smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

Inc 1OAOWlng nne poem was composed an
read by John Hay before the trienniaI re-ur
ion of the Army OF the James, at Apollo Hal
in New York City, on the 10Th of the prese1
lmonth;l


THE ADVANCE GUARD.
In the dream of the Northern poets,


The braves who in battle die,
Fight on in shadowy phalanx


In the field of the upper sky:
And as we read the sounding rhyme,


The reverent fancy hears
The costly ring of the viewless swords,


And the clash of the spectral spears.
We think, with imperious questionings,


OF the brothers that we lost,
And we strive to track in deaths mystery


The fight of each valiant ghost,
The Northern myth comes back to us,


And we feel through our sorrows night
That those young souls are striving still,


Somewhere for truth and right.
1t was not their time for rest and sleep;


1u6n HedElS D6db ulAAu obAOuB3
In their fresh veins the blood of youth


Was singing its hot, sweet song:
The open heaven bent over them;


Mid flowers their 1.-the feet trod;
Their lives lay vivid in Light, and blest


BY the smiles of women and God.
Again they oomel Again I hear.



The tread of that goodly band;
/ know the fash Of Ellsworth's eye,


And the grasp of his warm, true handl
And Putnam, and Shaw of the lion heart
And an eye like Boston girls;
And see the Light of the heaven which shone
On Uric Dahlgren's ourls!
There is no power in the gloom of hell
To quench those spirits fire;
There is no charm in the bliss OF heaven
To bid them not aspire,
But somewhere in the eternal plan,


That strength and life survive,
And, like the files on Lookout's crest,
Above deaths clouds they strive.
a chosen corps, they are marching on
In wider field than ours;
Those bright battalions still fulfill


The scheme of heavenly powers:
And high, brave thoughts float down to US
The re-echoes of that far fight
Like the flash of a distant pickets gun
Through shades Of the severing night.
No fear for them. In our lower field
Let us toll with arms unstained,
That at last we be worthy to stand with them
On the shining heights they've gained,
We shall meet and greet them in closing ranks
In Times declining sun,
When the bugles of God shall sound recall.
And the battle of life be won.
Year: 1871

The Vicksburg Herald thus disposes of the
effort to bring about negro equality in the State o.
Mississippi:


I The insoIent demand Of the-negro- members
of the Legislature that negroes, NTH their wives
or those they may coll such, shall sit in the rail-
way cars assigned to ladies and their escorts, may
as well be met at onco and promptly Radical
carpet-baggers and thieves may pass law de.
claring that negroes shau sit in the same cars
with white people, and at the same tables in ho-
tells with them, and they may afix what penalty
they choose as a punishment for those who deny
them those seats in the cars or in the hotels, but
these laws and penalties will avail nothing. The
white men Of Mississippi do not propose that
Sambo and Dinah shall sit by their sides or by
the sides Of their wives and daughters, either in
railway carriages or in public hotels, and Sena-
tors Gray and Gleed, and Mr.. Jacob Ross, of the
House, may as we'll understand this at once.
There is no power on earth that can compel our
people to this. The army of Grant cannot travel
on railway trains to protect negroes in the right
to intrude Themselves whore they are not desired,
and where their presence will not be tolerated,
and nothing short of this can ever force our peo-
ple to submit to the insolent demand for social
equality with negroes. This attempt of the me-
groes will only produce bad blood, q score or so
ofimpudent scoundrols will be killed, few worth
less carpet-baggors will pass in their checks, and
the knaves and tho fools will then subside. If
the negroes are wise, they will subside before
any Of them got hurt !"
Year: 1871

Does not the condition of affairs in


South Carolina, if they really exist as


Governor Scott states, furnish strong
condemnation of the whole vile thing
called reconstruction. How long will
the United States be able to keep up
and support military establishment
strong enough to furnish each OF the
Southern States with a number of
soldiers sufficiently large to overcome
opposition which the entire State militia
is unable to accomplish, and how long
will the people Of the United States be
willing to be taxed for this purpose?


