smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

Sir Archibald Allison's article in
Blackwood, criticising Macaulay and
his History, traces Macaulay's pedi-
gree to Highlander and a quaker
ess, and says:


with Highland and Quaker fow-
ing in equal currents through his
veins, it is difficult to say whether a
Highlander or a Quaker is the more
favorite object of his satire and butt
for the shafts of his ridicule; whether
George Fox, or Coll of the Cows,
comes in for the larger share Of his
contempt; whether the enthusiast
who took off what we are in the hab-
it of considering as tie most essential
tial of all garments, to walk in the
simplicity of nature through the
streets of Litchfeld, or the native of
the Grampians, who never possessed
such an article of dress, at all, is the
more ridiculous in his eyes; whether
in short, he despises most those who
gave birth to his father or mother"
Year: 1859

Geo. S. Hilliard writes: The wa
ter in London is detestable when you
drink ii you are reminded of a weak
solution of Epson salts, and when you
wash in it, of the sand in which the
Arabs, when in the desert. are allow
ed to perform their ablutions. Why
the English are nation of beer drink.
ers, is perfectly Ineligible to any one
who comes to England How my
soul has painted here for the ice wa
ters of home and how my car has
languished for the musical rattle of
the melting crystal against the sides
Of the pitcher-a sound sweeter in a
hot day than harp or dulcimer
Year: 1859

The Hebrews of San Francisco are
taking measures toward the estab-
lishment of school. where the He
brew language shall be taught They
have had meeting and appointed a
committee to canvass for subscribers
to support the project.
Year: 1859

The New York Tribune says the
slaves are being moved out of Miss
ouri with great rapidity. The own
ers are selling them to go further
South. Slavery is not profitable in
Missouri, and besides, it is believed
the State will soon provide by law
for the emancipation of slaves within
its borders.
Year: 1859

The founder of the Smithonian In
stitution was dying of an unknown
complaint five doctors had been un-
able to discover what this disease was.
At length they told the patient lie
must die. Calling them all around
him, he said MY friends, after l
die make post mortem examination
and find out what ails me, for really
l have heard such long and learned
discussions on the subject, that l am
dying to know what tho disease is
myself"
Year: 1859

She tied the new cravat


Which she SO kindly made me
Then smoothed with care my hat,
And with her arms delayed me.
She brushed my GLOSSY hair


And said il was SO curly!
While going down the stairs,


She cried, come home, DEAR, early !!
How happy then was


With all e'er desired;
fortune could defy,


While thus was admired
We parted at the door


Her smile deserved a sonnet
Dear love, but one thing more,


want--a new spring boanet.'
Year: 1859

e A worthy lady who had two chill.
dren sick with the measeles, wrote TO a
friend for the best remedy. The friend had
just received note from another lady in.
quiring the way 10 make pickles. In the
confusion, the lady who inquired about the
pickles. received the remedy for the mea'
sles, and the anxious mother of the sick
children, with horror, read the following:


"Scald them three or four times in very
hot vinegar: and sprinkle them with salt
in few days they will be cured"
Year: 1859

FoR SPAvIA.-Bin.iodide of mercury, five
grains; lard one ounce. Mix well. Rub
the size of white bean into the SPAWN
once day, until it produces q discharge
from the skin. This application will reduce
almost any hard swelling, even when it is
Of bony nature.
Year: 1859

q A western paper, in describing the
effect of a severe thunder shower, says: GA
COW was struck by lightning and instantly
killed, belonging to the village physician,
who had a calf four days old"
Year: 1859

The following strange epitaph was taken
from a tombstone in Sterling, Miss:
Gas she on her bed of sickness lay,


Her friends stood weeping round,
She not word to them could say,


No medicine could they get down."
Year: 1859

The Tribune of May 3Oth, has accounts
from Key West of the trial of CAPT. Town,
SEND of the slaves Echo. 1t was fully proved
that the Echo was on a slave voyage, that
TOWNSEND was acting as Master, that it was
an American ship, and that he is an American
citizen. But the Judge. directed it was still
necessary to prove that the ship was owned
or fitted out by an American citizen. A
certified copy of clearance from the N. Orleans
Custom House was then offered, showing
| TOWNSEND represented himself as owner
But the Judge then decided that certified
COPY was not admissible as evidence, and that
If it was, it did not prove TOWNSEND to be
owner Under proceedings like these, Town
SEND was of course acquitted.


