smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

| Among the arrivals in Cincinnati by the
Louisville packet was young couple, who,
it was evident, bore more tender relation
ship to each other than brother and sister,
and yet, as they occupied different state
rooms, it was certain that they were not hus-
band and wife. As soou as possible after
reaching the landing, they repaired to a
hotel, where in conversation with social
gentleman, the youth conidod the secret
that he and his companion were clipping !;
that the brides parents, who resided below
Louisville, being, like many others progen-
itors of the female sex, cruel, preverse and
hard hearted, they had run away, and were
only anxious to finish the adventure by get
ting married as speedily as possible He
had hardly made the statement, ere hard
featured, middle-aged gentleman entered
the Office, and without observing the love-
lorn young man, walked up to the register
book. The youth, after significant press
ure of the arm of his companion, stepped
upon one side into another room, where lie
remained until the elderly gentleman having
got through the list of arrivals, turned upon
his heel and walked rapidly away.


That's him." exclaimed our hero; ''he
must have come up by railroad, and is search
ing for US. How lucky that did not put
down our right names. But what shall we
dO?"


"We!l," replied his new-found friend,
this is rather an awkward fix; expect
you'll have to go further up the river and
get married at Gretna Green, for the old
chap has bad countenance that means
mischief, and he be sure to go to the court
house, so you won't be able to get license


"I'll go up stairs and hurry Emcline off
at once" exclaimed the now almost dc, pair
ing man.


"You can't get away before twelve
O'Clock" returned the other, ''aud the un.
reasonable parent will be aboard the boat"


"Hold on, my lad, exclaimed bis good
natured counselor. 'By joyc, l begin to
feel an interest in this matter. You go up
stairs and tell the young lady to be prepared
for start, and in the meantime keep
sharp lookout, and don't let the obdurate
father catch you; LII be back within an
hour"


And off he started leaving the bridegroom
in prospective wondering in what manner he
was going to help him out of the scrape.


Sure enough within an hour he returned,
accompanied by certain gentleman who
was duly qualified, legally and ecclesiastical
ly, to bind together 'hearts that beat" and
the bride being duly notified, they all made
rapid tracks for the river side, where they
found skiff in waiting with brace Of oars
men.


"Gct in and be quick about it," said the
master of the ceremonies, and without a
word OF inquiry, in they went, and, when
seated, few lusty pulls took them to the
middle of the stream.


Now, thcn," continued he, I've are out
of the Jurisdiction of Cincinnati, and there
isn't any thing to prevent the ceremony
being performed, so go ahead"


And there in the tiny boat, floating lazily
down stream, in the midst of cold, hazy
atmosphere, the nuptials were celebrated
and as the final word was spoken, the ingc-
NOUS manager of the affair took his reward
from the rosy lips of the bride by cheating
the bridegroom out of the first kiss.
Year: 1868

AN EPISODE IN STREET CARA curious
scene took place In Bleecker street car last
night. A gentleman, the head of q Wall street
banking h. use. entered the car TO ride up town
The car had gone but n snort distance when
his wife also entered the car, and taxing a sea-
at his side, informed him that she proposed "a
70 wherever he went. To this he obiected,
and war OF words followed. When the car
reached Bleecker street the husband made :,
dash for the platform, but the wife, who evil
IDENTIFY was prepared for the emergency seized
him by the skirts of his coat. In the struggIe
" hich followed both got into the street. where
the husband struck the woman In the face.


An Eighth ward policeman came up AT this
juncture and took both into custody. At the
station house counter charges We're made. bUt
the Sergeant in charge advised a reconciliation.
which was finally effected, and both left for
their home in Brooklyn.-N T. Post
Year: 1868

NEW York, February 1.-THE
HerGld's Washington special states
that among Other propositions of the
Ways and Means Committee was ene
from a Western delegation of whisky
dealers, to allow them, in case the
two dollar tax. is retained, draw
back, as it is termed, for the cost of
freight upon every barrel of whisky
sent to an eastern city. The Conn
mittee are considering on this propo-
sitlon seriously, as they have deter
mined to keep up the tax.


