smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

u at more barbarous use OF his advan-
tage than the North will make Of hers,
by the adoption of the policy proposed.
If in our great woe of defeat We had
been handed over to devils for torture,
their cruelties would have been mercies
compared to the treatment now threat
eued by men who swore on their honor
that if we would lay down our arms
they would receive us as brethren, and
who swear on the Holy Evangelist that
they will observe the constitutional
compact.


1t is vain, it is idle, it is foolish, to
expect to establish quiet and content
ment by the policy recommended. If
adopted, it embarks the country neces-
sarily on an indefinite period of turbu-
lence and unrest. Every sensible man
must know that thenceforth We could
have no peace save in the shadow OF
camps; that prosperity and industry
would be blighted and destroyed. Inc
question of reconstruction, such as the
country wants, is no Gordian knot to be
united by q sword-stroke.


We entreat the men of the North to
take counsel of their own knowledge OF
human nature-t0 consult their inter
ests-to remember their oaths and en-
gagements-in their dealings with the
South. If they will not admit us to
our privileges at Washington, at least
leave us to peace in our own local af-
fairs. Let the Samson when they have
captured and whose eyes they have put
out, be useful in the mill, instead Of
making of him an occasion of general
calamity.
Year: 1867

The Tennessee Senate has passed the
bill providing for the negro suffrage.
The consistency of this action will be
understood, from the fact that five
sixths of the whites are now disfran-
chised under the rule of a minority, who
were placed by the military power in
control of that distracted common
wealth. The way this new scheme of
government works is shown by what
follows:


"a firm in Nashville, one of the larg-
est and most respectable mercantile
houses in the West, paying annually
many thousand dollars of taxes, has.
including clerks, six persons employed
in the concern besides the porter, who
is negro. The latter is now the only
one of the whole concern who is allow
cd q vote under the present Brownlow
constitution. The point of the joke is,
that the negro was the bitterest rebel
of all, and was an officers servant i'll
the late rebel army, and when fighting
by his masters side, he was the third
man over the ramparts of Fort Pillow,
where he fell like an avengins thunder
bolt upon the negroes-who so gallant
ly surrendered that stronghold"
Year: 1867

e were informed yesterday by several re-
spousibie parties, of trian of very singular
events which have happened in the township
OF Orsa, In this county, OF late, which have
led people to believe that the devil. or some
other misguided soul. has left the inferD.I
regions of the damned to roam the earth and
perform such wonders to startle the people of
that quiet neighbOrhOod out of their Wis


we VIII relate one or two of these mysterious
affairs Just as they were told to Ms. Abopt
two years ago an old and respectable citizen


OF that township, named George CampbcIT


died. Some time before his death he bnris5
In the ground twenty two hundred dollars in
gold. This fact he kept to himself; not one
OF his family or anybody else, knew anvtbin~
about IT. During his sickness he became de,
ragged and continued so until he died. I,
settling the estate search was made for the
gold, but 1t could not be found They knew
1t was buried in the ground, but the precise
spot no one knew, and the search was finally
abandoned. Two or three weeks AGO some
one conceived the idea of consulting an old
fortune-teller, living in the neighborhood.
named Wormley. This idea was hooted at
aud pronounced absurd but finally, out of
curiosity it was concluded to call upon the
old man and test his necromantic powers
AiteF UetalllnS the circumstances to him he
told them where the gold was buried They
went to the designated spot, and after digging
down two or three feet, sure enough the gold
was found. Several other persons who had
lost property, after witnessing the fulflmeut
OF his predictions in this case, applied to him
to assist them in finding it, and in every case
the property was found A young man
named Rerrick, lost pOcketbook while plow-
ing in field He sought the assistance of
the old wizard, who took him to the yery
spot where the pocket book was lying. He
found it in the. same condition as it was when
he lost it, some three or four weeks before
Can such things be and come over us like
summers cloud, and not excite our special
Ill.,, Herald
Year: 1867

The New York Herald more than year
ago insisted upon General Grant being can
didate for the Presidency. He did not de-
rive any strength from the recommendation,
but the Herald held on to him, until public
events were so shaped as to bring it within
range of probabilities. The Herald now
"goes back on him" in the following style:


