smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1861

The one million nine hundred and ffty-slx
thousand six hundred and seven votes of the
above aggregate which were unitedly cast for
Douglas and Bell are known to be, possibly
without an exception, firm friends of the Union;
consequently that vote alone shows majority
against Lincoln of ninety-eight thousand nine
hundred and ninety-seven


This vote of Douglas and Bell comes from
every section of the Union, and the vote for
Lincoln being cast from the Northern section
almost exclusively we have, therefore, the
above majority against sectionalism.


Whilst Mr.: Breckenridge was nominated and
largely supported by body Of men who are
main originators aiderS, and abettors in the
schemes of secession, yet it cannot be said that
his strength was made up exclusively from the
ranks of that party =; indeed it is concedlng lib
orally to say that the eight hundred and forty
seven thousand, nine hundred and ffty-three
votes cast for Mr. Breckinridge not more than
five hundred thousand have ever been, or are
even now, classed with the disunion party of
the country Here we have an additional num-
ber, running we'll up to half million, against
both secession and disunonsm.


Of the vote cast for Mr.. Lincoln, it is safe to
say that full million of the number are Union
lowing law-abiding, and anti-fanatical citizens,
deeply solcitous for the continued permanen-
cy, prosperity, and happiness of the Union
determined, at all hazards, TO uphold the star
spangled banner and keep step to the music OF
the Union"


To sum up, therefore it can safely be as
sumed from the foregoing, showing that
when the people are analyzed, we can find a
majority in opposition to disunion of about two
milliODS
Year: 1861

On Saturday last the bids for an additional
loan Of five millions of dollars were found to be
nearly triple the amount asked for. When
viewed in contrast with the bids which were
offered about a fortnight since for the same
amount, the question will readily arise as to
what the marked change is to be attributable.
Then the rates of interest were so enormous
that the government prudently declined the
largest portion. Now the rate, though more
than has been heretofore asked in times of Of
binary stability and prosperity, is neverthe-
less much less than the rate asked about a
fortnight ago


It is a lamentable fact that nothing has since
transpired to impart additional confidence in
the public mind as to the permanency and
prosperity of the republic. We must confess
that we are at loss to define the real cause of
this apparently renewed confidence. 1t must
be greatly owing to the fact that an immensely
of capital is lying dormant throughout tho
country, and the holders, rather than cont;n-
ue that on-remunerativc policy, are willing to
embark in any Investment which promises
even slight hope of securty.-St@tes
Year: 1861

BEEcHER MoBBED IN New HAvEM.-Henry
Ward Beecher lectured in New Haven last
Monday night On leaving the building vol
ley of rotten eggs was fred at his carriage
He drove off amid the groans of large crowd,
who afterwards followed him to his hotel, and
repeated the compliment Of hearty groaus
Year: 1861

GONG WHERE HE OUGHT TO Go.-James
Redpath Oate of the Trbune) has chartered
the British brig Janet Kidston to proceed to
Jersey City and thence to Port au Prince
She takes on board 13 colored passengers, also
John Brown, son of old Ossawattomie


The above paragraph is copied into several
Southern papers, but it would not surprise us
if Redpath and some of his associates were
found ere long making dash upon the coast
of South Carolina. These men are capable of
almost any act of daring, and they will be found
frontiers of Kansas and Missouri. There is
more method in their madness than in that of
old John Brown Boston Transcript.
Year: 1861

BRooMs.-The attention Of merchants is
called to the fact that brooms are manufactured
at the Deaf and Dumb ASYLUM at Raleigh
They are said too to be cheaper and better than
those obtained from the North.
Year: 1861

ONE Coop EFFEcT-We see it stated that
the existing condition of things in the country
has caused very large falling off in the arri-
val of emigrants. So there is some good after
all, for there can be no doubt but the emu
grants have done their share in bringing on the
troubles
Year: 1861

