smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

The following graphic passage is from
the description Of a scene witnessed by
Mr.. Campbell and his party in the north:


Norway from cliff one thousand
feet the sound of its waves scarcely
reach our airy lookout away in the
north the huge old sun swung low along
the horizon like the slow beat of the
pedulum in the tall clock of our fathers
parlor corner. We all stood silent look.
ing at our watches When both hands
came together at twelve, midnight, the
full orb hung triumphantly above the
wave-a bridge of gold running due north
spanned the water between us and him,
There he shone in silent majesty, which
knew no setting. We involuntary took
off our hats {; no word was said. Com
bine, if you can, the most brilliant sunset
and sunrise you ever saw, and its beauties
will pale before the gorgeous coloring
which now lit up the mountains. In
half an hour the sun swung up percep-
tibly on his beat the colors changed to
to those of morning, the fresh breeze
rippled over the food one songster after
another piped in the grove behind us, We
had slid into another day"
Year: 1870

A man stopping at a tavern for rest
and refreshments, began to talk about his
journey. He had come from ncighbor-
ing town he was moving away, and glad
enough to get away too. Such set of
neighbors as he had there, unkind, dis
obliging,c cross and contrary,it was enough
to make anyone want to leave the place
and he had started and was going to set
tie in another region where he could in,l
different set of inhabitants.


Well" said the landlord. you will
find just such neighbors where you are
going


The next night another man stopped at
the inn. He, too, was on a journey, was
moving On inquiry, it was found that
he came from the same place from which
the former traveller had come. He said
he had been obliged to move from where
he lived. and he did not mind moving 50
much as he did leaving his neighbors
they were so kind, consderate, accom-
modating, and generous, that he felt very
sorrowful at the thought of leaving then,
and going among strangers, especially as
he could not tell what kind Of ncighbor~
he would find


"Oh, WELL" said the landlord "you
will find Just such neighbors where you
are going


Does it not seem possible that men will
generally find about such neighbors a.
they are looking for? Some people are
always in trouble others follow peace
with all men, Who knows but wha
We can have just about such neighbors 81
we ought to?
Year: 1870

Josh Billings says: "Onc of the l,ts-
siest scenes ever seed wuz two old
maids waitin' on one sick widowcr"


Some of the strong minded women de-
nouncc matrimony, because, they say
there is something childish in it,


A dandy inquired at fruit stall "Are
these apples fit for hog to cat ," Try
one and see" said the woman.


A good old Quaker lady, after listen
ing to the extravagant yarn of a shop
keeper as long as her patience would al.
low said to him " Friend, what pity it
is a sin to lie, it seems so necessary to
thy happiness


4 married man in New Hampshire has
adopted an original method of economy
One morning, recently, when he knew
his wife would see him. he kissed the
servant girl. The house expenses were
instantly reduced $500 per year.


Breathes there man with soul ~
dead, who never to himself hath said, II
will my local paper take, both for my own
and family's sake ?" If such there be,
let him repent, and have the paper to him
sent /; and if he'd pass happy winter, he
in advance should pay the printer.


The following sentence will show the
Importance Of the position of comma
Without her man is brute.


An English writer thinks the Ameri-
can early potatoes will come to an eud
ere long, for as each new variety is
claimed to ripen about ten days earlier
than any other, the time between plant
ing and digging will soon be used up.


Everybody has heard of those gunboat.
in the Mississippi which were Of such
delicate structure that the officers had 10
part their hair in the middle to tlim
ship, while the sailors were forbidden to
shift their quids from one cheek to the
other suddenly for fear of capsizing the
vessel. But the hardest story is thai
which relates how one of these boats
fired howitzer, and was driven -four
miles up stream, while the shell dropped
plump into water. The boat was actual
ly fred away from the ball
Year: 1870

