smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

We have in the last few months treated almost every subject of which we have knowledge, carefully refrain ing from any mention of ourselves, and we hope that our readers will par don us for mentioning self in this issue. Itis not our intention 10 complain for we have nothing 10 complain of Our friends have helped us greatly in our enterprise, and to them we are thank ful. We started out over a year and a half ago with the determination to give to the people of Prairie county good new spapcr, and we think it no flattery when we say we have done it. The benefit of the country, it's advancement and improvement have always been to us objects of the greatest importance and as an advocate of such measures as had for their end the bcttcring of our condition, the Citizen has always been heard to speak. While we do not pro- nose to dictate to any one what they shall or shall not do, we can say we think it the duty of every man to read

 read ncwspapers-and above all to read home papers. No man ever yet lost anything to hiRself or family by subscribing for newspaper; 1t is 3 benefit to his family. valuable school book to his children, and source oi pleasure and information to himself. As the season is now here when almost every man can, without inconvenience, pay a reasonable price for paper, we modestly present the Citizen as pa pcr--a good paper-and one in every way worthy of his patronage and well worth the price for which 1t Is fur- nishcd. We would not devote our at tention entirely to soliciting subscrip- ton, but would throw in word ortwo for advertisers. The trade of the White river valley is we'll worth con tending for, and there is no means of securing trade so sure as advertising in Ia we'll circulated newspaper. Our paper, in this particular, claims superi- oritv over all others published on White river, as il circulatcs in almost every county in the State, and from this consideration is valuable medl- nm through which the business of its natrons is made known to the people. Our columns are already well filled with advertisements. but we have room for more and ask our friends to consider our claims and judge if we will not be mutually benefited by their patronage.
Year: 1867

bV- The Prairie County Agricultu- ral Society will hold its first Annual Fair on the last days of this month. Everybody should do all in their pow CT to make it an interesting and enter saining affair.
Year: 1867

eas~ General Hancock, while recent ly sojourning in Washington city, was serenaded, after which he made a speech, and in the course of his remarks he said:

 q need not assure you my course as district commander will be charac- tcrized by the same strict soldicrly obedience to law taught me as soldier know no other guide or duty, and my highest pride is to perform the duties of my new sphere, not in the interest of parties or parfizans, but for the bene- fit of my country, the honor of my pro- fession, and l trust also for the welfare of the people committed to my care. | ask, then, citizens, that time may be permitted to develop my actions ;judge when I act, by the deeds l may per form. and. conscious of my devotion to duty aud my country. l shall be satis- fled with your verdict
Year: 1867

sBs Tho election for the purpose of determining whether or not the people of Arkansas will have a convention to frame Constitution, and reorganize the State government, will be held on the 5th day of next month.
Year: 1867

TouRN AMENT It is proposed to held grand Tournament at the Driving Park in the suburbs of our city, on "Wednesday the 23d of October next. The lists is open to all the world, and knights from all parts of our own and neighboring states are invited to enter the joust. The first prize for the most successful tilting at the rings, will be handsome silver tea sci valued at sl25, which is now on exhibi- ton at Zimmerman There will also be prizes for those who are most successful in taking the heads.

 The park is already in course of prepar. alton for the occasion and will be fitted ur in fine style. The knights will appear in appropriate costumes, and we doubt moi there will be a large gathering of beauty to encourage with their smiles and pres enco the chivalrous champions who will contend for the honor of crowning them ~-T Little Rock Gazette.
Year: 1867

There Is no turning backward on LIES track
Dead JOYS are soulIess, and are best forgot
Here is my picture as you knew me once:
I have outgrown you; you have lain be-
While round me raging storm and hey
And have learned to love the storm and
The a battle with the warring wind and ebb-
Not all IN vain, my soul, for daring strength


plead and cried.


The flutes soft note wound out and in your
Ha1r Ta5eed, your feet slide in the dreamy
Nor iet the worlds heroe tramp your pleas


urtng alloy.


But I, who, as a woman, it would seem,
should for my tenderer feet have trod the
Havesought through burning sands the cac-
And scaled the nights where gush the


springs of lasting day.
a time there was when, with my wings un-
You might have bound me with your light
You slipped the leash, a and freed from silken


thrall,


You call with silken, Turing tongue to me


in vain.


