smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

FAITHFUL PoRTRA1r-The following
passage from Burke is striking portrait
of thousands of howlers, who are careful
enough to keep their own bodies out Of
the reach Of harm. Every Abolition ed
itor in this State is "bloated with pride
and arrogance, and calling for battles
which he" could not be kicked to fight
They urge others to volunteer and want
the war continued, but lack the courage
and patriotism to take the field in person.
Burke said:


II can conceive no existence under
heaven that is more truly odious and dis
gusting than an impotent, helpless crea.
ture, without civil wisdom or military
skill, without consciousness of any other
qualification for power than his servility
to it, bloated with pride and arrogance,
and calling for battles which he is not to
fight"
Year: 1863

REESE Rr'rR ITEMs.-The following We
clip from the Reese River Reveille:


OLD COLONY LEDGE.-The Old Colony
location is q few hundred feet east of the
Morgan & Muncey, and is thought by
some to be on the same led ge as that
claim. The ledge was followed down 10y
an incline about forty feet, when it was
lost. A drift is now being run in a
northerly direction, which it is expected
will strike the ledge again in short dis
tance.


NORTH STAR.-The improvements be-
ing make about the incline on this ledge
have now been finished sufficiently to
permit the resumption of work on the
ledge, and rock is now being rapidly ex-
tracted. A good track has been laid, a
substantial car been purchased, and the
hosting is now by means Of whim-
quite an Improvement on the old wind.
lass. The ore being extracted is of a
hard, white formation, and some oft will
soon be crushed.


FRANCIS MARloY.--This ledge is Situa
ted on the point of the hill Just in the
rear Of the Oregon mill A shaft has
been sunk to the depth of twenty feet,
from the bottom of which, drift is be-
ing run east on the ledge. Some rich
looking rock has been taken out, and the
owners think that they have as good a
ledge as their neighbor the Champion
There are eight hundred feet in location.
Work is being vigorously prosecuted.


EMMA FUNSTON. This ledge is situated
on the south side of Lander hill. An in
cline is now down upon it tabout thirty
feet, and it is being energetically pushed
forward. The quantity of the rock taken
out has been sufficiently tested by re-
cent crushing at the Fountain mill, when
it yielded S2,700 to the ton. The ledge
pitches at good angle, but like most Of
the others in that vicinity at that depth
is irregular, varying in width from few
inches to one and two feet. 1t runs d.
rectly into the hill however, is well de-
fined, and will no doubt soon lead into
regular and wide ledge. 1t will require
however only few tons of rock which
pays $2,700, to make very comfortable
sized pile of the filthy lucre.


CHANPIoN.-This ledge is situated on
the north side of the hiu short distance
south of the Oregon mill. 1t was discov-
cred last April, when location of ! 200
feet was made. The ledge has been strip
ped on the surface for about twenty feet,
and at the foot of the hill a tunnel has
been run, striking the ledge in distance
of forty-fve feet. The ledge pitches al q
good angle and varies in width from six
inches to two feet The rock has not vet
been sufficiently tested, but it has the ap
pearance Of, and is generally thought to
be rich. When burned it exhibits con.
siderable quantity of the pure metal.-A
ton Of the ore was sent to Brady's mill
yesterday to be crushed.


PLEAsANT.-SeVeral of the mills in the
Canon were hard at work day before YES.
terday crushing rock. The music of the
crushing stamps is the sweetest that can
be heard in mining camp. Keep it up.


RIcH.-We were yesterday shown a
small piece Of rock from the Diadem ledge
which had been burned in q forge. II
showed silver in considerable quantities.
Year: 1863

We make the following extract from
speech delivered by Major General Butler,
before Union mass convention held at Con-
cord, New Hampshire, OF the 10th of June
last. He said:


. have always lived Democrat accord.
ing to the strickest faith. Applause.l /
know of no better Democracy than mine.
But at the present time new principles, new
measures and new thoughts of the future
must occupy our minds, rather than the bur-
led issues of the past. The two years Just
gone by have taught us great truths as ma
tion. We have learned more in this time
than nations of old acquired in century
To-day. with the enemy laundering at the
gates of the capital, the question arises. what
can be done to preserve the integrity Of the
Union? To rescue the nation is the great
question. To do this we must unite with Low.
al men everywhere. The negro question
must not trouble us it is dead issue Of the
past. No one need trouble themselves about
that. And now about the habeas corpus.
According to the Constitution it could only
be suspended when the safety of the country
demapdsit.


