smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

The New York Herald remarks:


To bring the conflict in which we have
entered to speedy termination, it will have
to be carried on on a scale to which history
offers no parallel. The greatest military
effort ever made was that by France when
she sent 100000 men to invade Russia,
keeping at the same time armies amounting
to similar aggregate in Spain, Italy and
Germany. Here there will be brought into
the field, if the struggle should continue for
any time, larger number of armed and
disciplined men than any other nation has
ever been able to turn out. The entire
enrolled militia Of the States and Territories
is, as Mesbowedthe other day, over 3, SOC, OOO
OF these, il is probable that more than third
will be called into active service on both
sides, and thus will be offered the spectacle
of the greatest war, considered in relation TO
the numbers engaged in II, that has been
Wsged either in ancient or modern times. :


II destined to be severe and terrible in the
present suffering that twill entail, its after
results will bring compensation for its evil.
The political atmosphere had become SO
tainted and corrupted among US that it
required some potent shock offthis kind to
clear it Of its foul Influences. Even in a
social point OF view, the condition. of the
country was rapidly degenerating into q
state Of demOralization,t that called for some
christening visitation, The misfOrtunes that
have crowded upon us-the greatest that
have ever befallen a nation-will leave US q
better and wiser people. The politicians
and demagogues who have brought us 10
this evil pass, can never again exercise
smOng US the Influence that they once en-
joyed. They will be compelled 70 give place
TO men Of patriotic impulses, of honest pur-
pose and of respectable talents and position.
There viii probably be less attention de.
voted to the pursuit Of the almighty dollar
but more to education, TO moral culture and
to those intellectual arts which shed an, ele
waiting and refining influence upon society
Year: 1861

Strnnse and Horrible Story about Lola
mOntez- Her Last Days Passed amid the
m Ost Squalid Poverty and Shocking Bru-


tRlity.


The New York correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Sunday Dispatch makes the follow
ing startling statements:


All the press have been telling as how
affectionately friendship smoothed the dying
pillow of poor Lola Montez and drawing
the most affecting picture of her falling
asleep in death upon the bosom of a rich
friend, in luxurious apartments, upon a bed
of down, and ''all that sort of thing" In
deed, it drove all misanthropy from the field
to note in these elaborate accounts how no.
Bile human sympathy stepped forward to
carpet with flowers Lola's path to the grave.


Now, obi veritable Dispatch, would you
believe that Notwithstanding all this ex-
penditure of fustiau, the simple truth is that
Lola Montez died here in an uncarpeted and
scarcely half furnished room without bed.
stead, and upon "couch of down. COM
posed of an old mattress, and some coverlets
cast on the floor in the corner of hired
apartment, long since occupied by poor
Irish laborer2 Lola's sole companion in
this desolate place of Imprisonment was a
nurse, who, if she is not vilely slsndered
treated her with what many would cal
brutality.


And when Lola would be detected crawl
ing, in her nurses absence, up the steps or
along the entry with her palsied limbs to
the door of anothers apartment just to listen
to the glad sounds Of human voices within,
it is said that she would be driven back to
her dungeon. Some even assert (but can't
believe it) that the sound of blows and half.
idiot cries for mercy would be heard piercing
the night winds and filling the humane ear
with athIill of horror. Isitnot shocking pic
ture to contemplated And how could her
distinguished physician" who is, if am
not in error, newspaper editor by profess
sion, shall | give his name2) consent TO
maintain such silence, while the world was
being SO deluded as to the facts in the
nrannisns2
Year: 1861

A DIVORCE DILBxaA.--The Supreme Court
for York county, Maine, has been in session
for the September term two weeks. The Saco
Deaocrrt gives the following account of one OF
the divorce cases:


"There have been three divorces deereed
during the term thus far, and in connexion
with one of said DEGREES there now seems 10
arise some funny" questions. 1t seems that
a certain party in South Berwick anxious tc
get rid of his spouse pressed hearing
upon his libel, and obtained decree during
the third day of the term. On the fifth day
of the term the said spouse made her ap-
pearance before the court, and stated that hei
anxious husband and his friends persuaded
her that the ease would not be called up till
the second week in the term, consequently
she returned home, although she had de-
fence to said libel, &c, ,,&e. The court, upon
these rerres tations, ordered the decree OF
divorce TO be stricken from the docket. Now
the funny part of i. is that said divorced hus-
band went home Oh the day OF the decree
obtained as before stated } and forthwith pro
ceeded to Salmon Falls and married another
lady. What his new wife will say, or how
they will proceed when they learn that there
is in fact no decree OF div oree from the first
wife, remains TO be seen."
Year: 1861

