smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

An eminent French artist possesses a monkey,
very intelligent, very ugly, but an immense pet
Of her owner's Mademoiselle Nounine, howey-
er, possesses all the defects which the cynic con
siders to be particularly feminine She is lazy,
inquisitiye, excessively addicted to sugar plums,
fruit-cakc, etc.. fdgety, disordeely, touching
everything, breaking everything she touches,
daubing her masters pictures, twisting the
necks eff his wife's canariesj and having once
upon a time, pulled every feather out of hand
some parrot, in imitation Of the cook whom she
had seen the day before picking fowl, A short
time since the artist, having to go out, and
dreading lest Nounine should perform some new
piece Of mischief during his absence, bethought
himself Of q method of furnishing her with
something to do until his return. He according
ly took the monkey upon his lap, dressed her in
gay gown which had served as model in one
of his pictures in which figures Marquise Of
the time of Louis XY, painted her cheeks white
and red, with black patch under one eye, pow
dered her head, hung string of beads around
her neck, and then having seated her on the
floor in a corner of the atelier puta small look
ing-glass into her hand, and left her, not with
out some misgiving, and promising himself not
to be long away. But, instead Of returning ear
ly, the artist was Unexpectedly detained, and
only got home the next morning He rushed
into the atelier in terror, expecting to find eve
rything upside down, and half his pictures
spoiled.


g really must get rid of Nounine, said the
artist to himself as he anxiously unlocked the
door of the studio, for [ cannot let my work be
remain at the little wretch's mercy" But to his
surprise and relief he found her sound asleep,
exactly where he had placed her and holding
the looking-glass in her hands. Not thing had
been touched by her in the artists absence
3" The fact is" continued the cynic, +" that the
ugly little beast, as vain as her sex entities her
to be- had been so enraptured with her own
beauty, and that Of her fuery, that She had re-
NAMED, through the entire day, absorbed in
contemplation Of her charming self in the little
hand glass Now, tell me, he added triumph
antly appealing to his listeners, does anybody
believe that male monkey would have passed
a whole afternoon in gazing at himself in mir
ror, and can anybody doubt, after such proof
to the contrary, that vanity is not the ruling
! passion of the female sex ?"
Year: 1865

The Rebel Albert Pike and his Wife.


A letter from Little Rock ARK. J, October a.
says The home of this famous rebel and or
ganizer and leader Of Indian regiments still
stands in this place, a striking monument of the
folly and downfall of its owner. 1t is still nom
inally occupied by Mrs. Pike who though now
quite aged still clings to it alone and in its des-
olation, to preserve it from the clutches of Fed
eral confscatiOn. In its best estate, the house
was one of superb appointments externally snd
internally, finished and furnished without stint
Of expense. 1t is now disOrdered and desolate
aud the noble private library of at least 200
volumes has all been carried away except some
Struggling volumes IN foreign tongues which the
rude relic hunters could not read, and left be-
hind nearly al the splendid collection OF en-
cravings have disappeared, and fine organ,
piano and harp have been spared the same fate
only from their pOnderOusness. Mrs. Pike is a
woman of intense rebel prochYities, and has felt
all the accumulated humiliations and defeats of
her cherished cause almost as SO many personal
Affections. Her reason has been fast losing its
supremacy, and she wanders about amidst the
dreary wreck, seeming to scarcely notice any
thing that passes around her. Not many morn
ings ago, she was found by those early in the
street, running frantically about at daylight, en-
dishabille endeavOring to rally the neighbors to
resist an Internal plot which, she said, General
Steele was concocting to massacre the whole city
and was even then Whetng knife to execute.
She will soon be sent through the lines by flag
of truce to her husband at Washington in this
State. This gifted and erratic man. is described
to me, by>an officer who once met him face to
face in desperate cavalry charge, person
of commanding dignity and force. He has a fine,
muscular frame, the voice of stentor, and
wears hs-hair at great length, reaching nearly
down to his waist He sits his horse caYalierly,
dashes over fences and bitches with magnificent
contempt, and as he rode at the head Of his coll
umns, his long hair streaming in the wind, and
his powerful voice urging them on to the charge
it is little to be wondered at that the superst-
tious Imagination of the Indians regarded him
as an oracle and a sort Of demi-gody Itis easy
to divine the source Of the almost absolute pow
er which he is said to have exercised among
them.
Year: 1865

