smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

"Maek" writes as follows to the Cincin
natl Commercial


There have been rumors in this city, for
a few days, of a contemplated duel between
Butler and Nelson, growing out Of angry
words about the Alta Velt letter. What
took place in the Senate yesterday is already
before the public how a resolution was Of
fered to censure Nelson for saying that he
''held himself responsible here or else
where" &c and how Nelson was asked 10
explain what be meant, and frankly explain
ed that he meant what he said, which left
the matter precisely where it stood before
that is, if Butler wants satisfaction he
can have it. In private convers alton, Mel
son is much more explicit. He says he
had been compelled to sit and listen to But
ler's bullying long enough, and that he took
advantage of the Alta Vela controversy
to tell him that he wouldn't do so any lon
ger. A friend asked him if intended to pro-
woke fight with Butler, to which be
promptly replied that he ''meant to fix it 50
that if Butler wanted fight he could have
it, Nelson is as quiet and inoffesive sort
of man as you'll meet with in a days trav-
Ell. There is nothing of the braggart or bull
ly about him. No trace of the Southern
chivalry in his manner or bearing.
Year: 1868

An old lady once said that her idea Of
a great man was "a man who is kesrful
of his clothes, can read the Bible without
spelling the words. don't drink spirits.
and can eat a cold dinner on wash day 20
save the winmem folks the trouble OF
cooking" u
Year: 1868

An Irishmau being IN church where
the collection apparatus resemblcd an
election box, in its Being passed to him
whispered in the carriers ear that he
was not naturalized, and could not vote,
but he was ready to make speech.
Year: 1868

Yesterday tho township OF Flushing was thrown into


state Of excitement In consequence OF the discovery OF
the dead body Of an aged lady, Ann Van Ast which
was suspended from of the bed posts In her cham
ber Twas at nrs, supposed tha, che had committed
suicide but from the facts dsduced before Coroner Lebs
who ned an iuquet the body, is feared that the
Year: 1868

The REcoNsTRUCTIoN COMMITTEE will hold
meeting Tomorrow 10 come TO some conclu-
sion in regard to the constitution of Florida


submitted TO them by the House for report and
about which there has been so much discussion.
Year: 1868

MUTILATED CURRENCY-Much Of the
soiled and dilapidated currency now
passing from hand to hand in the coun-
try could be put out of circulation by a
proper concert of action on the part of
those receiving Irrge quantities of the
same daily. Small dealers and citizens
having no more of this circulation me-
dunn than is necessary to I'LL up the gaps
between large notes, of course, will not
take the trouble to forward currency TO
Washington for redemption. But the
Brooklyn Eagle very properly suggests
that the 90 duty of exchanging the worn
currency for new devolves upon corpora
tions like railroad and ferry companies
which receive large amounts of small
change. If they would in all cases take
the trouble to sort out the currency they
take in and send on for exchange all that
is not fit for circulation, we should get
rid of the annoyance Of handling dirty
and doubtful stamps These companies
and large retail dealers are directly in
terested in maintaining the purity of the
currency, and it is in tn power to so
maintain it, at very littl-trouble and no
loss to themselves"
Year: 1868

A CERTAIN editor gives his opinion in
the following terms: "a talkative wo
man is one of the most agreeable com
panions in the world--the very soul Of
society. We like to hears sprightIy
woman talk SO necessarily Mat you can
not get word in edgeways. It frees
you from embarrassment: promotes socia-
bility, and gives you heart to slip in a
soft saying or SO, whenever such thing
is possible; whereas, silence is a bore not
to be endured, breeding awkward en-
barrassment and restraints. Give US a
woman who knows how to talk All
mankind are not of this gentleman's
taste. We know few who are ayerse to
being talked to death even by pretty
woman.
Year: 1868




