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Year: 1872

To VoTERs.-Parties who will be en-
titled to vote in this county, at the coming
election on Tuesday, November 9TH, and
who have not been registered here, will
do well to remember that unless their
names are on the Great Register of this
county previous to that day, they will
not be allowed to vote. Those whose
names are registered after the copy of
the Great Register was placed in the hands
of the printer will be furnished with
Certificates of Registration by the County
Clerk which it will be necessary for them
to exhibit to the election officers before
voting. If you do not know whether you
are on the Register or not, look at the
printed copies which have been sent to
the different precincts, and if you fail to
find your name attend to the matter at
once,
Year: 1872

VINO RAcKERBY Is.-Rackerby began
his speech the other night by saying :
" Who is Rackerby? This question has
beeh asked by all the papers in the State
and let them answer" 1t was cruel in
him, we thought, to excite curiosity in
that way and then not crafty it. As
some of our readers would like to know,
we will tell who he is. Ex-Rev. Col.-
VIM. M. Rackerby is the man who went
before the Sutter County Democratic
I Convention last year as candidate for
the Assembly and was defeated. To
heal his injured sensibilities he voted a
Republican ticket that election and on
the strength of that is now better Lib
eral Republican than anybody. Wher-
ever you scratch Republican of his
stripe you find Democrat.
Year: 1872

Yours of the 22d inst. is received re-
lative to the working Of our liquor law.


| suppose you have reference to our
State law making liquor sellers liable ia
civil damages for sale of intoxicating
LIQUORS to husband, father, etc. 1t
makes great 1uIterlng among liquor
dealers, tor they are afraid of 1t; and
tenn perauce men are correSpondIngly well
pleased with 1t.


There have been in this city numerous
suits brought by wives against the seller
tor sale to husbands TO. damages, ani
| nearly all have been successful. At our
last term of court Common Pleas) a
wife obtained 500, and the case did not
seem to be one of peculiar hardship eth
er. The law is very stringent one, and
except by men, is considered good one
| In city OF tins size Il seems impossible
TO stop the sale of liquors. for We have d
strong prohibitory law, and yet there are
some ] 500 places here where liquor is
| publicly sold.


The most that can be said of this Law
of personal liability in regard to its work
| ings is, that its tendency is In the righ,
dire ction. for it does act as restraint
| and few doses have wholesome effect
| In a great many of the country places anc
cities of smaller size, no liquor Can bt
| had


Our courts hold that if the husband
was drunkard, and did not contribute Il
the support of the wife and family, ther
the wife has lost nothing by reason o
the sellers letting him have liquor; il
other words. the wife must prove actual


losses, though our jury do not seem tC
figure very close in this matter. Perhaps


you might SO fix your bill as to make the


fact of the sale a pranaa Jacie case.
There was a case OF this kind here. A
certain person took a number of hi;


friends into saloon and treated them


among the number the husband of tn,


wife who was plaintiff The saloon keel


er got clear of damages on the grounC
that he did not sell TO him. ] believe
bill is nov pending in our Legislature t.
amend the law SO that notice must b.
: given to owners Of premises to make then
liable.
Year: 1872

AFTER several Intellectual attempts in
the Senate to amend the Apportionment
bill, that body has passed it as 1t came
from the House, with single modifca-
ton. This provides that should any
State after the passage of the act deny or
abridge the right of any of its male citi-
zens to vote at any election named In the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton, except for participation in the Re-
bellion or other crime, the number OF its
representatives shall be proportionately
reduced. The House having concurred
in this amendment, the bill goes to the
President with the apportionment OF the
House fixed at 2S3 members, divided as
7axu
Year: 1872

What II. Greeley Knows About
| the Fusion of Democrats and


Republicans.


