smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

collected together in lines and deliberate
ly murdered by volleys poured into them
at the command of rebel officers. Some
OF the rebels stood at the top of the hill
and called our men to come up to them
and then shot them in cold blood as they
approached. One negro who was hold
ing horse for a rebel officer, was killed
by him when he remounted. Another
mounted rebel had taken little child
up behind ON his horse, when General
Chalmers saw him, and ordered the SOL
dier to put the child down and shoot it,
which order was promptly obeyed. One
wounded man was fastened down to the
floor of tent by means of nails driven
through his clothing, the tent set on fire,
and the helpless sufferer was burned to
death. Lieutenant Akerstrom was nail
ed to the side of building, nails being
driven through his hands and feet, and
the building set on fire. In this position
the gallant officer was burned to death.
Negroes were nailed down to logs in the
same manner and the logs set on fire
The charred remains of those who were
burned were subsequently removed, but
Identification was impossible. The wound
ed living were thrown into holes prepar-
ed for the butchered dead, and living
and dead were buried together. Some
of the living succeeded in unearthing
themselves, and personally gave their
testimony before the committee. Be
tween three and four hundred of the sol
diers who composed the Fort Pillow gar
rison were massaered on this occasion, by
the rebels, and over three hundred of
these were killed after all resistance on
their part had ceased. Major Bradford
and several others were taken prisoners,
but day or two afterward, while being
marched to the rear, Major Bradford
was led out in front of the line and shot
dead in full view of his comrades. The
dead and the living were robbed of all
articles of value found upon them. The
murder and carnage was continued until
the rebel appetite for blood was satiated,
without an effort being made by any off
Ger to prevent it. On the contrary, they
not only encouraged it but participated
therein, cursing the negroes, officers of
negro troops, and the Southern soldiers,
whom they termed homemade Yam
kees.''
Year: 1868

The financial crisis Of 1857 dates the
commencement of many sad tales. The
following story, related to us by New
York detective, is very romantic. For
obvious reasons we withhold the names
of the parties concerned. The village of
Lyons, in the state of New York, was
the residence in 1857 of wealthy re-
tired merchant, his wife and an only
daughter, who was at that time young,
handsome and accomplished. She had
been reared with all the advantages love
could suggest or wealth command. She
was engaged TO promising young law
yer, to whom she was to have been mar
ried the following winter. Disaster sue
ceeded disaster in the commercial world
The father of the young lady in single
day was hurled from affiuence to penu-
ry. His superb mansion, costly plate,
horses, carriage, everything was sold at
auction. He moved with his wife and
daughter to New York city, where he Sc
cured a situation as copying clerk in a
house that one year before would have
honored his check for 100000. The
miserable pittance paid the father was
not sufficient to support the family. The
daughter, after numberless attempts, sue
ceeded in procuring situation as seam
stress. She had occupied this situation
for nearly a year when news reached her
of the marriage of her affianced. She
left home, father and mother. Seven
years later her father catches glimpse
of her in company with her former lover
on train just leaving the Hudson River
depot. Her father, who had regained a
portion of his wealth, secured the SER
vices of an efficient detective, who has
been engaged for three years in "work-
| ing up" the case. The man to whom
she was to have been married lost his
wife shortly after he was married, and
either from sorrow for her loss or remorse
for having betrayed the confidence of his
early love, he became dissipated, and,
losing his practice, step by step descended
to the occupation of comic singer in a
low dance house, where he met the wo-
man whose life he had blasted. A spark
of the old love must have remained
alive, for they joined their fortunes and
appear to have made a creditable at
tempt to redeem each other. They were
traced to Montreal, Canada, where he
taught school. They remained in Cana
da only short time, returning to New
York state and opening store. He ap-
pears to have accumulated some money,
for the next time they are heard from he
is at Shullsburg negotiating for farm
situated in the neighborhood of Vinegar
Hill. At Shullsburg our informant lost
all trace of them. He left on last eve
ning's train for New York city, there to
await further developments. Truth is,
indeed stranger than fiction Galenu
Gazette.
Year: 1868

countered the rebel line when alone. The
rebel officer expressed his surprise.