Another proposition is to place the
tax at fifty cents on the whisky sold
at wholesaie, and the two dollar tax
on what is disposed of by the retailer
Year: 1868

by the Executive. The President
issued an order to you to obey no order
from the War Department, purpOrting
to be made by the direction of the


President, until you have referred ii


20 him for his approval. You reply
you have received the Presidents or


der and will net obey it, but will obey
an order purpoftiHg to be given BY his
direction, if It comes from the War
Department. You will obey no direct
order Of the President, but will obey
bis indirect order IF, as YOU
say, there has been a practice
ia the War Department to issue OF
ders in the name Of tae President,
without his direction, does not the
precise order you have requested and
have received, change the practice as
to the General Of the Army? CoulG
not the President countermand any
such order, issued in the name of the
President, to DO a special act, by an
order directly from the President
himself not 10 do the act2 Is there
any doubt which you are to obey?
You answer the question when you
say to the President, in your letter Of
the ID instant, the Secretary of
War is my superior and your SUBJ
ordinate, and yet you refuse Obedi-
ence to the superior, out Of Difference
to the subeFdinate


Without further comment on the
Insubordinate attitude which you
have assumed. l am at a loss to know
how you can relieve yourself from the
orders Of the President, who is made. /
by the Constitution, the Commander
ih-Chief Of the Army and Navy, and I
is, therefore, the official superior as
well Of the General of the Army as OF I
the Secretary Of War.
Year: 1868

Whenever yeu perceive horses IN
clination to rear, separate your reins
and prepare for him. The instant he
is about to rise, slacken one hand, and
bend or twist his head with the other,
keeping your hands low. This bending
compels him to move hind leg, and of
necessity, brings his fore feet down.
Instantly twist him completely round,
two or three times, which will confuse
him very much, and completely throw
him off his guard. The moment you
have finished twisting him round place
his head in the direction you wish to
proceed, apply the spurs, and he will
not fail to 60 forwards.


If the situation be convenient, press
him into o gallop, and apply the whip
and spurs two or three times severely.
The horse will not, perhaps, be quite
satisfied with the defeat, but may feel
disposed to try again for the mastery.
Should this be the case, you have only
to twist him, etc, as before, and You
will find that in the second struggle he
will be more easily subdued than Oh
the former occasion; in fact, you will
see him quail under the operation. 1t
rarely happens that a rearing horse, at
ter having been treated in the way de,
scnbed, will resort to the trick third
time.-British Sportsman.
Year: 1868

ONE-HALF the public debt is the re-
suit of waste and speculation; yet it
was long held "disloyap to ask that
these great leaks in the public expendi-
ture should be stopped, or even looked
at. This was the great attraction Of
"war times" to the Radicals; this is the
reason they want to continue them.
Not Radical paper but vows that the
war is not over. To inhame and keep
alive the ferocious passions of civil war
is the object Of nine-tenths of what is
composed and invented for the Radical
newspapers. Take any one of them up,
and you see this on the face of it. Hate
YOUR neighbor; never forgive trespasses;
cursed are the peace makers; this is the
Radical doctrine. 1t is, in fact, the
gospel of CHRIST rerersed. Yet it is not
more opposed to the principles OF relig-
ion and morality than it is to wise
statesmanship and the true interests OF
the country.
Year: 1868

The Baltimore San, in speaking OF
the recent letter of JOHN s. CARLISLE.
formerly Radical United States Senator
from Reconstructed Virginia" refers to
his claim that he would have supported
HENDRICKS OF HANCOCK, if they bad re-
ceived the New York nomination, and
remarks that the fact of such nomina-
ton not being made does not change
Radical policy. 1t does not alter the
status of Repuhlicanism, or that which
is put in allegiance because the people
are alarmed by its probable consequen'
c,s. The nomination of SEYMOUR does
not render Radical policy less threaten
ing, with its increase of the national
debt in time of peace, and the mon
strous addition which must be made to
that debt if war of races in the South
should be the result of the ferocious
and oppressive spirit by which the
dominant faction seems to be deliber'
ately seeking to drive the Southern
people to the uncalculating fury
Of despair. Nor is there any such
alternative, as Mr.. CARLISLE mentions
presented by any nominations which
any party has made as Radicalism or
disunionism. The nominees of both
parties have given the most substantial
evidence of their devotion to the Union
both parties make the same professions
Of loyalty to it, and if the pratice o
either does not accord with its profes
sions, it would seem to be!that upon which
the Radical Congress has acted thai
the success of the war put the Southern
States out of the Union. Dissolution
Of the Union is "lost cause" but
there is danger Of another "cause," {
cause as sacred rs that of the Union
the cause of constitutional liberty
being "lost," and lost here-as it one,
was in England, in the Puritan times
by those whose aggressions upon it ar


