smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

Very few are aware of the extent


to which the manufacture Of cider is


carried within a lev miles of New


Haven. In conversation with q gen.


tleman from Cheshire day or two


since, we we're surprised to leafn that
lin that town alone 5000 barrels
have been made the past season from
Iapples raised in that and adjoining


towns. nearly all Of which is now in
process Of cIarifcation, ana will be


ready for market early in the spring.
Four establishments alons have made
from |, 500 to 1000 barrels each, which


are already disposed of, and will be
sent to market as soon as ready for
use. This, when clarified, is as pure


as wine, and is sold readily in New
York to bottle. for 81 per barrel fog


the liquid, and when bottled is in
great demand at the South at So per
dozen. The business is rapidly in
Ie.easing, and ths cultivation Of the
apple is likely to prove as profitable


as that of the grape at the West,where
thousands Of dozens Of wine are put
up yearly. The cultivation Of the
grape at Cincinnati has increased


within year or two extensively.
and although attended Sith a much


greater expense, is now .he most
profitable crop of that locality. The
fruit-growers Of Connecticut can cul-
tivate apples with but little expense.
and can realize at least 20 cents per
buahel for all they Can raise. The


past season those who have mills at
Cheshire have paid from Is to 20
cents for all they could find, taking
them from the orchards in which
they have been collected, the raiser


being Subjected to no expense except !
that of picking them Up and plling in ,
heaps.
Year: 1860

Senator Douglas, it is said, is far
from being we'll man, and bis per-
manent recovery is very remote, if
not doubtful. His disease is said to
be gout in the stomach. His pur.
pose Of going to Florida is prevented
BY bis inability to travel al present.
though it is bis purpose to go South
as soon as be is strong enough te
travel.
Year: 1860

AN Iowa CoMpLIMENT.-He is
what Add Sanders of the Davenport
Gazette says Of somebody:


Our neighbor says we are quaking
in our boots. Well, that is certainly
great deal better than to be qua.
king at the end of other mems boots
as this unfortunate neighbor is gener'
ally doing.
Year: 1860

The London correspondent OF the
New York Herald states that one
million of dollars has been set apart
by the British Government, IN ORDER
to influence the next Presidential
election in favor Of an anti-slavsry
candidate.
Year: 1860

Let us get along little further. Why
did they want to repeal the compromise Of
I920f What is the matter, you democrats
of the United Statesi You have had the
power, you say, all the time or almost all
the time from the foundation Of the govern
ment to the present day, You have had
Year: 1860

Let US trace the consequences like the
snake; yearly they shed their skin, but they
never 90 back into the old one; beautiful it
is at first but Immediately returns to dust
and ashes. Let us look at the consequent
ces. Here was the formation of the "blue
lodges" in Mo-, according TO the Congress
ioual report remember l don't intend to
give any statement upon my own say so;
appeal to history to substantiate all say.)
You march under your Missouri hordes so
formed into the territory of fKansas, and al
though it is well known, and as history has
proven, that the Republican party was in a
clear majority, by force of arms; you took
down the judges Of election that were APP
pointed legally. They were taken by force,
the Missouri forces going out with banners
flying and colors displayed, and the ques.
ton was asked not ''are you q judge accord


ing to the Constitution and the lawsg" No
Sare you Judge Of the election carrying
out the declaration Of the Cincinnati plat
Year: 1860

The democratic party is now experiencing
a trial which will cause those who are not
with us at heart to falter and slough off
from the Simon pure democracy. No mat
ter what the result of the present contest
may be, the party will endure, purged and
purified of the unclean clements that were
but waiting the opportunity to desert the
cause and 90 over to its enemies.


Union Democrat.
Year: 1860

One of the most amusing crinoline accidents
we have heard OF since the female form first
begun to be surrounded and guarded by hoops
of whalebone, steel and brass occurred one day
last summer at country seat about twenty
miles from Boston. The son of the proprietor
Of the estate is young man engaged in the
laudable business of getting an education. and
during his summer vacation last year, he con
structed in large tree near the windows Of the
paternal mansion a acommodious summer house
This airy retreat was two stories high that i.
to say, above the lower platform was one still
more elevated, and access was had to the upper.
most one through small trsp-door. Upon the
settees OF this summer house the young gen.
t:eman reclined in hot weather putting hi:
cigar and reading his favorite books


