smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1866

The Houston Telegraph has good author
ity for stating that General Magruder viii
return to the United States shortly, and be-
come good loyal citizen thereof. The Tele-
graph says:


We hope the old gentleman will make
up his mind to settle down with his family
in Texas. Thousands of hearts would greet
them warmly The State owes debt of
gratitude to the old man which she can never
pay Had it not been for his able manage
ment of his little forces during the war, the
return Of peace would not have found a sill
yer spoon, a finger ring, or a silk dress IN
the State and its whole vest extent would
have been plowed with desolatiOn from stem
to stern. This none can gainsay who had a
Just comprehension of the situation that was
Since the downfall of the Confederacy the
old warrior has lived in poverty and exile
We would be proud to grasp his manly hand
once more
Year: 1866

T0urnoments-It is with peculiar pleas
ure that we witness the rapid growth into
popularity Of the Tournament. 1t Is to US
a welcome sign of healthful growth of a
noble sentiment of chivalry. It is an en-
nobling pastime-an heroic play, and no
people can be ignoble among whom it -four
ishes. OF old it nourished the highest spe-
cimens Of manhood that the world has seen
Under its teachings and exercise a knight
came to be Synonymous with all that was
brave and true, and gentle and strong. Its
curriculum is not lower or less effective for
good to-day. Therefore, we say, speed the
tournament. Let it become a national play.
-CoLunsbia Herald
Year: 1866

Age of Sheep-H0U DeterBlilled.-The
age Of sheep may be known by the front
teeth. They are eight in number and appear
all of size In the second year the two
middle enes fall opt, and their place IS sup
piled by two large ones. In the third year a
small tooth on each side. Ia the fourth year
the large teeth are six in number. Ia the
fifth year the whole front teeth are large.
In the sixth year the whole begin to getworn.
In the seventh year the whole fall out or
are broken. 1t is said the teeth Of ewes
begin to decay tive ors those of weathers
at seven
Year: 1866

Last Wednesday evening, as several sew
ing girls employed in Atwa5er block, Cleve-
land, were descending the stairs after their
days work, a shocking accident occurred.
One Of the girls, about Is years Of age, a
Miss Stockinger, was sliding down the rail
ing Of the circular stairway IN the centre OF
the building, and had reached the third floor
In the descent, when she lost her balance
and was precipitated, head foremost, to the
ground floor She struck the solid floor
squarely On her head, crushing her skull
and causing almost instant death
Year: 1866

Upon inquiry the little orphan stated
that his father and mother were taken
sick yesterday and died last night just
after dark The poor boy had passed
the night in solitude and sorrow, fright
encd by the soemnity of the scene, but
unconscious of his great loss.


1t was ascertained that some relatives
of the family, who lived near by, had
been informed of their sickness, but
from timidity or neglect had never went
to their assistance. A physician had
been summoned by some humane neigh
bors, but, knowing the poverty of the
family, refusedto attend
Year: 1866

The tendency of individuals affected by the
extreme heat of the present time is TO an ex
cessive indulgence IN cold drinks, without
much reference TO the quantity or quality OF
the fluid they imbibe. So long as they can
take a cold drink. a majority Of the people care
very little what they drink; although phy-
sIcIans and sensible people are aware that man Y
people are annually killed by a too frequent
or injuocous use of cooling beverages during
the heated term. For the benefit of our readers
we recently applied TO an eminent physician
for an opinion on the subject, and preserip-
ton that would most readily meet the REQUIRE
ments of thirsty people during the warm
weather. The doctors sudden and emphatic
ejaculation of Ginger" relieved US from the
apprehension thar he was about TO enter upon
a lengthy dissertation on the subject of "death :
from an overdose of ice water" ending with a
prescription combining dozen or more drugs,
10 be- taken as substitute for the popular cool
ing draughts.


