smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

that this is only canard-the iction OF some
fortune hunter in the Sacred City, who wants
to be a colonel in the Papal service, and, lack
ing only the men for his regiment, takes this
plan to start recruiting in country full OF
veteran soldiers and good Catholics getting
tired of peace.
Year: 1868

As WE ESPEorED.-It is given out from
Washington that on the reassembling of the
High Court of Impeachment on the 26th the
House Managers, in view Of some new articles,
will demand another uostuonemeut
Year: 1868

The Revolution in England-Its Rapid Pro-


1t has been said by some eminent philosopher
of the past, that when the time has been
reached at which men can publicly say all
that they think of any particular institution
such institution is doomed. This is hard
saying, and capable of being hardly grappled
with and opposed, but it is nevertheless full of
truth If we recall to our memories the histories
of great struggles we shall find that from the
moment that public man fearlessly and with
impunity gave full utterance to all his thoughts
upon a subject on which men had hitherto
been restrained and fearful in their speech,
the institution complained of was no longer
safe, because no longer sacred. We have had
abundant proof of late that Great Britain was
in the agony of revolution. We have had no
such proof as that which was furnished by the
telegraphic news of yesterday. When an Irish
member can rise in the House of Commons, as
Mr.. Reardon did on Friday night, and coolly
propose that the Ministry ought to advise her
Majesty to abdicate, and at the same time
escape falling into the hands of the Sergeant
alarms, it is not unreasonable to conclude
that royalty in Great Britain is in danger.


England, we have been told of late, had risen
to the lofty plateau Of a republic We have
had no such convincing evidence of the fact as
that furnished by Mr.. Reardon. With this to
begin with we are prepared for startling news.
Year: 1868

An UNsPoTTED CHARACTER
Money is a good thing, especially in
these hard times, but there is some
thing thousand times more yalua-
bic. 1t Characteristic conscious
ness of a pure and honorable life.
This should be q mans first aim TO
preserve at any cost. In times OF
commercial distress, while some arc
proved and found wanting, Others
come forth tried as by FIRE. Here one
comes out Of the furnace far more oi
man than before. Amid the wreck
of his fortune he stands erect--a no
BILE specimen of true manhood. We
have occasionally witnessed an exam
pie of courage in such a crisis, OF
moral intrepidity that deserved all
honor. let il be the aim OF every
business man, above all things else, to
keep this purity unstained. This j.
the best possession-this is the capi-
tai which can never be taken fropl
him-this is the inheritance which
he can leave his childron. -ts
Year: 1868

CoTroN WoRM,-lt has been sug-
gcsted that the worm is worse since
" freedom came" and that the reason
of II is the late period Of the year at
which farm work commences. In
slave times considerable proportion
of land was turned over with the
plow before Christmas, and this early
working is said to have been the
planters safeguard against the per-
pctual recurrence of the ravages Of
the worm. Those who hold this
opinion say considerable proportion
of the worms, large or small, accord
ing to the character Of the season,
burrow some three or four inches in
the ground, where the insect makes
for itself a resting place, coating il
around with gummy fluid which

exudes from its mouth. In short
time il changes to the chrysalis state,
and so remains till spring calls il
forth in the form of hy to propa-
gate its species. During the summer
this process is several times repeated,
.


but instead of working into the
ground on each of these occasions,
the worm rolls in a leaf. The warmth
of the summer prevents the necessity
Of hiding in the earth, which nature
'bids il do for winter.


These opinions are given by cor
respondent Of the Southern Caliirdtor,
and, like the editors of that maga-
zine, we publish them in the hope
that they may excite investigation.
They look plausible. dr. .t


Gdiueston NeBs.
Year: 1868

Tuesday Evenia,g. Jan. II, 1865,
To act in connection with State Temperance Con-
ventlon, cale by prominent temperance men, to
meet at the same time and place.


All the temperance organizations represented in
in the convention at Auburn, are requested to send
delegates to this Convention and all the friends and
practical advocates Of temperance in the State, will
be welcome 10 voice in the deliberations then and
there to be had.


