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Year: 1872

We are decidedly of the opinion
that the masses of the people, irres-
pective of old party affiliations, will
compel the leaders of the Democra-
tic party to forego the pleasure OF
running a candidate for President.


There is a chance-a ghost of a
chance, of electing a good Northern
d emocrat, but the hazard attending
it is so great that we are satisfied
that the safer plan win be adopted
of making sure of our liberties by
deposing Grant the First, and after
that is done, then, upon questions
of public policy, coming to the front
and breaking a lance with our op-
ponents.


In National contest, with a re-
form Republican running against
General Grant, the Democracy
would have no alternative but to
support the former. No sacrifice
of principle would be involved,
while the highest considerations OF
patriotism would recommend such
a course.


The Southern people want Gen.
Grant defeated and will cheerfully
vote for any better man to accom-
plish it, and the newspapers in the
State, who oppose this policy
should know in time that they are
endeavoring to stem a current that
is irresistiable in its strength.


We propose to endorse no plat
form of principles not consistent
with our sense of right and justice
but we do propose, as a choice o.
evils, to support any man who Ii
better than q. S. Grant, and good
ness knows there are thousands o.
them Vest Tenn. Democrat.
Year: 1872

We reprint elsewhere an article
from the st. Louis Republican, the
author of the so-called "PassiYe
Policy" We are glad to hear that
able paper say, "that, if the passive
proposition meant, or could result,
in the dissolution of the Democratic
party, the Republican would never
have advocated it; and in the second
place, if it meant such thing, the
administration party would not be
so emphatieally opposed to it,"
Taking this view OF the matter,
there is nothing Objectionable in the
new movement. Every sane man
admits that there is no chance to
elect Democrat to the Presidency,
and their plain duty is to elect a Re-
publican who, in all respects, is bet
ter than Grant. The reelection of
Gen. Grant is the direst woe that
can befall the Southern people, and
it is our duty to defeat him, even if
in doing so we elect man who is
not politically in accord with us.
If we are patriots we will sacrifice
our preferences and lay aside our
prsiudices for our cOuntry's good.
! In order to beat Grant we are not
called upon to disOrganize the only
party that advocates constitutional
| liberty in the land. The Democrat
ic party should keep its organiza-
| ton perfect, State and National, but
not even call a convention to nomi-
nate candidate for the Presidency.
If the Liberal Republican leaders
really have any followers, they will
nominate Senator Trumbull and
Gov. Walker, of Virginia, or some
other men equally as strong, and
put them upon platform upon
| which Southern men and Demo-
Gratis, while not framed to suit their
tastes, can stand upon, without sac
rifice of principle and honor. The
Democratic party will not, through
its committees, ratify the nomina-
ton, as a party, for that would cause
the ticket to be shorn of its strength,
and commit the Democracy to a Re-
publican platform and Republican
administration. The Democratic
press will support the ticket. When
it is elected, the candidates will be q


Republican President and Vice
President, and the Democratic par


ty possessed of its ancient princi-


pies and integrity. What win be


gained? Grant, the scourge of this


country, the military destroyer OF


the liberties of the people, will be


defeated, and a gentleman and q


statesman viii be our President, and


constitutional liberty will be pre-


served Columbia Herald.
Year: 1872

The following little story is told
at the expense ola young lady school
teacher in Altoona, who is very
properly anxious in regard to the
prevention of smallpox in her
school, and therefore strictly enfor-
ces the rule that whenever a case of
sickness is reported in the family of
any of her pupils, the pupil must
bring a certificate from the family
physician stating that the disease is
not contagious, failing in which the
pupil must stay away until all dan
ger is over. A few days ago she
was informed that one of her pu-
pills, little girl of Teutonic extrae-
tion, had sickness in her family
On being questioned, the girl ad-
mitted that ''she had sick at her
house," that her mother was sick,
and that she had ''marks on her
face" She was again sent home,
with orders not to come again with
out certificate from the family
physician. The next day she re-
turned to school and shyly siding
up to the teacher, with her finger in
her mouth, and her little bonnet
swinging by the strings, she said
''81Iss -, we've got a leetle baby
at our house, but mother told me
ut isn't cdtchin." The teacher said
she was very glad it wasn't "catch-
ing" and told her pupil to take her
seat.-HollSdGysbtErg (Pa.( Re0isteT'
Year: 1872