CoTToN-THEN AND Now.-WheE
is to be fulfilled the Radical prophecy in
regard to free labor at the South
Louisiana makes one hogshead of sugar
by labor where she made ten in 1860,
and Mississippi one bale of cotton where
she raised four The sugar and cotton
fields remain at the South as before the
war, and there are free Africans there
with strong arms and hungry stomachs
by tens of thousands, but they coutrive
not to labor and are encouraged by the
Radicals to think more of the ballot than
of bread. The fear now is that only
negro labor will ever produce cotton
cheaply and successfully. Natives or
immigrants cannot, bed even when
hoed it must finally beNeked by hand,
which costs months of monotonous toll.
White laborers can hoe and plough, but
the four months monotonous picking
which was the work of the negro, though
a light labor, they will not readily sub
nit to, nor will the negroes, who are
naturally indolent We say not this in
the interest of slave labor, for that is
gone forever; but as proof that negroes
will not do in state of freedom for
themselves what they did in state of
slavery for themselves and others.-NeO
York Erpress.
Year: 1868

THE PooR BoY.-Dou't be ashamed my
lad, if you have patch on your elbow.
It is no mark of disgrace. 1t speaks well
for your Industrious mother. For our
part we would rather see dozen patches
on your jacket than hear one profano word
escape from, your lips. No good boy will
shun you because YOU cannot dress as we'll
as your companions; and if bad boy
sometimes laughs at your appearance, say
nothing my lad, but walk on. We know
many a rich and good man who was once
as poor as we.
Year: 1868

" The Tennessee River Improvement
Committee, becoming impatient at the de-
lay of the Senate about acting on the
House bill in relation to their project,
have met and passed resolutions urging
the Tennessee Senator's to bestir them
selves in the matter.
Year: 1868

" The report that Mr. Doolittle has
resigned his position since the meeting of
the Democratic National Convention in
consequence of being Unwilling to support
the Seymour ticket is pronounced false by
that Senator. He will support the tick
set and engage actively in the canvass, and
is perfectly sanguine of its success.
Year: 1868

ef General Scott, the newly elected
Governor Of South Carolina, is earnest in
his advocacy of the Blue Ridge Railroad.
He shows a decided interest in the mate
rial prosperity of the State over which he
happens to preside. w
Year: 1868

VI The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
in Brownlow Providence evidently intend
ed to show how much of the hyena and
how little Of the man was necessary to
constitute Radical Governor.
Year: 1868

"WoopMAN, SPARE THAT TREE Am
EPISODE OF THE EAST END.-A few days
ago the workmen engaged in grading the
east side of Twenty-ffth street, prepara-
tory to laying the pavement, found it neces-
sary to sacrifice beautiful tree, which for
years had shaded and adorned the dwelling
of one of the residents Of that thorough
fare. This resident, on learning their de-
sign, pleaded most eloquently for the life
of the tree. With fearful eyes he related
to them the many happy hours he had
dreamed away beneath its cooling shade
he told them how, season after season, it
had put forth it's green and lovely foliage
as a shield from the burning rays OF q
summers sun. But all his appeals were
fruitless, and so, in silence and in tears, he
stood while the axe was raised, and stroke
after stroke descended upon his cherished
elm, till finally, succumbing to the sharp
edge of the axe, it gracefully swept to the
ground, clothed, for the last time, IN the
golden hue Of autumn.


Now, mark the sequel, which proves that
none die SO poor but that the possession OF
their effects is worth squabbling for. Nc
sooner is this poor tree laid low than does
this same resident, rapidly dropping from the
romantic to the matter-of-fact, and smother
ing within his bosom oil the pleasant recol-
lections and associations connected with the
departed tree, unfeelingly seek and cruelty
demand as his right the possession Of Its
body because, he argues, it stood in front
of his house) for-tuel. Alas poor cut
down tree, this, to you, was the "most un-
kindest cut of ALL"


But, like the appeals for the life Of the
tree, this argument for the possession OF
its body availed nothing. The "wood-
man " couldn't see it," 80, having cut up
the body into cord-wood style he quietly
carted it away. 'Tis said that a fair ex-
change is no robbery; so we advise the
resident to be content with neat and sub
stantial pavement in lieu of his soon-to-be
FORGOTTEN tree,
Year: 1868

A Convict IN Two SUITS OF CLOTHES
One of the penitentiary convicts, named
Hill, engaged in digging the culvert on
Fourteenth street near the Exchange Hotel
was discovered to have On o citizens suit
under his prison uniform by the guard on
Saturday. He was marched into bar
room near by and disrobed Of his citizens
dress and escorted back to his work. DE
evidently intended to escape if he was ever
sent after water for the force, but the
guards eyes we're too piercing for him this
time
Year: 1868




Rritish view Of Grants Election.
ESora the London Morning Star, Oct II.