My Democratic friends daughter, my
peculiar excellent Democratic friends Tap
plause.) A man high in Office thought of
suspending the habeas corpus. Would YOU
like to know the circumstances 1t was
the the occasion of the conspiracy of Aaron
Burr, and the ACTOR was Thomas Jefersan.
Great applause.) Once it was really sus.
pended at New Orleans, and by whom? Gen.
earl Andrew jackson. Tremendous ap-
plause.l We have rebellion on one side. and
an invasion by Lee on the other, and if the
constitution ever justifes the suspension of
the writ, it would do so under the present
circumstances. When the war is over, /
will go as far to protect these privileges as
any Democrat who now stay at home and
mock me. (Great applause My Democrat.
ic friends, | repeat it-put down, this rebel
lion, and you won't hear anything about the
suspension of the habeas corpus.


We hear great deal from the Democrats
about settling upon the matter ask the
question, shall we compromise to day? Shall
Breckinridge, with hands imbued with the
blood of your brothers, come back and take
his seat in the Senate of the United States +?
(Tumultuous no from all sides Shall
Wigfall come back and take his place in the
halls of National legislation? No, noD l
agree with you my friends and in closing
can only say that there is one duty for us all
in this hour of national peril; it is to sus.
t,in the Government of the United States.
When peace and reunited nation comes
again, then we can settle all minor differen-
ces."
Year: 1863

full body. the Common Council. ask you to
drink to this toast; :. Success in thsir iabors
of honor to the Mayor and Comiapn Council
of the good and great city of New York. and,
as Washington is the political Capital, SO
may this city be the commercial metropolis
of the united and indiyisible Republic. 7
lAnnlause.l
Year: 1863

BELOW THE ATLANTIC. -Soundings IN the
Atlantic have been particularly pushed for
ward, and have excited, on account of the
telegraph cable, more general interest than
any others yet taken. They have revealed
the fact that at least two hundred and thirty
miles from the coast of Ireland the water is
still shallow; or in other words, that there is
another Ireland only waiting to be raised
thus reversing the famous panacea for keep
ing the country quiet. 1t isjust beyond this
that the true Atlantic begins the gulf sud
denly sinking to nine thousand Ieet Thus
Ireland may one day have cost line as high
as the Alps. The whole floor of the Atlantie
is paved with soft, sticky substance, called
ooze, nine-tenths consisting of very minute
animals, many Of them were Jumps of jelly,
and thousands of which could float with ease
in a drop of water; some resembling toothed
wheels others, bundles of spines or threads
shooting from a little globule. Some how
ever, are endowed with the property of sep
arating flint from the sea water-Yhich is
more than every chemist could do; and there
are hundreds of square miles covered with
the skeletons Of these little creatures. Part
OF the ooze is doubtless from the clouds of
rain-dust which rise from the vast steppes of
South America in such masses as to darken
the sun, anu make the auiinais ny W sneiterj
and which, after sweeping ike simeon over
the country, lose themselves in the steep
Atlantic" No bone have been found of the
large animals, so that the kraken and sea-
serpent might sleep their last sleep, and leave
not bone or a vertebra to tell the tale. Not
. mast or anchor. not a block or strand, not
coin or a keepsake, has been found to tes-
tify of the countless gallant men, who have
gone down amid the pittiless waves.-AUhe
lear Round
Year: 1863




A CAPITAL example, writes a reader, Of
what is often termed taking the starch
out, happened recently in a country bank
in New England. A pompous, we'll dress
ed individual entered the bank, and ad-
dressing the teller, who was something of
a wag, inquired:


is the cashier in?'


No, SIR was the reply.


well, am dealing in pens, supplying
the New England banks pretty largely,
and | suppose it will be proper for me to
deal with the CASHIER


Il suppose it will


Very well, I will wait


The pen.peddler took chair, and sat
compOSedly for full hour, waiting for the
cashier. By that time he began to grow
uneasy, but sat twisting in his chair for
about twenty minutes, and, seeing no
prospect Of q change in his circumstan-
ces, asked the teller how soon the cashier
would be in.


