smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

The only article ever offered to the French people that
would 0uRL sTRAIarI1 HAIRl the above Toilet being
manufactured for the sole benefit Of Louis Napoleon
which article Ia now indispensable to his toilet


Tho suhscrbers feeling confident that this Toilet must
necessarily take the place Of all others ever offered to
the public take pleasure in expressing their condolences
In the article, gaining II from practical use.
Year: 1863

these vessels. The same journal says
that Canada could not exist as an indie
pendent nation alongside of the United
States. The Times then puts the ques-
ton to the Canadians, who, it says, have
shown an unwillingness to raise reason
able force to resist invasion which
course will they choose? To fight freely
for their defence, their own homes, or be
dragged at the cannon's mouth to feed
an alien struggle in the heart of a distant
foreign and unhealthy country"


M. de Persigny has been made duke
in testimony of regard for services rem
dered by him to the Emperor Napoleon
Year: 1863

ErGHTn CENsUs.-We are obliged to Col Wal
lace our Delegate in the last Congress, for copy
Of the Eighth United States Census Report. Il
is valuable book being filled with statistical
and other information interesting to everybody.
Year: 1863

IcoHoMY IN A FAMILY-There is noth-
ing which goes so far toward placing
young people beyond the reach of poyer-
ty as economy in the management Of
household affairs. It matters not wheth-
er a man furnishes little or much for his
famly, if there is continual leakage in
his kitchen or parIor; it runs away, ne
knows not how, and that demon Waste,
cries '1Iore !" like the horse lecehb
daughter, until he that provided has no
more to give. 1t is the husbands duty
to bring into the house, and it is the duty
Of the wife to see that none goes wrong
fully out Of it. 4 man gets wife to
loo; after his afflirs, and to assist his in
his journey through life +; to educate and
prepare their children for station in life
and not to dissipate his property. The
husbands interest should be the wife's
care, and her greatest ambition to carry
her no farther than his welfare or happi-
ness together with that Of her children!
This should be her sole aim, and the thea
tire of her exploits in the bosom of her
family, where she may DO as much toward
making fortune as he can in the count*
ing-:oom or Workshop.
Year: 1863

In extent Java is about seven hundred
miles in length. and It varies from eighty to
ore hundred and forty miles in width. It's
area is less than twenty thousand square
niles The face of this country is more o:
IS broken by mountains, but the soil gen.
orally is rich, sugar, coffee, pepper, spices
and a profusion OF the finest tropical fruits.
Coffee is cultivated to as great perfection as
in almost any other part of the world, 1t
grows upon large bushes, and the grains Of
coffee are formed two il . berry about the
SIZE and shape of our common plum. The
skin Of the berry is abont as thick as that
Of the plum, and the color, when ripe. .
pale scarlet. ,%f 3.-st elfts'


The bush is very productive. Every
branch is loaded with berries. which grows
two in aplace onjthe opposite sides Of each
other, and about an inch and a half apart.
When ripe the skin burst open and the
grains Of coffee fall out upon the groudn
but more general way is to spread some.
hing under the bush snd shake the coffee
down. After the outer skin is taken of
there remains kind Of husk over each ker.
mel, which is brokenoff (after being well
dried in the sun) by heavy rollers. The cof
Zee sitter this needs ~innowing In order to be
freed from the broken particles Of the bush.
II has been said by some writer's that one
bush with smother, WIN not average more
than pound of coffso. -, ,....,...


Black pepper is also raised to some extent
on the Island Of Java; but Sumatra, which
lies just accross the straits, is by far the
most celebrated for this commodity. Her
pepper is perhaps, the finest and most
abundant Of any country in the world.
Black pepper grows on . vine. The pepper
grows and looks, when grows, very much
like our currants., There is this difference,
however, the eurrant has each iss distinct
stem just as each grain Of Indian corn does
on the cob. The color Of the pepper, when
ripe, is almost bright red, and changes to
the dead black by being exposed to the heat
Of the sun. q 4assE


The white pepper is nothing more than
the common black with, the outer skin taken
of. It is first soaked until this skin bursts
open, which Is then rubbed or md the
grain dried. The white Is not cpnsidcred 50
pungent as the black though It is nicer and
more expensive, As more, labor is necessary
n order to prepare it. - g : q -
Year: 1863

