smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859




Fsllo,c Citizens Of the Sssats and House Of Rp-
rsseatdttues:


The Constitution of our State requires the Chief
Magistrate when he enters upon his duties to give
to the legislature information by message of the
condition of the State and recommend such meas
ures to them as he shall deem expedient.


enter upon this duty distrustng my own abili-
ties, but with firm reliance upon Providence,
without whose aid. nations, like individuals must
sooner or later fall. se ug


1t is with feelings of pleasure. as well as pride,
that Congratulate you, the Senators and Repre-
SEN atives of this great State. Your lot is cast in
land bountifully blessed by nature.


The geographical limits of Michigan are greater
than those of New York. While twelve hundred
miles of navigable waters wash her shores, her
soil is fertile producing in perfection and abund
all the fruits and grains and flowers that are
usually cultivated in this latitude Within our
State are extensive beds of coal and gypsum and
springs of saline waters, while fve-sixths of the
whole State is yet an unbroken wilderness of the
finest timber in the world. A great part of the
northern portion of the State is one vast bed of
mineral wealth-the copper and iron mines of that
region surprising all others in tine world for extent
and purity OF metal. We have to-day, within our
limits over six hundred and fifty miles of railway
miles more now being constructed. Sc


In your hands are placed the destinies of this
great State. You should so legislate to deveope
and make productive the great natural resources
snat TIC Oou Vi Nasuie Has ~ pouhtuuiiy spread
out before you.


You have duty to perform, not only to your
selves and your immediate constituents, but to tine
unborn millions that are destined to people this
beautiful State, and l sincerely trust that in all
your deliberations you will be governed solely BY
desire to promote the welfare and happiness Of
our common constituents. keeping Constantly in
view the greatest GOOD TO the Create. nnmhe, and
that you will ever be ready to acknowledge your
nations in the hollow of His hand -
The ;ndahtedness of The State fsxc,,s;vs as
what is owinr to tbe different trust funds = u,on
Year: 1859

We are satisfied that the Importance
which attaches to this Board, and the selec-
ton of judicious, capable men to compose
it, is not generally understood. Every
property holder is directly interested in the
matter, as will be seen by reference to the
duties of that Board.


The members of the Board are chosen
once in six years, and one in each Senate
rial district. To this Board is submitted
all the appraisments Of real property made
in the State by the local Assessors, when
they are examined and the taxable value
for each county, sofaras practicable, is fixed
at rate to equalize the proportion of taxa
ton with all the other counties. Where
the local appraisers have placed the valua-
tion too high, it will be the duty Of the
Board TO reduce it; and where it is too low
to raise it, and thus equalize the burthen
throughout the State.


This board meets at Columbus on the lst
Monday in next November, and each mem
Der viii receive ont Of the State Treasury
the sum Of $500 per day, and $500 for
every 25 miles necessarily trayoledin going
TO and from Columbus, Il will take from
one to three months fer the Board to finish
its business.


The holders ofproperty can thus SEQ how
much depends upon their being grepresented
in the Board by man who has not only a
knowledge of the true value Of property,
but has also the ability and experieuoo re-
quisite to present his views to his associates
In manner best calculated TO secure thoir
attention and consideration, He must hayo
sufficient confidence in his case and in him
self to press his views with energy and de-
cision. A merely good man, without the
capacity to make his goodness Jeh, Win ac-
eomplish very little for his constituents
Toledo Blade.
Year: 1859

The Republican Press of Kansas insist


that the Wyandott Constitution must be


adopted to secure freedom in Kansas


Every man who does not favor that in
strument, is denounced as traitor to free
dom. Yet these same sheets do not hes
itate to say that they have objects of more
consequence than Freedom" One paper
would vote down the Constitution if il
gave the claimants their rights, thus put
ting its spite against the "claims" as par
amount to the adoption of Free Consti-
tuition. Even FreedOm's Champion, which
is so in love with the negro race, and so
desirous that they should have full "free-
dom" in Kansas, turns right around and
says: "No one proposes to give the ne
groes the right to vote-were it proposed,
no one would oppose it more earnestly
than ourself. We are opposed to any
such extension of the right of suffrage,
now and at all times and, if we thought
the Constitution allowed any such exten-
sion. we would oppose the instrument it
self" What consistent champion of
of equal rights /! If the Constitution did
not provide "nigger pew" politically, he
would vote down that ''freedom-loving
instrument" Mark the base hypocrites.
Year: 1859

