smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

nnce with strict rules of female mod
esty and property. That young lady
would havh resented any imputation
against her modesty, either in act or
intention; but the question is, why
did she thus dress herself2 She was
dressed in n hoop-skirt of very oxtrav-
agant dimensions, and tho result was
the remarks that erected my ears
Tho young lady would have been
shocked and blushed, mad she heard
them. But she is just as responsible
before God as drunken man who
had destroyed his reason Is response
bic for his actions. Now, there can be
but one motive in this fashion, and
that is to attract the opposite sex.
don't know that this thing, strictly
speaking is absolutly wrong, but
young ladies commit an error when
they suppose by attracting attention
they command tho esteem of the
sterner sex. There is sufficient Vir.
tue left in man to force him TO re-
spect and love woman as long as she
respects herself, and loves modesty
and purity, but not u single moment
beyond that. The Duplex Elliptic ex-
poses more Of tho person than ought
to be exposed.


Low-necked dresses, thanks be 20
God, do not exist TO the extent thoy
once did. Such things are absolutely
intOlerable-gross indecency.


There are certain things for putting
and padding which one can not dc.
scribe. They have but one purpose.
to mako woman appear, lascivious
1t is very common thing for young
lady 20 go in a millinery store aud ex-
pend trom twenty-five to ono hundl cd
dollars, and then issues from the door
IN such way that her own mother
wonld not be able to recognized her.
They spend great deal Of money in
making themselves appear to the
young gentlemen precisely what they
are not, a Ayoung gentleman said to
me "Marry who am l TO marry; You
don't know what they are. They can
go into a millinery shop, and if you
marry them, you will find they are
not.what they represent themselves to
be- This IS one reason why young
men hesitate about entering into the
moral wcdlock


A great deal of money Is squander-
cd on the ridiculous head dresses OF
the present day. SIMPSONS strength
lay in his hair and young womans s
strength might lay in her brain, but
certainly not in great roll of hair on
the back part of the head,


The lecturer brought his discourse
to a close by reading part of the
third chapter of Isaiah, comm cncine
at the sixteenth verse, which he rec
commended to the carful persual of his
lady hearers.
Year: 1867

The London Dispatch, which hates
the United States with undying fervor,
draws the following gloomy picture of
the military condition of Great
Britain.


Tho fact Is not dsguised-we arc
now defended by an army of mere
mercenaries. They become soldiers
by bounty-thcy stay but for pay
and pension. They think not of the
quarrcl-they know nothing about the
cause. They are tho slaves of that
centurion who said so one, go and he
goeth, and to another, Come, and he
comcth." They are that standing
army of which our ancestors were so
jealous, who follow war as a trade and
look upon their pay as their cause.
Yes, it is not to be denied, we know
nothing of the citizen soldier. We dh
not defend ourselves, but pay others
to defend us. Scarcely any Of us can
so much as handle a musket; our man
hood is entirely without its most nee
essary avouchment; we are as over
broke, as tanned down ms Wallace
the lion of the wild beast show, which
became so ignorant ofthe use of claw
and tusk that 1t was worried by some
mongrel ours We have be come an
emasculated people.


Every nation in Europe has its
IdndUehr; all capable of bearing arms
at some time bear them; even in A
merica every man in every State be-
came self-enrolled in the militia, sc
that at all times there was embodied
under yearly drill upward oftwo mil
lions of armed citizens, Every Greek
served in the campaigns, every Roman
took turn in the cohorts. We are
the only people, ancient or modern
who absolutely ignore the first and
plainest duty of the subjects of a free
State; indeed, Of any community of
men which aspires to be nation anC
reelaims to have country. Here
Eenians drill in our very highways
there we discover that IN relying or
the fidelity ofour army we lean on O
broken reed. We console ourselves
with the reflection that ut least our
volunteers are Omni erceptione major
/ Only when We como to look them W
for use we discover that tho very law
itselfprohibits them from suppresslng
rebellion from so much as defending
themselves gua volunteers against rev.
olution. As a last resource we cal
for the pallot, and demand that every
man shall take his turn in the military
service of The country; when we are
told that the people of England will
never submit to conscrption, which il
Just roundabout way of confessine
that they will never agree TO discharge
Year: 1867

THE FUTURE OF New YoRK.-1'hs
York World thus describes the future
of the city of New York:


Predictions are eheapQt says)b il
would take great many of them to
lower the price of real estate on Man.
haitian Island. The simple fact is, that
tho plot of ground bounded by tho
East, North and Harlem Rivers is dcs.
tined, before fifty years are over to be
double the value of any similar extent
Of land upon earth.


