smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

q One woe follows close upon another" Scarcely has
tho ink dried wberewth we recorded the death of
Meagher ere the sad comes to us OF the death OF
another national Irishman, p j. Harmon, of st. Louis.
We all know that death is inevitable, and, though


NAV weep until the fountains of hearts dry he
will not pause in his work nor return us the loved and
the lost


To people like ours, the death of such man as
P. J. Harmon is national calamity. Unlike many of
our countrymen when raised above the crowd the high
waves of fortune his heart ceased to beat for
suffering Ireland While there are so many that our
Door country could afford to lose seems like fatality to
have one of the few whom we afford to lose marked
out and stricken down But so it is Another patriot IS
gone One foe the less for England One true lost
to Ireland


But few weeks ago felt the pressure of his manly
hand-that pressure with heart in it-and now to
think that he is laid in foreign earth and all the hopes
of his life unrealized-his country unredeemed P. j.
Harmon was a man in the chest Of the term
A practical Catholic, answering Fenian, true
friend good son, a loving husband, fond father !
How few there upon whose tombs such record
be truthfuly traced A man with large heart and
generous purpose social honorable and kind he leaves
hundreds of friends behind him to his untmely
end and weep above the grave which contains heart
that, while it throbbed beat with the most generous
impulses


He was taken i'll late on the second instant, with
disease of the heart accompanied with cholera aorbs,
and died on the morning of the Sd, at three o'clock


Peace to his memory! May Heaven comfort his
afflicted wife and young and interesting family We
unite with the good of St. Louis and the organiza


on all the country in paying tribute of respect
to the deceased and trust the F. B. of that city will
clasp hands at the graves of P. j. Harmon and II. OC
Mccarthy and resolve to perseverc in the which
both labored so long and so earnestly to advance.
Year: 1867

THE Boston Post says: "Crime is ter
ribly prevalent in New England. Every
lev DAYS our staid cities and quiet towns
are startled by some deed Of blood, some
revelation Of beastliness or Of rascality
Oar Southern brethren, living in the midst
Of anarchy and turmoil. might with reason
sneer at the morality Of New England -
shown in its daily reported crime
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
peopIe TO he self-reliant, and shall do what we
may be able TO induce the establishment OF
manufactures Ia our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end we will pay special attention
10 the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing
and exert ourselves to encourage the diverslh-
cation Of Southern Industries snd the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

per cent. Great pains are being taken by some
writers to assure operators that legal rates being es
tabshed capital is sufe to be forthcoming and that
dealing for an advance is the sure road TO fortune.
Now the facts are that the recent advance in specu


atve shares has been the result of cheap money and
abundant crop prospects, used with great bold
ness and success by daring gamblers to initiate prices
but not to tempt operators into the field upon
whom they could unload and realize their profits. In
this they were defeated by actual statements as
CARDS the crops and theunusuay early drain for cur
rency to move the crops These facts, in connection
with the payment Of the compound notes and the
cancellation of plain legal tenders, gave
an activity to money which has defeated
their calculations and established losses where
large gains were looked for. The demands for cur
rency to move the gram, hay, and cotton crops for
the next 30 days must be supplied from the Atlantic
cities where alone money has been in any degree
cheap, and higher rates will be paid Parties want


ing capital to move the crops. are ready to pay extra
ordinary interest in the way of commissions an ex
ample which must be followed by borrowers upon
stocks. 1t is therefore, reasonable to assume that
full prices will be paid for money for some time and
that stocks, which for many months have had the
sole use of cheap money may suffer in market price,
now that the commercial operators of the country
make their demands upon financial institutions.


