davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12


The CRors.-The accounts which are coming
in daily from the Wet promise that greatest Of
all blessings cheap bread. True, The wheat and
corn are late, the latter especially; and without
ak weeks Of fine weather the corn may fall far
short Of an average crop. But great portion
Of the wheat is already beyond the reach Of
harm, and the rest soon will be. And really
after the weather we have bad, II IL but reasona-
BILE TO expect come fine days now The hay has
been plentiful aud wholesome; most Of IL is now
comfortably housed
From Europe, strange TO say, we have accounts
fully as gratifying. In all parts, the crops pro
mise immensely: from the Mediterranean TO the
North Sea, and from the Bay Of Biscay to the
volga, and the Caspian, the report is the same
the crops will exceed an average.
Poor men do not yc. understand the stupen-
dous blessing these words import. They mean
that the stories which have so long been current
about thepermanently enhanced price of -four are
unfounded, and that before this winter passes
over our heads we may have -four at ~ barrel
once more. They mean plenty, where there has
been starvation, and comfort aud happiness and
progress in every poor home from Oregon TO The
Atlantic aud from France 10 Siberia
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

and bis kindasss o. disposition. were Rev. Dr.
Creighton. Rev. Dr.. Higbee, DR.. Watson, Hon.
lsaae v. Fowler, and otAeu. residents Of New York
and Tarytown. No evidence showing any cause
for the separation Of the parties has yet been given
The City Inspector reports 424 deaths during the
past week-an increase Of lis Is compared with
the mortality Of the week previous This large in
crease is mainly attributable to diseases Of the lungs
and kindred complaints. and diseases Of he diges-
tive organs. Ofthe total number 24s were under
ten years Of age The following statement exhibits
the number of deaths during the past two weeks
among adults and children, distinguishing the
sexes:--
Mcr. Women Bot Gtrls. Tkdl
Week ending July a.. 60 66 I26 ~ 3ii
Week ending July ll..r4 g. I8t IL? AL
Among the principal causes OF death were the
fOIlow,ns.-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

Coon News 70 BEER DRrNKERs.-We see
that Judge Strongof the Supreme Court, has de-
cded that the newicense law does not interfere
with the sale Of ale or beer in any quantities.
Hence the German, who sell little else than lager
bier, are entirely ,nancipatcd from its provisions,
and may continue TO sell as much as they please
without legal resaint or liability to The courts.
This will be god news TO not few among our
people, Noiwitlyanaing the iuyectivsa Of Ger
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

GENERAL PAEz AND THE FILIBusTERs.-We
published yesterday an article, based upon our
correspondence from Washington and Venezuela,
and on information derived from other sources,
in reference to a contemplated flibuster invasion
of Venezuela, under the auspices Of ex-President
Paez, now in exile in this city. Several of the
personal friends of this distinguished patriot
have assured us that, at least as to portion of
the statements made, our information was not
correct. They deny that General Paez has any
personal or political connection whatever with
Walker or with Walkers political or personal
friends, and deny that he has any knowledge
whatever Of the conferences recently held here
with Walker, at which IL was intimated the inva-
sion of Venezuela was discussed.
II has also been suggested by others to us that
these rumorsof contemplatedfil ibuster descentson
Venezuela are not improbably got up by President
Monagas himself, that he may have the more ex-
cuse for concentrating power in his own hands,
and holding the reins Of government with tight
or grasp. To give color to these rumors some Of
his agents here might possibly have entered into
such contract as that spoken Of In the article in
question. The friends of General Paez, at all
events, declare that 20 far from his Paez) hay-
ing leagued himself in any way with Walker or
other American ilbusters the very idea Of his
doing 60 would be fatal to his popularity at home
In no case, they say, would the General seek the
assistance of Walker, az such connection would
be runous TO any South American cause.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

tain among the medical faculty against the favo-
rite beverage of our Dutch friends, lager bier is
decided and general favorite, and will now be-
come still more generally used 1t is, we believe,
as wholesome as any of the popular drinks, and
more wholesome than many of them. Its price
prevents its being ahkerated; and if it be care
fully bottled, and kept for month, it is as
pleasant beverage as Alsop's, BASIS, or any
of the great alec.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

