smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

The speedy adoption of the Fifteenth Con-
stitutiOnal Amendment may probably be con-
sidered assured. The Legislature of Nevada
was the only one concerning whose action any
serious doubts were entertained-it being sup
posed that the Chinese question might
there prove serious embarrassment.
But Nevada has been one of the
first to forward its prompt ratification.


This, and Gen. Grants wish expressed so de-


cidedly in his Inaugural, seem to remove all
possibility of any unexpected opposition in any
of the State Legislatures controlled by the
! Republican party to the measure. The ad-
jOurnment, however in Tennessee without ac-


tiOn on the amendment, may cause delay.
Enough, however, is known to warrant the
conviction that before another general political
campaign is upon MS the right of suffrage in
every State in the Union will be independent
of race, color, or previous condition of servi-
tude
Year: 1869

There was less of rush in crowding bills
through Congress during the closing hours
than is usual No measures of first-class inn
portance failed for mere want of time
and any special efforts to secure action on
general public matters were rendered the less
necessary by the fact that another Congress
was at hand to furnish an immediate remedy
for the omissions of this one. We present
elsewhere full list of the acts and resolutions
of the late session, so far as they are of gene
raj interest.
Year: 1869

The speech with which the King of Prussia
on Wednesday opened the session of the
Parliament Of North Germany expressed
very emphatic confidence in the preservation of
peace. Added to this was, however, an equally
emphatic expression Of confidence in the ability
of Prussia to defend itself against all attacks
from abroad. Public opinion in Europe attaches
some importance to tho official declarations of
Year: 1869

Mr.. James Brooks is an experienced and in
telligent Member of Congress. 1t was not
through ignorance, therefore, that he yesterday
sought to bully the Clerk into transgrcssion
of the plain law defining his duties in conduct
ing the preliminary business of the organiza-
ton in the House. lie knew rs well as did
the Clerk himself, that it had been over and
over decided that during the pcrdcncy Of the
rol-call no appeal could be entertained, and
that at its close nothing but the organiza-
ton was in order He knew, too,
that the law imperatively forbade the Clerk to
accept any such defective certificates as were
presented by the Georgia and Louisiana mem
bers, whose names were omitted from the roll
He knew, therefore, that the Clerk had dOno
his duty in making up the roll, and was doing
his duty in conducting the organization accord
ing to it. Knowing these things, he did his
deliberate best to plunge the unOrganized bcdy
into confusion, defied the sense Of the House,
ard bulied the Clerk. Do the Democrats inn
agine that they strengthen their standing be-
fore the country by even seeming to acquiesce
in such aimlessly malignant leadership
Year: 1869

The Spanish Cortcs have appointed the i'm
pOrtant Committee which is to draft the future
Constitution of the country. The Committee
consists of fifteen members but whether the
Republican party is represented in it, and if
so to what extent, is not stated in the cable
disnotcL
Year: 1869

The President of the English Poor Law Board,
Mr.. GOschen, advocates the removal of all re-
strictions of emigration, and is even in favor
of encouraging the emigration of paupers. AS
far as this declaration refers to bodied per-
sons who can and are willing to earn their own
living, this change of policy with regard to
emigration is entirely acceptable to the Amer
icap pcOule.
Year: 1869

! BEN BUTLER VS.. MRS. STOWE.
"A case OF scan. mag or Grim.


con. is to Ben. Butler a delicious
! tlt-bit, a savOry morsel. His ex-
perience and practice at the bar


have so sharpened and whetted
his legal appetite for this sort of
mental pabulum, that he has not
been able to withhold his opinion
in the Byron calumny, and has
rushed into print in four columns
OF a Boston paper, in which he
cross-eXamines Mrs. Stowe and
riddles her story with his rules
OF evidence so completely as not
to leave that elderly female any
thing to stand upon. He care
fully and ably reviews the char
acterof Byron and all the incidents
of his life, and proves conclusively
the falseness and improbability
OF her ingenious canard. 1t has
been the habit of Daniel to come
to Judgment, but now comes Ben
jamin, and, wonder of wonders,
in the cause of truth and morali-
ty! The report that Butler was
seen at a camp-meeting lately,
must be true, for his action in this
matter is proof positive that he
has experienced a change of heart.
After all, it can now be said with
some show of probability, that
"the devil is not as black as he is
painted" for here is Butler in his
great, daring act (never before
attempted in America of the
Moral Reformer and the friend of
innocence.
Year: 1869

