smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

But why this enormous inequality In tax.
alton. or Indebtedness and why does the
large per ccntage stand almost invariably
against the small towns? Our answer Is
similar to the answer to like questions. IL
was for money paid In shape OF bounty
which we contend was nothing more ar
less than tcages held out a. an inducement
to men 10 go and save their towns from
draft, and we fail to see that this course
was unwise or cxtravugant to any consid-
erable degree at least It produced the do
sired effect. il enabled men to leave their
families in comparatively comfortable cir.
cumstances. with u little homestead FREQ
OF debt, which hitherto had been otherwise,
and they did 60 to the war, they did fight
the battles OF, and save the country. and
thus the property Of Maine is made secure,
and in doing SO those men have fallen,
many Of them, or returned to their homes
crippled for life, and thus the toioris do.
prived Of their ablest and best men who
were their chief source Of wealth.


Mr.. President. one word rs to how oir
quotas were made up. The Senator from
Lincoln tells us they were made upon
tho basis of population which would seem
very reasonable, inssmuoh as each town
has population to protect and defend, snd
as life should protect life, we see no impro.
prieiy in this und yet IL orr quotas had
been made on this basis, they would have,
been much smaller in the small towns. and
much larger IN the large towns, rs ! have
already shown.


can neither see any impropriety In
quota being made up on basis of valun.
ton. Us is consistent also for property TO be
made to protect property so far as 1t is
possible to do so, and every dollar in the
State of Maine should be made to bear its
Of each and all the expenses
arising from such protection. But ir our
quotas in this case had been thus made up,
they would have differed from what. they
now are, and in the same direction as above.


The following arc the number Of men
furnished by certain town In the State, and
also the number the same towns should
have furnished on basis Of valuation OF
1850:
Year: 1868

usin nll the walks oflifs-in view of one
and all Of these, I ask the Senator from
Cumberland to amend his speech BY s,rik.
ing out tho word lose and insert the word
pay. ask the Senator from penobseot to
amend his speech by adding to II, neither is
any man worthy the name ofa man who
refuses to pay bis equal proportion ofall the
srpenses arising from the protection OF The
lives and property Of the citizens Of his own
State. ask Senators Of this board, one
and oil, to look carefully and candidly ut
this matter before We decide. II .aF
Year: 1868

REPEAL OF THE COTTON TAx-It is under
stood at the Capitol to-day that the House will
agree to the report of the Conference Committee
on 'he Cotton Tax. The report repeals the
existing tax entirely, and takes the duty off
foreign cotton alter the ist of November next.
Year: 1868

ga man by the name of Solomon Carver.
living near warsaw, KY, was instantly killed
by his wife on Sunday, who struck him ovsr
the head with a billet Of wood. They had been
living very unhappily together for a Ion
time and the fatal blow was struck by MRS. z
quarrel. Carver was ferryman at WARSAW
Year: 1868

must insist on good faith to every
citizen in law and in finance; we must
inaugurate retrenchment and reform.
All these things belong to the work
which the Republican party was organ
lied to do. Ifthe Democratic leaders
will bid for the patronage ofignorance,
vice and prejudice, let them be without
competitors. No power can be stable
which roots in the weaknesses of
human nature. Give to thai base
party the vote of every swindling
repudiator, and every illicit distiller,
in the land, and if the votes of the
virtuous and law-abiding shall not
suffice to overcome them, then let us
90 down. But the votes of the virtu-
ous AMI law-abiding will always suffice
to keep in check the unmanly ambi-
tions of the leaders of the Copperhead
party. The work is in getting the
people to arouse and enter into the
fight with spirit.


