davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01

o XXI +SRING FOR THE JUBILEE AT NORFOLK.
7 me negro populstion-in ordinary times of
peace-could hardly be forced to do their u.s.
ual duties at this season; now they do not at
tempt to do so, willingly foregoing their
weeks earnings fer the full enjoyment of the
holidays. A monster fair is held by them
throughout the week, for the sale of refresh
ments. toys, etc., the fund accruing from it to
be devoted to their poor. This lair is now in
full operation at Mechanics hall, a public
building owned by company of secession
lists, who addressed an indignant appeal to
Gen. Viele against the use it was about to be
put to. He told them as non-voters in the re-
cent election their appeal was simply useless,
under any circumstances, but in the present
case he could see no better use that could be
made of hall built for benevolent purposes,
than to be used as a charity fair for the suffer-
ing poor. Late in the day, party of youths
attacked five negroes whom they nearly beat
to death ''for daring to hold their fair in Me-
chanics hall" In consequence of this the
assaiants will pass the rest of their holidays,
if nos longer, in fort Norfolk. The feeling of
the inhabitants of Norfolk against the blacks
is of the most malignant kind, and as the first
of January approaches, it seems to become
even more intense. On that day they antici-
pate an instruction in Norfolk. The colored
population are making preparation for pro-
cesSion in honor of the day, in which it is said,
nearly five thousand negroes will participate.
From their general aspect, however, OF care
less cheerfuness, there does not appear to be
anything of serious nature in contemplation.
Correspondence NJ Y. Post
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01

HEART-RENDING CATASTROPHE AT ROPE
WALKING ExHIBITIoN.-A terrible and heart
rending catastrophe occurred in Havana on
the 9Th ult, at the Plaza Torres-Bull Ring.
Mr.. Farini, the celebrated tight rope walker
and rival of Blondin, advertised, among the
many wonders that he would perform on the
tight rope, the carrying of his wife across the
rope stretched from one side of the ring to the
other, at height of about sixty feet, upon his
back-a feat he had performed in other
places. He started with the lady upon his
back, and had nearly finished his journey
across, within about four feet, when the audi
ence appauded the daring act, it seemingly
being completed; and the lady, in acknowi-
edgment of that applause, loosened her hold
upon her husbands neck, and waved her
hands, and, on the instant of doing SO, she
discovered that she had lost her balance, and
called to her husband to catch her as she was
falling. This he attempted to do, and caught
her by the skirt of her dress but the frai fabric
was not of sufficient strength to sustain her.
with the impetus given to her descent by the
fall, and the dress gave way, leaving a piece
in the unfortunate mans hand as he hung sus-
pended from the rope. sustaining himself by
the joint of his knee, by means of which he
had saved himself, and she came down crash
ing upon the seats that ascend from the curb
of the ring to the top of the enclosure. She
was taken up for dead, but showed, after some
little time, signs of returning life, and fingered
from Sunday until Thursday morning, when
death put an end to her suffering. She was
taken in hand by the ladies of the neighbor-
hood, and everything that could be done was
done. The wealthiest ladies of Havana were
at her bedside and soothed her dying pillow.
She was embalmed and placed in one of the
inches of the burying ground. 1t is said that
from $4,000 to $4,000 will be raised by sub
scription for the child she has left behind.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01
no INVENTORS AND PATENTEES.

ITO Inventors and others, am happy to recommend
Mr.. Arthur S. Denny, who, believe from his expert
In England and France and his knowledge Of the
French language will be enabled greatly to promote
lheir interests m Europe. TAI 7. SHAFFNER.
Patentees will obtain from Mr. Arthur 3. Denny val
nabe assistance in introducing their inventions in Eng
land and on the continent Of Europe"
SIT GFo. FRAGrts Tp.tN
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01