Ginger said the doctor. IL consider the
very best article, most easily procured and
least expensive for all persons TO employ
BY its proper use they may have cold water
III abundance, and at the same time avoid most
If not all the Ill effects produced by the cool
ing abOmnatIonS a great MANY people pour
down their thrOats this hot weather." ssTell
yUUr readers continued the physician. to
buy "A few ounces of powdered ginger, and
every time they are thirsty, let them mix half
a teaspOOntul IN the cold water they desire TO
drink. II Il spoonful of sugar or molasses Is
added. II VIII do no harm. a. Extract of GIN
GER may also be employed by those who pre-
fer the article in huid form. A bottle of the
extract should be placed near the ice pitcher
or cooler, and when people drinks let them
pour teaspOonful of the extract III their
Jumbier. before filling ii with water For
my use said the doctor, :" prefer the pow
Gcred article, because 1 believe it acts more
benefcially. In the West Indies this root Is
considered one of the best preyentives for the
summer complaints of the tropics, when il is
properly used, and is not abused ~ Y Sun.
Year: 1866

~ A German named Flatch, at Valparaiso,
constructed a sub marine boat, intended for a
torpedo and or the trial trip took down with
him Il party of ten friends. The confident In
Venter would not allow a rope or buoy 10 be
attached to his machine. and the result of the
experiment was that the boat was discovered
in thirteen fathoms of water, by a diver ten
days afterwards, and at last accounts had not
been raised 10 the surface.
Year: 1866

The war has produced many
strange stories, but few mere singu
lar than the following one, related
by Cob Ellis, late ol The 1t Missouri
cavalry, in n st. Louis paper:


"a few days after II iirrccly con
tested battle party OF soldiers be
longing to the lst Missouri took Q
jaunt over the battle field, and came
up to spot where the rebel dead
were buried In one place the hail
OF mans head was seen sticking
out OF the ground like atuit OF grass
and near by a hand was seen protrn
ding upwards, which evidently be
longed to the corpse that owned The
head of hair One Of the cayalrymef
remarked 10 his companions, IN
spirit Of thoughtless leyity. See
there's a dead reb, reaching out lol
something; let's see what he wants!
In the same spirit OF wanton mis-
chief, almost reckless, the cavalry
man took hold of the mans hand an(
hauled the body out ofthc grave, The
loose dirt falling back into the shai
low hole. Soon after the man be
gan to stir and manifest signs of life
to the utter astonishment and horro
Of the resurrectionists. The mal
was taken by his rescuers to thci
tent and rubbed down, washed oil
and in a few days became as good q
new lie said tl.Rt in the battle Ii


was stunned by'the passage of a shel
which knocked him sehseless. lii


was picked up among the dead ant
buried like the rest. Not scratol
was found on his body He said tina


he had joined the rebel army, anC
fought the Federals long and well
but as this was his second appearance


on earth he would now join the Fed
erals and fight for them. lie accord
ingly enlisted in the First Missouri
did a good deal of tough marching
and hard fighting, and last Septem
ber was mustered out of the serric
and paid off at Benton Barracks"
Year: 1866

SENATOR WADE ON SINGLE PRRsIDEN-
TIAL TERM.-Senator Wade has intro
duced joint resolution proposing to
amend the Constitution by making the
President ineligible for reelection. Ia
moving its reference to the judiciary
committee, last Wednesday, Mr.. Wade
made the following brief observations
on this important topic.


81 believe this the most favorable OBJ.
portunity to make this amendment that
there has been since the formation Of
the Constitution Of the United States.
1t has been the opinion of some OF the
wiseSt statesmen and those deemed the
wisest at almost every period of this
government, that it was defect in that
instrument that it failed to limit this
Office to one term. have no doubt that
the reason that superinduces the present
condition OF affairs on this subject was
that Gen. Washington was contemplated
all along as being the first Chief MagiS.
trate, and in him such confidence was
repOsed that it seemed TO throw the
statesmen Of that day Off their ordinary
caution, which they had exercised in
almost every other portion of the Con-
stitution. Nobody can fail TO see that
in the vast and growing power OF the
Presidential Office there are temptations
all the time weighing on the mind of the
President, like gravity, to WELD the vast
and concentrated powers of this govern
ment ia such way as he believes will
induce his reelection, and believe every
one who has watched with vigilance the
administration of our country during
recent years. say all the administra-
tions-I do not wish to point out invid-
iously any one of them-I say any one
who has watched them will be convinced
that it is not safe to put into the hands
of any man such temptations as these.
Such temptations arise from the fact
that he can use these powers to further
his own ambition. There has rarely
been time, however, when a PROPOSE.
ton could have been moved without
SEEMING invidious, and believe this idea
has been growing until everybody seems
to understand that it needs correction. |
have been for several years of the opin-
ion that it ought to pass-that this de-
feet should be remedied. President
Washington even thought so; President
Jackson and all your eminent statesmen
from that day to this have seen this de-
feet and wished it might be corrected.
They have not, however, found an oppor-
tunity when it was probable they could
get the necessary vote to effect it, Such
is the condition of parties, or such has
been their condition in this government,
that it was almost a hopeless task to en-
graft this amendment npon the Cousti-
tuition. There is now an opportunity,
and | believe every man is sensible that
the correction ought to be promptly ap.
piled :"
Year: 1866