We ask all our readers attention to this
state of facts. Positive testimony of the bes


and amplest character, that TOWNSEND wa!


actively engaged in the Slave Trade, in I


Southern court is insufficient to convict of pi


racy, which the laws of the United States de


clare the act to be- And we ask even our sc


called Democratic or Administration reader
if it is not Just as right for the North to resor
:, to all lengths of the law of Freedom, as it
, for the South to protect slave-dealing thu:
Have we not right to require that fugitiv


ores service to any living thing before we Civ
him up? Have we no right to protect Ere
e dom J. D.
Year: 1859

The Times of yesterday, alluding to our
article on Tests for Office processes to
speak by authority, and says Mr.. NORTH will
not be candidate Cor Governor under any
circumstances, and seems to think that that
settles the whole question. But we appre-
herd this is not the entire view. The Offices
of great and sovereign State are not for any
individual aspirants to toss up about: ard set
tie among themselves who shall have this, and
who that, one declining this, and another that.
If, in the unanimous Judgment of the people,
Mr.. North is the best and strongest nan, We
apprehend he will not feel at liberty to de-
cline. In discussion of the policy of this
or that nomination, it is the cause that should
be looked at, and what will best strengthen it,
and not what will most tickle this or that in
dividual And what we hear of Mr.. NORTH
gives us faith that this is bis opinion also.-JD.
Year: 1859

A La Crosse correspondent of the Mwau-
kee Sentinel calls attention to the fact as he
alleges, that the Milwaukee and Minnesota
Railroad, Qate La Crosse and Milwaukee
Road, but which recently sold out on its third
mortgage bonds, has been changed to MI
naukee and AinnesotnD is on an airline
route to the great Northwest, crossing the
Mississippi at La Crescent, thence running to
Chatfield, thence to Mankato, and thence to
the head of Red River, and so on to the Sas-
katchawan country. We see, also, in the
last Austin Nirror, report of public rail-
road meeting at Austin, for the purpose of
initiating an enterprise for a railroad branch
ing from the Cedar Valley Road, and running
to Mankato, and so on to the NOrth-W est
country.


These are all very well. We are glad to
see any amount of proposed enterprises of
this kind. The agitation serves to give heal
thy energy and hope to the people who are
making new homes here in the West; and
besides, the people through South Western
Minnesota will need and must have railroad
facilities. But we would suggest the inquiry
if it be well to fritter away and waste our en-
ergies in projecting new schemes of this kind
while those we are engaged in need so much
of our assistance.


Besides, great railroad enterprises, which
assume, as these must, almost an ipternstion-
Year: 1859

sought, while nine tenths goes into the pock-
cts of the officers who disburse it; it fully
costs the people nine dollars to pay for the
proper application of one-such is the purity
of our slave-holding Government; and the
same thing is too nearly true of all our pri-
vate charities. Every appeal to the hearts OF
the people is muniicently responded to !. but
the agents who gather their charities seem to
absorb them ALL 1t is the universal testimo-
ny of the Irish that, in the days of their last
famine, scarcely any food came from Ameri-
ca in condition that any but starving peo-
pie would eat while it is notoriously known
that only very small part of what was Sc
lavishly given by the people ever reached the
cabins of the starving Irish.


We don't know any remedy; the evils O.
our Government seem to affect all who en-
gage in any kind of public business; and WI
can only deplore the sad fact. ID.
Year: 1859




DEAR sIR Now that a great party of men
in nearly every section of the Union, inspired
with dread for the future safety of the re-
public, and actuattd oy the most exalted me-
tives, are confederating together, firmly re-
solving to devote their nobleSt and best ener
cies, for the regeneration Of the government
and to secure the civil power, both state and
national, from the thraldom Of vice one rule
of conduct will be the more distinct and def
mite; our cooperation the more harmonious
and efficient and the results to be attained are
better appreciated, as we bring to light more
of the real differences betwixt the two politi-
cal parties.


