smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1866

some hne oficers--some gentIemanly. pa.
'riotic omcers-but they were in hard luck
ana took lower seats. And didn't get
promoted for being caught out at nights
roaming over the country, poacbinS on
some negro or white mans domain in bebolf
OF my Government And wasn't sorrv
when we stole the South poor and were
Obliged to close the war The occupation
OF othello was gone. 1 returned home.
People did not make speeches and welcome
me back as they did when left. I strut.
TED around with the blue tailed plumaee
TIL 1T looked slumpy, and people began to
take In clothes from the lines in nv neigh
borhood when it became known that was
political General, whose best hold was
stealing and endorsing aboitionism. No
one cares for me now. A hunting dog is
more petted now. A buck negro is of more
account in the eyes of Congress and the
people. People whisper strange things
about that Stonewall jackson song Of
" Whose pin here 7" etc.


l am not half so popular as was when
In the army. In fact, L believe 1 am about
played out Why can't we have another
war! Lots of fellows have come cut of
State prisons since the war ended: and
there Is plenty material for more of these
political army officers, who could draw beer
better than blood. Never mind; arm put
the money | stole in Government bonds
there is no taxes to pay on them. I'll sit
around and draw my interest on them live
in idleness, and be supported by the DOOR
fools who have bonds, but who pay taxes
while | do not, and who pay me for being
a thief aud living in idleness. You see
am one OF the supporters of this Govern
ment: L can put my money in bonds
somebody pays the taxes of this country.
and pays me interest, but it is not us bond.
holders. On, dear! Suppose the people
shoui1 rePudiate these bonds, as they sure
ly will, if they are not taxed-what will
become Of me? I'll have to work the
salae as other men, or go to the poor house
with liberated negroes, for tax paying white
men to support.
Year: 1866

Higher. 1t Is n word of noble meaning
the inspiration of all great deeds-the
sympathetic chain that leads, link by link
the impassiQped soul to its zenith Of plorv
and still holds Its mysterious object stand
ing and glittering among the stars


Higher lisps the infant that clasps its
mothers knees, aud makes its feeble essay
to rise from the foor-it is the first inspi.
ration Of ohildhood-to burst the narrow
confines of the cradle, in which the sweet
est moments are passed forever.


Higher laughs the proud school boy at
his swing, or as he climbs the tallest tree
OF the forest, that he may look down upon
his less adventurous companions with n
flush Of cxultation, and abroad over the
fields, the meadows, and his native village.
lie never saw SO extended prospect be.
fore.


Higher earnestly breathes the student
of philosophy and nature; he has host of
rivals but he must eclipse them all. The
midnight oil burns dim, but he finds light
and knowledge in the lamps of heaven, and
his soul Is never weary when the last of
them Is hid behind the curtains of morning.


And higher. his voice thunders forth,
when the dignity of manhood has invested
his form, and the multitude is listening
with delight to his oraces, burning with
eloquence, and ringing like true steel in
the cause OF freedom and the right. And
when time has changed his locks to silver,
and world wide is his renown; when the
maiden gathering flowers by the roadside,
and the boy in the field, bow in reverence
as he passes, and peasants look to him with
honor, can he breathe forth from his heart
the fond wish of the past?


Higher yet He has reached the apex
OF earthly honor, yet his spirit burns as
warm as in youth, though with steadier
and paler light, and it would even borrow
wings and sore up to high heaven, leaving
It's tenement to moulder among the laureis
he he has wound around it, for the never
ending glory TO be reached only in the
presence Of the Most High
Year: 1866

"Ihere is beauty enough on earth to
make homo for angels"


There Is strange proclivity in man to
misapply or neglect altogether what was in.
tended by the Creator OF man for hrs CON-
fort and profit Those whom he has crown.
ed with uncommon gifts of mind are prone
to abuse the trust by perverting into base
uses, or to dim its lustre by Indifference or
excesses. Those whom He has adorned
with peculiar charms OF person are too apt
to employ those charms for unholy purpo
ses. Those whom He has gifted with the
hallcwed Influences Of poetry, who have
the power to entrance their followers with
single sweep Of the Tyre, too often tune
the bachanal note, and write for the ball of
revelry, rather than in praise of the King.
Witness the case of Isabella, of Spain, OF
Byron, and tell US if these things are not
so.