How correctly the assessors and town.
ship clerks have done their duty in taking
the registry we can only infer from the
registries which have been published. We
have not seen single one which con-
forms to the law, all of them omitting to
give the block and street on which per-
sons reside, who live within the limits of
city. If the publication of the registry
is at all essential to its validity, a large
share of the voters are disfranchised,
provided the registry is insisted upon at
this election.
Year: 1859

A number of persons in Leavenworth,
including the Vaughans, and Others, were
indicted at the last term of the District
Court as accessory to the escape of Char
ley Fisher from the Territorial authori-
ties Since that time the indictments
have been stolen from the clerks Office.
Judge Petit instructed the Grand Jury
to find new indictments. lie stated that
the parties must have certified copies of
the indictment, on which they could go to
trial If they chose, but they waived that
privilege.


Perhaps stealing the indictments is a
manner some higher-law men have of
showing their respect for "law and order'
-amere foretaste of the code of proceed
urs under the State regimen:
Year: 1859

The editor of the Doniphan Post on a
recent trip to Southern Nebraska, stopped
with Mr. Pierce, near Falls City, and thus
reports the sentiment of the people of that
section on annexation:


Mr.. Pierce we found to be an enterprizihg
man and Jealous Republican, who main
tains that southern Nebraska is strongly
republican, and that if it was ever carried
by the Democrats it was the fault Of the
Republicans. The sympathies of the peO-
pie of this part of Nebraska seem to point
to Kansas, and they appear to be disap-
pointed that we refused TO include them in
onr boundary. Though they are now form
ing constitution, the general impression
is that we can yet have southern Nebraska,
if we vote down the Wyandot Constitution
Year: 1859

The Republican officials, in spite of the
Governors proclamation, will attempt to
enforce the registry law. Letevery man,
then, whose name is not on the list, call
on the township or city clerk where he
resides, on the twelfth or eleventh days
before the Constitutional election, the 22nd
and 23d days of September, and have his
name correctly registered. Those in cit
les must give the block and street on
which they reside.
Year: 1859

In the following reflections, We do no


wish to say one word against the man,


excellent and valuable monthly publica


tions that are now issued but we protes


against the country press advertising those


periodicals at such an enormous sacrifice
The practice of the country press is some


thing like the following:


If an EDITORS wife or daughter desire.
a Magazine, he forthwith publishes q
Prospectus, worth a. least five dollars
He then sends on marked copy, and con.
tinues to send his paper one year-sl.50;
and on the arrival Of each Magazine, he is
requested to give a notice in his paper
II notices, II doliars-making an aggre.
gate of SIS, so, for which be receives a
monthly, worth three dollars, Go say no.
thing Of the perversion of truth which
often appears in the notices of the merits
of such publications.) The loss for the
labor actually done, is perhaps less than
the indirect loss sustained by the country
press; for proof Of which We appeal to the
experience of every country editor, if he
has ever been on canvassing tour for the
purpose of increasing his subscription list,
for at least one third of the answers to his
solicitations, are "Why, we now take one
city paper, and - Book, or --
Magazine, and that is as much as We can
afford to pay" If be asks how they come
to send for those papers and that Maya
zine, they will tell him that they saw ad-
vertisements of the cheap papers, with 4
chance to draw prize, &C., and in an cd
itorial article of perhaps his own paper,
they saw recommendation Of the same,
and we're induced to send on the money
for them!


Is it not time for the country press to
look to their own interests, and be paid
an equivalent for the labor performed?
If the present policy be pursued, it must
eventually prove disastrous to country cd
tors, and we are determined to follow this
suicidal course no longer. Our city CO.
with please stick a pin
jersy Shore Republican.
Year: 1859

The cup Of unhappy Europe was not full enough
of calamity. Fate had 6 yet redder plague in store
for her than she had counted on. Bonaparte was
lot penalty sufficient; Francis Joseph was not pun
isbmsnt enough; nor even Pope Pro Mono penance
fully expatory of her sins. The last feather is laid
upon the back Of that much-labored camel John
Year: 1859

