smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

After all, the lrishman was philosopher
who, as he was loading up his cart with
clay, and he threw into his cart shoyeltull
after shovelfull cried out to his horse, If
YOU can draw that you can draw this, un-
til he had so heavily laden the cart that the
horse could not bulge it. The men who
have ruled the country for the last four
years have adopted his policy of piling upon
the people taxes. They have said to them
selves, 'if the people can stand taxation to
keep in the field powerful army, they can
stand taxation to support shoddy contrac-
tors and spectators, and a swarm of new
petty officers to collect an Internal Revenue,
and if they can stand taxation for this pur-
pose, they can stand taxation to maintain
an aristocracy of bond holders and if they
can stand taxation for this purpose, they can
stand a militia communication tax, and II they
can stand this tax, they can stand tax to
pay big salaries to our State officials. -
Keep this party in powers few, years, longer
and they will SO laden the people with taxes
that they will not be able to bulge. Avery
nice party certainly. y.-Pitsburgh Post.
Year: 1865

Washington dispatches say that the es-
of a Bureau Of Pardons is re-
in order to relieve the Presi-
dent of the vast amount of labor accumu-
lating on his hands from the petitions pour
ing in on him for pardon from the South.
There is shorter and far better way of
relieving the President in that particular
Let him issue a general amnesty. That is
the short cut to general peace, as well as
general trade and commerce.


The Southern people acknowledge they
are subjugaged. They are prepared to say
that negro slavery is dead institution, how
ever disastrous it may be to the late owners
and the slaves themselves. Now, it is folly
to believe or contend, that the late convul-
sion has put the negroes above want without
labor, or that the people of the United
States are willing to be taxed for their
support, merely to demonstrate the po,cer
of the United States to put down rebellion.


That po,cer that put down the rebellion
is now in force, as potent as ever. 1t can
regulate contracts of marriage, as well as
contracts of trade and commerce. We
suppose it does so. 1.-THE military power
will be very different from former cases,
| if it allowed any thing TO pass its supervision


that did not bring money in its pocket -
| Cincinnati Enqu.rer.
Year: 1865

We shall not recover in this country, for
twenty-five years, says the n y. journal of
Commerce, from the evils brought upon Us
in the interests of despotism, by the Stan
tons, the Holts, and their radical allies. -
The very sense Of freedom has been blunted
in the popular mind, and the nation has
forgotten what was once the brthright OF
an American citizen. Free speech, free
discussion, in which once rested our liber
ties, have been wrested from our people so
long by the ovcrbcaring insolence of Office
holders and their supporters, that they are
scarcely priced as they once were. The
Tribune says that Secretary Stanton, seems
incapable of comprchcnding that this coun-
try has, or should have, any other law than
his arbitrary will No one doubts the
truth of this assertions; yet what effect
does 1t produce on the public mind? There
was day when the very fact that such an
assertion could be made at all, with even
the suspicion Of its possible truth, would
have aroused every city and village in the
land. Public meetings would have been
held at every ross-roadS. The indignant
heart of America would have sent the blood
to the cheeks Of very boys in the streets,
and voice of free nation would have been
heard asserting to the world the power of
its freedom. Now, you listen-you admit
and you sit down quietly and wonder how
long it will last
Year: 1865

Firstly--neither are good for much till they
arrive at maturity. Secondly they are bred
IN the house, and also the flower of the fam
ily Thirdly-both have to be cradled.
Fourthly-both are generally well thrashed
before they are done with
Year: 1865

and talk most benevolently know ma,
in this town that you would call surlcv'
rough and unamiable man, and yet ne In.
done more acts of kindness in this country
than oil Of you together. You may judge
peoples actions by their feelings, but l
judge peoples feelings by their actions"
Year: 1865

The Washington correspondent of
the New York News, who, by way of
illustration, spoke of the Disagreement
of Booths lifeless remains as rumor
told the tale, now says: .r.s


"For the honor Of the country, am
glad to say there is no truth in the
shocking tale. Booths body was buri-
ed without Disagreement. Itwas buried
in Sc ret and in the night, and no stone
marks or ever will mark the spot; but
this was the choice Of the family. The
body was given to them. They had il
carried it far away to the NOrth-away
beyond New York, and there inferred
and there to remain until the last day
when the quick and the dead are to be
| judged"
Year: 1865

