smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

The annexed creed of wisdom is from
Thompson's Reporter


Run in debt when the country is con-
tracted, but be sure you pay up when the
currency is expanded


From 1857 to the suspension of specie
payments in December, 1861, stringency
bore upon the currency, credits and trade
OF the country and even after the sus-
pension, for some months, the contraction
continued, for the reason that until Treas
ury Notes were made a legal tender cur
rency there was no safe way Of evading
specie payments. On the 2Jth of Febru-
ry, 1862, the act making Treasury Notes
legal tender was passed there being then
sixty millions Of Demand Notes outstand-
ing, all Of which were made legal tender.
debtors of all classes, including banks of
issue, were relieved from the danger of
specie demands.


We may therefore date the commence
ment OF the expansion from the 1st Of
March, 1862, not yet nine months ago.


During this time the increase ofthe Gov
ernment paper money has been, in round
numbers, one hundred and thirty-fve mil
lions; bank paper money, sixty five mil
lions; making Il total of two hundred mil
lions; and we may safely say that another
two hundred millions Of expansive ele-
ments, in the shape of Government Notes,
Certificates, Bank Deposits, Individual
Credits &c, have been added to the mo-
ney bubble Of the day.


The volume and velocity Of this expan-
sion admonishe5 us that it may eliminate
in an unprecedentedly brief period of dur
alton.


The question as to when is the right time
to pay up and get out of debt is an inter
esting one.


The philosophy OF running in debt and
paying debts is worthy Of more study than
the American people give it. We may
safely say that nine-tenths of our business
people rush into debt when it is easy to do
SO, and then are compelled to pay when it
is hard to DO SO.


1t will do to run in debt when q contrac-
ton has carried prices to a cheap point;
but when prices are high by reason of an
expansion, pay up; and if you have the
heart to make others suffer for your bene-
tit, get them TO be your debtors, that YOU
may make Ihcm pay when dollars are
scarce and property is cheap.


We do not say that the expansion has
reached its maximum, or that it is the best
time to pay up. We see no way for the
Government to do but to continue its legal
tender issues, and the banks will not have
occasion to contract so long as legal ten
der is abundant and available as redemp-
ton money.


Our object is only to turn the attention
Of our readers to the subject of the paper
money bubble, that they may take such
action as their interests may seem to re-
quire. 1t is q good time to get out of
debt, but whether the best time has arrived
is in our opinion very hard to tell
Year: 1862

We see not, know not, all our way
Is night: with Thee alone is day.
From out the torrents troubled drift.
Above the storm our prayer we lift,


Thy will be done!
The flesh may fail, the heart may faint.
But who are we to make complaint.
Or dare to plead in times like these
The weakness of our love of ease?


Thy will be done!
We take with solemn thankfiilness
Our burthen up, nor ask it less,
And count it Joy that even we
May suffer, serve, or wait for Thee,


Whose will be done.
Though dim us yet in tint and line,
We trace Thy pictures wise design,
And thank Thee that our age supplies
The dark relief of sacrifice.


Thy will be done
And if, in our unworthineSs,
Thy sacrificial wine we press,
If from Thy Ordeals heated bars
Our feet are scanned with crimson scars.


Thy will be done!
If, for the age to come, this hour
OF trial hath vicariOus power,
And, blest by Thee, our present pain
Be Liberty's eternal gain,


Thy will be done !
Strike Thou, the Master, we Thy keys.
The anthem of the deStinies
The minor Of Thy loftier strain
Our hearts shall breathe the old refrain.


