smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

NoTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT WILL
IN apply to the City Council for permission to
erect frame Blacksmith Shop on the corner Of
Walnut and Fourth streets, lot 1885, Old Plan
of the city of Evansville, within the fire limits
Year: 1865

S1nduced by the high price of coal seye-
raj parties IN New York are engaged in perfect.
ing machinery for the preparation of peat fuel.
large deposits OF that article being distri butsd
throughout New York and many other orth-
ern States. The heating and burning qualities
OF some kinds of peat equal to those of
anthracite coal. A trial of peat is being made
by the American Institute and so far the test is
against coal
Year: 1865

BOARD OF CoUNCILMEN-No QUoaUM.-At
the calling Of the roll OF this Board yesterday after
noon seven members only answered to their Names
and the President declared the Board adjourned. for
want OF a quorum, to Monday next.
Year: 1865

Bidders must give their III ul and also state their
pare of and Of business They be present At
the opening ofihe Proposals aud be fully prepared with their
sures to sign Immediately the contract and bond Evidence
mus be shown of the entire responsibility OF each surety
ANY iniormay will he the Of the entire rejection OF the
GOOD faith viii subject the person makngi and the suarsn'
tors to the extreme penalty Of the law.


Each bid must have printed copy oi this Advertisements
attached TO it. ,,,,,A


The Government the night TO reject any oid winch
seems unreasonable or disadvsntageous to IT. . ,


Payments be monthly in such funds may be furnished
by the United States. ~
Year: 1865

MANUAL OF THE CORPORATION OF NEW
YoRK.-We have received from d. T. Valentine bis
Manual Of the Corporation oft City Of New.York for
1865 with It's usual amount Of interesting and valuable
information.
Year: 1865

We once heard Of rich man who was
badly injured by being run over, "It isn't
the accident" {" said ho, that mind" that
R'nt the thing but the idea Of being rnn
over by an internal old swill cart, that what
makes me mad
Year: 1865

While Mason and SUMMERS are bestirrinp
themselves in their official capacity to manip-
'uiate the Copperhead party of the North and
reunlte ITS broken columns with the defeated
rtels of the South, the unhung traitor,
JONES, of Dubuque, profers his aid in the
same cause. There is no man of his feeble
capacity that deserves so much at the hands
of the reunited Democracy as this same
JONES. of Dubuque, who gave son to the
rebel service, and while holding position un-
der the United States Government held a
reasonable correspondence with the leaders
Of the rebellion; tc.- which he suffered a briet
martyrdom at Fort Lafayette, whence he was
transferred to the Craftsmanship of the Du-
buque County Copperhead Central Commit
tee; and in that position he has in small
way done his best for the common cause OF
the peace sneaks of the North and the traitors
of the South


That he is as great hypocrite and as infa-
nous liar and libeler of the living and the
dead as any of his guilty eonfreres, the fol-
lowing paragraphs, extracted from a recent
letter of his, designed to promote the scheme
of MAsoy and SUMMERS, furnishes indubitable
evidence:


Il regretted very much the assassination of
President lincoln. because had reason to know
that he intended to conclude peace with our South
ern brethren on the most liberal and generous
terms to them, at the time that he would do
no act to tarnish the honor Of either side His
first great desire the restoration of the Union,
next the abolition Of slavery; but If the Confede-
rates would have agreed to neither. then that be
= would acknowledge their Independence and made
with them treaty Of alliance. offensive and de-
fensive, for the restoration of the Monroe Doctrine
to all parts of America, Northern Central and
Southern.


president Johnson, / verify believe, intends to
stand by and uphold the principles of jefferson,
Jackson and Polk, in which be was instructed
his life, save, perhaps during the war, when all
law and principle were tramped under foot. But
like his iilustrious predecessor he il hampered and
thwsrted by the faaatcai Aboltiouists, who. fear
ing that he will not be willing to place tho black
above the v hite man, look npon him already az q
traitor to the country, and would rqj oce in ks
timely end, they did in the assassination of Mr..
Lincoln. although they made protsstatiops Of an
opposite Character


