smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

The UPs AND Downs OF FoRTuNE.-A San
Francisco correspondent Of the New Orleans
Pcayune writes as follows:


In this city there 10 a person who certainly
took prominent part in effecting the libe-
ration Of the French Emperor from the prison
at Ham he is now poor and in difficulty.
His friends recommended him to write to his
imperial friend and try to obtain some grate-
full recollection Of his former services. But
another fact is really serious, and illustrates
what strange conditions of fortune sometimes
fall to the lot of mankind. A gentleman,
we'll known here as respectable and relia-
BILE citizen, as he is q thorough and expert
enced business man, states that when Louis
Napoleon was in New York he was SO poor
that he was unable to obtain enough to eat,
except through the charity Of some few
friends.


Mr.. - was at the time clerk in large
importing house in Pearl-street, and was init
mate with the then needy French adventurer.
Napoleon was accustomed to come and sit
about dinner time on window-sill on the
opposite side Of the street, and there wait for
the store to close, when he would accompany
his friend, who usually paid for his meal at
q neighboring restaurant. Napoleon seldom
ventured to enter the store for fear of COM
promising his friend, both knowing that he
would not be tolerated there. Had the pro-
prietors been able to foresee the wonderful
and brilliant change destined to occur to his
fortunes, perhaps they would have been less
exclusive Of their policy toward the poor
outcast.
Year: 1859

SHARP SHOOTING AND SHARPER PRAcrICE.--
The Fredonia IN. W Censor, tells Of one Of the
sharpest betting tricks that we have heard Of
In some time. A Mr.. jackson Sage made a
wager of $500 with some parties in Fredonia
that he could shoot fifty consecutive rife shots
off hand, at q target Of two and one-fourth
inches, at the distance Of ten rods, without
once missing the mark. He accomplished the
feat, but did 1t by setting up heavy boiler
iron funnel, one foot in diameter at the wider
end, and tapering to q size less than that Of
the mark just In front of the target. He had
only to keep his ball within Eve or six inches
Of the mark and the funnel took them home,
sure. He had the Yankee impudence to claim
the stakes after this performance, and we
cannot feel certain that he did not deserve
them, for his sharp trick, if not for his sharp
shooting.
Year: 1859

The Democratic party of the State of Califor-
MIA, in Convention assembled, make and publish
rs their Platform and Resolutions:


RESOLVED, That we re-afiirm the principles set
forth in the Cincinnati Platform, and recognize it
as an authoritative exposition of the Democratic
Greed.


RESOLVED, That the right Of the people Of the
Territories to form all their domestic institutions
in their own way, is absolute and complete and
that we are naturally opposed TO any interference
with such right, either by the Legislative or Ex-
scutive departments Of the General Government.


Resolved, That the Administration OF James
Suchanan, by its outrages upon the rights OF the
people of Kansas its unrelenting prescription OF
tried and worthy Democrats for the offense Of ad-
herring to Democratic principles, its constant vio
lation of the pledges which brought it into life its
attempt TO render the Legislative subject to the
Executive Department and its gross extravaganza,
mismanagement aud corruption, has forfeited the
respect and lost the confidence of the American
people.


RESOLVED. That the immediate construction of
the Pacific Railroad ought to be encouraged by
the Federal and State Governments bv all means
in their power, and that meanwhile the mail SER
vice by the Overland routes should be sustained
and increased.


RESOLVED, That our State judiciary system
needs a thorough and complete revision, and that
the Constitution should be so changed, as to in
crease the number of Judges of the Supreme



administration of justice.


RESOLVED, That in the opinion of this Conveu-
tion, Congress should enact law to protect actu-
al bona t3e settlers upon public lands in their
Just rights.


RESOLVED, That we, as a Convention, repre-
senting the true Democracy of California, adhere,
With unfaltering frmness, to the principles of De-
moeracy, as taught by Thomas Jefferson, and
which guided the councils of the immortal Jack
son.


RESOLVED, That when this Convention ad
iourns, its members adjourn to meet as citizens
at the polls inthe Ides ofSeptember, and that by
our labors and our voices, we show to the world
that the freemen of California are unbought by
Federal patronage, and are uuawed by Fedora
power, and will sta d by the sacred principles o
Democracy in defiance Of treacherous President:
and their Cabinets.


