Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-02-03

the shrierks of wild beasts and war,
whoop of the savage that echoed
r anafl.t the tall cane waited by the gen.
Rockford Manufacturingruits of which
relEssral new ~qnAa to be and freedom
have spread their pure gems to the
remotest corners of American soil.
By it man has reached forth his hand
from earth and grasped the vivid,
forked lightning of Heaven that
lighted the pathway of the dark,
dense cloud, marching with the blasts
of muttering thunders, and boiling
with it millions of acres of land and
attached it to overland and subma-
rine telegraphs and cables to com
municate intelligence to the worlds
remotest bounds almost in thetwink-
ling of an eye. BY it man has WELD
ed the pen and filed the land with
Bibles, law books, medical works,
and all the sciences that now decor
ate the Libraries of the world and
spread the balm of Gilead upon
passions raging breast and claimed
its narrowed bosom. By it the ships
on oceans bosom have been taught
to ride the upheaving waves amid
the sweeping sea storms, and bios
SONS on the placid waters III the en-
tire ports of the world to feed the
starving and clothe the naked. By
it the putting steam engine, as it
sends it's smoke in the air, has visited
the towns and cities of the world
and poured their rich treasures into
the bosom of the thirsty lands that
weep for exchange, and crafty the
wants, necessities, and desires of the
whole. By it this grand and glori~
Gus government was born and
breathed its first breath, was rocked
in it's infant cradle, has grown 10 its
present manhood, now extending its
Jurisdiction from sea to gulf, north
and south, from ocean to ocean, east
and west, and reared the mighty
colossus with its giant frame
touching the vaulted skies,
looking with its massive eyes
into the face of European crowned
heads and rolling its laundering
voice into their ears till their knees
smote each other hike Belshazzar's
upon the fall of Babylon. By it
wise sages, with their silvery locks,
have from the legal forums planted
the bottom sills of great principles
of law that have been handed down
for thousands of years to the rising
generations, and that are now in
terwoyen with the very idiom we
speak, and that underlie as the
substratum of all civilized govern
ments of the world. By it the gentle
hand of the goddess of peace has
been extended with it's olive branch
to calm the raging waters of heated
passion between two massive armies,
and the lo iesome and deathly sound
of the sword, the roar of the
musketry, and muttering of the
cannon have changed their tune into
sweet, softening music like that OF
the angels who sang upon the de-
parture of Christ from earth to
Heaven.
Our Dick may now rest on his
laurels. II he never makes another
speech, he will go down to posterity
as the greatest man Of his age.
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DIR. E. D. PRIME, one of the edi-
tors of the New York Observer, had
very narrow escape from the great
New York fire, the particulars Of
which have appeared in our press
dispatches. He was writing at lis
desk in an inner room when the fire
broke out. On getting into the hall
way he found the smoke so thick anC
the heat SO intense that he feared te
venture down stairs. He opened {
window and crawled along a broad
stone ledge to the Times building
holding on to a sign,board. Fl,
reached the ground in safety, ate
considerable difficulty, and could Sc,
his desk where he had been seated
in flames. His brother, the we'll
known DR.. S. Iren@us Prime, es
capped without his hat. The files o
the paper and a reference librar,
which had been accommodating thirt,
years were destroyed. The foreman
of the office was among
the lost. The Observer has rented
an office in the Tribune building
and its publication will probably b
interrupted but short time. IT.
subscription books were lost, bu
they have duplicates. The Observes
is one of the ablest and most widel,
circulated religious journals in til,
world.
IT is utterly useless and profound
" preposterous to waste time in try