smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859




That we live in fast age and are fast people, are
and have been for some time axoms that admit of no
dispute and we are just now slowly recovering from


startling and astounding proof of their soundness.
On Wednesday last we clipped from St. Louis paper
telegraphic dispatch, dated Washington, September
%, giving rather interesting account of our COM
merce on the Amoor river, in Eastern Asia, and of
matters and things in general in that particular quar-
ter of the globe. 1t appeared duly in the columns of
the Crescent yesterday morning, among much other
highly readable matter and regarded by us as an
item well calculated to interest and instruct the
reader. Yesterday the identical dispatch, with the
alteration of here and there word was sent by tele.
graph from Washington to the evening papers of this
city under date of the goth ut as the latest nteli.
gence according to the bulletin board of one of our
neighbors. Well, if other people are willing to pay
for such teegraphc intelligence as this we are not
and we shall take pretty good care not to publish in
our teegraphic column matters that are already cir
culating through the newspapers of the country in
the regular way. We have sometimes found fault
with the manner in which Uncle Sam's mail contracts
are generally executed, and thought we had good
reason to; but we will have nothing of that kind to
say again if the mail bags continue to beat the tee
graph, as was the case on this occasion.
Year: 1859

IT is said that but one ticket will be run
in Nevada county, for delegates at the pri-
mary election of the Administration party.
The delegates from that county will be in
favor of Thomas Findley for State Treasurer.
Year: 1859

Nor FOR WELLER-The Union has private
advices that the majority of the Mendocino
delegates are probably opposed to Weller
That paper also says:


We have private advices that majority
of this delegation is probably opposed to
Weller and from Tuolumne we learn that
Weller will only carry part of that delega-
tion, leaving his aggregate at about the same
ratio as his competitors. We understand
that the politician, finally will get this vote
who can and will do the most for Scott
Year: 1859

President Buchanan, in his Message, draws a
faithful and striking picture of the social insecurity
prevailing in the Slave States. "If," he says,
4" the mothers of families within this extensive re.
zion should not be able TO retire to rest at night
without suffering dreadful apprehensions Of what
may be their own fate and that of their
children before the morning, it would be vain to
" recount to such people the political benefits
which result to them from the Union Self
preservation is the first instinct of nature; and
therefore any state of society in which the sword
I" il all the time suspended over the heads of the
people, must at last become intolerable."


This ia all true; and, though Mr.. Buchanan
applies it only TO the temporary state Of things
caused by John Browns INVASION every candid
person in the South will admit that in the lines we
have quoted, the President merely describes in
vivid coors the habitual condition of society in that
region. Ten years ago, an eminent Southern
statesman told MS that he never retired to rest at
night on his plantation without carefully examining
BIS pistols and rifle, which hung at his bedside, to
make sure that they IRE ready for instant use;
aud mother of vi told US, years ago, that
ifaccidentally wake It night by any noise in the
neighborbood, her ifA impulse was one of terror,
lest it should proceed from revolt of the negroes.
II this is the ease where the slaves form only
minority of the inhabitants, hoy. will it be when
they come to form great majority VIII not that
state of things be so intoerable that the whites will
finally flee from it in obedience TO the instinct Of
self-preservation which Mr.. Buchanan speaks of :
And what utter follYApd wiekedness to endeayor
to plant such SOC condition in countries now
free from its blight rse
Year: 1859

We chad been in hopes TO be able to give
our readers the particulars of the last i'll
ness and death of Gov. Ransom in our
present issue, but we have not been able
to obtain them. The general regret ex-
pressed by our people at the death of our
former fellow citizen shows how much he
had won their esteem as man and a
neighbor.


In these latter relations We know of 10
one amongst us who has made a more
favorable and lasting impression on the
hearts of our citizens. In the various
public stations which he filled, as Judge,
Governor, Legislator, Land Officer, &c,
even his political opponents always award
ed him the need of strict integrity and
patriotic purpose. His last efforts among
us were to increase the growth and busi-
ness of our town by plankroad communi-
cations with important neighboring points,
in which he invested nearly all his private
means, and by which, through untoward
circumstances, not attributable to him, he
lost almost, if not quite, his all of earth
ly goods. His latter days were there
fore clouded, and he went from among us
broken in spirit, and with deep regret at
leaving the place for whose prosperity he
had sacrificed so much and whose fame
and beauty he loved so well. In Kansas
he was destined to be disturbed with the
turbulence that distracted that unhappy
Territory, and to be subject to constant
dread, both in his own behalf and that
of his family. We hope soon TO learn
the particulars of his sickness and death.
And in the meantime we can only join in
the universal prayer filling the hearts of
our people who knew him, "Peace; and
may JOY in his new home compensate for
the sorrows that were too amply dealt out
n that below"