Col. HAMILTON AND THE New YORK
MERCHANDISE Shortly after the arrival of Col.
A. j. Hamilton in this city, as a refugee from
Texas, he called on client, where he met
and was introduced to well known Cham
bers street dry goods jobber, who has lost the
savings of his life by his southern debtors,
but who has ever bowed low to the shrine of
slavery, and now, it is said, labors under the
deusion that by his abuse of the government
and republicans generally, he will be favor
ed creditor, and collect what he has due to
him. Mistaking Hamilton's true loyalty, he
thought he would be pleased with his staple
slang, and said the abolitonists had brought
about the war-that Lincoln and Stanton were
incompetent, etc, etc, when Hamilton inter
rupted him, and, gently putting his hand upon
his shoulder asked, my friend, are you a
true, loyal man?". The merchant, little put
back, replied, Il believe am" ''Then,"
quickly responded Hamilton, 'use loyal Ian
guage" and turning to his client and friend,
changed the conversation, fifty rebuking Ian
guage too common among Il considerable class
in this city.-N Y. Tribune.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01

''AULD LANG SYNE" IN SToNE.-Robert
Thompson, Scotch sculptor, resident in New
York, has put into stone the familiar words Of
Burns in Aud Lang Syne.
And here's hand, my trusty frien and sic ST hand
o. thine"
The work consists of two figures carved out
of yellow sandstone, representing two Zero
MES taking their ''pint stoup" together. One
OF them, a traveller, is seated on chair, his
hat and bag lying carelessly beside him, while
opposite is seated his host, who is welcoming
ms friend. Each of the men holds in his
hand glass of beer, while foaming tankard
is on the table between them. dog is near
by' and the entire group gives good idea of
Scottish hospitality and of the familiar lines
of the ploughman-poet.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01

NEGROES HANGEDIN CHARLEsToN.-AB Brit
ish subject who arrived in Norfolk, from
Charleston, South Carolina, within few days
brings the information that nineteen negroes
were hung IN the streets just prior to his de-
parture. This occurred in consequence of a
discovery, made in rather singular manner
The whites there, for some time past, have
been watching the movements of the blacks,
and they observed an unusual number of fune-
rails among them, when white man disguised
himself, and following in one of the process
sions, on arriving at the burial ground he dis
covered that the coffin contained arms, whic h
ffEEeere taken from it and suried in a vault, in
sRn&pira.nn1eeiso,. afra,tssIready been deposited
e brg and oh. 81 !, lis discovery was the ex-
a,ston Wo.,nese'.een Of the most intelligent of
BcSsioner TStors.-New York EUening Post.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01


3. Senator Rice of Minnesota has a bill before
the senate granting one million acres of pub
lie lands in aid of projected canal-three-
fourths of mile fong-leading from Big Stone
Lake to Lake rraver in Minnesota. The os-
tensible reason for so large a bounty is that
by the construction of this canal the waters of
the Mississippi would be connected with Lake
Wlnnepeg, and direct water communication
opened between a vast northwestern country
and the gulf.
The Zouaves d'Afrique in Kansas have
finally been mustered into the service of the
United States. They have been serving with
out pay, and many of them had families that
were suffering. They are to be paid from the
time of enlistment, and join the army of the
frontier under Gen. Blunt
Several ladies in Washington have been an
pointed to clerkshipin the quartermaster-gen-
erals department with salaries of six hundred
dollars per annum.
Gen. Dix succeeds Gov. Morgan as COM
mander of the military department of New
York. During his service Gov. Morgan had
not drawn the pay to which he was entitled as
major general.
Mrs. Major Belle Reynolds, formerly of
Northampton in this state, now one of Gov.
Yates field officers, recently participated in a
review of the Union troops at Lagrange,
Tenn. She wore military costume, and rode
spirited charger.
By the burning of Ford's theatre in Wash
ington. Monday night, Miss Riehing, the fa-
vorite actress, lost in wardrobe, music, &C.,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01

CHARLOTTE BRoNTE.-The world bends
with infinite tenderness over the story of that
woman who had no beauty and no blessing,
out on the Yorkshire moors. We pity her
for the dismal scranny school of her child
hood, where food for the outer and the inner life
was alike hard and crusty and mouldy. We
pity her for the lonely drudgery, so hapless
and so hopeless, out in Brussels, as we see
her sit down to it, while her wings bleed beat
ing the bars of her cage, and the music scars
within her
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01

property valued at four thousand dollars. All
the instruments, except the piano, and the
expensive scenery prepared expressly for this
opera season, were burned. The total loss is
about twenty thousand dollars.
While the passengers at Portland were 60
ing on board the steamer Forest City for Bos-
ton, Monday, a lady slipped from the gang
plank and fell between the boat and the wharf;
but her crinoline developed into the friendliest
amplitude and kept her from sinking till she
was relieved
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01
''And the life still drags her downward
To its level, day by day,
What is fine within her growing
Coarse to sympathetic clay.n

