smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

In the audacious attempt to Afri-
canize the South, says the Mobile
Register, the designing and Ignorant
men who have assumed the odium of
that humilisting task have appar-
entity ignored that most important
element of civilized society-woman !


A Beauregard-a Hays-a Gibson
false to race and country-and for
getful OF the precious lives which
have been sacrificed to build up their
fame-now sunk in the darkness of
contempt and execration-may pledge
,heir o1on faith TO the unifcation :"
of races whom the Creator has cast
in widely distinct moulds; and reck-
less Of the deep. damnation brought
by themselves on their own names,
may succeed in assinilating their
own fallen nature to that Of inferior
beings; but they possess neither the
right nor the power to degrade to
an equality with themselves that
other half of the human family
whom God has-jointly with man
entrusted the inheritance of the
Earth


These eleventh hour converts to
unifcation" and miscegenation may
invite their male associates to their
own bed and board, and lie down
with them in promiscuous and revolt
ing congeniality but they never shall
they never can-bring the noble


women of the South to their own
Year: 1873

Grants Attorney General when
applied to by some Of the white peo-
pie in Louisiana for relief from the
tyranny of the administration, as ad-
ministered through Kellogg and the
mulatto steamboat cook, replied by
advising them to attend to their pri-
vate affairs and let politics alone.
This is the very advice that the Gar
of Russia gives to his 'subjects-not
through his Attorney General, but by
means Of his military power. The
two Napoleons were OF the same
opinion, and enforced it stringently
while they ruled France. Bismarck
as chancellor of the German Empire,
was always carrying oat the very
same idea; and If the Emperor ol
Austria was asked his views.he would
doubtless adopt the language Of Grants
Attorney Geperal. There never was
a tyrant, from the days Of Nimrod
down to his latest copyist, who did
not act upon this principle. He
would rule the peoples place was
to attend to their private affairs. We
fear that it is too much the. fashioE
here, of late years, to act upon the
idea embodied in the Attorney Gen
erals curt and insolent reply to the
people of Louisiana and just as fal
as the people of the United State:
fall into this rpt. just so far have they
drifted from the example Of then
fathers. and Just so far are they
swinging away from a government
by the States and the people, into al
irresponsible rule Of demagogues anc
pretenders, who will in a short time
hold up before us the bare alterna
tive OF military absolutism or an
archy and confusion. The time was
when every American citizen wa'
governed by principle in his politics
The old questions still exist and claim
attention as much as ever. There
has been no day since the Inaugural
tfon of Washington, that there ha
not been danger of our beautifully
organized system Of government be
ing twisted from its true course by
false doctrine and heresy; and tn
danger was never greater than 1T Il
now. Let the people all through th'
country obey the mandate of the ad
ministration, and devoting themselve
to their private affairs leave polite
to their rulers, and the child is nov
in existence who will, beforeit reache
maturity, see our whole Constitution
torn to pieces.


The great evil of the day is t tina
the people are too prone to follov
this governmental counsel; in thi
they are guilty of q manifest neglec;
Of duty, A freeman has responsible
tiles as well as privileges. He Ia
no right to shun those responaibiliie
Year: 1873

The present, administration went
into power under certain solemn
pledges to the people. They promis-
ed so much that it was impossib e for
the most incredulous to believe that
they would not fulfill little. They
were to give us thorough retrench-
ment and reform in the conduct Of
public affairs. All useless Offices were
to be abolished; salaries to be reduc-
ed, and expenditures generally cur
tailed, within the compass of a mod
crate rate Of taxation. Have they kept
these promises in whole or in plrt ?
We regret to be forced to say that
they have not. The expenditures
have not been visibly diminished, and
the rate of taxation. is higher than
ever before, though no provision is
made for the payment;of interest on.
the public debt. There is, no assur-s
ance either that even the enormous
rate of taxation will be sufficient to-
meet the. extravagant expenditures,
and the probabilities are that Novem-
Der next will find us with almost as
great deficiency as had to be pro.
vided for during the current fiscal
year. -


