smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868




From this it appears that the National
bank circulation in the six New England
States is at the rate of S29 so for each man,
woman and child; 7F s-l.-t


In the six Northwestern States, 81 So;


In the six Southern States, Al cents.


So the effect of the National bank system
is to give to the six New England States
over six times as much money per head as
it gives to the six Northwestern States,
and over seventy-two times as much as it
gives to the six great Southern States. Or,
if YOU take the number of voters as the
basis of comparison, you will find that it
gives to each New England voter about
$3.50, to each Northwestern voter about
500, and to each Southern voter less than
$3.50. When you had your own bank sys-
TEN you regulated the amount of your
bank circulation yourselves, according to
your own necessities; but now, if you need
more money than you have, you must bor-
row of New England, and all the interest
you pay leaves the State, and is another
drain in addition to those have before
mentioned.


Now, 1 put it to any man, "Should this
inequality exist" You can not get even
with New England by starting new Ma
tional banks, for the acts of Congress limit
the aggregate amount of their circulation,
and that limit has been already reached
But the way to redress this wrong is plain.
SOmpel GlG Da0kS CO WlIlluFdW GhOii SllCu-
ton. and supply its place with greenbacks.
There will then be the same amount of
money in the country as now. but you will
havea chance to get your fair share of it.
AS matters now stand you have no such
chance. And why should not this be done !?
The bank notes are no better than green
backs, for they are redeemed in green
backs. If you present one of them to the
bank for redemption. the bank pays you,
not gold or silver, but greenbaeks, and the
law compels you to take them. Then why
not have the greenbacks at once, instead Of
monstrous monopoly that the Eastern
States, and especially New England, enjoy
under the National bank system. No man
can give a good reson why this shoald not,
be done. And were the bonds deposited
by the banks to secure their circulation
Year: 1868

The results of the mining enterprises IN the Lake
Superior region for 1861, are stated as follows by Ihe
Detroit Post:


Notwithstanding the depression which has borne 20
heavily upon the copper interest throughout the entire
year il will he that very hopeful features are
presented especially the handsome addition TO the cap
ta invested There IS believe that this great
interest has passed its most trying ordeal Ii must be
borne in mind that while the market price OF copper has
6oubtess touched m lowest point the cost OF producing
has touched highest There s therefore, much 10
hope for and when clouds OF depression and gloom
chased away the sunburst Of prosperity those who
have freely invested their in developing the re-
sources Of the country VIII only reap the rich harvest that
their indOmtable perseverance, and uDfaDg courage 80
Year: 1868

The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided
mon the rights OF married woman in the conveyance Of
real estate The question at issue was whether the law
according to tho act of 1861 does does not give mar
red woman the power to convey her realty, acquired
since the passage of the law without the Of her
husband, manifested by ms Joining In the deed. The
Court held that the act OF 1861 does authorize mar
red woman to convey her real estate during her lifetime
and that OF her husband without bis consent Is man
Tested by his joining in the deed Of conveyancs.
Justice Lawrence delivered the opinion OF tho
Court which stripped OF its legal yerbiage, was that
the object OF the Legislature In passing the act
OF 1881 was not TO loosen the bonds OF matrnony or ce
ate an element OF strife between husband aud
wife, but to protect the latter against the msfortuncs
improvdence or possible vice OF the former by enabling
her 10 Withhold property from being levied on and
sold for the payment OF his debts or squandtred by him
against her wishes Before the passage OF the law OF
1851 the husband became the owner by virtue OF the mar
rage OF the personal property hem Dy lhe WE AZ ss
date OF the marriage which came 70 her atter tna
tme The real estate Of the wife was also IN
OF the husband to such extent enabled his creditors 70
seze and n necessary seit for the husbands personal
liabilities The act OF 1901 designed to cure thess
eYlls
Year: 1868

impracticabe and offensive. and demands the fair
trial OF system OF judciOus regulation. Is ndisputabe
At tho te ut declares that: The extreme license
party elaed by temporary triumph, has grasped more
than IL hold and has fOOsly rsked the ultimate
Strengthening OF the prOhbitionsts by undertaking to
enact measure too extreme to Do long sustained py
The naturally impatient desire for change from our
present system Las permitted itself TO DO led further
than it wished forgetting that in the long run t would
have been better not to egisate az all tns year.
rather than not To legsate well. Aud the pTohiDltoy
party has carefully used It's strength so as to promote the
views of its extreme opponents trusting for Its own part
10 the coming reVulsiOn of sentiment"
Year: 1868

