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Year: 1872

When reverse has been encountered, SOL
diers sometimes begin firing into their own
ranks. But we have never heard that reverses
were that way retrieved and we protest most
earnestly against any yielding TO such tempta-
tion now. We can throw away the Presiden-
tial election, or we can carry it. The way to
either result is clear.


Every politician k. ws that it is IN the power
of the cards, fairly played, to win the Presi-
Dental game. Or, to resume the nobler hgure,
the forces In the field are amply sufficient to
win the victory That the Liberal party Is as
certain now to rule the country in the near
future, as was the coalition called the Repub-
lican party after and in spite of its great defeat
in 1856, we take as one Of the palpable facts
of the situation. But it has in the present
struggle this great advantage as compared with
the first national struggle of the party 1t Is
to succeed-that it has an impregnabie
basis of 1913 Southern votes, on which 10
start, with majorities at the late elections IN
enough of the others to bring victory within
its grasp. The campaign for the next three
weeks can be so ordered as to put these latter
States beyond doubt. Shall we not move
unitedly to the work, and do it
Year: 1872




AND JUST JUDGES.


The Judiciary Convention is to meet again
on Monday, and it is possible that some def
mite action may then be taken upon the sub
ject of the nomination of Judges. 1t is not
possible to exaggerate the Importance OF the
decisions at which this Convention will arrive.
1t is infinitely more important than the result
of the Mayoralty contest; so far as we are
locally concerned, it is matter of more moment
than even the national struggle now in prog
ress. Last year the bench of New-York was
a disgrace to republican institutions. justice
was daily bought and sold like huck-
sters' wares. BY succession or fortunate
events, some planned and some unforeseen,
there is now afforded an opportunity to renew
our judiciary system. McCunn has gone to
his account. Cardozo escaped punishment by
resignation. Barnard with his characteristic
bravado stood the issue, and bears the brand
of disqualification. Such chanceis not often
given to people, to start untrammeled with
a faultless system Of judicial appointments,
as is presented to the people of New
York to-day. We cannot appeal too
solemnly to the members of the reformed
and purged association of Tammany Hall
to act in this matter with full sense Of their
heavy responsibility. If they present us names
without blemish-men of leafBing and probity
nominations which will require no defense
and no explanations, they may be elected
almost unanimously, and their election Will be
the best days work the city has done for
many years. There must be no thought or
politics in these nominations; no truck and
dicker. The nominations must be the best
that can be made.


The circular of Messrs. 0'Conor, Peckham,
Choate, and Emott, which we publish to-day,
viii also attract general attention. II is i'm
possible to say whether these gentlemen have
adopted the best means to attain their object.
But the object is altogether praisewOrthy. If
we are ever to get out of the slough of legis-
lative corruption, we must begin at once to
elect men to make our laws who cannot be
bought or tempted. The mistakes Of
last year must not be repeated. Not
withstanding the protest of these gentle
men, the last Legislature tras elected with
definite professions of reform. But sufficient
care was not exercised in the selection of can
didates. Good men and true refOrmers worked
and voted for such fungus-g -growths OF cOrrup
tion as James OBrien because it was thought
they had some personal following which would
be useful in a canvass. OF course, Legisla-
ture into which such elements entered was
failure and q scandal. Let us be
warned. 1t will be infinitely better for
the party of reform to fight these
people and be beaten by them, rather than to
accept them as leaders and give them the
badge of reformers under which to plunder
at their ease. 1t is the interest of the vast
majority, of all except thieves, to have our
laws righteously made and purely admins
tered. If the people care enough for good
government to work for it, they can now Sc
cure clean Bench and clean Legislature.
Year: 1872

The citizens of Chicago on Wednesday feted the
anniversary of their great fire with general TO
joicings and moving into new buildings, and turn
ing over leaves But of all the incidents of thas
unique celebration the most significant, and the one
best worth remembering was the holiday edition OF
The Chicago Tribune sixteen pages of its new quarto
form, containing besides the news Of the day. and
supplement filled with history of the fire and the
of the city nearly forty columns Of adj
vertisements, showing the vast and complex busi-
ness interests which have survived all disasters, and
share in the renewed prosperity of the Emporium Of
the Lakes. We commend ~ those rickety papers
which exist by the good pleasure Of custom-houses
and postmasters this robust proof Of the fact thai
Independent journalism does nav
Year: 1872

