smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

value Of that which the Government
received. would be rather difficult, as
we'll as dishonest undertaking. Those
bonds have been selling every day for
six years, under thousand fluctuations
of the market, at all prices ranging from
premium down to All per cent. ac
cording to the financial credit Of the
United States in the eyes Of the worlds
capitalists. In what way can the viii
layers Of Earlville, LaSalle County,
compel the present holders of the bonds
to receive less for them than their mar
ket value ? The Government can pur-
chase all the Five-Twenty and Seven
Thirty bonds at 77@s7 per cent. which
it can pay for; and this price is just
about the value it originally received
for them. But it cannot discriminate
between the bonds-paying the present
holder Of a Five Twenty bond 90 cents
in gold, and the holder of another bond
of the same class, Ala cents. No law
Of this kind would be constitutional
Innocent third parties who now hold the
bonds could not be obliged to receive
less than market price. in any event;
nor has the Government any right to in


quire what was originally paid for them.
They were sold in open market for the
highest prices they would fetch. Be
fore the credit of the Government was
assailed by the Copperheads, its bonds
sold for nearly their face value. But
after they had basely and treacherously
opened their fire in the rear on the Union
cause all the capitalists and governments
Of Europe, except the republicans Of
Germany, believed that our Ship Of
State would surely founder and perish
and when the Copperhcad party declar-
ed the war to be "failure'' and the
overthrow Of the rebellion an impossi-
bility, it seemed even to loyal American
capitalists that the chances were abont
equal whether the Government could
pull through or would go to pieces. The
financial rule Of the world in all ages
has been that the greater the risk the
greater the discount in cashing the bonds
Of a Government, State, city, corpora
ton: and the United States Govern
mcnt during the agonics of that strug-
gle formed no exception and if the
United States Government should now
violate its faith with public creditors by
doing what the villagers Of Earlville de-
mand, its credit would be forever ruined,
and stigma would be fastened upon
the American people which could never
be efaced = TChicago Tribune.
Year: 1867

tCoRRRsPoNDBNCE OF THE PRKssJ


CHICAGO, Feb. IL, 1857.


1t has been SO long since have written
anything for the Press, that so far as / am
concerned, your readers may not be aware
that the city of Chicago still has being. 1
can assure them that she is still the Queen of
the West, and il New York does not look
well 10 her laurels, will at no distant day be
Queen of the Union.


In politics Chicago is the Radical city-rad-
ical to the core. She will not tolerate any,
thing that is not radical within her border
The Times-the worst Rebel paper OF the
North-has been obliged to quit all old Dem
ocratic notions, and come out tor universal
suffrage. Judge Trumbull, who is deservedly
popular, almost lost his election because our
people supposed he was not radical enough
and yet he is radical man. .-


The Opera House excitement has almost
died away. Mr., Lee came, pocketed his nice
little two hundred thousand, and has left us.
With the exception Of an occasional Joke
about "the man with fast horse and the
"long- tailed night Shirt" the drawing might
have happened hundred years ago, so far as
thing might be called gigantic hum.


Ristori has left us. She received more mon
ey here than at any entertainment she ever
gave, either in this country or Europe
Whether this speaks well or i'll for the good
taste Of Chicago, leave you to judge.


The elephantine Miss Helen Western has
been exhibiting herself to crowded houses
during the last week. Every seat and stand
ing room has been filled by select audience.
All the theatres are in full blast and the city
is decidedly gay.


Lectures are less thought of although we
have goodly share of those. Grace Green
wood spoke last week, Cough this week this
week-and l don't know who next; Phillips
comes soon. t.


The weather is cold-the coolest known for
seventeen years. We have little snow and
pretend to have some sleighing, but l fear it is
mostly pretence. Skating is all the rage
Every man, woman and boy skates. Not to
skate is not simply to be out of fashion, but
out of all society good or bad. The love of
skating amounts to mania, and all yield to
it. To have pair of skates, season ticket
to the Rink, and beau, is all that Chicago
young lady can or will ask for.


In morals we may be shade behind the
Forest City. Yesterday the papers boasted
that we had been two entire days without a
murder, but that happy state of things has
ended, for man was murdered last night in
saloon, for the fun OF the thing, there being
no trouble between the parties.


