smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

The New York Star speaks OF the inordl-
nate greed for money now prevailing IN that
city, as follows:


Intemperance in drink is not the only ex-
cess of which the young men of New York
need be afraid. There is an Incorporate love
of mOney--a restless desire for suddenly OBJ
tanned wealth-Which is almost as perniciOus,
and frequently as fatal, as the drunkard's cup.
The reckless habits engendered, encouraged
and matured by the rush and excitement of the
war time are fastened upon the present gener-
alton of business men to an astonishing, de-
plorabe degree. The old-fashoned slow and
sure modes of business are laughed at by the
twenty-five year old merchant who could teach
his grandfather many things and reveal to his
old employer tricks of trade which would
make him faint with amazement Every af-
ternoon scores of c0upes stand on Wall and
Broad streets waiting for custom, and along
toward five or six o'clock they roll rapidly up
town. 1t is amusing to look at and in them
Young men, with wild eyes and flushed cheeks,
lie back upon the cushioned seats, tired out
with excitenent-half used up at twenty-five,
blase at thirty. The life they lead is full OF
anxiety, full Of turmoil. They are seeking for
money, not for business. They do not care to
build up great houses, whose names shall be
honored in the community, but rather to make
their pile and cut away from the street. Now
adays there are no boys, no young men; they
are all brokers, merchants, dealers. Look at
the Wall street youth of twenty. Good Heav-
ems! how he putIs and fumes about his securi-
ties, bis stocks and bonds, his customers and
spectators Boys who ought to be in school
are sharpening their wits upon each other be-
fore they are fifteen and it's no uncommon
matter to find mature brokers at twenty-t four
or FIVE who have "seen it ALL made their
cool hundred thousand and lost it, with several
more that didn't belong to them. Every man
is in the race for money, and so far as out
sders can see, its grab game, i'll which a
lout. who knows nothing, is quite as likely to
get the prize as the man who carefully studies
and pouders the situation, and goes in on
plan.
Year: 1869

The following is copied from the Mobile i'd


rertiser, the leading paper of Alabama:


Since the late election and riot we note a re-
markable change in the tone of public senti-
ment in reference to the negro population. The
patience of the white people seems at last to
have become exhausted and broken down. We
have urged, and demonstrated, and pleaded
with these people to persuade them to see that
their interests did not lie in the direction OF
combining with our enemies in hostility to the
white race. 1t would be unfair to say that the
conciliatng efforts Of the whites have been en-
tirely without effect; for they have certainly
caused many to abstain from voting with the
Carpet Baggers, and quite number to act and
vote, at large personal risk, with the Demo
cratic party. But the rule is the other way,
and the negro masses have not only been deaf
to white entreaty. but have become as malig-
naEt in their hostility as their most malignant
c. b. leaders could desire This spirit was
clearly manifested in the Seventh negro ward
while the election was pending, and it broke
forth in savage threats and lmprecations on the
whites rs soon as it was over, and assumed the
form of an armed mob on the night of their
gloritication meeting. The result is that the
white people hardened their hearts against a
race that seems determined to force an issue
of mastery upon them And it has set many
minds to inquire: Have we mistaken our true
policy III dealing with these delHded blacks
Is 1t worth while 10 pursue further system OF
" moral suasion" upon set of half savages
who are determined to be our enemies Are
not pearls wasted before swine And lastly,
is not the policy OF the assertion Of natural au-
thority and supremacy-the policy OF moral
domination--the one that the case demands
We must confess to the change in the general
feeling. 1t is absurd to deal with enemies rs
il they were friends, 10 foster them with EN-.
pIoy that they may use their wages to buy
arms to oyeraWe us with riots and tr9htrn Wo-
men and children with their loud and blood
thirsty threats. We hold therefore, that ey-
cry negro who adhcreS 10 the &. T. party,
should be instantly turned out Of white employ
mcnt and white men put in their places. An
unrelcnting social war should be kept up on
their white leaders, for here is the seat of the
disease. In all the barbarian armies when the
chiefs are Killed or taken prisoners the rank
and file ily. We are rid of the Head Centre
and the most dangerous OF these men. Let the
work 90 on until peace and security are at
tanned by the hcsIra of the last one of them,
Carpet Baggcr and Scalawag. Frowr them
out Of the land they have cursed. and if need
be- build golden bridge for Il retrcating enemy
Year: 1869