Superficial politicians, who think the Liberal
cause has not much foothold in this city, are
invited to scan a partial list of Liberal organ
lizations published on the fifth page of The
TRIBUNE to-day. As sketch of what is do
ing, this array of clubs and bands of workers
may give our skeptical friends a new idea of
things political.
Year: 1872

Sir Alexander has lawyers way of looking
at subjects, choosing sides at once. He seemed
to have forgotten that ne was an arbitrator,
and so made himself an advocate but his ar
gumert in the case does not seem to have af-
fected British opinion concerning the award.
Year: 1872

More uble-istbrewing in Arkansas; and
lest an ATTEMPT should be made to distort this
into n political riot we may as well call
attention to the facts as detailed IN our dls-
patches. The difficulty seems to have onsl-
mated in an attempt to break up political
meeting; but it looks as if the present riot
has been fomented by one of the original
offenders, in order to secure his own safety.
Year: 1872

Thursday, Nov. 2s, has been fixed On by the
President as the National Thanksgiving Day
President Lincoln set the good custom OF ap-
pointing such day by the National Executive;
and now that the States generally have been led
TO uniformity in their selection of the day,
there is reason to hope that State proclama-
tons will be issued accordingly.
Year: 1872

The attention of the Grant Civil Service
Reformers (f any such there be) is directed
to the list of Grant ofiice-hOlders on duty as
inspectors of election, herewith published Has
it come to this then, that the Grant people
cannot trust anybody to watch the ballot-boxes
for them but those who have personal pecu-
mary interest in the result of the clectonf
Or is the Grant party in New-YOrk made up
exclusively of tide-waiters and Oflice-holders
penerallY7
Year: 1872

A fashionable mothers advice to
a newly married daughter: 'Do not
get in the habit of taking your hus-
band with you to evening parties.
Nothing is so stupid as y husband
at party, nor so everlasting in the
Year: 1872

Human Eeings are the only ones


that crave and contract love for


stimulants, II is hardly possible to
make any animal take spirit of any
Eild If compelled to do so, a NOR
bid appetite for it is not developed
rs in man However thirsty, the
will resist the finest artificial driuky
Water is the only fluid which they
demand, and fond rs some Of them
may be of milk, water is with them
II positive necessity.


Braun egeitement-so something that
luickens the nervous system-has al
ways been found with every race Of
people. If they have no ingenuity
in any way that betters their condi-
ton physically, they have a way Of
.c2hiaratng themselves. They fer
mept the juice of fruits, the sop of
plants, make teas Of an Intoxicating
quality, or lastly like the Tartars on
the borders OF the Caspian Sea, who
have no vegetables that meet that
morbid demand, make themselves
mere sayages by acidifed mares
milk,


1t is a marvel in the constitution
Of humanity that his propensity for
excitement by artificial means should
be- SO general all over the world.
Civilization does not overcome it;
laws ouly hold it slightly in check;
moral suasion is a feeble instrumcn-
tality and the question mooted is
what is the next move to be?
Year: 1872

MAN GOING, THE EARTH ABID- ING.-Everything appears to abide but man. The world is the grave of our race. Men who have pre- vailed to open the glorious book of nature, and to look thereon, who have deciphered the mystic char acters traced by an eternal hand on its earliest stone pages, tell us that between the successive acts of creation whole eternities have intervened. And yet in this in- spired volume we read, "Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of Thy hands, they shall perish, but Thou remainest; and they all shall wax olG as doth a garment. and as a vesture shall Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed" There are no signs of decay. The stars that met the wondering gaze of the worlds first fathers look down in their calm and quiet beauty on the men who are but strangers and sojourners here. Nature puts off her veStments when they have become faded and worn in the heat and dust of the world; but in the spring time she puts on garments as beautiful as ever, that have been woven in her own leon during the deadness of winter. The world is a glorious temple. We are told that the worshippers are greater than the temple; and yet we see generations treading it's aisIes, and presently they are lost to view, but the temple abides. It seems as if the world continued and only man passed away Rev. H. J. Bevis.
Year: 1872

