smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

WAmN0roS, Juno ~, 1900.
Ar. Ewing will on Friday afternoon present his argu-
mens In behalf Of Dr. Mudd and this will conclude all
that 10 to be said in defence OF the prisoners The
ments Of counsel for each Of the accused generally
conceded to possess much legal and literary ability
That Of Mr.. Aiken to-day was listened to BY dense au
dtory, and the appeal In behalf Of his CLIENT Mrs
Surrat was more than ordinarily eloquent and touching
The court have given every facility to counsel for the
defence IN the procurement Of witnesses, and have
shown them marked personal attentions Az general
thing the court have granted all that counsel have asked
for and throughout the trial good feeling and courtesy
have prevailed


The court will examine or two witnesses on Fn-
day, and after the argument Of Mr. Ewing shall have
been read, will probably adjourn till early next week.
when Associate Judge Advocate Bingham WILL 1t is
pected sum up the facts for the government BY per-
pany


Mrs Surratt owing to her feeble physical condition.
has been removed from her cell comfortable In
the penitentiary.
Year: 1865

New Brunswick Repudiates tho Confs-


deratlOn Scheme.


Fredericton correspondence Toronto Leader juno 10


The Now Brunswick House Of Assembly have just
passed series Of resolutions by vote Of q TO g. in
opposition to the Quebec scheme and in favor Of sending


delegation TO England TO counteract the influence Of
the Canadian delegates who there at present Tho
resolutions set forth that Is the opinion Of the House
that tho adoption Of the Quebec scheme would prove
politically, commercially and financially disastrous to
the best Interests and prosperity Of this province that
the loyalty and attachment OF the people to the
throne and government OF Great Britain cannot
be impugned that the people Of the province
possess the right Of selfgovernmsut which empowers
them to decide upon all questions affecting their
own local interests In such manner a. TO them may
seem best calculated 70 promote their prosperity and
welfare that at the recent elections the people Of New
Brunswick ''cleary and unequivocally pronounced .
Judgment adverse 70 the adoption" Of the Quebec resou
tions that the House believes her Maestys government
will receive with due attention the expression Of the
province 70 pronounced and that a "has reason TO
fear that her Maestys government but imperectly
aware the true state OF the feelings Of the people
the subject they deem 1t desirable 70 appoint delega
tion 10 proceed TO England ito mako known to tho i'm
peral government tho views aud feelings Of this House
aud the people Of this province this important sub
ject"
Year: 1865

In the ordinary commerce of one human Being
with another, which takes place in the every
day routine of that dull machine which is called
society, especially in large cities. we pass en-
through life, knowing little ofthe human being
with whom We are brought in temporary con-
tact y eynic said that language was made to
conceal our IDEAS, and be might have added,
with equal truth, that the expression of the hu
man countenance was intended to convey false
Impressions A great part of the truth is ret
spoken becauso there is no necessity for speak
ing it; and another great part is swallowed up
by conventional .alsehoods, and the rest, or
ncaricy the rest, is buried under lies that the
licr thi:Ir cannot be discovered Thus, when
we hnk Of the great part of our ordinary ac-
quantance, and ask ourselves what are their
views, purposes, opinions, We may well say
with the moralist, poet, and philosopher, IVA
know nothing 1t is much to be feared ,rth.s


if from society in general We were to take


away all that is false in word, look, and action,
we should have nothing but pantomime in
dumb show performed by very stiff automat.
tons.
Year: 1865

Disconsolato Arg Rebel bondhold olders'


The melancholy meeting of the English
men who were victimizcd by Rebel cotton
bonds is thus ridiculcd editorially by the
London Daily Ners:


.The idea of the Federal Govern ment Icing
liable for the debts of the persons who com
bned to resist its authority is simply amusing
so amusing that we could wish that Mr..
Chamberlain could lie induced to 20 and urge
that view at Washington. Anything more
com;cal than a faithful report of his interview
with Mr., Seward would certainly prove has
not been produced on any stage. Imagine
anybody deliberately giving ont three years
ago that be wat going to lend money to the
States of =" Union which had thrown OF
their allegiance to the Federal Government.
feeling confident HAT if they made good their
independence they would pay the interest on
the money; and that if they did not, the Fed.
| eral Government would be bound to assume
the debt. Such person would have been
thought to hayc qualified himself for cell in
Bcdam The first man he met in the street
would ask him whether he had ever heard or
read of government acknowledging as its
creditors those who had supplied money to
| enable States or provinces to throw off its Gus
tomary or constitutional authority.


