smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

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The Country Geatlsman hits the mat
ter off we'll Especially do we COM
mend what he has to say to those very
polite women who reserve their long
sdieus till they can stand in the open
outside door in cold day:


{ Some persons when they make calls,
seem never to have their tongues fairly
loosened till on leaving they get pre-
cisely in the doorway-thefe thew stand
rolling out long and easy s5..tei,ees,
each one promising to be the last, for
some two, three, five or ten minutes.
= Now, for very brief calculation of
the waste by this conduc'. Hold a
lighted candle in the door-the current
sweeps the flames as rapidly as walk
ing three feet per second two miles
per hour, consequently, through door
a yard wide and two yards high, cubic
yard of WITH air passes out per second
through the upper half of the opening,
and cubic yard of cold, lamp, and
chilling sirscemes in through the lower
half All this viii be proved BY hold
hight at the sill and then at the top.
One cubic yard of warm air thus lost
every second, issiAty cubic yards every
minute the door is left open by the yisi-
tor or Betty. This is positive robbery
I'VE leave it to our readers whether it
should not be indicted by the Grand
Jury. .s--.a
Year: 1867

o, Veugence. when thy cruel hand
Is raised to smite by Loves command,
All lesser gods do rand agkast,
Until the fearful fate is passed
And when his out ragged hand had set
Upon her brow its coronet.
The gathering heavens grew black to see
The fell revenge of Nephele.
With fateful brow and aspect grand.
She issues now her dread command:
FIRST, let the rolling vapors form
The light armed rickets Of the storm"
With airy rush and movement feet
They stand embattled at her feet:
Next. let the Thunder clouds advance
With blackest front and 6ery lance !"
With jarring tread and angry roar,
From caverns grim their legions pour;
Next, let the clouds of direful hail
Draw up their phalanx in the vale !"
With rafting arms and hurried pace
They speed to their appointed place {;
Then, let the foods that hover near,
March to their station in the rear;
And let the 6ercest force Of wind
Form serried column close behind r.
Twas done; aud thus equipped for war,
She mounted then her Battle Car,
While far aoof the peaceful Zephyrs meet
And slowly follow with reluctant feet.
Then at the word, with windy rush and
roar,


From out the vale her armed legions pour,
Aud moving up the steep with dauntless


breast,
Soon stand embattled on the mountain s


crest.


"Behold," she said, whis is hostile


realm,


Which, for great wrong, It's mine to over


whelm-
Avenge your Queen put Frigia to fight,
Our home hencefoth is on the mountain


height"
While TINS she spoke, solemn silence fell
Upon the air it seemed vciceless knell (;
Then darkness came. the shadow Of the


storm,
And conscious Nature shuddcred with


alarm.


The Thunder's roar, the rush of rain and


hail
Mingle their voices with the bowling gale;
With frequent shock the affrighted air is


rent


By falling crash Of dome and battle
ment.


Three sunless days, three nights without
The coDqueriug Queen safe in her venge'


full car,
While through the gloom no other ray
appears
Than baleful lights that hissed from hurt


ling spears.
BIT when at last the war cloud rolled


away


And once again, the frightened face of day
booked down. in wonder on the fearful
H. scene'' n1 sat .s.51
Year: 1867

Which the garrulous streamlet had sung


him.


As it rippled and ran down the hill
And left at the door Of has cottage
Its message for good or for i'll!
AS up the steep slopes of the mountain
He wearily toiled on his quest;
He retterti bered the maiden deserted,
And longed in hel valley to rest.
But whenever the way became weary.
And his courage was ready to yield,
Ambition, in visions before him


The glory crowned summit revealed
So toiliug, regretting, yet hopeful,
He reached the cold summit at last,
And sought Ger the waste desolation
For the hopes of the promising Past.
There, gloomlly rising before him


Was the dome that enchanted his sight;
But the glamour of distance was wanting
And gone was the beautiful light
That had cleaned froti its surface Of
crystal


And shone from its forest of spires.
When he caught the rare glow froti the


valley


Reflected from heavenly fires
Thus the gods. to allure mortals upward,
Oft reveal, through Life's prison bars
A light that seems set on the mountains
Yet comes from the region of stars!
Thus pledgiDa that noble Ambition,
Though falling of earthly renown,
May. after the struggle is over


