smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Congress may constitutionally make paper
promises to pay legal tender in time OF
peace; if it is true that the constitution
authorized the federal government not
merely to coin money, but as General Butler
asserts to make money, it is better we
should all know this as soon as possible,
and argue with the greenbackers and fiat
money people on a definite and not on
vague and uncertain basis. If, on the
other hand, as we believe, the con-
stitution gives and was intended to
give no such dangerous and fatal
powers to Congress or the federal govern
ment, then it is of the utmost importance
that this should be known as soon as possi-
BILE, on the highest authority, so that oil
controversy on the question may cease and
the country have rest and relief from the
threat of imitation which has so long turned
honest enterprises into gambling transac-
tions. Hence we regard this attempt
at settlement as one of the most
important events of the day, however
unwelcome it may be to the tribe of poll
ticians. For il is clear and undeniable that
SO long as men are able to assert that Con-
gress has the constitutional power to make
its promises to pay q legal tender and to
order the continued issue of such legal
tender notes, so long every Congress that
meets will be moved to increase or diminish
the volume of such notes. and at every ses-
sion the country will be threatened with
a change in the value or price of every
product and we shall be subject to per-
petual arrangement of all our industries.
Year: 1879

If the public most enjoys to hear Of that
which to it is most unfamiliar the letters
which we print to-day from our corre-
spondent with President Grants party in
the East will be voted specially interesting.
Volcanoes, three famous specimens of which
are alluded to, are not numbered among
our native luxuries at any time, and soft
skies and Yachting water are about as in
visible at present. Then there is reference
to great country where the sound of the
omnibus is not heard in the land and rail-
way trains pay no moro attention to time
tables than if the distance they have to cover
were reckoned only in Bridgeport miles. The
ex-commander of our national armies has
been crossing the lines of another famous
campaigner-one Moses-who, forty CEN
turies ago, placed the Red Sea between
himself and the enemy, and did it without
any pontoon train, either, or any detach-
ment of bridge builders, though his plan
of crossing failed, upon subsequent trial,
to meet the approval of the enemy's en-
gneers. We read, too, of sun which is
explaining to the voyagers the mystery of
the Oriental complexion, and this while
our readers in New York are strongly in
disposed to accept sunshine as q substitute
for stoves and hot air registers. The tour
lists even saw Mount Sinai. q place once
famous as source of law, though how it
may now be regarded by generation that
has experienced Washington and Albany
yearly or oftener we shrink from contem-
,,lafipo
Year: 1879

horse to his utmost throughout the whole
long week. does any one believe that the
horse would be in first at the goal; or that,
if the four are as good as they are claimed
to be, they would not all beat him? No
wonder, then, that the splendid race now
going on is proving we'll worth seeing.
Year: 1879

No INTELLIGENCE has yet been received from
the fourteen fishing vessels that left Gloucester
just before the severe gales of last month. 1t
is feared that the boats and all on board were
Lost
Year: 1879

WADE HAMPTON has got the better of that
mule He is now so far recovered that he is
able to give his views on current questions and
to think of taking his seat at the extra session
of the Senate
Year: 1879

THE WEATHER.-The depression is now NOV
ing over the lakes toward the st. Lawrence Val


Icy Its influence extends into the Central Mis-


sissippi Valley and from the Northern Missouri
River to the New England boundary line. Owing
to the great uniformity Of temperature in the
central valley and. lake districts the rainfall
that attends the disturbance on its southern
margin has been light. On the Middle Atlantic
md New England coasts the precipitation was
more general, because the warm southerly and
southwesterly winds came in contact with the
cold that overlies the northeastern districts.
The area of high barometer extends over the At
lantic and Eastern Gulf coasts but the pressure
is falling steadily north of Cape Hattcras, and
will be below the mean this afternoon. The
dcpression's course will be so far to the
north that the weather in our district
will not be very much affected during its pass
nge-that is TO say, we are not likely to ex-
pericnce the heavy rains that will fall when tho
nutre Of the disturbance nears the ocean. The
Winds, however, will probably increase during
to-day "a steep gradients will be formed by tho
rctarding influence of the high pressure on the
coast. The weather on the northern New Eng


