smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

ave take no note Of time


But from its loss; to give it then tongue


It is wise in man."


30, swiftly each passing moment glides
away" How soon are llfe's golden dreams
and bright visions of earthly bliss forever
flown! Time, ever rolling time, writes the
fadeless impress of decay everywhere, and
upon everything we behold in this beauti-
full world of ours. There is nothing of
earthly beauty or of earthly grandeur that
can bid defiance to the storms of time; or
nothing too sacred or too holy to oludc the
destruction of its fatal blast.


"Isaw him grasp the oak,


1t FELL the tower, it crumbled and the stone,


The sculptured monument that marked the grave


offallcn greatness, ceased its pompous strain,


As time came by"


Flowers, that fill the ambient air with
sweet odors and ambrosial incense, bloom
fade-die Our earth at one season of the
year, is clad in her beautiful dress of living
green, and the bright rays of vernal sun
enrich expand and beautify every scene in Gre
alton. The soft warm air is filed with mu-
sic, sunshine, and perfume, and all nature
shines out in unriyaled beauty and splendor
But how soon does the witherng breath of
few revolving months rob the fields Of
their blooming verdure and lovcliness the
forests and trees of their magnificent foliage
and drapery and cause the green clad earth
to "lay her glory by" till the time shall
again come for the reproduction of flowers,
plants and herbs upon the face of nature
Change and decay arc unfadingly impressed
upon things earthly. The eye fingers not
upon an object, however beautiful and love
ly now, but that the breath Of time shall
one day mar or efface.


Time does more. 1t invades a holier
sanctuary, and introduces man to higher
destiny, and happier cline beyond the
grave. Beautiful, but to every earnest
thoughtful heart, true as beautiful are the
words following:


"Roses bloom, and then they wither;
Cheeks are bright, and then they die;
Shades Of light are waited hither,
Then like visions hurry by,
Quick clouds at even driven
Der the many colored west,
Tears bearing us TO heaven
Home of happiness and rest"
Year: 1859

THE RIVER OF DEATH.
There's many holy and rapturous strain


Floating over the river Of Death,
To the weary who wait like the ripened grain,


For the touch Of the resper's breath.
There are flashes of light each lifted wave,


As II glides from the farther shore,
To the shadowy border our tear-drops lave,


In the lull Of the waters roar.
There harp-strings siir'd by the perfum'd air,
And gushing with melody sweet.
Like the whispered notes of a child at prayer,


In the hush OF the twilight deep.
They hear the low music 40 solemn and grand


And heed not the eddying tide,
Forthey catch CLEAN ofthe forms that stand


By the stream on the other side.
And we sec light on the calm, white brow,


Like the glow of the crimsoned morn;
But we see not the lips on the lids Of snow,


All the night that We deem so longl
And we only know when VIC hear no more,


Aswe watch for the passing breath,
That an angel is tenderly lifting them down


The banks of the River OF Death
Only know that their footsteps pressing the sands
That washed by the hurry ing waves
And that the bows outstretchcd their hands
To the shore that their brightness layes;
And over their bosoms fresh garlands we lay,


And lily we twine in their hair
Fit emblems of beauty, new-blighted they say,
These garlands and lily-buds are.
call It not bghted-I deem them not dead


Who pass away IN their bloom;
For they their beauty where are shed
Der the darknes and blight Of the tomb.
And oft, as sit at the easement alone,


list ifperchanee may hear,
Thro' the stately pines, as they sway and moan,
Like child at the shrouded bier,
The hutter of Sails and the rushing ofwaveT,
And the flash Of a gilded oar,
As the Reaper starts from his emerald caves


To carry down to the shore;
And wait for the swoop ofan angel-wing


And the clasp Of an sngel-hand,
For the sound Of harp, and the chant of hymn,
And the light Of the glory-land
But alasl listen and wait in vain,


Yet know that my weary feet
Shall wander ere long from the valley of pain,
To the river so solemn and sweet.
l shall go with the Reaper changeless and pale,
And each that my heart has known
Each agonized cry and each desolate wall,


Each fearful ant piteous moan,
Shall be washed away, by the murmurous waves,
From my spirit so joyous and tree,
WhenI see the smile OF the lovely who wait


On the beautiful shore for me.
Year: 1859

VALUABLE AS CoNDENsER.-A man
who does not claim to be judge Of swine,
says; "Last Spring bought little pig
from drove, and he was good for eating
but wouldn't grow much. He got so after
a week or two, that he would eat large
bucket full at a time and then, like Oliver
Twist, called for more. Well, one morning,
l carried out water bucket full Of dough,
and after he had swallowed it all l picked
up the pig and put it in the same bucket
/ had fed it from, and tie little cass didn't
half fill IL.
Year: 1859

[As Sung by tile Scholars Of Washington School,
The old School House Bell the Old School House


Bell!


