smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859




.''I am sorry that our friendship should
have terminated thus cannot give the
love you seek for my heart acknowledges
no warmer sentiment than sisterly re-
gard, yet crave your friendship and
would regard it as no common boon if
granted" eps


p There was a wildly mournful expression
in the eloquent eyes that looked down into
hers, like that Of wounded deer when
its gaze is turned upon its slayer, which
caused her to shrink from their encouter'
TO offer friendship for the warm heart he
olicited seemed an aggravation of the
pain she gave,-a substitution of the
wintry moons cold rays for summers
genial warmth.


He pleaded not for revision Of his
sentence, but in his proud humility he
sternly queled all outward demonstration
of his suffering and respectfully bade her
farewell, with far less ofagitation than her
trembling tones betrayed. Lily had ex-
pected, nay hoped for more emotion than
he exhibited. She knew his heart was one
that could feel deeply and she was unpre-
pared for his stern pride .an


Some hearts there are like wax within
Che moulders hand, which easily receive
the impression made upon them to be as
easily ehaced others like the more en-.
during adamant on which the image
wrought must remain forever, may with
some shivering blow be broken into atoms,
still will the deeply craven lines appear
and such socs his. .s. .. ..r.....
b. She did not note the anguish concealed
beneath that calm exterior, for who can
look upon the ice -glassed lake and dream
the waves beneath are lashing in vain fury
their prison walls. Nor did she hear the
despairing wall that arose from that grief
crushed heart like the last low note breath
ed from the trembling chords of broken
lutte swept by the rude fingers of winters
chilling blast.


His love was not the tender flower of
bright coloring and rare fragrance which
at the icy touch of Boreas dropped and
went to sleep within the gentle bosom Of
its mother earth, to revive again at the
first warm breath Of spring; but like the
forest oak which sent its roots deep into
his hearts rich soil and stretched its
branches heavenward, lovingly protecting
all that sought the welcome shelter, up
rooted now by the IMPLYING storm, shorn
of its beauty and proud strength, for
whom no future spring might breathe its
renovating gales. ,IshH ara


.g a be Continued 4wU
Year: 1859

A Western editor once apologised TO his
readers somewhat after this fashion;


"We intended to have a death and mar
riage to publish this week, but violent
storm prevented the wedding, and the doe
tor being taken sick himself, the patient
recovered, and We are accordingly cheated
out of both " ......
Year: 1859




But look at another feature of this law,
andmark It's gross Inconsistency and grosser
injustice. If a man in Montgomery OBJ
tain pass to go into Davidson, and wants
to stop in Robertson more than ten days,
he must 90 to magistrate of the latter
county and tell him that, as a suspicious
character, he wants permit to stay there
longer than ten days, Here, again, the
poor devil, whose poverty may be his only
crime, is placed between two fires. If the
magistrate does his duty, the applicant for
the permit having confessed that he is ga
suspicious character" must issue war
rant for his arrest aud send him to Jail
unless he can give security for his good be
havior. But if the poor devil escape thi
danger by not applying for permit, anc
should then stay in Robertson more thar
ten days, she may be opprohendcd by an.
person''-not by an officer with due pro
cess, but by anybody who may meet hin
and wish to to perseoute him.


Want of space forbids a fuller common
upon this nelarious law, and we leave t


the reader the investigation Of Its proyi


,ions
Year: 1859

Coldly was the eagerly sought hand
Withdrawn and those expressive eyes,
honest, truthful, loving in their gaze were
carefully avoided for they seemed to pierce
into the inmost depths of her heart and
read the self-condcmnation written there.
Lily was not wholly lost to feeling and
there was something touching in the self
labnegation Of his love, the trusting con-
fdcncc with which he placed his life time
happiness at her disposal yet she crushed
back the startling fact which for the first


time unpleasantly iutruded, that she was
not altogether Indifferent to her own de-
cision, there was no time for reflection


and though her lip trembledand her silyery
voice grew husky with emotion, with less
of scorn than usually fingered in hel
soitest tones she replied .tr's. .s
Year: 1859

BOGUS GOLD COMA dangerous counterfeit has
just been detected in the Treasury Department at
Washington, in the shape of S. pieces the exterior Of
which is pure gold plated upon slloy Of which
gold seems TO be the base. The coin contains shout
three dollars worth Of pure gold, and is of such
really superior execution as to make it pass readi-
ly for genuine 1t was detected by the treasury ex-
perts in consequence of slight stness at the edges
but would escape unuOticed in its ordinary cireua-
fion
Year: 1859

V,O those who have, or may hereafter pur- \ chase Town Lots in the Town of Des the firm of SMITH & CATLIN, and hold the joint bonds and have executed their notes therefor, not to give up or pay the same.

