Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-08-27

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country, and said that though the contest
was one of races, white versus black, yet
the election was conducted with the ut
most tranquility. This, he added, was an
evidence that the ballot conduces in q re-
markahle degree to the tranquility, SIM
pIicity and order of elections.
ENGLISH RULE IN IRELAND.-In a re-
cent article on the policy of Thiers towards
the Communists, the London Spectator
said:
We English have right to speak, for we
have tried his policy in Ireland five hum
dred years tried it more boldly than he
will venture to do it, till we had at one
time reduced our opponents to a million
and a half, and with this only result, that
we bred hatred which no clemency, no
concessions nor favors beyond justice seem
able to extingish or alleviate.
NOTES ABOUT THE TEETH.-ChGno-
6er8' Journal says: Mr.. Caltin, who,
some years ago, had an interesting eXhibi-
ton of Indian scenery, dresses, weapons,
&C., noticed that North American Indians
have better teeth than the whites. He ac-
| counts for the difference in this strange
way That the reds keep the mouth shut,
whereas the whites keep it open. The
| teeth, he says, require moisture to keep
their surface in good working order when
J the mouth is open the mucous membrane
has tendency to dry up, the teeth lose
! their needed supply of moisture, and
thence come discOlOration, toOthache, tic
| doloreuX, decay, looseness, and eventual
| loss of teeth.
FREAKS OF THE TELEGRAPH.-A no.
bic lady in England recently telegraphed {:
II tea with Mr.. -, in Dover street.
Stay for me-" His lordship received it as
follows 81 flee with Mr.. - to Do
yer straight. Pray for me-" And he be-
come mad.
WHY TAMMANY'S ACCOUNTS ARE De-
LAYED.-In his message to the New York
city council on the 23d, Mayor Hall gives
the following extraordinary reasons why
the Controllers accounts have not been
published:
The Controllers Annual Report for the
municipal year ending May ], 1871, was
attended by statistical tables intended to
furnish in detail, lists of the expenditures
which that report merely aggregated.
These tables were being printed when it
became evident that public sentiment de-
manded much more minuteness of state
ment than had been usual for the Finance
Department to give or than the tables in
process of printing supplied. The Mayor,
therefore, with the hearty concurrence Of
the Controller, recalled the tables, and in
place of them has provided the budget
herewith sent.
The printing of this huge budget was
begun, but, when the accounts of 1863 were
ready for publication it became apparent
that the delays in completing the publica-
ton were used injuriously to the city cred
it. Therefore the printing has been inter
mitted in order to afford to both friends
and enemies of the city government access
to the accounts, although they are partly
in manuscript.
New YORK CREDIT ABROAD.-The New
York Tribune says:
We have from Berlin the humiliating
announcement that the Standing Commit
tee of the Berlin Exchange have refused
to permit quotations of the New York
City loan to appear any longer on the
stock list To this pass have we been
brought by the Tammany Ring, the chief
member Of which said in his Fourth of
July speech: We propose to carry on a
strictly economical government"
JUDGE TURNEY ON DIvORCE.-In an cd
itorial some weeks ago the CHRONICLE al
ney, of our Supreme Court, relating to our
divorce laws. The novel part of the Opin-
ion is as follows:
Now [ must elect between statutory
regulation demoraIizing in its every int1u-
ence and tendency, encouraging system
of kin to freelOvism, and an express divine
law. [ do not hesitate to disregard the one
and adopt the other, adopting the language
of Blackstone, book 1, page ~, as express
sive of my conviction of the obligation of
the law.
Upon these two foundations, the law of
natrue and the law of revelation, depend
all human laws, that is to say, no human
laws should be suffered to contradict these.
There are, it is true, great number of in
different points in which both the Divine
law and the natural law leave man at his
own liberty, but which are found necessa-
ry for the benefit of society, to be restrain
ed within certain limits.
And herein it is that human laws have
their greatest force and efficiency, for with
regard to such points as are notindifferent,
human laws are only declaratory of, and
act in subordinatiOn to the former.
WOMAN'S WEAPON.-A business wo-
man. in the New York Tribune says of
the best defense women have for insult:
OF all weapons in a woman's armOry,
none is so cutting as little self-possessed
contempt. Men do not mind a virtuous
vixen who breaks her paraSoI across the
face of one who utters unbecoming lam
guage, or pours forth the vials of her wrath
upon him in vitriolic English, half so
much as cool level glance of contempt,
an II do not understand of marked
politeness from a woman who thoroughly
understands herself.
WENDELL PHILLIPS ON THE COMMUNE
! In a recent article in the National Stand
ard, Wendell Phillips says:
| The Commune is one end of the telegraph
wires of Liberty the United States are the
other. Still, amid our thirty Thousand journals
nized the brotherhood and moved in arrest of
the contemptuous and ignorant Judgment
which Americans, born out of due time and
place, have pronounced on their younger broth
| er. In general, able thinkers outside of the
| daily press have been the ones to see and own
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