smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1866

but there is no illusory pretenSe of cover


ing them) The poor creature we saw


seemed to be such a one, with a huge


clothes-line strung around her, on a


frame, on which she seemed to be carry


ing various gewgaw dresses for different


people. She seemed to be the humble


errand girl of some dress-maker's estab-
lishment. On passing the unhappy


creature, We notice that she was sailing


along with the idea that the dresses


hanging around her shoulders were her


own, and she looked as modest and un-


concerned as if she were really decently


covered Speaking of it to those more
an fat in such matters, we found that
such kind of dress is "all the rage" for
some time past tits effected Oh purpose,


by having hoops made with a sharp and
stiff curve at the foot, that will tilt the
dress above, and expose the legs to the
knee. Another "progress keeps pace
with it. It has been told in the daily
papers, but we rarely believe anything
We see in them. A very truthful woman,
however, living, says those are the " fine
ladies who display their rich brocades,
and jewelry, and gaudy dresses on the
streets, and in public conveyances, and
at the hotel tables. So harZots are set
ing the fashion of dress and behavior 70.
the daughters of this people. It seems
it is enough to say it is the fashion"
to make it plea for following it. One
Of the latest "fashions " has been to have
dancing Soirses at De}monico's, in Four
teenth street. e for young people," A
rule of this fashin is that no parents or
guardians are to be admitted. We did
not believe the statement when it was
first made in some of our city papers,
But we have it now on good authority
that it is true, and that this past winter,
fathers and mothers have permitted their
daughters to 90 to those SOirefs with
young men, to sup and dance, and to
come home with them at three or four
o'clock in the morning. Just put it in
plain language young girls in this city
do not find it a blot on their character to
go with young men, unaccompanied by
their parents, toa public tavern, to dance
and eat and drink with them, and to come
home with them toward daylight!


We are not the least in the world as
tonished to hear that-in what it must he
by irony-are called " the better classes
of society, there has been a prodigious
falling off Of marriages. The marvel is,
among any classes Of society that DO not
draw sharp lines Of non-intUrcourse with |
this whole world of indecencies and with /
I'll that tolerate them, that so foolish a
thing as marriage is ever dreamed of
Among such people it is not surprising |
that the number of divorces should ex-
ceed the number Of marriages.
Year: 1866

SOME eight or ten years ago the winter
was very cold, the river was frozen, and all
the wharf rats in Rat row and elsewhere
along the river shore, were thrown out Of
work. 4 near relation of the old gentleman
came to the city, and passed the night at his
house. After tea he sauntered to the Office
TO take a quiet cigar To his surprise he
found it filed with a crowd-=more than fifty
of brawney, beastly-looking men. The
presence of the child-like old man, his face
beaming with shrewdness and kindly humor,
seemed alone to keep them from being mob
His manner to them said: =" You poor
wretches, know how reckless you are yet
I am not sure but should be as bad, had I
been exposed to the same bad influences"
These houseless vagrants had been coming
every night, while the uver was frozen, to
get a dime for nights lodging.


The young nan had been forced, from
the unplessantness of the crowd, to 90 and
enjoy his cigar outside. AS he sat there, the
ugly crowd Sled out quietly, each with his
dime the clerk distributibg,} till the last
Year: 1866

A WOOL grower made a statement at latE
convention in Vermont, held on d bitter cold
day, that every rag Of clothes be had on wns
made of foreign wool, while he had at hons
three clips of wool from his own hoeks which
he could not sell.
Year: 1866

ACCORDING to the Home Journal, the fss=
son why 80 many Americans are going abroad
is in the fact that family can live in Eng5
land and France on the rent of their house il
New York.
Year: 1866

The independence exhibited by the
writer in resisting the attempt to levy a
tax upon him as an oficeholder under
the Federal Government, and his just
statement of the correct principles, en-
title him to respect and appreciation. I,
therefore, as an evidence of my appre-
citation OF the qualities manifested in the
letter, recommend him to the Paymaster
General for an early promotion.