The World does not like Carpet
Baggers, and gives them this dig:


Where the prey is, there are
the vu1tures. Those 1mpecun1-
GUS vuItures that make up the
reconstructed government of the
South are eager to have extra
sessions of the so-called Legisla-
tures-in Louisiana and Alabama
notably-not that there is any
need for such sessions, but merely
to get the big mileage and per
diem and chance to finger the
public funds. Some little in the
shape of taxes has come into the
several State treasures OF the
South since the adjournment OF
the so-called Legislatures, and
the loil are crazy to seize the
same.
Year: 1869

General Sherman's commission
as Secretary Of War appoints him
until the end of the next session
of Congress. The law does not
prevent him from holding the two
Offices Of General and Secretary
of War, but he must select which
salary he will accept.
Year: 1869

The SOUTH AND COTTON.-A
friend of the editor of the Mem
phis Appeal, writing from the
Rhine, says:


Everything connected with the
South and that tends to an in
creased production of her great
staple is matter of vast impor-
tance Oh this side, and I speak
the true sentiments Of the Eng
lish and Continental cotton man
ufacturers, with many of whom /
have lately come in contact, when
[ wish this great enterprise God
speed.


There is no country that can
supplant our own South from her
position Of Chief Cotton Commits
sary for the world, provided she
can increase her production OF
the staple, and if she can do SO
by Chinese or any other kind OF
cheap labor, crowding out compe-
tition as well in price as in quail
ty; it is manifestly her duty no
less than her interest to avail her
self of Mr.. Koopmancha's propsi-
ton.
Year: 1869

BY perseverance we have at last
extorted report from Mayor
WALKER. Although we received it
at late hour, we print it in full in
this mornings JOURNAL. The re
port shows the Mayors operations
for about ten and half months. We
shall take pleasure in aualyzing the
report, aud if we find that the Mayor
has really succeeded in reducing the
indebtedness of the city, none. will
more cheerfully give him credit than
ourselves. II, on the contrary, a
careful dissection Of the report show
that, Notwithstanding the enormous
tax levy of the past year, the indebt-
edness of the city has not only not
been diminished, but so changed in
form as to make it bear much higher
rate of interest, he must expect to be
condemned by the people. We prom
ise His Honor to give his report fair
but searching examination.
Year: 1869

attached to the door or shutters OF the viii
lage lon, announcing q show Of panses on
q certain day.


would Ike TO have the Young men Of
this country show a genuine love Of II ,wers.
OF ! think It wonli save them from a great
deal Of evil | know it would add much 70
the happiness and usefulness both Of men
and women. have seen scores Of Eell.oif
farmers who would not gTe an lolrs labor
to prepare little patch for a h9wer gsrden
Tor vile and little ones, although they knew
il would make them ali very happy, and
grateful too, and cause increased love aud
respect for husband and father.


have known a farmer to drive bis team
over the edge Of his wife's pretty flower bed,
which she had adorned with q great deal Of
labor and PAIN, in drawing wood to the yard
Year: 1869

VARIETY IN CRops.-Cotton is
an uncertain plant, and if farmers
embark their: all in it and fail,
disaster and ruin will be certain
for the whole South, which after
years Of war, desolation, and agri-
cultural and commercial reverses,
has so lately and with such great
started out again on the
highway of prosperity and wealth.
It should not be forgotten SO soon
that the diversified and early
crops Of tho past season, small
though they were, brought the
planter money and supplies at q
time when he was driven to the
last extremity Of the season. 1t
is a poor policy which dcvotes the
rich and productive acres of the
South to cotton for the purchase
of grain, -four and provisions at
famine prices. Cotton may fail
or prices may not pay out the
cost of its production, but the
thrifty planter who may have de-
voted a portion of his lands to
corn, wheat and esculents, will be
left IN independent and easy cir
cumstances. Plant plenty of grain
and vegetables, increase your in
terest in cattle and hogs, and our
word for it the end Of another
season will find the people Of the
South in a more prosperous and
independent position than they
have ever occupied.


