smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868




At sunrise next morning they let 60
their hawser and resumed their voyage.
still preferring empty stomachs to such
food as they had. Still. as throughout
the previous days voyage, the river flow
ed on smoothly between low and verdure-
clad banks. but the velocity of its current
was perceptibly increasing. At length.
toward noon. they came to rapids swift
and rocky, in descending which they lost
their carbines and their little store of
dour-their only provision-while their
|revolvers were wet so as to be unservice-
able. Below these rapids the banks were
steep and rocky; but an island Of some
extent afforded them convenient place
to haul out for repairs, while the screw
pot mezquit with which it was partially
covered furnished them with scanty but
not altogether unpalatable meal.


(Of mezquit, thorny bush which
grows in great abundance on the Colora-
do. and in many other portions of Califor-
MIA. Arizona and Mexico, there are two
varieties-one producing beans in a large
pod resembling our ordinary garden beans;
while the other produces small seeds. a.
bout the size of those of the locust, envel-
|oped in small, spiral pod from two to
three inches in length. which is aeshy.
and has a pleasantly sweetish taste. l
have tasted them and found them to be
rather tough. but otherwise palatable.)
Having passed the night at the island.
our voyagers set out in the morning with
their raft in better condition than before.
and with reuewea, hope Of soon getting to
the end of their voyage, or AZ least Of
reaching port. From the size and
depth of the stream. they argued that the
head of Observation-Disclosures be
near. After they had aoated for few
hours, however, the sound Of falling wa
ter was borne to their ears, becoming
more and more distinct as they proceeded.
until they were satisfied that they were
approaching cataract. Meanwhile, they
had gradually and almost unconsciously
drifted into canon with high, precipitous
walls, which confined the river within q
narrower channel than it had coursed in
above. A hasty reconnaissance convinced
them that they could not escape from the
gorge by climbing the walls, while the
current was now so swift that it was use
less to think of attempting to turn back
White, however, took the precsution 0
Year: 1868

If we knew the woe and heart-ache
Waiting for us down the road,
If our lips could taste the wormwood,
If our backs could feel the load:
Would we waste to-day in wishing
For time that ne'er can be;
Would we wait in such impatience
For our ships to come from sea?
If we knew the baby-6ngers


Pressed against the window-pane
Would be cold and stiff tomorrow
Never trouble US again:
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frown upon our brow?
Would the print of rosy fingers


Vex us then as they do now2
All, those little ice-cold fingers,


How they point our memories back
To the hasty words and actions


Strewn along our backward track
How those little hands remind US,


As in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns-but roses
For our reaping by and by!
Strange we never prize the music
Till the sweet-voiced bird has flown;
Strange that we should slight the violets
Till the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one-haf so fair
As when winters snowy pinions


Shake their white down in the airl
Lips from which the seal of silence


None but God can roll away,
Never blossomed in such beauty


As adorn the mouth to-day;
And sweet words that freight our memory
With their beautiful perfume,
Come to US in sweet accents


Through the portals of the tomb.
Let us gather up the sunbeams


Lying all along our path;
Let US keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out their thorns and chaff;
Let US find our sweetest comfort


In the blessings of to-day;
With patient hand removing


All the briars from our way.
Year: 1868

reflect that a soundm and body are the most
necessary requisites to promote connubial hap
piness. Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage; the
rospcct hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness ot
another becomes blighted with your own.
Year: 1868

A few days ago, a young girl, accom-
plished and beautiful, who two years ago
was moving in the highest society in New
York, died in the cell Of station-house,
having been brought there drunk and
disorderly from the streets. Her father,
once quite wealthy, had failed in business
and died, and she had married a young
man from one of the first families .
who had deserted her, leaving her with
a child, unable to support herself. She
saw no choice but starvation or shame,
and chose the latter. She drank to
drown her despair, and in eighteen mos.
met her death.
Year: 1868

The following is single chapter of the
numerous horrors of life in the South, as
taken from the Nashville, Tenn. Times:


The details of horrible deed of blood
reached us yesterday from Hawkins
county. The victim was j. G. Willis,
himself the murderer of a man named
Sizemore, who fell from a bullet from his
pistol about a year ago, in the same
county.


