smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

We do not propose at this time to discuss the
question of the Presidency; but as we have no con-
cealments on this or any other subject, we may as
well refer to observations in the last Register
which, unanswered may operate to placeMr Scales
and ourselves in false position.


The Register, catching up the hints thrown out
by the Iredell Express and Charlotte Bulletin, at
tempts to produce the impression that Mr. Scales is
in favor of Judge Douglas for the Presidency and
that the Democratic party generally is disposed to
endorse the socalled doctrine of squatter sovereign
ty. The Express is an avowed Opposition" paper,
and will no doubt cooperate with the national "op
position" in 1860; WHILE as we have shown in an
other article to-day, the Bulletin though professedly
NEUTRAL is not disposed to do justice to the Demo-
cratic party.


1t is not true that Mr. Scales is in favor of Judge
Douglas or any other man for the Presidency. He
as in tacor Of the nominee Of the Charleston Conren
tion. The last Western Sentinel, whose Editor has
heard Mr. Scales on the stump, and who speaks
with thorough understanding of his position says:


'Mr Scales real position on this question, and
one that he has maintained from the outset in the
canvass, is simply, that he will support the nomi
nee of the national Democratic Convention, to as
semble in Charleston, in 1860 This is the true po-
stion, and one which ought to be adopted by every
Southern man, who is opposed to seeing black Re
publican fill the executive chair Of the nation"


This, as the Sentinel well obs1y>s, is the true po
sition. Democrats follow princH Hles, not men. <We
~have confidence that the Charleston Convention will
nominate candidate worthy of national Democratic
support and we expect to labor and vote for that
candidate, whoever he may be- Is the Register
answered? If not we will make it palmer. The
Register asks,


evil the Standard, like Mr. Scales, support
Judge Douglas for the Presidency in the event of
his nomination by the national Democratic Con-
vention9"


The STANDARD answers yes Let the Register
Nake the most of that.


And now, what will the Register do9 Will that
paper support "the opposition" candidate for the
Presidency, whoever he may be9 Will that paper
support so-called national candidate, on platform
opposed to the extension Of slavery? Or will that
paper support unp!edged Electors in the South, with
the understanding that if 1.-THE opposition" can
thereby carry the election, the unpedged Electors
will vote for the "opposition" candidate? What
say you, Mr.. Symc? He have answered your oues-
ton, and we intend to hold you bound to answer
ours.


Nor is it true, as asserted by the Register and
Bulletin, that the Cincinnati platform commits the
national Democracy to "squatter sovereignty.
There is no such doctrine in that platform and we
predict that the doctrine put forth at Baltimore
and Cincinnati will not be changed at Charleston
Year: 1859

THE Sacramento Standard has adopted wise
rule; having been misrepresented by a cotempo-
rary, the editor declines further professional
acquaintance, and expresses desire not to see the
offender again. This is great deal better than
continued and pro6tess quarrel. We have OBJ
served the same rule, on the presumption that an
insulting newspaper ought to be eliminated with
as much expedition as an olIcnsivelY speaking


individual. Speaking harshy or otherwise of
cotemporary, we mean what we say; no qualil-
cation would be made in the presence of the
individual. If intending personal effront, we
should not intrnde in the society of his friends
s5r w-.ld we permit him thus to intrude in ours
Ne take up our exchanges as we would recognize
hnd request information of q gentleman; IL we
discover personal insult, we drive the offender
out and make him stay out.
Year: 1859

RECEIVED SMALL FAVOR. -Assemblyman Plxley
recently presented his mineral land-donatiug res
olution, together with written speech, in which
he admitted that one purpose Of the bill was to
place mining claims in the way of taxation This
will do; IL any Of the mining brothers wish to
take Mr. Pixley by the hand, they can now do SO;
bat we presume the miners will be enabled to
get along quite evenly without being thus
riched by Mr., Pixley's measure. This gentleman,
man of much ability, is advancing the pet
measure of metropolitan and agricultural people;
but IL will never pass while the mining counties
are intellgenty aud faithfully represented as
now It is not worth while to waste wind in
argument; no mountain representative dare sup
port the bill
Year: 1859