How love of its cheerful tones to tell;
Its echoes resounding far and wide
From the silvery dome to the green hill side
And the toll borne on by the breezes cool Z.
Tells the passer by it's the time for School,
Rest from your play, for you know full well
Why thus gently rings the old School House Bell
The mind of youths like the tender vine
That seeks support from the aged pine;
The seeds of knowledge are planted there,
And watered and nurtured till fruits appear;
But hist we know by the merry shout,
And the ringing laugh that School is out.
moment more and the breezes swell
The tones of the old School House Bell.
Many, ah, many have passed away,
Like the setting sun at the close of day
Or like a cloud that floats at even
Mid the spangled arch of yon blue heaven.
Once they were happy aAayoung as We,
With hearts as gay and fancy free;
But their spirits have gone with the blest to dwell
No more to hear the old School House Bell.
Should we not sadden to think of their doom,
Cut down amid their youthful bloomr'V e. -'.''
Yet time will speed on with its feetiug wings 49,
To close the source of 1ife's flowing springs; -,
And our souls will mount on the wings Of love:
And communion hold with the souls above;
But our bodies shall rest in the graves deep cell
Far from the sound of the old School House Bell
Year: 1859

An anonymous contributor to the New
York Ledger, generally supposed to be the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, after describing
how, when boy, he stole cannon ball from
the Navy Yard at Charleston, Massachusetts,,
and with much trepidation, and more head
ache, carried it away in that universal pock-
ct of youth, his hat, winds up with the fol-
lowing reflections reflections which, though
philosophically trite, are conveyed with much
force and freshness: . r' a.-.'


When reached home, had nothing to do
with my shot. did not dare to show it in
the house, nor tell where got it, and after
one or two solitary rolls gave it away on the
same day to Prince -streeter.


But, after all, that six-pounder rolled good
deal of sense into my skull 1 think it was
the last thing that ever stole, excepting a
little matter of heart, now and then,) and
it gave Iue notion of the folly of coveting
more than you can enjoy, which has made
my whole life happier. 1t was rather Sc
we're mode of catechising, but ethics rubbed
in with siX-pound shot are better than none
at all.


But see men doing the same thing-going
into underground and dirty vaults and gath
ering up wealth, which will, when got, roll
round their heads like ball, and be not a
whit softer because it is gold instead of iron,
though there is not man in Wall Street who
will believe that.


have seen a man put himself to every
humiliation to win proud woman who has
been born above him, and when he got her,
he walked all the rest of his life with a cannon
ball in his hat.


have seen young men enrich themselves
by pleasures in the same wise way, sparing
no pains, and scrupling at no sacrifice fprin-
ciple, for the sake, at last, of carrying bur-
den which no man can bear.


All the world are busy in striving for things
that give little pleasure and bring much care ;
and am accustomed, in all my walks among
men, noticing their ways and their folly, to
think, there is a man stealing cannon ball ;
OF, there's man with ball on his head;
know it by the way he walks.


The money which clerk purloins for his
pocket, at last gets into his hat like cannon
ball. Fss-.


Pride, bad temper, selfshness, evil pas
slons, will roll a man as if he had ball on
his head And ten thousand men in New
York will die this year, and as each one falls
his hat will come off, and out will roll an iron
ball, which for years he has worn out his
strength in carrying
Year: 1859

E Francis Hecker had laid in Jail at Gin
cinnati three months, awaiting trial for pass
ing counterfeit bank note, and when he was
arraigned the note was pronounced genuine.
For this gross injustice at the hands Of the
State be has no remedy.
Year: 1859

lead a gallant party blnd-folded, into the camp
of the Philistines.