RESOLVED, That the doctrine of Intervention
by Congress to establish a slave code for the Ter
ritories assumed by the Administration adher
ents, is gross departure from the principles o
the true Democracy as laid down IN the Platform
made at Cincinnati, and we repudiate it as the
heresy of a faction and condemn it as an outrage
upon the great charter of American Liberty.


"REsoLvED, That the Chief Executive of the
Nation has broken his pledges to the people o
the State of California, in regard to the Pacific
Railroad which pledges were announced in
his ill-timed letter of 1856, two weeks previous
to the election in this State; and that we con.
demn the Administration for its refusal to place
the Central Overland Mail on the same footing, as
to compensation, as the Southern route
Year: 1859

CHILDREN KILLED By THE FUMES OF CHAR
CoAL.-The St. Louis papers record the death
of one child and almost the suffocation of
another, from the very imprudent act of the
mother, in lighting a charcoal furnace in q
close room. They say:


She had imprudently lighted charcoal fur
mace in a close room, and laid her infant on q
low couch. After the woman had been busy
for about two hours, 4 neighbor happened TO
go in, and Immediately noticed the dense
smoke and disagreeable smell in the room, and
advised the woman TO open window He
observed little girl, ten years of age, sitting
on the hearth, near the charcoal furnace, and
apparently asleep. He went to her, shook her,
and taking her to the cool air, she soon recov-
cred, complaining however, of sickness at the
stomach and dizziness. Doubtless soon she
would have subsidized into the stupefying sleep
which precedes death by asphyxia. But the
infant of the poor woman, who was only
eight months old, and had been unweli lately,
was oyerpowered by the subtle deadly poison,
and soon died with the characteristic symp
toms.
Year: 1859

BeA- Report speaks of Newfoundland dog
who has been seen and heard lately at the foot
of a precipice on the Niagara river, just below
the Suspension Bridge, the Canada side
The precipice is some two hundred feet high,
and the ledge at the foot upon which the animal
is said to be is inaccessible except by mechani-
cal assistance. He is supposed to pick up a
precarous living from the fish and small animals
on his " beat" which is only half mile in
length. His bowling lamentations from his
rocky retreat are often heard at midnight, and
daring attempt to approach and save him was
rendered frutless by his ferocity. An additional
romance has been thrown around his fate by the
story that he bemoans the loss of bis master;
lost by the same catastrophe which placed him
in his present position.
Year: 1859

BsSF- In a letter of Senator Douglas, excusing,
on account of the sickness of his wife, his at
Broderck in New York, that gentleman takes
occasion to say of deceased:


No man under circumstances so unpropitious
ever established in that body prouder and
more enviable reputation, in so short period
His vigorous intellect; the frankness and SINGER
ity of his character his resolution, purpose and
restless energy; his fidelity to principle and
friends, commanded the respect and excited the
admiration of his associates. His sudden death
will cast gloom over the Senate, as it startled
and shocked the whole country.
Year: 1859

B3y' A number of leading Italians CT San
Francisco have commenced raising a subscrip-
ton to aid in the purchase of one million Of
muskets for Garibaldi in the approaching Italian
war. We think it would be better to raise
about fifty or one hundred thousand first, and
then enough money to feed and clothe and fur
nish with ammunition the men to use them
The chances are that, if a million of muskets be
presented to Garibaldi, he will not live long
enough to find men enough to use them.
Year: 1859

CooL.-A young gentleman of this county was
passenger on board the North Star, when she
went aground on one of the Bahama Islands,
At the time of her running aground he was on
deck supporting young lady, (also a resident
of this county, who was destitute of strength,
and almost destitute of voice, from sea-sickness.
As the vessel struck the reef, she exclaimed in
alright, What's that?' "Oh, nothing much,n
replied the gallant attendant, " she's Just lit to
rest awhile, and will fly on again directly"
Year: 1859

TobEHaBLY FAIR.-The Sierra Democrat is
responsible for tie following:


a good one we heard the other day of
Californian on visit to his friends in the East,
after an absence of nine years. He was piled
with many questions and, just as he swallowed
his night cap some one asked him what kind
OF water we have. "Well, there" said he, "
thought some fellow might ask me that, and just
before left took drink of it. The waters
first raten
Year: 1859