The famous Mollie Trussell has been par
dened, and is now at large. So much for be-
ing handsome. 1t a woman is only handsome
enough she can shoot anybody and escape un-
harmed. Witness Mary Harris and NOME
Trussell. 1t is to be hoped that there VIII
never he premium offered for mems soaps.
L. W. s.
Year: 1867

Forty five years old the day after to-
morrow, and it's surprising how well
my teeth hold out, and how little gray
there is in my hair! Nobody would
take me to be an old bachelor, if
didn't myself proclaim the fact. Nor
that I'm ashamed of being bachelor
on the contrary, I'm proud of It,


tell you what, though, I've had to
fight for it. You never would believe
the number of women, single and wild
owed, who have deliberately set them
selves to work to be Mrs Brian. Barlow.
The siege of Richmond was nothing to
the protracted seiges I've sustained!
Year: 1867

Where he intends to supply all who may favor him with
their patronage, with the best quality of work: at the
most reasonable prices Keeping nor but the best
workmen, he warrants all his work Remember the


and drop in.


Mt. a. 1S63-tf
Year: 1867

THERE was a time in the history of this Nation
when its integrity seemed, to the casual observer
of events, somewhat problematical, when rebel
lion raised its red right hand in the act of menace
against the life of that political system to which
we owe all that we and all that hope
to be as a people. The result of the contest
which had been inauguratel seemed somewhat
doubtful to traitors, and especially questionable
TO the rulers who believed, at least pretended
most religiously to believe, that might makes
right That was dark hour. The world, the
whole world, were the spectators of the conflict
which followed. Wherever the heart of man
thrilled with an aspiration for freedom wherever
humanity, hoping for the abolition of those
accursed creeds which teach unreasoning faith
in unquestioned power, struggled against the
strong arm which bound it in hated thrall,
there we had friends. We had other friends
besides. Their blood f,ftilized the soil of hund
reds of battle fields. They were the martyrs of
freedom The Nation holds their dust sacred.
Where they sleep, there is sacred soil. Honor
has no need to dwell weeping hermit by their
graves. A mission has been given unto her.
1t is hers, our Nation s, to proclaim their deeds
without blush or sigh, for Heaven itself smiles
upon the page wherever their deeds are written.
Liberty was their friend, and they were true to
her, and let this truth be their epitaph. Stock
ton Independent.
Year: 1867

ABOUT Love AND MArRIMoNy.-Neverb be afraid
OF becoming an old maid, fair reader. An old
maid is far more honorable than heartess wife,
and >" single blessedness is greatly superior in
point of happiness to welded life without love.
"Fall not in love, dear grls-beware, says the
song. But don't be guided by the song this
question. On the contrary, be assured that it is
good thing to fall in love, if the loved object
be worthy one. To fall in love with an honor
able man is as proper it is for an honorable
man to fall in love with virtuous and amiable
woman /; and what could be a more gratifying
spectacle than sight pure, so approaching
in its devotion to the celestial? No, fall in love
as soon as you like, provided it be with suitable
person. Fall in love and then marry; but never
marry unless you do love. That's the great point.
Never marry for 'fhouse" husband" "
Never degrade yourself by becoming party to
such alliance Never sell yourself body and
soul, on terms SO contemplate. Love dignifes
all things it ennobles all conditions. With love,
the marriage rite is truly sacrament. Without
it, the ceremony is a base fraud, and the act is
human desecration. Marry for love, or not at all.
Be old maid" )" if fortune throws not in your
way the of your heart and though the
witless may .sneer, and the jester may laugh, you
still have your reward in approving conscience
and comparatively peaceful life.
Year: 1867

SOME time ago merchant of an Eastern city
made bargain with lady for two chickens.
The lady brought them to his store, and he being
busy, she placed them on the end of the counter.
He didn't think that the proper place for them.
but didn't like to say so plainly, so he remarked,
W, at lay there, will they?" meaning that they
would be likely to jump off the counter. His
astouishment may be imagined when the lady re-
Piled ''Of course they won't they re roosters ~
Year: 1867