The THEATRE-LADY DoN.-This cele-
brated actress made her first appearance
here last evening in "Kenilworth," and
was well received by q large and fashiona-
BILE audience. Her excellent power of
acting, and the fine support she received
from the Washington company, combined
to make the performance superior one.
We regret we have not space to enume-
rate the merits of Lady Don, and the
different actors supporting her. Suffice it
to say that the entertainments now being
given at the Theatre are above any given
for many long day in Richmond, and our
people should support them.
Year: 1868

When the glorious old Continental paper,


which had served noble purpose, got to
one Thousand for one, the table was wound
up. 1t was of no practical utility to pro-
isecute it further. This is the point to
which our hapless Confederate money was
reduced, and no table descends lower.


The difference between the two was that
the men who issued the "Continental !"
itriumphed, and those who put forth the
!" Confederate " failed. So that those who
lost the Confederate paper may be con-
soled by the reflection that even had the
cause triumphed they might still have lost
the money.


There is another description of paper
issued to maintain a great war in such
abundance as to accumulate an unprece-
dented national war debt.
Year: 1868

RoBBED.--A lady went into astore down
town on Saturday, and made few pur-
chases, and after paying for them and get
ting off her seat to, leave, she discovered
that her pocket-book had been stolen.
Search was instantly made for it, but it
was gone. It did not contain very large
amount OF money, but it was ali that It's
owner had, and its loss is consequ uentiy
heavy upon her. Several negroes mad
passed in and out of the store, and 1t Is
supposed that some one Of them fell heir
to 1t,
Year: 1868

THE HABEAs CORPUS CASE OF CHURCH
WE'LL COMBS. case was brought be-
fore Judge Underwood Sitting as Circuit
Judge) on an appeal from the District
Court, yesterday: By agreement between
the counsel for the petitioner and the Dis
trict Attorney, the hearing was postponed
until Wednesday next.
Year: 1868

NEGRO INsoLENcE.-A day or two ago a
young lady, daughter of distinguished
clergyman Of Richmond, was walking
down the street, in company with friend
Of the same sex, and CHANGED, without
reference to her in passing an overdressed
negro wench, to make remark about some
article of apparel worn by the latter. The
woman turned Immediately and slapped
the lady in the face several times with
such force as to knock her over, and then
made off without being arrested.
Year: 1868

|, RUNAwAY.-A horse attached to a
buggy belonging to Mr.. Barrister took
fright yesterday and dashed down Mar
shall street, but was, fortunately, checked
by negro man before any serious damage
was done.
Year: 1868

The owners of the Shockoe Warehouse
did not apply for charter under the last
act of the Legislature concerning tobacco
warehouses. This order places it upon a
footing with the warehouses of the city
regularly chartered by the Hastings Court
of Magistrates.
Year: 1868

The Rebel Gems. Forrest, Cheatham, Pillow,
and ten others, who petiticned the Tennessee
Legislature not to organize State militia to
suppress the outrages of the Ku-Klux Klan,
say:


the State apprehended from that class OF the commu
nifty with which we are considered identified, induce
ment and your honorable body not to organize
such military force we pledge ourselves to maintain the
order and peace the State, with Whatever Of influence
we possess"


This implies that if the militia shall be or
ganized these gentlemen will not use their in
fluence to maintain the peace and order of the
State. We would rather trust to a loyal militia,
and let them use their influence as they please
and as they dare.
Year: 1868

SCOIJA.


