smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868




Few persons are aware of the fact
that our principal morning journals
are not printed directly from The tyDe,
but stereotypes taken from the regular
forms. The whole time consumed in
making plates of the four pages Of the
New York Sun is about twenty min
utes. It is accom- p1shed thus; Each
page is made up in separate form on
q table in size and height expressly
adapted for the purpose; the legs of this
table are furnished with castors, and as
soon as the form is looked the table is
rolled into the stereotype room. The
form. is then removed to. the mOlding
table; the latter has a hollow iron bed
which is filled with steam, as heat Is
ore of the requirements in facilitating
the operation. After the right tempera-
ture is attained, the form is removed
again to the imposing table, and two or
three sheets of a peculiar kind Of paper
is laid over the surface Of tue type, and
they are then beaten down with brush
in the same manner that printers pro-
ceed in taking a brush proof The form
is then again carefully slid up on the
moulding table, another and heavier
sheet Of paper placed over the first
this is covered with a wet blanket the
whole slipped under the press attached
to the mOlding table, and the power
applied. This is done almost instantly,
when the form is again run ont, and
the paper peeled of is a complete ma
tTyE of the whole form. A preparation
Of French chalk is now applied to the
surface of this paper, when it Is
placed into the mould, the hot metal
poured against it and the plate almost
instantly formed. Itis now removed
to the planer, is out, routed, and justi-
fed, and in a few minutes is on its way
to the press room. These plates are
cast in the exact form required for a
cylinder press, and are about half an
inch in thickness,
Year: 1868

Charles Lamb tells US his sad expe-
rience, as a warning to young men, in
the following language:


"The waters have gone over me. But
out OF the black depths, could I be
heard I would cry ous to all those who
have set foOt in the perilous food.-
Could tile youth of whom the flavor
of the first wine is delicious as the
opening scenes or the entertaining of
some newly discovered paradise, look
into my dissolution aud be made to un-
derstand what a dreary thing it is
when be can feel himself going down
a precipice with open eyes and passive
will to his destruction, and have no hu-
man power to stop it, and feel it all the
way emanating from himself; TO see
the gOdliness emptied out Of him, and
yet not able to forget a time when it
was otherwise; bear the piteous spec.
ticle of his own ruin; could he see my
fevered eye, feyered with the last
nights drinking, and feverishly look
ing TO to-night's repeating folly; could
he feel the body of the death out Of
which cry hourly to be delivered /;
10 were enough to make hlm dash the
sparkling beverage to the earth, in all
the pride of its mantling temptation"
Year: 1868




Tot was the prettiest, little, wax doll
Of a girl L ever saw. She was Swede
and, like all the children of that far
AWAY land, had flaXen hair and blue
eyes, with cheeks like apple blossoms.
] wonder if it is because Sweden is such
a cold country, and has few flowers,
that all the children look like June
roses. At any rate Tot did, and loved
her just for her beauty.


She was about seven years old when
she came to school, and when she sat
perched up in a chair she looked so fun
ny. Her legs were very short and her
feet swung away of FROM the floor, just
went to church. Don't you remember ?


o! but haven't told you that Tot
was little deaf and dumb child, have
n Well knew it all the slime, and so
thought you did. And now think /
had better tell you story that Tot told
me one day. it was about a hen. I
shall translate it in her own words.''
Year: 1868

know, Mary, about the milk bill, whether
il is right or not? And, by the way, did
my shoes come home last night end has
that man been to fix the front doorg'


"My head aches so bad" s..iG Mary,
"that can't remember anything. Biddy
will tell you"


"Well, I'm sorry for you," said Smith,
tying his cravst at the glass. 1.-THE very
best thing for you is to keep quiet, and I'll
take myself out of the way. Sleep is the
thing for you" So Smith put on his heay-
lest pair of boots and went all over the
house, and let the doors bang, and whistled
the" Stars and Stripes" and ate his break
fast, and then came up to her to discuss
the respective claims of pork and beef and
chicken for that days dinner, closing by
another recommendation to Keep quiet
and not bother herself about anything.