The most powerful arguments against
the present position of Mr.. Greeley are
hs own statements. In the Tribune OF
Nay 23rd, 1868, we find this language


"There is an old jest in the law books
of certain knight whose silk stockings
had been so often darned that it became a
question in chancery whether they should
be legally considered the original hose OF
substantially different pair. We are re-
minded Of this by the thick flying rumors
of the future pious intentions of the ven
cradle Democratic party, and of a scheme
to weave certain Republican threads into
the looped and windowed raggedness OF
this rather shaky organization The sJo-
ry is, that when the National Convention
meets great magical wash pot is to be
set up, in which the party will proceed to
clean itself of all its old opinions, whims
notions, and traditions, so that it can
stand before the people bright and regen-
Grated, renewed, and redeemed, dirtless.
and disenthralled We once heard a
judge say that he did not see why trover
could not be brought for house, and if
the Republica platform is to be carried
off in bulk, we must certainly try to find
out some way of getting it back again
Very little has lately been said about the
abduction and appropriation of ChiefJus
tice Chase, but we warn His Honor still
To keep upon his guard and we must ex
tend our warning to the entire Adams
family. against whick we have reason to
believe the most nefarious designs are en-
tertained. 1t is curious that the main
part of this precious scheme should be the
capture of a couple of stray Republicans
The touching conf ence which presup-
poses that Chief Justice Chase is to be
had for the asking, would not seem to ar
que very high opinion of the integrity
OF human nature and we really do not
know why the Democracy should have
such an opinion. But the beauty of the
business is the nomination of an Adams
for the Vice Presidency. We DO not
know what reason they have for thinking
that Mr. Charles Francis Adams would
accept their nomination for the oflice-all
we have to say is that if he should, the
gentleman who ran on the Buffalo plat
form with Mr. Van Buren would find
himself once more in rather queer com
pany"
Year: 1872

Horace Greeley is "A believer in the old
Calhoun doctrine of State rights. Ills
past record and his letter OF acceptance of
ihe Baltimore nomination prove this.
This fatal doctrine has, been the cause of
all our nationa. trolbles 1t threateded
the disruption of the nation in Jackson's 5
time; it attempted it under Lincoln. To
defeat its last effort To break up the Union
cost the nation over three hundred thou
sand lives, and at least four thousand mil
lions OF dollars


Bear in mind that this was the fearful
cost to the North, while the expense to
the South must have been equally great.
To favor the election of man whose
record is tainted by this doctrine is to in
vite a renewal of past troubles. That Hor-
ace Greeley favored it in 1861, and did
much toward encouraging the South to
Withdraw from the Union, is matter of
history That he has since defended it is
a matter of record That he believes in
it to-day is evident from the tone of his
letter of acceptance, wherein he speaks of
the Federal subversion of State rights, y
and the duty of leaving States free to pro-
tect their citizens in such manner as they
may prescribe.


We all know the nature of the protec-
tion prescribed by most of the Southern
States, and we as certainly know that
without Federal protection there would
be to large class of citizens South no
protection whatever. We are willing TO
let the dead past bury its dead, but when
an effort is being made to galvanize its
worst features into life by holding up an
advocate of the obnoxious doctrine OF
State rights as proper man for President
we consider it our duty to expose the
scheme and denounce its leaders


Republicans and Democrats Joined
hands in 1861 to put down this doctrine.
Side by side thousands sleep on Southern
soil, and their silent graves attest the sac
rifice they paid to crush out its preten-
sions forever. Shall it be revived? Shall
the soldier who saved the nation be
thrown aside for the man who favored its
dissolution? No. November will find
the people as true to liberty and the Re-
public as when the guns of Sumter arous-
ed them to action
Year: 1872

While travelling in Missouri, a few days
ago, by private conveyance, on very hot
day, over hilly, rough road, one OF the
horses in our team was taken sick just as
we entered Savannah, the county seat of
Andrews county. As we drove up to the
tavern, several by-standers saw the condi-
ton of our horse and kindly offered their
advice and assistance One said, "Give
him dose of soda and water" Another,
"Give him little alum-it is sure cure.
Another, "Give him some nitre.' An
other, "Give him little turpentine, and
rub some on his back" "Pour cold wat
er on his head, he is sun struck" said an
other. The owner of the team, sensible
Scotchman, gave his horse dose of soda
and water, and poured some cold water
on his head, which seemed to have the de-
sired effect, and in the course of an hour
the horse was eating his hay and corn as
though nothing serious had happened
him.


If all the well intended advice had been
followed, the horse would have died OF a
VIOLENT attack of cholic.
Year: 1872

unll Weather.


That the supply of expensive Amusements
will fully meet the demand.


That there will be some newspaper skirmshes
ou he Temperance question.


