smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

grand children of our soldiers, when the present
generation shall have passed away, and his name
will be coupled with blessings upon it. How much
more glorious his fame than that stained with the
blood Of even the victorious battle feldPr0Qress.
Year: 1865

We observe that that humbug, the North Carroll
ma Volunteer Navy, is Offering for sale among other
things, five thousand bunches of cotton yarn. The
people need cotton yarn to make cloth to cover
their nakedness and the prict of is thus enhanced
by this speculatirg machine called the North, Car
olina Volunteer Navy. A plague upon all humbugs
Year: 1865

AT the time of writing this We have received no
papers from Richmond for several days. So far as
the public action Of Congress is concerned, we OBJ
serve that no business of importance has been
transacted recently. We have r.mors, however,
that the writ of habeas corpus has been suspended,
and that Congress hes passed law assuming control
of the militia of the States, and placing every white
male in service from 16 to 60. These rumors
have greatly excited our people. We would sug-
gess, however, that it would be we'll to await the
truth in this respect, and not to rely on mere
rumor While our people are not only will
ling but determined to do their duty to the COM
mon cause, they are nevertheless resolved not to
part with their personal liberty in any event; nor
will they submit tamely to the blotting out of their
home guard or militia system. The Legislature of
the State will assemble again on the 18th of this
month, and we have no hesitation in assuring the
people that they may look with confidence to that
body to protect their rights against the usurpatons
of the central government at Richmond.
Year: 1865

ATTACHMENT OF ANIMALs.-Therc


were two Hanoverian horses, which as
sisted in drawing the same gun during
the whole Peninsular war, in the German
Brigade of artillery. One of them met
his death in an engagement; after which
the survivor was picketed as usual, and
his food was brought to him. He re-,
fused to eat, and kept constantly turning
his head round to look for his companion,
and sometimes calling him by a neigh
Every care was taken, aud all means
that could be thought of were adopted,
to make him eat, but without effect
Other horses surrounded him on all sides,
but he paid no attention to them; bis
whole demeanor indicated the deepest
sorrow, and he died from hunger, not
having tasted a bit from the time his
companion fell.
Year: 1865

The TRUE GENTL a gen.
tleman, we mean not to draw line that
would be invidious between high and low
rank and subordination, riches aud pow
erty. The distinction is in the mind
Whoever is open, loyal, and true who-
ever is of humane and affable demeanor
whoever is honorable to himself, and in
Judgment to others; and requires TO law
but his word to make him fulfil an en-
gagement-such man is a gentleman
and such man may be found among the
tillers of the earth.
Year: 1865

SPEAK KINDLY.--How much misery
may be abated, how much suffering NAV
be removed, by the simple tone and ex-
preston of the human voice! Upon the
heart that is lone and desolate how
sweetly falls the voice Of sympathy and
consolation Why is it, then, since every
thing proves, and none are ignorant of
the fact-that all must lie down in mother
earth together, since all are travellers in
this highway TO death--Wby is it, that
each should be so sparing of that which
costs him nothing, but which might raise
the dropping spirits of his neighbor, and
cheer him on bis Journeys few kind
words and kindly looks?
Year: 1865

A cat caught sparrow and was about
to devour it. but the sparrow said:


mo gentleman eats till be washes his
face"


The cat, struck at this remark, set the
sparrow down and began to wash his
face with his paw, but the sparrow flew
away. This vexed puss extremely, and
he said


"As long as live will eat first and
wash my face afterwards" which all cats
do, even TO this day.
Year: 1865

THE LAUGH OF WoMAN.-A woman has
no natural gift more bewitching than a sweet
laugh. 1t is like the sound of flutes on the
water. 1t flows in clear sparkling rll; and
the heart that hears it feels as if bathed in
the cool, celebrating spring. Have your ever
pursued an unseen fugitive through trees, led
on by fairy laugh, now here. now there,
now lost and now found? We have. And
we are pursuing that wandering voice to this
day. Sometimes it comes to us in the midst
Of care or sorrow, or irksome business; and
then we may turn away and listen, and hear
it ringing through the room like silver bell
with power to scare away the evil spirits Of
the mind. How much we owe to that sweet
laugh! II turns prose to poetry; it filings
showers OF sunshine over the darkness Of the
wood in which we are travelling; it touches
with light even our sleep, which is no more
the image Of death, but is consumed with
dreams that are tho shadows of Immortality.
Year: 1865