There were also IL deaths Of congestion of the
BRAIN of diarrh9a, of dysentery, of enlarge
ment of the heart of disease of the heart of hoop
ing cough, 7of Inflammation of the bowels, IL OF
teething, premature births, A still born and 81
deaths from violent causes, Including IL killed in
the Sixth ward riots, drowned and suicide.
The folio wing is classification of the diseases
and the number Of deaths in each class of disease
dnrinp the week
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

No YELLOW FEvER-The Health Officer has
issued a series of excellent regulations for the
government Of ships while in Quarantine; we hope
that his practice will be as good as bis principles
and that, having laid down good and sensible
rules, he will not see them broken and nuliGed
without struggle. Generally speaking ship
captains have been INDUCED in somewhat con.
temptuous view OF Quarantine regulations; let us
zee whether DIR. Thompson will encourage them
in this way Of thinking.
That the summer will pass without yellow
fever, and that all our precautions in the shape
Of removal Of Quarantine and so forth, will prove
Unnecessary, though Arfectly proper at the time,
is now generally admitted by every one. II is a
disappointment to the spectators who invested
in land at Seguines Point in the hope that the
hospitals would prove the nucleus of a village
there but il must be source Of great pleasure
10 the Commissioners, who have achieved their
own purpose-keeping fever away from Long
Island-without sacrificing the people of Staten
Island, as they were prepared to do.
We look for no more trouble at Seguine s
Point. The people around have made up their
minds that there will be no fever; and Captain
Walling and his gallent men, albeit badly lodged,
and not overfed, will spend the summer in in
glorious ease. Our sympathies are at the service
Of Boston and Philadelphia
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12
wslIack's Tbeatre-Riss Elizs Lognns Last
Appearance.

brilliant audience assembled Of wallack's theatre last
night the occasion Of Mss Eliza Jogans benefit and last
appearance In this city for the present she
sumed the role Of Julia, In "The Hunchback, Of her
most elective pcrsonatons and called before the
curtain three times 70 receive the paud Of the audience.
AT the close Of the play, and In response TO call Of the
audience, Miss logan came forward and said;-
LADIES Ayp Gsxumxv-After having been received
nightly. for nearly month, by brilliant and crowded
audiences appear before you Cor the last time 10 thank
you for your attendance here 70 night but without
hope 10 meet you again In the u,ure For the present
allow me to bid you farewell
This engagement has been the most successful OF tho
season, and the manager sys the most rcmunerauve to
him for the year be has had the theatre Mss Logan will
not her professional duties until the FALL when she
will return 10 the city and play round OF the most
fsvoriie female roles In the English tongue For the
present 10 her purpose to retire 70 Nshspt with her
family, where she win spend the remainder Of tho
summer
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

The steamer Arctic sailed on Thursday, M5P. NJ, on
her teeeraphio mission TO the coast Of Newfoundland
Capt o II Berymss Leuis. j. P. X. Mygat, John Irwin
and A. W. weaver, Engineers, VIM l. Iamdin aud John
8 Albert The Arctic viii Be absent some two months
engaged IN scientific surveys IN connection with the gres,
telezrspbic scheme
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12
Two Men Lynch.d In Cedar County. lows.

On the night of the Cd Ds, mob broke into the JAIL OF
Cedar county Iowa. and Notwithstanding the desperasers
sstanee made BY the sheriff and guard, took thers.cn
two men, named Gleason and sopcr confined on c'Aye
Of horse stealing and hung them. Much ercsmeas fss
prevails In The ueishboyhood.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12
corx,,,,ops Tor Murder.

