smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

With what oraculor solemnity and deep
sense Of responsibility fashion mongers
promulgate their high and mighty de-
crccs, which consiyn to oblivion a check
or u stripe, or raise into favor houncs
or tuck. Imagine mother anxiously
gazing over a newspaper for the list of
killed CT wounded, among which, per
chance. might be her son, lighting upon
the following paragraph: "A shadowv
hlnt reaches US that dresses are to be
gored this summer instead of being worn
full, as usual Or thus: AS to the
question of flowers in the hair, we hasten
to inform our readers that this important
question has not yet been definitely set
tied in the mean time. let them rest
assured ti,at knots of ribbon will be per-
fectly safe to venture upon, though no
lady, of course, who has a fair complex
ion, would peril her reputation by select
ing yellow.


Imagine woman to whom life is earn
est, who has a heart and soul, as well as
n body, pondcring absorbcdly for hours
over the unsolved mystery Of sleeve
plated or gathered, round, square, or
rointed, or searching preccdents with
keen, lawyer-like gaze for six rutties or
ten. Heavens what butterflies these
women must needs be, who think and
talk and live solely for these things, like
the peacock, retiring into dark corners
when they cannot strut in the sunshine
in corgeously spread plumage One can
imagine that sensible, soulful woman
nav vet apparel herself, when there is
1eces.ity for getting change Of cloth
ne. in a tasteful manner, but to make it
Year: 1862

The cotton exported to Great Britain
in 1860 amounted to the enormous sum
of tro hundred and sorenty mih'ons Of
doNars; and yet, Notwithstanding no
cotton went forward in 1861, and the
supply was thus suddenly cut off, kind
Providence had so ordered events that
our breadstutfs and provisions came in
at that particular juncturc to serve as
medium Of exchange and to prevent any
sudden and overwhelming revulsion in
trade.
Year: 1862

Love is most inteligible when it is
unable to express itself in words.


A man should occasionally stop to
take breath, but not other peoples.


beauty is like a guinea; when once
changed at all, it's gone in twinkllns.


-"That's my business - as the
butcher said to the dog that was killing
his sheep.


The flight of the rebels at Pittsburg
is not only beyond cavil, but beyond
cavalry.


A virtuous person looks upon the
whole world as his country, and upon
God to be a witness and judge of h!s
word, and deeds. He so governs bis
life and thoughts, as if the whole world
v.re 10 SEQ the one and read the other
Year: 1862

These tables show the enormous yield
in the last year named and also to what
extent Great Britain. by far the largest
consumer in tho world, was supplied -
There was, in addition to this immense
amount Of raw material, an unprecedent-
cd stock Of manufactured goods seeking
market or stored up in all the marts o:
the world


III - Next We notice tie extraordinary
crops of gram in this country in 1880
1860 and 1861, which afforded not only
abundance at a cheap rate far our own
people during the war. but a largely
augmented amount for European con-
sumption, and this amount all the while
steadily increasing, thus turning the
current of exchange in our favor-a
financial phenomenon not before witness
ed in this country for many years The
following table, showing the expectations
Of domestic produce, principally bread
stuffs, during the last five years, will
clearly demonstrate this ront:
Year: 1862

BSrThere are two men in Congress
who deserve the halter as richly as any
two malefactors that ever disgracad a
gallows We mean, Senator Powell of
Ky, and Representative Nallaudigham
of Ohio. They arc both traitors at
heart, and 50 far as they dare, they man
ifest their treason to the disgrace of Con
gress and the country.-Bn0alo Err
press


Those are the pu:ativc fathers Of the
new Democratic party. They resurfected
it last month and the Democrat of this
city has already given in its allegiance.
Year: 1862

military review 10 the suburbs of the city Of
Bresiau.