A Woman wants you; don't for
get her. No matter if you are poor,
don't wait to be rich; if you do, ten
to one If you are fit to be married.
Marry while you are young and
struggle up together. But mark,
young man, the woman don't want
you if she is to divide her affections
with a cigar, spittoon or whisky
jug. Neither does she want you if
you don't take care for her and lit
tie afterthoughts which are pretty
sure to follow. Neither does she
want you simply because You are a
man, the definition of which is too
apt to bean animal that wears BIZ
furcated garments on his lower
limbs; quarter section of stove pipe
on his head, swears like q pirate,
and given TO filthy practices, gene
rally. She wants you a companion,
for helpmate-she wants you to
have learned to regulate your ap-
petite and passions; in fact the i'm
age of God, not in the likeness of a
beast. If you are strong in good
purpose, firm in resistance to evil,
pure in thought and action as you
require her to be, and without
which inward purity neither of you
are fit to be husband and wife; if you
love virtue and abhOr vice, if you
are gentlemanly, forbearing and
kind, and not loud talking, exact
ing and brutal-young man that Wo-
man wants you; that modest, fair,
cheerful, right-looking, frank-spo-
ken woman we mean, who fills your
idea of maiden and wife. 1t is she


that wants you-marry her when
you like, whether rich or poor; wen


trust you both on the above condi-


tions, without any further securi-
| ty.
Year: 1872

This convention promises to be Of
the greatest importance. The New
York Sun says the Republicans who
are so utterly disguised with Grants
administration that they viii vote
number hundreds of thousands, and
they are found in every State of the
Union. By their bold, practical
course, the liberal Republicans OF
Missouri have proved themselves
worthy to take the lead in affecting
national organization of these re-
form Republicans. To accomplish
this most desirable object a conVen-
ton is called at Cincinnati on the
first Monday of May. The Cincin-
natl convention will be by far the
most important political assemblage
of the presidential campaign, for il
viii undoubtedly hold the key OF
the position and determine the re-
suit of the conflict. It's therefore
of the first moment that there should
be full representation at the con-
vention of reform Republicans from
all parts of the cOuntTy-men OF
ability and influence, whose heads
are clear and whose hearts are
sound, who will know what they
want and say what they mean, and
who, if the emergency should de-
mand it, will have the wisdom. and
courage to place in the field a candi-
date for the presidency who ought
to and can be elected. Independent
Republicans in all sections of the
country should Immediately take
the necessary steps preparatory to
sending delegates to this convention.
-BdRner.
Year: 1872

The COoperrown New York }
FreemdH's JournGl-home organ Of
Judge Nelson, of the United States
Supreme Court-announces that
Chief Justice Chase has dismissed
all thought of being a candidate for
President this year, and is in favor
of the nomination of Senator Trum-
bull as the opposition candidate
The journal also asserts that most
of the leading Democrats of this
State are at present inclined to &C
cept Senator Trumbull as the "com-
ing man." but oppose any precipi-
tate action But all speculations on
this subject are at this time idle
The real coming man" may not yet
be dreamed of in the philosophy OF
the most far-seeing politician.
Year: 1872

Nothing more brutalizes men or
women than the opportunity of tyr
anizing over those who are weaker
than themselves, and nothing more
elevates them than engendering a
right spirit of protection TO the
Year: 1872

Hurrying by,
It lights on the face and It sparkles the eye {;
And the dogs, with bark and bound,
Snap at the crystals that eddy around.
The town is alive and its heart in aglow,
To welcome the coming Of beautiful snow.
Row wildly the crowd goes swaying along,
Hailing each other with humOr and song
How the gay sledges like meteors fash by,
Bright for a moment, then lost to the eyel