"How use doth breed q habit in a mani"
The Queen who staggers under a load of
jewels soon learns to despise the brilliant
things, and count them as dross. The flo.
rists soon casts off the spell which his gor-
geous array OF blossoms first exerted, and
regards them as mere matter of merchan
disc. The naturalist soon loses his admi-
ration of the charms and wonders of the
natural universe. And Man, walking in
the light OF Gods natural smile, surround
ed by the loveliness that God has prepared,
and partaking Of the bounties that God has
dispersed, soon becomes Indifferent to them
all


Possession is want to become neglect
because We may enjoy the enchanting
beauties OF nature, without oney, without
molestation, it comes that they pail upon
us and renders US restless and dissatisfied
Everything in nature is so much matter
OF course that We sigh for something novel,
something superior, something more gorge
Gus and absorbing. And yet, neglect as
we will, "There is beauty enough to max
home for angels"


We have thought that if men would but
analyse and seek to appreciate the attrac.
tions OF earth thev would have quite enough
to occupy their attention, without search
ing after novelty.


The morning, the noon and the night ::
the spring, the summer, the autumn and
the winter; the buds and the blossoms {:
the resurrection Of the grass and the foil.
age, the career OF their decay, the shooting
OF the blade and the ripening Of the ear !;
the babbling brook and the rushing of the
river ; the hail, the rain, the vapor, the
rainbow; all these are the type and the
substance OF beauty and the pledge of in
struction. Tell us OF these, ye ingrates,
before ye clamor for change.


Because We will not remove the scales
from our eyes, shall we therefore declare
that We cannot see? Because we do not,
or cannot appreciate the beauty of earth.
shall We say that the earth has no beauty
Let this truth shame US into new expert.
ments, that although we have not found it,
yet. "Ihere is beauty enough on earth to
make home for angels"
Year: 1866

The past is disclosed the future con.
cealed in doubt. And yet human nature
is headless of the past and fearful of the
future, regarding not the science and expe.
Iionce that past ages have unravelled.
Year: 1866

FIDELITY.-Never forsake q friend.
When enemies gather around-when sick
ness falls on the heart-when the world is
dark and cheerless-is the time to try true
friendship. They who turn from The scene
of distress betray their hypocrisy, and
prove hat interest only moves them. If
you have friend who loves you and stud.
les your interest and happiness-be sure to
sustain him in adversely. Let him feel
that his former kindness is appreciated,
and that his love was not thrown away.
Real fidelity may be rare, but it exists in
the heart Who has not seen and felt its
power! They only deny Its worth and
power who have never loved friend or
labored to make friend happy.
Year: 1866

1t is often extremely difficult in the
mixed things of this world to act truly and
kindly too, but therein lice one Of the great
trials OF man that his sincerity should
have kindness in it, and his kindness truth.
Year: 1866

EVER OF THEE.-A sad story is con-
nected with the name Of the writer of the
beautiful song Ever of Thee" which has
been sung and admired by SO many in this
country and in Europe.


Foley Hall was gentleman by birth
and education. Wealthy in his own right.
with large expectations, he led a needless
life, not choosing his associates, but allow.
ing himself to be drawn into the society
OF the vicious His property soon disap-
peared, and he was left without resources
sufficient to buy his daily bread. His
musical talents had been highly cultivated.
but as he never needed them, he scarcely
knew to what degree they could be made
available. In his distress, however. he
wrote his charming song, I" Ever of Thee, {"
A London publisher gave him one hundred
dollars for it, but that amount, with such
spendthrift, would not last long He
wrote other songs, but the money not com.
ing as fast as he wished, in weak moment
he forged the name of his publisher, and
although every effort was made, even by
the publisher, to save him, it was all no
use, and poor Foley Hall went to Newgate
and died broken-hearted before his trial
came on.
Year: 1866

