davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
Arrival ofthe getty of baltimore"
New York, Feb. Is

New York, Feb. Is.
The City of Brooklyn" from Liverpool
30th, Queenstown 3lst. arrived at midnight.
She has $4,000 in specie. The Nova
Scotia 4" arrived out the Both.
Latest advices from Gaeta says flag OF
truce was sent FROM the fortress to the fleet,
and the fire was soon suspended on both
sides. Francis sent fresh circular to the
ministers, stating that he was resolved to
meet all the perils Of his position to the
end.
Returns from Southern Italy are fayora-
BILE to the Government
The case of Patterson VS. Bonsparte, was
| adjourned to the first Of February.
1t is reported that France has demanded
an explanation of the recent warlike speech.
es of the King Of Prussia. This is denied
at Berlin.
Paris BOurse animated and buuyant at
6Sf Sc.
1t is asserted that the MetternicE had
notified ThOuvenal that Austria would con
slider an attack by Garibaldi on any part of
Austrian territory as cdSUs bciH.
1t is reported that the Emperor of Russia
had refused to sanction an exchange of
gold between the Bank of ST. PetIrsburg
ard France.
China letters announce that Mr. Ward
was to leave Hong Kong on the 18th, in
the Niagara.
LATEST VIA QUEENSTOWN.
Liverpool, Thursday.
Breadstuffs quiet and steady Provisions
dull. Produce quiet and steady.
London, Thursday noon.-C Unsols 91kGd
1 OF money and account
American stocks slightly advanced. Ill.
c. % discount yesterday, bat quoted 25(6
pa discount this morning. Erie 30I yes
terday, but higher to>day.
The city Of Baltimore passed the AraJia
on the 18th. Gen. Wheat is passenger
The American crisis is the leading topic
in the journals and among the business
community. Stewards speech is published
at length, and its merits freely canyassed
The London Times applauds his argument
that South Carolina is guilty of rebellion
and says they are the principles which
should have emanatej from the President
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19

slFThe Southern Congress at Mont
gomery have appointed Ministers to repre-
sent the interests of the Southern Conied-
racy in Europe.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19

A JAIL DELIvERr.-On Friday night
last all the prisoners in our county Jail,
four 10 number, got their liberty by dig
sing hole through the wall of the old
nuisance which probably did not require
over twenty minutes time. Their names
are James Irwin, james Brooks, Frank
Monroe and Peter Hamel. Irwin was
under Indictment for murder and his COM
panions were each charged with larceny.
Sheriff Bartlett has offered SIS reward
for the arrest of Irwin, $50 each for Mon
roe and Brooks, and S25 for IIamel. Will
county is one of the wealthiest counties ia
the State, yet our honorable Board of Su
peryisors do not feel able to build a Jail. :
The present Jail is no better than n rail
pen and murderers, burglars and thieves
remain in it no longer than they deem II
necessary for their convenience.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19

sy-The Louisiana Convention adjourned
on Wednesday last to await the action of
the Peace Congress. 1t will meet again
on the 4th of March.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19

b@Twenty patriots of the revOlutiou
died during the past year. Eighty-tvo AZ
all that are now left.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19

B9-A Texas letter says that State will
ratify the Secession Ordinance by $4,000
majority.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19
Financial Report Of CITY CIert
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY IL. ,ss1.

To TIE uoSoRGEIE 1uE MAYOR AID Conway cor.
The CIIT JoLfETs - ~ 1l 90
The undersigned, City Clerk, makes the f,Iloxs,
port Of the Receipts and ExPendisurrs Of the c,s
the municipal year, 1861 commencing on me liz f
Of February Is60 and ending llth day Of Februsr,0.
d. ISL, As follows: a.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19
sI5o00
Bridge Fund.
GeReral .School Fimd

There j. standing charged arsinst the Bridg- FHns
1925 &c which ha- icen paid from the rity Fuid sbs
stands "ns charge Hesissi Bridge Fund, AID not
- indebtedness against the City.
General School Fund.
Amount standing credited Feb'y H. 1870 IeSB
Received from collector on NaTrans " 1850, sssi
Total s@-.-
Order. d. avn 70 Teachers, JsBitors, ard fss
sosd, eusL &c 6osl C
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19
Bonded Debt.