One day when ho was in his chamber, he dis.
covered several young ladies-his sisters and
some OF their female cquaintances-ascendin
to the lofty summer house. They occupied the
lower story for a time, but their aspiration:
soon prompted them to mount up higher BY
good deal of compression and coaxing, their
hoops were got through the trap-door, and in
their elevated position they enjoyed the beauty
OF the afternoon while hemstitching and con.
versing gaily upon such topics as usually claim
the attention of the fair sex


The young gentleman in the meantime en-.
Joyed his book and his cigar in his chamber
But when the tea time" approached he heard





his window, and on peeping through the blinds
he perceived that the young ladies had placed
themselves in a dilemma from which a Young
man could hardly attempt to rescue them with.
out suffering shock to his modesty He had
no alternative but to await the result with a.
much philosophy as he could command. The
young ladies found the rule that generally GOV
erns ambitious people reversed in their case
They had attained an elevation from which i;
was difficult to descend. 1t was comparatiyeIy
easy to draw their skirts up throug gh the traI
door, bat no amount OF coaxing could get them
down without an exposure Of their bifurcate
extrelnities that would be perfectly awful
Some time was spent in debate by the "co1n.
mittee of ways and MEANS" and the ob,ervant
yonng gentleman at length witnessed a scene
which ''took the breath out of his body.n The
girls diyested themselves, by some mysteriou;
process OF their circumferential skirts and then
threw them down to the ground. Then tbey
crawled down through the trap door. with
comparatively little exposure, and descended
to mother earth.


We are sorry to record, however, that the
gentleman, as soon as he had sufficiently recoy.
cred his presence of mind, rushed out and
seized the skirts, thus compelling his fair
friends to enter the house in a most ippomin.
iously collapsed condition, so far as their Gus.
tomary apparel was concerned The Young
ladies' declared that they would not be cau0hi
up tree again during their natural lives
Boston Herald %"
Year: 1860

want it understood this il not Rattle or
Gift Entertainment. It IS designed TO obtain
work and customers and to this end every orc
who will bring me work u do in the jcryclrv
Matchmaking or Daguerrean business l viii
present with as many tickets a they will ex-
mend dollars in my line. Those who want
watches cleaned or repaired. or any Jewelry or
Daguer can work done have only to pay me the
regular price. The work will be warranted,
watches for one ve,r, and besides obtaining the
work at the going rates they will receive as
many tickets in my great distribution ns they
expend dollars for work. Remember that |
will Lot raise the price Of my work. Purchas
crs need not have the work done now. hut at
any time hereafter the tickets will be good FOR
watch repairing or lilenesses.
Year: 1860

For The Van Bsrea Press.


Dedicated to the pupils of the vansBuren Female
Academy. on account of the death e Miss F. A.
Chapman, who was one of their teachers, by


l. N. Dixon.
From us thou art gone, now in the cold grave.
We hear not thy voice, but silent and crave
w drOOp like the willows that weepsser the strea.m
For great is our loss-au seems like dyesm.
When we do reflect and think of daytfast,
Our souls do gush forth, and tears "a 6ast
The time was SO sweet with thee weld sesnd.
We know we have lost Kind asd sesd JTiead.
The trial is hard. but we must soon yield,
For death over will too his force WELD.
And we will fall then and give up our life,
For death will us free from all mortal strife
Thou sweetly art sleeping in Jesus the Lord
Who died to redeem thee by His mighty word
Thy tomb he will rend, and thou wilt arise
To meet him in triumph ascending the skies.
This hope the most glorious consoles our sad heart
For we will soon meet thee and then never part.
This life let us spend in view of that day
When Jesus will come and call Us away
Now we are in grief, but thou art at rest
But we must resign, It's for the best.
The future the Lord from us has concealed,
His will with us is fully revealed.
Now thou art in Jesus, no troubles annoy
But we are in sadness, and hope full of JOY
That We soon will meet thee in heaven above,
And then We will greet thee with heavenly love-
Year: 1860

ing. but l have not timo to again discuss
this question.


