smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

We learn that a detachment of Cavalrymen,
II in number, in pursuance of orders from below
received at the Post on Tuesday last, left yester-
day, Thursday for Fort Lapwai. An order also
came for squad of IL of the cavalry to proceed
to Fort Boise. This detachment will be ready to
leave the Fort in few days


After the two detachments of Cavalry shall
have left the Fort, according to orders received
this week, there will then be left at the Post
some twenty-eight effective men
Year: 1865

Many housewives in the country are having
eye toward the condition of their Iardsrs by
preparing for winter use, lots Of corn takeu
while yet in the milk, boiled, cut from tho cob
and exposed to the sun to dry. Put away in this
state, it retains its freshness and sweetness all
year round; it is to all intents and purposes the
same as the corn which comes to as put up in
cans. Considerable preserved fruit has also been
put up both in the city and country.
Year: 1865

Should the developments made in these
mining camps, that lie in Montana Terri
torv, continue to be still encouraging and
extensive, there can be no question that the
trade of Montana will be worth looking af-
ter nert gear, at least Since the summer
of 1859 that whole country, from Hellgate,
Deer Lodge and Beaver Head to Fort Ben
ton has depended mainly on st. Louis for
supplies but the difficulty, expense and
uncertainty attending the transportation of
goods up the Missouri river is causing the
merchants and traders doing business in
those valleys to turn their attention in this
direction, believing that they will be able to
receive supplies from this side more cheaply
and quickly, and with much more certainty,
than they can be had from the Atlantic. |
have made the trip myself by steamer from
St Louis and can well appreciate the seri-


GUS impediments to steamboats, which exist
for at least one thousand miles below Fort
Benton. At anyrate, the past season the
heaviest boats could not ascend higher up
than Fort Union, probably some seven or
eight hundred miles from Fort Benton


Here they seem to have made general de-
pot and the smaller boats were used in tax
ing the goods to Benton, and only two of
them, it appears, reached that point. From
Benton to where the goods we're finally put
ashore Milk river-there is a pretty fair
wagon road of some $50 miles. This same
unsatisfactory state of things occurred in
the summer of 1868. Passengers and goods
destined to Benton and the valleys west
we're landed at the mouth of-Milk river on
Year: 1865

The most of those who have been talking
"Blackfoot" and "Prickly Pear" this week
seem to have great faith in these mines. |
have met on Main street, around the stores
of your advertisers, a number of packers,
who came down from the above localities a
week or ten days ago, and they give, not
exciting, but certainly hopeful accounts Of
mining affairs thereabouts By one gentle
man, Mr.. R. Sparks, | was shown a piece OF
coarse gold, worth So, taken from "Ophir
Gulch," on the Little Blackfoot Besides,
l have heard of well,flled purses of the ORC
being brought down by others. do not
think | am at all visionary or fanatical but
really, it "does me good" to witness such
indisputable evidences of the gold bearing
character of those mountains, at whose foot
slopes my tent was pitched in I859-60, be-
ing one of party who were out in that re-
gion at that time on other business than
gold hunting and mining. There were along
number of men who had worked in the
mines of California as early as '49, and they
were Struck with the general geological fea-
lures, indications, etc., of that section, and
said it looked good deal like parts of Cali
fornia in which rich diggings had been
found. They predicted then that the day
was not far off when good mining camps
would be found both on the Little Blackfoot
and Prickly Pear streams. / am not at all
surprised to learn that the mines are turn.
ing out well. 1t must not be supposed,
however, that they have but recently been
discovered. On the contrary, they have
been worked with varied success for the past
year or particularly those on the
Pricklv Pear
Year: 1865

the lst of July, and it was not until the 5th
or 9th of August that they could obtain
conveyances and take up the line of march
toward Benton. Whole cargoes of goods
were thus delayed and the owners subjected
to heavy additional expense in order to have
their goods carried into the mining region
RATES OF TRANSPORTATION FROM ST LOUIS


TO FORT BENTON.


