smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

candid and truthful man or woman admit9-a triumph.
The obstacles to be surmOunted, the difficulties to be
encounteredat every step OF an enterprise conducted
on so gigantic SCALE are to be considered in passing
Judgment The chorus represented more than eight
hundred organizations, and the orchestra and band
many hundred societies, nearly all OF whom met for
the first time. IL is true that the choral forces had
rehearRed in their own respective localities, extend
ing over thousands of miles, but only once in mass
together Who can have the effrontery, to use the
lightest phrase, when these matters are taken in
view, to charge upon the enterprise the libel and
SANDER OF failure? None surely, who had not pre-
determined so to do circumstance fact, reason,
conscience, have no place in the mind and feeling
OF such. AT all events the distinguished protector
of the Jubilee and his aborious associates need not
fear to go boldly upon the record. That record
will be success. Its history is written In the
golden lines OF assured fact. 1t cannot be set aside
by caprice malice, or misrepresentation. It is to
stand out in its magnificent proportions not be-
cause II has the honor OF having eliminated In
Boston, but on its own many-sided and substantial
merits. There It ls There It will remain-memO-
rabe, grand, glorious 1t was imperfect, It had
its garng and unpleasant errors and shortcomings
viewed from cold-blooded critical standpoint, It did
not reach the altitude Of high standard but setting
all this aside, there were so many unquestioned
Beauties such signal riumphs from day to day, such
positive achievement of combination and organiza-
ton in meodious power and strength, that IL seems
perversiOn OF criticism and an insult TO truth to
withhold the compliment of generous praise"


G SHARP.
Year: 1869




''The unnatural condition of the money market
was the feature of interest in Wall street during the
week. There was no cessation OF the activity no
tceabe the week before, and rates portion OF the
time were maintained at extreme figures. The sim
gular prevalence of such high interest rates in the
month of june when the capital OF the country has
usually drted to this centre, is indicative OF an un
sound state of the market, and is an evil
not dangerous in the present annoyances
through the various branches of trade and


industry. Money seeks the highest rate OF interest
of the past ten or twelve days money has flowed
here from other business centres, while constant
and strong demand exists in the West. Hence we
find the spasms which WERE and we may say are OF
daily occurrence. The first instament OF such cur
rency shipments this way produce relaxation; then
arises the necessity for supplying the demand from
out OF town. and stringency sets in again. To make
matters worse the stock-gambling cliques lock up
money and add to the general aggravation. Money
is drawn here and there The West wants 1t and must
have it, even if it is necessary TO pay eXtrayagant
rates. The stock operators again are unwilling to
part with their loads and 9ld sun higher rates the
result is scramble, IN which currency is attracted
backwards and forwards TO the destruction OF the
legitimate business OF the country. 1t is ingeniOusly
said by the Financial Chronicle that Secretary
Boutwell, in proposing his gold sales at this season.
expected TO contract the currency more than was
usual by the old bank system in the summer months
revived cotton-growlng In the South had
Affecting the money market and producing
the stringency, IL says:-'The prominent facts are
these :-First-The South has retained large amount
OF currency sent there in payment for the cotton
crop which it is likely to hold permanently for the
enlarged requirements OF retail Circulation.
leRal-enders than on June /, 1865 principally owing
10 the retiring OF compound interest notes in
of the issues of three per cent certificates Third
crop and for marketing very heavy surplus OF
grain, which is being sent forward under the
progpect of another abundant harvest the amount
sent 10 Chicago this month being reported there az
90, 100000 FOurth-The associated banks held on
Year: 1869

SOUTHERN CLAIMS FOR ARMY SUPPLIEs-Sen-
ator Wilson. on the l4th, made some very inter-
esting statements about claims from the South for
qusrtermssters' and commissares' supplies He
said the whole amount filed in the war department
since the close Of the rebellion about twenty
four million dollars, of which about half a NIL
lion bad been allowed and four and quarter
millions rejected. He thought from an examina-
ton OF the subject that the fair and Just claims
would not amount to over one hundred miiona,
and held that the best thing Congress could do
would be 10 designate competent board of army
officers to examine sll that might be presented.
50 that Congress might have some reliable data
on which to work. and In order that the whole
matter may be closed as quickly as possible. He
thinks such a commission should do the work in
less than two years, and that it is the height Of
folly for Congress to Undertake now to act on ad-
ditional Individual claims.
Year: 1869

Ont Of all the Southern families that went TO
Brazil at the close Of the war, only seven or eight
remain. Hastings colony" on the Amazon, has
been reduced to a remnant. Those that are left
sre in a destitute condition.
Year: 1869

Tae Presidential SucccessiOn-The Power


ana the Opportunity of Tammany Hall.