land and Nova Scotia coasts will be stormy to-
night and tomorrow, during which time the
centre of tho disturbance will pass over the
Gulf Of st. Lawrence into the ocean. Another
thunder storm passed over Canada last night.
The weather has been clear in all the districts
except in the Central and Northern Mississippi
valleys and the northern lake regions. Morn
ing fogs prevailed on the South Atlantic
const. The winds have been brisk throughout
the country except on the South and Middle
Atlantic coasts. On the lakes they are increasing
somewhat. A decided rise in temperature oc-
cured in the Middle Atlantic and New England
States. II remained nearly stationary elsewhere.
The rains continue in California, but are not so
heavy. The streams are swollen and heavy
SHOWS blockade the railroads in the mountains.
Tie weather over the British Islands is overcast
aud threatening. The weather in New York and
its vicinity to-day will he warm and partly
cloudy. Tomorrow IL will be cooler and clearing
Year: 1879

Ex-PREsIDENT IMAGINATION is reported as hav-
ing declared that if the Chambers decide upon
impeachment he will demand to be placed on
trial with the Minister'S. If true this decara-
ton is more chivalric than prudent on the part
of the Marshal. Frenchmen sometimes have IN
uncomfortable way of taking their rulers and
ex-rulers Mt their word. Paris is O little more
pleasant than New Caledonia.
Year: 1879

COMMON FAME was busy yesterday with the
Brooklyn Presbytery committee which is
charged with the investigation of the Talmage
case. The prevailing opinion appears to be
that it will recommend that the charges against
the Tabernacle pastor be dropped, which would
certainly be the wiser course
Year: 1879

From conversation with % prominent
Republican we CLEANED the information that
there are many Republicans who do not
consider the Staber committee ticket bind
ing upon the party Though we have be-
fore said that Arthur Sablcr and those
associated with him did nolhaye any pccu-
liar rability for making ticket, yet there can
beno question as TO that committee being
duly appointed by the Republican conyen-
ton its substitute in the matter of making
nominations, as impudent as the act was.


The gentleman with whom we had This
conversation says the committee was APP
pointed to make straight-out nominations.
This might have been the understanding,
but it was not SO published in the rcsolu-
tions of that convention The shoe pinchos
just here the party has been pledged TO Il
certain ticket, but some of the party are OPP
posed TO that ticket and by claiming that
"A. Stablcr and others" did not act under
authority, they hope to make an excuse for
the treachcry so natural 10 the party and
which will be carried out at the polls The
party is in a family row, and rather than
appear openly false 10 a promise and allow
the discord to spread all hands conspire 10
quell the first and prevent the latter by coy
ertly descrting their bargain. Their game
is SO fragrant that it discloscs itself


If that committee acted without authority
the entire "non-partizan" batch have been
swindlod and stultiied, though some Of the
crowd were parties to the plot


This is a specimen Of the Radical honesty
promised ifthc county be given TO thcircon-
troll. A party guilty Of such lack of honor
is not TO be trusted entirely or partly, di-
rectly or indirectly. Let every disalToctcd
Democrat consider the force Of his ballot
They certainly do not wish Republican rule
Year: 1879

Al the average price of all kinds of man
ual labor il requires the gross earnings of
not less than 10000 men TO support our army
Of $4,000 men. An increase In the army
means that the earnings of other thousands
shall be added 10 this ENORMOUS burden
Year: 1879

pastor undertook on his settlement,
to fill them, with good paying sub
scribers. In that case the contract
is broken and the church should be
free. It undertook nothing and


kept its word, How is it to be


blamed? But we never saw any


such stipulation in the settlement Of
minister. On the contrary we


have often heard it insisted on that


the church had as much to do with


filing the pews as the minister. It


has at least been generally under


stood that the people were


to do the inviting and well
coming to the house of God, to
pay attention to strangers, and to
live so that the name Of Christ
should not suffer reproach through
their ungodlinegs or neglect. I'm
doubtedly, the obligations are mu-
tual. The pew and the pulpit must
both work, and work harmoniously,
in order to church-building. But to
expect the pastor to fill the house,
and replenish the treasury, when
perhaps there is not another congre-
gational family in the place to draw
thither-5or "resign"-is, well, ex-
pecting a good deal We doubt
very much whether Spurgeon, or
Newman Hall, without the influence
of their great name, would ell the
Year: 1879