Aspire to worthier crown!
Far below him, he saw the lost glories
OF the beautiful world at his feet,
Stretching far from the base of the noun.
tain
The low STOPPING azure to meet.
And he knew that the glittering mirage
Which Ambition had shown on the


height,


With all of its spell heightened splendors
Seemed never SO charming and bright.
But weary, sad hearted and hopeless,


Without strength to return e'er again
He entered cold Fri0ia's portals


And passed from the knowledge of men
And here in her icy dominions,


With the spell Of her white. waving


arms,


She folded his venturesome pinions,


And locked him from all Life's alar ms
Sad Nephele, sat by her fountain


To await his return to the vale;
Till the Night wind rushed down from th


mountain


And told her the sorrowful tale.
Year: 1867

ca The proprietor of a forge. not re-
markable for correctness Of language, but
who by honest industry had realized a
comfortable independence, being called
upon at social meeting for toast gayc'
"Success to forgery"
Year: 1867

ca An old revolutionist aaysof all the
solemn hours he ever saw, that occupied
in going home one dark night from the
widow Bens, after being told by her
daughter Sally that he "neednt't come
again" was-tbe most solemn.
Year: 1867

pen that way to Jim. No meddling old
claim of justice dropped in to make
trouble, and so the model boy George got
,hrashed and Jim was glad oft; because,
you know, Jim hated moral boys. Jim
said he was down on them milksops
Such was the coarse language Of this bad,
neglected boy.


But the strangest thing that ever hap
pened to Jim was the time he went boat
ing on Sunday, and didn't get struck by
lightning Why, you might look, and
look through the Sunday school books,
from now till next Christmas, and you
would never come across anything like
this. Oh, no; you would find that all
the bad boys who 60 boating on Sunday
invariably get drowned and all the bad
boys who get caught out in storms, when
they are fishing on Sunday, infallibly get
struck by lightning. Boats with bad boys
in them always upset on Sunday, and 1t
always storms when bad boys go fishing
| on the Sabbath. How this jim ever
escaped is q mystery to me.


This Jim bore a charmed life-that
must have been the way Of it. Nothing
could hurt him. He even gave the ele-
phant in the menagerie plug of tobacco,
and the elephant didn't knock the top OF
his head of with his trunk. He browsed
around the cupboard after essence OF
peppermint, and didn't make mistake
and drink aqua FORTS. He stole his
fathers gun and went hunting on the
Sabbath, and didn't shoot three or four
of his fingers of. He struck his little
sister on the temple with his fist when
he was angry, and she didn't linger in
pain through long summer days, and die
with sweet words of forgiveness upon her
lips that redoubled the anguish of his
breaking heart No; she got over 1t.
He ran off and went to sea at last, and
didn't come back and find himself sad
and alone in the world, his loved ones
sleeping in the quiet churchyard, and
the vine embowered home of his boyhood
tumbled down and gone to decay All !
no he came home drunk as piper, and
got into the stationhouse the first thing.


And she grew up and married, and
raised large family, and Drained them
oil with an axe one night, and got
wealthy by all manner Of cheating and
rascality, and now he is the infernalist
wickedest scoundrel in his native village,
and is universally respected, and belongs
to the Legislature.


So you see there never was bad
James in the Sunday-school books that
had such q streak Of luck as this sinful
Jim with the charmed life,
Year: 1867

surprise by his movement against Peters
burg. He defended Buffers course
toward the ladies of New Orleans, saying
that it was their duty to have pursued
their ayocations quietly, and without, by
wSrd or look, giving offense to the con.
querors. "If bis wife and daughters had
been there and done otherwise, he should
have told them that their characters
being mistaken was the legitim ate result
of their foolish conduct"
Year: 1867

The telegram conveying the informa-
tionsin regard to the Territorial Legisla-
ture is not very explicit, and after a due
consideration, we believe that it con-
veys ideas that are not correct. The
wording is vague and of a general char
acter, evidently penned under the ex-
citement of the moment. Under the
common acceptation of it, it is in direct


opposition to the bill as introduced by
Senator Wade, and advocated by inf1u-
entail men of the Territory now in


