smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

THE LECTURE SEAsos-New York has never
been great place for lectures. The reason
is that the people are so busy with the
engrossing thought of making money that
they have very little time to devote to
this sort Of amusement But these money
making people sometimes o'erleap them
selves. Some OF the lectures announced in this
city are well worthy of encouragement and At
tention. There are some 80 called lecturers
who pick out their ideas from books Of travel
and encyclopedias. But people can read these
things at homo themselves. Among the hume
rous lectures now announced there are three or
four which are Of great importance. The lsc-
lures on Turkish life are interesting because We
know nothing Of Turkish women, never having
been in their harems Then the lectures on
Mexico and Poland naturally attract attention;
for they are real live subjects affecting and In
teresting the people Of the world. Very few
politicians, however, attend Intellectual leo
lures Of this kind. They prefer war meetings
and political conventions. These are the chosen
lectures Of our politicians, because there is some
kind of chance Of making money out Of them
and having hearty laugh at an unsuccessful


candidate at the same time. This Is what gives
so much piquancy to political lectures, and
therefore no one need expect many Of this class
al the popular historical lectures now In course
Of delivery.
Year: 1863

OH that the earth, which kept the world in eve.


Should patch wall to expel the winters aawF'


DR.. Kemp, an English chemist, in a
receipt work on his favorite science, re-
marks;


$50 it is, that as we all sprang from
putrefaction, or from dead matter that
has never before been vitalized so, in
like manner, must all our frames return
through the ordeal of putrefaction to
the dead world The muscle of the
strong man, the bloom of beauty, the
brain Of the philosopher, must once
more rot, as doubtless they have often
rotted before, and are destined, in the
continual phases and circulation of mat
ter, to rot again. The hand that writes
this sentence, nay, the very brain that
conceives the thought that the hand is
marking down, was once earth such as
we all trample on, and soon will be
earth again, and, perhaps, ere even the
winters name has ceased to be men
toned by those with whom he holds
familiar intercourse, will be transformed
into the cypress Of the cemetery, or the
daisies Of the country church-yard. Nay,
also the matter of that eye which reads
this saying, and of the brain that re-
! ceiyes this saying, and, is, perhaps, star.
tied atit, a little while ago was allied to
the elements of inorganic matter and
the time cannot be very far distant ere
some have to mourn over those terrible
words read over it, of dust to dust and
ashes to ashes The very tear of affec-
tion was once water and little rock
salt; and after little time it will be
water and rock salt once more
Year: 1863

HENRY WARD BEEcHER HgARs OF
VicKsBURG.-Henry Ward Beecher was
in Paris when the Vicksburg news came,
and he says:


On the second Sabbath the tidings
came to us of the fall of Vicksburg and
the retreat of Gen Lee. One must be
in foreign land among unfriendly and
unsympathzing people, to know how
sweet good news of ones own country
is I sat in our American Minister'S
slip at church, on Sabbath morning, hav-
ing just heard the tidings. After the
preliminary service, and while DR.. Nc
Clintock was giving out "notice, turn
ed to Miss Dayton, by whom sat, and
whispered in few words the good
tidings, saying in apology that hoped
it would help her sing the hymn Ofpraise
which came next in the service. She
dropped her head, in tears of JOY, and
wept, for singing, during all the hymn.
It pleased me; she shall have place IN
the book of my remembrance with all
who love God and my dear country.
Year: 1863

The "PECuLMR INSTITUTION Here's the
way Mccarthy of the Sonora Flag "a Mississp
pian) comes back at the 'copperheads who talk
of negro equality;


