smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

Having recently completed business arrange
ments by which one of our firm will reside in
New York for the purpose of selecting and
forwarding goods for our own trade, we are
enabled to offer superior advantages to purcha-
sers, as we shall, at all times. have the benefit
of changes in the market and can guarantee
all articles of our own selection to be fresh
and genuine. -


We respectfully solicit the attention of the
Trade, as our long experience in the Drug
business of California, and our present COM
plete arrangements for purchasing in the East,
will, we are confident, enable us to offer such
inducements as will give perfect satisfaction
to all who may favor us with their orders.
Year: 1859

AT the conclusion Of marriage in village
church, the bridegroom signed the register with
his Il mark. The pretty young bride did the
same and then turning to young lady who
had known her as the best scholar in school, whis
pered to her, while tears of honest love and ad
miration stood in her bright eyes, " He's dear
fellow, Miss, but cannot write. He's going TO
learn of me, and would not shame him for the
world" Something strangely winning is there
in the above bonnie episode of village life.
Year: 1859

MATRmoNY Is one of the most sacred institu
tons known among men II is the safeguard OF
virtue, the foundation stone Of inheritance and
honorable lineage and every record OF so i'm
portant an event is one which deeply affects the
welfare and stability of society.-S. r. Herald.
Year: 1859

THE DIGGISGs ARE HUMBUG. Mr. W. 8.
Canty, of this place, permits us to publish the
following extract from letter written by rela-
tive now on Frazer river:


al have been running boat up the river ever
since came here, and have not made a cent du-
ring the time (nearly year, Everybody is
leaving who can get away The diggngs are a
humbug they never will pay anybody but Chi
namen men can scarcely make living, and
would leave to-day If it were possible. O. l..
Year: 1859

YoUTH has been compared to the morning Of
the day for at that time the sun has just begun
to shed its glorious light and everything around
looks SO beautiful their imaginations are led to
suppose that no shadows can cross such sunny
nath.
Year: 1859

INDEPENDENT ORGANIzATI0N.--Re Referring to a
contemplated organization in Nevada county of
those who are opposed to the present system of
the dominant party in a political canvass, the
Nevada Journal says:


A paper at the office of John Anderson has
been signed by more than hundred and twenty
of the principal business men Of this city, pledg-
ing themselves to meet in mass convention on the
18th day of June, at the court house, to nominate
ticket which shall not owe its origin to political
trckery Similar papers are being numeronsly
signed in other parts of the county. From the
best information we can gather, 1t seems highly
probable that not less than five or six hundred
names will be added to the list. A local party
will thus commence with the aid of hundreds of
the staunchest men of the county, and with fair
prospect of ultimate success At least will those
who take part in the Independent movement have
the consciousness of having been instrumental in
presenting good men, and we hope voting for
them too.
Year: 1859

The, Poor INDIANs.-The Indian race in
this State is fast becoming extinct. A few
more years will witness their decay, and the
countless numbers who, not long ago, roamed
through even our cities, will be numbered
with the dead. We must confess, abicct and
unclean as many of them were, we had a
certain respect for t}em,- as the representa-
tives OF the past Of California, by whose
traditions we could trace the back history
of our State They had, and still have,
about them an air Of antiquity, which leads
us from the present through the misty dis
tance of the obscure past Disease and war
have decimated their ranks, until I'VE believe,
not half the number now exist that lived in
-Californ2lFhen it was wrested from Mexican
authority. Many of these poor people have
been murdered by the whites, others shot
down in unauthorized wars, and many fallen
victims to excess in strong drink We believe
that at the. present time there are three or
four companies in the field, shooting these
poor creatures in their rancherias, and ruth
1essly numbering women and children. 1t is
not now our purpose to investigate bow far
the whites are justifable in making war up
on the Indians, or how far the latter have
provoked the former 1t may be that it is
a just and proper retaliation for the thievery
of the Indians: but all the stolen goods in
the State would not be recompense for the
late brutal butchery of male and female IN
dians, at the forks of Butte Creek, in Butte
county .-SGndard
Year: 1859

