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Year: 1871

THE Democratic CnoIcE I'm view of
the vital issues at stake, Democrats will
discard all personal or sectional preferen-
ces in selecting their standard bearer.
They aim solely to choose tried and true
man who will till the exalted position of
President with honor to himself and e.
deity to the oath he will take. one above
the reach Of a bribe. and who can neither
be coaxed, fattered nor intimidated into
ong-doing.
Year: 1871

GENTLEMEN OF THE CoNvEN-
TONI am here to-day to return TO
you, and through yOn 20 the people
of the State of Tennessee, that trust
which two years ago they eonfided
te my hands. You, gentlemen of
the convention, are here 20 receive
that trust for yourselves and for
your people, and to bestow it upon
one who stands worthy and well ap-
proved by that people as my success
sor, General John G. Brown, of the
county of Giles. Applause /
might, gentlemen of the convention,
enter into a review of the past:
might propose to render to yon an
account of my stewardship during
the time which this trust has been
in my hands, but for this, gentlemen
of the convention, and the people
who honored me with this trust,
l shall refer you TO your very eff
cient officers, to whom most of the
labor and most of the good, if any,
has grown from my administration.
belong. l mean to your very eff
cient Comptroller, Treasurer, Sec
retary of Safe and the other various
officers who have charge of the ins-
titutions of the country. l say i
might review all this, but.I shall not
do it. / viii say st once and frank
ly that have not been the origina-
tor of any great scheme to forward
your financial interest. That inter
erst or that financial burden has
been reduced nearly one half. / have
been the originator of no great par
ty scheme that has been set on foot,
or forwarded any party or set of
principles, but will say, and ii is
the proudest thought of my life,
that no act of mine has brought sor-
row to a single bosom in Tennesse.
My whole effort has been and shall
continue to be, in the private walks
of life, TO bring peace to the borders
of my native State, to heal the past
and to have but one thought-and
that is to look forward &c the fu-
ture. [Applause,l


You, gentlemen of the Legislature,
now assembled at the capital of the
State to take in hand the interest Of
the people of the State, much rests
with you-much rests with you
but / shall be brief and only say this
to you that hope that justice may
preside, that wisdom may dictate
and that moderation shall mark your
councils. l shall retire TO private
life, and then, as when the Execu-
tive, my efforts shall be to see the
laws OfTennessee maintained, aud
to stand by and assist and hold up
the hands Of your executive in dis
charging each and every one Of his
duties. This is the duty, the high,
great duty, of every man who is the
lover offree institutions and Fepub-
lican government. But, enough
You, sir, Undressing Governor
Brown who are about TO enter upon
this high duty, one which win i'm
volve many of the troubles, many
cares, many tolls, as well as the
honOfs that the mantle with which
this people are about TO elothe you
you shall have my whole wishes
as citizen, and hope, sir, that
your administration will be mark
ed as peaceful and prosperous and
and happy as the people who elect
you deserve.
Year: 1871

The New York Democracy in
council at Rochester, on the 4th
inst, passed without dissent the fol-
lowing resolutions:


The Democracy Of New York rec
ognizes the emancipation and en-
franchisement, and equality before
the law, of the freedmen of the
South, as an inevitable consequence
of the civil war and overthrow of
the rebellion, and declare it the duty
of all to sustain them in all their
rights.


Resolued, That now that appre-
tensions are expressed that the So
cial and religious equality of the
people is menaced, we renew the
pledges of our fidelity to the great
Democratic doctrine of equal and
exact justice to all men of whatever
creed or nationality, and special IA
vOrs to none.
Year: 1871

How brightly through the mist OF year
My quiet country house appears,
Ny father, busy all the day


In plOwing OF rsking hay;


My mother, moving with delight
Among her milk-pans silver bright;


Wechildren. just from school set free,
Filling the garden with our glee:
The blood OF life was flowing warm
When 1 was living on a farm.


