smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

/, The ALLEGED MISSION or THE BrlRs.-It


was limited that the mission Of the Blairs, senior
and junior, 10 the front was with the intent Of
arranging some proposals for peace With tho
rebels; but IL appears that they have come


back again, and therefore all those reports fall
10 the ground. The fact Is that the visit Of the
Blairs 70 the army before Richmond had no
thing whatever to do with the question Of
peace. That Is not the way in which that de-
sirable boon II to be obtained. When peace
comes the Blair family will have nothing to do
with IL II will be accomplished BY he sur
Year: 1865

- y


In recent letter to British citizen of
New York, which is published in the New
York Tribune, Delane, the editor of the
London Times, thus denies the charge that
he has been subscriber to the Confederate
Loan:


1 admit at once that should, as jour
nalist, have proved myself unworthy of
all public confidence had bought either
Federal or Confederate stock during the
late civil war. lxsr


al deny, however, most explicitly, that
I ever applied for, ever, had allotted to
me, ever purchased or ever possessed, in
my own name, or in any other, any Fed
eral or Confederate stock, or had any
personal or pecnniary interest whatever
in the result Of the late contest.


,'.' If then, as you say, the United States
Government has made this charge, sub
NIT that it is bound in honor either to
prove or retract it"
Year: 1865

sentative of her own absent son.
In the hospital she has been m angel
Of light and mercy. Who can tell the
anguish of that weary place,-the an
guish of body and mind, where the
only sights the sufferer sees are sights
of misery like his own, and the only
sounds he bears are means Of pain and
dying prayers? The taper that sheds its
feeble ray upon the midoight darkness is
type Of the fainting hope within his
heart. What sense Of utter desola-
ton and loneliness hangs like funeral
pail over every couch. The pangs of
the manned and wounded body can be
surmounted by the soul, but when the
soul itself is manned and wounded.
when the eyes Of strangers pierce it with
cold, Indifferent glanccs, and the foun-
tains of sympathy that welled up so
bright and clear at home are cut off. what
earthly power can minister to that mind
diseased? 1t is there that Woman, with
her gentle hand upon the cold brow, and
her looks of compassion, comes, like a
messenger from the Courts above, to
bind up the broken heart or to plume
the pinions of the fainting spirit for
flight to better world.
Year: 1865

Nothing can be more noble than the


conduct of the Women of the Confede-


racy during this war. Always giving
them credit for tho highest womanly


virtues and graces, for refinement Of
manners, and purity and warmth Of
heart, we had not been prepared for the
exhibition of such qualities as the mos
theirs and wives Of this people have dis
played under the most terrible ordeal to
which civilized and Christian humanity
was ever subjected. Even the glo


ries of our victorious battle, fields are
surpassed by the moral sublimity of the


self-sacrifce which has been quietly


made in every Southern home when the
mother placed upon the altar of battle
the dearest object Of her heart. Man
may fight from the belligerent instincts
of manhood, from ambition and love Of
excitement, as well as patriotism, but
when the mother, gentle and unambi-
tious, gives up her child to the priva-
tons aud perils of war, it is such IS.
crifice Of all maternal instincts at the
shrine of duty that We can only liken
it to the supernatural faith of the pa
triarch Abraham; and every Southern
home, where such a scene has been wit.
messed, to that Mount Moriah, where,
rather than to the long line Of Judah's
heroes, every son of Israers looks, as to
that which gave birth and Immortality
to the chosen people Of God. No greater
miracle has this war presented than the
Gentle Doves of our summer land, seem.
ingly only fitted for summer scenes,
transformed into eagles, "queens of the
cliff and the wave, tapping the wild
wing in the winter sky" and teaching
their young to battle with the thunder
and the storm. Nor is it to their own
sons alone that the overhowing devotion
Of their nature has been manifested.
What house is there in all the land which
has not sheltered the sick and wounded
soldier.9 In the poor stranger at the
gate, dusty, battle-worn and bleeding, the
Southern mstron has seen the repre-
Year: 1865

countries in the world and they possess


many hundreds of river steamers, which


import to the roads of water the marvel.