A l.-r-E-rLE Too SNARr.-Old Rum
ieldi was well-to-do farmer of Stewa, /
County, Tenn. He was regular in attend
ance at court at Dover, but seldom turned
his face homeward until he had swallowed
more whiskey than his skin could well
hold or his legs could conveniently carry.
On one occasion he got on his level early,
and about noon started for home. He
had not gone far. however, when he was
seized with an uncomfortable desire to
take II nap. He dismounted from his
horse, turned him loose to Craze, and
rolled himself into fence corner. He
was sleeping very sweetly, when he was
cspicd by a buzzard, which was sailing
about the vicinity, hunting for something
to eat. Smaller and smaller grew the
circles over his victim, cautiously taking
observations. At last, but still in some
doubt, the bird lit on the ground near its
expected feast About this time Rum
feldt became aware that something was
going on, and he partially opened one
eye aud saw the buzzard, but still too
drunk to take any active measures to
drive il away. lie, however, kept a
Close watch. The buzzard strutted around
him, all the time inspecting Rumfeldt
closely and cautiously, to ascertain posi-
lively tha, he was dead. lie finally be.
came satisfied that the corpus before him
was indeed carcass, and consequently
Ibis meat" whereupon he advanced de.
iberately TO Rumfeldt's head and gave
him a severe peck in the face. This
aroused Rumieldt, and striking out lazily
with his hand to prevent repetition OF
the attack, he exclaimed 4" Look ere
yoat're a l-e-e-tle TOO SMART amt dead
get"
Year: 1870

But for the Rebellion, Slavery would not
have been in our day abolished. But 1or
Andrew Johnson and the anti-negro legislation
of the Southern States as reconstructed by
him. the Blacks would not have been enfran-
chised. Up to this hour, the Chinese do not
want to become citizens, and scarcely any one
desires that they should but the prosecutions,
the robberies, the murders, to which they are
subjected by those who hold that Yellow men
have no rights that Whites are bound to
respect, will yet compel their enfranchisement.
Thus the divinity that shapes our ends" is
continually educing good from seeming evil


We heartily wish that it might not be neces-
sary for Congress to enforce the XVIII Amend
ment. 1t is so clearly the interest of the
Democrats, as well as of the country, that they
should cheerfully and heartily obey the funda-
mental law, that we realize that they will do
otherwise with profound reluctance. But the
Federal Constitution must be obeyed, and
Congress is expressly as well as generally
charged with the duty of enforcing such obe-
dience. COlored men are now citizens ana
voters wherever Whites are, and on precisely
identical terms. Wherever in our Union
man can lawfully vote, being White, there he
may henceforth lawfully vote, being Black.
This is the law which every officer OF our
Federal, State or Municipal governments
swears to support and obey; and whoever
violates it does so at his peril.


The short and easy way TO avoid difficulty
and preclude disagreeable legislation is obvi-
GUS. The struggle has been fairly fought out
The Democratic party resisted Black Enfran-
chisement to the extent of its lawful power 1t
not only induced every Legislature wherein it had
a majority to reject the Amendment; 1t dld Its
utmost to break up a quorum in that of In
diana, so as to defeat ratification by clear
majority of all the members elected. In this
State, after Republican Legislature had rat
ifed, Democratic was chosen which assumed
to revoke that ratification. So, from first to
last, the Democratic party has fought Black
Enfranchsement to the bitter end. Is it wise
to go furtherY


We appeal to the Democratic leaders to stop
their followers in a career of madness, and not
compel Congress to enforce the Amendment by
law
Year: 1870

makes no provision for Minister to Paraguay.
We certainly shall not quarrel with this bit OF
economy, FOR in the present condition OF the
country an Envoy to President Lopez would
be very useless and expensive officer. But,
without increasing the salary, the duties OF
the Paraguay mission should be added to those
of the Minister to Uruguay and the Argentine
Confederation. AT BuenOs Ayres or Monteyldeo
he would be near enough the scene OF action
to watch the progress of events and render
service in case Of need. The complications
arising out Of the ambition of Brazil and the
weakness of the smaller States may render 1t
important for us to have representative ac-
credited to the Paraguayan President AT any
rate, withdrawing our cOuntenance altogether
at this juncture would be helping the Brazil
ians in way for which we have no relish.
Year: 1870

Is it not Baron Munchausen who relates the
story of a man who could all at once turn
himself inside out and smile upon his ever
batiled pursuers7 Lopez of Paraguay, another
hero of another Munchausen, must be just
such a man. From being Lopez, such as we
know him from Brazilian report, he has sud
denly shown himself to be the old Paraguayan
dictator in short, he has turned upon his
pursuers and won victory. The good people
of Rio Janeiro wiring their hands, and say
there will be no end to the war, and therefore
no end to the money spent on it. Wonderful
to be said, all this news reaches us by way of
Lisbon, where Dom Pedros friends abound,
and where the makers of current history have
generally had no mercy for Lopez.
Year: 1870

boundary to-day who would build it over the
border if we had no more revenue 10 raise than
before our great Civil War7