1 hear the sweet ehurchgoing bell
As DER the fields its music fell.
L see the country neighbors round
Gathering. meath the pleasant sound.
They stop 4 while beside the door,
They talk their homely matters Ger
And chow we need little rain
"A little sun would do no harm,
We want good weather on the farm
When autumn esme, what JOY 10 see
The gathering OF the husking bee,
To hear the voices keeping tune,
or boys and girls beneath the moon,
To mark the golden eorn-ears bright,
More golden in the yellow light.
Since I have learned the ways Of nrH.
l often turn 20 these again.
Aud feel life wore lis highest ehsrnl
When was liyiag on farm.
Year: 1871




How beautiful The following gem
from the pen OF The late Geo. j.
Prentice, and how happy the heart
that can see these beauties ss he
portrays the:


seWhy is il that the rain and the
cloud come over us with 81 beauty
that is not of earth, and then pass
away, and leave us 10 muse on their
faded lOyeliness Why is il that
the stars which hold their nightly
festival around the midnight throne
are placed shove reach hofourlinited
faculties, forever mocking as With
their nnapprOachable glory ? And
why is il that bright forms of hu-
man beauty are presented TO our
view, and then taken from us, leav-
ing the thousand streams OF afiec-
ton TO flOw back in Alpine torrents
upon our hearts We are born TO a
higher destiny than that Of Garth
There is a realm where the rainbow
never fades-where the stars viii be
set out before us ike islands that
slumber on the ocean. and where
the beautiful being that passes be-
fore us like q meteor will stay In our
presence forever"
Year: 1871




Itisa well-known fact that many
persons have very fine and orderly
houses, but have, after all, no home,
for


@Home's not merely four square walls


Though with pictures hung and gildcd.
Home IL where affection calls,


fflled with sArinez the haart hnih build


A homekeeper Is one who makes
all the ways and conveniences Of the
house conduce TO the comfort OF the
inmates. She viii allow the mem
bcrs Of her household to build each
a shrine, aud will treat IL as sacred,
because IL is a shrine TO the one who
has builded it, The daughter Is not
called an idle thing because she wish
es to know her tune, and eazes wist-
fully toward the horizon; nor Is the
son reprOved IL he shall slam around
and wish he was-anywhere but
idling at home. Gradually the
housekeePer will quietly aid the
first to search for beauty this side
the horizon, and that boy viii find
q vent for his activity without sec
ing he was gently led TO It by an
over seeing love.


A house that is blessed with 3
honsekeeper has an influence that
even strangers feel. They receive
that rest which comes from the
fitting OF self to its sphere" The
order OF the house may be mechani-
cal like that of . harp or loom; but
like these mechanical things il con-
duees TO results, and justifes itself
by tissues OF more than silken fine
ness, and music sweeter than that Of
the spheres.


If there Is homekeeper the house
work is not in utter confusion, If,
perchance, one rises an hour too
late. Servants are not expected 20
perform miracles, and keep coffee
and toast hot and fresh for an hour.
A breakfast such as late risers
should expect, is eaten in peace, and
not In a hurry Of excuses fer not
having a meal that il was impossible
TO furnish without Inconvenience
in the kitchen for the whole day.


IL is foolish 20 attempt to keep a
restaurant with only the arrange
ments suited 10 q small family. The
peace OF many family is destroyed
by atet14rIIn1 IuFo6s Ihe
breakfast Of the late tlset need NOT
have an added TRADE against SER
wants. Realizing that the guest re-
grets his tardiness, she lets the cold
breakfast suffice, but does what she
can by word, look and act to make
the best Of what cannot be helped,
and really so calls out the gratitude
of the late riser, that ever after that
breakfast is bright and 4 pleasant
memory; for he feared he was nui-
sance, yet without direct word he
felt that his act did not disc0mmOde
the arrangements of the house. His
best thought was called out, and
that house VIII stand TO him In after
life as q home, for s'there Is where
the heart can bloomp Homekcep-
ing can be well done by an energetic
woman. Housekeeping requires that
the woman's heart and wisdom be
greater than her house, and that she
keeps the house, only that in il life
can be lived with love and truthful
ness. ts
Year: 1871

Often, as we sit in the twilight
musing over the past, memory calls
up the face of one and another who
has crossed our life-pathway for a
brief space, and then we have lost
sight of them forever. We wonder
where they are and what has been
their history, and if we shall ever
meet again. If our hearts are spir-
itually alive, a deep yearning nils
them for the souls of these friends,
and we long to meet them on the
shores of Heaven.