Kalamazoo Gazette, Nov. 25.
Year: 1859

This gentleman is now an inmate Of
the Insane-Asylum at Utica. He was
taken there by his friends. The Fee.
ming Journal says:


Some thirty years ago, then young
man Of great promise, buoyant in spirits
and looking at the bright side Of all the
scenery of life, he was an unsuccessful
candidate for the State Senate. That
disappointment disturbed the heretofore
seven tenor of his way" and tinged the
future of his whole life. He looked less
hopefully upon men and things. He be-
came, as he believed, philanthropist, but
it was the philanthropy less of charity
than of force. From an ardent Coloni-
zationist, he became an ultra Abolition
ist; and his persuasive zeal for temper
ance changed to coercive measures in ia
vor of prohibition. Of his ample fortune,
he dispensed, in aid of Abolitionism and
temperance, with more liberality than
wisdom. Both his perverted talents and
his misapplied money injured the objects
he sought to promote.


Mr.. Smith has lived for nearly thirty
years in state Of political halucination.
The delusion eliminated last year, when
greatly excited, he devoted his time and
money to canvass, which he believed
was to result in his election rs Governor,
while every other person in the State
knew that he was wasting his strength
and his means. That disappointment
left him too well prepared, in body and
mind, for the shock which has overthrown
his too long unbalanced intellect.
Year: 1859

CoURTEsY-No woman can be lady
who would wound or mortify another
No matter how beautiful, how refined,
how cultivated she may be, she is in real
ity coarse, and the innate vulgarity of her
nature manifests itself here. Uniformly
kind, courteous and polite treatment of all
persons is one mark of true woman, and
of true man also.
Year: 1859

HERE AND HEREAFTER.-It is strange
that the experience of so many ages sho'd
not make us Judge more solidly of the
present and of the future, so as to take
proper measures in the one for the other.
We dote upon this world as if it were
never to have an end, and we neglect the
next as il it were never to have begin
ming. Fenelon.
Year: 1859

OF older years, too, VINO are not packWard
to present to his lips the cup that, be-
meath its sparkling, foaming wine, conceals
the venomous reptile that infuses its
deadly poison, at every draught, into his
very hearts blood, and changes his mild,
sunny, confding, boyisb nature into the
savage, ferocious, brutal one Of demon.
Hence, boys, beware of the first glass!
You may make eternal shipwreck in that
dangerous pass.


Annother of those channels may be
denominated Deceit. OIL here is the
fatal termination of the bright hopes Of
future prosperity and ultimate success to
many youthful voyager. Above all
things, boys, be honest. You will find
that no time or circumstance will ever
render false the old adage that Honesty
is the best policy" Be honest with your
parents, your teacher, your companions;
and never take the false and often fatal
step of trying 10 deceive either. You ad-
mire the courage Of a young Washington
that led him frankly to say to his father,
rs he stood in his presence, hatclet in
hand, after having tried its edge on the



smooth body of a choice cherry tree, and
being asked by his parent the author of
the mischief, 81 can not tell a lie, father,
indeed can not. / did it with my little
hatchet." Little George possessed the
germs of true honesty; and if you would
be truly good and great initiate his eram-
pile. The first variation from truth, how
ever slight and Insignificant it may have
at the time appeared, has proved the gulf
that has swallowed up and forever held
in its embrace the bright hopes and pleas
ing fancies Of many young and inexpe-
rienced mind. Again we say, be honest;
be truthful.


Another of these channels is Eva
Company. The dove never associates
with the pigeon hawk, though similar in
form and plumage, for in so doing her
life would be in imminent peril momenta-
rily. So the youth that associates with
the profane, in spite of all good resoh-
tions to the contrary, will be in great
danger of becoming swearer. If he as
sociates with the lcentious, who dare af-
firm that his mind will not become cor
rupted. How can he habitually visit the
gaming table without wishing TO try his
hand, Just once, for the sport of the game,
and thence becoming gambler.