By TELEGRAPH.
1t is neutral in politics, but frank and independent
in everything else, being especially devoted the
cal, moral and material advancement Of the of
which it aims to be the exponent and representative.
Particular attention is paid to the


MINING INTEREST,
that being the prominent industrial feature of the
county, of the State large but believing that the
stability and genuine prosperity of mountain
mites depend upon the successful development ofother
pursuits, which less dangerous and uncertain for
labor without capital than gold hunting is known to
be- have soaght TO exhibit the aiaptability Of the
mountains the important interests of farming gar
denng, fruit growing, and many kindred avocations
We have tried to make the HYDRAULIC Press always
representative of what is best in California and to
correct of those unjust preudices against her
people which obtain abroad Tn short it has our
constant endcavor to make the paper useful decent
and respectable.


If a paper conscentiou>ly conducted the above
plan is thought wcrtly ofsupport ask for and hope
to receive it,


The Subscription Price
is 50 per annum, s. for six months, payable nvari
ably in advance.


Connected with the Newspaper Establishment is
full stock of assorted material for every kind of


JOB PRINTING,
which We will execute as well and as reasonably as it
can be afforded in any interior Office


Subscriptions Advertisements or Orders can be for
warded by Mail or Express, addressed above, to


AVERY & WATERS.
Year: 1859

An intelligent friend has supplied us with
some interesting notes of a trip made by
him and others to a delightful valley on the
they drove several hundred head of stock
for summer grazing. Want of space COM
pels us to condeDse these notes, and to pre-
sent only the most striking incidents of the
trim
Year: 1859

An exchange says the best cure for pal.
pi-ation of the heart is to leave Oft hugying
and X ssinr t c rls If this is the only
remedy that can b produced, we for one
say. let er palpitater'
Year: 1859

PLrcK,-It is the spirit not the uniform
that makes the soldier. 1t is the pluck,
and not the discil Inc Look at Bunker
Hill and Lexington said member of the
British Parliament. lately; we thought
that nothing could be OF service there but
soldier well set up with an enormous
stock, a cooked hat and pistal; and yet


IT Is notorious that the Americans used to
shoot down those extraordinary tiguies.
and then 20 to look at them as curioSities
Year: 1859

A gentleman meeting another on the
street said:


g perceive you are bachelor?'


"Why so?' was the response.


Because you have a hole in your stock
ing"


The accosted gentleman looked his
friend straight in the eye, saying:


Sir a hole in the heel of a stocking is
IN accident of a day; a darn is premedita-
ted poverty"
Year: 1859

FEMALE DELIcAcY.-Above all other features which adorn the female character, delcacy stands foremost within the province of good taste. Not that delicacy which is perpetually in quest of something to be ashamed off which makes merit of blush and shippers at the false construction its own ingenuity has put upon an innocent remark; this spurious kind of delicacy is far removed from good sense; but the highminded delicacy which maintains it's pure and undertaking walk alike among women and the society of men; which shrinks from no necessary duty, and can speak when required with seriousness and kindness, of things on which it would be ashamed to smile or blush that delicacy which knows how to confer benefit with. out wounding the feelings of another, which can give aims without assumption, and pains not the most susceptible being in creation. taH
Year: 1859

| Is CHESS AN INTELLECTUAL LAME s- The Boston Courier dissents from the

 popular encomums of "the intellectual game of chess,' and objects to the glori6 cation of it's champions. It says:

 We cannot assent to the disposition manifested, naturally enough, by dislin- guished chess players 10 magnify their office and function. We cannot admit that there is any necessary and inevitable connection between eminence In chess playing and general intellectual superior | ity. While it is true that many dlstin- guished men have been excellent chess players, it is never equally true that the greatest chess players have ever given evidence of conspicuous ability m anything else. There were many men at the Bos- ton banquet on Tuesday evening, whom we should rank in intellectual stature far above Phillidor, Macdonald, Des Cha pelles. De la Bourdonnais, or any other great name in the annals of chess, whether dead or living.