There is no use in mincing words on
this question. We desire to be frank
and explicit. The people of the North
ought to understand our views and our
intentions. We tell them in all candor
that the white people of the South will
never submit to negro supremacy.
They may, for time acquiesce in a
condition which they feel they have no
power to overthrow, but as soon as
their hands are united and their limbs
unfettered, they will assert their man
hood. The Southern States can not be
made over to negroes and carpet
baggers until the entire white popula-
ton is destroyed. There is no enmity
to the negro, there is no desire to place
him back in slavery. There is no feel
ing of revenge against him to be graft
fed. There is no wish to deprive him
of his full civil rights-no disposition
to wrong or harass him in full assertion
of those rights. But further than this
the white race of the South can not
will not go. Grant may send a large
number Of soldiers into South Carolina.
The people there will not resist the
soldiery. There will be quiet-a hol-
low truce as long as the soldiers remain.
Negro supremacy enforced by Federal
bayonets will be acquiesced in for the
time. But the soldiers can't stay al
ways. When the soldiers leave, the
white men will rise as naturally as a
cork will rise to the surfsce when re-
ieved from the lead which has held it
under the water. There is but one way
to perpetuate negro supremacy in the
Southern States. The white race must
be utterly destroyed before this con-
summation so devoutly wished for by
the Radicals can >be accomplished
Chronicle & Sentinel.
Year: 1871

pied the bishop. In whatsoever state an,
hrst Of all lcok up to heaven, and remember
that my great business is to get there l look
down upon the esrth, and csil to mind how small
a space shall soon fill in it. then look abroad
IN the Worli,snd | see what multitudes are in all
respects less hsppy then myself, and then learn
where all my cares must end and hok little
reason ever had to murmur or to be otherwise
than thankful And to live in this spirit is to be
always happy"
Year: 1871

There is no doubt that the corporation and
faculty of the University are zeaously in earnest,
not only to make theirs an effective literary col
Iere, but to add 20 it equally efficient scientific
and agricultural departments. Give them tie
money and we have not the least doubt that
they would 81 once ada professorships Of Practi-
cal Agriculture, Horticulture, Principles Of
Breeding, Veterinary Medicine, and any other
necessary departments of first class agricultur-
al college. Perhaps they would, with these
means, and the addition o! an experimental farm,
he able TO attract classes Of young men who
designed to make farming their profession, and
desired 20 be educated to itin thorough manner.
We should hope SO, and would labor heartily to
promo,e such a result. Where is the money to
come from VIII the farmers raise it VIII the
wealthy friends Of the University contribute ?
viii Burlington 10 anything Will the state
appropriate funds These are questions Of i'm
portsnce TO US all, and our columns are open
for their ventilation.
Year: 1871

School Boys FIRST Love Letter
never wrote letter before, and don't know Just
how to begin it but know lots of boys who DO
write letters to the girls and I'm most as big as
they are. Tommy Jones ssid he had got letter
from somebody I tease1 him to let me see it (;
IN taking it from his pocket, It fell into mud
puddle. l never was so tickled in my life, but
he cried like everything. | like you real well
for you are Democrat, and Old School Baptist
and have been to the city. | saw you last Sab
bath. You have a new bonnet Ike new bon
nets and sometime you know, shsll get you
a new bonnet almost every day | shsll learn
to build houses, and you can wash the dishes
and make pancakes. | like pancakes don't you,
don't like molssses bit it is real nasty stuff
| hope you don't like it either, for | shall not
have bit in our house, and it wouldn't look
well to quarrel about mossses and | wouldn't
strike g girl when she's woman. When | get
tome money I'm going to buy come cologne
shall turn out some fer me, 30 when I come to
see you | can perfume my handkerchief. The
school 'msm' is locking this way. You see she
don't know what true love is. II you havn't
any paper, I'll give you leaf out of my new
reader.


WILLIE Brown"
Year: 1871

When girl marI-ies why do peo-
pie talk Of her choice2 In ninety


nine cases out ola hundred has she


any choice? Does not the man
probably the last one she would


ilavc chosen) select her?


A very clever correspondent sent


US letter containing this query;


and she makes out her case very
ably. She says: 81 have been


married many years; the match


was considered a very good one,


suitable in every respect age, 10


sition and fortune. Every one


said I had made a good choice.


