Clarksville Weekly Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 2

congregation who use the church. THE CHRONICLE 0 I very fair and liberal! to commute the debt at sixty per cent, of its face i a education that the natural and only practicable order is to cultivate first, perception secondly, conception a lipnppf a The Coventor Sit Gotham. I During the Governors' excursion down New York Bay, Gov. Porter was called upon for a speech, andsaid I am glad to meet here to-day the solid men of New York for the first I mm Li many a college boy who had gone through several books of Legendre, chiefly by rote, and drawn on a slate an acute angle contained by two long lines and an obtuse angle by short ones, and asked them which was the greater anglewe believe three out of five would answer the acute angle. Camp Sheridan, Sept, 10, via Camp Robinson, Sept.

11. Lame Deer's band of Indians arrived here to-day, which completes the surrender of all the hostile Sioux, clearing the. Black Hills amlfBig Horn country, as Sitting Bull and party are in the British possessions. The number surrendering to-day was between and 400. About 175 of the band had previously arrived.

The final party were accompanied by the Indian couriers sent out by Major Burks. HML OF 18 77. 1 TT T-p T. ij.p.'ra'O. WELlJ SUPPLIED WITH New Attractive Goods I The attention of close caretui esammaticn prices before 4 i Splendid Assortment-of Dross Qoods I Comprising an elegant line vioxa ana lopiins, lilock Uaslnueres Mohairs, Alpacas and Black Silks.

Novelties in Collars, Culls, Ties, Riiclungs, etc. You are specially invited to-carefully inspect the largest and best assorted stock; of i 'j BOOTS AND SHOES EVER lEXIIIBITEp IN Tills MARKET. i $10,000 oi Embracing every quality from the cheapest to the, most i elegant garment. 'Hti. i 200 PIECES 1 SI 1ST TTJOKT jj" IE 1 1 i A choice selection of GENTS' FURNISHINGr GOODS Koveltios in SCARF3, TIES, BOWS, etc SILKlAND fur-hats! Manufactured expressly f.r me, are complete and comprise everything new and stylish.

A "Full Stock of Calicos, Carpets, TRUNKS, always' on hand. Being thoroughly acquainted with tho Wants of the )eo-pie, it is my purpose, to keep up my stock to the highest standard of completeness and furnish my customers' at 'as'" low prices as can be found in the State. Very Respectfully, J. i J. CEUSMAF The same excellent order and dis cipline was here observable as else where.

We did not witness any teaching here, as singing was in or der when we arrived. Two or three spirited songs were given out and boys and girls joined in them with might and main. Wlien young Cuffee goes in for singing, he means business, and when he turned off those tunes he made the roof ring and the windows shake. He is never a half note out of tune, and if it was a little, rough (which it was) we would haw been glad to see as much animation Infused into some of the white schools. Next we proceeded to the prepar- tory schools on Main street, where the little toddlekins are cared for with a motherly solicitude by Mrs.

Shackelford and Miss Lovell. Here and only here there are some vacancies; about twenty-eight desks remain to be filled. The children seemed happy and observed excel lent order, and this is the best criterion of success in schools for small children. We have given the facts, and have not space or time left for com ments upon them we will only say that the public schools are doing more for the city than the city has done for theniti One thing more, howev er, we -must add, and that is that the improved order and system ob servable in tliese schools speaks highly for the value of constant in spection, and no functionary in this city earns his reward by more thorough or better directed work than Inspector Brooks. Death of George W.

Hampton. George W. Hampton died on the 8th of September, 1877j of typhoid fever, at the old Hampton family residence, in this comity, in the 61st year of his age litis father was a Virginian and moved to as early as 1800, and settled at what is now known as Hampton's Spring, in this county: on the! line of the Louisville, Nashville Great South ern ins inotner was or a fine old Scotch! family by' the name of "Stuart, which had the blood in its veins of the royal line of the Stuarts of I have heard from those who had the means of correct information that she was an admirable woman and a worthy scion of one of the most remarkable families we ever had in this part of the State. The writer of this notice had the pleasure of 1 al personal ac quaintance with two of hef brothers, William and Stuart, who very early in life emigrated to Mississippi, where they made large for tunes and grew to be men of wide social influence. The blood of the Hamptons and the Stuarts mingled in the veins of George Hampton, ho has been for years the sole male representative! of two of the most noted and remarkable families in this county.

John Hampton, the father of him whose death we deplore, was an elegant young Virginia gentleman who had just removed from Virginia and located at Hampton's Spring, in this county, when he wooed and won the heart and hand of tfie ae complished Miss Stuart. They lived in this county and died, leaving but two children, GeoEge W. Hampton and his sister Catharine, who survives him and is the beloved and honored wife of Mr. John T. John son, of this county.

George W. Hampton left a wife and several children to inherit his name and fortune. In early life he was educated at the school of Mr, Jno.i D. Tyler, famous nursery at that day. where many got their growth and strength.

