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Year: 1872

Hon. Gustavus A. Henry, in re-
sponse to a call made on him by


''many citizens of all parties,' to


become a candidate for Congress }


for the State at large, declines in IA


vor Of Gen. Cheatham, and pays to
the gallant soldier the following de-
served compliment:


81 am for him. I cannot get my
consent to oppose him for any of
fee to which he may aspire. / have
too long admired his selfsacrifcing
patriotism to throw myself in the
way Of his advancement, to say
nothing of the ties of private friend
ship which shall never be severed
by me. For long years 1 have
watched his course, and have found
him in the front rank of volunteers.
When the bugle called him to de-
fend the national honor and its flag
on the plains of Mexico, or to estab-


ish Southern independence in the
war between the States-a sincere,
earnest and honorable man, who has
rever faltered to tread the path of
duty, though it might lead to dan
ger or to death. For all these he
roic services in which he has met
death face to face on a hundred
fields, he has received no token of
the love or appreciation of the peo-
pie of his own beloved Tennessee,
the land of his birth. During the
war was in a position to know the
high appreciation put upon his ser
vices by the Government of the
Confederate States and commanders
of the armies in which he served.
He was regarded as the great divis-
ion commander TO whom all looked
for support in the trying hour of
danger and whose cool courage and
generalship often turned the tide of
many a battle. The people Of Ten
nessee owe him a debt of gratitude
and now is the time to pay it, The
great body Of the people feel it is
incumbent upon them to discharge
the debt, and the gallant men who
so often followed his dashing plume
in the hottest of the fight, will not
now falter to bear him to victory.
Year: 1872

George William Curtis paints the
following pathetic picture, which
every one could wish were less true
to nature: 81 think of many a sad
eyed woman I have known in solita-
~ country homes who seemed nev-
er to have smiled, who struggled
with hard hands through melting
heat and pinching cold to hold back
poverty and want that hovered like
wolves about an ever increasing
flock of children. How it was scOur
in the morning and scrub at night
and scold all day longi How care
blurred the window like a cloud,
hiding the lovely landscapel How
anxiety snarled at her heels, dog
ging her like a cur! How little she
knew or cared that bobolinks, drunk
with blithe idleness, tumbled and
sang in the meadows below, that
the earth was telling the time of
year with flowers in the woods
above. As I think Of these things,
Of this solitary incessant drudgery,
of the taciturn husband coming in
heavy with sleep, too weary to read,
ID talk, to think, and I do not won
der that mad houses are SO richly re
cruited from the farm houses as the
statistics show"
Year: 1872

There is an old superstition that


praise is too good a thing 70 be Civ


en- to children; that it is too rich for


their mental and moral digestion
Some parents are so afraid that a


child will grow proud that they nev-


er praise him, and this course is Of


ten disastrous. It is apt 20 produce
either too much self-assertlon-for
self-assertion is a legitimate out


growth of the Withholding Of com


mendation to which one is entitled
or to engender q self-distrust or


melancholy hOpelessness of dIsposi-


Uion.


Praise is sunshine to a child, and


there is no child that does not need
it. 1t is the high reward of ones
struggle to do right. Thos. Hughes
says that yeu can never get a mans
best out of him without praise
Many a sensitive child, we believe,
dies of a hunger for kind commend
alton. Many a child starving for
the praise that a parent should give,
runs of eagerly after the designing
fattery Of Others.


To withhold praise where it is due
is dishonest, and in the case of a
child such a course often leaves a
singing sense of injustice. No
tives of common justice, as we'll as
a singing regard for the future of
the child should influence the parent
to give generous praise for ali that
deserves it. OF course there is
difference in the constitution of
children. Some cannot bear so
much praise as others, and some
need a great deal.