Why, my dear Mr.. Editor, I loved


my husband when I married him


because he had 5y unwCaried agsid-
uity succeeded in gaining my af-
fections; but had choice been my


privilege, I certainly should not
have chosen him. AS l look at
him in his easy chair, huge dog
at his feet, a pipe peeping out Of
one of the many pockets of his
shooting coat, eau but think how
different he is from one l would
have chosen. My first penchant
was for fashionable clergyman,
perfect Adonis; he was a hattercr.
and he cared but little for me,
though have not yet forgotten the
pang of his desertion. My next
was barrister; young man of
immense talent, smooth, insinuat-
ing, mannery; but he, too, after
talking, walking, dancing and firt-
ing, left me in the lurch. Either
OF these would have been my
choice, had I so chosen; but my
present husband chose me, and
therefore, 1 married hipi; and this.
I cannot help thinking. must be the
way with half the married folks Of
my acquaintance"


There is both sound sense and
truth in this; but is it not better
that men should choose rather than
they should be chosen? And is not
our correspondent happier with
her present husband, shooting jack
ct, pipe and dog inclusive, than she
would have been with either the
fashionable clergyman or clever
barristeF? Men areproyerbially in
constant, after marriage, when the
trouble and inconvenience of child
rem are beginning to be felt, and
when the wife begins to neglect her
husband for her children, unless
there was originally very strong
on the husbands side,
there is little chance for happiness. /
A wife's affection on the contrarg,
always increases after marriage;
and even If she were Indifferent be
tore, no well disposed woman can
help loving the father Of her child
ren. Children on her side are a
bond of union, and though she
may appear, for them, to neglect |
some Of those little attentions
which men naturally seem to ex-
pect, it is only because the child is
the more helpless being OF the two, !
and the true woman always takes
the side of those who arc most fee
bic.
Year: 1871

AA0uELA0lA AJAhaGa


Some cooks will throw out watel
in which meats have been boiled
without letting it cool to take OF
/ the fat.


Bits OF meat arc thrown on
which would make hashed meat ol
hash.


The -four is sifted in wastefu
manner, and the bread pan left with
the dough sticking to it.


Pie ciustis laid by to sour, instead
Of making tarts for supper.


Cold puddings are considered
good for nothing, when oftimes
they can be steamed for the next
day.


Dish cloths ere thrown down
whore mice can destroy them.


Vegetables are thrown away that
would warm nicely for break
fast
The scrubblng brush is left in
water


Tubs and barrels are left in the
sun to dry and fall apart.


Nice handled knives are thrown
into boiling water.


Silver spoons are used to scrape
kettles.


Cream is allowed to mould and
spoil.


Coffee, tea, and spices are left to
stand open and lose their strength.


The cork is left out OF the molas-
ses jug and the flies take posses
sion.


Vinegar is drawn in n tin basin
and is allowed to stand until both
basin and vinegar arc spoiled.


Dried fruit is not taken care ofin
season and becomes worny.


Potatoes in the cellar grow, and
sprouts are not removed until they
become useless.


Pork spoils for the want Of salt
and beef because the brine wants
scalding.


Bones arc burned that would
make soap.


Cloths are left on the line to be
whipped to peices in the wind.


Brooms are never hung up, and
are soon spoiled.
Year: 1871

When men are most sure and ar
rogant, they are commonly tho
most mistaken, and have then Civ
en- views to passion without proper
deliberation and suspense which
can alone secure them from the alb
surdities.
Year: 1871

an angry Western editor wrote
to q poetical correspondent the
other day: If you don't stop send
ing me yoar abominable poetry, I'll
print R piece of it some day with
your name in full, and send a copy
to your gal! The poetry from that
fountain was quietly dried up.
Year: 1871

The difference between a gentle
man and a hog is aptIY- illustrated
in the following gparagraph from the
Memphis Appeal:


Grant and Beauregard met on a
railway train on the 26th near
Leavenworth. The meeting was
apparently cordial, but Grants lit
tleness was illustrated hen he said
he would not have taken that train
if he had known that Beauregard
was on board. The people in fact
manifested greater eagerness to see
the great Confederate hero than
the manager Of the national gift
enterprise lottery. Brute force
conquers in the presence fcultured
genius.
Year: 1871