Thy will be done


boston Commonwealth.
Year: 1862

From a speech by James T. Brady, at
the grand Democratic rally, in New York,
on Friday evening last, we quote:


not, 1 want those gentlemen who disparage tho
patriotism of the Democracy to understand that
we have always carried forward the fights Of
this country, and we mean to carry this war
forward to the same results, always keeping in
mind the Constitution of the United States as
we advance. 5tai4ia A'.lt
Year: 1862

SUPPORT Your HoME PAPERS,
Whatever patronage may be accorded
to city journals, whether on account Of
their cheapness or the general" news
they contain, the Importance Of sustain
ing "home papers" should not be over
looked. AS the medium Of local trans
actions, and for furthering home inter-
ests. their value can hardly be overes-
timated. The following article from
the Cleveland (o.) Herald presents the
question in the true light:


"We know of nothing that is more
disheartening to the publisher Of q
country newspaper. than to be told, as
be too often is, when soliciting subscri-
bers, i feel too poor to take your
paper-I take the Tribune Tor some
other huge foreign weekly and it only
costs me one dollar year, and it con-
tains twice as much reading as yours
does'-when the receipts Of one week
of the Office named above would be
double the yearly receipts Of his coun-
ty paper, and when if the foreign
papers were published seventy years,
It would not result in as much benef!
TO himself and county in which he lives
as would q single weeks edition OF his
own paper.


"Reccollect, il home paper is to b
supported, home influence must do it,
Every dollar sent to the Eastern paper
is at the expense Of the local paper
A county acquires prominence through
its paper more than any other way,
and to every one who has county inter-
ests at stake his home paper is a neces-
sity. Never will such man take a
paper printed away from home until be
is able to TAXI second paper. His
first will be his home sheet, and be
will so identify his own interests with
that Of his county as to consider the
payment OF his subscription as a matter
Of as early duty as the payment OF his
/ taxes.
Year: 1862

place and the reinstatement OF the ven


cradle party. which bred traitors and


treason ia the fostering corruption ol


its dissolution, would be such lsunts as


the Nashville Patriot used only year


ago. "The Yankees" it said, shave


been forced to-eat dirt, and bow again
to the dominant Southern race
Through the press, from the workshops,
from the starving masses, from the
merchants ruined, from every trade
and condition comes the cry, give up
the fafts, let Us eat dirt, let rs again
bow tofhe superior race South, let Us
I've Ths coyaFdly eighteeH millions
or The North tod Us we should leave
the Union. We did it openly and
boldly, and they humbly acknowledged
our Government a necessity. They
have shouted the praise Of the Stars
and Stripes and we dared them to CO.
cree us and resent the insult; but the
only cry that comes from the dogs IS
military necessity give up the forts,
withdraw the troops, let US eat dirt and
live.'


The poor politicians in the loyal States,
who spend their time in resurrecting
the old Democratic party, and rejoice
more over carrying a street corner elec-
ton than victory to the Federal arms,
are as willing to eat dirt now as then;
"and judging the future by the past,
are shaping their political course so
that they will be as cringiug and menial
in their attitude to 'the dominant South
ern race as they were under the old
regime. They have worn the collar Of
the political serf so long that they are
uncomfortable without it, and as much
at loss how to exercise their new found
freedom as Guinea nigger just liber-
ated from a cotton plantation.
Year: 1862

AMUSING PuxrsHMENr.-'Years ago.
Lewis Holt kept a railroad refreshment
stand at the station at Attica, on the
road running west. He had way
which men Of his persuasion have, not
altogether abandoned, Of taking the
money Of passengers, sweeping it into
his drawer, and fumbling after the
change till the cars were of, when the
passenger would have to run and leave
his money. Charlie Dean stepped out
of the cars there one day, took "gin-
ger pop" price six cents, laid down a
quarter, which Holt dropped into his
ill, and went hunting to get out the
change. Away went the cars, and
Charlie jumped on without his change;
but he had time to read the name Of
Lewis Holt over the door, and making
note Of it, rode on.


Postage was high in those days, and
was not required in advance. From
Buffalo he wrote a letter to Holt
"Sell foam at twenty-five cents q glass.
will you?" Holt paid ten cents on this
letter, and ten more on one from De-
troit. and twenty-five on another from
ST. Louis, and for two or three years
be kept getting letters from his un-
known customers, and would have got
more 10 this day, bat for the law re-
quiring postage to be paid in advance.
He bad to pay two or three dollars in
postage before the letters ceased to
come, and as they were always direc-
ted in a new handwriting be hoped
leach one was Of more importance thar
the ones before. II be Of Attica read
| this, he will find for the frst time wbj


he was so punished, and by whom.
Year: 1862

~ The rebel General Prices son-himself
high and honored in the Confederate service
in taking the oath of allegiance, a few weeks
since, exhorted the North TO maintain its posi-.
ton little while longer, insisting that the
grand rebellion was so rapidly becoming dis
organized by tue institution, on various
grounds, of minor rebellions within its own
limits, and against its own procedures, that it
could not long support its present warlike
front, but must soon fall by suicide If il did not
fail through sheer inanition.
Year: 1862