The Committee on the Conduct oI
the War acquit General Hooker of the
charge of having been intoxicated du
ring the Charlottesville bloody fight
They also declare that his campaign
might have been more decisive in it,
results had he been better sustain ed by
the General in Chief, Halleck,
Year: 1865

Speaker Colfax and party left Atchi-
son on the 2lst in a special coach for
the Pacific coast. They were well arm
ed, and will have military escort from
Little Blue through to Denver.
Year: 1865

By his air and gait, the ultra fashionable


style of ms clothing, the killing curl of his
moustgche, the look and die" expression
of his simpering face, his stream of small
talk, and sundry other signs and tokens of
plethora OF vanity, and lack OF soul and
brain, you may distinguish at a glance the
individual who plumes himself upon being
ladies man." His belief in his own ir-
EaSfb5Ef 3 f5 tf il EEten Fbe saF III eyer 6a5 him e


grounds for their selfconceit. 1t is indubi.


table that girls do sometimes fall in love, OF
what they suppose to be love- with fellows
who look as if they had walked out of tailor
fashion-plates- creatures that by the aid of
the various artists who contribute to the
make up of human poppiniays have been
converted into superb samples of what art
can affect In the way of giving man an un-
manly appearance, The woman who mar
Ties one of these futterers, is to be pitied
for, ii she has any glimmerings of common
sense, and a heart under her bodice, she
will soon discover that her dainty has no
more of mans spirit in him than an auto
matte figure on a Savoyard' s .hand-organ.
But woman worth true man s love is
never caught by such specimen of orna-
mental hollow-ware A sensible woman is.
in fact, a terror to ladies men, for they
are aware that her penetrating eye looks
through them, and sounds the depth of
their emptiness. She knows the man IN
deed from the trumpery counterfeit, and has
no touch of the mackerel propensity to
jump at flashy bait, in her wholesome CON-
position. The ladies man should be per
Initted to live and die bachelor. His yoca.
tien is to dangle after the sex, to talk soft
nonsense, to carry shawls and fans, to as
tonish boarding school misses, and to kim
die love flames as eyanescent and harmless
as the fizz of squib. If, however, he must
needs become Benedick, let him be yoked
to some vain and silly firt, his natural
counterpart. So shalt the law of fitness not
be n1ltra god - L.itelul,aL Gnallalnllion
Year: 1865

THE ARABS PRooF. Frenchman
who had won a high rank among men of
science, was crossing the great Sahara in
company with an Arab guide EIe noticed
with a sneer that at times his guide, what
ever obstacle might arise, put them all aside,
and kneeling on the bnrning sands, called on
his God


Day after day passed, and still the Arab
never failed, till at last one evening the
Philosopher, when he rose from his knees,
asked h1nt, with contemptuous smile,
How do you know there is a God? The
guide fixed his burning eye on the scoffer
for a moment in wonder, and then said sol
emnly, How do kmoto there is a God p
How did know that man, and not cam
ell, passed my hut last night in the dark
ness ? Was it not by the print Of his foot
in the sand Even so, and he pointed to
the sun, whose last rays were flashing
over the lonely desert, "that footprint is
not that of man" 6E
Year: 1865

THERE Is NO DEATH.
There is no death The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in Heaven jeweled crown
They shine ferexermeEe.
There is no death The dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer showers
To golden grain on yellow fruit,


Or rainbow tinted fowers.
The granite rocks disorganize


To feed the hungry moss we bear;
The forest leaves drink daily life


From out the viewless air.
There Is no death The leaves may fall,
The flowers may fade and pass away
Ffse ealy wall throasl, gsintay hours,
The coming Of the May
There is no DEATH I'm angel form
Walks Ger the earth with silent tread,
Hebears our best loved things away,
And then we call them dead
lie leaves our hearts all dcsulate


He plueks our fairest sweetest flowers;
Transplanted into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird like veice whose joyous tone
Made glad this scene of joy and strife,
Sings now in everlasting song


Amid the tree Of life.
And when He sees smile too bright,
Or hearts too pure for taint and vice,
He bears it to that world of light
To dwell in paradise.
Born into that undying life,