New York will in time transact tho
commerce of three continents and be
the real metropolis of the world. The
child is born who will witness the
dawnlng splendor Of imperial Now
York. Other cities can spread upon
every side, but the city Il crowded in by
rivers, and the competition for foot.
hold, will, in time, become so intense
that prices will run up to figure Of
which we can not have but little con.
ception


When the price Of materials and
labor comes down, as it must in time,
improved property will Of course bo
lower than it is now It is probable,
too, that before we get back TO specie
payments, there will be period ofkeen
monetary distress, in which sales of
property will be forced; but to expect
thatreal estate on this island will
ever be cheaper than it is now, ia
simply preposterous.


In Salem, Massachusetts,, during q
thunder-shower, few evenings since,
a young man was prostrated by tho
lighting while walking in the street.
At the time he had steel framed um.
brclla in his hand, with wooden han.
die, the frame Of which was completely
riddled and thrown to tho opposite sidO
OF the street. The breast Of his coat
was some what torn, and tho wristband
of his flannel shirt hung only by q
shred while the sleeve was partly torn
open, What is more strange, on the
shoes which ho wore were steel buck
les, apparently untouched, while tho
top of one of his stockings was literal.
ly unraveled. The yonng man was
not injured in the least, only eXperien.
cling, on the following day, little
numbness in one Of his hands. All he
remembers of the affair is, that he saw
II largo ball of fire. When he reached
the store where no is employed, and
whittier he directed his steps rs soon
, as he recovered sufficiently; he joeosely
asked them if they ever saw an UNI
brella struck by lightning, when to his
surprise, his attention was called to
his tattered garments, and he, for the
first time, realized what an escape he
! had.
Year: 1867

This suit for the conversion of certain property
eold Under the Rebel Government during the war to the
other defense that at that time the State OF


lima passed act OF secession and the United states
AUTHORITY could not then be enforced there, the Rebel
Government being the de Jdeo and only government
having any power there and that this sale was made
under their authority The came motion TO
strike out the irrelevant The Court held that
could not entertain the motion The question as 10 be


effect OF the acts the Rebel Government was one for
grave argument before more formal Court than this,
that had not yet been decided Dy the Court OF
lat reSit such motion this should only be granted
where the law was clear and well settled He had little


doubt that demurrer he should hod the answer DAD
but tina was not the proper place 70 bring tho question
up the motion was denied with c0sts with leave 70 the
plaintiff to demurt0 that portion OF the answer


Mr. Mott for plaintiff Mr. e. p. Nash for defendant.
Year: 1867

The Government Stock Department OF the New
York Stock Exchange is now IN operation in the building
of the NewYork stock Exchange, entrance on New-st
Fee of membership for licensed bankers and brokers' not
members OF the NcwYOTk Stock Exchange, 500 per an
num- This payment admits firm to be represented by
any partner ether person holding power OF attorney


Calls OF Government stocks for the present at lob IL M
and ID. m The will be open for dealings during
the entire day Applications for membership may DO al
dressed to WIN. ii. NELSON, Chairman
Year: 1867

h9- The question to be decided within month by the people of Connecticut is whether they endorse the restoration of the Union on the plan proposed by the 1XXIXth Congress. Governor Hawley declares himself in his speech unequivocally m favor of that just and equitable method. Now let us hear from Mr. English. Let him respond to these queries:-- -..

 l. Are you in favor of reconstructing the Union as the loyal people of the North want it treconstructed, or as Southern rebels wantit reconstructed? E" VI

