the foremost man of
his age;" says she stands upon the
mountain-top," and declares that
the F'eager world has set the seal of
its primacy". on him. Grants COM
petitors- Blaine, Conkling, Hayes,
BristoW and the rest of them-are
described as "mere metallic calves"
and all his opponents are scared
with candles in their caps,
''going into the esubterranean depths
to quarry out a President" This
imagery is bold and original, though
not highly poetic nor very grace
fully turned. Tt is Mr.-HOWe's way
of saying that he will be very wroth
if Grant is not made President
third time, in spite of the salutary
which forbids it. But we
are more afraid of Gen. Grant than
we are of Mr.. Howe; we would in
initely rather be scolded by one
than scourged by the other; and,
we, the yeomanry of the |
country, driven to a choice of evils, |
presume to withstand Mr.. Howe, |
and tell him in his senatorial face |
that his master shall not be ours if |
if we can help it. When it comes
to the tug, Gen. Grant may be too
much for the nation; but it shall |
not be said that we are frightened |
Oy this preliminary blast of mere
wind. A third term for Grant does
not mean a third term only, but
any number of terms that he chooses
70 demand. The imperial method
Of carrying all elections by corrup-
ion or force, or of declaring them
carried when they are not, is to be /
substituted for the
system of free, popular choice.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
APreacher,s Tit-ror-Tat.

Mr.. c. was pastor of a Baptist
Church in a certain town in one of
the Western States. He had been
on very bad terms with his flock for
some time. They abused him when
ever they could find occasion, and
he reciprocated with equal readi-
ness. Before his contract with the
parish expired, he received the ap-
pointment of chaplain at the State
prison. EIated at this lucky oppor-
tunity of getting rid of him, the
congregation came in full numbers
to hear his farewell sermon, perhaps
less to compliment than to annoy
him with their presence. Great
was their astonishment, and still
greater their anger, when the re-
Verend gentleman chose for his text
the following words: 81 go to pre-
pare a place for you = that
lOhere I am, there gre may be GEso"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
Benton nasaProphet.

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vice in the Senate, Thos III. Benton
wrote the last chapters of his ''Thir-
ty Years View" a work which is
alone sufficient to immortalize the
author. The ripe old statesman in
his last chapter seems to have WELD
ed a prophetic pen. We quote.
81 have seen the capacity of the
people for self government tried at
many points, and always found it
equal to the demands of the occasion.
Two other trials, now going on, re-
main to be decided to settle the ques-
tion of that capacity. First, the elec-
ton of President, and whether that
election is to be governed by the
virtue and intelligence of the peo-
pie, or to become the spoil of intri-
que and corruption. Second, the
sentiment of political nationality,
and whether it is to remain co-ex-
tensive with the Union, leading to
harmony and fraternity, or divide
into sectionalism, ending in hate,
alienation, separation, and civil
war. An irresponsible body Chiefly
self-constituted and mainly domin-
ated by professional office-seekers
and office-holders) have usurped the
election of President (for the nomi-
nation is the election, so far as the
party is concerned); and always
making it with a view to their own
profit in the monopoly of Office and
plunder." He adds, further on:
Confederate republics are short
lived-the shortest in the whole
family of governments. Two diseas-
es beset them-corrupt election Of
the chief magistrate when elective;
sectional contention when interest
or ambition are at issue. Our con-
federacy is now laboring under both
diseases, and the body of the people,
now as always, honest in sentiment
and patriotic in design, remain un-
conscious of the danger-and even
become instruments in the hands of
their deStrOyers."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06

IRELAND is not alone In her suE-
ferings. Russia Is partly in as ter
rible a condition, as the following
from st. Petersburg would infer.
The dispatch says
The news from the interior Of the
Empire is heart-rending. Famine
and diphtheria are decimaung the
population. The provinces of Savat
and of Kief, which annually export
in ordinary times enormous guam
titles Of grain, had scarcely any crop
last year. The calamity is aggra-
waited by the want of fodder for cat
tie, and peasants are forced to sell
them. In Caucasus the famine is
still greater, where people are COM
mitting suicide and selling their
children.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
Dan Rice ON the River.
Hickman tKy.) Courier.

"OId Dams New Departure" con-
sists IN a penitence for the sins and
erros of his past, and a brave asser-
tion that he intends to remain firm.
He has not joined any church, made
no open profession of religion, and
makes no such pretensions further
than being an honest seeker for the
divine truth. He has quit drinking
never intends to drink again; has
quit swearing and quit fighting, and
is anxious that the remainder of his
days may be devoted to the moral
good of his fellow man. He doesn't t
think he will ever return to the
"clown business may be
forced to do it-but thinks he may
establish a great floating opera
house for the Improvement, educa-
ton and elevation of the people
along the great Mississippi and its
tributaries in music.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
Rough on william.