THE best thing to give your enemy is forgive
ness to your opponent, tolerance to friend,
your heart to your child good example; to
your father, Difference; to your mother, conduct
that will make her proud of you; to yourself,
respect; to all men, charity.
Year: 1867

WORDS are nice things, but they strike hard
We WELD them so easily that we are apt to forget
their hidden power. Fifty spoken, they fall like
sunshine, the dew, and the summer rain but
when unfty, like the frost, the hail, and the
desolatDg tempest.
Year: 1867

Private Medical Institute
Oak Avenue, sixth st.. bet. j and K,


SACRAMENTO CITY, CAL.
THE GREAT ERADICATOR OF SPECIAL COM
PLANTS, FORMERLY OF LOCK HOSPITAL,


LONDON, EIGHT YEARS IN sACRA-


MENTO, AND THE LAST FOUR


YEARS in SAN FRANCISCO.


49,


DIR. TOZER'S
ExpER1ENcE Is OF FORTY YEARS STANDING, AND
II during that time has with unparalleled in
the treatment of all those diseases generally known


Venerial or Chronic.
Itismpossbe here to mention all the diseases with which
The most formidable the pt destructive V"' to
SeAbuse The brain being the seat of the disease the
whole systsm suffers in consequence will here enumerae
some Of the symptoms that those afflicted be able TO
form an opinion in regard to complaints and seek ad
vice in time thereby saving themselves world of suffering
Nervous Debility Loss of Memory Pain in the Limbs and
Back Palpitaton Of the Heart Trembling Of the Limbs
Headache and Aversion to Genial Society especially that
of females There are great many but these suf
cent should you suffering from any Of them call on
DR. TOZER and he will You in short time without
ter and there will be occasion for calling the


Structure of the Urethra
circulars that disease and inform yourself of its terrible
results The worst cases cured in few days.


Venerial Diseases,
In all their various forms Primary Secondary or He
stituton being restored perfect health there will be
danger OF handing down your children that terrible dis
ease known as Scrofula.


Syphaltic Disease,
As it presents itself this coast is of moro formidable
character than that in the Atlantic States or
rising from the fact of its being compound of Snanb Chi
and Sandwich Island disease Those Of YOU who have
VISITED the two latter countries doubt dread
u effects OF it on both the native and foreign population
1t requires altogether different modes of treatment


The Old Formulas
or Ricor Acton and Bostwck of little account except
dry up the disease on the surface leaving the poison
the blood which later. will show itself
Diary disease in aggravated FORM These learn
ed by experience and think say without boastng that
physician in California dating does from lS49 1t be-
you therefore, think WELL before you employ
physician.


Who is the to consultan old experienced
or one who has recently settled amongst you,


My Plan is Purely Vegetable,
is no danger Of secondary symptoms


Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
And diseases arising from the of Mercury pains
in the snbones swengs of the different joints of the boz
dy running sores etc. etc. and impurities of the blood
ed In short time by the of my VEGETABLE MIX
TURES, known only to my self.


Diseases Peculiar to Females,
Such as Retention Suppression and Painful Menstruaton
etc. etc. have been study for number years
and can safely promise perfect in short time
Be not deferred from calling Dr. TOZER from decacy
fear Of exposure, the Doctor is in whom you
can trust and all treated with the secrecy


My Female Pills
Are the best used this Suppression of the
Monthly Sickness Every lady should have
necessity Price So Consultation at the office by
ter FREE All letters returned or destroyed Office hours
from A. N. till P.
Year: 1867

CAN'T NoTE FOR BRowNLoW-Two of
the most intelligent colored men in this
place informed us few days ago that not
one-tenth part of the negro vote in Wilson
county will be cast for Brownlow and the
Radical ticket al the coming election.
The reason is obvious, and ia, as they in
formed US, because they place no confidence
in the professions of friendship constantly
made toward them BY these Jscobins
They say You have allowed us the priyi-
lege of voting in order to re-elect you to
Office, while the true friends of our race.
and the only friends we have who are in
condition to befriend us, are the very men
whom you expect us TO vote against. All
our pecuniary aid must come from the
Conservatives, and where our interest is
there we shall cast our votes. This is SEN
sible reasoning, and our Conservative citi-
zeus should see that every colored voter
appreciates it.--Lc6dHoa Herald
Year: 1867