A COMPLIMENT TO GEN. LEE.-General
Hooker has paid the highest compliment we
have ever seen in print to the military genius
Of Gen. Robert E. Lee. In his testimony
before the Committee on the Conduct Of the
War, Gen. Hooker testified, under oath, as
follows:


Our military has always been superior to
that of the rebels, as was also our Infantry,
except in discipline, and that, for reasons not
necessary to mention, never did equal Lee $
army. With rank and file Inferior to our
own, intellectually and physically, it has by
discipline alone acquired character for
steadiness and efficiency, unsurpassed, in my
judgment in ancient or modern times. We
have not been able to rival it, nor has there
been any near approximation to it in the
other rebel armies.
Year: 1865

On! NO, They DON'T WANT Ir.-Read the
following, taken from an Abolition paper in
San Francisco, under the guse of rel gon.
1t is the leading organ of the Purilans on
the Pacific coast:


"rhe great fact of the negro's manhood is
looming up to the view Of the nation out Of
the din and smoke of war. The sword
which has freed him, held partly in his own
hand has not only won himself for him, but
the ballot as we'll. AS sure as he has shown
himself to be man, so sure he will vote
1t must come. 1t is fated. 1t is Gods dc
cree. Sekgovernment is written in man
hood irrespective Of cline or complexion
Those who fight against it are "potsherds OF
the earth striving against their Maker"


AS good doctrine religiously as it. is politi
caly. Pacific Methodist.
Year: 1865

Negroes are making two and three dollars
a day in North Carolina, by washing the
waste or tailings Of the gold mines there
Thousands Of tons Of gold bearing dust and
rock are on the surface near the mines.
Year: 1865

1t is we'll known that large majority Of
the loyal people of California are in favor
OF repeating the Specific Contract Law; that
many are in favor of negro suffrage; that 9th
ers are concerned about the condition of the
mineral lands These and others are living
questions which are pressing rresistaby on
putlic attention, and it is to be regretted
that The Convention did not clearly define
the position of the Union party in these re-
!alions. But notwithstanding the omission
there, they will continue to be the subjects
of discussion, and must be acted upon by the
Legislature.
Year: 1865

The FLAG ON THE CoNvENrIoN.-The San


Francisco Flag, has good deal to say, about
the late Abolition State Convention. We
give the following extracts:


The recent State Convention was undoubt.
edly the first Of its kind. There can be no
doubt OF its complete originality. 1t is the
first one we ever heard of in which cand.
dates were nominated on general principles,
and without a platform. We never before
knew OF convention Of men protesting rad
lcal devotion TO certain principles, making
an ultimately unanimous nomination of one
not only without a good record on those
questions, but possessing positively bad one
We never saw SO many men together who
appeared TO have collectively no particular
views on any thing, who seemed SO afraid
to express what few ideas they had either in
the abstract or concrete, and who seemed to
consider themselves collectively analogous to
a basket OF eggs IN certain condition, and
which for obvious reasons, must remain in
state Of complete repose. We never knew a
political body of the sort to refuse admission
TO foreign representatives, and afterwards
elect them to responsible and controlling of
fees. In fact, take it all in all, we never
have heard or read of convention, either
political or ecclesiastical, which WAS cbarac.
serlzed by so many strange Inconsistencies,
and which amounted to SO little. Neverthe,
less. it was the highest legislative authority
OF the Union party; and while in many re-,
spects dissenting from the views Of that body
We cheerfuIly obey its directions, and will
merely exercise the right to comment on
measures which our own judgment does not
approve.
Year: 1865

There are hundreds of farmers in the wes-
tern country, who are most of the time,
either destitute OF vinegar entirely, or make
use Of some slops, which is not only un-
healthy, but decidedly unpalatable. The
vinegar manufactured from acids enters
largely into the consumption of town and
cities and to some extent into that Of the
country also Whiskey, with all its adul-
tcratlons is used for the purpose Of making
pickles, and in that manner lends its aid to
the destroyer Of human life. Many Other
different methods Of procuring the sours OF
life is practiccd, and many of which are not
only productive of dcleterious influences tc
the health of ourselves and our children, but
require tar more labor than ought to be be,
slowed upon that branch of a house wife
business.


