smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1866

accuseri How can he nullify the stat
ute and permit one rebel attorney to
practice in his courts, without taking
the test oath, when he persistently re-
fuses to allow any of the rest to prac-
tice unless they do take it' Many more
facts of similar character might be
adduced, but, l think, l have given
enough to show that, during the war,
Judge Harrison was a traitor to both
sides; that since the war he has per
jured himself, prosecuted Union men,
favored rebels judicially, that he is now
and always has been loyal to Nat. Har-
rison and to nothing else; and that he
has no more respect for a radical than
he has for a rebel, except when he can
make tools of one or the other to con-
summate his villainies.


must not omit to state that it is al
most universally believed throughout
his judicial district, that the Judge and
his Prosecuting Attorney, Cyrus Newlin,
are partners in the said Newlin's fees.
As proof of this, will state, as fact,
that Newlip has never been known to
lose a case in which he received large
fee, and especially if the fee was n con-
tingent one. This seems almost too as
founding to be credited, but those who
know Judge Harrison best, have
scarcely doubt as to its absolute
truth.


With these facts staring the members
of the Legislature in their faces, can
they accuse us of contumacy and dis
loyalty when we refuse to submit silent
ly to the petty expressions, tyrannical
insults and corrupt decisions of this vile
and unscrupulous Judge' Will they
add his crimes and villainies, his cor
ruption and his degradation to their
own character, by continuing him in
officef


The people of this district ask for
nothing but justice. They care not how
radical the officers are who rule over
them, (for they expect none other), but
they do insist that at least show of
honesty should characterize their Off.
cial acts. We invite investigation, and
if the facts in Judge Harrison's case do
not exhibit u state of affairs too fetld
and revolving for the stomachs of the
Legislature of West Virginia, then, we
exclaim, God have mercy upon them


have refrained from going into the
private character of Judge n. Harrison,
for it is too obscene, filthy and diegust-
ing to appear in print.


GREENBRI,R.
Year: 1866

Editor of the Register:


l am much gratifed to see that you
continue to give the influence of your
journal in favor of the erection of a
House of Refuge in this State. While |
would be glad to see State institution
ofths kind, it seems to me that what
we most want is city House of Ref
uge. / hope that our people will, in
every way they can, contribute, aid and
influence in favor of this great move
ment. And hope you will continue
to urge the matter upon the
attention of the public. A.
Year: 1866

Master, Like Mnn."


Editors Of the Register:


feel encouraged, from the fearless
and manly tone in which your valuable
paper is conducted, to believe that you
will permit me, through its columns.
to lay before the people some unvarnishs;
ed, though hideous, facts relative to the
pseudo Judge of this district.


So much has already been published
concerning this "pink of loyalty" and
peerless dispenser of law and justice,
that it would seem to be useless to add
anything more to the long catalogue of
his crimes and iniquities. l have no
hope that anything 1 may reveal will
cause a blush to mantle his shameless
cheek, or increase the contempt and dis
dain which all honest people feel for
him; but he is high official, and the
special pet and protege of the faction
which now holds the official power of
the State, therefore, it becomes the
duty of every man who values the dig
nitv and purity of the judicial ermine.
the integrity Of human character or the
welfare of his country, to use whatever
means he may possess to arrest his op-
pressions, and expose his villainies, so
that those who have placed him in 'au-
thority may share, if they refuse to re-
move him, the merited infamy and de-
gradation which he has brought upon
himself. t., .-


Some of the Radical party, and per
haps from ignorance of his public and
private character, think or pretend to
think that Judge N. Harrison is much
better man than he is represented to be
by the people of this Judicial District.
They presume to believe that he is and
Year: 1866

Editor Of the Register:


The rumor that the Radical party in
tend withdrawing Capt. MLure as a
candidate for Mayor, is gaining pretty
general currency in the city. Is there
any truth in the rumor9


CONSERVATIVE.
TNoTE.-We have heard the rumOr
several times-but have not been able
to trace it to head-Quarters.-ED. REG
ISTER.
Year: 1866

CHICAGO CARRIAGE MANurAcroRY-Our
readers will please notice the advertisement
Of Henry Willets, a well known and popu-
lar carriage and buggy manufacturer, Chi
cago Our dealers and citizens generally
will do well to give the concern their atten-
when in need Of anything in the line.
Year: 1866