learn that this year the price of bring
ing goods from St. Louis to Fort Benton
was from ten to twelve cents per pound, and
from Benton into the mines about the same
rates, making the total cost on goods from
St. Louis to the mines from 20 to 25 cents
per pound. Another consideration is that
those who bring up goods Uia the river re-
ceive them at the highest point the steam
boats can reach, and when they fail to get
above the mouth of Milk river, as they did
this year, there is an additional item of
transportation of 25O miles overland to
Benton. Again, it must be recollected by
those who would calculate in favor of the
Columbia as the supply point for the mines
that the steamboats, can not make more than
one trip every summer from st. Louis to
Benton, and, of course, the Montana mer
chants can receive but one stock of goods
each year by the Missouri line Steamers
start up in the spring as soon as the ice
breaks up, and the "June rise" as the old
boatmen term the annual melting of the
SHOWS coming down from the Rocky noun
tains, is often over before the boats coming
up can reach the mouth of the Yellowstone,
which is between 700 and 500 miles below
Benton.
Year: 1865

Persons who ask this questio can form
much better idea from general report than from
the observations of one man. 1t must be bold
and unscrupulOus man who would make broad
general statements affecting the fortunes and, in
Year: 1865

small takers being unwilling to pay
their money unless they receive their
notes right in hand, to carry them home.
1t is expected that after this week the
daily subscriptions to the seven.Thirties
will run up into millions, as they will
undoubtedly be stimulated by the open
ing of the farmers wool markets East
and West. 1t is not at all likely that
the Government will ever again Offer so
desirable a security as these notes, ana
about two hundred millions only remain
to be taken.


With the close of the war the national
expenses will be vastly reduced, and in
vesters must look for q sharp reduction
IN the rates of interest as soon as the
present loans become due, and can be
paid off. There is no reason why the
United States credit for money should
ever again fall below its credit for cO'T.
age. The same spirit that preserved the
geographical integrity of the country will
place its pccmiay integrity on a par
with that of the most favored nations


and that will represent rate Of inter
est under rather than over .Our per cent.
Year: 1865

INFERNEL MACHNEs.-On the 3Oth
ultimo two torpedoes were discovered
in the Custom House at Mobile, in q
room which had not been used for some
time. One was fastened to the door, SO
that on opening it the chance existed
that it would explode. This result was
happily averted by the cautious suspic-
ion Of the person who first attempted to
enter the room. In the same room un-
der some loose papers in a desk, with
strings leading among the papers so that
an explosion would be produced by any
one attempting to remove the rubbish,
another torpedo was found. This one
was also got rid of without doing any
damage. The explosion of the torpedo
attached to the door would have torn
the upper part of the Court House to
pieces, and great loss of life must have
necessarily ensued.
Year: 1865

EMGRANTs.-A long train filled with
emigrants from the could country"
passed through our village yesterday
from Canada, on their way to New York.
We understand they landed first at
Quebec, and thence by way of the Grand
Trunk and other railroads they rendez-
vous at New York preparatory to going
West or to any point where necessity on
inclination may send them. They were
on the whole very good-looking set.
Year: 1865

THE CREvAssE IN THE MISSISSIPPI
The crevasse through which the waters
of the Mississippi are pouring upon the
country below Algiers, La, is about
three hundred feet wide. If not quickly
closed it was feared that all the cane
planted in Louisiana would be irretrieve-
ably ruined The waters broke through
about suudown. A rumbling crash, q
hurried roar, the swash of water against
the house told the alarmed inhabitants
that their enemy was upon them.
Year: 1865

DThe people of Upper Canada are
at present much exercised in mind as
to whether the Reciprocity treaty will
be abrogated. They already realize the
severity of the blow which such an
event would deal on Canadian enterprise,
and it is generally believed that if the
treaty should be annulled, the people
would endeavor to have their province
annexed to the Union. Co., g
Year: 1865

ACADEMIA couple small boys were
run away with in Burlington on Friday
evening last, and one of them named
Drew, was so seriously hurt that it is
feared he cannot recover. A soldier,
who attempted to stop the horse, was
thrown down and somewhat injured
Year: 1865

friendly invitation to all is given to call and
examine some OF the choicest works 90 be found
In any Book Houses in the country.
Prominent work ofart, the splendid French


edition of
Year: 1865

argument based upon color, that would not
avail equally to debar the negro from the
right of liberty as well as from the right of
suffrage.