The New Orleans Times of the 18th
says of the health of that city


We have thus far passed the half of our
summer season in this city, without the
slightest manifestation of any epidem-
ical disease and with remarkable ex-
emption from complaints which are quite
prevalent in other localities The me
neurological or atmospheric character
istics of the season have been remarkably
similar to those of the summer of the
memorable epidemic Of 1868, when over
10000 people perished, and the disease,
commencing about the first Of May,
attained its climax about the middle of
July There was then the same late
summer, cool winds, early high water
and frequent showers, which have marked
the spring and summer of the present
year Still we have not heard of even
an imaginary case of yellow fever, and
there are no grounds to apprehend the
presence or occurrence of a single case
of that disease And yet the upaocli-
mated population was never greater, nor
can we say that local causes, to which
many ascribe the origin and encourage
ment of this epidemic, have not existed
to a very large extent
Year: 1866

The needle gun" in use in Prussia,
is a formidable weapon-described by
the London Times as a converted En-
field on the Snyder system, with i'm
proved ammunition devised by the Wool


wich Laboratory This rifle possesses
the advantage Of being. simple, safe,
cheap, non-capping, and little liable 70
get out of order. Moreover it does not
require such a reduction of the stock as
to destroy the efficiency of weapon
which, for military purposes, is required
to act as a pike as well as fre-arm. A
portion of the upper side of the breach
end OF the barrel is cnt out for the ad-
mission Of the cartridge. This vacant
place is closed after loading, by lump
of steel, the "breech-stopper or "breech-
piece" which hinges upon one side Of
the barrel, and forms false breech,
against which the back end of the cart
ridge rests the barrel is, in fact, short
ened 10 this extent A plunger or piston
transmits the blow Of the hammer
through the cap Of the cartridge, which
Year: 1866

O(hs PrAbaion of Ga@piag

 SEC | There shall be asscssed and collected in the manner prescribed by law in the case of other licensos, a license tax of twenty-five dollars per month, to be collected monthly on each gaming table or apparatus of any kind whate.e., such as farn, monte, pass faro. pass monte, rundeau, roulette, twenty -one. dice. red and black, or rouge et noir, lansque- nctte. or any other banking game of what ever name, which license shall be issued in the manner provided by law in the case of other licenses.

 SEc 2. That if any proprietor, superintend- cnt, clerk, agent, or servant of any house or place where spirtuous or malt liquOrs are sold, shall permit any unlicensed games to be played either with cards, dice, or with any device or substitute for the same, he shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on con viction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty nor more than thrcc hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the county ja;l until the same Is paid Pr0rided, such im- prisonment shall not exceed ninety days.

 SEC. ]. If any unlicensed person shall keep gambling table or apparatus of any kind whatever, such as faru, monte, Tsss fart, is=ss monte, twenty-one, or any other banking game or device, or substitute for the same, by whatever name known, on conviction thereof he shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty y-five nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars, with costs of prosecution.

 SEC 1. That any person betting or playing at any such unlicensed table, or on any of the unlicensed games mentioned in the preceding section, upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, and under the provisions of the preceding section of this chapter if shall be sufficient proof that the accused did commit one or more of the acts therein mentioned, without being necessary to prove that money or anything of value was lost or won by any person.

 SEc. 5 If any person shall play with any minor under the age of twenty-one years at any of the games mentioned in the preceding sections of this chapter, or permit such minor to play upon or with any gaming implements he may have in his possession or under his control, he shall be deemed guilty of a misde- mcanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months and if any per son by any such gaming or device shall win and receive from any such minor any money or anything of value, the Attorney~General on heinz informed thereof shall immediately prosecute such person in the name of the Territory for the amount of such money, or the value of such thing, with all costs of suit, and the execution issued upon any such judgment shall authorize the imprisonment of the defendant for the period of ninety days in the county jail in case such judgment be not paid.
Year: 1866

By request, we copy from the Howell Code mon but erroneous impression that amend ments were made 10 this law by the late Legislature. Several amendments were pro posed, but none were adopted. It would seem that the Act has not been thoroughly enforced in the past. It should be hereafter, and, if so, will go far to produce the revenue needed to meet the county expenses:
Year: 1866

SEC. G. IT any public officer shall be con yicted under the provisions of the second or fourth sections of this chapter in addition Co the penalty by said sections imposed, the court shall declare his office vacant, and the same shall be immediately filled agreeably Co the provisions of law.

