smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

Boston State House may be the "hub of
the universe" but we are tired ofhearing it
spoken of 80 often,- New York Post.


Fudge You are good set of feNoes in
New York, and have few good buildings
there; but take buildings as they run, and
you will find our State House to be much
aboue the Common Bulletin.
Year: 1859

The editor of the Southern Star, a Democratic
paper beipg sick recently, had to avail himself of
the services Of friend in the management Of his
paper. The friend an old Wing, but OF
course did not take advantage of his accidental
position to change the politics of the paper. On
taking the helm he announced the following as
his platform very good one, and worthy of
Whig acceptance;


l. We are opposed to spiritous vinous, and
malt liquors, with perhaps mental reservation
in favor of Scotch ale and sherry cobbers.


@ We are in favor of letting the "Retired
Physicians sands of life" run out


g. We are in favor of the passage of an act
declaring the Mobile and Ohio railroad navga-
Bile TO this place.


Lastly, we are in favor of crinollne under all
circumstances, excepting equestrian perform
ances.


These principles, we believe, do not conflict
with the political opinions which our friend has
so ably advocated in his columns, and upon his
recovery we will transmit them uuimpaired"
to his keeping.
Year: 1859

BIThe Rev. Henry Ward Beecher pub
fishes a cemmunicationin the New York In
dependent deprecating the publicity of /" evil
doings,p which is given through the news
papers. The Tribune, in replying to the
Reverend gentleman, says: 1-


We win simply say that we believe no
sermon preached last Sabbath was half so
impressive and salutory as the accounts of
that fearful tragedy enacted on that day in
sight of the Presidents House at Washing
ton, which the Telegraph and the Newspa-
pers have carried and are carrying into
nearly every household. Nay: we doubt
that any sermon every preached in Ply
mnuth Church-where many goodones have
been uttered-was so eminently calculated
to startle the guilty and warn the yet inno-
cent of "the ill that wait on lawles love"
as that very Washington tragedy, just as it
has been and will be presented in the News
papers. OF course, some things have been
said that might well have been omitted !;
but we take the case as whole, and main
tain that the man, woman or child who can
read it as it has been presented in this or
any other respectable journal, and not be
admonished by it to shun the way that leads
+" down to the chambers of death, must be
in the last stages of moral dissolution.
Year: 1859

R DECKER, Wheelright on Third street, near
the Court House, has Three very superior, richton


ed, and highly finished Pianos built in this city by
a German builder, who has worked in some of the
best shops of Europe, which he offers for sale low


He has had these Instruments built to encourage
stranger to establish himself here, and introduce


new and important branch of manufacturing. The
Pianos warranted for THREE years, and will be
KEEP ia tune for one year, gratis IL the Instru-
men Is fail in any particular, the builder will be
here to make his work good. He does not hesitate
to say the Instruments he offers fully equal TO
any that be brought here, and if our citizens
will but try them, their superiority will overcome
all prejudices against home productions. Those
wishing to purchase, and those who desire to soc
what can be done in own city, are invited to
call and examine them. lsent6l C. DECKER.
Year: 1859

the shore. This ugly Monster furnished rare
sport to our mGrEsmeu, though | believe not
one was kit. There was such grotesque awk-
wardness in his headlong plunge, to be seen no
more, so different from the light, sprngy, SIM
gle hop of the white crane, when Shot fell
near that gravity herself must have laughed
outright Aud here let me advise the traveller
who would enjoy this rare SPORT to come out
well armed, with plenty of ammunition. A
double barreied rifle of long range, is BEST as
the distance is frequently great TO either shore"
Year: 1859

the precious Union alonej but then, again. how de-
ightful to know that we are To get plenty of Brit
ish gold for it When the Null6ers and thos,
Southern Democrats with which the Constitution
sympathzes, threaten US with eruption they dc
not propose to pay for the ugly process. The
British are more generous, and gild the pill they
poison. They are SO compassionate as not to ruin
without on equivalent. While they knock us on
the head with their clubs, they FIJI our pockets
with their guineas. There is compensation in this,
and il are to be extinguished, it is pleasing to
feel that we shall die rich.