Before l close I must notice one more re-
mark of II. He tries hard to extricate
himself from the illogical sentiment that he
made IN his first letter by saying that an is
sue was made between P. and B. and Col.
II. then asked how an issue could be
formed unless something was affirmed on
one side and denied on the other. And as
Il. said that Col. II. had not denied the
charges |, in my simplicity thought no is
sue had been formed. Haversack endeay-
ors to enlighten me on that point, and says
it had waited would have seen the de-
nial. cannot see that his explanation
betters the matter, for he first distinctly
stated that Hindman had not denied. and
IN the next sentence said an issue was form
co. and now he says that the denial was
made afterwards. l suppose according to
Haversack's argument that if an assertion
Is made and denial made twelve months
afterwards, the issue is formed when the
statement is made. Well. that is new log.
lie to me.


l will now close my letter by returning
thanks to Haversack for his expressions Of
respect for me personally and politically
WhileI cannot assure H. of my respects
for hum personally (asI have not the plea
sure OF knowing my opponents name) it
affords me pleasure to bear testimony to his
hne talents as writer and courteous bear
ing as gentleman. This letter closes our
controversy, and l hope that whatever OF
an unpleasant character may have been said
or done. may be forgotten, and that mere
personal wrangling may cease, and the pen
OF each writer be welded against the enc
mics Of democracy. With assurances OF
high regard for yourself and Haversack, ]
remain, truly as ever, Gan CREEK.
Year: 1860

NEW ORK, Feb 23.


Herald Correspondence ce-Ths Committee ap-
pointed by the Democratic Senatorial Caucus
have agreed upon set Of resolutions which
will te reported to the caucus called for Setur-
day next 1t is understood that they combine
the princip pies embodied 10 the two sets of res
olutions introduced BY Messrs. Davis and
Brown OF Mississippi. Then will undoubtedly
give rice to considerable debate in caucus and
1t is doubtful whether they will be adopted as
many OF the Senators are opposed to any such
action. The Committee do not consider it as a
guide for platform to be adop'ed.st Charles
ton, but simpiy to har'nobize the conflicting
views Of Democratic Senators upon the sever
81 sets OF resolutions under consideration by
the Senate.


The Sentts Post Office Committee met this
morning and had under consideration the cub
ject of the Overland Mail service The Com
mittee arr maturing bill changing the whole
Postal service between the Atlantic and Pacific
They intend to abolish all the Isthmus routes
urge the adoption Of daily overland mail
starting from two different points. The Com
mittes have special NEE. Ing to morrow. when
the whole subject will be disposed Of
Year: 1860

@ A large and enthusiastic meeting
Of New Yorkers vas held at the Burtis House
last evening TO perfect the organisation Of an
Excelsior Society. The full proceedings ill be
published in our next issue.
Year: 1860

Eg 1t was trying very hard last
evening to get up a respectable snow storm,
but with poor success. We trust, in all con.
science. that we have had our last experience
In that line, for this winter
Year: 1860

GV Business of all kinds was at q
stand-still yesterday. owing to the intolsrable
state Of the roads and the weather. We had
hoped that the cold weather had left us for
good but it appears otherwise as the sns piping
cold Of yesterday fully demonstrated.
Year: 1860

OPEN AGAIN All the best goods
are yet left at Carman's old stand, and will be
offered from to-day at private sale at the low
est prices ever known in this city. Ladies
dress goods of finest fabric at ruinous rates and
everything else in proportion. Call at Car
mans No. East 2l ST.. for bargains that arc
bargains Call call call
Year: 1860

from which mankind suffer over Large part OF
the globe, is the consequence OF diseased action
in the system, indneed by the poisonous miasrn Of
vegetable decay This exhalation is evolved by
the action OF solar heat ON wet SOIL and rises with
the watery vapor from it, While the sun is below
the horizon this yapor fingers the earths sur
face, ana the virus is taken with II through the
lungs into the blood There il acts a. an irritating
poison the internal vsecra and excreting organs
Of the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails TO
secrste not only this virus, but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate
in the circulation. and produce violent constins-
tional disorder. The spleen, the kidneys, and the
stomach sympathixe with the liver and become
dsordered also. Finally, the instinct of our or
gluiaEn, as if in an attcinpt to expel the noxious
infusion, concentrates the whole blood OF the body
in the internal excretores to force them to cast il
out. The blood leaves the surface, and rushes to
the central organs with congestiye violence. This
In the Chill. But In this effort IL fails Then the
FRYER foliows in which the blood leaves the cen
trail organs and rnshes to the surface. as if in
another efor, expei the irrissng poison Through
that ether great excretory - the skin. In this
also 1t fails, and the system ahandons the attempt
exhausted and waits for the recovery of strength
10 repeat the hopeless effort another day These
are the ffs or paroxysms OF FEVER AND AGrE
Such constitutional disorder will Of course under
mine the health il it is not removed.


