smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

sY The following scrap Of history
shows the origin Of the custom Of delineat:
ing the Goddess Of Liberty holding spear
with cap on the point:


After the death of Caesar the eonspirators,
who had secured his death, marched out
with cap as the ensign Of liberty carried
before them on a spear, the cap without
head, indicating that the tyrant had lost his
power. From that fact, and for this rea-
son, it has ever since been an emblem OF
liberty.
Year: 1862

s. The report sent to the French
Academic lie Medicine, relating to the alarm
ing spread in Europe Of disease which has
hitherto been supposed to belong to the ne
gro race alone, has given rise to many Gu.
riouS discussions:


"This disease, which, being new to our
doctors, of course requires new name, has
been christened hypnosia, and Offers the
extraordinary aspect of somnolence carried
to the extent of the interruption Of life for
hours, and sometimes for days together
The attack appears to be sudden, and with
out any previous symptoms by which they
can be averted, the first appearance indicat.
ing victim to the disease being dropping
Of the eyclds, which require the aid of the
finger to raise tn m This is followed by
slight salvation, and, as if this last symp,
tom had exhausted the patient, he sinks
shortly afterwards into a deep slumber,
lasting but few hours in the first attacks,
but gradually increasing in length until they
increase to space Of two or three days.
The patient is seized with the fit suddenly,
in the midst Of his avocations, dropping his
head Oh one side, and losing all conscious
ness, sometimes in the midst Of sentence
From this slumber no earthly power can
rouse him, and, when it is over, he awakes
suddenly, and resumes the conversation on
the business on which he was engaged at
the moment Of seizure, sometimes ludi-
crously enough finishing the sentence al
ready commenced, and completing the ges-
ture by which it was accompanied"
Year: 1862

HEMLock BARK VS.. Docs BARK.-Some
years ago, Mr.. G-y Of this city was
purchasing hemlock bark, and having it
piled on his wharf for shipment. One day
he noticed that farmer, whose bark was
to be measured in the pile, was managing
the short pieces nicely, by laying them
flush with the edge Of the pile, but leaving
quite cavity between the tiers. Mr.. G.
said nothing, but watching his opportunity
he seized the farmers dog, and threw him
into the hole his owner was so cunningly
leaving. The animal was soon closed in,
and remained quiet in his new quarters for
awhile, but at length began to yelp and
bark. This was more bark than the farmer
had intended to sell, and it is no wonder he
was "nonplussed" Mr. G. joined him in
wondering where the dog could be, but
finally suggested that he must be in the
pile, and thereupon opened the place. How
the crest. fallen farmer bore the disclosure,
we arc not precisely informed, but it is said
he told his friends afterward that he would
never try to cheat in measure again. 1t
might be we'll for the buyers Of wood, now
a-days, if similar discontinue could be
practiced upon some Of the haulcrs, for too
many are up to the same trick.
Year: 1862

A MODEL CoMPoslrloN-The following
is bona fide composition handed in to one
of the teachers of the city schools by
specimen Of young America. He is very
logical in his premises and correct in his
conclusions. He convinces US that the
earth is very good thing to have-in the
country.
Year: 1862

What would we do if we hadn't any
earthly where would We build our houses
although suppose we could build t:lem
upon the rock, but what would the rocks
do it hadn't cart to support it, and where
would we get our bread and vegetable, if
we hadn't earth it would be hard work to
tell wether we would have summer or win
ter, for where would the snow fall or what
would the sun shine on-but sppos if
there warcnt erth there would be ehether
or something and if there wasn't erth there
wouldn't be no people and if there wasn't
any people there wouldn't be nothing. l
think when the time comes when there is
no earth there will be hard time for people
generally.-Dubuque Times.
Year: 1862

