smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

having the long coveted prize in their
power.


In vain she fought to free herself
from their grasp-but oyerpowered by
numbers she was dragged from her
horse by one of the French minions iu
the enemy's service, who sold her to
the English.


She was now cast in dreary prison,
loaded with chains and ignomity-
treated by the brutal keepers with saw
age barharity. Yet amid all those
miseries she displayed the most heroic
fortitude.


After long imprisonment, she was
brought before an English court at
Rome, to be tried on the crimes Of
witchcraft and sorcery.


Upon one of the judges asking her
why she assisted at the coronation
of Charles" she replied, "the person
who shared in the danger had a right
to share in the glory"


With scarce trial she was condemn
ed as witch to be burned at the
stake. In vain she appealed to the
King to save her from such an un-
merited fate but he was deaf to her
prayer, and the very people who had
been loudest in her praise in her day
of triumph, made not one effort to
shield her, but added insult to their
base ingratitqde.


The fury of her captors could with
hold no longer-she was led forth to
execution in the market place of Rou-
en-, where the fatal stake was prepared.
Firmly they bound her body to it, and
placed faggots high around and above.
The torch was applied-the flames
burst forth-in vain she shrieked for
mercy-but, alas, the wall of that suf-
fering girl was answered by the taunts
and SCOTS of savage men. But God
heard her prayer, and that martyred
soul, whose last thought was forgive
ness for her enemies, fed to that hea-
venly land where the humble are ex-
alted, and the weary are at rest.


Ever will history record as an eter-
nal blot on the memory of Charles the
Seventh, the unmerited fate of Joan of
Arc, faniliarly known as the Maid of
Orleans.
Year: 1860

pulling his chair from under him he
rolled heavily, as sound sleeper would,
upon the floor. The noise alarmed
all The old gentleman stopped in
the midst of bis almost interminable
prayer, and saw the position of Pick
ering. All the family laughed ont
right; even my mother smiled


pickering endeavared to pick him
self up as rapidly as possible, but he
had touched the old man upon his ten
derest point. It was evident, from
his rubbing his eyes, that he slept un-
der the old gentleman's ministrations !;
and had not my father reputation far
and wide for the ferVency and strength
of his ministrations, and was not Pick
ering his protesting brother ? It was
too much. Slowly, yet most digni-
fiedly, did the old man approach him.
Begone, hypoorite 7 he oFied, in
tones of thunder. Never enter my
house again I"


Pickering was thunderstruck. -
He felt that he could make no apology
which would not add to the insult. -
He had no suspicion of the exterior
force which had aided him in bis fall.
He at once found his hat, took up his
line of march, and completely crestfal-
len, passed me as / stood grinning in
the shadow of the porch.


At a suitable time I entered, got
my supper, was told by brother, in
hurried whispers, what had happened,
and then / stole off to bed affecting
ignorance, and laughing most heartily
as ensconeed myself in the sheets at
the complete success of nay plan.


Next day / cautiously impaired
my secret to my interested sister,
She was in her own room at the time,
and she threw herself upon the bed and
rolled in agonies and oonvulsions of
laughter. She had been emancipated
forever from an obnoxious lover. The
old gentleman did not hear the real
state of the facts for full twenty years
afterwards but when he did he laugh
ed most heartily"
Year: 1860

"VAnu off0uiu oiWdye Uc Hcdtiy
and elegantly dressed she has RIO ex-
cuse for appearing otherwise |"


Has not she, sir /? What. do you
call those Eve little aaimals in pink
aprons and pinker cheeks, who hang
around her " from mern to dewy eve?"
What do you call the baby. who al
ways wakes just when he ought to be
asleep, aad lifts up the full force of
his small lungs just when he ought to
keep still ? What do you call the
soup which rast s9e seasoned to
grain of pepper, and the pudding
which must be baked just so, or there
will be trouble among the lords of Gre
alton? The cost which must be men,
ded !; the cravats which need only
stitch the china which must be wash
ed; the carpets which mast be swept?
We shah call these very respectable
excuses for little disheBslle now and
then.