y British man-of-war was once
sent to convoy a little sloop with
costly ladiBg, from the Cape of
Good Hope 70 England. They sail-
ed together for a time, but in ter
rible storm they became separated.
The captain of the great ship was
sad, for he feared some disaster had
befallen his little friend. Every
time he thought of il, it was with a
heavy breath. But when he enter
ed the harbol of Portsmouth, and
the fog lifted, there was the little
craft safely anchored along side of
him. Is had got home first


just such surprises there will one
day be in the heavenly harbor. We
shall meet those who have passed
from our sight and knowledge here,
and together rejoice in singing the
new sOug. If we are faithful 10 the
souls Of those we meet with, we
shall experience a double joy and
surprise in learing that our efforts
were blessed to their salvation.-
Many a sad-kearted Sunday school
teacher Who here saw no fruit of
her labofs will there find precious
.harks anshored beside her. over
which she has wept and prayed as
she thought in vain. A good old
man once said that when he got to
Heaven he should no doubt have
three great surprises. One would
be that he did not see some there
he expected would be there; but the
greatest surprise of all that he was
there himself.-Latherdn Observer.
Year: 1871

God knows what keys in the hu-
man soul to touch in order to draw
out its sweeter and most perfect har-
monies. They may be the strains
of sadness and sorrow; they
may be the loftier notes OF joy and
gladness. God knows where the
melodies Of nature are, and what
discipline viii bring them forth
Some with plaintive tongue must
wax in the lewiy OF LIES weary
way; others in loftier wales and
hymn Of ofnothingIbut JOY as they tread
the mountain tops of life f; but they
all unite without discord or jar as
the ascending anthem OF love and
believing hearls finds its way into
the chorus of the redeemed in heav,
en-.
Year: 1871

Martin Van Buren is the only
man who held the Office OfPresident,
Vice President, Minister to Eng
land, Governor of his own State,
and Member Of both IlOuses of Con-
gress-


The road TO eminence and power
from obscure condition ought not
to be made too easy, nor thing too
much of course. If rare merit be the
rarest of all rare things, it ought TO
pass through some sort Of probation.
The temple of honor ought TO be
seated on an emiuence. III il be open
through virtue, let il be remember
ed. too. that virtue is never tired
but by some difficulty and some
struggle.
Year: 1871

Ills no use OF bewailing
Our want OF success;
And all unavailing


Are teaIs of distress.
The soul that is cheerful
Will struggle through all;
But the heart that is fearful
Is fated TO fall.
Year: 1871

The lapidary cuts the diamond
with the diamond hammer and anvil
both OF the same kind God, in
Scripture, styled his servants his
Jewels. His diamonds they are, but
alasl rude, rough, unpolished, with
out shape or fashion, as they arise
naked out of the bed of the earth.
before art hath dressed them.
Year: 1871

Old Andrew Fuller says: Whose
ever hath plundered me of my books
and papers, freely forgive him, and
desire that he may fully understand
and make good use thereof, wishing
him more JOY of them than he hath
right to them.
Year: 1871

We want to engage some competent
person at each important locality in
this and adjoining counties, to furnish
us, weekly, with all the items of in
Icrest transpiring in their respective
localities.
Year: 1871

We understand that road working is
going on pretty extensively this week.
Circuit court is approaching. We sup
pose we ought to acknowledge the
courtesy extended to us by our over
seer in omitting to ,carn us.
Year: 1871

We learn that on Monday evening
last Mr.. Tiff Stuart, a well known
citizen of this county, got his hand
caught in a cotton gin, and nearly all
the flesh torn off his arm from the
elbow down.
Year: 1871

A modest and v1rtuous young man,
on first going into society, is apt to be
sorely perplexed upon the question how
to make himself agreeable to ladies.
He need not be ashamed of his per-
plexity. Washington Irving, in one of
his early sketches, confessed that a
well-dressed lady was an object per-
fectly lawful to his young imagina-
ton. We were once acquainted with
a gentleman of distinction in~'public
life, the father of several accomplished
daughters, who could not, even at his
fiftieth year enter a drawing room
where ladies were present without en-
barrassment. 1t is good sign for Il
young man to stand in some awe of the
beautiful sex. A person of coarse and
vulgar mind, who thinks more of him
self than his best friends thinks of him,
and knows little of the worth of good
woman's heart rushes fearlessly in
where an Irving or an Addison would
blush to tread. Bear this in mind,
young gentlemen who blush and STAN
mer in the company of young ladies
the girls are as much afraid of you as
you are of them. You are awkward
in your manners you think. If YOU
think so, it is likely your friends think
otherwise for the really ill-bred fell
lows that we haye seen, never suspect
ed their ill-breeding. And, after all,
what is good breeding, but habitual
good nature? The simple fact that
you wish to please is a proof that you
possess or soon will acquire the power
to do So The good heart and well
formed mind will soon give grace to the
dem eanor, or will so abundantly atone
for the want of it, that its absence will
never be noticed. Besides, the ladies
that is the most of them---like man
who is simple in his manners, provided
that they see that there is substance
and worth in him. Graceful manners
and ready wit are as good as far as
they go but be sure OF this, oh, bash
full, blushing youth, that, in the society
of ladies and gentlemen, you viii pass,
in the long run, for what you arc worth,
no more, no less. The art Of pleasing,
therefore is nothing more than becom-
ing an honest, kind, intelligent and
hichminded man. Such a man, be he
as graceful as Chesterfield or awkward
as Caliban, all worthy women trust
and love.
Year: 1871