When he had finished his education he studied law in the office of Maj G. A. Henry, in Clarksville, but never came to the bar as a prac titionerj of his profession, being fonder of literature and agriculture than the practice of the law. He liketj it as a science and was thoroughly imbued with the principles of common law and equity, and especially with the constitutions law of his own country. In politics he was a WMg of the school of Clay a.nd Webster and had a wonderful admiration of them, which lifted him far above the practices and as.

soclation of-idemaigogues. Though he had the qualifications of a states man he was never an office-hunter was too independent to court the smiles of the people, and was never a candidate for their He did accept the office of Magistrate in his Civil District and was for several years before arid at the time of his death a Justice of Peace, and regularlyfattended the session of the County Court of Montgomery oounr ty, of which he was a valuable Gorg W. Hampton was "a man of fine talents and possessed a large fund of sound political information, as any man would be apt to possess who read constantly! and attentively Niles' Register and the old National Intelligencer and followed the Joad and studied the speeches of Henry Clay, of Kentucky and Iknlcl Webster, of Mas sachusetts. Socially he was kind and obliging, but on principle was as firm as a rock and would find quarrel in a straw; when onor was at the stake. rile had the lion-hearted courage of his chivalric namesake and relative, the present Governor of South Carcn Una.

Though his bearing to the world at large was decidedly forbidding, he was kind and charitable to the poor arid xlt pendont. A largo crowd of his neighbors, white and black, were present, at his funeral and burial at or hear his family residence. AH were deeply moved, andone colored man spoke the sentiments of all his class when he Raid, MTlifire. goes a kind-hearted, gootj man whom the poop will miss and we colored people have lost our all." 11. The Letter Carriers Petition.

The letter carriers of our cityf are meeting with favor with their petition to Congress for an increase pay which they are circulating among our citizens for They have over 2,000 names, ana are auuing oany. They intend to present it to Hon. John F. House, of Clarksville, the Congressman from this, district, who is expected to be in the city at the time President Hayes makes his visit here. The present system is diyfdetfintq first and sqcond clas carriers with differqrit par tuje They want only one class, and thaf the pay be the same for them allf 2Tan.

lanner. value, and no scheme ought now to i be entertained which will call the attention of our people from that proposition which ought to 'be accepted at once I i In one of the speeches delivered by Gov. Porter when recently he visited New York, he in reported to have said i We Bhall pay off its (Tennessee's) great debt." This, Mr. Editor, has encouraged the friends of Tennessee to hope that a pian for the payment of her debt in full, the rescue of her eredit, and the preservation aud per- petuation or.her gooa name and hoiior will surely lie found practicable at no; distant day. Of course no plan that fails to provide lor the payment 01 ner aeut in tuu wiu uo ail of these most desirable things, i It is believed by parties here, who are in a position to know that a proposition could lie gotten up in which the bond-holders of Tennessee would oiler to take new four per cent, bonus in payment ine bonus tney now hold and the over-due Interest on theni the new bonds to be payable or one hundred years hence, and redeemable at any time alter six mourn anu tnen interest coupons to be received for all taxes and dues to the State and it is further believed here that by the honest masses in Tennessee such a proposition would be fa vorably received, i i The making ana accepting or such a nro- Dosition.

it is claimed, would forever re move the only barrier which exists to Ten nessee's at once entering upon a career of Kreat prosperity, i i rne aeoi Que irom raiiroaa companies to rne state may now, i am reliably mtormed, be considered practically settlecL A settle ment with the creditors of the State would therefore seem to be the next thing in order. If the friends of Tennessee at home and abroad will, in the present favorable condi tlon ol the money market, exertthemselves in ner beiiaii, a settlement ot her debt In full on the plan I have indicated can, I earnestly believe, be accomplished before the year is out. i Of Tennessee's ability to meet oromDtlv the annual interest charge upon her resour ces mat wouiu result irom siien a settle ment, uo one in this section, 1 am; told, en tertains a doubt, I outlined should be made and can betvecep- ted, its acceptance should not be necessarily delayed. 1 i It is undoubtedly true that every citizen and every interest industrial, commercial and financial would be immesely and im mediately benefitted by asettlenient of this vexatious question, and that the proud old Volunteer State could thereafter lake. once more her rightful position in the-march to prosperity.

i New Yokk, Sept. 8, 1877. i The fall elections so far evince the rapid progress of Democratie princi pies in the favor of the people. 1 In Maine the Republican majority has been reduced one half and in Cali fornia the Democratic party has car ried everything before it, and this in spite of all side lasues currency and communism by which it has been attempted i to j'divideand dis tract the Democracy. The results of the California election isecure majority of thirty-eight in the Leg islature and, a result, the- substi tution of a Democratic Senator in the place of the Republican! Sargent who is the present incumbent, i Let the Democracy be true; to its own principles without being tempted into any demagogue inconsistencies such as the Radical West's flirtation with communism and the 'Forty- sixth Congress is theirs without shadow of uncertainty.