Between this Willis and one Burton
a bad feeling had been growing for some
time, and they thirsted for each others
blood. AT length the devil favored their
wish, and they met on Sunday last, on
the banks of the Clinch river, few
miles east of Rogersville. Willis was
half drunk, and was on his way home
from distillery in the hills, where he
had been drinking and gambling for
three or four days. The other man, it
was said, was just leaving religious
SdtHerlDS III tue WOODS.


They met in a lonely place both we're
mounted. The moment they came in
sight of each other-at sharp bend in
the road-they We're not more than twen-
ty yards apart, and their horses were GO
ing at good trot.


When they pulled up, the animals
heads touched each other.


They halted and let their bride reins
drop. Willis belt became loose, and his
pistol dropped down on his horses back
He partially turned round to pick it up,
when his assailant fired and struck him
in the side. He fell, and when he came
to the ground, the horse which he was
riding turned and gallopped off, dragging
him a considerable distance. His foot
caught in a projecting root, while the
other remained fixed in the stirrup. The
violence of the jerk literally wrenched
his thigh bone from its socket, while the
saddle-girt broke, and he was left on the
ground groaning.


When his enemy rode up and dis
mounted. Willis saw the evil design il
his eye, and begged of him to give hin
a respite to see his WIFE But no the
black hearted man was inexorabIe. He
would allow no respite, nor even to uttel
short prayer, but sternly told the mar
that he should die Willis implorec
mercy, the blood streaming from his side
and the agony of his torn limb working
his face into fearful contortions. HI,
clasped his hands together and begged
mercy, but mercy was not there. Th'
monster deliberately put his pistol to tn,
almost dying mans forehead and sho
his brains out. He then mounted hi
horse and rode to friends house, t.
whom he detailed the particulars of tn
murder, took three or four drinks 0
whiskey, and then left. Hehas not beel
heard from since.
Year: 1868

EIGHT TO SIxTEEN'-Lord Shaftes-
bury recently stated in public meeting
in London, that from personal observa-
tion he had ascertained that of the adult
male criminals of that city nearly all
had fallen into course of crime between
the ages of eight and sixteen years; and
that if any young man lived an honest
life up to twenty years of age, there were
forty mine chances in his favor, and only
one against him, as to an honorable life
thereafter.


Thus it is in the physical world. Half
of all who are born die under twenty
years of age, while four-fifths of all who
reach that age and die before another
"score," owe their deaths to causes of
disease which were originated in their
teens" On careful inquiry, it will
be ascertained that in nearly all cases
the causes of moral and premature ply
scal death are pretty much one and the
same, and are laid between the ages of
"eignt and sixteen years" This is a
fact of startling import to fathers and
mothers and shows a fearful responsible
ty, Certainly parent should secure
and retain and exercise absolute contro
over the child until sixteen; itcannot bt
difficult matter to do this, except in
very rare cases, and if that control j:
not wisely and efficiently exercised, i
is the parents fault; it is owing to pa
rental neglect or remissness. Hence the
real source of Dinety-eight per cent. Of
the crime of country such as England
or the United States, lies at the door o.
parents. 1t is a fearful reflection; W,
throw it before the minds of the father
and mothers of our land, and there leav,
iii, to be thought of in wisdom, remark
ing only as to the early seeds of bodil,
disease, that they are nearly in ever,
case sown between sun-down and bed
time, in absence from the family circle
in the supply of the spending-money nev
er earned by the spender, opening tn
doors of confectionaries, soda-fountains
beer, and tobacco, and wine, of the circus
Year: 1868