It should never be indiscriminate. !
We remember a wonderful woman
who taught school in one village un-
til she had educated part of three |
generations. She was one of the !
most successful of teachers. But |
success lay in her gift of praising
with discrimination. A bad boy |
who was a good scholar got praise |
for his brilliancy and switched be- |
tween her admonitions for his bad |
and so was won TO better
life, and we recall a good girl who |
had no gift of learning rapidly, but /
who was saved from utter dispair by |
the praise she got by her untlring
industry. Into the discouraged |
hearts of the children the praises of
the children came like sunlight
But the virtues like other good
fruits, can only ripen in the sun
shine. I
Year: 1872

If had known in the morning
How wearily all the day
The words unkind would trouble my


mind,


That l said when you went away,
l had been more careful, darling,
Nor given you needless pain;
But we vex our own with look and tone
We might never take back again.
For though in the quiet evening
You may give me the kiss Of peace,
Yet it might be that never for me
The pain of the heart should cease!
How many go forth at morning
Who never come home at nightl
And hearts have broken for hard words


spoken,


That sorrow ne'er set right.
We have careful thought for the stran-


ger,


And smiles for the sometime guest;
But oft for our own the bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.
Ahl lips with the curve impatient
All! brow with the shade of scOrn
'Twere a cruel fate were the night too


late


To undo the work of mOrnl
Year: 1872

That is a good motto-hOnor
bright-and I wish you would all
adopt it, not for special things, but
for every word and action of your
whole lives. If you make promise
in great things or small, stick to it
carefully, sacredly, ''honor bright" ="
no matter how much it costs you,
provided you have not pledged
Yourself to a wrong. If you have,
there can be no honor about it, ex-
cept in frankly saying Il made a
bad promise; I am ashamed Of it; l
cannot keep it," and do not let any
foolish notion about honor make you
stick to the wrong.
Year: 1872

The most degraded and wretched
of human beings, is he who has
practiced a vice so long that he cur
ses it while he clings to it; who pur-
sues because he feels a great law of
his nature driving him on towards
it; but reaching it, knows that it
will gnaW his heart and make him
roll himself in the dust with an
guish.
Year: 1872

The best hand in the world is an
honest hand, be it hard or soft,
white or brown, smooth or rough,
angular or shapely; an honest palm
that takes the hand of q friend with
a warm, hearty grasp, as If there
was nothing in the heart TO conceal,
only warmth and kindness toward
all. This is the best and most
beautiful hand in the ord.
Year: 1872

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sab
scription Is Outand unpaid, and that you
are requested TO pay up at once. we
would take great pleasure In extending
credit to our ffiends and patrons, buG
cash alone win pay expenses, aad Ws
are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you VIII comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such q
course, and renew your subscriptions
without delay. We solicit your favOE


EA- We enter no new names on cur
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1872

1t win afford sweeter happiness in
the hour OF death to have wiped one
tear from the cheek Of sorrow than
to have ruled an empire, TO have
conquered millions, or 70 have en-
shaved a world.
Year: 1872




The leaders of this johnson mOoeaerat
all over the State have been all the time and
are now OutspOken in their purpose to dis
member and disorganize the Conservative
or Democratic party. We know and they
know that there are but two political par
ties in Tennessee. One is the Radical par
ty, and the other is the Conservative or
Democratic party. The Conservative par
ty is the only party in the State that pre-
tends to offer opposition to the Radical
party. Every Conservative or Democrat
vote for Andrew johnson, whether willing
ly or not, is a vote cast for the Radical
nominee. If johnson can succeed in get
ting enough Conservative votes TO
defeat Gen. Cheatham he elects
Horace Maynard. Maynard can alone be
defeated by the concentrated strength of
the Democratic or Conservative party-if
this strength is sufficiently divided or "dis-
organized" the Radical nominee is elected.
This is the only hope Maynard has of cleo
ton. Then let every voter consider that
every vote cast for Andrew johnson is a
vote for Horace Maynard. Horace May
nard il. elected at all will be elected not less
by the votes that Andrew johnson receives
than by the votes he directly receives him
self. If we did not for other reasons prefer
Gen. Cheatham to Andrew johnson, We
would feel bound to support Cheatham
in this race against Johnson be-
cause Cheatham is the candidate
of the only party or organization
in the State that presents an opposing front
to Radicalism. Mr.. johnson prides him
self that he is the candidate Of no party.
Then he is the candidate OF no organiz4-
tion. We can only hope to preserve our
State government from reverting TO the
Radicals by preserving our organization.
We can only preserve our organization by
supporting the nominees of our party con-
ventions. Is it not infinitely better to sup
port a nominee whom we do not like, than
to 6isorganize our party? 1t is not expected
that every party nomination viii give entire
satisfaction to every one. The great pur-
pose Of conventions is to hGYmOHize and
unite our strength upon some one candi-
date of our party. The very nature of our
government requires and demands Of the
people this policy.
Year: 1872

