smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

The more valuable an article is the
more it is counterfeited, and the greater
the perfection to which Justification ID
carried. The diamond has been so sue
cessfully initiated that he must be an ex
pert indeed who can tell the false from
the true. Itby no means follows that be.
cause man deals in jewels his honesty
must be of the first water, and the fact Of
a purchaser having paid for diamond
is net always proof that he has obtained
one. There are known tests of genuine
ness, it is true, but they are chiefly opti-
cal, and require apparatus and skill to
make them. A method which any one
can apply, or easily get applied, has been
a desideratum; but the want exists no
longer. If you have doubtful stone, put
it, or cause it to be put, into leaden or
plantinum cup, with some powdered huor
spar and little oil vitriol; warm the
vessel over some powdered charcoal, in
fireplace, or where there is strong draft
to carry away the noxious vapors that
will be copiously evolved. When these
vspors have ceased rising, let the whole
cool, and then stir the mixture with q
glass rod to fish out the diamond. If you
find it intact it is q genuine stone; but
if 1t is false it will be corroded by the
hydroHuoric acid that has been generated
around it A small paste" diamond
would disappear altogether under the
treatment They who profit by this
recipe have to thank Signor Massimo
Levi, an Italian chemist.
Year: 1869

FROM the MISSOURI DemOcrat, Zist.1


The approaching census will give us
the basis of an apportionment upon an
entirely new system. For the first time
in our history, the three-ffths rule will be
inapplicable, provided the Fifteenth
Amendment shall then have been
adopted, as is now probable. BY this
change in the basis of representation, the
Southern States would have gained
largely had not their population been
relatively diminished by the war. As it
is, the Southern States will probably gain
nothing in representation; the Eastern
States will lose, while the Northwest will
gain considerably. s ssa U.r.I


As all know, the pretended statistics
gathered by the distinguished Delmar
we're inaccurate and vslueless. We have,
however, another source of information
which enables us to correct his figures
namely, the vote at the recent elections.
As the election of 1860 can be compared
with the census of that year, the ratio of
voters to populatian in each State Tex
cspt the Southern States) can thus be
ascertained, and the same ratio applied
to the vote at the recent elections, also
for President, will give us very nearly the
exact population for 1868, and allowing
the same proportionate increase for two
years more, we reach the population of
1870. Again, the ratio of increase for
the decade in the Northern States can be
closely estimated from the movement
of population for the last fifty years,
and the known facts which have affected
the growth of each State. For the South.
ern States it is difficult to make any simi-
lar estimates, but while they doubtless
lost population during the war, it is prob
able that the next census will show a
slight increase since 1860, because the
number of registered whites, with allow.
ance for those not registered, indicate
that the white population is now increas-
ing. From comparison of all the facts,
we Judge that in most of the Southern
States the census of 1870 will show q
slight increase, say FIVE per cent. over
that of 1860, while in other States which
have lost most during the war, the in
crease will be inapprecable, if indeed in
some there is not slight loss.


Reasoning upon these data, we find
that the population of the New England
States has very slightly increased, the
ratio being somewhat less than that for
the laat decade; that New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania have grown
rapidly, as the big increase of their vote
shows; that the Southern States along
the Atlantic coast have increased very
little, if any, (for convenience Of estimate
we put Virginia and West Virginia to-
gether); that the Southwest has also in
creased slightly; and that the Northwest
has grown, as its vote shows, with mar.
velous rapidity. The following estimate,
though it will vary little as to some
States, approximate quite closely, we
believe, to the results to be ascertained
by the census of 1870. We give first the
population estimated as we have ex.
planned, then the representation for the
next decade, and in the third column the
nreseut repreeentation: ESQ
Year: 1869