Ringing,
Year: 1872

EDITORS CHRONICLE: The attention OF the
public was called 20 this subject in a communi-
cation in Wednesdays CHRONICLE. Unques-
tionably it is one that needs to be stirred. If
the end in view can only be reached by earnest
and persistent agitation, humanity and Christian
civilization demand such agitation. Non quiS
sid g1id" has treated the subject in your jour
nal in sensible and pointed manner and it is to
be hoped that his suggestions will be effectively
followed up. He speaks of lot that was
given quite q number of years ago for a
hospital, and of the sum of $4,000 in
hand for the erection of q building The money
it is understood, was contributed by the Direc-
tors of the East Tennessee Relief Society, and
the County Court, four or five years ago, con-
frmed and renewed an appropriation of three
or four thousand dollars for the same purpose


Now it i2 certainly due to the people of Knox
vile that the Trustees of the hospital shall make
some authorized and satisfactory statement con-
cerning this matter. No doubt the money con-
tributed is in safe hands and will be forth COM


ing upon demand ofthe Trustees. But it will not
be amss for the public to be informed after
the lapse of some years, as to the condition OF
the fund, the amount of its increase by being


loaned at interest," how much may certainly be
expected from the County toward the erection
of a building, why the work of providing a
hospital still drags its weary length along,
whether the difficulties in its way cannot speed
lily be removed, and whether if the proposed
location is to be litigated over indefinitely, it
would not be better, considering that there is
crying need of such city institution, to obtain
another and suitable spot of ground? Surely
if the gentlemen who hold the hospital fund
are an incorporated Board of Trustees, they
should have suitable officers who can represent
them before the public, and in that case they
can not and will not, probably, object to maxi
ing an official report in reference to the case,
however briefly. This is desirable on several
accounts, not the least of which is, that great
many persons in the city feel the need of hos
pital, and some are willing to give or cooperate
towards its construction; but that while it is
not to be presumed for moment that the trus-
tees alluded to have acted in the matter other
wise than as they thought best, what they can
state concerning it will afford others acceptable
light and information, and may open the way
for something being done more promptly and
efficiently toward the object which the trustees,
as we'll as others, have at heart. HOWARD.
Year: 1872

EDITORIAL NOTICES are so common that it is
almost impossible for an editor to express his
honest opinion of the merits of any article
without being suspected of interested motives
This TACT, however, shall not deter us from
saying what we think of new addition to the
Materia Medica to. which our attention has
been recently directed. We refer to DIR. j.
WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BITTERs, a
remedy which is making its way into more
families just now than all the other advertised
medicines put together There seems to be no
question about the potency of its tonic and al
terative properties, while it possesses the great
negative recommendation of containing neither
alcohol nor mineral poison. That it is a spe-
cific for Indigestion, Billiousness, Constipation
and many complaints of nervous origin, we
have reason to know; and we are assured on
good authority that as a general invigorant


regulating and purifying medicine, it has no
equal. 1t is stated that its ingredients, lob
tanned from the wilds of California; are new
to the medical world; and its extraordinary eff
fects certainly warrant the conclusion that it is
a compound of agents hitherto unknown. If
popularity any criterion, there can be no doubt
of the efficiency of the VINEGAR BTTERs, for
the saleof the article is immense and continu-
ally increasing. apr1-4wt
Year: 1872

A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Mothers-in-law should be the next reform.


THE TABLE-TALKER in the Chicago
Evening Post thus discourseth concerning
umbrellas:


Among the uses to which the umbrella NAV
pe pc put is Poking an utter stranger afflicted with
iiuinDago IN the back, under the impression that
ne is smith: 1t also serves to keep off the rain;
nrst, when it rains; second when II does not
ram. Its uses in the first event are palpable to
the most naked eye The second case may be
Ppactcally Illustrated by taking an umbrella
Bile result is that the skies clear up. and toward
y clock you return home, in swelterine glare
of sunlight and suffocated with dust hearing
with you an umbrella, which convinces all who
meet you that you are little erratic or very
shiftless. If the Table-Talker were n bonest
farmer suffering from corner in rain. he
would put on pair of patent leather
boots and light spring suit, and 90 on
a long walk without an umbrella It would
be sure to rain combined mowers and
reapers-let alone NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. night
Umbrellas are not considered private property
any more than the air of heaven and the rain
which falleth alike upon the Democrat and the
Republican: You may take one with impuni-
ty at any time, if you are not observed. The
last characteristic of the umbrella is its Protean
power of changing shapes. You may leave a
bran new mulberry silk with ivory and rose
WOOD handle at any public gathering, taking
therefor a check, and within three hours it will
transform itself into light blue or faded brown
cotton somewhat less in size than circus-tent,
with handle like telegraph pole and five
fractured ribs.