" No better said Smith, reproachfully,
at six o'clock that evening; "no better ?
thought you'd be well, certainly, by this
time, after a days. quiet" Quiet ? She
had had the whole kitchen retinue after
her all day, asking more questions than
there are in The assembly's catechism; and
the front door bell ringing as if by order
of the fire department; but she had said
nothing at all about that; if she had,
Smith would have replied with that lordly
wave of his hand with which men dispose
of such matters, "You souldn'f allow such
trifles to trouble you"


"No better, thenP" Smith inquired, as
if in gratitude to him he really deserved a
modification of her former reply" no bet
ter? Well, sleep, after all, is the best
thing; and, as l can't do any thing for
you, think it is such lovely night that |
nil els
patting the end of the blanket, ego to
heels she heard the laundering bang OF
the front door.


After divers and many comparisons be-
tween male and female headaches, and the
seeming incongruity in the male mind of
the same course of treatment for both,
Mrs Smith fell asleep, to be woke about
twelve by Smith, who thumped up stairs
in his boots, made raid after the cork
screw in the closet, and particular tum-
bier of particular shape he wanted in
connection with it; and advised her again
as to the efficacy of sleep in cases of fe-
male headache; then filled the house with
the nauseatipg fumes of tobacco at an
hour when it was impossible to air it,
Then-Smith went to bed and slept the
sleep of the just, with not glimmering
of an idea that he was not the unselfshest
and lovingest of husbands. Indeed, had
his wife questioned it, he would have
pointed her to that column in the daily
papers where accounts are given oi
husbands who make it practice to crack
their wives skulls once week; and
placing his arms akimbo with stern look,
would have asked her with his nose close
to her face; "What if she had such a
husband as that?"
Year: 1868

ever remarkable, could suflcie~tIy com.
mand the national armies in a war of such
magnitude without the assistance of lieu.
tenents who could be trusted "to make
their own orders" for the emergencies
that were sure to arise, He therefore gave
more thought to the proper organization
and direction of armies upon the vital points
of the enemy's territory and lines, and to
the selection of men competent to com
mand them, than TO Issuing the detailed or.
ders of the battle, Neither Sherman, nor
Sheridan, nor Thomas, nor Candy ever
failed him, and had circumstances enabled
him to devote himself exclusively to the
command of the Army of the Potomac, he
would doubtless have displayed as much
skill in the tactics of battle as he did in
the strategy of campaigns.


The quick judgment by which he dis
covered the enemy's plan to evacuate Fort
Donelson, and the sudden resolution which
he based thereupon, to attack at once, are
evidences Of something more than aggrcs-
sive temper or mere brute courage. The
tactics of Lookout Mountain, CHATTANOOGA
Valley and Mission Ridge have never been
surpassed The tactics, or, more properly,
the grand tactics displayed during the
overland campaign, are worthy of the
highest commendation, and had the execu.
tlon of details been as faultless as the
conception of the movements, there would
have been nothing to regret But it was
precisely in the details with which Grant
studiously avoided interfering, that the
greatest, and in fact the only failures took
place. Grants conduct at Belmont, Fort
Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburgh, and in the
Wilderness was all that could have been
wished, and shows beyond chance of dis
pute, that he possesses in the highest de-
gree that "two-' clock n.the-morning cour-
age" which Napoleon declared to be the
rarest thing among generals, while his
conception and execution of the Vicks.
burgh campaign are complete proof that
his judgment is in exact equilibrium with
his courage His UNMARRIED course of sue
cess through four years of warfare, shows
that he is entitled to be ranked in the cat
egory of generals who never lost cam
paign or battle, and the easy simplicity
with which he did the most extraordinary
things, points strongly to the possession of
a remarkable genius of war.
Year: 1868

ceive that II was Z Differences In the method,
but when they took no movement OF made
no effort for the change 10 the way We were
asking 1t, and which the enlightened House
of Commons found We were right 10, but
threw every obstacle In the wav, then
am bound TO conclude that tne,r srts are nj
variance with those Of the otber Glasses
have referred to.


You win not say, apprehend, that they
took no trouble in the matter. think Won
admitted Ia the former part Of your testi-
mopy that they took . great deal Of trouble
in the matter, though the trouble was taken
in opposition to your views : Yes.