The question to be decided next month is
pule ely inn perial, as opposed 10 the many local
questions and phases OF political feellng whicn
more or les enter into the decision OF all state
elections, The people at large will be called on
TO say whether they prefer the sagaclous soldier
who brought the war 10 n victorious Ierinlna-
lion, or the plotting poltlclan whose sytnpa-
thies were with the Rebels and whose )licy
Would be directed to the strengthening OF that
parIy in power which is daily plunging the
South deeper and deeper into anarchy. some
of The Northern politicians, even Of the Repub-
ljcan patty, have been hoping against nope that
the beaten Shareholders would understand the
logic OF events, and cease To struggle for that
unjust supremacy over the colored race Whlcn
terminated with slavery. They were willing
to toTeet the issues Of the war, to welcome back
the representatives for Southern conSJituen-
cies, and TO discuss with them the remaining
subjects of controversy on the old ground or
equality under the Constitution. The history
OF President Johnson's administration has
shown, however, that the Southern politicians
are incorrig lble, that they cannot be entrusted
with the management of affairs apart from
the supervision of the central government,
that wherever they have the power they will
and that in order TO get power they will not
scluple TO have resort TO bloOdshed and terror
Should Seymour be elected President the four
wears of his term would be used by the South
Tor the purpose of endeAvoring to recover its
old asct ndancy, and only miracle could pre-
vent the civil war from breaking out with
greater bitterness than before. The action of
The Georgia House of Legislature In turning
out all the legally elected representatives wno
were tinged with negro blood Is q specimen of
of these well-beaten but still unrepentant
klaynhOldpIS,
Year: 1868

made many assumptions but none but the Lord had
ever put forth such claims. He spoke OF the
sity OF the moral renovation Of mankind
and declared that there was as much vice In the
rosewood ana damask upper avenues as in the low
est sinks OF the Five Points. Christ came as the
Saviour OF the world to give rest and In his sin
was like the Wandering Jew, who could find no rest
for the soes OF his feet There was no one to save
but Christ himself, who was born in stable, and
had made the proclamation, "Come unto me and
will give you rest" Millions had heard II and had
fallen at jesus feet ana found the rest they sought,
and all could come and be saved through his death
and resurrection.
Year: 1868

Contrasted with the drearIness and inclenency OF
che weather ON Saturday the sabbath dawned upon
a damp. chilly atmosphere and mud enveloped city,
with something OF that solar cheerfulness which
raises the spirits OF the Responding very much as
heat impes the mercury in the tube upward, and as
the walks were well "aired" and dried by the time
the sweettoned bells called the faithful to worship,
she streets and churches were presently filed in part
by those OF the more fashionable classes who were
DESTROYS OF listening TO good sermons the beauty
of humility and exhibiting their bonnets Of the latest
and most orthodox fashion. The edinces were also
well attended by the deyout in heart and thus the
Sabbath was what it imports-one OF rest from
physical and mental toll.
Year: 1868

FIRST MONDAY IN APRIL,
Enter upon the performance of his official duties
for the current year. He would call particular at
tention to the following section of the Revenue
Law:


If any person shall willfully make, or give,
under oath or affirmation false list of his, or her.
or their taxable property, atalse list of taxable
property under his, her, their control, such per-
son shall be deemed gnity of perjury, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor, as
is by law provided for the punishment of perjury ;
and any property willfully concealed, removed
transferred, or misrepresented by the or any
agent thereof, to evade taxation, shall upon dis
covery, be assessed at ten times the amount of tax
for that year, which would otherwise have been
assessed upon 1t and fifty per cent of the amount
OF such additional tax, when solicited, shall be paid
to the person or persons who shall furnish the
information which reveals the property so conceal
ed, transferred, removed or msrepresented and the
remaining fifty per cent, after deductng the usual
per centage for collection, shall be paid into the
Treasury, for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State"


Attention is also directed to the following section
of the Act of 1866 relating to Shasta county:


The Assessor of said county is authorized and
1t is hereby made his duty to collect all the poll
per capita tax except the road poll tax and che
taxes upon all movable personal property and upon
the entry of any assessment of movable personal
property, to any person. firm, corporation associa-
ton, or company. who does not own real estate
sufficient in the opinion of the Assessor to insure
the payment of such tax within the county, to de-
mand the payment of the taxes upon the same ;
and if such person, firm, corporation, association,
or company shall refuse neglect to pay such
taxes the Assessor shall, by virtue of the power
herein vested in him, proceed to collect such taxes
in the same manner prescribed by law for the Col
lector." -


If Tax Payers were to have a list of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to. as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them they
would thereby perhaps save themselves much an
noyance, as well as facilitate my work


A. P. LADD


Assessor of Shasta County.


