smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

L rom IllG UlODe OF MOnQay


we copy the following remarks
of Hon. ID. w. Voorhees,, o.
Indiana, on the income tax.


1 represent a large agricult
ural district, populous and in
good circumstances. I think,
however, l should be faithless
to their wishes on this subject
if I voted here to relieve that
class Of people who are best
able to pay tax upon their in.
comes. The tax falls on that
class of people, who, the very
term oft, have an income to
be assessed. The gentleman
from New York (Mr. Wood
says that this tax is inquisitor.
ial. The tariff on the articles
which enter into the ordinary
consumption of a household is
still more inquisitorial in its
character than this tax. There
is nothing that goes upon a
mans person, nothing that he
lives upon, nothing that cloth
es his family, but is visited with
the inquisition of taxation.


According to my view of the
situation of affairs, taxation is
quite unequal enough now, and
should not be made more un.
equal by relieving the wealthier
and better able classes Of the
payment Of this tax. Instead
Of this being an unpopular tax,
[ would say to this House
that the most unpopular act
it could commit would be, in
my judgment, to repeal the in
come tax. On whom does this
tax fall? On bondholders, an
though not half so heavily as [
would make it fall on them if
| had the power. On bankers,
though not to the extent it
ought. On the wealthy man,
ufacturers and merchants, and
on aggregated capital in what.
ever hands it may be found
Instead of this being too in
quisitorial a tax, l would make
it more SO ifhad the power for
under the law as it now is men
evade their taxes. 1t is a con.
slant complaint in the various
collection district that men, by
false returns, by untrue ac-
counts, evade paying the prop
er tax on their incomes. And
why should not wealthy men
pay this tax? Is it inquisitorial
ito impose a tax upon incomes,
which are better able to pay
taxes than any thing else?


This is a complaint which I
can not comprehend, especial
ly when the taxgatherer goes
into every household and lays
his hungry hand on the person
of every laborer, every farmer,
every mechanic, and every
member of a mans family,
visiting them with an inquisi-
ton which has no limit or re-
straint, in order to raise the
revenue under our system of
tariff taxation. And if 1 had
the power, instead of removing
the system Of inquisition which
executes the income tax, [
would make it still more bind
ing, | would make those who
executes the law fulfill their
obligations more carefully and
morh fully than they do now.
Year: 1870

How TO CARvE.-Carying Is a very desirable
accomplishment for both ladies and gentlemen,
and should be taught One cannot learn it by
tuition, but by practice, joined by small slice
of theory IL is true that the French style Of
serving meat sliced is fast bsnishing the neces-
titv Of carving at the table Of the rich, but in
middle life, where suoh clegancies are not prac-
tsei a knowledge Of carving should be a part
Of a BOYS or gIrt's education. How often do
we hear person saw oh, excuse me, cant
carve : I never tried Or, if it be attempted,
one soon finds himself sadly embarrassed. He
erasps the knife and fork desperately. He has
learned that 4 slice Of the breast OF turkey is a
dainty that wing Is good the second joint
also that the leg is not 70 good. But IT lis not
An easy task 10 separate them and he thinks
he would rather chop wood than cut turkey. He
does not know that on the back lies delicious
morsel called the oyster, and the side bones be-
low the second Joint are considered tidbits. This
must be taught him Ladies ought especially
to make carving a study at their own homes
the task often devolves upon them, and. they
should be able to perform it with ease, not be
forced to sccept the assistance of visitors, who
would probably dread the operation. The plat
ter should be placed so near the carver that he
has full control over il if far of nothing can
prevent an ungrsceful appearance. sharp