"HE BEING DEAD YET SPEAkEIH


\ venerable man now gone to his rest at the
close of Nh eloquent oration delivered before the
New Jersey State Society of the Cincinnati, July
18th. 1915 on the subject. civil government II
sacred trust" spake follows:


we hold the nublest trust that God has ever
given to any natiCn upon earth. We hold il Rt q
time when human institutions are searched and
sifted with fierce and fiery ordeal. such as never
sat on them before. We hold ii in the sight OF alI
the nations and to loose it. OF to talter in our
grasp of it. is disappointment to the highest hopes
Of man is treachery to freedom and to truth, IS
degradation to ourselves This is no time for set
phrases of holiday oration. This is no time for
flights of fancy and the flowers OF rhetoric. Tins
is no time for self complacency and self-laudatlon
We have q trust to keep We have a mission TO
accomplish. We have work TO do. 1t calls for
seriousness. It calls for earnestness. 1t calls
for deep solemnity solemnity in the examinations
of ourselves solemnity in trying out our princi-
pies and plans Of action: sOlemnty, IN urging OF
Cur itlow-c tizens the duty and the privilege of
their CcvOut operation soleinntty in the sacred
and heartfelt conmeudation of ourselves. our
common country, our common cause. the cause Of
all mankind! to protecting, and If need be to
our avenging God. Surely it is a time for earn
estu, S., time tJr seriousness time for deep
lemnIty.


In Won. centem ofthe Cincinnati, recognize
the living link that binds the present with the
past You represent the 'GI tho first age of
the Repnblic You personfy to the mmOr
tai band of l776 We reverence in you, the pa





the war of independence. You are our Hancock
and orr Franklin aud our Washington l
to stand in the deep. dreadful presence of those
great heroic men. / seem 20 feel the ma jesty of
their serene and awful port as they rise up before
high heaven. and make that glorious that
these United Colonies are. and of right ought to
be FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES" l seem
to hear the beating of their manly hearts,
they 90 forth from that august apartment the
MINUTE MEN of freedom, the advance guard OF
mankind. Matchless, immortal men We bless
your memory! We boast in your glorious
name! Faithful untiring, uhseduced, unterrifed 8.
the wisdom of your counsels BE with us in the
trumpet tones of your soul stirring eoquence
BE with us in the light of your exalted and he
nign example! The God who gave you to us, be
with us rs he was with you. to guide us and to
| bless To keep in his holy fear ! To fill US
with his perfect peace! To make the light that
is in us from Him, shine ont forevermOre, tho
cynosurc OF nations, the lodestar of the world :"
Year: 1861

R1eHr.-We are glad to learn that one ofthe
holders of property on the burnt district re-
fuses to have wooden building erected there
on This is right and we are glad to see it
We should have no more wooden buildings
constructed in the business part of the town.
This is a matter for the consideration OF the
town authorities and we would respectfully
call their attention it.


The example of Wilmington is well worth
following in this respect, and we hope our peo-
pie will keep it in view. When they began to
rebuild their burnt districts with brick their
real prosperity began, and they have found as
every community will who tries it that brick is
much better and cheaper in the long run.
Year: 1861

IN i


Yesterday, the 4th of January, was appoln-
ted bv the retiring President of the Great Re
public as day of humiliation and prayer-a
day set apart for invoking the ad OF the Su-
preme Being to stay the calamity which mas
overtaken the greatest confedefacy et states
which the world has ever seen In ancient OF
modern times whether we look TO the extent
of territory, the developement OF commerce,
the moral power of the Union or the extraordl-
nary enerpy of its people Nothing can show
more clearly than this one fact the urgency OF
the crisis on the western shores OF the Attain
tic In fixing this date for an act SO solemn
and unprecedented, the President had evident
lv on his mind that it was six months removed
from the anniversary of American independence
when every citizen celebrates with patriotic
fervor the 9Th of July the greatest day III
the American cal lendar-the day that gave
freedom to q continent and established the ba-
sis of all self-government-tha the minority
should be bound By the acts OF the majority,
and he wishes his eountrymcn, no douot, to
draw their own moral from the circumstance
The recent intelligence from
America brings to light feeling which cannot
fail to create some surprise as well as amuSe-
nent in this countTy--naneiy, 'hat hiSffy per
sons in the South calculated upon the support
of England ard the English press IN tie pre-
sent attempt to break up the federal compact
ANY such sympathy, if it were really looAi Y
for, must have been based ON very erroneous
estimate of public opinion on this side OF the
AtlantIc We have too keen recoilecton OF
Slavery and the evils which 1t generateu-to
say nothing of the hard cash when we Pitlu
for sweeping it out ofexistcnce in our Colonies
not to desire it's extinction in every civilized
country, more especially in one with which We
are connected by SO many ties Of blood and
interest The form OF government which pre-
walls in the United States has long ceased to
excite the hostility of fEnglishmen, and the de-
sire felt by every man of Judgment on this side
of the water is, that the Union may endure IN
it's integrity. a monument of the energy and
wisdom with which it wes built up, and the
broad basis, with the exception Of Slavery, on
which its foundation was laid
Year: 1861

