smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

MR. SIoKLEs,s AssURAYcE.-Th Washing
ton correspondent Of the New York Eseniig
Post says: Mr.. Sichles has greatly damaged
his case before the House by his impudence
the other day in dragging his objections to
the course of Williamson, as a matter of
privilege, into the House. before the Election
Committee could examine into his complaint.
There is nothing in the world quite like his
cool lbrayado, and the thing were possible,
he would regain his old position before the
Key affair He hSs sseSdy % l9qAsf dSya the
to great extent by this almost contempt
uous indifference Of his, and if there was not
very deep-seated feeling against him among
the Opposition, he might still hope to attain
a leading and Influential position in the
House once more. ...I. rIe..
Year: 1860

A SAILOR CRUELTY BEATEN.-A few days
ago sailor in New Orleans was sent to the
Charity Hospital, having been badly beaten
by some person or persons. He alleged that
his injuries had been inflicted by the Captain
and mate of the ship Esser from Boston.
The sailor, whose name is Peter Shields, says
that on the day after leaving Boston he went
down into the forecastle to get some tobacco,
when the Captain called him up and charged
him with wantingt to get liquor; that the Cap
tain, assisted by the mate, then beat and
kicked him so badly that he was obliged to
take to his berth and remain there the whole
voyage. which lasted twenty-seven days
Year: 1860

POPULATION OF New YORk--The New
York Herald says that the census returns,
SO Ear as completed. indicate population
for that city within The limits proper,
of nine hundred and fifty thonsand-au
Increase of four hundred and thirty four
thousand four hundred and fifty three
over The population as shown by the cen
sus of 1850 Including adjoining munic-
ipalities. the population of the metropy-
liIan district, will amount TO million and
n half.
Year: 1860

We wish that Postmaster-G General Holt and the
other administrative potentates at Washington
were business men In New Orleans for just week
or two, for then they would learn lesson which
would produce desirable effects. They would
learn that the appropriation which is made to Sc
cure a proper attendance to the business Of this
Post-Ofiee is entirely inadequate; for it does not
suffice to secure the services Of sufficient number
of employees to assort the mails either for delivery
or dispatching to other points. The avenues and
premises of the PostOifice building constantly
filed up with of bags, enclosing tuns Of mail
matter-the force Of the Office being totally insult
icient to relieve them of, and deliver, their con-
tents to the owners, who should be promptly sup
piled with whatever is coming to them. At this
time, and 50 it has been for some time, the accu
mutation of back mail matter has been immense !;
and with the best intentions in the world, Post
master Marks is utterly powerless to cause the dis
charge Of the duties of the Office in proper man
ner. The reproaches and the grumblings Of
aggreved citizens find their object not in Post
MASTER bnt in the Federal administrators of affairs,
who compel his helpless condition by Withholding
the requisite means for its relief


If the citizens Of New Orleans cannot get relief
from these Post-Office disabilities in the proper
quarter, they must relieve themselves, and the
only way to do it, appeal to Washington being
hopeless Of results is to raise by subscription an
amount to pay for the employment of sufficient
number of clerks TO do the work at the Post Office
with prompt and unembarrassed regularity. This
is the only feasible recourse under the circum-
stances, and we suggest that subscription among
the business of the city be forthwith got under
way. A small amount from each would raise an
aggregate sum ample for meeting the expense
of the required increase of the force of the Post
ONCE, and we hope that such movement in the
matter will be made without delay. The state OF
Post-Offlce affairs now is execrable, exasperatng
and to the last degree uncomfortable, and no branch
Of business is exempt from its embarrassing or
annoying consequences. Something must be done,
and that quickly.
Year: 1860

Safe that shah combine perfect reproof qualities with
complete protection from the attacks of the skinl
glars has long been the want of every business Tbe very
best of the Sheet Iron Safes general USE while they may have
eproof qualities from the pecuaiy of their structure can
resist the efforts of burglars and ar consequently worth
less for the protection of Fuabe The newspaper reports
this and all large cities and throughout the country fully
roborate this statement.
Year: 1860

