smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

Let me now bring to your notice
one or two additional views of this


matter which, l am sure, can not
fail of their effect upon mind as
beautifully constituted rs / know
yours to be. The people of the
North are not willing to tpust us Of
the South with the exclusive control
of this affair, because they believe,
and we can not possiI@y y convince
them to the contrary, 9hat, should
they permit us to become represented
again in the two Houses of the Fed
eral Congress, before we shall have
carried into operation fully the ar
rangements which they have hereto
fore stipulated in behalf of the col
ored race, we would afterward open
ly resist the execution OF the COM
pact, or at least attempt to evade its
provisions; and some imprudent
movements which have recently oc-
Cured in the South have greatly
tended, fear. to aggravate this un-
fortunate feeling OF dIstgust More
over, the people of the North are al
most the exclusive holders Of the
bonds which represent the vast debt
which has grown out of the prosecu-
ton of the war, and they are appre-
hensive that If the exercise OF the
elective franchise is limited to the
white population Of the South, the
whole voting power OF our section
nav be hereafter welded in favor oI
repudiating that debt. We shall
never be able to satisfy them that
this debt will be safe without the
counterpoise ofnegro suffrage. The
feelings of the whole bondholdine
class are deeply excited on this sub


iect, and nothing can give them sat


isfaction but the formal adoption o.


the constitutional amendment pro


pounded. Upon the whole. then,
must confess that | entirely agree
with the enlightened and consclen
Year: 1865

OLD JIM SMITH.--Old Jim Smith
residing ten miles west Of here
came into town last Wednesday, and
while settling an account with the
County Court Clerk, was pounced
upon by two Union men, with clubs,
and literally mauled out of counte-
nance The Sheriff being present
interposed, and protected him, and
started him out home with a guard.
The guard left him some two miles
from town. and soon after it several
bullet holes were shot through him,
and he was found dead in the road
Smith was a bad man before the
rebellion, and grew worse under its
progress. He took an active part
in the persecution of Union men
and their families, and in driving
them out of the country. His sol
shot Horace Foster, and was quite
as bad as the old man, both acting
as rebel guerrillas. We have never
supposed that such men would he al
lowed to live in East Tennessee, after
the troops returned from the army
We are not informed as to who killed
Smith, but we think it has been some
parties that suffered at his hands
hnorriHe Wig.
Year: 1865

E MANAGEMENT OF WORKING OxEN--It is
not SO much hard labor that heats oxen and
makes them loll in warm weather, as the III
treatment of rough and abusive drivers Treat
them with gentleness when at work; feed
them well and regularly three times day,
with cut hay and straw wet with water


sprinkled with oat and Iniian corn meal, at
least twelve quarts, besides some roots daily:
let them have clean water as often as they are
ted, and not require them to drink that which
is impure or stagnant; give them time after
feeding to chew the cud and rest, and they
will lperform a vast amount of hard work, and
increase in flesh at the same time, and win us
ually be found to be more convenient for many
purposes than horses. Let it be reiterated
that it is not the hard labor that oxen perform
that exhausts their energies. Oxen were
made for hard service; and If treated kindly
and carefully, they will labor hard every day,
and still grow fat. But when fed stinted al
lowance Of poor hay and meal, worried and
abused by a bawing, ill-natured driver, who
necessarily applies the lash or goad, and drag


ged out by carrying on their recls huge cart


Tongue, from morning till night, their strength


fails, and sensible people are led to conclude
that they cannot endure the heat like horse.
-lAgriculturist. ,4 ss4sf q. 3ss 4 5f
Year: 1865

ticipate in all our acts of government, where is the valid reason that denles black Protes- tant the exercise of the same natural right. And besides, if negro haters did but know it, they are paying them higher compliment than their friends are willing to own. For if there is such talismanic power in the ballot when applied to the African as to at once raise him to the head of affairs, both political and social then it would be the highest wisdom, as taking but little time and no expense, in the slow pro- cess of education. to at once confer the right and end the business, The negro is unable to take care of himself; he must have master, and readily attaches himself to one.' Well then just attach him to yourself by giving him . vote, and then take it to replenish party sadly in need of such indispensable material