We learn from Washington that the probabilities
ore that there win be no quorum present in the Sem
ate until Tuesday week. the I'd of January, and
consequently the Presidents Message may not be
communicated to Congress prior to that time.
Year: 1859

For cure Of this disease the victims Of referred 70 Dr.
Gocds who hss made the pathology and treatment Of the
subject Of special investigation for many years He has been sue
cess and is the ony physician that gave M true theory
end the only person that cured it, His Office No e63
Broadway New-York.
Year: 1859

SOUTHERN PAcIrIc RAiL-RoAD.-Ihc Sua
for tie forfeiture Of The Ndrtr.-The Mar
shall (Texas) Flag, of the lst inst, has
the following:


As great anxiety is doubtless felt, every
where, to know the result of the suit of
the State against the Railroad Company,
we give it briefly, with the reasons of the
Judge. His Honor, held, first, that the
demurrer must be sustained, because it
did not appear by what authority the suit
had been instituted and then stated that
it could not be brought except by au-
thority of the Legislature. Next, that
from the petition it did appear that the
purchasers of the road and its franchises
were insolvent: that from the pleadings it
appeared that the purchasers were one of
the parties defendant to the suit that by
the act of 1857 the franchises passed to
the purchasers with the road; and that
the act was a waiver, as to them, of all
causes of forfeiture against the sold-out
COMPANY
Year: 1859

Description OF A YouNG DEvIL.-Noth-
ing can be more instructive toa thinker
than the manner in which the devil is
personified to some good people, who
seem to have rather too good knowledge
of him for their comfort. A worthy farm
er at country meeting for the relation
of the religious experience of its men,
bers, said he had been severely tried by
young devil. Said he: "He come last
night and sot down on the side of my bed,
and grinned at me as | was sayin' my
prayers; he wa'ant the old devil, dear
brethren, but little young one that
would weigh about forty pounds; he sot
down on the side of the bed, and / could
jest see his tail and huffs stickin' out
under his cloak; it was terrible cold that
night, and he looked as tho they tuck
good care on him to hum. | had good
chance to look at him, but | went on
prayin'; he didn't frighten me a bit; I'd
seen his daddy before; so | looked out
of corner of my eye, and could see
his leetle horns; they was jest beginnin'
to start, like little bull-calf, they wasn't
more than two inches long, but they look
ed as tho they might git to be terrible
pokerish some day.-N. Y. iScalpcl.
Year: 1859

CAUSE OF DEATH.-It is stated that the
young lady who died in Troy last week
from the effect of having her ears pierced,
instead of placing silk in the wounds, as
is customary, used colored worsted, which
wss probably the cause Of her death.
Year: 1859

The health of General Cass is rapidly
failing. His great intellectual faculties
are no longer clear and powerful. An ex-
change says "his temperate and industri-
ous habits enable him to withstand the
wear and tear of half century of public
life, but it is evident that he has run his
race, and is about to take his rest. We
hear frequently of his fits of illness, and
he makes no mark in his Department that
can be recognized by the party. The
world and all that it contains grows shad-
owy to the old man, for his eyes are dim.
That he is drowsy in his dotage is appa-
rent in his relations to the Administration.
The doctrines with which his political
fame is identified are spurned by the
President as incendiary nonsense; and yet
he allows himself 10 seem to indorsc the
contemptuous rcprobation of the children
of his own brain. If his great age and
declining health did not compel his retire
ment from official position, it might be
supposed that considerations of personal
comfort would induce him to withdraw
from place in which he can never add
to the luster of his name, and in which he
can only be fretted by the vexations in
separable from public life"
Year: 1859

UsENUL REcEIPs.-Erysipelas, disease
often coming without premonition, and
ending fatally in three or four days, is
sometimes promptly cured by applying a
poultice of raw cranberries, pounded, to
the part over night.


Insect bites, and even those of q rattle
snake, have passed harmless, by stirring
enough of common salt in the yoll of a
good egg to make it sufficiently stiff for a
plaster, to be kept on the bitten part.


