smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

by all means let us have a registry


Law. Who objectsf Is it an intelii-
gent, sensible and honest voter? Or
is it simply the tricky Democratic
politician ard his ignorant follower
acting at his bidding? The right of
every voter to have his vote count its
due share ip the determination OF
questions or men. il just as sacred as
t,ss right to vote ut al. II ones bal
lot II 10 be neutralized by that Of a
f. fraudulent voter, Of what use is the
ballot? That tbs is too often the
case even in our State OF iowa. can
Year: 1868

be clearly proven Of any election.
Letus have the remedy, then, in a
strict registry law. Nobody but
Copperheads viii object, and their
objections naturally arise from their
desire to obtain by foul means what
they cannot secure by fair.
Year: 1868

All you who are afflicted with Consumption.
or any of its early stages. such as Cough or
Cold. Sc caer you sure remedy. and give You
evidence for proof that cannot be disputed. wo
will also warrant tho remedy to give satisfaction,
or the money will be refunded.
Year: 1868

We venture once more to represent to Mem
bers of Congress that recent developments OF
Mr.. Johnson's temper and purposes forbid
even recess of six or eight weeks at this
time We know that Congress has been long
in session, that the weather is hot and Mem
bers naturally anxious to adjourn and go
home but the perils that confront us are
grave and imminent, and it is the simple duty
of Congress to provide every possible safe
guard. 1t is not enough to hope and believe
that no usurpation or violence is meditated +;
such precautions must bc taken that no evil
purpose can be consummated. We repeat that
there should be no adjournment until every
State lately in revolt shall have been enabled
to vote for President at the ensuing election
under the guidance and government Of her
own loyal authorities


Mr.. Fessenden remarked on Wednesday that
if Congress were not to adjourn till every
measure deemed important had been acted on
it would never adjourn at all We are moved
to add that, if MIR. Fessendens vote on I'M
peachment had been in accordance with the
Judgment of those who sent him to the Sen
ate, Congress might have safely and properly
adjourned long ago.
Year: 1868

The Democracy of Connecticut have inn
proved upon the example of their brethren in
Pennsylvania, and there is no foreseeing now
to what sublime nights of rascality the impu-
dence of the party may not rise. In Pennsyl-
vania they contented themselves with forging


naturalization papers; in Connecticut they
have learned the art of forging laws. 1t seems
that in the Legislature of the latter State they
made strenuous efforts to engraft upon q new
registration bill certain amendments which
would practically render it imperative. They
were defeated. The bill was passed without the
amendments and locked up in the office of the
Secretary of State over Sunday. On Tuesday
clerk chanced to examine it, and 10! the
amendments were all there. Somebody who
must have known the ways of the place had
Year: 1868

The House of Representatives having con-
Cured in the Senate resolution, Congress will,
unless this action is reversed take a recess
from Monday next until the third Monday in
September. The scene in the House yesterday
when the question was up was quite excited.
Mr.. Washburne of Illinois, bitterly opposed
the recess, and favored an adjournment until
the next regular session. The Southern MEM
bers were as bitterly hostile to the latter.
They, with the majority of the Northern Re-
publicans, carried through the resolution as it
came from the Senate.
Year: 1868

to emigration, is receiving much attention, and
has all the characteristics of the Great West
1t is not Territory to be long under the law
less influences of mining region, its great
agricultural resources reserving for it far
different future. But little trustworthy infor-
nation has yet been made public respecting
this portion of our National domain, and the
letters of our correspondent cannot fail to be
interesting to all those who are alive to the
almost miraculous progress of our new States
and Territories.
Year: 1868

surreptitiously got access to the bill, and very
skillfully altered and erased words in such
manner as entirely to change the sense OF sew
eral sections. Here was discovery in legls-
lative tactics which promised to be invaluable.
If the votes of party are not strong enough
to nullify law, they have only to get set OF
false keys some Saturday night and try ACID
Unfortunately for the Democracy, the little
fraud was detected in good season, and the Leg
islature will take prompt measures to detect
and punish the forgers
Year: 1868

The two neghboring republics of Hayti and
San Domingo continue to be prey to bloody
civil wars, and in neither, we are sorry to see,
is there as yet the prospect of speedy and
lasting peace. In neither do the Rebels, thus
FAR, show any intention to lay down their arms
nor would either the defeat or the success OF
the Rebels be the guarantee OF real ana per-
manent Improvement Of the situation.