Docs AND WoLvEs.-Unlike the fox,
the wolf, when overpowered by numbers,
becomes cowed and dies meekly. A wolf,
surrounded in this way, suffers himself to
be killed by the dogs without utexhausting
his strength in the struggle. Butwoe to
the luckless cur that meets him alone in
the forest, unless of size to inspire re-
spect, or of strength to exact it. The
wolf takes kindly to dogs flesh, notwith-
standing the dogs horror of VOLTS flesh
and when, rendered bold by hunger, the
wolf approaches the village, his lure is
not so much the farm live stock which
he knows to be ewell guarded, as the stray
eur which he expects to find at large
and unprotected. In some parts of Eu
rope scarcely a winter passes without q
visit from the wolves, and the smaller
dogs are nearly always the first victims
Sweeping through the village at dusk ol
daybreak, they snap up or bear off, with
out stopping, some bowling mongrel un
able to get out of their way in time.
Year: 1868

that the names and principles thus presented
will be overwhelmingly indorsed by the votes of
nearly ALL if not absolutely ALL the States in
the Union. Even the recusant Senators hasten
TO announce their fealty to the ticket and the
platform, in the hope thus TO glide back unob-
served amid the general congratulations and re-
sumo their places beside those whose convictions
of right and opinions of law did not change
with every trihing verbal alteration in the
form of the oath they were under. The
Satanic press bastens i'll vain to weaken the
ticket by offensive and damaging praise The
press whose function it is like Blondin, to
hang balancing and manacled over the chasm
which divides truth from error and right from
crime, unbasket their feet and hurry to land
Oh the "hithern side.
Year: 1868

ton. This mountain, which is situated near
the middle of the island is about 1850 feet in
hight and of immense breadth, is the largest
volcano known, and its former eruptions have
been remarkable for the great quantity of
ashes and lava thrown out. The mountain began
in earnest after the heavy shocks, and three or
four days afterward new crater a mile and
half in circumference was formed. From this
crater four or five huge jets of lava constantly
shot forth to hight.of 500 to 1000 feet, forming
one continuous spouting nearly mile in breadth.
The lava, red-hot and filled with earth and
stones, poured down in solid river, in some
places more than thousand feet wide. This
river spread over great amount of territory,
and was expected very shortly to reach the
sea. One account says that 1900 shocks OF
earthquake have been felt within ten days.
Year: 1868

The characteristic of the real estate market,
Just now, in SO far as the sale of lots in this
city is concerned, is quietude The time has
at length come when the Spring sales are over,
and the Summer sales have not commenced,
and during this interval stagnatiOn is ever the


rule 1t is not probable that there will be
any great number of city building sites
put upon the market until the Fall,
when the intOxicatiOn over country residences
will have been removed, and beauties can alone
be found in town mansions, to possess which
the wealthy, who are not already provided.
Will be willing to pay, as they have in
the past, whatever prices may be de-
manded. Building, however, is prose-
cuted with vigOr at present, and can
only be retarded by the conduct of
workmen, who may avail themselves of the pre-
vailing demand for skilled mechanics to insist
upon an increased remuneration, which may
not be warranted by the terms of existing con-
tracts, and thus necessitate suspension of
business The only hope for averting this ces-
satiOn of labor is the good judgment of the
employees, and the probability that contractors
anticipated such a course and have pro-
vided for it in the terms of their
agreements. In almost every part OF the city
new buildings, that will much improve their
several localities, are in process of construc-
ton, and any event that may tend to retard
their completion is to be deplored. Although
there are few sales of lots and houses now
effected, the prices of real estate do
not lessen, nor is 1t probable that
they will depreciate. There are too many
causes operating in this city to maintain the
existing high rates; they may, and doubtlessly
will, still further advance, but a reduction need
not be hoped for unless one courts disappoint-
ment Country lands will soon be in the mar
ket-indeed, they are already; and here just now
is where people of moderate means may hope
to obtain homes for themselves and families.
Those with a limited bank account are also en-
abled to possess a lot whereOn to build house.
because of the small advances required and the
long time given in which to complete the pur-
chase. Until September rural homes will mo-
nopolize the market; after that month urban
residences will be the desirable offerings.
Year: 1868