A poor little mouse, whose home


is under the floor of the ReUeilIe
office, came out this morning to
forage for his breakfast. S ENG
some printing ink which had been


split on the floor, he thought lat


would make a good meal, and o
went for it. After nibbling a Ii tie


while he became frightened at Il
noise made by those watching him,
and started to run back to his hole ;
but the ink being Of a sticky nature,
he found his feet held fast to the
floor and he himself unable to move,
whereupon he set up a doleful
squeak. In few moments along
came larger mouse, probably his
father, who seemed to take i'll the
situation at a glance, and at once
commenced an attempt TO release
his diminutive relative. lie step
ped carefully over the ink till he
came to the little mouse, and laying
hold of tho back Of its mock with
its teeth, tugged away until he re-
leased it. The affair was witnessed
by several persons, WHO were SC
interested in the novel sight that
they offered no moIestation to the
anilnals.-Austin { (Neo) ReueiUe
Year: 1879

DISREsPECT AT HoMK.-One of
the dangers of the house life is this
habit of disrespect-that which is bred
by familiarity. People who arc all
beauty and sunshine for a crowd of
strangers, for whom they have not the
faintest affection, are ill ugliness and
gloom for their own, by whose love they
live. The pleasant little prettiness Of
dress and personal adornment, which
mark the desire to please, are put Oh
only for the admiration of those whose
admiration goes for nothing, while the
house companions are treated only to
ragged gowns and thread bare coats,
the touzled hair and stubby beard,
which, if marking the ease and comfort
of the sans facon of home, mark also the
indifference and disrespect which do SO
much damage to the sweetness and del
icacy of daily life. And what is true
of the dress is truer still of the man
nerS and tempers of home, in both of
which we find too often that want of
respect which seems to run side by
side with affection and the custom of
familiarity. 1t is regretable habit
under any of It's conditions, but new
er more so than when it inyades tho
home and endangers still more that
which is already too much endanger-
cd by other things. Parents and up
bringers do not pay enough attention
to this in the young They allow
habits of disrespect to be formed
rude, rough insolent, impatient-and
salve over the tsore with the stereo-
typed excuse "They mean nothing by
it, which if we look at Alright is
worse than no excuse at all for if
they really mean nothing by it, and
their di>respect is not what it seems
to be, the result of strong anger, un-
comfortable temper, but is merely
habit then it ought to be conquered
without loss of time, being manner
that hurts all parties alike.-Lop Ion


Queen.
Year: 1879




COLORED COLONY IN KANsAs
Letter in Llmars Iowa) Sentinel, Rep


stated in my last letter that we
had visited the negro colony in
Graham ccunty. Kansas, and would
write you a letter concerning it,
This | will now endeavor to do.


Nlcodemus is situated on the
North Solomon river, in Graham
county. AS the history of this
colony is familiar to all, deem it
unnecessary to repeat it here
Driven from their once beloved
sunny Southland by starvation, the
negro endeavored to find a home
in the wilds of Kansas.


They had always imagin ed that
when they came to Kansas they
would be provided for and should
receive here land, horses and i'm
plements gratis, but their disap-
polntment can better be imagined
than described when they found
naught save wild an unsettled
country. Their condition at pres
ent is shocking. Having raised
nothing the present year, and no
money in pocket, work scarce, and
ignorance combined with Incidence,
1t is evident that many shall die
this year from famine, unless they
receive aid. And while | am now
speaking of aid, ii may not be out
# place to say "a few words relative
to the manner In which Parson
N did his begging last year.
Their condition, as all know, was
desperate, and our beloved brother
conceived an idea of going to the
whites and obtain from them nour-
ishment for their dark brethern.
The whites gave with IA free hand,
but cur sanity parson, instead of
dividing among his famished peo-
pie, retained it all and sold it ont
10 those VINO were able to buy,
and those who We're not received
none Wheu the doings were
found out, Mr.. Parson narrowly
escaped coat of tar and feathers


l have not spoken of the dwell
ings-if such may call them-of
the niggers. Doubtless many of
you have seen a prairie-dog town
If yoa have. then you have seen
o town similar to Nicodemus.