Every department Of business has an imme-
date interest in the markets Of the country, and
In its financial fluctuations and condition. The
man who fails to keep himself properly ad-
ylscd as to the rise and fall Of the markets, as
controlled by the laws Of demand and supply,
and the relative condition Of the currency, Is
exposed 10 constant loss. aud must necessarily
fall behind his more intelligent and enterprising
ueighbors In order 70 make our paper valuable
as wei. as interesting. We shah continue 10
make this sPEcIAL FEATURE. Our Daily
Market Reports domestic and foreign. by tele-
graph. and our City Reports, gotten up at heavy
expense have challenged the oommendation of
our best business men while our current Finan-
cial Reports from all the leading money centres
OF the country are fuller than have ever been
published by any other Journal in Tennessee.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly adnonish the Southern
people to be self reliant and shah do What we
may be able 20 induce the esthblishment Of
manufactures Ia our midst for our home pro-
ducts To this end we with pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
aud exert ourselves to encourage the diversih-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

BY A CONSOLIDATION OF THE NASH
VILE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and by the generous and united
support Of the USIoY AND DIsPATcH by the
patrons Of both the former papers, the Proprie-
tors are enabled 70 present a Newspaper hithef-
to unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY OF
NEWS our paper will compare favOrably with
the best in the entire country; and in saying
this. we only repeat the expressions Of many Of
our patrons wha are most capable Of judging IN
uch matters.
Year: 1867

John McDonough the millionaire Of New
Orleans, has engraved upon his tomb q
series ofmaxims he had prescribed as the
rule for his guidance through life, and
TO which his success in business is mainly
attributed. They contain SO much wisdom
that we copy them;


RrLEs FOR THE GUIDANCE OF MY LiFK 1904.
Remember always that labor is one of the
conditions OF our existence. Time is gold:
throw not one minute away. but place each
one to account. Do unto all men as you
would be done by. Never put off till to-
morrow what can be done to day. Never
bid another do what you can do youraelf. I.
! Never covet what is not your own. Never
think any matter 30 tridiug rs not to deserve
notice. Never give out that which does
not first come in, Never spend but to
produce. Let the greatest order regulate
the transactions OF your life. Study id
your course of life TO do the greatest amount
of good.


Deprive yourself Of nothing necessary to
your comfort, but live in an honorable sim:
plcity. Labor, then, to the last amount of
your existence, Pursue strictly the above
rules, and the Divine blessing and riches
of every kind viii aow upon you to your
hearts content but first of all, remember
that the chief and great duty of your life
should be TO tend, by all means in your
power, to the honor and glory of our Di.
vine Creator.


Tho conclusion to which have arrived
is, that without temperance there is no
health without virtue no order without
religion no happiness; aud that the aim OF
our being is to live wisely soberly and
righteously. JOHN MoDONOUCH.


NEw ORLEANS, March 2, 1904.
Year: 1867

A letter from the Falls of Niagara says
F" The well known and universally accepted
theory that Niagara Falls has worked it's
way up from the low lands about Lake
Ontario thus forming the magnificent gofgS
of Niagara River, receives support from


the obvious changes that have taken place
during the last few years. The Canada
Fall no longer deserves the name OF tho
Hofse-ehoe.' Tho beautiful curve that il
presented score or even dozen years
ago is now lost, and the center is rather d
deep, retiring gorge coming to q jagged
point, than the graceful semi.circle which
il formerly was. In the American Fall the
change is fully as perceptible. From the
Canada side it still presents theappearance
OF a regular wall of dazzling alabaster but
when examined from the American side Il
is found to be broken and irregular=tiiS
rocky precipice having at certain points
worn backward as much as forty feet