 2. Do you counsel submission on the part of the South to the laws enacted by the Congress of the United States, or do you, like so many of your party, advise the South to carry its wilful and reasonable op- position to those laws to the very verge of another rebellion. a8tge

 5. Are you in favor of allowing all loyal men in the South, whether white or black. to participate in the choice of their rulers or are you in favor of allowing the rebels of the South to exclude from the ballot box the votes of one-half of the Unionists of that sectionf

 The people of Connecticut, Mir. English of whom you ask the highest office in their gift desire to know your opinions on these vital points at issue in the present cam paign.-C C0urGnL --- ,,-
Year: 1867

Radical journals are felicitating them
selves upon the quietness and good
order of the South, consequent, they
assume. upon the vigorous rule estab-
lishrd over the people by the military
>ltraps SiCKLEs, SHERIDAN and Pope.
We doubt not that the Governments Of
Russia and Austria can indulge In a
similar boast. But what does it amount
10 in fact! To this merely, that n peo-
pie can lie reduced to the most abject
condition by brute force. If this be
proper i'll its application To the South,
WHY not so in the North, which fur
nisi.rs every day an instance of murder,
and every hour many instances Of out
rage OH persons and property, and in
every city, town, village and hamlet
evidences of corruption and social de-
muTaliZatlOu.
Year: 1867

THE RIVER was falling very slowly
last evening, with between three and
four feet water in the channel.


The fine steamer Edinburgh will leave
for Cincinnati this evening at five
o'clock.
Year: 1867

Honorable JAMES HUGHES, of Indi-
aua is regarded as tolerably good Radi-
cal authority in his section. From his
position as the leader of his party in
the Legislature of the State, his utter
ances derive additional Importance.
He has lately had the candOr to express
himself fully and the aristOcratic SEN
timents he avows are in striking con-
trast with the professions of liberal
views to which his party is addicted.
We invite tho attention of wOrkingmen
and foreign born citizens to the follow
ing extract from q speech of Mr..
HrGHEs. After declaring that he would
only agree to negro suffrage if his par
ty demanded it, he said:


IL am opposed to negro suffrage, not
because they are negroes, or are black,
for those are matters of taste and preja-
dice, but because the right of suffrage
has already been too much extended
and cheapened in this country. While
am opposed to extending the right of
suffrage to the negroes, AN IN FAVOR
OF DlSFRANCHISING ONE HALF OF
THE WHITE PEOPLE IN THIS
COUNTRY. Our fathers committed u
great and fatal mistake in extending as
they did the right of suffrage. All his
tory proves that there is but one inter-


rst that Is conservative aud that can


be safely entrusted with the governing
power, and that is the PROPERTY
INTEREST. When man is possessed
"i property he has stake i'll the govern
ment, and will not endanger his proper
~ by uuwise legislation or by involving
the country in war. The great OBJ
lect of our form of Government has
been the want of strength and power
III the Fedederal Government. 1t Will
he impossible to govern this vast and
rapidly increasing country under the
operation of universal suffrage. Our
system of government has been mater
tally and radically changed duri ng the
war, and it can nerer be restored TO rhdt
it ras prior to the war. THE CONSTI-
TUITION is NOT WORTH THE PAPER
UPON WHICH 1T is WRITTEN. The
first effect of universal suffrage will
he to make the government more
nearly approach pure democracy, but
this cannot last long. We will follow
the example of other governments, the
strife of factions will go on until ulti-
mately the Senate or the President will
assume the control, when we shall have
strong and stable government. The
British Government Is the best gorermment
that erer eristed on Gods earth, and
the sooner ours assimilates itself to the
British Government, the better 1t ,cill
be for the country. 1 do not hesitate to
declare, no matter how unpopular il
may be, that If the negro race, and on.
half Of the white race had good masters ana
mistresses, they would be much better
OF, and the government would be much
safer and stronger" +
Year: 1867

During the siege of Queretaro the wo.
men of the city carried food and drink
to the soldiers in the trenches, and
spent much Of their time with them, at
the peril OF their lives. Many thus fell
victims to their coniugal devotion. One
was shot through the breast by bullet,
which iikewise killed the infant strap
ped to her breast. A second had her
head taken OF by round shot. A third
was killed by abul let in the plaza.
Year: 1867