THE JOURNAL Is only mistaken in one respect,
and that error has probably been induced by the
suppositlon that It was impossible for the Union
to make a misrepresentation of facts so easily
contradcted. The Journal ought TO have known
the Union better. As we have stated before, and
as we repeat now, from our personal knowledge,
the Judges Of the Supreme Court declined TO in
terGere with the disposition Mr.. Fairfax might see
fit to make of the opinions. II he chose to fur
nish them 10 the Sinnaara without chargng for
Year: 1859

THE Assembly refused to permit DR.. Duncombe
to be seated after second election in Sacramento
We have, all along, thought that the stubborn
action of the majority in this unimporiant NATTER
has injured the party more than three hundred
Duncombe's could on the stump, five in the AS
sembly, or five hundred at the polls
Year: 1859




Whittier, and thereafter makes splendid tribute
to the genius of Bryant. A person who writes so
beautifully himself must be competent to nicely
adjust the balances in which men Of genius are
weighed, and we shall not contradict his conclu-
sions We regret, however, that we have no
collections of our drab-coated poets poems at
hand, from which to select better than those ex-
hibited by the discriminating compiler of the
encyclopedia of American Literature" Some
Of the most beautiful poems that we have ever
seen in the English language were written by
Whittier and printed in the National Era, but
we cannot recall them, and cannot, therefore,
illustrate our previously expressed opinion by
example. When fortified behind collection Of
our Quaker lavorite poems, we shall give our
intelligent cotempOrary reason for what he Is
pleased to consider erroneous conclusion.
Year: 1859

be cXtrcmcry perrrous- 10 rrrYiurT, N vTcmity OF
Trinity Centre, that Baby Annic's" complexion
recently assimilated the hue of u well preserved
brick bat but we should amend the observation
by adding that her mother writes exceedingly
good poetry, fragment Of which here observe


Rnby Anne.


Don't you know little angel


Has come down to dwell with me
In the form of Baby Anne


How that spirit loves to be
She came to me all spotless,


With no stain upon her brow
viii she go to God as tainless


And as beautiful as now?
May be none may see the angel


In this little mortal guise
May be none may see the glory


That around her being lies
But a mothers heart above her


In worship half doth bow,
And fain would keep her innocent


And beautiful as now
Year: 1859

kind. lie says that a control, subject TO the
Constitution, should be exercised by reg uiGr-
~ organized communities. aud by them only,
and that Congress must organize these com
munities-Congress must judge as to the
amount Of population requisite to constitute
an organized political community. Every
thoroughly organized political community Is
eomnetent to take care Of itself and to reg
ulate its own affairs. If it trauscends the
| bounds Of the Constitution, the Federal
Courts may intervene. Furthermore. ii the
Territorial Legislatures, representing these
organized communities, should prove disloy
al to the Constitution, and carry things with
high hand as is sometimes done in Nor
mondom, they may be abolished, and Con-
gress take the supreme power into its own
! hands.


| BY the pursuance of this line of policy,
the distracting question of slavery is taken
from the hands of Congress and localized il
each separate, organized community. Each
community for itself regulates its own private
affairs. Nothing could be fairer. Judge
Black himself agrees and insists that when
the people of Territory come to form a
State Constitution, they can exclude slavery
if they like or on the contrary establish It,


He thought that the population OF Kansas
was sufficient to do this, at the time OF the
formation of the Lecompton Constitution.
| Very well, if q certain amount of population
can do it, when they come to form State
Constitution, why cannot they do it before
Is there any less sovereignty in the same
number of people at one time than at anoth-
err Douglas thinks that every regularly or
gauized comHunity ought to regulate its own
domestic aifuirs, slavery included, but Gl'cdys
pitlin the restrictions Of the Constitution


These views are really and truly the saliva
tion of the South, aud the sooner she learns
it the better for her


The whole sum and substance of the Doug
las doctrine is given in our brief exposition
of his views above, and we think that it
must be obvious to every right-thinking man
that both principle and expediency approve
the nomination of Stephen A. Douglas for
the Presidency, by the Democratic party.
Year: 1859

FfRE-At about nine o'clock, last evening,
the residence Of Mr. Baldwin, the jeweler,
on E street, was discovered to be on fire,
and. notwithstanding heavy fall Of rain at
the time, was soon effectually ruined, large
portion being burned up. We understand
that very little of the furniture was saved
and we suppose the loss to be not less than
two thousand dollars. We did not learn how
the fire originated
Year: 1859