A woman gadding abroad is one
of the most disagreeable sights in the
world , her place is at home


We are not SO sure of that either
not if she wears pretty bonnet, and
has checks like the sunny side of
peach, and ripe, cherry kind of lips.
We've seen . great many more 'disa-
greeable locking things, and confess
to weakness for bright eyes and
pretty hair. Undoubtedly her place
is home, but that's no reason she is to
shut herself up there until she looks
like celery stalk or lump of chalk.
Who would buy the coal and the cal
ico-the marketing and the new mu-
sic-if woman is never to set her foot
over the threshold The man who
wrote that heresy never kept house
aCe know.


" Woman should always be calm
aud composed, like peaceful land
scape or serenely shining star. Her
whole manner should carry out the
idea of rest and repose :!


All very well if the gentleman in
charge of these "serencly shining starsn
would ALLOW them to remain up among
the clouds, high above all suhlnnary
tolls and tRrmoils ! Bnt what is the
luminary to do when husband brings
homo guest to dinner on Monday,
when the wash is in high procedure
when an extra chicken has to be
broiled, ald the best table whisked on
at three and quarter minutes notice !!
Has our critic right to complain, if
his wife makes her appearance with
face redder than picked beets, and
manners decidedly furried


!" A woman should never, under any
circumstances lose her temper"


Might as we'll tell the wind not to
blow on March day, or the rain not
to conc down in April 1t docs them
good to explode occasionally.


A woman, TO be good for anything,
must have as much spice and sparkle
in her as bottle Of champagne, and
if the cork comes ont once in while,
With bang, Why that don't depreci-
ate the value Of the goods


But lei thu men preach it don't
apouut to aaythng after all. We
hold them captive by every ons Of
their dickey-strings and coat buttons
by the rents III their stockings and
the toothaches and headaches thav
want to be nursed through They
can't do without us. and all this as
snued air Of bravado and good advice
Is only natural cha6ng under the in
visible chains. On the whole. we
think it is very foolish to take any no.
tice at all of it. Talk away, gentle
men, you wont hurt our feelings. By
one Of the Aggrssvsd
Year: 1860

@- Now that the heat Of simmer is at
hand, it is more than ever necessary that
our pure lake water should be brought to
perform its useful service in laying the dust,
which is already great annoyance: B. P
Bower gives his attention to Plumbing, and
does his work with neatness and expedition,
and at reasonable prices. His shop is on the
east side Of the Public Square. RIO
Year: 1860

GRAPES ofhome growth are sold in our streets
which are of the second crop The fist crop
WIS destroyed by Jack Frost in the terrible
freeze of May last The vines threw out fruit
branches a second time and have produced q
late but very fine crop of grapes. The berry IS
not quito as large usual, but is Of fine
quality.


When general discouragem was mani
Tested by vine growers in this part Of the State
after the severe and killing frost Of May. We
endeayored to show there was no cause Tor utter
dependency; that all counties were liable to
drawbacks; that the best vine regions of the
world had not been free from them and we as
serted the vine was capable of sending out fruit
branches second and even third time in the
tnme season, and, the season proving long
enough. would mature crop. The result is as
we anticipated.
Year: 1860

THE WEATHER during the last ten days has
been unusually rainy and cola for the season of
the year. The appearances are those of the
beginning of the rainy season. Frost appears
every clear night.
Year: 1860

The company femainedall night; they ex-
amined the premises thoroughly, from gsr.et
TO cellar: but now here could they discover the
source of the mystery


A short time after this the venerable minis.
ter related to me the facts as l have detailed
them here. have never heard that there was
any solution of the mystery, but if this paper
Is published it may meet the eye of some one
capable of furnishing the explanation do
not consider it ghost story. do not believe
IN them; hut there are phenomena difficult to
account Tor without the Intervention of super
natural agency.
Year: 1860

This shows that, in their understand
ing. no line dividing local from Federal
authority, nor anything 10 the CoDstitu-
ton, properly forbade Congress to prohit-
it Slavery in the Federal territory; else
both their fidelity to correct principle, and
their oath to support the Constitution,
would have constrained then to oppose
the prohibition.


