smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

In these days Of telegraphs and railways
the opening of the spring trade of our great
metropolis depends less than formerly upon
the opening of navigation on our canals, rivers
and lakes. Even goods that are to be sent q
few weeks later by water are now generally
ordered considerable time in advance by
letter or by telegram. Purchasers who come in
person from the Eastern and the Middle States,
from the remote West, from the South and
from the North. arrive conveniently by rail-
way at any date. This spring they are begin
ming to arrive earlier than usual. They
already crowd our hotels and are to be met
with on Change and in the counting rooms Of
their New York correspondents. Certain
branches of business are anticipating by q
fortnight the animation which the Easter
holidays inaugurate. Even during Lent the
ladies are tempted by the novelties that are
peeping forth, like early blossoms, at the show
windows. Stewards up town store is crowded
as much as if the churches were not daily open,


and new spring styles have been displayed
at almost all the matinees in our theatres. On
the wharves, at the Custom House, at the
bonded warehouses, in the stores, on the side
walks, blocked up with piles Of boxes the tokens
ofa brisk spring trade are plainly visible. OF
the activity which is soon going to reign, and
which already reigns in various departments
Of trade, both Wholesale and retail, no better
indication can. be found than in the crowded
advertising columns Of the New YORK HERALD.
Particularly the numerous advertisements OF
dry goods Of every description and of milli-
merry foreshadow heavy spring business. The
large cotton crop must have given the South
ern people wider margin than they have had
for many years for making purchases In New
York. The general prosperity Of the whole
Country, stimulated as it has been BY the
nationa. cc6nfdencs That President Grants
administration will prove benefcent and wise,
encourages us to expect lin New York an
unwonted revival of business. The spring
trade never opened with fairer promises, and
when the ice Of the Hudson shall have disap-
peared these promises win doubtless be hap
ply fulfilled. s
Year: 1869




The revolutionists in Cuba have at length
hit the keynote to success in decreeing the
abolition of slavery. BY telegraph we learn
that this decree was issued in the Central De-
partment by the insurgent Assembly of Repre-
sentatives, and that the freedmen may either be-
come soldiers or remain cultivators of the soil.
The effect of this decree must be damaging to
the interests of the whole western end OF the
island, where, as yet, the patriot effort has
met with small success. 1t will cause great
commotion among the thickly settled districts,
and must act as it acted upon our own terri
tory when Mr.. Lincoln issued his emancipa-
tion proclamation and thus broke the backbone
of our rebellion. Il


The insurgents now propose to concentrate
their forces and establish the headquarters OF
their government near Santiago de Cuba, in
the southeastern part Of the island. Thus
the revolution is every day becoming more
consolidated and Of irmer texture. There is
now but one direction for it, and that is on
ward for every hatred that ever existed or
has been created In the Cubans by Spanish
misrule has full opportunity to vent itself 4d
find redress. The efforts of the Spanish troops
to suppress the movement are every day be-
coming more impotent. The rage Of the
volunteers wreckers of Cnba, as they
may very justly be termed-is venting itself in
wholesale slaughter that would disgrace even
the government Of England in its East India
massacres The Spanish troops are also COM
hitting great outrages upon the plantations,
and war Of desolation appears to already
exist. We have often stated that this would
be the policy Of Spain when she found that
there was no longer hope of cgnging to the
island. When she. leaves it Of her own accord
it will be when this rich treasure house has
been completely wrecked and given over 70
internal anarchy.
It becomes very serious matter for the
United States to consider our present and
future relations to the island of Cuba, and
act at once with reference to our interests.
Every day destroys what it will take time and
millions of dollars to build up again after the
island comes into our hands. 1t is not for the
interest of this Continent that we should per-
NIT any European Power to desolate any part
Of our territory. In the first place there is no
sense ip the idea that nation in this age has
right to possess colony. 1t is in opposi-
ton to every ruling and civilized principle Of
the nineteenth century. Much less right has
any Power to desolate forcibly held colonial
possession, when that colony desires to have
what we claim is due to all mankind-a gov
ernment of its own, where every section can
be represented in common with all the other
districts or provinces Of the government.
Cuba has never had this. The only privilege
she has received is that Of supporting old
Spain in her Incidence, ignorance and arro-
Uance
Year: 1869

The DAILY HERALD will be sent to subscribers
fer one dollar month.