4" But it is notorious that the money was
lent with no sch cZpectation:., The Federal
Government took measures, tH soon as the
loan was announced, to inform all whom il
might concern, that the money was being
raised for an illegal purpose. and that under
no circumstances would it incur any liability
respect CT it.


The whole conduct of Mr.. Lincoln and
Mr. .lohnson towards the seeding States is
based upon the assumption that they have
never been out of the Union that conse
quently, they never ceased to owe allegiance
to the Union Government: and that thus al
their acts done vile in secession were with.
out legal validity. BIT not only is this the
theory of the Federal Government. it is the
doctrine of the Southern States themselves.


The bondholders. We presume, read tn,
kilograms. Let them attend to the reports
from the State of Mississippi, now in cours'
of reconstruction Tho convention of tha
State began its lsbors by annulling the ordin
ance of secession then it cancelled all law
and acts passed while the State was in rebel
lion, subsequently rc-enacting such of then
as were not repugnant to the Federal Consti
tuition. Tie theory of State sovereignty i
thus blown to tie winds with the Govern
mcnt which it was invented to support.


THE bondholder may. read in these fact
the secret Of their position. They. lent thci
money to an adventure which has failed. to
pretended Government which never had an,
recognized legal existence, and which wa
unable to maintain tsolf, which has perishct
ithout leaving any heir Or any representa-
tive In word, they have lost their money
This is true of all of them, and after Mon
day. meeting, We must own that some @
them have besides lost their good sense, thei
personal dignity, and the sentiment Of wha
is becoming in Englshmca."


|
Year: 1865

What though the ties are broken


That bound thy heart TO NINE.
And perished every token


OF the love that once was thine:
What though so nearly maddened


By agony and wrath,
Nv coming life is saddened


And gloom hangs round my path:
Still Justice reigns in heaven


Sweet mercy yet abOunds,
And balm is kindly given


To soothe the deepest wounds.
Still day will follow night,


The sun again will shine,
The heavens will seem as bright


AS when thought thee mine.
Go. Haunt thy transient hour
In tolly's giddy throng,
Nor heed the watchful power


That ever rights the wrong.
With reason all perverted,
Go seek some later friend,
Nor think of him deserted,


Thou could'st not comprehend.
Go, thou, tickle as the breath


That charms thy flattered ears,
But, remember, ere thy death,


Thy smiles will yield to tears.
When sorrows round thee thicken,


And flattery proves but air,
Thy conscience then will quicken,


And move thee to despair.
ALVA.
Year: 1865


mourn no more my vanished years D
Beneath tender rain.
An April rain of smiles and tears,


My heart is young again.
The west winds blow and singing low.
hear the glad streams run:
The windows of my soul l throw


Wide open to the sun.
No longer forward nor behind
look in hope or fear: <
But, grateful, take the good find,
The best of now and here.
plow no more desert land, "
70 harvest weed, and tare y.
The mama dropping from Gods hand
Rebukes my painful care. 3-'
| break my pilgrim staff, lay


Aside the toiling car; 10 I'd
The angel sought so far away, ..t
welcome to my door
The airs of spring may never play


Among the ripening corn,
Nor freshness of the flowers of May
Blow through the Autumn morn s.
Yet shall the blue-eyed gentian look
Through fringed lids to heaven,
And the pale aster in the brook


Shall see its image given. 20 g.
The woods shall wear their robe of praise,
The south wind softly sigh,
And sweet, calm days in golden haze.
Melt down the amber sky.
Not less shall manly deed and word
Rebuke an age OF wrong: s-
The craven flowers that wreathe the sword
Make not the blade less strong.
But shifting hands shall learn to heal,
To build as to destroy; s,.l
Nor less my heart for Others feel,


That the more enjoy.
AL as God wills, who wisely heeds
To give or to withhold,
And Iknoweth more of all my deeds
Than all my prayers have told.
Enough, that blessings undeserved
~ Have marked my erring track
That, whereso'er my feet have swerved
His Christening turned me back.
That more and more Providence
Oflove Is understood.
Making inc springs OF Time ana sense
Sweet with eternal good.
That death seems but covered way
Which opens into light,
Wherein no blinded child can stray
Beyond the Fathers sight.
That care and trial seem at last


Through memory's sunset air.
Like mountain ranges over past


In purple distance fair.
That all the jarring notes of life


Seem blending in psalm,
And all the angles of its strife,


Slow rounding into calm.
And so the shadows fall apart


And so the west winds play,
And all the windows of my heart


open to the day.
Year: 1865

fnllauelphih.