Speaking of the demands of the South
upon the North at this time. and the feel
ing Of the latter in regard to the matter.
he said it reminded him of dispute that
once occurred between his two younger boys
Tom and Bill. pair of mischevous rogues
of eight and ten years. One of them had
toy which tie other wanted and demand
ed in terms emphatic and boisterous. At
length he was told to let bis brother have
it in order to quiet him. "No. sir" ives
the sturdy response. II must hare it to
quiet myself"
Year: 1861




We the soldiers of the War of 1912. and
of the subsequent wars. hereby resolve


i. That we protest against any change
in the Constitution of the United States to
conciliate traitors of any section whatever:
and that we maintain that treason should
be put down in all parts of our common
country-thereby verifying the fact that we
have government equal to any on earth.
and to sustain which we have heretofore
exposed our lives.


2. That we approve Of the action of the
present Secretary of War. and Lieut. Gen.
Scott. in their precautionary measures for
the protection of the Capital of the Repub-
lie aud other points necessary to be pro-
tected.


3. That we viii throw ourselves into the
front ranks to meet treason in any section
Of our country. to sustain the Flag of the
Republic ana the Government as now or
ganized.


4. That we will, irrespective of party,
sustain the President Of the United States
in the execution Of the laws. as il would
have been our duty to have sustained any
other Presidential aspirant who might
have been constitutionally elected in the
late Presidential canvass.
Year: 1861




A correspondent of the New York Times
gives the following picture of an old maid
The old maid. who has just driven by in
a private carriage is character She was
a great belle in her day. and, being an
heiress as well, had offers enough TO salts
fly any responsible woman, but she looked
for perfection and husband-the conse-
quence is, she has found neither. This
suitor smoked, that one chewed, this one
did not speak good French, and the other
spoke bad English. So then she rides
alone in her carriage, single and turned of
forty-her day OF grace is past Here are
some lines whereof she is the subject. L
am aware that some one else has written
something in the same vein, about a
Wreath of Roses" but still no one can
accuse me Of plagiarism-the metre is like.
but you will notice that the ideas are not
at all similar:


She wore robe Of muslin


The night that first we met


Her little feet were housing


Beneath her coatipct
Her dress had all the lightness.


Her air the stylish tone.


That marks belle at twenty.


With fortune all her own.


A skirt of rustling satin


When next we met she wore.
The spread of hoops and whalebone


Was greater than before,
And standing near her side were men


Who wooed. but wooed in vain:
She sent them all to Coventry,
And they went-on train.


Yet. once again | saw that form


No signing swains were there
A Summer rose had faded,


Shut out from sun and air:


saw her but a moment,


Yet methinl1s | see her now, -
s With poodle in her carriage. i


And wrinkle on her brow.
There, as Ben johnson said to Sylvester,
that may not be poetry; but I'll swear it s
the truth.
Year: 1861

Believing that the time has arrived when the
great Republican party Of the United States ought
to be fairly represented in the daily press Of the
National Metropolis we have embarked in the
enterprise of supplying the citizens of the District
Of Columbia with daily publication, under the
title of the "NATIoNAL REPUBLICAN"


In its political department, this journal will
advocate and defend the principles OF the Repub-
lican party, and endeavor to dsabuse the public
mind OF groundess prejudices which have been
engendered against it, by the false accusations
OF its enemies. Having the utmost confidence
that the administration Of Mr.. Lincoln will be
such as to merit our appreciation, expect to
yield it a cordial, but not servie support In
the great issue that is likely to be made with his
administration, by the enemies Of the Republican
party the people OF Washington AMI the District
of Columbia have more at stake than the people
OF any other portion of our common country. We
believe that to support Mr.. Lincoln's administra-
ton will be synonymous with maintaining the in
tegrity OF the Federal Union against the machn-
| ations of those who would rend it u. under. No
one can doubt upon which side OF this issue the
people of Washington will te found, when they
come TO realize that it is fairly forced upon them.
We feel confident, therefore, that in yielding to
the administration of Mr. Lincoln cordial sup
port we shall have the sympathy Of an immense
majority of the people of this District and vicin
\ ity.
Year: 1861