SUBLIME IDEAs.-The closing passage of
one of Professor Mitcheps recent lectures in
New York, on Astronomy after speaking Of
the unfathomable distances which no teles-
cope can penetrate, lying far beyond the sys-
TEN on which the earth revolyes and yet
filled with Independent systems of worlds of
Infinite numbers, is as follows:


Light traverses space at the rate Of mil
lion miles minute, yet the light requires
ten years to reach the earth, and HerschePs
telescope revealed 1900 times further dis
tant The great telescope of Lord Ross pur-
sued the creation of God still deeper in space,
and having resolved the nebule of the Milky
Way into stars, beautiful diamond points
glittering through the darkness beyond.
When he beheld this amazing abyss-when
he reelected upon the immense distance, enor-
NOUS magnitude, and the countless millions
OF worlds that belonged to them, it seemed to
him as though the wild dream of the German
poet had been more than realized.


God called man in his dream into the yes
tibule of heaven, saying, Come hither, and
will show thee the glory of my house. And
to the angels who stood around his throne
he said, Take him, strip him of his affection.
put new breath into his nostrils, but touch
net his human heart-the heart that fears,
and hopes, and trembles.' A moment and it
was done, and man stood ready for his un
known voyage. Under the guidance OF the
mighty angels wing he flew through Saharas
of darkness, wilderness of death. At length
from distance not counted save in the arth
metic of heaven, a light beamed upon them
a sleepy fame, as seen through hazy cloud.
In moment the blazing of suns around--a
moment the wheelings of the planets~-then
came along eterntiea Of twilight, then again
Year: 1861

Postmaster Parker went Oh to the Potrero
to-day with the proper witnesses and burned
some thirty thousand dead letters. The ac-
cumuation of the last year at the office in
this city.


The counter charges of assault and battery
preferred against each other by Wiegand and
Harte, of the mint, was called in the Police
Court this morning, and continued until
Tuesday
Year: 1861

on the right hand and on the left, appeared
more consultations At last the man sank
down, crying, Angel, can go no further ;
let me lie down in the grave, and hide my
self from the multitude of the universe. Tor
end there is noner End there is none = re-
sponded the angel And from the glittering
stars that shone around. there came choral
shout, End there is none End there is
uouer"
Year: 1861

THE d. c. A.'s-Messrs. Editors ::
Hsvirg had occasion TO visit your town.
could not resist the inclination before return
ing home, to drop note into your office ex-
pressing my admiration Of your pleasant town
and compli~entiDg Sou In the possession Of
your artillery company. l think l may say
without any hesitation that it is 40 good look
ing and - we'll drilled - any company Of vol
unteers in the State. for the short time tbey
have been In practice; though its member.
may not be 80 large on an average - those 10
some other companies. but they are Of the
right kind Of stuff. and will render . good ac.
count Of themselves on the field Of battle. and
gain much credit for themselves and Daven-
port. or au no judge Of human nature.


r.
Year: 1861

GREAT DIsCovTRY.-Among the most important Of all
the great medical discoveries of this age may be consid
cred the OF vaccination for protection from Small
Pcx the Cephac Pill for relief OF Headache, and the
Of Quinine for the prevention of Fevers either of
which is specific whose benefits will be experience
cd by suffering humanity long after their discoverers
forgotten.
Year: 1861

CS" Did you ever have the Sick Headache? Do you
remember the throbbing temples the fevered brow the
loathing and dgust at the sight of food How totally
unfit you for pleasure conversation study. One
of the Cephalc Pills would have relieved you from all
the suffering vi ich you then experienced For this and
other purposes you should always have box of them
hand to use as occasion requires.
Year: 1861