For Taxing Loose or Unclaimed Dogs.
The Trustees Of the Town of Auburn do or
dan rs follows


SEC. /. A tax of Two Dollars per annum is
hereby levied on every Dog owned within the cor
porate limits Of the town Of Auburn found at
large within said town. on and after the first day
of April, 1862


SEC. g. Annually on the last Monday in March
it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Board OF
Trustees to deliver to the Town Treasurer, as
many brass copper tags as may be nee essary and
being numbered from one up to the highest num-
ber delivered to the Treasurer; and said tags
shall be altered annually in shape so as to be
easily designated from the tags issued the pre-
ceding years.


Sec. 8. On or before the first Monday in April,
of each year it shall be the duty of the Town
Marshal to draw from the Treasurer rs mary
ceipt for the same one OF which tags he shall
deliver to any inhabitant of the town of Auburn,
upon payment of two dollars.


SEC. 1. Every dog that shall be found running
at large within said town after the 10th day OF
April, 1862. not having one of the tags furnished
by the Marshal, according TO section two of this
Ordinance attached to II collar upon his neck.
shall be liable to be killed 10y any person. and it
is hereby made the duty of the Marsh to put to
death any dog SO at large without said tag. All
moneys collected under this Ordinance shall be
paid over by the Marshal to the Treasurer on the
first Monday Of each month. less his per centage
for collecting the same, which is hereby fixed ut
one dollar for each and every tag sold. And it
shall be the further duty of the Town Marshal to
file ~ report with the Clerk, on the first Monday
in each month containing list Of those citizens
who have purchased dog tags the preceding
month.


SEC 5. Ordinance No 3, is hereby repealed.
and this Ordinance shall be in force and effect on
and after it's passage,
Year: 1862

Sec l. The depositing Of filth of any nature or
kind in or upon the borders of Rich Ravinc,
along the line of Valley Street, or upon any of
the lots or beneath any house along the line of
said Ravinc or street, is hereby declared a public
nuisance; and any person offending against the
provisions Of this section. shall upon conviction
thereof before any Justice Of the Peace having
jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not less
than ten nor more than fifty dollars.


SEC 2. The filth now deposited in said Ravine
and upon the lots and beneath the houses named
in the foregoing section is hereby declared q
public nuisance. and it is hereby ordered that the
occupants of said houses and lots remove said
filth before the lst day Of April, 1862, and any
such occupant neglectng or refusing to comply
with the provisions of this section shall upon
conviction be punished in the same manner as
provided for the violation Of section No l of this
ordinance.
Year: 1862

HIGH AND l'KY.-1he proprietor of the
hotel at the corner of r and Front streets,
AS t High and Dry Hotel, that he keeps
the only Inn at the Capital City that has
stood abov. the foods of the season. The
said proprietor informs the public that they
will not be "too dry" his establishment; for
LIQUORS At his ban are abundant and choice
And upon these also his guests, perchance,
may get "high" How's lha,l
Year: 1862

Since the river has fal en- back to its old
channel, the Cinnamon have resumed work
on the bar, and it presents the appearance of n
lively mining camp. The bar pays very vel
even for the slight working the Celes'ials
give it. They do not dig deep, but do sur
face or stripping work and are content with
il Butte Dem.
Year: 1862

This was the advice rendered by the
Memphis papers to the rebel authorities n
few weeks ago, when the seeded States
rang with accounts Of the burning Of bridges
by Union men in East Tennessee. The
advice has been followed. Every man
whom the Confcdcrates could lay even the
suspicion of completely in the destruction
of railroad bridges, has been strung up
almost as soon as arrested, and there is
hardly question that the same fate awaits
every Unionist in the South who raises Il
finger to impede the safe progress Of rebel
troops, whenever it is in the power of
rebels to inilict it.