The will Of the people, constitution
ally expressed by the election Of Il
President, was resisted by secession.
The same recourse was threatened by
the Southern Democracy if Douglas
had been elected. Had that event
happened his party would have had
the backing of the united Northern
people to put down any resistance to
his constitutional authority. The is
sue was plainly declared by the slave
holding faction that if they could not
govern they would break up the Gov
ernment. This war is to establish the
right of the people to govern. For
that cause all these terrible sacrifices
are made. Are any so base as TO be
willing to give up that right, and TO
throw away all the sacrifices of blood
and treasure the people have made to
vindicatc it, Are they willing to sub
init in all future time to be governed
by Southern despotism, backed by
the constant threat of war? Let the
supremacy of the popular will be vim
dicated now 10y the unconditional sub
mission against it, and the blood Of
our brave soldiers will not be spilled
ia vain.
Year: 1862

We see the gallant streamer vet


Float from the Fashioned walls,-
One hearty song for fatherland,


Before its banner falls
Last ON our gaze when outward bound
We plow the ocean, foam,-
First on our longing eyes again


Towaft our welcome home.
Beneath thy shade we've toiled in peace,
The golden corn we reap;
We've taken home our bonny brides.


We've rocked our babes TO sleep;
We marched to front the battle storms
That brought the invaders nigh,
When the grim lion covered and sank
Beneath the eagles eye.
Beneath the Stars and Stripes wei keep
Come years of veal or woe
Close up. close up the broken line,


Nor let the traitors go!
Ho brothers of the " Border States 1"
We reach across the line,
And pledge our faith and honor now,
As once in Aud Lang Syne.
Wen keep the memories bright and greer
OF all our old renown,
We'll strike the traitor hand that raised
To pluck the Eagle down.
Still shall it guard your Southern homes
From all the foes that come,-
Wen move with you TO harp and flute.
Or march to fife and drum
Year: 1862

Two weeks since we spoke of the
eeRgq Of EdReatien Which We con:
his part when called upon to enter up
on the active duties of life, whether
of a private or public character we
wish at the present time to say few
words upon the Importance of cduca.
tion as connected with politics. New
er before in the history of our nation
has the necessity of popular cduca-
tion been so forcibly presented to the
minds Of the people. The existing
rebellion, which is desolating SO many
once happy homes, and spreading its
malign influence over the civilized
world, although it had its rise among
intelligent and educated, though un-
principled aud aspiring demagoSues,
could have taken root only among a
people where the masses were in ig-
norancc, and if we would prevent the
recurrence of like state Of affairs in
the future, we must have an cnlight-
ened, educated public sentiment de-
veloped throughout the land.


In monarchical governments it may
be policy on the part of the rulers to
keep the people in ignorance, but un-
der a Republican form of government
it is far otherwise with us the very
safety and pcrPetuity of our free in,
stitutions depends upon general intel,
ligence, and capability on the part
of the governed to comprehend the
effect of laws, and rightly judge be-
tween such as are wholesome aud sal.
utary, and such as are prcjudicial to
the interests Of the people.


We had written thus far when our
eye fell upon report of the school
committee of Yarmouth, Mass, in
which reference is made to the topic
under consideration, and SO nearly do
the views expressed correspond with
our own, that we make the following
extract


"A liberal policy in regard to edu
cation is one of the master ideas ot
this country If the rays of the sun
of Intelligence are permitted to shine
fully aud freely upon every grade oi
society if its genial influence is al
lowed full sway over the mind Of ev
cry individual, we may be sure tina
the welfare of our civil institution.
will be more seriously regarded. 4
republican government demands thu
favorable judgment of the governed
in order that it may be enduring
and unless intelligence is given th'
people, which shall open their mind'
to the perception of the substantial
justice upon which the government il
administered, they will be more easil,
allured by the capriciouS complaint
of faction and sedition, and more liza
BILE to be led astray by the cobweb 0
dclusions of enthusiasm and supersti
ton. A substratum Of ighoranc
may form a good baisis upon which 1
found a government which shall hav
for its prominent feature a tyrannica
aristocracy but if the real blessing
of civil and religious liberty are d.
sirable, and government capable {
perpetuating them is to be establishe
upon Democratic principles, it must b
through the instrumentality Of gel
eral intelligence among all classes ,


the people"
Year: 1862

When you go to McGregor, if you want a
nice Watch, call ON w A. Giles, at the CITY
Jewelry Store If you want clock that you
can depend upon, call at the City Jewelry
Store. Ii you want first rate Jewelry OF any
kind. call at the City Jewelry Store, IL you
want silver or plated-ware, "a gold pen, pock-
ct knife, portmonae or wallet, call at the City
Jewelry Store. If you want your watch re-
paired so that you know it will he right, go to
w. A. Giles at the City Jewelry Store-ht
warrants all his work and you can depend
upon him, SO just call on him when you go tt
| McGregor ifyou want any thing in his line
Year: 1862

