smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

for the purpose OF permanent organization we viii
have no advice as to the feeling OF the delegations to
have some tangible Information upon that fact be.
fore we can advance any gentleman to the impor-
tant position Of President OF this Convention There
s another proposition. Although the Territories Of
the Northwest are not entitled to vote upon the
Presidential question, yet these people are sub
ects OF the government Of the United States
and they therefore should be heard here and should
have vote and assist I'm making the nomination TO
be voted for by the States They should be heard on
that question now more particularly than ever be-
fore they ought TO be taGen In with the people at
large in selecting man that would be agreeable to
the whole country. They desire TO have voice In
selecting man to whom the administration Of he
country Is to be connded They could not participate
the ultimate decision OF the question as any citizen
OF any state In the Union.


Cries OF Question, question"


Mr.. THOMAS B. BRADFORD, delegate from Della
ware, moved that the amendment OF the gentleman
from California be laid upon the table.


that viii carry the original RESOLUTION with It. Ihope
the gentleman, considering the effect OF his amend
ment will not press IT, or should he press It, that It


The CHAIRMAS-The motion In debateable.


RICHARD d. RICE delegate from Maine-wll the
Chairman be kind enough to state the effect Of that
resolution.


Mr.. BRADFoRp-T withdraw the motion to lay on
the table.


Mr.. b. SCHWARTZ, OF Missouri move to strike
out that part OF the resolution liking the time that
the report shall be made Monday, and insert in
stead TO report at three O'Clock this afternoon to the


The CHAIRMAN-The question will now be on the
amendment proposed by the gentleman from Cali
fornia providing that the committee report this ar
ternoon at three O'Clock.


Mr.. MAcHEs, Of Kentucky, called for the reading
OF the resolution.


The resolution was read.


HESTER CLyMER, OF Pennsylvania-I will accept
the amendment OF the gentleman from California, so
that the resolution shall read leach state and Terri
tory.n do so for the purpose OF gratifying our
friends from the extreme West. Slight appause.l


]. M. KAvANAGH, delegate from Montana, then adj
.lxa. tha nffaf. \
delegate the Territory of Montana in the House
OF Representatives. ! say here that there
are no more earnest or Jealous people for the OF
democracy than the people Of Montana and their
representatives. My voice has been heard In many
democratic conventions. II s true, Mr.. Chairman,
have no vote In the halls Of Congress and our people
got hearts we have got voices and people win
do and will do Gil IN NV feeble way as much for the
Year: 1868

The Cabinet crisis which has prevailed for
some days past in England has been solved
for the moment by tho tact of the Premier,
and the tories retain Office. The special tele-
grams and the Parliamentary report which we
publish in to-days HERALD are to the effect that
Mr.. Disraeli, after having seen the Queen,
who refused to accept his resignation, was Sue
cessfal in inducing his colleagues to remain in
Office, on the understanding that a general
election shall take place in the autumn. There
will not, therefore, if Mr.. Gladstone and his
friends ultimately agree to it, be an immediate
dissolution of Parliament. On the whole, if
tbis arrangement can be made satisfactory to
all parties, this is an arrangement which the
future will justify. II is provided that
general election must take place directly the
Reform bill for England becomes law in the
kingdom. A general election now could not
obyiate this necessity. There is nothing
to he gained by the immediate advent
of Mr.. Gladstone to power He cannot
do more than he has done before the new con-
stituences have made their voices heard in the
management Of the affairs of State. It Is, for
many reasons, desirable that the party which
has carried the Reform bill for England and
which has introduced the Reform bills for both
Scotland and Ireland should carry them all
through aud leave their impress on the entire
reform movement Of lS67-S. The decision
come TO by the Ministry admits of twofold
Interpretation. II implies either that they do
not regard the Irish question as a vital ques-
ton or that they are prepared to bow to the
decision come to by the House of Commons.
If all parties now lend themselves to the carry
ing through of the Scotch and Irish Reform
bills there will be work enough until August,
and then there will be an election all over the
three Kingdoms such as has not been witnessed
since 1882.