The New York democratic journals accept
with remarkable degree of resignation the
defeat of Pendleton In Ohio. They rather
like it, in fact As the rebels accepted the
capture of Wilmington, the "unterrifed' of
New York accept this Western misfortune as
"a blessing in disguise" It disposes of
Hoffman's only dangerous rival. 1t gives the
inside track for the succession to New York
and to the new and imperial Regency of Tam
many Hall. The influence of New York, too,
in the councils of the party is far greater now
than at any time heretofore, because she is
the only Northern State of any consequence
recovered by the democracy since the war and
now retained.


In this view of the game for the succession
the advantages OF the situation, on the first
glance, are so manifestly in the hands of Tam
many that some Of the lesser indians of
the Wigwam are said to be arranging their
plans for 1872 upon the basis of Hoffman's
nomination for the White House. We know,
however, that since the nomination and cleo
ton of Martin Van Buren as the anointed
successor of cold Hickory" it has been,
as rule, the greatest misfortune
to our Presidential aspirants Of either
party to be too soon in the field.
In the cases of Van Buren, in 1874, and
Of all the ''oll fogies" and "hold- overs" as
they were styled in 1852, including on the one
side Cass, Buchanan and Marcy, and on the
ether Webster and Fillmore, and in the case
Of Seward in 1860, and in the grand collapse
at Charleston in the same year, we have
learned how far our Presidential candidates
depend upon the chapter Of accidents and
eleventh hour cliques and combinations. Even
in the Tammany Hall Convention Of 1863 from
the very beginning the only thing that was
! generally regarded as certain was the defeat OF
Pendieton, and because, coming into the Con-
vention the strongest candidate, all the other
! cliques were from the first combined against
! him.


This, then, is the danger to Hoffman. We
! find, moreover, that with til Is last failure of
| Pendleton to regain Ohio the bewildered West
! ern democracy are turning again to Chase
| and that the Southern democracy in the mat
ter of negro suffrage, on their new platform,
are SO far in advance Of the party in the
North that they stand in the attitude of a
new and independent organization. The
policy Of Tammany, then, is rather
to keep Hoffman in the background
than to push him forward, and to seek mean
~ t...l. 1s..s.z
the Northern democracy out Of the Dismal
Swamp of the dead issues of the past and into
a fusion with all the anti-radical elements of
the South. Nothing Of this sort can be
expected until after our November State elec-
ton, or rather till after the reassembling of
Congress and some proceedings indicating the
driit of the party in power Expectations are
still entertained in certain quarters of rup-
ture between Congress and General Grant, but
Year: 1869

Church and Stafe-The Roman Council.


The probability that the coming Ecumenical
Council may declare the Pope true autocrat
of souls-a ruler whose command of any
description it would be eternal peril to dis
obey-has attracted some attention from Ger
man governments. These governments are on
their guard against danger to their sovereignty
and eager to prevent the very inception of dis
turbance. Hence one of them, inquiring of
the theologians in its limits what would be the
effect upon the relations of Church and State if
the Council should declare the infallibility of
the Pope as dogma of the faith, has received
for answer that In such case allegiance to the
government when In collision with the Pope
might not be regarded as a plain duty by
believers. Now, there are several govern
ments in Europe that are strong enough not to
permit their authority to be questioned, even
in the interest of the Pope, and some others
that cannot afford to have this point agtated.
It is pretty clear, therefore, that il this is made
dogma its practical effect will be to rule the
very Church itself out of all those countries.
The governments of Prussia, Austria, Italy
and Spain will not In this age admit their sub
lection to the Pontif
Year: 1869