knife is requisite, and thin and well tempered
blade. In carving turkey, cut off the wing
nearest 10 You first, then the leg and second
Joint then slice the breast until a rounded
nice .npears insert the knife between them
md separate them-this part is the incest bit Of
the b. east next comes the q merry thought
Alter bis, turn over the bird little, and just
below th e breast you will fnd the oyster, which
Won sepa. ate as you did the inner breast. The
side bone lies beside the rump, and the desired
morsel can he taken without separating the
whole bone Proceed the same with the other
side. The ,rk need not he removed during the
whole proces.I An experienced carver will dis
sect fowl as essy as you can break an egg or
cut a potato lie retains his seat, msnsges his
hands and elbo VS. artisticay, and is perfectly at
ease. There is no difficulty in the matter, it
only requires knowledge and practice; and
these should be taught III the family, each child
taking his or her turn, Chickens and partridges
sre c5ryed in the same way.-HeGrih and
E{o-~.
Year: 1870

reasonable for the mental and moral edifca-
ton of the young cub, but he so entirely
absorbed the attention of the children that it
was thought best to have him leave. lie was
accordingly politely invited to retire, bat he
had evidently come resolved to see the thing
through. \ strap was finally got around his
neck, and he was led away and fastened in a
small adjoining room used as a store room.
Order was restored, and the superintendent
was once more about to commence services,
when a racket, as if all bedlam had broken
loose, was heard in the store room. The cub
had broken loose from his fastenings and
upset FIVE gallon kerosene can, and was
playing mad in magnificent style. As the
door was opened, bruin dashed ont, and left,
evidently disguised with the manner Of con-
ducting Sunday schools in Traverse City.
Year: 1870

THE INDIANS DIsGUsTED.- The
ridiculous display made at the in
stance of Secretary Fish in the
White House, before Red Cloud
and Spotted Tail, seems to have
filed the aboriginal mind with
boundless contempt for their Great
Father, and they have returned to
their native wilderness determined
to fight him to the bitter end.


These grim chieftains of an exas-
perated and ferocious race came to
washington to lay their grievances
before the President. Instead of
being received in manly way, they
were treated to strawberries and
icecream, and to the sight of fash
ionable dowagers and gaping aliens.
They left the White House in dis.
gust, determined to make war upon
the whites, whose unseemly exhibit
ton in the national wigwam seemed
like a farce and q mockery to their
savage feelings.


Gen. Grants Indian policy must
be consigned to the same grave
which already contains the decay.
ing relics of his English, st. Do,
mingO, and Cuban policy.
Year: 1870

VIvIsEcTIoN.-London has re-
Gently been excited by an incident
at first supposed to be horrible.
The rumor was that a negro had
bee naayed, and the adherents Of
Exeter Hall we're all on fire. A
white child had been accidentally
burned, and Mr.. Geo. Pollock, of
st. Georges Hospital, London,
cut q bit Of skin from the shoulder
Of a negro and applied to the burnt
part Of the child. The operation
was successful-the negro bit of
skin adhered and became q part of
the skin of the white child. Here
upon it was reported that q poor
black man was fayed against his
will, and that the surgeon intend
ed to change the child into a ne
gro, despite the wishes of its par
ents. So great was the excitement
that the London papers had to
make full explanations.


The negro was paid sovereign
for the bit of skin, which he parted
with cheerfully, and would like to
part with all his cuticle at the
same rate per bit; but the surgeon
had no idea of changing, in out.
ward appearance, q Caucasian into
On African except to the extent Of
q spot of less than q pea in size


The experiment is valuable, and
suggests q new form Of miscege
nation. The skin of a negro un
d. the hands Of q skillful opera
tor, can be taken off and grated
upon the body Of a white person
or the reverse, thus enabling tht
Radical to change his complexion
or If we cannot change the spot
Of the leopard, good Republican
can be made as spotted as III
leopard. This information Is val
uable to all Office seekers Of th
dominant party
Year: 1870

THE awful prevalence Of Airta.
ton at the watering places and
other resorts where the young of
both sexes gather in large num-
bers to seek pleasure is accredited
to the present extravagant require
ments of social life. Young men
making their own way in the world
cannot afford the luxury Of a
wife, and few well-brought up girls
of the present day would think of
marrying on an unsettled and pre-
carious income. And so it comes
to pass, that knowing 1t wiser not
to make real love they indulge in
this wretched travesty of that de-
lightful occupation. Yet, perhaps,
it would be safer, in many in.
stances, to take the real love and
the precarious income together.
Year: 1870