GRIERsoNs raid upset the nerves Of the
MississippianS, though he by no means did the
damage which be might have done. and some
y it in the wrong places. An excellent jest IS
related of him. that while near Newton, some
timd old lady appealed 10 him for protection
II her property when be replied to her that
her property should be safe " that he was not
On stealing expedition. but merely Stumplns
The stats for Governor and was obliged to keep
his appointments" His conduct in repreSsing
outrages and robbery is spoken Of very highly
BY the rebels.
Year: 1863

fmE RIcHESr YEr.-We have lived ten
gears on the Pacific Coast TO be shown yeSter-
lay the richest rock we have ever seen. The
specimens were as nicely deposited in cotton
rs a casket of jewels-aS well they might be,
for at least one half the weight was pure gold.
The quantity of rock shown us We should Judge
weighed about five pounds. and it was esti-
mated to be worth between four and five hun
dred dollars. They consisted Of frameworks
of pure gold, interspersed with pure white
quartz The ledge from which they were ta~
ken is in this county, six feet of which is of
fabulous richness. Specimens of rock similar
TO these shown Us have been crushed and av-
erage seven dollars to the ounce. making the
moderate sum of Sl6e,000 to the ton. The
value of he bullion is Sl5 "A loo per ounce.
The locality of this claim and tho names OF
parties interested as yet are profound secret,
but il cannot be long before they are diyulged.
We have seen much of the richest quartz ever
produced in California but nothing whose pc


culiar character promised a richness equal to
this. The sight of it positively made US sick
1t the stomach Territorial Enterprise.
Year: 1863

TIE CoPPERIEAD.-It was reserved for
the present generation to develop the new po-
litical character so fifty styled the Copper
head. The era of the revolution had its Cow
boys, and the war of 1872 brought out class
ofopponents whose personal worthlness was
GENERALLY in fiat contrast to their wronghead-
edness. But the Copperhead Of the present
day, although he may be the heir OF these an
cients' opposition to the cause Of the country,
has traits entirely his own, which, it is to be
hoped, will disappear with him. We may
glance at few Of them. The Copperhead Is
a modest man. Although he stays at home
in retirement he claims to know more about
this great national contest than any OF us
actors. He tells the soldiers that they are
not fighting to put down the rebellion, but
merely to uphold despot at Washington.
He tells the President of the United States
that he does not know the most obvious con-
stitutional limit of his sphere, but is violating
more laws than the rebels themselves. lie
tells the rebels that what they really want Is
peace, while they say directly to the contrary,
and the President confirms their veraclty Ill
this respect He tells the negro tia: he cam
not fight, and ought net to be allowed TO II ne
could, while the latter contents himself Win
pointing to Port Hudson and Fort Wagner
letting his modest calumniator have his tax
out. The Copperhead makes great sacrltices
in this irving crisis. Others tender generous
contributions in aid Of the war or its suffer-
ers-he does nothing of that kind. others
give up their sons and dearest kindred he
Stands aside and arraigns their folly. Others,
still, go to the war and sacrifice their limbs and
lives-but he considers that only very MIS-
guided proceeding against our Southern pre-
thren. Nevertheless, in some respects, ne
makes the greatest sacrifices OF all. lie
sacrifices his reputation for good sense and
common sense, his good name In the future,
his standing as a citizen, his fair memory
among his children. Who else can make
such sacrifices as these, and that too without
any other inducement save partizan spite or
the solicitation of political demagogues


From this it will be seen that the Copper
head is brave man. He can look the tate
of old Tories OF the Revolution and OF the
Federalists of the last war steadily IN the
face, andyet march down to deeper grave
than they lie buried in. He can see on
every page of our national history that the
one objectionable sin of our politics is open
infdelty to the country's flag, and yet have
the nerve to prove as unpatriotic as ever Ar
mold was in war or Burr in his plots. Truly,
such courage as this, unperrcrted and pure,
would give new impulse to the Union cause
in the field and redeem the country, which u
now defaces and curses. But enough OF the
Copperhead-he is well understood, truly ap-
preciated by the loyal masses, and we have
only been induced to sketch his outlines be-
cause he is transient creature OF the day,
and the places that now know him will soon
know him no more DECENTRALIZATION Journal.
Year: 1863