The following will show the Eastward movement
of Flour and Grain from Lake ports for the week
I,,,f, 1
Year: 1867

PRAcrIcAL SEoEssIoN.-An exchange, of the
radical persuasion, asks in what respect has the
radical majority in Congress accomplished the
purposes of the secessionists7 The answer is at
hand-in declaring that the States late u re-
bellion are out Of tie Union. 1t was for the
purpose Of getting out of the Union that South
Carolina and the leading slave holding States
took up arms, aud now, at the end of Eve years
Of war, fought for the purpose of preventing the
withdrawal of those States from the Union
sadies orators tell US that they are out, and can
only be readmitted after going through the pros
cess Of Territorial incubation. If this is not
practically carrying out the purposes of those
who originated the rebellion, we would like somo
radical friend to tell US what it is. What the
country fought for, as already said, was to pres
vent secession, and yet moth outstanding Union
arms were everywhere triumphant, we are told
BY radical leaders that practically the Union is
dissolved, ten States being denied all voice and
participation in the Government.
Year: 1867

A BRANCH MISr.-The Territorial Conventions
soon to assemble, should declare in favor of the
establishment Of Branch Mint at some point in
the Northern country. The project of the estab-
lishment of a Mint at the Dales having fell
through whole question is the again open, and
the agitation should be opened and kept up until
the measure is accomplished. The little State
Of Nevada, with not one fourth our mineral
wealth, is being provided with Mint, and we
know Of no reason why the Government should
deal less liberally with our people. With proper
sxertions, we believe that a Mint could be pro-
cured either for Walla Walla or Boise City, and
TO that end we are prepared to join hands with
all who favor the enterprise.
Year: 1867

JoHS T. JEFFRIEs, an early pioneer in the
settlement of Oregon, and for many years
prominent citizen of Waseo county, died at the
Dalles, on the oath ult Deceased was man of
generous impulses, and was greatly esteemed
by all who knew him. A man of splendid bus
mess capacity, be accumulated large sums of
money, which he freely distributed in aid of the
deserving and unfortunate. That be had his
faults is doubtless true but outside of all these
he was noble, generous hearted man, and it is
for these latter qualities be will long be held in
grateful remembrance ''u III
Year: 1867

The IMPEACHMENT FARcE.-L. c. Baker, form
erly Government detective in the employ of
the Secretary of War, who impudently placed
detectives" in the White House to report the
doings of that department of the Government,
for which he was reprimanded and finally must
cred out of the public service, was one of the
witnesses before the impeachment committee
TINS fellow, Baker, was formerly on the San
Francisco police force, from which be was dis.
charged for dishonest practices. lie subsequently
became chief of Stauton's detective force, in
wich capacity be had much to do with manu-
factoring the Conover testimony, all of which
has since proved to have been manufactured
out OF the whole cloth" If the character of
the President is to be sworn away by such
scoundrcls as Baker, the 'impeachment commit
tee" will have no difficulty in finding all the
testimony they require.
Year: 1867




RAsoALs IS 0FFIcE.-Nearly the whole Of the
last session of Congress was frittered away in
futile attempts 10 divest the President of the
power to remove public officials. Instead of
legislating for the country the great aim seemed
to be to keep Office holders in their snug places.
As showing the character of the men who are
so dear to the radical heart, we command to the
attention of the reader the following extract from
the N. Y. Post, leading radical journal:


"a special agent Of the Treasury was recently
sent to the northern frontier. The district he
visited includes twenty three subordinate Custom
House offices. The special agent, who was un,
known to these officers, succeeded in making an
arrangement with twenty two Of the officers for
smuggling goods into the United StAtes.p


"1@-7~~r--so~-~------@


BEAD the advertisements, and remember that
1t is only those who advertise that can afford to
Year: 1867

greater assurance of the inattentions OF the au-
gust Washington authorities lie stands as
the village Raiah-the Great Mogul-at the
heap OF the political wigwam Of the place
National politics take their local colorlng by
being passed through the rather opaque me-
dium OF his official commentary. lie Is sketch
ed, in the party's mind, as the one man who
keeps the keys, the seals and the secrets. 1t
a single man contemplates so reckless step as
party backslding, or detection, he OF all the
rest, is close behind him to make him quake In
whatever clothes he happens to have on


Thus does the postmaster practically become
the centre of town patronage and town conse-
quence. All look up to him, as they do to the
village flag staff, from which the stars and
stripes" are in the habit of waving. 1t any
grumble at this or that, it makes very little
different; they are obliged to keep on even
terms with him, and pocket all their dlssatlS-
factions in silence.


The women either like or dislike him, and
that very decidedly. The younger portion,
however, are careful to drop no syllable that
can reach the postmaster family, and so make
infinite trouble for themselves.