A New RULNG.-Judge Hager, of the Fourth
District Court, San Francisco, decided on Tues
day last that proof ofthe publication of an order
of Court, requiring creditors to appear and show
cause why the itsovent should not be discharg-
ed, must be made by the examination OF the
printer, publisher, or chief clerk of the newspa
per, in open Court, and the production of the
files Of the paper for time specified in the notice
The affidavit of the printer, publisher or clerk,
that the notice has been published for thirty
days is insufficient even if the creditors appear
ed in Court on the day specified and interposed
objections in accordance with the statute. He
also held that the petition in insolvent cases is
an immaterial matter, under the strict letter OF
the law, and does not require great particularly
OF form and contents but the schedule has to
be in strict accordance with the statute, or il
will be admissible as evidence to the Jury,
tending to prove fraud in the insolvent
Year: 1859

In a word, Douglas is the most unmltgated
nuisance that ever afflicted the Democratic party.
He is the Trojan horse of the party, and in his
prolific and mischevous brain he carried into the
citadel of the Democracy the elements of discord
and strife that have given it over to intestine
contention and final annihilation."


The Democratic papers to which we allude
will thus see that they have the support and
abuse of Douglas. 1t should make them feel
delightful. They will "please copy the article
alluded to.
Year: 1859

found guilty, and that he died by the hangman's
hand. 1t was in my power to sooth bis last mo-
ments in this world by taking on myself the
arrangement of some of his private affairs, which
while they remained unsettled, weighed heavily
on his mind. They had no connection with the
crimes he had committed, SO / could do him the
last little service he was ever to accept at my
hands with clear conscience. say nothing
in defence of his character, nothing in palliaton
of the offence for which he suffered. But can
not forget that in the time of his most fearful
extremity, when the strong arm of the law had
already seized him, he thought of the young
man whose humble fortunes he had helped to
build; whose heartfelt gratitude he had fairly
won; whose simple faith he was resolved never
to betray. / leave it to greater intellects than
mine to reconcile the anomaly of bis reckless
falsehood towards others, and his steadfast truth
towards me. 1t is as certain as that we sit here
that one of Faunteroy's last efforts in this
world was the effort he made to preserve me
from being loser by the trust that / had in him
There is the secret of my strange tenderness for
the memory of felon-that is why the word
villain does somehow still CRATE on my heart
when hear it associated with the name-the'
disgraced name, I grant you-of the forger
Fauntleroy. Pass the bottles, young gentlemen
and pardon man of the old school for having
so long interrupted your conversation with


story of the old time.
Year: 1859

CONGRESSIONAL HUMBUeGERY.-At an evening
session Of Congress last week only z members
were at one time present and three set speeches
were nominally made in fifteen minutes. a
member would rise, read few minutes, and
ask leave of the committee to print the rest OF
his speech. 1t was granted, of course, and two
others followed in the same manner. Fifteen or
eighteen columns of the Congressional Globe
wore loaded down few days after with these
efforts, and constituencies are thus deluded into
the belief that their representatives are really
making figure in Congress, when not one menu
ber in twenty may know, even by accident, that
another has spoken.
Year: 1859

The Country Lassie.
She blossomed in the country,
Where sunny summer filings
Her rosy arms around the earth,
And brightest blessings brings;
Health was her sole inheritance,
And grace her only dover;
never dreamed the wild wood
Contained so sweet a flower.
Far distant from the city,


And inland from the sea,
My lassie bloomed in goodness,
AS pure as pure can be:
She caught her dewy freshness
From hill and mountain bower,
never dreamed the wild wood
Contained so sweet flower.
The rainbow must have lent her
Some of its airy grace;
The wild rose parted with blush,
That nestled on her face
The snnbeams got entsngled in
The long waves of her hair,
Or she had never grown to be
So modest and so fair.
The early birds have taught her
Their joyous matln song,
And some of their soft innocence,
She's been with them so long,
And for her now if need be,


I'd part with wealth and power;
I never dreamed the wild wood
Contained so sweet flower.
Year: 1859

| for him, for he gains nothing by being allowed
to spoil the comfort of the whole circle. A PEN
oil, sheet Of paper, and few patterns will
sometimes keep him quiet for you for an hour,
while you are talking, or in corner he may
build block house, annoying nobody. If be
does now and then disturb you, and If 1t costs
you more care and thought to regulate him there,
balance which is the greatest evil-to be dis
turbed by him now or when he is q man.
Of all you can give your Charley, if you are
good man or woman; your presence is the
best or safest thing. God never meant him to
do without you any more than chickens with
out being brooded.