Mr.. Samuel F. Cary yesterday asked the
House of Representatives to resolve that the
Five-Twenty bonds of the Government are
payable, not in the currency which the takers
were expressly promised and which they un-
doubtedly expected to receive when they came
to the rescue of the country from Rebel sub
version, but in another and inferior currency.
He says the public creditors and the War PEN
sioners should be paid alike, which can hon
estly be effected by the simple process of Re
sumption. But Sam doesn't want that-he wants
to inaugurate gigantic fraud, like that which
sent him to Congress as a Republican, when he
is at heart a PendetOn COpperhead, and will
be reelected as that if reelected at all. We
advise him not to run the same year with
GRANT and COLFAX.
Year: 1868

call to the White House to I'll the unexpred term OF ms
Colleague no doubt can 10 entertained that he will give
us good administration Nor is the fatterng reputation
OF these men limited te United States, for IT Is SUI
stantaly the abroad as at home The news OF her
nomination will srenGhen the confidence OF the fflenus
OF "the great republic" over all the world5on the


Thames the Seine The Rhine, the Eeya and the Danube,
and from the mightyAmaZon, rolling its flood OF waters
down the equatorial ne TO the imperial 1ang klang
of China sthe sol of the sea-" Nor will that honest
faith i'm Amercsnsecurtes at Frankforton-th Main be
Teakened with he prospect Of the transfer from and
after the 4th of March 1862 of the reins OF govern
ment 10 Grant and ColfaX. The Chicago Convention
could not havs chosen better ticket. The President
,r0 tenn OF tie Senate Mr. Wade, who led the list OF
Wee Presidential aspirans on the hrs two or three
ballots would have been TO Grant as heavy load to
carry as wa the Old Man Of the Sea TO sinbad the SAILOR


and Fentor the highest competition OF Coax would
also have dead weight. COlfax on the otner manu-


gives positive strength and consistency 10 he tcet
which makes it unit and expands the circle OF lts lhnu
ence has had the valuable training OF newspaper
edOr-a vocation which in this country Is the Dest Oh
school, for an aspiring politician 1t teaches nun an tne
ms AID outs of the profession and how 70 aNou lose
shoas and bars upon which so many OF our gfeatesI
statesmen have fOundered The rall splitter ana tne
tailor were a powerful team, but the tanner ana the
editor will match them. There is nothing Ike leather


Id the the third OF the Nineteenth
century Grant and COfaX strong ticket, and they
are provided with movable extension platform on the
negro suffrage question and the money question which
will accommodate all comers of all shades OF opinion
Year: 1868

AS The Herald will have half dozen somer-
sets to turn before the Democratic Convention
is held, we take the liberty of putting on
record its reception of the Republican ticket
the day after the nominations


InU g. Grant the GeneralinC OF the army ana In
Schuyler Coax Speaker OF the National House OF Repre-
senatves the Republican party has placed strong CO.
hesye and popular Presidential ticket before inc people
Grant the great captain OF the has also proved That
in the administration of the civil affairs OF peace


shment he possesses those endOwents OF practical
satesmanship which qualify him for all the responsiDl-
ties OF the executive head OF the Government IN any
emergency. 10 Is the general impression among the
American people that In his hands their interests ana
the honor and prosperity OF the country VIII De safe
His associate. Speaker Colfax for one OF MS age IL
q man Of great experience and superior abilities
and saRacy In political affairs and In the event OF
Year: 1868

An Impression prevails very generally that
Congress has passed an act extending the
operation of what is known as "the fifty ycent
"clause" of the Bankrupt act to the lst of
January, 1869. This is an error, however,
which may lead many into very fatal delay.
The Judiciary Committee have never reported
the bill, and we have reason to believe will
not report it. All petitions, therefore, under
which the bankrupts are unable to show assets
to the amount of fifty cents on the dollar
must be filed during the present week or not
Mt all
Year: 1868

WORCESTER, MASS, April IA Frenchman
named Peter SafTray, living in Webster, was
murdered about O'Clock this morning, while
in bed with his wife. He was struck three
times on his head with an axe. The wife Of the
murdered man had been intimate with a man
named Dare, and it is supposed that she left
the house door unfastened, with the under
standing that Dare should enter and murder
Safiray. They are both under arrest.
Year: 1868

