smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

The report Of the Grand Jury, in another
portion Of the paper, needs but little com
ment 1t explains itself, and will no doubt
be auentiyely read by every intelligent man
in the community. A considerable portion
of the report is devoted to matters connected


with the financial condition of the county.
/ 1t would seem that there has been great i'm


providence in the management of the public


funds, and particularly in regard to the out
lays for the County Hospital A general re-
view of the contracts heretofore made for the
superintendance and management of the Hos.
pital is given, with more especial account
of the existing contract with DR. Geller and
the manner in which he has fulfilled lis du-
ties The report Of the subcommittee sent
to examine the Hospital and inquire into its
affairs, which report is adopted and endorsed
by the Grand Jury, is not calculated TO re-
fleet any credit upon DR.. Geller. 1t exhibits
a state Of things which must startle and
arouse the public mind. The Grand Jury,
upon their oaths have stated facts which
show plain disregard and violation of his
contract by the County Physician, and not
only so but also IN utter want of humanity
in the treatment Of bis patients. They also
very strongly intimate that persons have
been received into the Hospital and the coun-
ty charged with their support, who had no
business to be there. Notwithstanding all
this, and it may be in ignorance of these facts,
the Board of Supervisors have ordered Dr.
Seller to be paid some eighteen thousand
dollars in full, we believe, ofall demands for
ten months of his term. which runs for two
months longer. Whether he is to be paid on
the bills aecruing within those two months,
without question or demur by the Board of
Supervisors, remains to be seen.


The Report also alludes to the enormous
fees charged under the present laws, by GER
tain Of the County Officers, and presents the
subject in light not to be dsregarded 10y
the taxpaying community. 1t is to be hoped
that the evil complained of may be remedied
at the coming session of the Legislature


There are various other important matters
treated ofat length in the Report, which we
shall not allude to at present.
Year: 1859

Tue "PEoPIEs' PRoTECrIvE UNION in
San Francisco have nominated ]. D. Pierson
Tor the State Senate, and have adopted plat
form in which they say, "it is eminently
necessary that they should be represented in
the next Legislature by delegate who will
introduce and advocate all measures caleula.
ted to check. if not totally to restrain the
influx into this State Of Cody labor" They
also claim that it is the duty of the next
Legislature to so alter and amend several of
the existing statutes, that they will not un.
justly oppress and spoliate the laborer and
mechanic"
Year: 1859

Coon WATER IN Los ANGELEs.-The poi.
soning of dogs in the streets is dangerous
and disgusting practice, requiring the atten-
tion of the city authorities Poison is thrown
on the streets for dogs, which after eating
resort to the water ditch, where their poison.
ed bodies decay in the water, which is used
Tor the table and culinary purposes It is
disgusting to walk along the ditch in the
morning and notice the number Of dead dogs
IN the water Vinevard.
Year: 1859

InE military companies Of San Francisco
VIII await the action Of the next Legislature
on the militia bill, before proceeding to or
game battalion. In the meantime it is
proposed to establish an armorv of sufficient
capacity for battalion drill.
Year: 1859

A BIG Freur.-At the Universal restaurant
bn the corner of First aud B street, at about
half past two o'clock yesterday morning, a
general fight. of desperate character, occur
red between party of Mexicans, in which
reyolvers and knives were drawn, and seven
teen shots fired One man was shot through
the arm and the other received slight flesh
wound from a pistol ball These two were
arrested during the melee. The others es-
capped, and may or may not be injured The
cause Of the difficulty is unknown, and the
parties are strangers to the police, with the
exception of one of the two arrested, who
has served term in the States Prison. In
making the arrests, one of the policemen,
Mr. O'Conner, was shot at by his prisoner,
who was soon after disarmed.
Year: 1859