ANDREW JOHNSON.
EXECUTIVE Mansion, March IS, 1866.
Year: 1866

sons and brothers and fathers slain in the
contest. are approached as traitors, because
they hesitate to take them in. and accept
as their masters the men whom they have
lust put down with the strong arm OF mil
itary power ,-ProrteHce journal.
Year: 1866

The Chicago Tribune says that q plot
has been discovered among the president
reconstructed friends in New Orleans TO
as,aS-inate General Sheridan, commander
of the Gulf department. 1t was designed
to accomplish his death by the explosion
of q shell made for the occasion.
Year: 1866

A short time since n man named Gilmore
discoursed to Philadelphia audience, at
the Musical Hall, on the condition of the
Southern people He is evidently a knave,
whose object is to make money out of the
preiudices of the people of that section We
give the following extract from his dis
course:


The poor white class are lower than the
negro. They are the natural product of sla-
very. 1t has shut out every avenue of hon
est employment from them, and driven them
to the sand hills to starve or die; or else
they depend upon stealing from the hen
roosts of the planters, that they may not
starve. They are the lowest, most degraded
and the most ignorant class of the South.


''They must be raised by education to be
of any use to our country. They are so unen-
lightened, that many of them yet vote for
Thomas Jefferson for President.


1t is general opionion, but mistake,
that there are no small farmers or yeomen i'll
the South. f..


The men arc loosely made, but are of a
selfposseSsed, manly bearing. The women
are beautifully formed, and one is sorry that
they dip snuff, chew tobacco, and go without
shoes and stockings.


''The people are hearty, earnest, much
given to exaggeration, in the enthusiasm of
the Southern nature. A thing with them
is either very good or very bad. They are
very hospitable to strangers, and if one of
fers to pay for their kindness, they are very
likely to challenge one to fight duel.


All this, and more of such stuff, appears to
have been received with satisfaction and
credited by his audience We regret to hear
that the people of the North listen to such
lying scoundrels as this fellow Gilmore, that
they permit their credulity TO be imposed
on by such impostors. 1t is needless to at
tempt to refute such ISLANDERS They are
only of Importance as they tend to create
false impressions to the South, and per
petuate hostility to us that will if per
sisted in, prove as detrimental to Northern
interests as to ours. Those who desire Il
make the Udited States a great, powerful
and prosperous nation should, above al
things, endeavor to re-unite us i'll feeling ant
sentiment, and obliterate the alienation ant
hostility engendered by four years of war
Year: 1866

rV@We commence to-day the publication
of the decision of Judge Yerger on the stay
law; it will be concluded in our next. The
opinion is able and convincing,and will prove
interesting not only to the members Of the
bar, but to the general reader.
Year: 1866

IMPURE WATER.-It is fact of practi-
cal utility that impure water is regarded as
even more injurious to the health than i'm.
pure air. If pitcher of iced water be pla-
ced in a room, in few hours it will have
absorbed nearly all the respired and per,
sPired gases in the room, the air of which
viii have become purer, but the water utter
iy filthy. This depends on the fact that
water has the faculty of condensing, and
thereby absorbing all the gases, which il
does without increasing its own bulk. The
colder the water is, the greater its capacity
TO contain these gases. Hence water kopl
In room a while is always unfit for use
and should be often renewed whether it be
comes warm or not. That which has stood
over night is not Ct for coffee water in tht
morning
Year: 1866

The art of living easily, as to money, is to
pitch your scale Of one degree below your
means Comfort and enjoyment are more
dependent upon easiness in the detail of exA
penditure than'upon any degree in the scale.
Guard against false associations of pleasure
with expenditure-th notion is absurd that
8 because pleasure can be purchased with
e money, therefore money cannot be spent with
out enjoyment. What thing costs arman,
is no true.measure of what it is worth to him;
and yet, how often is his appreciation goV>
erned by no other standard, as if there were
pleasure in expenditure per Sc. Let your
self feel a want before you provide against it..
You are more assured that it is real want,
and it it worth while to feel little in order
to feel the relief from it. When you are un-
decided as to which of the two courses you
would like best, choose, the cheapest. This
rule will not only save money, but save also
good deal of trieiug indecisiOn. Too much
leisure leads to expense; because, when a
man is in want of objects, it occurs to him
that they are to be had for money, and be
inyents expenditure in order to pass the
time
Year: 1866