Mr.. JOHNSON set out some years ago
to make "treason odious and traitors in
famous" We thought he had quit that
when the war ceased, but in the present
canvass lie would Ostracise all ex-Rebels for
ever, saying they "can with a poor grace
ask office under a government which they
tried TO DESTROY"
Year: 1872

BE not deceived by the Johnsonites say
ing we can safely divide as We please and
still beat Maynard. The Radical vote is
drilled to man, and will be out in full
force. 1t viii take something Of good
old-fashioned Democratic rally on our
nominee TO beat the Radicals.
Year: 1872

TENNESSEE BONDS closed in New
York last evening at decline to 79t for
both issues. This decline is doubtless due
to the efforts in this State to disrupt the
Democratic party, which has done SO much
to rebuild our State credit.
Year: 1872

And the voice answered-it is the Amen of
the sacred drama: "Wait! Ye shall know"
1t were presumptuous to praise this grandly-
conceived poem as one might wreathe with
easy roses some gay madrigal. A wiser than
/ will sit in the chair of the critic; and, mean
time, / shall be satisfied if have given YOU
some notion of the new poetical sensation
which the month of April has in store.
Year: 1872

The Bangor (Me.,) Wing states that
on Tuesday evening, as the down
train on the Bangor and Piscataqua
Railroad was being made up at Old
town for connection with the Z. & n.
A., train, while a locomotive Of the
former line, was moving quite swiftly
at a short distance from the depot, a
lad of about seven years of age walked
into the centre of the track, uneon-
scious Of the approaching engine
The locomotive came rushing along,
and the bystanders, Mortified at the
peril of the boy, shouted wildly to
him to run; but the discovery of his
peril seemed to paralyze his limbs, and
he stood apparently rooted to the spot
by his terror. But Just as the engine
had almost reached him a young man
rushed from the crowd to the rescue,
seized the boy as the pilot Of the en-
CINE was within q few feet Of thespOt,
threw him by main force to the plat
form beside the rails, and by mighty
effort sprang, almost at the same
time, clear the the track, apparently
grazing front of the engine as it thun-
dered by. The brave fellow who per-
formed this noble act is a young man
named Luther SOaper, Of OldtOwn,
about eighteen years of age. The
hearty cheers which greeted his hu-
name achievement were well deserv-
ed.
Year: 1872

ABOUT the time, however, Of the
breaking out of the last war with Eng
land Uattte had made rather free with
some American shipping and Uncle
Sam took the gentleman of free and
easy habits to task aboutit. The result
was that pardon was granted to Lafitte
and such of his followers as chose to
accept the conditions, which were to
Year: 1872




STRONG MINDED WOMEN?


Correspondence of Golden Age.l


However much a man may have seemed to
be before marriage with strong-minded wo-
man, from that fatal hour the process of alb
sorption begins and never ceases till he disap-
pears utterly as an individual existence
The case of the husband of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton is an instance of this sort. Mr. STAN
ton before his marriage was young man Of
fine culture, broad and liberal thinker,
young orator for whom great fame was pre-
dicted by all who knew him, and for some
time it seemed that his native powers were
such as to enable him to escape the action of
the general law-but there is no resisting the
forces of nature; by slow degrees the process
of absorption went on; little by little he sank
from public view till he disappeared from
sight altogether, as one of the editors of the
Sun.


The husband of Lucy Stone offers us anoth-
er variety. II. B. Blackwell was never much
before his semi-union with Lucy Stone. He
is less than nothing now. The husband of
Paulina Wright Davis is another unmport-
ant fact of coDjugal history. The husband
vi Mrs. LiVerLnOre Is known only IN tradition.
There Is myth to the effect that an inno-
cent and worthy clergyman of that name and
of the Universalist persuasion, once married
Mrs. Liyermore. Having immortalized him
self by this fact, he retired from the public
gaze to the modest seclusion of the domestic
circle-as was very proper


