smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

RECOVERY OF SOLDIERS REMAINS A
Stcindle.-A letter from jamestown, Virginia,
TO the Boston Traveller says:


Thousands of dollars are sent to this State for
the purpose of recovering the remains of SOL
diers and officers who have died during the
war. To such i would say that they are very
liable to be imposed upon. Some of those who
advertise to disinter the bodies are an unprin-
cipled set, and if the grave which they are in
pursuit of is not easily found they take up the
remains nearest at hand, and in most cases
palm 1t off as the specified one. And if they
really get the body at which stands the desired
headboard, there is no certainty of its having
been placed in its proper place, as the head
boards are manufactured by the quantity, and
carried 10 the spot to be there erected, so that
mistakes are very likely to occur.
Year: 1865

CONNBHAL FELICITY AND BLISS-How


WIVES sHoULD BE TREATED.-Nothing is more
susceptible Of harm from the storms of this rude
world" thar the delicate nature of woman. The
husband remains hearty and robust in seasons
when the fr,il and delicate wife droops like a
rudely handled sensitive plant. "The storm that
leaves the oak unscathed uproets the flower" IF
your wife is aIing if sickness prostrates her, If
maternal solictude and care wear upon her. re-
member, you are the Heaven appointed guardian
of her health. You should not fail to supply her
ing her to full vigor. PLANTATION BITTERS
are just the thin she needs Their effect in build
ingup the system restoring the life forces to their
original vigor, creating new blood and adlpose
matter, is truly magical So my l0oF
Year: 1865

The assassination Of President Lincoln con-
tinued to evoke expr pressions of sympathy
and indignation throughout Europe, and the
arrival Of the China was anxiously awaited
for news OF the development Of the effect in
annarica
Year: 1865

The place running double expenses, presenting
every branch OF the amusement business admit
able to the stage, consequently supremacy is at
tained over any place in this country. and the
the same night at one chsap price. crowd the Can
terbury in preference to any other place, to gaze
upen the Beautiful Females, radiant with grace
and accom- plishnente.
Year: 1865

Seat YOUR Brown BREAD FIRsr.-It is
a plair but truthful saying, Eat your brown
bread first Nor is there q better rule for
young mans outset in the world. While
you continue single you may live in as narrow
limits as You please and it is then that you
must begin to save in order to be pro ided
tor the IA ,re enlarged expenses of your fu-
ture family. Beside, full frugal life is then
supported most cbeerfully. 1t is your own
choice, and it is to be justified on the best
and most honest principles in the world,
and you have nobody's pride to struggle
against, or appetites to master but your own.
As you advance in life and succeed, it will
be expected that you will give yourself great
er rndu lgencies. and you may then be allowed
do it both reasonably and safely.
Year: 1865

DY STELLA OF LACRAWANNA.
when lovely woman stoops to folly
And trails her dress goods through the street
A full half yard tis melancholy,


To say the very least of it.
Pray who could guess that SO much beauty,
Would condescend to clean the pave
With silk and muslin ?-yet a duty


Fashion demandeth of her slave.
And on they trip in gossipping dozens,
Reckless of how they gather we'll
The debris of the public highway


Nameess, if decency would tell;
And gaiter boots with faultless fitting
Must hide its charms from every eye
Because, forsooth, some brainIess beauty
Hath trailed her rich robes proudly BY
See yonder, down the drizzling sidewalk
That awkward chap-some thoughtless bore,
Unknowing how to pass the damsel


Has rent cou pie of breadths or more.
How could he tell, poor harmless fellow,
Just where to put his boot-soles down,
With dainty drapery idly floating
Floodi ng, in fact o'er half the town?
And see the look the angel gave him
AS on she swept the dusty earth,
While he-scared victim-stands and shivers,
For, tits much as life is worth
To stem the fury of woman


When in fashionable guise;
Better a whole brigade of foemen,


Than lightning from her blazing eyes.
"When lovely wo man stoops to folly"
And drags through mud her rich attire,
Sweeping a bominable crossings


Rather than lift her drapery higher;
Each mothers son may stare and wonder
And smile in scorn, but nothing more,
Unless to sigh for bye gone years


Of snow white ankles of yore
Year: 1865

To CoNsUMPTIvEs.-You want air,
not physic You want pure air, not
medicated air You want nutrition,
such as plenty of meat and bread will
give, and they alone physic has no
nutriment ; gasping for air cannot cure
you; monkey capers in gymnasium
can not cure you. If you want to well,
&C in for beef and out door air, and do
not be deluded into the grave by adyer-
tisemen.s and unreliable ccrtifers.-
Halls Journal of Health.
Year: 1865

And ! saw heaven opened. and behed white horse:
and that upon him called Faithful and True and
were as a his head many crowns:
and he had written, that no man knew, but himself
And the armies which in heaven followed him upon
white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean-REv
XIX IL, Il, ii.