Two gentlemen met lady whose bonnet
was all on IRE. The lady was blissfully un<
conscious Of the 'cOnAagratiOn until her at,
tention was called to it BY one Of the gen>
tlemsn. How it caught is Of course mys-
terry, but it was probably from a spark. The
IRE was eItinguished as soon as it reached
the toater.6aH
Year: 1866

SAD AccIDENr.-Mr. Thomas Martin on
Tuesday morning, being engaged to clean out
we'll for Mr.. Lowensteire, of this city, was
being lowered, but coming in contact with
gas, requested the hands at the windlass to
draw him up. When within few feet of the
top, he become 80 much overcome from the
effects of the gas, that he let 60 his hold upon
the rope and fell head foremost to the bottom;
his scull was badly fractured and his neck
broken. Precaution should be taken before
entering wells to see whether they are i'm
pregnated with gas. This young mans life
would have been saved if the proper caution
had been taken. We learn that he had clean.
ed out the same well some weeks aimee and
did not apprehcnd any danger from gas.-
Rome Commercial.
Year: 1866

Very recently anumber ofgentle-
ruen returned from n tour into the In
terror OF Northern Iowa, where they
have been examining into the peat
beds which have long been shrewdly
suspected by some to form the subsoii
OF o large portion Of the State. They
are gentlemen of experience, who
know what peat is when they see It
and what IL is worth when they find It..
We saw yesterday small block OF
compressed peat brought by one MEM
ber of this comittee of examination on
his return; it was from Harden county,
near Eldora, and is certainly hand
some specimen. He reports one body
of fifteen hundred acres, twelve feet
thick, where this specimen was obtain
ed.


1t Is not easy tn imagine the immense
revolution this discovery will make IN
reference to fuel. Her oil springs are
scarcely worth more to Pennsylvania
than our peat deposits are to Iowa.
The complaint that our State Jacks
fuei' dwindles into insignificance,-
We have fuel enough for the nation.
1t il as common as mud. II viii cost
the expense Of making 1t into bricks
Year: 1866

HOTEL TELEGRAPH.---5ome Of the
European hotels are utilizing the elect
ric telegraph greatly to the convenience
Of their customers. In each room of the
house telegraph Is arranged with sig
nails explained and posted up so that
they may be raGdily understood by any
guest. The name Of the different arti-
cles which can be ordered by telegraph
are given with tho proper signal for
each. When anything, is wanted tn.
customer presses button marked
" bell" and then sends the order by
pressing the button under the article
named on the board. In very short
timo whatever may be required is
brought in. The machinery attached
to the telegraph II SO simple that 1t can
easily be worked by any one.
Year: 1866

An ANgRY FATHER STRUCK DEAD
The Shcrbrookc (Canada) Gagette
says that last week Lawrence Doyle,
who had been drinking, got very nn-
CRY with his son, and his excitement
was such that he burst some of the
blood vessels Of his heart and drop
ped dead in an instant. Only short
time before his death he said he did
not care for God man, or the devil, and,
told his wife that she might prepare
a coffin for her son or for himself be-
fore night. When under the influence
of Igor his passion was uncomfortable.
Year: 1866

Do the Radicals remember where the
first blood was spilled of the torrents that
flowed in the late war? It was at Baltimore.
And with that terrible past upon their
memories they are this day, in that very
city, provoking collision 4Aat threatens to
a&ke BaaimoEs 6gsip 4he. 7sf scene Of a
tragedy as fearful. AE


Will they not pause? Will they not re-
feet? Will they not hold in check little,
at lest until the sentiment of peace becomes
familiar to US, that fierce fanaticism that
FIVE years ago armed brotheragainst brother,
and that now again invokes the unholy
strife? The first bloodshed at Baltimore
ushered in a war in which hundreds of
thousands of lives and millions of treasure
were wasted; a war unnatural, destructive,
desolating, the curse of which will be a
shadow on our land for generations to come
But it was a war of sections, and in that re-
Pect free from some of the most dreadful
attributes of civil strife. But if the fire.
brand be again thrown at Baltimore, if the
fatal fire be there again lighted, it will bring
on no sectional strife, but a war from house
to house, from home to home; a war whose
most devastating path will be through the
rich cities and thriving fields of the North
"a ciUI a0ar in its most real and terrible
sense.


