smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

This number of our paper closes its first
year-a year to Us Of untold trials, pleas
ures, and experiences, such as are calculat-
ed to make us, if not in many respects bet
ter, certainly wiser We have issued our
sheet promptly, and with our best ability
We have endeavored to meet, and trust
have succeeded in fulfilling, the expecta-
tions Of our patrons and the public gener-
ally, in that we have aimed to present the
cause of the Anglo-African in all its true
bearings.


In the future we shall endeavor to ex-
eel the past The substantial evidence of
the appreciation of our paper found in the
present list of our subscribers, and the pros
pect Of an increase, encourage US to this
end. May we not be disappointed. Will
not our patrons relieve any doubt by as
sisting us to swell our list, and thus en-
large our sphere of usefulness and forward
the cause of liberty and justice? Thank
ing our friends for the past, we look for
ward to continuance of their favors in the
brighter future.
Year: 1860

have compassion on his mother, and not
break her heart. Let us send him back 20
tell the English what sort of people we
are, and to advise them not to come here
to bring slavery again upon u.s."
Year: 1860

A man never knows what he has read until
he has either talked about it or written about
it. Talking and writing are digestive pro-
cesses which are absolutely essential to the
mental constitution of the man who deyours
many books. But it is not every man that
can talk. Talking impios first of all a read
mess on the part of the speaker, and next a
sympathetic listener. 1t is therefore, a d-
gestive process, the most difficult, if it is the
most rapid in its operation.


Writing is different afair-a man may
take his own time to it, and not require a
reader--hc can be his own reader II is an
easier. although more formal process Of di-
gestion than talking, 1t is in eyerybody's
power-and everybody who reads much makes
more or less use of it, because as Bacon says,
if he does not write then he ought to have
extraordinary faculties to compensate for
such neglect. IL is in this view that we are
TO understand the complaint of a well known
author, that he was ignorant of certain sub
joct, and the means by which he was to dispcl
his ignoranco-namely by writing on it.


II is in this view that the monitorial sys-
tenn Of instruction has its great yalue--to the
monitors it is the best sort Of teaching. 1t
is from the same point Of view that Sir Will
liam Hamilton used to lamont the decay Of
teaching as part of tho education Of stu
dents at the universities. In the olden time
it was necessary to the obtaining Of a degree
that the eradicate should give evidence Of his
capacity as tsacher and in the very titles
of his degree as a magister and doctor, he
was designated as a teacher. A man never
knows anything, Sir William used to say, un-
I'll he has taught it in some way or other-it
me be orally, II may be by writing book
1t is a grand truth, and points fine moral.
knowledge is knowledge, say the philoso-
pliers it is precious for its own sake-it is
an end to itself But nature says the oppo-
site. knowledge is not knowledge until we
use it. 1t is not ours until brought under
the command Of the great social faculty,
spoech--we exist for society, and knowledge
is null until we give it expression, and in so
doing make it over to the social instinct
Bidckipood.
Year: 1860

Those who are much acquainted with the
quality of the stuff sold under this name in
country places, will be fully prepared TO ex-
pect something wrong in its modern compost
ton. Under the name Of a cup of tea a bev-
orage is now prepared which, if it does not
produce serious illness, at least is destitute of
every agreeable quality; bitter, or tasteloss,
or musty, OF even acrid, the poorer classes ex-
change a wholesome refreshing potation for
what is neither the one or the other Their
Chinese tea has no more virtue than the home
made herb tea, formerly prepared from sloo
leaves, OF ash leaves, or veryaln leaves, OF any
similar trash. And yet we have no reason to
suppose that adulteration takes place to any
extent in this country, unless it be with re-
dried tea "leaves." Merchants sell what
they import, and tea dealers doubtless sell
what they buy. The fraud, when there is
any, is committed in the celestial empire it.
self Lie tea, consisting of little balls of dust
and rice water, glazed to look like gunpowder
tea, was one example of the tricks that the
Chinese would continue to practice if they
would pass in Europe. Some year ago
whole cargo Of tea was seized by the Custom
House officers, and upon examination it was
found not to contain single leaf Of the tea
plant. 1t was reported to have come from
Cochin china, and consisted Of the dried leaves
of some Zizyphus, whose action. if any, was
purgative and not tonic. A fraud of this kind
was, however, too clumsy to escape detection.
and does not seem to have been repeated, at
least in this country. We have, however,
reason to believe that leaves much like those
OF tea are now mixed by the Chinese without
attracting attention.