Nav not that arise simply from their
thinking that your views were wrong and
their views rights We never had view
from the Mineowners' Association ut al un-
tll either the Government or the House be-
gan to act, and then their views came int
existence II was the action Of the comb
nation upon the members Of the House, and
the consequent actisn Of the Government
that brought out any views that they may
have had.


Tsupvose they could not act at all until
they saw by Bill or something else, what
the views propounded wsref OF course
taey could not, but they might have done
as Mr.. Crum Ewing, who negotiated, and
entered into the Bleachers' Bill question, and
took part in it. IL il had been desired by
the mine owners that the hours Of children
should be reduced from Is or II hours, as
they are in some of the coal mines, we
should have found that they we're bringing
in and advocating some Bill, but that 10 not
the case.


Mr.. Booth--Is it not ordinarily the case
that amendments in the law are brought
about by persons feeling the inconvenience
Of the existing law Yes, that is true.


And is not that the case heref Yes, that
IL so.


They would naturally not originate with
the masters in that case Il has been re-
ported to the House again and again that
those are evils, and instead of their cooper
lting as the bleachers did, We found that
when the Government broaght in Q Bill


rrtion of the Ainsowners' Association op-
ID it.


They did not agree in thinking the meas
nre had been introduced In its best form
They did not agree in thinking that it had
been introduced in its best form, but they
lid not bring In another Bill to put il IN
worse form or in . better form, they did not
put 1t in any form at ell all they contented
themselves for the last 10 years was 6ghung
the form that was brought in. no matter
What that was.


fro BE CONTINUED
Year: 1868

In calling the attention of the reader to the ad-
vertisement of DR.. ]. C. Young's Institute, to be
found in another part of this paper we feel we are
answering the dictates of honest convictions in
pointing out to suffering humanity the honest and


illful Medical pra"titiner 1t is the duty of eyery
man whose knowledge places it in his power to act
as a guide to those who otherwise would unwitting
ly take wrong path. There is no need to wear
out life of pain and anguish, and in the end fill
dishonored grave. Hesitate no longer, unfortunate
ones, but turn to the Doctor who can restore Won
giving you in place of wasted energies and an i'm
paired constitution, health, vgor and power


The Institute has been in successful operation
for Seventeen Years, and it was the Pioneer In
stitue of the coast has been the Pioneer in the
march of progress.


Wesa again to the aflicted-read the advertise
ment and follow its advice s1A
Year: 1868

UPPER SACRAMENTO MINES Although the
cry that the mines are worked out and ex-
hausted has become chronic in this county,
facts refute the assertion. At Dog Creek,
Portuguese Flat, Slate Creek, and different
points along the upper Sacramento river, the
mines are yielding large amounts of gold
and the miners are making as good wages as
they realized when these mines were first
discovered. These diggings are of perma-
nent character, and years of labor will be
required to work them out Steady and
industrious miners can scarcely fail to find
good paying claims in the locality mentioned,
and those desiring profitable employment are
directed thither.
Year: 1868

Telegrapbic dispatches inform us that
General Grant has received the nomination
for President, and Schuyler Colfax for Vice
President. This is the strongest ticket that
could possibly be placed in the field, as both
men are worthy Of the entire confidence and
support of every loyal citizen of the Republic.
The people, with Grant and Colfax as their
standard bearers, will march on to victory
and victory in this connection means the
triumph of Law, Justice and Union over Vio-
lence, Oppression and Disunion
Year: 1868

The cloud of sensational runors having
cleared away, we are now Informed by tele
graph that the Senate, on Saturday, voted on
the eleventh impeachment article only, the
vote standing 10 for acquittal to 35 for con-
v'ctIon. On the vote being announced the
Senate adjourned, and on Monday that body
met and concurred in the House resolution
to adjourn over until Thursday, May 2lst
Therefore the question Of impeachment is not
yet definitely settled, and it is possible that
the President may yet be convicted on some
one or more OF the ten remaining articles. If
johnson, while the vote on these articles is
still pending, should attemp. to fly my
Policy" kite too high, or undertake to carry
his theory of Executive power to extremes,
he may suddenly find himself occupying the
position of a private citizen. Conviction
might take place at any time on one or more
of the original articles, or new charges might
be presented by the House. The majority
can also postpone the vote on the remaining
articles indefinitely, and thus continne to
keep Andy on his good behavior.