Reflect while you have the opportunity
the victors sometimes become victims
Menalshis Ledger.
Year: 1866

The Hartsville VideHs speaks Of ''the
recent visit of detachment of troops to
this place, or it may be one of the Periodi-
cal scouts for Harper, who does not reside
anywhere IN this section, and who is entire
ly unconscious of the greatness which is be-
ing thrust upon him.


1--WE are personally acquainted with Ellis
Harper; be was a member of the 3Oth Ten
nessee Regiment, and was, and still Is, one
of the most quiet and unassuming men we
ever met. He is strictly sober. and so far
from being the outbreaking character which
his fearful adVersaries' imagine. He Is
the miIdest hammered man that ever scut-
tied ship or cut throat


.'We are no admirer of guerrilla warfare,
but we know Of no instance in which Harper
has ever violated the terms of his parole,
and the persistent annoyance of Harper by
those little detaehments of Federsl troops is
doing no good, while we are satisfied Of the
fact that if Harper was permitted he would
remain quietly at home.


at is certainly beneath the dignity OF
great nation to thus engage in hunting
down a man who has been paroled; and the
fate of Champ Ferguson is warning enough
for men whose lives are entrusted TO the
evidence of those who fear them while they
are free, but who would not hesitate to ap-
proach and testify against them when the
nanaclss are on their limbs"
Year: 1866

81 am satisfied that the mass of the think
ing men of the South accept the present
situation of affairs in good faith. The
questions which have heretofore divided
the sentiments of the people of the two sec
tions--slsvery and State rights, OF the right
of State to secede from the Upion-they
regard as being settled forever by the
highest tribunal (arms) that man can re-
sort to- Gen. Grant.


''All the fighting men of our army want
peace, and it is only those who never heard
a shot--never heard the shrieks and groans
of the wounded and laeerated friend or foe,
that cry alone for more blood, more ven
geance, more desolation. know the rebels
are whipped to death, and declare before
God. as a man and a soldier, will not
strike foe who stands unarmed and sub
missive before me. Gen. Sherman.
Year: 1866

WE will have an opportunity of knowing
what has become of all the cotton that was
stolen from the people of the South about
the close of the recent war. The statement
called for by resolution of the House of
Representatives of May 28th. 1866, and
again on September 1st by the Committee
on Retrenchment, with reference to the dis
position made of all the cotton and other
property coming into the hands of treasury
agents during the war, has been prepared
under the supervision of the Commissioner
of Customs, and has been sent to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. Look out, cotton
thieves.
Year: 1866

Sort SOAP FOR ALL SORTS OF People
For lieutenant. call him captain; for a
middle-aged lady. kiss her and say yoh
mistoOk her for her daughter 8 young
gentleman arising fifteen, ask hfn his Opin-
ion respecting the comparative merits of a
razor; for young ladies, if you know their
color to be natural, accuse them of paint
ing; for young lawyer, get him to discuss
point Of law that neither can comprehend
and agree with him; for young doctor,
listen with rapt attention while he explains
the nature of compound fracture with
Latin words; for a fool, let him suppose
that you think him wise.
Year: 1866

The following despatch has been received


NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST II "A member OF the
Legislature informed OF his friends vest srday,
that he was recently informed that President John
son regretted that all the members OF the Convention
bad not been dispersed by the riot The tact will
be sworn TO if necessary. King the publisher or
the New Orleans Times, write, TO his trends mere
that he was present when the President received
General Shendan's dispatches, and that the Presi-
dent threw the Generals dispatches under the table
As soon as the Military Commission reports, several
important arrests will be made. A great many
mufderers OF Union men have been identified by
competent men, and they viii soon be in the bands
OF justice.
Year: 1866

From the Richmond Times.


Baltimore will ever be enshrined In the
memories and affections Of the Southern..peo-
pie. That city and its people have SIM
pathized with lis in prosperity and adversely
And now in the hour of our own poverty
and suffering they have not forgotten us.
Theirs has been love without reward, kind
ness without recompense, save in our eter-
nal gratitude.