As you drive along the road, or
street. you can see here ana there
a black, woody head stick up, but
the moment you approach it, it is
gone, and you have passed a ne
gro's dwelling. Although the out
side has hard looking appearance,
Yet it is nothing when compared
with the inside. One that We en-
te, Ell was the most dismal looking
receptacle that | ever saw, having
nothing but a couple of logs and
shovelful Of dirt to constitute the
roof, through which the rain might
pour IN torrents. The furniture
consisted of three-legged stool
aud an old rickety bedstead, while
the wearing apparel was nothing
but filthy rags patched together to
cover their naked forms. Within
this howell we counted fifteen dirty,
half starved little negroes, of ages
varying from one year to eighteen


We have been asked by some Of
these little darkiee if we would not
give to them some of our horse
feed-this was all, in great many
cases, they had to live upon-the
horse-feed they could beg from the
travellers as they passed through
their colony.


How they can live through the
Winter, God alone knows. There
are from 800 to 400 souls, with
but one bare team to work for
them ali.


Uuless they receive some benif
cence. disease and famine will
undoubtly carry off half their
numbers.
Year: 1879

reconciliation OF the Leader OF tho


Old Catholics with tile Church of
Rome.


(Special Correspondence Of the Washington Post.l
LONDON, May GA letter from Rome says
there have been number OF contradictory
reports concerning the approaching recon-
ciliation OF Dr.. Dollinger with the Church.
The true state Of the case is now ascertalned
to be this: Shortly after the accession OF the
present Pope he caused distinguished
ecciesiastc TO call upon DR.. Dolinger and
TO express 10 him the sorrow with which
the Pope had heard OF his schlsm,
and the hope that he would IND grace
to abiure his errors and to return to tho
bosom OF the Church Of which he had once
been so faithful and obedient a son and so
staunch and able Il defender. DR.. Dollinger
made somewhat eyasive reply. He spoke
of the grief and disgust with which the
course OF his fcllow-schsmatics had hlled
him, especially in the matter OF marriage or
their priests, but still he did not find hinl-
sell able to make an act OF faith respecting
The DEGREES of the Vatican Council. 4 rev
days aftcrward he wrote the following let
| ter: 81 have neither written nor done any
thing which could have given occasion Tor
such n rumor. Only three weeks ago pub


lished lecture, which ] state in so many


words that nobody possessing scientific


culture OF mind can ever accept the DEGREES


OF the Vatican Council. Having during the


last nine years devoted my time princi-


palIy to the study Of all questions connect


ed with the history Of the Popes and Coun-
ellis, and I may say gone again over the


whole ground OF ecclesiastical history, and
the result is that the proofs OF The fa!sehood
OF the Vatican DEGREES amount TO demon
stration. When am told that ! must swear
| to the truth OF those doctrines, my feeling
is lust us if i were asked to swear that two
and two are five, and not four" Six days
after writing this letter DR.. DolGnger up


pears to have again experienced change
of mind, for letter from him has been re-
cciyed here indicating his intention to make
his submission.
Year: 1879

the following flattering showing is made
"The finances of the Territory continue
IN sound and satisfactory condition.
The Territory is free from debt. and war
rants upon the treasury are usually paid
upon presentation. Interest to the amount
OF Fl,2O3.O3 cents only have been pad
upon warrants, during the past to years.
sum much smaller than during any
preceding period. The payment of inter
est can be entirely obyiaLed, by requiring
territorial revenue to be paid into the
treasury at an earlier date in each fiscal
year and by th@lon-allowance of credits
for delinquent taxes.


Vivid illustrations are drawn in proof
OF the emphatic position taken that cOun-
ties should be compelled to pay their Ter
Year: 1879

The object of our visit to Dunge,
ness had nothing whatever to do
with Mr.. Cline and the council clerk
ship. Another barefaced falsehood
has been added to the long list which
the "Press" niscreant is rapidly
piIing up.
Year: 1879

