smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

The above we clip from one of our excban
ges There is no doubt bat that it is the
Intention OF the radical portion of the Abo-
lition party to compel the people Of this
State to submit TO negro suffrage. Their
prominent journals have pronounced in favor
of it, and men have been nominated for the
legislature who will urge The passage of a
law comforting the right upon negroes. For
tunately for the good name of the State, in
every county where such men have been
nominated the party has split in twain.


The white men Of this State are not vet
so degraded that they will submit to such an
imposition; the public man who ndorses it
will find himself shelved.
Year: 1865

A CANARD CONTRADICTED.-The New
York Herald says: "In order to put a
stop to the absurd candrd ahOat in regard
to the proposition of the President to re,
cognize the rebel Legislature of Virginia
we are enabled to state that the Presi'
dent telegraphed TO Governor Pierpoint
to come at once to Washington, where
long conference was held between them,
the object of which was to perfect
the plan for the restoration of Gov
ernor Pierpoint's Government at Rich
mOnd
Year: 1865

The Power TO MAKE PEACE.-The
Washington Chronicle argues that Presi-
dent Lincoln cannot make peace with the
rebels, as with foreign power, because
the rebel authorities have never been re-
cognized. He may receive oyertures and
grant pardons, but the question OF final


peace and reconstruction must be left to
Congress. The President is authorized
at any time, by proclamation, to extend
to persons who may have participated in


the rebellion, pardon and amnesty, with
such conditions and at such time as he
may deem expedient for the public good.
Year: 1865

OUR ARMIES IN THE FIELD.-The New
York Times and Herald are of the opin-
ion hat the occupation of our armies is
gone, and that the day is at hand that
the majority of the men will be master.
ed out. The Herald would not be sur
prised then if strong tide of emigration
sheuld set in for both Mexico and Canada


in the interest of Republican principles
Year: 1865

, A NOVEL suit is pending before the


Circuit Court in Washington The yes


try of the Thirteenth-stteet Baptist
Church have been sued for damages BY a
Mr. Brienp, efot injury to his property,


caused by the falling of the heavy
steeple of the. church during q tornado
storm.
Year: 1865

ONE cents worth of stout wire bent in


the shape of the letter U is very good
protection against burglars. Hang the
curyed part of the wire on the door knob,
and let the two extremities pass through
the bow of the key after the door is
locked. Then the buglars may rage III
vain, unless they break the door down
Year: 1865

REDUCTION oF WoRK-By order Of
the Chief of Ordnance, Major Laidley Is


about to reduce the product of the


Sprinpfeld armOry to five hundred guns


daily, beginning the decrease With the


entire suspension OF night work. The
former large product-One thousand


guns a day-has been considerably les
saped of late. the number during the last
month having been between SIX and sew
en- hundred per day yGdi 1893
Year: 1865

SEVERE oN DoDGE.-Provost Marshal
Dodge does not appear to succeed any
better in New York than he did in Har-
risburg. The HeraId calls the attention
of the War Department to late order of
his which it pronounces i'll hammered and
i'll advised, and adds: An official who
thus displays his ignorance of good man
ners. and his capacity to appreciate the
position of the country, ought to he at
once removed Dodge appears {" forget
that h. Is a major, net monarch
Year: 1865

INV YoRK, january, 1866.
The Eureka Giff Association is the Original and
Largest Gift Association in the country.
It's business continues TO be conducted in fair
and honorable manner, and greatly increasing
trade is proof that our patrons throughout the
country appreciate this method Of obtaining rich
and elegant goods. None can receive less than the
value Of their money, as no article on our List is
worth less tnan One Dollar, retail, and there are
No Blanks.


try acknowledging the receipt Of very valuable
gifts, may be seen on file at our Office.
Parties dealing with US may depend on having
nedstely sent to any address BY return mail or ex-
press.
Year: 1865

Cur TIE CoNFEDERATEs.-Prince Ma.
polcon, whose Union sympathies have been
so markedly manifested, would not invite
single member Of the Southern Con.
fedoracy to his recent ball The rebel
aristocracy did not like it, but the Prince
does not seem to care much about theii
likes.
Year: 1865