 The sale of any of said Lots by S. P. Catlin, in his individual name is unauthorized, as the firm of Smith & Catlin has never been dis
Year: 1859

other to meet the exigencies of thisiaw OF demand
aud supply. The free negro population OF Rich.
mond, for example, must regulate the value of
their labor, almost entirely by the demand aud
supply here; they cannot remove 70 Chesterfield
even, In order to meet an extraordinary demand
for labor there. because, by Law, they must first
get permission to reside there before they can be
employed there.


The fact is that the labor of this population now
is far cheaper than slave labor, being measured
more by their soanfs, than By the fee simple value
Of such laborers.


By adopting then the system which ia here sug.
gusted, we should not only benefit ourselves, but
contribute essentially to benefit the State at large
AID preserve in its purity the institutions OF
slavery. We should withdraw from the country a
large class of laborers, who are now without pro.
ftable employment, and without that degree of
control necessary to curb and cbeck the vices
which idleness always begets, and give them con-
slant profitable employment; while at the same
time, We would return back to sutjection and sub
ordination, the ten or twelve Thousand slaves now
employed by us annually, who are being utterly
refined by the indugsnces granted them, and who
by their influence and example must contribute
largely to corrupt and render discontented the
slaves in the country, and thus impair their value,
and ultimately undermine the institution itself.
Year: 1859

THE NETMRN made heavy haul last
Wednesday of dogs and hogs. AT sundown ell the
canine prisoners were cent to their long home;
yesterday the grunters disposed OF at the high
eat cash price.
Year: 1859

SUB MARINE TELHepArns--At recent
meeting in London Of the Electric and Inter.
national Telegraph Company. Robt Stephen.
son, NJ. p, declared that he knew of no snh-
marine line which itself yielded profit
Ills opinion was unmyorabe to the dura-
O'lty OF sub marine cable in their present
state Some cables, he said. were found to
wear out in five or six years Others would
last ten or even twelve, or more. The land
lines are kept in repair from week TO week
and are consequently as good one year as
another, but this is manifestly impossible
with those that are submerged.
Year: 1859

ADvIoEs from the South show Tat the
growing cotton crop will probably reach the
quantity of four millions of bales This crop
Mt fifty dollars bale, will produce two hun
dred millions of dollars.
Year: 1859

Es- y young man called one even
ing upon wealthy person to know
how he had made his money? The
rich man having learned his business,
gave the first exempli6cation of it by
blowing out the lamp, saying they
could talk as well in the dark.
Year: 1859

cR" The Rock Island 4irgus is in
dgnant that w should attempt to induce the
ladies OF that city to come to Davenport to do
their trading. Don't get excited, Colonel; ;
you cannot keep the ladies irom patronizing
our merchants. They Will 90 where they can
get the best goods
Year: 1859

We isi.ed to discover any difference in the two
endorsements. We are glad 10 notice that the
more conservative members Of the Republican
party would have nothing to do with this
degrading exhibition of revolutionary prn-
ciples Indeed we could name two or three
who openly condemned the whole pro-
ceedings. This shows that common sense
has not entirely departed from come of these
chaps. There is . slight chance for their re
demption aud turning away from evil. But
this mourning for John Brown will avail
nought. He has suffered the death he 60
richly merited. and We may now hope for .
little more peace.
Year: 1859

RgroEr SAYS, that Dedrick is giving
away boots and shoes. This is mistake He
merely charges what they cost him. and as he
purchased during the panic few weeks since,
he is able to sell them at prices which astouish
every body Call at the first door above the
Post offic' You will save money
Year: 1859