Since his residence at Bangkok, the capital
of the kingdom of Siam, the British Consul,
Sir Robert Sohomburgk, has found in nearly
every garden shrub there called the "tea
plant, which he believes is employed for the
purpose of adulteration in China though not
by the Siamese. If so, it is not likely to be
detected after the leaves are roasted and curl
ed up, for in form and texture they are much
like those of the true tea shrub. They are,
however, ,distingushabe by the trained botan-
ical eye. Now this shrub belongs to the ge-
nus called Acalypha, and is allied to the plant
distributed by Wallich under tho name Of
Acaiypha alnifolia. And since Acalypha is
member Of the poisonous Euphorbiaceous or
der, We must not be surprised at any disa-
greeable effects produced by tea in which its
leaves shall have been mixed. We recon-
mend the buyers Of low priced tea, or the con
sumers of bad tea to look TO this Garden
ers Chronicle.
Year: 1860

~ We find the following rather spicy
paragraph circulating in the Massachusetts,
papers. Whether such a charge was ever
give or not we are unable to say, but here it
is just as we find it.


SARCASTIC SESrENoE.-Old Elias Eyes,
formerly the first Judge Of Windsor county,
VT, was strange composition of folly and
good sense, of natural shrewdness and want
Of cultivation. The following sentence was
pronounced upon poor ragged fellow for
stealing pair Of boots from General Curtis,
a man of considerable wealth in the town of
Windsor:


"Well, said the judge, very gravely, be-
fore pronouncing the sentence Of Court un-
dertuking to read the young villain a lecture,
you are fine fellow to be arraigned before
court for stealing. They say you are poor
no one doubts it who looks upon you; and
how dare You, being poor have the impudence
10 steal pair of boots Nobody Int rich
people have a right to take such thing without
paying Then they say you are worthless
that is evident from the fact that no one has
asked justice to be done you. All, by unan-
imous consent, pronounced you guilty before
you were tried Now you, being so gortbless,
was fool to steal, because you might know
you would be condemned. And you must
know it was great aggraton in your offence
that you have stole them in the large town of
Windsor. In that large town, to commit
such an act ia most horrible And not only
go into Windsor to steal, but you must steal
from great man, General Curtis This caps
the climax of you iniquity Base wretch
why did you not 60 and steal the only pals
Of boots which sumo poor man had, or could
get and then you would have been let alonos
nobody would have troubled themselves about
the act For your iniquity in stealing in the
great town of Windsor, and from the great
Gen. Curtis, the Court sentences you to three
months imprisonment in the County. Jail,
and may God give you something to eat
Year: 1860

That truth is sometimes stranger than fo-
ton is not disputed, and it falls to the lot OF
reporter to be cognizant of many strange
and startling stories. One Of these shall be
transcribed. 1t has local character, and
the parties referred to are we'll known in Phil
adelphia.


About five years ago an enterprising firm
was engaged in a lucrative business on Water
street, Its integrity in business was beyond
suspicion or oavil. The promptness with
which its obligations were met was the subject
of general encomium, and its paper had, in
every case, the value of banks notes OF Of
specie. The firm was composed Of two mem
borS, both of them wealthy. With time their
riches grew apace, and with cash their kind
ness and integrity increased, The senior
partner resided in magnificent west end man
Year: 1860