The telegraphc dispatches which we publish
from day to day shed but little light on the
relative strength of the cOntending parties.
They mention a number of places and persons
which are entirely unknown to all except those
who have long been residents OF one OF the
two Republics. and they announce plots tor
risings, of the importance of which 1t Is tor
foreign newspapers entirely Impossible 10
form an accurate idea. 1t seems,
however. that in Hayti the position
of Salnave is by no means so desperate
as it was represented by cable dispatches few
DAYS ago. A large portion of the Haytian peo-
pie regard him as the only man who can restore
quiet and law. The report that he proclaimed
himself Emperor is denied this title was OF
fcred to him by his admirers, but refused
Sanave has on more than one public occasion
declared himself to be determined Republl-
can, and if he has really declined the Imperial
title no will by this act strengthen the belief
in the honesty of his professions.


Salnave is, at all events one OF the most
prominent men in the recent history of Hayti
and the communication on his life and public
career which we publish in another column,
will therefore be read with general interest
The author of this communication, having
lived for several years in Hayti, has personal
knowledge of the subject concerning which he
gives some new information. We are unable
to indorse all the differences of our CORE
spondent The repeated instructions of
Salnave against Geiirard are in no way
justified by any of the facts which our
correspondent adduces. AT present, Sal
nave is the lawful President of Hayti, and the
revolt against his administration is as uncalled
for az was his revolt against Geffrard, or
rather more so, because. according to the new
Constitution of Hayti, the President Is no
longer elected for life but for only four
years, and the opponents of Salnave would
therefore have soon had an opportunity OF
peaceably appealing from him to the judgment
of the people


There is another element in these revolutions
of Hayti and San Domingo, which, though but
little known, deserves close watching. In both
republics there is still party sympathizing
with, or at least under the influence of, Eu-
ropean mOnarchies especially EnglaDd-while
the American party repels with patriotic ear
nestness the influence which the representa-
tives of European powers endeavOr to obtain.
Salnave is reported to be strongly attached to
American independence. He has quarrel with
England and is on the best of terms with the
American Consul. Not enough, however, is as
yet known on this subject to express any def
mite opinion; but we shall watch the progress
of events, and present full and trustworthy re-
ports of every new development.
Year: 1868

The bill apprOpriating money for the pur-
chase of Alaska will be passed by Congress to-
day. The Conference Committee on the points
of disagreement between the two Houses have
agreed upon a bill partially recognizing the
House principle, that that branch of Congress
shall hereafter be consulted when treaties are
made. This report will be agreed to, and there
is no doubt the bill will receive the sanction
of the President.
Year: 1868

The SEM-WEEKLY TRIBUNE this morning
is replete with matters of political interest.
Each number is valuable as a campaign docu-
ment, and as such the paper should be crcu-
lated during the canvass. 1t will prove most
effective weapon against the Democracy, and
should be carried into the camp of the enemy
as we'll as the houses of our friends. Send it
everywhere, and Grant and Colfax will re-
ceiye the electoral vote of all the States.
Year: 1868

We commend the Atlantic Telegraph Com
pany for the reduction in their tariff of prices.
If the laws of trade that govern the telegraph
were like those that govern other branches of
business, the reduction of the rates will make


communication between England and America
rs frequent as between New-York and Wash
ington. We hope the time will come when we
Year: 1868

shall print the letters of our esteemed ana aoie
correspondent in London the next morning
after they are written, just as we now print
our news from Washington and other points In
the United States. The additional revenue
from this source will certainly recompense the
Company, and add to its already largely In
creasinp dividends
Year: 1868

The Montana letters on our third page con-
tain much valuable information respecting the
face of the country, the mines and the agri-
cultural resources of that Territory. Montana,
though one of the most recent districts opened
Year: 1868