Costive bowels have an agreeable RENE
dy in the free use of tomatoes at meals
their seed acting the same way as the
seed of white mustard or figs, by stimu-
lating the coats of the bowels, over which
they pass in their whole state, to ncreas-
ed action. A remedy of equal efficiency,
in the same direction, is cracked wheat
that is, common white wheat grains broken
into two or three pieces, and then boiled
until it is as soft as rice, and then eaten
mainly at two meals of the day, with but
ter or molasses.
Year: 1859

The LAZY OrrICIALs.-The Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
says: "We cannot walk from the Capitol
to Willard's Hotel without hearing the
angriest and sometimes the most touching
denunciations against the heartless and
utterly worthless heads of Departments,
who are either too lazy or too incompetent
to attend to the business of the people,
and who are more than half their time
closeted with politicians, instead of dis
patching the business of their citizen mas
ters. One case in particular has been
much commented on, of gentleman who,
on small matter of business, visited one
of the departments thirty-five times, sat
waiting in the ante-room two hundred
and sixty hours, and walked between his
hotel and the department tifty-one miles
before his business was disposed of, and
when disposed of, his tavern bill had
nearly absorbed the amount of allowance,
to say nothing of the loss of time and de-
tention from his engagements ut home.
Year: 1859

DEATH FROM GRIEF.-About five weeks
ago, boy eight years of age was commit
ted for trial BY the Magistrates of Barns
lev, England, charged with stealing purse
containing sovereign, from the cart of an
old woman who had given him rifle as
she was driving to market. Bail was re-
fused, and the little fellow was sent to
Wakefield Jail. On the father parting
with the child, he took the matter so deep
ly to heart that he complained Immediate
ly after of having received sudden shock
at his heart-as if shot. Although in
good health at the time, and robust hear
ty man, he went home and never again
looked up. A deep seated melancholy
took possession of him; he was obliged to
give up work, and after few days was con-
fined to his bed. He gradually grew
worse, and on the day on which his child
was to be tried he breathed his last. The
surgeon who attended him says that he
died of broken heart. The boy was dis
charged.
Year: 1859

What feeling of regret steals over the
heart, as the joyous days Of youth fit as
heaven-like dreams across our imagination,
to think that they are lost to US forever.
When the rare opportunity offers itself Of
snatching few moments for contemplation
from the tolls Of the busy world, how read
lily do we embrace it, brief though it be,
to indulge in the pleasing remembrance
Of the past, to compare it with the
present, and trust for bright realization
Of "things long sighted for" in the future !!
What a glorious thing is youth! full of
warm confidence, high hopes and glorious
feelings, flowing from the heart, like a
gush of music from angels harp. How
keen are its enjoyments, how exquisite its
appreciation of the moral and beautiful.
What music is there to compare with the
outpourings of youthful and generous
heart! What height is there for a youth
full heart, prompted by noble ambition,
impossible to climb9 But the transient
dream of youth soon fades away, and age
comes creeping on us so imperceptibly,
that we start and sigh for days now lost,
when we feel the icy hand upon US that
"comes to claim us for its own." With
time we begin to analyse our sensations,
examine the petals of the flower of our
youth, and let the odour escape, till, one by
one, the leaves fade and fall, and the
withered stem alone is left in the gazer's
hand.
Year: 1859

The tea was over the boy went out,


He passed through the yard and over the stile
The big dog barked as he went along by.


And followed him nearly a mile; gagH
And he sat down on a hickory log, is.l
ldAnd whistled a lively tune, this boy. laa
Which took the ear of The bArking dog, .isi
And he wagged his tail with joy! 7--i1l
The beetle stopped from pinching the fly,


The toad in his hole stood still,


And the tom-tit heard with tear in his eye,


And fishing worm in his bill;
And the grasshopper said, al know that air,


But cannot whistle it So 4. I'M
The tune ofihe mar, with never q hair,


Where the hair ought ever to grow" e{
Year: 1859

The Hon. John A. Tucker, who commit
ted suicide few weeks ago in Georgia, left
behind him the following letter addressed
to P. II. Colquitt, Editor Columbs Times" "
/ DAWSON, Ga, Thursday, Dec. l6.


am about to do thing which have
had in contemplation since ls4s-viz: to
rid the world of me, and myself of an ex-
istenee useless to me and derogatory to
others. And Mr.. Editor, how dare you
or any of.your readers say, it is weak, or
wrong, unmanly to perform the act that l
am about to perform. Life is burden to
me-has' been for years. l am driven on
by a destiny have no power to control
Don't say to me, at is your fault, you
could act differently" 1t is untrue. l al
ways wished to act difierently.-I have
prayed TO act differently. have prayed
to God to help me act differently. He
knows my wish and purpose was to be a
good man. This l have prayed for from
my boyhood; and vet have not been
good man. "There is divinity that
shapes our ends" There is power that
drives us on like a feather before the wind,
and we have as little power to direct our
course as the feather in the gale g @