Let every lover of our cause awake, and in view
OF the questions now agitatng the public mind, in
view of the efforts which the enemies of prohibi-
ton are making, in view of the sa"red Christian
duty to which all lovers of temp rance and purity
are Called be willing to sacrifice little time and ex-
pense in preventing the success of those schemes,
which contemplate of the greatest moral calam-
ties that could fall upon the people of our State.
Let US rally to standard, SO long and SO nobly
upheld, and may the two calls now issued, ring
through the State in perfect harmony to be answer
ed by true men from all portions Of the State who
shall unite most heartily in the work we have to do


Per order of the Executive Committee.
Year: 1868

There is minor here that there are
10000 men, well armed in this city ready
to stri Ike the blow at any moment, when
thought proper. Yesterday [ talked
with the Governor on the subject and he
thinks there is some truth in the state
ment, and is Strengthening all points to
prevent it. We shall soon have loya
militia organized and place d in all the
dangerous points, This Will be the last
death struggle of the Rebels.


"If Grant is elected, we are safe
Therefore you cannot feel the anxiety we.
do here IN the South. We must trust
in God and keep our powder dry. l have
been lnsulted several times in the street
by these Thugs in the last few weeks,
which has never happened before, though
| take very little part IN political matters
and that very quietly. But any man
from the North, particularly one who
was in the Union Army, is marked. If
\. j. dom t go to hell for all this there is
no use of hell You should hang
Brick pomeroy and stop his infamous
sheet. There is no paper that has 50
large circulation in the South as his,
and Its Influence is terribly bad. [ think
he Is doing more injury to the Gov ern-
mel t and to the South than all the Rebs
here.
Year: 1868

One OF the ablest speeches made dur
ing the present campaign was that re
Gently delivered before the Boston High
lands Grant Club, by Hon. William


Whiting. whose treatise upon the Wal
Powers of the President, published during
the war, attracted wide attention not only
In this country but in England. Mr..
Whiting is one of the soundest lawyers
in New England, and was one of Mr..
Lincoln's most intimate and trusted ad-
visers.


In his speech he dissects the various
schemes of reputation, partial and total
open and covert, in mastery manner
Of the proposition to repudiate a part of
the interest on the United States securi-
ties, under the pretext of special tax
on such interest, he said;


congress cannot pass any law impair
ing the obligation of the United States
to pay It's entire debt. principal and
interest, according to the terms of the
original contract without violating the
provisions OF the fourth section of Ar
ticle XVI Of the Constitution. To pass
any law. of Congress which requires the
Treasurer of the United States to refuse
to pay to the bondholder, the creditor, any
part of the principal or interest which
the United States have in terms promised
to pay, either under the pretext of taxing
the holders of these bonds as such, or
under any pretext,is not only to question
the validity of the public debt, but it is
pro tanto to deny and destroy it. The
obligation to pay the interest is part of
of the debt as clearly as the obligation to
pay the principal. If Congress can
authorize the Treasurer to refuse payment
of any part of the interest, it can author
ize him to refuse payment OF the interest
IN toto. or to refuse to pay the princi-
pail
Year: 1868

SINGULAR CASE Vermont paper say
There is a man in this State who cannot
speak to his father. Previous to his birth
some difficulty arose between his father,
and mother for a considerable time she
refused to speak with him. The Difficult
ty was subsequently healed the child
was born, and in due time began to talk
but when sitting with his father was in.
variably silent. 1t continued so until
the child was five years of age, when the
father having exhausted his powers of
persuasion, threatened it with punish
ment for its stubbornness. When the
punishment was inflicted it elected moth
ing but sighs and grCans, which told but
too plainly that the little sufferer could
not speak. though he valnly endeavored
to do SO. All who were present united
in the OPT lion that it was impossible for
the child to speak to its father. Time
proved this opinion to be correct. At a
mature age its efforts to converse with
its parent could only produce the most
bitter sighs and groans.
Year: 1868

Since the nomination Of the Demo
cratic candidates, the campaign on the
part of the Republicans has been fairly
opened. and the enthusiasm manifested
for GRANT and CoLFAX, must be crafty
ing to all who wish to have peace and qui-
ct within every state in the Union. Only
few days since, the largest political
meeting ever held in the West if not in
the entire Union, came off III Chicago
No less than sixty thousand people were
present. This same spontaneous out
pouring of the friends of Good Govern
ment is manifested everywhere They
are all aroused to the Importance of the
campaign and are mastering their forces
for the final struggle in November.
Year: 1868