I Now look out for Ohio. i THE EASTERN AVAU. All that can be stated is that an attack in great force is being made on Plevna bythe forces of the Arch Duke Nicholas, with what success it is im possible to divine amid the conflicting On the otlier hand Suleiman Pasha has pushed the forces of the Czarovitch far beyond both branches of the Loin to the right bank of the Jantra khere our readers must be content to leave them till next week. I 1 A morning's Jaunt Round the Pub lic Schools, i 1 Last Tliurday under the competent guidance of Prof. Brooks, our city superintendent, and in company with Mr.

T. M. Riley! dur broth er editor, and Mr. John Moore, one of the Board of Directors, spent the morning in visiting and inspect ing the different buildings'in which our public schools are conducted at the hours when teaching was going on. We desire that our readers should be informed of all winch Ve learned during Our jaunt and, if pos smie, tnat tney may become as much Interested in the matter as we were.

Third Wdrd School This was the first establishment: we visited. We found at it Miss Kate Rogers teach ing geography to a large class of lit tle people, and in a small room in the rear the Rev. Gold instructing another In mental arith metic Both teachers were doing well under! great the building is very much totiniall for the purposes to which it is applied and the order which was preserved in a room where, with the closest economy of desks, thej children cannot move without pressing on one another, was wonderful; In the winter time the evil, if not reme- diedj will be seriously aggravated as the doors and window will then be -aieeessarilyj closed au4 ventila tion sufficient 1 for health- in such a Crowded room will be impossible, We much (wish that ouir citizens would idol as we did (visit these schools sometimes, They; would re ceive a welcome and the utmost courtesy from the teacbcfs and su uerintendent. and we are satisfied that the defects thus made known would be promptly We next visited the basement of the Methodist IChurchi in iw'hiclM the two higher classes are taught under tutelage of Professors Brooks and Yarrell A class was re citing United States history to Prof. Yarrell when wearrived, being very properly required to read audibly the lesson before answering ques tions about it.

The questions when asked were on the whole, correctly answered, though a llttl too1 much by rote; we would have liked to see ideas elicited lnore tlmn -words. This will doubtless he improved as time goes bill I The room is spacious enough for its present purposes, but the light is not good, and in the when the doors I have to be closed? it ill be very dirk indeed. The yard is very well arranged for the separate recreation of. the sexes; only space is unavoidably restricted. We ventured to suggest some calls thenic arrangements on the girls' side and ii liorigontal bar on the boys' side; A subscription was started for the purpose qa the spot of course the editors weiie bled, and they bled li ke turnips.

Callsthen-ic exercises are t6 be introduced immediately. Next we proceeded to the colored public schools taught by) Mrj Jackson, himself an intelligent colored man, in tlie basement of the colored Methodist Church, on Franklin street. Ti first impression. we received wa.s that, jn regard to space, light, ventilation! and ajl 0fher qualities that constitute a good schoolroom, the colored children are much better off Jhan the whije, arid it fs all to the credit of the pwn raeej the room is granted rentrfree by the D. F.

WHISHT, SL DM Editor. CLARKSVILLE i SEP. 15,1877. TEKHS i 3.0 IX ADTA9TCE. EDl'CAriOX FRO! A POLITICAL POIXT OF VIEW.

JSC IT The YetaitMry. In II these papers we have been as practical as possible 'our views havS been grounded on these two practical questions What sort df -boys have we to deal with, and what sort of men do want to make of theta and in our last paper we considered the most important class of all, the average Tennessee boy aa we And him in the country and so important did we consider his case that we were unable to conclude it in one paper. We had advanced thus far, that he was to understand thoroughly his own language and have a complete acquaintance with the history of his own country and so much of that of other nations as tnight be practicable, and especially, as jiart of the history of the United States, he was to know by heart the United States Constitution." So far the education proposed is one equally applicable to all citizens of the United States; what we are now coming to will be modified by the consideration of some specialities applicable to the boys of Tennessee, We have to consider not only what we want to make of these boys but what we want them to make of the good old State. 1 In Investigating this question we take for our text a sentence of Prof. Huxley's, which we have quoted before in thi" paper and what can never be too much brought to our attention.