We hardly think, however, the Constitution was
prudent in disclosing the scheme ia the way it
has. With the known avidity Of its partisans for
all sorts Of plunder, we are afraid that when it
is once shown that tie Republicans will have the
distribution of the British gold. there will 30 no
keeping them together. Like the congregation Of
Scotch wrechers, which rushed out of church
when cry was raised, that richly freighted wee
sci had been stranded, they will desert to q man,
and President Buchanan, like the minister on the
same occasion, will have to say, "Gentletnen, let
us all start fair" II is to be hoped that the gold
will not be so abundant to produce result so
much to be deF reeated on all sides,


Besiies the Constitution ought not to frighten
Wall street in this sudden and shameless manner
What are we to do with all the gold when it
comes' Chevalier and Golden have told us al
ready that the enormous yield Of the mines is
about to plunge us in gold bath, that it is going
TO produce a most uncomfortable plethora; that
the prices of everything will be SO high that it
will take ladder to reach them, and that inHa
ton, disorder and distress be the consequent
ces wherever commerce is known. Now, was it
not enough to be threatened with drowning, suffo-
cation, and general cataclasm, all through gold
without having the British Golfers remorselessly
opened upon us? Mr.. Buchanan's organ is indis-
Greet. 1t should have broken news OF this awful
whelmed US at once-M 7. Post.
Year: 1859

Our telegraphic dispatches have again conveyed
TO the reader information that human 5einq
had been burnt to death at the stake. Where did
this occur' In New England Did any one
ever hear of their doing such things in the land Of


steady habits Perhaps it may have been in the
Middle States What Would the land of Will
liam Penn, or Calvert, or Carteret. or the descend


ants of the Knickerbockors. be guilty of acts Of
that description All no. Wherever it might
have been, it was not here. Was it in the free
northwest. with its heterogeneous masses of set
tiers from everywhere under the sun. and all wild
and rough on the frontiers, however calm and
peaceful it may be in the settled districts Tell
us not of such suppostion. The free west has
many sins to answer for, but not this--oh | not
this. 1t never burnt human being at the stake.
Year: 1859

The question, then, upon which certain men
would divide the Republican party, is not wbeth-
er fugitive slaves are to be delivered up to their
masters, but hoV they TO be delivered up?


We admit that there is much force in the ar
gument by which it is attempted to prove that the
true construction of that clause of tho Constitution
relating to the surrender fugitive slaves imposes
upon the State, rather than Congress, the o5iga.
tion to pass laws to carry it into execution. Mr.
Webster held that such construction ought orig
inaly to have been given to this clause of the
Constitution, and that the South had just cause Il
complain that it had not been given. 1t is how
ever, question upon which much may be said
on both sides, and inasmuch as Congress has ex
ercised the power of legislating the subject for
two-thirds of century. with the express sane.
ton of the Supreme Court of the United States
as we'll az of the Supreme Courts of numerous


individual States, and without the dissent of any,
we agree with Mr.. Webster, and the Ohio court
that this long unbrOken line of precedens ought


to settle question Of construction, which, in the
beginning, was doubtful one. We certainly
thnk the free States have no cause to complain
that such n construction has been given, in pref
erence to that now contended for by tho minority
Of the Ohio court


IF fugitive slaves are to be hunted down and
recaptured on the soil of the free States, we pre-
fer that the General Government shall pass the
laws under which it is 70 be dono, and execute
them, too and that the State Governments shall
not be required to perform odious service.
The prevailing construction permits the State Gov
ernments to remain entirely passre in the business
of slave hunting and slave catching Judge Brink
erhoI's construction would compel them to become
actce agents in the business. And this is the sum
and su distance Of the difference between the con-
hicting doctrines, upon which few rash men are
endeavoring to get up schism in the Republican
party


Those who are conscientiously opposed to the
surrender of fugitive slaves, by any process, are
invited to nulliy not only the fugitive slave act of
1850, but any fugitive slave act that Congress may
pass. They are invited to do this, however, not
for the purpose of putting end to slave-hunting
in the free States but that the State Governments
may take upon themselves the delightful task of
prosecuting the business. Do they see anything
in this doctrine that they are invited to es-
pousc, which will induce them to make its accept
ance sine qua non of political fellowship Being
eminently conscientious men. they will Of course
act in good faith in the matter, and not nullify
the acts of Congress- under pretence that the State
is bound by its plighted faith to pass laws securing
the same object, and then turn round and refuse
to pass such laws, or to execute them when pas
sed. .t.,
Year: 1859