A LITTLE boy fell into the river at Green
field. a few days since, barely escaping
drowning. When asked by his mother
what he was thinking about while in the
water, he said he thought he should fur
nish an item for the newspapers.
Year: 1860

A goose that sees another drink will do
the same, though she is not thirsty. The
custom Of drinking in company, when
drinking is dispensable and prejudicial,
seems to be case of the same kind, and
to put a man, feathers only excepted, up
on footing with the goose.
Year: 1860

we like to see man refuse to take
his local paper, and then borrow it from
his nleighbor. We like to hear mar
complain when you ask him tosubscribo
ror his home papor, that he takes more
Than he can read now and cannot afford
it. We like to hear a man run down
his homo paper as not worth taking,
and every now and then 90 or send to
the editor for some favor in the editorial
line We like TO have men threaten TO
"stop the paper if the editorials and
character of it docs not come up to their
prc,conccived standard of politics, sci
encc and literature. We like to have
men dictate what course ant editor should
pursue, simply because they are subscri.
bcrs, and particularly isthcy have not
paid their subscriptions. But above Ill
things we like o sceImon of wealth sgl
property refuse to sustain local pre-
which is continually enhancing the =,
ne OF their property, by advocating t d
interests OF the town or county We
like to see these things. it looks econ.
omical and thrifty!
Year: 1860

Never within the past four years or
moro, that we have been publishing,
have we known so many complaints
about our paper falling to reach its dcs
tination. So many complain that we
must just answer them ali at once by
saying: We can't help it. Your names
arc down, and the paper goes regularly
from this office, but where it goes to,
the Lord only knows. We don't and
We are Mt o loss how to remedy tho
matter. We must trust to luck for an
improvement in the future. Oftentimes
we are misjudged by subscribers who
fail to receive their paper. 5ometinles
one will meet us and say that he has
concluded we had stopped his paper,
and he seems offended. Sometime,
too, our mouth is sealed end VIC cannot
answerpersons who arc so quick to at
tribute the blame to us. Now, let lis
make few remarks hero for the fu-
. ture consideration ofoul readers.


Gentlemen and Ladies, all you who
have paid for your paper need ncrey
fear that we will fail ntentionallv to
supply you with it. And there are
some who arc behind on our books to
whom we will continue to send. For
instance: II clever man at COwan failed
to'get his Journal for u couple of weeks
andtherefore said that he supposed we
had stopped it because he had failed to
tpay TOR 1860, although he had paid ev-
, cry other year before. Now let US say
to such rs him that wo have lots of
names still on our books that we send
.theJournal to, although thoy are lit
tie behind. 1t is impossible almost to
jump right from out n credit system
into cash one. We are getting very
fast, however, into cash system. For
instance: We place tho nam, OF no
neic subscriber on our hooks rnicss be
pays in advance. But VIC will not
take offthe names Of some whom we
know to be good, and have paid ps
heretofore quite promptly ut the ,nt
Of the year. We have entered about
100 new names this year and all ave
paid in advance. So it viii continue,
until We shall have tho cash tye.em
firmly established. When their year
runs out the Journal will be stopped
unless paid for again.
Year: 1860

To us the idea that Il Black Rcpubli-
can, should one be elected President,
will ever administer the affairs Of this
Government to suit any true Southern
man, is perfectly prepostcrous-worsc
than absurd, and he who induIgcs such
a belicfwill find, in case Il Republican is
elected, that his hopes will be blasted.
Talk'about a man who would support
VIM. H., Seward in his internal views
talk about such an one administering
the affairs Of this government with an
eye to justice, or regard for the rights
Of the South. IIo will do no such
thing, and it will be Il suicidal policy for
the South to submit to the inauguration
OF such an enemy to her institutions.
Therefore we say: No submission to
the inauguration ofsuch an one.
Year: 1860

AANCioSot toOU.