BnEyITY.-It is said of the three most in-
fuential members of the Convention that
framed the Constitution of the United States,
that in all the debates of that body, no one Of
them made speech Of more than twenty
minutes. We have good authority for
stating that Alexander Hamilton, Though
reckoned among the ditfuse orators Of his
day, did not occupy more than two hours and
a half in his longest argument In the trial of
a cause, and his rival Aaron Burr, not more
than an hour and a quarter. A judge, who
was intimately acquainted with Burr and his
practice, confirmed this statement, adding
that within his knowledge this advocate re-
peatedly and successfully disposed Of cases
involving a large amount of property in half
an hour Indeed" said he, 6 on one occn-
sion he talked to the jury seven minutes in
such 4 manner that it took me, on the bench,
half an hour to straighten them out" He
added, 81 once asked him, Colonel Burr,
why cannot lawyers always save the time
and spare the patience Of the court and jury
by dwelling only on the most important points
in their cases = to which Burr replied, Sir,
you demand the greatest faculty Of the human
mind-selcction.o He is well known to
have been one of the most effective advocates
in his time and in this matter, if nothing
else, he deserves to be studied and initiated.
We refer to single foreign example, an
eminent English barrister. 81 asked Sir
James Scarlet" says Buxton, "what WAS the
secret of his pre-eminent success as an advo-
cate. He said he took care to press home
the one principal point of the case, without
much regard to the others. He also said,
that he knew the secret Of being short:
fnd,' said he, that when / exceed half an
hour, am always doing mischief to my
client. If drive into the heads of the jury
unimportant matter, drive out matters
more important l had previously lodged
there" We commend this method, and his
reason for it, not only to ministers, but quite
as urgently to lawyers and members Of Con-
QreSS,
Year: 1863

Secession sheets are very much troull d
about the war, and want to know when it is
going to end. We will tell them. When
the rebels are well whipped, and their lead
ers, who have caused all this bloodshed, are
killed, captured, or driven into exile. We
don't apprehend that it will take many more
years to accomplish this happy result.
Year: 1863

YANKEE LETTERs.-A large batch Of Yam
kee letters, picked up on the battle field aud
taken from Yankee prisoners have been sell
to us. We find nothing especially remarkable
in them. They are very monotonous. Most
of them from women. All Of them are ex-
ceedingly urgent upon the men to come home.
Many of them ask for money-$l0 being the
sum generally needed. Many of them are ad-
dressed to msn whoee time is nearly out, and
they are very pious in their prayers tina. these
men may come home before Hooker advaaces.
Execration Of the war is Il general sentiment,
and despair of ever conquering the wretched
rebsls is another, almost as frequent in these
practical epistles. One woman asks Joe to
be more saving, not to spend his money with
speculators and camp followers, but to send
more home to support his family. Another
complains bitterly that her husband expected
her to make s. per week more than she cid
when it was impossible. Shs retorts by tell
ing him he ought to send more money home
than he had sent. Taking thess letters as sam
ples, there is certainly no excessive amount
of felicity among the people of the North at
this time.
Year: 1863

Dear Miss +: | set down to tell you
that I've arove hum, an wish l was sum whar
else. I've got 3 Bully boys an they ar helpin
me about gettin the garden sass into the
groun but they haint go. no mother an I've
got house an kow an l thort you'd be
kinder handy to take care of UNI if you'd
stoop SO much. I've thort of you ever sense
l com from the hospittle and how kinder
jimmy you used to walk up and down them
wards. You had the best gate ever see an
my lst wife stepped OF jes SO an she paid
her way l tell you.


like to work an the boys likes to work
an kno YOU do an so Ide Ike to jine if youv
no onjeeti.ns and now I've made so bold to
rite sch But was kinder pushed on by my
frelins an SO l hope you'll excuse it and rite
soon. l shant be mad if you say no but its
no harm to ask an as sa cant help ritin
and the boys names ar Zeberlon Shadrac an
peter they want to see you as dos your re-
speclful friend which oes his present health
to you. JOSEPH C..
Year: 1863

ticles completed the list of effects, and my
eyes filled over them. Gone so soon, and
absent. could scarcely bear the thought
remembered the beautiful and touching
tenderness with which he had read those let
ters for me, and how lovingly he had told
me Of his home far away in the " little white
northern village" and of the young betroth-
ed, of whom he had spoken shyly and timid-
ly, yet with an evident desire to improve his
gratitude by his confidence And to all of
these, after the lapse of but a few short
hours, after the dictation of those cheerful
letters, must now write the words that
would fall upon their loving hearts like a
blow Dead dead"