We have labored to hnd. and have found, an
Year: 1860

has won for itself such renown for the cure of
every variety OF Throat and Lung Complaint, that
1t Is entirely unnecessary for US TO recount the
evidence OF its virtues, wherever 1t has been
pioyed. AS 1t has long been in constant use
throughout this section, need not do more than
assure the people its quality is kept up the best
II ever has been, and that ii may be relied on TO
do for their rehef all it has ever been found to do
Year: 1860

same subject. They treat with the grossest
indignities, drive out and sometimes hang
school teachers and clcrgymen, simply for
diebelieving IN the divine origin Of their
peculiar institution" Two millions Of free
men have just elected IN able, just and
in all respects IN accomplished statesman
to the Presidency, and for the reason that
South Carolina cannot dictate to him what
opinions he shall hold, she would, had she
the power, destroy the glorious Union
founded by our fathers, and involve the na-
ton in all the horrors Of civil war. Did
impudcncc and consummatc folly ever be-
fore attempt anything SO utterly fiendish
and abominablef


The 'modesty Of the demand made by
South Carolina to dictate the opinions
which more than twenty millions Of free
men shall adopt, is sufficiently ridiculous.
It becomes intensely absurd when il is
known that this determination to control
the thoughts Of the country has been
formed by 100000 white people MI told
less than three times the population Of Chi
cago. The world may well trcmble before
the power Of this wrathful State, for in 1850
it had the round sum Of 145, ,0o4 white male
i1lhabitants, which, according to the ratio Of
increase for the previous ten years would
give 150 900 all told now. Deduct those
under twenty and over sixty, and VIC have
about $4,000 able 10 bear arms. When
enough Of these are detailed to guard the
peculiar institution and to carry on the
commerce Of the Empire" how many
will there be left to fight "the rest Of man.
kind?" And then there is that fostering,
fussy, pestilent little city Of Charleston, the
head and front Of MI this secession bluster,
low supremely absurd does her cavorting
appear! Why she has, all told, not as many
white people as there are in the first and
second wards Of Chicago. What she lacks
in real strength she makes up in mere
sound and fury. Again We call attention
to the modesty Of the demand by the 30O,~
600 white people Of South Carolina to con-
troll the opinions Of more than twenty mil
lions Of frcemen. 1t il IN example well
worth the study Of all future generations
Year: 1860

QUEER WAYS IN JArAs.-1f the
wife of japanese doesn't suit him, he
can send her back to her parents and
try another. That is to say, all wives
are "warranted' in Japan; good
custom which ought to be adopted in
other countries At table the men
are served before the women, out of
respect to their superiority. Lucy
Stone has good deal to do in that
country, before the women get their
rights, or even learn what they are
However, eff ignorance is Bliss" &c.
It appears to be doctrine in Japan
that whatever is fit to be done is fit to
be seen--accordingly they battle in
public without shame or reproach, to
the great astoltishment and disgust Of
outside barbarians. Queer people
those Japs,. and not exactly such mod
els Of refinement as some have suppos<
cd
Year: 1860

ness to Sail In May.


The London Observer of late date has the
following: ..


There appears to be no doubt whatever
that the great ship will be ready to try its
powers on the Atlantic by the latter end of
May. The contracts for the works necessary
to ct the ship for sea have been taken, and
they are being prosecuted with the utmost
vipor. Mr.. Scott Russell has now nothing
Whatever to do with the ship; his contracts
have come to an end, and even the intermin-
able arbitration upon the differences between
the Company and himself have IL is UNDER
stood, been brought to close by sheer weari-
ness of all the parties, and something like
compromise Of all matters in dispute has
been, or will probably shortly be, agreed
upon on both sides.