 SEc. z. All moneys collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be immediately paid to the Treasurer of the proper county.

 "It is with narrow -souled people" says Swift, "as with a narrow necked bottle the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it ont"
Year: 1866

croboscises may be suspected of sinis-
ter design to conceal their cartilage but
the candid snub-nose, which is always
turned up for the inspection of the world,
must at once remove suspicion. When
ever the reader has any doubt that an ap-
parsnty white man may really be a ne
gro in disguise, he has only to approach
the person and, with polite apology,
examine with his fingers the cartilage of
his nose. According to the appearance
of the cartilage he may then either bow,
and say, am satisfied, my dear sir,
you are not negro ;" or leave me,
vile impostor; with that cartilage do
YOU dare to pretend to be white


Such an examination was actually
made in Michigan before the Circuit
Court referred to. An unfortunate man
named Dean, being entirely Ignorant
that he was negro, attempted 10 vote
at a local election, and was arrested for
violation of the laws. He brought nu-
merous witnesses who testified that they
had known him and his family for many
wears. and to the best of their knoWl-
edge there was not a drop of negro blood
in his BODY. Rut this availed him not.
An uncertain DR.. Pitcher examined his
nose before the court and from the con-
formation of his cartilage alone he was
pronounced to be but tifteen-sixteenths
of a white man, the remaining sixteenth
being pure African. The defendant ap-
! pealed to the Supreme Court, and that
! Intelligent body sustained the nose, and
| the man. we believe, was punished for
voting contrary to law. Chief-Justice
Martin. who dissented from the decis-
ion. has furnished an opinion which
will shock the community. He contends
that a preponderance of white blood
constitutes the man white, and actually
scorns the idea that by any authority OF
law, or principal of reason, one-sixteenth
or one thirty-second of African blood
can exclude a white man from citizen
ship.


This wild and frantic argument will
only excite derisiOn. 1t carefully lS
nores the existence of the nasal carti
lage, though the Judge afterward ad
mits everything, by his ironical sug
gestion that nose-pullers should be ap
pointed bv the Government to attenc
the polls, and snub all noses which can
not prove clean record. In the mean


while a general feeling of uneasines:
must pervade the community. Those
who have recklessly failed to get Ger
tificate in favor of theirs cartilage ma.
at any moment meet the fate of william


Dean, The whitest of white men ma,


be changed into negro, metaphorically


in the twinkling of an eye, but literally


in the pulling of a nose.-N. 7. Irtb"n'
Year: 1866

The Supreme Court of Michigan has
worried itself very much of late in at
tempting to discover what is a white
man A simple mind, unaccustomed to
subtle distinctions, would find no diff


Guilty in deciding, but would assert that
q white man is a man who is white
But such stupidity must arouse the dis
gust of every profound philosopher. 1t
has been clearly established by the laws
of every Southern State, and several
Northern States, including Michigan,
that man may be white man aud at
the same time be black man. Every
thing depends upon the cartilage OF the
nose. "A certain peculiarlty OF the
cartilage of the nose" says the scientific
testimony taken before the Circuit Court
of Wayue County, is an infallible indi-
cation of African blood" This is truly
An appalling fact, aud may lead to the
amputation of q large number OF noses
for if a man is only niger by reason
of that organ, let him cut 1t of, ana in'
stautly he rises in the scale OF races
| With his nose, no matter how handsome
| it is, he is born Inferior, destined u
| follow his nose upon downward career


Without his nose such man may dine


with the President. Let every man


then. look TO his cartilage; for we great
Iy fear that black men with pretende'


white noses are common The hal


proves nothing-so the same scientih


authority has established-for olsc


man NAV, even without 8 wig, have


white maris hair. Wool or hair, the mt


latto may nave either, but cannot haV


both. Besides, he may be bald, and the


what becomes of the test Under tne'
circumstances all persons with hooke
Year: 1866