OOdTse lOsyulpatneuC cray"
Our lips tremble as we see that striving af-
ter some touch of grace and beauty to deck
the hard gray home, though it embody itself
in no better thing than bright little frock
and a pair of tiny red shoes-yet to see the
poor blossom of grace and beauty shrivelling
in the fire, put there and held there by a IA
ther harder than the home itself! We watch
her, woman while yet a child-a woman,
because other little children, still more help
less, are motheress, and they can find no
other nature large enough to take them in
and understand and adopt them; a sister,
in all sweet, ingenious, simple ways;
mother, in all wise overbending care
and love and then, at last, wo-
man grown, walking over great stretches of
wild country, that she might be alone with
that other father and mother, the father and
mother of us all, and gather strength and
courage from the communion, to go back and
bear her burden of stern, half-mad father,
and a reckless, lost brother and bare, rugged
life; and we say, ''Ohl why was not such a
soul clothed in the beauty of June, and born
in the vale of Tempe, in the golden days, and
the first born and nursing of queen?" But
we say this no longer when the flower unfolds
to the sun-when her books and her life, in
all their variant strength and fullness, reveal
the mystery Of the homely enfolding, and the
rank, sharp contrasts of the garden plat and
the hot days and dark nights; for we see in
the flower trimming with retreshment and
blessing to thousands, how not to the beauty
of the goddess, not to the fiowery meadows
and bosky dells of Arcadia,'n mot to the first
born and nursing of queen, could this power
come but to such soul set in such place,
to battle through and gather all the influences
of such life.-Rer Robert CoLIyer.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01

NOTICE. = The undersigned, having
l. ' taken out license under the Internal Revenue
Law of the United States will CONTINUE the business Of
Commercial Broker under said act.
From his long experience end extensive acquaintance
he feels confident hat will be interest Of those
having Houses nd to rent, entrust them 10 his
care. JAMES r. PEIRCE
Worcester Nov. IA. 1852. diff MS
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01

The. republican state egsyention in Connec-
ticut is to be holden New Haven on the
2Ist of January curre1t All who honestly
desire to stand by thegovernment in its hour
of peril, and aid in tn restoration of its au-
thority, are invited t.seo operate with them.
The wives of Re DIR. Dutton and Deacon
Isaac Thompson, ~ sotheIaven, were among
the Ariers passem !. lGr-en she was captured
by the Alabama b p,ey have arrived safely
at San Francisco.'sfl
The supreme ce vt of errors, in session at
New Haven, have decided that the bill for
taking the vote Of soldiers out Of the state, is
unconstitutional.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01
A GOOD CHANCE FOR A DRUG

"A GIST.-FOR SALE-A well selected assortment
Drugs Medicines, Chemicals mixtures, good will
of Drug store which has Gonea good trade for the
past seven years there is also connected with the
above business soda and mineral water apparatus
manufacturing soda and mineral water which done
a profitable bushes for the past ten years. The two
branches of trade will be sold together eparate it
NAV suit the purchaser Address L. Nj W. Worcester
Mass dit iyl
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01

The Waterville Mail notices the followS
agreeable case Of HOUSEKEEPING in that twn ::
Several persons, known to be among themost
respectable citizens, effected an entrance into
the house of Rev. DIR. Sheldon, whiI~he was
absent at meeting, and encumberet the varl-
GUS rooms with articles of considerable value,
among which were cooling stove, Hour
meat, fruit, and money, ~ perpetrators
were still at large
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-01

MRS. L. S. NICKERSON, 10 Austin
A street, Seeing and Trance Medium, gives sittlngs
for spirit for soc lntuitiyey examines
and prescribes .or disease for 81 Hours from 10 II
N. and 10 p NJ. dawtf i've
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-04-29

