smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

PRovERBIAL WIsDoN-A bank note re-
porter would not naturally be looked to for
words of proverbial wisdom, but Thompson s
Reporter is responsible for the following, which
will do well to ponder on during hot day:


Don't have too much commisseraton for The
accomplished. amiable and charming wife of a
defaulter, until you know that she has not, by
extravaganza and pride. induced him to use
money not his own, or to speculate with view
to crafty her wishes.


Don't think you are making bargain when
you cheat customer, for 10 the long run all
such operations will turn out puadrupe losses.


Don't lend money at too great a shave, for
the borrower must succeed or he'll never be
able to pay.


Don't neglect your regular business. thinking
to do better at some outside enterprise the
chances are ten to one you will not succeed


Dent go to law in hurry exhaust the
legal remedies.


Don't be too smart it is the instinct OF man
to give the extreme smart ones oil both gen
ders wide berth.


Don't be as the dog in the maDger, for some
bull may give you toss.


Don't judge until you have heard both sides
of the case.


Don't get on stills in prosperity nor on. your
knees in adversely for what goes up must
come down, but what goes down don't always
come up.


Don't condemn others for their inherited
peculiarties for could you but see yourself
as you see others, your condemnation might
come home.
Year: 1865

The original Ordinance of Secession of the
State of Virginia, has been secured by res
pectable German, resident of this city. The
document is signed by some eighty odd ofthe
most prominent rebels of that State The or
dinance is written in plain, neat hand,on parGh-
ment paper, and was intended to have been
slowed away among the archives of the State
Soon after its passage, however, by the ConVen-
ton assembled for that purpose, it was handed
over to German printer, then a resident of
Richmond, to be Autographed. aud copies struck
off for distribution. From some cause or other
the nain one being that the printer had not
the material with which to do the work-the
document remained in his hands until Lieut.
enant- General Grant captured the rebel strong
hold The printer, who claims to have been a
Union man. came North, and gave the impOr-
tant paper to German friend in this city, who
al one time was a resident of Richmond, but had
left shortly after the breaking out ofthe wall
The latter only receiVsd the document few
day SINCE and took great pleasure in showiD G
it around The authorities, hearing of such an
important paper being in circulation, and being
satisfied as to its genuineDess, seized it, and
forw arled it to Washington, The owner Of the
paper. when told that it was for the use OF the
government parted with it quite freely Phil.
Inquirer.
Year: 1865

1t is serious evil that mapy young man has
fallen into, to be above his business. A person
learns trade, and he must 90 TO shop keeping,
or street loafiDg, or turn politician. Fool II
he cannot make living at his trade, we are sure
that he cannot make it any other way. And
the young men brought up to keeping
must buy farms or houses, or some other foolish
things they know nothing about, and what is
the result? Head over heels in debt and certain
failure Multitudes have been ruined by being
above their business, and branching out into
what they know nothing about.


There is no trouble about young men who do
not feel their Importance, and who are willing
to work at their trades or professions till they get
little before hand. With a small capital to
fall back upon, they can feel like venturing into
other business-and by this time will have form
ed habits that be likely to keep them straight.
Those who succeed best in life sre men who stick
to business make money before they buy farms
and houses. and commence sp5eulating Look
at our successful men and you will see where
lies the secret of success


You will find that they never were above
their business, and never paid for the doing of a
Job which they could Just as well do themselves.
of this we are sure; if all men will be prompt
and punctual, stick to their business and not be
too proud, they will eventually succeed and be-
come independent.-D. O. CoLeS,eortky
Year: 1865

His domestic life was like parlor of lifetime,
lit by the equal CRATE of his genial and uniform
kindness Young ThaddV played with him on
the carpet; Robert came home from the war and
talked 10 his father as school mate. He was
to Mrs Lincoln as chivalrous ON the last day of
his life as when he cOurted her. ! have some
where seen picture of Henry " of France, RI
ding his babies on his back; that was the Pres
ident.


