smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

While travelling, few years since, | was de-
tanned some days in one ofour Western cities


My room overlooked a lane or alleyway, in which
were several houses occupied by the better class
of artisans, and became much interested in one
of these, so much that no sooner did hear glad
shout from little voice than knew it was meal
time, and Daddy was coming and took up
my point of observation in harmless and admir-
ing scrutiny of the well governed house. On
the way in, the father raised the rejoicing child
in his arms, and gave it two or three resounding
smacks; another one had crept to the door-sill
and this was lifted also, and its little check laid
tenderly upon the shoulder, which was hunched
up to bring it close to that of the fathers. By
this time the wife had brought bowl of water
and white, coarse towel then she took the
children down, applying also sundry pats, now
on the shoulders of the little ones, and now on
the broad, fatherly Ones and while the husband
gave last rub of the hard, rough hands, he
stretched out his neck and kissed the pretty girl
ish wife, who would be lowering near him
They said grace, they dined at the plain. whole
some board, and more than once found myself
waiting them benediction with the tears in my
eyes. 1t is SO british to pass without word Of
recognition Of the Great Giver. The husband
was grave man, and the wife lively, cherry
one, neat as a new pin, and very chatty. l
thought them wonderfully well matched, for
there was no moroseness in the man nor levity in
the woman and when Sunday came, and the
little household, dressed in all their fnery, baby
and all, went out to church, it was sight to be-
hold.-IMs E. Oakes Smith, IN the Herald Of
TIcuIfb
Year: 1868

A French physician publishes long dsser-
tation on the advantages of groaning and crying
in general, and especially during surg'c,l opera
tions. He contends that groaning and crying
are two grand operations by which Nature
allays anguish; that those patients who give way
to their natural feelings more speedily recover
from accidents and operations than those who
suppose it unworthy to betray such symp-
toms of cowardice either to groan or cry. He
tells of man who reduced his pulse from one
hundred and twenty six to sixty, in the course
of few hours, by giving full vent to his emo
tions. If people are at all unhappy about any
thing, let them 90 into their room and comfort
themselves with loud boohoo, and they will feel
hundred per cent better afterward. In accor-
dance with the above crying with children
should not be too greatly discouraged. IF it is
Systematically repressed, the result may be St.
Vitus's dance epleptic fits some other disease
Of the nervous system. What is natural is nearly
always useful; and nothing can be more natural
than the crying ofchldren when anything occurs
to give them either physical or mental pain.
Probably most persons have experienced the eff
feet of tears in relieving great sorrow. 1t is
even curious how the feelings are allayed by
their free indul lyence in groans and sighs, Then
let parents and friends show more indulgence to
noisy bulsts of grief-on the part of children as
well as Of older persons-and regard the eyes
and the mouth as the safety valves through which
Nature discharges her surplus steam.
Year: 1868

Rd5- The Government Of the United States
has four hundred and sixty-fve millions of acres
of land for sale, and when the Alaska business
is finally settled it will have three hundred and
sixty five million more all of which 1t will doubt
less be ready to give away to any horde of plum
ders who will go shares with those who control
such matters
Year: 1868

confidently invite all those who wish to purchase
with view to elegance and durability. well as
economy to visit my Establishment. / have spared
no pains to Justify the reputation which have gained
during a sojourn of nearly twenty years in your
midst, of keeping frs-cass Mercantile House, and
of selling such goods only as can honestly recon-
mend. Everything bought in my establishment Is


ipril y. 1868 .-es -- B. kOOPMANN
Year: 1868

We clearing them out at only little more thai
cost, to make for other kind OF goods. Also
the remainder of our stock of Dry Goods to be sol
very low to close out that kind.


Nav 4. 1868. JAS. n. BUTT
Year: 1868

can be suspected. There are, however, mum
Der Of rejuyenated and newly started journals.
of some pretension to standing and circulation,
that sorely need public pap. 1t must be some
one of these half-and half concerns for whom
the Legislature propose to make raid upon
the peoples money.