The very broad intimation of the Times,
that if it's treason to the Republican cause be
not overlooked, 1t aciU break 9o,on the party,
will fail to fiighten the most timid, and only
demonstrates that we are right in our views
of the character of the Times, and the motives
by which it is governed. "Forewarned" of
its treachery, the Republicans of Minnesota
will be ''forearmed'' against it's reasonable
designs.


The Red wing Kepublican-(Repubs


THE BONDS AND TAXATION. Republi-
can of the 18th, thus expresses itself on these
topics


Reputation is an idea that no one honestly
disposed will advocate, until convinced that
worse consequences must follow any other
course Not until absolute suffering or want
is presented as an alternative, will people be
justified in repudiating obligations they have
assumed with full understanding of their
nature. We believe the people of this State
were sufficiently informed Of what they were
doing when they voted to loan their credit to
the amount of Five Millions of dollars; and so
long as the demands of the Railroad Com
panies' are simply those expressed in the pro-
visions Of the Loan Bill, we regard the People
as bound by every obligation Of honor to meet
them.


We were among the number who opposed
the policy the State has adopted, when the
measure was first brought before the people,
and in no particular have our views upon the
subject been changed. We regard it prema-
ture and unnecessary. We believed as tne
people now begin to see, that for SO young q
community to assume so great a burden would
prove the occasion of much trouble and per-
haps suffering, to our people; but having in
CURED the obligation, it is our duty as q peo!
Year: 1859

How TO Grow OLD.-At the late COM
mencement of Yale College, CT, Daniel
Waldo, as the oldest graduate present,
(of the class 1889 thus closed speech
to the assembled Alumni:


a am an old man. l have seen near
" century. Do you want TO know how
to grow old slowly and happily? Let
me Tell you. Always cat slow-masti-
cate well. Go to your food, to rest, 10
your occupation, smiling. Keep good
nature and soft temper everywhere. New
er give way to anger. A violent tempest
of passion tears down the constitution
worse than typhus fever. Cultivate a
good memory, and to do this you must
always be communicative; repeat what
you read; and talk about it. DIR. John
sons great memory was owing TO his
great communcativeness. Young men
who are just leaving college, let me advise
you 10 choose a profession in which you
can exercise your talents best, and at the
same time be honest.
Year: 1859

SCHOOL GIRLS IN WINTER.-Wc wish
to put in n special plea for the girls
Make their dresses short enough to swing
clear of the snow and mud, and give them
good water proof boots TO wear to school.
Yes, We insist upon it-they should have
boots. Women's shoes of the present
fashion are no more fit to be put upon
country roads in winter, than an Indians
birch bark canoe is tit to cross the Attain
tic. Boots viii not look quite 81 trim
about the ankle, or step so lightly upon
the floor but they will do what is of more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the health TO show
off these graces in after. life, and take
great many elastic steps that otherwise
might be fewer and those leading directly
down to the grave.


Another thing we are CAD to see COM
mo in fashion; the ladies are learning to
skate, and for this they must have boots.
Now, girls, get each of you pair OF neat
winter boots, and pair of skates to fi',
and the first ice that forms in our neigh
borhood, large enough, go out with your
brothers, or somebody elses brothers, and
learn TO skate. BE prudent about it., and
not overdo the exercise, and you will lind
it capital mediciue--next to horseback
riding. :,


The only way to bring race Of healthy
women, i; to attend to the physical deyel-
opmcnt of the girls, before they are dilu-
ted in the false system of fashionable ac-
complishment, that fits them for nothing
but elegant imbeciles. Ohio Cultivator'
Year: 1859

A PARAGRAPH FOR BoYs.-It is one of
the besctling sins Of the age, to endcav-
or to get rid of work by seeking easy and
lazy employment, and tho consequence is,
that many cf them turn out worthless
yagabonds. Boys, avoid this whirlpool
as you would plague spot; Danish from
you the dangerous desire to live without
work. Labor is honorable, dignifed; it
is the parent of health, wealth and hap
piness; look upon it ms an invaluable
blessing and never ms burden or curse.
Shun idleness and sloth; pursne some
honest calling, and be not ashamed to be
useful.
Year: 1859