GENERAL SHERMAN was about departing
upon his journey to Fort Laramie Wednesday
night, when he received a note from Juage
Curtis requesting him to remain here until the
Presidents counsel determined whether they
would recall him a witness or not.
Year: 1868

The mercantile houses whose cards compose
this column are carefully selected from the lead.
ing FIRMS n Chicago as those whese extensive
operations end widespread reputation entitle
them to tie first rank IN commerce. The busi-
meas cards OF these establishments in their several
trades have been classified in alphabetical order


forming comprehensive synopsis of business
Information, upon which our merchants can rely.
Year: 1868

ton here suggests itself whether the Pres,
idency of a>national bank ought not to in
capacitate the holder thereof from holding
Il seat on the Senste Finance Committee
while the question OF Withdrawing govern
ment funds from hs bank Is under consid-
eration2


Without questioning the integrity Of
members Of Congress, who are at the same
time national bank Presidents or owners,
hold it impossible for them to legislate
upon this particular subject with that de-
gree Of impsrtiality.always desirable; and
il seems to me that a proper regard for
great public interests should impel them
to resign positions, TO say the least, so very
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be self reliant, and shall do what we
NAV he able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures In our midst for our home pro-
iacts To this end We will pay special attention
90 the COST and STATISTICS Of mRnutacturing
and exert ourselves % encourage the diversiA-
ostiop Of Southern industries and the develop
Meet OF Southern resources
Year: 1868

RESURRECTION OF AN OLD SHIP.-We often
hear of ships going down, but it is seldom
that we meet with an instance of their spon
taneous resurrection. Yet such u case is
happening in this city. On the north side
of Clay street, between Drumm and East, q
ship was sunk. and built over in early times
The ground all round it is uow being filled
in, and the pressure of the material used for
the filling is forcing the old ship out of the
mud. Several buildings were erected on
piles right over the hull, and portion of
one of the masts, which is still standing, was
used as a pile to support the houses. This
mast is aow forcing its way upward, and, as
natural consequence, the buildings are being
lifted from their foundations. As the filling
goes on. we may witness the singular spec
tacle of house hoisted in the air on the top
of ships mast.-S. F. Times.
Year: 1868

BEbow THE WATER STRATA.-The Bullion
Company are now engaged in running drift
from the bottom of their main shaft, at
depth of 1900 feet below the surface The
Bullion shaft is the deepest east ofthe Sierra
Nevada mountains To it we must look to
learn something of the nature of the ground
in which all the companies engaged in mining
upon the great COmstock lode will at no dis.
tant day be working. All have found water
in quantities so great as to make the use of
powerful pumps Indispensable, and this
water has been found at an almost uniform
depth. This being the case, it is not unlikely
that dry ground similar to that underlying
the water strata in the Bullion will be found
at about the same depth in other mines. In
the Bullion drift mentioned above not drop
of water is met with. The rock throug gh
which the drift is being carried is almost as
dry as a bone, aud is very close grained and
solid. Apparently it has never been broken
up, cracked, or disturbed by slides or other
surface agitations. While there is much
water in the upper portions of the mine. with
rock in which it is difficult to mine on &C.
count of its broken, shaky nature, below all
is dry, solid and safe. Should what we see
in the Bullion hold good, as rule, in the
other mines on the Comstock, the contem.
plated Sutro tunnel would be an unnecessary
piece of work, except as an outlet for the
water found in the upper levels of the vari-
GUS mines, which must now be pumped out
of the receptacles provided to collect ard
cOnfne them.-Vd. Enterprise.
Year: 1868

A Coon IDEA.-The inlet to the
short sewer, leading from the foot of
Main Street to the river, has been
cleaned out, and an iron grating has
been placed in the mouth of the inlet,
which will prevent old bouts and
such like debris from getting into it.
1t would not be bad idea to serve all
the inlets in like manner.
Year: 1868

CROWDED OUT.-The pageant of
Saturday afternoon unavoidably
crowds out several matters Of news
of a local character. Among these
are the real estate transfers and the
list of marriage licenses.