smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

Nor FoRTHcoMING.-Weu understand that
bors Of the Cahoka Oil Company have


suspended for the present, as the in
dications of the presence Of oil do not seem
to increase as the boring progresses. The
gas which first attracted the company to
that locality, still continues TO blow off, and
some of them, who pretend TO know, think
that oil will yet be found in connection with
the source from which it is derived. The
company have expended about five thousand
doIl0rs in the attempt, and do not feel like
doing more under the circumstances. We
learn that very favorable offers have been
made to citizens residing near the locality
of the well to induce them to continue the
efforts, which if successful would be Of
much advantage TO the neighborhood. Per-
haps in going few hundred feet further,
oil in paying quantities may be reached. So
may it be!-Alton Democrat.
Year: 1865

The following is the prospectus of new
weekly literary and news journal, the
Guardian. which is to make its appearance
in our city shortly, with james Clemens
Esq, a well known literary gentleman, as
editor and proprietor:


The Guardian, while not of strictly re.
lisious character, will look for support
pripcipllly to the Catholic population of the
West. It's editor will treat of passing
events from Catholic stand point, and
proposes to apply to their discussion
the well settled principles of Catholic
morals.


Every effort will be made 10 render the
new journal generally acceptable. 1t is al
most needless TO say that every thing cal
cutated in the slightest degree TO sully the
bright surface of youthful purity, will
be excluded from its columns. This
though indispensable, Is a negative virtue;
it is also hoped that those in charge Of this
new enterprise will succeed in presenting
to the public weekly, weIl-digested sum
mary of domestic and foreign news, selce.
ton from what is most valuable in the
ephemeral literature Of Europe and Amer
ica, with such editorial Comments and oriti-
cisms as will add real interest and value to
their columns. Arrangements will be made
to secure the cooperation of correspondents
Of ability in the leading cities of Europe.


In short it is proposed TO offer to the
Catholic population of the West weekly
newspaper, which, while by no means
prominently religious or controversial, will
meet want which has long been felt, serve
as an organ Of Catholic sentiment, medi
urn of communication among the Catholics
of the West, and prove welcome visitor il
The family circle.
Year: 1865

The republican party, and its candidates
for Office, are playing possum." They have
no platform, no publicly avowed principles,
and are trying to catch votes by protesting,
privately, to be in favor of everything the
man wants whom they are talking with. II
a man is opposed to negrO-sufrags-so are
they. If he is in favor of negro-suffrage-
are they. If he is for the Maine liquor law
so are they. If he is opposed to it-so are
they. If he is in favor of Andrew Johnson
SO are they. Ifopposed to him-so are they.
And SO it is of every question before the peo-
ple,-they profess all things to all men
provided they can get votes by it


This is very humiliatIng and cowardly
position to be placed in, but it is the position
in which the court house clique, in it's eager
ness for Office, has placed the republican
party of this county. Many repu olicAns are
disgusted with such shufflng, unmanly
course, and will vote the democratic union
and administration ticket as rebuke TO the
court house clique. 1t is the ogly way that
party in this county can ever get clear of the
blood-suckers who are dragging it down to
its political grave.
Year: 1865

The Whig says that a good many of the
rascals In the republican party Game to 1t
from the democratic party. OF course
When a man in the democratic party resolves
20 turn scoundfel, he at once leaves the par
ty, well knowing that he cannot maintain
his standing among the democracy except he
be an honest man. He knows exactly where
to 60 for sympathy aud as soon as he fully
resolves TO act the rascal, he makes immedi-
ate tracks for the republican organization,
where he is received with open arms, lion
lied, and taken at once into the loyal league.
That is precisely the way in which we get
rid of our scamps; they go where they know
they will get sympathy; where such charac-
ters are wanted; and they are at once put
into office, as Stanton, and Holt, and Butler
and others have been. The loyal league is
to us what Botany Bay is to Great Britain,
the place where we send all our scoundrels
Quincy Herald.
Year: 1865

There never was time IN the life of the
democratic party when there was so much at
stake as there is at the present time To this,
it may be added that scarcely ever was the
opposition as formidable as II now is, or as
daring in its efforts and unscrupulous in its
designs as it is to-day nor has there before
in the experience of the democratic party
been a period In which success depended so
largely upon untiring energy.