made in the name of public right ant
for the advancement of human free


dom.
Year: 1868

George d. Prentice says: If there be
a solitary human being within our reach;
who, by some whimsical hook or crook
of heart or brain, has got on the wrong
side of the line of INDEPENDENTLY if
he has been an old Whig, or Union man,
and considers it sort of duty to 60
against the Democrats-we entreat him
to pause, and reflect upon what he is
about to do. Why should he GO with the
Radicals; and what reason can he offer
for not going with the Democratsi All
the issues over which we used to fight
are dead. The Democratic party itself
is reerganized after a division which
completely destroyed and recreated it.
In 1860 it fought within itself as reso-
lutely as We ever fought against it.
Times have changed; men have changed
Clay, if he were livisg now, would be a
Democrat. Webster could be nothing
else. All the reputable old line Wings
that remain are Democrats, from Fill.
more to John Bell; and God knows, If
these can afford it there is no one OF
their followers in the by-gOne times who
has any excuse to bo.d back.
Year: 1868

To the People Of Pennsylvania:


The Radicals reproduce the stale
ISLANDERS of the past and try to ignore the
grave questions of the present.


They prate of their loyalty and make
it the excuse for their curruption, their
extravaganza and their misrule.
They imagine that you hav9 slept
during the three years of their iniqui-
tous misgovernment, and that You will
forget that taxation oppresses you, that
your commerce languishes, and that your
business is broken up.


They have proven themselves powerful
to destroy and powerless to restore.
Their only policy is hate, and upon
this they ask new lease of power, for
getful that a thinking and practical
people require them to answer.


Why is the national debt greater now
than when Lee surrendered, and why
does it still increase I


What has become of the fifteen hun
ared millions of dollars they have wrung
from the comforts and necessaries Of the
people since June, 1865


Why are more than one h1ndred mil
lions of dollars annually wasted on the
unreconstructed South, and why is it
not made ts yield US as much, to relieve
us from taxation aud aid i'll paying our
debit


Why is the white man is made the in
ferior of the negro in every Southern
Statei


Why is one class of men totally ex
empt from taxation whilst all others
groan beneath the load they should aid
in bearingf


Why shall the 500 bonds be paid in
gold when by the express terms of the
contract, they were made payable in
legal tender-notes


Why is the Constitution violated and
the Union not restored, and why are our
resources wasted, and the people oppres-
sed, the cost of living trebled, and our
trade destroyedi
DEMOCRATS OF PENNSYLVANIA:


AROUSE THE PEOPLE.


Organize speaking canvass in every
locality. Go into the strongholds of
Radicalism, and


TEACH THE PEOPLE.


Direct your arguments to reason and
not to the passions. Contine them to the
living issues of the present aud of the
immediate future.


PURSUE THE ENEMY.


Our grand old State moves steadily
but surely into her true place in the
Democratic line.


From every section comes the glad
news of defiant and united Democracy,
and of torpid and dispirited foe.
Organization, energy and united effort
will bring youa glorious victory.
AROUSE THE PEOPLE. TEACH THE PEO-


PIE. PURSUE THE ENEMY.
BY order of the Democratic State Com
mittce,


VIM. A. WALLACE,


Chairman.
Year: 1868

A YOUNG lady in Snyder county,
Pennsylvania, was in the garden pick
ing berries. A piercing scream from
her alarmed the rest of the family, who
were at the tea-table. Fastening to the
spot, they found her lying on the ground
insensible. She was carried in the house,
and, sad to relate, examination proved
that she was dead. Her friends, on
proceeding to prepare the body for in
terment, were horror stricken to find an
immense black snake coil0d tightly
around her person, underneath her
clothing. There being no evidence OF
the snake having bitten her, the infer
ence was that the young lady died from
fright.
Year: 1868

THE Hartford CoHrant (Rad.) thinks
that BUTLER would be the most dan
gerous enemy to our national honor
that could be elected to Congress, on
account of his views on the currency
question.