PIrrsBuse, Juiy IL, 1857.
The Jury In the case OF Henry Fife, Monroe Stewart and
Charlotte JONES' implicated In tho murder Of the Wilson
family si McKeespo rendered fnis evening verde, Of
guilty of murder the ars degree. The trial has lasted
eleven days Fend produced pIe most Intense inierss,
enna rnnntY.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

BcrrAI0, July Ill r. NJ
Flour is quiet sses 10 day 200 bbh. al % 81 - 50
for ex'rs Illinois AM. Wisconsin, and ~ for extra oho
What qset ano very Corr Ia not 20 drm, snd
IL held at &c Without buyers Oats are dull At SIC CSC.
whiskey, 5ors, Freghts are unchanged, TIE lake In
rcra Tcs'vsay we're very lghs
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

SLAvKs LIBERATED Colonel Thomas Hte, aided
by other citizens OF Jefferson county, Virginia set free
eighty a. their slaves the ID inst The Colonel
agent Of the owners accompanied them 10 Mddeburs
Penn when, handing each individual forty dollars In
money, and equlppiug them AZ with ssAeTai clothing,
they we're set e liberty
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12
The steamship Queen OF the south In Das-
tress.

HALIFAX. July IL, 1857.
The steamship Queen Of the South, with two hundred
and sixtyour passengers, from Southampton, put 'sss
this port this morning, short OF coal she win all W
night Cor New York.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

Fatal Anrsy In Morgan County, Kentucky.
CiNCIssArr, July IL, 1881.
The EnqirT learns tina, quarrel recently took pisos
In Morgan county, Kentucky, between NJ. Mason demo-
crst, and Mr. Cox, Know Nothing candidates for conrs
In which COX wN shot by Mason and killed. Both nss
persons have represented the Ninth district In Congress-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

1ne uiuupef VI ucdtns, Coupditu Will TIE Corits-
ponding weeks in 1856 and 1856, was as follows
Week ending July a. 1855. 49I
Week en- ling July r. 1855. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3S2
Week ending July II, 424
The nativity table gives 296 natives of the United
States, 81 of Ireland, 81 Of Germany 10 of England
of British America, / each of France Italy, Prus
sia, Russia, Scotland and Wales, and s unknown.
The sales Of cotton yesterday confined to about 500
GOO bales, closing Arm at full prices. Flour again
dull and closed 4 decline OF about s.; per bb especial
y for common grades. Wheat was inactive, and the
dunn and lower grades eAser Chicago spring sold
at 81 as 'ar white Western sold at 81 s5 choice do at
81 9S and ANAL lot OF white Southern at 81. Corn
nrm with saies Of disting lots Of Western mixed at
SAC sSc and prime Co., nearly yellow, 1t &c.; yellow
scarce, and held st soc. Ole, with small sales
round yellow at o3c. q 96c. Pork quiet, With
small sales Of at s22 rs So at the close sac
Asked Sugars quiet, and sales limited Coffee
also inactive, while prices were unchanged Freshs were
dull and engagements light.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

The number of deaths, compared with the cores
ponding weeks in 1856 and 1885, was as follows
The Nevada journal., 1857-01-23

Our MOTHER find the marks of
my shortest steps beside those of my
beloved mother, which were measured
by my own" says Alexander Dumas,
and so conlures up one of the sweetest
images in the world. He was revisi,ing
the home of his infancy; he was retra-
cling the paths around it in which he
once walked; and strange flowers could
not efface, and rank grass could not
conceal, and cruel ploughs could not OBJ
literate, shortest footsteps and his
mothers beside them, measured by his
own
And who needs to be told whose foot
steps they were that thus kept time with
the feeble patting of childhood's little
feet! 1t was no mother behind whom
Ascanius walked with equal steps in
NirgiPs line, but a strong, stern man,
who could have borne him and not been
burdencd folded him in his arms from
all danger and not have been wearied; ;
everything, indeed he could have done
for him, but just what he needed most
= could not sympathise with him; he
could not be child again All a
rare art is that, for indeed it is an art. to
set back the great old clock of time,
and be boy once more! Mans imag-
ination can easily see the child a man !;
but how hard it is for it to see the man
a child; and he who had learned to
glide back into that rosy time, when he
did not know that thorns were under
the roses, or that clouds would ever re-
turn after the rain when he thought a
tear would stain cheek no more than
drop of rain on a flower; when he
fancied that life had no disguise and
hope no blight at all, has come as near
as any body can to discovering the
north west passage to Paradise.
And perhaps for this reason that it is
so much easier for a mother to enter the
kingdom of Heaven than it is for the
rest of the world. She fancies she is
leading the children, when after all the
children are leading her, and they kept
her indeed where the river is the mar
rowest, and the air is the clearest; and
the bcckoning of a radiant hand is so
plainly seen from the other side, that
it was no wonder she So often lets go
her clasp upon the little fingers she is
holding and goes over to the neighbors.
and the children follow like lambs to the
fold, for we think it ought somewhere
to be written, Where the mother is
there will the children be ALSO
Christian Register.
The Nevada journal., 1857-01-23


