smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

1
We copy in another column, from tn,


Albany Atlas and Argus, an able articl,


condemning the use of money to influence


elections. This is an evil not confined to New


York, but prevalent all over our boasted fret


and enlightened country. The West ha'


caught the contamination, and, in proportion


to its wealth and the interest of its elections


is perhaps as deeply stepped in the crime-fo1


crime it certainly is-as the East. The reform


suggested by the atlas and argus will receive


the hearty cooperation of all men who desire


the ballot-box to be made, as it was originally


intended, the faithful exponent of the
unbought opinions of the people. Nothing
will so insidiously and yet so surely undermine
our liberties as this growing disposition on
the part of the people to yield the public trust
into the hands Of faithless and corrupt men.


There is another evil, nearly allied to this,
which, we believe, is rather more prevalent al
the West than at the East. 1t is usually
termed electioneering," by which is meant
the personal solicitations of candidates in
their own behalf Electioneering has become
an almost invariable custom, and many men
to whom it is really dstasteful feel compelled
to resort to it when nominated for Office,
merely because it is expected of them. It's,
indeed, ridiculous how some candidates for
petty offices conduct themselves. They visit
all parts of the county shake by the hand
men to whom they would not speak on
ordinary occasions-anxiously inquire after
the health of their families-kiss their babies,
praise their farms, their stock, &C., and lie
and degrade themselves in other ways-for
what ?-for votes And this is not all. They
"button- hole" and make personal appeals to
as many voters as possible, besides delivering
pop-gun harangues at country school-houses,
for the good oftheir country themselves!


Wethink it time this contemplate system
of men proposing themselves for office, and,
after receiving, by bribery or unblushing
effrontery, the nomination of some political
party, worrying men for their support, ought
to be discountenanced. The remedy is in the
hands of the people. Let them use it. Let
the people attend the primary meetings of the
parties, and resolve that no professional
Office seeker or no man who obtrudes himself
before them, for any office of honor or trust,
shall receive their support. In this way,
modest WORTH" which never asks reward,
will be sought out and promoted, and our
rulers will be men of honesty and integrity,
and the people will in consequence be happier.
Year: 1859

SERVED HIN RIGHT.-C. G. Cole was the
only candidate of the six in this State, for,
the Supreme Court, who made stump speech-
es. He Travelled over nearly the whole
State making Democratic speeches. The
result was, he received the smallest vote Of
any candidate for the Supreme Bench. lso
Year: 1859

A CHARLESTON CONVENTION SPEECH
chivalric Brown, Of Mississippi, in a speech
made before the Legislature of that State,
upon their special invitation, said that he
advised the Democratic party in Mississippi
to send their best men to Charleston, who
would insist upon a clear recognition of all
their rights. He would not be satisfied with
the Cincinnati platform-it has two faces
He wanted platform granting Congressional
protection to slavery in the Territories-he
would be satisfied with nothing less and, il
it was refused, break up the Charleston Con
vention and the National Democratic party
of the land.
Year: 1859

The ALLABsoRBING QUESTION. - Every
other question and issue is subordinate to the
slavery question. There is no room in the
public mind at Washington or throughout the
country for harbor and river improvements,
the Pacific Railroad, protection of home
industry, Or anything else but the "eternal
niggern' This country is only to be looked
at as great field for the display of servile
labor, and its legislative wisdom only
employed to make the system permanent as
the particular and only worthy subject Of
national care. This state of affairs will con-
tinue until after the election of Republican
President, in 1860, when we hope to see a
change.
Year: 1859

LATE GOLD NEws.-Onr fellow cit
izen Williams. who by the way is bound
to see the new Eldorado favored US yester-
day morning, with copy of the Omaha
Times, from which we extract some very
late and interesting particulars regarding
the gold mines, which can be found on our
second page II half the stories it relates
are true. there is some inducement for peo.
pie in general to try their hands at the
spade and washing pan in those regions.
Year: 1859

ing before you are out Of the woods -
just at this ilme-wh.n the Davenport and
Cedar Valley Railroad is a sure thing
there is manifes'ly no propriety whatever
in building road that Muscatine claims to
be able to build herseh-though the same
would be and undoubtedly will be of great
advantage to our city. Build your own
road, and We will build ours.
Year: 1859

