smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1866

NV name is Bone Necklace. am
head chief of the Lower Yanktonnais
tribe. Ny tongue is not forked ! speak
the truth and offer you clean hands.
This country belongs to me, and this
great river (Missouri) is my own. These
medals here upon my neck were gwen
by the Great Fathers white men many
long summers ago.


long ago sent my words to our Great
Father, but have received no answer. !
fear they were lost Every year the
Great Fathers white children come out
to us with good words for my people; but
that is all. Why don't our Great Father
fulfill his promises with his red children =?
7 see white men touch the Bible when
they tell the truth, | have done so too
and have come here TO talk plainly.


The Great Spirit made mnltitudes ot
people and placed them over the world
where he wanted them He placed the
red men here, and gave them these rivers
and forests, aud rolling plains, with the
elk and buffalo for their living. But
now nv Great Father is sending his
white children all over our country and
is driving the wild game from my chill
drens mouths. Where shall we goY
What shall we do? On the east of us,
the Santees long ago sold their lands to
the whites, and because the Great Father
was slow 20 bring them food to live on in
the place of game, they rebelled and
murdered white women and children,
and now they are scattered all over our
country, fleeing from the white soldiers


NV fair land is all turned over as by a
wbirlwind. No more can our warriors
plant and fish in safety by the wooded
brookside, nor my young men hunt the
buffalo on the plains. When look to
the north and see the smoke Of the white
mans trains rise from the plains, and
find a great wagon road over my hunting
grounds, it makes my heart sad, and |
think my Great Father has forgotten his
red children.


look out on the face of my native
rivers and plains, and love them well
| also love the whites, and do not want
to fight them; but cannot hold my
young men from goiug to war when they
see the game driven from their country.
When the whites come out among us,
they always move in large armies but
am not afraid to go among them and
shake hands. We do not want the whites
to travel through our lands on great high
ways, but they may navigate the river.
1t would take more than a boat load OF
goods every year to pay my people for
the loss of game, in feeding and clothing
their children. What we want our Great
Father to do for us, is to send us guns,
powder and ball, and let MS live unmo-
Tested on our own plains and hunting
grounds.


never planted in my life, but think
can learn, if my Great Father will but
help me; but my people would rather
pursue the hunting game. This is our
way of living planting is yours. Our
furs will buy our -four and sugar, and
our gnns and powder will kill our meat,
while the skins will cover our nakedness,
and then we will be friendly and happy.
| don't say that you ever stole anything
from us, but the Yanktons sold a portion
of my lands to you.


| hope that these words may reach
the ears of my Great Father, that he
may know what his red children want.
Year: 1866

We knew that the Convention that met
in this city on Thursday would afford the
Radical press subject Of comment.
We have the first from the St. Louis
Democrat, of yesterday, in the following
style:


The rebel Johnson Convention which
assembled at Memphis, elected delegates
to the Philadelphia Convention.
Speeches were made by several person.,
very bitter in their tone against Congress
and Northerners. One General insisted
that jeff. Davis was the greatest states
man of the age that the South had lost
more than the whole war debt of the
North, and asked whether the South
ought to be compelled to share this bur
den. A Judge wanted the Radical mer-
chants pointed ont, so that the country
people might starve them out of the city.
Another advised the delegates TO the
Wigwam to go as if equal in all respects
to any.
Year: 1866

The New York World says


The Radical culminstors Of human
nature are letting themselves down grad
ually. Secretary Stanton was the per
son who originally charged Jefferson
Davis with completely in the assassina-
tion of President Lincoln. He was
shrewd enough to avoid the trouble
of suborning evidence to make
out a case, and to rid himself of its
o1ium, By passing over the whole busi-
ness to the House of Representatives,
which set its Judiciary Committee to
hunting up mares nests, instead OF Sc
curing to Mr. Davis the prompt trial BY
a Jury Of his peers which is his night
we're be thrice guilty of that infamy.


