smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

Publishing INCOMES The New York
Tribune has the following on this subject,
which will apply in CALIFORNIA;


So long as income tax shall be required and
levied, We are satisfied that it is best for all
who are honestly concerned therein that there
should be no restriction on giving publicity to
the items. We have not the slightest objection
to any one or more ascertaining how much in
come We return and Judging whether that
return is foil and fair or otherwise. II we
have not returned enough let complaint be
duly made aod correction enforced. Aud how
can this be If the lists are TO be shrouded in
secrecy? Why shun the light, if there be
nothing that breads it? If there be men Tor
women) who wish to pass for rich when they
are not, or to live in state on the plunder of
their creditors and tradesmen, why not expose
them? And it there be men living al the rate
of FIVE TO ten thousand year who swear their
incomes down TO 81 900 or 81 500, why not
let the world see and scorn their unpatriotic
knavery? We regard any incoIe tax as Pc
culiarly onerons, and only 10 be justified by the
sterneSt necessity. But, so long as one is i'm
posed. let il be fairly assessed and paid. We
know that this will not be, if the returns are 10
be kept secret. We know that some have re
turned and paid tax on incomes OF $4,000 to
$4,000, who are actually less wealthy than
Others who have returned few hundreds, and
even no incomes at all. We want this straight
ened; and publishing the returns will help
so We go in for it.
Year: 1865

The INDIAN DIFFICuLIEs.- Salt Lake
Nedette says it is forced, reluctantly, 10 the
conclusion that the Indians of Colorado, Ne
braska and Southern Dakota will have affairs
pretty much their own way for some time to
come. They number, from all accounts re-
ceived, from twenty FIVE hundred to four thou.
sand warriors. They are well mounted and
are armed with rifles, carbines and revolvers.
There are not soldiers sufficient, on the Platte
river and in the country adjacent, 10 success
fully cope with them. The fact Of hundred
men being compelled to pursue and engage a
body of Indians estimated at not less than Eve
hundred, certainly indicates lack Of necessa
ry military force. The Indians appear to have
lost their dread for the lightning talker = bu,
we more than half suspect that white men are
in league with them Unless they are speedily
brought to terms by vigorous campaign, We
will be compelled TO abandon all hope of any
emigration from the East during the coming
season. We must prepare ourselves to pay
very high prices for everything we may re-
quire-probably not be able to procure many
articles required at any price. A vigorous
campaign cannot be conducted to successful
termination unless more soldiers are placed iu
the field.
Year: 1865

TRoLEuN.-Almost every paper We see
(says the Colusa SUM DOW has more or less to
say on the subject of petroleum. 1t appears
that almos, oil yet discovered in this State is
thick, tar like substance, aud we even see
some of the papers talking about tests to see il
the substance found really contained petroleum.
The oil is found almost entirely pure in the
Coast Range, west of Colusa. By digging a
hole few feet deep, it can be collected pure
enough to burn ia common lamp without any
purifying whatever. There is only very small
portion, if any, foreign matter in it-not over
five per cent. at most. We learn from reliable
authority that DO such oil has ever been dis
covered in this country.
Year: 1865

WHEN casting the electoral vote of Missouri,
the electors united in al eminensly appropriate
though an extra-ofhcial act. They joined in q
petition TO Governor Hall for the pardon of
three men sent to the penitentiary for aiding
in the escape of slaves 10 freedom, and their
prayer Was granted.
Year: 1865

The following statement was made BY
Moses Z. Wentworth; the successful ap-
plicant for tie premium offered by tho
Kennebec Agricultural Society, for tho
best premium in the use of muck:


1.-The following is tae method | prac-
tice in the preparation and use Of muck
on my farm in Winthrop, and which I
find very beneficial. BY thus composing
it, Increase my dressing two.thirds more
than | could have without it, and | think
it so prepared makes very much better
dressing than barn-yard manure alone
[ dig the muck as soon after haying as I
can, that being generally the dryest sea-
son Of the year, and the sun and the air
will have good effect upon it before |
take it to the barn-yard.