True Republicanism, as it was understood
and illustrated by the trainers of our written
constitution, holds very little in common with
the present so-called Democracy. The form
of government which Republicans wish to re-
store, is that structure of an elective govern
ment in which the administration prescribes
to itself the general good and welfare of the
country, as the only object Of all its public
measures; bestowing the largest amount OF
happiness, at the least public cost and confu.
sion; and where the citizens yields obedience
to law and not men; and where lew is inves.
ted with the sanctity of equal justice, pro.
tecting alike both rich and poor, strong and
weak.


| Tho oucinct p-hich raDipnH ha
destroyed or debauched all these elemental
principles of government, which our ances
tors held as the palladium of Wholesale liberty
The disorganized faction which now shapes
the destiny of these thirty millions Of souls
a minority clique or band of office pirates, art
themselves prey to every real or fictitiou:
suit of popular passion, and thus the public
measures of the country vasallate, as the feal
of the mob or a sense of returning justice
may for the Instant predominant


This absorption Of the powers Of govern
ment by the clamors of faction, and the VIC
lent denunciation of unrestrained passions
has its prototype in history, where every stage
of our downward career is abundantly illus
trated, in the rise and fall of Republics.


Here, from these recorded experiences o
the past, more distinctly than from any Other
source, may be discovered the land marks
that will truly indicate our close approach t
that awful gulf which from time to time ha:
swallowed up all the Republics which have
preceded us.


! What aged citizen, who does not appreciate
Year: 1859

Our exchanges come to us with accounts
of destructive frosts throughout the Northern
and Middle States, extending as far East as
New York, and West as far as the Mssissip-
pi. In many cases it is stated that the frost
destroyed crops and fruit over large sections
of country. Corn, wheat and oats were kill
ed, and the farmers were obliged to repant.
Even in Illinois, crops which were unusually
promising were injured more or less.


Here in Minnesota, our papers have not
been called upon to record any frosts this
Spring, since planting time, of sufficient pow
er to do any damage. This is fact in oul
favor that the farmers who have suffered from
frost down in that cold country above men
toned will do well to note. and remember a
the same time that it is so every year.
Year: 1859

1t is going the rounds that French editor
got oil the following. 1t is more or less tine,
and only illustrates the effect of iteration and
reitcratin


The first time man sees an advertisement
he takes no notice OF it; the second time ho
looks at the name the third time he looks at
the price the fourth time he reads 1t; the
fifth time he speaks of it to his wife; the
sixth he buvs.
Year: 1859

The statement is going the rounds that CY-
RUS W. FIELD has gone to London to renew
his labors in connection with the Company in
that city, in the manufacture, during the sum.
mer, of new Atlantic cable This is to be
brought out with important improvements
and to be ready for dropping into the Ocear
carly in the summer Of next year. He eX
presses his faith i'm the ultimate success o
the enterprise as strongly as he dld at its frs
commencement,
Year: 1859

This is one OF the most zimport


ant practical questions that interest
the people of the lower Valley of
the Mississippi. There is perhaps
no other question that presses SO
directly and heavily upon the plan
tors Of both Of the river from Mem
phis to the Balize. The region of
country that is liable to annual in
undation is SO extensive, and its
products SO valuable that the ques-
ton involved rises to one OF quasi
national Importance, and effects to
a greater Or less extent, according
to the extent Of every overflow, the
interests of thousands tther than
those whose property is the ilnme~
diate object Of destruction. An
extensive inundation of the lower
Mississippi Valley affects the. price
Of important products i'll the mar
kets all over the country and in
Europe. At the same time the
brunt of the burden falls upon the
people residing in the district over
flowed. Louisiana, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Tennessee are direct,
ly and vitaily concerned to the ex-
tent Of millions. And inasmuch as
the quantity of land in cultivasioti,
liablesto overflow, is every year be-
coming greater by the opening Of
new plantations plantations, or the
enlargement Of old ones, the dis
asters that may occur are.constant-
Iy becoming greater, the sacrifice
to the watery god more costly.