TuEArER- Madame Biscaccianu makes
her second appearance this evening. Her
selection Of pieces for the nights perform
ance are principally from the great masters,
iuterluded with the simpler melodies. The
enthusiasm awakened by her first appearance
seems to be in no degree abated in the public
mind, and doubtless there will be another
grand rush for the Theater. We would al
wise those desirous of attending to secur,
their tickets early-the sooner the better
Madame Biscaccianti will sing, this evening
some of the pieces with which she has charm
ed the great audiences Of Europe. We know
not whether they will please so well here,
but the soul of Music being everywhere the
same, we see no reason why they should not.
We are quite certain, at any rate, that there
is a very considerable and we'll cultivated
taste in Marysyille for the higher order Of
music.
Year: 1859

LIABILITY OF STEAMBOAT owNERs.-In the
Circuit Court of Louisville, Ky, suit was
lately brought by a merchant of that city
against the steamer Glendy Burke, for the
loss a considerable quantity of molasses,
thrown overheard while the steamer was
aground, and resulted in a verdict and iudg-
ment awarding the plaintiff s5,40O the
amount of damage alleged to have been sus.
tanned. The court held that to justify the
throwing overheard Of the molasses, the de-
fendant must show that the grounding was
unavoidable, and that it is not sufficient for
them to say that the boat was driven on
known bar by forces of an extraordinary
wind or the ordinary current of the river
Year: 1859

A RooRBAcK K.-The current newspaper
story that the War Department has had
occasion to send an agent to Tennessee
to arrest individuals charged with obtain
ing money from the Government on false
vouchers for the purchase of mules for
army purposes is untrue. No such agents
have been sent there, because no such
payments on false vouchers have been
made Washington Star. 'ea't
Year: 1859

D0- Here is good chance for old
maids The First District School Board
ofNew Orleans have resolved "that here
after no young lady teacher will be allow
ed to contract q marriage while occupy
ing the position of teacher, and such an
act on her part shall be virtually consider
ed resignation" s2ts atll HNtlt
Year: 1859

the sum of sixteen thousand dollars. OF
which Swift contributed ten thousand
dollars, and received the balance from his
immediate friends, to be used in the
pending election. Mr.. Buchanan was in
formed before the election, that Mr.. Swift
was an old line Wing, who had come over
to his party, and was taking an active
part in the election and he was subse-
quently informed of the amount contri-
buted by Swift"


These facts appear from the testimony
before the Committee of Investigation.


1t appears further that this man, Swift,
who had been frequently recommended
to the President as good .feilow, had in
his possession large quantity of reject
ed timber, which he wished to sell the
Government. The rule of the Depart
ment has been to allow contractors two
years to fill their contracts, and never to
make an open purchase except, for im-
mediate use. Now, it appears that the
Secretary Of the Navy, in June, 1858, ad-
vertised for 10000 feet of live-oak, the
quantity, size and form being exactly like
that held by Swift. The limited time
preveted any competition. The yellow
fever prevailed in the live-oak regions,
and it was impossible for the cutters to
visit that region. We cannot here go at
length into the details of this extraordi-
nary and disreputable transaction; we
must content ourselves with the result,





which was, that Swift in consideration of
being capital good fellow, which was
clearly established by his having contri-
buted ten thousand dollars towards the
election of Mr. Buchanan-this was be-
fore the Duquesne letter was written-was
reimbursed seventeen times over out of
the public treasury by the sale of mass
of worthless timber that was then lying
in the navy yards where good timber was
in abundance-as rejected and good for
nothing, for which he received the mod
crate compensation of Sill, 200. Yet no
watchdog has raised his voice to give
the people warning of this open, daylight
robbery of the public money. "a
Year: 1859

The SPIRITUAL TELEGRAPH.-This paper is
published by Charles Partridge, New York,
and has entered upon its eighth volume. 1t
is the organ of Spiritualism and free inquiry
having for its motto-"The agitation Of
thought is the beginning of wisdom" which
sounds like philosophical paraphrase of a
scriptural quotation. The Telegraph is an in
teresting journal to every disciple of knowl-
edge, whether believer in the peculiar phe-
nomena and doctrines it enunciates or not.
Judge Edmunds is now contributing to it a
series of remarkable articles on his Spiritual
experience, and every number Of it contains
a sermon from Chaplin and Beecher These
features would alone commend it to the read
ing world, even if it were not the intelligent
exponent of a most remarkable movement or
manifestation of mind. Persons wishing to
subscribe can do SO by remitting two dollars
as above.
Year: 1859