We clip the following from the San Francis
co Herald of late date:


Barrow (page 1861 says that female infanti-
eide, " the most unnatural crime that prevails
among ferocious savages and cannlbals, Is per-
petrated among the Chinese to degree almost
beyond belief" "Ths practice is carried to
such an extent that it may almost be said to be
patronized by the Government which does not
interfere to prevent, and may therefore be said
to give it countenance" 1t is, according to
Barrow, tacitly considered part of the duty
OF the police of Pekin, to employ certain per-
sons to 60 their rounds at an early hour in the
morning with carts, in order to pick up the
bodies of such infants as may have been east
into the streets during the night. No inquiry
is made, but the bodies are carried to com
mon pit without the city wall, ''intO which all
those that are living as well as those that are
dead are thrown promlscuousy." The Roman
Catholic missionaries attend ut the pit daily,
for the purpose of rescrling some of the VIC
Tins, and bringing them up in the Christian
faith. Barrow observes that those of the mis-
slonaries with whom he had daily conversation
during a residence of five weeks within the
Emperor's palace, assured him that the scenes
sometimes exhibited were such as to make the
feeling mind shuddcr with horror" And these
are the people that the Radicals insist shall
continue to come to this country-in increas
ing nunbers-and "chcapen labor" Senator
Stewart says we need millions OF them.
Year: 1869

A YOUNG Russian princess, twenty-four and
already divorced, is the heroine of Baden-Ba-
den. She dresses throughout in deep black,
and plays very high. One day she won one
hundred thousand francs and broke the bank,
but the next day lost it all and more too
Year: 1869

ANOTHER WIPE-The Whitewater (WiS.)
Eegist1, Il very rabid Radical paper, says:


The truth would seem 10 be that Gen. Grant
is out of place in the Presidential Char He
has no taste for civil business. aud possibly he
has no talent for it. He prefers the vulgar
snobbcry and immoral society of the Watering
places 10 the staid and sober hfr Of The White
House 1t need not be concealed that General
Grant delights in the society of the race course
and takes delight in driving n nobhy horse over
Bloomingdac road. For the good name of our
country We may not speak of these things III
public, but we cannot escape the conviction
that our President is out of his element when
surrounded by his Cabinet. and much prefers
to select his company, and Is not always par
tlcular To select the best
Year: 1869

A NEWSPAPER has an article headed, "The
Secretary of State on the Atlantic Cable"
Rather damp quarters. we would say (says an
exchange), but as he is Fish we suppose he
can stand it.
Year: 1869

THE WEATHER YRsrERDAY.-The following record
win show tie changes IN the temperature for the
past twenty-four hours in comparison with the cor
responding day OF last year, as indicated by the
thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy. HERALD Build
ing broadway. corner OF Ann street,
Year: 1869

MOBILE, Feb. IL, 1860.


The Mobile Board Of Trade will do all In their
power to render the visit OF the members OF the
press to the convention to be held in this city the
nth inst. agreeable. They desire to extend their
attentions and hospitaities to such members Of the
press North and west, as well as South as may find
t convenient to be present. The Mobile and Mont
gomerY and the Mobile and Ohio railroads will pass
members OF the press to and from the convention
Free and it is hoped the connecting and more re-
mote lines will do The same. The Board Of Trade has
rendered its hall for the use Of the convention.
Year: 1869

The canals have been in State politics what
the Pacific railways are in national politics
a fruitful source of corruption. They have
generated a class of dishonest men, pilferers
of the public money, whose doings are little
comprehended by the community in general,
because the details of canal management are
a sealed book to nine out of every ten citizens.
Year after year has passed without reforma-
ton of the evils SO long practised. The
Legislature has been frequently appealed to;
but the influence of competing railway lines
has stifled every effort to modify the system.