BIlTER-RArHEH.-A prominent Re-
publican was heard to utter a wish yesterday
that God would rain down upon the scene Of
old Browns execution fire and birthstone, as he
did on Sodom Of old. We should like to know
how this Republican would m mage to keep
old Brown from bsiag scorcl.ed at the same
time? This would be serious difficulty
which probably did not eater into the calculs
lions Ct the gentleman.
Year: 1859

THE HEsPERIAN.-The second number of
this handsome magazine has come to hand,
and is superior in general excellence to the
first. 1t contains portrait and biographi-
cal sketch of Thomas 0. Larkin, colored
lithograph of the Red Cuckoo, with pleasing
description by DR.. Grayson and numerous
articles of interest. We are sorry to notice
that some anonymous contributor has had
the bad taste to perpetrate palpable plagia-
rism upon the ''Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table" The article alluded to is called
"The Dictator at the Dessert; What he
thinks and says : and is really very clever,
with enough of originality in it to make one
regret that the writer should have thought
it necessary to resort to the objectionable
literary sin of direct plagiarism--at least in
name. 1t is a little amusing that the eau
tocrat's" first imtator should appear on the
far Pacific, and we are almost compelled to
admire the hardihood of an attempt which
must provoke such damaging comparison.


The Hesprian, we are glad to learn, is a
decided success. The first edition of No.
was rapidly exhausted and another one has
since been printed to supply the large de-
mand.
Year: 1859

In Oregon recently, at the execution of
Charles j. Roe for the murder of his wife, the
number present to witness the sight was es-
timated at from eight to fifteen hundred, of
whom some two hundred were women and
children. What commentary on capital
punishment!
Year: 1859

Coop REASON FOR PRAYER.-Not long since
at one of the morning prayer meetings in a
popular church, a middle-aged gentleman
requested the prayers of the congregation,
''as he was about choosing companion"
Year: 1859

BUFFALO, September "A rumor is current that
Two men and woman went over the Horse Shoe
Fall yesterday afternoon during the severe oaIe


Nothing positive can be learned of the matter as
yet, put that boat was seen to go over, pieces of
which have been recovered The name of the boat
was Kate and she is supposed to belong to Navy
Island. The names of the parties are unknown
Year: 1859

II6IEToI


We earnestly call on you to assemble with us in
TOWN MEETING, AT MONUMENT SQUARE,
On MONDAY AFTERNOON, THE FIFTH DAY
OF SEPTEMBER, at four O'clock, to deliberate
with us, and devise some means of rescuing our
City from its present deplorable condition. Your
presence in mass will give moral force and power
that will insure Success
Year: 1859

A RUNAWAY LOCOMOTIVE AND ITS BAD ENp.-Mon-
day morning, just before seven o'clock, the locomo
tive of the gravel train the Illinois Central Rail-
road detached from the train, was standing at the
paratory to work, the proper valves left open and
the proper ones shut for its stationary security,
as the engineer AYERS, while he went in to eat his
breakfast Soon after, from some unexplained
cause, the locomotive seen moving along the
track at moderate pace towards Dunleith. It
passed the lower depot in this unattended an d in
dependent state until it to the railroad bridge
which was drawn 1t approached the chasm boldly
leaped on surely, fell about eighteen feet perpen-
dicularly, and was smashed to pieces inevitably
Gdlend Adyertiser Both
Year: 1859

1904 the crops in northern Ohio were almost an entire failure, and it was decided by the four brothers that the two youngest should take the teams and entire stock, cattle and horses, and move them to south western Illinois to winter, and have them on early in the spring of 1855. This was done at very considerable expense, and with some loss of stock to John, jr., some Of his best stock having been stolen on the way.

 The wintering of the animals was at tended with great expense and with no lit- tie suffering to the two youngest brothers, one of whom (Owen) being to some extent cripple from childhood by an injury of the right arm; and Fredrick, though very stout man, was subject to periodical sick ness tor many years, attended with insanity. 1t has been publicly stated that he was ldlotlc-nothing could be more false. He had subjected himself to most dreadful surgical operation but short time before starting for Kansas, which had we'll nigh cost him his life, and was just but through with hls Journey, pale and weak They were obliged to husk corn all winter out of doors Tn order to obtain fodder for their animals.