They leave us but TO como again;-
With joy wezwcleome them7the same,
Excepti in sin and pain.
And ever near US, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread;
For all the bOundless Universe
is life-they are not dead. r
Year: 1865

JUVENILE PATRIofIsM "A bright little
girl not four years old hearing an elder broth
er, who is physician, say something about
an attenuation" when she interrupted
him quickly with,


What kind of nation is that I'd like
to know? There amt but one nation-the
star-spangled banner nation ~
Year: 1865

Well, Pat, said witty gentleman TO
his hired man, one morning, you've got
here first at last. You were always behind
before-but you get here early Of late
How did you come out with your lawsuit
you were telling me aboat2


Faith, yer honor, come out square all
round.
Year: 1865

So,rE music teacher once wrote that the
''art of playing on the violin requires the
incest perception and the most sensibihtty OF
anv art In the known world; upon which
am editor comments in the following manner;
The art of publishing newspaper and
making it pay, and at the same time have 1t
please everybody, beats fddling higher than
a kite
Year: 1865




a child was once walking through n strange
country, led by his fathers hand The loy-
ing parent had pointed cut TO him, far awav
IN the distance, the home to which the1
were gong; and now the child 4 mind was
trou5led, tor che road seemed to lead cutie
Are you sure we are In the right path?''
he would often ask. : - - p'''As
to men = "'' '''
Again the little questioner snnlre.
|. cannot see how we shall ever Cat there
by climbing this steep mountain side y - =
Still the reply was. keen fast hold Of
my hand, and fear nothihg.


30 the father and son went on their Wav
until, when the little feet were very weary,
a sudden turn 10 the road showed them that
they were al home.


Now, it is in such a way that God often
leads his children. They are like the little
one who was so puzzled about the way.
hat will become of us" they often ask,
What win be tomorrow? or next year? or
twenty years to Gomez" Now, such Dues
tons are like the child's. The proper an
swer Is that which the father gave to him,
Trust. DO what is right now---te-day;
50 when tomorrow comes you will find that
God is taking care of you and helping you
still, and IN the end all win be well
Year: 1865

i that is true, it is equally true Of the


Confederacy, which has never been in
such,a blaze of excitement since 1861


What did theAlnion of oil parties in the


North, at the time of "the rebel bonn
bardment of Fort SUMTER" accomplish I.
Did it prevent !" the rebelss' from taking
the fort? Has It enabled the Federal
lists, in four years of war, to rerake what
they lost? Seward promised them that
I'm 4inety days the war would be at an
end. Did the union of all parties in the
North accomplish that prediction ? What
renders Northern union, even if it exists,
more terrible now? They pretend to
have four hundred thousand men in the
field-the time of half of whom goes
out this year. Suppose they keep that
number up, and even exceed it by the
coming draft. We can equal their num-
bers, and they have given us such mo-
tives to fight as we neverhad before
The detection of rascally Northern poll
ticians is thing to be expected. The
Confederacy leans upon no such broken
reed. Its reliance is upon God and its
own stout heart and strong hand.
Year: 1865

The Yankee journals make themselves
merry over the seedincss of Confederate
garments, and the general "rcbel style
of shabbiness." The Confederate ward
robe, it is true, has become somewhat
dilapidated by the war, but we should
dislike to exchange the hearts that beat
beneath it for the purple and fine linen
of Broadway. Ragged as our soldiers
are, they are not as badly off in that
respect as the coatless and shoeless SOL
diers Of the first Revolution, the praises
of whose bare feet and tattercd garments
are to be found in Yankee histories of the
days Of 1776. Nor are they in anything
like the for1orn condition of the army
of Italy when Napoleon took command.
Nevertheless, that army managed to
make itself presentable at every court
in Europe, and to cut a finer figure in
history than kings and mobiles.