NOVEL WEDDING.-A young couple were
married lately in San Francisco on the bay
under rather trying circumstances. The young
man and woman loved each other tondly, and
determined to seal their affections by the
bonds of marriage. The young girls father
objected, but as she was OF legal age, which
recognizes her, in this particular at least, as
entitled to vote her hand to whom she peaSes,
his objections were worth nothing Dreaoing,
however, that an interruption would take place
if the ceremony were conducted in church,
the happy couple hit on the idea of hiring a
tueboat, getting the minister on board and
putting out on the bay, and there having the
ceremony performed. This was accomplished,
and while secure from the annoyance OF parents
or the imporunilies of friends, the happy
couple were being united. some portion OF
the tugboat's machinery gave way with q ter
rife crash. Although the wedding party were
startled, aud confusion prevailed for moment,
\ look Of satisfaction seemed to pervade the
appearance OF the bride and bridegroom on the
reflection that it was not the annoyance OF a
father. However, the tug was so injured
that she could not move. A signal OF dis
treSs was hOisted at the conclusion of the
ceremony, aud the tug Lookout having re-
sponded, the Water Witch and the wedding
party returned to the city.
Year: 1869

HOW II COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED.


Ireland was not like any part of India, cut
off from extraneous supplies. 1t was true
the potatoes had rotted, and it was true the
people had depended on the potatoes almost
alone for food. But there was abundance of
corn, abundance of flour, and abundance OF
meal in the country. not 10 speak of herds of
sheep and cattle innumerable; and. in the
midst of such plenty. why should the reo-
pie die? There was also abundance of money
70 purchase food money was freely offered
from many quarters, and was ready to flow
forth in a mighty stream from the charita-
be people Of England, to almost any extent.
If so. may again ask, Why should the peo-
pie die?


To solve this problem some friends and
relatives of mine proposed 10 visit the then
notoriOusly distressed district Of Schulz, in
the west Of the county Of Cork, and endea-
vor TO ascertain for themselves the cause of
this extraordinary position OF affairs Ac-
cordingly, the Rev Frederick T. French, a
gentleman well known for his philanthropy,
and the Rev. c. Trench, then rector of It.
chenstoke in Hampshire, now archbishop of
Dublin, agreed to visit the district in per
son The result of their inquiries was very
simple. There was, ar | have stated, abun-
dance of corn and abundance Of meal within
some lew miles Of the district, and no lack Of
innds to purchase these provisions and yet,
IN near proximity to this plenty, the people
were dying by hundreds, of actual dire star
vation, merely for want of some one with
sufficient energy and powers of organization
to bring the food and the people together
This was the apparently simple problem to
he solved, and TO effect it they set themselves
vigorously 20 work. In one place they found
a most benevolent clergyman, who, having
obtained large funds from England to miti-
gate the famine, appeared IN the morning at
his own hall door, ard threw handfuls of
shillings and sixpences amongst the crowd
who had collected 70 receive the charity.
Amiable gentleman no doubt he was, and
most honorable in the distribution of all he
had received; but he forgot that starving
people could no. eat sixpences or shillings,
and the food was some ten miles of. The
people had 10 strength or energy TO seek,
purchase or cook meal or dour. ana with the
Silver in their hands, they died. In another
place they found the priest of the parish ut
terlv paralyzed by the magnitude of the desc
lation around him. lie had given all he
had to the people, there YVES no food what
ever in his house, and he stood really in dan
Year: 1869

When Ferdinand the Second, Of Naples, better
known as King Bomba first heard of railroads.
he gave il as his opinion that they were an in
vention of the devil, and that none Of them
should ever be constructed in his States. Ills
confessor had finally 10 demonstrate in the most
urgent manner with him in order to obtain his
consent to the building of first railroad in Ma
pies, and even then he raised all kinds Of obsta
cles while the work was in progress.


Throughout Italy. as. indeed, the most OF
Continental Europe, the bottle Of wine is ever
placed on the table at meals by the side Of each
plate. 1t occupies as prominent place as wa
ter does at our own Water Is very rarely drank
except it is mingled with wine-and all drink
wine at meals-men women and children, and IT
is very rare to ind in Northern Italy any so
poor but they can take the common or ordinary
wine with their food. If that meal consisted OF
only bread. it would he washed down with 'vin
ordinaire'
Year: 1869