10 the President and Directors Of the lSacra-


"'enfo, Placer and Nerada Raj Road:


GENTLEMES AT your request, 1, on the -
day OF December last, commenced an examina.
ton OF the country lying Between Auburn Grass
Valley and Nevada. by following up the present
main Stage road between Auburn and Nevada
Tor the purpose of ascertaining the practicabilty
of procuring Railroad line between these
points.


found that the hills and canons presented an
mssPerable barrier to the location of a line unon
this route, bat at that time was impressed with
the belief that by running further to the east and
crossing Bear River at a higher point the diff
Guilty could be obviated


Upon my arrival at Grass Valley and Nevada
made known to the citizens of those towns the
nature and object of the business ir which was
engaged, as well as the opinions had formed
from my observations on my upward trip. The
object l had in view seemed to meet with the
hearty appreciation and approval of the citizens
of Nevada County, in fact, so much so that the
citizens of the town of Nevada alone raised the
sum OF six hundred dollars for the purpose of
making preliminary survey through that por
ton OF the country in which l belle we'd line
could be found. This fact may demonstrate the
interest felt by the citizens of Nevada County in
the road.
Year: 1860

ALL IMAGISATIoN.-The Union not long
since declared that sovereignty, absolute
democratic sovereignty, resides in the peo-
pie of Territory that the Constitution of
the United States does not extend over Ter
ritories till the people thereof shall consent
to its extension; that Congress has no power
there; but that The people are perfectly free
and have a National right to govern them
selves.


4 few days since it became loud -mouthed
because the General Government did not
defend these perfectly free aud sovereign Ter
ritories with national rights, against the scalp
ing savages. We humbly inquired of the
omniscient Union what obligation rests up
ON the General Government to furnish arms,
money and troops for the defense of for
eign and independent nation, as Territory
under its doctrine must be. What response ?
dependence of the people of Territory of
the General Government, or that they lose
their character of American citizens by be-
coming residents of Territory They owe
no allegiance to the American Union, can
exercise complete sovereignty against the
pretensions of the American Government
are independent to the extent of making
their own laws, are beyond the reach of the
Constitution and Congress, and yet are
American citizens! Because we do not call
this exposition of the Union good sense
that paper pronounces US possessed of a
poetic temperament. "'Pon honah, old fel-
lah," says our contemporary, "you have a
yewy ferwent imagination"
Year: 1860

h- The Sacramento Union, notwith-
standing the assertions of the locofoco
press, is the most modest sheet in tho State.
When Squibob dexterously managed to
twist his hair around the fingers of the
right hand of his antagonist and pulled him
down thereby, he was so proud of the
achievement that he had to boast of it in
print. The Union was never known TO have
the slightest egotism in this respect, though
it has floored antagonists without number
in the same manner.
Year: 1860




MORE OF THE HuMBUG.-Our Democratic
contemporaries are quarreling among them
selves about what was decided in the Dred
Scott Decision. and whai is popular sover-
eighty and what not. 1t is funny time OF
jabbering, they have. One faction claims
the Dred papers give a negro holder the
right to take his property into Territories
and hold it. The other declares that ques-
tion didn't come before the court of "su-
perannuated mummies and therefore what
is said to that effect is oJiter dicta, and not
law, and then pronounce in favor of the
right of the people in Territories to de-
eide ter or against slavery. 1t seems to
us this latter class, which is known by the
name of Douglas Democracy, are only re-
sorting to the refinements of cruelty. 1t
enough to be humbugged once with this
popular sovereignty nonsense. Douglas
and all his crew know that whether the
qnes ion was before the court or not, the
conf did give its opinion that the slavehol-
der had the right to take his slaves into the
Territories. 1t may be o6iter dieta and not
law. But it makes little difference. We
know it piH be law if the case is ever brought
before the mummyfed tribunal, and every
body believes the case will be brought in
order to obtain a decision that will be law.
We would not be surprised to see such a
decision thrown off soon after the Presiden-
tial battle is fought, or even sooner. Doug
las has put himself in position to indorse
the decision which he is sure will come
The popular sovereignty fallacy is only
delusive cry raised to catch northern votes,
and holds out expectations to the ignorant
that the people in Territories are to decide
their domestic institutions for themselves
in case of the election of Douglas or one of
his kind to the Presidency.