! The City has now outstanding sixteen Bonds.
amounting Co tie sum oE <lsooo "a
Three Of WHICH becoae due this year viz
Nos 3, and s. so1o o.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19

No, gentlemen, we will not make terms
with traitors while their muskets are
pointed at our breasts neither will we
make terms with you of the Border States,
while you meet US with Illuminating com
promise IN one hand and an insulting
threat in the other. SO long as that is YOUR
policy we will spurn your compromise and
defy your threats-JCe are not cocards.-
True Democrat.
Thus talks the Office seekers organ of
this city.
His Majesty, George the Third, made
some such reply as that to the revolving
colonies. George and his parliament un-
dertook to tax the people of America
against their consent. They petitioned and
remonstr ated, but to all their remonstrances
George turned deaf ear. They then re-
beiied, and he said, d" No, gentlemen, we
Will not make terms with traitors while
their muskets are pointed at our royal
breast" And further he argued with them
that they were most wicked and unreas-
enable beings to grumble about his LAYING
slight tax upon them; for that it was
all done according to law aid strictly in
contormanec with the spirit of the British
constitution.
The people of the colonies, however, were
not much impressed with Georges argu-
ment about the constitutionaIity Of his acts;
and went on committing rebellion and trea.
son until his Majesty got the worst Of /.
and was finally obliged to acknowledge
that the rebel colonists were better men
than he, and to give up all right to tax
them or to rule them in any other manner
whatever.
If George had made terms with these
traitors, even while muskets we're pointed
at his sacred breast, he would have saved
his country an immense treasure, both in
money and blood, and might have gone
down to his grave an honored and respected
man instead of crazy old fool.
Are the breasts of Norton, Streeter, and
Braden 50 royal and kinglike that they can.
not take warning from the lessons of his
tory?
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19
cVerdravn.
iSchcrg District No.

Amosnt Standing ereSIted Teh. II, isee,
Received iron SagTzht Of 1852,
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19

Provided the City eets the payment az Bond Va !
which breoaes d1e February 18th. lse, and b..
Nos aud s, which become due June LIST 1eol, ~
fHdebtedness Of the ity VII then be Thirteen 1es
and Dollars, al in Bsnds Of One Thousand Do1H'
each, bearing interest at the nate Of per cent y
aDnum, and payable y before stated.
All Of whieh-is respectfully submitted. 4.
sAMT D. snTr, CITY of-
Joliet, iebrsary IL, 1851
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19

Pesth, Jan. 27.-Ths inhabitants Of
Neivedina have protested against the in
corporation of that province with Hunga>
ry, IN an arbitrary manner. They demand
the cOnvocation Of Servian National
Assembly.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15

Veracity.
The groundwork Of all manly charac,
ter is veracity. This virtue lies at the
foundation of every solid. How com
mon it is to hear parents say, II have
faith in my child so long as he speaks
the truth. He may have many faults
but l know he will not deceive me.
build on that confidence" They are
right. 1t is lawful and just ground to
build upon. And that is beautiful
confidence. Whatever errors tempta-
tion may betray child into, so long as
brave, open truth remains there is some
thing to depend on, there is anchor
ground, there is substance at the center
Men Of the world feel so about one an
other. They can be tolerant and fore
bearing SO long as their erring brother
is true. 1t is the fundamental virtue.
Ordinary commerce can hardly proceed
4 step without good measure of it. II
we cannot believe what others say to us,
we cannot act upon it, and to an i'm
mense extent that is saying that we can
not act at all. Truth is common in
terest. When we defend it, we defend
the basis of all social order. When we
vlndicate it, we vindicate our own foot
hold. When we plead for it, it is like
pleading for the air of health we breathe
When you undertake to benefit lying
man, it is like putting your foot into the
mire.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15
NUMBER 46;

