smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

dit, which has been time in existence, and has
been confirmed denied, with reference 70 the
Road Hill murder, now exciting 80 much comment In
Engandt may not be unnterestng TO your readers 20
know that Mr. Kent the father Of Miss Kent 10 under
stood generally 70 be negtmate Of his late royal
Highness the Duke Of Kent father Of Queen Victoria
and consequently Miss Kent the self accused criminal
ID the niece Of the Queen Of England.
Year: 1865

arrival the Emperor and Empress, with their younger
breahess clay that once the hope OF all the Russas
will be deposited, amid the imposing ceremonial Of the
Greek Church, BY the SIDE OF his ancestors in the citadel


The retirement Of General Mourave from the govern
ment Of Lithuania after being 70 long talked Of has
finally come upon us by surprise Pains have evidently
been taken TO let him down gently possible and We
assured by the Official journals that everything
It should DO in Lthiania, and that change Of system
is Intended but thect that not only MouravieG himself
but his two assisans Chrustchof and Poapo have been
removed from Their poss, In suicont proef that the
policy Of which hey were the representatves--the
policy OF what they called Russincaion and the Poles
determination to be substantially modified The old
Russian party furious and their rage increased by
the appointment Of officer Of German extraction
General kaufman-to the vacant governor generashp,
which they look upon as adding insult 70 injury al
though the conduct OF Count Berg In Warsaw might tell


them that man may have German name and yet pur-
Russapiyng tendencies strenuously " he de-
rived his pedigree from Oprcuik Of Ivan the Terrible


Since the death Of President Lincoln, which excited
much horror and dsmay here, ~ In the rest OF
Europe Foreign Minister is rather uneasy about the


lately at the urgent request Of Austria You proba
bly, aware that the Russian envoy at Washington had
sse Emperor the stability y whosc hoDs


10 REGARDED depending almost exclusively upon his


cognittn BY the United States An Intervention In his
favor, was thought, would have q better chance OF
being listened 10 AT Washington N proceeding from
Power like Russia, which had always sympathzed wisa


the cause OF the Union, than II offered by France
which bad taken advantage your troubles
establish the very monarchy for which tho magnanmous
forbearancc OF the victorious republic In invoked
Any how the moderate and concilatory disposition Of
Mr. Lincoln guarantee that the proposa would be
received In friendly spirit and cause no interruption in
the harmony that has hitherto existed between tho
governmental 10 which Russia attaches the utmost value
But Mr. johnson IL, by oil accounts OF different
stamp, as vigorous and uncompromisng a. his predeces
mild and placable, and he may resent any at
tempt to interfere In the International relations Of TIE
United States as uncalled for and impertinent II
would be extremely curious II Prince Gorsohakon should
get into scnpe out Of compsisspce for the Austrans
with whom he has been carrying diplomatic warfare
Italy and who plotted 10 turn Russia out OF Poland
Year: 1865

THE PERILs OF THE CABLE.-The recent narra-
tive of the . laying of the cable furnishes one
of the most striking Illustrations on record Of
what apparently insignificant circumstances may
cause the failure delay of vast projects. This
momentous enterprise which has for years been
n subject of so much interest throughout the
whole civilized world, in danger of being
defeated through the agency Of bit of wire two
inches long, and no thicker than darning nee
die. This tiny piece of steel fell unnotced on
the coil of cable the weight of the external lay
ers pressed it into the tarred hemp which forms
the outside covering of the cable, where it ad-
hered. While in the tank it did no harm, but
when this portion to be paid out, the
small diameter of the eight leading wheels which
give access to the paying-out machine, and the
weight of the jockey pulleys over these, which
keep the rope in its place, bent the stout iron
wire so sharply that it passed between the hemp,
pierced the gutta percha through at least two or
three of its four folds, and there remained. In
this state it was found, and instantly recognized
piece of wire from the splice joint. This is
but one example among thousands which serve
to show the almost insuperable difficulties which
beset this great nterprise-difficulties which it
seems to require an almost superhuman vigilance
to guard against.
Year: 1865

How REBEL PRISONERS LlvE.-LErrrR FROM
GENERAL EwELL.-The Newark Daiiy Adrertiser
says: lady in Boston sends to her husband
in this city the following


What difference in the treatment of the rebel
prisoners at Fort Warren and ours at Richmond
inclose you an autograph letter of Major Gene
raj Ewell to the post sutler at Fort Warren, by
which you can see that instead of being melan-
choly with severe treatment, he absolutely was
ndulging his curiosity with regard to the food
in our New England clmatc-just as we should
be hunting up rats for dinner in China-sav rat
one day and mouse the next.