Now Is the TINE Franz Meyer, next to
the First National Bank, politely invites the
attention Of the public to the fine stock Of
ready made clothing which he is anxious to
dispose Of ut the lowest rates. lie must
make room for coming stock, and now is
the time TO purchase.
Year: 1866

IH In all the calculations of q
large cotton crop Texas has figured
extensively, and it seems to have been
conceded on the other side that Texas
would be an exception among the cot
ton States generally The first note
Of a different story appears in a letter
from Brazos county, Of May "a, pub
lished in the New Orleans Times,
which after speaking of disastrous
hail storms, says


Much of the crop is in the grass and
weeds. and unless we speedily have
dry weather nothing like half crop
viii be made in this county; in fact on
the places visited BY the storm, the
freedmen have become much discour
aged. and refuse to work Crops
would be replanted, but cotton seed
has become very scarce. and cannot
be procured. Indeed, ithe prospect
for a cotton crop in this county at this
time is certainly very gloomy, and
many Of our planters are discouraged
at the prospects Other portions of
our State have been visited by the hail
storm and rain, and the injury TO the
crops has been equally disastrous 1t
IS still raining and there seems to be
but little prospect Of clear weather.
Unless it speedily comes, much Of the
crop viii be lost, for it will be impos
sible TO work out of the grass.
Year: 1866

HAVE proved from the most ample experience. an
Il 1entire success Observation-Disclosures and
heiiab!e. They the only Medicine perfectly
adapt &c popular use-so simple that mistakes can
not be made in using Them harmless as to be free
from danger and SO efficient to be always reliable
They have raised the ighest commentator from ali
and will always render satisfaction
Year: 1866

We had the pleasure of conversing
with highly intelligent gentleman,
who visited a considerable portion of
the north eastern section of Tippah
county last week, and he gives US the
most gratifying account of the grow
ing crops there He informs US that
the farmers generally have planted
much larger corn crop than usual
and the result will be an abundance of
corn for the supply of the county.
The cotton crop, though not large,
looks well, as the farmers have kept it
clear of grass. The wheat crop has
the rust and, it is probable, will be
cut short at least one half. The
freedmen generally are working well,
and all, both white and black, are
looking forward to better times
Holly Springs Reporter.
Year: 1866

what remedies could be applied for these
evils. The unfortunate men whose circum-
stances permitted were flying from their
homes in the South to seek refuge and hos.
pitality and freedom of thought and discus
sion here in the North


How long was this to continue ? 1t was
for the people of the North to answer. He
then reviewed the question Of reconstruc-
tion from the different standpoints of the
hour, and closed his interesting remarks
with an eloquent and touching appeal to
his hearers to be true to themselves IN this
great struggle.


Upon the conclusion of the above address,
Mr.. Durant received the compliment of
three hearty rounds of cheers.
Year: 1866

To DETECT COPPER IN PICKLES AND CREAM
TRA.-Put few leaves of the tea,or some
of the pickle, cut small, into phial with
two or three drachms of liquid ammonia di-
luted with onehalf the quantity of water
Snake the phial, when, if the most minute
portion of copper is present, the liquid will
assume a fine blue color.
Year: 1866

We have only time, before going to press,
to call public attention to the proceedings of
our Slate Legislature, in reference to the
perversion and exhaustion of the School
Fund, as foreshadowed in the letter of our
Dover correspondent to-day An attempt is
now being made by the controlling majority
OF the Legislature, and, unless promptly and
energetically demonstrated against, will un-
doubtedly pass that body, to apply the fund,
hitherto held sacred for educational pur-
poses, to other and entirely different objects,
having no connection immediate or remote
with educational matters Will the people
submit to this more than infamous outrage
upon their rights and privileges, by the per
verse, pragmatcal majority which now rules
at DoyerY If not, let them demand that the
School Fund be not disturbed or squandered
away under any pretence or for any purpose
whatever, other than for the education of
the children of the State Let voice go
down from this county TO the State capital
that will ring about the ears of the members
until 1t shall reach their consciences and
cause them 10 shrink abashed at the outra-
geous proposition to oyerspread the State
with ignorance by depriving the schools Of
their already too limited means of educating
the children OF the commonwealth
Year: 1866