So dwelt the citizen who Is gone-a model IN
character, if not in ceremoBy-for good men to
come who will take his place in the same White
House and find their generation comparing them
to the man thought worthy of assassination |
Am clad to sit here in his chair. where he has
bent so often, in the atmosphere Of the house.
hold he purified, in the sight of the green grass
and the blue river he hsllowed by gazing upon,
in the very center of the nation he preserved fOr
the people, and close the list of bloody deeds,
of desperate fights Of swift expiations, of re-
nowned obsequies, which have written. by in
diting at his table the goodness Of his life and
the eternity of his memory.
Year: 1865

READING, Pa, April I9, 1864.


DR. WIsHART-DeGr Sir: One year ago the
Examining Surgeon of this district told me
had Consumption of the Lungs, and that could
not be cured; and Judging from all my symptoms
at that time, | myself supposed this to be true.
was for more than one year troubled with
hacking cough, which gradually grew SO bad
that could hot have a severe fit of coughing
without splitting up blood in large quantities.


For months could not work at anything,
and was obliged to keep my bed most of the
t;me While in this condition ! was in Mr.
RoEbotham's store, in this city and he seeing
how low was, recommended me to try your
Pine Tree Tar Cordial. He said he had sold
great deal of it. and that, as it had cured so many
others, he believed il would do some good /
bought bottle and commenced using it. In a
yery short time l saw that was getting better
very fast and after taking several bottles was
entirely restored to health, so that could work
every day at my business, which is very heavy
work. in an iron foundry. When l commenced
10 use your Pine Tree Tar Cordial, my weight
was only one hundred and thirty-fve pounds;
since the use of it have weighed on an average
one hundred and fifty five. l shall be glad to
have YOU publish this, as l believe should not
have been living at this time if had not used
your great medicine, and wish all who suffer
to receive its benefit.


Very truly yours,
Year: 1865

We have been requested to, give the follow,
ing article from the United States Economist
published in New York, an insertion in our
columns, Farmers, and all engaged ID the wool
trade will do well to give it an attentive peru
Year: 1865

A good story is told, which is pretty well
authenticated, at the expense of Gen. Slo


cum. He left Raleigh, with Mowers col
umn twentieth Corps,) on road to the
right of that upon which Davis was moving.
Leaving Mower near Oxford on the I'd, he
announced that he would go on and make
Oxford Court House his headquarters that
night and wait for Davis column to arrive
up. In due time the General arrived, and
learned that Davis had encamped there the
night before, and had left early in the morn
ing on to Richmond. just as Wallcott's S
division was crossing the Roanoke, General
Slocum came up to the advance for some
miles The General laughed heartily at the
friendly competition between his two corps
for the hour of being first in Richmond.
Year: 1865

Some two weeks since, an account was
published of the discovery of plot to burn


the city of Philadelphia. New develop
ments in relation to it have just come to
light. 1t appears that on Wednesday night
previous to the Sunday on which the plot
was to have been executed, large barn con-
tanning hay and straw, located within fifty
yards of the. State magazine, near Point
Breeze, at the Southern extremity of the
city, was fired by an incendiary, but after
burning a short time became extinguished,
owing to the fact that there was not enough
straw near the place where the match was
applied, to feed the flames sufficiently long
to make the confagration general The
wind at the time was blowing directly to-
wards the magazine, and had the fire gained
headway nothing could have prevented a
terrible explosion. The magazine contain
ed over one hundred tons of powder, and the
construction of the building is such that had
an explosion taken place, the concussion
would have been SO tremendous as to have
shattered the entire southern portion, be-
sides killing many people. The failure of
this part of the project. evidently foiled the
rebel emmissaries in carrying out the other
parts. The intention was to have this
magazine exploded. and while confusion
ragged in the southern part of the city, to ap-
ply the torch in every direction. The dia-
bolical character of this plot exceeds any


thing since the murder of President Lincoln
Year: 1865

As the facts and circumstances, says the
Washington correspondent of the n. Y.
Tribune, which operated upon the mind of
Gen. Sherman, in his recent treaty with
Gen. johnston become known, there is less
disposition to censure him for the latitude
taken He had just had long interview
with President Lincoln, wherein the con-
tingency of Johnston's surrender was thor
oughly canvassed, and the paramount i'm
preston made by the President was that
every possible maenanimity and kindness
was to be shown the foe, just so soon as
he should offer to lay down his arms. The
President particularly desired that every
cause of irritation, consistent with justice
and national honor, should be obviated. with
a view of winning back the affections of the
Southern people to the old flag, rather than
securing a forced and unwilling obedience to
Federal rule Gen Sherman insists that
his action was based upon this desire of the
President
Year: 1865