The people of Nova Scotia are bravely hold
ing out in their opposition to union with the
Dominion of Canada, which England is en-
deavoring to force upon them. They are al
most unanimous in regarding the best interests
of their province to be seriously endangered
by a further connection with the Dominions
They have never given their assent to the
union. The Legislature, it is true, which was
in session when the Constitution of the Do
minOn was presented to the several province
for adoption, was prevailed upon to accept the
Constitution, and to vote in favor of joining the
new Confederation but the people generally
insisted that. not having been chosen with re-
gard to this important constitutional question,
the Legislature had no right to change the
government of the province. The first time
when the subject was presented to vote of
the people, at the election of a new Legisla-
ture, an overwhelming majority declared
against it, the Unionist candidates being de-
feated in almost every district. They asked
for permission to withdraw from the
Confederation, to which they were unani-
mousy opposed; but the permission was
refused by the Parliament of the Confederation.
They then resolved to send their ablest men as
a deputatiOn to England to ask the English
Parliament for relief. In the House of Com
mons they found an eloquent champion in John
Bright, who moved that their petition be re-
ferred to a committee, but the motion was
opposed by the Government, and failed. A
similar motion in the House of Lords had the
same fate. The Government was not content
with opposing the motion of Mr. Bright, but
it denied the existence of general dissatisfac-
ton Of the Nova ScOtans with the new Con-
federation. The delegates, before returning to
Nova Scotia, issued strong protest against the
action of the English Parliament, declined any
responsibility for the consequences which this
vote of the Parliament would have, and pointed
threateningly to the nearness of the United
States, and to the great temptations which the
people of Nova Scotia would feel to ask for
annexation to the powerful neighboring Re-
public.


The Nova ScOtians are now showing that
they indorse the protest of their delegates.
They decline listening to any proposition of
compromise which may be proposed by depu-
tation from the Confederate Government, which
is at present at Halifax. They insist on repeal
of the union. The papers talk strongly, aud
many of them freely discuss and advise an
annexation to the United States. The import
ance of this movement is evident. Independ-
ence Of England and annexation to the United
States have many friends in all the British
provinces, and if one province deliberately and
openly leads off in this direction its example
cannot fail to WELD powerful influence.
Year: 1868

Two theories agitate the Democracy relative
to the important question of Gen. Grants
brains. The Nelc- York World declares that
Gen. Grant has no brains, will have no policy,
and will be merely nonentity in office. Gen.


Blair, however, says that Grant is the great
est man of this age that he has more brains
than Cromwell and Bonaparte together that
d." he is ambitious, and, if elected President, he
will make himself an absolute monarch" in
spite of the somewhat general preference the
American people are supposed to entertain for
republic. Both theories must be amusing to
Gen, Grant, especially when taken together


The Democratic party should hold q new Con-
vention to decide which they should warn the
people against-the stupidity of the strategst
who conquered tho Rebellion, or the ambition
Year: 1868

eide. Our own judgment is that he Is Com
missioner. We do not like to see contest
where so many hundreds of millions OF reve-
nue. are at stake. While Mr. Rollins acts
wisely to remain in power and prevent the
office from being abused, he should not hesi-
tate to retire if a good man can be nominated
who will preserve his integrity and at the same
time have the confidence of the President.
We are afraid this is too much to expect, but
we would be willing to risk it.
Year: 1868

1t is customary, in speaking of the Comedy of
the Restoration, to take it for granted that it
was all equally bad, and that all the plays of
that period were equally coarse and indecate.
Thus London critic having good reason to
censure the performances of Mile. Schneider,
says that nothing so shameless has been seen in
England since the days of Congreve and Aphra
BelIn. which strikes us as rather an odd col
location of names Aphra is indecent enough,
and so, indeed. is Congreve, but the indecency
of the man is intellectually ,swhile that of the
woman is purely, or rather impurely, physical.
1t is not at all likely that an audience which
could relish the Schneider would care much


for the exquisite and brilliant dialogue of
"LOve for Love- or be capable of appreciating
the nice accuracy of Congreves diction. the habit
ual refinement of scenes which, in other hands,
would be coarse, or the certainty with which the
arrows of his wit reach the eye Of the target.
We want this understood. We do not want
the dirty dramatists of 1868 to suppose that
they are at all like Congreve,, or that their fe-
verish obscenities in the least resemble the icy
COrruscati0ns OF his wonderful wit. The dif-
Year: 1868