They had Al rainbows in a single day at
Santa Cruz, California, recently. The resi-
dent whose ''heart leaped up when he beheld
rainbow in the sky has died of palpitation
of the heart. sH dIrs a.sr-.s-.... ..


A Mrs. Wise has succeeded in having her
name inscribed on the list of legal voters at
st. Joseph, Missouri, without any attempt at
opposition or remonstrance on the part of the
registrars. 1t must have exceedingly disap-
pointed her not to have row about it.


Mre. Woodruff is once widow, with sew
eral husbands to hear from. The happiest
member of the Woodruff family is the Doc
tor. He is dead. f-f tda


The Michigan legislature is to be credited
with adjourning to see the 60 elephant walk
round, the band begin to play, while the boys
about the monkeys cage, had better get out of
the way" [Old song, The Michiganders can't
see circus every day, while acts and resolves
they can wrangle over at any time. 1E
Year: 1872

If We need higher illustration,
not only of the power of natural OBJ
Jects 10 adorn language and crafty
taste, but proof that here we find
the highest conceivable beauty, we
would at once appeal TO the Bible:
Those most opposed TO its teach
ings have acknowledge the beauty
Of its language, and this is due
mainly 10 the exquisite use of ma
tural objects for illustration. 1t
does, indeed, draw from every Geld.
But when emotional nature was to
be appealed to, the reference was Al
once 10 natural objects, and through
out all its books, the stars, the fOw-
ers, the gems, are prominent as il
lustratiOns OF the beauties Of reli-
giOn and the glories OF the Church.


"Ihe wilderness and the solitary
place shall be glad for them, and the
desert shall rejoice and blossom like
the rose"


The mountains aud the hills
shall break forth before you in song.
and all the trees Of the tield shall
clap their hands. Instead OF the
thorns shall come up the fr tree,
and instead of the briar shall come
up the myrtle tree"


The power and beauty of the same
objects appear in the Savior's teach
ings The fig and the olive, the
sparrow, Huet the NV OF the field,
give peculiar force and beauty to
the great truths they were used TO
illustrate.


The Bible throughout is remark
able in this respect 1t is collec-
tiOn Of books written by authors far
removed from each other in time
and place and mental culture, but
the whole nature is exalted as a rev.
elation of God. It's beauty and sub
Unity are appealed to 10 arouse the
emotions 10 reach the moral and re-
ligious nature. This element Of
unity runs through all the books
where reference TO nature can be
made. One OF the adaptations OF
the Bible to the nature Of man is
found in the sublime and perfect
representation of the natural world.
by which nature is ever made TO
proclaim the character and perfec-
Jion of God. No language can be
written that so perfectly sets forth
the grand and terrible in nature
and its forces as we hear when God
answers Job out OF the whirlwind.
No higher appreciation of the beau
tiful, and OF God as the author OF
beauty, was expressed than when
our Savior said OF the lilies of the
heid: Il say unto you that even
Solomon, in all his glory, was not
arrayed like one OF theses" aud then
adds: 'It God so clothed the grass
of The field'-ascribing the elements
of beauty in every leaf and opening
bud 10 Gods skill and power.
Year: 1872

FAITHFULNEss TO EMPLOYERS.
There is no greater mistake a
young man can commit, than that Of
being Indifferent to the interests Of
his employer. 1t must be admitted
that there are circumstances under
which it would seem to be almost
impossible TO feel an interest in an
employers business but for all
that IL is worth a trial. BE faithful
in small things be attentive TO your
duties; shirk no employment that
is not dishonorable feel that your
employer is fairly entitled 20 every
minute of the time which you have
agreed to give him for a stipulated
remuneration. The wages may be
small too small; bat If you have
contracted TO work for one dollar a
week, when your work is worth ten,
stick To your bargain like q man un-
til your term of service has expired.
1t may seem very hard, but il will
instil the great principle OF being
true to your word.
Year: 1872

A writer in an English magazine
says that Frederick Locker is the
best living master of Uers de soeiete.
and gives these two stanzas as an in
dication of his graceful skill in met
rical variations:


