Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
THE GAINESVILLE TOBACCO EXCHANGE.
CIARKSVIIIE.

| DuSIu6SS LIIOEOuS uAdIOs dhO CdcAI.
accessible to the principal ware
| houses.
The architect of this handsom,
structure is Mr.. C. G. Rosenplaen
ter, a gentleman who located her
four years ago from the city o
Louisville. This gentleman ha
had fifteen years. experience in thu
business, and is highly educated il
the art. He is also the architect o
the Public School building here
and is building the Tobacco Elk
change at HOpkinsville, KY.
The tobacco trade of GAINESVILLE
is the biggest thing in all this coun'
ty, and amounts annually to from
81 800, 900 to 100000.
NJ. n. CLARK & BRO,
Leaf Tobacco Brokers.
To the efforts of these gentlemen
more than to any other one firm is
due the strong basis upon which the
tobacco market of GAINESVILLE has
been established, having developed
more fully than has been done by
anyone else here, business bring
ing the producer as closely rs posi-
BITE to the manufacturer and con-
sumner. The business of the Clark
Bros. is the most extensive of any
house in this market. Besides var
ious orders from American and
Canadian manufacturers, they hold
orders and make large purchases
for shipment direct to Germany,
Holland, Belgium, Switzerland,
Italy, France, Spain and Great Brit
ain, and it has sometimes happened
that the firm were buying actively
for nearly all of these destinations
at the same time.
This plan of business of course
yields much more money to the
planter than one by which his pro-
duce is bought by shippers who
send it to the seaboard markets to
be sold for a profit, after having in
CURED the heavy charges which I'M
avoidaDly attend operations of that
kind.
The firm are aristocratic Virginia
gentlemen who came from Rich
mOnd to GAINESVILLE % years ago
and opened up the market here.
After the war they resumed bust
ness in GAINESVILLE, and now stand
at the head of the list of tobacco
brokers in this section of the South.
Both of these gentlemen were old
soldiers, who marched
and fought under the red flag of the
South, up to that bleak day in
April, 1862, at Appomatox when
RObt. E. Lee surrendered the gal
liant old army OF northern Virginia.
L am a hero worshipper myself,
and in my heart of hearts cherish a
love and devotion for
every southerner who wore the gray
and marched under the Southern
flag. / wish we could erect a mon
to them that would reach to
the moon and stars. Where has
the victorious North got man to
compare with Jackson. Lee or JEFF
ferson Davis? Four years ago Gen.
Grant, who has been honored and
feted in every civilized city in the
world, accepted from his friends,
with his Golfers already overlooking,
The princely sum OF 100000. Years
ago when Jefferson Davis stood al
most on the verge of want, his old
who had fought with him
made up from their scant purses
The pitiful sum of 81, ZOO. He posi-
lively refused to accept, and begged
he committee to return it to the
donors, but they assured him that
t was impossible, that the gift was
made up in small sums from SOC
upwards all over the South, and
hat this money could never reach
hem again. In that case the mon
" was accepted, but Mr.. Davis de-
Jared he would never accept an
'ther dollar under any circumstan-
es. What a difference between the
Gen. Grant and the de-
.hroned President.
The Senior member Of the firm of
u. II. Clark held a Captaincy on
he personal staff of Mr.. Davis al
hough he saw active service in the
around his native city with
he local defense corps at Rich
nOnd.
Hanging in the Office of Capt. NJ.
/. Clark is framed document, sug-
estive of the days when every
ulse of the South throbbed with
gony at the thought of the impend-
ng destruction and the death throes
t the .Confederacy. The document |
the last official signature |
nd appointment of Jefferson Davis.
copy it in full:
WASHINGTON, Ga, May 4, 1865.
M. H. Clark, Esq, is hereby APP
ointed Acting Treasurer of the
States, and is authorized
D act as such during the absence of
he Treasurer.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
At Richmond Capt. Clark was
assistant Private Secretary to the
and left Richmond the
light of the evacuation, being the
clerk, with all the pa
ers ofthe executive office, on the
pecial train with the President,
taft and cabinet, excepting the Sec
etary of War, General Breeken-
Idge and some other Government
Hon. j. A. Trenholm,
ecretary of the Treasury, having
cen left quite i'll near the Catawba
lver. Mr.. Davis had appointed
'ostmaster-general Reagan Acting
of the Treasury, who took