Speaking of the boundless ae-rieultmal and mineral re sources of the State which had been brought to his notice by the scavans of Nashville, he said All these things, gentlemen, are worth to you exactly so much as you have the knowledge and industry to make of 3 them." There in a nut shell is the kev to our' idea of education for 'young Tennesseeans. We want them trained to make the most of all these things not to scratch little the surface of the soil, ruining it as far as possible and then, having i raked a few dollars from it, to abandon it and rush to Texas or California or Kansas and begin the same thing there, but to stay in Ten nessee and find in and beneath her soil the El Dorado that knowledge and industry raav make of it. We are thankful to learn that emigrants to California aro starving there, and we are personally in posession of letters from more than one of our Tennessee boys ho have gone to Texas and are groaning to get back here again. Premising, then, that we are pro viding education for Tennessee country boys who mean to stay in Tennessee, we commence without further preface. Arithmetic We want our young Tennessee to be thorough arithmeticians and, as far as may be, to have some knowledge of algebra, which is only a generalization of arithetic.

Hut a good deal of time is generally wasted in arithmetic, and to avoid this we hoie that our teachers will bear in mind what the arithmetic is for. It is for two purposes to teach the boys to keep accounts and to qualify them for studying with pre cision the elements of science, short ly to be discussed. If he learn nothing else, he must learn to keep accounts; no farmer can be really prosperous unless he keeps accurate accounts clearly made out and regularly posted so that he can always tell what be is making or losing, how this thing pays, what expenses need retrenching, etc. All this he needs just as much as the merchant does; he in fact is a merchant, though his stock in trade Li different from that of the city merchant. And while on this head we had" bettor say that his wife, if she is to be a-helpmate for him, should he be a good accountant" too.

All the household economies must have their formal record under proj-Ir heads of Dr. and And to "give time for this to be done thorougly, as well as for oilier uses to vjuch arithmetic has to be want theschool arithmetics to be thoroughly weeded of an immense quantity of trash that will never be of any practical use Tare and Tret, Alligation, etc. Let them be ruthlessly cut out, and as soon as he add, substract, multiply and divide Federal money Jet him learn some simple system of book-keeping and then go on to vulgar and decimal fractions and the nquarejind cubic root. One word, too, about the example praeiice which are given so abundantly. Hundred of thenecan be solved in three lines by a imple equation in algebra that are almost insoluble by arithmatie rules and we belieye that a simple easy training in algebra up to quadratic equation will be a gai rather than a loss of time.

Geometry. Yor boys of such a class geometry is made much too a subject. Geometrical ideas in the eoucrete can be readily communicated at any age the logic of geometry should follow long after. No age at whU'h a child can be taught anything is too early for the acquisition of geometrical conceptions, and it Is conceptions and not decontractions which are demanded at that age on all subjects. Give them triangles, squares, parallelograms, regular polygons and eircles.

cut out of old elr boxes (and, oh, may they never leaf any other use of cigar boxes). If break them (a they certainly will) and whittle new ones for them- selves. Give them and Sheres and the regular soUds and thfir sections in the block, ZZT to booklet Active geometry precede Ue- and let every boy his rules and compasses and construct his figures for himself. Ai tre a mtla rough carpentry ou4 SSJe in admirably a boy who has tried to make a box for himself ever roJ-hly knows better what a 'ZZ Je is and what is the use of knowing v. 1 huMin nor it than nc iuu Lerendre foe six "months.

ing over lastly reflection. THE WEST TEXNESSEE WHIG. In welcoming this paper to our exchange list we feel called upon to go a little outside of the ordinary rut of prfunctory compliment cus- tomarywith special recognition. The editor, Mr. W.

W. Gates, has been recognized for many years as doing honor to the press of Tennes see by the ability and strict integrity with which he has fulfilled his editorial responsibilities, and now stands before the public as the senior editor of Tessesssee first in years and second to none in merit. We the more regret that in his in augural address Ire assumes a position which cannot but issue in fail ure. He announces that he expects to affiiliate neither with the Repub lican nor the Democratic party, but to pursue the line of policy known as the old Whig principles. Not long ago we went over the list of old issues which defined the contro versies between Whig and Demo crat in former days, and pointed out that there was not one of them which could come up at this time in such practical form as to bring the old parties to a contest on their old battlegrounds, so that our contemporary will not even have that essential condition of a political controversy an antagonist to keep him going.

Avowing ourselves, as we do not shrink from doing, as an Democrat, we here declare that there is not the ghost of a controversy to be got up on those old is sues between ourselves and our re spected contemporary. He may get up his fight, but ho will have it all to himself. Si rlxa est nbl tu pngnas, ego Vapulo tan- tUm. His mistake is in supposing that what is now called the Democratic party is in any sense what was known as the Demoratic' party of ante-bellum times the issues' are different, the men are different, and their positions are different, and we always considered it unfortunate that the old name was" retained we preferred that of Conservative. But one can't go to war with a name your artillery can't touch it and it can't fire back.