The New York Neus, which has been a
fearless exponent of rebel views in the city of
New York, is just as fearlessly outspoken on
this question of negro suffrage, and while
claiming the whole matter as belonging exclu-
sivey to the individual States 10 settle, insists
upon the old democratic doctrine of universal
suffrage. Says the Ne,cs:


Thus much for where the power resides.


What is the nature of this power? Is it
not plainly one to regulate, by needful and
necessary rules, the exercise of the elective
franchise; and not power to create the right
itselY The right to vote belongs to each male
citizens of twenty one years of age. 1t is by
his birth; and he, by operation of law, be-
comes a citizen of the United States and en-
titled to all rights, privileges and immunities
through the relations of his native State to
the National Union. The elective franchise
is his inherent right-the exercise alone is
subject to State regulation. Congress has the
exclusive power to make uniform law of
naturalization. BY birth or by naturalization
theielation of the citizen to the State and
United States is created The slave trade has
been discontinued since 1908. and. therefore,
we assume that the blacks in the Southern
States are nearly all natives Of this country
Heretofore nothing stood between them and
fuH citizenship, but their condition Of volun-
tary servitude; ''the compromising expedient
of the Constitution which regards them as in
haJitonts, but as debased by serritude below
the equal level of free inhabitants, which re-
CARDS the Stare as divested of two-ffths of the
man Even under this ''expedient' they
bore a political relation, through their owners
to society, and were through them represen-
ted much in the mode in which an infant or
married woman is related and represented
through the father or husband. The exact
legal and political condition of the slave in
this country has not always been appreciated.
An eminent writer well defines him to be "a
person who is related to society through an
other person, called a master, TO whom he
owes due service or labor, and from whom he
Is entitled TO receive support and protection.
Nothing stood between the slave and full citi-
zenship but this involuntary service-that inn
pediment is gone through the actual operation
of the war. and the liberated black stands
himself. citizen in his own proper person.
and not through the relation of another
''called master. Then if the abstract right
to vote inheres in every citizen. why not in
the native black man? What rule Of law de-
nies him that right? Is it. candidly, in the
power of the State or of the National Gov
ernment to give or to withhold the right? Is
it not his absolute personal right aor that he
is liberated ? And if it is his, who shall take
it from him. or who shall come between him
and the State of which he is citizen7 II, as
all other civic rights, may be forfeited by an
adequate crime. But this is common to all
citizens.
Year: 1865




Great is the power of u phrase. Once
hit, in political crisis. upon Il catch
word or pithy sentence that takes the
popular ear, aud il will do more TO ad-
vance the cause into whose service it IL
pressed than hundred arguments
Most men, when thus furnished with a
party cry which pleases them, are con
tent to imagine that the essence ol all
the principles they believe themselves to
be cOntending for has been somehow
compressed into IN axiom, and they shout
il on the hustings and inscribcit Oh their
banners AS the compendium of their po-
lilical creed No doubt there were null
titudes OF prrOns who we're SO tickled
by the phrase, Fifty -four Forty or
Fight" that they at once assumed the
fact our cause of quarrel with England
on the Oregon question was just. and
would have been willing to 60 to war
about it. Homes for the Homeless" and
Lands for tho Landless" are very TAX
ing phrases of the sort referred to. They
are alliterative, and therefore sound well,
and they are easy of comprehension. 1t
seems, too, so good and just thing that
landless men should have lands, and
homeless men homes, that this senten-
tious way Of putting the matter Is ae-
cepted as conclusive reason why indl-
gent people should be furnished with
homes and farms at Government expense.