The Committee, finding no evidence
Year: 1866

Legally speaking, emancipation is COM
pfetei The abolition of slavery has
been placed beyond peradvehtere by en-
acting it as part of the national constitul
ton, andshe Slave now bFeathes in the
United States. But our duty to the freed
men does not stop, with emancipating
them. Unless we follow them, protect
them, and allow them civil rights, their
freedom is but nominal. The Southern
mind was and is totally and utterly at
war with the ideas on which emancipation
was declared, and hence the status of the
freedman must be defined, established and
indefeasibly maintained by the National
brain and arm. In our Judgment it Is far
more sensible to go back, repeal tho con-
stitutional amendment and re-establish
chattel bondage, re-enacting fugitive slave
laws and pledging army and navy to their
enforcement at all hazards, than now to
leave the freedmen to the disposition OF
Southern Legislatufes. The actual treat
ment he is daily receiving, the almost uni
versal denial of his willingness or capacity
for anything but compelled labor, and
the laws made and executed, rendering
him in MANY instances nothing but the
States chattel-serf instead of the individ-
uals, are most sad and weighty proof of
this. In emancipation We undertook a
stupendous work now on our hands, and it is
not to be, after its incipient stage, remitted
to those whose inborn character makes it
impossible for them to carry forward the
vast task if they would, and unwilling to
do it if they could. The ex-slave is the
nations ward, to whom the ex-fnasters are
natural enemies, and It were infinitely
better that the nation had never created
this wardship than now to. deliver him to
the tender mercies of people who leok
upon him as SO much property of which
they have been robbed.
Year: 1866

We are seriously concerned, for fear
that our neighbor of the LEADER will ex-
plode torpedo under the Postmasterial
department of the Herald which may
cause immense CONSERVATION in the dress
circle and amazement in the galleries
An unprejudiced observer will note that
there are some signs of trepidation about
the Herald. The Postmaster has been on
weary pilgrimage to Washington, and
the LEADER, no doubt, only awaits his re-
turn to harpoon the gentleman, who it de
clares has attempted to "abridge the free
dom of the press" IF the LEADER is
right in this particular, we call upon it, in
the name of the Plain Dealer, always in
favor of freedom of speech and of the
press, to vindicate the rights of the third
estate.-PLaiH Dealer.


Whether the Plain Dealer is "seriously
concefned for "the freedom of tie
press,p or is merely exercising its garru-
ious propensities, matters not. We have
only to state that nothing more serious
! awaits the Postmaster of the Herald, on
his return from his weary pilgrimage to
Washington than an official investiga-
ton into his conduct. Wesome days since
published an official Communication from
the Postofice Department, announcing
the fact that Postmaster Benedict had
beer, notified Of the charges against him
and required to furnish an explanation,
Year: 1866

Hon, Roscoe seonklin is preparing the
Constitutional Amendment for reference to
the Joint Committee on Reconstruction.
There is little doubt that the first report from
the Reconstruction Committee will embody
q proposition TO amend the Constitution.
Year: 1866

New YORK, March "A large and en-
working men was held last evening in
this city at which it was unanimously
determined to work in favor and support
by all means the eight hour movement
to be inaugurated on Monday next by
the house painters,


The sixth annual commencement of
the New York Homeopathic Medical
College took place last evening i'm this
city. The degree of Doctor of Medicine
was conferred on forty students Of the
graduating class


The following is published: The only
grounds for the astounding announce
ment of the New York Herald of the re
opening OF the slave trade by the Freed
mans Bureau, are the operations of the
employment officer in securing places on
written contract anywhere in the Uni
ted States for the unemployed destitute
freed people in this city. Sixty three
were sent to Mississippi last week, after
seeing their employer and making fair
agreement for good wages Some have
been sent to many of the Northern States
in the same manner. A fee of one dol
lar and fifty cents for every man and lif-
ty cents for females is charged to pay the
current expenses, such as printing
blanks, &c. The salaries of the agents
in no way depends upon the fees


Signed q. o. Howard,


Brevet Brig Gen. and Asst Com Dir


General Grant has written a letter TO
General Butterfeld, thanking through
him the gentleman who contributed to
him the purse of >IOO 900
Year: 1866

Amendment battle; in this engagement
several of the conservatives fell, and
when the Registration Bill came up they
were able to rally but six men. He said
he was now going home, and would open
out recruiting Office in every county in
the State, and by next October he hoped
to be able to report ten thousand ma
jority for West Virginia.


