smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

The most sensible thing we have read
for some time, is a recent editorial Of
the Oregonian upon the course of Secre-
tary Fish and the handful of conserya-
tive Republicans who have had the high
moral courage to stand by him in the
exigency created by the Presidents ar
bitrary course in the Southern cleo
tions. After reviewing the case upon
it's merits, that paper winds up by say
ing {:


| Encroachments by the executive upon
popular rights is the source from which
danger Is more to be apprehended than
| from any other, and those who are jealous
of the safety of our free institutions, and
| who have studied the history and genius OF
our government, take alarm moro quickly
at anything savoring of disposition to
overthrow the limits of executive power
prescribed by the constitution. Mr.. Fish
and those other members of the cabinet
who have stood up for the constitution in
this South Carolina case, deserve and will
undoubtedly have the gratitude of conserv-
ative people Of all parties, and particularly
of conservative Republicans who were
trembling at the prospect of their party
being committed to a course of practice
which would undermine the liberties of the
country.


The above not only meets our own
approval, but that of every man who
sees the situation of national affairs
from standpoint other than that of
self-interest. Secretary Fish has acted
the part of great and unselfish states
man. whose motto is "the greatest good
to the greatest number" The total dis
regard of the constitution. which has
cropped out of the Presidents career
in the past four years. has set earnest
men to thinking. They plainly see
how our government has been drifting
towards a monarchy under the adminis>
t1ation of Grant. and are throwing
themselves into the breach to prevent
total disintegration of the republic.
That great but unwritten law-tne will
of a mighty. though imperilled people
is yet equal to the emergency in which
the country is plunged by arbitrary rul-
ings at the behest of mercenary place
hunters. We have no fear that Grant
will dare to enforce the seating of Hayes
in the Presidential chair, in face of
such opposition as is now manifest. King
r L..
days longer. but he must guard his ac-
tions or he will find to his cost that the
blood of the Barons of Runnymede has
not yet run ont.
Year: 1876

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The kilograms of the past two days
indicate that the American Nero is be-
ginning to gather his senses about him
and realize the danger into which his
headlong career of brute violence and
bayonet force, is about to plunge an
otherwise peaceful nation. Yet no one
who knows his character will believe
that he has done so from any innate
sense of propriety on his own part. 1t
is rather in obedience to the advice OF
William M. Evarts, Hamilton Fish al d
others, whom the accidents of a great
civil conflict enabled him to outstrip in
the never-ending contest for national
fame. These men have heard the
rumbling of the battle 8from afar of.
like the rustic of dry leaves in the forest
at the approach of an autumnal tenn,
pest; and with commendable discretion
and lofty patriotism that rises supe-
rior to the sordld interests of party,
have warned the Long Branch idler of
the mine beneath his feet. These men
are statesmen by education, and do not
owe their national prominence to the
casual result of any battle. Grant, on
the contrary. has nothing about him save
the ceuturion's brute force, and has acted
as though he regarded the national
treasury as the spoils Of city taken by
assault. Accustomed to quell any spirit
of insubordination by tho force insep-
arabic from the shock of war, he has
sought to make the army the governing
element of the nation. All his move-
ments in connection with the South
Carolina and Louisiana elections denote
this beyond cavil. He has found what
ne never knew before, or what be did
not heed, if he did know it-that in
every republic the conservative element
is bound to rule; and that in every great
political exigency men of true patrio-
tism refuse to be bound by the sordid
letters of partisan bias.


Threatened by the desertion of the
only men whose integrity has kept his
Administration from falling in utte-
disgrace; supported only by men of the
stamp of Williams, Robson and Bel
knap: and realizing that his only adhe-
rents are those who are bound to him
by the lust Of office and greed of gain.
his position before great and majestic
people, is that of humiliated and
shame-faced lrickster. The day is not
tar of when sense of returning de-
cency (not gathered from returning
boards) shall proclaim Samuel J. Til
den as President of the United States.
No evil can inure to the nation when
the reins are held by man who is
scholar by education and a statesman
by instinct; especially when that mans
power is properly held in check by two
houses of Congress. .antagonistic in pol
itics. This prevents partisan legisla-
ton. and it was for this very purpose
that our present form of national gov
ernment was designed by the Fathers
who framed the Magma Charta of our
liberties.
Year: 1876

IdE DOMlNANT POW Ek.