Washington. That bill, as introduced,
declared the pyiUate acts of all the sess-
ions except the first, null and void, but
recognized those of a general character.
We do not believe it has been so radi-
cally changed as to destroy all the gem
eral laws At the most it will only hold
them subject to ratification by the Leg
islature to be elected in September. The
original bill also gave the Judges the
privilege of defining the limits of the
Judicia, Districts and increased their pay
to $4,000. We think the suspension of
the numberless franchises granted
throughout the Territory is dispense
ton of Providence for which we should
feel devoutly thankful. Some few out
of the multitude are necessary, perhaps,
and those who maintain them require
some privileges, but for the larger num-
ber of them, they are the most monstrous
swindles the people could suffer from.
The general laws passed have been use
full and necessary, and their abrogation,
wholesale, will leave the Territory in a
very unenviable condition, and we do not
believe any such act has been passed.
In few days a copy of the act will be
received by mail. and this exciting ques-
ton decided. Until then it is only fair
to presume that the original purport of
the bill remains unaltered and the gen.
eral laws are declared in active force.
Year: 1867

he is an opponent to be feared, and an
able champion of any principle he ad-
vocates. For oratory and argumentative
skill he has few equals, and his long ex-
Perience eminently fits him for the
office he has been chosen to fill. His
term expires in 1869. but it is not
probable the State he represents will
fail to return him at its expiration,
should not the people of the Union con
fer upon him higher honors than he has
vet received
Year: 1867

SAYINGS OF JOSH BnLINGs.-I like
them kind of boys who are always try
ing to lift half ton.


Let the world understand that you kan
be spit upon, and you are spit-bOx for
life.


1t costs more money now daze to feed
and clothe " ct settry" than any other
feller in the family.


Conscience is nothing but reason more
or less edicated; conscience is not so
strong a natural gift as an ear of musick.


Thare is now and then lion puts on
jackass skin, and for which he duz it
the Lord only knows.


Looking glasses won't lie, but they
tell some otfal plain truths once in
considerable while.


A dog is the only dependent that l
kno ov upon whom yu kan alluz rely as
q friend.


Thare is no one who is so certain NV
allaz feeling good es he whose own
vanity alluz supplize his own hopper
with a grist. .-..


If you are going to help a man, be
lively about it promised assistance after
a while is considered a debt.


Don't never profess much, for if you
get il right, nobody will remember ii !;
and if you get it wrong no one will dis
remember it.


Sum people are very apt to think that
their opinion, backed up by a pair OF
hosses and coachman, is omnipotence,
but hev, thus far, put more heft of
confidence in brains than hev by long
odds in hoss feed.


TLis trying tew live on the reputashun
NV n ded grandfather is just about as
enterprising as trying to hatch out rotten
eggs under tin weatbercock-
Year: 1867

The present condition of our national
affairs is more gratifying to-day than at
any time since, "by bloody accident" a
traitor TO his party, and the principles
upon which he was chosen chief assist
ant to him whose name will be ever sa-
cred in the hearts of loyal Americans,
succeeded to that position which his
vulgarity, usurpation and detection has
disgraced. We have seen by his ambi-
Year: 1867

in town expenditures is urged as the cause
economy we have had to grope our way in
darkness at night and the gas company have
barely been able to run the machine" To
be deprived of gas would be serious matte.
to many individually and to the town collec-
lively, and rather than such should be the
case, we would prefer haying gas tax assessed
upon us. The propriety Of the town owning
the gas works has been suggested frequently.


We do not mean to convey the impression
that we desire SIT Of commissioners who will
pay no regard to economy. but that such men
may be elected as have enough public spirit
about them to look to the interests of the town
and not let them suffer thorough .tq!Se econo-
lny OK lack Of duty We believe the present
Board contains one or two such and we would
like to see them reelected The citizens de
sire a town improvement ticket elected, as
vas chosen in %, when every property holder
in town was required To pave his sidewalk.
Notwithstanding this ordinance threatened to
be- ras...el. and some individuals threatened
to shoot the first man who attempted to lay a
brick on his premises by authority Of the Com


mi>>ionerS. the streets were paved and nobody


hurt. Smyrna is now the best paved town OIL


the Peninsula and many are ashamed to OWL
that they ever opposed the ordinance.


