smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

We think it time that some steps
were taken to prevent the nightly
robberies which are now so frequent,
1t is essential that We have II regu-
lar night police. and We trust that
Our citizens will not delay the matter
longer.
Year: 1865

From a person .tely arrived from
Memphis, we learn that great distress
prevails in that city. There is but
little business doing, and no employ
ment to be had, by very many per
sons who are compelled to gain their
bread by labor. Should this war con-
tinue much longer, we have no doubt
but that all immense amount of mis-
ery will be chronicIed, not only there,
hut throughout the most Of the Lin
coin government.
Year: 1865

BY this arrival we have late interesting from
tho Pacific which will bo found in the letters Of
respondents at Panama and Lima


We under obligations to Purser Bailey Of the Costa
Rica, for prompt delivery Of our correspondence.
Year: 1865

had bequeathed him legacy, which had
entirely relieved him of his pecuniary
difficulties.


Old customers and new ones crowded
in upon him. They had never before re-
allied the beauty and durability Of his
work. The polite butcher selected the
best pieces of meat for his inspection,
and was totally Indifferent as to the time
of payment. The dealer in leather called
to inform Kim that the very best hides
awaited his orders. The teacher accom-
panied the children home to tea, and
spoke in high terms Of their improve
ment, pronouncing them among his best
scholars. The dressmaker suddenly
found herself free from the great press of
work, and in friendly note expressed
her desire to oblige Mrs. Thompson in
any manner in her power.


lust as I expected exclaimed uncle
Joshua, rubbing his hands exultingly, as
the grateful shoemaker called upon him,
at the expiration Of six months, with the
money that had been loaned him in the
hour of need. just as L expected
A strange worlds They are ready to
push a man up hill if he seems to be as
scending, and just as ready to push him
down if they fancy that his face is turned
that way. In future, neighbor Thomp-
son, let everything around you wear an
air of prosperity, and you will be sure to
prosper" - 81


And, with a satisfied air, uncle Joshua
placed his money in his pocket book,
ready to meet some other claim upon his
benevelenee, whilst he whom he had thus
befriended, with light steps and cheerful
countenance, returned to his happy home.
Year: 1865

Coop LucK.-Some young men talk
about luck. Good luck is to get up at six
o'clock in the morning; good luck, if You
have only shilling week, is to live upon
elevenpence and save penny; good luck


is to trouble your head with your own


business, and let your neighbor's alone;
good luck is to fulfil the. commandments,


and to do unto other people as we wish


them to do unto us. They must not only
work, but wait. They must plod and per-
severe, Pence must be taken care of be-
cause they are the seeds of guineas. To
get on in the world, they must take care
lof, home, sweep their own, ,doorways clean,
TRY to help other people, avoid tempta-
tions, and have faith in truth and God.
Year: 1865

/ BRowNLow S PRAYER.-The follow
ing is a prayer recently delivered by the
famous blackguard, Parson Brovnlow:


+" Impoverish the .yillainsl Take all
they havel Give their effects to the I'm
ion men they have crippled and impris-
oned, and let them have their Southern
rights They swore they would carry on
the war until they lost their lands. Put
it to them, is our advice. Most religious
ly fleece them, and let them know how
other men feel when robbed of all they
have.


Let them be punished ! Let them be
impoverished Let them be slain And
after slain let them be damned II
Year: 1865

The last will and testament of shop
keeper on the Rue St. Dennis, in Paris,
who died recently, ended thus; desire
my heirs to take measures at once for my
autopsy, and to place my body in the
hands of men of science, that it may be
carefully dissected, for I am determined
to know the cause of my death. 8 5gsA
Year: 1865

a. becomes men of Christian education, to do
the best now and hencefsrth for the geod of
our fellow citizens. This forced Union may,
by wise management on the part Of the North,
grow yet to be Union of consent, and gradu
ally draw to itself the affections Of the best
class Of southern people. The worst class will
pretend II At once-but that will be of little
worth in the cause of real pacifcaticn.