IT is contended that trout FISH
ing is not a cruel sport; that the
wrigging of the fish on dry land is
not indicative Of agony but Of ex-
stacy. 1t has been taken from the
water where there is but little
oxygen into the air where there is
a good deal of it, and feels just as
q person does when he takes laugh
ing gas, and suffers no more pain.
Perhaps.
Year: 1870

The deaf mutes Of Washington
city have been giving q gorgeous
temperance dinner TO members Of
both Houses Of Congress and Of
the press. They hope that the
courtesy win be reCiprocated By
handsome appropriations and
newspaper notices.
Year: 1870

FAIR AT LEIGH-SrREET CHURcH.-A
Fair now in progress at Leigh-Strcct
Baptist church is attracting much attention
and patronage from the people in that
vicinity. The tables are well filled with
the fancy articles usually sold ut such
times, while the supper table presents oil
that one can wish. The proceeds of this
Fair are to be used to pay for painting and
refitting the church. Give them q call.
Year: 1870

We have determined to reduce to less than the
regular gold rates the price OF every article of our
magnificent stock or Diamonds, Fine Watches,
Jewelry, and silverware, and ask an inspection or
our goods and prices, which we propose to otter
for less than they can be bought in the hrst.cass
houses Of New York and Philadelphis. We Inn
port and receive daily from the manufacturers The
Year: 1870

line between this city and New York. He
explained its objects and advantages, and
spoke of the encouraging success that had
already crowned his efforts in its behalf.
he read from prepared tables the present
rates of freight between New York and the
different southern ports, showing the very
high rates paid by Richmond shippers,
which, in some instances, were 300 per
cent. more than were paid by other south
ern cities.


After discussion highly favorable to the
line, the following resolutions were adopted !:
(: "Resolved, That this Board hail with
satisfaction the prospect of having new
line of steamers from this city.t New York
which will be managed in the interest of the
people Of this State, not doubling that q
healthy competition will be brought about
which, whilst it will inure to the benefit Of
the new line, will place our tariff Of rates
for freight on somewhat fair footing, and
compare more fayorably with the rates by
other steamers sailing from New York to
other cities than they now do.


Resolved, That low rates of freight,
comparing not unfavorably with rates to
and from other cities, are mercantile ne
cessity, and that to insure this we would
earnestly recommend to the members of this
Chamber the most attentive and favorable
consideration of the claims of the contem-
plated opposition line"
Year: 1870

Generals nt Odds-spscimens of PorlsIan Sell


correspondent of the London Doily Ne.cs
writes from the inside of Paris-


I'VE are by no means very happy family.
General Ducrot and General Blanchard have
had words. The latter in the course of the
dispute, said to the former, If your sword were
rs long as your tongue, you would be wonder
full warrior indeed Ducrot and Trochu are the
literary generals, Einoy and Blanchard the
fighting generals. 1t is reported also that
General Fave is to be superseded, although
his redoubt may be said to have saved
the army from greater disaster. While, how
ever, the military men differ among themselves,
they are all agreed in abusing the National
Guards, whom they irreverently call Les Char
cutiers-the pork butchers. When La Care
aux B9ufs was carried by Admiral Polhuan and
lowed in the rear. The Admiral and the sailors
were somewhat astonished to find that in the
order of the day hardly anything was said of
those who really did the fighting, but that the
pork butchers were lauded to the skies Gene
raj Trochu on this wrote letter TO the Admiral,
informing him that it was necessary for political
reasons to encourage theNational Guard.