An Eastern paper has the following !.
"Why is woman's tongue like planet?
Because nothing short of the power that
created it can stop its regular course"
The man who perpetrated the above has
left for the East He was pursued by
forty women, and forty broom ,ticks were
picked up in the harbor after the vessel
had left.
Year: 1867

And for the special pleasure and profit OF the
young. each week we will give a general literary
and religious miscellany. Nothing shall End
its way into our columns unfit for the perusaI
the mothers and daughters Of the land. Depre-
eating the demoralizing sensatioDalism Of many
contemporary journals. we shall esehew that
character; striving to give thsreader substantial
matter Dreferring to be useful rather than


ensationai
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be self-reliant, and shall do what We
may be able to induce the establishment OF
manufactures in cur midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end we will pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversiG-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
nsnt Of Southern resources
Year: 1867

SALr rHE CHrMNrr.--In buildiax I
chimney put quantity Of salt into n
mortar with which the intcrspaces of
brick are TO be laid. Tho effect viii BE-
that there win never be any sccumuia-
tion Of SCOT IN the chimney. The phil
osophy Is thus stated: The salt in the
portion Of mortar which Is exposed ab-
serbs moisture every damp day. The
SCOT thus becomes damp and falls dowa
the fireplace. Our readers should re-
member pr preserve this little piece oe
valuable information.
Year: 1867

do embroidery work, and in this way she
finds both employment and amusement.
Another faculty that she possesses Is that of
reading any book without ever opening IT,.
1t seems however that it must be near her,
or that she must touch it. A published re-
port says chat she does not see IN tbs way
everything ia the room, This Is possible,
and even probable but it seems that she
can see without the use of her eyes, any
thing that IS near her Oar informant, who
is well known in this community ayers that
there IS no doubt Of her complete power Of
clairvoyance, although he has never authen-
tieated, and he has called the attention of
| Prof. Agassis to the subject, in the hope
that some scientific report, beyond the
question of doubt, may be made upon
the facts.


The latest condition Of the patient varies
somewhat from that 10 which she has been
for many months. About Christmas she
Into trance that lasted twenty davs,
and since that time hopes have been enter
taiued that some nourishment Is given to
her, but the physician In attendance states
that so far as food is concerned she cannot
be said to have taken any for niue months.


1t viii naturally. be asked if she has not
become emaciated from such fasting This
would be the usual Inference, but in her
case she presents i picture altogether the
reverse. She has grown more handsome
and apparently more healthy during herds
ease. No sign ofiIl health mark her cheeks.
As she reclines upon her right arm, when
not engaged in her employment, she might
be regarded as in a gentle sleep. She is not
pleased with the visits Of physicians, but
she Is gratited to have the presence of
friends. The question Of her recovery is
doubtful. although the fact that she seemed
10 obtain some very slight nourishment late
y gives a little hope She IS attended by
one of the most eminent physicians OF
Brooklyn, who states thatwhile she is i'll it
IS impossible to give any opinion as 70 the
direct cause of this peculiar malady. 1t Is
certain that at one period, from the 10th Of
September until Christmas, she never ate,
drank or slept, and that during that time
she worked at heE employment and books
as though possessing all her faculties


50 wonderful case as this of course is
liable to be received as a report Of ipagina-
~ facts, but the knowledge that the whole
matter, for the sake Of science, must soon
be made public, is the only apology that is
required for directing public attention to the
case. The medical men Of Brooklyn have
been much interested in this interesting
young patient, and are able to corroboTate
the statement made, but they have no opin-
ion to offer, so far as can be learned, on the
causes of the ma'ady. Il IS thought by
some that the spine has been injured, aud
that the clairvoyance Is the result Of some
abnormal condition Of the brain.
Year: 1867

He who has never known sisters kind
ministrations, nor felt his heart warming
beneath her endearing smile and love beam
ing eye, has been unfortunate indeed. Ii is
not to be wondered if the fountains OF pure
feeling flow in his bosom but sluggishly, or
II the gentler emotions of his nature be lost
In the sterner attributes ofmanhood.