Now, with all my sins, follies and vices
clinging to my skirts, I am going unbidden
into the presence of my God, to ask him
why | am not the man l always desired to
be; to ask what punishment am to re-
ceiye for knowing my duty, desiring to per-
form it, and vet not having the nerve to do
it. .v .s -s.
Don't say am drunk either, for it is
not so. Itell you, Peyton Colquitt, that
l am doing this thing upon reflection. l
lay all night thinking of it. l have look
ed at all the reasons for and against it.
In some respects | have been successful
man. As certain as the world stands l
would beat the race for Judge more than a
Democratic majority. That is not the
thing with me. | would not live to be
President of the United States, unless /
could be the man wish to be. From q
boy, wished 10 be great and good man
"a man exerting a great salutary and
moral influence upon mankind. But as it
is, am shedding death-shade and mil
dew upon the high places in the land. i


L would have waited till l got home, but
I know it would not do. l then would
never have discharged the duty owe to
myself and mankind, could not part with
my little ones. Several times in the last
few years have prepared myself for this
event at home, when my wife knew moth
ing of it. But to look at the children and
hear them say "Pa,' Or to look at smil-
ing affectionate wife, that anticipated my
wishes-that forgave a thousand follies-
that never did an unkink act--I did not
have the courage to proceed. But, believ-
ing as 1 do, that my departure from this
life will benefit my family, as well as 9TH
ers, l am going to die here to-day. l
have plenty of friends who will be sorry
for this; but to all of them 1 say, John A.
Tucker never professed friendship to any
one that he deserted in the hour of trial.
My wife and my little ones 1 commend to
your care. TUCKER.
Year: 1859

HThe plan of serfemancipation for
Poland consists in committing their forced
labor for lease, at a reserved rent, revoke
able by either party. The land so let can
never be re-purchased by the proprietor,
nor by any one in trust for him.
Year: 1859

@An old lady had great aversion to
rye, and never could eat it in any FORM
It'll of late,n said she, they have got to
making it into whisky, and l find that I
can now and then worry dowE little."
Year: 1859

AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE CoNPARED.
Il heard gentleman of acute observation
and large experience say, many years ago,
that he had made out two lists, one of q
considerable number of farmers, and the
other of merchants, starting with fair pros
poets Of Efe-the one class to live on the
produce of their farms. titled for the most
part by their own hands, and this under the
comparatively imperfect system of agricul-
ture which prevailed in the last generation;
the other to take their chances in the lotte-
ry of commerce. At the end of the term
for which the comparison was made, the
farmers were the more prosperous body
None of them had become very rich-a few
only had wholly failed in life, and those few
from causes not essentially connected with
agricultural pursuits. The greater part had
lived and brought up their families in COM
fort. OF the merchants, by far the greater
part had wholly failed; and one OF two only
had greatly rospered.-Eperet's last letter
to tie Ledger. I
Year: 1859

FRANKEEss.-Be frank with the world
Frankness is the child of honesty and cour-
age. Say just what you mean to do on ev-
cry occasion; and take for granted you
mean to DO what's right. IF friend asks
a favor, you should grant it, if it is reason
able; if not, tell him plainly why you can
not You will wrong him and yourself
by equivocation of any kind. Never do a
wrong thing 10 make friend, nor to keep
one; the man who requires you to do SO is
dearly purchased at sacrifice. Deal kind
ly with all men: you will find it the poll
cy which wears best. Above all, don't ap-
pear to others what you are not. If you
have any fault to find with any one, tell
him, not others, of what you complain
There is no more dangerous experiment
than that of undertaking TO be one thing to a
mans face and another behind his back
We should live, act and speak out of doors,
as the phrase is, and say and do what we
are willing should be known and read by
men. 1t is not only best as a matter OF
principle, but as matter of policy.
Year: 1859

The venerable Baron Won Humboldt, the
great German naturalist and philosopher, is
dead. He was born in Berlin in 1863, and
was consequently In the goth year of his
age at his death.