After all we will, if admitted to full rights of
citizenship, be in no worse plight than ali the
people of the North. If the consciousness of
the right and power to secede, heretofore 30
pleasant. and the cause, it may as well be con-
f-ssed, OF some occasional arrogance on our part,
should be lost to US, we may console ou selves
with the reflection that it is equally lest TO the
people of New England and the North West
They have, in conquering us, laid down for
themselves also the law OF forced Union, by
which they must be bound. Demanding and
e1terting from us paramount obedience and al
iegiance to the Federal government, they have
necessarily pledged themselves to the same law.
We will still stand az equals in that regard, and
may come 10 consider it all fair enough. This
too is history, and being nearer at haHd and
more akin to our actual circumstances il better
worth than any history of other people and past
ages.


1t leads the mind, ever perverse and self
aggrandizing, 10 dreams Of the future glories Of
consolidated empire. Tkis, too, NAV prove q
fatal error, for the North and for U.s. There are
safer triumPhs entirely Consistent with the new
order OF things. Heslthful dreams, ronsecrated
by holier ambition. Dreams of nation rising
to heights Of glory, not by aggression and con
quest, but BY the peaceful arts and she dev elop-
mont Of its internal resources. Dreams OF a
people become again unanimous and happy
with all reveng4ful passions exercised forever
people virtusus and just to others, but rising
by she cultivation OF science and art and the
energies OF legitimate enterprise. Such q nation
as the frst napoleon would havs made of France
had the world given him liberty TO follow out
the ruling passion Of his soul Dreams of Q fu-
ture history, more lovely and more instructive,
We hope, than that Of al the sad, blind struggles
Of the whole dead past together.
Year: 1865

@ We suffer great Inconvenience at present
from the want of mails and courisrs. II is very
important at the same time that the people OF
the country should be kept advised Of every
thing which makes for their interest in the i'm
portant transitions which are taking place from
one system Of government to another and also
in the system of labor. They should know how
to act intelligently, and ADAPT themselves wise
ly to the inevitable order Of things For this
purpose we continue the publication of our pa
Pile This we do without any other inducement
than the desire Of being useful to people who
have all along, given US their confidence, and
looked to us for wise and deliberate counsel
Our fortunes are identified with theirs, and will
remain so. We have not asked any peculiar
favor. We think it just, that we should share
the fate of all who like ourselves have honestly
and consistently supported the Confederate
Cause whilst it had leg 10 stand upon. This
common sympathy is motive enough for US TO
advise them to such course will restore peace
and good order to distracted country, prevent
further effusion of blood. and work for the ul-
innate good of the innocent women and chill
dren. This can only be done by submission to
Federal authority, and cooperation with its
agents, without shrinking from any personal
consequences, on account of the past. Each
mans individual fate is very trifing affair 10
the public at large. His influence for good
whilst enabled to exercise it, is very important.
Hence we advise all our subscribers, in differ
cnt localities, to provide a special messenger to
come for their packages every wednesday
morning. We will avail ourselves of all pri-
vats opportunities OF sending them to such Of
fees are tso distant for private expresses,
until mail routes may be put in operation
When affairs settle somewhat, if We ascertain
Al 4 - ~
independent of Surveillance our advice will not
aud ought not to be taken will announce
eur terms. At present We work alone for the
public good.
Year: 1865

A letter hom George Saward, Esq. Secre-
tary and General Superintendent of the At
lantic Telegraph Company, to Cyrus W.
Field, after abiding to the absolute electrical
perfection of the cable now being manufacture
ed, states that the amount completed up to the
Both December is $50 miles. The cable il
now being manufactured at the rate of 80
miles per week, without hurry and without
night work. 1t will be finished by the end Of
the first week in June Two tanks are on
board the Great Eastern for the storage of the
cable. The third is rapidly progressing
There is no reason to doubt that the cable
will all be on board, and the great ship ready
for sea with every appliance OF the kind and
in the best order, during the month Of June.
Mr.. Saward has No doubt that the cable will
be successfully laid and worked
Year: 1865