A SLIGHT MIsrAKE.-When Sir Isaac
Newton changed his residence and went to
live in Leicester place, his next door neighbor
was widow lady, who was much puzzled by
the little she observed of the habits of the
philosopher. One of the Fellows Of the
Royal Society called upon her one day when.
among other domestic news, she mentioned
that some one had come to reside in the adj
joining house, who, she felt certain, was a
poor, mad gentleman, because" she CON
tnued, he diyerts himself in the oldest
way imaginable. Every morning when the
sun shines so brightly that we are obliged to
draw the window-blinds, he takes his seat be-
fore tub Of soapsuds, and occupies himself
for hours blowing soap-bubbles through u
common clay pipe, which he intently watches
floating about until they burst. He is, doubt
less, now at his favorite amusement for it is
fine day do come and look at him" The
gentleman smiled, and they went up stairs,
when, after looking through the staircase
window in to the adjoining courtyard, he
turned and said, My dear madam, the per-
son whom you suppose to be a poor lunatc,
is no other than the great Sir Isaac Newton,
studying the refraction of light upon thin
plates, phenomenon which is beautifully ex-
hibited upon the surface of a common soap
bubble"
Year: 1860

ANN i EhN ON a FEW EOIN >.


The humor of Fanny Fern occasionally re-
appears in her brief articles written for the
Ledger. We quote from her last paragraphs
"There are two things that a woman can't
do First: She can't sharpen a lead pencil.
Give her one and see. Mark how iaggedly
she hacks away every particle Of wood from
the lead, leaving an unsupported spike of tho
latter, which breaks, Immediately, you try TO
use it, You can almost forgive the male crea-
ture his compassionate contempt, as chucking
her under the chin, he twtches it from her
awkward little paw and rounds and tapers it
off in the most ravishing manner for durable
use. | wish to hear no argument on that
point, because when ! once make up my mind,
"all the kings men cant change" Second
ly: A woman can't do up a bundle. She
takes whole newspaper to wrap up paper
of pins, and coil of rope to tie it, and it
comes out undone at that. When go shop
ping-whch it is sometimes my hard lot to
do look on with the fascinated gaze of n
bird in the neighborhood of magnetic SER
pent, to watch clerks do up bundles How
the paper falls into just the right creases--
how softly they turn it over and tuck il under
and tie it up, and then, throw it down on the
counter, as if they had done the most common
place thing in the world, instead of deed
which might--and faith, does-task the inge-
nuity of "angels - 1t is perfectly astonish-
ing.


Thirdly might allude to the fact that
women cannot carry an umbrella or, rather,
to the very peculiar manner in which they
perform that duty but won't. ! scorn to
turn traitor to sex who, whatever may be
their faults-are always loyal to each other.
So shall not say, as | otherwise should have
said, that when they unfurl the parachute al
luded to, they put it right down over their
noses-take the middle of the sidewalk, rak-
ing off mems hats and women's bonnets as
they go, and walking right into the breakfast
Of some unfortunate wight, with the total dis
regard of the consequent grasp, which to be
understood must be felt, as the offender cocks
up one corner of the parachute, and looks de-
family at the victim who has had the effront-
cry to come into the world and hazard the
whalebone and handle of her 'umberir!"
Year: 1860

Wife and mother, are you tired and out
of patience with your husbands and your
childrcn's demands upon your time and
attention Are you almost tempted to speak
out angry feelings to that faithful, but per-
hapa sometimes needless or exacting husband
Of yours DO you groan and say : "What
q fool was TO marry and leave my father $
house, whore | lived at ease and in ease. -
Are yop by reason of the care and WEAKNESS
of body which wfehood and motherhood
must bring, forgotful Of and ungrateful for
their comforts and joys Oh Wife and
mother, what if sudden stroke should smitc
your husband and lay him low What il
your children should be snatchcd from your
arms and from your bosom What if there
were no true and strong heart 20. you to lean
upon What if there were no soft, little in
nocents to nestle in your arms, and to love
and receive your love How would it be
with You then; Be patient and kind, dear
wifc be unwearying and long suffering, dear
mother, for you know not how long you may
be with your best and dearest treasures--you
know not how long they may tarry with you.
Let there be nothing for you to remember
which will wiring your heart with remorse il
they leave you alone let there be nothing
for them to remember but love and sweetness
unuuerable, if you are called to leave them
by the way. BE patient, be pitiful, be tender
Of them all, for Death will step sooner OF
later between them and you. And oh What
would you do if you should be doomed to
sit, solitary and forsaken, through years and
years BE happy you are, even with all
your trials; for, believe it, thou wife Of a
true and loving husband, there is no lot in
life so blessed and happy as thino.-G Georgia
ma Herbert
Year: 1860

to Said Dr. Payson, " God has been de-
priying mo of one blessing after another but
as every one was removed He has come in
and filled up its place and now when | am
a cripple and not able to move, am happier
than ever was in my life, or ever expected to
be and il had believed this twenty years
ago, might have been spared much anxiety
Year: 1860