1t may be imagined by many that success
or otherwise depends wholly upon platforms,
upon the general principles enunciated in
whereases and their following resolutions. IL
is true tina. victory depends largely upon the
excellence of q cause but next to this as an
element of success, and not unfrequently su.
perior to it. is energy. If, therefore. the de
mocracy shall win in the coming elections, it
will have done it quite as much by the activ-
ity Of the party as through the merit of its
Year: 1865

NEW YORK, June l2-The following is
the letter of Emperor Napoleon to his
cousin:


MONSIEUR AND DEAR CoUsIN:-l can
not refrain from informing you OF the
painful impression l have experienced on
reading your speech at atAjaccio In ieaV-
inc you during my absence with the EN-
press and my son as Vice President OF the
Privv Counsel, | meant to give yon a
proof of my friendship and my confl-
dence. and / hoped that your presence,
vour conduct and your language would
testify TO the union which reigns IN our
family but the political programme which
vou place under the aegis of the Emper-
Or can ONLY serve the enemies of my Gov
ernment to judgments which | cannot
admit


You add sentiments of hatred which
belong no longer to our day To apply
the ideas of the empire to the present
time, it is necessary to have passed
through the stern trials of responsibility
and power, and besides are we fully ca
pahle, pigmies as we are, of approaching
ut its just value the grand historical fame
Of Napoleon! As in stanj'"G before a
colossal statue we are unable to view
the whole at once, we only see the side
which strikes our sight, hencethe incom-
pleteness Of the representation and the
divergence of opinions.


But what is clear to the eyes OF every
one is, that to prevent anarchy i'll mems
minds, that formidable enemy OF true
liberty, the Emperor had established,
first in his family, and afterwards in his
government, that severe discipline which
admitted hut one will and one action =
| cannot hencefOrth deviate from the
same rule of conduct


Monsieur and dear cousin, pray God
to have you in His holy keeping.


Signed NAPOLEON


Prince Napoleon lost no time in max
ing a reply to the Imperial censure: The
Princess was exclusively favored with the
document The Princes reply was as
follows:


IR:-In consequence of your Majes'
tvs letter of the 23d and publication IN
the Monitear of this morning, | resign
the Vice Presidency of the Universal
Exhibition of 1867.


Accept, Sir, the homage Of the pro
found and respectful attachment with
which am, of your Majesty's, the most
devoted cousin,


GSigned1 NAPOLEON JEROME.


PLAIs ROYAL, May 9th 1865
Year: 1865

New YORK, June 12.-We are officially
notified that tor the present, the extent
OF the Government business over the
southern wires neccSSitates the suspen-
sion OF arrangements in progress to re-
establish the old relations between the
Associated Press and editors south of
Washington, Meantime active efforts
are being made to increase the telegraph
ic facilities, so rs to insure prompt dis
patch to all business to or from the
South.
Year: 1865

s!osrT.-Money js grad aally retnSuing to
our District, and business is more brisk than it
was mouth or two ago. We hope that busi :.
ness may soon 60 ON in much the Same old
way as before the war. Cotton being good
price We are bound 10 have money It is
probable thnt cotton will never be less than
twenty five cents in grecnbacks. Labor being
cheaper, and cotton demanding a higher price
its culture viii be more profitable in the fu-
ture, than before the war.
Year: 1865

The Conn CEor.-Accouhts received from
different sections of the District represent the
corn crop for this season as very good. The
cotton crop is very light, owing to the small
amount planted this Year.
Year: 1865