Before moving this muck, after it has
been dug, ! clear my barn.yard of the
previous years accumulation Of dressing,
say on the FIRST of November. or before
the ground freezes-cnrting it out into
the field where propose to plant corn
the next season, or for the purpose Of
top-dressing, &c. | then haul into the
vacant yard the muck, aud spread evenly
all over the surface. My cattle are then
allowed to run over and stand upon it
during the fall and winter. In the spring
as soon as it is dry enough, [ run the
pow through it, and follow this practice
during the summer.


yard my cattle on it during the sum-
mer nights. | have barn cellar, into
which | drop the manure from my cattle
during the winter and spring, and when
eyer housed. This / fork over in the
-pring, and during the summer, keeping
It in the cellar until the last Of AuguSt of
first of September. then commence
mixing the p la in my cellar with the
muck in the yard, in the proportion Of
one-thrd manure from this cellar to two
thirds muck in the yard frequently plox!
iny them over and incorporating them to-
gether as intimately as 1 can unt;l it 10
tlpe to haul into the field.


stated taat cleaned my yard just
before the ground closed up for winter,
aud the sooner it freezes after it is oqt
the better, as it prevents evaporation or
further drying. / drop it in long pile,
and stack it into a sharp ridge, like the
roof OF house, hattng it,and smoothing
the sides with my shovel, which causes il
to shed rams, and you'll find it all there
in the spring.


Muck prepared in this way meyer failed
to give good crops, and proves more last
ing for the hay crop than the same
amount of manure does. l have now
about Is cords, which is my usual amount
prepared every year.
Year: 1865

u We cannot refrain from giving our
readers, the following deeply interesting
letter from the Boston Adccrtiser, even
at the EXCLUSION of the usua. storv This
letter written from the capital Of the
State leading u the rebellion giving as it
does, the views Of its leading, erratil pol
iticians, must heinterestiag to al.
Year: 1865

He has many partners, but they are only part
ners in profits He is the sole master of all that Is
bought and sold. He knows every article that comes
in or goes out of the store No bundle leaves with
out n check. He selected shawl for his wife one
day and ncgccing to check it, it could not leave
the building No merchant in New York works as
many hours or gives such undivided attention to his
business. His rooms are in his down town store
lie comes down carly takes his dinner at o'clock,
returns and remains at his work till late at night
He finds his pleasure in business. lie is ms difficult
to approach rs the Grand Lama. Go to the store
and you are met at the door by courteous gentle
man once AN clllucnt merchant, who kept his own
establishment. To your question, if Mr. Stewart is
in? "A response comes, "what is your business s.
want to see Mr. Stewart You cant see him un-
less know your business | must know what you
want, sir. II is private you say Mr.. Stewart mas
no private business If your statement IS satlstac-
tory, you are allowed to pass up stairs. Here you
are met by another bland but portly gentlemen,
once Judge of one of our courts, now the coniden-
tial business agent and companion OF Mr. Stewart to
whom he devote, all his time. He subjects you to Il
series of cross examinations as vigorous as if you
were on a stand in court He keeps you from Stew
art if he can. If he cant t. when your turn comes
he ushers you into little box ten by twenty where
sits the autocrat Of New York merchants He re-
ceives you with blank countenance and cold eye
His voice is suppressed his face inanimate, and his
air inpatient You hurry through your business,
and need a strong temptation to induce you TO run
! the gauntlet a second time.
Year: 1865

1t is customary among loyal men to speak Of those
who do not act with the Government cordially, ms
"Copperhcads, "Buttcrnuts,' Rebel sympathi-
zers, and ms Conservatives, all Of which implies
that they are partly Union, and partly not We
are opposed to all such distinction, and to all such
calling Of names Our doctrine is, that all men
among us are either for or against the Government
they either the friends or enemies of the Union,
and ought to be treated as such. The day has pas
sed when men can be on both sides of this contest.
The Government must be sustained, or it must 60
down, and those who will not aid in sustaining it
had better be sent through our lines, to where their
friends are.


We are sick and tired of hearing men complain of
the Government and propose reforms in the army
regulations. Most of them, although they deny the
fact, are troubled about the Niger, and can't give
him up. How dull, and even stupid, man must
be to hope any longer to save an institution that has
caused all this shedding of blood. The cause must
be removed before the effects cease The Nation
has determined to it, and it will be removed
Nay, il has been doae aireadyl
Year: 1865

taken the oath to save his property, These mon
carried of ut least fifteen hundred dollar, worth of
property, party Of eight Federal soldiers, or
home guards, pursued them u. far n. Mu.,cugills s
MILL and there inquired if the rebels had gone that
way, and were tlld by parties who had also taken
the oath to save their property, that they had not
1t turned out that they had gone that way and that
these rebels lied to save their friends