That Institute Hall has suffered the eclipse,
Which Odd Fellows Hall once experienced.
That tho Delaware Legislature will order all
is printing done at the COMMERCIAL Office And
then.


That the City Council and the Legislature will
iuin hands in tho Millennium
Year: 1872

On Saturday last lot of one thousand bush
els of prime wheat changed hands at the Pro-
duce and Corn Exchange at the Board of Trade
Rooms in this city. The Empire Mills, of At
lanta9, Ga, were the purchasers and Mr.. p n
Whhalns, the well known commission mer-
chant, was the seller


w nope that this, the initial sale at The Ex-
Grange, Mhlch has only been in operation one
week, Will be the means of inauguratinC y new
feature in the sale of grain in East Tpnnpssee
If pI Ioducers will make it a point to come regu-
larfy to the Exchange and there first effer tbeir
grain-the time being from eleven tin twelve
o o'clock-buyers will be present, and both nar-
ties will be greatly benefited by the saving in
time and in acquiring the habit of making
that the place for buying and selling
In this connection we will mention that East
Tennesseeans must avail themselves Of every
opportunity to find market for their produce,
and the Exchange just opened fills want long
felt. Southern dealers wish to buy their grain
in bulk and Western dealers are enabled to ship
It through in car load lots in that way, thu;
saving between seven and nine cents per bushel
in sacks, which East Tennessee farmers have to
pay because our roads are not prepared to ship
grain in bulk.


Our dealers are doing all in their power to
make the Exchange q success, and the Board OF
Trade are also lending their valuable assistance
TO this object
Year: 1872

EDITORS CHRONICLE: sec in the CHRONICLE
of Sunday morning statement as to the origin
of the difficulty of Mr.. Covington and myself
which is incorrect in some parts. Justice to
myself as well as Others requires its correction.
1t is not so that | told Mr.. Covington that in
the even of Hudiburg being elected that l had
been promised the position of Deputy Sheriff.
never applied for the position, nor have ever
had any conversation with Hudiburg, or he
with me, in regard to the position AS to the
difficulty. l shall say nothing at this time as the
affair will be legally investigated Please give
this correction in the CHRONICLE.


Respectfully yours,


July p, 1872. JOHN B. Cox


We publish the above letter. We can only
say that Mr. Covington stands by his statement
and we are told can back his story by Others
Year: 1872

Dispatches to the Navy Department from
our fleets in South America and China
have been received at the Department
Nothing of extraordinary Importance was
detailed. Admiral Thornton Jenkins had
been presented to the Imperial Teuno of
Japan. The usual congratulatory speeches
were made. The anniversary of the birth
and accession of the Queen was honored
by the usual salutes by the ships, both of
the Asiatic and South Atlantic fleets. The
officers and crew are well.
Year: 1872

The Nashville Banner says that the prospects
for the success of the colored fair in that city
are very fattering.


Colored candidates for the position of .jailorr
are numerous in Nashville and convention OF
arbitration will settle the popularity of the rival
candidates next Friday.


A number of influential colored men have pc
titioned the Chancery Court of Davidson coun-
ty for the incorporation of a colored orphan
asylum.
Year: 1872

Don't do it. Don't advertise your bu-
siness it's paying out money to accom-
date other people; if they want to buy


Don't advertise, for it gets your name
abroad, and you are apt to be flooded with
circulars from business houses, and to be
bored with drummers from the wholesale
establishments, all of which also results
in soliciting your order for new goods
and money to pay for them, which is very
annoying to one of dyspeptic tempera-
ment.


Don't advertise, for it brings people in
from the country (ce untry folks, you know
are of an inquiring turn of miud,) and
they will ask you many astonishing ques-
tions about prices, try Jour temper with
showing them goods, and even vex you
with the request to tie them up; which
pnts you to an additional trouble of buy
ing more.


Don't advertise it gives people abroad
a knowledge of your town, and they come
and settle in it; it will grow, and other
business will be induced to come in and
thus increase your competition.


In short, if you would have quiet
town, not too large; if You would not be
harrassed by multitudinous cares and per-
plexities of business; if you would avoid
being bothered with paying for and losing
time to read great cumbersome newspa-
per, just remain quiet !; don't let the peo-
pie know FIVE miles away where you are
nor what you are doing. and you will be
severely let alone to enjoy the bliss of un-
disturbed repose.-Gazette, California.
Year: 1872

We have another very severe ecclesl-
astical Elimination against dancing. 1t is
from the Rev. DR. Wilson of Louisville,
who has recently preached long sermon
on the subject, taking for his text no less
than twenty-six passages of Scripture in
which the word dance occurs.