A movement is now on foot, espOused by
the Corn Exchanges Of this city and Buffalo,
to procure an enlargement of the Erie Canal,
which is the great water highway between the
lakes and the ocean. 1t would be more proper
to say the movement has been revived; for
the project is no new one. Several prominent
citizens have thrown themselves into it, and
among them Mr.. Israel Il. Hatch. The rapidly
increasing traffic between the West and East
necessitates a change which will remove from
this route the impediments to free trans
fer of the produce of the West to the
markets of the metropolis. Measures for the
enlargement of the canal have been de-
feated in the Legislature by the combination
of railway interests opposed to it. The ills
which commerce has to bear, even in the pres
ent condition of the canal, are outrageous.
The tolls, the contracts and the Jobs connected
with it have put tax on the price of every
bushel of grain and barrel of -four consumed
west Of Rochester and south of Albany. Its
management has been prolific of all sorts of
political chicanery and swinding. The move
ment is rather late to be effective with the
present session of the Legislature, but it will
gather strength with the increasing clamor of
those who demand the change. Our city rep
resentatives at Albany have generally suffered
the country members to fight out the canal
quarrel among themselves, the subject being
one which they were too ignorant of or too in-
different about to enter into, contenting them
selves with exchanging votes upon it in return
for like favors as regards their municipal
schemes of street railroads and other fran
chises. Were they awake to the fact that the
commerce of New York would be enriched
millions annually by the canal enlargement
there is doubtless metropolitan pride enough
left among them to secure the adoption of so
desirable measure.
Year: 1869

MORE BOND RoBBERIEs. robberies
seem again to be the order Of the day. The
one hundred thousand dollars worth of booty
secured by burglars in South street, in this
city, some time between six o'clock on Satur-
day evening and eight o'clock on Monday
morning, consisted chiefly of securities and
negotiable funds. The sum stolen at perhaps
the very same hour from the Safety Fund
Society building in Philadelphia was ten
times as large, and. as it belonged to about
three thousand depositors of humble class,
the loss of this millions worth .. ,cn.s .c::s .ad
greenbacks is a peculiarly grievous misfor-
tune. Both these great burglarics must tend
TO impair the trust Of the public in safes and
savings banks, in watchmen and detectives.
More vigilance and energy will be needed te
protect us in person and property against om
dangerous classes" Here in New York the
dismissal Of the late chief of the detective
force appears to have been the signal for a re-
vival Of burglary and bond robbery. Can no
efficient successor to John s. Young be found
Year: 1869

Down WITH YOUR DUsT.-Decause within
the memory Of man there has not been time
when the streets of this city were thoroughly
well cleaned gusty days are terror. The
same substance that we.. ssiushed up with the
fresh spring rain impedes all travel under the
name Of mud has another phase Of existence, in
which II is still less endurable. This is when
dried by two or three days of sunshine II
takes the wings Of morning and makes dead
set at your eyes, stuffs up your nostrils and
rushes with dreadful familiarity into your
larynx-moving you by turns to coughs and
tears and pocket handkcrchiefs. There is, of
course, no remedy. We must merely endure !;
for omnibus wheels will grind down every
sort Of substance to this impalpablc powder
even humanity itself; and thus ground down.
the wind, blowing whittier it listoth, discrimi-
mates not between human eye and knot
hole. The attempt to sprinkle down the dust
is failure. Yesterday the very heavens tried
and gave II up. If the authorities did IL, every
gallon of water would add fifty dollars to the
tax list.
Year: 1869