SO we declare for absolute good faith
toward the nations creditors; for a
funding of the present evidences of
debt in bonds bearing a lesser rate of
interest and payable at long dates
against unnecessary imitation of the
currency, as well as against violent,
compulsory, contraction Of the same
for the relief of the necessaries of life
from taxation, and for retrenchment in
all places where it can be accomplished
without detriment to the common good.
The Republican party can succeed in
campaign made upon such issues
but it cannot-it ought not to succeed
upon any issues involving the sacrifice
of a solitary principle.-Harrisbwg
Telegraph.
Year: 1868

regard to the war will be we cannot
tell, nor do we care to predict.


The platform arranged, the next
fight will be on the candidate. Pen
dleton, Chase, Hancock, Seymour
are in the field with their hackers. If,
as we have said, the two thirds rule is
set aside, Pendleton will be nomina-
ted on the first ballot. If it continue
in force, he cannot be nominated at
all, as those who are opposed to him
will never yield to him. Then, how
ever formidable the movement may
seem now, Chase cannot be the candi-
date. That would be too much of a
desertion of principle to command any
respect from the world. Chase can
win no Republican votes, and cannot
gain all the Democrat votes. Han
cock will be quietly laid on the shelf
after the first ballot. Seymour will
likely not be voted for at first, but
what may be done afterwards, no one
can guess. Perhaps some great Gun
known" will be seized upon to enter
the course against our Captain, Grant,
1t is thought now that the outside
pressure will control tho nomination.
Certainly the Five Pointers will be
there in force, 1t is also fearel by the
Pendleton men that the delegates will
be bought, that money will nominate
the man as we'll as the platform. We
shall see what we shall see.


Let us contrast our Convention with
theirs. Ours was all unity and har-
mony; theirs will all be disunion and
discorl. In ours there was not dis
senting voice on any measure; in theirs
measures will be carried amid storms
of opposition, Ours was animated
with the widest enthusiasm; theirs
will be fiery, contending body, void
of genuine enthusiasm. The whole
party re-echoed the action of our CON
vention; their action will be received
with curses and disappointment. Is
any one incredulous as to the result in
November? Can a house divided
against itself stand? Can party
torn with factions and rebellion pre-
vail against one united on every sub
iect? j.
Year: 1868

ton at all points. If then, we are
asked why the National Conention did
not declare in favor of this thing or
that, we answer that the party has
hitherto made its claim for support
always upon the ground of what it


has accomplished or essayed, and ask
ed to be Judged by the spirit of that.
There is very much yet to do, and the
Republican party is the only one COM
petent for the work. North American.
Year: 1868

ORATOR MORLEY PUHsHoN got
off a good thing the other day when
requested to speak. "Speech is silver
and silence is gold," said the orator.
Gas lido not happen to have any
small change about me this morning,
you will accept the gold q and he
gave them nothing else
Year: 1868

The Journal of Commerce is glad to see
that the United States Senate has taken
the first step toward blotting out the ab-
surd and supcrhaous title of honorable"
from the peoples vocabulary: The editor
says:


In this land of democracy, the only de-
fensibe use of titles is to assist in deter
mining a mans identity. Governor, gen.
eral, judge, reverend, doctor and the like
may properly be employed in describing a
person, because they assist materially in
forming an idea of him. But honorable"
means nothing. 1t is as common and
empty as '.esquire," that zero mark which
every schooI-boy bitches on TO himself,
and the force of comparison can no further
go. The inuumerable host who claim to
wear the title honorable by virtue of
their membership of common council or
legislature, or the occupancy OF some
public office given to them because other
people would not take it, contains so large
proportion of ve-y bad men that it is
coming to be considered badge of dis
grace to have it tackled to ones name. Let
every man who prides himself on his re-
spectacle position in private society, look
over the long list of ''honorables,' which
adorn the call for some ward meeting, and
see if he would like to be catalogued with
them.