In housekeeping careless woman
can always make "a muss, and keep
one but there is no article more cal
culated to make confusion, or wherein
more waste is involved in its use than
-four, both before and after being
baked. Careless handling, sitting or
spilling the flour, careless mixing,
throwing away the bits of dough, i'm
stead of working them into the bread,
cake, or biscuit Most women put up
their pan or tray covered with dough,
and the rolling PIN and kucading board
in like condition. Now, if you ever
calculate to get Off that dongh, why
not do II when you mix, while it is
soft :? As you finish up your bread
or biscuit, or cake loaf you can rub it
off with your hands, or with spoon,
and work it all in, and put away
your things all clean, ready for anoth-
er time. Do not plead the want Of
time, and that you "can't take the
trouble" &c. Do it in the right time,
and it is done. Ten to one, when you
wish to mix again you will be in haste
and your time precious then you
take knife and dig your pan to
pieces, and scrapc your board, pin,
&c, and run to the swili pail with it.
O, its but little of course it is
But all these Titles every day or two,
besides the loss of time, are wasteful,
and if you had to earn these Titles
YOU would sooner tind it out, am
thinking And if in every department,
under your supervision you are thus
regardless of trifles, you are poor
economist, and far from model house
keeper, wherever you are or what
ever you think.


And then, the bite of bread that
many throw away, and many of them
made by careless cutting Of the loaf,
haggling it off one-sided, &C., Cut
true, smooth, and do not throw away
the crust and odd bits left, These
can always be used in some way if
Year: 1862

home from England is lessening the
demand for gold in that direction, the
decreasing amount of our imports is
lesscning the demand for gold and
" demand notes" to pay duties at
home. Should this state of things
continue, it certainly must, how long
will it be before its natural influence
will be felt in the decreasing price of
bullion and foreign exchange?
Year: 1862

According to Tory authority, it is
all right for jeff Davis to put to death
ten officers i'm the United States SER
vice who are in his hands as prisoners
of war. But it is all wrong for Gen
Mcneil to order the shooting Of ten
notorious guerrillas in Missouri! The
trouble with the Tories is, that they
don't like to see General Mcneil exc
cute their particular friends That's
what's the matter
Year: 1862

A man is not to be known by how
much money he has, but by what that
money is worth to him. fit is worth
only selfishncss, meanness, stinginess,
vanity, and naughty state, man is
not rich if he own a million dollars.
If it mean generosity, public spirit,
social comfort, and refinement, then
he is rich on few hundred. You
must put your hand into mans heart
to find out how much he is worth, not
into his pocket.
Year: 1862

You must measure the strength of
man 10y the power of the feelings
he subducs, not by the power of
those which subdue him. And hence
composnre is very often the highest
result of strength. Did we never
see man receive a fragrant insult
and only grow little pale, and then
reply quietly? That is a man spir-
Itually strong. Or did We never see
man in anguish stand, as if carved
out of solid rock, mastering himself?
Or one bearing hopelessly daily
trial remain silent, and never tell the
world what cankcred his home peace 4?
That is strength. He who, with
strong passions, remained chastc he
who, kcenly sensitive, with manly
powers of Indignation in him, can be
provoked, and yet restrain himself,
and forgive these are the strong
men, the spiritual heroes.
Year: 1862

There is a great dispute now a-days
as to whether the writ of Habeas
Corpus should or should not be sus-
pended. We are willing to accept a
compromise suspend the corpus and
let the EabeaS go.
Year: 1862

Any person obtaining FIVE subscribers and forwarding
The money shall be furnished with copy of the Inel
kept good.