To the last battle set, throughout the earth
Not for vile lust of pnnder or of power
The hosts of justice and eternal right


Unfur their banner in this solemn hour.
\ King rides forth, whose eyes, as burning fire,


Wither oppression in their dazzling fame
And he hath sworn to right all human wrong,


BY the dread power of his mysterious name.
Der all the earth resounds his trumpet call


The nations, waking from their dreary night, ,
Are mastering in their ranks, and thronging on


To hail the brightness of his rising light.
And all the armies that behind him ride,
Come in white raiment, spotless as the snow ::
Freedom and Justice is their battle-cry,


And all the earth rejoices as they go.
Shoulder to shoulder ride the brother bands


Brave hearts and tender, with undaunted eye !:
With manly patience ready to endure,


With gallant daring resoute to die.
They know not fear, for what have they to fear


Who all have counted, and have all resigned,
And laid their lives a solemn Offering down


For laws, for truth, for freedom-for mankind?
No boastful words are theirs. or murderous zeal,
Nor courage fed with the inebriate bowl
But their brave hearts show in true touch and
time


The sober courage of the manly soul.
Ah who can say how precious and how dear


Those noble hearts; of thousand homes the


light?


Yet wives and mothers, smiling through their


tears,


Gave them unmurmuring to the holy fight.
o brothers banded for this sacred war


Keep your white garments spotless still and
pure


BE prestly warriors, hallowing the right


SO shall your victory be swift and sure.
So shall the spotlcss King with whom ye ride,


Make vile disorder from the earth to cease
And Times triumphant songs at last shall hail,


The victory OF Il true aud righteous peace.
Year: 1865

RssFH We, the undersigned, have each purchas-
ed a FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE, and
have them now in We have thoroughly
tested them work of all grades-hcavy. me-
dium and Highland our opinion is that the
FLORENCE is durable. will not easily get out
of order, is strong and simple in construction,
and its use is easily learned by the most inexpe-
rienced


1t will do greater range of work. with less
trouble and change. and we consider it altogeth-
er better than any other Family Sewing Machine
we have ever seen
Year: 1865

Gen. Grant is now on journey
through the Southern States, undcrta-
ken by request Of the President, He
was ut Richmond last week anHwas
heartily welcomed to that city by the
military authorities. He freely ex-
pressed his opinion while there regard
ing military affairs. He said emphat-
ically that the advent Of Macmillan
to the pretended throne Of Mexico was
a part of the rebellion, and his imme-
date expulsion should be part of its
history. France did not ask our con-
sent to establish a throne in Mexico,
and we should not consult that power
in re-establishing the Republic. He
said that France had no right to inter.
fere in the question. but if she would
involve herself with us in war on
this point, now is the time to have it,
while our army and navy are yet or
ganized, and before our commerce is
again set ahoat ON every sea.
Year: 1865

E We this week publish letter Of
Col. Moonlight. exposing the condition
of military affairs ON the plains. We
are inclined to think that the Colonel
hits the matter in the right place. The
Department of the Plains has for some
time been run in the interest Of certain
swindling monopolies. at the expense and
to the damage of the Government.
Year: 1865

NEGRO SuTrRAGE.-Jobn Minor Bolts.
of Virginia. urges the people of that
State to vote for negro suffrage as the
best and surest means of bringing that
State into the Union on terms Of equality.
There SCENE TO be bat one sentiment in
this State on the question. Only two
papers now oppose reconstruction with
negro suffrage.
Year: 1865

~ In accounts of the reception Of
General Grant at New York, some weeks
ago, and at Boston. recently, the circum-
stance is related of powerfully built
man attempting to dislocate the Generals
arm. by sudden wrench of the wrist


while shaking hande. If this is anything
more than a small romance, we think
that the mysterious ruffian in question. if
the truth were known. has heard so much
about Grant being singular genius. that
he has determined to get the twist Of him.
Year: 1865