THIS individual Is at present remaining quietly behind
sessed OF spirit Of "dg out acveness' Judging from
recent events II s expected that the Grand Jury at
Port Clinton, Ohio, will ndict him at the June term Of
the court and the will then, by consent,
be transferred the Court Of Common Pleas at Cevc
land, where Burley will be tried. During recent
versaon with the prisoner he expressed his sats
faction that the closed although he seemed to
believe that the result mirht have been otherwise. He
says that the capture OF JEFF Davis after all that indi-
vidua has done to sire the Southern hcar is one Of
the most dseracefnl AFFAIRS record and hopes he will
be tried and hung for treason He also hopes that
raj other bel officials will swing Burley is just o.
much rebel at heart no was and should he be
acquitted on the present charge, he will doubtless go 10
Mexico other section that will afford ample scope
for his wild and adventurous ideas
Year: 1865

to come off at St. Dominick's church Monday
night in the way of May entertainment fDr
the benefit Of the church. The energetic on.
GERS and congregation of that church are work.


ing indefahgably to the end OF raising new
church eoifice
Year: 1865

Last fall the people, undcr mlSIepresen-
tation and falsehood voted for a continue
tion of the war. They did so ignorantly.
Through misplaced confidence in the re-
publican party, they were grossly deceived;
and made to believe that the reelection of
Lincoln would end the war. at once. They
did not believe that Lincoln $ success would
necessarily entail upon them a continuation
of the war, and multiplicity of drafts. =
They did not believe Democrats when told
by them before the election that the success
Of Lincoln would drag the young men of
the country, by means of the conscrption
law, into the army to force upon the nation
through war and blood shed, Lincoln's odi-
Gus negro policy. But since people cast
their votes at the last Presidential election
they have found out few truths to their
cost They have discovered their sad mis-
take. The telegraph had scarcely done
clicking off the news of Lincoln's success,
till along the wires came the order for three
hundred thousand more men, At this
staggering announcement the honest por-
ton OF the republican masses stood aghast.
1t was not thought that men in high places
could practice for political purposes and
success, such gross and intense deception. -
ne ueclaTatlOnS Ol commissioner nitlng,
Provost Marshal General Fry, and Secrc-
tary Seward, previous to the election, that
we had men enough, we're fresh in the
memory of the whole people. Yet ever
since the election almost our entire active
business population, have been engaged in
correcting rolls, procuring exemptions,
looking up men, hunting and begging mon
ey. and making their utmost exertions to
clear the several districts from the pressure
of the pending draft. The strong probabil-
ity is:.that our people will be compelled to
contribute to this same business of respond
ing to calls for more men and money, unless
they have learned wisdom by past expert
ence, and take in their own hands the means
of redressing grievances. The power is
with the people. And they have the OPP
portunity now to commence q redress of
grievances by using their votes at the spring
elections, and through good Judgment, turn
ing them against all drafts.


The draft will cease, the war will stop,
the country will be at peace, the States will
be united, as soon as the people want these
things to be, and as soon as they say so
through their votes Wayne County Demo-
1ruf
Year: 1865

A bit Of glue dissolved in skim milk and
water will restore old Grape. ..-..


Half a cranberry bound on corn will
soon kill it. ..H.


An inkstand was turned over upon white
table cloth, servant threw over it mix
ture of salt and pepper plentifully, and all
traces Of it disappeared.


Picture frames and glasses are preserved
from flies by painting them with brush
dipped into a mixture made by boiling three
or four onions in pint Of water.


Bedbugs are kept away by washing the
crevices with strong salt water put on
with brush.


Soft soap should be kept in dry place in
the cellar, and not be used until three
months old.
Year: 1865

| When the rebellion was precipitated, Fer
nando Wood, then the Democratic Mayor OF
| New York. deliberately and seriously pro-
| posed TO carry that State out of the Union
and annex it to the Southern Confederacy.
Wood insisted that New York had no SYM


pathy in common with the people of the free
| States, and that its true position, while the
South was attempting to establish an indie
| pendent Government, was one of antago-


nism to the national authorities. At the
time that Mayor Wood thus acted and spoke,
he was considered, by those living outside
of New York, as insane, but in the face of
the fact that the rebellion has been over
thrown, and a Southern Confederacy rem
| dered hopeless, what can the people of the
country think of the position taken by New