lous celerity Of roads of iron. They have,
in fine, constructed lines of electric tele.
graph, which, laid continuously, would
extend over space longer by three thou
sand miles than the distance from the
North to- the South Pole, and have pro-
vlded apparatus Of transmission by which
a message of three hundred words, dis
patched under such circumstances from
the North Pcle, might be delivered in ,eri-
ting at the South Pole in one minute, and
by which, consequently, an answer of
equal length could be sent back to the
North Pole in an equal interval"


Who"can>pretend to say that blight
as sudden and dismal as that which has
come upon this luxuriant prosperity
may not one day throw England centu-
ries back in the march Of progress ?
Yet, there is high authority for a more
hopeful view Of human affairs. An
able Scottish writer informs us that he
once asked NJ. Guizot, who, for many
years, was the first minister of France,
who had lived through some Of the
most interesting and troubled periods of
human history, who had studied men
contemplatiyely, as we'll as acted with
them and governed them,-what feeling
was strongest in his mind as he looked
back and looked forward-hope or
dependency for his country and
the world. The reply of this saga
cious philosopher and statesman was
81 do not feel that my experience of
man has either disposed me to think
worse of them, or indisposed me to serve
them; nor, in spite of failures which l
lament, of errors which now see and
acknowledge, and Of the present gloomy
aspect of affairs, do l despair of the fu>
ture. On the contrary, hope; I see
glimpses of daylight; l see elements of
rescue; l see even now faint dawnings
of better day. The truth l take to be
this: The march of Providence is so
slow, and our desires are so impatient
the work of progress is so immense, and
our means of aiding it so feeble, the
life Of humanity is so long, and that Of
individual man so brief, that what we
see is often only the e11 Of the aaeancing
ecuue; and thus Encouragement is our
inevitable lot. 1t IS only history that
teaches us to hope." Let us trust, if we
can, that NJ. Guizot may be right, and
that man is not pendulum, constantly
vibrating between the opposite extremes
of civilization and barbarism.
Year: 1865

We hear much !!on our republican
friends of extending the right Of suffrage
to loyal black men. We wonder ,hag We
hear nothing from the same quarter as to
the propriety Of extending the same right
TO loyal rtd men. There are about seven
'eeen hundred Menomonee Indians III this
state, about four hundred Of whom are
male adults. These Indians have proven
lhei- loyalty to the government Nearly
one half of the whole number Of adult
males among them four years ago enlisted
in the Union army during the war, and
forty OF fifty Of them were killed in battle
or by the hard.hps OF the service. Ye,
none of the members Of this loyal tribe
are permitted 10 vote, aud We do not learn
that the politicians Of our state who make
so much ado over the subject o: suffrage
for loyal negroes, design to exert them
selves in anv manner for the benefit Of
these loyal Indians We think Senator
Dooli,tle is chairman of committee OF
the United States senate whose business
it is to look after Indiars particularly.
lie is known 10 have made many speeches
in Washington and elsewhere in behalf Of
negroes; but does any one know that he
ever made speech in favor of extending
the right Of suffrage to these Indians of
his own state! lfso, the public is ignor.
ant of the fact.


One thing is very clear: If" all men
are created equal" in the sense attributed
10 this phrase of the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence by the advocates of negro suf-
frage, then the red man is the equal of the
black man; and If the black man is en-.
titled TO the right Of voting by virtue of
his loyalty and his manhood, then the red
man is entitled TO vote, fo: similar reas-
SONS.


Our republican friends should beware
Of making distinctions between races be.
cause of color. In a moral or political
sense, red is as fascinating as black, and
in tinkering our constitution and laws,
the one color is entitled to quite as much
reverence as the Mlwaukce Neus.
Year: 1865

ANOTHER BoLrEn.-A prominent Fe-
publican calls our attention to the fact that
the Tribune bolts portion Of the State
Ticket, as it does not raise the name Of
the candidate for Lieut.. Governor at its
mast head. AS WYMAN SrooNER is the
only dyed-in wool Abolitionist on the
ticket our Republican friend is in a guam
dery why he cannot be supported by a
paper which deyotes three columns Of its
editorial matter 20 the aggrandizemeut OF
'lIs negro over the white soldier.
Year: 1865

@ Messrs PRICE & PLUMMER have
received their new Billiard Table, and it
attracts the greatest attention of lovers Of
the game-all of whom pronounce it the
incest and best they ever played on. Call
in and see it,
Year: 1865