Let us now take glance at this "n negro equal
ity +" question from another .nnint of yjew.. l4et
modern Democracy Away down South, Ia DIX
ie." Was it the principles of the Republican
party that has caused such an equality " be
tween the blacks aud whites in that section oil
the country, that it is almost impossible to tnd II
pure negro in whole county Or was IL the
lust aud degradation Of the very men who op
posing the placing of the negro on an equal
footing with the human being, that has so in
termnged the blood of the races, that 1t has be
come necessary to examine men's heads with n
microscope in our Courts of Justice in order to
tell whelder they are the children of chattcls or
human beings? What honest man, possessing
heart capable of feeling the better attributes OF
our nature can fail TO desire TO see the abolish
ment of a system that involves such and so many
degrading incidents as slavery? Can any crea
ture be "a man, in all the fullness and nobleness
of his nature and seek to extend an institution
that encourages incest and the most brutal lust,
that authorizes the father to sell his daughter,
the brother his sister, to life but one remove
from the brute? And this too, not because they
are black, swarthy or ignorant, but refined, intel
ligcnt beautiful, white women, whose fathers,
had elevated their mothers, their slaves, on equal
ity with themselves We dare not touch upon
the irightful chapter of horrors involved in the
institution OF slavery. 1t is disgrace to the IN
teligence of the people to suppose that such
horrors cannot be abolished without causing a
lowering of the standard of the public morals
Year: 1863

THE Mariposa Free Press, a Secesh Journal
having expressed its opposition to the policy OF
putting arms in the hands of negroes to fight for
the Union, the Pacific appeal, "devoted 70 the
interests of the people of color" quotes the
article and lectures its Mariposa " broGer y
thus:


8" The writer of the above evidently enterlains
no objection to JEFF. Davis policy of using negro
soldiers to shoot down Union troops. There is
class of men, composed of such as the writer
of the above article, who would rather permit
the Confederate army, with its Slaves, to destroy
the Federal Government, than that loyal free
colored men should be brought to the rescue of
their country in its greatest peril If our white
friend Of the Free Press had the courage to vol
unteer in defense of the Federal Government,
and was at the seat of war; we have not the least
doubt that he would be fully cured of this
serious negrophobia. He would fud that Davis
and his Confederates entertain no such preju-
dces; that it is of but little consequence to them
who the guns are manned by for The destruction
of the Union army, whether whites or blacks
When will such men get their eyes open to the
true interests of the country? Truly, slavery
debases white men. The above article is but the
effect of its debasing influences"
Year: 1863

TKuE PATRIoTsM--Wrighta Democratic mem
ber of Congress from Pennsylvania, talks to the
modern Democracy in the following patriotic
style:


| "Great God is it to be supposed that because
a campaign has not come up to public expecta-
! zion, we must lay down our arms and sue to
traitors, like spaniels. for peace. AS God lives
there shall be day of reckoning, The mau who
is on the side of his country and on the side OF
/ liberty now, his name aud reputation shall live
/ forever, and that man who says, Down with
| your arms, and let the enemy prosper and take
! possession of your capital shall have reputa-
! ton and memory as Infamous and damnable as
that of the Cowboys of the Revolution"


Senator Wright, of Indiana, another patriotic
Democrat, talks to them in the same manner, as
follows:


"To those who seem to be very solictous to
perpetuate slavery, l would say that they had
better take the advice of distinguished Demo
cratic General of Illinois, who urged his Demo-
cratic brethren to enlist quickly and go into the
war, because if the war continued there would
be few slaves left. He thought if the war was
vigorously prosecuted and soon terminated,
few stumps Of negroes might be left in the ooun-
try. 1t is very remarkable, sir, that men who
hurrah for the Union should stand by the way
side and attempt to prejudice our people against





the exercise of the war power, seek to destroy
the very element of the strength of those who
desire to rend the Union assunder-I mean
slavery. Napoleon and his Generals Of past
years surveyed the whole strength of the enemy
not merely the number of men In arms, their
heavy artillery, their cavaly force, the bravery
of the troops and the skill of their commanders,
but the numbers and the resources at home to re-
intorce and sustain the army in the field and
they struck the enemy heavily where they could
most efectually cripple him. This is the policy
of the President, clearly and forcby stated. He
has announced his paramount object to be TO save
the Union, and not to Interfere with slavery. II
he could save the Union without interfering with
slavery, he has avowed his readiness to do 50
but If there were no other means to accomplish
that essential object than by the destruction OF
slavery, be it SO let slavery be destroyed. 1t
is the will OF the people that the Union shall be
preserved, aud the executive authority must re-
sort to the requisite means Call it what you
may, apply any appelation that your fancy may
suggest-be it Invasion, conquest, suhugatlon,
Aboltionism-if no other resource be left to
preserve the life of the nation, the rebellion
must be crushed by fire and the sword, by the
faggot and death and destruction"
Year: 1863