Foam crested waves, from morn to night,
That met all round the deep blue sky,
With here and there sail in sight,
Which came, then vanished to the eye.
Our glittering wake shone far behind,
A path of silver reaching back;
With shril voice sang the salt sea wind
The petrol lowering IN our track.
Linked arm in arm, when skies were fair,
We trod the deck with thoughtless aim,
Or sometimes. idly seated there,
Watched the fair sails which went and


came.


Or, gazing down along the deep,


We marked the long, dark, lndo!ent


swells,


And saw the bounding porpoise leap,
And heard on board the half hour bells.
OH what to US was Times swift fight
Or Time itself, beyond a name?
Oh! what to us the noon or night,
To whom all seasons we're the same!
For love possessed our souls, and drew
His rosy veil before our eyes,
And, stepped in bliss, our souls looked


through


The open gates Of Paradise.
Left far behind the new world lay;


Dim, distant, shadowy and vast,
The old world rose before our way,


Replete with records of the past.
What time fair Hesperus, rising. cleaned
In crimson deeps where sank the breeze,
The red sun from the far west seemed
To drop into the purple seas.
And on the farthest verge of night


Rose the full moon like some pale nun,
Her face all wet with tears, and white,
When the sweet vesper hymn is done.
Or sailing on from high to higher,


By skirts of silver shining clouds,
She seemed at times ball of FIRE,


That struggles in the tall, dark shrouds.
On our side, spanned with quivering light
The phosphorescent ocean lay,
And on the other, lost to sight,


The shadowy waves stretched far away.
And sometimes, like silent ghost,


Dim outlined on the dark night sky,
Some fair ship, from a foreign coast


In distant seas would pass US by.
OF soft, still night; oh /! calm, rich days,
To which my thoughts like currents bend,
In whose bright wake my fancy plays,
There is no voyage but hath its end.
One morn woke to scent the breeze
That owe! the English downs had swept ;
And round our PROV in sluggish ease
The waters of the Mersey slept.
Year: 1871

A correspondent of the Journal of the
Farm, whose reliability and experience is
indorsed by the editor, in an article on
cotton seed and its uses, says:


There is cake something like lin
seed) which is ground, and called cotton
seed meal. This will soon be in general
use by all good dairymen, and, to illus
trate this, will give the result.of one
experiment by large dairyman in Mary
land, who sells all his products (milk) in


he city of Baltimore.


He had two cows coming in at the
same time when he commenced his ex-
pertinent. These cows were not giving
nine quarts per day. One he continued
to feed as he did his other COWS, but for
the other he added to a peck of ordinary
mill feed, one pint of cotton seed meal,
and fed two quarts of the mixture twice
a day. The result was, that, on the
third day, the milk had increased to
eleven quarts per day, and continued to
increased until the seventh day, when the
yield was seventeen quarts. At this
quantity it continued as long as his meal
lasted, and not being able to procure
more, the yield (under the ordinary feed
ing) went back to nine quarts per day
The milk from the cotton seed feed was
much richer in taste and color than the
other. This experiment was made last
winter. This season he will feed all his
COWS with it. j. j. A.
Year: 1871