With these facts in view, would it not
be fair play, not TO say policy for our com
manders to return the compliment In
Western Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri,
bridges have been burned without number
by gang of uuprinclpled scoundrels, who
richly deserve the halter. A large number
of these persons seem to be banded together
in this work of Wholesale destruction and
it is SIMPLY impossible that they shonld all
escaped if reasonable amount of eXertion
is used to arrest them. The loyalists of
those State have been taught 10y the lessons
of the past few months, to expect that
further lenience toward the perpetrators of
outrages upon the property of Union men
should not be shown--that hencelorth those
who rob and murder be treated as robbers
and nurderers he treated and that the
day for releasing such wretches upon taking
the oath of allegiance has long since gone
by. "llang EN-"
Year: 1862

] have seen a deacon in the pride Of
his humaity. He combed his hair straight,
and looked studiously to the main chance:
and while he looked, he employed himself
in setting a good example. His dress
was rigidly plain, and his wife not indulg-
ed in the vanities Of millinery and man
taumaking. He never joked-he did not
know what joke was any further than
to know that IN was a sin. He carried a
Sunday face throughout the week. He
did no. mingle in the happy social parties
in his neighborhood. He was a deacon.
He starved his social natdre because he
was deacon. He refrained from all
participation In free and generous life
because he was a deacon. He made his
children hate Sunday because he was a
deacon. He so brought them up that they
considered themselves unfortunat In being
the children Of a deacon. His wife was
pitied by other women besause she was
the wife Of a deacon. Nobody loved
him. When he came into a circle where
men were laughing and telling stories,
they always stopped until he went out
Nobody grasped bis hand cordially, or
slapped him on the back, or spoke Of him
as a good fellow, He seemed as dry and
hard and tough as piece Of jerked beef.
There was no softness-no juciness-no
loveliness in him.


Now it is Of no use for me 70 UNDER
take to realize to myself that God adj
mires such character as this
Year: 1862

The most cheering sign of the times to us is
tae passage of most heart moving, thorough.
going man-lash1on series OF resolutions b.
the New York committee Of Committees
representing the great combined interests and
wisdom Of the commercial metropolis of the
land. They are given in substance in the
following despatch:


New York. July 25th.-Resolutions were
adopted yesterday, at "a meeting of the com
mittee representing the New York Chamber OF
Commerce. Union Defence Committee, and the
Common Council to the effect that every per
son in the community Of doubtful loyalty,
should be regarded as disloyal, and no one
should be trusted to any degree who is not
heartily willing to make sacrifice of life, pro-
p=rty and opinion for the public good that
the time has come when we must strike for
the national life with every weapon that God
has given US that delay strengthens the rebels
and wastes us; that it is better that every
rebel should perish than one more loyal soldier
should die, and therefore it is earnestly urged
that it is best to Immediately issue the order,
[the enforcement Of tie ContiSc0tion and
Emancipation Acts, which, while it will take
from the rebels their great source Of strength,
will diminish their army by calling to the
defence Of their homes large numbers Of rebel
officers and men.


These hit the nail hard on the head.
Year: 1862




The Confidence Game.--A couple of
sharpers played the confidence game pretty
successfully upon one of the unsophisti Gated,
at the Union Depot; last night The shsfps
had been lounging about the Depot for some
time in search of a victim, and at last were
gratiiied on seeing rather green specimen,
coming towards the ticket Office with carpet
sack in his hand One Of them Immediately
approached him, and fami liarly remarked that
he believed he had met him before The VIC
Tim replied, perhaps he had, and stated that
he was engaged in business in Wilmington,
Clinton County II being sometime Before
the arrival of the train, the sharper succeeded
in enticing his victim into drinking saloon
near the Depot, where he introduced him to
his friend, and the drinks all round, a game
of cards was proposed to while away the time.
The victim declined to play, and the two
shArpers set down to. a game, with the Will
mington man for a spectator. A bet of five
dollars was proposed after the game had pro-
gressed awhile, and the sharpers not having
change each borrowed V, from Wilmington,
and gave their watches as security. After
the game had been desidsd, the winner re-
deemed both watches, giving Wilmington two
counterfeit five dollar bills in return for the
genuine which he loaned them. He did not
discover that he had bean victimized until he
had parted with his sharper friends. He i'm.
mediately sought the assistance of the police,
who went in search of the rascals, with what
success we have not learned.
Year: 1862

