smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

, During recent conversation,
was slightingly remarked of oil


very dear to the writer, "Ohl 81
isn't beautiful!"7
She is not very fair-and yet
/ love her quiet face;


She wears not beauty's coronet,
But there's tender grace
| Upon her brow. and in her eyes


A light which could not be
If her thoughts were not swse, harmonies-
She's beautiful to me!


Not beautiful save when the flush
Of feeling dyes her cheek:


When her lips are sealed beneath Its gush.


And leave her eyes to speak
Not beautiful ave when some thought
OF goodness sends its glow
Across the face by art untaught


And yet--I love her so!
Yet she is beautiful, though small
The gifts that over-lie
The soul, so beautiful in all
In all that cannot die;


Goodness is beauty; this why
The tides of friendship roll
Up from my heart. ndlight my eye
lOre her for her soul!


The very fairest form of earth,
And the most faultless face,
That ever sculptor shadowed forth
With rare exceeding grace
If all unlit by feelings SUD,
Were cold and dark TO me-
Oh! The heart! The beartl IT'S that alone
Gives grace and harmony.
The heart! The heart. Give me the heart!
care not for the face,
However fair each separate part,
If it need the SPIRITS grace
Give me the heart, Tcare lot how


The form may moulded be;
II perfect love light up the BROW,


'Tis beautiful to me!
Oh ye! Who spend yotN precious day


In vain essays to gid
With arts deceit each fading face;


All! if you souls were filed
With grace and beauty, know re Lot


Its radiance would appear
Upon each forehead shining out,


More bright from ear to year?
Goodness is beauty. Be We pure,


Let lore rule every thought;
And then grace which shall endure


Awondrous grace which naught
Can spoil or tarnish shall brea forth,


Shall FIRE the dullest eye,
Make fair the darkest face on earth


With light that cannot die!
Year: 1860

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2l, 1860. DEAR ENQUIRER: have supposed from the energy with which have seen my fellow laborel and your occasional correspondent, EYE GLASS, driving his quill for the last few days that you were likely to have a most elaborate and glowing account of the ceremonies and pageant connect ed with the reception of the Japanese embassy. But find that he has exhausted his energies en- tirely upon the mammoth journal, on which you are aware he is employed here as special reporter

 It has been impossible for me to sympathize

 in all the enthusiasm that this new treaty with Japan has excited here, as in my close proAimi- ty to Holland, in " Fader-land," have not only witnessed. aforetime, the commercial intercourse of our Dutch neighbors with that isolated Nation. but also in visiting the museum at the Hague as also other Repositories there, have become fa- milar with their products, their dress, eGuipages appurtenances of their daily life and with this observation and my knowledge of their habits and customs, through those who have been in con stant association with them, do not find the nov city in their appearance here which has so excited your lively correspondent that he has been una ble to attend to his duties for several days. But having to give passing notice of their arrival among the items of the doings at Washington to my own journal, will at the request of Eye Glass give you transcript of the same for your most estimable and enlivening paper

 As my account of the debarcation however, and the ceremonies by which they were received in this city has been extensively copied in the metropolitan journals, it will not be necessary for me to give further particulars than simply to say as an eye witness that the discomforts of the occasion-from the heat of the day and the rude ness of the throng, could not be exaggerated. Those who tried to get first glimpse of the ships company only succeeded in stopping the access through the gates of the navy yard, so that not half who might have been comfortably accommodated, could succeed save by pushing and elbowing themselves through the throng. and were obliged, many of them, after futile at- tempts. to return without the sight perchance they secured perch on rail by the roadside, or on friendly house.top, as the cor tege passed slowly up the avenue.

 If I were to attempt to describe to you the oddity of their appearance, their swarthy coun- tenances approximating to the yellow mulatto or to your own Don Pedro, ;" or to give an account of their unique costumes and bedizened outfits, you would suppose was attemptinga burlesque of an African funeral or Eberian Regiment re- turning "home from the wars." However to give you some inkling of their appearance, I copy from my extended account to Washington paper = -,
Year: 1860

LAZY PIETY.-A popular preacher tells
a good story as hit at those christians
who are too indolent to perform the duties
required of them by their faith. He says
that one pious gentleman composed very
fervent prayer to the Almighty, wrote it
out legibly, and affixed the manuscript to
his bed post Then on cold nights he
pointed to the document and with the
words, ooh, Lord, these are my sentiments p
blew out the light and nestled amid the
blankets.
Year: 1860

POVERTY AND DEsT1TUTIoN IN IRELAND.
The 1yrGaOley Herald gives an account
of the state of things in and around Ballina :.