BUSINESS INTEGRITY.-A little bust
ness transaction in San Francisco teach
es one mournful lesson of moral de-
pravity, and almost warrants the belief
that process of corruption is going on
in this state with hot-bed acceleration.
Ignorant of business here, though ac-
customed to busy operations in other
places and other spheres, we have seen
enough of business here, and the prin-
ciples upon which it is conducted, and
the irresponsibility of agents, to suggest
the idea that as business community
we are drifting to leaward, and the cor
ruption is as general as it is malignant.
When any great question of honesty or
political morality is submitted to the
people at large, we fear they will be
found wanting. 1t is even possible al
ready that were the question of state re-
pudiation to be submitted now to the
people, they would disgrace us in the
eyes of the world, and expose us to the
eternal invectivcs of such as Sydney
Smith, for disowning the acts of our
agents, corrupt though they be, and
shifting a responsibility which is inalien-
able.
Integrity must characterize commu-
nifty or its business in every branch can
not prosper, so much are we dependent
upon the world. The whaling interest
of these northern seas ought to centre
in San Francisco, and would come here,
were it not for the short-sighted policy
that has obtained: present robbery at
the expense of lasting advantageous
profit Before helping other peoples
and public business, we had much to
look after in our own. Our little expe-
rience has explained to us the reason of
the distrust with which the business was
generally regarded, and also of that dis
gust with which we heard one of the
truly honorable men of the profession,
recently withdrew from it for a season,
having toiled for years without reward
save abuse, and having coined down his
brains and best powers and manly
strength into dollars, to pay exorbitant
printers and ayaricious men too sharp
for common unsuspectingness.
S. f. Union.
The Nevada journal., 1857-01-23
WHOLE NUMBER 349.

% In the Stockton Argus of the Sth
inst, we find some interesting particu-
lars in relation to the coal mine discov-
cred some time ago, about thirty miles
from Stockton. The editor pronounces
the coal to be of excellent quality, and
further says: The vein was discover
ed about one hundred yards from the
proposed Stockton and Oakland Rail
road route, where tunnel is intended
to be cut through the mountain for the
cars to pass This discovery is of great
Importance to the State, and particularly
to this section of California. The vein,
so far as examined, is FIVE feet wide in
clean coal, with an additional FIVE feet
surrounding it of coal mixed witt dirt.
Of course, as greater depth of the vein
is reached an Improvement of the coal
is expected, as such is the peculiarly of
all coal mines. We understand that as
the vein now stands, coal can be fur
nished at the mine for 81 per ton. If
the natural anticipations of coal veins
are realized, another source of wealth
will be added to California products,
which will be of immense advantage to
our state.
The Nevada journal., 1857-01-23