he who builds upon this foundation is, we
think, building upon the sand


The reassembling of Congress will De none
the less an important event to both political
parties. twill practically mark the beginning
OF new chapter in our political affairs.
Southern reconstruction will be completed, and
negro suffrage in the fifteenth amendment will
be settled We shall have in the Presidents
message definite expression of his views and
policy, internal and external, and es-
pecially on the money question. On
Cuba and the Alabama claims we do not
expect much in the message, but nevertheless
these questions will have to be met. All the
republican candidate for 1872. All the leaders
of the party appear To have yielded to this idea.
The succession, then, depends upon Grants
administration and upon the issues yet to come
out of it. Meantime the republican party has
central point of cohesion in the administra-
tion, while the democracy, East, West and
South. are all adrift The only substantial
nucleus they have around which to rally is the
Empire State, and as in this State Tammany
Hall wields the balance Of power, it becomes
the right and the duty of Tammany to shake
Off the old rags OF the age before the flood and
to put on the new garments Of the age we live
in, and so to prepare the way, under new
Southern balance of power, for the march of
the democratic party to a new reign and new
dynasty. Disorganized, demoralized, and with
out any broad and general policy or purpose,
as the democracy now stand, on national issues,
all the pipe-laying of this clique or that clique,
for this man or that man, signifies nothing In
reorganizing the party for 1872 Tammany Hall
the controlling voice held by the old Albany
Regency under the rising star of Martin Van
Buren,
Year: 1869

Increasing Circulation OF the Herald.
hand in their advertisements at as early an hour
as possible.


Our immense and constantly Increasing editions
capable of printing seventy thousand copies an
hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than
usual and to facilitate the work we are forced to
stop the classifcations Of advertisements at nine
o'clock p NJ
Year: 1869

CONVENIENT IN iNDIANA.-In Indiana they
are illustrating the primitive condition of so
ciety before the tedious methods of the lawyers
had come into any mans thoughts. There
was a dispute in which two men named SPRING
stoor were killed. One of them was q mem
ber Of the vigilance committee and Just out of
State Prison. Excited by the shedding of
blood, perhaps, the committee came together,
but apparently did not know exactly what
to DO, as the assailants of the Springstoors
were out OF the way. II remembered, how
ever, that man had previously been warned
to leave and was not yet gone, 80 1t adjourned
to the neighborhood Of bis house and opened a
fire of musketry. In little while he left.
Another man, obnoxious to the committee, was
subsequently found dead in the woods, and two
more are notified TO leave.
Year: 1869

The Cry OF WAsHINGToN.-There is now
quite large population of the people who are
settled around the national capital as purvey-
ors t9 the physical wapts Of Congresssmen,
and 10! they desire to have State govern
ment. The District of Columbia is what it is
politically because it was necessary that Con-
gress shoalda have place Of meeting not SUBJ
ject to any State law, and It il,st continue 50
while for people that do not like it there is the
choice Of al the States for change of resi-
dence
Year: 1869

THE TROUBLE IN SpAIN.-The Spanish
Regency is acting with much vigor against the
movement Of the people, and this is in It's
favor as government and would satisfy the
world of its strength If it was not clear that it
is fighting for life. It possesses an army
and has the will to use it. so it may put down
the people. All depends upon the army, and
apparently its obedience to its officers is not
limited by any patriotic scruple in regard to
fighting against Spaniards.
Year: 1869

Ne SwTNDLERs IN THE ARMY.-Two officers
have just been dismissed the army for dis
honest acts. One would not pay his tailor
or his landlord, and the other was quite a
ilnancer with his pay rolls. He sold his
claim for pay, and sold the same claim to
several different parties, and thus made his
authorities think it ought. When shall we
have in the civil service the same morality as
that which dismisses these men from the army
for such offences?
Year: 1869

THE SULTAN or ZANZIBAR felicitates M. de
Lesseps on the completion of the Suez Canal in
the gorgeously hfalutin style of the Arabic
tongue but he evidently has not heard that
they have to deepen the canal before it can
much rebound to the good of mankind and
the prosperity Of cities"
Year: 1869