Let us, then, contemplate facts and not names and we ask while looking steadily at these facts, does any one think it yet safe for a Southern man to swerve from a compact line of opposition to the Republican party Let us grant that Mr. Hayes in his withdrawing Federal inter enee from the politics of Louisiana and Florida has done well let us hope that he really intends what he says about Civil Service reform, But Mr. Hayes is not the Republi can party, and it is becoming more and more evident every day that he cannot control that party on the contrary he shows more decided symptoms every day of surrender ing at discretion to the most Radical section of it witness his hand ing over the Custom House at New Orleans to the basest of the knaves who have controlled that State to its ruin for years witness his sudden hesitancy in carrying out his own rules of Civil Service in the case of Mh Cornell in New York witness his underhand violations of his own rule in secretly intriguing for and against candidates in Ohio. But our contemporary protests that it is not his intention to aid either the Republican or the Democratic party, With much deference we maintain that if he touches any of the issues before the people, he cannot avoid helping oneand hinder ing the other. He can, it Is true, abstain from modern issues and write about those which are buried and forgotten, but a political paper can never be long kept up on that Ine we have said already that such a line of policy renders future fail ure a certainty.

We say more, and we say it with regret, it has already issued in failure. The same editor has attempted such a paper twice since the war at Jackson, immedi ately after the war, and at Hender son, more recently, and neither pa pers are now in existence. We mention these things with no inclination to bring up painful reminiscences, but with sorrow that talents influence such as our contem porary undeniably possesses should be wasted in futile efforts at a scheme which contains within it the seeds of inevitable failure "we would see him buckling on his affmor for con tests In whicli prises ban be woA, and not tilting with lance In rest against wind-mills which may hurt but can not be hurt themselves. Is ttoere no hope that so able an editor nJay re consider his ground and fight a good fight for practical objects and pur pewes, turning aside from visonary phantoms that are neither trustworthy as allies nor worth a strug gle as antagonists Ol II STATE DEBT. View Proportion.

The following letter is from a cor respondent of the Nashville Ameri can in New We are always ready to present the subject of our State debt in every light in which it can be contemplated, but we must plainly state that this mode of settlement does riot meet our fa vor for the following reasons I'irxtIt does not settle the debt at all. It leaves it all due, interest and capital, and all the interest being taken on the aggregate of the capi and interest over-due, we see uo greater likelihood of our people paving interest on these new bonds than the old cues. Second compound interest We have compounded the debt once, and this is airoposition to com pound it again no individual, no business concern, no State can pay compound interest on its debts with out bankruptcy. TlurdThe tendency to repudia tion icoidd be increased rather than diminished. Those who are in favor of repudiating the debt as it stands would be more eager to do so, and have a better excuse for doing so, with the compounded debt than they have now.

FourtAt would be shifting on to the shoulders of a future genenera-tion a burden whjch is emphaticaU ly our own to shoulder. fff(h-We have already a tangibly pronation before us which is MilOI 1877 1 buyers is' invited" to a of our styles and purchasing. of Black and Colored Basket i i 4 t. -1 RIGE Java Cofiee; Franklin Streets. time face to face.

Tennessee, al though not as old as New Jersey, has brought no inconsiderable wealth into the Union. Her latitude and her elevation enable her to produce everything which is grown year she has raised 200,000 bales of cotton, 50.000,000 bushels of Corn, bushels of wheat and 000,000 pounds of tobacco. The val or of her sons brought California and some of the territories represented Ifere to-day into the Union, and after the Mexican war she boasted of the title of the Volunteer State, which their bravery had won for her. It is not so now we are tired of war rapplausel. and vhat we want is peace.

What we desire most is to develop our resources, un til we are known as the most indus trious State. Applause. i In the centennial year we turned our backs upon the past andrand embarked in our new career. That career has been rendered possible by the policy inaugurated by our resident, and which has been called the wllaves policy," and that policy was ipevi-table. Under that policy South1 Car olina and Louisiana are permitted to manage their own affairs, and with us to seek that prosperity which was impossible to Tennessee and which she did not desire while her sister States were languishing under the heel of military espionage.

i rejoice that the time has come wutfu a ouuiern vjovernor ana an 1 ex-Confederate soldier can stand here as your; sruest. because you do not demand that we shall come as suppliants in abasement, but as rep- 1 icrK7iiia.n vra ui truitl AJ your own State. Burning a "lthless Wife at the 1 stake. -j About three weeks ago art Indian known as Sam lostliis squaw-Mary, through the blandishments of an Indian named Jim, with whflfin Bhe eloped, taking some of his household goods. The loss of these goods added much to the wrath of Sam and he raised such a commotion among the Pinte braves that they 5 determined to teach the frail Mary, and, by her example, the rest of the women of the tribe, a lasting lesson.

