smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

The London Court Jonrmal tells US
the following pretty love story:"A scene
lately took place at the house Of Colo
mel and Iady-,In the north. The
daughter very lovely gill, fell in love
with the tutor, Presbyterian Clergy
man, and 50 far forgot herself as to
make known to him her attachment.
In honor bound, aad to the credit of
the Scotch clergy be it spoken, he rea-
soned with her, and then, finding argu-
,ment Of no avail, went to her father and
begged for his immediate dismissal
The colonel was astonished, but when
upon inquiry the truth transpired, he
was so struck with the young man s
deep sense of honor that he told him
he would give him an opportunity Of
going to Oxford and taking orders,
and that upon entering the English
Church he would not only give him a
living, but his daughter also. w un-


derstand both parties are very happy
under SO kind and sensible an arrange
ment."
Year: 1865

ais produced there. Indeed, she had
something to spare; for bought of her
some heavy woollen hose made by her
hands to keep my feet warm when riding.
never saw man or woman in civilized
life before so independent of the rest ci
the world. She lived within herself;
and the purchases for herself, niece and
house did not exceed, probably, twenty
dollars year.


Supper being prepared, which consist
ed of the inevitable fried fish corn dodg-
er, and coffee made from grain, the
widow, niece, pedler and sat down TO
it together Mrs. Wormly was very
chatty and inquisitive about my busi
ness. where l lived, the nature of city
life, and the appearance of the cities at
the North. She had never been 10 aEy
place larger than small country village
but once in her life, and that was 10
Raleigh when girl This was q great
event to her, and she remembered every
circumstance connected with it distinct
ly. The niece was silent as ever but
caught view of her face, though she
sat at table with the slouch bonnet on
She appeared to be not over eighteen
years ofage. with small, delicate features
and good looking. The pedler said lit
tie, and nearly all the talking was done
by Mrs. Wormly and myself


ToBE CONTINUED.
Year: 1865

Now gallant friends and shipmates all,
Since half our battles won.
A broadside for Admiral


Load every crystal gun
Stand ready till give the word


You won't have time to tire
ana when that glorious name is heard


Then let the main deck fre
Bow foremost sinks the rebel craft:


Our eyes now sadly turn,
And see the pirates huddling aft


To drop their raft astern ;
Soon Ger the sea-worm's destined prey


The lifted wave shall close
So perish from the face of day


All Freedoms banded foes
But ali what splendors fire the sky
What glories greet the morn
The storm-tost banner streams on high,
Its heavenly hues new born
Its red fresh dyed in heroes blood


1t peaceful white more pure
To float unstained DER field and flood,
While earth AID seas endure
All shapes that feel the living blast
Must glide from mortsl view
Backro the pillows of the past


Behind the presents blue
Fast, fast are lessening in the light
The names of high renown-
ION Tromp's proud bosom pales from sight
Old Benbows half hull down
Scarce one tall frigate walks the sea


Or skirts the safer shores
CT all that bore to victory.


Our stout old Commodores:
Hull, Bainbridge, Porter-where are theyf
The answering pillows roll
Still bright in memory's sunset ray


Sod rest each gallant soul
A brighter name must dim their light


With more than neon-day ray-
The Viking of the River Fight,


The conqueror of the Bay
Shape not for him the marble form,


Let never bronze be cast,
But see him through the battle-storm,
Lashed to his flag ships mast.
Now, then, your broadsdes, shipmates all,
With grape well loaded down
May garlands filled with sunshine fall
To gid his silvered crown!
l give the name that fits him best
Ay, better than his own
The Sea King of the sovereign West,
Who made his mast throne
Year: 1865

How strikingly tha course OF nature tells,


BY its light heed OF human suffering,


That it fashioned for a happier world.