Again, George Washington, another of
the "thirty Dine." was then President Of
the United States, and as such, approved
and signed the bill, thus complaining its
validity as a law, and thus showing that,
in his understanding, no line dividing To-
cal from Federal authority, nor anything
in the Constitution, forbade the Federal
Government to control as to Slavery in
Federal territory.


No great while after the adoption OF
Year: 1860

Congressional prohibition Of Slavery il
the Federal Territories, in the insta nee,
in which they acted upon the question
But for what reasons they so voted is no
known. They nay have done 80 because
they thought proper division of loca
from Federal authority. or some provis
ion or principle Of the Constitution. stood
iu the way; or they may, without any such
question, have voted against the prohiti
ton, on what appeared to them to be suf.
ficient grounds of expediency. No one
who has sworn to support the Cou-titu-
ton, can conscientiously vote for what he
understands to be an unconstitutional
measure, however expedient he may think
it; but one may and ought to vote against
q measure which he deems constitutional
if, at the same time he deems it inexpedi.
ent. It, therefore, would be unsafe to set
down even the two who voted against the
prohibition, as having done SO because, in
their understanding, any proper division
OF local from Federal authority, or any
thing in the Constitution, forbade the Fed
eral Government to control as to Slavery
in Federal territory.


The remaining sixteen Of the "thirty-
nine,' so far as | have discovered, have
left no record Of their understanding up
on the direct question of Federal control
of Slavery in the Federal Territories
But there is much reason to believe that
their understanding upon that question
would not have appeared different from
that of their tWenty-three compeers, bad
it been manifested at all.


For the purpose of adhering rigidly to
the text, have purposely omitted what
ever understanding may have been m aui-
tested, by any person, however distinguish :
ed, other than the thirty-nine fathers who
framed the original Constitution; and. for
the same reason, l have also omitted
whatever understanding Hay have been
manifested by any of the thirty nine"
even, on any other phase of the general
question Of Slavery. If we should look
into their acts and declarations on those
other phases, as the foreign slave trade,
and the morality and policy of Slavery
generally, it would appear to US that Oh
the morality and policy of Slavery gener-
all, would appear to us that on the direct
question of Federal control of Slavery in
Federal Territories, the sixteen, if they
had acted at all, would probably have ac-
ted just as the twenty-tbree did. Among
that sixteen were several of the most no.
ted nti-Slavery men of those times-as
DR.. Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Gou-
verneur Morris-while there was not one
now known to have been otherwise, unless
it may be John Rutledge of South Caro-
lima.


ITO be C0nttnued)
Year: 1860

s@Mr. James Nelson, who stole the
wife and clothing of Mr. Vail Of Milford
and conveyed them to New York, has
got "sick of his bargain" and wrote back
to the husband. stating that be could have
bis wife by coming after her. This may
be considered cooler than most of the
weather has been for the last few weeks,
Year: 1860




We announced ON yesterday that the Chicago
Convention had nominated Abrahm Lincoln. of
Illinois, for President, and Hannibal Hamlin, of
Maine for President. Lincoln is fiery Alb
olitionist not a whit better than Seward. It will
be recollected that he and Senator Douglas
stumped Illinois two years ago aud that the main
issue between them slavery-Dodgas de-
Tending it and Lincoln advocated its abolition.
And here we cannot help expressing our aston
ishment at hearing Southern shareholders declare
that they have no more confidence in Douglas
than in Seward hen it is notorious fact that he
has been burnt in ef6gy by abolition mobs
throughout the North, in his own State and else
where, for advocating slavery. But Douglas IS
not the object of our present remarks Lincoln
is man of great energy and force OF character,
a man of superior talents, and withal a fanatic.
No doubt principal object in putting him on
the ticket was to secure the of Illinois, which
it will most likely accomplish, which result will
add that much to the Black Republican vote of
1856: for at that time that State went for Mr. Bu-
chanan through the exertions of Senator Douglas