What ought to be done with robcs who harbor
these rascals, and lie to prevent their capture Our
hope is In the action of our Legislators with Brown
low to prompt and back them up, Put them
through gentlemen and We Union sufferers will
then feel compensated for our losses.
Year: 1865

E% One ot the provost guard at City
Point thought it rather odd a few days ago
to see a private soldier wanderingiabous
with field glass. The man was arrested,
and under his federal uniform was found O
full suit of rebel gray. He was spy, in
specting our fortlfcations coolly with his
glass, and proposing at convenient oppor-
funity to Glade our picGets, throw off his
disguise and make his way into the rebel
lines. .......r-
Year: 1865

GoRMANDIzERs.-Am man has just died in
Paris OF t'insatiate hunger, He could not eat
enough. His earnings being altogether IN
sufficient TO satisfy his enormous appetite,
though he ate scarcely anything but bread
his felowworkmen used to contribute to
wards his support but wearied with thus
barden ming his friends, and worn out by his
sufferiDgs, he at last hung himself. The an
nails Of medicine record many instances of
this disease, both in ancient and modern
times, but the most remarkable case, Of late
years, was that Of Anne Demise who died in
Paris, only few years since, She used to
eat from twenty-four to thirty pounds of
bread day. When on her death bed and
unable to take food, she begged her sister to
come and eat near her, and her last words
were "Since it pleases God that shall eat
no more, let me at least have the pleasure
of seeing you cat"
Year: 1865

A wife in San Francisco lately put
netition for divorce in the Court, on the
Ground that her husband was a econ
founded fool" The Judge, who was an
old bachelor, wouldn't admit the plea,
be cause every man would bc liable to the
same ilnputation who gets married.
Year: 1865

rs In fever and ague and all intermittent
fevers, according to the statements of count
less witnesses, the Red jacket BitteTs break up
the paroxysms with absolute certainty, and
speedily restore the strength of the patient.
Year: 1865

The NEWSPAPER APPRECIATED With.
out my newspaper, life would narrow it..
self to the small limits of my personal
experiences, and humanity be compressed
into the ten or fifteen people l mix with.
Now refuse to accept this. have not
slxpence in consols but want to know
how they stand. was never-I never
in all likelihood shall bc-in Japan; but
have an intense curiosity to know what
cur troops did at Yokohama. | dcplore
the people who suffered by that railroad
smash and | sympathize with the newly
married couple so beautifully depicted in
the Illustrated, as they drove off in a
chalse and our old gent at the hall door,
waving them last adicu. like letters
Of correspondents, with their little
grievances about their unpunctual trains,
or some unwarrantable omissions in the
liturgy. l even like the people who
chronicle the rainfall, aud record little
facts about the miidness Of the season.
As for the advertisements, l regard them
AS the glass and mirror of age. Show
me but one page Of the wants" of any
country, and engage to give sketch of
the current civilization of the PERIOD
What glimpses Of rare interiors do We
gain by these brief paragraphs! How
full of suggestlveness and of story are
they Il Blacfaooods Magazine.
Year: 1865

FROZEN KINDNEss.-The world is full
of kindneNs that was never spoken, and
that is not much better than no kindness
at all. The fuel of the stove makes the
room warm. but there arc great fallen
trees lying among rocks on the top of tho
hill where nobody can get at them these
do not make anybody warm. You might
freeze to death for want Of wood in plaiI,
sight of all these trees, if you had no
means of getting the wood home and
making fire With it. Just so in fami
ly love is what makes the parents and
children, the brothers and sisters happy


but if they take care never to say word
about it; if they keep it profound SC,
cret, as if it were crime. they will moi
be much happier than if there was not
any love among them; the home will
seem cold even in summer, and if you
live there you will envy the dog when any
one calls him ''paor fslloW.'=E1.
Year: 1865

70 repair and put in motion the machinery Of govern
mont or be permitted to 1t when repaired by moro
reliable men which they have been the instruments Of
destroying think not, and greatly mistake the
character OF President johnson II he do not coincide
with me and large number Of loyal Aabamians in the
same opinion The President well every other man
who is Al all acquainted with the organization Of South
ern society knows that tho saveholdng rebels must be
disfranchised; that having attempted TO destroy the
government, they cannot be trusted with pot-
cal power till they have undergone q pro-
batonary stae that will insure their fidelity to the
constitution and laws OF our country; or, TO q
Southern provncialsm that when again they join the
church OF the nation ''they must give unmistakable
evidence that they have got religion"