You cannot tempt with simple milk my lips,
Which deep and long have drank of LIES
Your wrath seems paiiid with its spring tide
While for my brows these scarlet autumn
leaves tw1ne.


Go. dream alone your dreams of vanished


youth ts.-. .a..-.-.
cannot fancy flame where only ashes fire.
Your gaze is backward to the setting moon
Mine forward TO the mornings herald,


rising star.
Year: 1867

General Sherman made speech to the In
dians in the council the North Platte last
week. He told them the Pacific Railroad must
be built, and that they could not be permitted
to interfere with it. He added:-If the Indians
are damaged, they will receive compensation.
He supposed they had agreed on the Powder
river road in the Laramie treaty last spring.
While the Indians continue to wage war, the
road win not be given up, but II the Indians
rig hit is found good 1t will be given up, or COM
pensation paid, if they keep the peace. Powder
and lead would not be given them until deh-
mite treaty was made. A railroad train had
been attacked, and men were killed who had no
guns, but were bringing goods, some OF which
were TO feed the Indians. A proposition was
then submitted for the Indians to accept homes
on the new reservations, and they were given
until the LIST OF November to answer at the
Council to be held at North Platte; at the same
time they could hunt on the Republican. The
General also represented that we were building
costly roads, and they could not be stopped any
more than the sun and moon in the East. You
hardly think, he said, what you call war here is,
but If you make up your minds 1t will come to
the Plains thick, where there are the largest
herds of buffaoes, and kill you all. He also
told the Indians that if they wanted to go East
and see for themselves, they would be dead
headed" through. The Chief responded that
they only asked for ammunition, which the
Commission finally concluded to give The
Commission returned to Omaha.
Year: 1867

Queen Isabella III ordered the folio wing reply
to be forwarded by cable to the telicltation of
the Cuban authorities


Her Majesty the Queen orders me to say to
your Excelency that she is extremely thankful
for the greeting which you sent as the first mes
sage through the electric cable, which shortens
communication and draws close the bonds of
union between the mother country and the ever
faithful island of Cuba. Her Majesty desires
that you manifest to all the authorities, corno-
rations, and loyal inhabitants OF the privileged
Antille the motherly love which she processes
for them, assuring all that the island has always
been the object of her most tender solicitude for
its prosperity, and that she prays God to bless
them with all happiness.


The Colonial Minister Immediately afterwards
forwarded the following;-


BY order of her Majesty the Queen, and in the
name of the Government, | return your Ex-
celleney and all the authorities Of the island our
thanks for your greeting forwarded through the
cable. Her Majesty takes pleasure in mani
Testing by this means, to the loyal lnha6itants
of the island and to your Excellency,. the ex-
preston of her royal prediction and the salts
faction with which she views the bonds that
unite Cuba with the mother country in an in
dissOluble manner.
Year: 1867

As is always the case you will find attached
to travelling menagery an "outside show,
So it was with the gathering of the wild beasts
at Little Rock. on the 2d Of April in attend
ance at the Union Convention. Lafayette
Gregg and Ham of Washington county and
several others made speeches courting the
colored vote. The Freedmen, too plainly saw
through the fin,scy veil that these miserable
poltroons were trying to throw around them.
and loudly called, for one of their own color,
John Peyton, who in the following speech
which we copy from the Gazette showed up
the designs of these triiing demagogues. in
their proper light:


The audience vocifrated loudly for John
Peyton (colorcdl and the orator Of the day
made his appearance. lie said that his breth-
ren must have noticed that the burden of all
the speeches they had listened to was their
vote. lie knew that there was not one of his
color present who placed any confidence in
what they had heard. and he would tell white
men that when they went electloncering, they
must take Il colored man along with them, or
they would not be believed. lie had lived in
this city thirty-ilve years, and was a slave un-
I'll the war had set him free. Providence had
vouchsafvd him Kind masters and his lot had
been happy one. lie knew as good men IN
the South rs ever come from the North; and
his brethren must be careful who they listened
to. They should prepare themselves to right.
ly use the freedom that had been bestowed
upon them. lie closed his speech by invoking
q blessing upon his hearers. lie was listened
To with profound attention, and loudly cheer
cd by the asscmblagc.
Year: 1867