No slave beneath that starry Tag,


The emblem Of the free
No fettered hand shall WELD the br and


That srnites for Liberty
No tramp OF serVile armies


Shall shame Columbia's shore,
For be who q ghts for freedoms rights
Is free for evermOre
No slaves beneath those glorious folds
That DER our fathers few,
When every breath " as dark with death,
But every heart was true
No serfs Of earth's old empires


Kneh meath its shadow then;
And they who now beneath it bow
Forevermore are men
Go tell she ashes Of the braves


Who at Port Hudson fell
Go tell the dust whose holy trust
Stern Wagner guards 80 we'll
Go breathe it EofLly-sloWly-


wherever the patriot slave
For right has led, and tell the dead
He hlls freemanas grave
Go tell Kentueky's bOndsmen true,
That he who fights Is free
And let the tale I'LL every gale


That floats O'er Tennessee
Let all our mighty rivers


The story southwark pour
And every wave tell every slave
To be slave no more
Go tell the brave Of every land,
Where e'er that nag has flown
The tyrant's fear, the PATRIOTS cheer
Through every cline and zone
That now no more forever


It's stripes are slavery scars
No tear-drop stain its azure plain,
Nor dim its golden stars
No slave beneath that grand old nag;
Forever let 1t fly
With lightning rolled in every fold,
And FISHING victory
Gods blessing breatnes around il;
And when all strife is done,
Nay Freedoms light that knows no night,
Make every star a sun
Year: 1865

Since the fall Of Fort Fisher it is known
that the enemy has made no serious demon-
stratiOn on our works on the upper line of the
river. Between Wilmington and the enemy
are Fort Anderson and all other works.
Everything below New Inlet is held by the
enemy, and the mouth OF the river is efEectu-
ally closed Richmond Examiner
Year: 1865

The Richmond Sentinel, Of the 9th, had q
gloomy editorial on the military situation
Only one month of winter remains, and Cor.
gress has done nothing to prepare for the
spring campaign.
Year: 1865

Springs and summers and autumbs and
winters had followed one another in monoton-
GUS level, each bearing its burdens Of cares and
isbors; house cleaning and planting, butter and
hay making, harvesting and fruit drying
Shedding and sewing then the same round OF
tOilsome duties over again and again, until
Mistress Puffer was wife of so many years
that she had long answered to her matronly
name with no more bushes and sweet shyness,
but as though she had been born to it until
she went on making her soap and cider apple
sauce with sedateness and JUNCTION, as if she bad
always regarded these cOmmonplaces the des-
tined sphere and elected end Of woman las
mayhap abe had) and as if she bad never, no
never, in her widest days, gone from her
chamber to q merry-making by way OF the
window and shed-rOo instead of the stairs; be-
ing, you see, too generous to disappoint her
fellows, and too thoughtful to run any risk oI
disturbing the repose Of her parents, who,
themselves no longer young, had a straight
laced notion that everybody ought to be sleepy
by 3 o'clock.


But all this time while she was growing
matter-offact and portly, 10 the midst OF the
bakings and brewings, the Washings and stitch
ings, little cloud no bigger than q man,
hand had arisen in her horizon, and was slowly
overspreading the zenith. At least not muel
Year: 1865




Who, in the days of yore,


In combat met the foeman,


And drove them from the shore


Who flung our banners starry field


In triumph to the breeze,


And spread broad maps OF cities where


Once waved the forest trees


My tent is pitched hard by a cemetery which
contains graves over century old. Here,
doubt not some Of the Revolutionary patriots
lie buried. The inscriptions are so much worn
and delaced that it is difficult to ascertain the
names OF those who sleep in these ancient
vaults. 1t is pleasant, however, and not un-
natural for soldier of this second revolution
to entertain the fancy that here are entombed
some Of those noble spirits who fell gloriOusly
fighting despotism and barbarism from this
continent nearly hundred years ago. In
bued with this idea it is pleasant Ter him to
bend in solemn reverence upon this turf and
here renew his vows to be true to those great
principles which first took root among these
ashes, and which have since sprung up into a
magnificent growth Of freedom which showers
its rich fruitage upon every hearthstone of this
Western World.