NOBILITY OF BLOOD.
Worth makes the man and want Of it the fellow,
The rest is all but leather and prunella;
What can ennoble sots, or knaves, or towards?
Alas not all the blood Of all the Howards.
Year: 1865

MANLY courage, fortituGe and self denial
will triumph over the greatest ills. The
storm will soon blow ever and the sun Of
prosperity again blaze in the heavens. with
cheerful effnlgence and then those who have
held Out with indomitable firmness, will be
prepared to reap the advantages of the new
order of things. A stout heart will keep
the body vigorous the health good, aud
chase away the blues; while dependency
will wreck not only fortune, but mind and
body also All that the luckiest Of us get in
this world is our keeping--our food, clothes
and lodging aI the best, and what matters
little hard fare for few months?
Year: 1865

BE- County Warrants and GreenbaeLs taken at
their ruling value in payment for subscriptions to this
paper To soldiers in the Government service the JOURNAL
will be furnished for Greenbacks a PAR.
Year: 1865

WENDELL PHILLIPS new lecture for the season
is, q The South Victorious The perpetual
grumber what will he do if they let him into
Heaven ?-.SprinafeH Republican.


Such grumblcrs stand poor show to get to
Heaven.-.uorning CNE


True; but if he should by chance get in, his
first subject for lecture would probably be
- Heaven Failure" Then it is hoped St Peter
will kick him over into - that other place - to
make sure against rebellion in Heaven.
Year: 1865

EXPLANATION WANTED Finding it an unproft-
able assertion for the party in opposition to the
Government. the San Francisco Examiner denies,
with great mouthing, that it favored National
- Reputation" Then we would like to hear it
explain or evade the plain obvious import of the
following extract, made from former editorial
in that paper on the subject


Let the tax-ridden millions but say it, and
those finely executed engravings, in whose fig
ures are promises Of untold wealth and luxuries
that wealth procures, become worthless as
waste paper that flutters along the streets.


AGAINST A REGISTRY LAw.-The San Francis
co Examiner takes Is position among the other
Copperhead papers against Registry Law It
says:


the right Of suffrage concerned it better that
Illegal voters should exercise that right than
legal voter should be deprived Of its enjoyment.


To exclude the Illegal voters will be rather
hard on the Copperheads. undoubtedly but we
think the next Legislature will be guilty of that
tyranncal act nevcrthel less .-Sacrameato Union.


But 4" nevertheless" ," the doctrine of the Eram-
is strikingly democratic"
Year: 1865




The subject of the above very nice to read but
bombastic and totally unworthy, notice, former
ly resided in Trinity county, and is no doubt well
remembered by many Of its present citizens
The only credit, in particular, that we have ever
heard claimed for the individual, that of be-
ing an intense Government-hater. Unless he
displayed more energy than he ever did while
living here, his going to assist his kin people
didn't amount to much. He is particularly
menberel as = no-account " parsonage, who
in the end betrayed the hospitality of one of our
present citizens who fed and befriended him at
Arkansas Dam. The following BETTING refer,
ence to him we find in the Red Bluff Obserrer


q As far as he is personally concerned, let him
let him stay there if he behaves himself, until
he shall be called to account for his deeds
lie will, however find his old friends somewhat
dispersed One Frank Washington has gone
TO edit a Copperhead paper, another Geiger
is now fugitive from an indictment for murder
committed in this county, and others scattered
here and there. He will find, too, that public
sentiment in Tehama county has, in the main
progressed with the events of the last four years
/ that many who once voted for him because he
was the nominee Of the party, have long since
/ learned that he had no other recommendation
than that he was the nominee that he will not
be Senator again, by the vote of Tehama coun-
tv. But copy the paragraph from the Sun to
show to Union men that their work is not done. y
Year: 1865

that of virtue. Love, patience hospitality. faith
these things they know.