BRoDERIoK.-At the laying of the corner stone
of the Broderek Monument on the Esd ult,
Nathan Porter delivered the address, and in it
he said


"Before | leave my subject must say a few
Words in tones of regret, OF the cause OF The
death of him who sleeps beneath our feet of
the deep damnaton of his taking on do not
desire TO speak in harsh terms of any man who
lives on earth but | will not fail to denounce
the cause that sends so many noble men to an
untimely grave. Let US dare to speak in un-
equivoca terms of the duelist, and God will
bless our words of denunciation. In that mem
orable speech made over tho dead body OF our
Senator by one who lies near him, [Senator
Baker1, who died, too, in the cause OF his bleed
ing country, there are few words upon this sub
ject which cannot improve, which no man could
have better said. Let me read them to you, and
indorse them as read


Fellow citizens. one year ago performed
duty such as perform oday, over the remains
Of Senator Ferguson, who died as MI Broderlck
died, tangled in the meshes of the code OF honor
/ To-day there is another and more eminent sac =
rifce. To day | renew my protest to-day ut
ter yours The code OF honor Is delusion and
a snare it pallers with the hope of true cour-
age and binds it at the feet OF crafty and cruei
skill. 1t surrounds its victim with the pomp ana
grace of the procession, but leaves him bleeding
on the altar. 1t substitutes cold and deliberate
preparation for courageous and manly impulse
aud arms the one to disarm the other. III may
prevent fraud between practiced duelists, who
should be fovever without its pale, bnt 1t max es
the mere trick of the weapon superior TO tue
noblest cause aud truest courage. It's pretense
of equality is a lie it is equal in all the form.
it is unjust in all the substance-the habllude OF
arms the early training, frontier life, the border
war, the sectional custom, the life of leisure, all
these are advantages which no negotiation can
neutralize, aud which no courage can over
| Come.lO u
Year: 1863

SORE HEADED.-The mad Bull of the Auburn
.Advocate, closes growl over the election Of
John Conness in the following language:


We do not desire his kind to interfere any
more with the true friends of our once glorious
country by claiming atfiliation with u.s."


To which the Amador Ledger responds in the
following


Oh shame where is thy blush, when q Califor-
mia editor can give utterance to such language
at this late day Go count the graves on the
battle fields OF the present rebellion, and there,
side by side, rests the foreigner and the native
born and when the history of this war is writ
ten, il will point with pride to the glorious deeds
of Meagher, Sigel, Muligan aud host of
other bright names who, although of foreign
birth, were among the first to respond to the
country's call, and take up the sword in defense
of liberty and right.
Year: 1863

TUE Washoe Times says that on or about tho
9th of February a man named George Mason Id
reported to have fallen into a hot spring, in the
Truckee Desert, and was scalded to death. IL IL
said by those acquainted with the chasm into
which he fell, that il is nowhere more than two
feet wide. He was in company with two men at
the time, and had in his possession obligations,
on Gold Hill and elsewhere, to the amount OF
$4,000 1t is shrewdly suspected that he was the
victim of his two comrades.
Year: 1863

Tue Chico Lnder tells of Shasta doctor who
remarked to a Chicoite in the Orivile stage the
other day. Major Bidwell is a traitor to the
Democratic party and ought to be in h-l,'
whereupou the Chicote said to the Shasta doctor,
" You ought to be in the gutter" and suiting the
action to the word tossed him out of the stage
and lit upon him like duck on June bug, and
pummeled him satisfactorily.
Year: 1863

Big Meeting,-The meeting at Beckel
Hall last night was full as large as the
League Meeting on Saturday night and il
was gotten up on about two hours notice |
1t took the Leaguers week to rope up their
crowd.
Year: 1863