The members of Congress since their
arrival in Washington to attend the
present session of Congress, show, by
their conversation and acts, that they
have been among the people and have
become imbued with the radical feelings
Of the masses, so unmistakably expressed
by them in the fall elections. The men,
bers who last session, were arrayed
against the policy of the President, as
announced in his 22d of February speech
and subsequent vetoes of the Freed
mems Bureau and Civil Rights bills, are
at present even more radically opposed
to his abortiye efforts to restore the re-
bellous States to the Union, than they
were then, and the few milk. and water Re
publicans who at that time sided with
the executive have nearly all Swung
around the circle" and arrayed them
selves in their proper sphere, as cham
pions OF liberty and equality to all be-
fore the law.


1t has already become a settled fact
that as soon as the Constitutional
amendment is rejected by the South, it
being already apparent that that section
will not accept it, that the whole work
OF restoration will be reversed, and re-
construction be commenced from
different stand point. The illegal gov
ernments established by the President
will be swept out of existence, and the
States will be re-organzed by Congress
upon the basis of the provisions of the
amendment and what is of more par
amount importance, Johnson will be SO
stripped of power as to prevent, by an
abuse of authority, any future evil at
his hands. The majority in Congress is
now consolidated, and will, it is to be
hoped, move steadily forward to the
completion of the good work so nobly
begun.
Year: 1866

CRowDING THE MouRNERs.-John NJ. Bolts has
quaintance, the Bread and Butter Phila.
delphia Convention, which has found its way
into print. lie says;


al am spelling to hear some secesh talk about
your Philadelphia Convention and platform how
the whole South, like whipped spaniels were
made to take back seats with mouths closed
not allowed to speak word to eat dirt; to wal
low in the mire to thank God that the divine
institution was destroyed; 9 that the Union was
more sacred than before the rebellion; that
there right in any State combination of
States to secede;' that the rebel debt must be
repudiated and the national debt paid that the
national soldiers and sailors must be taken care
of and rewarded for whipping the South and
all this said and done this humilating sef-stui-
tifcation submitted to, for little bread and
hutter'-a mere crumb from the public crib.


am glad, of course to have you all on my
side, to come to my platform but it does not
increase my respect for my new allies Hence
forward we stand on the same platform of prn
ciples, though cannot consent to act in cooper
alton with them at the polls-not knowing how
soon may be betrayed for larger supply of
bread and butter offered from some other quar-
ter.


The surrender of Lee and Johnson to Grant
and Sherman (who could not help themselves)
was as nothing in comparison with this volun-
tary. universal unanimous surrender of the Sc
cesb Democracy. Thanks to Doolitte 7 be is
{ Do little no longer He has done more than
the armies of the United States were able to
complisb What is to become of poor Union
men who frightened us into this trouble and then
BETRAYED? We can't take them back they nev-
or can be trusted again.
Year: 1866

as County Warrants and S9reenbacks taken at
their ruling value in payment for subscriptions to this
paper To soldiers in the Governmet service
will be furnished for Greenbacks at PAR
Year: 1866