That man has grown up among kind and
afectionate sisters, we once heard lady
Of much observation and experience re-
mark


And why do you think so?" said we.


Because of the rich development OF all
the tenderer and more refined feelings Of
the heart, which are SO apparent in every
word


A sisters influence is felt even In man
hoods later years; and the heart of him who
has grown cold in his chilling contact with
the world, viii warm and thrill with pare
enjoyment, as some incident awakes within
him the soft tones and glad melodies Of his
sister voice. And he will turn from his
purposes, which warped and false philoso-
ply has reasoned into expediency and even
weep for the gentler influences which moved
him in his earlier years.
Year: 1867

THE MOTHER. is something in
sickness that breaks down the pride of man
hood; that softens the heart, and brings it
back to the feelings of infancy Who that
has languished, even in advanced life, in
sickness and dependency: who that has
pined on weary bed, in the loneliness and
neglect Of foreign land, but has thought Of
the mother ''that looked on his childhood, ;
that smoothed his pillow and administered
to his helplessness Oh there is an en-
during tenderness in the love Of mother
to son, that transcends all other affections Of
the heart. 1t is neither to be chilled by sell
fshness, nor daunted by danger, nor stifed
by gratitude. She viii sacrifice every COM
fort to his convenience she will surrender
every pleasure to his enjoyment; she will
glory in his fame and if misfortune overtake
him, he will be dearer to her from misfor-
tune; and if disgrace settle upon his name,
she viii stin love and cherish him in spite of
his disgrace; and if all the world besides
cast him of. she viii be all the world to
him.
Year: 1867

Blessed influence Of one true loving hu-
man soul on another! Not caleuIable by
algebra, not dedueible BY logic, but myste-
rious, effectual, mighty as the hidden pro-
cess by which the tiny seed is quickened,
and bursts forth into tall stem and broad
leaf, and glowing tasseled flower. Ideas
are often poor ghosts our sun filed eyes
cannot discern them; they pass athWart US
in thin yapor, and cannot make themselves
felt. But sometimes they are made flesh;
they breathe upon US with warm breath
they touch US with soft, responsive hands,
they look at us with sad, sincere eyes, and
speak to US in appealing tones; they are
clothed in living human soul, with all its
conflicts, its faith, and It's love. Then their
presence is a power, then they shake US like
passion, and we are drawn after them with
gentle compulsion, as fame is drawn to
fame -BldcEicood Magazine
Year: 1867

There is teacher coming !" says the little
girl as she trudges home from Sunday
school and with eager haste she brushes
back the hair beneath her little sister
hood, quickly arranging her own dress, that
both may be as presentable as possible to
The handsomely dressed young lady she ad
mires so much. But the teacher passes on,
chatting gaily with a young associate, and
never bestOwing a glance on the poorly clad
little creature, who a moment before had
eyes for nothing else in the world bat for
her


Who can tell how deeply such "trihng
disappointments, as We call them sink
down into little hearts? How sadly the lit
tie one turns away, mortified, too, that her
companions had witnessed the disappoint-
ment of her reasonable expectations. What
a little effort it would have cost, to have
hchtened up the child pathway for hours
and days to come She will not meet the
teacher the next Sunday with the accustonl-
ed frankness and affection. The childish
spirit has been too deeply wounded, and she
feels there is a distance between them which
did not exist before. Perhaps the teacher
did not observe her; but this only shows
that the habit of noticing the young needs
cultivation.


Your worst boy viii respect himself more
and behave better, for q friendly pleasant
word Of recognition, even in the midst of
his street companions. II does him good to
have the boys see that well-dressed gentle
man thinks enough of him to speak to him
in his every day jacket, and he will make an
effort 60 deserve better such attention.
Keep lookout then for your children all
through the week, and when occasion offers
supplement your Sunday instructions by a
wcrd of kindly counsel. Il viii often tell
more powerfully on the heart than your sta
ted instructions.