Some writer's say, "Our daughters do
not grow up at all now days; they grow
all sorts ofways, as crooked as crooked
sticks" en b
:, Our girls hardly get sunshine enough
to grow at all in; and indeed many worheti
amongst us never could have fully got
their growth; else why are they such tiny
morsels, looking as if q puff from old
Kawaydin would blow them away 2 We
need to turn our girls out of doors--that
is the long and short of it-they will new
er be good for anything until we do. The
boys knock around and get oxygen enough
to expand their lungs, broaden their
chests, and paint their faces with health's
own hue; but our lazy, lady daughters
All! there is the burden that breaks down
the mothers heart. How are they, so
frail, and sensitive, and delicate, ever to
get along in this world? Neither, you
must bestir yourself quickly, they will be
as unfit as your gloomiest Imagination can
paint them. You are responsible chiefly
! for making them so tender. Protect them
suitably from the weather, and send them
out of doors. The pure air will brace up
their unstrung nerves, strengthen their
weak lungs, and some good gust of wind
will in time sweep away the i'll nature and
peevish spirit which sitting forever in
idleness in luxurious home will not fail
to engender.


Z The next thing you should do for your
daughter is to give her some domestic
employment. If you keep dozen SER
wants, your duty remains the same. No
one can be happy or qualified. to make
others SO, who has no useful work to do.


Besides this, she must learn sometime, or
Eshe win be poorly qualified for ever being
at the head of an establishment of her
own. No one in this country can rely
upon always having good, trained domes-


tics in her house. The best require somc


instructions, are liable to leave you for


sickness or other causes, and any house,


hold is in pitiablo condition where the
| mistress is not equal for such an smer-
Igeney.
Year: 1865

livingston correspondence Gold5boro Journal J


have just conversed with reliable
gentleman who came in from the front


Yesterday He informs me that he had
an interview with lady who was within
the enemy's camp last Thursday, and
from what she could learn there il is her
opinion that hs Yankees are preparing to
more ia force against Weldon up the Roanoke
and at the same time iciH male teiht IN this
direction The Yankees have been rein
forced some along the cost, but hot half
as heavy as at first reported Ten gun
boats are said to be at Newbern There
seems to be no doubt about the landing
of five locomotives and railroad iron, etc.


at Morehead City. The enemy made a
raid last week into Jones City, on the
south side of the Trent river, and de-
stroyed and carried off all the provisions
belonging TO the people in that section
that they could possibly lay their hands
Year: 1865

WASHINGTON, Feb 2l-Iuformation
from the Army of the Potomac states
that the army was in great glee over the
capture of Charleston. They begin to
see in the evacuation of that stronghold
that the end of their labor draws nigh
A shotted salute was fred throughout
the whole line in honor of the event. =
Year: 1865

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE - A
meeting Of the Democratic Central Commit
tee of the county is called to meet in Au
burn on next Saturday. AS it is important
there shosld be full attendance, it is desir
able that every member be present 10 person
or By proxy.
Year: 1865

DIsTRIcr CoURr-lhe August term Of
District Court will commence in this place
on Monday next. Judge Mcfarland has
written word that he cannot he in Auburn
before next Saturday; SO the Court will have
to he adjourned until he comes,
Year: 1865

PoLTIchL PREACHNG.-Raymond, of the New York
Times gets dsgusted with Beechers system of politics
in the pulpit, and thus expresses it:


The introduction of religion into the secular affairs is
certainly in bad TASTE of hypocrisy besides be-
ing nraction of one Of the great commandments of
the sacred law. 1t becomes disgusting moreover when
ministers of the gospel unmindul of their sacred call
ing make the pulpit the medium of oistng their pecu-
liar views political and current sccuarites upon
their hearers instead of ncucatng moral virtues and
religious truths.


We are led to these remarks reading the report of
a sermon delivered lately at Plymouth church. Brook
lyn, by the clergyman doing duty there in place OF
Henry Ward Beecher its pastor. Surely this preacher
was altogether forgetul in his discourse of the wise
mans saying that there is time for all things" lie
not only was guilty Of impropriety but mpertinence


His opinion respecting the cause of the rebellion the
perfdy and saveworshipping Of politicians the neccs-
sty Of hanging jeff Davis and his prominent support
ers, may may not be considered sound, but in any
case 1t surely improper for him to cram his views
down the throats of congregation assembled to
ship to say nothing of the discouresy of the thing
when it is considered that the regular pastor of the
church enerains diametrcay opposite views at least
respecting the stretching the necs of the rebel leaders,
and has advocated clemency towards them by speech
and pen, with considerable persistence.