To TIE WeRLD: SIR-"Stream of Time
near this Eldorado of nature, occasionally
lifts modest salutation to the WORLD we
live in. Go where you will up and down,
our banks and sleepy waters you find 70
Bank Teller. We keep our books from the
sluice-box, and Sunday morning pay to the
laborer his rightful DUE


Many of our most worthy citizens have left
as for the Blackfoot, alias Black Warrior
country, and ere this is published many
more will be of, without the aid Of the best
Government in the world" We all say in
our hearts, God speed thee in your perilous
journey.


You may visit any ofthe mining camps, as
have as a miner, and / think as general
thing, there will be but few found as lavish
in her pay for an indefinite time, as Idaho
and her tributaries, and many will yet say
''with all thy faults, we love thee STILL The
placer, combined with the untold wealth of
her quartz mines, speak more than can
utter, and he who could estimate their worth
would indeed be bold prophet The capital
invested in new steam machinery, daily ar
irving for the different mills, give additional
testimony ofa healthy future-so sir, we are
taught to believe, like causes produce like
effects. War gives hard tack to its soldiers
and hard taxes to its citizens, and vice versa.
to those after the wild goose who lays the
golden egg. Robinson Crusoe thought, if
he had contented himself in the middle stages
of life, no shipwreck would have befallen
him.


Most of the miners on Grimes Creek. are
working hard and in earnest, and receive re-
munerative pay. The hills and gulches are
as good as when trod over by the bold pion-
GERS. Water has somewhat failed, but not as
much as in your section, for several compa-
nies are yet at work. If space would permit
might particHlarize. We cannot get all the
gold in day, month, or year, as Deity has
SO mysteriously shaped it that our children
and childrens children must be protected
The hog, an emblem from which we bear our
name, is giutton. He in return does good
by feeding back that which was cast off and
forever lostin charity to mankind. Aahomet
would not go to the mountain, because the
mountain would not come to him. You can
cite good puritan christian going after his
hog and molasses that even barbaric Afri-
cans or Asiatic Mahomedans detest, and are
Dy religion ordered not to eat. Truly the
ways of the heathens are many and untold.
"Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall
be opened unto you" and every hard knock
with the pick only adds substantial evidence


The first ball of the season came off on the
evening of the 9Th, for the renewal of that
good feeling cemented by occasions of the
past. The boys here are quite fond of the
ladies who attended there, and if not out of
Year: 1865

A WlTcH, beng at the stake to be burnt,
saw her son there, and desired him to give
her some drink, "No, mother" said he, ''it
would do you wrong, for the DRIER yon are
the better you will burn"
Year: 1865

Carleton, the war correspondent
of the Boston Journal, describes the
scenes which attended the distribution
of the northern supple in Savannah,
and adds:


"'ro classify the Union sentiment,
would say that there are very few
who have been silent lovers of the I'M
ion from the beginning ofthe rebellion.
There are others who hated the Union
and the men of the North at the begin
ming, who hate us now as bitterly as
ever. There are others who have been
secessionists, who have been in the reb-
ell army, but who see that it is useless
to contend against the federal govern
ment, and are ready to be resigned to
what they cannot prevent. ..


Lamar sent two hundred thousand
dollars in gold and silver to Charleston
the day before Sherman made his APP
pearance in the rear of the city. He
has taken the oath of allegiance, but
those who know him best say that he is
at heart as bitter against the Union as
ever. Such, in brief, is public scnti-
ment at the present time, as nearly as
can read it. am satisfied of this,
that the people have no desire to live
under the rule of the past four months.
They probably do not love the Union
as we of the North love il, neither do
they love the tyrannical conscription
which has swept every able-bodied
young man into the army. Love for
the Union will grow here as it has
in Tennessee.