Mayor Hoffman is meeting with formidable
competitor for the gubernatOrial nomination in
the Hon. Henry C. Murphy of Kings. Fernando
Wood has taken the trouble to resign from
Mozart Hail. knowing that he can rule that
Just as well from the direction of Tammany,
and has entered Tammany to prevent Hot-
mans nomination. AS a question of political
principle and expediency, the contest between
Hoffman and Murphy is an issue between a
heavy black mustache on the one side, and a
taste for collecting rare works on America on
She otbpr
Year: 1868

of the soldier who enlisted as private, neys,
asked for promotion, never sought Office, and
when in office never exercised doubtful
power, and whose politics is summed up !,
the doctrine that this is country in which
the will of the people should guide the Jude.
ment of the President.
Year: 1868

The Democracy of Missouri resolved, ycster-
day, that as legal proposition every citizen
"of lawful age has the right of suffrage" and
at the same time declared themselves unalter-
ably opposed to the exercise of this right by
colored citizens. Have they not heard of the
adoption of the XIVth Amendment, making
colored Americans citizensY
Year: 1868

New POSTAGE STAMPS. - The new postage
stamps now being furnished Government by the
National Bank Note Company, are described as
follows The two cent stamp represents a post
boy on q horse running at full speed illustrating o
the fact that this stamp is mostly used for dis
patch letters. On the three cent stamp there is
finely engraved locomotive. This is sur
rounded by lines of lightning. indicating the
speed with which letters are carried on which
this stamp is used. The FIVE cent stamp has an
excellent portrait of Washington. The ten
cent stamp bears mcroscopical copy of the
painting of the signing of the Declaration of
independence; the twelve cent stamp, used for
foreign postage, picture of a steamer at sea
and the thirty cent stamp copy of painting of
the surrender of Burgogue.
Year: 1868

A BLACK MAN SPEAKS. When the coored
members of the Georgia Legislature were ousted
from their seats, one of them made farewell
speech, from which the following is an extract :
" The gentleman had good deal to say about
social equality-mixing up of the races, ANAL
gamation, | believe he called it. Now, sir, We
colored men don't want to mix up with the white
men; we all like our own color best, and if
these men that talk so much about the inferior
ity of the race, and of mixing up with the mig
ger will let our colored women alone, we won t
have so many rng-streaked and speckled people
among US. We want the white men to mind
their own business, and not come sneakine
around our women at night, or any other time,
for unlawful purposes. Now, Mr.. Speaker, we
law abiding people, and if I'm not here ac-
cording to law want to know it right away, so
as to go home and go to work. thank the
House for hearing me- haven't anything more
to saw
Year: 1868

TRIAL TRIP OF THE FIRST LoCoMoTIvE.-Major
Horato Allen, the engineer of the New York and
Erie railroad, gives the following account of the
first trip made by locomotive on this continent


' When was it? And who awakened its ener-
ges and directed its movement? 1t was in the
year 1928. on the banks of the Lackawaxen Penn
sylvania, at the commencement of the railroad
connecting the canal of the Delaware and Hud-
son Canal company with their coal mines-aEd
he who addresses you was the only person on
that locomotive. The circumstances which led
to my being alone on the road were these: The
road had been built in the summer the structure
was of hemlock timber, and rails of large de-
mensiOns notched in caps placed far apart. The
timber had cracked and warped from exposure
to the SUM- After about 300 feet of straight line
the road crossed Lackawaxen creek on trestlr-
work about 80 feet high, with curve of 355 to
400 feet radius. The impression very gen.
eral that the iron monster would either brake
down the road, or it would leave the track at the
curve and plunge into the creek. My reply to
such apprehensions that it was too late to
consider the probability of such occurrences {;
there was no other course than to have trial
made of the strange animal, which had been
brought here at great expense but that it was
not necessary that more than one should be in
volved in its fate that would take the first ride
alone, and the time would come when should
look to the incident with great interest. AS |
placed my hand on the throttle valve handle, |
was undecided whether | would move slowly or
with fair degree of speed but believing that
the road would prove safe, preferring if We go
down, to go handsomely, and without any evil
dence of timidity. started with considerable
velocity, passed the curve over the creek safely,
and soon out of hearing of the vast assemblage.
At the end of two or three miles reversed the
valve and returned without accident, having
thus made the first railroad trip by locomotive
ON the western hemiSnhere. "
Year: 1868