To all the work-houses round about this
neighborhood, the influx of paupers has
been experienced since the famine; and
the streets of Ballina,
which seem to be the focus for the poverty
of the barony, were never so full of wretch
ed-looking and starved poor as at present.
Year: 1860

Hon. HOWELL COBB.-Hon. Howell Cobb in
his letter Withdrawing his name as a candI-
date for the Presidency, says he does this to
secure union and harmony among the Demo
cratic party, as he would not accept the nomi-
nation at Charleston if his own State was op-
posed to him. This letter, which is 4 long
one closes with the following language:


"In common with our brethren of the South,
We approach a contest involving the issues OF
life and death Fanatical and inscriptions
enemies, leagued together in a political organ


iZatOn formidable in numbers, desperate in
its fortunes, malignant in its purposes, under
Il leader worthy in every respect of his assO-
cates and followers, threaten to take posses
sion of the Federal Government-that Gov
ernmert which our fathers formed for the
protection of all. This party seeks to control
it for the avOWed object of bringing dishonOr
first and ruin afterwards upon that portion
of the country where our lot has been cast.
To meet and overthrow this enemy, by the aid
of the friends of the Constitution, right and


Justice At the North, is Onr first duty; and
failing there, to be prepared for the work Of
saving the Government If poSsible-Ourselves
at least, from the dishonor and ruin which
would follow the successful Inauguration OF Il
Black Republican Administration, is oar Sec
ond great duty. The preparation for those
dnties must begin with union and harmony
among ourselves. To that result l shall con-
tribute every effort which it may be in my
power to make, with the confident hope of be
ing fnlly and cordially sustained by the peo-
pie of Georgia.
Year: 1860

CEREMONY OF THE EXC0MMUNICATION OF
VICTOR EMANUEL.-A correspondent of the
Independence Beige gives the following ac-
count of the ceremony to be performed, in
case the Pope should resolve to excommuni-
cate the King of Sardinia:


"The ceremony will take place in St. Pc
ters Church, with great pomp. All the Car
dinals will be present; the whole church will
be hung with black; the crucifix will be veil
ed: and torches of yellow WAX will be lighted
and extinguished one after the other. There
will be Il grand procession of all the monastic
orders to Rome, who will afterwards depart
for their monasteries and converts, chanting
The person who gives me this information
does not think the sentence of excommunica-
tion will be pronounced by the Pope himself,
but by Cardinal selected for that purpose"
Year: 1860

DKLIBRRATE SuICfDH--Nlrs. Mary Ann
Bailey, Of New Orleans. committed suieide ON
the asth uit., by taking arsenic, on account OF
days after her death. was arrested for beating
his daughter. a young lady OF fifteen. The
daughter at the inquest held on the body of
her mother, gave the following testimony:


On Tuesday evening my mother sent n little
boy for me- who told me that mother wanted
10 see me. rs would not see her again unless
came home When got home she asked Inc
how was getting along and after was there
a little while she went out In about half ar
hour she came back she had "a pair of stock
ings and pair of gloves, and said she want-
dead. as l would not see her alive mex morn
ing. She then told me to 60 into Mrs. Browns
am, tell her she wanted 10 see her; wen I,
and when came back found her standing on
the floor with glass in her hand. She had ap.
parent,y swallowed what was in the tuinbler.
She went to the stove and put some hot water
in the glass, and washed IL round In the glass
and then drank it all. After she drank it, she
Law down on the bed, and said she was finished.
NV ia ther was sitting on the table IN the same
room he was intoxicated, and made ont like
he did not know what mother took but am
sat fled he very we'll knew what she was
taking. When came in screamed, as sus-
picioned mother had taken poison. Ny tather
told me TO hush, that it was hour she had
taken, aud she had only done II to scare me
IT, When first asked her what she had taken,
she said it was a powder; but when asked
her as she Law on the bed, what she had taken,
she said il was arsenic. She uiu not tell me
why she had taken poison. She threatened
once before TO destroy herself, ahu sitiu the
reason was because her husband had made
false accusations against her, which every body
knew We're not SO.
Year: 1860