So thinking. l retired to rest, and fell
asleep, to dream of this episode in my life
experience, gathered from the true story o!
an Australian detective.
Year: 1865

stately tones of the royal lady TO reveal
the most painful and the most joyful Incl
dent Of his past life. Dreadins the dire
consequences of an untruth he acknowl-
edged that the beheading of his bother
was the most sorrowful, and the recovery
of his body the mos. joyful events Of lis
life


You are the man" said she, firmly
grasping his covered wrist, which its owner
did not attempt to withdraw Lights
here !" Domestics crowded iuto the dark
ened rooms with fambeaux, but there
was no man in the outer apartment. and
the lady found herself in The possession Of
the arm Of man lately dead. The woo5r,
fearing bad faith, had ccrne prepared


Psamrhenitis being now at his wits end
publicly invited his tormenter to present.
himself giving such a pledge as even the
King of Egypt could not fail to ratify,
that he would iona fde pardon him and
make him his son-in-law. He was soott
gratlied by the appearance of the outlaw,
and neither he nor his daughter vas ever
after heard to con- plain of the new ac-
cessiou to the royal line of Egyptian
kings
Year: 1865

The absence Of volcanic traces was in
and the evidence of our minds
conclusive that only the Jordan, or that
ancient tongue Of Red Sea which it re-
presents, could have formed the Ghor and
especially the strange gravel hills around
Us, and that the Ghor is chiefly a fissure
Of erosion, accelerated, perhaps, by the
agency Of depression during the volcanic
period of the Ledjah at the end of the
tertiary epoch. These huge hiIIocks that
fringe the plain are all composed of con-
glomerate, quite unlike the sedimentary
remains lower down, and are very soft,
with Iand shells ntermingled Of criSting
species The plain Is generally coy cred
with coating of mud mingled with the
existing fresh water shells of the Jordan
and its tributary streams. But in the
case of the genus melanopsis, especially
there are three species common. viz .


u prefosa, u costata, u and .Saulcyi


OF these the former abounds everywhere
in the Ghor; the second has been found
III q IT III Sittc ottiN III bt4t tptA waters -


the Jordan and lake of Galilee; and the
third only near Ain Sultan. Almost all
the semi-fossil shells in the Jordan plain
are Of the second species, and we could
not discover any of the third This seems
to point strongly to the suPposition that
all this mud has been brought down and
repeatedly overfowed from the uper wat
ers, unless the distribution Of the species


has become changed At any rate, the


the general inference appears issesistibls


that, within Il comparative recent geo


logical period, the whole ower valley ba.


been exposed to fresh water flooding from


the upper Jordan, and that the grea


mounds and hillocks which stud the side;
Of the valley under the Hill are the result
I Of sudden freshets and torrents from the
waters to the west which have brough
down enormous masses Of soil, in whiel


the shells that lived on its surface hay,
| been mingled The Land Of Israel
Year: 1865

Does any one suppose that the people
Will be fooled By any rreteusions Of loyal
ty now set up? Is the character of the
party changed SO suddenly as they would
have us beiieTef Can the Ethiopian
change HE skin, or the leopard his spots
Are fi65 the professions Of thanks to the
soldiers, and of confidence in the Presi-
dent SO many libels on honesty and good
faith? Butthey really love the people and
the good soldiers-as the wolf loves the
lamb, or guzzler rycl


In my next as to the platform


LOCKER on
Year: 1865

ReSolced, BY the Democracy Of Wis
consin, represented in delegated conver.
ton, that the Democracy of Wisconsin are
devoutly thankfcl t. Almighty Gcd for
the fortunate conclusion Of long, blood
and destructive civil war. originating in
sectional passion and crime. and cuImina-
ting in the triumphant yindication of ths
Federal authority and the final overthrow
of the political heresy that a positive de-
tiance Of the Federal Government is q
rightiul remedy for real or anticipates
wrongs


ResOiced, That We recognize in the
policy avowed by President johnson for
the restoration of tie late rebellious
States to their practical relations with the
Federal Governmeat, wise and patriotic
determination to preserve the equality OF
the several States and to secure the future
peace and unity of the country upon III.
basis of the Federal Constitution. and. to
that end and in all othcrla lawful measures
tending 10 the preservation Of the GoY-
ernment and the future freedom, frater-
nization and progress of the American
people. We pledge him our unqualified
sympathy and support


Rescired That we are opposed to negro
suffrage in this state, and to a / irterfer-
ence b7 us with the policy Of ether states
on that subject


Resoited, That we are opposed to the
further suppression of the writ of ha6eas
corpus and to all trials of civil offences
by military tribunals


Resoiced, That we damaud the most
rigid economy in the administration g
state and national affairs, and are opposed
to calling in and diverting the state Schoo,
Fund


| Resoiced, That this country is under
n debt Of gratitude to our soldiers for their
bravery aud devotion to the Union. and
that they arc deserving pay by deeds more
than words.


