smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

The Boston Traccl'er, a leading Re
publican paper, commenting on the recent
ly published diplomatic correspondence,
says:


'As matters stand, the business has an
ugly look, and evil may come from it; but
there would be something so transccudent-
ly foolish IN allowing it to proceed to the
arbitrament of war, that we cannot sup
pose that some mode will not be hit upon
to prevent wars occurrence. To Us it
seems that eur demand is sound, but it is
not always good policy to press even the
s0undest demand at times. : =
In this instance the state of our finance
forbids action that would lead To war no
matter how good is our demand. The time
may come when we shall be able to press
the demand with effect, aud without dan
ger; but now we need peace, and ought to
be determined TO have it. Nothing short
of the maintenance Of our existence or our
honor should lead US to take ur arms for
years. As to our existence. We have thor
oughly vindicatcd that, and no nation is
disposed TO assail Us; and as to our honor,
we have but too recently exhibited our
power to permit any one to attribute pres
ent forbearance to other than prudential
motives The late war ought to have this
effect. that it has demonstrated our cs,pac>
ity to fght,-and that should be sufficient
TO warrant the continuation Of peace, if
not forever, at least until We shall have
reduced the interest on our debt to lower
rates than we pay at present, which are
enormous, and such as no country SO rich
rs ours, and 50 famous for good faith,
should pay for one month longer than it is
forced to pay them because Of the plight
ing Of It's word to creditors But if we
were to 90 to war with England now, or
soon. we should double our debt, and at
the same time lessen our ability to pay it.
There has been enough bloodshed and
eollshcd to satisfy the most bloodthirsty
and extrayagant of men, aud there ought
to be no more expe lditurc Of the kind
We say not this because Of any regard for
Eugland No warhawk in the land cares
less f,r that egotistcal country than we care
for il: and England might sink into the
four seas, without our being moved by
her dSa 2pcarance. But We care a great
deal about ourselves. and as we believe
that interest and principle both dictate
the preservation of peace we trust that
nothing will be done to break it; and we
are the mere anxious that there should be
no quarrel with England. because We be
lieye that France would back England
with all its force should there be such
quarrel, and its decision be remittcd TO
great fleets and strong battallions."
Year: 1865

The following directions, says the Balti-
more Sun, may be found useful at the
killing season, to such Of our readers as
are liable to 90 the whole hog"


Have the hog laid on his back on a stout
table. Clean the carcass of the leaf fat.
Take off the feet at the ankle joints Cut
the head off close to the shoulders, separa-
ting the jowl from the skull and open the
skull lengthwisc on the under side, so as
to remove the brains fully. Remove the
backbone in its whole length and with 4
sharp knife cut of the skin-then the fat,
leaving only about one half inch Of fat OF
the spinal columo. The middlings or sides
are now cut from between the quarters,
leaving the shoulders square shaped, and
the ham pointed, or il nay be rounded to
suit your fancy The ribs are next re-
moved. partially or entirely from the sides.
The trimmings or fat from the hams and
fiabby parts of the sides, are rendered up
with the backbone strips for lard. The
sausage meat IS cut off from the leaf fat
AMI ribs; and other lean pieces are used
for the same purpose. The thick part of
the backbone that lies between the shoul-
ders IS called the chine; it is cut from the
tapering bony end, aud latter part called
the backbone by way Of distinction. The
backbone should be used while fresh; the
chine is better after being smoked.
Year: 1865

AN EDITORIAL RECIpE.-The follow
ING is said TO be the private recipe of a
Washoe editor-but We don't believe it
Take one pint of whiskcy, stir it we'll
with one spoonful of whiskey; then add
another pint of whiskey-beat carefully
with a spoon, and keep pouring in whis-
key. Fill large bowl with water. and
make the servants set it out of Your reach.
Take small tumbler, pour in two spoons
ful of water; pour out the water and 6Il up
with whiskey, and add to the above
Flavor with whiskey to your taste. A
dose; three fingers every half hour"
Year: 1865

Oh many mournful year hath flown
Since first amid our family-band
Death came and stole our loveliest one,
And bore her to the spirit-land.
Yet shrined with many sweet sad thought
That lov'd ones memory fingers still;
For oh she left a void that nought


But mournful thoughts could fill.
Years have passed by, said and yet
1t only seems the other day,
Since aronnd her dying bed we met,
With breaking hearts to weep and pray,
Her gentle soul we strove TO think.