You've LADY's PAsTIME IN PARIs-A Paris
correspondent of the Perth Anaboy journal, says
that there is fashionable epidemic raging in
the French capital; a'sort of young ladies' work,
the results of which will last for many genera
tions:


s'The process is this You buy a set of porcelain
(Sevres.if you choose) expensive cheap as
your taste or your purse will admit of these you
paint heads landscapes, flowers, or whatever you
fancy, with paints prepared for the purpose. Then
you send it to the porcelain baker, who bakes it
three times, which so fixes the coors that they be-
come permanent, and will last as long the china
have seen complete tea set painted by young
lady, which could not be painted for a thousand
dollars Every plate, cup, saucer, preserve dish,
and cake-basket different, and very beautiful.
Of course the baker must thoroughly understand
his business, for a minute too long in the oven,
or the oven too bot, may destroy all. An artist
who had spent many months painting apiece for
the exhibition at the Palais d'Indusrie among the
collection of living artists, had it cracked in the
oven by want of sufficient care. The porcelain
plate alone had cost one hundred dollars Not long
since baker fell asleep and broke $4,000 worth Of
porcelain, for which he was obliged to pay, and
was consequently ruined. do not know If you
have porcelain bakers in the United States, but if
you had you would find this far preferable to many
other pastimes In vogue"
Year: 1859

WILLIS ON GENTLEMEN's DREss.-In the Home
Journal for this week Mr.. Willis talks thus of the
appearance of gentlemen nowadays:


Everybody, nowadays, dresses tclerably we'll
The great gulf that used to separate Pelham from
the majority of the public is narrowed to a line al
most unrecOgnizable-owing, doubtless, to the fact
that tailoring has become one Of the largest indus
trial enterprises of the country and that taste and
capital have combined to make the best tailor wo,
for the greatest number of customers The great
majority OF men, that is to say, who used to keep
at such a respectful distance from tra-rdte dandv-
ism that their dressing was only tentb-rafe. now
find it both cheap and easy to dress second rate-a
curious Pelham-zing of the republican majority
which has made the dandy nne-tenths less distin
guishable than he used to be.


There several artistic points in which tho
dress of the many has very much improved The
collar OF the coat Is now cut as a sculptor vould
have t-so as not to interrupt the naturally curved
line from the ear to the turn of the shoulder BY
the making Of the arm-hole larger, too the dislo-
Gated or joinedon appearance of the sleeve is rene
died, while the greater fumess of the sleeve itself
hberalizes the general air of the garment Trousers
are improved by making the leg smaller as it
approaces the lnstep, thus tapering it handsomely
into the line of the wellmade boot But the great
est advantage of all is the present fashion of
ing walstcoat and trousers of the same material,
thus giving to the advancing figure a continuity of
coior from mead to foot, and adding to the height
as wen as TO the harmony OF the proportions. The
stripe down the outside seam of the pantaloOn is
also an advantage to the height. In the wearing
of the cravat, which is now n mere tie around
low cut shirt-collar, of the finest points of
culine beauty is restored-the shape of the throat
and neck below that commencing line of the beard
which is universally handsome. The increased
attention to the shirt wrisband adds to the look of
cleanliness and elegance"


ToUcHING.-A few days ago, bright little girl OF
probably three or four summers, who recently lost
her father came up to Professor Wse at the Jones
House, and said


"Mr. Wise, won't you take me up with you in
your balloon 2'


Professor.


81 want to see my papa" was the touching re-
sponse.