Every intelligent person who has read the
Dred Scott decision knows what the opin-
ION of the Supreme Court is on the Terrific
rial question, and what its decision will be
when the time arrives, if it has not been
given already. 1t will undoubtedly be in
accordance with the doctrines of jeff Davis.
The whole thing is foreshadowed in the
obiter dictd, about which so many words are
made. Why not, then, be decently honor
able and accept the said bred Scott decision
as law? But this would not suit Douglas,
as he designs to use the popular sovereignty
dogma to draw auxillaries from the North,
which could not be raised if all the opinions
of the Supreme Court in the bred Scott
case should be recognized as law. We pop
ular sovereignty men, therefore, pronounce
as much as suits us of the said decision not
law simply because the case has not been
directly brought to obtain the law, but we
know our declaration is only to subserve
temporary purpose, and that by and by
when the decision comes which will be law,
We, as good citizens, will plausibly plead
the sacredness of it, and declare every other
party which does not bow in reverence be-
fore the judicial petrifactions at Washiug-
ton, reasonable and revolutionary. Crush
this .nake-in-the-grass party! Down with
the humbug.
Year: 1860

WELL DosE, FOR AUBURS.-At a special
election held on Monday last, we learn from
the Placer Herald, the people of Auburn
voted unanimously in favor of authorizing
the Trustees of that town to subscribe $50
600 to the stock of the Sacramento, Placer
and Nevada Railroad, in accordance with an
act of the last Legislature. Auburn has by
this movement won the reputation of being
the most public spirited town in the State.
We doubt if greater liberality was ever
shown by any village of like size in the
Union.
Year: 1860

PosT MASTER FowLER.-Since Post Master
Fowler failed to pay over the tritiing sum
of 81 5000. due Uncle Sam. " are hearing
considerably less than usual about default
ing Black Republican Treasurers and mer-
cenary members of Congress. We hope the
Democracy will not allow a good thing to
be spoiled in this manner. A good joke
ought not to be smotbered for relations
sake.
Year: 1860

BY telegraph on Saturday evening last


the good people of this burg became ac-


quainted with the result of the Chicago
Convention Much surprise has been ex-


pressed at the nomination of Hannibal Ham


lin, OF Maine, for the Vice-P Presidency not


that ne is not p good man and every way


worthy of the high position, but it would


seem to US at this distance from the doubt


Hli States that party policy required the


nomination of the second man on the ticket


from Pennsylvania, or at least, New JERSEY.
Cameron or Hickman from the keystone
state would seem to US the men from whom
to choose candidate for Vice-President in


order to make that State more sure for the
Republicans. However, we are far removed
from the great center of political action
and are perhaps, not sufficiently informed
as to the real condition of parties East to
speak intelligently on what is polite and
what is not for the Republican party.


The nomination of Abraham Lincoln can
furnish no ground of complaint to the Re-
Publicans. As far as principles or abilities
go he is everything the party can desire
We regard him as one of the very ablest
men in the nation. In the great canvass
against Douglas in Illinois he was more
tnan match for the little giant in every
encounter, and came off victorious with the
people of that State, obtaining the popular
vote by near FIVE thousand majority.--
There is every reas on to believe that should
Douglas be the nominee at Baltimore he
will have to look to other States but his
own for votes to make him President of
these United States. Lincoln is a man of
character and talents, and is immensely |
popular with the people. He loses nothing
by acquaintance, but leaves higher opin- |
ion of himself the oftener he is brought in |
contact with others. 1t is not so with
Douglas, and besides the latter has much |
less money to spend in the canvass than he |
had before the last Senatorial contest in



Lincoln, as an old line Whig, will COM
mend himself to the members of that old
and gallant party. Hamlin, as an enlght-
ened Democrat, will go far to crafty the
liberal and justice-loving portion of the old
time Democracy now acting with the Re-
publicans, and between the two very re-
spectacle ticket indeed is presented for the
support of the Republicans in the opening
canvass.
Year: 1860

HEsNEss Pass TURNPIKE-We understand
at the meeting called by this Turnpike Com
pany to assemble on Saturday last, there
was no one present at the appointed time to
receive bids for the building of the road
none to award the contract The President
of the company, whose business it was to
be on hand, left some days previous for the
silver mines, with no provision for any one
to take his place or attend to the business
Some of the stockholders in this city want
to know what is meant by this negligence
surveyor has been employed at large pri-
ces to do the engineering, and one.gentle-
man at Moore's Flat stands ready to con-
struct the road, on his own responsibility
if he could be allowed to do so and have the
right to collect tolls. There is culpability
somewhere in this matter. The public call
for the road, and why do not the men who
have attempted to put it through act as if
they were in earnest?