The plan lately put on foot by hundreds,
nay thousands of the noble men and women
Of Baltimore, to hold great fair or bazaar
in their city shortly after Easter, for the
benefit of the suffering and poverty-stricken
people of the South, is a noble evidence
of the love and charity of Baltimore.
Speaking for our people, we find difficulty
in expressing all we feel, when we contem-
plate this touching example of sublime
charity, so nobly displayed by the people of
baltimore. This is no ordinary fair which
they are inaugurating, but il is gigantic
effort OF humanity and love; it is the SUI
stantal utterance Of great-souled men and
noble-hearted women who have heard fhe
cry of distress which has gone up from our
people, and having heard it, respond in acts
and not In trordS. We shall not forget it.
1t inds grateful echo in our breasts and
cheers us by its tones even as the voice of a
loved friend brings to the house of grief and
suffering.


In the bleak moral desert of this cold and
selfish world, Baltimore greets us with an
oasis oflove and compassion. GoD bless her
lovely women and whole-souled menl AL
ready are their names and memories dear
and sacred to many of our sons and brothers,
who once languished and pined in prison.
The deed of holy charity with which they
now crown themselves will fill the measure
of their fame, and cause their memories to
shine with celestial light The aid which
they shall render to our suffering people will
send a ray of happiness to many darkened
household, whose inmates, fed and clothed
by the beautiful charity of Baltimore, will
bless her name and pray for her people.
Year: 1866

In his last lecuture, Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, thus discourses on what the South
wants:


will now glance at the state of feeling in
the South. When we consider what they
suffered, who they were that suffered; when
l consider where they started from and
where they brought up, when | consider the
whole history of the case, the state of public
feeling South is far more peaceful then we
could expect. 1t is bad enough, but is far
better than we could expect Letter. writers,
travellers, say reconstructed Soutn"" a
nice condition the South is in to be recon-
structed."" They are our bitter enemies;
they gnash their teeth and ALL


l wonder if you think that after you
soundly whip man that he is going to
thank you for it. Do you suppose that
General Lee when he surrendered should
have thrown his hands around General
Grants neck and thanked him for whipping
him and compelling him to surrender? or
that General Johnston should have regarded
Sherman as his benefactor? And should the
South go upon its knees when it sees a Yam
kee, and say "God bless you, Yankee, for
all you have done for me?" These men that
talk thus do not like the state of feeling at
the South. The Yankees tell us that the
South is not fit to be reconstructed. Hyou
do not take the South in till she heals Of
her wounds, you will not take her in for a
long time tc come. Human nature does not
run this way. II is not question of abstract
justice; it is practical question, and you
must decide according to known law and
human nature.


| know the South will feel sore. They be-
lieyed in their cause; they were defeated, and
a greater disaster could not befall them.
They lost everything-deep gloom over
hangs them, and profound sorrow oppresses
them, and they are expected to give evidence
of thankfulness and joy. They must first
have the hand ofkindness stretched to them
You must give them new hopes. New busi-
ness will lead them to forget old graves; new
thoughts will check old tears Kindness
and business, that is what they want.
Year: 1866




A New York correspondent Of the Phila-
delphia Press, after noticing the fact that the
stories about Trichine have materially di-
minished the consumption Of pork, asserts
that they are false, and that the hogs which
have come to market this year are of an I'M
commonly fine quality, in consequence Of
the abundant corn crop Of the last season.
He adds:


II sensible folks DO not exercise more COM
mon sense on this point, there Is more real
danger that they will be devoired by the
worms which follow after a death by starva-
ton. Before we gave way entirely TO this
groundless fear about trichinR, which are
only 10 be seen by the aid Of good micro
scope, we might better glance at the hopping,
crawling jun ping, running, skipping croco-
diles, South American anacondas and four
footed beasts which inhabit the cheese we
lunch upon and the water we daily drink.
These we may observe without the aid OF n
lens, a hundred times larger in size and more
terrible in appearance than any cork screw
shaped vital thread that ever fattened on
luscious swine. The whole scare is very
absurd, and ought not to be countenanced
by decent people.