Hannibal Hamlin is at this time U. S. Senator
from Maine He is one of the original panel-has
been an abolitionist from youth up, and will con-
4inue so until his sinful old finds its final
level in the dust. There Is nothing remarkable
about his antecedents, save that he has always
been violent abolitionist and an uncompromising
fanatic So now there two full tickets in the
field, Bell and Everett and Lincoln and Hamlin.


But what will be done at Baltimore and Rich
mond Will the democratic party make nomi-
nation at Baltimore or not? What will the Sece-
Aers do at Richmond? These are questions that
will vex US all for the next few weeks. We be-
leved from the first, and believe now, that the
only possible way to defeat the Black Republicans
would be by fusion between the Democratic
ard Wing parties, but both of these parties have
shown that they did not care to have anything to
was made to secure the CO operation of the Wing
party bv the democrats, and at Baltimore, though
those who made the nominations professed to be-
long to no party. it is we'll known they had all
been Wings and americans, and they took very
good care to put wings in nomination. So we
have despaired of any fusion between these ele
Inents and if the Democratic party nominate Mr.
Douglas at Baltimore, which they most likely
will, we as firmly believe that the government
of this country will pass into the hands of the
Black Republicans the 4th of March, 1851 a:
we believe that to-morrows sun will rise; anC
the professed conservatives of the country who
could have prevented it but would not, will be t.
blame for it. Why do we believe this :? Let u
see Here is statement that may be interest
ing at this time
Year: 1860

Mr.. FILLMORE.-We cut out and intended to
publish an extract of a letter from Mr.. Fillmore
to which our attention had been called, in which
he expressed unwavering devotion to the Union
and regret at the seeming desire for sectional div
sion. but we have misaid it. 1t appeared in the
N. Y. Express few days ago. and any one hav-
ing copy of that any other paper containing
the letter will confer q favor by leaving the same
with We particularly anxious to publish
the letter inasmuch as we copied extract some
days since which stated that the Ex-President
had gone over to the Black Republicans.
Year: 1860

able people, seemingly inofensive polite and


webred. They are great imitators and the facility


with which they learn our language and accomm :.


date themselves to our Customs is surprising wa


much amused at twO of them examining the windows


OF their rooms which have pueys and weights at


tached instead Of the old fashion button They


would raise the window foot and seem surprised


that it did not fall back then raised it higer and


still it remained they left it. They were zzIed


to understand this and looked wonderingly from one


to the other and begun close inspection of he
window was moved, for solution of the to them
great mystery. A gentleman present made one Of


them present of some American coins, when the
japanese presented him with q blank card for his
| name. 1t was given him when he wrote fac sim


lie of it and then wrote in japanese Their letters
are similar to the Chinese and they write in the
same way. The servants of the embassy greatly
| resemble the Chinese, except in the which is
| little on the Malay style. The elder princes are


rather fne looking, very intelligent and Skaha
ra Thugoro, young prince of wealth and high
standing is positively handsome-very handsome
He is about the co'or OF our people, with regular
features and q winning, gentle manner more like
that of high bred, refined women than a man In
deed heard lady at the landing whisper to fe-
male companion that he was not a man. but a wo
man in Disguise" They haye artist along Yor-


sida Sagosegemon, Ofthe most intelgent look
fellows I ever saw. He is rapid sketcher and has


his portfolio filed with sketches of everything he
has seen.


