smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

There is an interesting article in the
Journal a. agriculture Prdtique, from
the pen of Gustave Hamoir, in which
several facts are brought forward to show
that cattle feeding on immature food are
very liable to topleuropneanaonia-the cattle
disease which has caused such panic
during the present summer in Massaehu-
setts.


He states that in seasons favorable 20
a rank growth Of the sugar beet-and
when, consequently, the beet is deficient
in sugar-cattle fed ON the pulp of the
beets are subject to this disease. but
he has found that il the pulp is steamed
in such way that the steam carries of
the volatile matters-alcohol, acetic acid,
and essential oils--it is then healthy
food. ,y..


Several experiments are mentioned
which seem to prove the truth of this
idea.


There eau be no doubt chat immature
food of any kind is unhealthy. The
leaves of turnips, which analysis shows to
contain much larger PERCENTAGE Of nitro
gen than the bulbs, and have tendency
to cause scours in the sheep and cattle
eating them. In Mr.. Lawes' experiments
on sheep this fact was brought out in a
very striking manner. Sheep fed on
turnips manured with superphosphate Of
lime did well and gave fair increase
while sheep fed on the same kind Of
turnipe and grown in the same field, and
fed out at the same time, but which
were dressed with large quantity Of
ammonia, not only did not increase in
weight, but actually lost in flesh, and
were so evidently ill-fed that it was nee
essary to discontinue the experiment.
Analysis showed these turnips TO contain
much higher percentage of nitrogen
than those grown with the superphosphatc
of lime-in other words, they were
deficient in carbonaceous matter. The
ammonia caused them to continue grow
ing late in the fall, and they were, wher
gathered, far from being perfectly mat
ured.


Sugar beets, heavily dressed with am
moniacal manures, are well known to bt
deficient in sugar, and the manufacturer:
of beet-root sugar do not like excessively
heavy crops. M. Hamoir states that the
years when the crops of beet were un
usually heavy were the years when the
cattle disease most prevailed, and we have
no dout it was caused by the bects being
immature grass, or that grown on low
wet land, would also be injurious.


Genesee Farmer.
Year: 1860

The COUNTRY IS IN A BLAzE.--Of the
widest enthusiasm from the hills of the
Old Granite State TO the broad prairies of
the Great West, from the Northern Lakes
to the beautiful Savannas of the South,
there is one universal uprising for Doug
las. The demonstrations in Boston, in
Hartford, in Utica, in Cleveland, in
Springfield, and in New Orleans, and all
over the South and West are but one un-
broken series of unprecedented successful
oyations to the great man and the great
idea for which we contend. .t
There has not been since the days of
the great Jackson an issue Of greater inn
portancc, nor one in which so much feel
ing is manifested as in the pending cam
paign.


We feel like exhorting every young man
to enlisting now, and fighting the great
battle to the end, for victory, glorious
life-lasting victory will bo that of the
Douglas party in this contest, and il will
give complexion to our politics for an age.


Western Cleaner.
Year: 1860

The FIRST VoTE-YoUNG MEN START
RIoHr.-It is a great thing to start right
in voting as in anything else. The young
man who gives his first vote right, has
the qualification TO refer 10 it in after years
with pride and pleasure. The present is
an era in our political history much like
those of 1900 and 1928. The venerable
men of this day, though they be few,
who voted for Jefferson in 1900, and the
numerous body of men who in 1928 cast
their vote for Andrew Jackson, look upon
the event as the proudest of their lives.
So il will be in after years with the young
men who in 1860 cast their votes for the
man of the people, Stephen A. Douglas.


Hence all young men who will vote for
the first time for the President in the
year 1860, should be careful to start right
and vote right. In after years, to them
il will be an incident of which they can
speak with pride. Twenty years hence
the young men of this day who thus vote
will be enabled to say, :" cast my vote
in 1860 for Stephen A. Douglas, the
great champion of Popular Sovereignty
Then, young men, start right, and work
heartily for the election of those champi-
ons of the people, Douglas and johnson
Year: 1860

~ It is asserted that Douglas would
gladly declinethe canvass for the Presidency,
but is overruled by political friends, who
think that they stand better chance of a
few local successes with him az a candidate.
The Administration is highly elated at the
prospect, and profess confidence in being able
to carry the South almost entire for Breckin-
ridge and Lane. ~
Year: 1860