 SOLICITOR.
Year: 1865

In conversation with friend the other day on the above topic, who is shrewd and intelli- gent on all questions not intimately connected with his disease-colorphob used the old stale enquiries as to whether would vote for nigger for Governor, or would put him on social equality with the divine-right vote white man. Like all good churchmen when called upon to read service, I recited my creed, that the safeguard of democratic institutions lies in the ballot, based on the intelligence of the masses. Intelligence and rot a mere habit of the skin, qualities man for voter, or that much, woman either.

 Now let us look squarely at this question, and see if there is anything but an unreason- ing silly prejudice at the bottom of it, mixed up with great deal of very i'll breeding.

 It is election day. Here at the poll-board sits one of our first family democrats as judge. An ardent illiterate son of Erin presents his ballot. white he is, though slighty rum colored, but no trace of charcoal there. Gan you read the Constitution ? Och, yer honor, and that l kin in Irrish,' and Pat proceeds to read an invocation to St. Patrick, or the Catholic creed backwards, for aught our complacent fudge may know; and deposits his seal of manhood Does any one compromise his good manners by asking our democratic friend if he expects to vote for an Irishman for Governor. or is

 

 going to invite Paddy into his best parlor and marry his accomplished daughter to him i For one, l shall protest against thelassumption that in politics all have opposers of equal sui frage, are courteous and we'll bred. No, my friend these foolish preiudiees will not do.- If white Catholic owing supreme allegiance ts foreign religious and civil power, can par
Year: 1865

 We went wandering down through the wood

 lands,

 In the Autumn--Alice and l. How clearly before me that memory stands, From the old times long gone by We pushed our way through the tangled wood Where the birch stems glittered white. Until close ny the river side we stood, Where the rowan berries hung bright. All the brown woods were silent overhead There was never breeze to quiver The birchen boughs and the rowans red As they hung along the river The gold noes that hung on the gray rock g

 side,

 Where only the moss could grow, And the dark green ferns dipping into the

 tide,

 Lived again in the stream below. And she twisted the berries into crown For her gleaming gold-bright hair; And the face from the bank looked laughing

 down .. Al the face in- the water there As if one of the wood-nymphs of olden days Had strayed to the river side. To greet with her smiling and wondering gaze water sprte under the tide. Cold in her grave lies Alice now By the stream 1 stand alone; And one gold To K from her dead white brow Is the dearest thing own.
Year: 1865

LATEST PARIS STYLE OF HEAD DREss1No.- A Parsian writer vindicates the fashions in half as follows:

 Our women wore on their necks such a quantity of false hair, that it was feared we should have hair famine, and there were ru- mors of a decree which should limit every wo- nan to daily maximum ration of hair The women would be obliged, as during the famine Of '9l. to come every morning to the Mayors office to receive two ounces of false hair per poll All Ut once the mode changed. The tufts which shaded the vertebral column have climbed to the summit of the head, without even resting to recover breath on the occiput !; but the feminine tile thereupon proved too small to contain these captive balloons, and our women have torn out the top of their bon nets, in order to give passage to the counter felt curls which now crown their edifce thought at first it was one of those jokes which our women indulge in every day, but have since learned that it was the latest good taste to pierce ventillator in ones bonnet, through which the hair may escape and whirl in space At first the head dress appears ex- clusively ridiculous Further consideration shows that it has advantages and inconven- fences. Women who are not tender for each other, are enabled by this new fashion to tear each others hair without taking of their bon nets. This is one of the advantages. One of the ;nconyeniences of the new fashion is that nothing is easier to a subtle conveyancer than to transfer, without their knowledge, their head dress, which belongs 10 them only as Schleswig belongs to Prussia, redet'cet, by an nexation Ten times out Of twenty. when a woman returns home, her husband will exclaim =. Mon Dieu! what has become of the top of your head ? And she will be obliged to make the singular reply: It was stolen from me in an omnibus It may be objected that women are very imprudent to use the contra band hair to attract mems love. Ofa truth it

 is self-evident that in making him fall on his knees before the hair she wears, a Parsienne

 obliges him to take the first steps of inadelity

 to her. because the hair he adores belongs to

 another woman.
Year: 1865

DCOf FT1cnQS "A SS6mDleQ as we are, 10 celebrate, with cheerful and grateful hearts, the Fiftieth Anniversary of an event, marking the commencement, to those whose guests we are, of what is designated, in 1he Task, the