A Virginia correspondent In the second
corps, writing on date May 4th, to an ex-
change, says: 1.-The first idea which strikes
the traveller through this region is the en-
tire absence of law and of the the protection
it affords. L place my only remaining horse
in the kitchen with my servants at night,
said wealthy planter, for fear it will be
stolen;' and if it had been, no constable or
sheriff with posse con,itdfas, or volunteer
force of neighbors, would have set out in
pursuit when morning came The owner
could only submit to his loss, far greater
than the simple value of the animal, since
1t entailed the loss of his crop as well, hay
ing nothing left with which to cultivate his
land.


All civil Offices are practically abolished,
and the officers who filled them are absent
or inert, powerless to exercise their fuRc-
tions, and everywhere might controls, A
band of half a dozen negroes, or a few strag-
glers from one of the armies, will enter
house and remove from it everything valua-
BILE, including all the eatables, and the terri
fled residents are dumb, notdaring to offer
a single remonstrance, and breathing sigh
of relief when the ruffians are gone, though
they bear with them everything upon which


he family had depended to support life for
a year to come. A constant dread is appar-
cut dluouS dll CitSSeS, anu tllc duAlOuS, COu-
ciliatory smile which invariably greeted me
upon riding up to house, spoke volums as
to the state of mind of the people.


In conversation with them, | do not recol-
lect that l heard one unkind word concern
ing our Government. Their bitterness is
all reserved for JEFF DAVIS and his satel-
lites, by whom they feel they have been de-
prived of everything valuable beneath the
sun. 1t is a curious fact that, as unprotect-
ed as they are, liable to pillage and robbery
at any moment, the universal testimony is
that things are preferable now to what they
were prior to the advance of our armies.
Then every man was under a surveillance
from which there was no escape, and invari-
ably exercised in the most disagreeable
manner At every turn he was obliged to
produce his pass, showing why he was alb
sent from the army In the market place,
at church, ON the railway, riding in his car
riage, seated in his house everywhere he
was greeted by the officials, who could only
retain their places by extraordinary zeal and
efficiency in the exercise of their disagreea-
BILE duties-and require d to show good cause
why he should not be placed in the trenches
and fight the hated North men.
Year: 1865

G. r. THOMAS, Secretary of State in
North Carolina under Governor Vance,
writes to the Raleigh Progress: II have
never been secessionist | have been a
conservative, by whatever other party name
we have been designated. To every seces-
sionist would say, Go, and sin no more.
To every conservative would say, Come,
let us do better. A great work is before
us at the close of this revolution Domes-
tic slavery ought to be abolished, at once
and forever, in North Carolina; and when
that shall have been done, reconciliation
will be quick and general, if not universal
The abolition of slavery is a condition pre-
cedent TO the settlement Of our national diff
ficullies upon any satisfactory and perma-
nent basis. do not wish to discuss the
matter, but am decidedly in favor of the
Union, and the re-establishing of the rela-
tions of North Carolina, freed from human
slavery, with the Federal Government, in
the speediest way compatible with the dig
nifty of the State
Year: 1865

An army letter writer says of Huntsville: :
But fig for politics 1t is no idle or ordi-
nary reverie to stand upon the spring crown
ed summit of Monte Sana, and while gazing
down upon the unfolding expanse of scenery
in the Tennessee Valley, with its now beau
tiful capital lying in a white mosaic at
ones feet, thus to recall from out the depths
of the past the incidents of the first settle
ment of Northern Alabama, and contrast
them with the magnificent grandeur in the
present of the Athens of thes South. If
there is any such place as Heaven on earth
I do not aver that there is-that place is
certainly Huntsville on May-day.
Year: 1865