Without recsrd TO the case Of the Alabama
and her consorts, if any Of the other ships real
ly came under the same category, no one has
spoken in stronger terms than | have. Mr..
Sumner does me the honor to cite my words As a
just expression of moral feeling on the subject


| have only to say that those words were not d.
rccted against my country, or its responsible
Government, but against the builders and abet-
tors of the Alabama. The assertion that the Al
ALBANIA was sent out by the British nation and
Government or connivGnce is a calumuy which
no Engiishman would repel more warmly or con-
fdently than l. We have in the narrative Of
Cant >emmes an account OF all that passed be-
tween him and the confederate Secretary Of the
Navy about the building of this vessel. and the
plan which they formed for eluding what they
call the anxiously guarded neutrality of England
"A neutrality which they on either side seem in
clined to think is unduly pressed against them.
As the Englssh law gplainly forbids equipment,
they came to the CONCLUSION that the Alabama
must 90 out unarmed, and run the risk Of cap


ture, till she can take on board her armament at
some other port. We know the stratagem by
which she contrived to slip out to sea at the very
moment when the order for her arrest was On its
way. She had got notice Of that order, no
doubt, through some bribed official, for the con-
sequences Of whose treachery the government
which employed him is liable, without being it
self tainted with his guilt. Our Government
sent after the Alabama to Nassau, whittier she
was supposed to be bound, and would have ar


rested her there. But she had gone to the
Azores, where she took her armament on board,
and whence she set on out her career OF devasta-
ton and the Government was advised, too
technically, as | could not held feeling,
that she was thenceforth out Of their ju-
risdiction, and could be lawfully attacked by
your cruisers only. 1t is unhappiy the fact
that most of her crew were Englishmen by birth;
but in the seaport towns of every great maritime
country there rowing spirits ready TO sail for
high pay under any flag, who cannot be regarded
as morally committing the nation, even in the
slightest degree, to any bad enterprise in which
they embark moreover the English seamen Of
this vessel were for the most part taken on board
for feigned voyage. The Alabama was cheered
and feted by her partisans, and not in the ports
of English dependencies alone. Could she have
put into Manchester or Bradford, or the srtisan
Year: 1869

army and navy. The Fundamental


principles fof radical liberalism
which had been adopted In relation


to religion, the PRESS and educa


tion by the Provisional government
must now be consolidated by
the action of the Deputies. Our rev.
olution here is not responsible for the
rising In Cuba. That is due to the
errors of the past Government. He
expressed the hope that the insured
ton there would be speedily extin-
gulshed. and that tranquility based on
reform would be durable. He pre-
dicted that slavery would be abolished
without compromising the prosperity
of the Antilles. In conclusion, he
congratulated the country on its relal
tons with foreign nations, now more
Intimate than ever before.
Year: 1869

One dull day in August, just after noon,
balloon rose in the air at the foot oI
elect Hills, on the western edge OF the
central plain of England. 1t was inflated
with the slightest of gases which chemical
skill could produce, and it rose with
amazing velocity. \ mile up, and II
entered stratum of clouds more than d
thousand feet thick. Emerging from this,
the sun shonc brightly ON the air ship
the SKY over head was of the clearest and
deepest blue, and below lay an immeasu-
rable cxpansc of cloud, whose surface
looked rs solid as that Of the earth now
wholly lost to view. Lofty mountains,
and deep, dark rayines, appeared below
the peaks and sides Of those cloud noun
tains next the sun gliitered like snow, but
casting shadows as black rs if they were
solid rock. Up rose the balloon with
tremendous velocity. Four miles above
earth pigeon was let loose; it dropped
down through the air as if it had been a
stone. The air was too thin TO enable II
to fly. 1t was as if ship laden to the
deck were to pass from the heavy waters
of the sea into an inland unSaiinc lake ;
the bark would sink at once into the thin
ner water Up up, still higher! What a
silence profound! The heights of the sky
were as still as the deepest depth of the
ocean. where. as was found during the
search for the lost Atlantic cable, the fine
mud lies as unstirred from year to year rs
the dust which imperceptibly gathers on
the furniture of deserted house. No
sound, nor life-only the bright sunshine
falling through sky which it could not
warm.