An exchange contains the IN
formation that an extensive hotel
block, which will rent for $4,75O
per month, is being built in Lam
sing, Michigan, by an officer prom
inent in the Government detec-
tive service, who was not worth a
dollar at the commencement Of


the war. The Louisville Journal
in copying the item, adds the fol-
lowing still more remarkable case:


"a highly respectable member
of the New York bar told us some
time since that a certain Colonel,
a brothe, of o certain Major Gen.
eral in the service of the United
States, who had beenidown South
about six months, was found to be
worth, upon his demise, seven
million dollarsl 1t was not
known that he was worth anything
when he went prospecting down


South. Is it any wonder that cer-
tain cliques and persons should ex-
hibit such manifest disgust at the
sudden closing of the war, or that
they would evidently submit to a
prolongation of it with such for
? titude and Christian resignation
Year: 1865

There Il lIttle doing IA The boot aud shoc
market, except In the way of making prcpara-
ton for the spring trade. which II now close
al hand. Boston aud New York jobbcrs are
getting In their stocks; and several large deal.
err from Cincinnati, Louisville and other points
In the West have been here during the past
week looking through the market and placing
orders for such goods as are most immediately
wanted FOR their local trade.
Year: 1865

New YORK, Sept. l4.-An accident Oc
Cured on the Camden & Amboy Rail-
road at Princeton, at two o'clock this
morning, between the train known as the
Adams Express Washington Fast Freight
coming from Was hingtOn, and the train
coming from Kensington. AT midnight
the former runs on slow time. and al
though on the new double track had to
run off on q tul nout at Princeton to al
low the Express to pass. When nearing
the latter the Conductor of the former
sent man back with red light, but
owing to dense fog, which was prevail
ing, the engineer Of the Express train
was unable to see the light in season to
prevent the two trains coming together.
The Adams Express train not having
previously succeeded in getting on the
turnout, the conCussion forced the rear
platform of the mail car of the Express
train into the front platform of the next
car, which contained 20 passengers,
breaking it up very badly, and yet, Won
derful to relate, only one person was
killed, a soldier named Fred'k. Clinch. of
the l5Sth New York volunteers. No body
else was injured even to the slightest ex-
tent. The engine of the Express train
was slightly injured and one car of the
Adams train was also somewhat dam
aSed.
Year: 1865

Is richly assorted. Being exclUsiyely In :hc
Clothing Business we can furnish tho abov. 10
better advantage TO dealers and on better terms
than can be had elsewhere.


We have the most complete stock and largest
assortment Of goods Of any house In our line IN
the city.


We are selling goods lower. than any other
house in the city, as We bought our goods when
gold was at the lowest.


We have "a large stock of
Year: 1865

WE HAVE JUST RECEIVE
w AND ARE RECEIVING one Of the lines
cheapest and best selected stocks of
Spring and Summer Goods
Ever brought to this market at GOLD PRICES


selected expressly for
Year: 1865

Dr.. GrEy had lJr some time missed the hay from
his barn, and was satisfied that II was stolen With
a view 10 detect tle thief he took a dark lantern
and stationed himself near the place where he sup
posed he must pass. In due time, q person whom
he knew passed along into his barn and quickly
came out with as large a load Of hay as he could
carry Oh his back


The doctor, without saying word, followed the
thleI ana took the candle out Of his dark lantern
and stuck II into the hay upon his bsckaud then re-
treated, In q moment the hay was in light blaze
and the fellow, throwing II from him in bitter CON
sternation, ran away from his perishing BOOTY The
doctor sept the affair secret even from his own
family, and withis day OF two the thief caulo 10
him in great agitation, and told him that he wanted
10 confess 20 him grieyous sin; that he had been
tempted 10 steal some Of lis hay and, as he was
carrying it away the Almighty was Sc angry with
him that he had sent frs from heaven and set ii to
blazing upon his back. The doctor agreed 10 for
give him condition Of his never repeating the Of
fence.
Year: 1865

There is project occasionally alluded to
by public speakers and in newspapers which
contemplates the removal Of the four millions
of negroes in this country to Texas, Mexico
or Florida, and constituting separate State
Government for them. Now, that goes on
the presumption that the negroes are the par
ties in fault, that if the negroes were out of
the way the eleven States lately in armed re-
bellion, would at once subside and become
loyal members of the Union, and that the
traitor leaders would repent of their treason
and cease to oppose the Government.