Shasta, March e, 1867 m7
Year: 1868

SLANDER.-The following story in an en-
vious Eastern exchange is denied by the
young ladies of Chicago:


The maidens of Chicago have learned a
trick or two from the married women as to
the power of the Courts. One of them kept
her betrothed on his good behavior bv threats
OF suit for breach of promise. If he was
absent from her tor two days there came
note Darling-IfI do not see you in two
hours shall commence the suit Thy ador-
ing Marion Naturally he went. If she
wished to go to concert, and be did not pro-
less Willingness to escort her, there came
note: My own Thornley-The papers
are IN the hands of lawyer Faithfully
yours. The youth endured all this, until
sna S insisted on his taking class in an infant
TTIsnoay Tsy School and cutting off his imperial
conduct" ioi
Year: 1868

ADVANTAGES OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN
THE SExEs.-What makes those men who
associate habitually with women superior
to others? What makes that woman who
is accustomed to and at ease in the company
of men superior to her sex in general?
Solely because she is in the habit of free,
graceful and continual conversation with the
other sex. Women in this way lose their
frivolity, their faculties awaken, their deli
cacies and peculiarities unfold all their beauty
and captivation in the spirit of intellectual
rivalry. And the men lose their pedantic,
rude, declamatory or sullen manner. The
coin of the understanding and the heart is
interchanged continually. Their asperities
are rubbed off; their better materials pol.
ished and frightened, and their richness,
like fine gold, is wrought into finer workman
ship by fingers of woman than it ever could
be by those of man. The iron and steel
of our. character are.laid aside like the harsh
ness of a warrior in time of peace and
security
Year: 1868

REINDEL. the Prussian headsman, lives in
n very fine house in the neighborhood of
Havelberg, and is well off but his neigh
bors studiously refrain from holding any in
tereourse with him. He says he never yet
met with criminal who was to be beheaded
but whose courage finally gave way. He
thinks hanging would be better mode of
execution, nearly every criminal being afraid
of tho pain which they think the ak, in cut
ting off their heads, would give them. He
says the most trying moment for him is al
ways that of his confronting his victim for
the first time for the purpose of looking at his
neck and cutting off his hair. All the wo-
men whom he beheaded, he says. tainted as
soon as they caught sight of him and learned
who he was, and what he wanted of them.
He denounced as wanton cruelty the prac-
tice of reading once more to the criminal the
whole long sentence passed upon him after
he has reached the scafold. He thinks that
there is still sensibility in the head for sew
eral minutes after it has been severed from
theotrunk. A woman beheatled in Mecklen-
berg, in 1866, had tainted on the scaffold, and
seemed perfectly lifeless when she was tied
to the block. After her head was off he
picked it up, and saw to his horror that the
ewes opened slowly, with an expression OF
Sreat.agony lie tnlhKs tue most humane way
of executing criminals would be to kill them
in an hour or an hour and half after their
sentence has been announced to them, and
not compel them to walk or ride to distant
place of execution, but to execute them, il
possible, in their own prison for the walk
to the scaffold, he says, is always dreadful
torture for the criminal, few of the strongest
men being able to retain their composure,
uUhila tho vropaan without avoarfion hova RI
be carried to the block. Occasionally, he
says, feeble women arouse themselves at the
last moment, and offer the most desperate re
sistance, so that he and his assistants once OF
twice were hardly able to fasten them to the
block
Year: 1868

ened, falling hair checked, and bald ness often, though not always, cured by its use. Nothing can restore the hair where the follicles are destroyed, or the glands atrophied and decayed. But such as remain can be saved for usefulness by this application. Instead of fouling the hair with pasty sedi- ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous. Its occasional use will prevent the hair from turning gray or falling off, and consequently prevent badness. Free from those deleterious substances which make some preparations dangerous and injurious to the hair, the Vigor can only benefit but not harm it. If wanted merely for ,75-' + '.
Year: 1868