A NEBRASKA EDITOR Qualifying HIM
sgLr.-The editor of the Omaha Nebraskian
having published something deemed ofen-
sive to person in that place, the wife Of the
latter undertook to rawhide him, assisted by
her husband and some relations. but the
scrimmage was soon stopped. The editor
comments upon the affair in his next num-
ber, and adds the following by way Of post
script: ...r


I've would here remark that fighting is
not our vocation. The sedentary pursuits
in which We have been so long engaged are
unfavorable to muscular development. We
only weigh about one hundred and twenty
five pounds, and have never before seriously
contemplated the necessity Of resort to
tisticufs. Blu. we now intend to 60 into q
course of training for the spring fights
We expect in short time to take lessons Of
celebrated pugilist in the noble art of self
defence, after which we shall he happy to Oh
lige any exbankers, e1-clergymen, or their
brothers-in-law who may feel themselves
aggrieved at any thing which may appear in
the Nebraskian And until that time We
shall perhaps employ body guard Of lsdies
to protect us from personal assaults which
might deprive the public of our valuable ser
vices" ..-
Year: 1859

MoRNoNDoM-A correspondent of the Alta
writing from Salt Lake, says;


1t is reported that Brigham has dismissed
the favorite plan of building up the kingdom,
or that he has stopped sealing" or giving
many wives to one man, as the constant ap-
plication for bills of divorce, all such being
made to him, has forced him to conclude that
it is not happy system. We have this from
one well versed and we think, if it is correct,
that inside influences had more to do in fore
ing the conclusion than application for bills.
Year: 1859

Tho health and cleanliness OF the city are entrusted TO


the care Of this officer. II is his duty to carry out the
ordinances Of the Common Council and the instructions Of
the Beard Of Health in all matters affecting tho public
health to remove nusances, deposits Of ashcs garbage
and other obstrucons, from tho Streets and keep them
pure and clean with the assistance Of Croon water which
the Croon Aqueduct Board required by INV 10 furnish
bis department from hc hydrants for that purpose Tho
Year: 1859

Case fae American Bark J. j. Cobb-Her Clearance for


AficaEnslish Official Suspicion and Ercaaiye htresti-


gation--Is our 1ifrican Trade 10 90 on.


The American bark J. j. Cobb, formerly Of New Yc.k
cleared few days since for legal voyage to the
Of Africa and the British Consul advised the Cap
General that he had believe that she was
intended for the slave trade and that her cargo outfit
&C., would confirm his opinion. General Concha imme.
datey despatched note to tho Consul General of the
United States advising him that he had received an init
nation of the sort but without assigning the source and
at the time stating that the vessel had been properly
clearedrom the Custom House of Havana having nothing
conuaband board, or that woud indicate without
Doubt that such TO be the business of the vessel
she was cleared with cargo an honest voy
age but the Consul General of the United States having
the responsibility, by delivery OF the last papers neces
sary before gong TO sea, with the register declined
furnishing them until he had received assurance from
responsible and respectable parties, having relations
the vessel, that she was not ntended by the owner,
charercrs contractors, for any such business note
was addressed by the Consul General the agents of the
owners in New York, Messrs. Nora Alfonso Co.,
chants requiring them to state that said vessel
be occupied in the slave trade.


The reply returned, with entire disavowa Of
any such purpose in the transfer OF the vessel under
contract charter and that they did not believe that any
such trade contemplated for her by those who had
taken her up, and referring the Consul General to the
parties Messrs lanel Co, who became the sgnccs
after the charter party was signed


The Consul addressed like note to those gentlemen,
who the positive disavowed any such bust
ness that the vessel was bound a legitimate voyage,
and other that she could find legal cargo for
return venture, she would leave the ballast for
the United States Cuba The assurances could not be
made stronger for the action of the Consul General who
there charge against the vessel, the usual
English declaration OF belief and evidence by contracts
character OF cargo that such belief Justly predca
ted The house ol Mora Alfonso Co. Is among our FIRST
Hamel Co ship brokers, and they entrusted
with much business by leading merchants, covering
by their annual contracts millions of commercial interest
IL to be presumed that confidence should DC placed
their statement


There alternative for the Consul General without
manifest injustice but TO give the papers andspermit the
vessel to go TO


The bali is in motion still for winding the measure of
our Message Indignation, AMI the government officials
say they CHE people continue 10 the order upon
their loyalty with unrestrained enthusiasm have no
doubt of il.
Year: 1859

We had the pleasure of shaking hands with Col. FnY, the General Post Office Agent, for the Pacific, who is on his way to Washington City. He passed through here on the last stage from San Francisco, and expressed him self greatly surprised with his quick and agree able trip, thus far We are pleased that the Colonel selected the Southern Overland Mail Ljue as the route oreturn East knowing from his intelligence and impartality, the interests of this enterprise, will be by him fairly repre- scented and sustained
Year: 1859

Our Free COlOred Population.