"There is large crowd of North
ern men here, who came expecting to
make their fortunes but they will be
disappointed. There is nothing but
cotton and rice in the city. The gov
ernment owns the cotton and the city
the rice. The city has not q dollar in
the treasury, and there are thousands
ofpeople looking to the Mayor for bread.
The rice will be used to supply the
wants of the people. The country is
not held by our troops, and no effort
will be made to take possession Of it at
present, for General Sherman is NOV
inc in another direction. The people
have no money. There is no gold or
silver laid away in old stockings. They
have had Confederate scrip, and that is
waste paper now. The citizens one
and all arc at tho bottom ofthe hill.--
They have got TO recommencc society
and new lives. All their property was
in lands, negroes, buildings, goods,
Confederate bonds, railroad bonds and
Confederate currency. The rice lands
are here, but by the appended order OF
General Sherman it will be,seen that
Ithey are to pass into the hands OF the
negroes. The negroes are free, tue
warehouses are tenantless, the stores
are empty. The goods which they oon-
tanned, which came from the North,
which were owned by the North, have
been sold and used up, turned into oon-
federate bonds and scrip; the railroads
Year: 1865

Two.lawyers were walking out one summer
morning when they were met by an Irish
man noted for his ready wit


Good morning, Pat" says one of the
lawyers, who happened to be acquainted
with the Irishman, and wishing to show his
friend some of Pats wit.


Good morning, your Honor, says Pat.


''Pat, my friend and myself have had
quite an argument this morning as to wheth
er there ever was an Irishman in heaven or
not, and we have concluded TO ask your o.
pinion on the matter.


Faith there was one there, says Pat.


''Well how did he happen to get there?'
says the lawyer at the same time nudging
his friend 20 notice Pat S witty answer.


WELL continued Pat, there was once a
good old quaker, who had an Irishman liv-
ing with him, and the quaker told him that
if he kept on and served him as faithfully
as he had until he (the Quaker died that
he would take him to heaven with him. In
the course of time the quaker died, and the
Irisman went to heaven with him. But
when it was Known that there was an Irish
man In heaven there was a great time, and
he was ordered to leave, but he refused to
leave, unless he was put out by regular
course of law and they searched heaven all
over, but the divil a lawyer could they find,
so there was one Irishman, but niyer bit
of lawyer
Year: 1865

CONFERENCE.-THE / were to choose the
people with whom would spend my hours
of conversation, they should be certainly such
as labored no further than to make them
selves readily and clearly apprehended, and
would have patience and curiosity to under
stand me. To have good sense, and ability
to express it, are the most essential and ne
cessary qualities in companions. When
thoughts rise in US fit to utter among familiar
friends, there needs but very little care in
clothing them.
Year: 1865

u


Much prOsy advice is bestowed on boys
and young men that never gets beyond the
drums of their ears. One of the most use
full ideas you can introduce in young head
is that its owner is bound to make his mark
in the world if he chooses to try. Teach
him that it depends solely upon himself
whether he scars above the dead level of
mediocrity or not, whether he crawls or flies.
Give him, as far ssaS possible, confidence IN
his own inherent capabilities. Argue that
he has the same faculties by which others
have risen to distinction, and that he has
only to cultivate them and apply in their ex-
ercse that mighty propulsiye agent, de-
termined will, in order to rise Bid HIM
shoot his arrows not at the horizon, but at
the zenith. 4 boy who sets out in life with
the Presidency in lis eye, although he may
fall short of the mark, will be pretty sure to
reach higher position than if his ambition
had been limited to the position Of town
constable, or d tide walters berth in the
Custom House. This is not land where
poverty is serious impediment to advance
ment. Very few of our millionairs were
born with gold spoons in their mouths, and
several of the most distinguished of our
statesmen earnred their bread in early life by
the sweat of their brows Fortunes gifts
are wrung from her in this country by heads
and hearts that know no such word as fail,
and Fame has no special fayors for the silk
stocking class. Action, says Aristotle, is
the essence of Oratory, but it is more true
that energetic ,otU is the soul of success. The
best temporal advice a father can give son
is 'asptre.