We live in an age of labor saving machines
and we out to economize, both in labor and
money, as well as in the less important mat,
ters OF living as in the more important. -
And to apply little Yankee ingenuity il
this case is not 50 difficult as many people
imagine. Almost every family in the coun
try have the materials for manufacturing
pure cider vinegar, ifthey will only use them
Common dried apples with little molasse,
and brown paper are all you need to make
the best kind of cider vinegar. And what
is still better, the cider which you extract
from the apples, does not dctract from the
value Of the apples for any other purpose


Soak your apples few hours washing
and rubbing them occasionally, then take
them out of the water and thoroughly strair
the latter througha tight woven cloth-put
it into Aug, and add "a pint Of molasses tC
Il gallon Of liquor and piece Of common
brown paper, and set in the sun, or by tho
fire, and in a few days your vinegar will be
fit for use, Have two Jugs and use out O
one while the other is working. No family
need be destitute ofgood vinegar, if they vii
follow the above directions. .-NorthtOesterl
Farmer.
Year: 1865

We quote from Commodore Pcrry's en-
PERTAINING Expedition to Japan" the fol-
lowing page, relative to the information
gained by that commander during his stop
page at Singapore, at the end of the Malac-
ca Straits, on the subject of Malay tigers
merely remarking that it was in 1853, and
since that time the tigers have become much
more numerous and destructive than ever,
the evil reaching such an extent about eigh-
teen months since, that general and organ
lied action was taken to destroy as many as
possible of these pests, for the preservation
of the people,


'The native animals are generally the
same as those of the adjacent peninsula
from which many of them migrate. The
tigers especially entertain great partiality
for Singapore, and resort there in great num-
bers by swimming across the strait which
separates the main land from the Island
These are the genuine animals which have
no hesitation in pounciug upon u passing
traveller, or snatchingup and making meal
of any unfortunate Chinaman or native who
may happen to be in the jungle, busy in
tations, or otherwise occupied. 1t was
stated on the best of authority, that not a
day passes without the destruction of one
human being, at least, by those ferocious
beasts. The Commodore was at first Some-
what disposed to be incredulous of this state
ment, but as the acting governor and COM
mander Of the forces both confirmed it he
could no longer hesitate to accept it as truth.
He was told by them that so much of an
every day occurrence was this fatality, that
many Of the cases were not reported, in order
to avoid the trouble and expense of a cor
oncr' IS inquest which the laws require
Death by tiger, however, is verdict that
might be rendered daily were the legal
formalitics complied with.


st is said, and probably with truth, that
the tiger after he has once tasted Of human
flesh, becomes so fond Of it that he prefers
its favor to that of his ordinary vcnsion or
wild boar, and will make every effort to OBJ
tain supply of his favoritc food. 1t is this
intense longing for human flesh which makes
the tiger so very dangerous to the poor
Malay or Chinese who may be obliged to cx-
pose himself in the jungle and the forest
1t was said, too, that the animal showed
decided preference for a Chinaman.


"Nor do these stories Of the tiger seem
very wonderful when the fact is well cs-
tablshcd, that those savages who are ad-
dicted to cannibalism become passionately
fond oftheir horribly unnatural food. There
IS tribe OF NlalayS, called BattaS, who, like
their fellow Malay tigers, are said by Sir
Stamford Ratllcs to eat one another and to
prefer such food to any other. Nor are
they to be classed entirely among barbarans,
for these Battas can read and write, and have
codes oflaws of great antiquity; and yet,
according to the authority just named, not
less than from sixty to "A hundred Battas are
eaten annually, even during time of peace.