A tear was visible in the @ronaut's eye as he as
sured her that it impossible for him to take her
high enough to SEQ her papa.-Lqfayette Journal.
Year: 1859

\ NOBLE SENTIMENT Governor of
Georgia cmbodics the following noble senti-
mcnt in his annual message:


No monarch rules here And it is the pride
Of our system Of government that each citizen
at the ballot-box possesses equal rights ofsov-
crcignty- with every other Thanks be to
our Heavenly Father, the popular voice cannot
here bc hushcd in the silence Of dcspotism,
but the popular will dictates the law. May it
thus ever remain How important il is, there
fore, that the masses of the people be cduca-
ted so each may be able to read and under
stand for himself the constitution and history
of his country, and TO judge and to decide for
himself what are the true principles and poll
cy Of his government. But how much more
important it is, in my opinion, that every per-
son in the State be enabled to read for him or
herself the Holy Bible, and to comprehend the
great principles of Christianity, in the eternal
truths of which am firm though humble
believer Educate the masses and inculcate
virtue and morality, and you lay broad and
deep the foundations Of good government in
the hearts of our people.
Year: 1859

The following has the ring of true metal in
it. and is entirely too good TO be lost. 1t is
perpctrated by correspondent Of the Boston
Post 'SStrOlIing lcisurcly about Uncle Sans
big ship yard in Washington, tho other day,
We observed regular hard weather sailor
chap from man O war, who in turn, was
watching two men dragging seven feet cross
cut saw through huge live oak log. The
saw was dull. the log was terribly hard, and
thcrO they wcnt-sCc saw, sce-saw, pull push,
push pull Jack studied the matter over
awhile. until he come to the conclu.ion that
they were pulling to see who would get the
saw, and as one was monstrous big chap.
while the other was little follow, Jack dc.
cided too see fair play, so taking the big one
a clip under the ear that capsiEed him end
over end, he jerked the saw ont Of the log,
and giving it to the small one sung out
Now run, you hcggar!'
Year: 1859

TIE SOUTH UPON THE HARPER's FER RY INsuRREcTIoN.- voice of the leading organs of public opinion in those savehoIding States which, from proximity to the seat of the general government, has reached us soonest. corresponds entirely with the expressed sentiments of dstin- guished Southern gentlemen from differ ent quarters now in Washington.

 It IS the voice of moderation and of wisdom, different as possible from that which the black republican press is so fond of ascrbing to those whom they designate as e-ealers;' but equally different from the language of those who would Hull the South into fancied security while they would drink it's life-blood from its veins.

 They very naturally look upon the out break at Harper's Ferry as nothing at all formidable m itself. But equally natural is 1t for even the mos. sceptcal to infer that the abolition infection has corrupted what would otherwise have been found beautiful and healthy in devotion to the Constitution and the Union.-[ Washing ton Constitution. 22d ult.
Year: 1859

THE RESURRECTION. letter from U. s. Senator Mason, after due invesliga- ton of the Harper's Ferry difficulty, says there was DO instruction iu any form whatever on the part of the inhabitants of that town or vicinity. The fact is un- doubted, that not man, black or white, joined the invaders after they came into Virginia, or gave their aid or assistance in any form, so far as can be discovered. Not one of the nineteen escaped mot a slave escaped or attempted to escape du- ring the tumult. Of the few carried off by Cook across the river. all escaped from him and came safely hack but one, who ii appears was drowned while crossing the river homeward bound
Year: 1859

PoRTRAITs-Those eminent artists, MT. and Mrs Bailey, will be in our town iAa few days. A perfect understanding of their art, and gentlemaniy and ladylike department and demeanor, and never failing integrity of purpose, and ability and disposition to please, cannot otherwise than win for them the respect and support of an intelligent and appreciative community. Our citizens should take advantage of their peculiar talent, and secure fitting memorials of themselves and families, to be left behind for those of their name who live in future years. Go and see them.
Year: 1859

ADyERTIsING.-The Philadelphia Bulle
in, in some remarks upon advertising,
very justly remarks:


Disseminating advertising is like taking
down ones own sign. 1t is sort of init
nation Of retirement of business, and the
public treat IL as such. Or they may re-
gard it as evidence that something has
gone wrong, which requires privacy for in
vestigation. Whatever construction may
be upon it, the result is disastrous. Now,
we advise all our readers who may have
fallen into the common error of the sea-
son TO come out of their holes, to put up
their signs once more, and to advertise in
as many papers as they did in the best
times. While business creates advertising
il is equally true that it creates talk and a
stir in business circles and reminds men
that they have no right TO be leading
drone's even in the worst of times adver-
tising always pays WELL and the more oft
there is, the greater will be the circulation
of money, and the sooner will be restored
a condition of prosperity.
Year: 1859