So far, the main trouble with balloons has
been that they could not be steered upon
any certain course, for the reason that, after
leaving sight of the earth the eral nayiga-
tor is wholly uneoncious Of any motion and
has no means of judging as to what direction
ne is sailing, except by the angles formed by
certain stars Were it otherwise, the balloon
might be accommodated to certain regular
currents in the higher atmosphere, and so
be waited in the proper course. A sufficient
knowledge of Astronomy would remedy this
principal difficulty to- wit: want of infor
nation as to the course of the balloon. But.
the difficulty even then would not he wholly
remedied for shifting currents would still
control the motion of the @rial ships, in
spite Of all that could be done. Nothing, in
our humble opinion, will ever overcome this
difficulty but steam. Until the vessels des-
tined to sail the vast ETHEREAL sea, are fur
nished with the proper machinery and pro-
PEELED hy steam, there will never be any very
successful erial navigation Most persons


would ridieule the idea of using steam fol-
such a purpose. We believe it he wholly
practicable. 1t seems to us that sufficient
buoyancy could be obtained to support an
engine of light construction. 1t would not
be necessary to have a heavy one, and the
same mathematical calculation which would
elevate the present weight of balloons would
elevate a much larger weight. The world
will certainly see the day when air-ships
will be propelled by steam.
Year: 1859

MAKING GAS FROM WATER.-On the even
ing of October %, the city of Wilmington,
Delaware, was lighted with gas made from
water undee the patent of Prof Sanders, of
Cincinnati. The Philadelphia Press says:


The charges were drawn from the retorts
the supply of coal gas was turned off; the
water gas was run through the pipes, and
Wilmington had light thrice as brilliant,
thrice as pure, as any it had ever known be
.ore.


She same paper gives the following as the
theory Of Sanders process:


The theory of Sanders process is this:-
Water, as steam, is decomposed by being
passed over red hot charcoal, and the result
ing gases, Hydrogen, carbonic oxide and light
carburetted hydrogen are chemically com
hined with heavy carburetted hydrogen, or
light-giving gas, by the decomposition of
resin or coal vapor simultaneously with and
in the presence Of the decomposition of the
vapor of water. At Wilmington gas works
are now three water gas retorts, aggregating
only one twenty-seventh of the cubical erea
OF their coal gas retorts, yet more productive
than the whole Of their present coal gas ap-
paratus, making l,200 to 500 #, per hour
The gas manufactured is superior in color
and strength of flame to that produced from
coal. Rosin is used as the carbonzing ele-
ment, requiring from twenty five to forty
pounds for every 1000 feet of gas which is
free from sulphur or nitrogen, and has an
odor rather agreeable than otherwise


The Bulletin understands that parties in
San Francisco have acquired the right from
the patentee to manufacture gas from water,
and that they will soon be prepared to ex-
hioit the process to the curious in that city.


The Cigar Makers Association in San Fran
cisco held a meeting on Tuesday night, and
appointed a committee to wait upon the va
rious associations in the city for the purpose
of soliciting aid and co operation in the effort
to put down the employment of Chinese
The name of the Peoples Protective U Union'
was adopted by the association, and com
mittee appointed to provide ways and means
for its expenses Resolutions were passed, Of
which the following is the concluding one


That we do now and will ever stand ready
to co operate with all persons who seek t.
maintain the rights of free labor, and that VIC
will by counsel and means, and in all legit-
mate and constitutional ways, encourage and
aid them in procuring Legislative measures
Tor others) to free our State from the evils o
the Coolie system, in which good work we
earnestly ask the support of our fellow citi-
zens. lastly, that TO maintain the foregoing
we hereby pledge our sacred honor as true
citizens, and our good faith as servants Of
God.
Year: 1859

Every true child Of God will reach
heaven, and dwell there forever but the
scripture clearly teaches that, although
none will purchase heaven with works,
ali viii be rewarded according 20 lhei.
works. The more we keep ourselves 10
love with God said Dr. A. Alexander,
the more meet shall we be for the beav
eniy inheritance, where perfec, love reirns
in every heart. Not only so, but the rich
er reward will be possessed for notwith,
standing the imperfection of our services,
God is pleased to make our good works
here me measure Of the reward he will
bestow hereafter. All his people are
equally justified, but all will not be equal
ly golritied. In my Fathers house are
many mansions and some are, DOUBTLESS,
much nearer to the celestial throne than
others. All will be happy as they are
capable Of being but the capacity Of
those who love God most constantly and
fervsutlv, will be greater than that OF
those who loved him less