The works necessary to be completed be-
fore the start for America are mainly those
which are required to be performed by the
Board of Trade before the grant of the neces-
sary certificate under the Passengers Act
But, in order that nothing should be wanting
TO make the Great Eastern as perfect and as
complete as possible in every department, n
most careful examination of the machinery
has been made by Messrs. Penn and Field
and the hull and fittings have been most care
fully looked into by eminent ship surveyors.
The result Of all this examination has been
to show how greatly exaggerated were all
those descriptions of her imperfect state which
many persons, from various motives, had
circulated with respect to this magnificent
ship. Every suggestion made by 'compe-
tent" parties has been adopted by the new
Board of Directors and the whole expense
of the works, including those that are actu-
| ally necessary and others which may be con-
sidered as Improvements, will not exceed
| f200OO
Year: 1860

- .I"f Pryor Dinirulty.


Tuesdays New Orleans Crescent says of the
late difficulty between Potter and Pryor;


Mr.. Pryor is represented as declining to
fight with weapons which are in common use
in the South in duels. There are two false
hoods in the assertion. Mr.. Pryor's friend
without consultation with him, declined to
permit him TO engage in such a combat. Mr..
Pryor himselfhad nothing TO do with it. Nor
are Bowie-knives recognized as common duel
ing weapons at the South. On the contrary,
their employment for such purpose is ex-
ceedingly rare-never, unless the injury in
ilicted is of so outrageous character that
there must be fight 10 the death. In the
settlement of quarrel growing merely out
of the employment of offensive Uords, the
Bowie-knife is never employed by gentlemen
In the South.


We can not understand the consistency Of
such Journals as the New York Tribune.
When Hickman and Grow, and others of that
sort under the greatest personal indignity,
refuse TO acknowledge the code of honor,
their conduct is applauded to the echo-and
the code is denounced as barbarOus and inhu-
man. But when men like Burlingame and
Potter make little fictitious show of fight,
and assert their responsibility to the code,
these journals are thrown into the widest
paroxysms of delight. We are unable to un-
derstand the consistency of such conduct
We do not impugn the personal bravery Of
Northern men. On the contrary, we do not
| believe there is one man in ten thousand
with the education of gentleman, North OF
South, who will not fight under sufficient
provocaton. Potter himself by proposing
weapons which he must have known could
not be accepted, has done more to create o
suspicion of his own bravery than If he had
absolutely declined the combat in the begin
ming. In any event, we protest that the
course of these journals in relation to thi
matter is not only disgraceful to the Ameri
can press, but outrageously unjust to the
people and the character of the South.
Year: 1860

A SEAMsTREss CowHIDEs CoLLEcToR.-A
very pretty young seamstress living in New
Albany, Ind, was in Louisville, Ky.,, last
week, and on returning found she had no
change to pay her ferriage. The collector on
the ferry remarked that he would take the
ferriage out in sewing, and in the evening. he
very Unexpectedly called at the house OF the
young woman, who had no previous ac-
auaintance with him, to take her buggy rid
ing. He extended his hand to her, and while
she received it with apparent cordiality with
her left, and held on to him, she drew forth
cowhide with her right and belabored him
soundly
Year: 1860

In one of the district courts of this State,
several years ago, q case of murder was, after
able argument and lucid charge by the
short time spent in the jury-room, returned
into Court with the following verdict: 1--WE,
the jury find that the prisoner ought to be
hung" The Court informed them that he
was the one to sentence; that the jury could
only find-"Guilty," guilty without capital
punishment verdict allowed under our
iaws( "guilty of manslaughter," or not
guilty" The jury again retired, and after
some time returned with the following YER
ought to be sent to the penitentary for life. y
They were again remanded, with instructions
as before. That jury however, was never
able to agree upon another verdict, and were
discharged, and the case continued to another
Year: 1860

In an age remarkable for g wars, and ru,nnrs Of


wars" of intrigue and blood shed for good reas-
oning and had conduct, for sound rules an corrupt
manners, when virtue fills our heads but vice our
hearts when those who would persuade that
they quite sure of heaven. appear to be in no
greater hurry to go there than Others. but put on
the livery of the best masters only to serve the
worst !; in age when modesty herself is more
ashamed Of detection than of delinquency when
independent Of principles which to depend and
free thinking not in thinking freely but in being
free from thinking; in age when patriots will
hold anything but their tongues-kecp anything
but their words-lose nothing particularly except
diffcult-.o instruct such an age must be danger
Gus, In an age like this call the attention Of
he public to-