If the thing is honest, the managers viii GER
tainy give us facts, figures and reasons why
the bill should pass; if they do not forthwith
do 80, they must confess that 1t is not honest.
This city is remorselessly swindled by adyer-
tising and job printing adventurers; we pay
ten times as much for official printing IN un-
known or obscure journals as honest WORK Ill
the great papers would cost there have been'
and we presume now are, 80 called news
"papers,n that live solely on the City treasury,
that never had, nor even pretended 10 nave
circulation outside few dozen offices. We
want no more suckers of the sort fastened
upou the treasury. 1t Is not the true legal
advertising they are after-that wouid hot
begin to pay; they want the publica-
ton (private printing rather) OF prosy
Common Council reports of matters
given to the public in the leading Journals
promptly and without cost-these would-be
official publishers want to print week after
ward all the mass of rubbish from which tho
grain has been already sifted, and for this
worthless service they will manage to get 10
cents line for type which spreads one OF our
lines into three Of theirs


The whole thing is an outrage-possbly
clear swindle. The surreptitious manner in
which it has been pushed forward Is evidence
that IL will not bear the light. We do not
know that it can be stopped but we shall be
disappointed If there are not members who will
insist upon showing up the scheme as it really
is. If it cannot bear the light, let it be killed
in It's mask.
Year: 1868

The official advertising plan seems to be
working rapidly and surely through the Legis-
lature at Albany. Possibly the worthy law
makers think it o matter of little consequence,
and possibly none but those in the secret really
know anything of it. The bill provides for
publishing in single paper all the notices
required by law it requires that the Judges
of the several Courts shall elect the paper 10
do this w0rk-thus making the magnates OF
the bench sort of 1ammany Committee to
whom newspapers must go for patronage. Ii
SAYS nothing about the standing or the circu-
lation of the paper to be chosen, nor does it
limit the charges to be made, except that they
shall be according to law.


Now let us illustrate the possible operation
of this bill, should it become law, by taking
There is now printed in this city little daily
paper, about as big as piece OF chalk, called
The Transcript, owned mainly, we believe. by
State-SenatOr- Supervisor Tammany- Hall Big
indian known as VIM. NJ. Tweed. Suppose
this bill passes (of course without the request,
the assistance or the vote of Senator Tweed),
and a Committee of Judges should actually Sc
lect the seventy nine Transcript with cir
culaton of not more than 200 per day,
to do the legal advertising of the city and
county. In that case the notices might possibly
reach the immediate parties to a suit and the
counsel on both sides but the people al large
would be as innocent of knowledge as Tam
many Hall is of honesty in politics. And then
the cost. Suppose it possible that some little
handbil like this, slight improvement on the
Ann-st rag-dealers' "0 Cr circular cast into
passing ears and stages, should be selected by
the Judges TO do all this work. how long would
il be ere the statutes would be reformed" in
the matter of advertising, just as the old Cor
poratiOn paper system was reformed" from
$1,000 year for each paper, and an aggregate
of less than $4,000 TO all, up to pay by the
line at any rate the favored papers might
charger


OF course it is impossible that the supporters
OF this bill have an eye on The Transcript as
their organ. That would be preposterous; and
besides, il Senator Tweed owns any portion OF
The Transcript, his well-known modesty and
high standard of honor, to say nothing OF that
keen sensitiveness to any possible spot upon
the purity of his motives for which no is so
well known, are amply sufficient to shield him
and the paper from any suspicion OF collusion
with the movers of the measure. Who. then,
are they 7 We must plead ignorance. Surely
none of the established newspapers OF the city
Year: 1868




If the Senate convict the President, the diff
ference thenceforth between Andrew Johnson
and Teddy O'Flaherty will be that the latter
il eligible to Office while the former can never
again rise even to the dignity of Alderman Of
village. An ex-President is said to have
been elected Roadmaster of his town.
The rumor that Mr.. Johnson would again
"swing round the circle" in vindication of his
course may express his present intentions, but
q few speeches to empty houses would cure
him Of that dstemper. "The King Is dead
"I.ive the King !" will he the cry Of the peo-
nile. The public interest will be transferred so
instantaneously TO the Hon. Benjamin +. Wade
and his new Cabinet, that it will seem sur
prising that so inuinscally insignificant an
individual rs Andrew Johnson could have occu-
pied attention SO long, or that such formidable
efforts were required to get rid of him.