Up-five miles above earth. Higher
than the inaccessible summit of Chin
borazo or Dawngiri. Despite the sun
shine, everything freezes. The air grows
too thin to support life, even for few
minutes. Two men only are in the ad-
venturous balloon, the one steering the
air ship, the other watching the scientific
instruments, and recording them with a
rapidity bred oflong practice. Suddenly,
sight grows DIM he takes lens to help
his sight, and only marks from the falling
barometer that they are rising rapidly
A flask of brandy lies within a foot of
him he tries to reach it, but his arms re-
fuse to obey his will. He tries to call on
his comrade, who has gone up to the ring
above; a whisper in that deep silence
would sufflce-but no sound escapes from
his llps-he is voiceless. The steersman
comes down into the car; he finds his
Year: 1869

Recommendations, in the dairy,
makes record Of day wherein he re-
solved to speak to no human soul. He
went to the village, got his mail at the
post-oflice, returned, and triumphantly
records the fact that he spoke to no
man. Is it any wonder that, with all his
genius, Hawthorne was melancholy and
essentiIlly an unhappy man? How much
wiser and better the opposite course.
Think of how much happiness you convey
to others by kindly notice and cheerful
conversation, Think how much sunshine
sociability lets back into your soul! Who
does not feel more cheerful and contented
for receiving polite bow, geniai"good
morning" hearty shake Of the hand!
Who does not make himself the happier
by these little expressions of fellow feel
ings and good will' Silence, and stiff,
unbcnding reserve are essentially selfish
and essentially vulgar. The generous
Year: 1869

Mark Twain writes that Horace Gree
ley once hired out as a writing master,
but the enterprise failed His first copy
was Virtue is its own reward, and they
got 1t Washing with soap is wholly ab-
surd, and so the trustees discharged
HIM for attempting to convey bad morals
through the medium of worse penman-
ship
Year: 1869

THE INDIANAPoLIs DISASTER -Snrr {
of the incidents Of the recent boiler eI-
plosion at the Indiana State Fair are
given by mail. Where the engine stood
was left no perceptible trace, except an
area of smoked and blackened ground
Even the foundation had been torn up,
and not a brick WAS left standing the one
upon the other. The framing of the raw
mill was thrown askew, turned over,
broken and dirlocated. A large piece of
the boiler, which must have weighed five
hundred pounds. was carried distance Of
a hundred yards. But, more horrible
than all, was the appearance of the dead.
Several yards from the disaster was found
a pair of legs, held together by the merest
shred of flesh.


At one place was the headless trunk of
a man at another was the leg Of a wo-
man, with her boot and stocking and part
of her drawers still upon it; the arm of a
man was found driven into a poplar
board; while not far from Power hall
was seen the body of man so horribly
mutilated that his heart, stomach, liver
and lungs could readily be seen. When
first discovered his heart was s1in palpi-
tating, and the motion of the organ was
plainly observed. A man walking in front
of the executive headquarters was startled
at seeing a skull drop in front of him, the
flesh actually scaided off the bones, but
the eyes and teeth still remaining in the
sockets and jaws. In lumber pile, near
the place where the boiler stood, was
found some of the remains of q man wad-
ded into the intersects between the
planks- A piece of mans head, showing
part Of the forehead, the nose and left
side of the face, the hair and whiskers
very black, slightly tinged with gray,
was found near the executive office, and
there were other like spectacles.
Year: 1869

IMPoRTANT 10 TOBACcONIsTs. The
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue re-
Gently received letter from tobacco
manufacturer who stated that he manu-
be considered by persons who purchase
hi goods az manufacturers Of the same.
He stencils the brand upon the packages,
the factory, district, number, weights, and
the usual notice, omitting his name, max


ing the party the proprietor of the brand
and apparently the manufacturer. The
purchaser desires him to omit his name
from the stamp. and to cancel it by i'm
pressing on its face a steel die bearing his
initials only. In reply, the Commissioners
gives it as his-opinion that it was not the
intention of the law that the notice re-
quired by the sixty y-eighth section, should
convey the impression that any dealer
who may be proprietor of a brand of
tobacco is the manufacturer, when such
Is not the case. When the name of the
proprietor is inserted instead of that of
the manufacturer, il should read "manu-
factured for-at factory No. /. etc." As
regards the cancellation of the kind of
stamps referred to, the manufacturers s
name must in all cases be written upon
the stamp, and in no case can the name of
the other party be used.
Year: 1869

The Bishop of Orleans has sent the fol-
lowing letter to Father Hyacinthe


ORLEANS, Sept %.


