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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-10-19
GREELEY AND RRowv are the nom

GREELEY AND BRowN are the nom
inecs of three Conventions--they hav-
ing been nominated by the recent Lib
eral colored convention in Louisville.
Were we one of those who look upon
conventions as the political Pandora S
box, we might be tempted to PROFOUND
the following question:: If one con-
vention nomination suffices to defeat
the candidate in Tennessee, what
chance have Greeley and Brown--nom-
inees of three such devilish contriv-
ances? But not having sacrificed our
small stock of common sense on the
altar of foolish prejudice, we draw a
different augury from the triple nom
nation, and regret that Grants Bour-
bon show did not wisely and patrioti-
cally wheel into line instead of at
tempting to sell the country to Radical
bidders for mess of pottsge. Were
the disorganizers of Tennessee, con-
sistcnt in their efforts to do evil, we
should despair of carrying the State
for Greeley, backed by three convcn-
tions; but since, in their madness,
they seem to aim only at the political
ruin of their own State, we still hope
for the esuccess of the Liberal nominees
for President and Vice President, and
this hope is based upon the fact, that
the leaders ofthe disorganizers, though
practically working for Grant, profess
to be supporters of Greeley. What
such professions may be worth, time
only, can disclose, and happy will
it be for the deluded followers of
such men as old Andy, if humiliation
and shame be not the consequences of
their reckless reputation of safe and
established usages and their adoption
of the wild expedients of desperate
ambition stalking its last hope upon
the gullbility of the dear sovereigns.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23


It has been aeked why, in view Of
the present favorable crop prospects,
prices for the fall and early winter
months remain 50 high? The expla-
nation as we understand 1t is very
simple.
First-The world needs the coming
year zoo, 600 bales of American Cotton
anything less than that will be
short crop. The experience of the past
two years has established this fact,
and every one in the trade admits it.
OF course, under such circumstances,
and so early in the season, with the
future weather and other conditions
affecting the crop uncertain, few would
be found to sell on the basis of an ex-
cessive crop. ~ e
Seconh-It appears that even with
American cotton above lid. and some
descriptions of East India cotton scarce
Iy Id. pound higher than a year
ago, Manchester spinners show no
disposition to curtail consumption, or
to turn upon the East India staple.
Third notwithstanding the present
visible supply shows an increase over
last lear, probably 800 (?) bales of the
present European stock is of SO poor a
quality as TO be of little use. Then
again, the average weight is consider
ably less than ? year ago on account
of the smaller proportion of American,
and the larger proportion of Brazil
and India staple-cOnsequentl it is
claimed that of available cotton Jun
less consumption is reduced, there
will be an actual scarcity when our
next crop begins to come in.-F'i,,dn-
cidL ChrO71jc{e
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
The Inland Sea of Ianln.

This Japan, L TedecIare, is the most
beautiful country in the woodland |
have now seen God part of the world.
j have come down through the Inland
Sea, hy-what shall | sly to give an
American an idea of il Through Lake
Cbamplain, say, through Lake George,
the Thousand Islands of the st. Law
renee, the Rocky Mountain ranges,
aud The Columbia river i'm Oregon,
Pugets Sound in Washington Terrific.
ry, etc. There is nothing that sur
passes it, scarcely anything that equals
it, in our country. The Scotchmap
here has his Loeb Lomond, or Loeb
Katrine; the Swiss, his Genevan Lake;
the Englishman, Westmoreland the
Irishman, his Killarney. We have
been sailing for twenty -four hours, ten
miles an hour, through succession of
changeable scenery, an idea Of which
you can only have by bearing IN mind
the beautiful home spots have named
The hills are covered To the very tops
with the liveliest green, or these hills
are terraced generally 10y garden spots,
one overhsnging the other. Along
many Of the hills, and on the very
SUBMITS, are strings of lofty trees, so
trained as TO make seeming continu-
Gus march of forest TO forest over every
hill top.-BroOkS' "Scrcn Months
R,np
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
How TO Disinfect q House.