THE BIG TREEs.-The editor of the San
Andreas Independent has been to see them,
and says:


''In regard to the vast size of these trees,
nothing yet written has been exaggerated
They are even larger than they have been
described; and what is more suggestive still,
they seem larger every time the eye returns
to them. Calculation, minute inspection,
and comparison with the surrounding mem
bers of the forest, but increase our astonish-
ment A gentleman, whose curiosity had a
tendency towards utilization, estimated the
amount of lumber which could be sawed
from the trunk of s'Hercules" at 75O, 900 feet.
1t is not that the circumference of the tree
is so great at the surface of the ground, or
that the trunk is over hundred yards long,
that these fine old fellows are larger than all
other trees. Their proportions are so per-
fectly harmonized; that strength and beauty
are combined in the greatest perfection.
They more resemble a Doric column than
anything else to which we can compare them
For the first ten feet there is slight swell
in the trunk, and the roots are so placed
that they afford the best props and support to
the immense weight they have to sustain.
From this upward they carry the proportions
of Doric pillar, tapering Of rather abrupt
ly at the top.
Year: 1859

TRouT-Several boxes of speckled trout
from Gold Lake recently passed through this
place, per Langton's Express, on the way to
the valley below. The catching and trans
portation of them to the lower country may
vet become considerable business, as the
catching of the famous white fish is in Lake
Superior. The summit lakes Of the Sierra
Nevada have other attractions beside the
presence of this delicious specimen of the
finny tribe. They are already becoming fa-
vorite places Of summer resort, and hereafter,
when art steps in to assist nature and deyel-
op the charms she only hints, will be sought
by tourists and health seekers from all parts
of the State.
Year: 1859

PUGNACIoUs.-There was bakers dozen
of fist fights in town last Sunday, and four
on Monday; some of them very serious and
brutal One mana peaceable miner by the
name of Harper-had his chin bit off by a
person named Carter, said to be the same
who killed man at Nevada with one blow
of his fist. He in turn received an awful
beating at the hands of Harper's friends, and
then left town in disgust and buggy. One
fight came off in Cohn's fancy store and dam
aged him to a considerable amount, which
the parties have promised to make good.
Many exciting items might be manufactured
out of the above mentioned beastly conflicts,
but we have no heart'for the task ,and do not
conceive it to be a duty. One reflection sug-
gests itself: that if the town had been incor-
porated, as it should have been, a nice crop of
fines for the benefit of the streets could have
been collected. As it is, the township officers
receive such insufficient compensation that
they will volunteer no efforts to preserve the
peace, and when they do act, on the COM
plant of citizens, generally have to pay the
costs out of their own pockets. If con-
stable conveys prisoner to Nevada, he can
not collect enough from the county to reim-
burse his necessary expenses. Such being
the case we cannot get constableS to act at
all. Those elected last fall resigned, and the
appointees in their places would not qualify.
Persons deputised to act in that capacity,
refuse to act when the emergency is a crimi-
nal one and likely to cause them trouble and
expense. This whole township official sys-
tenn needs overhauling. In the first place,
the Supervisors ought to be more just in pas
sing upon accounts; and then the constitu-
tion should confer larger jurisdiction upon
justices of the peace. If the prerogatives Of
these officers, and their pay, were in ncreased,
it would be q vast benefit to community, and
prevent great deal of costly litigation. But
of this more at another time
Year: 1859