Another phrase is now being concocted
which we expect to see d0 much service
in coming canvasses. 1t has not yet ia
ken definite shape. 1t stands now i'll tho
form of brief argument, if it deserves
to be so dignified, but it will be simmered
down before long to simple, alliterative
phrase We can pretty accurately UNI
derstand what the character of the forth
coming party cry will be from the follow
ing extract from an article in the Ne"
York Tribune:


"If we give the negro bayonet, why
can we not give him ballot? II he
gives his life To save the country, should
we not give him voice in its manage
ment :"


This appeal in favor Of extending the
right of suffrage TO the blacks has been
pnt forward already by many of the
leading journals and politicians in the
couptly, and will be used i'll future as





the leading argument oh that side of the
subject 1t must not be wondered at
then if, after hearing the pOstulate grave.
ly and persistently advanced by scores OF
prominent public men, numbers of the
people should begin to find their brains
very greatly muddled, and end ny accept
ing the new phrase in toto. They will
conclude il has some howheen proven that
there is a necessary connection between
ballots and bullets, and that the fact that
man he drilled into soldier, renders 1t
self-evident proposition there he is CO.
pable of determining the gravest po!'tl-
cal issues lSo satisfied will many meu
be of the sOundness of this position. that
all who oppose them may feel pretty sure
of being denounced as "haughty aris'o,
Gratis"
Year: 1865

ber of Union men every day Some there
are whom nothing can change; but with
all it is not So" Again in 1862 received
another letter of the same same import.
Thus it went on until il was almost AS
much as mans life was worth to say he
was Union man, and we owe nothing to
the abolitionists that Hhe Union is restor-
ed, and the Federal authority once msre
supreme, for they gave us very much to
contend against, so much that L have
more than once feared during the past
four years that the Union was q TIL & OF
the past But now that the Union is re-
stored. thanks be to God. ii is time the
Radicals of the North stopped their mis-
chief-making, and it is TO be hoped they
will not he allowed 10 call ia question
the loyalty of men of the South who are
dsing their best to bring about true and
lasting peace, with feeling of the broth
erl.ood of American citizens from Maine
to Texas.


Speaking of the Radicals, cannot they
learn a lesson from the past, and let the
negro question alone? Knowing the SEN
timent of the Southern people of all par
ties, assert that they will never consent
to allow the negro 10 vote. Even II the
privilege be given to the negroes against
the will of the people of the South, it vii
advantage the Radicals nothing, for the
power will be turned against them. But
the negroes do not want to vote. They
want to live, and their so-called friends
in the North would do well to go South
and see their condition before preaching
mp Equality and Suffrage TO their brothers.


Hoping that the Equal Rights men OF
the North formerly known rs abolition
ists) NAV vet have the good sense to seek
some place ont of the United States where
they and their dark brothers may colo
ni2e and miscegenate at will.


remain yours truly. A. ii. a


RHOOKLYN. July ". ls6L
Year: 1865

SHERMAN spoke words of wisdom.
when received in Chicago. Said he-
"All is peace from here to the Gulf You
can tell what your duties have become
Instead of insulting. You must encourage.
Instead of destroying, you must aid those
who are willing to assist MS in building
up the land. You must not expect those
Of Louisiana and, North Carolina to feel
as we do. All parties have their preju-
dices, and you must respect them, as they
respect yours With that simple caution
there is no danger of the peace which we
now enjoy being disturbed during our
lifetime, and we can leave the future to
the future, no.
Year: 1865




Rerie,0:


An old dodge is being resort' TO just
now by eastern wool spectators, to-wit:
exhibiting letters lust received" from
the manufacturers, saying that plenty OF
wool can be had for so or GU cents per 10.
If this is so, why are they so anxious TO
buy at higher figures. If the eastern
market is full and prices so low, how
strange that men hould travel several
hundred miles array from such favora-
BILE place to buy.


We have heard of small sale of wool
within a few days at eighty cents
Though this is not test of what buyers
Just now propose to sell-it shows what
a well posted wool man thinks about the
future.
Year: 1865

NEW YORK. June l4.-The Tribune has
private intelligence from Hayti stating
that the insurgent force was reported to
be OH the march for Port Au Prince. The
rebels assert that it is their determine
ton to establish a more liberal Govern
ment and place themselves under the
patronage of the United States.
Year: 1865

SIGNS. When win signs and wonders
cease? Not till the destroying angel shall
clip short the thread of time and the heav-
ems be rolled together as scroll. Not a day
passes but we see good and bad signs, as the
following viii show:


1t is good sign to see a man doing an
act of charity to his fellows.