The postage being only thirty-fve cents q
quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at the same price it is
furnished in the city.
Year: 1869

NRPoTIsM.-Some Of the partisan papers
are grumbling because President Grant has
thought ft to appoint some family relatives to
Office. Why shouldn't hep There is high au@
thority for stating that q man who does noa
provide for his own family is no better than he
should he ..ns
Year: 1869

No RESPECT FOR ANDY.-Grant and his
Secretary Of the Navy have forgiven delin-
quent who was under punishment for using
''disrespectful language Of the President Of the
United States" That President has gone to
Tennessee, and is no longer Of any account


We presume this pardon originated In q
thought similar TO that Of the judge who
would not punish man for getting drunk on
apple whiskey because the Court sometimes
indulred a taste of It's own for that beverage.
Year: 1869

FIFTY TO OSE.-There are in Washington
now fifty applications for every single Office
that Grant has TO fill, and he will not fll any
that he can help till the Senate unties his
hands. There ought to be a pretty large force
in favor Of repeal.
Year: 1869

MovrNa ON THE ENEMY's WoRKs.-It would
appear that the first objective point in Grants
Presidential campaign is the repeal Of the
Tenure Of Office law and he has seemingly
made such progress already as to have con-
vinced many Senators that they are more in
terested in the repeal than he IL.
Year: 1869

We publish to-day an interesting article
which conclusively shows that among the
great industrial interests Of this country the
horse may be considered as standing in the
first rank Of animal productions. Statistics
reveal the fact that for many years past, and
Notwithstanding the interruption Of breeding
at the South during the war, the horse has
been constantly increasing in numbers and
value so rapidly as to bring the aggregate of
horses now in the United States to little less
than eight millions, representing in money the
enormous sum Of 81, 600, OOO, 900, nearly equal
to the whole amount of our national indebted
ness and exceeding the gross product Of the gold
mines Of California. The history Of the progress
which has led to this result is fully detailed


and tables, elaborately prepared, are offered
in illustration. The facts which are exhibited
have been drawn with care from the best
sources of information, and may be implicitly
relied upon, however surprising they may
seem to persons who have not given special
attention to the subject. It appears that Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana, New York aud Pennsylvania
retain the lead which they took in 1850 and In
1860 as horse raising States, and Missouri,
Kentucky and Texas come next in order.
Much Of the best blood was captured in the
South during the war by the Union troops,
and many Of the finest horses have thus found
their way into the Western and Middle States,
where they have been turned to profitable
account in improving the local or sectional
stock. And California, with its increase since
1860 from one hundred and sixty thousand six
hundred and ten horses to five hundred thou
sand, not having suffered from the effects Of the
war on breeding, promises to become one Of the
leading horse reoducing States in the Union.
Year: 1869

FEyHE TRUSTEES of the Shreveport University arc
Il pleased to announce that they have succeeded in
securing the services of Prof. GEO. E. THATCHER,
to take charge of this institution 1t is the design of
the Board afford educational facilities equal to those
of any part of the country and instead of sending
to distant States be educated to offer such adj
vantages at home will command the respect and
confidence of the entire community. To attain this
end pains will be spared to secure the best and
most experienced educators men of undoubted talent,
ripe scholarship, experience and skill.


The University is located in very pleasant and
heathful situation, two miles west of Shreveport.
The grounds extensive, af1ording ample room for
exercise, and the building is capable of accommodate
ing large number.


We shall educate there, and we urge ali
those who wish to leave to their the best heritage
that man leave to his posterity, to cooperate
with us. JOHN n HOWELL,


President Board Trustees.