 -"only bliss

 "Of paradise that has survived the fal,''

 domestic happiness 1t may be interesting to revert briefly to the scene of the day commem- orated, and note it's contrast With the present.

 Look in upon that bridal group encircling bridal pair, arrayed in the style of that early day On that day, Summer flooded these same beautiful hills with sunlight the same moon and stars bathed that eve and that scene of love in their mellow light i; the same God look ed down benignly upon them, who now smiles upon us. But all beside, how changed Your conn ections who were then aged, and in mid life, and some then in childhood, are long since fallen asleep. Those surviving are not what they then were. The children are far past life's noon, and the faces of those then in the prime of life, are .fqrrowed, and their locks hoary with age, and their voice and step feeble by reason of years.

 am informed that there are several present who witnessed that scene, and one, besides this venerable pair, to whom it was bridal day. To all these, this day must be one of sweet as we'll as sad memories Others there are present who simply heard that Uncle or Cousin Frederick Whittlesey was married to Miss Hannah Ray, and saw it in the County paper, with the date July 20, 1915. But more of us have only witnessed the later years of the domestic happiness then in- augurated. We are the offspring of later time, and are assembled to learn lessons of life from age, and find happiness in it's pleasures.

 On behalf of this large and very respectable gathering of family long distinguished for it's piety and intelligence, congratulate you, Mir. and Mrs, Whittlesey, on the pleasant scene of this day. Those dispositions of mind and heart which have made you. each to the other mutual support and comforter, those habits of temperance in all things, and above all, the tsupport and cancellations of that religion which has length of days in it's right hand, and in its left everlasting life, have secured to you live. of tranquility and prosperity, and an old age

 to the body comparatively free from in6rmity and to the soul of peaceful trust in God, ana : that hope that as golden sheaves you are in du, t time to be gathered in by the angels.

 We rejoice to believe that you have lived

 these fifty years happily together, and that you marital VOWS have only been forgotten as the, !. were unneeded by reason of your mutual love v making obedience to them involuntary. w r trust that in heart these VOWS are to-day re + newed, and that the same mutual love will COT

 tinue to make each to the other guardia
Year: 1865

angel, dividing cares and multiplying and shar-

 ing each others joys. As from time to time you have bsen beseaved by the lass of dear friends, you have .heen welded in warmer af lection to each ether /; and in future may your love be so sanctified. that when one of you shall precede the other into heaven the snryi- vor may not find it difficult to remove that af- lection to Him who combines in His nature all that We can find to love in friends The One altogether lovely. So that while you are as vines mutually supporting each other, the ten to earthly objects but fasten around the pillars of heaven. until in the paradise of God though unmarried and as the angels the same vine of affection, with new Iuxuriance and beauty may bloom forever where it's leaf shall not wither, as here it must oftentimes, and it's flowers fade not away

 Your wedding was celebrated at the close of war during which the capital of the nation was burned, and much of life and treasure wasted So this Golden Wedding finds us a much greater nation. on the eve of more gre vious war; and though you have made sacrifi ces of children's children and others, bound to you by ties of kindness or affection yet with all the good you must rejoice to have lived to See sacrifice thus rewarded. Peace again smiles upon us ; and above Feace irradiates the pure light of liberty like
Year: 1865

'Best be the tie that binds' &c.