''Boy, let the Eagles fight ever be thine,


Onward and upward and true to the line."
Year: 1865

FOREIGN RECOGNITION OF THE CoNFED-
ERACY-The Confederacy in its extremity
has at length made formal propositions to
the French and English Governments for
the recognition of the rebel Government,
in consideration of the abolition of slavery,
which has hitherto been considered by the
South the great moral obstacle to European
sympathy. These propositions, however
much weight they might have had in the
earlier stages of the rebellion, when the reb-
will not be accepted by either France or
England-it being evident that the rebellion
is on its last legs.
Year: 1865

SCARCITY OF GREENBACKs.-The COM
plant that greenbacks are growing scarce is
almost universal This diminution, it is be-
Eeyed, is consequence of disposition, on
the part of all classes and banks, to hoard
greenbacks 1t shows gratifying increase
of confidence in the financial measures OF
the Government, coupled with the belief
that there is soon to be great decline IN
gold, and consequently relative increase in
the value of these bills
Year: 1865

BoRAx TO KILL WATER BUGS.-At the
last meeting of the Boston Society of Nat
ural History, report was made by mem
Der upon the effect of pulverized borax upon
the water bugs and cockroaches that infest
our houses. The experiment was made by
sprinkling it around every crack and crevice
suspected of affording shelter to these in
sects, with this effect: that after three or
four days quantities Of dead ones were found
on the doors, and hardly live one found in
the house. Another experiment was tried
by confning two healthy specimens in bot
tie, with little borax at the bottom Of it,
with air freely admitted. At the end of
twenty four hours one was found dead, the
otherquite feeble in thirty-six hours the last
one was also dead. Thus proving this sim
pie and perfect remedy, the value of which
most ouse-keepers viii appreciate.
Year: 1865

CONCERNING EDITORS. a printers
festival the editorial vocation was thus done
brown: The man that is expected to know
everything, tell everything that he knows
and guess at the rest; to make known his
character, establish the reputation of his
neighbors, and elect all candidates for office;
to blow everybody, and reform the world; to
live for the benefit Of others, and write the
epitaph on his tombstone: Here he lies at
last" In short, he is locomotive running
on the track of public notoriety; his lever is
his pen; his boiler is filled with ink; his
tender, his scissors; his driving wheels,
public opinion whenever he explodes it is
caused by n-payment of subscriptions.
Year: 1865

The rebels four years ago, set out for Eutopla
They were going to overthrow the Government,
cut off New England, conquer Cuba and Mexico,
extend slavery around the Gnf, and rule the
world


They find themselves instead, in a dilemma
Out OF Missouri, out of Kentucky, out of Tennes-
see, out of Arkansas, ont of Georgia, out of mon
ey. out at elbows. out of friends ont Of food,
and out of wind.


They supposed JEFF. Davis hero but they
declare him They are sorry They ought
to reflect that it is only because he was ass
that he could lead them into rebellion. In a
drove of asses nothing but length ofears can dis
tinguish the leader from the followers. They are
indebted for his leadership to the very quality
they condemn. They are sorry that IN separating
they didn rccite their grievances. They cannot
think why it was and propose now to recite in
stead the grievances suffered since the war
We IL tell them why. 1t was for the same reason
the school boy failed to recite his lesson, because
he did not know it. He might just rs well lalege
rs his excuse the whipping he got in consequence
as for the rebels to plead the despotic effect OF
the justification for entering into it.


They got up the rebellion to sustain slavery.
Now they propose TO abolish slavery to sustain
the rebellion. This is like the Paddy who thought
to climb to the moon by planting one ladder
above another. tBut what would You do when
Won had no more ladders ?' Borrow the under
one" he replied.


They began the fght for slavery, free trade,
State rights, and independence. Instead of free
trade they have had blockade JEFF. Davis has
crushed out State rights. They are now abolish
ing slavery and ready to sacrifice their inde-
pcndcncc TO Great Britain and France for protec-
ton as provincial dependencies. Having lost
about all they set ont to fight for they arc trying
to work themselves into fury of 9 hatred to the
Yankees, and keep mp fight on that But the
game is impossible. To the extent they are whip
ped they are compelled to admire us. They may
keep on making mouths out of doors, but not
when under the eye of their schoolmaster. In
no single conflict have the - chvalry stood
doggedly to be shot down in their tracks when
they had made up their minds that the battle was
decided That is now the - situation of the
entire rebellion. Chicago Tri6uAe.
Year: 1865

Wu,r AZ EMPTY FLowER-Por MEAys.-There
is something ominous in the custom described IN
the following extract


The manner of advertising for a husband in
java is by placing an empty ilowcr-pot on the
portico roof which is much as to say y
young lady is in the house-husband wanted. "
Year: 1865

The expenses of the city of New York, with
about double the population of the State Of Cal
fornia. are fifteen and half millions annually
over five time the amount our State Govern
nent costs.