The CampbeHs are enchanting the lovers Of
good music with their rare songs and beau til
tulchorusas. They will remain at Mechanics
Institute Hall for few nights longer, and de-
serve to be greeted with crowded audiences.
In the troupe are several of the best vocalists
low slang is used in their burlesques, no one
can see and hear them without being pleased


As will be seen from their advertisement the
Year: 1860

Accident from F2mid-Persons who use burn
ing fluid cannot be too careful with it, A
night or two since, Mrs. Brown, on Union
Hill, after filling lamp, attemp pied to light it
before screwing down the tubes, and in mo.
ment the liquid was in blaze. Becoming e
alarmed, the madam dropped the lamp upon
the table and in her efforts to extinguish it,
burned aer hand severely. Most Of the acci-
dents that occur from the use of fluid are the
results of carelessness, as in this instance.
Year: 1860

The Military Of this city can make u grand
display on the 18th inst, If business generally
is suspended. Companies from this and other
States are expected here Oh that day, and our
soldiery should be allowed to turn out in
their strength. Many OF the largest mercan.
tile and mechanical establishments Is in the city
are determined to close doors on that day, and
If the suspension is general, and the weather
proves favorable. the procession will bo the
largest one ever witnessed in the metropolis
OF the Old Dominion. Men of all parties are
deslrous OF witnessing the inauguration of
the marble statue of Henry Clay, procured
should be given them of doing So That even.
ing the "Clay dinner" is TO be given by the
COMMITTEES to the distinguished strangers who
are to be here to which all can subscribe.
Year: 1860

Mr.. Parr then moved that the committee of five
be appointed by the President and that he act as
chairman of said committee, which motion was
adopted.


The meeting then adjourned to await the call of
the President.


The committee of five will be appointed to-day.
Year: 1860

LEEDS, March 6-There has been moderate attend
of buyers in the cloth halls this morning and
light summer goods there has been fair demand. FoI
ordinary hair lists and medium cloths there also
toleraby good demand Prices seady-those of wool
as well as cloth Some of the cloth dressers scarcely
so busy they month ago, but the manufacturers
are almost all well employed and the condition and pros
poets of the woolen trade generally in this town and dis
Year: 1860

W The legality of arresting persons
expressing Republican or Lincoln sentiments
was tried before New Orleans Court, last
week. The Court ruled that it "oould see
no legal grounds in the charge for the arrest
of man who casually speaks his sentiments
to friend as to whom he would vote for"
and therefore discharged the accused, at the
same time administering reproof to the
Mayor for arresting tho individual.
Year: 1860

W The new Treasury Note bill which
passed both houses of Congress last week,
and is now a law, provides for the issue of
notes of as low denomination as $50, and
requires that they shall not be sold for less
than their value on the face. In order that
they may be thus sold, the rate of interest
on them will be fixed as high as may be
necessary. It will probably be at z per
cent. $lO,OOO,Oo0 of them are authorized.
This will enable the Treasury to resume
payment,
Year: 1860

So.Ro1rY OF CHANaE. = There is great
scarcity of silver change at this time among our
business men. Some of them refuse to sell q o'lne
or fifteen cents worth of goods if they are Obliged
70 change dollar bill in order to do so.
Year: 1860

~ 1t is only few days ago that the
Journal boosted that it was the only paper in Iowa
that took the dispatches es-Reuiew


What a pity our neighbor has such short
memory! He belongs to that class of people whom
the proverb says should have ''long memories
We stated some weeks ago that the JOURNAL was
the only paper on the line of the III. d M. H. K
taking dispatches, Which, at that time, was the
case It is evident to our citizens that the "hrst
class daily in Muscatine does not take dispatches
while the JOURNAL does.
Year: 1860