Already the losses caused by an
overflow are reckoned by millions
OF dollars. The interests at stake
are. therefore, Of great magnitude,
and the question should be treated
with corresponding gravity and
earnestness. Nearly two years ago
we advocated the institution of a
Commission by the fou: States al
ready naeind, to be composed OF
the best scientific and practical en-
gineering talent that could be found
ir this country or any other, for
the purpose ct a thorough explora-
ton Of the whole field oi: investiga-
tions, preparatory to the adoption
of some such system Of operations
as would etfeethally meet and over
come the difficulties, and afford
permanent protection to the extea-
sive district Of country now expo
sed. we must believe either that
the evil is capable Of remed y, or
that it is not. If not, then the whole
matter should be at once dropped,
and not another hand ever raised
to protect the interests involved
But this would be simply absurd,
sheer madness. We must then ac-
cept the other alternative, that a
remedy is possible: The only ques-
ton is, what is it, and how shall it
be obtained i? That is precisely the
Year: 1859

black eyes, and said. Henry will come
again soon won't heF


Il felt that had tried to be a good
cousin to him. Uncle Henry brought
me home in his buggy, and so ended a
pleasant visit with pleasant ride


In little while after Henry hal FIN.
ished his story, his father said to him, Il
have composition here, for you to carry
to your teacher next Saturday.


Henry looked surprised and asked wha,
it was.


Shall | read it to you I? said the father.


If you please father


He then read from paper before him
the story Of Henry's visit to his uncle's
just as he had related it.


why, father, you don't call that a
composition


Certainly do, and very good one
for a boy OF your years


But | should not think Of writing a
composition in that way, just as | would
talk


why not ? Can you tell me what is
the difference between composition and
conversation |?


Not exactlv.'


We'll, it is this: In composing you
speak your thoughts, in composing you
write them. Did you think it any hard
ship to sit down and tell one about Your
visit ?


No father. 1t was no hardship at all
bot pleasure


lf had requested you to write me au
account OF it, would you have found this
as easy (?


NO father, think not


This is because you are not il the
habit Of writing them. We cannot do
'my,hing WjM case, which we are not in
the habit Of dong.


Your teacher requires YOU to write
compositions because he wishes YOU to
form the habit Of writing your thouhls.-
lon will often find it very convenient 10
be able TO write, AS well as speak yonr
'h"ugh's. Practice will make it easy Tor
you to DO this.


The next time YOU have composition
to write remember it is only thinking. ol
expressing your thoughts on paper. This
would have been strictly your compost
'ion, and very good one, il you had
written down your thoughts instead OF my
doing it for you


i believe | had wrong idea about
writing conposition's,' said Henry. #
think | shall not dread it quite SO much
again. ! have good many times thought
ah' III d tferent things, and | think can
nanage to write some Of them on paper
Year: 1859

WHAT DID THE CLOCK SAY ?-The
clock upon the tower Of neighbornc
church tolled forth slowly and solemnly
the knell Of the departed hour.


As the last sound died away, Willie
who was sitting on the carpet a, his moth
er's feet, lifted his head, and looking ear
nestIy in her face asked


Mother, what did the clock say 2


TO me, said his mother, sadly 1T seem
ed to say, gone-gone-gone 2


What, mother, what has gone "


'Another hour, my SON.


What is an hour, mother p


"A white winged messenger from our
Father in Heaven, sent by Him TO inquire
Of YOU, Of ne what we are doing what
we are saying; what we are thinking and
feeling


Where is it gone, mother :.


Back to Him who sent it, bearing on
its wings, that were so pure and white
when 1t came, record Of all our thoughts
words, and deeds. when it was with u.s.


Were they all such AS our Father
could receive with smile Of appreciation


Reader, what record are the hours, as
they come and go, bearing up on high
for you
Year: 1859

IHE HEAT OF THE STARs.-Dr. Lard
ner says: 1t is starting fact, that il
tie earth were dependent alone upon the
sun for heat, it would not get enough TO
make the existence Of animal and vegeta
bIe life upon its surface. 1t results from
The researches Of PouiIIet, that the stars
furnish heat enough in the course Of q
year TO melt crust of ice rs feet thick
almost AS much as is supplied by the
sun. This may appear strange when we
consider how immessurably small must
be the amount Of heat received from any
one OF these distant bodies. But the sur
prise vsnshes when we remember hat
the whole armament is so thickly sown
With stars, that in some places thousands
are crowded together within space 30
greater than that occupied by the fall
moon
Year: 1859

When oxen refuss'o work equally as
well on either side, or when they pull of
against each other, yoke them on the
side you wish them TO work, and turn
them out to feed in that way; they soon
become accustomed 10 it, and work after
ward on eithsr aide,
Year: 1859