The Republican party. in 1868. affirm
ed that Congress. and not the President
was the ruling power of the country.
They carried this doctrine SO far as to
impeach an honest aud merciful Chief
Magistrate, who could never be shown
to have accepted presents while in Office
nor to have associated with men whose
reputation would belittle Exec utivs dig
nifty. He was impeached for interference
with the Legislative branch of the Gov
eminent and brought to trial before q
Senate who refused to convict him. But
in that Senate were such Rep publicans
as Fessenden, Anthony. and Fowler.
who refused to bow the head and fall
into line at the senseless clamor of
party. Tho Senate was a loftier body
then than at present. 1t had not yet
been disgraced by the presence of
heartless bigamist. nor of man who
registered cyprian at a Long Branch
hotel as his lawfully welded wife.


But SO tenacious were the Republi-
cans of the proposition that Congress
is the covering power, that they actu-
ally made President Grant back down
upon the appointment of A. T. Stewart
as Secretary of the Treasury. This
principle they maintained till the Man
with the Cigar demanded the removal
of Sumner from the Craftsmanship of
the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Then they knocked under to Grantism
and Caesar again trampled down another
Rome. Had johnson been guilty of
such an act. nothing could have saved
him. Fessenden and Fowler would both
have voted for his removal from Office
and they would have been right.


The test of this question will shortly
be made rs Grants impeachment is not
beyond probability. Ii Congress was
higher than the President in 1868 (and
must be so or it could not impeach the
President) it is higher still. If it was
treason for Andrew johnson to override
the will of Congress in 1868, it was
treason for Grant to do it in 1878 when
he peremptorily sought to dictate the
formation of Congress ,ional committees.


Grant has done a score of things


merit impeachment, but that he ever
would be convicted by Republican
Senate, if impeached by Democratic
House, is unworthy of belief. So slav-
ish is the servitude of partissnship. that
he would be acquitted by strict party
vote and not a Republican Senator
would dare to vote for conviction. OF
course. some people would predict
disintegration of the Republic if Grant
should be impeached. They little know
the public virtue of the masses, who
argue that. The same sublime spirit
of Christian fortitnde which enabled the
American people to endure with silent
and decorous grief. the removal of an
honest Chief Magistrate by the assas-
sin 8 bullet, would also enable them to
endure the removal, by the most august
tribunal known to our constitution, of
venal and corrupt Chief Magistrate
who has no higher ambition than to
rule by the bayonet. We are still liv-
ing under the Constitution, and the
opening of our second century will test
whether government SO formed and a
Constitution so framed, can long endure
among the nations of Earth.
Year: 1876

The Luzerne (Penn.) Leader relates
this incident: The terrible accident al
the Railroad Bridge at Pittston, by
which Robert Helme was almost instant
ly killed, is Of too recent a date to haze
been forgotten by our readers. Ths
sorrowful' disaster brought to the homH
Of the deceased terrible desolation,
ana the wife who was left to mourn his
sudden loss vas nearly distracted.


For many days after her husband was
buried she continued to deplore his
death, and went nearly wild whenever
she thought OF it. Her nights were
passed in restless rawlings and her days
were gloomy and oheerless. It was
feared by her friends that her mind
would become diseased il her grief was
not iu some way assuaged. AT last size
dropped to sleep one sunny afternoon.
and while thus at rest she dreamed that
her husband came to her, and, bending
over her, implanted kiss upon her
brow.