The letter referred 10 in the ahnre Is Cnlnu...
Year: 1865

A PARIS SToRY-The Paris correspondent OF
the New Orleans Picayune gives the following
Easter-eye a wealthy banker went to one of the
famous jewellers shops in the Rue de la Paiz,
and asked to look at some bracelets. As his face
was familiar, the handsomest on hand were


shown to him, and he selected one which cost


$4,000 He put his visiting card in the casket


which contained the jewel, and ordered all to be


placed in great sugar egg-for our Easter eggs
are confectioner Send that TO Mdlle. --,


mentioning the name of a popular dancing girl


of the grand opera. He added By the way,


show me some rings-not too costly" he Sc
lected a ring worth Si0O and placed it in su-
gar egg. . Send that to- Mde. - giving


his wifes name. He paid for both articles, and
tripped with light step to his club, played his
accustomed game of whist, and about 10 o clock


went TO the dancing girls lodgings. She was
lolllng on her sofa. She received him coldly.


He was astonished for after man has made
Partisan present of 81, 900 he has right TO
expect not only continuance but an increase OF
her friendship After abusing him roundly for
a stingy fellow, she rang the bell and her cham
bermaid answered it, She said to the latter


. Cecle show your hand to Mr.. Meanness.
Cecile, with the characteristic mpudence of To-
rettes abigails thrust her hand into the bankers
face. He saw gitterng on it the 500 ring he
had selected for his wife. The dancing girl 5
boudor was not as agreeable that MI ght as usual
He abridged his visit. 1t was still early in the
evening he was at loss to know what to do
with himself At last he determined to go home.


He sat smoking in his sitting room for some time,
and then the thought struck him. :. Suppose |
pass the rest of the evening with my wife = He
rang the bell. His body servant entered . Jean,
is your mistress at home - Yes, sir - Go
and ask if she will do me the honor of receiving
ne this evening While the servant gone
On his errand he arranged his dress little, and
upon his wifes affirmative answer, he went to
her rooms. She received him with open arms,
exclaiming You would run me crazy to-day


have never seen a bracelet which suited better
with my taste. Ought not upbraid you with
extravaganza? No: am too much delighted to
utter one word of reproach." She threw her
arms around his neck. They sat side by side on
the sofa. and the banker found the contrast be-
tween the vulgar, uneducated, garret-born and
kitchen-bred dancing girl, delightful. Hours
flew by as if borne on swallows wings. The
next day he broke his meetings with the dancing
girl, and he has since declared that he never
knew what happiness was until Easter-eye
Year: 1865

The decision as to what parties are entitled to
the reward for the discovery anG arrest of the
assassination conspirators, is to be left to board
of officers specially appointed for the purpose
Year: 1865

The Transcript very cruelty remarks - Our cor
respondent, who is so weary of everything but
useful employment, will employ his talent better
and be better prepared for rest hereafter by
going vigorously to work doing good to some
body, and making himself really useful, than by
writing verses.
Year: 1865

UNPLEASANT THINGS To WITNESS. A
dirty shirt covered with clean dickey; good
meat thrown to the dogs; workhouse iuner-
al almost without attendance; mother beat
ing her child because it had been nearly run
over; a country overseer putting out poor
woman by the shoulders: two men fighting
pitched battle on a Sunday afternoon; child
crying for hours together in cradle; man
stuffed with rich food until his legs are obliged
to be tied up "a servant waiting attable with
dirty hands; a woman slipping into the back
door of public house with little jug at tea
time; justice fneing persons for getting
drunk who often gets drunk himself; an old
man of seventy and a young girl of seventeen
going to church to be married; clothes lying
to be motheaten, while there are so many
backs without covering; childrens shoes un-
buttoned, and stockings out at the heels; the
bailiff earring the bed and chairs of poor
widow to the auction-mart to sell for rent; a
poorwife seeking her husband at twelve O'Clock
on Saturday night.
Year: 1865

A correspondent in one Of the darkest regions
of Pennsylvania writes US that good many
votes were won there for the Copperhead ticket
on the strength of the assurance of Jewish
Rabbi that THE TRIBUNE had proclaimed that
Jews and Catholics ought TO have no vote.