The Commonwealth, Mr.. Royals
new Richmond paper, does not in
tend to mince words, as is evident
from the following slashing para
graph: General Malone may ride
at the head of his followers-at the
head of his blacks and his whites
with waving plumes and deafening
huzzas. Begot a mixed Senator in
the councils of the nation by negro
rape upon his white mother State,
he may stand up in the Senate
chamber and be recognized as a
Senator from Virginia. But he may
as well recognize this fact, and we
want the world to note it: That
that part of the people of Virginia
which claims it as a right of their
own to pay back money they have
borrowed-which demands the
right to pay it back as a duty they
owe to themselves-tha that part
of the people of Virginia had rather
go naked in this world, and beg the
bread on which to exc out a pre-
carious subsistence than to admit,
under any pressure Of circumstances
whatever, that William Malone
can represent them anywhere on
this earth"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
bleeding kansas.

The Governor of Kansas sends a
piteous appeal to the people of Chi
cago, imploring them to come tc
the aid of black Kansas paupers
Hr wants Illinois to give $40, 900 foI
the relief of his colored citizens and
to take so, 900 of them off his hands
A lady from Kansas who is solicit
ing aid for these poor people through
the North, says: HFamine, with its
gaunt form and ghastly visage, has
come among them, and strong men,
as well as little children, quail and
faint in his presence
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
Dress Goods Department.

Brocade mohairs, all-wool
filling, all shades, 15c to 25c;
all-wool French cashmeres,
all shades; the best black
French casemeres, 36 to 48
inches, 45c to $1.75. New
French matlasee dress pat
terms, in all the new shades,
CHEAP. Black silks ST. to $3;
colored silks, zoe to $1.5O, in
all shades. Black satins, plain
and stripe; silk velvets and
velveteen, plain and brocade,
new fall shades black. All
shades
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06

THE Frankfort Commonwealth
says: "1f Abraham Lincoln were
alive to-day, he would be Demo-
crat. He would never favor the
election of Grant to third term,
and it is very doubtful whether he
would have supported him for the
first term. The New York World
notes the fact that the closest politi-
cal friends of Lincoln are now DEM
ocrats. Davis, Trumbull, Palmer,
and others of like character.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06

CHARLES A. DANA, of the New
York Sun, began on the Tribune as
foreign editor, on a salary of $l2 per
week, he now receives So, 900 a year
from the Sun and enough more in
the way of dividends from the pa
per and from the american Cyclic
pedia to bring his income up to $70,-
600. Mr.. Dana has just bought a
home in New York for $63, 700.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
WHEN time and space, the wants.

WHEN time and space, the wants,
the bitterness, of the duties of life,
separate US from those we love 80
far that our help is useless TO them,
our voices silent, our eyes blind;
when we know that suffering, ill-
ness, death, may lie in wait for them
every ho1r, and no strength or
longing of ours can avail to help
them, where do they fly, what hope
or comfort do they have, who cam
not give their beloved Into the safe
keeping of an omnipotent GOdt
who cannot pour out their tortured
and anxious hearts TO him who
heareth and answereth prayer
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06

A YOUNG man at Omaha did not
wish to marry the girl to whom he
was engaged, but she would not re-
lease him until he gave her his gro
cery business as a recompense. She
now runs the store, while he works
elsewhere on small wages, and the
bargain pleases both.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06

ANNA DICKINSON says she has
not yet passed her thirtieth year.
"Perhaps she ordered it up," OBJ
serves an exchange.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06

ALL the leading theatrical mana
gers of New York city have deter
mined to give matinees on st. Pat
rick's day for the benefit of the
Irish Famine Fund.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
ShawlS and CIOakS,

Novelties in zephyr and wool
shawls to which we call es-
pecial attention.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
Traits of Napoleon.