 The game of chess is certainly an intel lectual game; so is whist, with, to be sure, an element of chance superadded; so IS checkers. But it is but game after all ]; and the best thing you can say Of It IS that it is a very excellent contrlvance to enable idle men to get through the lazy pacing hours without damage to the pocket, the conscience or the constitution. IL ls, for an amusement, the nearest possible approach to real intellectual work. But it is barren tree; it bears the blossoms of entertainment, but not the fruit of util- ity-"the rest of mankind" are very little benefited, mentally, morally, or materi- ally, by the diligent study of the game of chess by limited circle. To our taste, too, the spectacle of two men, especially young men, crooking their spines for hours and tying knots in their brains, over par eel of figures cut in white and red ivory IS a little dreary; but this IS merely matter of taste. and we are far from insisting that others shall square their conduct by the line of our tastes.
Year: 1859

/ have dreamed Of fairy land


Where the peace of the soul is unstircd;
Where the feet may dance as on golden sand


To the musical song of the bird
Where our home is a lordly hall,


On the banks of a murmurng stream.
Where the soitest rays Of the sunlight fall,


Like the dawn of poets dream.
Where vine-clad hills surround


The spot which our love doth embower;
Where our cherish d world is enchant' d ground


Which the spoiler can never dcvour
But I've heard the tempest wall


In the branches of desolate trees:
And the mournful sound of the midnight gale


Hath broken such spells as these.
Oh the world with the weary trace,


Has "a birthright of sorrow and care
But the dreaming land is glorious place,


And the soul would much rather be there.
Year: 1859

We find in the London Illustrated
Times the following account from cor
respondent, of a singular visitation of in
sects to a church at Colchester:


Did you observe in the papers a curious
paragraph informing the public that a
church in Colchester had been shut up be-
cause it swarms with foul insecls? When
| saw this paragraph l thought it could not
be true, bat on inquiry find il is even so,
and very strange phenomenon it is. The
church iDsqucstion is ST. Peters, the prin-
eipal church in the town. II has lately
been entirely refted inside, and scarcely
had the congregation returned when the
plague fell upon them. The wretched
creatures which have committed this afro
cious sacrilege are, | am told, as small as
dust-numbered by myraids and myraids
and are 50 lively that fumigation by
sulphur does not kill them, nor will they
die in bottle hermetically sealed.


Whence they come is at present mys-
terry. Some say from the uew wood, but
that is hardly probable. Others aver that
they creep from an old vault, which was
broken into accidentally whilst the church
was under repair. Fora a time the congre-
CATION hoped that the plague would be
stayed, and held on, but they Were disap-
pointed, and at last they were obliged to
evacuate and shut up the church. Just
fancy-for will not venture to describe
in detail the effect of such visitation up
on 1900 devout people, as they gradually
become conscious of it-erery soul in the
place, from the parson to the Sunday schol-
ars, clothed in sort of Nessus' shirt. Oh,
horror of horror>! And yet there is
touch of the ludicrous about it too. What
would Hogarth have made of such scene?
He has given US a laughing assembly, but
an itching assembly he never dreamed of.
Year: 1859

Ills peculiar + AZURE OF the Methodist
denomination, which is always season
most interesting and most joyous to the
participants, was held this morning in the
church in Church street. Rev. Father
Merrill presided, and all the Methods,
clergy and laymen from abroad, together
with enough 10 fill the church from oul
own churches, gathered for a season Of
refreshing grace. The spirit was allowed
TO rest for moment; few of the speakers
exceeded minute in their remarks, while
some only expressed in the most straight
forward manner their entire faith and love.
A hundred speakers were accommodated
within the hour.


Father Taylor said This was the happi-
est morning Of all the thirty years in which
he had joined in this annual love feast
One speaker said that angels and reporters,
who would spead the glad tidings of the
heavenly JOY here this morning, would have
no trouble in learning that this was Me-
.hodist love feast, and an old fashioned
one; and lie wished 10 be reported in the
company going to Heaven. The souls OF
all who Lave gained the love of God
danced in the fullness of His love in the
light of His glory. Sometimes two per
sons in different parts of the church spoke
together. and as the spirit which actualed
them to speak was the only thing required
to feed the enthusiasm of the audience, it
made no difference at all. One man said
he did business on State street, and blessed
God that the gospel of Jesus was for all.