MY DEAR COLLEAGUE: The very InD-
ment L learnt from Paris what you were
on the point of doing, | endeavored, as
you know, to save you from all cost from
what could not but be for you Il great fault
and great misfortune, as well as a pro-
found sorrow for the Church that very
moment, at night, sent your old school
fellow and friend, to stop you, if possible.
But it was too late; ; the scandal has been
consumated, and henceforth you can
measure by the grief of ali the friends of
the Church, and the joy of all her
enemeis, the evil you have done. | can
only pray to God now and implore you to
stop upon the brink you have reached,
which leads to abysses the troubled eye of
your soul has not seen. You have suffered
l know it; but allow me to say, Father
Lacordaire and Father kavignan, suffered
l know, more than you, and they rose
higher in patience and strength, through
love of the Church and Jesus Oh ist.


How was it you did not feel the wrong
you were doing the Church, your mother,
by these accusations; and the wrong you
are doing to Jesus Christ, by placing
yourself as you do alone, before him, in
contempt of His Church? But l would
fain hope, snd I do hope, that it will
only be momentary alteration. Re
turn among us; after causing the Catho-
lie world this sorrow, give it great con-
ISOLATION and great example. Go throw
yourself at the feet of the Holy Father
His arms will be open to you, and in
clasping You to his paternal heart he will
restore you to the peace Of your CON
science and the honor of your life. Ac-
cept from him who was your Bishop, and
who viii never cease to love you, this tes-
Year: 1869

sian serfdom. For thirty years" this
concern is expected to be able to warn
eff all vessels which may attempt any
trade with their native serfs; for thirty
years they are TO have the sole monopoly
to kin and catch fur-bearing animals in
the territory referred to for thirty years
they are to have exclusive commerce IN


the worlds largest supply Of one variety
OF peltries for thirty years they are to
hold in abject slavery race OF people
whose beggsrly wages of labor,
and whose food, clothing and
fuel religion and education, (what
nockery , are to be determined in guam
tity and quality by an appeal to what?
Why to the standard once adopted by
that scandalOus imperial tyranny, the de-
funct Russian-American For Company.
Now, as the late Russian Company ad-
NIT haviny taken three hundred and
twenty-five thousand seal skins on these
islands during last year. and as the
profit, clear, on each skin is about five
dollars, the job is certainly fat enough to
work for. Californians are here protest.
ing against this outrage, and the Cham
Der of Commerce in San Francisco has
passed resolutions to the same effect.
Some CalifOrnisns are charitable enough
to say that Senator Cole could not have
given this bill Thorough exsmina-
ton" or he would not have presented it.
Are honorable Senators in the habit
of legislating thus Iecklessly, without
knowing what they are doing? Such
state Of facts is not to be presumed. II
is hoped the House OF Representatives
will straugle this bill, and originate some
law which will really protect not only
the animals of Alaska, but the natives
also. 1t is understood that the whole
subject will be laid before the Commit
tee on Commerce in the House of Rep
resentatives tomorrow, or early this
week-and in such 8 shape that imme-
diate action can be taken thereon, and
the infamous speculation defeated.
Year: 1869

The thirty-sixth annual meeting Of
this Society will be held at the Capitol,
in this city, on the 9Th OF April next.
Business OF vital importance to the pro-
fession will come before it for considera-
ton, and all physicians in regular stand
ing throughout the State are desired to
be present. Arrangements have been
made with the railroads to return them
free. The newspapers OF the State will
confer fAveF to the profession at large
by calling attention to this meeting.
Year: 1869

IMPORTANT IL TRUE.-The allegation in the
House resolution adopted on Monday last that,
ION the Sd OF March, 1869, few hours before
the dissolution Of the late administration,
bonds to the amount of two million four hundred
thousand dollars were, by order Of President
johnson, prepared for issue, and one million
four hundred thousand dollars we're actually
issued to the Central Pacific Railroad Of Cali
fornia, on account Of the alleged construction
of certain sections Of said railroad" and that
from certain proofs in the Treasury Depart
ment It appears that the value Of this work
done does not exceed ten thousand dollars per
mile, though certified to be worth twenty thou
sand dollars Mr.. Huntington, Vice President
OF this road, in high state Of virtuous wrath
demands an immediate investigation by the
House committee on the subject; but II ten
thousand dollars or twenty thousand dollars
be the real value OF the work, what does 1t
signify? A mere difference Of opinion, and
the House resolution Is only the old story Of
locking the stable door after the horse has
been stolen.