.... | [Memphis Avalanche.
Year: 1869

Now is the proper time to lay
the foundation ofa good garden.
This consists in giving a liberal
allowance Of manure and deep
working. Deep digging cannot
be dispensed with. A good gar
den must be good in July and Au-
gust as we'll as in April and May.
How few really good gardens are
found during midsummer! When
ever one is known you may be
sure that deep working at the
start is the origin oft.


1t is impossible to expect a
shallow worked soil to produce a
succulent vegetable during the
dry Summer months. The gene
raj practice is to hasten the burn
ing up process, instead of remedy
ing it. Some gardens, we admit,
receive a fair allowance OF manure,
but by being improperly worked
in the ground it causes the crop
to be FASTENED to it's destruction
whenever the dry Summer COM
mences. If the same quantity OF
manure has been worked in the
ground to the depth of eighteen
inches,- and we'll incorporated with
the soil, the result would be en-
tirely different from the usual
scarcity Of vegetables in mid-sum-
mer. Deep trenching and deep
manuring will allow vegetables
to draw moisture for a long pc
riod. Try it.: is the time to
perform the work, and our word
for it, your reward will consist in
greatly increased crops of vegetu-
bles, as we'll as heightened har-
vcst.-Chronicle and Sentinel. .,.
Year: 1869

An Ohio editor is getting par
ticular about what he eats. Hear
him. ssThe woman who made
the butter which we bought last
week is respectfully requested to
exercise more judgment in pro-
portioning the ingredients. The
last batch had too much hair in
for butter; and not quite enough
for a waterfall. There is no sense
in making yourself bald-headed if
butter is thirty-fve cents a
pound"
Year: 1869

A Western preacher is thus de-
scribed: "He may be supposed to
have inherited the temperament
of an old-fashioned camp meeting
and got it mixed up in his blood
with a modern torch-light process
sion. Where he is, there must be
wind and thunder, and volcanic
eruptions, and earthquakes, and
ground torn up by the roots"
Year: 1869

DoN'T CULTIVATE ORDINARY
LAND WITHOUT MANURE.-Recol-
lect, it costs you, On our average
soils, ten dollars or more to make
and gather an acre of cotton. If
you do not look closely after your
hands, it will cost you a good deal
more than that. Now, every acre
cufttva vatud, - H, s--;ee1a
crops worth at least. the above
amounts, will not only be no pro-
fit, but run in debt. Larger crops
still are required to obtain u profit
on hired labor. Lands, then, which
will not yield such crops we must
let rest, or manure them sufficient
ly, or we lose money. At least
half Of our poorest soils hitherto
devoted to corn and cotton, should



be thrown out to rest and the bal
ance enriched. How will it take
us to exhaust what little capital
We have left, if for every acre on
which we can make a net profit of
ten dollars we continue to cult
vate FIVE which lack from three
to ten dollars each Of meeting the
actual cost of cultivation. There
are few lands which will not yield
o profit if commercial manures
are judicially applied.


TSouthern Cultivator:
Year: 1869

A MODEL HUsBAND.-He walks
out with his wife on week day,
and is not afraid of a milliners
shop. He even has change when
asked for, and never alludes to it
afterward, He is not above car
rying large bundle or a cotton
umbrella, or even holding the ba-
by in his lap in an omnibus, He
runs on first to knock at the door
when its raining. He goes out
side if the cab is full. He goes to
bed first in cold weather. he gets
up in the night to rock the cradle
or answer the bell door. He be-
ieves in Mysteries, and is melted
instantly by tear. He patches
up a quarrel with a velvet gown,
and drives away the sulks with a
trip to the Central Park He:
never flies out about his buttons
or brings home friends to supper:
His clothes never smell Of tobacco.
He respects the curtains, and ney-
er smokes in the house. He never
invades the kitchen, and would no
more think Of blowing up any
of the servants than of ordering
the dinner. Ho lets the family
60 out of town once every year
while he remains at home with
one knife and fork, sits on brown
Holland chair, sleeps in a curtain
less bed, and has a char-woman to
wait on him.. He is very easy
and afectionate, keeping the wed.
ding anniversary punctually. -:
Year: 1869

head of the population. This will make an
enormous tonnage for the railroad for it
must seek market by steam.