RrroRr DmEcr. "A clergyman from a
neirhborinr town and one Of his elderly pa
rfshioners were walking home from church
one icy day last winter, when the old gen,
tleman slipped and fell fiat on his back. The
minister looked at him moment, and be-
inc assured he was not hurt, said to him:
"Fricnd. sinners stand on slippery places"
The old gentleman looked up, as if to as.
sure himself Of the fact, and said, I" see
,hey do hut can't
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-04-29
PROVERBS IN "NIGHT THOUGHTS" y

PROVERBS IN aNIGHT THOUGHTS" -
The might Thoughts" by Edward
Young, contain many an apt line that has
" passed into proverb." Here is bud-
get:
eve take no note Of time
But from its loss"
That is proverb so is the pointed de-
claraton
"All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond
Is substance;"
and still more unquestionably the fellows
ing. for It has long since passed inte the
common parlance Of the world, in use
among many people who know not the
name of its author:
aA men think all men mortal bat themselves"
What filter apologize to the conscience
than this imaginative line!
"Ths spirit walks Of every day deceased
An aspiration is hardly proverbiai. or
we would instance the appeal 10 Lorenzo:
40 for the yesterdays 10 come!"
OF the following there is no question;
it is declarative, and fulfills every condi-
tion of proverb:
Love, and love only, is the loan for love"
Similar to this is the expression
"Hearts are propietOrs Of all applause
=. So, too, the often remarked creative ef-
forts of the Imagination in enhancing the
terrors Of death:
aMsn makes death which nature never made"
1t is to Young, and not to Goldsmith,
that we Should assign the sentence-they
both have il, but the latter borrowed it,
Man wants but little nor that little long"
A proverb should be in one line ;but the
privilege may be extended to so fine q say
ing as the celebrated
aEsrth's highest station ends in Here be lies,'
And' dust to dust concludes her noblsst song
II would be well if some sf those ioud&st
in their praises of Young, would bear in
mind the following:
ATS impious in good man to be sad"
The concluding line Of the Fourth Night
is memorable:
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die"
What world Of trouble the following
might save critics and fault finders! II
quite puts out the lantern Of Diogenes:
a'Tis vain 70 seek in men more than man."
Solomon has been befsre Young with
this:
aThe man Of wisdom Is The man Of years"
How oft has the experience of the world
pointed the following:
"Des,h love. shining mark, signal blow"
There is a nobleness which cannot be
too familiar to us in this:
"our hearts ne'er bow bot 10 superior worth,
with its accompanying gloss:
/" Pigmies pgmies still, though perehsd on Aips
! A great hero who acquired a reputation
some years since BY jumping off preeipiesi
into rivers. immorlalIzed himseltb by an aa
vance beyond the proposition
anda Al may DO wha, has by men tssn done"
The ALTERATION does justice to noble
sentiment in the following:
ATS moral grandeur makes The mighty man.
There is also much virtue in the lines
!" The man that bushes is moi quite brute"
Procrsstinalion s the thief Of iime"-
you may hear anywhere on change, -
counting houses, in the streets.
These examples might be multiplied a
will. The most cursOry perusal OF tbs
poem viii suggest others, which, II not eI'
actly proverbs, bear strong family rsIa'
tionship to those tenacious dwellers in cu
, memories.
.-s.s~s.,-l~-~>-~~@--.
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-04-29

action upon the subject of these resolutions
as will give them practical effect, immedi-
afelyupon the concurrence or cooperation
q the Governors and Legislatures Of sister
States.
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-04-29

PROTFNT
hgains, war waged with the insurgent
siatrs Tor the accomplishment OF uncon-
.iiiutional Or partisan purposes:
Against war which has for ts object
The subjugation OF any Of the States, with 4
view TO their reduction TO a territorial con.
dition;
Against proclamations from any source
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-01