GRUMBLING.-Some people are ever
grumbling. If they have not great
troubles, they have little ones to keep
them fretting, and many would say of
them that they grumble merely for pas
time. A fretful disposition is of no ad-
vantage-it only makes the possessor
and those connected with him miserable
The better way is always to look on the
bright side of things, for we shall meet
with trouble enough in the world, with
out turning out of cur way to seek it.
Grumbliug makes hard job harder,
sours the temper, UNNECESSARILY fa-
tigues both body and soul and never fa-
cilitates business.
Year: 1866

To BE woman of fashion is one of
the easiest things in the world. A late
writer thus describes it


"Buy everything you don't want, aud
pay for nothing you get; smile on all
mankind but your husband; be happy
everywhere but at home; neglect your
children and nurse your lapdogs; go
to church every time you get new
dress.'
Year: 1866

For in every case they add new life and vi
tality and restore the waning energies to
their pristine state. To the young and mid
die aged, they will prove most1nvaluable, as
ready, specific, and sterling medicine. Here
for three hundred years ago, and never found.
He looked for fountain that would restore
the old to vigor and make youth ever
Year: 1866

Are they ever seeking to make trouble
with you! DO you find them attempting
to coin money out of your muscle with
out making a suitable recompense9 DO
they ever act as " BROKERS in human
aesh," by procuring money or compen-
sation for haring you hired 10 another /?
Do not your former masters desire rath-
er to avail themselves of your labor, and
for it agree to pay You good wages? Let
the negro reflect upon these things, and
note well events as they occur, and he
will soon be convinced as to who are his
true friends.
Year: 1866

Gen. Chilly Mcintosh, Chief of the Creel,
Indians is in New Orleans, seeking relief for
three hundred and sixty of his people who
were driven from their homes during the late
war. and arc now in suffering condition.
Year: 1866

Moreover. no trick of words can make
plain the scene in and around one of these
habitations-no fertility Of language can
embody the simple facts for Northern
mind, and the case is one in which even
seeing itself is scarcely believing. Time
and effort will lead the negro up to an in
tclligent manhood; but l almost doubt if
it will be possible TO even lift this ''white
trash " into respectability--SOathun Cor
respoade0ce Of Bost,a Daily Adrsrtisr.
Year: 1866

\ woman went into 4 house at Boston
the other day with an infant in her arms
and asked leave to stay awhile, rs she
was weak and tired. She also asked for
something stimulating, saying that she
had recently been confined. The lady OF
the house went out TO Get Il glass of ;g
for the stranger and on returning found
that her infant, which she had left aslce,
in the cradle, had been taken away b,
her visitor AMI a negro baby left in it


stead. Nothing has been heard of til,
woman since, and the atflir creates gr,a
excitement among the interested parties.
Year: 1866

We publish below letter from a gen
tleman who has just returned from the
south, where he enjoyed unusual facilities
Tor observing the character and disposition
of the people. We commend what he
says to the careful consideration of our
readers and of congress. He presents a
sad picture of the condition OF things in
New Orleans and Memphis, and shows us
what we may expect these pestllent reb-
els are allowed to have voice in the GOV
ernment of the country which has just
subdued them.-Chcayo Republican.
Year: 1866

THERE were four apples on the bough,
| Half gold, halfred, that one might know
\ The blood was ripe inside the core;
/ The color of the leaves was more
/ Like stems of yellow corn that grow
| Through all the gold June meadow floor.


The warm smell Of the fruit was good


To feed on, and the split green wood
/ With all its bearded lips and stains
| Of MOSES in the clover veins,
! Most pleasant, if one lay or stood


In sunshine or in happy rains.
! There were four apples on the tree,
Red stained through gold, that all might see
The sun went warm from core to rind;


The green leaves made the summer blind
In that soft place they kept for me
With golden apples shut behind.


The leaves caught gold across the sun,


And where the bluest air begun,


Thirsted for song TO help the heat;


As to feel my lady's feet


Draw close before the day were done;


Both lips grew dry with dreams Of it.


In the mute August afternoon


They tTembled to some underline


Of music in the silver air;
Great pleasure was it to he there


Till green turned duskieT and the moon


Colored the corn-sheaYes like gold hair


That August time it was delight


To watch the red moons wane to white,
'TwiXt gray scanned stems of apple trees;
A sense of heavy harmOnies


Grew on the growth of patient night
More sweet than shapen music is.