EXIT THROUGH THE SHEmFFs OrFloE.-
Another convicted criminal on his way TO
prison has gone out Of sight through the Sherir's
Office. We suppose the public cannot be aston
ished at any event of this sort since IL knows
what sort Of men are chosen for the Sheriff 8
assistants. The only question to bc considered
by the friends of any criminal on his way to
prison in charge Of deputy sheriff is how
much the friends can pay. Since public attcn-
tion has becn turned to the subject the friends
must pay enough TO indemnify the deputy for
tho loss Of his place
Year: 1869

Does Grant read the newspapers or does
he neglect this indication Of the national pulse q
johnson read the newspapers-too many Of
them, maybe. He had two or three secreta-
ries who studied all the organs, classified their
structures and laudations of Johnson and gave
him the result. 1t is said that he gave two
hours every evening to this subject and had
the more important articles read to him in
erte'aSo People will wonder how it was that
johnson, if he thus listened to all the guides,
made 80 many mistakes. 1t was because he
listened to all the guides. His grand error
was that he could see nothing in the newspa-
pers but Johnson, while Johnson was in fact
the least thing there. We hope that Grant
reads the newspapers, but not merely to find
out what they say about Grant. Within GER
tain lines the Presidents duty has certainly
little or no relation to popular impulses, wishes
or thoughts, but goes by the law. But in
larger scope the newspapers ought to be as
much his law as the constitution itself-that is,
so far as the newspapers are true to their own
destiny and indicate, not personal spleen or
party spite, but the movement of the national
mind. "The will of the people is the law Of
the land" and the press is the only guide that
can point out to any President the direction
the will of the people takes.
Year: 1869

MORE TERRITORY IN PROSPECT. House
Committee on Foreign Affairs agreed to report
a resolution in favor of the annexation of st.
Domingo to the Union, and recommending that
Congress and the government take measures
to secure such result The Dominicans have
shown themselves to be an exceedingly uneasy
population under every form of home rule
which they have tried, but perhaps they would
become more staid and peaceful if in the
enjoyment of really constitutional govern
ment.
Year: 1869

simmer and autumn weather, the storms.
floods and earthquakes that have prevailed
in various places, to the influence Of the
sun, which, they assert, is in hqhHy agi-
tated state, 1t is also ASSERTED by them
that the body of magnetic light shooting
from the sun in every direction will, by the
beginning of next year, have extended far
enough TO exercise material influence upon
the earth, and then it is.. said we may ex-
peet the phenomena will be observed such
as have not yet come under the notice hu-
man race.
Year: 1869

WE are free to say that our sympa-
thies are warmly with the Indian
apolis Sentinel in its fight with the
old party barnacles who have always
managed to do little of the work of
hard fought campaigns and yet reap
the reward Of every hard earn ed
victory. The newspaper men of the
country have been in the habit Of
allowing politicians to use their time
and brains-and often their little
peouniary capital in putting them
into notoriety-and then, after the
elections, quietly ignore their services
or shove them aside altogether. The
party that fails to recognize the edi-
tors aud proprietors Of its n ost infu-
ential paper-be that party Republi-
can or Observation-Disclosures defeat,
and if those editors properly estimate
themselves, will be pretty certain to
achieve it. Let politicians under
stand that those who do the hard
work of the campaign are to be most
consulted, not only as to the manner
in which it is to be conducted, but also
as to the men who shall be nominated,
and we will soon see different state
of Affairs. But so long as the papers
meekly swallow every insult, aud
tamely submit to every snub-work-
ing all the harder for those who insult
them-they may expect that kind of
treatment Let the newspapers of
both parties profit by the independent
spirit manifested By the proprietor
of the Sentinel, and demand such
recognition at the hands of their
parties, respectively, as their services
entitle them to.
Year: 1869