Then let him have some place in your house,
where he may hammer and pound, and make all
the litter his heart desires and bis various
schemes require. Even If you can Ill afford the
room, weigh we'll between that safe asylum and
ore which, if denied, he may make for himself
in the street.


OF all devices for Charley which we have, a
few shelves, which he may dignity, with the
name of cabinet, is one of the best. He picks
up shells and pebbles and stones, all odds and
ends, nothing comes amiss and If you can give
him pair of scissors and little gum, there is
no end to the labels he will paste on, and the
hours he may innocently spend in asserting aud
arranging.


A bottle of liquid gum is an invaluable resource
for various purposes nor must you mind though
he varnish his nose and fingers and clothes
which he will do of course, if be does nothing
worse A cheap paint box and some engravings
to color, is another; and if you will give him
some real paint and putty, to paint and putty
his cars, and boats, he is q made man.


All these things make trouble-to be sure they
debut Charley is TO make trouble that is the
nature of the institution; you are only to choose
between safe and wholesome trouble, and the
trouble that comes at last like whirlwind.-
God bless the little fellow and send us all grace
to know what to do with him
Year: 1859

GENEVA, N. Y, Aug. 23.-Quite q num-
Der of prominent American politicians have
congregsted here to attend the American
State Council which met to-day.


The struggle will be on tho time of hold
ing the State Convention.


Daniel Ulman who. it it is said, repre-
sents the policy of Thurlow Weed, will op-
pose a call of the Convention.


On the same day the Republicans will
hold theirs in order that the latter may not
be embarrassed by any union openly with
the Americans.


The Buffalo delegation who favor union
and act with the anti-Weed Republicans.
advocate the holding of the Convention on
the 7th Of September, at Syracuse, so as to
force the Republican Convention either to
recognize the Americans or drive them in
to open rupture.


The chances thus far seem to be in favor
Of the calling of the Convention to meet
on the 2lst of September.
Year: 1859

SAN. BARKLEy will open his new
grocery store to-day. Sam has adopted the
exclusive cash system which is altogether
the best for both buyer and seller His
stock OF goods is large and fresh. and W e
bespeak for him liberal patronage. Store
on Brady, between Front and Second
streets, in the old Sanford building.
Year: 1859

SAM PERRY has commenced receiv-
ing his Fall and Winter stock. The cloth
ing sold at his establishment has no superb
or in the w est, and the West has 10 better
fellow to deal with than SAM Perry. His
store is directly opposite the Post office.
Year: 1859

WENT Up.-James Stroud and Ellen
Stroud, the individuals who were arrested
Monday evening, for drunken and disorder.
ly conduct, we're brought before his honor.
Justice Blood, yesterday morning for trial.
The fallen angel who was arrested with
them, was put upon the stand asa witness.
The testimony showed very plainly that
Ellen was not any better than she should
be. and that he was Furnishing her for her
faithlessness at the time he was arrested
James and Ellen went up for thirty days,
the other woman was dismissed. with o
notice to leave town instanter.
Year: 1859

DIsCoNTINuED.-The Keokuk Jour-
mol, one of the best Democratic papers in
the State, has been discontinued, for want
of the proper support. The editor says:


After taking full and careful survey Of
the circumstances by which We are sur
rounded. we have come to the conclusion
to discontinue the publication of the Daily
Journal. from and after Monday next We
are impelled to this step, from necessity,
and not from choice. Our own conscience
bears US ample witness that we have strugs
gled earnestly and zealously during the
three mon he that we have been connected
with the paper. to lift it out of those embar-
rassments which hemmed it in on all sides,
and which we saw that no individual effort
of GUS own, alone and single handed, could
successfully overcome.