Business pertaining 10 the paper can he transacted
WIN the Publisher any day at the Office Of Publication


Communications may be addressed to the Editor who
wilipromPtly and faithfully respond to them.
Year: 1862

cannot give my aid and countenance to
any such wild and judicious schemes; and
If such course separates me from men
who have given me their support, while
regret that they differ with me, SO must
it be.


L am willing to confscate, under consti.
tutional forms, all the property that a
rebel in arms against the government may
have, and whether it be oxen, or horses.
or slaves, it matters not; but the property
oil loyal men 1 will 60 as far to protest.


l will maintain the objects which inau
gurated the war. l will sustain the GOV
ernmout in every constitutional measure
to put down rebellion and punish treason;
but / will not lend myself to promote alb.
clifton schemes; thereby weakening and
destroying it forever, l profess to be a
patriotic man, Gf l am not am mistaken
in myself and therefore it is with me a
matter of conscience. If therefore the
wild doctrines OF abolition are not to be
made party test, as it now seems to be,
and the negro set up against the constitu.
ton, | must stand as 1 ever have done,
by the latter cannot and will not con.
sent to yield the life principle of the Re-
public. 1t is true the vote of the House
was comparatively small in opposition to
the bill; but l think those Muty-nine nays
represent principle which must survive,
and the chances are that the number will
be four fold increased in the 3sth Con-
gress for between this and that period
Of time, the great tribunal of the sovereign
people will have settled the question
whether abolition or the constitution is
king.


Your obedient servant,


HENDRICK B. WRIGHT.
Year: 1862

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U. S., I


Washington, April "a, 1852.


10 My Constituents:


I am compelled, very much against my
inclination, to address few lines to you,
in regard to my vote in opposition to the
bill which recently passed Congress, abol.
ishing slavery in the District of Columbia
! regret it because the acts of represen-
tatiye should not make it necessary for
him to appear in the public press; but as
the bill passed under the pressure Of the
previous question, which cuts off debate,
am in a measure forced to pursue this
course of informing my constituents ofmy
reasons for voting against the bill. !
mi4h add one other motive for troubling
you, and that is charges made in private
letters from my diatrict--exprossion of the
press in and out Of the State as to VIC
laton of the pledges made before my
election. TO save the trouble of separate
answers, and to supply you with what |
should have said, in debate, if | could
have had the opportunity, am obliged to
adopt the present plan.


voted against the bill for abolishing
slavery in the District Of Columbia; and
it is my purpose to vote against any other
bill abolshing slavery any where, without
the consent of the people in the State
where it exists, And in doing this, will
violate no pledge that 1 ever assumed,
either by word or implication, in the re
motest degree.


When you did me the honor to elect me
to the 37th Congress, you imposed upon
me the following obligations, and l am
free to say that they fully and cordially
met my own approbation.


They were to aid and assist, to the ex-
tent of my power, to put down the rebel
lion and crush out an unholy and wicked
iusurroction to vote to raise armies and
the necessary means to support them; to
stand by the government in the crisis, then
and now pending, and do all could for
its restoration.


these were the obligations imposed up-
on me by both the political parties of my
district, and which | have faithfully and
honorably discharged. But did not
then consent, and will not now, to become
an abolitionst. 1t is the last position that
| will assume, at least while have reason
and Judgment left. To become an aholi-
ZIONIST would be to reverse the whole
course CT my public life; and to give the
lie to those doctrines which | have publicly
proclaimed for period Of thirty years.


The doctrines of Wendell Phillips and
his associates are as abhorrent and mon.
strous as those of jeff Davis and his con-
spirators. Both the open and ayowed ad'
vocates of the destruction of such gov
ornment as the world never before saw,
and both deserving the same infamy. With
neither of them have | any affinity, and
no human being can say that l ever had,


Wendell Phillips has proclaimed within
the last two months to a public audience
in this city, that he had been engaged for
the last nineteen years in attempting to
overthrow and destroy the Uuion; and
he received on the utterance OF this un'
mitigated treason, rounds of applause -
Has jeff. Davis and his band of traitors
done anything worse : Now the idea that
| should follow in the wake of any such
leadership ought to be preposterous with
you, who have known me so many years
Year: 1862