A LIVING HEAD ON DEAD BopY.-
Mr.. Archibald Campbell, respectable
farmer in the township of Canada East.
while engaged in finishing new dwell
ling on his premises, the scaffold gave
way and he was precipitated head fore
most to the ground, and dislocated his
neck, but very fortunately and mysteri-
ously did not kill him. When his heal
was brought into its proper position, the
vertebra of the neck returned to their
place with a dull but distinct snap The
whole body is paralyzed and dead from
the neck downwards. He is not capable
of moving muscle or experiencing the
slightest pain. Fortunately the nerves
supplying the muscles used in respiration
were not paralyzed. and he can breathe
and live. Had the injury of the spinal
cord been little higher, he would have
died Immediately. The sense of sight,
hearing. smelling. DC. are normal, and
his intellect is unimpaired. Mr.. Camp
bell has been for number of years the
victim of number of misfortunes.--
Canada Paper.
Year: 1859

The TOMATO AS FooD.-Dr Bennett, a
professor of some celebrity, considers the
tomato an invaluable article Of diet, and
ascribes to it important medical proper
ties list. That the tomato is one Of the
most powerful aperients of the liver and
other organs where calomel is indica-
ted, 1t is probably one of the most effec
tive and the least harmful remedial
agents known to the profession. 81
That a chemical extract will be obtained
from it that will supersede the use of cal
omel in the cure Of disease. Sd. That
he has successfully treated diarrhea with
this article alone. 4lh That when used
as an article Of diet it is almost sover-
eign for dyspepsia and indigestion. 9Th.
That it should be constantly used for dali
ly food; either cooked, raw, or in the
form of catsup. it is the most healthy ar.
ticle now in use.
Year: 1859

the revival Of the slave trade is chris
tan duty which this country owes to the
benighted blacks now running wild in
the jungIes of Africa So jealous is
Gen. Dodge in his devotion to the inter
ests of the slave holder, that he is actu-
ally willing TO transform himself into a
slave hunter, the most odious of all hu-
man beings, and help to run down and
secure the wasted, hungry, and trembling
fugitive. who is trying to escape from a
life of cruel bondage! If this is not
descending to the lowest depths of polit-
ical degradation ifitis not getting down
and licking the very feet of the slave
holder if it is not transforming man
hood into something worse than the
brute-what, in the name Of the Good
and Merciful, is it? Had we not heard
Gen. Dodge avow his willingness to do
this abominable, this diabolical deed, we
should have been slow to believe that
there is man in all Iowa capable Of do
ing anything so mean, so inhuman 1t
is said that the term lick-spinie is deriv-
ed from the practice of certain ancient
parasites, who licked up the spittle Of
their masters, as If il were delicious to
the taste. Our readers, in view of Gen.
Dodge's position on the slavery question,
can do as they please about applying to
him this coarse but most expressive epi-
thet t@
Year: 1859


She is modest, but not bashful, esl
Free and easy, but not bold
Like an apple, ripe and mellow
isf Not too young and not too old;
Half inviting, half repulsive, ltfaa
Now advancing and now shy
There is mischief in her dimples.
And there's danger in her eye X
She has studied human nature,


She is schooled in all its arts
She has taken her diploma


As the mistress of a il hearts
{ She can tell the very moment


When to sigh and when to smile
True maid is sometimes charming,
But the Widows all the while.
Are you sad how very serious
Will her handsome face become;
Are you angry ? she is wretched,


Lonely, fiiendless, fearful, dumb
Are you mirthful how her laughter
Silver sounding, will ring out
She can lure, and catch, and play you
AS the angler does the trout.
Ye old bachelors of forty,


Who have grown SO bald and wise,
Young Americans of twenty.


With love looks in Your eyes,
You may practice all the lessons


Taught by Cupid since the fall,
But | know little widow


Who could win and fool you all,
Year: 1859

The frozen we'll at Brandon. VT, has
attracted crowds of savans to th,t place
this season. Scientific persons in that
vicinity ascribe the phenomenon to au
iceberg, and that originally, or at some
remote period in the long past, that part
of America was the head Of the sea-


This hypothesis is sustained by the fact


that several years ago, in building Rail-
road between Claremont and White riv-
er Junction, the terminus of the Sullivan
Railroad, the bones Of an Arctic whale
were found on one of the highest points
of land. All the land near the we'll is
frozen TO the depth of a few feet below
the surface. An interesting scientific


report on the subject is understood to be
forthcoming. a@5 it @