The action of the Senate shows that they
are conscious of the degradation which the
title has undergone. and are desirons of ell
evating themselves by getting rid of it.
Let some member of our legislature make
similar move.
Year: 1868

egg" We believe that the news of the ap
pointment Of S. w. Reese, of Dodgeville,
as County Supervisor in 'place of John
Bonner, deceased, will be received with
general satisfaction by the business men
and tax papers Of the county. Mr. Reese
is about as well posted in regard to the
complicated difficulty of our county as al y
man in it, and being a lawyer and coed
business man, he is well fitted for he posi-
tiop
Year: 1868

sYy- We were unable to attend the tea
meeting given by the ladies. Of the P. NJ.
Church in this village, on New Years day,
but we are informed by those who W re
present tha; it was very pleasant and
highly profitable time. The attendance
vas large, and the provisions being ample,
the receipts were liberal.
Year: 1868

Our friends are taking advantage of
our announcement that we had received
new type, and are rushing in the job-wolk
pretty fast. Ii we were not expecting our
new power press almost daily VIC should
be obliged to engage further supply Of
help to meet the requirements Of our Iat
rUnS
Year: 1868

tS5@ One Of the prettieSt, most useful,
and altogether most suitable new year :
presents you can make your wife, sister
or daughter. is good, handsome sewing
machine. We are agent for the Singer
the best machine in use. We keep one
on exhibition at our Office.
Year: 1868

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29.-The police force OF
this city has not been paid off for five months.
Yesterday committee from the force waited
on the Mayor with q memorial setting forth
that many of the officers Were without the
megns OF procuring the common necessaries of
life, and that their families Were actual
want; that the best officers have been reduced
TO absolute beggary, and solicit from the char
liable whose residences they guard food 70
take to their families. They say that il is not
charity they ask, but pay TOR labor performed


The Council considered the memorial, and
passed resolution declaring their inability to
move in the matter, and referred the memorial
TO the Legislature
Year: 1868

CHEWING TOBACCO.-Undert the new revenue
law manufacturers Of chewing tobacco fine
cuD are compelled 70 rearrange their packages
in order to comply with the terms OF the act
which specifies certain tax and requires the
retail sales 10 be by weight. The result of this
Will be that in some kinds of fine cut the pa.
pers will contain more tobacco than formerly,
and In others they will contain less. Whether
the retail price OF ten cents a paper will be re.
tanned remains TO be seen after the law has been
in force long enough tor manufacturers to de.
termine that question. Starting with three
cents the package before the war. fine cut has
gradually reached ten cents, and there is eyery
reason 20 believe that il will go still higher.
But the increased cost does not appear to have
any effect upon the consumption Of the weed
Tlfl1. Ls60er.
Year: 1868

The Springfield 1ll.) Journal has the
following account Of a divorce suit that
has been commenced in that city;


The plaintiff in the case is lady OF
the highest respectability. The brute,
her husband, who resists her plaintlve
petition, is a gentleman mot entirely
disconnected" as Mr.. Micawber would
say, with the most improved method Of
overland transportation. He was, when
he promised to love and cherish the pc
titioner in the case, locomotive epgi-
neer. Shortly after his marriage, he re-
moved with his bride to this city, and bis
efforts were directed to securing home
for his family. With this view, he bought
several acres of land, located at that time
quite outside of the city, and on por-
ton he built snug dwelling house.
This property he, with prudent foresight,
decided to his wife. Time passed on, and
the engineer bought with his savings
small lots of land, all Of which he placed
in his wife's name, so that they might be
safe. The property originally bought
became valuable, and portion was sold,
and other lots were leased. The profits
arising from these sources were
carefully invested, and so the en-
gineer was a very thriving man, and
his wife was able to dress like some
body" The sobriety and steadiness of
the engineer attracted the attention Of
men in high position, and he was in
duced to accept charge of an important
public work in far western State The
Springfield property was too promising
to abandon, and his wife was left behind
to manage it. After the engineer (he
bears different title now had been
gone year, the wife found herself
lonely, and took nice young man to
board with her. The engineer, busy with
the duties of his position, remained
away long time, and is now brought
home by the news that his wife has petit
toned for a divorce, on the ground of
abandonment and failure to support her.
Her petition sets forth that her husband
| has been absent for the greater part of
thee years and that for the past eight
years he has contributed nothing to her
support, and that she has lived entirely
upon the rents and profits Of her own
| property. o.