A LIVING RENENBRANCER OF THE FoRT SUMTER


CONFLCT.-The Charleston Courier thus deEcately


hints at an increase in the infantry force of South
Carolina:


One of the officers who bore conspicuous part
in the glorious affair, although comparatively
Young man. is a father and after the fight vas the


father of one more than those be kissed on the day


before. The little stranger has received the name
| of Isabel Sumter.
Year: 1861

I'm good readers. 1t is not an


pr-ctice with teachers, to re-


pupils to commit to memory


en- in the preliminary e3ercis-


IS, and read over the illustra-


s This is done with vague


vas the authors design to have


les and examples used, and no


OF accomplishing that design


elf. In the ordinary reading


is customary for the pupils to


verse, one after another, with


rther instruction than that GER


should be differently pronoun-


unfrequentiy even this inGni


jcism is omitted. No effort is


BART clearer comprehension of


id pupils in giving fuller, nicer


by a better use Of infections,


d modulation.


.al and inevitable result is, that


interest in the reading exer-


pride in aoquitting themselves
cree. ecome careless, expressionless
repea words, but not readers And
teachei find the exercise distasteful !;
they are = ltisied with their neglect, and
vainly wish heir pupils would read better.
The simple and only remedy for this gen
eral and crying evil is drilling. Teachers
must address themselves to the subject in
good earnest, must carefully and thorough
ly study the best treatises they can procure
which relate to education; if nothing else
is accessible, they should study the intro
duction to any good series of readers and
gain all the knowledge desirable from that
source. They should practice the exam
Piles given, repeating them until perfectly
able to exemplify to class the idea which
the author wished to convey. They should
be careful to have the lessons well studied,
both by their scholars, and by themselves,
unless they are fully competent to instruct
without such preparation, and then they
should have every sentence well read be-
fore proceeding TO the sentence following.
Not merely errors of accent, and omission
| or insertions of words, should be correct,
ed but defective infection, and faulty en-
phasis and imperfect modulation, should
| be pointed out, and the correct rendering
of the passage should be given by the
teacher, then By the pupils. No anxiety
to finish lesson must be permitted to in
terfere with the necessary drilling.


This is subject requiring immediate
and earnest attention from every teacher
and cannot too urgently request all teach
ers who read this article, to use every ef
fort to improve the reading Of their pupils
They will find this labor little arduou
at first, but it sufeiy viii ba rewarded will
success if not by better reading, the con
scientiouS effort will be its own rich re
! ward. s.
Year: 1861

dlnCS On 1eacn1DR ASd01As'


| feel perfectly safe in assuming that ev-
cry teacher who is worthy of his position
of trust, is desirous of learning modes of
government and instruction, by which his
efforts may be rendered most successful.
With this confidence, | wish to ask the
earnest attention of teachers to subject
which is of real importance and OF no
little interest to all the intelligent friends
of common schools.


AS a general fact there is not nearly
enough drilling in schools; there is few
erish desire to advance scholars rapidly,
thereby to gain brilliant reputation or
there is an indifference or incapacity, which
from idleness or ignorance negleets the ne
cessary work. There is almost universal
need of more drilling, more thorough at
tention to details, more intelligent use OF
Illustrations, definitions and questions
Teachers can hardly rid themselves of the
notion that the true test OF scholarship is
what one has gone over, and not what one
knows. Through the book has fatally
charming sound, even to teachers other
wise very sensible. 1t is only repeating
what every teacher has said scores of times,
to assert that it is infinitely better to train
pupils to value excellence of understanding
than to allow them TO form the habit of
echoing what the author says, however
readily, without comprehension of tbs
principles ipculcated.
I wish to apply this to reading. l dc
not hazard much in expressing the convlc
ton that ip more than half the schools o
this county scholars not only learn nothing
beneficial in regard to reading, but aetuall.
acquire habits that are of positive and last
ing injury. In very few instances do teach
ers make it their study and effort to guld
their scholars more judieiously through To
vocal and intellectual discipline necessar
Year: 1861