Should impeachment succeed, Mr. Wade
will come into the Presidency by opera
ton of the Constitution instead of by
popular election. lie was virtually chosen
for the Presidency by the Senate, since
the contingency of Johnsons removal was in
the mind of the Senate when they chose him
for presiding officer. lie was elected more
from a sense of his fitness for the Presidency
of the United States than from his superiority
as a presiding officer of the Senate. Mr.. Wade
would give the country q vigorous admlnistra-
ton, in harmony with the laws and opinions OF
Congress. The vast benefits of such an admin
istraton can only be- estimated by rejecting
how absolutely all the functions OF Government
are blocked, and the country left to drift with
out helm, by that system Of resistance to the
laws and attempted tyranny over Congress
which Johnson has styled "my policy


Reconstruction is arrested. Labor, the mother
of all wealth, at the South, is unsafe; Capitai
avoids that region as people would nee from
the plague. The South is poorer by millions
of dollars than when the war closed. 1t can
not return to order and progress until the
broken down aristocracy and emancipated free
men feel the protecting and cOercing hand OF
"a humane but vigorous government. ms they
would feel with Benjamin F. Wade as President.
Rebels will abandon their hopes OF ruling the
South. "Kuklux" clans will be broken up.
The strife over the suffrage question would be
SUPERSEDED by the quiet power OF universal
ballot. which is universal peace. The whites
would take an active part in reconstruction.
State Governments, representing the ma
iority of all the people, and yet
administered by loyal men, acting under sound
Constitutions, would apply for admission to the
Union and will be admitted. The whole South
would stop swearing, boasting, and wrangling'
and 90 to work. Only in proportion as the
South thus works out its own salvation can Its
chiyalric nose be lifted from tho grindstone'
ALI that is needed to accomplish this is the
immediate and certain return to power of those
Republican principles which were vindicated
Year: 1868

We pray the Senate to take immediate action
on the proposition before it to admit a reporter
for the Associated Press to the floor during the
Impeachment trial. The reporter of The Globe,
a paper which nobody reads and which pub
fishes its reports days behind time, is allowed
seat upon the floor, while the reporters
upon whom the press and people of the
whole country depend for trustworthy
account of the great trial are confined in dis
tant gallery, frequently beyond the voice Of the
counsel and Senate. AS a consequence, the re-
ports which come to the New-YOrk press and
are thence sent out to the country are impcr-
feet in some respects. We put the case in be-
half Of the people. Let the news -gatherers for
the press have ample accommodation at the
pcOplc'S trial
Year: 1868

I'm the Impeachment trial yesterday an ap-
parently important question was raised by Sen
ator Drake. Ii seems that an objection was
made by one of the Presidents counsel to
question of Gen. Butler. mr. Chase overruled
il. Mr.. Drake c0ntendcd that the Chief-Jus-
tice, even in preliminary sense, had no right
TO make any decision, or give an expression
of opinion on questions Of law or evil
dence. In this view the Managers OF
the House cOncurred. Mr.. Boutwell, made a
temperate argument, citing authorities from the
English law to show that the Chief-Justice
merely held ministerial Office, and was in no
sense q Judge unless when a casting vote was
necessary. The Senate adopted rule substan-
tally agreeing with the Chief-Justice.


Without entering into the law of the case, it
seems clear that the trial will proceed with
more expedition, and justice will be fully served
now that the claim of Mr.. Chief Justice Chase
has been sustained. If the Senate claims the
right to debate and determine every trivial point
that any of the counsel may raise, we can have
a trial running TO Christmas with no adyan-
tage accruing. In this last discussion we see
n whole session wasted We have the
Senate absent as consulting and de-



its return the Managers also desire to withdraw
and consult. If the Senate is to debate for
four hours on matter of technical ruling
and the Managers are to "cOnsult indefinitely
and the Presidents counsel arc also to
"consult"-it will be found, as in The case Of
Hastings, that while the trial stands everybody
else walks.