When we view the many improvements
of the age, and the hurry and hustle which
is everywhere seem we call ourselves an in
dusrous people. And so we are taken as
whole ; yet, when we look that no one
evil is gaining ground faster than laziness.
nothing more or less than Iaziaess, home
ly as the name may sound. Look into our
country neighborhOodS, villages, and cities.
Everybody is trying to get living without
labor. See the peddlers travelling aroand
carrying packs heavy as themseves-nOt
feeble and delicate, persons unable to work,
but stout healthy men, with no other dis
ease than lazness. See the genteel oafers
in every village lounging in their chairs,
pitching quoitS, or strutting alb ut in all
the pride Of conscious idleness, with no pen
MES in their pockets or brains in their heads.
Notice the number of healthy yourg men
in our cities, standing behind the counter
all day long, dressed in the height of fash
ion, and displaying to the greatest advan


tage their white and ornamented fingers.
Talk not to me of its being tiresome bust
ness-I wish it were a hundred times more
So Snuff mp your nose,' if you will, at
the honest sun-browned farmer-if it were
not for him, ye silly sons of laziness, you
would be poorer than you are. have due
respect for the learned professions, but |
contend that for the several years past. this
has been the great vortex for lazy people
TO slip into. If every other avenue leading
to ease is closed, persons can slip into this
and be saved. 1t is fact you can scarce
find an educated man in these days. but he


is too lazy to take care OF himself He
can eat. sleep and smoke-yes, even walk
with the aid Of cane--but he cannot
work-no, not he. . ..f asst a,ts


But this lazy principle is not confined TO
men alone, far from it, 1t has become q
settled fact with our ladies to which there
Year: 1859

are few exceptions. When a man mar.
ries be is obliged to marry q Bridget also.
to take care Of his wife, She, the delicate
one, cannot endure The least fatigue-she
cannot be burdened with q single care
Money makes but little difference-the
poorest lady in the land does she not marry
to be supported Talk about the delicate
women of this age. What makes them deli
cate Nothing but The idea that has tax
en- root among US, that labor is not genteeI
they will not work, how can they be
strong? Ii every woman in the land was
obliged to work as hard as our mothers and
grandmothers did, there would be fewer
diseases and deaths than now. More die
from laziness than bard labor. l know
there are men and women all over the
country who labor hard, bat how few of
their children lift their finger in occupa-
tions. The boys must have a fast horse
and prepare for college. The girls must
dance, play the piano, aud shipper in the
parlOr to entertain brainless exquisite,
and finally must marry an establishment
and live without work. IF that is not the
for the rising generation, In a
few words tell me what is. Laziness is
becoming fixed principle, and if there is
no stop put to it in some form or other,
woe betide the generations yet to come.


Rural Neu Yorker.
Year: 1859

1t would be difficult to find any facts in
the above statistics, or indeed in any which
we have ever seen, to prove that slavery is
not an unmitigated curse-one that should
not be allowed to spread and carry in its
train the ignorance, the poverty the par
alyzing fnfluences which never fail to attend
its progress. sS.--AibaRy Journal
Year: 1859

Having shown that the area of the Slave
States exceeds that of the Free States by
several hundreds Of thousands of miles
enough to make half dozen States of the
average SIZE the author of the Crisis y
next proceeds to compare the population
Of each section. BY the census Of 1850,
the population of the Free States uclud-
ing the white and the black


was l3,420, 1856
Of the free inhabitants of the


Slave States 6,4l2,615
Year: 1859

He is taught labor to despise that he


is decided genius and has nothing to dc
but to fold his arms in idleneSs and live by
his wits fatal rock upon which thousands
have been wrecked. But the young genius
soon finds he has no business qualifications
and, as matter of course, gets nothing to
do. Whereupon he becomes disheartencd
and discouraged, and too frequently ends
his life in misery and shame.


While it is true that nothing great is at
tainable without labor, it is equally true
that with it we are enabled to accomplish
almost every thing Of which the history
of the world affords abundant proof.