Shame on you, citizens of Keokuk, what
volumn does this suspension speak for
your enterprise. (f The great city OF Keo-
kuk allows her vitals to perish, and her
people have not the pride to stay the des-
truction. Let US hear no more of your
boasting A city that does not support her
Daily Journals, should hide its head for
shame. The Democratic party of Keokuk
have cause to congratulate themselves upon
their success in supporting their organ.
Year: 1859

Ii we consult Nature-taking her processes
as our guide-we shalt see her vegetable fer
tilizers applied in the fall-and there can be
no better evidence that this is a most favor
able time for manuring the soil. Circumstan-
ces, it is true, may render it advisable to vary
from this time, and it is one of the objects OF
the farmers study to be able to modify natu-
raj laws, and to choose in some cases conve-
nience as his guide. The more perfectly,
however, he understands Nature, the better
he can command her, but generally, the closer
will be his obedience to her teachings. Ma
ture makes no mistake-shc never practices
false economy-all progress is by due obedi-
ence to her laws.


The application of manure in Autumn pre-
supposes that it has become partially decom-
posed during the Summer, and that it will be-
come we'll rotted by the following Spring,
when needed by plants upon the resumption
of their growth. 1t is thus ready for their
use, and this is one material advantage of APP
plying manure in Autumn. Another adyan-
tage is that this decomposition has reduced its
bulk without detioratiDg its value, (if proper
ly carried on.) rendering transportation less
expensive, while at the same time, the team
and the roads are in a better condition for the
work. The Summer season, too, has afforded
time for composing the stores of the barnyard
with muck and other vegetable matter, thus
increasing largely the amount and value of
both classes of material-an important object
to the farmer.


Nature, if asked the question, elbow shall
we apply manure 7'' answers, ssOn the sur
face" She has no operation analogous to
plowing and while We may think we have i'm
proved upon the methods-as we undoubted-
ly have in this and other respects-we may
still learn wisdom from her example. In ap-
plying manure to Swaziland in the Fall, let it
be spread upon the surface-the growing grass
will keep it in place, will keep it moist, and
will gradually work its decomposition. When
We would pillow in the Spring, it is In the right
state and position for our use-for the use of
the succeeding crop-and practice proves this
to be one of the best methods OF manuring
sward for any crop. In applying manure on
stubbls land, it would be well to cover it i'm
mediately with the gang pillow or cultiyator, in
cooperating it as thoroughly as may be with
the surface soil. In Spring, before sowing,
let the land be plowed TO proper derth for
tho crop applied, and the result has been in
the cases in which trial las been made, a bet
ter crop than from manuring in the Spring in
the usual manner.


Practical farmers are studying more closely
than heretofore the nature Of soils and plants,
and the demands made upon theformsr by the
latter. and seeking to learn from practical
science, and from the operations Of Nature
Year: 1859

The world is half darkened with crosses


Whose burdens are weighing them down;
They croak of their stars and iil-usage.


And Srope in the ditch for crown.
Why talk to the wind of thy fortune,


Or clutch at distinction and gold?
II thou canst not reach high the ladde er,
Thou canst study its base by thy hold
For the flower though hid in the corner,


Will as faultlessIy finish its bloom
VIII reach for sparkle of sunshine


That clouds have Got dared to consume.
And wouldst thou be less than fower,-


With thought, and a brain, and hand ?
Noulds; wait for the dribbles of fortune,


When there's something that these may comand
There is food to be from the furrow,


And forests that wait to be hewn,
There is marble untouched by the chiseli


Days that break on the forehead of June.
VIII ye let the plow rust in tho furrow-


unbuilded home hall
Nor bid the stones wake from their silence


And fret, as if fretting all
Go, learn of the blossom and ant-hill


There's something thy labor must give.
Light the beacon that pierces the tempest,


Strike the clog from tn footing, and live.
Bive-not trail with thy face in the dross heap,
In the track of the brainless aud proud
Lift the eerements away from thy manhood,
Thourt robbing the dead of shroud.
There are words and pens to be welded,


Thsre are thoughts that must die if unsaid,
Wouidst thou saunter and pine-away roses,


Or sspulchre dreams that dead
No, drag not thy hope to the pyre,


Dreams dead from the ashes will rise,
Look not down upon earth for its shadow


There is sunlight for thee in the skies
Year: 1859

Twenty two children, who were floating out
to sea on a large cake of ice upon the ebb tide
in Boston harbor, n few days ago, were saved
by man named VIM. Haslem. He out
in small boat, and his attention was attract
ed by their screams. He at once pulled to
their assistance, and with great difficulty and
danger took them into the boat. Such occa-
sons of doing good seldom happen in the
life of any man.