TuE DIVINE EsrrMArE.-Wo make the
following excerpt from the "Shll Hour a
book which every Chrstian man and woman
ought to read


"Oh Gods thoughts are not as our
thoughts. Doar as our happiness is to Him,
there is another thing within us which is more
precious in His sight, 1t is Of far more con
sequence. in any Divine estimate of things,
how much man suffers, than-'ohat the man
is.
Year: 1860

Ir. Bates of St. Louis has written an able
patriotic and satisfactory letter in support of
the Republican party and its candidate for
the Presidency. Tie full document has not
yet reached US, but the following abstract are
its leading points, and shows now honorable
it is to its author:


After dlsclaiming that he feels the least
plque or dissatisfaction at not being nomina-
ted himself, he states that it is plain that the
approaching conflict must be between the
Democratic and Republican parties, and he
prefers the latter. The Democratic party
he says, has merged its existence in the one
idea of Eegro slavery, and is wholly section
al. 1t has in various instances endangered
the equality Of coordinate branches of the
government, and attempted to degrade the
Judiciary by striving to make it passive
register of party DEGREES. In most if not all
things he considers the Republican party the
opposite of the Democratic, and therefore en-
titled to his support, and this would be suf-
fcient reason for his supporting any man
whom the Republican party might put for
ward, if he had not other good reasons for
supporting Mr.. Lincoln. The Union party
he considers too weak to elect any candidate
or establish any principle. He says he has
Year: 1860

The extra session of the Legislature of
Massachusetts, convened for the purpose of
adopting measures to prevent the further
spread, and for the extirpation, of the cattle
disease, adjourned on Tuesday Of last week
Two acts We're passed, which were evidently
prepared with great care, and which if prop
err y enforced, can hardly fail to produce sal
utary results. We give brief abstract OF
them, as the subject is one of great import
ance to the people of our own State.


BY the first act the selectmen of towns,
and the mayor and aldermen of cities, are di-
rected, whenever pleuro pneumonia, or any
other contagious disease, exists among cat
tie, to take the cattle of their respective
towns, and isolate them the expense there
of to be paid, one fifth by the town or city
wherein the animal is kept,and four tiftns by
the State. Whenever an animal is adjudged
by a veterinary surgeon or physician by them
selected, to be infected, they may order i,
killed and buried at the expense of such
town or city. The act gives them the power
to make regulations, to regulate or prohibi,
the passage ofcattle through their respective
towns or cities it also authorizes them tc
cause all infected cattle, or cattle which have
been exposed, to be branded upon the rumE
with the letter P, and TO forbid disposing of
Year: 1860

The following eloquent tribute to the Dec
laration Of Independence is taken from one
of the speeches of Abraham Lincoln, made
during his exciting, gallant contest for L. S.
Senatorship in 1853:


These communities (the thirteen colonies,)
by their representatives in old Independence
Hall, said to the world of men I'VE hold
these truths to be set-evident, that all men
are born equal: that they are endowed by
their Creator with inalienable rights that a.
mong these are life. liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness" This was their majestic in
depreciation of the economy of the universe.
This was their lofty and wise and noble un-
derstanding of the justice of the Creator to
tits creatures-yes, gentlemen, to all His
crentnrts to the whole great family of man.
In their enlightened belief, nothing STAMPED
with the Divine image and likeness was sent
intS the world to be trodden on, and Gegrad-
ed. and imbruted by its fellows. They grasp
ed not only the race of men then living, but
they reached forward and seized upon the
furthest posterity. They created beacon to
guide their children and their chill drens chill
dren, and The counties' nyriads who should
inhabit the earth in o,ner ages. Wise states
men as they were, they knew the tendency
of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they
established these great self-evident truths
that when in the distant future, some man,
some faction, some interest, should set up the
doctrine that none but rich men, or none but
white men, or none but Anglo Saxon white
men, were entitled to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness, their posterity might
look up again to the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence, and take courage to renew the battle
which their fathers began, SO that truth, and
justice, and mercy, and all the humane and
Christian virtues, mig not be extinguished
from the land so that no man would here
after dare to limit and circumscribe the great
principles on which the temple of liberty was
being built.