Then our manufactures were undeveloped
"and feeble,r says The Times. Very well
Many have since beer developed and strength
ened but others are just struggling into life.
The Steel manufacture ror example) is TO-
day young and comparatively feeble pursuit
among us yet it is one in which success ia
most difficult, requiring vast agg1egations Of
capital, skill, and experience. We viii not say
that The Times is bent on crushing out this
most important industry: we do say that it
allows Its columns to be freely used by those
who mean exactly that. These men pretend
that there is great profit in Steel-making here
but they do MT believe it; for if they did, they
would be into the business up to their eyes
They would just as soon make Steel at Pitts
burgh, Harrisburg, or Troy as at Sheffield.
if they could make as much by so doing; and
we mean to have them making on this side of
the ocean within five years.


The Times says Protection was Indispensable
in Clay and Webster's day. but is not now.
The Times of their day would have said it was
very well in Hamilton's time, but not later.
We submit that what experience has proved
benefceDt in the past is likely to prove bene-
fcent still. 1t has substantially the same
friends and the same enemies as of old tho
arguments for and against it are the same
this City opposes it, as she always did, in the
interest of Foreign Commerce, though our I'm
ports were never ampler than they are in 1870.


"But the great majority of old-time Pro-
tectionists "are now convinced that those
arguments are not applicable to our present
necessities says The Times. But they say
otherwise Their speeches and votes in Con-
gress-nay, the speeches and votes of their adj
yersaries as well-confute The TimeSs assertion.
We doubt that there are twenty members in
the House who have not already given votes
which distinctly affirm and uphold the prin-
ciple of Protection. Some want Sugar pro
tected; others Iron others Wool and Fabrics,
while many who talk Free Trade voted TO
maintain a very high duty on Cigars. TIE
Times reports what it would have true as
though it mere true, which is great mis-
take. Seven-eighths of the American Peo-
pie desire Protection for themselresj great
majority, We are confident, desire it for Others
as well We appeal from assertions to votes.
Year: 1870

The Conference of the Methodist Church OF
this State which assembled here several days
ago concluded its session yesterday by the
unanimous adoption of a series of resolutions
strongly protesting against the appropriation
of public funds to sectarian purposes. Inc
vigorous crusade which has been begun against
this glaring evil ought to insure its early abo-
ltion. The zeal with which various church
and political organizations have entered upon
the work should not flag, and we are conf
dent will not, until the Legislature has changed
the law, OF has been changed.
Year: 1870

Very questionable is the wisdom displayed


by the Senate in refusing, as it did yesterday,
to limit the sales of land granted by the
Northern Pacific Railroad bill to actual settlers
at low rates and in small quantities. The road
cannot be built without land aid no company
will undertake it without such assistance,
literally extended But it is just as certain
that the lands cannot be developed and popu
lated within reasonable time unless the rail-
road is built And therefore that bill will be
wisest which at once gives encouragement to
the enterprise and adds attractions to emf
grants. The country can well afford to give
away every section of 100 acres of land which
it possesses on the sole condition that it is
cultivated and populated by an industrious
and prolific family. The West wants men, not
acres.
Year: 1870

The case of the Rev. Horace Cooke was yes
terlav decided in the New-YOrk East Confer
ence by resolution accepting his withdrawal.
There was painful display of vulgar curl
osity by a crowded audience, composed prlnc-
pally of women, to hear the debate. There
was also displayed something of bitterness and
acrimony on the part of few ministers
toward their erring brother; but it is to the
credit of the majority, and of humanity, that
they deprecated the persecution and punish
ment of the delinquent, leaving him to other
tribunals for Judgment
Year: 1870