York, through its Mayor, on the subject of
procuring the defence of jeff Davis and
collecting money for future effort in the
South to renew the war on the Union? We
stated some days since that such meeting
had been held, composed of representatives
from the South, some of whom had been in
the rebel army, and of leading Democratic
citizens of New York; but when this state
ment was put forth ii was denied, the Dem
ocratic newspapers of the country insisting
that no such an assemblage had been in ses-
sion. 1t now appears, however, that these
Southern rebels and Northern Democratic
leaders had been in session, and during the
conclaye, it was openly urged that the South
should and would renew the war on the
Union. The main business of the meeting
seemed to be to procure money for the de-
fence of JEFF. Davis. A Southern delegate
announced that he was on his way to Eng
land, by invitations of prominent English
men, to collect funds for the defence of
Davis, while New Yorkers, who were pres
ent, pledged themselves to raise any amount
of money for the same purpose. The hang
ing of the conspirators and assassins of the
President, in Washington, was denounced
as a murder, but not word was said In
reference to the slaughter of the President.
The soldiers who had fought and won the
battles of the Union, were execrated as vile
Yankees, and referred to by Southern
gentleman" as too mean to be recognized,
and that the people of the South would
never permit tae Yankees to possess hold
on the South. The entire Southern people
were represented as hostile to the Govern
ment Those of the South who now pro-
fessed loyalty, did so only to get power to
use it against the North. Such was the spir-
it of the meeting held in the city of New
York. Therein it was boldly announced
that the war of the rebellion was not fail
ure-that the Democratic party intended to
renew the war, with the South ON the North
that the Confederacy still had an existence
that President johnson was murderer
when he signed the death warrant of Mrs.
Surratt, and that JEFF Davis should and
would be released. All this was said at a
meeting of Southern and Northern Demo
Gratis, backed and encouraged by the Demo
cratic Mayor Of New York city; and this,
platform of the Democratic party.-Har.
Telegraph.
Year: 1865

ADDRESSED TO SECESSION sYMPATHIzRRs.
THE following was taken from the Boston Re.
eoraer, of 1861, and may now be said or sung as {
reminder to our false friends;1
Twill be no thanks to you, good sir,


Twill be no thanks to you,
When our troops come marching home from W ar
The Red, the White, the Blue
Still floating DER them like cloud


of glory as they come,
While Nations blessing long and loud,


Shall shout their welcome home.
then twill be no thanks to you;


You froR Rned upon their toll,
ATHEIST twas folly in your view,


Until you saw the spoils
3 Xan sighed ard loalsed arlNnia ~ -rfse s-es -Hf
At justices long delay,
And talked about a compromise


To keep the hounds at bay.
yes, twill be no thanks to you,


You never spoke word
When heart and hands and all were due,
As have ever heard
One cheer, one word of sympathy,


One patriotic prayer
One word of hope and faith to be


charm against despair.
Twill be no thanks to you, good sir,
Twill be no thanks to you,
When our troops come marching home from war.
The Red the White the Blue
Still floating over them like a cloud


OF glory as they come.
While Nations blessing long and loud
Shall shout their welcome home.
Yet you shall reap what they have sowed,
country shall be yours,
For heroes blood in streams have flowed
richness that endures.
Go, eat the fat and drink the sweet
Bought by the brave and true,
And yet remember as you eat,


There are no thanks to you
Year: 1865

FORMS OF SALUTATION.-Mos modern
forms of salutation and civility are derived
from chlvalry, or at least from war, and
they all betoken some Difference, as to con-
querer; Just as in private life we still con-
tlnue to sign ourselves the very humble SER
wants of our correspondents. The uncov-
cred head was simply the head unarmed /;
the helmet being removed, the party was
at mercy. So the hand ungloved was the
hand ungauntled; and to this day it is an
incivility to shake hands with gloves on.
Shaking itself was a token of truce, in
which the parties took hold each of the 9th
ers weapon hand to make sure against
treachery. So also the gentleman bow is
but an offer Of the neck to the stroke of the
adversary; SO the lady's courtesy is but the
form of her going on her knees for mercy.
The general principle is marked as it ought
naturally to be, still more strongly i'm the
case of military salutes. Why is the dis
charge of guns a salute2 Because it leaves
the guns empty, and at the mercy of the op
ponent. And this is so true that the salu-
ting with blank cartridge is modern inven-
ton. Formerly salutes were fired by dis
charging the cannon balls, and there have
been instances in which the compliment has
been nearly fatal 10 the visitor whom it
meant to honor. When the officer salutes,
he points the drawn sword to the ground;
and the salute of the troops is, even at this
day, called presenting arms THAT is, pre-
senting them to be taken.
Year: 1865