Tue BRAIN IN SLEEP.-It was an old error


the physoog'ib tb brs brs there m sas moss


r,ucb during sleep as in wakefulness but this.
was was disproved by Blumenbach, and still more
convincingly by Donders, who made cruel
though striking experiment on the subject. He
cut away part of the skull of an animal and ce-
mented in its place piece of glass; through
which he could observe the brain in its different
states. In the waking state The brain is larger
than it is during sleep, while in the latter con-
dtion it becomes pale and bloodless. If the
animal be disturbed by dreams, flush suffnses
part of the brain: and after complete wakeful-
oess the cerebral substance becomes turbid with
blood, the surface being bright red, while
vessels, invisible during sleep, are filled with
blood coursing rapidly through them. The OBJ
servations made show that there rs less seterial
blood eoursing through the brain during sleep,
and that consequently the conditions of waste
are absent, while there is still sufficient left to
repair the matter which has been wasted.


kOssrrH and his two sons a Turin
Year: 1868

Who WILL HAVE INFLUENCE WITH GENERAL
GRANT There is great deal of speculation on
this subject just now. Some people think that
Mr.. E. b. Washburne will control him some
say that he is in frequent and confidential cor
respondence with Mr.. A. T. Stewart, the dry
goods man some say that General Rawlns is
all powerful with him and others that General
Badeau welds wonderful influence. We have
been frequently asked what we think about the
matter and to save the trouble of further inquiry
we may well state our views. On one occa-
sion, when General Grant was riding with US
behind Peerless" he quidtly remarked "
should like to take hold of the rens.' Now, we
rather think General Grant will hold the rens
himself the next four years. He has been elected
President, and he will be President 1t is true
that he has said that he should only carry out
the will of the people, as declared by the laws
of Congress but then he will carry it out. We
shall have an administration. He will do his
duty, and men under him will have to do their
duty. Therefore, we conclude that the most in
fuential man with the administration, for the
next four years, will be Ulysses S. Grant.-Neu
York Ledger.
Year: 1868

GoNE.-No little surprise was manifested
by the neighbors of a certain dry goods
house down town on yesterday morning to
find that the shelves which on the day be-
fore were full of the stock usually kept in
such houses were then entirely empty, and
the only thing remaining was an old hat
box. The occupant had packed up his
goods g between two suns, and in the /" wee
sma' hours''l had taken his departure to
!" parts unknown We made diligent in
quiry during the day, but could find neither
the cause nor the course Of his fight. w
Year: 1868

npon hesitancy in carrying them out.


They are first, on next Friday, his coun-
sci will appear in Court, ready to proceed


with trial. and will ask for an extension
OF time. They will then object to every
Republican Senator who has expressed
an opinion as to Mr. Johnson's guilt or
innocence of the articles of impeach-
ment, being allowed to act as juror in
the case. This point they of course do
not expect to carry. Second, The ques-
ton as TO whether the Senators from 27
States constitute the Senate of the Unit
ed States, win be raised They will take
the same view of this matter that the
President has in all public speeches.


and State papers maintained, that until
the ten Southern States have their Rep
resentatives in the House ard Senate Of
the United States that the latter body is
not competent to take up the trial, try
and pass judgement in so vital and I'M
portant a question as lmpeachlng the
highest officer known to the Govern
ment. Failing on both these questions:
the President will then firmly refnse to
proceed with his tial, asserting that IN
such a Court justice cannot be done him,
and then, In his majesty, he will rise and
send his resignation and appeal directly
to the people to sustain him, and to pass
judgement at the ballot box against the
Senate of the United States. This, is
short, is what Democrats who are lntl-
mate with the President assert to-day is
the course he will pursue The story
meets with some credence among Repub-
licans, and it is regarded by them as a
shrewd attempt on the part of the Presi-
dent to force himself on the Democratic
party as their next candidate. ''