My very dear Friend


For the last ten days | have been suffering
from severe attack Of influenza But the as
founding intelligence from America has, with it4
sudden stroke of horror acted on my mental and
physical frame, with more than the force OF a
| galvanic shock. And cannot help taking pen
IN hand to express the deep--the intense aym :
pathy feel for yourself and the loyal and godly
people OF your great land, under the terrible ysi
tauon, which in the hour Of a nations sore ira
vail mas SO mysteriously deprived IL OF its calm
and moderate, kindly and conoiliatory, prudent
and sagacious Head


IN this feeling Of sincere coincidence, am
verify persuaded, from all / can learn Of private
and public opinion all around, that there is not
man, woman, or child, capable Of thinking, with
IN these British Isles that does not fully join,
mingled with generous detestaton of the afro
cious crime, there is, do believe, one universal
expression of warmest sympathy and unaffected
sorrow.


Some Of our more popular journals have aotu-
aliy gone into mourning on the occasion, as they
Houla nave done, had the case been that of the
sovereign Of these realms. or papers Of this de-
sorlphon, send you one as q specimen


Yesterday, according to the usage Of centuries,
was observed as fast-day In connection with the
approaching sacrament, by all the religious com
munltes in this city. And II may interest you
ana the good people 10 America, to learn that in
most OF our pulpits earnest prayer Was offered on
oenelt OF your country, under the overwhelming
calamity that has overtaken it,


Rest assured, my dear friend, that in the in
nermost souls Of the great bulk of the British
community, there never were any feelings but
those OF kindness and good will towards the
people OF the North in their recent tremendous
struggle.


And you may depend upon II, that II there
WAS less manifestation Of Sympathy than might
be expected or desired, this arose wholly from
imlsapprehenson or ignorance Of the principles
involved, and the real ends and objects oontem.
plated In the mighty warfare. Aud you may be
very sure, that, just in proportion as these come
70 be better understood and appreciated, the tide
OF sympathy will continue to rise higher and
higher, wider and wider, stronger and stronger,
ull the last shred Of avowsd antipathy, or even
neutrality, shall be resistlessly borne away by
It. Now no man, on either side Of the Atlantic.
aid more to render these principles, ends, and OBJ
Jees ineligible to the British people than the la
mented Chief, over whose premature death we all
now bitterly mourn. Hence an aggravation of
our sorrow at the irreparable loss which, in his
death, the cause Of humanity has sustained.
May the Lord pour out upon you all, the spirit
OF wisdom and grace, and sound mind, amid
the perils by which you are encompassed.


Your ever very affectionate friend


ALEXANDER DUFP.
Year: 1865

The GraRdest Pageant Of the war.


The grand review Of the armies of Mesde
and Sherman and tho cavalry of Sheridan
and Crook, which, as Secretary Stanton
telegraPhs, viii take place on Tuesday and
Wednesday next will be one of the grand
est sights Of the war. 1t will be particips-
ted iu by nearly one hundred thousand
soldiers, drilled to perfection, and inspired
BY that triumphant victory and the pros
pect of release from hardship and danger.
Some journals have objected TO it on the
ground that the soldiers are anxious TO
reach home, and will be impatient at being
made show of The soldiers themselves
do not take this view of it. They feel that
their work has been done and that their
triumph is complete. This review is in
reality an ovation of which they are the
heroes, and they will participate in it with
the proud and happy consciousness that
their sacrifices and sutsringS have made 80
brilliant and peaceful s display possible
aud appropriate.
Year: 1865

The total number of home delegates is
44S. rr


The representation from the army As
determined by the State Central Commit
tee is IS follows: One delegate for each
regiment, and for each regiment having q
fraction of two hundred and fifty Union
votes over five hundred, one additional del.
egate; for each separate organized bat
TALON, one delegate, and for each indePen.
dent battery, one delegate, the latter
being entitled to only q half vote in the
Convention.
Year: 1865

An Alarming Feat OF n aS0mnaInbuIIsf.