The Captain took his seat amid deaf,
ening applause, the band played the
Star Spangled Banner" and the meet
ing adjourned.
Year: 1866

ism is of the highest order, and they will work
together, as they have done, for the good OF
the country. Let General Grant stand aloof
from political factions, cliques and conven-
iions-for he does not need any such extra
neous and doubtful support-and the people
will make him President by such spontaneous
action and unanimous support as no candidate
has received since the time of Washington.
Year: 1866

DURING the late war in Germany the
following telegram was received in Eng
land: "The greatest portion of the
Prussian army has been taken" The
excitement was intense in the stock
market for several hours, and it was
only allayed by the publication of the
ending of the dispatch, which had been
Delayed by the breaking of the wires ::
"with the diarrhea v'
Year: 1866

A GOOD DISTINCTION "A merchant
being asked to define the meaning Of
experimental and natural philosophy,
said be considered the first to be asking
man to discount bill at long date
and the second his refusing to do it.
Year: 1866

SMART.-A gentleman met a half
witted lad on the road, and placing in
one of his hands dime and cent
asked him which of the two he would
choose. The lad replied that he would
not be greedy; he'd take the smallest.
Year: 1866

1t is almost useless to SOW oats in this
country unless they are sown early-and
the earlier the better. The best oats We
ever saw were sown Ia February. Farm
ers should have their ground plowed and
prepared for seeding oats the first good
weather after the middle Of February.-S
They may not have time to plough the
ground then, and also put in the seed
but might have time to SOW the seed and
harrow it in. IF the ground is not yet
ploSed and the open weather continues,
by all means keep the teams going, not
only for oats, but for corn aud other crops.
Fall and winter blowing are highly ben
efcial. Turning up FRESH ground to the
frost is almost equal to giving a coat
ing of manure. The teams are now
fresh and feeling we'll. Give them more
work now and less in the spring. Every
day improved now is one gained for
spring-Rmal World.
Year: 1866

"If you try to please, said the Wealth
ercoek to the Wind, "turn me to the
South; for there is such cry out against
the cold, that I'm afraid they'll pull me
down if / stop much longer in this North
quarter"


So the Wind few from the South, and
the Sun was the master of the day and
the rain fell abundantly.


"Oh please turn me from the South, y
said the Weathercock to the Wind again.
"The potatoes will be spoilt, and the
corn wants dry weather, and while / am
here rain it will, and what with the heat
and the wet the farmers are just mad
against me"


So the Wind shifted into the West, and
there came soft dying breezes, day after
I day.


a0hI dear, dear y said the Weather
cock, "there's pretty to do !! such evil
looks as get from eyes all around me
the first thing every morning the grass
is getting parched up, and there is nc
water for the stock, and what is to done?
As to the gardeners they say there won
be pea to be seen, and the vegetables
will wither away. Do turn me some
where else."


"What do they say to you now?' he
asked.


aWhat |" cried the eathercock, 'swhy,
everybody has caught cod, and most
everything is blighted-that's what they
say; and there isn't misfortune that hap
pens, but somehow or other they lay it
on the East Wind"


"Well," said the Wind, "let chem find
fault, it is impossible for you and me to
please everybody, SO in future I shall
blow where I like, and you go where you
Hike, without asking any questions. ]
| don't know but that we shall satisfy more
than we can do now by all our considera-
ton
Year: 1866

A MERITED REBuKE.-The N. Y. Tri-
bune finds it necessary now and then to
hit its brother Republicans and fellow
laborers a rap. For instance eve
have had terrible civil war, but we have
fought it out; and there is the end of it.
To persist in hating each other because
of the by-gone quarrel is not the way of
brave men but of towards"
Year: 1866

FOUR BUslNESS WILL INCREASE


If YOU Advertise in your County tsq&
-FOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