The people have been forced to-
pay this year rate of taxation thir-
teen times as high as before the war,
and FIVE times as high as in 1867. the
last year of Democratic rule. With
all this additional burden we came
out in debt. The administration have
one more year in which to make good
their pledges. Let them see to it
that it is done, or else let them re-
tire to private life, that better and
more capabls hen may take their
places: -


It is high time in this State that
Bu1combs should cease to pass for
Brains, and Republicanism cease to
be preferred to Common Honesty.
Year: 1873

their useless lives, laying hold Of eve
ry newly invented stimplant to arouse
their doping energy. and blaming
their fate, when they dare not blame
their God, for having placed them
where they are. These individuals
will often tell you, with an air of
affected compassion for who can be-
lieve it. real?) that poor mamma is
working herself to o2death, yet no
sooner do you propose that they
should assist her, thap they declare
she is quite in her element; in short,
that she would never be happy if
she had nalf as much7to do.
Year: 1873

or she whom of all the world you


choose as a partner-she may love
you warmly, passionately children


may love fondly, but never again,
never, while time is yours, shall the
love Of woman be to you as. that Of
your trembling old motheNhas been:
Exchange. -
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, March ia story was pub
lished here this morning of the mysterious
forcible abduction Oh last Friday Of re-
spectacle young lady living with her pa
rents in the southern part Of the city by
two men who seized her in broad daylight,
while she was crossing the street, placed
her in a hack, blind-folded her eyes, drove to
a house in part of the city strange TO her,
and kept her under lock and key guarded
by an old woman until the next afternoon,
when she was permitted to escape and
found her way home. No violence or in
suit was offered her during her captivity,
and from q remark of the old woman on
first seeing her she was led to believe that
the men had kidnapped the wrong girl.


This is in brief the story of the young
lady, who had indeed mysteriously disap-
peared on the day mentioned, and who was
being searched for by the police and her
anxious parents all next day, but the SEN
saiion is spoiled by the discovery to-day
that the young lady went on Friday morn
ing to Joliet, where she has friends and
returned from there Saturday evening and
concocted the romaut story of her capture
TO cover her escOpade.
Year: 1873

peal to our brethren in the other States
for their sympathy and support of
a position which they are all interested
in maintaining, thus vindicat-
ing a cardinal principle of our political sys-
tenn. We have no other hope or means OF
defense against the wrongs done US. We
can only assert our rights, refuse suomls-
sion to usurpation and abide the Judgment
of the American people in our case. Mean
time it behooves the people OF Louisiana 10
preserve their manhood, their dignity and
their patience. Suffering under the great
est indignities which can be perpstrated
upon a free people, they are threatened
with prolongsLion of reign OF eorrup-
tion, spoliation and oppression for four
years longer.


We have no other recourse against such
calamity, and no means Of re-establishing
our rights as q people and our status as a
republican STATE, but by firm and un-
Welding adherence to the lawful govern
ment of the State. We therefore Crge our
fellow-citizens to give us their jealous sup.
port and encouragement in our endeavors
to support and put in operation this Gov
ernment, not by violent resistance to the
authority of the United States, but by a
firm and united opposition to any and
every act of the usurning government Of
Kellogg and his confederates. A


In view Of the great disasters Of our
STATE, resulting from political troubles, we
have been disposed to make large coDces-
siohs aud compromises to secure peacs and
good government to Louisiana, but all pro-
positions of that character have been
haughtuy rejected by the usarpers. Z r.
boldened by the cOunteDancs and support
extended to them by the Federal Executive,
nothing then is left to the free and honest
citizens of this States who elected Us and
our associates, but to rally With renewed
earnestness and devotion to the dffsnse and
support of the de j1re and lawful govern
ment. With heir approval and support we
have an abiding contidence 10 the eventual
triumph of our case and the recognition by
q Just and honest national administration
of the equal rights Of Louisiana, as one OF
Year: 1873

"A distinguished clergyman in Boston
performed the marriage ceremony, and the
couple walked out without bestowing any
fee. But the bride turned and said: owe
are very much obliged to you, sir; and L
hope one of these days We shall be able to
rafaliata y
Year: 1873