The letter Of the poor Cuban prisoners who


were massacred by the Spanish soldiers at


Jiguani to the foreign consuls, which we pub
| lished yesterday, shows how these unhappy
people dreaded the fate that befell them. This
! appeal to the Consuls of England, France,
Prussia and the United States would not have
availed under any circumstances, probably,


but could not If even the consuls had been
disposed to interfere, for the signers of it were
dead men before any action could have been
taken. Such is the brutality of the Spanish
soldiers and Spanish volunteers that these
unfortunate Cuban prisoners apprehended vio-
lence or death from those who should have
guarded and protected them. Their language
is extremely touching and prophetic. They
say 1--WE do not fear the sentence Of the
authorities; we do not fear to stand before any
tribunal; we do not fear the rancorous hatred
of our enemies, nor the ISLANDERS so freely
circulated against us for the crime of daring
to be liberals; but we have dreadful appre-
hension as to what will be our fate and that of
our families" And then, as if foreseeing their
fate, they add :-"And this apprehension Is
converted into a horrible fear when we
call to mind our Imprisonment, with the
circumstances Of which you are Acquainted


that deed, which, had its full intent been car


ried out, would have deprived several inno-


cent men Of their lives, men whose removal


was wrapped in mystery like our own--and
this fear Is converted into a terrible reality
when we reflect that in lonely region, in the
midst of a civil war, we, accused of political


offences which have never been proved, may
meet our death from an attack, an encounter,
simple skirmish, mere suspicion from those
having us in charge" How surely and dread
fully did these poor victims of Spanish op-
preston realize the fate they apprehended!
They were murdered in "a lonely region by
the brutal guards who escorted them and
should have protected them. We know of
nothing more horrible in the history Of civil


wars. 1t could not have occurred in this
enlightened and civilized age with any other
people than the Spaniards II is sufficient to
cause our government and the other govern
menis of the civilized world to declare the
war in Cuba barbarous one, and to insist, in
the name of humanity, that it must cease If
there were spark of courage in the Secretary


Of State, or If the administration repre- sented


the American people on this Cuban question,


such protest would be sent to Madrid as


would startle the Spanish government. Spain,


in the atrocious conduct Of the war in Cuba,


has placed herself beyond the pale of civiliza-
ton and international comity and shou1d no


proclaimed the enemy Of humanity.
Year: 1869

Recent references to probable appointments
to the bench Of the Supreme Court of the
United States evince that among public men
such appointment Is coming more and more to
be looked upon as the price to be paid for poll
ticai services rather than as recognition of
great knowledge of the law, combined with
personal probity. The nation at large should
grieve to see seat on the Supreme bench
numbered among the things that are bargained
for in political orioles. If there is Holy Of
Holes in our national temple 1t is that court;
if there is one place that we ought all to COM
blne in keeping perfectly pure and above the
contamination of improper motive II ia the tri-
bunal having the decision of points that may
involve the peace, the happiness, the liberties
of whole people. 1t is absolutely certain
that President cannot do greater harm to
the country than to appoint man Justice Of
the Supreme Court for party reasons, to assent
to and continue the idea that has enabled men
to count off the possible judgments of that
bench by the politics of the men who sit upon
it. We trust that this great evil, which began
with General Jackson, may not stain the
administration of General Grant.
Year: 1869

TIE BOARD OF HEALTH has at last decided
that the establishment Of the Rendering Com
pany at the foot of Thirty eighth street "smells
bad" Some of its members visited the
premises the other day, and so iptolerable
were the odors that they could not stay long
enough to properly examine the rendering
apparatus; but the Board has SO little regard
for the health of those compelled to live in that
neighb9rhood that i has not even yet com
PEELED the company to stop operations. Will
the Board resign?
Year: 1869

e


" So weheand a great strapping young
man eSclaim the other day. We con-
cludcd that he. wanted little advice,
and we will give it 10 him.
is You want capital, do you? And
suppose you had what you call capital,
what would you do with it?


Haven't you hands, feet, muscle,
bone, brains, health, and don't you
call them capital? What more capital
did God give anybody?