while the battle was going on at Vilers and
Champigny, the marching bate lions of the Ma
tional Guard were drawn up almost out of shot.
An order came to form them into line. Their
commander, General Clement Thomas, replied
that this would be impossible, as they would
imagine that they were about to be taken into
action. Notwithstanding this, General Trochu
cOngratulates them upon the moral support
which they afforded him. 1t is not surprising
that the real soldiers should feel hurt at this
system of humbug. They declare that at the
next sortie they will force the Parsians to fight
by putting them in front, anc firing on them if
they attempt to run away. 1t must be remem-
bered that these fighting battalions consist of
young unmarried men, and if Paris is to be de-
Tended, there is no reason why they should not
be exposed to danger The Inhabitants of the
city seem to consider themselves a sacred race;
they clamor for sorties, vow to die for their
country, and then wish TO do it by procuration.
am utterly disgusted with the difference be-
tween their words and their deeds. The Mobiles
and the line have as yet done all the fighting,
and yet, to read the Paris newspapers, one would
suppose that the National Guards, who have
kept we'll out of all danger, have covered them
selves with glory. Since the siege commenced
they have done nothing but swagger about in
uniforms, and go in turns on the ramparts. They
have learned to knock a penny off a cork at a
distance of ten yards, and they have carried on
very successful campaign against the spar
rows"
Year: 1870

in coin. Their market value has been
par in coin for some time past, their price
having gradually advanced 10 that point
after the Supreme Court decision us to
tho medium Of redemption enforceable in
all obliGatsons entered into before the pass
age Of the Legal Tender act.
Year: 1870

That elegant scholar and man of the world
Mr.. "Carl Benson" who throws light on eaci
and every one of the innumerable subjects
which he discusses in the weekly and monthly
periodicals, has taken the trouble to elucidate
the sex-and-sufffage business in way that
must command the admiration of the com
monalty. There is one point, however, to
which we fear he has not given sufficient
study, even though his language in regard to
it is much more clear and precise than his
arguments upon some other points. 1t is where
he states the real difficulty in the way OF Woman
Suffrage, thus:


" 1t il not that woman has not enough, or that
sho cannot yet epiSe enough or that she has not the
precise combination OF and epiSteme requisite to
form sophia, since for purpose nothing 80 high az
sophia is needed it ia rather that she lacks hronssis"


Now we do not like to differ from proposition
of this kind but we are compelled to say it is
not sustained by experience, observation,
philosophy, or history. Some people will
perhaps feel obliged to him for not absolutely
denying that woman may have nous enough,
and may be able to episteme enough, to reach
the sophia necessary for suffrage; but we
maintain that in denying woman the possession
of phronesis, he is guilty OF an outrage TOR
which, we trust, he may be properly punished.
What. we demand, would woman be without
phronesis9 Where should we look for it, in
this dolorous world, if not in the soul of
womanf What would her nous be worth
without it Why should she take the trouble
to episteme in its abseDce7 What would even
sophia avail her, if pIrOneSis were beyond her
graspf Without it existence would be
intolerable, and it would be easy to
show that Nature had been guilty OF cruelty.
But we also maintain that, beside merit
ing apprehension for saying that woman lacks
the phrOneSis which she has, in fact, always
possessed and illustrated, Mr.. "Carl Benson" !"
deserves castigatiOn for the way in which,
under pretense of crediting woman with GER
tain powers and characteristics, he charges her
with possessing that nous, and that ability to
eDisteme. if not that sophia, which nearly
all women hold in contempt. He doubtless
thought he could do this sort OF thing with
safety. He probably fancied that nobody would
ever find out what he was about. But he has
already learned, and he will likely have the
Opportunity of learning still better hereafter,
that no man can trife with a subject OF this
kind without danger.


We call upon the SOrosis and all the other
Womans Clubs to take up this question at
once. II is not talk that is needed about 1t,
but action. "Carl Benson" himself should be
brought out, and compelled to furnish the
ground on which he has had the audacity to
allege that woman lacks phroneSiS, while he
charges her with nous.
Year: 1870

