smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1866


Sooner or later the storm shall beat


Over my slumber from head to feet;
Sooner or later the wind shall rave
In the long grass above my grave
] shall not heed them where lie,
Nothing their sound shall signify,
Nothing the headstone's fret of rain,
Nothing to me the dark days pain.
Sooner or later the sun shall shine
With tender warmth on that mound Of crime,
Sooner or later, in summer air,


Clover and violet blossom there.


shall not feel in that deep-laid rest
The sheeted light fall all over my breast;
Nor ever note in those hidden hours
The wind blown breath of the Tossing flowers.
Sooner or later the stainless SHOWS
Shall add their hush to my mute repose;
Sooner or later shall slant and shift,
And heap my bed with drizzling drift.
Chill though that frozen pail shall seem,
It's touch no colder can mako the dream
That rocks not the sweet and sacred dread
Shrouding the city of the dead
sooner or later the bee shall come
And fill the noon with his golden hum
Sooner or later on half poised wing,
The blue birds warble about me ring
Sing and chirrup, and whistle with glee,
Nothing his music means to me;
None of these beautiful things shall know
How soundly their lover sleeps below.
Sooner or later, far out in the night,
The stars shall over me wing their fight;
Sooner or later, my darling dews
Catch their white sparks in their silent ooze.
Never a ray shall part the gloom
That wraps me round in the kind ly tomb;
Peace shall be perfect for lip and brow
Sooner or later,-0h why not now?
Year: 1866

The EDITORIAL. TREADMILL. The Home
Journal thus descrsbes the editors burdens
8 1t is one ofthe hardships of our profession
that its working wheels-brains and heart
are not allowed to lag for sickness, or to stop
for calamity or sorrow The judge may ad-
journ his court, the school and the workshop
may close shutters, the mourner may veil
his features, and turn friend and stranger
from the door; but the journalist must forget
before tomorrow the sorrows otto day, must
write gaily and freshly as a newsmonger, on
the trihe of the hour, whatever burden has
been laid upon that same hour BY Providence
or his brains as man. 1t sometimes tries
and mocks as the world that reads what is
thus written would never dream Of. The
public looks upon the editor labors as the
Indian did upon the man that was cutting
hay. He finally gave as his opinion that it
was easy to see the white man NOW
Year: 1866

Iris stated that man tout West has
inventeda new, powerful, double-acting
salve, which cannot fail to be boon, not
only to the human race, but to every living
thing which is exposed to accidents and
wounds AS proof Of its potency and
efficacy, the inventor nArrates that By way
of experiment he cut of about four inches
of his dog 3 tail, applied the salye to the
bleeding stump, whereupon the tail at once
grew out to its natural size and shape; that
he then took up the piece of tail which he
had cut off, and applied the salve to the
bleeding end, whereupon the dog grew out
SO like the other that it was impossible tc
tell which was the original dogl
Year: 1866

The Lancaster EIranliiaer and HTald well
says;


AS you increase knowledge so you streng-
then, and invigorate and confirm free Gov
ernment. In noage of the world, and under
no government In the world was there ever
marshalled finer educated or more gallant
soldierv than under the free States Of the
North during the late rebellion. ma
jority of these free soldiers of the Republic
were the hardy sons Of the honest masses,
who, in free schools, had learned the value
Of Free Institutions They were not only
good soldiers but intelligent citizens, who,
while Drawing the dangers of the field and
the tatigueS OF the march could yet find time
to narrowly watch and criticise the policy of
the government at home In so marked a
contrast did they stand in this respect to the
rebel soldiers, that II was a matter of fre-
quent remark by the officers of the latter,
and specially commented upon by foreigners
who CHANGED to be with either army.


Since tbe rebellion has been crushed, this
disparity in the morale of the men is COM
mented upon by intelligent Southerners who
are now busy in reconstructing their States
on solid basis. They recognize the corner
stone of every prosperous State as founded
upon the intelligence of the people, and in
order to difuse this intelligence, they are
seeking to establish schools for the children
of all whether rich or poor.