The followingis the order from Gen. ORD
military commander of this District under
the Reconstruction bill. As we anticipated
he contemplatcs no change in the State organ
ization, but desires the civil authorities to still
continue to administer the affairs of State
1t is no doubt the aim of Gen. Ord to admin
lister the law, in the least Objectionable man
ner possible, and it devolves upon us all to
give no cause for the exercise of arbitrary
military rule over us-to enforce the civil laws
of the State - --
Year: 1867

For five thousand years or thereabouts,
ever since the Mosaic law laid down the doc
trine Of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth, it has been found necessary for the pro-
lection of human life in civilized communities
to exact the death penalty for murder. The
divine edict, "Whoso sheddeth mans blood by
man shall his blood be she'd" has stern justice
and not cruel vindictiveness for its foundation.
Notwithstanding the morbid sympathy Of
modern sentimentalists with all great crimi-
nails, the experience Of centuries proves that
the man who has murder in his heart is nine
times out Of ten coward by nature, and can
be restrained from indulgence 10 his evil pas
sions only by the dread Of the gallows Here
and there experiments have been made in the
abolishment Of capital punishment, end statis-
tics are sometimes quoted extending over
few years TO show that human life is as secure
without as with the protection of the execu-
toner's cord; but these are nothing beside the
experience Of all ages and all countries, and
no man with sound mind and brain free
from crotchets can be persuaded that his life
will be rendered more secure from the rufian
and the assassin by the abolishment OF hang
ing for murder than that his purse will be bet
ter protected from the pickpocket by the abol-
ishment Of Imprisonment for theft.


In the execution OF the extreme sentence Of
the law, however, all unnecessary cruelty and
revolving scenes should be carefully avoided.
The act Of retributive justice should be
swiftly, scientifically and humanely done.
Unfortunately in the United States this has not
been the case, and our public executions
have been abhorrent to humanity and scandal
to the nation. In other civilized communities
this evil is avoided, either by the employment
Of an experienced bangman or the substitution
of other means of death for the gallows, such
as the guillotine in France and the garrote in
Spain. A short time ago we had three execu-
tons on q single day-onc at Elmira, one at
Charleston, and one in this city. Subsequently
murderer was hanged at wIlkesbarre. Penn
Year: 1867

The resolution Of Mr.. Wilson, in the Senate
on Friday, calling for the immediate trial or
release Of JEFF Davis, and declaring that his
longer confinement Is not in accordance with
the demands Of justice, the spirit Of the laws
and the requirements of the constitution. is a
measure that should have been introduced
long ago. We have always contended For the
release Of Davis on his own recognizance. He
can do no possible harm IL set at large, while
to detain him in prison is only TO make him
hero and a martyr. We hope, therefore, that
the joint resolution will pass both houses and
remove the case OF JET Davis out Of sight
forever.
Year: 1867

This whole impeachment movement
is an outrage and scandal. 1t has been
set on 'oot in utter contempt of every
principle of justice, and is prosecuted
without the slightest regard to person
al rights or common decency. Usually
an impeachment or indictment of any
sort proceeds upon definite allegations
of crime; but here it is set on foot to
see if possibly some charge of crime
may not be made. Usually no testi-
mony Is admitted but that which is
pertinent to the case, and from actual
witnesses of the act alleged to have
been committed; but here is the widest
and most absurd hearsay is taken as
evidence, and no regard whatever is
paid to the legal maxims which hold
all men innocent until they are proved
guilty. The whole affair is an nnscru-
pulons, malevolent crusade against the
President, having its origin in political
and personal disappointment, and for
its object the accomplishment OF party
purposes, nttainable in no other way.
Year: 1867

WEATHER damp and chilly. River
falling slowly, with nine and quarter
feet of water in the channel.


The wharf was deserted last evening.