lWasihhSIoh correspondence (May 81 BostOn POST


Democrat


prominent politician held conversation with
General Grant few days since the subject OF the
next Presidential canvass, during which Grant ex-
pressed the same indifference which Is being exhIb-
tied by the masses OF the people throughout the
country He took occasion to crtcise very severely
the conduct OF Chief Justice Chase and said that II
re tGrant had been as anxious for the Chicago
nomination as Chase was that perhaps he would
ee more interest In the result. He also expressed
the opinion that Chase was still fishing for q NOM
ination by the extreme radicals. /" But, General ~
said his friend, you are now the candidate of these
very men," don't SO understand it," replied
General Grant, :" and when you see my letter OF ac-
ceptance you Will discover that such Is not my
position" This would seem to indicate that Grant
Is about going back on his Chicago friends IL is
very certain he begins to feel thai defeat awaits him
In the contest. He charges that Judge Chase Is
responsible for any disaster which may overtake the
radical party.
Year: 1868

ject of envy or jealously, nor to have this
war continue. I want and will do my
part toward it, to put down the rebellion
in the shortest possible time, Without ex-
pecting or desiring any further recogni-
ton than quiet approval of my course.


| beg that you will destroy this letter;
at least, do not show it. r.oar-


Julia and the children are here, but
will go up by the first boat. L sent for
her TO como and get instructions about
some business want attended to, and see
no Immediate prospect of attending to
myself. Ulysses.
Year: 1868

facts and figures, is the Democratic party


likely to stop the visits of the collector


except by refusing to pay hiur2 If the


party of which the Southern chiefs have


again taken the command, should come
into power, will it probably insist upon
paying the cost of suppressing the rebel
lion and decline, to considerfhe pensions
of rebel soldiers and compensation Tor
rebel losses 2-r Certainly not: 1t Will
e tber, say, pay the whole,s sor7it9will stand
BY its platform and repudiate the whole
Year: 1868

uAvE PROVED, FROM THE MOST AMPLE
IL experience, entire success: Simple
Prompt-Effcient and Reliable. They are tho
only Medicines perfectly adapted to popular use,


so simple that mistakes cannot be made In


using them so harmless to be free from dam
ger, and so efficient as to be always reliable.
They have raised the highest commendation from
Year: 1868

We know not what We owe those tireless
nights Of prayer. The Worlds Redeemer
there made intercession for all coming genera
tions. What vast trains Of the children Of
men must have swept in review before the Sa-
viours eye! And as the shepherd knows asd
recognises each little lamb In all his flock, 20
our Shepherd. In those nights Of watchfulness
and prayer, knew and looked upon us, for
who m he came to suffer and atone. For his
chosen he sent upward the voice Of intense,
earn est prayer. asking mercy for the sleeping
world at his feet, and for the unborn world
which no saw with divine vision.
Year: 1868

Debates in the House Of Commons and


In the House OF Representatives.


Through the enterprise and liberality of Mr..
Cyrus w. Field our readers have regularly re-
oceived for several days past the report from Lon
don of the debate on the Alabama question in
the British House of Commons. Upon the first
completion of the cable we ourselves spent
seventy or eighty thousand dollars for news
transmitted by it, and so produced the first
effect on the public mind, giving the public
real impression of the influence that great en-
terprise was to have in the future. We are
glad to see that Mr.. Field takes the happy
occasion of this debate-of so much Importance
to us-to deepen and extend the same impress
sion.


Incidentally this piece of cable enterprise
has another and very peculiar result. 1t
puts side by side in the columns Of the city
dailies the debates in the two great deliberative
assemblies ofthe world of free government. On
one page we might read the debate of the pre-
vious day in the House Of Representatives at
Washington-on another the debate that oc-
Cured two or three nights before in the House
of Commons In London. Comparisons were
naturally made. No sense Of pride in our own
or spirit of nationality could blind the popular
perception to the fact that this comparison was
not in our favor. In the debate in the House
of Commons every speaker who rose seemed
really to understand the subject, contributed
thought to the discussion, and appreciated the
weight of the case but turning from that to
the House of Representatives one could find
by comparison only provocatives to contempt.