1 In the matter of the Guardianship of the Minor
Heir of Michael Low, deceased.


On reading and filing the petition of Mary Low,
Guardian OF SAID Minors representing among other
things that the said wards seized of certain real
estate IN said County of Manitowoc, and that it IS
necessary that the should be sold and PRAYING
for license TO sell the same and it appearing the
Court from said petition that it is necessary to sell
sad real estate, it is ordered and directed that the
next OF kin to said wards, and all persons interested
in said estate appear before me- Monday the 3lst
day of August a. D. 1865 at ten o'clock A. NJ at the
Probate Office in said County then and there to show
cause (f any there be) why license should not be
granted for the sale of said real estate according
the prayer of said petition.


And it is further ordered that copy of this order
shall be published for four successive weeks prior to
said day of hearingn the Alanitowoc Tribune weekly
newspaper printed at Nantowoc in the said county


w164t GEO W BARKER County Judge,


Dated at Manitowoc, the Sd day Of August,AD.1 .1S6S
Year: 1868

Gen, Bragg said in his speech the 9TH
er night: The Democratic party now
occupy the same platform which the Re
publicans stood on in 1864" If that is
true, they are making very encouraging
progress, being now only fou' years be-
hind the spirit of the age.
Year: 1868

Editors Naoison State Jonn1I The
following extract from private letter
from New Orleans, written by a gentle
man we'll knownin this vicinity you are at
liberty to publish If you think it viola
tion of confidence TO let the public see
how a Union man feels who has taken up
his abode in the sunny South. EC.B
Year: 1868

When the legislature mot here, there
was every prospect ofa bloody riot on the
part of the rebels-so much so that the
United States troops were ordered out
and large police force, with the troops
surrounded the building used by the leg
lSlaUure for several days, and no one was
allowed to pass on that street, except the
officers and members of the two houses
without pass.


The rebels had sworn that the Gov
ernor and Lieutenant Governor should not
take their seats, and had not prompt
action been taken we should have had a
sad time. %


"Al Northern men are prescribed here
mole and more every day, and until the
legislature organizes State militia of
loyal men we are in danger. This they
are now about to do by passing bill for
that purpose. Both houses are largely
Republican and can carry any measure
they wish.


But the feeling of hostility, think is
more intense against Union men to-day
than at any time since the war. We are
standing, as it were, over volcano
everything points to an outbreak Andy
johnson will use every means III his pow
er to defeat Grant, and the Soath are
determined to carry the tall election
even though murders are deemed neces-
sary.
Year: 1868

THE ROCK BLAND ELEtIlON.


10 ne Stockholders OIL chioIgo Rock Island Pe Railroad
Company


AS it has been asserted in an anonymous
communication published in two Of the City pa
pers that in consentng TO act the Committee of Stock
holders and TO solicit your proxies have acted under


misapprehenson Of facts and have been deceived by
misrepresentation, We beg leave TO say that such
charge is entirely unfounded, and that have acted
throughout with full knowledge and understanding Of
all the fac and circumstances connected with the
trOversy.


We wish also to state that the assertions In OF the
communications made that We connected with any
"rng OF spectators" with North Western Road
party" entirely unfounded In what have done
have been actuated by the best motives by desire
and determination to do what fairly and honora
bly, to protect property and at the time to dis
charge duty which We believe owe not only TO
selves and associates in this Railroad Company but
which we TO all who interested In corporations
that s TO test the right Of Directors Of corporations TO
retain their Office in defiance of the wishes Of stockhold
ers and TO keep themselves In power by means Of State
legislation.


We desire that the annual meeting and election shall be
held and II possible. that tho stockholders should by
votes change the Board of Directors and place In power
others who they believe win nearly represent them


We desire to secure this result for the following
cons:


Because we believe that this is the surest most expe
dous II not the only way TO put end to the litigation
in which the Company has been involved by the conduct
OF Mr.. Tracy and his associates.


a Because we disapproye OF the manner In which Mr..
Tracy and his associates have conducted this litigation
behalf Of the Company 1t has been stated in adayits
presented TO the court that Mr. Tracy had retained over
twelve lawyers in New-York as many more In Illinois,
and large number In Iowa; and before he left this
State, weeks ago. he stated TO of Committee
that the law expenses would then cost s2Oo,Ooo


Because Mr. Tracy has right, in our Judgment. to
his power position and influence as the President of
the Company and that OF the Directors and still less the
funds and property OF the Company Cor the papose OF
supporting himself in contest In which ho is opposed to
wishes Of the stockholders and the interests OF The
Company.