A hen at South Carolina railroad
yard, in this city, took notion a few
days since to lay her eggs in the tender
box on Bob Hubbard's switch-engine,
and Notwithstanding that veterans
views to the contrary she persisted in
getting her work so far advanced that
it was deemed prudent to let her "lay."
After depositng, as she thought, the
usual complement of fresh eggs in order
to go into the spring chicken business,
she finally settled down to her work and
is now daily sitting on her nest. She
never leaves the engine only occasional
ly when it stops in the yard, and then
only for few moments, to fly off, pick
around and stretch herself The engine
is in constant use and crossing and re-
crossing the city daily, pulling long
trains Of cars. The engineer has fitted
her up with nice, comfortable cotton
nest, and before long expects to have a
whole lot of steam-engine Chickens
AUGUSTA (Gd.) Netcs.
Year: 1879

When was but country lass, now fifteen years
ago.
/ lived where flowed the Overpeck through mead
ows wide and low;
There first, when skies were bending blue and
blossoms blowing free,
| saw the ragged little boy who went TO school
with me.
His homespun coat was frayed and worn, with
patches covered DER;
His hat--ah. such hat as that was never seen
before
The boys and girls, when first he came, they
shouted in their glee,
And jeered The little ragged boy who went TO
school with me.
His father was laboring man, and mine was
highly born;
Our people held bo tn him and his in great con-
tempt and scorn-
They said should not stoop to own playmate
such as he,
The bright eyed, ragged little boy who went to
school with me-
For years they had forgotten him, but when
again we met
His look, his voice, his gentle ways remained in
memory yet;
They saw alone the man of mark, but 1 could
only see
The brighteyed, ragged little boy who went to


school with me.
He had remembered me- 1t seems, as remem.


bered him
Nor time nor honors. in his mind, the cherished
past could dim;
Young love had grown to older love, and so to-day,
you see
wed the little ragged boy who went to school
with me.
Year: 1879

Tn. LEGISLATURE at its session just
closed passel thrty.one divorce
bills, thereby making sixty-two people
violate the solemn VOWS they had
taken upon themselves before God to
love and cherish each other until death.
If the Legislature Of Pennsylvania at
Harrisburg had divorce as many
at one session in prop rtion to the pop
ulation, the number would be over one
thousand. A divorce court would have
been a more proper name for the body
sitting at Eover this winter than a
Legislature.
Year: 1879

On one occasion, when General Butler was
in command at New Orleans, Colonel up in
the Red River region made application for a
furlough which was refused him. Soon after
the Colonel left his command without permis-
sion, and went to New Orleans. where he was
arrested and put i'll irons as a deserter. Upon
an intimation that he wished to make an ex-
PLANTATION, General Butler had him brought to
his headquarters.


"Well, sir" said the General sternly, ''what
have you to say in explanation of your con-
duct?"


"Well, General, there are two Jews up yon-
der who have some cotton they want to get
Year: 1879

The Republican call for State Conven-
ton in Maine is broad enough to include all
who were ever members of the party, save
those whose views have undergone radical
change and who condemn their own past
and repudiate the doctrines which the party
was formed to advance and the methods
pursued in conducting the Government for
the last fifteen years. All who do not believe
that the men most fit to govern the country are
those who attempted to destroy it; that the
men who uphold the theory of State Rights
are promoting the spread of doctrine
which has worked great harm in the past,
and now threatens mischief to the Union
that the right and power of the Federal gov
ernment to enforce its laws are necessary to
the efficiency of the Government and to the
well-being of the country; that the freedom
of elections should be jealousy guarded
against military interference on the one hand
and mob violence and fraudulent voting on
the other; that the honor and credit of
the nation should be maintained, that it
should honestly discharge the debts it in
cured in prosecuting the struggle for the
preservation of the Union, that a currency
redeemable in the money of the world and
equal in purchasing power to it is the only
currency that should be permitted-all who
believe these things are invited to choose
delegates to the convention to be held in
Bangor next month.


Whenever the issue between National
authority and that doctrine of State Rights
whose logical outcome is secession has been
fairly presented to the people of Maine the
voters of the State have emphatically de-
clared for the National idea and against
Calhounism. The issue has been again
raised by the Democratic majority in Con-
gress. The expression of Maine in regard
to it will be no less emphatic than before,
and that expression will make itself felt not
only in nominating conventions but at the
polls
Year: 1879

Ir seems that Senator McDonald's bill is
not the outcome of Democratic conference,
but his own idea put forward without con-
sultation with the Democratic leaders. He
says he does not believe the President would
sign it unless it was subjected to material
alterations
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
tion but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncations that are not used.