Now, my countrymen, if you have been
taught doctrines conflicting with the land
marks of the Declaration of Independence if
You have listened to suggestions which would
take away from its grandeur, and mutlate
its fair proportions if You have been inclin-
ed to believe that all men are not created e.
quail in those inalienable rights enumerated
by our chart of liberty, let me entreat You to
come back-return TO the fountain. whose
waters spring close by the blood of the Rev
olution. Think nothing of me, take no
thought for the political fate of any man
whosoever- come back to the truths that
are in the Declaration of Independence.


You MAY do anything with me YOU choose,
if you will heed these sacred principles. You
may not only defeat me for the Senate, but
You may take me and put ME to DEATH
While pretending no indifference to earthly
honor. io ddim to be actuated in this con-
test by something higher than an anxiety for
Office. charge You to drop every insignif-
cant thought for any mans success. 1t is
nothing am nothing Judge Douglas is
nothing. Emt DO not destroy that Immortal
en'bIem Of humanity-the declaration Of
-Imerican Indcpond,nce
Year: 1860

The Baltimore Patriot has the following
editorial remarks, dictated by close view of
the Democratic National Convention. Let
the country read


I'VE wish that, for single day. Gncluding
the nlght.) the great masses of the people of
this nation could see the doings now in pro-
gress in this city. We would that the peo-
pie could witness the proceedings. in and out
of the Convention, Of those who profess here
to represent their sentiments and wishes
who are sent to show the respectability, the
Judgment, the patriotism and the devotion
of the republic, which are all unques,ionably,
or ought to be, the characteristics of such en-
lghtened citizens as those of the United
States.


We feel no particular interest in the action
of the Democratic Convention, further than
a desire to see all such bodies conduct their
sessions and debates in an orderly, decent
and quiet manner and that those who are
sent as delegates should conduct themselves
properly, and as gentlemen should, outside
the Convention as well as in it after the
session, as well as during its progress. We
have no doubt there are many such delegates
who so conduct themselves but it is certain,
and notorious that this city has been ad-
vantaged in no pecuniary, moral, or politi-
cal way by the presence of this Democratic
Convention.


On Sunday last very many of the drinking
saloons and rum shops which, under the ad-
ministration of Judge Bond. have been pret-
ty effectually closed, on that day were again
in full blast in honor of the Democratic Wis.
;tors, as they used to be in time of his Dem
ocratic predecessor. Our streets, which are
usually quiet on that day, and filled with
well dressed promenaders on their way to or
from their respective places Of worship, or in
the afternoon towards the country, were on
last Sunday enlivened by the music of one
of the Democratic bands, sent on to create
harmony among the party. The neighbor-
hood of the Monument was particularly hon.
ored on that occasion.


The hotels are crowded and doing good
business. The drinking shops are more
crowded and doing better business. The
gambling hells ard worse places are throng-
ed, and doing the best business of all. The
police have mercifully relaxed the watchful-
Year: 1860

known Mr.. Lincoln for more than twenty
years, and that he has high reputation for
truth, candor, courage, morals and amiability
that he has talents, and that he will use
them to the best advantage. He is the peer
OF the first men Of the nation, and we'll able
to sustain himself and advance the cause a.
gainst any adversary, and in any field where
mind and knowledge are the weapons used !;
that III brief he considers him a sound, safe,
national man, who could not be sectional if


he tried, for all his feelings and interests are
identified with the great valley of the Missis-
sippi, and that for the good of the whole
country he hopes he may be elected.