Writing from the rebellious sell of South
Carolina, might wish that could speak with
tongue of fame against the accursed heresy
that was here nurtured aud graded, and which
grown to lusty life, has since struck its
poisoned fangs into the vitNls of my country.
l iain would dip my pen in that ocean OF brave
Year: 1865

Mothers often err in undertaking the
little gricL and disappointments of child
h"Qd. The trilcs which give them pain
and trouble would DC nothing to US. so we
unrcasonably exact Of them the same indif-
ference. Did you ever reflect how different
the same scene looks at your own height
from that point from which your little child
must view 1t? II not. you will realize il by
STOPPING down beside him and taking a view
OF the same landscape. SO mothers should
learn TO place themselves at the child :
mental stand point in all their dealings with
them.


a lady Of great strength Of mind and fine
sensiblltlcs, once told friend that she ney-
or suffered 50 acutely, as once in childhood
when her mother carelessly swept into the
IRE some Of the shining silk Of the milk.
weed plant. She had just found it for tht
! first time in one Of her little walk. and wa
| greatly delighted with her little treasure
/ laying IT out IN pareels, thinking what en-
/ Joymcnt she would have over il with her lit
tie companions, assigning its various uses il
/ her simple domestic economy. Her mothe
! entered and finding the litter on the Garnet
I hastily and cOldly swept it all into the fire
despite the child's entreatieg. She moor
gneyed little thing. fed away almost Dis





bear to look upon her mothers face. II
her 1t was as real source of anguish
as for the millionaire to sec all choice Dos
sessions swept away by the devouring fame
Oh, mother. learn to reverence every ten.
der, loving thing in your little child ma
turc. The world will harden it soon enough
without your hand aiding in the work
Enter ieelingly into its little Joys. and add
to them the double pleasure Of your appro-
wing, smile. Sympathize with its little
grieis and comfort with cheering words Of
tender love the little sobbng bosom. "A.
one whom his mother comforteth what
sweeter figure could the kind Father above
employ to empress his tender pity for his
Borrowing children.


Christian mother, be faithful to your sol
emn trust; then, when angel voices shall
shout. the harvest home, you may stand be
fore the great white throne and answer to
the summons-''Ifere am |. Lord, and the
children whom thou hast given me-
Year: 1865

/ \ lady writing from Honolulu, thus dis
| courses upon the native women and their
| free and easy manners The women are
erect, wide in the shoulders, and carry their


heads like queens many of them are truly


handsome, wearing their hair falling over
with little straw hats garlanded with wreaths
of lovely native flowers. They clothe them
selves modestly and prettily, wearing the
dress to cover neck and arms, and falling
loosely from the shoulders to the top of the
feet, which are often bare. Not being
civilized like us, they have not been en-
lightened into COMPRISING their ribs with
iron and whalebone corsets, nor to disturb
and torture their feet with overnight shoes,
nor to put bonnets on their heads than run
up into turrets Of silk and artificial flowers,
and leaving the ears at the mercy of the bit
ter winds. nor to make up forty-fve yards
of steel wire into cages and fasten themselves
within them, nor to carry an extra half
yard of dress stuff bravely after them on
the pavement through thick and thin
Yet these women have the advantage of us,
for We are not forced by the exigencies of
custom, when we come with our long gar
ments upon any impurities of the path way,
to shut our eyes and clench our teeth and
push blindly over them, whereas these
kanaka women, at the sight of even spot
Of water, lift their light garments gingerly
and pass over, clean and unsullied from its
contact Can this be barbarous?
Year: 1865

Many an old person has the pain-not
bodily, but sharper still-of feeling himself
in the way. Some one wants his place.
His very chair in the chimney corner is
grudged him. He is a burden to son or
daughter. The very arm that props him
is taken away from some productive labor. =
As he sits at the table, his own guests are
too idle or too unkind to make him sharer
in their mirth. They grudge the trouble
of that raised voice which alone could make
him one of them /; and when he speaks it is
only to be put aside as ignorant or despised
as old fashioned and obsolete. Oh, little
do younger persons know their power of
giving pain or pleasure 1t is pain for
any man, still in the world, to be made to
feel that he is no longer of it, TO be driven
in upon his own little world of conscious
isolation and buried enjoyment But this


is his condition and if any fretfulness or


auerulousness of temper has aggravated it
if Others love him not because he is not


amiable-shal we pity that condition the


less? shall we upbraid it with that fault


which is itself the worst part oft?
Year: 1865

We have been shown a private letter from
soldier on johnson Island, under date of
December 22d, from which we are author
lied to copy the following paragraphs:


I'VE are having some very cold weather,
but not much snow. The bay is frozen over
50 that teams cross, but with not much safe
". Three government mule teams broke
through to-day. They were hauling flour
to the post. One of the teams were drown
ed, the others were got out but were all
cut up so bad that they are fit for nothing
now.


we received yesterday three hundred
and six more prisoners from Hood army,
and to-day about forty--in all we have over
three thousand in the prison. Among
| them were Major General johnson. Brig.
| General Jack kson, and Brig, Gen. Smith
The balance ranged from Col. down to Lieu
! tenants.


IT was an awful sight to see the prison
ers when they reached here. Some were
| barcfooted, others had no hats. some no
coats, and great many had nothing but
| drawers for pants Some ofthem had their
feet frozen, others their hand. and arms,
and most all Of them their faces. One poor
fellow had to be carried over by the guards,
and when he got here his face was frozen so
that it was perfectly white, had his arms
were 50 badly frozen that he had no use of
them.


Those who saw them as they were cross
ing the bay say it was a pitiable sight. The
WIND was blowing perfect gale and so cold
that 1t was a. much as a man could stand
who was dressed comfortably. A great many
Of them had never been on ice before, and
the consequence was they could not walk.
W hen they came to a smooth piece of ice
they would get down on their hands and
knees and crawl over. They were an hour
and half in crossing. The line reached
from one shore to the other 1t was an
amusing sight to see them Some were
picking themselves up, while others were
unwillingly letting the ice fly up and hit
them in the backs Of their heads, or else
striking them on their coat tails.


1t was amusing TO US to stand on the
shore and watch them, but suppose it was
death to them. a. a great many tf them laid
down on the ice and cried ike children.


Our boys went out to meet them and
to watch and see that none escaped and to
pick up stragglers. The result was they
had great many frozen Rebs to bring in
some that will never want TO sec cold wealth
er again.


II think from the looks Of these Rebs,
that, the rebellion is about played out, for
the best dressed among them did not dress
as well as our privates Take them on an
average, they were the hardest looking SOL
diers ] ever saw. "
Year: 1865

This expression has done an incalculable
amount Of mischief in the world bv convey
ing an idea that it Is thing which cannot
be resisted, and which must be given way
to, either with or without reason. Persons
are said to have fallen in love, precisely as
they would have been said to fall into a fe
yer or an ague-ht, and the worst mode of
tins expression Is, that amongst young peo-
pie, 1t has led 10 general yielding up Of the
heart to the first impression, as if it posses
sed OF Itself no power Of resistance. 1t is
from general notions such as these. that the
idea and the name of love have been vul-
CARRIED and degraded and in connection
with this degredation food of evil has
poured in upon the Eden of woman life.
where the virtues Of her domestic character
are exercised. What. then. is love. in its
highest, hottest character? 1t is woman s
all--her wealth, her power, her very being.
Man, let him love as he may. has ever an
existence extinct from that Of his affections.
lie has his worldly interests, his public char
acter, his ambition, his competition with
other men--but woman centres all in that
one feeling. and


I'm that she lives, or else s,e has no life"


In wOman's love is mingled the trrl.tv
dependence Of child. for she ever looks IN
to man as her protector and her guide
the tranknesS. the social feeling. and the
tenderness Of a sister-for j. not man her
friend? the solicitude, the anxiety. the
careful watching of the mother-for would
she not suffer to preserve him from harm =?
Such is love in a noble mind. and especially
IN Its tlrst commencement, when it is almost
Invariably elevated, and pure. trusting and
disinterested. Indeed. the woman who
could mingle low views and selfish calcula-
tions with her first attachment. would
scarcely be worthy of the name.