Rcsolrcd That we are opposed to those
provisions or the tariff laws by which bur
dens are thrown upon one section of the
country or enc class of o.rr people for
the benefit Of another section or class.


Resolrcd, That We are opposed to all
exemptions Of classes from the burdens OF
government, and are in favor of equal.
Just and uniform taxation.
Year: 1865

The wooden gunboat which had start
ed out toward Mobile, and had progres


sed well toward her Wharyes, now be
came an object of the most intense in
terest A crowd of eager gazsrs collect
ed on the bluffs and at the landings,
all the marine glasses that could be
procured were broughtinto reqUisition,
and as she gradually neared the whar
yes, all eyes were strained to catch the
first puff Of smoke that should herald
an attack from the batteries None
was visible; no attack was made. No
rebel shipping could be any where seen
moored before the city. Everything
was quiet. Was it a trap or was iJ true,
as every one hoped, but hardly dared
believe, that Mobile was evacuated? ?
Year: 1865

OF this event we have no further
knowI edge than the bare announce
ment in the Mobile Register Of the 9th.
We do not yet know even the date OF
its capture, though it was probably Ia
ken on the 5th. AS the place is seven.
ty miles east Of Selma, and the COOss
River flows between them, it would
probably occupy the troops two days TO
make the march.


After this we know nothing further
of his movements till he rode suddenly
down IN the rear OF the western de-
fenses Of Mobile, and out upon the
shore, five miles below the city, and
signaled across 10 General Candy, As
above narrated
Year: 1865

The rebels may have transferred
some OF the artillery from the west 70
the east shore after the attack began,
and before their communication with
Spanish Fort was cut of, which would
diminish the above estimate somewhat
though 1 believe it viii not vary greatly
from the actual reckoning


Will give the armament Of spanish
Fort entire, as it was furnished to me,
and it will serve as a specimen Of the
others:
Year: 1865

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
this morning ordered the following ruling:
Travelling agents of manufacturers and deal
ers, regarded as commercial brokers under
decision of August 18th, are required to take
out license only from August LIST, instead of
May the LIST, at q charge for the remaining
portion of the license year of fifteen dollars
instead of twenty dollars for full year.
Year: 1865

Cool WEATHRR.-The weather is In an
angry, spiteful mood. 1t has been very cold
and windy for the season this day or two.
The caloric seems to have been expelled from
the atmosphere, and the way the chilling
wind blows around the corners is caution
to the pardon-Seekers stranded here in Wash.
ington with nothing but their breeches to
Year: 1865

THE Harvard College Memorial Commit.
tee has voted that an Alumni Hall be built,
and that monument in honor Of the Alum.
nj who died in the war DO erected in some
suitable portion Of the building r
Year: 1865


l have been unduly ambitious,


With hopes il is hard to forget;
Such day-dreams are all too delicious,
To vanish and leave no regret.
Hopes, like the mirage i'm the distance.
10 win the bright chaplet Of fame,
To leave, as pass from existence,
A worthy and wide.honored name.
Dreams only their death knell is ringing
Proud heart, to thy destiny come;
Thou fain wouldst be soaring and singing
Sink down and forever be dumb!
TO fetter the soul with a burden


of longings it never can tell,
And grant it no loftier guerdOn
Than failare-O God is it well!
'Tis well ! for such lessons compel US,
A loftier standard to raise;
He can but be selfish and Jealous,
Who lives on the incense of praise.
Such lessons the stars might have taught us
As round us their glamour they fling
Such lessons the flow rcts have brought US,
On every sweet zephyr of Spring.
In deserts and solitudes lonely


The flowers refuse not to bloom
Though heedlessly trampled, they only
Yield sweeter and richer perfume.
The stars-we walk under them nightly,
And nurmur no accent of praise
They beam ou us none the less brightly,
Nor dream of withholding their rays.
So shine, noble soul-ever giving
No heed to neglect or to strife,
Content with the glory of living
A true and beautiful life.
For being is nobler than seeming
And fame is a perishing toy;
And doing is wiser than dreaming,
And culture is nobler than Joy.
Year: 1865