After being defeated In New.York he retreated to
Illinois and thence into Iowa. from which place we fear
he intends to carry guerrilla warfare, in which tho
money Of the Company will DO expended, and In which
be successful only at the expense Of the corpora
ion We desire to put end TO oil this litigation by
Dlecting Board OF Directors.


Furthermore. in our opinion. the character and repu
Year: 1868

ntensifying money panic. At the close money was
offered in large blocks at per cent and holders were
unable to place funds at any price. The money
market is now easier than at any time within the
past six years, and promises to remain so for the
next 90 days.
Year: 1868

Money continues easy. and the amount offering at
aud 4per cent is largely in excess of the require
ments OF the speculative demand in tho street The
banks who during the late money pressure were so
eager TO make shares and used their utmost endeav-
ors 10 exact large commissions from their dealers,
now find great difficulty in placing their funds,
brokers preferrng TO take the money Of banks and
bankers who accommodated them during the panic
at higher rates of interest than those offered by
these over-sharp dealers who will find that in the
long run If il tQg theE interest to relieve instead Of
Year: 1868

THE BANDS OF RION.-" Canst
thou loose the bands of Orion ?"--Job.
The three bright stars which consti-
tute the girdle or band of Orion nev-
er change their form; they preserve
the same relative position to each 9th
er, and to the rest Of the constella-
ton, from year to year, and from age
to age. They present precisely the
same appearance to US which they did
to Job. No sooner does the constel.
lation rise above the horizon, however
long may have been the interval since
we last beheld it, than these three
stars appear in the old familiar posi-
ton. They afford US one of the high
est types of immutability in the midst
of ceaseless changes. When heart
sick and weary of the continual alter.
ations we observe in this world, on
whose most enduring objects and af
fections is written the melancholy
doom, " Passing away" it is comfort

ing to look up to that bright beacon in
the heavens. that remains unmoved
amid all the surges Of times great
ocean. And yet in the profound rest
of these stars there is a ceaseless mo-
ton; in their apparent stability and
everlasting endurance, there is a con-
stant change. La vast courses, with
uncomfortable velocity, they are whirl-
ing around invisible centers, and even
passing into new collocations. They
appear to US motionless and change
ess, because of our great distance
from them, just as the foaming torrent
that rushes down the hillside with the
speed of an arrow, and in the widest
and most vagrant courses, filling the
air with its ceaseless shouts, appears
from an opposite hill, frozen by the
distance into silence and rest, mere
motionless, changeless glacier on the
mountain side.
Year: 1868

PRoCRAsTINATIoN.-Virtue is not
mushroom that springeth up of itself
in one night, when we are asleep or
regard it not; but delicate plant
that groweth slowly and tenderly,.
needing much pains to cultivate 1t,
much care to guard it, much time to
mature it. Neither is vice a spirit
that will be conjured away with a
charm, slain by a single blow, or dis
patched by one stab. Who. then, will
be so foolish as to leave the eradica-
ting of vice, and the planting in of
virtue into its place for few years Or
weeks? Yet he who procrastlnates
his repentance and amendment gross
ly does so; with his eyes open, he alb
ridges the time allotted for the long
est and most important work he has
to perform; he is fool.-Dr. Bar
T0aU.
Year: 1868

| read last night of the Grand Review
In Washington's chiefest avenue
Two hundred thousand men in blue
think they said was the number
Till | seemed to hear their trampling feet,
The bugle's blast and the drum quick beat,
The clatter of hoofs in the stony street,
The cheers of people who came to greet,
And the thousand details that to repeat


Would only my verse cucumber
Till fell in a reverie sad and sweet,


And then to a fitful slumber.
When, 10 ! in vision 1 seemed to stand
In the lonely Capitol. On each hand
] Far stretched the portion dim and grand,
| Its columns ranged like martial band
Of sheeted spectres, whom some command


Had called to last reviewing;
And the streets of the city were white and
bare,


No football echoed across the square,
But out of the misty midnight air
| heard in the distance trumpet blare,
And the wandering night winds seemed to
bear


The sound of far tattooing.
Then held my breath with fear and dread,
For into the square with brazen tread,
There rose a figure whose stately head


O'erlooked the review that morning;
That never bowed from its irm-set seat
When the living column passed its feet,
Yet now rode steadily up the street


To the phantom bugle's warning;
Till it reached the Capitol square and


wheeled,


And there in the moonlight stood revealed
A well known form that in State and field


Had led our patriot sires;
Whose face was turned to thesleeping camp
Afar through the rivers fog and damp,
That showed no flicker, no waning lamp


Nor wasted bivouac fires.