We have made no calculation of the value
OF the minerals, as they are so extensive
they cannct be estimated. Let this road be
completed, so that settlers can get in and
the farmers get their supplies out, and it
will be one of the most desirable countries
to live in for comfort and profit. Lands
are cheap, prices ranging from 81 to $25
per acre. The county is well watered, with
amid and salubriuus climate, When the
road is completed to Asheville, the road to
Tennessee will drain the Western part of
that State, and branch to South Carolina
will bring north eastern South Carolina
freight to Norfolk over the Western North
Carolina Road This road is sure to be
completed at no distant day, as the State
has made very liberal appropriations, and
this, with first mortgage upon the road,
will complete it through to the Southeast
part of the State.
Year: 1869

For months past, members Of the Democ-
racy have been rolling as a sweet morsel
under their tongues, the slandesous charge
that Col. W. F. Henderson had stolen a
mule. His friends knew that the charge was
false as the men who made it, and therefore
they allowed the matter to run, well know
ing that the lie would come back to vex its
authors.


The Indictment for stealing Darl's mule
came up for trial at the last term of the
Forsyth County Superior Court. and no
proof being adduced in support of the charge,
he was triumphantly acquitted by the jury ;
and the prosecution appearing to be SO
shame faced and malicious, fhe Judge order
ed that Darr, the prosecutor should pay the
costs Of the prosecution. This termination of
the case shows to what depth of meanness
men will descend to CRAFTY their spleen, and
leaves the reputation Of Col. Henderson un-
tarnished, which is much more than can be
said of those who have been constantly re-
iterating this charge.
Year: 1869

Notwithstanding that many officers have
acknowledged their error and discharged
their Democratic deputies since we pointed
out to them the evil they we're sustaining,
there are many officers, claiming to be Re-
publicans, who still retain in office men who
are openly hostile to the Republican party.
Those who do so may simply be negligent,
but they must now do what is plainly their
duty to the people who elected them, or
forfeit the confidence and esteem of their
party. 1t is the duty of every man in whom
the people have reposed trust to attend to
the interests of his party while holding that
trust. Every community has always two
parties, the one being opposed to that which
governs. The party which is ont is always
an opposition party, and does all in its
power to embarrass that which is in power.
1t is then manifestly unwise for the party in
power to entrust any portion of the admin
istration of its affairs to men who are opposed
to its principles, for it is but reasonable to





thus given them to the damage of the gov
ernment. No man trusts the management
Of his affairs to a personal enemy, nor should
any party entrust the management of
its affairs to political enemy. If any Re
publican officer, who has been elected by
Republican votes to a position Of trust,
keeps or places any but Republicans in any
office, no matter how small may be its inn
portance, he has betrayed the confidence of
those who trusted him.. By keeping in office
men who are opposed to Republican princi-
Piles, he has put into their hands power to
be used against Republicans and the Repub-
lican party. He has also given aid and CON-
fort to the enemy, and has injured his own
friends. If the Democratic party should
ever get into power, then it will be time to
have Democratic officials, but until then we
want to see no man in office who is not a
true Republican. Every Republican officer
who has Democratic deputies must at once
remove them and put true men in their places,
or he will forfeit the confidence of Republi-
cans, and will never again be deemed worthy
of their trust. Let every officer who has
been thus negligent in the discharge of his
duty be so no longer, or, failing to do better,
he nay understand that he no longer has the
confidence and esteem of the men whose
trust he thus betrays. In the future he will
be deemed unworthy to hold any office, and
will be treated as a man who has endeavor-
ed TO injure the men who gave him theil
votes. Let our friends in all parts of the
State mark the men who thus disregard tht
wishes of the people who elected them, thai
at the next election they may be displaced
and their places filled with men who vii
respect the wishes of the people.
Year: 1869

Butter color and green are said to be the
latest hair tints in Paris" A woman with
green hair tint appeared on the street of
Raleigh. the other day, and the editor of the
Standard ni5bled away at the woman's head,
thinking it was grass.-W WI. Star.