There is no such worshipper of exter-
nails as your genuine snob and parvenue.
There arepeople who are eternally vex.
ing the heavens with their fulminations
against aristocracy; who profess to be-
proud of their plebeian origin, and conse-
crate the rags of their Revolutionary ia
theirs as sacred emblems Of Liberty.
sneering in the same breath at the shah
biness of rebel clothing. Broadcloth
coats and patent~leather boots are more
attractive, in their estimation, than the
most heroic qualities of the human SOUL
Pride of noble descent is weak enough,
but what can be said of pride which de-
pends upon the wool of sheep and the
skin Of calf for its supreme happiness
This African idolatry of dress is what
we might expect from Tittlebat Tit
mouses and miscegenators. Such peo.
pie are only fit for subjects of the de-
spotism that already has it's foot upon
their abject necks.
Year: 1865

A movement is On foot by colored
men to purchase the Charleston Mer-
curry and publish it as sn anti-slavery
journal Some progress has been made,
and money is being subscribed with q
good pro -pect ofsuccess
Year: 1865

A PRIEST TO BE ExEcUTED.-The trial of
the Swedish pastor. Lindback, for poisoning
people with the sacramental wine, has ter
minated. as was expected, in his conviction.
The chief difficulty was to assign sufficient
motives, those named by the prisoner ap-
pearing utterly insufficient to account for
three or four successive murders. He as
serted throughout that the murdered per.
sons were either incurables, or were in other
ways likely to become burdens on his par
ish, and that it was for the purpose of re-
lieviug it of the burden of their presence


that 10 became guilty of this series of
crimes. Before he was taken into the
court he was deprived of his ecclesiastical
ves.ments, and after sentence had been pro-
nounced be addressed the judge and the
governor of the province, acknowledging the
Justice of his sentence. He afterwards made
q speech to the crowd to similar effect,
and expressive of his confidence of obtain.
ing pardon in the next world. He was to
be beheaded in the course of few days.
Year: 1865

CORRECT SpEAKINa.-Wo would advise
all young people to acquire in early life,
the habit of correct speaking and writing;
and to abandon as early as possible any use
of slang words and phrases. The longer
you live the more difficult the acquireme ent
Of correct languarge will be; and. ii tho gold.
en- ago of youth, the proper season for the
acquisition of language, bo passed in it's
abuse, tho unfortunate victim. If neglected
is very properly doomed to talk slang for
life. Money is not necessary to procure
this education. Every man has II 10 bis
power. He has merely to use the language
which he reads, instead Of the slang which
he hears; to .orm his taste from the best
speakers and poets in tho country; to treas,
ure up choice phrases in his memory. and
habituate himself to their use, avoiding al
the same time the pedantic precision and
bombast which show the weakness of vain
ambition rather than the polish of an cdu'
Gated mind.
Year: 1865

SAID Professor Agassiz recently: "After
staying fifteen years in this country, have
often asked myself what was the difference
between the institutions of tho Old World
and those of the New, and have found the
answer in few words. In Europe. every
thing is done to preserve and maintain tho
prerogatives of a few; in America, every
thing is done to make man of him who
has any of the elements of manhood in
him."
Year: 1865

GENERAL ScoTT says that people think
be is proud and pompous simply because he
is tall and erect. To recent caller. who
expressed surprise at bis affablity. be re.
marked, "Sir, it has been the misfortune of
my life to be six feet four inches high, and
to have a straight spine. Had I been round
shouldered, or had hump on my back. 1t
would have relieved the odium in the public
eye."
Year: 1865

ANOTHER MYSTERY - JERSEY CITY.
The people OF Sersey City are again
exercised Over another mystery which
threatens to create an excitement equal
ing that occasioned by the story of the
" Haunted Church" From a certain
house in the Third Ward, there eemanates
almost nightly horrid screeehes, yeils and
grOans, mingled with the cry of murder,
which alarms the neighbOrhood. A few
nights since a policeman on that beat
heard the noises which were so terrifying
and indicative of the infiictiOn of VIC
lenee, that he went to the police station
to state the case, and inquire if he would
be Justified il forcing open the door and
entering the house Asno assistance had
been asked for, it was decided that the
house could not be entered,