by Jeff Davis not only with lack OF cordially,
but with an entire want of respect;" and there is
not much dcuot that this colGness on the part
of the rebel leaders, and their dsrespectfu rejec-
ton of all terms short OF an acknowedg of
their independence, led this distinguished Demo-
crat to the opinion, which he has since so ably ad
v0cated, that there is no choice between a vgor-
Gus prosecution Of the war, and broken Union.
This dispatch of Lord Lyons proves, also, be-
yOnd question that the purpose of the leaders
OF the conservative party" in their advocacy of
Nati1na Convention, is to amend the Constitu-
ton by giving Slavery new guarantees in that in :
Strument, and thus reconstructing the Union.
In other words, under the deusive watchword of
/" the Constitution as It is and the Union as it
was" these party leaders were, and are, schemir g
10 make new and different Union, and new
and differeat Constitution, from those left US by
the fathers. They will, however, find this more
difficult matter to accomplish than putting down
rebellion by force. The North have seen enough
of the evils of slavery within the past two years. to
fix their determination to give the institution no
additional power for harm. 1t has enough DO
tency for mischief already.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-01

f the staff of life comprising her cargo, would
e distributed on the occasion. The operatives
rere displeased with the idea of being paraded
Ike so many paupers, and sent home each with q
oaf of bread under his arm, and this feeling was
AIKEN advantage of by the Liverpool secesslonlsts'
Who sent emissaries down among the Manchester
masses. The result was, that when the hour OF
he meeting arrived, instead of an anxious and
grateful asssmblage Of men and women, there
was only an excited and almost infuriated mob
who seized the loaves of bread and pelted each
other with them. Fifteen thousand loaves OF
bread, representing one hundred and fifty barrels
of -four, were taken from the pans and throlon
inio the mud, where it was kampIed undr foot !
OF course the meeting was broken up.-BOstOn
Journal.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-01

IHE DESTRUCTION OF THE STEAMER MISsIs-
SIPPI.-A New Orleans correspondent of the New
York Times gives graphic account of the en-.
gagement between Admiral Farraguts fleet and
the rebel batteries at Port Hudson. This de.
scrlpton shows that the Mississippi, which was so
unfortunate as to get aground, was fought splen.
dldly by her officers and men, and especial men.
ton is made of LIEUT.. D4wEY of this town, and
of his gallantry and GOODNESS in the action. He
was one Of the last officers to leave the vessel,
which bad been for an hour under the concentra
ted fire of an arc of more than three miles in
length OF rebel batteries; and then her officers
refused to lower her flag, but she was set on fire,
and when lghtened enough to, float she slowly
went down the river with the current, her guns
one after another being discharged as the fire reach
ed them, until, when near Baton Rouge, the twenty
tons of powder in her after magazine exploded,
reading the vessel into fragments. The correspon-
dent suggests that If Government desires to fad
persons worthy OF promotion for gallant conduct,
they cannot do better than to take the whole lst
OF the Nssissippps officers and crew at random.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-01

WEST VIRGINIA, - The new Emancipation
clause in the constitution Of West Virginia has
been adopted by g nearly unanimous vote. In
FIVE towns 1867 votes were cast in favor of il, and
only five against it.
This constitution provides that the children
born OF slaves after July 4th 1868, shall be free
that slaves less than ten years of age that date
SHALL be freed at the age Of wentyone, and slaves
over ten and less than twenty .one shall DO freed
at the age Of twenty-five, prohibiting also the
importation of slaves into the State.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-01

HOTEL FARE IN RICHMoND-An Italian gen
tleman who has been for some years engaged in
business in Richmond, Va, arrived in New York
day or two since. We learn, on excellent au-
thorty that he stated that he has been boarding
at the Exchange Hotel in Richmond, paying eight
dollars day, and the bill OF fare consisted of corn
bread, cheese, homeopathic soup and hot water.
On soliciting fro.n the landlord little more gen
erous diet, for which he offered an increased rate
Of pay, the Boniface repIed, If you pay me $50
per day, might give You larger ration of corn
bread and more hot water, bu nothing more. "
The Provo: Marshal allowed the hotel, for all its
inmates, ten pounds Of meat per week.--.NstO
Bedford Mercury.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-01

How ENGLIsHMEN TREAT OUR CoNTRlBU-
TIoNs.-The London correspondent of the Fhila-
delphia Inquire makes statement which, if true,
reflects great disgrace upon the citizens of Man
chester, Eng. 1t appears that meeting of the
operatives in Msnchestei had been called for the
18th of March, and it was announced that Rev.
G. w. Dnnison, Chaplain Of the George Griswo 3D.,
would be present also that 10000 leaves Of
bread. made Of the -four brought by the George
Grswold, and representing the number Of barrels