 For more than fifty years. this venerable pair have been members of the same church, ador- ing their profession by their godly walk and conversation

 After the collation. and the bestowment of golden and other gitts. the company dispersed, with joyful hearts, before the setting of the sun,
Year: 1865

'ftlsen on nOohday,

 and in the light of these, the nation, made he roic and purified, in her mission of Christiani- zing and liberating the race, is as bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as strong man to run d race There is no speech nor language where her voice is not heard Now know we that the Lord saveth his anoint- ed He will hear from His holy heaven. Some trust in chariots. and some in horses but We will remember the name of the Lord our Gcd.' We congratulate you upon seeing this day so bright in the prosperity of yourselves and of this family, and of the country whose veal is of common interest to us all

 Wishing to all present who do or shall sus- tain like relation, your happiness we conclude these remarks, by invoking especially upon you and upon all present, the constant favor of Heaven that the days of your evening of life may be your best and happiest, and that hay ing finished your course you may sleep in bles sings, and your bones have tomb of orphans tears - yes. and of the tears of many loving and grateful, surrounding iriends-.wept on them, and that an uphrokep circle we all maya join our pious friends, and all the saints above in that more precious than Golden Wedding of the church, and her Savior. when we shall go forth to meet the bridegroom clothed in the wedding garment, by Him here furnished Us, and there made spotess. that as bride adorn- ed for hel husband. We may walk with Him in white and in his sweet embraces find our eyer

 lasting joy,
Year: 1865

NORTH FoRK.-We shall be glad, in common
with the people of that place. when the wagon
road is completed to North Fork. As an exam
pie of the inconyeniences experienced by the peo-
pie from this necessity, John W. Phillips few
weeks since went to North Fork with a wagon
procured at the Tower House, for the purpose of
removing his family to the valley. While there
the storm commenced, and in less than twelve
hours the river raised to such hight that it
impossible to re-cross it at the ford The wagon
is on furlough at Bagdad,' while Phillips
has returned to his duties at Red Bluff When
the road is finished from Buffers to McGillyray's
his family may follow-perhaps before.


When the lower Trinity country is again set
tied up, which it soon will be, North Fork will
assume much Of its former Importance. All the
river travel will necessarily pass through it, and
the post Office is included in the Humboldt and
Trinity mail route. One of the best and most Sc
bridges in the county spans the North Fork
at the town, and it belongs to Schooner. The
same industrious and enterprising citizen has
built blacksmith shop at the corner of
Main and River streets. He intends to pull the
old one down, as he has already done the old
slaaghter-house adjoining, which will add very
much to the appearance of the town. In addi-
tion to their merchandise business, Nickel Bro
theirs manufacturing all the lager beer used
in that part of the county. Geo. Yohe has rem
oyated, improved and re-panted his Hotel from
kitchen to garrct. 1t is as comfortable place
to chang up be found in the county,
and the sleeping accommodations are not excel
led by anybodys. McWhor Il Mullane have
purchased Phillips market business, and are do
ing a thriving trade. Tinsey has laid in tuns
of hay and barley with view to doing justice
to travellers quadrupeds entrusted to his keep
ing. Charley Schutze has opened the billiard
saloon formerly occupied by Bilay and is doing
a very good business for the dull season. North
Fork is the natural outlet of a rich mining coun-
try and will be a good business point for many
wears to come. But road is needed to Big Flat.
Year: 1865

The HONEST MAN-Most men are
not so dead to moral principles but what
they feel spontaneous glow of admira-
ton for the man who does right because
it is right, no matter if he does make less
money by it, Some few men say he was
fool or lunatic not to make the most Of
his advantage right or wrong; but the
heart of many is loyal to rectitudo We
look and admire, and praise We cannot
help it. lie who in a selfish, covetous
age, when all men are fighting and scramb-
ling for money, stands up strong in his
integrity, and modestly does the thing
not that is legal, not that is expected, not
that is customary, that is as others do, or
as many preach, but does the thing which
is right--such man is worthy of all i'm
itation If the heavenly minded are few
in the world, are noS the righteous few
likewise? A moral character that is gen.
uine is seen as rarely as Diogenes' man,
when hunted for with lantern at noon
day.
Year: 1865