PURITY OF CHARACTER. Over the beau
ty of the plum and the apricot there grows
bloom and beauty more exquisite than the
fruit itself "a soft delicate flush spreads its
blushing cheek Now, if you strike your
hand over that it is gone-The flower that
hangs in the morning impearled with dew,
arrayed as no queenly woman ever was ar
rayed with jewels--onoe shake it so that
the beads roll off, and you may sprinkle
water on it as you please, yet it can never
be again what it was when the dew fell 81
lently on it from heaven On afrosty morn
ing you may see panes of glass covered With
landscape, mountains, lakes, trees blended
in beautiful picture. Now lay your hand
upon the glass, and by she scratch of your
delicate tracery will be obliterated. Sothere
is in youth beauty and purity of character,
which, when once touched and defled, can
never be restored.
Year: 1865

RECIPROCITY TYe-The Finance Minister of
Canada has announced to the local Parlia-
ment that he Is ready to give up the high
duty now imposed ON certain Amerieanman-
ufactures, for the sake of reciprocity, 1t
does not appear what the exempted articles
are to include But we judge from the tone
Of the Ministers s speech that he fully un-
derstands that the reciprocity can no longer
be all one side, and that if we are to have
free trade with the Provincials, it must be
something more than the name ofthe thing.
IN Y Times
Year: 1865

p9~ The Copperheads appear to be very
much concerned in regard to the unity of
the Republican Party. They must have
some interests in its stability? Well, once
for all, we tell them that if the Republican
Party stood in solid phalanx, shoulder to
shoulder, whenit had a rebellion to crush
that cost hundreds of thousands of lives
and billions Of treasure, it is not probable
that it will now break up into factions when
it does not require the sacrifice of a man or
a dollar to maintain its permanent exist
ence.
Year: 1865

GREATLY INCREASED EM1GRArroN.-Late
foreign papers show that the. rush of
emigrantS to this. country from the North of
Europe Is setting in with more than usual
vehemence. Fifteen thousand Polish exiles
are making arrangements with the Swiss
government for transportation to the free soil
OF the States. From Norway the exodus of
the most valuable part of the population is
SO great as to excite the fears of the anthori-
ties, who are endeavoring to check it.
Year: 1865

INTELLIGENcE. Democratic press is
lust now loud in its advocacy of the doc
trine that Intelligence" and not num-
bers'' should control at the ballot box. We
agree with our cotemporaries, and as they
are doubtless in favor OF what they preach,
we beg leave to inquire of them what will
become of their party if all professed white
men, who can't read the regular Demo
cratic ticket when it is presented to them,
are told that they are no better than mig
gers and must stand aside while their ,,in-
telligent'' neighbors go on with the voting
And what viii Mr. Teddy 0'Toole and all
his relations say to this new dogma 2-Er-
change.
Year: 1865

se Many persons of smart business quail
tiles, enter into business but do not meet
with success, simply because they do not
publish to the world their locality, stock of
goods, and facilities for doing. business
Goods once bought must be sold, and the
only way to dispose of them is to advertise
informing the people where they can find
the cheapest and best articles. Get ahead
Of your neigebors, if you can, through the
press, and there win be no lack of sale.
Common sense and observation of large bu-
siness establishments, dictate this. Many
establishments acknowledge their success to
have been sustained through the. public
prints. A word to the wise is sufficient
Year: 1865

10 tho Editor Of the Journal and Statesman.


My attention has lately been called to
several communications, which have ap-
pearcd in cotemporary sheet, the writer of
which takes strong ground against the p,
W. u u. X. Il. Company, calling them many
hard names, and particularly opposing tho
grant of certain streets to the use of tho
Company for business purposes and improve
ment


The writer in question strongly reminds
me of the fable of the goose who laid the
golden eggs, as also does the late action OF
our City Council in the premises. Both the
writer in the articles in question, and the
| City Council by its action, tacitly admits,
that the said Company has been of great ad-
vantage to our city, in pecuniary point Of
view, giving employment TO hundreds OF
northumberland distributing thereby tens of
thousands of dollars year among our bust
ness men, yet that is not enough. The gold
en- eggs thus distributed, in tho shape Of
greenDacks, however, seem but TO have OK
cited the cupidity of tho writer and the City
Council, and from the tenor of the first and
the action of the last, we cannot help think
ing that they arc determined to kill off the
goose itself who lays the eggs, i. O., the
hallroad Company, and by so doing, bring
upon the prosperity of our city check,
which cannot be correctly estimated until
the evil becomes irremediable.