"MAMMY, where is the man going to
sleepl' asked girl of fifteen of her
mother, who had just promised traveller
nights lodging in their out of.the.way
hut. 'Ill have to put him in with you
and Jack and Kate and Sue and Bet,
suppose, (was tie reply and if it's too
crowded, one of you must turn in with me
and dad and Dick and the twins"
Year: 1862

REBEL APPEALS TO ENGLISH FEARs-Now
that King Cotton has been fosnd an ineffective
agent in securing the forcible intervention of
England, the rebel journals are shifting their
tactics and are appealing to her timidity. The
last number of the Richmond Dispatch has an
article in which it conjures up fearful picture
Of her doom in the event of a reunion being ef-
fected between the Month and South. In the first
place she is to lose Canada; next, her fleets are
to be swept from the ocean, and then the loss
of all her colonial possessions-the West In
dies, Australia and India-is to follow. As the
reconstruction Of the Union will inevitably take
place, whatever course England may choose to
pursue in our regard, we present the above
recapitulation Of facts to the careful attention
of Englishmen with recommendation for
them to consider whether it will not be well for
them to conciliate the good feeling of the North
by pursuing frank and honest policy towards
it whilst yet it is in their power. From the
present language Of the rebel journals they can
see how ready Southerners would be to concur
in q war against them in revenge for the insin-
csrity Of their conduct towards them. Those
who play double game must expect to reap .
double harvest of enmities.
Year: 1862

ENGLISH MILITARY CRITICISMS ON THE WAR;
The London Army and Navy Gazette, in an ar
ticle on the progress Of the war, has the follow
ing remarks on the inaction of our army in Vir-
gina =


There is the North with double the white population OF
the South, all dying to die for the Union without any
foreign and internal element TO distract their strength and
attenton-with the command OF the and with free
intercourse with all the nations OF the world which
sell them munitions OF war furnish them with mercs-
paries-wh the control OF the great inland rivers and
water communications-with the most virtuous intel
gent rich prosperous and enlightened ctizenswith all
the armores dockyards oundrics and m1nufactories-
with sulphur saltpere charcoal iron, steel, lead the
Nxw York HERALD, and everything that ought to COM
mand success standing al bay the Northern frontiers
OF Virginia before enemy which has all the disad.
vantages and all the advantages which have fallen to the
lot OF the federals


The above is all true or was so at the time it
was written, the only thing in connection with
it to which exception is to be taken being the
writer's speculations as to the causes of the in
action which excites his wonderment The
North has had all the powerful auxiliaries of
which he speaks, the New YORK HERALD in
cluded but they have been paralyzed by in
fuences which have been left out of his calcula-
tions. Had he read the debates in Congress in
March last, and followed the articles of the
Union journals since, he would have seen that
the inaction Of our forces in Virginia was caused
not by any want of competency or energy on
the part Of our commanders, or of spirit of
enthusiasm on the part of our troops, but by
the obstacles thrown in the way of General
Mcclellan by the radicals, and the pressure
brought to bear on the President for his re-
moval-a pressure which he declared himself
unable to resist. The New YORK HERALD used
its most strenuous efforts to defeat those malign


influences, and therefore our English military
contemporary is correct in setting it down as
one Of the most effective of the forces employed
in the vigorous prosecution of the war.
Year: 1862

Body Of a Dr0pned Man Fonad-PersOns passing
in the vicinity of the gauge dock Of the basin on
yesterday morning had their attention attracted by
seeing the body Of a dead man floating on the sur
face OF the water. The Coroner was soon notified,
and repairing to the spot caused the body to be
moved from the water 1t was found to be that Of
an unknown stranger, in the gsrb OF a soldier. No
evidence of violence was 0bserv able, aud as no.
body could identity the deceased the Coroner dnot
deem it necessary to hold an inquest man was
seen to fail in the canal near the Armery bl ise
few days since, and as he sunk he is presumed to be
the same party
Year: 1862

PrrcH IN.-One portion of the abolition
press of this State is busy proving that Horatio
Seymour Is Just their kiad and that his cleo
ton is a most gratifying matter, and the other
that he Is dreadful villain and should be hung
for being a Democrat when the Administra-
ton is Republican. Suit yourselves, gentle
men ;. j. Republican.