We'll, I don't know, exactly replied
the waggish teller, but expect him in
AS+1as eight weeks. He has Just gone 60
Lake Superior, and told me he thought he
would be back in that time


Peddler thought he would not wait.


Oh, you can stay if you wish, said the
teller very blandly. We have no objec-
ton to your sitting here in the daytime,
and you can probably find some place in
town where they will be glad to keep you
nights


The pompOus peddler disappeared with.
out another word.
Year: 1863

ABOUT CLOVES. are produced
by q tree which is a native Of the Moiuc.
co Islands, and were. like nutmegs,a long
time under the exclusive control of the
Dutch government, who for many years
would not allow the tree to grow upon
any except the island Amboyan, whence
the bighest-priced cloves still come. The
tree is from fifteen to thirty feet high,
with large aromatic leaves and punches
Of very fragrant flowers. The spice is
the unopened flower buds, which are
beaten off by means Of rods, and then
dried. The little ball at the top OF the
Glove is the unexpanded petals; but soft
ening the Glove in hot water these can be
carefully laid open by the means of "a pin.
The main portion of the Glove is what
would be the fruit if it was allowed to
go on and ripen. Our word "clove I"
comes from the French claw, a nail-that
being the name by which the French
call them on account of their resemblance
to little nail. They contain good deal
Of volatile oil, upon which their value de-
pends. This oil is sonaetimes extracted
in parts, and the cloves afterwards Sold
These can be told by their lighter color,
and by having the buttons or rounded
portion broken of. Cloves readily absorb
q considerable amount of moisture, and it
is the custom oflarge dealers to keep
them in rather damp place, in order to
make them weigh heavily and look fresh
and plump. It is bad economy to buy
cloves or any other spice in the ground
state, as, aside from the risk of adultera-
ton, the oil is absorbed by the paper in
which they are put up.
Year: 1863

LESSON TO RULERs.--A certain Emperor
set out on journey to visit the vast prov.
inces of his empire, accompanied by his
eldest son. One day he stopped his car
in the midst of some fields where the peo-
pie were hard at work.


81 took you with me-" said he to his
son, "that you might be an eyewitness
Of the painful tolls of the poor husband
men, and that the feeling their laborious
station should excite in your heart might
prevent your burdening them with heavy
taxes !"
Year: 1863

AN Frishman was employed to trim
some fruit trees. lie went in the morn.
ing and on returning at noon, was asked
If he bad completed his work. No, was
the reply, but he bad cut them ell down.
and was going to trim them in the after.
noon
Year: 1863

stnng him 70 Vindictive madness. She
told him she had packed up, ready to set
forth with the trst light, and insisted on
leaving the house to seek . conveyance,
telling him that she had Ieft her trunk
ope0-he might search IL II he would, for
she had stolen nothing. These brave
words gave bis hitherto indefinite desire
for revenge feasible shape and, during
her abss0os, be had actually sewod into
her raiment the plate aid money, which
he concealed ct the bottom Of her box,
leaving 1t apparently just As be found it |;
and, when she returned, bidding her fare.
~ . -sN ~ ssMNAasts4 ~ reAeFtirx, ere
he retired 81 the night Having made
this statement be formally consigned the
whole Of bis boarded wealth to her, and
sunk into . peaceful slumber, from which
he never awoke in this world.





LIVING IN. HEARTs.-It is better to live
in hearts than 10 houses. A change of
circumstances or q disObliging landlord,
may turn one out Of house to which he
has formed many attachments. Remov-
ing from place to place ia, with many, an
unavoidable incident of life. But one
cannot be expelled from true and loving
heart save by his own fault nor vet a.
ways by that, for affection Clings tenaci-
Ously to its object, in spite Of i'll desert !;
but 60 where he will, his home remains in
hearts which have learned to love him /;
the roots Of affection are not torn out and
destroyed by such removals; but they re-.
main 6xed deep in the heart, clinging still
to the image, the object, which they are
more eager again to clasp. When one re-
visits the house Of his childhood, or the
place of his happy abode in his life's
spring time, pleasant as it is to survey
each familiar spot, the house, the garden,
the trees planted by himself or by Kindred
now sleeping; there is in the grasp Of the
hand, the melting Of the eye, in the kind
salutatiOn, in the tender sOlicitude for the
comfort and pleasure Of bis visit, delight
that no mere local object of nature or art,
no beautiful cottage, or shady rill, or quiet
grove can possibly bestOw. TO be re.
membered, to be loved, to live in hearts
this is one sOlace amid earthly changes
this is joy above all the pleasure Of scene
and place. We love this spiritual home
feeling, the union of hearts which death
cannot destroy for it augurs, if there be
heart purity as well as heart affection, an
Enchanting and imperishable abode in
hearts now dear.
Year: 1863