RISING IN VALUE.-The increase in
value of all kinds of stock, and every des-
cription of farm and dairy produce will be
greater in the next four months than many
people imagine at the present time. Every
kind of cattle are now rising in value with
rapid strides. Oxen which could have been
bought for $50 or $40 per yoke short
time since will soon be worth q hundred !;
cows and young stock will advance full
thirty per cent, and pork in barrels is al
most sure to be worth fifty per cent. more
before another packing season comes around
than it was when packed. Wheat which
has been sold for 45n5Oc, is destined to be
worth 90aSl 90; and that which has been
held at 6Oa75c is sure to reach Sl.l5al.25
Corn which is not untrequently drug in
the market will probably be worth rs or
soc per bushel, and oats cannot be found
in o short time at any price. Potatoes are
almost sure to advance to 81 5Oa2 90 per
hushel before the new crop comes in, and
all kinds Of provision will probably range
from thirty to fifty per cent. higher than
during the past six months. That these
things will be so We have the best evi-
dence. Ifreal estate would only rise in the
same proportion, we might soon expect the
dawn of brighter days; and even that will
all come around in good time.
Year: 1859

At Kanagawha there were six or eight
foreign vessels, and as many more at Nan
gasaki The latter is the old Dutch trad
ing station. Most of these vessels were
bound to China with such cargoes as have
already been mentioned.
Year: 1859

The French have thus far had their
hands too full in Cochin China to think of
making any attempt upon Japan The
Russians are taking the lead in that quar-
ter. The commercial operations of the
Dutch and Germans are mostly directed
in the southern ports Of Japan. Just be-
fore the departure Of the Lewis Perry the
news arrived from Hongkong that the Eng
liSh Consul for Hakadadi had arrived at
that port, and would reach at the latter
place in the course Of few weeks.
Year: 1859

The operation of the change in the cur
lency Of Japan, is to throw the American
Trade directly back to where it stood under
Commodore Perry's original treaty, and Of
which so much dissatisfaction was express
ed. Silver is, of course, only valued at the
rate OF S33 cents on the dollar, and gold


Is thrown back to even a greater degree of
depreciation. There can be but one course
LOT our Government to pursue in this mat
'er' alter taking the decided steps which it
Year: 1859

In very thin house, an actress spoke very low
in communication to her lover. The actor
whose benefit it happened to be, exclaimed with
woful humor my dear, you may speak out; there
is nobody to hear u.s.
Year: 1859

Boys. rour lives are all before you,
BE they short or be they long
Whether good or i'll come Ger you,
Never give nor take a wrong;


But stick together.
Should kind fortunes smiles attend you,
Ne'er forget the kindred tie,
And should fate bereav menis send you,
Cling together till you die;


Yes. stick together.
lf success. in life should vary,
Some be rich and some be poor,
Let not riches make you airy,
Never scorn the poor ones door;


But stick together.
Time and chance may alter cases,
And the rich ones soon be poor,
While the poor ones take the places
That the rich ones held before;


Then stick together.
Should temptations lure brother
From the path he should pursue,
Crush him not, but rather smother
Anger with affection true,


And stick together.
Blood than water sure is thicker
When It's fountain Is the same;
Then kindred surely should not bicker,
And only kindred be in name,


But stick together.
The time. my sons, is fast approaching
When Ill slumber with the dead;
Then let me feel when deaths encr0aching
And all the hopes of life are fled,


You'll stick together.
For in this weary world Of ours
The victors are the just and true,
Ii they'll unite their kindred powers
And each to each their duty do,


And stick together.
Year: 1859

A German is wrtin5 a series of letters from Cuba, on the slave trade. The first paragraph of the first letter, we copy below. The said German is an abolitionist, writing for an abolitionist paper, and his admis- sions are somewhat surprising. He says:

 During my soiourn in Louisiana, had opportunity repeatedly to visit more than fifty plantations. On the greater part of these stopped for several days and weeks, and made it my particular business to ob- tain thorough knowledge of the situation d the negroes. Bit no where found what

 had anticipated from those terrible de- erlptions 1 had met with in books and newspapers published in the old world as well as in the northern States. 1 had to confess that had come full of prejudice that what had heard and read was not the truth in an approximate degree. Every where l met with fine mansions surrounded by shadowy parks of magnificent trees, and in the rear nice little village of some hundreds of white washed, friendly looking houses, each with a small, handsome garden, all standing in regular lines and nicely fenced, where the slaves of the proprietors lived with their wives and children-a re- mainder, indeed, of the old patriarchal times. But every one who has visited the South knows all this by his experience And as it is not my intention to speak of the slave system in the United States, but to lead my readers upon another scene, have but to add that very soon my opinions about slavery were materially changed, especially when I thought of the many thousands of white free laborers, suffering from want and starving, in America as well as in Eurone
Year: 1859

pose of coining money. These gallants passed few pieces and were arrested, tired and committed to jail The moulds, metal, ladle and unfinished coin, were found m thelr carpet sacks. 1 will inclose you one of their unfinished coins; their names are Vim. s. Cheek and Thomas Gardar. They, Cheek and Gardar, think our jail splendid job.

 Most of our farmers have cut their wheat and think it will yield more than an ave- rage crop. The summer or white oats are entirely destroyed by the rust as last year, while the black oats are turning out fairly Hence, the attention of the farmers should be directed to this matter at once, for 1t is a self-evident fact that the black oats are much better adapted to our climate than the white oats, and invariably make bet ter turn out.

 Politics in this region are rather gloomy; there are more kinds of democrats in this section of country than 1 ever saw or heard of before. l will name some of them, first, then there are the Hindman democrats and the JUNTO'S, the old liners and the new liners, the pizerinctums and the stinkerump- tuous, the anti-per diem and the per diem democrats. And of all others in the world, de1ivar mo fro,,, +boro lon,, oorod br.zop faced, per diem democrats Theyale now being stung to the quick by the iniquity of their own sins Wherever there is, or in whatever county an appropriation has been made by the county court, whether it amounts to a special tax or not, they would have the people think so But yet nothing must be said about the per diem, which is nothing more nor less than special tax voted upon the people by these per diem men. Oh! consistency thou art jewel But the days of these per diem men are numbered. For when the great national democracy shall beat to arms her true and worthy sons, per diem democrats will meet with the same fate that the fellow did who died in Napoleon and went to heaven.- When the angel asked him from whence he came and was told, the angel told him that he was mistaken, he had no such place on his books.

 And so with the great democratic party, as she beats her noble and worthy sons to arms and to victory. Say to these per diem men that they are mistaken and are only fit to go and receive the just condem nation of an outraged public.

 am very respectfully,

 yours, etc.,

 VIGILANT.
Year: 1859

Eg The ladies' shoemakers in Philadel- phia met in convention night or two ago, and adopted the following pungent resolu- tion, among others: "That we recom- mend the unmarried men of the trade to accept the invitation the God of nature gives them, to seek employment in the in the country, thereby giving those who have to stay in crowded city by necessity, the ability to maintain intact the bill of wa ges."

 Aheml Does not everybody know that if the unmarried men of the trade should leave every unmarried woman would follow them? It is trick of the married folks to drive the single ones off and so monopo- lize the work
Year: 1859