Mix common salt and black manga
ne,e, about equal weights, and take
about pound of the mixed powder for
each cubic yard in the house. Place it
in pan deep enough to hold thrice as
much, in any room where you can
arrange TO upset a vessel of acid into
it by pulling a string outside the house.
This will he oil of vitrol, or boiled sui
phuric acid Specific gravity 49,, a
weight double that of the manganese.
Make all openings, except chimneys,
air-tight, and leave no water or wet
things within, or polished metals un-
less you want them dimmed. Then
pull the string that pOurs the acid on
the powder. The object is to fill the
house with chlorine gas, which, being
heavy even while warm, will accumu-
late from the ground upward, expeil-
ing the air by the chimneys: However
tight the lower openings, you viii
probably smell little of it as sea-
breeze. BY the next morning the law
of gaseous diffusion will, even through
the chimneys only, have disposed Of
all it's traces; and it will meanwhile
have found out every unclean atom,
Turk where it may, and killed every
germ Orsperm, zymotic or aniinalculaf,
deader than any other killing known.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
/, A Story Worth Reneating,
From the Hartford Tunes.

Judge Davis, of Illinois, is rich
man. The public may not know how
he became wealthy. About thirty
years ago, when Judge Davis was q
practicing lawyer in the West, the was
employed by Connecticut man to
collect $500. Davis went to the place
where the debter lived, and found him
to be rich in landed possessions, but
without spare dollar in money. He
finally settled the bill by giving a deed
for a tract of land-a, flat, moist and
undesirable piece of land in appear
ance, lying close by a. sheet of water,
and consisting perhaps of sixty acres.
Davis subsequently, met his Connecti-
cut client in st. Louis, when the latter
(whO seemed not to have the usual
Connecticut shrewdness) fell to and
gave him regular ".blowing upu, for
taking the land rather, than insisting
on having the $500 in cash. He did
not want any of your Western land.
and ne told Davis that having received
it in payment of the debt, he had bet
ter keep it himself and pay the money
out of his own pocket. To this Davis
agreed. Stepping into a friends office
he borrowed $500; took the Connect
cut man receipt for the land and held
it for rise. That land forms part OF
one offhe suburbs Of Chicago. Judge
Davis has sold two or three hundred
thousand dollars worth of it, and has
nearly a million dollars worth left, 1t
is a striking example of what the
Western property has done for its
holder, and as the story has never
been printed, we thought; it. would be
interesting enough to publish. -,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
Thc Female Dictionary.

In this valuable work the significa.
ton of = word is given in a feminine
sense, rs under:
Mqrridge-Tbe only habit to which
women are constant.
Locer-Apy young man but a broth
tr>in-law.
C2craymdn-One alternative of a
lover.
Brother-The other alternative.
HoaeynioOn-A wife's opportunity.
Horrid, HiGeous-Terms of admira-
ton elected by the sight of lovely
face anywhere but in the looking-giass.
Nice, Dodr-EXpression of delight at
anything, from a baby TO a barrel or
gan.
AppCtie-A monstrous abortion,
which is stified in the kitchen that it
may not exist during dinner.
HriRkle-The first thing one lady
sees it on others's face.
HusbdRd-A person who writes
checks, and dresses as his wife directs.
Duck On or7,ithOlo9y)-A trussed
bridegroom, with his gibleis under
his arm.
Brute-A domestic endearment for q
husband.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
To Fatten up Old Cows.

1t is often problem what is best to
do with old cows. The trifie usually
Obtainet for them for Bologna sausage
is nothing to what could be had for
them, if any way could be found to
fatten them cheaply. A correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette thinks he
has solved this problem, and asserts
chat the following course of feeding
will fatten the hardest case. We are
to commence feeding her with pump
kins cut up and put in tub. In be-
ginning feed half a bushel in the morn
ing and the same at night. Over each
such mess sprinkle a quart of oil-cake
meal. After a while increase feed to
three pecks or a bushel, and increase
the eil-cake meal to two quarts i'll the
morning aud two quarts at night. Put
in this way almost any animal will
fatten with greater rapidity, and in a
month or six weeks will be in good
condition to turn over to the butcher.
" 1t is likely that many old skeletons
may fill up. by this treatment, so as to
bring enough TO pay for the extra feed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
wonderraI stasemness.