The President knows that if the bills for the
admission of several of the Southern States
should pass both Houses, the new Senators
from those States would augment the Radical
force to such degree as to render his re-
moval certain in case the House of Represent
atives should present new articles of i'm
parchment The President is thus left in
critical and unenviable predicament, and he
evidently comprehends the situation. AT
any rate, we are informed by telegram that
he has signifed willingness to form a new
Cabinet, composed of men who will act in
harmony with Congress. In addition to this
we are also assured that if the President be
promptly acquitted he will interpose no OBJ.
lection to the passage of the bills for the re-
admission of the Southern States into the
Union under their new Constitutions.


From these statements it would appear
that johnson virtually surrenders his posi-
ton, and practically acknowledges the cor
rectness of the course pursued by Congress,
and is now only desirous of escaping convic-
ton and saving his official head.
Year: 1868

CABINS BURST.-We learn that the rem.
nant of the Antelope Indians have recently
testified that they were around" by burn.
ing couple of cabins on the head waters Of
Battle Creek. Last fall small party of
experienced Indian hunters devoted some
time to trailing up and shooting the blood
thirsty devils of this tribe. and eight or nine
bucks were disposed of in this way, and the
tribe is now supposed to be reduced to about
four bucks and five or six souaws.
Year: 1868

STRANGE FREAK OF NATURE.-Tbe Yreka
Union of May 9th says:


We are informed that lake of considera-
BILE extent has been formed this spring on the
Ii c of road from here to Soda Springs, on
the Sacramento, near the residence of Mr.
Deitz. THERE'S a low piece of land there in
the form of a reservoir, which heretofore has
collected and held, during the rainy season.
considerable water. But in former seasons,
as soon the rain stopped, and the snow
in the vicinity was gone, the water in this
pond rapidly subsided until it entirely disap.
peared and left the ground bare. This sprin 9,
however, the waters of this pond, instead of
decreasing with the cessation of the rainy
season, and the disappearance of all snow in
the vicinity that could add to their bulk by
its melting, have gone on regularly increas-
ing. till what has heretofore been but a tenn
porary pond, seems to be swelling now to the
dimensions and importance of a permanent
lake. Since our last rains, and since all snow
in the vicinity has disappeared. this pond or
lake has enlarged its area and increased its
depth, spreading over the public highway till
travel is compelled to seek new road. What
has caused This freak of nature? The local
ity of this phenomena is but few miles from
the base of Shasta Butte, and in south
westerly direction from it. In this same
| connection we may remark that we have
been informed on undoubted authority that
the water in the Big Springs"-some
| springs in Shasta Valley, near the western
base of the Butte, and from which Shasta
River, particularly during the dry season,
derives large portion of its waters-is lower
now than they have ever before been known,
even in the dryest portions of the dryest
seasons. Is there any connection between
the development of new lake on the water
shed of the Upper Sacramento and the drying
up of the fountains that feed tributary of
the Klamath And if so, is it due to vol
canic forces acting in and disturbing the very
foundations of the Butte. the monarch of
| North American mountains? Tho earth.
quake which visited us last week would sug.
gest that volcanic or other internal forces
are sporting with the ground which we
stand.
Year: 1868

STEAM SAW MrLL.-R. c. Babcock has
sold the machinery of the Copper City steam
saw mill to N. c. Harrington and George
Myers. who intend to remove it to point
near Churntown and there engage in the
manufacture of lumber. As there is no mill
in operation in that locality, lumber is verv
scarce and in great demand A mill at
Churntown will undoubtedly prove good
property
Year: 1868

Coop MovE.-Most of the leading mercan.


tile firms of San Francisco have organized
themselves into association for the purpose
OF resisting the release of all dishonest appli-
cants in bankruptcy. and for the discovery Of
all fraudulent preferences of creditors, as
well as to secure more equitable and j6st
distribution of the property of the applicant.
Year: 1868

OPEN.-Greene's Hotel is now open for the
accommodation of the public. The house
has been thoroughly renovated, and guests
may be assured that nothing will be omitted
that can in any way tend to promote their
comfort
Year: 1868