To CLEAN their meadows side by side, so happy :
to bear the burden up the breathless mountain
flank, unmurmuringly to bid the stranger drink
from their vessel of milk to see at the foot of
their low deathbeds pale figure upon a cross
diving also, patiently in this they different
from the cattle and from the stones but in all
this unrewarded as far as concerns the present
life For them, there is neither hope nor passion
of spirit for them neither advance nor exulta-
ton Black bread, rude roof, dark night, abo-
rious day weary arm at sunset and life GIBBS
away. No books no thoughts, no attainments
no rest; except only sometimes u little sitting in
the sun under the church wall, as the bell tolls
Thin and far in the mountain air a pattering of
a few prayers, not understood. by the altar rails
of the dimly gilded chapel, and so back to the


sombre home with the cloud upon them still
unbroken-that cloud of rocky gloom, born out
of the wild torrents and ruinous stones, and un-


ightened even in their religion, except by the
vague promise of some better thing unknown,
mingled with threatening, and obscured by an
unspeakable horror-a smoke, as it were of
martyrdom, coiling up with the incense, and,
amidst the images of tortured bodies and lament
ing spirits in hurtling flames the very cross, for
them, dashed more deeply than for others, with
gouts of blood.


Do not let this be thought darkened picture
of the life of these mountaneers. 1t is literal
fact. No contrast can be more painful than that
between the dwelling Of any well conducted En-
glish cottager, and that of the equally honest
Sayoyard. The one, set in the midst of its dull
fiat fields and uninteresting hedgerows, shows in
itself the love of brightness and beauty its
daisy-studded garden beds, its smoothly swept
brick path to the threshold, its freshly sanded
floor and orderly shelves of household furniture
all testify to energy of heart, and happiness in
the simple course and simple possessions of daily
life. The other cottage, in the midst of an in
conceivable, inexpressible beauty, set on some
sloning bank Of golden sward, with clear foun-
tains flowing beside it, and wild flowers, and
noble trees, and goody rocks gathered round
into perfection Of Paradise, is itself a dark
and plague-like stain in the midst of the gentle
landscape. Within certain distance of its
threshold the ground is foul and cattle-tramped
its timbers are black with smoke, its garden
choked with weeds and namelcss refuse, its
chambers empty and joyless, the light and wind
cleaning and hltering through the crannies OF
their stones. All testities that to It's inhabitant
the world is labor and vanity that for him nei-
ther flowers bloom, nor birds sing, nor fountains
glisten and that his soul hardly differs from the
gray cloud that coils and dies upon his hills ex-
ccpt III having no fold of it touched by the sun
beams.
Year: 1865

FALL IN PRIcEs.-We notice that the
fhlladelphia papers state the prices of
necessaries of life and luxuries had a
downward tendency in the markets of that
city on Saturday last We trust that
the same desirable change will soon take
place in our markets. At present, how
ever, the prices remain about as high as
they were when gold was at premium of
100 per cent.
Year: 1865

SENsIBLE.-The Cincinnati CONNER
cial, speaking of banquets, festivals,
etc, has the following sensible and
truthful remarks:


1t may as well be said, while on this
subject, that the custom of 'toasting the
press and calling out some of it's rep
resentatives present to respond, is nu-
isance-a bore Of the largest caliber.
Not one professional journalist in
hundred is gifted with CAB His pro
Cesses Of thought are entirely different
from those of the orator off handed
speaker He is accustomed to select
words with view to express in the
least space the greatest number of ideas,
and this becomes mental habit from
which he cannot easily free himself. 1t
is fatal to off hand speaking. Ask him
to write speech, and he would have no
difficulty. He would succeed where the
natural orator would be likely to fail.
what we mean to say is, that the Gus.
tom of toasting the press and it is
usual to postpone it till half the guests
are surcharged with oratory, and the
other half with Champagne--is one of
those civilities which the true journal
list, while he knows it is well meant,
feels to be bore
Year: 1865