Unless hundreds of our most respop.
sible citizens have conspired to .delude
the community, a medicine has at last
been introduced which is a specific for
almost every human ailment, not invol.
wing the entire paralyzation or partial
destruction of the organ or organs in
which it exists. These witnesses testify
Tin some instances from their own per
sonal experience, in others ON behalf of
Others that dyspepsia, liver complaint,
remittept and intermittent fever, ner-
vous debility, and numberiess other dis
eases, are rapidly and radically cured
by this new remedy. 1t halls from, Cs.lr
ifornia, and has in two years overleaped
all competitors among the advertised
tonics, and become par excellence the
medicine Of the people. California is
an exceptional region. It's vegetable
products, especially those of a .medi-
cinal nature, have no equivalent else
where, and it ia from the choicest Of
these that DIR. J. Walker prepares his
famous alcoholics Vinegar Bitter-s, the
invaluable invigorant, nutrient, laxative
and slterative to which we refer. Those
who have tested the curative properties
of this marvellous preparation pro-
nounce it the most comprehensive rem
edy over offered to mankind, and assert
that there is no organic disease which il
will not subdue. As family medicine.
we can recommend it without reserve.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
The POtatO.s

~. This Article of such general use as
food was originally found somewhere
in South America, and the poorest,
knOttiest, most watery potato We ever
saw finds its way into the dinner-k kettle,
was probably better than the original
seed potato that was taken to Europe
among other curiosities of vegetation
in the New World. The first mention
we find of the potato is in the writings
of a German bOtanist named Ciusius,
in 1888. Two had been sent him from
Flanders, and he made plate of the
..rare plant" for his book. 1t was
over. a hundred and fifty years after
this that it began to be planted for food
in Switzerland. Everywhere it met
with the greatest Opposition, Just as all
the benefactions of the world, either
moral or physical, always have. Phil
anthropists strove to explain IFS ad-
vantages to the common people, but
they were booted at, if not stoned.
Fields planted with them had to be
carefully watched at night, or all the
plants would be destroyed. This an
t1pathy is very singular, when we
remember what a narrow range of food
the poorer people had at that time
The people of Ireland fought very hard
against its introduction among them,
whereas it is now 80 much their main
stay that their country has given it its
name. 1t is stated that a gentleman
in France nit Oh a novel plan for in
Producing them into his section of
country. He planted fine field, and
put posters all about prohibiting people
from stealing them under heavy penal
ties; yet every chance was given to
steal them, and when il came harvest
time the field had been pretty thorough
ly harvested. The result was that the
next year there were q great many
little garden patches of potatoes about.
The people had found out what they
We're. And yet when we are told
how they were first prepared for food,
1t is to be wondered at that they ever
did become popular. One writer speaks
of the potato as d vegetable much like
the Jerusalem rartichoke, but not so
good or wholesome and that they
were to be roasted and sliced and eaten
with sauce of wine and sugar. And
we can imagine what an unenvlable
article of food in those its primitive
days, when VIC reflect what it was fifty
Caio tiSo, Stuu CVilidst tilit Will IOW-
Many Improvements have been made
in it. What would we have said in
our boyish days, to have had dish OF
watery merinos, or 'long TOMS" as
they were vulgarly called, replaced by
savOry, meally dish of the Early
Rose of to-day? The use Of the potato
in Europe Is now quite general. 1t is
cultivated in almost every cline ex-
cept the far northern. 1t thrives in
the dreary region of Sweden, and has
been wonderful blessing 10 those
European countries which, before its
general use, were often swept by
dreadful famines.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

GYPSUM AS A CEMENT.-F. Schott
has discovered that plaster of Paris or
anhy 1rOus sulphate of lime, when
heated to 5O0' Cent, acquires true by
draulic properties. and when mixed
with due quantity of water will, at
the expiration of about three days, set
into a white, semi-transparent mass of
great beauty.
81" A NEW BLUE.-TO metallic antimO-
ny, dissolved in aqua regia and filtered
through granulated glass, add a solu-
ton of prussiate of potash so long as
any preeipitate Is formed; thus beau
tiful ard permanent blue color is pro-
duced, which can scarcely be distin-.
guished from ultramarine. With
chrome or zinc yellow it yields green
which is almost equal in color to
Sdhweinfurth green, and is far les
poisonous.
Z INCOMBUSTIBLECO COATING FOR CLOTH
-TuDgstate of soda has been success
fully used for rendering cotton cloth
and other fabrics fire-proof. Pestera
recommends cheaper mixture for the
same purpose. 1t consists of four parts
of bOrax and three parts of sulpbate of
lmagDesia, 10 be- mixed first befOre be-
ing nees]ed, and dissolved in 90 or 30
parts of boiling water. The goods are
to be immersed in this solution i'm me-
diately, then wrung out and dried.
Another efficient mixture for render
ing fabrics non-inflammAble, recently
patened in England. consists Of equal
weights of acetate of lime and chloride
of calcium, dissolved in twice their
weight of hot water.
To OBTAIN WATER FROM GREAT
DEPTHs.-An apparatus has been re-
Gently devised in Germany for obtain
ing specimens of water at any desired
depth Of the ocean. A strong, heavy
vessel, entirely closed and empty, has
a valve through which water may be
ADMITTED, but is only put in motion by
means of q powerful electro magnets
connected Herewith. Thefe magnets
are also connected with wire which
accompanies the rope by means of
which the apparatus lowered from the
ship. When the empty vessel, which
is, in fact, plummet, has reached the
required depth current IF electricity
il sent from the battery on the ship
boar; to the coils below the magpet-
ism thus generated opens the valves,
and the vessel is filled and ready to be
drawn up
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
ROR CROGAN