Ministers explained their course and resolu-
tion to both houses of Parliament at late
hour OF the evening amid a scene of great ex-
element Mr.. Dsraeli claimed credit to the
tories for their administration of affairs, an
nounced his intention to retain Office until an
election was had, and dxed The IN instant for
the further debate on the Irish Church ques-
ton. Mr.. Gladstone said the liberals must
Ego on and in conjunction with John Bright
he denounced the action of attempting to hold
office in opposition to the voice Of the House
of Commons. The liberals appear determined
to move direct address to the Crown on the
Church question; so we may look for very
stirring reports of progress in Britain.
Year: 1868

same game, and the public is the common yic-
tim. All have but one object-the plunder of
the people-and they find that the most effec-
tive way to secure that object is to seem to
dispute and oppose each other on every posi-
BILE point. So much principle is there in our
State pOlitics
Year: 1868

and ''reviling, nipping, unmannerly words
against particular member" He should
have checked the offenders, even if it had been
necessary to invoke the aid Of the Sergeant-at-
Arms. After all we must not be surprised at
scenes like the one presented by this alterca-
ton between Washburne and Donnelly. Such
scenes must be expected at the stage Of
revolutionary confusion which the Jacobins
have now reached. The only consolation that
the people can derive from these quarrels Of the
leading radicals is expressed in the homely
proverb that "when rogues fall out honest men
come by their own." The Generalization indi-
Gated by such quarrels favors the hope that
the days of the reign of the radical party are
numbered.
Year: 1868

Trading at AIbany-A Legislative Wall street.


Some very pretty bargaining is on the tapis
at the State capital. Governor Fenton, from
want of harmony between himself and the
republican majority of the Senate, cannot get
that body to confirm his nominations. He is
thus deprived of the power of some official
patronage, and, worse still, appears as q re-
publican Governor repudiated by republican
Senate, which puts him in an awkward posi-
ton with regard to the Chicago convention
and the Vice Presidency. He must find way
out of such an awkward place and what
shall he do? He proposes to balance the de-
linquent republican Senator'S by buying up an
equivalent number of democrats. The price
he offers is his signature to the city tax levy,
no matter what jobs it may contain. He will
go it blind on the tax levy If the democrats
will vote with his republicans to confirm his
nominations This is what the Governor will
do What will the democrats do? All the
present, immediate plunder in the tax
levy-actual cash in hand-is great
temptation. There is one reason to be
weighed on the other side. If the demo-
Gratis hold on the Offices in question can
not be filed this year Next year, in all
probability, there will be democratic Gov
ernor, and so much rich spoil will be left for
his dispensing. But that is a party thought,
thing Of the future, too, and, like all things of
the future, more or less vague misty and un-
certain 80 1t is altogether likely that the more
tangible inducements of the tax levy will pre-
vail and that the money down will decide all
points.


This view of the legislative situation at AL
bany will enlighten our citizens as to the fact
that the State House is merely market, and
that business is transacted there as between
party men on the same principles that the buy
Ing and selling are done In Wall street. This
system of governing a great State originated
with the ancient magnates of Tammany Hall
and men of the same class in other parties
such as Thurlow Weed. It may be called tho
Peter Funk system. Party men seem TO the
people to he in opposition TO each other, to
denounce and stand in each others way on
principle, all of which is sham and deceit; for
in private they come together, make terms and
divide the spoil with which the people have
trusted them. 50 the Peter Funk auctioneer
and the half dozen sharpers that make mp his
audience and take up the quarrel Of The YER
dant buyer from time 10 time arc all in the
Year: 1868

names proposed by their friends for the democratic
candidate for the Presidency the New Orleans Time
puts i'll helper for Gen. Hancock:


1t is highly gratifying to notice the unanimous ap
proFai IN all sections of the country with which the
name OF Gen Hancock is received in connection with
tue next Presidency He of all Others the man for
.he crisis. NO one would be more acceptable to the
South, oFinspre confidence throughout the coun
try Free from all clques and eabals planting him
self hrmiy upon the Constitution, be is the only man
no" named for that high office who has ouridden the
storm of Radicalism, undsmayed and unconquered.
we feel satisfied that his inscribed upon the
democratic banner would raise storm of enthusiasm,
which, sweeping over the land would scatter the Rad
cal Toes Of liberty like cha before the whirlwnd, and
again to history the prestige of the American
Year: 1868

BUTLER FAMED BY CoRREsPoNDENF.-Th Wash
lnston correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, in
one of his late dispatches, tells how "Mack tanned
the beast


ludicrous correspondence has been given between,
Butler and correspondent who was summoned as a
witness for the President Butler boased of his pug-
pose to "rasp" him.