One aged minister said that yesterday
morning he strayed into Unitarian pray
er meeting went in out Of a curiosity,
which he would not stop to explain-but
he was continually astonished until the
close. He found the same spirit there, ,and
was actually reminded of a Methodist camp
meeting.


Father Taylor had been called to see a
dying Catholic, and she was happy in Je-
sus. We shall begin to think by -and-by,
said he, that Jesus can convert anybody.


A venerable Quaker testified that the
words Of the prophet had been verified in
his experience this morning, for while he
had listened the fire burned. He had
been confirmed in his belief that it was al
ways safe to act on good impressions. He
deprecated sectarian!sm, and prayed for a
Christian union of all denominations. He
believed that Father Taylor had once told
him, that seetarianism was plant that did
not grow in Heaven. He was glad to be
warmed by the spirit of a Methodist love
feast. Speakers Of other denominations
expressed that :he cold forms of theology
were melted in their hearts by love.


The festival closed at halt past ten o.
clock with the benediction pronouced by
Father Merrill.
Year: 1859

house of the black swamp had vanished.
Stow and left the house instantly after
wards; We said nothing on our way to the
tavern, which we reached about day break.


am no coward, nevertheless, confess
that poor as l may be, money would not
tempt me to go through repetition of a
similar adventure.
Year: 1859

'SroP NY PAPER."-The Grass Valley
National, young democrat for whom we
have cherished aiIectionate regard. has been
seen by us but once since the earliest week
in February. II the hack numbers are not
sent or a complete synopsis made of their
contents, and forwarded TO us without delay,
and il the paper is not hereafter sent regu.
larly, and il does not reach our Office, we
shall adopt the means OF retaliation always
adopted by liberal and superior men against
the power of the press, and command you to
stop my paper" Sierra Citizen.


We are sorry for you, and condole with
you. You have missed many good things,
and many wise sayings. Send you back
numbers until you can't rest and so don I
stop your paper, whatever order you give
concerning the National
Year: 1859

ScnooL EXHIBITION. N.-This Evening a,
Hamilton Hall, there will be an exhibition
for the benefit Of the Public School From
the programme we judge the performance
will be of an interesting character. Let
csch person give a dollar to the school and
take of that amount from his expenses in
some small vice. He and the school win
both be benefited.


Doors open att ocioek, Exhibition to
commence at :.
Year: 1859

We learn that the Encampment and Sub
ordinate Lodge Of Odd Fellows, from Rough
s. Ready will assemble at Grass Valley
Tuesday next when they and Grass Valley
Lodge will proceed to Nevada.
Year: 1859

PoH!-Mr. Spatz, who is boiling against the
regular Democratic nominee for Tax Collector,
says, in his card of Aug. oath, if the Courier
thinks my prospects so bad, why, it need not
trouble itself SO much about me-" Why, you
good-natured, amiable, innocent soul, we are
not troubling ourself about you; we are not
fighting you; we fighting the Opposition as
impersonated in Alex. Andrews and Clay Stock
ton, who are using you as tool with which to
injure the Democratic party. They know that
you cannot be elected, as. you do YOURSELF but
they believe that you may draw enough votes
from the Democratic ticket to defeat Skillman
and secure the election of Andrews. And many
Germans and Irish begin to believe that this is
the only object you have in view.


We assure you, Mr.. Spatz that we desire to
fight you on the square. We profess to be a
Democratic organ. and hence find it our duty TO
advocate, by all fair means, the claims of the
Democratic nominees. In doing this, if we re-
fleet upon your consistency as a Democrat, you
have ne right te feel effended. We have here
tofore said nothing disrespectful of you as a man
And it may be, after the election, each of US may
exclam with Col Dumas, at is astonishing how
well like man after have fought with him. y
Year: 1859

The whole regular Democratic State Ticket
will get large majority of the votes of this
county.