Then, boys, keep good company, and
you will be able to shun one of the most
dangerous forks of those "Narrows" thro'
which your parents, your companions, and
every good man and well wisher to all
boys earnestly desire to see you pass safe
ly, and, once through, to have serene and
prosperous voyage down the bright stream
of life, that flows thence to the boundless
ocean of eternity.
Year: 1859

Bsl3% No machine has yet been invented which
can make perfect file. The file-cutter, with a
small hammer, can cut notch after notch into a
piece of softened steel, without guide or guage
even to the number of hundred notches in
an inch. 1t is one out of many things in which
skilled labor triumphs over the uniformity of
operation which belongs to machine. The
cutting OF lilies in Great Britain alone gives en-
ployment, it is said, to more than six thousand
persons. This is one Of the many instances in
which it is evident that the application of ma
chinery to the arts calls into action an almost
infinite variety of handicrafts Attempts have
been made, in innumerable instances, to devise
n machine that would produce files equal in
workmanship to those made by hand, but moth
ing has yet been brought forward that seems
entirely to answer the purpose.
Year: 1859

Is consequently in great demand by persons
travelling, or about to settle in new parts of the
country especially, as we'll as by many in every
community, where it has become known, on
account of its various other remedial properties.


In all cases of a Dropsical tendency it is gen.
orally the only remedy required. when adopted
in the early stage of the disease.


In Dyspepsia maladies, when taken in proper
quantities, as a diet drink and especially at
dinner, it is found, by uniform experience, to be
emnently efficacious in the most obstinate cases,
when even the best of the usual remedies have
failed to afford more than temporary relief In
cases of Flatulency, it is an immediate and in
variable specific, and it may be administered in
diluted and proportonate quantities, even to
Young Infants, in all those paroxysms of gripping
pain in the stomach and bowels to which they
are especially subject, as well as in the collie of
grown persons.


Its judicious adoption in connection with the
principal meals, or when a sense of exhaustion
dictates its use never fails to relieve the debil-
ty attendant upon protracted chronic maladies,
low temperament and exhausted vital energy, by
whatever cause induced. These are facts to
which many of the most eminent medical men,
both in England and the United States, have
borne testimony, and which are corroborated by
the highest written authorities.


Put up in quart and pint bottles in cases of
one dozen, with my name on the bottles cork,
and facsimile of my signature on the label.


For sale by all the respectable Druggists and
Liquor Dealers in California and Oregon.


UDOLPHO WOLFE, Sole Importer


% Beaver street, New York.
Year: 1859

The Yreka Union is informed that there are
only about fifty unmarried ladies between the
age of twelve and upwards in that county, which
contains probably population of ten thousand
-whereupon the editor, who is an incorrigible
bachelor, goes off thus:


Forward, the Bright Brigadel
Is there a gal dismayed?
Not though the maidens know
Many have bundered.
Theirs not to sit and sigh
Theirs not in vain to try,
Theirs but to win or die.
into the silken snare


Rush the half hundred.
Beaux to the right of them,
Beaux to the left ofthem,
Beaux all in front of them


Simper and fatter.
StroYe for with honeyed words,
Fluttering like timid birds,
Charmed by the serpents vile,
Charmed by winning smile.


Yield the half hundred.
Flash all their arms so bare,
Flash all their shoulders fair,
Clinging to gallants there,
Waiting the Spanish while


LOCKERS on wonder.
Balls are their chief delight,
Dancing through all the night,
Arch and coquetting.
Presto the knot is tied,


Easily sundered-
Do not be terrified,


Go it, half hundred!
Year: 1859

INMENsE SIZE OF THE PYRAMIDs.-A United
States navel chaplain who has recently visited the
grand pyramid Of Cheops in Egypt, wading in the
doep sand fourteen hundred feet before he had
passed one of it's sides, and between five and six
thousand feet before he had made the crcuit,says,
that taking hundred New York churches Of the
ordinary width, and arranged them in hollow
square, twenty-five ON side, you would nave
another hundred and throw in their material into
the hollow square, and it would not be full. Pile
on all the stone and brick of Philadelphia and
Boston, and the structure would not be as high
aud solid as this greatest work Of msn. Onelayer
Of block was long since removed to Cairo for build


ing purposes. and enough remains to supply the
century. if they were permitted freely to use y.
Year: 1859

