smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

sErT1E Esat gives great pleasure to state that az
trial Of Of the yesper Gas Lamps in my study for
six weeks past and aer Observing closely for the length Of
time the experiment lighting 'Unon Tent with these
lamps have entire confidence in their efficiency 1t 90
they ahod all the advantages Of the best gas lights to hoss
who live Of the cities and large towns.


The process Of preparing and lighting The lamp s so readily
earned the fixtures sre so simple little liable get
Of orsr, the Eight comparatively Hle and the
hoe 50 free from al dagger that it need ony acquan
lance the part Of the public With the Neper Gas Lamp to
bring them into general throughout the country.


Yours truly, STUART ROBINSON
Year: 1860




CHAs. uApp, ESQ Dear SIR
You are IN entire stranger to me =,
and direct me to no one from whom
| can learn your real character and
responsibility. This, il no other
difficulty existed, would seriously
epbarrass me in making a favorable
answer to your proposition. You
should have at least given me one
respectable reference. The fact that
You have not dcne so, with other
circumstances connected with your
letter, makes itquite doubtful wheth
or ] could honorably accede TO your
proposition. You date from Auburn,
and tell me to direct to you at Au-
burn, but do not name the street -
Pardon me Tor regarding this as a
suspicious circumstance, You may
be an inmate OF the State Prison, or
on your way there-a fact which you
see would Interfere with the fulfill
ment of Your part OF the proposed
bargain, even if | could fulfill the
part you assign to Inc. You want
SIS 900 or $4,000. This is com
mon want, and you are not TO blame
for using all honorable means to OBJ.
tain it. But candor requires me to
state, that il you were in every re.
spect a suitable person to be bought
for the purpose you name, | have
not the amount to buy you. have
no objection to your complexion; hui
there arc certain little faults o.
grammer and spelling, as well at
other little points, in your letter
which compel mo to regard you al
a person, by education, mannerl
and morals, as wholly unfit to asso
ciate with my daughter in any ca
pacity whatever. You evidentl,
think your skin Of great value.
don't dispute it; it is probably tn
best thing about you. Yet not evel
that valuable quality can commen,
you sufficiently to induce even a
black a negro as myself to accep
you as his son-in law.


Respectfully,


FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
Year: 1860

torn, and there never had been but
that one hole in the bed until one
was cut to pull the snake out.


We give this as strictly true.--
John W. Brown and his wife are
still living and will assert the same
as above. Their Postoflice is Cou-
shatta Chute. Louisiana.
Year: 1860

The New York Jo.,no! Of Commerce says
that LANoRIcIKRB, commanding the Pope's
troops, is General worthy Of the name. and
is OF the opinion that he will do all The real
fighting that Will be done in Lower and Mil
die Italy.
Year: 1860

The Connecticut State Agricultural Society, "iu
view of the prevalence of a destructive and conta
gious disease among the neat cattle of an adioin-
within the State of Connecticut to said disease .
have resolved to dispense with any exhibition the
coming fall.
Year: 1860

CHIRIQUI GOLD 1MAGEs.-A considerable quantity
of gold images from the Guacas Of Chiriqui have
been lately received in town, says the Panama
Herald, received by the North Star. They were
extracted from the lately discovered Guacas to the
westward of those which proved so productive last
year. We learn that about $50 600 worth have
been extracted. number of Indian graves have
also been recently discovered in Costa Rica, and


now being examined; for so far they have been
Year: 1860

Y an age remarkable for =" wars, and ruInors of


wars" Of intrigue and blood sled for good reas-
oning and bad conduct for sound rules and corrupt
manners, when virtue fills 'our heads but vice our
hearts when those who would persuade that
they quite sure Of heaven, appear to be in no
greater hurry to go there than others, but put on
the livery Of the best masters only to serve the
worst /; in an age when modesty herself is more
ashamed of detection than of delinquency when
independent Of principles which to depend and
free thinking in thinking freely, but in being
free from thinking; in age when patriots will
hold anything but their tongucs-keep anything
but their wor!s-lose nothing particularly except
their characters; to improve such age must be
diffieut-:o instruct such a:,e must be danger
Gus, In age like this call the attention of
he public TO-
Year: 1860

o. The New York World tells
Che following anecdote of well
known authoress


'1tis related Of q parsonage, more
or less mythical, named Fanny Fern,
that, stopping At the Office ola Phil
adelphia hotel to pay her bin, on the
ege Of her departure, she found a
charge for breaking Of her toilet set.
She admitted the breakage Of one
piece, and desired to pay for that,
but no more. The price Of the
whole set, however, was demanded,
because the set was broken. The
carriage was at the door; the train
soon to start. There was no time
for discussion, little for thought,
but enough for action. Hastily pay
ing the entire demand, aud direct
ing the carriage to wait a moment,
she went directly back to her room,
and taking np Che poker, incontinent-
lly broke every remaining piece in
the set"
Year: 1860