The following unique steamboat no.
tice appeared in the New Orleans Re
publican


STEAMER S-'-'-"T.-This reliable
steamer will leave for some place at
such time when she has sufficient in
ducement for some place. This infor-
nation is reliable, as we received it
from the Captain himself, who is pro-
verbal for his courtesy in giving infor-
nation to passengers and reporters.
Passengers by taking this boat will ar
rive ut their destination, in all proba-
bility, sometime. We have known the
boat a long time, and we are sure she
has vet to sink or blow mp.
Year: 1867

New York Correspondent Of the Cincinnati


Gazette.


Michael Quirk and Nicholas Owens
were arrested in Williamsburg last
week for committing an outrage on an
idiot girl named Effie Griffin. By the
testimony it seems that the injured girl
and her mother, who is also of unsound
mind, lived together without any male
protector, and crowd of young ruff
ans in their neighborhood took advan-
tage of their condition to satiate their
beastly desires. To do this, and to
avoid the penalty of rape, tae Williams
concocted the idea of mock marriage,
and persuaded one of their number to
officiate as an Episcopal minister. This
fellow was introduced as the Rev. Mr..
Flinkwing, and he read the marriage
ritual of the Episcopal church, and pro-
nounced Michael Qnirk and Effie Griffin
man and wife. The poor girl was forced
to answer to the usual responses, and
after the mock ceremony she was forced
by Qurk to submit to his lusts, while
his villainous companions witnessed the
infamous outrage with jeers and laugh
ter. The mother Of the unfortunate
girl was also compelled to witness her
dishonor, but feared to give notice of
the occurrence to the police under the
threats Of the ruffians.
Year: 1867

The President is about to be petition
ed by citizens of Tennessee, to disarm
the militia of that State, by requiring
that the 10000 stand Of arms, furnished
BY resolution Of Congress, be placed
in the arsenal during time of peace.
These are now distributed in the hands
of organized men, and if allowed to
actual use, it is claimed that civil war
must result.
Year: 1867

MARK TWAIN" says that to see .
lovely girl of seventeen, with her saddle
on her head, and her muzzle on behind,
and her veil just covering the end of
her nose, come tripping along in her
hoopless, red buttonsd dress, like Q
Wild" -
Year: 1867

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD.


NEw York, April %, 1857


DEAR Sm:-I Am led TO bring TO your notice the fact
that Saturday night, the management at Nibo's
theatre had squad OF policemen numbering twelve 70
fifteen with captain and sergeant posted through.
the house with the apparent intention intmdate
the audience from applaudng encorng any dance
song during the performance and which they he man
placards "woud not be permitted The performance
passed OF quietly however, though the house was the
poorest OF the season. as rumors OF trouble had got
which Induced the presence Of the police was the
fact Friday evening the audience insisted the
repetition Of dance spite OF the most determined
efforts OF the management 70 pay no attention
to their desire Might not be we'll 70 recommend the
presence OF police force behind the scenes Of tho
theatre instead Of attempting deprive the public Of
their just rights by intimidation Should you desire fur
ther information, wil with pleasure, call on you.


C. j. R., Wall street.
Year: 1867

BUsINEss.-The complaint about dull time
is so universal that we hardly take up an ex
change from any part of the country that We
do not see more or less mention of the fact


Manufacturers work only to fill orders; can
itallsts invest only where the security is nm
questionable; merchants buy from hand tc
mouth, says New York paper. Hundred,
and thousands of men in all the large cite,
are hunting employment, ready to turn a hand
10 any thing to earn their daily bread. Par
ties advertising for help are run down with an
pllcants; there is little demand AMI abundant
supply.


Very many papers refer to the wear as one
OF Ill omen, and point to the figure seven as
tne lock which must produce financial slio
wreck. They show that for the last forty
years we have had financial panic in the
year that ended with seven, commencing with
1887 and followed by 1917 and 1857. Every
depressing financial event is given in evidence
TO prove that similar result VIII f,llow in
1867. There is consequently a superstitious
anxiety perva1ing the business community
and every business failure of any magnitude
creates alarm.
Year: 1867




70 70 the community of Smyrna for the hearty and
liberal manner in which it had been received
and entertained W


Among the acts of the Convention. which
deserve particular notice, was the following
resolution which was passed UNANIMOUSLY and
winch we humbly trust, may not be a word mt. mt.