Here this infamous denizen of traitor s
cell has the hardihood to proclaim to the
world that he had reason to know that the
late President LINCOLN would have acknowL
edged the independence Of the South, in the
face of all the glorious history, of his ilastri
Gus career, suddenly closed in blood by con-
spiracy of these same Southern traitors.
Year: 1865

The initiatory movements for inducing
Northerners to emigrate to the South to settle
and cultivate the laasdds Of the reorganized
States have been taken by North Carolina
gentlemen, who are now in this city for the
purpose Of furnishing information to those
desirous Of seeking new homes in that region


These gentlemen, who have large quantities
Of land to offer for sale, say that the North
Carolinlans generally are glad that their State
is rid of slavery, and are anxious TO have it
filled up and developed by Northern settlers.
Year: 1865

RRFuGEEs.-T war has cast eighty thous-
and families upon the Government for support,
the vast majority of them women and children,
whose natural protectors have been unable to
leave the rebel lines. Their sufferings have
induced movement at Washington, to see
what relief can be extended TO them, or how
they can be placed in a situation to help them
selves hereafter by their own industry. Que
of the wickednesses of the rebellion is the
amount Of misery which it has entailed upon
those who are entirely innocent Of promoting
it; women and children helpless and homeless,
left to SIGHT their way through the world, and
to suffer in abject poverty.
Year: 1865

The Washington ID. C Chronicle, having
fallen into the error of stating that the Cali
fornia Legislature was in session and would
probably indorse the Emancipation Amend
ment as passed by Congress, Senator Conness
informed The editor of his mistake, but told him
be should favor the calling of an extra session
for the purpose Of such Endorsement
Year: 1865

ADDRESS OF THE REBEL CONGRESS TO THE
SOUTHERN PEoPLE.-A New York dispatch
says


The rebel Congress. before taking lis recent
basty leave of Richmond, aud after refusing 10
adopt any Of the measures urged by Davis as
required to save the rebel cause. issued an
address to the Southern people. 1t begins by
saying tha! they cannot have peace except by
the sacrifice of their independence and property;
that subjugation or determination are the only
terms they can get. 1t refers TO what it
regards as the evils of reunion, and makes an
appeal 10 Southern manhood. 1t gives a col
ored view of the resources of the South, and
calls on the people to drive into the ranks
again absentees and skulkers Ii congratalates
the country on the appointment Of Lee as
General-in- Chief aud apologies for the heavy
burden of taxation they have been obliged to
impose They believe the people of the United
States have become tired of the war, and say
they can at any time have peace by abandoning
the wicked attempts at subjugation. They
recite again their grievances under the old
Government, and call upon the people TO emu
late the example of the Russians when Napo
leon invaded their territory. They wind up
with stirring appeal, saying success is within
their reach, that the battle is not to the strong,
and that the shades of their mariyred heroes
hover over aud beckon them on,
Year: 1865

The Paris Steele discloses what it costs the
jealous nations of Europe TO maintain facii
tious peace-a peace which is only kept by
enormous outlays for the appliances OF war,
and which would be instantaneously changed
10 war should it be discovered that one Of the
powers had failed to maintain the equilibrium
The Steele says:


In spite of the assurances which are given
to US on the maintenance of peace, IT Is difficult
to close ones eyes upon the feelings which
animate the governments one toward another
Distrust is the rule Of conduct. Not one Of
them thinks cf attacking his neighbor, but all
arm themselves for defense.


The misfortune is that defensive sFmaments
cost as much as offensive armaments, and as
the expenses which result from these sarlike
precautions weigh heavily upon the people, |
would not be surprised to find out that they
should desire war through love for peace
The peace that We enjoy, this armed peace,
costing annually four or flee thousand millions
of francs 10 Europe, resembles war so much
that q good war, which would lead to a solid
peace, TO a disarmed peace, would certainly be
preferable