Jim tried to screen her from the gathering storm by hiding her; but but they soon found her, and! about hity ot the tribe, including Jnji and several squaws, escorted her Id the hills, just back of the Washoe1 Jake, on Saturday evening last, and there, safe from Caucasian intrusiotlthey jnade a great pile of sage brushaiKl, after tying her firmly in the middle of it, set it on fire. Then they began a war dance around the scene of cre mation, In which all joined butjim, Sam being very fierce ia. -hi leaps and yells. The screams of Mary added to the zest of the dance, i Jim, meantime, sat quietly by and seemed an indifferent spectator. After the bQdy of the unfortunate Mary had been reduced to ashes, Sam expressed his satisfaction, and they dispersed, Reno Journal.

"DE.TI SUPPOSES." 'won uner wive ucm All Up an Jes Trns' iu de Lord." i Those ho are so anxious about the future as to be in the present may learn 'a lesson fifom a poor colored woman. Her name was Nancy, and she earned a moderate living by washing: She was, however, always happy. One day one of those anxious Christians who are constantly "taking thought" about the morroWj said to her "Ah, Nancy, it is well enough to be happy now, buff I should think your thoughts of your future would sober you. Suppose, for; instance, that you should be sick and unable to -work or supiose that your present employers should move; away, and no one else give jtou anything to do or suppose i "Stop!" cried Nancy, "I never supposes. De Lord is my Shepherd, ami I knows I shall not want.

And, honey," she added to hep gloomy-friend, "it's all dviin as is makln' you so'mis'able. You orter give dem all up an' jes' trus' in de Lord." i Funeral of Admiral Seminei. In the city the tributes of respect were-everywhere to be seenLij From the consular ofticeSj from the boats, from the shipping in port, drooped the flags at half-mast. Every half hour from sun-riso sundown the cannon's boom echoed over the mourning city. Many stores and places of busiuess were closed.

The cotton exchange and the board of trade closed their doors. The courthouse was draped in mourning. Also very noticeable was the display at the northwest corner of Dauphin and Commerce, The whole front was draped in mourning, and a miniature Alabama attracted every one's. Jleyttiter, The Nashville American says: "Col. T.

R. Shearon has placed half a dozen ears of corn in the lottice of Commissioner Killebrew which are probably the largest yet brought to Nashville. They were grown on James Everett's farm, in Hoosier Valley, Obion county, within one mile of Union City, and!) adjoining the farm of Secretary of State Chas, Gihhs. The half dozen ears will weigh between fourteen and fifteen pounds. They were selected at random In a field which will produce, Col.

Shearon says, 100 bushels to the The Turkish Minister furnishes the following information concerning the parentage of Osman Pasha "tfn yiew of the yarious accounts cliHJulatlng about of( ismaii Pasha, the Turkish Legation has the honor to inform the press that tho Marshal of that name was born in Asia Minor of Mussulman! parentage." J. D. C. Atkins, by invitation of the Democratic. Executive Committee of Ohio, will deliver Bieechest In that State in October next, while1 en route to Washington City.

His appointmentswill bo Cincinnati; Cleveland and probably Columbus, He is very hopeful of the polit ical situation at preseqt and sanguine of brilliant Democratic victories iu the future. i An old letter has foimd among the files of 'the War Department from Major Sumner, father of the late Senator Charles Sumner, asking that his "son Charles, then a lad of fifteen, be appointed to a military cadetship at West parents hac defined him tor a classical course of study, but the lad preferred military life. The Howard family of Paris, are tall. The father is six feet four Inches the mother six feet one-half inch; their six sons range from six feet three to six feet eleven ind a half inches and their daughters from six feet two to six1 feet three Inches. At least these are the figures given by the Kentuckian.

1 W. H. H.I one of he noted Davenport brothers, whose feats in untying knots used to excite such astonishment. dil jAustralia. A blcKl vessel oroKe thK'e weeks before his death, but he was recQveriiv? from me cuis, wneu a second vesstu broke, with a fatal result', J'hysics.

under this head are usually taught two entirely distinct things mechanics and the forces of nature. We think them better sep arated, and would like to see a short, simple, practical work on the principles of equilibrium and motion of bodies, including the mechanical powers, such as lever, wheel and axle, pulley, with simple ap paratus; air this to be ilustrated with very simple apparatus, and to constitute a subject by itself. Then we would have the forces of nature, as heat, light, electricity and chem ical affinity, all taught as a part of chemistry- But now comes our great difficulty. Unquestionably chemistry should be held an indis pensable part of education in an agri cultural community, but at the same time we have never seen a case where a practical know lege of chemistry was acquired by boys at school. Is it impossible to do so? We are unwilling to believe it with out an intelligent attempt to do.

so, and we are strongly of the opinion that the intelligent attempt has not yet been made. We have of late taken the trouble to look over half a dozen of the ordinary school chem istries and are fully satisfied that an essential preliminary to teaching practical chemistry in schools will be to burn the whole lot of them and start fresh they all (physics and chemistry both) adopt the prin ciple of commencing with the abstract and proceeding from that to the. concrete, the very opposite to the obvious way in which we practically become acquainted with external nature. We begin with observing things as we find them and by noticing their resemblances and differences, the changes to which they are liable under given circum stances, we gradually infer certain principles or laus to which they are subject. On this principle we pro pose to dispense with all the crude metaphysics the boy encounters at the threshold of science; about the properties of matter, and leave the definition of them till he has become familiar with them as facts.