AN HONEST LIFE.-The poor pittance Of
seventy years is not worth being a villain for.
What matter ify your neighbor lies in splendid
tomb? Sleep you with innocence. Look behind
you through the track of time. A vast desert
lies open in retrospect; weary with years and
sorrow, they sink from the walks of man. You
are to leave them where they fall and you must
go little further, and you will find eternal rest


Whatever you may have to encounter between
the cradle and the grave, every moment, big
with events, which come not in succession, but
bursting forcibly from revealing and unknown
cause, fly over this orb with diversified infu-
ence. y
Year: 1866

The sea is his and he made it. Its majes-
ty is of God. What is there more sublime than
the trackless desert, all surrounding, unfathom-
able sea? What is there more terribly sublime
than the angry, dashing, foaming sea? Power
resistless overwhelming power in the careless,
conscious power Of it's deep rest, or the wild tu-
mutt of its excited wrath. 1t is awful where
its crested waves rise up to make compact
with the black clouds, and the bowling winds
and the thunderbolt, and they sweep on in the
Joy of their dread alliance, to do the Almighty S
bidding. And it is awful, too, when it stretches
it's broad level out to meet in quiet union the
bended sky, and show in the line ofmeetlng the
vast rotundity Of the world. There is majesty
in it's wide expanse, separating and enclosing
the great continent of the earth, occupying two
thirds of the whole surface Of the globe, pene-
trating the land with it's bays, and secondary
seas, and receiving the constantly pouring trib-
ute of every river, of every shore. There is
majesty in its integrity, for its. whole vast sur
face is uniform in it's local unity, for there is
but one ocean, and the inhabitants of any one
meridian spot may visit the inhabitants of any
other in the wide world. Its depth is sublime
who can sound it? Its strength is sublime
what fabric Of man can resist it? Its voice is
sublime, whether in the prolonged song or its
ripple, or the stern music Of Its roar ; whether
III utuCTS It's uODON tolACo
labyrinth Of wave-Wo1n caves or thunders at
the base of some huge promontory; or beats
against some toiling vessels side, lulling the
voyager to rest with it's wild monotony or dies
away with the calm and dying twilight, in gen
tie murmur on some sheltered shore. What is
there more magnificent, than the quiet or the
stormy sea? What music is there, however
artful which can be compared with the natural
and unchanged melodies of the resounding sea


Its beauty is of God 1t possesses it in rich
ness of its own; ii borrows it from earth, and
air. and heaven. The clouds lend it the various
dies of the wardrobe, and throw down upon it
the broad masses of their shadows as they go
sailing and sweeping by. The rainbow laves in
it its many colored feet. The sun loves to visit
it and the moon and the glitterng brother
hood of planets and stars; for they delight
themselves in its beauty. The sunbeams return
from it, in showers or diamonds and gances Of
fire; the moonbeams find in it pathway of
silver, when they dance to and fro with the
breeze and the waves through the live-long
night 1t has light, too, of It's own, soft and
streaming behind a milky way of dim and un-
certain lustre like that which is shining very
dimly above 1t harmonizes in its own forms
and sounds both with the night and day. It
cheerfully neglects the light, and unites soem-
nifty with the darkness. 1t imparts sweetness
to the music of men, and grandeur to the thun-
der of heaven. Greeawoods Mystery and
Poetry Of the Sea.
Year: 1866

TRIALs.-An hour in our life will surely come
when we shall be enabled to say that we have
not had one trial too much, not one that could
have been spared and the heart will become
burdened with the sense of an awful reality, a
perception ofthat wonderful fact that the events
of life are in themselves nothing that they are
but the body destined to decay yet that each,
however trihing, bears within it the seed that
yield ourselves passively to any circumstances,


whether happy or unhappy; neither wearying
ourselves with regrets for the past, nor burden
ing ourselves with cares for the future; SO only
that the present moment might add its grain of
faith and holiness to the treasure garnered in the
hand of God against the great day of account.
Year: 1866

Some workmen engaged in excavating in
Wheeling last week, for the purpose Of laying
the foundation of the new buildings to be erect
ed there, came across a skeleton. The bones
were of an unusual size, and are supposed to be
the remains of one Of the Indian Chiefs who
used to figure conspicuously in that neighbor-
hood about century ago. sag
Year: 1866

He Consoled.