Never ridicule sacred things, OF
what others may esteem as such, how.
ever absurd they may appear to you
Never show levity when people are
engaged in religious worship. Never
resent supposed injury till you know
the views and motives of the author.
Always take the part of an absent
person, who is censured in company,
so far as truth and propriety will ad.
NIT. Never affect to be witty, nor
jest to wound the feelings of another.
Say as little as possible about your
self and those who are near you. Aim
at cheerfulness without levity. New.
er obtrude advice unasked. Never
court the favor of the rich by fatter.
ing ther vices or vanities. On all oc.
casions have in prospect the end OF
life and future good.
Year: 1865

Show me the man who can quit the
brilliant society of the young to listen
to the kindly voice of age who can
hold cheerful converse with one whom
years has deprived Of charms. Show
me the man Of generous impulses who
is always willing to help tho poor and
needy-sbow me the man who treats
unprotected maidenhood as he would
the heircss surrounded by the protec-
tion of rank. riches and family. Show
me the man who never forgets for an
instant the delicacy, the respect that
is due to woman as woman, in any
condition or class-show me such a
man, and You show me gentleman
nay, you show me better-you show
me a true christian.
Year: 1865

Men and women, girls or boys, feel
instinctively when they have fallen in
with dangerous associates. If they
choose to remain among them they
are lost. So, in high tides. barques
of light draught float over the quick
sands ; in summer. at low tide, the
venturous boys and young people will
cricket thereupon but neither can
remain long in the neighborhood. The
time comes when the sands are cover.
ed with thin surface Of water, and
beneath is the shifting. loose, we,
earth, more dangerous and treacher,
GUS than spring-tide ice and then il
is that to touch is to be drawn in, and
to be drawn in is death. So it ID
with bad company.
Year: 1865

and applied the salve to the bleeding stump,
whereupon the tail at once grew out to it's
natural size and shape; that he then took up
the piece of tail which he had cut off, and ap-
piled the salve to the bleeding end, where
upon dog grew out SO like the other, that
1t was impossible to tell which was the origi-
nal dog
Year: 1865

We learn from the Cass County Messenger
that young man by the name of Stoddard
was fooling with gun, which he supposed
was not loaded, when it exploded, fatally
wouuding young lady by tho name oi
of Decker, who was standing near by. It is
reported that Stoddard and the unfortunate
young lady were to have been married in q
few days.
Year: 1865

A well known editor Of a prominent
Northern journal said to the President:
"The Democracy say you will yet be
found with them that you have al.
ways been good Democrat, and will
always SO remain" "Do they ?" re.
sponded Mr.. Johnson, "well, sir, you
are at liberty to tell all such gentle
men that while, as President, l shall
endeavor to drop any partisan charac-
ter, / certainly am not prepared to
more than pray for those who despite
fully use me. think they stand in
need Of prayers, and it's all l can do
for them" A friend told me lately,
that in talking with the President
about the Blairs, he wittily remarked
that the only trouble about the elder
Blair was that he had not the proprie-
ty to die when his term of usefulness
expired, adding land that, sir, was a
long time ago-an ALFRED long time
ago"
Year: 1865

The crop Of hay in New Hampshire
is at least one third larger than las,
year. The same may be said of bar.
ley and oats, but in wheat and rye the
yield in some places is hardly as large
as was expected. owing to a dispro
portion between the head and straw.
Year: 1865

1t is stated that man down East has in
vented new, powerful, double-acting
salve, which cannot fail to be boon not only
to the human race, but to every living thing
which is exposed to accidents and wound"


As proof of its potency and efficacy, the in
ventor narrates that, By way of experiment,
he cut of about four inches Of his dogs tail,
Year: 1865

1t has been thought that people are degen-
Grating, because they don't live as long as in
the days of Methusaleh. But the fact is
provisions are so high that nobody can afford
to live very long at the current prices.
Year: 1865