Dancing he defines to be ''a lively mo-
ton, either by leaping, jumping. bound
ing, skipping, whirlipg round and round,
or reeling to and fro - so that, according
to this comprehensive definition, the kang-
aroo, the frog, the antelope, the goat, the
humming top and the drunken man are
all accomplished dancers.


The Reverend gentleman makes the
mistake which nearly all ministers do
when they attack any specific evil-his
sermon is made up too much of angry
denuneiation and lacks the calm argumen-
tativo reason which is most likely to show
people wherein they err and to point them
to the right.


In private circles where there is gath
ering of friends there can be no objection
to dancing, and all the sermons on the
subject will not stop it.


But the practice of promiscuous assem-
blages, to which any man with a decent
coat is welcome, of girls whirling around
ball room in the arms of men whom they
know nothing of, whom they never saw
before and may net see again, is wrong.
and there is no man but what has his re-
spect blunted for the woman who is will
ing to surrender herself to the embraces
of stranger. That such usages exist a
mongst good society is one of those social
anomalies which nobody can explain or
abolish except by appealing to the COM
mon sense and delicate perceptions of wo-
men. We do not mean to say but what
there are thousands who regard this sort
of dancing as contamination and care
fully shun it, but there are others as pure
and honest who permit it simply because
they do not think enough about it to re-
gard the matter rightly.


The hedge of sanctity which should
surround all women is not to be lightly
broken down, and it cannot be unless
they allow the first invasion to be made
They are the all-suficient guardians of
their own modesty; it will not be invad-
ed while they have for it a jealous care
Baltimore american
Year: 1872

The New York Herald, says an ex-
change, is not paper Of intense convic-
tions, but it is very quick to detect public
sentiment. Half the time right aud half
the time wrong, every impartial reader
will say that in the following extract it
tells some sensible, well recognized truths:


Thus far his enemies have failed in
every attempt to destroy his character.
He has had made a singularly honest and
able administration. The most radical
Republican can not quarrel with General
Grant. Those who were impatient with
Mr.. Lincoln even-such men, let us say,
as Wendell Phillips and Benjamin F. But
ler ARE fully satisfied with Grant. The
assaults made upon him are only eviden-
ces of his strength with the people. His
enemies have no charges against him but
corner grocery and bar-room scandal. He
takes presents, it is sad, but no one has
heard of present accepted by him since
he entered the White House. As a sue
cessful General, some of our citizens gave
him such token of their esteem and
gratitude as was given to Marlborough and
Wellington when they returned from sue





cessful wars; such a token as was given
General Mcclellan, who, when he came to
live among us, was presented with house
in New York by several leading Demo-
crats He has appointed a few relatives
to unimportant Offices; but we shall not
feel very indignant over this especially
when we remember that not long since
Mr.. Gladstone said in the House of Com
mons that one reason why an English
statesman could afford to hold the exact
ing Office of Prime Minister was that he
had an opportunity of doing for his fami-
ly and friends what other eminent and able
men did in private pursuits. Certainly
Mr.. Gladstone's opinion will go far with
the most fastidious critics among our
journalists and statesmen. Beyond this
petty tavern gossip nothing is said and
this paucity and monotony of assault form
the Presidents best vindication.
Year: 1872

Strike out of existence at once ten days
supply of eight or ten articles, such as In
dian corn, wheat, rye, potatoes, rice. mil
let, the date, the banana, and the bread
fruit, with half a dozen others which serve
as the forage of the domestic animals, and
the human race would be extinct. The
houses we iuhabit, the monuments we erect,
the trees We plant, stand in some cases for
ages but our own frame-the stout linn bs,
the skillful hands that build the houses,
and set up the monuments, and plant the
trees-have to be built up, re-created,
every day and this must be done from
the fruits of the earth, gathered by agri-
culture. Everything else is luxury, con-
veninence, cornfort-food is indispensable.
Then consider the bewildering extent of
this daily demand and supply which you
will allow me to place before you in a
somewhat coarse mechanical illustration
The human race is usually estimated at
about 100000, 900 of individuals. IF
the sustenance of portion of these multi
tudinous millions is derived from other
sources than agriculture, this circumstance
is balanced by the fact that there is great
deal of agricultural produce raised in ex-
cess of the total demand for food.