If there is any one fact established by
steadily accumulating evidence, it is that the
free negro can not find congenial home in
the United States. He is an exotic among
us; and all the efforts Of philanthopists to
naturalize him on American soil, and under
American skies have failed. We know that
it is common to attribute this failure to the
prejudice of the whites, which defeats all
attempts made to improve, radically and
permanently, the condition of the blacks;
but after allowing to this cause all the infu-
ence which 1t deserves, it must be admitted
that it does not explain the almost univer-
sal degradation of the colored population in
the free States, and we must look beyond
prejudice and social ostracism, and the une-
quail legislation which may be supposed to
flow from these, for some deeper explana-
tion--one which, we believe is to be found
ia the constitution of the negro himself.


1t is great mistake to suppose that the
mere circumstance Of removing the political
disabilities, under which any particular class
may happen to labor, is sufficient, Of itself,
to alter and improve their condition. The
most that liberal institutions and laws can
do, is to leave men free to the exercise and
Development of their faculties in general /;
and, according to the nature Of these facul-
ties and the innate qualities Of the soul, will
be the state Of the man and Of society re-
sulting. Now, so Ear as the colored popu-
lation Of most Of the free States are con-
cerned, there are no laws that trammel their
faculties or limit the sphere Of their indus.
try. They are at liberty to pursue most
callings, and accumulate property. The
laws extend protection to the persons and
property of the colored man, as they do to
the white. And to prove this, if proof were
needed, it would be easy to mention the
names of few persons belonging TO this
class who have grown rich by honestindus'
| try. And, in the face Of such state Of


things, when we find the great bulk of on,
celored population. ninety nine IN hun
dred, making precarious livelihood by
contcntedly performing the most msnial
offices, or living in idleness and wretched.
ness, we can hardly fail to attribute it to
characteristics Of their own.


| 1t can not be doubted that enough sym


pathy is felt for our colored people to fur


nish them with encouragement and patron
age if they had the enterprise to hccom.
good mechanics and laborers, and the ener


gy to compete with the white laborer. Anc


besides, in the North, there is usually suct
demand for labor as to absorb the supply


and no we'll qualified workman, unless II


periods of depression, need fear to be un


employed But we sec the blacks daily


driven from avocations once deemed en-
Year: 1859

DUTIES OF U. 5. MARsHALs IN CONFLICTS
WITH STATE CoURTs.-The [. S. Supreme
Court in its opinion given in the Wisconsin
fugitive slave case, where the Supreme Court
Of the State, released q prisoner in the Gus
tody Of the L. S. Marshal, upon writ of
haLeas corpus, declare that although it is
the duty of the marshal or other person
holding him TO make known by proper re-
turn the authority under which he detains
him, Is al the same time imperalively his
duty TO obey the process ofthe United States !
TO hold the prisoner in custody under 1t (;
and IL T,Jase obedience TO the mandate or pro-
cess OF any other Government. And couse-
quenily it is his duty not 20 take tue prison
er, nor suffer him 10 be taken, before State
Judge or court upon a habeas corpis IS
sued Under State authority. No State
judge oE court, after they are judicially in
formed that the party is imprisoned under
the authority OF the United States, has any
right TO interfere with him or TO require
him to DC brought before them. And ii the
authority of State, in the form OF judi
cial process or otherwise, should attempt to
control the marshal or other authorized
agent OF the United States, in any respect
in the custody OF his prisoner, II would be
his duty 10 resist il, and To call to his aid
any force that may be necessary TO maintain
the authority of the law, against illegal in-
reference. No judicial process, whatever
fOrn it may assume, can have any lawfnl
authority outside of the limits of the Juris-
diction OF the court or judge by whom it is
issued; and an attempt TO force it beyond
these boundaries is nothing less than l0wless
violence