We have received the following letter
from Fairfield making inquiry concerning
the whereabouts Of Sylvester V. Willis. the
eldest son Of the murdered woman, who it is
supposed, ia living at or near this place. As
we have already stated, we do not know Of
any person Of the name of Willis ever hav-
ing lived here. 1t will q seen by the let
ter tnat it is Important that the son about
wnom inquiry is made should be made &C.
ousii ted with the facts of the case.
Year: 1860

ca The organ of the New York Coloniza-
ton Society says that the free colored popu.
lation are now applying for aid to emigrate,
IN numbers far beyond any previous time. 1t
is very desirable that this disposition should
be encouraged for the future prosperity Of
the colonies already planted in Africa. The
recent success of our cruisers in the capture
of slavers will bring to those colonies large
numbers of unc,vilized people, and of course
the power to influence and absorb this bar
barous element must depend very much on
the numerical superiority of the educated
classes. The latter can only be maintained
by frequent arrivals of free blacks from the
United States. Every motive, therefore,
which ever justified the system Of African
colonization now acts with increasing force.
Year: 1860

; ~ Judge Belts, of the U. S. District
Court at New York, on the Sd, gave deci-
sion on motion of Postmaster Fowler's bonds
men for an injunction restraining the U. S.


Marshal from levying on their property. He
decided that there was q serious charge
against the Post Ofaoe department, as to the
concealment of certain facts in relation to


Fowler being . defaulter to the Government
at the tune of the execution of the bond. The
charge ought to be investigated, and for this
purpose the Court would order the issues to


be tried one to be an issue of fact before
jury, and the other an issue of law as to any
concealment. In the meantime he decrees
that the compliments were entitled to relief
as against the execution of the warrant. He
would therefore issue IN injunction to restrain
the execution until the issue had been deter


mined In the meantime the complainant to
give hona in the sum Of 5000, 900 to abide
BY any Judgment the U. s. should obtain
against him. ..-... .+ I'D
Year: 1860

The JAPANESE. - A few weeks sgo, the
news was that the Japanese had come. Now
the word is that they are 'going-gone." 1t
is painful to think Of the manner in which
they have been treated By our Government,
hustled through three or four of our largest
cities, it is true, but permitted to leave the
country without ever sight of any of our
most magnificent natural curiosities, without
steamboat ride of . thousand or two miles
on our great commercial artery, without q
glimpse of our gigantic pra1ries. without a
passing glance at Niagara, or sight at our
oceanic lakes. If our benighted friends from
Japan have not yet clean gone, they ought
to be brought back and re enlightened
Year: 1860

At Dioppe, in Francca famous bathing
place there is rolce established, whose du-
ty it is to rescue persons from danger.
The following notice was recently issued to
them THE bathing police are requested.
when lady is in danger of drowning, to
seize her by the dress and not by the hair
which oftentimes remains in their grasp
newfoundland dogs viii also govern them
selves accordingly.
Year: 1860

ANrsING-W AsTrEG SwEErSEss-A late
writer on kissing very properly remarks,
that the abominabie fashion Of ladies kissing
each other, is wanton and unprovoked
cruelty sheer waste of Heavens gift 8
miserable frttering away Of what was de-
signed for better purposes. It's absolutely
wicked, and ninety cases in hundred
Il is done for no othcr purpose than to annoy
and make wretch ID the poor things who
stand with their hats in their hands, and
dare not so much as open their watering
for fear of soldering their bosoms.
Year: 1860

Sure said Patrick rubbing his head with de-
light at the prospect of a present from his
employer, Il always name to do my duty. y
II believe you replied his employer, and
therefore shall make you present OF all
you have stole of me during the year thank
yer honor replied Pat =; and acquaintancees
trate vot as literally
Year: 1860

Why DoS'r You LEARN TRADE This
question was propouuded, in oar hearing, a
few days since, to young man who had been
for several months unsuccessfuly seeking Elm
ployment as n clerk or a salesman in some of
our leading houses. G mplaining of his i'll
luck, one Of his friends, who knew 10 had
mechanical talent, but doubted whether he
could make bimself useful either as clerk or
salesman, put the interrogatory to bin which
We have placed as the caption of this article.
The reply was that a mechanical trade was
not so respectable as merchantlc occupation.