"a
Bervousy grasps its arms, momentarily expect
ing an offensive movement from the other, Is
certainly not of similar nature TO that proph-
esed as to come, in which 1.-The lion and the
lamb shall lie down together" The rebukes
administered by these "peaceable" European
powers TO the American people for waging the
present bloody war, sound strangely when read
10 connection with disclosures ike the above.
When it is remembered, too, that most OF these
European powers have had a taste Of war in
the last decade, and that little disturbances"
in Denmark, in the past year, proved that at
least one rotten" plank existed 10 heir 'peace
platform" the above erpose demonstrates, that.
instead of being in that condition in which all
would acquiesce in disarmed peace from
sheer exhaustion, they have only sharpened
their appe,ites and swords and are "eager for
the fray" to be inaugurated on scale OF
greater magnitude than has been witnessed in
modern times. Their desire that our Govern
ment may patch up peace with the rebels on
the basis of their independence is thus easily
accounted for. Such peace in the United
States would be but the commencement Of civil
war in this country, and would rid the mon
arches Of Europe Of an ugly customer when
their day OF trial comes. The United States
is the beacon star of universal liberty, and once
out Of its orbit, the hopes of the lovers of free
dom throughout the world are blasted and the
assumed right of the few to rule the many
again becomes absolute. But the hopes of the
European rulers will not be realized; the
Government of the United States will not be
destroyed, aud republicanism in Europe and
America will not perish or be crushed out.
And the rebellion will receive its quietus in
time to allow Uncle Sam TO assist the powers
Of Europe in their very laudable work of
bringing about a "dsarmed peace" at the
same time that our country will be blessed
with peace of the same excellent quality.
Year: 1865

Is out, and full of good things A Scene at
the White House; Southern Teachers The
Solid Men of Boston on Reconstruction; The
Whisky Swindle; A Glimmer of Common
Sense from the London Times; President
Johnson Personals local news, and all that.
If you haven't got one, get dozen by all
means, and send them to your friends, that
they may be able to learn all a newspaper
can teach them of the whole duty of a loyal
man
Year: 1865

Lstus celebrats-let 10 have such cele'
hntion on the coming Fourth Of July, -
has never been witnessed in this county or
State. Surely the American people nave
never hsd greater cause to indulge ur'ver'
sally and enthusiastically in general Ma
tional Jubilee than on the coming Fourth
The hand that was raised in malice to strike
down the union Of these States has been
paraiysed: The wicked men who hoped to
have drowned in blood the republican instis
tutions of this country, are now helpless be-
yend descripdou-and their numerous r.
mics disbanded and scattered to the winds.
The Union has triumphed; and not only at
home, but among al the powers Of the earth
does she appear stronger-a thousand times
more secure and invincible in her position
than ever.


For such reasons rs these let Us cele-
brate. Let rs not iritter away the glory Of
the occasion, by dividing up in squads but
let rs al meet together man, woman
and child in Scott county, that can leave
home, and at some convenient grove near
this city-hold such celebration as will do
justice to the day and the occasion.


To that end, then, We propose that there
be public meeting held At the Court House
in this city, on Saturday afternoon, st o.
clock, by the citizens Of this county, for the
purpose Of taking preliminary action. At
the meeting We hope to see delegates from
every town in the county. Coma right
along, everybody, and let US prepare for an
enthusiastic celebration ON the ever glorious
Fonrfh
Year: 1865

READING THE BIBLE-Read your Bible
Siolcly. Take time, even if you have but
little time


4 great mathematician once said, if his


life depended upon solving problem in
two minutes, he would spend one of the
two in deciding how to do it. So in read
ing the Scriptures if you are pressed for
time, (and this should be a rare case,) then
spend the precious moments on portion
of chapter. When you feel that the
mind and heart begin to drink in the senti-
ment, even of Il single verse, then stop
and drain the heavenly chalice, because
the Divine Spirit is filling thy cup. 1t is a
true, solemn and interesting thought, that
we are to wait, to linger, to tarry for the
blessing to come from the word before us.


To search the Scriptures with the clea r,
unmoted eye of meditation, secures treas
ures of knowledge, known only to him who
thus coolly, piously and philosophically
studies the Word Of God.