Would linger yet mid earthly flowers,
Even when it was trembling on the brink
OF loveler words than ours.
Yes there cen when all hope had flown
We wept away each lingering hour,
Until the shades of death came down
And closed at last the shutting flower,
And yet it seemed like sin to grcve


For one so patient and resigned;
For if she mourned twas but to leave
Such breaking hearts behind.
She died. Yet death could scarcely chill
Her smiling beauties, tho she lay
With cold extended limbs, for still


Her face looked fairer than the day.
Those eyes once eloquent with bliss


Were closed rs soft as shutting flowers.
Oh few could bear sight like this
Yet such sight was ours.
How slowly wore that long, long day:
Like spirits in some baunted place
We'd sit and sigh, then steal away


To look once more on that pale face.
We could not think her soul had past
The awful bounds of mortal strife;
That that warm heart was cold at last,
That loved US more than life.
And when the funeral rite was said,
They bore her from our happy home,
And left her with the silent dead,


pae-faced tenant of the tomb.
They re red no marble mid the flowers
Above the grave to mark the spot
Yet many Il heart as fond as ours


Still holds her unforgot.
Months passed, yet sill our sorrow gushd
The free glad laugh no more was heard
And many little voice was hushed
That used to warbe like bird.
And tho at times we strove to smile
Scrcncy for each others sake,
We wcpt in secret all the while


As flour hearts would break
Yet why should death be linked with fearP
A single breath, low-drawn sigh
Can break the ties that bind us here,
And warft the spirit to the sky,
Such was her end. A calm release,


No clingings to the mortal clod,
She closed her eyes, and stood in peace
Before a smiling God.
Year: 1865

Remember that hasty rush into manhood
lessons the vital powers of being, and detracts
from the strength and energy which attend a
gradual but natural development. Those
creatures-bugs. ants, vermin-that are born
in the morning and become mature at noon,
are aged in the evening and die before the
morrow! Tho young men who would fain do
their part in building up society, and giving
solid and enduring strength to their country
must distrust their own abilities, must culti-
vate modesty and diffilence, must learn be-
times to put the rein upon themselves in eve
ry respect of their nature; must be willing
patiently to postpone the period of response
bility; must husband their powers, in the ear
ly period of life, to give strength to maturity
and to preserve vigor for old age.
Year: 1865

Socrates at an extreme age learned to play
on musical instrument for the purpos of resist
ing the wear and tear of old age. Cato, at
eighty years of age thought proper to learn
the Greek language Plutarch when between
seventy and eighty commenced the study of
Latin. .-Boccaccio was thirty five years of age
when he commenced his studies in polite lit
eraturc yet he became one of tho three great
masters of the Tuscan dialect Dante and Po-
trarch being the other two, There are many
among us ten years younger than Boccaccio
who are dying of ennui, and regert that they
were not educated to taste at literature; but
now they are too old. Sir Henry Shelman
neglected the sciences in his youth but COM
menced the study of them when he was be-
tween fifty and sixty years ofage. After this
time he became most learned antiquarian
and lawyer. Our young men begin to think
of laying their seniors on the shelf when they
have reached sixty years of age.-How diff
ferent the present estimate put upon expert
ence from that which characterized certain
period of the Grccian republic when man
was not allowed to open his mouth in political
meetings who was under forty-f years of
age. Colbert the famous French minister, at
sixty years of age returned to Latin and law
studies. How many of our colege-learnt
men have even looked into their classics since
their graduation Ludoyico at the great age of
1l5 wrote the memories of his own times. A
singular exertion noticed by Voltaire who was
himself one of the most remarkable instances
of the progress of age in new studies Ogily
the translator of Homer and Virgil was unac-
quaintcd with latin and Greek till he was
past fifty.-Franklin did not fully commence
his Philosophical pursuits till he had reached
his fftieth year. How many among us of
thirty, forty and fifty who read nothing but
newspaper for the want of taste for natural
philosophy. But they are too old to learn.
Acoorso, great lawyer being asked why he
began the study of law so late he answered
that indeed he began it late but he should
therefore master it the sooner. This agrees
with our theory that healthy old age gives the
man the power of accomplishing difficult
study in much less time than would be neces-
sary to one of half his years. Dryden in his
sixty-eighth year commenced thcl translation
of fthe Dad and his most pleasing productions
were written in bis old age. We could GO on
and recite thousand of examples of mon who
commenced a new study and struck out into
an entirely new pursuit either for livelihood
or amusement at an advanced age. But eve
ry one familiar with the biography Of distin-
gushcd men will recolect individual cases


enough to convince him that none of the old
and ndolent will ever say, am too old to
study.
Year: 1865

NEVER complain of your birth, your employ
mcnt your hardships; never fancy that you
could be something ifyou had different lot and
sphere assigned you. God understands his
own plan and he knows what you want great
deal better than you do. The very thing that
you most depr recate as fatal limitations or OBJ
structions, are probably what you most want.
What you call hindrances, obstacles, discour-
ement are probably Gods opportunities and it
is nothing new that the patient should dislike
his medicine on any certain proof that they
are poisons. No, truce to all such impatience


Choke that envy which guaws at your heart
because you arc not in the same not with
others, bring down your soul, Or rather bring
it up, to receive Gods will and do his work
in your lot and sphere, under your clouds of
obscurity, against your temptations, and
then you shall find that your condition is ne
yer opposed to your good when consisted with
Year: 1865

But sir, I am straying from the end had
in view when | commenced this note which
may only serve to fasten the shackles of the
captive on my wrists and yet for which l care
much less than one would suppose since my
liberty can in no way effect the great ends and
objects, the actions or labors of the X. G. G.
We have labored too long and earnestly to
leave such interests dependent on the liberty
of any one man.