OF course, liar will say anything that serves
his immediate end; but en- elector who could
DO influenced in casting his vote by such
story, even had it been true would go very lar
toward demonstrating his Orn unfitness to ex'
ercise the precious Right ofsuirrage. What have
our notions Of the worth or unworthiness ol
Jews aud Catholics" to do with the issues
decided by Pennsylvania in her late Election '
Year: 1865

State Convention of Louisiana resolved that
Congress ought TO recompense those (Rebel or
loyaD who have suffered by Emancipation.
Now, we think, those who have stood openly,
zealouSly, daringly, by the Union throughout,
may reasonably claim some indemnity for their
losses BY Emancipation; but we most emphati-
cally deny that any Rebel can maintain any such
claim whatever. His slaves were freed by his
owr wronS1,i, 49,, a"t Of rAhss,,ior. rAhs,nor There Is no
widow who gave her darling son to fight and
die for the Union whose right to be indemnifed
from the Treasury is not immensely stronger
than that of any STAKEHOLDER whatever


The spirit in which the Southern Whites re-
gard their loyal Black neighborS and fellow
citizens is matter Of controversy. We prefer
TO seek it not in individual acts but in printed
statutes. If those laws are equal. just and
humane, then the current tales of White cruelty
to Blacks in the South are groundless or incon-
elusive. We Judge the feeling Of the Whites
of the South toward the Blacks by what they
choose to place (or retain) on the statute-book.
Need we say more on tnls heau Nay' uV''
not every Copperhead oracle in the North by
its eager, unscrupulous, persistent efforts TO
defame and prejudice the Blacks, sylnce o
spirit which, if manifested by the Southern
allies cs our Democracy, must subject the de-
fenseless Blacks to measureless insult, abuse
and degradation


1.-THE Real Issue" Is still before the American
People. The Democratic platform and ticket in
our State embody and involve an absolute sur
render by the Government of the Southern
Blacks to the tender mercies of the Southern
Whites 1t is a conspiracy of " Squatter soyer-
eighty" with Estate Sovereignty" for the per-
manent brutalizing Of -Four Millions OF our
countrymen. Can the loyal North consent
Can it innocently stand off, and see this gigan-
tic wrong triumph
Year: 1865

The London Quarterly Reriec said in January
last; "The North is fighting for very ancient
aud vulgar object of WARRIOR that which Russia
has secured in Poand-for that which Austria
cings to in Venetia--that which Napoleon
sought in Spain, and for no rietory Of a higher
eirai1ation =" We believe this TO be bitter
calumny, but It is for the people to show by
their wise political action that it is such. Now
Is the time to prove that we sought not terri
toral aggrandizement nor sectional power, but
the establishment of the principles Of the Decla-
ration of Independence. People of Nev.York
will you, by your condemnation Of just and
wise Manhood Suffrage, cheer the hearts of the
enemies Of Republican governments through.
out the world
Year: 1865

The whole number of voters in this city ac-
cording 20 the election returns of 1864, was
lO9,o The whole number thus far regis
tered this year, is 52,G2i. Here is a deficit,
so far, of 57,S23. Either there is that number
of voters who, yesterday and the day before, did
not take the trouble to register their names,
or there were more votes cast than there were
legal voters in 1864 That the latter is true Is o
notorious facts that it has been true in every
| election, for many years past, nobody doubts.
Still it is certain that there are many thousands