If there be any reality to the Wall-st re-
ports of the formation OF new gold clique"
it would be well for the parties concerned to
recall the history of the making and
breaking of the great ring of gold specula-
tors last September. 1t is a business abont
which it would be well to be very cautious,
and it is doubtful whether even the greatest
caution would be sufficient to save those fool
ish enough to engage in it. The mere an
nouncement that the Treasury would sell
small portion of its surplus smashed the Sep
tember clique; and no doubt the Treasury
would again take similar course, especially
if the premium were advanced so as to give
the Government unusually favorable terms for
the coin it is able to put upon the market In
view of the reports current a contemporary very
properly reminds spectators not to lose sight
of the fact that the amount of surplus gold in
the Treasury is very large, and that If forty OF
fifty millions of this surplus can be conveniently
utilized by being turned into Fye-Twenties,
thereby saving three millions per annum OF
gold interest to the Treasury, the Admlnistra-
ton at Washington, sooner than have gold ad-
vance again to high figures, to the unsettnng
of trade and to the damage of our improving
public credit at home and abroad, Will be very
apt to order the exchange. There certainly
never was period in which gold clique had
a poorer chance for its operations than now,
and there could not be an occasion in which
ring would be surrounded with greater dangers
Even at 10, gold is absurdly high under pres
emf circumstances.
Year: 1870

An excited newspaper in LOndOn-One with
truly Tory capacity for fear in great matters
and bullying in small ones-recommends the
immediate dispatch of a British frigate to
watch our steamer in the Fisheries What, is
Canada not to be allowed TO protect herself 7
viii not the two steamers which that precious
Dominion has sent to the scene of-shall we
say fighting OF fishing-sufliceY Pray heaven
Year: 1870

The appropriation for the NewYork Post
Office is to be fixed, by compromise of the
House and Senate, at 100000. The important
work will not therefore cease entirely; though
members do not seem to perceive with sulli-
.ient clearness that this is one of those cases
where liberal expenditure would be the truest
scOnOmy.
Year: 1870




the country in very different situation from that in
which it finds itself Then our Manufactures were
undevelOped and feeble, country sparsey set
tied we without capital skilled labor, had
public debt requiring heavy taxation, and in almost
every essential particular unprepared and
able TO compete with the world on equal terms Direct
legislative Protection then absolutely essential 70 oar


a m me sbr 20 With he the
labor OF Europe The eogent arguments which were


finally successful over the steady opposition Of the South
familiar to all; but we feel assured that the great
majority of those who then the devoted follow
of Webster and Clay that issue convinced
that those arguments are not applicable to our present
necessities -


Comments by The Tribune.


Most forcibly are we reminded by the above
extract of the Savior's startling arraignment
of the Pharisees: aye build the sepulchers of
the prophets, and your fathers killed them ~
For "direct legislative Protection" was just
as bitterly assailed when The Times says it was
absolutely essential to our industrial develop
"ment," as it is to-day, and with the same
weapons. The Erening Post could not compre-
hend then, any more than it can to-day, how
any one but fool or scOundrel could adj
vOcate Protection. 1t insisted as strenuously
then as it does to-day that the policy
which tended to give us speedily hund-
red furnaces and factories in place of
every one we then had was designed and cal
culated to give the few a gigantic monopoly
at the expense of the many. 1t insisted then
as it does to-day that Protective Duties taxed
the Poor for the profit of the Rich When
the Tariff of 1824-the first act ever passed
expressly for Protection-an act which lifted
the country as by magic out of stagnation and
impotence and impelled it on a career of pro-
gress, thrift, and prosperity-was on the point
of passage-The Post (Feb. 3, 1924 shrieked-


"Pass the Tariff reported by the Committee and
you palsy the nation Pass il, and where will You
longer find occupants for your costly piles OF stores and
dwelling houses Pass IT, and who Will be exempt from
ts grinding operationi The poorer classes especially
must feel ts effect in paying additional price for every
every mouthful they eat and drink cold water and
10 that will they long he reduced II nothing short
of the general voice OF the people viii satisfy Congress
that they cannot and will not submit 10 this report
pregnant with incacu mischief, mistaken and
nconsiderate let means he taken without delay to
cure IT, and Will he given III tone and manner that
Will not be dsregarded."