1o-lay We itaAS tutst HAliS-i0-NaY
bid adieu to our Alma Mater. What
saith the past tous? Here we have
toiled to lay a foundation upon which to
build hereafter. We have elevated our
standard and follow It at different PAGES.
To some the course may b. nearly finish
ed-so some the topmost stone may be
laid upon the foundation. But what
matters it, if the web Of lie be well fll-
ed. how soon the warp my break. To
Others it yet remains 10 build. Some
may return to mingle in Aese scenes
some never. But where'r we may be
let Us so live in the presentthat when it
shall be the past its voice may not fall
harshly upon the ear, that rejection may
not be a source Of bitter anguish to us.
To you my dear classmates, there is no
return, what you may do here has al
ready been done, the days have been
numbered, and we are on the iast. Now
We separate, he parting hsnd win soon
be given, the last adieu viii soon die
away. To-day we go forth % mingIe in
life's toll and strife, to labor to fulfil its
stern demands. The field S now open
to US, and while we cast a lngeing look
upon the past, it is fitting to turn our
gaze TO the future. The tine Is fast ap-
proaehiEg when the principles upon
which we act, the opinions we advocate
will be tried, and We alone responsible.
No longer shall we have ihe shield OF
teachers, perhaps, not long the protec-
ton of parents. Now we must try the
strength of the armor we have been
forging. Let US ever remember it is
not enough to live, but with energy sci
about life's work. Continued, perseyerine
labor alone effects great ends. Spasmod,
ic effort leaves no time for consideration
none for forethought, and be the result
disastrous or fortunate, it is not perma
nent. Then let us have a standard o
right and fearlessly maintain it. lie
our influence be to uphold truth and cor
I


rect error. Then the present win Civ
satisfaction, and will not be a storehous
of reproaches in the future.


To-day teachers, separates US. Yol
have ever tried to guide our erring step
Alright. From a knowledge Of the ere
ated We have gained more comprehen
siye view of the Creator. But you
earnest efforts to secure our intellectual
advancement have been too often neglec
ted by Us. Instead Of bringing you cor


from the sheaves of science, We have to


often rewarded you only with stubbl


from our own garner. But we trust a


impulse has been given-a desire 70


usefulness inspired. To you We exten


the parting hand. A kind remembrance


we ask. VIII you think Of US when /
the busy scenes of life-when though


reyerts to the past? In your hearts W


would eushrine o1r names. Your men
ory viii long be cherished by US. Whe


the dark future unfolds itself may


bring no ills to you, Fancy will ofte


bring US to these loved halls, and til
days spent here We shall live again, bl


they come not back in reality. No
: we leave. With gratitude for the pas
accept our kind wishes for the futur
Teachers-elassmat s-schoolmates-a
Farewell.
Year: 1860

A fig for your fashionable girls,
With their velvets and satins and laces,
Their diamonds and rubies and pearls.


And their milliner figures and faces
They may shine at = party or ball,


Embla.oned with half they possess,
But give me in place ofthem oil,


The girl with the calico dress. r
She's as plump as partridge, and hir


As the rose in its earliest bloom
Her teeth will with ivory compare,


And her breath with the clover perfume
Her step is as free and as light press


As the fawn's whom the hunters hard
And her eye is Is soft and as bright


My girl in the calico dress.
Young danaies and foplings may sneer


At her simple and modest attire,
But the charms she permits to appear,


Would set whole iceberg Of fire.
She can dance, but she never allows


The hugging, the squeeze, the caress;
She is saving all these for he spouse


My girl with the calico dress.
She is cheerful, warm hearted and true,


And kind to her father and mother,
She studies how much she can do


For her sweet little sister and brother.
If you want a companion through life,


To comfort, enliven aud bless,
She is just the right sort ola wife


My girl with the calico dress.
Year: 1860

No COMPROMISE Last Friday night Sena-
tor Bright delivered speech in Jefferson
vile, formally proposing to the Douglas men
of Indiana a compromise, which our neigh
Dor of the Democrat thus describes:


"If the Democrats would consent to run
electors pledged TO vote for Douglas, if the
vote would elect him, or for Breckenridge, if
the vote would elect him, and to vote as they
pleased, if their vote would elect neither,
then the said Jesse q Co. would run no sepa-
rate ticket"


And subjoined is the withering and unan
swerQble response which our neighhor speak
ing no doubt for the Douglas men Of both
Indiana and Kentucky, makes to this pro
position. Read it, ye high-princpled Breck
inridge men. and wilt under its acorchiug but
righteous rebuke:


"The Douglas men will receive this propo-
siton with universal disgust and contempt
What is the meaning of this secession from
the Democratic party? Did not the Secede s
pretend they were Nctuated by principle Z
Did they not leave because they held that
Constitutional rights were denied by the ma
jority? Are they nov SO destitute Of princi-
pie that they are ready to support the heresy
they professed to regard with so much horror
that they could not sit in the same Conven-
tion with the heretics? If, after all, they
are eady to vote for Douglas for the sake OF
winning, why did they break up the Con-
vention and disorganize the party? Does
hot this proposition prove at once that all
the zeal for Constitutional right was sheer
hypocrisy; disgusting stimulation


We are glad to learn that the Douglas men
are determined that no such compromise shall
be listened to, and we add that ii these bolt
ers want to disgrace themselves by openly
sacrificing the principles they proiessed tc
hold sacred, the Douglas men will be no par
ty to the disgrace. We say to these boilers
If their principle is SO important that they
must break up the Democratic party on ac-
count of it, and break up the Union If they
can't get it established, go and sustain it lik,
men, ond not come at this late day mouthinl
about compromises Offering to vote fo
Douglas if "a show will only be given them
II they have been honest in what they hav,
DONE the Douglas men don't expect their
votes, and don't ask them.
Year: 1860

GEN. BETnuNE AND JUDGE DouGLAs-It is
well known at the South that Gen. Bethune.
the editor of the Corner Stone, is one of the
staunchest advocates for Southern rights in
the country, and as sample of what he
thinks of the present aspect and tendency of
affairs, we make the following extract from
his issue Of the 9th ult.


1t is our opinion that Douglas is decidedly
the strongest man ofall of them, and we shall
not be at all surprised if he should get el, c.
ted by the electoral college. We have no
doubt that his present strength in the South
is greatly underrated, and we think it will
increase very greatly when the campaign
opens
Year: 1860

THE PROCESSION AND CEREMoNIEs.-Atten-
tion is directed to the Programme and order
of Procession on the glorious Tenth. It
promises to be the most imposing pageant,
military and civic, ever witnessed in the
west
Year: 1860

Mr. john HALL, the Assessor of Knight
Township, has kindly furnished US the above
Statements copy of the report made to the
County Auditor. The products of the Hog
are usually very large in Knight Township,
but last year, owing to the ravages of hog
cholera, this interest was damaged in that
township as well as throughout the county.
I'VE hope the other Assessors will furnish us
their statements. ~
Year: 1860

The GALE IN New YoRE-A terrible gale of wind,
which in violence and destructive effect exceeded any
thing of the kind within the experience of years swept
over the Atlantic seaboard on Thursday night The city
of New York and the surrounding waters were visited
with extreme severity The gale did not reach its height
until after sunrise on Friday, it between aud
o'clock that the principal damage done. The Public
School No l3 in Brooklyn, partly Frustrated, and
afterwards took fire and destroyed. Great numbers
of public and private edihces were unrooed; among
others that Of the Catholic Half Orphan Asylum. CHM
neys signs and unfinished buildings were thrown down;
vessels in the harbor and at the docks were torn from
their mooriugs and many of them damaged or sunk at
the wharves The destruction OF property by the hurr-
cane must have been extremely large, While happily no
single loss Of life has been reported either in New York
OF the neighboring cities.


The damage the Hudson is far more serious than
was at first supposed the entire loss reaching the OF
5000 600 Not a village city the river has escaped
without serious injury either buildings trees or green
houses Al Peekskil and vicinity alone damage was
done to the amount of from sixty TO seventy thousand
dollars Dr. Grants extensive greenhouse and nursery
was entirely destroyed With ell the rare and valuable
Year: 1860

ALL In and make selections and buy the goods at your
~ price We an the winter stock out OF the
way and TO that end or Inducements as must attract
and secure sales.