The correspondent replied that be should be pre-.
pared, with spoon tied to he of his hardker-
chief and that if it made him blush he should use the
handkerchief at the risk CT showing the spoon Mr.
Butler sent word that such conduct would be insulting
to himself and show contempt for the Senate. The
party rejoined that Butler boasted his purpose and
gave the first insult Butler said nothing was further
from his purpose and that he entertained for the cor
respondent the highest esteem. The Beast was tanned
and Mack was satisfied.
Year: 1868

| PoLAND.-The fate of an enslaved and oppressed
white people may be seen in the present condition of
Poand-alas! Poland no longer. Of the estates of
the Polish nobility, hundred and sixty princely
domains, situated in the fertile part of the grain
growing regions, have been sold auction for nomi-
nal prices under imperial Decree and four hundred
and ninety other estates, equally valuable and extern
sve, in the hands of the government be sold to
any who will take them on his own terms. In the
Provinces in which this con6scation has been made
there were fifty thousand land owners The six hun
dred and fifty that have been sequesered en-
brace the best land in the kingdom and very large
share of it, while the other estates are small and of
little value. The fate will be bayoneted into
the Southern people if the popular will does not
sst it,
Year: 1868

PoLITICAL FATE OF KENTUcKY.-A Washington let
ter writer states that the Radca party have their
agents at work in Kentucky, whose business it is to
ascertain the political status of every officer every
judge of circuit county court every sheriff, and
every County court clerk, and even other officers
Their efforts have been devoted principally ascertain
how far any of them have given aid and comfort to
the rebellion in degree and the record
of this or that individual who cart take the from clad
oath, and who is disqualified from office according to
the provisions of the fourteenth constitutional amend
ment, is carefully preserved for future To


striking expression of Senator Dooittle in reference
to the operations Of bill in certain State, say
these fellows with their co-conspirators in Congress-
are going I" to organise hell in Kentucky"
Year: 1868

HEIGHT OF MILITARY PowER.-France is thought
to have reached the height of perfection as military
power One million three hundred and fifty thousanu
men, or nearly the whole of the abe-bodIea maze p9p
ulaton of the country, may be said to De unoef
arms, This force, according the report just pre-,
seuted BY Marshal Neil the Emperor IS made up OIL
eight hundred thousand regulars and five hundred and
ffty thousand Of the National Guard.
Year: 1868

THE BROADWAY TUxNEL-Governor Fenton has


signed the great underground railroad ball. authorising
a tunnel from the City Hall right through to West
Chester county. Engineers say it will practically


nonnt to the construction Of subterranean street.


The cars are to be driven by steam, with way stations
at intervals. There will be through trains likewise,
whereby passengers may leave the City Hall and be
set down in Harlem in less than thirty mnutes-thas
is in about the time that it takes to walk from
Wall street to Union Square. The tunnel is to follow
the line Of Broadway.
Year: 1868



 Perhaps no one medi- cine is so universally re- quired by everybody as & cathartic, nor was ever any before so universal ly adopted into use, in. every country and among all classes, as this mild but efficient purgative PML. The obvious req. son is, that it is Q more re- liable and far more effec- tual remedy than any other. Those who have A T. n
Year: 1868

1t was a very pretty little baby
that is, for baby. l had no fault to
find with it, as far as its individual
identity was concerned. If babies
must exist-and suppose there is a
necessity for the thing, or else where
would ali the grown people come from?
this baby was al we'll in its way
as any other baby.


mention these facts merely to prove
that ana in no way prcjudiced. AS
far as mortal man can be, l am an en-
tirely an impartial witness.


1t was fast asleepin its cradle-a little
white headed doll, with long, dark eye
lashes, and crimson dot on the mouth,
against which lay its tiny fist, with Eve
well-defned dimples in the five joints
thereof 1t was fast asleep, l say, when
Bertha came airlly into the room.


Il am going over to the depot to see
mother off, Joseph, I'll be back in half
an hour. Just keep an eye to the baby
while am gone, will you Z"


1 looked blankly at my sister. But
while / was considering how best TO
express nv total dissent from her au-
dacious proposition she tripped ont of
the room, her ribbons hutteriDg in the
soft spring air.