This IS news to US, for we never have any
thing to do with grass widows. If anybody
nibbled at her it wasn't US, and whoever did
it must have taken her for an hair ess Be-
sides the Bible says "all flesh is grass"
and being of a goodly corporosity, we think
that, under this explanation of human ma
ture, we must be load Of fhay, judging from
the number of Democratic asses which have
been biting at US of late.
Year: 1869

Everybody remembers with what howl
of exultation the Raleigh Sentinel and the
rest of the copperhead press copied what
they said was an item from Harper's Weekly,
denuncia;ery of carpet-baggers. 1t now
turns out, just as we supposed, that nothing
of the kind ever appeared in the Weekly,
and the Sentinel gets very sharp rap over
the knuckles, from the Weekly, for it gratui-
tous falsehood. People should be very


careful about believing anything they may
find in the Sentinel, for its reputation for
veracity is very bad. a aasgJ
Year: 1869

The New Berne Journal of Commerce has
an article, evidently aimed at the STANDARD,
in which it says "the Radical press are
preaching cessation of political hostilities."
The Journal is entirely wrong, we do not
"preach" a cessation of political hostalities
We wish to have political questions discus
sed in all their bearings and to the end, for
upon the free discussion of political subjects
depends the welfare of the nation But we
do not wish to see the affairs of the nation
argued in spirit of sectional or personal
hatred, for such arguments cannot but re-
suit disastrously to every interest of the
State, and injuriously to the welfare of the
people. We wish every issue, state and ma
tlonal, to be freely and openly argued, that
The people may judge which party will do
The most to benefit the people of North
Carolina. The bitterness and hatred which
mas prevailed has not only acted to the poll
ucal prejudice of our people, but has injured
every business interest of the State If the
republicans are willing to d9 away with
tlis spirit and make the political issue SIM
ply which party can do the most good,
surely the Democrats should be willing to
meet US half way. Their unwillingness to
10 so has been noted by the people, and they
Sfe already finding out that the Republican
party is the only champion of the Peoples
Rights.
Year: 1869

The New York Times finds fault with the
STANDARD. 1t thinks we are too personal!
1t says personalities have long been discon-
tinued by the leading Journals of that and
other large cities but Southern and Western
papers still fire away at each other" What
New York and other large cities may do
cannot be considered as binding the papers
of the "South and West" to do likewise.
The "South and West" have pleasant habit
of doing very much as they please, without
having the fear of New York before them.
Beside, the example set by the New York
press has not been of such high character
as to command an extreme degree of respect.
We outside barbarians cannot be made to
understand how papers which are constantly
teeming with vulgar abuse of each other can
set themselves up as models of journalistic
purity. When they do so, the untutored
obstinate as to revert to that section OF the
Bible which talks strongest against hgpo-
critics. The time is not yet beyond the
memory of the Oldest inhabitant when the
Times man scattered his verbal filth upon
every one who was unfortunate enough to
come near him. Neither can the present re-
lations and editorial passages between the
World and Democrat be considered as models
Of literary elegance. The Sun has also
several dark. spots upon its surface. Nearly
all of the New York editors have on divers
occasions called each other fools, asses, liars,
scoundrels, cheats. &C., yet the enlightened
people of New York not only suffered it, but
absolutely appeared to think that each
editor was right in his estimate ofthe others
The Tribune is the only journal we except
from this category, as that has been uni
| formly courteous AS to the Times itself, we
are astonisbed that it, of all papers, should
rebuke personalities. Such rebuke from
such paper is very much like Satan rebuk-
ing sin. The Times seems to forget that it
has heavy libel suit now entered against it
for defamation of character. Perhaps its new
ly acquired dislike OF personalities" springs
from this cause. Had Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton's Recolution made this attack upon
US we might have born it with meekness,
but to be abused by IA paper whose editor
keeps and pays man to be horsewhipped
for him is little too much for even christian
resignation. Truly, these are bad Times
which have fallen upon us.