80. but they are not IN oncy," say
YOU. But they are more than money
and nobody can take them away from
you. Don't you know how to use
them? q If you don't it is time you
were learning. Take hold of the plow
or roe, or jackplane, or broad-ax, and
go to work. Your capital will then,
in due time, yield you a large interest.
Ay, but there's the rub; you don't
want to work !; you want money on
credit, so you can play gentleman and
speculate, and end by playing the
vagabond. 5iA.5 tEtl5' 's !i} ,l-t.a
.f Or you want farm with plenty of
hands upon it to do the work, while
you run over the country and dissi-
pate; or you want to marry some rich
girl who may be foolish enough to
take you Cor your good looks, that
she may support you.


Shame on you, young man! Go to
work with the capital you have, and
you'll soon make interest enough up
on it to give you as much money as
you need, and make you feel like o
man. If you can not make money on
what capital You have, you could not
/ if you had a large amount in cash. L
| you do not know how to use bone
muscle, and brains, you would no
know how to use gold. If yon le
the capital you have lie idle and waste
and rust out, it would be the same
with you if you had gold; you would
only know how to waste it. 4


Then don't stand about idle, grea
helpless boy waiting for something Il
turn up, but go to work. Take TIL
first work you find, no matter what i


is, so that you do it well. Yes, what
ever you undertake, do it well alway
do your best. If you manage the cap
ital you already have, you will sooI


have plenty more to manage; but i


you cannot or will not manage tn


capital God has given YOU, you vii
never have any other to manage. d.
/ You hear, young man? ID
Year: 1869

CoLORED LABoRERs IN THE NAVY YARD
Four coloreu men employed at the Navy Yard
have been put TO work IN the engineers and
machlnists' department OF the Navy Yard as
helpers, ar as this Is the first time colored men
have ever hsen employed in that department,
their transfer occasions considerable talk
Year: 1869

TO THE TRADE.


Being desrous of accommodating the mer-
chant, the farmer, and the mechanic, have
fitted up the commodious Warehouse No. 46
King street, and | am now prepared to furnish
them with every variety of COOKING, PAX.
LOR. DINING ROOM and CH ID b
STOVES also, with all the gariaties of I'm,
JAPANNED, COPPER and SHEET IRON
WARE, of the latest improved patterns. l
can also furnish to order goods of any descrip-
ton that may be wanted in my line. Partlcu-
lar attention is given to the workmanship and
material used III filing all orders of my patrons,
and I pledge satisfaction az to styleand quality.
Nv work is equal to any done in Northern
cities. | also ask the favor of all who wish to
examine or purchase goods in my line to call
and see for themselves. Having an experience
Of thirty years in this business, l feel confident
I can suit them both in goods and prices.


l also would call the attention Of the public
10 the fact that have just received the agency
of the celebrated ST q A KT COO 81
STOVE, which needs no recommendation, as
persons in our good Old Dominion can fully
testify to its economy and great saving OF fuel
and labor. 80.
I will close by extending my most heartfelt
thanks for the liberal patronage extended to
me in the old year just past, and truly hope
continuance Of the same, during the new year
inst set in hNOCh 0nl @ NJ no.


Opposite old stand
T. S.-Koonng and Spouting In town ano
country, promptly attended to, and all WorS
fully warranted to please. Ieo II
Year: 1869

A recent wedding in Memphis was
spoiled BY the failure Of the bridegroom
to appear. The bride and her fair
bridesmaids were fully dressed, the
guests assembled, and the priest on
hand. After waiting two hours be-
yond the appointed time the party
broke up dsmally. Next day the sis


ter os the outraged girl bought cow
hide, ana visita d TIE room where the
scoundrcl lay on his bed with cigar
between his teeth lie begged so alb.
iectly that she did MT strike him,
Year: 1869

WoRK--Vherc was no curse in the
sentence uttered for Adam, immediately
after the fall, "In the sweat of thy face
shalt thou cat bread That was tho
expression not of wrath, bat Of love.
LOCKING down the long ages God saw
how needInl toll would be to men, and
though it must have pained Him to do
so let the fair earth--lIi3 own image
in rock and river feel the weight OF
curse, that toll might be made unavoid,
aDle. And so work is the heaven ap-
pointed minister Of man. Ever since
the day it was first announced it has
been fulfilling its mission, removing
with It's kindly hands human loneliness
and suffering and sorrow. And many
the spirits who, by its aid, have been
made satisfied with life and content with
their LOT, Without work society would
fall into universal cnnui first, and then
sin az the only adequate means of re
lief.