y %,Resotred, That in view of the wide. srroad
and increasing influences of intemnerance in
our country, which is one of the greatest evils is
OF the day, destructive of morality and reI' 9
Grpn' ana threatening alike the integrity of the
Church p and of the State, this Convention does s
hereby respectfully and earnestly recommend
to the Parish Clergymen of this Diocese to to
preach at least one sermon annually on the
SUBJECT OF the evils of intemperance and that
the the members and friends of this Church ase
hereby earnestly and respectfully requested to
use thelr best efforts as we'll by precept as
example to restrain this great evil, and pro-
mote TS the cause of temperance in ali things"


Inc Convention resolved to hold its next an
n aual session in Laurel This will be ON the
nrst Wednesd Jay in June. The expectation of
TINS Conventional visit, we hope, will stimn-
late the Parish to renewed zeal in its proposed
works of usefulness. q
Year: 1867

a NEw YORK business man, of great
experience in road matters, writes from
London, naming some of the things he
has seen which he likes: mot the least
is their extensive system of under
ground railways 1t is perfectly won
derful how they jerk the people about,
at the rate of about fifteen miles an
hour, from one end of the town 70 an
other, and across and aronnd-stopping
about once every half mile, at some
prominent corner, at a station, from
which you emerge to the upper air, and
ind yourself somsWhere near where
you want TO be. and miles from where
you were a half or three quarters of an
hour ago. These trains run each way,
being double tracks, about every ten
minutes; and morning and evening
they often consist OF seven or eight
cars, holding thirty or forty people
each. The cars are lighted with gas
not the tunnels, except at stations-so
that you can read your papers; and
there Is no smell of smoke, or sense OF
sudocatiou- How they yentilate them
so we'll I can ha-dly see. II there is
any fair show for stock in the New
York Underground Railway, want
il
Year: 1867

miles distant across the Rocky Range that the great
gold deposit of the mountains had been discovered


None could wait for confirmation of the news lest
others should distance them in securing claims. Clad
in snow-shoes they traYersed the mountains in mid
Winter over a route destitute of provisions and
shelter and nearly 10000 hapless prospectors were
hudded in the Salmon River region, where there
were not paying claims for 10O0 men. Fearful desti


tuition followed Many were frozen in their effort to
get there OF retain, and now the tide of gloomy
penniless men is passing back glad to find a days
labor at anything to save themselves from starva-
ton Similar stampedes made every year, and in
nine cases out of ten they result in disaster Thus
does the proSpeCtor ebb and flow from occasional


rays of sunshine to the darkest of days. He fits
from one delusion to another. ever treess in his
devotion TO his dream of success he could not de-


fine if asked for the of his ambition DiSap


pointment seems to have no power to direct HIM III
wiser paths. few have in the past, attained be-
wilderng success, but only after mountains OF
faded hopes had chequered their experience, and he
still dreams and perseveres and waits but to recover
from the shock of one defeat to invite another His
life is spent in mingled disappointment and toll as
he marks the earths great mines of wealth for others
to develop and enjoy. But one affection at times
ventures to dispute the mastery of his omnipotent
dream. / have seen hundreds of these brOnzed ana
sturdy men, VINO nave enCOunleICu hlcS IuuVsV
blasts with unhinching purpose and each ones
eyes brighten, his harsh. furTowed lines soften


and his brave heart swells with emo
ton, as lie speaks of going home" 1t
is the silyer-liniDg to every shadow that crosses
his path. and the crowning hope that nerves him in
every trial To be successful and return to old
friends perhaps to long separated, but still fondy
cherished household gods, is the dream whose bright
ness eilds even the dream of gold. But few, how
ever realize even 1.-THE of their hopes, and many


very Nafter bright promises have faded in con-
tinued succession bow TO the inevitable doom OF
mortals, and ridge the mountain slopes with their
monumentless tombs. No class Of men have dono 80
much to swell the nations wealth. and none have
been so poorly requited Ineyer pass their humble
graves without feeling that could there drop tear


in sympathy with the thousands who serve the world
so Auch-themselves 80 Ette-and when exhausted
nature suTenders the unequal contest, the hand OF
the stranger must sOOthe their fovered brains and
| perform for them the last mournful Offices OF
earth. A. H. NJ