Silence doesn't always give consent,
but Bertha had taken it for granted, in
this matter, and I was left an unwilling
guardian of my little nephew.


However ne was fast asleep, that was
one circumstance in my favor. Nor
tai baby couldn't present a more inno-
cent and cherubic aspect than he did
So calmly went. on with my writing,
soon obliviaos to his iufantile presence.


"Talk about tending babies," quoth
I to myself, dipping my goose quill
triunphantly into the ink, "why, its
the easiest business in life. I should
never spend my money hiring nurses,
if that little one was Iniue-but women
never do know how to economize prop
erly.


As these fancies passed through my
mind, the baby woke up and sneezed.


gave the cradle an oscillatory kick,
and then burst forth into the we'll
known burden of "Bye baby hunt
ting" but the little villain absolutely
declined to shut his eyes again, like
sensible baby. He opened them wider
than two miniature moons, stared at
me with an air of malevolence that has
made me a firm believer in human de-
pravIty ever since, and deliberately be-
gan to cry. And the harder 1 rocked
the cradle and the longer l sang, the
more resolutely did the baby cry.


"He's hungry" thought | to myself
"Babies must be fed, and it's highly
reprehensible of Bertha to stay away
so long"
So l went down into the pantry and
Year: 1868

A black baby-spankiDg cannot come
off in any part of the South, but the
Radical press calls out 'auother o II
rage" and dying wall goes up for
g m ore military" The wolf crying bus
mess has been pushed to its extreme
limit. The discussions of the Radical
journals have really no more to do with
the questions of the hour than so many
rhymes on Mother Goose. There Is
Year: 1868




WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w. Va. !


August &c, 1868.


GENERAL: l have had the honor to
receive your letter of this date, and in
accordance with your suggestion I have
conferred with a number Of gentlemen
from the South, in whose judgment l
have confded, and who are acquainted
with the public sentiment of their re-
spective States. They have kindly con-
sented to unite with me in replying to
your communication, and their names
will be found. with my own, appended
to this answer. With this explanation,
we proceed to give to you, according to
statement, what we believe to be the
sentiments OF the Southern people in
regard to the subject to which you re-
fer. Whatever opinion may have pre-.
vailed in the past with regard to Afri-
can slavery. or the right of State to
seccde from the Union, we believe We
express the almost unanimous Judge
ment of the Southern people when we
declare that they consider that these
Year: 1868

THE Sorrow OF. OTHERS. There
is no question but habitual cheerful


ness is very great blessing. But
when cheerful people are lauded, let it
be remembered, as a general thing
that they are no more commended for
it than a person for the possession Of 81
pair of beautiful eyes Cheerfulnsssf
is a matter of health and constitution.


An invalid or a nervous person-ayeTyg p
sensitive person, easily affected by at+4
mospheric and other influences, cannot
be uniformly cheerful He may de,
much toward endeavoring to be SO, it is :
true, but it must be thing of effort.


Many people are cheerful beeaus, they
are apathetic. The sorrows of others
not being their own, are easy to- bear. .
We do not wish to decry this suciSl
sunshine, but let US not forget there
are very sweet flowers that flourish and ;
give out perfume only in the shade.
Year: 1868

from tne new 1OTk hoIluJ


Who any longer doubts the setting of
the tides Let him look at Connecticut!
When one short month ago the wave
first broke in angry thunder on the
granite Iedges of New Hampshire, the
Radical office holders and contractors
and impeachers affected to mistake its
voice of doom for casual surge of the
political sea- This in their public
prints they, did. Bnt in the private
haunts of those who shape their party
end another and very different spirit
ruled. There were dismay, anxiety,
and a frantic desperation prompting
to any measure by which the
rising tide might haply be stayed
ere its ayenging billows should
sweep over aud sweep away
the fabric of moral despotism and po-
litical corruption called Government of
the Union by the Rump of arCongress.
By universal consent it was felt that
the elections of April in Connecticut
would be the crucial test of the power
of this despotism and this corruption
to check the Real Reaction OF the
American People to American Princl-
pies. On those elections all the re-
sources of the most opulent party this
country has ever seen were lavished.
Money was. poured into Connecticut
from all the great centres of Radical
Power. The High Court of Impeach-
ment sat in Judgment upon every office
holder in the sturdy little State, bidding
him tremble for his head, for the eye Of
Wade, the coming man, was upon
him. And as if this were not enough,
the General of the Armies" as the 1ri-
bune with an ihsolent parade of militia
ry power pOmpously describes him, was
leashed and then let loose upon the
field to threaten with the terrors of the
sword and to palsy with the prestige of
the great name Won for him by the sac
ritice of thousands of heroic lives. All
that Radicalism could do-more than
all that Americans bred in the tradi-
tions of American freedom had ever
dreamed an American party would dare
to attempt-was done. And now, the
answer coNes.i