When her husband came to this city
few weeks since, she refused to see him.
She said the sight of the villain who had
so cruelty wronged her would kill her,
and her nice young man boarder says he
has known her to sit up half the night
brooding over the story of her wrongs.
The case will be heard at the next
term of the Circuit Court, and the wife
expects to get divorce, keep the prop
erty and marry the boarder.
Year: 1868

A BosToN inventor has found sub
stitute for paper hangings on the wall.
A very delicate, simple and beautiful
machine takes a portion of tree after
it has been cut the right length and width,
and shave it up into thin ribbons as wide
as a roll of house paper, making one
hundred or one hundred and fifty to the
inch. These rolls of wood are placed on
the walls by paper hangers with paste
and brush, precisely in the same manner
with paper. The wood is wet when used,
and really works easier than paper, be-
cause it is much more tough and pliable
The longer the wood hanging remains on
the wall, the more distinct will be the
grain and color of the wood.
Year: 1868

In a late speech at Washington city
the Attorney General, though a Republi-
can, thus manfully speaks out the true
sentiments OF his honest heart


The reconstruction acts passed by
Congress have converted ten Of those
States into lower condition than that
of mere Territories, have destroyed
every vestige Of State government, and
have stripped millions OF their people OF
every characteristic that belongs to an
American citizen. Under this extra
ordinary legislation the vast territory
covered by these ten States and the mil
lions of unhappy people which reside
there have no more protection under
our Federal Constitution than il they
occupied 30 much territory in the
interior of Africa, Their State Consti-
tutions, made by these people, under the
auspices of President Lincoln snd Presi-
dent johnson, are declared to be illegal,
are in effect abolished, and in place oil
them Congress has provided military
despotism. Certainly if no valid State
law protected these people there was at
least Federal law which ought to have
protected them; for every foot of that
territory and over every individual that
inhabits it the great fundamental law of
the Constitution of the United States
prevails in all its vigor, and gives to
every one Of them every privilege and
every immunity which it extends to the
American citizens anywhere and every
where. With this Constitution, then,
fully in force over all that territory and
all those people, where does Congress find
its warrant for supplanting legal State
government with military government Z
Where does Congress find its warrant in
time of peace to suspend the habeas
corpus; to take away the inestmable
privilege of trial by jury; to remove the
civil officers of q State and substitute
Federal officers in their places; and,
finally, to try, to condemn, to punish, to
imprison, to hang these people for civil
offenses or pretended offenses by the
Judgment of military court2 Where
does Congress find its warrant in the
Constitution for State by voters of its
own creating to pass suffrage law for a
State2 Where does it find authority to
say who shall vote, and who shall not
vote in State elections2 Lastly, where
does it find authority to make new
class of citizens, and to give to that
class of citizens greater rights than
were ever conferred before by the
Constitution upon any class, and to
take away from those who always en-
joyed the rights of citizenship the most
precious of these rights ? Gentlemen, /
have been at the bar for nearly half a
century, and have been constant stu.
dent, not only of the common law, but OF
our own constitutional law, and | do not
hesitate to say that the whole of these
Reconstruction Acts of Congress, from
beginning to end, first, second and third
in the SERIES are unconstitutional and
void. These are times when to be silent
is to be unfaithful. These are times
when men must sneak out
Year: 1868

st. Petersburg has lately been the
scene of horrible tragedy, which does
not tell very favorably for the state of
female education in that city. The
patroness Of boarding school for young
ladies had expressed her disapprobation
of their coifure which she considered as
too coquettish. The lady who had the
superintendent of the class was so
much affected by this censure, that she
ordered all the young ladies' hair to be
cropped quite short This was regarded
as a great indignity, and as soon as it
was dark the young ladies attacked the
supposed offender, threw sheet over
her head, knocked her down and NAL
treated her so seriously that she died in
a few hours. 1t turned out afterwards
that these paragons of feminine pro-
priety had made q mistake in the dark,
and vented their fury on the wrong
person. The unhappy victim was what
they would call in England parlor
boarder, who on the evening in question
had undertaken to discharge the duties
of the usual class teacher.
Year: 1868