II YOU Advertise in your County Pspes
YOrR RUSIUESS WILL INCREASE


If YOU Advertise in your County PspsG
EOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If you Advertise in your County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE
. If you Advertise in your County Pspes
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


r you Advertiao u your County Paoog
Year: 1866

IL will be remembered by our readers that at the time the Legislative Assembly passed its memorial against General Carleton, tue latter demanded court of inquiry tO inyes- tigate the charges which were set forth against him in that precious document We published the memorial and the Generals letter to the Adjutant General of the United Stafes army. demanding the court We then expressed the desire that the court would be granted, in order that the whole matter might be cleared up, and a complete expo sure made of the imposition that the Iegisla- rure was attempting to practice, in the name of the people, upon the authorities in Wnsh- lngtnn- Now we regret fla say that the court was not granted, but we are at the same time gratified in being able Co state that the fol- lowing are the reasons assigned by General Grant for not allowing it:
Year: 1866

PLACER GoLD.--We have seen some Of the gold taken out by the Excelsior Company, Of which Hon. Henry A. Bigelow Is the Superintendent Under the competent direction of Mir. Bigclow large amount Of work on lower Lynx Greek, was performed by this company, and we are glad to know that II Is likely to meet an adequate retnrn The gold ofihis land ls certainly good, and that from Lynx Crock especially 90.
Year: 1866

THERE Is rumor that Capt Joseph Futile has been mustered out Of the volunteer service, and will leave this district, of which he has been the chief quEirtermaster. Captain Futile has made hosts of friends here, only by his efficiency officer, but by his fine social qualities and his family ls one of the most interesting in our com munity. IL is the common hope that he is to rc- main in the service, or, in any event that be and his family will continue to reside in Prescott.
Year: 1866

From the Mobile Advertiser.l


As we have already had occasion to re-
mark, it has become absolutely dangerous
for children in some Of the Northwestern
States to have mothers, and although they
may find them a necessary evil at the start,
they ought to dispense with them as soon as
possible. The mother Of baby about a
year old, at Des Moines, Iowa, had been
sick for some weeks, and il is thought be-
came insane. About week ago, her hus.
band left her for few moments, and on his
return found that she had cut the baby's
throat with razor, and was trying 10 cut
her own throat with a carving knife Affairs
of this kind are becoming frightfally fire.
quent in the Northwest, and a certain class
Of people are TO blame for it. The poor
women who thus butcher their innocent
children are more TO be pitied than anything
else, although the mental arrangement which
leads TO the butehery is in many instances
brought on by their own folly. When the
fathers in that country determine to tar aud
feather every fanatical lecturer they catch
in the act Of harranguing silly people on the
subjects Of spiritualism, free-loveism, and
Puriianical "damphoolism" generally, the
throats of their children will be safe.
Year: 1866

ENTIRELY ON COMMISSION.


Planters may rely upon our best efforts to obtain
the HIGHEST MARKET RATES for
their Produce And should our friends favor us
with orders for Groceries, they may rest assured
of having goods purchased at the LOWEST
MARKET PRICE.


Having one of the largest warehouses in the
city, our facilities for the STORAGE OF
COTTON AND TOBACCO is unsurpassed by
any house in the South. We have and will keep
on hand large supply of BAGGING AND
ROPE, and several kinds of IRON TIES
which we offer on most reasonable terms.


We will make the matter of Receiving
and Forwarding Goods a Specially
in our business, and all Goods consigned to
us for Re Shipment will be sent. upon arrival
at the Wharf or Depot, promptly forward at the
least expense to the owner.


Liberal Advances made on Con-
sIgnmenfs. Toet2-3m
Year: 1866

IABLRAIN NIVAss.-Tbe ladies OF the
Church OF the Incarnation (EpiscopAD are
now holding a faIr at Odd Fellows Hall. to
continue dnring the week, to aid in finishing
this new church edlfice in the northern parr OF
our city. The leading feature OF this tair is
the series Of beautiful tableaux viyants which
are gotten up with true artistic TASTE and at
considerable expense. The object of The fair
n praise worthy, and goods and refresh mpnts
of all kinds are sold by the ladies at reason
able prices.
Year: 1866

The plaintiff complains that the night of the 18th
Of July last be liHg guest OF the y; Nicholns Hotel Of
which the defendant Is proprietor robbed OF gold watch
and chain valued AZ $40 The plaintiff testified that he
Ia tho house and that the night In question before
IN his that he locked and boted his door and that
arising m the morning he found the door still locked and boed
but the watch and chain gone the supposton being that
the thief mst have entered the through the isnght
the door.