PLACER AND THE RAILRoAD.-The Placer
Herald, of the 9th, has near two column
article, and an able one too, in favor of that
county subscribing literally to the stock Of
the Railroad from Folsom to Nevada The
Herald proves by the figures that S265, ,0OC
on freights and Sl2l, ,666 on passenger mon
ey would be saved each year in Placer Co
alone, if the road were built This sum
would pay 10 per cent. annually on the cost
of constructing the road
Year: 1860

If the spring put forth no blossoms, in
summer there will be no beauty and in au-
tumn no fruit-so, if the youth be tritied
away without Improvement, ripper age will
be contemptible and old age miserable.
Year: 1860

\ NoaLE Doc Dr. Able, in one Of his
lectures on phrenology, related very stri
king anecdote of Newfoundland dog III
Cork This dog was of n noble and gene
rous disposition; and when he left his
masters house. was often aSsailed by a
number of little noisy dogs in the street
He usually passed them with apparent nm
concern, as if they were beneath his notice.
But one little cur was particularly trouble
some; and at length, carried his petulance
so far as to bite the Newfoundland in the
back of his foot This proved TO he q step
in wanton abuse and insult, beyond what
was to be patiently endured; and he in
stantly turned round ran after the offend
er and seized him by the skin Of his back.
In this way he carried him in his mouth
to the quarry, and holding him some time
over the water, at length dropped him
into it. He did not seem, however, to de
sign that the co}pric should be punished
capitaliy; and he waited n little while till
the poor animal, who was unused to that
element, was not only well ducked, but
near sinking, when he plunged in and
brought him out safe TO land
Year: 1860

BSg-The last Fayetteville Observer comes down boom
ing upon the Wilmington Journal. To all its verbose
abuse we have little to add to what we have already
said. We have nothing to retract, withdraw or modify
and the bald assertions Of the Observer must go tor
they are worth We find it difficult to follow the initials
of the name of the ObserUer's friend Mr.. Pennington
but the man that abused poor Brooks, belongs to the
same crowd, just as tie Northern Wings, Know No
things and Peoples party do You can't be quite sure
Of the names of the Or the parties unless you a-
late with them closely than feel inclined to do
The Observer is posted It's friends. If there is any
mistake about lie precise and particular Pennington
that abused Brooks We share that Isake with the Co
umbia South Carolinian and other papers Lear Mr..
Brooks home There is no principle involved, that we
LynO of
Year: 1860

A BOULEVARD IN BALTMoRE.-The Mayor of Balti.
more IN his late message to the City Council says that
the cys share of the receipts from the horse
OF one cent per passenger OF the five cents paid will n
the course OF few MONTHS enable the authorities to o
on and complete plan begun several years since for


Boundary Avenue" more like the BoueYards of Paris
than anything else in the country.
Year: 1860

HARD CAsE.-The free negroes recently expelled
from Arkansas, have published an appeal to the Chris
tain world to protect them They say Indiana shuts
her doors upon them, Illinois denies prairie homes TO
them Oregon will not receive them, and Minnesota is
debating whether or not she shall admit them. They
complain of being forced into cold climate suddenly
from warm one, and present sad picture of the dis
tress that they suffer- If their inudcous friends in free
States had let them alone it is quite likely that they
would have been still enjoying their freedom unmolesed
in the South.
Year: 1860

BG~ The Fayetteville Observer and other papers Of
that class, will continue to quote the Charleston Mer-
curry Democratic authority although they knoU that
it recognizes allegiance to the Democratic party and
is recognized organ by no regular Democrat
What shall we say of such honestly