The Latin maxim Labor, omaia ciucit'
is eminently true and whatever be your
hopes, your dreams of distinction, young
man never forget that trite sterling truth.
Labor is what really dignifes life, and woe
to him who dreams Of fame or honors with-
out it,
Year: 1859

Since the decree went forth from the hal
! lowed lips of Jehovah, In the sweat of thy
/ face shalt thou eat bread it has been { nd
| destiny Of man to labor constantly and in.


ceSsantly. Nothing great or good can be


accomplished without it. Think not


young man or woman, that you can avoid


it without injury to yourself As well


might you inhale the pestiferous gum of


the Upas aud expect to escape unharmed


Tell me not, vain young man, that 10 labor
is beneath your dignity-that your parents
are wealthy, and there is no reed of your
work that labor is for the poor and not
for the rich. Deuded mortal, when that
poor boy, whom you scorn and despise, is
high upon the ladder of fame, you, perhaps
will be grovelling in ignorance, poverty and
rags. Insnuate not, proud Young woman.
that your blood is too noble-vour ances
try too renowned for you to labor. Your


Seamstress,' upon whom you look with
sovereign contempt, may live to give your
starving children bread. Travel back
through the vista of time as far as You
please, examine in every department of life,
and show me a single great man who got to
be such short of long, confined, unremit-
ting, individual labor. Go look upon the
bald pate of the Athentic orator, as he ln-
bors in his cause, then judge ye the price
of his productions. Ask the great Milton
the amount of labor bestowed by him even
upon Paradise Lost Inquire again of
the American philosopher, Franklin, if he
attained the high position he occupied in


the scientific world by course OF idlcaess


aud case. To labor is to do the will of


heaven. When man came forth from the


hand of his creator, be had virtually stamp
ed upon the very tablet of bis being. in
characters of living light, the impressive
injunction, upward and onward, all iafai-
tam. The man who looks upon honest toll
as the weeds which rot on Lethe's wharf
will siuk into silent obscurity 1t is a la
mentable fact, however, that large class
of people regard labor as dishonorable.-
Nearly everybody in the country, whose
father ownes nigger' is precipitately
rushed into a profession The old man
feeds the ardent Imagination of his boy by
dating upon the wonderful achievements
of EscuIapiu9, or eXpatiatiou upon the
matchlesS forensic eloquence of Cicero,
Burke and Calhoun. The whole thing
looms up in Il grand panorama before his
youthful vision. He also imagnes himself
a demigod in embryo, and that he is soon
to realize the reward so beautifully spoken
of by Gray
Year: 1859

from which mankind suffer over large part of
the globe, In the consequence OF diseased action
in the system, induced by the poisonous uiasm Of
vegetable decay. This exhalation Is evolved by
the action Of solar heat on wet sou, and rises with
the watcry vapor from IL. While the sun Ii below
the horizon this vapor fingers near the carths sur
face. and the virus il taken with ii through the
lungs into the blood There acts as an irritating
poison the internal viscera and cxcretng organs
Of the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
secrete not only this virus, but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate
IN the circulation, and produce violent eonstitu-
tional disorder. The spleen. the kidneys, and the
stomach sympathize with the liver, and become
disurdered also. Finally, the instinct Of our or
ganisnn, as Il in an attempt TO expel the noxious
Infusion, concentrates the whole blood Of the body


in the internal excretories to force them to cast Il
out The blood leaves the surface, and ruxhes to
the central organs with congestivc violence. This


Is theCnILI. But In this effort it fails. Then the
FEVER follows, in which the blood leaves the CEN
trail organs and rushes TO the surface, - il in
another effort to cxpel the irritating poison through
that other great excretory the skin. In this
also 1t fails, and the system ahandons the attempt
exhausted and waits for the recovery OF strength
to repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
are the fits or paroxysms of FEVER AND AauH-
Such constitutional disorder will Of course under
mine the health If it is not removed.


We have labored to find, and have found, an
nutidotr
Year: 1859

has won for itself such renown for the cure of
every variety OF Throat and Lung Complaint, that
II Is entirely unnecessary for as to recount the
evidence OF its virtues, wherever it has been en-
ployed. As it has long been in constant use
throughout this section, we need not do more than
assure the people its quality is kept up to the best
It ever has been, and that it may be relied on to
do for their relief all it has ever been found to do