Fm-The boys had good deal Of fqn
on Maket street, last evening, with bOOzy
fellow rom the country. They wound uP
the performance by unhitehing his horse from
bis spriig wagon, and hitching him up again
tail forecast The muddy fellow got into
the wagon and tried to drive away, but it
wouldn't york, and at last he agreed to stand
treat if tle boys would put the wagon the
right sidepf the horse, and give him fair
start for h'me And the condition met, he
was sent Of his journey at a speed which was
complimentary TO the going qualities Of his
nag, and pnmissd to take him home in the
shortes. possible horse tins.
Year: 1863

Every one who has taken the COM
mon beetle in his hand knows that its


limbs, if not remarkable for agility, are
very powerful; but was not prepared
for so Samsonian feat az that have
Just witnessed. When the insect was
brought to me, having no box immedi-
ately at hand, was at loss to know
where to put it until / could kill it; a
quart bottle full of milk being on the to-
Die, placed the beetle for the present
under that, the hollow of the bottom a.
lowing him room to stand upright
Presently, to my surprise, the bottle be-
gan to move slowly, and glide along the
smooth table, propelled by the muscular
power of the imprisoned insect, and con.
tinued for some time to perambulate the
surface, to the astonishment of all who
witnessed it. The weight Of the bottle
and its contents could not have been
less than three pounds and bali, while
that of the beetle was about half an
ounce; so that it readily moved weight
ll2 times times exceeding its own. A
better notion than figures can convey
will be obtained of this fact dy suppos.
ing q lad of fifteen to be imprisoned un.
der the great bell Of St. Paul, which
weighs $4,000 pounds. and to move il
to and fro upon smooth pavement by
pushing within. Professor GoSs.
Year: 1863

The author of John Brent says" "Hors.
es | learned to govern by the law OF
love. The relation Of friendship once
established between man and horse, there
is no trouble. A ceataur is created. -
The man wills whittier; the horse, at the
will Of bis better half, does his best to
gothither. / became very early Hip
podamos, not by force bat by kindness.
All lower beings-aendiSh beings apart
unless spoilt by treachery, seek the
society Of the higher; as man BY nature
loves God. Horses will do all they
know for man, if man will only let them.
All they need is slight hint to help
their silly willing brains, and they dash
with ardor at their business of galloping
mile minute, or twenty miles an houI
or of leaping gully, or pulling tunage.
They put so much reckless, break.nech
frenzy in their attempt TO please and
obey the royal parsonage on their back
that he needs to be brave indeed to &c
thoroughly with them" |
Year: 1863

THE year 1868 isto be celebrated as
a year of jubilee in the German Reform
ed Church of this country, it being the
three hundredth anniversary of the for.
nation Of the Heidelberg Catechism.
Year: 1863

THE new building at Paris, for the
universal and permanent exhibition and
sale of the industry Of all nations, is to
be built of stone, iron and glass, at a
cost of nearly two millions of dollars.
Year: 1863

These people, both North and South,
though more at the South than the North,
are threatened with danger which many
Of them do not suspect, They may yet
fulfill a great historical rule. / believe
it was Washington who said there was q
natural progression from liberty abused
to licentiousness into anarchy, and from
Year: 1863

So many depredationS have been com
mitted in the Green Room and East
Room of the executive mansion, that
Mr.. Train, Chairman Of the Committec
on Public Buildings, moved to day in
the House an appropriation for watch
man to guard these premises against the
the raids of INSCRIPTIONS visitors. From
the statement made by Mr. Train it ap-
pears that some rich wainsooat patterns
have been cut from the damask curtains
OF the White House and rich ornaments
carried off, and that the character of the
people who inhabit Washington since
the commencement Ct the war is such
that more vigilance is necessary in guard
Ing property. The House did not agree
to the appropriation.
Year: 1863

In one breath Abolitionists say the Democrats
are disunionists, and in the next they assert
that Democrats are anxious for reunion to gain
Southern votes. They don't see the inconsis-
tetcy of these assertions, but they show to the
world that they are dsunionists, on the very
ground that they fear the Democratic party
may be strengthened by the restoration. The
Whole conduct of the war, and the course Of
th' Abolition press and speakers have shown
that they care more to make reunion impossi-
bla than otherwise, DernOcratic votes are their
bugaboo -EE.
Year: 1863

f a r MI z r 8,


refer you to sxtynine (69) farmers in this
ty who have bought and used the Kirby Machine. keep
on hand all parts of this macne-extras, that il any
thing about them out breaks you get them
OF me soon you to this place. This fact
alone is worth to those who Mowers and Reapers
trning sum. For all Machines liable to break, and
they always break when in Now il you have to stop
work, to Fremont and send to the Mandatory by
Express you have TO wait from five to ten day. before
get the extras and ready to to work again
Now what this is worth to farmer who has his help
hand you tell well word to the wise is su
fcient.