We fail to see the matter in that light We
think the rebels are the guilty parties, that
they are the persons still hostile to the
Government, and that if they were out of the
way, or if their rcbelious spirit were subdued,
matters would soon work smoothly and har-
moniously. And if anybody is TO be punished
by baniShment, we think it should be the
traitor leaders of the rebellion, and not the
innocent loyal colored people. Besides, while
this is the course of justice, it is also the
course of policy and of economy for the
Government. The removal of the negroes
from the rebel States of the South would have
but very uncertain tendency, as we think, to
reconcile the rebel leaders to the Union and
the policy of the Government. And the re-
moyal of four millions of people against their
consent, by the power and at the expense of
the Government, if not utterly impracticable,





this Government for thousand years to
come, and would involve such barbarities,
bloodshed, suffering and death, as would rem
der the scene utterly unparalleled in its enor-
nifty in the history of the world, and would
of itself constitute crime which would cry to
Heaven for vengeance in all time to come


But, instead of disturbing the negroes, let
the Government punish about two hundred
thousand rebel leaders by banishment, some
to foreign countries, and some to the loyal
States of the North, and the spirit of treason
viii be broken, justice viii be tempered with
mercy the measure would admit of prompt
execution and the expense to the Govern
ment would be but trihing.


Such policy would meet the appreciation
of large majority of the loyal people of the
country, the cheerful acquiescence of the
people of Europe, and the favor and blessing
of Heaven, while policy which contemplates
the punishment of the loyal blacks for the
crimes of the rebel whites, for that is the real
gist of it, would incur the frowns of God, aud
good men everywhere.


On all occasions we find the Copperheads
abusing the loyal negroes and urging eoncilia-
ton and immunity to traitors. They hate the
loyal and love the dsloyal element Of the
South, and would punish the innocent and
honor the guilty.
Year: 1865

The CAT IN THE MEAL HEAP-0ur read
ers generally, we doubt not, retain a vivid
recollection of that instructive fable in regard
to the cat that sought to deceive her prey by
enveloping herself in the meal tub, and then
lying down bearing the appearance of little
heap Of meal, and dead as 'possum, in a
place where the rats were accustomed to con-
gregate. But the rats on the look out for
feline tricks, smelt cat under the meal and
gave ii wide berth in their gyrations.


1t seems that the Copperhead leaders don't
give our soldiers the credit of possessing as
much sense or as sure an instinct as the rats
in the fable. They have q few soldiers in
their party and the leaders get behind them,
and manipulate them in their gyrations and
seem to think that the Union soldiers haven t
sense to see that it is the same old Copper
head. '4fire in the rear flour years war fail
ure'' party, simply because they have taken
their sign in and discarded their '.butternut
badges and 'copperhead breastpins" for the
present.


But the leaders are the same old set. Ed.
JOHNSON, DoERR, HEDGES, SMITH Co., run
the machine at Charleston the other day.
And the same crew of Copperhead striker
who mourned over our victories and rejoiced
|. at our defeats, manipulate and "liquor" the
little squad of soldiers who train with Ed
wAsDs and BALLINGER. They have the same
organ now, that they have had during the
war when the '.aid and comfort it furnished
Tho &C., aroused the ire Of the Union sol
dieFs = pitch of such unrestrained patriotic
indigestion that they threw the press into the
Year: 1865

THE hatred of sudden anger is simply a
passing impulse, harmless it may be to all
parties; but the hatred of prejudice becomes
chronic malevolence, subject neither to reason
nor religion
Year: 1865