To-day the embassy visit the State Derartment


preparatory seeing the President when the treaty
they bring with them will be presented. Tomorrow
Is fixed for their audience with the President
have taken much space in my notice of this re-
ception that ave not room to touch upon other
subjects of interest. Yesterday Judge Douglas
made, perhaps, the ablest speech of his life. He
holds TO squatter sovereignty urainchingly- The
democracy appear hopeessly divided and the
breach seems to widen and the bitterness of feeling


to increase-day by day. We all hope for better
| vised to restore harmony and unity of action.
SHIRLEY.
Year: 1860




We learn that orders were received by the
Postmaster at Goldsboro' on Saturday to deliver
the mail to the A. & N. r Road Co. at the time
required by their schedule, as soon they
should demand it, and so unless the Board backs
down, suppose the schedule will go into
effect in a day two. We shall not attempt to
follow them. We changed once before in order
to give the latest news for seUenteen days. at the
end of which time they changed back. And too
think that it is best that the public should
feel some of the disadvantages which will result
from this suicidal change of schedule. We shall
continue, for the present, to publish morning pa
per, don't care even if they bring the mail one
hour afterwards


Surely the expressions Of condemnation. of the
ne" arrangement have been sufficient to induce
the Directors to ponder and examine the matter
htte' but nothing is to be expected in this case
1or we doubt not but they have determined to
carry 1t out, and would do it though every stock
holder In the road opposed it. We give them
warning now, however, that, if IN existence at
that time, the matter shall come up at the Stock
holders meeting.


To show how the proposed change is condemn
ed in this community, we subjoin the following
list Of names which we're affixed Il, the protest
which was sent to the p. o. Department praying
that the change in the nail asked for by the pro
Year: 1860

Here have all the leading merchants and
shippers of New bern. with many others, Who say
emphaticolty they condemn the change. Two Di-
rectors, be it recolIected, are among the list cf
names. If there is no one here or elsewhere, out
side of :he Board, who favor this change who
believe it will beneftthe Road or the public w hat
in the name of common sense is it insisted on
for?


We feel that we have discharged our duty in
the matter to this community and to the pub
lie, and unless compelled to do SO in sef-defense
don't know that shall alu1e to the mat
ter again-at least not before the meeting of the
Stockholders.
Year: 1860

ONCE A DEMoCRAT.-We see it stated that
Mr.. Bell was. prior to 1888 democrat but we
don't know he is any the worse for that There are
but few of our leading men who have not been
on all sides of the political horse.
Year: 1860

posed change, be refused. Of their character
and standing in the community it is unnecessary
to say word. We don't know, in speaking of
our circle, whether the Wilmington Jaurnat allu-
ded to political or social "circle-but in eth


er sense we have no cause of being ashamed of
such company. We can truthfully say that we
have not yet seen single citizen of Newbern
who does not condemn the change, and the same
opposition is held too by all who we have seen
from the country. These gentlemen, however,
have made public their opposition to it, and we
therefore take the liberty of introducing their
Year: 1860

possession of this Government in the
name of the great Jehovah and the peo-
pie Of the United States. snd intend to
administer it for the good of the whole
people" That is right. that is noble. l
ask you here. in Michigan, not only that
Lincoln has your vote, but that every
member of Congress is with bin. If you
Republicans go to sleep, it may BE that
they will steal march on you in this
% after of Congressmen.
Year: 1860

Acc'dsn:.--i Yesterday afternoon White man.
whose name we could not learn, met with a
serious accident, while On the south side OF The
Basin He had a loaded pistol in his pocket
aud whilst lingering il the Weapoa exploded
sending the ball through the centre OF the
right hand. the powder tearing and burning
his fnGrrs in a most irightIui manner Such
lnJuries are becoming freq uent from the car.
rying and careless handling OF deadly Wea-
pons. and the wonder is that so few OF then,
r. suit fatally
Year: 1860

10 Japan, upon the accession OF new
Tycoon" to power, the persons ambitious
OF his favor crawl upon their bellies before
him. We are not informed whether the
custom was borrowed from this country or
not.