Was that you?" exclaimed he, eve
saw you. General Polk pointed you out
as Yankee, and called upon the men to
test their aim upon you; but they were
too busy in trying their skill upon the
transports to heed the suggestion"
Year: 1868

A romantic pair in Pennsylvania are
blessed with a number of daughters.
The eldest was called Caroline, the sec
ond Madeline, the third Eve-line, the
fourth Ange-line when 10! the fifth
made its appearance and no name could
be found with the desired termination.
Determined, however, to fight it out ON
that line if it took all summer" the pa
rents at length pounced upon name
very popular in the neighborhood, and
forthwith the baby was christened Crino-
line!
Year: 1868




In Mr.. Beecher's admirable address in
the Brooklyn Academy he made great fun
of the new defenders of the Constitution.
And it was well timed. Nobody, it seems,
understands the Constitution but those
who struggled night and day TO destroy it,
Nobody is to be accounted friend of the
Union but those who fought to dissolve 1t,
or helped the fighters, or who have how
combined to overthrow its reconstruction
by armed force. Nobody is to be consld-
cred conservative but those who, after the
cancer has been cut out, are zealously
striving to put as much of il back as pos.
sible In the good old days, they cry, was
there not one of the completest cancers
ever seen consuming the bosom of our be-
loved country; and how, pray, can our
beloved country ever be again what Ahe
was unless we restore that cancer?


But to recall yesterday is as practicable
as TO make the country what II was, or 10
restore the old Union. The old Union Is
impossible without slavery; and since that
is gone, all that belongs to 1t Is gone with
it. When emancipation was declared
equal rights were assumed. Nc great
multitude of native male adults Ia this
country can be held in kind Of purgato-
ry between citizenship and non citizen.
ship. When they cease 10 be slaves they
become men, When they become men
Year: 1868

The AYmy and Macy Journal has an
article about General Grant, as President,
from which we make an extract. 1t says:


We may safely predict that the great
word of the hour, the great feature to
strike all observers, rs soon as General
Grant has been month in power, will be
the confidence inspired in people ofall par
ties and all political creeds.


Grant, as a soldier, understands we'll the
bounds of coordinate and subordinate au-
thority. Congress will not be suffered to
encroach upon his prerogative as the Ex-
ecutive, nor will he attempt to encroach
upon Congress as the legislative depart
ment of Government-distinct simple
enough, it would seem to be. A soldier
is both used to command and obey-an
admirable training, say what civilians
will, for any administrative officer, from
poundkeeper up to President.


We shall make bold to predict that he
VIII realize, more than any man who has
sat in the Chief Magistrates chair since
Andrew Jackson, the eTecuti0e idea, which
should be the central idea connected with
the Presidency. The truth is, that of late
we seem to have gone into wrong notion
of the Presidential office. Men like Bu-
chanan and johnson have so perverted
the public mind, that when General Grant
announced that, if elected, he should have
no political policy of his own to follow
out, even his supporters were little con-
fused, and his enemies broke out into
storm of rage. What? no poLicyi What
does the man meanY Never was such a
thing heard Of


But General Grant was right. The
country has twice been nearly luined by
its Presidents devotion to some pet polit-
ical theory. A man with theory is
dangerous felloW-hunc tU Romano edUetO.
Buchanan had political doctrine that IL
the Union should be smitten by South
ern State on the cheek, its costitutional
duty was to turn and beg Northern
State to smite it on the other. Rather
than give up that theory, he saw the
United States disunite under his own eyes,
though he was the guardian of the Union.
General Grant has got tired of the pirate
about policy" and proposes to introduce
us to little practice" His past is a
guarantee of his fntuFe
Year: 1868

A PLEASANT anecdote is told of Par
fridge, the celebrated almanac maker. In
travelling on horseback into the country
he stopped for his dinner at an inn, and
afterwards called for his horse, that he
might reach the next town, where he in.
tended TO sleep.


ali you would take my advice, sir"
said the hostler, as he was about TO mount
his horse, "you will stay where you are
for the night, as you win surely be over
taken by pelting rain"


Nonsense, nonsense" said the alma
nae maker; "there is sixpence for you
my honest fellow, and good afternoon to
you"


He proceeded on his Journey, and, sure
enough, he was well drenched In heavy
shower. Partridge was struck with the
mans prediction, and being always intent
on the interest OF his almanac, he rode
back on the instant, and was received by
The hostler with broad grin.


"Well, sir, you see l was right after all 1"


"Yes, my lad, you have been so, and
here is crown for you, but give it to
you on consideration that you tell me
how you knew of this rain"


"To be sure, sir" replied the man.
"Why the truth Is, we have an almanac
in our house called PdrtTidgsS Almanac,
and the fellow is such a notorious liar that
whenever he promises us fine days we
always know that 1t will be the direct
contrary. Now, your honor, this day, the
21st Of June, Is put down In our almanac
indoors as settled fine weather, no rain.
looked at that before | brought your
honors horse out and so was enabled to
put you on your guard"
Year: 1868

The CANADIAN IIoERoR.-Auusi0nh has been
made in a brief paragraph to a horrible retrl-
button which recently fell upon a highway
robber in Canada II NourcGl Monde gives
the following particulars Of the affair