 Solomon Brown, very strong minor son ot the family, eighteen years of age, was sent forward early in 1855 to assist the two last named, and all three arrived in Kansas early in the spring. During this slow journey with their stock across the entire wealth of Missouri, they heard much from her people of the stories of wrath and vengeance which were then and there gath erlng for the free State men and aboli- tlonistS gone or going to Kansas, and were themselves often admonished, in no very mild language, to stop before it should be ''too late" After describing the arrival in Kansas with but little means, the elder Brown determined to join his children. lie had been somewhat accustomed to border life for over fifty years; was on the frontier throughout the entire war with England, and had been for thirty six years practlcing surveyor. With the exposure, prlvations, hardships and wants of pioneer life he was familiar, and thought he could benefit his children and the new beginners from the older part of the country, and help them to shift and contrive in new home A portion of the manuscript was lost, on which began history of the Brown family in Kansas. He went on to speak of the border ruffans, and of the capture of two of his sons, and the burning of their house - The two other brothers were sick, one of them extremely sick-thc other perfectly insane, while third was dreadfully woun- ded, (wound supposed to be mortal. and lying with the husband of his sister, the father in the mean time hunted like a wolf. Owing to hostile attitude of the people of Missouri, and their treatment of the free State men, and companies on the river, it was decided that the younger sons of Old Brown should make their way overland through Missouri 10 Kansas, all the way from Chicago

 The history was of considerable lenght, but does not further possess special interest. -Iew York Herald
Year: 1859

AS thls gentleman's name appears now almost weekly in every paper in the State, we do not think 1t would be right to pass him without a notice this week; especially as he Is to address the citizens of this county, at this place, on next Monday.

 Mir. Hindman is now our representative elect in Congress, and as such deserves the notice of all the journals in this district. Be- tween him and the former leaders of the de- mocratic party in this State there has sprung an awful difference, one wich Is already too widely opened to ever be closed again. During Mir. Hindman's canvass for the office which he now fills, he and these men, with whom he now differs, agreed in every thing. They fought side by side against our then common enemy-the know noth- lngs. Col. Hindman. must certainly have then known as much about the honesty of the Johnsons and Conways as he does now, or else he was not qualified for the office for which he then aspired; and know ing then, what he now professes to know, why did he not tell the good people in whom he now appears to feel such an inter- est? Had he in the beginning took the position which he now occupies, then we would have believed that he was sincere, and would have gladly needed his admon. itlons? But his cry comes too late, we can't think that he has just discovered this great corruption of which he will tell us all next Monday, and therfore, think it is all amere ruse to prejudice the votern of this district against any one, whom the Johnsons or Conways may favor for offices at our next State election, and as such, Is unworthy the time or attention, either of Col. Hind man to deliver, or the people to listen to. PocahoMaS Advertiser
Year: 1859

Eg- The piles under London bridge have been driven five hundred years, and upon examining them in 1855 they were found to be but little decayed. They are princi- pally elm. Old Savoy Place, in the city of London, was built six hundred and tlfty years ago, and the wooden piles, consisting of oak, elm, beech and chestnut, were found upon recent examination to be perfectly sound
Year: 1859

No one" says Dean Loker twill ever shine in
conversation who ever thinks of saying fine things.
10 please one must say many things Indifferent, and
many very bad"


The last rule Of the Deans is rarely violated in
society


An uncle left in bis will eleven silver spoons to bis
nephew. adding


''If have not left him the dozen, he knows the
reason"


The fact was. the nephew had some time before
stolen o spoon from his relative.
Year: 1859

II is said that tic Commissioners whose duty
If il tn strike 4 boundary line between Great
Britain and the L. S, nu tie Northwest coast


have been in Washington Territory now
upon the meaning of the treaty between tile
two countries, by which it has hccn supposed
that all disputes were settled A San Fron-
cisco correspondent of the New York Tribune
Year: 1859

The TON Boy. Some persons still
seem TO entertain the notion that young
girls need no training except that Of the
mental faculties; that their forms are of less
consequence than their dresses; and that a
development Of physical strength would i'm
pair their delicacy, and tend to make them
masculine. BY restricting their physical
education and limiting their sphere Of ac-
tivity. they are condemned for life to en-.
feebled health, and an endless, idle existence
Let such parents ponder the truth embodied
in the following remarks, which We cut from
the Home Journal.