I'm addition to the tigers, there are deer
and wild boars found upon the Island, and
several varieties of smaller animals, the
monkey, the wild hog or peccary, the por-
cupine and the sloth. Birds abound, and
among them are some Of great beauty"
Year: 1865

We do much injury to our eyes by sitting
sideways to the lamp, SO that one eye is a
strong glare Of light, while the other is in
the shade. The optic nerves, which trans
mitlightto the brain, unite before they reach
it. A strong light vibrating through one
nerve, and II dim one through the other,
will impair the perfect unity, and the Gus
tom followed night after night for years,
will, by thus destroying harmony of the deli
cate nerves, result in damaged eyesight. -
The woman who works at night by her table
loses her sight early. Some evening when
you have thus sat for an hour, go immcdi-
atcly into a dark room-a blur will be before
the light-scorchcd eye, while the other will
be clear. The contraction of the iris has
something to do with this but the .iarring,
discordant action of the nerves is the same.
They were designed to act as one if they
act as two there is a wear and tear. Eye
sight will fail with the decline Of the body,
but people that cant read and won't sew,
keep their cyeoight the longest. Avoid the
strain on the sister nerves by facing the
light.
Year: 1865

Words cannot heal the wounds that words
can make.


Politicians and wheels were made especi-
ally to turn.


Only crows and fools arc afraid of a
shabby suit of clothes.


IF quack would be famous he must be
sure to quack so loud as possible.


A man who goes into speculation had
better look out for breakers ahead


A man may sac a thing twice if he says il
better the second time than the first


Always lend acrutch to hating humanity;
but trip up, if you will, the stills of preten
tion.


Dependency is the overweight that may
make you kick the beam and the bucket
both at once.


Patience and cheerfullness adorn the ru,
ins of fortunes, as ivory does those of cas-.
ties and temples.


Fault finding docs not require and does
not generally Indicate a high order of tai
ent.


Emerson says, Life is train of mood,
like a string of beads, "


As the good man saith, so say we; but as
the good woman saith, so it must be.


Every man can tame shrew but he that
hath her.


Ladies' will sooner pardon want of sense
than want of manners.


Women are wise on sudden, fools on q
premeditation.


There is one good wife in the country and
every man thinks he hath her.


Colts arms are useful when you want tc
fight, but if you want to run away, colt
legs are better.


If some men had their limbs broken they
would be cripples for life; their bones would
be too lazy to knit.
Year: 1865

What becomes of man after he is dead
is not matter of the slightest importance
to himself lislilcloss remains have ceased
to be any longer conscious of respect or of
indignity. The only right which civilza-
ton comedies to the dead is the right to be
put out Of sight, how this is to be done, i.
a question alone for the living. In general,
the bodies of the dead, even those of exc.
cuted fellons, are admitted to belong TO
their friends; and often the demands of sci
cnce has been refused, in favorof the claims
of affection Respect for the inanimate
bodies of the deceased among people, bas
been deemed an evidence of civilization and
refinement-o the meliorating effects of the
benign spirit of the Gospel; and the fact
that we the people of the United States
have abandoned the barbarous practices of
our ancestors, and ceased to insult and mu-
tilate the bodies of malefactors, has often
been alluded to as proof that we are nobler
and more merciful than they.


The treatment accorded to the remains of
the assassin of the President, seems to neg
ative these claims to superiority. AS there
is no proof, nor even ground for presump
ton, that the family of Booth were in any
way implicated in his crime, the refusal Of
those in authority to allow them the posses
sion of his body stands in the light of an
unmerited and vindictive injury. 1t is q
step in progress toward the old rule of bar
barrie despotism, which included the rela-
tives of the criminal in his guilt, and for
the act of one, swept off a generation.-
What was done with the body Of Booth is
not publicly known; but it is known be-
cause it is avowed, that it was intended, by
the mode of its disposal, in some way, to
add to the infamy which had fallen upon his
memory. We suppose the act was dictated
by persons high in authority; for none in
low positions would have ventured to re-
fuse, to those whose title by every rule of
custom and humanity was perfect, the pos
session Of thot upon which justice and re-
venge are alike importent.