DIVERSITY OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF.-In another
column is paragraph informing citizens that
a Christmas sermon will be preached at the Un
ion Church next Sunday-a sermon appropriate
to the day and its everywhere cherished associa-
tions. One you'd suppose that from the hund-
reds living here and in the immediate locality.
the attendance on divine service on the seventh
day would hardly dwindle down to less than half
a hundred. Such is the case, however. People
in the older States argue that it must be relief
to the toer in the mines to spend an hour or
two in the house of worship after his weeks la
bor as he was wont to do in brighter days in the
land of his fathers. Many anxious parent,
wife or sister wonders on Sabbath morning
they repair to the old accustomed pew in East
ern homes, whether an absent dear one in the
land of gold thus occupies portion Of the day .?
We shall not answer the question, farther than to
say that churches are thinly attended in this
State even those who previous to residence
here were noted for exemplary Christian conduct,
are the ones who offer the least show of godli-
ness here. OF course there must be some good
reason for such falling off in faith. On prom
inent and often uttered one, is the great diversi
ty Of religious doctrine claimed by the people
many of them, we imagine, who never gave doc
trnal religion thought until they came here.
One says he would be regular attendant if the
church was Presby yterian, while second would
have it Universalist, and third will attend none
but Baptist. one argues that from studying
the Scriptures he establishes Cavnism another
Unitarianism, and another pniversaism. We
always have an idea that such don't care to at
tend church at all And very often these same
persons have no distinct conception that their
views may appear in different light to others,
and they stay away entirely, and leave the church
to langnish. Correct Interpretation of divine
revelation should harmCnze with moral senti-
ment, without regard to sect or ism. The moral
thinking man should be induced to bow to any
Interpretation Of divine belief, and 10y example
lead the way to like feeling in the minds OF
others.


We should like to see the church sustained, re-
gardless of denOminational feeling--it never has
been, properly, perhaps never will be, but IL is Il
strong argument against the moral and social
condition Of the place and people. Go to church
on Christmas day as you used to, and for once
make believe that you are Interested in your souls
salvation. If you conclude, after going once,
that you can employ your time to better advan-
lage In the barrOom, or at the billiard table, why
stay away, its no place for you, and all the de
nomnatlonal forms of reli gion eXtant won't keep
you from smelling birthstone Remember, too
young men, who by your Incorporate course are
fast coming to be confirmed drunkards, that on
next Sunday evening temperance lecture will
he delivered at the church. There is no demon
national way Of getting round temperance, and
there Is small army bereabouts that need hea-
Wy lecturing on the subject.
Year: 1859

ALL WRoNG.-Scores of the eastern partisan
press-both Democrat and Repubican-are using
every means to make political capital out of the
recent occurrences at Harper's Ferry. Il is all
wrong the history of the affair warrants no
such construction. Give credit to the power
which put down the insurrecton, but let the
blame fall where it only belongs, on a few wild
and crazy men, who will pay for their folly with
their lives.
Year: 1859

PATRoNIzE. THE LAND RouTE.-We were not
little amused and gratfed at the earnestness OF
one of our townsmen, the other day, as he ap-
preached Postmaster O'Connor with letters in
hand, which he g wanted sent by the overland
route, certain-had repudated steamboat mail
carriers" That man was right and we wish eve
yy lie tier mailed at this Office was marked - via
overland route" We have found in almost
every instance that letters overland from New
York are RECEIVED from two to five days sooner
than by sea. The ocean steamers cause too much
fretting the overland mail comes almost every
trip, now, inside of schedule time. The number
OF letters by the overland route is steadily in
creasing aud of course the ocean mail is steadily
diminishing. Only few days ago the former
carried away nearly 10000 letters Send them
all that way. Pacific Railroad
Year: 1859

JURIsmcTIoN OF JrsTlpls. The Red Bluff
beacon says petitions are being circulated by the
merchants aud business men Of that place re-
4uesting the legislators Of that county to have a
law passed giving justices jurisdiction in all
cases where the sam does not exceed 500. 1t
seems to US that such a law would be beneficial
iA every county it would do away with much
Of the District Court business, and be done with
much less expense in JUSTICES Court
Year: 1859

ADyIcE.-The new year-the season for ma
king good resolves--is close on u.s. We recon-
mend the advice given by Rev. Mr. Dow. when
he said " Kiss and get married. and then devote
your time to morality and money making" We
don't know that any better advice could be
given, now
Year: 1859

AUTHORITY WANTED,-We are anxious to know
the individual who says that no man ever pros
pered in the world without wife, Our reason
for SO wishing is that great many men with
wives don't prosper.
Year: 1859