RESTORED ANIMATIoN.-The blis-
ter prepared for the Courier Local. by
the Terre Haute Express. and applied
by the JOURNAL, mas worked charm
ingly, and animation is again restored.
For several days he had been in 8
comatose condition, caused by his
running against REED belonging to
the Louisville Opera House Company.
A REED only was requircd.tO lay the
little fellow out. A straw would have
been amply sufficient But the mani
festations of returning vitality, oeca-
stoned by the blister aforesaid, are
highly promising. Business houses
who desire to be handed down to pos
terity in badly written prose, should
call at once, lest relapse take place.
We cannot promise to keep the little
fellow so lively for any great length ol
time.
Year: 1869

We take pleasure in, correcting the
rumor that several substantial Dem
ocrats have stopped the Courier for
the reason that it has become too dig
nifed and respectable since a Radi-
cal, Observation-Disclosures Republican
took charge Of the local department,
They say the dignity, decorum and an
telligence are not prominent enough
20 br~k
Year: 1869

been paid in order to retain the goods discov-


cred in their possession. We are glad to hear


Of this movement in the way of reform, re-
trencSment and the recovery Of revenues due
to the government. The line of the Missis-
sippi has beef, especially since the war, a
favorite line of operation for the smugglers
After the echoes of the Boston Jubilee shall
have ceased and the administration shall have
found out what to do about the Cuban ques-
ton, the Alabama question may be left over
for while until still further steps shall be
made in the way of retrenchment and reform.
The question of the enormous frauds in petro-
leum, tobacco and whiskey might well be re-
vived. 1t is now Of the highest Importance
that all revenues legitimately due to the gov
ernment should be collected and that all leaks
should be stopped.
Year: 1869

Watson Webb's Mission.


General James Watson Webb, Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the
United States to the Court of Brazil during the
past eight years, in terminating his mission
if he has really closed it-created grand fuss
not merely in Rio Janiero, but in the imperial
palace, the Office of the Minister and Secre-
tary of State for Marine, and generally ''all
round, previous to his departure for New
York. With pen in hand, paper. and ink
before him, and hanked by the mahogany
stocks of that ''almost fatal fray" the
General was warlke, and came out on
the Brazilians in an official correspondence
which covers many pages of large
sized ewspaper-equalling any of the
Seward Alabama letters in length, and
far superior to any particular one Of that
famous series in vim and personality of ex-
preston The subject matter was our claim
relative to the loss of the whaler Canada on
the Garcas Reef, more than a dozen of years
since, and tho alleged unauthorized appropria-
ton by the Brazilians of the proceeds of the
sale of her cargo and outfit to the national





treasury. Having a whaler in tow. the Gen
eral handles an epstolary harpoon Of the
sharpest sort with great vigor. He charac-
terizes the diplomacy of his Excelency the
Minister as ''undiplomatic, irregular" and
''grossly improper" and speaking of an at
tempt to remove the consideration of the
whaleman's case from his hands to Washing
ton, asserts that it was ''a gross and unpardon-
able breach of faith, violation of an honor
able compact between gentlemen and direct
personal offence to the representative OF
the United States, which would render
with the Minister in future" General Webb
next comes to attribute motives, hauling the
Cabinet in Washington into his quarrel very
adroitly thus :-''Your Excellency, in the name
of the Imperial government, has persisted in
course absolutely uncaed for by any consid
erations of justice or expediency, well know
ing that such would be deemed exceedingly
offensive both by the undersigned and his
government The undersigned would have
spent nearly eight years at this Court with
very huOWicuSc VI "uoe 10 paoSihB
around him if he had not become cognizant Of
the fact that dislike of all foreigners is ma
tional trait that such dislike is more intense
towards his countrymen than any other ma
tionality, because they have got rid Of the in
stitution of slavery" And again :-''The un-
dersigned, in closing his mission, has the sat-
isfaction to reflect that he has on all occasions,
and at no considerable personal sacrifice,
proved himself very sincere friend of Brazil
and of the Brazilian people," General Webb
is fully primed with abolitionsm and gun
powder. He is here in town on his way to
Washington, where he is almost certain to
fight somebody. Secretary Fish had better
post himself concerning Brazil He may be
forced into war or challenged on the spot.