The political position assumed by General
Grant shows our great soldier in a new light
1t is his his first development OF political
genius; his first and final political mistake.
The reply Of the President has completely
overturned him-Uutfanked him. Grant
does not understand the crisis lie clings to
Sheridan and iorgets principles. Grant has
given US one political essay; but he has given
US already too much. His only hope Of re-
trieving himself is to make public his private
letter to the removal Of Stanton. Since Grant
has thrown himself into the radical hands
there will be no difficulty in the nomination
Of Mr.. Chase for the Presidency 1t is now
necessary for the country to follow up Mr.
Chase's blunders, sink the country financial
ly as well as politically, aud commence rad
ical negro millennium.
Year: 1867

They are shipping large quantities of wheat
out in Georgia. Certain sanguine people
take this as evidence Of their having sur
plus there. But the inference is unwarraut-
able. They are in sore need of money
to secure their cotton crops. The wheat was
harvested sooner by fortnight there than
elsewhere. And they have very few good
Touring mills. All these things make it
more profitable for the Georgians to hurry
their wheat into market, than to hold it back,
grind and consume it. The practice there is
to sell wheat.and buy flour. The shipment
of wheat early has enabled them to get seven
ty-tivc cts. to dollar more for it, than if they
had waited till the whole crop of the Union
came rushing into the markers. 1t is with
Georgian wheat as with truck farming about
Norfolk. The early bird gets the worm.
The flow of wheat out of Georgia, is the evil
dence of nothing but urgent need of money,
aud a determined purpose by early shipments
to realize the greatest possible returns. BY
Christmas, Georgia will be heavy buyer of
flour, which she will get in sacks from Louis
vile, Nashville and from the river above
Memphis. She will pay four to FIVE dollars
hundred for flour. after selling wheat for
the equivalent of six and half per hundred
OF four.-INOrfOk Journal.
Year: 1867




and back, with partitions inside Of wood
forming compartments in which one bird
is confined These are so constructed
that there shall be no communication ex.
cept by sound. Above this cage is then
hung a good skylark or nightingale, out
of sight of the BIRDS In this manner
young birds are trained to sing with more
beautiful voice than they would otherwise
possess.


The diseases to which these birds arc
most liable are generally caused by colds.
unwholesome food or neglect The books
describe the diseases aud the modes OF
treatment.


Canary birds in good condition are
worth in this market from four to eight
dollars per pair. The most of them are
imported. The bird dealers purchase them
at the vessels in large quantities Many
Of them are in poor condition after the
voyage, and the price is low.


The East India, African and South
American birds are mostly brought by
sailors, who take good care Of them on the
voyage, and often train them, SO that they
are remarkable, and command good prices
on arrival.
Year: 1867

0s SEEING PICTURE or LOAD BrRox AT THg AcE


EIcHrkES.
A glance at your gray eyes, stranger boy,
Like memory Of the dead,
Hath touched my soul with a ole'nn joy
1hatcan never Le writeA or said.
oh haunting spell Of a smile that's gone
Like a star from the morning gay,
Oh gentle charm OF n spirit tone
Like brook in a lapse of May
Oh tender grace Of sweet, loved face
They hid long, long ago
One eve when the royal burial place
Was Wild with the drifting snow.
Ye gather about my heart and sripg,
With desolate sense Of pain,
From the trembling chords Of ths broken thing,
A Wild and wailing strain.
Far, princely boy, in tho years gone by,
A CLEAN of your beauty shons
From the lip, red lip and the falcon eye,
And proud heart all your own.
Then a shadow came on your heart and brain,
And your voice was heavy with tears,
And your brow was sealed with the seal of pain,
In your carly manhood years.
But ub der the rose and lilies too,
On foreign river shore,
There eometh no sorrow or pain to you,
Forever and oyermore.
oh beautiful one; oh poet lost.
The tones of whose glorious Tyre
Are breaking 70; night on the starry eess. -
Of The river of crystal 1re<s
And know when the shining purples fade
From the distant twilight skies,
Your steps are under tho palm trees shade
Mid the lilies Of paradise.


MINNIE.
Year: 1867

brought into power by the statesmanship,
the courage, and the loyalty of that party,
will not aid us in this good work.