When they trip across into the office, they
expect joke from him, rather slyly, about
their distant correspondents, which shows with
what studious thrOughness he informs him
self, and what memory, passing all wonder,
he has. Indeed, it affords him intense, salts
faction to poke fun at the girls about the beauX,
and to tease them with intent to draw forth
still more of their little love secrets.
Year: 1867

THE EFFECTS oE TEA ON THE SKIN-If you
drop few drops of strong tea upon piece of
iron-a knife blade, for instance - the tannate
of iron is formed, which is black. If you mix
it with fresh human blood, it forms, with the
iron of the blood, the tlnnate of iron. Take
human skin and let it soak for time in strong
tea, and it will become leather. Now when we
remember that the liquids which enter the
stomach are rapidly absorbed by the veins and
absorbents of the stomach, and enter into the
circulation, and are thrown out of the system
by the skin, respiration and the kidneys, it is
probable that drink so common as tea, and so
abundantly used, will have some effect Can it
be possible that tannin, introduced with so
much warm liquor, producing perspiratiOn,
will have no effect upon the skin? Look at
the tea drinkers OF Russia, the Chinese, and
the old women of America who have so long
continued the habit of drinking strong teas,
are they not dark. skinned? When young they
were fair complexioned.
Year: 1867

Many person has seen pet canary, or ra-
ther bird, in state of perturbation, pluck
ing at himself continually, his feathers stand
ing all wrong. In vain is food changed, and in
vain is saucer of clean water kept IN his
cage. The cause of this wretchedness has not
been found out. If the owner of pet in such
difficulties will take down the cage and look up
to the root thereof, there will, most III nke ~ be
seen mass of stuff like red rust. That red
rust ;s notbing more or less than millions Of
PARASITES T infesting the bird, and for which wa
ser $ no remedy. By procuring lighted can
die and holding it under every particle of the
cage till all chance of anything being left alive
IS ip gone, the remedy is complete The pet will
soon brighten up after his house warming"
Year: 1867

ExPENsIvE.-G Getting married and dying arc
generally regarded as the most important events
in ones life, but they are getting to be too ex-
pensive to be indulged in except by the wealth
ier classes of the community. A wedding was
recently celebrated in Canada, in which seceiI
clergymen oHiciated and the established style
of dresses, feasts excursions, &C., is upon
corresponding scale. Nobody, moreover, can
be respectfully buried without stereotyped
number of carriages, a regular quantity OF
flowers, gloves and scarfs for pall-bearers, and
other costly provisions for the sad ceremonial
All these things are generally surrendered to
the discretion of the Sexton, who is instructed
to provide "what is usual on such occasions.
There can be no doubt that this habit, which
has come to be almost imperative, inHicts. q
great deal of needless suffering on those who
caunot afford it, and who yet feel compelled to
conform to custom. A little Independence on
the part of individuals is needed in these as IN
a good many other matters of even more I'M
portance While everybody allows Mrs. Grun,,
dy to regulate all their affairs, social, personal
and domestic, for them, there is very little room
for either economy or comforty And Mrs;
Grundy is one of the most aggressive and
grasping, as we'll as the most imperative OF all
our social tyrants. Suppose few people
should try the experiment for while, OF get
ting married and of being buried in a style to
suit themselves, instead OF Mrs Grundy and
the Sexton it might not be wholly truiteSs.-


~ Y Times
Year: 1867

Gov FentOn has felt constrained to veto the
bill authorizing an increase of passenger fare on
the Central Railroad His reasons are pre-
sented in their proper place herewith.


We regret the difference of opinion evinced
by this Veto. We hOld-in opposition to the
view lately presented by cOrrespOndent-that
the State and the Central have entered into a
contract, from which neither party is at liberty
to withdraw save by free consent of the other.
The various railroads now composing the
Central wished to consolidate; they could
not demand the necessary legislation "a q
right; and the State, through its Legislature,
very fairly said: " You may consolidate on con-
"dition that you carry all passengers at fare
mot exceeding two cents per mile" The
Railroads closed with this offer, and received
their part OF the consideration; and, whether
the bargain was a good or a bad one, they can
not now repudate it. And we judge that they
had the best end of it, and ought not even to
seek its amendment.