IF the United States Government had imme
diately on my arrest summoned me before the
Departments of State and War, it would have
been at once satisfied that it had acted under
a misapprehension and that SO far from either
myself or the Order having any connection
with the Confederate Government it had ever
stood aloof from all connection with either of
the contending sections and have been since
the beginning of the war up to the present
moment most solicitous for peace honorable
alike to both sections. Our membership is in
both armies and in both sections, for which
reason as an Order the K. G.. G. could not
take part with either Of the contending powers,
The X. G. G. is only the military circle of
Americanism and the occurrence of the war
rendered it absolutely necessary to suspend,
| until further orders all those departments in
any way affecting North or South. But, sir,
let me again assure you that beyond and
above all sectional and political considerations
there is something in the public heart, both
North and South which still binds together
the lovers of Saxon democracy, of constitutions
| al liberty throughout North America: and it
has been the constant effort of the Knights of
the Golden Circle North and South since the
war began to reach the public ear through the
press by social teaching and by books and Pc
riodicals in a way to show Americans that we
were tending to such system of disintegra-
ton as to endanger if not as early to destroy
every hope of our fathers to plant here such
permanent system Of constitutional democra-
cy as to afford at all times and to all people
refuge from tyranny in the old world Let
| the public remember that our theory is that
the real question of the world to-day and foi
ten years past has been one of Democracy Us,
| Observation-Disclosures Us. Saxonsm and that
the X. G.. C. has been proved to stand forth
the great vanguard of Savorism. The Order
warned the American people as early as 1855
of the Franco-Spanish Alliance against Mexi-
co. 1t showed that the monarchies of Europe
were determinded to disrupt us by dangerou;
sectional issues and so weaken the power o.
the United States as to accomplish their ends
with the smallest possible expenditure of Euro
peau blood. The present civil war was TO b.
Year: 1865

Costly apparatus and splendid capinets
have no magical power to make scholars. In
all circumstances man is, under COP, the
Master of his own fortune, SO is he the maker
of his own mind. The Creator has so con-
sisted his human intellect that it can grow
only by its own action it must certainly and
necessarily grow. Every man must, there
fore in an important sense educate himself
His books and teachers are but help; tho
work is his. A man Is not educated until ho
has the ability to summon in act of emergen.
cy all his mental powers in vigorous exercise
to effect his proposed object. He is not the
man who has seen most, or has read most,
who can do this such one is in danger Of
being bore down like beast or burden by an
overloaded mass of other mems thoughts
Nor is the man who can boast merely of ma
ture vigor and capacity; the greatest of all
the warriors that went to the siege of Troy
had given him strength not because he car
ried the largest bow but because self-dis.
ciplne had taught him how to bend it.
Year: 1865

The Peoples Journal Of Health says:


"Eyen as the sunbeam is composed Of
millions Of minute rays. the house light must
be constituted of little tendernesscs, kind looks
sweet laughter, gentle words and loving coun-
sells. It must not be like the torch light OF
unnatural excitement, which is easily quench-
ed. but like the serene, chastened light, which
burns as safely in the cast wind as in the
stilest atmosphere. Let each bear the others
burden the while let each cultivate mutual
confidence, which is gift capable of increase
and Improvement, and soon it will be found
that kindness will spring up on every slde,7
displacing constitutional unsuitabiiity and
want of mutual knowledge. even as we have
seen sweet violets and primroses dispeiling
the gloom of the gray sea rock. Such life
is worthy to be lived-such home well
worthy of a name and it is by no means be-
yond the reach Of any who will earnestly and
truly seek to attain it. Yet it comes only
through loving watchfulness, not on the part
of one alone of the family number, but through
the kindly contribution of all =; an interest Of
each in the other, and a determined purpose
of all to secure the greatest degree Of happi-
ness by the exercise of patience, gentleness
and forberrance, With the consciousness that
as all are imperfect so all require the Chris.
tian virtues of humility and charity,
Year: 1865

sofa, and ton of coal at market prices.


The "Scaly Rum Petroleum Company
will be the biggest thing on oil in the market
I am coming on to arrange the business as
soon as my friends remit funds enough to pay
my way back.