Call and See the Machine,
before you purchase.
Year: 1863

LIE that dweeth in the secret place of the
IL Most High shall abide under the shadow Of
the Almighty.


will say of the LORD, lie is my refuge and
my fortress: my God; in him will trust.


B Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare
of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence


He shall cover thee with his feathers, and
under his wings shalt thou trust his truth shat
be Hy. shield and buckler.


Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by
night; nor for the destruction that wasteth al
noon day.


A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come
nigh thee.
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and
see the reward of the wicked


8 Because thou hast made the LORD wtich /,
my refuge, evon the Most High thy habitation


10 There shall no evil befall thee neither shal
any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
IL For he shall give his angels charge ovel
thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.


~ They shall bear thee up in Meir hands
lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.


l3 Thou shalt tread upon the lion arid adder
the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tram.
pie under feet


IA Because he hath set his love upon me
therefore will | deliver him: | will set him on
high, because he hath known my name.


Is He shall call upon me, and | will answer
him; 'cW be with him in trouble / will deliver
him, and honour him.


l6 With long life viii satisfy him, and shew
him my salvation.
Year: 1863

SuoH is LrFE.-So late dead 'Tls the way
of the world. We flourish while. Men take
us by the hand, and are anxious about the health
of our bodies, and laugh at our Jokes, and we
really think, like the fly on the wheel, that we
have something to do with the turning of it.
The sun does not stop for our funeral; every
thing goes on as usual, we are not missed in the
street; men laugh at new jokes; and in three
days the great waves sweep over our path. and
wash out the last vestige Of earthly footprints
Such Is life
Year: 1863

Judge Hiram DEMO, presiding Judge of the
Court of Appeals, and lifelong democrat, hay-
ing been invited to attend the mass assemblage
of loyal citizens at Utica on the 27th made
patriotic reply, expressing sanguine hope of the
success of the Union armies. Upon the duty of
all loyal men 10 forego political differences at
this period he is equally explicit:


at is easy he writes, ''to point out mistakes
| and imperfectons in the civil and military ad-
minstration OF the government, and, after the
fact, to show how they might have been avoided
or remedied; and there is naturally temptation
to persons who, like myself, did not aid by
their suffrages in bringing the persons actually
exercising the powers of the government into
their official positions TO dwell much upon and
TO exaggerate such errors, and under the infu-
ence of party sentiments to lose sight of the
character and importance of the contest in which
we are engaged. But the persistence in such
course ofthought and action is as wrong in prin-
cple as it is hurtful to the national cause A
government like ours, based upon popular suff-
rage, in which official positions are renewable
at brief intervals, can never suffer permanently
or for any considerable time, from erroneous
precedcnts; but there is great danger in time
like this, that while portion of the people are
employing their energies in dsparaging the ac-
tual Administration, and endeayoring 10 bring
1t into contempt and TO cover it with odium, the
national forces aud the people at large distract
ed and discouraged by the clamor of parties,
viii loose heart and hope; and that the conflict
for the suppression Of the rebellion, which can
never be abandoned, will be thereby prolonged


Hence it is to me gratifying feature in your
demonstration that it proposes to ignore party
distinctions, and to embrace loyal men Of all
shades of political opinion. If the insurgent
leaders could be once thoroughly persuaded of
the truth that every man and woman in the 10y
al states is as thoroughly determined to resist
their projects of dismemberment, as / believe
that for the most part, they really are, that con-
victOn would go further than many regiments
of armed men to bring the contest to am end
Men of all parties ought, by the plainest dictates
of patriotism, to yield to the existing national
government a full, generous and cordial sup
port, not only by contributions of men and means,
but by encouraging language and hearty SYM
pathy in their labors and trials"