AMERICAN MILITARY GENIUS
The London Times which is not apt to
praise anything American, has the fol-
lowing complimentary paragraph:


The Americans have an excellent
judgment in military and naval matters,
which they handle in spirit always
liberal and generally sagacious It was
so from the very beginning of their his
tory. They never passed through a
period of infancy or routine, but took
the field, when they did take it, in a
fashion at once superior to tnat of old
fastened belligerents. They have the
merit of anticipating even the French
of the Republic in discarding every
thing like precedent, and going straight
by the shortest cut to the mark before
them.
Year: 1859




Not to be blest with warrior strength,
TO WELD the swold and wear the gIaive,
Or rise to conqueror' fame at length,
Proclaims the good or makes the brave
To have the power to bide the scorn,
Aud rise above the hate and strife
Of those to wea tn and title born,
Is the crown'd courage OF our life.
What are the swords that prop king
The banners in his army van
To strength of soul. that dares to spring
And show the monarch in the man?
Kings and the mightiest men of arms,
Strong as the heads of realms they bide,
Sport as they may with fortunes charms,
They are like leaves upon the tide.
In dim old sepulchres they lie,


The feast of silence and decay,
While the true world-heart beateth high
And thrones itself upon to-day.
Give me the man whose hands have tossed
The corn-seed to the mellow soil,
Whose feet the forest depths have crossed,
Whose brow is nobly crown'd with toll.
Year: 1859

HUMANITY BEFORE CREEDs. Il can
not help saying that, in spite of the di-
visions of sect and creed, if we could
but read each others hearts as God reads
them, | doubt if we should find we are
SO widely separated as we appear to be.
Some think discussions and intellectual
research will bring about agreement in
religious differences. [, for my part,
do not think so. A comparison of sharp
arguments on either side generally re-
suits in keeping men wider apart; where
as, when they are drawn together by a
common passion, common want or sor-
row, there is chord struck in the heart
of every man to which the heart of his
fellow man responds. This is the secret
of our common religious beliefs. The
ministers of many churches are bound
together by trammels of the past; they
scannot give free scope to their own in
quiries and thoughts, but are obliged to
work up the opinions handed down. to
them from the past. The ministers of
such churches are not allowed to form
by their own minds, but have to start
from programme; they take their
screed as an advocate does his brief.


Mdrtinedu.
Year: 1859

Dip Nor CONE ALoNE-We notice by the pas
scnger list that L. p. Fisher and lady returned
by last steamer. Mr.. Fisher is San Francisco
agent for great portion of the interior journals
of this State-the JaURYAL among the rest, and
four years business transactions has proved him
10 be most upright and exemplary man. In
view of this fact, we suggest that in connection
with bis present business he establish a matrmo-
pial agency. We believe it would be immensely
profitable.
Year: 1859

EARN AN HONORABLE LWING.-Boys dcspise
not The farm nor the Workshop Remember that
many Of our great men, including some of our
Presidents, began their career there Washing
ton was a surveyor, Harrison a farmer and Fill
more fuller. Every one Of the apostles had
trade, and some OF them very humble ones even
the Messiah himself was q craftsman and labored
with his hands. These exalted prccedcnts are
certainly sufficient Endorsement OF the dignity
of labor, and should reconcile ali TO its cheerful
performance. TO create, to do, to multiply the
nccessarics Of life, as it is the duty, so should it
also he the highest pleasure of man. Anything
is better than life of idleness and inglorious
ease, unless, it is, to be sure, playing the cring-
ing placehunt or oliicesecking politician. 1t
is a very lowly calling to pick up pins aud
straightcn them for living, but it is so much
better than the loaling trade of politics, that ii
grows into respectability by comparison.-Sacra-
nleGtO Post.
Year: 1859

PITT RIVER INDIAN WAR.-By Tie letter OF our
Red Bluff correspondent, printed on the first
page, it will be seen that Gen. Kibbe is about to
dsband the company lately engaged in Pitt
River Valley. The snow is SO deep at present
on the trail from thai place TO Mendocino that
the prisoners will be taken to TETON Reservation.
Year: 1859