I you wish % make good investment buy suit OF
fei TUPMAN 4 HULL 10 Main ST.
Year: 1860

A veteran editor after an experience Of q
quarter Of a century, gives his opinion of the
common honesty Of mankind. Hear him:


d" We have tried the business for more than
a quarter Of a century, and regret to say that
our estimate of the aggregate honesty OF
mankind has been considerably lowered. =
There is great deal of latent, undeveoped
rascality in the race, aud if man has any
of its composition he is sure to exhibit it
when his newspaper subscription becomes due.
Within the last ten or fifteen years we have
been engaged in the business, we have lost
enough money, through the rascaiity Of our
customers, to make a man Of moderate de-
SjreS rich Many Of those who owe Us these
small amounts-from five to fifty doars-are
rolling in wealth, ard could pay any day in
the year. if they wished to do so. Many
others belong to the migratory tribe, who are
here to day and in Texas or California to-
morrow. Others belong to a class quite nu-
merousi who write to the editors to send them
papers, and they will pay when their crops or
do something else but payday never comes
and finally, after sending the paper for four
or five years, it IS ascertained thut they never
were worth a snap! Another class Of losses
grows out of the negligence of postmasiers.
A subscriber, after taking the paper for six
months or a year, leaves the country without
giving the editor notice, and, after foar or
five years have elapsed, he happens to meet
with the postmaster, who most magnanimously
informs him that bis subscriber has gone to
parts unknown and that, if he wishes to got
any pay for his paper, he had better stop it !
or, after suffering the paper to come two or
three years, he writes to the editor that for
the second or third time he will inform him
that the paper is not taken out &c.


These losses, and various others we might
refer to, absorb the profits of the business
to such an extent as greatly to discourage
those engaged in it.


Although we have had our full share Of
non-paying subscribers, and have been worse
swindled than any publisher we know. we
take much pleasure in saying that we have on
our books the names Of many gentlemen,
whose punctuaity, through long series of
years, always paying in advance, entities them
to be rated as the salt Of the earth Oh.
for an increase of the number.


Occasionally some one long in arrears,
moved by tlrdy sense of Justice, pays his
long-standing Indebtedness. We regret that
these cases are so rare"
Year: 1860

they cannot work for more than two hours at
a time They can be heard from some dis
tance, as they give kind of cultural sound
ha-ha-as they work, which, they say, eases
the chest Our sailors have the same fancy
when hoisting a sail.


| have kept a small loaf of Spanish bread
for several months in a dry place, and then
immersed it in boiling water and rebGked it,
and ! can assure my readers that it was
ueithCr musty nor sour.-LondOn paper.
Year: 1860

By A good story was told US Hartford
Press the other day about John Van Buren
He had taken some technical legal advantage,
by which his opponents client in an action
was non-suited The man was furious, and
declared his purpose to give John piece of
his mind when he saw him--he would acither
him. Happening to seen John one day at
Downing's standing at the bar, getting out
side of dozen New York bays, he boldly
confronted the Prince, and, being a small man
looked up at him fercely, and bnrst out
Mr. Van Bnren, is there any client SO low
and mean, or any case so nasty that you won't
undertake to defend him in it2 IL don't
know" said John, stopping to put away anoth
er oyster, then bending down and confidently
drawing out bis reply in the little mans ear,
/" What hare you been dong p
Year: 1860

Let Us trace the history Of a single pine
tree of the Oolito, as indicated by its petrifed
remains. His gnared and twisted trunk once
anchored it roots amid the cranuies of pre-
cipice of dark gray sandstone that rose over
some nameless stream of the Oolite in what is
now the North Scotland. The rock which,
Notwithstanding its dingy color, was a deposit
of the lower old red sandstone, formed a num-
Der of the fshbeds Of that system-heds that
were charged then, as not with numerous fossils
as strange and obsolete in the creaton'of the
OOtc as in the creation which at present ex-
lists It was a frm indestructible stone, cover
ed by thin, barren soil and the twisted root
lets of the pine rejected aud thrown backward
from its more solid planes had to.penetrate in-
to its narrow assures for q straitened and
meager subsistence.