Edward Atkinson, who tried to make a
decent platform for the Cincinnati Con-
vention, is as sad as Judge Matthews, and
sadly says:


It is not of much consequence to any one
but myself what my position is; but lest
should be supposed to intend to support
this nomination desire to say that II l
have been ian humble candle of the LORD
in promoting the nomination of Horace
GreeIev' for President, desire to atone
for nv want of sagacity and astuteness
by opposing his election in every posi-
ble way.
Year: 1872

IN PURSUANCE TO A DECREE PRONOUNCED
L ct the March Term, 1872. of the Chancery Court at
ker ct AL will sell at the court house door in Knox
ville on


Saturday the 10Th Day of June next.
at eleven o'clock A. H. all the interest that Jno Par
ger had in the realty attached in this cause at the time
Of the levy of the attachment sufciency thereof
to satisfy the debt and will first sell the twelve
acre tract adjoining the lands of VI IL w Branner in
the md civil district of Knox county. and then the
houses and lots on Main street in the city of Knoxville
adjoining each other and J L Cokcr


TERMS.


Said sale will be made credit Of six months and
in bar of the equity of redemption Note with good Sc
curity will be required of the purchaser
May 2l 1872.


dIw} VI. L. PATTERSON C IN.
Year: 1872

RlouT- The Kentucky Court Of Appeals
recently refused an application for an iniunc-
ton prohibiting the imitation of the trademark
of the noted Bloom of Youth" on the ground
that it was a poisonous and delcterious CON-
pound over which equity would not extend it's
protecting arm.
Year: 1872

Cor RrCH.-A German beggar girl in Bos-
ton, who has no hands. is said to be the owner
of fine residence in that city together with
other valuable property, which she purchased
with the aims received from charitable people.
Year: 1872

The vexed question for the Democrats to solve, is whether they would have a paternal govern ment under Grant or maternal one nnder Gree ley.

 Admitting your question to he in order, which it is not, we'll take t(r)eat in ours.
Year: 1872

A kind word Who can tell the
power of itf How allowing, gentle
word helps u to bear the burdens
Of life, none knows save those who
have been weary Of it and well nigh
fainting. Sometimes we have been
discouraged, the future looked black
and hopeless, and lite seemed a long,
weary road, whose end seemed very
far away. Some one has laid q
gentle hand on our shoulder, and not
only spoken, but looked kind word.
We have felt q thrill through our
being.


hearts, the ice Of cold despair has
melted away, hopeand which was
frozen up, has come forth with re-
nswed vigor.


SO We have stepped on in the way
of life again, thinking that the way
after all was not so long and hard.


A word, look, smile, the press
ure Of gentle hand, how much they
do. ~


Music is beautiful, fills our hearts,
and touches every fiber Of our nature.
Flowers spring round our feet, all
nature is glorious, but above all these
In the sight Of God, ia loving,
helping word or deed. 1t may be
the soup of cold water to a thirsty


soul. 1t may save soul from death.
He notes it, and the Recording
Angelo writes it down and seals it


for the reading at the last day. On


that day only will it be known how


many have been helped in the way to
Heaven by little deeds Of love.
Year: 1872

entrusted with the democratic standard, while
the delegates manifested that sense of reli.f SO
touchingly expressed by the bereaved husband
to the undertaker's men who were filling up
the grave Of his departed wife, when he rs-
marked, with his eye on his watch, it was
just thirteen mi nutes past two when we got
her under"