MAsQUERADERs IN MILwAUKIr.-A great
masquerade ballwas given in Milwaukie
about a week ago. The Nt,cs Of that city,
in the course Of an article describing il,
says;


"One gentleman fell in love with his
own sister, while another man danced, talk
ed, and promenadcd Nirha gentleman in
woman's dress, three hours, in the vain
hope offnding out who the dear creature
was. One young man took his mother to
the supper, and great was the surprise of
both on learning how natteJs stood. One
of our leading merchants gave his ring to
a young lady if she would raise her mask
that he might see her features when it
was his own sister, who he supposed was
at home with the toothache! Two gentle
men got into a warm dispute as to who a
certain Young lady with black domino
was, and after making wager of two bot~
ties Of champagne, found out that the
young lady was the younger and mischiey-
Gus brother Of the losing party"
Year: 1859

As grow older, and come nearer to death


look upon it more and more with compla


cent delight, and out of every longing l lea


God say 20 thirsting, hungering one, conlt


to me-" what the other life will bring, know
not only that shall awake in Gods likeness
and see Him as He is. If child had beer
born and spent all his life in the MammoH
Cave, how impossible it would be to compre
bend the upper world! His parents might
tell him of this life, and light, and beauty, and
Its sounds of joy; they might heap up the
sand into mounds, and try to show him by
pointing to stalactities, how grass and flowers
and trees grow out of the ground, till at length
with laborious thinking, the child would think
he had gained true idea of the unknown
land. And yet. though he longed to go forth
it would be with regret for the familiar CRYSTALS
and rock-hewn rooms, and the quiet that
reigDed therein. But, when he came up some
May morning, with ten thousand birds singing
in the trees, and the heavens bright and blue
and full of sunlight, and the wind blowing
softly through the young leaves, all q glitter
with dew, and the landscape stretching away
green, beautiful to the horizon, with what rap
ture would he gaze about him, and see how
poor were all The fancyings and interpretations
which were made within the Cave, of the
things which grew and lived without and
how he would wonder that he could have re-
GREETED to leave the silence and the dreary
darkness of his old abode! So, when we
emerge from this cave on earth into the land
where spring growths are, and where is sum
mer, and not that miserable trayesty which We
wonder that we could have clung SO fondy to
this dark and barren life +?


Beat on, then, o heart and yearn for dy-
ing! have drunk at many fountain, but
thirst came again; / have fed at many a
bounteous table, but hunger returned have
seen many bright and lovely things, but while
/ gazed their lustre faded. There is nothing
that can give me rest but when / behold
Thee, o God, I shall be satis6ed.-H. ".
Beseher.
Year: 1859

CHosERA ANosG THE OrFAL-FED HoGs.-The City
Inspector in his rounds yesterday among the off and
piggery Districts learned tha. recently large number
OF offel.fed hogs had demised of kind of cholera
which had become very prevalent among them. He
also learned that the deceased swine had been stolen
by pork speculats and sold at various pork stands in
the city, He therefore cautions the public agains.
pork-to be careful where they purchase tie article
for the disease might communicate to the individual
eating the infected carcass Mr. Delavan will call the
attention of the Health Commissioners TO the subject
to-day, tba. they may direct him to act more summa
Ily with the piggery nui'snces.
Year: 1859

AccIprSr-Jobn II. Gerahty a boy nine years OF
age fell from the fourth story of new building in
FORSYTH street last night, and was it is supposed
fatally Injured as he struck upon his head He was
taken 70 the Tenth Ward Sts.ionIIouse, and thence
removed 10 the Hospital.
Year: 1859

ers and obey their behests in all things, il
is asking too much to make them profess
to believe that slavery is national bless
ing. We think so too. When man is
willing to crawl on his belly and eat dirt,
it is erowding him little too much to ask
him to swear that tho dirt is sugar. AMI
that he really relishes it.-Chi. Press and
Trib