The tree grew but slowly in considerable
more than half a century it had attained to
diameter of little more than ten inches, foot
over the soil and its bent and twisted form
gave evidence Of the life of hardships to which
it was exposed. 1t was, in truth,a picturesque
rag of a tree, that for the first few feet twist
ed itself round like an overbOrne wrestler strug-
Cling to escape from under his enemy and then
struck out an abrupt angle, and stretched it.
self like a bent arm over the stream. The
seasons passed over it every opening sprng
gave its fringe of tendeTer green to its splky
foliage, and every returning autumn saw it
shed its cones into the stream below. Many o
delicate fern sprang up and decaged around
it's gnarled and fantastic root single leayed and
simple of form, like the Sc0iopcairj2 of our
cayerns and rock recesses, or irettcd into many
slim pinnate leadet, like the minute maiden
hQir or the graceful lady fern. Flying rep
tiles have pe7ched among ITS boughs the
light winged dragon Fly has darted on wings
of gauze through the opening Of its lesser
twigs the tortoise and the lizard have hyber-
mated during the chills of winter amid the hol-
low of its roots for many years it formed one
of the minor features in q wild and picturesque
scene on winch human eye neer looked and
at length, touched by decay, its upper branches
began to wi,hcr and bleach white in the winds
of heaven; when shaken by a sudden hurricane
that came roaring adown the rayine, the mass
cf rock in which it had been anchored gave
way, and bearing fast iammed among its roots
fragment of the mass which we still fud
there, and from which we read portion OF lis
story, it was precipitated into the foaming tor
rent. Dancing on the eddies, or lingering
amid the pools, or shooting, arrow like adown
the rapids it at length finds its way to the
sea and after sailing over beds Of massive
coraI-thc ponderous Isastre and more delicate
THqmnqsLrcQ-aud after disturbing the Eual
losaur and the BaIemnite in their deep green
haunts, it sinks saturated with water, into q
bed Of aranaceous mud to make its appearance
after long ages, in the world of mau-a mar
bic mummy Of the old Oo.te forests--and to
be curiousIy interrosated regarding its charac-
ter and history-Hugh lLiller's " "Popusar
GeOlQgy."
Year: 1860

CcRREcr SrEAKlNG-We advise all yonng
people to acquire in early life the habit Of
using good language, both in speaking and
writing, and to abandon as early as possible
any use Of slang ao0rds and phrases The
longer they live the more difficult the acquiSi-
top of good language will be and if the gold
en- age of vonth, the proper season for the ac-
quisition of language, be passed in its abuse,
the unfortunate victim Of neglected education
is, very properly, doomed to talk slang for
life Money is not necessary to procure this
education, every man has It in his power. He
has merely to use the language which he reads
insteads of the slang which he hears to form
his taste from the best speakers and poets of
the country to treasure up choice phrases in
his memory and habtuate himself to their
use-avoding. at the same time. that pedantic
precision and bombast which show rather the
weakness of a vain ambition than the polish
of an educated mind.
Year: 1860

ra~ A man down East has invented ma.
chine to renovate old bachelors he can make
quite decent young man, and have enough
left for two small puppies, pair of leather
breeches, and kettle of soft soap
Year: 1860

The FIRsT STEP. The first step towards the
abyss Of inGdelity is doubling Or skeptical
state of mind in regard to some parts, or the
whole of the Scriptures the next is either in
to the wilderness Of universal doubt, or into
the abyss itself. Skepticism is most danger
Gus state Of the mind. Like moderate drink
ing, il leads on its unhappy victim from bad to
worse til! both mind and heart are ruined and
damned forever It is the moral inebriatlon
of the man in its incipient stages. Beware Of
it, ye young men, as ye would the contagion
of death. It's administrations to the sopl arc
those Of sorrow. Break away from the first
symptoms OF its deadly approach. Let not q
q corrupt and unbelieving heart begnjle these
with the promises OF a prCud and vain phiioso.
phy. There is no safety in q cultivated intel
lect nor in all the resources OF q Christian cd.
action and the watchiulness and teaching
of friends; mot even under the droppings"
of the sanctuary. In the faith Of Jesus only
there is safety. Believe in him to the saliva
ton Of the soul, then will you know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free"
Year: 1860

B% A French writer has said that. to
dream glorously, you must act gloriously
when awake and to bring angels down 10
hold converse with you in your sleep, yen
must labor in the cause Of virtue during the
day.