One of The most potent arguments used
by the writer in question, is THAT the Rail
road Company is an ovcrgroWn monopoly,
who made money out of the Government
during the war Of Rebellion, while the sym.
lathies OF the Company were with the Re
bellion itselC' Now without stopping to
question the truth of this broad assertion,
any iurthcr than to say that we will with
your permission, look at il again in a future
communication, we will, for argument
sake, admit the declaration TO be true, and
what does it amount tor Win the denial of
the privileges which they ask, make them
less Il monopoly, ormake more patriotic their
sympathiesg We think not Indeed to our
ihind the only question which ought to be
considered in this discussion is simply one
OF dollars and cents and resolves itself into
thls-'Will not the denial of these privileges
asked for, prevent tho Company from dis.
lributing their patronage among the people,
as heretoiore9 Such is our opinion, and we
design in future numbers of your valuable
paper TO elucidato that opinion, with your
permission. Pho BoEo PunI1co.
-seSee


On recent trip of one of the Illinois river
rackots-a light draft one-the passengers
were startled by the cry of "man over
Year: 1865

Day WEATHER.-The farmers in this
vicinity are beginning to get alarmed on
account of so much dry weather Of lats
They say the crops are suffering dreadfuly
for the want Of good rain. We hope
that the wished for boon will come before
long, as it is very necessary at present
both for the farmer, the lumbermen and
the mechanic. 1t would also help to lay
the dust in the streets which is SO thick
al present, that on a windy day pedesteri-
ans tiud It very unpleasant.
Year: 1865

EE We understand that $500 is going
TO be expended in building and repairing
the Mud Creek bndgs. 1t should have
been attended to long ago. A person
was in danger OF life and limb in crossing
said bridge his last Spring, and we are
glad to announce to cur readers that
measures have been taken to repair the
same.
Year: 1865

~ Chief Justice Chase is on a tour
along the Atlantic coast, and intends re-
turning by the way of the Mississippi riv.
er. lie is said to be about to go on a
general tour to carry out the policy of the
immediate abolition Of slavery. and the
policy Of the Administration is uniform
and pcsitive-the annihila.on of slavery
every where, at all hazards, and without
regard 10 other expectations
Year: 1865

cT The absence OF the editor on busi
ness throughout the County this week
will account for our lack Of editorial and
local matter in this issue of the Pilot.
The boys will endesvor 10 do the fair
thing TO all subscribers, and hope lha. no
fault will be found
Year: 1865

Elihu Burritt has been making calculations
about women's petticoats-queer business for the
learned blacksmith--and says more than 10000
tons OF steel are put into crinoline in Christen-
dom annually. Upon this the Boston Traveller
remarks :-"Such is the magnitude Of crinoline,
considered from business point of view, and
no wonder that the article takes up so much room
in the world. Twenty million pounds of iron
worked up yearly into petticoats and carried
about by the delicate creatures 1t must be
far greater burden than their sins. But they get
along very we'll with it, and thrive under its
weight. Iron, according to Solon, is the most
potent of all things, conquering even COLDS own
ers; and ladies find it very useful article in
making their conquests. Just now it rules the
court, the camp, the grove, and is potential eve-
rywhere, from castle to cottage. In every sense
this is the Age of Iron, even women acknowledge
ing the rule Of the government of metals, rule
that literally encircles them. Those who would
abolish the hoop must see that they have great
interest to contend against, and that all good
conservatives are bound to oppose them.
Year: 1865

A SHARP REpARrEE.-Mr Wendell Phil
lips was riding in a railroad car, when ne
was addressed,by man of such rotundity
that he seemed to carry everything before
him. This man asked Mr.. Phillips what
was the object Of his life. "to benefit the
negro" was the bland reply. Well, then,
why don't you go down South to do TT
"That is worth thinking Of see white
cravat around your neck pray what is the
object Of your life p "To save souls from
hell" May | ask you whether you propose
TO no there to 90 it ~