The Cincinnati Gazette administration de-
clares that, in addition to his (Greeiey's)
'well-known propensity for political intrigue,
there have not been wanting signs of his bar
gaining with the most notorious of the demo-
cratic rings and Of his holding out induce
ments to any who gave signs of opposing him.
by which he has mortgaged the patronage OF
the executive Office, and has by his own act
made the conditions Of the most corrupt com
bination that ever dared to show its head in
public affairs outside the Tammany Ring in
the government of New York city,


But we have not space at present to recount
further the surgings of the groundswell of
the political storm at Baltimore It is sufi-
cient to say that the democratic papers, from
Maine to Georgia, endorse the Baltimore
ticket literally cup to the hub" and that the
recalcitrant democratic journals are ''few and
far between'
Year: 1872

maturely to the grave; there is Sew


ard. one of the wisest men of the lot in dis
missing his disappointments like aphilosopher
and in enjoying his retirement like Christian.
And so we might go on through hundred
names and more of the disappointed men who


in the pursuit of the. White House, have seen
it fade before them and vanish like the lovely
picture of palace, with its groves and foun-
tains, in the mirage of the desert, leaving
nothing before them and around them but
their exhausted fellow travellers and the burn
ing waste of sand But we have given enough
for the moral of our story. Happy are they
who escape this contagion of the White House
fever and wise are they whose ambition for
distinction and glory lies not in that direction.
The unfortunate Buchanan was more than half
right in his opinion that the occupant of the
White House is but the chief servant in a free
hotel and that he is not the lucky man who is
coming in, but he who is going out
Year: 1872

A HINT FOR GREELEY.-The negroes of the
South are supposed to be prepared to vote for
s.Massa Grant" the man in the Union uniform
who scattered the armies of the. Confederacy
and gave freedom to their race. Greeley, as
an old abolitionist, whose means and efforts
have been freely given for the liberation of
slaves from bondage, and who distinguished
himself for years as the head Of one of the
great underground railroads of the aboli-
ton societies, should not suffer tho
negro vote to be lost to him by
default. He should travel from State to State
of the South in his old white hat and long
brown coat, and harangue the colored people
on the issues of the campaign. A rear view
of him in this costume bears a close resem-
blance to respectable plantation negro of
Old Virginia, and we believe he would make
hit among the colored brethren. We offer the
suggestion for the benefit OF General Coch-
rane, whose admirable tact and ability as
political manager will at once convince him of
its value.
Year: 1872

THE GREENBRER RIVER DISASTER, O full
account of which is given in our special
despatch elsewhere, can only be regarded as
an additional proof of the uncertainty of life
on the rail, and also Of the reckless and un-
satisfactory manner in which railroad plans
and constructions are examined and tested
before entrusting human life on them. This
bridge over the Greenbrier River had only
been completed few days and handed over
by the contractors to the railroad company.
1t appears to have been temporary trestle
work construction on a foundation intended
for permanent roadway. But it would seem
that fair and practical test should have
shown the weakness of the two spans which
gave way, and hence avoided the loss of life
and destruction of property. Not one OF the
fifteen employees on the train escaped. Six
were instantly killed and the remaining nine
were terribly mangled. A train with hun
dreds of passengers would have shared the
same fate. The engine, cars and bridge are,
Of course, complete wreck. 1t now remains
to be seen who will be held responsible for
the accident
Year: 1872

until he had ascertained the source of the


mystic river of Africa, the Nile There are


men on whom certain lights to guide their
action have descended from heaven,
and Livingstone. in his unfaltering
desire to lay open the savage heart of q
Continent to the penetration of civiliza-
ton, is one of them. Such men
allow no drawback short Of the fate
of mortality to deter them, no matter
what cynicism or frivolity may say of their
motives. They build their trust for being
rightly comprehended on the unerring judg-
ment of time, interpreted by the best of the
human kind and console themselves in their
time of present difficulty and trial that truth
is mighty and must prevail
Year: 1872

The COMMERCIAL Policy OF FRANCE. The
French Parliament yesterday sustained NJ.
Theirs plan of commercial protection by vote
in which it Disseminated against the immediate
interests Of the importers of articles for use in
manufacture and in favor of those of the traders
by retail and the manufacturers as sellers of
goods at home. The National Assembly re-
jected motion TO impose tax of one franc in
the thousand upon sales. The majority was
very decisive, and its record accepted as
legislative vindication of the industrial and
tariff income views of the President.
Year: 1872