Under this dclusive idea, our stores are
crowded with young men who have no capac
ity for business, and who because Of the fan
cied respectability Of doing nothing, waste
away their minority upon salaries which eau.
not possibly liquidate thcir expenditures
Late, too late, they discover their error, and
before they reach the ago Of thirty, many of
them look with envy upon the thrifty nechan-
les, whom in the days of their boyhood, they
were accustomed to derde.
Year: 1860

LITTLE GRAvEs.-Sacred places for
pure thoughts and holy meditation are
the little graves in the church yard
They are the repositories of mothers
sweetest JOY, half unfoldcd buds of inno-
cence, humanity touched by the frost of
time, ere yet q single canker worm of
corruption had nestled among its embryo
petals. Calous, indeed, must be tho
heart of fhm who can stand by little grave
side, and not have the holie,t emotions
Of the soul awakened 10 the thoughts of
purity and joy which belong alone 10
God and Heaven; for the mute preacher
at his feet tells him of life begun and
ended without stain; and surely this is
the spirit land, enlightened by the sun Of
infinite goodness whence emanated the soul
of that brief sojourner among us. How
swells the heart Of the parent with
mournful JOY while standing by the cold
earth bed Of lost little ones Mournful
because sweet treasure has been taken
away, and joyful because that precious
jewel glitters in the diadem of the Re-
deemer.
Year: 1860

CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPONS TO
COOP PURPosE.-A gentleman in this
city, who often takes an drive with his
family, always goes provided with the
powder and ball to shoot his horse in the
event Of runaway. This is a singular,
but certainly very wise precaution.-
He got the idea from gentleman residing
few miles from New York, who, driving
home one night last summer, with his
wife and two children in the carriage, was
placed in imminent danger by an unman-
ageable horse, which had taken fright at
a lantern on the roadside. In attempting
to hold the affrighted animal the lines
broke, and the horse dashed on at a
break-neck speed. Fortunately the gen
tleman bethought himself of a revolver
in his side pocket and drawing it, shot
the horse through the head. The animal
staggered and fell. The occupants Of
the carriage were thrown out, but escaped
without serious injury.-Lafayette Coa-
rier.
Year: 1860

SALT ON GRASS AND WHEAT.-J. N.
H., Of Salem, N. Y, writes to tho Gene
see Farmer, and recommends mixture
of four bushels of salt to two of plaster,
as top dressing for timothy, and says
further:


For potatoes, my rule is 10 mix ono
bushel of salt to four bushels of plaster,
and put tablespoonful on the potatoes
in each hill at the time of planting.


AS l live near the Onondaga Salt
springs, / have been experimenting with
salt on various crops. have been told
that salt would kill my grass and grain;
/ determined to know how much salt it
took to do that, and commenced with
half bushel to the acre, and every year
l have added another half bushel, always
mixed with two bushels of plaster, and
now l have got to sowing salt at the rate
of four bushels per acre, and find that
quantity pays the best. Last spring l
sowed eight bushels of salt, and four
bushels of plaster on two acres of wheat
and the result was beautiful crop. At
ter deducting quarter of an acre killed
by frost, and thrown away, the balance
produced AZ acres of good wheat.
Year: 1860

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FROM EMERSON.
-" Grief and Joy-Hope and Fear
Tears and Smiles-Pain and pleasure
are all twins; children of the same moth
er, linked together throughout the whole
world of humanity. No lot, no country,
no climate, no scene, no condition may
claim the enjoyment of one, without the
rebuking companionship of the other
No cloud, however is without its inner
light. The blue sky still harbors behind
the gloomy canopy, ready with its sun
shine, and keeping tho sad soul from be-
ing entirely delivered to despair. No
condition is so lowly, as TO be without
hope, no sorrow so poignant and oppres-
sive, as not to permit the consolation of
some sweet minister, interposing at the
right moment, with compensation and
perhaps delight. There no such thing as
unmitigated evil; and there is no such
thing as pleasure and joy, without cloud
or qualification. We have only to open
our hearts to the smile and sunshine /;
not turn our backs or shut our eyes to
the angelic visitor, who is always sure to
stand upon the Threshold, whenever we
deserve most need and are willing to give
him welcome"
Year: 1860