The Superintendent of Education for the
State of Alabama, after speaking in com
plimentary style of some of the higher insti-
tutions of learning-where the children of
the rich only could be educated says
'aThe melancholy reflection still, however.
obtrudes itselfth three fouTths of the youth
of the State have hitherto either gone with
outinstruetion entirely or have been crowded
into miserable apologies for school houses,
without comfortable seats, without desks or
blackboards, often without the necessary text
books, and still ofener without competent
teachers"
Year: 1866

You know how | always hated johnson,
because he was one of the 'poorwhite trash
from the South. We of the chivalry never
would allow him to rank us in social life;
but now, if you can get up good, old-fash-
ioned Democratic meeting, and let none Of
the Yankees-not even Cox, if you can help
it-appear, it may help our people to get in
power once more.


How is Baker getting along with my par
don case? in Nj.
Year: 1866

A SMART LAD.-A boy from the county
was recently taken into a gentleman fam
ily. One evening, after having been called
up to the drawing room, he came down into
the kitchen, laughing immoderatly. What's
the matter?" cried the cook. why,
said he, there are twelve on 'em up there
who could not snuff the candle, and they
had to ring for l to do it.
Year: 1866

The following private and confidential
letter from Sanders to Florence mot VIII
liam j. was not Intended for publication,
but being found among the other letteTs we
give it for what it Is worth. III is rather
,..aL u
Year: 1866

Ny DEAR Kohl | am very busy study
ing law just now, and circumstances over
which | have no control prevent my render
ing personal assistance In your labors for the
restoration to the Uuion of Its proper gov
ernment--tha Of the late Confederacy /
have only time to say that | am in favor Of
qualified suffrage. You may remember
when, under the laws Of louisiana some
sort of property qualification was required


you do, don't you? When a man who
held license to practice any profession or
avocation was qualified voter in those good
old times. / got my brigade licensed as a
hack drivers, at dollar a piece and it
proved a good speculation. Seems to me
You miehtfix up things likethat ltworked
Year: 1866

stant decrease in the cost Of working, by the
dimiuution in the price of labor aud the i'm
provement in machinery and skill for saving
the precious metal, more than compensates
for the increased cost of mining at q greater
depth.


One Of the most noticeable and import.
ant features in Grass Valley is the fact that
not a single failure has occurred to find pay
ore where any considerable depth has been
attained; and nearly every mine has paid its
own way from the start. The mines Of
Grass Valley have been developed without
any Of the cumbrous machinery necessary
to incorporated companies, with their salar.
led oficers and monthly or quarterly calls
for assessments. There is not another local,
ity on the globe, in which so much mining
has been done, where the same record can
be shown. These simple facts are sufficient
to establish the preeminence Of Grass Val.
ley over all other localities as place for
the permanent Investment Of capital


In sayisg thus much Of that locality, we
are not aware that we are speaking dispar-
agingly Of any other quartz mining section
in California. If we are not mistaken, there
is not quartz mine in the entire State,
which has been opened to the depth Of the
deepest mines in Grass Valley-say three
hundred feet-which is not to-day paying
mine. These facts-and we believe they are
facts-ought to open the minds Of capital


lists everywhere, to the value Of tho gold
mines Of California as an illimitable field for
the permanent investment Of capital.
Year: 1866