swerved by their interests or their pref
udices from its recognition. We fear
that even. President; Lincoln has been
short-sighted in the matter, or has lacked
the firmness to resist the machinations
of debauched politicians around him.
This bloody and feudish war which
has been forced upon us.will never be
prosecuted to advantage till the question
at issue is clearly stated and suuarely
met. The shareholders, for the sake Of
the institution of slavery, have resolved
to destroy the Government. They have
made up the issue.s For ths accom-
plishment of their purpose every fiend4
ish art has been plied-treachery, rob-
berry, arson, manning, murder. No
crime SO black, no outrage 30 hiah-
handed, no perfdy SO damning that it
has not been eagerly invoked to aid in.
the fendish work. We repeat it, tho. H..
sue IS made up-made up by the slave,
holders themselves. It is simply a,
question of the Government or Slavery.
One or the other mast perish. Which.
shall it be-?
The Government may daily with tho
question, refuse to recognize, it, mako
weak and pernicious compromiseswhich
may postpone it for the time. But to.
this issue in the end it will be forced,
God grant that the Government may
recognize the true issue while yet it has
strength to meet it!
But, say one, 81 thought you were.
not designing to counsel crusade on.
the part of the Government against sla--
very" Nor are we. We say let the.
Executive of the nation be governed by.
the laws and Constitution; let the mill.
tary powers adhere to the strietsst prin--
ciples recognized among civilized ma,
tions. Let every loyal citizen in every
State of the Union be assured that the.
Government will do its utmost to pro-
tect their property and their lives. But.
let it be proclaimed everywhere that,
henceforth if any man shall take up or,
continue in arms against the Govern,
ment, his property shall be confscated,
and his slaves, if he have any, SHALL.
BECOME FREE MEN.
If, in such procedure, a death blow
is struck against slavery it will not be
difficult matter for the General Govern
ment to complete the work by compen-
sating loyal men for the liberating of
their slaves.
Such is our programme for the con-
duct of the war. It could excite NO
more bitter feelings than now exist in
the South; it could provoke no greater
cruelties than those already practiced.
Those who look for cancellations by con.-
promise will be sadly, ruinously mis-
taken. It can come only by blood
Compromise, by which the dilapidated
national fortunes of slavery may be
patched up, will only entail upon Us
hopeless debauchery Of public sentiment
and perpetually recurring wars. But if
the roofing out of this rebellion shall
result in extracting the very virus from
which it sprung, then may we hope for
an honorable and permanent peace.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15
From Beecher's Sermon on the Flag,

The flag means Lexington-it means
Bunker Hill-it means the whole glori-
GUS revolutionary war. 1t means all
that the Constitution means. Not a
symbol of the auth ority Of the ruler was
allowed to go in it. 1t was ordained for
the people by the people; that it meant,
and that it means, and by the blessing
of God that it shall mean to the end of
time. For God Almighty be thanked
that when base, degenerated men desired
to set oppression at war with the in
stincts of American liberty, they could
not do it under our flag. They must
have another flag for such work. /
thank them that they took another flag
to do the DEVILS work, and left our flag
to do God Almighty's work If ever
the sentiment of the text has been full
filed, it has been in our glorious ban
ner. ''Thou hast given us banner to
them that fear thee, that it may be DIS
ptayed;' and displayed it shall De from
the Atlantic wave clear across, with ca
gle flight, to the Pacific; the banner
shall wave, meaning all that it meant.
From the North where SHOWS and ice
stand solitary, clear Of the Gulf and
1apRics, that banner has waved, and shall
@aNleSHprever!
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15
Doetrg.
LIVE BRAvELaY.

The world is half darkened with croakers,
Whose burdens are weighing them down;
They croak of their stars and i'll usage,
And grege in the ditch for crown.
Why talk to the wind of thy fortune,
Or clutch at distinction and gold,
IF thou eanst not reach high on the ladder,
Thou canst steady its base by thy hold.
For the flower, though hid in the corner
Will as faultlessly finish its bloom,
Will reach for sparkle of sunshine,
That clouds have not chanced 10 consume.
And wouldst thou be less than flower
With thought, and brain, and hand?
Will wait for the dribbles of fortune,
When there's something that these, may COM
There is food to be won from the furrow,
And forests that wait to be hewn;
There's marble untouched by the chisel,
Days that break not on the forehead of June
viii you let the plow rest in the furrow-
Unbuilded house or hal2
Nor bid the stones wake from their silence
And fret, as if fretting were all?
Go learn from the blossoms and aunt-hill
There's something your labor must give,
Like the beacon that pierces the tempest,
Strike the clod from thy footing and live.
Live-not trail with with thy face in the dross
heap,
In the track of the brainless and proud,
Lift the cerements away from thy manhood,
Thourt robbing the dead of a shroud!
There are words and pens to be welded,
There are thoughts that would die if unsaid,
Weuldst thou saunter away amid roses,
Or sepulcher dreams that are dead?
No, dreg the hope to the pyre,
Dreams dead from the ashes will rise;
Look not down on the earth for its shadow,
There is sunlight for thee in the skies.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15
1 the Government Service,