If we had not long ago ceased to wonder at
any exhibition of folly, or inconsistency, or
rascality, on the part of persons connected
with the Mexican Government, we should be
fairly amazed at the facts which the Select
Committee on Retrenchment have brought to
light in their investigation of the smuggling
frauds along the Mexican and Texas border.
1t is not that Juarez has been doing profit
able business by outwitting the United States
customs officers. TO Government which
treats brigandage as an ordinary incident
of politics. theft as an exigency of public
life, and assassination as one of inevitable
Inconvenience of office, rObbing the revenue
of friendly nation is but trifle indeed
We should have been quite prepared for
that we should have been quite prepared
to find that the Mexican President swindled
us with all his might at the very moment
when he was protesting the profoundest regard
and gratitude and striking hands with us in an
elaborate Customs Convention. The marvel of
this new disclosure is not that the Mexcans
are rOgues, but that in their passion for i'm
position they have not even been able to re-
frain from cheating themselves. For, see what
they have done. If there was any one thing
clear in Mexican politics, it was that Mexican
independence hung upon the issue of our civil
war. The success of the Rebellion meant the
permanence of the French occupation. The
abortive alliance between Napoleon and the
Rebel Government was no secret, and it was
the downfall of the Confcderacy which over
threw the throne of Maximilian. Yet, if the
witnesses in this investigation have told the
truth, Juarez was conspiIator against the
power which alone saved him from de-
struction, and for the sake of a few dishonest
dollars he supplied his most dangerous enc.
mics with the means of making war not only
upon his best friends, but indirectly upon him
self. In this operation Mexican rascality seems
to have reached its zenith. Francis Latham.
who was the Confederate Revenue Collector at
Brownsville during the war, is reported az
testfying substantially as follows:


During the late the Confcderatesimported all the
and munitions they wanted from Mexico under the
Juarcz government. Governor Vidaurri gave permits
continually 10 send saltpecr sulphur and lead OF which
his state mined good DEAL and received cotton In pay
ment. had conversation with President Juarez on
this subject at my own house, aud also at his palace.


do not know that rcc0lcct the particulars OF these
conversations, but it was In company with other gentle
men. The first time saw him myself and about ten
nih"r ""r-"nS called ON hln ~ deDutaoA uo gsosiyed
Year: 1870

That the outraged Consul at Santiago de
Cuba is rascal and that the Spaniards have
five ships, five guns, and five men to our one
in the waters of the West Indies, are not suf-
fcient excuse for any failure on the part of
the Government to demand reparation for the
insult II is enough to know that there were
such insults offered to warrant the Government
in sending its demands. Gen. Garfield'O state
ments in the House yesterday in regard to the
character of Mr.. Phillips for truthfulness
and honesty may well cast suspicion on his
statements. But the facts of the murder OF
Weyth and Speakman year ago are and have
long been established. The evidence that they
were not in Cuba for hostile purposes is very
strong. The execution of these men has never
been explained by the Spanish authorities
and as far as the public know, no explanation
has ever been demanded. This is all wrong
The Government should not hesitate to ask
explanation. If unsatisfactory, it should at once
demand reparation. If denied, it should be
enforced. There will be no lack OF ships and
men to back up such demand when positively
made
Year: 1870

ia very cordially We had good deal OF talk about tho
present situation He very anxious to get Vidaurr
out OF there so he could get the money That Vda
ri was collecting and finally he made him leave lie ex


ressed desire that peace should very soon occur, or
course but he very glad to get the moneys ana nc
i.s,ed think two decrees very favorable, allow


ing cotton to pass know that occasion he issued


decree whereby cotton allowed to pass at any hour
of the day OF night at the time speak of Juarcz was
i'm sympathy with the Confederate Government at this
interview which had with view to get him TO
make some concessions the Confederacy he expressed
tho greatest desire to do 40, and think he issued de-
cree aerward nstructng his Secretary OF state ana
Secretary War who with him. allowing goods TO
go out and In"


There seems to be other evidence in abund-
ance to the same effect indeed Che ofiense or
President Juarez appears to admit OF neither
denial nor excuse. Unquestionably it gives us
a Just claim against Mexico for damages, and
we trust our Government will lose no time IN
making the proper representations at the capt.
tai of our neighbor republic. OF course in the
present chaotic condition of that country an
immediate satisfaction of our claims can hardly
be expected but we had better get our case
into court at once, even if we do not immedi-
ately press for judgment. 1t is an affair of
such gross ingratitude and such shameful du
plicity that we ought to make an instant and
emphatic expression of our sentiments.