BIsHoP HoPKlNs.-T Episcopal Re
corder says that Bishop Hopkins, the
presiding bishop, has addressed a circu-
lar letter to the bishops proposing a let
ter to the Southern bishops, to be sign
ed by each of them, and to be sent with
such signatures as may be secured. Its
main point is to assure the Southern
bishops of the cordial welcome with
which the bishops in the loyal dioceses
are prepared to greet them at the COM
ing general convention. 1t takes the
ground that the Episcopal Church had
no part, direct or indirect, in producing
the war. How many bishops there are
who have signed or will sign this letter,
we do not know; but we do know that
six Of them have already declined to
sign it. 1t is rather remarkable, too,
that the Bishop Of New York is one Of
those who have refused their signatures.
We judge from this circumstance that
the bishops who have refused their sig
natures to this document, have done so
from no want of Christian spirit and a
brotherly regard, but from a determina-
tion not to be pledged in advance to any
course which shall hinder such testimo-
ny as they shall feel that duty to God
and the country, and the future, may
demand of them in reference to the sins
Of slavery, schisms and rebellion, and
from an indispOsltion to seem anxious
to purge themselves from the suspicion
of having sanctioned the efforts of the
government to defeat and punish trea-
son.-Er,
Year: 1865

TRAMP! TRAMP TRAMr l-Ameri-
cans are peculiar in one thing-they
will sing a song to death. In one brief
eXistance we can recall many instances
of the kind We remember how often
cold Dan Tucker" was taunted with be-
ing too late to come to the evening
meal how little rest we gave ooh, Su-
sannah." We have heard young ladies
sing "Who will care for mother now ~
while their old mothers were wearing
themselves out in the kitchen over the
washing. Then there is John Browns
Body" Instead of being permitted to
lie quietly "mouldering in the grave, u
it was kept marching on with enough
knapsacks strapped upon their backs
to supply regiment with that necessary
article of camp and garrison equipage.
"When this cruel war is over" had a
pretty good run. The heartiest cOngrat-
ulations thatwere induced by the termi-
nation of the war arose from the fact
that the people GOT over singing when
this cruel war is over" &c Now the
popular tongue is singing and whistling
Tramp, tramp tramp, the boys are
marching" We are in great danger OF
being tramped TO death with il. You
hear If on tho stroot5r ia the workshop,
and in the billiard saloon.
Year: 1865

CANDIDATES FOR THE VETERAN Re-
SERVE ON THE SCORE OF "MENrAL DIS
ABILITY" "A former captain in Ver-
mont regiment, who served through the
war, was wounded, and is now captain
in the Veteran Reserve, writes as fol-
lows:


"Since April have been on the exam
lining board for the examination of Off
GERS seeking position or promotion in the
V. r. c. We are not doing anything
just now, as the war department has not
decided as yet, it seems, as to the dis
position that is to be made of the corps.
A major of western regiment came be.
fore the board, one day, and in the ex-
animation told me Gen. Scott command
ed an army during the revolutionary
war, and that Andrew Jackson was our
first president. His historical knowl-
edge was equalled in few days by the
geographical information of Jersey
captain, who said he was really unable
to tell on which continent he lived, or
how the United States was bounded.
This negative information was Offset by
the positive assertion that the White
Mountains were in Maine, the Green
Mountains in Pennsylvania, and Bunk
er's Hill in Vermont Not thinking eth
er of them would be useful or ornarnen-
tai they were rejected, and the major is
now in Hancock's corps. The rest Of
their examination was but little better
than the sample given. 1t brings to
mind the boys advice sent home from
the West, "Come out here father; mighty
mean men get office here"


Wirz's trial is supposed to begin to-
morrow; but the most sanguine are
fearful that Davis is never to be tried.
Secessionists are daily coming back, and
in many cases the fatted calf is killed.
A case happened last week, in the same
street, near my boarding place. A young
man by the name of Barr went south
during the war, served in the rebel army,
and when he returned large party and
ball was given by his friends had a
high time generally. Many, a little
while ago, openly sympathizing with
the south, are now working themselves
into clerkships which wounded and dis
abled soldiers are trying in vain to get.
"Republics are ungrateful,n
Year: 1865

The ROUND TABLE REvIvED.-After
thirteen months interval this spirited
and aggressive sheet has reappeared in
New York. The first number is full of
hope and a certain iubilant confidence
which invites success. 1t should be
successful, for it aims to fill a hitherto
unoccupied niche. The nation has in
deed appeared in the interval, but the
journals are too widely unlike to conflict
with each other. The one is political
with a touch of litery criticism, the
other critical with a tinge of politics:
the one is conducted by an American
lied Englishman, the othey would re-
vivify our literature by the infusion of
young blood from a native source. We
welcome the second advent Of the
youthful sheet, whose refreshing audaci-