We don't know about that, but it is
certain that his views concerning sill
verware were very disastrous to the
people of the South.
Year: 1868

If the $50 bonds are to be thrown
into greeubacks. from one hundred and
thirty to one hundred aud fifty millions
of dollars will he saved each year in the
matter of interest Besides this money
will be made plenty in the West and
activity will thereby be given to every
kind of business. The farmers, labor
crs, mechanics and business men will
he able to get along better than they
are now getting along.


|, not this worthy of consideration
Year: 1868

THE double price of tea, the triple
price of sugar, the ruinous cost of cloth
ing, and the velocity and volume
with which property in almost every
part of the country is running from the
poor to the rich, in consequence of the
inequality and injustice Of taxation,
are facts with which the poor men can
close the mouths of blatant Radicals at
this time.
Year: 1868

THE amount of taxation for the pur-
pose of the national government alone
is equal to fourteen dollars to eveiy
man, woman and child in the Union.
The fact that this enormous burden is
upon the people, and the question how
they can reduce it, are vastly more i'm.
portant to them than all the musty is
sues which the Radicals are endeavor-
ing to unearth.
Year: 1868

OLD clothes and broken victuals are
solicited for the support of the vagrant
negro population of the South, until
after the election. The vagrant vote of
the scalawags, both black and white, is
essential to the success of the carpet
bapOers
Year: 1868

Ir is said that GRANT and BUTLER are
now bosom friends. Very likely. GRANT
had the Beast bottled up for while.
But he unbottled him, and GRANT nev-
er uucorks q bottle that he does not
transfer the contents to his BOSOM"
Year: 1868

II all the available income OF the
Treasury, even under the present un'
heard of rate of taxation, is required to
meet the interest on the national debt;
how long will it be before the reduction
of the principal will bring us a reduc-
tion in our Federal taxation Of five
hundred millions yeari
Year: 1868

THE Radical papers are now quoting
what the Russian papers say of General
GRANT. We suppose the General is
running about as well in Russia as he
is here.


What o pity the Digger Indians have
not an organ. Their opinion of HIRAM
and his prospects would be interesting.
Year: 1868

And what its signs of promise are"


The Radical leaders, who profess to
believe that they can elect their Presi-
Dental ticket, have at length shown
their hand, by giving the figures for the
faith that is in them. The editor of the
Tribune, who does most of the figuring
for the party, gives the following as
the basis of his hopes, in letter to the
New York Independent:


The States are entitled to choose BIZ
electors, whereof 159 are majority.
There should be no doubt of General
GRANTS carving at least these:
Year: 1868

Our friends seem to be almost every
where resting in the conviction that
General Grant cannot possibly be
beaten. This is at once untrue and
perilous. He not only can, but mill, be
beaten, unless the Republicans work
with more energy and efficiency than
they have thus far done.


That is, rs matters stand to-day Cen
eral GRANT is defeated man Unless
the Republicans can increase their
strength-do better "than they have
thus far dcne," General Grant "not
only can, but will be beaten" AS
every man of sense knows that the Re-
publican party has nothing to gain
from this time till election, while it
is constantly losing strength, Mr..
GREELEY virtually gives up the
contest.
Year: 1868