We have seven nice porkers in the
pen our only chance for meat next
year-apd if some Of patrons, who are in
arrears. would bring US in a few bushel,
of corn il would answer us almost as well
as the money. Reader, if you want good
greasy lying done next summer, bring US
few bushels of corn TO help fattsn our
hogs. The idea Of an ''honest democrat
living on blse beef, and trying to keep up
with the Radicals in lying. is absurd and
proposterous We've tried it and the
thing can't be did. If you want us ''tc
do the subject justice" bring along the
corn.-Clcrelaad Banner.
Year: 1873

Training girls for household duties ought
to be considered as necessary as instruction
in writing and arithmetic, and quite as
universal. We are in the house more
than half Of our existence, and it is the
household surroundings, which affect most
largely the happiness or misery Of domes-
tic life. If the wife knows how to keep
house" if she understands how to " set a
table" if she has learned how things
ought to be cooked, how beds should be
made, how carpets should be swept, how
furniture should be busted, how clothes
should be repaired, and turned and alter
ed, and renovated if she knows how
purchases can be made to the best advan-
tage and understands the laying in of pro-
visions, how to make them 60 the farthest
and last the longest; if she appreciates
the importance of system, order, tidiness
and the quiet management Of children
and servants, then she knows how to make
little heaven Of home-how to keep her
husband from the club room and the wine
cup. Such family will be trained to So
cial respectablity, to business success,
and to efficiency and usefulness in what
ever position may be allotted to them.


1t is safe to say that not one girl in ten
in our large towns and cities entered into
married life who had learned to bake loaf
of bread, to purchase a roast, to dust a
painting, to sweep carpet, or to cut and
make her own dress. How much the per
feet knowledge of these things bear upon
the thrift, the comfort and health of fami-
lies, may be conjectured, but not calcula
ted by figures. 1t would be of immeasur.
able advantage to make beginning by
attaching kitchen to every girls school
in the nation, and have lessons given daily
in the preparation of all the ordinary arti
cles of food and drink for the table to the
best advantage, with the result of large
saving Of money, and increase of comfort
and higher health in every family in the
land-HaNs Journal.
Year: 1873

Almost every one has different remedy
for this most common but none the less
distressing complaint. And the truth is,
that very few of them have any effect at
all, while some of them only aggravate the
case. The best and safest way for the
sufferer is to let himself alone tin the gas
trio or nervous arrangements which have
produced it have subsided, when sleep
generally comes to the aid of exhausted
nature, and perfects the cure The British
Medical Journal, in treating of this sub
ject, says the only remedies which are of
any avail are those which act on the
nervous system, such as hot tea and coffee,
or, after the most violent symptoms have
passed of, little wine or ammonia. The
bromide of potassium is also highly recon-
mended after the nausea subsidies. While
this exists, 1t Is of no avail. The writer
also thinks that tea and coffee used in
excess constantly, although they may re.
lieve headache, may also predispose to
the difficulty and he cites instances Of
several patients, who, by giving up the
use of those beverages, became cured Of
chronic or frequent headaches.
Year: 1873

The VALUE OF NEwspAPER.-Dr.
Franklin remarked that man often gets
two dollars for the one he spends inform
ing his mind. A man eats a pound Of
sugar and ii is gone; the information he
gets from newspaper is treasured up to
be enjoyed anew, and to be used whenever
occasion or inclination calls for it. A
newspaper is not the wisdom of man, or
two men--it is the wisdom of the age, and
of the past ages too. A family without a
newspaper is always behind the time in
general information; besides, they can
never think of much to talk about And
then there are the little ones growing up
withouta any taste for reading. Who, then,
would be without newspaper-and who
would read one without paying for it2
Year: 1873