carried home all the effects, and with
heavy heart endeavored to perform my last
service to the dead. 1t had been his wish
that all should be given to me, and, through
fast falling tears, tried to soften the sting
of the pain | must intiict by word of sympa-
thy. Later, learned that his whole cry,
during Sunday morning, had been for me ;
but knowing my illness they would not send
for me. He had messages that he wished
me to transmit 10 his friends, which alas !!
were left unspoken. To me he had once
given his confidence, and he could not easily
do this. His was nature that shrank in
stinctiyely from strangers. But having
trusted me once he felt freer to speak. |
have often thought since that he wished par
,icularly to send message to his afianced
wife. For his family, he said: bid her
(meaning my self tell them ! died in peace
in regard to my future existence. | believe
l shall be happy. 7. Eren'ng Post.
Year: 1863

/ have two sons, wife


Two, and yet the same;
Both are only one, wife


Bearing but one name:
The one is bearded. sunburnt, grim, and fight:
across the sea.
The other is little child who sits upon your knee
Only one is here, wife,


Free from scath and harm;
can hear his voice, wife,


All about the farm.
The other is great strong man, wherever he
may be;
But this one, shadowy and dim, is sitting on
your knee.


One is fierce and cold, wife,


With a wayward will;


He has passed through fire. wife,
Knowing good and i'll.
He has tried our hearts for many year-not
broken them; for he
Is still the little stainless one that sits upon your
knee.


One did willful wrong, wife,


Bringing us TO shame,


Darkened all the farm, wife,


Blotted our good name;
And when our hearts were big with grief, he sail
ed across the sea;
But still we keep the little son that sits upon
your knee.


One was rash and dark, wife.


Would have say for say;
Furious when we child. wife.


He went his willful way;
His voice in sinful rage was loud within the farm
Remained the growing little one who sat upon
your knee.


One may fall in fight, wife


Is he not our son !:


Pray with all heart, wife,


For the wayward one;
Pray for the dark, rough soldier, who fhgts
across the sea,
Because you love the little one who smiles upon
your knee.


One in sinful fight. wife.


As speak may fall;


But this one at home, wife,


Cannot die at all.
They both are only one and how thankful w.
should be
That We cannot lose the darling son whr sits up
on your knee
Year: 1863

The reduced state of the enemys military force has
become so apparent that the most tind Of our people
are taking encouragement from it. Time was that the
enemy 90 far outnumbered all points that We could
only approach his streng h at any by concentration
which would cause the Abandonment of other DO
sition. thus we had to abandon the Valley to Pat
terson and to Fremont when fought the fist Ma
nassas and the battles around Richmond. Evenafter
thus concentrating, We always had to fight superior
forces.


The enemy are nc longer tuus full handed OF soldiers


Look at the shifts to which they reduced il or
der to strengthen Rosecrans ! They either abau-
doning many minor positions greatly reducing their
garrisons. They have been compelled to strip Meade
to that point witch has placed him the defensive
and put hin upon retreat.


Such ia th condition to which the invading power
finds itself now reduced 1t deems itself happy if it
can maintain an even fight in Virginia aEd in Tennes-
see, where the great armies meet


II such be our enemy's condition now, at the cloe
of the third csmpaign what will it be at the egDniag
of the next and fourth His present soldiers were


listed for three years and the three years will expire
next Spring He has long ceaged to obtain troops rom
yountcerng even uner the seduction Of great boua.
ties lie has tried the draft and ii is pronounced a
failure The North, il short, is showing great gns
of exhaustion Lincoln has got bis last army and it is
not likely be hold that beyond s tern Oh enlist
ment The negroes and conscrpt Substitute other
| wise bis sole and slim reliance.