The accident on the Harlem Railroad the
other day, by which one person was killed and
another injured, and a horse-car with all its
passengers narrowly escaped destruction, at
the crossing of the Harlem and Belt Railroad
tracks, on Fifty -ninth-st., shows the imperative
necessity of compelling the Harlem Company
to erect gates at all such dangerous points


AT present there is no provision for the safety
of the public at any of the crossings on the
Fourth-ave. above Forty-secOnd-st.. not even
an occasional ilag-man; and thoagh the trains
are not run at high speed within the populous
parts of the city, their passing is inevitably
attended with danger 1t may seem that persons
on foot or driving could always protect them
selves by reasonably careful lookout; but
any one who has been much in the neighbor


bood of railroads knows how easy it is even
for careful persons to become confused and
forget their usual caution when two trains are
approaching from opposite directions, as was
the case when the accident occurred on Thurs
day. AT every point in the city where the
locomotive crosses q thoroughfare there should
Year: 1868

The Marquis Townshend is, in this year Of
grace, moving the House of Lords for an act
to exempt the property of a lodger in leased
premises from being distrained for rent due
from his host to the superior landlord. Law
reform travels slowly in England. About a
quarter of century ago distress for rent was
abolished by law in most Of the American
States and for the half century previous an
attempt to "dstress" a tenant would have
been likely to bring very sudden and exem.
plary distress on the landlord.
Year: 1868

tional armies, Gov. Seymour threw his infu-
ence against that resort; and, in appealing to
the President TO suspend its enforcement, me-
nacingly said:


aft believed by at least onehai the people Of the
called mon 10 obey because il Is the statute-book in
itself violation OF the supreme consututl9hal law


do not dwell upon what believe would be the conse-
onences of violent harsh policy before the constitution
ay OF the act is tested You can scan inc future as wei
The temper ofhe people today you can readry 'e~'


Does any man on earth believe that the
man who thus demanded of the President
suspension of the Draft till its constitutonality
could be tested in the Courts, really wished the
Rebellion put down by the strong armf A few
days before, he had said to the rioters assem-
bled in our City Hall Park:


"I assure you my fellow-citizens that am here to
show YOU test Of my friendship lCheers wish 10
inform you that have sent my AdJutantGeneral 70
TO have this Draft suspended aud stopped Nooierous
cheers


Mr.. Lincoln, thus appealed to as though he
were drafting men from mere wantOn caprice
and might rs well wait q year or two as not
thus coaently responded to SeymOurs most un-
reasonable demand:


do not object abide the decision OF the United
States Supreme Court Of the Judges thereof on the
constuOnaity OF the Draft law. In fact should be
willing 10 facilitate the obtaining OF IT, But cannot
consent to lose the time while 1t is being obtained. We



drives every abebOded man he reach into his ranks
very much as butcher drives bullocks into slaughter
pen No time Ia wasted, no argument Is used THIS pro
duccs an army which will soon turn upon our now VlcO-
rios soldiers already in the field il they shall not be sls
tained by recruits they should be. IL produces an
army with rapdity not TO be matched ON our se n VIC


first time to reXperiment with the volunteer sys
tem already deemed by Congress- and papaOy III lact
no far exhausted 10 be inadequate; and then more
time 10 obtain Court decision TO whether law IL
constitutional which requires part OF those not now IN
the service go 10 the aid Of those who are already IN
It. and still time To determine with absolute Ger
ainty that get those who are to go In the precisely
legal proportion those who not To go. MY purpose
is to be my action just and constitutional ara y9t
practical performing the important duty with Wheh


am charged OF maintaining the unity and the free prh
ciples OF our common country"


These cOntrasted utterances are character
stic of their respective authors; and, most
certainly, either Abraham Lincoln or Horato
Seymour was not loyal, Jealous patriot
throughout our great trial. What says Ihe
World?


We have more to offer on this fruitful
theme, but will await The Worlds response to
the foregoing
Year: 1868

The civil war in Japan is increasing in inn
portance. The Mikado, undoubtedly inundated
Buddha, has revived the old and bloody laws
against the native Christians. This cannot
fail to lead to fresh complications with France
and other Christian Powers, and finally to enlist
the sympathy Of the whole world for the de-
posed and exiled Tycoon. The latter is said
to be at the head Of powerful army and to
threaten YeddO