of voters who have now neglected the duty OF


enrolling themselves. But there are two more


days, the Friday and the Monday next pre-


cedng election day. on which the Inspectors


sit to complete the Registry. When that is


done we shall know very nearly the exact num-


Der of voters in this city. There are some who
will not take the trouble to secure the right OF
suffrage. Some who are ignorant, and will re-
main So that they must 90 in person before the
Inspectors and see that their names are entered
upon the list. But both classes will not include
a large number, and when the LISTS completed we
shall have an almost accurate count But let
it be remembered, and let those who remember
it impress it upon those who are ignorant of the
fact that no man can vote on election day who
has not personally appeared before the Inspec-
tors to have his name entered upon the Registry
list. On election day every voters name will
be checked when no offers his ballot If one
proposes to vote whose name is not on the list,
bis vote will not be accepted. If the officers
are honest it will be hard to cheat under such q
system,
Year: 1865

The Wirz trial draws to a close. The prisoner
made his statement yesterday in reply to the
charge of murder, which,. with the argument OF
counsel on his behalf, will be found in our re-
port Of the trial.
Year: 1865

We think that Senator Wilson was rather
hard on the sinners when he asked in Troy,
"what the Democratic party had done that it
should liver" He should have remembered
that while the lamp holds out to burn, the vilest
sinner may return. Let the Democrats live to
repent
Year: 1865

Are the military leaders of the rebellion
who surrendered to General Grant, and sub.


sequeptly those who surrendered to other of


our commanding Generals on the same terms,
amepable to the civil laws for their crimes
| Many journals in our State and out of it,


are of the opinion that Grants terms are


eouivolent to a pardon for all acts done in


the past. We are .tornenst that opinion, and
and believe that it stands contradicted out of


General Lees own mouth. In his conversa-
ton with correspondent of the New York


Herald, who sought and received his opin-
ion, he knowing that whatever he might say


would have all the publicity that journal and


others could give it, said


As to the effect of his surrender, be was
| free to say it was severe blow to the South,


but not crushing blow. 1t was of military,
not political significance. l asked, was not
the surrender virtual surrender of the doc
| trine of State rights. By no means. the
General replied. When the South shall be
| wholly subdued there will then undeniably
| be surrender of that doctrine But the
/ ooAiCuucI VI u Siuplc Is
| tary necessity. The army of Northern Vir-
ginia was surrendered because further resist.
| ance on its part would only entail useless


sacrifice of life. But that army was only
part of the force of the South. When the


South shall be forced to surrender all its
forces, and returns to the Union, it irdispu


tably, by that act, surrenders its favorite
1 doctrine of secession. That principle will


then be settled by military power.


We are willing to take his Interpretation


of his position-''i it was of military, not


political significance" According to his


views :" the blow was not fatal"-he was


simply prisoner of war on parole until ex-
changed. The war would go on; he was
still citizen of the confederacy. Every
other commander yielded on the same terms,
and hence it becomes perfectly clear to the
understanding, without the further fact that
he yielded not to preserve himself but to
stop the further ehusion of blood that he is
simply a prisoner of war, without the ques-
ton of his civil status as a citizen of the
United States having been raised or discussed
in the terms of his surrender. This looks
like plain sailing to US, and it looked just so
to Gen. Lee.


We would not have our Government do
anything that could be tortured into breach
of faith on its part, nor do we think that if
its civil law tribunals tries, and if convicted,
hangs every mothers son of them, that it
can be charged. with any show of reason.
that it has violated any compact entered into
by any of its authorities. This, we say,
without going into the fine spun argument
of the question-'can military power make
compact of a civil nature? or of such q
nature as would secure the rebels against the
operation of the civil law after the close of
| the war"


That question needs not to be raised to
settle the issue. Such state Of facts does
not exist as to require it.
Year: 1865

THE body Democratic of Trinity county
degenerate carcass. The Central Committee
has called meeting for July 5th. That is
about as healthy locality for the reptile as
there is hereabouts, but we are inclined to
think that next Fall the monster will be an
initiated even there.
Year: 1865

The Yreka Copperheads recently tired TO
steala march on the Union by obtaining
control of the Fourth of July celebration.
But the latter got wind of it, says the Flag,
turned out in force, out-voted and clcaued
the reptile out Not one of the specie was
suffered to get on the committee
Year: 1865