The St Louis Democrat of Tuesday has
the following. The Democrat states that
it has every reason TO believe the incident
TO be perfectly true;l al=


Last Saturday night two brothers named
COrby, recently from ireland, were sleep
ing in q room at boarding house. One of
them arose from his bed In his sleep, raised
the window, and notwithstanding the ef-
fort of his brother to restrain him, lesped
from the third story, striking against the
rsiiing twenty or thirty feet below, and
breaking it to pieces. He lit on his feet and
ran st 3 furious psce, and lssped over ten
foot fence, when he was overtaken by his
friends. He appeared TO be in s terrible
state of alarm, sHd imagined that he was in
bost on the ocean, and cried out "rhe
boat is on fire, and they are after meP He
was ct length aroused from his sleep, and
was Astonished to find that he was on the
street, with only his shirt and drawers on
The strange part of the affair is that he was
not injured in the slightest degree by the
fall. 1t is supposed that COrby was dream
ing of the burning of the Ill fsted Sultans,
and imagined that he was on board.
Year: 1865

pT The day Of death is scarcely
more momentous than any other
day. Both alike close another door
on the past, aud open new one to
the future; and more than that is in
the power of neither.
Year: 1865

It was hoped By the fanatical crow
that at the last pinch for the sake Of quieI +
the majority would cave they presume
their principles were like their own, co
venient but oh ! how mistaken. IN
little army who proved so true to III
Church and Christ, much preferred quieI
but they we're none the less determined |
pursue the right. The disorganzers fan
eied they had frightened the m4jority is1
their views, ut the same body knew To 4
the Chief Magistrate of the nation hal
undergone for months just such bullying
They were resolved, and when the vo3
came, il was as decisive as that taken
week previous. The church again uphel|
its sacred character, aHd those who sougI|
to desecrate it were disconnected an
routed. DR.. Vinton pledged his wor
that, SO far as he was concerned, no NOR
efforts should be made in that line. w
should think not. If those engaged i
the last two raids have any shame LEFT
they will never again ask their constitr
ants to return them to this body. As "a
as the delegation from this State is cor
cerned, we can assure the Convention thu
it is the determination of the Episcop,
Church in this section to supply their pl'
ces at the next convention with better an
holier men-Wiiliam Welsh and DIR. Hal
excepted.


We admire pertinacity of purpose, b
not when it is engaged in diabolical or,
sade. We can appreciate reasonab
enthusiasm, when the object sought


worthy of that exertion but we abhor Il
| split let loose in the convention last wee
by men who seek rather to crafty the
/ prejudices than serve their God Th
most of those engaged in it were emigran
from the land of muscular christianity
that land where it was once fashionable
mob bishops, and where the Saviour
men is denounced as being an imposier.-
! The same land where Gods truth


Knocked, and where all the isms generate
in hell have been cast loo to annoy Ii
world Sunday Mercury.
Year: 1865

s@ The New York papers report the
appearance of Cholera at Brooklyn. Wig
orous sanitary measures are iaLkea OF, as
they have been ever since its outbreak in
the East, and nothing really done. Should
not every town and village in the country
at once clean up the streets and alleys,
and burn decaying vegetable market, and
put the country in state of as complete
publication as possible. The battle fields
OF the South are also fruitful of causes of
sickness. Cleanliness is akin to godIiness.
Year: 1865

A great lack of mules, horses, and agri-
cultural Implements is felt throughout the
country. Atone place saw a. farmer
planting corn with only sharpened stick.
General Sherman humanely left behind
him nearly twenty Thousand animals, to be
used by the poor agriculturists, taking
only a receipt for them and promise to
account for them when called for. This
was most wise procedure. The price of
these animals when they are sold is about
forty FIVE dollars cash.
Year: 1865

From the letter Of a correspondent Of tue
New York Herald, we extract the following,
as giving more detailed and accurate ac.
count of the present condition of the rebel
capital than any which We have recently
Year: 1865

visited many of the best houses and
found them greatly out of repair. Rebe
officers were constantly billeted upon all
who had room for them. Locks and doors
were universally out of order. If a pane
of glass was broken it could not we'll be
repaired. Carpets were worn out, and
dilapidation was universal. The food OF
the most respectable and the most wealthy
families was poor and mesgre. Many of
them had for breakfast tea, bread and wa.
ter only. A joint of meat once week was
a great luxury. Every few days officers
would go round to the houses, seize half OF
whatever eatables could be found on the
premises, and cary them off. Some per,
sons, with very great difficulty, would
smuggIe in from the country an occasional
bushel of potatoes, which they immediate.
ly concealed for their own use. Women,
who never worked before, now applied
themselves to industrious pursuits, their
servants generally leaving them.
Year: 1865