But the Legal Tender act, and the resulting
depreciation in the value of the Currency con-
sequent on its initiation, has changed vitally
the essential elements of the bargain The
two cents per mile now received are not the

act They will not buy nearly so much
fuel, nor iron, nor machinery, nor labor.
While, therefore we at first opposed the
prayer Of the Central for relief, hoping for
an early return to Specie Payments, we
have since-as the prospect of Resumption
faded in the dim distance-been inclined
to regard it more favOrably. 1t has seemed to
us a case in which rigid adherence TO the
letter of the compact would cOntravene rather
than accord with its spirit.


Yet the considerations involved are so COM
plex that true solution il by no means so
easy as it may seem to those who have looked
at the matter from one side only; and we com
mend Gov. FentOn's Veto Message to candid
consideration. If lie is correct in his statistics,
the Central is not languishing but thor
Oughly solvent and prosperous corporation.
That it pays heavy taxes is true; but so do
we all. The Governor thinks it doing so well
that it can at least hold on for better times /;
and he, with reason, objects to any permanent
alteration of the terms of its bargain with the
State in Difference to a debasement of the Cur
rency which surely should he, and we trust
will be, temporary. Had the bill allowed a
higher rate of fare only during the continuance
of Suspension, it might not have encountered
veto.


We mean to be friend of the Central as at
present managed; and we sincerely trust that
the prejudces excited by its bygOne subservi-
ency to partisan ends will speedily fade out
Let us all take hold and work in earnest for
Resumption, which will make two cents per
mile nearly equal to three cents in our present
Currency. That will be true and lasting relief
to the Central, and to other roads as we'll
Meantime, we trust no effort will be made TO
override the Governors Veto.
Year: 1867

II . .
mcmbrurce of any wrong, any party OF
vengeance and wrath, wo shall oppose.
We desire to SEQ Republican party in the
South irrespective of color or condition. We
count the negro as an acccssion-an integral
part of the cOnstituency-an element to be
enrolled; but we also count the White,
whether Democrat or not. We build up our
party by converting members OF other par
ties and we trust to he ~ successful with
Secessionists in the South as we have been
with the Democrats in the North. We assume
that men are Democrats because they have
not had light enough to be Republicans-be-
cause their paths have been dark and narrow.
Let it be our work to give them hsht-to snow
them the right way-to make them icei 'hat
the interests of the Republic are the interests
of the Republican party. In this spirit, let uS
organize the South. We are glad to know
that Senator Wilson is about to go into the
South to speak to the people and impress upon
them their duty. We can commend him
to all men as a prudent counselor. Let
other Senators and Congressman follow Ills
example. If twenty men like Senator WI
son were to go into the South, ana traVei
from town to town, speaking to the people, OF
ganizing the party. forming clubs and socte-
ties, seeing that education is not neglected
that kindness and good feeling are cultivated


that Northern newspapers are read-we should
have the Southern States side by side with
their Republican brethren in the next Presi-
dental election. This is our present duty, ana
if we perform it now we shall choose the next
President against any opposition, and elect an
overwhelming majority to Congress. Let us
go TO work in earnest and see what we can do.
Year: 1867

Gov. Humphreys of Mississippi has Issued
proclamation defining the relations of the
State with the military government of the WITH
District and declaring that the civil authority
exists in full force until it is modified or
abolish ed under the powers given by the Re
construction law. He calls upon the people
to pay their State taxes. to obey the civil Off
GERS. and is undoubtedly correct in his inter
DretatjoD of the law
Year: 1867

The Republican State Committee will supply
ballots for Delegates at Large to every County
of our State. They will be printed and for
warded in due season. The several County
Committees should look to the supply of their
Senatorial ballots only.
Year: 1867

An attempt to consider the Wharves and
Piers bill was defeated i'll the Assembly yestcr-
day-one more testimony to the indifference OF
the Legislature to measure essential to the
commerce of New York.
Year: 1867