On an evening of March last at about II
o'clock. a traveller was crossing the small
bush on the left shore Of Mile Isle river, be
tween the St. Eustache and St. Rose. That
location has always, rightly or not, possessed
the reputation of being fatal to bclated tray
elers. The man. then, was quietly crossing
the silent wood when suddenly an individual
in rags, and with sinister looks. jumped at
the horses bride. and brandishing an axe
over the afirighted persons head. cried Your
money or your life. The traveller answered
II have only twenty dollars, here they are,
and let me 90 Having received the money.
the robber allowed his victim TO leave, which
he did at the fullest gallop of his horse. At
a short distance from the wood, the traveller
knocked at the door of a small house. and
begged hospitality. In the house there was
only woman. who first refused admittance,
giving for excuse that her husband was away.
However. upon more pressing cntreatles she
allowed the stranger to enter her lodging,
and directed him to the garret to spend the
rest of the night. He went up, and as he was
preparing place for sleeping, he heard a
voice which he recognized as that Of his as
sailant in the bush .'Ilerc, wife. said the
voice. u have done n good business tonight.
| have met a man in the wood from whom !
demanded his money or his lite, and he gave
me 900. .-'Good,' said the woman, / bet
that is the man who is up stairs Good said
the husband. and he must have more money.
Well, said the old woman, 'he will soon be
asleep. and we will kill him i viii 90
up to the garret, said the man. 'and
will knock him down with my axe: then
you will cut his throat with my razor.
Agreed. said the woman. During that con-
versation it may well be supposed that our
traveller did not 60 to sleep but kept watch
ing for the conclusion of the horrible drama
he had just heard the couple planning. One
hour afterward the traveller heard the ap-
preaching footsteps of his enemies, the man
in front with his ak, and the woman holding
lamp in one hand and razor in the other.
As the robber entered the room, the traye 'er
suddenly tore the ak from his hands, and
knocked him down senseless at one blow
Then the woman flew at the falling body,
whose head she severed with a razor, little
thinking she was killing her husband. The
traveller flew from the house, and made
deposition before a magistrate, and it is
said that the woman is now in jail.
Year: 1868

is no man in America but knows that under the
second, third and eighth articles, by issuing a
letter of authority, the President was guilty of
high misdemeanor in the words of the statute.
He did issue the letter of authority, and he has
written it down on the 10th of February that his
object and purpose was to violate that very law
and to prevent the Secretary Of War from resum-
ing the functions Of his Office, although the law
says he shall forthwith resume the functions Of
his Office in case the Senate noncencur in his sus-
pension.
Year: 1868

This body is pressing steadily onward with
its work. just the same as if there had been no
reverse in the late elections. The great ques-
tion of the day is that of finance, and the bills
presented upon that subject may be appropri-
ately named Legion. Such as stand any
chance of recognition we shall give, in proper
time. to our readers. The President has not
approved the bill for striking the word
"white" from the Constitution of the District
of Columbia, and it will likely be passed again
by Congress, and then go through the forms
necessary to make it law.


bill has also been introduced to consoli.
date all the military districts of the South into
one, and place it under the sole charge of Gen.
Grant. The President has declined to ap.
prove the s'Whiskey Law," as passed by Con.
gress, and it is estimated that the delay in this
matter will cost the country $10,000,0OO A
proposition is also before Congress to make q
two'thirds majority of the Supreme Court nec-
essary to passing upon the consti.utionality of
any law, instead of simple majority, as the
case stands now. In week or two these
matters will take shape that will become in
teresting, and we will then endeavor to give
them in full.
Year: 1868

There is call in circulation inviting
convention Of all people who are op-
posed to the monopoly privileges in our
State, to meet at Trenton on the 22d of
this month. The notice is issued from
New York, by one w. S. Eaton, and is
not entitled to much consideration from
Jerseymen. The Union Sentinel, of
Trenton, thus comments upon the call,
together with the request that lie should
obtain signatures to the document:


"But with all our high regard and dstin-
guished consideration for. brother Eaton, we
are compelled to decline the task he has i'm
posed upon us. AS there are no men in this
region of sknown high standing'' who would
be willing to sign the call in question, the lob
entrusted to us by the sangulne Eaton would
be difficult of completion. The fact is, every-
body hereabouts perfectly understand these
periodical Anti-Monopoly outbreaks, and re-
fuse to be influenced by them. That thew
should always have their origin in New York
City among jobbers and brokers in public
stocks, who care no more for our State inter-
ests than they do for Seward iceberg, is a
fact calculated to make all men of ssknown
high standing," continue to stand high above
the mercenary tricks Of the knaves of that
rather corrupt city.