cial operations. Bob Crogap, who
lived in the neighbOrhood, and "run"
the postofiice at the crossroads, being
something of a wag, and having an
idea that the SquiIe's honesty should
be quoted below par, concluded, with
he conniy2nce and assistance of few
comrades, to "unesrth the sly old fox"
and expose his rascalities. According
.ly, Bob pretended to die, was regularly
shrOuded and laid out on the cooling
board in the most approved fashion,
and sorrowing friends proceeded to
spread the news of his demise, which
soon reached the ears of old Butt Cut.
He lost no time in repairing to the
house of mourning, carrying with him
a "full and complete assortment" of
first class condolences and sympathy,
for gratuitOus distribution among the
members Of the bereaved family, and
the many sorrOwing friends of the sup
posed deceased, who were present
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
WIGFALL AND BROOKS.
"Reminiscences of Anicnt Days i'm
South Carolina

Baltimore Letter to the New York Sun.
Louis Wigfall, native of South Car
olina, and long Senator from Texas,
is prscticing law in this city. He is a
man of great originality, aplomb,
quaintnes5 and force of talk. He Is
very earnestly for Mr.. Greeley, and it
is thought may be sent to the South to
stump such parts IS have received the
iDfliclion OF Toolnbs and Wise. 1t is
very entertaining to hear Wigfall dis
cuss Southern things. The old man
loves to revive the earlier scenes of his
life, when he lived in the Edgefield dis.
trict of South Carolina, and made his
great contention with the powerful
family of Brookes. The Brookes fami-
ly had great numbers of negroes and
broad acres, and were a sort of heredi-
tary offce-keepers in the Edgefield dis
trict. They despised Calhoun-not for
his opinions-but because he could
command the attention of the country
without wealth such as theirs. Wig
fall being the henchman of Calhoun in
Edgefield, the elder BrOokes said some
mean things abort him, at which Wig
fall sent him notice that he meant to
post him q. the court house door, and
would spend three hours i'm defending
the posting. In the Southern style,
therefore, Wigfall denounced old
Brookes rs a liar, ETC., and waited,
with a small arsenal, for somebody to
knock chip of his shoulder, taking
his liquor in the meantime as he bad
done for the greater part of his days.
In due time along came a couple OF
nephews Of old Brookes TO tare down
the bill, when there was an instant ex-
Plosion of percussion caps, and one
BrookHs was killed, and another badly
wounded. This led to a challenge 10
Louis Wigfali from Preston S. Broohes
(tbe future castigator of Charles Sum-
ner) son of the old man, and they met,
and at the first fire both were slightly
wounded, and at The second fire both
were dangerously wounded. Before
Preston 5. Brookes died, he acknow-
edged the injustice of his family to-
warts Wigfall, aid sent nephew of
the latter 20 the Naval Academy.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23

It not oftsn that The nsne II Stephen A.
Douglas IL connected In our miHds With; any
thing outsids of the poetical arena, but there ID
9 beautiful poetieal eGssion Of his which 10 .
credit alike to ths heart andintslleti siIlns
Bury me in the mornisg. mother; 49,
Oh let me have the light
of one bright day on my grave, mother,
Ere you leave me alone with night.
Alone in the night Of the grove, mother, 70
Ills q thought Of terrible fear;
And you will be hero all alone. mother,
Ana stars will be shining here; .-,-...
So bury me in the morning. mother,
And let mo have the light t-''s
Of one bright day on my grave. mother ss
Ere I'm alone vi h the night !.
You tell of 6avior's love, mother. ="
1 feel il is in my beart- ff ttrk .. ~
But oh | from this beautiful world, mother.
IT'S hard for the young to part; y
For even to part when hero. mother,
The soul is fain to stay, "a
For the grave is deep and dark, mother,
And heaven seems far away. lc
Then bury me in the morning, mother.
And let me have the light III sikk
Of one bright day on my grave, mother
Ere I'm alone with the night. ks'sf3
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
Wedding Rings.