On the morning Of class day the sopho
more class buried one oe their humber
who: literally died from want of the ne.
cessities Of life, and that, too, right here
at Harvard College, Only a year ago,
fresh from farm seventeen miles from
Buffalo, N. Y, "a raw, green lad of TWEEN.
ty two applied for admission TO the soph.
omore class. His awkward manner and
uncouth bearing won for him the name
OF "Greeny." Only last week was he
missed from recitation, and way up in a
little len by twenty attic room of rick.
ETY. old boarding house, somebody said he
was dying of typhoid fever. Ex. .Presi,
dent Peabody, the good Samaritan Of
Harvard, heard Of his distress, and re.
pairing to his room found the poor boy
really in the arms Of death. For a wear
his only food had been bread and water.
and sometimes little milk, and often
one meal day sufioed. His room was
small and poorly ventilated, and by the
feeble lighs Of an old oil lamp had the
poor fellow worked eighteen out of the
twenty-four hours each day. These facts
quickly coming out, everything that
could be done was done. His last hours
were made as comfortable as sympathiz.
ing and conscience tricken neighborhood
could make them. His broken hearted
mother came to take her sons body home,
and she must have been overjoyed to
learn what would have only little before
given her son so much happiness to have
known, that he was the first scholar is his
class, and to receive the first scholarship
which yields cozy little income of three
hundred dollars per year. But it was
too late his pride would never ALLOW him
to complain; his ambition continually
spurred him on. We recollect him pass.
ing every day; he never looked up we
all can recall his hurried walk his sad
countenance, his pale lamp always ieebly
tTinkling at midnight, his running round
the corner with a loaf Of bread under his
arm, his going out in the severe storms
without umbrella or overcoat. But it is
all over now. .sy 90 .rs4Il
Year: 1865

We rarely pick up an exchange, these
days, that we do not see somo account of
a roc,unter between soldiers and negroes.
There seems to be an enmity between
the two classes that has been embittered
by the attempt Of the Abolition party
to elevate the negro, and degrade tho
soldier to an equal footing, The "boys
in blue" cannot so this nmalgamation
doctrine. They have been in the South
where they have seen the negro in al the
glory of bis dirt, lazinoss and ignorance, !.
and they have not formed the most favor
able opinion ofthim. The boys will
hardly vote to degrade themselves to the
level Of an Ignorant negro, as the Aboli-
tionists wish them to .- Hancock Courier.
Year: 1865

Gals they are pufed up with ideas Of
their importance, and consider themselves
qualified to assume all the duties Of the
governing class. Are the people of this
country. prepared for that result |? Is
Senator sumner willing to admit the re-
Gently cmancipated slave and treat, hin.


as his associate and equal in the United
States Senate 2.s3 5jI9g 500 4e7ams7


% These are questions which overy man


must answer by his advocacy or opposi-
tion to the Jacobln policy Of universal


Negro Suffrage and equality rof races


They are the natural and logical results
of the extreme radical policy. 1t will
not do for them to claim that the mortal.
ity of the negroes Of the South since the
commencement Of the rebellion has swept
away this preponderance of blacks from
the localities referred to by the statistics.
We admit that the mortality has been
much greater than the public imagine,
and that at least one million have been
swept away in the last four years; but
have there not been at least one million
of the Southern whites killed in battle
or died of disease incident to the war p
The great mortality of the negroes has
not been confined to adult males, but has
taken with it in its sweeping results male
and female, old and young while the
loss Of the whites in battle have been
from the male population, and principal
y the voters, leaving a larger proportion
OF non-voters among the whites than the
blacks, under the Negro Suffrage policy.
When we add to this natural disparity of
males the exclusion from the ballo.-box
OF large class Of whites by the provis-
ions of the amnesty proclamation, is it
not reasonable. to suppose that the pre-
ponderance Of blacks whe would become
voters, should the Iacobin policy be put
into practice, would be in still greater
proportion than is revealed by the re-
turns of the last census, and in fact ena.
ole tue negroes to secure majority in
the Legislatures of several more States ?
Is it not better to stop and consider these
startling facts, take our bearings and see
where we are drifting, before we plunge
the ship Of State into any such uncertain
waters? Would it not be better to rally
to the support of the sagacious reorgani-
zation policy of the President, and CO.
ment what we have obtained through a
long and expensive war, before we at
tempt to inaugurate . theory SO pregnant
with mischief and revolutionary results
as the Chase. .Jacobin universal Negro
Suffrage and equality programme uu-
questionably is! Look before you leap
is certainly 2 safe maxim applied to this
subject.
Year: 1865