o. A lengthy dissertation has recently
been published by physician of France on
the Beneficial Influence of Groaning and
Crying on the Nervous System" He con-
tends that groaning and crying are the two
grand operations by which nature allays an
guish that those patients who give way to
their natural feeling more speedily recover
from accidents and operations than those who
suppose it unworthy man to be,ray such
symptoms of cowardice as either to groan or
violent roaring of patient during the time
heis undergoing violent surgical operation, {,
because he will thereby soothe his nervous
system so as to prevent fever, and insure IA
yorable termination.
Year: 1863

T A man named Kavanagh was at work
few nights since on Last Chance Hill, and
being taken i'll started OH his way to his cabin.
The next morning his frozen corpse was
found on the road leading to his house. 1t is
supposed that he became too i'll to proceed,
and lying down was frozen to death.-AworG
Times.
Year: 1863

T The Napa Reporter says that the
Sheriff of that county, whu went with an in
sane person to Stockton, few days since.
was instructed that no more patients would
be received into the Asylum until the build
ings are enlarged.
Year: 1863

The Wisconsin Legislature has memorialized
Congress for reduction of the duty on foreign
paper from thirty-fve to ten per cent ad valo-
rom, declaring newspapers public necessity,
and the popular depreciation of them public
calamity, which must in some measure result
from the present paper monopoly.
Year: 1863

The rebel plan of defending Texas. as
announced by the official paper at Hous-
ton, is, to leave the seaboard and pen
citrate into the interior, laying waste the
entire country as they pass through it.
leaving nothing for the Federal troops to
subsist upon. By doing this the FEEDER.
ists viii Be drawn away from their base
of supplies, and eventually become so
weakened as to render their capture
easy and certain. The most significant
part Of the plan is, that "all traitors
(UniOn men) must be hung. and the sus>
pected sent to the rear" This shows
the relentless dsmcniac spirit Of the
Year: 1863

About ten days since, we published an article,
copied from the Cincinnati Price Current, on the
Hog Crop Of 16G2-G3. The following is reply to
said article, from New York merchant, which
cannot fail aleo to interest those OF our readers
u:ha are in the nr0Yisiou trade:
Year: 1863

Il will be readily seen that these gentlemen
are among our heaviest merchants, and can
themselves influence large amount Of busi-
ness to the new organization We consider
the auspices nnder which the " Merchants
starts out as most favorable; and If the proper
selection Of Secretary is made, there can be
no doubt Of full success
Year: 1863

CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.--Itis is enough
to make the heart ache to see how cruel
silly mothers are in dressing their little
ones. We do not suppose that they mean
to be cruel-indeed we know that they
would Indignantly repel any such impu-
tation-but, nevertheless, they are cruel,
fatally cruel, in many instances, while
they fondly cherish the idea that they are
the tenderest of mothers. Look at that
beautiful bare neck and those shoulders,
those spotted little arms and those red
knees! You leave your,little one expos
ed to all the poisoned daggers of disease
to groups, fevers, and the host of infan-
tile maladies that come by destroying


the equilibrium, and making too heavy
draughts OF, the vital energies of your
child, to keep up, the temperature of the
uncovered parts. AS you value its life,
indulge in this insane folly no longer
Cover up its neck and limbs, and dress it
warm and comfortably as you do yourself.
Year: 1863

The Like Providence Scheme Abandoned


for the Present-COnditiono of the Young's


Point Canal.