Clergymen who go outside their calling as religious
preachers and set themselves up oraces on political
and purely sectional matters will doubtless be popular
among that class who known by the itching ear;
they are sincere and erven detractors from the dignity
Of their profession whose preaching is altogether in
vain.
Year: 1865

mark
Signed and sealed in the presence of


SIMON SIMPSON
These contracts will be approved by the agents Of the
bureau and it is hoped the negroes may be generally
induced to sign them before the end of the year.
Year: 1865

from the boxes.


The scene was rich. The Snowman was
less enraged than the lion. Drawing pis-
tol. he told Nat that if he did not take his
turtle off he would shoot him.


"Ta-take him off yourself!" shouted Nat
in reply.


At this critical moment, by dint of loosing
a portion of his nose. the lion shook his dan.
gerous foe from him. and clearing the space
between himself and the cage with a bound.
he SUNK quietly in, to chew the cud of his
defeat and pain.


1t was fair fight, all declaring that the
whimbamper" was the victor. I he next
morning he carried his turtle to the Marsh
market and sold him. SO the valiant cham
pion, after conquering the king of beasts,
served to make a good dinner for Baltimore
epicures.
Year: 1865

In the Norwegian mines singular and
striking custom is observed in paying the
weekly wages of men there employed. They
all present themselves on the Saturday even
ing to the inspector, who hears from each
man the number of hours he has worked on
the successive days of the week past, COM
pares the total given with his own notes on
the subject, and having settled the account,
calls the miner, bids him turn around, and
writes in white chalk on his black back the
amount due him. Thus mstyeriously num-
bered, the man has to go to the cashier, who
also turns him around to look at the figures,
and pays him without his having word to
say. The method is an expeditions one
two or three strokes of chalk settle the mat
ter it is prudent, for the miner has no
chance to alter figure in his own favor,
and economical, for brush removes all trace
Of the inscription, and the same black jack
ct is ready for the next Saturday.
Year: 1865

THE following characteristic anecdote isre-
lated of Lord Thurlow: He was one day
hearing an appeal case in the House Of Lords
when a Scotch advocate who had been speak
ing for some considerable time. and showed
no signs of leaving off, said i will now pro-
ceed to make a few remarks on the seventh
point" No I'm ID if you do" said his
lordship. 81 / adjourn the hearing till Mon
day" lie then took up his hat and rushed
out of the House.
Year: 1865

Many of our readers doubtless read the
New York correspondence of this paner
published in last Sundays issue, giving a
description of q new process of roasting
ores, which the writer had examined! il
consisted in the use Of the draft kme-kiln.
with copper-heated steam to aid combustion
A kiln capable of holding fifty tons, for
instance, is filed by alternate LAYERS of rock
and furi, and set on fire. A stream of SUPER
heated, or dry steon, is conducted under
the furnace or bottom of the kiln, which,
being decomposed, the oxygen, which is the
great natural supporter of combustion. aids
the fuel In the complete destruction Of the
cohesiveness of the ores and sulphurets.
The sulphur being disengaged by the heat.
adds to the general combustion of the mass.
SO that the base metals and all combustible
elements contained in the ore are DESTROYED,
The heat is not so great as to melt the pre-
cious metals, but sufficient to thorouehly
disintegrate the matrice which holds them.
The process is perpetual, as the kiln is fed
at the top, and as fast as the ore is acted
upon it is removed from the bottom. One
half OF the contents of the kiln, or twenty
hve tons of ore, are thus reduced every dav.
the writer says, at an expenditure Of only
one cord of wood, or less. IL this statement
is correct in relation to the amount of fuel
required, it is a subject of immense impor-
tance to the people of this State, for the pro-
cess described ,saqes the heavy expense of
crushing by stamps, and necessarily saves
larger percentage of the gold and silver
than any process in use here. When ore is
so thoroughly reduced and desulphurized as
in the case described, little grinding be-
fore, or in connection with the amalgama-
tion, is all that is needed. The great saving
OF fuel resulting from the use of the heated
steam to aid combustion, in the manner sup.
posed, is particularly important to us, who
have to pay so much for weod, that we have
hitherto been compelled to forego the adyan.
tages that would undoubtedly result from
roasting our ores. Nothing is said of the
expense of producing the steam required,
but we presume that is not taken into
account, because the water or exhausted
steam from the engine used to propel the
amalgamating and grinding machinery,
would furnish a supply without cost. Ii
appears to us that the process is entirely
practicable, and that by combining it with
the grinding and amalgamating mill recently
invented by Colonel Collins, of this city,
the business of reducing and amalgamating
our ores economically and effectually is
brought very nearly to perfectlon.-H Hnginio