L
COMMUNICATION. oN.-Let us glance at what is
Going on. Within few years numerous lines
of splendid steamships have been established
between this port and Europe. The Atlantic
has become great ocean terry, across which
crowds of people pass daily with as little diff
Guilty OF apprehension as in sailing up the Hud-
son to Albany few years ago. There are lines
to England, France, and Germany, and in con-
pection with these to all parts Of Europe. The
time across the Atlantic is now only niue or
fen days. Soon there will be direct lines to
Italy, Spain, the Baltic and other parts OF the
European Continent. A few months since a
line was established across the Pacific to Japan
and China from San Francisco. A splendid
line is 10 successful operation from Australia to
the American Continent OF Panama, with which
those on the Pacific to California and the South
American republics connect, as we'll as those to
the West Indies and this country by The Car
ribean See and Cult OF Mexico Other lines
are projected, among which may be mentioned
one from France to Panama, connecting the
Continents, and making this Continent the cen
ire Of all. We are soon to have line direct
from New York 10 Venezuela, By the way of
the West Indies, in addition to those to Brazil


spd the other countries of South America on
the Atlantic side. But the progress Of. tele
graphic operations is still more surprising
The Atlantic cable has made the European ma
tions our near neighbors. A day or two ago one
was laid connecting Cuba with the u. S. In
few years all parts OF the West Indies and
South and Central America will he in telegraph
ic communication with US. Shortly we shall
have cables across the Pacific to Japan and
China, in connection with others to India and
Australia. We believe We may safely say that
within ten years every civilized and populous
portion Of the globe will be in speaking dis
tance of each other through the magnetic wire;
that, in fact, the globe will be covered by a
network of magnetic telegraphs.


= Before that time We shall have certainly one
railroad across the Continent connecting San
Francisco with New York, and probably seve-
raj. The news, trade and travel from Europe
70 the rich and populous countries of Asia will
come this way. Looking at the important in
yentions made daily in steam lo,omotion, both
by sea and land, we shonld not be surprised if,
within ten years, people would be able to travel
from New York to San Francisco in two days,
and from Europe to China, BY the way Of
America, in twenty-five or twenty-three days
In fact, it is possible that the circuit of the
globe may be travelled in forty days. With all
this astounding progress we shall reap the
greatest advantage, because OF our central
geographical position and because we have the
boundless and varied resources that are needle d
by and that enter into the commerce OF all
nations.-Neao York Herald
Year: 1867

RIaHT.-Garret Smith, the great leader OF
the Abolition party, is about right in decar.
ing the Constitutional Amendment the most
abominable Of political denominations. And
this most abominabs Of political abomina-
lions" the Radicals insist the Southern peo
pie shall ra'ify before they will allow them
representation in Congress! If the Southern
States are out of the Union, as the Radicals
contend, what supreme folly TO insist upon
their raliGin the Constitutional amendment.
If they are out Of The Union they have no
light 10 meddle with the matter. 1t is a
question for the people in, no. out Of the
Union TO settle.
Year: 1867

SALT Your CHlMSEYs.-In building a
chimney, put quantity Of salt into the NOR
tar with which the intercourses Of brick arc
to be laid. The effect will be that there will
never be any accumulation Of SCOT in that
chimney. The philosophy is thus stated:
The salt in the portion Of mortar which is
exposed absorbs moisture every damp day.
The 500. thus becoming damp falls down the
Fireplace. Our readers should remember to
preserve this little piece Of valuable iufor.
nation.
Year: 1867

E% 1t is reported that the supply Of sea-
men for the British Navy, for some time
past gradually decreasing, has at length
reached what appears to be the minimum
point, no men being now available for the
immediate commission and manning Of any
one ship 10 either of the great ports Of outfit.
Year: 1867

Take the skin upon a board with
the fesh side ont, then scrapo with a
blunt knife, next rnb il over hard with
pulverized chalk until " will absorb
on more. Then take the skin fron
the board and cover IL with pulveriz-
cd alum, double half way over with
the flesh sidein contact, then roll tight
together and keep dry forlthree days,
after which unfold il and stretch IL
again on a board or door, and dry it IN
the air and IL will, be ready for use.
Nice white sheep skins mako hand
some door mats. cushions, a warm
spread to put oh the floor for bdby TO
sit on IN winter time, and many other
Useful purpose.