THE PooR OLD DEvIL.-The New York World
of the 18th of September, filings the following hot
shot at the poor old imbecile Buchanan.


The rebel host lie encamped in Maryland, with
in seventy miles, as the crow flies of the home
of ex President Buchanan. Probably the crow
has already flown that bore the tidngs TO the old
public functiona,y. Or rather the gentle carrier
dove with the pleasing news of his friends ap'
proacb, to quarter on their former tool and
slave He stands directly on their promised path
to Philadelphia. Will they bring home in ruin
to bis own hearthstone the curse of treason that
he helped to hatch? Will they strike hands and
pledge the flowing rye over the fulfment of his
lament for being the last President of the United
States? Will they place about his farm the rag
ged guard due to the best friend of their cause,
and alongside the gold of his official salary swell
his pocket book with Confederate notes in barter
for abundant forage, SO that he may draw pay
for double imbecilty?


Was every retired sovereignty so ahject ?
Charles Y. guzzling in his convent, James ii. the
pauper of antechambers, Dionysius with primer
and ferule, never tingled at insult like the near
approach of rebellion that dared call its former
ruler comrade. No other shrine was ever visited
by pilgrim with emotions so mingled of scorn
and gratitude. Men seek Mecca to venerate i'm
posture, and the Morgue to recognize friends pu-
triiying in suicide. Wheatland invites to either
spectacle.
Year: 1862

BY the admission of the Presidents proclamation
he is in of 800 600 He cannot get thirteth
part of that number The alternative therefore of con-
scrpton peace is becoming daily more imperative
From the intelligence which published yesterday it is
further evident that concrpton is likely to be found
impracticabe The failure Of the resource would leave
peace the only possible result and no intervention as
things stand could either improve that result or
mote it. London Times.


The Thunderer " has probably learned ere
this that the 100000 men which " Father Abra-
ham " called for have come, and 100000 more
are on the way and if John Bull seeks to med
die in this family brol, 100000 men more Will
gladly rush to arms to punish an insduous and
perfdious enemy, whose action since the outbreak
OF this rebellion has been such as to cause every
man, woman and child in the land to bate the
very name of Brton. The contest will not be
avoided. The Intervention of John Bull would
not frghten any on this side of the Atlantic.
Red Bluff independent
Year: 1862

If any proprietor occupant Of any building in any
city within this District in the occupancy of the
Federal army shalt display suffer to be displayed from
his her house any teasonabe flag other emblem in
tendd to insult the Federal army loyal citizens k
shall be the duty Of the Local Provost Marshal tax
immediate possession of such building and tn
oceupants and convert tire hospital other Gov
ernment uses.


WIN. 8. HILLYER,


Provost Marshal General,
iyeH District West Tenn.
Year: 1862

Elsewhere We give in our dispatches q
brief abstract Of the provisions Of tue bill
for the new Treasury scheme. It will at
trac: much at;aption as affecting vital and
important interests Of finance.
Year: 1862

thizing with It. He appealed to every
man to enlist in the Union armies who
possibly could, and help to sustain the
Government. He said the President was
entitled to great credit for what he had
done, and that the administration was en-
titled to the support of every loyal clti-
gen in the land.


lie was applaudea and cheered most
vcheneptly throughout.
Year: 1862

EEA drunken fellow, at late hour OF
the night, was sitting in the middle Of
the Place Vsndoms. Paris. A friend OF
bis happening TO pass, recognized him
and said


Well, and what do you do here p
Why don't you 60 home r.


The drunkard replied. my good fel
low, lis just what I want, but the place
is all going round, and I'm waiting for
my door to GO BY"