THIS morning we publish the trans,
script Of another letter that soldiers have
sent to General Cox in relation to Negro
Suffrage, General Sherman's 8 treaty With
General johnson and President Johnson 4
Reorganization policy. The letter is da.
ted July Is, and up to the time it was
mailed us for publication, General Cox
had not thought the letter worthy an an.
swer.. . 4-.-.-...... =.


Why can not General Cox answer the
soldiers who have respectfully addressed
him ! It is natural to suppose that the
soldiers feel disposed to vote for man
who has served in the army. Indeed
the fact that General Cox had been in the
army helped secure his nomination but
the soldiers generally entertain an aver
sion to Negro Suffrage and Negro Equal.
ity; Whether they rightfully or wrong.
fully entertain this feeling is not The
question. IfGsneral Cox disagrees with
them, would it not be we'll for him TO
tell them so, and give them his reasons
Tor that disagreement. Thereby he
might win them to his way of thinking |;
rif he concurs with them, the assurance
from him of that fact would cause shem
to go forth zcalously advocating his cleo
ton. Let US assure General Cox letter
to the soldiers stating that he is Grm and
unalterable in the belief that suffrage
should not be conferred upon the Ne.
gsoes, and that he concurs heartily with
President johnson in his Reorganization
policy, vii! more effectually promote his
election than the speeches that Schenck
can make, who has been advertised
through I The State Journql as having
left Washington to stump the State in
has behalf Statesman.
Year: 1865

WHIoH Is RIGHT p-- The 30 called


Union party Of New Jersey few days
ago resolved that the war Is not failure,
and yet the Cincinnati Gazette Is busying
itself,in tho effort TO- establish the fact
that so far the war is failure. Which
is right /? .alm l..is. a W. y
Year: 1865

NOT A FE"
OF the worst disorders that act mankind arise from the
corruption that accumulates In the Blood OF all the dis
coveres that have been made to purge out none can
equal In effect HELMBOLD.S COMPO UND EXTRACT
OF FaARSAPARZLLA. It cleanses and renovates the
Blood instls the vgOf OF health into the system. and
purges the humors which make disease. It stimulates
the healthy functions Of the body and expeS the disorders
that grow and rankle in the Blood Such remedy that
could be relied has long been sought for and now for
the first time the public have which they can de-
pend Our space here does not admit Of certificates 10
show Its effects but the trial of snge bottle will show to
the sick that It has virtues surprising anything they have
ever taken.


Two tablespoonsful of Extract Of Sarsapaa added
10 pint of water, is equal to the Lisbon Diet Drink and
one bottle Is equal to gallon Of the Syrup Of saapaA
or the decoction as usually made.


The above Extracts prepared on purely scientific
principles-in VIcuoand embody the full strength Of
the Ingredients entering into their composition Already
and conclusive test will be comparison Of their proper
ties with those set forth in the o. s. Dbpensatory.
Year: 1865

CosT OF LIvING.-From being one of the
cheapest countries in the world tn live in,
taking the rate Of wages into consideration,
the United States has become one of the
dearest. Five years ago all articles of prime
necessity were within the reach of almost
every family in the land; whilsttaxes of srery
kind we're so light that the brrthen OF tlcrn
vas scarcely felt. What change has taken
place since then Row every i2nag ginable thing
is taxed to its utmost capacity. We are tax
ed on the food we consume, the fuel that
cooks it, the liquids we d-ink, the clothes we
wear, the house we live 10, the income that
we receive. We are taxed on the raw mate
rial, and taxed over and over again on its
manufacture and sale. The business we do.
the receptive give, the covenant we enter
into, the car we ride in, the watch we carry,
the chair We sit in, the window We look
through, the nail that we Dive, the match
that we light, even the very stones of the
street and the bricks of the sidewalk are
Indirectly taxed. Everything, in short, is
taxed, except the air we breathe.