What an encouragement is offered bv
this doctrine 10 the cultivation OF an ar.
dent piety, and to the performances of An
abundance OF good works: 'Forasmuch
as ye know that your labor is not in vain
in the Lord This can he truly Of no
other kind OF labor. There is no treasure
laid up for future use. so safe a. that
which is laid up in heaven: and no Iabors
80 certainly yield treasures as those per
formed 10 tie servics Of God.-- Dr.. Rec.
Year: 1859

How TO Go lr.-Go it strong in your
praise of the absent. Some Of it will be
sure 10 get around.


Go it strong when you make love to q
pretty widow. More people have erred BY
too little than too much in this particular


Go it strong when taking up contributions
for a charitable purpose. 1t willPsy.


Go it strong when you make a public
speech. Nine people out Of ten never take
any allusion unless it cuts ike a short
handed whip, or a rhinocsros cow.hide.


Go i: strong when you advertise. Busi-
ness is like archtccturc-i,s best supporters
are full columns.
Year: 1859

SENSIBLE FAsHroS.-Mauy ladies Of the
city have adopted useful style Of boots
for street use. 1t consists of waterproof
boots, reaching to the knec-at least We pre-
sume that to be their height. tor we or'y
saw hals way up and guessed at the ret
Those who have occasion To traverse the
streets in their present deplorable condition
and see Of what little use lady's rubbers are
in the way Of protecting the feet, viii
agree with US in pronounciug this the mos
sensible fashion of the season.-Citre'ana
Herald.
Year: 1859

MEDToCRITY IN OFrcE.--There Is much CON-
complaint nowadays, 10 regard TO the low
standard OF men who are elected 10 fill many of
our Offices. Many are unable TO comprehend


the cause, aud express great astonishment that
1t is so. To us the cause is very apparent,
Candidates are selected more for their avaiIa-
blity than for their sterling merits. And who
are the availables Mere nobodies. A man
that has no opinion of his own, who is mere
negative, who stands outside of all useful,
healthy conflicts, who can blow hot or cold In
the same breath. These are the men who ara
said TO be unobjeetionable, and they are &C.
cordingly made the nominees for Office, The
man who venerates the principles be holds, who
has the courage to defend them on all proper
occasions, who will 60 right into the heat of
of battle to aid a political friend or to advance


his party-such man has too many enemies
to make bin proper candidate Consequent
ly he must be slaughtered to make room for
some mlk-and-water nonentity. II is true that
a party that has the boldness to take n man Of
this peculiar and sterling character, has man
to represent them when they elect hlm--one
that they know where TO find. and 1t is great
pity that men Of this class are not more gene
rally selected by all parties We should then
have more honesty in poltics.-BOs. Investigator.
Year: 1859

our once proud and tondnsring organization
Ii is easy TO break down an Administration or
party unworthy of trust but to reconstruct
such fabric as will withstand the rayages OF
time and the continued siege OF an Intelligent
and vigilant kntagonism requires the exercise
of the loftiest patriotism. Let US address our
selves TO this momentous task. We are here,
not for negative declarations but for positive
and uueqnivocal action. In the first place. we
assert that there can be no success in the future
for the Democratic party, uuless there should
be an instant union against the aggressions
of infatutuated and treacherous public SER
vaats. aud the exactions ora mperious fhc;ion
.nf Southern disunonsts, who distinctly claim
to control that party. No convention, whether
hqld AZ charleston or at Cincinnati, can ever
Weld SUCH Influences with any hope of triumph
IuI ~ eandidates We must arrest the tenden-
#AHH 4t parties and Of power towards sectional