What tho Injunction Blocks-Its Effect Upon tho
Laboring Classes Waiting for the Return Of
The Boss'-Timely Action of Deputy
Comptroller Green-An Appeal to


the Taxpayers-A Visit to the


Mayors 0ifice-Ihe Committee


Of Seventy and Its Traitors.
Year: 1871

THE MAYORS OFFICE
yesterday there were no evidences OF excitement
or anything that seemed TO indicate that there
any disturbanc Of the usual routine OF Official duty
inc usual crowd OF enterprislng newspaper men In
vaueu tne mayors privacy, and endeavered to OBJ
tain from him the pabuum from which they could
mould ian interviews" but industry did not meet
with Its accustomed reward, and the enterprise was
o failure.


the Mayor stated yesterday in reply TO an inquiry
OF HERALD reporter that q visit had been paid to
his ONCE BY Deputy Comptroller Green, Mr. Belmont
that the business was OF character that could not
at present be made public ne Mayor, It Is said Is
quite prepared TO meet the charges that have been
brought agalns! MIN, should tho Grand Jury md o
true bill. His defence will be exhaustive and eabo-
rate and VIII comprise matter that Will certainly be
unexpected and exciting.


THE CITIZENS COMMITTEES
OF the Joint Committee OF the Supervisors and
Aldermen continued their work OF Investigation
yesterday OF the Court House and the City Hall.
They visited the COroners' offices and appraised the
carpets and furniture generally They inquired
particularly about safes and were shown one small
safe as the only one IN possession OF that depart
ment


Another open session OF this committee will be
held In day or two. 1t is known that important
action VIII then be taken. There was rumor In the
Of city na ocaS ad 'ne sm ss
bers or 1.-THE Rlngn were in preparation by
this committee and Will be placed before
District Attorney. Garvin to-day. This rumor was
not authenticated, but IL originated from source
that was likely TO be well informed.


THE C0MMIrTEE OF SEVENTY
nave taken further legal action Mr PecKham, their
ana Miller relating TO certain transactions con-
nected with the city.


II has transpred tnat the councils OF this com
fear on their part that all the members are not faith
fu to the rcf0rmers' cause whether there has been
any actual trcachery mas not yet been discovered,
that there Is more tnan one Judas" sitting within
the fold.
Year: 1871

The week opens upon more active market
at the stock Exchange the railway share list command
ing prncpa attention. In this market the business has
been larger and better distributed than for many days.
In tone the general market has been strong, with
further upward movement in many OF the specialties
the talk now being of vigorous prosecution OF the Du


campaign by the leading clques, in June, who VIII use
their utmost endeavors bring into the speculative
arena again outside support which gave success TO
the last brilliant move. These clques recognize the
necessity Of engineering some device which snail
enable them 10 successfully market their holdings
and in order to do this the sympathies OF
the darling public must again be enlisted II TINS
cannot be done under the present unprecedentediy
cheap rates for money, unequaed in the history OF
Wallst il may well be doubted If he accomplished
a ALL Rock Island was the card today the price OF the
stock having been pushed to l2ll with large volume
of business Lake Shore also commanded higher prices
on liberal purchases the story of the scrip dividend
being brought in accessory to the advance. The
same was true Pittsburgh only in an adverse direction
the price declining from 1924 to 9 on the report that
the scrip dividend had been postponed. Reading was
strong and higher, also Erie and Union Paenc
while the Vanderbilt securities dull on the report
from Washington that the Secretary of the Treasury
had decided that the Company must pay the tax upon
the great scrip dividend The Northwest stocks were
steady while Ohios were weak, and fell OFF from 50i TO
4sI There scarcely enough business done in invest


ment securities give to quotations. There was
an active business in miscellaneous stocks Pacific Mail
being firm and Western Union weak and lower. The
low-priced shares were little seader. The Coal stocks
were in good inquiry at higher prices consolidation OF
MARYLAND selling up to IS. Express stocks were quiet
About D. No. the market suddenly broke 10 per cent,
but later recovered and closed with an improved eehs
The following table the highest and lowest prices
40 Iax-s
Year: 1871

The Treasury and other Government offices in this
city will be closed tomorrow, the same being Decora
ton Day" As the day is not legal holiday the banks
will be open usual for the transaction Of ordinary bus
ness The gold market has been strong to-day, with the
preponderance Of business l; the extreme range OF
the price being Iua1lE Gold has lent fat and at l. D.
aud per cent for carrying The days business at the
Gold Exchange Bank was as follows: Gold cleared
gold balances sl552,3l5; currency balances
s1 zls 11n The following wore the anotations:
Year: 1871