Very respectfully, d. II. BINGHAM.


p. S.-The Robert q. Smith who is announced In the
HERALD Of this morning and who endorses the address
the President from Mobile has been member OF the
rebel Congress and Percy Walker is brother Of the rebel
Secretary OF War; Pope Walker These both
verts to loyalty, aud in the category with the
Alabama delegation.
Year: 1865

Of the colored people Of the South whose friend have
always been and whose protector am resolved TO be
but-and his countenance glowed with peculiar feel
ing he asked the question-'have you thought
Of the millions Of Southern white people that have also
been liberated by the warfn Upon such text need
no speeches, and certainly no long letters.


THE PRESIDENT NOT IN Favor OF NEGRO SUFFRAGE.


Correspondence Of the Boston Post.


President Johnson in interview with the delegation
Of Quakers who asked that he might give his influence
for universal suffrage, informed them that he was fully
acquainted with the negro In the South and that be
believed that the question surrounded with very
grave difficulties He intimated clearly that he not
in favor of negro suffrage for the present st least
Year: 1865

W AHHlN-'TTN, juno TO- INb5.
The revelation In the assassination trials to day of Ben
Woods completely with tho rebels in Canada exciting
comment though surprise borc. His arrest has
been ordered and he will have opportunity to explain
his intimate connection with the public enemy while
holding seat a sworn member Of Congress- The re
cord looks very black for linn Just now


IL Will doubtless be relief TO many conscious traitors
when their trials over and daily fear Of the exposure
OF their mIsdecds aud ndscroot correspondence and
checks has co.gad
Year: 1865

-. Il reiterated ehas Mr. Lincoln was not .
worthy leader for Ne AmsEioaa psorlss d.
olared that "the great heart AZ he North was
slckened" BY hls oourSe, and urged BY the
most direct Implication that snothsr man should d
bs put In his plao~ a


On the 1eth Of April, 1851, tAs TSmss pub
lished George Laws letter TO TIE President
That letter gave statement Of what it, writer
thought should be done, and declared It "mot
desirable that It should be done through the
regularly constituted authorities" but made Il
clearly understood that II those authoriies did
not do 1t some one else would That letter the
7smss applaudsd and endorsed, saying that the
President must cot Or the people would act for
him and carry on the war in their own way. II
evidently regarded George Law - "the leader"
II had called for. -


That there might be no doubt what It meant
BY al this, the Times repeated the whole matter
on April ~, In these words:-


We did not hesitate to say tothe President that un-
Ies he acted with moSe vgor with more courage with
thorough comprehension Of public exigencios and
PUBIC ssrnmens .nan nsa men oeen dspayeo ne ran
from which II could only be rescued by sche
should more accurately repr'ss ns sssissnts and pur
poses Of tho American people


the most revolutionary character made to tho
country-a proposition to supersede the CON
stituted authorities, and to give the duties Of
the properly elected Executive into the hands
Of some other person. 1t was proposition to
do just what the South proposed to do, and we
denounced It as such at the time. We declared
1t an appeal to anarchy, and an attempt to de-
stroy the government under the pretence Of
saving it. And now the Times quietly tells It's
readers that the whole proposition was ours.
Is there anything else in the history Of false
hood and impudence equal to thisi


TEE TRIBUNE AND THE LEGIsLATuRE.-The
Tribune is clamorous against the Legislature
for its terrible corruption. All right As 1t is
republican Legislature the Tribune ought to
know all about it. But If the Legislature was
to be so easily bought as the Tribune says, how
is it that the city railroad bills did not pass
Their projectors were ready to pay. How is it
that the Central Railroad, quite ready to pay
also, did not get its bill through! Every one
will lament as much as the Tribune can the
defeat Of the Health bill for this city; and It is
singular that that bill was defeated by COM
binadon between the City Inspector and the
Tribune concern. Tie City Inspector wanted
10 defeat that bill, and the Tribune concern
wanted something else, and it was their log
rolling that accomplished the most mischievous
vote of all those the Tribune now denounces.
Year: 1865