The Northern New.Jersey Railroad Company an'
nouuce excursion tickets between Jersey City and the
various stations along the lire of their road at haf the
usual fare on the Fourth of July.
Year: 1859

oLn Folks coScEE7.-We are happy to learn
that there is a movement On foot among some
Of the leading citizcus to orcauize for another
series Of sold Folks Concerts" ut u very early
day.
Year: 1859

EF~ There is no house in the Union that now
turus out better goods. better work or better
fitting garments than Tappen does. OF NJ lower
convince anybody Of the truth Of this assertion
Year: 1859

CoSrRAcTIoN OF MAIL FACILITIES. - In consequence of the defeat of the Post Office Appropriation bill by the Black Re publican party in the last Congress, the Post-Master General has been compelled to contract the mail facilities of the peo. pie, all over the country We hear o many mail-routes in this vicini,y in which the service has been reduced one-half, and we suppose it is the case in most of the slage-routes throughout the United States. Thls has been necessary in order to ena- ble the Department to go on at all and if the people feel any inconvenience and suffer any loss from 1t, let them bear in mad that il is entirely due to the faclious conduct of the Black Republicans, in re- fusing to make the necessary and usual appropriation for the Posi-Office Depart ment.- New Hampshire Patriot.
Year: 1859

About two years ago, we gave an ac- count of the abduction of a white girl, (says the Washington Telegraph, ) who, i[ was said, resided in Arkansas. IL was stated that she had been persuaded to leave her residence by a person who represented that he had received instructions from her friends in California. to take her there, by the way of New Orleans. Alter being detained in that city for some time, she finally ascertained that she had been sold as slave, and made her case known 10 the keeper of the parish prison in Carroll ton, through whom it was made public. The New Orleans Mirror, of the 27th ult., publishes the following article, which refers to her:

 An interesting case was tried in the Fifth District Court, about a week ago. A pretty brunette, about seventeen years of ago, calling herself Alexina Morrison, had been sold to James White, negro- trader in this city, as slave. About eighteen months ago she ran away, and sought protection as white girl, in Car rollton. A suit for her freedom was in- sttuted forthwith. At the trial of the

 

 case, in Carrollton, the jury failed to agree, and by change of venue, the case was transferred to this city The trial in the Fifth District Court occupied three days, and as scientific experts were unable to find any evidence of African descent in the girl, verdict establishing her status, as free white girl, was rendered by the jury. It was set forth in the pleas that she had been kidnapped from her home in Arkansas. and sold into slavery. A good deal of enthusiasm was manifested around the courtroom in favor of the girl, and a collection on her behalf was at once made. It is likely that the decision in the case will be followed by sui, for dana- ges, and if it can be made to appear that the person who purchased her had reason to suspect that she was free, he will be heavily mulcted in the premises
Year: 1859

"ALLs WELL THAT ENDS WELL"-On the
goth of May suit was instituted in one of the
Sacramento Courts for damages of $4,000 a.
sgainst man of the lower part of the State,
Asaid in the complaint to be worth $500, ,OOO
The complainant was young lady who was en-
gagged in keeping school, and was formerly a
resident of this city. She averred that she had
made the acquaintance of the defendant " in the
forepart OF the summer of 1855" and that he
had, " by his insinuating, yet commanding, ad-
dress and manners, won her confidence and af-
fections that mutual agreement of marriage
was agreed upon, and she relinquished her stu
ton of teacher to become his wife. In an un-
guarded moment she yielded everything to his
solicitations, and as a consequence thereof, was
placed in very unseemly and delicate cond-
ton, for young lady, not having za1etaR lord
and protector.


Sometime in March she emigrated from her
late residence to Sacramento, at the solicitation
and under the assurance of the defendant, that
he would speedily meet her here and have the
promised marriage ceremony legally gone
through with. Failing to make his appearance,
however, and in fact disregarding all his promi-
ses, she concluded to try the virtue of the law
upon him, and heal her wounded honor and
broken reputation by plaster in the shape of
about fifty thousand pesos. What love would
not bring, the terrors of the law or the fear of a
heavy drag upon his purse accomplished, for on
hearing of the suit the gay Lothario soon mads
his appearance, and Instead of entering de-
fence, the marriage contract was consummated,
the suit at law dismissed, and the fair one,n at
least, sent on her way rejoicing. Bee