1t ought to be understood that the recent
proclamation, offering a reward for the ap-
prehension of Jefferson Davis as one of the
party implicated In the assassination of Mr.
Lincoln, was not issued by President John
son as his individual act, or merely upon
his personal opinion as to the guilt of Davis.
it was issued in pursuance of the decision, of
the proper authority. 1t was first unani-
mously decided in Cabinet meeting that
all parties in any way connected with the
conspiracN khould be tried by a military tri-
bunal, and not by civil courts. All the tes-
timony relating to the matter was then plac-
ed officially in the hands of the Judge Advo-
cate General, Hon. Joseph Holt, who ex-
amined it very carefully and made a written
report to the Secretary of War, giving it as
his opinion that the evidence proved Davis
to have been connected with the conception
of the execution of the plot. 1t was upon
the official report tt at the proclamation was
based. 1t is not to be supposed that any
personal action in the matter can be traced
to Davis, but will be proved that the conspi-
racy was formed and prosecuted with his
knowledge and assent.
Year: 1865

Reject you, my hearts queen? Oh
Rachel, how can be sure that this is not
a bright, treacherous delirium ?''


She bent her soft cheek on his, and then
he knew that it was no hateless vision but a
sweet reality


Then you did not care for Captain Nor
rell after ALP


II never cared for any one but you Har-
ry"


And when September hung her crown of
purple mist over the hills, Harry Cleveland
came home to be married, still handsome,
al though his forehead bore fresh scar "a
cross its broad expanse. When the villagers
asked curiously if it was lifelong mark
Harry answered gayly-


Il would not lose it for fortune; that
scar won me wife 4
Year: 1865

COOP JOKE. "A letter from Raleigh, n
c., says that a good story is told of gal
liant Brigadier who made visit to the Asy-
lum of the Deaf and Dumb at this place,
he being so much delighted that he sent his
band over to serenade the inmates. The
fact becoming known, he was importuned to
invite the inmates of the Blind ASYLUM to
see his next parade
Year: 1865

n LII n LII LII
The Spring is here the sweet May-blooms
Like snow flakes. whiten all the air
l smell the delicate perfumes
Of apricot and pear,
/ wander down the garden slopes,
And take the path that nearest leads
To where in blind assurance groups
My buried store of seeds.
All. Nature fails me not She keeps
Her promise sacred as of old ;
See where her glad fulfillment peeps
Up through the softened mould
'Pansies and pinks and daffodils-
A brave army of bursting green;
Prophetic of the bloom tn at fills
The summer days with sheen.
A handful of unsightly seed
That was the simple gift L brought;
And 10 in answer to the deed


A miracle it wrought,
Year: 1865

IT is reported that when Congressman
Harris, now on trial at Washington, heard
of the assassination of President LINCOLN,
he threw up his hands and cried Thank
God this is the happiest day of my life.
Year: 1865

At their respective Agencies formerly done from san
Francesca under the old system of Sub and
Solicitors adopted Of the THEN unsettled stare


of socety directions writing country risks and lack OF
reliable business material in the country towns
Year: 1865

REACTION IN GEonGIN.-Since the occupation
OF Savannah quiet reaction against the Conied-
crAcy has been progressing III the minds of the
people Of Georgia. SO much might have been
predicted from the condition Of this Sta:e before
the march Of sherman through its richest part.
There can be no doubt that Georgia is at least,
tired of the WAT, aud willing, for want of any
other alternative, to accept facts which ii is inn
possible to resist Beyond the few military gar
risons of rebels in the vicinity Of Augusta. we
may suppose that the people Of this once most
thriving State of the South heartily desire peace
and to he rid of the rebellion In the eyes other
own citizens, the worst enemies Of this now bank
rupt AMI exhausted sovereignty are probably her
quandnm defenders


Thus stands Georgia towards the other mem
bcrs of the rebellion not forgetting its own share
OF sacrifice in that catastrophe, but, rather in-
partially tired out and ready To accept peace per
force as a circumstance and II necessity. How
much sentiment Georgia cnterttins for the Union
is less readily answered. Hundreds of her citi-
zens now dcuonncc the war on both sides many
sneak of the Union as L and of constitutions
al rights though the war had never be9n.-