Again, school chemistries always give us the elementary substances first and then proceed 'to their combinations We doil't so meet with them in na ture. No uncombined element occurs in nature; we don't get oxygen or hydrogen, calcium or aluminum in the elementary condition in nature. Let us take what nature furnishes us, and proceed from the known to the unknown, from the familiar to the abstruse. Here is how we would introduce the subject of chemistry to a class of boys of average intelli gence in an agricultural community We would first present to such a class three specimens of soil just as they might be brought in from the fields a st iff clay soil a 1 ight sandy soil, and one in which limestone predominated. Theyshould at once be familiarized with the physical qualities of the two former soils.

Let an equal quantity of each be shaken up in a glass vial with water and point out how much more rapidly the light soil separates and settles, the clay specimen remaining turbid for a larger! time. Then reverse the experiments and, putting an equal quantity of each into a funnel, pour water through them and. show how much slower the water passes through the stiff soil than the light soil. This done, repeat the experiment on pure day and pure sand and show how the above phenomena are more strongly marked then, and. make them understand that the characteristics of stiff and light soils depend upon the predominance of clay or sand in them.

Especially make them repeat these experiments for themselves. Then take your limestone soil, "and shaking up, as before, a littler of it in water, show its effervescence when muriatic acid is added, and when the liquid becomes clear add sonic sulphuric tft'id so as to percipitate the lime, and explain to to them the presence of carbonate of Jime as accounting for the characteristics of limstone soils. Now present to them pure specimens of alumina in clay prepared for pottery silica in the form of quartz and carbonate of lime in that of marble or chalk, or both of them, and they will understand that they have all the essential constitu-; ents of the different soils and you have done your first lecture. You have resolved nothing into its 'elemejnts, and you need not be in a hurry to do so, frithpr; it will not le long before they will un derstaud that these constituents are com bi nat ions of he elem ents, al m-inum, jlieon aiid calcium with ojfygen but before you tell them that, give them some idea what oxygen fs, Fr this purpose explain that theproductiypness of soils depends upon the action of air aut water upon them, and giving the simplest experiments in the analysis of these tivo substances, separate their elements of hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, fPionstrating the characteristics -of each. Jnsulate some of the carbonic acid develop ed in yesterday's, experiment, and familiarize them with the simplest combination of th four elements they have had to deal wijth, nanie? yj water, annnouhi and carbonic acid ihfete Js your, second lecture; and in the third the actual reduction of a metal' -(the rod osida of mercury is best)' should be performed in presence of the class, and they should be taught to recognize In the gaseous result the characters of the same git they hat! become familiar with as oxygfti.

Of course we can go no funlucr jn this paper we only desired to illustrate our principle of proceeding from the known to the unknown, from the familiar Jo the remote in ell methods of teaching young scholars, and above all things we would say stee clear of metaphysics that age. At from eighteen to twenty-one many boys acquire a passion for maphysics which again subsides in after Sfe, bat fit fifteen and sixteen metaphysics pass over the youthful mtnd like drops of water over a ducks back. Take now as tm abstract of all we have said on, i Tiik Warren farm well, one of the deepest, If not the deepest, dug wells in the world, was commenced on the South-Downs, above Brighton, in 1S58, and after four years iierpist-ent digging, the water was reached at a depth of one thtrasand two hundred and eighty-five feet, the shaft being six feet in diameter down to four hundred feet, and four feet for the remainder. The operation cost between six and seven thousand pounds, and. was watched with the greatest interest by geologists.

Davidson County Tax Valuation. The following is a statement of the tax i valuation of Davidson county: i Number of acres' 311.708: value. uu mber of town lots, izl vaiue, iu value of all ot her total valuation, $22,472,850. The total valuation for 1870 was decrease, or a fraction of over iu per cent, uecrease. The Washington Star, which is a sort of Administration hand-organ, grinds out a doleful tune after this fashion --f t.

I The riianagers of the Pvepublican party may not see it, or like the boy passing a graveyard, they may be whistling to. keep their courage up, but at present all indications are that Ohio win; go Democratic this fall by from 15,000 to 20,000 majori ty. It is possible that a reaction may set in before the election comes off, and that the Itepublicans may pe aDie to noiu the tate by a slight majority; but in any eveniitisa settled thing that Mr. Matthews can not be re-elected to the Senate, An Old Coin. Mr.