A dream of the past confused and dim,


Last night was round my heart.
And saw again the passing years


Like a vision of love depart;
But the strangey-Star in its lofty sphere,
With its wing spread eastward bright and clear
Shonc like the sun in = brilliant tcar.
In The midnight dream once more saw


The friends Of carly days;
Friends tlmt loved Before knew


Life's varied and shadowy ways:
Friends whose hearts were as real and true
To me as the sun to the far of btlc,
And loved this dream confused and dim
AS ! love the notes of some hall-hcard hymn.
And heard again ilc sishing Of wind


AS it sighed long; long, ago,
When it passed through the yellow leaves in


fall


Musical, soft and low;
And the raven pcrchcd on the same dead lint
With glistning eye and neck stretched Slim
Is the same saw there in those years
When Hope made rainbows DER our tears.
1t seems long and weary path


To tread the hills of life,
To walk the varied wales of earth


With their pleasures and pains and strife
But with pleasure now we lain look back,
To the Past Fife S sunny and shady track,
And dreams of the Past make as sweet a spell
As the music Of waves or an ocean shell.
There are none that have never felt the touch


OF sorrows dark-hncd wing,
And there are none but in dark hours


Will to some bright hope cling;
And thus with sorrow, joy and strife,
We pass through the shade and slime Of li'
Till, like tie suns last ray at even,
Oar spirits pass to the lar-ol heaven.
Year: 1860

1t will be remembered that at tile Wing
National Convention held in Bnlimore in
1856 Judge Bates, of Missouri presided with
great ability, and ON the motion to adjourn
sine die he rose and expressed his sentiments
briefly or the national topics Of the day.
We make some extracts from that speech
which will be re-r,ad with Interest ut this
Year: 1860

At the extremity of Europe, far away to
the south. as most people know, and sur
rounded by the blue waters of the Mediter-
ranean, lies the island of Sicily, the Trina
cria Of the ancients. Seen from the sea it
appears mass of rocks, broken into every
fantastic shape, and shooting their pointed
pinnacles high up into the sunny sky


1t is difficult to imagine that those Jagged
sterile mountains inclose fertile valleys and
plains bringing forth ''corn, and oil, and
wine in abundance" yet so it is ; the soil is
still rich and fertile, as in the days of the
~Romans ;. but it is another kind Of fertility
from that to which we are accustomed: there
are no green pleasant meadows, no fields of
waving corn, and the change of seasons
makes but little difference in the landscape.
The orange and lemon groves are ever green,
and the olives also, though of another tint
Plantations of fgtrees and vineyards slope
down to the sea-shore, and the corn is sowed.
between the vines. All the stony, barren
land, even high up in the mountains, is
covered by the Indian fig or cactus, that
singular plant, the leaves of which grow out
of each other, and the fruit out of the 1cases.
In Sicily, it serves with the aloe for hedges
to the vinefelds. Persons who have only
seen specimens of it in the lighthouses OF
Kew, or elsewhere, can form no idea of the
Gigantic size it attains in this it's native
cline; its leaves are twelve or fourteen
inches long, and more than an inch thick
from one leaf, shoot out five or six others,
in the form of a fan, and these produce the
figs, four or five being set round the edge
of the upper part of each leaf This fruit
forms the principal food of the lower classes
during many months Of the year, and much
resembles sweet pear in taste A few of
these figs and piece of bread make good
meal for Silician


The bread, that best and most necessary
gift of heaven, is excellent; sweet and good,
without any admixturc of alum or any other
drug. do not remember to have ever eaten
any like it except in my native city of Bris-
.tol, where, at some of the bakers, a particu-.
lar kind of bread, called red acheat, could
be procured of which, one could indeed eat
and be thankful.


