Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-04
About the Father of the Country.
c.--s.psndence Of the Chronicle!


GEORGE WASHINGTON, Feb. %.
This is a grand holiday; patriotism
oozes from every - Junk bottle. You see
George was born to-day, or rather would
lave been, if the patience to wait had
been coupled with his ability toaccomplish.
II one comes down to a nicely, his birth
lay was yesterday, or would have been if
&c had waited an even hundred and fifty
two years, but, as yesterday was Sunday,
te would undoubtedly have been prevailed
upon to-lottery fashion-make further
reinforcement This is the view that Con-
gress took of it, and, having authority from
headquarters for part OF our assumption,
-ge would further explain that the happy
event would have very properly taken
place Just about the time that the big guns
a. the Navy-yard were blazing away at
uothing, TO give public notice that the
"ernblematic birdn was ready to Gespoil q
Spanish henroost or pull the teeth of the
British lion lat sight," or thirty days.
We are inclined to think, however, that,
could he have looked forward to his paternal
responsibility, "the Father of his coun-
tryu would not have desired a delay. 1t
< big thing you see, and if still living,
there are great many who would say
He is first in war, last in peace and gone
lead man can have the unqualified praise
and universal respect of a free people, for
then only is an American sure of not rum
hing for Office.
Just fancy @. w. in the character of a
zip Van Wrinkle, suddenly awakening
rom a sleep of seventy-five years. Pic
ture his establishment when. on asking
What time the stage leaves for the frontier,
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio, he is told
thpra ara M GtappG INIT that he
axe Pullman palace car through TO the
Pacific if he wants to or, when Offering q
halfdollar TO post letter and buy news
Japer he is handed back forty-siX cents
1hange. How his heart would melt with
iOy az the benevOlence of his children in
-tringing wires all over the country for
he birds to roost upon, making the coun-
Try like a vast million horse power
banio, and he would doubtless sorrow over
The 'degeneracy of the press" equal TO a
professional croaker of the nineteenth GEN.
fury when he read that there was snow
storm in st. Petersburg yesterday, or q
Tory triumph in the British election the
lay before. But "times is changed" He
no. only lived, but died and there are lots
4 things that, like Mark Twain ancestor,
dam, he didn't live to see.
The military are crowding the streets to-
day; flags are flying; firemen, in flaming
shirts, are perspiring under the pressure
not to ertinguish, but to distinguish the
natal day-and members of brass bands
are threatened with q necessity for half
soling their craniums, as result of the es-
capement of Iongpent-up Yankee Doc
iles,n "Hail Columbias, /" &c. driven from
their lairs by sundry patriotic gin-cock
tails, brandy-smashes and "straights.'
Doubtless, tonight, g great many star
spangled "bummers" Will pass through the
yates of the calaboose.
There has been but little done the past
week in Congress. The franking privilege
win probably be brought to vote in the
House tomorrow. BARCUs.