human nature. Having been a patient, am


bition to make other patients realize bis own
promotion and change of position would
alone lead any except the most cultivated,
enlarged, and magnanimous mind into petty
and despicable tyranny. Power is in its
very nature active, not passive; and such
men as Drake will never fail to exercise it
when they possess it. 1t is always aggres-
sivs-never idle. Insanity, too, is erratc.
method in madness" we understand to bs
the exception not the rule. The harmless
childlike, tractable being Of this may be the
raving maniac of the next hour or day
And again that cunning which is often stiml
ulated rather than otherwise by mental dis.
upon those even who have had the most ex-
perieuce iu the treatment Of such maladies.
Insanity in some degree might exist, and
yet the afflicted person studiedly and suc'
ecssfully conceal it, with the view Of attain.
ing just what Drake did attain. The very
fact ofintercourse with and care of the in
sane might at any hour again overturn the
mind which had itself been diseased. We
do not believe it could ever be entirely safe
to take patient, however promising his
condition, from the cells and transfer him at
once TO the care Of the insane. DR.. Tilden,
occupying the position which be did, it seems
to US shond have known all these things,
for we know them without having made in
sanity speciality. There is no excuse
which can be heard and tolerated, and his
appointment Of Drake, under all the circum.
stances, 10 the position of attendant in the
Asylum, is. in our opiouion, one of the acts
of bis administration to be most severely
condemned. 1t certainly proved most dis
astrous to the unfortunate beings who came
under his charge, and has been most pro.


life source Of scandal. Drake is now in the
City Of San Francisco, and we earnestly pray
that grand juries everywhere may have no
mercy on him.
Year: 1866

The Boston correspondent of the Union,
of the 10th Of March, says:


Speaking about money, am reminded OF


our daily sorrows in the matter of currency


You in California, whose ears have not for


gotten, as ours have, the chink of silver and


gold, can have no appreciation of our none.


tary discomforts. National Bank bills, trea.


sury notes, State bank bills and fractional
currency constitute our media Of exchange.
The first and second are usually received
without question, though good many coun.
terfeits are in circulation; but State bank
bills are not desired, as all these institutions,
with perhaps two or three exceptions in all
New England. have gone into the national
system, and will not redeem their old issus
after certain time. But the fractional cur.
rency is worst Of ALL A very large per cent.
of this is counterfeit, and there are few who
can detect the genuine from the spurious.
1t seems to be the general custom to take
the stuff as it is offered, without question,
and pass it off in the same way. They have
got to counterfeiting ten cent bills now
which seems to me very small business. And
if a man is lucky enough 10 get little sill
yer he is by no means sure that it is good
for anything. A few days ago a man brought
fourteen silver halfdolars to the Sub,Trea.
sury to exchange for paper and was informed
that thirteen Of the number were counterfeit.
A country Postmaster sent in $4OO in silver
for the same purpose and received the grati'
tying Information that $500 of it was good
for nothing. The other day draft on the
SUBJ Treasury was received here, having pass.
ed through several banks, for considerable
SUN in money in favor Of man who had
never had dollar TO his credit in that insti.
tuition,
Year: 1866

A FIRST CLASS SAp-HEAD.-A gentleman
of this town, says the Grass Valley National, -
we are sorry we do not know bis name, as we
should like to let him see how it would look
in print-recently bought from picture
pedder large framed picture Of Andrew
johnson for which he paid the neat little
sum Of five or six dollars, drew glittering
"Barlow" from the dark recesses of bis
breeches pocket, and, with reckless daring
suggestive Of a Booth, proceeded 10 cut the
pic'ure into smitheresns. He then bought
picture Of Abraham Lincoln and placed it
in the frame where johnson had so lately
been, after which the great exterminator
seemed satisfied, 80 did the peddlert and so
did the witness Of this farcial tragedy,
Year: 1866

The Sacramento Bee which supports the
Radical Congress and opposes the President,
makes The following comment on the Civil
Rights bill:


A most Objectionable circumstance is the
including of Cinnamon, Indians and all red
yellow and purple races in the enjoyment Of
all the privileges accorded to the whites in
such a manner as to reflect to the injury of
certain Of our adopted citizens. Herein is
found the great stumbling block to the suc'
sess of the bill. Its opponents many OF them
insist that it was Intentionally and purposeIy
so worded 10 orddr to make it nullity and
insure defeat; for obviously, the civilized
mind must undergo years of preparation and
training before it can submit to the idea of
being classed on footing Of perfect equality
with every Digger, CooIie and miscellaneous
vagabond who may feel impelled to make our
shores bis home, 1t is urged that the franz
ers must have known beforehand how dis
tasteful the mere suggestion would be, and
therefore inserted it 10 order that it might
not find favor.
Year: 1866