VERY UNcERrAIN.-It is related of
Hon. ID. S. Dickinson, that he was asked
by q client in an important case, which had
just been closed and the jury gone out to
agree on the verdict, what he thought
would be the result he replied: If
there is anything on earth that God does
not know, it is what a jury will do when
out" Mil. News.
Year: 1860

= The editor Of one of the Maine pa
pers says he has had pair Of boots Civ
en- him, which were so tight that they
came very near making him Universal
ist-bocause he received his punishment
as no went along.
Year: 1860

! free is that the former is founded in COM
pact, the parties to which are mutually and
equally bound by it. Neither of them,
therefore, can have a greater right to break
off from the bargain than the other or others
have to hold HIM to it; and certainly there
is nothing in the Virginia resolutions of '9S
adverse to this principle which is that of
common sense and common justice.
! The fallacy which draws different con-
clusion from them Lies in confounding a
single party with the parties to the eohsti-
tutional compact of the United States. The
latter, having made the compact, may do
what they will with it. The former, as one
of the parties, owes fidelity to it till released
by consent Or absolved by an into'eraSs!!a
abuse of the power created. In the Vlr-
ginia resolutions and report the plural num-
Der (States) is in every instance used when
ever reference is made to the authority
which presided over the Government.


As l am now known to have drawn those
documents, may say, as do with dis
tinct recollection, that it was intentional.
1t was in fact required by the course of
reasoning employed on the occasion. The
Kentucky resolutions, being less guarded,
have been more easily perverted: The pre-
text for the liberty taken with those of Vir-
ginia is the word Irrespective" prefxed to
the s'rights, &c" to be secured within the
States Could the abuse Of the expression
have been foreseen or suspected, the form
of it would doubtless have been varied. But
what can be more consistent with common
sense than that all having the rights, &c.
should unite in contcnding for the security
Of them to each


1t is remarkable how closely the nullifiers,
who make the name of Mr. Jefferson the
pedestal for their colossal heresy, shut their
eyes and lips whenever his authority is ever
so clearly and emphatically against them.
You have noticed what he says in his letters
to Monroe and Darlington (p. 43 and 2O3,
vol. 2d) with respect to the power of the
old Congress to coerce delinquent States
and his reasons for preferring for the pur-
pose naval to a military force and, more
over. his remark that it was not necessary
to find right to coerce in the Federal ar
ticles, that being inherent in the nature of
compact. It is high time that the claim
to seeede at will should be put down by the
public opinion, and am glad to see the
task commenced by one who understands
the subject.


!. I know nothing Of what is passing at
Richmond more than what IS seen IN the
newspapers. You were right in your fore
sight of the effect of passages in the late
proclamation. They have proven a leaven
for mach fermentation there, and created
an alarm against the danger of consolidation
balancing that of disunion.


With cordial salutations,


JAMES MADISON.
NICHOLAS P. TRIsT.
Year: 1860




In the year 1903 there was, and probably
still is-unless, among the many changes
which have taken place since left London,
it is pulled down-a place in the Strand
called Lyons Inn, the smallest of the law
inns; and a queer old dismal, dark place it
was, although it had some very comfortable
suites of chambers. The inn consisted of
eight or ten spacious houses, forming quad
rangle. In one of these resided a relative
of mine, George Cockayne, solicitor of
some considerable practice, having an agen-
cy business for many country attorneys in
the Midland Circuit. He used to relate the
following singular coincidence Of two dreams
and their consequences.


He had client, a country magistrate, in
one of the midland counties, who called up
on him one morning and related dream
if it was dream-he said, of which he
seemed very doubtful, for so deeply had it
impressed his mind that he had actually
come to London purposely to consult my
friend on the subject. Il reminded MIN, -
said Cockayne, that my profession did not
include the interpreting of dreams. Hear
me seriously said the magistrate, and you
will see the necessity of my taking advice.
So handed him chair, and prepared to
listen, when he thus proceeded:


"Last Monday night had been in bed
about an hour; may have previously drop
ped off to sleep, but think not; and what
took place was quite vivid, and unattended
by the usual misty weakness of dream, so
that I am very doubtful if it was in sleep it
occurred. saw. or thought saw, the pale
face of my old friend and neighbor at the
lodge, at the foot of my bed Che then lay
dead, but did not know this till the follow
ing morning.. He asked me to rise, and I
did so, when he informed me that his death
had been foully caused by his cousin, the
family apothecary, ''who believed himself
to be after my son the next heir to the estate;
and be assured of this, that if means be not
taken to prevent his prescribing for my boy,
he will meet with a similar death. l en-
treat you, therefore, to use your influence
to have him removed from attending my
family at all, and save my dear boy from a
premature death.