This relative Of mine,
Was she seventT-and-nine


When she diel:
BY the canvas may be seen
How she looked at seventeen


AS bride.
Beneath a summer tree
Her maiden reverie


Had n charm;
Her ringlets are in taste;
What an arm and what a waist


For an arml
Year: 1872

Sympathy is deeper than fear, and
in the final failure of his own force,
in the upheaval of the bottom Of his
own soul, man puts distrust aside,
and elings to his kind with loving
expectation Of help.
Year: 1872

A facetious individual. not many
miles from DanbuFy, sought to
"draw his wife out" by pretending
to be found dead with an empty
laudanum vial by his side. And
that lady was a good deal shocked
at first, but having read that a nee
die introduced into the human flesh
would indicate ON its surface wheth-
er that flesh was dead, and being
a woman Of eminent practicability,
she at once armed herself with a
polished instrument of nearly two
inches growth, and, with throbbing
heart and bated breath, introduced
q good share OF its length into the
deceased. What the surface of the
needle really indicated was not
learned, as he took it with him as he
passed through the sash.
Year: 1872

Saws the Gold Hill News: Our
friend Traddles, in Virginia, has
got his wife in proper subsection,
and means to keep her so. "Oh P
says he, in telling US about it, "there
amt many that know how to rule a
wife properly. Now my old wO-
mans one of the best natured Wo-
men in the world, but she's got q
terrible temper. Whenever ] see
she's got her mad up, if it's q dozen
times a day, kjust quietly say noth-
in but kinder humor her, and sho
comes round all right after q while.
Even when she throws things at me
OF gives q wild slash for me with
the broom, or rnlin, pin, / dodge q
little and she never hits me third
time before / get my eye on her and
let her know disapproYe of such
action on her part. Perhaps have
to leave the house to show her this,
but, you bet, she sees the point
Then by being careful not to irri-
tate her, and letting her have her
own way / manage to make her do
Just as l please. And you bet l
make her understand and appreciate
my discipline. OH l keep her IN
der perfect control. A man has to,
you know. Got to be boss in your
house, OF the first thing you know
your wife will ride you down like
you wasn't anybody. My wife's a
perfect angel in her natural dispo-
sition, but any other man but me
would spoil her"
Year: 1872

Let, for instance coal, be discovered in
IN Maine and there will be no fur
ther need to hold forth extra inducements to
foreign capital to invest within our borders.


The questions embodied in this article must
soon assume higher importance than they
at present occupy, and we propose to discuss
them in few brief articles.
Year: 1872

A new star-that is, a literary star-has
been discovered. As yet his name remains
unannounced, but his first volume, ''The
Brook, and other poems," has been so well
received by the critics who have had look
at it in manuscript that high place is claim
ed for him in American literature. Mr.. En-
erson is one of these critics, and although the
public may remember that when Walt Whit
man dawned he was the first to proclaim that
at last the poet for whom America had been
waiting so long had come, we hope his present
prediction will be better sustained.
Year: 1872

Some years ago young woman in New
York wore $4,000 worth of diamonds at her
wedding, and now woman with six chill
dren, who lost her only means of support by
the burning of large tailor's shop in Boston,
on the ninth of November, applies to the relief
committee for aid. However, the young New
York woman is not the same as the Boston
matron
Year: 1872

Poor Quaker city! Just hear what Wen
ma paper says of her: philadelphia is a
city of about half million souls. OF these
25 are on an average assassinated daily. The
police make hardly any arrests, and when a
criminal is taken before the judge the latter
frequently recognizes in him former asso-
ciate, and they leave the court arm in arm
to imbibe at the nearest saloon.''
Year: 1872

The New York World states that justifa-
BILE homicide is now held to include ''the case
of every man who kills any other man on ac-
count of any woman, and OF every woman
who kills any man on any account what
ever"
Year: 1872

Though lonely be thy path, fear not, for He
Who marks the sparrow fall is guarding thee;
And not star shines Ger thy head by night,
But He hath known that it will reach thy sight.i
And not glief can darken or surprise,
Swell in thy heart, Or dim with tears thine eyes,
But it is sent in mercy and in love


To bid thy helplessness seek strength above.