People from all parts of the country came
to it, for there had been no review like this in
the kingdom for several years. When the cav
airy soldiers were running their horses at full
speed, large white horse fell with his rider
and threw him some distance. Every one
thought the man mast be killed, but he was
not A leg was broken and that was ALL
He was taken to house near by, one of the
neatest cottages in the neghborhood of the
city There was beautiful garden in front
and vines were climbing on every tree and
even up the sides Of the house itself. A little
fish pond was to be seen among the shrubhery,
and the gold fish in it were as happy as if they
were playing hide and seek Two large dogs
were seepiug beside the door, They did not
even bark they we're so good and quiet The
wounded officer-for the man who was thrown
was oil officer of high rank-was taken into
the trout bedroom on the second story.


He was insensble at first, but by and by
opened his eyes. The lady of the house then
brought him some wine TO refresh himself, for
that was what the surgeon prescribed. On
the silver waiter were these words -


Give US this day our daily bread"


A very large clock was standing in the cor.
ner. 1t was made Of Rosewood, and over the
face was written in gold letters -


"Time leads to eternity


On the wall were two magnificent pictures,
One was d steamboat, and the otner water
melon That was Martha's house, and she
was handing some wine TO the man who had
sold the watermelon on the steamboat ten
years ago !


The officer was almost overcome when the
whole truth flushed on his mind And so was
Martha, too but her own eyes told her that
the nan who was now in her house was none
other than her former friend on the steamboat
Magnolia.


1t was long time before the officer got well.
Martha had married wealthy man. aud was
not only in comfortable circumstances, but had
every luxury that the heart could wish. Fritz
worked as gardener two years in Dresden, and
afterwards vas invited to Berlin 10 be garden
er for the King of Prussia. So he gets Ii large
salary, and can also pay regular visits TO his
sister.


Now this is the way the Lord takes care Of
those who are kind to Que another and place
themselves in his hands.
Year: 1862

their mutual protection and security by
means of what is called Government.
At worst, bad as it would be, the at.
tempt to hold and exercise legitimate
power beyond thetime for which it may
be bestowed by the people, is as moth
ing in enormity of evil, compared with
the attempt to destroy the Constitution
through whose forms and by whose in
strumentality the power to govern is
conferred on the President and Con
gress; for, if that instrumentality be de-
stroyed and it be conceded that who
ever is i'm possession Of the Executive
Char and of the seats in Congress may
issue DEGREES and enact Statutes which
the people must obey, what is this but
a new form of Government, and what
is this form but Despotism? Need we
tell our readers what Despotism ISL
A Government can be despotic without
being tyrauuical. The present Gear of
Russia has the reputation of being a
clement Sovereign, but he is none the
less Despot. Why? Simply be.
cause the supreme governing power OF
the State is in himse {, and because he
has the right, according to the custom
of his country, to exercise that Sover'
eighty without such restraint as we are
used to call Constitutional. In Russia,
and other Despotisms, there is no com
pact between the Sovereignty and the
people. Now suppose that the people
of the United States submit to have
their Constitution taken from them un.
der any circumstances whatever, except
as they themselves may alter Or amend
it, in what respect will they be differ
ent in their relation in tn cir relation to
the Government, or to the Governing
power, than the people of Russia are in
at the present day? In none whatever,
except it might be in sentiment or feel
ing which would cause them to over
throw, sooner than the Russian people
might, any form of Despotism which
may attempt to reign over them, by
substituting its own will for the Consti'
tuition their Fathers bequeathed to
them.
Year: 1862

Kanawha and other plrces might as well
dry up now.


If the public prefer Saginaw, new
and untried article, manufactured and
put up without any legal restrictions as
to its condition, weight or quality, and
by persons who are eager at all times,
regardless of condition, to press it into
market to realize on its sale, to an arti-
Gle of old established reputation, manu-
factured and put up under the strictest
surveillance of the officers of law, and
who are even more vigilant when the
markets are bare and quick, for fear it
will be hurried off by greedy manufac-
turers before it is properly prepared
then they must continue to purchase and
deal in it. All ask is for the consum-
ers to rightly understand the principle
and manner of getting at both kinds of
salt, and they will judge for themselves