A CONTINENT COVERED WITH 1CE.-Pro


fessor Agassiz comes to the conclusion that


the continent of North America was once
covered with ice mile in thickness, thereby
agreeing with Prof Hitchcock, and other GO
illogical writer's concerning the glacial period.
In proof of this conclusion, he says that the
slopes of the Alegany range of mountains
are glacier.worn to the very top, except few
which was above the level of the icy mass
Mount Washington, for instance, is over six
thousand feet high, and the rough unpublished
surface Of ts summit covered with loose frag,
ments, just below the level of which glacier
marks come to an end tells that it lifted it's
head above the desolste waste of ice and
snow. In this region, then the thickness Of
the ice could not have been much less than
six thousand feet, and this is in keeping with
the same kinds Of evidence in other parts OF
the country, for when the mountains are
much below six thousand feet, the ice seems
TO have passed directly over them, while the
peaks rising to that hight were left untouched.
The glacier be argues was Gods great plow;
and when the ice vanished from the land, it
left it prepared for the hand Of the husband.
man. The hard surface of the rocks was
we're mingled in fair proportions; granite was
carried into the lime regions, lime was min.
gled with the more acrid and unproductive
granite district, and soil was prepared fit
for the agricultural uses of man. There are
evidences all over the polar regions, to show
that at one period the heat of the tropics
extended all over the globe The ice period
is supposed to be long subsequent to this,
and next 10 tha last before the advent of
man.
Year: 1866

BRIGHAM YouNa.-From what may be-
considered undoubted authority, says the Viz,
ginia Union, we learn that it is the intention
of the great high priest of the Mormons At
Salt Lake City to throw himself under the
protection Of Gen. Connor, on the return of
that officer from Washington, and that in case
that he does great commoton will be kick,
ed up in the city OF ths Saints that will be
second only to our late internal rebellion.
Already some inklng Of this thing has leaked
out among the faithful, aud is creating a
growing disturbance which all the lower ones
in authority in the church are finding consid.
erabls trouble to keep down, SO as not to
create premature rebellion before the pro-
gramme is carried out. From those who
have been watching this thing for the past
few months and the evidence which have
been gathered, there can be no doubt but
what Mormondom ere another year has pass'
ed over our heads, will be extinct as form,
liable sect against the laws Of our country.
Year: 1866

mere shadows for "E. Jones Il Co." these
latter not caring TO stand before the public as
engrossing the whole of this patronage.


Might it not be well for the Legislature to
look into this matter, along with the other
abuses of our City Government they are now
giving attention to for certainly no bills more
fagrautly and scandalousy extortionate, or
useless, are paid by the city. Here we fnd
Valentines Manual costing nearly $4,000 a
year to the cty-s book which some
of our best known publishers have offered
to produce for neariy trO.thirds less than that
sun: nor does even this offer begin TO show
how great must be the extorton in this case.
More than two-thirds of that book will be found
mere reprint from stereotype plates and stere-
otype maps which are continued on unchanged
from year to year, and costing "E. Jones &
CO. not one fraction except for paper, ink and
press-work; while the publishers who offer to
print it for Sl7 600 would require to have the
whole set up and illustrated as original matter
And besides, if the AppletOns or lIarpers agreed
to furnish 10000 copies, they would do soi
while it is well known, that as a general rule,
not more than one-half of the books annually or
dered and regularly paid for by our Common
Council are ever prnted-thougb the bills and
receipts for the whole number are duly FUR
nished, certified, and paid.