We must, therefore, appeal directly and
personally to you. If you are rich, give
generously. If poor. send us whatever
you can afford. The generous purpose
aud noble aim sanctify the humblest efforts.
At all events, act promptly. and let US feel
that the sympathy Of the Republican party
is with US in our purpose of making this
great land the home Of true Republican
principles, where distinctions of race and
color are unknown, and where liberty,
virtue and intelligence form the enduring
basis of our greatness and prosperity.


Address letters and contributions to
Governor Marcus l.. Ward, chairman and
treasurer, Newark, N. J.
Year: 1867

MARROW EscAPE-0n Tuesday morning
the up stage was reported detained at Whis
ky Greek. and John Craddock. the agent,
mounted horse and started out to see what
the trouble was. Arriving at Whisky Greek
he found that the driver bad only stopped to
wait for daylight before driving across the
stream, whereupon Mr.. Craddoek turned
about and started to return to town. On
reaching White Rock Gulch, near the Four
Mile House, he noticed that the stream was
much higher than when he crossed it on his
way up, but thinking it fordable, rode into
the current The horse had only taken few
steps when he plunged into deep hole and
down he went. carrying his rider with him.
Hastily disengaging himself from the sad
dle Mr. Craddock succeeded in reaching the
bank in safety. The current swept the horse
two or three hundred yards down stream,
when his bride caught in an overhanging
limb, and he was pulled ashore by the united
strength of two men.
Year: 1867

STAGE AccIbEST.-The heavy rains which
fell during Monday and Tuesday caused
Whisky Creek to rise to such height that
the waters flowed over the top of the old
bridge. When at that height the creek is
not fordable, and no one acquainted with the
stream could be induced to enter the rapid
current. The down stage, driven by Spauld
ing, new driver on this end of the route,
reached the creek just al dusk on Tuesday
evening and after inspecting the crossing.
concluded to drive in. although warned not
to do so bv parties at Whiskytown. Gather
ing up his lines, Spaulding drove down the
bank and into the creek, but the leaders had
scarcely struck the current before they were
lifted from their feet and swept down stream.
dragging the wheel horses and stage after
them. Coming to a reef of rocks some fifty
yards below the bridge, three of the horses
| caught foothold, and for few moments
struggled desperately to gain the shore, but
the foundering of the fourth horse, and the
rush of the current against the coach, proved
NN'NNA''
again drifted down with the current and soon
disappeared over fall in the creek. Two
of the horses were found alive next morning
on the bank, several hundred yards below
the bridge, and third horse was found
drowned just below the fall. having become
entangled in the roots of willow. The
stage, with another drowned horse attached,
was found in Clear Greek, several hundred
yards below the Whisky Greek junction. At
the time Spaulding drove into the stream two
passengers were on board, but they succeeded


in reaching the bank they had just left by
jumping from the stage, one of them carrying
the express box with him. Spaulding jumped
from his seat into the stream, and came out
on the opposite bank to where he drove in
All the mail matter on board was lost.
Year: 1867

RoUGH.-John Craddock, who has passed
over the route two or three times this week,
says the grade between here and Whisky
town is in a horrible condition In some
places holes have been washed to the depth
Of two or three feet, and wide enough to ad-
nit the wheels of a wagon. Hands are now
at work, and the road will be in good run
ming order in few days. provided no more
heavy rains fall to delay the workmen.
Year: 1867

A Coop MovE-The action of the Board
of Supervisors in purchasing the Horsetown
bridge, aud declaring it portion of the
public highway was a good move and will
result in bringing an increase of trade and
travel this way. 1t is to be hoped the entire
road from here to Piety Hill and South Fork
will be put in good travelling order as soon as
the winter rains are over. The Importance
of the South Fork mines demands that some
interest be taken in the main highway lead
ing to them.
Year: 1867

ABOUT LocALITY.-Th Solano Herald has
a sensible article on the "arrant nonsense,
as it terms it, of urging candidate for a
State Office because of his locality. What
difference can it make to the people whether
the Governor of the State at the time of his
election lived in Monterey or Shasta, whether
he was lawyer, painter, doctor, farmer,
carpenter or laborer, so long as he is a fit
man for the place?
Year: 1867