1t is bad sign to hear him boasting of
it.


1t is good sign to see an honest man
wearing his old clothes.


Il is bad sign to see them filing the
holes in the windows


1t is good sign to see man wiping the
perspiration from his brow.


1t is bad sign to see him wipe his chops
as he comes out of the cellar.


1t is good sign to see a woman dressing
with taste and neatness.


1t is bad sign to see her husband sued
for her fnery


1t is a good sign for a man to advertise in
the paper.


1t is bad sign to see the sheriff adyer-
tise for him.


1t is good sign to see man sending his
children to school


1t is bad sign to see thens educated at
evening school on the public square.
Year: 1865




THE DOG. The man who could ever tire
of reading Fred. Cozzens's description of
his dog, must have nature deficient in the
sublime and beautiful ingredients. To those
who have never read it, or want to read it a.
gain, we now present it:


A dog is a good thing to have in the coun-
try. | have one which raised from a pup.
He is good, stout fellow, and hearty
barker and feeder The man of whom /
bought him said he was thoroughbred,
but he begins 10 have a mongrel look a.
bout him. He is good watch dog, though;
for the moment he sees any suspicious look
ing person about the premises, he comes
right into the kitchen and gets behind the
stove. First, we kept him in the house, and
he scratched all night to get out. Then we
turned him out, and he scratched all night
to get in. Then We tied him up at the back
of the garden, and he howled so that our
neighbor shot at him twice before day.break
Finally, we gave him away, and he came
back; and now he is just recovering from
fit in which he has torn up the patch that
has been sown for cur spring radishes. =
Year: 1865

Coon ADVICE. If the body is tired, rest;
If the brain is tired, sleep. IF the bowels
are loose, lie down in q warm bed and
remain there, and eat nothing until you are
well. IF an action of the bowels does not
occur at the usual hour, eat not an atom till
they do act, at least for thirtysix hours;
meanwhile drink largely ofcold water or hot
teas, exercise in the open air to the extent
Of gentle perspiration, and keep this up
till things are righted. This one suggestion
if practiced, would save myriads of lives
every year, both in the city and the country.
The best medicines in the world are warmth,
abstinence and repose. Halls Journal Of
Health
Year: 1865

GENERAL JAoKsoN's MoTTo. Think
before you act, but when the time for action
comes, stop thinking. This is the true doc
trine Many men fail in life and go down to
the crave with hopes blasted and prospects
Of happiness unroalized because they, did
not adopt and act upon this motto. Moth
inc SO prepares a man for action as thought; ;
but nothing so units man for action IN the
course of action Better by far adopt some
course and pursue it energeticallly, even tho
Il NAV not be the best. than to keep contin-
ually thinking without action. go ahead,
ought to be printed in every young man 5
hat, and read until it becomes a part OF
his nature, until he can act upon his judg-
ment. aud not be turned from his course by
every wind of interested advice; In conclu-
sion. we would say, Think before you act;
but when the time for action comes, stop
thinking. Z"
Year: 1865

IF you happen to be an honest and dill
cent Young man; if you possess the respect
Of your associates; and have taken fancy
IN your head to get rid of your industry and
honesty; to lose the respect Of your friends
and the good opinion of your mates, i will
tell you how you may manage the matter IN
very little time, and with little trouble
yeqTfl TO dytaE ram.
Year: 1865

GENERAL. LEE. 1t is a poor business to
be trying to create sympathy and admiration
for General Lee He is a peEjured traitor,
who turned against the Government that
educated him into position, and he used
the education that the people had paid for
to slay them Thousands of dead patriots
who sleep in unknown graves were sent there
by the orders of this military head of the
great plot of treason A truly loyal man
can look at Lee with no other feeling than
that of adherence.