Australia Is altogether deheient IN sensa-
tional wild beasts The iguana is perhaps
the most startling in appearance. He is a
huge lizard, with huge body and very
fat tail. | saw one shot which was five
feet in length, and which weighed, ] should
think, over twenty pounds. They are said
to be as good as chickens; but / never
ate one or came across any one who had
done so. They live among trees, and are
often to be seen upon the branches The
opossum-" up gum tree"-where he is
always to be found seems to be the most
perseyering aboriginal inhabitant of the
country He does not reccde before civil
lization, but addicts himself to young cab
bages, and is nuisance. As the blacks
die out, there is no one to eat him, and he
is prolific He sleeps soundly, and is very
easy to kill with a dog that will set him
for the hollow, halfdead, crumbling gum
trees are full of him. But there is no fun
in killing him, for he neither fights nor
runs away The kangaroo is so well
known, as are also the wallibi and paddy
melon which seem to be kangaroos in a
state of dwindling nature, that but little
need be said about them here That they
run only on two legs, and carry their
young in pouches every child has learned
from his picture books They are still
very numerous in many parts of the coun-
try. | have come upon herds, in which
hundreds have been congregated together
but they are more frequently met by tkrees
and fours. In some districts they are in
creasing in number, because there are no
longer black men to cat them. The dingo
or wild dog is the squatter's direst enemy.
He comes down by night from holes in
the hills or out of dense scrubs, and de-
stroys the lambs and drives the sheep. The
squatter attempts to rid himself of the
dingo by poison, and consequently, strych-
nine is as common in a squatter's house as
castor oil in nursery. On many large
runs carts are continually being taken
round with bats to be set on the paths Of
the dingo. In smaller establishments the
squatter or his head man goes about with
strychnine in his pocket and Jumps Of
meat tied up in handkerchief. Hence
it comes to pass that the use Of shep-
herds dog is impossible, unless he be
muzzled. But the dingo likes lambs bet.
ter than bait, and the squatters sometime:
are broken-hearted 1t is impossible to
omit all mention of the emu in a book on
Australia. They are now becoming very
rare, even on pastoral ground many miles
from the seacoast. have been taken out
emu hunting, but | never saw wild emu


| was told that it takes very good, fast
and lasting horse to run an emu down
especially as the poor bird in its last strug


gle, makes its fastest running. They Dc
not attempt to aid themselves with theil
wings, but toddle along with their long
legs, ever keeping straight line.
Year: 1873

DrsEsrERY.-The following simple
remedy has been known to cure the most
obstinate cases of Dysentery, when other
remedies had failed. 1t has the merit Of
being harmless and almost always effect.
ual Take one-fourth Of pint Of hot
water; vinegar, half pint Mix. Now
add common salt as long as it win dissolve
in the mixture, stirring it freely. Give fol
an adult one table spoonful every hour
until the bloody discharges cease, or un
til i operates freely upon the bowels.
Year: 1873

The BEGINNING AND THE End
Chiccory is said to contain properties pos
lively injurious to the health. Yet ground
coffee, as sold by the grocers is usually
adulterated with this substance, and many
persons insist that it improves the flavor
Of the coffee We are informed in re.
cent work on coffee that the coffee dealer
adulterates his coffee with chiccory to in
crease his profits; the chiccory dealer
adulterates his chiccory with Venetian-red
to please the eye Of the coffee dealer; and
lastly the Venetian-red manufacturer grinds
up his color with brick-dust, that by his
greater cheapness, and the variety of shade.
he offers, he may secure the patronage Of
the trade in chiccory.
Year: 1873

The art of saying appropriate words in
kindly way is one that never goes out of
fashion, never ceases to please, and within
reach Of the humblest. The teacher who
would be successful must cultivate the
gift.
Year: 1873

We are informed 10y telegraph that
the wandering congressman who pop
ped down one bright morning so sudden
ly and heavily upon the future capital
OF the republic are coming to Memphis.
We are advised that they will call at
the residence of General Alcorn on their
way to this city, and inquire even at
F7riars Point into the necessity for a Ievee
10 protect the richest farms on the
globe against destructive floods.
Senator Alcon will accompa-
ny the distinguished travellers
to Memphis. Here every provision will
he made for their proper entertainment.
Our mayor and board of aldermen will
escort the lsw-givers from the steamer
TO the hotel, at which they will be enter
tanned handsomely. The congressman
are expected TO be especially delighted
with the taste and requirements of our
local law-givers, and the enter
talnment viii, doubtless, be emil
Denuy successful. In fact, no
effort should be spared to make
ihe sojourn of these potent congressman
an this city most delightful. We must
hereafter ask many bOons at their
hands, and the shortest way to an av-
ersge cougressman's affections is a
broad-gange, and lies through kind and
courteous trestment.
Year: 1873

her way up the Richmond put off one


dollars worth of freight and one passen-


ger at Evansville, for which privilege


she had to pay seventeen dollars and


fifty cents wharfage. .....A A diver has been


examining the wreck of the Friendship,


and reports d hole in her hull about five


feet long and two feet wide, probably


caused by the pulling out of the timbeTs


and planks to which the hOg-chains


were attached. The wreck lies bottom


upward on her smoke-stack, with deep
Water running under her toward the
City of Vicksburg, and George Vickers
goes on the Emma Elliott. Captain
John Massie succeeds Captain George