The bomb shell is probably the most
fearful missile TO which sunpowdcr has
given birth. A shell is hollow ball of
iron. The larger ones, OF eight and ten
inch diameter, are generally filled with
powder only, doing their work by crashing
from roof to basement, and by hurlinV
death with every fragment when bursting
The small six inch shells are filed with
!eaden musket balls through whole in the
side. they are consolidated into mass
by pouring in melted sulphur, after which
being put in Il lathe, hole is drilled
down through lead and sulphur. perforat.
ing the whole mass The diameter of this
hole Is the same as that in the wall of the
shell. 1t will contain about half a pound
of powder. This being poured in even
with the outer surface Of the shell, fuse
is fitted into 'hr nriice, making the she'll
water proof When fred from thu gun, it
can be made to explode Ia one, two, or
four minutes after leaving it, at the option
of the gunncr. Its first Office is to destroy
by striking, ike an ordinary ball, then to
burst aud scatter the bullets on every
side. The fusc is isnited by the discharge
OF tho gun.
Year: 1861

We are compelled to issue but half
sheet this week. Reason-non arrival OF
the "good steamer Morrow with stock
of paper for us. As the boat left St. Jo.
seph op the 18th. she will pr2ba oly deliver
our paper in time for next week s issue
Year: 1861

Clerical talent has discovered that The
cause Of the defeat at Bulls Ron was ow
ing to the fact that the engagement tool
place on the Sabbath! Obtuse minds vii
fail to discover wherein it is worse to 6gb
battles than to preach war on the Sabbath
Year: 1861

The West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter OF satuf
day says:


In the early art of this week about sixty head
of beef cattle were brought from the highlands OF
East Baton Rouge to this side Of the river, to be
conveyed to Crosse Tete, while at the same time
drove of over two hundred heaa Wete lahoea a@
Baton Rouge from the Attakapas country.
Year: 1861

Cool A gentleman residing in a
village, finding that the diminution Of
his wood pile continued after his fires
where out, lay awake one night in Or
der to obtain, if possible, some clue to
the mystery. At an hour when all hon.
est folks should be in bed, hearing an
operator at work in the yard, he eau
tiousIy raised his chamber window, and
saw lazy neighbor endeavoring to get
q large log into his wheel barrow
e You're pretty fellow" said the
owner, {" to come here and steal my
wood while sleep" "Yes," replied
the thief, "and ] suppose you would
stay up there and see me break myback
with lifting, before you'd offer to come
and help me"
Year: 1861

An attorney brought an immense bill
to lady for some business he had done
for her. The lady to whom he had
once paid his addresses, murmured at
the charges. " Madam, replied the
limb of the law, I wanted to convince
you that my profession is lucrative,
and that should not have been bad
match,
Year: 1861

Artemus Ward +" remarrs that
"thers is something indescribably beau
tifal in the true wife's devotion to her
husband. There is something very
awful in her grief when death removes
him. Leaves have their time to fall, !,
but death comes irregularly and relent.
lessly. We lately heard the most
touching instance of the resignation of
an afectionate woman at the funeral
of her husband. Though she adored
him, she did not repine at this dark
hour. Looking at the remains of her
loved and lost husband for the last time,
she put on her bonnet and thus spoke
to the gentlemen whose sad duty it
was to offciate as pall-bearers You
pail bearers, just go into the buttery
and get some rum, and We'll start this
man right along ="
Year: 1861

rStand like an anvil /" when the strokes
OF stalwart strength fall fierce and fast /;
Storms but more deeply root the oaks,


Whose brawny arms embrace the blast
tStand like an anvil" when the sparks


Fly far and wide, fiery shower;
Virtue and truth must still be marks


Where malice proves its want of power.
"Stand like an anvil !" when the bar


Lies red and glowing ON its breast
Duty shall be life's leading star,


And conscious innocence its rest.
"Stand like an anvil y when the sound


Of fponierous hammers pains the ear
Thine be the still and stern rebOnd


OF the great heart that canaot fear.
Stand like an anvil y noise and heat


Are born of earth and die with time;
The soul, like God, its source and seat,


Is solemn, still, serene, sublime.-DoQae.
Year: 1861

You believe in women's love


And so do /;
But the difference is this
You believe her honeyed kiss
Is an impulse or her heart;
| believe it is her heart.
You believes she loves man
You for instance. If you can
Fool yourself to such height
Che will scorn you day and night