Let any man give us reason why, when
the Scriptures are read so much, memory
retains so little, that quotations are so
blundering and incorrect, if the reason is
not found in the fact Of hasty reading of
the Word Of God There, as elsewhere, a
man man must reap as he sows.-N. Y
Observer.
Year: 1865

entirely She did her best, however, to
cure the wound she had inflicted, and the
presence of the wounded officer in the
house was the best protection she could
have had 1t was two months before En-
nest fully recovered, and when he was able
to return to duty, Mary Basham felt that
she was not forgetting her position in mar
rying the brave and talented officer
Year: 1865

Nothing was so much dreaded in our
school-boy days as to be punished by sit
ting between two girls. All the force of
education In after years we learn to
submit to such things without shedding
tear.
Year: 1865

A FRIEND in South America writes To us
that he is now spending month with a
farmer who owns a thousand miles of pas
ture, and & patch of corn larger than Scot
land, while he has got so many cattle that
he has to boil the fodder for them in a
volcano.
Year: 1865

A dry sort of genius undertook to ar
range and classify the different sorts Of
fools in this world i: LIST, the ordinary fool
End, the fool who is one and don't know it.
Sd, the fool who is not satisfied with being
fool in reality, but undertakes, in addi-
ton, to play the fool
Year: 1865

GOLD The amount of gold produced
yearly in this country is not far from sew
enty-five millions of dollars This is more
than enough for all the manufacturing and
financial wants of the people so there is
a surplus left for commercial exchange
with foreign countries. There need be no
fears OF gold famine in the future. Under
the present high tariff, and with the in
crease OF American manufacture in very
few months gold will circulate freely and
will be in every mans pockets who is fru-
gal and industrious. There is a reason for
the belief that in one year or eighteen
months time it will be as abundant as it is
now scarce.
Year: 1865

be greater than the whole. While the indiyid-
ual States are sovereign, as regards each other,
all are subordinate to the general Government
of the United States of America, in all the at
tributes which by the laws of nations denote
sovereignty, and that while the citizens of the
several States owe measurable allegiance to
their respective commonwealths, the allegiance
due to the United States is paramount to all
other considerations.


Seventh, That we do not believe that Wash
ington Territory is standing still while the world
is moving. The success of the Union party
elsewhere, ensures its triumph here, if we act
harmOniously Our material interests require
that we should be represented in Congress by a
friend of the Government Our interest is there
fore coincident with our national duty, and we
individually pledge ourselves to do all that lies
in our power to ensure the election of the can
didate, chosen by this convention, as our stand
ard-bearer
Year: 1865

NAPOLEON BACKING 0UT.-Louis Napoleon
seems to be about to give up his enterprise of
subjugating Mexico. The late dispatches state
that the French troops are leaving Mexico and
going home. Napoleon is shrewd enough to
see that he cannot establish the Maximilian dy-
nasty in Mexico without an immense sacrifice
of treasure and French blood. The popular YER
Napoleon's scheme is rapidly augmenting and
threatens to become almost universal senti-
ment with them. This sentiment increases in
power as the prospect of a speedy termination
of the Southern rebellion becomes more and
more apparent. Napoleon seeing an inevitable
tendency to bloody war with the United States
unless he abandons the conquest of Mexico,
concludes that "discretion is the better part of
valor" and wisely determines that he don't want
foot of soil in that region of country and takes
"French leave" Naximilian of course will
find himself without an adequate force to carry
on the contest, without the least show of es-
tablishing his throne, and will most likely fol-
low the example set by the French troops and
go home too. The Duke Gwin will thus be left
"monarch of all he surveys" OF rather, mon
arch left to establish himself dictatorship
provided he wants it, and provided further, that
he can ind any followers to aid him in the en-
terprise. Probably the remnants of JEFF. Davis
discontented and demoralzed forces will get to
Mexico in time to render Gwin some assistance
though it depends much upon the course to be
pursued by the Federal authorities and the
vigorous prosecution of the war. At any rate,
as matters now stand, it looks as if Mexico is
people.
Year: 1865

NEWSPAPER AT UMATILLA.-The printing ma
terial formerly used in the publication of the
Oregon Times, at Portland, has been shipped to
Umatilla City, where it is to be used in the
printing of a tri-weekly paper The project of
running tri-weekly paper at little village
like Umatilla is novel in the extreme. The pro-
prietors may elbow up" the Landing little
while but if the Landing don't blow them up
finally it will be something new in the history
of newspaper enterprises. Umatilla is too small
to support tri-weekly paper, however enter
prising its inhabitants may be.
Year: 1865