G. COMSTOCK,


Agent of the Salt Co., of Onondaga,


1921 South Water streets.
Year: 1862

VULGAR LAYGUAGE.--There is as
much connection between the words and
the thoughts as there is between the
thoughts and the actions. The latter
are not only the expression of the form
er, but they have power to react upon
the soul, and leave the stain Of their cor
ruption there. A young man who al
lows himself to use one vulgar or pro-
fame word, has not only shown that there
is a foul spot upon his mind, but by the
utterance of that word he extends that
spot and inhsmes it, till by indulgence,
it will po!lute und ruin the soul. Be
careful of your words as well as your
thoughts. If you can control the tongue
that no improper words are pronounced
by it, you will soon be able also, to con-
troll the mind, and save that from COR
ruption. You extinguish the fire by
smotherlng it,or preventing bad thoughts
bursting out into language. Never ut
ter a word anywhere which you would


be sshemed to speak in the presence of
the most refined female, or the most re-
ligious man. Try this practice little
while, and you will soon have command
Of yourself. rT vsh
Year: 1862

The keeper of q menagerie was lately
seen beating one of the elephants with
large club. A bystander asked him the
cause. why said the keeper, he's
been. .hiuging dust all about the tent, and
he's big enough to know BETTER IA
Year: 1862

The Columbia City Republi-
can says:


A case of some importance to
owners of dogs was tried at the
last term OF our Common Pleas
Court. twas an action brought
by Whipple to recover damages
OF one Hennemyer for keeping a
vicious dog that frightened the
team of Whipple, causing it, as
he alleged, 70 run off, thereby
breaking the leg of the plaintiff
and greatly injuring him, from
the ELECTS of which one of his
legs was amputated, in order to
save his life. 1t appeared from
the testimony that HenDemyer
resided near the public highway,
and his dog was accustomed to
rush out into the road and bark
at and follow teams passing his
house. This fact it appeared
was known to the defendant
The dog thus barking and follow
ing the team of Whipple, caused
it TO run off, resulting in the al
most fatal accident TO him. The
case was finally compromised be-
fore giving it to the jury, by the
defendant, Hennemyer, paying
the plaintiff five hundred dollars
and costs of suit. 1t may be
news to many owners of dogs,
accustomed to do Just as Henne-
myers did, that they are liable
for any damages resulting to pass
ers by from this canine propen-
sity OF their respective ours
Year: 1862

INTERESTING To DRINKERs.--
The Taunton Republican gives
the following refreshing story
which we commend to the atten-
ton of those in the habit of "tlp
ping the mug" A few days
since, says that paper, man went
into one of the beer shops in town
and called for a half-pint of ale
The ale was brsIght to him in a
common pint measure. He
drank little, and thinking it tas-
ted rather queerly asked the
storekeeper if anything was the
matter with his beer. The answer
was that it was first-ra;e beer, Just
bought in Boston. This salts
fed the customer, and he swal
lowed the remainder Of the beer.
When he got through, seeing
some thing in the bottom Of the
measure, he asked what it was.
81 Declare" F" said the shopkeeper,
81 forgot to take out the soap
the last time i shaved"
Year: 1862

VIM - fA4A - Nv 0AAANANs


The Forty-frst Massachusetts,
regiment escorted Gen. Banks
from Boston to New York, and
was entertained with a breakfast
at the Astor House on Friday.
Gen. Banks was present and
made long speech, in which he
chiefly dwelt upon the part New
England had taken in the war.
We make a single extract:


As a Yankee he was half in
cllned to talk, but as a man of
some varied experience he hest
tated, for he thought the time
to talk had not yet come.


The people OF this land mad not
yet been sufficiently stepped in
suffering. More States must be
invaded, more hearths:ones rem
dered desolate, before the people
OF this country will conset to talk
with one another as they should.
He could not go far In what he
had TO say, but this he would de-
clare as his earnest belief, that
no power, no! not all the powers
on earth comhined, could destroy
this great American Government
when once the people had been
made to understand the real is
sue. Tremendous and prolonged
cheering. Americans, however,
Will have to learn a little. They
have, hitherto, thought there
must be short cut through ev-
erything, but here their idea Is at
fault; there is no short cat in this
war; it must be fought through
to the very end. We must fight,
and that, to with full apprecia-
ton of the men with whom we
battle, and this once understood,
the rebellion will fall even should
"untenced desolation mark ev-
cry step OF our path toward the
consummation. Should the men
in power ami intrusted with the
dread responsibility allow this
glorious Government to fall, IN
after ages, when the men who
crucified the Redeemer will be
mentioned with pity, these would
be covered with utter and eternal
scOrn.
Year: 1862