And | saw phantom army come,
| With never sound of fife or drum,
Rut keeping time to a thrObbing hum
OF wailing and lamentation
| The martyred heroes of Malvern Hill,
Of Gettysburg and Chaneellorsville,
The men whose wasted figures fill


The patriot graves of the nation.
And there came the nameless dead-the men
Who perished in fever, swamp and fen,
The slowly-starved of the prison-pen;


And, marching beside the others,
Came the dusky martyrs of Pillows fight,
With limbs enfranchised and bearing


bright;


[ thought-perhaps twas the pale moon


light


They looked as pale as their brothers,
And so all night marched the nations dead
W ltH nU,oI II UanlloI aUUve tnvnl st4 o..>,,
Nor badge, nor motto brandished;
No mark-save the bare uncovered head


OF the silent bronze Reviewer;
With never an arch save the vaulted sky,
With never flower save those that lie
On the distant graves-for love could buy


No gift that was purer or truer.
So all night long swept the strange array,
So all night long till the morning gray
1 watched for one who had passed away,


With a reverent awe and wonder
Till blue cap waved in the length ming


line,


And | knew that one who was kin of mine
Had come, and l spake-and 10 that sign


Awakened me from my slumber.
Year: 1868

have bought the Marble Works in Barton, and
removed them to the basement of Kimball g.
Pierces Store, where they can do as neat work
as at any other shop in the County. They war
rant their work to please all who may have it,
Those wishing anything in their line will do well
by calling upon them before purchasing else
where. Remember the place.


UNDER KIMBALL & PIERCES STORE.


Barton, MAY 30, lS6S-22
Year: 1868

Correspondence of the Boston Post.


New YORK, July p, 1868.


Mr.. Greeley declares that any man who
says he hid himself under table-cloth in
Windust's saloon during the draft riots is
branded liar and villain" Horace never
had particularly sweet temper in politics;
but since the nomination of Seymour, and
his own defeat for the Governorship can
didacy by Griswold, he has been unusually
cross and sullen. The men in the Tribune
office dodge out of the way when they see
him coming, and not without reason, for he
walks into them in lively way every time
he can make chance. Sometimes an arti-
Gle in the Tribune displeases him, and he
querulously wants to know "what id fool
wrote that?" Another time he feels like
"clearing out the whole Id pack of them,"
simply because the compositor fails to make
sense of his horrible hieroglyphics, which
are as abstruse study as the autographs
of the Chinese ambassadors. No journal
in New York makes as many and as frequent
changes in its staff as the Tribune. Greeley
and Ripley are the only editors who have
steady places in it. The others may be on
to-day and off tomorrow, and they hardly
KNOW why. iue lepofteIS aIe CuailSeu
every few weeks, and worked to death
while in. People outside the Tribune Office
imagine that MIR. Greeley is the soul of
liberality, but the people inside know that
he is one of the meanest men in New York.
Because he lived OIL four and five dollars o
week thirty years ago he imagines that
man who gets twelve dollars for his work is
now overpaid.


Much as he says about the rights of labor
and the wrongs of laborers, he believes in
getting his moneys worth, and more if he
can, out of every man in the Tribune office.
Horace is frugal in his mode of living,
dollar day often covering the cost of his
meals and as he neither drinks, nor
smokes, nor wears good clothes, nor goes
into company, nor lives in good house, of
course his current expenses are kept Mt o
low figure. But this is his own business,
and | would not mention it, except to show
why he does not believe in paying any man
a liberal salary. There is SO much atfecta-
tion of candor about Horace that people
really believe him to be an honest, generous.
man whereas he is something SO opposite
that only very strong words could de-
scribe it.