Union.
Year: 1865

WE understand that great reduction is
going to be made in Government expenses
in this Territory. We should not be at all
surprised if the entire Government business
was withdrawn from Denver, after the Indian
campaign and established either at Julesburg
or Laramie, on the score of economy. 1t
would be hard blow on Denver, but we
are very much afraid she has got to stand
it.-DenUer Gazette.
Year: 1865

SHLAIM AGENTS have established an agency for the


purchase and sale of Gold and Silver Quartz Claims in
derent parts of the Territory One of the partners win
attend in person to the Introduction and sale of odes in
New York Philadelphia and other Eastern cities and the
other to obtaining the same in this city Arrangements
VIII be made early in the Spring for expressing goods to
the New York Office and for procuring reliable assavs at
the office in this city Office at the Post Office and at s.
L. Hauser e. Co.'S Bank, Wallace Street 5l-66s
Year: 1865

The Cincinnati Dollar Weekly Times very
wisely suggests the building for hospital
where the numerous good looking young
women who avoid the penalty for murder by
proof of mental alteration, should be con-
fined for life. Whether males or females,
all such persons should be imprisoned for
life, and made tc support themselves by hard
labor
Year: 1865

A MAN on trial for murder in Bangor, Me-,
secured his acquittal by his own simple,
frank and apparently truthful evidence,
taken under the new law Of that State,
allowing all persons accused of crime to be
witnesses in their own behalf.
Year: 1865

r SANDS whose store is situated two doors above
d. Gurney e. Co.'S Wallace street. having determined
to return to the States in about two months will dispose
of his entire Stock of Dry Goods at Eastern Cost He has
in his Stock very fine Black Cloaks and general
assortment Of all articles in his line Now is the time for
bargains om
Year: 1865

They tod me you would not return, and
have been SO lonely without you."


"And I have been lonely, too, Jessie
darling" I said "My home anywhere
would always be lonely without you VIII
you not 90 and share it with me I


The answer was very low, but I knew
it was in the affirmative.


Win you become my wife next week.
was determined TO make sure work now
There was some hesitation, and few
objections raised, but l finally gained the
same answer to that


Then hurried to the drawing room
to see the old felix's. There was consid
cradle pleasure expressed at my unex
pected arrival, and great surprise wa:
manifested when my errand was made
known; aud few tears and regrets from
the mother at parting with Jessie, and
hearty congratulations from the father
concluded by the remark, tThat just as
likely as not she would change her mind
while changing her dress"


I think | accomplished more in that
half hour than | ever did in twice that
length of time before or since; for at its
expiration was supremely happy. Aud
the result was that in a week [ got the
prettIest, best little wife in all England
and what is better still, I think'so now
even though she did say, ten miuuted
after the ceremony, II never told you ]
loved you, Will!"


And she never has, to this day.
Year: 1865

pA- Miss Lovely says that the males
are of no account trem the time the ladies
stop kissing theu as infants till they kiss
them again as lovers.-Ep


The interval between these stages is a
very brief one.
Year: 1865

Then up the long hill with rattle,


Then down the sharp hill with shout,
Then clasp the glad girl to your bosom.


And kiss the red lips till they pout;
Then tell her the old, happy story,


And hear her sweet "Yes, )" whispered low
While sleep in the white Winter moonligh
And dream of the bright LONG AGO.