What makes the affair more strange is
the fact that the house is Only occupied
by two peTsons--a manand woman-and
1t IS always Kept entirely closed, not even
window shutter ever being open to
adInit ray of light. They have no in
tercOurse with any one, and appear 10
have no desire 10 form aequaintanees.
The man goes out daily as If going to his
business and presents no unusual appear
anee. When he leaves the door is inme-
diately closed and bolted, and Is not
opened again until he returns, when, after
his entrance, il is Immediately Tefastened,
and soon after the noises commence.
Once or twice a person having on night
clothes only hAs been seen to leave the
the house during the hight, and after
going as far Is the corner return and
enter the house. II is certainly a very
singular affair.
Year: 1865

be present. really!or by representatives ar
even he was made liable, on memorable
occasion, to the power of the Commons
by impeachment and death. But at last
the popular element by the Revolution OF
1858 became paramount. At least then be-
gan the struggle which, after great con-
vulsiOns, fixed the Crown, through the min
isters as the instruments of the Parliament,
and amenable to them. But this cannot be
SO in this Government, for the simple rea-
son that the Congress has no control over
the Cabinet. The extent and duration of
the Executive, as to time and power, is
clearly defined in written Constitution
Therefore no analogy can be drawn from
English precedents, except those which
show how power tends to increase the Ex-
ecutive or ministry whenever it has the OPP
portunity to use its appliances, or which
show that the temptation to corruption is
apt to be embraced when the object is near
and the lure ehticing. In illustrating this
part of my argument my only embarrass-
ment Is In the Opulence OF the illustrations
from English history. ft/


tConclusion tomorrow
Year: 1865

The vicious die early They fall like
shadows or tumble wrecks aud ruins into
the grave-often while quite young, al
most always before forty. THE wicked
liveth not half his days" The world at
once ratifes the truth and assigns the
reason, by describing the dissolute life OF
fast men; that is, they live fast; they
spend their twelve hours in six, getting
through the whole before the meridian
and dropping into darkness while others
are in the glory of light Their sun GO
eth down while it is day." And they
might have helped it, Many one dies


before he need. Young men of genius,
like Burns and Byron, to whom, when dis
sipated and profigate. thirty is so
fatal, and your obscure and nameless


wandering stars, who waste their time in


libertine indulgence-they cannot live,
they must die early. They put on steam


and blow up the boiler They run at
such rate that the fire goes out for want
of fuel. The machinery is destroyed by


rapid speed and reckless wear. Nothing
can save them Their physical system
cannot stand the strain they put to it;


while the state of their minds is often
such that the soul would eat the sub
stance of the most robust body and make


for itself way Of escape from the inces-
SAINT hell of its own thoughts.
Year: 1865

The way to keep money is to earn it
fairly and honestly, Money so obtained
is pretty certain to abide with its possess
or. But money that is inherited, or that
in any way comes without fair and just
equivalent, is almost certain to go as it
came. The young man who begins rep
.resentative of good, solid work, honestly
and manfully done, stands a better chance
to spend the last half of his life in afflu-
ence and comfort, than he who in his
haste to become rich, obtains money by
dashing specqlatio91s,. or the devious
lying between fair dealing and actual
fraud Among the wisest and most thrift
ty men of wealth, the current proverb is,
Money goes as it comes. Let the young
make a note of this, and see that their
money comes fairly, that it may long abide
with them,
Year: 1865

Keep the law of duty ever before you;
let it be your never failing pillar of light


Be brave, and on the square with your
conscience to the last. Your success in
life may not be equal to your hopes or
your deserts; it is not in man to insure
success. The best and wisest of us may
fall in the struggle; but we may have our
consolation even then To gain the
worlds applause, and snatch its feeting
spoils, is not mans sole and proper busi-
ness here. Immortality smiles upon the
scene and beckons him ever onward in
the race for those eternal honors which
the world can neither give nor take away
the prize which all may strive for, and
no one strive in vain.-DR. MARKHAM.
Year: 1865

E The Republican Legislature of Ohio
has removed the last restriction upon black
suffrage in that State. Henceforth the negro
of Ohio will go to the polls on the same
terms as the white man. We notice q
few days since similar action has 'beeR taken
by the Legislature of Minnesota. e-...
Year: 1865

The insane action of the City Council
through its committee-in reference to the
proposition of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad Company, to build a
large and creditable depot on Front Street,


has been the subject of much comment and
no liltle indignation in business circles dur
ing the past week. Fears are justly enter
tained by many intelligent gentlemen that
the stupidity of the Council in ruling out
this vast and desirable Improvement will
Year: 1865

THE STEAMSHIP WEST CHESTER. We
are pleased to learn that the Wilmington
Steamship Company has proved a decided
success, and that the Steamer West Chester
on her last trip to New York, took large
amount of freight. This augurs well for
the commercial prosperity of our city.