We learn from the Hack Eye that General
Warren has returned from Washington, and
reports that he has been successful in secur-
ing the arrangement in behalf Of the frst
Iowa cavalry, for which he was appointed by
the General Assembly.
Year: 1866

II appears from an official statement that
the total number Of men who have received
respectively four hundred dollars, three
hundred dollars, or one hundred dollars
bounty during the war was one million
seven hundred and thirty thousand three
hundred and forty. Amounting in the ag-
gregate TO nearly three hundred and one
million md Eve hundred thousand dollars.
The total enlistments during the war were
two million four hundred and sixty one
thousand men, of whom upward Of seven
hundred and thirty-one thousand received
no bounty,
Year: 1866

U. there's power to make each hour


As sweet as heaven designed it,
Nor need We roam to bring it home


Though few there be that find o.
We seek too high for things close by.


And lose what nature. found us
For life hath here no charm so dear


As home and friends around us
weoft destroy the present joy


For future hopcs-and praise them
While flowers as sweet bloom at cur feet,
IL we'd but stoop to raise them
For things afar, still sweetest are,
When youths bright spell hath bouud us;
But soon we're taught that earth has naught
Like home and friends around us
The friends that speed in time Of need,
When hopes last reed is shaken!
Toshow US still, that come what will,
We are net quite forsaken-
Though all were night If but the light
From friendships altar crowned us
'Twould prove the bliss of earth was this;
Our home and friends around u.s.
Year: 1866

AFTER THE GUMLoTINE--FOur men were
executed by the guillotine at Brest. The
evening before the execution every medi-
cal man in Brest received an invitation
from Dr. Duval, director of the Board Of
Health, to meet him in the ampitheatre Of
the hospital at six on the following morn
ing. Precisely at that hour all the men of
science belonging to that city assembled
around four dissecting tables covered with
white cloths AS the clock struck, the four
culprits were ushered into eternity. At
6:20 the hospital van was seen to cross the
court of the Pupilles de la Marine at hand
gallop, and in few moments four liieless
trunks were thrown on the disSecting Ia
bles, precisely eight minutes after they had
ceased to exist. The sight was indeed
startling. The bodies appeared shrunk to
the size of that of a Chlld-the neck utter
ly disappeared, and in its place trIgAtiuI,
gaping wound. Next 70 the bodies, rolled
up in napkins, were four livid heads. The
work of dissection commenced instantly
The nerves quiyered, and the flesh was
still warm. The continued C0ntractabllIty
of the heart was proved, as we'll as in the
aorta. where sensibiIity was extreme. The
contractability was manifested on simply
touching the part and of course was still
more apparent when subject to electric cur
rents. The muscular contraction was 50
intense that even after twenty minutes one
of the doctors, on applying an electric cur
rent, made the four heads grimace in the
most horrible manner \ pencil was plac-
ed between the teeth of one it was bitten
through and smashed as though it had
been made Of glass.
Year: 1866

ECONOMY Is WEALTH.-Thero is nothing
which goes so far towards placing young
people beyond the reach of poverty,as prop
er economy in the management of house
hold affairs 1t matters not whether a man
furnishes little or much in his family, if
there is a continued leakage in the parlor,
it runs away, he knows not how, and that
demon Waste cries "More |" like the horse
leech's daughter, till he that provides has
no more to give. 1t is the husbands duty
to bring into the house and it is the duty
of the wife to see that none goes wrongful
ly out Of it.


A man gets wife to look after his af-
fairs, and to assist him in his journey
through life; to educate and prepare his
children for proper station in life. The
husbands interest should be the wife's care,
and her greatest ambition to carry her no
farther than his welfare and happiness, to-
gether with that Of her children. This
should be her sole aim, and the theatre of
her exploits in the bosom of her family
where she may do as much toward making
a fortune as he can in the counting room
or work shop. 1t is not the money earned
that makes the man wealthy, it is what he
saves from his earnings. Selfgratifcation
in dress or indulgence in appetite or get
ting handsomer furniture, or entertaining
more company than his purse will allow,
are equally pernicious.