The editor of The World seems to be
determined not to give up to Brick
Pomeroy without making a Jealous eff
-ort to produce Democratic paper as
pronounced as The La Crosse Democrat.
Yesterdays World is we think, a very good
attempt; and although it lacked the fire and
terseness of The La Crosse Democrat it showed
quite as much indecency aud ribaldry. Here,
for instance, is its campaign song on Gen.
Grant:
Year: 1868

"NY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE. Richard must
have needed horse badly, otherwise be would
not have given vent to the above extravagant
exclamation. Some gentlemen in this commu-
nifty must likewise have had pressing need for a
noble steed, or they would not have ventured
out far from home, some did, on Monday night
last, to rattle for one. The horse was up atSl6O,
and it took cool S. to obtain chance, and a
slim chance at that. The dice were thrown and
the lucky man was Mr.. ]. F. Abbott, who had
his chance shaken off by old prOry-winning in
three streght heats, with A for high. alt is
better to be born lucky than rich" so it is said,
and here is case in point that points in that
direction. We unlucky mortals who were neil
iher born lucky nor rich may, perhaps, find some
consolation in this-that it is better to have been
born ualucky than not at all.
Year: 1868

JyeLE, JNGLE-And away go the sleigbs with
,bsr gay and festive loads, which reminds us of
.,bsr DAYS, in a colder climate than this, where
n. merry jingle of the sleigh bell was heard from
,,rlv morn till dewy-no, frosty eve, for about
Gee months in the year so frequently, so con-
,,sptly that the novelty and romance of the
ching wore off, aud the sound would strike the
.,,d dull and monotonous. But that was in St.
p,ul Minnesota, the metropolis of the North
uo,s we have but little snow and that little does
at usually last long. Last week sleighing was
.orob and at discount This week there is
more snow, sleigh rides are more frequent and
attended with greater pleasure-ifit it can be said
.bst there is any peasurable sensation attached
n this mode of conveyance for when sleighing
;s,good, the weather is always provokiugly cold.
We never went sleighing of late years, but what
= MA were reminded of cheap mode of doing the
thing. which was suggested by some one who
had evidently had some cold and cherries exS
nsrieuce at the business. He said that sleighing
could be done in this way as we'll as by the or
diuary mode "Take a large tub and fill it with
ice.cold water, sit yourself in an easy going
rocking chair, put your feet in the tub, wrap
Yourself up, head and all, get some one to rock
YOU gently, imagine yourself in a good sleigh,
and you will find in about ten minutes that you
have had splendid ride" Never having tried
this method, we will not recommend it, but one
can readily imagine that it would be about as
cold comfort as could we'll be devised. The
damsel who didn't like our last weeks item up





mated that sleighng over the frozen ground
without snow was disagreeable-has full per,
mission now to sail iu, tub.fashion, or any other
way that suits best.
Year: 1868

We the Subscribers Of the city of New Orleans
being desirous Of adopting efficient our nr
nation mercantile and other subjects general utility
have associated ourselves for the purpose Of establishing
Library and Reading Room, and for have
adopted the following
Year: 1868

One per cent Of the Stock viii be required subscribing
and subsequent calls not to exceed five per per month
will be made by the Board of Directors from to time
may be supply funds equip the
lines; but calls VIII be made one per cent paid
until the entire Capital Stock snail have been subscribed
Year: 1868

A correspondent in Salina, Kansas.
sent us an account of distressing occur
renee near that place on the 2Sth of last
month. On that day lad of twelve
years, son of an old correspondent,
Colonel w. A. Philips, had gone out
shooting III company with his cousin,
David Addison. About noon, at the ad-
vice of his companion, who saw storm
coming on, he turned to 90 home. He
Immediately started towards town at
rapid gallop, and was never spoken to
again. About one o'clock terrific snow
storm set in. After it had set in, and
before it had got so bewildering as to be
completely binding, boy like him was
seen riding along Mulberry Creek. The
terrible snow storm of Thanksgiving day
seemed to travel from the northwest to
the south. 1t was five clock before Mr..
Addison, with whom the boy was sup
posed to be, returned from the woods.
Such search as the storm permitted
was at once made, but all in vain.