The Confederate States have been tie walker but TIE
more resolute power in this contest. We have been
the more resolle because of the greater stake have
had in ISSUE The Yankees have fought for advantage
we have fought for life. They can stop when they
chocse-we cannot. We have thus mere than made ul
for inferior numbers and numerous other Disadvantages
Il was natural that the North, fgeting voluntarily
would break down sooner than We, fighting fIon thf
compulsion of sefdefence, and animated even
the exerons of despair by the Vengafu threats OF ou
foe Let US strike on and strike bard and strike witt
all our might our de!iYerance draws high.
Year: 1863

ABOUT BERF.-HoW IS RIVE are informed upon the
BEST authority, that persons who had Beef at Magnolia
Depot the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, last
Monday evening, for the pC-pose Of sending it to
Wilmington, prevented from placing it the
by saEtinel Who said ne Instructed by Msj
JACKSON 70 allow to 20 away from that Depot
do know that General WHITING has Issued such
think he has not, and therefore, call his at
tention this matter. We presume that but the
General commanding has right to issue such orders,
eutuorze them to be issued We shal be very much
cerned that the supply of food for this
the mercy OF any subordinate Officer at any railroad
Year: 1863

We cannot in Justice ourselves and the people of
the Stale, refrain from publishing the following letter
from a Surgeon in the Army of Northern Virgina,
and one whom every citizen in this sec ion is we'll ac


quanted wish concerning the principle reason why SO
may desertions have been caused from this State
Year: 1863

We not OF tie party in he French government
and have tins fr reference by whom this remark
made to THsc WcLFE TONE, but know it made abon
TIM General BoFAPAKTE took his start and was
Indicative Of his policy and Of French policy whenever
r1lor
Year: 1863

charity and propriety to carry on my ad
ministration while holding and expressing
opinions injurious, as they imagine, to the
interests Of the College, and offensive to
that party in the country which they here
professedly represent, hereby resign my
Office as President


| also resign my office as Trustee


In taking leave of the College with
which have been connected as Trustee,
or as President, more than forty years,
very happily to myself, and, as the Trust
ees have often given Inc to unders; and,
not without benefit to the College, | beg
to assure them that | shall ever entertain
grateful sense of the favorable consider
alton shown to me by themselves and
their predecessors in office, for SO long q
term, and that | shall never cease to de-
sire the peace and prosperity of the Col
lege, and that it may be kept true to the
principles of its foundation.


! am, very respectfully,


Gour Obedt scryt, y. LORD.
Year: 1863

and then continued in friendly chat. Now,
it so happened that the man had been in
sane, and was rapidly growing insane again.
A wild notion was fast acquiring the
strength of fixed idea The two men in
friendly chat were, in his mind, thieves
planning how they conld rob him, and he
was resolving to be the first in the field.
/ There was some method in his madness,
for he postponed the execution of his pro-
ject until the train had fairly started On its
last run to London. AS soon as it left
Bletchley the maniac drew knife and
stabbed Mr. Worland in the head. He
drew back his arm to repeat the stroke
when Mr.. Mclean, who seems to have had
his wits about him, knocked him back into
his seat. Springing up, the maniac made an
other dash at the now insensible Worland,
but here he was foiled again by Mclean,
who gripped his throat and his armed
hand, and a close combat began. All the
time the train flew rapidly through the
country. The woman sitting near the
other window had done all she could to
alarm the driver by wasting her screams
on the morning air, and now lay insensi
BILE from the effect Of terror The mad
man drew the blade of his knife through
the fingers Of Mclean, and thrust with it
wildly.


Worland had now regained his senses,
and he at once entered into the combat,
getting behind the mailman, and throw
ing him down. The maniac's yells were
louder than those of the woman they
were continuous, but neither guard or dri-
yer heard them. And so the tragedy con-
tinued, one long act, raving maniac held
down by two men, all covered with blood,
lighted by dim lamp and the gray dawn
For forty long miles this scene lasted, seen
by none except those engaged in the strife,
until ticket collector, hastily opening the
door, saw the two gashed and haggard
men bending over the exhausted mailman
on the blOod-stained floor.


Since the French police found the body
of a murdered judge in a railway carriage
nothing SO terrible has occurred. Of
course the madman, for he must have
been mad, was taken before magistrate,
and there he gave as a reason for his con-
duct the explanation we have already men
tiOned-he thought the two men were
about to rob him. He turns out to be
an Irish schoolmaster, Michael Lyons by
name, coming to London on mixed er-
rand of business and pleasure. 1t is said
that he has been confined in an asylum
for a year, and of course every inquiry
will be made into his past life and charac-
ter. He is now in the Bucks county Jail.