IN SIGHT OF NICKsBURG, March ls, via
Cairo, March 2l.)-[ Dispatch to the Ciacin-
natl Gazette. There are few movements at
present transpiring of nature proper to make
public. The indications are that route bv
way of IaZDo Pass will be selected by the
greater part of the army, but the plan is liable
TO be changed at any moment. The Lake
Providence project is abandoned for the pres
ent OF course you know there is no founda-
ton for the rumor started at Memphis, and
teiegraphed from Cairo, that the National
iron clads had entered Lake Providence.
When an iron clad can traverse a half mile
of levee and dry land, il will do to telegraph
such nonsense.


The water is not yet let into the town, but
Will be when we abandon the position. 1t has
already troken through the levee at Grand
Lake, ten miles further up the river, and the
backwater already sets into Lake Providence,
and backs up almost a foot OF the embankment
inside the levee.


Matters at Youngs Point are geing ahead
backward. The dam at the mouth of the canal,
and the levees at the side have given away,
and a torrent of water from the Mississippi IS
flooding the low lands on the point toward
Vicksburg. Gangs Of men are busily engaged
in closing the breaks, and the work will to.
night resume a satisfactory condition. The
health of the army at the Point is improving;
here it is excellent.
Year: 1863

~More reinforcements are being sent out
from France to General Forey, and the number
of men now preparing TO leave will carry up
the total sent out to little over sixty thousand
all the services included. According to the
last news the General has not now more than
twenty three thousand for active operations
against the enemy.
Year: 1863

the fact that tn ,ir prosperity is not only gone.
but even tneit business is giving way. driving
np. One OF their Confederate colonpls i'm
conversation with one Of my stan, said: You
are prospecting in the war--we are not. Your
business is going on as usual. You are max
ing money. But we see no chance OF irving
up the war, at least we cannot give it up so. -


Laughter.


And when see such manifestations OF ear
nestness in the cause and look on such votes as
you lately gave loud applause i feel as ii
,ve are not TO give it up so either. Laughter
and applause. Now. don't know what more
can say, because don't know that feel
more earnestly than you do in reference TO the
great interests at stake. But will say that
there is no hope for our children, no hope for
ourselves, but to maintain our government ex-
actly As it was-or if not as il was, the next
thing to it, or, if we can't have that, we will
have but one nation anyhow. Great ap-
plausc.


| have been where | could see and hear from
the enemy. My hearing what was 10 hear,
and seeing what was to be seen, has given me
opportunities for judging of the Southern con-
dtion that all have not possessed. l will tell
you one thing mole, and that in reference TO
the opinions OF those who think the war might
have been avoided, and that some peace might
have been procured before now, if we had tax
Ell a different course. But tell you that the
only way in which we can procure any peace
is by throttling the enemy of the South. IAp-
plause. Converse with rebel and he will
tell you frankly that he is sorry that the war
was begun. They will tell you, as iheir Gen.
Adams said, 81 notice that the extreme men
who brought on the war are not fighting its
battles. The planters and the people on the
border have only acted with reference to the
protection of their property. l see that the
best blood of the country is being shed in
war that the victims did not bring about" The
people deplore the war, bnt they are held by
the neck; the military power has got them
under its heel. You cannot, therefore, make
peace with them. The only way is to keep
tightening the cords around them, TO get them
SO broken that the conservative people of the
South ~can help themselves. This they will
not attempt until they throttle the military
power. Then they will turn TO the leaders
and say, 1--WE have had enough of this, and
will give IL up" Accordingly / see no hope
except in prudently and steadily crowding
upon them as we have been doing, and the
termination of the struggle at last will be in
accordance with the great interest of our coun-
try and the world. IApplause.l had hoped
that within year we could have accomplished
the reduction of the rebellion. / will saw i'm
conclusion that had we received the forces
eight weeks ago that we ought to have had
we would have broken the back of the rebel
lion before now.
Year: 1863

WE offer to the public LEADING Stove.
w We say unhesitatingly, that for finish. dura-
biity and economy, IL has not an equal In New Eng
land AT the present high price of coal. IL affords
us great satisfaction 10 produce a stove which for
economy cannot be beat,


We shall be pleased at all times TO show this stove
to any one who MAJ call explain the principle upon
which il Is operated. and are able TO give undoubted
references to the truthfalness of our statement.


THE MAGEE PARLOR
Consists Of four sizes of ehaste pattern. and beau
tifnl finish The Parlor Stove Is operated upon the
same principle as the Cook Stove.


THEMAGEE PARLOR WITH OVEN, Is q new
and improved design.