The decision of the Senate as we understand
it, sustains the ruling of Chief-Justice Chase
So far as that magistrate may determine JUS
tice, it will be safe. We have no sympathy
with the men who have been denOuncing him
and detracting from his fame Mr.. Chase has
been visited with gust of denunciatiOn,
in every respect cOuseless and unjust, and
we have had Democrats even holding
up to him the uneasy hOnOrs of the Presi-
dency rs a bribe. These men little know
Salmon T. Chase if they suppose that any
bribe can seduce him or any threat deter him
from his duty. The vote of the Senate adds
to his responsibility. In his hands more than
those of any one man the cause of Impeach-
ment rests For while an ultimate appeal to
the Senate exists, the moral force of any de-
cision of the Chief-Justice viii go far toward
shaping the judgment of the Senate.


And, finally, mark that in this matter, as
in all matters connected with Impeachment,
the Republican Senators act like judges the
Democrats vote in body as partisans They
mean to acquit johnson, right or wrong The
Republicans are resolved to do justice. This is
one interesting phase of the trial which the
country will do well to watch.
Year: 1868

The report of the Committee of Conference
on the Internal Tax Repeal bill was agreed to
by the House yesterday, and the bill now goes
to the President. The provisions of this bill
are believed to be stringent enough to put a
stop to the wholesale evasion of the tax on
whisky.
Year: 1868

SENATE, March 31.-NO business of import
ance was transacted previous to the session of
the Court of impeachment


HOUSE, March 31.-The report of the Confer
ence Committee on the Internal Tax bill was
agreed to.


The House at the usual hour went into Com
mittee of the Whole TO attend the impeachment
trial and transacted no business afterward
Year: 1868

IOWEAOWs QNOshOus " SMO RhlHWs


Touch doss much for the blind boy,
but brings him not single grain near
er TO the discerning Of colors. Where,
therefore, touch fails him, he can gain
little external help, and presently will
be altogether at ssa- Things apparent-
| iy identical in form may diffe in size,
may also totally differ 10 essence and in
nature, and Of this difference he may
be wholly unconscious. He may form,
and does form, the most outrageously
incorrect ideas on some common mat
ters, though he may continually smuse
and surprise yeuby clever guesses, or
CLEANS of what seems like intuition.
Du Puisesux, the son of professor of
philogophy in the University of Psrie,
was in something one Of the sbrewdest
men of bis day, having attained ccusid
cradle proficiency in botany and chem
istry; but he was blind. He had
wonderful memory for sounds, and
could, it's said, recognize BY voice per-
sons whom he had only once heard.
He could easily tell if he was in street
or in blind alley, in large room or a
small Que, but he believed that astrono-
mers were the only people who saw
with telescopes, and that they bad their
eyes differently formed from other men.


Nor was his notion about eyes in
general whit less incorrect. 'sThe
eye" said he, SIS an organ on which
the air should have the same effect as
my stick on my hand" The boy upon
whom Chesleden operated for cataract
had clearly been Of the same opinion.
Even when restored to sight he believ-
ed that the objects he looked on touch
ed his eyes, as those which he felt
touched bis skin, and he consequently
had no true idea of distance. he ask
ed (which was the sense that deceived
him, the sight or the touchp He won
dered how likeness of his fathers face
could be got in 70 small space as his
mother's watch-case; it seemed As i'm
possible as getting bushel into pint
measure. 1t is not to be wondered at,
therefore, that when some one asked
Du Puiseaux if he would not be very
glad to have his sight, he replied: 'If
it were not for curiosity, would rather
have long arms; it seems to me that
my hands would teach me better what
is passing in the moon than your eyes
or telescopes; and, besides, the eyes
cease to see sooner than the hands to
touch. 1t would therefore be as well
to improve the organ | have As to give
me the one | want" Abundant evil
dence of similar bind might still he
adduced, but this seems enough to
prove that even among the educated
blind people there must be a large sec
ton of the physical and metaphysical
world Of which their idea is to great
extent vague and worthless.
Year: 1868

yation but he ceased all agricultural
operations, and fully comprehending the
Importance to the country of this won
derful deposit of one of the great wants
Of the Southern people, at once put all
his available force at work on the mines,
and in few weeks salt was being ship
ped to all parts of the Confederacy-
even to Virginia-by hundreds of thous-
ands of pounds, and the sugar crop
rotted where it grew.