PROM the


ON GUARD.
At midnight on my lonely beat,
When shadows wrap the wood and lea,
vision seems my view to greet
OF one at home that prays for me.
No roses blow upon her cheek
Her form is not lovers dream
But on her face so fair and meek,
A host of holier beauties gleam.
For softly shines her silver hair,
4 patient smile is on her face,
And the mid lustrous light OF prayer
Around her sheds a moonlke grace
She prays for one that's far away
The soldier in his holy fight
AUD hegs that HeayeR IN mercy may
Protect her boy and bless the Right.
And although leagues lie far between,
This silent incense of her heart
Steals Ger my soul with breath serene,
And We no ionges are apart.
So guarding thus my lonely beat,


BY shadowy wood and haunted les,
That vision seems my eye to meet
Other at home, who prGys for me.
amp Cameron, Pa. ZouA'
Year: 1861

The year 1851 will be very eventful
one-to every maiden who gets married.


Throughout the whole course of the
year, whenever the moon wanes, the
nights will get dark.


Whoever is in love this year will think
his mistress an angel. Whoever gets
married will find out whether il be true.
, He that loses his hair this year will go
bald.


lie that loses his wife will become d
widower.


If young lady should happen TO
blush. she viii look red in the face; If she
dreams of q young man three nights in
succession, it will be sign of something.
Ii she dreams Of him four times, or have
the toothache, it is ten to one she is o
lcng time out Of her head.


If any one jumps overheard without
knowing how to swim, it is two chances
TO one that he gets drowned.


If any one lends an umbrella, il is ten
to one he is obliged to go home through
the rain for his pains.
Whoever runs in debt this year will be
dunned.


Many an old sinner will resolve to turn
over new leaf this year, but the new
leaf will turn out blank.
1t is probable, that if there is no busi-
ness going, people will complain of hard
times, but it is certain that those who
hang them selves will escape starving to
death.
Year: 1861




From the London Mining Journal
Mines and Minerals of America.-No. 6.


TIE Forest Lands Of Western Virginia.


Perhaps there is nothing more con
ducive to the permanent welfare of q
new country. especially where miner
ais arc the Chief product. than for
writer's to point ont the difficulties
that may be met with in their attain
ment. as we'll as their value when at
tanned. We have endeavored in the
series of articles under the above
head to do SO partially; but great
deal more remains to be done. That
there is an Immense quantity Of the
very richest fossil mineral in this
country that the world has ever pro
duced is a fact admitted now beyond
doubt; and that there is remunera-
tive market for all oft in due course OF
time is another fact that allows Of no
contradiction. The chief object, then.
for the present generation is to intro
duce q system OF working, or the lay
ing out these mineral estates, 50 that
no contingent drawbacks may be met
with to depreciate their permanent
value when improved and this can
not be better done than by looking
all the difficulties in the face at the
onset, for then the operators will be
prepared with the necessary tools to
do the heavy work.


We have given heretofore brief
oDtlina of some Of the most DrOIninent
coal seams in the county of Kama
wha; and to complete the description
it becomes necessary to give some
account of the surface value of these
lands. We are induced more es-
pecially to enter on this part of our
subject at the present time, through
a large demand having arisen for Vir-
ginian white oak ship-tiinber and
wine-pipe slaves the latter article
being chiefly for the South of France.
1t is yet fresh in the memory of many
of our friends that some of the col,
liery operations here have terminated
in serious losses; and we have before
remarked that the chief cause of These
losses has been occasioned through
a want of system in the early stages
of operations, coupled with bad man
agement both at home and abroad


this will ever be the case, however
Influential or rich the companies, i
Year: 1861

From this estimate it would ap-
pear that one acre of best timber will
about meet the cost of FIVE acres OF
ordinary land; in fact, in practice it
must be made to do so, for there are
on all estates many acres of land
where the timber is so very difficult
ofaccess, that the expenses of getting
it down the mountains and along the
rugged rayines runs up its cost-as
ship-timber-to almost market value.
The backwoods timber must, there
fore, be converted into slaves and
lumber. Slaves on the river are
worth about S3e per 1000 for so in.
$2s for so in, and SIS for 40 in;
these are all tight-barrel staves.-
Slaves for four and salt-barrels are
Year: 1861