The defendant contends that the plaintiff permanent
boardT In the hotel and that their relative positions were TINT
II boarding keeper and bner and not that OF hotel
keeper guest and that therefore he he defendan
only be held liable boarding house keeper The defendant
also up evidence public notice that money and ewey
be deposited in the safe the popetors will not hold
themselves ponsbe Judge earne took occasion TO say
point had been decided ads esey 10 hotel keepers
several times The Court after hearing the evidence and argn
nncni reserved It's decision.


Andrew j. smith for plaintiff, Charles spencer or dc
frudant.
Year: 1866

Some very curious and difficult questions have
arisen under the Internal revenue laws of the
United States. Among these is the question
whether the imposition of tax on particular
pursuit or avocation forbidden by the law of one
or more of the States, operates Federal license
of such pursuit avocatior, in spite of State pro-
hibition. Many of the States for instance, pro-
hibit the sale of lottery tickets; and some of them
prohibit the traffic in. liquor. The question has
arisen whether the Federal lax operates as d legal
ization in such cases. Of the sale of lottery tick
cts and the traffic in liquor, and whether, in case
it be decided that it does not so operate, the
United States tax is cole etable.


These points have recently come before the
United States Supreme Court, in certain liquor
cases carried up from Massachusetts,. The court
declares that United States tax does not operate
as license authorizing the commencement or
continuation of any trade, business, or occupa-
ton therein mentioned in States and Territories
where the laws prohibit such calling" This sub
stantally affrms the previous ruling of the de-
partment. But it by no means follows that the
United States officers cannot collect the Federal
tax on those prohibited callings or occupations, if
people persist in embarking in them in defiance of
| the State law. If they break the law of the
State that does not relieve them from the obliga-
ton to pay taxes to the United States. In other
words they cannot be permitted to take advantage
of their own wrong. In fact, the exemption of
such persons from taxation, on the ground that
their calling is pursued in violation of State law,
would be unjust to the rest of the community and
an encouragement to Iawlessness and fraud. This
seems to be the general scope of the opinion and
decision of the United States Supreme Court.
Year: 1866

GARD.


The PrOprietors, in presenting To the public the
asO,u llpaI able Dittuis, them Jaas but
for of gratitude to the generous donor of the
recipe and in response to the opportunities of the
hosts OF Southern friends who have experienced
their efficacy, they would have hesitated before
placing article OF such sterling merit on mar
ket Hooded with deleterious compounds ibelling the
name of Stomach Bitters. Our Senior, however,
having the solicitation of those friends expended
on the manufacture of the GREY JACKER BIT
TIERS the experience acquired in half life time
devoted to the preparation of Tonic Digestive Slim
ulants and discovered their immense superiority
over all other Stomach Bitters, we have unhesita-
tngly added these the list of articles already pre-
pared at our establishment and well known and
largely patronized by the community at large


BARNETT & LION take this seasonable oppor-
tuuity of thanking their numerous friends Cor the
immense increase in their business during the year
and inform them that although the manufacture of
the GREY JACKET BITTERS must necessarily
cause an additional tax their energies yet from
large additions in the improvements made and
making in tie manufacturing department of the
establishment their orders win be filed promptly
and they hope as satisfactorily as usual


BARNETT & LION


Jan 19d3m 81 and So GravIer st.
Year: 1866

THE greatly increased Democrtic vote
in New York, is due to skulks and ske-
daddlers who have, since the war, crawl
ed from their holes or returned from
there voluntary exile. Those towards
did not vote while the war was in pro-
gress, for fear they might be drafted
All such rascals are Democrats. They
vote early when sober, and vote often,
and vote late when drunk. We have no
doubt the number of that class of'poor
white trash in New York City can be
set down at ten thousand, and allowing
they each vote twice, that one element
of Democratic strength is very potent.
-HerQld