But I'd De prosperous and happy, you


must labor not merely when you feel


like it, or for scanty support, but in
dustriously and steadily, with view


to making and laying up something
for yourselves and your families. If
you are idle, you will become vicious
and worthless; ifvicious and worthless
you will have no friends, and will at
last perish. "In the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread all the days OF
thy life." The same Providence that
has bestowed freedom upon you hs'
told You that diligence in business is
required of all His creatures, and you
cannot expect that your race will es-
cape ultimate extinction, if you
wiifully violate or disregard this one
of His great commands. Freedom
does not mean that one may do as he
pleases. but that every one may by in
dustry, frugality and temperance, inn
prove his condition, and enjoy the
fruits of his own labors, as long as be
obeys the laws, | have no prejudice
against you. On the contrary, while
] am white man, and while my lot
Year: 1865

is with my own color, yet | sympathize
with you as the weaker race and !
cannot forget that during the rebellrt
ion many Of you fought for the preser.
vation OF the Union, and that those Of
you who remained at home In the
then slave holding States, were for the
most part docile and faithful, and
made no attempt, by force Of arms, 70
gain even their own freedom. ! will
see to il, as for as can, that You have
your liberty that you are protected 10
your property and persons, and that
yon are paid your wages. But, on the
other hand, | will set my face against
those Of you who are idle and disipated
and prompt punishment will be inhict-
ed for any breach of the peace or yio-
lation of the law. In fine, ! will be
| your friend as long as yoa are true to
yourselves and obedient to the laws,
and aslong as you shall labor, no mat.
ter how feebly, If honestly and earnest
| ly, to improve your condition. It is
nv duty, as far as I may, to render
the Government 'a terror to evil-doers
and a praise to them that do well j"
and this / will endeavor to do in rsla-


ton 10 the whole people Of the State
| Of North Carolina, without fear, favor
or affection, reward, or the hope ofre-


ward.o
Year: 1865




We intend that o copy of the present
number Of our paper shall be left at all,
or nearly all, the family residences and
principal places of business in our city.
We shall do this with view OF early en-
listing the attention of our fellow. citizens
to the claims of our journal upon them for
u more liberal and extended patronage
hereafter.


We shall be thankful to every one feel
ing inclined to subscribe or advertise, to
favor US with their orders as soon as pos
sible. Subscriptions will be taken ut the
rate of one dollar each per month, al
ways payable in advance, but no subscrip,
ton received for less period than three
months.


Advertisers will find it to their advan'
tage 70 give us call, in every instance
where they desire to contract for certain
quantity of advertising and for specified
time.
Year: 1865

saS~ The residents of New Orleans
have contributed largely and with
hearty energy to the development Of
the mercantile and other interests Of
the city and State. They have gone
10 work with enterprise and capital.
and, to great extent, have rebuilt
commercial prosperity here. They
have been cordially received by the
old citizens, and have We'd with them,
in honorable fashion, in restoring New
Orleans to her once proud position
Year: 1865

AN extraordinary incident is related as hav.
ing occurred at the ire which consumed Bolters S
Hotel, Bay City, Michigan, recently. A lady
who occupied rooms on the third floor became
somewhat excited when the alarm OF fire was
given, and went down stairs TO discover where it
was. leaving her infant child asleep in bed. In
the confusion she forgot it until the flames had
complete possession Of the hotel. She then IT.
tempted to enter the building to rescue it, but
was prevented. The firemen and others, in saw.
ing the furniture, threw the bedding out of the
windows. This identical bed was rolled up
thrown out ofthe window, and carried with other
goods on to the bridge for safety. After the fire,
in removing the goods, the little innocent was
found safe and asleep.
Year: 1865

by her Constitution adopted in 1884 gave
the elective franchise to every free white


man of the age Of twenty.one years, being
a citizen OF the United States, and for six
months a citizen of the county; provided,
that all persons Of color who are compe-