Tho recent State elections in New
York and New Hampshire have rasui,ed
in increased Republican msiaftsiss.
The Democracy had toq.fpndId epsd,
that the late disagreement. between she
President and Congress, had 90 shat.
tered the Republican party that they
might step in and gain victory, but
instead of this to their great surprise
the Republicans had actually gained
strength since the previous elections.
The masses have not forgotten the de
testaple course taken by the Democracy
during the late rebellion, they dare not
and will not trust them. When little
differences arise they had rather settle
their family matters among themselves
than to leave them 10 their hostile neigh.
bora, Who would rob both disa greeiny
parties of their rights. The Democracy
are welcome to all the consolation that
they may be able 10 draw from those
elections. We are aware, however that
they have fed on political hn.ks 40 long
and ,ha, they arc so extremely tenacious
If life, thai a very little consolation
will 90 great ways with them : but
We fail to see where they can get even
hat little in this case.
Year: 1866

The Loss will be paid in Cash. A standing reward
of one fourth of the value of every animal in
sured by this Company is offered for the recovery
thereof One Ilunred Dollars for the arrest and
conviction of the Thief.


Persons having Animals not insured by this
Company, can, by renting FIFTEEN DOLLARS,
giving full description of Animals, and amount of
reward. have One Thousand Hand-bilS struck,
and furnished TO all our Detective Force in the
Stafp
Year: 1866

TIE New York Hrolds Paris cor
respondent says there is much specula-
ton in London and Paris concerning II
private audience extended by the Empe-
ror to one Col. Fuller, editor of the
London Cosmopolitan, n northern man,
who did not hesitate to declare his
sympathics with the South, and who Ia
bored in her behalf to the best of his
ability, in every way an avOwed and
open supporter of Imperial Institutions
in France and Mexico. A variety of
opinions are expressed rs to the subject
Of his interview with the Emperor.
Those who look upon the matter in Il
suspicious light imagine that the Empc-
ror, in view Of the possibility Of Il
war with the United States, resulting
from his prolonged stay in Mexico,
wanted to seek the Colonel merely to
ask his opinion as to what course the
Southern States would adopt in such
an event, and whether they would rise
again with the aid of France and strike
another blow for independence and the
restoration of slavery. Others think
the interview is for the free interchange
of sentiment rs to the best mode of
treating French and Mexican Imperial
ism in the columns of the Cosmopoli-
tan. At any rate he was honored next
morning with IN interview with Drouyn
de LIluys.
Year: 1866

WHEAT CRop.-We have reason to hope,
says the Lebanon Herald from limited
observation on last Sunday in the
neighborhood of Taylorsville, and
thence to Lebanon, that the damage to
the wheat crop is not so great as we
have been led to believe. We noticed
several large fields which will make
average yields. If nothing else hap
pens to damage it we are sure that
there will be plenty made for home
consumption.
Year: 1866

SorTIIENEEs IN NEW YoRK.-The
number Of prominent Southern men
who have decided to make New York
their future home, is increasing. Roy
er A. Pryor can be seen almost any
day in the vicinity Of the News office.
He has taken to the practice of the
law. Among the latest additions to
the New York bar is the distinguished
jurist and poet and genial gentleman,
Judge Requier, Of Alabama. Ben
Woods sanctum seems to be the head.
quarters ofall the prominent Southern
ers in town, and is the most likely
place to find their whcreabouts.- Y.
Letter.
Year: 1866

From the Metropolitan Record.l


We are all Americans now. Hence
forth We are to have no North, no
South, no East, no W est, but one com
mon country, in which each shall be
interested in whatever affects the whole
and all sOtcitous for whatever con-
Germs each individual. Our interests,
our glory, and our fame are to be ma
tional Such, at least, is the theory OF
the apostles Of the new faith. 1t is
beautiful; and were it not that man is
imperfect it might be possible. How
ever, we are not entirely bad; there is
some good in us, and if we encourage
and cultivate it, and give it way, much
may be done towards the realization of
the proposed good fellowship. We
cannot agree upon the amount or kind
of honor to be given to the living, be-
cause no man can he called truly great,
no mans history can be written until
he is dead. There are so many slips
between the cup and the lip, that
many men who now stand so high,
that no one is near enough to them to
be called second, may few years
hence have none to do them reverence.
But the dead are safe. Their record
is made up. We may praise or con-
demn and none shall gainsay us.
Their living friends may differ con-
cerning the merit of their different
acts, but no one can justly assail their
motives or deny them fair, honest,
charitable construction. 1t is said
that the war has settled the question OF
the right of secession, the right of one
portion of our country to seperate
from the rest and set up a government
of its own. Hence it follows that
during and previous to the war the
question was an open one, and a man
might and should take the affirmative
or the negative according to the best
of ihis judgment, and act upon his de
cisiOn accorIieg to the dictates OF his
conscience. We grant this to those
who differ from us upon the great
questions for the solution of which the
late bloody war was wagcd, and grant
ing it to others claim it for ourselves