The good and bad are strangely interwo- ven in the texture of life Where we3ook ed for good alone, evil starts up to meet us, and in the most abandoned are some times shown good qualities that we sup posed were long ago destroyed. A late event in California is proof of this. A ci- tizen of Sacramento, who bore an nblem- ished character, and was supposed to be in capable of dishonorable act, became in fatuated with a woman of the town, named Kate Wentworth, and proposed to elope with her. He converted all his property into cash, leaving his wife and children utterly destitute, and placed the money, some S20, ,000 in the hands of Kate. This she might have kept and coaxed from him, but she carried it to the unsuspecting wife, told her all the circumstances, and thus pre- vented the elopement of the husband.- When the matter was first talked of and the facts but partially known, some of the papers accused this girl or woman of coax ing the man to do wrong. After return ing the money to the injured wife, the cour- tesan though she is, sent the following let ter to the Alta

 DD1roRs ALTN-It is but seldom that a woman who has been So unfortunate as myself and deeply conscious of those mis- fortunes, has justice shown to her, unless the wrong against her is greater than hu- manity will permit against even the most culpable of its family Although unmen- toned by name and unknown to many, still, as an affair has been made public through the press, in which had a promi nent part, and by which have been mis- represented, it seems but common right we all possess to use the same means to justify myself The person who, in youl colums of Thursdays Alta, is stated as having deserted family and children for my sake, and with his property intended leav- ing on the steamer of Wednesday, in my company, is one who has followed me with unsolicited attentions, even to the point ot persecution; and if 1 am accused of being heartless, the only reply have to make, iS that I frustrated his purpose-returned hin to his family and neglected the opportunity to proye myself entirely nercenary. an also accused by an minimizing writer O "loving money better than the hearts af fections." l would ask what right has ; relentless world given me to hearts atiec tions? and if money is not my best friend by which can cast aside forever, the bond of cruel, slavish life, that, however ab horrent to the heart, requires the face t wear smile. Again I have holler pur pose in life than my own interest can glv depending upon me is pure and Tn nocent child-dearer than life; a child no of shame, but of neglect and poverty such purpose would seem to sanctify eve desire to obtain money. donot assum the garb of hypocrisy, as thousands dc to palliate that which is wrong, but I d assert that however unfortunate may be i

 my position in society, the purposes of m

 life and the impulses of my heart, may b

 no less generous and noble than those

 my sex who have been better protecte

 from the cruel wrongs have been subiec

 ed to. h.
Year: 1859

y

 NR. EDIToR-lS there not something sig nificant, in the fact, that the o1d orqan of the disorganizers should have relinquished all claim to the title of "democrat, /" just at this time. when their new leader is pre- pairing to issue HIS ORGAN, under this i'm posing title?

 My impression is, that henceforth, the gentleman will have hard road to travel in Arkansas; and that had not his percep- ion been too much dazzled by his sudden promotion, he would have seen that the path upon which he has now entered, has invariably led all those who have preceded him into . Stote of rctiremew. And his journey to that retreat will be made shorter by following the path beaten out by his per djem friends.

 By the bye, l see that you sometimes use an expression to the eilcet-that the member, of the last General Assembly had no moral yi9H to Per Diem during tine rcress. Ithink they had 70 rigM ot oH, mo5m or legoi. and while can look with some degree of commioscration, upon the conduct of those whose faculties were 50 stuItcd bv the love of dimcy, that they thought it both morally an ic9oi2y right to take per diem pay, when no services were rendered, l can see no apology for those members, who admit that it was morally urong, but insist that 1t was legolly Hght, and yet suffered a long session to expire without introducing any proposition to cure the supposed defect in our laws, under which morol outrage may again be com mittcd upon the State treasury.

 l, however, can admit no such defence either in the laws or constitution The Governor did his duty--and it was simply m abuse of power by majority of the House of Representatives, by which the money was taken from the treasury. But enough of this, though the subject will not be exhausted until those per diem gentle men shall go with their leader into a state of retirement or retreat across the Missis- sippi river-as some others have done.

 We have enjoyed healthy summer, with such seasons as have made us good crops of corn, and cotton promising more than an ordinary yield. H.