Let, then, the thoughtful husbandman
who desires to form just idea of the
Importance of his pursuit reflect, when he
gathers his little flock about him to par
take of the mornings meal, that 1,0OO,-
100000 of his fellow-men have awakened
from sleep that morning craving their
daily bread. with the same appetite which
reigns at his family board and that If, by
superior power, they could be gathered
together at the same hour, for the same
meal. they would Gll both sides of FIVE
tables reaching all around the globe,
where it is broadest, seated side by side,
and allowing 1S inches to each individual,
and that these tables are to renewed twice
or thrice every day. Then let him con-
slider that, in addition to the food of the
human race, that of all the humble par
takers of mans toil-the lower animals
Is to be provided in like manner.


These all wait upon agriculture, as the
agent of that Providence which giveth
them their meat in due season and they
probably consume in the aggregate au
equal amount of produce and, finally,
let him add, in imagination, to this un-
told amount of daily food for man and
beast, the various articles which are furn-
ished, directly or indirectly, from the soil.
for building material, furniture, clothing
and fuel. The grand total will illustrate
the primary importance of agriculture,
considered as the steward-the commissary
charged with supplying this almost In
conceivable daily demand of the human
race and the subject animals, for their daily
bread a want so imperative, uncompromis-
ing that death, in its most agonizing form,
is the penalty of failure in the supply
Edsoard EUereH.
Year: 1872

THE scourge of smallpox has never
been so widespread and terrible through
out the world as in the present winter. In
America, however the crisis is passed,
and news from all quarters shows its rapid
decrease. In England it seems to be grow
ing.
Year: 1872

. SENATOR NICKERs' DEFEAT There seems
to be some disappoint at the defeat of Senator
Vickers for re election to the U. S. Senate
The Kent Ne'cs, his organ, says:


I'VE confess to disappointment at the defeat
OF Senator lckers in this contest, having had
reason to believe that his reelection would be
effected without serious opposition after a few
complimentary votes had been cast for other
gentlemen; and we are still constrained to
believe that he was the choice of large ma
Jorlty OF the people Of the State. In regard to
the influences which cOmpasSed his defeat If
Is not necessary for US to speak,


A writer in the Easton Journal also takes
exception to the defeat, and concludes his
article thus


I'm conclusion the least we think that can
De said OF the matter is that the vote of the
Maryland Legislature by which the Hon. Geo.
Hlckers was superseded as Senator of the
United States was without virtue and without
dignity, and precludes apology"


To soothe the honorable Senator in his defeat
some of his friends are tickleing him with the
suggestion that he will be nominated for Rep
resentative, in place of COL Hambleton, who
IS now serving his second term, and can hardly
hope for denomination. He has received all
that party ethics allows in the premises, and
hardly expects more Indeed he had some
dlhculty to get the second nomination, because
he voted to retain the income tax. But there
are younger and more vigorous aspirants for
this position, prominent among whom are
Messrs. j. I. Earle and Dan'l NJ. Henry, also
defeated candidates for the Senatorship, who
stand prominatly before the people.
Year: 1872

PEACH Buns Mr.. Samuel Townsend, in
letter to the NliddIetown Transcript, says
Now with regard to buds; every bud that has
black speck in the centre of it now will never
swell or blo lossom, and let persons who wish
to satisfy themselves tie string around twig
and count the buds; if they are now frozen
they will drop off before Or by the time sap
starts. Should there be some living buds on
said twig they will swell. Where good buds
pass through the winter and swell in March
and have known them in the last of March
to get near the size Of hor ey bee) and the
peak Of the bud begins to show The red blossom
leaves, then sudden freeze come on and
freeze the little germ in the centre of the
blossom, then warm spell come, the outside
leaves of these swelled blossoms will open
and that is what has given rise, in the minds
of less observant peach grower, to believe
dead buds blossom. All peach buds that are
frozen to death before they swell, that is, those
that have black speck in them now, never
blossom.