A REBUKE OF SECESH WoMEN.-A story
is told of Gen Dumont, in command at Nash
vile, Tenn, which shows that he inclines to
treat the malignant secesh women IN the
style threatened by the doubtful order of
Gen Butler:


"a famous physicians female household
deported themselves so rudely to our soldiers,
once or twice actually splitting in their faces,
that the general ordered the house to be put
under guard with orders to let no one pass
in or out The doctor, who was in the coun-
try at the time, was greatly incensed on find
ing his access to his own home debarred by a
guard of soldiery on his return, and forth
with went to headquarters, boiling over with
rage. On stating the facts, the general calm
ly replied that he was not aware of giving
any order to put the complainant's house un'
der guard. Insisting that the fact was so, he
pointed to his residence, which was in sigh,
and near at hand, as evidence, for the guard
Year: 1862

Tie following are the main provisions of
the homestead bill, which has passed both
Houses Of Congress, and become law.


All the lands owned BY the government
are open to settlement under it in quantities
not exceeding l60 acres to each person.
Any person who is citizen of the United
States or has declared intention to become
such. who is p years old, or the head of a
family, or has served in the military or naval
service of the country during this rebellion,
can make the entry on payments of ten dol
lars and the fees of the Register and Receiv-
er of the Land Office. That is all the set
tier has to pay at any time. The act takes
effect the lst day of January next and re-
quires residence and cultivation of five
years to perfect the title.


ANY person can enter under this act land
on which he has pre-emption claim.
Year: 1862

Two great errors, coloring, or rather dis
coloring, severally, the minds Of the higher
and lower classes, have sown wide dissension
and wider misfortune through the
society of modern days. These
errors are in our modes of interpreting the
word "gentleman.' Its primal, literal, and
perpetual meaning is, "a man of pure race, /"
we'll bred, in the sense that a horse or dog
Is well-bred. The so-called higher classes,
being generally of purer race than the lower.
have retained the true idea, and the convic-
tions associated with it, but are afraid to
speak it out, and equivocate about it in pub
lie; this equivocation mainly proceeding
from their desire to connect another meaning
with it, and a false one-tha. of ga man liv-
ing in idleness on other peoples labor''-with
which idea the term has nothing whatever to
do.


The lower classes, denying vigorously, and
with reason, the notion that gentleman
means an idler, and rightly feeling that the
more any one works the more Of gentle
man he becomes, and is likely to become
have nevertheless got little of the good they
otherwise might, from the truth, because with
it they wanted to hold falsehood, namely,
that race was of no consequence it being
precisely as much consequence in man as in
any other animal. The nation cannot truly
prosper till both of these errors are finally
got rid of. Gentlemen have to learn that il
is no part of their duty or privilege to live
on other peoples toll. They have to learn
that there is nc degradation in the hardest
manual, or humblest servile labor, when it is
honest. But there is degradation, and that
deep, in extravaganza, in bribery, in pride,
in taking places they are not fit for, or in
coming places for which there is no need
1t does not disgrace gentleman to become
an errand boy, or day laborer, but it dis
graces him much to become a knave or a
thief, and knavery is not the less knavery
because it involves large interests, nor theft
the less theft because it is countenanced by
usage Or accompanied by failure in under,a-
ken duty.