1 found q number ofmy old friends, and
our meeting was cordial aud touching.
Those I had been most intimate with had
been loyal and true throughout the four
years, Whieh seemed to them as Q horrible
dream. Tits impossible to give an idea of
what they had suffered or how much they
rejoiced at the resumption 81 our authority.
And even those who had voluntarily or by
compulsion been forced TO act With the
rebels were unreserved in acknowledging
and welcoming the change. In CONVERSE
tion they admitted that slavery had been
failure. Still they endeavored to excuse
themselves as we'll as they could. One
gentlemen remarked to me that the North
had fought for sentiment, the South for
o principlel We were very frequently
asked what we were going to do2 whether
confisoation was rigtdly to be enforced 2
whether the right of suffrage was to be
taken from them2 were they to be exiled
In short feverish anxiety prevails as to
the future. The doctrine of State rights
was much alluded to. and their ideas about
these require great alteration. 1t would be
we'll if our Northern publicists should be.
take themselves to full exposition of
what these rights really are, and give it a
wide circulation 10 the South, which is
willing to listen, now that they. see to
what the doctrine has brought them.
Year: 1865


AT the great meeting in New York on Tuesday
afternoon the following Ode written by William C.
Bryant on Tuesday morning, was read by Rev. DR..
Osgood:


oh, slow to smite and swift TO spare,
Gentle, and merciful, and Just
Who, In the fear of God, didst bear
The sword of power, a nations trust.
In sorrow by thy bier we stand,
Amid the awe that bushes all.
And speak the anguish of a land
That shock with horror at thy fall.
Thy task is dons; the bond are free;
We bear thee to an honored grave.
Whose noblest monument shall be
The broken fetters of the slave.
Pure was thy life; its bloody close
Hath placed thee with the sons of light.
Among the noble host Of those


Who perished in the cause Of right.
Year: 1865

NORMAL School AT large meeting
of Our citizen, held at the school houss
on Wednesday evening last, it was unani5
mously resolved to raise private subscIip-
ton of sl5 900 for the purpose of having
tie normal school located here. Ten
thousand dollars has already been raised,
and the balance will certainly be obtained.
-Sheboygan Journal.


We have repeatedly called the attention
Of our people to the subject Of Normal
School in this village, but We might as
we'll talk to stones for that or any other
project which would benefit the town. Ii
Manitowoc is going, or will GO ahead, It is
not from any action on the part Of heI
leading property holders.
Year: 1865

| have seen a great many articles with
above and similar heading; some of thep
gave very good advice in one way or an
other, but were not in plain enough Ian
guage to be readily understood by all
that should understand advice Of this
kind. Others again, did not give the
least advice on the subject, but wandered
off to steamboats,, staqecoaches, or some
thing of that kind. Now, the advice that
| propose to offer to the public, is not
only on the subject, but I know from ex-
perience to be good, and there are thous-
ands of railroad men that can testify to
the same.


But to prove that the advice that offer
to be good, VII relate a few of the
particulars of a railroad accident that
happened on the N. G. Railroad, on or
about the 18th of January, 1861, in
which there were several persons hurt,
one I believe killed and two jamed so
badly that they died in a few hours
Everybody wondered that there was no
more hurt than there was, but to those
that are familiar with railroad accidents,
there was no cause for wonder, from the
mere fact that the passengers were not
warned Of their danger in time for many
Of them to get where they could be hurt.


The accident to which I refer, happen
ed to the mail train q think it was)
bound South from Harrsburgh to Balti-
more, and had arrived to within about.
twenty-five miles of the lattet city, when
the engine, which had been making very
poor time for some miles gave entirely
out and stopped Just after going around
curve the worst place on the road in
which train can stop.) had taken my
seat. as always do, in the center of the
coach when the train started, but feeling
the gradual diminishing in the speed of
the train, got up and went to the door
at the rear Of the car, and was looking out
at the track to see if the slackened speed
was caused by poor track OF not, and
was still standing there when the train