Vickers as commander of the Noun
taineer Chief Engineer Perkins, of
of the Lee to 'pony over" five
if the Lee wins, in the comming race.
The Vicksburg Herald man thinks
journalism here in Memphis has reach
ed its climax, and complimenting " We
'UnsD saws: "Every member of the
press of the Bluff City is both moral
and piOus, and each has his class in one





piety shines through their local and
river columns, and the suggestion of
the Ledger that the morning newspaper
reporters start a temperance society
was certainly gratuitOus, so far as the
river reporters are concerned, for their
column show that they stick close to
Billy Dill, eE-Oficio river reporter, ought
- H. ID -


..... We copy the following from the
New Orleans Times, of Wednesday, to
give steam0oatmen an idea of
their trials at New Orleans: For sew
eral days past many of the negro labor
ers have taken it into their heads to go
about in gangs, inquiring ofother labor
ers who are employed, the amount they
receive, and if it is under four dollars
per day, the gang will order them to
knock off, under the threat that if
they do not, they will be
made to do so. An evidence
of this fact took place on the levee yes
terday. The steamer Robert E. Lee en-
gagged labor at less than four dollars per
day, and while the laborers were at
work, few of these gangs gathered
about the staging and tried to intimi-
date those engaged. This, however, did
not last a great while. Three or four of
our levee police came upon the scene
and arrested one of the ring-leaders, and
duly installed him in the first district
lookup, where, we understand, for this
outrage on commerce,
the prisoner was fined a paltry
sum, with bonds for his good
behavior, which was no doubt, given,
in order to set him at liberty to go back
to the levee and try it over again. The
Robert E. Lee is not the only packet
that has met with the same inconveni-
ence, but other steamers, the Thompson
Dean, which left the levee on Sunday
with laborers for the salt pile, met with
opposition from an armed mob, and
when the captain sent word to the po-
lice about ii, he was answered to the
effect that they could not help him.
This occurred at Algiers. We make this
statement in order that the police who
did their duty yesterday may not be
classed with those who did not. Colonel
Badger would do we'll to look into this
matter, and put sufficient force in the
vicinity of the depot of Nor
gan's Louisiana and Texas railroad, as
it is but a short distance below that
place where boats receive iron and salt.
Year: 1873

The court of claims at Washington on
Monday rendered a judgment for some
five hundred dollars in favor of retired
Major-General Eli Long, as commuta-
ton for fuel and quarters while he was
serving as professor of military science
at the Indiana State university, under
detail of the war department. The de-
eision of this test case establishes the
principle that retired officers assigned
to such duty are entitled to receive the
full pay and emoluments of their rank.
Year: 1873

The New York Star says, with refer
ence to the account of the Artic adven-
ture, as it appears in its telegraphie col
umns to-day: The suspected poisoning
OF Captain Hall recalls a prediction made
before the sailing of the expedition, by
a person in this city well acquainted
with its personnel, that Captain Hall
would never return alive, but would fall
a victim to the envy Of some of the
party.
Year: 1873

WHAT IS WANTING TO RESTORE
CoNFIDENoE.-One very hopeful feat
pre noted was thc increased movement
in foreign exchange Greenbacks put
into circulation IN that channel reach
the street and become Immediately
available. The trouble iu that respect
has been that business houses have
no confidence IN the best bills Of ex.
change. In revuIsion which had
destroyed the strong and left the weak (,
a few hours might see the failure of
these apparently most stable. It is
The general belief that commercial
deadlock has arisen chiefly from this
want OF confidence. The movement
in exchange is returning, and the opin-
ion is generally expressed that the re-
sumption Of discounts and currency
payments by the banks is all that is
wanting to restore trade to its natural
volume.-New York Journal.