We hope politics will be ignored on Monday


but if the Democrats insist on stick ing to party


lines we hope the Republicans will unite with


such Democrats as will in electing Such Demo


Gratis as are favorable to improvement.
Year: 1867

WILL DRINk.-On Wednesday last Senator
salisbury had to be reproved by the presiding
officer of the Senate for lying on a sofa and
smoking whilst that body was in session. 1t
seems he really did sign the temperance pledge,
but going upon the principle that all signs
fail III a dry time violated his pledge the Sc
cond day after he entered upon the obligation
drunk Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday
when he violated the rules Of the Senate =
There is some talk of expelling him from hi.
seat ON account of his conduct.
Year: 1867

We shall cheerfully make room in our col
umns for week y articles which have been prom
ised us by the Temperance publishing commit
tee Of Smyrna Division, S Of I. We hope
they will succeed in keeping this important
subject fully before the community, This week
there is a communication from No. 2, to
which We invite the earnest attention of all
concerned
Year: 1867

THE RULING PASSION. The New York
Commercial advertiser says that recently a
Connecticut farmers wife, noted for a keen eye
to the finances, was told by her husband that
the church had elected him deacon, whereupon
she eagerly inquired, How much money will
you get by it ~
Year: 1867

VENDUEs we have been pretty busy the
past ten days or more with vendue notices, but
the sales are not 50 numerous as usual Just
previous to moving day We take it that
there are not to be many changes among our
farmers
Year: 1867

"If the Southern people should resist the
execution of martial law by force, they would
be fighting in as righteous cause as any in
which patriot ever drew his sword Arm
ed resistance is the natural and appropriate
mode ofredress for such fragrant injustice as
is now meditated against the South. Re-
sistance to tyrants is obedience to God.'-
The only good reason for not appealing to
arms in this conjuncture is the hopelessness
of success. ."-NeU York World


The above extract from the World proves
two things: First, that there is as much
treason among copperheads at the North as
there is among secessionists at the South |;
and secondly, that opinion is absolutely free
in States like New York. But ifany portion
of the Southern people were even mad enough
to fight, such as the World would not help
them. They would get them into trouble
and then retreat, or join themselves, as they
did during the rebellion, to those who war
red upon them. 1t seems to us that all SEN
sible and honest people have had enough of
such papers as the New York World. In
deed, any paper which advises renewal OF
the horrible civil war through which we
have just passed, ought to be suppressed by
the hand ofpower.
Year: 1867

THE SOUTH WILL ACCEPT IT'S CHAINS
No denial need be attempted of the fact
which four days of threatened trial have de-
veloped. The South will accept the slavery
extended under Sherman's bill A thousand
straws show how the current is setting. No
hazard is now in the prediction that ere sixty
days have passed, majority of the South
ern States will voluntarily have conformed
to the new order of things, and we make it.
-Petersbmy Inder.


We are glad to see the Lnder coming to its
senses. That paper can now perceive that
if it had urged the South months ago to ac-
cept the Howard amendment, as we did, it
would not now have to reproach itself with
the reflection that it is responsible for the
chains and slavery" to which it so bitterly
alludes.


There is no doubt that the loyal people
of the South will accept the plan proposed
by Congress. Thousands of citizens hold
ing the views of the Iader, who are not ex-
cluded by the Howard amendment, will
take part in the work of reconstruction, but
they must not expect to have a controlling
voice in this work. There must be no fail.
ure now to put the States in such garb as to
ensure their return to the Union.
Year: 1867

We publish below. as a matter of record
for future reference, and to show our read
ers how the reconstruction act is received by
the rebel organ of Gov Worth, the article
of the Sentinel of the 25th February on the
situation.


We do not deem it necessary to reply to
this turbulent mutterer of stihed treason"
Our loyal readers will reply to the article in
their own minds as they readit.


From the Raleigh Sentinel, Feb a5th, 1867
The Sherman Bill.


This act of the Congress is the subject of
much comment The wonder is, that it
has not struck dumb, every native born
American. 1t is so un-American, so anti-re-
publican in its character, and bears such re-
semblance to the acts of the despotisms of
Europe, that one can hardly realize the fact
that we still live in " "so-called" American
Republic.