"'On saying this, he appeared to fade
gradually from my sig ght, and I got out Of
bed, feeling assured that this was a reality,
and no dream. Now, sir, I am invited to
attend the funeral of my old friend on Tues
day next: what would you advise?


why | replied, this is surely very
frail foundation on which to found charge
against respectable man. Why did not
the ghostly visitor furnish you with some
Year: 1860

a satisfactory answer; and and being obliged
to take refuge in the court of experience,
we very soon discovered that appearances
were invariably deceptive, and that the roses
and thorns of life mingled promiscuously
together; that they were inseparably uni
ed-one for stimulant to man, the other
as reward to him during the natural pau
ses between his exertions.
Year: 1860

! For the Times.


Mr.. EDITOR Enclosed 1 send you an
other letter of JAMES MADISON, on Secession
and Notification. It has been habitual
with some to claim JEFFERSON as the author
of the Virginia Resolutions. It will be seen
from the letter who was the author and
what was the authors Interpretation of them
1t is not impossible the misapplication of
the resolutions may make some ten or a
dozen kings in the South, or establish an
oligarchy, resting upon slave basis and
sustained by standing army.


SUBSCRIBER.


December 18th, 1860.


MONTPELIER, Dec: %, 1882.
DEAR SIR: have received yours of the
18th, enclosing some South Carolina papers
There is in one of them some interesting
views of the doctrine of secession, among
which one that had occurred to me, and
which for the first time have seen in print,
namely, that if one State can at will with
draw from the others, the others can with
draw from her, and turn her, nolcmtcns 90
lentem, out of the Union.


Until of late there is not State that
would have abhorred such doctrine more
than South Carolina, or more dreaded an
application of it to herself. The same may
be said of the doctrine of notification, which
she now breaches as the only doctrine by
which the Union can be saved.


partake of the wonder that the men YOU
name should view secession in the light
mentioned. The essential difference between
a free Government and Government not
Year: 1860

Roses AND THoRNEs-We wonder what
this world would be to us if, throughout our
lives, we reposed on bed of roses Should
we, in reality, feel more happy than when,
under the present social dispensation, we
frequently feel sharp thorn in our sides,
and score of their keen biting points start
ing up against our heads in the nighttime,
as if so many little irnps were holding car
nival amidst the feathers of our pillow p
We have often asked the question, both of
ourselves and others, but never could obtain
Year: 1860




ToN CoaWIN ON THE HOMESTEAD LAW
Tom Corwin has been re-nominated for
Congress. At the time, he made an eloquent
speech, from which we make an extract:


"What do the Republican party propose to
do with the public lands? They propose to
give quarter of section of them to every
poor man and woman, provided they will 60
to work. They hold that the public lands
be.ong to the people Of the United States.
The Republican party passed bill through
the House, drafted in accordance with their
principle, but in the Senate bill of very
different kind was passed. The House bill
gave the land to the working man the Senate
bill made him pay for it. But Mr.. Buchanan
vetoed even that; he's the poor mans friend; +;
God bless you, he don't want you to become
rich and 90 to the devil. But what is the
reason that the Southern Democracy would
not agree to the bill as it passed the House !?
Unquestionably, their opposition to it was
consistent with their system of Government.
They want these lands to be sold, and they
want the money to be put in the public
treasury; and they also want the duty to be
taken off foreign goods. What is quarter
of section of land to them? They wouldn't
have it-at least they wouldn't thank you for
it. The STAKEHOLDER must have two thousand
acres of land to work his niggers ON. But
the poor man-the young man who has just
got married, perhaps, who has no land-looks
about him for q, home. He wants to work
but he wants to work on his own farm, and
to him quarter of section of land is al
sufficient. The Republican party sympathizes
with this class of society. They say to thes'
young men, Go out in the West and settle OF
some Of Uncle Sans land, and work it ant
+, keen II ~ "