The man who was shot and mortaly
wounded while 10 the act Of committing a
burglary in restaurant in San Francisco
some two weeks ago, died from bis wound
last week in the hospital. The unfortunate
man gave his uame as Calhoun. We say
unfortunate man, from the fact, that from
our knowledge of lis antecedents, we feel
justified in CHASING him among the unfortun-
ales of California The mans name was
James Fl. Creamer, and in early days, was
quite a prominent and respected citizen of
Placer County. In 1872 and 3 he kept a
first,class restaurant in Auburn, where by the
labor of himself and wife, he acquired con.
siderable property. He sold out his Auburn
business in 1853, we believe, and went to
Iowa Hill, where he built and furnished fine
hotel which was soon afterwards burned to
the ground, whereby Creamer lost nearly
everything be had. He afterwards S arted a
restaurant in San Francisco, but did not sue
ceed in bis liking, and some difficulty of a
domestic character occurring about this time,
the restaurant was closed, be and his wife
separated, since which time he once dashug
Creamer, so far AS we know, has never en-
gagged in any legitimate business, bat gave
himself up to dissipation and petty crimes.
In 1861 or he enlisted in the army, or
joined some volunteer company, and was
sent down to Los Angeles or somewhere in
the Lower Country, at which place be was
general disablity-he in the mean time bav
ing nearly lost bis voice. After his discharge
he found his way back to San Francisco, and
from there to Leavitt's ranch at Ravenswood,
10 this county, where he worked for some
month or two as cook. This was the last
time we ever saw poor Creamer, but since
Nhen, we heard of bis conviction At Napa or
Sonoma for stealing pistol, and have had
general knowledge of bis downward career
up to the time of bis closing act which ended
lis miserable career. Creamer in his days
of prosperity, was wbole-sonled, genial, at
fable gentleman, very popular as hotel
keeper. his wife was gay, good.looking and
easily hattered. The tale is now summed up
in these few words. Creamer while burg lar
iously in search Of something to satisfy the
cravings Of hunger, is shot and morlally
wounded, and after lingering for several days
in the greatest agony, dies, while his former
wife, at the same time, is an inmate of a
house Of prostitution in the same city OF San
francisco. Can more melancholy picture
be imagined, than the above brief recital OF
actual deprsvity in man and wife. The
troubles and misery of one are ended. and it
may be question of doubt, as to which Of
the two had sunk the lowest in vice and
degradation.


''Verily, the wages of sin are DEATH"


San Mateo Gazette.
Year: 1868

RAIN AT LAsr.--On Thursday last We had
fine, steady rain. lasting about twelve hours,
which has been Of great benefit to all classes
Of people in this section Of the country.
One m ore such rain and our farmers, and
miners would be happy, and when they smile
the country prospsrs.
Year: 1868

ARRIVAL OF A RHINoCERoS.-Ihe
first rhinoceros which has appeared in
this country for twenty years, was
landed in New York recently. The
animal is but four years old, and
measures nine feet in length, and four
and a half in height, weighing over
1900 pounds He will not attain his
full growth till the age of twenty five
to thirty years, when his height may
be expected to reach seven feet, and
his length sixteen feet. AS his daily
food, he eats two bushels of corn, one
bushel of potatoes, and three hundred
pounds of hay, drinking fifteen to
twenty buckets of water. The present
specimen is of the black Asiatic kind
which is very morose and sullen, and
subject to sudden and violet fits o.
fury, causing him to rush indiscrimi
nately at any object in his path. The
horn on his nose is formidable
weapon. His scales serve as a pro
lection against all injury, and are sale
to be impervious to shot. Creases
behind the forelegs, under the belly
and on the breast, where the scales
meet, are the only places that can b'
pierced.
Year: 1868

BENEFITS OF A LARGE FAMILY.-A


large family is a host in itself. Its
members are never dependent for
amusements upon strangers. They


are alway numerous enough to be able


to organize their own games. Winter
or summer it is the same. What can
be more miserable than for two lads to
have to play cricket without a long
stop, or to have to press some shrink
ing little sister, with her extended
apron, into the service? She has to be
coaxed, pribed, or bullied in the opera
ton; and the cruel sport generally
ends by flood Of tears on the part of
the tiny female mercenary. Let there
be but plenty of boys. and plenty OF
girls, and there can never be any lack
of fun-masculine fun and feminine
| fun-astir. They quarrel, it will be
said. OF course they do; and herein
| lies another tremendous advantage OF


a large family against small one
| Their interests are so many, and from
moment to moment so various, thai


they are everlastingly clashing. Whaf


better preparation could there be fol
life? They thrash aud are thrashed


snub and are snubbed, contradict anC


are contradicted, till it gets thorough,


well impressed on the mind of eacl
one, early in existence, that he is no
the only individual in the world befor


whom everything must bow and Civ


way. The domestic circle become
/ thus a miniature public school,
which all its advantages are acquires