It's certainly within bounds to say that all
the work done and materials furnished 10 the
Common Council under the heads of Printing
and Stationery" for the years we have men
toned, could have been honestly and fully
done and furnished, and at very handsome
profit to the parties in interest, for less than
one-haD the amounts shown to have been paid
in the bills we have recited. 1t will be seen,
also, that these bills are increasing from year
70 year: and we make no doubt that unless
checked by legislative interference, they will
soon mount up, for the Boards of Supervisors
and Common Council together, to steady ONE
MILLION DOLLARS per annum, if they have not
already reached that sum. We ask the Legisla-
ture to give this matter their attention, and
shall be happy to furnish them with further in
formation from time to time
Year: 1866

madam


No Northern ladies ever made any such
indecent and wholly gratuitouS prohcr; and,
even if the lowest camp-folowers had done 1t,
we are confident that Ashby would have
responded in grammatical language. This Sian
derer Of loyal women is evidently drawing upon
his imagination, and the reservoir is an impure
one
Year: 1866

quest was Yesterday held by Coroner Collin the body
Of John Conroy 4 soldier who was found doating ot
.he Battery A verdict OF found crowned was rem
dered The body was taken to Governor Island for
burial.
Year: 1866

SAD ISDEED-On Tuesday morning last, i,
at the residence Of her husband, after an
illness of few hours, Mrs. James DAILY
departed this life. A noble wife, good
mother, and one of those most esteemed in
her circle of acquaintance. thus suddenly
taken, has thrown a gloom over the commu
nity in which she resided that will not soon
be dissipated. The husband has lost a wife
to whom he was entirely devoted, FIVE little
children have lost an affectionate mother, no
more to be replaced on earth, and every one
acquainted with the deceased feels as if one
had departed more dear than any left. HIS
ways are inscrutible, and it is hard for human
understanding to comprehend why one SO
loved, and so useful in this sphere should be
so suddenly removed to another yet the sad
reality is before US, and we humbly submit


The husband, and FIVE little ones now
have the warmest sympathies of
all, and tbs to be hoped that time will soften
the blow, and make hfe's burthens easy to
bear, even without the presence of the wife
and mother so dearly loved, and now SO much
missed.
Year: 1866

TAKEN TO STATE PRIsoN.-William Man.
nathan. convicted in Sonoma county of rape
upon his step daughter, a girl of nine years
of age, was on the 18th inst, taken to San
Quentin and delivered to The State Prison
authorities to serve out sentence of twenty
years imprisonment. 10 pronouncing SEN
tence, Judge Langdon said:


The father Of this child was dead you
married her mother, and voluntarily assum
ed the relation of father and protector
You then conceived and practiced the graf
ihcations of your brutal appetites upon her
VIXEN she was only nine years of age; soon
after that time the mother died, leaving her
an orphan; and instead of your leading her
safely and hOnorably to womanhood, you
took advantage Of her orphanage to ruthless
ly destroy her. We might ask, can sin be
more sinful than we have known it to be p
Can darkness be darker than we have ex
perienced? Can hell be more hellish than
we have conceived Of? Can crimes be more
criminal than yours? The one is as possi-
BILE as the other. The putting upon you the
weight Of the indignation OF the law for
your offence cannot heal the injury you
nave uone tndJ Cu'iu sHc h'"re w iCie -uu'
reqnited the law can only relieve her and
society of your communicating presence; nor
can your imprisonment during the short
space of life allnt'ed you. atone for this crime ;
but there is eternity before yon. and through
its long and trying range you must pass,
carrying with you the memory Of the ruin
you have wroug ght The magnitude of the
offence is unmeasured by words; language
would fail to describe either the depth Of
infamy which characterizes its performance
on your part, or the extent of modification,
pain and sorrow which it inflicts upon the
unhappy victim and her friends. In COM
parison, you would have conferred a favor
upon the friends of that child had you de-
lib9rately murdered her. They might have
shed tears over her grave, and mourned her
loss but their tears would have been un
mixed with dishonor and shame. Your con-
duct toward her was darker. more cruel and
damnable than if you had murdered her. 1t
is true she lives; but she lives only to re-
member you as her destroyer. Her friends
may see her, but the sight of her only asso
ciates with it the memory Of your Infamous
crime, and the deepest sorrow that she was
the victim.