ShreyeDOrt Ianuary
Year: 1869

GENERAL LEE IL 4 New MoFEMEsr.-The action OF
General Lee, President of the Washington College,
Virginia in taking up the movement for practical and
technical education in this country likely make
great an impression upon our old fogy schools and col
Ieges as be did in military tactics upon our old fogy
Commanders in the palmy days Of the rebellion. lie
proposes to place Washington College in the front
rank of the march Of modern ideas by adding pract
cal instruction in agriculture, mechanics engineering
and chemistry to its present list Of studies II he
succeeds in doing So the old fashioned Institutions
where the of words aud Of coping logic, with
spattering of the dead languages only are tanght will


soon be left in the lurch by the new system The old
schools must admit tie new ideas of the age or go
uuSer. y. L Herald.
Year: 1869

THE HoRArlr AND CuGATI.-A strange advertise
ment was broug to Office yesterday by respon
sibe gentleman and long time resident of our city 1t
regular and formal invitation to all persons who
desire to test Spanish loyalty and courage and espe
caly all who bore the Cuban flag through the streets
few nights ago and shouted Death to all Spaniards,"
TO meet at certain named locality and agree upon the
terms by which mortal combat should be had be-
tween such persons and equal number of Spaniards
In this cartel is not accepted the parties engaged
in offering these insults to Spanish honor and feel
ings are denounced as ruffans, yagabonds and cow
ards" TO give further point and emphasis to this
challenge, the gentleman who will receive eommunca-
tions and arrange the prelinnaries of the proposed
duello refers his Office which is that of Of the
city cemeteries, of which he is proprietor Lest it
should be suspected that the gentleman has to


business and the revival of the present languishing
of the cemeteriap trade, should add that the
advertiser proposes to be of the combatants, and
is certainly in dead earnest on this grape subject.


'"'' New Orleans Times.
Year: 1869

A correspondent, who scenes to speak
of the matter from personal observation,
writes to The Boston Adyertiser :"There
is no doubt that party exists at the
South, especially among the women and
young men, whose adherents cherish .
stubborn hope that the Confderacy will
be eventually established" We would
not underrate the Importance of this fact
but at the same time, we are not dispos-
ed to @overrate it. Some years must
elapse before those who fought or who
suffered for the Confederacy will cease
to lament its collapse and to dream of it's
restoration. These are human foibles
which need awaken no apprehension
The power which could originate and,
for time, maintain Southern rebellion
is gone. If the slave States had any
reason for seeding, it no longer exists.
There are thousand motives for remain
ing quietly in the Union-not one for
crafty attempting to leave it, which
should influence single young man or
woman. 2sE S. 81 1'tas1 a Il
Year: 1869

\ This long tried and popular Remedy is again call
cd to the attention of the public. As often the
year rolls around, the proprietors annually make
their bow to the people; and remind tEem that
Hamongstths many things required for the health,
comfort and sustenance of the faly through the
longand tedious months of winter, Goes Cough Bal
sam should not be forgotten For years it has been
. household medcine-and mothers anxious for the
safety of their chilSren and all who suffer fl any
disease of the throat chest and lungs, cannot af-
ford to be without it. In addition to- the ordinary
four ounce so long in the market, we now furnish
our mammoth family size bottles, which will, in COM
with the other size, be found at all Drug Stores
a,tsiaI FOR GROUP,


The Balsam will be found invaluable and may al.
ways be relied upon in the most extreme cases.
Year: 1869

Any druggist in the country will tell you, if yon
take the trouble to enquire that every that buys
abottle of Goes Dyspepsia Cure from them, speaks
in the most unqualified praise of its great medicinal
virtues.
Year: 1869

A gentleman Of Rochester saw an
advertisement that a cure for dyspep-
sia might be had by sending a postage
stamp To the advertiser. He sent his
stamp, and the answer was, .G4Dig
your garden and let whisky alone"
Year: 1869

The Boston Transcript says with
much force: off the New York Sun
were to invent a story that the Presi-
dent had mortgaged the White House
and divided the proceeds among his
kindred, there would be Democratic
newspapers and natural fools who
would give credence to the lie"
Year: 1869

five are loved by those around Us,
we can easily bear the hostility of all
the rest of the world just as if we are
before a warm fire, we need not care
for all the ice in the Polar regions.
Year: 1869

A Negro is running on the Democrat
ic ticket in Mississippi for Secretary OF
State. He is said to be a very stupid
fellow, and not much better than his
associates. This we can readily believe.
Should he, by a sad dispensation OF
Providence and the Kuklux, be elect
ed, it will be curious to note the char
acter of the growing our Northern
Democratic contemporaries will indulge
in over the event.-[St. Joe Herald
Year: 1869

No young lady can be too we'll instructed
in anything which will affect the comfort of
a family. Whatever position in society
she occupies, she needs practical knOwl-
edge of household duties. She may be
placed in such circumstances that it will
not be necessary for her to perform much
domestic labor; but on this account she
needs not less knowledge than if she was
obliged to preside personally over the
cooking stove and the pantry. Indeed, it
is more difficult to direct others and re-
quires more experience, than to do the
same work with her own hands.