@I# above ALL we must set our faces sternly
ans everywhere against the new and scandal
ons demand that slavery has become the con-
-Woling power of the State that it shall be
forced into the Territories at the point of the


bayonet This is the practical question: whether


the people shall rule according to that which
was nominated in the bond-whether they shall
control and regulate their own domestic insti-
tutons in their own way--or whether they are
to remain the a6ject creatures of Congression-
al majority. who, in defiance OF law, shall sit in
judgment upon their acts, accepting them only
as they come up 10 the new standard of inter-
ventiOn for the benefit of slaveryg The prn-
ciple of popular sovereignty and non-interven-
ton is cardinal and first with u.s. We can ac-
cept no candidate for any Office who does not
accept that without reservation, aud we refuse
to recognize any decree intended to ignore or
to set aside this fundamental condition.
Year: 1859

From The Neo Orleans Pieayuae Nor. lO1


We have reached that point in the fall, where pro-
babe estimate be made of the present sugar crop
The agreeable antcipations Of a large weld which
many entertained in the summer have been by
the CASUALTIES OF the Throughout the entire s.
gar region the complaint general that the cane Is small
and unpromising The first ground lacked the us.
al amount of saccharne richness and the Juice
less amount OF sugar than had been anticipated.


White iross have been felt almost every plan
tauon devoted 10 sugar culture and far the effect has
been beneficial IL has arrested the growth of the cane
Our exchanges agree in stating that great inequality
lists IN the crop even adjoining plantations one pre-
sentng full deveopement of the cane and promising one
and half to hogsheads the arpent while on an
adjoining place not more than half hogshead Is anti
cpated.


This condition OF the sugar crop seems to exist in the
eutire sugar growing districts With the most favorable
weather. It is scarcely probable that more than an ord
nary crop can be made The estimate of 400 900 hogs
heads, which published months since il there
fore figure considerably above what will be realzed-
some observaut planters regard 10000 hogsheads a.
nearer the actual result which be recorded when
the cane fields harvested Perhaps favorable wealth
er may bring the figure up TO 2SOOpD IL /, well this
early IN the season TO be assured that large crop is im
possible The sugar which i made - hoxever of beau
uiu appearance, and gcrer,ly of a superior quality


In many quarters the dronih lately experienced has
seriously Injured the cane mat aud the planters find Il,
necessary TO discuss the advantageous mode of Law
ing them down, to the largest amount of
moisture The unequal character of cane fields living al
most adjacent suggest the query whether modes of cu
uNaiiOn have not produced the difference which to be
observed Skilfu sugar planters have become in
theiI plantation management il cannot be doubted that
much yet be learned The advantage of agricuItur
al associations cannot but be suggestive both by the re.
suits oil the present crop and the danger which the
season has exposed the dependence the planters for
the coming year We cannot doabi that the hostility of
seasons aud the inequalities of soil entirely over
come by better knowledge of the which nature
has given for couuteracting these disadvantages With


beer knowledge of the operations OF nature the sugar
crop may be extended over greater breadth of coun-
Try anu the fields that variable in the value
oi their annual yields be made produce with almost
rncrrinG certainty rich harvest l. the subject not
worthy the most ullhnrif. stIdrs
Year: 1859

Rappahanuock County Farmer writes that tho wheat
crop looks less promising just that he has over seen
it The early sowing came up IN good time but the
cold rainy weather prevented its progress The late
seeding did not came up for Of rain hut donhcss
the showers last week wero highly beneficial
Year: 1859

number of the citizens of Great Falls, n H.,
torciblv entered refreshment saloon, after it had
been closed on Saturday night last, and destroyed
property to the amount Of several hundred dollars.
A fight had taken place in the saloon at an early
hour in the evening between the proprietor and
another man, caused by disagreement in some
business matters, aud the proprietor who was ar
rested on complaint for assault and battery, pre-
ferred by the other party, in the lookup when
the saloon was sacked by the mob. Legal measures
are to be instituted against those who participated
in the destruction of the property.
Year: 1859

The Chicago journal contains report brought
by passenger who arrived in that city on Saur-
day morning, that the village of Duwagiac was in
a state of great excitement Friday night. in
sequence of terrible outrage perpetrated bv bur
glars in that place that evening. 1t appears that a
store had been broken open and entered BY three
burglars, and being discovered, three of the cti-
zens entered to arrest them, when a savage fight
ensued in the store between the three burglars and
the three citizens, resulting in the death of one Of
the latter who was shot, and in the other two be-
ing horribly and perhaps mortally cut The bur
blars made good their escape, but hot pursuit was