Ten days passed. A hundred people
had been searching for the lost boy, but
no trace of him was found. The horse
he rode was found in the hills twenty
miles to the southwest, four days after he
was lost. On Monday, the 9th inst, a
Kaw Indian visited white settler on the
Smoky Hill river, at point thirty-six
miles from Salina, southwest, and told
him that a dead white man was in the
river" He was petty chief, and with
number of his people accompanied the
white settlers to the spot. 1t was only a
half mile distant from the house. Fear
ful of being suspected, as these poor peo-
pie often arc, the cautious Indian made
his people stand up on the bank, and
with the white man first examined if
there was any trail of man near the spot.
! None was found. Then the body was
carefully examined to see if it had any
wounds; it had none. 1t was the body
of boy with light golden hair and a
broad forehead. He lay on his face, his
coat and overcoat still buttoned up, and
his gloves still on his hands. Arevolver
was buckled about his little person,
which the Indians who discovered him
had not molested, and two packages of
matches carefully deposited in separate
pockets. The child had ridden thirty-five
miles through mountains that terrible
night, his frey horse, a thin skinned
blood, flying before the terrible storm.


| From all the evidence, he had reached
Year: 1868

the spot where found about ten or eleven
o'clock at night, before the snow ceased.
He rode into bend between two farms,
and could have seen them had the snow,
which ceased before midnight, not filed
the air with its binding drifts. In that
one night the cold was so intense as to
freeze the river thick enough to bear up
a man. Crossing the last ridge from the
head Of Spring Creek he must have been
exhausted and chilled. His feet and
hands had not been frozen, but exhaust.
ed nature fell before the terrible ex.
haustion and exposure. The country
through which he must have passed was
the roughest and widest in that section.
At times the snow was SO dense that it
was impossible to see through it but
few feet. To have returned he had prob
ably to face the storm several times, and
no horse would hold head in such storm.
1t is believed that in his anxiety to get
home he urged his animal through the
storm as long as nerve and brain could
command. Arrived at the river the horse
had evidently borne him down the bank
to drink, and in stepping down he fell
from it on the gravel close to the water.
Year: 1868


The Land beyond the Sea.
The land beyond the Seal
When will lifes task be Ger?
When shall we reach that soft blue shore
Der the dark strait, where pillows foam and roar
When shall we come to thee.
Calm land beyond the Sea?
The land beyond the Seal
How close II often seems.
When flushed with evenings peaceful CLEANS
And xhe wistful heart looks Ger the strait and
dreamsi


1t longs to ay to thee,


Calm land beyond the Sea!
The land beyond the Sea-
Sometimes distinct and near
1t grows upon the eye and ear.
And the gulf narrows to threadlike mere;
We seem half way to thee,
Calm land beyond the Seal
The land beyond the Seal
Sometimes across the strait.
Like drawbridge to a castle-gate.
The slanting sunbeams. lie and seem to wait
For us to pass to thee,


Calm land beyond the Seal
The land beyond the Seal
0. how lapsing years.
Mid our not unsubmssive tears
Have borne, now singly, now in fleets. the biers.
OF those we love. to thee.
Calm and beyond the Sea.
The land beyond the Sea
How dark our present home!
By the dull beach and sulIen foam
How wearily. how drearily we roam,
With arms outstretched to thee.
Calm land beyond the Sea
The land beyond the Seal
When will our toll be done?
Slowly-footcd years more swiftly run
Into the gold Of that unsetting sun
Homesick for thee.
Calm land beyond the Seal
The land beyond the Seal


Why fadest thou in light?
Why art thou better seen toward night?
Dear land look always plain look always bright
That we may gaze thee.
Calm land beyond the Sea.
The land beyond the Seal
Sweet is thine endless rest,
But sweeter far that Fathers breast
Upon thy shore eternaly possest
For Jesus reigns Ger thee
Calm land beyond the Sea!
-Faber.
Year: 1868

N "euuiiS took place tne otner eve
ning-not the only one ON that particu-
lar evening by any means, and not es-
pecially differing from half dozen 9TH
ers, except that possibly more guests were
invited, and the auspices under which the
young couple started in life were unusu-
ally bright and promising.