The Tom boy is an eager, earnest, i'm
pulsive, brighteyed, glad hearted, kind.
souled specimen OF the the genus feminae
If her laugh is little too frequent, aud her
tone little too emphatic, we are willing to
overlook those for the sake of the true life
and exultaDt vitality to which they are 'es-
cape valves ; and indeed we rather like the
high pressure nature which must close of
its superfuous steam in such ebolutons
The glancirg eye, the glowing cheek. the
fresh, balmy breath the 1.-THE and graceful
play Of the limbs, tell tale Of healthy ard
vigorous physical development which is ma.
ture's best beauty. The soul and the mind
will be developed also in due time, and we
shall have before US q woman, in the highest
sense o: the term.


when the Tom boy has sprung up to
heslthful and vigorous womanhood she
will be ready to take hold Of the duties of
life, to become worker in the great system
OF humanity. She will not sit down to sigh
over the work given her to do to simper
nonsense, aDguish in tnnu,, or fall sick at
heart-but she will ever be able to take up
her burden of duty. In her tracks there will
be sound philosophy, in her thoughts bold
ness and originality, in her heart heavens
own purity, and the world will be better
that she lived in it. To her allotted task
she will bring health, vigor, energy and
spirit, and these will give her both the
power and the endurance. without which her
life must be, in some respe cts, q failure
Year: 1859

and the result Of his trial only adds one more
to the list Of cases in which juries have jus
tilted the killing OF men who had committed
the most cruel of crimes without the slight
est danger OF being punished by law.
Year: 1859

A Coon WOMAN NEVER GROws OLD,-Years
may pass over her head, hut if bonevolenco
and virtue dwell in hor heart, she is as
cheerful as when tho spring of life oponod
to her view. Whom We look at a good
woman, we never think of her age she looks
charming as when the rose of youth bloomed
on her check. That roso has not faded yet
it will mover fade. In her neighborhood,
she is the friend and benefactor. Who docs
not respect and love the woman who has
passed hor days in acts of kindness and
mercy We repeat. such woman can never
grow old. She will always be fresh and
buoyant in spirits. and active in humble
deeds Of mercy and beneyoence.
Year: 1859

reprobation as even more dangerous than the
open and avowed Abolitionists themselves
All Christendom, the whole civilized world
that is, the whole combined moral force of
monarchical Europe, is arrayed against
American Democracy uuder the mask of hos>
tility to slavery, which they assume we
cherish, and they demand that the dogma of
a single race shall be practically applied by
including negroes and other subordinate ra-
ces in our political system, the result Of
which instinct, if not reason, teaches them
will be to debase and d3moralze and destroy
our institutions. And the time has come
when Americans must be guided by their
own common sense and the truth of things,
instead of following the theories of European
monarchists and the absurd dogmas of their
deadly enemies The question then, we
repeat, that every man should ask himself is,
whether lie will continue silently or passive


y to assent to a lying abstraction which en-
dangers the peace of the country and the
success of Republican institutions? The
negro element is now about four millions,
aud the time, therefore, at hand when the
stupid and foolish lie that the negroes are
beings like ourselves, must be exploded ut.
terly and forever. Nor can there be or should
there be any further federation for those weak
and efeminate creatures who denouuce the
Abolitionsts but cling to the Abolition the
ories When there were half million Of
negroes this folly might be overlooked, but
not now. They are the most dangerous ele-
ment in the anti-"slavery" delusion, and il
they have not sufficient strength or manli-
ness or patriotism or honesty to cast aside
the theories of Abolition, they should be
driven into its ranks and rendered powerlcss
at once.
Year: 1859

Crooked Misunderstanding of the Rio
Graude, a writer says:


Imagine of the crookedest thing in the
world, then imagine to yourself one twice
as crooked, and imagine large river about
three times as crooked as all these put TO-
gether and you have faint idea of the
crooked disposition of this crooked river.
There is no drift wood on it from the fact
that it is SO crooked that timber cannot find
its way far down enough to lodge two sticks
together; but few snakes, because it is not
straight enough to swim in, and the fish are
all in whirlpools in the bends of the river,
because they cannot find their way out
Birds frequently attempt to fly across the
river, but alight on the very same side they
start from, being deceived by the crook
Indeed, you may be deceived when you
think you see across it, and some of the
Bhoys say it is SO twisting there is but ont
side to it.