The husband of Julia Ward Howe did not
yield to his fate without a struggle. He made
superhuman efforts to bring himself up by
philanthropy. He grasped at the Santo Do
mingo Commission with the clutch of des-
pair, but 1t was all in vain. Destiny in the
shape of Mrs. Howe was too much for him.
Let us respect the courage which deserved
better fate. The husbands of Victoria c.
Woodruff have climbed the hill of notoriety
through her mediumship. AS Agricola owed
his immortality to the pen of Tacitus, so DIR.
Woodruff will be known to fame only by the
annals of his wife's biographer. Colonel
Blood is doing his Intellectual best to retain
his individuality in the columns of Woodruff
& Clafin's weekly. His struggles are heroic,
but he may rest assured he cannot escape the
general fate of his class. Susan B. Anthony
has no husband. Though stern, she is mer-
| ciful. Various desperate and devoted men,
ensnared by her girlish charms, have essayed
to plunge headlong into the melstrom of mat
rimony; but with firm, though gentle hand,
she has withheld them from the fatal leap,
nobly refusing to accept the sacrifice.
Year: 1872

GRAND BALL on THANKSGIVING EvE.-Thc
Catholic Beneficial Society will give a grand
ball at Assembly Hall on "Wednesday eve
ming, November 9th Thanksgiving eve.
The proceeds will be devoted to the 1nr-
chase of Il banner for the Society. The affair


will doubtless be pleasant one, us the com
mittee are well known gentlemen, and will
leave nothing undone to make the ball sue
Year: 1872

DEATH OF AN OLD CrrlzEN.-We are again
called upon to add another name to the long
roll of old and respected citizens who are
rapidly passing from our midst William
John Clarke, SO long and fayorably known
in this community, died yesterday morning
about O'Clock at his residence, on Eighteenth
street near Broad. The immediate cause OF
his death was a fall from the front porch of
the house in which he lived, but it is thought
that he might have survived so severe an ac-
cident had not his nerves been dlsordered BY
the fatigues attending bis superintendent
Of tue removal of the remains Of the Friends
from the old cemetery of that Society, on
Cary street. This pious undertaking is really
believed to have been the cause of his death.
Such generous sacrifice of self should not
escape the faithful narrator Of noted events.


Mr.. Clark was born in the County Antrim,
Ireland, in the year 1900, and was brought
by his parents while yet child to the hospi-
table shores of Virginia. He became in time
q successful merchant, but latterly withdrew
himself from the active pursuits of trade.
At the time of his death he was probably the
oldest known resident Of jefferson Ward.
He was one OF the few surviving members
of the old Richmond Fire Company, which
flourished in full vigor as early as the year
1916. Besides, he was an honorary member
Of the old Blues. soldier in the Richmond
Troop, Il volunteer in the Nat Turner war
in short, there was hardly any enterprise Of
q public character calling for sacrifice at the
hands of the brave and patriotic which failed
to number this spirited gentleman among its
most active supporters.


Mr.. Clark possessed most daring and
unconqucrable spirit. On the occasion Of q
revolt in the city Jail many years ago he put
himself at the head of Il few citizens who,
like himself, had gone tbither to the assist
ance of the iaiIor and succeeded by dis
play OF GOODNESS and tirmness in suppressing
it before the arrival of the military.


So many were bis daring adventurcs-so
many his hair-brcadth escapes-that many
thought he bore charmed life, which could
not be made to yield to anything short of
fate itself.


The society of antiluaries, which we hope
is quite large in this metropolis, he's sus-
tanned severe loss in the death OF this pa
triotic citizen. He had most rCtentivc me-
mory of subjects that belonged to our local
ann lis.


Of old houses that still remain among us ;
of fumlicS the names of many of which are
now remembered by few OF the oldest in
MbltantS of old lisagCs unfamiliar to mod
crn ears, he would discourse by the hour.


a short while before his death he under
took to write down his early impressions OF
men and things in Richmond, with view
to having the snnc published III pamphlet
form. We trust that these memoranda may
come to light soon.


rhr hi,rill service vii! take place th-
afternoon II Il. johns church at j O'Clock.
Year: 1872

The Presidential Election, on Tuesday
last passed off very quietly, light vote
being polled. Up to the time of going
to press Friday noon) the following re-
turns have been received at this office:
Year: 1872

may be rented to the sa1oon-keepers who sell
the liquor which causes the drunkenness which
gives rise to crime responsible to the person
injured by that crime, or his personal repre-
eentatiyes, in damages. The logic Of intoxica-
ton seems not yet to have penetrated the
English mind to anything like this extent.
parhaps It will in time. It is q comfort to
know, however, that the English law was actual
" and Immediately enforced, and that its en-
forceroent was attended everywhere by q marked
decrease Of crime.
Year: 1872