The wedding was, as prosperous city
weddings are, very gay. Seamstresses
and dressmakers had been busy for weeks
beforehand. What the bride would have,
and what the bride would wear had been
the subject of discussion through morn
ing calls and the social evening chit-chat,
of fifty different parlors and sitting
rooms.


And now the great day had arrived.
The six bridesmaids were all ready the
lockets, inscribed with the monogram of
the bride and the bridegroom, had been
duly presented the bridal dress of white
satin and lace was spread out boquets
from the bridegroom, stood in crystal
vases; some of the walters, who were to
make the preliminary arrangements for
the grand supper from fashionable res
taurateatr's, had commenced operations ;
everything was in readiness for an enter
tainment which would properly signalize
the joyous event.


But where was the bride-the girl
about to leave her fathers roof. her
mothers side, for the first time, and the
object of all this care, solicitude and pre-
paration


Why, she was on her kneee-not pray
ing, but experimenting the packing of
two enormous trunks, crying and laugh
ing between times, and begging Ma" to
see that her travelling dress was laid
ready, and that her hat was laid with
her dress, and her gloves with her hat,
and that nothing was forgotten.


And Ma" the tears binding her
eyes-for even city life does not destroy
all natural feeling-hurried from one
thing to another, putting the wrong arti-
cles in the trunks, mislaying others, won
dering if the new guardian of her child s
happiness would be always tender and
good to her, and wishing, oh SO earnest.
ly, that she could have her just little
while longer, and see her safely tided over
the first few weeks of her new and strange
existence.


But it can not be, and no one realizes
this more strongly than the poor mother
herself. She would be shocked at the
idea of her daughter not complying with
established usages. Doing anything cut
of the common way, and the proper
thing" as everybody knows, is for a
newly married couple to leave their
friends Immediately after the ceremony,
and hurry on board a steamboat or rail-
road car, and there enjoy the pleasure of
publicity, and the delight of being point
ed out, as the "newly married couple" /"
or the "bride and bridegroom"
OF course, on the occasion referred to,
the fashionable order of things was not
departed from. The wedding ceremony
took place at seven o'clock in the eve
ming, and at half past ten, after a hurried
change of dress, the bride left her moth
her comfortable home, her troops Of
Year: 1868

LYING.-No vice more easily than this
stupefes a mans conscience. He who
tell lies frequently will soon become 4
habitual liar. and win soon lose the pow.
er of readily distinguishing between the
conceptions of the Imagination and the
recollections of his memory.
Year: 1868

A"howadji," writing of his journey
ings "On the Nile,' communicates some
amusing experiences of his own, from
which we take an extract:


= Did you ever accomplish meal with
nothing to help you but your hands ?
No2 Then just try it, and think what
we must have suffered as course after
course-fowl, plaiff, game-tripped up
the heels OF its fellow on the little round
table whereat we were seated in such
illustrious companionship.


1t is true that a slave brought round
water after each course, and that a
snowy napkin was given to each guest
but some of the dishes were soft and
pulpy, and each man dipped his fingers
into the dish and fed by mouthfuls. The
Cadi had detestably indefinite way Of
hooking up his food in the hollow of his
hand, which scandalized the professor
who sat next to him, nightly.


"Will you take some goose 2" said
Mustapha, addressing Smith. at is
one shot yesterday" And he lait
hold on one leg of the bird, while Smitl
tore away the other. 1t reminded m,
of breaking merry thought with YOU
neighbor, for neither was sure whicl
would get the larger half Afterward
1 was treated to pull, and got wing
Year: 1868

impression here is not, he says, ''the
consequence of the recollection of
destructive catastrophies presented to
our imagination by narratives of his
torical events; what seizes us SO
wonderfully is the disabuse of that in
nate faith in the fixidity of the solid and
surest foundations of the earth. From
early childhood we are habituated to the
contrast between the mobile element of
water and the immobility of the soil on
which we stand. All the evidences of
our senses confirm this belief. But when
suddenly the ground begins to rock be-
meath US, the feeling of an unknown
mysterious power in nature COM
ing into operation and shaking the solid
globe, arises in the mind. The illusion
of the whole of our earlier life is ami
hilated in an instant" - CornAiU Maya


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