The North, rich, prosperous, and
victorious, lays out magnificent GENE
teries. and erects splendid monument,
to her heroic dead. The South, poor
suffering, and vanquished. enshrinei
her dead in the hearts of her surviving
children. Why can we not feel ant
acknowledge, tiiat the heroisn. the de
yote.,ness. ami the patriotic ieryOr %


those noble men who gave up ali, eyei
life itself, in defence Of their sincere
and conscientious belief in the justice
OF the Confederate cause, are an honol
60 the whole country, glorious exam


ples of true American manhood! Shal
we ever have a real Union until this Il
Year: 1866

SMALLrox-To prevent pitting by
this horrible disease, Solon Robinson
recommends the following:


Get from the apothecary little vial
full of stuff called liquid caticle, and as
soon as the postules are fully formed,
apply little of the liquid with q little
brush or feather to each one. As fast
as they get ripe remove the scab and
wipe away the matter clean. and apply
the liquid again. Ii any one Of them
fill second time, you must remove the
covering, and repeat the process. 1t
will smart like fun for a moment, but
my word for it, when you recover you
will not find mark on that pretty face
of yours to prove you ever had the dis.
ease. am told the article is made OF
gun cotton, dissolved in chloroform.
Il forms an artificial skin over the
wound just as good as the real one.
Year: 1866

THE Montgomery Gala. Mail gives
the following good advice to young
men in that section of the country:


So far from there being nothing for
young men to do now, there never was
so much before. We want mechanics.
We want men who will take hold of the
plane or trowel, men who are moi
afraid ofbeing soiled by the dust ofthe
forge or the machine shop. The young
men cannot all be clerks. There is not
room enough in the country for them
when they all grow to be merchants
But there is room enough for any mum
ber of sturdy mechanics. Take hold
then, young men, and learn a good
trade. There is no disgrace in it. Bt
something, be usetul, be man.
Year: 1866

A HAPPY lloME.-Thc first year OF
married life is Il most important era in
the history Of the husband and wife
Generally, rs it is spent, so is almost
all subsequent existence. The wife
and husband then assimilate thcil
views and their desires, or else conjure
up their dislike, and so add fuel to
their prcjudiccs and animositics for.
ever atterward.


Il have somewhere read,' says Rev.
DR.. Wise in his Bridal Greeting" of
Il bridegroom who gloricd in his ecccn-
tricitics, He requested his bride to
accompany him into the garden day
or two after their wedding. He then
threw q line over the roof of thel
cottage. Giving his wife one end of it
he rctreatcd to the other side and eX.
claimed:


"Pull the line"


81 can't she replied.


"Pull with all your might" shouted
the whimsical husband


But in VAIN were all the efforts ofthC
bride to pull over the line, so long as
the husband held on the opposite side
But when he came around and both
pulled at one end, it came over with
great ease.


"Therc,' said he, as the line fell from
the roof, "you see how hard and inef
tectual was our labor when We pulled il,
opposition to each other, but how
easy and pleasant it is when we botl
pull together. 1t will be so, my dear
through life ii we act together it will
he pleasant to live. Let us, therefore
always pull together"


In this illustration, homely as il
may be, there is sound philosophy
Husband and wife should mutually
bear and conccde. if they wish to
make home II retreat of joy and bliss.
One alone cannot make home happy
There must he union of action, sweet
ness Of spirit, and great iorbcarance
and love in both husband and wife to
secure the great end Of happiness in
the domestic circle.
Year: 1866

The train on the East Tennessee and
Virginia RAILROAD ON last Friday made
the firsi crossing Of the new bridge
over the Holston river at Union De
not. It is one of Howe's pattern and
one the best and longest bridges IN
East Tennessee.