We have watched those Anti Monopoly ebul.
ltlons for great number of years past and
never yet knew any good of them. A few
rogues manage to make money from few
dupes, but the great body of our people stand
aloof as amused or Indifferent spectators. The
fact is our substantial and intelligent citizens
are satisfied in the main with the railroad
system the State. New JERSEY is upsur.
passed by any State in the Union, despite the
clamor to the contrary, in the railroad facilities
afforded to her people. For these facilities
we have been mainly indebted to the generous
experiments and expenditures of the Cam.
den & Amboy Company, through sections
where there was neither the enterprise or the
e"rit"i 20 attompt the undertaking. 1t has
been fortunate for our people that they have
had too much sense and foresight to attempt
to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.


We therefore advise our readers to keer
| clear of this last Anti Monopoly Crusade, Ii
will amount to nothing in the end, for the
movers in it intend to sell out whenever Oh.
portunity offers. The Monopoly feature OF
the Camden Amboy charter expires in q
few months by limitation, and we see no evi
dence whatever of design to apply for its
renewal. In the meantime all the courts are
harmonious in their decisions touching the
legal rights of this corporation, and with the
exception of few agitators, and a handful O
misguided citizens who forget that there are
other interests to be snbserved beside theil
own, the people of. New jersey bow to the
justice of these verdicts of their legal tribunals
Year: 1868

Those who wish to purchase desirable real
estate in the city of Bridgeton will see by ref
erence to advertisement in another column
and valuable properties for sale.on very accom-
modating terms. We can assure any who wish
to purchase, that these properties ein excel
lent repair and that they can be purchased on
the most accommodating terms. Mr.. Tuck
has made arrangements to move on his farm
early in the Spring and is determined to sell
the above named valuable property.
Year: 1868

D The speech of Senator Cattell in the
Senate of the United States, opposing thespoli-
cy of contraction was one of the best and clear
est that we have been privileged to read The
ground taken by him is that our way to specie
payments does not lie so much in contraction
of the currency as it does in the development
Of the industrial resources and the increase Of
the values Of the country. His idea is to keep
currency enough afoat to continue manufac-
lures and trade in active operation and then
with the increase Of the material value Of the
country pay of gradually the debt. This looks
to US about the most sensible of anything that
has been proposed.
Year: 1868

Ihe Time honored custom, in this State. of
moving on or about the 25th day of March,
still generally prevails, and yet there is no
doubt but that month or more earlier in the
year would be much more desirable to three
fourths at least of the farmers who are com
PEELED to move. In this latitude the season
are SO much farther advanced than even in the
upper part of this State, that it is very incon
venient to move so late as the 25th of March
but as that is the custom it seems difficult to
break in upon it, and as long as it generally
prevails, the evils resulting from it will be
felt In moving, .,one necessarily depends so
much upon others, that it is very incon
to move out of the regular season, unless there
is simply an exchange of places, when the
arrangement can be made to take place when
ever it suits the two parties interested; but
when Mr.. A. depends npon Mr. B., and Mr. B.
upon Mr.. c., and SO ON to the end of the
alphabet, it is not so convenient to arrange
with all the parties concerned. 1t sometimes
happens that by one person refusing to move
there are score or more prevented from doing
so. 1t is something like an impediment on a
Railroad, when the whole train is detained, OF
as is frequently the case in the large cities
where vehicle blocks up the street, much
to the inconvenience of many others. The
motive for not moving should always be taker
into consideration. If person refuses to pa
his rent, and continues to remain in the house
of another, because they cannot be elected il
is very different case from many which will
doubtless occur the coming season, where the


families cannot procure suitable houses tc
move into, and are willing to pay as much
rent as any other responsible person.


| The practice of offering more rent for
place than it is worth, while it is occupied, for
the purpose of getting it from another, or hav-
ing the rent raised on him, is very mean to
say the least of it, and we are glad to know
that the landlords Of this place, as a general
rule, will not accept such offers The num-
ber of houses that have lately been erected,
and others in progress in this city, will, to
some extent, obviate the difficulties arising
from scarcity of houses
Year: 1868

bdy- The American Industrial league
of New York have issued in the interests
of their cause, very well gotten up an d
readable paper called the National Amer
ican. It's articles are written with ability
and its discussions on the subject of labor
conducted with fairness that will ensure
attention from those who peruse them.
Those who are interested in this question
will find the paper a valuable aid in
reaching intelligent conclusions.
Year: 1868

GW The city of New York is in debt
in the comfortable little sum of about
$33,O0O,0OO. Nice place that to live
and pay taxes 1t is no wonder that
they want the Camden & Amboy railroad
and anything else that their neighbors
may possess in order to ease up little
the pressure of this little sum of money
upon them. Probably the largest part
of this debt has been incurred in giving
"stealings" to political favorites.