The wave that rose on New Hampshire,
sweeps in victory over Connecticut.
The voice of the People that daunted
these bioated tyrants Of an hour in
March, damns them in April. The CO.
horts that came down to the battle
cleaning in purple and gold, in the pur-
pie of place aud the gold of corruption,
where are they today


"The~m might of the GENTLE, unsmOte by the


sword
Hath melted, like snow in the glance of the


Lord" ..


To Connecticut, which speaks to-day,
the West will answer with Wisconsin
TO- morrow. The Real Reaction" has
set in; and in its triumphant and aveng-
ing progress neither banded wealth,
nor the glamour of great names prosti-
tuted to petty ends, nor any living thing
shall avail to stay the coming of the
People once more to enjoy their OWE.
Year: 1868




A letter from California contains the
following queer story. "The large es-
tate sf Senator Broderick, who was
killed in duel, was disposed Of under
a will which was proven to be forgery
concocted after his death in New York,
aAd so pronounced by yone of our dis
trict judges, before whom the case was
tried. The difficulty in the matter was
mat the forgery was not proven until
The will Lad been duly admitted to
probate by the County Court, aud the
District Court decided that the admis.
sion of the will to probate was final
NY, and after that no action could be
taken to Set it aside as fraudulent. As
said, under this decision, the whole
estate, now worth millions of dollars,
was held, and the present holders have
q clear title through a will known to
oe forgery. much doubt if such an
other case can be found Oh the record
Ot the courts of any country outside of
California"
Year: 1868




The Naples correspondent of The Pail Mall
Gasefte writing the Goth Of January says: "This
town has been afflicted by dreadful catastrophe, by
which many persons have lost their lives. Those Of your
readers who have been at Naples will remember the
by Santa Lucia to the ChiatamOne passing between the
ancient villa Of Lucullus Caste deli UOyO and the
precautions cliffs OF PiZZoalcOne. Last evening shortly
before eight part Of the cliff became ooened and rushing
down with hOrTid crash buried the houses beneath ts
ruins The shock felt all around and the barracks at
the ton OF the cliff well as the neighbOnng houses be
low are In very unsafe condition. and have been cleared
OF the inhabitants The ruined houses account or the
confined space which they built were fortunate
ly not so large EeapOtan houses usually are sun t
az time among Others said foreigners just
arrived from Rome and who were gong 10 their
hotel omnibus passing that the cliff fell some
wonderful escapes related The OwnerOf coral shOp
had lust shut his shop and had gone only few yards
when the crash came and he stood there safe In person.


but q ruined cafe full. was buried, but the
yaulted ceiling resisted the pressure, and the nmateb
were enabled to make their exit through ssure In the
walls not quite blocked up Next the cafe was wine
shop that s however, completely buried but Is hOHd
thai t. like the cafe, will have resisted the shock, ana
that the people there OF the time may still be got out safe
II hone that Is strengthened by the shOutngs whcn
are heard proceeding from beneath the runs The
news spread rapidly, and all the authorizes were
sOon on the spot cOrOns were formed 10 Keep ON ho
mob and the military at once set To work by elec
trc ght clear away the ruins AS wrle The scene
is most remarkable. All Naples seems 70 be hooking 20
the spot and the excitement Is intense as a mnuated
CORPSE or some wounded person still alive s exracted
from the ruins and these latter are carried on IN the NIL


ary ambulanoes to the hospital OF the Pee1n IN fact
the excitement great that the Prefect has pubshed
an address TO the citizens intoxicating cainness ana
order"