The ORANGE PARADE TO-DAY. In pursu-
ance of their announced intention the
Orangemen will parade through our city to-
day. clad in the regalia of their order 1t
is to be hoped that no act on the part of
their opponents will give any tinge of i'm
portance to the demonstration, which last
year was only saved from ridicule by the
unwise action of some hot-headed Hi
bernians. The authorities have made pre-
parations for the worst but we hope
that nothing will occur which would com.
pei them to interfere So far there is
prospect of q peaceful twelfth, and we hope
the good sense of the Irish population will
prevent any attempt at disturbance being
made
Year: 1872

The conduct OF the Administration toward the
State and people of Louisisna prove conclusively
that Grant and his Cabinet officer Williams casl-
not ise above the position OF mere partisans. and
that thc7 are actisg only with view to placing
men in power who will serve the interests of Grant
and his toadies at Washington. without regard to
the interests OF the people Of Louisiana the
peace and dignity OF the country at large Grants
action in recognizing Pinchback as Governor was
the signal for the commencement OF usurpations
and outrages upon tho people OF New Orleans, by
Federal officers. to which the New York Herald n
Grant paper, says 'no people with spark Of man
hood In their hearts can patiently submit"


It is not unlikely that the desire in Washington
is to produce collision, which shall form the pre-
text for the suppre sion the State government
entirely and substituting provisional military
government that would soon destroy what little
there's left ofpersonal liberty in that flourish
ing and powsrfsl State. af
Year: 1872

humble dwelling-she has, for the frat
time, known the fatigues of domestic
elnployment-she has for the first time
looked abound her on home destitnte
OF everything elegant almost of every
thing convenient; and may now be sit.
hing down. exhausted and spiritless.
oroodlng over a prospect Of future
poverty"


There was a degree of probability To
this picture that could not gainsav:
so we walked on in silence.


After turning from the main road nm
narrow lane, SO thickly shaded WITH
forest trees as to give it complete air
VI secluslon, we came in sight of the
cottage. 1t was humble enough in its
appearance for the most pastoral noet :
and yet it had pleasing rural look
A wild vine had overrun one end with
a profusion of foliage, u few trees threw
their branches gracefully over it: and
l observed several pots of flo yers taste
fully disposed about the door and on
the grass plat in 'front.' A small wicket
gate opened upon a. footpath that
wound through some shrubl,ery to the
door. just as weapproached we heard
the sound of music-Leslie grasped
my arm; we paused and listened. It
was Mary's voice singing, in style of
the most touching simplicity, a little
AR OF which her husband was peculiarly
fond.


1 felt Leslie's hand tremble on INV
arm: He stepped forward to hear more
distinctly. His step made q noise on
the gravel walk. A bright, beautiful
face glanced out of the window and
vanished-a light footstep was heard
and Mary came tripping forth to meet
us; she was in a pretty rural dress of
white, few wild flowers were twisted
in her fine hair, a fresh bloom was on
her cheek, her whole countenance
beamed with smiles-I had never seen
her look so lovely.


my dear George" she cried, "I am
so glad you have come! 1 have been
Watching and watching for you; and
running down the lane, and looking
out for you. I've set out table under
6 beautiful tree behind the cottage ::
and I've been gathering some of the
most delicious Strawberries, for I know
You are fond of them and we have
such excellent cream and everything
is SO sweet and still here" ooh !" said
she, putting her arm in his and looking
up brightly in his face, "Oh, we shall
be so happy


Poor Leslie was overcome. He
caught her to his bosom-he folded
his arms around her-he kissed her
again and again-he could not speak,
but the tears gushed into his eyes; and
he as often assured me that
though the world has since gone pros
perously with HIM, and his life has, IN
deed, been happy one, yet never has
he experienced a moment of more ex-
qulsite felicity.