&a- Hope for the Aficted.-In another part
of this paper viii be found the advertisement of the
celebrated Institute established by DR.. j. C.
YOUNG, in 1850. In this age of deceit and char
latanism it is boon to the suffering to point out
for relief and cure. Under the care of the skillul
Doctor the sick and troubled can divest themselves
Of their burdens of pains and shame lay aside their
cross, and secure health and happiness. If you
sick or in trouble, do not hesitate. Read the
advertisement and follow the advice Do not for
get the number nor the manner of directing your
letter. CONSULTATION OFFICE, 5S6 Washing
ION street San francisco
Year: 1867

WILD Cara few nights age, Mr.. Stod-
dard, of South Fork, was awakened by hear
ing an unusual noise among his chickens,
and on opening the door to go out and see
what the trouble was, huge wild cat sprang
through the doorway and stood switching its
tail and glaring around the room in the most
ferocious style The animal declined to
evacuate the premises, and was finally dis
patched by load of shot fred into its head
by Stoddards son.
Year: 1867

Coop DIGGINGs. John Flemming Informs
us that the placer mines on Mad Ok and Mad
Mule creeks are yielding as well this winter
as they did when first discovered. here is
scarcely claim worked on either stream that
does not yield as high as an ounce a day to
double that amount. The gold is coarse, and
pieces weighing several ounces are frequently
found.
Year: 1867

FILLED UP-The heavy rains which fell
on Monday and Tuesday of this week washed
a great quantity of sand and gravel into the
Clear Creek ditch, nearly filling it up in
many places above the Four Mile House.
Several days must elapse before the ditch
can be put in working order
Year: 1867

Observation-Disclosures, by order of Cen
eral Grant, as we learn by telegraph,
only unmarried men, and those not less
than five feet five inches high, are to be en-
listed in the military service Of the United
States. The veteran reserve corps and
musicians are exempt from this decree.
Year: 1867

OHIo.-IIenry Ludwig, principal owner in
the Ohio claim at South Fork, has been en-
gagged for several months in running tunnel
for the purpose of striking the lode consid
erable depth below the surface Last week
the workmen cut through the casing and
struck as fine looking lode, of gold and
silver bearing rock as has ever been found in
the district.
Year: 1867

Rich GOLD QUARTz.-A miner named
French is said to own very rich gold quartz
ledge near Churntown. During the past
summer he realized an average of six dollars
per day from what rock he could reduce in a
common hand mortar
Year: 1867

HORSE SHOE BEND.-We are informed
that it is the intention of the stockholders OF
the Horse Shoe Bend Company to either
commence work in the river bed. themselves,
in the spring, or sell out to a Chinese com
pany the foreman of which has signifed his
desire to purchase the entire ground drained
bv the tunnel.
Year: 1867

PAssED.-Both Houses of Congress have
agreed upon and passed a bill for the govern
ment and reorganization of the Southern
States The bill, as amended and passed,
has not been telegraphed, but we infer that
its main provisions are similar to the original
Stevens Military Bill. 1t is thought the
President will sign it, and thus save Congress
the necessity of passing it over his veto.
Year: 1867

DULL.-Times have been exceedingly dull
in this place during the past few weeks
Owing to the bad condition of the roads, no
one comes in from the country unless COM
PEELED to do so, and as there is nothing of
cult to procure anything of interest for our
local columns.
Year: 1867

This charge will be the same at the Mint--a
half of per cent.-and which is paid by us &c
that institution But there will be charge in
future for making fine gold or silver bars from
bullion refined by us.
Year: 1867

Coon AssAYs.-During the week l.. A,
Kelley has made several careful assays Of
South Fork rock, and in every instance the
result was highly encouraging. We were
shown gold button" weighing one fourth
of an ounce, which was extracted from quite
a small piece Of rock taken from the Pacific
lode. Another assay made from ore taken
from the Ellsworth lode yielded $92, in gold,
TO the tun.
Year: 1867

BAYARD TAYLOR IN SWITZERLAND. Bayard
Taylor is again in Europe and is writing letters
from there for the New York Tribune. We give
anne, Switzerland.