But some three hours before the moon,
The air, still eager from the noon,
Tagged after heat, not wholly dead;
Against the stem I leaned my head
The color soothed me like a tune,
Green leaves all round the gold and red.
! lay there till the warm smell grew
More sharp, when flocks of yellow dew
Between the round ripe leaves had blurred
The rind with stain and wet; heard
A wind that blew and breathed and blew,
Too weak to alter its one word.
The wet leaves next the gentle fruit
Felt smoother, and the brown tree root
Felt the mold warmer; too felt
(As water feels the slow gold melt
Right through it went the day burns mute)
The peace of time wherein love dwelt.
There were four apples on the tree,
Gold stained on red, that all might see
The sweet blood filed them to the core;
The color Of her hair is more
Like stems Of fair faint gold, that be
Mown from the barvcst's middle floor.
Year: 1866

We dof our beaver again to the citizens of Des Arc, and wish them good cheer. Since the din of battle has hushed and the smoke from the plain has passed away, we take our harp from the willow upon which it has in silence been suspended for more than five years; and enter in good earnest into the spirit of the onward and upward march now being felt, in the inn provement of our once happy, peaceful and pleasant town, over which the bosom

 of war has swept, with its dark and low ering wing, effacing and defacing the

 modest but tasteful improvements of our hitherto thriving and prosperous town.

 But let us not "grieve over split milk" or

 brood in melancholy over the past-suf.

 icient unto the day are the evils thereof.

 In tears blood and grief the past has been

 embahmed, shrouded and laid in the com mon sepulcher of time; and whatever part 1t was our fortune to act in the dreadful drama of the recent rebellion; though mortified in our failure in what we con ceived to be our duty, and believed our first and most sacred privilege, still we yield to the memorable decree of fate with the consoling assurance that we aimed to do our whole duty. We have no apoli- gies to offer for ourselves or others, as to the mishaps so common to us all of the South. We bargained for it in good faith, we met it in good faith, and We en- durs it in good faith to the bitter end and we cheerfully abide the result in good
Year: 1866

It is but natural for man to feel lively interest in the place with which he is identified, by birth or adoption. Home has charms more readily felt than told and 1t IS this instructive, innate feeling of locality, or love of home that gives rise to patriotism. valor, heroism and renown,- The place of our nativity is as imperisha- ble as memory itself. Revolutions may sweep over the lands-thronesmay totter- crowns may fall, and dynasties pass away j; yet the lands of our nativity stands out in memorys waste, as the oasis in the desert of the travellers journey. But while we feel that the place of our birth is the most endearing spot of earth to all, the place of our adoption becomes our home around which cluster our hopes for wealth, life and happiness. And he is not a pa- triot in the true sense of the term, who locates himself upon any spot of earth and

 fixes his home in town, city or hamlet, and feels not that it is his privilege, as we'll as duty to aid to the extent of his ability. in furtherance of every enterprise, that has for its object the prosperity, happiness and glory of that particular place. But

 let us come more directly to the point-to

 our own town, just struggling into life, Phenix-like, rising from the ashes of recent revolution. &

 Many of her old citizens, scattered to the four winds of heaven by the fortunes
Year: 1866



 PosT MASTERS IN THE SoUTH-Many post offices in the South are not reopened on ac- count of the difficulty of finding persons who can, conscientiously, take the prescribed oath of office. very obvious way of getting over this difficulty would be, now that the war is over and the Union is restored, for Congress to modify this oath, which was proper enough during tic war, but is certainly not necessary now. If this cannot be done, however. until that body is reconstructed by the substitution of men who will represent the real people, in

 place of the yindictive and fanatical radicals who stand in the way of complete recon ciliation, Mr. Postmaster General DENNIsoN

 might, We should think, find plenty of dis abled veteran Union soldiers, who, though crippled, could fulfill the duties of Postmasters. Men of this elass-the veteran soldiers be it obseryed-w0uld not be obnoxious to the peo- pie of the South, if there is no other way of obtaining postal facilities As we have often remarked before, the real soldiers of both armies harmonize readily, and constitute, in deed, the great conservative element of the country.-[ Memphis appeal.