On the bridge that crosses the
Grand Rapids we met hale old man
and his wife, with eleven sons, seven
daughters and thirty-seven grand
children, with horses, cattle, sheep
and furniture of antiquatcd appear
ance, among which were to be seen
cradles for babies, cradles for grain,
spinning wheels, pots and kettles, and
almost everything requisite for a set
tlement such as fifty blood relations
will make in Grand River county
After the train had stopped, We made
some inquiries, and asked the old
gentleman what use could be made
with bottomle5s jug, which was
carefully slowed away among his do
me8tic equipments, and received the
following:


"Why, sir, l an a man of many
years, have worked other peoples
land all my days and paid from four
to nine bushels of wheat per acre for
doing it, and have all the time used
jug with bottom to it, by which
all my profits have been wasted, and
l was sick of feeding both landlord
and rumsellers-so l sent seven OF
my boys to Mexico to fight for their
country. They got back safe, and
bro't seven sections of land; that will
be mine without rent. And now you
see that this shall hold all the whisky
that will be used in my family while
| control them. Old General Taylor
told my son John that a jug without
a bottom was the best kind of a jug
Ito put liquor in, and ] believe If. .
Year: 1861

.McMNNvHLB, April 20, 1860.


EDITORS UNION AND AMERICAN: On to-day about
seven hundred of the good citizens of old Warren
assembled in our town on three days notice.
Speeches were made by Col JSo. L. SPULook, Qate
strong Union man, but now an immediate secession
ist,) Col T. B. MURRAY, JOHN SMITH, Esq, and Hon.
JOHN H. SAVAGE. All party spirit was buried deep
in oblivion, and but one sentiment was expressed,
and but one feeling felt, and every throe of the
hearts of our people beat for the South. A hickory
pole was erected on our square, from the top Of
which now floats proudly to the breeze the flag of
the Confederate States. The flag was made by our
ladies, and when all things ready to hOistt to
its home" a number of the fair daughters of our
town came proudly forward and manned the
ropes and quickly carried it to its appointed place.


Immediately after the speaking, Col. 7. B. MUIR
RAY informed the crowd that he wished to enlist
company of volunteers for actual and immediate
service and in short time his list was swelled to
about eighty in number several of most inhuen


al citizens bringing forward their and tender
ing their services with the expression that when
ever ''the fathers services were needed they would
not be found wanting Other companies will be
raised in our county, and Warren will be certain to
furnish her quota Of men well fitted to stand on
the battle field in defense of the rights of the South
All is excitement, and all for secession. 1t is
the universal hope that our Legislature will pass
an ordinance of secession Immediately after their
organization, and submit to the people for ratifca-
ton as soon thereafter as possible.


Yours in Southern bonds OLD WARREN.
Year: 1861

but my next remembrance is of sitting
on the earth, clasping the poor, bruised,
starved creature in my arms, thanking
God with ali my heart that | held my
living child.


took off my coat, tore it into strips,
lashed the child to my back, clambered
up the rocks, and thus conveyed her
home, and tainted with fatigue and emo
ton just inside the doorway.


That she eventually recovered you
have an evidence in her presence here
tonight.


In searching for the missing cows,
she had lost her way, and becoming
frightened she had wandered off, she
knew not whittier, and had fallen over
the rocks during the night, injuring her
self SO severely as to be unable to escape
from the pit, where she had remained
five mortal days without food. Only for
this noble animal, her bones might have
been bleaching there to this day, and
myself and wife been crushed with ca
lamity that would have left US chldless
BY what strange instinct, reason, sagacl
ty, or what you will, the dog had found
her, am unable to say but the fact IT,
self would have been sufficient, had ev
er been doubter or skeptic, to have
made me frm believer in the watchful
care and inscrutable ways Of a Divine
Providence. Do you wonder, now, sir,
that no money can purchase Bruno 20


The next morning, when the stage
ctmc along in good repair, | took
leave Of tie worthy farmer and his fami-
ly. | held out my hand to the noble
dog, who, placing his paw in it with a
dignifed gravity, gave me parting look
Of intelligence that haunts me TO this day,
and which, were an artist, should long
since have been drawn upon canvass.
Had that animal mind and soul Some
times, when | compare him 10 the hu-
man brutes | meet almost daily, | am
tempted to believe lie had both, and that
the latter have neither