She asked him to remain with her, l,ns
he told her that he could not, that he
was too happy where he was, but thAA
they would meet again hereafter in tha
better world. The vision passed and
she awoke. Since then her Thoughts
have been at rest, and she is thorou ghly
Impressed with the belief that her hMs-
band is happy, and that she will go 10
him when she comes to lie down in tbs
grave beside him.
Year: 1876

A THEFT IN THE TEMPLE OF JUSTICE
Yesterday morning thief-or possibly a
gentleman who carried it off through mis-
take-relieveG Deputy Sergeant Gentry Of
his hat, in the clerks office Of the Hastings
Court, and left an old one in its stead. Mr.
Gentry was afraid to risk the old one, so he
went down town and bought another. 1t is
said that one way to renovate an old hat is
to 60 to an evening party and leave early.
The thief in this case seems to have found
quite as good way Of improving his con-
dition in the hat line.
Year: 1876

DISPATCH PRINTING-HoUsE.-m order to meei
the constantly increasing demands of our trade we
have added o weR-selected assortment Of NEW
TYPE, which, together with our improved MA
cHINEEY and sKILFUL MECHANICAL TALENT
warrant us in guaranteeing the VERY BEST CLASS
OF WORK at moderate figures and in the most expo
ditious manner
Year: 1876

thiuk the Sheriff of East Baton Rouge
for one, that this was but small portion of
the force at Mt. Pleasant. What they did
is matter of public notoriety.


In Baton Rouge parish, in the town of
Baton Rouge and the two wards next below
the town, on the river, do not think there
was any reason why voter could not vote
as he chose. In what is called the back
country, which includes the balance of the
parish, ]. think the


SYSTEM OF THREATS, WHIPPING, AND KILLING,
which has existed for the past ten months,
has 30 completely terrorized the timid
blacks that but few OF them would dare to
vote as they pleased. AS to the fact of
many black men having been killed by un
known persons, l would say that l know
such to be the case, from an examination
of the inquests, which inquests did not COW
or all the cases of men found dead, for the
reason given to me by the Coroner in per-
son, that he had been notified to hold no
more inqueets in the county, and was threat
ened with violence to himself il he did So
In East Feliciana Parish the record of the
vote cast there for the Republican ticket
would seem to indicate a complete terror
ism ON the part of the Republicans of that
parish. My own Judgment based upon the
information received from large number
OF black voters Of this parish, is that the
threats made, and the acts committed by
the whites against the blacks, or, IN other
words, by the Democrats against the black
Republicans were of such a nature and OF
such force as to deter the Republicans
from voting as they chose or at all"


Gen. Brooke was subjected to asevere
CROSS, examination by the Democratic law
yers, but his testimony was not impaired in
any way.
Year: 1876

NAVIGATION or THE SNAKE RIyER.-Capt
Ainsworth writes that the new boat intended
70 run on the Snake River, will be ready to
take her place on the line by the lst of Sep
rember. With this boat the Company hope
70 be able to navigate the Snake River at all
STAGES of water.
Year: 1876

There we're workmen on the Pacific
railway even more curious than the Irish
or Chinese navvies. During the summer
Of 1868, the Laramie river became very
low, much to the distress Of contractor
who had cut great many thousand cross
tics-the timbers on which the rails are
laid-and which he expected to float down
to the point where the railroad was to cross.
He was at first at loss to know what to
do, but resolved, finally, to build dam
across the river at various points, and,
when the stream was thus made high
enough, set his raft afoat. Large parties
Of men, therefore, went to work building
the dams No sooner would the men leave
off work at night than thousands of beavers
would begin and work hard at the dam
during the night


Water is always as necessary to the com,
fort Of beavers as on this occasion it wa.
to the welfare of the contractor; and il
was probably for this reason, and not be
cause they wished to see the railroad fin
ished, that the beaver community Joined
in the labor of building the dams. 81
Nicholas for December.
Year: 1876

A tablespoonful of black pepper put in
the first water in which gray and buff lin
ems are washed win keep them from spot
ting. Il will also generally keep the color
Of black or colored cambrics or muslins
from running, and does no. harden the
water,
Year: 1876

the country, and surely is of such moment
to the people Of South Carolina, that they
can not afford to neglect any effort or op-
portunity to redeem their State from the
clutches OF those who have despoiled it SO
long, and at the same time contribute to
the victory of the national ticket, in whose
success zone more than they are interested.
To secure . Democratic majority this
year it is the duty Of the party IN South
Carolina TO place q candidate at the Eead
OF their ticket who will command the con-
fidence and esteem net only OF his OWE
party, but of all honest elements OF the
people. Compromise OF prIncipie is always
as impolitic as it is dishonest. and any such
fusion ss seems TO be contemplated IN GER
tain quarters of the State, with those who
have been prominent in ite misgOvernment
and spOliation, will be as unfortunate Tor
the country as it will be fatal to the pres
ent integrity aud future welfare Of the
people OF South Carolina.