It's not an act of magnanimity to insult
corpse. 1t argues nothing of u sense of
justice. 1t proves that they who do it,
think and act upon low plane of humani-
ty. What we regret is, not so much that it
has been done, as that the doing of it seems
to have been in accordance with the spirit
and feeling of those who claim to repre-
sent the best side of our civilization-the
refined, the religious, the Conscientious of
the people. Plans for the disposal of
dead body have been elaborated in our pull
pits and in our newspapers. What to do
with the body of the assassin was scarcely
a secondary topic to the act Of assassination,
or its probable consequences; and had the
views of the most tender-h hearted and phi
lanthropic been allowed to govern, the re-
mains of the criminal in the place of sleep
ing in some obscure corner, would have
been dragged about the streets of our cities,
or carved in pieces or set up to horrity pass
ers along the highways.
Year: 1865

Most men are not as dead to moral prin-
cples but what they feel Il spontaneous
glow of admiration for the man that does
right, because it is right, no matter if he
does make less money by it ? Some few
men say he was fool or a unatic not to
make the most Of his advantages right or
wrong; but the heart Of many is loyal to
rectitude. We look, and admire, and
praise. We camot help it. lie who is a
selfish, covetous age, when all men are fight
ing and scrambling for money stands W
strong in his integrity, and modestly does
the thing, not that is legal, not that is ex'
pectcd, not that is customary, that is as
others do, or as many preach, but does the
thing which is right, such man is worthy
of all imitation If the heaven-minded are
few in the world, are not the righteous few
likewise A moral character that is genu
inc is seen as rarely as Diogeuos' men, when
hunted for with lantern at noon-day.
Year: 1865

In a late speech in New York, Wendell
Phillips said :


MR.. PHILLIPS WOULD NOT HANG JFEE.


DAVIS.


Mr. Phillips, in reply to the former
speaker, said That, holding to the com
mon Southern white man in one hand, read
ing the newspaper, and the niger on the
other, holding the ballot, and each standing
on his own farm, he was not afraid of jeff.
Davis; not if he was multiplied by hun
dreds of thousands. And until you made
me free of him and his influence, | would
never hang him. [Applause, and cries of
"You ought them" and cheers. Virginia
was afraid to let John Brown live. But
never, with any consent, shall Southern
er have to say over the grave of jeff. Davis
that the Union dare not let the wretch live.
(Applause.) Wandering over the face of
the earth, pointed at with the finger of
scorn as the man who tried to establish an
empire based upon slavery, he left a country
where his own people would in their wrath
at his crimes tear him to pieces. He is not
SO strong as he would be resting in his
grave, with friends saying that he had been
too strong in his cause and adherance to
permit tue Union to allow him to live
Applause. Therefore will never assist
to set up the gibbet in this land in the name
Of the Union. (Applause.) | despise the
man so much that care not whether he
lives Or dies. That is my answer to gibbct
Applause
Year: 1865

Do you know that your best educated wo-
men are the most ccomical without being
mean They stop to count costs. They
are never deluded by fashion They only
pay decent respect to other peoples opin-
ions, and fit their garments by the length of
their purses, They can give literally to
Ged's poor, and be happy with nm ingram
carpet. They can look neat and be content
ed in plain bonnet, because they love a
wild rose better than one made BY a millin-
er. They can be intelligent and entertain
ing without reading more than one book a
year; because, keeping their eyes and ears,
and hearts open, rich and beautiful expert
cnccs are daily falling out of them. And
after all this is the great secret of happiness
and efficiency in lilo-this is what YOU are
educated up to-in earnest appreciation OF
the capabilities and the treasured joys of
the present Your true learning, what
makes othcs richer by being with you, are
the golden sparks struck out of yourown be
ing. Your worthicSt opinions are not Dor
rowed from books, but those born of the
thought and culture you have brought for
ward in your life work. The symmetry
and harmony of your character was no
drilled into you at once by yeIir teahers
but grew by daily accrctlons, until you haC
learned to live, ms it you were accountable
to God and not to men for deeds done il
the body.
Year: 1865

Remember in all things, that if you dc
not begin you will never come to an end. =
The first weed pulled mp in the garden, the
first seed in the ground, the first shilling put
in the savings bank, and the first mile tray
elcd ON a journey, are all important things ;
then make beginning, and thereby a hope,
promise, a pledge, an assurance that you
are in earnest with what you have under
taken. How many poor idle, crring, hes
itating outcast is now creeping and crawling
through the world, who might have held


up his head and prospered- If, Instead of


putting off his resolutions of industry and
amendment, he had only made beginning.
Year: 1865

Official intelligence has been received Of
the unconditional surrender of the ram
Stonewall to the Spanish authorities. The
Shenandoah is supposed to be lost. When
last heard from she was prowling in the
Indian Ocean.