Young people cannot realize the import
ance of a thorough knowledge of house
wifery; but those who have suffered the
Inconvenience and modification of ignO-
rance can well appreciate it. Children
should be early INDUCED in their disposi-
ton to bake and experiment ia various
ways. It is but troublesome help that
they afford still of great advantage to
them. I know a little girl who at nine
years old made a loaf of bread every week
during the winter. Her mother taught
her how much yeast, salt and flour to use
and she became quite an expert baker
Some mothers give their daughters the
care of housekeeping each a week by turns
It is good arrangement and a most useful
part of their education.
Year: 1869

You are now, my beloved child, about to
leave those arms which have hitherto cher
ished you, and directed your every step, and
at length conducted you to safe, happy,
and honorable protection, i'll the very bo-
som of love and honor. You must now be
no longer the highty, inconsderate, haugh-
ty, passionate girl, but ever. with reverence
and delight, have the merit Of your husband
in view. Reflect how vast the sum of your
obligation to the man who confers upon you
independence, distinction, aud, above all,
felicity. Moderate, then, my beloved child,
your private expenses, and proportion your
general expenditure to the standard of his
fortune, or rather his wishes. fear not
that, with your education and principles
you can ever forget the more sacred duties.
so soon to be your sphere of action. Re-
member the solemnity of your vows the dig
nifty of your character, the sanctity of your
condition. You are amenable to society
for Your example, to your husband for his
honor and happiness, and to Heaven itsel
for those rich talents intrusted to your care
and your improvement; and though in the
maze of pleasure or the whirl of passion the
duties of the heart may be forgotten, re-
member. MY darling child, there is record
which will one day appear in terrible evi-
dence against us for orr least OMISSION
Moore's Rmal New Yorker.
Year: 1869

A curious scene was witnessed the other
day at ST. Petersburg, in Russia. The lst
regiment Of the Imperial horse-guards were
drawn up in line, when a young officer,
dressed in full regimentals, was led up to
the Colonel of the regiment, who struck him
in the face took his sword from him, order
ed him to kneel down, broke his sword over
him. told two other officers to tear off his
uniform, and then had him clad in the coarse
uniform of private Of the line. The Off
Ger thus degraded had stolen money from
one OF his comrades, and committed num-
Der of forgeries. He was reduced to the po-
siton of private in the line, and to serve
for life as such in one of the Eastern Dis
tricts of the Empire.
Year: 1869

An English paper says that photo
graphs can now be printed with
printers ink. They are as perma-
nent as a printed text, and SO easy
of production that 10000 may be
produced from a single plate in one
day.
Year: 1869

a subscriber of the New York CONNER
cial 4dcertiser invests bis money at dol
lar store, and being cheated, complains 10
that newspaper, which pities him after this
fashion:


Every man of common sense knows that
one dollar viii not purchase ten dollars
worth of anything Men as green as our
correspondent do often give dollar for ten
cents worth of brass iewclry or kindred
toys but even such as they would not give
ten dollars worth of desirable merchandise
for one dollar greenback Our CORRESPOND
ent hopes that his experience will benefit
some fellow man, " but it will do nothing of
the kind. 1t will not even keep himself
from falling into the next tray baited for
this class of humanity. No amount of
warning or entreaty wilkeep this generation
of fools from supporting those whose busi-
ness it is to dupe the greedy and simple.
For. let it be well understood, it is not hon
est simplicity that is victimized. 1t is dis
honest folly that is enticed into the trap.
rogue stuffs pocket book with bogus
bills, resembling genuine bank notes of large
denominations, and drops it on the side.
walk. A confederate picks itup in the
presence CT an honest simpleton, and asks
him if it is his. The innoceno answers
No, aud cannot be made victim. The
dishonest fool says Yes, and gives the
finder a liberal reward ont of good money
from his own pocket. He may persuade
himself that he does this expecting to re-
turn the lost property to the true owner;
but the real motive is the hope of gam at
somebody else expense. So in the dollar
trade if the buyer really thinks he will get
ten times the value of his money. he can
only hope to DO it at the cost of another.
The last victim of this kind who called on
US explained that the storekeeper promised
to give him ten dollars worth of something
for dollar, as an advertisement to decoy
other purchasers. He was thus willing to
become himself a partner in the fraud
Honest, simple folk are not so easily cheat
ed, but a greedy fool is sure to be entrap-
ped.
Year: 1869