It will be seen from this article that Gov


ernor Chamberlain is now to be thrown


overheard by the South Carolina Conserva-


tiyes. He has ceased TO be available" for


these Conservatives. Furthermore, he has


become the material witness in an Issue


upon which will turn, sooner or later, not


only the presidential election, but the whole


question of Southern reconstruction. This


is 60 because the Hamburg matter connects


itself with the Louisiana matter and with


the Mississippi matter. 1t furnishes what


the lawyers call the needed link IN chain


of evidence IN given case, making the


case clear. In other worde, Hamburg


"proves crime against the Confederate


leaders in Louisiana and Mississippi.


We msy now soon expect to see the


World bring forth the counter motive"


against Chamberlain. He will now be


charged with being ''disappointed' polit-


ical asplrant. His failure to secure the fur


ther political confidence of the .'Conserva-
tive" leaders of South Carolina will be
quoted as his reason for turning Estates
evidence in the Hamburg matter. But


this sharp practice will not avail in this in
stance Governor Chamberlains statements
in regard to the recent murder Of American


citizens in his State.b band Of 'Confed-
crates from Georgia will be accepted as
truth all over the North. The motive for
the deed, the policy of terrorism which it


proves, and the final consequences of this


policy, are matters for discussion before the


jury of the nation. B.
Year: 1876

The Press throughout the country, secular, religious, political, neutral, scientific, etc., has pretty generally had its say on the Pres ident's message and the general verdict of all, not totally blinded by ignorence or pre- Judice, is, that as whole it is an honest, can did and manly exhibition of the state of the country and its relations with the rest of of the world. The Republican Press, in some instances, dissents from portions of the Presidents recommendations and indulges in fair and impartial criticism, but barring some half dozen unfortunate mistakes in the selection of appointees to office, the ad- ministration of Grant is recognized to have been conducted with wisdom and great firm ness, guided by 8 conscientious determina- ton to faithfully perform the sworn duties of the office, and this his last message to Congress, as final summing up of his off cial acts, is justly regarded as an honest exhibition of the sentiments that animate him as he is about to retire from official life and resume the roll of private citizen of the Great Republic, he has spent majority of his life in protecting and defending.

 The Democratic papers on the other hand, those of them whose opinions are worthy of regard, while they find much to condemn, are nevertheless constrained to acknowledge that the administration has not been SO bad, as in the excitement of the political contests they would have had their readers believe, and although the message is not SO full on certain points, and entirely silent on others that are usually discussed in similar papers it is nevertheless reasonably fair as far as it goes, and compares very favorably with all the state papers that have eminated from the White House since the Democracy surren. dered the reins of government. The chief fault urged by the Democratic press is its brevity. A few of the smaller fry have at tempted to slur it as being unworthy the name of Statepaper, but these have gener- ally been of small consequence and conduc- ted by those who have no respect for the Government or country of which Grant is President and are chagrined because his ad- has been SO successful.
Year: 1876

TAKE THE PAINs.-Never think it too much trouble to answer your children's

 questions. How often do we hear the tart

 reply, Il am sure don't know, child-pray don't tease me when you see I'm busyr This is the surest way to stunt the growth of your child's mind. It is the most cruel ruthless conduct possible, thus to deny a child tI,e information which he craves, and allow him to feel all the awkardness and pain to which ignorance exposes him. Ra- ther hail with joy these indications of a growing mind, make the little inquirer and give him as full and patient an elucida- ton as he may require.
Year: 1876