And so will |.
You have faith in Woman's faith


And SO have 7 !;
Bat you fancy she will keep
Plighted VOW and promise deep;
/, that oaths at midnight sworn
VIII be broken ere the morn.
In her faith you think to dwell
Buy a house for it to-sell;
! rent FURNISHED" sure to move.
You believe in faith and love


And so do |.
You believe in woGan's truth


And SO do /;
But the difference is this:
As with love, and faith, and kiss,
You believe, not that she's true,
Abstractly bat true to you;
/, that as the diamond stone
Cleans, but keeps its light its own
Woman's faithful to-herself.
But you adore the lovely elf


Why so DO |.
Year: 1861

| suppose you think the above named
young lady is now Mrs. 1t should
have been so, perhaps, but it never was,
or is likely to be, unless she turns up and
rewards me after this long delay. Inever
heard her name or anything of her be-
yond this adventure on the swing bridge /;
and as | am far out of the worlds notice,
it is improbable we will ever know more
of each other.


But let no one disbelieve on this ac-
count, the simple truth of our strange
meeting on Carrick a-Rede, to which /
have added nothing.
Year: 1861

| ltOHo- 11SA 4llC hle pOUuu L y III TIC lllS
of the boy. She worshipped him more
than she worshipped her Savior. At
length the trial came. In terror and
dismay she saw the color fading out from
that cheek Of roses. Fainter and fainter
fell each sweet "good- night" from his
faltering tongue. In her agony she oft
cried out, +" Oh God, let me not see the
death of the child !" And when the
chestnut curl at last lay motionless on the
silent lip, her grief burst out in David s
passionate wall, =" Would God I had
died for thee, my son, my son ("


At length the first agony has wept
itself out. She has come to herself
Above all she has come to her Savior !;
and as she beholds how ungrateful was
her idolatry-hoW her best affections had
been stolen from Christ---aad how frail
a reed she was leaning on, her trembling
soul looks back with wonder to see from
what a posture Of guilt and peril she has
been delivered. 1t is not therefore only
the melancholy pleasure of knowing that
her fair hope-plucked away by the
angel-reapers--is now blooming in the
fields of light which alone sustains her,
but the sense of rescue from state of
fearful forgetfulness of Christ and Of duty
She is done with idols. She never again
will let any earthly object have that cen.
tral place in her heart which crucifed
Savior had earned for himself and him
self alone.


The record book of every Christian life
has some such pages as these. Tears
have blurred and blotted the page at the
time. But as you turn over to that page
now, and read it in the light of expert
ence, you can write across it-Thank
God for those losses; they were my eter,
nal gain-thank God for bereayments ::
they have saved my soul from being be-
reaved Of hope of heaven! "There,"
said young man once, as he pointed to
a diseased limb that was destroying his
life; "there it is, and precious treasure
it has been to me. 1t saved me from the
follies of youth it brought me to this
room and made me cleave to God [ think
1T has brought me now almost to my Fa-
theirs house on high"


Good reader, if you and I ever reach
that Fathers house, we. will look back
and see that tho sharr-a}ngued, rough
visaged teacher Disappointment was one
of our best guides to bring US thither,
He often took us by thorny paths. lie
often stripped US of our overload of world
y goods but that was only to make us
travel the freer and the faster on our
heavenward way, He often led US into
the valley Of the death-shadow but never
did the promises read so sWeetly to US as
when readily the light of faith in that very
valley. The cross OF. Christ was the point
toward which be oftenest made us look,
and the fayorite passage he gave US for
our encouragement was, "All things work
together for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to
his purpose" Dear old rough, harsh
handed teacher we will build a monu-
ment to him yet, and hang it with gar
lands. And on it we will Blessed
be the memory Of DIsAPPoINTMENT
Year: 1861

Fast NAGs-They tell good story of an
old fellow up the country, named Peter Bates.
a keeper of tavern, who was named to be
au excellent Judge of horse flesh. Once
spirited young mare was led up to the hotel.
Quite crowd soon gathered TO see her
The owner spoke of her good poiats. boasted
Of her speed and said she could tgot mile in
three minutes Presently along came Uncle
Peter, and then removing his short pipe, said:
Boys,i don't see but one reason why the mare
can't trot Y mile in three minutes" "Whae
is it Wat is it, Uncle Peter ~ asked the
young tyres, anxious to learn from one OF
such acknowledged skill in such matter, why
said he, " the distance is to great for SO shor.
time"