Behind US the country rises steeply for two or
three miles, and the streams and springs of the
upper region are brought down to gush in clear
fountains at every door, and water the slopes of
perennial grass. There is no cottage but has
its stone tank, filled from an ever. flowing spout
no garden without its basin or rill. An Ameri.
can farmer could not possibly understand why
hay field should be irrigated at this season,
when it rains every other daY-but be has never
practically learned (eTcept recently in California
and Colorado) the power of water upon vegeta-
tion. There are meadows here which are moved
in Winter as well as Summer-felds which pro-
duce annually eight crops of grass, and each one
equal to an average crop at home. At the foot
of our garden there is a basin in the earth, just
below one of the fountains. Into it manure of
all kinds is thrown, the basin filled with water
and frequently stirred-after which, this liquid
nourishment is let into the little ducts which
carry it to every part of the grass6eld. should
like to see the same proceeding tried in our most
favorable climate. The result, / am sure, would
be astonishing. The cou. try people here man.
age TO live simple, yet according to their ideas
OF comfort, from plot OF ground which, with us
would be entirely insufficient. Although cloth
ing, groceries, and meat are much cheaper than
in America, yet breadstuffs are dear, cattle and
horses equally so, and labor occupies nearly the
same proportion to the value of produce. With
our system of single crop per year, they would
fail, but continued irrigation and manuring en-
able them to produce four and fvefold. good
hand garden in vineyard receives 300 francs a
year, and his board and lodgiug-sometimes also
a certain supply of shoes and clothing. In the
morning he has bread and coffee at 10 o'clock,
bread and wine; at noon, dinner of soup and
meat, with wine; at o'clock, an afternoon
lunch, and supper in the evening. Wine enters
into almost every little bargain for labor that is
made. The man who saws and splits your moule
of wood, must be paid so many francs and so
many bottles of wine the itinerant glazier
mends your windows for money and a bottle of
wine the woman you hire for house cleaning
has her stipulated wine.ration. Life without
wine appears impossible to the laborer in the
Paws de Vaud.
Year: 1867

GENERAL SHERMAN, at recent interview
with the Pacific Railroad maguates, at his
camp on the Platte, turned to a distinguish.
ed Senator and said: "You can see from the
appearance of the country that we cannot
fight the Indians with Infantry; you NAV
hold few posts with them, but beyond tba.
they are worthless. We want cavalry; but
how are we going TO subsist them hundreds
of miles away from railroad, where horse
cannot carry ten days subsistence with him?
And do you know" he continued, " that it
will cost near thousand dollars to subsist
cavalry man one year? 1t can't be DONE
The belt Of country over which they roam
is too wide 10 be swept by cavalry, aud we
must abandon the idea and first protect the
construction of the Union Pacific Railroad,
the most important enterprise ever under
taken, which will settle the Indian troubles
faster than any other means"
Year: 1867

Dear village church, 1 love it


On the holy Sabbath day,
With It's ivy-coyered tower,


And its beechen- ATbored way;
love the children singing,


And 10 bear the organ play,
In the dear old village church,


On the dear old Sabbath day.
/ loved it in the winter,


When the holly bonghs were there,
And better still in simmer,


When sweet flowers perfumed the cir,
And through the diamond windows
Streamed many a sunny ray,
In the dear old village church,


On the dear old Sabbath day.
'Tis long since first knew It.;


But yet remember how
used to bend my little knee


And veil my little brow,
BY one who loved 10 bring me
To kneel with her and pray,
In the dear old village church,


On tue dear old Sabbath day.
Now there are many faces


Which were not there before,
And the snowy heads are fewer,
And the grass grown hilloeks more.
But he remains unaltered


To whom we used to pray,
In the dear old village church yard,
On the dear old Sabbath day.
Year: 1867

A VIRGINIA poet improves the occasion of the
erection of statue to Chief Justice Marshall, in
Richmond, to be somewhat facetious. The fol,
lowing is a specimen of his lucubrations
"You come rather late to your pedestal. John,


For sooner you should have been here;
For the volume you hold is no longer the law,


And this is no longer Virginia.
The old Marshall law you expOunded of yore


Is now not at all to the purpOse
And the martial law Of the new Brigader


Is stronger than habeGs corpus.
So keep you the volume shut with care,


For the days of the law are over;
And it needs all your brass to bo holding it there
With Justice inscribed on the cover"