Milton S. Latham, the gallant and eloquent
candidate for Governor, will literally sweep the
county. We shall be surprised if he does not
run away ahead of his ticket The slanders that
have been literally showered upon him by the
Opposition. have but served to make his friends
work for him more earnestly than they would
otherwise have done. He will receive major
i'y OF at least six hundred over both Currey and
Stanford. This is a dead" thing


Burch and Scott will also receive about the
same majority.


Cope, for Supreme Judge, may run somewhat
behind the candidate for Governor-nevertheless
he will also receive large majority of the
whole vote


A friend, who has canvassed the county very
thoroughly, thinks there will be about 900 votes
cast in the county this year. OF this number,
he calculates Currey and Stanford may receive
about $50 or 500 votes This leaves some 1900
votes for the Latham ticket. We think our
friends below may place confidence in these es-
1inates.
Year: 1859

For the commencement and completion of an iron
screw pile lighthouse at the entrance to the
channel of the Mississippi river at the Southwest Pass
authorized August three, eighteen hundred and fifty
four in addition to the former appropriation per esti-


mate j. page lO3 general estimate of appropriations for
eighteen hundred and eight and eighteen hundred
and fifty nine sixty nine thousand nine hundred dol
Year: 1859

Is prepared to build superior PIANOS to order
either on the upright style horizontal style. He
will warrant all his work for three years, and
should his Instruments fail In perfect and satsfae
tory execution, he will make thcm good He Is
prepared to perform all sorts of work about Piano;
to repair aud even rebuild defective instrumental
and put them in complete order lie Will also give
his attention to Tuning Instruments. Having es-
tsblishea new Branch Of business In Evansville,
he respectfully socis the patronage of its citizens
confident that he can give them good work
they can procure abroad. As specimens of it, he
refers those who may wish to see it, to three In
struments in the possession of Sir. Christian Decker
Wagon Maker. He is building an Upright
Piano, by which he intends to prove that that style


ct n t6ha az i % %st Is h6i hhf as Der=
Year: 1859

! TIE Snow BIRDs.-Who does not feel friendly
to the merry little snow birds that hop about
under lis window, or over the projecting roof
poles of his cabin They are the Mother Carey s
Chickens" of mountain storms, rejoicing in the
wide desolateness and inhospitality from which
all other birds have flown. Their presence de-
cares that the hand which upholds the helpless
sparrow, strengthens their little wings in conflict
with sleet and snow, and directs them to garners
where they chatter joyously over their tiny meal
The reed, shaken by swift t-drven Winds affords
them perch and, perhaps, dinner. Saucy little
hibernals, they disdain our prOfIers Of intimate
friendship; they give us to understand that they
want none of our charity. How they dine, or
where they sleep is none of our business; they
trust our sincerity no more than they rely on the
friendly intentions of the cat, whose stratagetic
movements behind the wood pile are fully com
pretended by the snow birds. Pnss returns from
the chase much disgusted and discouraged and
soon forPets her illsuccess in a doze on a stool
behind the stove. The gay snow-larks are off
over the drifts, making merry at her futile STRAIT
egy.


Away little stOrm-boding heralds, to your
northern snow-ields? We would not have you
come again.
Year: 1859

His wife stood weeping at the door,
His mother in the hall
His children climbed around his knee,
For he must kiss them all.
The tears were trickling down his check,
Like drops of summer rain;
lie left his childhood's home that day
lie never came again.
His father took him by the hand
lie tried, but could not speak
lie turned aside his face, to hide
The tear upon his cheek.
lie sprang upon his prancing steed,
And seizing whip and rein,
lie plunged him down the garden path
lie never came again
Spring with her roses came and went,
The Summer flowers grew pale,
And Autumn with her golden tints
Had painted hill and dale.
The Winter came with freezing storm,
OF snow, and sleet, and rain
But he came not to meet them there -
lie never came again.


HutchiRgS' Magazine.