liMfus Blng, civilian, who was ta-
Ken prisoner at Bull Run and carried
to MaDassls, aud subsequently released
by Beauregard because of his being a
citizen Of Great Britain, makes the fol-
lowing statement in regard to the reb-
els having previous information of our
plan of attack:
AT headquarters he found number
of gentlemen and officers whom he knew
personally, or by reputation. Among
them were Senators Clingman, Chestnut
and Mason; Extra Billy Smith, Colonel
Miles, of South Carolina; and Colonel
Jordon formerly Of the Var Department.
This latter gentleman boasted that he had
received, before the attack at Bulls Rua,
q cipher dispatch from some ,oeH informed
person, 1oithih our lines, giving full de-
tails Of onr movement, including the par
ticn1ors Of the plan of baHle, the time al
aohich operations 1could commence ana
the number Of our troops.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15
A Paragraph for the Ladies.

Most of our fair friends have deci
ded ave Esion to that part of their duty
which falls under the. patching and
darning" denomination; they are of the
opinion that "a rent may be the accident
of day, but darn is premeditated
povertyr" But if bhey only know how
pretty we'll executed piece of repairs
looks, when you see in its warp end wool
the bright threads of economy, and in.
depe ndence, and womanly thrift, cross,
ing and recrossing one another, they
would lay aside embroideries and crochet
work, and take up, instead, the mending
basket.
We rode down the other day, When
the only other occupants of the stage
were young gentleman, and lovely
girl, of, we should think, about eigh-
teen. She was the pretties, freshest
looking girl one would want to see
there were no tell-tale traces of mid
night parties, headachery mornings in
those peach blossom cheeks and clear
bright eyes, and all the numberless lit
tie items of her dress was as fresh and
trim as herself-from the pink bonnet
string down to the neatly fitting gloves
and delicate gaiter boots. If we had
been an old bachelor, or young one
either-we should certainly have fallen
in love with that girl, particularly after
we found out that she was as industri-
GUS as pretty.
And how do you suppose we found it
out?
The handkerchief that lay on her lap
told US so. The neat little darn, elabor-
ately executed. in its corner, with its
small white stitches and skillful hand
work had a voice quite audible to our
ears. Time, and patience, and wise
economy had been there. The gentle
men sitting opposite saw the little token
also; we noticed his eyes turned from
the handkerchief to the blooming face,
and back to the handkerchief again, and
we knew we'll what he was thinking of
the good wife that young lady would
make, and how neat her husbands era
vats and stockings would be! Poor fel-
low, the edges of his shirt bosoms were
little frayed, and one of the buttons
were missing, whose detection the most
skillful arrangement of his cravat ends
would not conceal. Perhaps he had a
wife who didn't believe in mending and
darning-perhaps he had none at ALL
However that may have been, his admir-
ing eyes appreciated the darn on that
handkerchief more than if it had been
the richest and most sight destroying
embroidery-not for what it was, but for
what it betokened. a
Girls! don't shrink from a mending
place as if it were plague spot; the
longer old things last, the better able
you WILDE to have new ones by-andby.
Sensible people read your character in
little things; and no one will think the
worse of you, whatever may be your
wealth or station in life, for the exercise
of economy and thrift. ga stitch in
time saves nine" and sometimes it saves
4 great deal more than that.-tSelected.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15
ILLUsrR1oUs OUNCES.