This process appears to be working much
faster than hitherto. Table Rock is very
different from what it used TO lie; and i
perceptible crevice marks the line whers
the next fall OF the rock will be. This fall
may be brought about by next winters
frosts; and when it happens Table Rock
Will only be tradition of Niagara"
Year: 1867

the State Of their birth, voluntarily as.
stunned the hazard and danger of the strifel
Can the body of our people whose coun.
try has been savodfrom deadly peril, whose
property has been protected hy the hero
ism of soldiers whito or black-can they
so with good heart to the polls when q
wounded black soldier looks wistfully but
in vain to share tho same high privilege OF
an American citizen--can wo refuse him
the same means Of protecting his wife, his
family, his kindred, that we cherish for
ourselves as our most precious legacy
No, fellow oitizons, this question is settled.
When we were drawn to the necessity OF
employing negro soldiers. we were bound
to give them votes. In the language of an
American General, when they drop the
muSket you cannot withhold IRON them the
ballot.


Again, fellow-eitzens, a decent oonsis.
tency demands il of US. We have through
your Representatives in Congress, for high
national purposes, prescribed negro suf.
hage for the South as ono of the consider a.
tions of representation. Can we rSfuse il
at the North Z


After the gravesi consideration, we saw
no safe basis of reconstruction in tho South
except general suffrage, white and black
may speak of other reasous hereafter, but
now we have the simple fact that we, with
the will and power Of u conquerer ongrafted
upon the registry of votes 100000 black
men who had recently heeu slaves. We
did il to secure for ourselves and for the
whele country, Il broader and more loyal
basis ot Government. and to secure us
against future wars and rebellion.


Shall We now, when the question affects
our own registry, refuse to insert seven
thousand men of the came color, men who
were born among us, who have always
been free, who are far more intelligent than
the new citizens Of the South, and very
many of whom have fought our battles with
courage aud fidelity


can ouly say, my follow citizens, that il
thought the people of Ohio could be
guilty of so grave an Inconsistency, so
grave an injustice, | would not represent
them with that faith and confidence it has
been my pride TO, feel for them.


The logical consequence of the great
events through which wo have passed is
to broaden the elective franchise, to
strengthen the National Government, and
TO harmcnize it with the principles laid
down in the Declaration Of Independence
This amendment tends in the same drec.
ton, and beg of you to DO as you have
done during the war, to disregard the sne2rs
of party that lives by petty prejudice.
Let lis do an act of justice worthy of the
great Republican party, by engraftins in
our State Constitution the general princi-
pie, that whether man he rich or poor
white or black, learned or ignorant, he shall
stand equal before the law in rights, priv.
ileges and immunities
Year: 1867

being connected with the movement.
The latter are servants for wages. To
be servant is not dishonorable; all
men, 10 some sense, ought to be SER
vants--to bear in some degree, each
others burdens: but to be nothing elss---
to look for nothing but wages--is to
lose the noblest characteristics of man.
hood. Is there no morality in politicsi
Will men always fail to make the dis
tinction Of good and bad servants :
Why not more frequently give an Office
to man who Is not degraded by politi-
cal servitudei We need not ask such
questions Of every one we meet. Still
we think that occasionally caucus iS The
open ar would be beneficial,


Even service in the army does not
always qualify one for civil Office; for
instance; if two soldiers contend for
the same Office, it is evident that some
qualification besides the fact of service
in the army should determine the claims
Of each. The same consideration may
apply in the case of contest between a
soldier and a civilian. In the latter
case, all other things being equal, the
patriotic voter will permit gratitude to
turn the scale in favor of the worthy
soldier. But when it is considered that
there were thousands of reckless adUenta.
rey in the army lately disbanded, we
may well invite reason to control the
impulses Of the heart. Republics are
ever running to extremes we will do
well if we are neither blinded by love
nor hardened by ingratitude. Let US
occasionally reward the patriot soldier
who is not bowling for Office.


Demagogues are the pests of repub-
lican form of government. They are
not confined to one party; and they are
dangerous, whomever they serve. The
country can get along without them |;
that is, we do not depend upon them.
We are more independent in our faith
than in our practice. Many honest
men consider voting as a trifing duty;
they divorce the act of voting and their
acknowledgements lead them;
hence demagogues so often get the Off
ces. We suffer. The remedy for the
evil we have indicated in the first SEN
tence of this article.