With all the courage of the American,
which is unquestionable, to do and to dare,
there is one thing he is unequal to, and
that is to say Ican't Gford Il, and act in
accordance with such declaration. If by
any hazard he is forced to check his inordi-
will submit patiently perhaps as others to
the coustraInt, but never confess the motive
His ingenuity will supply him with every
possible device for lodging an acknowledge
ment of the real cause of his compulsory
economy. The confession of a want of mon
ey will never be forced from his lips. This
would require too great deduction from
his self, complacent assertion of American
omnipotence. 1t is preposterous for one of
his mighty stride to be brought to a stop by
want of means to pay the day S reckoning
He will never acknowledge so humilating Il
check, but will contrive plausible and more
dignifed cause for stoppage.


This diSinclination to say can't afford It
leads inevitably to an undue strain ofexpen-
diture upon means. No one being willing to
confess the weakness of poverty, all make a
brave show of the power of wealth Thus
the general expense is out of all proportion
to the common prosperity.


The unwillingness to utter I can't a6ord
It implies an undue regard for wealth,
and seems to a6ix the stigma OF disgrace to
poverty. Hence the pecpniary estimate of
human success, by which character is val
ued in dollars aud cents and man is nothing
Or something, according te the balance in
his ledger.


This common aversion to the frankness of
lean afford Il is a perpetual provocative
of pretense. Hence a life of artifice, where
we conceal ourselves from each other in the
masks of pretended wealth and snowy dis
guises of fashion. No one viii be able to
assert his true independence Of character
until he dares to say can't afford it.
Year: 1869

''HOw | HATE TIE RAIN. Thus ex-
claimed little girl in our hearing last even
ing, as the big drops pattered or the window
pane, and she looked out almost sobbing at
her inability to enjoy promenade. 1t was
foolish thought of the child but many a
grown up person is just as foolish in their
wishes. They would rejoice to exclude
every cloud from their social horizon. They
then would be blest if they could be insured
continuous good fortune-no griefs, no mel
ancholy, no vicissitudes of condition All.
what great mistake They would die of
can'ai in month! The monotony of salts
faction would be uncomfortable. Our little
Affections are actually q relief. They enable
us to enjoy again that pleasure which, if
uninterrupted, would sicken Us to safety
and sorrow. Trouble and pam are the clouds
and the rain which give variety to our social
existence, aud fructify our social nature.
The world was not made for incossant light
or darkness, nor man for ineessant joy or
woe. Change is at ouce eur annoyance and
ou benefactor.
Year: 1869

TRANSATLANTIC MOUNTAIN PEAKS
Professor Cunning delivered lecture in
Hartford, Connecticut, on the last glacial
period, during which he stated that he had
seen in Stamford, Vermont, mountain of
granite as peculiar as that of Superior, but
of different type. The crystals were foliated
Science can find that granite at home only
in Stamford The mountain is a truncated
cone The top has been clipped off. North
of the Mountain there was not a single
boulder of foliated granite. South of the
Mountain there were multitudes of such
boulders Perched on the very top of II oosac
Mountain the tourist may see a boulder,
about seventy feet in circumference, aud
fifteen feet high. If he looks at the boul-
der, then at the mountain, he will see that
the boulder has no kiDShip with the noun
tain The boulder is that same Stamford
granite-a Vermont carpet bagger ensconced
on one of the highest peaks of Massachu-
setts. The tourist may look south westward
over Deer6eld Valley thirteen hundred feet
deep, and see far in the distance the outlines
of Stamford mountain from whose top that
boulder was torn.