a REVOL UTIoNARY EXPLoIT.-The
daring exploit of two women in Ninety
six district furnishes an instance of cour-
age as striking as any remembered am
ong the traditions of South Carolina
During the siege of Augusta and Cam
bridge, the patriotic enthusiasm that
prevailed among the people, prompted
to numerous acts of personal risk and
sacrifice. This courage, encouraged by
the success of Sumpter over the British
arms, was earnestly fostered by General
Green, whose directions marked at least
the outline of every undertaking. In
the efforts made to strike blow at the
invaders power, the sons among the
Martin family were among the most dis
tinguished for active service rendered,
and for injuries sustained at the enemy's
hands. The wives of the two eldest,
during their absence, remained at home
with their mother-in-law. One evening
intelligence came TO them that a courier,
conveying important dispatches to one
Of the upper stations, was to pass that
night along the road, guarded by two
British officers. They determined to
way-lay the party, at the risk of their
lives, to obtain possession of the papers.
For this purpose the two young wo-
men disguised themselves in their hus-
bands clothes, and being well provided
with arms, took their station at point
of the road which they knew the escort
must pass. 1t was already late, and
they had not waited long before the
tramp of horses was heard in the dis
tance. 1t may be imagined with what
anxious expectation the heroincs await
ed the approach of the critical moment
on which so much depended. The for
est solitude around them, the silence of
the night and dark, must have added to
the terrors conlured up by busy fancy.
Presently the courier appeared with his
attendant guards. AS they came close
to the spot, these disguised women leap
ed from their coverts in the bushes. pre-
sented their pistols at the officers, and
demanded the instant surrender of their
dispatches. The men were completely
taken by surprise and, in their alarm at
the sudden attack, yielded a prompt
submission. The seeming soldiers put
them on their parole, and having taken
possession of the papers. fastened home
by short cut through the woods. No
time was lost in sending the important
documents to General Green. The adj
venture had a singular termination.
The paroled officers, thwarted in their
mission, returned by the road they had
taken, stopped at the house of Mrs. Mar
tin, and asked Accommodations as weary
travellers, for the night. The hostess
enquired the reason of their returning
so soon after they passed. They re-
piled by showing paroles, saying they
were taken prisoners by two rebel lads
The ladies rallied them upon their want
of intrepidity. Had you no arms p
was asked. The officers answered they
had arms, but had suddenly been taken
off their guard, and were allowed nc
time to use their weapons. They de
parted next morning, having 10 suspi
cion that they owed their capture t,
the very women whose hospitality they
claimed
The Nevada journal., 1857-01-23
NEVADA, CALIFORNIA FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 23 1857

DELIGHTFuL TALKERS-We hear a
great deal of lamentation nowadays,
proceeding mostly from elderl y people,
on the art of conversation among us.
Old ladies and gentlemen with vivid
recollections of the charms of society
fifty years ago are constantly asking
each other why the great takers of their
youthful days have found no successors
in this inferior present time. Where,
they inquiringly mourn-where are the
illustrious men and womengifted with
capacity for perpetual outpouring from
the tongue, who used to keep enraptur-
ed audiences deluged in a flow of elo-
quent monologue for hours together
Where are the solo takers in this de-
generate age of nothing but choral con-
versation Embalmed in social tradi-
ton, or imperfectly preserved in books
for the benefit of an ungrateful posteri-
ty, which reviles their surviving con-
temporaries, and would, perhaps, even
have reviled them as bores. What a
change seems indeed to have passed
over the face of society since the days
of the great takers ! If they could
rise from the dead and wag their unrest
ing tongues among us now, would they
win their reputation anew, just as easily
as ever! Would they even get listen
ers? Would they actually be allowed to
talk? / should venture to say, decided
ly not. They would surely be Interrupt
ted and contradicted they would have
their nearest neighbors at the dinner ia
BILE talking across them; they would
find impatient people opposite, dropping
things noisily, and unostentatiously
picking them up; they would hear con
fidential whispering and perpetual fidg-
eting in distant corners; before they had
got through their first half dozen of elo-
quent opening sentences. Nothing ap-
pears to me so wonderful as that none
of these Interruptions Gf we are to be-
lieve report) should ever have occurred
in the good old times of the great talk
ers. | read long biographies of that
large class Of illustrious individuals
whose fame is confined to the select cir
Gle of their own acquaintance, and |
find that they are to man, whatever
other differences may have existed be-
tween them, all delightful takers. l
am told that they held forth entrancing-
ly for hours together, at all times and
seasons, and that l, the gentle, constant,
and patient reader, am one of the most
unfortunate and pitiable of human be-
ings in never having enjoyed the luxury
of hearing them; but, strangely enough,
| am never told whether they were oc-
casionally interrupted or not in the
course of their outporings. l am left to
infer that their friends sat under them
just as a congregation sits rnder a pull
pit; and | ask myself amazedly IRE
membering what society is at the pres
ent day. whether human nature can
have changed altogether since that time.
Dickens Household IVords.