Torpor is the characteristic of Winter


Vegetation dies or falls into a state Of


trance. The whole aspect of inanimate ma.
ture teaches us that there is paralyzing in
fuenee in the air, and ought to teach as tha
our bodies require an increase ofvital powe
to contend with it. Some even of the warn


blooded animals bury themselves in tie
earth and remain in a state of partial stup4
faction until the season is over, and TIE
elixir of the spring sunshine stimulats
their stagnant blood, and restores ther
vigor. But man, although he feels the in
fiuence of the season, can protect himsef
against inclemency, He has fuel to warn
him externally, and can tone and strengthen
his internal organization and endow it with
the extra amount of vitality which the cir
cumstances require. OF all invigorant
that have ever been recommended for thi
purpose, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is tn.
purest and the best. Fortified by the daily
use of this wholesome vegetable tonic, the
human system may defy the chills and
damps OF winter in any latitude. It's effeci
is to promote brisk and regular circula-
ton of the blood, and activity in all the Sc
cretive organs. Without the slightest ten.
dency to produce fever, it imparts health
full glow to the surface, and stimulates the
exteriorvessels to discharge, in the form OF
gentle perspiration, the useless matter elm
mated from the blood. Thus the system is
kept unclogged. Fever and ague, bilious
ness, indigestion and collie, all of which are
common consequences of the searching
damps and low temperature of winter, may
be avoided Gas well as cured) by course Of
this genial tonic and Alternative.
Year: 1871

THE WEEKLY CLARION at two dollars, and
THE SEhI-WEEKLY CLARION at four dollars
per year, is certainly as low as newspapers
can be published in this latitude; and a
very liberal subscription list, witha rigid
adherence to the cash system, can alone
justify the publishers at such rates. In
opening new set of books with the new
year, we have dropped the names of about
eight hundred who are either in arrears for
the paper, or have rot seen proper to renew.
We hope to have the pleasure of re-enter-
ing each name. If not, we have the satisfac-
tion of knowing that there are yet host who
prize THE CLARION sufficiently to advance
the moderate subscription price. In future,
the paper will be discontinued when time
paid for expires. Our readers who fail or
decline to comply with oar terms, must not
take exception when they miss THE CLARI-
ON at their post Office. just before time ex-
pires the usual X mark will be found on
the margin.
Year: 1871

1t is an old story, but good one, tat
tells of very negligent man who ras
going away on visit to some frierls.
His wife extorted from him solemn 70.
mise that he would abandon his usual us
tom, and and put on clean shirt eery
day. So she packed dozen in his
trunk. When he ccme home again, his
wife was glad to perceive he had grwn
more feshy; but she was alarmed whn,
on examining his trunk, she discoyeed
there was not a shirt in it. He had hpt
his promise to mount clean one evry
day, but he always put it on over the tn
ers, and now he was sporting arond
with whole dozen on his backl Soae
man will never let women have their wa.
Year: 1871

BoNE FELoS.-The London Lancet
recommends the following as the bes
remedy yet discovered for this most ex
cruciafing disease sAs soon as the dis
ease In felt, put directly over the spot a
fly blister about the size Of your thumb
nail, and let it remain for six hours, mt
the expiration of which time, directly
under the surface of the blister, may be
seen the felon, which can instantly be
taken out with the point Of needle or
lancet
Year: 1871

Yes, plant great many, they will come
Just in time when the sweet potatoes by
most families are used up. Impress it
also on the minds of the freedman to fol-
low your example, and that it is better
for him to have Irish potatoes during the
summer to partly subsist on, than to go
to the store and buy provisions at ruinous
prices. Irish pototoes are healthy food
and save both meat and corn. | have
seen thousands of families subsisting on
the potato during the whole year, and be
strong to do all kind of hard work, and
the people were very healthy.


In selecting the seed / prefer the
g Early Rose" They are the surest,
yield more than other kinds and are more
palatable.


In preparing the ground for potatoes, I
break it up deep and subsol it. If I
have plenty short, well-rotted manure, I
spread it broadcast before breaking up
and plow it under. IF my manure is
not well rotted and consists partly of
straw, leaves, pine-straw, etc., put it on
the potatoes In the row.


After breaking and subsoiling, har-
row the ground well, and then lay off the
rows three and half to four feet apart,
by running a flrrow about six inches
deep, and plant the potatoes about eigh-
teen inches apart in the rows.


7 The culture is very simple, but must
be done in time. As soon as the plants
are all up, the ground ought to be Stirred,
either with cultivator or in small
patch with the hoe. When the plants
have reached seven to eight inches, they
ought to be hoed again and TILED well.
This Is the last work and ought to be
done with care. The ridges ought to be
made large enouge, so that no growing
tubers are ever exposed to the light.