Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1857-12-25
Cnnrsrx1s-wc would advise all our

patrons, VINO desire 10 feel the genuine
Christmas fEror in their bones, to get Har-
per's monthly for December, and read
Clement @. Moore's immortal poem, emit
tied GA visit from st. Nicholas" It is
spicy with the genuine Attic salt, griphic
beyond praise, and redolent of egg-nog
and social humor. We would be glad to
see the good old custom revived, which
we are sorry to see is dying out in most
offamilies, of hanging the children's stock
ing upon the wall, in anticipation of the
annual visit Of Santa Claus, This is an
Innocent and harmless, rs well as a very
pleasurable delusion, for the children,
which we have no doubt has made more
poets than the combined writings of Shaks-
pear, Byron, Milton, Scott, and Moore
Besides it is a very graceful way of ma
king present to ones sweetheart. It is
much to be regretted, however, that ladies
stockings are not generally larger, or the
bodies Of their. admirers smaller, or per-
hsps this custom would become more and
more popular with the lapse of years. We
are inclined to believe too, that the good
old practice of drinking egg-nog at Christ
mas is most excellent one, provided, one
does not take too much of it, and absolute
" aud tetotoIiy abstains from the use of any
other ssimxIant during he balance of The
year,
Our ears will now be greeted with the
booming of Christmas guns, the whizzing
and popping of crackers-the merry and
mellow laughter Of the happy idler, and
the uncouth jabbers of maskers, forming a
strange and rather uncouth medley to cele-
brate the departure of the old, and to well
come the coming of the new year. What
Hastings, revellings, banqucttings, frol-
icks, pastimes and greetings of old friends,
long ''lost to sight, but to memory dear, -
will take place between now and the first
day of January We think this is as it
should be, We approve of Sabbath Of
years, as we'll as of weeks, in which all
cares, anxieties, troubles, and old grudges,
are drowned, or temporarily suspended at
least, in the pleasures and onjoyments Of
the hour, and the grateful heart, asIif
thankful to the Great Giver of all good for
this holiday Of the soul, buries, or forgets
in the natural and appropriate enjoyments
the Christmas season, all the more prom
inent and dangerous features of the Old
Adam. Weconsider it our duty, howev-
er, as faithful chronicler of events dnd
a candid censor of morals of the good
people, to remark, officially, that we have
sometimes seen even Christmas frolicks
overdone, and we hope that, presulhing
upon the very reasonable price of eggs
and whisky, none of our friends will in
discreetly indulge, until they find them
selves in that very undignifed, inelegant
and unsophistidated condition, which is
generally characterised by the term "de-
cidedty corned. " We would remark, also,
semi officially, for the edifcation of such
Us may feel disposed to become, in the hi
lsrity of the moment, troublesome, or as
it is more appropriately termed oJstropu-
lous, that Marshall Withers will be on hand
with his baton, ready to wait upon any
who should be ambitious to be introduced
to the town Recorder, and that Bally Smith
officer of the night will be most happy to
take care of those who are unable to take
care Of themselves, We sincerely hope
however, that this Christmas week will
pass off in harmony and mutual good will
and that the records Of our town will foi
once, remain undisfgured with the history
Of any violation of good order and soca
propriety and decorum during the Christ
mas holidays.
We would also observe, en- PEASANT, tina
while our patrons are makinga liberal use
of their money in purchasing, good cheer
and Christmas toys and presents. we would
be most happy that they would all remem
Der to signalize, foronce in their lives, the
advent of Christmas, every one Of them
by that very good ioise and rirtnous act o
calling up and wrcathing the printers face
also in smiles by paying their subscrip
tons, and entering their names afresh fol
another year, So may pleasure and enjoy
ment always strew their path with flowers
give them pretty wives, good children
rich sweethearts, long lives, success il
business, no corns, and plenty of the need
full.
We are grat,6ed to chronicle the arriva
of our much esteemed friends, T. A. anC