Our MISTAKES ABOUT EACH OTHER
Not one man in ten thousand sees those
with whom he associates rs they really are.
IF the prayer of Burns were granted, and
we could all see ourselves as others see US,
our self.estimates would in all probability
be much more erroneous than they are now.
The truth is that We regard each other
through variety Of lenses, no one Of which
is correct. Passion and prejudice, love
and hate, benevolence and envy, spectacle
our eyes and utterly prevent us from OBJ
serving accurately. Many whom We deem
the porcelain of human clay are mere dirt,
and still greater number of those we put
down on black books are no further off
from Heaven, perhaps little nearer,
than the censors who condemn them. We
habitually undervalue or overValue each
other, and in estimating character the
shrewdest of US only now and then make
true appraisal of the virtues and defects of
even our closest intimates. -..-- .


1t is not just or fair to look at character
from stand point of ones own selection.
A mans profile may be unprepossessiDg,
and yet his full face agreeable. We once
saw young man, whose timidity was
standing joke with his companions, leap
into a river and save a boy from drowning,
while his tormentors stood panic struck Oh
the bank. The merchant who gives curt
answers in his counting, house may be a
tender husband aud father, and kind
helper of the desolate and oppressed. On
the other hand, your good humored person,
who is all smiles and sunshine in public,
may carry something as hard as the neither
milestone, in the place where his heart ought
to be.


Such anamolies are common. There is
this comfort, however, for those whose mis-
judgments of their feilow.mortals lean to
the kindly side-such mistakes go to their
credit in the great account. He who
thinks better of his neighbors than they de-
serve, cannot be a bad man, for the standard
by which his judgment is guided is the
goodness of his own heart 1t is only the
base who believe all men base-of, in other
words, like themselves. Few, however, are
all evil. Even Nero did good turn to
somebody, for when Rome was rejoicing
over his death some loving hand covered
his grave with flowers.


Public men are seldom or never fairly
judged-at least, while living. However
pure, they cannot escape calumny. How
ever corrupt, they are sure to find eulogists.
History may do them justice; but they
rarely get it while living, either from friend
or foe.
Year: 1865

NEXT SESSION OF CONGRESS.


The question of the admission Of mem,
bers to the next Congress from the South
ern States is now agitating the public mind.
With law of Congress prohibiting any
one from holding seat in that body who
had been engaged in the rebellion, it is
difficult to solve the question who the South
can send; for there is no prominent man
alive in the Southern States who has not,
directly or indirectly been concerned in the
war. The FIRST matter to be considered,
then, is nmnifestly, the repeal of the law, so
as to relieve the South of the disability of
being represented in the National Congress.


Will the Radicals consent to this? That
is the question. We have no doubt there
will be an intense struggle to keep the
South out, but the people of the North are
more anxious for the South to come back
than the South herself is to return. Hence
if the majority insist upon carrying out
their plans, and closing the doors Of Con:
gress upon the South, the Northern people
will arouse themselves to the necessity of
putting down the Radicals and opening the
portals of the Union to every wayward sis
ter who comes back, casting over her the
cloak of charity and forgiveness, with the
complete obiviation of the past. The South
has been restored to her political rights by
the amnesty proclamation and by the oaths
of allegiance taken by her citizens. No
further tests can be required, unless it be
the test of probation, and that is, of course,
out of the question. The men Of the South
who have conformed to the requirements of
the Government are entitled to vote, and it
is absurd to argue that they have not the
power to select their own representatives


and it is sti1l a greater absurdity to saythat
these representatives shall not be received
when elected. .--.-"


No such doctrine can stand before the
American, people. When a Southerner
takes the oath of allegiance he must be re-
garded as being restored tohis former politi-
cal rights. He is as good as any other citi-
zen in the eye Of the law: The Government
must recongize this fact, else why admins
ter the oath at all? No doubt President
johnson understands this matter, and if the
Radicals do not wish to 60 before the peo.
pie in the pending State electionain posi~
tion inimical to the administration, they
will handle this subject with fairness and
moderation. The President regards it to
be as much an act of disloyalty to prevent
recuscant State from coming into the U.
nion as it is for one to go out; and if the
Northern States oppose the restoration Of
the seeded States they are as criminal as
the original secessionists.-N Y Herald.