All the Unionism, aud indeed great part of
the anti-rebellon sentiment of Georgia, since the
rebel project to arm the slaves. is decidedly pro-
slavery Few or none be convinced that
emancipation is not The synonym Of irremediapic
ruin. Minge these elements described with the
large class who have no asserted opinions, who
are converted by facts, and desire most TO make a
comfortable livelihood, and the Union movement
In Georria as it is termed, is toerably apprecia-
blc Outside of the reacionary feeling still exist
a sulen and concealed spirit ofenmity, for which
all who calculated upon reconciliation by tab
leaux must make allowance. The conversion Of
of Georgia to genuine friendship with the
Union must he necessarily slow, if in the end
sure. Emancipation must work its way through
hatred and bitterness and the rebellion must re-
eeiye more blows and more disasters In the
meanwhile we may cherish the real Cnonists
which Georgia does possess, and find guaranty
for her safety in the manumtted population =
The Government has already found in Georgia
men who retained their faith in the Union
through all calamity, and it is such men who
will doubtless bear distinguished part in the
destiny ofthc new and reasoned State--forHfy 3
Press.
Year: 1865

Hon. james Harlan, member Of Presi-
dent J Johnson s Cabinet, in a letter to a
friend in Iowa, thus defines the position
of the President in relation to the suff-
rage question


president johnson maintains the doc
trine that the Constitution of the United
States does not confer on the Federal
Government the right to interfere, pri-
marily, with the question of suffrage in
any State.of the Union that the question
mag arise and properly be decided by
Congress lohen Senator's and members
present themselves for admission to seats
IN that body, under the clause of the con-
stitution which makes each House the
exclusive judge of the qualifications and
election of members; and that other clause
of the constitution of the United States
which provides that the United States
shall guarantee to every State in the
Union a republican form of fGovernment.
infer that. if any State should adopt a
law on the subject of suffrage which
would clearly show the State government
to be other than republican, it would be
the duty of Congress to reject applicants
for seats, and to adopt whatever legisla-
tive remedies would in their judgment be
necessary to carry out the guarantees OF
| the constitution.
Year: 1865

"a correspondent is involved In domess
tic perplexities. He writes: II got ac-
quainted with young widow, who lived
with her step daughter, in the same
house I married the widow My father
fell, shortly after il, in love with the step
daughter Of my wife, and married hers-1
My wife became the 9mother-in-laW and
also daughter-in-law of my own father;


my wife Is step daughter is my step-Inoth-
er, ahdI am the step father Of my MOTH
er-inslaW My step-mother, who is the
daughter of my wife, has a boy; he
is naturally my step-brother, but because
he is the son Of my wife's daughter,
SO is my wife the grandmother Of the
little boy, and ] am the grand father of
my step brother. My wife has also -boyi
my step-mother is, consequently the step
sister of my boy, and is. also bis grand
mother, because he is the child OF her
step-son; and my father is the brother4
in-Iaw Of my son, because he has got his
step-sister for a wife. | am the brother
o.. off. my own son, who is the son Of my
step-mother; / am the brotheFsin-laM Of
my mother, my wife is the aunt of her
own son. my. son is the grandson Of my
father, and am my own grand father
Year: 1865

The following statistics, compiled by
the New York Observer, exhibit the pres
ent relative strength of the two largest
bodies of Presbyterians In the world. At
the breaking out of the war the Old
School had large number of churches
and ministers In the Southern States,
whose names are now stricken from the
roll, and yet in all respects, it is much
stronger than the other branch. At
the beginning of the rebellion the Old
School had 1859 ministers and 544 can
didates for the ministry
Year: 1865

1t is announced that if the eopperheads
get the next Legislature, they have agreed
to elect the arch traitor Vallandigham to
the u. s. Senate. We have no doubt
this is true, as he was the controlling
spirit at their State Convention, aud is
the true exponent of their policy. But
there is about as much prospect of his
election as there is that he will be struck
by lightning. There will be only cor
poral's guard of his followers iu the Leg
islature,
Year: 1865

The General assembly Of the Old
School was held this year in Pittsburg,
Pa. and the General Assembly of the
understand that both assemblies are to
meet on the first Thursday of May, 1866,
in St Louis Mo
Year: 1865

The report that A. p. Stones sureties
could not be held responsible on his bond,
is unfounded, and they are endeavoring
to secure property to make themselves
good as far as possible. To
Year: 1865

Gentlemen of intelligence just returned
from the South, state that it is the in
tention of most of the States to appro-
pirate pensions to rebel officers and sol
diers wounded during the rebellion. No
appropriation is to be made for the South
ern Union soldsers.