1t was shipped just as it came out
being blasted in solid blocks weighing
hundreds of pounds Mine after mine
was opened and were penetrated to the
depth of over twenty feet, but still the
bottom Of the vein was never found.


just let the reader think of this. A
mass Of pure salt, as white as crystal
surrounding him on all sides, while be
stands in a chamber some twenty five
feet deep-open at the top-whieh has
been excaYated into the same valuable
material.


As guest of Capt. H. B. Stevens, of
the Crescent regiment, at present the
head of the well known clothing house
OF Lyons & Stevens, corner of St.
Charles and Common streets, who was
then stationed. on the island with his
company, | visited these mines in the
winter of 1868, when they were in full
blast and the vicinity was crowded with
wagons, coming from as far as North
Georgia and Alabama) awaiting their
turn to be served. Captain Stevens, as
sured me that this trade had been going
on for months, and was getting better
and better every day.


The proprietor must have made mil
lions before his mines were captured and
broken up in 1864, when Banks made
his advance up Red River, which met
such a disastrous reception at Mans
field.


Since the war two or three efforts have
been made to work these mines, but,
from one cause or another, they have SO
far failed. However, that they will yet
prove of inestimable value cannot be
doubted. Judge Avery, the owner of
them, is a Southern gentleman of the old
school; and their diseoverer, Capt.
John Avery, after having left wealth
and all he held dear to serve in the ''lost
cause, is one of those whom good for
tune cannot render selfish nor misery
faint.


1 look upon these mines as more
valuable than many principalities, and
that their products will one day rank
among the most valuable of our State
cannot be questioned. B.
Year: 1868

from the New Orleans Times


The Little Sisters Of the Poor are an
order of religious ladies, who devote
themselves by vow to the care Of the
poor and in6rm of both sexes-prepar-
inc their food, clothing and bedding with
their own hands, and employing such as
are able to work in occupations suited to
their age and strength. The origin Of
the society or order Is 4 little curious,
and ftly shows from what little aeOrns
great oak trees grow. It seems that
priest residing in one Of the poorer pro-
vinees Of France, had in his employ for
many years most worthy and industri-
Gus servant woman being economical
and thrifty, she accumulated quite a lit
tie sum from her wages, and finally asked
the good priests advice as TO its dispOsi-
ton. He suggested to her the good she
could accomplish and the happiness she
might achieve by expending her little
store iudieiously in relieving the poor,
mentioning. at the same time one of their
neighbors, an old and infrm woman, III
the extreme of poverty. Touched by
the story, the servant at once went to the
old woman relief, renting little room
and providing for her comfort. Mean
time wealthy lady in the vicinity, OBJ
serving her devotion to charity. proposed
that they associate themselves in the
good work, on settled plan, which
proved so ef6eacious that it soon grew to
be an association, with cooperative
branches throughout the neighbOring
villages and cities. Thus the Little
Sisters of the Poor" have been engaged
in this work of charity in Europe and IN
some portions Of the United States for
about thirty years, supporting a large
number of poor from the remnants Of
food obtained from the tables of persons
in easy circumstances. most Of which
would be thrown away if not so gathered
mn and saved by them. Their own diet
i the same as that Of the poor whom
tbev serve. Wherever established, their
extraordinary success IN supporting the
;ndioent upon the waste Of others, and
their influence in instilliug habits Of in
dustry and cleanliness amongst the abject
moor, have been considered public bless
ing.
Year: 1868

A very pertinent question it was which
wise elder put TO certain young man
who insisted in spite Of many apparently
providential indications to the contrary,
that be had n call to preach-"Ilast tn ou
noticed whether people seem to have u
call TO hear thee?'