What reason has The Times to believe that
those who were so wOefully mistaken then are
not equally mistaken nowf Can it really
imagine that our vast National Debt, with the
taxes which it renders inevitable enables us
to dispense with Proteo;ioni VIII any one
erect and run a factory on our side OF the
Year: 1870

February 18th, 1870.
The remarkable success which attended our nego.
tlalIon of the Loans Of the CENTRAL PACIFIC RAIL.
ROAD COMPANY and the WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
CNMPANY' and the popularity and credit which these
Loans have maintained in the markets, both in this
country and Europe have shown that the First Mort
gage Bonds of wisely located and honorabIy managed
Railroads are promptly recognized and readily taken
as The most suitable, safe, and advantageous form OF
investment yielding more liberal income than can
hereafter ne derived from Government Bonds, and
available to take their place.


Assured that, in the selection and negotiation q,
superior Railroad Loans we are meeting great uub
lie want and rendering a valuable service-boIb 10
the holders of Capital and to those great National
works Of internal improvement whose intrinsic meri
and substantial character eniItle them to the use Of
Capital and the confidence OF inveslors-we now Offer
with special confidence and satisfaction The
Year: 1870

This wonderful vegetable restorative is
the sheet-anchor of the feeble and Alebilita-
ted AS a tonic and cordial for the aged
and languid, it has no equal among stom-
achics. AS remedy for the nervous weak
ness to which women are especially subject,
it is superceding every other stimulant. In
all climates, tropical, temperate or frigid, it
acts as a specific in every species Of disorder
which undermines the bodily strength and
breaks down the animal spirits. For sale
by all druggists. mch9-6m
Year: 1870

The tariff question came up in the Senate
yesterday in a shape that ought to warn men,
bers of the House to rub up their treaty stipu-
lations before they 60 on with the new bill.
Mr.. Williams reported bill to refund certain
duties on hemp to the Russian government
because the duty of forty dollars per ton i'm
posed was in violation of certain treaty with
that Power. It would be sore accumulation
of evils IT, In addition to the general
uselessness Of the Tariff bill now under consid-
Grafton in the House, we should find 1t liable
to get us into difficulties with our best friends.
The Army bill of Senator Wilson was taken up
and read. 1t provides for the reduction Of
the army to $4,000 men. The Legislative
Appropriation bill was discussed far into the
evening session. An appropriation to build a
new State Department caused general debate
relative to the removal of the Capital.


In the House the Northern Pacific Railroad
bill was taken up, and Mr.. Wheeler, who is
engineering the movement, attempted to press
it to vote without permitting any amend
ments to be offered by the opponents of the
measure. The plucky minority would not sub
NIT to this, and passed the entire day in fiji.
clustering to prevent the passage of the bill.
1t is probable this method will continue un-
less the friends of the bill consent to the de-
mands of the minority until next Monday,
when, under the rules, an amendment can be
made without universal consent.
Year: 1870

The great prize fight between Mace and
Allen was decided yesterday with scientific
rapidity. There are mainly two kinds of prize
fights There is the brutal mill, in which two
evenIy-matched fellows, with no other qualin-
cations than weight and endurance, pound
each other for hours, till the semblance Of
humanity is lost, and finally win or lose by
some accident of the horrible game. This is
the sort Of prize fight with which our public
is most familiar, and it is this species of fight
that has disgusted the public with the sport.
But the other sort is widely different. In this
the fight Is less contest Of power and endur-
ance than Of true boxing science. The COM
bat turns on such points as quickness Of eye
and the lightning-like rapidity Of delivery and
defence-turns, indeed, on points that so
clearly involve intellectual operations as to
raise the combat from its brutal character.
The fight between Mace and Allen was of
this sort, and the superiority Of Mace was so
account as an antagonist. Although weight
and age were both against Mace, yet he won
with the utmost ease and with every
thing to spare. His easy victory will,
perhaps, open the eyes of our domes-
tic prize fighters to the humiliating
fact that they are at best mere brutal bIunder-
ers; for previous to this fight Allen was looked
upon among them as star of the first mag
nitude; and yet how easily this star is pushed
from It's place! Is it too much to hope that
when our cultivators of this sport discover how
far they lag in the rear of real science they
will abandon it in despair and turn their atten-
tion to dog fighting, or thimble-rigging or some
moderately Objectionable occupation of that
sort? They ought to do this. They evidently
cannot fight when tried by good standards, and
they ought to do something that they can do WELL
We conceive this to be patriotic duty on their
part.