Charles Stone of this city has broughtois a Mexican silver piece. which is probably the oldest coin iu iienanon. it is what, in old times, was called a cut bit," being a quarter segment of the original coin, and bears the date 1778. It is an in teresting relie of the good old Democratic days of hard money, and has been in Mr. Stone's possession for twenty yea Ibanon Herald.

i- 'i Gkn. Joe. Hooker has written a brief sketch of the career and ser vices of the late Gen. Braxton Bragg, in which he indulges in some very severe criticisms of Gen. Ilosecranz while in command of the Army of me wumDenana.

Desirable Property 1 FOR SALE In the City of Clarksville. i- The F. O. ANDERSON FLACEon Reventh street; lias 9 or 10 rooms, nice hIiiuIh trees, pxxl garden and all necessary outbuildiiiKx; house almost good as new.j Terms easy; WW. 'i The GEOROE VALLIANT Pl.Afl? nn the corner of Union and (Seventh Btreotsj rooms, kxm1 outbuildiiitts, large lot, The place formerly Iw-Umuiny to Airs.1 Ed.

Estcs, now J. It. Hmith, on Union streetj a neat cottage, convenient to schools and good neighborhood, I have several other places located on Fnion, Franklin, Madison, Main and College streets; all of which I will take great pleasure in showing. i Several suburlian residences. i Farms to suit everyone.

Home and get you homes in a good country, among clever people, where you fean always have good health and good society. 4. i SAM. JOHNSON, Agent PUBHGSALE. i I will sell at public auction, at my residence, on i i SATURDAY, SEPf.

1877, all of my farming utensils, i ,1 i ReapSrs, Mower Separator. Also a finelotof Pork Hogs, some fine Milch Cows and Calves, a very fine Hrood (i'e and Colt, two young Homos, twu gxxl Mules, one 2-horse Waumi.sonie Plow Gear, and other articles too numerou.8 to mention, Al5 20 KUvuds of Bees, TpBAis -AU sums of -5 and under, Cash anoyeri, a credit of twelve mouths with good security, i V-' T1TTT1T T. H. HYMAN, Auctioneer. 2t further notice We will sell hest article ol i St.

Bernard Coal at following prices IVr Rushel. Lump, Per Cur Load tic VVaffoo Load f- i Var Load (at Mc P. GRACEY BRO. September 8, ISTT.tf i' Yaluable FOR SALE. Havlne nurclinsed from Mr.

Tlios. Hern- house and lot recently occupied by him in New lrovldenee (It Ixing more convenient to my plaee of business). 1 have concluded to sell the place on which now live at Public Auction, to the highest bidder, ou i i. SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, I tin loss sold privately before that timei Tlie llOl'sKiHOK HHICK, containing HEVKN-iU lOMS-and a large basement, cvllHr niKler the Jj part of the buildinic; alsot wi) large CiHternx, mid all netSNary out hiiilillnuK, consisting of a kx! Krams House with two' rooms for servants, a large Ice House, a g'ssl Hmoke House, SUtbU-s, Cow House, CMrriuge House, House, Poultry Housej Lumber House and Wagon 8hed.

There is an un-fulling pond of stock water in the stable lot, The place contains i 26 Acres of Rich Land, i i i 1 I j' -all In good state of cultivation, enibracing an ORCHARD of about thne acres of select young fruit trees now in In-ai Ing. I will alxrt sell al the same time and place, one and HARNEHH. and a PAIlt(l' O(MU) ML'LF-S, also a lot of H'PtK'K and -11 RK HOti.S, a lot of FAHMINO IMPL.K- ME'lXand HOUHEHOLH FURNITURE, and a few hives of bees. A i This property lssltuat-ed on what Is known as the Ford Road, on the north side of Red River, nearly opposite Maj. O.

A. Henry's place, and Is In fifteen, minutes ride of the City of Clarksville. It Is one of tha. most beautiful situations in this or any other Htate, taking In. as it does a cojnplet view of Clarksville and all it surroundings.

This place lias -only to lie seen to be appreciated. Any one deslriug to purchase such pro-, erty, will pleiuu eall and examine ix-foro the day of sale, as tlie place will siak fex itself. i Tbkms of and one-third cash, bulanue In ta etUi4 iiay ments, on 1 and 2 years time, with 8 (s-t ce'ut. interest from date. I'erKtinal property all suins of to) fnl under, cash over rji), six inuhtus iimlli with approved eourity, Hle lonpnen at 11 o'clock-.

(Iol. T. li. Lkosakd i my agent, and will take pleasure in showing the- property to any one lu my absence. Kept, 1'TT-lv? (DdD A PROPERTY CONSISTING OF NE CROP ac er 1, New Crop! Red Top Seed, New Crop Orchard Grass Seed, i Seed, rJ, New Crop Bliie Grass Seed, PGAHE)600DS Teas, all grades, Old Government Laguyra Coffee, KTC, ETC.

Corner of First and Roi-to'mber 8, 1877-tf We JiavetaKen Jlere Ja test;.