The English mind is seriously aEitated On the
subject OF railroad disasters. It his been com-
puted that no fewer than fifty serio1s accidents
have happened within the space OF month The
Coroner'B inquests in several cases found the
cause in rotten rails and other defects in the
management. It is said that people are Begin
ming to avoid railway travel except in cases Of
actual necessity. Certain it is that the railroad
corporations are beginning to feel the effects Of
these frequent disasters. Some confirmation Of
this nav be found in the following table OF coz1-
parative prices OF stock now and ten montha
Year: 1872

BITTEN BY RAT. An infant child OF


Mr.. Thomas Clinton, living on the cor


ner of Seventh and Cambridge streets, in


Boston, was put to bed by its mother,


who sat down in the next room to do
some sewing. Shortly afterward she
was startled by the shrieks of her infant,
and going into the room saw huge rat,
with its fangs fastened in the nose of the
child, its face and the bed clothing be-
ing covered with blood The mother,
in her turn, shrieked, and her husband
came to her assistance, but the ferocious
animal was with difficulty driven from
the bed. 1t was pursued downstairs
and finally killed. DIR. Norris, who WINS
called to dress the wounds, says the teeth
Of the rat came together through the
nose Of the child, and that its cheek was
bitten through several times, presenting
an appearance of having been punctured
with an awl. Besides these
wounds there were others upon the right
aar
Year: 1872

II is usual to attempt tho management


Of children either by corporeal punish


ment, or by rewards addressed to the


senses, and by words alone There is one


other means of government, the power
and Importance Of which are seldom re-
garded-I refer to the human voice. A


blow maybe inflicted on child, accom-
panied with words SO uttered as TO coun-
teract entirely its intended effect; or the
parent may use language quite objection
able in itself, yet spoken in tone which
more than defeats its influence. What
is it that lulls The infant to repose 1t is
an array Of .sors words. There is no
charm to the untaught one, in letters,
syllabes and sentences. il is the sound
which strikes its little ear that sooths
and composes it to sleep. A few notes,
however unskillfully arranged, if but
read in soft tone, are found to possess n
magic influence. Think we tilt this in
huence, is confined to the cradle No !;
it is diflused over age, and ceases not
while the child remains under the paren-
tai roof. Is the boy growing rude in
manner, and boisterous in speech ? !
know no instrument SO sure to control
these tendencies as the gentle tones OF
a mother. She who speaks to her son
harshly does but give to his conduct
the sanction Of her own example. She
pours oil on the already raging flame


In the presence Of duty we are liable to
uttet ourselves harshly to children.
Perhaps threat is expressed in a loud
and irritating tone; instead of allaying
the passions of the child, it serves directly
to increase them. Every fretful express
sion awakens i'll him the same spirit which
produced it. So does a pleasant voice
call up agreeable feelings. Whatever
therefore, we would encour-
age in child, the same we should man.
lfest in the tone in which we address it.
Year: 1872

JACK FRosr.-A good story is told Of
a Boston man who was boastne in his
workshop of his intention to change his
residence and cheat the city out of his
water rates. One morning he awoke
My to find the water shut off from his
dwelling. Repentant of having expressed
so dishonest determination, he went TO
the Office and paid his bill, after which
he hnnbly requested that the water might
be again let on. To his surprise he was
informed that Jack Frost had shut off
the water, and he returned home. it is to
be hoped, a more honest man. boston
Eloye
Year: 1872

ARE You SQUARE WITH THE WORLD Z
Farmer discusses the question, and
says: "A person in debt is slave to
his creditors. No man is truly happy so
long as debt hevers over him." He COM
mends the Chinese custom Of going
around the first month Of each year and
settling TIP squarely with all with whom
they have had dealings the year past. In
our Judgment, so far as it is possible, it
is better to end the year with no unset.
tied accounts, and begin the year resolved
not 10 hsve any at jts close.
Year: 1872

CHoror OF WIrr.-Dr. Franklin re.
commends young man, In the choice Of a
wife, to select her from bunch, giving As
his reason, that when there are many
daughters they improve each other, and
from emulation acquire more accomplish.
ments, and know more. and do more,
than a single child spoiled by paternal
fondness. This is comfort to people
with large families.
Year: 1872

CLrASrSo TIswARE-An experienced
housekeeper says the best thing for
cleaning tnwaye is common soda. She
gives the following directions Dampen
a cloth and dip in soda and rub the ware
briskly, after which wipe dry. ANY
blackened ware can thus be made TO
look as good as new.