TIE oEcNAIs.--who were the original
fomenters and instigators Of the troubles that
have torn the country by four years Of terrible
war and loaded II with it, millions Of debt
The nigger traders Of the South and The nigger
worshippen Of the North. W
Year: 1865

A New York Herald's correspondent, trav.
cling through Tennessee, lately visited the
town Of Grcenville, and put up at hotel
kept by man who worked upon the same
tailor bench with President johnson, and
who gave him the following story


"There was a vast difference between An.
dy and I when we worked upon the same
bench. l could spell baker, and he could
not; he could flax me on pair Of breeches
or fine coat, and could get u better price
for his work than I. He never made gar
ment that didn't it. and never had u job re-
turned. lie was the best tailor have ever
met. When Andy got married he hadn't
ten dollars in the world, and his wife was OF
poor US Naomi's daughters. Her mother
said to her before she was married, calling
her by name,) I can give you all the money
there is in the house-ffteen dollars-to help
you about going to housekeeping or will
take the money and give you wedding
which will you prcfer2 Mother, said she
Il will take the wedding, and Andy and Ill
work for money-won't we9 appealing to
her lover. He assented, and the consequence
was that the young couple had not one cent
with which to 'set up for themselves. AT.
ter they were married she taught him to
read, aud the world knows the rst said
the old man, with a sigh Of relief, rs he
stroked down his sandy wig, and pulled away
ut his old clay pipe. Oh. wonderful plebe
ian! it is q long and rugged road that leads
from the tailor's bench at Greenville to the
Presidential chair in Washington but tha,
wonderful trip through Cumberland Gap hai
told its tale"
Year: 1865

No matter what breed you have, some
thing is necessary to reach the highest sue
cess in raising good mixers. lisa great
thing to have good blood, whether it be Ayr.
shire. Jersey, or Short Horn grades, but
apart from this important advantage, the
course of treatment in raising mixer is
somewhat different from that in raising a
beef animal, or an animal for labor.


The calf should DO we'll fed and petted
while young. Well fed. to induce rapid
growth, so as to enable the heller to come in
early; petted. to make her gentle and fond
Of the presence Of her keepers. Fondling
helps to create quiet disposition, SO i'm.
portant in a dairy cow, and this education
must begin when young, For mixer we
would have the heifer come in at two years
old, and if she has been we'll kept, 50 as to
have attained good size, she is then old
enough to become COW. She will givo
moro milk for coming in early. 1t forms the
habit OF giving milk, and habit, you know,
is sort of second nature. An older bull is
better. Wo use too many young bulls. A
three or four years old is far better as u
stock gettor than yearling, and many pre-
fer FIVE or ak year old to any other. AZ
ter the heifer has come in, let her feed be
regular. Clover is preferred to oil others
for the stall feed. A little oat moal induces
large aow. Indian meal Is rather fatten.
ing. In bad weather give her clean, airy
stall.-Mass. Pioughndn.
Year: 1865

BIT FLORENCE PERCY.
asome day Is the burden Of many song that's new
,ne In ythm. Florence Percy has thus given one Of then
You smooth the tangies from my hair
With gentle touch and teuderest care,
And count the years you shall mark
bright silver threads among the dark
Smiling the while to hear me say,
"Youll think Of this again some day,


Some day"
do not scorn the power Of Time,
Nor count on years Of fadeless prime.
But no white CLEANS will ever shine
Among these heavy locks Of mine,
Ay, laugh as gayly as you may,
You'll think Of this again some day,


Some day!
Some day I shall not feel as now,
Your soft hands move about my brow
shall not slight your light commands,
And draw the long braids thro' my hands -
shall be silent and obey
And you-you win not laugh that day;


Some day!
know how long your loving hands
WIN finger with these glossy bands,
When you shall weave my last, last crown
OF these thick braidings, long and brown;
But you viii see no touch Of gray
Adown their shining length that day


Some day!
And while your tears are falling hot
Upon the lips which answer not,
You'll take from those one treasured tress,
And leave the rest to silentness-
Remembering that used to say,
"You'I think Of this again some day!


Some day."
Year: 1865

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED HOTEL Is NOW


in charge of its original proprietor and viii
be kept as a First Class House. An Omnibus will
be on hand to convey passengers from the depot 70
the hotel free of charge. Stages leave this house
for all parts of the State. The patronage of the
travelling public is respectfully solicited.


1y-45 W. C. STOKES, Proprietor.