Bernardo Freyes, the discoverer of the rich placers, on Antelope Hill in this Coun- ty, scveal years ago, and which was the cause of the first great rush of miners to this part of Arizona, is now located with his family on the Little Colorado, where he keeps Station, and we are informed by those recently in from there, that he still remembers the people of this section with great kindness, and frequently refuses to receive cent from those who stop with him, provided they belong to the old-timers Who were here at the time he was taking out hi z thousands per day. He belonged to sYll1ng's party of five who were encamped at what is now called Weaver in 1863 when one day Freyes wandered up to the top of the hill where almost by pure accident he came upon the rich deposit of gold, lying some of it. exposed to plain view on the rocks, The excitement that it produced throughout the coast and even beyond the Rocky range is still remembered by thous- ands who were attracted to Arizona in con- sequence. After partially exhausting his, claim on the hill, Freyes returned to Sonora with large amount of money, but was dis satisfied with the slow-coach way of doing business in his native land and returned to the Little Colorado in this county where he is well-fxed and takes special delight in cntertaininy his old friends of early days in Arizona.
Year: 1876

Lapland mothers are not in the habit of staying at home with their babies. The Laps are very religious people and take long journeys to hear their pastors. As soon as the family arrive at the little wooden church, and the reindeer are secured the father shovels snug little bed in the snow and mother wraps the baby in skins and deposits 1t therein. Then the father piles the snow around it. and the dog is set on guard while the parents go decorusly into church. Often as many as thirty babies may be seen laid away in the snow about church.
Year: 1876

He used to cramp his feet up in little boots, and limp painfully to her residence every Sunday evening. But the morning af- ter his marriage he went to a shoemaker's. drew a chalk mark around his foot, and about an inch from it on both sides and at the heel and toe, and ordered the man to make him pair of boots after that pattern. Oh! there's sweet liberty, there's balmy, boundess freedom in the marriage state, of which sore-heeled and distorted bachelors have no cOnceptiOn
Year: 1876

From a private letter received from Cali fornia we are informed that a number of mining men who have been at work in Bear Valley District, San Bernardino coun- ty, propose to visit this section of the Ter ritory early in January for the purpose of making investments.
Year: 1876

Travellers entering Austin in coming
years at sunrise. and coming on the Inter.
national Railroad, will be charmed by ev-
cry aspect of nature. Nothing is wanting
to make the scenery along the northern
confines of the capital absolutely beautiful.
The railway follows the curve of the river,
meeting 1t as it energies from the mountain
pass at the base of Mount Bonnell. On
either side of the railway, on lofty hills
and in deep valleys, there are bright gar
dens and charming homes and pretty cot
tages, and here and there magnificent resi-
dences. The forests of cedar and live oak
are of perennial verdure, and not far away
are the pralries, from which the trains rush
to hide themselves from the coming sun in
the midst of majestic bills crowned by
grand old oaks. The International Rail-
way, bending about the northern confines
of the capital until it reaches the river
bank, follows its course even to the center
of the city. II Texans love the great COM
monwealth, and are boastful and hopeful
of its future, and proud of the virtues of
great men and pure and fsultless women,
they may also congratulate themselves that
art and industry and nature are doing their
utmost and contributing alike with lavish
hand to the perfection of every charm that
makes Austin The worthy capital of the
mighty commonwealth.
Year: 1876

THE Molly Maguires have been the active
agents and promoters of Radicalism in the
mining districts of Pennsylvania. The
deeds of violence they have done and terror
ism they have wrought have exasperated
the people to the last degree and Central
Pennsylvania, we are told, will vote solidly
for Tilden. The people ask if soldiers
may be sent into South Carolina to assure
the election of Chamberlain and of Hayes,
why few regiments may not be spared to
protect life and property and suppress dis
orders III Pennsylvania. Radicals they are
confessedly who beget outrages in Pennsyl-
vania and to send soldiers thither would Of
fend the party and confess its crimes. The
colored voter is not sensitive, and then, in
the South, the necessity for armed interven-
tion is falsely ascribed to the whites and
not to the black Molly Maguires.
Year: 1876

THE young women OF Houston have .
flourishing Christian association The
many young mems c. AS are nightly


stirred by the competition of the females
in works of goodness and the rivalry of the
two societies is productive of good. There
should be society organized here to relieve
occasional sufferers at the hands OF poverty
and sickness through the brief coming win
ter. Will not some Christian woman inan-
gurafe q scheme of beneficence even to-dayl