1t is an incomparably less guilty form Of
robbery 10 cut purse out of mans pocket
than to take it out of his hand on the under.
standing you are 10 steer his ship up The
channel when YOU do not know the sound
ings. On the other hand, the lower orders
and al. other orders, have to learn that ever,
vicious habit and chronic disease communi
cafes itself by decent, and that by purity o.
birth the entire system of the human bod,
may be gradually elevated, or, by reckless
ness of birth, degraded, until there shall bs
as much difference between the well-bred ant
ill-bred human creature (whatever pains ma,
be taken with their educationi as between {:
wolf-hound and the vilest mongrel cur. An.
the knowledge Of this great fact ought TO re
gulate the education of our youth, and th'
entire conduct of the nation.-RuskiA.
Year: 1862

General McClernand won his spurs during
the present war. He was leader in the
Douglas wing of the democratic party, and
in 1860 occupied seat in the House of Re
representatives.. He also figured conspicuous
ly in the Baltimore and Charleston conven-
tons. He was opposed to Breckenridge in
Congress, and he opposed him again at Pitts
burg. He left his seat in Congress to take
up arms in defense of the government. As
a soldier, he had his first trial at the battle of
Belmont, and came off with flying colors.-
His administration of affairs in Cairo was
very satisfactory. At Fort Henry and Fort
Donelson he won fresh laurels, and for his
bravery he was created major general. He
is about 40 years OF age, tall and graceful-a
true gentleman and true soldier.
Year: 1862

DESCENT OF THE EBGLE "Forest
Creatures" by G. Boner, we have an ac'
count of the remarkable power possessed
by the eagle, of instantaneously arresting
himself while dropping through the air, at
o certain spot, with folded wings, even
when descending from height of three or
four thousand feet. "When circling so
high up that he shows but as dot, he will
suddenly close both wings, and. falling
like an erolite, pass through the interven-
lug space 10 few seconds time. With a
burst his broad pinions are again nnfolded;
his downward progress is arrested and then
be sweeps away horizontally, smoothly, and
without effort. He has been seen to do this
when carrying a sheep of twenty six pounds
weight in his talons, aud from so gddy a
height that both the eagle and his booty
were net larger than sparrow. 1t was
directly over wall of rock in which the
eyrie was built; and while the speck in the
clouds was being examined, doubts enter
tanned as to the possibility of its being an
eagle, down he came headlOng, every in-
slant increasing in size, when, in passing
the precipce, out few his mighty wings;
the sheep was flung into the nest, and on
the magnificent creature moved, calmly
and unHurried, as a bark sails gently down
the stream of q river"
Year: 1862

CoNTRovERsEs.-Co Concerning c0ntrover-
sier the London Saturday Review observes:
We have, of course, plenty of controversies
going on, or we should be utterly stagnant.
There is the controversy whether man who
cannot embrace the UncOnditiOned is an
atheist; there is the controversy whether
M. Chaillu bought or shot his gorillas;
there is the controversy whether the car.
nal.minded should or should not be allow
ed to walk out of church just before the
beginning of the sermon. But all these
controversies sit lightly on modern life.
We like having them, and we discuss them
as we'll as we can, but they do not disturb
our rest at night. or interfere with our
dinner.
Year: 1862

NELSON OkEhk, NtII oU, I6bI,
DR. J. G. YoUNG,-YOu will remember what a
poor wretched creature was when ] last saw you,
and the result has astonished me as well as my
friends Your invaluable prescription and excellent
advice have completely overcome ailments such as
it seems to me, never afflicted mortal before. nev
er wrote letter with greater satisfaction than per
this. J shall remember you with gratitude long
as live That you may live long to alleviate the
suTerngs of others as you have mine is my earnest
PRAYER Please accept my heartfelt thanks that you
have brought this almost hopeless case to so happy
a termination. Yours, truly,
Year: 1862

\ RicH ScENE-A day or two since, a
countryman walked into an Office of one
ot eur cities, without takeing ANY particu-
lar no Ice Of his whereabouts He took
off his "oat and cravat and threw them up
on chair, sat down crossed his Leg, and
in an authoritative toni called out.


Is that water hot =


Water, sir said the clerk, who had
been watching his movements with some
little curiosity, what water, sir? ou
must e under mistake


Mistake sir :, the d sir want to
be shaved Why do you not get things in
readiness? am in hurry


i beg your pardon sir. this is not a
barber shop, it is an exchange Office


An exchange office There must be
something wrong, by hokey asked per
son in the street where could get shared
and he directed me 10 come here.


The c'erk looked da@gers, aud the Gus
toner put on his coat and left.