HANGING RUMoRs.-There have been various
rumors afoat this week to the effect that seve-
raj persons have been hanged in different parts
of the valley quite recently. There appears to
be no truth in these reports. At least we have
been unable to find any one who knew anything
more about the matter than ourselves, which,
Year: 1865

OF while marble, cluster closely under its
shadow, as if expecting that its sDire would
receive and avert the bolt Of fiery wrath sci {
at them out of Heaven. When I looked
again the little church seemed protecting its
erTing ones under its shadow as the mother
bird her defeneeless brood under her wings.
or to use nobler form Of speech, as if she
were lifting her pure face to Heaven, end
SAYING to the Savior, who is her spouse =
Here am Lord, with the children whom
thou hast given me- It is p scene OF quiet
beauty. There are no hills, no rugged glens,
no torrents, but simply broad plain, the ev-
ergreen grass, the taR clumps of forest trees
which the axeman has spared for their pic
turesque effect the broad spreading yew
trees, and t!ie green ivy which loving nature
here sends to earess and clothe everything
that is unsightly and bare. Here, as every
where else in this country, every thing is in
perfect order. The road leading to it is as
smooth and hard as a Aoor-the paths are
broad and their boarders are closely trimmed
the fence is as clean as if It had but vester-
day received new coat of paint the grass
has recently been mown, and there is no.
where to be seen a briar or weed.


IF the traveller be familiar with the Eleqv.
he viii find himself repeating it, almost uu-
consciously, as he walks solemnly around
Its long, slow-moYing measures are so per-
iectly in harmony with the place, that they
seem its utterances-the very words and
thoughts which it, before the poet came,
strove muteiy and vainly to communicate to
men.


Without tie enclosure short distance, a
friend has very appropriately erected mon
ument to the poets memory The inscrip-
ton upon one of the four sides tells US that
he died July Both, III, and "lies unnoticed
in the ehurch-yard adjoining Upon the
other sides, are extracts from his poems &C.
scriptive Of the locality. One Of them begins
''Ye distant spires, -anothsr-"AhI happy
hills! Ali pleasing shade /" and the others
are the verses from the Elegy beginning
Hard by yon wood morn I missed
him from the accustomed Beneath
those rugged elm trees shade" and The
boast Of heraldry, the pomp Of power"


The monument is an appropriate one but
supelauous. The church-yard itself is the
Poets monument. We visit it because he
wrote about it, and when there, think even
more Of his genius than Of its gentle, subdu-
ing beauty


We returned from the contemplation Of
such plan as this, iu an hour, to the hustle
Of the great city, to have our ears stunned
again by It's never ceasing roar. I returned
also, to fnd advices awaiting US from home
Of the terrible struggle and slaughter Of Chi
camauga; to recognize in a list of less than
twenty of the killed and wounded the names
of five friends. more or less intimate and dear
and to feel the remediless agony of suspense
and anxiety, lest an only brother should also
be among the pallid and low upon that awful
field


There was peace and JOY in the day; but
sorrow came with the night.
Year: 1865

GENERAL WAsHBURS, on taking leave Of the
Department Of Memphis, made speech no
says that our soldiers, who ''have faced death
in every shape upon the battlefield, or in
tents aud camps, amid damps and putrefac-
ton, are more kindly disposed toward their
old assailants than those who have kept safe
ly out Of harms way BY remaining at home"


This is very true, and is thus accounted
for by the General, who continues: "It
arises very much from this fact, that the SOL
diers have seen the rsyages Of war-havs
seen to what extremity of suffering the south
ern people have been reduced; how from
wealth and afiuence, with tine houses, and
all that heart could wish, they have been re-
duced to the most abject poverty, many
without shelter, or place to lay their heads.
These sights, daily and hourly seen, are well
calculated to soften the most obdurate heart,
and 10 disarm even the most vindictive in
their thirst for vengeance. I should be glad
if the real condition of The South could 10
seen and known, as see and know it, by
our people at the North. I am sure that the
spirit OF vengeance, if it exists any where,
could be subdued for II would be seen thst
treason has already been terribly punished"