The bill seems to suit no enc precisely
Ultra Republicans or Radicals feign to think
it too tame and lenient to the South. while
men of more moderation in that party dis
like its stringency and one proiessed con-
oCi'dtNC, SoiloitiCllhS55 II IuC DCoJ
get, actually voted for it. Perhaps none are
more disappointed than the so-called South
ern loyalists. These modern loyalsts find
that they are better known than they sup
posed at Washington Their own tails have
been caught in the trap they set for Others,
and their loyalty to the Radical party has
been fully put to the test.


We readily confess our disappointment. -
We were still clinging to the idea and the
hope, that we lived in Republic, with
some shreds of the Constitution left, but
alas we wake up to the sad reality, that we
have neither. The bill plainly assumes, that
there are no powers or rights in Staters orin
the coordinate branches of the Government,
but that power is lodged in the Congress,
and that that body is perpetual.


1t is understood that the Presidential veto
will be sent into Congress to-day, and that
the bill will become law by the two-thlrds
vote over the veto. The President could not
do otherwise, yet he might do move. He can
not be consistent with his pledges to the
country, unless he bring the bill in some
form to the ordeal of the Supreme Court,
and until ne has exhausted the powers of the
executive and judiciary departments to save
the country and the Republic from utter
overthrow. Moreover, the time has arrived
when the Democracy and the conservatives
of the North, if their principles are not mere
talk, to arrest the progress Of destruction by
the most active and efficient measures. The
South is powerless. She will submit, though
she may demonstrate, simply because she is
on her back and Radicaism has its hand up
on her throat. Yet wejudge the conservatism
Of the country might bring the nation to
Year: 1867

We observe that the price of gold has ad-
vanced. If this advance is attributable to
the fear that any serious convulsion or
conflict will result from the action of Con-
gress, such fear is unfounded. We tell our
readers that the national currency will be
sustained, and that it will soon be as good
as gold. Those who think the currency is
unsafe are mistaken, and those who are Gre
ating panic against the currency are seek
ing to make prof1 of the honest, uniformed
portion of our people. Hold on to your
greenbacks. Do not exchange them for
gold, but if you have gold, exchange it for
greenbacks at present rates. The sequel will
show, we think, that this is sound advice.
Year: 1867

If there is anything wanting to refute as
falsehoods the charges made against the peo-
pie, or any portion of them, in North-C Caro-
lima, OF violence and outrage towards "Un-
ion men," it is the fact that the most obnox-
ious OF them-such as W. w. Holden-ifsuch
are at all obnoxious to any portion of the
State. go unmolested and unharmed, notwith-
standing their base and false charges of dis
loyalty to the Government and persecution
of Union men. If our people were the ruff
fans and blood thirsty demons that Holden
represents them to be, how comes it, that no
one has taken vengeance upon him for his
lying accusations2 Not hair of his head
has been hurt, not drop of his blood has
been spilled, nor any portion of his life been
abridged This fact ought to satisfy any
reasonable mind, that these charges are false
And the same logic will apply to the people
OF the other Southern States, and their ira
ducers.-StatesoiWe american


To which we reply, we owe our life and
our property to the power of the nation, and
to the presence in this State of federal troops.
The above from the american proves that its
| Editors are traitors and murderers at heart.
| Wewould injure no one on account of his
political opinions. We have uniformly oppos.
ed mob or lynch law. But we will say this
that if about one dozen leading traitors in
each Southern State could be tried, convict
ed and executed according to law, it would
do more than every thing else that could bt
devised to give peace to the country, and tt
ensure permanent settlement of our trouble
on loyal basis. We would not dignify
such as the Editors of the american BY try
ing or Furnishing them. They are sucl
"small fry" that they can do no harm. LIE
a few of their masters, the big traitors, b.


properly dealt with, and such cattle as the,
are would at once seek cover, as hount
does when he is kicked.
Year: 1867

We publish to-day an admirable address
by Mr. James II. Harris to the colored people
of this State. The advice he gives is season.
able and appropriate, and will no doubt be
received in the spirit in which it is offered.
The colored people will soon be called to the
exercise of the high privilege of voting and
we are satisfied, from our knowledge of their
character, that this privilege will be SO used
as to promote the best interests of the State
and nation.