Yours oleaginously,


CoRRY OLASUs,
Year: 1865

BosToN, Nov Ex-Governor Andrews
received the Tunisan embassy at the
State House this evening and in brief
speech said: 1T gave him great pleas
ure to welcome them to the capitol. tle
hoped their visit to this country had pro
we'd agreeable and that it would help to
preserve a good understanding between
the two countries His remarks were
interpreted to the ambassadors, who in
response said that everywhere in Amerl-
ca they had met always with most agree.
able receptions, the remembrance OF
which they should always cherish and
they hoped it would result in closer al
lance between the two governments
The Tunisans will visit the Waltham
Watch factory and other places OF inter
est including some of our public schools.
They leave for Europe on the steamer
Cuba on "Wednesday.
Year: 1865

BY the arrival Of the steamship Liberty from Havana
at early hour yesterday, have received highly in
terestng from that city and from Mexico which will
be found ably and fully detailed in city Of Mexico
and Havana correspondence. We have again to record
thanks to Mr. G. H Denson, purser Of the steamer
for his promptness in forwarding late files and de-
spatches
Year: 1865

market Wishing to establish regular
Coin Exchange ia Evansville, we will
hereafter sell Specie At closer rates than
any other House in the State, and will
pay liberal prices for Coupons, Silver
and
Year: 1865

1MpoHTANr DECISION MIR. Lewis, the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in reply
to a letter OF inquiry, says that "reply to 2
letter of Inquiry, says that a 'receipt given
for note, taken in settlement of an account
is exempt from stamp duty, it not being
within the meaning OF The statute, receipt
for the payment of Nancy, the delivery of
property, nor the payment of any debt due.
a note, check, draft or order is not money,
but merely the representative of money, and
therefore IA receipt for such an instrument is
not a receipt sui jet to stamp duty" This
is an important decision and our merchants
and other business men should preserve it.
Year: 1865

Esop's FABLES Notwithstanding these
fables we're written more than five hundred
years before the Christian era they still hold
the highest places in productions Of that ma.
ture in the whole range Of literature. Learn.
ed men and great men have been fond of
quoting them, and to illustrate subjects they
have been used from the times Of Aristotle
down to those of General Taylor.


At this period when the negro is the sub
ject Of legislation, controversy and conversa-
zion one Of them may he r.pubished, and
read with pertnency and profit:


4E-op says: "A certain man having bought
a Blackamoor, was so simple as to think
that the color Of his skin was only dirt and
filth, which he had contracted for want of
due care under bis former master. This
fault he imagined might easily be removed.
So he ordered the poor black to be put into
stub, and was at considerable charge in pro
sidng ashes, soap, aud scrubbng brushes
for the operation. TO work they went, rub
bng and securing bis skin all over, but to
no manner Of purpose, for when they had
repeated their washings several times, and
were grown quite weary. all they got by it
va. that the wretched blackamoor caught
cold and died"
Year: 1865

ALWAYS TELL THE TRUrH.-Tbe ground
work Of our manly character is veracity,
or the habit Of truthfulness. That virtue
lies at the foundation Of ever word said.
How common it is to hear parents say, 81
have faith in my child SO long as be speaks
the truth. He may have many faults.
but l know be won't deceive. / build
on that confidence" They are right. 1t
is lawful and Just ground to build upon.
So long as the truth remains in the child
there is something to depend upon; but
when truth is gone all is lost. unless the
child is speedily won back to veracity'
Children. did you ever tell lie If so
you are in imminent danger. Return at
once. little reader. and enter the strong
hold Of truth, and from it you may never
depart again.
Year: 1865

The official majority of the Union par.
ty in New Jersey this year is two thous-
and seven hundred and eighty nine. The
Democratic majority last year was seven
thousand three hundred and one.
Year: 1865

NEGRO LABOR IN THE SoUrH.-The


Washington correspondent of the Chica-


60 Times says:


bave conversed with a great many Of


these Southern people, apd l find that no


matter what State they are from. there is


only one opinion among them in relation


to labor question. They have made


fair trial Of negro labor. and they all say
il is a complete and total failure. 1t has
been fairly demonstrated that the negro,
left to himself and allowed to work at his
own voition, will not work in such man
ner as to make his labor profitable, either
to himself or his employer. The people
of the South have been brought to the
verge Of starvation this fall, solely on ac.
count Of the bad conduct of the negroes
between the months of April and Septem-
Der. There was abundance Of time, dur
ing that period, to have raised crops that
would have far exceeded the wants Of the
whole population Of the South. But ow.
ing to the desertion Of the plantations bg
Ihe negroes, after they had made engage.
ments to work. and the inability Of the
planters to procure other laborers, the
crops have been almost entirely lost.