JUNCTION HILL MINING CoMPASY.-T This
company have got their tunnel in seventy.
hvefset. and expect to strike their best lode
IN short time-next week. They are run.
ming for q series of Iodes and have fair pros
meets
Year: 1865

dent on the Goth at San Quentin. His wag'
on broke down and he tried to raise it with q
stick which broke and struck him on the head


He was taken to his residence in San Rafael
and expired at seven O'Clock in the evening.
Year: 1865

SKT BLuE.-This company have had some
ten tons of rock from their claim crushed
Result Sl0.50pcr ton The rock is abund-
ant and easily obtained The company
contemplate erecting a mill
Year: 1865

To the Petticoat Electors of Hala WaUa


County, ,cho hare been pleased to confer


the honor Of an office on one not in favor Of


Jeff. Dacis or the Platform Of any Cop


perhead party:


1 shall accept the office, and will qualify,
for your benefit, as sooa as possible. You
must excuse me for not calling on any of you
to 60 on my official bond, as expect to be
able to give something better than straw
bond. l will attend to any legal business,
provided my fees are paid in adrGnce with
Lincoln money. l shall not receive for my
services any of JEFF Davis paper, or the mon.
ey of any government not able to protect
itself without being obliged to dress in petit
coats


shall not expect you to endorse me again,
should |, in attempting to execute the law,
find the last ditch and be oblighed to dis
guise myself with pettcoats for protection,
as your noted chief JEFF. Davis has done
Do you wish me to appoint some one of your
number as deputy who has niger on the
ment (since Buchanan's time) but what
have been unconstitutional? If so, when
you apply for the situation, advise you tn
have your candidate well protected by being
surrounded with many hoops.


III. PARKER.
P. S.-The Copperheads, no doubt will
disclaim the responsibility of electing me to
Office after reading the above notice. The
Union forever all traitors and Walla Walla
Democracy to the contrary notwithstanding
Ii. Parker.
Once Democrat.
Year: 1865

power without limit they will find how hopeless
il is to attempt to establish system of govern
mcnt over tree people against their wills VIZ
shall therefore wait patiently and hope. Though
our resources more limited than formsfly,
yet w have enough to make a resistance fnsre
desperate, and, as we believe. more eaectual,
tlian any hitherto exerted against the eh6my


By carefully outstanding these resources and
fighting only for advantages which though
they may be small arr yet certain, we shall in
mist more damage upon the enemy i'll few
months than we could have dom by splendid
victory in pitched battle. and that with hardly
any loss TO ourselves
Year: 1865

The Ouyshogs County Democratic Con-
vention on Saturday adopted the following
resolution, reported by its Committee on
Resolutions:


ResolUed, That as the mechanics and Ia
boring men are the bone and sinew of the
country, and IS the public veal largely
depends upon their prosperity and intelli-
gence, therefore the hours OF the day should
be 80 divided, as 70 sff5rd not only time
for that personal culture enjoyed by more
favored classes.


The resolution was probably drawn by
the Chairman of the Committee, Mr.. j
w. Heisley, as we judge from its spirit sDd
character. But whoever its author may
be, it certainly reflects very little upon his
ingenuity, and its passage is far less com.
mendable to the sense of the Convention.
The triekery of the thing is too palPable
to be mistaken, and to suppose that the
working classes are 70 be blinded by any
such bypocritical jugglery wonld be an in
suit to their intelligence and discernment
1t is simply one of those dimsy, and yet
plausible tricks by which the Democracy
GEEK 10 attract to their cause the thought
less and unwsry. Such, however, are not
the working men of Ouyahogs county,
and the nicola plan will consequently
fsil
Year: 1865

THE THIRD WARD POLICE AND THE Sun
DAY Law. NJ. Tip, restaurant keeper, on
corner of 9Th and y streets, was arrested by
officer r Johnson for keeping open his place
of business on Sunday. The house is located
on the boundary OF 2d precinct, but the Third
Ward officers had seen the violation of law so
frequently that they determined to break 1t mp
Justice Thompson fined Tip $50, which the
latter paid. and announced his intention to ap-
peal In consequence of his arrest by Off GERS of
another ward than that in which he claims TO
be doing business.