OF the luscious grapes, I will only say
that when, on my return to Paris, was
Year: 1860

At recent political discussion in Shelby
vile, Tenn, Col. Peyton, one of the opposition
speakers, after q lahorcd argument 10 convict
Mr.. Breckenridge and his supporters of dis
unionism, closed his speech by saying that the
Government was safe even if Lincoln was
elected, and that, with the Senate standing as
twas, there was no danger


Gen. Bate, one of the democratic speakers,
in replying to Col. Peyton, completely turned
the tables on the opposition by alluding to the
complexion of the Senate, composed as it is o'
a majority Of the friends Of Breckenridge, and
then pointing out the absurdty Of charging The
democracy with being disunonists, while al the
same time that party is to be looked 10 10 save
the Union in the event of Lincoln's election
The Douglas and Bell men wlo are so prompt
to declare their belief that there is no danger
to the Union, simply because he will be re
strained by u conservative Senate, forget tla
that Senate will be in harmony with the very
men whom they are so nippantly nouncing u
disunionists and seceders. The opposition
orators should mend either their opinions o
their logic, and not talk OH both sides Of sub
| i;ect at the same time.
Year: 1860

The editor of the N. o. Delta says that many
items that would have been of interest to his
readers were spoiled in his pocket as he was
swimming a lake to get to his Office during 'he
late inundation.
Year: 1860

which she has been SO many hours making,
says-''it really is trying, but men have no
patience with children, when they interfere
with their comfort. and after all there's no
use il being cross about it," Good little
woman! Let Us hope her husband knows
how to appreciate her. Ten to one he
don't" Ten to one the pink candy and
gingerbread interfere that night with Tom
my's peaceful slumbers, he turns coolly to
his wife, my dear, can't you and Tommy
get into the other chamber? l am really
afraid l ehan't get wink Of sleep"
Year: 1860

As the time of opening schools is once more
returning, We hear much spoken of making
them attractive Bot, however, much NAV be
said, there has still not been enough said We
have many school-hOuSes still, which are not
more attractive to scholars, than Cherry Hill
prison is to its inmates, and into which thev
must consequently be driven by force Much
Of course depends on the teacher i'm this re-
Spect, but still more on the directors Ii is
their duty to furnish the schooI-roon with tie
necessary apparatus, which will ue7er fail to
make 1t a! least in measure, an attractive


place to study But me thinks | hear Johnny
and Tommy and Jenny and a host of other say
we don't only come to study, we want tC play,
and have place to play tco. Here we have
the secret then, the scholars do not wish to 90
to school, because they have no place to play.
There can be nc necessity for me to say any
thing Of the justice Of this claim, nor of the
benefit arising therefrom. Bat the great thing
seems TO be a place, sufficiently near the
school, where the scholars have the opportu-
nifty CT enjoying their hours of sport. In
travelling over the greater part of Penusylya.
MIA, We fud nearly all our school houses silUat-
ed at such places as to be entirely unfit for
such purpose. For instance near creek or
some other body of water. which softens the
ground to such a degree as to render il entire
ly unfit for cultivation or habtation or pro-
badly on tract of land so rocky that the
squirrels have difficulty in crossing it : or
very likely two roads meet somewhere. cutting
of piece of ground nearly the whole Of forty
feet square or a steep bill somewhere upon
which you will surely find a school hoGse.-
Whg is all this this simply because school
directors are afraid a fine situation costs too
mDCh, and their school tax might be raised
few cents thereby. They will cause rivers of
tears to flow from the eyes of their own chill
ren, as well as from those of all the iahab-
tants of the district, merely for the sake of
saving few dollars as they think but in which
they are greatly mistaken Every penny ex-
pended for proper school grounds is a dollar
from the Doctors bill and will bear hundred
per cent. interest to all who investit Scholars
are able to study twice as much if they can
exercise properly during the hours of play than
if they are deprived of this necessary requisite
to the student o, do not deprive orr scholars
Of something which they need as much as the
food which spStains their lives Let school
directors, if they want to save money, have
healthy aud intelligent scholars, advance their
schools, and confer blessing on their posteri-
ty select the most pleasant spot which they
can find wherecn to erect the Peoples
College" Then after the house is built, plant
trees, lay out aowet beds, and bea1tif1 it in
every possible manuer, and scholars will soon
love their place Of Instruction, their :sste will
be healthy, vigorous, intelligent and happy, and
directors will have done their duty and not ere
this done, will the object Of Common schools
have been accomplished z. (. 3.