Battles at Home, and In The World, by MARY
g. DARLING orace b. Fuller are the titles Of two con


secutye stories OF attractive domestic character de-
sering the career OF young man from his early child
hood 10 the completion Of his college course They are
commended to readers Of taste by their refined vein OF
hnmor and 10y the veness and force Of the narrative
Year: 1871

the COLLEGE RerieW,~devOted especially to the
interests of education and reports OF intelligence from
,e various colleges has also articles on gene
raj literature particularly in the department of history
which cannot fail TO attract the attention of intelligent
TCadoTs.
Year: 1871

MEMPHIS, sept IL.


A special to the Daily Press from Pu.
laski says Governor Brown had another
severe attack this morning, but was better
at noon, though still in a critical condition
Year: 1871

The suspension of the Charleston
Is. C.) Republican moves the New
York Times to remark:


"The fact appears to be that there
is not yet Republican party in the
Southern States capable of support
ing an independent Republican news
paper. The result is that uoarly, if
not all, Southern Republican journals
are fed from the State treasures, and
do not thrive morally on that diet
This is one of the evils that time
alone will cure" a'


This comment implicitly approves
the practice Of the Southern State
treasures in using the tax payers
money to publish partisan news pa pers.
This identical thing is one of the
strong counts in the Times fierce in
dectment of the Tammany govern.
ment, of New York. The Times is
right in denouncing this misconduct
of Tammany, but all its denunciation
applies, according to its own state
ment of the case, to the Radical gov
ernment Of. every Southern State
Baltimore Sun.
Year: 1871

For Fifteen years daily, at Stamford,
Conn.,, a man has sat on fence and
watched every railroad train as it
passed d.-Erchange.


He is probably trying to make up
his mind if it would be safe to ride in
the oars. Old fellow, you stick to
that fence If the top rail is sharp,
turn it over or put a cushion on it,.
Fit up a smoking apartment on the
next pannel If you like, and rig a
luxurious couch on tho next one to
that. Bring out your baggage, take
a check for it and hang it On post.
Buy ticket and punch it youraeIf.
ask yourself the distance to the next
station, and get insulted. Se-
cure, as your means will permit, all
the luxuries of railroad travel, but
don't get off that fence to enjoy them.
So shall you die q natural death,
and the good wife shall not expend
the farm fighting the life insurance
companies over your cold corpse.
You're in, the right O. this thing, old
rooster .. .'''
Year: 1871

A familiar writor tells US that


happiness is tho gay to morrow of the


mind, that never comes :" but we will


not say amen to this. Truo tho


search after happiness since tho days


of Rasselas is seldom blest with any


fortunate result, unless wo except


the lessons taught us on the road.


Tho fruitless endoavor to be happy


the constant striving after this grand


ultimatum Is never successful. Hap.


piness comes as Parthenia says love


does, unseen, unsought. She is coy
and exactiug: We sot apart q day
on which We determine to bo happy,
and perhaps include many who are to
partakc with us Of its p.oasuros-wo
build our hopes on such a natural
and plausible foundation that we
scarcely deem it possible We can be
disappointed. The day comes, all is
bright and beautiful, the winged
courses of our fanciod car cannot
move too swiftly, and we hail tho
sunlight as the fitting courier to her
aid our joy. Ere that sun has set we
arc called to mourn over the nothing.
ness of our dream-something is sure
to happen to rob us of all enjoyment,
and we find out what others have be-.
fore discovered, that we can never
count upon one day-nay ono hour
of happiness. When we least expect
it, sometimes n low voice whispers,
and 10 |! we are happy, a soft touch Is
laid upon our hoart, and poaco comos
to the troubled soul, brightness to
tho weary eye.
Year: 1871

A poor woman used to give an elo-
phant, who often pas 'cd her stall in
tho market, handful Of green's, of
which he was very fond. One day he
was in great fury, and broke away
from his keeper, and camo raging
down market.placc. Every ono fled, :,
and in her haste the market woman
forgot her little child. But tho fu.
rions elephant, instead of trampling
it to death, lifted it up tenderly and


laid it on one side in a place Of safe.
ty. DO you believe she was sorry she
gave him handful of green's as he
went by? No. We sometimes profit by
kind action when wo least expect


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