| Napoleon looked upon himself as
a being isolated from the rest of the
| world, made to govern it and tC
direct every one according to his
own will. He had no other regard
for men than a foreman jim manu-
! factory feels for his workpeople.
The person to whom he was most
attached was Duroc. "He loves
me as dog loves his master,n was
the expression he used in speaking
to me about him. Berthier's feeling
for him he compared to that of a
child's nurse. These comparisons,
far from being opposed to his theory
of the motives which actuate men.
were the natural consequence of it,
for where he met with sentiments
which he could not explain simply
by interest, he attributed them to a
kind of instinct.
Much has been said of Napoleon's
superstition, and almost as much of
his want of personal bravery. Both
of these accusations rest either ON
false itleas or mistaken observations.
Napoleon believed in fortune, and
who has made the trial of it that he
has? He liked to boast of his good
star; he was very glad that the
common herd did not object to be-
lieve him to be privileged being
but he did not deceive himself about
himself; and, what is more, he did
not care to grant too large a share
to fortune in considering his eleva-
ton. / have often heard him say:
"They call me lucky, because / am
able; it is weak men who accuse
the strong of good fortune"
L will here mention an anecdote
which shows to what an extent he
relied on his innate energy and
vigor of mind. Among the para
doXes which he liked to maintain
on questions of medicine and phys
ioIogy (subjects for which he had a
natural predilection), he asserted |
that death is often only the effect Of |
an absence of energetic will in the |
individual. One day at st. Cloud,
he had a dangerous fall (he had |
been thrown out of carriage on to
a great block of stone, narrowly
severe injury to his stom-
ach).f The next day, when in
quired how he was, he replied very
81 yesterday completed
my experiences on the power of the
will; when l was struck in the
stomach, | felt my life going; I had
only just time to say to myself that
did not wish to die, and / live!
Anyone else in my place would
have died" If this is to be called
it must, at any rate, be
granted that it is very different
rom that which had been attributed
to him.
1t is the same with his courage.
He was most tenacious of life; but
since so vast a number of destinies
we're bound up with his, it was
doubtless allowable in him to see
more in it than the pitt
'ul existence of an individual. He
lid not, therefore, think himself
;alled upon to expose "C6esar and
tis fortune" simply to prove his
courage. Other great commanders
nave thought and acted as he did.
If he had not that stimulus which
makes break-neck daring, that is
not reason for accusing
lim of coWardice, as some of his
enemies have not hesitated to do.
The history of his campaigns suf-
ices to prove that he was always at
he place, dangerous or not, which
vas proper for the head of a great
lrmy.
|
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06

Dolmans, circulars and
cloaks, in great variety, at
very low prices. Do not fail
to see them.
Linen department is full
in Richardson Fronting and
Family Linens, p. G. Linens
and Linen Sheetings.
Table Damasks in Brown,
Bleached and Turkey.
Towels in Huckabacks and
Damasks.
Crashes, American, Scotch
and Russian, all qualities.
Bargains constantly offered
in this department.
Fine line Blea. e Bro. cot
tons, A, ga, 10-4 and IA,
at the very lowest prices.
American and Scotch ging-
hams, all shades.
Mummie and satine cloths,
for covering furniture, and
window shades.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
Wooden Department.

Splendid stock cloths and
cassimeres, in suitings and
pant patterns special lines,
blacks, browns, blues, gray,
mixed and fancy.
Repellants.
Scarlet flannels, plain 20,
25, 35, 40, so, so ard rs cts.;
scarlet flannels, twill, 40, so,
so and IS cts; white and
mixed flannels, 20, 25, 30, 35
40, so, so cts, to 81; silk
warp fiannels'
Blankets.
All grades, 1O-4, ia, 12-4
and 1874. Buyers will find
our stock complete and at
prices equal to any market.
Large stock Clark's 0. N.
T. Cotton always on hand,
and merchants can buy as
cheap Of us as in New York.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06

%Marshal Lannes was mortally wounded
at the battle of Aspern. The bulletins of the
French army related the occurrence, and
gave the very words the Marshal had used.
This is what Napoleon said to me about 1t
'You have read the sentence l put into
Lannes' mouth ?-he never thought of it
When the Marshal pronounced my name,
they came to tell me, and Immediately
fifg 'e5f6iahtfy 'RG sb6ndeafS nLHIunG GS 3aifd
lists do the name of God, when they come to
die. Lannes having called for me, l looked
upon his case as hopeless"
II could almost imagine that this accident
may have assisted to develop the germ of the
malady to which Napoleon succumbed at
st. Helena, and am surprised that this has
not been already remarked. 1t is true, how
ever, that he has often told me that this
malady was hereditary in his family.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06

P.C HAMBAUGH, President.
R. d. MOSELEY, Vice-Pres't
W. s. PoINDExTER. Cashier.
pE- Prompt Attention to Collections.
Nov. "a. I877-tf
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06

All kinds of LEGAL BLANKS printed and kept for
sale at this office. fEEoLa s53EE
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06

Cotton alwoo Super carpet awoo
English
widths
Is feet You largest assortment and lowest prices
at
Coulter Bro. 3 Stratton.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
Hoods. Nnbias. Hoods.

Kid gloves, 2, 3, 4, and 6
buttoned. Lined Berlin
gloves; Gents calf, kid, buck,
and cloth gloves.
Gents white shirts, ties
and bows; hats, half-hose
great variety; underwear of
of all kinds. Ladies and
gents linen and silk banker
chiefs.
The best stock OF Jeans i'm
the city, can be found at COul-
ter, Brother 4 StrattOn's, No.
Is Franklin street.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
blankets.
Don't fail to look at our Stock Of Boots and Shoes,
before buying, it will pay you.

Hosiery department. The
largest stock and best as
sortment ever offered by US,
in all the new shades, Roman
stripes, also a full line of
merino, all-wool and Fleecy-
Lined; Children's Hose in
fancy aud plain, cotton and
wool
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
Fra anklin Bank,
FRANKLIN sTREET,
GAINESVILLE, TENN.

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