An interesting chapter might be writ
ten on the subject of illustrious ounces
dull boys but brilliant men. We
have room, however, for only few in
stances. Pietro di Cortono, the painter,
was thought so stupid that he was nick
named 'tAss Head" when a boy; and
Thomas Guini was generally known as
.sheavy Tor" Massoccia Tomasacia)
though by diligence he afterwards
raised himself to the highest eminence.
Newton when at school stood at the bot
tom of the lowermost form but one
The boy above Newton having kicked
him, the Ounce showed his pluck by chal-
lenging him to fight, and beat him
Then he set to work with will and deter
mined also to vanquish his antagonist
as a scholar, which he did, rising to the
top of his class. The well-known DR..
Chalmers and DR.. Cook were boys to-
gether at the parish school of St. An
drew's; and they were found so stupid
and mischievous, that the master, irrita-
ted beyond measure, dismissed them
both as incorrigible ounces.
Chatterton was returned to his moth
|ers hands as ''a fool of whom nothing
could be made" Burns was a dull
boy, good only at athletic exercises
Goldsmith spoke of himself as a plant
that lowered late. Alferi left college
no wiser than he entered it, and did not
begin the studies by which he distin-
guished himself till he had run over
half of Europe. Robert Give was
Ounce, if not reprobate, when youth;
but always full of energy, even in bad
ness. His family, glad to get rid of him,
sent him off to Madras; and he lived to
lay the foundation of the British power
in India. Napoleon and Wellington
we're both dull boys, not distinguishing
themselves in any way at school. Of
the former the Duchess d'Arbantes says:
"He had health, but was in other re-
spects like other boys"
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15
WHAT LADIES DID IN DAYS OF
TORE.

What were the womankind of the no.
bility and gentry of Europe about whom
their fathers, husbands, and sweethearts
were at the Holy Land? Spun and wove
all the bed and table linen, made all the
fiue clothing and embroidery, all the
wine and preserves, distilled herbals for
medicine, and studied surgery; became
perfect in the art of nursing and mid
wifery; then off to the downs with hawk
and hounds, and back to beef and strong
est of ale.
Further on, Mary, Queen of Scots,
made half the royal bed quilts of Europe,
and no end of Gobelin tapestry. Nay,
so careful was she of her curtains, that
when she knew Darnley was to be ''dis-
posed" she sifted her silk awnings the
night before and replaced them with
serge counterpanes and testers. She
knew what good work was, and could
not bear to have it soiled.
Even to the beginning, perhaps we'll
into the middle of the last century, our
great greatgrandmothers were too illit-
crate to be idle. The squire's wife was
as retolute worker as any in the parish,
and "idle hussy'' Ga corruption of house
wife) her most singing epithet. Even
Lady Bountiful was "notable house
wife She had soft place i'll her head,
indeed, for Ranelagh, Choice, and Sir
Charles Grandson; but in the main the
traditional industry of antiquity was a
point of honor, of duty with her. She
was not only industrious herself, but
the cause of industry in others. In fact,
she kept her maids at work by working
herself.
Pray, were they not gen.eel? Why,
the Howards, the Plantagenets, the
Jane Greys, and Lady Russells, con-
sidered it even low and vul gar to be of
no use. a gentlewomen was only lady
by being thoroughly accomplished in
domestic utilities.
Even at the beginning Of the century,
the most distinguished old families in
the United States, consumed or wore
very little that they did not produce ON
their own estates. And in the rel gn of
Charls l., the Hampdens, Pyms, and
Hollisses, thought the court vulgar, and
devoted themselves and their families to
the development of their domestic re-
sources, living, summer and winter, in
the country upon their family acres
The farmers wife and daughters kept
the profits Of the butter, eggs, and poul-
try, and the spinet Or harpsichord was
heard at the great house alone.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15

-'.Fellow sogers," said newly
elected lieutenant Of militia, I'm all
fred obliged to you for this shove up
in the ranks you have given me. Eel
low sogers, | m not going to forget your
kindness, not by darned sight; and I'll
stick to my post like pitch to a pine
board. as long as there's peace, but as
go in for rotation in Office, if We should
come to blows with the British, darned
if don't resign right off and give ev-
cry fellow fair shake for fame and
glory, and all that'ere.''
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15

n- Fifty years ago, coffee vas hardly
known as an article of commerce in
South America. Now, Brazil alone pro-
duces the enormous quantity of 135, ,000,-
900 pounds-nearly one half of the en-
tire quantity introduced into foreign
countries from all quarters of the globe.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-15
Peace.

Peace is better than joy. Joy is an
uneasy guest, and alwas on tip-to to
depart. 1t tires and wears out, and yet
keeps US ever fearing that the next mo-
ment it will be gone. Peace is not So
it comes more quietly, it stays more
contentedly, and it never cxhausts our
strength, nor gives us one anxious fore
casting thought. Therefore, let us pray
for peace.