: 81 wonder why they always make
wedding rings of plain gold?" asked
one of our pretty gossip readers the
other cay. Don't know-Ill try to
find out, said our gossip man. An old
scrap book gives a reason-and here
ii is
A lady unce, whose love was sold,
sked II r reason could be told,
Why welding rings were made of gold;
vent Ired thus 10 instruct her:
Love al lightning are the same;
Din earif they glance, from Heaven they came;
Love is 4 a souls electric flame
Aud gold its best conductor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23

NEW USE FOR .ANILINE CoLoRs.--
Mr.. +. Springmuhl recommends, in .
German journal, the use of alcoholic
solutions of various gums, for example
skellac AMI sandarac, to which various
aniline colors have been added, for the
purpose of coloring all kinds of paper,
leather, linen, and other fabrics. The
operation consist in placing q thin So
luton of the coloring LIQUID i'm shall
low dish, and drawing through 1t the
substance to be colOred. which, after
being hung up and dried, may receive
another color on the other side, IL de-
sired. By adding to the lac . small
quantity of some ethereal oil, the sub
stance may at the same time be per-
fumed. Any desired tint may be pro-
dueed by judiciously mixing several Of
the laos.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
Lost Health Reraincea !

Seltnesiect lays the foundation of much bodily
u,ering. AS rule men are more solicitor,s TO re-
pair and preserve their Houses stock In trade and
other perishable property. than to repair and pre-
serve themselves. They can see when wall re-
quiies prop, or n weak structure girder, but
appear to be unconscious Of or Indifferent TO- the
Cracks and flaws and evidences of decny in their
own frail and sensitive organizations -
The consequences of this want of common, pru-
dencs is that thousands fall by the wayside in the
prime of life, every year. who might have lived 10
enjoy hale and hearty old age II they had resored
to the proper means Of recruiting their failing visor
at the proper time. -. 80, 81,
Seeing what that famous vitsI.zpg and invigosa-
ting elixir, Hostetters Stomach Bittsrs, has done
countless multitudes of the eneryated and bro,
ken down, and with the long, unbroken record OF
It's cures before him, IL seems amazing that any
dyspepsia biiotrsBess, chrbnic constipation or dis
ease of reltent or intermittent character should
delay. even for an hour 10 seek the aid which its
toning. regulating and invixcrating properties
have never failed to afford. = fffI fltsIlff b
II E no exaggeratlon to that H0sfsffsys S7oTr-
nch jers y the most faithful ally of nature IN her
struggles With weakness and disease that medical
botany and honest chemistry have yet given 10 ths
wOfld--fDB, a't- p" = 49,
Times Test--Time tries all things. REJECTS
those which are useless, and holds fast 10 that
which IN good. WthOut number have bes.p
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-23
What Railroads do for Farmers.

On this subject the Lexington, KY,
Farmers Home Journal says;y, l-is,
We are not the advocate of all the
wild, visionary schemes that specula-
tors propose In the shape of railroads,
but we are satisfied that farmers es
peeially, are benefited by railroads,
when well-located, and we think no
intelligent reader can dispute the con-
illusions we draw. NIX. go
For instance, to haul forty, bushels
of corn fifty miles in wagon, would
cost at least Sl2 for team, driver, and
ex penses. A railroad would transport
it for "a, at most. Allowing on an
average Of forty bushels per acre. or
eight per cent. ON 500. AS the rela-
tive advantages is about the came as
( for other crops, it is clear that rail-
road passing through a. town would
add 500 per acre to the value OF farms.
"A town ten miles square contains
GA, 200 acres. An increase of 500 per
acre is equal to S., 4U0, goo, or enough to
build two hundred miles Of railroad,
even if it cost So, 900 per mile. But
two hundred miles of road would cx
tend through twenty towns ten miles
square, and cost bat $40 per acre if
taxed upon the land. These figures
are given merely as an illustration. Ii
farmers had taxed themselves to build
all the railroads in this country, and
given them away to any companies
that would stock and run them, the
present increased value of their lands
would have well repaid all the outlay.