TIE curse is working all through the
country. The Detroit Post warns every
body in need of employment to keep away
from that city. At the present there are
over one thousand young men there out
of employment, which they seek in vain.
Old men, heads of families, servant girls
and seamstresses are about as largely
represented, and the agentof the City
Mission Board is beset every hour in the
day by persons seeking work or asking
assistance, while the office of the poor
master is inadequate to hold the suffer
ers who ask assistance of the county.
The police station lodging house is filled
nightly, and the City Mission house has
furnished lodging for seyenty-nine per
sons, and meals for 81 during the eight
DAYS that it has been in operation. 1t
will be worse before it is better.


Radical misruIe has brought all this
on the country. How long will the peo-
ple endure IT'D
Year: 1868

A man who had for years carried an old
and cherished watch about him, one day called
on its maker, and told him that it was no
longer useful, for it would not keep time cor
rectly


Let me examine it, said the maker; and,
taking powerful glass he looked carefully
and steadily into the works till he spied just
one little grain of sand. Il have it" said
he, " | can get over your difficulty"


About this moment, by some wonderful but
unseen power, the little grain suspecting what
was coming, exclaimed " Let me alone |
am but small thing and take up so little
room, cannot possibly injurc the watch
Twenty or thirty Of us might do harm, but
cannot so leave me alone


The matchmaker replied: You must
come out for you spoil my work, and all the
more so that you are so small, and but few
people can see you


Thus it is with US, whether children or
elders-one lie, ono lust, one feeling Of pride,
vanity, or disobedience, may be such little
one that none but ourselves know of it; yet
God, who secs all things, knows it, and that
one sin however little it may appear, vii
spoil all our best efforts in his service.
Year: 1868

Such was the exclamation of dying child,
as the red rays ofthe sunset streamed through
the easement "Good-by, papa, good-by )
Mamma has come for me to night. Don't
cry papa ,oe'H all meet again IN The mora
ingf 1t was as if an angel had spoken to
that father, and his heart grew lighter under
his burden; for something assured him that
his little one had gone to Him who said (;
Suffer little children to como unto me, Tor
Of such is the kingdom of heaven"


There is something cheerful to all who are
in trouble in this oven all meet again in
the morning" 1t rouses up the iainting soul
like a trumpet-blast, and frightens away for
ever the dark shapes thronging the avenues
Of the outer life Clouds may gather upon
our path, disappointments gather around us
like an army with banners; but all this can
not destroy the hope within us, five have
this motto upon our lips All will be right
in the morning


II you were to die tonight, would it be
well with you in the morning p Young Reap
Year: 1868

A FRENcn ROMANCE wife Of nier-
chant in the northern part of France recent
ly ran away, and for wonder her husband
went to seek her. He found the fugitive in
Paris, in company with young man, and,
procuring police, he entered her apartments
in the small hours of the morning. After
scene the facts appeared that the young man
was her son by "A former marriage which she
had kept concealed from her husband She
had resolved to come and live with her son at
Paris, and she had the more readily decided
upon journey because her husband himself
was frequently absent from home, and could
give no satisfactory reason. She suspected
an intrigue. "Ah" cried the husband, " lot
us not deceive each other have a daughter
whom kept concealed, and my absence was
caused by visiting her. The police agents
quilted the happy scene.
Year: 1868

As the sea assumes the most beautiful col
ors when the rays of the setting sun shine
upon it, so also the world assumes the most
beautiful appearance when the light Of heaven
shines into our hearts. Then we feel to say
with David; Let everything that hath
breath praise the Lord